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Too late now. OCT 1st is over. Typically to slide in under the budget, the deliveries have to be completed by the deadline. However, perhaps this could explain the initial recklessness one could expect from the start of a brand new shiny budget. The weird part is that the 'government' is 'shut down', so i would assume the people that are in charge of dishing out/confirming/securing the new budget wouldn't be working right now. Well, lets just close the museums instead, right?

When were these contracts actually posted though? Just because someone noticed it after the 30th, doesn't mean they haven't been carried out.

Thats not true, actually-the contracts just have to be awarded and partially spent before the end of the fiscal year. That's how it works in the private sector, and the government follows the same rules.

not partially spent, they have to be obligated by the end of the fiscal year.

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Well...sorry but i wasn't saying anything that could even be remotely construed as 'freaking the fuck out' and in fact you just tried to challenge me with my own point, only presented in a mocking tone, and a blatant void of understanding of the facts.

Your post is the equivalent of the schoolyard classic '...no, YOU'RE ___'. Only if after i just explained something very simple to you and you completely missed it and that blank is just filled in with the last word i used that you recognized.

This dude is a couple threads right now trolling it up. I would say ignore him. His hostile smartmouth 9th grader attitude is the same no matter the context of discussion.

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Wait, yes. Perhaps you are saying things blasting way over my head and i'm wrong. It's possible. So what did i say that was stupid, and how did you call me out on it?

This guy is a troll

Actually it looks like getting ready for the new fiscal year's buys. Requirements are posted on FBO (FedBizOps) 15-30 days prior to releasing Requests for Proposals or Requests for Quotes. Pretty common. I'm sure their contracting shop wanted to get them out before shutdown too. That way the ~30 day waiting period clock will be ticking and when they come back to work, the RFPs can go out.

Sigh, we're past the first and these are asking for bids for future purchases.

Oct 1st is the START of the fiscal year.. Sep 30th is the end. They are posting these contracts because the old ones have expired.

So FEMA is buying stuff that could be used in the event of a major disaster. SHOCKING.

Why does the Federal Emergency Management Administration need to have contracts on hand that state that a condition of delivery might be that it needs to be delivered outside of the United States?

The RFP that I looked at said that the contractor shall be able to deliver to any point in the continental United States (including Alaska) or to any port in the continental United States specified by FEMA for delivery outside the continental United States "Any location outside of the continental United States that is a United States Territory to be determined at the time of order".

So all that is saying is that FEMA will be responsible for delivering it Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.

The scary part of the halow points is they say its for practice ... Who practices with halow points ...

Cops and any domestic agency really.

Wrong. No agency or military outfit trains with hollow point rounds.

I'm sure you belive that but it simply not true.

2 things done right in this comment: 1) plausibility 2) full metal jacket reference

Ha ha but there is a reach around... why wake up when the Voice is starting soon... then it's American Idol and then Awards season, NFL... or maybe read celebrity gossip and play cookie click online. They mainline this entertainment to the population so they don't wake up and are addicted.

So don't worry about TPTB invading Syria... let's watch a misguided child star and drug addict who became famous because of her Achy-Breaky dad grinding against the son of an 80's tv star on the VMAs!!

On the plus side, guaranteed military surplus supplies for the average consumer next year...

Thanks for the research!

this is odd? why the downvotes?

When there is a natural disaster who will the people run to? If the government has the things to preserve a comfortable western lifestyle in a true disaster who will be the savior? This reeks of PR especially seeing how FEMA dropped the ball during Katrina.

Katrina is old news. It's all about SANDY now

I wonder if it has something to do with Fukushima. If people realized the what is happening, they might go into a panic. Just speculating... Thoughts?

Agree. I live in Hawaii and a lot of us are questioning radiation poisoning. My family has medical conditions that Dr's cannot explain. Blood in stool and urine, coughing up blood, no nose bleeds, sinus problems, respiratory problems, frequent chills that leave you imobile, or hot flashes, no fevers, body aches, not flu, so tired and depressed, random thyroid problems, stroke like symptoms,diarrhea for weeks, extremely low white blood cell count, etc. For years now. Not normal at all. We are healthy people. Never having these issues. The illness tends to come in waves covering the island with similar medical conditions.

