How The World Could Change In 7 Days When Lights Off

You might be thinking, hey, I’ve got this one covered! I’ve survived lots of power outages. If that is your thought process, you could not be more wrong.

Anyone who considers, even for a moment, how interconnected and interdependent our existence has become … so full of overly-complex, over-engineered, over-automated systems driving every aspect of our increasingly fragile existence that is dependent on just-in-time inventory and shipping virtually everything we need ridiculous distances … arrives at the same inescapable conclusion: that mankind has built a house of cards.

I doubt we could have created a more fragile world if it had been our aim from the beginning. We have painted ourselves into a corner and we are going to make a mess getting out.

Few analogies are as simple and powerful as tripping an electrical breaker to disconnect a building from the grid. One moment the building is alive, bright, vibrant, buzzing. With the flip of a switch, it lays still, cold and dead.

On/off.

Alive/Dead.

It is truly that simple. One moment we have juice, the next we don’t.

The Chain Reaction

America’s need for power outstrips our investment in our capability to produce it by 400%.

Yet the legislative branch of government points fingers and the executive branch (well, what used to be the executive branch before we turned the zoo over to the chimps, so to speak) sits in its tower considering “jobs for jihadis” and throwing lavish parties to congratulate and reward itself for scamming the rest of us out of our tax dollars.

Meanwhile, our electrical infrastructure continues its rapid decay and the nation’s power grid slips and slides down a spiral water slide of demise. It appears that they could not possibly care less. Perhaps they figure somebody else will be in office to take the blame when the music stops.

But it is not just the US. The US economy affects the world economy and the world economy is feeling the pinch. You do not have to be a risk assessment genius to understand that a depressed world economy translates to more frequent power outages of increased duration and a weaker and more vulnerable power grid.

The grid is limping along on borrowed time. Through a combination of luck and the best efforts of the intelligence and military communities, we have dodged the CME/HEMP (Coronal Mass Ejection/High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse) bullet … so far.

But while clock counts down to the next time the sun lobs an X-class solar flare in the general direction of our planet, the power industry has succeeded in using junk science generated by NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) to pull the wool over the eyes of congress and emergency management bureaucrats alike, forestalling the Shield Act, which is our only hope to harden the grid against the inevitable threat of EMP, be it geomagnetic or manmade.

The 2012 India Blackout affected 620 million people or 9% of the world population. India’s engineers blamed in on a number of factors that were merely symptoms of the same illness that affects the US and most other power grids.

The chronic illness underlying the symptoms was that the industrial and technological revolutions have catalyzed humanity’s explosive growth for far too long.

This has woven fragility into very fabric of world’s power grids. This has become a growth bubble of epic proportions searching for a pin. Our sun and geopolitical climate has that bubble navigating terrain akin to the Sonoran Desert. In reality, it is not so much a desert, but a forest of cactus spines, fangs, thorns and stingers, all poised to plant themselves in passersby.

I am involved in emergency management and I am very blessed to have many good, competent government emergency managers all the way up to the state level. After that, it mostly government shills who fancy themselves emergency managers.

Especially at the Federal level, the US has fallen prey to a culture of academics who pretend to know inordinately more than they actually do. Rooted firmly in the personality ethic, “Fake it ‘til you make it.” is their motto, but they never do. Afraid of their own intellectual shadow, they fear embracing and admitting their own uncertainly, which is the first step to anyone truly learning anything. So they believe what is most convenient as opposed to what is true. In this case, it very convenient to have blind faith that the electrical grid, like everything else in their lives, is maintained by people and organizations more intelligent, wiser, more benevolent and more responsible than they are. “Move along, nothing to see here!”

EMP is the stuff of Hollywood, not what our smartest scientists, the head of the CIA, and our best and brightest minds, and those of our enemies, seem to all agree is presently our single greatest known vulnerability.

Major vulnerabilities mean increased work load for emergency managers, and government shills resist having to actually provide a valuable service in trade for their salary.

Just this type of human debris, “working” for the City of Phoenix, Arizona concluded some years ago that an evacuation of Phoenix-Metro area is simply impossible.

So no such plan even exists. “Can’t win … don’t try.” They look to Homer Simpson for guidance on important issues like emergency plans that affect the lives of millions of people, including themselves and their own families.

I sincerely hope they have since remedied the situation, but I was not going to hold my breath and relocated to someplace with better prospects and better leadership.

The Countdown to Disaster

In order to understand how to prepare for a protracted power outage, you should understand the sequence of events that will unfold after the lights go out.

The electrical grid varies greatly from state to state and country to country, as do the threats to the grid, but here’s a sample of past events and future projections in form of a timeline.

It is a simple matter to put together a plan based on your family or organizational needs once you have an idea of what you’re preparing for so visualizing your mission and obstacles is sometimes more useful than the usual list of stuff you need have on hand and obligatory reminder to practice and train.

