"Let those who have ears hear." Matthew 11:15. In this verse, Jesus says, "He who has ears, let him hear." This phrase is also found in other parts of the Bible, such as Matthew 13:9, 43; Mark 4:9, 23; Luke 8:8; Luke 14:35; Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22; and Revelation 13:9.
NOTE: On March 20, 2024, I posted the Substack below about multiple Black Swans soon hitting all at once. Here it is August 5, 2024 and the multiple Black Swans (Great Britain in a civil war, the globalists taking down the financial system and trying to get a little war going with Iran, etc.) are here. You may want to put into practice the practical steps found below and in all my American Tactical Civil Defense Substack articles to protect your family. I’ve spent thousands of hours over 45 years learning this field and preparing this material. I provide it for for free. Not sure what else I can do. When I see the panic today, sometimes I think I should do better things with my time. Time will tell.
What is a Black Swan
I asked X’s AI Grok
Bruce Curley @BruceCurley2
“define a black swan event”
Grok replied:
@grok
A "Black Swan" event is a metaphor that describes an unexpected event, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a finance professor and former Wall Street trader, in his 2007 book "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable."
In the context of finance and economics, a black swan event is an unpredictable and rare occurrence that has significant consequences on markets and economies. Examples of black swan events include the 2008 financial crisis, the dotcom bubble of 2001, and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, severe impact, and the tendency for people to attempt to explain them as if they were predictable in hindsight. These events can cause catastrophic damage to an economy by negatively impacting markets and investments, but even the use of robust modeling cannot prevent a black swan event.
Not bad for an AI definition, but limited.
Here, I want to expand on this definition to include three additional realities learned from decades of studying civil defense principals that apply to the multiple Black Swan events coming in 2024:
Multiple Black Swan events can occur in multiple realms at the same time.
One Black Swan event can act as a force multiplier for other Black Swan events.
The Secondaries in the 2024 Black Swan events will tear at your family and our nation but you will not be able to see them until they occur.
Multiple Black Swan Events Can Occur Simultaneously
All of Grok’s Black Swan events, 2008 financial crisis, the dotcom bubble of 2001, and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. are singular events. It is just relating the limited thinking on Black Swan events because that has been, and is, the way they have been defined by academics and financial experts. Civil defense, in contrast, understands that multiple manmade (Black Swan) or natural disasters can happen in tandem. One can cause another.
I will use the 1883 Krakatoa volcano eruption to demonstrate.
“Grok describe the Krakatoa volcano impacts”
The Krakatoa volcano eruption in 1883 had a significant impact on the surrounding area and the global climate. The explosive force of the eruption was estimated to be 200 megatons of TNT, which is equivalent to 13,000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The eruption sent a cloud of gas and debris 15 miles (24 km) into the air above Perboewatan.
The eruption had both immediate and long-term effects. The immediate effects included the destruction of the island of Krakatoa and the deaths of an estimated 36,000 people. Many died as a result of thermal injury from the blasts and many more were victims of the tsunamis that followed the collapse of the volcano into the caldera below sea level. The tsunamis reached heights of up to 120 feet (37 meters) and caused widespread damage in the surrounding area.
The eruption also had a significant impact on the global climate. The eruption released large amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which combined with water to form a fine mist of sulfuric acid droplets. This mist reflected sunlight and caused global temperatures to drop by an average of 1.2 degrees Celsius for several years after the eruption. The eruption also caused vivid red sunsets and sunrises around the world for months after the event.
A volcanic eruption 13,000 times the nuclear yield of Little Boy resulted in 36,000 deaths, many of who were Dutch settlers on the island, sulfur acid damage to large areas and worldwide temperature drop of 1.2 degrees Celsius. Unlike the current make believe “climate change” to steal American tax payer money to fund globalist nonsense projects, this was actual world climate change.
Ships as far away as South Africa rocked as tsunamis (another natural disaster Black Swan) hit them, and the victims' bodies were found floating in the ocean for months after the event.
Was this a Black Swan event? Yes. It was unknowable, catastrophic, resulted in enormous loss of life, interruption of commerce, and local, regional, and global environmental damage. What Grok fails to note is that the acidic cloud from the volcanic eruption blackened the sky of the earth for four days. Some people thought it was End Times.
