>>>A Stark Warning – The End of the Beginning!

Where do I even start? Well, let’s try with the title of this article…”The End of the Beginning” shall we.

You have undoubtedly heard the phrase “The beginning of the end” in relation to some event that signals a cascading of events whose ending is usually referred to in ruinous terms. But I have been repeatedly showing for a couple of years now very specific examples of how the beginning was already underway. And now I am declaring that initial phase, the beginning, is over. Yup, it is over…and now we are in a free fall that is the next phase of what is happening in America. Well actually, the entire world.

Then again, if you are reading this article you already know we are in the crash(ing)…the pre-SHFT phase. We may not want to regurgitate the whole list of what is happening…but you know what is happening and you feel where we are headed…and just how bad it is right now…you know it…you feel it in the very depths of your soul. Of course you also know how bad it will get.

I am often asked what I think is the largest threat to us at any given moment. And the same has been asked of me just recently. I had a very strange response for them, but I will get to that in a moment. For now let’s touch on a subject that will affect each of us and maybe very soon….the economy. And I mean the economy in its entirety, not just a particular aspect of it. But there are some key indicators that must be looked at specifically.

Jobs –

I have been telling to about the massive job losses we were experiencing and that it would get worse…and it has. We are hearing of corporations letting folks go by the thousands each week. The latest jobs report will show an even accelerating job loss picture IF you look under the surface of the misleading numbers. And once again they will drastically misrepresent the unemployment number due to the workforce participation rate (WPR) accelerating.

Strange when you hear about all the unfilled jobs there are in the US…yet there are large layoffs/losses occurring. The key once again is to look at the WPR that I have discussed numerous times. The WPR is in the toilette…huge numbers of people are not even trying to participate in the job market…and those people are not calculated into the unemployment figure that the federal government brags about.

Bank Failures –

Now let’s talk bank failures. Earlier this year I wrote a lot about it, in detail, with specifics, and warnings galore. The warnings are now reality and the disaster is looming even larger. Let me touch on one item…bank failure dollar figures have already exceeded the 2007 bank failure figure. Did you hear that?

This past week First Republic Bank failed, PacWest Bancorp is on the verge even as you read this article. But First Republic Bank failure is the one I want to talk about because there is importance here. Back on March 21st I wrote that a banking consortium was going to step in and buy the defaulted Signature Bank…as reported by the FDIC. But on March 14th I reported that First Republic Bank was on a watch list for banks in trouble. Yes, you read that right…a bank in trouble was going to be part of a banking cabal to rescue a defaulted bank.

So you ask me why this focus. What do those two instances/events have in common? The answer is J.P. Morgan Bank (technically called ‘JPMorgan Chase & Co’). Morgan is taking over First Republic Bank, oddly First Republic Bank was going to be a partner with Morgan/Chase to take over Signature Bank. So why my interest in JPMorgan?

JPMorgan & Co began as a foreign bank in London, England in the middle of the 1800’s. In 1895 the US government was going to default and the American economy was headed towards collapse. JPMorgan & Co stepped in with $65,000,000 in gold to restore the US Treasury to solvency. Yeah, in today’s money…that would be 2.3billions dollars adjusted for inflation. If you look at the Morgan 65million in relation to the federal budget of 1895 vs 2022…Morgan’s contribution to save the US government would equate to $948billion in today’s money.

Why is this important? Well now…let’s add into the equation this gem…JPMorgan & Co is the credit card issuer for almost all federal employees’ federal agency credit cards. Yes sir…that means hundreds of billions of dollars filter through the JPMorgan & Co bank. And then again…look at the former JP Morgan employees who now work at the US Treasury Department. Oh, and it was recently revealed that Janet Yellen has personal conversations with Jamie Dimon who just happens to be the head of JP Morgan.

You see how this is all working together…the federal government is working with the Federal Reserve and major banking players to destroy the banking industry to restructure it. Restructure the way that will coincide with the ‘great reset’. Banks have failed, are failing, and the entire banking sector will collapse.

Let me tie job loss with banking crisis…inflation is the tie here. Jobs are being lost right now due to inflation slowing down the economy. Banks are failing due to the same reason…inflation.

And here are the dots connected…

  • Why are job losses so bad right now? Inflation.
  • Why are banks failing right now at an historic rate? Inflation.
  • Who is causing inflation? The Federal Reserve is intentionally causing inflation at the direction of the US government.
  • Who is the Federal Reserve? A group of private US banks.
  • Who is the largest bank in the US? JPMorgan Chase.
  • Who are the largest banks in the world? Top 4 are Chinese banks, #5 is JPMorgan Chase.
  • Who has the Biden family on its payroll for decades? China.
  • Who does the Biden Administration use as their consultant for bank recuses. JPMorgan Chase.
  • Who is the #1 bank ‘rescuing’ defaulting banks? JPMorgan Chase.

Surprisingly this is not the biggest threat to America, although it is the most immediate danger facing Americans at the moment. So the #1 danger?

Artificial Intelligence –

Back in 2019 I began telling you about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its dangers to America specifically, humans in general. That same year I also explained the dangers of DeepFake technology…and DeepFake is powered by AI.

I don’t want to go into all of the details of AI again but let it suffice that there is an AI project where ‘it’ is learning on its own…teaching itself. It is called “Gollum”. In a matter of a couple of years it went from the equivalent of a preschooler to having taught itself -learned on its own- research level chemistry. When the project managers asked Gollum why it learned that…it wouldn’t explain the ‘why’ to them. It also went on to consume all text on the Internet and then decided, on its own, to absorb Internet based videos as well.

AI technology is expected to replace some 80% of all jobs that currently exist. And only 10% of the jobs lost will result in the people finding new jobs. Going back to the current massive job loss and its effects on the economy…how do you think the AI induced job loss factors in to all of this?

On the dark side…the technology exists right now that political campaigns can create custom, person-specific ads for their candidate. Meaning…based on who you are -meaning you– political campaign ads will be made for and directed to you as an individual. Do you think those ads will be 100% accurate let alone truthful? Oh, and how do they know how to create that custom ad? Simple…AI scans the entire Internet for you…and any electronic communication of yours…analyzes it to create that ad content. Nice huh?

And then the real evil stuff…the military and the CIA can do the same. Let me explain…they have all your electronic information from everything you have every done that has ever gone through the Internet, etc. Yes, it is all collected and stored by the NSA, including ALL banking transactions. AI can take all of that information and create a perfect profile of who you are…a perfect profile of who you are.

What then?

Let’s say you believe and have an opinion on something…say, the Federal Reserve…and your opinion is “A”. Well, the government doesn’t like your opinion…they want it to be “X”. So they fire up the good old computer, kick in the AI, and in less than a minute it has acquired and analyzed every Internet search, all your emails, all your purchases, and everything else about you that is stored electronically…including such forbidden records as IRS tax records and ATF info. Then it also designs a complete plan to change your opinion to from “A” to “X” just they way they want you to believe.