Immediately:

• Electric heating & cooling systems fail. In winter, homes will begin losing heat. In summer, many buildings dependent on air conditioning to maintain a safe temperature for occupants will be forced to evacuate.
• Many hospitals, radio stations, TV stations, telecomm systems and data centers switch over to emergency power but many lose air conditioning due to the expense of backup generators capable of supplying its heavy electrical load. Consequently, many data centers begin to heat up.
• Computers without uninterruptable power supplies or an integrated battery power lose power.
• Tall buildings reliant on most types of booster pumps lose water pressure past the bottom floors. Buildings with rooftop tanks have water until the tanks run dry.
• Entire cities lose water pressure forcing boil-water advisories into effect for any water that does make to you or that you manage to scrounge up. But without electricity, most households will be unable to boil water. The NE US Blackout of 2003 left millions of Michigan residents without any water.

• Many commuters are trapped on subways. Most electric subways and electric trains cease to function. Those that remain functioning reduce numbers of trains. In the Southern Brazil blackout of 1999, 60,000 commuters where on the subway system in Rio alone when it plunged into darkness. That blackout affected nearly 100 million people and triggered troop deployments. It was caused by neglect of the country’s grid due to a depressed economy. The event was triggered by an everyday lightning strike. Likewise, the NE US Blackout of 2003, affected all Northern states from Michigan up to NY and portions of Canada. Some 600 trains were stranded and thousands upon thousands had to be evacuated or rescued from subways and elevators.
• Most traffic lights go dark or default to 4-way stops. Traffic snarls due to failure of traffic controls. Increased numbers of traffic accidents and delayed emergency response times.
• Slowed traffic and calls to rescue thousands of people in elevators slows emergency response times.
• Most credit card terminals and point of sale terminals are inoperable, limiting commerce. Some transactions continue on a cash only basis.
• Most banks and ATMs (Automated Teller Machine) close or are inoperable, impeding most cash withdrawals.
• In large blackouts, cell service typically goes down before land lines, large due to increased call volume and lack of power to form many cell towers to transmit, but keep in mind that voice, and text messaging operate on completely different frequencies and systems. Text messaging often works when voice does not. Also keep in mind that the landline system operates independent of cell service is more robust.
• The 2012 India blackout shutdown multiple airports.
• Refilling prescription medication instantly gets a whole lot harder. Refilling controlled medications becomes next to impossible for most patients.

4 hours:

• Backup batteries on most alarm systems fail. If you own a brick and mortar small business, you either have to physically guard it or leave it vulnerable. If you own both a business and a home and commute between the two, you will have a hard time guarding them both. Many criminals are well aware of this fact and that law enforcement response times are slowing. Burglaries increase.
• Small portable generators need to be refueled. This will become a constant chore, very expensive and noisy security risk, so you are better off putting in a renewable energy source and battery bank while it is still possible or planning to only run your generator at certain times and doing all chores requiring electricity while it is running.
• Store shelves of business still in operation begin to empty.
• Price gouging, profiteering, panic buying and hording cause panic to mount, tempers to flare. Batteries, bottled water, flashlights, ice, candles and fuel are hardest hit and profiteers begin selling them in the streets.
• If cell phones or social media are still up, heavily-populated areas will see some flash mob-related crime.
• Any previously working phone circuits will likely be overloaded by now.

6 hours:

• Long lines form at gas stations still able to pump gas with battery-powered pumps or hand pumps as increasing numbers of motorists run out of fuel and many gas stations lose access to underground fuel tanks. They will only be able to accept cash.
• GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) and FRS (Family Radio Service) radios rendered ineffective by “bubble pack” radio users and children. They will remain unusable from this point forward in most cities and suburbs. Smaller towns with redundant band plans will fare better, but will not be without major problems.
• Most folk will have had to “use the bathroom” by now. Many will discover that their toilets no longer flush. Are you prepared for this eventuality?
• By this point, if are well prepared, you will very likely have determined the scope of the outage, its probable duration and cause. You will most likely determine this via your emergency radio equipment such as AM/FM/SW emergency radios, scanners or amateur radio equipment. Depending on the scope and cause, you might have found out or figured out whether the blackout is due to grid failure, a geomagnetic event or an HEMP almost immediately. Understanding its probable scope and severity, however, may take some time and the use of your noggin, your ears and possibly asking the right people the right questions if you have ensured your ability to do ahead of time. Emergency responders and knowledgeable amateur radio enthusiasts, especially those who are part of ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) will have a huge advantage over the average citizen when it comes to collecting and correctly interpreting intelligence about the emergency. If neither of these is your cup of tea, you might consider networking with someone so inclined ahead of time or you may find yourself doubly in the dark.

