What if the wheels come off the wagon and the police are no longer guardians of peace. What would the police do if they became hungry and angry, just like the masses

Full disclosure: I am one of them. Or I was one of them, to be more accurate. I’m retired now, so I spend my days watching the lawn grow and pondering various “what-ifs”. One of these gedankenexperiments is: “What if the wheels come off the wagon and the police are no longer guardians of peace. What would the police do if they became hungry and angry, just like the masses.” My wife thinks I should get a hobby, to which I answer I already have one: prepping.

For 27 years I worked in law enforcement for several agencies. Most of my career was spent at the federal level, but not all. I worked in the pacific northwest, the coastal south, and the upper Midwest. I worked in both rural areas and major population centers. I traveled internationally as part of my job and observed how my counterparts operate in Thailand and South Africa. I base the following perspectives on the totality of my experiences- the training, the personal relationships, and basic knowledge of how law enforcement (LE)  operates.

I attended five police academies – nearly two years of my adult life were spent in formal training environments. Most smart people in law enforcement only attend one, maybe two academies but ambition, restlessness, or frustration propelled me to jump ship to different agencies several times. I spent the first third of my career as a uniformed patrol officer and the remainder as an investigator, in both covert and overt capacities. I was a firearms instructor for many years and continue in this role on a part-time basis in retirement. I mention this history so you understand how my background influences my thinking.

The following is my personal opinion and nothing more. I represent no agency nor ever will again.
Let’s imagine a scenario where daily norms have taken a sudden turn for the worse. The power grid becomes unreliable, supply chains are stressed, the threat of civil war looms on the horizon, foreign adversaries become more menacing in their threats and actions, the cost of food increases 3% every month, health care systems are overwhelmed and criminals are exploiting gaps in public safety due to defunded and demoralized police. Just a couple of years ago, all of this would’ve seemed awfully far-fetched, right? But how about now?

So what happens to the police when the crashing waves get bigger and bigger until the castle of sand we know as society washes into the sea? How should a prepper approach both planning and the actuality of limited police, no police, or even illegitimate police?

Disclaimer: I worked with hundreds of LEOs during my career and can attest the vast majority are honest, dedicated, and professional. Many, like myself, were drawn to the career to be part of something larger than themselves and to make the world a better place. However, there was a basic unwritten social contract in place: the community-supported police by providing salary and benefits, prosecutors would aggressively pursue those who hurt the police, and the courts and penal system harshly punished the same. What happens when those prongs of the social contract no longer exist? What happens when the angry, hungry mobs rise en masse, with complete disregard for previous norms, with no accountability for their actions? What happens when police no longer are held accountable? Here are some scenarios:

POLICE BECOME THEIR OWN MAG

In this scenario, the police go into classic “bunker mode” and focus resources on protecting police stations and officers’ personal homes and families. The police become an exclusive mutual assistance group (MAG) consisting of their own, with the sole mission of protecting their workplace and residences. Response to calls for outsider assistance will be minimal to non-existent.

POLICE BECOME PRIVATE SECURITY

In this scenario, police devote their resources to protecting whoever can compensate them in food and durable goods, such as retailers, warehouses, and shipping terminals. Or possibly to affluent people who can reward protection of life and property with precious metals and other valuables. Again, response to non-compensating requests for assistance will be minimal or non-existent.

POLICE BECOME PART OF THE ANGRY HORDE

In this scenario, society has fully unraveled into every man for themselves and the police are indiscernible from the looters, scavengers, and thieves. Police exploit access to food storage facilities, warehouses, and retailers. Although rare in modern events of mass looting and civil disorder, such extralegal police-involved looting and theft did occur to a limited extent during Hurricane Katrina and most recently in Durban, South Africa.

AFGHAN-STYLE DISSOLUTION

Perhaps Afghanistan isn’t a perfect template for how the United States would collapse into lawlessness, mainly because we don’t have a resident army of adherents to 7th century Sharia law–not yet at least. However, it does provide insight as to what happens when a country’s internal security apparatus falls apart. As witnessed in just the past two weeks, when the Taliban were no longer contained, the Afghan officers quickly discarded their uniforms, walked away from their posts, and abandoned hope that the government they were part of would protect them. Their focus simply became their own survival, and survival of their families. The Afghan police did not fall into any of the previous examples. They simply disintegrated into a non-entity.

THE POLICE ADVANTAGE

But let’s not overlook the fact that police officers, for valid reasons, have certain advantages which will be especially useful in the event of SHTF situations. Officers are regularly trained in weapon and defensive tactics. Officers have access to various small arms, chemical deterrents, ammunition, Kevlar vests, radio systems, and possibly even surplus armored vehicles. But most importantly, police have each other- a group of like-minded, motivated people they train with and conduct tactical operations with. They know how each other think, they know how each other will move, and they know how each other will react in fluid situations. They know what each other’s specific role is and that supporting each other is key to mission success. As preppers, to have similar dynamics in place would be invaluable when the Schumer Hits The Fan (SHTF).

WHAT THE PREPPER CAN DO

First, recognize the “good guys” might not be in a position to respond when the SHTF and if circumstances get dire enough, the good guys could even become bad guys. This isn’t a criticism of police officers but a reflection of the proven adage that when people are hungry and scared, they become capable of actions previously believed unthinkable. A great read on this dynamic is the excellent account of a blogger named Selco, who survived the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s.

One specific prep that readers can adopt is forming a MAG in your immediate domain, where you become the protection provider in the absence of civil authority. Some ideas to consider:

1. Establishing a core group of sheepdogs, namely close friends and family, neighbors, and like-minded persons. Focus on identifying earnest persons committed to protecting residences and property and mutual resources such as water supply, crops, wildlife, and human life.

2. Establishing mutual communications, such as ham radios and CBs. Every member of the group should have a home base station, mobile radios for vehicles, and handhelds with compatible frequencies. Total cost for a complete UHF/VHF radio setup can be as low as $600, depending on manufacturer. (An example of a simple, practical comms set up would be a Wouxon KG-B55 Dual-band base station at buytwowayradios.com for $399, a QYT KT-8900D car radio for $80 and a couple of Baofeng GT-3WP handhelds for $45 each at that Brazilian river website that we all dislike.

Sidenote: 
There’s another issue regards FCC licensing and obligation to allow inspection. This topic could be a feature article of its own… in a nutshell, yes, a federal law passed in 1934 does require radio operators (licensed and unlicensed) allow for FCC inspection of radio equipment, including inside their homes. I’m not going to do a deep dive into the legal aspects now but don’t forget: the 4th amendment protects citizens from unwarranted government searches.

3. Obtain group tactical training from someone with actual bona fides in small unit tactics. I say this because not all tactical trainers are created equal; avoid the big talking barrel suckers who learned their close quarters combat techniques via YouTube.

4. Sponsor training sessions with your core group of sheepdogs along with your and their families. Involve all attendees in the training, whether it be a simulated hostage rescue of a family, a mass injury first aid response, or vehicle cover and concealment drills. Make it fun, and have a bbq dinner at the end of the training. Recognize the days those skills get put to actual use is going to be sooner, not later.\

CONCLUSION

I hope that the foregoing provided some insider perspective of what to expect when the police no longer answer 911 calls. I suspect there may be some pushback from police officers regarding what I’ve posited in respect to police abandoning their oaths and becoming bad guys under certain circumstances. My response is everyone is capable of doing bad things, especially during periods of intense strife, badge or no badge. The more we acknowledge such and prepare for it, the less likely that we’ll become bad guys, too.

The only thing left to destroy in a world populated by elites alone, are other elites. It would seem that the desire to dominate others does not simply come to an end on its own

With the UN World Food Program announcing that some 270 million people worldwide now face starvation, the ongoing debate about the real aims of the technocracy is profound. The question is whether their aim tends more towards major population reduction, or more towards a new type of slavery.

It appears that philosophical and long-term practical questions remain a mystery. We will argue that evil, not simply the influence of the base upon the superstructure, is at the core of this endeavor. We have defined evil as inflicting the highest degree of pain upon the greatest number of resisting subjects. In short, we have defined evil as sadism, inflicting evil because it brings satisfaction to those inflicting it.

