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Jade Helm Alert: Military Denies Media Requests To Cover "Texas Takeover"

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Between Greece’s tragic, Berlin-mandated descent into the Third World and the epic meltdown in China’s equity markets, it would be easy to forget that the US government is (re)annexing Texas next week. 

For those unaware (or for anyone who might have lost track of the US Spec Ops schedule), the military is set to kick off Jade Helm 15 next Wednesday, which means the Lonestar lockdown is less than one week away. If you’re unfamiliar with the operation, here are the barebones basics:

Jade Helm is an eight-week joint military and Interagency Unconventional Warfare exercise conducted throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Essentially, from July 15 to September 15 some military personnel are going to take a trip out west and pretend like they are conducting covert operations overseas. 

On the surface, that doesn’t sound too exciting, but thanks to some very unfortunate wording in an official US military slide deck and an even more unfortunate map which designates Texas as “hostile” territory (of course the same map also identifies San Diego as harboring a militant insurgency, so the US Spec Ops Command probably assumed it wouldn’t be taken literally) quite a few Texans came to believe that the federal government was up to no good with Jade Helm. 

The situation quickly spiraled out of control and became a veritable media circus after Texas governor Greg Abbott called up the state guard and “Texas Ranger” Chuck Norris pledged to defend the state from a Navy SEAL incursion. Topping it off was former Texas lawmaker Todd Smith — a 16-year veteran of the Texas House of Representatives and self-proclaimed Last of the Fact-Based Republican Mohicans — who, in a letter to Abbott, suggested that anyone who was suspicious of the federal government’s intentions in the state was a “hysterical idiot.” 

With just six days to go until the government begins the exercise, expect the rumor mill to come alive because as The Washington Post reports, the media will be given no access to the drills. Here’s more: 

Jade Helm 15, the controversial Special Operations exercise that spawned a wave of conspiracy theories about a government takeover, will open next week without any media allowed to observe it, a military spokesman said.

 

Embedded reporters won’t be permitted at any point during the exercise, in which military officials say that secretive Special Operations troops will maneuver through private and publicly owned land in several southern states. Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command, said his organization is considering allowing a small number of journalists to view selected portions of the exercise later this summer, but nothing is finalized.

 

“All requests from the media for interviews and coverage of U.S. Army Special Operations Command personnel, organizations and events are assessed for feasibility and granted when and where possible,” Lastoria said in a statement released Wednesday to The Washington Post. “We are dedicated to communicating with the public, while balancing that against the application of operations security and other factors.”

 

The exercise is scheduled for July 15 through September 15 and is expected to include more than 1,200 troops. Army Special Operations Command announced the exercise in March, saying its size and scope would set it apart from most training exercises. For months, some protesters have said Jade Helm is setting the stage for future martial law. 

 

The Washington Post has several times requested access to observe the exercise, making the case to the military that first-hand media coverage would help explain the mission. Lastoria said it is not possible to allow a journalist to travel with Special Operations forces in the field, citing the isolated nature of the mission and the need to protect the identity of the forces involved.

 

The military has granted access to Special Operations in the past, however. In one recent example, a journalist observed the exercise Robin Sage in North Carolina, writing a profile for Our State, a magazine. The exercise is considered a final test for Green Beret soldiers in training and calls for them to work through a scenario in which they organize a guerrilla force to overthrow the government of the fictional nation of Pineland.

Got that? Basically, WaPo reasons that because one Kevin Maurer (reporting for OurState.com) was allowed to observe the imaginary overthrow of a made-up country called “Pineland” two and a half years ago in “backyard theaters of war across central North Carolina”, the paper should be allowed to observe whatever is or isn't going on in Texas. 

In any event, it’s clear that the military is intent on keeping prying eyes away from Jade Helm. We’ll leave it to readers to decide what that says about government accountability and transparency. 

And to the US Spec Ops Command we say this: just because you’ve kept the media out, doesn’t mean no one is watching…

 

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Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:28 | 6292171 The Delicate Genius
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according to a guy I know who graduated from Harvard Law - the 10th Amendment doesn't exist [or at least, anyone summoning it to support a position is a "Tenther" - i.e. someone who believes the 10th amendment exists].

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:35 | 6292408 El Vaquero
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In a sense, he is correct.  The Tenth Amendment is flat out not enforced.  You could remove it from the constitution and it would have no bearing on any legal outcomes. 

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 03:07 | 6293997 Ill-news the St...
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Apropos of quartering troops, did I read , perhaps even here on ZH, that some private shit-o-sends were gettin' paid behind this nonsense? Something about land use "fees"? Or was that delusion?

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:23 | 6292148 BGO
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Texans are always talking about seceding from the union, how tough they are, the whole "nobody messes with texas" thing. Let's see how they react to being force fed a big fat bowl of alphabet soup.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:27 | 6292166 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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pretty sure when push comes to shove and the chips are down the Texans will d oteh right thing.  It has not been breed out yet. 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:33 | 6292395 FreeShitter
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Kidding? I live in Houston and the sheep down here only care about what JJ watt is doing or which shithead cuntry/rapper star is playing this weekend. texas is no different than anywhere else except maybe in the sticks. Texas is an overcrowded hispanic clusterfuck already. If it gets taken over, nothing will stop that...nothing.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:19 | 6292556 Buster Cherry
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You should move away from MLK Blvd.

