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Forward thinkers are always ostracized. It has been that way throughout history. Preppers are no different. We just ought to be thankful we are not living in the time of Socrates, or else we would be lining up for the hemlock.

From large scale civil unrest to the one of an EMP generated by the sun, it’s clear that preppers have been way ahead of their time. These topics were once deemed “paranoid”, or “delusional” but all of the sudden names in pop culture and even world governments are paying attention to these types of threats.

One such threat seems to be leading the pack and has shown up in many recent government reports. FEMA in particular seems to be concerned about the threat of a geomagnetic storm that would emanate from the sun and cause massive power outages across the planet.

A once classified FEMA report has surfaced and goes in depth on the level of preparations and concern that they have for a storm of this magnitude.

Understanding Reports and Unpublished Documents

The government buys ammo, writes and drafts lots of reports and documents that never really see the light of day. Now, we must be smart about that bit of information.

It’s important to take a look at these for what they are. There is a lot of research and science that goes into creating these drafts and reports. They are not a bunch of made up steps and stats.

However, some of these reports are also never going to be acted upon. That means, though the report may contain some very effective information, it’s not going to affect law or protocol in any way.

To be completely clear, what we have here is an unpublished document that was written by FEMA. It contains some very important information that confirms the government’s understanding of the EMP threat posed by our own sun.

The title of this unpublished report is very telling.

Mitigation Strategies for FEMA Command, Control and Communications During and After a Solar Superstorm

FEMA and NOAA’s Geomagnetic Storm Timeline

There are many takeaways from this classified FEMA report, but the geomagnetic storm timeline is the core of this document. This timeline shows that this report was put together with a tremendous amount of research and a focus on following the solar superstorm, from its start as a sunspot all the way crashing into the earth’s atmosphere.

G Minus 5 Days

This is the first spotting of the large sunspot on the surface of the sun. The focus is on large, complex magnetic fields on the surface of the sun. From this point we would have a 5 day window to prepare, but it would be very hard to determine the threat at this point.

G Minus 17 Hours

At the launching of a massive CME we are left with just 17 hours to prepare. Radio, radiation storms and geomagnetic storm warnings and watches are also issued at this point.

G Minus 16 hours 40 minutes

The solar radiation storm arrives at this time and we lose 15% of our satellite fleet due to solar panel damage. There could be greater loss and efficacy issues with GPS.

We would have about 20 minutes notice before this happened. “We” doesn’t necessarily mean you and I would hear anything.

G Minus 15 minutes

CME arrives at the NASA ACE Satellite.

There is no going back from this point. This is basically the point when we have an EMP on our planetary doorstep.

0 Hour

Services Interrupted

At the heart of the EMP fear is the loss of services. We all know that once shipping stops things get ugly fast. When the food and medicine are no longer being shuttled around the nation, people get hungry and desperate.

Water systems will also be affected by an EMP. Much of the process that cleans your water is governed by computers and machine systems. Those go away, too!

In this report they discussed something that was very interesting in terms of communications and infrastructure. It is called the “Cascading Loss of Last Mile Telecommunications over Time”. It’s a terrifying look at how over the span of 8 days all communications will fall, starting with communications from home telecom lines.

The diagram below offers up a telling scenario where this cascading loss takes its grip starting at the residential level and working its way through to the Central Office.EMP Recovery

The infrastructure needed to tackle EMP recovery is expensive and hard to make. That’s the deal. We are talking about things like oil cooled transformers that are 60,000 a piece and require special equipment to move around.

Special equipment that will likely not be EMP proof!

Recovery from an EMP is something of a pipe dream if we are honest and if the whole nation is affected. Maybe the military could bring up sections of the grid at a time, or maybe not. However, it really is more of a countdown on human life.

The survival of our society will depend on how many people die in the time it takes to recover from that EMP.

What to Make of all This Reporting?

There are two big takeaways from all these documents coming to light, research being done and even Donald Trump bringing the threat of an EMP to the forefront.

#1. People are Paying Attention

While we can all agree that our bloated government is full of people looking for a way to bide their time and get another day closer to pension, this keeps coming up. Grid down situations are a concern in the halls of government. I don’t think we can deny that.

Even the most cynical of us must agree that without electricity it gets much harder to collect taxes.

How far they will go to take action against an EMP threat is another thing entirely. However, we also have to be honest about our responsibility in this.

We the people cannot bray about small government all day and then complain that they aren’t 100% prepared to assist the public following a total grid down situation.

#2. A Prepper’s Responsibility

The second and more important takeaway from this report is that we have a responsibility to prepare and get as many others prepared as possible.

A widespread grid down situation is going to kill anyone who is not prepared for it. It’s even going to kill tons of people who are prepared for it. Now is the time to take action and make your action known. I really believe that us, preppers, can influence the world positively.

People might seem put off by the message but, trust me, they go home, and they think about putting up their own food and being ready for when disaster strikes.

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Throughout its history from inception, hegemon USA has been perpetually at war on invented enemies by hot and/or other means — — first against Native Americans, then against other nations free from its control.

Countless trillions of dollars have been poured down a black hole of waste, fraud and abuse in advancing its imperium — at the expense of peace, equity, justice, the rule of law and vital homeland needs.

Both wings of the US war party share blame.

Run by barbarian hardliners, their ruthlessness threatens everyone everywhere, undemocratic Dems worst of all.

They risk destruction of planet earth and all its life form in pursuit of their unattainable aims.

Will the new year be marked by arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Death, Famine, (nuclear) War and, Conquest — along with demise of US unipolar dominance, the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and unparalleled economic crisis as the old order’s house of cards collapses?

In whatever way things unfold, year 2023 and what follows may be more transformational than other periods in modern memory, greater change than post-WW II.

Along with other issues, the US food supply is increasingly jeopardized by soaring inflation, disrupted supply chains, food warehouses set ablaze, closure of food processing plants, others experiencing mysterious mishaps, widespread food recalls and drought conditions reducing harvests.

Unrelated to all things Russia and Ukraine, what happened this year may worsen in 2023 by design as part of the Biden regime’s war on humanity at home and worldwide. 

The risk of nuclear war is greater than any time since the atom was split — where things have been heading because of hegemon USA-dominated NATO’s perpetual war on Russia.

On Thursday, Sergey Lavrov said the following:

“Hundreds of (military) personnel (operate) in Ukraine.”

They’ve been there for years.

“CIA officers occup(y) at least one floor in Ukraine’s Security Service.”

“Not only are (US) military specialists clearly involved in making visits to the Ukrainian (war) ministry, but, of course, in one way or another they offer direct consultative services, or maybe, even more than consultative services.”

On all things related to Russia, the empire of lies is running things in Ukraine.

And “everyone knows that (Ukraine’s political class is powerless and) unable to negotiate” without permission from its US master not forthcoming.

“Whether there are any politicians in their right mind left on the territories controlled by the Kiev regime is hard to tell, especially considering the widespread practice of suppressing any dissent and extrajudicial reprisals against them.”

Separately, Lavrov slammed the fake Biden for “saying that (Nazi-infested) Ukraine needs to secure a victory to prevent World War III.” 

And Russia has no “channel for dialogue” with the empire of lies.

When occurred earlier, it was a colossal waste of time.

And once again, Lavrov stressed that Russia “intends to make sure that (its SMO) goals are achieved.

They include the entire liberation of its four new regions from the scourge of “Nazification they faced for years.”

