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    The “Social Control Mechanism” Technocracy Advocates

    Most people who have heard of “Technocracy” think it refers to technocratic governance: a sociopolitical system where qualified experts or “technocrats,” rather than politicians, set policy. Due to disillusionment and widespread disinterest in so-called representative democracy, many people are open to the potential benefits of what they imagine Technocracy to be.

    Certainly, all governments are enthusiastic supporters of Technocracy. The global commitment to Sustainable Development is a plan to rollout Technocracy. Unfortunately, Technocracy is the most oppressive, dictatorial system of social control ever devised. Which undoubtedly explains governments’ avid desire to adopt it.

    I have written quite a bit about the global public-private partnership (G3P) and many have pointed out to me that this fusion between the public and private—within a unified all-encompassing state—is what Mussolini called fascism. The G3P is indeed fascist, but its evident intention is to establish a global fascist dictatorship as a Technocracy. Fascism and Technocracy are well suited to each other.

    Therefore, it is vital that we all recognise what Technocracy is. Otherwise, we will have no chance of spotting when, where and how it is being foisted upon us.

    A Technate vs Technocratic Governance

    The political and economic response to the pseudopandemic, on both sides of the Atlantic, exemplifies technocratic influence and control. For example, the economists and the financiers in the central banks—the “experts”—committed European Union (EU) taxpayers’ to fund policies without any meaningful oversight from the politicians.

    Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaking in 2020, said:

    The Governing Council is committed to doing everything necessary within its mandate to help the euro area through this crisis. [. . .] It is fully prepared to increase the size of its asset purchase program[.]

    The Governing Council of the ECB decided that EU citizens needed to initially invest more than €1 trillion to effectively protect the liquidity of commercial banks. The ECB is completely independent from the European Parliament, the EU Commission and all EU member state governments:

    Neither the ECB nor the national central banks (NCBs), nor any member of their decision-making bodies, are allowed to seek or take instructions from EU institutions or bodies, from any government of an EU Member State or from any other body.

    The ECB Governing Council’s mandate is “to formulate monetary policy for the euro area.” Thus, to a significant extent, the EU’s economic policy is also shaped by unelected technocrats. It is said that taxation without representation is tyranny, but no one seems overly concerned. The EU Commission is keen to stress that the EU represents a “democracy that stands against autocracy” which, obviously, is complete nonsense.

    Regardless of the debate on the relative merits or weaknesses of technocratic governance, from global sustainable development and public health policy to economic and defence policy, technocrats are observably leading the formulation of policy around the world. But this alone is not Technocracy.

    In 1933 Technocracy inc. published its Technocracy Study Course which provided the technical specifications for a proposed North American continental Technocracy. A society based upon the principles of Technocracy is called a Technate:

    Technocracy finds that the production and distribution of an abundance of physical wealth on a Continental scale for the use of all Continental citizens can only be accomplished by a Continental technological control, a governance of function, a Technate.

    The proposed North American Technate

    What Is Technocracy?

    Technocracy is an apparently naive attempt by a small group of engineers, economists, sociologists and other boffins to address all social, economic and political problems, as they perceived them. This would allegedly be done by replacing the Western capitalist system and, in particular, the monetary system with Technocracy. For the rest of the article we’ll call this group and its leading members, such as Howard Scott, “the technocrats.”

    Some of the technocrats ideas, such as their critique of “the Price System” (monetary system) and the legal system, were not without merit. Their clueless but nonetheless noble objective to provide “lives of abundance” to the people was commendable.

    Like many seemingly well-intentioned ideologues, the technocrats many epistemic shortcomings—such as their complete failure to even acknowledge motivation—rendered Technocracy the perfect tool for authoritarians. In the hands of those who are motivated to exert global power, Technocracy provides them total behavioural control of the world’s population. Hence Technocracy’s appeal to the parasite class.

    In the Technocracy model, “class”—in the socio-economic sense—is supposedly eliminated. This is another short-sighted failing of the technocrat modellers: Technocracy creates the most rigid class structure imaginable.

    In their efforts to rid us of the class system, the technocrats based their proposed hierarchical social structure on their farcical notion of “peck-rights.” The technocrats’ “analysis” of the immense complexity of human social structures equated, in their view, to the “peck-rights” observed in cow herds and chicken coops. Consequently, they concluded that the best social organisation for humanity was one “where the individuals [are] placed as nearly as possible with respect to other individuals in accordance with peck-rights.”

    Peck-rights, they argued, were somehow automatically earned by those with the requisite technical skills and natural ability to lead. Supposedly then, peck-rights are essential for human society to function as efficiently as possible. The Technocracy Study Course states:

    There must be as far as possible no inversion of the natural ‘peck-rights’ among the men.

    The technocrats called their concept of peck-rights the “basis of spontaneous natural priority.” In their rather ham-fisted way, they were apparently trying to describe the “spontaneous order” suggested by the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment that was later formally recognised as extant by economists like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

    In their naiveté, the technocrats assumed this organic social order would inevitably be dominant in their Technocracy. They simply ignored how the corrupt claim to authority can rig any sociopolitical system to ensure spontaneous order doesn’t become the foundation of political power.

    In the Technocracy inc. Study Course the word “technocrat” isn’t referenced. Instead the “central headquarters” staffed by “technically trained personnel” administrate the “entire social operation, and all records of production and distribution” for the Technate. All social, industrial and technological “functions” were said to be interdependent—interoperable—and therefore the entire functional system could be centrally planned and managed.

    The Technate would supposedly operate through careful control of the various “Functional Sequences”:

    The basic unit of this organization is the Functional Sequence. A Functional Sequence is one of the larger industrial or social units, the various parts of which are related one to the other in a direct functional sequence. Thus among the major Industrial Sequences we have transportation (railroads, waterways, airways, highways and pipe lines); communication (mail, telephone, telegraph, radio and television); agriculture (farming, ranching, dairying, etc.); and the major industrial units such as textiles, iron and steel, etc. Among the Service Sequences are education (this would embrace the complete training of the younger generation), and public health (medicine, dentistry, public hygiene, and all hospitals and pharmaceutical plants as well as institutions for defectives).

    Additional “special” Functional Sequences were proposed. All technological and scientific development would be controlled through the Continental Research Sequence. The “Sequence of Social Relations” would oversee law and order. Juries were to be abolished and the Social Relations Sequence would create all the “rules” and its directors would subsequently investigate and pass judgement on all who did not function efficiently.

    As private property would also be abolished, there would be no litigation or disputes over property. This might lead some to suggest Technocracy is more akin to communism than fascism. As we’ve just mentioned, the technocrats were naive.

    Though essentially anti-human, Technocracy is their Utopian vision. The technocrats assume those who currently possess enormous wealth and resources will simply relinquish the power it affords them in the transition to Technocracy. This oversight explains why it is those who currently have more “private property” than the rest of us put together who are most eager to rollout Technocracy. It is the parasite class’ exploitation of Technocracy that renders it the ultimate fascist dystopia.

    To their credit the technocrats did not consider the matter of legality to be definitive in determining the morality of a supposed “crime.” They even eschewed the word “crime.” Ironically, they pointed out that the legal system is interminably corrupt and that so-called justice could be bought. But they evidently couldn’t comprehend those who corrupt the justice system also own all the resources and would retain ownership in the proposed Technate.

    Any possible benefits of Technocracy fall flat on their face because the technocrats were unable to grasp the human condition. Consequently, they had no interdisciplinary appreciation of what Wilhelm Dilthey called “the human sciences.” The technocrats tried to redesign society in almost complete ignorance of what it is or how it forms.

    This fundamental flaw in their approach was exemplified by their concept of “crime.” Whether illegal or not, they believed that all crime was entirely the product of “the Price System” and divorced from avarice or malevolence. The technocrats ignored motive and wrongdoing and ascribed all crime to means and opportunity alone.

    The Technate’s Sequence of Armed Forces would enforce the rules imposed by the Social Relations Sequence and act in accordance with the strategic decisions of the Foreign Affairs Sequence. The Armed Forces Sequence would not only coordinate the military defence of the Technate, but also internal security and the training and equipping of the Continental Constabulary.

    All internal security would be controlled under “one single jurisdiction” with the Continental Constabulary enforcing the rules adjudicated by the Social Relations Sequence directorate.

    The North American continent was to be split into regions managed by the “Area Control Sequence.” All of the Functional Sequences would be overseen by the Continental Control Sequence.

    Thus, in Technocracy, the entire Technate is ruled by one self-appointed body:

    The personnel of all Functional Sequences will pyramid on the basis of ability to the head of each department within the Sequence, and the resultant general staff of each Sequence will be a part of the Continental Control. A government of function! The Continental Director, as the name implies, is the chief executive of the entire social mechanism. On his immediate staff are the Directors of the Armed Forces, the Foreign Relations, the Continental Research, and the Social Relations and Area Control. [. . .] The Continental Director is chosen from among the members of the Continental Control by the Continental Control. Due to the fact that this Control is composed of only some 100 or so members, all of whom know each other well, there is no one better fitted to make this choice than they.

    Technocracy inc. may have hoped to create a system that would provide all with “lives of abundance,” but the technocrats reduction of humans to biological machines effectively set Technocracy at the zenith of inhuman totalitarianism. Despite its allusions to spontaneous order, Technocracy eradicates the economic and social mechanisms that could potentially allow spontaneous order to flourish. It replaces them with the ultimate system of centralised power and control of all resources.

    The Science™ of Social Engineering

    In 1938 in Technocrat Magazine vol. 3 No. 4 , the in-house magazine of Technocracy inc., Technocracy was described as:

    The science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population.

    As described above, a Technate manifests as a “government of function.” This means that the “production and distribution” of all goods, services and resources are centrally coordinated through a single system of “technological control.” As all citizens in the Technate are reliant upon decisions of Continental Control, this enables extensive social engineering through the “scientific operation” of society itself.

    Having supposedly eradicated sociopolitical class—replacing it with peck-rights—society in a Technate is said to be divided into three “functional” classes. Children and youth are classed as those who have not yet begun their “social service at some function or other,” working adults perform their “service function” until they reach retirement which the technocrats described as “the end of the period of service until the death of the individual.”

    Consequently, the scientific operation of society enables the “service” of the “human animal” to act as the “human engine” for the efficient operation of the various Functional Sequences. Limits are set for the total expenditure of resources across the entire Technate, including human resources. In order for the Functional Sequences to remain “efficient.” This resource expenditure must not be exceeded:

    Achievement of these ends will result from a centralized control with a social organization built along functional lines, similar to that of the operating force of any large functional unit of the present such as the telephone system or the power system. [. . .] The population must be so trained and organized as to maintain the continuance of the operation within the limits specified.

    The technocrats viewed the human “mind,” “conscience” and the “will” as redundant concepts founded in humanity’s “ignorant, barbarian past.” A human being was considered an organic machine “which makes a certain variety of motions and noises,” likened to a dog or a vehicle. The purpose of the Technate was to socially engineer the behaviour of the “human animal” for its own good.

    The Study Course, speaking about humanity, noted:

    They [human beings] can be conditioned not to use certain language, not to eat certain foods on certain days, not to work on certain days, not to mate in the absence of certain ceremonial words spoken over them, not to break into a grocery store for food even though they may not have eaten for days.

    The capitalist “Price System” was thought “inefficient” because “money” was the product of debt which therefore generated nothing but waste. By extinguishing the capitalist “Price System” Technocracy proposed that the cost of goods and services could be determined based upon the energy cost of production. A corresponding number of “energy certificates” would be created bi-annually—overseen by Continental Control—commensurate with the planned total energy expenditure of the Technate:

    [E]nergy is measurable in units of work—ergs, joules, or foot-pounds. [. . .] There are a large number of different bookkeeping devices whereby the distribution to, and records of rate of consumption of the entire population can be kept. [. . .] By this system all books and records pertaining to consumption are kept by the Distribution Sequence of the social mechanism. The income is granted to the public in the form of energy certificates.

    This would enable a comprehensive surveillance state that would monitor and control the transactions of every citizen in the Technate:

    The record of one’s income and its rate of expenditure is kept by the Distribution Sequence, so that it is a simple matter at any time for the Distribution Sequence to ascertain the state of an unknown customer’s balance.

    The technocrats idea was that all citizens would have an equal share of non-tradable energy certificates allocated to them, depending upon their function. The citizen could then use the energy certificates to acquire goods and services which would maximise their efficiency. This would supposedly be sufficient for their needs and would thus eradicate poverty and ensure that all lived a life of abundance.

