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Why We Homeschool Part 9 – They REALLY Want Our Children!
“We start with ‘their’ kids … that is why we homeschool. They will always attack the vulnerable, just like a pack of Jackals attacking the young antelope from behind. The cowardly always were always thus … sneaking around after dark, attacking the unsuspecting from behind and always after the children.
You are responsible for the little humans God gave you. You MUST protect them from the Satanic Jackals who want to have them starting in kindergarten.
Homeschooling is the only answer you can trust at this point.
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Ways to Avoid the Corona Virus
We have received ‘official’ information about how the corona works and ways to prevent the virus from getting at you.
- Seated … especially in a restaurant. Standing and eating is very dangerous, but seating is safe.
- Plexiglass! The Corona cannot get around plexiglass. It is a miracle invisible barrier that prevents the virus from finding anyway of getting at you. Miracle I tell you …
- Cotton. Homemade masks of any sort will definitely stop corona … tight weave, loose weave does not matter. The only thing that matter is that you make it into a mask shape. Corona is completely baffled and blocked by cotton.
- Outdoors. As long as you are in a group of 5 or less, the C cannot get you. Over 5 and yer all gonna die!
- Floor Circles. If you stand on a floor circle … it’s like ‘home free.’ The virus knows the rules of this game and will not get you, but you MUST be standing on the circle.
- Arrows. As long as you go down the isle in the correct direction, Corona will not attack you. Going the wrong way down an isle and you are giving up your right to life.
- Walmart. When this is all said and done, Walmart should be declared the 8th wonder of the world. Not only is Wallyworld open, but it is teaming with people … all crawling over each other to get TP. Corona does not work in Walmart making it one of the safest places in America now.
Real ways to deal with the Corona:
- Sleep. Does not need elaboration. Work on both amount and quality of sleep
- Eat real food. Stop with all the processed crap
- Get outside into the sun. Vit D is KEY to your bodies defenses
- Exercise. Our bodies were made to be used. Use it!
- Wash your hands. This is about the only ‘official’ recommendation that we know from history works. We are so prone to putting our hands onto our faces. Clean hands will stop moving any virus (or other badies) into our mouths.
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2020 Election Loss is Trump’s Fault
As it sits today, Trump will lose the 2020 election. All the ‘votes’ have not been counted yet, but the Democrat game plan is clear. Oh, Trump will challenge things in court and there may even be a few small wins for Trump in the courts, but both the Dems and the Swampy Repubs want Trump out.
So we will have confusion and ‘irregularities’ and a lot of crying and shouting right up until Creepy Joe is crowned king by his masters … and then the decline will really pick up speed.
Why are Trump and the Republicans responsible for both this confusion and ultimately the loss?
Four years.
Trump had for years to clean up America. He talked big about ‘draining the swamp’ but did not actually accomplish it. Warmonger and corporate Republicans needed to be weeded out. That didn’t happen. We all know that Democrats don’t follow laws or rules. They create rules for you, but they are exempt. They must always be seen in those terms, so we don’t expect anything more from them … but the rogue Republicans should have been reigned in.
Following are some areas of obvious failure by Trump, and which have turned into the largest driving forces behind this election.
The Media. The MSM is the single greatest enemy of the people in America today. They are Satan’s mouthpiece. Everything they do undermines what is holy, good and beautiful in the world. They have covered for Creepy Bejing Biden for years, and now they will crown him king. At some point in the next few days, one of the major media outlets will declare Joe the winner and the rest will quickly follow. This will be the end. Trump ridiculed them all the time, but did nothing to stop them. He had both the power and the money to stand up to them, and chose to just make fun of them. Why? Did he underestimate their power? Did he naively believe that they would eventually come to love him? Did he honestly believe that FOX was on his side? He chose his method of attack (ridicule) and allowed them to continue to lie to Americans for 4 years, and now with Joe they will have unlimited power.
Fauci. Never let a snake sleep in your bed. Trump allowed this Democrat mouthpiece into the halls of power knowing who and what he is. What a mistake! At every turn, no matter what Trump did, Facuci would get a little jab in. It was death by a 1000 tiny cuts. You watch … once Joe is reigning, Fauci will come out and say all kinds of things about how he ‘told Trump’ but his advice was not followed. This is as predictable as the dawn. The pandemic, through the media, has become one of the top concerns for Americans this year. Trump should have had the good sense to dump Fauci early and get a Doc in who he could trust. The pandemic was a juggernaut on the horizon and needed to be controlled. In the end Trump allowed Fauci to be in control, and it cost America in a way that can never be calculated.