Separately by video link talks with China’s Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin stressed the following, saying:

“Amid unprecedented pressure and provocation by the West, we are standing up for our principled positions, defending not only our interests, but the interests of those who support a truly democratic world order and the right of nations to determine their fate.”

Xi stressed the importance of “strategic cooperation” between China and Russia as “global partners in the interest of our peoples and for the sake of stability in the entire world.”

In trying to preserve its declining hegemony, the empire of lies is waging hot war on Russia and on China by other means.

Last May, interventionist Blinken said the following:

“The scale and the scope of the challenge posed by the People’s Republic of China will test (hegemon USA’s aim for global dominance) like nothing we’ve seen before.”

On Dec. 16, he “launch(ed) the new Office of China Coordination, informally (called) China House.”

Its “goal” is all about waging war on China by other means, ignoring the risk of turning things hot.

In October last year, the CIA formed a China Mission Center.

Its establishment followed the US war department’s creation of a China Task Force in February last year.

Hegemon USA’s Indo/Pacific strategy involves advancing its regional footprint, including militarily in a part of the world where it doesn’t belong.

Aiming to marginalize, weaken, contain, and isolate both China and Russia is an agenda doomed to fail.

Last year, former US diplomat, Chas Freeman warned that the empire of lies “risks sleepwalking into a war with China it does not want and cannot now win.” 

If occurs, it’ll likely doom its Asia/Pacific agenda.

And it “would poison prospects for great power cooperation on planet-wide problems” beyond its current dismal state.

Breaching the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, what terminated US relations with Beijing’s breakaway province, the Trump and Biden regimes “ensure(d) that virtually no one on the China mainland believes a purely peaceful resolution is still feasible,” Freeman stressed.

It’s further proof why the empire of lies can never be trusted.

And its hostile to peace and rule of law agenda pushes its own decline.

Hegemon USA is at war on Russia?

Is China next on its target list?

Hopefully former CIA analyst, Larry Johnson is right, saying:

“(T)he era of (hegemon USA) invading other countries” and toppling their governments “is over.”

All things Russia and Ukraine revealed US weakness, its inability any longer “to control the international arena.”

US war on Russia by hot and other means failed.

Nor will anything similar against China fare better, especially because of Sino/Russia unity against the threat posed by the empire of lies.

Year 2022 was marked by Europe’s economic decline at a time of war in its heartland.

Does the same fate await hegemon USA in the new year, along with the defeat of its Ukraine project?

Of greatest concern is whether the empire of lies will set the world ablaze in the new year in pursuit of its geopolitical agenda — risking humanity’s survival by its rage for perpetual wars on invented enemies.

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Alright, we have done a couple of articles on “Knowing Yourself,” and “Knowing Your Enemy.”  Now that everyone knows one another, let’s take it to another level.  As a single individual, as a family member, or operating in a group, after it hits the fan, you will have to fight eventually.  You will not be able to avoid it and hunker down until the cavalry comes, because it will be in your neighborhood and the cavalry isn’t coming to your rescue.

We’ve discussed “Fabian Tactics” in previous articles.  These were based on the exploits of Quintus Fabius Maximus in the First Punic War between Carthage and Rome. “Hit and Run” tactics exemplify their description: strike a numerically superior larger force at a time and place of your choosing, and then break contact.  Fade back into the forest, hide, and avoid further combat until the next engagement of your choice.

Lessons from the Roman Army for Post-SHTF Combat Operations

Let’s “fix” ‘em: set the enemy up and zap ‘em!  Let’s do a few things that the Romans were famous for…using these techniques here and now.

1. Choose the Ground: Yes, you choose the place you will engage them.  Along with this, you pick the time of day, the formation of the attack, the objective, and the criteria for withdrawal.  You choose it.  As an individual, you would be sniping.  As a group (depending on your numbers and composition), you can engage in operations limited by your size.  Choosing the ground means also to actively recon the enemy and not allow him to choose it and catch you unawares.
2. Prep the Ground: The Roman Army were masters of this task. They scouted the area and with thorough intel, they knew where their enemies were, actions these people planned on taking, and avenues of approach.  They cut timber and created obstacles of logs interlaced with natural “barbed wire” in the form of thorns and thistles…along with spikes and stakes, to limit enemy cavalry.  Long before William Wallace of “Braveheart” was ever a thought, the Roman legions spread out hay soaked with pitch and oil in areas where enemy foot soldiers would move, and applied flaming arrows when the time was right.  They always took the high ground when possible, and used the natural terrain features (cliffs, rivers, etc.) to form boundaries to help them channel the enemy.
3. Always Fight with the Sun at your Back: The Romans positioned themselves and attacked to place the sun in the eyes of their enemies. I know, I know: the enemy has “Ray-Bans,” right?  No, it worked for the Viet Cong as well.  When they’re looking into the sun, they’re at a severe disadvantage.  Use the sun.  Use the terrain.  Live with the land and live.
4. “SPECVLATORES”- the Speculatores…the deep-cover operatives…the Special Forces and Reconnaissance warriors of the Roman Empire. You need operatives in your “unit” with the ability to do “deep penetration” of an enemy’s defenses…whether in their midst unsuspectingly or observing them from a nearby locale…operating on their own ground unbeknownst to them.  You need one or two people who can get the job done…and provide you with the deep-cover intel you’ll need to make decisions.
5. Alliances – “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Not always so, but you can use such rifts to your advantage…with other groups who your enemy is at odds with.  Here is where diplomacy, teamwork, and political acumen/savvy comes into play.  These “non-combat” skills are just as important to “fixing” your enemy as any of the actual missions you will undertake to defeat him.  Be skilled at making alliances, and do not make them just for the sake of socializing.  It is an art that we will cover more in-depth in future pieces.
6. Feed Them Disinformation: Yes, the Romans were very adept at sending messages or planting information that was false. This regarded their strengths, their movements, supplies, and reinforcements.  Sun Tzu was not the only one with a knowledge of how to monopolize disinformation, and he wasn’t the first to employ it.
7. Lure Them and “Stake” ‘Em – the Roman Army would plant different things out in front of an approaching enemy force in order to delay and distract them…making them ripe for an attack or ambush. You can do the same, and make it fall “in line” with the enemy you’ll be facing.  Quick question: How many of you have Russian or Chinese canned delicacies, such as Borscht or caviar for the former, or imported Chinese canned foods and fineries for the latter?  Because you may be able to use it to lure such if they ever come to this country…and set a trap on or in it, or place shooters in an overwatch position overlooking it.  Because you may need prisoners, and what better way to lure them in than with a carton of their own cigarettes, their own liquor that they would think to be safe?      Be advised: SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS FROM THE STORE YOU BOUGHT IT!  This is because in the times to come if anyone ever suspects you of collaborating with them…you can show the receipts that you bought it all long before the conflict began, and give them an explanation of why you bought it all.  This may keep you from being shot by your own countrymen.
8. The Violence of Action in a Controlled Manner – the Romans did not win their mastery over all of Europe and most of the Middle East by conducting drill and ceremony. They were trained, skilled killers and understood that the thing that made the Empire possible was the discipline and aggression of the individual legionnaire.
9. A Perfect Chain of Command – Modern militaries all have a chain of command and an order of succession for someone to fill the “vacancy” at all levels when a commander “buys the farm,” so to speak. You need to enable each member of your team to be able to step into the shoes and position of the leader and take charge to continue with the mission.
10. Discipline: this encompasses all areas. A “guerrilla fighter,” whether fighting off marauders from a neighboring town post SHTF, or a tyrannical, oppressive government, or a foreign invader…the guerrilla needs to be disciplined.  Physical toughness, adherence to standard operating procedures (SOP’s), a cool head and iron nerves, and endurance…the ability to keep this up for years…to go the distance.  These are the things that the Romans kept focused upon and central to their legions for many centuries.

