Tag: virginia
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mock disaster, real lessons: exercise solid curtain feb23-27
from virginian-pilot: The Navy is conducting a massive anti-terrorism exercise this week in Hampton Roads – as well as at every base and installation in the continental United States. Fifteen months in the planning, Operation Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield is the largest force-protection exercise in the nation, said Capt. Sam McCormick, the director of fleet anti-terrorism…
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police state int’l: miltech, mad science, danger, training & tasers
nypd wants to jam cell phones during terror attackfrom danger room: The New York Police Department wants to be able to shut down cell phones, in case of a terrorist attack. During last month’s massacre in Mumbai, terrorist handlers over micromanaged via mobile phone the assaults on the hotels, train stations, and Jewish center that…
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selection ’08: it’s on
ohio police ordered to have riot gear ready for election ‘unrest’from raw replay: It sounds like the kind of thing that precedes “elections” under dictatorships: Riot police being readied for “civil unrest” during a presidential vote. But the location is in the United States. According to an internal memo acquired by the local NBC News…
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breaking the silence of a secret nazi pow camp in virginia
from npr: About two years ago, National Park Service employees stumbled upon a fascinating and largely untold piece of American history. It involves a secret World War II interrogation camp at Fort Hunt, Va., not far from the Pentagon. During and right after the war, thousands of top German prisoners were questioned there about troop…
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return of the summer terror drills: lightning rescue, diablo bravo, immediate response, brimstone & noble resolve
‘lightning rescue 2008’: the military takes steps to prepare for a pandemic flu (or to cause one?)from khnl: Seven specially designed Army Humvees, trucks and a tractor-trailer loaded with communication equipment were driven onto the Army’s, MG Charles P Gross support vessel at Pearl Harbor Saturday morning. The vessel is headed to Nawiliwili Harbor in…
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‘operation brimstone’ flexes allied force training
from global security: More than 15,000 service members from four countries will participate in Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX) 08-4 “Operation Brimstone”, July 21-31 in North Carolina and off the eastern U.S. coast from Virginia to Florida. JTFEX 08-4 serves as a ready-for-deployment certification event for the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TR CSG) and…
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bilderberg: the shadow supergovernment
from peace reporter: It was particularly difficult this year to find out when and where the annual conclave of world powerbrokers, the Bilderberg Group, would take place. Finally, it appears certain that the highly secret meeting of western political-military elites will take place from June 5 – 8 in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington, in a…
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ides of april: waco, okc, columbine & virginia tech
april 19, 1993: waco siege, who shot first?from what really happened: Contrary to the image of a dangerous gun nut put out in the media in an effort to justify the burning of the church, official BATF records prove that David Koresch was rather harmless, so much so that the BATF agents invited him to…
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wargames, drills, exercises, simulations & desensitization
israel to hold its largest-ever wargamesfrom jerusalem post: In the face of a possible escalation with Syria and Iran’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon, parts of the country will shut down next month in what security officials say will be the largest emergency exercise in Israel’s history. The drill, which is being organized by…
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pentagon to test invisible gas on crystal city, virginia
substance is harmless, assures newspaper,but terror paranoia fearmongering is contagious from paul joseph watson: The Pentagon has assured residents of Crystal City, Virginia, that the gases they will release downtown on Thursday are completely harmless, while on the other hand secretly hoping that the fearmongering about imminent biological terror attacks the tests are set to…
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fema, phermones & the return of noble resolve
fema will regain powerfrom washington post: After years of aggressive lobbying by unhappy state governments, the administration chose to restore FEMA’s power to coordinate federal disaster operations. That power was undermined in the administration’s previous plan – used just once, after Katrina – when the secretary of homeland security appointed his own officer to oversee…
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ron paul wins his 25th straw poll
from nolan chart: Ron Paul has just won his 25th straw poll. The Republican presidential candidate has taken the top honors in Virginia, followed by Fred Thompson in second place and Mike Huckabee in third. Paul got 182 of the 439 votes cast, or 38%. The Richmond-Times Dispatch reported that there was a visibly discernable…
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virginia marines take part in mock terrorist drill
from wdbj: Training for the war on Terror, it happens everyday. And, for the past week about 2,000 Marines have been in Central and Southside Virginia doing just that, training. Thursday night some Marines took part in a mock terrorist drill in Martinsville. The scenario involved a terrorist group known as the Rocky Mount Resistance.…