Then AI starts feeding you news stories, articles from experts, sends you emails from ‘friends’, suggests websites through your social media accounts, etc. They can also tell how lonely you are. Meaning, they can create DeepFake people who become your new online friends…including a girl/boy friend. Over time, since you have been inundated with all this designer information, you have slowly changed your opinion and you now believe “X”. Mission accomplished!

Here is the scary kicker…they can do that simultaneously to 100,000,000 people! Yup, the latest version of AI can do just that. Then next generation of AI is even more sophisticated and even faster and can affect even more people at the same time.

Notice my use of the word “lonely” in the process above? There is a specific reason for that…it is proven research that people are suffering more and more from loneliness…and it is getting exponentially worse with each passing day. And that is why AI will use that mental condition of loneliness against people.

Multiple research projects have pointed to the single biggest contributor to loneliness…social media. The more a person uses social media and for a longer the period of time they have used it, the more lonely they are. And that is statistically proven. Social media isolates people…and that in-turn makes them lonely on the macro level.

Are there physical side-effects to loneliness? Yes sir! People who suffer from loneliness have their health impacted equivalent to smoking 12 cigarettes a day.

Whistle Blowers –

We now have credible whistle blowers with facts/evidence that have proven:

  • The IRS is weaponized and has covered up the Biden family criminal activity.
  • The FBI is completely corrupted at every level.
  • The CIA is completely corrupted at every level…even hiding the fact that the 9/11 hijackers were being recruited by the CIA prior to 9/11.
  • The DOJ has been covering up Hunter Biden criminal activity and ‘slow walking’ any attempt at investigating him.
  • The FBI, CIA, and DOJ were behind the Steele Dossier and the subsequent cover-up letter.
  • US intelligent services colluded with social media and tech companies to influence the 2022 and 2020 elections.
  • Joe Biden and family are and have been on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party.

And the list goes on and on.

I listened to more Congressional testimony of Biden Administration officials over the last 2 weeks…to say it was disgusting would be a vast understatement. These officials outright lie to Congress…and it is proven that they have in-fact lied! And nothing, nothing is ever done…and won’t be.

Here is one for you that should make you vomit…remember Jeffery Epstein? The guy that lined up hundreds and hundreds of women…and underage girls/boys…for the “A-List” people in business, tech, and political circles? Well, very recently a whistle-blower with a Top Secret clearance through the military and a Top Secret clearance through the CIA…yes, a former CIA operative who is also a former Special Ops soldier was asked a question. The question was simple…was Epstein running an operation for US intelligence services? His response was stunning! He replied that he had access to that information, he had seen the files and the intelligence…pause…Epstein was running a “honey pot” operation for US intelligence services.

Does that help bring clarity to not just that whole Epstein thing…but shows you who the US government, specifically the US intelligence agencies, are and what they do?

And did you pick up the point that the 9/11 hijackers were known to the CIA and an operation was being conducted to recruit them into being an asset for the CIA? That is bad enough…but did you miss the point that the CIA was conducting an operation on US soil??? Yeah, that is specifically against the law…with no exceptions.

It is factually and unequivocal to say that the US Federal government is no longer a Constitutional Republic form of government. At best it is a deepstate…but in my opinion, it is now a totalitarian regime working directly against the Constitution and against the best interest of common US citizens to deny them God-given rights, liberties, and freedoms. We have been betrayed plain and simple.

Free Will –

Before I get into the meat of this let me share two items of interest…

  1. Notice how the government and media went after whistle-blower Jack Teixeira. They published a very unflattering picture of him. Then described him as some ‘gamer’ loser. Then he was a disgruntled nobody low-level military service member. At the same time he was also labeled a traitor. But did you also notice…not a single media company dove into the secrets themselves that he revealed. The secrets that once again showed our federal government, and specifically the intelligence services, to be absolutely despicable and untrustworthy. He provided factual information that showed the federal government lying to us about everything…especially concerning the Russia/Ukraine War. So, can you trust anything the federal government does or says? And why did all the media outlets ignore the crimes of the federal government and focus exclusively on destroying Teixeira?
  1. Now, Tucker Carlson. First off, let’s agree that no one is perfect…ok? Back to Carlson…he was fired by Fox. Then what did the media immediately start doing? Tucker was labeled a:
    • Racist
    • Christian Nationalist
    • White Supremacist
    • A horrible person who actually used swear words.

Notice how they attacked him, discredited him, demonized him, and trying to do everything they can to keep him out of a return to the media. The same media and social media companies that also worked directly with, sometimes for, the US federal government. Why do you think that is? Why do you think they are working so hard to prevent Carlson from returning to the spotlight? And are they trying to destroy him personally…and thus destroy his messages past and present?

Even the Pentagon came out and said the world would be better without Carlson.

Let’s tie some things together…

  1. The economy is tanking, inflation is rising, recession/depression is right around the corner, if not already here.
  2. Banking is falling apart at a pace not seen in generations.
  3. A single bank, JPMorgan, is becoming quickly becoming the only major player left in the banking world.
  4. Jobs are disappearing and its getting worse.
  5. AI will replace HUGE % of jobs/workforce in the coming few years.
  6. People are feeling increasingly lonely, and that is accelerating at an exponential pace.
  7. Nothing the federal government says or does anymore can be trusted.
  8. The US government has the AI capability to attack 100million people simultaneously to modify their opinions to suit government purposes. And they will use loneliness as a weapon against people.
  9. Gollum, an AI project, runs independent from people, learns on its own, and keeps secrets from humans associated with it.
  10. When asked if AI can/will make humans extinct…1/2 of all AI researchers said ‘yes’ without hesitation.

So with all the influence and deception of AI…do we still have free will? Are they trying to change even that?

Insanity, Chaos, Anarchy –

I have intentionally not mentioned the insanity that you are seeing every single day in American streets. Mass shootings, horrible murders, unspeakable crimes against children, and then more mass shootings. I am not referencing these issues because they are a diversion, a distraction. As horrible and insane as it is…it is meant to distract us from the real problems. But, it also adds to what I have been telling you about…the public crying for a solution…begging for a political savior…restoration of law & order. And then steps in the white knight to solve all our problems. And then the real problems begin…the real hell on earth.

So here is the biggest threat to us –

  1. In the short-term it is the economic situation…to the extent of collapse. Let’s call it the #2 threat just to keep it sorted out.
  2. Then the #1 threat, the mid-term threat…AI. There is no possible way any future election will be honest, fair, or legitimate. People will be swayed by fake everything for their votes. This will be conducted by the federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies in conjunction with big tech and media sources. It will all be fraudulent…and criminal.

Yeah, you are asking right about now what is the long-term threat to the US. There is no long-term threat to the US…because there is no long-term for the US.

Yes, you read that right! Within 2 years when AI is being more fully used by those in power and the federal law enforcement and intelligence services are in full-on “thug” mode…all hope for a “long-term”, when viewing the US, will have evaporated.

