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First-Aid Kit
from: Medicine for the Outdoors

By Paul S. Auerbach, M.D.

from: Medicine for the Outdoors: A Guide to Emergency Medical Procedures and First-Aid

BASIC SUPPLIES FOR FIRST-AID KIT

    - Medical guidebook
    - First-aid report form
    - Pencil or pen with notepad
    - Elastic bandages (Band-aids), assorted sizes
    - Butterfly bandages or Steri-strips, assorted sizes
    - 2" x 2" sterile gauze pads
    - 4" x 4" sterile gauze pads
    - Prepackaged individual sterile eye patches
    - 2" rolled gauze
    - 4" rolled gauze
    - 2" elastic wrap
    - 4" elastic wrap
    - Cravat cloth (triangular bandages)
    - 1" roll of cloth adhesive tape
    - Molefoam or moleskin
    - Steel sewing needle
    - Paper clip
    - Safety pins
    - Scalpel blade with handle
    - Scissors
    - Forceps (tweezers)
    - Thermometer
    - Soap
    - Cotton swabs (Q-tips)
    - 1 oz. sterile eyewash
    - Tincture of benzoin
    - Hydrocortisone lotion 0.5 - 1 %
    - Bacitracin ointment
    - Benzalkonium chloride 1:750 solution (Zephiran)
    - Buffered aspirin 325 mg tablets
    - Acetaminophen (Tylenol) 325 mg tablets
    - Codeine 30 mg tablets (with or without acetaminophen)
    - Antacid
    - Decongestant tablets
    - Decongestant nasal spray
    - Prednisone 10 mg tablets
    - Penicillin 250 mg tablets
    - Dicloxacillin 250 mg tablets
    - ampicillin 250 mg tablets
    - Erythromycin 250 mg tablets
    - Cephalexin 250 mg tablets
    - Tetracycline 500 mg tablets
    - Sulfamethoxazole with trimethoprim double-strength tablets
    - Insect repellant
    - Sunscreen
    - Allergy kit: epinephrine needle/syringe (Ana-kit or EpiPen) and
    diphenhydramine (or other antihistamine)
    - alcohol swabs
    - waterproof flashlight
    - Adolph's Meat Tenderizer (unseasoned)

FOREST AND MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS

    - Water disinfection equipment
    - Acetazolamide (Diamox) 250 mg tablets
    - Snake bite kit
    - Calamine lotion
    - Metronidazole 250 mg tablets
    - powdered electrolyte mix (Gatorade)
    - Instant chemical cold pack(s)

BOATING AND DIVING ENVIRONMENTS

    - Motion sickness medicine
    - Acetic acid (vinegar) 5%
    - Isopropyl alcohol 40 - 70 %
    - Hydrogen peroxide
    - Vosol otic solution

Thanks to the good doctor in providing this list. BTW I have no idea what the meat tenderizer is for...

FEMA - THE SECRET GOVERNMENT

by Harry V. Martin, with research assistance from David Caul

(Copyright -Free America and Harry V. Martin, 1995).

Some people have referred to it as the "secret government“ of the United States. It is not an elected body; it does not involve itself in public disclosures; and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress; it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant, and hold them without trial; it can seize property, food supplies, transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution. Not only is it the most powerful entity in the United States, but it was not even created under constitutional law by the Congress.

It was a product of a Presidential Executive Order. No, it is not the U.S. military, nor the Central Intelligence Agency; they are subject to Congress. The organization is called FEMA which stands for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Originally conceived in the Richard Nixon Administration, it was refined by President Jimmy Carter and given teeth in the Ronald Reagan and George Bush Administrations.

FEMA had one original concept when it was created: to assure the survivability of the United States government in the event of a nuclear attack on this nation. It was also provided with the task of being a federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. Its awesome powers grow under the tutelage of people like Lt. Col. Oliver North and General Richard Secord, the architects on the Iran-Contra scandal and the looting of America‘s savings and loan institutions. FEMA has even been given control of the State Defense Forces, a rag-tag, often considered neo-Nazi, civilian army that will substitute for the National Guard if the Guard is called to duty overseas.
 