Social Media. It’s hard to know who has done more damage to America: the social media giants or the mainstream media. Certainly it was a tag team that worked well. Forget about the Section 230 nonsense and hinted threats by Trump. That was clearly nothing more than a bluff … and apparently they all knew it. Trump and the ruling Repub’s allowed Twitter and Facebook to control the conservative message in such a way that in the end, when a real message needed to get out (Hunter’s laptop,) the social media giants were able to completely suppress the story. Trump watched as conservative after conservative was banned or silenced and he did nothing. My guess is that as long as he still had his Twitter, he would allow them to continue. It’s almost like they had a deal. Once China moves into the White House, the social media giants will finish off any dissenting voices that may still be on the webs. Gab, Bitchute and a few other minor players will still be an option, but the vast majority of everyday Americans will never move to those sites and they will continue to be the echo chamber they already are. With more and more using cell phones for their internet consumption today, social media will continue to increase in power. They will continue to push their morally evil agenda, propping up whatever talking head who supports them and banning any who call them out. That battle is lost.
All this being said, Trump did win a few battles.
- The Supreme Court being controlled by more conservative judges is huge.
- The economy and jobs = huge.
- No new wars = amazing … I would never have predicted this one!
- Avoiding the whole ‘green agenda’ for 4 yrs. Well done!
There are a few big wins, but not enough to stop the tide of evil that will roll over America in the next 4 yrs.
What does all this mean for you and your family?
1st of all. No despair. If you turned off your TV and shut down your internet, you would hardly know anything was happening. Your everyday life can go on unaffected.
Exit Satan’s system in every way you can!
- Worship God. Trust Him to be in control!
- Grow your family
- Build your compound … your sanctuary away from the world
- Deepen the friendships you have with those you can trust
- Shorten your supply lines by buying local
- Eat and grow your own food
- Buy seeds … not TV’s
- Homeschool
- Private health care
- Take care of your own elderly
- Create your own social networks
- Enjoy the good and beautiful things in the world
In short, you can both survive and thrive in a America controlled by evil. Don’t play their game. Live outside the system. Create your own rules and abide by them. Stay off their radar.
Message me here or on Twitter if you want to connect and exchange ideas.
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When to Burn the Bridges
Confession. I’m a burn the bridges kinda guy. It’s how I’m wired. However, after a few years here on earth, I’ve learned to temper my burning desires in some situations.
When to Burn Away
Burning sometimes needs to happen when you are dealing with people. Friends, oftentimes family, sometimes spouses need to be burnt outta your life for you to move ahead. Typically these are interpersonal relationships. If they are:
- Needy
- Negative
- Untrustworthy
- Progressive
- Judgmental/Critical of everything
- Drunkard
- Busybody
- Users
Oh, this list can go on forever … basically, if they are dragging you down instead of building you up = burn ’em. Get those people out of your life. If you can’t trust them in battle to have your back, eventually they will hurt you; could be physically, but most certainly mentally. You already know who they are …
Don’t Burn – Leave the Way Intact
I have discovered that there are certain situations where you might need to distance yourself, but you don’t want to eliminate a way back.
This is primarily in the business setting.
We often burn bridges to companies as if the people working there are the company themselves. In the past I’ve burnt companies because I didn’t like the person I was dealing with. Then later found that many people had not liked dealing with that person and he/she had been eliminated by the company … except now I’m on the outside because I had treated the company as if they were just that person.
Same can happen in a work setting. Your boss or coworker might be a total life suck. You definitely have to decide just how much you will take, but understand that if they are truly a sh!tty person, they will eventually be eliminated anyway. You might have to bide your time rather than burning it all down.
Caveat. Some companies are built from the ground up as ‘progressive’ … these should be burnt out of your life. They can’t change because their identity is built on the premise of hate as a founding ideology. This is different than the case of a crappy human working in a decent company. If the mission statement is written in a way that you are a target instead of a client = burn baby burn.
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Sounds Like Racism
Photo from https://www.canadagoose.com/en/beyond/resource-centres-cambridge-bay/ You can never expect Progressives and more precisely Canada’s State Broadcaster (CBC) to ever tell the truth … at least not on purpose.