8 Hours:

• Utility companies set up generators to keep coms infrastructure up.
• People realize this is not just a minor blackouts where they will light some candles and play break out a board game for the kids.
• Small scale looting begins if hasn’t already. What happened, the ability of emergency services to inform the public, what they choose to tell people or the people having to figure it out themselves, may all have a significant impact on crime.

12 Hours:

• By the end of the first business day, blackouts cost gas stations and restaurants as much as $20K a day. Grocery store? Try more like 60K per day.
• Most refrigerators are now useless under normal usage patterns so most insulin-dependent diabetics lose the means to cool insulin.

Night fall:

• CPAP and oxygen concentrator users who have not invested in an alternative power solution will wake up fatigued at best and run the risk of not waking up at all.
• Crime rate goes up when the sun goes down.

Day 2:

• State of Emergency Declared. Troop deployments likely, if available. The Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006, passed in 2007 specifically prohibits government officials from confiscating firearms in the aftermath of certain emergencies and natural disasters. Anyone who lies, cheats and steals their way into power these days seems to interpret the Constitution and Bill of Rights so broadly as to not apply to them or interprets one wiretap warrant to apply to hundreds of thousands of people. One such crook, former New Orleans police chief Eddie Compass, ordered police and National Guard units to confiscate firearms in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. To prevent this from happening again, The People passed a law specifying penalties should some future tyrant try it and manage to survive long enough to stand trial. This is very probable in Eastern US or the People’s Republic of Kalifornia, but I imagine anyone who tried that in most Western states would end up at the long end of a short rope shortly after the words exited his pie hole. So, will there be firearms confiscation? Probably not unless a state of martial law is declared, and then only in areas firmly under government control. But depending on how that administration uses that power, it might precipitate a premature “leadership vacuum. “
• Fuel rationing begins. Trucks start pumping out gas stations and truck the fuel to priority skeleton infrastructure.
• Freezers begin to thaw. Many people begin cooking thawing meat to preserve it or at least prepare it before it spoils. BBQ’s use far more propane to cook than camp stoves.
• Do yourself a favor plan involves a bug out and clean out your fridge before you leave. If you come back, you will wish you had. If you come back to warm fridge after an extended absence, don’t bother opening it. Just tape it shut, haul it to the dump and buy a new one. You’ll save yourself a lot of grief.
• Casualties and fatalities due to heat or cold exposure increase.
• Casualties and fatalities due to lack of access to healthcare and medication increase.
• Stores are likely cleaned out or soon will be.
• By this time, lacking passive solar design features, alternative energy sources, wood stove, kerosene heater or the like, your home will likely be getting pretty close to the same temperature indoors as out of doors minus the wind chill. In some climates, this is no big deal. In other climates this is a death sentence. Plan accordingly. You will need a whole lot more clothing than in a climate-controlled home. If it is cold, create a micro-climate in a single room or fewer rooms. It will be way easier to keep one room warm than a whole house. If you have vaulted ceilings throughout your entire home, set up a cabin tent in the living room and line it’s walls and roof with reflective blankets.

Day 3:

• 72 Hour Kits or typical bug out bags are used up or close to it. The average “prepared” citizen (as per FEMA’s over-optimistic recommendations based on past averages minus hurricanes, tornados and any other serious event because it is impossible that anything like that will ever happen again) runs out of emergency supplies and fuel to boil water.
• As fatigue, injuries and concern for their families takes a toll on first responders, law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMTs (Emergency Medical Technician), nurses and doctors begin to stop showing up for shifts.
• Rise in violent crime.
• Looting picks up momentum.
• Cases of waterborne and hygiene-related illness start to mount, further straining medical resources.
• Some better-organized cities set up mobile morgues in refrigerated reefer trucks. It might sound a little morbid, but it is a whole lot better than the alternative.

Day 4:

• Exhausted first responders and emergency personnel, nursing home staff and others have to prioritize dwindling resources where they can do the most good for patients with the best chances of recovery or survival.
• Once you start using your food stores, the type or types of food you chose will have a huge impact on the amount of fuel needed to prepare it. Soaking dry packed legumes and grains prior to boiling can help reduce fuel consumption, but it takes a lot more fuel to cook from scratch than it does to prepare a freeze dried meal or heat up an MRE (Meal Ready-to-Eat).
• By this time, cash may be have substantially less purchasing power and barter, mostly in the form of food, will eventually replace it.

Day 5:

• Hospitals are forced to consolidate. Smaller hospitals and urgent care facilities are forced to shut down and must be evacuated, causing healthcare workers or volunteers to face difficult choices and patients to suffer the consequences.
• Looting starts to die down because there isn’t anything left to loot.

