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Canadian Prepper, 10/29/26
"Alert! US Army Digging Mass Graves Fatality Drills!"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Thursday, October 29, 2026
"Emergency Food Shopping At Walmart; Nationwide Emergency Alert, Prepare For Grid Down"
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Jeremiah Babe, 10/29/26
"Emergency Food Shopping At Walmart;
Nationwide Emergency Alert, Prepare For Grid Down"
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"Food Shortages (Fall 2026), Running The Numbers"
"Trump and AI: A Match Made In Hell That Could Lead To Nuclear Armageddon"
"Trump and AI: A Match Made In Hell
That Could Lead To Nuclear Armageddon"
by Leo Hohmann
"Nearly a month ago, I reported that President Trump had consulted AI for advice before pulling the trigger on a military invasion of Venezuela. I said at the time that this story would get buried in the news cycle, and it did, but that I believed there was much more to it that wasn’t being reported. Because if he would consult an AI chatbot for one operation, why wouldn’t he consult it for others?
The story resurfaced today, but again didn’t get much attention. Apparently, I’m not the only one with questions about the president’s relationship with AI. According to an AFP report, senior Democrats are demanding that President Trump preserve records of any official exchanges with artificial intelligence chatbots, raising questions about whether Elon Musk’s Grok influenced sensitive military decisions.
In a letter dated Oct. 28 and first obtained by Politico, congressmen Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia said questions submitted by Trump and White House aides - and the chatbots’ answers - constituted presidential records that must be preserved under federal law. They reportedly requested a closed-door briefing by November 11 covering the president’s use of AI.
Below is an excerpt from the AFP article: "The letter follows reports that Trump spent hours using Grok during a December 2025 Oval Office meeting with Musk, including asking how Venezuelans might react if U.S. forces captured President Nicolas Maduro. Grok reportedly said many would welcome Maduro’s downfall. U.S. forces seized him weeks later, but no evidence has emerged that the chatbot determined the operation."
The lawmakers questioned Trump’s reported reliance on a privately controlled chatbot in matters of foreign policy, warning that AI-generated answers could be inaccurate or manipulated. They cited reporting about an AI-assisted intelligence error involving a Chinese vessel, and allegations that excessive reliance on artificial intelligence contributed to a U.S. strike on an Iranian school that killed more than 160 children. “If the United States military killed dozens of innocent schoolchildren based on the faulty advice of an AI chatbot, we have a right to know that too,” the lawmakers added.
I still think there is more to this story yet to be revealed. I get the impression that Donald Trump is more than a little enamored with artificial intelligence, or as he calls it, “super intelligence.” Trump this week repeated his earlier demands that the word “AI” be scrubbed from all official U.S. documents and replaced with “SI.”
Newsweek reports: "President Donald Trump is officially banning the terms “AI” and “Artificial Intelligence,” he said Tuesday, escalating his effort to rebrand the technology as “Super Intelligence,” or “SI,” across the executive branch. “When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, ‘AI/Artificial Intelligence,’ in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy.”
With all the problems going on in the world, including energy, fertilizer and food shortages caused by Trump’s Iran war, and with all the recent warnings for entire populations to prepare for grid-down events and possibly even nuclear war, Trump remains fixated on childish things that don’t matter to 99.9 percent of Americans. Things like renaming oceans, building grand ballrooms and archways, and rebranding technological tools that he’s come to worship.
Worst of all, he remains obsessed with trying to overthrow the government of Iran. He will almost certainly relaunch that war and exacerbate the energy/food crisis after the midterm elections. Only this next round of bombing and killing will be much worse and cause even more economic pain throughout the world, because most of the nations have used up whatever strategic petroleum reserves they had on hand when Trump started the war on Feb. 28.
Sarah Paine, a professor at the Naval War College and an acknowledged military expert, told the Daily Express she's “terrified” Trump might deploy a “tactical nuke somewhere,” turning the U.S. into a global pariah state. In an article titled WW3 expert fears Trump will drop nuclear bomb as America becomes everyone’s enemy Dr. Paine expresses serious concerns that Trump may take more drastic action. “As long as Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu are in power, what do you think they’re going to do? They (Iran) are going to cause trouble until those two people are out of power, right?
“And so people who want to keep Netanyahu and Trump in power longer, just understand it’s going to make Iran go on longer. And then I’m terrified that Trump will do something like drop a tactical nuke somewhere, and then things are really over.” Professor Paine added that if such a scenario were to happen, and we know it’s been discussed in the White House, it will forever change the perception of what America stands for in the world: “The United States will be forever this despicable country, the only country in the world that’s ever dropped nukes on anyone. Twice on Japan, and then we’re going to do a third on Iran.”
Asked if this was a plausible scenario, Dr. Paine added: “I have no idea. If you had told me 10 years ago that where we’re at was even remotely plausible, I would say, ‘You’re insane. What have you been smoking lately?’”
I personally do not think it’s a coincidence that governments around the world are warning people to prepare for a cyber or EMP attack capable of taking down power grids. Once a nuke gets used, all bets are off on how the other nations with nuclear capability will react. Is this why the U.S. Department of Defense is suddenly so concerned about its bases being rendered useless by an attack that takes down the U.S. power grid?
The Pentagon’s recent announcement of its FORTRESS America project requires every U.S. military base to become self-sufficient and able to operate a minimum of three months without the assistance of any outside infrastructure, including the civilian power grid. Are they preparing for a response to a non-conventional attack on Iran that they know could very well be ordered by Trump in the weeks or months following the midterms?
I encourage you all to use the next few weeks to shore up your preps. That could mean getting a couple of more weeks or months of food in your pantry, especially storable foods like peanut butter, rice, honey, salt and canned food, or it could mean going the freeze-dried route. Also think about water and how you would get it if we experience a grid-down event lasting weeks or months.
