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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Erase Your Facebook Data, Media Hits the Panic Button Over Coronavirus


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How to Erase Data Facebook Collects About You


 A vital security measure you should have in place if you use Facebook or any app associated with the social networking behemoth.

Basically, after facing criticism over privacy and data breaches, Facebook created a privacy tool called Off-Facebook Activity, which gives users more control of their data collected by the company.

In other words, this is information Facebook has collected about you from other websites, information that can contain more personal information than you ever want to share.

So, here is how you delete this information from Facebook:

To access Off-Facebook Activity tool:

· Go to “Settings & Privacy” in your Facebook app, then select “Settings”

· Select “Off-Facebook Activity.” On the next screen, you are provided with a list of all the websites and apps that have shared your data with Facebook.

· Select “Clear History” to remove all the information collected about you from other websites.

However, by clearing the history you may be logged out of certain websites where you have used your Facebook login.

In this same section of Facebook settings, you can download activity details by clicking on the number of interactions and clicking Download Activity Details at the bottom of the popup.

Of course, this feature won’t stop websites from collecting data about you, however, by clearing the history you can disassociate your Facebook account from other websites.

When it comes to advertising, websites love to get your Facebook information because it contains so many personal details, but this simple step will help reduce the sharing of your personal information if you clear the history often.

(Or, like me, just don’t use Facebook at all.)

 



At the Event 201 simulation, held in New York last October, a coronavirus killed 65 million people.

15 experts with varying backgrounds -- from business, government, and health -- sat around a table to plan the global response to a worldwide outbreak of a freakishly unprecedented -- coronavirus.

The event was put on through a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And, strangely…

It was a training exercise with disturbing similarities to COVID-19 -- the Chinese virus that’s gone global.

During the simulation, the virus, called CAPS, infected people all across the globe within six months…

And by 18 months, despite their best efforts to contain it, it had killed 65 million people and caused a total global financial collapse.
How to Prepare For Coronavirus (Plus, Should You Freak Out?) 

After hours upon hours of sifting through research…

We’ve found the best “short-list” for you.

To his credit, Mike Cernovich has written the most level-headed “prepper” piece on the coronavirus.

You can 
check it out here.

The short version, to give you an idea of the bare-bones essentials:
Food list

  • 50 pound bag of dry rice for every 3 people
  • 20 pound bag of dried lentil
  • 50 gallons of water
  • Spices for cooking
  • Coconut oil
  • Good flashlight

·         With this rapidly evolving outbreak, the CDC has done its best to stay in control of the rhetoric of keeping the public informed. Their main focus was to stay cautiously alert and keep the public calm, but as of today, they have significantly shifted their official statement and there is no denying the fact that coronavirus will come to communities in the U.S.

·         “Ultimately, we expect we will see community spread in the United States,” Nancy Messonnier, a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters. “It’s not a question of if this will happen but when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses.” (Source)

 

Let’s NOT all hop aboard the panic band wagon…

 


 


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PARTING THOUGHTS, Resources

The human race has been bugging out for thousands of years. History is filled with stories of entire civilizations abandoning their homelands due to wars, pandemics, and natural disasters. It’s nothing new, and neither are the natural and manmade disasters that plague us to this day.

 We live in a time when the continent of Australia is literally on fire, when wars are measured in decades rather than years, and when rogue countries are ruled by the rage of animal instinct. If that doesn't motivate you to build a bug out bag, nothing will.

Perhaps the most critical consideration for any evacuation is the duration. If you’re evacuating for a short period of time due to a natural disaster, your bug out preparations could be as simple as a 72-hour kit, as FEMA calls it. If the duration is long-term, everything gets more complicated, especially if it's a manmade disaster like war, terrorism, or economic collapse... 



Question motive before I accept “evidence”

My profession is active deception through selective manipulative and misdirection.

When I want to convince someone of a lie for my benefit, I use psychological tools, magician-like skills of illusion, misdirection and substitution, and the power of persuasion.