THE MOST POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES

Though it may be the most powerful organization in the United States, few people know it even exists; however, it has crept into our private lives. Even mortgage papers contain FEMA‘s name in small print if the property in question is near a flood plain.

*FEMA was deeply involved in the Los Angeles riots and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of the black helicopter traffic reported throughout the United States, (mainly in the West: California, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado) are flown by FEMA personnel.

*FEMA has been given responsibility for many new disasters, including urban forest fires, home heating emergencies, refugee situations, urban riots, and emergency planning for nuclear and toxic incidents. In the West, it works in conjunction with the Sixth Army.

*FEMA was created in a series of Executive Orders. A Presidential Executive Order, whether constitutional or not, becomes law simply by its publication in the Federal Registry. Congress is by-passed. Executive Order Number 12148 created the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is to interface with the Department of Defense for civil defense planning and funding; an "emergency czar“ was appointed at that time.

*FEMA has only spent about 6% of its budget on national emergencies, the bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a major emergency, foreign or domestic.

Executive Order Number 12656 appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and grant the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard could be federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S. air space and all ports of entry. Here are just a few Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990: allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and sea lanes.
    
    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995: allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997: allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998: allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000: allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government
supervision.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001: allows the government to take over all health, education, and welfare functions.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002: designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003: allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004: allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005: allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051: specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310: grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049: assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

    *EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921: allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA‘s Civil Security Division, stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA‘s role as a,

    "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion or a global audience in times of crisis.“

FEMA‘s powers were consolidated by Ex-President Carter to incorporate:

    *The National Security Act Of 1947, which allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government, and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources, and production facilities

    *The 1950 Defense Production Act, which gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy

    *The Act Of August 29, 1916, which authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency

    *The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national

These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.

 

HURRICANE ANDREW FOCUSED ATTENTION ON FEMA

FEMA‘s deceptive role really did not come to light with much of the public until hurricane Andrew smashed into the U.S. mainland. As Russell R. Dynes, director of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware wrote in The World and I:

    "The eye of the political storm hovered over the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA became a convenient target for criticism.“

Because FEMA was accused of dropping the ball in Florida, the media and Congress commenced to study this agency. What came out of the critical look was that FEMA was spending 12 times more for "black operations“ than for disaster relief. It spent $1.3 billion building secret bunkers throughout the United States in anticipation of government disruption by foreign or domestic upheaval. Yet, fewer than 20 members of Congress–only members with top security clearance–know of the $1.3 billion expenditure by FEMA for non-natural disaster situations.

These few Congressional leaders state that FEMA has a "black curtain“ around its operations. FEMA has worked on National Security programs since 1979, and its predecessor, the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency, has secretly spent millions of dollars before being merged into FEMA by President Carter in 1979. FEMA has developed 300 sophisticated mobile units that are capable of sustaining themselves for a month. The vehicles are located in five areas of the United States. They have tremendous communication systems and each contains a generator that would provide power to 120 homes each but have never been used for disaster relief. FEMA‘s enormous powers can be triggered easily. In any form of domestic or foreign problem, perceived and not always actual, emergency powers can be enacted.

The President of the United States now has broader powers to declare martial law, which activates FEMA‘s extraordinary powers. Martial law can be declared during times of increased tension overseas, economic problems within the United States, such as a depression, civil unrest, such as demonstrations or scenes like the Los Angeles riots, and in a drug crisis. These Presidential powers have increased with successive crime bills, particularly the 1991 and 1993 Crime Bill, which increase the power to suspend the rights guaranteed under the Constitution and to seize property of those suspected of being drug dealers, to individuals who participate in a public protest or demonstration.

Under emergency plans already in existence, the power exists to suspend the Constitution and turn over the reigns of government to FEMA and appointing military commanders to run state and local governments. FEMA then would have the right to order the detention of anyone whom there is reasonable ground to believe will engage in, or probably conspire with others to engage in, acts of espionage or sabotage.

