This is how you know you live in a failing Empire

At around 8am on Saturday morning, Hawaii's emergency alert system sent out a shocking tweet: "Ballistic Missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek Immediate shelter, This is not a drill."

The emergncy alert was sent to all Hawaiian cellphones...

Saturday morning Hawaiian television shows were interrupted...

The moment the EAS alert interrupted Hawaiian TV is terrifying pic.twitter.com/pVwpCBeRgD

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 13, 2018

Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency responded 20 minutes later...

NO missile threat to Hawaii.

— Hawaii EMA (@Hawaii_EMA) January 13, 2018

Hawaii Emergency Management Agency spokesman Richard Repoza confirmed it's a false alarm. He says the agency is trying to determine what happened.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard quickly took to Twitter to confirm the emergency alert a false alarm...

HAWAII - THIS IS A FALSE ALARM. THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE TO HAWAII. I HAVE CONFIRMED WITH OFFICIALS THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE. pic.twitter.com/DxfTXIDOQs

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) January 13, 2018

U.S. Pacific Command spokesman Cmdr. David Benham said in a statement that PACOM "has detected no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii" and that an "earlier message was sent in error."

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This is also part and parcel of the Russian Hoax that still has the nation in its grip.

Who is standing between us and the insane Neocons who are running US foreign policy?

Is Donald Trump the only one fighting the Deep State and pushing back on the assholes in the State Department and the Intelligence Agency cartels? Because he is too clueless to be of much use. He filled his Cabinet with Deep State Neocons and takes his foreign policy advice from the Council on Foreign Relations. These people:

Largely unbeknownst to the general public, many media executives and top journalists of almost all major US news outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Established in 1921 as a private, bipartisan organization to “awaken America to its worldwide responsibilities”, the CFR and its close to 5000 elite members have for decades shaped U.S. foreign policy and public discourse about it. As one Council member famously explained, the goal has indeed been to establish an “empire”, albeit a “benevolent” one.

Based on official membership rosters, the following illustration for the first time depicts the extensive media network of the CFR and its two main international affiliate organizations: the Bilderberg Group (covering mainly the U.S. and Europe) and the Trilateral Commission (covering North America, Europe and East Asia), both established by Council leaders to foster elite cooperation at the international level.

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In a column entitled “Ruling Class Journalists”, former Washington Post senior editor and ombudsman Richard Harwood once described the Council and its members approvingly as “the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States”.

You can also see the report here.

There is nobody standing between us and them. Nobody.

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mimi's picture

lots of people were for minutes in panic. Tulsi Gabbard, thank you. I just commented on that to edg in Big Al's diary "Clear and Present Danger".

It's seldom that I am vulgar, but what edg said just now blew me up.

Fucktards. All of them.

(edited users name, my response was to edg)

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@mimi Tulsi Gabbard: one of the ones who would probably be decent if she could. Glad she came through on this one.

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This is why I live in cold Minnesota.

While besides being born here and not moving. I'm in the middle where they don't care.

Of course this only applies to actual missile threats you know. Not "false alarms". How do you get a false alarm with today's tech?

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@Strife Delivery
courtesy of fucktards. The technology bites itself in the tail and thinks it's funny.

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@Strife Delivery

...after Trump beat the Neocon's queen:

How do you get a false alarm with today's tech?

It hasn't let up yet. They just stop talking about the various technical parts that have been completely debunked, like the hacking of the DNC servers by the Russians, and the fake Trump Dossier they they paid to have concocted.

We are all Manchurians, now, waiting to be triggered. Or to paraphrase Plato:

"The citizens act as they do because the State is what it is."

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@Pluto's Republic

it's spreading. Report after report stating that Russia is going to be hacking the next election, is hacking into Congress's computers or just like when Russia hacked into the French president's computer, Mexico's election etc .... The GOP are traitors after Russia hacked the RNC computers and they are being blackmailed.

Everything that has been debunked is still being quoted verbatim by anyone who believes this as you stated. It doesn't matter how many times one shows the proof that the DNC computers were leaked not hacked, people still believe everything they've been told or they've read.

Hey, how many troops are there in some of the countries that surround Russia now? How many countries have received missile defense equipment?

How many people are going to say tomorrow that Russia tried to blow up Hawaii?

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@snoopydawg

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@snoopydawg
congressional computers was done by the Anwar faction.

