The official story is that this brazen massacre on October 1st was solely the work of a wealthy 64-year-old white American retiree, Stephen C. Paddock, resident of Mesquite, Nevada, with numerous other properties around the country, and frequent-visitor to 'Sin City'. With no apparent motive, Paddock single-handedly acquired an arsenal of heavy guns and thousands of rounds of ammo and shot up a country music festival at The Village open-air concert venue on the southern end of the Las Vegas 'strip', all from two broken windows in suite 135 of the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel and Casino.
Despite an early claim by 'ISIS', courtesy of Rita Katz's dodgy SITE Intelligence outfit, that Paddock 'saw the light' a few weeks back, turned his back on the finer delights Vegas has to offer, and became "a soldier of the Caliphate", investigators have since reported that there are no credible links between him and international terrorism. Sadly, no one will ever get the chance to ask Paddock about his motives or if he had any accomplices because by the time Las Vegas PD broke down the doorway to suite 135 at 11:20pm, Paddock had already eaten a bullet. Why he would kill himself after setting up an elaborate camera system to warn him of security personnel approaching his suite is left unexplained. Why would he kill himself after wiring $100,000 to the Philippines, where his girlfriend was waiting for him? Today, Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo gave another press conference where he stated that there was evidence that Paddock planned to escape, but could not publicly provide the evidence.
Paddock had no criminal record, no history of violence, no military experience, was "not an avid gun nut", had no particular religious or political views, and was not previously known to law enforcement. Nevertheless, authorities say, this is the man responsible for planning and conducting - at great personal expense, and requiring significant technical training and expertise - an operation in which he could fire off 1,000s of rounds from 23 "modified semi-automatic weapons", spraying the crowd below and, over the course of some 11-12 minutes, becoming America's Most Insane (Yet Disciplined) Mass Shooter. Ever.
Case closed? It is for the authorities, but many in the general public are not buying it, and for good reason.
To start with, it's clear that the long bursts of gunfire (10-12 seconds at times) we hear on all the video footage is fully-automatic firing from a heavy machine gun. Even CNN talking heads speculated on the day that a belt-fed military gun like an M240 or an M60 was being used. Contrary to popular belief about gun-lovin' USA, such weapons are not widely and easily available on the market for private citizens. Even if the average Joe could get their hands on one after passing extensive background checks and registering it with local law enforcement, accurately using this 23lb (11kg) weapon takes expert proficiency and a lot of strength and stamina. All of which makes our 64-year-old gambler, who was not in the best of health according to his brother, and would have had to pay a bellboy to take his large stash of weapons up to his room, a highly unlikely suspect.
But there are even bigger problems with the official story.
The list of weapons that authorities have stated were in the room with the dead Paddock do not include anything that is capable of holding enough ammunition to fire the 10-12 seconds continuous bursts that can be clearly heard in videos of the shooting from the ground at the concert. Several of the weapons found in the room (an AR-15, for example) can use magazines with a maximum capacity of 100 rounds. There are Youtube videos that show similar guns unloading 100-round magazines in a continuous burst. The maximum time it takes to do so is 6-7 seconds. In addition, AR-15 type weapons have a higher fire rate of around 800rpm, while the M240 belt-fed gun has a lower rate of fire of around 600rpm. The rate of fire and pitch from an M240 closely matches the long bursts of gunfire heard at the concert. See this analysis, for example:
That is not to say, however, that some of the guns found in the room (again, like the AR-15) were not used, because several videos taken by concert attendees as the shooting was going on record more than one gun firing at the same time. The other gun, which can be heard while the M240 (or similar) belt-fed gun is discharging, match the sound of an AR-15 (or similar) with a suppressor attached to the muzzle. A suppressor raises the pitch of the gunfire, making it sound more like a sharp 'crack' and is primarily designed to baffle the sound and make it difficult to identify the location of the shooter.
Several other videos on Youtube present similar analyses with similar results: there were at least two shooters with different guns, and likely fired from different locations that night. Here's another slightly longer video analysis:
For those who might be wondering why no muzzle flash was seen from the Mandalay as the M240 (or similar) was being fired, here's a video showing a nighttime comparison between an M240 without and with a flash suppressor (the gun is mounted on a military helicopter).
