It's true. This is a Hunger Games war and Iran is seen as the District 13. The lower and middle classes pay for the war in taxes and bodies while the upper class, the Epstein class, are ripping the profits.
Thank you Jessica, once again. Especially for the bit about “well that wasn’t so bad, maybe I over reacted” and the effect it can have. I’ve been surprised to find myself feeling a bit paralysed this time around, which is counter-intuitive when I’ve been ‘preparing’ for 26 years. I have been more insistent with my grown up children that they take it/my warning seriously this time, but there is a weird knock on effect of having survived Covid relatively unscathed. Despite the fact that I can remember how relieved I was that I had plenty of food stocks (and toilet paper here in the UK!) and didn’t need to go rushing to the supermarket with everyone else, it’s easy to forget the bigger picture and how it was for many other people. I still feel don’t feel confident discussing the situation with most of my neighbours without launching into the entire doom scenario, so I’m trying to focus on practical help instead. I started a community garden in our small rural community 9 years ago and we have a few new members this year which is encouraging, but there definitely wouldn’t be enough food to feed us all, so I’ve been ignoring that bit as it felt impossible to plan to feed the whole village. However, I did have one idea which is that I can collect seeds from my own veg garden that I could give away next year if anyone wants them. Most plants are very prolific so if you grow non-F1 hybrid varieties you can produce gazillions very easily. See www.realseeds.co.uk for instructions on how to save seed from every variety they sell. I can’t remember if that’s in your book or not, but it’s a good skill to have.
Honestly do not care to continue living in a world in which prepping becomes relevant. In a far more simple place in which we can all live reasonably peaceably with a real connection to everything around us, and respect for it? Sure. In a world that has been at least partially irradiated, awaiting my turn, and the turns of my children and grandchildren? No thanks.
"The greatest prep of all isn’t measured in how many food buckets you have. It’s not measured in how much kale you can grow. It’s not measured in how many gallons of gas you can store, or how many guns you own.
The greatest prep of all is measured in how good you are at listening. It’s measured in how much uncomfortable truth you can tolerate. It’s measured in how long you can sit with unpleasant facts, and make some kind of plan, even if it’s not a plan you like very much. It’s measured in how much you can assess and accept your own shortcomings and vulnerabilities. It’s measured in how much you can acknowledge your own responsibility for the current state of the world. It’s measured in how much you can look at your own behavior, examine your own thinking, and not fall into the easy, comforting habit of simply pointing your finger at the bad guys, and blaming everything on them, even if most of that is true."
But we don’t have any certainty about which will come to pass. They could both exist simultaneously for a while. Or one could lead to the other for the few who make it through.
If you could get an extra 10 good(ish) years by the steps you take now before getting cannibalized by irradiated mobs, would it be worth it?
I also feel such sadness for the people who feel this way now, only to find out their survival instinct is so much stronger than they realized. For most of us, starvation hasn’t been experienced. It brings to mind people who survived their suicide attempts and realized only after they made that leap off a bridge that they didn’t want to die.
Preparing is the only way to allow yourself to make a choice in the future, whatever that future may be. Choosing now doesn’t seem wise.
That's my approach, for sure. Prepping has already been relevant for us. It got us through an F3 tornado during a pandemic. It got us through a wildfire on the mountains. It has gotten us through floods and historic snowstorms that *killed people.* A lot of people still don't seem to realize that these events aren't "about to happen," they're happening and they're hitting people in different ways.
I’m getting well confused with all your different web locations Jessica. Is this another one that I need to subscribe to so I don’t miss your posts? Will it appear on Sentinel Intelligence?
Thanks for the reply. I subscribed to your Substack years ago but moved to Sentinel Intelligence after you posted about it. I also subscribe to Splattered. I will continue to focus on Sentinel Intelligence and also support you there financially. I’m beginning to think that Substack has gone down the same rabbit hole as Medium. Cheers, Tom.
