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Why Is The US Treasury Quietly Ordering "Surival Kits" For US Bankers?
The Department of Treasury is spending $200,000 on survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation. As FreeBeacon reports, survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States and includes a solar blanket, food bar, water-purification tablets, and dust mask (among other things). The question, obviously, is just what do they know that the rest of us don't?
The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation.
The emergency supplies would be for every employee at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which conducts on-site reviews of banks throughout the country. The survival kit includes everything from water purification tablets to solar blankets.
The government is willing to spend up to $200,000 on the kits, according to the solicitation released on Dec. 4.
The survival kits must come in a fanny-pack or backpack that can fit all of the items, including a 33-piece personal first aid kit with “decongestant tablets,” a variety of bandages, and medicines.
The kits must also include a “reusable solar blanket” 52 by 84 inches long, a 2,400-calorie food bar, “50 water purification tablets,” a “dust mask,” “one-size fits all poncho with hood,” a rechargeable lantern with built-in radio, and an “Air-Aid emergency mask” for protection against airborne viruses.
Survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States including Bank of America, American Express Bank, BMO Financial Corp., Capitol One Financial Corporation, Citigroup, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Wells Fargo.
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The agency has roughly 3,814 employees, each of which would receive a survival kit. The staff includes “bank examiners” who provide “sustained supervision” of major banks in the United States.
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It is not clear why the Treasury Department is ordering the kits.
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One can only imagine what the Treasury department is thinking will happen in the near-future... while it is indeed good to be prepared, the timing as domestic social unrest ramps up, the driver of the recovery is crashing, and the Fed has stepped away is 'odd' to say the least.
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Full OCC RFP below:
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WTF, no bullet-proof vests?
Or a pincet for nails?
So, you are a successful trader, speculator, investor, money manager, [Department of Treasury Staffer] and is typical, have little patience. Something has been bothering you. You
have been reading Zero Hedge long enough that you are now absolutely
convinced that TEOTWAWKI is indeed nigh, and it could well be quite
violent.
I wish there were more to this story, but these survival kits are SOP at major banks and brokerage houses since 9/11.
Put these in your kit.
Then I'm throwing my survival kit away. I don't want to be stuck here with a bunch of fucking bankers.
Don't worry. They won't make it. They don't get any guns or even a knife. Just a rape whistle.
WHY?
Because someone is making money selling it ... goddammit ... when are you people going to learn how this World works???
LOL, the only things on that list not in my hunting pack (large ALICE w/a MOLLE II belt) are the glow stick, the AM/FM rechargable lantern, the 2400 calories (covered in other ways) and the mask. Oh, and the latex gloves, because I have a shitload of nitrile gloves instead. And my first aid kit has more bandages by far. And I have knives and wetstones, fire making stuff, a cow elk call, some blaze orange, some paracord, pullies, block and tackle, game bags, water collectors, and a bunch of other stuff. How many of the bureaucrats with the OCC do you think will have a clue how to use any of that?
Wait... what do they wipe their asses with? Oh yeah, FRNs...
LOL, I keep toilet paper in there too. I keep a roll in my Jeep as well.
My buddy used to use pieces of his thermal shirt when we were out hunting. We'd be hanging out talking and he would pull out his knife to procure some materials.
By end of season he had a half shirt.
Fun times. Like when my pops was doing a deer drive and him, me and my buddie meet up after. Dad looks at me and tosses me a sandwich. Other pocket no sammie for my buddie, but he had a pack of crackers. Buddie got sad. :)
pods
"fanny-pack" !
Does that get inserted for safe carrying ?
.. probably anticipating torches and pitchforks outside shackled bank doors
9mm Makarov is all I need!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwW7RaPO_g
these kits are standard at most banks in most markets. i used to have a similar one--provided by my otherwise abusive emplyer--strapped under my chair in tokyo. it came with a hard hat (with the bloody company logo on it) to protect against earthquakes, cause everyone knows that the best defense against collapsing highrises is a 1/8" plastic dome on your head. during the quake all of that was forgotten as I went for the stairs (it would have taken a bit of time to unbuckle all of the straps). i did manage to get my iphone, though, which turned out to be the most useful part of my quake preps.
