It all started with a routine trip to the grocery store. When I went to pay for a few bags of rice, the card reader froze and a message flashed across the screen: “Transaction flagged for review.”
No big deal, right? Happens all the time. Except it wasn’t the card. The clerk whispered that “some system update” was slowing down payments all day. My phone buzzed an hour later: “Suspicious activity detected. Please verify your location.”
I bought rice. That’s it. And yet, someone or something somewhere knew I wasn’t just buying rice. I was buying rice to build a stockpile.
That’s when it hit me: this is how control looks like in the 21st century – silent systems, quietly watching, quietly restricting, quietly reminding you that everything you own, everything you buy, everything you say – they know about it. And they’ve got you profiled.
And that’s exactly how the Deep State wants it.
The True Meaning of Control
The best prison is the one you never realized you were serving time in.
The modern world runs on comfort: digital IDs, smart homes, fingerprint locks, facial recognition logins, and AI “assistants” that answer before you ask. But every ounce of convenience we gain costs a pound of freedom.
Your phone tracks every movement, your car reports your route, your fridge monitors your power usage, and your thermostat knows when you’re home. Every click, swipe, and purchase writes another line in the digital diary of your life. And you do not own the diary.
They don’t need to kick in your door to control you; they just need to decide what gets switched off. That’s why governments around the world are obsessed with digital identity systems. They call it “security.” What they really mean is “permission”.
If you’re a “good citizen” as defined by them you get to play in their world. If you’re not…well that’s just too bad.
Once everything you do runs through a single centralized network, freedom dies. And they decide in your place.
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The Dollar Is Dying – By Design
People think inflation is an accident. It’s not.
They will never destroy a system unless the replacement is ready. They’re not trying to fix the dollar or stop it being devalued – because they are about to replace it altogether with a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
On the surface, they’ll make it sound perfect. Instant transfers, no cash needed, “secure” and “green all the way.” But beneath the buzzwords, CBDCs are the greatest surveillance tool ever invented.
They won’t just know what you buy. They will decide what you can buy. What you can do. Where you can go.
I don’t think there is anything as scary as losing all your freedom like that.
Imagine your money expiring if you don’t spend it fast enough or on what they like. Or being denied the ability to purchase fuel or ammunition because it “violates policy.” Think it sounds far-fetched? It’s already being tested in multiple countries.
Paper cash is freedom. Digital currency is a dog’s leash.
That’s why you should hold real assets (silver, gold, tangible goods), anything that exists outside the system. Because when the switch flips, and the dollars you saved becomes the dollars they control, it’s already too late.
And don’t think they won’t flip it. Control has always been the endgame, and programmable money is how they bring it about on every level of society.
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They’re Watching Everything
Every time you unlock your phone with your face or thumbprint, you’re feeding a machine that never forgets.
The Deep State isn’t a shadowy room full of men smoking cigars. It’s a network of corporations, bureaucrats, and algorithms built to harvest information and enforce compliance.
Your TV listens. Your car uploads. Your smart speaker records. And they tell you it’s to “improve your experience.” That’s like a burglar explaining he only broke in to reorganize your drawers.
Data is the new oil, and you are the well they’re pumping from.
If you want privacy, you have to build it yourself:
- Keep your devices offline when not in use.
- Use Faraday bags for phones and keys.
- Pay in cash whenever possible.
- Avoid “smart” versions of appliances you don’t need.
- Store sensitive files offline, on physical drives you control.
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The Real Reason Preppers Are Mocked
Ever notice how every time a prepper speaks truth, they’re ridiculed?
They call it paranoia. They call it “doom thinking.” They run segments mocking people who store food, water, or ammo because they know the second you stop relying on their system, you stop being controllable.
What they fear most is our independence.
You can’t threaten a man who grows his own food. You can’t intimidate a woman who can filter her own water. You can’t bribe a family who already powers their own home.
And you can’t control someone who can live without money.
The media’s job is to make independence look absolutely insane. And they do it ever since we are kids, so by the time we’re all grown up we’re already just another part of the Matrix. Every headline, every “fact-check,” every “expert opinion” serves the same goal: to convince you that self-reliance is extremist, and compliance is normal.
So they flood your feed with distractions (celebrity scandals, fake outrage, endless noise), anything to keep you too tired to question, too numb to act, too entertained to notice that your cage is being built one pixel at a time.
If you ever wondered how far they’ll go to keep you vulnerable, just look at how fast they censor home-defense knowledge.
That’s why I strongly recommend Home Defense Academy.
It’s one of the few remaining resources that walks you step-by-step through securing your home, defending your property, and protecting your family when law enforcement can’t or won’t show up.
What You Can Still Do, While You Still Can
You can’t stop the system from tightening its grip. It’s too late for that.
But you can take some smart steps to delay it tightening around you.
Start small. Start real. Start local.
- Keep part of your money in cash, silver, or gold, something no switch can turn off.
- Build a local barter network: neighbors, friends, small businesses that still trade in person.
