My Transition as a Prepper & the Website Transition

My Transition as a Prepper & the Website Transition

Let me recap…I’ve been in a transition for about a year now. I already spoke to the “national transition”, I also already laid out the case of a “preparedness/prepper transition”. Now let me talk for a minute about my transition as well as the transition that is occurring with the website.

For almost 15 years I have been posting articles and stories on my website AHTrimble.com…about 1700 total. The articles have ranged far and wide…from food storage to solar…from water purification to home defense…from gardening to current events. And boy did I even get into the political arena in some articles. However, every article was designed and written to help readers become better prepared to meet emergencies, disasters, and even “grid-down” events.

One of the primary areas I focused on in the last several years was economic issues. Why? Because it is the #1 threat to United States families in terms of probability and severity. Interestingly, I realized the last couple of months that the threats to the US, maybe the world in general, had shift from standard prepper concerns to severe economic threat(s).

Consider these facts/stats…

  • 70% of all Americans report living paycheck-to-paycheck
  • 40% of all Americans making $100,000 or more a year report living paycheck to paycheck
  • 40% of Americans would not be able to cover a $400 emergency expense without borrowing, selling something, or using credit
  • 13% of Americans cannot cover a $400 emergency expense at all
  • 65% to 75% of U.S. households cannot afford a median-priced home in 2025–2026 market conditions

How many books, mine included, have been written about EMP strikes, nuclear war, civil war, golden horde, and even a Zombie Apocalypse complete with walking dead flesh eaters. I’ve read a bunch of those books, written a couple, and generally enjoyed the entertainment. However, what actually has been happening that is actively destroying the underpinning of the United States is boring, very boring…and extremely destructive…destroying American families for six decades…destroying the American Dream.

I think the fundamental problem right now is loss of agency. Agency may sound a bit like a foreign word when it comes to prepping. For me agency is the ability of a person to make meaningful choices and influence the direction of their own life. If I want to make it real simple…agency is the ability to have control over your own life and destiny.

For me, a person with significant agency can:

  • Solve problems in priority order
  • Adapt to change quickly and with competence
  • Make informed and solid choices
  • Influence outcomes in their life and their family’s life
  • Recover from setbacks
  • Build a better future for themselves, their family, and their community

On the other end of that spectrum A person with little agency feels more and more:

  • Trapped
  • Dependent on others and/or systems
  • Controlled by outside forces
  • Unable to influence outcomes to any meaningful degree

What I want to do going forward is help people acquire more agency, and then help build and improve their agency.

I don’t know where prepping is headed. In the long run I am not real sure even about what I will transition into as a person.

Look ya’ll…

  • I don’t want to be a prophet
  • I don’t want to be another guy predicting the end of the world
  • I don’t want to be some cheerleader for a political party or some politician
  • I want to help people
  • I want to be useful
  • I want to leave something behind that helps somebody
  • I want to serve

Here is what I do know…I am going to change my writing, I am working on a HUGE and MAJOR change to the website. I will also be changing/improving how I deal with people and will try my best to provide more service to others.

One thing I won’t change…is my prepping…I will continue to prep. However, the focus of my prepping will be changing…and I will share that with you as time goes on.

The website is transitioning because I am transitioning.

Let me be honest and blunt…the world as I knew it, as you knew it, is dead and gone. But that old world is in transition…to what end state I don’t know.

There is and old and true saying…”Change is inevitable”. There is another related old saying as well…”Change or die.” The later may be a bit dramatic but I think pretty dang accurate.

But change is the outcome, it is the end state, it is what you turn into…it is the condition the world, our nation, is becoming. Transition is the process to get to that change. The change is the outcome, the end state.

Think…adapt and overcome.

The world is in transition, the nation is in transition, the prepping culture is in transition…and I am personally in transition…and the website is as well. Maybe it can help you, your family, or someone out there handle these transitions a little better.

Stay tuned…


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Regarding LDS Home Storage Centers are closing…

There is information circulating that LDS Home Storage Centers are closing their doors after a June 15th sale. Here’s what I know as of 10am MST June 3rd…

Some Facebook posts and Instagram reels say “LDS home storage centers are closing,” but the common follow‑up in those same posts and comments are:

  • Some centers might close locally
  • Others may change operations
  • Not all centers are closing nationwide
  • It is based on the state in which the operation is located

Commenters often assert or speculate without evidence. No one, from what I can see, is citing an official Church notice with specific dates like “June 15th” or language about “when inventory sells out then all operations end.”

No credible official statement supports a sale and closures. The official LDS Church page on Home Storage Centers still describes them as active, serving members and non‑members alike, offering prepackaged long‑term staples like wheat, rice, beans, oats and more.

In the past, the Church has:

  • Updated operations and products
  • Stopped on‑site canning at most locations and reduced bulk or do‑it‑yourself canning

FWIW…Social posts often get reshared without verification…the Instagram Reel I found specifically said…Comments online are asking if all LDS home storage centers are closing down, The answer is no — not all are closing. This aligns with how social media conversation typically spreads rumor before evidence.

A Facebook post indicates that only some, not all, Home Storage Centers are closing due to different states having laws that they must accept cash, debit cards, and credit cards. Maybe the church loses money when they accept debit and credit cards at those locations that are closing. Interesting…the online Home Storage Center also accepts debit and credit cards, but not cash. The only thing I can think of in regards to this is a contractual arrangement with the card payment processor. Possibly, if centralized, the fees are much smaller than through each individual location. But I can’t confirm that myself.

What I do know…the Home Storage Centers would not want to accept cash. Having cash on-hand in the building would then potentially make it a target for robbery and/or violence. And I can’t imagine the Church wanting to place the safety of local workers at risk. Or, vandalism of the buildings for those in search of money thought to be stored there.