I'm sorry for your family. I wish them a speedy recovery.

Thank you. I upvoted your comment as well as others. I am aware of all the downvotes taking place here. STRANGE.

I recommend buying some Chaga and other mushrooms. There is evidence that substances within many mushrooms can help reduce the harmful effects of radiation.

I get my mushrooms from Mushroom Harvest.

Thank you.

ALOHA

Aloha and Mahalo nui loa.

What island?
I used to live on the big island and had weird symptoms. Not as bad as you describe, but weird. I think it has something to do with the food supply as well as the petri-dish climate.

Also, if you're on Moloka'i you should know that Monsanto is up to some shit there. The whole island is plagued by strange birth defects.

Yes Big Island. Most symptoms come and go like the internal bleeding, chills, hotflashes, diarrhea, sinus infections. A lot of symptoms seem more constant. My Mother in law was in the hospital last week with stroke like symptoms and internal bleeding. My father in law just got back from a urologist for internal bleeding and severe chills to where he couldn't move just shake. No answers from DR's just take these antibiotics you will be fine. And yes GMO testing is so extremely prevelant on all islands now. Kuai just passes a moratorum because they are proving a lot the main stream media is covering up.

Hmmm, Snowden bailed outta Hawaii...

yeah because the government was after him

Uh, no, the government didn't even know he had what he had yet... Fuck facts, guys! Just spin narratives at will!

the government didn't even know he had what he had yet

no shit. thats exactly why he fucking left, so he can show what information he had and release it from the saftey of a foreign country.

Fuck thinking, guys! just latch onto the first thing that is slightly related to the subject!

I noticed a post from /r/POLITIC mentioning this happening in Japan, "mysterious" symptoms that the doctors are told not to reveal the true cause of.

sorry to say, but youre family is victim of radiation poisoning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000026.htm
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/radiation-sickness/DS00432/DSECTION=symptoms

Avoid all fish and seafood. Its all contaminated. Get some iodine supplements to combat the radiation aswell, make sure you check the source of it too. its like a wall, it wont cure radiation but it will hold it back from causing damage

im not a doctor nor have i "officially" studied medicine. But you dont need to be a doctor to read and educate yourself about chemicals and their affect on the body

It's pretty clear you haven't studied medicine, so I suggest you refrain from issuing medical advice.

A) Any internist worth his salt can recognize radiation poisoning.

B) Acute radiation sickness requires a MASSIVE amount of radiation, more than you would ever, ever receive from eating seafood, unless the fish were made from radium. CT scans dish out radiation on the order of milligrays, while anything beyond constitutional symptoms typically goes unnoticed until 1 Gy or higher. Also, fish aren't magical lead golems; for eating fish to result in ARS, the only explanation for that fish to be that radioactive and still make it to your table without dying within hours is an actual miracle.

C) ARS is fatal within days to weeks. He's had these symptoms for years.

Do not give out medical advice if you are not a physician and do not know their case.

It's pretty clear you haven't studied medicine, so I suggest you refrain from issuing medical advice.

oh yeah? what gave that away?

maybe the big fucking sentence where i CLEARLY say i im not a doctor and havnt studied medicine? nahhhhhhh

A) Any internist worth his salt can recognize radiation poisoning.

i would hope so, as it falls into his/her specialty

B) Acute radiation sickness requires a MASSIVE amount of radiation

i never claimed he had acute radiation sickness, i said he sounds like he has radiation poisoning and provided literature for him to read and believe/disbelieve on his own. sorry Wikipedia happened to be on the top of my google search.

Do not give out medical advice if you are not a physician and do not know their case.

"im not a doctor nor have i "officially" studied medicine"

it was the last thing i said. try and keep up, eh? and a diagnostic of a persons health based off a comment on reddit? come on dude, take a breath and step back and calm down.

