First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
- Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
- Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, here’s a link to the last SITREP Edition.
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Prepping – All The Signs Are There
How to Convince Loved Ones to Prep – The Organic Prepper
Some great stuff in here. Including some form of “But that can’t happen here” and “Oh, I’ll just come to your house”.
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Top of the fold:
Chlorinated dioxins are everywhere following East Palestine train incident, but toxicologists aren’t testing for them – DC Dirty Laundry
Not good for people, animals, or crops. And it’s going to be covered up.
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Horowitz: Major German paper reveals Pfizer fabricated clinical trials to cover up deaths – Conservative Review
RTWT and understand that the entire thing of “safe and effective” is built on lies. As if you didn’t know that already. Particularly telling to me was (bolding added):
“Patient no. 11621327” was more than a mere number. He was a human being found dead from a stroke in his apartment just three days after the second dose. Typically, with a novel product in trial, any death – even one not so sudden – makes the product suspect until it is proven innocent. Yet in this case, Pfizer simply dismissed the death as not related to the vaccine, just as the company did with Patient #11521497, who died 20 days later from cardiac arrest.
If ever a drug needed a Black Boxed Warning, this stuff was it. E.g., out of the 42,086 Pfizer recipients in the first three months of the trials, 1,223 died. That’s 2.9%.
If a medication you’re taking carries risk that warrants a black box warning, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you shouldn’t take it. But the risks and benefits of a medication are something your healthcare provider should discuss with you.
And yet it was presented as SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. And nobody ever really talked to anyone taking it. I’ve watched, while standing in line for a scrip, people go behind the screen, sit down, the tech goes in with a needle, and nary a word is exchanged. Some get the Jab and the flu shot at the same time. And then just stroll out.
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SurvivalBlog: Infectious Disease in the TEOTWAWKI World, Parts 1 to 6, by Militant Medic – American Partisan
Gonna be a lot of them.
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A Bowl Of Peanut Oil Catches 7 Mice In 1 Night – Motion Camera Footage
A good friend had some of his preps destroyed by mice. And not just this… but dead mice, set out, can attract bigger things. Or, frozen and ground up, serve as plant food as you garden – or into your compost mix. The uses are endless.
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
- Keeping in mind limits on funds, storage space, etc., should gas masks be a part of your mix? I have one, with several spare filters. I think I’ll be ordering more this week.
- Save rubber bands from vegetable bundles.
- I now look at everything with a “how could I use that in a SHTF situation” mentality.
- If you have, or are getting, chickens or ducks or any animals – would it be an idea to coordinate with neighbors on breeds so as to, once in a while, exchange and avoid inbreeding possibilities?
- The same with plants. If you have people planting in your network, coordinate species types so that – longer term – you can do seed swaps and reduce inbreeding risks.
- I am trying an experiment in salt-drying a few pieces of fish. In response to an inquiry on Gab about that, I was sent this 1957 article on the topic. PDF.
Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
How to Make Lye from Ashes – Mother Earth News
And from lye, plus fat, comes soap. More on wood ash:
70+ Uses for Wood Ash (practicalselfreliance.com)
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50 Urban Survival Skills You Should Practice | The Survivalist Blog
Not everyone’s going to be in the deep woods.
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Emergency Preps from A to Z – The Organic Prepper
Broad scope view.
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How To Recondition Old Gasoline – Ask a Prepper
Rotate it. Use it. And as an aside, I’ve heard the marine version of Sta-Bil is better than the normal one.
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Prepping Mistakes and Failures: 10 Lessons – The Organic Prepper
Mixed bag; not sure I agree that you can “overprep” – it all depends on what level of SHTF you expect, and for how long.
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Secret Safes: How to Store Your Valuables in Plain Sight (theorganicprepper.com)
The problem is, any burglar reading this article now knows.
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8 Preps You DON’T Actually Need (They’re Not Worth the Money) – The Organic Prepper
Assuming I’m sheltering in place, if the grid is down I NEED a generator – to get water from the well. Now I do plan to see about a hand pump, but given the depth of the well that’s going to be an issue, even if only financially. I do concur on many of the others.
