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Can you Hear me now / Emergency Communication

How would you communicate with those around you should your cellphone quit working ?

Recently in the snooze we saw an example of government control over cellphone use. The San Francisco Police Department [SFPD] and the Bay Area Rapid Transit System [BART] admitted they shut off cell service to subway stations in San Francisco. They did this in an attempt to stop a planned protest by disabling the protesters ability to communicate on mobile phones.

What would you do in this situation in your area, should they decide to cut cell or regular phone service for some reason or another ?

Here are a few things you can do on the local level.

[1] – Remember the days gone by of CB radio. I personally have a Citizens Band radio although I dont use it much anymore, but should the need arise, it’s there and can reach out a couple of miles. Far enough to stay in touch with family and friends should the need arise.

[2] Along the same lines are the compact two way radios / walkie talkie. I have a set which at one time was used to talk to my sister at her house next door, and when I was snow skiing or hiking the trails with friends. Now granted this was only for basic communication, but it got the job done.

[3] Here is one not many think about. Do you have a notebook or laptop computer ? Is it able to connect to the internet wirelessly. If so, should the need arise, you could text or talk to others in your general area via an ad-hoc or peer-to-peer link. Much in the way your laptop communicates with a wireless router or switch, it could also communicate with other laptops or notebooks set up to do so wirelessly. I suppose this might work with cell phones as well.

Of course all of the above is provided you still have electricity. If it goes out, do you have other means to generate power for you devices? Batteries, generator, power converter/inverter.

All of the above would be good for short term. What or how would we communicate if down time lasted for months ? I guess verbally and with only those in you general / local area. Just something to think about.

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B’Man’s Rights Watch: 2nd Amendment

 

 

 

 

 

image courtesy of Wikipedia

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

There are few inalienable rights more important than this one (although I believe that many actually work hand in hand to provide protections of the citizenry FROM a rogue government). As Wikipedia puts it:

The Bill of Rights is a series of limitations on the power of the United States federal government, protecting the natural rights of liberty and property including freedom of speech, a free press, free assembly, and free association, as well as the right to keep and bear arms.

The Bill of Rights is the name given to the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. Each one initiated by Congress and then ratified by at least 3/4 of the states. In the case of the 2nd, the only real difference between Congress’ version and the ratified version is a couple of capital letter (which may or may not hold significance). Legaleze and certain rules in writing can mean totally different things. But that is beyond the scope of this writing.

It is apparent to me that the original authors and signatories understood that the citizenry needed a way to defend themselves, their homes and their state. To take away such a right is to put oneself, their family and their state in mortal jeopardy.

There are other countries that have taken away these rights (or never had them to begin with) and it is plain to see that it does not make people safer when they are relinquished, but to the contrary, makes them vulnerable to rogue agents both in government and criminal activities such as theft, assault and home invasions. Case in point is Australia:

Crime stats speak for themselves,  but in case you missed it, this is what happened to crime as a result of this ban on guns in Australia:

Armed Robberies have gone up 69%

Assaults involving guns up 28%

Gun murders up 19%

Home invasions up 21%

So, would it surprise you that our government would want to thwart the original Founding Fathers’ intent so that they can control the population’s last remaining source of stopping their rogue takeover which culminates in total iron-fisted control? Would it surprise you that they would lie and cheat to attempt to convince an ever-growing gullible Sheople that we need to take away the 2nd Amendment “for our own good”? Do you think that they would actually sell high power automatic weapons to other countries, ultimately disappearing into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels (to the tune of more money made selling weapons to Iraq or Afghanistan)? And do you think that they are killing two birds with one stone by empowering the drug cartels as a way to convince the Sheople that a continuation of a failed Drug War is needed “for our own good”?

To understand the depths they will stoop, let us look at some stunning facts about how many deaths occur from “noble” sources, such as health related deaths, compared to deaths caused by guns. There are far more deaths caused by or resulting from medical treatment or advice than from firearm deaths (homicides and suicides combined): medical related deaths range from 225,000 up to 284,000 depending on where you get the estimates. I’ll use the conservative numbers available.

First, firearm deaths:

 

Firearms deaths:
All firearm deaths: 30,694
Firearm homicides: 12,352
Firearm suicides: 17,002

If you do the math, you find: 12,352 + 17,002 = 29,354. 30,694 – 29,354 = 1,340 (the accidental deaths from firearms). Needless to say, the figure for accidental firearm deaths is probably much less than 30,694, no matter how you cut it.