Get some iodine supplements to combat the radiation aswell,

You are not a doctor.

Do not issue medical advice.

sigh

Get some iodine supplements to combat the radiation aswell

im not a doctor nor have i "officially" studied medicine

thats 3 times now ive pointed this out, and even made it bold incase your eye sight is failing. would you like me to break it down for you even more, since clearly it wasnt simple enough for you to comprehend the first 2?

And while were on the subject

"Iodine is also used to for radiation emergencies, to protect the thyroid gland against radioactive iodides. Potassium iodide tablets for use in a radiation emergency are available as FDA-approved products (ThyroShield, Iosat) and on the Internet as food supplements. Potassium iodide should only be used in a radiation emergency, not in advance of an emergency to prevent sickness."

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-35-iodine.aspx?activeIngredientId=35&activeIngredientName=iodine

Point being: shut the fuck up. please and thank you. if youre looking for an argument there are plenty others were you could have better footing.

Do not issue medical advice.

no. now what?

Thanks, I know what iodine is used for, because I have a medical education and have learned what radiation sickness is, unlike you. Your diagnosis is wrong, and you should not be issuing treatment advice. You have neither the authority nor, obviously, the knowledge to know what you're talking about.

hahahahaha, for someone who claims intelligence your reading comprehension is as low as a childs. I dont know how much more obvious i could make it, but its clear you read what you want to.

You have neither the authority nor, obviously, the knowledge to know what you're talking about.

Clearly not, since webmd and every other medical source in the history of ever confirmed everything i fucking said.

Does this knowledge and authority come before or after i give a private institution thousands of my dollars? lolol What a joke

you should not be issuing treatment advice

try and stop me. no? cant? then go back to your hole and stop wasting my time. Granted an overzealous asshat who believes he is entiteled because he has a piece of paper with his name on it, wont leave it at that and would continue to try to get his point accross while looking like a fool in the process.

because I have a medical education and have learned what radiation sickness is,

oooh well that explains it. you blew 10s of thousands of dollars on a peice of paper called a degree and you hail your self superior XD, hahaha. Sorry chump, hate to burst your bubble, but the fact you have to brandish this to give you legitimacy tells me youre actually a quack.

So lets lay this out

i claim to not be a doctor or have medical training
i link to information for the reader
i suggest an element thats known to help with the subject at hand

but you still for some reason, cant get this past your skull and continually repeat the same 3 lines over and over again when they dont even apply and if they do, i already addressed. and even go as far saying im wrong when every bit of literature backs me up. Textbook definition insane.

So, i give you the floor for the last word. and please do better than "you have no authority blah blah blah". a smart guy such as yourself should be able to pump out more than 3 ideas at a time. The floor is yours, make it good!

Every single source you offered NEGATED your point. You ignore every single pertinent negative that runs counter to your diagnosis, for example, THAT HE'S HAD THIS FOR YEARS AND WOULD BE DEAD BY NOW IF IT WERE RADIATION SICKNESS. HIS ACTUAL LIST OF SYMPTOMS AUTOMATICALLY INVALIDATES YOUR 'DIAGNOSIS.' Your selective reading has made you look like a complete incompetent, so there's nothing more I need to say, since you've made yourself seem foolish better than I ever could hope to. Good job, dunce.

Yes thank you for the information. It seems like low dose poisoning. We do not have rashes or nose bleeds. But a lot of people have strangely similar illness at the same times. We do take iodine in seaweed not harvested here or japan and zeolite suppliments. A lot of people here talk about it. Just 6 months after Fukushima our milk and cattle already tested abnormal rates of radiation. I do follow wind and current maps also. We have almost cut seafood out of our diets. No local beef or dairy. I realy try not to live my life in fear or project it. Something is strange though. The doctors do not have answers just antibiotics. I'm not sure if they know the answers either. But if it came out that folks were victims of radiation poisoning the tourism industry would not exist.

