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The illegitimate Biden regime, with a JB impersonator nominally in charge, is by far the most recklessly dangerous one in US history.

Ignoring the risk of nuclear war, where things are ominously heading, it’s waging war on militarily superior Russia by use of cannon fodder Ukrainian troops.

Its aim is all about strategically defeating Russia.

What it cannot achieve is ongoing anyway with the worst of catastrophic outcomes increasingly possible.

Commenting on the most perilous time in world history, Russia’s US envoy, Anatoly Antonov, said the following:

“The only thing we do is to constantly warn (hegemon USA) that its policy of ensuring strategic defeat for our country on the battlefield is rapidly leading the world to a catastrophic scenario.”

Neither he or Russia’s political or military leadership in Moscow “ever (before) spoke in such a way.”

Lunatics in charge of the Biden regime’s geopolitical agenda and their Western vassals “unleashed all-out hybrid war against Russia on our own territory,” Antonov stressed, adding:

“At the same time, they are profiting from their NATO partners by forcing them to finance (the) military industrial complex” of the empire of lies and forever wars on invented enemies. 

Yet dominant Biden regime hardliners consistently turn a blind eye and deaf ear to the notions of world peace and stability in favor of perpetual wars.

Russia virtually exhausted its efforts to make Biden regime “hotheads come to their senses and avert the nuclear armageddon.”

Instead, they’re lurching recklessly toward what’s unthinkable.

What’s going on is the onset of WW III — preemptively launched by the empire of lies and its Western vassals against Russia.

In a futile effort to try saving Ukraine from certain defeat by the Russian Federation, they’ve been escalating conflict by pouring more sophisticated weapons into the Nazified regime’s territory to be operated by US/Western personnel because Kiev troops aren’t trained to do it on their own.

In response to continued escalation by the US/West, will Russia expand its target list to include what’s been off-limits so far?

Will it strike US/Western troops on the ground in Ukraine?

Will it include cross-border targets in Poland and other states, ones supporting Kiev’s aggression?

It’s installing state-of-the-art Pantsir-S air defense missiles to protect government and Defense Ministry buildings in Moscow — in preparation for possible US/NATO or Ukrainian strikes on the city.

If occurs, global war will take a giant leap forward.

Russia will certainly retaliate in ways it’s refrained from doing up to now.

Any target on the territory of regimes involved in supporting Kiev’s aggression would become fair game, even the heart of the beast in Washington and Germany where most EU troops in Europe are based.

Russia knows the reality of US/NATO war on its territory.

It knows that the empire of lies is orchestrating and directing Kiev’s aggression, what’s been ongoing since early 2014.

It’s aware of the growing risk of full-blown conflict, including preemptive use of nukes by the empire of lies.

These are the most perilous times in world history by far because of hegemon USA rage for unchallenged control over other nations by brute force.

Mutually assured destruction (MAD) prevented use of nukes during the Cold War, a time when Russia-US relations were much more rational than now.

Dominant Biden regime hardliners changed the rule of restraint to anything goes.

Is nuclear war inevitable ahead?

Are we all doomed because recklessly dangerous lunatics run the Washington asylum?

A Final Comment

In response to Biden regime grand theft of Russian assets, intending their transfer around $300 billion of what was stolen to Ukrainian Nazis, Russia denounced the diabolical move, saying:

“Such dangerous precedents only serve to discredit the” the empire of lies more than already.

And it’ll “undermine confidence in both the American and international financial system, as well as the security of the dollar.”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said Moscow will respond with “appropriate” countermeasures.

The nation I grew up in long ago no longer exists.

A humanity-threatening monster replaced it.

It’s the wrong time to be growing up in a nation permanently at war on invented enemies, one risking unthinkable nuclear war on nonthreatening Russia — ignoring its ability to turn targets anywhere in the US to smoldering rubble in response to aggression against its territory.

Also watch: www.whatfinger.com

As a professional physician having always lived in a big city, I never imagined that at some point in my life, the social and economic situation of my country, Venezuela, would lead me to learn and use survival skills that I had read about but never even thought of applying.

Without being in a declared war or a formal armed conflict, we have experienced different situations of chaos for about 10 years in Venezuela. But in the last three years, the country has become a true SHTF scenario, where the only way to move forward is to learn how to survive.

I feel that the lack of food, clean water, and, at the lowest point of the situation, electricity, has given me new skills that have undoubtedly prepared me for any catastrophic situation.

After three years in this contingency, I can now share every situation that took me by surprise and the techniques I had to learn by doing.

There is no such thing as “too much” stored water

Water is one of the most important resources we need for life. Unlike other supplies, it is not interchangeable with another product, and to be ingested, it must go through a purification process.

I have never been prepared for a water shortage before. Now I know it is important to keep water stored safely in closed containers. If water is not drinkable, it must be purified before ingesting it since contaminated water can cause serious gastrointestinal diseases.

Water is not just for drinking but is used in many other activities, such as cooking and cleaning, so I had to learn some purification techniques that can be done at home.

One of the most popular techniques to decontaminate water is to boil it for three minutes. Purification tablets are also very useful, not that expensive, and easy to use.

Adding five drops of chlorine per liter of water as an emergency measure is another way to clean the stored water.

Grains are my friends

To eat properly, it is necessary to consume proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

The moment I realized that animal protein was scarce—in addition to the fact that the electricity problems spoiled it—I had to investigate the nutritional content of other foods in order to keep myself well-fed.

Lentils are grains that are easy to store, non-perishable, and high in protein. Together with a cereal like rice, they make a complete meal that keeps us well-nourished and in good health.

Let there be light: candles, matches, flashlights, and batteries

After spending more than four hours without power, I began to worry. I had some candles saved, but I did not know where they could be. I also had a couple of flashlights, but I had removed the batteries to prevent them from being sulfated.

Candles and matches must be in several easily accessible places. Likewise, the batteries should be in the same place where the flashlights are kept, and we must be sure that they have a charge.

During this year, the country suffered the most serious electrical crisis. In several areas, there were blackouts of up to five days.

After a couple of days without electricity, the candles will not be enough, so learning to make oil lamps becomes a vital skill in this situation.