But when you read between the lines of this story about the postal service in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, knowing that CBC is lying, you can get a better picture of what is really happening.
“I was accused of being a racist because somebody wanted a parcel and the parcel wasn’t in. I was called a f—ing qablunaq because I apparently took their job,” he said.
“Being cursed because I’m the white guy who’s working away … how is that my fault?”
The drama at the Cambridge Bay office comes amid a push by Canada Post to improve its relationship with northern communities. A new “northern strategy” will see the company meet with community leaders across the North to develop an improved approach to service, including bringing more Indigenous staff on board.
“One of my deepest regrets was not being able to speak to our elders in their tongue…. That’s something that always bugged me.”
These quotes give the actual story.
- White worker
- Native population
- Accusations of racism against white worker because mail is late
- Canada Post suggesting ‘relationship’ issues and working on those by removing white people
- White dude does not speak their language
CBC would like you to believe that the white worker is the problem (only white people can be racist.) But it is clear from the facts that the predominantly native population feel animosity toward the person who is serving them because he does not speak their language and is different, that is … he’s white. Switch the groups around and what do you have? Presto! Racism.
Progressives will always cover for their pet groups and the CBC always lies. In any other setting, this would be decried as racism. Here is just ‘need to improve relations.’
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Why We Homeschool Part 10 – Unhinged Teachers
There is not much to say about the following video … other than, there is no way in the world this, this … thing should have access to children. Completely unhinged. Uncontrolled mental illness in full display.
You must protect your children from the rantings of the mentally unbalanced!
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Hosts File Backup in Case of Nameserver Corruption
Markku, a reader at Vox Popoli pointed out yesterday that the potential for a major internet blackout would likely involve corruption of the internet name servers rather than messing with IP’s.
Here are instructions for Windows machines. (Sorry, I can’t help with Apple or linux.) Original text below.
1.Using your browser, goto http://205.251.111.249/win/hosts and save the file that pops up as a download. Save it to your desktop to make this easier.
2. Open File Explorer
3. Navigate to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
4. Right click on the ‘hosts’ file and select ‘rename’
5. Change the name to ‘hosts_old’. (Markku says change it to ‘hosts_backup’ which accomplishes the same thing. ‘Old’ just makes more sense for me.
6. Keep your File Explorer open, but move the File Explorer box around so you can see the ‘hosts’ file you saved to your desktop.
7. Left click and hold on the downloaded file on your desktop and drag it into your File Explorer and drop it there. Done.
8. To test that you got it right, go back to your browser and open emergency.voxday. You should see this:
If so, you are good to go. If the internet starts not working and you can’t get onto sites you would normally be able to access, goto this page where Vox and his team will hopefully have useful information to help us through the blackout.
Advanced. If you know how to edit the hosts file you could also add this site by adding another line:
162.241.224.203 axehaft.com
But if you don’t know how to edit, just leave it. Vox will point you in a direction.
UPDATE: If you are a member of Social Galactic, there is an extensive thread offering help with other than Windoz devices along with tech help.UPDATE by Markku: There are some signs of things moving very fast and I believe there is a real chance of the internet really going down soon. We have discussed how this would most likely be done with the Ilk techies already, and it would be incredibly risky for them to try doing it at the IP level. There are so many critical services depending on IP.
What is much more likely is poisoning the world’s DNS servers by Google, after which all the sites are still there, but you can’t see them, except ones that are specifically allowed by Google. The nice thing about this is that you can work around it, if you act before it happens. You need to store the necessary information locally, where Google can’t get at it.
There is just one step that you need to do right now, before the internet goes down. How to do it depends on your operating system.
If you are on Windows and you have never edited the file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts , things are easy. If you HAVE edited it, you will know you have, because this is advanced use of Windows.
You will need administrator rights to edit this folder in the file exporer. First, rename the old file called hosts, to hosts_backup. Then, put the file you download from the following link, as the new c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts : http://205.251.111.249/win/hosts
Note that some browsers may complain that the file is not “commonly downloaded and may be dangerous”. On Chrome, click the up arrow in the complaint, and then “keep”.
After that, you will be able to open the URL http://emergency.voxday and you will find further instructions there, in case you find that all other lines of communication have disappeared. Most importantly, there will be a new hosts file behind that link, that will then contain many more entries in it. For any site that has an entry, it will override what the system gets from the poisoned DNS entry. That will allow us to bring all our major services back. Also, if at any time in the future they pull this same trick, this will always be our response. So, you will probably want to keep the addition there. As long as it’s only that one additional line, it will not interfere with your normal internet usage. It will simply allow that URL to always be opened.