The plan also authorized the establishment of concentration camps for detaining the accused, but no trial. Three times since 1984, FEMA stood on the threshold of taking control of the nation: once under President Reagan in 1984 and twice under President Bush in 1990 and 1992. However, under those three scenarios, there was not a sufficient crisis to warrant risking martial law. Most experts on the subject of FEMA and martial law insist that a crisis has to appear dangerous enough for the people of the United States before they would tolerate or accept complete government takeover. The typical crisis needed would be:

            *threat of imminent nuclear war
            *rioting in several U.S. cities simultaneously
            *a series of national disasters that cause widespread danger to the populous
            *massive terrorist attacks
            *a depression in which tens of millions are unemployed and without financial resources
            *a major environmental disaster

THREE TIMES FEMA STOOD BY READY FOR EMERGENCY

In April 1984, President Reagan signed Presidential Directive Number 54 that allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national "readiness exercise“ under the code name of REX 84. The exercise was to test FEMA‘s readiness to assume military authority in the event of a "State of Domestic National Emergency“ concurrent with the launching of a direct United States military operation in Central America. The plan called for the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so that they could be legally used for domestic law enforcement. These units would be assigned to conduct sweeps and take into custody an estimated 400,000 undocumented Central American immigrants in the United States.

The immigrants would be interned at 10 detention centers to be set up at military bases throughout the country. REX 84 was so highly guarded that special metal security doors were placed on the fifth floor of the FEMA building in Washington, D.C. Even long-standing employees of the Civil Defense of the Federal Executive Department possessing the highest possible security clearances were not being allowed through the newly installed metal security doors. Only personnel wearing a special red Christian cross or crucifix lapel pin were allowed into the premises. Lt. Col. North was responsible for drawing up the emergency plan, which U.S. Attorney General William French Smith opposed vehemently.

The plan called for the suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the government over to FEMA, appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments, and the declaration of martial law. The Presidential Executive Orders to support such a plan were already in place. The plan also advocated the rounding up and transfer to "assembly centers or relocation camps“ of a least 21 million American Negroes in the event of massive rioting or disorder, not unlike the rounding up of the Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The second known time that FEMA stood by was in 1990 when Desert Storm was enacted.

Prior to President Bush‘s invasion of Iraq, FEMA began to draft new legislation to increase its already formidable powers. One of the elements incorporated into the plan was to set up operations within any state or locality without the prior permission of local or state authorities. Such prior permission has always been required in the past. Much of the mechanism being set into place was in anticipation of the economic collapse of the Western World. The war with Iraq may have been conceived as a ploy to boost the bankrupt economy, but it only pushed the West into deeper recession. The third scenario for FEMA came with the Los Angeles riots after the Rodney King brutality verdict. Had the rioting spread to other cities, FEMA would have been empowered to step in. As it was, major rioting only occurred in the Los Angeles area, thus preventing a pretext for a FEMA response.

On July 5, 1987, the Miami Herald published reports on FEMA‘s new goals. The goal was to suspend the Constitution in the event of a national crisis, such as:

                *nuclear war
                *violent and widespread internal dissent
                *national opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad

Lt. Col. North was the architect. National Security Directive Number 52, issued in August 1982, pertains to the "Use Of National Guard Troops To Quell Disturbances.“ The crux of the problem is that FEMA has the power to turn the United States into a police state in time of a real crisis or a manufactured crisis. Lt. Col. North virtually established the apparatus for dictatorship.

Only the criticism of the Attorney General prevented the plans from being adopted. But intelligence reports indicate that FEMA has a folder with 22 Executive Orders for the President to sign in case of an emergency. It is believed those Executive Orders contain the framework of North‘s concepts, delayed by criticism but never truly abandoned. The crisis, as the government now sees it, is civil unrest. For generations, the government was concerned with nuclear war, but the violent and disruptive demonstrations that surrounded the Vietnam War era prompted President Nixon to change the direction of emergency powers from war time to times of domestic unrest.

Diana Raynolds, program director of the Edward R. Murrow Center, summed up the dangers of FEMA today and the public reaction to martial law in a drug crisis:

    "It was James Madison‘s worst nightmare that a righteous faction would someday be strong enough to sweep away the constitutional restraints designed by the framers to prevent the tyranny of centralized power, excessive privilege, an arbitrary governmental authority over the individual. These restraints, the balancing and checking of powers among branches and layers of government, and the civil guarantees, would be the first casualties in a drug-induced national security state, with Reagan‘s Civil Emergency Preparedness unleashed.     

