Ron Paul Warns of False Flag in Town Hall Speech
Infowars.com
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
“I’m always worried about false flags.”
http://www.northcom.mil/News/2012/042412.html
NORAD and USNORTHCOM Conduct ARDENT SENTRY 2012
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will conduct a major exercise, ARDENT SENTRY 2012, focused on Defense Support of Civil Authorities, May 2 – 9, 2012.
The exercise will be primarily a Command Post Exercise, but there will be field training events within the exercise. Those events will take place in North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Alaska, Connecticut and Nova Scotia and involve United States and Canadian military units.
- North Dakota, the Air Force Global Strike Command will respond to a simulated Nuclear Weapons Incident (NUWAIX) on Minot Air Force Base.
- Oregon, the Oregon National Guard will work with state and local officials to respond to numerous weather-related and security events.
- Texas, US Army North will deploy a task force to work through the process of leading a military response to a major hurricane.
- Alaska, Joint Task Force-Alaska will conduct a coordinated response to a major aircraft crash in a remote area.
- Nova Scotia, Canadian and US Naval forces will work together to handle a security related event.
ARDENT SENTRY 12 will validate existing plans, policies, and procedures, including the Federal Inter-agency Response Plan, as well as state and regional plans.
For more information, contact USNORTHCOM Public Affairs at 719-554-6889 or 719-304-6097.
The exercise will be primarily a Command Post Exercise, but there will be field training events within the exercise. Those events will take place in North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Alaska, Connecticut and Nova Scotia and involve United States and Canadian military units.
- North Dakota, the Air Force Global Strike Command will respond to a simulated Nuclear Weapons Incident (NUWAIX) on Minot Air Force Base.
- Oregon, the Oregon National Guard will work with state and local officials to respond to numerous weather-related and security events.
- Texas, US Army North will deploy a task force to work through the process of leading a military response to a major hurricane.
- Alaska, Joint Task Force-Alaska will conduct a coordinated response to a major aircraft crash in a remote area.
- Nova Scotia, Canadian and US Naval forces will work together to handle a security related event.
ARDENT SENTRY 12 will validate existing plans, policies, and procedures, including the Federal Inter-agency Response Plan, as well as state and regional plans.
For more information, contact USNORTHCOM Public Affairs at 719-554-6889 or 719-304-6097.
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Ardent Sentry 2012: U.S. and Canada Conduct Major Military Exercise
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 26, 2012
Infowars.com
April 26, 2012
On April 24, NORHTCOM announced Ardent Sentry 2012, billed as a “major exercise… focused on Defense Support of Civil Authorities.” It will be held on May 2 – 9, 2012, according to the U.S. Northern Command website.
Ardent Sentry will consist of command post and field training exercises that will be held in North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Alaska, Connecticut and Nova Scotia. The exercises will include both United States and Canadian military units.
Ardent Sentry 2012 “will validate existing plans, policies, and procedures, including the Federal Inter-agency Response Plan, as well as state and regional plans,” according to NORTHCOM.
NORTHCOM describes the exercises as follows:
In North Dakota, the Air Force Global Strike Command will respond to a simulated Nuclear Weapons Incident on Minot Air Force Base.
The Oregon National Guard will work with state and local officials in response to weather-related and security events while in Texas the U.S. Army North will deploy a task force to work through the process of leading a military response to a major hurricane.
Joint Task Force-Alaska will conduct a coordinated response to a major aircraft crash in a remote area.
In Nova Scotia, Canada, U.S. and Canadian forces will cooperate jointly on a security related event.
In 2008, Infowars.com reported on a meeting between U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, at the U.S. Army North headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The two military leaders signed “a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency,” according to the USNORTHCOM website.
Billed as a “bilateral military plan” in response to requests for military support of civil authorities, the plan represented a merging of national military infrastructures under the aegis of the North American Union.
The previous year, USNORTHCOM General Victor E. Renaurt made public the Vision 2020 document (pdf) outlining strategic goals for both NORAD and USNORTHCOM leading up to the year 2020. The document outlined efforts to strengthen relations with Canada Command and developed a closer working relationship with Mexican armed forces.