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Related to Spicy Time:
I can’t say it too strongly. GET OUT OF “BLUE” BIG CITIES. NOW.
I’ve said many times before that if you value your safety and security, and that of your loved ones, you should get out of big cities, particularly “blue” ones under the control of a left-wing progressive administration. Again and again I’ve heard replies that it simply isn’t possible, that family ties prevent it, that “I can’t afford it”, and so on.
Well, that’s your call – but the reality of city life is that it’s getting more violent and more dangerous by the day. No, that’s not an exaggeration.
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How to Survive the First 90 Days After the Collapse
“Mutual assistance group”. Aha! Video is week by week. Several follow-ups, links to videos:
The Reasons Why 90% Will Not Survive a Prolonged Collapse – YouTube
How To Survive The First 90 Days After SHTF – YouTube
SHTF: Surviving the First 90 Days – YouTube
Surviving the First 100 Days of Collapse – YouTube
Survive The First 90 Days Of The Collapse! What You Can Do. – YouTube
Heres Why 90% of People Won’t Survive Collapse – YouTube
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Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest – The Verge
From a technical standpoint – NEAT. But… not so from a survival standpoint. Related:
Pentagon Secretly Working To Unleash Massive Swarms of Autonomous Multi-Domain Drones to Dominate Enemy Defenses – The Debrief
From the link:
U.S. Army Announced New Drone Swarm Would Be A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
This is not encouraging for those trying to take on a still-active and organized military.
You Are Already Learning What You Can About Small-Unit Tactics, Right? – Western Rifle Shooters Association
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‘Dragon Day’ Trailer
A fictional trailer, yet closer to reality than anyone suspects I fear. And what’s up with those bracelets?
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7 Plants Whose Leaves You Can Use As Toilet Paper | The Survivalist Blog
You’re gonna have to go, even if you’re only out for a few days at a time.
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Survival Instructor Teaches How to Preserve Meat in Wilderness: Survival Food Rations
Important to know if you’re out. Related:
15 Wilderness Bushcraft Skills For Surviving 100 Days Alone in the Wild | Brought to you by History
Master this based on a video? No. But… on survival in the wild:
How To Build A Survival Debris Hut – Ask a Prepper
And quick-hits – multiple videos on tanning hides:
Hide Tanning the Woods Cree Way
Tanning Deer Hides Start to Finish! How Easy is This? | TUTORIAL | INDIGENOUS SKILLS | DIY
How To Do Fur Tanning At Home
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Ammunition and magazines are worthless unless they’re ready for use
Yes. Time to load ‘em up, and get more. And load them too.
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Defeating Microwave Weapons! – Part 1
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RED ALERT!!! BIZARRE CLOUD IN COMODORO RIVADAVIA, ARGENTINA 2-11-23 AT 4 A M #argentina #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZpIKGyGOt0
Won’t load for some reason. From where I found it, this comment:
A similar style cloud appeared over Turkey a week before their devastating earthquake.
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
- When does it start?
- How bad will it get?
- How long will it last?
- What will the aftermath look like?
As I point out repeatedly, nobody’s going to be “perfectly” ready. But having resources put away, a positive & adaptive attitude, will be critical.
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How to Disappear Completely Without a Trace and Never Be Found Again | Ex CIA Jason Hanson
Interesting. Given today’s connected world I think this is a lot harder than presented.
Anyone remember the movie Eraser? How, in the beginning, one of the people in the protection program went back to his favorite restaurant because he was dying for his favorite dish? Not succumbing to things like that would have to be at the top of the list, along with cutting off all – and I mean ALL – contact with people important in your life. Practices, too, would have to be severed. Say you’re a very religious <fill in the blank>… you could never go back to that, at least not where anyone could see you.
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
Pine Bark Bread ~ Traditional Scandinavian Recipe (practicalselfreliance.com)
I see this more as a supplement than anything else. Certainly not a staple centerpiece.
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Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
Sask food facility burns down in a fire killing 10,000 pigs, cause unknown | Business | westernstandard.news
And another one.
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20 Prepping Items That Will Skyrocket In Price This Year (askaprepper.com)
Pretty good on most of these, depending on if I can defend the home. But then, that’s the key for every prepper, no?