In conclusion, small unit tactics are more than just a matter of either superior arms or numerical advantages.  They are based on common sense and knowing how to plan out your objectives, as well as a plan of attack.  You will have to be the “David” going against the Goliath, and although not shirking from battle, picking the time and place of your engagement, and the conditions and standards you will set to achieve those objectives.  It is no guarantee of success, but you are guaranteed to perform better with the proper planning, training, and clarity of purpose prior to a battle.  It can mean the difference between success and failure, life or death.  In this vein, I highly encourage you to study more about the Roman Army and the warfare in ancient times.  Take the time to clean the tarnished pitcher and you may just find a silver piece made by Revere.  The knowledge is there: seek after it and make your future rather than just allowing it to happen to you.

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Our underlying goal in a SHTF scenario is ultimately to stay alive and live without exposure to risks.  As much preparation as many of us have made, in the altered world of a SHTF crisis, there will be many dangers that lurk; and some of them will be inadvertently from our own doing.

Here are the six laws of survival. Read this. Memorize this. Apply this. One day, you will need it.]

In a survival scenario all bets are off and the following laws will keep you alive. These laws are rigid, but necessary. Harsh, but true. Keep your cards close and always have a plan.

Law 1: Wherever that crowd is running, do not join them.

This is not to say that they aren’t (initially) running in the right direction.  But what of it?  They are bound to be either captured en masse or worse (bombed, strafed, or shot).  For the horror of the IHM (the Incredible Human Mob), look no further than “War of the Worlds” with Tom Cruise where he and his family are driving the passenger van…right up and into the mob.  Look what happened there.  You can’t defeat their numbers, and you will be captive to them…another steer in the herd.

Strike out on your own, you and your family, avoiding the main thoroughfares at all cost, and avoiding the IHM.

Law 2: You have to have a place (and places) to go.

This is where thinking outside of the general herd will pay off.  We’re going to instruct by running through a checklist…. this will be a “handy-dandy” checklist that you can print out or run over in your mind to be able to follow rule #2.

• Did you preposition assets (food, weapons, money, etc.) at an initial safe location?
• Is that location within walking distance for you and your family?
• Once there, are you and your family secure for at least a 24 – 48-hour period?
• Safe from enemy troops/government “peacekeepers” on the hunt?
• Safe from fallout and/or NBC agents?
• Does it have a food and water supply to sustain all of you for 7 days?
•  If your initial safe location has been compromised, is a duplicate location nearby?
• Do you have a farther (more remote) location that you can reach on foot in 3 days?
• A secure, sustainable location with supplies for at least a month?
• Do you and your family have a handheld method of communication for each member?
• Have you formulated short-term (initial contact, 48 hours, 7 days) plans?
• Have you made long-term (1 month and month-by-month; 6 months and 6-month continuous analysis; 1 year) plans?

Guys and gals, these are just basics.  You must have these things in place in order to give you and your family a fighting chance.  Whether or not it is a foreign invasion or a domestic communist takeover of the United States, you must leave your home in suburbia or you will be rounded up, bringing us forward:

Law 3: You will be leaving your home, permanently or for a long time.

This is survival.  The majority of readers are not living in the mountains or in a remote location.  If you follow these steps and practice them on a dry-run on a regular basis…it will give you the advantage that most people will not have.  You must innovate: come up with ideas that others will not think of.  Do you know of an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town?  Chances are that 90% of others will think the same thing in a grid-down/Red Dawn survival scenario.  You need to find the places that are off the beaten path.  And if there are none?  It may mean that you have to create a place.

How?  By caching your supplies within the walking distances described for each part of the “safe” area.  By finding tunnels, caves, or other sub-structures that can protect you from the elements and at least afford partial protection from radiation.  By being who it is you imagine yourself to be: a prepper…a survivalist…or a survivor.  When you enter any contest, do you enter it to lose?  Do you strive for just “second place” or “second best” in this arena?  Chances are the answer is “no,” but you have to arrive on that conclusion on your own.  All of this is a challenge, and this underlines everything for you if it needs clarification:

Law 4: In survival, there is no silver medal: “second place” means death.

Forget that phrase in “The Hunger Games,” because if you are taken…the odds are not ever in your favor.  We went through a 4-article series on how to escape from the Gulag where I reiterated how important it is for you to stay out of it.  I stand by this concept.  If you are taken captive, the odds aren’t in your favor of getting out…for the duration of it.

And then guess what?  The Germans during WWII as the allies approached began to hide their transgressions by liquidating the camps…basically killing everyone that could bear any type of witness to the atrocities.  Do not think for an instant that it will not happen again.  Look at Holodomor in Ukraine and the starvation tactics the USSR used to follow after the Malthusian model.  Our enemies have very little regard for human life, and the lives they value are of their own people.  If the Chinese communists would run over their own people with tanks and sell their internal organs while they’re still alive, what will they do with us?

Which brings us to the “Malcolm X” rule:

Law 5: You must stay out and survive by any and all means necessary.

Some of you may think “JJ is a little harsh.”  I would rather be hard and harsh now, and enable you, my countrymen, to have some tools at your disposal and a “sharp tack” under the figurative buttocks of your mind to give you the impetus to do something about the situation prior to its occurrence.  The country is “long in the tooth,” and you have to grasp these concepts and act upon them now…not burn off the pages and save them in the survival archives…but use them to inculcate your own, individual plan of action now.

Rule #5 means resolving yourself to do what you must in order to protect yourself from the ravages (and not just possible, but probable death) inside of one of these camps.  These are all basic, “generic” things to begin as a base for your preparations.  This is a form of guerilla warfare!  Avoid the occupiers/oppressors at all cost!  These things will work for you…if you resolve yourself (ves) to do them.  I’ll close with a note on OPSEC (operational security): you better build off of these basics and keep all of them to yourself.

JJ is giving you the basics that you need, without revealing everything of his own plans.  Why?  Because I earned them by paying for them with years of experience and suffering, and it means my family’s survival.  Such measures would run you a lot of money and imagination; such measures come from years of practical experience and the willingness to take chances.  This thought brings us to our final rule, the failure of which means compromise leading to death:

Law 6:  Do not tip your hand or reveal your plans to anyone.

Next installment we will talk about life under occupation, be that by foreign invaders or by totalitarian state that has morphed out of a democracy.  In the meantime, prepare and plan, and when you are reasonably sure, execute a dry run.  The practice does make perfect and affords you a time and trials to iron out all of the glitches in your operations.  Until next time be good to one another and keep up the fight!

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The forces are mounting that will eventually overwhelm most Americans and send their standard of living to unknown depths. Americans that have only known the post WWII prosperity are ill equipped and educated to deal with depression level living. Easy credit and instant gratification have created a nation of whining, self absorbed, entitlement minded people with no moral or mental toughness.

Doug Casey believes we are headed for what he calls a super depression created by the ending of a debt super cycle. The bigger the debt cycle the bigger the depression that follows. That’s how reality works and most people are not prepared for reality.