The lack of electricity can lead to a state of anguish that grows with the passage of time. It is important to do everything possible to minimize that effect.

Be prepared with medicines, but it’s better to learn from nature

Due to my profession, I am always very attentive about keeping basic medications, such as anti-inflammatories, analgesics, and antibiotics, in the cabinet.

When I had to live in an SHTF situation, my medical supplies became insufficient, and I couldn’t find any in the pharmacies or they were too expensive. So I had to learn a little more about natural medicine, its uses, and its benefits.

I must say that this is one of the most important things I learned during that time.

Many anti-inflammatory drugs and synthetic analgesics damage the stomach mucosa as a side effect. In situations of stress, there is a large production of acids in the stomach, so using drugs that further damage this organ is not the best idea.

Roots such as ginger and turmeric are excellent anti-inflammatories. They are easy to get and easy to store. Likewise, garlic is a potent analgesic.

In the case of presenting wounds or cuts and not having antibiotic ointments, honey, ginger, and cloves are foods that have scientifically proven antibiotic properties.

Chamomile and lavender are natural relaxants and help fight stress and insomnia.

No matter how big the supply of medicines we have, it will always be more economical, favorable, and easy to store the natural product, with equal and, in some cases, greater effects.

Cash

Banks have made life easier for us with the use of debit and credit cards. However, there are situations in which having a lot of money in the bank does not help much, and I learned it the hard way.

When there is an electrical fault, despite the fact that light and other electrical services have been restored already, the digital communication of the points of purchase become so affected that it is impossible to buy anything in this way.

For this reason, I understood that it is always important to keep some amount of cash for this type of contingency.

Take advantage of any time you get to replace supplies

Although during those years I did not have to be locked in a bunker without being able to leave, the feeling of confinement was quite similar. When, in spite of having the money, you can’t find what you need to eat or, despite having a private vehicle, you can’t move for lack of gasoline, the situation becomes desperate.I understood that in those moments in which there was an opportunity to replace the supplies I had at home, especially water and non-perishable food, I had to do it.

The situation in my country has improved. Although still not at the best economic and social level, and with many problems of scarcity and lack of some supplies, society has been regularized.

However, I appreciate the years that taught me these valuable lessons that I still apply.

The most important thing I learned was to be prepared for when an SHTF situation strikes again.

What are the odds of an organization, organism, or orangutan being systematically wrong one hundred percent of the time? I give you the US Government!

Let’s talk about the pandemic. COVID sprang upon the public consciousness long about 2019. There were many name changes. Remember when we called it Corona? Then Rona, The 19, COVID 19, before finally settling on COVID-19 (Don’t forget the dash) but you couldn’t say that on Facebook or they’d censor it. Like it was gonna go away if you didn’t use the right pronoun. Go figure!

Then entered the venerable Doctor Fauci. I even bought into his line of reasoning. It started with three simple rules: Wash your hands, wear a mask, and avoid crowds. Then there were certain “tweeks” to make sure we were safe. Stay home, don’t go to the store, cancel Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, Yom Kippur and close the schools just for starts. Our kids were now being taught by day drinkers!

Then we were divided into two camps. Masked and unmasked. This was in preparation of the rollout of the vaccine being developed by Pepsi Cola after many hours of testing on eight very special rats. Two rats died and in the spirit of Judge Roy Bean the government announced, “Good Enough, HANG ‘EM!”

Good Enough! HANG ‘EM!

Some cast a jaundiced eye at such a hastily prepared shot, but a large majority took the “Jab.” I lovingly refer to them as pricks. The result being six year olds, athletes, movie stars and more than few soldiers began to drop dead of old age, and anyone connecting the dots was labeled a conspiracy theorist!

Then they came out with boosters. One, two, three, more! A jab to protect you from the jab. And if that ain’t the Bull Dog Clap I’m not a white boy from Austin! Come to think of it being a white boy from Austin was then deemed to be illegal. Had to have a little Arapaho or something in the DNA to become a card carrying member of The Woke Folks. By the way, in reference to those boosters, doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is one of the definitions of insanity. Jus’ Sayin’.

One by one the COVID cards come tumbling down. The stats were so skewed that a lot of reporting entities just stopped reporting. Was it COVID or a cold? Then the schools opened back up. I thought that was a good idea. If the government predictions were accurate putting all the kids in a crowded building would develop herd immunity. Hey, they see us as sheeple, why not let us run in herds? Then thin the herd. But there weren’t any outbreaks of death in the schools, if you discounted active shooters.

And the kids don’t learn anything in public schools anyway outside of Critical Race Theory, New Math, and how to select the proper gender. And after all that they can’t fry an egg, use the right restroom and believe we landed on the sun in 1969! In retrospect I had to walk three miles to and from school, fighting alligators both ways. My memory may be clouded at my age. But, in Japan the kids clean the school. No custodians. Amish kids graduate the eighth grade and go to work right after the wedding. American kids? Well, I’m just gonna leave them right there. They can’t even catch COVID right.

I don’t have the time to itemize all the screw-ups the government has blessed us with. Just look at the alphabet soup: FBI, CIA, IRS, CPS, and you pay these people! If all the above were no longer around anymore can you imagine how much money could be saved! And would you miss ‘em? Just look at the more ridiculous achievements of each:

FBI: Chased a renegade school teacher talking into their sleeves while he was screwing his way across the country, with his 15 year old student girlfriend until he got caught by a local sheriff and an old hippie out in California.

CIA: The Chinese are spying on us with balloons now! Sit down!

IRS: Hired what? Eighty-seven thousand ARMED investigators because you might claim your dog as a dependent?

CPS: Now we might need this one to protect us from the results of public schools.

The title of this article is What Are The Odds? What are the odds of getting everything wrong. Never forget the words of the Prophet Ronald Reagan:

“The nine most dangerous words in the English language are – I’m from the government, and I’m here to help!”

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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 31: Police holds a perimeter in front of burning and rolled over vehicles during a protest near the White House on May 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was arrested for Floyd’s death and is accused of kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he pleaded with him about not being able to breathe. Floyd was pronounced dead a short while later. Chauvin and three other officers, who were involved in the arrest.