I dated an employee at a major bank in Canada who mentioned similar preparations a couple years ago, with a similar inventory, because like you, we were in the middle of a known earthquake zone. This appears to be typical, job-justifying expenditure by some OHS bureaucrat as part of routine preparation for natural disasters, certainly not preparation for imminent economic crisis or civil unrest, which would require a different list.
Leaving aside the obvious (a branch of government, using our tax dollars, to equip a PRIVATE company) at least they're providing a "decongestant" so they can cook up some meth when their coke runs out.
Bankers & .gov, what a bunch of dicks.
"Survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States including Bank of America, American Express Bank, BMO Financial Corp., Capitol One Financial Corporation, Citigroup, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Wells Fargo."
Holy shit, it looks like Goldman is being cut loose.
No, they just get the real deal. Evacuation to Mt Weather, or similar location. Those readiness kits are a theater-prop for the muppets.
or just a psy-op to get us squawking about it.
I don't see anything on the list that protects banksters from poisonous cocktails, nail-guns, slashed throats, or 33 story swan dives to the concrete. Or did they just forget to include the base-jumping parachute pack or flight suit on the list???
surprised they didn't include at least 10 ounces of pure Peruvian Marching Powder and $20,000 cash for emergency hookers.
A hard cervical collar would protect against noose-injuries...
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Why Is The US Treasury Quietly Ordering "Surival Kits" For US Bankers?"Ummm.....because they can collect your tax dollars at the point of a gun and spend it on whatever the fuck they feel like with no accountability.
Wild guess here.....
The emergency nail gun is missing.
"...squawking about it.", with fear.That was their plan, no?
What about the "dust mask"? Volcano dust, not likely. What then? Hummmmmmm.
To paraphrase Fred Schwed, "Where are the customers' survival packs?"
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Are-Customers-Yachts-Street/dp/0471770892
Nice, now when someone shoots them, they'll have something worth with them instead of just papers.
The VIPs at GS, JPM and TBTF get "Mt Weather".
The muppets get "Mt Whether"
I love that English word: "Muppets". It always makes me chuckle.
The way I read this, nmewn, they're not proposing to equip the staff of any private companies, but rather their own regulatory staff who work on-site in the various banks mentioned.
just enough to get you to the tarmac for the flight to the caymans
... but I got a pretty fair idea that something dog-gone important's goin' on 'back there'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CRRVZqrRl0
YEE-HAW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSQAZEp3PA
Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove; Or How I Learned To Stop Worring And Love The Bomb" is a required Kindergaten viewing experience (according to sources close to Tyler Durden, I hear. I may be mistaken, but WHAT THE HELL!).
Let The State provide all those nylons and 1-inch Bibles for the 'bankers'.
Is this $200,000 per BANK, or per BANKSTER? Does this include the cost-over-ran $1,500 toilet seats and the gold-plated ecoutrements on their sinks? A 'space-blanket' probably constists of a roll of 'Reynold's Wrap' and a Chinese-printed instruction sheet as to how to wrap a human body in it.
Fucking SUCKERS... individually-packaged 'baby-wipes' must cost at LEAST $5.00 each. Thanks to OBAMACARE, a fucking Q-TIp is charged at the rate of $1.20 per...
So you think. Nice pistol though. reference to the Mak 9mm.
MAC M10, .45 ACP, actually. It's like an UZI on steroids. The boys over at the Company have nicknamed it 'The Streetsweeper'. Hell of a kick, so your forearms had better be buffed up.
"Hell of a kick, so your forearms had better be buffed up."
From a .45 ACP?
Dude. That thing is a freaking spray-n-pray mouse gun.
I like compound bows, cheap reusable ammunition, no vest protection what so ever.
