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I have been able to amass a large sum of bullion, in the forms of silver and gold. Most gold is the older coins from the [late] 1800s and early 1900s. This gives me the bonus of not only having gold [bullion], but also having a [numismatic] rare coin. When things go really bad, I also keep a large quantity of [non-numismatic circulated] silver dimes. Buying these in $1,000 face value bags is the way to go. This will allow a person to have the smaller coins for barter. Also, having some Morgan and Peace dollars can be helpful. With the current low costs people can give now purchase them for use as birthday or Christmas presents, as well. Most young people have never seen the large dollar coins, so these coins make unique gifts.

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I won’t mention my name because of the privacy concerns you so eloquently pointed out in your blog, but here’s an example of what you were asking about in regards to preparations for a new cold/hot war.

I was in the USAF in Security Police from 1980 to 1989, the height of the Cold War, when President Reagan was stepping up the pressure on the then Soviet Union. I served in ICBMs (Minuteman III’s and the Peacekeeper) at Warren AFB in Wyoming and overseas in Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCMs) at Florennes Air Base, Belgium. One of the things we were constantly aware of during our duty in the missile fields stateside was that on-duty Security Police were not allowed to go into shelters in the event of a nuclear attack.

CALL TO DISCERNMENT: America’s Lawless Police State
Spirit Lake, Idaho, has about 1,600 residents and one flashing yellow traffic light. It has three cops. One is an older, slightly overweight man under six feet tall who has been around for a long time; he looks and acts how you would expect a police officer from a small, relatively quiet north Idaho town to look and act. The other two, recent arrivals (one with the last name “Lawless”), are large, muscular men dressed in black paramilitary garb complete with kevlar vests and combat boots. Their demeanor is noteably more menacing and intimidating. There is no doubt that, while the older cop’s job has been keeping the peace, the two “Darth Vaders” are here to enforce the lie (I mean, enforce the law). The following article outlines the process whereby Blackwater is training up a standing army. Though Wayne Madsen has provided a list of agencies and departments that, as of October, 2007, had been trained by Blackwater at its Moyock facility in North Carolina, we should not underestimate the growth of this advancing army of militarized cops. Afterall, we have two of them in tiny and remote Spirit Lake, Idaho.

She Survives: A Slight Political Rant, A Bit of Doom
Feel free to disregard this post…this is MY rant on politics and the choices we have. I don’t care for “well do something about it” comments, why? Because I made my choice and now my choice is moot. I vote. I get to gripe. So here goes.

We have no choice this fall. No choice for actual progress. No choice for something more stable. This is not what bothers me. What bothers me are the choices we do have. A hard-nosed revenge seeker and an inexperienced buffoon. Not very promising, now is it?

Nato divided on American call to punish Moscow - Times Online
The trouble is that several big European states — notably France, Germany and Italy — do not see the Russian offensive that way. They partly blame Georgia, a would-be Nato member and a protégé of the United States. As Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, told The Times: “Russia is a great nation. Look how we have been treating it.”
Vladimir Putin’s mastery checkmates the West

The Kremlin laughed off threats from President Bush this week that Moscow risked being cast back into the cold for cracking down on an upstart neighbour that for centuries was under Russian control. “I don’t know how they are going to isolate us,” Sergei Lavrov, the Foreign Minister, joked on Thursday, as Russians celebrated what they believe was a noble victory in saving South Ossetia from “Georgian aggression”.