    Allocated energy certificates would also record all of the personal data of the individual recipient citizen. Combined with the data gathering of the Distribution Sequence, this would allow the precise engineering of society by ensuring that the citizen used their energy certificates, as specified, to maintain the efficiency of the relevant Function Sequence:

    The significance of this, from the point of view of knowledge of what is going on in the social system, and of social control, can best be appreciated when one surveys the whole system in perspective. First, one single organization is manning and operating the whole social mechanism. This same organization not only produces but distributes all goods and services. Hence a uniform system of record-keeping exists for the entire social operation, and all records of production and distribution clear to one central headquarters. Tabulation of the information [contained on the energy certificates] provides a complete record of distribution, or of the public rate of consumption by commodity, by sex, by regional division, by occupation, and by age group.

    Regrettably, the technocrats’ understanding of oligarch power was peurile. In trying to create a fair system of wealth distribution they actually concocted a model that lends itself perfectly to a new form of rampant crony capitalism.

    Technocracy Inc’s critique of “wealth,” outlined in 1933 in the publication Introduction To Technocracy, did not oppose wealth per se but redefined how it could be measured and distributed:

    Under a Price System wealth arises solely through the creation of debt. [. . .] Physical wealth, on the other hand, is produced by converting available energy into use-forms and services. [. . .] Technology has introduced a new methodology in the creation of physical wealth.

    The technocrats also decided that those with peck-rights “must” be given “ample leeway for the expression of individual initiative.” When these factors are combined with the proposed distribution of energy certificates, the scope for a new model of crony capitalism is almost limitless:

    [E]nergy can be allocated according to the uses to which it is to be put. The amount required for new plant, including roads, houses, hospitals, schools, etc., and for local transportation and communication will be deducted from the total as a sort of overhead, and not chargeable to individuals. After all of these deductions are made, [. . .] the remainder will be devoted to the production of goods and services to be consumed by the adult public-at-large. [. . .] Thus, if there be available the means of producing goods and services [. . .] each person would be granted an income[.]

    Technocracy proposes that the “fair” distribution of energy certificates to the population would be sourced from the “remainder.” Continental Control, and all the directors and the gifted individuals who have leeway to exercise their individual peck-rights, first decide how much they must allocate to themselves to maintain “the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism.” The people “should” be allotted some of what is left “if” there is any “available.”

    The Global Technocracy Approaches

    In 1930’s America the ideas presented by the technocrats were preposterous. The necessary “all-pervasive” surveillance system was a technological impossibility. That is not the case today.

    The technological capability already exists to empower the new breed of technocrats to manage the population by controlling our access to resources. Advances in digital technology, described by the World Economic Forum as the 4th Industrial Revolution, have led to smart grids, the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Bodies (IoB), and the required all-pervasive surveillance system.

    The IoT and IoB, linked to the smart grid, will enable the constant, real time monitoring of our energy usage and identification of when and where it is used and by whom. Arguments are currently being made that we must accept this level of control over our lives to meet our commitments to Sustainable Development.

    The EU has already warned its population to prepare for energy rationing. There is every reason to suspect that this will soon apply to all of us to meet the imposed demands of Net Zero policy. For example, via your personal carbon footprint tracker which could quite easily be linked to payments made with your issued Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), or some variation of it.

    Energy certificates are now entirely feasible and effectively in development. CBDC is “programmable money” which can be controlled by the issuer to restrict certain transactions. Programmable money, whether issued by central or commercial banks, will limit how much you can spend based upon the energy cost of production. Everything will have its associated carbon price.

    The former Deputy Governor of the Bank of China and current Deputy Managing Director of the the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bo li, told the IMF’s symposium on Central Bank Digital Currencies for Financial Inclusion: Risks and Rewards:

    CBDC can allow government agencies and private sector players to program [CBDC] to create smart-contracts, to allow targetted policy functions. For example[,] welfare payments [. . .], consumptions coupons, [. . .] food stamps. By programming, CBDC money can be precisely targeted [to] what kind of [things] people can own, and what kind of use [for which] this money can be utilised.

    This is precisely the “social control mechanism” Technocracy advocates. As laid out in the Study Course:

    Human beings, when fed, housed and clothed, in a manner which is not too uncomfortable, and when permitted normal social relationships among themselves, tend to crystallize their routine activities into non-varying social habits. [. . .] ‘Social change,’ Howard Scott has succinctly remarked, ‘tends to occur at a rate directly as the approach of the front of the stomach to the spine.’ [. . .] So long as the human beings are amply supplied with the basic biological necessities, food, necessary amounts of clothing and housing, and gregarious and sexual outlets, they will perform in a routine manner without upsetting either their conditioned responses or their conditioned inhibitions. They will literally face bullets in preference to social disapprobation.

    Technocracy is a system for the absolute behavioural control of humanity. Human beings are reduced to nothing more than functional machines. In a Technate, our lives will be ruthlessly restricted to ensure our energy costs don’t exceed tolerable limits. Those of us deemed unacceptably inefficient will have our allotted energy certificates withheld, as required by the privileged few with the requisite “peck rights.”

    That governments across the planet are attempting to rollout Technocracy is a threat to our survival.

    I am opposed to Technocracy.

  • The Parasite Class Tricks of Today

    The Parasite Class Tricks of Today

    First take a look at one of the most shocking videos in the world! This video actually shows the powers that be are lying to you—Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know!

    I deplore the blame game, so often used to divert attention from the real issue or problem. I rail against the fake binaries deliberately created to divide and rule us, and yet, in this article, I refer to billionaire oligarchs—and their establishment—as “the parasite class.” Please bear with me, I will attempt to explain this apparent hypocrisy.

    A current internet search on the term “oligarchy” will repeatedly try to convince you that oligarchy relates specifically to Russia. This is complete rubbish.

    An oligarch is someone who has amassed immense wealth and converted it into political and social authority. That is what an oligarch has always been, ever since humanity started calling them “oligarchs.” Russia is an oligarchy but, as revealed by almost all political theory and the thousands of years of political philosophy, science and history, so is every other nation state.

    The question is how does one become an oligarch? The suggestion is that some achieve oligarch status due to their shrewd business acumen. Many people are astute in business but that alone is not enough to rise to the oligarchy. In order to be an oligarch you have to be accepted by the other oligarchs. If oligarchs oppose you, your business will probably be crushed, or at least severely restricted, and access to political authority or social influence will be stifled.

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    Some are hereditary oligarchs, others become fabulously wealthy by virtue of operating practical monopolies, others benefit from nepotism and others leverage their network connections. But all oligarchs achieve and then maintain their power and influence through exploitation. Whether it is wage slavery—or simply slavery—industrial espionage, lawfare, war, other forms of violence, debt leverage, economic oppression, land grabs, theft or just deceit, the oligarchy is a gaggle of robber barons.

    There is nothing inherently wrong with philanthropy but oligarchs use philanthropy to engineer society in their favour, create new markets for themselves, and increase their political and/or social authority. In short, the oligarch stands apart from the ordinary wealthy by virtue, not only of the scale of their wealth but, most notably, by the unscrupulous self-serving manner in which they acquire and abuse the authority their immense wealth affords them.

    We, the people, are the source of both the oligarchs wealth and the political authority they hoard. While we may glean some benefit from the activities of the oligarchy—such as employment or infrastructure investment, etc.—this relationship is far more beneficial to the oligarch than it is to us. Otherwise, the oligarchy wouldn’t bother.

    The definition of a parasite is:

    An organism that lives on or in another and derives its nourishment therefrom

    The definition of social class is:

    A group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status.

    An oligarch’s only socioeconomic peer is another oligarch. The oligarchy’s collective effect upon society is parasitic.

    The oligarchy is the parasite class.

    Introducing Elite Theory

    The common term we are given to refer to oligarchs is “the elite.” The fact that we commonly use this language to describe the parasite class is a clear example of social engineering. Unless we break free from the linguistic chains that bind our thoughts and control how we discuss the oligarchy we will continue to be ruled by them, whether we like it or not.

    The concept of the “elite” largely stems from “elite theory”: a branch of political science that sprang up in the late 19th and early 20th century. Elite theory tries to explain why society is divided between the broad mass of the people and a ruling minority who always hold power.

    Elite theory supposedly provides a scientific rationale to explain why, no matter where or when we look, a tiny clique controls nearly all the resources and possesses overwhelming financial, economic and political power, which they then use to rule. Throughout history, this deleterious power dynamic has sometimes been recognised by the people—who usually opposed it once they realised it—but mostly not. We largely accept it, as if it were some sort of organic aspect of society.

    Broadly speaking, elite theory has rehashed ideas that are thousands of years old. As an academic field, elite theory is yet to present anything new. It reveals that all forms of government are essentially oligarchies, but most political historians already knew that. All “elite theory” does is reinforce many of the canards we are expected to swallow.

    In elite theory the the word “elite” is a polysemic term that can mean “aristocracy,” in the classical sense. It comes from the French “aristocracie,” meaning “government by those who are the best citizens.” This is derived from the Greek ”aristokratia,” meaning “government or rule of [by] the best.”

    In order to avoid obviously eulogising oligarchs too much, “elite” is also used by other elite theorists to denote a “ruling class,” absent the “aristokratia” inference. The etymology of the word “elite” is formed from the French “élite” meaning “pick out, choose,” derived from the Latin eligere, meaning “choose.”

    Elite theory alternately perceives “the elite” as the best among us who lead by merit or as the ruling or “political class” we sometimes choose. The political class interpretation stems from the work of Gaetano Mosca (1858 – 1941) who noted that oligarchs often gained power using coercion and violence but were particularly well organised and thus, with control of nearly all resources, ruled.

    Either way, there is a suggestion that oligarchs benefit from some kind of meritocracy. Use of “meritocracy” can be traced back to Plato (c. 424/423 – 348/347 BCE)—more on him shortly—and is now used to denote, according the Oxford English Dictionary, “a ruling or influential class of educated or able people” or “government or the holding of power by people selected according to merit.” The oligarch is either the best among us or a powerful member of a well organised clique. Or so say elite theorists and publications that serve the oligarchs.

    In modern use, the word “meritocracy” was popularised by the sociologist Michael Dunlop Young (1915-2002). He used it as a ironic spoof, warning people that selecting “leaders,” based upon their social status and formal educational qualifications, was a sure-fire way of ending up with completely crap government. That “meritocracy” has come to mean something “good” disappointed him until his dying day.

    The problem with the common acceptance of the word “elite,” based upon “elite theory,” is that it suggests an inevitability. As if being ordered around by a bunch of oligarchs—call them black nobs, stakeholder capitalist, banksters or whatever—is just the way it is. It is as it always has been, so get used to it. Resistance is futile!

    Vilfredo Pareto (1848 – 1923) has been credited with coining the term “the elite.” He offered his “circulation of the elite” theory which posited that conflict between “elites” often sees one group supplant another at the top of the hierarchical social structure. The other aspect of “circulation” was that individuals move in and out of elite circles.

    Pareto noted that the elite were human beings capable of doing good but also of committing great evil. Although he maintained that they ruled as a result of their distinguished abilities and exceptional virtues.

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    Wikipedia, which is useful for names, dates and official histories but little else, claims that the American philosopher C. Wright Mills (1916 – 1962), who wrote about the “power elite,” is the right guy to go to if you want to understand all there is to know about the elite. Being Wikipedia, that opinion, offered as some sort of fact, is wrong.

    Mills argued that the “power elite” just happen. They are an inevitable consequence of modern bureaucratic and technological society. This necessarily places authority in the hands of those who lead its institutions. If the elite, with their control of resources, didn’t lead these institutions, Mills claimed they wouldn’t function.

    Mills rejected Mosca’s concept of the “politicqal class.” Instead “the elite” circulated, as Valfredo suggested, and rose out of the corporate organisations that dominated the US economy to become the “corporate rich.”

    Mills suggested a “tripartate” model of US society, broadly split into the “power elite,” the “opinion leaders” and the public. This came as a bit of a shock to 1950’s Americans who viewed the US as an “egalitarian meritocracy.”.

    He said that government, local leaders and interest groups formed the “opinion leaders” and the public were powerless, clueless proles who, unwittingly, were completely reliant upon the power elite for their economic survival. The public wrongly imagined that the opinion leaders made the decisions. Whereas, Mills demonstrated, the “power elite” dominated the institutions of the economy (corporations), the military and the government. The parasite class shared a common perspective and were the real decision makers.