    Nevertheless, there would be those who would welcome NSC (National Security Council) into the drug fray, believing that increasing state police powers to emergency levels is the only way left to fight America‘s enemy within. In the short run, a national security state would probably be a relief to those whose personal security and quality of life has been diminished by drugs or drug-related crime. And, as the general public watches the progression of institutional chaos and social decay, they too may be willing to pay the ultimate price–one drug-free America for 200 years of democracy.“

The first targets in any FEMA emergency would be Hispanics and Blacks; the FEMA orders call for them to be rounded up and detained. Tax protesters, demonstrators against government military intervention outside U.S. borders, and people who maintain weapons in their homes are also targets.

Operation Trojan Horse is a program designed to learn the identity of potential opponents to martial law. The program lures potential protesters into public forums, conducted by a "hero“ of the people who advocates survival training. The list of names gathered at such meetings and rallies are computerized and then targeted in case of an emergency. The most shining example of America to the world has been its peaceful transition of government from one administration to another. Despite crises of great magnitude, the United States has maintained its freedom and liberty. This nation now stands on the threshold of rule by non-elected people asserting non-constitutional powers. Even Congress cannot review a martial law action until six months after it has been declared.

For the first time in American history, the reigns of government would not be transferred from one elected element to another, but the Constitution, itself, can be suspended. The scenarios established to trigger FEMA into action are generally found in:

                *society today–economic collapse
                *civil unrest
                *drug problems
                *terrorist attacks
                *protests against American intervention in a foreign country

All these premises exist; it could only be a matter of time before one of these triggers the entire emergency necessary to bring FEMA into action. And then it may be too late, because under the FEMA plan, there is no contingency by which constitutional power is restored. These Executive Orders are serious business as far as they effectively override the constitutional base of the American way of life. It is important to examine these a bit further since they are what gives FEMA its formidable authority to act above our usual legislative scrutiny.

 

 You start to pull on a thread and you never really know just where it might lead. This started out to be a simple, straightforward research investigation. Then some closets were examined and a whole lot of skeletons fell out. And that was only for starters! But let me start at the beginning and not get ahead of my story. The journey you are about to take will lead you to many unforeseen and unforgettable places. You will probably ask yourself–more than once– if this is even real. This story will lay forth a woven tapestry of such intricate design that you will marvel at the clever constructs of the "Shadow Government“. There‘s an old saying that applies to what they‘ve accomplished: "Do it right under their noses.“

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, has been tarred and feathered by many conspiracy theorists–and rightly so. Its highly questionable financial origins are outside the control of Congress, and there is a vast sea of bizarre history behind the scenes of this seemingly service-oriented, quasi-government agency. Let us now begin a strange journey through the history of an agency which has evolved through many aliases on the way to finally being known as FEMA.

FEMA ---THE U.S. “SHADOW GOVERNMENT”

Few Americans–indeed, few Congressional reps–are aware of the existence of Mount Weather, a mysterious underground military base carved deep inside a mountain near the sleepy rural town of Bluemont, Virginia, just 46 miles from Washington DC. Mount Weather–also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations–is buried not just in hard granite, but in secrecy as well. In March of 1976, the Progressive Magazine published an astonishing article entitled "The Mysterious Mountain.“ The author, Richard Pollock, based his investigative report on Senate subcommittee hearings and upon "several off-the-record interviews with officials formerly associated with Mount Weather“. His report and a 1991 article in TIME magazine entitled "Doomsday Hideaway“, supply a few compelling hints about what is going on underground. Ted Gup, writing for TIME, describes the base as follows: Mount Weather is a virtually self-contained facility.

Above ground, scattered across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site sewage-treatment plant, with a 90,000 gallon-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gallons of water, could last some 200 people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional water supplies. Not far from the installation‘s entry gate is a control tower plus a helicopter pad. The mountain‘s real secrets are not visible at ground level. The mountain‘s "real secrets“ are protected by warning signs, ten feet high chain link fences, razor wire and armed guards. Curious motorists and hikers on the Appalachian trail are relieved of their sketching pads and cameras and sent on their way. Security is tight.

