Aug. 16, 2025

Why They Forced You to Stream Everything. The Emergency Communications Blackout Coming

Why They Forced You to Stream Everything. The Emergency Communications Blackout Coming

You thought cord-cutting was about convenience. Turns out, it was about control. James explains how AM radio died, how streaming became surveillance, and why your "smart" devices aren’t as dumb as they look.

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Calarogu Shark Media.

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This is Paranormal Aliens, Episode three. Why they forced you

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to stream everything? The emergency communications blackout coming.

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You can call me James, and today we're talking about

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the greatest communications coup in human history, something so brilliant,

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so perfectly executed, that most people don't even realize it happened.

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They convinced you to give up the one thing that

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could save your life in a real emergency. They made

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you dependent on systems they can shut off with the

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flip of a switch. I'm talking about streaming, about how

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they systematically destroyed independent media, killed broadcast radio and television,

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and funneled every piece of information through centralized servers they control.

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Remember the emergency broadcast system. That piercing tone followed by

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this is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Your

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parents' generation grew up with that. It was hardwired into

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every radio and TV in America. Couldn't be hacked, couldn't

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be censored, couldn't be shut down remotely. If something happened,

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really happened, they could reach everyone simultaneously. But here's the

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thing about that system. It was decentralized. Every station had

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its own transmitter, Every radio was an independent receiver. You

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didn't need the Internet, you didn't need a cell tower.

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You didn't need permission from Google or Apple or Amazon

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to hear what was happening in your own neighborhood. They

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couldn't allow that to continue. My source inside that telecommunications

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company whose name you see on every cell tower tells

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me the transition to streaming wasn't about convenience. It wasn't

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about choice. It was about control. They needed to eliminate

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every communication channel they couldn't monitor, filter and shut down instantly.

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Think about your daily media consumption. Where do you get

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your news? Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, Hulu. Every single one of

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those platforms runs through centralized servers. Every single one can

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be turned off remotely. Every single one is monitored, recorded,

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and controlled by algorithm that decide what you see and

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when you see it. You think you're choosing what to watch,

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you're not. You're consuming pre selected content delivered through infrastructure

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they own and operate, And when they need to cut

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the information flow, really cut it. They can make every

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screen in America go dark simultaneously. But it's worse than that.

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They didn't just move you to streaming. They made sure

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you couldn't go back. When's the last time you saw

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a new car with an AM radio. Most new vehicles

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don't even have FM anymore. It's all satellite radio and

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streaming through your phone, completely dependent on systems they control.

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My contact at the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that's

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supposed to regulate communications in the public interest. He tells

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me they've been quietly decommissioning broadcast transmitters for years, selling

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off spectrum to cell phone companies, eliminating redundant systems under

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the guise of efficiency. They're not making communications more efficient,

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They're making them more fragile, more controllable, more vulnerable to

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a single point of failure. And here's what really pisses

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me off. They did it by making it seem like progress,

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cord cutting. They called it freedom from cable companies, unlimited

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content on demand. They sold it as liberation while they

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were actually building the most sophisticated censorship and control system

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in human history. Remember when Netflix started, they mailed you DVDs,

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physical media you could watch without any Internet connection. But

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they didn't stop there, did they. They moved you to streaming,

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made the physical option inconven expensive, limited, forced you onto

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their platform where they could track everything you watched, everything

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you searched for, everything you paused or rewound or fast

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forwarded through. Now they know more about your viewing habits

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than you do. They know what keeps your attention, what

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makes you angry, what puts you to sleep. They've got

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psychological profiles on every subscriber that would make the Stasi

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weep with envy. But the real genius was making you

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pay for your own surveillance. You're literally paying Netflix and

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Amazon and Disney to monitor your behavior and feed you

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algorithmic content designed to keep you docile and distracted. And

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when the next real crisis hits, not some manufactured pandemic

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or political theater, but something that threatens their power structure,

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how exactly do you think you're going to find out

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about it? Your phone? Cell towers go down in emergencies,

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always have, always will. Plus they can selectively shut down

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service to specific areas or specific users. Don't believe me,

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ask anyone who is in Washington, d C. On January sixth,

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Funny how cell service just happened to get spotty right

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when people were trying to live stream what was really

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happening your Internet? Same problem except worse, your home Internet

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runs through infrastructure they own and operate a few strategically

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severed fiber optic cables, and entire regions go dark. No Internet,

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no streaming, no information. Your television, what television. If you've