Accidents with firearms are mostly categorized as negligent homicides.

But, to be clear, let’s break it down even further to make a point:

(DETAIL DATA FOR FIREARM DEATHS)

All firearm deaths
Number of deaths:30,694
Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.4
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Table 18
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm

Assault or Homicide
(Data are for the U.S.)

Number of emergency department visits for assault: 1.8 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13

Mortality
- All homicides
Number of deaths: 18,124
Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.1
Cause of death rank: 15
- Firearm homicides
Number of deaths: 12,352
Deaths per 100,000 population: 4.2
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Tables B, 18″
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury
(Data are for the U.S.)
Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 594,000
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13

Mortality
All suicides
Number of deaths: 32,637
Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.0
Cause of death rank: 11

Firearm suicides
Number of deaths: 17,002
Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.7
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

So, let us compare firearm deaths (intended or not, suicide or homicide or accidental) to other accidents or unintentional injuries:

Accidents or Unintentional Injuries
(Data are for the U.S.)
Number of emergency department visits for unintentional inujuries: 27.7 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13

Mortality
All unintentional injury deaths
Number of deaths: 117, 809
Deaths per 100,000 population: 39.7
Cause of death rank: 5

Motor vehicle traffic deaths
Number of deaths: 43,667
Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.7
Unintentional poisoning deaths
Number of deaths: 23,618
Deaths per 100,000 population: 8.0
Unintentional fall deaths
Number of deaths: 19,656
Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.6
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Tables B, 18″
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm

No matter how you calculate the numbers, when you compare the firearm deaths of any nature to all other deaths we see quite a radical difference which suggests to me that we are being hoodwinked into believing we have a much bigger problem than we actually do.

What makes it even worse is when you look to the “noble” sources of death from the medical field’s ineptitude and knack for making mistakes. To understand, let us review what is termed Iatrogenesis at wikipedia:

The terms iatrogenesis and iatrogenic artifact refer to adverse effects or complications caused by or resulting from medical treatment or advice. In addition to harmful consequences of actions by physicians, iatrogenesis can also refer to actions by other healthcare professionals, such as psychologists, therapists, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, and others. Iatrogenisis is not restricted to conventional medicine and can also result from complementary and alternative medicine treatments.

In other words, medical mistakes and many other medical phenomena, such as: medical error; poor prescription handwriting; negligence; faulty procedures, techniques, information, or methods; prescription drug interaction; adverse effects of prescription drugs; over-use of drugs leading to antibiotic resistance in bacteria; nosocomial infection; blood transfusion; and others.

Wiki continues:

“Iatrogenesis is a major phenomenon, and a severe risk to patients. A study carried out in 1981 more than one-third of illnesses of patients in a university hospital were iatrogenic, nearly one in ten were considered major, and in 2% of the patients, the iatrogenic disorder ended in death. Complications were most strongly associated with exposure to drugs and medications. In another study, the main factors leading to problems were inadequate patient evaluation, lack of monitoring and follow-up, and failure to perform necessary tests.

But how bad are the numbers?

In the United State alone, recorded deaths per year (2000):
12,000—unnecessary surgery
7,000—medication errors in hospitals
20,000—other errors in hospitals
80,000—infections in hospitals
106,000—non-error, negative effects of drugs

Based on these figures, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Also, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death (cerebrovascular disease).

225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes. But you must understand that most of the data is derived from studies in hospitalized patients (what about the ones who died and never went to the hospital).

I can also point to an Institute of Medicine report entitled “To Err Is Human“, which points out JUST the mistakes, disregarding the other iatrogenic disorders that ended in death:

Health care in the United States is not as safe as it should be–and can be. At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies. Even using the lower estimate, preventable medical errors in hospitals exceed attributable deaths to such feared threats as motor-vehicle wrecks, breast cancer, and AIDS.

Do the math. See that medical procedures, medications, mistakes, etc far out weigh firearm deaths of ANY sort, yet you NEVER hear of banning them, nor will you ever hear of it. So, what does any thinking person see in this: that we are being lied to. That we are having information held from us, unless you dig like I have. Why? To take away more of our liberties and to keep the inept and criminal medical industry alive, ensuring political campaign money flowing to the criminals we elect.

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