Chemtrails perhaps? Radiation is a confounding factor?

I would not be surprised if this is all prepping for refugees from Japan and/or the West Coast.

Oh wow! Japanese internment camps. Real original FEMA. I hope that does not happen.

Or Hawaii?

I can see this happening. Japan is totally fucked and there must be somewhere for the MASSIVE population to run to.

A mini-sun that won't stop emitting radiation for a period longer than the human race has existed that is burning into the Earth, poisoning the Pacific Ocean, and sits on a Island prone to earthquakes and tsunamis... What could go wrong? Also if there was a nightmare scenario where MERS broke out on the West coast, then imagine the riots and unrest that would break out if all of the sudden mass numbers of these sick people had to be evacuated away from the West coast.

Its not a mini sun. It is literally the opposite process that a sun undergoes.

Second, why would FEMA have them delivered to this logistics facility and not just shipped where they want them?

Because its a logistics facility which exists entirely to distribute disaster equipment and supplies where necessary?

I don't think your findings are suspicious. Two weeks ago, 20,000 homes were destroyed in Colorado.

1) The shotgun shell site states "indefinite quantity", so they'll likely order whatever they use. They specifically mention an annual use of around 4 million rounds a year. Even though this is a lot, I have no understanding of how much they use normally, including training and whatnot. Also, they don't mention offices outside of the US, but outside of the continental US("CONUS"). This is most likely a reference to places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

2) Their old diesel generators probably died and they bought new ones. Or maybe they want to expand their power generation capabilities. They location of the agent in charge is also no indication, government tends to be inefficient like that.

3) Hygiene supplies do go bad. Google it. The gov't often has to throw "good" things away because they are past their legal expiration date. I would expect FEMA to have stored huge amounts of such supplies, so some going bad is no indication of anything. Also, the site mentions a sum between $500 and $4 million, so they are not buying a lot.

4) Blankets can be destroyed by moths, or when they get wet. 100% wool blankets are probably heavily affected by this, or at least much more so than synthetic ones. A large replacement every other year is not suspicious.

5) Shelter supplies (presumably) go bad, too. Also, the contracts are awarded for an amount between $500 and ~$3 billion. It is unreasonable to assume the maximum amount here.

6)They bought new mobile command centers to help them organize their crisis responses. This is not suspicious at all. They seem to have struggled with coordination in past disasters. Why do you list the number of electrical outlets and other minor details? Electrical outlets seem like a reasonable, non-conspiracy thing to have. I don't understand your suspicions about the delivery as well. According to your post, they ship the new trailers to the place where they already keep most of their other trailers. This might well be part of organizational scheme.

One, there is no limit on where the the contractor could be located, so technically, these could be built in California, and then the contractor would have to figure out how to get them to Cumberland.

Yes, this is very reasonable. They just want their trailers and don't care where they come from. I doubt that the contractor is going to spend a lot of time figuring out how to move the trailer, though.

7) Yes, just imagine whats lurking under the DOE. This is precisely the kind of thing I hate about conspiracies. What are you implying? You could have looked it up. But you didn't and choose to ignore the facts. I did look it up. Nothing is lurking under the DOE. They want some valves and new roofs.

Thanks for a reasonable response. He is just looking at the information and trying to rationalize it in a way that supports supports this conspiracy he thinks is happening.

Slug shotgun rounds are used to engage vehicles at checkpoints. Great way to stop a car.

They're also used for door breaches in any situation, or deer hunting, or against potentially armored enemies (bulletproof vests stop buckshot a lot better than they stop slugs)

Door breaching does not use slugs. A special compressed powdered metal round is used, similar to frangable ammo carried by air marshals.

...Compressed powdered metal into a slug shape, which is a type of slug shot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_round

And since the order is blanket for all types of slug shot, that could very easily be covered by the PO.

