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Strange broadcast warning just now.

 
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Strange broadcast warning just now.
You know those television broadcast warnings they do sometimes with the weird beeping noise. This is only a test, blah blah blah.

Well one just went off for bay area, CA then it had a quote from Walter Cronkite after it was done beeping.

This quote but longer "It is increasingly clear that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to the pledge to defend democracy."

After the beeping the warning went back to the tv show I'm watching (COPS) but it had the cronkite quote being spoken over the show.

Weird.
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11/17/2010 07:51 AM
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whoa.

hiding
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Re: Strange broadcast warning just now.
Sounds like a warning alright but not to the public OP.
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11/17/2010 07:53 AM
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Re: Strange broadcast warning just now.
It completely tripped me out. I have a bad feeling now because it was just so weird. That shit doesn't just happen. Someone made it do that.
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11/17/2010 07:54 AM
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I am getting freaked out about what has been going on lately.


We lost control of our missles for 45 minutes.
The missle off the Calif Coast.
Now finding that the Chinese re-routed so much of the internet for 18 minutes.

I am very worried.
Truth Is God's Daughter - Spanish Proverb.

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Re: Strange broadcast warning just now.
Sounds like a warning alright but not to the public OP.
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yup
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11/17/2010 07:55 AM
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wtf
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Re: Strange broadcast warning just now.
Sounds like a warning alright but not to the public OP.
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Well it went off at like 4:40 am PST so I know regular people are sleeping and not paying attention.

I'm a nightowl :P
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11/17/2010 07:56 AM
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I have DirectTV and about a week ago there was one of those emergency messages for Santa Barbera - I live in Texas, and that it was just a test. Thought it was pretty weird.
"God sent me to piss the world off"
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Re: Strange broadcast warning just now.
You know those television broadcast warnings they do sometimes with the weird beeping noise. This is only a test, blah blah blah.

Well one just went off for bay area, CA then it had a quote from Walter Cronkite after it was done beeping.

This quote but longer "It is increasingly clear that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to the pledge to defend democracy."

After the beeping the warning went back to the tv show I'm watching (COPS) but it had the cronkite quote being spoken over the show.

Weird.
 Quoting: gurunade



How do you know it was Walter Cronkite? You just happened to recognize the quote? Or you just think the voice sounds like him? What?
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bump
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How do you know it was Walter Cronkite? You just happened to recognize the quote? Or you just think the voice sounds like him? What?
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It was his actual voice, recorded and played back and he signed off on it. I googled it and I guess it was a famous quote of his from the Vietnam war.

These warnings happen maybe once a month but this was the first time I had heard it "hijacked".

It wasn't normal.
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It was as if someone hijacked the warning system and slipped the recording in there. Who would do that? Why that quote??
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11/17/2010 08:04 AM
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bump
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Totally irrelevant but I have to say this. Your moose avatar reminds of Jay Kay from Jamiroquai. Ok, I've finished now, we return you to previously scheduled programming.
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Re: Strange broadcast warning just now.
You know those television broadcast warnings they do sometimes with the weird beeping noise. This is only a test, blah blah blah.

Well one just went off for bay area, CA then it had a quote from Walter Cronkite after it was done beeping.

This quote but longer "It is increasingly clear that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to the pledge to defend democracy."

After the beeping the warning went back to the tv show I'm watching (COPS) but it had the cronkite quote being spoken over the show.

Weird.
 Quoting: gurunade


In the last year or so I have noticed more of the emergency alert system coming on the radio. But most are different than the usual "This is a test......". They interrupt the program, have the tones, and then back to the show. No "this is a test....", and much shorter than the usual test. The one's that I have seen on the TV have the scroll of "this is a test..." and are not as frequent as on the radio. If I turn on the TV when the radio is doing it there is just regular programming on the TV.

The "Sheeple" part of me says it is just routine testing, or someone pressed a button somewhere mistakenly.

The "tinfoil" part of me says it is conditioning.

Somewhere in the middle maybe?
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11/17/2010 08:05 AM
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Before anyone says it, I will...
IT WAS CRONKITE CHANNELING A CODED MESSAGE
fROM THE GRAVE!
Were going to have to negotiate with the moon aliens so they will stop making it tilt and then defend democracy against species 8472 who are riding planet x to meet up with their brothers in the sun orbs.They're all socialists and they are going to take over!COPS will also be involved but I'm not sure how since you didn't mention any related numbers. be sure.... DOOM IS HERE!DOOOOOOOOM!
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waking up sleeping manchurian candidates. Watch for mass shootings.
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Maybe to spread fear?

