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.

7/19/2021

Honor Role: Why the SEAL Eddie Gallagher's Story Matters

The Story of the Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher

Eddie's story is important because what happened to him in at the hands of a rogue government intelligence agents and their bosses is now being directed at all Americans.

He lists, describes and analyzes all the bad actors (NCIS, Naval Surface Warfare Command, legacy corporate media like National Public Radio and the New York Times, journalists, etc.) who went after him with lies to ruin his life, the life of his family, and as a warning to the war fighting community.

I first heard Eddie Gallagher tell his story on the Sean Ryan show on December 20, 2020. I highly recommend you listen to this interview. It offers great background, especially about the reality of war as Eddie Gallagher and tens of thousands of American warriors have experienced it. The interview is 5 1/2 hours long and well worth listening to.

To help other military service members and first responders who are unjustly accused as he was, he set up the Pipe Hitter Foundation. As described on their home page: "Justice for all. Our service members and first responders put their lives on the line to protect us. Too often, they find themselves in legal crosshairs simply for doing their jobs. 

The Pipe Hitter Foundation is dedicated to supporting these brave men and women, helping them find justice, and reforming a system that too often second guesses our heroes."

For example, in the interview and the book he speaks of a village in Iraq he entered to find children's heads on pikes as a warning to what they would do to captured American soldiers. These are the real combat stresses to which he was subject while fighting for the American people.

His reward was to be falsely accused by young SEAL's who were basically cowards and ingrates.

Creative Innovations Used in the Man in the Arena Book

1. Describing the Events from Multiple Person's Points of View

There are 68 chapters in Man in the Arena, and Eddie's approach is highly creative. 
Rather than writing an autobiography, he shares the chapters text, commentary, observation, analysis, and lessons with his wife, brother, children, fellow SEAL's and Marines who knew and served with him, lawyers, and others.

Result? 

It is a TEAM book written by a guy who has mastered the TEAM lifestyle.

So instead of just getting his perspective, you get multiple perspectives, even including the Mean Girls, pampered Navy admirals, corrupt NCIS careerocrats, and others who sought to destroy him, his family, and independent thinking and freedom among America's top warriors.

2. Using QR Scanner Codes to Find Additional Information

Given the millions of dollars the NCIS spent to persecute, prosecute and attack Eddie Gallagher, his family, friends and SEAL colleagues, the book would have to have been thousands of pages of documentation to provide the evidence.

Rather than providing the evidence of the governments tyranny, authoritarian tactics, and evil intent, there are QR Scanner Codes you can access in various chapters that provide the additional evidence.

Hopefully you figured this out, but I only found out when I listened to an interview with Eddie where he pointed it out.

So, to do a deep dive, use the QR Scanner app on your phone to read the QR scanner codes in the book for additional information and insight.

How I Analyzed The Man in the Arena

This tome is a miracle. It provides a blueprint for how we can save the American Republic from the globalists, traitors, cheaters, careerocrats, communists, socialists, godless, CCP, legacy media and all the cabal that is seeking to destroy the American people and the United States of America. 

We are in a historic fight for the soul of this nation and this book outlines the tactics and terror used by the military, government, Silicon Valley social media giants, cultural, Maoist, academic, media and other Marxists when they have agreed that you need to be taken out. 

They are ruthless and this book exposes their game.

To successfully analyze the deep knowledge, skills, experience, wisdom, instructions, lessons, plans, timelines, receipts and the rest of the tools Eddie provides to all of us in the arena, I used short cuts to help illustrate his work.

My Legend to Analyze The Man in the Arena

There is so much in this book I created a legend (below) to help me understand all that is contained in it to better understand the depth of what he was conveying. If is one approach you may find useful. 

I have read comments on Instagram from readers saying they read it in one sitting. Not sure how they did that, but I found I had to read it in small bites to get all that is contained in it.

I hope this legend will be especially useful to nonmilitary readers. There are many acronyms, terms, sayings and nuance in it that are known to anyone who has served, but not to 99% of Americans. This legend will hopefully assist you in bridging that gap.

A = Analysis
Am = Ambition
B = Breakthrough
CAC = Careerist Coward
C = Christian Faith 
CA = Contradictory Advice
CR = Combat Reality
Def = Definition
FA = False Accusations
FH = Future Hope
FL = Family Love
Fr = Friends
Fra = Fraud
Fu = Funny
G = Grifters
H = Harassments
Hum/V = Humility as a Virtue
I = Intelligence
Int = Integrity
J = Jealousy
MH = Marine Help
Mot = Motive
MSK = Medical Staff Kindness
PR = Political Reality
Pwo = Prison Work Out
SQL = Skilled Lawyer Quoting
Str = Strategy
Sub = Subterfuge
SuST = Survival Strategy
TL = Timeline
W = Wisdom
XE = Exculpatory Evidence

Eddie Gallagher and The Magics

One more quality Eddie Gallagher has is The Magics. 

Among the Irish, someone with The Magics has an extraordinary talent. Obviously, Eddie is an extraordinary warrior. 

His underlings recognized that he had The Magics, and sought to destroy him for it. It was that very quality that caused the jealousy among his subordinate SEAL's that almost cost him life in prison. It is a story as old as the Bible.

When I refer to The Magics, I use it in the Irish sense of have a God-given talent, divine actually, to play music, write poetry, play athletics...whatever it is, that is above and beyond most mortals. 

There are multiple instances in this tale where he exhibits The Magics and they offer great lessons for how to fight Big Brother both passively (submitting when necessary) and actively (fighting against the odds over and over to victory).

