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I’ve been working on some very big and important stuff. For those of you who have read about me or have watched the show for some time, you know something about what I do. Basically, I solve problems… no… I’m not a hitman. The problems I solve are bigger than that. For the first time ever, I’m going to show you one of the problems I’ve been working on.

On 9/11 almost every communication system in Lower Manhattan failed. In fact, even the few government systems that continued to work, did not actually function as intended for complete emergency system command and control.

Three years later, hurricane Katrina showed that the emergency communication systems employed by government (as well as commercial systems) were still vulnerable to natural disasters.

As you are probably aware, analog television in the United States ended on June 12. As part of that transition, the FCC held out a large chunk of radio spectrum in the 700MHz band. This chunk of radio spectrum was intended to provide a nationwide emergency broadband service that included an emergency communication system that was impervious to natural or man-made disasters and that covered the entire country.

Ending last summer, the majority of the other spectrum was auctioned off by the FCC for use by telecommunication companies and others. However, the 700MHz emergency public services spectrum had a minimum bid of $1.3 billion dollars. Not one telecommunication company placed the bid… not one. This is because there is not a single commercial technology that is capable of providing a service impervious to natural or man-made disasters and is capable of covering every inch of the country. In fact, there is only one military technology that is capable of this feat. And that technology is the AWACS.

The AWACS is a system used by the United States military to provide battlefield and theater-wide communications. The system routes all communication through the airborne assets and uses no permanent ground based infrastructure. Hence the usefulness in battle – nothing that happens on the ground can disrupt communication. Therefore, command and control can be maintained.

Here’s my solution for the problem of a nationwide emergency communication network. I have the only FAA certified wireless mesh and emergency services communication system based on a civilian version of the military AWACS and including a new emergency services version of a military video communicator system that I designed.

My system uses long-range highly fuel efficient jets that fly at 45,000 feet and use the 700MHz spectrum to connect the personnel communicators with each other. This spectrum is the same as the high UHF channels which can reach deep into buildings, basements, valleys and even canyons. Best of all, this system is independent of anything on the ground or any other network. If the internet goes down, it does not affect our system. If the phone systems (cell or landline) go down, if the power is disrupted, if bombs are going off or planes are crashing down… our system is unaffected. Just like the military AWACS, our system sends and receives all communication through the private IP network riding on the wireless mesh covering the United States.

And this is not science fiction that I’m talking about. This system exists right now and has hundreds of hours of testing and performance data to prove it works. My system is cheaper, faster to deploy and environmentally less-intrusive than any other alternative. Plus, it has a lower carbon footprint for build-out, operation and maintenance than any other potential system that has been developed (or proposed) to address this capability. Most importantly, short of a nuke, my system cannot be taken offline by anything…

Here’s what’s happening now. The FCC is currently holding public hearings on what to do with the 700MHz public service spectrum. One of the ideas is to break the nationwide block up into different sections. If this spectrum is broken up, this is what will happen. There will be no incentive to cover the wilderness portions of the country. And there may be no incentive to cover the rural sections of the country (just as there has been no incentive to provide broadband service to most rural communities and wilderness areas. And even if other telecoms tried to cover these areas, they couldn’t do it without digging cable trenches, stringing wires or planting radio towers all over the countryside. And the cost of any other proposed system would start at about ten times the price of my system. Most importantly, these other plans will not have the video communicator system and the civilian AWACS that provides complete protection against failure from anything short of a nuke and covers the whole country from coast to coast – even in the middle of the wilderness. The likelihood is the big telecommunication companies will just try to put a private phone network over the system. That technology will not help the emergency services communication efforts. What is needed here is new technology and new ideas. That’s what I do.

My plan uses technology and systems that are capable of functioning during anything up to and including war – because they were designed from the same systems that we actually use during war. Nothing in the commercial market even comes close… And speaking of the commercial market. My system can also provide the first wireless broadband service that covers every square inch of the country – even while moving. Full broadband speed on any device anywhere. And I do mean anywhere. My service will provide the first high-speed data and communication link that will work in any location, regardless of how remote. And there’s a lot more that it can do.

I need your help. Please go to the site and sign the petition to demand that the FCC review this plan. Share this video and this story. You can also follow my attempts to reach the country’s billionaires and our political leaders as I put together this $15.0 billion project. So follow me on Twitter. And if you know any billionaires, tell them to drop me a note.

BTW, This project is much larger than I have been able to tell you about and includes a new and larger future for the Planet TV Station. Stay tuned for more.

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 DPTV 205 [25:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 DPTV 204 [11:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I received a DVD in the mail several days ago supposedly containing a preview of a documentary film (at the value of $19.95) titled “Obsession.”

The film does not state that it comes from a political perspective. In fact, it says it comes from a non-partisan group that is only interested in disseminating information regarding national security issues.  However, on the inside cover it states,

“The threat of Radical Islam is the most important issue facing us today.  But it’s a topic that neither the presidential candidates, nor the media are discussing openly.  It’s our responsibility to ensure we can all make an informed vote in November.”

First, this is not even close to fact.  There are over 1.06 million current stories regarding radical Islam on the web right now.  It is being discussed openly everywhere, by everyone.  And I’ve heard more than enough from both candidates about the subject, as well.  So I was intrigued at what perspective the documentary would take.