Day 6:

• As reality sets in, doctors do the unthinkable and begin euthanizing patients they feel have low probability of survival. As demonstrated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, this is considered acceptable practice and they will face no legal recourse if the blackout ends and society recovers. Due to limited quantities of medicine, no access to computerized medical records, lack of familiarity with the patients and lack of experience performing euthanasia, many of these attempts will fail, resulting in prolonged suffering, asphyxiation and hypoxic brain injury of patients who survive the attempt(s). This is sometimes due to the fact that patients with genetic tolerance to opioids and chronic pain patients undergoing opioid pain therapy will survive dosages far greater than a typically lethal dose.
• Some elderly patients in nursing homes were simply abandoned and left to die of dehydration and exposure during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. If you have loved ones in such a facility, you might want to keep this in mind.

Day 7:

• Cholera outbreaks and other serious fecal contamination-related and waterborne illness not seen in the US for decades or centuries begin to ravage cities, especially the large, coastal cities on the East Coast located far downstream from large populations. A protracted power outage will churn out epidemics, so it is prudent to plan for the eventuality.
• Unleaded and diesel-only generator owners who can still find fuel available are feeling the pinch as gasoline is many times more expensive and less available than natural gas in the majority of outages. Propane is cheaper than gas, but usually less available unless you have large capacity tanks.
• Some people that had been getting by looting businesses decide to give homes a try. Some see that the empty homes will soon run out and decide to transition straight to home invasion of occupied homes.
• If martial law has not been declared yet, they may give it a shot, but this would depend on the scope of the outage, prospects for recovery, political motives, geography, etc.
• If the power is still out and there isn’t a firm projection of restoration, you will likely be needing body bags soon if you have not already. Bodies can become a very serious microbiological threat and need to be properly handled and disposed of.

Are you prepared to face this?

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The “Super-rich” Of Wall St. Are Preparing For A SHTF Collapse

Ever wonder if the “super-rich” of Wall St. are preparing for a SHTF collapse?

I promise you they most definitely ARE!

I have very close friends who own multi-million dollar companies and I can tell you that they’re also the most concerned people I know when it comes to what lies ahead for our country.

Maybe it’s because they have “more to lose”?  Or maybe they have their ear to the ground and know something you and I don’t?

The answer is “BOTH”, and…

Here’s How One Wall St. Giant Is Prepping For Financial Collapse (Steal Their 3 Survival Tips Now…)

Jonathon Johnson, the Board Chairman of Overstock.com (a company with over $1.5 billion in annual revenue and 1,500 employees), gave a talk in 2015 at a precious metals conference about the company’s insights into where the economy is going and what they’re doing about it.

The No B.S. Truth Straight From The Mouths Of Financial Insiders

Here are some highlights from Johnson’s speech and what you can do to follow their lead on preparing for what lies ahead…

“We are not big fans of Wall Street and we don’t trust them. We foresaw the [2008] financial crisis.  We don’t trust the banks still and we foresee that with QE3, and QE4 and QE ‘N’ that at some point there is going to be ANOTHER significant financial crisis.

We expect that when there is a financial crisis there will be a banking holiday. I don’t know if it will be 2 days, or 2 weeks, or 2 months.”

What That Means For You:

A “banking holiday” is a Presidential Order (passed in 1933) used to completely shut down banks – without warning – to avoid everyone panicking, pulling their money out and causing a complete financial apocalypse.

The entire banking world suddenly goes “black” and you won’t be able to view your balance… withdraw or deposit money… write checks… or even access your bank’s web page.

For how long?

Like Overstock Chairman said, it could be “2 days, or 2 weeks, or 2 MONTHS”!

So what can you do?

Immediately after a collapse and a federal “banking blackout”, cash is still going to be king (for a little while).

But if you don’t have it in your wallet, you’re NOT going to be able to go out and get it from your bank or ATM.

That’s why the super-wealthy always keep a stash of cold, hard cashola at home (in a safe) for emergencies.

If you have a fire-proof gun safe, that will work too (NOT a bank safe deposit box!)… and you should consider moving some of your savings into primarily $1 and $5 bills (stores won’t be able to make change as easily) rather than sitting in a no-interest checking account that you may never get access to once the SHTF.

Just stack those duckies up right next to your bricks of 9mm and get used to paying for groceries and other expenses with cash now as good practice.

Should You Consider “Alternative Currency”
During A Financial Collapse Meltdown?

Overstock has a very unique look on “money” when preparing for the “death of the dollar”…

“One thing that we do that is fairly unique: we have about $10 million in gold [and silver], mostly the small button-sized coins, that we keep outside of the banking system….  in denominations small enough that we can use for payroll.

We want to be able to keep our employees paid, safe and our site up and running during a financial crisis.”

What That Means For You:

I was late to the game on gold and silver because I found it hard to believe that anyone following a collapse would ever be out there trading.

Then I learned that the life-expectancy of a paper dollar is only 18 months in circulation – which makes gold and silver better for a long-term crisis.