    But, to Mills’ mind, there was no “conspiracy” to see. The power elite controlled the resources, the economy and the lives of the little people. Like Pareto, he acknowledged that they could make both beneficial and disastrous decisions, but this was just a necessary and unavoidable function of a hierarchical society he said.

    In short, Mills’ take on “elite theory” was in keeping with its general trajectory. It is consistently favourable to those who like to be thought of as “the elite,” even when it criticises them. Someone’s got to be in charge and, according nearly all elite theorists, it’s “the elite.”

    Robert Michels (1876 – 1936) said that the technical demands of society made oligarch leadership indispensable to the survival of an organisation. Like Mills, Mosca and Pareto, etc., Michels believed that oligarchs achieved their status because they possessed superior knowledge, skills, and wealth. Michels added that this enabled them, not only to control their own compliant networks but also dissenting groups.

    While Mosca viewed the elite’s organisational skills as a tool that enabled them to form the “political class,” Michels identified the same abilities as key to transforming the political structure into an oligarchy. Essentially, he argued, political parties were ruled by oligarchs who held all the power and shaped all the policies. This left the membership and the “grassroots” party activists floundering around, wrongly imagining they had some sort of say over the direction of the party.

    Nothing New

    The broadly consistent “elite theory”—that a society is best managed by a small subset of its constituent members and that somehow this alleged inevitability is evidence of meritocracy—can all be traced back to the “Guardians” of Plato‘s “Republic.”

    Plato believed there were three aspects to the nature of man: appetite, spirit and reason.

    These elements of the “soul” or “psyche” are in constant flux within us all and are either dominant of subservient. Therefore, Plato thought, human society was split into a “tripartate” structure: the Artisans (producers), the Auxiliaries (military) and the Guardians (rulers).

    Thus ordered, we can all shut up, work until we drop, die in wars or, in the case of the rulers (Guardians), order people to work until they drop and die in wars. Thousands of years after Plato’s death, the leading elite theorist C. Wright Mills would advance more or less the same theory.

    Plato, who was an aristocrat from an extremely wealthy and powerful family of rulers (Guardians), thought that the Guardians (rulers) were so special—gifted in wisdom, intellect and moral virtue—that they needed to receive the best education, immense advantage and plenty of time to become the philosopher rulers. Just like Plato and his mates.

    While 19th and early 20th century elite theorists predominantly focused on ruling oligarchies constricted to nation states, we now live in a globalised world (apparently) and global governance is very much on the cards. The oligarch has gone international. In truth, they always were.

    David Rothkopf, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations—so no conflict of interest there—wrote a whole book about the global parasite class (oligarchs) but called them, unsurprisingly, “the Superclass.” His opinion was very much in keeping with “elite theory.”

    The “Superclass” can move billions and shape global markets, they own the lobby industry and are the patrons of political careers the world over, easily able to “influence” and control government and intergovernmental policy. But, once again, the so-called Superclass are the inescapable product of meritocracy, claimed Rothkopf.

    These extremely motivated and knowledgeable people—according to Rothkopf—perhaps numbering no more than 6,000 – 7,000, possess real global power. Although they often act in concert, they are “global leaders” because they just happen to be global leaders. There’s no need for conspiratorial thinking he said. It seems there never is.

    If Plato’s theory had any merit, you might expect roughly a third of the population to be rulers. Yet, despite the fact that elite theory has essentially added nothing to Plato’s ideas, according to David Rothkopf, only about 0.000000875% of us end up being philosopher “Guardian” kings.

    This, we are told, is just the inevitable consequence of meritocracy. There is no such thing as conspiracy.

    Understanding The Parasite Class

    If we really want to understand the parasite class then we can start by going back more than two and a half thousand years to the Greek philosopher and polymath, Aristotle (c. 384–322 BCE).

    Aristotle—Plato’s pupil—described the “true” forms of government as “monarchy” (the rule of one), “aristocracy” (the rule of the few) and “polity” (the rule of the many). Each could govern effectively in the “common interest” he said. He also stated that each could be “perverted” by “private interest.”

    A monarchy could be perverted into a “tyranny”—which Aristotle considered the worst possible form of government—an aristocracy could degenerate into an “oligarchy” (oligarchia) and the polity could be sufficiently corrupted to devolve into a “democracy.”

    Aristotle suggested that government was commonly perverted by “private interest.” As such, it was most likely to be either an oligarchy or a democracy.

    The distribution of wealth, and more importantly the political power it could buy, was key to Aristotle’s concept of oligarchies and democracies:

    The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

    He added:

    Oligarchy is when men of property have government in their hands; democracy is the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers

    Aristotle’s apparent notion of “democracy”—admittedly cobbled together from the remnants of his work on the Athenian Constitution—wasn’t democracy at all. It was something closer to “representative democracy,” which is more like mob rule.

    Even without the influence of “oligarchs,” mob rule is precisely what we get from our modern delusions about “democracy.” When a big enough bunch of us “elect” our favourite gang, they make the law. Allegedly they do so on behalf of the ruling throng. They then enforce “the will of the people” with threats of violence levelled against anyone who doesn’t comply.

    Mob rule.

    To grasp what real “democracy” is, as averse to the Aristotelian misinterpretation we imagine it to be, we need to go back more than 150 years prior to Aristotle to the Greek political reformist Cleisthenes (c. 570 – 508 BCE), who established genuine “demokratia.”

    Democracy (demokratia), unlike “representative democracy,” means government by trial by jury, where randomly selected juries of the people are both the supreme legislature and the final arbiter of justice—by applying Natural law. Demokratia is genuinely the rule of “the people,” not politicians, judges or “oligarchs.”

    I digress, but the point is, while Aristotle made many telling observations about political systems, he was critiquing a similar kind of “democracy” to the one that we have to endure today, not “true” demokratia.

    Winding forward a century or so from Aristotle to the Greek historian Polybius (c. 200 – 118 BCE), who wrestled with the contradictions found in Aristotle’s “Politics,” we get a very dim view of the exercise of power. Polybius stated that the power afforded by wealth corrupts all political systems. Rather like Vilfredo’s circulation theory, this leads to the revolution of political structures.

    Monarchies become tyrannies that rule by force and not reason. This leads aristocracies to seize power which are then corrupted and become unjust. Thus democracies rise, but they too are perverted by wealth and become “extreme democracies” led by demagogues. Ultimately creating a new kind of monarchy: the Third Reich, for example.

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    Political history, elite theory and political science reveals that oligarchs rule us. We don’t “elect” any of them, we never have and the idea that any of us have ever lived in a real democracy is a fiction.

    More than 2,500 years ago the question was asked: should the power of a privileged group of people far exceed their size as a percentage of the population? The more or less immediate answer, from Plato et al., was a definitive “yes.” Since then, according to “mainstream” academia and a brew of specially selected commentators, with the exception of the Marxists and the anarchists, the question has never really been asked again.

    Marxism and particularly anarchism are taboo—there’s a reason for that. What we are left with has moved beyond normative assertions to empirical arguments. All such theoretical musing is based on the fundamental presumption that hierarchical structures are an unavoidable necessity of human society and that these must “inevitably” lead to oligarchies.

    None of this is unassailable fact. It is all just opinion which, coincidentally, serves the interests of the oligarchs who have been bankrolling academia for millennia.

    Etienne de La Boétie (1530 – 1563) pointed out that political power is not the product of meritocracy but usually the result of a conquest of some kind. Either at the hands of a foreign power, an internal coup, or through the use of political “emergency measures,” in response to some perceived crisis. Force is consistently used and it invariably results in the centralisation of power in a select group or “leader.”

    We accept this despotism, not because we don’t like the idea of liberty, but because we have become accustomed to being ruled and expect it.

    There are only two certainties in life, right? Death and taxes!

    Except one of them isn’t a certainty at all. We just believe that it is because the people who have always taxed us have taught us to believe it. La Boétie pointed out that they have engineered our consent.

    This obedience enables our rulers to more easily deploy rhetoric to convince us to accept all manner of travesties. Etienne de La Boétie observed:

    Rulers [. . .] never undertake an unjust policy, even one of some importance, without prefacing it with some pretty speech concerning public welfare and common good.

    The French economist Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (1801 – 1850) wondered if the suggested social order was any kind of order at all, asking “is it not true that what is most notable in society is the absence of all order?”

    Prior to the pseudopandemic, the oligarchs’ pharmaceutical corporations—promoted by governments as our saviours from the so-called crisis that the oligarchs’ organisations and academic institutions declared—were all found guilty of medical, scientific and financial fraud. These rulings had no impact upon them whatsoever. When instructed by the government and the oligarch owned media, the people queued up to be injected with the oligarch’s experimental potions  concocted by some of the most untrustworthy organisations on the planet.

    The international monetary and financial system is overseen by a bank that is acknowledged to have laundered Nazi gold stolen from the Jews during the Holocaust. War criminals, who lied to deceive both the public and legislatures to support illegal wars that killed millions, habitually deliver well received speeches at gala events and are frequently feted by the oligarch’s media as they continue to give us their “advice.”

    The oligarchs, who lead this global system, start wars, loan the money they conjured up from nowhere to the combatant nations, then swoop upon the aftermath—with their banking corporations and their “debt restructuring plans”—to hoover up all the remaining assets for pennies. They then force the same countries to spend the money they lent them on ludicrously expensive reconstruction contracts, thus enabling their engineering corporations to profit from rebuilding the nation that they destroyed with their armaments corporations.

    What sort of order is that? Where is the alleged rule of law?

    Inevitable Oligarchy?

    Aristotle considered a rule of law to be a “virtue.” For it to have value he thought that it must be moral, capable of administering fair justice to all. It should also be flexible and able to adapt to changing circumstances:

    There are two parts of good government; one is the actual obedience of citizens to the laws, the other part is the goodness of the laws which they obey.

    Like Aristotle, Bastiat recognised that the law means more than just words written on bits of paper. However, he questioned the assumption that, without the law of government, humanity would start raping, pillaging and killing each other with abandon:

    Resistance to such acts would manifest itself in fact even if specific laws against them were lacking, [. . .] this resistance is a general law of humanity. [. . .] It is a far cry from a social order founded on the general laws of humanity to an artificial, contrived, and invented order that does not take these laws into account or denies them or scorns them—an order, in a word, such as some of our modern schools of thought would, it seems, impose upon us.

    These “general laws of humanity” form the basis for our social interactions. This is the Natural Law that we all innately obey regardless of the additional “contrived” laws written by governments on behalf of oligarchs.

    Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) explained why Natural Law is all we need to live in peace:

    Through all time, so far as history informs us, wherever mankind have attempted to live in peace with each other, both the natural instincts, and the collective wisdom of the human race, have acknowledged and prescribed, as an indispensable condition, obedience to this one only universal obligation: viz., that each should live honestly towards every other. The ancient maxim makes the sum of a man’s legal duty to his fellow men to be simply this: “To live honestly, to hurt no one, to give to every one his due.” This entire maxim is really expressed in the single words, to live honestly; since to live honestly is to hurt no one, and give to every one his due.

    We only need look at world events to appreciate that the rule of oligarchs doesn’t deliver either peace or justice. It is a worthless “social order” that, if it exists at all, no one needs. It is a so-called “order” from which only oligarchs benefit.

    We can also study the principles of Natural Law to realise that the written laws of government, that form the so-called “legal system,” do not concern themselves with moral justice. They merely protect the interests of the oligarchs and are used to subjugate us—lawfare. But we already have Natural Law and no need of these “rules.”

    We also know that the thing we call “democracy” is not demokratia. It is perfectly possible for us to create a “social order” which has a real rule of Natural Law, administered by us, using trial by jury as required.

    So where is the claimed necessity for the rule of oligarchs? The elite theorists allege that large scale organisations won’t function unless the resources they need aren’t meted out by the oligarchs. This is complete nonsense.

    The Scottish Natural Law philosopher Adam Smith (1723 – 1790), in “The Wealth of Nations,” explained how the human desire to serve their own self-interest, in the face of competition from others, led to an economic structure that didn’t need any order imposed upon it. Human nature was the “invisible hand” that created spontaneous order in free markets.

    Smith’s fellow philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Ferguson (1723 – 1816), noted that spontaneous order was “the result of human action but not of human design.” Later the economist Friedrich Hayek (F. A Hayak 1899 – 1992), building on the idea of spontaneous order, explored pricing in a competitive free market is a means of communication.

