Happy New Year! Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025

2024 was a wild ride, even for post-Pandemic standards. 

From my side of the pond these were the biggest things: 

• Political turmoil

• Ukraine still stands

• Myanmar, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria 

• chinese aggression 

• Record typhoons & flooding in the Philippines

• California Wildfire

• Earthquakes

• Consolidating your preps

• Look out for your health

A lot of these events will intensify. Plan accordingly 'coz we're already out of time. 

What do we do? We're still mending wounds and fences. Some of us are just grateful to be intact. 

Unfortunately there are far too many who could not say the same. 

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Let's look out for each other more this year. Make new friends, get out of your echo chamber.  Form your tribe already. 

For countless people around the world, SHTF has already come to them. Time is immensely precious.  Every day wasted could never be taken back. 

To my good readers, thank you for staying with us. I sincerely hope that things go your way in 2025. 

Stay vigilant!

Happy New Year! A Warm Welcome to 2021

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So 2020 came and finally went. I read a meme somewhere saying that the year felt like a decade rolled into one. That sure was a wild ride. 

Do you remember those reports and whistleblowers from Wuhan that quickly got covered up? A year later and they're saying it didn't start there! 

This crisis really struck close to home. We were lucky. Caution paid off but it was also a strain for my family physically and psychologically. 

For some the worst had come to pass.  

We lost more than a few friends. All of them would have been with us if it weren't for the pandemic.  

Everything that could have gone wrong just did. 

What did we learn? 

How were we under duress?

Were our preparations tested?

Did we succeed?

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I want to start this year with hope in our hearts. Our defiance will be built on all the precious lessons and the little wars won and lost in 2020. May they never be in vain. 

I wish the unadulterated facts of this pandemic would come out and never fall victim to revisionism and propaganda.  That is far worse than a brain rotting zombie virus, don't you think?  

Things arent as bleak as it seemed nearly a year ago. 

This time there are vaccines. Our hospitals have caught up and beaten back the surge. We learned how the virus spreads.

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I hope the holidays were kind to you. These days we don't say "bring it on 2021". Our wishes and resolutions are more grounded and humble now. 

New normal? That's how we have been on this blog for the past 10 years.  I am only glad that people are truly on board now with this whole "movement". 

Pick up your mitts and get back in the fight. 2021 should be payback for everything. 

Just don't ever let your guard down. 

Stay vigilant!