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Thursday, January 31, 2019

China Hacks America-And Few Seem to Care


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A tiny Chinese microchip may have infiltrated numerous American governmental and military systems

A number of issues ago I mentioned how during the Obama presidency Chinese hackers grabbed federal employment databases and stole thousands of supposedly secure files including those of of us who once held Top Secret Security Clearances.  The Chinese employ two fulltime divisions of hackers and universities who do nothing but steal tech and other secrets from the US and other nations.

What the Chinese couldn’t steal from Boeing, Bill Clinton was kind enough to give them.  Make no mistake, the ultimate goal of the Chinese is to overtake the United States as the premier power on the planet.  Russia is their junior partner.  Their financial interests in Africa , the South China Sea and elsewhere overshadow ours & Europe.  Their merchant fleets are massive compared to ours and Great Britain…the previous administration let our military preparedness against China slide especially in terms of cyber warfare.

Yet, the Democrats only concern themselves with the file from a discredited ex-MI6 agent that the DNC paid for and Mueller appears to have no end in sight to his hunt with the Left urging him onto find some kind of collusion between Trump and the Russians.  Good luck with this endless diversion…as a pinhead on twitter told me “I want to know.”

No one with a brain was ever coerced by the Russians into voting for Trump.

China Hacks America-And Few Seem to Care


It isn’t hard to imagine a time in the near future when great numbers of Americans take to the streets. Maybe the trigger would be another divisive presidential election, with half the nation refusing to accept four more years of an administration they loathe. Maybe the trigger would be impeachment hearings or a particularly controversial decision by “Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court,” such as restricting abortion.

Whatever the spark, it isn’t hard to imagine America’s intensifying domestic tensions exploding into mass riots.

Imagine how such a scenario might play out, with some “help” from outside adversaries: Governors call in the National Guard to support local law enforcement. Other military units are deployed to hundreds of cities. But law enforcement and military units are also ideologically divided, and unable to unite against the chaos. After weeks of carnage, few employees are willing to risk leaving their families for work, so businesses stop operating. Food supply chains begin breaking down. In cities, scarcity and looting become rampant.

Global markets take their worst plunges in decades, but the leaders of China and Russia look on eagerly. They quietly activate armies of hackers. Legions of operatives set to work exploiting vulnerabilities secretly planted in U.S. computer systems years earlier and locating new weak spots.

Within hours, the U.S. military suffers a global failure of communications satellites operating with Ka band frequencies. The sudden silence makes clear that the satellites have been hacked and compromised, but authorities can’t identify the origin of the assault. The Pentagon scrambles to reroute communication lines, with limited success.

Meanwhile, a dozen West Coast cities simultaneously go dark. The electric power grid has been hacked and fed poisoned code, taking numerous power stations suddenly offline. Adjoining stations shift into overdrive attempting to carry the extra burden. They fail, and secondary outages roll down from Washington to Arizona. Blackouts and brownouts begin spreading inland.

Nationwide, domestic turmoil is intensifying. City grocery stores have stood empty for weeks, and rampant hunger fuels unspeakable violence.

The Pentagon calls U.S. naval groups and submarines in to help contain the domestic chaos. Suffering from serious communications and weapons-system hacks, they fail to receive Washington’s message. Meanwhile, a fleet of American F-35s crash into the South China Sea after their vaunted Distributed Aperture Systems are hacked, leaving the pilots flying utterly blind.

America is imploding from within and under debilitating cyberattack from without. It is suddenly vulnerable to invasion.

This may sound like a far-fetched, dystopian science-fiction plot. But recent reports and trends show that such a scenario could soon become reality. And Bible prophecy reveals that America is headed for such a future.

China’s ‘Big Hack’


Bloomberg Businessweek published a bombshell report on Oct. 4, 2018, claiming that microchips the size of a grain of rice have been secretly planted on numerous server motherboards made by the hardware manufacturer Super Micro Computer Inc.

According to the report, the chips were secretly inserted at factories operated by manufacturing subcontractors in China, by operatives with direct links to the Chinese military. Bloomberg said U.S. investigators “concluded that this intricate scheme was the work of a People’s Liberation Army unit specializing in hardware attacks.”

Around 30 U.S. companies have used Supermicro’s products, including Apple and Amazon. The Department of Homeland Security, both houses of Congress and nasa have also used their chips. And the alleged hack also has alarming implications for the U.S. military. The compromised hardware, Bloomberg said, “could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the cia’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships.”

