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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Communication Items You'll Want Before TSHTF ? Part 1
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It?s not even necessary that you transmit (speak) on the radio, but the information you can garner from just listening to others from far away is worth the time it takes to understand how to use a radio.
There are many ways to go in purchasing a communications radio, depending on your budget. You can buy yourself a brand new, state-of-the-art Kenwood or I-com for example, both of which are great radios. But the expense can be quite high, typically in the many hundreds of dollars.
A less expensive but just as viable way to go is a ?free band radio?. This is a 10 meter ham radio that has had additional freeband frequencies installed. This will expand coverage to include the 12, 11 (the CB frequency band) and sometimes 9 meter bands. In a converted CB radio, this is called a radio with extra channels.
A 10 meter radio is very common and inexpensive, as well as their low-rent cousins, CB radios. Many can be found on ebay for under $200 and may already have the additional frequencies installed. Also any good SSB (single side band) CB radio can have what they call ?Extra Channels Added? by any good tech. (Lots of mods here?http://www.dxzone.com/tag-cb-mods/.) CB shops at truck stops often times have used free band radios for sale at good prices, but check Ebay for prices on used radios before going.
Any frequency on the radio can be used in various modes, the most common being AM, Single Side Band (SSB), Upper Side Band (USB) and CW. CW means constant wave mode, which is the mode used for Morse Code and RTTY. It is possible to send several and receive multiple pages of text files via RTTY. The software needed can be found here (http://gmfsk.sourceforge.net/?). Radios with a CW mode like the RCI 2950 (et al) and the Uniden HR2510 have the CW mode installed. There are other models that also have CW mode, however no CB radios have CW mode. You can send pictures and text files to others, similar to a fax. This will be an excellent way for the people to maintain contact with others during times of crisis or total collapse.
The legal frequency range of a Citizens Band radio is 26905 megahertz through 27405 megahertz (mostly in 10 kilocycle steps per channel), covering the 40 channels of CB radio. Freebanding is when an unlicensed radio operator uses the non-allocated frequencies in the 11 meter band (CB radio and beyond). When society has collapsed, who care who has a license?
Most freebanders use the Single Side Band (SSB) mode of these channels as opposed to the AM mode. The chatter you may have heard on channel 19 (the truckers channel) is in the AM mode. AM mode of operation is limited in range, however using the SSB mode affords greater range and more output power. A legal CB radio has 4 watts output on the AM band and 12 watts on the SSB band.
This means that when conditions are right (sunspots, etc.) SSB signals can travel greater distances than those in the AM mode. One early morning, while driving west on I-90 in Idaho, I made a contact with Tokyo, Japan using SSB and a HR 2510 Uniden radio. That was a contact of over 7000 miles with less than 20 watts of power.
Once the world goes in to collapse there will still be thousands of people using the freebands. This can be used to create a radio round-robin or?relay?to share information and help others.
The international call frequencies are:
27555 USB The US and the world except for Europe
26285 USB Europe
First a little bit about how to use a call frequency. A call frequency is a frequency on which we make contact with someone who would like to have a conversation with us. The parties then go to another frequency of their choice to continue the conversation. It is unlike the chatter you may have heard on the AM side ? CB Channel 19 and all that noise. The conversation is called a QSO.
First we must wait for a moment of silence to break in and make our call. The protocol for asking for a QSO is like this:
?C-Q, C-Q, NEW MEXICO CALLING AND LISTING ON 27560? is a typical call or CQ (?seek-you?). This tells listeners on the call frequency where to find you to have a conversation. Then we move our frequency dial to that frequency. Once there we make another call like this:
?CQ CQ New Mexico calling for any and all stations.? Or if your are looking to make a contact in a specific place:
?CQ CQ New Mexico Calling for all stations in _____? (the place of your choosing) ?and standing by for contact.?
Antennas
There are many different kinds of viable antennas to use with your radio, some very cheap some very expensive.
Some of you may choose to make a wire antenna. One of the simplest wire antennas is the ?Inverted V? ? very good for long distance communications (what the radio community calls ?skip?). The inverted V can be made for the cost of some wire and a pole.
Others may prefer to purchase something ready made, in a box. For those of you who do, we can strongly suggest the ?V Quad?. This is a directional aluminum antenna that sends a strong signal in only one direction. Like the directional TV antennas of past times, this antenna needs a rotor (this is a motor to turn the antenna from the radio shack or you can use the ?armstrong? method). It is the best non-homebrew antenna that I have ever used.?http://www.livecbradio.com/11-meter-loop-antenna.htm
Either way, when the conditions are right you?ll be talking to the world.