The government has owned the site since 1903; it has seen service as an artillery range, a hobo farm during the Depression, and a National Weather Bureau Facility. In 1936, the U.S. Bureau of Mines took control and started digging. Mount Weather is virtually an underground city, according to former personnel interviewed by Pollock. Buried deep inside the Earth, Mount Weather was equipped with such amenities as:

            • private apartments and dormitories
            • streets and sidewalks
            • cafeterias and hospitals
            • a water purification system, power plant, and general office buildings
            • a small lake fed by fresh water from underground springs
            • its own mass transit system
            • a TV communication system

Mount Weather is the self-sustaining underground command center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The facility is the operational center–the hub–of approximately 100 other Federal Relocation Centers, most of which are concentrated in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. Together this network of underground facilities constitutes the backbone of America‘s "Continuity of Government“ program. In the event of nuclear war, declaration of martial law, or other national emergency, the President, his cabinet, and the rest of the Executive Branch would be "relocated“ to Mount Weather.
 

WHAT DOES CONGRESS KNOW ABOUT MOUNT WEATHER?

According to the Senate Subcommittee On Constitutional Rights hearings in 1975, Congress has almost no knowledge and no oversight– budgetary or otherwise–on Mount Weather. Retired Air Force General Leslie W. Bray, in his testimony to the subcommittee said:

    "I am not at liberty to describe precisely what is the role and the mission and the capability that we have at Mount Weather, or at any other precise location.“

Apparently, this underground capital of the United States is a secret only to Congress and the US taxpayers who paid for it. The Russians know about it, as reported in TIME:

    "Few in the U.S. government will speak of it, though it is assumed that all along the Soviets have known both its precise location and its mission (unlike the Congress, since Bray wouldn‘t tell); defense experts take it as a given that the site is on the Kremlin‘s targeting maps.“

The Russians attempted to buy real estate right next door, as a "country estate“ for their embassy folks, but that deal was dead-ended by the State Department. Mount Weather‘s "Government-In-Waiting,“ Pollock‘s report, based on his interviews with former officials at Mount Weather, contains astounding information on the base‘s personnel. The underground city contains a parallel government-in-waiting:

    "High-level governmental sources, speaking on the promise of strictest anonymity, told me [Pollock] that each of the federal departments represented at Mount Weather is headed by a single person on whom is conferred the rank of a cabinet-level official.     

    Protocol even demands that subordinates address them as "Mr. Secretary“. Each of the Mount Weather "cabinet members“ is apparently appointed by the White House and serves an indefinite term . . . many through several Administrations. The facility attempts to duplicate the vital functions of the Executive branch of the Administration.“

Nine federal departments are replicated within Mount Weather:

                        *Agriculture
                        *Commerce
                        *Health
                        *Education & Welfare
                        *Housing & Urban Development
                        *Interior
                        *Labor
                        *State
                        *Transportation
                        *Treasury

As well as at least five federal agencies:

                        *Federal Communications Commission
                        *Selective Service
                        *Federal Power Commission
                        *Civil Service Commission
                        *Veterans Administration

The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Post Office, both private corporations, also have offices in Mount Weather. Pollock writes that the "cabinet members“ are apparently appointed by the White House and serve an indefinite term, but that information cannot be confirmed, raising the further question of who holds the reins on this "back-up government“. Furthermore, appointed Mount Weather officials hold their positions through several elected administrations, transcending the time their appointers spend in office. Unlike other presidential nominees, these appointments are made without the public advice or consent of the Senate. Is there an alternative President and Vice President as well? If so, who appoints them?

Pollock says only this:

    "As might be expected, there is also an Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather. The Federal Preparedness Agency (precursor to FEMA) apparently appoints a special staff to the Presidential section, which regularly receives top secret national security estimates and raw data from each of the Federal departments and agencies.“

What Do They Do At Mount Weather?

    *Collect Data On American Citizens

      The Senate Subcommittee, in 1975, learned that the "facility held dossiers on at least 100,000 Americans. [Senator] John Tunney later alleged that the Mount Weather computers can obtain millions of pieces of additional information on the personal lives of American citizens simply by tapping the data stored at any of the other ninety-six Federal Relocation Centers.“ The subcommittee concluded that Mount Weather‘s databases "operate with few, if any, safeguards or guidelines.