 

I can't argue that Houston is getting overcrowded, but I think its because it has a pretty diverse economy, not wholly dependent on energy alone....and people crom other states are flocking in. The trouble.with that is some of these people bring the politics of where they came from with them.

 

Just look at our pervert Mayor.

 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:40 | 6292426 pacu44
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I have always found Texas bravado to be hot air coming from LIBERAL wimps...

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:58 | 6292506 Buster Cherry
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You should not limit your travels here to the Austin area.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:44 | 6292677 Freddie
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Texans are obsessed with Trayvon thug ball on the high school, college, NFL and NBA.  They love and cheer on their Knock Out Game Trayvons.

Also Cornyn and Cruz are piece of shit.  Cruz talks a big game but his wife works for Goldman and he has admitted that Goldman Sachs pays for his health insurance.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:34 | 6292840 hedgeless_horseman
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Mostly correct, Freddie.  Nonetheless, I am flying an American Flag, upside down, for the duration.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:52 | 6293129 lakecity55
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I am flying a Confereate Battle Flag upside down.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:54 | 6293143 Dixie Flatline
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And I am flying the Bonnie Blue...er...right side upish?  :)

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:50 | 6293121 lakecity55
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Yes, but they have no problem shooting chimps.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:29 | 6292165 The Delicate Genius
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unless they're lying about the numbers, there really are far too few troops involved to worry about Jade Helm...

at least in the sense the moonbats are.

This does serve to normalize this kind of thing... so you mighthave mission and size creep in future.

In terms of riots or martial law...

those assets are already deployed, ready to go, and not regular army....

This would seem to be about doing something other than the counter-insurgency destroy a village to save it shit... the US is not sending any significant force into Ukraine.

But into Syria - a large deployment of Special Forces, seals, rangers, combat controllers...supported by Marines... yeah they could do that.

Also - Chuck Norris *can* believe it's not butter...

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:11 | 6292770 Kirk2NCC1701
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No, not Syria -- unless Bibi tells them too -- but in Central Asia. 

E.g. future NATO members: Azerbaijan,  Armenia, Georgia.  I.e. Pipelineistan.  That would also cut off Russia and Iran from each other via any land route. 

Whenever I see a Magician creating Action in one place, I immediately look for the real action somewhere else.  That's simple, because the Masters of USSA live by the motto "By Deception..."

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:29 | 6292168 Squid Viscous
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I hope one of these fuckers gets blown away by some guy on his porch with a 30-06 and one too many drinks...

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:32 | 6292183 J Jason Djfmam
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They will probably be so "under cover" they'll end up wasting each other.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:03 | 6292301 Buster Cherry
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I'll bet you were.downright giddy when that fucked up kid was shooting up that church in south carolina.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:44 | 6292381 Squid Viscous
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good analogy!

confronting an FBI/SWAT/Special Forces goon trespassing on your property vs. a nut shooting innocent people... I get it

you fucking asshole

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:55 | 6292490 Buster Cherry
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Much less an asshole than someone thinking we all sit on our porches drunk waiting to shoot people with our deer rifles.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:35 | 6292841 Squid Viscous
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wow, did I say that? you have quite an imagination... asshole

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:32 | 6292184 wendigo
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I still think JH is a red herring. Too few troops, over too large an area. I'm no expert, but I think you'd need hundreds of thousands of tropps to control the southwest. 

 

Ask me, it's a distraction from something much bigger that's in the works. 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:33 | 6292188 J Jason Djfmam
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Like the cryptic "Operation Population Reduction"?

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 05:50 | 6294156 Alvin Fernald
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They will have enough troops to knock out the power grid.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:37 | 6292200 Seek_Truth
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Frog in a pot of cool water, on a stove, slowly heated to death.

Small, benign, beginnings.

Gigantic, catastrophic, endings.

Prepare for Apocalypse.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:50 | 6292254 wendigo
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Yes, but haven't they been doing that since '45? Either the end game comes soon, or it comes not at all. 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:38 | 6292416 The Delicate Genius
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people like seek truth have been anticipating the end of the world for thousands of years.

You know what they say about broken clocks...

In no small part, the next world war may arise because of the unique idiocy of tens of millions of people believing it is "prophesied" which means do fuck all to prevent such wars.

Confirmation bias and self-fulfilling prophecy are most of religion.

The rest is stupidity and fear obfuscated with inanities about faith proving truth.

No, ST - I do not debate theists, let alone bible thumping prophets of doom. Your stupidity and arrogance would be cute but for the fact your like-minded brethren are cheerleading the rest of us into a very preventable series of wars.

No Jesus for you, ST - only radiation sickness.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:51 | 6292703 Seek_Truth
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"Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires." - 2 Peter 3:3

You are just another data point in a long set of data points, DG.

What are you doing to "prevent" that which has been prophesied- that which, unerringly, will be?

"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." - James 4:7

 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:04 | 6292747 One Eyed Jack
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EVERY knee will bow, and EVERY tongue will confess.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:10 | 6292765 Seek_Truth
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Indeed, Jack!

