Ep 103: The Great Blackout Conspiracy

In this chilling episode, we dive deep into The Great Blackout Conspiracy — the theory that massive, unexplained power outages aren't just accidents or technical glitches, but deliberate events designed to test public response, suppress information, or cover up covert operations. From historical blackouts to sudden, coordinated grid failures. Are these blackouts a smokescreen for something bigger? Or just modern myths wrapped in paranoia?
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
M You're here because you know something. What you know
you can't explain, but you feel it. You felt it
your entire life. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
The matrix? I had dreams that weren't just dreams.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's as simple as that. Billions of people just living
out their lives.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oblivious, they talks. You're good, Hey, do you believe their world?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
You can deny all the things I've seen, all the
things I've discovered, not for once long because too many
others know what's happening on there, and no one, no
government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
There's something wrong with the TV. What could it mean?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
It could be over in a couple of hours.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know something. I'm sure this will turn out to
be a big nothing. We'll look back on this one
day and laugh. I guarantee you. I think that ship
is heading towards us. What does that mean? We shouldn't speculate.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Haven't you been picking up on what's going on out there?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I don't want to panic over nothing. I don't think
this is nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
We're in this together.

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Don't things get back to Mary? There is no going
back to mom whoever was pulling the strings. We're going
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Now that's enough rambling on from me, and today's episode
is going to be on monologue with myself. And as
you've noticed from the title, it is the Great Blackout Conspiracy.
And the reason and that I'm doing this is because
on the twenty eighth of April this year, there was
a major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula which affected mainland

(10:10):
Portugal and mainland Spain and ports of France. Basically, it
was a major power outage where electric power was interrupted
for about ten hours in most of the peninsula and
longer in some other areas, and the power cut caused
severe difficulties to telecommunications, transportation systems and essential sectors such

(10:33):
as the emergency services, and at least seven people in
Spain and one in Portugal died due to the outage.
Lated circumstances like lighting candles and fires being caused from
that and also generator exhaust fumes and minor power coats
lasting seconds or minutes occurred in adjacent regions of Andorra

(10:54):
and ports of southwestern France, and reports indicated problems within
the US European Synchronous Electricity grid. Traffic lights in many
places stopped working and metro lines had to be evacuated.
Spanish train operator Renphase said that Alder trains had stopped

(11:16):
due to the outage and around thirty five thousand passengers
were rescued after being stranded across the rail and underground systems.
Madrid's Barajas International Airport was left without power. Telecommunications and
internet services were also affected, with net blocks saying that
a network traffic plunged to just seventeen percent of normal usage,

(11:40):
while satellite communications increased. Hospitals had to activate the backup
generated and distayed mostly functional. Spanish authorities also reported that
the country's nuclear power plants were taken off the grid
automatically due to the loss of grid power. Four reactors
were generating power at the time, while three were conducting

(12:04):
scheduled maintenance. Backup generators automatically supplied cooling to keep all
seven reactors safe. The city of Madrid activated its emergency plan.
Most businesses and shops had to close, Train and metro
lines stopped, and banking was non functional. Take note of

(12:25):
that police had to intervene to control traffic and bring security.
Confusion and fierce spread in episodes reminiscent of the coronavirus
plandemic of twenty twenty, and at the same time, some
streets and terraces had a cheerful ambiance and a near

(12:45):
festive mood. At least seven people died as a result
of the blackout in Spain. Six deaths were recorded in Galicia,
which is in the north of Spain, including three members
of the same family who died of carbon monoxii poisoning
believed to have been caused by a faulty generator in
a home, and the seventh death was recorded in a

(13:07):
fire at a house in Madrid that left thirteen others injured.
The Canary Islands, Bilyric Islands, Gueta Melila were unaffected, and
travelers entering Gibraltar by land from Spain reported delays due
to unavailability of IT services at the Spanish border post.
Gibraltar itself was not affected as it is not connected

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to the European grid. In Portugal, the blackout made most
basic services in operational, including stores, supermarkets, pharmacies, electronic payment systems.
Hospitals had to resort to generators to maintain operations. Traffic
lights and transit systems were brought to a halt, causing

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road traffic accidents. Additional police officers were deployed to deal
with traffic problems caused by the failure of the traffic lights.
Mobile network also experienced severe limitations, particularly voice calls and
data services. The commuter rail and rapid transit services were
stopped due to signaling problems. Trains were evacuated, and nonetheless,

(14:15):
rail transport wasn't particularly affected since Cambio's Deportugale were on
strike that day. Electric buses, boats, ride sharing bicycles and
trams were unable to deport their stations. Lisbon Airport operated
with limitations and closed around one o'clock in that afternoon,

(14:38):
although flights were allowed to take off from around nine
thirty eight at night. The airports in Portal and Farrow
switched to generator power only. During the blackout, there was
a scramble to stock up on a central items such
as food and water, as well as batteries and lighting devices. Radios,

(15:01):
and the state owned water company Aguas de Portugal asked
customers to moderate their water usage to prevent system failures
during the power cut. Even after the blackout, certain services,
such as the Portuguese tax Portal, remained offline until service
could be restored. On the Wednesday, the Cabinet of Prime

(15:23):
Minister Lewis de Montenegro held an emergency meeting over the
power cut and the declared an emergency crisis. On the
twenty eighth of April. The Prime Minister planned to ask
the European Union for an audit of affected electrical systems.
He also took the decision to keep Tapada de Auteriro

(15:44):
black start capability available until at least twenty thirty and
expand that capability to at least two more locations so
that the recovery from full blackout would be quicker. And
at least one person died as a result of the
blackout in Portugal. The seventy seven year old victim was

(16:05):
connected to a mechanical ventilator at home twenty four hours
a day, and according to the state owned TV channel RTP,
the breathing aid ran out of battery and the National
Emergency Medical Service did not arrive in time to help her. Now,
the actual official explanation at the time that I heard

(16:28):
was that it was due to some sort of weather phenomenon. Now,
if you looked at the weather that day in Spain
and Portugal, it was around the same temperature as it
was over here where I live in the UK. Think
it was in the twenty twenty one twenty two celsius range,
So it wasn't extremely warm, but it was a nice temperature.

