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Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance & Other Fairy Tales For A Gullible Nation

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Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” - Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government.

When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials claimed to have been caught by surprise, the people believed them. And when the government passed massive laws aimed at locking down the nation and opening the door to total government surveillance, the people believed it was done merely to keep them safe. The few who disagreed were labeled traitors.

When the government waged costly preemptive wars on foreign countries, insisting it was necessary to protect the nation, the citizens believed it. And when the government brought the weapons and tactics of war home to use against the populace, claiming it was just a way to recycle old equipment, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled unpatriotic.

When the government spied on its own citizens, claiming they were looking for terrorists hiding among them, the people believed it. And when the government began tracking the citizenry’s movements, monitoring their spending, snooping on their social media, and surveying their habits—supposedly in an effort to make their lives more efficient—the people believed that, too. The few who disagreed were labeled paranoid.

When the government let private companies take over the prison industry and agreed to keep the jails full, justifying it as a cost-saving measure, the people believed them. And when the government started arresting and jailing people for minor infractions, claiming the only way to keep communities safe was to be tough on crime, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled soft on crime.

When the government hired crisis actors to take part in disaster drills, never alerting the public to which “disasters” were staged, the people genuinely believed they were under attack. And when the government insisted it needed greater powers to prevent such attacks from happening again, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were told to shut up or leave the country.

Finally, the government started carrying out covert military drills around the country, insisting they were necessary to train the troops for foreign combat, and most of the people believed them. The few who disagreed, warning that perhaps all was not what it seemed, were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and quacks.

By the time the government locked down the nation, using local police and the military to impose martial law, there was no one left in doubt of the government’s true motives—total control and domination—but there was also no one left to fight back.

Now every fable has a moral, and the moral of this story is to beware of anyone who urges you to ignore your better instincts and trust the government.

In other words, if it looks like trouble and it smells like trouble, you can bet there’s trouble afoot.

For instance, while there is certainly no shortage of foul-smelling government activities taking place right now, the one giving off the greatest stench is Jade Helm 15. This covert, multi-agency, multi-state, eight-week military training exercise is set to take place from July 15 through Sept. 15 in states across the American Southwest.

According to official government sources, “Jade Helm: Mastering the Human Domain” is a planned military exercise that will test and practice unconventional warfare including, but not limited to, guerrilla warfare, subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities, and unconventional assisted recovery. The training exercise will take place in seven different southwestern states: California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Utah and Nevada.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command will primarily lead this interagency training program but the Navy Seals, Air Force Special Operations, Marine Special Operations Command, Marine Expeditionary Units, 82nd Airborne Division, and other interagency partners will also be involved. Approximately 1,200 troops are expected to participate in these exercises.

The training is known as Realistic Military Training because it will be conducted outside of federal property. The exercises are going to be carried out on both public and private land, with the military reportedly asking permission of local authorities and landowners prior to land usage. The military map listing the locations that will host the exercise shows Texas, Utah, and the southern part of California as “hostile territory.” According to U.S. officials, these three areas are marked as hostile to simulate environments where American troops are viewed as the enemy. The other areas on the map are marked as permissive, uncertain (leaning friendly), or uncertain (leaning hostile).

Military officials claim that the southwestern states were chosen because this exercise requires large areas of undeveloped land as well as access to towns and population hubs. These states purportedly also provide a climate and terrain that is similar to that of potential areas of combat for the United States, particularly Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Now the mainstream media has happily regurgitated the government’s official explanation about Jade Helm. However, there is a growing concern among those who are not overly worried about being labeled conspiratorialists or paranoid that the government is using Jade Helm as a cover to institute martial law, bring about total population control, or carry out greater surveillance on the citizenry.

In the first camp are those who fear that Jade Helm will usher in martial law. These individuals believe that by designating the two traditionally conservative and Republican-dominated states, Utah and Texas, as hostile territory, while more Democratic states like Colorado and California are marked as friendly, the military plans to infiltrate the states with large numbers of gun owners and attempt to disarm them.

Adding fuel to the fire is the mysterious and sudden temporary closures of five Walmart stores in Texas, California, Oklahoma and Florida, two of which are located near Jade Helm training sites. Those in this camp contend that the military is planning to use the Walmart stores as processing facilities for Americans once martial law is enacted.

Pointing to the mission’s official title, “Jade Helm: Mastering the Human Domain,” there is a second camp that fears that the military exercises are merely a means to an end—namely total population control—by allowing the military to discern between friendly civilians and hostiles. This concern is reinforced by military documents stating that a major portion of Jade Helm training will be about blending in with civilians, understanding how to work with civilians, using these civilians to find enemy combatants, and then neutralizing the target.

In this way, the United States military is effectively using psychological warfare to learn how people function and how to control them.

As a study written by military personnel states, mastering the human domain, also known as identity processes, means “use of enhanced capabilities to identify and classify the human domain; to determine whether they are adversarial, friendly, neutral, or unknown.” The study later states that identity processes can be used to “manage local populations during major combat, stability, and humanitarian assistance and/or disaster relief operations.”

While the military has promised that the work they are doing is aimed for use overseas, we have seen first-hand how quickly the military’s weapons and tactics used overseas are brought home to be used against the populace. In fact, some of the nation’s evolutionary psychologists, demographers, sociologists, historians and anthropologists have been working with the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative to master the human domain. This security research includes “Understanding the Origin, Characteristics, and Implications of Mass Political Movements” at the University of Washington and “Who Does Not Become a Terrorist and Why?” at the Naval Academy Post Graduate School. Both studies focus on Americans and the different movements and patterns that the government can track to ensure “safety and security.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is also working to infiltrate churches across the country to establish a Christian Emergency Network, carry out emergency training exercises to prevent and prepare for disasters (active shooter drills and natural disaster preparedness), and foster two-way information sharing, while at the same time instituting a media blackout of their activities. As the DHS continues to establish itself within churches, a growing number of churches are adopting facial recognition systems to survey their congregations, identify and track who attends their events, and target individuals for financial contributions or further monitoring. As the partnership between churches and the DHS grows, their facial recognition databases may be shared with the federal government, if that is not already happening.

Finally, there is the third camp which fears that Jade Helm is merely the first of many exercises to be incorporated into regular American life so that the government can watch, study, and better understand how to control the masses. Certainly, psychological control techniques could be used in the future to halt protests and ensure that the nation runs “smoothly.”

It remains to be seen whether Jade Helm 15 proves to be a thinly veiled military plot to take over the country (one lifted straight out of director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May), turn the population into automatons and psychological experiments, or is merely a “routine” exercise for troops, albeit a blatantly intimidating flexing of the military’s muscles.

However, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the problem arises when you add Jade Helm to the list of other troubling developments that have taken place over the past 30 years or more: the expansion of the military industrial complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance, the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the economy flirting with near collapse, the growing social unrest, the socio-psychological experiments being carried out by government agencies, etc.

Suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister. Clearly, there’s a larger agenda at work here, and it’s one the American people had better clue into before it’s too late to do anything about it.

Call me paranoid, but I think we’d better take James Madison’s advice and “take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."

 

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Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:32 | 6278905 IridiumRebel
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Everybody dies. Not everybody lives.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:39 | 6278921 Seek_Truth
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Truth, spoken by none other than William Wallace himself.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:40 | 6278923 Tom Servo
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I've driven by the walmart in Brandon, FL a few times, and there's no way that shithole is being set up to "process" anyone...

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:51 | 6278944 GRDguy
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If you've seen the movie "Jack Reacher," you might think of taking out five to hide the real target.  Probably the one in California where they were giving Walmart a hard time.

http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-closure-crippled-california-city-...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:38 | 6279060 Freddie
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Business Insider is so shitty and lefty started by the ex Merril scammer pimping .com stocks.  I fiorget his name.   I agreee with your analysis.  Pico Riveria was not the only store that wanted to unionize.  I think one or two others that closed were also pushing for unionization.