Besides, if mega-banks and corporations are going to be using gold and silver for currency, that’s going to immediately put these small “buttons” into circulation and I think the education level of the average consumer is going to catch up quickly.

You can be sure that stores will begin accepting them in order to stay in business.

When I was in financial planning, we always recommended people take 10% of their weekly paycheck and put it into savings before paying for anything else.

I think that’s a good way to save and I’d split that 10% in half between cash in your safe and silver (and some gold) in small coins from an online bullion outlet.

But a word of warning here…

Don’t go crazy and start sinking all of your hard-earned dough into currency because there’s something even more important (and more valuable) that Overstock is also planning for.

Thinking Outside The Box For A Financial Collapse…

Here’s the continuation of Overstock Chairman’s speech…

“We also happen to have 3 months of food supply for every employee [+ 1 additional family member] to live on during the crisis.”

First of all, how cool is it that a corporation – who sees the writing on the wall that out dollar is about to come crashing down – is preparing to even FEED their 1,500 employees and their families for at least 3 months?

Crazy, right?  (And pretty damn smart!)

What That Means For You:

Overstock understands that when the economy collapses, food resupply lines will be severed and most people will be out of food within a matter of a few short days – as little as 3.

Grocery stores that haven’t been completely looted or sold out will skyrocket their prices and be forced to work on a “cash-only” basis.

The very best investment you can make right now is in long-term survival food – which is even more valuable than silver and gold coins in an economic crisis.

Not only will you be able to feed yourself and your family while others are starving, but it will be the most valuable barter tool you’ll be able to use when no one else around you has a single dollar to their name.

But this isn’t something you should wait and slowly save up for.

Overstock already has their food in long-term storage RIGHT NOW because they know that the “death of the dollar” could come at any time and it’s too late to build up your stockpile once the government initiates an “instant shut-down”.

I highly suggest you plan for at least 3 months of “survival food kits” for your entire family right away.

The cheapest (and best) resource I personally use is right here…

I have a full year for my family, but start with at least 3 months if you can.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, right?

Take Overstock’s (and other Wall St. insiders’) warnings to heart and follow their lead.

You don’t want to be one of the masses unable to protect those you love.

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The Game of the New World Order

 

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 key piece in this puzzle of global conspiracy.

In appearance, “Illuminati” would simply be just another board game, awarded the 1983 Origins Award for Best Board Game. However, its central theme—world control—and its “predictions” that, with the passage of time, have been fulfilled, raise serious suspicions. What if this game were not just entertainment, but a kind of covert prophecy?

The evidence points to the fact that the creator, Steve Jackson, possessed knowledge that transcended mere fiction. When analyzing the cards, one cannot help but wonder how a simple designer could capture predictions in a game that subsequently materialized into concrete facts. The hypothesis that Jackson belonged to a lodge or that, in some way, he received privileged information, is difficult to dismiss.

In this line, the disturbing suspicion arises that his work was developed with the approval and under the influence of “THEM,” the powers in the shadows who pull the strings of global politics, economy, and society. The publication of the game, if it did not have their consent, would have been made impossible by these same powers in an attempt to maintain the illusion of freedom and chance.

The mystery deepens when it is revealed that, although the game was created in 1982, it was not until 1990 that U.S. authorities—the secret services—raided Steve Jackson’s company. Was this action a false flag act to distract and manipulate public perception? Or simply a maneuver to silence uncomfortable knowledge?

The existence of “Illuminati” and its relationship with predictions that have come true forces us to rethink our conceptions of control and manipulation in modern history. Let’s look at some of the cards he drew.

We begin with a concrete fact: these cards were created in 1982. What is striking—and what justifies this analysis—is that numerous events that occurred decades later seem to coincide, sometimes with astonishing precision, with the situations described or illustrated in the game. With more than 300 cards in the original deck, we will select here only some of the most impactful ones due to their resonance with real-world events subsequent to their publication.

Analysis of the Cards

9/11 and the Pentagon

Let’s start with this card, because it is highly representative for getting into the subject. It clearly depicts the September 11 scenario: the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. It is important to remember that this image is from 1982, while the 9/11 attack occurred in 2001. What is surprising is that Steve Jackson, the creator of this drawing, managed to anticipate that event with incredible precision.

In the illustration, the Tower appears broken and about to collapse, which coincides exactly with the reality of September 11. On the other hand, the Pentagon shows flames and damage in its interior, but its perimeter remains intact, just as happened in the attack. This demonstrates that Jackson not only predicted it would be an attack, but also specific details about how it would happen, including the destruction of the Towers and the integrity of the Pentagon’s exterior structure. Furthermore, on the attached card, Jackson points to “Terrorist,” confirming that the image was related to a terrorist act, just as the official version reported.