    Price “signalled,” to both the producer and the consumer, the shifting underlying costs of materials and production. Left unfettered by interfering oligarchs, this enabled human beings to cooperate, producing the highly complex systems we are familiar with today, without any control from a superfluous oligarchy.

    Spontaneous order is a reality, as exemplified in the wonderful 1958 essay “I Pencil” by Leonard E. Read (1898 – 1983). Later extolled by the economist Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006).

    In “I Pencil,” Read examined how the humble pencil is made. The manufacturing process requires a vast global network. Yet nowhere in this sprawling international supply chain is anyone compelled to do anything.

    From the first person perspective of the pencil, Read wrote:

    Neither the worker in the oil field nor the chemist nor the digger of graphite or clay nor any who mans or makes the ships or trains or trucks nor the one who runs the machine that does the knurling on my bit of metal nor the president of the company performs his singular task because he wants me. [. . .] Their motivation is other than me. Perhaps it is something like this: Each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the goods and services he needs or wants. [. . .] There is a fact still more astounding: The absence of a master mind, of anyone dictating or forcibly directing these countless actions which bring me into being. No trace of such a person can be found. Instead, we find the Invisible Hand at work.

    This is how most of our “global economy” functions. To those, like the elite theorists and the oligarchs, who say that spontaneous order is impossible, we can safely say: we know it work because we use it every day. It is how most human interactions already operate.

    So what is this ridiculous idea that we need a bunch of violent robber barons to hoard all the resources so that they can control when and where we are allowed to use them? On what planet is it “inevitable” that a tiny clique of entirely self-appointed rulers simply has to command, not only the planet’s economy and its monetary system, but its distribution networks and political processes too?

    Imagine the explosion in technological innovation if research and development wasn’t controlled by oligarchs. Think about the genuine advances in medicine and healthcare if oligarchs didn’t own the whole sector and weren’t running it for their own ends. Consider the solutions we would find to the many problems we face if academics, scientists, engineers, philosophers, architects, teachers, builders, journalists and everyone else in society was free to explore their interests and their passions and talents without having to work towards an artificial agenda created to serve the ambitions of the parasite class.

    Despite everything they have done to us, and continue to do, we have no right to harm the oligarchs. Where crimes have been committed they should face justice, just like the rest of us. But that justice needs to be better than any justice we could every expect from them. Otherwise what have we achieved?

    The biggest lie we have swallowed is that the oligarch is special—the “elite.” They are not, they are just human beings exactly the same as the rest of us, with all the same qualities and failings.

    Aristotle and Polybius understood that the problem is, and has always been, that great wealth empowers people politically. When immeasurably wealthy people act in their own self interests what is their purpose? It cannot be simply to accrue more wealth. Why do you want more of something you already have in excessive abundance.

    The oligarchs self-interest is served by extending their power. This isn’t an argument against wealth, it is an argument against a political system led by those whose primary goal is to control and exploit everyone else.

    Collectively, we are equally responsible for our oppression at the hands of oligarchs. We have passively allowed them to rule from behind the curtain while knowing full-well they were there.

    We cannot absolve ourselves of our responsibility for what they have done. Nor can we avoid the responsibility to end the parasite class’ pernicious system, any more than we can exonerate ourselves from our duty to construct a better one.

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  • There is Something Worse Than an all-out Collapse Hitting the World

    There is Something Worse Than an all-out Collapse Hitting the World

    What Will Happen Next

    “The price of tram rides and beef, theatre tickets, and school, newspapers and haircuts, sugar and bacon, is going up every week. As a result, no one knows how long their money will last, and people are living in constant fear, thinking of nothing but eating and drinking, buying and selling.” — Eugeni Xammar, Spanish journalist in Berlin, February 1923.

    What’s worse than an all-out financial collapse?  We’ve spoken a lot about economic collapses on this channel, but there is something worse than an all-out collapse hitting America and the world, and it is worsening by the day.  It’s inflation.  Typically, inflation is contained in one country or a group of closely intertwined nations. Normally, we don’t see inflation coupled with so many external forces coming together in a perfect storm- pandemics, lockdowns, an energy crisis, supply chain disruptions, and so forth.  This isn’t the first global inflationary crisis, but it is the first with these modern fiscal controls, exchanges, and an intricately woven global supply chain.  The inflation we are about to see worldwide is unique, and even expert economists readily confess they have seen nothing like it and cannot accurately say where or how it will end.

    You have to realize that global inflation will mean more than just paying a dollar ten for the same goods that you paid a dollar for just a few months before.  An inflation threat at this level has the potential to alter the economies of nations fundamentally.  It threatens every aspect of our world from food, to land ownership, to government stability, to retirement plans, to simply surviving.  Here we will explore how this inflation isn’t local to your country but a global problem right now, how we don’t have the tools to avert it, what is going to happen, and what you still have a little time to do to encourage your survival through it.  Let’s explore what’s going on…

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    A GLOBAL PROBLEM

    Though many would turn their finger of blame on Biden, Merkel, Johnson, Macron, Putin, Jinping, Morrison, or insert the name of your leader here, the inflation crisis we are facing is much broader than one leader’s mismanagement.  It’s much more significant than one country’s failings.  It is far less contained and can’t be confined, this time, to one country’s or one region’s borders.  Global inflation is so bad right now that many leading economists are revising their long-term projections and bracing for an extended, worldwide economic decline.  It’s worse than expected and hasn’t yet been fully realized.  Some economies around the world will likely fail as a result.  In any massive economic shift, as we see here, there will be winners, and there will be losers.

    To massively oversimplify what inflation is to understand it better, basically, climbing prices results in lower purchasing power.  It’s the same basket of goods or the same service, but now it costs more, and you make the same or less, as some businesses make up for the loss of profit by slashing worker wages.  Typically, inflation is measured using the Consumer Price Index (CPI).  This is a standardized group of goods (food, shelter, energy, and other items) that provides a baseline for comparison.  Every single index has been steadily rising.  The energy index alone has risen 24.8% over the last 12 months.  One of the most ominous indicators that an enormous inflationary storm is brewing on the horizon is that inflation is usually confined to one country or group of economically intertwined companies.  That’s not the case with this storm.  Even before the current supply chain and energy crisis, global inflation was projected at 3.5%– A number that is woefully in need of correction just a few months later.  In fact, Trading Economics data from last month put the G20 nation’s average inflation rate at 7.66%.  Even if you take out the troublesome economies of Argentina and Turkey, the G18 remaining countries average almost a 5% inflation increase.

    No matter where you live, you likely are already feeling the effects.  Gasoline in the US is up over 30% since the beginning of the year, and natural gas prices in Europe have soared 400%.  The CPIs for over 100 countries worldwide are up just over the last quarter.  The cost of everything is going up, carts are getting smaller, and the world still struggles to find its economic footing after the lasting effects of COVID.

    AN EMPTY TOOLBOX 

    Typically, to ease inflation, the Federal Reserve would simply raise rates to stave it off.  Because the government has borrowed so much, increased debt, printed so much money, and kept rates forced low for so long, there isn’t anywhere they can turn.  The toolbox of tools to control inflation is empty.  If the Fed were to raise rates now in an already staggering economy struggling to get to its feet, bond prices, housing prices, stock markets would all falter, possibly even collapse.  

    When the US defaults on bonds because the interest is too high to continue rolling over into debt and the country’s credit rating is slashed, a spiraling collapse starts moving and accelerating.  For years, the Fed’s only tool to fight economic collapse was to lower rates and fuel the debt party.  You can’t take the patient off the ventilator if he can’t breathe independently, yet there are no more tools available.  So, most governments worldwide are simply holding onto their chairs and bracing for the wild ride in hopes of discovering some, as yet unknown off-ramp or in the hopes that the current gears and valves all maxed out will hold up under the strain.

    Again, though, this isn’t a uniquely American problem.  Natural gas prices have soared 400% in Europe this year as they brace for a brutal winter.  China refused coal from Australia and massively ramped up its production, causing prices for coal to plummet.  That would be great, but most developed countries have been moving away from coal for decades, so the lower coal prices do them little good.  Global supply-chain issues from labor to raw material shortages to shipping containers, port traffic jams, trains, and truckers persist.  While it does appear that most of the world is emerging from its third wave of the Coronavirus and the numbers of vaccinations is increasing, some countries like the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands still struggle to get their numbers down.  Corporations will seek to maintain profits by slashing labor and passing costs to consumers.  The world is under a dark cloud of an inflationary storm, the power of which remains unknown.  Any individual country’s efforts to alter the course, tweak their economy, or insulate themselves, aren’t enough to change their fate.

    WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

    HOUSING 

    The shelter index indicates that we are about to see increases in rents and houses skyrocketing in price, especially in suburban and urban settings.  But don’t think you can sell high and buy up cheap farmland because the cost of farmland is going up as the wealthy and corporations snatch it up as part of their portfolios.  The current consumer faces poor job opportunities that require extensive experience or education while wages have been stagnant for over two decades.  The everyday consumer faces ever-increasing healthcare costs and these higher rates of inflation.  The cost of building a home has gone up considerably.  For every six homes constructed right now, ten families are looking to buy a home.  The shelter inflation rate in the US is up, and it’s up 26% in Canada.  Housing in some major cities around the world will become out of reach for the average person.  Corporations seeking to secure stable investments are in direct competition with consumers.  At the current rate, investors will one day own most homes because land ownership remains the tool for the rich to stabilize their portfolios in turbulent markets.  For more on that, see my video on why Bezos, Gates, and Turner are now farmers.  I will link to that at the end of this video.  

    Expect the number of homeless to increase.  Expect to see more people engaged in the van life, moving into micro homes and apartments, trying to buy land, or setting up a homestead.  If you aren’t in a home already, expect prices to continue to increase and will likely become out of reach for the average consumer in the not so distant future.  Expect that many will have to move in with extended family, friends or make some other group cohabiting plans to find a livable situation for themselves.  Suppose the real estate bubble never pops, as many leading economists are beginning to realize, because institutional investors with deeper pockets continue to buy up homes away from average consumers.  Let me repeat this last point because it’s important you understand.  Many in this community are anticipating the housing market to burst similar to 2008.  But an even worse scenario that is playing out is that house prices are increasing rapidly as corporations are finding that houses provide a reliable cash flow when yields in the typical investment markets are diminishing.  In that case, many will be forced to rent, downsize, or find themselves on the streets even while some investor-owned properties are vacant.  As governments turn to higher tax bills and prices go up, how long will some who are comfortably in their homes now reach a point where they can no longer afford their tax bill?  You will start to hear more stories of regular people who have lived in their paid-off homes for years, losing their homes in retirement to taxes.

    FOOD

    Expect the number of people growing their own food, making their own alcohol, soap, cheese, and other items to increase.  The demand for raw materials and equipment needed for these endeavors will also increase.  We had a little glimpse of that when under lockdown, so many people explored canning for the first time.  In the coming months and probably through next year, you will see the contents of your shopping cart getting less and less while the totals at checkout will stay the same or increase.  Expect that the average consumer may not afford some staple items or processed foods that require labor, packaging, and distribution.  Any shortages or price increases that lead to any panic buying of any kind will only fuel the fire further.  It’s also worth noting that when food insecurity becomes an issue in a nation, that nation is setting itself up for failure as the common person will only endure a lack of food for only so long.

    If food inflation is contained at just 10% over the next year, your $100 will only buy you $90 in groceries at the same time your rent, utilities, fuel, and everything else is going up, and your income has stayed the same or decreased.  When it comes to food, the unprepared will have to learn to get by on less and will compete for anything in abundance, snapping up the available supply of many foods.  And, if you have unknowingly slipped into the habit of buying foods out of season, as most consumers have, expect at least some of those items to no longer make it to your stores.  After the rising labor costs, packaging, and transport, it might not be as profitable to ship grapes from Chile, asparagus from Peru, avocados from Mexico, sugar from Central America, or coffee from Brazil.  Agricultural exports have barely maintained a spot above imports, but that may flip as corporate farmers have difficulty exporting their products for high costs when local consumers demand lower prices for the same product at home.  Corporations will sell to the highest bidder even if the local population is hungry.  Expect staple food items to cost more across the board and around the world.  