Business Insider saying WMT closing destroyed Pico Riveria.  The place is a shit hole if a Wal Mart closes an dth ecity is devastated.   I do not like WMT, the Waltons, customers and most employees at that dump.  But the union mongering idiots got what they deserved. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:50 | 6279158 Divine Wind
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My friends within the DoD and intelligence communities are laughing their asses off over the epidemic of Jade Helm TARDism to hit this country.

From mysterious tunnels under WALMART stores, to clams of a direct tie-in to chem trails, forced vaccinations, HAARP, CERN, the arrival of Planet Nibiru, red-haired nephilim, a plot by George Soros, Monsanto, KBR and the Bilderberg Group to subjugate the masses, the exercise symbology being oddly similar to that found on the Georgia Guide Stones, hundreds of thousands of Russian and Chinese troops hidden at secret facilities, FEMA camps complete with guillotine, plastic caskets by the millions, DHS buying up all of the MRE's on the planet, the elite bunker hidden under Denver Int'l Airport, tunnels connecting the East and West coasts, etc...

And perhaps the one that makes them chuckle and shake their head the most:

There was supposed to be an EMP blast above Texas to take undermine state government.

Too funny.

 

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:10 | 6279184 UncleChopChop
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is there a technical term for the psyop activity where trolls attempt to discredit a legitimate issue/concern by not addressing it directly, but rather by trying to discredit it via associations with other potentially more 'outlandish' ones? 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 03:06 | 6279233 Divine Wind
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Chill, bro. There is nothing about Jade Helm that should cause anyone to lose sleep.

Conversely, those very real threats they need these exercises to prepare for that should scare the crap out of everyone.

Take it for what it's worth. None of this is shilling, but just the view from the inside.

There is shit happening in this world, and threats facing the country, which are genuinely worrisome.

Cherish the peace we have in this country (as troubled as we are) because it is threatened on a continuous basis.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 05:01 | 6279310 Nick Jihad
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No need for conspiracy theories, nor your mysterious allusions.  I figure that the Feds were not happy about the outcome in the Bundy Ranch standoff, and Jade Helm is their dress rehearsal for the next such confrontation with armed citizens.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:03 | 6279433 onewayticket2
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you mean "the most transparent administration in history!"???

Wed, 07/08/2015 - 11:43 | 6285017 InjectTheVenom
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Forward !

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:05 | 6279434 overmedicatedun...
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This is your government, remember the children burned to death on that day, remember the young un armed mother shot to death in dc Miriam Carey..not one ATF FBI SS agent ever charged in the murders.

In all, 76 Branch Davidians died[9] and nine survived the fire on April 19 (five others had been killed in the initial ATF raid and buried on the grounds, one had been killed by ATF after the raid, and 35 had left during the FBI standoff).[65] Fatalities included:

  • Chanel Andrade, 1, American
  • Jennifer Andrade, 19, American
  • Katherine Andrade, 24, American
  • George Bennett, 35, British
  • Susan Benta, 31, British
  • Mary Jean Borst, 49, American
  • Pablo Cohen, 38, Israeli
  • Abedowalo Davies, 30, British
  • Shari Doyle, 18, American
  • Beverly Elliot, 30, British
  • Doris Fagan, 51, British
  • Yvette Fagan, 32, British
  • Lisa Marie Farris, 24, American
  • Raymond Friesen, 76, Canadian
  • Sandra Hardial, 27, British
  • Diana Henry, 28, British
  • Paulina Henry, 24, British
  • Phillip Henry, 22, British
  • Stephen Henry, 26, British
  • Vanessa Henry, 19, British
  • Zilla Henry, 55, British
  • Novellette Hipsman, 36, Canadian
  • Floyd Houtman, 61, American
  • Sherri Jewell, 43, American
  • David M. Jones, 38, American
  • Bobbie Lane Koresh, 2, American
  • Cyrus Koresh, 8, American
  • David Koresh, 33, American
  • Rachel Koresh, 24, American
  • Star Koresh, 6, American
  • Jeffery Little, 32, American
  • Nicole Gent Little (pregnant), 24, Australian
  • Dayland Lord Gent, 3, Australian[72]
  • Paiges Gent,[73] 1, American
  • Livingston Malcolm, 26, British
  • Anita Martin, 18, American
  • Diane Martin, 41, British
  • Lisa Martin, 13, American
  • Sheila Martin, Jr., 15, American
  • Wayne Martin, Jr., 20, American
  • Wayne Martin, Sr., 42, American
  • Abigail Martinez, 11, American
  • Audrey Martinez, 13, American
  • Crystal Martinez, 3, American
  • Isaiah Martinez, 4, American
  • Joseph Martinez, 8, American
  • Julliete Martinez, 30, American
  • John-Mark McBean, 27, British
  • Bernadette Monbelly, 31, British
  • Melissa Morrison, 6, British
  • Rosemary Morrison, 29, British
  • Sonia Murray, 29, American
  • Theresa Nobrega, 48, British
  • James Riddle, 32, American
  • Rebecca Saipaia, 24, Philippine[74]
  • Judy Schneider, 41, American
  • Steve Schneider, 43, American
  • Mayanah Schneider, 2, American
  • Clifford Sellors, 33, British
  • Scott Kojiro Sonobe, 35, American
  • Floracita Sonobe, 34, Philippine
  • Aisha Gyrfas Summers (pregnant), 17, Australian
  • Gregory Summers, 28, American
  • Startle Summers, 1, American
  • Hollywood Sylvia, 1, American
  • Lorraine Sylvia, 40, American
  • Rachel Sylvia, 12, American
  • Chica Jones, 2, American
  • Michelle Jones Thibodeau, 18, American
  • Serenity Jones, 4, American
  • Little One Jones, 2, American
  • Margarida Vaega, 47, New Zealander
  • Neal Vaega, 38, New Zealander
  • Mark H. Wendell, 40, American
Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:00 | 6279519 Socratic Dog
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Thanks for the reminder.  The list of names of the slaughtered is sobering.  Not a few children among them.  Bravo, FBI.  Clinton and the great state of Texas also earned honorable mention.

"a planned military exercise that will test and practice unconventional warfare including, but not limited to, guerrilla warfare, subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities, and unconventional assisted recovery"

I would not be at all surprised to see the exercise become real.  That is a long-standing tactic of the zio-terrorists.  Almost like they're, I dunno, announcing it in advance to ameliorate their consciences.  Then again, it could all be theater, a more contemporary tactic.  Whatever, I'll be happy if nothing comes of it, and unsurprised if it does.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:25 | 6279790 Government need...
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I will stand for liberty.  All the way.  I salute those patriots who grabbed their guns, got in the cars, and drove out to the Bundy Ranch in opposition to illegal tyrannical .gov action.  I suspect if the same provcation occurred today, there would be more patriots piling into their vehicles and heading for the front.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 05:52 | 6279344 jeff montanye
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the u.s. is threatened on a continuous basis because it is threatening on a continuous basis.

look at palestine, look at ukraine, look at syria, iraq, libya, yemen, pakistan, iran, afghanistan....

doing the bidding of the zionists was relatively costless for a while.

it is no longer.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:07 | 6279438 Oldwood
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There are lots of things to worry about and few we can do anything about. What we lack is the knowledge and wisdom to know the difference and to be able to accurately prioritize them by their true threat.

Our government is principally an insurance company and as such enriches itself by highlighting every risk to humans and even the planet itself. The risks most greatly trumpeted are not based upon relevance or true risk, but upon which will grant them the greatest power. The more complex and ill defined the better as few have the ability to accurately assess risk

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:29 | 6279589 Took Red Pill
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"When terrorists attacked the country"

Inside job!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:30 | 6279591 Took Red Pill
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dup

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:12 | 6279442 UncleChopChop
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don't chill me bro!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:48 | 6279628 DanDaley
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There is shit happening in this world, and threats facing the country, which are genuinely worrisome.

 

You mean such as:

-Your BFF (Obama) shredding the Constitution through Obamacare (forced purchases)

-Obama creating ISIS (ISIL) to do his bidding

-No more borders / no more sovereignty

-Your BFF selling the US down the river through secret trade deals (...they're slaves, they just don't know it yet...)

