Ever since I discovered the wonder of Civil Defense at 27 in doing contract work inspecting Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) on Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) all over the United States and teaching emergency managers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, I have been fascinated by how critical it is to this nation's survival. (More here.)
Just before that, I practiced Civil Defense the United States Air Force without knowing it as an additional duty helping the disabled service members and veterans vacate the Eglin Air Force Base hospital during monthly hurricane exercises in the early 1980's,
(For more background, please see my bio at The American Civil Defense website where I am the volunteer Vice President https://tacda.org/about/#board.)
I believe deeply in American Civil Defense because I have been involved in it professionally and as a volunteer for 40 years.
Despite being seen as a throwback to a Cold War era with little contemporary use, civil defense is alive and well, especially among the elite who take it very seriously.
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge I would like to share with other Americans, especially Moms, Dads, Grand Moms, Grand Dads, and small business owners.
Why them?
Well, for the last 3 years I have handed out over 5,000 civil defense business cards with contact information for how to prepare for natural and manmade disasters and parents and small business owners have been the most receptive, even grateful.
Given the high rate of heart attacks, blood clots, and other medical complications that have resulted from the medical experiments since we were attacked 3 years ago by the Communist Chinese Party bioweapon, hopefully you realize your health and survival are your responsibility.
If the Bible teaches us anything, it is to be prepared for this life…and the next.
Here, I will concentrate on being prepared for this life.
I would like to help you meet that responsibility for yourself and your family, friends, neighbors, and nation.
I will post Civil Defense Hacks to make the year more fruitful, productive, interesting, loving, disciplined, virtuous, good, holy, and beautiful.
I share my civil defense knowledge, plans, practices, and tips in the Civil Defense Hacks below.
Please join me.
CIVIL DEFENSE LIFE HACK #1: MATERIAL PREPARATION IS THE EASIEST PART OF CIVIL DEFENSE
When I was interviewed on Civil Defense Radio several years ago, I was asked what the difference was between FEMA, Preppers, and Civil Defense.
My answer was this: FEMA shows up a month after a natural and manmade disasters and writes you a check eventually...if you qualify.
Preppers, God love 'em because they are trying, concentrate too much on the materialistic and solitary, when it is through strategy, plans, friends, family, and neighbors you survive.
Civil defense, in contrast, is as old as the Bible and had survived the test of time and the prepares you to not just survive, but to triumph over natural and manmade disasters.
Material preparations for disasters is important, but it is the easiest part of the plan.
Here is a link to tested, verified, and practical items to prepare you and your family for such events.
I especially recommend purchasing WaterBricks (clean water is THE essential to survival), Waterproof USB drives (data preservation is critical to your family and business), and the Go Dark Bag (because there are tyrants with bad intent, sadly.)
https://tacda.org/the-survival-store/
#business #data #love #strategy #events #water #civildefense #waterbricks #water #fema #preppers #prepare #smallbusiness #family #familybusiness #civil #tacda
CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #3: IT'S ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S FUTURE
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html
Now a grandfather, I think in terms of generations and centuries, not just years or decades.
I am planting trees from which I will never enjoy the fruit, but I am happy to do so to benefit my progeny.
Nothing is more important for our future generations than teaching children civil defense. The rugby player is is my wee one in the photos.
He is gifted in music, engineering, athletics, and many other areas, but if he does not know how to survive, the rest does not happen.
After years of teaching him the importance of survival skills, he knows how to survive.
Many times, he now teaches me new skills.
I could leave the earth today and be confident he will survive and survive well.
Just yesterday I went over my last will and testament with him and given his reaction I am confident he is a highly skilled, intelligent, mature, loving, giving, Christian man who knows the facts of life.
In the link above to my blog post, you can discover ways you can be sure your children and grandchildren will survive...and PROSPER because they know how to survive.
You can also read my article Children and Civil Defense in the TACDA.ORG Journal of Civil Defense
https://tacda.org/journal/journal-of-civil-defense-2018-vol-51-no-1-emergency-water-storage/
I worked many months to make the TACDA.ORG search engine optimization terms relevant, so please explore other civil defense topics in the Journal of Civil Defense's illustrious 65-year history of knowledge based articles while you are there.
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html
#future #engineering #music #civil #teaching #children #childrensfure #love #family #survival #survivalskills
CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #4: MACRO CYBERSECURITY
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2017/10/when-state-hackers-take-aim-at-power.html
As with micro and macro economics, there is micro and macro cybersecurity.
Think of whatever you put your hands on for personal communication as micro cybersecurity.
Think of all the systems you depend on to make sure those personal computers and phones depend on as macro cybersecurity.
Here we are concerned with macro cybersecurity, or who watches the watchers.
Most Americans don't realize that right now a disciplined People's Liberation Army Lt. Colonel under the direction of a Communist Chinese Party (CCP) commissar actively owns, or is seeking, details on their DNA, emotional IQ, habits, weaknesses, and thinking.
