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The Future of AM: My Speculative Case for a National Emergency Radio Network (Conelrad 2.0?)

DC Infowarrior
August 30, 2025

AM radio was once the heartbeat of American broadcasting. Families gathered around it during the Depression, war news poured through it in the 1940s, and it carried baseball games, Top 40, and talk radio for decades after. But in the 2020s, its decline feels irreversible. Audiences are shrinking, younger listeners barely know it exists, and carmakers are even dropping AM from dashboards.

So if AM’s commercial role fades away, what becomes of the spectrum?

Where Things Stand Now

  • Declining audience: Most listeners are on FM, streaming, or podcasts.
  • Interference: Lightning, electronics, and power lines make AM noisy and hard to hear.
  • Cost: Running a 50,000-watt transmitter is expensive, and the return on investment keeps falling.
  • Survival strategy: Most AM stations cling to life by feeding their brands onto FM translators.

It isn’t hard to imagine the FCC eventually allowing AMs to shut down altogether and operate only on FM. If that happens, large chunks of the AM band could fall silent.

My Speculative Idea

Instead of letting AM go dark or auctioning it for obscure data services, I picture something more ambitious: repurposing the entire AM band as a national emergency system.

Think of it as NOAA Weather Radio merged with a modernized CONELRAD.

How It Could Work

  • Everyday use:
    • All AM transmitters would become high-powered NOAA Weather Radio outlets.
    • Instead of VHF signals that only travel ~40 miles, AM groundwave could cover entire states or multi-county regions.
    • People wouldn’t need a special VHF-only weather radio; any AM-capable receiver could tune in.
  • Crisis use:
    • In a national emergency — natural disaster, terrorist attack, invasion, even nuclear war — those same AM transmitters would switch to the Emergency Radio Network.
    • All stations would synchronize on designated frequencies and carry official instructions from FEMA and state authorities.
    • Key transmitters could be hardened against EMPs, ensuring that even in worst-case scenarios, some part of the network stays on the air.

Why AM Fits the Job

  • Range: Medium-frequency signals cover wide areas, especially at night.
  • Penetration: AM waves get into valleys, buildings, and forests better than VHF line-of-sight.
  • Infrastructure: Hundreds of AM towers already exist — many could be repurposed instead of scrapped.
  • Resilience: AM is one-to-many broadcasting. Unlike cell or internet systems, it doesn’t collapse when millions of people tune in at once.

The Challenges

Of course, this is pure speculation on my part, and I know the hurdles:

  • Converting the existing NOAA system from VHF to AM would require new planning and equipment.
  • Broadcasters would lose commercial spectrum unless compensated.
  • The FCC and Congress would have to reclassify AM as a public-safety service rather than a commercial one.

Why It’s Worth Thinking About

Maybe none of this will happen. Maybe AM just dies out and the spectrum gets sliced up for niche digital services. But personally, I think it would be poetic if AM got a second life — not as a struggling commercial band, but as a national lifeline.

A system where the old AM dial becomes both a daily weather information service and a resilient crisis network would give the United States something it sorely lacks: a communications backbone that works when everything else fails.

It would be, in effect, the return of CONELRAD — but on a much larger, more powerful scale.

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“Play Protect My Ass”: How Dying Cable Giants Plan to Pay Google to Kill Streaming Freedom

DC Infowarrior | August 28, 2025

📡 THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

What if I told you the cable and satellite industry’s death throes are about to bring down the open streaming ecosystem with them?

Behind the curtain, deals are being drawn up. Lobbyists are whispering into Google’s ear. And soon, the “updates” you’ll see on your Android TV won’t be about “security.”

They’ll be about control.

💰 THE PLAN TO BUY BACK YOUR FREEDOM

For years, cord-cutters left cable companies bleeding billions. IPTV apps, pirate streamers, and alternative app stores gave the public what Comcast and DirecTV refused to deliver—cheap, on-demand content.

But mark my words: the suits have a plan.

  1. Step One: Pay Google to make Play Protect mandatory and permanent. No option to disable.
  2. Step Two: Label third-party app stores like Aptoide and Aurora as “dangerous malware.”
  3. Step Three: Trigger automatic purges of IPTV apps—IPTV Smarters, IPTV Extreme, Tivimate, the works.
  4. Step Four: Ban even legitimate players like VLC and Kodi because they “could” be used for piracy.