"For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." - Philippians 2:9-11

"You are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what he said.”- Luke 1:45

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:41 | 6292869 Rusty Shorts
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Dude, take you religious crap somewhere else

 

-Timmay Ch.3 vs 9-11

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:45 | 6292888 Seek_Truth
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Dude, take your close minded crap somewhere else.

Rusty Shorts hates Freedom of Speech.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." - 1st Amendment

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 05:55 | 6294166 Alvin Fernald
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Hunter Depp was exercising his right to free speech compadre.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:43 | 6292880 silverer
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Ouch.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:39 | 6292422 XitSam
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It isn't so much the training for the troops performing their military tasks (which it is), as training for political elites and approved high ranking military in running such an operation.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:11 | 6292553 will ling
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very valid observation; dunno.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:09 | 6292190 gwiss
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The new paradigm for control of dissident areas is "containment."  This means serially wacking anyone who stands up as a leader.  Jade Helm represents an attempt to control the "human dimension", possibly using predictive algorhythms to identify leaders who gain followers through non-traditional outlets such as social media, and the purpose of the Jade Helm exercise is to sharpen the pointy part of the spear, which is the snatch and grab teams that swoop in and apprehend a person of interest.  Jade Helm allows them to practice the interface between the snatch teams and the local law enforcement to make sure that local law enforcement doesn't get all puffed up and in their face when they start violating Posse Comitatus with impunity.

 

That's why Texas was cast as a dissident region, because Texas represents a region that the central government will likely lose control of first when declining purchasing power of the dollar causes them to slowly lose control of the country.  They will play whack a mole with dissident regions for as long as they can in order to retain power for as long as they can, even though they will cease to be able to hold regions through traditional boots on the ground power.  It's what the Romans would have done with the barbarians if they had owned drones and air power.  Terrorism, boys and girls, actually does work, and it works both from the bottom up as well as the top down.

 

Jade Helm is not the real thing.  It's practice for the real thing.  But the real thing they are practicing for is more frightening than if it was the real thing.  Texans may end up learning exactly how those villagers in Pakistan feel when the fist of god strikes them out of the clear blue sky.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:55 | 6292821 Not Too Important
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Bioaerosols... cheaper, and much more effective when they finally don't care about PR anymore.

The planes are up there spraying almost daily anyway. Helos for the smaller areas.

When they put the roadblocks up and control movement, there won't be any escape.

 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:34 | 6292837 KashNCarry
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:27 | 6293025 lakecity55
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I would have to assume that if the communist US Army soldiers failed in their mission to liquidate American Citizens that Bath House would authorize a chemical weapons attack.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:24 | 6293014 lakecity55
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....and that is why one or two battalions should be eliminated by Patriots.

"Gee, sir, this was only a war game and we lost 200 men!"

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:36 | 6292195 Omega_Man
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I bet there will be a lot drones following them.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:18 | 6292197 Sedaeng
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I would not go so far to say a re(annexing) of Texas, but I do think that by the end of the operation, they will have succeeded in 'infiltrating' their areas of interests and will maintain their position over the long term.

With the operation then being over and considered successful, there will be the usual shooting down of planes and other geopolitical/economic events to distract us from the operation ever happening in the first place.

And we will be called conspiracy nuts once again because nothing will come from this until much later down the road. Long after the operation supposedly ended.

*shrugs* who really knows... former Marine here myself, does not make me an expert on anything, but I do live in East Texas... *crossing my fingers im not on any list*

 

edit: living in east texas but not being from east texas (bought some acreage to get away from the big cities)...these people out here have me looking totally sane ;)

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:36 | 6292198 CHC
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Keep your ear to the earth and keep your ass lower - someone's about to get fucked.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:42 | 6292224 J Jason Djfmam
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I tried that. I think I pulled a muscle.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:36 | 6292199 jimfcarroll
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"Between Greece’s tragic, Berlin-mandated descent into the Third World ..."

Yeah. Poor Greeks. Years of socialist dependence on EU debt in order to preserve transfer payments had NOTHING to do with it.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:01 | 6292296 Atticus Finch
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Apparently, you have no understanding of what is actually happening in Greece. I recommend reading John Perkin's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man to gain some insight into how all of this works.

Greece has never received bailout money. It has gone to bailout the banks in Germany and France.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:47 | 6292459 El Vaquero
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Greece had a problem with too much debt, so when the Troika bailed it out, the Troika did so by piling more debt onto Greece.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:16 | 6292786 jimfcarroll
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First, I've read it.

Second, ZH has been pretty clear and shown this is exactly what happened. As I said before, that's totally besides the point.

When you can't maintain your socialist lifestyle, so you borrow from Satan himself, WHO'S FAULT IS IT? YOURS!

There are several crimes here:

1) The EU banks, particularly those in France, offloaded this private debt onto the public sector through the "Troika." If this were handled when the problem was KNOWN to be unsustainable, 2011/2012, then those that took the risk would have been forced to bear the burden.

2) The Greeks democratically choose a socialist system where the vast majority of government expenditures are transfer payments.

Unfortunately, (2) is all that will be recompensed, no matter what Greece chooses at this point.

Just because (1) will be gotten away with doesn't change the fact that (2) IS A CRIME.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 00:04 | 6293623 TeethVillage88s
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So what is Jim Carrol's Solution... a Homer Simpson style Funk, Depression, Suicide?