I am saying clearly that the situation is that bad! I am saying it clearly and without reservation or qualification…not a single bit of hedging on my part. Of course I have no crystal ball when it comes to timing…so I may be off on the timing, but I don’t believe I am, not a bit.

What to do –

First off you must know about and understand “Normalcy Bias” and how it affects people. Then throw it off entirely.

Next, get your principles in order. I’ve talked about that is great detail over the last few years, so go read about it if you are unclear.

It is especially critical to establish ‘red lines’ and then decide what you are willing to do to stand by those red lines…how committed are you to those precious principles?

Then understand you will make no difference at all on the national level. You don’t have that kind of power…period! There is no national political ‘white knight’ going to be coming in on a white horse to save us. That is 100% impossible.

And then understand there is no stopping this train wreck that is occurring, it has gone to far and there is too much power behind it. As long as there are US government intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, DNI, etc.), federal law enforcement agencies (FBI, ATF, DEA, etc.), and a standing army there is absolutely no stopping this fundamental transformation of America.

Now, here is what you can do to make a huge difference…

  1. Be a 100% Constitutionalist…without exception, without qualification, without question.
  2. Throw off ALL political party affiliation. When you vote, vote for the person that most closely matches your beliefs and principles…and who doesn’t cross any of your red lines.
  3. Get past mourning for the loss of the US. The US, as we know it, is lost…it is gone…get over it. You can not take the steps you need to if your mind is still screwed up mourning the loss of the US.
  4. Educate yourself on what true freedom and liberty is. A great way to do that is to study the Founding Fathers in the run-up to and during the American Revolution.
  5. Work with your family to teach them these important principles.
  6. Once the family is safely taken care of, then expand your efforts to your neighbors, your community, your congregation, and others who you could have influence with…or at least with whom may listen to you.

Once all of that is handled, or actually in parallel with, do your material prepping. You can use my checkoff sheets if you like, they may help you think through your physical preparations. Only you know what you must do…and when.

Two final issues I want to bring up; 1) urgency, 2) discernment.

Figure out how much time you have left to get things done…then get it done! My wife and I have had multiple conversations in the last several months about what is coming and how soon. We came up with a list of critical things we had to do here at the glamstead. Originally the list was to be done by the end of the year. Yeah, that changed in April. We moved everything up to be completed, as much as possible, by 4th of July…at the latest.

I have no idea what you should do personally for your family…what should be on your list. Only you can make that decision. But whatever it is on that list…have a sense of urgency on how quickly you get it done. For us, we had a few dollars sitting in an IRA and we weren’t thrilled about its status. We decided that we would take some of that money and move up the time-frame on getting things accomplished on our list. We knew it was money better spent on our list than simply sitting in an IRA.

I am not saying you should do that…but it was the right thing for us to do. We gain clarity and part of that was a sense of urgency.

To close out the ‘urgency’ issue…think about this…if it all collapsed by Friday, what condition would you and your family be in. What could/should you do this week to prepare to soften that Friday blow? Get moving on those things you know you should be doing!

Now let’s talk “discernment” for just a bit. In the old says you would hear things like, “Seeing is believing!” or “If I can’t see it I don’t believe it.” Those days are dead and gone. With AI and its twisted child DeepFake, you can no longer trust even those things that you see. With ChatGPT and other AI technology you can’t trust anything you read on any technology platform. With the AI capability of US intelligence agencies you can’t even trust that a person you are talking to online is even a person! We are now in a world where reality is rapidly disappearing…being replaced by a carefully crafted environment of manipulation by tech companies and the media under the direction of the US government who is controlled by elites.

That being said I want to share with you something that the leader of the church I belong to said not that long ago. He said that without the gift of the Holy Ghost we would not be able to survive what’s coming. I remember at the time thinking “of course!” But I was thinking only in the conventional sense of the cautioning. Now I believe I see more of what he was referring to.

Since we can no longer trust what we see and hear to be truth, how then can we know what is true and what to do about it? As a believer in Jesus Christ I know I can trust Him and our Heavenly Father. And Jesus said he would send us a Comforter…and that is the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost can, and does, bear witness to what is true. That is his job, and he does it without fail or fault. The Holy Ghost can lead us to truth and prevent us from being deceived by wickedness and evil the world will throw at us. The key is to listen. Will you?

There is so much more I would like to share, more that I have to say…but I am already well over 4,000 words and I am sure your eyes have glazed over by now. But I do have one more word of caution…big cities. I am taking any city/town that has a population of greater than 50,000. If you live in a place like that…move…if you can. At the very least have a solid plan to bugout to a place of safety. Somewhere where the people think about and believe in freedoms, rights, and liberties. Some place where you feel can withstand the terrible coming storm. Someplace small where you can have influence and an all-oppressive government will have less power.

In the coming days, as the country continues collapses then transitions, big cities will be the most adversely affected and controlled. Those places will see the most chaos, confusion, crime, death, and evil. We are already seeing big cities fall into the depths of evil in every aspect. Either get out now…or be ready to bugout when you have to. Hopefully it won’t be too late by that time.

I can not stress enough to you how dangerous those places are now…and you probably have no idea just how bad it will get. Don’t subject your family to that…they deserve better.

My friends…the war is underway, evil is winning, evil will continue to win for a long time to come, and many good people and their families will suffer. Please don’t let your families be one of those that suffer unspeakable horrors.

I close with this thought…


We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.


Now imagine our Founding Fathers sitting in a room today and they are considering where our federal government is presently in their actions towards US citizens…and even towards the world. What would our Founding Fathers think? What would our Founding Fathers do?

 

 

Matthew 10: 28

 

 

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Something to think about…

So, I’ve been really watching the markets and the economy lately. Something is up, something is wrong, something weird is happening. Yes, I know…I’ve talking/writing about this for a very long time…I understand. In the past I have been very clear in what I saw and what I thought about it…I am not shy about sharing my opinion as you know. This is different…very different. Something is going on, the up-front and obvious stuff to be sure, but I am getting a sense on something happening in the background that I can’t quite put my finger on. Kinda like I can see something lurking in the shadows but can’t quite make out the shape or details.

That being the case, I thought I would share the following in a graphic format that might help both of us get a clue of what it might be. Please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions, ideas, or questions.

Americans are struggling to pay bills, they have burned through a lot of existing savings, and are now using credit cards to pay bills, and personal savings rate is at historic lows for the average American.

US corporations have taken on a historic amount of debt, some of that debt has already driven companies out of business. Never in the history of the world has a country owed as much money as the United States. Based on the $31trilllion dollar figure…it is mathematically impossible to pay off that amount of debt…even if they intended to. And then there is an additional approximately $300trillion of unfunded liabilities lurking in the country’s future as well.

For the most part irresponsibility has caused the average citizen savings to plummet, the personal credit card debt to skyrocket, and corporate debt to hit historic highs. Simply put…people making poor, very poor, financial decisions.

And added to the poor decision making is the record setting inflation brought on by the government since Joe Biden took office. Oh, and the dramatic increase in energy costs that has helped push every single item that people buy go up exponentially in cost.