As now, most people were completely unprepared for it. But not all. Farmers and ranchers had everything they needed to survive and prosper after this Black Swan event. Not so much the city folks. Same today. Note that face and plan accordingly.
NOTE: Although most civil defense is better in rural areas there are dark communist forces intent on making rural areas as bad as the cities for these Black Swan events. Here is just one such organization.
At a minimum, have enough food and water, power, medicines, and other essentials to get through what is coming. And plant a garden. Your food will be more nutritious and healthy, and the work involved in gardening will relieve your anxiety these Black Swan events will generate via the legacy corporate media. Think for yourself. Exercise. And most importantly, pray for God’s mercy.
One Black Swan Event can act as a Force Multiplier for other Black Swan Events
Look no further than the 2020 Plandemic for proof that one Black Swan event can act as a force multiplier for other Black Swan events, for it created medical, social, financial, political, and multiple other Black Swan events in its wake.
I have studied the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) and their unrestricted warfare doctrine for years. When their unrestricted warfare Plandemic began in 2020, I kept my own record of their attack on Subscribestar here as a reference I could go back to recording in real time events that were moving so fast I could not analyze them of make sense of them them but knew I could later.
In 2002, I wrote a 1200 page “Store of Knowledge” operators manual for a skunkworks project that in 11 months built a biohazard detection system for anthrax. It is a Store of Knowledge operators manual because you can return to it 20 years after the original work and see if it did what it was supposed to do, in this case, detect and eliminate anthrax.
Given the unrestricted warfare multiple attack vectors, I knew in 2020 the Plandemic was a Black Swan event with many other Black Swan Events that would result.
How? Because all rational and critical thinking in the U.S. and the world went out the window.
For example, I wrote the Emergency Operations Plan 12 years prior for the small town, Mount Airy, Maryland where I lived. Yet, when I called the mayor when the lockdown was announced the day after St. Patrick’s Day, 2020 and asked why he was not exercising the plan, he said he had it under control and the plan was not necessary.
Then when I asked how he created an instant “Disaster Committee” and found out in the local newspaper but not from him, and asked why he did not invite me to participate despite me having written the town Emergency Operations Plan and Memorandum’s of Understanding with businesses to ensure supplies, he tried to mollify me with, “You’re a special advisor.”
“OK, Pat. Here’s the thing. I just saw police tape around the children’s playground in the town park on the way home from work. I would never allow that as you “special advisor.” What are you doing? Children need exercise, sunshine, fresh air, and to play with each other. That is how they stay healthy.”
“That’s what the governor wants!” he yelled.
“The governor’s a moron.” I answered.
“You can’t call the governor a moron!” he yelled again.
“I can and I did. And here’s why. While he goes on TV everyday stating he is giving all the first responders everything they need to cope with the virus, that is a lie. I know it’s a lie because I had to spend $6,000 of my emergency money buying medical grade gloves and masks for the State Troopers in Frederick.”
“By the way, I also used that money to buy the same PPE (personal protective equipment) for your police. They were searching on computers for high school chemistry googles that have holes in them and let in viruses when I met with them. I just provided them with the PPE you and the governor should have.”
“I don’t have time for this!” he yelled and hung up the phone.
This was a guy I knew for 12 years. I provided strategies for his campaigns. He always thanked me for telling him people want to laugh given the stress in their lives and that humor is the most effective political weapon he could use. I had given him The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958), a distant relative, to teach him to enjoy politics as most politicians hate themselves, their voters, and politics. To his credit, until the Plandemic, he followed that advice.
(The same governor of Maryland made a big show of going to South Korea to purchase ventilators and PPE, trying to embarrass President Trump as incompetent for not providing both. This governor never said all those ventilators were made in Chine and were defective. All the ventilators did was kill hospital patients unfortunate enough to put on one.
As a billionaire property owner in Maryland, he knew how to hide his malfeasance. Quietly, the evil governor disposed of them in landfills in Maryland and the corrupt legacy media never investigated this mortal sin.