Part of the Magics is the deep love Irish Catholics have for each other due to their survival skills created during their 800 years of being enslaved by The Invader. That love is evident in this book between Eddie and Andrea, Eddie's parents, and his brother Sean.

My compliments on his having The Magics.

For example, Eddie was a sniper, a breecher and a medic. He went on multiple deployments to the worst fighting, earned multiple awards for valor, earned Sailor of the Year for Group 1 on the West Coast, rated the Number One Platoon Chief, took the worst-rated platoon and turned it into the highest-rated platoon in Team 7, AND he survived solitary and the full weight of our intel community trying to take him out.

Yes, he has The Magics

The Primary NCIS Prosecutors Charge was Murder

Basically, the legacy media, government prosecutors from NCIS, accused Eddie of being a murderer, falsely, just as they accuse patriot Americans of being "fascists." I address the "fascist" charge below.

Everyone is a Fascist Myth

Those same bad actors that sought to take down Eddie Gallagher, multiplied by tens of thousands, are still out their conducting their nefarious ends. Fortunately, Eddie Gallagher has provided a primer for how to not only fight them, but how to beat them at their own game.

Look no further than the current director of the FBI. While most Americans still view the FBI as that crime fighting organization they grew up watching on TV weekly with Efram Zimbalist, Jr., in fact they are now turning their substantial money, manpower, and highly developed and sophisticated psychological weapons, in cooperation with Silicon Valley Tech billionaires and businesses, legacy corporate media and entertainment  companies to gaslight Christian Americans as "white supremacist's," "racists" and "insurrectionists."

This is a danger to the American Republic, and Eddie Gallagher experienced how horrible and powerful they are when then brought false charges made up by duplicitous underlings to spin a legal base based on lies, cover-ups, false evidence and psychological operations to destroy him, his family, anyone associated with him, and any future warmaker "troublemakers." 

Our ancestors actually fought and defeated real Nazi's, including my MIA Uncle Frank J. Curley
I am disgusted that their actual fight has been reimagined as a fake academic ideology designed to destroy America and Americans. 

Fortunately, the grift has been exposed in books like Man in the Arena and the grift is being defeated.

I grew up in West Oak Lane, Philadelphia in a Jewish neighborhood where some of my neighbors were Holocaust survivors, so I knew about that event from childhood.

Later, while I attended the American College in Paris in 1975, I wrote a paper on the reasoning strategy and techniques of Joseph Goebbels, the mastermind of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. To do so, I visited Nanterre University outside Paris every Saturday to view original Nazi war documents such as newspapers, posters, papers and movies. 

Eventually, I wrote a Holocaust remembrance poem called This Broken Silence that was published in 1998 called Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust. Most of the poets in the collection were Holocaust survivors or the children of survivors. I was one of the few non-Jews included in the work. 

My poem, This Broken Silence, describes the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp by American GI's and the subsequent freedom of the life of the Jewish survivor in America. (I include it below this post.)

All my life, I have studied Nazi's. I know who and what they are and how they operate. I do not fall for the false gaslighting of the Marxist academics, legacy corporate media shills, the so-called Southern Poverty Law Center, CNNABCCBSETC with their gaslighting that, "in the United States of America, Nazi's are now under every bed" nonsense.

For example, read the zine You Can't Punch Every Nazi published in 2017 by a professor at John Jay University in New York City who was allegedly teaching criminal law to New York City police officers but actually gaslighting them at the time. This kind of gaslighting happens on American universities every day. It happened to Eddie in spades.

Or look up the websites this communist professor recommends. Keep in mind he is one of tens of thousands of communist professors in our colleges, universities, community colleges, and public schools these days.

News Idavox http://www.idavox.com It’s Going Down http://www.itsgoingdown.org Submedia http://www.sub.media Unicorn Riot http://www.unicornriot.ninja Crimethinc http://www.crimethinc.com Anti-Fascist News http://www.antifascistnews.net Organizations Political Research Associates One People’s Project Southern Poverty Law Center Rural Organizing Project By Any Means Necessary Redneck Revolt

I say all this because what Eddie Gallagher faced then, and what you face now, was Nazi's going after him and now Nazi's going after you...pretending that you are them.

Eddie's book is a primer on how they do it. The Man in the Arena is an expert survival manual from an expert survivor. Read it and reread it. Underline sections that explain how he survived. Use his knowledge and experience to deal with this current nonsense upside down world. Learn the FAFO philosophy. Maybe purchase a set of brass paperweights to remind you what that means.

Just as they accused him of murdering an ISIS combatant based on false evidence by lying rogue SEAL's, you are accused daily of being a "white supremacist," "racist" and "insurrectionist" based on false evidence by lying rogue journalists, college academics, public school teachers, military and intelligence leadership under the current Administration, Silicon Valley tycoons and their powerful multi-national corporations obeying the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) stated strategic goal of destroying the United States via a race war so we become their bread basket.

Here is a good analysis of how the CCP is influencing the American Mind.
To fully appreciate how far our rogue government intelligence agents and their bosses were willing to go to get him, read his new book The Man in the Arena: From Fighting ISIS to Fighting for My Freedom by he and his wife Andrea Gallagher with Andy Symonds. 

Man in the Arena is pwublished by Ballast Books, Washington, D.C, www.ballastbooks. com. 

For more information, bulk orders appearances or speaking requests, email info@balloastbooks.com.

Backstory

The way Eddie was set up, arrested, denied counsel, prosecuted, put into solitary confinement, denied his Constitutional right to being assumed innocent until proven guilty, harassed, spied upon, had his family home assaulted and his children held at gun point, and all the intel agency personnel dedicated to a war against him, are tactics now being used on the so-called "insurrectionists" of January 6th, 2021 at the U.S. Capital.