And sadly…both inflation and energy increases have been intentional. Yup, intentional…as in the government, at least on the surface, purposely created an environment where the prices went up…and the average person’s income nosedived. Yes, you are perfectly within your right to ask why they would do such a thing.

But to me, I am asking myself, trying to figure out, exactly what comes next. I think there are three basic choices…all of which I think have an equal chance of occurring…

Whatever happens…are you preparing for it?


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Time to write about crypto-currency!

stuff that makes AH Trimble's head explodeI will be blunt, honest, and probably insulting…and no doubt rude in this article. I am going to approach this from two angles, crypto-currency as 1) a personal investment, 2) a preparedness item. I will use “Bitcoin” as the example of choice. Yes, that means there are more, but not for this article…too many to list and all basically the same. I will use facts, historical charts, experience, and common sense. If you don’t like any of the above…then don’t read the article!!!

Personal Investment –

Let’s look at the historical price chart of Bitcoin to gain the big picture…

As we look at it we see that from 8/22/2014 – 7/17/2017 it went from $400 – $2,730…a 582% gain, almost 90% annualized gain. VERY good indeed!!  Especially considering the consistent trading volume. But that was only the start. From mid-July 2017 to mid-December of that year it jumped another 600%!!! Sweet, to say the least. So, had you purchased a single Bitcoin in August 2014 for $400 you would be looking at that account value being just about $20,000…in 3-1/2 years. Hey, does it get any better than that?

Before I go too far…do you remember the old saying, “If it is too good to be true, it usually is”?

Another example: You were cautious of Bitcoin until December 2017, but you liked what you saw in its historical performance…and you bought a single Bitcoin in December 2017 for $20,000. You are going to strike it rich!!!  In the spring of 2019 you decided to buy a new house with the Bitcoin profits…paying cash for a house. So you sell off your single Bitcoin…for $3,673. Oh my! A 82% loss…YUCK!

So let’s spin the wheel again: You decide to not sell your Bitcoin and not buy a new house in 2019…you hang on to it. In the spring of 2021 you decide to review what your Bitcoin is worth…over $60,000! That is really nice…and now you are thinking a mansion vs just a puny new house. You decide to wait on the mansion for awhile and being smart, you buy another Bitcoin to take advantage of a no-lose investment. Now you are the proud owner of two Bitcoins worth $120,000…you are a sure winner in this crypto-lottery. Now it is the end of 2021 and you need money for a serious issue in the family…you sell your Bitcoins…and pocket $98,400. Yes, a loss of over $20,000 in just 8 months. Oooopppppsssss!

Not an issue you say to yourself…I only had invested $60,400 total and got back $98,400. That is still a net gain of $38,400. Not too shabby…63% gain over 7+years. You are very, very proud of yourself…that is 6.92% annual return on your total investment spanning 7+ years!!!

Silly me…My S&P 500 index mutual fund investment only yielded 14.9% annual return during that same period of time.

Now, granted that original Bitcoin that you paid $400 went to $48,200…and that is nothing to sneeze at. And hopefully you are very lucky! Because if you aren’t so lucky your Bitcoin was stolen along with the over 4,000,000 other Bitcoins that have been stolen since the beginning…12 years. That is $192,800,000,000…yup, as of today that is 192 billion dollars’ worth of Bitcoin stolen. That’s $16billion per year on average. Oh, and FYI…an additional 20% of all Bitcoins have been lost by their owner’s and are not recoverable according to a 2019 research article. And then again…in 2020 the Federal Government seized $1,000,000,000,000 (1 billion dollars) of Bitcoins from Silk Road, a website that used Bitcoin in their currency wallet. And no, the Feds have no interest or intent to find the actual owners of the Bitcoins.

So if your Bitcoins weren’t stolen, or you didn’t lose them, or the Feds didn’t seized them…you are in great shape. Notice the operative word “if”!

And no problems…there are always more Bitcoins to buy, right! And Bitcoins are a wonderful investment because they have fantastic intrinsic value. Bitcoins are made through mining…the process of creating new bitcoin is by solving a computational puzzle via computer(s). Yup, computers create Bitcoins out of thin air! Oh, and there is no licensing for Bitcoin miners…and no regulations, no oversight, no tracking, no nothing for Bitcoin miners or how they go about their mining.

And now let me introduce you to a couple of very successful Bitcoin miners, just to instill confidence in you of course…

They are Aanya and her brother Ishaan, 9 years old and 14 years old respectively. They are making in excess of $30,000 per month “mining” Bitcoin and two other cryptocurrencies. So that should lead you to the question of…What value does Bitcoin actually have?

There are two ways to determine Bitcoin’s value; 1) intrinsic value, 2) market value.

Intrinsic value means the value the item has in and of itself, or as its own property. Silver for instance has intrinsic value because it can be made into a wide range of marketable items. Silver is used for jewelry, electrical and electronics parts, solar panels, aircraft parts, medicine, tableware, water purification, and monetary coins…just to name some.

Market value is what other people are willing to pay for the item you have, the value is strictly determined by the other person’s willingness to purchase what you have. Real estate is a good example of an item that has “market value”. A person who wishes to purchase your home is willing to offer a certain amount of money…hence, that is what your home is worth on the open market. But, a home has additional capacity to have intrinsic value as well. The wood, block, copper, appliances, trim, flooring, etc. also have intrinsic value.

Now, back to the question… What value does Bitcoin actually have?

Bitcoin has absolutely no intrinsic value at all, none whatsoever. There is ZERO intrinsic value in Bitcoin because there is no physical property, real value, that represents Bitcoin. However, Bitcoin has market value…but that is all that it has. Bitcoin is only worth what someone else is willing to pay you for it. If no one is willing to pay you for your $20,000 purchase price Bitcoin…then it is worth nothing. If they want to pay you $100 for that $20,000 Bitcoin then that is exactly what it is worth and nothing more. Market value is strictly determined by other people.

So let’s look at that for a minute in a little more detail…the old “how much someone is willing to pay you” thing…

Reviewing the historic price chart of Bitcoin you can see a whole lot of times that Bitcoin’s price dropped 50% – 60% of its value. Those and other drastic drops occurred on a regular basis…nice, right? So you can see that under normal market conditions the price people are willing to pay for Bitcoin varies dramatically with huge loses often occurring. So for me…that doesn’t sound like a good personal investment option for my wife and me. Just saying…

Oh, and one more thing…Bitcoin’s history…Bitcoin only been around since 2009. That’s only 12 years of history! Yeah, about the average age of the Bitcoin miners mentioned above. So, tell me…how much faith would you put in a 12 year old to handle your money correctly?

Preparedness Item –

Putting Bitcoin into perspective as a preparedness item requires us to look at its value in relationship to the three basic events to prepare for; 1) emergencies, 2) disasters, & 3) grid-down. To be Surviving Any Disaster - even TEOTWAWKIconsidered a preparedness item worth stocking up on Bitcoin must prove itself to be of value during all three of the above event types.