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@Strife Delivery there would be several targets in MN, and even in a limited one, I wouldn't discount the twin cities.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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@dervish It would pretty much be the twin cities; there isn't anything else here really of importance.

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@Strife Delivery If it was a massive, second-strike type situation, much more could be involved. Expect Camp Ripley, Duluth, and any major dam or nuclear power plant to be targets for starters.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

@dervish

Would they go after civilians the way the US PTB do? Or stick to military targets? Not that anyone or any life on the planet would survive hundreds of modern nuclear explosions - or could actually want to die more slowly through the aftermath if they had any idea of the results even in unbombed areas...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

@dervish
do you think N. Korea has?

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@Strife Delivery

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@Pluto's Republic And following your map Pluto, I'm fine. I'm in the northern part of Minnesota.

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@Strife Delivery Bet your life would never be the same if a bomb was dropped even several states away...

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

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@divineorder

You are fine?

@Strife Delivery Bet your life would never be the same if a bomb was dropped even several states away...

Colorado Springs, Colorado. Not only won't be OK, but nothing I can do (other than leave now) can help at all.

"Spread your legs, bend over and kiss your ass goodbye" territory.

Bad

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@divineorder Fine being the word of not within various blast radiuses and fallout.

Of course, fine is relative considering that human civilization would be over.

Really surprised at how jumpy to attack people are here.

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@Strife Delivery @Strife Delivery

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

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@divineorder Perhaps attack isn't the best word but one I used at the moment.

With the number of folks commenting, apparently stating that you aren't within the potential radiuses of force, heat, or radiation effects causes folks to go off so to speak.

It's not as if I'm unaware of the reality that if that was to occur I would be peachy in mind and body. Fine was the word to describe not being crushed by tons of pressure, or burned instantaneously, or exposed to massive doses of radiation. In the end, I'd be one of the folks waiting to die from some factor due to the aftermath. I'm not a doomsday prepper or the 1% with their luxury bunkers. I would die, just on a different time table than potentially a good majority of human life.

Those in the "middle" areas are those to truly feel for. Those exposed to 2nd or 3rd degree burns along with radiation poisoning that didn't kill them outright. Walking through the museums for Nagasaki and Hiroshima was far more eye-opening for me than what we get in the classrooms.

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@Strife Delivery look at those museums. I reckon he'd either change his attitude or get a boner.
Honestly, if the US would leave other countries alone they'd likely leave us alone. But that isn't the point is it?

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This shit is bananas.

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@Strife Delivery

Really surprised at how jumpy to attack people are here.

No intention of "attack", at least not from me.

But as jumpy as some of the responses have been, you'd think that all of them came from a 10-mile radius of my location!

Smile

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@thanatokephaloides No, you're fine. No worries here.

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@Strife Delivery

... Of course, fine is relative considering that human civilization would be over. ...

Life is hard without food or oxygen production on an irradiated world without adequate sunlight for a decade or two to maintain what remains of an already failing global life support system. And that only takes a couple of hundred warheads. Sorry to be a downer, but there will no survival for anyone if this maniacal war on the world by TPTB isn't stopped.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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@Strife Delivery

Read On the Beach and see how safe you're going to be. Or any of the articles that describe what happens when nuclear weapons are used. I'm sure that you're aware of the jet stream?

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@snoopydawg

Yep. Nuclear weapons are not just bombs with a really big *bang*. The effects are not confined to the area of initial impact.

Nuclear. Nuclear radiation. Nuclear fallout. Nuclear winter.

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@Centaurea Yes, true.

You have 3 things at play.

Force, heat, and radiation. Force and heat follow similar concentric circles whereas radiation while also following the concentric circle pattern has the means to travel depending upon wind currents.

Then of course you have the things you mentioned as well.

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@snoopydawg I'm aware of the devastation of nuclear weapons.

I've been to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, seeing their devastation first hand.

In the end, you either want to be as far away as possible or directly at the epicenter. Don't choose anything in-between.

Apparently saying that you are potentially far away from the force, heat, or radiation waves gets people riled up here.

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@Strife Delivery

you either want to be as far away as possible or directly at the epicenter.

You and me, respectively!

Smile

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@Strife Delivery

I replied because it seemed that you thought you would be safe because of where you live. This is why so many of us wrote what we did. No one is attacking you. You have amended what you originally wrote. I don't see any problem with people putting out information about how nuclear weapons would affect the country.

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@snoopydawg Again attack might not have been the most descriptive term, was just the quickest in my head that went to my fingers.