       
    *Store Necessary Information

      The Progressive article detailed that General Bray gave Tunney‘s subcommittee a list of the categories of files maintained at Mount Weather:

          "military installations, government facilities, communications, transportation, energy and power, agriculture, manufacturing, wholesale and retail services, manpower, financial, medical and educational institutions, sanitary facilities, population, housing shelter, and stockpiles.“

      This massive database fits cleanly into Mount Weather‘s ultimate purpose as the command center in the event of a national emergency.
       
    *Play War Games

      This is the main daily activity of the approximately 240 people who work at Mount Weather. The games are intended to train the Mount Weather bureaucracy in managing a wide range of problems associated with both war and domestic political crises. Decisions are made in the "Situation Room“, the base‘s nerve center, located in the core of Mount Weather. The Situation Room is the archetypal war room, with "charts, maps, and whatever visuals may be needed“ and "batteries of communications equipment connecting Mount Weather with the White House and 'Raven Rock‘ (the underground Pentagon sixty miles north of Washington) as well as with almost every US military unit stationed around the globe,“ according to The Progressive article.

       
         +"All internal communications are conducted by closed-circuit color television. Senior officers and ”Cabinet members‘ have two consoles recessed in the walls of their office.“       

      Descriptions of the war games read a bit like an Ian Fleming novel. Every year there is a system-wide alert that includes all military and civilian-run underground installations. The real, above ground President and his Cabinet members are "relocated“ to Mount Weather to observe the simulation. Post-mortems are conducted and the margins for error are calculated after the games. All the data is studied and documented.
       
    *Civil Crisis Management

      Mount Weather personnel study more than war scenarios.

       

      Domestic "crises“ are also tracked and watched and there have been times when Mount Weather almost swung into action, as Pollock reported:

          "Officials who were at Mount Weather during the 1960s say the complex was actually prepared to assume certain governmental powers at the time of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The installation used the tools of its ’Civil Crisis Management‘ program on a standby basis during the 1967 and 1968 urban riots and during a number of national antiwar demonstrations, the sources said.“

      In its 1974 Annual Report, the Federal Preparedness Agency [now FEMA] stated that,

              o"Studies conducted at Mount Weather involve the control and management of domestic political unrest where there are material shortages (such as food riots) or in strike situations where the FPA determines that there are industrial disruptions and other domestic resource crises.“

      The Mount Weather facility uses a vast array of resources to continually monitor the American people.       

      According to Daniel J. Cronin, former assistant director for the FPA, reconnaissance satellites, local and state police intelligence reports, and federal law enforcement agencies are just a few of the resources available to the FPA for information gathering. "We try to monitor situations and get to them before they become emergencies,“ Cronin said. "No expense is spared in the monitoring program.“
       
    *Maintain And Update The “Survivors’ List”

      Using all the data generated by the war games and domestic crisis scenarios, the facility continually maintains and updates a list of names and addresses of people deemed to be "vital“ to the survival of the nation, or who can "assist essential and non-interruptable services.“ In the 1976 article, the survivors‘ list contained 6,500 names, but even that was deemed to be low.

WHO PAYS FOR ALL THIS AND HOW MUCH?

At the same time tens of millions of dollars were being spent on maintaining and upgrading the complex to protect several hundred designated officials in the event of nuclear attack, the US government drastically reduced its emphasis on war preparedness for US citizens. A 1989 FEMA brochure entitled, "Are You Prepared?“ suggests that citizens construct makeshift fallout shelters using used furniture, books, and other common household items. Officially, Mount Weather (and its budget) does not exist. FEMA refuses to answer inquiries about the facility; as FEMA spokesman Bob Blair told TIME magazine:

        "I‘ll be glad to tell you all about it, but I‘d have to kill you afterward.“

We don‘t know how much Mount Weather has cost over the years, but of course, American taxpayers bear this burden as well. A Christian Science Monitor article entitled,

    ”Study Reveals US Has Spent $4 Trillion On Nukes Since 45‘ reports that: The government devoted at least $12 billion to civil defense projects to protect the population from nuclear attack. But billions of dollars more were secretly spent on vast underground complexes from which civilian and military officials would run the government during a nuclear war.“
 

WHAT IS MOUNT WEATHER’S ULTIMATE PURPOSE?