(16:52):
There wasn't tornadoes. There wasn't, you know, a downpour of rain,
like a mass of downpour of rain, like torrential rain,
nothing like that. So this was the sort of explanation,
and I remember hearing the report and you could even
sense that the news reporter on a mainstream news channel

(17:15):
over ear didn't believe the official explanation because the way
he sort of said it, you could just sort of
tell he's thinking this is absolute rubbish, and it was rubbish. Now,
the actual cause is not known. There's been sort of
suggestions that it might be because of this renewable energy

(17:38):
that it didn't meet the demands, although I have read
that it was generating enough gigawatts of power, in fact,
more gigawatts than they actually needed to cover the electrical demands.
Another theory that's being posited is a cyber attack. We

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don't know. The reality is, it's not known what's actually happened,
but I think it would be a good time to
sort of look into potentially what could happen and what
we should do if this was to happen in our
country or indeed all around the world. Now this isn't
an isolated incident. There have been other blackouts, and I'm

(18:23):
just going to name a few, because obviously there's going
to be way more than this, but I'm just going
to look at a few, not in detail, just quickly
gloss over this, but just so people know that, yeah,
it did happen over there in Spain and Portugal, and
it could happen to you. It could happen in your region,

(18:45):
in your country or whatever. So in two thousand and three,
there was what's called the Northeast blackout, which affected the
United States and Canada and fifty million people were without power,
and apparently it was blamed on overgrown trees and software glitches.
In twenty twelve, there was a blackout in India which

(19:08):
affected six hundred and twenty million people six hundred and
twenty million people, and it's the largest blackout in history.
Twenty fifteen, in Turkey there was a nationwide outage and
rumors with that of military interference. Twenty twenty one, what's

(19:31):
called the Texas freeze. Market deregulation was blamed, but whistleblowers
hinted at a deliberate gas line failure. Twenty twenty two,
Venezuela blackout attributed to sabotage, although no culprits have ever
been identified, and each of these was accompanied by strange details.

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Sudden failures in unrelated systems disappear in data logues and
in some cases mysterious cyber anomalies. So what happened on
the Iberian Peninsula is not an isolated incident. It's part
of a disturbing pattern. So what's really going on. Well,

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let's look at some of the most persistent disturbing theories
about this great blackout conspiracy. So I'm going to look
at sort of five which are the most persistent. So
first one is cyber warfare simulation theory. Now, in this theory,
global superpowers or rogue cyber groups are stress testing critical infrastructure,

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and these blackouts are dry runs for a new kind
of war. The Iberian outage. Some say it was retaliation
for covert NATO operations in Africa and a way to
sort of say to them, we can reach you at
your heart and shut you down. Now, cybersecurity experts have

(21:53):
tracked coordinated attacks on critical infrastructure going back years, often
blaming shadow with groups like Sandworm, which are linked to
Russian intelligence APT twenty nine, or independent cyber merceies who
rent out their talents. Second theory is that of a
false flag. Now, for those of you that aren't aware,

(22:18):
in military intelligence terms, a false flag is an operation
designed to look like it was carried out by someone else,
an enemy, a hacker, foreign actor, when it was really
orchestrated internally. Now we're not talking about fiction. Declassified documents
confirm this tactic has been proposed before. For example, in

(22:41):
nineteen sixty two, the US Department of Devents created Operation Northwoods,
a plan to commit stage terrorist acts on American soil, hijackings, bombings,
even attacks on United States citizens and blame it on
Cuba to justify invasion. It was real, it was signed

(23:03):
by the Joint Chiefs, and President Kennedy rejected it. So
the question is, could a false flag blackout happen, would it?
And if so, why, Well, the logic behind the theory
is this is that supporters of the theory argue that

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a global or even national blackout could be used to
collapse confidence in current systems such as banks, internet, election
and supply chains, be used to trigger martial law or
emergency powers, and enable resets like digital currencies, biometric IDs,

(23:45):
or carbon based rationing. So let's sort of break this
one down a bit more. Stage one. The trigger event.
Imagine a blackout blamed on a massive cyber attack. So
we've touched on cyber attack and the cyber attack links
in now to this false flag, so they blame this
cyber attack on a rogue state Russia, I ran North Korea,

(24:06):
or even a non state actor anonymous or a new
digital Tara cell. And in the theory, the event is
carefully controlled. The target infrastructure fails, so they target it
and that infrastructures then failed, communication breaks down and panic spreads.
This creates a national or global emergency environment where populations

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are scared and they're looking for an answer or the answers.
Stage two is the response. The next phage in what
the theorists focus on most the response, and it's claimed
that the true goal isn't destruction, its control. After the blackout,
the theory predicts governments would roll out new digital currencies,

(24:50):
so your central bank digital currencies, talks about them on
ear before digital ideas tied to vaccination, to carbon usage,
and to travel history. New international laws like content licensing
and biometric logging, suspension of democratic norms such as elections,

(25:12):
protests or due process, and under the guise of restoring order,
new systems will be introduced that were already prepared just
waiting for the right crisis. Remember problem reaction solution Now,
there has been some clues that fuel this theory, such