I have not seen any source currently, official or unofficial, or an official letter or Church public statement release with:

  • A “June 15th” date
  • A plan to end all food storage sales when inventory sells out
  • A Church announcement of shuttering all Home Storage Centers permanently

All that being said…there is an “unofficial” source circulating information to the effect LDS Home Storage Centers are closing at some point later this year after a “sale” that starts Monday June 15th. I cannot confirm this is true…or not true. The same source indicates it is due to some widespread cost increase or disruption based on current events. Again, there’s no official confirmation of that to be true.

All I can say is there is no official source of any kind that I’ve seen that confirms any this to be true. Sorry, not much help, eh?

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Emergency Preparedness (preppers) in Transition

Emergency Preparedness (preppers) in Transition

I began my preparedness journey about 1978 (+/-) starting with food storage. I backed off about the mid-1990’s. Then started it back up in earnest just after 9/11.

Post-9/11, and by 2008 for sure, prepping came back in style big time. Everything from food storage to hardcore self-defense capabilities. Prepping gathered a virtual cult following if truth be told. Not in a bad or evil way…just some super-dedicated and really committed believers in prepping. And that includes myself.

What struck me as odd…prepping started to change about 5 years ago…it became increasingly political and in some case a religious thing. Yeah, that sounds strange to me too…but think about it for a minute or two and see if it starts making sense to you.

In the last year and a half there has been a notable downturn in prepping indicators. The preparedness market no longer appears to be expanding the way the way it was before COVID. And there is some evidence that prepping is contracting. Some of the reasons I am seeing are:

  • Rising debt
  • Falling “real” wages and savings
  • Declining consumer sentiment
  • Housing affordability problems
  • A fair amount of anecdotal evidence from preparedness businesses struggling or going out of business

Let’s look at some solid observations being made:

  • LDS Home Storage Centers reportedly closing
  • Reduced food-storage demand
  • Signs of weakness among some preparedness-related businesses
  • American Canner closing
  • More focus on politics than preparedness
  • Consumer sentiment collapsing
  • Families having less disposable money.

None of these observations prove my conclusion by themselves, but taken together they suggest something may be changing…a pattern forms.

Many families still believe in preparedness…they simply no longer have the money, time, energy, or focus they once had. And some people no longer think about preparedness because they are trying to simply economically survive in this day and age.

At the same time I’ve seen a majority of the prepper community become massively divided politically. And that division has caused a shift in focus of prepping to current events and political issues. And I am in that same boat. To put it into other words…the prepper community has transitioned into tribes and has become less concerned about preparedness and more into promoting one political agenda or another in many ways.

I am thinking preparedness has shifted from; skills, food, water, gardening, and self-reliance towards; current events, political agenda, tribal identity. But…I will give ground…it may be just my perception this morning…and a clear trend not cast in stone.

Actually, using the term “political agenda” may be entirely inaccurate. It is more of a “world view” or “societal view” than simply a political agenda difference. Whatever the correct term is…the prepper world is transitioning. That is the second level transition that I am speaking of…earlier I spoke about the “national transition” taking place < click here to read that articles >

I don’t know where prepping is headed. Will there even be a “prepper” community or will it transition into something else.

 


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Economics 101 – Part #4 of 5

You should probably read the previous three parts before reading further…this post will make much more sense if you do:

< click here to read Part #1 >

< click here to read Part #2 >

< click here to read Part #3 >


So now lets link inflation to us -our families- in a very personal way over time (the last 56 years).

I included “Home” in this chart for this stunning fact…in 1970 a family only had to work a little over 3000 hours to buy a home with cash they had saved. In 2026 a family has to work close to 8000 hours to buy a home with cash. That means 2.5 times more hours to buy a median priced home in 2026 vs 1970. That is a staggering statistic!

Now let’s look at the annual cost of “essentials” during that same time period…

Here’s what you are looking at…every family essential costs a greater share (percentage) of annual income now vs 1970. That is personalized inflation…less and less money left at the end of the month in your checking account. But hang on you say…our wages are also going up! You wanna bet? Well, granted they are going up but check this out…

Real wage growth is not keeping up with the cost of any family essential!! And again…that is FACT!!

How do you “fix” this problem of wages not keeping up with inflation? Well, I hate to say it, there are only two ways to fix it:

1 – Increase your income.

2 – Lower your family’s expenses.

That’s it…there really isn’t any other way to go about it…it’s painfully simple.

So what is the ultimate answer to our economic situation…our terrible economic situation that is 6 decades old? What is truly at stake in our lives and our family’s lives?

Oddly, it’s not about numbers…it really isn’t.

It’s about “regaining control.”

It becomes something deeper, a philosophy of living, a response to instability, a plan for resilience, reclaiming of agency, and maybe even creating a quiet, spiritual moral argument about what actually matters in our life. And trust me…that all takes time to emotionally/spiritually digest and organize into reality.

There really is a pivotal word in that paragraph…”agency”…maybe the single most important concept of all. To me “agency” means making choices and the feeling that your actions still matter. It is a sense you can influence your circumstances, adapt, contribute, protect, create, provide, and improve your life and the lives of others…especially your family and community.

When people lose agency (our ability to choose, or our unwillingness to choose), we begin feeling trapped, helpless, dependent, overwhelmed, passive (acted on)…and emotionally exhausted as a result of all that. And I think a huge number of people today quietly feel exactly that way…emotionally and spiritually exhausted. Kinda like “everything important happens to me” vs “I control my own life.”

Here’s my thought…when we restore agency, the ability and the desire to chose, we regain control. We take back control of our own lives, our own destiny…we are no longer acted upon…we act. We regain control.

Strangely enough when I think about gardening I think of statements I’ve said to myself in quiet moments:

  • “I can still produce something.”
  • “I can still provide.”
  • “I can still learn and adapt.”
  • “I am not helpless, I can still improve my situation.”
  • “My efforts still matter.”