I appreciate your dedication to providing links, but at the end of the day you are providing a purchasing account for a gov't entity that completely failed during/after Katrina. Now that they are stock-piling resources you are questioning why they would do such a thing, amidst global climate change resulting in increased fires, droughts, earthquakes, and other threatening happenings. Aside from the billions of rounds of ammunitions ( which have yet to be actually purchased) what have you to be concerned about?

I would say intent is what may be OP's concern. Hollow points are illegal in warfare as per Geneva convention. So buying all of those would present two probable scenarios. Either we are planning to arm or soldiers with it and commit a massive war crime, or they are to be used domestically.

I guess it could be a move to simply keep them out of our hands as well.

You are thinking of the Hauge Convention, and hollow points are carried by every law enforcement body in the nation. They train and practice with the same ammo they carry. The "rule" of hp rounds not bring allowed is antiquated and was based on faulty assumption. Both sides of many conflicts have used hp ammo and not raised an eyebrow.

Ok, are they considered a war crime?

No,

Hahahaha....still believe in man made climate change ? Its funny how all the change happening here is also happening on Mars...must be a lot of SUVs on mars

Wat?

In three hours this post has been bombarded with downvotes. FYI. I've been following it like a hawk.

ISON false flag season is nearly upon us. There should be campouts in front of fema camps in anticipation of their grand openings (don't forget to bring a towel!)

To wipe off the table they lay you on before wrapping you up in one of their blankets and burying you with the rest.

And flip-flops for the shower!

And right in time for NASA to shut down.

Right as it's passing by mars, too. Weird timing on when we can't be taking photos, n'est pas?

Debris from comets are very real. Since this one just passed through the asteroid belt its going to be bringing some friends that may or may not hit us. Better to be safe than sorry.

It could be sent to Cumberland to go to anywhere from nyc to Richmond by rail

Ive dealt with some of these bulk goods before- distribution after emergencies, that sort of thing. They have a finite shelf life or run low. They're typically deployed after tornado outbreaks, big floods, ect. Hygiene is a big deal when there is a water shortage. After Ike and Rita, I had water to drink but was living on purel showers and ghetto laundering- mixing some water, some soap and/or purel with dirty clothes in a heavy trash bag.

The ammo is of note after such massive, across the board expenditures on ammo that the FCC, NOAA, and other Fed departments got ammo and guns (Department of Education, IRS got shotguns, FBI got 20mm cannons, ect)

Hollowpoints by nature cant be used by the military so thats going to be Federal departments using them. They're meant to minimize overpenetration through walls and flesh in close situations by dumping all their energy in the target- which tells you how they intend to use them.

Shotgun rifled slugs are useful for two things- extending the effective range of a shotgun (with rifle, reflex or ghost ring sights) well past 100 yards to give it a limited rifle capability. The second is for defeating up to class 3A bodyarmor (and giving even the wearers of heavoer armor a bad day. At close range, deer slugs are also good for cracking some vehicle engine blocks.

Very intetesting and suspicious. The lack of information as to where destination is leads me to agree with you, that they do not want the public to know. Certain items can be used for understandable situations. Much of what you listed makes me think WTF.

All bureaucracies make sure their budgets are depleted at the end of their fiscal year, there's nothing suspicious about this.

If you've ever done government contracting or contracting for any organization large enough to have departmental budgets, you'll find it's common for them to write up a contract that promises you money in the last weeks of their fiscal year. The money doesn't have to change hands, the nature of the order may change, sometimes you just get to keep the money for doing nothing.

The important thing is that the organization ends their year with enough contractual obligations to deplete their budget.

Secondly, the dollar amounts in the text are about 1500x greater than the amounts the contracts are actually worth in the two links I spot checked.

I can't believe this was down voted. I guess because it was RATIONAL and MAKES SENSE and doesn't portend to the doom and gloom narrative on r/conspiracy, it's no good? Yeesh.

The blankets definitely say $46 million...

I looked at the "misc. shelter supplies" and "shelter cleaning supplies" which have a maximum value of $2-3 million each, not $2-3 billion.

