Black Swans - Terror Strikes With Joseph M. Lenard
What if the next big threat to your safety is something you never saw coming? In this episode, we explore surviving terrorism through the lens of Black Swans—those rare, unpredictable events that change everything. Author and podcaster
Joseph M. Lenard reveals how seemingly unnoticeable factors can lead to catastrophic consequences, and how we can prepare ourselves for the unimaginable. Don't miss this essential conversation on staying alert and safe in a world where terror can strike at any time.
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Black Swans - Terror Strikes With Joseph M. Lenard
Survive Terrorism
In this episode, we're going to discuss black swans and how terror strikes with author and podcaster Joseph M. Lenard. Our promise at TheWorldWideThreat.com is to do our very best to provide up-to-date expert information and news on each topic. Plus, to provide a free action guide with written and video content that can be downloaded by our followers each week.
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Understanding Black Swan Event
A black swan is a metaphor or a concept used to describe an event that is unexpected and has significant consequences. The term is derived from a historical belief that swans were white until black swans were discovered in Australia. An example is you're living on an earthquake fault line in California. Put it out of your mind that there could ever be a serious earthquake. All of a sudden, a six on a Richter scale hits and you go, "Where did that come from?" In this episode, Joseph is going to share with us how terror is real and how we are to prepare for this kind of threat.
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Joseph, welcome to the show. Please tell us a little bit about your history and how you got led to write about the book, Terror Strikes.
First of all, thank you for having me. There was a while I was writing and recording music but I've always continued writing stories. Most of my stories come to me through a dream. Terror Strikes: Coming Soon to a City Near You is no different. It came to me in 2006. I put together a beginning and an end. I published what I had but I felt it was lacking something at some point.
Fifteen years later, the dream came back in 2021. I'm like, "I get it." Many years have passed since 9/11. This is the obvious time to come out because people have and people have become complacent. People aren't realizing another 9/11 is their goal, but a bigger plot like that is easier to know since we're more vigilant and aware that those things are going on. The greatest threat is smaller cells or even lone wolves that can pop off at any time and any place. We need to be aware of that. In 2022, the book dropped internationally. It was indeed the absolute right time to come out with that.
I want to Google and see what the biased AI might spew back as a black swan. I don't really disagree with what they said. This will probably resonate with a majority of people. There will be some behind-the-scenes in-the-know that others should have known and could have known. Indeed, some may have known bits and pieces but didn't act to stop things. In fact, some may allege they wanted to let them happen. That's a whole other thing from a false flag or wanting it and allowing it to happen as opposed to the basic definition of black swan that we come to understand.
They include the housing market crash of 2008. I've been saying forever that the bubble was going to burst. I'm saying again that the bubble is going to burst again. It's not if but when things are out of control. That would be a black swan to most people. 9/11 is an obvious one. The COVID-19 pandemic is another obvious one. There's the hyperinflation crisis in Zimbabwe. Those are the ones they list. The majority of people would agree under that black swan definition umbrella.
My next question, because you're an expert in this stuff, is what is a false flag? Tell us what that is.
A false flag is like the Reichstag fire in Germany, a Nazi Sochi fighting the Moscow back communist. It's not like the 1930s. They are all one big commie fascist blend. The Nazi Sochi were indeed very different from the Moscow back communists. The Nazis, in order to gain more power and control over the masses there, lit the Reichstag on fire themselves. That would be known as a false flag so that you can blame another. With 9/11, they were either incompetent or they potentially summoned the government that saw the writing. A plane attack was a matter of when, not if, but they didn't speak up, speak out, or do anything to prevent it. That is different than a false flag. That is allowing something to happen for your own agenda.
The bigger threat is smaller, softer targets or love wolves. General crime can happen anywhere. Do not be any motor. Do not be among the people who panic.
That's a lot of good information. Finally, the primary goal of this show is to talk about how black swans lead to terrorist attacks. What's on my heart and probably the audience's heart is please give us a recap of how our audience can simply prepare and receive peace over these kinds of threats. What's been your experience about how people can deal with the fact that terrorist threats are out there?
I'm not trying to sell fear but I do preach. I wrote an article online not long ago mentioning the show and that situational awareness, at least to a degree, is needed. I'm not asking people to watch CIA spy thriller movies where the guy goes into a cafe and buries himself in a corner. He is always paranoid and on guard because somebody is going to come after him.
The Importance Of Situational Awareness
The bigger threat is smaller, softer targets or love wolves. General crime can happen anywhere. Do not be any motor. Do not be among the people who panic. Do you remember the Ariana Grande concert from a few years ago? What happened inside the event is not important to the point here of understanding a modicum of situational awareness and self-preparation that you'll be a thinker, not a panicker. Most of those people were injured or died because they panicked. They got in a group of people that then stampeded and trampled others.
You've got to be aware that if something happens like, "Is that immediate threat still an ongoing threat to me and in my immediate orate that it is a threat or instead of fight or flight, fade?" If a shooter is 100 years over there, you are better off to face behind the seat rather than join the stampede. That's what a shooter wants, a big group of people to target. You're less of a target hiding in that case than getting involved in that stampede who are easy potshot targets.
This is very good because what it did is it told me exactly the difference between a black swan and situational awareness, which is a great way for every one of us to think about these things. If we understand our situation awareness, then we're going to be more prepared. I appreciate your time. Blessings to you.
Thank you. I appreciate you having me. I'm not trying to make people paranoid. I want you to be a thinker, not a panicker.
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