As is usually the case with internationalist military developments, the plan was virtually ignored by the establishment media, although it was covered briefly by the media in Canada.
Ardent Sentry exercises are designed to further erode Posse Comitatus in the United States under the guise of “emergency preparedness” and establish a functional military infrastructure between the U.S. and Canada that may be used in the event of a declaration of martial law.
hopefully past will not be prologue .....
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/080904wargamescover.htm
Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson | Updated September 20 2004
For almost three years since 9/11 independent researchers have stockpiled individual smoking guns which prove that the official version of events was not only a lie but operationally impossible.
However, no single smoking gun has yet been forwarded to explain why air defenses categorically reversed Standard Operating Procedure and failed to respond to hijacked jetliners.
Until now. More and more individuals are looking at the facts and highlighting exercise drills that took place on the morning of 9/11.
It is clear that at least five if not six training exercises were in operation in the days leading up to and on the morning of 9/11. This meant that NORAD radar screens showed as many as 22 hijacked airliners at the same time. NORAD had been briefed that this was part of the exercise drill and therefore normal reactive procedure was forestalled and delayed.
The large numbers of 'blips' on NORAD screens that displayed both real and 'drill' hijacked planes explain why confused press reports emerged hours after the attack stating that up to eight planes had been hijacked. Click here for that article.
The drill scenario also explains a comment made by air traffic control personnel which was featured in a July 2004 BBC television report. Click here for that video clip and article. The controller is told that a hijacked airliner is heading for New York and responds by saying, "is this real world or an exercise?"
Alex Jones was one of the first to highlight the wargames in his documentary film 'Masters of Terror', which was released in August 2002. Click here to watch a video clip. Alex explains why the Associated Press later had to admit the fact that the CIA were running drills of crashing planes into buildings on the morning of 9/11.
What were the drills called and what was their nature?
1) OPERATION NORTHERN VIGILANCE: This was planned months in advance of 9/11 and ensured that on the morning of 9/11, jet fighters were removed from patrolling the US east coast and sent to Alaska and Canada, therefore reducing the amount of fighter planes available to protect the east coast.
2) BIOWARFARE EXERCISE TRIPOD II: Alex Jones first reported on this back in May when Rudolph Giuliani let the details of it slip in his testimony to the 9/11 Commission. FEMA arrived in New York on September 10th to set up a command post located at Pier 29 under the auspices of a 'biowarfare exercise scheduled for September 12. This explains why Tom Kenney of FEMA's National Urban Search and Rescue Team, told Dan Rather of CBS News that FEMA had arrived in New York on the night of September 10th. This was originally dismissed as a slip of the tongue. Giuliani was to use this post as a command post on 9/11 after he evacuated WTC Building 7. As we reported back in January, Giuliani knew when to leave WTC 7 because he got advanced warning that the Trade Towers were about to collapse. "We were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse," Rudolph Giuliani told Peter Jennings of ABC News. How did Giuliani know the towers were about to collapse when no steel building in history had previously collapsed from fire damage?
3) OPERATION VIGILANT GUARDIAN: This exercise simulated hijacked planes in the north eastern sector and started to coincide with 9/11. Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, NORAD unit's airborne control and warning officer, was overseeing the exercise. At 8:40am she took a call from Boston Center which said it had a hijacked airliner. Her first words, as quoted by Newhouse News Service were, "It must be part of the exercise." This is another example of how the numerous drills on the morning of 9/11 deliberately distracted NORAD so that the real hijacked planes couldn't be intercepted in time.
4) OPERATION NORTHERN GUARDIAN: The details of this exercise are still scant but it is considered to be part of Vigilant Guardian, relating to simulating hijacked planes in the north eastern sector.
5) OPERATION VIGILANT WARRIOR: This was referenced in Richard Clarke's book 'Against All Enemies'. It is thought to have been the 'attack' component of the Vigilant Guardian exercise.
Another example of how air defenses were purposefully kept preoccupied so they couldn't protect New York was reported by this website in December of 2003. The Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing, based at Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona, were just eight minutes away from New York and could have intercepted both Flight 11 and Flight 175.
Under NORAD procedures that date to the Cold War, two F-16 fighters from the 177th were parked around the clock on the Atlantic City runway. Pilots waited in a nearby building, ready to scramble.