And, just as the NCIS misused the Universal Code of Military Justice to entrap Eddie, the FBI is doing the same with Americans who assembled to peacefully redress grievances against their government, mainly about their sovereign voting rights being taken from them.

It has since been reported the FBI had a unit that infiltrated the patriots who protested November 6h, encouraged them to storm the Capital, and made sure the Capital Police stood down and let them go into the Capital building.

Now, if we were not in the upside down, the FBI infiltrators would have PREVENTED the storming of the U.S. Capital rather than instigating it. 

Yet, the FBI organized a war on American citizens to run a psyop that the legacy media and social media ran a propaganda war on the American people to convince them that the patriots were terrorists. 

For evidence of this horror, see Richard Baris at the peoplespundit.locals.com.
One honest news outlet, The Epoch Times, has done and continues to do solid investigative journalism about what really happened January 6th. Do your own research by searching their archives. Here is a start.

In the CCP Hundred Year Plan, they are clear that the United States, Canada, and Australia are to be the breadbasket to satisfy the age old problem of how to feed the Chinese people. 

As the Nazi's Thousand Year Plan included the goal of using the Ukraine's rich farmland to feed the citizens of the Reich, the CCP sees the rich farmlands of the United States, Canada and Australia as a way to solve their centuries old dilemma that rulers in Chine always fall when famines occur. The CCP is buying farmland in all three countries at a frenzied pace. 

Finally, American leaders who care about the American people more than a few extra dollars are actually aware of this problem and are taking steps to mitigate it. See one here.

Just like the NCISFBIDOJCIACNNABSSPLCCBSNBCMSNBDETC has enormous power to destroy families (read Eddie Gallagher's book Man in the Arena for their tactics and power, or just look at the poor grandmothers and grandfathers held without bail in solitary for peacefully protesting on January 6th, some of whom are being beaten and showing up before judges with black eyes) but is a paper tiger, so too with the CCP. 

The young people in China are no longer willing to be slave workers giving all their talent and treasure to the CCP. The legacy media will never tell you these facts and truths, so go to the Family, Tradition, Property website to read Youth Apathy is Communist China's Achilles Heal.

The horror of the pandemic isolation the state and politicians imposed on the American people is mirrored by Eddie's isolation in solitary. As he triumphed, so too will the American people. 
The CCP and their American running dogs are losing. 
They know they are losing.
And they are lashing out.
So much so they even went before the American public and admitted illegal collusion between the Feds and the Big Tech companies to suppress the truth about the CCP virus and in all other areas.
They tried to pull off a 1984-type takeover.
They failed.
Eddie is free and so are we.
Celebrate that with your families.
Laugh.
Enjoy the joy.
Build a parallel world.
Plant a garden.
Have lots of children.
Faith, hope and charity are rising.
And so is Christ.
Always.

This Broken Silence
 
It was the silence that most terrified us.
The silence at night.
The silence at dawn.
The silence of day.

We'd lay down
Pained
At night......forbidden to cry out
Our pain to each other.
 
So.......silently, so silently.....
Each second of the night passed,
Silently, for five years.
 
Steinberg screamed once.
Screamed, "You Nazi scum!!!
Well pay you back someday!!!
Your Reich will last a few years!!!
We've been around millenniums!!!
We'll see who survives who!!!
 
Steinberg screamed this out
In the silence of night.
 
He was executed in the silence of dawn.
 
We learned the lesson quickly.
Every execution from that day on
We viewed in silence.
Cold, black-steel silence.
Cold, gray-dawn silence.
 
Sister Anne prayed once.
Prayed out loud.
Prayed, "Dear sweet, sweet Jesus!!!
Forgive them all! They don't
Know what they've doing to you!!!
 
Prayed it again and again
While a group of old Hasidim
Like a flock of battered sheep
Who were shorn of their wool locks
In frosted dead of winter
Were pushed by the dreaded overseers
Headlong into the concrete ovens.
 
The Commandant
Had the ovens opened mid-burn
And Sister Anne was told
To view the Jewish sheep
Now charred and black
Before being thrown in with them.
 
She was executed
In the silence of day.
 
We learned the lesson quickly.
Every murder we witnessed
From that day on
We prayed, those of us who still prayed,
In silence.
 
Cold, ebony-dazed silence.
 
The Pole was silent once,
But only once.
Commandant screamed, "Give me an answer, swine!
Give me an answer
Or you'll die!"
 
The Pole remained silent.
 
Stared, eagle eyed, determined and strong,
Commandant screamed into the Pole's mouth
 
"TALK!!!  WHO DID IT?!"
 
BAAAAAAAABBBBAAABBAA!!!
WWWWHIRZZBAABDACKUHH!!!
 
GI commando's carbine plug
Found the Commandant's head.
 
Silence cracked all over.
Cracked by bullets of life.
Cracked by guns of love.
Cracked by voices
Gruff with fatigue,
GI voices of Pennsylvania,
Georgia, California, Montana.
Nervously viewing our gaunt bodies
and death eyes
They tried to crack the silence
With their foreign talk.
 
"FREUND!!! AMERIKANISHER!!!
SEE!!! FREUND!!!"
 
"Howzabout a candy bar, buddy?
Hershey's chocolate!
Real good stuff!
Here, have one, man!!!
 
"Who here needs a plug a tobacco?
 
"Watcha'll doin' standin' around quiet for???
Ya'll free!!!  Free, ya hear!!???"
 
The voices spoke to us from everywhere
As the gates swung open.
 
Then these strange tongues
Of liberation, of life, of love
Asked us to state the abuses
Of our tormentors for the record.
 
But all we did
Was stare back in silence.
 