When this depression, which has already started, gets momentum, it will overwhelm the plans of a society that is expecting to get things like social security, pensions and payouts from retirement plans they have paid into for many years. All of those things will disappear almost overnight and leave society gasping and stupefied over what to do. Their reactions will be to yell and scream and try to identify who to blame but the only person they should blame is the one in the mirror.

Many very smart people have raised the alarm and done their best to warn the sleeping public, but those slumbering masses have ignored the warnings and hit the snooze button one more time. The masses do not understand economics, do not want to understand economics and they will pay dearly for that ignorance in the coming days.

When the real unemployment rate becomes common knowledge as it increases substantially, people will be left to survive on what resources they have saved up outside the banking system that cannot be stolen by the politicians and bankers. That is a key point here. The assets you have outside the system that cannot be stolen from you with a few key strokes on some computer.

Those hoping for some miraculous event that will send the U.S. back to the days of manufacturing might and jobs for all will never see it happen. Those days are gone. The west line theory tells us our economy will slow down and become more modest as the shipping center of the world moves west to the next powerhouse region which is Asia. This is what history teaches us.

When people suddenly wake up one morning and they have no job, their retirement is gone and they need to care for their family, what will they do? When government services have collapsed and they suddenly realize they are now living in a third world country with few government services, what will they do? When the banks are closed and only a select few connected people have any type of money or access to goods, what will they do?

This is the reality that many people will face in the future and they have no idea how bad it can get. They refuse to contemplate the harsh reality they will be living in and take steps to mitigate the effects. To do so would be to acknowledge it could happen and they are taking personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is a dirty phrase in today’s entitlement society. To see some of the effects one only has to look at the collapse of society in Venezuela today to see what awaits.

When it happens it will all fall back to you to take responsibility for your family and take care of them for the duration. To do that you need to plan now for that eventuality and build up the resources you will need to provide food, shelter, clothing and security when the system fails to do it for you. You need to be Noah on his ark not the people watching as he floated away.

Having resources stored up is a must but it may not get you all the way through if the situation lasts for many years. That is why you need some type of plan to replace those resources as time goes by and have some way to generate some type of income or at least items to trade. Usable goods are for the short term and things like gold ,silver and production equipment are for the long term to help you get through the crisis with the least amount of pain.

Even with proper planning the days ahead will not be easy as the standard of living of society will fall substantially to levels only seen in failed third world countries or old pictures. The assets actually owned by people today is very small compared to how they live. They will default on their home loan, their car loan, and their credit card debt leaving them with very few real possessions and few ways to move what they have left even if they have some place to go. Ultimately these people will become the new serfs to the wealthy class that will take possession of anything of value. Feudalism will once again rule.

The lack of planning by society will make this a reality if it is allowed. What will you do when everything you have worked a lifetime for is suddenly taken away? Do you have a plan to keep what you have? Do you have a plan to make money when you cannot find a job? Do you have a way to take care of your family until things stabilize? Do you have a home you will not lose if the whole system breaks down? What will you do if electricity or fuel is too expensive to buy or not available to the general population? These are the questions you should be asking yourself now and you better have a good answer because your family will be asking them when the greater depression sets in.

Russia’s overwhelmingly superior firepower continues transforming Nazi-infested Ukraine into a barren wasteland.

Its economy is close to collapse, its military faring no better.

Russian strikes on the former nation-state’s power grid and the regime’s self-defeating aggression against a vastly superior military is bankrupting its economy and immiserating its people.

It’s just a matter of time before the US-created house of cards collapses altogether.

In response to the latest round of devastating Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power grid in multiple locations, the regime’s electricity transmission operator, Ukrenergo, declared a state of emergency, saying:

“Due to damage to Ukraine’s power infrastructure (thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants, main network substations), there has been a loss of more than 50% of (its) energy grid’s consumption, which means the introduction of the state of emergency mode.”

“We report an emergency situation starting (at) 09:00 a.m. on December 16.”

Russia has been responding to strikes by Ukrainian Nazis on its territory — notably against residential areas to kill or wound maximum numbers of civilians.

In its latest fake news edition, the NYT falsely claimed that Ukraine’s decimated military shot down 60 Russian hypersonic high-precision missiles.

Ignored by the Times and other MSM is that the most sophisticated US/Western air defense systems — including what’s supplied to Ukrainian Nazis — cannot deter these missiles from striking intended targets.

And the regime is exhausting virtually everything needed to continue its aggression faster than hegemon USA and its Western vassals can resupply it.

In stark contrast, Russian forces are well-supplied with what’s needed to degrade and defeat Nazi-infested Ukraine.

And the regime’s military commander-in-chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, admitted what’s increasingly hard to conceal, saying the following:

“(W)e are on the edge.”

Further Russian strikes on the regime’s power grid could render it entirely inoperable.

“That is when soldiers’ wives and children start freezing.”

“What kind of mood will fighters be in?”

“Without water, light and heat, can we talk about preparing reserves to keep fighting?”

Mincing no words about reality on the ground, Zaluzhny added:

Russia “shouldn’t be discounted.”

Its forces “are not weak.”

“(T)hey have very great potential in terms of manpower.”

He expects a major Russian attack in the new year.

His candor went so far and no further by falsely claiming enough reserves to reinforce degraded units along frontline positions.

The regime is running short of everything, including enough manpower and continued will to pursue a lost cause.

Yet according to AP (fake) News, “both sides are locked in a stalemate battle of attrition (sic),” adding:

It could be “beneficial to Ukraine (sic).”

And claiming that “more state-of-the-art weapons from the West (will enable the regime to) prepare for new counteroffensives” ignored the its military’s near state of collapse.

And this AP rubbish:

“In Russia, there is a growing sense of desperation among hardliners (sic) about what they see as President Vladimir Putin’s hesitancy and lack of a clear strategy (sic).”

There’s no ambiguity about Russia’s strategy.

It’s a go-slow approach to accomplish its publicly stated aims by minimizing civilian casualties.

A legitimate argument is whether Russia should have hit Ukraine harder all along to bring it to capitulation sooner.

And this WaPo fake news, falsely claiming that decimated regime troops “wiped out (Russia’s) 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (sic),” adding:

What didn’t happen “derailed Putin’s invasion plans (sic).”

Weeks earlier, WaPo sounded delusional claiming that Russia would “soon exhaust its combat capabilities (sic).”

No respectable editor would permit publication of an obvious Big Lie.

A small fraction of Russia’s military has been decimating regime troops, while sustaining minimum numbers of its own casualties.

Separately on Thursday, a WaPo reality check admitted that “relentless missile and drone attacks by Russia decimated Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and bl(ew) a hole in projections for the country’s war-ravaged economy.”

Year-to-date, its GDP declined by over one-third as its “war-ravaged economy” teeters on the brink of collapse.

Russia may be able to declare mission accomplished ahead from its decline and fall as well as on the battlefield.

A Final Comment

On Dec. 12, Ukraine’s DTEK Energo’s CEO, Ildar Saleyev, said the following:

The firm is sustaining “a record loss” this year from damage to its energy facilities and sharp drop in consumption.

The company needs dozens of new transformers, each costing about $5 million.

It cannot order them “because there is no money,” he said.

And costs are steadily rising “because of the need for constant repairs.”

“We (can) no longer comply with limits of the investment portfolio that were agreed upon with lenders.”

Their “requirement is that debt must be decreased with increased investments.”

DTEK hasn’t the funds to fulfill its financial obligations.