Above all, get your focus on God and build up your mental and spiritual fortitude. We have had it good for a long time in this country but I get the distinct impression that in 2027, we will see and possibly experience firsthand some things we never thought would come to America."
"A Look to the Heavens"
"As far as ghosts go, Mirach's Ghost isn't really that scary. Mirach's Ghost is just a faint, fuzzy galaxy, well known to astronomers, that happens to be seen nearly along the line-of-sight to Mirach, a bright star. Centered in this star field, Mirach is also called Beta Andromedae.
About 200 light-years distant, Mirach is a red giant star, cooler than the Sun but much larger and so intrinsically much brighter than our parent star. In most telescopic views, glare and diffraction spikes tend to hide things that lie near Mirach and make the faint, fuzzy galaxy look like a ghostly internal reflection of the almost overwhelming starlight. Still, appearing in this sharp image just above and to the right of Mirach, Mirach's Ghost is cataloged as galaxy NGC 404 and is estimated to be some 10 million light-years away."
"The Old Route"
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Gengu AI, "The Old Route"
"Welcome to Gengu AI – your ultimate destination for AI-generated music and next-generation sound experiences. This channel is dedicated to creating unique, high-quality tracks powered by artificial intelligence, blending creativity and technology to deliver music that feels fresh, emotional, and immersive. AI was the tool. The story came from human feeling. If this film gave you a quiet breath, a memory, or a moment of peace, thank you for being here."
"How to Become Unbreakable in the Years Everyone Else Falls Apart'
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"How to Become Unbreakable
in the Years Everyone Else Falls Apart"
The Delta Old Lantern, "Old Bones Under Southern Rain"
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"Old Bones Under Southern Rain"
"Welcome to The Delta Old Lantern a home for deep Delta Blues, Southern Gothic storytelling, old soul music, and timeless blues wisdom. Here you’ll find dark Delta Blues inspired by dusty backroads, front porch memories, aging souls, quiet struggles, and the changing world around us. Every song carries the spirit of old acoustic blues, slide guitar echoes, worn-out roads, and stories carved by time. The Delta Old Lantern creates atmospheric blues music for listeners who appreciate raw emotion, old-world storytelling, lonely highways, weathered hearts, and the beauty found in growing older. These songs are inspired by the spirit of classic Delta Blues legends while bringing a modern cinematic sound for today’s listeners."
"Troubles..."
"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
- Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
Mark Twain, “On The Damned Human Race”
“On The Damned Human Race”
by Mark Twain
“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.
In proceeding toward this unpleasant conclusion I have not guessed or speculated or conjectured, but have used what is commonly called the scientific method. That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucial test of actual experiment, and have adopted it or rejected it according to the result. Thus I verified and established each step of my course in its turn before advancing to the next. These experiments were made in the London Zoological Gardens, and covered many months of painstaking and fatiguing work.
Before particularizing any of the experiments, I wish to state one or two things which seem to more properly belong in this place than further along. This, in the interest of clearness. The massed experiments established to my satisfaction certain generalizations, to wit:
1. That the human race is of one distinct species. It exhibits slight variations (in color, stature, mental caliber, and so on) due to climate, environment, and so forth; but it is a species by itself, and not to be confounded with any other.
2. That the quadrupeds are a distinct family, also. This family exhibits variations (in color, size, food preferences, and so on; but it is a family by itself).
3. That the other families (the birds, the fishes, the insects, the reptiles, etc.) are more or less distinct, also. They are in the procession. They are links in the chain which stretches down from the higher animals to man at the bottom.
Some of my experiments were quite curious. In the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffalo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between an anaconda and an earl (if any) I caused seven young calves to be turned into the anaconda’s cage. The grateful reptile immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the calves, and no disposition to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas; always with the same result. The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t; and that the earl wantonly destroys what he has no use for, but the anaconda doesn’t. This seemed to suggest that the anaconda was not descended from the earl. It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda, and had lost a good deal in the transition.
I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. I furnished a hundred different kinds of wild and tame animals the opportunity to accumulate vast stores of food, but none of them would do it. The squirrels and bees and certain birds made accumulations, but stopped when they had gathered a winter’s supply, and could not be persuaded to add to it either honestly or by chicane. In order to bolster up a tottering reputation the ant pretended to store up supplies, but I was not deceived. I know the ant. These experiments convinced me that there is this difference between man and the higher animals: he is avaricious and miserly; they are not. In the course of my experiments I convinced myself that among the animals man is the only one that harbors insults and injuries, broods over them, waits till a chance offers, then takes revenge. The passion of revenge is unknown to the higher animals.
Roosters keep harems, but it is by consent of their concubines; therefore no wrong is done. Men keep harems but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which the other sex were allowed no hand in making. In this matter man occupies a far lower place than the rooster. Cats are loose in their morals, but not consciously so. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cats looseness with him but has left the unconsciousness behind (the saving grace which excuses the cat). The cat is innocent, man is not.
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity (these are strictly confined to man); he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing; they are not ashamed. Man, with his soiled mind, covers himself. He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive are he and his mates to indecent suggestion. Man is The Animal that Laughs. But so does the monkey, as Mr. Darwin pointed out; and so does the Australian bird that is called the laughing jackass. No! Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it or has occasion to.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals. The cat plays with the frightened mouse; but she has this excuse, that she does not know that the mouse is suffering. The cat is moderate (unhumanly moderate: she only scares the mouse, she does not hurt it; she doesn’t dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails) man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal of it and puts it out of its trouble. Man is the Cruel Animal. He is alone in that distinction.
The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out, as the Hessians did in our Revolution, and as the boyish Prince Napoleon did in the Zulu war, and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.
Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country, takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this in all the ages. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle after cycle, by force and bloodshed.
Man is the only Slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man’s slave for wages and does that man’s work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns, he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man, with his mouth.
Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. He was at it in the time of the Caesars, he was at it in Mahomet’s time, he was at it in the time of the Inquisition, he was at it in France a couple of centuries, he was at it in England in Mary’s day, he has been at it ever since he first saw the light, he is at it today in Crete (as per the telegrams quoted above) he will be at it somewhere else tomorrow. The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out, in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal. Note his history, as sketched above. It seems plain to me that whatever he is he is not a reasoning animal. His record is the fantastic record of a maniac. I consider that the strongest count against his intelligence is the fact that with that record back of him he blandly sets himself up as the head animal of the lot: whereas by his own standards he is the bottom one. In truth, man is incurably foolish.
One is obliged to concede that in true loftiness of character, Man cannot claim to approach even the meanest of the Higher Animals. It is plain that he is constitutionally incapable of approaching that altitude; that he is constitutionally afflicted with a Defect which must make such approach forever impossible, for it is manifest that this defect is permanent in him, indestructible, ineradicable. I find this Defect to be the Moral Sense. He is the only animal that has it. It is the secret of his degradation. It is the quality which enables him to do wrong. It has no other office. It is incapable of performing any other function. It could never have been intended to perform any other. Without it, man could do no wrong. He would rise at once to the level of the Higher Animals.
Since the Moral Sense has but the one office, the one capacity (to enable man to do wrong) it is plainly without value to him. It is as valueless to him as is disease. In fact, it manifestly is a disease. Rabies is bad, but it is not so bad as this disease. Rabies enables a man to do a thing, which he could not do when in a healthy state: kill his neighbor with a poisonous bite) one is the better man for having rabies: The Moral Sense enables a man to do wrong. It enables him to do wrong in a thousand ways. Rabies is an innocent disease, compared to the Moral Sense. No one, then, can be the better man for having the Moral Sense. What now, do we find the Primal Curse to have been? Plainly what it was in the beginning: the infliction upon man of the Moral Sense; the ability to distinguish good from evil; and with it, necessarily, the ability to do evil; for there can be no evil act without the presence of consciousness of it in the doer of it.
And so I find that we have descended and degenerated, from some far ancestor (some microscopic atom wandering at its pleasure between the mighty horizons of a drop of water perchance) insect by insect, animal by animal, reptile by reptile, down the long highway of smirch-less innocence, till we have reached the bottom stage of development (namable as the Human Being). Below us, nothing.”
Freely download: "'What Is Man' And Other Essays", by Mark Twain, here:
"The Green Frog Skin"
"The Green Frog Skin"
by John (Fire) Lame Deer
"The Green Frog Skin – that’s what I call the dollar bill. In our attitude towards it lies the biggest difference between the Indians and the whites. My grandparents grew up in an Indian world without money. Just before the Custer battle the white soldiers had received their pay. Their pockets were full of green paper and they had no place to spend it. What were their last thoughts as an Indian bullet or arrow hit them? I guess they were thinking of all that money going to waste, of not having had a chance to enjoy it, of a bunch of dumb savages getting their paws on that hard-earned pay. That must have hurt them more than the arrow between their ribs.
The close hand-to-hand fighting, with a thousand horses gally-hooting all over the place, had covered the battlefield with an enormous cloud of dust, and in it the green frog skins of the soldiers were whirling around like snowflakes in a blizzard. Now, what did the Indians do with all that money? They gave it to their children to play with, to fold those strange bits of colored paper into all kinds of shapes, making into toy buffalo and horses. Somebody was enjoying that money after all.
The books tell of one soldier who survived. He got away, but he went crazy and some women watched him from a distance as he killed himself. The writers always say that he must have been afraid of being captured and tortured, but that’s all wrong. Can’t you see it? There he is, bellied down in a gully, watching what is going on. He sees the kids playing with the money, tearing it up, the women using it to fire up some dried buffalo chips to cook on, the men lighting their pipes with green frog skins, but mostly all those beautiful dollar bills floating away with the dust and the wind. It’s this sight that drove the poor soldier crazy. He’s clutching his head, hollering, ‘Goddam, Jesus Christ Almighty, look at them dumb, stupid, red sons of bitches wasting all that dough!’ He watches till he can’t stand it any longer, and then he blows his brains out with a six-shooter. It would make a great scene in a movie, but it would take an Indian mind to get the point."
- John (Fire) Lame Deer, "Seeker of Visions"
Brule, "Stomp Dance"
Brule, "Stomp Dance"
"We Are Being Warned That Our “Window To Prepare” Is Closing – What Would The Survival Rate Be If The Power Grid In The U.S. Went Down For 6 Months?"
by Michael Snyder
"There is growing anticipation that something really big is about to happen. Social media is buzzing about the fact that so many governments around the world are urging their citizens to stockpile food, water and other essential supplies right now. Why have all of those governments suddenly developed such a sense of urgency? I wish that I knew, but without a doubt global events have begun to spiral out of control.
Our world is facing crisis after crisis, and most of them have erupted in the last 12 months. The U.S. and Israel are preparing to bomb the living daylights out of Iran after the midterm elections, and the Iranians are making all sorts of apocalyptic threats in response. The Russians and the Ukrainians are absolutely pummeling one another with missiles and drones, and European leaders are being encouraged to consider sending troops into Ukraine. Cyberattacks have become much more sophisticated and much more frequent, and AI agents are infiltrating financial systems worldwide. Meanwhile, we are facing a global energy crisis, a global fertilizer crisis and a global food crisis simultaneously. On top of everything else, the most powerful Super El Niño ever recorded is causing monster storms, epic droughts and horrific wildfires all over the planet.