Because evil is fundamentally a destructive force, it cannot create anything: nothing in it is truly novel nor of use to humanity. Its pleasures are short-lived and spurious. It is unsustainable, self-defeating, ultimately leading to self-destruction.

We have adequately assessed from any number of sources that nefarious interests are behind this process, who seek to make the process also about the exercise of power, in addition to several other aims (remaining in power, exercising power in ways consistent with their occult beliefs about evil, etc.). We understand that they are ‘evil’ because they involve a type of ‘power-over’ (as opposed to power-with/consent) which derives this power from fear-mongering and terrorism upon the population. Terrorism here is defined as the operationalized use of fear, pain, and other injury towards socio-political aims.

Had their plans not been rooted in evil, they would have used soft-power tactics like manufacturing consent, to arrive at their ends.

The aim of the Great Reset is to transition the ruling plutocratic oligarchy into a technocratic one. The basis of plutocracy is finance, and the introduction of AI and automation eliminates the basis for finance as the foundation of an economy of scale. This is because automation and deflation move in tandem, making new technologies net losers. Therefore a new paradigm accounting for this post-financial ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, must be introduced.

But the ideology of the Great Reset is based within the old financialist paradigm, which is one of cost externalization. When human beings are no longer involved in the valorization process in the production of goods and services, then humanity itself is the cost that requires externalization – elimination.

But how it is that sadism became the occult religion of the ruling class, presents a “chicken-or-the-egg” type of question. That is, did the corporate ideology mutate into occult sadism, or did occult sadism find its expression through the corporate ideology? This question will no doubt form the basis of later inquiry.

We often defer to nefarious motivations or processes in terms of ‘greed’, or ‘self-interest’, ‘power obsession’ or the ‘crisis of capital accumulation’, ‘speculative bubbles’.

And these do not suffice in the final analysis, though they provide explanatory power. The problem arises in predictive power, because while we face a crisis of diminishing returns due to automation (as the increasing tendency towards net loss on new large capital investments), the real psychological needs that motivate the present plutocracy as a power-group are actually undermined in significant and sudden population reduction, or new post-coercive technologies that eliminate human agency. This may seem counter-intuitive, but in light of an understanding of the self-defeating nature of evil, we will explore this question.

When we map out the probabilities of three intersecting policy vectors, we can understand this question even better. Those policy vectors are a.) neuralink/AI/Neural Implants/magneto proteins and related transhumanism, b.) depopulation as part of stated Agenda 2030 goals, c.) automation/roboticization, 4IR, and IoT.

This will follow from our last piece on the subject, The Great Reset Morality: Euthanization of the Inessentials:

Neural Implants

The development and introduction of neural implantsmagneto proteins, etc., can go in any number of directions. Some types of these promise to give elites ‘super-human’ cognitive abilities. However, another very practical application is to mandate that these are used on the general populace as to handicap them or control their thoughts in some way.

In that sense, neural implants can work like pharmaceuticals are used in psychiatry. In the creation of this sort of Huxleyesque ‘Brave New World’, we can easily see the continuation of a paradigm already existing today. This is one where it is common-place to find various predictable depressions, anxieties, and neuroticisms caused by contemporary social conditions, but treated psychiatrically instead of resolved socio-economically.

Neural implants can also perform a similar function, but go even further. Beyond emotions or basic effect on the re-uptake of certain hormones like serotonin, etc.; neural implants can direct thoughts or change whole cognitive processes. Beyond feelings, drives, and impulses, neural implants promise to produce actual thoughts in the minds of the subject.

n between these two is a hybrid form – nanotech and chemogenetics working with optogenetics. Because the delivery system to the brain can be through injection, nanolipids and other compounds can come in the form of shots. These can be delivered as part of a required ‘vaccination’ regimen (insofar as that term has been redefined), as nanotech features already in the Covid-19 shot.

Therefore, such can be included – whether disclosed to the public or not – in required vaccinations.

The development of these would seem, however, to be a technology that would support slavery, but does not rule out genocide. Certainly the ability to control the thoughts of a population would greatly mitigate risk in the view of the state apparatus, especially as it moves towards genocide.

Depopulation: Myths vs. Facts

Population control and population reduction have long been policy at various institutions and think tanks committed to global governance, from the UN to the World Economic Forum. It was a part of the UN’s Millennium goals, and since the dawn of the 21st century, has been part of UN Agenda 2030.

It is important to now introduce a framework for understanding the problem of population in light of economic development. The long standing view is that economic development leads to population stagnation, even decline. The idea here is that education and urbanization are processes which lead towards better knowledge of basic family planning, in tandem with improved access to abortion and birth control.

The underlying postulate is that people naturally do not want to be burdened with children, that children are an affront to freedom in the abstract. The formula is that as people are better educated and have more meaningful work and interesting lives, they know both how to prevent pregnancy and also no longer have ‘primitive’ inclinations towards large family building.

This mythology was built up around a notion that people are fundamentally self-interested in the narrowest sense, to the exclusion of other desires, needs, and impulses. They are presented as the norm such to furthermore create a broader culture which opposes procreation.

Instead, the real mechanism pushing population stagnation in the 1st world are increased pressures of work, and increased costs of living. Rather than ascribing population stagnation to improved conditions of life, these are more related to austere conditions imposed by late modernity. The costs of property, of rents, of food, and also because of the decline in quality of goods through increased planned obsolescence, has placed more economic pressure on individuals and couples. It has led to the requirement that both members of a household are working full-time. And even with this, home ownership in cosmopolitan centers is practically impossible for most. Austerity has also led to stagnation in life expectancy.

This truth is exposed in actual policy papers like “New strategies for slowing population growth” (1995). Here, the doublespeak is evident, with easily decipherable phrases within it; “…reduce unwanted pregnancies by expanding services that promote reproductive choice and better health, to reduce the demand for large families by creating favorable conditions for small families…”. What could possibly be meant by ‘create favorable conditions for small families’?

Economic development does not reduce population, but if we add austerity and demanding and inflexible work obligations, then we land on an answer. Economic prosperity, as it has for time immemorial, promises to greatly increase the population in the absence of a program of population reduction. Because an organic 4IR not brought in by the technocracy would decrease work obligations and increase quality of life markers, we would expect a population boom.

Consequently, projections that that population will top off at just under 10 billion by the 2060’s are as erroneous as they are linear. Without a technocracy working to actively reduce population, as they believe, an economy based on automation and AI would see a population explosion.

Conclusion

It is still likely that the would-be technocrats have indeed thought out the end-game, and that there are any number of possibilities that will allow them to harvest sadistic pleasure as an exercise of absolute power, in perpetuity. This might mean increasing fear of extermination far beyond actual population reduction. It could mean maintaining many aspects of agency for the controlled population, so that their pains are internalized in multivariate and complex fashions, that include confused feelings of self-blame, identifying with the abuser, resentment, regret, and also violations of will and dignity. Again, if will is not a factor, then all of these potential arenas of psychological pain are not present.

To frame the following, it is fundamental to understand that in a post-labor civilization, the status of humanity no longer exists upon a metric of utility. Either civilization exists to improve the human condition, or to increase human suffering. There are no trade-offs or costs. Society is either good or evil.

But evil is short lived and short-sighted, and this is why: Sudden population reduction is a fire-cracker, it explodes just once. The pleasure in the process of eradicating billions of people, and the fear, pain, and suffering this would cause, within the span of a few short years, only gets to be enjoyed once. It’s a sacrificial ritual upon the altar of Moloch that can only be performed one time.

Likewise with post-coercive technologies: Without agency, controlling people serves no purpose in terms of violating their own will or desire. Causing pain on a subject that does not resist because he has no will, gives the sadist much less pleasure than would pain on a subject against their will.

Moreover, the position of being elite is relative to a number of factors such as distribution of wealth, power, and/or privilege, and the sheer numbers in terms of population, that one possesses these advantages over.