Blankets - I haven't looked at the link so don't know what kind of blankets they are but it's reasonable to want to have a million blankets stored in a few places around the country.

Nothing inherently sinister about blankets

WTF does FEMA need slugs for? That is weird..did it say how many in total they were requesting?

It was DHS that bought them, and its not so much a real order so much as it is a contract for "if we are going to buy # slug shotgun rounds, we will buy them from X supplier".

Ah okay, that makes more since for DHS to be buying up stuff like that.

take a wild guess

alienz?

5 for each of us

However, some of the items are down right insane. One contract is for 6 sets of 13 trailer mounted diesel power generators. Each set of generators has to have 1 100Kw gen, 6 60Kw gen, 6 40Kw gen, and 6 power distribution panels with 300 feet of power cable per detachment. It even has the MERS title in the fucking title of the proposal. The funniest part about this particular contract though is that the location given as the "Place for Performance" is what appears to be a local FEMA office in Bothell, Wa. But, the agent listed as the point of contact has a Virginia area code (540) and the company that was awarded the contract is also in Virginia.

I don't understand what you think is "insane" about this or why you think that having a point of contact in Virginia is unusual. If you read the Statement of Work PDF, the deliveries are to 6 different locations across the United States, including Washington State, Maryland, Massachusetts, Texas, Georgia, and Colorado.

Backup power generators seem to me like exactly the type of thing FEMA should have on hand.

Another one is for shelter support kits of bulk hygiene. For the uninitiated, that would be bulk hygiene supplies capable of being distributed in bulk (pallets). Why would FEMA need personal hygiene supplies, let alone in bulk. They don't have any large camps anymore, do they? There hasn't been an event where they had to supply hundreds of thousands of people with personal hygiene supplies since Katrina. Hygiene supplies don't go bad, so they can't be replacing anything they have had in storage, that means they needed more than what they already have stored up. But why would they need more? Just in case your wondering, there is no "Place for Performance" location listed on this one...

If you read the RFP, they want a contract for the option to buy these if they are needed. That's why there's no Place for Performance. The contractor would need to be able to deliver at least 50 kits within 48 hours and more within 7 days.

There are a couple of contracts for $3.2 billion (that's billion, with a b) worth of misc. shelter supplies and $2.8 billion (again, b for billion) worth of shelter cleaning supplies. The interesting parts of these contracts is that they are to be delivered anywhere in the world. That's right, anywhere. It says in the paperwork that delivery will be anywhere inside the continental US or outside the continental US that the person in charge deems appropriate. It also listed several distribution centers across the US and its territories that would also be delivery locations.

You misread the dollar amounts. It's million with an m. Also, it says available for delivery outside the continental United States. It specifically says "Any location outside of the continental United States that is a United States Territory to be determined at the time of order". The clause is specifying that the contractor is responsible for delivery to the 49 states of the continental United States, otherwise it is just responsible for delivery to a port and FEMA will handle the delivery to Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.

Great research. It'd be a shame if this got downvoted...They're definitely up to something. We'll just have to wait and see

It wasn't FEMA that purchased the other rounds it was the DHS

I'm not so sure I wanna take a guess.

Thanks for the research. I have an idea to enlighten the masses. I want to start a non-profit organization to take up donations in order to post this kind of information on bill boards, and compile all the information into a web site. Let those who are too busy being slaves, read this information on their way to work. If anyone is interested in helping just message me. Otherwise I plan to go solo and will stop back in when I need help.

If I were you I would tried to contact someone from the "rethink 9/11" campaign. That could be better than trying to start something on your own over the internet

I'm thinking bigger then 911, I'm thinking illuminati big. The big picture, unveil the truth about choice.

Lol you're not going to do a damn thing.

Why? Why discourage? Seriously, WHY?!

Says you, you don't understand the motivation of having nothing to lose and everything to gain.