That Lt. Colonel is working with creative Chinese criminal hackers who were given the choice of death or helping the CCP to dominate the world.
Despite the years of CCP data breaches of local, state, and federal government data centers and the exfiltration of that data to the CCP, and the parallel pirating of private sector data to CCP data servers, Americans generally are oblivious to the threat.
As proof, tens of millions of Americans freely and enthusiastically send terabytes of their personal data to the CCP via TikTok every day.
That will change soon.
Once Russia conquers the territory it wants soon, the world will change and this hidden war will become more visible.
Data breaches against the West, and especially the United States, that could have only been imagined in the past, will become reality.
I do not want this to happen, but after much research it looks like it will happen.
Civil defense is about thinking about the impossible and improbable and gaming it out just in case.
Still, it is not all bleak.
There are professionals who work 24/7/365 to countermand this CCP/Russian/North Korean/Iranian stealth digital plan to take down the American system.
I include links with a brief introduction to those government and private sector actors who are responsible for protecting our safety and security.
If you doubt me, recall that "someone" just took down our Air Traffic Control system...nationwide.
It is one more reminder of how vulnerable we are in our advanced, electricity based civilization.
I wrote https://lnkd.in/eDkHniiH in 2017.
You can also read my piece in the The American Civil Defense Association Journal of Civil Defense.
https://lnkd.in/eg88CGSi
Has anything improved since then?
Not really, so I pray every day that Americans wake up in time, aware that John F. Kennedys great book Why England Slept is now Why America Slept as we now, like England then, is mostly asleep.
#cybersecurity #people #work #data #digital #research #security #cloud #communication #insurance #safety #creative #mortgage #medical #banking #gaming #civil #electricity #iphone #change #macroeconomics
CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #5: MAKE A BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2016/09/business-continuity-disaster-recovery.html
Very large insurance and other corporations have detailed business continuity plans.
Why?
To survive if a manmade or natural disaster strikes suddenly.
But small businesses need such a plan even more.
If you run a business as a plumber, HVAC, electrician, small store owner, painter, mechanic, etc., you need a business continuity plan.
I attach a link to a continuity of business plan on my civil defense blog you can use to complete to help make sure your business survives a major dislocation.
Use what is useful in this plan and disregard the rest.
One tip is that businesses now go out of business not from the flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, riot, etc....but due to data loss.
So, back up your data...daily.
We have a simple waterproof, EMP hardened, USB drive you can purchase at the TACDA.ORG survival store.
In addition to backing up your data, these USB drives have our disaster coursework so you can learn how to deal with all the threats on the threat matrix.
The time is growing late to get started on this plan, so please start on it now.
#help #business #smallbusiness #data #event #insurance #hvac #civil #corporations #corporations #insurance #continuity
https://lnkd.in/eUzYSrw3
CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #6: ALWAYS PREPARE IN ADVANCE
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-civil-defense-matters-for-children.html
Consider how you prepare for a newborn baby.
Take that enthusiasm to your preparation for natural and manmade disasters.
To illustrate the point, years ago I prepared an emergency management plan for the Town of Mount Airy, MD where I lived at the time.
It was a comprehensive plan but, most importantly, it included a memorandum of understanding (MOA).
These are agreements signed in advance of an event.
They enable the rapid marshalling of the services, people, and resources needed immediately after a manmade or natural disaster strikes.
In hack #7, I will show how this memorandum of understanding, when activated after a tornado hit Mount Airy, MD, helped make the recovery faster and easier.
#people #civil #event #emergencymanagement #memorandumofunderstanding
CIVIL DEFENSE HACK #7: EF1 TORNADO LESSONS
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2018/11/ef-1-tornado-lessons-from-mt-airy-md.html
NOTE: I use a tornado example here, but these tips apply to the whole threat matrix.
With a Memorandum of Understanding (MOA)in place with Wal-Mart, Ace Hardware, a rubble removal company, and others, the recovery from this tornado in Mount Airy, MD, because this simple task was done in advance, the town returned to operation quickly.
As with all natural disaster planning, the fundamentals must be repeated.
1. Learn IN ADVANCE what you must do to prepare to save yourself, your family, your pets, and your neighbors when disaster strikes.
2. Stockpile, within reason, items you will need to survive ( water, food, medical, electronic, etc.).
3. Exercise for an event. Make if fun with children . This is vital. You will discover holes in your plan, supplies, contacts, etc. you will need to fill.
Here are natural disaster lessons explored in greater detail in the link below.
1. The Media Only Reports Part of the Story
2. Dishonest Contractors will Always Show up Post Disaster.
3. Your Insurance Only Covers Part of the Cost
4. Drones are the Future of Planning for and Recovering from Natural and Man-Made Disasters
5. Have a Damage Survey Form Template Ready
7. Good Government Governance and Communication Tools are Critical
8. Neighbors Must Help Neighbors
#future #help #communication #food #insurance #contractors #media #medical #water #civil #hardware #civildefense #event #planning