The silence of Steinberg.
The silence of Sister Anne.
The silence of the Pole.
The silence of the Commandant.
The silence of five years
Under the Commandant's rule
Who, dead and bleeding before us,
Even now made sure the nightmare continued.
 
Seven years later,
In a synagogue in Philadelphia
I took an American wife
Because she knew nothing of the silence.
 
Even today,
Here incessant American chatter
Is like life itself to me.
 
And silence,
Like loneliness and pain
Lies buried
With the Commandant.
 
But I know how to speak
With a voice bold and ecstatic
Of life and love
This moment of present
This moment of future
To my children.
 
My voice shouts
To them,
To honor Steinberg,
Sister Anne, the Pole,
and the American GI.
 
It has been resurrected
From our crucifixions,
And from the Chosen voices
Of millenniums past.

Bonus: For a complete understanding of how powerful the CCP is right now, see the most terrifying map in the world. Still, we control their food supply and are a Christian nation, so they will not win.

 

7/07/2021

Social Media for when Disaster Strikes

I wrote this article for the Journal of Civil Defense of the American Civil Defense Association (www.tacda.org). 
I republish it here as I believe it can help in this current event. 
Given the current Communist Chinese Party virus crisis, I re-post it here to help other Americans.
In the photo, you see Ron Asmus (l), Stuart Barrowcliffe (m) and Bruce Curley (me holding a gold solar airplane. I worked at the Solar Energy Research Institute in 1983. 
I  was young and impressionable. I did not know then how the Left would use solar as a tool to control and manipulate Americans.)
I went to this party as everyone else. Thus the mirror. If we look at ourselves closely, we can come out of this better than we went in. 
God Bless Donald Trump and his family for all they have given and given and given to accomplish this miracle. Things did not go as well in 1918.

For a good podcast on the history of civil defense in the United States and especially children, listen to Civil Defense Radio here.

Social Media Can Reconnect Families when Disaster Strikes

Summary: This is an article on how to use social media to reconnect and communicate when disaster strikes. 

Introduction

Is there a worse feeling than being in an emergency and not being able to contact your loved ones?
Consider that feeling in your gut as you try to instant message or call your children to know if they are okay, or to notify them that you are okay.
As minutes pass and you cannot reach them, ideas that you would have never entertained just moments before start to enter your subconscious and rise to your conscious mind.
Be aware that in a catastrophic disaster, such as an F5 tornado, every necessity and comfort you normally enjoy is gone. No food. No water. No electricity. No shelter. No transportation. With power down, you cannot even use your cell phone to find out if your family or friends are safe or to notify them that you are safe.
The new reality is that everything you took for granted just hours before no longer exists. And it is anyone’s guess as to when everything will return to normal.
I know because I have been there.
The purpose of this article is to offer you strategies and tools to avoid being in that situation and to cope with it if it does happen to you and your loved ones.
During and after a disaster people reach out to friends and family to find help securing food, water, shelter, medical care and transportation.  Social media tools enable people to share this information immediately and effectively.
Social media is now vital to recovery efforts after disasters, when infrastructure must be rebuilt and stress management is critical. The extensive reach of social networks allows people who are recovering from disasters to rapidly connect with needed resources. This enables survivors to connect, talk, and share recovery resources.
Especially in large-scale disasters, when thousands are displaced from their homes and many have fled the disaster zone, people use social media to contact family and friends, post photos, share stories, and give and get help.
Social media, through the internet, search engines, apps, instant messaging, social networking and photo shariing websites, provide readily availble and efficient ways for family members to keep in touch and impart critical disaster related information.
NOTE: All cell phones, apps, networks, servers, computers, tablets, etc. depend on ELECTRICTY. Natural disaster often disrupt the supply of electricty and therefore the ability to use this technology. So, purchase external portable battery charging devices NOW. Include a solar version so you can use the sun to recharge them if power is out. Car battery jump starter devices now include three USB ports to charge phones, tablets and computers. 
Example: NEW Stanley J5c09 Jumpit Jump Starter.
Remember you only need one communication app (your phone instant message app) and one essential search engine (StartPage for example) and one backup. Master it. In the stress of a disaster, it is best to stick to the basic apps you know and use.
Let’s examine a brief history of this technology and capability.

Historical evidence of social media successfully reuniting families after a disaster

For all that is wrong with social media, the flip side is that it can be a life-saver and a comfort when you can use it to stay in touch with family members during and after contacting family members after a disaster.
We can examine two examples of when this has been proven historically.
One of the first times I became aware of social media reconnecting families was after an E5 tornado struck  Joplin, Missouri on May 11, 2011. (For a complete discussion of this event, see https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2012/05/social-media-lessons-from-joplin.html
Posting on Facebook in the Newsfeed or by Messenger and Twitter using tweets or Direct Message family members were able to contact each other and state their status.
Hundreds of messages like this, “lookin for scott morris, chris miller, stormy miller, and chris elseworth. anyone that knows them from my Joplin friends needs to help me find them“ were posted by families and friends looking for loved ones.
Whereas in the past we relied on the authorities to update us on survivors, now we can conduct those tasks using social medeia. It is particularly good at rapidly sending such pleas for help and locating familyl and friends via a wide audience.
And yes, pets are also part of families and can be reunited with their families, as here: Photos of found pets from the tornado: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?

