For February, we're offering 10% off any CANNED dehydrated foods.  Use code CAN-10 to get the special pricing.  We're also offering
FREE SHIPPING for the AquaRain Gravity Water Filter.  The cart won't reflect it, but in SHIPPING INSTRUCTIONS, just put AQR-FREE
and we'll remove shipping (about $12).  Handling fee will still apply.  The cart doesn't charge your card.  We do it manually.  If you don't use
the code, you won't get the discount.

It's critical that you get canning jars (Ball or Mason) and learn how to can the foods you grow (or buy now at the grocery store). Please
don't put this off!  Those videos have a lot of great information.  (The second one fills in some blanks the first one leaves out.)

If you don't have a "Dollar Store" near you, where everything is a dollar or less, WE'VE opened one!  And shipping is a flat four bucks, regardless
of how much you order.  Check it out HERE.

This is a LONG newsletter.  Please don't miss what New Hampshire's done to the Feds, further down the newsletter!

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I'm amazed & disturbed by what I'm reading & hearing (just as you probably are) about the US & world economy.
If you'd like to see a visual graphic of (the history of) our current banking crisis (from 1929 to 2008), take a look at
http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13240#post13240

It's a graphic depiction of borrowing from the US Federal Reserve. I think this warrants forwarding along to those you care about. The ending
states: "If you think central bankers know what they are doing, think again. Stay informed." To that I will add this - from analyst Jim Willie in his
January newsletter: "Despite all promises to the contrary, Bernanke has pushed the official interest rate to practically 0%, but in the process
has shown fear, and has exhausted his tools."

Because THEY don't know what they're doing, it's time you know what you're doing with your money. Gold & silver help retain wealth and
investing in it can potentially help you prosper right now. On high speed internet, the video's 4 minutes long.  On dial-up, it's about 15 minutes
long.  Well worth the view! and worth passing around.

I've moved Phyllis' and my IRAs into gold and silver.  If you'd like to do the same, contact Eric Harding at 800-576-9355 or (by email @)
e_harding@learcapital.com

If you set up an account and you'd be so kind as to tell him Bruce Hopkins sent you, he'll send me a silver coin to add to my small collection. 
You don't have to do that ... only if you'd like to help us out a little.

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Gun Control Law all ready to go:

H.R. 45 is ready to start taking away second amendment rights.  A friend pointed this out to me.
 
This is a synopsis:

    * You will have to carry a photo ID firearms license.
    * A training class is required to be licensed.
    * Disclosure of your storage method is required for license.
    * A thumb print is required for license.
    * Every sale recorded by the federal government.
    * If you move, and don't tell the Attorney General within 60 days, you are a criminal.
    * If a firearm is stolen and you don't report it, you are a criminal.
    * There will be no grandfathered firearms.
    * If you do not obtain a license and report every firearm you currently own, you are a criminal.
    * There will be a license fee and a fee for the "services" provided at purchase time.
    * Licenses must be renewed every 5 years.

The Bill, H.R. 45, is dated 6 January, 2009, and the liberals are already on the move.
 
Here is the text of the bill -- from the Government Printing Office:
 
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h45ih.txt.pdf

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I've never heard of the man who made/makes the following predictions.  I tried "Googling"
him and came up with both for/agin results, so the following may be bogus.  But, with
the way our country's headed, he *may* be right.  I thought you might want to know....

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What's Coming

The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union
is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions - all within four
years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a more pressing concern
than buying Christmas gifts by 2012.

Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is renowned for his accuracy in
predicting future world and economic events, which will send a chill down your spine
considering what he told Fox News this week.

Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will
be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches,
and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.

"We're going to see the end of the retail Christmas....we're going to see a fundamental
shift take place....putting food on the table is going to be more important that putting
gifts under the Christmas tree," said Celente, adding that the situation would be "worse
than the great depression".

"America's going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,"
said Celente, noting that people's refusal to acknowledge that America was even in a
recession highlights how big a problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of
the crisis.

Celente, who successfully predicted the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis, the subprime
mortgage collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar, told UPI in November
last year that the following year would be known as "The Panic of 2008," adding that
"giants (would) tumble to their deaths," which is exactly what we have witnessed with
the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and others. He also said that the dollar
would eventually be devalued by as much as 90 percent.

The consequence of what we have seen unfold this year would lead to a lowering in
living standards, Celente predicted a year ago, which is also being borne out by
plummeting retail sales figures.

The prospect of revolution was a concept echoed by a British Ministry of Defense
report last year, which predicted that within 30 years, the growing gap between the
super rich and the middle class, along with an urban underclass threatening social
order would mean, "The world's middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge,
resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest," and
that, "The middle classes could become a revolutionary class."