We have seen that Mount Weather contains an non-elected, parallel "government-in-waiting“ ready to take control of the United States upon word from the President or his successor. The facility contains a massive database of information on U.S. citizens which is operated with no safeguards or accountability. Ostensibly, this expensive hub of America‘s network of subterranean bases was designed to preserve our form of government during a nuclear holocaust. However, Mount Weather is not simply a Cold War holdover. Information on command and control strategies during national emergencies have largely been withheld from the American public.

 

Executive Order 11051, signed by President Kennedy on October 2, 1962, states that

    "national preparedness must be achieved . . . as may be required to deal with increases in international tension with limited war, or with general war including attack upon the United States.“

However, Executive Order 11490, drafted by Gen. George A. Lincoln (former director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, the FPA‘s predecessor) and signed by President Nixon in October 1969, tells a different story.

 

EO 11490, which superseded Kennedy‘s EO 11051, begins:

    "Whereas our national security is dependent upon our ability to assure continuity of government, at every level, in any national emergency-type situation that might conceivably confront the nation."

As researcher William Cooper points out,

    "Nixon‘s order makes no reference to "war“, "imminent attack“, or "general war“. These quantifiers are replaced by an extremely vague "national emergency-type situation“ that "might conceivably“ interfere with the workings of the national power structure. Furthermore, there is no publicly known Executive Order outlining the restoration of the Constitution after a national emergency has ended.

    Unless the parallel government at Mount Weather decides, out of the goodness of its heart, to return power to Constitutional authority, the United States could experience an honest-to-God coup d‘etat posing as a national emergency. Like the enigmatic Area 51 in Nevada, the federal government wants to keep the Mount Weather facility buried in secrecy. Public awareness of this place and its purpose would raise serious questions about who holds the reins of power in this country. The Constitution states that those reins lie in the hands of the people, but the very existence of Mount Weather indicates an entirely different reality. As long as Mount Weather exists, these questions will remain."

With that said, let‘s turn to a classic gem of good research which continues this theme of documenting the machinery in place that skirts our Constitution. See if you don‘t begin to sense that "entirely different reality“ than what we are led to believe is the case. Mount Weather is only one part of this vast equation.

A Temporary Suspension Of Minor And Outdated Laws May Be Necessary To Stabilize The Economy

George Washington's Blog
Thursday, Dec 18, 2008

If you started reading this because you thought there might be a reason to suspend a law, you're in danger of falling prey to propaganda.

My purpose in writing this is to inoculate you against this type of propaganda.

Pundits, talking heads and government officials will try to subtly convince Americans that a "temporary" suspension of "minor" and "outdated" laws is necessary to stabilize the economy.

But remember, all tyrants claim that the suspension of liberties is a "temporary" measure, "just until the crisis passes". It never is. Once repealed, the repeal remains in place permanently.

And the so-called "minor" and "outdated" laws will really be the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. You know, those little things which our forefathers fought and died for.

Preserving our liberties is the most important thing. The morons who got us into this financial crisis may or may not be able to fix it, but shredding the Constitution is not a prerequisite to their taking effective action.

In fact, if our leaders started complying with the rule of law, that would dramatically improve the chances of an economic recovery.

FROM:   http://infowars.net/articles/december2008/181208Temporary.htm

Weasels Words: Just what the hell does our Rights as a free people of this country have to do with the economy that these crooked bastards have managed, and have managed to totally destroy, for their own personal gains and those of their "handlers".

The outdated laws they are speaking about are the Bill of Rights, please note that once a right is gone - its gone forever.
IE, Germany 1932-45, Russia 1918-91, China 1946-present, Cambodia 1970s, Uganda. In every case the citizens were murdered by their own governments. But that cannot happen here, or some say. RIGHT?-----------------------------WRONG ! ! !

Survival Bars
By: Vicki Tate

3 Cups cereal (oatmeal,cornmeal,wheat flakes)
2 1/2 Cups powdered milk
1 Cup sugar
3 Tablespoons honey
3 Tablespoons water
1/2 Cup Jello (optional)
1/4 Teaspoon salt

Place all dry ingredients except jello in bowl. Bring water,honey and jello to a boil...Add to dry ingredients. Mix well. Add water a little at a time until mixture is just ready to mold. Place in a small square dis and dry in the oven under low heat. Wrap and store. This will make 2 bars, each containing 1000 calories or enough food for one day. These will store for a long time and are excellent for emergency packs, etc. Eat dry or cooked in about 3/4 cup of water.