You live in the Problem & Blame.

"When you can't maintain your socialist lifestyle, so you borrow from Satan himself, WHO'S FAULT IS IT? YOURS!"

-

I'm speechless. If you, Homer, Got Fucked, you have no American Bones in your body to fight back?

You ain't no Homer Simpson or Bart Simpson. You are a Depressive.

You just play the Vic. Pay, Pay, Pay, forever. Pathetic.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 10:59 | 6295243 jimfcarroll
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WTF? Yet again, nothing you wrote has any bearing on what I wrote. The solution is:

1) Default
2) Eliminate all of the government barriers to economic growth including the massive regulatory state in Greece and increase the protection of private property rights. That is, fix this: http://www.heritage.org/index/country/greece

EDIT: And if you don't like the Heritage Institute's evaulation, here is a source that shows an amalgam: http://www.freeexistence.org/freedom.shtml . Note, for example, Greece ranks behind Kuwait and Columbia on private property rights

Pretty soon all of Greece would look like the shipping industry does (which is currently the only industry in Greece that's largely untaxed - and subsequently stronger).

3) Institute a simple flat-tax (or VAT tax, since it's collectable) and eliminate everything else.
4) Phase out the welfare state like Chile did in the '90s (and they are currently undoing - and suffering the consequences as a result). EDIT: This includes eliminating virtually all public sector employment

EDIT: These things will never be tried, because Greece is filled with a populace with the critical thinking skills of those responding here

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 10:42 | 6295263 jimfcarroll
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And *I* fully expect to "Get Fucked" by the estabilishment ... and I'm ALREADY blaming US (unlike everyone here who's ready to blame anyone but those that made the bargain with the devil) ... for keeping these leeches in power. I'm not blaming everyone else.

... and I'm personally preparing.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:09 | 6292968 Kirk2NCC1701
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Yes, Socialism is a bitch.  Especially the Corporate Welfare for the TBTF, TBTJ, the MIC and the Deep State. Not to mention our BFFs overseas that we support in Brussels, Tel Aviv, the ME, Central Asia...

I agree: eventually you do run out of OPM for all these Welfare Queens and Kings.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 10:39 | 6295251 jimfcarroll
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What, in what I wrote leads you to think I'm PRO-EU?

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:41 | 6292216 VelvetHog
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Mo Miltary!

69.4% of the residents on the Lone Star Muppet State said to embrace the exercises as proof that the gubmint loves them and is there to help.  Stay tuned here for more events as they develop....

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:54 | 6292271 Buster Cherry
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Link to your souce of information or stick to local New York news please.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:08 | 6292320 VelvetHog
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Nice!

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:41 | 6292218 WTFUD
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Start laying the mines and booby traps and make it a real test for these pricks.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:51 | 6292257 The Delicate Genius
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off topic - but if you can spare 3 minutes to write or call a senator or congressman about this guy:

Oklahoma Veteran Faces Life In Prison For Treating PTSD With Marijuana

http://www.mintpressnews.com/oklahoma-veteran-with-ptsd-faces-life-in-pr...

so fucking absurd.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:57 | 6292494 WillyGroper
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can't remember the name of the dr., but they cut her research cuz she proved if given cannibus within the first 24 hours of trauma it would not permantly sear PTSD into the brain.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:31 | 6292827 KashNCarry
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Psilocybin too...

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 17:56 | 6292276 Atticus Finch
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Apparently, the military has overlooked the millions of cell phone and videocams througout the population and immediately uploadable to You Tube.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:06 | 6292959 lakecity55
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Find their mess hall and dump cyanide into their food.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 22:58 | 6293401 bluskyes
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... if the internet doesn't "break"

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:13 | 6292342 SilvertonguedAngel
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 They are not going to be able to make people disappe

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:17 | 6292354 will ling
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anyone not willing to give their life to prevent the coup (and take at least 10 of "them" with ya ) should move out now or get what they deserve.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:18 | 6292358 Coletrane
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gee, it's almost like they dont want anyone to see the really nasty visual of internment camps built especially to hold american citizens.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:28 | 6292369 e_goldstein
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Welcome to Texas, 'Merkins. While you are here, be sure to keep your eyes open for the indigenous wildlife. The alligators, the fireants, the mosquitoes, feral hogs, rattlesnakes, and roving packs of coyotes all tend to be frisky on hot summer nights. Oh, and if you are operating during the day, stay hydrated and in the shade or expect to die from heat stroke. Now, good luck with your training.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 23:57 | 6293600 TeethVillage88s
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Well I just wasted 10 minutes watching a video on related subject.

I get more out of reading people that are older, who have a historical narrative, and who show some knowledge of the US Military.

I just wonder if all Terror Acts are attributed to Cells that are either home grown patriots, lone wolfs seeking revenge like the uni-bomber, enraged employees like the postal employees, political acts like in Sweden, False Flags like the Reichstag Fire, Killing of German Soldiers in Poland, Liberty Assault, Vietnam Assault on US Ship, 9-11,... well...

What does it look like when Neocons attack the USA?

What does it look like when US Defenses are taken down to allow a Pearl Harbor type Event?