Currently there aren’t any instructions in the link. But if internet goes down, they will appear.
If you have edited the hosts file previously in Windows, or if you are a Linux or Mac user, then add the following line to the end of your existing file. Which on Linux and Mac is /etc/hosts . You will need root rights to modify the file. In most cases you gain them by adding “sudo” in front of the command. So, let’s say your editor is nano. You’d write “sudo nano /etc/hosts”.
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Private & Encrypted Communications
NOTE: Before I start here, I have to tell you: I am not an expert. I will not try to prove what I say here. I cannot help you with your tech issues and I can’t guarantee anything I say here is 100% true and safe. Do not trust me!
2nd NOTE: As I was researching and writing this article, and discussing it with friends, I slowly came to the realization that there is a high probability that anything I suggest here is either already compromised or could be at any time. Use the information below to make it harder for ‘them’ to openly monitor and silence you, but do NOT trust this with your plans to break free from their system.
I’m not sure there is any place left in the world where you can be 100% sure someone can’t hear or see you. Thermostats, appliances, vehicles … virtually anything electronic now often have either Bluetooth or WIFI (or both) and the software running those machines is often close source. They are watching and listening to you …
Make your freedom plans on paper. Communicate face to face or if that is not possible at least by snailmail paper. Don’t trust any of the systems below with your life or family.
OK … off we go.
As we watch Twitter, Youtube, Facebook (is anybody still on FB? Why???) and now Google banning thought and people that are not approved, we find ourselves in the position where we must employ tactics to protect ourselves or lose the ability to privately communicate with each other.
Twitter and Facebook both used their blocking powers to protect Biden and stop stories about his corruption from coming out during the 2020 Election. Twitter even went so far as to block people from privately direct messaging (DM) the story.
And then they banned the President of the United States of America and about 35% of his supporters.
These companies are not on our side. They do not support truth, and seem to be actively trying to destroy trust along with anything that is honest, true or beautiful. What they call Progressive is regressive in every way. Don’t believe their lies!
So we must employ ways to protect ourselves from them, or at the very least, make it much harder for them to shut us down, spy on us, or monitor our words for profit or for more nefarious entities. (If you think the 3 letter gov agencies are not monitoring domestic web traffic for certain words … well, good luck. See the Ed Snowden files about government spying on citizens for confirmation. After all, he did give up his freedom to tell us this.)
As I’m writing this, Twitter is busy banning and deleting freedom people and posts. Unbelievabe. Most People
The average person, for some reason, still believes that people and companies are inherently honest and good. Of course, that is what they are banking on … and I mean literally banking. They scrape, read, listen and watch virtually everything you do. From that data they build a profile and a social graph and can, with uncanny accuracy, predict what you want, who you want and what you are going to do next. And then they sell you. Not the real you, but the digital you is sold to whoever wants to buy you and own you. You become a slave of your own habits and characteristics and they use you for every cent they can.
Being sold to the highest bidder is the least of your worries though. It gets far darker. The governments of the world have almost always tended toward dictatorial control. Once a government leans that way, with what they already know about you through data collection, it is easy for them to find those that could oppose them. Once they decide what someone who is ‘unauthorized,’ looks like, they can search the data to find those people based on those characteristics. We have given them all our data … for free. They know exactly who and what you are, and they own you.
Lets say they decide that the ‘unauthorized’ ones are:
- Christian,
- land owners,
- who buy prepper and other ‘how to’ type books,
- and are friends with known unauthorized persons,
- and oppose ‘progressive’ and degenerate behaviour.
A simple search of the social graph database using those criteria will give them a list of the those the state could deem dangerous (based on those peoples abilities to oppose or simply live without the state.) This is the scenario that we should fear and hopefully avoid. (Having a blog like this … probably not a great idea. Hmmmm.)
Understanding this, should you be entering your data into their systems? Should you tell them what you are shopping for, who you are friends with … your hopes and dreams? Should you give them pictures of your home, your kids and places you’ve been. Should you have their machines listening to your every word while being in control of the systems of your home? (Alexa, Google Nest, Amazon Echo … etc.)
In this day and age of mass online communication (especially since the Covid Plandemic,) can we actually avoid telling them everything about ourselves?