Unfortunately, many are warning that things could soon get far worse. A former Defense Intelligence Agency official named Farijah “Doc” St. Clair has ominously warned that our “window to prepare” is rapidly closing…A former Defense Intelligence Agency staffer is warning Americans that time is running out to prepare for a crisis. His post has been viewed more than 1.7 million times. “Your window to prepare, even with the basics, is closing,” wrote Farijah “Doc” St. Clair on X. “For those tracking the indicators that an event is increasingly likely, you know that it is now undeniable that something is brewing.”
This is not just some random former DIA employee. He is currently the head of technology and intelligence at a firm that produces “an AI-driven intelligence product built with Palantir that gives corporate executives a daily briefing modeled on the President’s Daily Brief”…St. Clair is head of technology and intelligence at Crisis24, a GardaWorld-owned risk firm. There he leads AiiA, an AI-driven intelligence product built with Palantir that gives corporate executives a daily briefing modeled on the President’s Daily Brief. A combat-wounded Army veteran, he says he spent more than a decade in the Army and the “Defense Intelligence Enterprise,” including a stint at DIA around 2015 and 2016. His company bio says he supported efforts to counter Russian influence and deployed to multiple combat theaters.
In his post, St. Clair wrote that during his intelligence career he worked on “counterintelligence threats to Continuity of Government (COG) and Continuity of Operations (COOP).” It is literally his job to know the risks that are ahead. Corporate executives trust him to provide the key intelligence that they need to make wise decisions, and so the fact that St. Clair is officially freaking out is a very big deal… “Something I can say for absolute certain is that once governments signal that their citizens need to prepare, those preparations have already been conducted for national leadership,” he wrote.
He pointed to European governments urging citizens to keep supplies on hand. He also cited reports that the Pentagon wants U.S. military bases to be able to sustain themselves for 90 days, which he called “the loudest signal concerning how significant the situation is.” “The gravity of this can’t be understated,” he wrote. “The calls for preparedness will escalate in their time frames. 3 days will turn into a week. A week will turn in to a few weeks. A few weeks into a couple months.”
I wrote about Project FORTRESS yesterday. For some reason, our leaders suddenly feel a very strong sense of urgency to make sure that the U.S. military will be able to continue to operate normally if all civilian infrastructure were to go down for a period of 90 days…Every major military base in the continental US would be expected to maintain essential operations, including independent access to electricity, water, fuel and communications for 90 days. The plan envisions portable nuclear reactors, large battery systems and independent local power grids to keep bases running during blackouts. Civilian factories would also be prepared to switch to defense production, backed by stockpiles of ammunition, fuel, critical minerals, electronics, spare parts and medical supplies.
To me, it sounds like they are preparing for a grid down scenario. There are several ways that the U.S. power grid could be taken down for an extended period of time. A “kill shot” from the Sun similar to the Carrington Event of 1859 could do it. Nuclear explosions in the atmosphere above the United States could also fry our grid. And there is also one possibility that I don’t think is talked about nearly enough.
Simultaneous terror attacks on a relatively small number of key extra high voltage substations could cause a widespread blackout lasting 18 months or longer. Most Americans do not realize this. I asked Grok to tell me what would happen if the United States had no power for 6 months. This is what I was told…
Wow. Robert James Woolsey was one of the leading experts in this field before he passed away earlier this year. What he once told the U.S. Senate about what would occur if the U.S. power grid went down for an extended period of time is extremely chilling…"When a large electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) event occurs - which, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), there is “100% certainty” will happen at some time in the future - as many as 9 out of 10 people in the U.S. could die.
Johnson, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, posed questions to witnesses testifying on Capitol Hill before his committee. He asked R. James Woolsey, chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, what would happen to society if the electrical grid were to be down for an extended period of time, such as a year or two, following an EMP event?
Woolsey responded, “It’s briefly dealt with in the commission report of [2008]. There are essentially two estimates on how many people would die from hunger, from starvation, from lack of water, and from social disruption. One estimate is that within a year or so, two-thirds of the United States population would die. The other estimate is that within a year or so, 90% of the U.S. population would die. We’re talking about total devastation. We’re not talking about just a regular catastrophe.”
We are far more vulnerable than most people realize. Personally, I am entirely convinced that someday the U.S. will be facing a long-term grid down scenario. What will you do when that day suddenly arrives? Our enemies know that taking down the power grid would be one of the fastest ways to get our society to collapse. A successful attack that takes down our grid for an extended period of time would make 9/11 look like a Sunday picnic. If you are not prepared for such a scenario, you need to start taking action immediately."
"A Rousing Musical Interlude: Blue Ridge Rascals, "I Ain't Dead Yet, Just Moving Slow"
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"I Ain't Dead Yet, Just Moving Slow"
"Well, folks… Grandpa Hank is 78 years young, and he ain't ready to call it quits! His knees are cracking, his back is aching, his old pickup barely starts, and Grandma Martha keeps telling him to sit down. But this stubborn Appalachian mountain man has a message for the whole world.This hilarious Appalachian bluegrass comedy song celebrates getting older, staying young at heart, and enjoying every precious day of life. Packed with fast banjo picking, lively fiddle, toe-tapping mountain rhythms, funny country storytelling, and good old-fashioned Southern humor! From struggling to get out of bed to showing his grandson how a real banjo picker gets things done, Grandpa Hank proves that getting old doesn't mean giving up Growing old is part of life. Growing old with laughter is a choice! How old are you, and what's one thing you're never going to stop doing?"
