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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