Maybe to send a message?

Maybe to warn?

Who knows, all I know is we are now living in an alternate reality.
Truth Is God's Daughter - Spanish Proverb.

"Silence Is Treason" Geert Wilders
CelticLegends

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11/17/2010 08:08 AM
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Hey, is the opposite of sheeple, freeple?




Imagine if the freeple hijacked the airwaves

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11/17/2010 08:09 AM
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Hmm interesting.
btw: We never have those tests here...
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Hey, is the opposite of sheeple, freeple?




Imagine if the freeple hijacked the airwaves

moshpit
 Quoting: CelticLegends



Oooooo, I like that----Freeple! Mind if I borrow that when someone talks about "the Sheeple"?
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Hey, is the opposite of sheeple, freeple?




Imagine if the freeple hijacked the airwaves

moshpit
 Quoting: CelticLegends


Freeple. I like that! Has a nice ring to it and sends an effective message!

Can I borrow it?
Truth Is God's Daughter - Spanish Proverb.

"Silence Is Treason" Geert Wilders
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Hmm interesting.
btw: We never have those tests here...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1167013



What is your emergency alert system then?
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waking up sleeping manchurian candidates. Watch for mass shootings.
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Manchildren candida, did you say?
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11/17/2010 08:12 AM
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Oooooo, I like that----Freeple! Mind if I borrow that when someone talks about "the Sheeple"?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1040318


Of course! So long as you gimme credit tounge

Just kidding!

It just popped into my mind; all 'popped into my mind' thoughts are opensource :D
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Re: Strange broadcast warning just now.
You know those television broadcast warnings they do sometimes with the weird beeping noise. This is only a test, blah blah blah.

Well one just went off for bay area, CA then it had a quote from Walter Cronkite after it was done beeping.

This quote but longer "It is increasingly clear that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to the pledge to defend democracy."

After the beeping the warning went back to the tv show I'm watching (COPS) but it had the cronkite quote being spoken over the show.

Weird.
 Quoting: gurunade


h'mmmm:

Thread: Walter Cronkite’s death is a time marker for cataclysmic events soon to follow!

I have been keeping an eye on that 3 gorges dam.

"What I saw next was unimaginable flooding. I was in foreign land that I quickly deduced was China. Old mother said we need to go up there to see what is about to happen. She pointed toward the top of a mountain and we began the climb. In the matter of seconds we were at the top of the mountain and looking down at an incredibly large dam. The dam was bulging in the middle and cracks were visible. The people around the dam were franticly screaming commands and panic had set in. The dam was going to fail and they knew it. As I watched the dam break and crumble I was over come with grief. It was as if some one had stabbed me with an emotional knife. Hundreds of thousands perished. Old mother told me to close my eyes again.

When I opened my eyes again I was back inside the log cabin Walter Cronkite was in. He was gone and the newspaper I looked at had the headline ‘Walter Cronkite – The Most Trusted Man in America Passes Away’. I looked at old mother and asked what the significance of what I witnessed is? She said ‘When Walter Cronkite passes within three hundred thirty three days a great catastrophe will befall the Chinese people’. ‘When this catastrophe happens it will mark the beginning of Mother Earth’s vengeance upon the evils of mankind’.
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Hey, is the opposite of sheeple, freeple?




Imagine if the freeple hijacked the airwaves

moshpit


Freeple. I like that! Has a nice ring to it and sends an effective message!

Can I borrow it?
 Quoting: Say_It_Loud


Be my guest hf
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[link to www.digitalhistory.uh.edu]

Is that what was playing in the message? Dude thats gotta be intense to hear at 4am
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11/17/2010 08:13 AM
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its true...

try to surrender and negotiate.

you are overmatched.
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Hmm interesting.
btw: We never have those tests here...



What is your emergency alert system then?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1040318

1dunno1
Guess some old sirens from ww2? No idea really, but there are some sirens, those are never tested though.
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Oooooo, I like that----Freeple! Mind if I borrow that when someone talks about "the Sheeple"?


Of course! So long as you gimme credit tounge

Just kidding!

It just popped into my mind; all 'popped into my mind' thoughts are opensource :D
 Quoting: CelticLegends



Thanks, I will put it in the credits scoll at the end of the conversation tounge





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