I mean, Snoops, you seemed fine. Your comment was fine. Mostly this was just a minor thing between divineorder and myself. Not really the other posters, including yourself.

I have "On the Beach" on my list...along with many others that never seems to thin down, only grow over time ha. It also was a movie if I remember correctly.

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@Strife Delivery

This country is insane enough to think that it's okay for it to use nukes on Russia or China if their economy gets in the way of its hegemony. And with Trump threatening Lil Kim over dick sizes, I think people are on edge. The false report out of Hawaii today didn't help matters either. I posted a tweet down thread that shows even in the event of inbound bombs, capitalism can't be interrupted. Sheesh. Seriously?

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@Pluto's Republic Well, Florida and California are fucked, but we knew that.

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@Pluto's Republic what Strife Delivery is saying: If somebody nukes either of the coasts, those of us in the middle of the country would be relatively ok. That's a hell of a big area over North Dakota though. If they did strike all of those targets we'd all be toast.

Man, I used to have reoccurring nightmares like this. In all of them I was exactly where I am now, at home. In one of them my dad was still here; we could see mushroom clouds out the front window. He said "It's the end of the world." That shit stays with you a long time.

That we have the ability and the means to take care of each other and the planet but we choose not to because money is more important to the sociopaths that be just shows that we are a failed species and don't deserve to go on anyway. I'm just sad for all the innocent species that would go down with us. Sad

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This shit is bananas.

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@Strife Delivery

Surely you remember the years of "terror alerts". Did they ever correspond with anything at all in the real world? If so it wasn't frequent. I just assumed they were a way to keep the populace riled up about terrorists.... and that's back before I was politically awake and grappling with actual reality. When I heard about this one my first thought was, "Mistake my ass."

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@SnappleBC They corresponded to whether or not George W. Bush was doing well in his second campaign for President.

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"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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have been around for a while; they're pretty easy to use; even chimps and cats can competently work a phone. Not so The Hairball, and his fellow deep dolts. Earlier this week these nimrods were unable even to complete a conference call:

It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact.

"This White House can't even run a fucking conference call," a reporter on an unmuted phone line angrily exclaimed to the entire call. "They don't know how to mute their line."

This is a regular thing with these folks:

The White House has struggled with facilitating background briefings on conference calls before.

In July 2017, during another background call on the administration's Iran policy, a participant on the call announced that his "inflatable doll is a lesbian."

Last May, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney hosted a call that quickly devolved into a scene out of an episode of the HBO series Veep, in which crying babies, hacking coughs, and the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" were heard on the line.

Today, so goes the early word, the Hairballs were amidst a drill, when someone "pushed the wrong buttons."

You know, the buttons, these days, they're pretty important. I do not want people in the government who cannot competently work the buttons.

Though the fumblebums managed to get to the Twitler within 15 minutes to say they were just kidding about the nuke-rain, "it took emergency management officials nearly 40 minutes to send out a 'false alarm' alert to cell phones—using the same mechanism that sent out the emergency warning in the first place."

As it has been proved conclusively that these idjits cannot safely and sanely grapple with the phones, I think they should all be unplugged. They can go back to the telegraph, or carrier pigeons, or something.

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@hecate

....with the way their Constitution works:

I think they should all be unplugged. They can go back to the telegraph, or carrier pigeons, or something.

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is run by smart people putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain

Twain was so innocent.

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@Pluto's Republic
If the Americans are going to govern themselves according to a Paper written in 1789, their communication methods should reflect that year as well.

Here is what the children are taught, about how the Americans communicated, in those times:

The early colonists had to devise their own methods of communication. Not only did they not have the modern methods of communication that we have today, they didn't have any organized way to communicate at first.

If a colonist wanted to send a message to a family member or to a business back in England, the only way was to write a letter and send it across the Atlantic Ocean by ship. A reply, if it came at all, could take many months.

The colonists often did not even have this one method of communication when it came to communicating with other colonies. Gradually they developed methods of their own. Some of the methods of communications used in the early days of the colonies were horseback messengers, newspapers, broadsides, and even town criers.

Town criers. The Hairballs can take to the streets, ringing the bells, crying about the nuke-rains.

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@hecate

...the average lifespan was 43 years old.

They were really clueless about handing out those lifetime appointments. In the future, an extended lifetime would span four generations of people who would end up repressed or incarcerated by the fearful notions of calcified brains. Thanks a lot, Founders.