    ENERGY

    The cost of producing and delivering energy to you will continue to rise.  Heating and cooling your home will cost more.  Trying to go solar will cost more.  Even buying gasoline will cost more.  The only solution is to try and consume less.  While corporations struggle to maintain profits, they will often declare their energy consumption emergencies to justify it.  All those alleged peak hours do, however, is allow them to make up profits by quadrupling rates.  The prices for energy-intensive metals like nickel, steel, silicone are all skyrocketing.  Synthetic fertilizer, mostly made from natural gas, has blasted up 300%, and that only further feeds the food price increases.  Only some form of government intervention that mandates large-scale power cuts and rationing to specific sectors can curb current consumer demand and temper gas prices. Still, in a climate where distrust of government is at an all-time high, that’s not likely to happen.

    WHAT CAN YOU DO?

    There isn’t much you can do not to feel the impact of rising costs on everything, everywhere.  Unless you are completely off-grid and self-sufficient, you will feel the effects.  If you are prepping, you will be able to lessen the impact of global inflation.  When you build a shelf-stable supply of food for a disaster, you are also providing yourself a means to make it through a period of high inflation.  Prepping lessens the impact of global inflation in all aspects of your life.  Turn to the basics of food, water, shelter, and energy.  Make the changes now, out of choice, rather than when the herd makes the same choices out of necessity and drives up costs further as a result.

    Such global strain on economies can result in massive political upheaval, civil unrest, even regime changes, as people are both desperate and myopically view global problems as locally caused.  Make sure you have a security plan in place and have at least some plan should the need arise for you to bug out.  Build your network and connections now.  That can be a family you can rely on or just a collective of gardeners that all share their various harvests.  The best way to stay out of the national and global change and policy shifts is to get local with your resources.  It won’t matter if there is a shortage of eggs, honey, chicken, milk, butter, berries, or bacon if you have taken the time to find local sources.

    Learn to forage for or grow something.  If you haven’t found, harvested, and cooked a puffball mushroom, maybe you should go out this weekend and try instead of your usual entertainment.  If you haven’t planted some sunchokes, a small container garden, or even a microgreens garden in your kitchen or apartment, the window to do so is closing.  Learn that skill that can lead to a side job and more income for you or will simply just save you money over the long haul.  You will be glad you did if the inflation continues to rise, but you won’t be able to when the masses are also trying to.  The reality is, when the forecasters see global inflation and none of them are forecasting an end to it, people will either have to do for themselves or join the desperate masses and go without.

    As simple as it may sound, take the time now to focus on your mental and physical health.  Those are your number one preps that will help you in all other areas.  We all know people who say year after year that this is the year they will make a change.  We know many problems of physical and mental health are a result of lifestyle and personal choices.  We also know that when we are stripped of everything, all that remains are our bodies and our minds.  So, take the steps now to make these most critical preps as strong as they can be.  That can be as simple as getting in the habit of walking or hiking, foraging, or meditation.  It doesn’t have to be a dramatic change.  You can start in the smallest of ways so long as you make efforts every day, but you have to start.  Learn a skill, go on your walkabout, remove toxic people and things from your life and get a breath of fresh air.

    Finally, take a hard look at your financial resources.  Live your life now like you’re on limited funds.  You might pass on the luxury purchases in favor of getting a few extra supplies here and there.  This isn’t an investment channel, and I don’t offer any financial advice.  That said, it would seem to make sense to look at your current spending habits and determine where you can modify those habits to meet the new realities of the rising cost of everything.  As I said, there will be both winners and losers from both the inflation and the recovery.  If a chunk of your budget goes to entertainment, it might be time to cultivate a hobby that will keep you entertained and produce for yourself and save you money.  If you’re close to retirement, now might be the time to make sure all your retirement investments aren’t solely in the stock market.  

    CONCLUSION

    So what can you do?  You can learn to do it for yourself.  That’s the essence of prepping, in my opinion.  Sure, preparing for the massive disasters that can suddenly plunge our world into desperation and chaos is an excellent reason to prep.  For many, that is the sole reason.  Global inflation isn’t a disaster that overcomes us in a day.  The mechanisms that lead to it have been smoldering in the background for months, years, even decades.  The catalyst, the fuel that ignites a more significant fire, like a pandemic, lockdowns, and supply chain failures, is just the final piece to cast us out of our comfort zones and into unchartered territory.  That’s where we are today, on the cusp of a slowly unfolding disaster called inflation.  We can neither see its top edge nor know how dramatically it will impact our daily lives.  We don’t even have a sense of the whole during these early days.  The only thing we know right now with certainty is that we are only at the beginning of it, and we have few tools to prevent us from flying headlong into it.

  • Reports of Mysterious Humming Noises in Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Kansas City

    Reports of Mysterious Humming Noises in Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Kansas City

    We are receiving an unsettling wave of reports from readers in Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Kansas City describing the same disturbing phenomenon, a loud humming or droning sound in the ears, often accompanied by dizziness, headaches, disorientation, memory fog, and even emotional swings.

    These are not random complaints. They are coming in from multiple states, spanning hundreds of miles, yet carrying eerily similar descriptions.

    A persistent low-frequency hum or vibration in the ears

    No obvious external sound source

    Episodes lasting minutes to hours

    Symptoms sometimes worsening at night or during specific hours

    In some cases, sudden anxiety spikes, intrusive thoughts, or violent imagery

    Why This Matters

    We have reason to believe that this is not “in people’s heads” and it is not a coincidence.

    Theories emerging from independent researchers and whistleblowers point toward directed frequency devices. These can be stationary, mobile, or satellite-based, capable of targeting specific geographic areas or even individuals.

    Such devices have been used historically and experimentally for:

    PsyOps and psychological manipulation, influencing emotions, behaviors, and thought patterns

    Subverting awareness of Truth, fogging critical thinking, reducing focus, and dulling discernment

    Triggering MK Ultra-style programming, conditioning individuals for specific actions, including potential mass violence or chaos events

    A Chilling Possibilit

    The timing is suspicious. As truth continues to surface at breakneck speed, we are now seeing tools of disruption and destabilization deployed not in foreign war zones, but right here at home.

    If the reports are accurate, these frequency pulses could serve dual purposes.

    1. Suppress the awakening of the population by dulling clarity and spreading confusion
    2. Activate programmed individuals to create the kind of random chaos events that justify new government controls

    Adding to the urgency, drones are still being spotted around the nuclear power plant in Salem, New Jersey, an alarming and underreported development. Whether this activity is related to surveillance, sabotage planning, or frequency transmission is unclear, but its persistence should raise red flags nationwide.

    What You Can Do Right Now

    Document everything. Note the time, date, location, symptoms, and any environmental details.

    Talk to others nearby to see if they are experiencing similar effects.

    Check for patterns such as times of day, weather changes, or nearby events.

    Reduce exposure. If possible, move to a different area temporarily to see if symptoms ease.

    Stay grounded. These technologies work best when the mind is in a state of fear or confusion.

    Practical Tip: A Faraday cage can block certain frequencies from reaching devices and in some cases, the human body. If the noise becomes overwhelming, try wrapping yourself in a foil emergency blanket available at most outdoor or survival supply stores. This is a long shot, but if the noises calm or lessen, it may indicate you are being hit with a targeted frequency. It is worth trying for your own comfort and safety.

    We will continue monitoring these reports closely. If you have experienced this humming noise, the accompanying symptoms, or have visual confirmation of drone activity especially near sensitive infrastructure, please reach out through secure channels. Your accounts could be critical in mapping and confirming the reach of these operations.

    Stay aware. Stay anchored. The battle is no longer just for hearts and minds, it is for the very frequencies of your thoughts.

  • The Future Includes Mass Murder of Undesirables… Given America’s Decentralized Nature of Governance

    The Future Includes Mass Murder of Undesirables… Given America’s Decentralized Nature of Governance

    I occasionally gab about the world with friends and family. Recently, a friend and I were bitching about the rise of “fascism” in America. We soon realized we had different visions of what that meant. About what’s possible in a country like America.

    America spans about 3.8 million square miles, with many different climates, economies, and ways of life. America’s size and spread-out population shape its politics in important ways. The country’s large area makes local issues and regional differences central to political life. This encourages local and state governments to respond to their own regions rather than to a unified national agenda. People in California often prioritize different things than people in Alabama or North Dakota. These differences make it hard to find national agreement, leading to gridlock or unsatisfying compromises.

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    My friend and I brainstormed what the country’s unique characteristics could mean for the rise of fascism in America. We took notes and turned it into the following Q&A:

    Why does America’s size prevent popular uprisings and protests like seen in France and the UK?

    France and the UK, while politically complex, are geographically smaller and more densely populated than the United States. This density makes it easier to organize large-scale protests or strikes that disrupt daily life and demand attention. In the U.S., long distances between major population centers, combined with state-by-state policy differences and local enforcement, make it harder to build unified movements. A protest in New York may feel completely disconnected from events in Texas or Oregon.

    In addition, national media in the U.S. is fragmented, and local media dominates in many areas, which further splinters public awareness. This limits the ability of a single event or issue to spark a truly nationwide movement in the way it can in more compact and media-unified countries like France or the UK.

    Why did the Civil War happen if uprising is so difficult?

    The Civil War was exception. Southern states were united by one clear and urgent issue: the preservation of slavery. This issue wasn’t just political or moral. It was deeply tied to their economies, social structures, and identities. Having a single, overriding concern gave the Southern states a strong reason to act collectively. They saw the end of slavery as a direct economic threat, which made secession and war appear to them as rational steps.

    Today’s political climate is deeply divided, but it lacks that same unifying issue on either side. Instead of one dominant concern, the country faces a wide range of cultural, economic, and ideological disagreements. Political polarization is real, but it’s scattered across many topics. Immigration, education, public health, guns, and more. These divisions often split not just regions but households and communities. That makes it harder to form large, coordinated blocs of action, whether for rebellion or reform. Unlike in the Civil War era, no single issue today binds one half of the country tightly enough to provoke a unified uprising.

    Why have other large countries faced major civil conflict while the U.S. hasn’t?

    Countries like Russia, the Soviet Union, and China have experienced serious internal conflicts, often because their governments were highly centralized. In Russia, central control after World War I led to a civil war and later regional uprisings. In the Soviet Union, tight control over diverse regions eventually caused unrest and collapse. In China, heavy-handed central rule has led to unrest in areas like Tibet and Xinjiang.

    America has avoided this largely because of its decentralized structure. State and local governments have real power. Elections and courts give people ways to push back without turning to violence. This setup reduces the risk of civil conflict, even when tensions run high.

    Still, decentralization has downsides. While it protects against sudden takeovers, it can let democratic norms fade slowly. Problems can grow in pockets, through local laws, policies, or political behavior, without triggering a broader response.

    Given America’s decentralized nature of governance and broadly distributed population, is it possible we are currently sliding into authoritarianism?

    Yes. I think it is already happening. Because power is spread out, no single moment feels like a breaking point. But we’re seeing steady shifts: voter suppression, political disinformation, legal decisions that weaken oversight, and increasing executive power. These changes are happening in ways that don’t always spark national outrage, especially when they’re unevenly distributed across states. The real question isn’t whether the slide is happening, it’s how far it will go and how quickly. Without a shared national response, there’s little friction slowing it down.

    What could authoritarianism or fascism look like in America?

    In the U.S., authoritarianism might not involve tanks in the streets or the sudden loss of elections. It would look more like gradual shifts. Media manipulation, reduced transparency, weakened courts, and fewer checks on political leaders.

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    What mitigates the risk of military force or overt police control from dominating public life is partly the country’s decentralized system. Local and state governments can resist federal overreach, and courts still offer legal recourse, at least in theory.

    But recent trends show there are limits to this counterforce. Agencies like ICE have received massive funding and have operated detention centers that resemble prison camps. There have also been documented incidents of people being detained or removed from protests without clear legal process. These actions don’t match traditional images of authoritarian regimes, but they carry some of the same dynamics: fear, lack of accountability, and concentration of power.

    Because Americans are spread out and not easily unified, there’s less chance of a large, sustained public response. That fragmentation may be allowing a quiet centralization of power. Instead of shock tactics, U.S. authoritarianism might grow through public complacency, limited accountability, and the slow normalization of actions that would once have been widely rejected.

    What might life look like for the average person in 2028, if this slide continues?

    If the current trends continue, by 2028 life for the average American could feel more restricted and uncertain. People might still vote, but with fewer options and less confidence that their votes matter. Courts may become less independent, and some laws could feel more politically targeted than neutral. Media might be more polarized and less trusted, making it harder to know what’s true.