But on the morning of 9/11, the F-16's were performing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near Atlantic City after being decommissioned from their usual role of protecting the skies of the east coast.
It was only after both trade towers were hit that the two F-16s landed and were refitted with air-to-air missiles, then sent aloft.
Now that we have established how NORAD were confused, delayed and distracted by the numerous wargames, the next question to ask is who if anyone was aware of which planes were 'real world' and which planes were 'exercise'? The answer to this question will provide us with the name of the individual who ran the operatonal execution of the 9/11 attack.
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/090705bombingexercises.htm
A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.
On a BBC Radio 5 interview that aired on the evening of the 7th, the host interviewed Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, which bills itself as a 'crisis management' advice company, better known to you and I as a PR firm.
Peter Power was a former Scotland Yard official, working at one time with the Anti Terrorist Branch.
Power told the host that at the exact same time that the London bombings were taking place, his company was running a 1,000 person strong exercise which drilled the London Underground being bombed at the exact same locations, at the exact same times, as happened in real life.
The transcript is as follows.
POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now.
HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see how you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the exercise?
POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis managers for the first time they'd met and so within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the real one and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow time to quick time thinking and so on.
Click here for a clip of this dialogue. Click here for a longer clip where the comments can be heard in their full context.
The fact that the exercise mirrored the exact locations and times of the bombings is light years beyond a coincidence. Power said the drill focused around 'simultaneous bombings'. At first the bombings were thought to have been spread over an hour, but the BBC reports just today that the bombings were in fact simultaneous.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/chicago_hospitals_perform_CoMJgSWEgmxKG7UZTDpk6H
CHICAGO -- Chicago's suburban hospitals are preparing for a worst-case scenario during next month's NATO summit.
At least 10 Chicago hospitals performed drills this week, including Evanston Hospital, simulating a radioactive dirty bomb explosion.
"We want to make sure that, as we're getting close to the NATO Summit, that our staff are ready and trained and able to take care of our community," NorthShore University HealthSystem's Brigham Temple said.
The "victims" were volunteers from the US Navy's Great Lakes training center.
An estimated 500 medical professionals and other volunteers donned bulky protective suits, tested radiation detectors and ministered to about 100 US Navy recruits Wednesday.
They were posing as victims of a so-called "dirty bomb" that had exploded, leaving them with deadly radioactive cesium on their skin. Doctors and nurses would risk their own lives if they began treating the wounded before they are cleansed of radiation.
Temple said Wednesday's dirty bomb scenario had been worked out in conjunction with the Secret Service and the federal Department of Homeland Security.
US authorities are preparing in the days ahead to deploy black-suited federal agents in and around federal buildings downtown.
"If something does happen, God forbid, we'll be ready to do something about it," doctor Michael George said.
While federal officials say there is no specific, credible threat of an attack inside the United States, they did warn Thursday that a so-called "lone wolf" terrorist might try to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Usama bin Laden next week. That anniversary comes on May 2.
Among the leaders expected to attend the NATO summit from May 21-22 are President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, French President Nicholas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Milwaukee Red Cross Told To Prep For Chicago Evacuation During NATO Summit
April 25, 2012 9:45 PM
Chicago skyline, featuring the Willis Tower. (Photo credit: TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)
CHICAGO (CBS) – Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American Red Cross.
CBS 2 News has obtained a copy of a Red Cross e-mail sent to volunteers in the Milwaukee area.
It said the NATO summit “may create unrest or another national security incident. The American Red Cross in southeastern Wisconsin has been asked to place a number of shelters on standby in the event of evacuation of Chicago.”
According to a chapter spokesperson, the evacuation plan is not theirs alone.
“Our direction has come from the City of Chicago and the Secret Service,” she said.
