how to find the local cia office ?

I get Federal XM193 locally for $300-$333 per 1k in the gun stores.

The gun shows here have decent ammo for decent prices.

That matches the best price I've seen lately. SGCUSA.com had a special a couple of months ago for a PMC 223 55gr 1000rd Case for $299, current list price shows as $388.97 on the site, it may pay off to check back with them periodically or get on the mailing list. I've purchased from there before and the orders are always on time and what it's supposed to be, they responded quickly to email questions I sent.

Make their puzzle in less than a minute, and they give you the secret page with all the info:

https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/puzzles/index.html

If not, you can always write to them:

Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505

They may send you their annual directory......or you could call the local embassy and speak with the agent in charge there........

(Joke)

A puzzle page for kids? WTF?

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http://www.myimg.us/images/03.25.12/24989.jpg

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Cheaperthandirt.com for cheap ammo but I like to support the local gun dealers so I usually buy locally.

Make sure you check all the safes you're thinking about throwing away. Choker, you never know what you'll find in there.

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Yes, redneck Choker is indeed prepping :1orglaugh

Choker, you realize that nothing is gonna happen dec 2012 right?
You can't be THAT retarded right?

don't need a reason to prep, but it's HIGHLY probable that a solar flare will hit the earth in the next couple of years knocking out power for several months.

tornadoes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters happen all the time. especially in Florida.

99% of people in this world are shit. If I see some guy in a hoodie walking up to me I'm going to shoot him.

I don't consider a couple thousand rounds of ammo prepping. You should have that on you all the time.

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No you don't!

Some of you people....

-A recurrence of the 1859 solar superstorm would be a cosmic Katrina, causing billions of dollars of damage to satellites, power grids and radio communications-


* The solar superstorm of 1859 was the fiercest ever recorded. Auroras filled the sky as far south as the Caribbean, magnetic compasses went haywire and telegraph systems failed.
* Ice cores suggest that such a blast of solar particles happens only once every 500 years, but even the storms every 50 years could fry satellites, jam radios and cause coast-to-coast blackouts.
* The cost of such an event justifies more systematic solar monitoring and beefier protection for satellites and the power grid.


As night was falling across the Americas on Sunday, August 28, 1859, the phantom shapes of the auroras could already be seen overhead. From Maine to the tip of Florida, vivid curtains of light took the skies. Startled Cubans saw the auroras directly overhead; ships? logs near the equator described crimson lights reaching halfway to the zenith. Many people thought their cities had caught fire. Scientific instruments around the world, patiently recording minute changes in Earth?s magnetism, suddenly shot off scale, and spurious electric currents surged into the world?s telegraph systems. In Baltimore telegraph operators labored from 8 p.m. until 10 a.m. the next day to transmit a mere 400-word press report.

Just before noon the following Thursday, September 1, English astronomer Richard C. Carrington was sketching a curious group of sunspots?curious on account of the dark areas? enormous size. At 11:18 a.m. he witnessed an intense white light flash from two locations within the sunspot group. He called out in vain to anyone in the observatory to come see the brief five-minute spectacle, but solitary astronomers seldom have an audience to share their excitement. Seventeen hours later in the Americas a second wave of auroras turned night to day as far south as Panama. People could read the newspaper by their crimson and green light. Gold miners in the Rocky Mountains woke up and ate breakfast at 1 a.m., thinking the sun had risen on a cloudy day. Telegraph systems became unusable across Europe and North America.

The news media of the day looked for researchers able to explain the phenomena, but at the time scientists scarcely understood auroral displays at all. Were they meteoritic matter from space, reflected light from polar icebergs or a high-altitude version of lightning? It was the Great Aurora of 1859 itself that ushered in a new paradigm. The October 15 issue of Scientific American noted that ??a connection between the northern lights and forces of electricity and magnetism is now fully established.? Work since then has established that auroral displays ultimately originate in violent events on the sun, which fire off huge clouds of plasma and momentarily disrupt our planet?s magnetic field.

