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cbaker
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 		Re: updates
Bad Magic
amandel wrote:
Home at Missing Wallace has a new barcode (images/2-1.gif) with a sardonic msg (Reference) which reads at Zxing as:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
God I'm bored - Samael

Wallace's Case file is updated and Bob has an upload with "lorenz" leading to 2 Youtube vids and "ozmhb.7z" whose PW is:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"panic"....ROT 1 of the file name

And Wallace in an email wrote:
Only one comment: BAD MAGIC is radio slang for something, can't remember
what. Can you look into it for please. Been suffering from a migraine all day had to cancel my lunch date.

Am clueless about "BAD MAGIC" even after searching. Hope one of y'all can find it for Wallace and who is this Bob fella. Confused


Hey Bad Magic is a code used by the US Air Force Military Affiliate Radio System. It is one of the Essential Elements of Information Event Identifiers. It is used to describe Civil Unrest/Riot.

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 		Supah cbaker & welcome to uF. Hope you send that info to Wallace cuz he can sure use the help. Laughing

ETA:: Is it possible that Samael Leamas is "Bob"?
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enaxor
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 		Re: updates
amandel wrote:

Am clueless about "BAD MAGIC" even after searching. Hope one of y'all can find it for Wallace and who is this Bob fella. Confused


I found this after googling radio jargon + Bad Magic from this website http://www.ominous-valve.com/jargon.txt

Quote:
EEI Codes:

EEI stands for "Essential Elements of Information," a standard report
form used by U.S. federal and military stations to report incidents in a
standard, non-hyped manner sadly lacking on broadcast news.

BAD MAGIC Riot/civil unrest
BLOCKED LANE Blocked interstate highway
BRAZEN BRIMSTONE Volcano
BROKEN TRACK Train wreck or derailment
DARK DAY Power outage
DARK WATER Oil spill
DEEP SEA Shipwreck or incident
FALLEN STAR Air Crash
FAST WATER Dam breakage/damage
HOT AIR Gas leak/explosion
HOWLING WIND Hurricane/ typhoon
MIGHTY WIND Other damaging wind storm
LOST SUPPORT Bridge damaged/out
LOUD BANG Bombing
NUCLEAR GRAYSTONE Nuclear incident
POISONED GROUND Chemical spill
ROLLING THUNDER Earthquake
SCORCHED EARTH Forest fire
SECURE HAVEN Search & rescue
TALL WATER Flood
TSUNAMI Tsunami
VIOLENT TWISTER Tornado
WHITE BLANKET Major winter storm


*eta Doh! Trout Very Happy cbaker beat me to it.
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cbaker
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 		New Barcode
Image 1-2
Hey there's a new barcode on the website, I can't seem to get zxing to work properly, hopefully one of you can translate it?

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amandel
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cbaker wrote:
Hey there's a new barcode on the website, I can't seem to get zxing to work properly, hopefully one of you can translate it?

Have that one done on the previous. page. Am wondering if these barcodes are compressed cuz they're from another dimension of time or space or both? Woh Geek And the latest must-read from Louise while my dinner gets cold. Laughing
Louise in an email wrote:
Amandel,

Files: braw1 & 2, see attached jpg for Audacity tempo settings

What I get when I speed up the tempo is the following (didn't bother with
the pitch):

1.Public panics...mass destruction on global scale
2.West England center of rage, murders, riots unprecedented scale

Bob's braw & panic words seem to be describing the contents of the wav
files. Definitely need a drink now, where did Bob get these messages
from, more than a little worried?!? Haven't got Roy anymore he left with
a 19 year old guy! How did I miss that! Not that it matters if Bob's
messages are to be believed.

Your wrong two new files have appeared in Bob's folder, txt & jpg files.

Vodka is required!

L.

audacity.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   63.3KB
    55 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.
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 		"a bronze anvil" and "cyclops" seems to point to Tartarus

http://pstevensfhs.wikispaces.com/Tartarus


After all the Samuel stuff I think ModalRealism was correct on "nomn pily"
being "high slob" (rot 20 and rot 3) as in

What if God was one of us? / Just a slob like one of us /

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enaxor
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 		Nice connection Booba! I'd have never made that leap, but it makes perfect sense.

As Amandel suggested I shared the "saith.7z" password with Lewis. He in turn shared the transcript and analysis of wav files 3 & 4...