What does it look like when Gold, Money, Records of Fraud, and political opposition disappear in an attack?

If we look for evidence of Proxies at work in our State... would we build a network with Law Enforcement & other Emergency Workers & even Federal Agents to record and pass documentation to Patriotic Locals?? Would we enlist Air Port Personnel both public and private to track... Federal Agent, Proxy, or Wealthy Peoples Flights and their PAX (Passenger List)??

Would we attempt to build a State Agency Structure to track Federal Agents & Proxies through Ports and Highways and Rails and Buses??

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:27 | 6292380 BoPeople
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Obviously this begs a lot of questions and therefore should demand that citizen journalists report on what they are seeing and experiencing with Jade helm.

That being said, I am sure that people will be claiming that the goobermint is trying to hide the fact that they have everyone from Russians to robots and space aliens participating in Jade Helm.

... just smoke em out and report as citizen journalists.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:32 | 6292397 serotonindumptruck
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I suspect Jade Helm will consist of a greatly increased number of "highway checkpoints", possibly disguised as "DUI" checkpoints, which are clearly unconstitutional. The exercise will likely involve personnel from local, county, and state law enforcement agencies, and will be designed to limit and/or restrict freedom of movement. The Bill of Rights will be largely suspended for the duration of the exercise. Anyone who resists or otherwise expresses an uncooperative disposition by invoking their Constitutional Rights will be unlawfully detained and interrogated.

This could possibly be a large-scale trial balloon exercise, designed to measure and identify potential dissidents and the level of resistance that might be increasing within the country. If successful, the exercise will be expanded to larger parts of the continental US.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 18:58 | 6292505 WillyGroper
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It's about behavior patterns.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:59 | 6292919 hedgeless_horseman
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+1

Don't forget the door-to-door searches...last seen right after the Boston Marathon bombing.

Under Section 30.05 of the Texas Penal Code, a person commits criminal trespass if, "he enters or remains on or in property of another without effective consent and he 1) had notice that the entry was forbidden; or 2) received notice to depart but failed to do so."

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:04 | 6292944 lakecity55
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The first thing a Fascist US soldier will see upon knocking on my door will be the barrel of a .45-70.

Bring it on, Niggerbama. White men will fight.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:04 | 6292523 bigrooster
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Just as Americans did in 1776 we will soon have to fight against the current ruling government of this country.  Just as England did over 200 years ago this government has over stepped its bounds and needs to be reset.  Many will die, it won't be fun, but it must be done.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:16 | 6292791 smacker
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Right on. Except the English Civil War was between 1642–1651, not 200 years ago. English Civil War.

And it never achieved anything much for the people given that he re-instated the monarchy after executing Charles I.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:58 | 6292937 lakecity55
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I am old and do not expect to live thru this Obama Communist Revolution.

However, I know I can kill at least 20 US 'soldiers' before they get me.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:18 | 6292578 Moccasin
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Conditioning. The government wants to create the new normal. Not much choice any more because we lost our rights a long time ago, Obey or Revolt. They will checking to see who is naughty and nice at every check point with biometric identification of all who pass through the gates of hell. If they don't have your number they will issue you one. I have come to hate my government.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:32 | 6292828 silverer
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"I have come to hate my government".  You mean the government?

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:56 | 6292925 lakecity55
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Any US Army 'soldier' adhering to these Rules must be eliminated.

The Army has been ordered to Kill American Citizens.

Defend Yourselves!

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 22:22 | 6293260 e_goldstein
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http://www.redstate.com/uploads/2015/04/heels1.png

These guys? Yeah, I'm terrified.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:44 | 6292668 rosiescenario
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Well, I sure hope they have sense enought to keep these troops away from the southern border...wouldn't want to scare away any of the folks moving up here. I'm sure Obummer has that covered.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 19:48 | 6292688 GRDguy
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If TPTB were really smart, they'd cancel Jade Helm.  Way too many folks are payin' real attention, and now they won't even let the controlled press observe.  But as I said, IF TPTB were really smart, .  .  .

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:54 | 6292916 lakecity55
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The only option is to liquidate these 'soldiers' by any means possible.
Bury them in the back yard.
These are NOT American Soldiers. They are Traitors!

Kill them; they have been ordered to Kill You.

Obama has ordered them to liquidate Americans. You must strike first.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:06 | 6292759 smacker
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I wonder what the Jade Helm crowd will do if armed American patriots from all over the US descend on Texas to protect its independence from a federal takeover.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 23:26 | 6293502 TeethVillage88s
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I read that Germany Army Intelligence, the Thule Society, and Hitler took over the German Workers Party with 25 points which were also used by the Communist Party or Karl Marx, then they used Funding to Buy a Newspaper to publish the views of the New Nazi Party.

There is a lot of Strategy involved in the Rise of Hitler.

He came out supported Ford in his book Mein Kampf, later got many Americans involved in Financing his Party & Government, and even convinced London Bankers that he was very organized and would take loans in British Currency and convinced London that Germany would be better leaders and business managers than France...

But it all start as a need for a Leader for these cultish German Patriots, they found Hitler who was of average intelligence, was into esoteric knowledge, who was a military patriot, who had intelligence experience, who had gone under cover and fingered the Communist Leaders for Justice... then all they needed was the Blue Collar Voters as a Populist Base.