(25:33):
as cyber attack simulations events like the cyber Polygon event
hosted by the World Economic Forum, which simulate global cyber crisis.
Critics ask are these actually drills or are the dress rehearsals.
The language of reset, for example, the World Economic Forum's

(25:55):
Great Reset Language is often cited as evidence of a
planned societit transformation using crisis as a catalyst. Expansion of
emergency powers in several countries in twenty twenty four, including
the UK and Australia, the broaden the legal use of
the emergency powers for digital threats, and the United States

(26:19):
has executive orders like EOOR one three six three six
and EO one four zero two eight that gives sweeping
federal authority over infrastructure in a cyber emergency. Preparedness by
the elites, high profile tech leaders investing in off grid bunkers,

(26:41):
stylink networks, private energy systems only adds fuel to the suspicion.
So what would be the endgame of this false flag? Well,
according to the theory, the blackout would be the problem.
In the classic problem reaction solution cy problem blackout blamed

(27:02):
on a foreign threat reaction, public demands, security and stability, solution,
centralized digital systems, increased surveillance, digital rationing, and end of
your privacy the ultimate goal of programmable society where behavior

(27:22):
can be monitored, incentivized, or restricted with electricity, currency, and connectivity.
As leavers, and the idea of a false flag blackout
has actually moved now from sort of fringe forums on
the Internet and it's become sort of more mainstreamed, as

(27:44):
whispers of it now in the mainstream. A third theory
is that of sort of a tech collapse, the tech
collapse inevitability theory. Some experts argue that blackouts are conspiracies,
that they're actually inevitable. Our energy systems are old, they're

(28:05):
overworked and catastrophically interdependent, so the conspiracy is basically one
of negligence, with governments hiding the full fragility of our
grid to avoid Obviously, panic and engineers have worn for
decades about the lack of redundancy in the grid systems,

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especially in nations like the United States where privatized utilities
prioritized profit over maintenance. Fourthly, the solar or cosmic weather theory.
Solar flares increase geomagnetic storms, and winkening of Earth's magnetic field,
all cited by scientists as risks to the grid. NASA

(28:51):
and ESA both issued low key warnings in twenty twenty
four about the solar cycle twenty five peak. A major
flare could fry satellite and grid infrastructure. That's if you
believe there's satellites up there, because there probably isn't, let's
face it, because if there was, they'd have to be magic,
wouldn't they Because they never get hit with space debris,

(29:14):
they never collide with other satellites, they never break down
or need servicing, they don't melt in the thermosphere, and
there isn't a single real photo of any satellites in space.
But that's just sort of a sidetrack there to what
we're talking about. So some theorists believe that governments are

(29:36):
already aware of this situation regarding solar flares, and they're
actually conducting controlled outages to test recovery protocols. In eighteen
fifty nine, the Carrington event, which was a major solar storm,
disabled telegraph networks. If a similar event happened today, modern

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electronics would be devastating, and the fifth theory is the
non human intervention theory. Yet this one is out there. Obviously.
We know we've talked about UFOs on here before, but
there are people out there that believe in aliens on
the show. Don't believe in aliens per se, as in

(30:20):
little green men from other planets. We know that the
UFO phenomena has links to these fallen angels. But this
is a theory, this non human intervention theory. Several blackouts
have been accompanied by strange aerial phenomena. In twenty twenty three,
during a minor blackout in Chile, pilots reported a luminous

(30:41):
object hovering over a power station. So advanced entities, extraterrestrials, interdimensionals,
whatever you want to call them. Could they be testing
or grid as a form of messaging or is it
our own black budget tech being tested without public knowledge.

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Declassified US Navy footage the tic tac UFO and disclosures
by whistleblowers like David grush A fueled speculation that the
military is aware of non human intelligence influencing or observing
our infrastructures. So who would profit from a blackout? Well,

(31:24):
let's look at some of the sort of people or
institutions or whatever would profit. Number one would be government
and the military industrial complex. So the government did expand
their emergency powers and a budget expansion. A prolonged blackout

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would justify expanding state powers curfews, surveillance, control over communication,
suspension of civil liberties. Governments could declare martial law, whole protests,
delay elections for these financial transactions. Agencies like FEMA, the CISA,

(32:05):
DHS in the United States could receive massive funding boost
under the banner of national security and instability justifies sweeping powers.
The UK actually brought in the Emergency Powers Act, and
it was quietly expanded in twenty twenty four to allow

(32:25):
temporary Internet shutdowns in case of digital unrest. And in
the United States, the Executive Order YOUR one four zero
two eight on Improving National Cybersecurity lay the groundwork for
tighter federal control during grid or network failures. Defense contractors

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like Locke, Martin, Raytheon, Northrock, grumm On, Booze, Alan Hamilton,
all these major players in cyber defense and grid security
would benefit fit from emergency contracts, expanded cyber security programs,
infrastructure modernization, which it's tied to digital resilience, defense, contractors

(33:14):
the booming, and in twenty twenty three alone, the United
States Department of Homeland Security allocated over one point two
billion dollars specifically to bolster cyber defenses in energy and
infrastructure sectors, and firms like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are

(33:35):
developing propriety AI systems for threat detection, some of which
are classified. Also, big energy and utility providers would benefit,
you know, smart grid upgrades. The blackout narrative makes a
strong case for the modernization of national power infrastructure. Utility

(33:59):
companies then receive government subsidies to replace analog systems with
smart meters, horder infrastructure against cybersecurity threats, centralized control of
power flows basically more control, more data, more money, and
the cashing in aren't the energy companies, they really are

(34:20):
cashing in the infrastructure. An Investment and Jobs Act earmarked
sixty five billion dollars for power grid modernization, including so
called smart grid technologies, but experts like Dr Rebecca Johnson
MIT warned that these upgrades can create new digital vulnerabilities