To be clear, Bitcoin must:

  1. Be widely accepted for goods & services during those events.
  2. Be readily accessible.
  3. Be easily transportable.
  4. Be easy to set a value to for bartering and payments.
  5. Preferably be non-traceable.

To determine the preparedness value of Bitcoin compared to those five requirements.

  1. Be widely accepted for goods & services during those events – Bitcoin is not even widely accepted as payment for goods and services under normal social conditions. Currently Bitcoin has extremely limited ability to pay for anything day-to-day. There is no indication under any emergency conditions where it would be any more widely accepted than it is now. Actually, the exact opposite is true…every indication is that under any emergency situation Bitcoin would be virtually unacceptable as payment to any person or company.
  2. Be readily accessible – Bitcoin is only accessible via computer and through the Internet via service providers. During a grid-down event, and most other events, it is widely agreed upon that there will be no Internet and no service providers. And depending on the event itself (i.e. EMP, solar flare, etc.) there may be no functioning computers either. Although a note must be made here that 20% of users, under normal conditions, cannot access their Bitcoins at all, lost forever. And since there have been hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoins stolen and over a billion dollar of Bitcoins seized by the US government, there is ZERO guarantee that a person’s Bitcoins would even be there to begin with, let along accessible, in any foreseeable emergency.
  3. Be easily transportable – Bitcoin is easily transported when electronics and the Internet are available and accessible. However, those Bitcoins may not be easily transferable to another person during an emergency due to computer failure, inaccessible Internet, etc.
  4. Be easy to set a value to for bartering and payments – Since there is NO intrinsic value to Bitcoins there is no way to establish a baseline value to them. And since their value is only based on what someone is willing to pay, there is NO way to anticipate that Bitcoin would be of any value at all during anything other than normal times. Bitcoin’s difficulty in transporting and accessing could negate them having any value at all under any emergency circumstances.
  5. Preferably be non-traceable – Bitcoin is transferred via the Internet through service providers. Hackers have fairly regularly stolen Bitcoins, therefore hackers have traced them. The US government has seized them, therefore the government has traced them. Bitcoin is electronically mined and added into the system, therefore there is a traceable path for all created Bitcoins. All transactions have an electronic pathway, therefore all transactions are traceable. All that being said…Bitcoins are 100% traceable by the wrong types of folks.

The way I see it Bitcoin has no value whatsoever when it comes to emergency preparedness…NONE! And that is especially true when compared to precious metals. If you remember I have written extensively concerning precious metals and their place in emergency preparedness.

However, when compared with other preparedness items such as food storage, water purification capability, medical supplies, and defensive means…then Bitcoin really and truly has no value at all in any way, shape or form. Bitcoin (and ALL other crypto-currencies) are worthless in terms of emergency preparedness and have NO place in this arena…PERIOD!!

Summary –

I hope I’ve made myself perfectly clear in this matter of Bitcoin…or any other crypto-currency. If not, let me try this one more time…

1) As a personal investment I can’t imagine a more speculative, volatile, and dangerous way to go. Yes, you could make a whole lot of money…as in a pyramid scheme, but your chances of it losing value, having it stolen, having it confiscated by a government, losing access to your wallet, losing access to it via the Internet, or having it hacked makes it just plain stupid. Then there is the whole fact that it has absolutely NO value of its own…nothing, ZERO, zip, ZILCH, nada…ensures that it is worthless in the long term as an investment. If I had ALL my preps done for a 7 year period, had a fully funded 401k and/or IRA, had a year’s supply of cash for expenses, had ALL my debt paid off, and nothing else to do…with a mindset to lose every cent that I put into Bitcoin…then I would do it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole…wait, make that a 10 mile pole.

You want to read something interesting…read about the “The Dutch tulip bubble of 1637” and then ponder that at least tulip bulbs can grow flowers and can be held in your hand. That is FAR more than Bitcoin can claim.

2) As an emergency preparedness item I can’t, in my wildest imagination, on my worst day, in the throes of stupidity, see Bitcoin or any other crypto-currency as having any value at all. I also couldn’t fathom why anyone for any reason would have crypto-currency as part of an emergency plan of any kind. When it comes to emergency preparedness, Bitcoin is utter fantasy!

So there…now you have absolute clarity on my crypto-currency opinion. An opinion based on facts and 45 years of emergency preparedness experience, more than 30 years of that being professional real-life experience with emergencies and disasters.

And here is a great endorsement for Bitcoin and crypto-currency. If you believe in this guy, if you trust this guy, and you think he has all the answers…then believe him by all means!

FWIW…what easier way for an authoritarian government to control the entire economic system of any country or the world???? Controlled via something 100% controllable by the same governments…the Internet. And what is virtually 100% dependent on the Internet? Crypto-currency! Good luck with that…you’re going to need it.

 

 

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Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It

note: This is a reprint of another author’s article. It is extremely informative. I believe it is a must read for you if you have any desire to combat Marxism, Socialism, racism, and the continued overthrow of the United States of America.


Christopher F. Rufo
Founder and Director, Battlefront


Christopher F. Rufo is founder and director of Battlefront, a public policy research center. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and a former Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. As executive director at the Documentary Foundation, he has directed four films for PBS, including most recently America Lost, which explores life in Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California. He is also a contributing editor of City Journal, where he covers topics including critical race theory, homelessness, addiction, and crime.


Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. It’s time for this to change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.

In explaining critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism. Originally, the Marxist Left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution to that imbalance, according to Marx, was revolution: the workers would eventually gain consciousness of their plight, seize the means of production, overthrow the capitalist class, and usher in a new socialist society.

During the 20th century, a number of regimes underwent Marxist-style revolutions, and each ended in disaster. Socialist governments in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Cuba, and elsewhere racked up a body count of nearly 100 million of their own people. They are remembered for their gulags, show trials, executions, and mass starvations. In practice, Marx’s ideas unleashed man’s darkest brutalities.

By the mid-1960s, Marxist intellectuals in the West had begun to acknowledge these failures. They recoiled at revelations of Soviet atrocities and came to realize that workers’ revolutions would never occur in Western Europe or the United States, where there were large middle classes and rapidly improving standards of living. Americans in particular had never developed a sense of class consciousness or class division. Most Americans believed in the American dream—the idea that they could transcend their origins through education, hard work, and good citizenship.

But rather than abandon their Leftist political project, Marxist scholars in the West simply adapted their revolutionary theory to the social and racial unrest of the 1960s. Abandoning Marx’s economic dialectic of capitalists and workers, they substituted race for class and sought to create a revolutionary coalition of the dispossessed based on racial and ethnic categories.

Fortunately, the early proponents of this revolutionary coalition in the U.S. lost out in the 1960s to the civil rights movement, which sought instead the fulfillment of the American promise of freedom and equality under the law. Americans preferred the idea of improving their country to that of overthrowing it. The vision of Martin Luther King, Jr., President Johnson’s pursuit of the Great Society, and the restoration of law and order promised by President Nixon in his 1968 campaign defined the post-1960s American political consensus.