How to Connect Your Family Using Social Media

Each family is unique and so is their social media use. For disaster response and management, what is most important is not the social media platform your family chooses, but that they know how to use it when they need to use it.
Always include a few contacts who are out of your area or state. In a disaster environment, your local lines my be jammed or not working, but you can often reach someone out of your area. Also, due to the strenght of how they are built, cell towers for 911 will often work when all other lines do not.
Instant messaging (Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, the one included with your cell phone) can all use cell phones is particulary useful for immediate responses during and immediately after a disaster. Skype enables a group chat.
At first LinkedIn may not appear to be that useful, but it is for unique needs. For example, in many disasters mobility is at a stand still until trees, debris and objects are removed from the roadway. How does that? Skilled construction workers and tree removal experts. Where do you find them when you need them?
Yes, you can use search engines, but LinkedIn may be the better choice to find one who is not overwhelmed, busy, or not the right one for you. LinkedIn will provide details on such critical service contacts.
When my house burned down, we had great difficulty finding a builder to do the job. And we were only one job. After a disaster, it is often hard to find contractors as they have already committed to other jobs. So using another nontraditional search engine such as LinkedIn can help identify and hire skilled professionals to assist you.

Best Social Media Platforms for Disaster Communications

Probably the best social media and apps for you to use during and after a disaster are the ones you currently use with your family. You know them well, and in the heightened stress of a disaster you do not need another thing to worry about.
Apps: You may want to reseach other Apps that are out there that may be better for your need. The best way is to enter a search term,  „Emergency apps, preparedness, disasters“ in a Google Play or the App Store. You can then identify, dowload and test apps that may be best suited to you.
Browsers: Download and use less lused browsers like Brave and Firefox. Like most people, you use Google, Bing, or Chrome but there are numerous social media platforms you can use for disaster communications. By downloading and using multiple social media platforms, you ensure you have more choices available during and after a disaster.
Search Engines: DuckDuckGo, DogPile, Gibiru, Search Encrypt, StartPage and other less known search engines do not invade your privacy as much as Google and Bing. They do not keeps logs, sell data, track you with cookies, and do notbring up similar ads to what you search to buy. (No logs, no data selling, no tracking cookies0
Social Media Search Engines: Remember that social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn are also search engines. They can be used to identify people, products and services just like traditional search engines. Since Captain Scully landed his plane on the Hudson River and it was on Twitter an hour before the New York Media, Twitter has provided real-time information on disasters. Be cautious with reawl time inrormaton, however, as it can be wrong.
Blogs: Many blogs have excellent tips, procedures, and advice that is useful during and after a disaster. Blogspot, Wordpress are just two. Do not overlook coroporate (https://blog.constellation.com/disaster-preparedness/) or government blogs
(https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2018/04/10/when-disasters-hit-help-close-your-usda-service-center). And as weather impacts EVERYTHING, follow meteorologist Mike Smith’s science-based weather blog: http://www.mikesmithenterprisesblog.com/.
Podcasts: You can listen to podcosts while driving your car or doing yard work. Use Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/) to find disaster podcasts. Here are a few useful natural disaster podcasts: https://civildefenseradio.com/category/podcast/episode/, https://player.fm/series/natural-disasters-2538998, https://player.fm/series/disaster-podcast

Securing Social Media to Maintain Privacy

Be aware that hackers and other criminals are always probing your social media devices (cell phones, computers, tablets, etc.) to corrupt, steal and sell your data. You must also have a multi-layered strategy to protect your data and privacy.
The most important step is to set your settings under privacy to just your family and friends. Do not open up your data to the whole worls by setting it to everyone.

Disaster Strikes - Implementing Your Social Media Connections

The key to implementing your social media connections when a disaster strikes is to create, test, and use them BEFORE a disaster strikes.
That sounds more simple than it is.
In this day of remarkable cell phones when you download an app for every need, the ability to use both your cell phone and it’s apps when disaster strikes is assumed.
But everything changes in a disaster environment.
I know this because I have been through disasters. And no disaster is worse than one that hits you and your family.
I have known the humiliation of standing in front of my now burned down house as my burned wife was medivaced out on a medical helicopter. I only realized that I was doing so in my underwear when a neighbor said, Do you want a pair of my pants.“
When I asked why he replied, Look down.“
Only then did I realize I didn’t even have a pair of pants on after I fled our house fire after I got my wife and sons out. (For more information see https://tacda.org/journal/journal-of-civil-defense-2014-vol-47-no-2-treating-infection-without-a-doctor/)
Don’t be like me standing there with no clothes on wondering if you wife will recover and where your kids will eat and sleep next. Take the simple and easy measures now to ensure that such a fate is not in your future. Here are a few steps that may help.

Simple and Easy Measures to Take

First, do you have electric power? Do you have sufficient power to transmit your message, data, photos and other communication? Every device you have will power down quickly when not recharged. Therefore, you must have the ability to change your devices off the usual grid.
The following warning from a Joplin tornado survivor applies to the aftermath of all disasters.“After recently going through this, please be careful where you donate money. Unfortunately, there are many who are not honest and will take advantage of this tragedy.“
Grifters, criminals, and quick buck artists know that social media donation solicitations are unregulated. Vet and be certain of anyone or organization that is arasing money after any disaster.
In contrast, multiple legitimate organizations will solicit over social media to raise relief funds and to organize volunteers. Here is one such example from Joplin. “You can sign up as a volunteer on www.211missoure.org (United Way).”
Avoid the grifters and support the honest recovery caregivers on social media.

Accessing Social Media Sites During Disaster when no Cell phones Work

Ideally, you always have an Internet connection. Unfortunately, that is not the reality in during of after a disaster.
There are other places where you can get a connection when you don’t have a connection at home. There are many locations where you can access an Internet connection, especially now that so much of that connection has shifted to cell phones and tablets.
Basically, wherever you can access a WiFi connection you can access social media. Here are a few places where you can access the Internet via a WiFi connection:
·         Your car
·         Coffee Shop
·         Library
·         Church
·         Work
·         Gyms
·         Stores
·         Shopping Centers
·         Community Centers
·         Government Buildings
To access social media websites, out of area contacts are critical. When family members are unable to contact each other who are geographically close to each other but the power is down are oftentimes able to contact relatives far away. These relatives, because they have power, can oftentimes contact other family members even when family members who are nearby cannot.

