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- Feds Preparing to Invade Texas, List State as ‘Hostile’
- Terrified US Aircraft Carrier Flees From Russian Subs To UK Safety
- Iceland’s Stunning Crystal Cave, Emerald Blue Ice mixed with Volcanic Ash
- McCain mad at Obama over Netanyahu
- Scientists splice Woolly DNA into elephant cells
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Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:48 PM PDT
 “Some participants will be wearing civilian attire and driving civilian vehicles…” Alex Jones talks with Infowars reporter and Army veteran Joe Biggs about a newly released military document detailing the US Army’s plan to wage war on the American people. “Jade Helm is a challenging eight-week joint military and Interagency (IA) Unconventional Warfare (UW) exercise conducted throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado,” according to an unclassified military document announcing the training drill, which runs from July 15 through September 15. Multiple branches of the US military, including Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division, will participate in the 8-week long exercise, which may result in “increased aircraft in the area at night.” Troops will be tasked with honing advanced skills in “large areas of undeveloped land with low population densities,” and will work alongside “civilians to gain their trust and an understanding of the issues.” The exercise, in which some participants will be “wearing civilian clothes and driving civilian vehicles,” lists Texas and Utah as “hostile” territory. According to the document, Texas was chosen due to the state’s “historically supportive… efforts to prepare our soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors to fight the enemies of the United States.” Despite the document’s claims, multiple Army training manuals and studies in the past have specifically targeted such states due to concerns over the growing influence of right-leaning ideologies and groups, such as the “Tea Party.” A leaked 2012 US Army Military Police training manual, entitled “Civil Disturbance Operations,” described how soldiers would be ordered to confiscate firearms and kill American “dissidents.” The manual also revealed that prisoners would be detained in temporary internment camps and “re-educated” to gain a new appreciation of “U.S. policies,” in accordance with U.S. Army FM 3-19.40 Internment/Resettlement Operations. Also in 2012, a Department of Homeland Security-funded study characterized Americans “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists. In the past, large scale domestic military exercises have also included foreign countries. During a training drill in April 2012, the United States trained soldiers from Russia, hosted in Fort Carson, Colorado, on how to target American terrorists. And just last year, US Special Forces and commandos trained with troops from 16 foreign nations, including Colombia, France and Germany, in Tampa, Fl., practicing how to coordinate aerial, ground and aquatic operations. Although nations can benefit from joint drills, the exercises also serve to blur the lines of national sovereignty, slowly leading to the formation of a North American Union, as mentioned by former CIA head General David Petraeus. Another troubling aspect of domestic drills is the apparent erosion of the Posse Comitatus Act, which the 2007 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act scaled back to allow the armed forces to “Restore Public Order” during events declared national emergency. See the US Army Special Operations Command’s Powerpoint slides regarding the “Realistic Military Training” drills below: Watch: Reporter Joe Biggs explains why this latest military training exercise isn’t like the others: Watch: Reporter Joe Biggs takes an even deeper look into Operation Jade Helm 15: Source           |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2015 05:14 AM PDT
 The Naval Surface Forces (NSF) of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) are reporting today that three nuclear-powered Akula-class submarines belonging to the 24th Submarine Division of the Northern Fleet (NF) successfully “war-gamed” the American aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt [photo 1st right] causing it to “flee in terror” towards the waters off the Hampshire coast in the United Kingdom. Within hours of the NSF reporting this critical incident, it’s interesting to note, British press sources confirmed that this US Navy behemoth of “100,000 tons of firepower” did indeed dock off Stokes Bay in Gosport stunning the thousands of spectators who jammed roads and lined the banks of the River Solent to see it, but which they, also, described as a port call, though none had been scheduled. According to this NSF report, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and its combat escort ships, had been detected on a course towards the operating zone of the Northern Fleet which President Putin had put on full combat alert last week in response to a “State of War” threat detected from the United Kingdom…a threat, the MoD adds to this report, was, likewise, in response to the Federations “Shock