Who in the USA has the motivation to actually start putting groups together without telegraphing to the Authorities? How to center a modern movement for the Constitution & States Powers...

Maybe through groups of Writers?

Strategies?

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:17 | 6292792 Savyindallas
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The Army (and most elites) are a bunch of murderous Luciferian fags. We Texans need to watch them.

Listen to kay Griggs  -all 7 hours if you really want to get a good idea what we are up against.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ly0c0_Rnk

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:30 | 6292823 silverer
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That they are doing this without the consent of the governed is all you need to know...

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:43 | 6292895 lakecity55
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There are many of us who can dispatch these Criminals silently.

US Army: You have declared War on the American People. You will suffer the consequences.

I hope every single one of you are dispatched by American Patriots.

Each one of you deserves 1 thing: a Bullet in the back of the Head.

Fuck You. You betrayed your Oath. You are Dead Men.

I really hope I can put a 45-70 on your commie asses, 'American Soldier.'

--LC556, Saigon 1973

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:52 | 6293133 Vuke
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Lake, you're now on the LIST.  Congrats.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:07 | 6292964 BustainMovealota
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"governed"??,  you mean the ruled.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:40 | 6292862 db51
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At some point in time, there's going to be some rednecks arned to the teeth with automatic weapons that will makw some of those military thugs warriors wish they'd stayed the fuck home.   If and when SHTF....the military will NOT be able to control the battle....They're probably home watching Red Dawn and Red Dawn II as I type this...prepping for battle.  lmao

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:41 | 6293080 lakecity55
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I know a lot of vets who want to 'interrogate' the current bath house 'soldiers.'

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:44 | 6292885 lakecity55
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Alert Chuck Norris...Something wicked this way comes!

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:46 | 6292890 db51
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Don't Fuck with Chuck...I'm tellin ya.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 20:53 | 6292914 Bill of Rights
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Like the dumb brain washed media puppets would tell us the truth anyway ... Nothing burger .

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:01 | 6292939 sagitarius
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.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:07 | 6292962 VelvetHog
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Why did Chuck Norris cross the road?

 

Because Jack Bauer gave him permission to do so.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:23 | 6293012 serotonindumptruck
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Very clever.

Don't sugar-coat it. What are you really trying to say?

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:30 | 6293037 VelvetHog
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What I'm trying to say is "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

 

The real trouble will blindside you.  Jade Helm ain't it.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:10 | 6292975 lakecity55
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Any one of these so-called 'soldiers' has betrayed his Oath. any military personnel involved in 'jade helm' should be liquidated with extreme prejucice.

They are Traitors who have sworn an Oath to Obama. Liquidate them if you can.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 15:33 | 6296628 J Jason Djfmam
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Better yet: Vidcam them and post it on Utube and anywhere else you can think of.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:17 | 6292995 The Greek horse
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FEMA CAMPS/COFFINS  in certain parts of the country + gun laws being striped from AMERICANS. State of the art facilities in UTAH that hold private conversations from phone taps by the NSA and email attained illegally from AMERICANS. Now JADE HELM in TEXAS = MARSHAL LAW.. The only way this reverses is somebody like JESSE JAMES ties David Rockefeller and George Soros and give them a pistol whipping beat down, Then tosses them in the middle of the pacific ocean surrounded by sharks.. FU Henry Kissinger

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 15:34 | 6296634 J Jason Djfmam
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Won't change a thing. These guys are already dead.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:17 | 6292996 johnlocke445
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I think they're all a bunch of sophomoric little nutcases. From what I hear the Special Forces personel are to infiltrate the public domain. That means they are to be spies. What are these little children going to do, sit inside a diner all day, watch the public go in and out and report back to command on their decoder rings? Are they given special handshakes to use and patches to wear? Do they have code names like "Tiger", "Lightning", "Papa Bear" and "Quicksand"? You would think that these soldiers would already know how to infiltrate the American public because that is what they have been doing their entire lives. Don't they know already how to blend in and be an American? What a stupid, embarrasing drill.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 15:38 | 6296654 J Jason Djfmam
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To fit in they'll have codenames like Bubba, Fatass, Skeeter, Mudpants, and Daddy.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:19 | 6293001 Aussiekiwi
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Lol, Every Fruitcake will be coming out of the closet in Texas.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:35 | 6293044 IronForge
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Because TX can leave the Union.

 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:36 | 6293045 lakecity55
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I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Bath House of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Bath House; and that I will obey the orders of the Homo of the United States and the orders of the fags appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

In the National Guard (Army or Air)

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:46 | 6293099 The Greek horse
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TEXAS is the lone star state it would show the most Resistance. I am from NYC and it would fall fast...overpopulated and not enough COWBOYS/ GUNS to fight back...

LAKE CITY I HOPE THERE ARE MORE OF YOU OUT THERE! 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:47 | 6293112 Icelandicsaga.....
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They Thought They Were Free.. the German People from 1933 to 1945 by Milton Meyers..