    Day-to-day, government agencies might operate with more politically-aligned discretion. Surveillance could increase under the banner of security or public order. Protest activity could be met more quickly with legal or physical suppression. For many, especially those in marginalized communities, interactions with institutions might feel more arbitrary or intimidating.

    At the same time, these changes might not feel dramatic. They could come gradually, normalized by distraction or fatigue. Some people might not feel any major shift. While others, depending on where they live or who they are, might feel that the country has changed in ways that are hard to reverse.

    Prior to the widening of civil rights throughout the 20th century, was America in some respects authoritarian?

    In some ways, yes. For much of its history, many Americans were denied basic rights. Even after the end of slavery, black Americans lived under laws that blocked them from voting, moving freely, or using public services. These rules were enforced by both formal institutions and informal violence, creating a kind of local authoritarian rule within a country that otherwise claimed to be democratic. Women, Indigenous people, and others were also excluded from full participation in public life, lacking political power and legal protection.

    America might be returning to a version of this past, though with new tools and under different justifications. 21st century authoritarianism doesn’t have to involve openly racist laws or highly visible purges, instead relying on bureaucracy, surveillance, and selective enforcement. In this sense, the system can suppress rights in ways that feel more procedural than brutal, though the end result may be similar: certain groups living with less freedom, less power, and more fear.

    While past authoritarian tendencies were often targeted and local, such as Jim Crow or McCarthy-era blacklisting, today’s trends are more national in scope and diffuse in execution. The big difference is that it’s happening during a time of partisan media, influencial social media, deep digital tracking, highly polarized politics, and increasingly centralized federal power, which may allow it to scale more quietly and pervasively than before. Now AI is making all this easier.

    Many compare America today to the rise of the 3rd Reich, implying the future includes mass murder of undesirables.

    The comparison to the rise of the 3rd Reich can sound alarmist, but it reflects real potential for where unchecked power might lead. In America, what makes something like this possible is the slow erosion of legal norms, the growing use of surveillance, the normalization of detention without trial, and the dehumanization of certain groups through political and media narratives. These patterns echo the early conditions that allowed atrocities in other regimes.

    The use of massive detention facilities for immigrants, the criminalization of homelessness, and the growing tolerance for political violence all signal how power might be turned against ‘undesirable’ groups. Once certain populations are seen as outside the protection of the law, anything becomes possible. The machinery (logistics, technology, law enforcement infrastructure) is already in place.

    What stops it from happening, at least for now, is a mix of institutional resistance, media scrutiny, and public inertia. But those guardrails are eroding. Courts are becoming more partisan. Media is fragmented. And the public, overwhelmed or polarized, often fails to recognize slow-moving dangers.

    The biggest check may be whether enough people in key positions still feel bound by democratic norms, and whether the rest of us are willing to notice when those norms are abandoned.

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  • Allegations, Secrecy, and the Persistent Shadow of Abuse in American Churches

    Allegations, Secrecy, and the Persistent Shadow of Abuse in American Churches

    Sanctuaries or Shields?

    For centuries, churches in America have stood as sacred institutions, places of guidance, repentance, and hope. Beneath the marble columns and stained-glass windows, stories of abuse, silence, and systemic failure have unraveled public trust in some of the country’s most respected spiritual leaders.

    More than just isolated incidents, a pattern emerges: abuse covered up, victims dismissed, and institutions choosing self-preservation over transparency. And in the darkest corners of public imagination, and conspiracy forums, even more sinister acts are known; underground tunnels, trafficking rings, underground bunkers, reports of underground cities and covert alliances with figures of power.

    When money and influence collide with unchecked power, it becomes possible, even easy, to look away.

    What We Know – The Documented Failures

    The Catholic Church’s Reckoning

    In 2002, The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team unearthed what the Church had tried to hide: decades of abuse across the Archdiocese of Boston, shielded by a culture of silence. Since then, similar reports have emerged across the country.

    In 2018, a Pennsylvania grand jury detailed abuse by over 300 priests and identified more than 1,000 victims, calling it a “systematic cover-up.” Survivors told stories of spiritual manipulation, threats of damnation, and the use of confession as a tool of grooming.

    Despite Vatican policies introduced in the aftermath, implementation remains inconsistent. Some dioceses publish lists of credibly accused priests. Others remain opaque.

    Evangelical and Protestant Churches: A Quieter Crisis

    In 2019, The Houston Chronicle exposed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for its widespread sexual abuse problem, identifying more than 700 victims and over 380 pastors and volunteers accused of misconduct.

    Due to the decentralized structure of many evangelical churches, background checks are inconsistent, and expelled pastors can move freely to new congregations with little to no scrutiny. Survivors report being silenced, shunned, or even blamed.

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    • Tony Alamo: Convicted in 2009 for transporting underage girls across state lines for sex, the once-influential evangelist ran a multimillion-dollar religious compound. He used scripture to justify his abuse.

    • Doug Phillips: Founder of Vision Forum Ministries, accused of grooming and sexual abuse, settled out of court. His teachings on “biblical patriarchy” shaped thousands of Christian homeschooling households.

    • Eddie Long: A megachurch pastor accused by multiple young men of sexual coercion. Cases were settled, and Long denied wrongdoing, but the damage to his ministry’s legacy remains.

    These aren’t fringe figures. They were broadcast into homes, led nationwide conferences, and held political sway.

    The Appearance of Respectability

    Investigators and survivors repeatedly describe a disturbing pattern: abusers often surround themselves with legitimacy. Political endorsements, television appearances, charity initiatives, and close ties to law enforcement or elected officials all contribute to a shield of public trust.

    This is not incidental. It’s strategic.

    “The more power they gain, the more invisible they become,” says Jane Monahan, a former church employee who blew the whistle on abuse in a Texas congregation. “They donate to police departments, invite mayors to pray. By the time a child speaks up, no one believes them.”

    In trafficking investigations globally, not just in religious cases, it’s common to find that someone with political, religious, or celebrity status serves as a front, giving operations the illusion of credibility and moral authority.

    The Economics of Exploitation

    The financial scale of human trafficking often surprises even seasoned investigators.

    According to the International Labour Organization, trafficking for sexual exploitation generates over $99 billion annually, nearly double the global drug trade in some regions.

    Unlike drugs, which are sold once, a child can be sold multiple times a day, making each victim far more profitable over time.

    This reality drives home a chilling equation: the younger the victim, the higher the market value. For traffickers and those who protect them, the industry offers not just wealth, but leverage.

    • Money buys power

    • Power buys influence

    • Influence ensures silence

    When such profits flow into religious institutions, whether knowingly or through criminal infiltration, the lines between sacred mission and shadow economy become dangerously blurred.

    What It Would Take to Hide It

    While no direct evidence is known by the public, that ties major U.S. churches to trafficking rings involving tunnels or smuggling operations, survivors point to how easily it happens given the right conditions.

    Financial Opacity

    Most churches are tax-exempt and receive large, often untraceable, cash donations. With few legal requirements for disclosure or external audits, it’s difficult to follow the money.

    Structural Protection

    Top-down authority, internal investigations, and social pressure to avoid “dividing the body of Christ” create a natural shield against scrutiny. Whistleblowers are often demonized.

    Weaponized Theology

    Many survivors describe how abusers used scripture to justify exploitation, or to silence them afterward. Forgiveness is demanded. Speaking out is seen as rebellion.

    The Power Loop

    The scale of trafficking revenue means more than criminal profit, it enables protection:

    • Donations to law enforcement or political campaigns

    • Legal firepower to suppress lawsuits

    • PR machines that spin accusations as persecution

    What’s Being Done – And What Isn’t

     Some Progress

    • The SBC has created a sex abuse hotline and published a list of known offenders.

    • Certain Catholic dioceses now post names of credibly accused clergy.

    • Independent churches are beginning to partner with third-party auditors.

     Not Enough

    • Statutes of limitations still limit justice for many survivors.

    • Most churches investigate internally, with no legal oversight.

    • Victims often face stigma, disbelief, and exile from their spiritual communities.

    Faith Demands Accountability

    We don’t need tunnels or urban legends to justify concern. The facts are already disturbing enough: widespread abuse, repeated cover-ups, and multi-billion-dollar incentives to keep quiet.

    Churches are meant to be sanctuaries. But when wealth, secrecy, and power combine, they can become fortresses instead, protecting perpetrators, not the people they serve.

    If trust is to be restored, it won’t come through sermons or soundbites. It will come through radical transparency, survivor-led reform, and the moral courage to speak truth from the pulpit, even when it shakes the altar. Soon a shaking will occur, that wealth cannot stop.

  • Modern Allegations of Elite Exploitation (The allegations that wealthy, powerful men have preyed upon Indigenous women and girls in Canada speak to a horrifying continuity between the colonial past and the present.)

    Modern Allegations of Elite Exploitation (The allegations that wealthy, powerful men have preyed upon Indigenous women and girls in Canada speak to a horrifying continuity between the colonial past and the present.)

    Canada is often celebrated as a beacon of human rights, yet beneath that reputation lies a devastating truth. For generations, Indigenous women and girls have faced disproportionate rates of violence, exploitation, and disappearance. In recent years, disturbing allegations have surfaced suggesting that not only common criminals, but also wealthy and powerful men have targeted Indigenous women and girls, shielded by privilege, systemic racism, and a culture of silence.

    Though much of this violence occurs away from public view, the stories of survivors, families, and advocates have exposed a grim reality. In these modern allegations, Canada’s colonial legacy merges with contemporary structures of power and impunity.

    A Crisis of Violence and Impunity

    Indigenous women and girls make up just 4 percent of Canada’s female population, yet account for 24 percent of female homicide victims. According to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) 2019 Final Report, this violence constitutes an ongoing genocide.

    What is less commonly acknowledged is the role of societal elites. Men in positions of wealth, influence, and authority have been accused of perpetrating or covering up acts of violence against Indigenous women and girls. Allegations have emerged through survivor testimonies, advocacy groups, and investigative journalists. These stories point to a disturbing pattern where Indigenous lives are made disposable and those with power exploit vulnerability without consequence.

    Modern Allegations of Elite Exploitation

    In urban centers like Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Indigenous women, often living in poverty and targeted by systemic racism, have reported exploitation by wealthy and influential men. Survivors and advocates allege that men from business, law enforcement, and political circles have preyed on vulnerable Indigenous women, using threats, money, and connections to avoid accountability.

    Reports have surfaced of wealthy elites paying $25k to hunt and rape women and children have emerged. Perhaps those in our collective societies that are deemed as undesirables are being targeted as a sport by satanic elites.

    In British Columbia, the crisis along the Highway of Tears has long been associated with serial violence. Some community members have alleged that certain disappearances involved men with influence who were shielded by indifferent or complicit institutions.

    In Winnipeg, the 2022 murder of Rebecca Contois and the linked deaths of Indigenous women believed to have been disposed of in the Prairie Green landfill drew attention not only to the brutality of the crimes but also to how quickly institutions denied families justice and dignity. Families noted that if these women had been non-Indigenous, the police and city would have responded differently.

    Advocates argue that this reflects a broader, unspoken reality. Some men with power have long exploited Indigenous women, operating with the assumption that authorities will look the other way.

    Allegations Behind Closed Doors

    Community organizations, including the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and Families of Sisters in Spirit, have reported survivor accounts of sexual exploitation rings involving influential figures. While much of this remains difficult to prosecute due to fear, trauma, and systemic barriers, patterns in the testimonies have fueled longstanding concerns.

    In several cases, Indigenous women have alleged being trafficked to private parties attended by wealthy men or powerful officials. Some advocates argue that law enforcement’s chronic neglect of missing Indigenous women cases points to more than just systemic racism. It suggests the active protection of perpetrators in certain circumstances.

    As one urban matriarch told a reporter in 2023, “They pick the ones they think no one will miss. And when they have connections, the police don’t follow up. Everyone knows it.”

    Why These Allegations Persist

    The structures that enable elite violence against Indigenous women are deeply rooted in colonialism. Centuries of policies designed to dispossess, dehumanize, and erase Indigenous women created a society where their lives are undervalued.

    Today, this manifests in underfunded social services, high rates of homelessness, addiction, and poverty within Indigenous communities. These circumstances leave women more vulnerable to exploitation. When violence occurs, police indifference, judicial bias, and media neglect compound the danger.