Protest Fears & the Relocation of the G8 Summit to Camp David | |
| By: Kevin Gosztola Wednesday March 7, 2012 2:07 pm | |
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G8 Summit in Canada in 2010 (photo: The Prime Minister's Office)
The statement the White House initially issued on the venue change claimed the change was made “to facilitate a free-flowing discussion” with America’s “close G-8 partners.” A day later President Barack Obama elaborated during a press conference:
Ignoring whatever “intimate” talk Obama has planned when he gets together in a setting with a “more casual backdrop” with President Vladimir Putin, there is a key distinction to be made between music and sports events that attract crowds and political meetings that attract crowds: crowds at the aforementioned music and sports events do not present any challenge to power. They are not there to assert any rights other than their “right” to party (which sometimes can get out of hand).This was an idea that was brought to me after the initial organizing of the NATO summit. Someone pointed out that I hadn’t had any of my counterparts, who I’ve worked with now for three years, up to Camp David. G-8 tends to be a more informal setting in which we talk about a wide range of issues in a — in a pretty intimate way. And the thinking was that people would enjoy being in a more casual backdrop.
I think the weather should be good that time of year. It will give me a chance to spend some time with Mr. Putin, the new Russian president.
I always have confidence in Chicago being able to handle security issues. Whether it’s the Taste of Chicago or Lopalooza or Bulls championships, we know how to deal with the crowd. And, I’m sure that your new mayor will be quite attentive to detail in making sure that everything goes off well. [Note: Obama botched the name of the music festival, which is Lollapalooza.]
There is no growing outcry against potential attendees when music or sports events come to town. Though they may present the exact same potential for riots and unruly behavior because intoxicated individuals may cause property damage and even start fights, the press will not act as an echo chamber for the fears of local area business owners and city officials afraid of what might happen when citizens exercise their First Amendment rights.
The crowds are also different in that one group is wholly supportive of the events being held in the city while crowds at political meetings are typically opposed to all players involved in making the event possible. They don’t like that the leaders came to the city and would like to run them out of town.
Let’s pause for a moment and consider the following: Why would these leaders be unwelcome? And, what is the G8?
It is a group of eight of the richest countries in the world: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia and the United States. China, Brazil, Mexico, India and South Africa are excluded but part of the “Outreach Five.”
The G8 is composed of leaders known to promote austerity. They push neoliberal policies and contribute to crises in the “eurozone.” As Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy & Research has said, they squeeze the economies of Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain and drive up unemployment. They “drag out the recession” and fail to offer any alternative.
It is a group of countries that chose to increase funding to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010 instead of investing more aid to fight hunger and poverty in Africa. It is a group that is increasingly seen as neocolonial as it makes decisions that directly impact some of the most marginalized and poor countries of the world. It is a group that should be urgently addressing worldwide climate change yet it is more concerned with preserving global capitalism. And, it is a group that has dodged and repeatedly ignored the impact of their decisions and inaction on key issues of the world.
That said, it makes perfect sense that Obama would have the G8 moved to Camp David.
The move makes one wonder why the Obama Administration ever granted Chicago the opportunity to host in the first place. It makes one wonder why the Administration would ever want the summit to happen at any other setting than Camp David.
If the world’s leaders can meet out of sight and out of mind without fear of being held up or confronted by protesters, if they can lay back and talk international politics amongst their elite selves, giving a mayor the chance to show off his ability to host a global summit should be a liability never taken.Economic and military elites should meet in private. It is not like they have the guts to have face time with any of the leaders of groups most opposed to the agendas and policies they promote, which is why it is tough to argue protest leaders are incorrect to suggest fear of protests played a role in the decision to move the summit.
Joe Iosbaker of the Coalition Against the NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda said, according to theAssociated Press, “It’s a major victory for those of us who are planning these protests…The administration is taking G-8 someplace where they won’t have to face the people who suffer under their policies.”
National Nurses United spokesperson Chuck Idelson, who planned to be joining demonstrations, said, “It is certainly striking that whoever made this decision, whether it was the Obama administration or the city of Chicago, would make a decision to isolate the world leaders and move an event out of third-largest city in this country and hide the world leaders in rural Maryland in a place that’s inaccessible to the public.”
And, Occupy Chicago declared, as the Occupied Chicago Tribune reported:
*The G8 moving to Camp David represents a major victory for the people of Chicago. The leaders of the 1% are moving because of the overwhelming resistance to the NATO/G8 war and poverty agenda in Chicago. Our city is filled with tens of thousands of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, fighting against the effects of the economic crisis caused by the leaders who would have been gathering here. The communities of Chicago are fighting to save their schools, keep healthcare available, and to defend their jobs from cutbacks that are a hallmark of the governments of the G8.