The chips were placed on the motherboards in locations that would allow attackers to remotely “alter how the device functioned, line by line, however they wanted, leaving no one the wiser,” Bloomberg wrote. “Deviously small changes could create disastrous effects.”

The report said: “This attack was something graver than the software-based incidents the world has grown accustomed to seeing. Hardware hacks are more difficult to pull off and potentially more devastating, promising the kind of long-term, stealth access that spy agencies are willing to invest millions of dollars and many years to get.”

Apple, Amazon, Supermicro, Homeland Security and others disputed the Bloomberg report, and the Chinese government denied the allegations. But even if this particular report remains unconfirmed, it is not the only time firms with suspected links to the Chinese government have come under scrutiny by the U.S. for similar activities. In May 2018, the Pentagon said no phones built by Chinese manufacturers zte and Huawei can be used on U.S. military bases. And there are ongoing congressional investigations into Facebook and Google regarding their data-sharing with Huawei. In all these scenarios, the concern is America’s national security.

On October 5, John Bolton, who leads the U.S. National Security Council, declined to confirm the hack alleged in the Bloomberg report, but he addressed the broader cyberthreat posed by China. “I don’t want to address anything that might touch on specific intelligence questions,” he told reporters. “But I will say the Chinese efforts to threaten us in cyberspace and across the information technology spectrum are a very high priority for us.”

Some experts say that since the U.S. is so dependent on computer technologies with supply chains linked to China, such threats are something America must learn to live with. “I think we’ve already kind of passed the point where we can, for national security, just insource everything,” Katie Moussouris, ceo of Luta Security, told npr on October 6. “I think we’ve passed that point at least 30 years ago.”

America’s Achilles’ Heel


 


Consider these statements delivered by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, at a Jan. 18, 2018, congressional hearing: “It’s not just that China poses a threat,” he said, “it’s that the kind of threat is unlike anything the U.S. has ever before faced.” China has “weaponized” its investments in America “in order to vacuum up U.S. industrial capabilities from American companies,” he said. China’s goal, he added, is “to turn our own technology and know-how against us in an effort to erase our national security advantage.”

In recent years, the Chinese have repeatedly engaged in acts of industrial espionage, often targeting assets that America has spent billions to develop. Theft and other more subtle, underhanded tactics have allowed China to procure U.S. software and military secrets that have long given the U.S. a battlefield edge, including the blueprints for the U.S.’s top-of-the-line F-35 fighter jets. “Again and again,” Politico wrote on May 22, “high-tech products and military equipment have popped up in China that bear a too-striking resemblance to their American counterparts.”

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, discussed the endemic problem on the Senate floor last year, saying, “China continues to steal our family jewels, the things that have made America great: the intellectual property, the know-how in the highest-end industries. It makes no sense.”

In ordinary circumstances, Schumer would be correct in saying this ongoing nation-threatening thievery of the U.S.’s most prized knowledge and assets “makes no sense.”

China’s ongoing espionage, hacking and theft of American intellectual property will equip it with the knowledge needed to spearhead this historic besiegement against the English-speaking countries.

If China has infiltrated numerous American governmental and military systems with the Supermicro chips, or even if the nation is able to keep stealing the U.S.’s vital security assets, it is or will be in position to implement a siege.

The bad news unfolding around the world today makes the powerful case, though most do not realize it, that the world needs a different type of government. It shows that the governments of West and East are failing. The bad news shows that we need a drastically more aware form of government.

China’s cyber assaults on U.S. computers and in its theft of American security secrets are a real danger that are ignored by our media who act more like bloodthirsty wolves in their pursuit of trying to hang the President.


Yours for a more secure future,

Bruce ‘the Poor Man!’

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The nations’ student loan debt has ballooned to over $1.5 trillion, the highest in U.S. history, while late fees and calls from lenders have sadly become the new normal. With the weight of student loans carried by people in their twenties and thirties, long-term debt is now delaying life’s major milestones for many millennials.

 

·         All of President Trump’s efforts to make America great again are being undermined by the Deep State…

It has become clear that Trump is not the “savior” that the liberty movement was hoping for, but many people will continue to defend him all the same because of a specific factor: The increasingly deranged political left.

Consider the endless absurdity of Russiagate; a conspiracy theory with absolutely no evidence to back it. It never seems to die despite all logic and reason, but the motives behind it are not what conservatives assume. Russiagate is a drug, a drug for leftists. They love it, they need it, it dulls the pain of their loss in 2016 and it confirms their biases. They didn't “fail” in 2016, the election was “stolen” from them by Trump and his Russian handlers. Therefore, they are now justified in any level of insanity they display in their activism and opposition. They believe they are righteous.