- Grow something, food, herbs, anything. Seeds are the oldest rebellion there is.
- Learn a skill that doesn’t need Wi-Fi to work: repair, canning, foraging, first aid.
- Use radios, hand tools, solar power, anything that makes you independent from the grid.
And most importantly: unplug from the noise. The Deep State thrives on keeping you distracted. Turn off the screen and talk to real people again. You know how we used to do! Teach your kids what real history looks like, not the version rewritten by search engines and “fact-checkers.”
The truth still exists out there in the soil, in your pantry, in your family, in the quiet places where their power hasn’t yet reached. That’s where freedom still lives.
And if you want to keep it, you have to protect it! One seed, one silver coin, one unplugged day at a time.
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Burn baby burn.
Hunted down and no more…
This is what they will have to look forward to, from me.
Dam sure not going along with it. Going to cause a lot of hell when it comes to a town near YOU.
It is called the BEAST system. Not going to stop it, butt dam sure going to cause a lot of HELL for the demons that are called people…
DESTRUCTION by a Gray Man.
stay sharp
No censorship, please…
The more we pay with cash at every opportunity, at every store, for every purchase, the less inclined “they” will be to end accepting cash and the less inclined “they” will be to force us to use credit cards (tracking what you buy) or a CBDC (determining what you buy). It’s simple to rise up and say NO – just pay in cash whenever you can. Start small. Pledge to pay cash for your next 3 purchases. And shouldn’t you have more cash on hand anyway for the next time the systems (like Amazon Web Services the other day) go dark?
Absolutely! The Amazon Web Services drop showed us how vulnerable we are, even if we keep being told that everything is ok.
You have stated an updated version (with more specifics) what Jesus warned about nearly two thousand years ago.
Who tries to control the media? Nazis
I have a friend who is Chinese. He said in China no one watches the news as it is all,propaganda. They wonder why Americans watch…..
51% of us don’t watch. Those who do are brainwashed lemmings that call themselves Democrats
Cash (paper or coin) gets a lot of discussion for prepping. Lets do a logic experiment for physical money. Daily living, it is fine for “less traceable” lifestyle but in reality there are cameras and many other ways to glean what you are doing if someone really wanted to track you as an individual. Carrying large sums of cash with no cell phone is a significant risk (people watch) to create for yourself. Yes you have your concealed or open carry but the goal is to avoid “risk situations” (all the time) and not create them just so you can John Wick your way out.
Now lets assume a local disaster occurs (tornado, wild fire, earthquake) and power is out for a week or two. Cash can become very useful to make needed purchases from individuals and small business that “remain confident in the value of money”. They will be able to deal with your physical monies via 1970s style hand written orders / accounting / receipts and exchanges. Big box store will not be able to handle nor process you physical money due to no manual way to record the sale nor make significant change. Most big box stores and chains will simply close until the disaster is over, so how much did your cash really help? Lets move up to a regional SHTF situation. Something that big will impact finical markets and significantly affect currency values. Just like in the local scenario you have to find someone who can deal with “physical money” but now also someone who still “trusts” the value of that physical money in your hand. COVID comes to mind were people did not want to touch physical money. Many recent examples in various countries show that physical money can lose purchasing power faster than you can walk from store to store. Lastly in a TEOTWAWKI the backstop value guarantee of physical money (government) is gone so it becomes only as valuable as the commodity is is created from (linen and metal).
My opinion; yes keep reasonable cash in a secure place for local emergencies (and some common life emergencies). It is never a bad thing to use cash as long as you do not increase your personal safety risk by doing so. If you are within the middle bell curve area of lifestyle then using normal banking methods as appropriate (convenience, not making yourself a target) are still viable and desired. Invest and make your money work in the existing world knowing the odds are higher you will never see a SHTF nor TEOTWAWKI; you need to live well in all future possibilities! Prepare for the common events first, then round out by adding in preps for the uncommon events. Finally get your mind in a place that if the rules change dramatically and forever, that bank account and investment account was for a different life and let it go. I refer to that as the 1950s (local), 1920s (regional), and 1880s (TEOTWAWKI) reset. Each of those has a different level of reset impact which will have different affects on your accounts and physical money. Money (physical or electronic) is just a scoring system for valuation, when the rules change other scoring systems will be in place and you have the skills, commodities, and opportunities to thrive within those new rules because you prepared!
You are absolutely right and we thank you for sharing all your thoughts here. It is very important to have, as you said, reasonable cash in a secure place. We never know when we need it for emergencies. And the part about making the money work for you too. Very insightful.
This article is a bit dystopian. The “deep state” is now a Republican domain. I am a Republican, always have been, but the current administration is certainly no improvement over past administrations. They will be the ones who oppress us.
Typical brainwashed democrat comment. Why lie about being a republican? Oh that’s right, you’re a democrat!