As for the PPE, much of it was purchased by Red Chinese buyers in the U.S. at the beginning of the Plandemic and then resold at three times the price back to fools like that governor. This caused a severe shortage of PPE in the West at the time. The Red Chinese have buyers all over the U.S., Europe, and Australia who purchase baby formula, which is more valuable than gold or heroin in Red China due to poison baby formula (melamine) being given to Chinese babies in 2008.
Due to the deaths and disfigurement of so many Chinese children due to their baby formula poison, many Red Chinese make a good living buying American baby formula and shipping it to Chinese parents back in Red China.
When the Plandemic struck, in early 2020, these Chinese buyers also bought up much of the American supply of PPE and shipped it back to Red China. Fools like the Maryland governor then purchased it at three times the original cost using American tax payer money.)
The local government placing yellow police tape around a children’s playground is just one insanity among millions that happened then and continue to this day. The deaths of those given the experimental drug are in the millions, as are the millions of “vaccine damaged.”
The massive personal and societal negative impacts of the CCP’s virus biowarfare, and our government agencies financing, enabling, and encouragement of that horror, are the force multiplier of the original Black Swan bioweapon Plandemic event.
If you are reading this, you made it through. As the Bible and history teach, Black Swan events, and multiple Black Swan events, are part of life. Unfortunately, there are people and organizations out there (CCP, drug cartels, money grubbing politicians, greedy businessmen, Satan, etc.) who plan to carry off multiple Black Swan events in 2024.
Again, at a minimum, have enough food and water, power, medicines, and other essentials to get through what is coming. And plant a garden. Your food will be more nutritious and healthy, and the work involved in gardening will relieve your anxiety these Black Swan events will generate via the legacy corporate media. Think for yourself. Exercise. And most importantly, pray for God’s mercy.
The Secondaries in the 2024 Black Swan events will Tear at your Family and our Nation but you will not be able to see them Until They Occur
This one is obvious.
Due to the import of millions of millions of criminal illegal aliens, many released from prisons after committing horrible crimes and others released from mental hospitals, there will be millions of “secondaries” that will impact American families in 2024 and for years to come.
What are secondaries? They are subsequent or follow on disasters that happen due to a primary disaster. For example, I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, after the great flood of 1983. Normally, dangerous chemical ponds with industrial waste lays dormant. However, when a great flood overwhelms an industrial area, as in 1983 in Salt Lake City, that industrial waste is released into the city. That is a civil defense secondary.
Already we have murder, rape, robbery, home invasion, and tens of thousands of crimes being perpetrated on the American people due to this invasion. These are the secondaries. You must prepare your family for what is coming due to this invasion of criminal aliens with bad intent despite the crooked politicians and disinformation of the legacy corporate media aimed at disarming you.
Here is typical gaslighting disinformation from the White House Deputy Communications Director:
“Herbie Ziskend, @HerbieZiskend46, 12h
The previous President oversaw the largest INCREASE in murders ever recorded. Under the current President, in 2023, the U.S. saw "11% less crime in cities over 1 million people compared to 2022, 13% fewer murders overall and 6% less violent crime."
There are many secondary crimes from this invasion. Look up the Chilean home invasions in Orange County, CA, Michigan, Alaska, and other states. Because the Biden Administration added Chile to the list of countries where “tourists” do not require a Visa but can fly right into the U.S., organized crime syndicates from Chile are invading and conducting major burglaries in wealthy neighborhoods and fencing the goods here and overseas.
You are on your own when it comes to dealing with these illegal alien murders, rapists, burglars, and squatters. Here is a story of a poor women who inherited a $1 million dollar house in Queens and discovered illegal alien squatters occupying it. She yelled at them…and SHE was arrested!
In Venezuela, because President Maduro, following the Cuban example, has a policy of emptying out the prisons and mental hospitals and sending them to the U.S., the murder rate in his country is the lowest in 22 years. El Salvador has had a 70% decline in their murder rate because they have cracked down on the gangs there. Many murderous gang members have have fled to the U.S.
The murderers from these nations and 172 others ensure our murder rate is exploding right now, but the FBI, local law enforcement, and the legacy media are gaslighting you that crime is down.
The current exponential increase in illegal alien crime is just the tip of the iceberg. Sadly, you will not be able to see them until they occur. But you need to take every measure possible to prepare and secure your family for what is coming.
