Poor House Farm Park in Martinsburg, WV preserves the American history of providing for indigent and poor children through private charity.
The purpose of Poetslife is to promote the art and discipline of American Tactical Civil Defense for families and small businesses and to contribute practical American civil defense preparedness guidance for all Americans through my articles in the The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG) Journal of Civil Defense and leadership as the volunteer Vice President of TACDA.
5/07/2022
Poor House Farm Park
4/29/2022
Black Draft Distillery, Martinsburg, WV
In the primary election on Tuesday May 10th, 2022, this is my voting location. First time I ever voted in a distillery rather than a school or church.

Here is a link to the Black Draft Farm & Distillery website.
About Us
Welcome to Black Draft Farm & Distillery.
In 2021, we have expanded to a 60-acre farm here in Martinsburg, West Virginia. We want this new farm to be the center for Agritourism right here in the Eastern Panhandle.
When visiting and spending time with us, you’ll be able to experience farm-life first-hand, and see personally the on-site crops being grown (corn and rye) for our own Black Draft Distillery products.
We’ll keep you posted here each step of our progress in building this brand new, exciting farm and distillery.
Founded in 2014, we joined the growing number of artisans seeking to blend our techniques with the West Virginia traditions of times past. We chose to first produce our First Harvest Moonshine because it reflected our commitment to following the generations of folks producing fine corn whiskey.
Black Draft Distillery started as a dream to produce handcrafted spirits from West Virginia, using unique and all-natural ingredients.
Over time, the high quality and explosive popularity of our First Harvest Moonshine inspired us to dream bigger and expand into Bourbon. Water in our area comes from the same type of limestone aquifers that western Kentucky distilling legends use. Naturally, we saw the mineral laden waters Berkeley Springs water as a perfect foundation for producing a great tasting bourbon.
The overwhelming demand to our first Straight Bourbon batches proved we had another outstanding product to share with our friends and locals.
Over the next 3 years, we’ve added 3 more terrific flavors: Rise & Shine Coffee, White Julep Moonshine, and Black Draft Vodka. Each is perfect for mixing or sipping straight over ice.
We produce Black Draft Distillery products for valued customers around the globe and always have time to welcome friends new and old. Ask us about special events or an exclusive tour of our distillery.
Our success at Black Draft comes from a simple formula. Live good, work hard, never skimp on quality, treat your customers right, and always keep faith in the American Dream.
We currently feature the following brands:
4/04/2022
Stock Up Now for CCP Move on Taiwan
They are a lessons Americans Need to Learn
See Wolf Warrior Diplomacy strategy explained here.
How to Prepare for Calamity
Background Analysis and Resources
The CCP has never been shy about proclaiming that they will retake Taiwan. Most recently, having taken full measure of the chaos, confusion, incompetence, military disdain, and unawareness of global realities of the current White House at the conference in Alaska, the CCP repeated that goal to the current Administration very clearly. The CCP was also clear that they do not believe the United States is in control of the global system anymore and that they intend to move into the vacuum...as in the South China Sea where they will incorporate Taiwan under their rule.
We need to take them at their word.
My mentor global affairs expert believes it will happen in days or a week, but either way, you need to stock up NOW.
At the beginning of the Biden Administration, at the Alaska conference, aware of their bribe to Hunter Biden and all it bought them from the Biden family, the CCP lectured and mocked the Biden representatives in a way they dared not to with President Trump.
Here are the phases of the CCP attack on the United States so far.
1. Data War --- They have won (TikTok, hacking, etc.)
2. Information Influence Dominance War --- They have won.
3. Supplies Chain War --- They have won...shop at Wal-Mart.
4. International and U.S. Media Corporate Influence War --- They have won...Tucker is gone.
5. Deep State Influence War --- They have won.
What is stunning is how fast the CCP has gotten the Federal Government, major "American" corporations, Hollywood, Big Academia, and Wall Street to do their bidding on multiple fronts. Maybe not so surprising when their influence vehicle is named the United Front.
Major League Baseball (MLB) getting a deal with the CCP the day before MLB attacked Georgia's new voter ID law, and getting MLB to pull out of the state in retaliation, is just the most recent of hundreds of examples of the CCP influence in the United States now.
For evidence of the success of the 5 phases of the CCP attack on the United States, see my earlier analysis on my Subscribstar website and in my earlier blog post CCP and POW James Robins "Robbie" Risner.
Also see Victor Davis Hanson's analysis here.