I infuse my falsifications into descriptions, I refer to non-existent ‘facts’ as though there were universally accepted truths, and I employ reliance and veracity based on untrue references to someone or some belief that they hold as a high authority.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Your School is Indoctrinating Children into Socialism


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Your school is indoctrinating children to socialism

Educators know if they can shape the next generation, they can reshape society.


People are beginning to wake up to what has happened to American education. But they are waking up a couple generations too late.

For most of American history, schoolchildren learned reading, writing and arithmetic. They studied history, especially their own history, for several hours every week. They obeyed their teachers, and their teacher graded them based on their performance. They were rewarded for good behavior, punished for bad behavior, and taught the difference based on a tradition that traced back to the Bible. They were taught that opportunity included accountability. They pledged allegiance to the flag.

For a schoolchild of the 1950s and before, reading this description of American school life would be about as surprising as a paragraph about the sky being blue and the grass being green. But in 2020, it sounds like a description of another world.

School entrances had no metal detectors; school hallways had no drug-sniffing dogs; students did not hit teachers; teachers did not get romantically involved with students. Textbooks did not teach prepubescent children about “alternative” sexual behaviors. Boys competed against other boys. Girls competed against other girls. Boys used one bathroom; girls used another.

In recent generations, American education has drastically changed. At first, it seemed it had just weakened. Academic performance declined, quality of instruction declined, behavior declined, the overall quality of high school graduates declined. Americans reacted with a collective shrug of the shoulders, a shaking of the head, and a That’s a shame.

And it was. More than they knew. Now the decline has become a dive—a dive that is being propelled downward, not just by gravity but by an ideological agenda.The Agenda

Jump from the 1950 classroom to the 2020 classroom: Students whose clothes smell like marijuana, knives and guns in backpacks, sex under the bleachers, scorn from students, bruises on teachers, pride for debauchery, hatred for standards, and so much more. Forget about knowing multiplication tables, who James Madison was, or how supply and demand work.

Much of this comes from unrestrained human nature. But even there, you have to ask, what happened to the restraints? And weren’t some of those restraints good? The authority of the traditional American school is being replaced by a new authority—with restraints of its own.

Passé are virtues like patriotism, responsibility, honesty, courtesy, obedience, chastity and reverence. The new virtues are environmental consciousness, multiculturalism, opposition to patriarchy and white privilege, anti-colonialism, forced economic equality and transgender advocacy.

‘How Important Is It to Be Right?’


Does your child go to school in Seattle? If so, he or she is under the authority of a school system that has partially implemented a new rubric for K-12 teachers that stuffs as many references to advocacy, agency, appropriation, disenfranchisement, empowerment, exploitation, feelings, identity, liberation, oppression, origins, power, resistance, validation and “people of color” as possible into three pages. What subject does this “ethnic studies framework” govern?

Math.

This policy compels instructors to teach that “math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color” and that “technology and/or science have been and continue to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.” Students will “identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.” They will learn “the ways in which individuals and groups define mathematical knowledge so as to see ‘Western’ mathematics as the only legitimate expression of mathematical identity and intelligence,” and how white people use this “to disenfranchise people and communities of color.”

You might think your child is going to math class to learn fractions, long division, sines, cosines and tangents, but instead he or she will be asking, “How important is it to be right? What is right? Says who?” “Who gets to say if an answer is right?” “Where does power and oppression show up in our math experiences?” “Who holds power in a mathematical classroom?” “Can I recognize and name oppressive mathematical practices in my experience?” “Can I advocate against oppressive mathematical practices?”
In New York City, the nation’s largest school system of 1,800 schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s task force is calling for students to no longer be evaluated by their attendance, character and knowledge as revealed in auditions, attendance records, interviews and standardized tests. It is attempting to phase out gifted-and-talented programs. In Los Angeles, the Compton Unified School District and others are suing the University of California because it requires applicants to take standardized tests (the sat or act). The plaintiffs say this violates their civil rights and illegally discriminates against students who are disabled, low-income, multilingual or “of color.”

These are just a few examples of the radicalization of public-school curricula in America and many other nations. Educators are teaching the next generation leftist views that depict the West, especially America, as oppressive, hate-filled and genocidal. They are exalting wealth redistribution and socialism while condemning free markets. They are encouraging students to become environmental activists. They are teaching radical views about sexuality, normalizing transgenderism, gender fluidity and sexual experimentation.