The impact of the 1859 storm was muted only by the infancy of our technological civilization at that time. Were it to happen today, it could severely damage satellites, disable radio communications and cause continent-wide electrical blackouts that would require weeks or longer to recover from. Although a storm of that magnitude is a comfortably rare once-in-500-years event, those with half its intensity hit every 50 years or so. The last one, which occurred on November 13, 1960, led to worldwide geomagnetic disturbances and radio outages. If we make no preparations, by some calculations the direct and indirect costs of another superstorm could equal that of a major hurricane or earthquake.

From what I have read a solar storm capable of knocking out all power grids for YEARS, not months occurs once every 100 years. The large transformers are no longer made in the US, only Germany, and take 2 to 5 years to make. There are none in reserve.

This scenario I feel is real and not science fiction. It has happened many times and will happen again. I have prepped extensively for this scenario. Everything I have bought to prep for this I can and do resell on ebay and make a little profit. Ammo you can't sell on ebay but ever seen a yard sale in hickeville? LOL

Here's some great advice for anyone prepping for this scenario.
Buy a bunch of surplus ammo cans. You can buy them at Army/Navy stores, gunshows or ebay etc. Stash electronics you want protected in them. You can test their protection level by puttng your cell phone in one then calling it. If no call gets thru you are good to go.

Buy a bunch of solar yard lights and stash them in these boxes. These lights will be worth their weight in gold in the aftermath. Handheld cb radios, flashlights, rechargeable batteries

In the U.S. 80% of old mechanical electric meters have been replaced with the new radio controlled smart meter. Someday soon someone is going to find a way to remotely disconnect these in mass and lock the power companies out.

The large transformers will be fine post-EMP of any type nuclear or solar. Think about it, the wires inside those transformers are over an INCH think, if there was enough radiation to melt those wires you'd be long dead anywhere on earth.

That being said, a major EMP knocking out all the microprocessors meaning no cars built since the early 1970's, computers or other electronics would cause major problems for a long very time, including power grid failure from their control panels until they can be fixed.

Here's a good video of a Ford Taurus being killed by an EMP (like a solar flare). Notice how it won't run, but the power windows still work! Interesting stuff:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aj54FcI7_dE

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...web9321932.DTL

Even a NASA report says otherwise. Lots of conflicting stories and theories on this subject. But I have found numerous (credible) sources that say the large transformers would be permently knocked out.

http://www.nerc.com/files/HILF.pdf

Looks like the solar storms in 1989 knocked out 2 of these large transformers permently. One in New Jersey and one in Quebec.

Ehm, what the frikk are you lot preparing for again? A solar storm that knocks out everything (leccy, coms, etc)....
So, why are you prepping up on ammo? To guard your stash? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

You guys watch too many movies, you really do!

I can see it now - group of hoodies coming over to raid you in the pitch black of darkness with you pearing out of your window with your solar-charged 1 watt lights saying "come on muvverfuckers, try get my iPad if you dare...."

Don't forget to get all your dollas out da bank and stashed under your bed....

If I had everything stolen out of my house tomorrow and had no insurance to reclaim it, I wouldn't frikken die you know....
Such materialistic goons y'all are!

Well I guess it's kind of a moot point about the transformers anyway. Point is a major EMP of any type will leave us all stuck at home in the dark for quite awhile.

Yeah he is a total redneck. Very low IQ.

http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=A54539R

I have bought from that site several times, never a problem.

This has nothing to do with dollars, or ipads, that will all be worthless. If all the power is out for months all over the world, where are you going to get food, and water? The grocery store? BTW, if you have food, your neighbors are going to want it, what will you do about that? Do you really think that some FEMA truck will appear magically and save you?



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Ahm gonna use me some holler points and shoot me some negroes, thems mahghty fine eaten'!

Well, the people who have guns can simply take the food from the people who have food unless those people are well armed themselves. People should read that pdf file I posted a link to. Many of these EHV transformers all over the world have been permently knocked out by solar storms the last 50 years. This threat is not imagined, it is real and happens all the time. It would not take months for shit to hit the fan if the power goes out. More like less than a week.

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