Nor can it supply millions of Ukrainian households and enterprises with electrical power for  heat and what businesses need to operate.x

Yet in his latest nightly rant, puppet Zelensky provided more proof of his detachment from reality with remarks like the following:

Russia “cannot defeat our (decimated) army.”

Delaying capitulation assures a steadily mounting human toll and greater destruction than already. 

The former nation-state of Ukraine no longer exists.

Nor can the US-installed regime turn things around ahead.

And as long as a buffoon masquerades as Ukraine’s leader, the worse of its long-suffering people will be.

“Money and corruption are ruining the land; crooked politicians betray the working man.”

In 1978, Ray Davies wrote Live Life, a classic of  its time.

Just ahead of the Conservative victory in the 1979 general election which saw Margaret Thatcher take office, the lyrics of this song depicted the troublesome times of the mid to late 70s perfectly.

Power cuts, rail strikes, striking postal workers, striking miners, striking refuse workers, bread shortages, petrol price hikes, diesel price hikes, mass unemployment, mass homelessness saw the re-emergence of the soup kitchen, the introduction of the 3-day working week – any of this beginning to sound familiar?

This was, in my opinion, the first full dress rehearsal for what we are experiencing now. Only difference being that this time round, only a few will be left to see the final act unless we bring the curtain down now, mid-act.

Earlier in his long and awarded career, Ray wrote the classic album Preservation Act 2, the follow up to Preservation Act 1. This album brought to life the career politician; those who would do anything to keep their careers, amass untold wealth and physical assets at the complete detriment of their fellow man.

“Money and corruption are ruining the land; crooked politicians betray the working man.”

Let’s take the above quote apart by looking at the way in which we, citizens of the world have been manipulated to comply with totally insane, unfounded control mechanisms.

1. Money

Un-elected organisations such as the World Economic Forum, International Monetary Fund, Bank of International Settlements have for decades been dictating to the general public how they can gain access to and how they can spend their hard-earned cash.

Now, together with other un-elected organisations such as the World Health Organisation and the United Nations, the world is being pushed to comply again with the probable implementation of Central Bank Digital Currency, Universal Basic Income and Digital IDs.

Without our compliance, they cannot succeed. Yet so many are willing to give up their basic rights to these un-elected organisations as they simply want to be able to live their lives without conflict.

We’ve already started to see the result of the BIG SQUEEZE and will no doubt very soon see the real cost of living crisis come to full bloom as excess deaths rise exponentially due to the BIG FREEZE, as many among us simply cannot afford to both heat and eat.

2. Corruption

Corruption runs rife across the globe. Not one of the so-called ‘experts’ is without guilt. Each of them has ties and links to Big Pharma, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and the World Health Organisation.

In the UK, many Covid 19 service contracts were given to friends and family of those who stood at the lectern night after night and preached to us, the general public as to how we should keep a safe distance, wash our hands, not mix with our loved ones for fear of killing granny, walk a one-way system in shops and other outlets, stay home to protect the NHS and wear a face covering.

These commands were given globally by other world leaders; the result of the outputs from the various influenza pandemic scenarios held over the past two decades.  See the keyword: INFLUENZA.

PartyGate will forever sit within our collective memory. We will not forget!

The biggest corruption of all sits behind the development of the Covid 19 medical intervention. I  refuse to call this medical intervention a ‘vaccine’ as it most certainly is not a ‘vaccine’. The Gov UK website pages which detail the various options state quite clearly that these medical interventions DO NOT CONTAIN Covid 19, therefore they are not ‘vaccines’.

Ex-President Obama, another linked to the World Economic Forum et al, wrote into US statute law in 2016 a moratorium banning Gain of Function research taking  place on US soil. The head of the NIH and NIAID, Dr Anthony Fauci moved this research from the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and gave the lead of the research to Peter Daszak, Head of EcoHealth Alliance.

This is a statement made by Peter Daszak in 2015, and reported in the National Academies Press on February 12, 2016, in which he declared:

‘We need to increase public understanding of the need for medical countermeasures such as a pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics will follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage, to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process.’

This is exactly what happened. MSM toed the line, spouting the narrative again and again. Anyone who was against the narrative was silenced.  This continues even now.

SARS-Cov-2 which we are told is the pathogen which causes Covid 19 has NEVER been isolated, purified, placed into a test subject, and proven to exist.

The World Health Organisation called Covid 19 a pandemic due to opportunistic circumstance. They also stopped the world for something which has not been proven to exist in nature.

Patents for a Covid 19 ‘vaccine’ were submitted by Moderna in 2016, despite the illness not materialising until December 2019.

The lab leak theory is a complete ‘red herring’. I base my opinion on what I’ve researched and written here.

Influenza is a member of the coronavirus family, yet we have no cure for it. All cases of influenza were rebranded as Covid 19.

Corruption at its worst!

3. Betrayal

In short, all global leaders have, sold out their citizens for profit, sheer greed, and their own careerism.

Another track on the same album, Preservation Act 2, is Artificial Man.

“Let’s build an artificial world, full of artificial people. Cure all diseases, conquer pain, and monitor the human brain. And see what thoughts you’re thinking, observe your feelings, secret tears, controlling everything you say and do.”

Very thought provoking as we head towards Human 2.0 with the help of Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

Have you ever wondered what makes a person snap? What causes a normal, quiet, everyday citizen, loving mother, or doting father to lose it all and fight like a caged animal? What can cause a small village to rise up and rebel against an oppressive police force and start killing them? What is the switch that gets flipped that causes a city to pour two million people into the streets, chanting and demanding to be heard by their government?

Lately it feels more and more as though we are on standing on the edge of some yawning precipice peering over the crest into darkness. What is more troubling to me is that we have been down this path before. The sense of unease is almost palpable to me sometimes; it is more evident if you are paying attention. If you are able to eliminate the white noise of the world for a minute; hit the pause button on the playlist of daily life for a while and look around, listen, you may start to recognize that you too are caught up in events that will soon change all our lives.

For several years I have felt an unsettling sense that we need to be prepared, that life is going to throw us a big, fat, greasy curve ball soon and we better not be caught napping. To try and proactively address that warning voice I started planning and taking steps to prepare my family to be able to weather events in the future. I am certainly not alone in this concern as you can easily see by the tremendous growth of the prepper movement. In the spectrum of probable events, there are a lot of potential scenarios. Natural disasters and emergencies occur every day all over the world, but you have to broaden your gaze and look to current events and history as well. One of the things that I think is a valid potential event to consider is a collapse of our way of life which leads to an authoritarian oppressive government.

Are we reaching a tipping point?

We have seen in recent events, by now almost too numerous to mention, the effects of a rising frustration with the way things are. It isn’t necessary to go into all of the individual reasons, but as a society there are more and more outpourings of frustration on a global scale. There are increasingly tightening restrictions against people. There is a manipulation of markets and the economy. There is a great increase in the loss of freedom and there is a more open antagonism and almost outright animosity by Government towards their people.

Governments exist either because they have come to power through force and violence or they have been elected and given power by the people. The force and violence crowd usually have their roots in the military and we like to call them Dictators. There have been a ton of them throughout history; Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong iL and now his son, Saddam, Gaddafi, the list goes on and on. Dictators don’t care about the people and usually kill anyone who gets in their way. It is a fact that government has killed more people than any other cause, disease or reason.