The answer is … a solid maybe. You might not be able to cut them out of everything you do, but you can certainly mitigate the damage by making it really hard (and expensive) for them to monitor your communications.
Plain Text Everywhere
Eben Moglen Interview 2012. Full video here. Most people communicate with each other in plain text. They use cell phones to text. They use Facebook Messenger to plan meetings and family dinner parties. They use Instagram DM’s to flirt and find partners. They send emails by Gmail knowing that, in exchange for ‘free’ email service, Google will be reading and recording every word. In other words, the average person is undressing with the curtains wide open.
Why?
Well, I suppose it just easier that way. No need to hide if you have nothing to hide is the common answer. But as I’ve shown above, you DO have something to hide = you! You are the product. You are the slave. You are the human being trafficked. The easier you make it for them to see you in all your glorious nakedness, the easier it is for them to pimp you out for money … or worse.
The other issue (one I’m trying to help you through here,) is that encryption is hard to understand. Most of us just want to use our phones and computers … we don’t want to know how they work or how the nerds programmed them. Don’t bore us to death with the details.
Ok. Lets get into the good stuff.
Encryption for Chat Communication
1st of all. If you want to avoid all this encryption stuff, get rid of your phone and computer (and all the rest of the computerized stuff in your home and vehicle.) In my opinion, the safest and most private form of communication is still … zee pen and paper. You can write anything out and as long as you don’t have a camera looking over your shoulder, you can be assured it is private. If you can give that communication to the intended recipient hand to hand and they in turn, open and read it without a camera peering over their shoulder, you’ve just accomplished private chat communication. Realistic in this day and age? Nope. However, if you are really paranoid you can operate like this, and it works. (See 2nd EDIT above … you are probably not paranoid, just smarter than most!)
Not gonna use pen and paper? OK. Let’s move on.
About Federation
Before we begin, a quick word about Federation. Federated is not the feds coming for you. Federation, sometimes also called distributed networking is the distribution of communication without the need for a centralized server (or man) in the middle. Virtually all social media uses the man-in-the-middle approach to communication by using centralized servers to distribute the flow of data. You log into their servers, tell them everything and they relay the message onto it’s intended recipient. This is bad. It means that at any given time, you have to rely on their security and hope and pray that they are not storing more than what they are telling you. Federation on the other hand transfers data through multiple nodes and often via different paths from end to end. This is better as there is no single choke point where people can sit and vacuum up your data.
The one time that a man-in-the-middle is good is if you are ‘the man.’ If you own the server, and the server logs, then you are in control of that choke point. This is good. Be the man.
Lets Begin with the Worst
Assuming you don’t want everything you write to be plain text, then the next best thing is to use one of the mainstream ‘encrypted’ chat services. The big boyz on the block are:
- Telegram
- Signal
- FaceBook Secret Messenger (lol … no.)
- aaaannd a bunch of others all using the same model
I don’t recommend any of these. Here’s why.
They all do two things.
- They all put a man-in-the-middle by routing your messages through their central servers.
- And they all ask you to trust them to do the right thing.
Central Servers. Whoever owns the servers, owns the server logs. Review the video above to understand how important the web servers are. I suspect these messaging systems decided to allow encryption to be used at the ends because they knew that the logs in the middle were as important, or more important than what was actually being said. The social graph stays intact if they know who is talking with whom, how often and who is on your contacts list.
Trust. Remember how Google used to say, ‘Don’t be evil’ and then they turned out to be the most evil of the bunch? It’s the same with all of the above. They all want you to trust them. You have to trust that they won’t steal your keys, keep logs about who you are talking to and that they won’t give up your messages if the feds come knocking. You name it, they want your trust. This is not how encryption works. If I really trusted these companies, I would not be looking for encryption! To go back to the ‘undressing with the curtains open’ analogy, they are saying, ‘It’s OK to undress in front of us, we won’t look. We promise.’ Hard NO.
Let’s look at a few of these specifically.
WhatsApp. Owned by Facebook. Need I say anymore? I would not trust Zuckerberg any further than I could throw him. He literally hates half of the people who are his product, and would do anything to see them destroyed … but you can trust him with your encryption. It will be fine = No.
The 1st thing you do with WhatsApp is give them your cell phone number and profile pic. They then ask for your contacts list … which they will spam to tell everyone on your list that you just joined WhatsApp. Great. Thanks.