This detail reinforces the hypothesis that Jackson may have had prior and foreknowledge of both the event and its key characteristics. The accuracy of his predictions—which included the destruction of the Twin Towers and the integrity of the Pentagon building—raises questions about the nature of the information he possessed and the possible sources to which he might have had access. While some consider this to be merely coincidental or the result of subjective interpretations, others argue that these aspects indicate the existence of prior knowledge that warrants deeper investigation to better understand the facts and circumstances of that tragic day.

Of course, to achieve such an accurate prediction, prior information would be necessary. It becomes even more surprising when considering the multiple coincidences and additional details we will examine next, which seem difficult to explain as mere chance.

Pandemic 2020 and the Health System

The following card is not a simple prediction: it is a chilling confirmation that everything was planned. Look closely: in 1982, Steve Jackson was already drawing with surgical precision what was going to happen in the so-called “2020 pandemic.” There is the word “Epidemic,” surrounded by all the elements that were later imposed on us as normal: masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, VACCINES—symbols of control and tracking—mandatory quarantines, and even body bags in the background, as if they knew exactly how the global scenario would unfold.

Most striking, however, is that an illuminated pyramid appears on the bottle illustrated in the card. This symbol is not accidental; the pyramid, in this game, functions as a distinctive mark indicating that the described event is not fortuitous, but something they control, and that it is part of a deliberate agenda managed or orchestrated from certain circles of power.

And even more revealing is the text accompanying this card, which literally says: “Disaster: this is an attack to destroy a place.” An attack? Since when is a supposedly natural epidemic defined as a deliberate attack? No one calls a virus that arises spontaneously an “attack.” But someone who knows it was designed, released, and managed as a weapon does. We know it wasn’t a virus, but graphene oxide.

Right next to it, the word quarantine appears. But what is truly significant is everything under that seal: masks, vaccines, disinfectant gel, body bags—elements with which humanity was not familiar as part of daily life in 1982, until suddenly, they were.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) card shows the CDC not as a savior, but as a weapon within the game. That is, the CDC itself—the organism that was supposedly meant to protect us—appears here as a source of threat. In the illustration, the viruses escape directly from the CDC, as if the very agency tasked with protecting public health were, in reality, the vector of destruction, the one that contaminates, the one responsible for introducing the weapon into everyone’s body. Coincidence? Or has the CDC always served another agenda?

In relation to the health system, we have the AMA, the American Medical Association. In the image, they are seen hugging and smiling, which conveys a sense of closeness and complicity. They also wear that typical doctor’s badge, evidencing their authority. The interesting part is that a pyramid appears there, and Jackson is making it clear to us that this structure is under their domain.

Then, the card returns with a forceful message: “The A.M.A. can act to protect any Scientific group, or to help attack it, regardless of alignments.” The AMA, which in theory should be there to protect people, now appears as a target of attacks. Everything in these cards is like this: attacks, disasters, devastation.

Geophysical Weapons

Let’s look at this other card with a covert prediction of geophysical weapons. In 1982, while the world believed earthquakes were purely natural phenomena, an Illuminati card already described a machine called the “Earthquake Projector” capable of increasing destructive power over specific locations. Simple imagination? No. We know that in later years, the U.S. government was laying the foundations for what would be known as the HAARP Project (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program). HAARP, officially presented as a “laboratory for studying the ionosphere,” has the same capabilities suggested in the letter: modifying electromagnetic fields to influence the atmosphere, and even the Earth’s crust. The letter is not fiction; it is a warning disguised as a game.

Declassified documents and patents associated with HAARP (such as Bernard Eastlund’s, funded by the defense industry) clearly demonstrate its potential to alter the climate, disrupt global communications, and induce vibrations in the Earth. If a facility in Alaska can heat the ionosphere with high-frequency radio waves, why couldn’t it focus enough energy to destabilize geological faults? The letter from the “Seismic Projector” mentions that it operates “once per turn” to increase its destructive power, which aligns with HAARP’s tactical nature, operating in geological and atmospheric “windows of opportunity.” Earthquakes like those in Haiti (2010), Japan (2011), and Turkey (2023) occurred in areas of tectonic stress, but also during periods of high geopolitical instability. Coincidence? Or the covert use of a technology already described in a video game in 1982?

HAARP was silenced, ridiculed, and sold as “benign science,” while its antennas transmitted energy at frequencies capable of resonating with the Earth’s layers. Today, although the original HAARP site in Gakona has been “closed” (or transferred to the University of Alaska), its principles have expanded to global antenna networks like EISCAT in Europe or SURA in Russia. The 1982 letter wasn’t a prediction; it was an early confirmation that control of the planet no longer depends on armies, but on invisible waves that can shake cities with a click. And what’s most unsettling is that everyone thinks it’s just a game.

Let’s analyze this other card. The illustration shows a scientist observing a tornado and an airplane seeding clouds, which reinforces the theme of climate control.