    Wealthy perpetrators are further insulated by their resources, influence, and networks. The result is a society where the most powerful can prey on the most marginalized with little fear of reprisal.

    Calls for Justice and Truth

    The 2019 MMIWG Inquiry’s 231 Calls for Justice include demands for a national action plan on human trafficking, better protections for vulnerable Indigenous women, and mechanisms for Indigenous-led investigations into cases involving high-profile perpetrators.

    While the federal government has pledged reforms, implementation has been slow. Many families and advocates feel betrayed by the lack of political will and transparency.

    Grassroots movements continue to lead the fight. In 2023, Indigenous matriarch collectives in Winnipeg and Vancouver organized vigils, direct actions, and awareness campaigns calling attention to the intersections of poverty, colonial violence, and elite impunity.

    The allegations that wealthy, powerful men have preyed upon Indigenous women and girls in Canada speak to a horrifying continuity between the colonial past and the present. Though evidence is often buried by fear and silence, the patterns of violence, neglect, and protection for perpetrators are undeniable.

    If Canada is to reckon honestly with its history and present, it must confront not only the marginalized men who harm Indigenous women but also those in power who have long gotten away with it.

    And perhaps, in light of similar crises across the border in the United States, one must ask whether America’s own epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and marginalized people could be connected to the same circles of wealthy, well-connected predators operating in the shadows, protected by systemic indifference and privilege. It is a question that demands deeper investigation and one far too long ignored.

    Dedication

    This work is dedicated to the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island and beyond, to the ancestors whose strength endures in the blood memory of their descendants, and to the families whose hearts ache for loved ones taken too soon.

    To the women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people whose lives have been stolen or silenced by violence, neglect, and erasure, your names, your stories, and your spirits live on in the songs, prayers, and resistance of your people.

    To the survivors of human trafficking, sexual violence, and exploitation, your courage in the face of unimaginable harm is a testament to the enduring strength of your ancestors. Your voices, whether spoken or carried silently in your hearts, are sacred and worthy of protection, healing, and justice.

    To the families and communities who continue to search, to fight, and to mourn, may you find strength in one another and in the generations who will rise because of your resilience.

    To the matriarchs, knowledge keepers, youth, and land defenders who carry the flame of sovereignty, dignity, and truth, may your wisdom and your love guide future generations to a world where Indigenous lives are cherished and safe.

    This is for you, in remembrance, in solidarity, and in an unwavering commitment to a future built on justice, healing, and Indigenous self-determination.

  • How Survive in A Gang-controlled Neighborhood

    How Survive in A Gang-controlled Neighborhood

    Gang violence is a problem in every major city in the United States and membership is on the rise.

    • Be confident and make brief eye contact. Don’t look like a victim but check your ego and show respect.
    • Maintain situational awareness. Scan waists and hands for weapons. 
    • Learn what gangs are active in your area, how to identify members.
    • Learn what kinds of crimes they commit and how it goes down. Understanding that, you can reduce both your risk and your exposure to it.
    • Caches give you the ability to start over should you be forced by a superior force to capitulate or flee.
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    Gangs

    When readers were asked what the greatest threat was in their neighborhoods, the number one answer was … gangs! I can’t say I’m surprised at that.

    Gangs are already a serious problem in the US today, with more than a million and a half members of street gangs, but in the chaos and disorder of emergencies, gang membership skyrockets, making gangs an even bigger pro problem whenever the rule of law gives way to anarchy.

    At times like these, people want to know that somebody has their back, so the stress, volatility, and change that accompanies catastrophes drives people to group up. Prison gangs are a well-known example of this behavior.

    Situational Awareness & Avoidance

    Learn what gangs are operating in your area and how they operate. Each gang has its own SOP and its own IFF (Identification Friend or Foe). Depending on the type of gang, they may use colors (hats, T-shirts, bandannas) or tattoos. Biker gangs, for example, will often wear sleeves (tattoos on their forearms) with symbols that carry meanings to anyone familiar with them. Catalogs of gang tattoos are available from various law enforcement agencies online. Download catalogs and research gangs active in your area. The gang units of police departments and correctional facilities sometimes have online resources such as catalogs of gang tattoos where you can look them up and decipher their meanings.

    In an area of Brazil that I visit, two of the local gangs are called Estados Unidos (United States) and Al-Qaeda. And the EU (US) gang used the US Flag as their colors, which I found out when I brought Zippo Lighters emblazoned with the US Flag to give away as souvenirs. I wanted to bring something made in the USA but could have caused trouble for people I liked if they used them in public.

    On situational awareness, in the favelas (slums), Brazilian gangs employ low-tech methods to warn the residents of raids by the police or by rival gangs. Chief among these fireworks touched off by lookouts. They are cheap and effective. When people hear them, they know to get behind hardcover because bullets are about to fly.

    Two examples of SOP of Brazilian gangs are robbing buses and kidnapping. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuban communist revolutionaries experienced major cashflow problems. One of their solutions was to train operatives to carry out kidnappings for ransom, some of which took place in Brazil. Some claim that when the communist kidnappers were caught and imprisoned, they trained Brazilian criminals to carry out kidnappings, but judging by the SOP, I think the idea was more largely disseminated through the media, giving small gangs the idea that they could make money by pulling off kidnappings for ransom, mostly without professional training.

    Aware of the fact that local gangs kidnap foreigners to make money, I investigated restraint escape and SERE techniques, started restraint escape training, and integrated restraint escape gear into my EDC.

    In the bus robbery scenario, armed thugs board a bus. One puts a handgun to the driver’s head to stop the bus and the other walks from one end of the bus to the other with a backpack or bag. He instructs everybody to drop their wallet, cellphone and jewelry in the bag. If someone doesn’t hand it over and he feels like they are holding out, he unceremoniously shoots that individual in the head and moves to the next person.

    Where possible, use superior situational awareness to avoid problems. That doesn’t mean that when you see them, and they see you, you stop, turn around and head in the other direction. That will make you look like prey, triggering a predatory pursuit response. You wouldn’t do that with a dog and it won’t be any more effective here.

    Do what you should be doing anytime you come in sight of another on the street, scan their waist and hands for weapons.

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    Reduce Risk & Exposure

    Understanding the SOP greatly improves one’s chances of surviving this type of robbery, not to mention limiting exposure to lose. To mitigate risk in this scenario, as well as muggings, my wife and I, employ various techniques:

    • Don’t Say, “What?” – Understand criminal SOP and stay alert. Even if you speak the same language (more or less), it may be hard the slang of some thug’s slang. Just hand over what you have. My brother-in-law was walking with some Americans one night and this very situation happened. The gangbanger lifted his shirt to show them his handgun, one of the Americans didn’t have his head on a swivel and didn’t understand what was happening or what the guy he was asking. It didn’t go like the scene in Pulp Fiction Jules tell the kid to, “Ask me, ‘What!’ one more time!” either. The banger got frustrated and shot the guy in the head. Fortunately, he lived and made a full recovery, but gunshot wounds to the head don’t always work out like that.
    • Report Binder Money Clips – When carrying a lot of cash, break it up into smaller amounts instead of rolling it in a single, easy to find roll of cash. That way you lose some of your money, not all of it. With minor modification, the handles on the report binder clips can open a range of handcuffs and it’s easy to pinch one-off.
    • Drop Wallet – Put some expired credit cards and a believable amount of cash in a wallet so you have a wallet to drop in the bag.
    • Decoy Cell Phone – Robberies and muggings are so common that quite a few locals save their old cellphones when they upgrade. They carry their old cellphone in their hand or back pocket and their new cellphone goes in their waistband, at least while out on the street.
    • Don’t Wear Expensive Jewelry – This should just be common sense, but then every time I look at an EDC group or an EDC lineup on Uncrate, all the jewelry, expensive watches, and matching everything make me wonder. I suppose you could have that rare survival situation in Beverly Hills or on 5th Avenue in Scottsdale, where you need to impress some gold digger while simultaneously saving the day but why would you want to? And carrying a bunch of expensive accessories makes you a target everywhere else.
    • Carry Concealed – If things do go sideways, sometimes your chances of survival are better if you fight. Train regularly and learn when it’s better to fight and when it’s better not to. I carry concealed in the USA, but for the time being Brazil is a non-permissive environment, so I only carry what I can get away with there. Fortunately, Brazil has a new president and his platform included the restoration of gun rights, which Brazilians voted for in a referendum. Unfortunately, last time around, they voted a corrupt socialist regime into power that refused to approve any permits, arguing that the country had enough police to protect the citizens.

    Respect

    Gangs are usually trying to control what they see as their territory. When you disrespect a gang banger, you might as well break out the dueling pistols because it’s the modern-day equivalent of removing your glove to slap him across the face with it or insulting a gentleman in public. Only he and his buddies are going to jump you five to one. Once you disrespect him, he has no choice but to act or he’ll lose face with other gang members, pissing away hard-earned street cred.

    When you encounter someone on the street that you think might despite what you may have heard, don’t avoid eye contact. Walk confidently, make brief eye contact and give one of them a curt nod to acknowledge their presence. Don’t scowl or frown in disapproval, but don’t smile either. Give them the respect they are looking for. If challenged, verbalize the message, “I’m not disrespecting you.”

    Check Your Ego

    Checking your ego is a whole lot less painful than what you’ll go through if you pull your weapon. The best case is, you win, they lose and now you get to go to court and defend yourself a second time. Unfortunately, it seldom works out that way. More often, innocent bystanders get shot, the victim gets shot and lives get changed for the worse.

    I moved from a wealthy suburb to an urban area with a lot of gang activity. I was assaulted twice, mugged, had two cars stolen, stopped an attempted carjacking, I walked into a dry cleaner after an armed robbery and found the cashier on the floor and have cleaned up after so many break-ins that I lost track. I have lost acquaintances, have had family traumatized, and had a friend go to prison for homicide.

    The first time, I felt violated. I was furious. I already had an alarm system, so I installed cameras (which didn’t have a deterrent effect.) I spent the night in my business in case they came back. But by the third or fourth time, it started becoming routine. Eventually, I hardened my store to the point where it wasn’t successfully broken into again. Criminals tried to cut the back door off with a cutting torch and still didn’t succeed in gaining entry. It got to the point where I knew exactly how much everything cost and could determine whether I needed to file an insurance claim within a couple of minutes.

    It was educational. I learned all about crime and how to make a place hard to break into.  I also learned how to check my ego, but more importantly, I learned why it is usually the smarter play to do so.

    Eventually, I relocated to one of the safest places in the country and am glad I did.

    Post-SHTF Gangs

    Depending upon which lines society fractures, people may group up based on ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, economic class or geography. They group up with others they think are like them in some way, because they see the world from an adversarial paradigm: “us vs. them”.  In groups, numbers and the perception of authority granted by them turns people capable of acts of cruelty that they would not be capable of as individuals.

    You may have seen this behavior in dogs. One or two is no big deal, but three or more turns them into a pack, awakening predatorial instincts even in pets. When boys get together, instead of increasing the collective IQ, the number seems to diminish it: one boy, one brain … two boys, half a brain … and the larger the group, they collectively dumber things they become capable of.

    Absent the rule of law, gang membership skyrockets. Consider grouping up for security. Groups form around existing logistics infrastructures, geography, and so on, so having indispensable skills and being able to arm, feed, and train a new group or to quickly expand one can help position you.

    To set the record straight, regardless of your neighborhood, the thing that’s most likely to kill you is probably microbes, since they kill more people than violence or combat-related injuries even in past wars. But gangs are certainly the more visible, and in some cases, more urgent threat.

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  • The Red Heifer Ceremony, Prophecy, and the Shadow of the Antichrist

    The Red Heifer Ceremony, Prophecy, and the Shadow of the Antichrist

    “Take for yourself a red heifer without defect…” — Numbers 19:2

    Earlier this month, on a quiet hill in Samaria, a red heifer was slaughtered and burned under rabbinic supervision. This was an event unseen in Israel for nearly 2,000 years. Officially, it was a “practice run,” symbolic, educational, and a logistical rehearsal.

    But what if it wasn’t?

    What if what we witnessed was not a symbolic rehearsal, but the first real step toward restoring Temple worship? What if this marked the opening act of a prophetic drama, one whose next scene could involve not only the construction of the Third Temple, but also the rise of the Antichrist?

    A Ceremony With Prophetic Weight

    In Numbers 19, the Torah outlines the strange and sacred ritual of the red heifer, burned to produce ashes used to purify those who have come into contact with death. These ashes are essential for achieving the ritual purity required to enter the Temple.