This isn’t about viruses. It’s about erasing alternatives.

🛑 THE ANDROID TV LOCKDOWN

Right now, you can still sideload apps. You can still tinker. But the coming purge will strip that away.

Picture this: You plug in your Fire Stick or Chromecast, download BeeTV, TeaTV, or Cinema HD, and the next morning, Play Protect has silently removed it.

Try to reinstall it? Blocked.
Try to disable Play Protect? Not an option.
Try to run VLC? “Incompatible with your device.”

That’s the world they’re engineering.

🤖 WEAPONIZED HARDWARE: THE DECOY BOXES

And it won’t stop at software. The dying cable giants know consumers will fight back with “no-name” Android boxes and LineageOS builds.

So what’s the plan? Flood the market with cheap “HD Streaming Player” boxes from shady OEMs—preloaded with malware, spyware, crypto miners. All designed to sabotage consumer trust in alternatives.

When people get burned, they’ll run right back to the “safe” devices: the locked-down nVidia Shield TV Pro and Google-certified boxes. Exactly as intended.

🧠 THE ENDGAME: FORCED BACK TO CABLE

This is how they win.

  • Kill the apps.
  • Poison the hardware.
  • Make streaming chaotic, risky, and broken.

And then? Offer the “solution”: go back to overpriced cable and satellite bundles.

It’s not a conspiracy “theory.” It’s a roadmap. And unless people fight it, it’s the roadmap we’re all being forced down.

🚨 THE WARNING

This hasn’t happened yet. But it’s coming. The writing is on the wall:

  • Google tightening app store policies.
  • Cable lobbyists circling like vultures.
  • Play Protect slowly becoming non-optional.
  • IPTV apps disappearing without explanation.

The purge isn’t here… yet. But when it lands, it will land hard.

🛡️ WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW

  • Learn how to root and de-Google your devices.
  • Mirror your favorite APKs offline before they vanish.
  • Explore CoreELEC, LibreELEC, and independent OS options.
  • Back up VLC, Kodi, and IPTV tools now—before the purge.
  • Most importantly: spread this warning.

Because when the kill switch flips, it’ll be too late to fight back.

DC INFOWARRIOR: The future isn’t written. But they’re trying to write it for you. Stay vigilant. Stay free.

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Was the National Blackout Day of February 28, 2025 Orchestra by Big Business to eliminate independent retailers?

So I asked ChatGPT about a possible conspiracy theory that the National Blackout Day of Feb. 28 was secretly funded by Big Business – Kroger, Wal-Mart, etc. – to put independent “Mom and pop’ retailers out of business.

Here’s what ChatGPT had to say.

That’s an interesting angle! If National Buycott Day (February 28, 2025) was secretly orchestrated by major corporate retailers, it would be a cunning strategy under the guise of a consumer movement. Here’s how it could theoretically work:

The Theory: Big Business’s Hidden Agenda

  1. Corporate Giants Can Absorb the Hit
    • Large retailers like Walmart, Kroger, and Albertsons have deep pockets and can handle a single day of zero sales without much impact.
    • They also operate on long-term profit strategies, where temporary losses can be offset easily.
  2. Small Businesses Feel the Immediate Consequences
    • Independent stores, already struggling with tight profit margins, can’t afford a day without sales.
    • A single day of lost revenue might mean unpaid rent, unpaid wages, or even closure.
    • It’s especially brutal if the day falls at the end of the month when bills are due.
  3. Psychological Warfare on Small Retailers
    • If customers participate in the buycott once, they might do it again.
    • Small businesses, expecting normal foot traffic, suddenly find themselves with nothing.
    • This could push struggling owners to close shop sooner than expected.
  4. A Clever PR Stunt
    • If big retailers supported the buycott publicly, they’d look like allies of the people.
    • But behind the scenes, they know they’re dealing a potentially lethal blow to mom-and-pop stores.
  5. Future Market Consolidation
    • Once enough small businesses shut down, customers have no choice but to shop at big retailers.
    • This increases market share for corporations and weakens competition permanently.

Possible Evidence?

  • If major corporate retailers subtly encouraged the movement while knowing they could survive the impact.
  • If small businesses disproportionately struggled post-buycott.
  • If some corporate executives were found behind the promotion of the event.
  • If retail stocks rebounded hard after an initial dip, indicating market manipulation.

