I know I haven’t posted in quite a while about my freeze-drying adventures. It’s not that I haven’t been freeze-drying food, but that I haven’t found anything new or interesting to share … until today. At least, my wife suggested I freeze-dry some of our lunchbox peppers we’ve been growing in the garden: Now, I […]

Author of How to Prep When You’re Broke and Bloom Where You’re Planted online course A massive technology outage is wreaking havoc worldwide. Early reports blame the chaos on an issue with Microsoft, the dominant operating system for desktop computers and the software Falcon from Crowdstrike. We’ve been assured this isn’t a cyberattack, but a software glitch affecting the OS of computers across the world. Here are some of the ways this outage is causing global chaos today. Flights grounded American Airlines, United, Frontier, and Delta made a drastic move, grounding all flights. The ground stop impacted all flights from the airlines, regardless of their destination, the Federal Aviation Administration said. As of mid-Friday morning, more than 600 flights into, out of or within the United States had been canceled, according to FlightAware.com. The outage does NOT impact flights that were in the air when it occurred. The problem is with the other processes, such as check-in, luggage, and booking. American Airlines has since resolved the problem, and its flights are resuming. But for tens of thousands of other travelers, chaos and uncertainty still reign in the airports. As well, in New York City, the Metropolitan Transit Authority has also had its systems go offline. Banking disrupted Around the world, operations have ground to a halt at many major banks, including: Commonwealth Bank in Australia Capitec in South Africa Certain operations at Barclay’s in the UK Banks in Israel, which have not been named at the time of this post Some of the issues have been the inability to use ATMs, access online banking, and self-checkout registers. As well, the London Stock Exchange website is unable to update. 911 outages According to Newsweek, 911 services in many parts of the country have been affected. Emergency services and access to 911 operators have been affected in multiple states as a major IT outage causes chaos worldwide. Alaska State Troopers posted on Facebook on Thursday night: “Due to a nationwide technology-related outage, many 911 and non-emergency call centers are not working correctly across the State of Alaska.” They added that in the case of emergency, alternative numbers can be contacted. New Hampshire also experienced a service outage overnight, but it has since been restored, according to the Department of Safety, local ABC affiliate WMUR reported. In Phoenix, Arizona, emergency services have faced further issues. As some computers stopped working, dispatchers had no access to the internet or their usual systems, and were manually writing down information for first responders, according to local news outlet The Arizona Republic. Downdetector has also noted a spike in reports about 911 services. Medical services interrupted Health systems and hospitals around the world have reported issues with their systems as well. Israeli Health Services has reported problems and NHS has said that most general practitioner offices in the UK have been affected. News broadcasts down In some areas, major mainstream media outlets are at a complete standstill. Australian and British broadcasters SBS, Network 10, the ABC and Sky News Australia and Sky News UK were all taken off air. What caused all of this? CNN reports that the issue originated with a software update issued by CrowdStrike. It is specifically affecting Falcon, one of CrowdStrike’s main cybersecurity software products. CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software — used by numerous Fortune 500 companies — detects and blocks hacking threats. Like other cybersecurity products, the software requires deep-level access to a computer’s operating system to scan for those threats. In this case, computers running Microsoft Windows appear to be crashing because of the faulty way a software code update issued by CrowdStrike is interacting with the Windows system. George Kurtz, the CEO of CrowdStrike says that they have identified the problem and deployed a fix. Here’s the statement he released to the media: CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers. One little glitch caused mass chaos. Regardless of the cause, this certainly goes a long way toward reminding us how much our systems are reliant on computers. While they do make many things far easier, many businesses are entirely unable to function without them. It’s just a glimpse into the disaster we could face with a significant cyber attack or other service outage. Hopefully, this will be shortlived but also provide a cautionary tale for the businesses affected. Are any of your services affected? Have you experienced any issues related to this glitch? If so, can you tell us about it? Do you think there is a problem aside from the software? Let’s discuss it in the comments section. About Daisy Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging, adventure-seeking, globe-trotting blogger. She is the founder and publisher of three websites.  1) The Organic Prepper, which is about current events, preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty; 2)  The Frugalite, a website with thrifty tips and solutions to help people get a handle on their personal finances without feeling deprived; and 3) PreppersDailyNews.com, an aggregate site where you can find links to all the most important news for those who wish to be prepared. Her work is widely republished across alternative media and she has appeared in many interviews. Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books, 12 self-published books, and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses at SelfRelianceand Survival.com You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Gab, MeWe, Parler, Instagram, and Twitter. The post MASSIVE Global Technology Outage Grounds Flights, Takes Down Banks, Medical Services and 911 appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