(34:44):
even as they clause the old ones. Another group of
people that are going to benefit or could benefit, would
be tech giants and cloud providers centralization of data in
the chaos of a blackout. Decenttalized and analog systems fail.
This boost cloud computing, so Google Cloud, for example, remote

(35:09):
backup services, digital credentialing and verification systems, and these tech
giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, their cloud divisions now account
for nearly a third of all United States federal tech
contracts and often justified under this resilience, AI, integration or

(35:33):
smart city initiatives. With every data center, they're embedding deeper
into the nervous system of the modern world, and with
any outage their grip titans, the financial sector and digital
currency stakeholders they'd benefit as well. Central Bank digital currencies

(35:56):
talked about them on air before a blackout that knocks
out ATMs, bank transfers pointer sales systems can justify transitioning
to Central bank digital currency. Governments and central banks profit
firm programmable money with expiry dates and spending limits, elimination

(36:17):
of cash, total traceability of every single transaction. And that's
why I've said on here before, people need to keep
cash alive, keep spending cash. I always use cash, very
very very rarely do I use a card. It only

(36:37):
happens and it happened to me the other day. I'd
taken money out of my wallet for some reason and
put it somewhere safe at home. I don't even know
why I did it. Then went out, went to pay
for something in the supermarket and realized I didn't have
any money on me at all, so I had to
use my card in that instance. But that is a
very rare occasion. I always carry cash because it's not traceable.

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You can't program it, can you. It can't be blocked.
I've been in numerous places recently, just three places I
can think of off the top of my head, Marks and
Spencer's Little and then at a train station I was
at in the cafe there, you couldn't use card payments
didn't affect me because they had cash. That's how easy

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it is card payments like that. It's happened loads of times,
but that's just three recently, So who else would benefit?
Obviously you've got your sort of private, sort of crypto
custody firms, so simultaneously chaos might fuel increased demand for
resilient sort of fintech like cold storage, crypto, decentralized finance,

(37:47):
and private VPN services. And of course as usual. The
elites they would benefit, wouldn't they even the prepper class
would benefit. Luxury bunkers and off grid tech billionaires of
political elites have been investing in things like Ferriday shielded compounds,

(38:08):
private solar and satellite networks, well satellite satilloons, underground shelters
with EMP protection. Firms like Vivas, Opidom and rising As
build these multi million dollar bunkers for the wealthy. Stylink
and off world infrastructure elon must styling Jeff Bezos, Project

(38:32):
Kaiper aren't just about Internet access. They're often viewed as
hedges against ground based collapse of communication infrastructure. And the
twist is they're not warning the public, but they're quietly
preparing themselves for these ultra wealthy tech billionaires and political insiders.

(38:56):
They're not just buying beach from property. They're buying a
skin routes, off grid compounds in New Zealand, self sustaining
estates in Wyoming, private islands in the South Pacific many
come equipped with these Faraday shielded rooms, EMP resistant generators
and redundant satellite uplinks. Peter Teel famously bought a four

(39:19):
hundred and fifty acre estate in New Zealand, reportedly complete
with underground bunkers. Mark Zuckerberg is building a massive private
compound in Hawaii, complete with its own infrastructure. And they're
not just vacation homes the fallback positions. What about these
space billionaires like Elon musk Well, he's deployed over this

(39:42):
styling five thousand satellites. If you believe in satellites, you
know what I've just said about satellites, And they're creating
this global web of low orbit internet independent of ground
based infrastructure. And he said it himself. Starlink is designed
to operate even during large scale blackouts or conflicts. Jeff Bezoff,

(40:04):
through Blue Origin and his investments in space based solar power,
is exploring off world energy transmission, an idea that was
once purely theoretical but is now funded and prototype by
the Department of Energy and private consortiums. So what do
they know that we don't now? These aren't conspiracy theories

(40:29):
that have just been saying there. They're actually observable moves
that are being made by some of the most well informed,
world resourced people on the planet. They're not just reacting,
they're anticipating, and the rest of us were just told
stock up on some batteries. If the power was to

(41:37):
go out everywhere, the world would unravel in stages, so
in the first twenty four hours there would be shock, confusion,
and initial failures. Power loss is near total, so there's
no lights, no internet, no mobile phone networks. Towers do
have battery backup for between four to twelve hours maximum.

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Most people are now going to assume it's temporary. Emergency
systems activate backup generators in hospitals, airports, some government centers.
There's public confusion. There's no news, there's no phone service,
no ATMs or card readers, lifts or elevators. If you're

(42:22):
in the United States, they're stuck. Traffic lights signals third down,
air traffic control halts, there's no radar, no fuel systems,
grounded planes everywhere. In the first day, people wait. In
the second day they begin to worry. So from twenty
four hours to seventy two hours, panic begins. Water services fail,

(42:46):
no electricity to pumps or water purification. Food begins to spoil,
Refrigerated goods begin to rock. Stores cannot restock just in time.
Delivery model stop instantly. Fuel stations shut down because they've
no power for the pumps. We then turn over to

(43:08):
a cash only economy. Because ATMs and card readers are down,
People without cash are stock panic buying and looting begins
in cities. Looting actually began in the Iberian Peninsular blackout
on twenty eighth of April in less than twenty four hours.
The power was down for ten hours, and it actually began.