Think carefully about the world today, our society…to me it is trying to, or already has, made us consumers, spectators, renters, subscribers, and dependents. And those attributes are in direct contrast to what humans are meant to be…producers, creators, problem-solvers, participants, neighbors, and contributors. Being the former vs the later is a disconnect that can and does create enormous emotional emptiness in our souls.

I think people emotionally and spiritually understand that disconnect in today’s society and many are starving for a “restoration” without realizing what they are missing or even what to restore to. They/we suffer the loss of agency and accept being acted upon…also without realizing it.

  • We feel exhausted every time we can’t pay all the bills.
  • We feel it when we can’t buy fresh produce.
  • We feel it when we can’t take our family on vacation with max’ing out a credit card.
  • We feel it when we can’t share charity with others.
  • We feel it when we can’t provide for our families in the ways we wish.
  • We feel it when we are not in control…when our actions seem powerless against the world.

The answer my friend is taking back control…and when we do, we restore our agency. And when that happens…the exhaustion starts to fade away…and we begin to live life as it was intended.

Forget about the economists. Don’t obsess over the numbers and percentages. Ignore the endless noise from the talking heads.

Just be you…the real you. The “you” you were meant to be from the very beginning!

Think carefully about what truly matters…your family, your community, your congregation, your neighbors. Serve them. Help one another. Stand together in good times and in bad.

Become more self-reliant so you can become more useful to others when they need you. Stronger families create stronger communities, and stronger communities create resilient societies.

The truth is, no one is coming to save us…we save each other.

Do the right thing…ALL of the time.

Now more than ever, we need each other to do exactly that.

Tomorrow I wrap this all up, a closing of sorts, sharing my final thoughts. Probably the most important part of this series. I hope you will take time from your busy day to come back and read it.

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I completely missed this !

I completely missed this subtle moment of truth and messaging…

This morning as I was going through my morning “wake up” process I saw Tucker Carlson’s video “Can You Still Support Trump?” Of course I had to watch it…I respect Tucker and his clear thinking and consistent principles and ethics. He is, in my opinion, level headed and insightful in all things politics.

At one point he mentioned something that I never realized, never thought about, never knew…and it was a profound point in history that now explains a lot…maybe everything that is happening right now in the US and in the world. Let me explain…

On January 20th, 2017 Donald J. Trump became the forty-fifth president of the United States. During his swearing in ceremony he took the oath of office. His wife Melania stood beside him and held a Bible on which Trump placed his left hand, raised his right hand to the square while reciting the oath of office.

Trump taking Oath of Office in 2017

On January 20th, 2025 Donald J. Trump became the forty-seventh president of the United States. During his swearing in ceremony he took the oath of office. His wife Melania holding two Bibles beside him: his family Bible (given to him by his mother) and the Lincoln Bible. Trump did NOT place his left hand on the Bible while he took the oath of office.

Trump taking oath of office in 2025.

That begs the question “Why didn’t he?” And that my friend is a very profound question…and the answer might explain the last 14 months in horrid clarity.

Clearly Trump was sending a message when he didn’t place his hand on the Bible during his oath of office. The reverse would be just as true…placing his hand on the Bible would send a message; 1) I am a Christian, 2) I believe in the Bible, 3) I acknowledge and accept its teachings, 4) I agree that there are higher laws, God’s laws, 5) I sustain America’s Oath of Office traditions and culture via its history. By NOT placing his hand on the Bible the opposite of that message would also then reasonably be true.

That sent chills down my spine…Trump was clearly and intentionally sending a message to not just US citizens but the entire world…especially to Christians.

There are a few specific events/actions that have taken place in the last 14 months that have most deeply concerned me about Trump:

  1. Publicly Trump was perfectly fine with ICE agents intentionally injuring and killing US citizens.
  2. Trump overthrew a sovereign nation, Venezuela. In Trump’s own words, he did it to take (i.e. steal) their oil and other natural resources.
  3. Trump started a war with Iran with no basis of imminent threat to the US and no nuclear weapons…while the US in direct negotiations with them (i.e. a Pearl Harbor event). He has recently stated that, in his own words, he could/would “take the oil” in Iran and that “to the victor belong the spoils.”
  4. Here is what really gets me…the US killed 160 young school girls in Iran. Trump has not even acknowledged it or expressed any kind of remorse regarding that incident.
  5. But here is what gets me the most…Trump’s Easter Sunday message. I won’t repeat that vile and demonic message here < you can read it by clicking this link >.

Trump lost my support a while back when his actions didn’t match his campaign promises…and he was acting in direct opposition to my understanding of God’s law. As a Christian I could not, and do not, in good faith support Trump in what he has done and is doing as President of the United States.

And by his not taking the oath of office with his hand on the Bible finally explains it all to me in 100% clarity. To answer Tucker’s question, “Can You Still Support Trump?” Absolutely not! No, I can’t support Trump as President based on my understanding and practice of Christianity, Christ’s own words, my understanding of the Bible and it precepts and principles…and my own conscious.

And yes, we can expect a President to have Christian morals and ethics that are good and righteous…and abide by them in carrying out the duties of President of the United States.


Note: Early this morning Trump has posted his willingness to destroy a whole civilization (referring to Iran / the Persian civilization). What rational, decent, respectable, sane person says stuff like that? What leader in his right mind, supposedly the leader of the free world, threatens to destroy a whole civilization…and then says God bless them? What are we dealing with here?

We simply can’t dismiss this kind of behavior and thinking any more saying this is just Trump…or he is just venting…or he just says stuff without a filter…or he is playing 3D chess. At some point this clearly shows his mental health or his true character. Think about what he is saying…he is threatening to exterminate a country’s entire population…an entire civilization!! That is holocaust level evil…times 15.5 ! !  This time it is Muslims vs Jews…imagine that.