If there are only elites remaining, then they would have merely introduced a new kind of egalitarian society on the foundation of superabundance and a miniscule human population. If living conditions of an existing humanity can be greatly reduced, then the relative privilege and luxury enjoyed by the elites grows in that proportion.

Absent some radical life-extending technology, it is conceivable that science and technology have already reached the zenith point at which privilege and luxury cannot be furthered. A reasonable solution would be to reduce living conditions for others so as to enhance their own relative privilege. The greater number of people who live in reduced conditions, the more privileged one’s position of privilege actually is.

Likewise, it would seem that maintaining some human population as ‘possessions’ would serve to augment ownership over human beings, perhaps the most valuable type of possession because they are aware that they are owned – but only if that humiliates them. For what other purpose is there for slavery, in a world without human labor?

Does it have any meaning, or is any satisfaction achieved, by governing over people without the possibility to have the will to either consent, or conversely, resent the ruler? Here we can understand it along these lines: the possibility for agency means that governing can happen with their support, or against their will.

But neural implant control over cognitive processes, eliminates the possibility for will, which would deprive technocrats of the pleasure of ruling with or against the will of the ruled.

Therefore, the destructive evil framework of those behind the Great Reset is revealed. The use of strategy, planning, and cunning to achieve their desired result is prevalent. But have they examined the foundation of their desires? Do they understand what their victory would deliver to them?

The only thing left to destroy in a world populated by elites alone, are other elites. It would seem that the desire to dominate others does not simply come to an end on its own.

For these reasons, it is likely that some elites have seen the problem in this end game. This would explain the inter-elite conflict which we have explored previously, and will return to in the near future.

War Breeds Empire, Death, Starvation, Genocide, and Hatred, and The U.S. Is the Most Heinous Perpetrator of War in the History of the World

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”~ Albert Einstein

If I had my way, the word “patriotism” would be stricken from the language, as it has but one real meaning, and that is that the political state is God, and that individual and individual human right and responsibility have no meaning or worth. Compassion and love are abandoned in every state of war, and without compassion, only hate and indifference remains. The term “war is hell” is exactly correct, for what other evil can compare with the barbarous slaughter of every form of humanity in the name of ‘country’ or religion. It should be noted that all war is solely for the benefit of the ruling class, and therefore, it is the bane of mankind. It brings nothing but horror, maiming, torture, weeping, and murder, and is satisfying only to those deranged psychopaths and monsters who revel in killing in order to seek power and control.

It is certainly no secret that this country called America has committed untold atrocities against humanity in the name of war since before and after its founding. It has been guilty of total aggression and aggressive war for 93% of its existence, (probably more) and continues to war and threaten war against much of the world on a continuous basis. The current warmongering and threat of all-out-war by the U.S. is ever-present; more now than ever before, and this evil is ignored by most of this weak and apathetic mob of non-thinking, non-caring citizens, who continue to worship the state and wave its bloody flag in support of killing.

Ongoing USCENTCOM (United States Central Command) operations include ‘exercises’ against falsely claimed ‘adversaries’ within the regions including ISIS, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and the Iranian ‘Threat’ Network, and all its proxies. The U.S. falsely claims to “influence ‘adversarial’ decision-making and behavior, countering disinformation, amplifying U.S. resolve, and deterring acts of aggression promulgated by state actors; namely, Iran, Russia, China, Syria, and their regional surrogates.” Military Mission support Operations (MISO) are conducted across the USCENTCOM AOR including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yemen.  

In addition, and just recently, the U.S. and Saudi, Arabia have gone on ‘high alert’ due to a so-called warning of an ‘imminent’ Iranian attack, of course based on what is referred to as Saudi ‘intelligence.’ There are current military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea; a direct threat to North Korea. India and the U.S. are now planning joint military drills very near the China border, antagonizing this large nuclear power. Japan and the U.S. are conducting large-scale military exercises in Hokkaido. The U.S. and the Philippines are holding combat drills in anticipation of a war with China.  The U.S. is also currently staging combat center rotation drills against China in Hawaii, and U.S., Spanish, and French NATO forces, including the American 101st Airborne division, are implanted just miles away from the Ukrainian border in Romania; antagonizing Russia even more. They are literally on the Russian border, no different than Russia putting heavy weaponry and troops on our border with Canada or Mexico. The arrogance, hypocrisy, and extreme risk of this is lost on the average American citizen.

There are certainly many other military exercises in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and elsewhere, but there are also active wars either led by the U.S., or aggression involving the U.S. Think of the war in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the U.S. proxy war and slaughter of innocents in Yemen, and of course many others.

This is the country most of you dishonestly support unconditionally. This is the country of which you claim to be a ‘patriot.’ This is the country of which you proudly display the flag of death. This is the country that claims to be exceptional, but in the case of its warring and militarized terror campaigns, it is only ‘exceptional’ in that it is the most prolific murdering capital in the world. Given the undying support offered by this blind population for terroristic aggression, it is obvious that the masses do not consider the true nature of the meaning of ‘country’ and heinous war; at least not in the proper context. The ‘country’ you worship is not the country at all, but is instead the ruling ‘elite’ class, and their murdering and enforcement goons in government and the military. Most equate the term ‘country’ with supporting all that is done in their name by government, but the people do not control the powerful forces of evil who rule over them, and commit atrocities in their name and with their permission, because they voluntarily allow the state to commit its murderous reign without resistance.

The current aggressive nature of war being either planned, staged, or pursued actively by the U.S., is beyond the imagination of any sane person, but that does not even begin to tell the whole tale. Active war and terrorism are currently being waged by this state against its own people as well, as has been evidenced over the past 3 years of physical and psychological warfare based on the fraudulent ‘virus’ conspiracy plotted decades in advance. It has been all-consuming in nature based on the irrefutable harm that has been purposely and methodically forced on all in this country. This is happening worldwide as well, but since the U.S. is the head of the snake of total aggression, and claims the world ‘leadership’ role, stopping this monster by negating all its power could change the world view entirely.

If the people do not stand up against this tyranny, where will it end? If the masses continue to wallow in self-pity, indifference, and total dependence on the state, what will be our fate? If the U.S. is allowed to continue its totalitarian push toward total domination by the few, thereby building a global cabal and a one world governing system bent on ruling over the earth, how can freedom ever be restored or survive?

These questions seem to assume complicated answers, but that is really not the case. Any return to individual responsibility and defense of self against state rule can move mountains, because regardless of the weakness of the crowd, it should be obvious that we outnumber the tyrants by a multiple factor of millions. Thousands rule, while billions serve them. In reality, does this make any sense whatsoever? Can you not see the folly in being blind to the fact that each of us has great power over ourselves, and therefore together over the state, and our own lives and future?

Negate the state, negate the politicians and political class, ignore all orders and mandates, ask for nothing; only demand your freedom and take it. Do not allow the state to steal your wealth, never ask permission to obtain your own liberty by participating in the voting fraud, elections, and political process built and sustained for the single purpose of controlling you, and never allow the propaganda and trickery of the ruling scum to divide you. Clutch and hold your family, friends, neighbors, and all others in an effort to regain proper societal norms instead of thriving on self-destruction, constant jealousy, and hostility. Love and compassion can easily defeat indifference and hate, but a self-awakening is necessary in order to see the light of freedom and joy.

We can begin by opposing all war, all conflict, all aggression against others; in essence, demanding harmony and cooperation instead of clinging to false fears that have been intentionally ingrained into our psyche by an evil force called the state. There is nothing to fear but your own weakness and cowardice, and your willingness to only rely on others to design and control your lives. The state has no real power unless you give that power to them voluntarily. Without your support, they lose all ability to rule. Without your support, they cannot harm you. Without your support, those who seek power over you will wither and die, and with that death will come a life of freedom.

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”

~ H.G. Wells

Source links:

The U.S. Flag Is Soaked With the Blood of Innocents

U.S. Central Command Operations and Exercises

NATO’s Nuclear Exercises Increases

Saudi/U.S. on high alert due to Iranian threat?