-Gun-running to Mexican druglords

-Fomenting war with Russia

-Your BFF allying with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

-Your BFF running guns through Lybia to his ISIS/ISIL monstrosity

 

You mean stuff like that?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:56 | 6279932 SgtShaftoe
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Divine Wind,

There is no boogeyman threat greater than your own government or some future, more terrible one that may rise from the shell of the former USA once it finally collapses.

Those fucking idiot "friends" of yours in DoD who wring their hands and relish in the ridiculous unnamed mystery threats are full of shit. There is no real fucking threat other than those they created! How do I know??? I'm fucking DoD! Been there done that, and I won't go back. They're just a bunch of derpy dipshits at this point talking in whispers. You sound like Michael fucking Hayden.

The walmart thing is stupid granted. Though think NSA traffic analysis combined with Jade Helm ops as a way to do tuning of NSA targeting systems... Think about it.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:01 | 6279953 1033eruth
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Addicted to normalcy bias are we?  

First time that the military needs to practice off a federal land?  And how long has the military been around?

Listen Jackass, if we had borders that weren't wide open there wouldn't be any need for concern at all.  But that is part and parcel of Uncle Frauds overall agenda.  You can't lock down Americans without letting the scum of the world in, to "counter the threat".

You're a halfwit. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 03:44 | 6279269 Oh regional Indian
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Ze Divine Fart is paid 3 cents a word....

He and his "friends" from the "community"

right...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:16 | 6281514 WillyGroper
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Me thinks haus-tile states were declared due to possible Balk-inization as in those are the ones TPTB want to keep.

With the Ukie mercs having now been relocated to CO...

I was just advised to get an izraylee type gas mask.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:07 | 6279719 roadhazard
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Ah yes, if you question the prevailing website bullshit you are a troll. heh, You all would have a smidge more credibility if you didn't go off the deep end every fucking time. You all know exactly Zero more than me.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:24 | 6279789 Tarshatha
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"is there a technical term for the psyop activity where trolls attempt to discredit a legitimate issue/concern by not addressing it directly, but rather by trying to discredit it via associations with other potentially more 'outlandish' ones? "

 

from "A List of Fallacious Argument"

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#familiarity

 

Straw Man (Fallacy Of Extension):

attacking an exaggerated or caricatured version of your opponent's position.

For example, the claim that "evolution means a dog giving birth to a cat."

Another example: "Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."

On the Internet, it is common to exaggerate the opponent's position so that a comparison can be made between the opponent and Hitler.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 03:07 | 6279234 Consuelo
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DW...!!!   You forgot to include your 'friends who are Navy SEALS'...!!!   C'mon man...!   Everyone knows that somebody really 'in-the-know', has at least (1) super-duper close friend that is/was/might-be/could-be (?) a 'Navy SEAL'...

It's just not authentic enough without the 'Wow - he knows somebody who's a Navy SEAL - he must be a real bad-ass...'

In fact, I'm gettin' chills just thinking about it...

:-)

 

 

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:31 | 6279393 joseJimenez
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You know what asshole, you forgot to say SHUT UP! YOU CONSPIRACY THEORIST!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:02 | 6279431 Fahque Imuhnutjahb
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 Yeah   :)  this is all a bunch of ludicrous BS!!!  Just like the crazy notion that the world is being run and led by a bunch of greedy sociopaths.  The conspiracy theories prove that there is something wrong; folks don't know

what exactly, but they know something stinks.  The days of unquestioning loyalty is behind us, left in the graves of soldiers sent to die for the sake of gamersmanship amoung royals.  "We fucked some folks" is an

unspoken refrain being read between the lines, and how it manifests in the collective conscience varies, but the fact that it is there, and getting louder, means the divine wind needs to blow harder to squelch it, but it will

probably only fan it;  because a lot of folks feel like they have more in common with the paranoid than the smug.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:57 | 6280267 Da Nut Job
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Get a clue. Hoover Dam has always been the next target. Their using Jade Helm as the reason to position troops in the southwest when they blow it. Jesus won't be far behind. Maybe 9 months.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:59 | 6279426 WTFRLY
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Either way, it's everyone's national duty to run up 6 GTA stars on these New World Order faggots when the time comes. Good day.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:10 | 6279545 JRobby
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When demand drops to a certain level, even WalMart can't make enough money to keep up appearances. We are at that level.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:56 | 6278958 Abitdodgie
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The Jade Helm 15 is "skynet" testing out 1000 autonomous AI units to see if anyone spots them , yes you are right if you have been following the devlopments in this field , they are terminators.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:34 | 6279053 DeadFred
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D-Wave quantum computers are way too large to be mobile terminators, and it only takes one to map the human terrain. Send a few actors under cover to test a continuum of stealth levels and see if the upgraded Jade system used in Iraq can find them, map their connections and direct special forces to 'nuetralize' them, that's what the execise is about. This article will be an important part of the analysis. Who clicked on it, who had it open long enough to read the whole thing, who commented and what did they say. All that data, which was once thought to be too vast to be decipherable could be analysed in micro seconds if quantum computing has truly arrived. Over the 4th my techie relatives all said there are no functioning quantum computers yet. Their reasoning?

1 They would have heard about it if there were

2 Quantum computers would make encryption useless (being able to crack any encryption at will) so they would have heard of it.

3. They haven't heard of it.

Funny, WSJ has heard of it.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/01/29/d-wave-systems-raises-c29....

I guess a company funded in part by Goldman Sachs developing a technology with game changing capabilities can be expected to post all the details of their progress as they go. Still it's funny that Jade Helm 15 was announced a few months after the funding hit the company and a few months after the NSA started hiring a boatload of gaming programmers to work on "algorithms to analyse extremely large databases". But then I'm paranoid so it's probably nothing.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:58 | 6279173 Kirk2NCC1701
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Quantum Computing.   What hyped up job security BS.

They still haven't cracked the code of the Zodiac killer, so sell that snake oil to someone else.

You beat computer geeks by using your imagination and messing with them.  

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:01 | 6279428 WTFRLY
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lolololol

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:49 | 6280222 Gab Timov
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Something does live on, though.

Or tries to, hopes to.

People die, but power structures and systems can get "locked-in" for generations.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:41 | 6278920 NoDebt
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"take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."

I think we've been hitting the snooze button repeatedly since about 2001.  We're just about ready for totalitarianism.  Everyone agrees the government should "do something about this," they just quibble over what, not over whether the government should be involved in the first place.

Swear to God, the threat is from outside the nation, not inside.  Just look at the thousands of people who were killed in 4th of July terrorist attacks over the weekend.  Ok, there were none.  But potentially there could have been tens of thousands.  A threat like that calls for all measures necessary to counter it, no matter the cost to our liberties.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:48 | 6278937 Fukushima Fricassee
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I disagree, some Amerikans blew of thier fucking fingers and some lit themselves on fire with dunken stuipid and celebitory fire works. If thats not a terror then what is ?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:52 | 6278945 GRDguy
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Those are just "Hold my beer; watch this!!!"

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:43 | 6279064 DeadFred
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Statistically speaking, those are the most common last words of the American redneck.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:09 | 6279094 PoliticalRefuge...
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Darwin award winner shu in for the famous last words.. "fuck that alligator".. nothing else is even gonna be close.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:19 | 6279104 FIAT CON
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 Hmmm Gene pool cleansing, every country needs some of that,

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:14 | 6279550 JRobby
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Genetics playing out as expected. No matter where education is at, there will be the unteachable.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:44 | 6278929 NoWayJose
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I am not worried. By the time the government decides to fully roll out Jade Helm, they will be unable to pay the cops and troops to carry it out!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:12 | 6279186 UncleChopChop
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unfortunately, when it comes down to people in uniforms with guns and badges determining to whom they should listen amidst perceived chaos, odds are that whether they get 'paid' may be less important than who/what they perceive as offering the more comfortable cognitive worldview... that which is familiar...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:42 | 6279216 PhoQ
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Your world view will be irrelevant while they're taking your stuff to feed their kids.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:44 | 6278931 Fukushima Fricassee
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Executive, Legislative and Judical Branches have all become corrupt. Something the honesty of the constitutional authors knew could occur which is a testimony to thier genius. A convention of the states is the next step, if that fails then the 2nd amendment must go rabid.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:45 | 6278933 Dapper Dan
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You only die once ...