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@Pluto's Republic
will be having a Problem, when some judge with a lifetime appointment downloads his mind into a Machine, thereby enabling him to keep on chooglin' till the sun goes nova.

By the way, Mark did not say that thing about the smart people; the Peter Principle guy did. Not that it matters much, I suppose; in the brave new world of the tubes, soon everything will be said by everybody.

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@hecate

...I've actually stopped quoting.

Now, I paraphrase.

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@hecate

libertarians and such are trying to sell us? Does the author of that nonsense think that colonists had to reinvent letter writing? Perhaps they didn’t want to mention the Royal Post Office that Benjamin Franklin wanted to duplicate in the American colonies. No student should be exposed to this nonsense.

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@Lily O Lady
didn't move around too good in the colonies prior to the Colonial White People Wanting To Keep The Slaves vs. The British Who Were Getting Rid Of Them War. It was only in the midst of that conflict that the USPO was formed. Ben ran it for a while, but then he quit. He was distracted by other things. Like chaining his nephew to the floor of a barn for 30 years, and standing naked between two open windows, in order to cleanse himself in the breeze, for he knew that if he were ever to take a bath, he would surely die. Until well into the 19th Century, if you were a melanin-American, the USPO was not for you, because it was illegal for you to read or write. So, if you were caught with a letter, you would go to the whipping post. The USPO was also not renowned for delivering letters to Indians—at least until the Indians were broken and stuffed in the shitholes, there forced to speak and scribble like Ben. A lot of the Americans also didn't want the Catholics to have any letters: Sunday mail-delivery was halted in the early 20th Century by Protestant stick-butts who Hated that Catholic immigrants were festive on Sundays, rather than all day in the pews sobbing their sins to Jesus. Sunday mail-delivery only recently returned, thanks to Bezos, who will soon shoot The Hairball into space.

I don't know whether they teach these things in a school or not. I have not been in a school in this millennium.

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@hecate

Slaves won against British Who Wanted no slaves. So the British went with Americans Who Still Wanted Slaves against Americans Who Didn’t want Slaves and lost again! But then almost everybody lost because we are having our tiny pittances vacuumed up by the big guys. Twitter is the anesthetic that takes our minds off the vacuuming.

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@Lily O Lady

Don't let it get in the way of capitalism.

Anyone read about how people reacted to the news on this false report? I can't even begin to imagine what they went through.

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@Lily O Lady

Does the author of that nonsense think that colonists had to reinvent letter writing? Perhaps they didn’t want to mention the Royal Post Office that Benjamin Franklin wanted to duplicate in the American colonies. No student should be exposed to this nonsense.

Not to mention that wild and crazy guy, history's most infamous letter writer.....

.... Paul of Tarsus ....

Wink

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@hecate
the official EMA tweet that it was false alarm went out 8:19 local time, if I understand the images of the nbc report correctly. That makes 12 minutes.

May be the whole thing was a test from the EMA to see if their newly upgraded alert system "works" and then immediately sent a "de-warning" out. They don't seem to care how they scare folks. So, the frigging technology has to be tested that it does what it is supposed to do. Be prepared to get sent into the shelters by more "threat alarm tests" with follow-up false alarm explanations.

Or can you explain to me what exactly happened and who is responsible for the "nuclear missile incoming threat alert"?

Aren't you the experts here?

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@mimi
an expert on anything. I was just sitting here ranting in an email to somebody about the earlier State Department phone boner, when suddenly there came the Hawaii phone boner. So, pursuant to the Law Of Attraction and Law Of Association, maybe the latter is my fault. : /

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@hecate
made on the basis of the "Law Of Attraction and Law Of Association".
"Nothing for Ungood".
Pardon

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@mimi

...who has never seen an incoming nuclear-armed missile before. Nervous as hell, he alerted his commanding officer....

Or can you explain to me what exactly happened and who is responsible for the "nuclear missile incoming threat alert"?

The officer made a panicked call to the Commander on the golf course, on Saturday morning, who put out the alert.

I'm sure they saw something. The Navy has been making a lot of mistakes, lately. The sudden onset of Military incompetence is also emblematic of a failing Empire.

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@Pluto's Republic
seeing a red-faced orange-haired Orang-Utan in the White House ...
angry-orang-utan-EB1NK1.jpg
...asking why the fuck the EMA has not done its job to scare the people and test a new siren alarm system.