U.S. and South Korea warplanes begin largest ever air drills

Japan and U.S. will conduct major military drills

U.S., Spanish, and French Forces, and U.S. 101st airborne Division Deployed to Romania

U.S. and Philippine Forces in joint military drills

 India/U.S. military drills near China border

Blackouts: An Intended Consequence Of Net Zero

Energy rationing is an integral feature of the green agenda.

The way he announced it spoke volumes. On Monday, John Pettigrew, head of the National Grid, warned that Britain could face blackouts when the weather turns ‘really, really cold’ this winter.

If energy supply fails to meet household demand, blackouts would have to be imposed between 4pm and 7pm on the ‘deepest, darkest evenings’ of January and February, he said.

So we may be reaching for our candles on winter evenings next year. This would be a bleak midwinter indeed.

Tellingly, Pettigrew casually let slip this bombshell at the ‘Energy Transition Summit’, a plush business event hosted by the Financial Times. The summit, as its name suggests, aims to help usher in a transition to an apparent idyll of renewable electricity and emissions-free energy.

In our brave new Net Zero world, this is exactly the kind of announcement we will have to start getting used to.

After all, the immediate trigger for the National Grid’s blackout warnings may be the current global energy crisis. But the grid has form in wanting to impose energy rationing on the masses.

Indeed, rationing is a feature, not a bug of the Net Zero policy.

Back in 2011, Evan Davis, then presenter of Radio 4’s Today, asked Steve Holliday, then National Grid chief exec, how the grid would cope ‘if the wind doesn’t blow’.

Davis was nodding to the intermittency of renewable energy – the reason renewables alone can never replace existing forms of energy. Yet for Britain’s elite, the cause of lowering carbon emissions comes above all others.

Holliday replied:

‘The grid’s going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030… much smarter.

We’re going to have to change our own behaviour and consume [energy] when it’s available, and available cheaply.’

‘Changing our own behaviour’, of course, refers to what you and I must do. It means cutting down our use of consumer electronics and domestic appliances. It means we must learn to stop boiling our kettles too much, or only boil them at certain times.

It means we must consume energy only in extremis. This ‘smart’ use of electricity, to fit around the intermittency of renewable sources of supply, is rationing in all but name.

Still, alongside his insistence that we would have to tighten our belts on energy consumption, Holliday was delighted that his new, smarter grid was going to be fed by wind turbines: ‘Today we’ve got about five gigawatts of wind [power]’, he remarked in 2011.

He then boasted ‘we’ll have nearly 30 by 2020’. Yet the UK’s combined onshore and offshore wind capacity stands at only 25.5 GW. And having closed down almost all coal-fired power stations and having not pursued fracking, we now rely on gas imports to meet our energy needs.

Successive Conservative administrations, the National Grid and the energy companies have failed to adequately secure our energy supplies. Instead, their efforts have gone into what they call ‘demand response’ – that is, cutting energy use.

Energy regulator Ofgem will play a role in this, too. It is currently moving to impose ‘surge pricing’ on the populace, using the readings from the UK’s 29million smart meters, in an attempt to massage down our energy use. (It even has the gall to suggest this will benefit the consumer.)

It gets worse. This week, proposals have been mooted in the Treasury to introduce so-called tapering. Customers would pay a lower price per unit up to a certain consumption limit and then higher costs would kick in for any consumption above that point.

The aim is to push households to keep energy consumption beneath prescribed limits. No doubt people with draughty homes will end up being penalised for energy use the authorities judge as profligate.

Captured by an environmentalist outlook, the National Grid, the Tories and officialdom are reluctant to secure our energy supply, but are eager to straitjacket all forms of energy use.

Even as households suffer, we can only hope that hospitals, essential workplaces and indeed National Grid substations will be able to fall back on diesel generators to avoid blackouts this winter.

It hardly inspires confidence that the National Grid is already asking businesses to replace last-resort diesel generators with low-carbon alternatives – simply to save an infinitesimal 500 tonnes of CO2.

The fact that we are even contemplating rationing and blackouts is an utter travesty.

Brits should not become inured to the ways of managing energy supply more befitting of the developing world – where not just temporary power cuts, but also lengthy ‘rolling’ blackouts and brownouts are part of the furniture of everyday life.

We cannot keep lowering our expectations of what a proper energy policy can deliver.

We deserve so much better.

The Great ‘WAR’ is Coming, And The World Must Prepare For It: The economy was completely destroyed. Families struggled to survive through sickness, poverty, and hunger

The cost of food has increased 11.4% from August 2021 to August 2022. Here in the USA, prices for groceries have risen by almost 12% percent. Seeing National food prices soar to the highest they’ve been in 40 years is enough to make anyone look for practical ways to stretch their meals further.

One of the best things we can do now is look to the past at how our ancestors stretched their food during some of the hardest times in history. If they can do it, we certainly can too.

These food-stretching strategies will give you the freedom to need less, waste less, and make more with what you have.

Reuse Cooking Liquid Instead Of Throwing It Away

Some foods cooked in water are as good as liquid gold.

When you boil corn cobs, for example, the remaining water is full of vitamin B, folic acid, and iron.

You can use it as a soup base or for making a compost tea for your garden.

Some people enjoy the taste of corn water alone or drink it for its alleged benefits for the hair, skin, and nails. It’s even said that corn water can increase energy and fend off anemia.

Potato water is another great and reusable cooking liquid. You can use potato water to make gravy without using any other thickeners.

To do this, just add a bit of potato water to some fat or pan drippings and stir until it thickens. As you enjoy your gravy, take pride in knowing that you created something delicious from scraps most people would have thrown away.

Corn and potato water aren’t the only cooking waters you can use though. You can also use rice water, bean water, beet water, pasta water, bones, tuna can water, and many others.

Get creative and try new things. Just be sure to use the water within a day or so to prevent the risk of fermentation. However, if you know how to safely can or ferment foods, you can add that to your food stretching skillset too.

Learn Food Preservation Techniques

Food preservation techniques are great skills to learn when trying to stretch your meals.

When your produce supply is starting to look a little rough around the edges, you can increase the nutrient content and lengthen its shelf life by fermenting it.

Eating fermented foods aids digestion, boosts nutrient bioavailability, and promotes the production of healthy bacteria in your gut.

This can help keep your immune system in good shape in a time that could bring sickness and malnutrition.

During the great depression though, canning and drying foods at home was a big hit. Home-canned food kept families fed during much of this period.

Having a good grasp on safe preservation methods like canning, fermenting, dehydrating, and drying will make you that much more prepared in the event of an economic crisis like the great depression.

Bulk Up Your Meats With Fillers

When meat is too expensive or hard to find in stores, you may need to get comfortable with needing less of it. Meat prices have risen significantly in the past year.

To stretch meat portions, mix it with foods like oats, barley, lentils, rice, beans, and vegetables to add bulk.

During the great depression, meatless loaves — made with little to no actual meat — were a very popular dish.

Some great depression-era meatless loaf recipes appear to use everything and anything they had on hand.

Popular ingredients included peanuts, carrots, beans, pickles, raisins, potatoes, spices, stale bread, and just about anything else they could find.

Cut Portion Sizes

Unfortunately, learning to need less food will be one of the biggest setbacks for the modern western person if they’re ever faced with a crisis.

During troubled times it will be physically more difficult for some people to give up the three meals a day they’ve become accustomed to.

Depending on who you ask, the three-meal-per-day norm was dubbed the standard after European settlers came to America out of a desire to ritualize eating habits to separate humans from grazing animals. Other sources point to the 40-hour work week and the industrial revolution as the culprit.

At any rate, our biological, normal appetite – in other words, eating when you’re actually feeling hungry – is not only a much healthier way of living, but it may become less of a choice and more of a necessity one day.

Learning to take natural hunger cues from your body instead of training your body to feel hungry on a set schedule will help you need less and consequently, have more.

Save Bones For Later Use

It always makes me wince a little when I see someone trimming the fat and bones only to throw them right in the trash. You can use meat animal bones to make so many different food items.

You can throw them in a pot of boiling water for a few hours to make a rich bone broth.