The FBI is warning of “plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals”. Many of us live in a capital city and if you have concerns that you could be affected by potentially armed protests, you have some decisions to make quickly.

I took part in a Reddit discussion on r/preppers a couple of days ago about this subject and felt that it warranted a little more exploration for the audience of the Prepper Journal. Time is counting down to prepare for any violence, but there is still plenty of time left if you act now.

The actual events could not materialize and hopefully, the warnings are wrong. I’d like nothing better than to have this inauguration go off without a hitch if the opposite is to have my country continue to devolve. Don’t read anything into my political beliefs with that statement but I do think there are other battles to fight.

I also worry that any new armed protests will be met with counter-protestors this time like Antifa and BLM who may be itching to stir things up. And, if you consider for a minute that the 15,000 National Guard troops that are guarding our capital will be armed, that is a recipe for disaster. Throw two violently opposed sides together and give national guard troops ammo and it could get ugly.

Deciding if you should stay or leave

As I said in my Reddit comments, when faced with this potential you must look at your own situation. Assuming you do not want any part of the armed protests, should they materialize, I think you have two options. You can either plan to hunker down and shelter in place if something happens (might even be mandatory) or bug out before the troubles come marching down your street.

For each person, this decision largely comes down to where you live. Many of us can watch the downtown city burn to the ground from a safe distance and not be affected directly by any armed protests. What is a safe distance? It depends on the city and to some extent, the population size. For someplace like Washington DC, I would not want to be inside a 15-mile radius this coming week. In another city with one 10^th of the population, that safe zone radius may be closer to 1 or 2 miles.

My city is under 300,000 people and when the BLM protests ramped up this summer, they could easily be avoided if you stayed out of certain areas, sometimes just specific streets. They did branch out to the mall and other locations but there was no real critical mass that could not be avoided unless you count the time they blocked the highway. In a place like DC, a mob could easily overwhelm certain areas and there are a lot of people who live within walking distance to the monuments and government office buildings.

Deciding to Bug out after trouble starts puts you at more risk. Sometimes this cannot be avoided. If the chaos comes to you, my recommendation and plan for my family is not to stand my ground and fight it out with hundreds of rioters, but to leave. Pack your bug out bags and the family pets into your trusty bug-out vehicle and get the heck out of dodge.

If you find yourself in that situation always move away from the chaos. Knowing alternate routes out of your neighborhood and city could be necessary and keep you from being trapped. I’ll cover bugging out in a minute. But first, if you are staying put for the armed protests…

Hunkering down requires different planning and you have a little time.

Choosing to stay or being caught in an area with armed protests could be interesting or deadly. I have a pessimistic view of human nature though so I am always leaning toward the possibility that it could go wrong, and I want to take steps to protect my family. This list is just a few of the top-of-mind items I would ensure I had considered if I was hunkering down in an area where we could see violent protests.

Assume that if a lot of violent protests and chaos happens your city may be placed on lockdown. More so if something incredibly tragic like a bomb or some other terroristic type of attack happen. Cities could be cordoned off to investigate the crime or catch criminals. Remember when the Boston bombing and officials locked down the city and began door to door searches. Innocent people were confronted in their homes at gunpoint. Some people had guns pointed at them just for merely peeking through their windows.

That was over 7 years ago. If something more violent happens now, I can easily imagine the response being much more intense. Then again, I imagine lots of things.

The good news is that preparing to hunker down in a city with armed protests down looks just like prepping for a lot of other emergencies. Pretty much all of these prepper supplies should be readily available now or if you hurry, Amazon will get any of the items below to you in two days if you are on Prime.

Stock up on Food and Water

You should already have Food and Water for 2 weeks, ideally 30 days. If the town is shut down for 2 weeks and they are not letting anyone out to go to the store, you probably have bigger problems.

Make sure you have a way to heat your food too. I recommend a good camping stove for dual burners or if you are only heating up dehydrated food with water a smaller stove works just to ensure you have enough fuel for both.

Get Cash out now

Get cash now – Several hundred dollars if you can in smaller denominations. Power or the internet could be knocked out due to bombs or government edict. Without power or internet, ATM’s go down.

Fill up on Gas

If you have a car, fill the tanks in any you do have. Additionally, I would store an extra 5 gallons of fuel outside of your residence. If you have a generator, do this for the generator fuel supply also.

Make sure you can see in the dark

Ensure you have several LED headlamps and spare batteries to see what you are doing in the dark. Headlamps are relatively cheap, and they are so much easier than any other method. LED lanterns are a good room light option, but you don’t want to carry them room to room if it can be avoided.

I personally have boxes of small candles, but they are my emergency fall back redundancy, not my first choice. Candles are a waste of money in my opinion. They don’t put out much light unless you have a ridiculous amount of them, and they are a real fire hazard – IMO

First Aid

Get a decent first aid kit that is not just an assortment of band-aids. There are some good medical kit options out there that you can buy pre-assembled, but I have yet to find one that is worth the price. I have always got something like a wilderness first aid kit and expanded my capabilities with additional items.

I always like to have some additional blood stopper bandages. A CAT tourniquet could not hurt either. Celox or Quick clot stops severe bleeding and it could save your life in a bad injury. OTC pain killer meds and anti-bacterial. Amazon will get this to you before the 20th if you order today.

Security

DC and a few other cities that have restrictive firearm policies are a different beast than most of the US although I know we have a lot of readers who live in these cities. For those who can’t, Bear Spray, Baseball bat, Knife?

For others who have at least one good firearm, make sure it is clean, loaded, safely stored, and easily retrievable by you or another responsible adult. I can’t imagine violence sneaking up on you unannounced in this type of scenario but you never know.

Gas Mask

In a few different circumstances, a Gas mask could be a good idea. Assuming there is no Nuclear, Biological or Chemical threat, a simple respirator might be enough. You could opt for a full-face gas mask which gives your entire face protection or something more lightweight that if worn with protective goggles like a half facepiece respirator. These could be useful if you are living in an area where there is a lot of tear gas deployed.

Large rolls of plastic sheeting and duct tape might be a good purchase too in that case to seal windows, doors, ducts.

