Hello, greetings, and salutations! How are things in your neck of the woods? More importantly, how are you doing and feeling? I know that Halloween is right around the corner, but I hope your hopes are higher now that we are closer to election day, which by the way is only five days away. Either we will see a change in residency at the White House or we will experience more of the we’ve seen in the last four years. Hopefully without the tricks, riots, China Virus, ridiculous scandals that end up wasting precious time, and all the other things that go bump in the night. No matter what side you are on, we need to put politics aside and be united as Americans. That’s who we are and what we need to represent to the rest of the world that is looking very closely at us, trying not to snicker or laugh when we are looking at them. Personally, I don’t care what the rest of the world thinks, but as far as us fighting each other, we look like we don’t know what we are doing.
I’m not going to tell people what to put or not to put on their page, but if your sole mission is to put up a whole lot of anti president rhetoric, then you’re just as bad as Facebook and twitter if all you’re going to do is bash the current Presidential Administration. If you don’t agree or like the current president, it’s your God-given right and I will defend that right till the day I die. I just think some of y’all need to find something else better to do with your life. I know it’s covid-19 era and all, but you guys really need to find a better hobby that’s more productive for your mental health and your social awareness. I didn’t care for President Obama, but I respected the office that he occupied during his eight years in the White House. I also didn’t go posting all kinds of crazy memes and rhetoric about him 24/7 365 like some of y’all. I would voice my opinion on some of the things and move on. I would take the wins when they came and I would brush off the losses. Some of y’all are still stuck in the first 24 hours after November 8, 2016. About time you hop back in your DeLorean and come join us in the year 2020. It’s okay, we’ve got hot chocolate and blankets waiting here for you when you arrive.
Did you get the chance to watch the final Presidential Debate last Thursday night? All in all, I got to say it was a much better debate than that thing Chris Wallace mangled up. Much better, much more calmer, and more civil. Even President Trump said some pretty good pleasantries to the moderator. However, I honestly expected more out of Joe Biden because they were preparing him for the five days prior to the debate and it didn’t do any good in my opinion. No public speeches or appearances, not even on skype or zoom. It just didn’t seem like all that prep work paid off. If this is the best of Joe Biden has got, he is better off stepping down between now and the election and letting Kamala Harris lead the ticket. 47 years in political office at different stages, and there is not one bit of evidence that shows he has improved. If he wanted to do all those things he keeps talking about he’s going to do, he had 47 years to do it, especially during the last 8 years that he was vice president. I thought it was good that Vice President Biden did not talk about Hunter as much as President Trump wanted oh, but it’s already evident that the Biden family is corrupt and I’m still waiting for the big October surprise to happen. I think the October surprise is going to be the one thing that’s going to either knockout Biden or it’s going to help him get more voters because of the sympathy vote. Hunter Biden should stay away from the spotlight.
Hunter Biden is going to be the boat anchor that’s going to sink the ship that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is on. If I was Kamala Harris or anyone in the Democratic party, I would be sitting down with Joe as soon as possible and tell him that he needs to step down to let Kamala Harris takeover now. After this, it’s more evident than ever. Joe Biden could have done a lot more defending his son on that stage last Thursday night (10/22) when President Trump offered him the opportunity to make his case for the American people, but Joe didn’t. Joe obviously is not going to win this election. Joe Biden could have done a lot more defending his son on that stage when President Trump offered him the opportunity to make his case for the American people, but Joe didn’t. Joe obviously is not going to win this election. For the Democrats to win it, or to at least to have a real fighting chance right right now, they need Kamala to step up big time.
Again, I was hoping there would be more to this debate than what we saw, but Joe did not put up much of a fight. Instead he looked pale, he looked disoriented at times, and he even looked like he lost his place in his speech. A couple of times, he didn’t know what he was talking about and it was really obvious. Again, the Democrats really need to re-evaluate their strategy between now and the election. Donald Trump dance circles around Joe Biden simply by proving Joe Biden is a 47-year politician who has done absolutely nothing compared to what President Trump has done in the past three and a half almost four years.
Something else that gets me is that Joe Biden said he “never got money from China” but he never said he didn’t get money from Ukraine or Russia during the debates. So I wonder if that was just a slip of the tongue or if that was him messing up. And I think it also hurt him that he would not put down China or blame China for covid-19. That tells me that he also has interest in China and he doesn’t want his dark overlords to remove their support. Joe Biden is done. I think honestly Kamala Harris is the next best thing for the current Democratic party between now and election. She isn’t trustworthy, but she is their best chance to avoid going down (excuse the pun) in flames. Once this election is over with, I would strongly recommend the Democratic party reinvent themselves before entering another political contest.