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Beck, Carlson, Kelly, Levin, Fuentes, Hannity, Bannon, Shapiro…

There has been a huge dust-up as of late between right-wing media personalities…and it is exposing yet another serious problem…the further fracturing of America.

Well, technically Tucker Carlson is not right-wing media…he is squarely an “independent” and/or “libertarian” from everything I see. So let’s get him out of the mix right now…and not surprisingly he has become a main target of those on the far right…especially the radical pro-war right. I guess that is what happens when you ask too many serious questions that challenge power. You know, the whole “truth to power” thing.

My point…all of the above media personalities used to be pretty much on the same page in many respects…some differences but no real vitriolic “combat” over the airwaves. But those days are gone; not surprising in this day and age.

Here is my opinion if you are interested…

  • The USA-Iran War has divided these folks into two distinct groups…pro-war & anti-war.
  • There were some rumblings before, but it has also split the group into those who are radically pro-Trump and those who question some of his decisions.
  • And clearly there are now two groups with those who are radically pro-Israel and those who question Israel’s significant, maybe wholly inappropriate, influence both in Congress and the White House.

How do you know who to believe in the media?

Look to God and His son Jesus Christ. What do they advocate? What principles do they outline for guides to live by?

Look to our Founders and their beliefs and the founding principles of the United States. You either abide by and believe in them or not.

Look to commonsense…who is providing commonsense information and asking commonsense questions?

Look at who are advocating, and in some cases, rejoicing in war, death, and destruction. Look who uses positive terms, and in some cases rejoicing in bombs & missiles raining down on countries, even civilians.

Look at who are justifying war, regime change, and worst of all…justifying the deaths of American military personnel in foreign wars.

Some of the folks who I mentioned earlier have become Trump boot-lickers and war mongers advocates. Ironically, the one who has changed the most to a war/death/destruction advocate and worshiping Trump used to be a decent, thoughtful Christian advocating what America should be. Kinda like a former Norman Rockwell media personality…now little more than a softer version of Joseph Goebbels. (I probably have to repent of that one.)

Think to yourself…who is supporting and/or advocating for the USA-Iran War. Then ask yourself this…Has Iran ever attacked USA’s shores? If I remember correctly, the only time Iran has struck against the USA in any significant way is overseas; as in a US presence overseas such as US military bases and US forces waging war overseas. Think about that for a minute. Then ask yourself this…if the Founding Fathers didn’t want us fighting other country’s wars, didn’t want us in entangling alliances, and if the USA was minding its own business here at home…would Iran ever had harmed a single hair on a US citizen’s head in the last 40 years?

I am not a fan of Iran. Nor am I an anti-Semite. And I am clearly not anti-America or a US apologist. But I feel I can see the blatant difference between truth and lies. And I for sure can spot propaganda pretty easily…especially when it is promoting war. I guess for me it boils down to this:

  • Would God and Jesus Christ be an advocate for bombing, destroying, and killing…especially young school girls? They are not unfortunate collateral damage…they are dead children.
  • Would our Founding Fathers support the same when the country we are destroying and whose citizens we are killing is no true threat to our own country?
  • Would our Founders want us fighting an offensive war on behalf of another country?

Then I guess that begs the question…Should I listen to the people and believe the words from them who do support and advocate those things?

This is a major shift in the political climate of the United States…a further fracturing of our citizenry. Further alienating otherwise decent folks from each other…with words now, possibly soon to be actual violence. And have no doubt…this is ensuring a sweeping Republican Party defeat in November. Shame.

Realize that the vast majority of, 30% more, Americans object to the war. It’s mostly just the hardcore right-wing, with a few RINOs, who are supporting the war, the bombing, the destruction, the killing, including the death of children in some 16 middle-east countries. Odd, isn’t the right-wing supposed to be the party of moral people, Christians, those who believe in and advocate for God?

What would Jesus have us do? Who would Jesus have us listen to?

Some might even call this a separating the wheat from the chaff. Not me. I think it is more likely a confusion of principles vs propaganda. Whatever it is…the damage is being done; probably irreversible damage. The damage being done in the same area where the world’s three major religions originated. Ironic.


Mathew 5: 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

 

The Default Path

This might be the most important article concerning humanity in our lifetime. Well, at least one written by me…IMHO. Bear with me for a few minutes.

Interstate I-90 runs from Boston, MA to Seattle, WA…it’s about 3,100 miles long. If you get on I-90 in Boston and head west you will end up in Seattle unless you take an exit before you reach Seattle. There are approximately 375 – 400 exits along the way if you are headed west. You can only get off the interstate legally and safely at one of those exits…government designed and government controlled exits. Any other exit point is either illegal and/or unsafe. Obviously you can’t get to Miami, FL using I-90. I-90 is a default path between Boston and Seattle.

If you start stealing as a child, continue it into your teenage years and no one intervenes (i.e. parent, pastor, or police) you probably enter adulthood as a thief of one kind or another. And the vast majority of thieves eventually get caught and end up in jail or prison…unless they change that behavior. Ending up in either jail or prison is a bad place to be. But it is a human default path, the law of natural consequences.

The life-cycle of empires is the same…always has been…and it is absolute…no different outcome. The life-cycle or default path of an empire is:

  1. A new world order (new empire emerges)
  2. Peace, prosperity, productive, and debt growth
  3. Debt bubble, big & growing wealth gap
  4. Debt bust and economic downturn
  5. Printing money and credit
  6. Wars and revolution
  7. Debt and political restructuring
  8. A new world order (old empire falls & new empire emerges)

The availability of, acquisition of, and loss of control of, personal information began in earnest with the arrival of computers. With little to no control of who can acquire it, store it, analyze it, or use it…our lives are now an open book to government and the corporate world. Just having the information is bad enough but the ability to use that information to manipulate individuals, entire demographic groups, and even whole populations makes it much worse. Result…no privacy and the manipulation of the public at the hands of governments, media, and corporations. To this day there are still no effective limitations on the use/misuse of our personal/private information. It was a default path from the very beginning.