But it’s for a long fucking time.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 23:50 | 6278939 Fukushima Fricassee
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Tell that shit to a baby with agressive cancer.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:18 | 6279191 Charming Anarchist
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"Ga ga, goo goo." 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:15 | 6279007 3Wishes
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What counts is how many A-holes your take with you.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:06 | 6279181 cheech_wizard
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Shoot the officers first. Just like it has always been done.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:51 | 6279501 Cloud9.5
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Visit your local nursing home.  A long life is not what it’s cracked up to be.  Better to die on your feet than die on your knees.   I am sure that there are a cadre of colonels gaming the next civil war and I am quite sure that the current exercises are designed to study facets of that war.

 

The sad truth is that the danger to the republic does not lie in the hinter lands with a few ranchers and farmers or even gold miners.  The danger lies in the mega cities with unsustainable populations.  The America of the 1950’s still lives in small towns across the country.  It did not die on the ranches and small farms of America.  It died in the big cities. 

Gun owners are not arming up to take on the government.  They are arming up to defend against the golden horde spilling out of those cities in the event of economic and social collapse.  Anyone who has read the Death of Money understands that the inner city horde is a legitimate threat. 

 

The gravest mistake the government can make is to institute a systematic gun confiscation program and a round up suspected dissidents.  That will spark the civil war they are so desperate to prevent. Lite that fuse and you will unleash a thousand Tim McVeighs.  Unleash those guys and they will turn out the lights and take down the flag, something that no sane person wants to see.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:07 | 6279538 Socratic Dog
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McVeigh was likely a patsy.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:15 | 6279553 JRobby
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Likely?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:33 | 6279598 Cloud9.5
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Hard to say if McVeigh was a patsy or the much feared lone wolf.  I don’t see the feds sacrificing their own children in a false flag.  That is something that happens to somebody else’s kids.  Remember we found out about Fast and Furious when a fed was killed by one of the guns run into Mexico.  When brown people were being killed, it was simply the cost of doing business but when a fed was killed the whole show was exposed. 

 

What troubles me is that we live in a totally different country than the one our ancestors lived in in 1860.  You turned out the lights in 1860 by blowing out a candle.   You got it going again with a piece of flint and some kindling.  Today if you turn out the lights, you turn it out for millions people.  Do it in such a way that they do not readily come back on and the cities become uncontrollable in a matter of days.  We have idiots running around in a powder mill with lit cigars. If one of them drops his cigar, the whole place goes up.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:03 | 6278977 Salah
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WHY MCDONALDS IS THE GREATEST SHORT OF ALL TIME; THIS SHIT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSh9S7ouFP8

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:10 | 6278995 honestann
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The motto of the military (and military industrial complex) has long been...

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FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE.

Frankly, that phrase is completely clear.

Well... to the very few who still have a functioning brain.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:04 | 6279180 Kirk2NCC1701
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True, but clearly these Bozos don't fully understand Complexity Theory, Entropy and Bandwidth limits.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:06 | 6279359 Allen_H
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Full scrotum warrior ! Fixed it for you.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:12 | 6278998 Paveway IV
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On topic here, so at the risk of seeming arrogant (sorry) for reposting this rant:

I wish there was a rational discussion somewhere about what JADE HELM is actually about, rather than what it *might* be about.

JADE HELM is a direct result of our failures in Afghanistan and Iraq - in most cases, the locals wouldn't help the U.S. forces and treated them like an arrogant, oppressive occupying army (and not without plenty of reason). The U.S. can no longer field regular Army troops effectively in any Middle East battle. Desertion rates were only up to 1 or 2% but climbing fast by 2007. The soldiers knew the ultimate futility of the wars there and were becoming increasingly unwilling to die for nothing.

The Army couldn't have 5% desertion rates like they did in Viet Nam in the late 1960's, so they just removed as many army troops from the Afghanistan and Iraqi battlefields as possible. Warfare was conducted with a siege mentality - American soldiers mostly locked up in large, isolated bases and only venturing out by air or in heavily-armored columns. Even then, entire units like the 343rd Quartermaster Company just refused to follow orders for idiotic, suicide-like missions when they were ordered to do something 'outside'. 

The exceptions were marines, rangers and SF guys who always have to mix it up face-to-face with the locals all the time. When you do that in populations of people that pretty much hate you and resent your presence, you have a hard time gathering intelligence or being effective at all. In fact, the locals are more likely to help the enemy kill you because they hate your fucking guts. THAT is what JADE HELM is all about - 'fixing' that (and why the very idea is absolutely preposterous).

An unpleasant side effect of being deployed where you're not wanted and cause more harm that good (regardless of your intentions) is that after months of operating in that environment, a lot of American troops become increasingly psychopahtic - detesting the locals and treating them like sub-humans for NOT supporting them. "We're here to help you fuckers!" Pretty soon the boy-next-door U.S. soldier is raping 14-year-old girls in front of their mothers, lighting up a house full of unarmed dirt farmers, or fragging a basement of restrained prisoners because... well, fuck 'em - they're probably all terrorists anyway. JADE HELM is NOT meant to address that. Turning soldiers into psychopaths is never addressed and still just considered collateral damage. Censorship and controlled, embedded media are the only things the military has come up with to throw at that. Besides, where is Xe going to recruite their future serial killers if the military stops churning out fresh, new psychopaths? It's not like normal guys would want to work for them.

Now the absolute idiocy of JADE HELM is that the U.S. forces need to be sensitive to the feelings of the local populations and try to gain their cooperation (or at least not have them tell the enemy where you are so they can kill you). The reason that this very idea is so FUCKING STUPID is because it's like Israeli soldiers having an exercise to try to gain the cooperation of Palestinians. Hint: It's not for lack of interpersonal skills on the IDF's part - the Palestinians REALLY DO hate Israel and Israeli soldiers and want them to die. You cannot show up with overwhelming military force among a population you're trying to control that absolutely hates you and somehow convince them to trust you and cooperate 'becaue you're there to help them'. You're not the good guys to them no matter what CNN told you - you're just another enemy even if you're fighting their existing enemy. 

The treasonous U.S. politicians and military leaders are absolute imbeciles - they just don't get that. No Afghani or Iraqi citizens care what the fuck the U.S. (or Bush or Cheney or Powell) thought they were doing in those countries. They didn't care and wanted U.S. soldiers to leave. Nobody ever had a vote in Afghanistan or Iraq if the U.S. should invade or how long they should stay. It was always America dictating to the people there. The U.S. military was imposed on them and they hated it. The average Afghani and Iraqi hate the U.S. and hate the presence of U.S. troops. Sure CNN can always find a few 'grateful' locals, but anyone with an I.Q. over 40 can see how great life is for the average Afghani or Iraqi today. At best, the locals see U.S. troops as undesirable necessity after the U.S. already showed up, destabilized and destroyed the place and THEN stirred up the hornet's nest of terrorists/counter-insurgents/whatever.

Old-timers will recognize JADE HELM training as a warmed-over, re-treaded version of the Viet Nam 'Hearts and Minds' campaigns. An unmitigated disaster and an absolute failure in every respect that is the height of stupidity to resurrect.  When you show up and destroy a country and make everyone's lives miserable in a futile attempt to bring them liberty and democracy, they will hate your fucking guts - 100% guaranteed.

SF soldiers do not NEED Mossad-inspired PR skills - they need to NOT EVER BE DEPLOYED to a place where they're despised and seen as an enemy. Screw JADE HELM - how about getting rid of some of the mouth-breathing, missing-chromosome crowd of psychopaths in the Department of Defense that SEND our troops to these places? How about wood-chippering a few of the dual-citizen traitors in congress that cook up these ideas?

