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Every Safest Place During Martial Law: Where to Stay and Survive

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  The term martial law is a scary one to most people. It conjures up images of military lockdowns, armed and guarded checkpoints, regular inspections and the loss of rights. Most freedom loving people are likely right to be apprehensive about even the suggestion that martial law could be implemented. With the state of the world today, owing to increasing government overreach globally at all levels of society and ever widening cultural and ideological gulfs, some are convinced it is only a matter of time until the unthinkable happens here at home. That will definitely be a game changer. Gone will be civilian leadership at the local level. The police will no longer be truly in charge of law enforcement. Instead, the military will take over both, with everything that that entails. I believe even the most staunchly pro-military supporter does not want to see that happen, and they are right in that regard. Much can go wrong with martial law, and anytime the military is responsible for l...
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What the 2003 Blackout Revealed About the U.S. Power Grid

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On August 14, 2003, a cascading failure of the power grid plunged more than 50 million people into darkness in the northeast US and Canada. It was the most significant power outage ever in North America, with an economic impact north of ten billion dollars. Calamities like this don’t happen in a bubble, and there were many human factors, political aspects, and organizational issues that contributed to the blackout. But, this is an engineering channel, and a bilateral task force of energy experts from the US and Canada produced this in-depth 240-page report on all of the   technical  causes of the event that I’ll try to summarize here. Even though this is kind of an older story, and many of the tough lessons have already been learned, it’s still a nice case study to explore a few of the more complicated and nuanced aspects of operating the electric grid, essentially one of the world’s largest machines. Nearly every aspect of modern society depends on a reliable supply of electr...
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The Game of the New World Order

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Since time immemorial, the history of humankind has been woven with threads of secrets, prophecies, and veiled pacts that seem to defy ordinary understanding. This fascination with the occult is not a recent phenomenon: initiatory societies, encrypted codes, and narratives of behind-the-scenes powers have accompanied the evolution of civilizations, fueling both intellectual curiosity and collective fear of what lies beyond public control. It was precisely at this crossroads that we recently delved into the series “ The Dynasty That Changed the World ”. This series demonstrated how conspiracies are not myths, but rather feed on real elements that take on a life of their own. And perhaps the topic that brings us here today is yet another example. In this complex scenario, figures and events emerge that seem to point to the existence of a roadmap designed by hidden powers to shape our destiny. Among them, the case of  Steve Jackson’s 1982  card game “ Illuminati ” stands out as a...
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