The other side of the coin is what is usually called Democracies. I am lumping a lot of governments in here I know, but the democracies are usually elected and formed with the consent of the people with the noble goal of securing rights or protecting the people over whom they govern. Almost without fail however, Democratic Governments eventually do not want to answer to the people and at some point they most certainly will not be told what to do by the people to the point of ignoring the will of the people (for the people’s own good of course). Now these governments that are supposed to secure the liberties of their people are becoming more openly hostile to the same people they have sworn to defend. Funnily enough the democratically elected governments now seem to want to hang on to power with the same methods of force and violence as dictators. How else can you explain arming themselves with ammo, ignoring the constitution, purchasing assault vehicles and preparing to confiscate firearms?

When governments will steal money outright from the citizens in order to pay bills that were not incurred by the people we have a problem. When government spies on its people and uses that information against them punitively we have a problem. When Government uses the force of the military that was supposed to defend the people that was paid for by the people, for the purposes of killing the people, we have a big problem. When someone brings to light crimes by the government and is labeled as the one who is a danger, we have a problem.

The problem is that governments around the world are viewing their people as the problem and there really seems to be only one way throughout history that this is ever rectified. My fear is that we are already set on a course that won’t be changed with laws, great political leaders, or a return to the values of a golden age in time long past.

The Fine Line – The Straw that breaks the camel’s back

The fine line between someone who is a law-abiding citizen and a murderer is one that exists purely in our souls. There is nothing physical that is different from a person who follows the rules and someone who breaks them. The urge to pull the trigger isn’t something you can see and it isn’t a trait to test for, so it must be our own individual sense of right and wrong. Of good and evil.

I know that some will argue that a psychopath is definitely recognizable by character traits and maybe even brainwaves or chemistry. That may be true, but you can be a psychopath (clinically) without ever hurting anyone. By the same token, you can take a life while being perfectly “sane”.

If you hold a knife in your hand, you are just as capable of using that to stab or cut someone as the murderer in the next town, but that thought never enters the mind of an overwhelming majority of people. A baseball bat in your hands can easily be swung with great force connecting it to the back of a skull, but this thought never appears in our heads; that is unless we are forced into a corner. When a person is in desperate fear for their lives, the unspoken rules of right and wrong are broken. The processes that we follow every day are overridden in the cause of rage or self-preservation. What was unthinkable before is now very real, necessary and even righteous with the right circumstances.

When the right buttons are pushed, anyone can lose it. When the fear of dying or of losing someone you love is so overpowering, the “fine line” that has been keeping us sane, law-abiding and good is easily shattered. When this happens, all bets are off.

We as a people, a country are still rather firmly attached on the good side of this line. We have not yet completely been driven to abandon all hope and lash out. We have not yet been so harmed, have not gotten to the point that we have nothing to lose and are ready to lose it, but this may be coming in the future.

The force and violence that is being used now to quell the dissatisfaction of people globally is increasing. The methods to cease the complaining of the rabble has been relatively minor with some exceptions. Tear gas, rubber bullets, mace and batons only work up to a point though. When the time comes that people can no longer abide, there won’t be enough police to stop them using riot control techniques. The military doesn’t have enough people to stop the entire population unless those people peacefully agree to surrender, so what will they do? Do you believe any government will quietly step down and admit that they are obviously not speaking for the people anymore? No. They will resort to more force and violence and people will die. Either that or you have a coup like they had in Egypt and guess who took over to “restore order”? Yep, the Military.

What will be the inevitable response by the authorities?

The Chinese people who started to revolt against the police in their town did so because the authorities were “placing restrictions on their culture, language and religion”. China is no picnic compared to America and we clearly know they have lived through far worse oppression than we have, but this was the straw that broke the camel’s back for them?

The protests which turned into an estimated two million citizens of Brazil had started simply enough with a protest over a rise in the rates of public transportation.

In America, what will be the trigger that causes people to rise up and say we aren’t going to take this anymore and more importantly what will happen when/if we do?

What will happen if we don’t change the path we are on?

There is a quote that has always struck me as very sad and telling from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his book The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn was a Russian who was sentenced to 8 years in a Soviet prison camp for essentially writing things about Stalin that the government didn’t like. During this time in Soviet Russia, to stifle dissent, millions were killed or sent to prison camps. In this passage Solzhenitsyn is talking about regret that everyone felt because they simply went along with this tyranny and didn’t oppose it.

 “AND HOW WE BURNED IN THE CAMPS LATER, THINKING: WHAT WOULD THINGS HAVE BEEN LIKE IF EVERY SECURITY OPERATIVE, WHEN HE WENT OUT AT NIGHT TO MAKE AN ARREST, HAD BEEN UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE WOULD RETURN ALIVE AND HAD TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO HIS FAMILY? OR IF, DURING PERIODS OF MASS ARRESTS, AS FOR EXAMPLE IN LENINGRAD, WHEN THEY ARRESTED A QUARTER OF THE ENTIRE CITY, PEOPLE HAD NOT SIMPLY SAT THERE IN THEIR LAIRS, PALING WITH TERROR AT EVERY BANG OF THE DOWNSTAIRS DOOR AND AT EVERY STEP ON THE STAIRCASE, BUT HAD UNDERSTOOD THEY HAD NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE AND HAD BOLDLY SET UP IN THE DOWNSTAIRS HALL AN AMBUSH OF HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE WITH AXES, HAMMERS, POKERS, OR WHATEVER ELSE WAS AT HAND?… THE ORGANS WOULD VERY QUICKLY HAVE SUFFERED A SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS AND TRANSPORT AND, NOTWITHSTANDING ALL OF STALIN’S THIRST, THE CURSED MACHINE WOULD HAVE GROUND TO A HALT! IF…IF…WE DIDN’T LOVE FREEDOM ENOUGH. AND EVEN MORE – WE HAD NO AWARENESS OF THE REAL SITUATION…. WE PURELY AND SIMPLY DESERVED EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AFTERWARD.”  – ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Will this be our fate too? Will we slowly be conditioned to accept atrocities like this and to be completely defanged so that we can be herded into camps without so much as a whimper as well? That’s crazy you say! Is it? Right now, our government is hunting down someone who simply exposed how they (government) were illegally spying on all of us. Our government is buying arms and stockpiling weapons for use domestically not in some war. Our government has the IRS actively harassing a single political/opposition party. Our government has shown that they will lock down a town and go door to door while making the citizens stay cowered inside. Our government has stated that they can imprison anyone without cause for an indefinite amount of time.

Can you seriously argue that we aren’t headed down the same path as others have in our not too distant past?

This is not a call to armed Revolution, but I do think we should all be very wary of this course we are on and the echos of history. We should not be silent in the face of increasing oppression. We should not simply go along quietly because of the fear that we may get in trouble, or worse that we believe the government is only looking out for our best interests. You only need to look at the people in Poland who quietly went into the Warsaw ghettos. You don’t have to look any further than the Holocaust to see what quietly going along will get you.

This is not a fate that I will be bringing on my family.

Have you ever wondered what makes a person snap? What causes a normal, quiet, everyday citizen, loving mother, or doting father to lose it all and fight like a caged animal? What can cause a small village to rise up and rebel against an oppressive police force and start killing them? What is the switch that gets flipped that causes a city to pour two million people into the streets, chanting and demanding to be heard by their government?

Lately it feels more and more as though we are on standing on the edge of some yawning precipice peering over the crest into darkness. What is more troubling to me is that we have been down this path before. The sense of unease is almost palpable to me sometimes; it is more evident if you are paying attention. If you are able to eliminate the white noise of the world for a minute; hit the pause button on the playlist of daily life for a while and look around, listen, you may start to recognize that you too are caught up in events that will soon change all our lives.

