Hi folks,

Please take this message very personally, as if you – the personal you, YOU – and I were close friends, real buddies that go way back and have sacrificed for each other, acted against our self-interests for each other's benefits. Know what I mean?

Why?

I need you to trust me on this stuff. I've done the research.

Store in your home at least six months worth of food, a year is better. Freeze dried/dehydrated is what you want, professionally sealed. I ordered a year's worth from eFoodsdirect.com. Their products are guaranteed for 10 years.

Buy canned food too, plenty of it, but consume some at a regular basis and replace it; the shelf life of canned food is unpredictable. Don't expect cans to last more than a year.

Water too. Depending on the system where you live, maybe get a purifier (if electric you'll need a gas generator). Put away a month's worth, figuring a minimum of a gallon a person a day. Water, like canned foods, has to be rotated. Algae will form after a few months.

In most areas you cannot count on municipality (tap) water. If you have well water, remember that you need electricity to pump it out, so think about a gas or diesel generator. A hand pump is better but it may be complicated to install.

If you live in northern latitudes, consider a kerosene heater, which can also be used for cooking. Lamps too. The old style hurricane wick lamp is still the best. (Stash at least 20 gallons of kerosene!)

I can't give you much specific advice because I don't know where you – YOU – live, your circumstances, so you'll have to figure out the details. Sit back and picture what you'll need when you can no longer count on the government (federal or local) for anything.

Some would argue that the following is the case right now: You may have to live in a world where the government is your active enemy. (Me, I'm not sure on this issue, but better safe than sorry.)

Do not count on getting cash money from your bank, so stash some cash. How much interest are you really going to lose if you drain a chunk of your savings account and stash the greenbacks in a safe place? Two percent? Think about the upside. (If you're tied up in the stock market… I'm so sorry… I hope it's not your whole bundle.)

A personal anecdote: Last week I tried to draw $30,000 in cash from my local Chase bank. They told me I'd have to come back in two days.

Think about that.

The East Hampton Branch Chase Bank didn't have $30,000 in their walk-in vault, which is as big as my bedroom; it was just this side of bone dry of cash, its three inch stainless bars and humongous wheel lock looking a bit overdone if not flat ridiculous. I mean I know a pot grower who keeps more than 30k in an Aunt Jemima Frozen Waffles box in his freezer.

"People are making withdrawals," my banker said when I inquired What the fuck is up (words to that effect), and his eyes wandered the cavernous interior of the brick-built East Hampton Chase Bank; they wouldn't meet mine.

"I guess they [his clients] want to have something… real…" he stuttered out, perhaps knowing he shouldn't have said that, and I left alone his referring to my stack of Ben Franklin likenesses as ‘real'.

After withdrawing and stashing the cash, if you have money left over, buy some gold. (Depending on how things go, cash may not be of any use. How much cash as opposed to gold you cache is a judgment call. Stay on the net, keep an eye on things. Only use the mainstream media for its comedic value.)

Do not buy futures or any sort of paper! You must have the actual gold in your possession! Do not buy bullion; buy commemorative coins, which will cost about 6% over the bullion price (by weight, which is all that counts). That's okay.

(Why not bullion? Because as soon as the real shit hits the fan the government will outlaw the possession of bullion. They'll come to your house, arrest you, and confiscate the gold. You'll do time for treason. I shit you not on this.)

If you're comfortable with them, get yourself a firearm or two.

If you're not comfortable with them, a couple hand grenades will do. (As my friend Robert has pointed out, "It's amazing how a violent explosion in a confined area will separate the men from the boys.")

(Hey, I'm kidding about the hand grenades!)

(The parenthetical above was for the benefit of Homeland Security, which surely has some pathetic cyber-goon monitoring my sorry ass.)

Okay. You get the idea. Please do these things, or at least some of them. I want my friends to be safe no matter what happens. I'll sleep better.