    This ritual has not been performed since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. According to Jewish tradition, there have only been nine valid red heifer sacrifices throughout history. The tenth, according to rabbinic commentary, will occur in the days of the Messiah.

    So when Israeli religious authorities quietly burn a red heifer in 2025, it becomes difficult to see it as merely symbolic. Even if they insist the animal was disqualified, the prophetic momentum behind the event is very real.

    What If It Wasn’t Practice?

    Let’s consider for a moment what might be true behind the scenes.

    What if the red heifer was actually fit according to biblical standards? What if the claim of “disqualification” was a strategic public label, designed to avoid political or religious backlash? What if the ceremony was conducted not as a dry run, but as a quiet and deliberate first step?

    If that were the case, then this event is not just notable, it is historic.

    A true red heifer sacrifice would mean that the long-awaited purification ritual has been reinstated. And according to both Jewish and Christian prophecy, this could initiate a chain of events that changes the world.

    Are We Witnessing the Ushering in of the Antichrist?

    This is where Christian eschatology becomes particularly urgent.

    In 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, Paul describes the “man of lawlessness,” understood by many as the Antichrist. He will one day sit in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, proclaiming himself to be God. However, that Temple cannot be rebuilt until the site, and the priests, are ritually purified using the ashes of a red heifer.

    In other words, without the red heifer, there can be no Temple. And without the Temple, the Antichrist cannot rise in the way Scripture describes.

    If this ceremony was the real thing, then it could be the first domino to fall in a prophetic sequence. First, the red heifer sacrifice restores purity. Then, Temple Mount preparations accelerate. Eventually, the Third Temple is rebuilt. And finally, the Antichrist appears, deceives many, and desecrates the sanctuary with what Scripture calls the “abomination of desolation.”

    This raises the question, are we witnessing the rise of the Messiah, or the rise of his counterfeit?

    This question will become increasingly difficult to ignore.

    A Tipping Point Moment

    Even if we accept the official story that this was only a rehearsal, the spiritual and psychological significance of the event cannot be overstated. What was once confined to theology books and prophecy conferences is now unfolding in real time, on Israeli soil, and in our generation.

    We are entering a period in which prophetic symbols are being activated, religious intentions are being backed by real-world action, and the distinction between preparation and fulfillment is becoming less clear.

    Whether you are a believer in biblical prophecy or a skeptical observer of religious movements, one fact remains. Something historic just happened.

    A red heifer was burned in Israel. Regardless of how it is being publicly framed, a threshold has been crossed.

    So we must ask again, what if it wasn’t just practice? And even more urgently, are we now seeing the stage being set for the appearance of the Antichrist?

    Because if that is the case, then the next chapter will not be a rehearsal. It will be the book of Revelation coming to life.

    What do you think? Are we closer to the Messiah, or on the brink of deception? Let’s discuss in the comments.

  • The Effects of Nuclear War According to FEMA

    The Effects of Nuclear War According to FEMA

    No one wants to think about a nuclear crisis – and hopefully it will never happen – but we all must accept the fact nuclear tensions are rising globally with Russia and China (and others are seeking nukes) so we should prepare ourselves and our loved ones in the event the unthinkable strikes our soil.

    For decades, movies and some in the media have portrayed a nuclear attack as a “doomsday” event implying most people would be killed on impact … and survivors would want to die once they come out of their shelters.

    In reality, unless you are actually at ground zero or within a several mile radius of the blast zone (depending on the size of the nuke, of course), there is a very high probability you’ll survive as long as you…

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    • limit your exposure to radiation and fallout,
    • take shelter with proper shielding,
    • wait for the most dangerous radioactive materials to decay.

    In other words, you CAN survive a nuke attack … but you MUST make an effort to learn what to do! By learning about potential threats, we are all better prepared to know how to react if something happens.

    Please realize this is being written with small nuke devices in mind (like a 1-kiloton to 1-megaton device). A larger device, ICBM or a nuclear war would cause more wide-spread damage but some of this data could still be helpful. These are some very basic tips on sheltering for any type of nuclear (or radiological) incident.

    What happens when a nuke explodes?

    A nuclear blast produces a blinding light, intense heat (called thermal radiation), initial nuclear radiation, 2 explosive shock waves (blasts), mass fires, and radioactive fallout (residual nuclear radiation).

    The below graphic shows the destruction of a test home by an atomic blast on March 17, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Ground. The structure was located 3,500 feet from ground zero, and the time from the first to last picture was 2.3 seconds.  It shows the force of the blast wave then the radiating energy set it on fire.

    Also, if a nuke is launched over our continent and explodes miles above the earth, it could create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). An EMP is a split-second silent energy burst (like a stroke of lightning) that can fry electronics connected to wires or antennas like cell phones, cars, computers, TVs, etc. Unless electronics are grounded or hardened, an area or nation could experience anything from minor interference to crippled power, transportation, banking and communications systems.

    An EMP from a high-altitude nuke (where a nation or group succeeds in detonating a nuclear device carried miles into the atmosphere) could affect electronics within 1,000 miles or more as shown below. (Evidence suggests some countries and groups are working on enhanced and non-nuclear EMP weapons or e-bombs.)

    high altitude emp or electromagnetic pulse threat

    What is the most dangerous part of a nuclear attack?

    Both the initial nuclear radiation and residual nuclear radiation (also called radioactive fallout) are extremely dangerous.

    Initial nuclear radiation is penetrating invisible rays that can be lethal in high levels.

    Radioactive fallout (residual nuclear radiation) is created when the fireball vaporizes everything inside it (including dirt and water). Vaporized materials mix with radioactive materials in the updraft of air forming a mushroom cloud.

    Fallout can be carried by winds for hundreds of miles and begin falling to the ground within minutes of the blast or take hours, days, weeks or even months to fall. The heaviest fallout would hit ground zero and areas downwind of that, and 80% of fallout would occur within 24 hours. Most fallout looks like grey sand or gritty ash and the radiation given off cannotbe seen, smelled, tasted or felt which is why it is so dangerous. But as the materials decay or spread out radiation levels will drop.

    More about radiation

    Types of radiation – Nuclear radiation has 3 main types of radiation…

    • alpha – can be shielded by a sheet of paper or by human skin. If alpha particles are inhaled, ingested, or enter body through a cut, they can cause damage to tissues and cells.
    • beta – can be stopped by skin or a thicker shield (like wood). Beta particles can cause serious damage to internal organs if ingested or inhaled, and could cause eye damage or possible skin burns.
    • gamma – most dangerous since gamma rays can penetrate the entire body and cause cell damage throughout your organs, blood and bones. Since radiation does not stimulate nerve cells you may not feel anything while your body absorbs it. Exposure to high levels of gamma rays can lead to radiation sickness or death, which is why it is critical to seek shelter from fallout in a facility with thick shielding!

    Radiation detection devices – You cannot see, smell, taste or feel radiation, but special instruments can detect even the smallest levels of radiation. Since it may take days or weeks before First Responders could get to you, consider having these devices handy during a crisis or attack since they could save your life.

    Measuring radiation – Radiation was measured in units called roentgens (pronounced “rent-gens” and abbreviated as “R”) … or “rads” or “rem”. An EPA document called “Planning Guidance for Response to A Nuclear Detonation 2nd Edition June 2010” explains … 1 R (exposure in air) ≅ 1 rad (absorbed dose) ≅ 1 rem (whole-body dose). Although many measuring devices and older documentation use R and rem, officials and the media now use sievert (Sv) which is the System International or SI unit of measurement of radiation. The formula to convert sieverts to rems is quite simple … 1 Sv = 100 R (rem).

    How many rads are bad? – High doses of radiation in a short span of time can cause radiation sickness or even death, but if that high dose is spread out over a long period of time, it’s not as bad.

    According to FEMA, an adult could tolerate and recover from an exposure to 150R (1.5 Sv) over a week or 300R (3 Sv) over a 4-month period. But 300R (3 Sv) over a week could cause sickness or possibly death. Exposure to 30R (0.3 Sv) to 70R (0.7 Sv) over a week may cause minor sickness, but a full recovery would be expected. But radioactive fallout decays rapidly so staying in a shelter with proper shielding is critical!

    The “seven-ten” rule – For every sevenfold increase in time after the initial blast, there is a tenfold decrease in the radiation rate. For example, a 500 rad level can drop to 50R in just 7 hours and down to 5R after 2 days (49 hours). In other words, if you have shelter with good shielding and stay put for even just 7 hours … you’ve really increased your chances of survival. Your detection devices, emergency radio or cell phone [if the last 2 are working, that is] can assist you in knowing when it’s safe to come out.

    Coping with reality is the best way to beat it. Prepare. Most of us are. We are just waiting for the S to HTF, so to speak. Once it does, and it will again, we will be comfortable and unafraid while others won’t be able to function without submitting to their own enslavement in exchange for a can of corn.

    So how do I protect myself and my family?

    Basic shelter requirements – Whether you build a shelter in advance or throw together an expedient last-minute shelter during a crisis, the area should protect you from radiation and support you for at least 2 weeks. Some basic requirements for a fallout shelter include …

    • shielding
    • ventilation
    • water and food
    • sanitation and first aid products
    • radiation monitoring devices, KI (potassium iodide), radio, weapons, tools, etc

    Reduce exposure – Protect yourself from radioactive fallout with …

    • distance – the more distance between you and fallout particles, the better
    • shielding – heavy, dense materials (like thick walls, earth, concrete, bricks, water and books) between you and fallout is best. Stay indoors or below ground. (Taking shelter in a basement or a facility below ground reduces exposure by 90%. Less than 4 inches of soil or earth can reduce the penetration of dangerous gamma rays by half.)
    • time – most fallout loses its strength quickly. The more time that passes after the attack, the lower the danger.

    Indoor shelter locations – If you don’t have a fallout shelter, these options could provide protection from dangerous radiation by using proper shielding materials.

    • basement – find the corner that is most below ground level (the further underground the better)
    • 1-story home / condo / apartment – if no underground facility, find a spot in center of home away from windows
    • trailer home – find sturdier shelter if possible (like a basement or brick or concrete building)
    • multi-story building or high-rise – go to center of the middle section of building (above 9th floor if possible). Note: if rooftop of a building next to you is on that same floor, move one floor up or down since radioactive fallout would accumulate on rooftops. Avoid first floor (if possible) since fallout will pile up on ground outside.

    Shielding materials – All fallout shelters must provide good protection from radioactive particles. FEMA suggests having a minimum of several inches of concrete or 1 to 2 feet of earth as shielding around your shelter, if possible, and the more the better. Per FEMA, the following shows examples of shielding materials that equal the protection of 4 inches (10 cm) of concrete …

    • 5 – 6 inches (12 – 15 cm) of bricks
    • 6 inches (15 cm) of sand or gravel
    • 7 inches (18 cm) of earth
    • 8 inches (20 cm) of hollow concrete block
    • 10 inches (25 cm) of water
    • 14 inches (35 cm) of books or magazines
    • 18 inches (46 cm) of wood

    Make an expedient shelter – Some very basic ways to build an expedient last-minute shelter in your home, apartment or workplace to help protect you from dangerous radiation include…

    • Set up a large, sturdy workbench or table in location you’ve chosen. If no table, make one by putting doors on top of boxes, appliances or furniture.
    • Put as much shielding (e.g. furniture, file cabinets, appliances, boxes or pillowcases filled with dirt or sand, boxes of food, water or books, concrete blocks, bricks, etc.) all around sides and on top of table, but don’t put too much weight on tabletop or it could collapse. Add reinforcing supports, if needed.
    • Leave a crawl space so everyone can get inside and block opening with shielding materials.
    • Leave 2 small air spaces for ventilation (about 4-6″ each) – one low at one end and one high at other end. (This allows for better airflow since warm air rises.)
    • Have water, radiation detection devices, KI, battery operated radio, food and sanitation supplies in case you have to shelter in place for days or weeks.

    In summary, those within the blast zone of Ground Zero (depending on the size of the nuke) won’t make it .. BUT .. if you are a few miles outside the zone your chances of surviving it are high but you MUST have detection devices to monitor levels of radiation and a plan to stay sheltered for at least 48 hours or up to a few weeks. First Responders will have to wait for the deadly fallout to decay before they enter a hot zone so the more you prepare, the better your odds of surviving a terrorist nuke.

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