These educators realize something that too many others have taken for granted: The minds of children are worth fighting for. Leftists are using education to shape the next generation into tomorrow’s activists and radicals. They recognize that implanting these politicized social concepts into young minds will reshape society.Teach Children to Hate Thanksgiving

While the Seattle example has only been partially implemented, “Deep Equity” is a curriculum already being used in school districts across the country—even Middle America locales like West Des Moines, Iowa, and Chandler, Arizona. A California for-profit education company called Corwin developed this curriculum, which teaches that America exists as a hierarchy of oppressions. Students are learning to categorize white people into “white identity orientations.” “Fundamentalist white identity” consists of denial, ignorance and supremacy; “integrationist white identity” consists of awareness/curiosity, guilt and paternalism/compliance; and “transformationist white identity” consists in part of “systemic power shift.” They are learning that if you are a good white person, you will follow the steps of the “White Allies Action Agenda,” which include “acknowledge the reality of white racial privilege” and “use your privilege to work for racial and social justice.”

Corwin-educated students are instructed to “explicitly reject and resist any attempts by anyone in our school district or in the larger community”—such as parents—who reject its racial doctrine.

Meanwhile, last November was “Native American Heritage Month” at Portland Public Schools, Oregon’s largest school district. Students were taught to attack Thanksgiving Day and read from A Young People’s History of the United States, a book that characterizes all natives as generous and saintly and all settlers from Europe as greedy and violent. Christopher Columbus, for example, was “hungry for money,” so “as soon as he arrived in the islands, he seized some Arawaks by force so that he could get information from them” to answer “Where is the gold?” This was “the start of the history of the Europeans in the Americas. It was a history of conquest, slavery and death.” This book aims to tell “the story of the discovery of America from the point of view of the Arawaks” and the story of the Constitution “from the point of view of the slaves,” and so on.

Eighth graders read, “The tragedy of Columbus and the Arawaks happened over and over again. Spanish conquerors Herman Cortés and Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of South America. When English settlers reached Virginia and Massachusetts, they did the same thing to the Indians they met.”

One resource the school district recommends for celebrating Native American Heritage Month is a video produced by Teen Vogue in which the director has arranged six angry-looking Native American teenage girls behind a table with a traditional Thanksgiving meal. They inform student viewers, “The true story behind Thanksgiving was, after every killing of a whole village, these European settlers celebrated it, and called it Thanksgiving.” It says those who keep Thanksgiving “are actually celebrating the deaths of many people, and many tribes that were lost.” They end by saying, “Happy Thanksgiving, America,” and flipping over the Thanksgiving table.

Thousands of young students went to their family’s Thanksgiving dinner this year after being instructed that it is a celebration of genocide. I’m sure the people behind this curriculum would be quite pleased if those young teens ended up lecturing their parents about genocide, war crimes and cultural appropriation. They might not be too disappointed if the kids flipped the table.

How pernicious. Of all the holidays celebrated in America, this is the one that focuses on a positive virtue, on an important aspect of healthy thinking: thanksgiving—being grateful for your blessings. What a vivid illustration of the toxicity of the leftist agenda that it is being twisted into an excuse to hate your country and to view your God-given blessings as evidence of racist oppression.Teach Children Activism

American schoolchildren are also learning “climate literacy.” According to a 2016 Portland Public Schools resolution, all schools must “develop and implement curriculum that addresses climate change and climate justice” and must “abandon the use of any adopted text material that is found to express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis or its root in human activities.” It teaches children that entire economies must be redefined, that the fossil-fuel era must end, and that they must be activists and leaders for social justice and environmental justice.

What is “social justice”? Facing the Future, an education group, defines it as “the movement towards eliminating oppression and ultimately achieving equality in the distribution of goods and wealth among all groups in a society.”

If you think this is just about economics or even race, you are wrong. Activists, agents of the government, and businesses for profit are teaching young American students “activism,” “collectivism,” “equality in the distribution of goods and wealth” and “resistance.” This is how you teach a generation socialism and communism.