"The Truth We Can’t Accept"
"The Truth We Can’t Accept"
by Paul Rosenberg
"There is a simple fact that people are unable to ingest. You can explain it with charts, graphs and documentation… and they may even like the sound of it… but it soon fades and is forgotten. This truth is simply too foreign to us; it doesn’t fit within our mental universe. Most of us don’t particularly fight it, but we’re very slow to integrate it. So please bear in mind that this may affect you too.
This truth is massively good news, by the way, which is strange too: Bad news people believe instantly; good news they doubt instantly. All that said, here’s the news: Scarcity upon Earth has been fundamentally overcome. We’ve been growing more food than we can eat for decades now, and we could grow much more if we needed to. Building houses for everyone would be no problem: we have the entire set of technologies and processes worked out, materials are available and there’s no lack of people who’d be glad to work as a homebuilder.
Likewise providing quality medical care to all is well within our reach, and of course cars and roads are no problem. So, before I get to support and objections, I’ll restate our main point: The doors to a golden age have swung open before us, but we’re having a hard time accepting that it’s real.
But Why Can’t We Believe It? Before I get to the details of our disbelief, let me tell you were you can find all the documentation you’d like:The work of Julian Simon, especially "The Ultimate Resource and The State of Humanity." You’ll find lots of hard data in these.The work of Stephen Moore and Johan Nordberg, particularly "It’s Getting Better All The Time and Progress."
And just to support this a bit, here’s part of a presentation from Norman Borlaug, the man who revolutionized modern agriculture (Nobel Prize, etc.) and saved a billion lives in the process. It was delivered in in September of 2000: "I now say that the world has the technology – either available or well advanced in the research pipeline – to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people." You’ll find similar passages in the resources noted above. So, from a scientific standpoint, our main points are very solid, and on the production side, scarcity was overcome some decades ago. Why then is this non-believable?
First of all, we’ve been raised to believe in regimentation; to see it as the path to paradise and to treat it as a sublime invention. But regimentation is entirely focused on the bad: We believe that by suppressing evil we create a better world for ourselves. And so, anything that smells of a present golden age – a good age – is incompatible with our beloved regimentation. That means that our deep assumptions would have to be revised, and that’s uncomfortable. Beyond that sits the fact that scarcity is a psychological necessity to us. If we no longer need to fight over resources, how do we show ourselves superior?
Objections to this discussion tend to be indirect, dealing with things like “human desires are infinite.” These, however, are paper arguments: we’re discussing concrete things like food and houses. And, of course, there is a difference between wants and needs. Wants are bounded only by our imaginations, and so are unfit for a serious and this-worldly discourse. A comfortable home, good food and reliable transportation are needs. Ferraris, mansions and caviar are wants.
Likewise, arguments over finite resources are distractions: We have plenty of materials right now (including fuels for both fission and fusion). Additionally, there are planets and asteroid belts waiting for us in the not-too distant future. In actual fact there are fewer starving people all the time. Moreover, the cause of whatever starvation remains is almost wholly political, not technological.
So…What we need is to talk about these things: To review the sources, examine the graphs and start working this into ourselves as an actual possibility. We really are ready to step into a golden age, as impossibly foreign as that may seem. In fact, we’ve been doing precisely that, mostly by accident, for decades. If we worked at it, we might go down in history as the generation that transformed humanity forever. While I'd love to be so optimistic, but considering all things the path Mankind is on extinction is a more likely end. A "Golden Age?" Most unlikely, but food for thought..."
Dan, I Allegedly, "Is This The Beginning of World War III? The 90-Day Warning"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 10/29/26
"Is This The Beginning of World War III?
The 90-Day Warning"
"Is this the beginning of World War III? The Pentagon's reported Fortress initiative is raising serious questions about military readiness, national security, and preparing for 90 days of disruption. As the UK encourages households to prepare for emergencies, we're examining what the government is planning, the risks to America's power grid and critical infrastructure, and what could happen if electricity, water, internet access and banking services go down. In this iAllegedly report, Dan breaks down emergency preparedness, prepping supplies, water and food storage, backup power, medications, cash, personal finance, gold and silver, and protecting your family during a crisis. What should ordinary Americans do to get ready? Watch, review the resources below, take inventory of your supplies, and share your thoughts. Preparedness is about being informed - not living in fear."
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Bill Bonner, "Sultan in a Madhouse"
"Sultan in a Madhouse"
by Bill Bonner
"Money don’t get everything it’s true,
What it don’t get I can’t use.
I need money,
That’s what I want,
That’s what I want,
That’s what I want..."
– Barrett Strong
Ardmore, Ireland - "All money has a bit of the Trickster in it. When everyone is richer, no one is richer. But give them enough free money - even real money - and they will all be poorer. The wealth that counts is relative. You probably have air-conditioning...maybe even central air. Does that make you feel superior to Ramses II, who must have sweated through the Egyptian summers? No? We didn’t think so. Productivity increases can make us all better off. But our shabby little hearts want money - more of it than our neighbors have. Yeah, that’s what we want.
Trump offers to give Americans more dollars - $5,000 of them - if Republicans are re-elected. CNBC: "With Election Day less than a month away, President Donald Trump is touting two federal cash payment programs already underway while renewing a much larger $5,000 check promise contingent on Republicans retaining Congress. On Friday, Trump announced one-time $90 payments to 20.8 million Medicare beneficiaries. A day later, he revived an earlier promise to give every adult U.S. citizen $5,000 - but only if Republicans retain control of Congress in November.
People will feel richer when they get the money. They may even feel richer before they get it - which is what Donald Trump seems to be counting on. But, once again, we have to ask the question that ruins every political giveaway: where does this money come from? Trump isn’t planning to part with his own money. And he wouldn’t have nearly enough, even if he were willing to share it. The feds are already running over budget by $2 trillion a year. They don’t have any money to pass around, either.