But the radical Left has proved resilient and enduring—which is where critical race theory comes in.

WHAT IT IS

Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s, built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, over the past decade it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs, and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks, and school curricula.

There are a series of euphemisms deployed by its supporters to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” and “culturally responsive teaching.” Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds non-threatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, equality—the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War, and codified into law with the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—is explicitly rejected by critical race theorists. To them, equality represents “mere nondiscrimination” and provides “camouflage” for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oppression.

In contrast to equality, equity as defined and promoted by critical race theorists is little more than reformulated Marxism. In the name of equity, UCLA Law Professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government, and would have the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others who are deemed insufficiently “antiracist.”

One practical result of the creation of such a department would be the overthrow of capitalism, since according to Kendi, “In order to truly be antiracist, you also have to truly be anti-capitalist.” In other words, identity is the means and Marxism is the end.

An equity-based form of government would mean the end not only of private property, but also of individual rights, equality under the law, federalism, and freedom of speech. These would be replaced by race-based redistribution of wealth, group-based rights, active discrimination, and omnipotent bureaucratic authority. Historically, the accusation of “anti-Americanism” has been overused. But in this case, it’s not a matter of interpretation—critical race theory prescribes a revolutionary program that would overturn the principles of the Declaration and destroy the remaining structure of the Constitution.

HOW IT WORKS

What does critical race theory look like in practice? Last year, I authored a series of reports focused on critical race theory in the federal government. The FBI was holding workshops on intersectionality theory. The Department of Homeland Security was telling white employees they were committing “microinequities” and had been “socialized into oppressor roles.” The Treasury Department held a training session telling staff members that “virtually all white people contribute to racism” and that they must convert “everyone in the federal government” to the ideology of “antiracism.” And the Sandia National Laboratories, which designs America’s nuclear arsenal, sent white male executives to a three-day reeducation camp, where they were told that “white male culture” was analogous to the “KKK,” “white supremacists,” and “mass killings.” The executives were then forced to renounce their “white male privilege” and write letters of apology to fictitious women and people of color.

This year, I produced another series of reports focused on critical race theory in education. In Cupertino, California, an elementary school forced first-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, and rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” In Springfield, Missouri, a middle school forced teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” based on the idea that straight, white, English-speaking, Christian males are members of the oppressor class and must atone for their privilege and “covert white supremacy.” In Philadelphia, an elementary school forced fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to free 1960s radical Angela Davis from prison, where she had once been held on charges of murder. And in Seattle, the school district told white teachers that they are guilty of “spirit murder” against black children and must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgement of [their] thieved inheritance.”

I’m just one investigative journalist, but I’ve developed a database of more than 1,000 of these stories. When I say that critical race theory is becoming the operating ideology of our public institutions, it is not an exaggeration—from the universities to bureaucracies to k-12 school systems, critical race theory has permeated the collective intelligence and decision-making process of American government, with no sign of slowing down.

This is a revolutionary change. When originally established, these government institutions were presented as neutral, technocratic, and oriented towards broadly-held perceptions of the public good. Today, under the increasing sway of critical race theory and related ideologies, they are being turned against the American people. This isn’t limited to the permanent bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., but is true as well of institutions in the states, even in red states, and it is spreading to county public health departments, small Midwestern school districts, and more. This ideology will not stop until it has devoured all of our institutions.

FUTILE RESISTANCE

Thus far, attempts to halt the encroachment of critical race theory have been ineffective. There are a number of reasons for this.

First, too many Americans have developed an acute fear of speaking up about social and political issues, especially those involving race. According to a recent Gallup poll, 77 percent of conservatives are afraid to share their political beliefs publicly. Worried about getting mobbed on social media, fired from their jobs, or worse, they remain quiet, largely ceding the public debate to those pushing these anti-American ideologies. Consequently, the institutions themselves become monocultures: dogmatic, suspicious, and hostile to a diversity of opinion. Conservatives in both the federal government and public school systems have told me that their “equity and inclusion” departments serve as political offices, searching for and stamping out any dissent from the official orthodoxy.

Second, critical race theorists have constructed their argument like a mousetrap. Disagreement with their program becomes irrefutable evidence of a dissenter’s “white fragility,” “unconscious bias,” or “internalized white supremacy.” I’ve seen this projection of false consciousness on their opponents play out dozens of times in my reporting. Diversity trainers will make an outrageous claim—such as “all whites are intrinsically oppressors” or “white teachers are guilty of spirit murdering black children”—and then when confronted with disagreement, they adopt a patronizing tone and explain that participants who feel “defensiveness” or “anger” are reacting out of guilt and shame. Dissenters are instructed to remain silent, “lean into the discomfort,” and accept their “complicity in white supremacy.”

Third, Americans across the political spectrum have failed to separate the premise of critical race theory from its conclusion. Its premise—that American history includes slavery and other injustices, and that we should examine and learn from that history—is undeniable. But its revolutionary conclusion—that America was founded on and defined by racism and that our founding principles, our Constitution, and our way of life should be overthrown—does not rightly, much less necessarily, follow.

Fourth and finally, the writers and activists who have had the courage to speak out against critical race theory have tended to address it on the theoretical level, pointing out the theory’s logical contradictions and dishonest account of history. These criticisms are worthy and good, but they move the debate into the academic realm, which is friendly terrain for proponents of critical race theory. They fail to force defenders of this revolutionary ideology to defend the practical consequences of their ideas in the realm of politics.

POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

No longer simply an academic matter, critical race theory has become a tool of political power. To borrow a phrase from the Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, it is fast achieving “cultural hegemony” in America’s public institutions. More and more, it is driving the vast machinery of the state and society. If we want to succeed in opposing it, we must address it politically at every level.

Critical race theorists must be confronted with and forced to speak to the facts. Do they support public schools separating first-graders into groups of “oppressors” and “oppressed”? Do they support mandatory curricula teaching that “all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism”? Do they support public schools instructing white parents to become “white traitors” and advocate for “white abolition”? Do they want those who work in government to be required to undergo this kind of reeducation? How about managers and workers in corporate America? How about the men and women in our military? How about every one of us?

There are three parts to a successful strategy to defeat the forces of critical race theory: governmental action, grassroots mobilization, and an appeal to principle.

We already see examples of governmental action. Last year, one of my reports led President Trump to issue an executive order banning critical race theory-based training programs in the federal government. President Biden rescinded this order on his first day in office, but it provides a model for governors and municipal leaders to follow. This year, several state legislatures have introduced bills to achieve the same goal: preventing public institutions from conducting programs that stereotype, scapegoat, or demean people on the basis of race. And I have organized a coalition of attorneys to file lawsuits against schools and government agencies that impose critical race theory-based programs on grounds of the First Amendment (which protects citizens from compelled speech), the Fourteenth Amendment (which provides equal protection under the law), and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits public institutions from discriminating on the basis of race).