I have really mixed emotions. First of all I am in a tiny town in Texas. If things go south, they go south. I have stopped believing in the media because there is the truth and propaganda. The truth is a very small part. While I will go shopping soon, I actually do need rice, back and body pain relievers, maybe some more sausages for my egg dish. I am somewhat interested in what is not there. With everyone talking about summer prices etc. because of the uncertainty, and the constant banging of drums I fear people will start to panic because we are people and this country, a lot of it hasn't experienced true hardship. Others have, but do they have any resources to draw from given the lack of resources they have daily.
I find it instructive to note what is -not- there or what seems to be in chronically short supply. 🤔 You can pick up some hints that way. It works in any kind of store. Just notice over time.
As far as what my end might be, I understand that your honor guard in Valhalla is made up of those you took with you in battle. I hope I don't get to find out.
Thank you, Jessica! I will prepare because I know you’re right. And I agree that we are also at fault for not admitting the glaring signs are true and has always been true.
I'm a little late reading this particular post, but... I wanted to put out the suggestion that everyone should read Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler for ideas that you may not have considered in your prepping. NOTE: this was written in 1993 and 1998, and it's not so much the story line, but the logical descriptions of life that I found particularly informative. The idea of groups being better able to survive collapse; the planning of escape and emergency routines for a community; the idea that you do whatever you can, and when you can do more, you do; the importance of having a defined and great purpose to work toward; adaptability to lay low and ride it out when you are not in a position to affect change... In fact, this book gave me a whole new perspective on change (not as a religion but as a lasting truth) and practical suggestions on to deal with it. The fact that she was able to predict and write about the events we've actually been going through is astonishing.
Yes. Those of us who survived COVID-19 are tempted to think ‘it wasn’t that bad’ while the hundreds of thousands of people who died aren’t here to tell us how bad it was for them.
Hey Jessica, I’m suddenly confused about how my subscription works these days. I get emails from Sentinel - Intelligence, but I just now discovered you are publishing on Substack again under Survival Illustrated. I’m a “super doomer” subscriber, helped subsidize in advance the work on your guide, but some articles are locked to me and others aren’t under Survival Illustrated on Substack. Please help me figure this out! TIA
Nothing should be locked to anyone period on either site, because I'm publishing everything without paywalls. That said, sometimes a post will still have a paywall on it because both Ghost and Substack are glitchy AF, and in general the subscription management tools are terrible on my end (I'm doing my best). If you go to the upper righthand corner of the Sentinel Intelligence site, you can access your account info. If you need more help or want to send me your email and the specific posts you're trying to access, you can use my contact page. It goes straight to my email: https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/contact/
You can tell me what email you signed up in the message, with without posting it in public comments, and I can look it up and see what else is going on.
What's up is a version of the last 3 years: I keep trying to leave Substack, but my Ghost newsletter won't grow. Over the last six months, I've lost hundreds of paid subscribers for various reasons, often reasons so trivial it would make your jaw drop. But that's life.
Substack remains the only place where, at least, people will sign up for free and potentially convert later. It's the only platform where I gain any traction at all now.
I've started cautiously posting here again to see what happens. I've gone through my Subscriber list manually half a dozen times to weed out duplicates, because none of the import tools do it.
I have no intention of leaving Ghost. A lot of people have settled there and don't want to move again. But I have to post here if I want any chance of regrowing a readership.
I guess I can share more in my next update, but that's pretty much it.
Yes yes I knew the why overall. In full transparency, I use the Substack audio to read along feature as it’s how I process what I’m reading…especially heavier topics so I just happened to notice that there was a week or two that were only posted to ghost, not Substack. I am making my way through last week’s posts (my Sunday paper if you will) and seeing last week’s are posted to SS, the week before they were not. Also, I tried commenting on a post … can you link to the post for 1-2 years ago where you went through how COVID was stripped away through Biden years. I cannot find it for the life of me and one I come back to often. Maybe you archived or took down in transition?