I don't see a single damn thing listed that will save their sorry asses when I'm feeding them feet-first into the wood-chipper.
I suppose I could have some fun with the whistle.
"...Here - blow this if it starts to hurt and I'll stop. No, REALLY - I promise... stupid bitch!"
"...Here - blow this if it starts to hurt and I'll stop. No, REALLY - I promise... stupid bitch!"
OH, SHIT!
Wait, it's the love story of a young and nubile Kate Winslet (and some tweaker guy) as they face life and death together; set on a famous White Star liner sinking in April 1912...
Opening Score music by Celene Dion; who got a lifetime contract to play in Vegas (and some guys):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhicnTgArM
BLOW THE WHISTLE, ROSE.
Spending government has to spend.
It's all right. I didn't see any mention of parachutes, abseiling gear, nail-gun-proof-suit-and-helmet, shitgum-proof vest, pair of sneakers (so they can walk and avoid using radio-controlled-car), Boston-brake-detector, engraved medallion "No I Am Not Depressed - Never Felt Better And I Love My Wife And Kids So You'd Better Investigate This Murder" ... the banksters aren't surviving anything.
Let's see - $200 000 / approx 4 000 banksters = ~ $50 per kit. I guess that sounds about right (I don't know US prices), but hang on a minute :
1. Aren't govts famous for wasting money?
2. We're talking BANKSTERS here. Why give them a kit each when you can just REHYPOTHECATE the same kit 4000 times? I'm sure the banksters won't mind. Hell, all you have to do is explain to them that the odds of them needing the kit are one in a million and they'll think they're under-leveraged and immediately seek out another 996 000 banksters with whom to "share" the one kit. And that explains why the kits do not look overpriced at first glance. Hell! The banksters have probably already sold the one rehypothecated kit a million times on eBay. If you buy it then you will just get a piece of paper saying, "IOU one Emergency Kit, to be delivered next week. Otherwise take this piece of paper to the bank, redeemable for $50".
Until "Red Dots" & " Columbian Neckties" for bankers goes viral, our Republic, and many other nations, are doomed.
I wish this weren't the case, but they created this unfortunate reality, not the general citizenry.
Each kit comes with a SORRY WE ARE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE sign
There is an expedient ass-wipe heirarchy. First its your tube socks, then undershirt.
Always, always, always carry ass-wipe.
Just subsribe to NY Times.
They'll be wiping their asses with dollar bills like the rest of us.
nail gun included?
lolololzz
^this.
"Because someone is making money selling it ... goddammit ... when are you people going to learn how this World works???"
If that's all there was to it, it wouldn't be a problem. That's the way they've convinced you that the world works.
It appears a friend of the government had to unload some inventory before the end of the year. Issue date of the RFP 12-4-14. Response required in two weeks, 12-18-14. Not much time to respond to a government RFP.
They'll make great Christmas gifts for the employees.
It's been a long time since I've done any business with the US government but the way I read the solicitation was $200,000 PER SUPPLIER not total.
from p. 25
It is the Government’s intent to award BPAs to multiple offerors; however, the Government reserves the right to award a single BPA if it determines it is in the Government’s best interest to do so.
Or ignoring the legal and looking at it logically, the Government wants FIXED PRICING THROUGH 2019. Given the number of employees involved, that would cap their per unit cost at about $50 including shipping S&H for the next five years... Even using the crappiest of WalMart crap (which is more than .gov trolls deserve) - I wouldn't submit a bid to Uncle Sam for any less than $100-$200 per unit.
Good point. Likewise, I have not done an govt. RFP in years. I would suspect the language in the RFP package is standard for all RFP's. Sometimes the clause applies and at other times it does not.
