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Emergency Alert System Activated By Mistake (Oops!)
CBS TV 42 ^ | Tuesday June 26, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

Posted on 06/26/2007 9:19:33 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy

Federal Government Was Testing Satellite System, Activated EAS By Mistake

(CBS) CHICAGO Chicago area radio and TV stations were taken over for a couple minutes this morning, after what was supposed to be a test of a new satellite system instead activated the Emergency Alert System.

(Excerpt) Read more at keyetv.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: coldwar; eas; thebigone
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To: ladyjane
The positive side of me would like to believe that. The realist side of me says that based upon recent actions the WH doesn’t believe that there is a threat inside the US because they took care of it in Iraq. FWIW where’s Cheney?
21 posted on 06/27/2007 6:08:07 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ ("Courage is when you are scared to death, saddle up and ride out anyway." John F'in Wayne.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Holy Crap! No power, no telephone, civil defense sirens going off, and the car wouldn’t start? I would have assumed an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
attack had just occured.

I’ve heard rumors that Iran is plotting an EMP attack on the United States. I wouldn’t put anything past those nut jobs in Iran.....or Chavez in the People’s Republic of Venezuela for that matter.


22 posted on 06/27/2007 6:18:08 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Forget the fence....Build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I have not had enough coffee today for all this, now where is my tinfoil and duct tape?! :)


23 posted on 06/27/2007 6:24:30 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (July is going to be a great month...)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Now that's interesting. Where is Cheny? Home playing with the new grand kid?
24 posted on 06/27/2007 6:30:24 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

Bush’s fault!

(I wonder how many leftist conspiracy weenies choked on their cornflakes when they heard the alert message. “Martha! Martha! Ah TOLLLLD you that man was gonna take over the country.”)


25 posted on 06/27/2007 6:34:42 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
Your story precisely describes an EMP attack signaling the initiation of nuclear hostilities.

I always found it odd that the EAS was not activated during 9/11. IIRC a decision was made not to “panic” the sheeple.

Regardless, the President was whisked to an Air Force base bunker and for the -first- time in US history the Continuity of Government Plan was initiated. Many rumors and stories of second tier bureaucrats forming long lines entering Mount Weather and other COG bunkers.

I have always thought that the Feds had information that a -nuclear- threat was associated with 9/11.

IMHO the 9/11 attack did not rise to a COG level event, unless there was more of a threat than we were led to believe. EAS however, should have been activated to reassure the public with accurate and timely information from an official source, but it wasn’t.

Why have EAS?

26 posted on 06/27/2007 7:05:25 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy (Don't hit them between the eyes. Hit them right -in- the eyes!)
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To: ladyjane
You listen to NPR?

I like 'All Things Considered'. When I listen to NPR, I consider it opposition research.

27 posted on 06/27/2007 7:11:30 AM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: mad_as_he$$

So I’m not the only one who has noticed Cheney is MIA.


28 posted on 06/27/2007 7:12:26 AM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (THOMPSON '08)
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To: Clam Digger

It’s ironic that Feinstein and Hillary are outraged by “right-wing” radio yet they don’t have a problem with NPR.

And our tax dollars pay for that NPR propaganda. Imagine if tax dollars were used to pay for Rush.


29 posted on 06/27/2007 7:34:46 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Bernard

When I was in the EMS, we had a dispacther who wasnt very smart. One early Sunday morning, she saw a button that was marked “Mon Yough” Being the moron she was, she hit it to see what would happen.
Well, it set off tones for about a dozen Fire and EMS services. It was a Diaster Tone that was only to be used in the event of a really large incident.
People were less than amused....


30 posted on 06/27/2007 8:17:44 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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To: ladyjane; Rb ver. 2.0
[You listen to NPR?]

[[Knowing your enemy is wise.]]

I’ve gotten many a “heads up” on what the next liberal trend is going to be by listening to who the guests are on NPR. It seems to be a preferred place for them to float trial balloons.

31 posted on 06/27/2007 9:03:33 AM PDT by spinestein (The answer is 42.)
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

Well, the whole government, make that America, was in scramble mode. Perhaps they were too occupied and just forgot about the EAS.

But yeah, you raised a good point. If anything called for an EAS, it was 9/11.


32 posted on 06/27/2007 7:30:38 PM PDT by Killborn (BASH BUSH!! All the COOL kids are doing it!!!! Perfect for people with no logic or reason!)
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To: Yorlik803

Yikes.

But what the heck IS a “Mon Yough”?


33 posted on 06/27/2007 7:31:20 PM PDT by Killborn (BASH BUSH!! All the COOL kids are doing it!!!! Perfect for people with no logic or reason!)
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