 HOW TO CAN BUTTER:

1. Use only highest quality butter (Land O Lakes or equivalent).
2. Heat jelly jars in 250 degree oven for 20 minutes, without rings or seals.
3. While jars heat, melt butter slowly until it comes to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Pour melted butter carefully into heated jars, being careful not to get any butter on rim of jar.
5. Add lid and ring and close securely. They will seal as they cool. Shake jars a few times during cooling to prevent separation, although this step is optional.
6. Put into refrigerator or other cool place until butter hardens. After hardening, butter will store for 3 years.
Is this cool, or what??

FROM:   http://geocities.com/~y2k-survivor/HOWTOCANBUTTER.html

Sanitation Kit, Bucket, Five(5) Gallon Size

All items are storeable inside the standard sized 5 gallon bucket:

1 Box Handi-wipes
1 each Mirror
3 each Roach Traps
3 each Mouse Traps
1 Deodorant or Anti-Perspirant
3 each  rolls of fly strips
1 each container of dental floss
1 each tooth brush (per person)
1 box of cotton swabs (Q-Tips)
3 rolls of toilet paper
1 soap bar
30 heavy-duty trash bags
30 twist ties
1 16 oz. bottle of bleach or chemical toilet liquid disinfectant
1 can Lysol spray 
1 Toothpaste tube or container    
1 Dental Floss    
1 Mirror
1 Comb or Hair Brush (per person)
12 Gallon Sized Ziplock Bags

This is by no means a Complete list. Just a guide.

 NEW WORLD ORDER
 
Many of the present states autodenominan “democracies”: government in whom the town is sovereign.

Nevertheless, the sovereignty of the town is limited to mark, every few years, a cross in a problem, indicating names among others, that are proposed to him. They have made us think that the democracy is that simple gesture.

Our system, IS NOT a DEMOCRACY. It is a social system of global hierarchy, maintained by a minority to dominate a majority.

 

 
They are worth of the governments (“democratic” or “dictatorial”, of “rights” or “lefts”), that serve to them, and with whom share portions of the power. The governments are the direct employees of the great bank and the multinational industry.
 
The authorities are a thought artifice to respond to created needs artificially: security and protection. They are a tool of usurpation of the power on the part of the multinationals. They are the screen after which the industry moves threads.

Below the governments, the institutions dispute the portions of power that are granted to them.
Policies jeopardize to Us in wars that we did not wish. They establish alliances or they support embargoes to other nations, without having to us in account.

Legislative they impose laws to Us to control and they pay to us to judges to condemn to us.

Toilets deny the power to Us to decide the treatments that we want to maintain our health. They intoxicate to us with the vaccinations which they force to us to put under to us; they mutilate to us with supposed preventive surgeries and they poison to us and they exterminate with pseudo-medicines.

Educational they educate to Us so that we are submissive, so that we are scared. They instill the belief to us of the inequality, that it is the base on which they have secured his privileges. They control the scientific research from the money that contributes in subsidy, and Zur5uckhaltung in censuring or falsifying the results according to his convenience.

Police officers Install electronic systems to watch us (instilling the belief to us that it is for our security and protection). They pay to police to stop to us.
 
Media They control more important mass media, and through the same they create a false reality that acts like smoke screen so that we did not prune to be conscious of its manipulations.

In order to carry out its agenda of control, the Top of the Power takes its Secret Plan ahead. To that CONSPIRACY or PLOT is called to him. Since the plan is secret, we cannot know it. But we see its results.

And the best way to disassemble a plot is to set out those results in the light of the day.

By force of repeating it to us, we have ended up thinking that we do not have any power to change nothing. But we are who we paid the wage of our authorities. We, who we have deposited our individual authority in other people's hands, and have allowed to the development and maintenance of the governments who we have. They have the authority that we want to give them.

We can live without them. They cannot live without us.

This was translated using bablefish