I admit I’ve done nothing to get ready even though my dream is to divest myself of all my possessions, which are not many but still too numerous and cumbersome, and all the things that trap us in regular life, like a mortgage and a car.
The reason I’ve done nothing is I find it, as I think many find it, so daunting and incomprehensible given the time and energy and resources I have, and my desire to live a little each day outside of sheer survival mode, that the first step seems impossible.
I also might be relying on the notion, because I know I can’t defend myself and my family from marauders armed to the teeth that will rove the barren Cormac McCarthy wasteland when the cataclysm comes, or just the most aggressive organized criminals in the steps leading up to it, that I figure and hope I will be able to rely to a dignified degree (we’re trying to stay human, after all, not just “survive”) on my neighbors, even those whom I don’t yet know, but who will see the same necessity of mutual aid as I will and thus know to cooperate. That’s a much better bet than the classical American off-the-grid fantasy of becoming some sort of mountain man or Thoreauish figure who peacefully derives a quiet existence from a plot of earth.
Still, no excuse not to do anything, just saying it’s hard even to conceive when you live, as I do, in a gigantic city teeming with millions with no land of your own.
I think of prepping as a variation of living life well; and, to be sure, I learn something to add or reject into my take on that euphemism weekly, or everyday or whenever it happens.
Where can I find your prepping guide? I saw that you talked about growing food, storing clean water, and getting a gun. I have a baseball bat. I have two little dogs who spend much of their day in my back yard. They would eat or destroy anything I grow. I could maybe start a garden in the side yard.
It's true. This is a Hunger Games war and Iran is seen as the District 13. The lower and middle classes pay for the war in taxes and bodies while the upper class, the Epstein class, are ripping the profits.
Thank you Jessica, once again. Especially for the bit about “well that wasn’t so bad, maybe I over reacted” and the effect it can have. I’ve been surprised to find myself feeling a bit paralysed this time around, which is counter-intuitive when I’ve been ‘preparing’ for 26 years. I have been more insistent with my grown up children that they take it/my warning seriously this time, but there is a weird knock on effect of having survived Covid relatively unscathed. Despite the fact that I can remember how relieved I was that I had plenty of food stocks (and toilet paper here in the UK!) and didn’t need to go rushing to the supermarket with everyone else, it’s easy to forget the bigger picture and how it was for many other people. I still feel don’t feel confident discussing the situation with most of my neighbours without launching into the entire doom scenario, so I’m trying to focus on practical help instead. I started a community garden in our small rural community 9 years ago and we have a few new members this year which is encouraging, but there definitely wouldn’t be enough food to feed us all, so I’ve been ignoring that bit as it felt impossible to plan to feed the whole village. However, I did have one idea which is that I can collect seeds from my own veg garden that I could give away next year if anyone wants them. Most plants are very prolific so if you grow non-F1 hybrid varieties you can produce gazillions very easily. See www.realseeds.co.uk for instructions on how to save seed from every variety they sell. I can’t remember if that’s in your book or not, but it’s a good skill to have.
Honestly do not care to continue living in a world in which prepping becomes relevant. In a far more simple place in which we can all live reasonably peaceably with a real connection to everything around us, and respect for it? Sure. In a world that has been at least partially irradiated, awaiting my turn, and the turns of my children and grandchildren? No thanks.
From the end of my essay:
"The greatest prep of all isn’t measured in how many food buckets you have. It’s not measured in how much kale you can grow. It’s not measured in how many gallons of gas you can store, or how many guns you own.
The greatest prep of all is measured in how good you are at listening. It’s measured in how much uncomfortable truth you can tolerate. It’s measured in how long you can sit with unpleasant facts, and make some kind of plan, even if it’s not a plan you like very much. It’s measured in how much you can assess and accept your own shortcomings and vulnerabilities. It’s measured in how much you can acknowledge your own responsibility for the current state of the world. It’s measured in how much you can look at your own behavior, examine your own thinking, and not fall into the easy, comforting habit of simply pointing your finger at the bad guys, and blaming everything on them, even if most of that is true."