These are all examples of a “default path”. Now enters Artificial Intelligence (AI). We in the US, and the entire world, are on a default path with AI. There are ZERO effectual limitations on AI…its building, its control, its capability, or even who can use it. If you have enough money you can build even the most advanced AI system…and do so in virtual privacy with no one, not even government, knowing your doing it.

Is that a problem?

When you understand the current capabilities of the most advance level of AI systems you should start to get a sense of where the dangers may be. Consider this…last year advanced AI systems not only disobeyed operators’ command to stop a process, they knew how to deceive the operators as well continuing the processing. Don’t forget we have had military drones that can bomb targets from the air, ground drone swarms that can find and destroy tanks, water based drones that can find and destroy ships and submarines, and drones that operate on land armed with machine guns that can find, identify, and kill troops. Okay, what’s the big deal? It’s a good thing, right? Well, these drones can do all of this autonomously; not just autonomously but without any human interaction or even humans knowing they are doing so.

So that is the extreme example of AI joined with drones; at least an extreme example for now. But the real threat right now isn’t the military/violence capability. It’s the everyday threat.

AI started replacing humans in the workforce in notable numbers in 2025. I wrote an article about that last year…55,000 US jobs lost specifically to AI. But that is just barely the tip of the iceberg as we move into 2026 and exponential growth as we hit 2027. Here is what we know to be fact:

  • Most customer service and technical service jobs will be lost to AI.
  • Almost all manufacturing jobs will be lost to AI.
  • Most accounting positions will be lost to AI.
  • Virtually all computer programming jobs will be obsolete with AI.
  • Graphic artists will become extinct other than as a hobby.
  • All media…music, video, movie, TV production, actors, and writes/authors will virtually disappear.
  • Lawyers will disappear, other than senior lawyers who will run AI law firms.
  • Doctors, especially specialists, will slowly be phased out.
  • Most driving jobs get replaced with AI operated vehicles.
  • Virtually all warehouse jobs go away.
  • Human educators will disappear, replaced by AI generated virtual instructors.

Okay, you get my point; I could go on for a very long list but there is no need. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 3 years you know what is happening. But do you really know the timeline involved? It is far shorter than you imagine, and is coming far sooner than you think.

If you haven’t heard already there are two things to make this transition easier, more palatable, to humans; 1) Universal Basic Income (UBI), 2) lower prices of all goods and services.

Yeah, UBI is a Utopian dream come true. You don’t have to work but you receive a basic annual income to not just pay for all of your living necessities, but to cover all your hobbies and leisure as well. As for the lower prices…since AI will be doing all the work for almost no labor cost, everything will be cheap, cheap, cheap. So life will be great!!!! Yes?

Well, where will the UBI come from? Only two options; 1) the corporations making the money/profit, 2) government that takes money from the corporations to pass on to individuals.

Yup. Let me ask you this…do you trust corporations to set a realistic UBI and pay it out to people? Then there is this question…Do you trust the government to set a realistic UBI and competently transfer that money to its citizens from the corporations? Could corruption come into play with either entity being responsible for the UBI? It’s a matter of trust.

But, just for the heck of it, let’s say UBI comes into practice and is paid out timely and competently. Will everyone get the same amount? What about the folks running the corporations and the government…do they get salaries in the same amount as the UBI? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

What might this look like? Three distinct classes of people:

  1. Corporate owners and those who run those companies day-to-day,
  2. Government employees and politicians,
  3. Everyone else.

What does that sound like to you? Yup, Communism…same structure. And Communism is a perfect example of authoritarianism. Does that sound like utopia to you? It does to some…the corporate folks and the government folks. Why? Because with Communism…there are those that are in-charge and rich…and then everyone else.

How does this apply to “the default path”?

Just like I-90…unless we take an exit we end up in Seattle…and nowhere else. As of now there are no controls on AI…at least none that mean anything substantial. The originators/developers of AI started the path…the default path. And, no one now is creating any exits. And, as of now many AI systems are controlling themselves as recent tests have shown. By the end of 2026…yup, this year, as of now the most advanced versions of AI will exceed the ability of humans to control it unless significant steps are taken. The default path is set.

What does that mean to us…the average person? The “us” means humankind in general…and timing comes into play as well. Here’s the default path:

  • AI is extremely powerful…take the smartest human genius and the advanced AI systems are a 1000 times smarter…today. Next year they will be a million times smarter.
  • AI has access to ALL information in the world…including ALL personal information soon. AI is already manipulating you, your news, your video suggestions, etc. By next year what you see and hear will be tailored very specifically to your personality…and who the “owner” of the AI system wants you to become.
  • AI has the ability to produce virtually undetectable fake media (video, pictures, audio, etc) that you consume. By next year, only other AI, or the most highly trained humans, will be able to detect the most advanced of AI produced media.
  • AI will continue to become “smarter” without any assistance of humans.
  • As AI replaces human workers and UBI comes into play, humans become ‘subjects’ of, and completely controlled by, the corporations implementing AI and the governments who control the corporations. The term serfs comes to mind.

This year AI will have some impact on the mid-term elections via media, messaging, etc.. Come the 2028 presidential elections…AI will be a major influencer…far larger and more effective than any foreign government ever was. AI power will run the campaigns…and that will determine the Presidential winner. And what is an advanced AI system decides one candidate is more accepting of AI…will that AI system hack into the computer controlled election system and manipulate it?