When radio operators say, ?conditions are right? they mean that the skip conditions are good, allowing the radio signals to be received over longer distances than normal. Skip is when the signal travels along a mostly horizontal plane before it eventually hits the ionosphere. Like a flat rock across a lake, the signal will skip along rather than pierce the ionosphere and go out into space. This skip can cause your signal to be received with nearly as much strength as it had when it left your antenna. The contact I had with Tokyo gave me an S10 signal strength, and that is as high as it gets. Sunspots are generally the cause for good skip conditions.
Coming up in Part 2 ? Family Radio Service, Business Radio Service and Scanners.
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Dan & Sheila are the authors of Surviving Survivalism ? How to Avoid Survivalism Culture Shock, and hosts of the podcast Still Surviving with Dan & Sheila. For questions about space in their Intentional Survivalist Community or other survivalist issues, they can be reached at surviving@lavabit.com.
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Todd Akin Gets Support; Claire McCaskill Attacks
The Missouri Senate race officially kicks into high gear with less than six weeks until the general election. GOP candidate Rep. Todd Akin began a four-day bus tour Tuesday that will criss-cross the state. Meanwhile, incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill released a new push for advertising in Missouri. Despite calls for Akin to resign after controversial remarks Aug. 19, the deadline for him to drop out of the race passed by quietly at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Where did Akin start his statewide tour?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Akin started in his home territory of St. Louis. Upon launching the Common Sense Bus Tour , Akin told the media outlet in front of 200 cheering supporters, "I have a purpose going into November and that's to replace Claire McCaskill."
Later in the day as the official deadline to drop out passed, Akin was in Cape Girardeau. The Southeast Missourian reveals the conservative candidate spoke for close to 30 minutes in the Bootheel where he reiterated, "And when all is said and done, the people of Missouri chose me to do a job -- and that is to replace Claire McCaskill."
What is McCaskill doing to counter Akin's tour?
A new 30-second advertisement was released called "Todd Akin In His Own Words ." The image of a one-a-day calendar shows Akin's attacks on Social Security in March 2011, Medicare in September 2011, the minimum wage in March, student loans in April and abortion rights with "legitimate rape" in August. The ad concludes, "What will he say next?"
McCaskill also unveiled a new fundraising campaign called "He's In, Let's Win. " The incumbent has a $600,000 fundraising goal between now and Sunday. McCaskill's campaign says, "It's only a matter of time before the Koch brothers and Karl Rove find a way back into Missouri. ? Republicans in Washington are coming back to Missouri... ."
How is Akin's fundraising going?
Reuters reports the Senate Conservatives Fund sent an email to around 100,000 members Tuesday asking if the PAC should send financial resources to the GOP Senate campaign in the Show-Me State. The Missouri Republican Party also voiced its support for Akin. Chairman David Cole told Reuters, "The Missouri Republican Party will do everything we can to assist in [Akin's] efforts."
What groups are backing the conservative candidate?
KOLR states Freedom's Defense Fund will spend around $250,000 buying television and radio advertising to counter McCaskill. Mark Centanni told KOLR the ad buy will be the largest investment in a single election anywhere in the country this fall. He also said one main reason the fund is backing Akin is due to the "establishment making [the comment] into a bigger deal that I think it otherwise would have been."
The New York Times interviewed families of homeschooled children who back Akin. John Thrower told the Times he supports Akin because the candidate homeschooled his own children, just like Thrower does. KTTS reports Sen. Roy Blunt admitted he will work for Akin's election even though the two politicians disagree on many issues.
William Browning is a research librarian specializing in U.S. politics.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Iran sees cyber attacks as greater threat than actual war
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For Obama, reality meets idealism in ties with Muslim world
Shades of Cairo were visible in New York this week, as President Obama spoke to the UN General Assembly about America?s relations with the changing Muslim world.
Just as he did in his groundbreaking speech in Egypt early in his presidency, Mr. Obama on Tuesday articulated the need for ?mutual interest and mutual respect? between Muslims and Americans. In New York and Cairo he held out a new idealism toward the Middle East ? one that aligns US security and economic interests with the welfare of the Arab street rather than the longevity of regimes that have failed and abused their peoples.
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But a sea change has occurred in the region since Obama spoke in Cairo in June 2009, and reality has come face to face with idealism. Any American shift in tone or approach is coming against a current of long-defined alliances and deep historic antipathies. The Obama administration?s mixed record underscores the challenges of redefining interests as well as the president?s own diplomatic miscalculations.