Guess what - when we send ground troops into Iran to clean up Israel's mess, the Iranian citizens will 100% guaranteed absolutely fucking hate U.S. troops. There will be no 'gaining of trust' or cooperation. There will be plenty of morally-tortured SF vets (with or without limbs), plenty of raped 14-year-old Iranian girls, plenty of executed unarmed dirt farmers and mountains and mountains of dead Iranians in unmarked graves.

I can see Anderson Cooper with a pleading look in his eyes asking the camera rhetorically, "Wasn't JADE HELM suppose to prevent this kind of thing?" No, Anderson. Fuck no. In fact, JADE HELM ensured this would happen.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:24 | 6279036 Jstanley011
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What a load of horse crap.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:42 | 6279142 Paveway IV
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Agree, but not unsubstantiated horse crap. 

Here's what the Army said:

'Human Domain' Enters Future Army War Plans

Summary: Hearts and minds retread with intel spin to sex it up (for funding)

And the USSOC commander, McRaven:

McRaven: Success in Human Domain Fundamental to Special Ops

Summary: SF guys need to operate more like CIA spooks / Stazi networks today (for funding)

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:53 | 6279903 cro_maat
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The main problem with the McRaven analysis is that SF guys are already controlled by the CIA. It is common knowledge on Navy ships that deliver Seals that they ignore all Navy command orders because Langley is their boss. It is also why they are assigned to embassies along with the bureaucratic spooks.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:40 | 6279062 OldPhart
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Out-fuckin-standing!  Kudos.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:25 | 6279199 tool
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Has any so called journalist ever asked a current or retired politician "do yo think it's even slightly possible that the actions you've taken have created the situation of terrorism we are currently experiencing" EVER. Do I expect an honest answer no way but i do want the public to ask themselves that very question fuck yes. Did we bring it all on ourselves!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:56 | 6279422 RockyRacoon
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Journalist?  Hardly.  Has any politician said as much? Yes:  Dr. Ron Paul.  Quickly thereafter labeled a kook.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:12 | 6279548 Socratic Dog
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He has said it many times, and continues to say it.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:49 | 6279073 Freddie
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+100 except:
When you show up and destroy a country and make everyone's lives miserable in a futile attempt to bring them liberty and democracy, they will hate your fucking guts - 100% guaranteed.

There is no attempt at liberty and democracy. It is all looting and control plus a central bank - see Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Get Bechtel or Fluor to build a new airport and the country's citizens pay for it forever with an IMF loan.   Get Monsanto or Dow to build pesticide factory and the locals and country pay for it with IMF loans. Coca Cola bottling plant.  A GE sourced power plant that is paid for with another IMF loan.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:56 | 6279079 Paveway IV
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Agree, Freddie. I'm just mocking the official/MSM spewage for 'why we go there'. Unfortunately for most of us that wore a uniform, that whole 'Jesus! They REALLY hate our fuckin' guts' part doesn't kick in until about 10 months and 5,000 miles after the first haircut.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:10 | 6280010 Freddie
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+1

Yeah I thought that was MSM BS and somewhat sarcasm of what they always claim "the mission" is about.   Anyone needs to realize that when you invade someone's country - they are going to hate you.   However - I think some people might like Putin and his boys coming over to help Americans restore some liberty and democracy then leaving after they helped.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 11:53 | 6280560 Paveway IV
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Putin is expecting me to have the balls to run my own country. Just because he has a spine doesn't mean he has to be the world's nanny or RoboCop. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:29 | 6279117 nevertheless
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Great post Freddie. You are right on the mark, the US military is all about securing the property and resources for corporations. Was it not telling that once Ukraine was controlled, George Soros and Monsanto were ready to move in and "help".

At some point Americans need to wake up. The great thing is, people now, unlike just a few years ago, can hear alternative points of view. BUT, the fact that they no longer control information does not make them happy, and we all know what happens when they are not happy, 9/11....

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:34 | 6279128 FIAT CON
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+ 100  for Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:19 | 6279192 El Vaquero
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No matter how you cut it, Jade Helm is 100% bullshit.  It could be everything that it is stated to be, no more, no less, and it is still 100% bullshit.  US troops should not operate far and wide on US soil, fucking period.  If any of the troops participating in this are reading this, listen up:  I know that it's not worth the unbelievable amounts of bullshit for you to directly disobey orders, but what you are doing is bullshit.  Make it as painful for your superiors as you can without landing yourselves in a court martial.  I do not support what you are doing.  It is wrong, and no matter the BS your commanding officers are feeding you, deep down, you know it too.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:45 | 6279220 VipperOfVip
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What he said.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:59 | 6279517 Feef
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Great, now some quantum computer knows I just Kindled "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".  

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:00 | 6279937 Government need...
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Let's assume for a moment all of this is accurate in terms of Jade Helm rationale.  Isn't there a non-zero risk of turning otherwise docile taxpayers into raging resisters?  Hell, I want a piece.  I'm unconvinced the ops aren't simultaneously going on in other states, including SC.  If something make a noise in my hedgerow after dark, I'm gonna pump a few rounds into it.  For my family's safety.  I bet there a few Texans who feel similarly.  If it moves after dark, assume it's an enemy and blast 'em to Hell.  See how many buzzards you can bring to the feast.  I have a right to kill in self defense.  If you tresspass after dark, my yard is part of my Castle.  Come and take it.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:15 | 6279005 q99x2
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 the Navy Seals, Air Force Special Operations, Marine Special Operations Command, Marine Expeditionary Units, 82nd Airborne Division, and other interagency partners will also be assisting pedophiles in England who will be in a few years entertaining their children just for the hell of it.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:46 | 6279065 Paveway IV
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England would be SOCEUR under EUCOM. This is a USSOCOM exercise. Their primary area of operations is here in the U.S., not in Europe, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else.

Jade Helm isn't to train SF guys for any other theater of operations besides the one they anticipate HERE, in the United States. It marries geospacial intelligence with every other aspect of personal information snooping they can get their hands on. Jade Helm is an exercise to 1) map the potential enemy down to the household level, 2) operate in their 'territory' to gather more intelligence, and 3) eventually neutralize you... er, THEM.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 04:26 | 6279287 Lurk Skywatcher
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Makes sense - the only people stupid enough to think that US soldiers would be there to help them are Americans.

It must be all those fictional times that America actually won a war.

Want to know what the world really thinks of the USA? North Koreans think of themselves as pretty exceptional too... thats what they learn in school, and what their leader says, so it must be true.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:02 | 6279959 Government need...
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I wonder, will you be a 'privileged belligerent'?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 11:49 | 6280542 Paveway IV
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Hell no. I have little hope of being anything other than a Colonial sympathizer and then a rebel detainee, before my rendition to a foreign country for scopolamine-enhanced interrogation by the King George's troops. After that, I will simply not have existed and neither will my unmarked grave.

It's probably best for you to delete your post, wipe your hard drive and deny ever posting on ZH if you want your privileged belligerent chip.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:17 | 6279014 windcatcher
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Did you hear that Teabaggers? Celente in in favor of democracy, he doesn’t hate democracy.

It is amazing, but true, that fascist Koch brainwashed Teabaggers claim that our Constitutional Representative Republic is not a democracy; but a republic????. Teabaggers are brainwashed to hate democracy: government of, for and by the People.

They scream “show me where democracy is mentioned in the Constitution.” Ha. Ha. Ha. They are so uneducated and ignorant that they are easy pray for Koch brainwashers. They don’t know that American democracy (with a small d) refers to the FORM of government like fascist (merger of monopoly corporations with government) refers to fascism: government of, for and by the multinational corporate monopoly FORM of government. Ha. Ha. Ha.

On the battle field there is only “us” against “them” and the individual fortitude of a soldier is in his resolve in what he is fighting for, and what he is willing to die for; which determines the ultimate overall struggle.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:52 | 6279075 Pareto
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So.  Did you just contradict yourself - sort of?  You bash the Teabggers in defense of democracy - then go on to show (which most of ZH would agree) that democracy is what has destroyed the republic and has instead traded it for the fascist state.  I mean, I think thats what you're saying.  But, isn't that the point of the Republic to begin with - an established rule of law that more or less enshrines the protection of therights and freedoms of the individual from a majority of fucking nut jobs that might, on some occcassion, like now hold a gun to the heads - claiming its their democratic right, to enslave the other 49%.  The Tea party if it is responsible for anything untoward at all, is only that it seeks to point this fact out.

