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WolfHawk
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Deus City Times

Latest From DeusCity Times -
Starting Saturday, Jan 24, 2037
News from the Warfront

I THOUGHT this sounded familiar!!!!!! Someone got lazy! Either a PM or the politician speaking!!!!! AND this may well be full of clues, too!!!

It is almost word for word Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Quarantine speech which came in between World Wars I and II. It had a major effect on the USAs foreign policy.

http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/fdrquarn.html

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morelaak
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Well i'll be damned...

Heh, /lazy

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I wonder if this would be worth mentioning in the DC forums?

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James Stone
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Definitely post it, it will then become an IG issue Very Happy
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They did it again:

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Latest From DeusCity Times -
Starting Friday, Mar 20, 2037
Defensecorp Promises New Deal

After the adjournment of the historical special session of the Corporate Senate five weeks ago regarding our new policy of Supreme Neutrality, I purposely refrained from addressing you on the topic as originally promised for two very good reasons. First, I think that we all wanted the opportunity for a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the new temporal Interface. Secondly, I wanted a few weeks in which to set up the new administrative organization and to see the first fruits of our careful planning.



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The American Presidency Project
americanpresidency.org

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fireside Chat (Recovery Program).
July 24th, 1933
After the adjournment of the historical special session of the Congress five weeks ago I purposely refrained from addressing you for two very good reasons. First, I think that we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal. Secondly, I wanted a few weeks in which to set up the new administrative organization and to see the first fruits of our careful planning.


and so on.

full text here:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=14488

I guess there are worse US presidents they could emulate.

Problem is, the US (Deus City) was attacked by the Japanese (war outside DC walls) and FDR declared war which entangled us in WWII.

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Wang Guantao
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Have you posted this on the DC forums Wolf?
They definitely want us to discover this "ripoff".

History may repeat itself, but not if i can help it!

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hehe....

by the way, hey for the first time in a long time guys. been busy with finals and just got on spring break last weekend.

anyway...

In an odd show of diplomacy, i sent a message to foo, asking him to make another speech in his own words. well, i forgot there for a minute that there are two foos, and the one we can talk to is in our time Razz

ok. so. anyway, i got a slightly cryptic message back from him. :

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"My speech" as you call it will not leave my lips for another 30 years. I'm considering keeping a copy but this puts an uneasy feeling in my stomach and I'm not much on feelings.
To answer your question,It was once said:
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do are doomed to watch it repeat."
I do not believe this. I believe that this changed on 11/11/06 at 11:11:11 and will never be true again. Perhaps a better adage would be:
"Those who do not learn from the future are doomed to repeat it. Those who do are doomed to make their own mistakes."
I do not mean to by cryptic - but there is no easy way to handle this sort of phenomenology.


so present day Foo is a little skeptical as well. It's good to know that even Foo doesn't fully trust himself.

Morelaak

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Wow...I have nothing to add regarding Deus City, but FDR sure was eloquent when addressing the masses. I much prefer that style to the current "folksy" president. Rolling Eyes
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Just thought I'd put up the translations of some of the morse code accompanied by the Advertisement Latest News articles.

Today:
3/31 West Palm Beach
3/11 Sodality Folio Page in FLA

I'm writing Adam to see if he's been following up on that lead. Dunno which Folio page it's associated with: maybe 3, maybe another one entirely.

Aand looks like it's a separate folio page.

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Where did this info come from? Is there someone in the future helping us now? If so then we need another clue - West Palm Beach is a little vague - though it does seem to fit with my current research regarding the Sodality Member that died in my arms. I believe him to have been a college professor and expert on Nostradamian prophecy. I've been desperately trying to get in touch with his family - but its tricky it's a little too close to home.

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WolfHawk
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Maybe we should combine the morse code posts into their own thread? They're spread over 2 or 3 threads now.

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On the Deus City Times page for April 12, the source code contains the following message along with a url. (Or, I guess if you're smart, you could type ctrl-a since it's white text)

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I think you are getting better at this...
here's your first clue to my little puzzle.
/images/articles/Image/c2local.jpg


Extrapolating from this,
http://www.deuscity.com/images/articles/Image/c2local.jpg
It gives an article entitled "Gang Youth Arrested". This is (for the future), and old article, dated 2023.

There's something on the back of the article that looks like it's significant...here's all I was able to make out.

Quote:
FUJIMOTO'S ON S????
Security officers are trying ???????
how ??????
last fight resulting in the ????


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I have enlarged this image somewhat - and I believe the first line to actually read:

FUJIMOTO'S CAT STOLEN

then the next thing I can pick out is essentially the same as what notgordian has already stated.



Brum

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UnimportantHero
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a stolen cat!?

looks like its time to call dave and patrick of timehole!

i mean... um... okay, an article about a pet cat being stolen is a little off. but that is definitely what the headline says. perhaps CAT is an acronym for something. who knows. i think the part about the security guards MIGHT say "security guards are trying to identify" but i could be way off base with that one.

does anyone have a program that could play with the contrast or the darkness of the image? it is a bit easier to read if you invert the colors on the picture. for instance, i can see the word "red" in there i am pretty sure.

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I flipped the image and then tried to overlay it the best I could. I think I used the wrong font though...



Quote:
FUJIMOTO'S CAT STOLEN

Security Officers are trying to figure out
how the breach in [?] Security occurred
last night [?] resulting in the [theft?] of his [cat or CAT?]


I put [] wherever there was a space where some word should (or looks like it should) be.

Someone may want to double check my letters. The original image is here:
http://www.deuscity.com/images/articles/Image/c2local.jpg

The red box (on the left, four lines down from the mug shot) shows more letters. It looks like a name, and I think it maybe says one of these:
Mr. Filler
Mr. Filter
Mr. Fillet
I can't really make out what it says. Does this mean anything to anyone?

The little red lines further down are lines I thought I saw, so I marked them. They're probably not of any significance because they were very faint, and possibly not intentional.

I also thought it was interesting that there are three capital letters in the body of the article:
SOS
Someone may want to check the second Security on the original to see if it's really capitalized though.

If anyone wants the unedited, flipped image posted, let me know.

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Excellent work Percoboist! I had been attempting something similar but I couldn't clarify anything other than what had already been mentioned.

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