As promised, Obama withdrew American forces from Iraq. And he is leading international efforts to penalize Iran with stiff economic sanctions for pursuing a suspected nuclear weapons program. But he has also quietly pushed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to the back burner.
Yes, he joined an international coalition to support the rebellion against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. But he has so far been reluctant to intervene more directly in Syria, where the government is estimated to have killed more than 30,000 civilians in its brutal crackdown against the proponents of democracy.
The president called publicly on Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak to step down, breaking ranks with a stalwart US ally. However, he only tepidly objected when the oil-rich powers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent troops into Bahrain to crush democratic protests there.
Obama?s biggest gamble, perhaps, was to strike a harder open line against Israel in an attempt to strengthen US credibility with Arab leaders. But the end result was that it contributed to the stall in talks between Israelis and Palestinians, and the lack of a Palestinian state continues to work against the US on the Arab street.
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If the president is to bring US policy into closer alignment with a new relationship with the Muslim world, he will have to pay closer attention to four core principles characterizing diplomacy in the Middle East: personal relationships matter, as the late US Amb. Chris Stevens so effectively demonstrated; whatever happens in one part of the region reverberates across the region; consistency is crucial to credibility; and peace in the region depends on finding a lasting solution between Israelis and Palestinians.
These suggest some obvious immediate policy changes.
In Syria, absent consent from the UN Security Council, Obama should construct an international coalition to impose a no-fly zone over the country. This would help cut critical weapons supply-lines from Iran and ground Syria's air power, providing a significant advantage to the Syrian rebellion.
In the nascent democracies of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, security is prerequisite to addressing the pressing concerns of burgeoning and restive youth populations desperate for opportunity. Without strong militaries disciplined under civilian command, these fledgling governments cannot buffer their people against the agitating influences of Islamist and other anti-democracy elements.
And without security, the development central to Obama?s idealism ? equal education opportunities for boys and girls, jobs, trade, growth of sciences and technology ? is unattainable. Offering military and security training assistance, particularly in Libya and Yemen, is vital to professionalizing those forces under civilian control and insulating these new governments and their societies from destabilizing extremist movements.
Finally, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process must be prioritized again. No issue is more emotive in the Muslim world. The perennial lament heard from both sides ? that there is no one to talk to on the other side ? cannot be allowed to abide. And it follows that as long as the heart of the region festers unresolved, the region will not progress.
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The historical transition under way in the Middle East rightly calls for redefined interests and priorities. Obama?s new idealism requires consistent resolve for it to take root and effect lasting change.
Kurt Shillinger is a former political reporter for The Christian Science Monitor. He also covered sub-Saharan Africa for The Boston Globe.
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Safety is the key concern in most organizations and business establishments especially in the production and manufacturing industries. Worldwide, there is a high level of rates in the occurrence of accidents and unfortunate incidents daily. These could have been avoided if appropriate safety measures were observed. This is the main reason why safety leadership training is given to leaders and managers of different establishments and organisations. This would also permit them to build and implement safety measures that would bring accident rates down to the lowest level possible.???? ?
The chief belief of safety leadership training is that all work related injuries can be avoided if only workers and employees are determined to achieve such result. It would definitely help if an individual is wel-trained on and knowledgeable about preventing accidents and injuries in the office or at the work place.? ?
The usual things provided in safety leadership training concentrate on the significance of social systems affecting attitudes and behaviours of individuals as well as the regulatory and technical facets of an organization or business establishment.???? ?
Safety leadership training aims to provide managers and supervisors or business companies and organizations with the necessary tools and skills to effectively lead and manage safety in their zone of responsibility. Safety leadership training programs teach the managers and supervisors the development of safety and perceiving it as a personal value, empowerment of workers and employees in safety processes, honing qualities required in safety leadership, and the gaining and improvement of effective communication skills. It also teaches them how to be accountable for own safety.
Many safety leadership training programs give a multifaceted survey regarding safety where peers and managers share insights on a person?s safety leadership skills. Individual plans are likewise created and built in order to support the elimination of obstacles within an establishment to uphold improved visibility of safety for the work place.? ?
Most of these training programs are downloadable from the Internet and learned in one?s own available time. The skills highlighted on such programs include training on wise and effective means of keeping coworkers safe and free from incidents or accidents and honing their communication and leadership skills.?? ?