Backup power

Power loss could be a factor if something horrific happens so make sure you have warm blankets, sleeping bags, plenty of layers, etc since it is winter. Ensure your electric devices are charged

Additionally, there are some who access their buildings/common areas, maybe a garage with a key fob. If you have a backup key, make sure you have this in case the power goes out.

Communication Plan

Have a plan for letting people you know outside of the area that you are OK if communications are down. In this age of tech everything, might be harder to do. There are virtually no payphones anymore and if cell phone service goes down, I assume landlines would potentially be affected also. I doubt even snail mail would function if some event took down phone service at least temporarily.

If you choose to leave and bug out before armed protests

Bugging Out prior to the event is a much simpler option if you have a place to go well outside of the capital city or someplace like DC (at least 25 miles). If you have to do this after some event, make sure you have paper road maps if you have the car. They work if you are on foot or bike too. GPS backup is most likely going to still work regardless of how bad any protests may get.

Conclusion

As with everything else we all prepare for, I hope this does not come to pass. But being prepared is what we are all about here. Simple steps taken after thoughtful consideration of the risks you could face. Preparedness gives you an advantage if you exercise it.

What items do you have prepared that would make good additions to this list?

Stay safe out there!

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Many are those who predict a World War. Indeed, some groups are preparing for it. But the States are reasonable and, in fact, consider rather an amicable separation, a division of the world into two different worlds, one unipolar and the other multipolar. Perhaps we are actually witnessing a third scenario: the “American Empire” is not struggling in the trap of Thucydides; it is collapsing like its former Soviet rival died.

The American “Straussians,” the Ukrainian “integral nationalists,” the Israeli “revisionist Zionists” and the Japanese “militarists” are calling for a generalized war. They are alone and they are not mass movements. No state has yet committed itself to this course.

Germany with 100 billion euros and Poland with much less money are rearming massively. But neither of them seems eager to take on Russia.

Australia and Japan are also investing in armaments, but neither of them has an autonomous army.

The United States is no longer able to replenish its military and is no longer able to create new weapons. They are content to reproduce the weapons of the 1980s in an assembly line fashion. However, they maintain their nuclear weapons.

Russia has already modernized its armies and is organizing itself to renew the ammunition it uses in Ukraine and to mass produce its new weapons, which no one can compete with. China, for its part, is rearming to control the Far East and, in the long term, to protect its trade routes. India thinks of itself as a maritime power.

It is therefore difficult to see who would and could start a World War.

Contrary to their speeches, French leaders are not at all preparing for a high-intensity war. The military programming law, established for ten years, plans to build a nuclear aircraft carrier, but reduces the size of the army. It is a question of giving ourselves the means of projection, but not of defending our territory. Paris continues to reason as a colonial power while the world is becoming multipolar. It is a classic: the generals prepare for the previous war and ignore the reality of tomorrow.

The European Union is implementing its “Strategic Compass”. The Commission coordinates the military investments of its member states. In practice, they all play the game, but pursue different goals. The Commission, on the other hand, is trying to take control of decisions on the financing of armies, which until now have depended on their national parliaments. This would make it possible to build an empire, but not to declare a generalized war.

Clearly everyone is playing a game, but apart from Russia and China, none is preparing for a high-intensity war. Rather, we are witnessing a redistribution of the cards. This month, Washington is sending Liz Rosenberg and Brian Nelson, two specialists in unilateral coercive measures, to Europe with the mission of forcing the Allies to comply. In the words of former President George Bush Jr. during the war “against terrorism”: “Whoever is not with us is against us”.

Liz Rosenberg is efficient and unscrupulous. She is the one who brought the Syrian economy to its knees, condemning millions of people to poverty because they dared to resist and defeat the Empire’s surrogates.

The Hollywood western discourse a la George Bush Jr. of good guys and bad guys has failed with Türkiye, which has already experienced the 2016 coup attempt and the 2023 earthquake. Ankara knows that it has nothing good to expect from Washington and is already looking to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Yet the same discourse should succeed with the Europeans, who remain fascinated by the power of the United States. Of course this power is in decline, but so are the Europeans. No one has learned any lessons from the sabotage of the Russian-German-French-Dutch gas pipelines, North Stream. Not only did the victims take the blame without saying anything, but they are about to receive further punishment for crimes they did not commit.

The world should therefore be divided into two blocs, on the one hand the US hyperpower and its vassals, on the other the multipolar world. In terms of the number of states, this should be half and half, but in terms of population, only 13% for the Western bloc against 87% for the multipolar world.

The international institutions can no longer function. They should either fall into lethargy or be dissolved. The first examples that come to mind are the effective exit of Russia from the Council of Europe and the empty seats of Western Europeans in the Arctic Council during the year of the Russian presidency. Other institutions are no longer relevant, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which was supposed to organize East-West dialogue. Only the attachment of Russia and China to the United Nations should preserve them in the short term, as the United States is already thinking of transforming the Organization into a structure reserved exclusively for the Allied Nations.

The Western bloc should also reorganize itself. Until now, the European continent was dominated economically by Germany. In order to be certain that Germany would never get closer to Russia, the United States wanted Berlin to be content with the western part of the continent and leave the center in the hands of Warsaw. So Germany and Poland armed themselves to impose themselves in their respective zones of influence, but when the American star faded, they would fight against each other.

When the Soviet Empire fell, it abandoned its allies and vassals. Having seen its inability to solve the problems, the USSR first stopped supporting Cuba economically, then dropped its vassals of the Warsaw Pact, and finally collapsed on itself. The same process is beginning today.

The first U.S. Gulf War, the 9/11 attacks and their host of wars in the broader Middle East, the expansion of Nato and the Ukrainian conflict will have offered only three decades of survival to the American Empire. It was backed by its former Soviet rival. It has lost its raison d’être with its dissolution. It is time for it to disappear too.

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Smart guns, or firearms that can identify the correct user, sound an awful lot like the solution to a lot of problems. It’s something anti-gun forces have wanted to see a long time and, frankly, it seems like something a lot of pro-gun people should be all about, too.

However, we’re not.

Don’t get me wrong, most of us like the idea of guns that really can’t be used if they’re stolen. The issue is…well, there are a ton of issues, really.