Three weeks from now the government shutdown fight is set to return. The mainstream media has been avidly reporting that the uncertainty is over, but this is a preposterous conclusion. What the nation faces now is even greater confusion with as the shutdown fight prepares to accelerate in February or a national emergency is declared, or both. My concern is that this is leading to conservative support for extreme measures.

What would a national emergency entail? Simply building a border wall? Building a border wall using the military? What about martial law on the border?

It seems to me that the fight between left and right is being driven beyond the information wars and beyond activism into a realm that could include actual civil war. If the current trend continues, I see no other outcome. But as always, we must ask who benefits the most from this?

While the left has gone off the deep end into cartoonland and must be stopped.

As I shared in 2016 [and was confirmed again by Sen. Lindsay Graham on the evening news last night] this nonsensical file by a disgraced MI6 agent, paid for by the DNC/Hillary Clinton and its magical reach to find “collusion” between Trump and Russia has succeeded in finding some bad players associated with his campaign and by some wishful thinking among Dems made all of us vote for Trump at the polls and somehow tainted the election.  Like sharks circling for blood they hold out hope Mueller’s team will find something that will enable them to lynch Pres. Trump…

 

Finally, grab an emergency power cell!

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Survival Gear You Should Consider-Much of it Free



Poor Man Survival

Self Reliance tools for independent minded people…


 

ISSN 2161-5543

A Digest of Urban Survival Resources

 

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

~ Mike Tyson

 


Survival Gear You Should Consider-Much of it Free

Many of the following items will stand you in good stead during these icy winter days [it is below zero as I post this] as well as in other emergency situations.

Why athletes and government operatives swear by this bar to give them the boost they need. And, why you would obviously want this bar in a crisis situation to give you as much “fuel” as possible. The bar is the MET-Rx Big 100 Colossal Meal Replacement Bar and I have six of these bars in my Escape Bag.

 MET-Rx has been in business for over 20 years producing all kinds of nutrition and energy products. One good thing about these bars is that they actually taste good, which is always a nice bonus. My favorite bar happens to be the crispy apple pie. The next food item in my Escape Bag is an actual meal. It’s essentially a TV dinner, but it doesn’t require a microwave because it’s “self-cooking.” They’re called Chef 5-Minute Meals and they come in Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Pasta Parmesan and Beef Stew, to name a few.

 Here’s how these 5-minute meals work… 1. Open the box and take everything out. 2. Open the patented salt-water solution. Pour the water on top of the heating pad, which is sitting on the white tray. 3. Put the meal face down on top of the heating pad. 4. Put everything back in the cardboard box and close it. 5. The meal will begin cooking itself and you will soon see steam coming from the box. In 5 minutes, you’ll be ready to eat. The meals taste good, are easy to make, and I have two of them in my Escape Bag. Another food item I have in my Bag is the Datrex Emergency Survival 2400 Calorie Food Ration Bar.

As you remember, Datrex is the company that makes the water pouches, and they also make these survival bars. These bars are used by the U.S. Coast Guard and have a 5-year shelf life. Surprisingly, these bars aren’t too bad and taste like a cookie

You Need a knife. There are a lot of companies that make solid knives such as Benchmade, Cold Steel, KA-BAR, Spyderco, Gerber, and Kershaw.

 I would be confident carrying a knife from any one of these companies. But the knife I have in my Escape Bag is made in the USA, more specifically, Idaho. It has a blade made of 1095 high carbon steel. This means it holds an edge very well and is tough enough for prying, chopping, and other activities. It has a full tang, which means the knife is one solid piece of steel and so can take a beating and not fall apart.

In a crisis situation you never know what you’re going to be using your knife for. You don’t want to worry about the blade snapping off if you’re using it to pry a door open to save someone’s life. This is why the knife in my Escape Bag is the Baghdad Bullet by TOPS Knives. The Baghdad Bullet has a 3.5-inch blade and a weight of only 4.4 ounces. It comes with a plastic Kydex sheath, which you can adjust to fit on your belt in several different positions. I know there are some people who think the 3.5-inch blade is too small and it won’t be able to do much chopping or hacking. This knife will be able to handle many tasks but because the purpose of the Escape Bag is to keep you alive in all types of circumstances, I also have another weapon for hacking and chopping.

BASIC BUG OUT KNIFE

There are dozens if not hundreds or knifes that meet our needs.  This is everything from the Rat-3 to the Morakniv 511 Basic.