For several years I have felt an unsettling sense that we need to be prepared, that life is going to throw us a big, fat, greasy curve ball soon and we better not be caught napping. To try and proactively address that warning voice I started planning and taking steps to prepare my family to be able to weather events in the future. I am certainly not alone in this concern as you can easily see by the tremendous growth of the prepper movement. In the spectrum of probable events, there are a lot of potential scenarios. Natural disasters and emergencies occur every day all over the world, but you have to broaden your gaze and look to current events and history as well. One of the things that I think is a valid potential event to consider is a collapse of our way of life which leads to an authoritarian oppressive government.

The most shocking article can be found below.

Liberal’s hidden agenda: more than just your guns…

… the impending collapse of the US food supply system
will steal the food from your kids’ tables…

Watch this video below to find out the great secrets hidden by the government.

Are we reaching a tipping point?

We have seen in recent events, by now almost too numerous to mention, the effects of a rising frustration with the way things are. It isn’t necessary to go into all of the individual reasons, but as a society there are more and more outpourings of frustration on a global scale. There are increasingly tightening restrictions against people. There is a manipulation of markets and the economy. There is a great increase in the loss of freedom and there is a more open antagonism and almost outright animosity by Government towards their people.

Governments exist either because they have come to power through force and violence or they have been elected and given power by the people. The force and violence crowd usually have their roots in the military and we like to call them Dictators. There have been a ton of them throughout history; Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong iL and now his son, Saddam, Gaddafi, the list goes on and on. Dictators don’t care about the people and usually kill anyone who gets in their way. It is a fact that government has killed more people than any other cause, disease or reason.

The other side of the coin is what is usually called Democracies. I am lumping a lot of governments in here I know, but the democracies are usually elected and formed with the consent of the people with the noble goal of securing rights or protecting the people over whom they govern. Almost without fail however, Democratic Governments eventually do not want to answer to the people and at some point they most certainly will not be told what to do by the people to the point of ignoring the will of the people (for the people’s own good of course). Now these governments that are supposed to secure the liberties of their people are becoming more openly hostile to the same people they have sworn to defend. Funnily enough the democratically elected governments now seem to want to hang on to power with the same methods of force and violence as dictators. How else can you explain arming themselves with ammo, ignoring the constitution, purchasing assault vehicles and preparing to confiscate firearms?

When governments will steal money outright from the citizens in order to pay bills that were not incurred by the people we have a problem. When government spies on its people and uses that information against them punitively we have a problem. When Government uses the force of the military that was supposed to defend the people that was paid for by the people, for the purposes of killing the people, we have a big problem. When someone brings to light crimes by the government and is labeled as the one who is a danger, we have a problem.

The problem is that governments around the world are viewing their people as the problem and there really seems to be only one way throughout history that this is ever rectified. My fear is that we are already set on a course that won’t be changed with laws, great political leaders, or a return to the values of a golden age in time long past.

The Fine Line – The Straw that breaks the camel’s back

The fine line between someone who is a law-abiding citizen and a murderer is one that exists purely in our souls. There is nothing physical that is different from a person who follows the rules and someone who breaks them. The urge to pull the trigger isn’t something you can see and it isn’t a trait to test for, so it must be our own individual sense of right and wrong. Of good and evil.

I know that some will argue that a psychopath is definitely recognizable by character traits and maybe even brainwaves or chemistry. That may be true, but you can be a psychopath (clinically) without ever hurting anyone. By the same token, you can take a life while being perfectly “sane”.

If you hold a knife in your hand, you are just as capable of using that to stab or cut someone as the murderer in the next town, but that thought never enters the mind of an overwhelming majority of people. A baseball bat in your hands can easily be swung with great force connecting it to the back of a skull, but this thought never appears in our heads; that is unless we are forced into a corner. When a person is in desperate fear for their lives, the unspoken rules of right and wrong are broken. The processes that we follow every day are overridden in the cause of rage or self-preservation. What was unthinkable before is now very real, necessary and even righteous with the right circumstances.

When the right buttons are pushed, anyone can lose it. When the fear of dying or of losing someone you love is so overpowering, the “fine line” that has been keeping us sane, law-abiding and good is easily shattered. When this happens, all bets are off.

We as a people, a country are still rather firmly attached on the good side of this line. We have not yet completely been driven to abandon all hope and lash out. We have not yet been so harmed, have not gotten to the point that we have nothing to lose and are ready to lose it, but this may be coming in the future.

The force and violence that is being used now to quell the dissatisfaction of people globally is increasing. The methods to cease the complaining of the rabble has been relatively minor with some exceptions. Tear gas, rubber bullets, mace and batons only work up to a point though. When the time comes that people can no longer abide, there won’t be enough police to stop them using riot control techniques. The military doesn’t have enough people to stop the entire population unless those people peacefully agree to surrender, so what will they do? Do you believe any government will quietly step down and admit that they are obviously not speaking for the people anymore? No. They will resort to more force and violence and people will die. Either that or you have a coup like they had in Egypt and guess who took over to “restore order”? Yep, the Military.

What will be the inevitable response by the authorities?

The Chinese people who started to revolt against the police in their town did so because the authorities were “placing restrictions on their culture, language and religion”. China is no picnic compared to America and we clearly know they have lived through far worse oppression than we have, but this was the straw that broke the camel’s back for them?

The protests which turned into an estimated two million citizens of Brazil had started simply enough with a protest over a rise in the rates of public transportation.

In America, what will be the trigger that causes people to rise up and say we aren’t going to take this anymore and more importantly what will happen when/if we do?

What will happen if we don’t change the path we are on?

There is a quote that has always struck me as very sad and telling from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his book The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn was a Russian who was sentenced to 8 years in a Soviet prison camp for essentially writing things about Stalin that the government didn’t like. During this time in Soviet Russia, to stifle dissent, millions were killed or sent to prison camps. In this passage Solzhenitsyn is talking about regret that everyone felt because they simply went along with this tyranny and didn’t oppose it.

 “AND HOW WE BURNED IN THE CAMPS LATER, THINKING: WHAT WOULD THINGS HAVE BEEN LIKE IF EVERY SECURITY OPERATIVE, WHEN HE WENT OUT AT NIGHT TO MAKE AN ARREST, HAD BEEN UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE WOULD RETURN ALIVE AND HAD TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO HIS FAMILY? OR IF, DURING PERIODS OF MASS ARRESTS, AS FOR EXAMPLE IN LENINGRAD, WHEN THEY ARRESTED A QUARTER OF THE ENTIRE CITY, PEOPLE HAD NOT SIMPLY SAT THERE IN THEIR LAIRS, PALING WITH TERROR AT EVERY BANG OF THE DOWNSTAIRS DOOR AND AT EVERY STEP ON THE STAIRCASE, BUT HAD UNDERSTOOD THEY HAD NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE AND HAD BOLDLY SET UP IN THE DOWNSTAIRS HALL AN AMBUSH OF HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE WITH AXES, HAMMERS, POKERS, OR WHATEVER ELSE WAS AT HAND?… THE ORGANS WOULD VERY QUICKLY HAVE SUFFERED A SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS AND TRANSPORT AND, NOTWITHSTANDING ALL OF STALIN’S THIRST, THE CURSED MACHINE WOULD HAVE GROUND TO A HALT! IF…IF…WE DIDN’T LOVE FREEDOM ENOUGH. AND EVEN MORE – WE HAD NO AWARENESS OF THE REAL SITUATION…. WE PURELY AND SIMPLY DESERVED EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AFTERWARD.”  – ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Will this be our fate too? Will we slowly be conditioned to accept atrocities like this and to be completely defanged so that we can be herded into camps without so much as a whimper as well? That’s crazy you say! Is it? Right now, our government is hunting down someone who simply exposed how they (government) were illegally spying on all of us. Our government is buying arms and stockpiling weapons for use domestically not in some war. Our government has the IRS actively harassing a single political/opposition party. Our government has shown that they will lock down a town and go door to door while making the citizens stay cowered inside. Our government has stated that they can imprison anyone without cause for an indefinite amount of time.

