Fall 2024: The Present Reality. If you are not watching the alternate news you may not know that prophecy is being fulfilled in the Middle East. Israel has vanquished both Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups and are considering an attack on Iran to stop a pending nuclear war. This will have global implications.

Russia has won the war in Ukraine but NATO and the Western countries won't let the war end. Several countries have declared war with Russia, calling for ballistic missile attacks on St. Petersburg and Moscow. This is so very foolish because Russia has the largest army in the world (over 1.5 million) and is extremely well armed and nuclear capable. Canada is one of the countries who has declared war on Russia in 2024. Russia has warned that if they are attacked in their main cities that they will respond with a nuclear retaliation.

North Korea has recently severed all ties with South Korea and peace talks are off. An imminent attack on Soul, South Korea is looming. Of course if that attack occurs, Canada and the USA will be drawn into the battle. China and Russia will support North Korea.

China has surrounded Taiwan with military vessels and vows to take the country over. The USA has promised to defend Taiwan.

Then the Islamic world has announced that they are preparing for a world wide caliphate. When that happens every mosque in the world will become militarized and an all out war between the Islamic regime and the infidel (all the rest of us) will ensue.

The Bible prophecies of these troubles in the last days prior to the return of the Son of God to remove His church from the earth. The Lord calls on us to watch and be ready, both spiritually and physically. (See Signs)

Also, the Bible prophecies of world wide un-checked lawlessness. We are beginning to see lawlessness happening in every community. It will only get worse until Jesus comes to get His church.

What it all boils down to is that we need to be prepared.

Currently we need to be ready for any unrest that comes about as a direct result of the US election – and I really believe that there will be some form of uprising against the result. I hope it will be nothing more than a few minor, isolated incidents, but I can’t get past the nagging feeling that all hell is just about to break loose.

November 4th could be the last day of relative normalcy for quite some time. If possible, hunker down in a safe location.

Generally speaking, urban areas will be the most dangerous. If you live downtown, election week might be better spent visiting friends or family outside of the city. However, I know that life continues, and you may not be able to just pick up and leave. If you can’t do that, you need to prepare your home for the potential of riots.

Of course, no place is completely safe. Just ask the lady who flew a Trump flag during the last election who received a letter saying her rural home was a target for arson.
Dear neighbor, you have been identified by our group as being a Trump supporter. Your address has been added to our database as a target when we attack should Trump not concede the election. We recommend that you check your home insurance policy and make that it is current and that it has adequate coverage for fire damage. You have been given ‘Fair Warning.’

I’m not trying to scare you, but if these folks in small-town New Hampshire are targets, anyone could be. Don’t let your location lull you into a false sense of security. When people are angry and radicalized, any place where someone disagrees with them can become a target.

Don’t be afraid – be prepared.

Have what you need so you don’t have to leave home.
Once you get hunkered down, be prepared to stay put for a while.  You don’t want to have to shove your way through an angry mob to get a gallon of milk or a necessary prescription. You will be far better off if you are able to get the supplies you need to stay home for at least a week without leaving.

Food
Water
Medications
OTC remedies
Hygiene supplies
Pet supplies
An alternative heating source
First Aid supplies

Try to shop for two weeks at a time on your next few grocery trips so you can be sure to have what you need on hand. Do NOT forget essentials like prescription medications.

You may want to grab a prescription medication kit from The Wellness Company to make sure you have the things you might really need.

Stay informed.

You need to stay apprised of what is going on in your area. In this digital era, it’s easier than ever before to know what’s going on near you. Some of the following can provide communications options.

Police scanners: Search “Broadcastify” and “city name” to tune in to your local scanners online. Here’s the website itself.

Twitter: Search #citynameprotest or just your city name and protests without the hashtags. Follow local news stations too.

Local watch groups and apps: If you are on social media, you may be a part of a local neighborhood watch group. These can even be broken down into neighborhoods in larger urban areas. Check out “city name” and “watch” on Facebook. There are also apps like NextDoor which may help you to remain informed.