How is it possible that in the 1980s, when “climate change” wasn’t even being discussed as a weapon, a card called the “International Meteorological Organization” already existed, granting defense and attack bonuses through natural disasters? This isn’t a coincidence; it’s a veiled confession. The game not only predicted weather manipulation, it normalized it as a strategic tool. And today, with projects like HAARP, SURA, and EISCAT operating under the guise of “atmospheric research,” we know that weather control is no longer fiction. This card isn’t a fabrication; it’s the identity card of the elites, who for decades have been playing with tornadoes, droughts, and hurricanes as if they were pieces on a chessboard, and we, unknowingly, are part of the game.

Look at the details: a scientist observing a tornado while a plane “seeds clouds”—why that specific design? Because meteorology is no longer science; it’s silent warfare. The card says you can defend your locations with a +6 bonus against disasters, but you can also attack rivals with a +4 bonus. What does that mean? That disasters aren’t accidents; they’re tactics. When a hurricane hits a country in conflict, or a drought cripples a rival nation’s economy, it’s not “bad luck.” It’s a deliberate move. And this card, made in 1982, told us this before anyone knew it was possible. Today, with satellites, ionospheric lasers, and global climate control networks, the elites don’t need bombs; they use the weather as a weapon. And what’s most disturbing is that they admitted it in a card game. Because the best way to hide the truth is to disguise it as entertainment.

Space Theater

In this other card, he reveals how the moon landing was a hoax. What better way to conceal the truth than to reveal it in a deck of cards? This card is a coded warning. If the original tapes of the moon landing disappeared—almost as if by magic—and Stanley Kubrick, the genius behind 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, admitted to staging the event, then it can hardly be considered a historical fact, but rather a carefully orchestrated spectacle.admitted to being in charge of “staging” the event, then it can hardly be considered a historical fact, but rather a carefully orchestrated show. The card says NASA can “give its action token” to other government groups—a perfect metaphor. NASA doesn’t just manipulate space; it manipulates perception, history, and even global political power.

Stanley Kubrick wasn’t just a filmmaker. He was a master of illusion, symbolism, and visual control. Why do you think he chose to shoot 2001: A Space Odyssey with such realistic effects? Because he was already setting the stage for something bigger. Theories claim he was hired by the CIA or NASA to create the cinematic version of the moon landing, since the real technology didn’t exist. And if that’s true, then this card isn’t a tribute—it’s a macabre joke aimed at those who know the truth. The astronaut on the Moon, the flag waving in a vacuum, the pristine lunar module, it’s all there as a reminder. And the fact that the card states NASA can “pass its action token” to other government groups is a perfect metaphor. NASA doesn’t just manipulate space—it manipulates perception, history, and even global political power.

The most unsettling thing about all this is that while the media insists the tapes were “accidentally lost” and scientists deny any fraud. The Moon landing was a staged production—a piece of space theater. And the greatest irony? They admit it using an illustration that looks as if it were taken straight from an official documentary. Why? Because the best way to hide a lie is to repeat it so many times it starts to seem like the truth.

The Great Pyramid and Political Control

Another very intriguing card: The Great Pyramid as Oracle of the Future. Why do the Guardians of the Great Pyramid have “limited power to foresee the future”? Because, according to the game, the pyramid isn’t a tomb—it’s a prediction machine. The ancient Egyptians didn’t build this monument to bury pharaohs; they built it to align Earth with the stars, store cosmic wisdom, and manipulate the flow of time. The fact that, in the game, you can force your rivals to reveal their first Plot card means the Pyramid has access to a stream of temporal information—it’s as if you could glimpse your opponents’ future, but only a fragment, because the knowledge is partially blocked. Why? Because they know the pyramid was designed by an advanced civilization and that, even today, it emits signals capable of anticipating events.

The Pyramid’s immunity to tornadoes and hurricanes is no coincidence—it’s evidence that it’s shielded by unknown technology or energy. It would function as a geophysical antenna, capable of channeling telluric energy, neutralizing disasters, and influencing weather patterns. If HAARP can manipulate the ionosphere, why couldn’t the Pyramid generate protective fields? The Pyramid’s knowledge is esoteric and fleeting, and its inclusion in the game confirms that it isn’t merely a monument of the past, but a living technology capable of predicting, protecting, and controlling the fate of the world.

A symbolic reading of the graphic representation of Al Gore in another card reveals a clearly ideological intention. The image shows him hugging a tree, explicitly labeled as “Environmentalism.” This design precedes the publication of his documentary An Inconvenient Truth (2006) by more than a decade. The most disturbing element is the inclusion of humanoid eyes inside the tree trunk, suggesting a form of hidden control. The card reinforces the idea that the environmentalist movement is a movement controlled by them.

