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[Michelle]

Whew, I'm glad that's over!

[Q24]

el midgetron, on 09 November 2011 - 07:24 AM, said:

I don't watch TV any more but I remember the annoying tests of the emergency broadcasting system.

Little Fish, on 09 November 2011 - 08:41 AM, said:

nice to read that some people do not watch tv anymore. I fall asleep after 20 minutes of watching, in such a daze it should be easy to influence someones thinking like hypnosis. TV is a form of mind control, people connect to it as if TVland is reality. I noticed a change in my perception after throwing away my tv 10 years ago.

I think the TV and certain newspapers are very entertaining when you know their game.  It’s interesting to note the propaganda and influencing as it’s broadcast - it’s rife in the news, entertainment, movies, everywhere.  It is just as interesting to note the issues that do not so often make it onto the screen.  To me, such media is useful in the way of ‘know your enemy’.

It was an over zealous tabloid article I read six years ago on Iran that actually helped bring the whole game to my attention.

[rashore]

Awww, ya'll got it wrong with Obama and the government running the EAS.. Don't you know they are running the cell towers and RFID chips? The EAS is the conditioning system the aliens are using to prepare us  

[_Only]

Little Fish, on 09 November 2011 - 05:15 PM, said:

since I was asking questions and questions cannot be conjecture since conjecture is a speculative assertion, all of which makes you a bit of an idiot.

They were rhetorical questions based off conjecture, ended with "america, land of the free, home of the brave". Paint it any way you prefer, but I saw what you did there.

[Corp]

Michelle, on 09 November 2011 - 07:34 PM, said:

Whew, I'm glad that's over!

But now you're a brainwashed government slave, powerless as they steal your pie.

[puridalan]

I just want to thank everyone for posting on this thread with your own insights/opinions ect. First off for those wondering the comet passed last night so it was already gone before they broadcasted.  Secondly, interesting thing on Obama though can't really be validated ha-ha. It is apparently just a test, but what it is testing fully is never really stated. Except that it's a test out to us for disasters. I did like the comment about someone else saying the gov't doesn't know when a disaster is coming, that can be very true as well..as no one person or group knows everything. Everyone good points. And someone mentioned amber alerts/tornado warnings those are specific warnings obviously to help you ie from a torando or to save a child in most cases in immediate danger. Not saying all broadcasting is evil/good merely a tool, and how that tool is used varies.

[Michelle]

Corp, on 09 November 2011 - 09:24 PM, said:

But now you're a brainwashed government slave, powerless as they steal your pie.

If you want pie I will gladly make one for you, but nobody...I repeat, nobody steals my pie.

[_Only]

Michelle, on 09 November 2011 - 09:32 PM, said:

If you want pie I will gladly make one for you, but nobody...I repeat, nobody steals my pie.

It's common knowledge in certain circles that the right to bear arms was in direct response to the little known amendment stressing the God given right to keep pie. Sadly, this amendment was scrapped in the cake vs. pie debate of 1789. They decided to keep the 2nd amendment and rationalize it, because, hey, what could it hurt?

[Michelle]

Jerry Only, on 09 November 2011 - 09:53 PM, said:

It's common knowledge in certain circles that the right to bear arms was in direct response to the little known amendment stressing the God given right to keep pie. Sadly, this amendment was scrapped in the cake vs. pie debate of 1789. They decided to keep the 2nd amendment and rationalize it, because, hey, what could it hurt?

You say that with such credibility.

[Little Fish]

Jerry Only, on 09 November 2011 - 09:05 PM, said:

They were rhetorical questions based off conjecture, ended with "america, land of the free, home of the brave". Paint it any way you prefer, but I saw what you did there.

you really need to learn yourself some. a rhetorical question is a question whose answer is implied within the question. nowhere was there an implied answer, so stop being an ass. the context was that not everyone watches TV, so what use is an emergency warning system that only warns people who live in TV land? (that was a rhetorical question). perhaps the point of only broadcasting this using maninstream media is that brainwashed people who live in TVland feel they need government to protect them, whilst those that don't live in TVland have enough instinct and gumption to look after themselves, therefore a msm-only emergency broadcast hits its target audience (this is conjecture).

[el midgetron]

Q24, on 09 November 2011 - 07:36 PM, said:

I think the  TV and certain newspapers are very entertaining when you know their  game.  It's interesting to note the propaganda and influencing as it's  broadcast - it's rife in the news, entertainment, movies,  everywhere.  It is just as interesting to note the issues that do not so  often make it onto the screen.  To me, such media is useful in the way  of 'know your enemy'.

It was an over zealous tabloid article I read six years ago on Iran that actually helped bring the whole game to my attention.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching shows and movies. I even sometimes wish I could flick on the news just to see what they are talking about. I just don't "watch TV". I don't have service and I don't really miss it. The only time I really ever see broadcast TV is at the local pub on a rare night out (and its always a dozen flat-screens with sports on... which I'm not really into). I'm all for media, I just don't care to pay for the privilege of 100 channels of crap with nearly a third of the air-time dedicated to advertising.  

I think TV becomes a routine for allot of people, it becomes the center of their living area. As a child my mother remembers sitting around the radio, actually watching the radio, when their programs came on (before TV). Who knows, maybe the behavior is some kind of primal throw-back to when our ancestors gathered around a fire at night and shared stories? If that is the case, its been perverted and lost.

[Santa Is Real]

Oh look, nothing happened, again.

[Little Fish]

"emergency" alert coming to online games
http://www.popsci.co...ur-online-games

[_Only]

Little Fish, on 11 November 2011 - 08:32 AM, said:

"emergency" alert coming to online games
http://www.popsci.co...ur-online-games

That article from 2009. Kind of dragging their feet.

[Farmer77]

Test didn't go so well for the feds:

http://www.prisonpla...nationwide.html


Guess the bottom line in this whole thread is do you trust the government? If you do then what they're doing is simply attempting to protect its citizens in case of an emergency. If you don't then what they're doing is trying to control the free flow of information for (intentionally or not) potentially nefarious reasons.