In a separate recent interview, Celente went further on the subject of revolution in
America.

"There will be a revolution in this country," he said. "It's not going to come yet, but
it's going to come down the line and we're going to see a third party and this was the
catalyst for it: the takeover of Washington, D. C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in
this bloodless coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen."

"The first thing to do is organize with tax revolts. That's going to be the big one
because people can't afford to pay more school tax, property tax, any kind of tax.
You're going to start seeing those kinds of protests start to develop."

"It's going to be very bleak. Very sad. And there is going to be a lot of homeless, the
likes of which we have never seen before. Tent cities are already sprouting up around
the country and we're going to see many more."

"We're going to start seeing huge areas of vacant real estate and squatters living in
them as well. It's going to be a picture the likes of which Americans are not going to
be used to. It's going to come as a shock and with it, there's going to be a lot of crime.
And the crime is going to be a lot worse than it was before because in the last 1929
Depression, people's minds weren't wrecked on all these modern drugs -- over-the-counter
drugs, or crystal meth or whatever it might be. So, you have a huge underclass of very
desperate people with their minds chemically blown beyond anybody's comprehension."

The George Washington blog has compiled a list of quotes attesting to Celente's
accuracy as a trend forecaster.

"When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente."
- CNN Headline News

"Gerald Celente has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right."
- USA Today

"There's not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what
he's talking about." - CNBC

"Those who take their predictions seriously ... consider Gerald Celente and the
Trends Research Institute." - The Wall Street Journal

"Gerald Celente is always ahead of the curve on trends and uncannily on the mark .
he's one of the most accurate forecasters around." - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Mr. Celente tracks the world's social, economic and business trends for
corporate clients." - The New York Times

"Mr. Celente is a very intelligent guy. We are able to learn about trends from an
authority." - 48 Hours, CBS News

"Gerald Celente has a solid track record. He has predicted everything from the
1987 stock market crash and the demise of the Soviet Union to green marketing and
corporate downsizing." - The Detroit News

"Gerald Celente forecast the 1987 stock market crash, 'green marketing,' and the
boom in gourmet coffees." - Chicago Tribune

"The Trends Research Institute is the Standard and Poors of Popular Culture."
- The Los Angeles Times

"If Nostradamus were alive today, he'd have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente."
- New York Post

So there you have it - hardly a nut job conspiracy theorist blowhard now is he? (says the
author, not Bruce. I'm skeptical because there are no publication dates with the above quotes.)
Storable food and gold are two good places to make a start.


New Hampshire on Verge of Secession?

The following is a joint resolution of the New Hampshire House and Senate, and presented to Obama, all members of the US Congress and
the presiding officers of all state legislatures.  At least ONE state is getting it right!

This can be found at http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html

A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 1, Article 7 declares that the people of this State have the sole and exclusive
right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every
power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of
America in congress assembled; and

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 2, Article 1 declares that the people inhabiting the territory formerly called the
province of New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign and
independent body-politic, or State, by the name of The State of New Hampshire; and

Whereas the State of New Hampshire when ratifying the Constitution for the United States of America recommended as a change, “First
That it be Explicitly declared that all Powers not expressly & particularly Delegated by the aforesaid are reserved to the several States to be,
by them Exercised;” and

Whereas the other States that included recommendations, to wit Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia,
included an identical or similar recommended change; and

Whereas these recommended changes were incorporated as the ninth amendment, the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, and the tenth amendment, the powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people, to the Constitution for
the United States of America; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General
Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they
constituted a General Government for special purposes, -- delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to
itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers,
its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States
forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of
the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in
all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as
of the mode and measure of redress; and

That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current
coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, slavery, and no other
crimes whatsoever; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
the people,” therefore all acts of Congress which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the
Constitution are altogether void, and of no force; and that the power to create, define, and punish such other crimes is reserved, and, of
right, appertains solely and exclusively to the respective States, each within its own territory; and

That it is true as a general principle, and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the Constitution, that “the powers not
delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people;” and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, and were reserved to the States
or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech
and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their
use should be tolerated, rather than the use be destroyed. And thus also they guarded against all abridgment by the United States of the
freedom of religious opinions and exercises, and retained to themselves the right of protecting the same. And that in addition to this general
principle and express declaration, another and more special provision has been made by one of the amendments to the Constitution, which
expressly declares, that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or
abridging the freedom of speech or of the press:” thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of
religion, of speech, and of the press: insomuch, that whatever violated either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, and that
libels, falsehood, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld from the cognizance of federal tribunals. That,
therefore, all acts of Congress of the United States which do abridge the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, are
not law, but are altogether void, and of no force; and