Godspeed. God Bless You. And may God protect you and your family as this manmade crime wave disaster strikes.
For years, the CCP/globalist/cartel triad has been and is now executing plans to take down America. They are skilled at bribing corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, businessmen, entertainers, Hollywood celebrities, academics, and others to achieve their ends. Plan accordingly.
Never forget that we are 99% and the world-class evildoers are a mere 1%. Theyy know that and are scared. This is the reason they have built elaborate and expensive bunkers in New Zealand.
This is a spiritual battle playing out in a metaphysical world. It will require a massive spiritual exorcism to overcome this crime wave and the other Black Swan events they have planned for us, so put on the full armor of God to be ready.
Again and again, at a minimum, have enough food and water, power, medicines, and other essentials to get through what is coming. And plant a garden. Your food will be more nutritious and healthy, and the work involved in gardening will relieve your anxiety these Black Swan events will generate via the legacy corporate media. Think for yourself. Exercise. And most importantly, pray for God’s mercy.
How to Keep Up on the Coming Black Swans
Substacks are a great way to keep up with the events that will play out during and after these Black Swans. More importantly, many offer strategies for how to mitigate their impact on your family. There are many free thinking ones out there worth following. Here are just a few I find worthwhile for American tactical civil defense planning, but there are many on one of the remaining free speech platforms in the U.S., Substack.
Elizabeth Nickson Welcome to Absurdistan
Civil Defense Radio Bunker Notes
Peter Navarro Taking Back Trumps America
Homeland Security Parable Poem
My Homeland Security Parable poem was published by Lynx Eye, Pam McCully and Kathryn Morrison Editors, c/o Scribblefest Literary Group, 581 Woodland Drive, Los Osos, CA 93402 Volume XII, Nos. 1 & 2, Summer 2005, pages 5-7. In it, I try to convey the spirituality behind civil defense. Hope you like it.
Homeland Security Parable
Here's the secret to homeland security.
My truck blew a tire
On a suicide curve
In a forest so remote
My cell phone would not work
And I was stuck in a forest.
The wind chill factor was minus 5.
I had to pick up
my eight-year old Eamon
In a half hour from day care
Or I would be charged
a year's mortgage payment.
When I tried to get the spare tire off
The underside of the truck carriage,
It was frozen solid and would not budge.
My clothes became filthy in forest dirt
As I tried in vain for 45 minutes to remove the tire.
I went into the truck to get warm and think.
I had water and beef jerky in the truck cabin,
So I still had time. I had a full tank of gas for heat.
But the phone... I tried to call my wife. No signal.
I tried to call my brother. No signal.
Then...eureka! What about 911?
They must have a stronger skip tower.
It just makes sense. I called 911.
Where are you?
In Bennet Regional Park.
You want the Park Police
No...wait... but he transferred me.
Park Police...I'm stuck in Bennet Regional Park...
You want the regional Park Police.
We're the federal Park Police.
No...wait...I can't get a signal
From my cell phone where I am.
Can you call my wife and tell her
To pick up Eamon and to call USAA
To get me a tow truck out here
Sure. He took the information.
An hour later, she and the tow truck arrived.
But it was not over.
The tow truck took me to Pep Boys
Where no one spoke English and, worse,
No one wanted to fix the flat.
On to Wal-Mart where they stated
Emphatically they were closing in 10 minutes.
I told the truck driver to take me to God's Country,
Mount Airy, where I moved 3 weeks after 911
When I saw biological attack circle maps
Did not reach when they hit Washington, D.C.
On the way the driver said,
Wait. In Damascus there's a garage I know
Where the guy is in my AA group.
You can't say anything because
It's all supposed to be anonymous.
You said you do volunteer civil defense, right?
Yeah. I answered.
Well then he has to help you. He's a firefighter.
Law enforcement has to help each other
When they're in a fix like you are.
But I'm not law enforcement! I protested.
I'm a volunteer for homeland defense.
Doesn't matter. He said. He has to help you.
A few minutes later, the firefighter
Who owned the garage opened the door,
My truck was in, and fixed, in minutes.
I returned the next day and bought
Four new tires from the same man.
That's the secret to homeland defense.
You depend on other people,
And they depend on you.
Some call it the golden rule.