Candle Making Instructional Video by JAS Townsend

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This video is technically an infomercial for historical re-enacting sutler JAS Townsend and Son, Inc but the gear being shown is widely available. I do urge readers to check out Jas Townsend though for some high quality old time products.

Candle molds can be had fairly cheap ( I do recommend the JAS Townsend molds, they are expensive comparatively but very durable) and you can get good deals on standard candle wax and beeswax on Amazon. I also found a great deal on wicks there.

I’ve always been amused by the amount of survivalists who believe the lights will go out forever – so they look for solar generators to power their lights. Candles, a root cellar and an old fashioned ice box seem to be the real solution to threats to our grid. Making candles in such a situation will be a necessity and a lucrative business. With rising energy prices the grid won’t need to collapse for people to begin buying candles again. The video below has some great information on how to make the process easy, safe and painless so enjoy:

Border Patrol Sets Up Forward Operation Bases in Arizona

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Cartels have had FOBs in Arizona for some time now so this is not surprising. It is an escalation though leading up to perhaps open conflict between Border patrol and Cartel forces. From KVOA:

In this Crime Trackers investigation, Lupita Murillo and photographer Kean Bauman were given unprecedented access to a special camp along the US/Mexico border.

As more manpower and resources are dedicated to protect the border, agents are setting up camps that take them closer to the action. They’re called Forward Operating Camps.

These agents are stationed in rural areas known as “hot spots” to respond quickly.

In this Crime Trackers investigation, you’ll see agents in action, and the remoteness of where they work.
In rugged terrain in the harsh Southern Arizona desert, Border Patrol agents quickly move to find illegal activity.

Agent Jorge Sanchez says, “The scope operator had a visual of large back packs, that’s what we saw.”

We’re in an undisclosed location to protect the agents who sign up for the extra duty– they’re here a week at a time in this Forward Operating Camp. The camp is self contained, powered by generators.

Agent Brian Irving says, “To have a remote camp set out here for the traffic that crosses is very important.”
Important because it cuts down the driving time agents have to go through to get here.

Agent Jason Rheinfrank says, “Agents can respond before a lot of this illegal activity gets north and they load up into a vehicle and make their way up to Tucson and Phoenix.”

This assignment is equally dangerous.

Agent Irving says, “I’ve come across an armed group, it wasn’t out here at this camp it was at a different location.”

Agent Sanchez says, “You never know if they are armed they could have rifles or guns with them.”

This is probably partially driven by high gas prices making the old model of driving hundreds of miles a day impossible, but it’s also a sign that the Border Patrol is taking the war on the border more seriously and adjusting their tactics from a law enforcement stance to a more militarized stance.

Prepare for Jihad Escalation in Wake of Bin Laden’s Death

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Like all Americans I was overjoyed when I heard Osama Bin Ladin was gunned down like the yellow dog he was. This was justice, and it came ten years too late.

But it is naive to think, as many talking heads are putting forward, that this will be celebrated in the Muslim world. If you don’t think even moderate Muslims in the Islamic world lionize Bin Laden you’re living in a fantasy world – and I know many on the Left and the Right are. If nothing else, the fact that this announcement was made so far away from Friday prayers, and the muted, conciliatory tone Obama took in making the announcement, should tell you the truth about Muslim support for killing Bin Laden.

From Bloomberg:

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh denounced the U.S. killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, while a Palestinian Authority spokesman said his death will be “good for peace.”

“This is a continuance of the U.S. policy of atrocities,” Haniyeh told reporters today in Gaza City.

Hamas, which is considered a terrorist group by the U.S., European Union, and Israel, is scheduled to sign a reconciliation agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah faction this week in Cairo.

The AP has more detail:

The U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority welcomed bin Laden’s killing as “good for the cause of peace.” Its rival and prospective power-sharing partner, Islamist Hamas, deplored his death.

“We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior,” said Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in Gaza, which faces a challenge from al Qaeda-inspired groups that consider it too moderate.

“We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.”

Those who revered bin Laden were still in denial about his death but many in the Arab world felt it was long overdue.

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A rival view sees bin Laden as the only Muslim leader to take the fight against Western dominance to the heart of the enemy — in the form of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.

“Bin Laden defended the dignity of Muslims and now the U.S. and the West will answer for their occupation,” said Egyptian Abdullah Ali, a Salafist taxi driver in his 60s.

Abdel-Qader Abu Shaaban, a 53-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, described bin Laden’s killing as “a very criminal act.”

Tareq al-Zumar of Egypt’s Islamist group al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, which took up arms against the state in the 1990s said: “Bin Laden will become a symbol of resistance to occupation… The U.S. killing of bin Laden will undoubtedly galvanize reaction and retaliation attempts.”

Saudi Arabia, the scene of al Qaeda attacks to oust what bin Laden called the “godless” Saudi royal family, said it hoped his killing would help the international fight against terrorism and stamp out the “misguided thought” behind it.

But there was disbelief and sorrow among many Saudis.

“He would be a loss to all Muslims because he had good qualities. He portrayed Muslims in a good and strong way… He is the person that left the worldly riches for jihad,” said one man taking a cigarette break outside his office in Riyadh.”

Islamic “scholars” have already begun fanning the flames by claiming we desecrated this toad’s body:

CAIRO – Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.

Although there appears to be some room for debate over the burial — as with many issues within the faith — a wide range of senior Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca.

Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship.

Bin Laden’s burial at sea “runs contrary to the principles of Islamic laws, religious values and humanitarian customs,” said Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar mosque, Sunni Islam’s highest seat of learning.

A radical cleric in Lebanon, Omar Bakri Mohammed, said, “The Americans want to humiliate Muslims through this burial, and I don’t think this is in the interest of the U.S. administration.”

Muslims with they’re leftist allies rioted this weekend over Terry Jones. Imagine what our radicalized Muslim population are ready to do now. Get prepared for lone wolf terror attacks, especially Mumbai style assaults. Stay out of areas heavily populated by Muslims and store some extra food and water at home if you haven’t already.