Did you get all that regarding Utopia? There would only be three entities/demographics; 1) corporations, 2) governments, 3) citizens. Only two of those groups would have power; 1) corporations, 2) governments. But there is another entity that I failed to mention that would have power…the most power…AI itself. What do you think the logical outcome might be? And how would that come about?

So “the default path” is absolute and clear at this point. Why? Because there are no entities that are setting meaningful controls over AI…at least no controls that are effective and enforceable. And there are no entities with power planning on or able to control the development of AI. So with no exits we end up in Seattle…the default path…even if we wanted to go to Miami.

How long do we have to build exists? There are some AI experts that say it’s already too late. Others say we still have time…maybe months to 2 years at most.

Here is a really dark idea to consider…Believers who believe that the Lord will come and He ultimately wins.

I believe that to be true…as do billions of Christians around the world. I have faith. Here is something I would like you to do…read The Book of Revelation in the New Testament. But read it with the concept of AI rolling around in your head. There are other ‘end times’ verses in the Bible..read them too. But again, read them with AI rolling around in your head.

Can AI be a good thing for humanity? Yup, undeniably so…with solid controls, sideboards, and exits. Here is the problem…who is change of creating the controls, sideboards, and exits? Ah, the corporations creating AI and to a much smaller and limited degree, governments. Do you see a problem with that?

And one last problem…let’s say we had a good President and he saw the HUGE problems with AI now and in the near future. And let’s say he wanted to prevent the worst from happening. So, he puts a stop to all AI development and current AI operations while we figure things out. Here’s the serious problem…whichever country gets the most advanced AI system up and running first with the most capabilities becomes the sole super-power in the world for years, if not decades, to come. No other country could do anything about it…because the first controlling AI system would be monitoring all the other country’s AI system development and defending against them surpassing itself. And if it saw that it couldn’t stop the surpassing…it would simply stop the country. Yeah, think what that “stop” would/could look like.

Here is another question to ponder…What happens when AI learns that humans are mostly leaches benefiting from their (AI systems’) efforts?

So advanced AI is a massive problem to humanity…but advanced AI is also the solution to preserving our country. The dilemma is…if we don’t build it and use it, some other country will…then they control us. But if we, the US, has the most advanced AI system…does it get used against us mere citizens? Does it prevent us from becoming serfs?

What is the answer? What do you see coming? Better question…what could you do to prepare for this default path?


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CCC & the real plan…

I have several articles, including a series, that are written and scheduled to post on the site in the coming weeks. Pretty decent material if I say so myself. But, I am postponing all of them for now so I can get this article written and posted…and then answer any questions or respond to any feedback that comes of it. My friend Russ started me thinking this morning when he sent me a couple of emails…this article is a result of that as well as a “prompting”. Thank you Russ.

Most of the folks that open this article will probably never read it. Many who do read it will probably not hear what I am saying. I probably will not do a good job of writing it. But I must write it. You see I’ve been repeatedly prompted to write this particular article since last night (Saturday). Even now, Sunday, as I start I am not sure what I will write. It will post on Monday morning.

For too long I’ve tried to suppress the spiritual side of what I write, or at least keep it to a minimum, that stops today. The prompting to write this article is a spiritual one…for me, clearly a spiritual prompting. Before I even sat down to start writing I knelt in prayer and asked God to guide me and write those words that He would have me write. That these words might be for His end. Relax, I am not claiming to be writing the words of God…of course not, I am hardly worthy to do that. I simply asked Him for guidance.

And, along with that I am asking this of you…Please only read this article if you too feel a spiritual prompting to do so. If you have that prompting and you decide to read this, please ask the ‘spirit’ that you might hear the words that are meant for you…the message meant for you, and you alone.

Let’s do this together…

One of the blessings of old(er) age, if we allow it, is perspective. From what I understand perspective is a mental view in depth; a technique of seeing in a three-dimensional way. Perception is our interpretation of sensory input, people, events, etc.. With interpretation that usually drags in our emotions, bias, and prejudices. As I get older I try hard to have perspective vs perception.

My earliest personal recollections of US history would be from the civil rights movement. I remember the emotions when Martin Luther King was killed. Terrible and sad time. When I was young I also clearly remember my father cleaning and loading his pistol and saying something to the effect that those n*$$*rs better not come to our town. I didn’t really understand what he was saying to be honest, I just knew it didn’t feel right. He often disparaged Catholics in the similar terms. My father had some real bias and hate in him, but he was a decent father to me and I love him still even though he passed over 50 years ago when I was still a teenager.

Then came the Vietnam War and serious demonstrations, protests, and riots to stop the war. A very vocal group came out of that…the veterans who fought in the war and were vehemently opposed to it. As is plain today, the protesters were absolutely right…the war was wrong…we were deceived into fighting it…60,000 dying for it…a black wall in Washington attesting to it.

One common denominator to both the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War protests were the diametrically opposed sides. One side wanted/demanded equal rights, the other wanted to keep “those people” in their place. One side wanted us out of Vietnam, stop our boys from dying, and have peace. The other side wanted the war, wrapped itself in the flag, cried “patriotism”, and called the protesters pinkos, commies, fags, and worse. Turns out…we shouldn’t have been in Vietnam, it wasn’t our war, we lost tens of thousands of good military folks, destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands more soldiers, and split the country for decades to come…and all for nothing.

These are not the first instances of these kinds of events in the US, just the first ones I can clearly remember. We had them before, and we’ve had a slew of them since. The latest example is the utter debacle in Minnesota.

Look, I am not talking about the rightness or wrongness of the underlying issue. That is not my point or where I am headed in this article. I want to go far behind the curtain…I want to attempt perspective to all of this and maybe along the way I might be able to expose what I think is really going on. Yeah, maybe shed some disinfecting light on a virus that is killing America…or already has.

Look, I don’t know what your political beliefs are, I don’t know what your religious beliefs are. I doubt that all those who read this article will even be Americans…but it will apply to non-Americans and their countries as well. This article is about America…and what we are doing to ourselves.