Live by the rule of law and don't make shit up as we go.  Seems like a pretty sound message to me.  The buracracy is making it up as it goes (hardly pragmaticly either), the politicians are making it up as they go, the fucking FED is TOTALLY making it up as it goes, and the last thing the media is interested in, is the truth.  None of these groups aspire to a rule of law.   They make their own rules up and they get away with it, everywhere and always.

That's the tea party's point.  Its not a level playing field.  And the result is that its destroying productive incentives and instead has people gaming the system for personal gain, moral hazard, cheating, and outright legitimized theft.

Don't shit on the Tea Party because its like shooting the fucking messenger and they're living the same fucked up lie as you are.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:38 | 6279211 El Vaquero
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The Tea Party is an animal that is captured, harnessed and put to work, and not for us.  I'll shit on the Tea Party because of that.  It started off with agreeable intentions, but it has been hijacked. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:04 | 6279532 Cloud9.5
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Not true on the local level.  It's a pretty hard bunch to control.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 03:52 | 6279231 smacker
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It all becomes clearer when you understand that democracy can exist in a Republic, providing the Constitution & Bill of Rights remain as the supreme law of the land - not the other way round - and they are owned by "the people".

This means that a system of democracy exists and operates under the auspices of the Constitution, and a properly crafted Constitution will limit the scope and power of a democratic gov elected under its supervision.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:03 | 6279357 MickV
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" A Republic, if you can keep it."--- Ben Franklin.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:54 | 6279505 Motasaurus
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Every republic ever has ended with a popular vote for an emperor. Once the emperor has been given power, however, he never gives it up again willingly. 

Except for Washington. There was something special about that man. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:03 | 6279964 Government need...
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Hey Comrade, we all love our People's Republic of Amerika.  Now kindly pass the vodka.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:20 | 6279028 rejected
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"When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials claimed to have been caught by surprise, the people believed them."

Stopped there.


Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:46 | 6279066 F0ster
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Back to CNN then?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:19 | 6279560 Socratic Dog
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Why?  Is it not a statement of fact?  Makes no claims as to who the terrorists were, leaves that open.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:47 | 6279067 q99x2
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Chris Martenson has some quack named Bill McKibben preaching Al Gore's nonsense about Global Warming and he doesn't even address why the neocons are calling it Climate Change instead of global warming. Dude just parrots the lies about the polar regions instead of refering to actual data. I think Chris only believes in the acidification of the oceans which I also believe is a problem. If anyone wants to see what happens before a Solar grand minimum you can look at the history that was recorded starting in 1644 and you'll see the droughts, volcanoes and greater fluctuations in temperature extremes in the short decade before the ice descends from the poles.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 00:49 | 6279072 dsty
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well, I guess we will find out pretty soon what Jade Helm is.

hope a lot of folks are wrong

but it does look rather suspicious

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:10 | 6279097 mbutler101
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The road to ruin is paved in jade

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:26 | 6279113 tarabel
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The one thing about Jade Helm that most distresses me is the obvious disconnect between the announced goals and methods versus the number of troops supposedly involved.

On the one hand, there are only supposed to be 1200 troops participating.

Yet they need seven of the largest states of the Union to contain this operation because, by their own admission, it is too large to be held within any of the many vast Military Maneuver Areas within those states. Using a city (as in one) or perhaps even two for an urban chapter in the exercise would seem to be reasonable-- but this thing is a super-radiated 50s drive-in movie tarantula that has legs going everywhere.

1200 men would hardly be enough to support the command structures involved even if it was a map table exercise. Keep in mind that this is a combined Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force, Special Operations, and local, state, and federal civilian law enforcement operation. In seven states. Assuming ten separate organizations operating in each of those seven states, you get a total of about 17 members of each group in each state.

The numbers are blatant, overt, and deliberate lies. Not a surprise with Barack Obama at the top of the pyramid. But what gets me is the flat-out contemptuousness of these lies. These numbers can't possibly be even close to the real ones and are bound to be revealed for what they are once the exercise actually gets underway. Sure, out in Pinon Canyon you could get away with some of this shit, but these happenings are taking place in civilian areas where the true size of the forces involved are certain to become apparent.

Never in my life did I ever suppose that I would find myself bumping up against the Founders' warning against standing armies but I find myself thinking about it often these days. Those were some brilliant, perspicacious mother fuckers and whatever they had for a crystal ball puts the combined clarity of a million palantirs to shame.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:55 | 6279172 Paveway IV
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This may be all they need, tarabel.

Some have speculated that the entire exercise is geared towards generating social media content and integrating that into military command and control. I don't honestly know, but it makes sense. What better way to tap 'the human domain' than lighting up social media and then physically mapping sympathizers (I saw some black helicopters fly by. Go, USA!) and enemies (What the fuck is an MRAP doing at my church?) to the household level. The military understands the concept of territory and loves to focus on that, but completely misunderstands being despised by civilians. That's why Jade Helm is as dangerous as it is useless.

This isn't going to be a false flag by any means, but a widespread series of little military things for the little people to see, tweet and chat about. The exercise isn't to sway public opinion either way, but map it out 'territories' with precision - for drone kill lists, FEMA ovens, etc. Not for real, just for the purposes of the exercise to gather and assimilate all that info. The SF guys don't have any mission except to infiltrate, probe, incite (in a social media context) and exfiltrate.

The exercise isn't about SF guys doing SF things - it's about the higher ups integrating 'the human domain' intel for some useful military puropse. That means integrating cell-phone and internet social media intel. Most likely to augment or replace their useless intelligence, which has SUCKED by increasing orders of magnitude over time and resulted in more civilian casualties than every other factor combined. I guess they figured out that killing civilians is bad PR and results in increasingly WORSE intelligence and even more civilian deaths, thus making the U.S. even more globally hated than Israel. Now they can use Twitter for targeting. What could possibly go wrong with that? 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 03:59 | 6279278 Flicker
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I've read one lone article that says that Jade is a 'quantum computer AI program' called Jade II that will be used to control ('helm') the exercise to learn and determine the most efficient battlefield tactics and and population control techniques -- it's apparently more than just a test but also a strategy development exercise.  But that's all conspiracy theory stuff.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:13 | 6279319 Paveway IV
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JADE isn't a quantum anything and there is no AI for massive intelligence exercises. This is a random name, not some military/intel acronym for another useless 'system' even though JADE II was used a long time ago. The entire JADE HELM exercise revolves around some kind of intelligence fusion crap that has kept the U.S. safe from FBI terror plots and their patsies for years, and kept Raytheon's pockets full (and mine empty). There is nothing 'new' in JADE HELM - it's an expanded exercise in a chain that they've been running for the last couple of years to keep themselves relevant (and funded).

On the Texas slide deck, one of the guys listed as a contact has an ICE, inc. email address. The people at ICE do nothing but script these massive exercises and 'intelligence scenarios' to... well, exercise the commanders and their troops. Here's a typical job description right off their site:

Intelligence Planner (Full Time)

Ft. Bragg, NC, NC, US

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Former Intelligence Officer, Warrant Officer or senior NCO with at least 10-years of SOF Intelligence Support experience (required).

Well versed in SF Intelligence operations, doctrine and TTPs at the SOTF through to TSOC levels (required).

Knowledgeable on how to request National, Interagency, Theater, and Operational level all source intelligence data and products, e.g., SIGINT, IMINT, and HUMINT through USASOC and USSOCOM.

Demonstrated ability to coordinate with exercise staffs at the Theater Special Operations Command (TSOC) level, ARSOF Component and support Commands to effectively support realistic intelligence development of scenarios that facilitate UW training.

Working knowledge ofJABBER, C2PC, Falcon View, JMTK, IWS, MIRC, SOF Tools, SOMPE, and additional mission planning, collaborative, and computer based simulation capabilities (highly desired).