Once the broth cools, skim the fat layer from the top to keep for cooking. Depending on the bone type, you can even suck the marrow for a fast nutrient boost or use it as you would with butter on bread.

To preserve your bone broth, you can freeze or pressure-can it for future use. Bones kept in an airtight bag and placed in the freezer can last up to 6 months. Sometimes, you can find stock bones at your local butcher or grocery store so you don’t have to bother with freezing.

Once you’re done boiling your bones to make broth and solidified fat, you can still get even more use out of them. Grind them to make bone meal or grist for your garden and other projects.

Save Fats

Fat trimmings are as valuable as bones, if not more so.

For example, bacon grease is arguably the easiest fat to render, but most people are missing out by throwing it away.

You can use it as you would with butter or cooking oil.

It stores nicely in the refrigerator for anywhere from 3 months to a year. For those not fond of relying on refrigeration, you can keep strained bacon grease at room temperature for up to a month. However, other rendered fats — such as tallow, lard, and ghee — can be pressure-canned for longer storage.

Some folks like to collect and freeze fat trimmings overtime. Still, unless you’re lucky enough to have an icehouse, there’s always the risk of your fat going rancid in a power outage.

To avoid this, it’s a good idea to buy cuts of meat with a lot of fat you can use all at once. You can also ask your butcher if they will save extra fat trimmings for you. They’ll likely be very happy to get rid of it.

Once you have enough, you can render the fat to make cracklings, schmaltz, pork lard, and beef tallow. You can use rendered fat in candle making, soap making, cooking, waterproofing, medicinal salves, and more.

Buy Organ Meats And Other “Undesirable” Cuts

If you don’t want to give up the health benefits of eating red meat, consider buying the cuts no one seems to want.

Most of the time, these are the healthier cuts with the highest protein and essential nutrient content.

For example, one serving of beef liver has over 20g of protein.

It also has high amounts of vitamins B and A, iron, copper, and phosphorous.

Traditionally, unwanted cuts get a bad reputation as they take more effort to prepare in a way that tastes good.

The history of soul food in America is one of many examples of how lesser cuts – when properly prepared and slowly cooked – are some of the most deliciously tender meats around. Knowing this, it can be argued that underrated cuts might actually have the biggest flavor potential.

Aside from beef liver, learning how to properly cook with offal meats like tongue, brain, feet, stomach, hearts, and other such foods is an underrated and valuable survival skill.

Learn To Forage Near Your Home

You’d be surprised how many palatable, nutritious foods are outside waiting to be harvested. The biggest problem is that most people dismiss them as weeds or think they’re unsafe to eat.

Once we take the time to learn about the edible wild plants in our area though, a whole new world opens up for us.

In the Ozarks region of the US for example, you can find wild ginger, dandelions, watercress, elderberries, leeks, mushrooms, and more by simply walking outside your front door.

In contrast, dryer regions such as the Sonoran Desert in Arizona have prickly pear fruit, nopales, amaranth, agave, and wildflowers, just to name a few. These are all freely available edible foods that most people overlook.

When you learn about safe foraging practices and learn what grows in your area, you can always find ways to supplement and bulk up your food supply.

During the Great Depression, life wasn’t easy. Yet, some people who survived chose to live the rest of their lives with the same frugality — even though the depression ended. In fact, some Great Depression era recipes are still passed down to younger generations today.

We may or may not experience similar hardships in our lifetimes, but it’s never a bad idea to work toward making what you have go further. When we learn how to stretch food like our grandmothers and great-grandmothers did, we learn how to need less and do more with what we have.

Health Officials Admit Bill Gates Really Does Run the World

The idea that Bill Gates exerts undue influence over global health has consistently been denied and dismissed as a loony conspiracy theory. But as with so many other things, this conspiracy theory is now turning out to be a conspiracy fact.

September 14, 2022, Politico published an extensive special report based on “four dozen interviews with U.S. and European officials and global health specialists,” headlined, “How Bill Gates and His Partners Took Over the Global COVID Response.”1

As noted by Igor Chudov on Substack,2 within hours the headline was edited to read: “How Four Private Groups Used Their Clout to Control the Global COVID Response — With Little Oversight,”3 as illustrated in Chudov’s screen captures below.

Politico article

Curiously, five hours after that edit, Politico changed the headline back, so at the time of this writing, it reads:4 “How Bill Gates and Partners Used Their Clout to Control the Global Covid Response — With Little Oversight.” The only word now missing from the original headline is “his.” You can see how the headline shifted back and forth over the course of 15 hours on archive.today.5

Four Gates Organizations Monopolize the Global COVID Response

According to Politico,6 four health organizations — the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Wellcome Trust — rapidly took a lead on the global pandemic response, and while all four claim to be independent organizations, they’re all actually founded and/or funded by Gates.

“When Covid-19 struck, the governments of the world weren’t prepared,” Politico writes. “While the most powerful nations looked inward, four non-governmental global health organizations began making plans for a life-or-death struggle against a virus that would know no boundaries.

What followed was a steady, almost inexorable shift in power from the overwhelmed governments to a group of non-governmental organizations, according to a seven-month investigation by POLITICO journalists based in the U.S. and Europe and the German newspaper WELT.

Armed with expertise, bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug makers, the four organizations took on roles often played by governments — but without the accountability of governments.”

Six Takeaways From Politico’s Investigation

During the earliest days of the outbreak, while governments were still debating the seriousness of it, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI, CEPI and the Wellcome Trust began a coordinated effort to identify vaccine makers, fund tests, drug treatments and mRNA shots, and develop a global distribution plan in collaboration with the World Health Organization. In a side bar, Politico highlights six key takeaways from their investigation:7

1 The four organizations have spent almost $10 billion on COVID since 2020 – the same amount as the leading U.S. agency tasked with fighting COVID abroad.

2 The organizations collectively gave $1.4 billion to the World Health Organization, where they helped create a critical initiative to distribute COVID-19 tools. That program failed to achieve its original benchmarks.

3 The organizations’ leaders had unprecedented access to the highest levels of governments, spending at least $8.3 million to lobby lawmakers and officials in the U.S. and Europe.

4 Officials from the U.S., EU and representatives from the WHO rotated through these four organizations as employees, helping them solidify their political and financial connections in Washington and Brussels.

5 The leaders of the four organizations pledged to bridge the equity gap. However, during the worst waves of the pandemic, low-income countries were left without life-saving vaccines.

6 Leaders of three of the four organizations maintained that lifting intellectual property protections was not needed to increase vaccine supplies – which activists believed would have helped save lives.”

Unqualified and Unelected

As detailed by Politico, through Gates’ lobbying and financial might, the international response to COVID rapidly shifted from individual governments to “a privately overseen global constituency of nongovernmental experts.”

“What makes Bill Gates qualified to be giving advice and advising the U.S. government on where they should be putting … tremendous resources?” ~ Kate Elder, senior policy adviser for the Doctors Without Borders’ Access Campaign

In the U.S., president Biden has earmarked $500 million to CEPI alone in his $5 billion COVID budget, which has yet to be approved by Congress. But, as noted by Kate Elder, a senior vaccines policy adviser for the Doctors Without Borders’ Access Campaign:8

“What makes Bill Gates qualified to be giving advice and advising the U.S. government on where they should be putting … tremendous resources?”

Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University professor who specializes in public-health law told Politico:

“I think we should be deeply concerned. Putting it in a very crass way, money buys influence. And this is the worst kind of influence. Not just because it’s money — although that’s important, because money shouldn’t dictate policy — but also, because it’s preferential access, behind closed doors.

[It’s] anti-democratic, because it’s extraordinarily non-transparent, and opaque [and] leaves behind ordinary people, communities and civil society.”

Gates ‘Owns’ the WHO

Many have pointed out that Gates, through his billions in donations to the WHO, has significant leverage over the WHO’s decisions. In September 2021, Astrid Stuckelberger, Ph.D., a WHO insider, blew the whistle on Gates, explaining how the WHO is, in fact, controlled by Gates, who in turn dictates policy for his own personal financial benefit.