Yes, the above suggestions are based on a worst case scenario, but to quote that uber-philosopher Paul Harvey:

"If there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, then nine times out of ten it will."

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Watch this video (at right):

Martial law?

You heard it from the horse's mouth: They (‘Wall Street' is a good shorthand for ‘they/them', a.k.a. the powers that be) told congressmen that if Congress didn't pass the bail out bill, there would be martial law. (There already is martial law, but that's another story: The congressional threats were about actual uniformed thugs [Blackwater?] on the streets.)

Various congressmen have admitted that constituent calls, emails, faxes, and letters ran anywhere from 3 to 1 to 20 to 1 against passing that bail out bill. (As it turned out, many of the ‘constituents' who were for the bill were Wall Street employees who were told – as part of their job – to bombard Congress with support for the bill. So the 20 to 1 number may itself be an understatement.)

What's my point?

Given the above and given that it was 100% obvious to anyone with half a brain that the bail out bill was worse, way worse, than worthless, how did the bill pass?

It passed because we do not live in a democracy.

Wall Street told Congress to pass the bill and they did so.

Obama and McCain both voted for the bill.

Go ahead and vote on November 4th if you've nothing else to do but please trust me. It does not matter who you vote for.

The last two presidential elections were stolen (google ‘Palast + election fraud' or read Palast's Armed Madhouse). I'm not talking the usual GOP frat boy scumbag prankster shit, I'm talking full-blown Skull & Bones-contrived felonies. Look into it.

So what makes you think this election will be any different?

And anyway, in the long run it doesn't matter who wins.

What?

Obama is as much a puppet of Wall Street as McCain. In fact, he is the preferred puppet.

Huh?

Wall Street contributed three times as much money to Obama as they did to McCain.

What Wall Street wants Wall Street gets.

Keep in mind that nothing Wall Street wants is in your best interest. Nothing.

Wall Street wants Obama. (Even the media has made it plain – yes, even the begrudging Fox Network – that they want Obama: As I'm sure you know by now, the media is owned by Wall Street.)

But hold on. Back up. Why would Wall Street, with its notorious right wing agenda, want an Obama presidency?

They need a new face on that agenda, and McCain ain't it. Face it, the guy (plus his Stepford-candidate sidekick) is nothing short of a clown. Except to the certifiable morons who comprise his ‘base,' this is painfully obvious.

The neocons had their chance and blew it.

The coming fascist state needs a new Image and Barack Obama is it. (I don't mean to be inflammatory in using the term ‘fascist state.' Like ‘Wall Street', it's a convenient shorthand, and not an inaccurate one.)

If you think I'm nuts on this then answer this simple question: Why then did Obama vote for a bail out bill that steals trillions of dollars (not billions) from you and gives it to Wall Street?

Before you get irate on me, you must answer that question.

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But no matter what you think of Barack Obama as the messiah, please watch this. If you've watched it before, watch it again. (Full screen high quality if possible.)

I've taken to watching it once a day: Better than chemicals!

There is hope!!!!!

I'll be in touch.

Allan

While you're googling to see how far my head is up my ass (and I hope you do the googling), go to Alex Jones's websites and consider subscribing to his radio show.

At first I thought Alex was out of his mind on certain issues, but I eventually realized that – based on the impressive array of Jones's guests who agree with him (including rogue conservative defectors like Ron Paul and Paul Craig Roberts, not to mention Charlie Sheen, who caused a mainstream shit storm with his 9/11 expose) – under his outrageous persona, Alex may be the ‘canary in the coal mine.'

If you're in the mood for an in-depth read, try Crossing the Rubicon, The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Here's the Number One Amazon Reviewer's take on it:

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0865715408/ref=cm_cr_pr_helpful

Skip down to Robert Steele's review. (The book was not reviewed by a single mainstream media outlet. Read the book then think about that fact. It might shake you out of your denial regarding whose interests the media look out for.)

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