of March” battle plan revealed on 4 February. With NATO forces, literally, lining the entire western border with troops, including the unprecedented US Army’s“Dragon Ride” armored convoy currently winding its way across six European nations, and Norway’s equally unprecedented “Joint Viking” combat war moves against the northern border, this report continues, President Putin himself gave the order to “target and disable” the USS Theodore Roosevelt. As Russia had warned its citizens last week to prepare for nuclear war, and Moscow’s bomb shelters began to fill in response to the dire first-strike nuclear attack being planned by the US, and nearly all of the Federations military forces being on full combat alert across all 9 time zones, this report further notes, the approach of the USS Theodore Roosevelt towards the Baltic Sea made it a “legitimate” target. To how this US aircraft carrier was “disabled” by the Northern Fleet’s attack submarines, this report says, was due to the Federations successful implementation of “magrav technology” weapons which had previously been used against American warships, and had “disabled” them too. In fact, NSF experts in this report state, it was only a few weeks ago that the USS Theodore Roosevelt was “sunk” by a French submarine using “magrav technology” off the coast of Florida during a war game wherein the Americans were testing their countermeasures against this revolutionary new weapon prior to their ships deployment to confront Northern Fleet forces. The necessity of the US Navy to develop countermeasures against “magrav technology”, this report says, was clearly shown to them last year after Federation air forces completely disabled the feared AEGIS destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea. So demoralizing was this attack against the USS Donald Cook, when it limped into a Romanian port for repairs, all 27 of its officers put in for reassignment and/or retirement.  “Magrav technology”, its import to note, was conceived by the Iranian-born nuclear engineer Mehran Keshe [photo 2nd right], but whose works are banned from public use in the United States under an Executive Order signed by President Obama on 23 April 2012. President Obama’s signing of his Executive Order against “magrav technology”, it should be remembered, was due to the Iranian’s using it to down, and then capture one of the United States most secretive and sophisticated drones in December, 2011, and then Iran sharing this new weapon with Syria too. Immediately upon President Obama banning “magrav technology” in 2012, it should also be noted, Mehran Keshe replied to the American leader in an open letter by stating: “Your Excellency President Obama,Sadly, as this NSF concludes, it has cost the Obama the humiliating defeat of two of its most powerful warships since his banning of “magrav technology” in 2012, with the total disablement of the USS Donald Cook last year, the war game “sinking” of the USS Theodore Roosevelt a few weeks ago, and now, today, this same aircraft carrier floating disabled off the UK coast, to realize the truth of Mehran Keshe’s warning him that “the aircraft carriers of the US will become nothing but floating bathtubs”. And though not stated in this report…one need look no further than it to come to a full and complete understanding of why Obama is furiously attempting to negotiate with Iran, while at the same time trying to keep his military forces from igniting World War III in order to destroy those nations who have begun using “magrav technology” weapons against them….like Russia and Iran…and (of course) the French submarine communications centre that’s already being targeted by US drones. Source      |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2015 04:48 AM PDT
 But they were snapped inside a real-life lair of ice by an intrepid photographer who was forced to abseil inside Iceland’s Breidamerkurjokull glacier. Nicolas Brousse’s effort was well worth it as he emerged from the popular tourist spot with breathtaking photos of an emerald blue world. The 27-year-old Frenchman’s snaps reveal intricate patterns and stunning colours, including black layers of volcanic ash, that make the rippled ceiling look like crystal and the icy floor look like a pane of glass. Nicolas’ group went on the thrilling expedition with an experienced guide, and he used natural light as well as his camera’s flash to capture his incredible photos. Breidamerkurjokull is an outlet glacier of Vatnajökull, or the Vatna Glacier, which is one of the largest ice caps in all of Europe. There are several volcanoes located under the ice cap. Nicolas, who now lives in Malmo, Sweden, captured the images as he spent six months traversing Iceland and exploring its amazing scenery. Being able to see the changes in the seasons was an amazing experience, he said. ‘The light, the clouds and the atmosphere are always changing and in six months I never saw the same landscape twice. Inside the cave, the atmosphere is magical. ‘The most amazing is the colour and the smooth shape of the ice – the blue colour is clear without any editing and is amazing. ‘The black layers of volcanic ash trapped inside the ice is what makes Icelandic glaciers special – it creates beautiful black veins inside the ice.’ While he exploring the cave, Nicolas and his guide passed through a narrow galerie created by a stream that flows through the glacier in the summer time. He said: ‘The curvy shape of the tunnel and the blackness of it was really beautiful, and I knew it would make really nice pictures. ‘In my work as a photographer I try to focus on the magnificence of what I experience in nature. ‘My goal is to show beauty as I perceive it and as it touches my feelings. ‘I am also a landscape architect and I so I am always observing the environment.’             |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:38 AM PDT