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Fuel shortages in UK leading to vegetable shortages
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/veg-shortage-in-uk-from-fuel-prices.mp4
Related:
UK shoppers face food shortages due to ‘perfect storm’ of ‘terrible weather’ and wholesale hikes | Daily Mail Online
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Ransomware Attack On Food Giant Dole Temporarily Shuttered US Production
Don’t have to burn them down.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Health, and Related:
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Clostridium botulinum & Botulism | Food Safety and Inspection Service (usda.gov)
Non-acid foods need to be heated well above boiling. See:
National Center for Home Food Preservation | USDA Publications (uga.edu)
This link is also below.
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Chicken Coop & Run Build || Part 1 || Framing the Run
And from the sidebar:
Raising Chickens 101..Best advice and education you’ll find anywhere on the web!
Beginners Guide To Raising BACKYARD CHICKENS
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How to Build the ULTIMATE Chicken Coop in 7 Days // Plans Available
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10 Things To Know BEFORE You Buy Backyard Chickens | Poultry Care For Beginners | Homesteading Tips
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Garden Organic | Seed Swap Events 2023
Good local idea too.
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Veggies You Only Plant Once And Harvest Forever – Ask a Prepper
Anything you don’t need to plant every year is a good thing.
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Several articles from Mother Earth News:
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners — Expert Advice – Mother Earth News
Duck vs Chicken: Why Raising Ducks Might Be a Better Option Than Chickens – Mother Earth News
Raising Ducks and Geese: A Homesteader’s Guide to Waterfowl – Mother Earth News
A Quick Guide to Raising Ducks – Mother Earth News
Predator Proof Chicken Coop DIY – Mother Earth News
When to Start Seeds Indoors: Zone 6 – Mother Earth News
How To Build a Beehive From Scratch – Mother Earth News
And related:
So you want to become a beekeeper. The good the bad and the ugly of it.
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Dyes found in 90% of foods have harmful effect on gut: study (nypost.com)
Been trying to read ingredients to keep dyes in general out of our, and in particular our kids’, diet. And watching for crickets, etc., too. Speaking of stuff in food:
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Preserve Meat Without Refridgeration FOREVER with only 1 Ingredient! | Historical Salt Cured Meat
Stock up on salt. It will be priceless. Roman soldiers were often paid – at least in part – in salt, hence SALary. Another video:
Preserve Meat Without Refridgeration | EASY Whole Muscle Cure (my favorite snack!)
And rapid-fire, links for more videos:
Easy way to make dry cured Italian Capocollo at home – Dry Curing Meats for Beginners – YouTube
BACON — Cured with Salt and Brown Sugar/ No Nitrates / Home Smoked – YouTube
Easy way to make Dry Cured Italian Beef at home – Dry Cured Meats for Beginners – YouTube
Easy way to make dry cured Italian Capocollo at home – Dry Curing Meats for Beginners – YouTube
Look at the sidebar – lots of videos on this subject.
In general, among everything else, stock up on pure salt. Read the ingredients; no added nothin’. Just. Salt.
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
Best Sniper Ammo To Make Every Shot Count (Long Range Shooting)
One site’s opinion.
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WATCH: Guns help 2 brave women stop 2 violent criminals (wnd.com)
Amen! Another case of non-existent defense with a gun:
El Paso Mall Shooter Stopped Cold as Bystander Pulls His Own Weapon and Fires: Police | The Gateway Pundit
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Keith Olbermann Calls For “Economic Civil War” To Institute Gun Control | ZeroHedge
Guns gone. BAMN. Understand their mentality. Related:
Gun Controllers Have It All Figured Out (jpfo.org)
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GUN CONTROL LIES & PROPAGANDA: ‘Firearms are the Leading Cause of Death in Children’ – Granite Grok
Remember – this is not just about guns. They’ll lie, about everything, to advance The Cause. Related:
Leaked ATF Documents Reveal The Biden Regime’s Scheme To Close Gun Stores Across The Country | The Gateway Pundit
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At the Federalist: No, Biden’s Push For Red-Flag Laws Won’t Keep Anyone Safer (crimeresearch.org)
If I wanted to harm lots of people, there are lots and lots of ways to do it.