After looking at both the trailer and the film, it is clear that this is not a documentary any more than the films from director Michael Moore.  For a movie to be a documentary, it has to show all sides of the issue. Even if one side of the issue is horrendously wrong, you must even-handedly cover all of the aspects from all sides of the issue.  If it does not do that, then it is not correctly called a documentary.  This is called propaganda.  The film equates the modern radical Islamic movement to the Nazi movement of WWII.  But any modern documentary on the Nazis of WWII that does not adequately convey the oppressive and vindictive nature of the economic and political punishment inflicted on Germany by prevailing European governments as backlash after WWI, and how that created the environment where the German people were ripe for a Nazi and fascist movement to take hold, would not be a documentary.  It would be propaganda.  Showing what led to the Nazis does not support Nazi belief.  It informs and creates context.  Both are requisite for understanding.  One without the other is gossip – or propaganda.

This film is propaganda and that’s all it is.

This type of film is exactly the same tool that the Nazis used to spread their message of fear and hate.  And it is exactly the types of tools that the radical extremist are using to spread their message of lies and fear.  Someone spent a lot of money to distribute this film to me and about 28 million others in the United States.  28 million copies sent in mail and newspapers.  That is a lot of money.  And it really perturbs me that they used a non-partisan cover group to push this film, that clearly cannot benefit anyone other than John McCain.  If you wanted to come out and say, “This is a threat and this is a threat that only John McCain can defend against,” then you should have said that on film and on the packaging.  You should not have said that this was non partisan.  It clearly cannot benefit anyone except John McCain.  Logically thinking if you’re saying that this would be of equal benefit to both of the candidates, then why mention that it would benefit a politically informed decision on your vote.  It cannot benefit anyone else but John McCain and it perturbs me that they are using propaganda of the worst kind (the fear and hate kind) to attempt to persuade the American public by the use of fear that McCain is the right candidate for President.  It absolutely appalls me, and you have lost any respect you may have gotten from one military man to another.  This is as bad as the swift-boat attacks on John Kerry.  Americans do not need to be afraid.  Any effort to say that the American public should be afraid is nothing more than an effort to control people by the use of fear and hatred.  This film is pure propaganda.  It is not meant to inform you.  It is meant to make you afraid.  I am not afraid.  I am infuriated.  What bothers me most is that many (maybe most) Americans will become afraid.  When did Americans become such cowards.  Our country was founded by men who said, “Give me Liberty, or give me Death.”  Today the average knuckle-head American is willing to sacrifice anything, including the Constitution, to pretend they are safe from something they have less chance of experiencing than being struck by lightening.

John McCain’s camp is going to say that they had nothing to do with this, but I don’t care.  If these are the people who are supporting you, then you are as evil as they are.  The people who are pushing this propaganda on the American public are evil.  They are as evil as the subject they’re discussing.  Two evils do not make a justice.  Two evils should not elect a president, either.

Americans should not act like cowards.  Radical Islamic extremism is a problem.  I agree with that assessment completely.  But radical Islam is not the only radical extremism at play here.  Any group that will use this type of fear mongering and hatred generating propaganda is also a radical extremist.  Radical Christian Extremist are just as wrong (and out of the main-stream) as any other radical extremist group.  And radical Islam does not represent any more of a threat than the two dozen or so serious threats that our country has to deal with on a regular basis.  And in fact, compared to the number of people that are actually affected by this particular threat (on a regular basis) they represent a very small threat.  One that we have always been able to handle.  One that we would have been able to handle even prior to 9-11, had anyone been paying attention.  And had we not dismantled the organizations and intelligence networks that were necessary to keep us safe after the fall of the Soviet Union.  No one side is innocent in this affair, but this particular presidential campaign of John McCain (the one based on fear and hatred) is something that I’m now sick of.  I’m done with it and I think the American people are done with it, too.  Seven years of being frightened to death by the Executive branch of our government is enough.  I’m tired of people telling me I should be afraid.  I AM NOT AFRAID, and any average intelligent American should know that they should not be afraid, either.  This film is propaganda – the worst kind of propaganda because it claims to be a non-partisan political message.  That’s bullshit.

I am an intelligence analyst.  This is nothing but propaganda.  I make a living by identifying and analyzing propaganda.  Just one quick cursory look at the packaging, the material, the trailer and the content tells me that this is not anything other than propaganda.  And it is the same type of propaganda that the other side is using.  But the bottom line proof is in the amount of money spent to distribute the film.  28 million copies is “not trivial” as we scientist like to say.  In the world I work in, you start with the money.  But the non-profit refuses to disclose the money publicly.  Fine.  This is what I do.  Nobody puts that kind of money into “just educating the public about a danger.”  Nobody other than the government (and we’re not including that possibility because it would only count against McCain).  Somebody had to get something for this kind of expenditure.  Even if you believe that there could be some group that only desires to spread information about a national security danger, then it becomes even less likely that the group would be non-partisan.  If the group truly believes the threat is as important as it is, then they would commit their support (and the massive amount of money spent on this “film” and its distribution) to the candidate that will address that danger.  They would not try to make you afraid.   This is a cheap Hollywood stunt at its worst.

McCain, you should be ashamed of yourself.  I’m ashamed of you.

To paraphrase a line from a movie about the integrity of the Presidential office,

“You’ve lost more than my respect. You’ve lost any chance you ever had of getting my vote.”

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 DPTV 203 [46:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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