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FEBRUARY 2015, Vol.2, No.8 > THE MYTH OF THE ‘QUIET ZONE’!
The
POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the
people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’
– Proverbs 29:2
THE MYTH OF THE
‘QUIET ZONE’!
Perhaps the greatest of all ‘myths’ taking place within Pocahontas County is the ‘MYTH OF THE QUIET
ZONE’ as perpetuated through the years by the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory (NRAO) located in Green Bank.
This most egregious of all ‘myths’
exists under the pretext that the NRAO needs a ‘Quiet Zone’ in order to listen to the noise that stars make
whether coming into existence or blowing apart into their final oblivion – and
that this ‘zone’ requires as little ‘white noise’ or ‘static’ as is possible! As a direct & proximate result, the DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS
TO THE COUNTY are that Pocahontas
County is DENIED CELL
PHONE SERVICES! And by being denied ‘Cell
Phone’ service, the Citizens of this county are being denied basic services
found elsewhere in the USA including DENIAL OF specific EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SERVICES…such as ‘Medical Alert’ and
others that use cell phone towers!
This Scam of denying cell phone
service is happily appreciated by the monopoly that Frontier Communications has
in effect thanks to the treachery & self-serving of the likes of former
county commissioner Reta (the rodent)
Griffiths who gave Frontier a ten-year contract as the sole provider of
communications for Pocahontas County so that she could obtain her ‘executive’ position with Frontier
located in Elkins, West Virginia. And because Frontier has had such a monopoly, this
bottom-feeding-corporation has used their monopoly to more than DOUBLE THE COST
for each household to have a telephone in their home – compared to other
counties in West Virginia!
The average monthly cost to just
have a telephone in a house, regardless of long distance program, is more than
TWICE THAT PAID elsewhere in West
Virginia all under the pretext that the population of
Pocahontas is too small to afford communication services! And it’s been the
monopoly of Frontier that has prevented and stalled other telephone
communications companies from offering their services here in Pocahontas for
lower costs. That’s why FIBER
OPTICS has been so long delayed, and will be delayed as long as possible by
Frontier, since they do not want any competition to their stranglehold over
Pocahontas County! Only City-Net
communications has made an inroad here in this county by putting in
Fiber-Optics to Snowshoe across Cheat Mountain from Randolph County. And finally, we now have Spruce Knob / Seneca
Rocks Telephone coming in from Pendleton
County that offers rates
HALF that being charged by the thieves at Frontier.
But the prevailing scandal taking
place at the NRAO regarding the LACK OF NOISE coming from stars ‘light-years’ away from Earth is just
one of the reasons that the National Science Foundation is slowly
pulling-the-plug on the NRAO and wishes to drop the facility altogether as an
unnecessary expense!
THE
REALITY OF THE WHOLE AFFAIR IS THAT EVER SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN THE 1940s, THE
TOTAL AMOUNT OF ‘NOISE’ RECEIVED FROM
SPACE HAS BEEN THE SOUND OF A SINGLE-PIN DROPPING IN A ROOM!
That means that once the program
for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) was set aside, its
replacement of listening for any star-noise on the spectrum of ‘radio frequencies’ has been a giant
ongoing expense that too has now run its course – and that means that the
inflated salaries received by those working at the NRAO amounts to nothing more
than inflated-welfare-checks that can no longer be substantiated with any
positive or concrete results or justification.
And that all means that the ‘tourist attraction’ has lost its
credibility as a viable scientific project and has turned from a necessity, or
novelty, into a giant embarrassment for the U.S. government!
But that also means that once the
NRAO is given its final resting place in history that
FINALLY THIS COUNTY CAN HAVE CELL PHONE SERVICE that of and by itself
will more than likely benefit far more people than the NRAO! And that also means that once Cell Phone
service comes to Pocahontas County, then the likes of corrupt corporations like
Frontier may also find their demise since CELL PHONES CAN REPLACE LAND-LINE
PHONES AT A MUCH CHEAPER RATE PER/MONTH per/household! The sooner the better for the mutual benefit
of all concerned!