...and scissors. Yeah, they will be toast by the second street lamp where they can "hang out" for eternity.
they have ''security''...remember, trained and now armed with billions of militray war weaponry
The NYPD, now sponsored by Wall Street - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2011/10/07/the_nypd_now_sponsored_by_wall_street/Salon
Oct 7, 2011 - Financial firms have given millions of dollars to the department, raising the ire of Occupy Wall St. ... In the 2009-10 year, Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, investment bank ... As a private non-profit, the New York City Police Foundation does ... as well as hiring a pricey publicist to promote Kelly in the press
Here's a video in which Blumenthal outlines his assertions to a Russian TV News reporter:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHDJn6VOhM#t=306Pentagon provides military grade weapons to local police
Uploaded on Dec 8, 2011 Local law enforcement has been getting assistance from the Pentagon. The recent militarization of the police at the Occupy protests has proved this true. The Pentagon program is getting military-grade weapons in the hands of local law enforcement in the US to use on American citizens. The Department of Defense has handed over $500 million worth of weapons this year. Is the government gearing up for mainstream to rise up? Max Blumenthal, writing fellow for The Nation Institute, joins us to answer some of these questions. Blumenthal asserts that the ties between New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Israeli are particularly strong, and getting stronger, as Raw Story points out in their article on Blumenthal:The Israeli influence has been particularly strong in New York City where, Blumenthal writes, “under the leadership of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, ties between the NYPD and Israel have deepened by the day. Kelly embarked on his first trip to Israel in early 2009 to demonstrate his support for Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip
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Report: Israeli model underlies militarization of U.S. policeJim Willie said Obola went to the hospital with a sore throat. Listed to a Fulford podcast that said he was poisoned.
Chef quit...
Hmmm
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea of the tonsils.
They'll likely expire before they've figured out how to use the stuff, and anyway, where's the bag of blow?
Like a bicycle for a fish. Bankers only know leverage. Those Survival kits will be levergaged 30x, then split apart, and sold to various government agencies, and government mandated/encouraged retirement accounts.
What about the cyanide tablets? Just in case the zombies stampede the banks...
What about all those .40 S&W Sub-machineguns & billions of rounds the gubbmint's been buyin'?
Must have all gone to the post office & dept of education, I guess.
.Gov is pretty smart. You give the banksters a blanket and a Powerbar, and you equip your own guys with submachine guns and lots of ammo. If you were preparing for some serious shit, which would you rather have? Which would rather confront?
About the only thing you use a pistol for is when you're running for your rifle.
So, leave it to the govt. to buy a billion pistol rounds when they should have been buying something else.
what in the actual fuck... it's coming, all of it, collapse, world war, debt restructure or sdr, less national sovereignty, us civil war or mass unrest.
Dead Banker #37? London ‘banker’ impaled after falling from penthouse
Conspiracy Fact: UN reports confirm Israel aiding ‘rebels’, Al-Qaeda groups fighting in Syria
what do they know that the rest of us don't?
It will be dark, dusty and cold..
That site just ooozes credibility. But perfect for ZH.
We blow ourselves up about every 80yrs.... The American Revolution, The Civil War.... WWII.... and, now.... we're right on schedule.
Logged in just to up vote you. Funniest thing I've seen/read all day! Love the pure spite
"Put these in your kit."
No thanks, I have a water filter, live in Florida and Wv. get 50+ inches rain per year. The swimming pool currently has 18,000 gallons of water ...
I’m in Mississippi, and have a lake out back, however I still stock water in 5 gallon containers. My filters are good, but they won’t remove every bug known to man, let along viruses or radiation. It also might not be too healthy to stand out in the open long enough to get water. The safest way to avoid getting robbed and killed is to stay indoors when the system collapses.
You might want to stock hand crank pump and enough hose to reach the pool from the kitchen.
Pool Shock in bulk quantities
good call, it's cheap as hell and you can seal it up in mason jars
"...enough hose to reach the pool from the kitchen."
You're going to drink water from your swimming pool? Just think about all the kids who have pissed in the pool. Yuck!
seriously? in a survival situation you'll drink your own piss if you get desperate enough, undiluted. or lay down and die, i dunno.
hope you guys figure out you at least need some electricity....
