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Hey News Media, Time to Raise the Roof!

  Fake News, Fake Political Ads -- Headline Material . A Simple Proposal EVERY DAY, EVERY EDITION, FRONT PAGE LISTING AND DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY OTHER COUNTRIES Every fake ad, every "viral" post,  every fake comment on a story... list 'em all,  Clearly identify the bastards by copy points, visual references, talent descriptions. Define this subject as a beat. Put your smartest people on identifying these propaganda  poison  darts. Leave the stories up, put them on every Net presence you have. Show compounding lists. Identify the originating countries. Call out every lie. Describe how the lie works -- partial truth, heavy repetition, etc. Give this story "above the fold" and lots of graphics and pictures treatment. BE THE ANTIDOTE TO INTERNATIONAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE! I'm askin'. I'm beggin'. Newsguard Reality Check: overview

Harden the Cell Towers! Love the Hams!

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 The Almost Total Loss of Communications  Was a Major Complication in the Response  to Helene in Western North Carolina LOOK OUT,  HERE COMES MILTON! - 60% to 80% of the Helene outages were caused by direct damage to the cell towers. - We know how to make them hurricane-proof. (Tougher structurally, backup power, backup network connections) - Right now the hardened towers are only in the areas threatened by hurricanes in "normal" times.  - Since America has become hugely dependent on cell phones for primary communications, we must invest in protecting cell service even in the most catastrophic situations. Especially in those times. - Catastrophes that can wipe out cell service go far beyond hurricanes.  Wildfires are a biggie. Earthquakes, or a major solar storm could do it. A nuclear explosion, even one in space, would zap the electronics. - Hardening against all these threats will seriously bump up our survivability score. Only government mandates will move the big cell pr

Consumer Economy, Albuquerque. Endgame

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52" TV; Temperpedic (partial); "New" Stuff & So much more The East Mountain transfer station, one of three dropoffs in Bernalillo County Bernalillo Co. landfill, one of two All that stuff was once new. Shiney silver, red and blue. A meditation on mortality. For you who still deny reality.