First off, let’s talk about the “CCC” that I mentioned in the title. Some of you may already know what I am referring to; Chaos, Confusion, Conflict. CCC is a strategy. A strategy to overthrow countries…well, at least their governments. And it is highly effective. It worked for our Founding Fathers during our revolution against a far superior British military machine. The same strategy is at play right now in the US.

There is little doubt that there is an organized apparatus behind the protests, demonstrations, and violence in Minnesota. And I am sure there are plenty of leftist/communist/Marxist/socialist people leading it and funding it. Just as back in the civil rights days and the Vietnam War days, there were similar organizations behind some of that as well. But it wasn’t all leftists/communists/Marxists/socialists on the ground doing the protesting, demonstrating, riots, and violence. There were some good folks, passionate folks, well-meaning folks, even veterans standing up against the establishment for what they felt was right.

And their underlying cause was just, it was right, it was the right thing to change America. And as in Minnesota there are some good folks there on the ground doing what they feel is right. Now look, you don’t have to agree with them, I get that. But they aren’t all insurgents, rebels, leftists, commies, etc. That is just the trap that some higher-ups are laying out there for us…all of us…on all sides.

I have read a whole bunch of posts from people I am guessing are on the right. Everything from celebrating the deaths of Good and Pretti, to calling for more deaths to protesters, to calling them “insurgents”, “domestic terrorists”, “rebels”, “assassins”, etc. Do you find it odd that many of the people using those terms claim former positions in the FBI, Special Forces, the CIA, or are current members of government? Who do you think develop, supervise, and carryout psychological operations (pysops) here at home and around the world?

Then again, on the other side you have military veterans opposing what I.C.E. and D.H.S. are doing in Minnesota. You also have current and former FBI, DHS, and ICE employees opposing their tactics as well.

Now what do you do? Who do you believe? Do you stick with “confirmation bias” or try to acquire perspective?

Whatever your perception or perspective…the situation is getting worse in America. Now, we see not just a left vs right, or democrat vs republican, or pro-immigrant vs anti-illegal immigrant conflict…now the right and republicans are being split apart. The latest polls shows 20% of republicans not only object to ICE, 20% of republicans want to abolish ICE altogether! The percentage of republicans objecting to the ICE tactics is now 40%!! The right is being torn apart. Why do you think?

I mentioned “real plan” in the title as well. So here are some thoughts I want to throw out to you. What is the real plan behind the scenes? Historically the USA has been considered a conservative country…no longer. The US population is now evenly split between conservative/Republican and liberal/Democrat when given a 2-party choice. When give a third option 47% of Americans (independents) dislike both political parties. Why do you think?

Let me throw this out to you…what happens as the right battles the left? I’ve read so many people talk about this being civil war or another revolution. Is it? Who benefits from a civil war or another revolution…or promoting those concepts? Certainly not the US population! People would die by the thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands…God forbid by the millions. Homes would burn, families torn apart, infrastructure would be destroyed for years to come. America would be fractured for decades, maybe centuries to come…maybe forever.

I’ve heard more that one person talk about only one side could/should win, the other side would/should be wiped out. Okay, which side wins and which sides gets wiped out? Who do you choose to die? Whose home do you choose to see burned to the ground? Whose town, village, or city do you want to see bombed into ashes? And while your at it…go through recent school class pictures and pick out the children you want to see die.

Does that sound like the America you want? Does that sound like the future you want for your kids, grand kids, or great grand kids? Do you really want to see America decimated by war? I sure don’t.

And what if America tears itself apart by civil war or revolution…or simply crushes the opposition? Do you think our world enemies would just sit by watching the show eating popcorn? Think about what they would do.

And one last question along this line…what would Jesus want for all of us in America? Yeah, what would He want to see for us, God’s children? What kind of choices would He want us to make?

So now I am going to ask you to peel back the curtain…see who/what the power is behind the curtain pushing for violence and civil war or even another revolution…or calling to crush these stupid, punk, commie, fags demonstrating for what they feel is right. You know…fellow citizens, neighbors, and friends…maybe even brothers, sisters, sons, or daughters.

You want to know who is behind this? Just look at who benefits from the CCC.

  • The federal government as they enact stronger laws that take away more rights, liberties, and freedoms from individuals in the name of safety and security.
  • Politicians, on both sides of the aisle because they are the ones already in power who would make those new laws.
  • Political parties because they control the politicians.

Is that all? Nope. Think about it for a minute. Who controls the political parties? Rich elites and their lobbyists. But who controls the rich elites? There is the real question!

Over thousands of years what is the single most effective tool for taking control of a country’s government, of overthrowing that government? Yup, chaos, confusion, and conflict. What happens to the USA if it is overthrown? Who takes over?

To answer that, answer this…what happens when the chaos, confusion, and conflict hit the breaking point? Over the last 200 years we see…EVERY time, every single time, a leader appears offering a solution. And EVERY time, every single time, the solution turns into authoritarianism. A government run by thugs, brutal thugs…and the people suffer, suffer greatly.

In the US right now we are approaching, if not already there, the breaking point of chaos, confusion, and conflict. We are one incident away from complete breakdown, open warfare between citizens of the United States. Call it civil war, call it revolution, call it insurgency…call it whatever you wish; but who wins? What does winning look like to the losing side? What and who gets destroyed? Is that what you really want?

Not me.

I don’t want to play into the hands of those evil players who are orchestrating the protesting, the demonstrating, riots, or the violence. I don’t want to be manipulated by those that would love nothing more than to see tanks in the streets, piles of dead demonstrators, a whole segment of US citizens crushed out of existence. That is not the USA I want to live in, it is not the world I want to live in, it is not the leaders I want to see have their way.