Conclusion

Most people by now are familiar with how to use social media. 
However, they do not understand how dramatically social media access and use can change during and after a disaster. As with any area in life, forewarned is forearmed.
In a disaster, everything changes. Events unfold at a pace you cannot imagine. Hyperstress hits and decisions that were easy a few minutes ago are very difficult to make. 
Where just an hour ago you knew what to do, now you may not have any of the information you need to help you decide what to do..
Social media has made our world easier but it creates it’s own set of issues. For example, in any disaster, rumors run rampant. And yet you have to act based on little or no data or facts and you may only have rumors.
To help prepare to handle the disruptions disasters cause, take care to have your social media platforms, apps, and devices in place, up to date (latest patches, software, operating system), tested and ready. The suggestions above are at least a start.
Social media awareness may save your dignity, your life, your possessions and of your loved ones during and after a disaster.
Start now to make that possible.




7/02/2021

Goat Milk Soap and Hydrogen Peroxide to Defeat Coronavirus

I highly recommend Belle Acres for your goat milk soap.

"Hello and welcome to Belles Acres!
Our farm is located in beautiful Romney West Virginia and Rising Sun Maryland. We make amazing homemade goat milk soap and goat milk lotion made with fresh goat milk that comes from our farm. Our products are made from scratch the old fashioned way.
Goat milk is loaded with vitamins and nutrients that add moisturizing and healing qualities to our products. Our soaps are made with Olive, Coconut and Palm Oils and then super fatted with Shea Butter. We use only steam distilled essential oils or phthalate free skin safe Fragrance Oils.
Our soaps produce a rich and creamy, gentle lather that leaves your skin smooth, soft, moisturized and nourished.
Our lotions are made with Jojoba Oil and Vegetable Glycerin. This lotion is non greasy and very nourishing and healing. Great for both face and body! Nothing can compare!
Belles Acres Goat Milk Soaps and Lotions are wonderful for treating the symptoms of eczema and psiorasis.
Our skin care line also extends into facial serums, natural healing and pain relieving salves, natural insect repellents and other all natural products that are safe and effective and meet a variety of needs that provide chemical free alternatives!
Thank You for Supporting Family Farms."

As all the disinformation and misinformation propagated by CCPCDCCNNABCCBSWAWHINTOPOSTNYTIMESETC has so terrified American's that many are still wearing the useless masks, it is important to repost the usefulness of hydrogen peroxide and goat milk soap to actually destroy the Chinese flu, and other flu's, before they can infect your body host.
Please see below.

Use goat milk soap and hydrogen peroxide to defeat the coronavirus.
My "how goat milk soap melts coronavirus analysis" may be found on Periscopetv here
Why goat milk soap destroys coronavirus I described here.

The best place to get goat milk soap is Goat Milk Stuff. It is a great alternative to the skin cracking 70% alcohol based "sanitizers."

Goat Milk Stuff, Jim and PJ Jonas. 812 752 0622, www.goatmilkstuff.com, soap@goatmilkstuff.com, facebook.com/goatmilstuff, 76 South Lake Road North, Scottsburg, IN 47170


You have seen everyone in China using bleach to disinfect, but that is not always safe or effective. It’s kind of like the surgical safety masks they are all wearing. They are better than nothing, of course, but they are not 100% effective.
Instead, purchase and store bottles of hydrogen peroxide. It is a safe, inexpensive and effective disinfectant and antiseptic. And it has multiple prevention uses.
The great advantage of iodine antiseptics is their wide scope of antimicrobial activity, killing all principal pathogens and, given enough time, even spores, which are considered to be the most difficult form of microorganisms to be inactivated by disinfectants and antiseptics.
I learned the wonder of hydrogen peroxide working on an anthrax project in 2002 to clean out anthrax spores in post offices where they had been released. A British company charged our government an enormous amount of money for a secret cleaning formula that was mostly, yes, hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide has so many uses to fight this pandemic. For example, when you return from the grocery store with fruits and vegetables that someone who is infected has been near and breathed on, wash them in hydrogen peroxide when you get home to mitigate the risk of that microbe getting into your system.
Also, be sure to clean your shopping bags with which you brought home the fruit and vegetables.
Hydrogen peroxide has so many uses in preventing coronavirus. Below are a few from 50+ nifty uses for hydrogen peroxide for your home, garden, and body
  • “Hydrogen peroxide can work wonders on soothing a sore throat. There are a couple ways you can do it. You can either gargle a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and warm, boiled water, or you can dip a depression stick in 3% peroxide and coat your tonsils.
  • We all know (unfortunately) that there is no cure for the common cold. However, the symptoms can be managed and shortened with the use of hydrogen peroxide. Create a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, salt, and baking soda then rub inside nasal passages – it will help draw out any infections and kill bacteria.
  • As trips to the grocery store may be restricted as in China, you will need to keep your fruits and vegetables fresh longer. Did you know hydrogen peroxide can help extend the life of your fruits and vegetables? Fill your kitchen sink with water and add a quarter cup of food grade hydrogen peroxide. Soak your produce for 20 minutes, then rinse and dry. You’ll be amazed how much longer it stays fresh.
  • Makeup brushes can become a breeding ground for bacteria – thankfully, they’re very easy to clean. Mix 3% hydrogen peroxide with water and soak your brushes for approximately 5 minutes. Rinse the brushes with water then let them dry. Do this once a week for clean, bacteria-free brushes.”
Cleaning with bleach is effective, but not really safe. Hydrogen peroxide is just as effective, but safe. Think of it this way. Would you rather clean your children’s toys in a solution of bleach or hydrogen peroxide?
So, with a good barrier such as the Biological Personal Protection Kit and hydrogen peroxide, you are better prepared.