6. Shooting War --- They have not started it, but they do not need to because they were clear at the Alaska Conference they consider the current President, his team and appointees, incompetent and easily defeated.
7. CCP Purchasing American Farmland --- There is a reason the CCP has increased its purchase of American farmland by 5,000% in the past 5 years. Their 100-year plan states that Australia, Canada, and the U.S. will supply their huge population with food and buy their products.
The CCP has purchased thousands of acres next to USAF secret bases all over the country for a reason.
As well, the CCP now runs the Canadian government and the top of our government for a reason.
Taiwan will be their first shooting war. If they succeed there, they may up their game and go kinetic worldwide.
It is not hard to analyze a likely scenario shortly for how the CCP will isolate Taiwan and take it over before the United States (the rest of the world will do nothing) can react and present it as a fait accompli, as they are daily sending us signals they intend to do just that.
The signs are everywhere.
The CCP has built over 500 military hospitals on their coast.
Their fishing fleet is now fully armed with heavy weaponry as a backup to the Chinese Navy, now much bigger than the U.S. Navy.
1. They are penetrating Taiwan's cyber, space, air, land, and sea assets to test them for vulnerabilities to exploit when they launch their takeover.
2. Using the coronavirus, they have weakened the world and the United States sufficiently that neither will be able to react to their takeover in time to save Taiwan or damage the CCP sufficiently to counter its initial move.
3. The CCP is cracking down harshly on their internal opponents (especially the Christians) to ensure there is no domestic opposition when they begin their attack.
4. They have mobilized their cyber, kinetic, and propaganda forces to overtake Taiwan in a blitzkrieg pincer movement on a scale we have not seen since WWII. Mobilization is tantamount to war, and the CCP has mobilized all it's forces toward this takeover.
5. They control enough world and U.S. debt they can call in their loans and cause worldwide financial, economic, and fiscal panic. They were clear in Alaska that they believe they now control the world's financial system. We may disagree or it may not be true. Does not matter. They believe it.
6. They will launch their cyber forces using their highly skilled People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer corps who are paired with common Chinese street criminals to penetrate world and United States cypher capabilities. They will shut down our cypher forces before we can make any countermoves.
7. They will activate their spies and influencers in the West, and especially in the New York and Washington, DC media, the Hollywood movie industry, Silicon Valley, universities etc. to justify the reuniting of the ancient Chinese bond.
8. The CCP will block the Suez Canal and add the Panama Canal and other choke points like the Straits of Malacca to control worldwide shipping.
Just as American grocery stores are on a 3-day resupply chain, the entire world is on a 3-week shipping supply, and the CCP controls it...and they know it.
There is a reason they have loaned governments worldwide money they cannot pay back and then takeover their ports and infrastructure as payment.
When they first strike, the CCP will launch a cyber Pearl Harbor and enjoy the initial success the Imperial Japanese Forces enjoyed from 1941 to 1944.
I wrote a White Paper in 1998 to a friend who worked at the White House about how inadequate their security was to counter a coordinated terrorist attack. When the official passed it on to the Secret Service and the intel agencies, they dismissed it as impossible.
Yet, in the next 30 years they have taken 95% of my recommendations in my paper and implemented them.
The main one was to close down Pennsylvania Avenue to mitigate the risk of explosives being parked in front of the White House and destroying it, the Old Executive Office Building, Treasury HQ, etc. in one move.
One month into Desert Shield I sent a suggested strategy to the White House for how to save American lives by engaging in a "Desert Island Hopping" strategy in our attack.
General Norman Schwarzkopf somehow got a copy and liked the strategy. Here is the story.
See also Frank Curley's story for more background.
Sadly, only 1% of American's prepare for natural and manmade disasters. When the CCP takes over Taiwan, that gap in preparation between the Chinese and Americans will be on full display.
When the CCP attacks Taiwan, everything will change, even more than when they released the coronavirus on the world.
Please prepare now for this event.
Even if I am wrong, your family is prepared for the next hurricane, flood, fire, chemical spill, financial panic, Red Chinese bioweapon release, riots, chemical spills, fires, and the full threat matrix.
I have a beautiful grandson. He means the world to me. I love him more than life itself. I have another grandson on the way. I want them to enjoy the innocence of childhood, and to grow up in a safe world and a safe America. Millions of other Americans believe the same.
We are the remnant. We know our history. And we will work to make this American experiment continue.
It is time to contain the CCP/PLA threat so and all our grandchildren have a future.





















