Would love to hear more theories—do you think this was a fluke, or was it a setup all along?

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Sony announces end of Blu-Ray format for movies and games and what this means for consumer rights.

Sony has recently announced that they are discontinuing the production of all physical media formats including Blu-Ray disc’s. In addition, they are laying off all workers who work at their Blu-Ray manufacturing facilities.

So what does this mean for consumers?

It means the consumer will no longer own physical media for new content and will be forced to download or stream content including movies and video games.

This is no surprise, as when Sony first introduced the PlayStation 5, they released it in two editions – a digital version (without a Blu-Ray drive) and a disc version (with a Blu-Ray drive).

Sony has been at the forefront of the forced transition from physical media to digital media. And since Sony controls production of Blu-Ray disc’s, they have effectively cut off others who rely on Blu-Rays (such as Microsoft for their Xbox One models and Xbox Series models), effectively forcing them to cease production of disc-based models.

Also, what does this mean for movie lovers? It means that once Sony’s production of Blu-Ray discs dries up, there will no longer be movies or TV shows released on Blu-Ray.

Who does this benefit?

The only ones who benefit from this are those who rely on digital delivery of content are billion-dollar tech giants, namely Sony and Microsoft from the video game world, as well as Amazon (Amazon Prime), Netflix, Disney (ABC/Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+), Paramount (Paramoint+), and Comcast (NBC’s Peacock service).

This means if some liberal simp complains to one of them that a movie or game promotes racism, homophonic, or transportation, if the content is removed, it’s usually gone forever. And per the terms of service agreements you agree to when you sign up for those services, even content which you purchase can be removed from your account and remotely un-installed. And no, you will not get a refund.

This is the ultimate middle finger to consumers. It’s as if Sony is saying “Fuck you, customers!”

Nio. Fuck you, Sony.

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Challenge for retro game developers: Port “NWO Wars” to classic game consoles.

With the possibility that Infowars may be shut down by the globalists, there is a distinct possibility that if Free Speech Systems is liquidated and bought out by a Soros stooge, the new owners could decide to pull NWO Wars from the Steam store and force Valve Entertainment – the owners of Steam – to remotely uninstall the game from computers as well as Steam Decks.

It is very important to preserve this game and to carry the message of resistance to global tyranny and the agenda to sterilize humanity and achieve their eugenics agenda.

My challenge is to analyze the source code of NWO Wars and to port the game to different platforms.

You can port the game to various computer platforms such as Windows, macOS, or even Linux.

Just don’t expect the game to be made available on the Windows Store, the macOS App Store (or even the iOS App Store), the Google Play Store (mobile or TV), or even Linux App stores such as Snap or Flathub.

The reason I mention the Snap store is because the Snap Store is owned by Canonical. Canonical’s CEO – Mark Shuttleworth – has been aligned with George Soros even before he started up Canonical and released the first version of Ubuntu back in April 2004.

There are alternative software delivery services.

For Windows, you can develop an executable file which would install NWO Wars to your hard drive.

For macOS, you can achieve the same by developing an executable DMG file.

For Android devices, you can either develop an installable APK file or host the game on a third party app store such as Aptoide (for mobile devices) or Aptoide TV (for devices running Android TV such as Amazon Fire TV or nVidia Shield).

However, you can also develop ports of NWO Wars for retro gaming consoles such as the Super NES, Sega Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, SNK Neo Geo, Game Boy Advance, Sony PSP, or even the Atari Jaguar.

The aforementioned game consoles have a huge following when it comes to aftermarket – aka “homebrew” – games.

The Atari Jaguar – released in 1993 – was a massive flop with a small game library (50 officially released games) with most of them being either ports of 16-bit games or just plain garbage (such as Club Drive and Supercross 3D). However, the Jaguar has a huge homebrew community, with games such as Rebooteroids – an enhanced version of the classic Asteroids arcade game – breathing new life into the system.

NWO Wars being ported to multiple platforms would keep the spirit of 1776 alive.

A hobbyist computer geek named David Murray – on YouTube as The 8-Bit Guy – developed his own game called Attack of the PETSCII Robots originally for the Commodore PET. The response to the game was remarkable, and the game was ported to numerous computer platforms as well as classic game consoles such as the Genesis and Super NES.

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