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In less than ten hours. People were looting. Hospitals are overwhelmed.
Backup power fails, critical care patients and now at risk.
Social media goes silent. Psychological stress increases without online contact.
Most people don't realize how much they depend on power

(43:53):
until the third day three to seven days. Urban breakdown,
resource collapse, widespread looting intensifies, especially in dense cities. Get
out of the cities, guys, get out of the cities.
Mass migration begins. People try to flee cities for suburbs

(44:14):
or countryside. Food riots, water crisis in major population centers.
If you think this is far fetched, think back to
the plandemic. People were fighting over toilet rolls. They were
fighting over them. Policing emergency response fail because they've no radios,

(44:36):
nor fuel, no reinforcements, fires burn unchecked, fire departments are
overwhelmed or they're unable to function. Governments now may declare
martial law, if they haven't already done so. Without electricity, civilizations,
infrastructure begins completely collapsing by day five one to two

(45:00):
weeks societal breakdown. Grocery stores are now picked clean or
even destroyed. Law enforcement retreats or joins survival efforts. Death
toll rises. I'm going to look at death tolls. Shortly,
death tolls rise. Medically fragile patients die, water boyne, illness spreads,

(45:22):
violent spikes. Fuel becomes black market commodity. Rural areas may
fare better, especially those with wells, wood stoves, and local agriculture.
Black Markets emerge, borter replaces, money, bullets, food, medicine become currency.

(45:43):
Those who prepared will still be rationing. Those who didn't
now may be desperate. Three to four weeks now, in
survival mode, cities largely uninhabitable, starvation, fires, disease, and violence.
Rural enclays formed community networks or tribes. Governments may partially

(46:05):
re establish control in some areas using military convoys, emergency
food drops, radio communications. Digital infrastructure is still dark unless
hardened or solar powered. Amateur radio may be the only
working long distance communication one to three months. Fragmentation or

(46:27):
martial law. Civilian governments may collapse. In some regions, local militias, warlords,
or gang's controlled resources. In cities, food becomes the defining currency.
Disease spreads from poor sanitation. Some nations restabilized with hardline
security regimes, others descending to complete chaos. If the blackout

(46:51):
was caused by an EMP or a solar flour or sabotage,
Rebuilding could take years, especially without grid backups. Three to
six months, the new normal population lightly reduced significantly in
urban zones. Agrarian survival zones thrive if they were prepared.

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Global internet dependence systems, finance, cloud storage, supply chains may
be permanently lost. New regional powers may emerge in the vacuum.
Some speculate that this would be the moment to introduce
a new digital ID currency or government system. Build back
better from total collapse. So let's look at the posited

(47:39):
estimated death toll timeline. And this is around the world.
So these are estimates. Don't ask me where they're getting from,
but they do simulate these things and this is the
point they have been simulated. So from zero to seventy
two hours, one hund undred thousand to half a million

(48:03):
deaths around the world. The main causes will be critical
hospital failures so icee you, ventilators, dialysis machines who just
don't work, trafficking incidents at the time of blackout, fire,
an elevator or lift related accidents, car crashes from traffic
signal loss, lack of emergency communications. During the crisis, the

(48:27):
first wave of deaths comes from more dependency on machines
to keep the vulnerable alive. From days three to seven,
one to ten million deaths. Main causes are loss of
clean water, so people disentrade. Dehydration water is a massive deal, massive,

(48:49):
massively important, heat stroke or hypothermia, so climate dependent obviously,
depending where you live and what time of year it
is islands during riots and panic, that's gonna happen with
some violence. There's been violence over when there's been a

(49:09):
burst water Maine, and it's happened not in my immediate
area area, but in the counting next down from me.
There was a burst water pipe and there were people
fighting over water at Tesco when they were handing out
water in the Tesco car park, and I know that
from when there's been burst water mains back home in

(49:30):
England where I used to live, people having punch ups
in the car park. So it happens. Medication interruptions, so
people who were diabetic, cardiac patients, mental health, all this
type of stuff, food, allergy sufferers unable to find safe food.
Urban areas see the fastest spike. Obviously in tropical or

(49:51):
desert climates, dehydration alone could kill tens of thousands per day.
The infrastructure collapse begins to claim though who never imagined
they were at risk, So that's days three to seven,
two to four weeks, fifty to two hundred million deaths.

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Main causes starvation, especially in food insecure countries and cities,
contaminated water and sanitation, diseases, cholera, typhoid for example, breakdown
of law and order, so there's killing, civil conflict, fires,
urban infernos, uncontained wildfires, and cold in winter regions without heating.

(50:38):
Healthcare collapse so there's no insulin for people, there's no
surgeries taking place, there's no childbirth support. Fatalities from injuries
or infection skyrocket and in simulations dense urban centers like
New York, Mumbai, leagor South Paolo could lose twenty twenty

(51:00):
five to sixty percent of their population in just weeks
without grid restoration one to three months, five hundred million
to one point five billion deaths. Main causes starvation again,
food chains fully broken, waring, local conflicts over resources, refugees,

(51:22):
crisis and disease spread, suicide, despair, exposure notable simulations. The
US EMP Commission estimated that if the US grid was
down for a year, ninety percent of the United States
population could perish. At this stage, the global death toll
could rival or exceed World War II in just ninety

(51:46):
days three to six months two to four billion deaths globally.
Main causes again long term starvation, especially in nations with
no self reliant agriculture, collapse of supply based systems, breakdown
of nuclear plant safety systems, which is worst case scenario,

(52:08):
overwhelmed burial systems, secondary disease outbreaks, and some theorists warned
that nuclear reactions going uncooled could become meltdown risks after
weeks or months without maintenance and between six to twelve months,
four to six billion deaths globally and what remains or

(52:30):
rural survivors with agriculture and off grid systems, or prepared communities,
military bunkers, elite retreats possibly surviving with supplies. Areas with
solar wind or hydro microgrids may begin to recover. Some
estimate only ten to twenty five percent of humanity would