Nothing for Ungood. ("Nichts für Ungut" ´google translated to "No offense")

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@Pluto's Republic
something in Hawaii and showed his dick to other kiddos there? The other next candidate for the 2020 Presidential elections (aside from Oprah). At least she shows her bossom, which is really hard to not look at ...
[video:https://youtu.be/ZWY7XHSmH-c]
Yep. The Sugarmountain is a dick and it shows.

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@Pluto's Republic

....about how the missile alert happened. I wrote:

Some Navy kid in Hawaii who has never seen an incoming nuclear-armed missile before. Nervous as hell, he alerted his commanding officer.... etc.

But I am seeing news that suggests it may have been Hawaii's own state government that was behind the unsettling event.

In this past year, since the 2016 elections, people have been whipped and propagandized into low-grade panic and fear over a likely nuclear war between the US and "others." This is reinforced in their minds because Americans believe their elections were attacked by the Russians. As a result, in the case of Hawaii, the state government has been making an effort to help Hawaiians escape the effects of a local nuclear strike.

Their plan is to use sirens and cell phones to give people a ten to twenty minute warning so they can take cover and survive the nuclear explosion. City emergency workers have been drilling around the clock for months. They have also automated the warnings so that the emergency workers involved can take cover and protect themselves, as well.

Apparently, during a change of shift, one of the workers brushed against the button that put everything in motion, automatically. They may not have been aware the alarm went out. Eventually, after a flood of panicked calls from the public, they figured out what happened and sent out an "All Clear" message.

They probably learned something about how to proceed from here. That's the current narrative.

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@Pluto's Republic
to not be able to watch US MSM TV news here from Germany. Too frigging tired to follow that online.
I think and hope many people learn something out of this.

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@Pluto's Republic Accidentally brushed against the button?

Oh, FFS. Now I'm closer to mimi's view.

It's too difficult to believe in that level of gross incompetence; we'd have died long since.

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@mimi

Or can you explain to me what exactly happened and who is responsible for the "nuclear missile incoming threat alert"?

Aren't you the experts here?

No, mimi, we're not "the experts here".

Your fellow c99ers are asking the same sort of questions you are, and for the same reasons.

Diablo

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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@hecate @hecate

In July 2017, during another background call on the administration's Iran policy, a participant on the call announced that his "inflatable doll is a lesbian."

True story. I was on a conference call at work when suddenly there's a clattering from one of the phones and one of our architects says, "I'll be right back. There's a llama in my kitchen." Honestly, that was a line I never expected to hear in any context much less a high level infosec conference call LOL.

The guy in question had some lamas and... well... they are both smart and nimble. Doorknobs are apparently not much of a hindrance to them.

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@SnappleBC

True story. I was on a conference call at work when suddenly there's a clattering from one of the phones and one of our architects says, "I'll be right back. There's a llama in my kitchen." Honestly, that was a line I never expected to hear in any context much less a high level infosec conference call LOL.

The guy in question had some lamas and... well... they are both smart and nimble. Doorknobs are apparently not much of a hindrance to them.

Maybe the dally(ing) llama wanted to make herself a cup of covfefe!

Wink

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

humankind determined to prove itself an evolutionary mistake.

Whomever triggered that alert needs to be dealt with ASAP.

Add stoopit incompetence as one more sword hanging over the "Crown of Creation".

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@JtC
The Emergency Management Agency sent out the threat alert to see if they had set up the new warning system correctly and after they saw it worked, they sent a de-warning right away as a follow-up.

This way they killed two flies with one strike. They scared the population to shit (something Mr. Twitler and his behind the scenes gang really like to do so that they can justify their surveillance and oppression methods and legistlation) and they had a proof that they did their job well (Hawaii reinstates 'attack warning' siren to prepare for possible North Korean missile - The “attack warning” siren hasn’t been tested in Hawaii since the Cold War - by Heidi Chang / Nov.26.2017 / 5:26 PM ET

Well now they have reinstated it and tested it. Too bad they didn't have another testing method without scaring the population.

Makes too much sense to be true?

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@mimi
I suspect that it's more likely a case of gross incompetence.

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@JtC

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@mimi
was responsible for issuing the alert.

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@JtC
what I wanted to know.
Preved
Nothing for Ungood.

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@mimi
Live Coverage from CBS News
but it shows that you were right. Siren calls ... and hecate was right too that it took 38 minutes to correct a mistake, they say.