I’m glad I’m retired because i don’t know where i would find the time to deal with the weird a** problems that pop up out of nowhere in this digital age . Raising some chickens and fruit , vegetables , living in the country, at times feels like a more appealing lifestyle.
We are sure there are many who think like you. We are definitely looking at many unexpected and weird problems we have to deal with.
Outer Spice – Stay current on local zoning laws and ordinances. Many townships and even some HOAs are amending their “rules” to allow small chicken flocks (3 to 6 birds). The common square footage values for each chicken in a lot of publications is actually small in reality so try and go bigger space if you can. A coop even with a fenced open space and an automated exterior yard door is a great compromise for night protection and daytime room to roam. Stay away from Guinean Fowl, they are truly fowl in a civilized space. If you go all hens they are quite except for proudly informing you they did their job and an egg is waiting for you in the nest box. Our hens are very social and like to sit on the bench with us or follow me around as I do chores. Many times I have to shoo them away if doing something they could get hurt from.
One of the most overlooked ordinances and restrictions is the collection of rainwater. Just because your State doesn’t care if you do, your local or county may have strict codes.
Turning the technology on the deep state should keep the evildoers in line with the constitution of the U.S. As long as the current administration stays within the law..we the people …..citizens of the U. S. ….should be OK…..I trust the Republican Party during this time peroid a whole lot more than the Democrats ….to take the world into the future.
Well written!!
Appreciate that! Our team works hard to put out solid, practical content that actually helps folks get ready and stay ready. Glad you’re enjoying it.
Nice to know there’s like minded folks out there. Busy processing pumpkin and saving seeds this time of year. Eagerly watching the eight fruit tree grafts and keeping fingers crossed, and of course firewood. Have two more big feed runs before winter, got to keep the chickens and goats happy.
so much good, from so many. As we know, prep for the WORST and hope for the best.
Along the way, learn how to make and how to make do, unless you have too much money and need to waste some of it.
Chickens, space. if you plan to have under 20, then make a hatch that corresponds to the hatch on your Chicken Tractor, a little more work, but well worth it !
CASH, dont forget some precious metals, and barter materials, be prepared for ALL contingencies – not just the most probable. What is the most probable ? Make sure your Crystal ball is calibrated perfectly before you answer.
Right on point. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and stay sharp. Chickens are gold when set up right. Cash, metals, and trade goods keep you covered when systems fail. No one knows what’s coming, so stay ready.
Kre- Offering a polite counter point in the spirit of debate (I whacked my crystal ball to get it to focus-LOL). You sate “be prepared for ALL contingencies” which is a legitimate position so lets assume a person reading these articles and comments lives in Ohio and has saved $500 to start prepping with. One of the “ALL” contingencies often discussed is a political resistance with a social collapse that may result in rioting and lawlessness. Based on seeing that information they choose to spend their $500 on a gun and ammo. They practice with the gun and have it ready to go in a holster. While waiting for the “unrest” to begin a blizzard hits Ohio (happens basically every year) and they are sitting shivering and hungry in their living room trying to figure out which snowdrift outside to shoot.
With any endeavor there are always more probable and less probable “impacts” or “events”. Trying to cover “All” can be a big mountain to climb for most people. I accept few people have unlimited resources (income & time) to apply to preparing so as a member of the community I convey the idea of focusing your efforts and money on the most likely event in your geographic area which are typically natural in origins (earthquakes on fault lines, tornadoes in the plains, hurricanes on the coast, blizzards up north). Once that is covered then you can branch out to improve you everyday lifestyle with renewable items (garden, orchards, chickens, canning, goats) and living cost reductions (low power lighting, energy efficient systems, alternative fuel heating) because those will benefit you right now without a SHTF event. If you get those two things done (you are safe in common emergencies and saving money everyday) then you have the luxury to worry about and spend money on more dystopian possibilities.
I am the steward of a multi-generational farm and have lived a lot of places to earn money beyond the farm. I have been in six tornadoes, two hurricanes, one 6.0 earthquake, and maybe a dozen or so blizzards. I have been near two protests that got “agitated” and one pandemic, so my “reality and experience” point to what events I should focus on first.
A polite rebuttal for discussion purposes.
Ozark, GOOD Points, and well taken. I have limited means, most of us do.
I would say, if starting with a 500 $ budget, your at BABY step 1. I would suggest they “invest in free knowledge” READ, LOTS ! !
Buy, 100 Lbs of rice, you will always be hungry, and rice is a good barter item !
Depending on location, Identify water or heat as a priority need.
Protection might need to be an old wooden bat. or maybe, a $ 100 hand gun – not much use other than close up defense, if you can, $200 for 1 that can also get you food. Do what ever it takes ( legal, ethics, moral etc, to grow your wallet, you need a little tragedy fund, broken heat, broken appliances, broken car, roof, and then you need start prepping.
All that said, the first thing that could strike, can be the LAST thing you expect.
IMPORTANT first step, dont be crushed emotionally by the overwhelming weight of what you need, just start gathering what you can when you can, work up to the big steps