Yet over at Investing.com, they think smart guns are about to shake up the market.

Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new wave of government regulation.

Four-year-old LodeStar Works on Friday unveiled its 9mm smart handgun for shareholders and investors in Boise, Idaho. And a Kansas company, SmartGunz LLC, says law enforcement agents are beta testing its product, a similar but simpler model.

Both companies hope to have a product commercially available this year.

LodeStar co-founder Gareth Glaser said he was inspired after hearing one too many stories about children shot while playing with an unattended gun. Smart guns could stop such tragedies by using technology to authenticate a user’s identity and disable the gun should anyone else try to fire it.

They could also reduce suicides, render lost or stolen guns useless, and offer safety for police officers and jail guards who fear gun grabs.

Sure, they could possibly do all that.

They could also refuse to recognize a user, get hacked, or simply fail to operate when you need it.

I get that the companies say they’ve addressed that problem, and they may well have. LodeStar claims that it provided a PIN pad as a backup in case the fingerprint reader doesn’t work, for example. How you’re supposed to key in a PIN in a high-stress situation is beyond me, but that’s supposed to make us all feel better about these guns.

However, there’s something else to be considered here, something you’d expect an investing site to understand. That’s how a market works.

See, smart guns are a product without any real market. Your average gun buyer has little to no interest in a smart gun. Especially since it’s unlikely to be available at a similar cost to something like a Glock or Smith & Wesson M&P.

After all, why spend more for a gun with absolutely no track record? Our standard firearms are essentially using century-old technology that has more than proven itself.

“But law enforcement is testing them out. Surely they’ll provide a track record, right?”

I don’t think so. After all, I’m skeptical of those claims. Look at what SmartGunz said about that, as well as the price:

SmartGunz would not say which law enforcement agencies are testing its weapons, which are secured by radio frequency identification. SmartGunz developed a model selling at $1,795 for law enforcement and $2,195 for civilians, said Tom Holland, a Kansas Democratic state senator who co-founded the company in 2020.

So, we don’t know which departments are testing this so we can’t even ask the cops how it works for them, and we get to pay more than three times what a regular firearm costs?

Sign me the hell up.

Honestly, I like technology. I’m not an early adopter, though, because I’ve seen too much technology show up with a bang and then fizzle into nothing. I waited to get a VCR until we knew whether to go VHS or Beta. I didn’t go with DVD until I knew it would be around a while. I waited to go with BluRay until HDDVD was a thing of the past.

But I do love seeing new technology take hold.

One of these days, we probably will have smart guns on our shelves. However, these manufacturers are deluding themselves if they think we’re going to trip over ourselves to buy guns that we can’t trust for three or four times the cost.

And investor websites should come to understand that fact as well.

On December 6th President Trump’s words shook the world.

For the first time in over 2000 years, Jerusalem was recognized as the capital of Israel.

Whether he knows it or not, President Trump fulfilled his part in a frightening biblical prophecy exactly as the scriptures predicted.

Only the top church leaders and Bible scholars know the real meaning behind this great and terrible moment, yet no one is saying a thing about it…

So pay chose attention because this video will change your life forever for the good!

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We don’t all get to choose where we live; at least, not the state we live in. For most of us, that’s determined by our work; we live where our jobs are. But what about when our jobs no longer determine where we live? Can that happen? It usually does when we reach retirement.

Granted, most people don’t move once they retire, but you’d be surprised how many people actually do. The area where I live has tens of thousands of retired winter residents who come down here to escape the cold weather “up north.” Some of those people come for the winter and just end up staying on, becoming permanent residents in the area. So if they can, you and I can too.

That raises the question of where we would go to retire, if we could go anywhere we want. As preppers, there’s more to that question for us, than there is for our friends and neighbors (unless they are preppers too). We obviously would want to go somewhere where we can live comfortably, even should a TEOTWAWKI scale disaster strike.

My Criteria

This is actually a fairly complex question, with a lot of factors involved. So let me see if I can thin it out a bit for you. I’m not going to tell you where you should go; but let me offer you a glimpse of states that you should avoid going to. I’m basing my decisions on the following criteria:

• Population Density – The higher the population density of an area, the more of a fight for resources. This fight will probably hurt the poor, the aging and single mothers more than anyone, as they will not have the ability to fight. Survival of the fittest will take over, as people literally fight for the available resources. That’s enough to make many areas unattractive.
• Average Annual Rainfall – We all know that water is going to be a problem in a post-disaster world. Areas with little rainfall and few rivers will be hard to live in. For most of us, the best way of harvesting water is probably going to be rainfall capture, so we’re going to need a lot of rainfall.
• Political Leaning – While we all assume that government services and interference in our lives is going to be severely curtailed during a post-disaster situation, we have to think about the here and now as well. Many of the bluest states in the country are also the ones which are working the hardest to take away our Second Amendment rights. That alone is enough to say that those states aren’t a good place to move to.
• Federally Owned Land – A lot of people talk about bugging out to the wild. That’s great; I have my own plans for that as well. But in most cases, the only practical place to bug out into the wild is federally owned land; national parks, national forests and other land under the control of the federal government. So states with little federal land ownership aren’t all that attractive for preppers to retire to.
• Forestation – The most practical means of heating a home in a post-disaster world, especially one in which there is no electricity, is with wood. That means having a lot of forests available, where you can cut that wood. This leaves out huge swaths of the nation, such as the entire breadbasket, which is farmland, nor forests.

There may be other criteria which are important to consider; but I limited myself to those five. To me, those seem like the major ones which will affect a prepper’s ability to survive, both in a pre-disaster and a post-disaster world.