(52:51):
survive the first year. The survivors wouldn't just rebuild, they'd
live in a world shaped by what died. The worst
blackout isn't just about light, It's about what happens when
eight billion people realize there's no rescue coming. So there

(53:13):
has been scenarios actually tested. There was Operation Dork Winter
in two thousand and one and basically they focused on
what's called biour warfare biological warfare, and it revealed systemic fragility.
Although a blackout wasn't simulated, but societal collapse due to

(53:35):
infrastructure overlord was simulated. There was grid X exercises which
have been ongoing since twenty eleven, which is run by
the North American Electric Reliability Cooperation and attended by DHS,
FBI DD utility companies and looking at blackstart procedures storing

(54:00):
power after total outage. That's what's being tested and the
results were that every single simulation has exposed massive weaknesses,
poor interagency communication, lack of EMP hardening, grid fragmentation and
cascading failure risks. Grid x five in twenty nineteen included

(54:24):
a scenario were a blackout disabled banking and triggered mass
civil unrest. There was the Sigapollogon event mentioned that on
a previous episode twenty twenty twenty twenty one World Economic Forum,
and that was a simulation of a global cyber attack
that disrupts supply chains, the internet and critical infrastructure, and

(54:47):
it was running partnership with Surbank, which Russia, IBM and Interpol.
And there was a controversial outcome. Theoriests compare it to
Event two h one, which is the COVID simulation and
the claim that cyber Polygon predictively programmed a future cyber

(55:07):
blackout to usher in digitalized and centralized control. Those Black
Sky exercises the AIS Council and it focused on multi
threat long term duration power outages affecting tens of millions.
Scenarios included EMP, cyber, natural disasters, and coordinated physical attacks.

(55:28):
And the fightings were that urban areas were the most vulnerable.
Emergency services and fuel delivery collapsed within forty eight hours,
and water purification halts without power. So they've practiced the
blackout over and over again, military drills, cybersecurity exercises, black

(55:49):
sky scenarios. And the scary part isn't just what they found,
it's that they actually admit was still not ready. And
yet the elite, well, they're more prepared than ever, and
that moves us on nicely to talk about preparation, preparation

(56:10):
and survival. What should you do first, Well, firstly, you
should be aware, and this is what I'm doing with
this episode today is raising some awareness. And the second
thing is readiness, be ready for this if it happens.
And it doesn't have to be the scenario what I'm

(56:31):
talking about, some global blackout that lasts for weeks on end.
It could be as simple as a local power outage
that's happened where I lived. Power lines came down in
a storm and we was without power. Now, that could
just last a few hours, But what happens if it
runs intodays. I believe parts of Scotland last year were

(56:55):
affected and some of them were without powerful like nine weeks.
What would you do for nine weeks without power? This
is why we need to be ready for any of
these things. I personally have been involved in scenarios, particularly
in the eighties regarding power outages. That was a regular occurrence,
and the first thing my mum used to say to

(57:17):
me was go and get the candles because we always
had candles. Now, these power outages only lasted usually a
few hours, but you had no power. But we was
all prepared for that because they used to happen. But
one thing that used to happen quite regular where I
used to live before I moved to Wales was water shortages.
And the reason for that was where I lived, my

(57:40):
house and maybe two other houses on my street. For
some reason, we was hooked up to a pipe that
was run from across town and the kept being a leak.
And this particular leak when they identified where it were,
it was in this field which is up owned by

(58:00):
this farmer and they had to get permission which took
quite a long time to dig this field up and
fix this leak. So quite regularly I was coming home
to know water, so we had emergency water. We had
to buy, you know, big bottles of water and store them,

(58:21):
so we always add emergency water. So these are some
scenarios that potentially could hit you where you live. It
doesn't have to be the sort of mad Mac scenario
which I've been talking about earlier on in the episode.
But we need to talk about preparedness because it's vital.

(58:41):
And firstly, I'm just going to talk about what you
can do sort of physically as in not spiritually. At
this time, I'm not going to talk about that. I'm
just going to talk about what practical things you can do.
The motto when I was in the Cubs and Scouts
was be prepared. So I'm not an expert on sort

(59:02):
of prepping. There is prepper channels out there, but I
know a little bit and I'm just going to talk
a little bit now about some of the things that
I believe we should have. So experts agree that the
first seventy two hours after a grid down event, they're
actually critical, and most unprepared people run out of food, water, fuel,

(59:23):
and patience within three days. So there must have a
flashlight or a torch, or you can get the ones
that you put on your head, but have some torches,
and you must have batteries. You've got to have some
backup batteries. And I do have flash lights, and I
have batteries. And the next thing is I must have

(59:44):
and I have one of these as well, is a
solar or a crank handle emergency radio. Now my radio
that I have is a crank handle and solar so
you can get integrated into one. And it's also a
torch as well. And also power banks or solar chargers
to charge up USB or AC. I have a couple

(01:00:04):
of power banks that I keep charge that because obviously
if you don't use them, you just leave them, they
will discharge. So every now and again, if you've got
a power bank, check it and charge it up if
it needs charging up. Obviously they're on in a grid
down situation. We don't know how long maybe the grid
will be down, but at least have some stuff on
hand where you can power you know, whatever your forms,

(01:00:28):
whatever and all the internet's going to be down or whatever,
but just have something where you can power things temporarily
if needs be. They also recommend free to seven days
supply of non perishable food, so can goods, freeze, dried meals, pasta, rice,
protein bars. I have some extras. I understand the main problem,

(01:00:54):
and this is a problem for me at the moment.
It's space. Everyone lives in a huge house out in
the middle of the countryside. Some of us live in
smaller houses. The house that I live in now is
not as nowhere near as big as the last house
I lived in, so don't have as much space, but
have some extra stuff in the house. Water is vital.

