Monday, March 31, 2025

Ghosting Big Tech: The Burner Rebellion

By Cade Shadowlight

Big Tech and the Power Elite want your life on a leash. Ghost them—without tossing your phone. Gen Z’s finstas (fake Instagram) are your blueprint. They duck the system with secret profiles—time for us older folks to catch up. This isn’t just privacy—it’s a jab at the Technocracy’s grip. They thrive on tracking you—your garden, your money, your rants. You don’t need to go Amish to escape. Burner accounts fight back. Here’s how to pull it off.

What’s a Burner Account?

It’s a second, secret social media profile—Instagram, TikTok, X—locked down for your real crew, not the masses. Think finsta or priv X accounts—unpolished, hidden, just for friends.

Gen Z uses them to vent or vibe without unwanted eyes. For you, it’s a shield—keeps your prepper plans, family chats, or landlord gripes off the radar. HOAs won’t care about your outlaw garden if they don’t see it. Celebs do it too—one face for fans, another for the inner circle. This is one time you should follow their example.

Why Gen X and Boomers Need This

Boomers and older Gen X grew up with rotary phones and rabbit ears, not TikTok and smart cities. But 2025’s a surveillance jungle—cameras snapping, drones buzzing, algos sniffing your trash. In some cities, they’re chipping recycling bins to track your sorting skills.

Anonymity’s dying—Big Tech and the feds want your phone, your name, your soul. The Power Elite want you tagged—every move logged for their control grid. Burners are your last stand—hide now, or explain your chickens to a drone later. It’s like passing notes in class—low-tech stealth in a high-tech cage.

How to Set It Up—Step by Step

  • Pick a platform. X, Instagram, even Facebook if you’re old-school. Start fresh—no real name, no “JohnSmith72.”
  • Grab a throwaway email. Gmail’s fine if you dodge the phone trap, but it’s tricky in 2025. Paid ones like Proton sound private, but the company’s got your real name and info when you pay via PayPal or card. Use a random string like “x7k9p2m@whatever.com” and keep it detached.
  • Go random. Username like “ShadowCreek77” or “BlueRavenX”—nothing traceable. Nothing that hints at who you are.
  • Lock it down. Private settings on, followers approved, no geotags. If they can’t find you, they can’t snitch.
  • Use it smart. Share with your trusted circle—three close buddies, not thirty former classmates. Keep the prep talk quiet.
  • Bonus Tip: Old days, you’d snag a Hotmail with “CoolDad88” and call it good. Now? Even free ones demand your real name—thanks to ‘Know Your Customer’ laws pushing companies to ID you—and maybe a phone number too. Stash the login on paper, not cloud—old-school wins.
Survival Uses—Outsmarting the System

This is urban survival 101—OPSEC for the concrete jungle. Swap garden hacks with your crew, vent about the mayor, plan a move—all off-grid style, online. Got a nosy HOA? They won’t spot your hidden veggies if your burner stays off their radar.

The Machine’s pushing smart cities and social credit? Burners say nah—your life, your rules. Gen Z use it to dunk on rules; we can use it to protect what’s ours. Stay gray, stay safe.

Take Back Control, One Ghost Account at a Time

Set up a burner this week. Test it with a buddy—send a meme, swap a tip. Like sending a secret message. You’ll feel the power shift. Tech's grip is not invincible—small moves like this chip away at their game. Gen Z’s ahead, dodging the system with a smirk. We should too.

X still lets you skip real-name rules in 2025—for now. But the Web’s locking down fast. Phone checks and sign-up snags are creeping in. Burners keep you slippery. One burner’s a dodge; a million’s a blackout they can’t trace. Let’s outfox the machine—quietly.

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Iranian Sleeper Cells to Activate? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

By Cade Shadowlight
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This happens about once or twice a year. Someone “in a position to know” whispers about sleeper cells, and suddenly, clickbait headlines flood conservative and survivalist websites and video channels. People on the right get fired up, dismissing anyone who questions the narrative as naive. Then, predictably, nothing happens. It’s become a tired cycle. Well, it’s happening again, so I’ll once more share my analysis of these so-called sleeper cells.

I’ve been hearing about these sleeper cells for most of my adult life. Supposedly, they’re here in the U.S., numbering 1,000 or more, just waiting to be activated, ready to unleash large-scale, well-organized violence on the “infidels” (that’s us).

The latest wave of fear-mongering claims these sleeper cells will launch attacks within the next couple of weeks, targeting hospitals in mid-sized cities across the country. Sound familiar? This was supposed to happen last fall—and didn’t. And it won’t happen this time either. Here’s why.
History and Commonsense Tell the Real Story
It’s no surprise that these sleeper cells didn’t activate last fall. After all, they’ve never activated in the past, even when they had the perfect opportunity and motive.
Take the so-called “Day of Rage” or “Day of Jihad” on October 13, 2023. It was called for by former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas. Yet nothing happened—at least, nothing grand or organized. There were a few protests, a stabbing, and some college professors saying foolish things, but that was it. No massive, coordinated attacks by these dreaded sleeper cells.

The sleeper cells didn’t activate after 9/11.

They didn’t activate after the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003.

They didn’t activate after the U.S. killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in early 2020 with a drone strike.

If any event should have triggered these supposed sleeper cells, it would have been Soleimani’s death. Iran revered him, and his killing was a major provocation. Yet, nothing happened.

Why not? Why have these sleeper cells never been activated? The reason seems obvious: they don’t exist. They’re fake news, propaganda used by both sides to stoke fear and push agendas.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t dangerous individuals here who might act out. Individual acts of violence and terrorism remain a real possibility. But at this point, the idea of well-organized, well-trained sleeper cells has been debunked by history and commonsense.
What Should You Do?
Keep living your life, ideally while building self-reliance through preparedness. Stay vigilant. Practice situational awareness. Be ready to defend yourself and your family. If you're really worried, avoid hospitals and large events for a few weeks. But don’t live in fear of sleeper cells that almost certainly don’t exist.

(Tip-of-the-Hat to Joe Fox, aka Viking Preparedness, for mentioning this topic in a recent video on his Patreon channel -- his take seems a bit more ambivalent than my "they don't exist" take.)

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