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America’s Greatest Unknown Seer John Elspeth Watkins America’s Greatest Unknown Seer Continued from Page 25 “Telephones around the world. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will now connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a ‘hello girl.’” “Automatic instruments reproducing ‘NASA Finds Message ‘Justin Bieber Killed a 7- original airs exactly will bring the best music From God on Mars’ Year-Old Boy’ DUI Video to the families of the untalented. In great cities there will be public opera-houses whose singers Article is a Hoax a Hoax and Social Media and musicians are paid from funds endowed by philanthropists and by the government. The Scam piano will be capable of changing its tone from cheerful to sad. Many devices will add to the A viral Facebook post titled “Justin Bieber emotional effect of music.” Killed a 7-Year-Old Boy’” before the singer was apprehended for a DUI is a Facebook hoax that “How children will be taught. A university seeks to spread the scam even further. education will be free to every man and “Breaking News: Justin Bieber Did it woman. Several great national universities will Again!! This time it’s OVER…DUI,” the scam have been established. Children will study a post reads. “Justine Bieber [sic] did it again! simple English grammar adapted to simplified this time his CAREER is over.. He accidentaly English, and not copied after the Lain. Time will [sic] killed a 7-Year-Old Boy that was walking be saved by grouping like studies…Medical to school with 12-Year-Old Sister..Police inspectors regularly visiting schools will furnish An article that has gone viral titled “NASA Investigate that bieber is positive in DUI.” poor children free eyeglasses, free dentistry and Finds Message From God on Mars” is a hoax There’s no video, and it’s just a trick free medical attention of every kind. The very published on a satire website. designed to get users to share the post. It poor will, when necessary, get free rides to and “According to an official press release includes a photo with a play button over it. from school and free lunches between two giant stone slabs the size of small elephants The user is asked to share the video after sessions.” [Ed note: An incredible, were located deep inside a cavern abutting clicking on the post, which reveals a fake revolutionary concept in 1900.] Aeolis Mons, a large mountain,” reads the website–designed to look like Facebook–with a article, which says there’s an “unambiguous number of fake videos that also ask the user to “Oranges…in Philadelphia. Fast-flying message from God written on tablets in a share them. refrigerators on land and sea will bring delicious Martian cave.” “There are several Bieber related scam fruits from the tropics and southern temperate It adds: “Upon one tablet is a copy of the messages currently being distributed, all of zone within a few days. The farmer of South Ten Commandments and the text of John 3:16 which lead to the same rogue app and the same America, South Africa, Australia and the South written in 12 languages – including English, dodgy video website. Some versions simply Sea Islands, whose seasons are directly to ours, Spanish, Chinese, Basque and Hebrew. On the claim that Justin Bieber has again been charged will thus supply us in winter with fresh summer other tablet is a simple message in English with DUI. Others claim that he has been foods which cannot be grown here. Scientists reading ‘I am real.’” arrested on drug charges,” the website Hoax- will have discovered how to raise here many The article was originally published on Slayer said in a post about the scam. fruits now confined to much hotter or colder the Daily Currant, a self-proclaimed satire news “If one of these scam messages comes climates.” your way, do not click any links that it contains. website similar to The Onion. In it’s “about” section, it says: “The If you have already installed the rogue app, you So here we have an example of one who was Daily Currant is an English language online will need to uninstall it. You can remove the app either a seer into the future or an intelligent satirical newspaper that covers global politics, by going to your Facebook account settings, person, who used logic to better understand business, technology, entertainment, science, finding the ‘App’ section and clicking the ‘X’ what the future would hold. beside the app’s name,” the website says. health and media. It is accessible from over 190 countries worldwide – now including South On Twitter and Facebook, some For The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show and The ‘X’ Sudan.” wondered if the post was real. Chronicles Newspaper, I am Rob McConnell. [] There’s even a FAQ, which asks “are “When the media doesn’t have anything Listen To Past Broadcasts your news stories real?” In response, it says that bad to talk about him, you guys will make up Of “no. Our stories are purely fictional. However stupid things smh,” one person wrote on Twitter. The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show they are meant to address real-world issues Another wrote: “Just saw a news thing through satire and often refer and link to real with events happening in the world.” that says ‘Justin Bieber kills 7 year old boy’ Rob McConnell More than 200,000 people shared the how sick can some people be?” [] at satire Mars story, which was published in July, The ‘X’ Zone with Rob McConnell www.xzonepodcast.com but has recently generated significant social www.xzoneradiotv.com media traffic. []