Can you seriously argue that we aren’t headed down the same path as others have in our not too distant past?

This is not a call to armed Revolution, but I do think we should all be very wary of this course we are on and the echos of history. We should not be silent in the face of increasing oppression. We should not simply go along quietly because of the fear that we may get in trouble, or worse that we believe the government is only looking out for our best interests. You only need to look at the people in Poland who quietly went into the Warsaw ghettos. You don’t have to look any further than the Holocaust to see what quietly going along will get you.

This is not a fate that I will be bringing on my family.

The latest news is shocking!!!

Experts predict that an EMP strike that wipes out electricity across the nation would ultimately lead to the demise of up to 90% of the population.

However, this figure begs an important question: if we were able to live thousands of years without even the concept of electricity, why would we suddenly all die without it?

We will build a dog park. Nobody knows dog parks like I do! It’ll be the best dog park the world has ever seen, and the cats . . . the cats are gonna pay for it!

Political Reality

In order to run for president you have to be either squeaky clean or have one hell of a supply of Ajax! Now that’s political reality, folks. I’m sorry to be the first to tell you that. One slip, one ghost from the past, one booger in your nose can cost you dearly. People want a lot from their golden idols.

When Trump took the White House the first time he had some issues, but there was one thing he didn’t have. I, myself, have made the point many times that he was a man who had never been in political office. Now, for many of my readers I’ll explain the deeper meaning of that. Do you know what you don’t have when you have never held the office of dog catcher? You don’t have political luggage! Not even a carry-on! In that department, Trump was as clean as an angel’s drawers.

Now combine that with the eight year run of the newly canonized Barrack Obama, the complacency of the Democrats and mix that with putting Hillary in the race as an opponent, and the Mayor of Ding Dong, Texas could have won that election. That election wasn’t stolen, it was given away. Other than a wall and pointing fingers at a few wild Mexicans, Trump had no political agenda, but, as I just pointed out, no luggage. Oh . . . and a slogan MAGA!

Bread and Circuses

Well, the chickens are coming home. Midterms are usually not a good time for sitting presidents. Especially if it’s their first term they and are busy trying to make their bones by slinging goodies at the voters or digging up bones left by the previous administration especially if said administration was the other flavor. But, people are funny, you know. If they have a president, and their mortgage is behind, the price of gas is up, the weather sucks, and their wife ran off with another man, it’s the president’s fault. The man in the Oval Office either has to fix all that or . . . you guessed it . . . bread and circuses! Or a wall, or a stimulus check, or, or, or! Anything but addressing the problem. Hell! If a super flu comes along blame it, or the doctors, or Pepsi Cola, anything but the root cause, which was putting the dog catcher in the White House in the first place.

Boy! That hurt, didn’t it? I mean not as bad as sitting on a bicycle without the seat on it, but right on up there in the top five! Anyway, midterms are almost always the harbinger of things to come. The American voter believes that no matter how it tastes right now if you just shake the tumbler good and hard it is possible to turn a whiskey sour into a martini. Hell! Beto O’Rourke tried to convince Texas voters that he was a Mexican!

There ain’t no damn wave!

Enter the myth of the Red Wave, Blue Wave, any wave but the one you’re surfing on right now! There ain’t no damn wave! That is a political myth Trumped up (pun intended) by politicians to try to insure a win. Obama once said that the ship of state turns slowly. Well, it wasn’t a hanging, it was more of a short drop. Just look at the numbers right now. The two parties are sweating Red white and Blue, praying to God, and five other old white men that their party can retain control of just one of the houses of Congress. That’s not a wave. That’s a mud puddle, or a swamp, or whatever the hell you wanna call it. But, it’s not a wave!

Ted Bundy could have won that race!

Enter Donald Trump into the fray. In doing so, in my opinion, that was one stupid thing to do. Remember when I told you the first time he took the White House that he was politically clean? Well, the boy needs a bath now! And I’m a Republican and even I see it. When he took office the first time the Democrats wanted a dead baby in every pot and wanted to castrate all their first born sons and name ‘em Karen. And they had Hillary over there waving a Rainbow Flag. Ted Bundy could have won that race running on his efforts of birth control. And Trump slid into the Oval Office on a Bob Sled.

COVID for everyone!

Got that bicycle seat out of your butt yet. I got more. We all got sick. COVID for everyone. How do we fight it. Lock everyone one down! Insure that the next generation is a crop of nincompoops by closing the schools and having them educated by a bunch of day drinkers. And you wonder why you hate your kids now. Just when the flu began to let up, introduce a vaccine that kinda, sorta, maybe works (If it don’t kill ya) separate the entire country into two warring sects, started with the masked vs the unmasked, and evolved into the vaxxed vs the unvaxxed, and you know I’m not lying. Here came a guy who had run against Lincoln and lost, took on the sitting Pope of MAGA, and Trump lost his ass, hairdo, and all his cattle!! Told you people the election was stolen, and the wall come tumbling down both figuratively and literally. Can I get an “Amen?”

Kay Sarah Sarah!

That is where we found ourselves last week. We were all still licking our wounds as the Chinese took over the world and we had the midterms. Now, Biden knew his folks were gonna take a hit. Of course the Republicans were shouting Red Wave, while the Democrats were screaming Better dead than Red. And the results came out, oh pretty much like I thought they would. Split Houses, no mandate, no landslide, the Dems taking bows and the Republicans hollering that the election was stolen. Kay Sarah Sarah!

So what’s in store for Trump. Times are not a changing, they have changed. People you’ve never heard of five years ago are now prominent. Folks like Ron DeSantis, AOC, and Gregg Abbott. Do you remember Elon Musk back in ‘93 when he let his sister have the bed in a hotel room while he slept on the floor? Well of course you don’t. And the press makes a big deal out of him having Assburners. Well he sure burned their asses up! And Hillary and Trump, hey, it’s been real. Go to the club house, take off your cleats, and go home.

Primaries Anyone?

Know what comes next? Primaries! That’s where the parties line up their draft picks for the upcoming game. Being the incumbent, Biden has a hefty team. Yeah, yeah, yeah he’s got Hunter but Tom Landry had Hollywood Henderson. The voting public has been beat up. Both sides. There won’t be a huge change but there won’t be the same ol’ same ol’ either. You will see Trump get hit by primaries like nobody’s ever been hit before. All the sound bites and red baseball hats aren’t gonna save him. People like DeSantis are going to serve him a big plate of political reality. And when it’s all over the ship of state will turn one degree. The political pendulum will hesitate ever so slightly near the center, but it will keep swinging. And the new definition of fantasy and reality will be redefined. And myself? I’ll be having dinner with Goldilocks.