By the way, for those of you who aren’t too savvy on military exercises, you may not have really noticed when Presidential Candidate Joe Biden mention “we are heading into a Dark Winter” not once (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjOEHA_rXnQ), but twice during last Thursday’s (10/22) Presidential Debate. Enjoy some “healthy” reading on the subject (https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/about.html). By the way, did anyone in the tinfoil hat brigade notice the states of Oklahoma, Texas, and Pennsylvania get mentioned quite a bit? That technically didn’t have anything to do with “Dark Winter” comment, but when I heard it, a little alarm went off in my head, especially when the Oklahoma was mentioned because it hit a little close to home. If you are not the “Tin-foil hat” type, then you probably should to still listen because you might learn something. What I’m about to share with you is NOT a conspiracy, imagination gone wild, or a Hollywood movie.
Let me give you the details on “Dark Winter”. On what I’m going to tell you, don’t silence any alarms that may go off in your mind and gut. Keep an open mind because some of what I am saying is happening right now with some eerie similarities. Dark Winter was a “tabletop” exercise. Decision makers were presented with a fictional scenario and asked to react to the facts and context of the scenario, establish strategies, and make policy decisions. To the extent possible, the decisions made were incorporated into the evolving exercise, so that key decisions affected the evolution and outcomes of the scenario. “Dark Winter” was divided into 3 segments and simulated a time span of ∼2 weeks. Each segment portrayed an NSC meeting, which were set several days apart in the story: on 9, 15, and 22 December 2002.This year, 2020 has experienced on a much larger scale than what was done then as the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention Terrorism, hosted a senior-level war game examining the national security, intergovernmental, and information challenges of a biological attack on the American homeland. The exercise was called “Dark Winter” and simulated a covert smallpox attack on the United States. The first such exercise of its kind, Dark Winter was constructed to examine the challenges that senior-level policy makers would face if confronted with a bioterrorist attack that initiated outbreaks of highly contagious disease. The exercise was intended to increase awareness of the scope and character of the threat posed by biological weapons among senior national security experts and to bring about actions that would improve prevention and response strategies.
The exercise’s premise states that “With tensions rising in the Taiwan Straits, and a major crisis developing in Southwest Asia, a smallpox outbreak was confirmed by the CDC in Oklahoma City. During the thirteen days of the game, the disease spread to 25 states and 15 other countries?. Fourteen participants and 60 observers witnessed terrorism/warfare in slow motion. Discussions, debates (some rather heated), and decisions focused on the public health response, lack of an adequate supply of smallpox vaccine, roles and missions of federal and state governments, civil liberties associated with quarantine and isolation, the role of DoD, and potential military responses to the anonymous attack. Additionally, a predictable 24/7 news cycle quickly developed that focused the nation and the world on the attack and response. Five representatives from the national press corps (including print and broadcast) participated in the game and conducted a lengthy press conference with the President. The players were introduced to this crisis during a National Security Council meeting scheduled to address several emerging crises, including the deployment of a carrier task force to the Middle East. At the start of the meeting, the Director of Health and Human Services informed the President of a confirmed case of smallpox in Oklahoma City. Additional smallpox cases were soon identified in Georgia and Pennsylvania. More cases were reported in Oklahoma. The source of the infection was unknown, and exposure was presumed to have taken place at least nine days earlier due to the lengthy incubation period of smallpox. Consequently, exposed individuals had likely traveled far from the loci of what was now presumed to be a biological attack. The scenario spanned 13 days.”
Now, here is where you should brace yourself because the findings of this scenario are very interesting considering some of the variables are in play now. After running this exercise, they found that an attack on the United States with biological weapons could threaten vital national security interests. Listen closely to what I am saying now: “Massive civilian casualties, breakdown in essential institutions, violation of democratic processes, civil disorder, loss of confidence in government, and reduced U.S. strategic flexibility abroad are among the ways a biological attack might compromise U.S. security”. Does any of that sound familiar to the events we have witnessed this year? 2020 has been a train-wreck, from engine to caboose, if cabooses were still a thing. If you believe everything the Mainstream Media has been portraying, there’s already been:
- “massive civilian casualties” from the daily COVID-19 death counts;
- with businesses and educational campuses being closed (some by force in democratic run states and cities), there’s the “breakdown in essential institutions”;
- with all the rioting and violent protesters destroying properties and hurting innocent people, there’s the “civil disorder”;
- various methods of ballot tampering with the mail-in ballots is “violation of democratic processes”;
But yet, when you combine all these factors, and if they don’t get magically cleared up on Wednesday, November 4th (day after the United States elections), we might get to experience the fifth and final piece of the puzzle, “reduced U.S. strategic flexibility abroad are among the ways a biological attack might compromise U.S. security” because all this will eventually cause United States troops called onto the city streets. We have seen similar with the National Guard being called to quell some violent rioters in several towns across the United States over the Summer. Something tells me, we ain’t seen the last of that type of action.