One, there is no limit on where the the contractor could be located, so technically, these could be built in California, and then the contractor would have to figure out how to get them to Cumberland.

um, this is the case with any goods. I don't recall ever seeing a toy production line feeding the shelves at Wal-Mart. Goods get produced and delivered where they are needed.

Second, why would FEMA have them delivered to this logistics facility and not just shipped where they want them?

Possible that a logistics facility is where they want them? It is a logistics facility after all, and this is FEMA whose mission is Disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, education, and references

edit: formatting

To the OP, you might want to look at those number again. The misc shelter supplies and shelter cleaning supplies are in millions, not billions. $2,200,000.00 = Two million, two-hundred thousand and zero cents.

It even has the MERS title in the fucking title of the proposal.

What does MERS stand for in the FEMA contract?

That's correct. Why does your post make it seem like MERS stands for the virus in this case?

Not Middle East Respiratory Syndrome?...

OP fooled you. The mobile generator sets are for the Mobile Emergency Response System.

Sigh.... Evidently I need /s w each post...

As long as we're down here in the noise: I think OP is a computer program.

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Was asking OP; being rhetorical. The (false) implication of his original post was that MERS referred to the virus.

I'm pretty sure if the govt were up to something sketchy with these contracts they wouldn't post the solicitations on the web for the whole world to see.

Why not? There are enough people like you to say that, so they would get away with it

And there are enough people like you to troll the contracts website then post them on reddit so that they wouldn't get away with it. I don't get your point.

As a project manager for a contractor that does mostly federal and state work, this thread is NOT shocking nor is it highlighting anything that should be alarming.

We bid on contracts all over the South and are based in Louisiana. It's not uncommon at all. You do not need to be local to win the work. As for the POC being in VA, that is the regional contracting office. Your local FEMA, or any agency, often outs in a request for materials/service and the regional office handles the procurement.

As for FEMA buying 12 gauge slugs, that's already been discussed.

Source: PM for a government contractor and I'm in my last semester of my masters degrees in Homeland Security/Emergency Management.

Yeah, I have to say this isn't really WTF worthy. FEMA responds to a LOT of shit. Take for example all the flooding that has happened recently in Colorado. FEMA will be there. They will distribute needed supplies, help file insurance claims and federal assistance claims, etc.

I was working private security at a FEMA site in the summer of 2010 in Lexington, Kentucky. They were there for the purposes I mentioned above, and they were onsite for months. Their officers were in the field for months, so obviously supplies were needed for quite a while. It's not a quick "we're in, we're out" process.

Generators are needed a LOT at field sites, as usually power is sketchy in the aftermath, and just to process shit, they need power to run computers, copiers, workstations, not to mention if they are hosting living quarters that also need power.

Shelter, food, hygiene, warmth (blankets) are pretty much your top survival needs, so to think it "odd" FEMA buying them up is kinda absurd. I mean, how many ppl that visit this thread look to "prepping" as well? Those are basically the things we all think would be handy to have in case of an emergency...stands to reason an organization that responds to disaster sites would think this as well.

I wouldn't get too worked up

This is government waste in over compensating so that another Katrina situation will not occur and the current head of FEMA won't become a fall guy and lose his job

Damnit. I was trying to avoid this whole mess. Bothell is TOO close to home.

I'm right there with you, I live in Tacoma. When Fukushima goes haywire and ISON dusts us with it's psychedelic spores, we should meet up and watch the world burn together. :]

I am up for that. It should be beautiful.

And, if ISON has psychedelic spores, all the better.

I think fukushima is going to blow.

Maybe r/collapse has an idea about this.

With the way things are going, it seems like there will be multiple failures in the system across the board. The fallout will most likely be millions of people rendered homeless/jobless.

It's possible that FEMA has no idea and are just being told to prep.

Things like the Trans-Pacific Partnership come to mind.

If the reports are correct, the "job creators" are going to create millions of new jobs - in Asia. That will obviously mean moving jobs from here to there.

From that job loss, businesses will lose income from their usual customers and cause a chain reaction of bankruptcies down entire supply chains.