They also very helpfully offer the backup your messages for you … using Google Drive. So you end up giving Google a piece of your hot data action too. I wonder how much Google paid to get that cozy little deal? Not only that, but WhatsApp even tells you that once you backup your messages, they are no longer safe. No kidding! You just gave Google all your chats (hopefully still encrypted, but who knows,) who you’ve been chatting with, how often and when. Basically you’ve given them the server logs. Sharing your chat logs with WhatsApp AND Google … this is not good.
Further, WhatsApp has just announced (Jan, 2021) that they are going to link all your WhatsApp data to the Facebook data they have on you … yup, your encrypted chats including your contacts lists, how often and to whom you are chatting are all going into Facebooks social graph. Wonderful.
Telegram.
- Central servers
- Have to register with your Cell number
- Encryption is not default
- Encryption for regular messages is handled at the server level which means the server unencrypts your messages and re-encrypts them on the way out. Why??
- Their server side encryption protocol is closed source. This means that no nerds have inspected their code and we can never be sure what they are doing under the hood. But you can trust them, right?
- Based on trust. We won’t look at your messages … scouts honour.
- Will collect and keep your personal chat connections including IP addresses for up to 12 months (no problem though, trust us.)
Facebook Secret Messenger. First of all, would you please get rid of Facebook? Zuckerberg has done more to destroy your privacy than any single other person in the world. He hates you but as long as you give him all your private life info he is willing to make money from you. Here is what Zuck thinks about you and your privacy:
From Business Insider Still want to use his ‘encryption’ system? Don’t.
Signal. Signal is a unique communication app that might be somewhat better than the previous three. What signal does is replace your phones SMS system with their app. The one main drawback is that it requires you to use data instead of the cellular SMS system. (Here in Canada, data is expensive … very expensive. When you use Signal, it replaces your cellular SMS system and you need to have data enabled. This doubles the price of most mainstream plans in Canada. A huge drawback.)
Signal is easy to use and set up and everything pretty much runs quietly in the background seamlessly replacing SMS. However they still:
- Get your cell number (apparently the profile pic and user name associated with your phone number are encrypted … who knows. Based on trust.)
- Force you to use Google Play Store to get the app and have Google Play Services enabled on your phone. You know, the ‘don’t be evil’ people? (Google Play Services forces you into ‘features’ you don’t necessarily want or even know about. For instance, a Covid tracing ‘feature’ seems to be on the horizon.)
- Use Central Servers
- Ask you to trust that they are not storing messages
The owner of Signal Foundation, Moxie Marlinspike, is an intriguing man. He does not fit into the soft, puttylike mold that the Mark Zuckerbers, Twitter Jack’s and Bill Gates seem to have been poured from. For that reason alone I tend to trust him more … just not enough to get naked in front of him.
EDIT: Jacko from Twitter endorses Signal which is a HUGE warning flag. This was after Apple banned Parler from their app store. Apparently Jack was happy to see Parler go and not unhappy that Signal topped the charts. Not a good sign.
The Encrypted Chat System I Use
Here are the things I want to see with my encrypted chats.
- End to end encryption.
- Completely federated or at least routed through servers I own
- The only person I have to trust is the recipient of the message
- Open source so nerds can inspect the code for nefarious workings
- Don’t have to get it from ‘don’t be evil’ Google
- Don’t have to give up my cell phone number or Contacts list to some central server
- Not developed by people who hate me or want to own me
Enter Delta Chat.
Delta Homepage Delta is an App that you either put on your phone or desktop that provides encryption. What makes them unique is that they use email to send the chat. So instead of your now encrypted message going through WhatsApp or Telegram servers, it goes to your selected email provider and from them through the email system to the intended recipient. Email is the largest federated system in the world, you might as well use it. Once the recipient gets the chat with Delta, their app unencrypts the message and they can read it.
So this is what Delta has done for us:
- Encrypted the message on your side (including the subject line, but not the header … more on that later.)
- Sent the message through a federated network = email
- Recipient gets to unencrypt and open on their own machine
Delta Pros:
- End to End encryption
- completely open source
- Distributed and downloadable from their website. You don’t need to ask Google to let you use it
- Does not use cell phone numbers
- Has no central servers
Delta Cons:
- Does Delta hate its users? Probably not, however, this question has been a little harder to figure out. They don’t seem to be beholden to any financiers that hate us. The people who are building Delta, while diverse don’t seem to be pushing any sort of agenda of indoctrination. The only thing I could find was this somewhat disconcerting post. However, that was the only one they posted along these lines and have since posted about more legitimate security and privacy issues such as those found in Russia and China. For now, I feel like I’m part of the group and not hated … lets hope that continues.