The most disturbing element from a critical perspective lies not merely in the visual identification, but in the inclusion of humanoid eyes within the tree trunk—whose expression, ambiguous, watchful, and almost sinister, suggests a form of hidden control or symbolic manipulation. The card grants a “+8 bonus to direct control over any green or environmentalist group,” reinforcing the notion that the ecological movement, far from being an autonomous or spontaneous phenomenon, is integrated into preexisting power structures and actively controlled by them.

This symbolic representation anticipates later revelations about the ties between major corporations and environmental organizations. For instance, in 2010, outlets such as Libre Mercado (Spain) reported that Greenpeace received funding from foundations linked to the Rockefeller family and other economic elites. Such connections support the hypothesis that institutional environmentalism functions as a tool controlled by these elites—a mechanism of global governance that channels political and economic agendas under the guise of sustainability.

The card titled “Market Manipulation” constitutes a highly significant symbolic representation. Its iconography depicts a set of scales: one side weighed down by banknotes, the other by the Illuminati symbol. The image suggests that, within the contemporary economic system, power is not measured solely by the accumulation of wealth, but by the ability to control the mechanisms that generate and distribute that wealth—and they control this aspect. The pyramid outweighs money on the scale, implying that they dominate political, corporate, and financial spheres.

This visual symbol reinforces the idea that market manipulation is not an isolated or chaotic act, but rather a systematized process—monitored and managed by strategic actors operating from positions of institutional privilege. We already saw evidence of this in the series The Dynasty That Changed the World.

The card’s text—which allows players to remove action tokens from corporate or banking groups at any time without it counting as an action—corroborates this interpretation: true power lies in the ability to intervene in the system invisibly and unaccountably, shifting economic balance without requiring public justification. In this sense, the card does not merely describe a game mechanic; it functions as a critical metaphor for how real financial power operates in the shadows, cloaked in the guise of market neutrality and efficiency.

The “Flat Earthers” card, with its depiction of a flat Earth map, is not merely a joke or satire about popular beliefs. Rather, it is a deliberately inserted symbolic key, intended to alert the player—and the attentive observer—to the existence of alternative knowledge that has been systematically suppressed by scientific and educational elites. The card’s text—“People laugh, but the Flat Earthers know something”—is not an ironic statement, but a coded warning: flat-earthers possess a fragment of genuine, albeit incomplete, knowledge that has been deliberately marginalized to maintain ideological and technological control over humanity.

That Steve Jackson included this card as early as 1982—when the flat Earth movement was virtually nonexistent in the public sphere—suggests that the game is not mere entertainment, but rather an archive of hidden truths, designed to be deciphered by those who already suspect the official narrative. Public laughter, media ridicule, and intellectual mockery—all form part of a disinformation campaign aimed at silencing what the card openly acknowledges: flat-earthers know something, and that something could radically transform our understanding of the world, space, and power.

We can cite, by way of summary, other notable examples, such as the letter entitled “Third World War,” which describes mechanisms of interstate conflict with destabilizing consequences, a topic already analyzed in previous research such as the series The Dynasty That Changed the World.

Similarly, the depiction of Bill Clinton wearing a dog collar—an image implying subordination to higher-ranking actors—takes on an unsettling resonance in light of contemporary debates about the autonomy of political figures vis-à-vis transnational power structures. Likewise, the card dedicated to Hillary Clinton, published long before her 2016 presidential campaign, raises questions about the strategic anticipation of political roles within global elites.

Other cards address technological themes with striking prescience. For example, one illustrates a woman wearing a neural headset connected by cables, foreshadowing current debates on brain-computer interfaces, graphene-based neural devices, and the potential for reading or modulating thoughts—issues that entered scientific and ethical discourse prominently from at least 2021 onward. Likewise, the mention of computer viruses is remarkable given the historical context: personal computers were still rare, and cybersecurity was a virtually nonexistent concept at the time.

Finally, the recurring presence of symbols such as the eye within the triangle—linked here to institutions like the FDA—or the pyramid associated with drug trafficking reinforces the game’s central hypothesis: that various spheres of global power—health, media, finance, military, and criminal—do not operate in isolation, but rather as interconnected components of a control architecture whose existence is concealed through the fragmentation of public discourse.

In conclusion, it is worth emphasizing that the symbolic universe of the *Illuminati* game—comprising approximately 300 cards—functions as an encrypted prophetic archive, in which numerous elements anticipate or mirror geopolitical, technological, and sociopolitical dynamics that, in many cases, only materialized decades after the game’s original 1982 publication.

Ultimately, we cannot help but ask: Was Steve Jackson merely a game designer, or an unwitting—or perhaps deliberate—instrument of a higher agenda? The evidence suggests we are witnessing yet another instance of a master plan: a roadmap designed from the shadows to steer the fate of humanity. History, much like a card game, may already be predetermined in the hands of those who control the cards of power and knowledge.

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