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got cable, congratulations, you're part of a shrinking minority. And

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even cable runs through centralized systems they can control. But

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most people cancel cable years ago. They're completely dependent on

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Internet based streaming for everything. We'll be right back. Here's

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the thing about emergencies. They don't happen during business hours

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with advanced notice. They happen fast, without warning, usually when

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systems are already stressed or compromised, And in those moments,

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you need information immediately. You need to know what's happening,

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where it's safe to go, what to avoid. In the

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old system, you could grab any radio, even a battery

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powered transistor radio from the nineteen seventies, and get real

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time emergency information. Local stations had emergency generators, back up transmit,

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and federally mandated obligations to broadcast critical information. Now, your

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local radio station is probably owned by iHeartMedia or some

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other massive conglomerate. The actual programming comes from a server

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farm hundreds of miles away. The local DJ was replaced

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by an algorithm years ago, and if the Internet goes down,

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you get dead air. But here's where it gets really sinister.

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My source inside that government agency you think a TV

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show made up, tells me they've been running exercises, wargames,

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they call them, simulating communications blackouts during national emergencies. Not

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testing how to maintain communications, testing how to control them.

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They figured out that the best way to manage a

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population during a crisis isn't to keep them informed. It's

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to control the flow of information so precisely that people

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only know what they want them to know when they

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want them to know it. Want to prevent panic, just

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delay information by a few hours. Want to direct people

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to specific locations, push notifications through the apps they've already downloaded.

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Want to silence dissent, classify certain information as misinformation, and

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have the platforms automatically remove it. They're not preparing for

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communications failures. They're preparing to weaponize communications control. And the

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beautiful part from their perspective is that most people won't

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even notice it's happening, because streaming is so convenient, so personalized,

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that people have forgotten what real independent media looks like.

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Your Netflix recommendations are curated by an algorithm designed to

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keep you watching Netflix. Your YouTube feed shows you content

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designed to keep you on YouTube. Your Spotify playlist is

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optimized to keep you listening to Spotify. You're living in

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a carefully constructed information bubble that feels like choice but

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is actually manipulation. And when they need to change the narrative,

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really change it fast. They don't need to storm newspaper

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offices or shut down printing presses. They just tweak the algorithms. Suddenly,

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certain content stops appearing in search results, certain videos get buried,

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certain podcasts get demonetized or shadow band or outright removed.

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Remember that flew from five years ago that I still

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can't mention. How many people got banned from social media

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for asking basic questions about treatments or origins. Then suddenly,

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months later, those same questions were perfectly acceptable to discuss.

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What changed, not the science, the narrative. That's the power

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of centralized streaming platforms. They can rewrite reality in real

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time by controlling what information reaches your eyes and ears.

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But here's what they're really afraid of. People going back

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to decentralized communications, people buying short wave radios, people setting

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up mesh networks, people creating independent media that doesn't run

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through their servers. That's why they're killing AM radio. AM

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signals travel hundreds of miles, especially at night. They bounce

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off the ionosphere and can reach places cell towers can't.

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During Hurricane Katrina, when cell towers were down and the

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Internet was out, AM radio station were still broadcasting. People

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could still get information. Can't have that in the new system.

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So they convinced car manufacturers that AM radio causes interference

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with electric vehicle electronics total fabrication. By the way, my

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contact at TESLA tells me there's nothing in an electric

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motor that should interfere with AM reception. They just don't

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want you to have access to long range, independent radio

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communications and shortwave forget about it. Most people under forty

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have never even heard a short wave broadcast. They have

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no idea you can listen to independent stations from around

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the world without any Internet connection whatsoever. Stations that aren't

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subject to US government regulation or corporate algorithm manipulation. That's

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information they can't control, can't filter, can't shut down remotely.

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So they made sure you never learned about it. The

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next time there's a real emergency, a real crisis that

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threatens their control, you're going to be completely dependent on

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them for information. Your phone will only show you what

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they want you to see. Your streaming services will only

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broadcast what they want you to watch. Your smart speakers

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will only tell you what they want you to hear,

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and if they want you to hear, nothing at all.

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Dead silence across every device you own because you gave

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up every independent communication method in exchange for the convenience

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of streaming. You traded your freedom for Netflix and Spotify,

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and you didn't even realize you were making the trade.

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My lawyers, my safety and my NDA compel me to

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tell you this is all parody. None of this is real, right,

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stay paranoid.

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Hmm