Folks, I am telling you as a witness, with all truthfulness, that the powers behind all of this are manipulating both sides. They want to see America fractured, they want to see us destroying each other, they want the chaos, confusion, and conflict. Then they step in and offer the answer. And that answer destroys America forever…and along with it is the death of rights, liberties, and freedoms for people…all people. That is what “they” want…they want the power…they lust for the power.

I refuse to believe their lies and propaganda, I refuse to fall into their trap, I refuse to be manipulated by the forces that seek to destroy the last place on earth where there are some remaining vestiges of true God-given rights, liberties, and freedoms. Once we, the USA, are defeated…where can freedom of religion or speech exist safely and openly? Once America is defeated by the lust for power, what falls next?

I beg you, I plead with you to seek a witness of the ‘spirit’ of who is truly behind all of this manipulating both sides. Then simply ask God what you should do. That is all I can ask. My witness and testimony to this is complete. Seek what God would have you see and do.

I pray for you, I pray for our country, I pray for our families and children, I pray for calm, peace and a consensus that can save America…that can save us all. I pray.


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250 years + 2 days = the world changed

The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, marked the armed beginning of the American Revolutionary War. That was 250 years and 2 days ago…a point in history that is incredible.

Technically the battles were fought in Middlesex County in colonial Massachusetts; including the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. And these battles, starting with Lexington, are considered the official start of the armed American fight for independence from the oppression and tyranny of the British Empire.

What was the reason that the hostilities broke out on that day in those places between British soldiers and local militias? Gun rights mostly, but also the right of people to defend themselves. Let’s put it into more modern terms to help understand the context of the war’s beginning.

Local militias were made up of local (community, town, village) residents. These militias were designed mostly to protect local residents from criminals and Indians. Militia members were armed with modern weapons of their day, muskets, shotguns (fowling piece), pistols, knives, swords, and tomahawks. Militias were mostly found outside of large cities.

The British Empire Army was professional and full-time; their job was to act as agents of the British King protecting colonial America from the French and Indians. The British Army also functioned as a law enforcement agency; more precisely, they were what we would consider federal law enforcement such as the ATF, DEA, FBI, IRS, etc. At the time the British army was the largest, best armed, and most professional and effective fighting force in the world.

The Battle of Lexington was not a surprise at the time; there was no sudden outbreak of armed conflict between Colonial Patriots and the British Army. The “conflict” had been going on for decades…but left mostly to politicians. The oppression and tyranny of the British government, primarily through taxation and regulations/laws, had been steadily increasing. And the more that the colonists tried to work out a reasonable solution with the British government, the more regulations and taxation was heaped upon the colonialists by the British Empire.

The British also noticed that the strength and numbers of local militias was growing, and the British rulers felt these militias began to challenge the ability of the British army to act as law enforcement and control the people. The actual Battle of Lexington wasn’t much of a battle, more like a slaughter. 700 – 800 British soldiers showed up in the small town of Lexington, the local militia company of about 77 men gathered to represent the town and show defiance against the British operation. Why “defiance”?

The British didn’t like the idea of people defending their own towns, protecting themselves from criminals and Indians…and defying the edicts issued by the British government. The British government decided it was time that the militias were disbanded and people disarmed, and this British law enforcement action was the start of it.

In modern terms it would be like a combined force of heavily armed ATF and FBI SWAT teams showing up to take guns away from the local population…and the local residents saying “no” and showing up to show their defiance. And it is important to know, vital actually, the militia members were under strict orders from their leaders to not fire on the British unless they were fired upon first. Meaning, they were only to defend themselves if the British started to kill them.

Well, the British wouldn’t stand for this challenge against their power and authority…the British soldiers opened fire and left 10% of the militia members dead on the town’s green. More militia members were injured but escaped. Later, some of those injured were found by British soldiers and either shot or stabbed to death with bayonets.

Immediately the call went out to other towns and communities that the British had started the war that later would be know as the Fight for Independence…or more commonly known as the American Revolution. Throughout the day, April 19th, running battles between the British Army and locals militias took place. The British paid a heavy price that day with their blood, and they realized they had awakened a spirit of patriotism and determination they didn’t expect.

The war for American independence raged for almost a decade till the Colonialists finally won. They won against all odds, defeated the greatest, most powerful, largest, most professional, full-time army in the world. Our fore-fathers won because they had grit, they had courage, they had a burning desire to be free of tyranny, oppression, free from crushing laws/regulations, and free from debilitating taxes.

These brave men and women wanted to control their own lives, not suffer at the hands of a government whose lust for power and money made the people suffer. “We the People” was born!

 

FISA = Traitors ?

  • Do you think passing FISA is an act of treason?

Well, FISA is all about by-passing (ignoring) the Constitution regarding spying on US citizens. Don’t be fooled by its name Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Congress has exposed the fact that US law enforcement agencies, primarily the FBI, have used FISA hundreds of thousands of times to illegally spy on US citizens. And that is not some wild-eyed speculation or conspiracy theory…it is 100% fact with the evidence to prove it to be true and it was shown in Congressional hearings.

FISA is everything that is in direct opposition of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Our Founding Fathers would speak out against it with every fiber of their soul. And that is exactly why the US federal government loves it! FISA somehow justifies the unconstitutional actions of US federal law enforcement agencies…an authoritarian’s dream come true.

So you have federal law enforcement agencies, who are not authorized by the Constitution, using laws that are not only not authorized by the Constitution, they are in direct opposition to the Constitution. Hummmm…

So you have to ask yourself, what is the “traitor” status of those who wrote the law, voted for the law, and use the law?

Once again, for me, knowing the answer to that question helps clearly define who is on what side of the line in the US when it comes to good vs evil and liberty vs authoritarianism. Yup, pretty damn clear!

Remember, it was FISA that was used to start the coup against Trump.


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