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Politics Why Did Trump Give a Bad Speech? There may be more to the former president’s turn at the RNC than meets the eye. Donald Trump filibustered his own nomination Thursday night—and Friday morning, too: His 90-minute acceptance remarks didn’t finish until well after midnight Eastern time. Pundits were astonished. If President Joe Biden can’t speak for fifteen minutes without mangling names and slurring his words, Trump can’t discipline himself to get his point across in less than an hour. Democrats who had been feeling hopeless heard Trump and, for the first time in weeks, thought he could be beaten, maybe not by Joe Biden but by someone under 70 with an average amount of political talent. Yet Trump knew exactly what he was doing. The speech was prepared well in advance, even if ad-libbing added quite a bit to its length. Trump wanted to accomplish something with these remarks. But what? The speech itself was bland, but for its opening section about the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life. Trump recounted his inch-away-from-death experience and praised the heroism of Corey Comperatore, who died shielding his daughters from the assassin’s bullets. Comperatore was a volunteer firefighter, and his uniform was displayed on stage. Trump kissed its helmet. After that, however, the speech had little focus. This was not a unity speech, although unity did get passing attention: “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.” Trump recapitulated many of the convention’s standard Republican themes: tax cuts, energy independence (now reconceived as “energy dominance”). Immigration, and the policies of countries which cut their crime rates by sending their criminals to the United States, came in for extended criticism. But no single thread tied the 90-minute monologue together. Nor did many lines stand out as particularly memorable.  Several commentators noted afterward that if nothing else Trump proved he has sheer physical stamina—and mental acuity—that Joe Biden lacks. Trump may be only a few years younger than Biden, but Trump has the energy of a much younger man. And maybe that’s what he intended to show off. This speech was not just about striking a contrast with Biden, however. It was a rebranding for Trump, and a neutralization of another Donald Trump, the one Democrats have tried to establish in voters’ minds.  That Trump is an angry, hateful man linked to political violence, above all the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. He’s a figure whose harsh rhetoric inflames the nation’s divisions. Trump, as described by his enemies, is dangerous. The Trump who delivered such long-winded acceptance remarks at the convention, on the other hand, is not dangerous. Trump was genial and jokey the whole time he gave his speech—no anger, no thunder. His remarks weren’t utterly anodyne; he used much of his familiar boilerplate about immigration, for example, rather than softening his words. But with so many words flowing from his smiling face, the speech’s effect was to convey moderation even if the language didn’t do so explicitly.  In short, Trump was drowning his own infamy in a sea of words, without repudiating any of his policies or greatly moderating his language. Those moves could have cost him support—not much, perhaps, but enough to matter in a close election like 2016 or 2020. Trump knows that 2024 is likely to be close, too. He can’t afford any defections from the right, but he can’t let himself be seen as an ogre by undecided voters either. A prolix acceptance speech, rather than an ideologically watered-down one, would reassure “normies” without demoralizing conservatives. That’s important, considering the damage to conservative morale already inflicted by the changes Trump demanded to the Republican platform.  Some of the same liberal commentators puzzled, or pleased, by Trump’s excessively lengthy acceptance speech were similarly perplexed by his choice of J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance supposedly brings nothing to the ticket that Trump himself doesn’t already bring. And by choosing Vance, Trump missed the opportunity to win over more black, Latino, or women voters with a minority or female VP pick. According to this thinking, Trump should have chosen a Republican Kamala Harris. The reality, however, is that white voters who turned away from Trump between 2016 and 2020 cost him his re-election. And for Trump to win this year, he needs to maximize his share of the working-class white vote in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. All three of those states received many mentions in Vance’s acceptance remarks. They’re the places he was put on the ticket to win. Savvy electoral calculations figured into Vance’s speech on Wednesday, and Trump’s Thursday speech was no less strategic. Trump had to disarm impressions of him as a radical or destabilizing leader. He had to do the opposite of firing up the base—three nights of RNC programming had already accomplished that. The final night’s speech needed to give the audience at the convention what it wanted (above all, simply more Trump, in this case much more) while also diluting Trump’s image as a troublemaker. The acceptance speech was a speech for a candidate already ahead in the polls, one more in need of negating his weaknesses than inspiring his already enthusiastic supporters. The post Why Did Trump Give a Bad Speech? appeared first on The American Conservative.

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