 On Thursday, Obama told Netanyahu on phone that Washington will “reassess” its ties with Tel Aviv after the Israeli premier rejected the idea of a Palestinian state during his election campaign. The White House has also raised the prospect of removing critical US diplomatic cover for Israel at the United Nations. In an interview with CNN on Sunday, McCain said President Obama “should get over” the reelection of Netanyahu. “Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. president.” The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee downplayed Netanyahu’s controversial comments leading up to elections, saying they pale in comparison to Middle East challenges. “If every politician were held to everything they say in a political campaign, obviously that would be a topic of long discussion,” McCain said. He said that “thousands are being slaughtered” by the ISIL terrorist group and, rehashing Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress, McCain said Iran is taking over capitals of Lebanon, Beirut and Baghdad. “The president has his priorities so screwed it, it’s unbelievable,” he declared. “Either that or he’s delusional. I’m not sure which.” McCain is the voice of Netanyahu in the US Congress, an American political analyst and activist told Press TV in January. “John McCain, like a number of other US representatives and senators in the US Congress, is a Netanyahu’s man. He is there to do Netanyahu’s bidding,” said Mark Glenn, writer and co-founder of the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement. “So when John McCain is criticizing President Obama… what you are listening to are the complaints of Benjamin Netanyahu,” Glenn stated. Earlier this month, Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the US Congress, where he ranted for nearly 40 minutes against the Iran nuclear talks, warning Washington that it was negotiating a “bad deal” with the Islamic Republic. The GOP invitation to Netanyahu was extended without consultation with the White House, drawing angry reaction from the Obama administration, which called it a breach of protocol. Source      |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:22 AM PDT
 No recreation of the Ice Age would be complete without large, shaggy woolly mammoths stomping across the frozen tundra. That is what George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard University and his team ultimately hope to achieve once more. Taking a preserved Arctic permafrost specimen of a Woolly mammoth, scientists analyzed mammoth DNA before reproducing exact copies of fourteen mammoth genes. “We prioritized genes associated with cold resistance including hairiness, ear size, subcutaneous fat and, especially, hemoglobin,” Church told The Sunday Times. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in the line of the species that emerged in the early Pliocene age some 2.5 million years ago but almost completely died 10,000 years ago. Some mammoths, however, continued to survive on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea, until around 3,300 years ago. These were the specimens which researchers used for the DNA analysis. The scientists inserted mammoth genes into the cells of its closest living relative, the Asian elephant. The introduction of the genes was done through a new developed technique CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat), that allows for precise editing of DNA taking out parts of modern elephant DNA and replacing them the prehistoric genes. “We now have functioning elephant cells with mammoth DNA in them,” Church announced. “We have not published it in a scientific journal because there is more work to do, but we plan to do so,” he added. Beth Shapiro, University of California professor, in her new book, ‘How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction’ explores the possibility of mammoth resurrection, as a number of well-preserved species have been found in the past. “If we really want to bring mammoths back to life, then we’re in luck, as far as DNA preservation goes. It’s in pretty shoddy condition, so hard to piece together, but if we sort through these tiny pieces, finding where they fit along the elephant genome, then we can slowly build a lot of the mammoth genome.” Professor Church believes that bringing the ancient mammoth back eventually could have a positive impact on the ecosystems in Russia. “The Siberian permafrost is melting with climate change, but research suggests large mammals could stabilize it,” he said. Source     |