Of the four organizations Politico focuses on, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, may be the most important. GAVI, founded by Gates, is headquartered in Switzerland. In 2009, GAVI was recognized as an international institution and granted total blanket immunity, including qualified diplomatic immunity, which is extremely odd considering the organization has no political power that would warrant diplomatic immunity.9

Odder still is that GAVI’s immunity clauses go beyond even that of diplomats. GAVI’s immunity covers all aspects of engagement, including criminal business dealings. Equally strange is the fact that they’re completely tax exempt.

GAVI can basically do whatever it wants without any repercussions. Police can’t even investigate or collect evidence from GAVI were they to be implicated in a criminal investigation. That’s how well-protected they are. And, according to Stuckelberger, GAVI is the entity that is really directing the WHO.

According to Stuckelberger, Gates did, in 2017, request to be put on the WHO’s executive board — like a member state — ostensibly because he gives them so much money. There’s no evidence that Gates was ever officially granted the status of a member state, but it appears he figured out an alternative power play.

Stuckelberger pointed out that Gates and the WHO entered into a three-way contract agreement with Swissmedic, the Food and Drug Administration of Switzerland, which is highly unusual. So, essentially, when Gates did not get voted in as a one-man nation state, he created three-party contracts with member states and the WHO, essentially placing him on par with the WHO!

One curiosity that supports the idea that Gates is either the real power behind the WHO, or has the same amount of power as the WHO, is the fact that Gates has repeatedly been the first to announce what the world needs to do to address the pandemic, and then the WHO would come out with an identical message that member states then had to follow.

But who the heck is Gates to direct global health and pandemic responses? He’s a nobody. He has no medical training. He’s completely unqualified to speak to any health issues whatsoever. He didn’t even graduate college. And he’s never been elected to represent the people in any capacity.

Basically, what we have here is one wealthy individual who figured out a way to unofficially monopolize the decision-making ability of a global health authority in order to enrich himself, which is beyond crazy.

The WHO Was Instrumental in Gates’ Rise to Power

Gates’ influence over the WHO is undoubtedly why the WHO allowed these four Gates-funded groups to direct the global response to COVID in the first place. As reported by Politico:10

“The WHO was crucial to the groups’ rise to power. All had longstanding ties to the global health body. The boards of both CEPI and Gavi have a specially designated WHO representative.

There is also a revolving door between employment in the groups and work for the WHO: Former WHO employees now work at the Gates Foundation and CEPI; some, such as Chris Wolff, the deputy director of country partnerships at the Gates Foundation, occupy important positions.

Much of the groups’ clout with the WHO stems simply from money. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Gates Foundation, Gavi, and the Wellcome Trust have donated collectively more than $1.4 billion to the WHO — a significantly greater amount than most other official member states, including the United States and the European Commission, according to data provided by the WHO.”

It would be one thing if these organizations actually did an excellent job. But they didn’t. An independent review11 by Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a New York policy advisory firm, found the initiative created by Gates’ groups, the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), failed on all fronts.

Despite a $23 billion budget,12 ACT-A procured only 16% of its target number of tests for low-and middle-income countries, and of the 245 million treatments it was supposed to deliver to low- and middle-income countries, they only allocated 1.8 million. Similarly, of the 2 billion COVID shots that were supposed to be delivered by the end of 2021, only 319 million doses were delivered.

Of course, one could argue that failure to deliver fraudulent CPR tests and dangerous treatments and mRNA shots were a blessing in disguise. But the fact remains that these organizations are far from excellent and fail miserably in reaching many of their stated goals.

They overpromise and underdeliver. They’re willing to sacrifice lives to maintain control over moneymaking patents. And, while they’re more or less singlehandedly shaping the global response to pandemics, there’s no one to hold them to account for their performance.

What Politico Left Out

While Politico’s report is sweeping in breadth, it still failed to include a number of important puzzle pieces listed in Chudov’s Substack article. For example:13

  • SARS-CoV-2 appears to be an intentionally engineered bioweapon.
  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helped organize Event 201, a tabletop pandemic preparedness exercise in October 2019 that prophetically predicted COVID-19 — and the need for a massive propaganda and censorship campaign to quash “conspiracies” about the virus.
  • Gates purchased 3.1 million shares of BioNTech in September 2019 for $55 million.14 15 At the time, BioNTech was working on patient-specific immunotherapies for cancer and other chronic diseases. In mid-March 2020, BioNTech partnered with Pfizer to develop a COVID mRNA jab.16 By August 2021, Gates’ prescient investment was worth $1.7 billion.
  • The Gates Foundation financed EcoHealth Alliance,17 the organization suspected of having a hand in the development of SARS-CoV-2.
  • The Gates Foundation also financed the University of North Carolina (UNC) with at least 56 different grants, where Ralph Baric, Ph.D., conducted gain-of-function research linked to the development of SARS-CoV-2. Baric also worked with EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

As noted by Chudov in his closing remarks:18

“Nevertheless, the mere publication of this article has huge importance. The things that most of us know and talk about, are appearing in the so-called ‘mainstream press’ — after the damage was all done, of course.

The virus was released; millions died; over a billion young people were force-vaccinated under false pretenses. When it is too late to change anything, Politico is finally stating the obvious. Still, it is better than nothing.

Almost everything in the Politico article was known a year ago. Where was Politico then? Busy taking government COVID vaccine advertising money. The pandemic was a crime, not an accident.”

The Gates-Fauci Scheme to Vaccinate the World

Gates is far from the only nemesis in this orchestrated drama, however. Dr. Anthony Fauci is another key player. Ironically, Gates claims he’s “taken the brunt of COVID conspiracy abuse” because Europeans are not familiar with Fauci. He recently told Fortune magazine:19

“It was quite a phenomenon; here in the U.S., it focused on myself and Tony Fauci, and internationally it was more just me because they didn’t know who Tony was — he really missed out on that!”

But while Gates tries to pass it off people’s concerns about his undue influence over their health as a joke, there’s no shortage of evidence that he really is pulling strings he’s far from qualified to pull.

In “Bill Gates Lays Out Plan for Global Takeover,” I review Gates’ role in the WHO and the WHO’s plan to, ultimately, seize control over all health care decisions, worldwide. I’ve also reviewed how Gates and Fauci have collaborated, forming a formidable public-private partnership that wields incredible power over the American public.

As early as 2000, Fauci and Gates formed an agreement to control and expand the global vaccine enterprise, which in 2021 culminated in a plan to inject every man, woman and child on the planet with an experimental COVID shot. Gates and Fauci’s collaboration are detailed in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s best-selling book, “The Real Anthony Fauci.” The video at the top of this article summarizes their joint scheme.

References

Politico September 14, 2022 (Archived w original headline)

Igor Chudov Substack September 15, 2022

Politico September 14, 2022 (Archived w changed headline)

Politico September 14, 2022

Archive.today Screenshots of Politico article between Sep 15, 2022 02:09 through Sep 20, 2022 01:29

Politico September 14, 2022

Politico September 14, 2022

Politico September 14, 2022

GAVI.org June 23, 2009

10 Politico September 14, 2022

11 Dalberg Global Development Advisors, ACT-Accelerator Strategic Review

12 Politico September 14, 2022

13 Igor Chudov Substack September 15, 2022

14 Sec.gov Investment Agreement

15 BioNTech September 4, 2019

16 BioNTech March 17, 2020

17 Gates Foundation Committed Grants to EcoHealth Alliance

18 Igor Chudov Substack September 15, 2022

19 Fortune September 13, 2022 (Archived)

With Food Shortages and Blackouts Looming, It’s Time to Start Empowering Your Family

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ve likely noticed that things aren’t going so well for America as we see a rise in tyranny, inflation, and potential world war, that may or may not have already kicked off.

And that doesn’t include any future screw-ups from the government which may set off the next food shortage or black out.

Those of us who have seen this coming for a while have taken some steps to insulate ourselves and loved ones against these things. And, while we hope and strive for the best, it only makes sense to prepare for the worst.

As TFTP’s Don Via Jr. reminds us, “the personal self-sustainability of the individual, augmented with the capabilities of a self-sustaining community is the recipe for a cleaner, more sovereign and capable civilization.