In many ways, the trend in education leans pro-socialist, anti-free market. Educators are eliminating competition, awarding trophies for participation rather than winning, and rejecting letter grades in favor of performance reviews. Curricula are replacing hard sciences and mathematics with social studies.

Little wonder that a 2018 Gallup poll showed that a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds have a positive view of socialism versus capitalism: 55 percent to 45 percent.

Young American students are taught “activism,” “collectivism,” “equality in the distribution of goods and wealth” and “resistance.” This is how you teach a generation socialism.

The love for socialism is matched by—and depends entirely on—historical illiteracy. History is taught less and less, and when it is, it is of the “Thanksgiving celebrates genocide” type, demonizing Western civilization.

A November 6 Telegraph article referred to a recent poll of 16-to-24-year-olds in the UK conducted by Survation. “It found that 28 percent had never heard of Stalin, almost half had never heard of Lenin, and an astonishing 70 percent had never heard of Mao Tse Tung, whose regime was responsible for more deaths through murder and famine than any other in the 20th century.”

Such ignorance is a tragedy. Those invaluable lessons of history were written at staggering cost, and we are casting them aside. An uneducated generation is now rushing to repeat history’s bloodiest errors.Teaching at Home Vs. at School

A group in Kentucky called the Nehemiah Institute conducts an annual test of high school students to identify their beliefs regarding politics, economics, education, religion and social issues—and whether they agree with the Bible. This test determines which of four categories students’ worldviews fit: biblical theism, moderate Christian, secular humanism or socialism. The test in 2015 showed that, in the words of Dayspring Christian Academy, “90 percent of students from Christian homes attending public schools score in a range that indicates that their views are firmly grounded in basic tenets of secularism.”

In other words, the teaching at schools is more powerful than the teaching at home.

How critical is the education of our children! These leftist educators are taking it seriously. Proverbs 22:6 states, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” This is what God tells parents: We have a duty to train them, while young, in the way they should go to prepare them for success in life. These educators are applying this principle for perverse ends. They know that if they can implant radical concepts into young minds, they will retain them for life and thus refashion society.

If we are to train our children in the way they should go, we must know that way. Far too many parents do not, and are thus allowing educators to move in and fill young minds with error.



Yours in Freedom,

Bruce ‘the PoorMan’


PARTING THOUGHTS, Resources

20 Signs You Are Spending Too Much on Groceries


If you have developed some bad grocery shopping habits, or fall prey to some techniques used by supermarkets to get you to spend more, your food bill may be higher than it needs to be. Here are 20 bad shopping habits you should kick to save money.

  

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Monday, February 24, 2020

Cell Phone Alternatives During Emergencies


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Cell Phone Alternatives During Emergencies

When it comes to an emergency: your cell phone probably won't work.

 

Yes, those networks have backup generators... but that doesn't matter.

 

See, the first thing people do in a big emergency (and that could be a power outage, wildfires, a flood or hurricane, or just about anything that affects a large area) is call their loved ones.

 

Almost nobody owns a land line any more, so that means all those people are calling on the wireless telephone grid at once... and that crashes the grid faster than you can say "Can you hear me now?"

 

Now, even though people forget about the cell phone grid going down in a disaster, this isn't the "commo" mistake I mentioned - it's just the cause.

 

The mistake is actually something a lot of us make when trying to gear up to solve the problem!

 

Avoiding The Survival "Commo" Mistake

 

When I was in the military (where I was a "forward observer", among other things), "commo" was a term for communications equipment.

 

Soldiers have to be able to talk to each other and their commanders to be effective on the battlefield, where communication is life.

 

And you and I have to be able to talk to each other to coordinate our survival and prepping activities if we're in the same group (or trying to get help from other groups)... right?


Well, there are three different areas of communications you should have covered for survival:

 

1. 2-Way Radios

 

A lot of preppers carry GMRS/FRS radios.

 

These two-way "walkie talkies" are great for communications among members of your family or group.

 

They work even if the cellphone grid is down because they don't depend on an outside tower and, while they're "public" to anyone else on your channel, there are a lot of channels.

