You are being controlled and manipulated, or at least there are those among TPTB who are attempting to do so. Your ability to freely communicate among family, friends, and likeminded individuals is also being attacked. Among young people, realworld physical interaction has been subjugated by an army of digital Internet consumption devices locking them into the virtual ghetto of a walled garden known as the World Wide Web. The Matrix is here and now, and many people you know are stuck in it.

If you are the type of person who does not believe in the mainstream establishment party line, believes in personal freedom, and wishes to effect their own destiny, then you shouldn't be waiting for some specious “event” to act. You likely have already been marked and cataloged by the establishment in a number of different ways, and waiting for the inevitable something to happen is asking for failure.

Imagine, for a moment, that right now the grid goes down, either accidentally or by design. Would you be able to:

•Communicate with family members to determine their safety/wellbeing, and have them initiate contingency plans?
•Alert and mobilize the members of your group?
•Collect intelligence information to find out local conditions?
•Collect intelligence information to find out the geographical extent of a disaster or similar event/situation?

Now lets go to the actual present, our status quo dystopian reality. Are you able to:

•Communicate with family and group members in a manner that minimizes your footprint?
•Collect intelligence information to find out local, regional, national, and worldwide conditions/events via alternative means?
•Minimize or eliminate your surveillance footprint when necessary for privacy reasons?

Communications skills in a downgrid situation, meaning both now and in an uncertain future, is an essential survival skill for anyone interested in maintaining control over their own destiny. You don't need to be an electronics expert, although your group or tribe will certainly need one. You do need to have a certain level of knowledge, dependent on your aptitude and general skillset.

These days with the establishment mass media being controlled by a select handful of TPTB, and being used as a psychological weapon against you, it doesn't matter who you are. You absolutely need to set up alternative means of collecting intelligence information. “Patriot” and “prepper” sites on the World Wide Web of the Internet don't count. Some of the worst information comes from people who profess to be on “our side.”

Those of you who are fans of FOX News, do you honestly think Rupert Murdoch and his employee Megyn “There's a lot of brain damage that comes with this job.” Kelly are on your side? Do you really want to trust those people? At the very least you want to vet their claims by using another source of information. Even if the information they provided was vetted as accurate and reliable, how does it apply to your specific area of responsibility/interest? Intelligence information of a nationwide and worldwide focus is all fine and dandy, but it's more important to concentrate on your local and regional areas.