Let’s be honest, price is a factor.  If someone is outfitting several packs with basic gear, they probably do not want to spend $100 for a single knife.

The reader may be wondering what knife I am outfitting my brag and go packs with.  There are two knives I am using for my basic load out:

·         Morakniv 511 Basic

·         Morakniv Robust

·         Morakniv Craftline 746

 

The 511 and Robust have a carbon blade, while the Craftline 746 has a stainless blade. The knives cost anywhere from $10 – $20 each. For example, I recently found two Morakniv 511 Basic knives on sale for $16. $8 for a pack knife with the reputation of Morakniv is difficult to beat.

 
The Leatherman comes with a pair of pliers and the following tools too: • Needle-nose Pliers • Regular Pliers • Hard-wire Cutters • Wire Cutters • Wire Stripper • 420HC Knife FIELD MANUAL #1: SURVIVE FURIOUS MOBS 23 • 420HC Serrated Knife • Saw • Spring-action Scissors • Ruler (8 in | 19 cm) • Can Opener • Bottle Opener • Wood/Metal File • Diamond-coated File • Large Bit Driver • Small Bit Driver • Medium Screwdriver Gerber also makes a decent multi-tool but Leatherman is the “gold standard” for multi-tools.

I’ve searched all over the Internet and compiled a list of all the free survival gear I could find. They come mostly from four companies: Ape Survival, Survival Frog, Survival Kit, and Survival Life. You can see the complete list of free survival items below.

You'll find these organized by category in case there’s a certain type of item you’re looking for. If you learn about any free survival products that aren’t on this page, please let me know!  Here is the list:

Books and DVDs


 Alive After Crisis – Not sure how to survive a major crisis? Grab this survival guide while it’s still free. It will teach you everything you need to know.

*NEW!* • AR-308 DVD – Learn how to build your own untraceable AR-10 style semi-automatic sniper rifle completely legally.

 Avoiding The Eye – Sick of the government tracking your every move? This book teaches you how to reclaim your privacy.

 Active Shooter Survival – Learn to identify, react, and defend yourself and your family during an active shooter event.

 Bulletproof Home Security System – This guide explains how to turn your home into an impenetrable fortress.

 Compact Garden Blueprint – Learn how to grow over 100 pounds of organic, safe food from a 4 x 4 foot garden.

 Family Survival System – Learn how to protect your family before the world economy crashes and burns.

 Financial Armageddon – If you want to be ready for the next economic crash, which could happen at any time, this book will show you how.

 Wire Tapped America – CIA informant expresses how “they” are watching you and how you can stop it.

Fire Starters


 EverStryke Match – A waterproof Ferro rod lighter that is good for up to 15,000 strikes.

 Everystryke Pro – A mini lighter that works even if it’s completely submerged in water.

 Fire Shoe Laces – These shoe laces are made of 500 paracord, and they come with a striker plate and flint lace tips so you can use them to start a fire.

 Fire Striker – A 4-in-1 tool with a magnesium fire starter, a saw, a compass, and an emergency whistle.

 FireKable – A durable paracord bracelet with a built-in Ferro rod and striker.

 Optic Fire Starter – A credit card sized magnifying glass that works as a fire starter.

 Stormproof Matches – Once lit, it’s hard for these matches to go out. Even after being submerged underwater, they will start burning again on their own.

Firearms


 Firearms Survival Guide – Learn how to protect your gun rights an gain your ammo independence no matter what the gun grabbers try to do.

*NEW!* • Ghost Glock – This DVD teaches you how to legally build a glock 9mm handgun in less than an hour.

 Gun Magnet – Attach this magnet the the underside of a desk or table. It will hold your gun in place, and then you can quickly grab your gun if there’s in intruder.

 TacHoney Gun Oil – Use this honey-based oil to clean, lubricate, and protect your firearms.

 Undetectable Arms – DVD that teaches you step by step how to legally build your own undetectable Glock handgun at home in under an hour.

*NEW!* • Underground AR-15 – This DVD contains instructions on how to legally build an “underground assault rifle” at home.

Flashlights


 Ghost Vapor Flashlight – A bright, high-quality tactical flashlight.

 HyBeam Tactical Flashlight – The original HyBeam mini flashlight that can also be used as a weapon.

 Q5 TACLITE – A small, heavy-duty flashlight with aircraft grade aluminum construction and adjustable zoom up to 1100 feet.