Knowledge of the JELC process IAW with JS J7 Event Handbook 2012.

Familiar with UW exercise planning and execution including the development of training scenarios and Master Scenario Events Lists (MSELs) (highly desired)

Graduate of a MEL 4 Service Staff College/equivalent PME or Senior NCO Academy (required).

I'm not seeing much quantum computing or AI in there. JABBER is like Twitter for the military and feds. I think I would very much like to punch the person resonsible for that stupid acronym in the face. C2PC is that little garbage can from Star Wars, along with the Millineum Falcon View. I don't recognize the other crap.

Here's another one:

E-MIB "PED UTL Developer" - Collective Task and Drill Task Development (35G40) (Full Time)

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A SHORT TERM POSITION - CONTRACT END 9/15/2015 [ed: cheap asses!]

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Experience as a senior level supervisor or technician in the field of geospatial imagery intelligence (GEOINT) analysis with at least 12 years of consecutive active full time experience in the GEOINT analysis discipline and recent (within 4 years) experience as a leader, supervisor, or technician of GEOINT operations. Performed duties managing the tasking, production exploitation and dissemination of imagery and GEOINT. Performed duties as an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) manager. Led and managed geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) operations, while determining GEOINT indicators in support of unified-land operations at all echelons. Coordinated and managed intelligence collection requirements and the information collection plan. Developed and presented GEOINT capabilities to the Commander, staffs customers, and non-GEOINT partners. Managed GEOINT production to satisfy intelligence requirements in accordance with appropriate references and unit standard operating procedures (SOP) utilizing all forms of raster, vector, and other geospatially referenced activities and data. Managed the analysis of multidiscipline intelligence data sources to produce derivative GEOINT that facilitated intelligence analysis. Used GEOINT to develop situational awareness of the operational environment to support mission command. Evaluated and recommended refinements to GEOINT collection requirements for content, conflicts, validity, and accuracy. Directed or managed multidiscipline intelligence tipping and cueing as it relates to GEOINT.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Perform mission and collective task analysis, design, and development of unit collective tasks using the analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation (ADDIE) process.

Use the Training Development Capability (TDC) online database to develop the unit collective tasks for the unit organizational elements and processes or MI systems.

Develop collective tasks for the following unit organizational elements or processes:

Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) Platoon

Cryptologic Support Team (CST).

Analysis of moving target indicator (MTI) data displayed by the Tactical Ground Station (TGS) system.

Enter all collective task analysis data into the unclassified TDC online database.

Provide, planning, employment, processing, and integration of sensors; monitor sensors; and integrate collection, analysis, and targeting expertise with the supported unit’s operational and analytical elements to help develop and prosecute targets for exploitation. [ed: that would be YOU]

Provides overwatch for the supported unit in order to draw their attention to significant detections.

Provides rapid and accurate reporting based on images and/or information sent by the sensor.

Sorry, but that sounds exactly like what the imaginary JADE II quantum AI computer was suppose to do. Maybe it's already borked?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:02 | 6279176 thamnosma
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Such a good point. No possible way this is just 1200 personnel. Comes to a grand total of 175 guys in each of seven large states. That's not even a local national guard weekend get together. Plus they are talking about staging in numerous communities in Texas. With what.? This country is literally being taken down before our eyes.

I suppose if the Pentagon announced 20,000 troops were being deployed it would raise a few hackles.

Those ranchers in Piñon Canyon will pay for opposing military expansion there too .

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:16 | 6279297 Paveway IV
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People are getting the '1200 military personnel' off of the slide deck created specifically to sell this to the State of Texas. This is NOT the total number of military involved in the entire exercise in every state, nor the total number of military PLUS all the DHS Stazi, local stooges and NSA types that will ultimately be involved. This exercise will probably involve 25,000 MILITARY people - just not all SF guys running around off the reservations in Texas.

Jade Helm is an intelligence and analysis exercise that uses a few SF guys parachuting in, then they run around randomly droning your pets, looking in your windows or reading your daughter's Facebook posts. Most of the military involved will be sitting behind a computer screen or falling asleep in meetings - they'll be nowhere near any of the exercise states or SF guys.

I lied about the part where they look in your windows. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:43 | 6280192 Government need...
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I haven't decided whether after-dark tresspassers on my property will be treated as privileged belligerents or unprivileged enemy combatants.  What say you, ZHers? Shoot to contact?

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:43 | 6279219 Skateboarder
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I stick by my augury. Shit don't blow up till South Park season 20 finishes in 2016. The contract will not renew. After that, it's fair game for anything to go down. These mvthrfvkers are evil, but theyll let you enjoy an episode of South Park before you die... Not bad. fvking assholes...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 03:53 | 6279275 chumbawamba
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Hmmm, yes, with such few numbers those troops are vulnerable to capture.  This is technically an invasion of the states by federal troops.  Exercise or not, our "elected" officials aren't doing shit about it.  What's to say some private militias won't form and go around hunting down these JADE HELM clowns and imprisoning them as POWs until the US agrees to withdraw its troops and never come back?

I am Chumbawamba.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:09 | 6279362 Memedada
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”Not a surprise with Barack Obama at the top of the pyramid” – he is not even near the top of the pyramid. He’s a low-level manager/puppet on a string at most. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:13 | 6279502 Lostinfortwalton
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Today the military doesn't operate overseas without unmanned drone surveillance and manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance , and reconnissance aircraft). These manned aircraft are usually twin-engined former corporate turboprop aircraft operated by government contractors but some are operated directly by the military. They have operators in the modified cabin using various sensors. I don't see anyway Jade Helm could be useful without using these drones and aircraft. It was stated that the idea was to put the military in civilian populations to see if they could be tracked and the assumption was made that the patriotic civillians would be the ones tasked with tracking. That, in my opinion would be wrong; the tracking will be done by drones and ISR aircraft, as well as troops on the ground, feeding data into computers of the movments of those military members playing the "bad guys". Indeed, one of the reasons for having the exercise in the southwest is because that is where the drone training bases are. But, of course, I always wear a tin-foil hat.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:53 | 6279504 Huh Reeeally
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“First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.


And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Martin Niemoller

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:55 | 6279649 Nobodys Safe
Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:28 | 6279116 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Can I be in the 'adversarial group' please?

 

And can I have my own MRAP too?

 

I think I can get the rest of the stuff at Walmart, eh?

 

Oh, and could you make sure to put stereo in the MRAP, please, thanks.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 02:43 | 6279217 scatha
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This is typical psychop like Boston Bombing where FBI informant and his brother were enticed to give excuse to massively suspend constitution and observe peoples reaction to it in reality and in social media. This is classical Pavlov conditioning and familiarity training. We are just rats to be tested and later dissected.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 05:01 | 6279308 22winmag
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The Boston non-bombing was a police state sideshow that amounted to nothing except for pissing people off. The fake blood and actors pushing wheelchairs didn't help matters.

 

The sideshow in Boston and Watertown was just police state follies. Good luck to any foreign or domestic force that has to deal with millions of armed Americans in a real SHTF combat situation.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 03:26 | 6279256 PoasterToaster
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The US Government, as the overt arm of the US State, is starting to come apart at the seams.  The apparatus of the deep US State will follow.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 04:52 | 6279300 22winmag
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What a joke. Real Martial Law can only be declared by the military when the civilian government has fled or been arrested! If the civilian government is still in power, **it's not real martial law**, it's a POLICE STATE CIRCUS SIDESHOW that would not last two weeks in a SHTF/civil war/combat situation.

 

Cops and mercenaries don't work without pentions, benefits, and raises. When ordnance and bullets really start to fly, most of them head for greener pastures while the citizen insurgent digs in to defend his home turf.