I moved to the country several years ago and have had time to think about it.... it gets really dark out here. I've had power outages where I've had to think about what it would be like if it were all the time.... Of course I have generators but, what If I had no gas?
I've gone solar.... with a big bank of batteries but, still grid tied.... and, you have to have a water well..... and you have to have food and a way to cook it... and you have to be able to protect it... and you have to be somewhat away from people but, have enough close to be part of the community.
and... I hope it never happens... I really hope it never happens..
You need light.... here are a few good lights:
The tk75 is good to about 200yds in the real world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRYlcngkw-E
The tk61vn is good to about 500yds in the real world: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?381740-Vinh-Thrower-L...
The maxabeam is good to well over half a mile in the real world: https://www.google.com/search?q=maxabeam+photos&client=ubuntu&hs=92v&cha...
maxabeam at 900yds before dark: http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/DM51_bucket/MB-001.jpg
I have all of these lights.... If you live in the city... you don't know how dark it gets.... I do... I see how dark it gets out here every night.... I can see every star in the sky at night.... If you live in a city, you have no idea what it would be like wihout any light. You also need a way to charge lights that can do this.... you need some solar or something like that to do it.... It comes down to beam profiles.... the tk75 WILL light up a pasture out to about 200yds and probably more with light adjusted eyes.... the tk61vn will go WAY out and runs on the same batteries.... but, it's like a maglite on pencil beam and will go 5-600yds.... ( it's a beast ).... the maxabeam will go much further....
when lights are measured for throw... they measure how far they will throw in pitch black to illuminate something to the same level as what a full moon will do... that is 1/4 lux.... well, on that standard, the maxabeam will do that at over 2 miles.... but, it will throw light on something you can shoot at about 1000 yards or more... a mile is 1760yds.... It will shoot about 7 million candella.... the tk61vn will throw about 650k... the tk75 will throw about 100,000.... but, the tk75 is the best of all three out to 200yds.... the tk61 is best to go from 200 to 500yds.... the maxabeam is just sick from about 200yds to further than most people can shoot.
I love to shoot the maxabeam into the sky when there are medium height clouds.... you get a round beamspot on the clouds...... the thing is a beast.... Don't tryi to buy a new one unless you have deep pockets... I have a gen 2 that does 7m candella... the new ones do 12m candella.... if you really want one... look to ebay and search "peak beam maxabeam"... you can sometimes find them used.
PS: don't confuse candella with candlepower... candlepower doesn't mean anything and is a marketing term.... 30m candlepower lights.... I've never seen one come close to 200,000 candella.
Anyway... just some food for thoughts.
Or, you could buy a SCAR H 7.62 and a FLIR RS Series rifle scope and become what others really fear in the dark. FLIR has become reasonable in price. When shit goes sideways, the last thing I want to be is a fucking lighthouse keeper. A shining and glowing beacon for the golden hoard for 2 miles around? That's your plan? You really gotta think these things through and stop being afraid of the dark.
Recharges on a very pack-able solar charger.
you can't afford to put one on everyone's rifle and, you'd need an upper for every rifle fitted with one for day time and one for night time.... seems impractical. gen 1 stuff is worthless.... g3 or go home really.... that stuff is expensive.... it is tempting because the maxabeam has an IR filter that will light something up at 1000yds or further for shooting.
If it were me and I saw security lighting me up at 1/2 mile away.... I'd find another place to target.
If there are open spaces you need to cover and no way to hide from somebody lighting you up.... chances are that you'd just move on to another easier place to get to.
FLIR....not night vision. FLIR RS series is 4K and worth every penny.
Trijicon on for day, FLIR for night. LaRue quick release mounts may be a new concept to you, but they will save you from dedicating an upper to a fucking optic.
Cheaper than the "seen from miles, golden hoard Las Vegas" you have planned and more portable.
Anyway, good luck.