That the construction applied by the General Government (as is evidenced by sundry of their proceedings) to those parts of the Constitution
of the United States which delegate to Congress a power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide
for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” and “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof,” goes to
the destruction of all limits prescribed to their power by the Constitution: that words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the
execution of limited powers, ought not to be so construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the
whole residue of that instrument: that the proceedings of the General Government under color of these articles, will be a fit and necessary
subject of revisal and correction; and

That a committee of conference and correspondence be appointed, which shall have as its charge to communicate the preceding
resolutions to the Legislatures of the several States; to assure them that this State continues in the same esteem of their friendship and
union which it has manifested from that moment at which a common danger first suggested a common union: that it considers union, for
specified national purposes, and particularly to those specified in their federal compact, to be friendly to the peace, happiness and prosperity
of all the States: that faithful to that compact, according to the plain intent and meaning in which it was understood and acceded to by the
several parties, it is sincerely anxious for its preservation: that it does also believe, that to take from the States all the powers of self-
government and transfer them to a general and consolidated government, without regard to the special delegations and reservations
solemnly agreed to in that compact, is not for the peace, happiness or prosperity of these States; and that therefore this State is determined,
as it doubts not its co-States are, to submit to undelegated, and consequently unlimited powers in no man, or body of men on earth: that in
cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the General Government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people
would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful
remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non foederis), to nullify of their own authority all
assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of
whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them: that nevertheless, this State, from motives of regard and respect for its co-States,
has wished to communicate with them on the subject: that with them alone it is proper to communicate, they alone being parties to the
compact, and solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it, Congress being not a party, but merely the
creature of the compact, and subject as to its assumptions of power to the final judgment of those by whom, and for whose use itself and its
powers were all created and modified: that if the acts before specified should stand, these conclusions would flow from them: that it would be
a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is
everywhere the parent of despotism -- free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which
prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power: that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the
limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him
down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. That this State does therefore call on its co-States for an expression of their
sentiments on acts not authorized by the federal compact. And it doubts not that their sense will be so announced as to prove their
attachment unaltered to limited government, whether general or particular. And that the rights and liberties of their co-States will be exposed
to no dangers by remaining embarked in a common bottom with their own. That they will concur with this State in considering acts as so
palpably against the Constitution as to amount to an undisguised declaration that that compact is not meant to be the measure of the powers
of the General Government, but that it will proceed in the exercise over these States, of all powers whatsoever: that they will view this as
seizing the rights of the States, and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government, with a power assumed to bind the States,
not merely as the cases made federal, (casus foederis,) but in all cases whatsoever, by laws made, not with their consent, but by others
against their consent: that this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and live under one deriving its powers from its
own will, and not from our authority; and that the co-States, recurring to their natural right in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring
these acts void, and of no force, and will each take measures of its own for providing that neither these acts, nor any others of the General
Government not plainly and intentionally authorized by the Constitution, shall be exercised within their respective territories; and

That the said committee be authorized to communicate by writing or personal conferences, at any times or places whatever, with any person
or person who may be appointed by any one or more co-States to correspond or confer with them; and that they lay their proceedings before
the next session of the General Court; and

That any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the
Judicatories of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to the government of United States of America by the
Constitution for the United States of America and which serves to diminish the liberty of the any of the several States or their citizens shall
constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the government of the United States of America. Acts which
would cause such a nullification include, but are not limited to:

I. Establishing martial law or a state of emergency within one of the States comprising the United States of America without the consent of
the legislature of that State.

II. Requiring involuntary servitude, or governmental service other than a draft during a declared war, or pursuant to, or as an alternative to,
incarceration after due process of law.

III. Requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service of persons under the age of 18 other than pursuant to, or as an alternative to,
incarceration after due process of law.

IV. Surrendering any power delegated or not delegated to any corporation or foreign government.

V. Any act regarding religion; further limitations on freedom of political speech; or further limitations on freedom of the press.

VI. Further infringements on the right to keep and bear arms including prohibitions of type or quantity of arms or ammunition; and
That should any such act of Congress become law or Executive Order or Judicial Order be put into force, all powers previously delegated to
the United States of America by the Constitution for the United States shall revert to the several States individually. Any future government of
the United States of America shall require ratification of three quarters of the States seeking to form a government of the United States of
America and shall not be binding upon any State not seeking to form such a government; and
That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the house clerk to the President of the United States, each member of the United States
Congress, and the presiding officers of each State’s legislature.


'Til next time, God bless you.  Stay safe and prepared.

Phyllis
Allison
and that lil' ol' newsletter writer, me (Bruce)