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 05:22 | 6279328 BoPeople
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There are times when I try to figure-out this part of it. What is it that drives the sociopathic nature of those who are brought into power. What is the "bigger" picture that they have been hiding from the general population for centuries?
- Why is OK for Madeleine Albright to say it was worth it to kill all of those children?
- Why is it OK for Heinz Kissinger to call our sons and daughters dumb stupid animals, when they are called to fight wars for politicians?
- Why is it OK for Prince Philip to say that he wants to come back as a virus so that he can kill people?
- Why is it OK for them to create war after war when the people have no interest or need to fight each other?
- Why is it OK for them to create seemingly endless false flag events/terrorism against the very people who they are supposed to be representing?
- Why is it OK for them to hide secrets that would benefit the people to know?
- Why is it OK for them to change the writing of history, destroy historical documents and stand as obstacles to the discovery of the truth?
- Why is it OK for them to murder or imprison people who have done nothing wrong except challenge them or get in their way?
- Why is it OK for them to steal from the people who they are purportedly representing?
- Why is it OK for them to lie and lie and lie?

I often wonder about the set of facts that would make the above (and many other sociopathic things) the expected and normal set of actions.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:51 | 6279353 Linoleum Blownapart
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If you're skeptical you may want to see this.

Military contractor Tom Meade makes some stuttering admissions while presenting Jade Helm to Texas officials:
http://youtu.be/7RXpAwbxgVU#t=1m30s
http://youtu.be/7RXpAwbxgVU#t=12m11s
(same video 2 time locations)

Some key points:

1) 1:30 The training is NOT for "Afganistan and Iraq" or "things that we've done in the past 15 years"; but it is training for "the next fight" that we could encounter.

2) 12:10 "The FBI and DEA will actually...uh...um...do some questioning...uh...for us...at...one of the airports...in Arizona." (That was an awful lot of um's and stuttering, sir.)

3) 12:55 Involving NATO and UN troops in Jade Helm has actually been "one of the  discussions"...that [Meade] is "not sure if it has occurred yet." (what?)

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 06:42 | 6279363 Lynn Trainor
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This is exactly one of the reasons why our ancestors rebelled against Britain, as the Declaration of Independence states:

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies …
To subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution …
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …

In dismantling our civil and religioius liberties presdent Obama in incurring a terrible guilt and fearful responsibility for destroying America, for which heaven will surely hold him accountable.  God Himself is the source of the freedom that is the birthright of every American.

America always stood for religious freedom.  Liberty of conscience was protected and God showered our nation with unrivaled mercies, but Obama has forgotten that heaven is the source of all our blessings.   The personal faith of many such as the Christian bakers, florists and photographers has been punished for declining to lend their talents to same-sex ceremonies.  American Christians are being forced to celebrate unnatural sexual activities.  Christians are now being persecuted in the United States of Ameruca!  THIS IS NATIONAL APOSTASY!

Obama is working in blindness.  America’s religious values were the foundation for all of our freedoms.  He has the fearful responsibility of leading the United States down the road that is step by step plungjng us into the Roman horrors of the Dark Ages.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:15 | 6279446 matagorda
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It might interest you to know that the federal government controls thousands of acres of central texas where they routinely initiate and refine their secret plans for world domination.  It's called fort hood -- mouhahahaha!!!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:56 | 6280260 Government need...
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I guess they want to get SOCOM conditioned to differentiating US citizens as 'privileged belligerents' or 'unprivileged enemy combatants'.  To do this, they've gotta jump in the sticks with the hicks.  Damn every last one of Jade Helm participants to hell.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:41 | 6279488 Huh Reeeally
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Is the fence along the Mexican border really designed to keep people out of the US, or prevent americans from leaving? When SHTF all those poor desperate refugees (Bosnia, Croatia, Middle East) flooding into neighbouring countries  will be americans heading north to Canada.

It would be instructive to read a real and probably accurate description of urban survival from someone who lived through it, check the posts by Selco at http://shtfschool.com/

"My name is Selco and I am from the Balkan region, and as some of you may know it was hell here from 92-95, anyway, for 1 whole year I lived and survived in a city WITHOUT: electricity, fuel, running water, real food distribution, or distribution of any goods, or any kind of organized law or government."

First hand experience shows me that americans are friendly and respectful in personal interactions and are easy to get along with, just like people anywhere, the problem is when governments get involved, then it gets all F'd up. History repeats. False Flags? Hell, how about blatantly obvious!?!!

Good Luck.

 

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 07:47 | 6279495 p00k1e
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Bleat?    

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 08:58 | 6279675 MoHillbilly
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I can't speak to the others, but the reason they closed the Wal-Mart in Tulsa is because it is a shithole in a shithole neighborhood. The theft, violence and random vandalism made going there a insane for anyone with other options. Wal-Mart can't come out and say " Yeah we're closing the only major store left in this "poor" community because the community sucks so bad."  Al and Jesse would be there in a heartbeat

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 22:14 | 6279726 Tirion
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Not only drones in the sky but robot boots on the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4PYdFBqzhA

which I guess leads to issues like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2912427/Elon-Musk-donates...

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:09 | 6279727 Tirion
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It seems Mr Whitehead has missed the point of Jade Helm 15 altogether. Jade is Joint Assistant for Deployment and Execution (JADE), which will be at the helm of this exercise (the largest internal security exercise ever conducted on US soil by awide margin). JADE is a vast quantum computing artificial intelligence. The purpose of Jade Helm 15 is to roll out the JADE II system, either as an exercise, or for real. I don't know. Potentially, JADE II has the ability to lock down the entire planet.

 

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/prodigy/Web/Mixed-init/Jade/jade.html

 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:21 | 6279779 Lostinfortwalton
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I don't know what "lock down the entire planet" means but communities that signed on to this exercse should realize that unmanned drones will almost certainly be used to gather intelligence and none of them have any FAA certification to fly over populated areas whatsoever. Just a thought.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:25 | 6279791 One of these is...
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It just occurred to me. YOU guys could use Jade helm to practice non-violent methods of civil resistance!

Go and score some expanding builders foam, (exhausts and any other equipment apertures/viewports love the stuff!) or epoxy resin / car body repair material and mix in a bit of sand, gravel, rusty ball bearings to make it go further and, er, get creative. Go on, see if you can score enough foam to actually FILL a parked up MRAP...

IF you break enough .Gov hardware then your economy will be stimulated too by the cost of replacement! Everybody wins!

Just don't take it all to seriously and stay within the realm of being an impediment rather than a combatant.

Drug dealers can do a jade helm special discount for any .gov types. Spray paint graffiti skills can be very useful too..

You'll all get a chance to mix with the military, take every opportunity to tell 'em about Fukushima or building 7.

Just remember that it isn't the PERSON in the uniform, it's the programming that is the enemy, and the equipment can't always be instantly replaced like the men can...

Do it right and you can all have fun being creatively naughty, during Jade Helm! They have set up the game, just play it with glue and foam rather than the guns and bullets they are expecting.

Assymetric warfare, Bitchez!!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 09:43 | 6279848 Inbetween is pain
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I found the real reason for Jade Helm after one of their participants stupidly left their operations manual in a bar in Taos. The manual was entitled "To Serve Man," but it was encoded. After many days a geek friend broke the code. It's a cookbook!!! The military is planning to eat the people! People, RUN!

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:11 | 6279920 Mike Masr
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Obama Moves 2,500 Ukrainian-Nazi Fighters To Colorado For “Reasons Unknown”

 

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1885.htm


Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:03 | 6279960 wendigo
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I don't really know much about Jade Helm, but if it really is the big takeover some expect it to be, there's too few troops involved. You'd need a hundred thousand to gain physical control of Texas, and even more if the Texans were actively resisting. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:59 | 6280269 Government need...
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It's easy in hindsight to ask why all the Jews didnt leave Germany before 1938.  And Jews are very intelligent/perceptive as a people and culture.  Ditto the Armenians prior to their own personal genocide, carried out by the Dirty Muslims.  In that country, the Armianian men went out and spent vast sums of money on firearms so they could turn them in.  Lambs to the slaughter.  In our future, I know my choice when facing the decision of whether to become a slave or a killer.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 16:56 | 6282022 Vence
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After the NSA revelations and all the other worldwide spying with high tech going on, if anyone still believe they didn't know and were surprised by any terrorists attack well  ... whatever.

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 19:36 | 6282681 Omega_Man
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