The Worst States

Based on that, here are my picks for the worst states to retire in, if you’re a prepper:

• New York – I lived in upstate New York for a number of years and it is absolutely beautiful. There are miles and miles of hardwood forests, lakes and rivers. But even so, the state is one of the most heavily populated in the country. It is also one of the most left-leaning states, politically speaking, with some of the harshest anti-gun laws around. It would be a very difficult state to survive in.
• California – In many ways, California and New York are copies of each other. Both have a high population and both are strongly blue. While California has a lot going for it, in the area of natural resources, it has the highest population of any state in the Union. We can expect many people to expand outwards from the major population centers, gobbling up everything in their path. I sure wouldn’t want to be in their path.
• Florida – At first glance, Florida looks like a great place to go and a lot of people retire there. But much of the state is covered up by the Everglades. Unless you are going to learn how to survive in that harsh environment, it might not be a great place to be. The lack of forestation really isn’t much of an issue, as you aren’t really going to have to heat your home. But you are going to have to worry about hurricanes, which seem to have an affinity for the state.
• Arizona – Another popular retirement state that’s going to be a mess in a post-disaster world. Arizona is extremely hot, even hotter than South Texas and the Florida peninsula. But there is very little water to be found. That alone is enough to put this state on our worst list. I seriously doubt there will be many people surviving in the heat of Arizona, without access to water.
• Minnesota – Minnesota is known as “the land of 1,000 lakes” so there’s no shortage of water there. They’re pretty good in the forestation department too. So there’s actually a lot going for this state. But it and its neighbor Wisconsin have very high populations. Unless you could get way out in the boonies, it might be hard to avoid the crowds. Of course, way out in the boonies means the coldest parts of the state, so you have the problem of cold to contend with. That not only affects how much wood you need for your fire, but the very short growing season will make it hard to grow enough food to eat.

Granted, there are a lot of other states which we can rule out, based upon the same criteria. Pretty much all of both the eastern and western seaboards would be bad places to go, for the same reasons I’ve already mentioned. The trick is finding someplace that is good to move to.

My Picks for Best States

Everyone has their own opinion, but here are my top picks for the best states or regions for retiring in as a prepper. These choices were made based on the same criteria that I used for picking the worst states.

• Eastern Texas – While Texas isn’t a perfect survival location, there are a lot of good areas in the Hill Country and eastern Texas where there is good forestation and water.
• Idaho, Western Montana and Western Wyoming – This whole area is excellent; providing a lot of forestation, water, federally owned land, rainfall and good hunting. Although far enough north that cold would be a bit of a problem, I would call this the best area of the country to have a retirement home and/or survival retreat.
• The Appalachian Mountains – This mountain range, passing through several states and changing names a number of times, is a great place to live. While there are some high population areas to avoid, there’s still a lot of back country, which would be ideal for our purposes. I’d avoid the Virginias though, for their political leaning.
• The Gulf Coast – There’s a lot of good land in the gulf states, along with people who like to hunt and fish. While there really isn’t much government land to bug out to, there are lots of forests, lots of water and lots of game to hunt.

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Martial law was originally intended to be used when the United States was under attack during a war.  The precept was to maintain control and a semblance of order, and also to make provisions for the necessity of troops fighting in the United States and the shifting of civic and government assets toward the conduct of the war and wartime industries.  It is supposed to be utilized when the existence of the nation is in grave danger.  Unfortunately, that is not what its purpose is now, under the Obama administration.  Now it is the means to reach the end state: The Totalitarian State.

PREPARE FOR ANY DISASTER

Obama and his administration, to include such notables as Jeh Johnson, the head of the Department of Homeland Security have already formulated the plans for COG (Continuity of Government) operations to take place immediately following the implementation of martial law.  All of this has nothing to do with protecting the country, and it is completely nebulous and ambiguous, as the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) of 2014 effectively declared the entire United States and the world as a “battlefield in the war on terror.”

Such would ensure a “smoother” transition for Obama to declare the United States under attack even if not a single foreign soldier’s boot touches America’s shores.  Let us place this into a concept in the context of what we have covered:

When Martial Law is implemented, the Constitution will no longer have any effect, and the United States will then be under the rule of Totalitarian Law.

Let’s Look at the Facts

Let those words burn in, Readers, as many are undoubtedly thinking, “This’ll never happen in the U.S.,” or “That’s just fear-mongering.”

No, it is happening in the United States, and it’s a warning based upon facts, not fear, arrived at from the actions of the Obama administration over the past (almost) 8 years.

It is a fact that Anwar al-Alawki, the American-born Muslim cleric was assassinated in Yemen by a drone strike without any attempt at extradition back to the United States and in violation of his rights under the Constitution.  It is also a fact that Christopher Dormer, a former soldier and police officer was killed by a drone strike on U.S. soil instead of bringing him into custody under due process of law.

There is no more due process of law.  The police shoot first.  If the circumstances are nebulous, did you notice how the perpetrator always “commits suicide,” or “he’s killed by police officers” and never makes it to the courtroom?

Another fact that is worse: we have a sitting U.S. president whose Secretary of State at the time (Hillary Clinton) allowed…. allowed, mind you…the Embassy of the United States of America…in Libya…to be destroyed, and the American Ambassador and four of his staff to be tortured and killed.  When asked what caused it all, Clinton responded with “What difference does it make?”  Look at Solyndra, look at Fast and Furious, look at ICANN and the Internet giveaway, look at Obamacare, look at Clinton’s e-mail scandal, and look at all of the unconstitutional Executive Orders and actions.

As soon as Obama can declare Martial Law, he will declare it; he’s creating the conditions leading up to such a declaration such as (but not limited to) war, economic chaos, civil unrest, and intentionally weakening the military of the United States of America.

History Has Shown Us All Along What Will Happen Next

History shows us what to expect under Martial Law and the eventual Totalitarian State that it will usher in.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote “The Gulag Archipelago.”  For a primer on totalitarianism and its inception and creation, look no further.  Look to history, for it is not limited by cultural or linguistic boundaries: it is the history of mankind, and therefore it is our history…yours and mine.

“They took those who were too independent, too influential…too well-to-do, too intelligent, too noteworthy.  They arrested officers everywhere.  Thus the population was shaken up, forced into silence, and left without any possible leaders of resistance.” – “Gulag Archipelago I,” page 77

Call it Communism, call it Totalitarianism…it is all the same.  As you may well realize, they will institute these measures by playing upon the fears and base needs of the population.

“The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag…the American people will hoist it themselves.” –Nikita Khrushchev, 6/19/1962, Bucharest, Romania

It was Benito Mussolini, Dictator of Fascist Italy during WWII that first coined the phrase Totalitarian Society.  He had as his motto:

 “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” 

The stage has already been set in the United States.  The only thing that awaits is the right opportunity, the right moment.