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Murders in US Are Very Concentrated, and They Are Becoming Even More So
While murders and other violent crime in Los Angeles County and some other major urban areas have spread out to parts of those counties that didn’t previously experience much crime, nationwide murders appear to be coming even more concentrated in a small set of counties. When it comes to murder, there are three types of counties in the United States. Most counties experience no murders, a smaller set where there are a few murders, and then a tiny set of counties where murders are very common. In 2020, 52% of counties (with 10% of the population) had no murders. 68% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 18% of the population. These counties account for only 2.6% of all murders in the country. The worst 1% of counties (the worst 31 counties) have 21% of the population and 42% of the murders. The worst 2% of counties (62 counties) contain 31% of the population and 56% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 73% of murders. But even within those counties, the murders are very heavily concentrated in small areas.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
A recent email from a NH-based reader asks a fundamental question: What happens when, aside from a handful of known-to-us persons, we descend into a zero trust environment. And I mean zero trust. Watching with a “stink eye” as you grocery shop, not trusting anyone to stay in their shopping lane. Being in Cooper’s “Condition Orange” anywhere you go outside your home. Even being a little jittery (Condition Yellow) inside your home. E.g., the other day I was working alone as nobody else was home (home office). Wife at work, kids at school. And I heard someone on the front steps. No doorbell ringing, no package left. Why was someone there at all? We’re not on a cross-street, there’s no traffic. A few weeks ago we had a car parked in front of our house at night that, when we came out to look, they tore off.
Consider the spate of “polar bear” and other mob-attacks started with incredible ferocity right from the get-go by persons of a particular demographic. Now let me be clear: while that demographic has a massive chip on their shoulder, it’s not every single one. But be that as it may – words are meaningless, even actions are suspect, but patterns are key. With regret at the necessity, it is patterns that we see that we must heed.
But this is broader than that. This is about, literally, being suspicious of everyone we meet. Not trusting the police to do their jobs professionally, but – as in so many countries around the world – wondering who is on the take, or what cops will do what’s RIGHT vs. who will just follow orders. Same for the fire department; can you really count on them to come? Can you – especially in light of the Covid fusterclark and Jab drive – really trust doctors and nurses to do what’s best for you as a patient, or what’s best for their and/or their hospital’s bottom line? (Cough Ventilators and Run-Death-Is-Near cough.)
Can you trust that the pilot of the plane is truly fit to fly? There are concerns being voiced about cardiac patterns in Jabbed pilots that should keep them grounded. Can you trust that the pharmacist will not turn you in for getting an Ivermectin prescription? Can you trust that the schools will not force-vaccinate your kids, even though you’ve told them in writing with an acknowledgement from them to not do so? Let alone the WOKE sh*t they’re pushing into ever-younger minds against your own beliefs and practices. (I’d home school but the wife won’t help. Ironically, she sees nothing wrong or approaching despite her being brought up in, and living through, the USSR’s collapse.)
And as you attempt to ping your neighbors for community groups and possibly prep-minded people, can you trust them to not rat you out the moment the government puts a bounty on people who might be “hoarders” and thus have extra stuff that needs to be forcibly shared?
I have a good Marine friend; he’s told me that I’m one of the few people in this world that he’d trust with a gun behind him in a SHTF situation. A deep honor. Likewise. Alas that he’s hours away.
In a zero-trust world, everyone is a potential enemy until proven otherwise. Every noise a possible attacker coming. Every traffic encounter a possible fight or gun-fight. How many will have the resiliency to cope with that? Or will they, as the chaos of that inevitably uncoils and strikes our collective society, be willing to throw freedom itself at the feet of those who – offering stability and some form of normalcy – put forth the hand of Socialism? Having deliberately engineered that zero-trust world for precisely that purpose…
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Description: Andrew Bridgen details to Dominique Samuels the alleged bribery he has endured from Number 10 to get him to stop speaking about the Covid jabs: “They tried to buy me…What do you want? You can have anything you want”
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Palate cleansers:
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I’ll show myself out.
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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