“Now more than ever, finding viable alternatives to opt out from this broken abusive system is vital for our civilization to take its next step in evolution. The solutions for humanity to begin moving towards a freer, more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world exist. But we have to act on developing these strategies and creating new ones; as individuals, and in doing so encouraging the togetherness to voluntarily do so collectively as a society. The possibilities for change are abundant. But it starts with us. We must act on it, and be the change we wish to see in the world.”

We have long sought to be that change here at the Free Thought Project.

Over the years, the Free Thought Project has highlighted, interviewed and even employed those who have devoted their lives to thriving in spite of this chaos and destruction.

Some call it homesteading, some call it off-grid living, others call is prepping — whatever you call it, now is the time to learn it.

Former TFTP contributor and organizer of “The Greater Reset” Derrick Broze is one of these folks who has been teaching and galvanizing the public to pursue a peaceful means of opposing the implementation of the World Economic Forum’s vision for the planet’s future. His work is crucial in helping folks understand how to withdraw and prosper.

John Bush, our podcast guest earlier this year, has also been tirelessly pining away and creating solutions — not to fight against the powers that be — but to thrive in spite of them.

Jack Spriko, another guest on the TFTP podcast, has been teaching folks to live off grid for the greater part of his life, which is why we had him on — so our readers and listener could be better informed.

Derrick, John, and Jack are only a handful of the great minds we’ve crossed paths with over the years and they have joined together with dozens of other folks to bring you essential knowledge on how to prosper when it feels like society might be doing otherwise.

We have a package put together called the “Off-Grid Homestead Bundle” and it contains thousands of dollars of programs, guides, and other critical information to ensure a long, organic, and free life for you and yours.

We know this sounds like a sales pitch, and it is. But this is a super deal that not only gives you a wealth of information at a 99% discount, but it ensures TFTP can stay around to keep bringing these most amazing folks to your phones, airpods, and computer screens. Bought separately, this information would cost upwards of $6,000 but for our followers, it’s only $50 bucks.

Everything in the bundle is the result of years of experience and hard work from the best teachers, online creators and professionals in the field. It’s only by joining together and collaborating that we can give such an amazing offer to our followers. Even if someone would only be interested in 2-3 of the e-books and courses it would still be worth it.

“What’cha gonna do” when the trucks all stop delivering food to your local grocery store or Wal-Mart?

Life on Planet Earth will NEVER be better than it is right here, right now, today.
Don’t believe me?  Keep reading.

It’s not only about the slow-death jab causing MITOCHONDRIAL CANCER from spike protein cytokine storms and prions sucking up the last remaining molecules of oxygen from your lungs, heart and brain over an agonizing 5 [to max 10] year period from jab to grave.  

It’s not only about the mad cow prions which are going to turn quackccinated human beings into stark-raving mad lunatics on their journey through the Land of the Walking Dead Lepers, it’s quite a lot more than that…

The sabotage ransomware hack of the Colonial Pipeline is only a miniscule dress-rehearsal for what is coming.

“What’cha gonna do” when the trucks all stop delivering food to your local grocery store or Wal-Mart?

When gasoline prices are $100 a gallon because of hyper-inflation and there are no trucks to deliver the gas to your local service station even at $10,000 a gallon?

When you can’t get to your digital wallet to get to your Bitcoins or Dogecoins anywhere because the banks and brokerage houses are all shut down because of the [not-so] great reset?  

When your ATM machine starts laughing at you and giving you the finger?  

When EVERYONE is unemployed whether they have been given the death jab or however many dozens of masks you are wearing on your oxygen-deprived face because there are no jobs or money to pay you with?

What are you going to do when you no longer have electricity or gas in your home, and you are freezing to death in winter or roasting in summer? [That’s why I like Southern California suburbs even though we have had idiots running the state].

How are you going to wash your face or take a shower when the water has stopped running through your pipes months ago?  You might have started to stink by now.  A lot.

What are you going to do when the electrical grid is a fading memory, and 5G becomes radioactive?  When you can’t use your cell phone to call anyone but Ghostbusters?

Where are you going to throw out your garbage because the sanitation department hasn’t picked it up in four months and you finally just ran out of trash bags?

What are you going to wipe your ass with when you used up the very last issue of the Washington Post, since you ran out of toilet paper several seasons ago?

Tell me what happens when your neighbors break into your home at gunpoint to steal that last can of Campbell’s soup you have been hoarding under your bed for the last six months?

Are you prepared to fend off roaming gangs of Walking Dead Quackccinated Maniacs who have succeeded in cannibalizing your neighbors’ children after raping them?

Sadly, you can’t call the police or dial 911 because none of your phones work, and the police not only were all defunded, but they are the part of the same angry mob you are complaining about!

Where is your local government going to stack all the dead bodies? Oh, that’s right – there IS no local government, or any government at all.  That’s nothing more than wishful thinking while you try to survive a nightmare of life-after-COVID.

Are you that much of a progressive liberal woke-tard that honestly believes that the future is looking brighter right now?  Really?

Okay, I must admit it.  There is a bright spot on the horizon.  It isn’t all doom and gloom.

The Chinese Communist Party is very patient.  It is in their DNA.  They can easily wait 10 years.  Did any of you ever ask what percentage of the 1,330,440,000 people living there have been “vaccinated”?  Is it 40%?  30%? 20%?  Wait for it …

It’s less than 1%!  And those were the guinea pigs and lab rats experimented on by Dr. Fauci’s Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China!  [And rumor has it that they have all been “pleasantly” euthanized by now to prevent a Quackccination Outbreak there!]

BE PREPARED

I am sure Bill Gates, George Soros, Tony Fauci, and the CEOs of Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, and Astra-Zeneca will all be enjoying their underground bunkers in Antarctica with a lifetime of food and security forces to cook penguin stew.  But if you are not one of them, then you might consider this:
If you are planning to miraculously able to survive the coming cataclysmic planned zombie apocalypse, let me give you some heartfelt advice:
Buy at least five years’ worth of deuterium-depleted water;
Buy at least three years’ worth of toilet paper and use it sparingly;
Buy lots of canned fish and vegetables and find a place to hide or bury them;
Buy flashlights, batteries, candles and matches;
Learn the art of bartering or at least read a book on it;
[Unlike me], learn how to use an automatic weapon to protect your loved ones and your property; and:
Most importantly, LEARN HOW TO READ AND SPEAK CHINESE !
So sorry if my post ruined your day, but as they used to tell me in the Cub Scouts [before I was molested], “BE PREPARED !”

The modern world is closely focused on globalization and mobility, and that is why all countries globally are tightly entwined in some terms

It can be surprising how the conflict in another part of the world may affect the lives of ordinary people in the USA. Unfortunately, it can, and the influence is actually significant for all of us Americans.

The modern world is closely focused on globalization and mobility, and that is why all countries globally are tightly entwined in some terms.

In our previous posts, we already discussed the reasons why you should prepare yourself for a situation similar to the Great Depression now and the history of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine with the description of possible repercussions.

Here we will focus more on the financial sphere of our lives in connection with the increasing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Even though the situation is still uncertain in these countries, there is an effect of the conflict on our budgets. You should be prepared for every way his situation might develop to be able to protect yourself from its negative consequences.

Continue reading this review to be aware of the financial processes that are happening now in the world and make your budget unaffected by the global conflicts.

Significant Inflation Growth

Inflation Rate

One of the key characteristics of the economy that will be influenced by the developing conflict between Ukraine and Russia is the growth of inflation on a global scale.

We know that high inflation was already a problem for Americans, even before the start of this collision.

As a matter of fact, nowadays, the inflation rate in the USA equals 7.9%. It is believed that an increase in this rate will lead to a miserable situation that has not been seen in America since 1981.

The RSM estimated the possible growth of inflation affected by the crises in Ukraine and Russia: it can reach as high as 10%.

It will cause many additional problems, such as a rise in costs for electricity and heating, oil and gas, and others, as they are dependent on the natural gas price. Moreover, every sphere of economics is interconnected, and that is why every American will notice the difference in living costs.