'''''''''''What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it. http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html    WE are there.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 22:39 | 6293320 GRDguy
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Thanks for the link.  I also read somewhere that it took "75 years to prepare Germans for a Hitler."  When you consider the Federal Reserve boys have had over 100 years, here we go again.  It's been said that history may not repeat, but it certainly does rhyme.  In looking up the quote, I came across this:

"History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it just screams, 'Why don't you listen to me?' and lets fly with a big stick." Perhaps by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 21:51 | 6293123 Dixie Flatline
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Jade Helm doesn't have to actually involve any militaristic events...it has accomplished an ancilary goal of getting all the idiots to self identify so that future exercises may go without much backlash.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 15:39 | 6296664 J Jason Djfmam
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100% efficiency too.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 22:12 | 6293221 deerhunter
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When i was executive chef at a country club I saw that the average foursome was a banker, a real estate muckity muck, an insurance broker and a lawyer.  Slip a group of doctors in with a few business owners and manufactureing executives in on the odd weekend outing.  F I RE and now medicine.  Let's be honest here.  We are blessed to live in a country  with vast natural resources,  transportation systems both road and waterways,  educated hard working people including the farmers that feed us,  and the opportunity to go as far as your imagination and hard work take you.

We have been lied to since the Federal Reserve Bank was put into place.  We were further stolen from when the Great Society was birthed from hell and women were told they didnt need men in their lives to take care of the babies they bred because the government would take care of them.  There is nothing backing our currency but the threat of war and military men and women willing to go and do what they are ordered to do.

There is virtually no financial training done at the high school level.  We dont teach students how to think critically.  We teach them it is ok to question thier sexual orientation when they are in the 4th grade.  We teach them about the evil white men with the smallpox blankets and thier horrible takeover of our land from the fun loving inidans.  Oh,  sorry ,, native Americans.  Weren't the Indians really Chinese who walked over into Sarah Palins backyard?  Oh,, you may need to think about that.

Our first "lady" in a speech at a black college spoke of white racisim ravaging our land.  About people assuming she was the help in a store because she was black.  I have heard blacks say there is no black racism.  I won't even go there.

Look around.  Olympic gold medal decatholon winner cuts his balls off and he is a "hero."  The Kardashians.  Pro sports.

You know the real heroes in our country?  Men like my father who God willing will be 90 this November.  He grew up in a log cabin in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies.  He emigrated to the US in the 50's and became a citizen.  He married mom and raised 7 kids in a 3 bedroom one bath house on the "wrong side of the tracks."  Mom cooked in a senior care home kitchen for 40 years.  He was a machinist.  He would work from 2 to midnight.  He went from there to the wholesale produce section of town and unload produce trailers for cash for the long haul truckers because nothing was on pallets.  For this he was paid cash.  From 1 to 5 am and then home to see us kids off to school so mom could leave for work.

We were taught three things.  Yes sir and maam,  treat others the way you want to be treated and work hard and whatever work you do ,  do it well.  On Saturdays he worked running new plumbing and electric in the 90 to 100 year old houses common in our part of the city.  The 3 of us that went to college paid every dime out of our own pockets and with academic scholarships.  All of us had on the clock part time jobs from 9 thr 12 th grade and bought our own school clothes.

When the natives decided to burn the city down in the hood in 1968 they were not all that many blocks from my neighborhood. It was dad sitting on the porch with an M 1 garand.  No looting on our block. 

I just turned 60 so I am rambling on.  I don't recognize my country.  This is my country.  I say this to all who have ears to hear.  It is time to wake up.  It isnt color.  It isnt political party.  It isnt gay marriage.  It isnt ISIS or the muslims.  It is us.  We have lost our way.  We have lost our backbones.  We have lost our willingness to stand up and open our mouths when it might cost us a job.  I was forced to sit through a sensitivity class and listen to a black, gay retired military man teach me how to treat others with respect.  I was making well over 100K a year.  I didn't say fuck you,, I won't sit through that shit so I am just as guilty.

If you pick on someone long enough,, one day they will rise up.  It is that time.  Sorry for rambling but it is truly time to wake up.  Go to your HR departnment on Monday and claim a dozen or so exemptions on your federal tax witholding.   Perfectly legal.  Be disciplined enough to set aside what you need to make your IRS payments at the end of the year.  Withhold the money,, it is all they understand. 

It is the only thing that will get anyones attention.  If that labels me a rebel,  I will stand.  I am weary.  I don't see us coming back.  I enjoy the laughs of my grandchildren when they visit.  They are between 11 months and 11 years old.  What America will we leave them?  It is time for us all to look at the man in the mirror. 

 

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 23:26 | 6293465 Freddie
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Lied to since 1861 (maybe even 1812) when banksters launched a genocidal war so these carpetbagger could loot the South.  They especially wanted the textile industry.   Puppet honest Abe then deicded he was in charge after giving them their war.  He wanted no central banks and wanted to send the slaves home.  Every President who was a threat to central banks has been eliminated.

The US Genocidal Civil War is similiar to the Ukraine.  Manufactured civil war to get mainly christians to kill each other.  Get rid of the toughest and bravest.   The same people behind it like Nudelman and Soros.  They want to loot the country too for coroporations, z-oligarchs and cronies.

The Ukrainians and ethnic Russians are not playing along in the way Soros, Nuland, the banksters and ZWO/z-oligarchs wanted.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 01:01 | 6293798 dogismycopilot
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Amen.