But we don’t have any certainty about which will come to pass. They could both exist simultaneously for a while. Or one could lead to the other for the few who make it through.
If you could get an extra 10 good(ish) years by the steps you take now before getting cannibalized by irradiated mobs, would it be worth it?
I also feel such sadness for the people who feel this way now, only to find out their survival instinct is so much stronger than they realized. For most of us, starvation hasn’t been experienced. It brings to mind people who survived their suicide attempts and realized only after they made that leap off a bridge that they didn’t want to die.
Preparing is the only way to allow yourself to make a choice in the future, whatever that future may be. Choosing now doesn’t seem wise.
That's my approach, for sure. Prepping has already been relevant for us. It got us through an F3 tornado during a pandemic. It got us through a wildfire on the mountains. It has gotten us through floods and historic snowstorms that *killed people.* A lot of people still don't seem to realize that these events aren't "about to happen," they're happening and they're hitting people in different ways.
I’m getting well confused with all your different web locations Jessica. Is this another one that I need to subscribe to so I don’t miss your posts? Will it appear on Sentinel Intelligence?
I'm posting it there now.
Thanks for the reply. I subscribed to your Substack years ago but moved to Sentinel Intelligence after you posted about it. I also subscribe to Splattered. I will continue to focus on Sentinel Intelligence and also support you there financially. I’m beginning to think that Substack has gone down the same rabbit hole as Medium. Cheers, Tom.
It's hard to say, but it often feels that way. Thanks for your patience.
And thanks for all your effort, I appreciate it.
Keep up the good work, we need more people like you on t’interweb to compensate for the mainstream bullshit and propaganda.
I have really mixed emotions. First of all I am in a tiny town in Texas. If things go south, they go south. I have stopped believing in the media because there is the truth and propaganda. The truth is a very small part. While I will go shopping soon, I actually do need rice, back and body pain relievers, maybe some more sausages for my egg dish. I am somewhat interested in what is not there. With everyone talking about summer prices etc. because of the uncertainty, and the constant banging of drums I fear people will start to panic because we are people and this country, a lot of it hasn't experienced true hardship. Others have, but do they have any resources to draw from given the lack of resources they have daily.
I find it instructive to note what is -not- there or what seems to be in chronically short supply. 🤔 You can pick up some hints that way. It works in any kind of store. Just notice over time.
As far as what my end might be, I understand that your honor guard in Valhalla is made up of those you took with you in battle. I hope I don't get to find out.
Thank you, Jessica! I will prepare because I know you’re right. And I agree that we are also at fault for not admitting the glaring signs are true and has always been true.
I'm a little late reading this particular post, but... I wanted to put out the suggestion that everyone should read Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler for ideas that you may not have considered in your prepping. NOTE: this was written in 1993 and 1998, and it's not so much the story line, but the logical descriptions of life that I found particularly informative. The idea of groups being better able to survive collapse; the planning of escape and emergency routines for a community; the idea that you do whatever you can, and when you can do more, you do; the importance of having a defined and great purpose to work toward; adaptability to lay low and ride it out when you are not in a position to affect change... In fact, this book gave me a whole new perspective on change (not as a religion but as a lasting truth) and practical suggestions on to deal with it. The fact that she was able to predict and write about the events we've actually been going through is astonishing.
Great defense of Iranian mullahs keeping girls locked up and enslaved. No better than epstein
Yes. Those of us who survived COVID-19 are tempted to think ‘it wasn’t that bad’ while the hundreds of thousands of people who died aren’t here to tell us how bad it was for them.