Employees and workers are highly encouraged to observe all possible precautions in order to prevent any grave consequences because safety must always come first.
Also, behavioural safety is equally important as safety leadership training because physical health and safety is as much as important as mental and psychological.
In general, the core idea of safety leadership training is to make sure everyone in the work place is safe.
Source: http://www.autoayudablog.com/blog/leadership/facts-about-safety-leadership-training
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Obama urges unity on embassy attacks, no details on Syria
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday appealed to world leaders to reject attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world sparked by an anti-Islam video and called anew for the ouster of Syria's president without saying how to make it happen.
Obama also told the U.N. General Assembly the United States "will do what we must" to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons - a veiled threat of military force - one day after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel would be "eliminated."
The U.S. president reiterated his preference for a diplomatic solution but told Iran that "time is not unlimited."
Both appeared to brush aside a warning against "inflammatory" rhetoric from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who on Tuesday said nations must not threaten military action and that the consequences of using force would be devastating. Ban also warned the 193-nation assembly that the door to Israeli-Palestinian peace may be closing "for good."
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, reflecting growing frustration with the U.N. Security Council's deadlock on Syria's 18-month civil war, told the assembly that it is time for Arab nations to take matters into their own hands and "interfere" in Syria. He did not offer details.
Obama's speech followed two weeks in which the United States suffered attacks on its diplomatic missions in Muslim nations in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. It was his final U.N. appearance before the November 6 U.S. presidential election.
Beginning and ending his speech by evoking Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya who died with three other Americans in a September 11 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Obama made a plea for nations to unite against such attacks.
"It is the obligation of all leaders in all countries to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism," Obama said. "There is no speech that justifies mindless violence."
The violence in Libya, as well as attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt, Tunisia, Indonesia and other Muslim nations, was sparked by a video made in California that depicts the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer, fool and child abuser.
'CALL ME AWFUL THINGS'
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, Indonesia, called for a binding international treaty to "prevent incitement to hostility or violence based on religions or beliefs."
Obama, while repeating his condemnations of the video as "crude and disgusting" and stressing the U.S. government had nothing to do with its production, defended freedom of speech.
"As president of our country, and commander-in-chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so," Obama said, drawing applause and some laughter.
"It is time to marginalize those who, even when not directly resorting to violence, use hatred of America or the West or Israel as the central organizing principle of politics, for that only gives cover, and sometimes makes an excuse for, those who do resort to violence," he added.
Obama is likely to have disappointed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his comments on Iran because he did not lay down any "red lines" that the Israeli leader has demanded to trigger military action if Iran crosses them.
Iran says its nuclear program is solely for peaceful uses such as generating electricity or producing medical isotopes.
"Let me be clear: America wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe that there is still time and space to do so. But that time is not unlimited," Obama said.
"The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," he added.
'THE BLOODSHED IN SYRIA'
While some nations, notably in the Arab World, have called for more robust international action to stop the bloodshed in Syria, the U.N. Security Council has been deadlocked, and Russia and China have vetoed three resolutions condemning Damascus. Qatar said it was time for action outside the United Nations.
"I think that it is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria," Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said.
Syria has accused Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey of supplying arms to the Syrian rebels.
U.S. officials have privately made clear that they have no appetite for a military intervention without U.N. sanction in another Muslim country just as they have wound down the U.S. war in Iraq and are largely pulling out of Afghanistan by 2014.
"The international community should not look the other way as violence spirals out of control," Ban said.
Obama provided no clear direction forward.
"As we meet here, we again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin," he said, calling for harmony among Sunnis, Alawites, Christians and Kurds in Syria.
"That is the outcome that we will work for, with sanctions and consequences for those who persecute and assistance and support for those who work for this common good," he said.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff sounded a note of caution. "There is no military solution to the Syrian crisis," she told the General Assembly. "Diplomacy and dialogue are not just our best option, they are the only option."
A year after the Palestinians mounted an ultimately failed effort for U.N. membership, Obama passed quickly over the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"The road is hard, but the destination is clear - a secure Jewish state of Israel and an independent, prosperous Palestine," Obama said. "America will walk alongside all who are prepared to make that journey."
Ban offered a pessimistic assessment, suggesting that time had nearly run out for such a negotiated solution. "The two-state solution is the only sustainable option. Yet the door may be closing, for good," Ban said.
(Writing by Arshad Mohammed; Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Brian Winter, David Brunnstrom, Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols; Editing by Will Dunham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-urges-unity-embassy-attacks-no-details-syria-185403586.html
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