Lewis wrote:
Enaxor,

Looks like you want to be on the winning side then Wink

Transcripts below:

...you must stop it from happening again
20232023...transmitting west thru Origin channel decaying not much time now

Analysis of these files only produced:

Summary of Wav File Analysis from five different experts

Voice on the sound file is definitely human and not computer generated.
Signal appears to be a Medium Wave running at approximately 333kHz.
Oddities within the signal appear to be very different from anything I've heard before
Detection finds a phase modulation within the signal which encodes four digits: 2023
Detection finds a phase modulation within the signal which encodes the following phrase: BAD MAGIC
Detection finds a phase modulation within the signal which encodes the following phrase: 22012023
Doesn't appear to have Ionospheric skip, signal must be point to point
Static is inconsistent with known trends

Lewis.


This sorta reminds me of the movie "Prince of Darkness" where characters keep seeing a video transmission from the future.
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cbaker
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amandel wrote:
So Cool. Thanks Enaxor. Have sent a FB friend-beg to Samael Leamas And the latest barcode (images/1-2.gif) reads as:
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Cyclops sees you - Leamas


I also sent a FB request. Did you notice his status updates? Not sure what to make of them... Almost looks like a tie-in to the Saver Co???

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amandel
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cbaker wrote:
I also sent a FB request. Did you notice his status updates? Not sure what to make of them...snip

**OT: am in <3 with your baby** Yaha, he's not Bob & it's certainly not the make-all-into-generic-cookie-dough FB profile.

If it's not visible to all S.L., "Ruler of the Fifth Heaven" (Machon: LINK), has an earthly email lefthandsfollySPLAThotmail.co.uk
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cbaker
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 		Samael
It seems that Samael is preoccupied with G's folly. I'm assuming that it refers to Gods Folly, though i can't seen to find information on what Gods folly is. Any ideas?

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distilled
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 		Here is a link to an article titled: God's Folly and the weakness of wisdom.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gods+folly+%26+the+weakness+of+wisdom.-a030292838


just a little snippet:

Quote:
If the way to God is not through the power of the miraculous or through the enigma of the human mind, what then? If philosophy and ideology leave God out and miracles seek to manipulate God, what is the alternative? If there is a qualitative difference between humanity and God, how can God be reached? If the explanation of the meaning of life and death eludes human capacity to understand, how can we ever know anything?

Faced with the cross as God's "foolish" condescention to our humanity, Paul writes (verse 20) in words that have a poetic or melodic ring to them:

"Where is the wise man?

Where is the scribe?

Where is the scholar?

Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world?"

For Paul, the cross is God's answer to the world (verse 18.). Paul insists that this folly of God is wiser than human wisdom.


Perhaps he is alluding that even God's foolishness is higher than our wisdom? Religion over Ed's science? Perhaps Ed's discovery rights a wrong in the world, but challenges religion's power in doing so?
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amandel
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 		Louise's Case update explains Bob's latest upload inc.a photo (vinram=?Marvin?) &"negen.7z" which is PW protected.

After installing the latest BlackBox application Louise discovered:
1929=Corp. Jack Wright
flux echoes=Signals found off center
(see thread Page5 for JumboTron's complete original list) and I got so far:
Banbury=Knig's Men
Style=The Boojum's pawn
Boojum=a cat in a box
Snark=Beware what you hunt, it may be a Boojum (my note:LOLZ)
Jabberwocky=A mythical creature surely. Unfortunately it is just made up.
Cardiff=stop the end
Arthur=unexplained
Boudicca=blurbs

Although "negen" means nine in Dutch, the Google trans 'thru "regen" back to Welsh meaning v.), we cursed,, we used to curse, we swore seems more likely with present events. Also, the gif/barcodes are gone from the Home page.
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 		Tiny Eye doesn't show anything for the face.jpg.

Coke a fob is an anagram of Facebook. Which I guess we've already solved - right?
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cbaker
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 		I asked Samael about God's Folly and he said he isn't referencing God, and that his email doesn't say anything about God.... So what is the left hands folly?

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Gadjilitron
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cbaker wrote:
I asked Samael about God's Folly and he said he isn't referencing God, and that his email doesn't say anything about God.... So what is the left hands folly?


Can't exactly remember where, but I do remember something about the Devil sitting on the Left Hand of God while Jesus was on the Right. It's part of the reason the sign of the cross must be made with the right hand rather than the left. I'll try looking into the Devil's folly, see if something comes up.

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