All POTUS could conceivably give to the voters is newly-minted, ‘fake’ money - money backed by wealth that has not been earned yet...and probably never will be. That’s how inflation works. You have a certain number of enchiladas...and a certain number of pesos to buy them. Double the number of pesos; the number of enchiladas remains the same. But now there are twice as many pesos per enchilada - rough result: prices double.
So, even if he made good on his promise - which is very unlikely - it wouldn’t have nearly the effect that people expect. This is just classic, textbook inflation. Trump can print all the new money he wants; he can’t make people richer...or better off. He can’t add a single enchilada. The promise is a fraud.
But here’s something worth considering. For the last fourteen years, the Fed has maintained that a little bit of fraud - 2% inflation per year - is good for the economy. It reduces the value of debt...and nobody seems to notice or care about small price increases. We’re getting ripped off. We expect it. We accept it.
But if the rate of inflation goes much above 2%, the plain people begin to gripe. Inflation has been running hot for many years. And the losses - to consumers - are cumulative. Over the last seven years, for example, coffee is up 124%. Fuel oil is 84% more expensive. And ground beef is up 79%. And so on, all up and down the aisle. It adds up. And even if inflation were stopped cold tomorrow...those higher prices would remain.
As we saw last week, in the early stages of ‘inflation’ the Fed can wag the tail of debt and scratch the head of interest rates. But as the debt grows, the playful pet becomes vicious. It growls and the Fed tosses it some red meat. Now the debt controls the Fed, not the other way around.
What can the poor Fed do? It cannot raise interest rates; the nation can’t afford it. But it can’t lower them either. Lower rates would unleash more borrowing…leading to more inflation...causing interest rates to rise on their own.
Throughout the land, households are squeezed. But on Capitol Hill, Wall Street and in the White House the funny money spending spree goes on. Already, there’s some $13 trillion in federal debt to finance or refinance next year. If Trump keeps his pledge, that will be another $1.3 trillion.
That’s when we see the razor claws and sharpened teeth of this monster. In the beginning, the feds surprise the public by ‘printing’ more money than it expects. In the end, the public surprises the feds by spending it so fast the feds can’t keep up. The presses melt down...and the whole ‘inflation’ scheme blows up.
In those later stages, the nominal currency is devalued so fast that real prices - in real money - actually go down. Go to a high-inflation country with real money in your pocket and you can see for yourself; you can live like a sultan in a madhouse.
And here’s another surprise. Occasionally, societies have suffered from too much real money. That is what happened in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. So much gold and silver came back from Spain’s conquests in the New World that its money supply went up dramatically. Prices rose too. That was real money...and real inflation. Prices rose to meet the increase in the money supply. This money wasn’t ‘printed.’ It was stolen or mined. And when it ran out...the inflation stopped.
But even real money can ruin a nation - if there is enough of it. Like America in the late 20th century - which uses its reserve currency status to run persistent trade deficits - the Spanish and Portuguese used their new money to buy what they wanted from other countries. They ‘neglected their own industries,’ say the historians, and the Iberian Peninsula became the ‘sick man’ of Europe for the next 200 years."
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The Beatles, "Money (That's What I Want)"
"Costco’s $400 Billion Empire Is Collapsing - And Nobody Can Save It"
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Sarah Johnson, 10/29/26
"Costco’s $400 Billion Empire Is Collapsing -
And Nobody Can Save It"
"Costco still sells a hot dog and soda for $1.50, the same price it charged in 1985, and keeps its rotisserie chicken at $4.99 even while losing money on many of them. That strange formula built a retailer worth more than $400 billion. Now the machine behind it is starting to turn against itself. Discover how Sol Price's backwards idea became Costco, why membership fees make up roughly two-thirds of its profit, and why a stock priced at 50 times earnings leaves almost no room for error. From entrance card scanners and the first fee hike since 2017 to slipping renewals and tariffs squeezing a 14 percent markup cap, see why the formula that made Costco unstoppable may be the one thing nobody can fix. Do you think Costco can hold on? Share your thoughts in the comments and subscribe for more business documentaries."
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"Snyder Reports, 10/29/26"
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Snyder Reports, 10/29/26
"Hackers Hit 18 Military Commissaries at the Same Time:
What Are They Preparing For?"
"The Pentagon is now treating a string of military commissary freezer failures as a suspected cyber attack - and 18 commissaries reportedly lost refrigeration at the same time. This is the attack on America's military bases they've been warning about, and it explains why every U.S. base has been ordered to survive 90 days alone. According to four officials, the Pentagon is investigating the mysterious freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States in August as a suspected hack. At Fort Huachuca, every freezer reportedly went into defrost mode overnight and all the food spoiled. Fort Irwin told shoppers there would be no milk, eggs, meat, or other chilled food - dry goods only.
It isn't just here. In France, hackers hit about 150 Intermarche stores, pushing refrigerators as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit and spoiling food overnight, and U.S. military investigators are in touch with their French counterparts about that attack. In this video we break down why 18 locations failing at once is not a coincidence, what the Pentagon's 90-day self-sufficiency plan is really preparing for, and the next targets experts are warning about - refrigerated trucks, farms, and your food prices."
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Snyder Reports, 10/29/26
"Food Pantries Are Running Dry -
Now Americans Are Turning To Churches"
"Food banks are running out of food, and families are being told to come back later. Here's where they're going instead - and why churches have quietly become the backup plan. In this video I break down three food bank warnings that landed within days of each other: a regional food bank in Oregon facing a severe supply deficit as community need hits record highs, a northeast Arkansas food pantry short ahead of Thanksgiving - not just on turkeys and hams, but on canned goods, cooking oil, salt and pepper - and a Utah County nonprofit closing its Heber City food pantry and announcing layoffs. Then one viewer's story. Laid off in May 2025 and out of work until September 2026, they told me the only way their family made it through was the church: a food bank inside it that was rationing food, church members who covered the bills, and a job that came through a church member. That's how we get to the part almost nobody reports on.