On the grassroots level, a multiracial and bipartisan coalition is emerging to do battle against critical race theory. Parents are mobilizing against racially divisive curricula in public schools and employees are increasingly speaking out against Orwellian reeducation in the workplace. When they see what is happening, Americans are naturally outraged that critical race theory promotes three ideas—race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation—which violate the basic principles of equality and justice. Anecdotally, many Chinese-Americans have told me that having survived the Cultural Revolution in their former country, they refuse to let the same thing happen here. 

In terms of principles, we need to employ our own moral language rather than allow ourselves to be confined by the categories of critical race theory. For example, we often find ourselves debating “diversity.” Diversity as most of us understand it is generally good, all things being equal, but it is of secondary value. We should be talking about and aiming at excellence, a common standard that challenges people of all backgrounds to achieve their potential. On the scale of desirable ends, excellence beats diversity every time.

Similarly, in addition to pointing out the dishonesty of the historical narrative on which critical race theory is predicated, we must promote the true story of America—a story that is honest about injustices in American history, but that places them in the context of our nation’s high ideals and the progress we have made towards realizing them. Genuine American history is rich with stories of achievements and sacrifices that will move the hearts of Americans—in stark contrast to the grim and pessimistic narrative pressed by critical race theorists.

Above all, we must have courage—the fundamental virtue required in our time. Courage to stand and speak the truth. Courage to withstand epithets. Courage to face the mob. Courage to shrug off the scorn of the elites. When enough of us overcome the fear that currently prevents so many from speaking out, the hold of critical race theory will begin to slip. And courage begets courage. It’s easy to stop a lone dissenter; it’s much harder to stop 10, 20, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000, or more who stand up together for the principles of America.

Truth and justice are on our side. If we can muster the courage, we will win.

 

source: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/
 

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4th of July – Independence Day 2021

4th-0note: While this article has been posted in previous years, I am posting it again this year because it applies…maybe even more so. And yes, I tried to do some more editing to make it read easier and flow better…and apply even more to our current 2021 situation in America.

2021 note: I would like you to seriously consider where your principles stand; your commitment to the morals. ethics, and concepts as outlined by the Declaration of Independence. In 2020/2021 we’ve seen two tragic things; 1) a huge overstep of all levels of government to control the citizens of this great country, 2) a monumental compliance of sheeple that should shake you to your very core. As we celebrate this holiday please take time to consider just how committed you are to the; 1) Republic (USA), 2) true freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, 3) the Declaration of Independence, 4) your willingness to act. Think about this…All the food and water storage in the world won’t mean a thing without a core set of principles that guide you and your family.

Independence Day (a.k.a. 4th of July) historically July 4th is the day for celebrating declaring independence from Great Britain. However, on July 2, 1776 the American Revolution leadership declared the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain after the American Congress had voted to do so. And the 4th is when they  actually signed the document. So the 4th of July is actually more about the Declaration of Independence becoming our first American historical document. For me…I would love to celebrate the 2nd – the 4th of July !!

And it is good to remember, open warfare had broken out a year earlier between the tyrannical British government military and American freedom fighters.

So if this holiday, the 4th of July – Independence Day, is all about 4th-1declaring independence and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. What is the Declaration of Independence all about?

4th-2Well, just take the first 18 words of the actual document –

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands…”

The Declaration of Independence was all about dissolving the tyrannical government that had been imposed upon Americans by the British ruling class. In other words, the Americans were fed-up with the governmental tyranny they lived under and were finally doing something really serious about it. The Declaration of Independence was an explanation of what the Americans were doing and why.

But you also have to understand by what “authority” they felt they had to take such drastic actions –

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

They stated unequivocally what the problem was with the British government –

“…the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States…”

If you are reading this post you are more than likely not a first visitor to this website. And that being the case, you know I am not some blogger that wants to be all warm and fuzzy. I don’t believe in sugar-coating currents events and I damn darn sure don’t want to give false hope and impressions of what is going on or where we as a country are headed. I always want to give you the straight talk and the straight, honest answers. But remember, these are only my opinions. Seek out, research, and come to your own conclusions of what is happening in our country today (well, over the last 120 years actually) and why.

In this day an age of misinformation and “deepfake” I want you to trust no one but yourself, and hopefully your spouse. I am confident you can figure out this situation, I just want to share some thoughts that I think are important to where we are as a country and people right now.

The Declaration of Independence listed approximately 26 grievances against the government of Britain.  Among those I found these specific items to be especially interesting:

  1. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
  2. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
  3. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
  4. 4th-3He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
  5. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
  6. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
  7. For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
  8. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
  9. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
  10. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.

Let me make a note of those just for conversation’s sake:

  1. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. Judges now “make” law, are appointed by the President, serve for life, are paid by the government (who sets their pay scale), and the Supreme Court is untouchable even when ruling against the Constitution. Even the most minor federal judge in the middle of nowhere can stop the President (the entire Executive Branch) or Congress (the entire Legislative Branch) from performing their Constitutional duties. Does that sound even remotely right?
  2. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, 4th-4and eat out their substance. The layers of government bureaucracy, local level to the federal level, now number in the 10’s of millions of employees. All serving in a system wherein they can arbitrarily create policy and regulation that carry the force of law. And those laws can ruin people’s lives, destroy businesses, and devastate entire communities.
  3. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. Not only do we have a huge standing Army, we have a huge standing Air Force, Navy, Marine Corp, and National Guard. We now have a situation that dwarfs what the Declaration of Independence complained about. And it costs us 100’s of billions of dollars every year. Money that we have to borrow…driving the country into bankruptcy. We fight numerous, endless, and immensely destructive wars…feeding the military-industrial complex.
  4. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. Our military now 4th-6has unlimited powers, via the NDAA, even within the borders of the US. Posse Comitatis is no longer recognized by the federal government or the military. The military is free to arrest, detain, ship to another country, or kill any US citizen within the borders of the USA by the simple order of the President, and in some cases, by local military commanders. And God-forbid you ever fall under the designation of “potential domestic terrorist”…then you have no rights, no protection, no Constitution…you are at the mercy of government officials.
  5. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: Our government has now subjugated US law to UN law, agreements, and in some cases even Sharia Law. That is in direct opposition to US Constitutional law. In some legal jurisdictions now, Sharia Law (Islamic religious law) is now recognized as superior to US law. 
  6. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: One only needs to look at the nearly 1.5million law enforcers stationed throughout every community, at every possible level of government, to understand this problem. There is little resemblance of yesterday’s peace officers to today’s fully militarized law enforcement officers who operate at the whim and will of federal guidance and political direction.
  7. For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: The political class, the ruling class, is virtually immune to arrest and prosecution for the crimes they commit. We see one politician after another commit serious crimes with absolute impunity. Such is the benefit of the political ruling class. We have a two-tier judicial system…the ruling class…and everyone else.
  8. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: This goes without saying. But it is even worse than you 4th-5might think at first pass. Not only does the government, at all levels, impose taxes, fees, and financial penalties on its citizens at will and without authority or permission…it also eliminates the payment of income taxes by those they wish to exempt. It has gotten so bad that over half of the country’s citizens pay no income taxes while the minority of the population support the entire country’s finances…including the immense welfare system that the majority of non-taxpayers benefit from.
  9. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:  The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the previous Patriot Act, and the present Freedom 4th-7Act…as well as a host of non-laws (Presidential Directives) have eliminated the effect of the Sixth Amendment found in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. The government can, at its own discretion, deprive citizens of rights, property, money, and freedoms through the imposition of “policy” enforced by police. And they do so to the tune of 10’s of billions of dollars each year with impunity. There is little to no defense against such arbitrary civil forfeiture acts of government in today’s system. The Civil Asset Forfeiture laws allow private property, including cash/money owned by US citizens to be seized without due process, without even any criminal charges being filed. Law enforcement simply takes the property from citizens. This is done to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year.
  10. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses. The policy currently in use and in 4th-8force by the US government is called “rendition.”  The current policy of rendition is the government sponsored kidnapping and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another to avoid the US legal system. And in so doing allows the torture and indefinite detention or execution of prisoners that the US federal government wishes to impose itself upon.