Many of you reading this may also
be aware that within the last several months there have been reports that as
many as 10,000 signals, pulses, patterned & sequenced noises in what some
are calling ‘messages’ are bouncing
into our atmosphere on a daily basis from various locations in
outer-space! This is exactly what the
SETI program was originally set up to track & follow. BUT THE PROBLEM IS
THAT NO ONE CAN DECIPHER whatever these patterned noises mean, if anything,
and therefore the whole exercise remains a mystery since by some accounts, some
of these patterned-noises have come from galaxies so far away that the ‘noises’ began millions of years ago and
are just now reaching Earth! For those
of you who have seen the Hollywood movie, ‘BATTLESHIP’, within the last two years or so,
then you have an idea of just what could or would happen IF there is other
intelligent-life out there…and it decided to track & follow a signal sent from
Earth to outer-space and then back again!
At any rate, several things are
certain, and that is that the Citizens of Pocahontas
County have been CHEATED OUT OF CELL PHONE SERVCES by BOTH the NRAO and
Frontier Communications for mutually compatible & self-serving purposes
and there is no telling just how detrimental this loss has been to this county
financially and otherwise! Also the
current THREE STOOGES on the county commission have not a clue as to how to
change these matters to the mutual benefit of all concerned – they would rather give away portions of this county to
self-serving corporations like Dominion Gas for promised short-term tax-revenues
and ignore the long-term and permanent DEFACEMENT! And let’s not forget the
outdated-business-clique still clinging to Marlinton lead by the likes of Fred
Burns & his Ilk who have kept POVERTY & PAUPERISM in this county for
the past four-decades for everyone but themselves! As usual these charlatans fail to realize
that Randolph to the north and Greenbrier to the
south are actually PROSPERING since they have embraced all things modern while Pocahontas in the middle wallows in Poverty &
Pauperism thanks in part to the Greed & Corruption and Minimum-Wages paid
by the businesses here in Pocahontas
County! Ah, but then again are these not the same men that
attempt to proclaim and portray themselves
as members of a ‘benevolent-secret-society’
which in reality only benefits themselves!
Is that indeed not the very definition of ‘HYPOCRISY’?
Meanwhile there are now
several ways in which anyone in this county can DROP FRONTIER and pick up an
ALTERNATIVE to the ‘lousy-services’
that Frontier provides!
The best & also the most expensive provider of Internet Services is
Hughes-Gen-4 that runs at the fastest speed ever provided so far for Internet
usage. And then
there is Spruce Knob / Seneca Rocks Communications that provides the same Internet
services as Frontier BUT AT HALF THE COST CHARGED BY FRONTIER. And although Frontier is still STALLING &
PREVENTING Spruce Knob / Seneca Rocks from providing telephone services, there
is still a way to defeat Frontier by purchasing BASIC TALK from Wal-Mart for
$10 and then paying $10 per/month for the same telephone services that Frontier
is charging for around $100 PER/MONTH or more!
Through BASIC TALK all
one needs is an Internet connection – the same telephone number is used as now,
and the connection goes through the Internet INSTEAD OF ACROSS THE TELEPHONE
WIRES OF FRONTIER! So @ $10 per/month x 12 months = $120
per/year! Now compare that to your
currently monthly and annual charges paid to Frontier Communications – subtract
the $120 for BASIC TALK – and the difference is WHAT YOU SAVE by being
ripped-off by Frontier! And for the
record, YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP YOUR COMPUTER ON to access BASIC TALK as those
that use ‘Magic Jack’ are required to
do – besides ‘Magic Jack’ requires
the user to purchase access-cards limiting the amount of time for telephone
usage pursuant to the time purchased on each access-card. With BASIC TALK
the only difference is that telephone services are provided via the INTERNET
and not via a private-predatory-corporation like Frontier! Who knows, if enough folks learn how to save
their funds and redirect those funds to better services, then maybe, just
maybe, the likes of self-serving-rodents like Reta Griffiths might just have to
get a minimum-wage job like everyone else in this county! She sure hasn’t proven herself to amount to
much more at this point…now has she?
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…WE ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN…&
then some!
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