When food banks run out, people go to churches. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just delivered 30,000 pounds of food to a food bank as part of an initiative reaching all 50 states, plus 40,000 pounds to another pantry. So I went looking for where that food actually comes from: 1.75 million acres of U.S. farmland, grain silos holding 16 million pounds of wheat, the capacity to process 200,000 pounds of grain in a single day, canneries and packaging facilities across the U.S. and Canada, and a dedicated transportation network moving it to storehouses and local food banks."
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Adventures With Danno, "Stocking Up At Kroger!"
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Adventures With Danno, 10/29/26
"Stocking Up At Kroger!"
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"October Surprise! Humpty Trumpty Just Fell Off The Wall"
Yikes! The POTUS is not what he presents himself to be.
"October Surprise!
Humpty Trumpty Just Fell Off The Wall"
by State Of The Nation
SOTN Editor’s Note: "Yes, this one is going to be a real shocker, especially for the manly MAGA movement; but not so for the MIGA movement because they’re already all fake and gay. As follows: Everything is fake and gay…on purpose. Excerpt submitted by The Gaydar Report SOTN Exclusive'
Excerpt: "First some personal history in order to establish some street cred. I grew up right in the middle of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The name of the game during those heady years was Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Although I did not know at the time, I was intuitively aware of something quite HUGE going on in the background through it all. One highly perceptive author has memed it Operation Baby Boomer; and he is stunningly accurate in his portrayal of what he has described as “The Most Powerful Mind Control Program & Social Engineering Project In World History”.
So, when I was in university I had a single dorm room on campus, which was extremely rare back in the 1970s. Throughout my sophomore year I began to undergo a drugging experience, which originated in my dorm room. In other words, I was being deliberately drugged from an outgassing chemical that was emanating from the radiator. In fact, dorm mates would sometimes come into my room and comment on that very strange smell.
Long story short, I slowly found myself being pushed to a place of complete physical and mental breakdown, something I had never experienced before being a very happy go lucky kid all my life. Right about the same time, a fellow student barged into my life who was notorious for being one of the only gay guys on campus; and he was especially known for being extremely aggressive due to being a brazen teenage alcoholic. This guy came at me like a cat on a piece of hot tuna, which required much defensive posturing on my part. And he somehow knew that I was exceedingly vulnerable because of my being drugged, which he tried to take full advantage of.
One day ‘I woke up’ and realized I had to get out of that dorm room post-haste. And so I did. And where did they put me, but in a dorm room with a room mate who was well known for being the only flaming homosexual on campus - of the feminine type - unlike the first character who was a “Village People” macho type.
So, here I am with a gay roomie, while being pursued with a vengeance by another campus homo, so that I eventually came to a firm decision to transfer to another university in my hometown to get away from it all. Of course, I am, through it all, deeply contemplating the whole psyop to understand who was doing it and why.
What’s the crucial point? Between those crazy college years and growing up in a family with a sister who was a proud lesbo, a godfather who was the gay pied piper of the city, and 3 or 4 cousins who were also lesbos/homos, I quickly developed a very refined sense of gaydar. In fact, because I had a very svelte look quite similar to thee “American Gigolo”, there was an ongoing joke in my circle of friends that I had more male suitors in my life than female ones. So I was forced to hone my gaydar to an inordinate degree for the sake of self preservation since I was a hardcore heterosexual forever.
One last significant data point: my family moved from the city to the suburbs during my freshman year of college. To my surprise (NOT), my parents bought a unit in an exclusive condominium complex, which was one of 11 in a row on top of a beautiful hill, where 5 of the units were home to homosexuals both young and older. A coincidence? I think not…particularly after what unfolded over the period that I lived there during my college summer years.
Again, the critical point is that once you develop gaydar, it never leaves you. You can smell or see a homo or lesbo a million miles away. And gay men can smell it quicker than anybody else because they’re always - always - on the hunt as follows:
*DISCLAIMER: The LGBTQIA+ community should be treated with respect and not discriminated against in any way as I harbor no ill will or bias toward them. However, when this group imposes their views upon American society in such an aggressive manner, they have seriously crossed the line in a very big way. For many have clearly exposed themselves as sinister agents of devastating Cultural Marxism."
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"When the Narcissist Fails"
"When the Narcissist Fails"
by Joe Navarro, FBI Behavioral Analysis Veteran
“As with many personality disorders, those who are severely flawed of character, but especially the narcissist, when they face public disgrace, when they are outed as criminals or for their misbehavior, or when they fail in a very public way - that is when they become metastable, placing us as family, friends, co-workers, corporations, the public, or a nation in greatest danger. When things begin to sour for the narcissist, here is what we can expect:
1. They will falsely claim that everything is fine and that there is nothing wrong. They will try to first misdirect us or claim there is nothing to the allegations or circumstances.
2. If evidence is presented, they will seek to have it invalidated or claim that it is false, fake, or a product of vague conspiracies, but most certainly not true.
3. Any evidence presented, and those that present it will be attacked aggressively and vindictively. The better the evidence, the more aggressive the attack. Individuals who are doing the right thing by reporting criminal acts, unethical behavior, or failings are to be discredited, humiliated, hounded, and bullied - not even their families are to be spared if need be. The narcissist will engage supporters or enablers to simultaneously attack those who offer proof or evidence, even if it embarrassingly exposes their poodle-like behavior as that of spineless sycophants.