 XT808 Flashlight – This military grade flashlight is insanely bright considering how small it is.

Miscellaneous


 72 Hour Kit – Food4Patriots is giving away free 72 hour kits in hopes that you’ll fall in love with their freeze dried food, and you just might. It’s really good!

*NEW!* • Bullet Bottle Opener – This is exactly what it sounds like: a bottle opener in the shape of a big bullet. If you like guns and drink bottled beer, this is a must have.

*NEW!* • Carbon Secure Wallet – This stylish EDC wallet will protect your cards from digital pickpockets.

 Card SafeGuard – If you’re ever in public, you risk having your debit and/or credit card stolen by an RFID scanner. This device will protect you.

 Emergency Survival Blanket – A Mylar blanket that can be used for staying warm, making shelter, collecting water, and more.

 iPac T-Shirt – A shirt that lets you proclaim your second amendment rights.

 Playing Cards – These aren’t your ordinary playing cards; they also have survival tips printed on them. This is a fun way to review and teach important survival info.

 RFID Blocker – Stop someone from scanning and stealing your credit card information by putting this in your wallet.

 Survival Straw – Drink water directly from the source with this straw. It can filter 1500 liters.

 Survival Superfood – Get a free sample of this super nutritious powdered meal replacement shake. Extremely long shelf life!

Paracord


 FireKable Paracord Bracelet – A stylish paracord bracelet with a built in Ferro rod and striker.

 Paracord Grenade – A survival kit with 10 feet of paracord, a carabiner, a fire starter, tinder, and a mini straw.

 Paracord Survival Kit – This kit comes with a knife, a fire starter, tinder, fishing line, fishing hooks, and more.

 Patriotic Paracord Bracelet – A paracord bracelet in red, white, and blue with a built in whistle.

Tools / Weapons


 7 in 1 Survival Whistle – A multitool with a whistle, light, compass, thermometer, mirror, magnifying glass, and storage container.

 Auto Safety Tool – An auto bailout tool with a whistle, glass breaker, and seat belt cutter.

*NEW!* • Carabiner Knife – Replace your ordinary carabiner with one that includes a knife, a screwdriver, a bottle opener, and more.

 Credit Card Knife – A surprisingly durable knife that fits in your wallet until you unfold it.

 EDT Mini Multitool – A mini multitool that comes with a knife, a screwdriver, a can opener, pliers, and more.

 Knife Belt – A sturdy belt with a steel knife and bottle opener built into the buckle. Detaches quickly and easily yet it’s not noticeable at all.

 Master Tool Kit – This mini tool kit has 26 life-saving functions including a saw, firestarters, screwdrivers, and more.

 Rescue Card – A multitool that fits in your wallet. It has a knife, a saw blade, a screwdriver, a can opener, a bottle opener, and more.

 Stinger Spy Pen – A high-quality tactical pen that even writes underwater.

 Survival Business Card – A wallet-size multitool that includes a knife, screwdriver, wrench, bottle opener, ruler, and more.

 Survival Saw – This saw easily fits in your bug out bag, yet it can cut down a fairly large tree. This is essential for wilderness survival.

*NEW!* • Undetectable Dagger – A self-defense dagger made of ceramic so it can get past metal detectors. It is small but surprisingly durable.


Yours for a more secure future,

Bruce ‘the Poor Man!’


Final Notes…

Contributors and subscribers enable the Poor Man Survivor to post 150+ free essays annually. It is for this reason they are Heroes and Heroines of New Media. Without your financial support, the free content would disappear for the simple reason that I cannot keep body and soul together on my meager book sales & ecommerce alone.

 










 

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Also, grab an emergency power cell!

Having the Patriot Power Cell on-hand for emergencies keeps your essential electronics up and running in case you need to call for help. 

“The Cell is a workhorse of power — it’ll charge your phone soup to nuts 3 to 8 times… I think of the Patriot Power Cell as “everyday prepared.” Awesome for travel or avoiding inconveniences while saving your bacon in an outage. It’s a MUST HAVE for your survival lineup."

10,000 mAh Battery/Water Resistant/2 LED Flashlight/1.5 Watt Solar Panel/6-Hour Charge Time

Support our efforts by shopping my storefront…


 

 

Additional Resources



 

How to Survive the War on the Middle Class

14 of the best reports I’ve assembled on protecting your freedom-Download link.


 



 


 


 

Social Chaos Survival Guide: Savvy Precautions To Make You Self-Reliant


 

 

 

A Smoking Frog Feature, Shallow Planet Production