There are millions of empty bank-owned houses and there are going to be millions more.

Will the government bail out the people this time instead of the banks? Doubt it.

It's all speculation at this point. Are they going to step-up the so-call "strategy of tension" with false flag terror or crisis actors?

Is there going to be massive job-loss from things like TPP?

Is there going to be a major influx of refugees from countries bombed by the US?

Posts like this keep me on r/conspiracy Nice work!

Lets do some math!

DHS bought a couple billion rounds of hollow points

There are 800,000 or so police officers in the United States. Assuming that ONLY police officers use these rounds, thats 2500 rounds per officer. This order is a blanket order with no timeframe, but for the sake of argument we will say that they use every single bullet in one year.

Police officers regularly train in firearms, with an average of around twice a month. If every officer practice every two weeks with hollow points, They'd use about 104 bullets per visit, or roughly 5-8 magazines. That constitutes about an hour of shooting range practice for every officer in the country, every two weeks for about a year--and this is only average in-service practice. They can and do shoot a lot more in their initial training or scheduled exercises.

Take this rough estimation as what you will, but 2 billion bullets is not nearly as much as it sounds like, spread across a million or so officers and potentially many years.

Oh, and regarding training with hollow points: they may possibly use hollow points for training for a number of reasons, but one of the more obvious is "hollow points are more dangerous to have on the streets--if we are using them all to shoot pieces of paper, then less people are using them to shoot cops/people/convenience stores"

The rounds are not for local PD's. They are for Homeland Security officers. And I can tell you for a fact that they do NOT use hollow points for training purposes. Too expensive.

The DHS child agencies also include:

Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, TSA, Coast Guard, and the Secret Service, who all probably use a good amount of bullets for training.

And I'd imagine they can get a steep discount on hollow points if they order them by the billion.

the blankets are to cover the bodies of the americans that they are about to slaughter

What would FEMA need with $46 million worth of 100% cotton blankets?

cotton kills... so the saying goes. shit at keeping you warm, gets soaked easily, takes forever to dry out. perfect for draping over bodies though.

Moths don't eat cotton?

I dont want to throw gas in this discussion but maybe this might provide answers?

http://www.storyleak.com/senator-warns-nuke-attack-s-carolina/

Was anyone thinking they are preparing for zombie outbreak?

a few odd thing here.

first of all, all the downvotes are pretty odd

second, a while back people were saying "Its end of the fiscal year, fema is just spending remaining money" now everyone is like "Its a beginning of a fiscal year, fema is just spending a new budged" and on what? Electricity generators, funking big load of blankets and ammunation. When Power grid outtake training is going to take a place soon. You dont need blankets for 46 million $ and ammunation when you just bought a big load of ammunation before on just a training.

Dux

Tl;DR?

It's happening.

ALOHA

Thanks for the research!

2 things done right in this comment: 1) plausibility 2) full metal jacket reference

On the plus side, guaranteed military surplus supplies for the average consumer next year...

The scary part of the halow points is they say its for practice ... Who practices with halow points ...

Why does the Federal Emergency Management Administration need to have contracts on hand that state that a condition of delivery might be that it needs to be delivered outside of the United States?

The RFP that I looked at said that the contractor shall be able to deliver to any point in the continental United States (including Alaska) or to any port in the continental United States specified by FEMA for delivery outside the continental United States "Any location outside of the continental United States that is a United States Territory to be determined at the time of order".

So all that is saying is that FEMA will be responsible for delivering it Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.

Ha ha but there is a reach around... why wake up when the Voice is starting soon... then it's American Idol and then Awards season, NFL... or maybe read celebrity gossip and play cookie click online. They mainline this entertainment to the population so they don't wake up and are addicted.

So don't worry about TPTB invading Syria... let's watch a misguided child star and drug addict who became famous because of her Achy-Breaky dad grinding against the son of an 80's tv star on the VMAs!!

I am up for that. It should be beautiful.

And, if ISON has psychedelic spores, all the better.