- The other Con is that I’m not sure about is Headers. Because Delta uses email, you email provider needs to know who your are sending the message to. So somehow we have to tell them. This info is not hidden. I wish the ‘from’ part would be hidden, but I don’t think that works with email transport. (I’m at the edge of my understanding of email transport here, so I’ll be happy to be corrected or helped with this … but I’m not putting anymore time into studying it. Nerd speak makes me crazy.)
In Real Life
My family has been using Delta pretty much exclusively for at least 3 yrs now. The system is completely robust. We exchange message chats, voice memos (like WhatsApp voice chat) pictures and videos. We have both family groups and private chats. It’s been great!
To add a level of security, we route our chats through my own email server. I use Yunohost and run the servers on a rented VPS. I own the server. I own the logs. I could delete it any time I want. The only thing better would be if I could host the server in my own home, but my ISP has made that very difficult at this point. I will fix that soon. (I’m talking to you Xplornet and your CGNAT.)
And that’s it folks. If you made it to the end = thanks! If you want to test a Delta installment with me, shoot me a email via my Contact Page and I’ll exchange emails with ya.
Finally, remember … don’t make your freedom plans online. Assume everything you say and write online will be surveilled.
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US Politics. There is Only One Party
If the 6000 page ‘stimulus’ bill has not taught you anything …
At the very least you should see that both parties passed it through Congress. Some of the garbage both parties agreed to :
- $169,739,000 to Vietnam, including $19 million to remediate dioxins (page 1476).
- Unspecified funds to “continue support for not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Kabul, Afghanistan that are accessible to both women and men in a coeducational environment” (page 1477).
- $198,323,000 to Bangladesh, including $23.5 million to support Burmese refugees and $23.3 million for “democracy programs” (page 1485).
- $130,265,000 to Nepal for “development and democracy programs” (page 1485).
- Pakistan: $15 million for “democracy programs” and $10 million for “gender programs” (page 1486).
- Sri Lanka: Up to $15 million “for the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter,” which is a type of patrol boat (page 1489).
- $505,925,000 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to “address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the United States” (pages 1490-1491).
- $461,375,000 to Colombia for programs related to counternarcotics and human rights (pages 1494-1496).
- $74.8 million to the “Caribbean Basin Security Initiative” (page 1498).
- $33 million “for democracy programs for Venezuela” (page 1498).
- Unspecified amount to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Curacao, and Trinidad and Tobago “for assistance for communities in countries supporting or otherwise impacted by refugees from Venezuela” (page 1499).
- $132,025,000 “for assistance for Georgia” (page 1499).
- $453 million “for assistance for Ukraine” (page 1500).
And $600 to Americans locked down.
If you ever believed in a political party, this bill should dissuade you from that delusion.
There is one answer to this. Ignore politics and build your own system. Best said by Brett:
- Homestead
- Grow your own food
- Homeschool
- Build up a your own support network of friends
And most of all = Turn off your TV!
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Even if Biden is Sworn in …
I’m reading and seeing a lot of despair in Trump circles and, more worrying, in the groups of people I circulate with.
Why?
The past 4 years have given Americans a respite from the savages at the gate. Did you think that was going to last forever? Please tell me you used this time to build, create and make ready for what will always be coming.
Until the Son of God comes back and sets up this world under His power and control, we will always be under attack from Satan and his Promethean lizards. There will be years of plenty and years of famine. We should always be preparing for the lean years. The prosperity gospel has destroyed so many Christ followers by deceiving them into complacency.
When times are good = build. Bulk up. Put up fences and fill the larders. Always be getting ready.
When the lean times come, hunker down and enjoy the show. Enjoy the good things in life that you’ve stored up just for this time. After all, we know how this ends! Take comfort and enjoy the thought that God’s vengeance will know no bounds and the current evil ones will be crushed in the winepress of His wrath … and we get to watch! The show will be the greatest thing this earth has ever seen.
If you have neglected building, start now. The change has been slowly accelerating, but there is still time to prepare. If you are already prepped … sit back and enjoy the shock and awe. It’s gonna be amazing.
Take comfort.