(01:01:15):
They estimate one gallon per person per day, and get
yourself some purification tablets or filters and boiling options. And
with regards to water, I mean I have even where
I'm sat now, underneath my desk, I have emergency water.
I've got I don't even know how much I've got

(01:01:36):
under there in terms of gallons, but I estimate I've
got at least a week's worth of water for free
people anyway. But one thing I do have is a
local water source, which it's about a mile and a
half of my house, so it's running water. It's a river.

(01:01:56):
But in an emergency situation, if I've no water and
I've used all my emergency water, and I'll go to
the supermarket and it's just been rinsed, there's nothing left,
I can use some of the empty bottles that I've got,
and I can fill them with the water from the river,
and then obviously I can sort of filter that water

(01:02:16):
and then boil it so it can be used. So
identify your water supply if possible. I know that's not
possible for everybody, but that's just something that I've taken
notes of. And you're gonna need heat to cook your food,
so I have a pro pain or a camping store
plus fuel. I have a camping store that I've had

(01:02:38):
for a lot of years that when I used to
do car boot sales, my wife used to boil some
water on there using our little whistling kettle, and then
she'd make us some bacon and sausages on there, and
we'd out bacon and sausage sandwiches while we was working
on our little market stall. You need emergency blankets or

(01:03:01):
you know, extra layers or whatever. Obviously that's in a
winter scenario at the moment over here in the UK.
It's warm. It's in the I think today the day
this recording is about twenty three degrees celsius. So obviously
staying warm at this time of year is easy, but

(01:03:21):
it might be a scenario where the grid goes down
and it's winter and don't use obviously indoor grills because
of the carbon monoxide risk. Medication and first aid. This
is one of them where this would be difficult in

(01:03:42):
the sense of prescription medification because medication, the recommendation is
like at least one month of prescription medication. Not always
easy to do that, but it's a recommendation, and you
need a fully stocked first aid kit and first aid manuals.

(01:04:03):
I've done first aid training. I've done Battlefield casualt SADE
drills in the Army. I was trained to Team Medic Standard.
I was on a medic but I was to Team
Medic Standard, which is the next level above the sort
of basic. They don't teach first aid in the Army.
They call it battlefield Casualty drills, and that's for insurance
purposes in case you so help someone on the outside

(01:04:27):
and let's say you're giving them chess compressions, you break
the ribbon to try and sue you, and you say, well,
I learned it in the army, and then the Army goes, well,
we didn't teach first aid, we taught you battlefield Casualty drills,
so that's what they called them, but it used to
be due to first aid, a previous job that I
used to work out as well. So if you're not
full of conversants for sort of emergency first aid, get
yourself some manuals as well. So another essentials which obviously

(01:04:50):
i've mentioned this cash. There's gonna be no cash machines working.
You're not gonna be able to draw an the money
out you must have. It's vital to have some money
because if there is a blackout and it happens and
you're not prepared, but you have some cash, at least
you can get to the supermarket. Obviously, don't get into
any fights with people, but you'll be able to pay

(01:05:11):
for some goods and get yourself home. And also it's
recommended that you have sort of paper maps which are
not GPS dependent, and copies of ID and other documents
and contacts like paper copies of them. Sort of regarding
the home, they call it home hardening or energy resilience,

(01:05:35):
So if the power grid fails, long term homes go
dark and cold, preppers suggest building energy redundance. Options include
solar generators, so you've got goal zero. Bluetti jackery see
jackerye quite a lot on Amazon, and the quiet and

(01:05:55):
portable and the clean and inverted for a car battery,
run small devices for example for a few hours, ferryday
bags or cages which protect your electronics from EMPs, and
some theorists have claimed obviously I think I mentioned that
these elites are investing in EMP proof safe rooms or

(01:06:16):
off grid micro grids. Now, you don't need a Bunker'd
be great to have a bunker, wouldn't it. But let's
face it, let's be realistic. Most of us are never
having a bunker. We don't have the money to make
a bunker or the land or whatever. But some insulation, blackout,
curtains and basic shielding can go a long way. And

(01:06:37):
then there's the question of bug out. So you've got
bugging out, which is evacuating to a safer location countryside,
family land for example, or bugging in, which is obviously
staying at home. And they recommend if you're bugging out,
keep a go bag ready, lightweight ten for example, shelter,
change of close, compact water filter, food, emergency rations, power bang, torch, knife, lighter,

(01:07:04):
know your route, practice it, don't rely on GPS, and
a prepper pro tip apparently is have a designated rally
point and back up location in case of Camm's failure. Now,
the reality is most of us are never gonna bug out.
We're gonna bug in. We're gonna stay in our home.
And I'm gonna put some links to books that are

(01:07:26):
recommended regarding sort of survival tips in a grid down situation,
and one of them to do with obviously a grid
down situation, and you stay at home, So what you
can do around the home to get yourself ready in
that scenario. Let's say that may come, whether it's a

(01:07:47):
storm or a fire, or the water goes off, power
goes down, whatever it is. It doesn't have to be
mad Max beyond the thunderdorm scenario, but it can be
something as simple as a burst water pipe and it
might last for days, for example, they're not able to

(01:08:08):
fix it. So I'm going to put some book recommendations,
some links in the show description, and you can purchase
them off Amazon. I am an Amazon associate, so I
get a bit of money if you buy it off there,
and it takes money off Jeff Bezos. But I'll just
put them in there for your perusal. You might already
have these books or you know of better ones. Mental