4. Foolproof evidence will be portrayed as false and the result of pettiness, jealousies, bad actors, malicious individuals, negativity, haters, enemies, losers, conspirators, opposition, gain seekers, the faithless, or as we are seeing now in American politics, ‘fake news’ or ‘deep state’ actors. There is always a large constellation of people to blame, the narcissist casts wide to see which vacuous claim resonates, especially with their supporters.
5. As they lash out with vindictiveness, the malignant narcissist will continue to talk about themselves in glowing terms; irrespective of their actual situation, as they are incapable of introspection, much less contriteness. They will trumpet their greatness, their real or imagined achievements, their faux infallibility, and even portray themselves as worthy of being revered rather than reviled.
6. They will seek to find someone to blame for their troubles or downfall, preferably someone that cannot defend themselves. A scapegoat is always useful and when there is not a real one, one will be invented. If they are not promoted or fired, it is because a cabal at work was against them. If they cheat their business partners, it was because they deserved it. If they lose an election it is because of campaign managers, unappreciative voters, trickery, fraud, or some other kind of malfeasance on the part of a conspiracy. Conspiracies are useful to the narcissist because they conveniently require no evidence. As they are not married to the truth, they will prattle countless baseless reasons that all point away, never at themselves.
7. As circumstances become dire, the narcissist will not take any responsibility - ever. Anything that has gone wrong is the responsibility of others. They will blame spouses as undeserving of their greatness, ignorant colleagues who just don’t measure up, the disloyal, those who abide by rules and laws because ironically, they abide by rules and laws, or those that just clearly did not understand the very specialness of the narcissist. Everyone, and I mean everyone from people long gone, to the peripherally connected, to the earthly departed will be blamed for the failure or downfall of the narcissist. Once more it is never their fault.
8. In the process of casting blame, even the most loyal and stalwart will be discarded and denigrated if needed with reptilian indifference. For the malignant narcissist, there is only the ‘good’ - those that provide blind, unwavering loyalty and who are useful, and everyone else who is an enemy, useless, and thus ‘bad.’ Whether you are in or out, good or bad, is not determined by history, by friendship, sacrifices, or how well you have performed in the past—it is determined by the capricious and selfish needs of the narcissist, and that can change in a moment.
9. Expect lies to increase and to be repeated exponentially. They will, even in light of factual evidence to the contrary, lie more profusely and adamantly. Lies are and always will be the number one tool of the malignant narcissist. The only difference now is that in facing failure or public ridicule, the lies must increase in frequency and audacity to the point of incredulity. The narcissist will expect supporters, the unethical, and enablers to lie for them or even create plausible alibis. That they imperil others by compelling them to lie is the collateral damage the malignant narcissist does as they thrash in despair when they are failing or caught.
10. And while lies will increase, so too will be the need to devalue others in order to further value themselves. They will attack everyone and anyone in the most vicious and vindictive ways. This is when we see their rage come through. Not just anger, but unbridled rage. They will say things that shock the conscience and they expect everyone to swallow what they say, much as their enablers do. The most decent of persons will be attacked, mocked, ridiculed, and turned into a human chew-toy as the narcissist unleashes untethered rage and hatred. They will dip down into a bottomless cauldron of antipathy and like an arterial spurt, will spew this toxic brew far and wide with metronomic regularity.
11. The malignant narcissist, lacking guilt or a conscience, is only concerned with respect and not being publicly shamed. Any kind of public embarrassment will cause them further anger, further rage, further attacks, further unethical comportment, and unprecedented incivility.
12. If the narcissist is going to be brought down, they will also seek to bring everyone else around them down to vindictively make them suffer. How the narcissist vilifies, lashes out, or destroys others (spouse, friends, business partners, workmates, the general public) is up to the morbid creativity and depravity of the malignant narcissist, the viable tools they have available, and of course how dire or desperate the situation. The internet and social media are certainly useful as lives can be ruined with a single tweet. But so are guns and rifles, poison, and even assassins for hire. And if they command a country, they can put the security organs or the military to work on their behalf.
13. In certain situations, as the end nears, the suffering of others is paramount to the malignant narcissist. It is their way of elevating themselves - sick as that sounds - by malevolently paying back society with even more suffering. As they lash out, they will show no concern or empathy because they have none. If others are suffering because of their actions, the narcissist simply does not care. Lacking a conscience or any kind of remorse, much like Robert Hare’s psychopath, they sleep very well at night while everyone else is anxious, worried, stressed, physically or psychologically traumatizes all the while nervously and justifiably pondering what further malevolence will take place.
14. As they face failure, arrest, indictment, or dismissal, they will endlessly air their grievances. Narcissists are natural wound collectors and as such, they have been collecting and nurturing social slights and perceived wrongs just for this occasion. They will wallow in victimhood claiming they have been relentlessly and needlessly persecuted. They, of course, expect their attorneys, followers, or enablers to subserviently echo their flatulent claims.
So, what happens in the end? Difficult to predict. Each circumstance is different. Some will kick and flail and disappear for a while, intentionally or thanks to incarceration - biding their time until they can do it all over again. Others regroup, plan, scheme, and prepare another triumphant entry into the lives of the unsuspecting to victimize them when the opportunity arises.
Others, unfortunately, will seek to do harm as they face a breakup, a divorce, are fired from a job, are outed for their crimes, or are removed from office. Others will hound, stalk, or just make life intolerable for those they deem responsible. Their past can often give us insight as to what they might do, but one can never be sure - humans are terribly complex and as with many afflicted with a personality disorder, sensitive to the smallest of unrecognized but catalytic triggers.
In the case of narcissistic cult leaders, the cult members often pay with their lives as they did in Jonestown Guyana when Jim Jones came under investigation. In interpersonal relationships, violence is always something to be concerned.“
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