Edit: and yes, I can pop a person operating a spotlight from 1000yrds and it becomes more obvious as to where they are...
Good luck to you too, Sir.
FLIR is heat, I know.... I was just going over options in my head.... all seem expensive.... and nothing is perfect.
Where I am at.... it seems to me that neighbors with radios that I have supplied them.... while being on a street that is way out of town and no outlet is a daunting thing to go against at night.... anyone that is gunning for me will have to deal with about 5 other places stretched out over a mile before they could get here. I'm planning on hearing it on the radio before I have it up close anyway.
Let's hope we never have to find out, for real.
1000yds is a chip shot for my 375CheyTac custom..... but, if you're holding the light... you won't be doing the shooting. :)
The come up from 100 to 1000yds on that rifle is only 17.5moa..... and about 41moa to 1760yds ( a mile ).... It makes a 50 cal look like a punk.... it goes much further than a 50 and will get to max range a whole second faster. ( in a rifle that is 10lbs lighter... mine is 21lbs before the 4.5lb scope )
My hand loads seem to be going about 3180fps for a 350gr copper solid under 134gr of Retumbo....... it's a laser beam..... with a USO SN-9 10-42x by 80mm objective FFP scope.... ( you can see knots in barbed wire at 500yds with that scope )
I may look into setting up one rifle as you suggest..... it's not a bad idea at all. I've been wanting to set up an AR10 platform but, I already have a good 7.62 platform.... I'm not crazy about 7.62x51 for long range performance but, I like having a semi-auto in it that is scoped.... ( which I already have in an M1A supermatch... which I used to use in service rifle competition long ago ) It's a good round out to about 7-800yds and that's about it. It'll get to 1000yds but, the bullet is falling out of the sky at that range. ... In fact it will drop 1" for every yard it travels at the 1000yd line.... if you mis judge the range by 5yds... you hit 5" low..... I like a 300wm out past 600yds and, out past 1200yds... I like the 375. My winmag does just about what a 338 will do with a 208gr amax bullet.... It won't compete with a 338 at extreme distance but, a 338 isn't even in the ballpark with a 375CT. The 375 is doing what a 7.62 does but, it does that at the 3000 yard mark. ( if you are sea level... and goes much further if you are in the mountains ) Think I finally have to drop the cash on the vectronnics range finder... mine doesn't go much further than 1200yds. You have to have things like an applied ballistics kestrel and a range finder that will make it... you have to hand load... and do it well.... It's magic when it all comes together.
In the case you haven't noticed.... I'm a long range bug..... I don't play golf.... I use a different ball and a different club but, I spend much more than most golfers.... and... I get to be the mad scientist on the loading bench....
There is nothing quite like spanking an AR500 IPSC waist up target at a mile... over and over...
I've already go ACOGs on my AR platforms.... they're awesome.
Everybody wonders why you'd drop that kind of money on an optic.... until they look through one.
It is as you suggest though.... It's not the mad hoards with their gat sideways that you have to worry about.... it's the guy willing to wait and pick you off one at a time that you have to worry about.
I hope to make my place so prickly that they just go somewhere else... if they don't then.... we'll have to find out who is better and more sneaky.
Ok. Fair enough. When I over run your compound, I'm taking down the lights.
Just so you know.
It's ok... :)
You'll have a fight before you get to me. :) If you think you could overrun my place by yourself... you are on drugs.... I have made president's 100 a couple of years with service rifle.... I know how to do the close game and far game.... and, I'm not by myself.... I'll hear the gunshots long before you get to my "compound".... I'll have lights on you and, I can hit you at 600yds running... ( it's about a 9moa lead ).... at 600yds.. a 7.62 is a good rifle... loaded with 20rd mags.
I know we're just joking around but, I don't think you can hit a 6" light at 1000yds.... and, if you could... could you do it when you were blinded by it?