Why Hand Washing Prevents Wuhan Coronavirus - It's the FAT

Poetslife
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Why Hand Washing Prevents Coronavirus from Spreading

Palli Thordarson, a chemistry professor at the University of New South Wales, explains why soap is so effective against the Wuhan Coronavirus. Source

Please read his entire thread below.

Here is his Twitter feed from which I abstracted his knowledge.

We are told every day to wash our hands to prevent the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus or any flu. We are never told why. Here is why.

My deep gratitude to Professor Thordarson for explaining why we need to wash our hands religiously to get past this current pandemic flu.

The Spanish Flu lasted 13 weeks in 1918. We'll see how long this one lasts.

 

Palli Thordarson

@PalliThordarson   

Mar 8th 2020, 41 tweets, 9 min read

1/25 Part 1 - Why does soap work so well on the SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? Because it is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. A two part thread about soap, viruses and supramolecular chemistry #COVID19

2/25 The soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and "dies", or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive. Viruses can be active outside the body for hours, even days. 

3/25 Disinfectants, or liquids, wipes, gels and creams containing alcohol (and soap) have a similar effects but are not really quite as good as normal soap. Apart from the alcohol and soap, the “antibacterial agents” in these products don't affect the virus structure much at all. 

4/25 Consequently, many antibacterial products are basically just an expensive version of soap in terms of how they act on viruses. Soap is the best but alcohol wipes are good when soap is not practical or handy (e.g. office receptions). 

5/25 But why exactly is soap so good? To explain that, I will take you through a bit of a journey through supramolecular #chemistry, nanoscience and virology. I try to explain this in generic terms as much as possible, which means leaving some specialist chemistry terms out. 

6/25 I point out to that while I am expert in supramolecular chemistry and the assembly of nanoparticles, I am not a virologists. The image with the first tweet is from an excellent post here which is dense with good virology info:

 

SARS-CoV-2 and the lessons we have to learn from it.At this moment the media is covering SARS-CoV-2 ...

7/25 I have always been fascinated by viruses as I see them as one of them most spectacular examples of how supramolecular chemistry and nanoscience can converge. Most viruses consist of three key building blocks: RNA, proteins and lipids. 

8/25 The RNA is the viral genetic material -it is very similar to DNA. The proteins have several roles including breaking into the target cell, assist with virus replication and basically to be a key building block (like a brick in a house) in the whole virus structure. 

9/25 The lipids then form a coat around the virus, both for protection and to assist with its spread and cellular invasion. The RNA, proteins and lipids self-assemble to form the virus. Critically, there are no strong “covalent” bonds holding these units together. 

10/25 Instead the viral self-assembly is based on weak “non-covalent” interactions between the proteins, RNA and lipids. Together these act together like a Velcro so it is very hard to break up the self-assembled viral particle. Still, we can do it (e.g. with soap!). 

11/25 Most viruses, including the coronavirus, are between 50-200 nanometers – so they are truly nanoparticles. Nanoparticles have complex interactions with surfaces they are on. Same with viruses. Skin, steel, timber, fabric, paint and porcelain are very different surfaces. 

12/25 When a virus invades a cell, the RNA “hijacks” the cellular machinery like a computer virus (!) and forces the cell to start to makes a lot of fresh copies of its own RNA and the various proteins that make up the virus. 

13/25 These new RNA and protein molecules, self-assemble with lipids (usually readily present in the cell) to form new copies of the virus. That is, the virus does not photocopy itself, it makes copies of the building blocks which then self-assemble into new viruses! 

14/25 All those new viruses eventually overwhelm the cell and it dies/explodes releasing viruses which then go on to infect more cells. In the lungs, some of these viruses end up in the airways and the mucous membranes surrounding these. 

15/25 When you cough, or especially when you sneeze, tiny droplets from the airways can fly up to 10 meters (30 ft)! The larger ones are thought to be main coronavirus carriers and they can go at least 2 m (7 ft). Thus – cover your coughs & sneezes people! 

16/25 These tiny droplets end on surfaces and often dry out quickly. But the viruses are still active! What happens next is all about supramolecular chemistry and how self-assembled nanoparticles (like the viruses) interact with their environment! 

17/25 Now it is time to introduce a powerful supramolecular chemistry concept that effectively says: similar molecules appear to interact more strongly with each other than dissimilar ones. Wood, fabric and not to mention skin interact fairly strongly with viruses. 

18/25 Contrast this with steel, porcelain and at least some plastics, e.g. teflon. The surface structure also matter – the flatter the surface the less the virus will “stick” to the surface. Rougher surfaces can actually pull the virus apart. 

19/25 So why are surfaces different? The virus is held together by a combination of hydrogen bonds (like those in water) and what we call hydrophilic or “fat-like” interactions. The surface of fibres or wood for instance can form a lot of hydrogen bonds with the virus. 

20/25 In contrast steel, porcelain or teflon do not form a lot of hydrogen bond with the virus. So the virus is not strongly bound to these surfaces. The virus is quite stable on these surface whereas it doesn’t stay active for as long on say fabric or wood. 

