Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/09/2015 17:00 -0400
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…
This stinks like an Obamanation and people should have a web site to report what they see otherwise we could be easily enslaved.
See something…..Say something. If you live in Texas keep us up to date.
Before we know it the internet will be shut down or “controlled” for our own safety, then the fun begins.
How many more of these “reports” of security breaches will we have to endure before the switch is flipped.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday revealed that 21.5 million people were swept up in a colossal breach of government computer systems that was far more damaging than initially thought, resulting in the theft of a vast trove of personal information, including Social Security numbers and some fingerprints.
Every person given a government background check for the last 15 years was probably affected, the Office of Personnel Management said in announcing the results of a forensic investigation of the episode, whose existence was known but not its sweeping toll.
The data breach is the third major foreign intrusion into an important federal computer system in the past year. In an earlier attack, some of the president’s unclassified emails were apparently obtained by intruders.
The agency said hackers stole “sensitive information,” including addresses, health and financial history, and other private details, from 19.7 million individuals who had applied for background investigations, as well as 1.8 million others, including their spouses and friends. The theft was separate from, but related to, a breach revealed last month that compromised the personnel data of 4.2 million federal employees, officials said.
Both attacks are believed to have originated in China……….
I think its very telling how Obama hates America and hates the US military even more, looks for every opportunity to break moral. Didn’t I read he had the military wear high heals?
I think Zara is in Dallas or Houston, when this thing goes live 07/15 maybe Z can give us the blow by blow account of what is happening.
What is a president if he does not have the support of his country or his military?Paper tiger
BEA LEVER says:
I think Zara is in Dallas or Houston, when this thing goes live 07/15 maybe Z can give us the blow by blow account of what is happening.
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Houston area. I don’t expect anything to happen here. From what I have read, the exercises will take place in West Texas.
Maybe they will try and take over germany during the next reforger also. Methinks this is much ado about nothing. Mind you, I love a good conspiracy, but I dont think this is one. Best armed state in the nation after all. Really, start in the northeast if you wanna do dastardly deeds. More pussies.
Conditioning, propaganda, secrecy and the inevitable tried and true – for our own safety/good and if you aren’t doing anything wrong you got nothing to be worried about.
This won’t be anything, mainly because they know how many of us are aware and up in arms.
Everything will go smoothly, no civil rights violations, no pissed off landowners, Easy peasy.
Then once we have all, once again, been labeled “conspiracy nut jobs” and “fear mongers,” THEN they can unleash the truth.
And we will all be silenced because we were “wrong” about this.
They use this tactic time and again, it seems most of us fall for it else they wouldn’t keep using it.
I think Hollywood and the music industry has led us to believe something that isn’t true. The world isn’t made of of a majority creative geniuses with out of the box thinking, they are outliers.
We are a world made up of scared lazy children that want “other people” to do all the thinking and creating for them.
Which goes a long way to explaining how this mess happened.
@Card, amen brother. EXACTLY what is happening. I am of a firm belief that China is being used as a scapegoat and that our own forces are utilizing the pathways our own government insisted be there.
Very stealthily the federales have been using corporations like Paypal to shut down small guys/companies that voice opposition or even alternatives to our written in stone policies and science.
The easiest way to “prove” something is “safe” is to remove any mention of anything that falls outside the “safe” zone. That explains how pharmaceuticals that offer little actual health help can kill people and still be declared safe. The FDA works very hard to erase anything that interferes with the narrative.
Why would this be different? When a plan works you use it again and again, and when you are a hammer the world looks like a nail.
Strap in folks, this stuff is really starting to get interesting.
I’ll be happy to report happenings regarding this “exercise” from Socal. IMO this stinks to high heaven, but then I’m a “conspiracy theorist” because I don’t believe the gov bullshit.
May want to keep an eye on the Bundy ranch. Gov embarasment payback can be hell.