For instance, businesses will need to augment prices for products as they will have bigger expenses for transportation and heating. The energy price will cause changes in prices for flights and other types of transportation.

Also, the production of particular goods will face a crisis as both countries that participate in the conflict export materials. Russia is a great exporter of metals and wheat; Ukraine also exports wheat and corn. It means that there will be a shortage of these products if the export is stopped.

The USA is not the only country that will face the rise of the inflation rate. Almost all countries in Europe use the natural resources of Russia and that is why they will have a shortage in energy as well.

Knowing this information you will be able to understand the changes in prices for the goods that you buy regularly. Do not be surprised when your expenses sky-rocket, as it is the most likely scenario taking into consideration the development of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Energy Crisis

The costs for energy have already increased, even though the supply of energy sources is still operating. According to statistics, the energy prices now are as high as it was in 2014 which will negatively affect all spheres of our lives.

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It happens because Russia is the biggest player in this field of the market and it exports a big amount of energy to many countries.

For example, Russia produces 9.7 million barrels every day and it places Russia in second place of the world energy producers after the USA.

How the possible Russian invasion of Ukraine can influence the energy costs? The thing can in many ways disable the export of gas and oil.

Firstly, war can destroy the constructions that are used for the transportation of energy materials. Secondly, many countries will create new sanctions for Russia and this activity will change the way how energy is exported. Thirdly, war requires shifting focus to other spheres of the economy such as weapons and military equipment.

Now, the demand for energy in the world is higher than its supply and the situation may become even worse. So the crisis between Russia and Ukraine might be the reason for the increase in oil prices up to 120 dollars per barrel or even 150 dollars.

The only way to compensate for the shortage in oil supply is to decrease oil consumption and activate the production of energy by OPEC.

Gas Station

Changes in oil prices affect the prices for pumps as well. We have already noticed that the cost for gallons of gas increased to 3.5 dollars while the last time we saw a similar value was seven years ago.

We hope to reduce the level of conflict tension. Such events that show the prevention of war help to lower the price.

Freezing of Economic Growth

The pandemic has significantly influenced the speed of economic growth of the USA and other countries. The time is yet to come for us to be able to recover from previous damages, when the Russia-Ukraine conflict again created problems in the economy of America.

In addition to the rise of the inflation rate, the GDP will also increase by one point, according to estimations. This effect is not as significant as the rise of inflation, but still, it will hit the finances of every American.

The economic crises that happened due to the COVID pandemic produced financial difficulties almost in every American family.

If you think that such a local thing as the conflict between two countries on the opposite part of the world cannot affect you, the provided information proves that it can.

Undermining Cybersecurity

One of the less obvious ways to attack nowadays is to start a cyberattack.

Recently, President Biden has announced that Russia may cyberattack any of its opponents, including America. Even though the consequences of such action are hard to predict, we know that the effects can be harmful to the USA.

How The War In Europe Will Affect The US Economy

An example of a cyberattack that was significant for the economic development of the USA is the attack on the Colonial Pipeline in 2021.

This event caused unpredictable behavior of buyers, as they started to panic because of the news that the pipeline was destroyed.

This led to the termination of business for gas stations located in the South of the USA.

The most damageable cyberattack that can happen is the hacking of the financial system of the USA. It is impossible to estimate the losses that such action can cause. That is why we should be prepared for every outcome of the war developing between Russia and Ukraine.

We never know the next step that will be taken by any of these countries. A cyberattack can become one of the ways for Russia to eliminate opponents in this conflict.

Uncertainties on Market

Investors start to panic when they cannot predict the prices and situation on the market in general. It leads to various consequences such as mass sales on the stock because of the preparation for the financial crisis.

Thus, investors will be afraid of oil shortage, financial instability, unclear sanctions, and other factors that influence people’s decisions on the market.

All these events will be harmful to every citizen of the USA and not only investors. The thing is that all financial systems are interconnected. It means that the bank and retirement accounts of residents are dependent on the financial market.

So, the unpredictable behavior of investors will erase the wealth of some families, decrease the number of compensations for the unemployed, and change the banking system.

Of course, the same situations have already happened, but we cannot estimate the severity of the situation now. The most important message is that even if you do not participate in sales in the financial market, the crisis there will affect you as well.

Effect on Interest Rates

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If you are interested in borrowing money from banks, be prepared for sharp growth of interest rates. The increase in interest rates is most probable as it is one of the ways to balance the inflation rate.

Maybe, you’ve noticed the interest rates rise after the start of the pandemic.

That time it affected the real estate market a lot, but now every type of credit line will be influenced by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The development of the situation also depends on the approach of the Fed to the crisis. Last time they wanted to stop the rise of the inflation rate, treating it like a temporary one.

However, it illustrated that such an approach cannot help to cool off the inflation rate. Thus, the Fed may introduce other measures and will treat the inflation crisis as a constant one for the American economy.

Even if the government can compensate for the inflation rate growth without raising the interest rates, it will shift the focus of their activity from the development of the economy to struggling with occurring problems.

The conflict between the Russian Federation and the Ukraine is a crucial event for the economy of the USA, even though this country cannot control the way it will be developing.

Every American will feel the effect of this conflict on their finances for the reasons described in this review. It is a complicated task to predict the power of the hit to America’s economy, but we can be sure that it will influence the economic sphere of citizens’ lives.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION?

Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on high alert in the last few weeks, citing “aggressive statements” by Nato and tough financial sanctions as a reason.

As of 2019, there were 15,000 nuclear weapons on planet Earth – 90 per cent of which belong to Russia and the United States, according to the Federation of American Scientists.

In the improbable scenario of a full-scale nuclear war, humanity could be wiped out. That’s not just a direct result of the number of deaths but also the aftermath of global cooling.

What Actually Happens In A Nuclear Explosion?

There are so many factors to be considered to determine the impact: the time of day, the weather, the exact location and whether it exploded on land or in the air. Clothing is also a surprising aspect as white clothes can reflect some of the energy of a blast, while black clothing can absorb it.

The type and size of the nuclear weapon can also impact the outcome. Modern bombs start by triggering a fission reaction, according to Live ScienceThey explained: “Fission is the splitting of the nuclei of heavy atoms into lighter atoms — a process that releases neutrons. These neutrons, in turn, can careen into the nuclei of nearby atoms, splitting them and setting off an out-of-control chain reaction.”

That chain reaction occurs so fast, it produces a large amount of energy, which is released in the form of light and heat. Most organic objects in range of the heat-pulse are essentially vaporised.

A fission explosion would be devastating – though many modern weapons have the potential to cause even more damage. Fission bombs, also known as atomic bombs, destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. They were around 13 kilotons yield.

Atom boms are rated in kilotons, one kiloton being the equivalent of a thousand tons of TNT. Hydrogen bombs are rated in megatons, one megaton equalling one million tons of TNT.

Hydrogen bombs take over where atom boms end; there comes a point where atom bombs become too large to be transportable. Hydrogen bombs use the fusion process, which releases much more energy, and are vastly more destructive.

If a nuclear bomb were to explode on land, the explosion would cause instant death. For example, a bomb equivalent to the size of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs would kill 50 per cent of people in a 2-mile radius, according to a report from a Preventive Defense Project workshop. An airburst is said to have a wider blast radius.

There is also an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, which creates high voltages in electrical equipment, usually damaging them beyond repair.

Causes of death go beyond the explosion itself. There would be fires, radiation exposure, collapsed buildings, flying shrapnel in a 0.5-mile (0.8 km) radius of the detonation.

The largest known hydrogen bomb tested was the Soviet Tsar Bomba in October 1961. It had a yield of 58 megatons. It caused total destruction of structures out to 21 miles.

In order to survive a hypothetical nuclear blast, you’d essentially want to avoid countries with access to nuclear weapons and those involved in nuclear agreements.

While worries are understandably high surrounding a nuclear war defence secretary Ben Wallace said Putin’s phrasing was a “battle of rhetoric”.

“This is predominantly about Putin putting it on the table just to remind people, remind the world, that he has a deterrent.”