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freedom_please Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 11:47 AM
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VIDEO: It could happen tomorrow -- are you scared?
Have you noticed the endless parade of Weather Channel promotions of "It Could Happen Tomorrow?"

While I'm not exactly sure, I do remember seeing it promoted back in January... and it's still being promoted today (over a month later). What's up with that?

You might be interested in this Jimmy Kimmel video parady of it:
http://snipurl.com/Weather_Scare

Bottom line: is the Weather Channel involved in psyop, too?

Update: There's another commercial for "It Could Happen Tomorrow" -- shown less than 5 minutes after I saw it when I started writing this post.

Should we take a hint?
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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 11:51 AM
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1. what is this IT you are referring to?
don't have the Weather Channel. Is it a disaster movie or what?
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 11:53 AM
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2. They hype disaster senarios ....
A category 5 hurricane hitting New York City
A tidal wave hitting San Francisco

Just a way to get you to watch them beside getting your weather.
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freedom_please Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 11:59 AM
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3. Is it for ratings or psyop?
And I now see The Weather Channel is running this every Sunday at 9:30 p.m. -- so is it the same piece or do they feature a new scenario each week?

If it's different content each week, I'd understand the nonstop promotion. But if it's the same, that's stunning.
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Marie26 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:08 PM
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5. Course, it could be ratings too
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 12:10 PM by Marie26
People like to watch that stuff. I recently got pulled into a Discovery documentary on "Supervolcanos!: Could it happen here?" Weather Channel usually gets people for a short amount of time to check the weather, but a doc. can keep people watching longer. They can probably get higher ratings for a disaster documentary than the normal slow ratings on a Sunday. Just a guess.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:08 PM
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6. I'm not sure about that, never seen it.
I put it on before I leave in the morning for my local forecast. The past few weeks before they show it, a commercial for that show is on. That's my extent of it.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:03 PM
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4. Probably. Back in 2004, during the election season
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 12:04 PM by RubyDuby in GA
right after one of the hurricanes, they were reporting live in Florida. It was funny how they were in front of a home that was nearly demolished but their Bush/Cheney sign was still standing in the front yard?!?!

Now, it's more of the be afraid......fear fear fear........that you get on regular channels.

Seriously, someone remind the people at the Weather Channel that people tune in because they want to find out about the weather! If I wanted to see come disaster theory bullshit, I'd watch the Discovery Channel.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:23 PM
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9. On the other hand, what is the message delivered by showing
a Bush/Cheney sign in front of a destroyed house?

And with disaster pseudo-documentaries showing any number of different catastrophe scenarios it will be difficult in the future for anyone to say "nobody could have predicted that...". These speculations are based on sound science -- supervolcanoes have erupted in the past, and most of Yellowstone is an ancient caldera; changing weather patterns could bring powerful hurricanes much farther up the coast of the Eastern US; tsunamis have struck the west coast before. A responsible government should have some kind of response plan available, like "disaster depots" scattered across the country, storing tents and trailers, food and water, ready for quick dispersal into disaster zones.

We can't predict what will happen when; but it is safe to say that we can predict that something will happen sometime. The climatologists and meteorologists of the Weather Channel are members of the most despised minority in Bush's America -- scientists. And they know it.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:10 PM
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7. I'm sick of these things
you can't turn on the Weather channel anymore without fearmongering. It's ridiculous.
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freedom_please Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:13 PM
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8. Here's a better Weather Channel documentary...
... Instead of hyping what could happen, I'd rather see what's currently going on.

For example, there's a growing buzz about chemtrails... contrails left by airplanes that act differently than contrails.

The only legitimate name talking about this is http://snipurl.com/Chemtrail_Confusion">Scott Stevens...

... And while most of his chemtrail theories seem logical, some seem a bit odd.

Would you like to see The Weather Channel debunk the chemtrail myth?
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freedom_please Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:24 PM
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10. But wait... there's more scary weather...
Wow... I just stumbled upon this in a Google search:
http://snipurl.com/Weather_Tomorrow

It looks like critics have noticed these scary hypotheticals for quite some time...

... What do you think about this?
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