 

Having a set of these so that members of your party can talk to each other when in close proximity just makes sense.

 

But just know that they're not very strong, so they don't have much range. 

 

2. Police Scanner

 

When an emergency happens, first responders, police, fire, and other EMS services are going to be very active.

 

If you can listen in on what they're doing, you can get advance notice of important events and threats.

 

(This will give you the advantage when it comes to bugging out, and allow you to make better survival decisions.)

 

Many police scanners are "base stations", which means they're meant to sit on a desk, so you'll want to make sure you pick up portable model instead.

 

There's another portable solution, though - "outlaw" programmable Chinese radios, like the "Baofeng" radios, that are... well, pretty much illegal.

 

In a real widespread disaster, one of these programmable radios might be just what you need to stay in touch with members of your family or survival group... while doing double duty as a scanner for your local police and EMS frequencies.

 

They give you a lot of options and, depending on the antenna and battery pack you choose, a lot of power.

 

Right now, you can still buy them, but you need a special license to use them if you don't want to get in trouble.

 

That's because, while they let you listen to lots of frequencies, they also transmit on frequencies that you and I aren't supposed to be on.

 

(Some of these can even "step on" emergency services calls, which is very much not good!)

 

3. AM/FM Radio

 

The third thing you have to have to keep survival covered is an AM/FM radio.

 

You need to have some way to learn about what's going on in the outside world.

 

Even in a widespread power outage or other disaster, your local AM/FM stations have backup generators and will be broadcasting important alerts. 

 

The Emergency Broadcast System will be transmitting through them, too.

 

But that brings me to 1 simple mistake a lot of people make when gearing up for survival communications, and it really comes down to your choice of AM/FM radio.

 

Lots of people already know they need one... but they go too big when they buy it, because so many of the survival radios on the market are freaking HUGE.

 

Especially if you have to bug out and take your stuff with you, space and weight are really going to matter.

If your survival radio is too big, in other words, it isn't convenient for moving around, and it uses up space in your pack that could be devoted to other, critical gear.

 

That's why, for survival and bugging out, you want an AM/FM radio that's as small as possible.

 

Yours for a Socialist-Free America!

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

 

USEFUL STUFF…

 


 

The self-proclaimed socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

Why is he so dangerous?

Let’s take a look at . . .

Where Bernie Sanders Stands on the Issues:

First, he is the creator of the “Medicare-for-All” bill. This plan is estimated to cost about $3.3 trillion a year and would basically make all private health insurance in the U.S. illegal.

This includes any insurance you currently get through your employer.

So where would you go for insurance?

To the government . . . a single payer system.


He also is proposing a $16 trillion climate change plan as part of the Green New Deal he co-sponsored with AOC.

This plan would ban all fracking and sets 2050 as the deadline for the U.S. to reach net-zero carbon emissions.

It would also impose new stricter regulations on energy, driving up the price of oil and gas you pay at the pump.

He also proposes to roll back President Trump’s tax cuts and increase corporate tax rates back to 35% from the current rate of 21%.

When you do the math, you can see that amounts to a 40% hit to corporate profits . . . and a likely 40% DROP in the stock market and your 401(k).

Why You Should Never Charge Your Phone in Rental Cars


Wilderness Survival Tools You Should Always Have
Whether you are an avid camper or hiker or you are preparing for a case where you may find yourself stuck in the wilderness, there a 9 tools you should always have in your survival kit. Read more here.

11 Things You Need to Have Ready When the Power Grid Fails
There is always a threat of power grid failure whether it be at the hands of a natural disaster or that of a foreign entity wanting to wreak havoc on our nation. Here are 11 critical things you need to have ready in case that happens. Read more here.

 


Cowboys had it good when they were in camp, and they had easy access to everything they needed on the Chuck Wagon, but when they headed out on the trail, it was a different story.

 On the trail, it was just them and what they could carry on their horse. A lot of the survival items they carried would be considered old school today, but if there’s one lesson we’ve learned from history it’s that the old ways endure.

 Let’s take a look at what a cowboy took out on the trail. In the following video, Sensible Prepper talks about 10 items cowboys took with them on the trail. Here they are...

 


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