Some other things the results showed was that current organizational structures and capabilities were not, and may still not be well suited for the management of a Biological Warfare attack. “Major “fault lines” exist between different levels of government (federal, state, and local), between government and the private sector, among different institutions and agencies, and within the public and private sector. These “disconnects” could impede situational awareness and compromise the ability to limit loss of life, suffering, and economic damage. There is no surge capability in the U.S. healthcare and public health systems, or in the pharmaceutical and vaccine industries. This institutionally limited surge capacity could result in hospitals being overwhelmed and becoming inoperable, and it could impede public health agencies’ analysis of the scope, source and progress of the epidemic, their ability to educate and reassure the public, and their capacity to limit causalities and the spread of disease”. Again, I ask you, do you see any thing familiar in what I am telling you? Can you see the correlation between the Democratic run cities or states and what the exercise, “Dark Winter”, played out?
If I didn’t know better, the Mainstream Media is playing this by the script as well (https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/Dark%20Winter%20Script.pdf). Or maybe they are being played, per the script. Dealing with the media will be a major immediate challenge for all levels of government. Information management and communication (e.g., dealing with the press effectively, communication with citizens, maintaining the information flows necessary for command and control at all institutional levels) will be a critical element in crisis/consequence management, according to the exercise results. “Should a contagious bioweapon pathogen be used, containing the spread of disease will present significant ethical, political, cultural, operational, and legal challenges.” In the scenerio, they used Smallpox because of its high case-fatality rates and transmissibility. It represents one of the most serious biological warfare threats to the civilian population. In 1980, the World Health Assembly announced that smallpox had been eradicated and recommended that all countries cease vaccination (https://www.who.int/csr/disease/smallpox/en/). Although labs in two countries still officially store smallpox samples (U.S. and Russia), its re-appearance would almost certainly indicate an intentional outbreak. Aerosol release of smallpox virus disseminated among a relatively small population could result in a significant epidemic. Evidence suggests the infectious dose is very small. Several factors are cause for concern: the disease has historically been feared as one of the most serious of all pestilential diseases; it is physically disfiguring; it bears a 30 percent case-fatality rate; there is no treatment; it is communicable from person to person. Granted that COVID-19 can’t be comparable to Smallpox, but the variable can be switched out. In other words, if you take Smallpox out of this exercise and replace it with COVID-19, what do you get? The answer to that is the last 10 months of 2020.
On a side note, I would like to address something that I feel is near and dear to my heart. Dear FCC (or more direct, Chairman Pai), please leave the Ham radio operators alone (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/15/2020-21530/schedule-of-application-fees). These are folks who relay your emergency communications during disasters (weather and man-made) and prefer a simpler mode of communication for hobby or everyday living. Not every likes cellphones and ham radio’s don’t require a tower to broadcast. Especially every few Kilometers like your precious 5G will need for it to be useful. By the way, how is 5G infrastructure working in China? Heard / read they are struggling with it over there. Something about other interference going on. Although Chinese government isn’t really trustworthy, some of its citizens and anti-government media is. First you tried to screw over the BUD’s and now you want to make another mess with hiking up fee’s for ham radio users.
If you’re agency is struggling to make money, I suggest taking a look into how Broadcast Radio / TV is being treated by it’s monopolies. Break up the monopolies who own over 100 stations across the nation (AM, FM, DAB, HD, TV), lower the cap on all the cross mergers for broadcasters and newspapers (only 1 newspaper per 3 stations per market), only three stations per market (AM, FM,DAB,HD,TV), and make these so-called broadcasters to have a local office / studio to broadcast out of in the areas they are licensed to serve. For example, look at the problems of having competing monopolies happening in the Fayetteville, AR / Fort Smith, AR markets involving radio and TV. It’s a joke. That’s why a lot of us prefer to get our news and information from stations out of Tulsa, who actually give us better coverage than Fayetteville. Doing this will drive up competition. Thus competition will make money, not just for the FCC in regulatory fees, but in the local economy as well.
By the way, some Ham Radio users also work or worked in radio (i.e. ME – KF5UUV). Severe weather, disasters, wrecks on the main roads, it is a very useful tool for passing along reliable information during a time of need. It definitely comes in handy when I’m on air on my online station, in which is running on wireless two-way internet. Didn’t you know that ham radio is also on the internet too? Yeah, different, but yes it is there. So are you going to charge them too? Good Lord, I hope not. Can’t imagine how that would feel for those who use it. SMH So please, FCC, in the words of President Trump, “Stand Back and Stand Down” on this issue. Go find your money else where or do what most business owners and workers have to do during this COVID-19 era: take a pay cut.
Ladies and gentlemen, I only mention these things to you because I want you to be aware of your surroundings. I want you to keep in mind that there are monsters lurking in the shadows with intentions of keeping you scared nearly to death and they want to keep you that way because they feed of your fear. Your fear gives them the room and reasons to continue progressing forward in their agendas. Your freedom is not theirs to take or abuse. Keep in mind what your parents, grandparents, and great-grand parents believed about their freedoms back in their day. Compare that ideology to today and figure out which is going to be better for your children. We are only one generation away from a total change in government that will be a complete 180 degrees change of what we currently have. To quote former President Reagan, “If we forget we are one nation under God, we will be a nation gone under.”