“Never let a crisis go to waste.” – Rahm Emmanuel, Former Obama staffer, current Mayor of Chicago

A little-known work exists that documents the truth behind a society’s demise from free and open to totalitarian…the “Fundamental Transformation,” to paraphrase Barack Hussein Obama II’s campaign slogan.  The work is entitled “Vietnam Under Communism, 1975-1982,” by Nguyen Van Canh, ISBN 0-8179-7851-8.  Here are a few excerpts:

“In rural areas, all cultivated land had been confiscated and made part of agricultural cooperatives.  For dwelling purposes, each family was given a small lot on which to build a home and cultivate a small private garden…Ho Chi Minh, in early 1969, issued a decree saying that the lot allocated to each family was only on loan to it, since the real owner was the State.

State ownership, disguised by such phrases as “the people’s collective mastery of society” has been extended to virtually all forms of property.  In the official view, this means that man no longer exploits man; in practice, it means that the State exploits everybody.”

 “Vietnam Under Communism, 1975-1982,” pg. 23

Re-education camps sprung up all over Vietnam after the North took control of the South.  The book painfully chronicles how any undesirables, such as intellectuals, former elected officials, schoolteachers, doctors – basically anyone the Communists chose – were went to re-education camps.  The internees were subjected to a barrage of communist dogma and forced to regurgitate it flawlessly on paper and in speech.  Torture, medical deprivation, forced hunger, and summary execution were the tools employed in the camps.  The Vietnamese also have concentration/forced labor camps that they claim to “exemplify the spirit of collectivism.”

Another work that bears mention is “The Bridge at Andau,” by James Michener written in 1957.  If you want to learn about the heroic resistance of the Hungarians to throw off the yoke of the USSR, this is the book to read.  There is much to be learned from it, and here is an excerpt that shows how true rule under a totalitarian state is administered:

“If there is a single shot from any house, destroy the whole house.  If there are many shots from a street, shoot down every building in the street.” Pg. 76

Remember how Obama signed treaties in the years 2011-2013 with other nations that permitted foreign troops to be deployed on American soil?  Yes, Obama has that right under treaty with a provision that the foreigners are asked to come in to help restore order if he cannot execute the laws of the United States as the Chief Executive Officer.  There is great precedence here.  King George III imported Hessian mercenaries into the Colonies to fight against the Rebels.  In “The Bridge at Andau,” this was done by the Soviets, as cited here:

“…foot soldiers took over…troops patrolling Budapest were found to be Mongols from the Central Asian Republics.   Why had they been brought in?  Because the original troops from Russia proper had been garrisoned in Hungary…so long that they had become too human and could not be depended upon to shoot civilians.

            From this it would appear that Russia has adopted a Draconian policy of never using troops in their own native countryside, but always moving into disaffected areas shock troops from remote parts of the empire, and knowing that troops from any given area cannot be trusted to massacre their own kin.”

“The Bridge at Andau,” pages 82-83

When Martial Law occurs, then will come the FEMA camps and detention centers.  Then will come the “reeducation camps,” already suggested for the undesirables such as Constitutionalists, patriots, veterans, and government protestors.

The reeducation camps were actually “suggested” for the United States by none other than former Weather Underground convicted-then-pardoned terrorist William “Bill” Ayers…a man who bombed the Pentagon…and later became a mentor and sponsor to Barack Obama, the current U.S. president.

Travel will be restricted; communication will be suspended.  The economy will collapse, and there will be arrests, detentions, and executions.  The United States as we know it will either cease to exist or change in form.

Do not either be complacent or fall into a state of denial.  These things are metastasizing before our very eyes.  All that is needed is a spark to kindle the bonfire.  Read Orwell’s “1984” to see what it can progress to if we lose in our struggle.  The battle is already joined.  Anyone who you can make aware of what is happening and what will soon happen is perhaps one less person to serve the State and the regime that is coming.

Read the history books.  Regarding heinous things such as descent into totalitarianism, history does repeat itself, unless you use the positive lessons of what people have done to stop it and arrest it.  War is coming, and it will be a war that is used as the trigger to inculcate martial law.  Please keep in mind my caveat:

The next world war will begin with an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) weapon/device detonated over the continental U.S., followed by a limited nuclear exchange and then conventional warfare.

Real estate, oil and the employment numbers are all telling us the same thing, and that is really bad news for the U.S. economy.  It really does appear that economic activity is starting to slow down significantly, but just like in 2008 those that are running things don’t want to admit the reality of what we are facing.  Back then, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke insisted that the U.S. economy was not heading into a recession, and we later learned that a recession had already begun when he made that statement.  And as you will see at the end of this article, current Fed Chair Jerome Powell says that he is “very happy” with how the U.S. economy is performing, but he shouldn’t be so thrilled.  Signs of trouble are everywhere, and we just got several more pieces of troubling news.

Thanks to aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, the average rate on a 30 year mortgage is now up to about 4.8 percent.  Just like in 2008, that is killing the housing market and has us on the precipice of another real estate meltdown.

And some of the markets that were once the hottest in the entire country are leading the way down.  For example, just check out what is happening in Manhattan;

In the third quarter, the median price for a one-bedroom Manhattan home was $815,000, down 4% from the same period in 2017. The volume of sales fell 12.7%.

Of course things are even worse at the high end of the market.  Some Manhattan townhouses are selling for millions of dollars less than what they were originally listed for.

Sadly, Manhattan is far from alone.  Pending home sales are down all over the nation.  In October, U.S. pending home sales were down 4.6 percent on a year over year basis, and that was the tenth month in a row that we have seen a decline;

Hope was high for a rebound (after new-home-sales slumped), but that was dashed as pending home sales plunged 2.6% MoM in October (well below the expected 0.5% MoM bounce).

Additionally, Pending Home Sales fell 4.6% YoY – the 10th consecutive month of annual declines…

When something happens for 10 months in a row, I think that you can safely say that a trend has started.