(01:08:32):
preparedness as well, community survival. So there's no gear that
replaces your mindset. So prepping it isn't panicking. It's self reliance,
so mental skills. Know how to cook without power, practice
basic first aid, learn to navigate without a GPS, have
a communication plan with your family and communities, power, find

(01:08:54):
neighbors or networks interested in resilience, and theorists often about
survival tribes, but even a group chat with sort of
trusted local people can make all the difference kind of it.
Then you're not sort of isolated. And then obviously there's
digital preparation in this sort of surveillance world in which

(01:09:15):
we live, and in the great blackout scenario, some believe
the Internet will reboot, but under tighter controls, VPNs, encryption
and decentralized tech will be criminalized. Sort of digital tips
of backup important files offline. I do that. I've got
two external hard drives and I back up a lot

(01:09:38):
of things on them and using cryptid messaging apps like
Signal and Session, and learn how to access mesh networks
or hand radio as backup for communication. Now, prepping isn't
just for professional preppers or co theorist. It's for anyone

(01:10:02):
who remembers that modern life rests on very old wires,
very complex corde, and very fragile. Trust the gaulls, not fear.
It's freedom, not dependence, but resilience. Now you may be
thinking to yourself, well, I don't really have to do
any of this because I believe in the Lord and

(01:10:23):
I trust him. Good. I'm glad you do. However, when Moses,
with the children of Israel got to the Red Sea,
what did Moses do? Well, he did something what God
told him to do. He told Moses, raise your rod. Now,

(01:10:43):
God could have opened that sea without Moses doing that,
but he didn't because he told him to raise the rod.
Moses raised the rod, the red sea parted. What about
the disciples when our Lord was risen and he told
them cast a net onto the other side. The cast
a net and they pulled in loads of fish. Didn't

(01:11:06):
They'd been toiling all night but caught nothing. Well, what's
my point? My point is this God could send manner
from heaven to feeda but he also uses means and
he uses people. And this podcast episode you should be
taking note of it, because these scenarios could happen, and

(01:11:32):
being prepared for them is a wise thing to do.
It's not being sort of unbiblical. You're not showing a
lack of faith by being prepared. If I don't check
my oil level on my car and I don't check
the water levels and I just keep driving it and

(01:11:53):
then eventually it breaks down, I'm gonna start blaming God
because he didn't staying my car. No, I'm not, because
it's my fault. I didn't keep my car in a
condition that will keep it running. I wasn't preparing properly,
was I was just making my journey every day, never

(01:12:14):
checking it, never maintaining it. So there's been these sort
of signals, these hints that something could happen, something may
be done on purpose. But like I said, I'm sure
that many of you have experienced some kind of power
outage or maybe a burst water pipe, so you must

(01:12:34):
know a little bit about what it's like to be
without water or power. But there is one event that
is coming that is going to happen without a shadow
of a doubt. It's not a theory, it's a fact,
and that event is Judgment. Day are you prepared for
judgment day. You might be thinking to yourself, well, how

(01:12:58):
do I prepare for judgment day? Well, you prepare for
judgment day by repenting of your sin and believing in
Jesus Christ. You can't prepare for judgment day by trying
to keep the Lord of God, or trying to be
good or doing charity work, basically good works, working your

(01:13:21):
way to heaven, hoping that the good works that you've done,
when God puts them on the scales, that they outweigh
the bad deeds you've done. It doesn't work like that
because God requires perfection. And you may be thinking, He said, well, Paul,
no one's perfect. Correct, They're not accept one, and that

(01:13:43):
one is Jesus Christ, who came to earth in the
form of a man. He actually was a man. He
took unto himself human nature, God, the second person of
the Trinity, the Sun, took unto himself a human nature

(01:14:03):
and came to earth to seeking to save all that
were lost. He came for his people to save them
from their sins. And that's how you are prepared for
judgment day. The world is obviously an unpredictable place. We
can't predict what's going to go on from one day

(01:14:25):
to another. Not one of us knows what's going to
happen in the next day. In fact, let's face it,
not any of us know what's going to happen in
the next ten minutes. We can't see into the future
at all. But we can be prepared, and obviously there's
this blackout theory that is going around. I've give you

(01:14:46):
some little tips on how you can prepare for that
scenario and by no means an expert on that. And
there are prepper channels out there, I'm sure, especially in
the United States, where being prepared like this is a
bigger deal. There's more information out there in the US.
But the reality is every single one of us is

(01:15:10):
going to die, whether we die of old age, or
we die of cancer, we have a heart attack, or
there is a global blackout and we die because we
haven't prepared and we didrate and die from lack of water,
or we'd starve to death or whatever. I don't believe

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myself personally that God would allow these people to starve
to death. I think He'll take care of you. But
if this scenario was to hit, to avoid the initial shock,
you need like a buffer zone. So you need some
of these things in place, and you need to have
it in your mind that it could happen. Obviously. Number one,

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stay prayerful, read your Bible, trust in God. They're the
main things. But do some preparation to the best of
your ability. Space obviously is a big deal. I've mentioned it.
I know a lot of us don't have the space necessary.
Some of you may already grow your own vegetables. I've

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done that in the past when I've had more space
than I do. Now that's a good idea, growing food
things like that. There are many things you can do,
but I've listed some of the things in this episode
and hopefully this has been helpful guys to you. And
with regards to the episode next week, I do have
a guest but for an interview, so hopefully there'll be
no issues with that, and then the episode on Friday

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will be that interview. It's been a guest that I've
been trying to get on for quite some time and
we've managed to sort of get a date and a
time solidified, so that should be definitely a very interesting episode.
So as usual, guys, I'm Paul, and this is beyond
the paradigm crazy.

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