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 22:21 | 6293257 p00k1e
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It’s gonna be one historic massacre.   

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 23:47 | 6293565 BeansBulletsBandaids
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We could use some Lone Wolf McQuade right about now. Or at least his supercharged ramcharger. That thing was sweet!

Thu, 07/09/2015 - 23:58 | 6293603 JoJoJo
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This is a poke in Texans' eyes because the state least resembles an ideal state in Potus Pilate's mind. Conservative, low taxes and Republican governors are enough to provoke Big O's administration to sic the military on Texas. Remember how Arizona tried to resist Obama's illegal immigrant policy? The feds chewed up and spit out Jan Brewer.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 01:29 | 6293857 Minburi
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The US military should not be practicing taking out rogue governments except its own.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 01:34 | 6293861 dogismycopilot
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Jon Stewart is wrong. Jade Helm is about the testing the systems that will be used when the US Government decides to roll for real against all major cities to disarm the population in a National Emergency.

Jade Helm is the real-world, real-time testing of a classified US Military GIS (Geospatial Information System) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

They will basically be refining and testing a map of a specific environment in order to pinpoint individuals. This is a trial run. It will be a very IT intensive operation with the SOCOM guys doing 'geek recces' for the database guys in the office. You will also have drones providing air support.

One thing to consider is what data they will take from cities. Most cities in the US use GIS data/base maps for the taxation records with reference to real estate. Also, the police 911 system uses GIS information. They (US Government) are basically looking to create a monster Google earth map overlaid with the addresses and PII (Personally Identifying Information) of 'dissenters' including the usual lists from their DHS Fusion Centers http://www.dhs.gov/national-network-fusion-centers-fact-sheet 

Concerned Citizen Response:

1. Look for trucks, cars and vehicles with a lot of antennaes

2. Look for unusual data collection

3. Look for temporary power generation - generator sets

4. Look for the 'comms' Humvees http://www.gichner.us/hmmwv.html

5. Make sure you check in with your local good boy network in the town hall - they will absolutely have liason officers in the town hall, police dept, and sheriffs office.

6. This will be a geek love fest. There have to be some geeks who know WTF is really going on

7. Drones. They will be evaluating drones to see if people on the ground are aware of them

8. QRF - they will have plain clothed QRFs doing drills (smallest element of Jade Helm as this is the most visible and they can do this shit all day long on the bases)

9. ECM - cellphone stingrays and data capture with local law enforcement

10. Take photos and notes.

This isn't your grandpa's "Robin Sage" or Ft. Irwin Desert "Red Force/Blue Force" Goat Fuck - this is a very lean and mean Google Maps on steroids meets an Oracle Database of dissenters/gun owners meets the ATF/FBI/DHS/ plus a military grade Quick Reaction Force.  

Of course they don't want the media there which is why the Citizen Journalism Element of Jade Helm is critical. I wish someone would set up their own "Jade Helm Fusion Center" for us.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 02:14 | 6293917 dogismycopilot
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Martin Armstrong has a very good blog post about Jade Helm. His depth of history is amazing.

I am reading a biography on Eisenhower right now - yes, Eisenhower was second in command during the Federal Government's destruction of the Bonus Army. Eisenhower did have some reservations about "throwing women and children out of their shacks and then burning them down" but, hey, he was just doing his job and an order is an order especially when given by the narcisistic SOB known as MacArthur - who in later years Eisenhower finally realized that MacArthur was really only obssessed with rank, promotion, his mistress and money.

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/34791

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 03:05 | 6293992 Surveyor4Pres
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OPERATION JADE HELM IS ENTIRELY ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL ON ITS FACE.

Let me give just two examples, for a starter, why this type of military "exercise" is completely illegal:

Scenario #1)  A woman is dragged, kicking and screaming into a white van.  Another woman, walking down the street, calls 911 to alert authorities.  The 911 operator says "it's okay, ma'am, it's just part of the exercise."  Question: HOW CAN ANYONE KNOW WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT?

Scenario #2)  Bubba is enjoying his late-night ball game.  A/C is broken so his door is open, catching a nice breeze from the summer night.  He hears his dog outside, barking.  He grabs his NV-scoped M4 (I have one, myself), points it around and sees nothing.  Then, he catches a glimpse of something descending from the sky.  It looks to be paratroopers.  Thinking its 1984 Red Dawn, and not having heard anything about JADE HELM (b/c it was never on any major news programs), he starts taking shots at the paratroopers, Geneva Convention be damned.

So, I wonder, how would Scenario #2 play out, in the end?  Hmmmm???

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 09:54 | 6295012 J Jason Djfmam
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If I told you then I'd have to kill you.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 04:42 | 6294080 Rev Kuhlaid
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It's a putsch, a coup d'etat, banana republikkk time...call it what you will, Mercans. Think 1933 and Prescott Bush and the NAZIS that infest the open sore that USSA has long been. This time round though there is no FDR and Smedley Butler has been replaced by uniformed jackbooted thugs that have destroyed half of the planet already. Enjoy.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ld1hdp5AVg

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 15:40 | 6296672 J Jason Djfmam
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Yes, It's all about a government taking over a country it has already taken over.

Fri, 07/10/2015 - 16:43 | 6296968 JenkinsLane
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