Sales of new homes continue to plummet as well.  In fact, we just witnessed a 12 percent year over year decline for sales of new single family houses last month…

Sales of new single-family houses plunged 12% in October, compared to a year ago, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 544,000 houses, according to estimates by the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

With an inventory of new houses for sale at 336,000 (seasonally adjusted), the supply at the current rate of sales spiked to 7.4 months, from 6.5 months’ supply in September, and from 5.6 months’ supply a year ago.

If all of this sounds eerily similar to 2008, that is because it is eerily similar to what happened just before and during the last financial crisis.

Up until now, at least the economic optimists could point to the employment numbers as a reason for hope, but not anymore.

In fact, initial claims for unemployment benefits have now risen for three weeks in a row;

The number of Americans filing applications for jobless benefits increased to a six-month high last week, which could raise concerns that the labor market could be slowing.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 234,000 for the week ended Nov. 24, the highest level since the mid-May, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Claims have now risen for three straight weeks.

This is also similar to what we witnessed back in 2008.  Jobless claims started to creep up, and then when the crisis fully erupted there was an avalanche of job losses.

And, just like 10 years ago, we are starting to see a lot of big corporations announce major layoffs.

General Motors greatly upset President Trump when they announced that they were cutting 14,000 jobs just before the holidays, but GM is far from alone.  For a list of some of the large firms that have just announced layoffs, please see my previous article entitled “U.S. Job Losses Accelerate: Here Are 10 Big Companies That Are Cutting Jobs Or Laying Off Workers”.

A third parallel to 2008 is what is happening to the price of oil.

In 2008, the price of oil shot up to a record high before falling precipitously.

Well, now a similar thing has happened.  Earlier this year the price of oil shot up to $76 a barrel, but this week it slid beneath the all-important $50 barrier;

Oil’s recent slide has shaved more than a third off its price. Crude fell more than 1% Thursday to as low as $49.41 a barrel. The last time oil closed below $50 was in October 4, 2017. By mid morning the price had climbed back to above $51.

Concerns about oversupply have sent oil prices into a virtual freefall: Crude hit a four-year high above $76 a barrel less than two months ago.

When economists are asked why the price of oil is falling, the primary answer they give is because global economic activity is softening.

And that is definitely the case.  In fact, we just learned that economic confidence in the eurozone has declined for the 11th month in a row;

Euro-area economic confidence slipped for an 11th straight month, further damping expectations that the currency bloc will rebound from a sharp growth slowdown and complicating the European Central Bank’s plans to pare back stimulus.

In addition, we just got news that the Swiss and Swedish economies had negative growth in the third quarter.

The economic news is bad across the board, and it appears undeniable that a global economic downturn has begun.

But current Fed Chair Jerome Powell insists that he is “very happy about the state of the economy”;

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve’s chairman, has also taken an optimistic line, declaring in Texas recently that he was “very happy about the state of the economy.”

That is just great.  He can be as happy as he wants, and he can continue raising interest rates as he sticks his head in the sand, but nothing is going to change economic reality.

Every single Fed rate hiking cycle in history has ended in a market crash and/or a recession, and this time won’t be any different.

The Federal Reserve created the “boom” that we witnessed in recent years, but we must also hold them responsible for the “bust” that is about to happen.

The world had seen many killers from the historical times.

The political unrest and chaos in economy and society are always a contributing factor to the emergence of killers around the world. The chaotic environments always help them to rise to the top and then to survive. They usually become so arrogant and ruthless when they are in power. It is very difficult to remove them from their power base through the available democratic means, unless a revolution or an outside force confronts them.

They believe they work for a greater change in the society but the ways and means to achieve those objectives are ruthless, unethical and sometimes ridiculous.

Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu came to power in an era when the country was facing a fascist threat after the Second World War and made some stability. But Ceausescu was criticized while most of the Romanians were starving as the result of austerity program in cold and living in the dark, he and his family were enjoying the wealth and comfort. There was an estimate that around 15,000 Romanians died per year as the direct result of the Ceausescu’s infamous austerity program while he was maintaining an alleged Swiss bank account.

Indonesia’s Mohamed Suharto was clever enough in tackling the issues of sensitive national interests and boosting the country’s economy into greater heights. But his atrocities towards the neighboring East Timor were so horrific to anyone to imagine. Suharto ordered in 1975 his army to invade into East Timor, which resulted into massacring of unarmed civilians. There were many thousands of people killed. The entire villages were destroyed. The farmers were summoned to military camps and put into starvation until they died. Suharto banned the teaching of Timorese language in schools and brought Indonesians to colonise the East Timor.

Adolf Hitler brought some stability when Germany was in near collapse by the effects of the First World War and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles.

The Killers are over the time deviating from their original standing of building nations towards a path which is more self-serving and murderous. Some killers are very much ignorant and corrupt and their actions are ridiculous in achieving their dreams and thoughts.

Uganda’s Idi Amin ruined the once flourished country’s economy by expelling foreign professional and business people. He antagonized even the natives who were not from the community he belonged to. His terror and killings of his opponents were wordless to describe and left a dark chapter in Uganda’s history. He made the nation into a mess which took decades to overcome.

Burma’s Ne Win and his cronies turned the once prospered Burma into a very poor nation of Asia.

Adolf Hitler played a heinous game for coming into power and then to be survived by anti-Semitic slogans from the very beginning and then by massacring them in the concentration camps.

Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic well exploited the differences and distrust among the Croats, Serbs, Muslims and Christians in Yugoslavia

Japan’s Prince Yasuhiko Asaka made use of his imperialistic powers with militarism to massacre thousands of people in the region. But Prince Asaka’s total responsibility for the Nanjing massacre is still a matter of debate. Some historians contend that Asaka actually signed the order for Japanese soldiers in Nanjing to “kill all captives.” But others claim a member of the staff of the Central China Area Army sent this order under the prince’s sign manual.

The society also plays its own part in producing the killers, the way it produces the heroes and the champions of historical importance. The darker side of the society which is invisible to recognize, discriminates many individuals from their early childhood and make a lasting impact in producing and nurturing the killers out of them.

The killers never regretted in their life time or in their last days before they rested in their infamous tombs.

They believed what they did, was always right.