Hey Jessica, I’m suddenly confused about how my subscription works these days. I get emails from Sentinel - Intelligence, but I just now discovered you are publishing on Substack again under Survival Illustrated. I’m a “super doomer” subscriber, helped subsidize in advance the work on your guide, but some articles are locked to me and others aren’t under Survival Illustrated on Substack. Please help me figure this out! TIA
Nothing should be locked to anyone period on either site, because I'm publishing everything without paywalls. That said, sometimes a post will still have a paywall on it because both Ghost and Substack are glitchy AF, and in general the subscription management tools are terrible on my end (I'm doing my best). If you go to the upper righthand corner of the Sentinel Intelligence site, you can access your account info. If you need more help or want to send me your email and the specific posts you're trying to access, you can use my contact page. It goes straight to my email: https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/contact/
You can tell me what email you signed up in the message, with without posting it in public comments, and I can look it up and see what else is going on.
Gotcha, thanks! Will do so when I have a chance.
Not sure if you knew this, but the last several posts until this one have only been on Ghost vs both. I’ve been trying to figure out what’s up.
What's up is a version of the last 3 years: I keep trying to leave Substack, but my Ghost newsletter won't grow. Over the last six months, I've lost hundreds of paid subscribers for various reasons, often reasons so trivial it would make your jaw drop. But that's life.
Substack remains the only place where, at least, people will sign up for free and potentially convert later. It's the only platform where I gain any traction at all now.
I've started cautiously posting here again to see what happens. I've gone through my Subscriber list manually half a dozen times to weed out duplicates, because none of the import tools do it.
I have no intention of leaving Ghost. A lot of people have settled there and don't want to move again. But I have to post here if I want any chance of regrowing a readership.
I guess I can share more in my next update, but that's pretty much it.
Yes yes I knew the why overall. In full transparency, I use the Substack audio to read along feature as it’s how I process what I’m reading…especially heavier topics so I just happened to notice that there was a week or two that were only posted to ghost, not Substack. I am making my way through last week’s posts (my Sunday paper if you will) and seeing last week’s are posted to SS, the week before they were not. Also, I tried commenting on a post … can you link to the post for 1-2 years ago where you went through how COVID was stripped away through Biden years. I cannot find it for the life of me and one I come back to often. Maybe you archived or took down in transition?
Are you talking about this one? https://www.survivalillustrated.io/p/between-trump-terms-biden-quietly
I appreciate the support.
Hanging in there.
I admit I’ve done nothing to get ready even though my dream is to divest myself of all my possessions, which are not many but still too numerous and cumbersome, and all the things that trap us in regular life, like a mortgage and a car.
The reason I’ve done nothing is I find it, as I think many find it, so daunting and incomprehensible given the time and energy and resources I have, and my desire to live a little each day outside of sheer survival mode, that the first step seems impossible.
I also might be relying on the notion, because I know I can’t defend myself and my family from marauders armed to the teeth that will rove the barren Cormac McCarthy wasteland when the cataclysm comes, or just the most aggressive organized criminals in the steps leading up to it, that I figure and hope I will be able to rely to a dignified degree (we’re trying to stay human, after all, not just “survive”) on my neighbors, even those whom I don’t yet know, but who will see the same necessity of mutual aid as I will and thus know to cooperate. That’s a much better bet than the classical American off-the-grid fantasy of becoming some sort of mountain man or Thoreauish figure who peacefully derives a quiet existence from a plot of earth.
Still, no excuse not to do anything, just saying it’s hard even to conceive when you live, as I do, in a gigantic city teeming with millions with no land of your own.
I think of prepping as a variation of living life well; and, to be sure, I learn something to add or reject into my take on that euphemism weekly, or everyday or whenever it happens.
Anyhow, enjoyable read. Stay well.
Where can I find your prepping guide? I saw that you talked about growing food, storing clean water, and getting a gun. I have a baseball bat. I have two little dogs who spend much of their day in my back yard. They would eat or destroy anything I grow. I could maybe start a garden in the side yard.