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@JtC @JtC oh fuck aren't corporations people? -s-

EDIT: Shithole country

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@JtC Unless it's the ugliest form of trial balloon or psych. manipulation. Not by EMA, I wouldn't think. By some assholes elsewhere (not Russia).

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"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@JtC @JtC

we’ll ever know the name of this ‘low-level nimrod that accidentally set the alarm off? If we do, that person will go down in infamy like Catherine O’Leary and Mary Mallon.

Maybe it’ll be a guy this time. We women have been getting the blame for these kinds of things since the Adam/Eve/Snake deal went down. Or Pandora. Whichever version you find more ‘credible’.

EDIT: slarm/alarm

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@JtC
It happens every month. The technician hit the wrong button and sent it out live.

Let he/she who has never written a witty response to a group email, usually making fun of the boss, intended for one recipient and hit "reply to all" cast the first stone.

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Was it a hacker getting a big cyber laff or what? Was it some moron like Betsy DeVos who hit the wrong 'on' button? Idiotic incompetence scares me much more than some yahoo crazed by warlust! Rec'd!!

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

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@orlbucfan at all times. It goes something like this: The shit-holers all hate our freedom, and will stop at nothing to destroy you at any given moment. These people live solely to stop you from eating Big Macs, and must be utterly destroyed, before they destroy us and our shopping malls, or something.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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@dervish
that they just want to keep we, the people, off balance. Fear, fear, fear - all the time, around every corner. It's how we are kept in line in this prison without bars.

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@Raggedy Ann So right.

Well, that and hating each other.

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--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
They appear to be working, which is what we really should fear.

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@Raggedy Ann complete agreement

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--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@orlbucfan @orlbucfan
(correction of EMA - it's an Agency not an Administration)
Emergency Management Agency themselves, who sent out the alert and then sent out the de-warning 12 minutes later.

There are images on the comment I made in which I copied the first NBC report here.

I don't think it was a hack of any sort. I suppose it was a test.

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@mimi

Russia hacked Hawaii's defense system.

I'll keep my eyes on ToP to see if this idea gets floated. They will float anything anymore. Smile

(edited to what I meant to say)

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@snoopydawg

I don't think it was a hack of any sort.

I'll keep my eyes on ToP to see if this idea gets floated. They will float anything anymore.

Remember, sometimes turds float. Especially those whose origin is beans....

Wink

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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@thanatokephaloides

Just my personal speculation, but I think Russia could have hacked into the missile alert system to get dump to respond. All the shithole would respond with was "FORE." Golfing...AGAIN.

This got 3 rec's and not one person called the poster out for this absurd statement. How much longer until sanity returns to that site and the country?

(did you see that I edited my previous comment? I worded it wrong)

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@snoopydawg @snoopydawg @snoopydawg

ship left port long ago and couldn’t stay afloat long enough to make it beyond the three-mile limit before it capsized and sank. The zealots left over there in their little lifeboats are flailing around seeing things that just don’t exist. And the object of worship is NEVER going to magically walk upon the cold and choppy water to save them. She sank her own boat.

EDIT: deleted ‘to’
EDIT: grammar

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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Who are "them" and who are "us"?

So many players...

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Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!

Firesign Theater

Stop the War!

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@EdMass in fact, anyone who isn't us is a them.

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@dervish

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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were having a Day After rehearsal.

People flocked to shelters, crowding highways in scenes of terror and helplessness.

“I was running through all the scenarios in my head, but there was nowhere to go, nowhere to pull over to,” said Mike Staskow, a retired military captain.

At Konawaena High School on the Island of Hawaii, where a high school wrestling championship was taking place, school officials moved people to the center of the gym as they tried to figure out how to shelter someone from a nuclear missile.

Matt LoPresti, a state representative, told CNN that he and his family headed for a bathroom. “I was sitting in the bathtub with my children, saying our prayers,” he said.

Around the Ko’a Kea Hotel at Poipu Beach on the island of Kauai, guests made their way to the main lobby, where they were invited by hotel staff to shelter in the basement parking garage among the vehicles.

The Hairball was lumbering his blubber around the golf course at the time; he sent a spokesmouth out to decree the thing had nothing to do with him, as it "was purely a state exercise.” He suggested the Boner occurred because Hawaii "has too many losers from the shithole countries." The Hairball eventually retired to the bunker, where, according to a guest, he commenced "chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities."

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@hecate

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@hecate There is nowhere to go, unless you're one of the elites. They probably already have bunkers, bug-out locations, set up. Otherwise, forget it.

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--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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