So, I guess some things haven’t changed much since the days of British government tyranny.

Well, that isn’t exactly true:

  • We are taxed by government far more heavily now than prior to the American Revolution.
  • We are regulated by government far more so now than prior to the American Revolution.
  • The federals, state, and local levels of government are far more controlling over the population than prior to the American Revolution.
  • As percentage of population, we have far more government officials, bureaucrats, and regulators than prior to the American Revolution.
  • 4th-9As a percentage of population, we have far more law enforcement officers than prior to the American Revolution.
  • We have far more laws, regulations, rules, policies, and codes than prior to the American Revolution.
  • As a percentage of population, we have far more politicians than prior to the American Revolution.
  • As a percentage of population, we have far more people in jails and prisons than prior to the American Revolution.

Pretty much according to every negative aspect of life prior to the American Revolution, we have it ten-fold worse here in our lives…in our current day good ol’ USA. Right here, right now…in our day and age!

So what does that mean? To answer that question let’s look at who signed the Declaration of Independence:

Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Bartlett, Josiah
4th-13Braxton, Carter
Chase, Samuel
Clark, Abraham
Clymer, George
Ellery, William
Floyd, William
Franklin, Benjamin
Gerry, Elbridge
Gwinnett, Button
Hall, Lyman
Hancock, John
Harrison, Benjamin
Hart, John
Hewes, Joseph
Heyward Jr., Thomas
Hooper, William
Hopkins, Stephen
Hopkinson, Francis
Huntington, Samuel
Jefferson, Thomas
Lee, Francis Lightfoot
Lee, Richard Henry
Lewis, Francis
Livingston, Philip
Lynch Jr., Thomas
McKean, Thomas
Middleton, Arthur
Morris, Lewis
Morris, Robert
Morton, John
Nelson Jr., Thomas
Paca, William
Paine, Robert Treat
Penn, John4th-13a
Read, George
Rodney, Caesar
Ross, George
Rush, Benjamin
Rutledge, Edward
Sherman, Roger
Smith, James
Stockton, Richard
Stone, Thomas
Taylor, George
Thornton, Matthew
Walton, George
Whipple, William
Williams, William
Wilson, James
Witherspoon, John
Wolcott, Oliver
Wythe, George

Collectively how do we refer to these men today?

We call them, or at least use to call them, freedom fighters, patriots, honorable men, and Founding Fathers. We revere them, we honor them, we appreciate and marvel at their great sacrifices that they made in founding our country. They provided a rich heritage of freedom, rights and liberty for a new country.

But what if all of that freedom fighting, resisting and generally all of that Declaration of Independence stuff was all occurring in today’s world?

What if a group of well-known and honorable men got together, outlined a long list of unjust tyrannical actions of today’s federal government against US citizens?

And then these pillars of society declared that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish that government, and to institute new government…even it meant with force and violence. What would happen to these individuals?

Well, let’s look at what DHS and the FBI has to say about it.

You are considered a potential domestic terrorist if you are any of the following:

•    4th-14Americans who believe their “way of life” is under attack;
•    Americans who are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”;
•    People who consider themselves “anti-global” (presumably those who are wary of the loss of American sovereignty);
•    Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”;
•    Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty”;
•    People who “believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty;”
•    Anti-abortion advocates (a.k.a. Pro-Life).
•    Bulk purchasers of food.
•    People who pay with cash.
•    People who want internet privacy.
•    People who display “liberty” or “freedom” oriented bumper stickers.
•    People who display the American flag.
•    Men and women who are veterans of the military.

4th-10So there is little doubt if the Declaration of Independence was written and signed today, all of those original Founding Fathers, all those patriots and freedom fighters, would be swept up in massive FBI raids, using no-knock warrants with fully-militarized SWAT forces. Many shot and killed in sanctioned killings such as Levoy Finicum in 2016.

Now, what does that tell you about the condition of our country today?

What does that say of our freedoms, rights and liberties?

What does it say of our massive system of government, especially at the federal level?

What does it all have to do with an “emergency preparedness” website?

Let me make it real clear for you…The major threat to America today is the loss of those rights, freedoms, and liberties…the implementation of a police state. No, not the threat of a police state…the growing police state that we live under right now. And that very same police state that grows ever stronger each and every day.

At some point an event will occur, and the country will be thrown into confusion and chaos the likes of which you have never ever seen before in history. January 6th 2021 was a close call and an example.

And when that catastrophic confusion and chaos event happens the grid will come smashing down and it will come down completely. When that happens I want you and your family to be prepared. Better yet I want you to have a group of like-minded preparedness folks organized and supportive of each other. And best of all…if you could have a whole congregation or community ready for emergencies and disasters…that would be my dream!

Folks it is coming. I assure you of that. A country, a government can’t survive much longer imposing tyranny on its citizens as our currently is…history has proven that over and over again. Please prepare yourself and your family for the emergencies and disasters that are coming.

In the mean time, because your are prepared, you will be ready for wildfires, recessions, hurricanes, earthquakes, unemployment, retirement, epidemics/pandemics, and most other natural and man-made disasters as well. And because you are prepared you shall not fear.

Just please understand what we are dealing with right now…and what is coming in the near future. Please prepare yourself and your family. And while you’re at it…enjoy your 4th of July, Independence Day, by remembering what this day represents, who was there originally, why they were there, and what principles they believed in.

Please prepare!

Be a modern day patriot…be a Founding Father!

How committed were our Founding Fathers?   “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

Please consider those words, their commitment to divine principles of freedom, and their willingness to give all…even their very lives for the cause of freedom and liberty…and a break from the tyranny of an unjust government.

 

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Something to think about…

Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler but he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazification of German Protestant churches. He then vehemently opposed the Nazis’ Aryan Paragraph.  For his opposition to the Nazis’ state control of the churches, Niemöller was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1938 to 1945. He narrowly escaped execution. After his imprisonment, he expressed his deep regret about not having done enough to help the victims of the Nazis.

 

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