You couldn't do it 7.62... that's for sure.... regardless... I take your points... I may invest in at least one of those optics..... but, every situation is different... my own situation is that I'm on the end of a mile long road with a few other folks... 7 miles from the closest store.... out in the woods basically.... there is one way in and one way out.... if you are a redneck with a shotgun or a pistol or a 30-30... you won't be attempting to come here..... if you have skills and equipment... then, I have a larger problem.... but, I also have skills and equipment..... and probably better equipment and skills than a redneck with a 22-250 and a deer scope.
I've had a long time to think about this out here.... and... it's dark in the woods... with thousands of yards... of pasture.
I want a hunter with a 22-250 to be scared to approach..... I think I have accomplished that.
The bigger question is.... would you attempt to raid my, "compound" or would you go somewhere else?
Zipper, meet head. Ouch.
Bankster dinosaur die off about to get underway.
Too stoopid to live, to odious to kill. Let them burn on their own.
Kits and all.
If it's standard operating procedure for the past 13 years, seems the Treasury would have an ample supply from a vetted contractor. Nice try.
Because a solar blanket in a fanny pack will really help you in a towering inferno.
Remember certain Estes Rockets were so cheap they didn't come with the parachute, only the streamer?
Hold it right there- the streamer was for higher altitude rockets so they don't come down in the next county, man. And they were cheaper, it all good.
Estes knows how to make rockets.
Also easily adapted by the adventurous child, with some minor modifications, into effective artillery.
I always got a kick out of "Tumble Recovery" that basically translated into, "You're never going to see me again sucker!" The Estes Zinger and Yankee were some of the coolest rockets that used streamers.
Blackened Banker, it's what's for dinner.
Its the government spending the American peoples money. They probably spend $200k on each of these kits - for supplies that you can buy for a few hundred bucks.
What, no $200 toilet seats for when it all comes down and they are crapping their pants ?
How about a parasailer kit for those above the 12th floor? Just jump and glide to safety. Ignore the shots coming from below - they probably can't hit you. However, when you land you may have to be prepared to deal with some hostility. Show them you magic decoder ring and ask to be taken to their leader. that should do it.
BTC -> with some these articles the comments they generate are priceless. For the others there's MasterCard.
under this administration, I don't believe the story unless there is also a 12-pack of condoms included.
... and some pills.
"Six o'clock, TV hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh-oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, and I decline"
It's-TEOTWAWKI
...and I feel fine.
Printed this out long ago and put it in the "pack". Thanks for sharing with others.
Make sure to stock earplugs too, so you don't go deaf from hedgeless fapping himself to orgasmic glory over the world burning down.
Just more of Uncle Sam pissing away tax dollars no doubt to a company owned by a Congressman's family member.
That's it in a nut shell!
Now we know where to find some high quality survival gear. And big bonus, we get to torture and kill some bankers in the process!!
Hi quality...from the lowest bidder?
Rethink.
The best strategy for the shitgum lacky of this .gov parasite is to know the name of his bosses pet or birthday of his rugrat, so he can read his bosses emails.
The day they are planning to send you out to put the padlock on the bank door is the day you don't want to be there.
Don't. Be. There.
Best advice for many, many scenarios.
are you sure there is no Armageddon???
Paper shreaders? Neodymium magnets?
A smart banker would have a quick change, janitor's outfit.
They can't hide their teeth when they smile.
Pro tip: Not many janitors rock a 200 dollar haircut. Happy hunting.
Re: Magnets.... They must still use floppy drives in some of these banks.
(*note, I'm not being sarcastic, that's a likelihood*)
Right, because destroying the evidence is really going to save your ass when the mob with pitchforks and torches show up for you.
no guilotine proof neckwear?....
No metal neckguards? Ahh, they know from experience that the 99% are ill-informed, apathetic patsies from whom they can steal at will - no danger from that quarter.
Maybe instead they need to install netting around the 87th floor of the buildings to stop the "Leap of Faith" for their eventual Black Swan Dive.