In the US, sign up for Alerts USA: This is the app I use on my phone to keep me apprised of civil unrest, terror attacks, and more. I’ve had it for ears and can tell you for a fact that I get information way before the news is reporting it.

Remember that your information is only as good as your source. If there’s a person in your local group that responds with hysteria to every event, he or she might not be the best arbiter of truth. As well, the media has been notoriously biased in its coverage, calling violent riots “peaceful protests.” Take the time to confirm the information with more than one source when you can.

Avoid trouble.

“Don’t be there.” And if it was a situation where you found yourself there, the advice was, “Don’t be there as soon as  possible.” Or in other words, get the heck out of there.

Don’t go to a “peaceful protest” in solidarity if you aren’t also prepared to be swept up into a riot. Mobs form quickly and do not think rationally. (More on mob mentality here) Stay as far away from large, angry groups of people as possible.

You may feel a strong urge to counterprotest – you should squelch that urge if safety is key for you. I’ve written before about how survival is just about surviving and no place is that more true than in situations like this. Many readers call this cowardly and if they want to go down fighting, that’s certainly their prerogative. I plan to live to fight smarter when the odds are in my favour.

Don’t go out of curiosity to “see what’s going on.” Avoid volatile situations and people. Don’t try to confront a mob by yourself – your property is not worth the lives of you and your family.

My best advice is this: Get home. Stay home. Be ready in case trouble comes to you.

Try to stay under the radar.

Your best defence is avoiding the fight altogether. You want to stay under the radar and not draw attention to yourself. The extent to which you strive to do this should be based on the severity of the unrest in your area. Some of the following recommendations are not necessary in an everyday grid-down scenario, but could save your life in a more extreme civil unrest scenario.

Keep all the doors and windows locked. Secure sliding doors with a metal bar.  Consider installing decorative gridwork over a door with a large window so that it becomes difficult for someone to smash the glass and reach in to unlock the door.

Keep pets indoors. Sometimes criminals use an animal in distress to get a homeowner to open the door for them. Sometimes people are just mean and hurt animals for “fun”. Either way, it’s safer for your furry friends to be inside with you.

Don’t answer the door.  Many home invasions start with an innocent-seeming knock at the door to gain access to your house.

Keep the family together.  It’s really best to hang out in one room. Make it a movie night, go into a darkened room at the back of the house, and stay together. This way, if someone does try to breach your door, you know where everyone is who is supposed to be there. As well, you don’t risk one of the kids unknowingly causing a vulnerability with a brightly lit room or an open window.

Remember, first responders may be tied up.  If the disorder is widespread, don’t depend on a call to 911 to save you. You must be prepared to save yourself.  Also keep in mind, as mentioned earlier in the article – the cops are not always your friends in these situations. This isn’t a denouncement of all police officers but a realistic assessment of a heightened state.

Be ready for the potential of fire.

Fires are very common during incidents of civil unrest. Generally, vehicles and commercial properties are where fires are set but in some incidents, homes have been burned too.

Fire is a cowardly attack that doesn’t require any interaction on the part of the arsonist. It flushes out the family inside, leaving you vulnerable to physical assaults.

Have fire extinguishers mounted throughout your home. You can buy them in 4-packs from Amazon.

Be sure to test them frequently and maintain them properly.
Have fire escape ladders that can be attached to a windowsill in all upper story rooms.  Drill with them so that your kids know how to use them if necessary.

Fires can easily spread from one building to the next, especially if firefighters can’t respond safely or can’t get their fire truck through the mob. Be on the watch for fires in your vicinity.

Be prepared for defensive action.

If, despite your best efforts, your property draws the attention of people with ill intent, you must be ready to defend your family. Sometimes, despite our best intentions, the fight comes to us.

Many preppers in the US stockpile weapons and ammunition for just such an event.  Firearms are an equalizer. A small woman can defend herself from multiple large intruders with a firearm if she’s had some training and knows how to use it properly. But put a kitchen knife in her hand against those same intruders, and her odds decrease exponentially.