21/25 For how long does the virus stay active? It depends. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is thought to stay active on favourable surfaces for hours, possibly a day. Moisture (“dissolves”), sun light (UV light) and heat (molecular motions) all make the virus less stable. 

22/25 The skin is an ideal surface for a virus! It is “organic” and the proteins and fatty acids in the dead cells on the surface interact with the virus through both hydrogen bonds and the “fat-like” hydrophilic interactions. 

23/25 So when you touch say a steel surface with a virus particle on it, it will stick to your skin and hence get transferred onto your hands. But you are not (yet) infected. If you touch your face though, the virus can get transferred from your hands and on to your face. 

24/25 And now the virus is dangerously close to the airways and the mucus type membranes in and around your mouth and eyes. So the virus can get in…and voila! You are infected (that is, unless your immune system kills the virus). 

25/25 If the virus is on your hands you can pass it on by shaking someone’s else hand. Kisses, well, that's pretty obvious…It comes without saying that if someone sneezes right in your face you are kind of stuffed. Part 2 about soap coming next (25 post limit reached)! 

26/39 Part 2 about soap, supramolecular chemistry and viruses. So how often do you touch your face? It turns out most people touch the face once every 2-5 minutes! Yeah, so you at high risk once the virus gets on your hands unless you can wash the active virus off. 

27/39 So let’s try washing it off with plain water. It might just work. But water “only” competes with the strong “glue-like” interactions between the skin and virus via hydrogen bonds. They virus is quite sticky and may not budge. Water isn’t enough. 

28/39 Soapy water is totally different. Soap contains fat-like substances knowns as amphiphiles, some structurally very similar to the lipids in the virus membrane. The soap molecules “compete” with the lipids in the virus membrane.

29/39 The soap molecules also compete with a lot other non-covalent bonds that help the proteins, RNA and the lipids to stick together. The soap is effectively “dissolving” the glue that holds the virus together. Add to that all the water. 

30/39 The soap also outcompetes the interactions between the virus and the skin surface. Soon the viruses get detached and fall a part like a house of cards due to the combined action of the soap and water. The virus is gone! 

31/39 The skin is quite rough and wrinkly which is why you do need a fair amount of rubbing and soaking to ensure the soap reaches very crook and nanny on the skin surface that could be hiding active viruses. 

32/39 Alcohol based products, which pretty includes all “disinfectants” and “antibacterial” products contain a high-% alcohol solution, typically 60-80% ethanol, sometimes with a bit of isopropanol as well and then water + a bit of a soap.

33/39 Ethanol and other alcohols do not only readily form hydrogen bonds with the virus material but as a solvent, are more lipophilic than water. Hence alcohol do also dissolve the lipid membrane and disrupt other supramolecular interactions in the virus. 

34/39 However, you need a fairly high concentration (maybe +60%) of the alcohol to get a rapid dissolution of the virus. Vodka or whiskey (usually 40% ethanol), will not dissolve the virus as quickly. Overall alcohol is not quite as good as soap at this task.

35/39 Nearly all antibacterial products contain alcohol and some soap and this does help killing viruses. But some also include “active” bacterial killing agents, like triclosan. Those, however, do basically nothing to the virus! 

36/39 To sum up, viruses are almost like little grease-nanoparticles. They can stay active for many hours on surfaces and then get picked up by touch. They then get to our face and infect us because most of us touch the face quite frequently. 

37/39 Water is not very effective alone in washing the virus off our hands. Alcohol based product work better. But nothing beats soap – the virus detaches from the skin and falls apart very readily in soapy water. 

38/39 Here you have it – supramolecular chemistry and nanoscience tell us not only a lot about how the virus self-assembled into a functional active menace, but also how we can beat viruses with something as simple as soap.

39/39 Thank you for reading my first thread. Apologies for any mistakes in the above. I might have some virology details wrong here as I am not a virologist unlike @MackayIM who I am a big fan of! But I hope this inspires you not only to use soap but to read up on chemistry! 

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Wow! That took of quickly. Thanks! I should mention that this thread is based on a Facebook post I did in Icelandic yesterday. That one took off too with +1K shares already but Iceland had a very rapid rise in COVID-19 cases the past week or so. 

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Palli Thordarson

@PalliThordarson

a day ago

1/9 It looks like my "soap" tweet has been quoted all over the place. Wonderful! I do though take a slight issue with the tone in some of these when it comes to soap vs hand sanitiser. Just because I said, soap is better, doesn't mean sanitiser are not good-they are very good!

2/9 Let's recap: Soap dissolves the virus by breaking up the interactions that hold it together. The alcohol in sanitisers and wipes does pretty much the same: "Hence alcohol does also dissolve the lipid membrane and disrupts other supramolecular interactions in the virus"

 

3/9 There is a subtle point here that I didn't explain. Alcohol is a solvent. It is different from water or say petrol. Now, non-covalent interactions are very solvent dependent. The "hydrophobic" interactions that hold the virus together are strongest in water (water = hydro).

 

Palli Thordarson

@PalliThordarson

Mar 9th 2020

1/18 A soap is a soap is a soap! I am still flabbergasted by your response to my Twitter thread about the #COVID19 Coronavirus, soap and supramolecular chemistry! I have been quite busy today but I in this thread I will try to provide answers to some of your questions:

2/18 A lot of the questions are basically about which soap is best? Some people ask if detergents are better/worse than soap? Let me start with the latter one. Basically, what people call a detergent and what is a soap seems to differ! To me as a chemists they are very similar.

3/18 The Wikipedia entry on detergents seems to delineate detergents from soap mainly by calling alkylbenzenesulfonates & similar chemicals detergents, whereas fatty acid salts are soaps. You find detergents mainly in things like laundry detergents. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detergent