That will be the one positive, entertaining visual when this monumental house of cards comes crashing down.. the security and cellphone camera footage of hedge fund managers raining from the sky, slamming into the NYC concrete.
Yep. Orwell was wrong, Huxley was right.
Unless they were both right and so was Wells to boot.
Relax, if they thought things were going to get violent they would have included scissors.
With that many bullets, it won't matter.
I think that there are about 300 MILLION guns in the country.... let's say 1% get mad enough to get the guilotine out.... and really mean it.
that is 3 MILLION people pissed and armed.... and they're hunting about 500 politicians.... I don't know how many bankers....
This is one I'll be riding out and not participating in... If I were younger, I may participate but sadly, I'm not that young anymore.
fuck them a vest won't save them. the kits will be taken from them when they are located. the people will find and scalp them as they have been doing to us for a century. gilotens are needed
There is no where to run to. Just like the movie bodysnatchers, you can't hide anywhere the people can't find you. No country would harbor those sought by an angry people with nukes, ready to launch. Revolutions are really, really nasty.
iM worried when they get to including Iodine tablets
They just might come in handy, but don't count on that.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
-Henry Ford
The fucking paperwork alone to compete for the contract would not cover the cost.
Simplify it, how about two cyanide tabs, a sheet of paper and a golf score pencil to write their last will and testament.
LOL srsly
Can we get a survival kit? Its not like we pay taxes or anything.
Although they can have their solar blankets. We have guns.
Insane. Is it fun to work in a bank? Maybe those that do should reconsider their choosen path.
Suicide prevention kits?
They should be given suicide kits.
They will wish they were dead when it all blows up and they can't give the depositors their money.
Are these suits Guillotine proof?
It should include 1" thick steel neck collars
Howsabout some Nikes, to run fo yo life?
I love the 33-piece mason kit
Because they want to be sure the cockroaches have company?
Nuttin' to worry about......now get back to your bread and circus sheep
Lots of amusing comments here and I'm generally very sarcastic and a ballbustah . . . . . . . . but maybe this is in preparation for the inevitable Big Reset. Of course the politicians will be stumbling over themselves trying to take credit for the reset and the sheeple will be so fucking confused the phone lines at banks will be lit up like a christmas tree 24/7 while lines form around the block at branch locations like bankers lining up for bernanke QE heroin injections.
Maybe these kits are for some projected long hours of operation trying to calm down the sheeple.
With a 2400 calorie food bar and less than a liter of water, those bankers aren't going to last very long.
I think some congresscritter's son in law has a warehouse full of this amateur-level stuff and needs to unload it.
Could be. Even so just stack em up like we did in my days as an Army officer with the MREs.
It's fashionable here to project the apocalypse but I've always felt there would be some sort of hail mary pass before that. If things are restructured based on real assets America will suffer and the sheeple will be well umm you know sheeple. ECB saying can't do QE soon to me was a directive they received not Draghi fluffing. Fed jawbones an end to QE. USD soaring like a rocket. Something is brewing.
ISIS, Ebola, Ferguson all test runs and intentional distractions potentially for when import prices rise 50% or more within days. I'm not predicting it just remaining open to all possibilities.
Ya nevah know in war boys:
http://russia-insider.com/en/business/2014/12/07/07-49-06pm/how_gold_rou...
thats exactly what these kits amount to, amateur hour bullshit
Maybe the employee's were asking for something and all they're going to get is the stupid kit.
If these are preps for a reset, it's the equivalent of handing out water wings to passengers of the Titanic.
Looking over the contents and those they are giving these to, I really have no idea what these are for. Very half ass.
DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS.
thats what they r expecting.
I figure they would be buying guns for the banksters.
I sometimes think they do this just to fuck with us.
we're being mocked with our own money
our money? None of this is real money. Seems to me that these cocksuckers just conjure the shit up out of thin air and then will stick us w/ the bill, or nuclear catostrophe.
then do we take their heads off?
what I was thinking, while the money actually gets used for some black project...