When the door of your home is breached, you can be pretty sure the people coming in are not there to make friendly conversation or borrow a cup of sugar.  Make a plan to greet them with a deterring amount of force.

Don’t rely on 911. If the disorder is widespread, don’t depend on a call to 911 to save you – you must be prepared to save yourself.  First responders may be tied up, and in some cases, the cops are not always your friends.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, some officers joined in the crime sprees, and others stomped all over the US 2nd Amendment and confiscated people’s legal firearms at a time when they needed them the most.

In Canada we may not have the option to have a firearm for protection, however, there are other options. These could be Wasp Killer spray, Ether quick engine start spray or various hand weapons like knives or billy sticks.

Be armed and keep your weapon on your person. When the door of your home is breached, you can be pretty sure the people coming in are not there to make friendly conversation over a nice cup of tea.  Make a plan to greet them with a deterring amount of force. Be sure to keep your firearm on your person during this type of situation, because there won’t be time to go get it from your gun safe. Don’t even go to the kitchen to get a snack without it. Home invasions go down in seconds, and you have to be constantly ready.
Know how to use a weapon. Whatever your choice of weapon, practice, practice, practice. A weapon you don’t know how to use is more dangerous than having no weapon at all.

If you have guns, make sure your children are familiar with the rules of gun safety. Of course, it should go without saying that you will have pre-emptively taught your children the rules of gun safety so that no horrifying accidents occur. In fact, it’s my fervent hope that any child old enough to do so has been taught to safely and effectively use a firearm themselves. Knowledge is safety.

Have a safe room established for children or other vulnerable family members. If the worst happens and your home is breached, you need to have a room into which family members can escape.  This room needs to have a heavy exterior door instead of a regular hollow core interior door. There should be communications devices in the room so that the person can call for help, as well as a reliable weapon to be used in the unlikely event that the safe room is breached. The family members should be instructed not to come out of that room FOR ANY REASON until you give them the all-clear or help has arrived. 

Always have another plan.

Forget simply having a Plan B. If you find yourself in a chaotic situation, you must constantly think of the next plan. You must constantly think, “What will I do if such and such happens?” Even if your plan is to hunker down, you must be ready to change that plan in the blink of an eye.

Plan an escape route.  If the odds are against you, if your house catches on fire, if thugs are kicking in your front door… devise a way to get your family to safety.  Your property is not worth your life. Be wise enough to accept that the situation has changed and move rapidly to the next plan.
We’re in this for the long haul.

I hope that none of these preps are necessary, but this is WHY we prep – just in case. We look ahead and use our best judgment to face potential problems.

The post - US-election world could look very different. The United States has been hit with a lot lately, everything from a straight-up invasion at the southern border to protests on behalf of Palestine turning into riots in our streets to Venezuelan gangs literally taking over American apartment buildings. Our own citizens in Western North Carolina are reeling from the most destructive storm in the history of that area. At the same time, the government shortchanges them and gives millions to Ukraine and Lebanon.

In Canada our present federal government has decimated our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and we've lost the ability to protest peacefully or to say anything against what the government is doing. To oppose the government means having your bank account frozen or being unjustly tossed into prison without trial. They have severed our ability to access many litigate, alternate news sources because they don't agree with the content. We have been informed that the RCMP are not present to defend the people of Canada but to defend the interests of the federal government and those politicians.

Crime rates are climbing rapidly – the FBI just quietly updated their statistics to reflect this. Inflation is at an all-time high.

The US election will add fuel to the fire regardless of the outcome. In fact, the outcome itself could remain in question for months to follow, sparking even more unrest.

We are looking at a world in which violence is becoming increasingly more common, where people are at the ends of their ropes financially, and where everyone believes fervently that their candidate is the only option.

No matter who you are, no matter where you are, you’ll feel the effects of this in some way.

There’s an old saying, hope for peace but prepare for war. Our own country could look very much like a battlefield in the near future.

This article adapted and modified for Canadians from The Organic Pepper
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