As someone who was tracking the buildup to the summit, it was pretty clear that there was a lot of animosity toward the city of Chicago for bringing the G8 to Chicago because it would likely bring with it the chaos of protests. Though Chicago police chief Garry McCarthy and a few other leaders in the city tried to calm business owners and members of the press, hysteria still spread.
Out of the hysteria came fears that feces or urine would be thrown at police by anarchist protesters so the police had to buy new special riot gear for protection. Then, the fear of horses mounted police being attacked led to the purchase of riot helmets and other equipment for the horses. Then, apartment building owners feared they could be “residual targets” and incur “collateral damage” so they were offered training on how to “keep tear gas out of the buildings.” Then, Sears announced it would be putting up plywood to prevent windows from being broken. Chatter about the courts being closed for fear of safety circulated too.
But, perhaps, the peak of insanity came when the city put out a call for bids on a contract for “blast resistant” trashcans because they wanted to reduce the possibility of fatalities during a potential terror attack. The contractors were told to submit ”pre- and post-detonation photos along with video footage” when they submit their bids to prove the quality of their cans. They were also told the receptacles must “have the capacity to contain and mitigate six pounds of pure TNT placed inside the receptacle.”
When would the authoritarian shopping spree end?
The host committee wanted businesses to stick around and help during the summit. But, with all the frenzied uproar about protesters descending on Chicago to not simply protest but also potentially destroy every owner’s piece of storefront property in downtown, the business executives were saying they intended to get out of town. They even considered putting their employees up in hotels for the weekend so they did not have to worry about them getting hurt going to and from work.
Business pressure may have resulted in the venue move. The hysteria that businesses, the police union president and others were fostered possibly contributed to the change. And, unfortunately, the phobia these businesses have for democracy is likely to persist.
The plan had been to host both the NATO and G8 summits together May 19 through May 21. The NATO meeting is still happening and the abrupt change in venue has not been met with calls from protest groups to relocate planned demonstrations to some site near Camp David.
Plans were made to mobilize in Chicago. While numbers may be lower now that both summits are not being held in the same city, police will still have to deal with massive demonstrations. They may have a “bad day” and violate the rights of protesters. This might be passed off as a result of not having enough training” or “preparation” for the protests. Whatever happens, thousands of protesters will still be out protesting what Andy Thayer, lead organizer of the planned protests, calls the “military arm of the G8.”
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Now here is a Storify I produced on how Rahm Emanuel lost the G8. I had been putting this together for the past few weeks. While the preparations specific to the G8 may become irrelevant quickly, the protest restrictions and the hysteria around mass protests will remain relevant as the date of the NATO meeting approaches.
When would the authoritarian shopping spree end?
The host committee wanted businesses to stick around and help during the summit. But, with all the frenzied uproar about protesters descending on Chicago to not simply protest but also potentially destroy every owner’s piece of storefront property in downtown, the business executives were saying they intended to get out of town. They even considered putting their employees up in hotels for the weekend so they did not have to worry about them getting hurt going to and from work.
Business pressure may have resulted in the venue move. The hysteria that businesses, the police union president and others were fostered possibly contributed to the change. And, unfortunately, the phobia these businesses have for democracy is likely to persist.
The plan had been to host both the NATO and G8 summits together May 19 through May 21. The NATO meeting is still happening and the abrupt change in venue has not been met with calls from protest groups to relocate planned demonstrations to some site near Camp David.
Plans were made to mobilize in Chicago. While numbers may be lower now that both summits are not being held in the same city, police will still have to deal with massive demonstrations. They may have a “bad day” and violate the rights of protesters. This might be passed off as a result of not having enough training” or “preparation” for the protests. Whatever happens, thousands of protesters will still be out protesting what Andy Thayer, lead organizer of the planned protests, calls the “military arm of the G8.”
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Now here is a Storify I produced on how Rahm Emanuel lost the G8. I had been putting this together for the past few weeks. While the preparations specific to the G8 may become irrelevant quickly, the protest restrictions and the hysteria around mass protests will remain relevant as the date of the NATO meeting approaches.
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