As noted, we have also been told that Paddock had set up cameras, one on the peephole on the inside of the main door to the room and another outside the room on a room service cart. Authorities initially said that Paddock must have been watching the live feed of the hallway from these cameras, presumably while shooting long bursts of gunfire from both windows in the room. Today at a press conference, Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo stated that there were "cameras" outside of the room on the service cart but that "none of them were recording". The Sheriff did not state how they determined this. He also stated that a security guard was shot by Paddock through the door of Paddock's room. This security guard, named as Jesus Campos, had notified police that the shooting was coming from the 32nd floor. Police arrived on that floor at 10:17pm according to the Sheriff's timeline and were told at 10:18pm by Campos that he had been shot. Campos was, therefore, shot at some point before 10:18pm. The shooting from Paddock's room had stopped at 10:15pm. There is no mention of the events that transpired that led to the shooting of Campos, other than that he was on "random patrol" at the time. This suggests he did not attempt to gain access to the room. So how did the shooter know he was there if the cameras were not working?.
If you think a more plausible explanation is that at least one other person was watching the hallway while the shooter (or shooters) were at the windows, then you are mistaken; the authorities and the mainstream media insist that the 64-year-old gambler was alone in the room.
Given the logistics involved in organizing this, we should take into account that it took place in Las Vegas, which, being the casino town that it is, is saturated in hi-tech surveillance. In fact, it is arguably the global standard-bearer for surveillance technology. Everything in Vegas - every casino slot machine, every table, every room, every corridor, every underground car park, every street corner - is seen by 'big brother'. Heck, even the public buses in Vegas are in the process of being equipped with cameras that will pipe 24/7 live feeds to the Las Vegas PD. Could an amateur pull off Monday's massacre, without detection, all by himself? And if so, where's all the footage of him doing so? Will we never see it because it shows persons other than Paddock blowing people's heads off Monday night? Or will we soon hear that security cameras on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay were mysteriously switched off that night?
Just today, Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo seemed to depart from the script when he suggested that Paddock must have had help from someone.
Further evidence that Paddock was not a 'lone wolf' is found in the multiple calls that were made to police reporting incidents at other casinos in the area shortly after the shooting from the Mandalay Bay. Police can be heard on the scanner audio reporting multiple shooters and an active shooter at the Tropicana resort; a car-bomb was reported - and subsequently confirmed found - at the Luxor resort; concert-goers returning to the Excalibur hotel shortly after the bloodbath at the festival reported a "loud noise" there which caused people to flee as far as the roof; shots were reported at the main entrance to the Bellagio resort; a "suspect in black fatigues" was reported at Motel 6... In fact, almost every casino and hotel from the Mandalay north to Caesar's Palace - over 1.5 miles away - went into lockdown because of 'active situations' at each location.
Mainstream media have since blithely reported that these were all false reports, leaving us to assume that they were either made by Paddock to confuse the police (although he would have been dead at the time of some of the reports), or made by panicked and traumatized people in and around the resorts. Confusing the police and sending them off on wild goose chases was certainly someone's intention - in addition, we suspect, to getting most everyone on The Strip on 'lockdown' for hours and hours. Yet it is not at all clear that panic caused reports of other shooters, rather than the other way around. In addition to the tens of thousands of festival attendees, there were thousands of hotel guests at these venues, and they've been reporting what they saw that night.
Below is a selection of such reports from social media on the night of the shootings
One guest at the Bellagio hotel live-streamed a video on the night of the shooting at the concert at approximately 11.20pm, at the same time that police were breaking into Paddock's room in the Mandalay. The guest, Rene Downs, was sitting with her husband near the front doors of the hotel when shots were heard and chaos ensued.
This testimony appears to be corroborated by another guest at the same hotel. Andy Williamson was interviewed live on British chat show 'Good Morning Britain' from the Bellagio hotel when he was forced to cut off the interview amid screaming and sobs.
Another guest at the Aria Resort captured this footage of panicked guests fleeing after hearing gunshots.
The Aria resort is more than 1 mile from the Mandalay Bay, while the Bellagio is almost 1.5 miles away.
These reports of shootings at several other hotels appears to also be corroborated by the following screenshot of police scanner reports from the night of the attack:
So many shots fired, so many victims, so many casinos, so many questions, so few sensible answers. Given the radio-silence from the mainstream media and authorities on these key aspects of the attack, we can only tentatively suggest that diversion tactics were deliberately deployed to enable the shooters to get away. With Highway 91 just to the west of these venues, and McCarran International Airport literally next door on the west side, they could have been out of Las Vegas long before midnight.
Meanwhile, the Fake News media that brought us Russiagate is sticking to the party line that Paddock was the sole perpetrator of all this mayhem. The phony gun control debate has kicked off again, while gun sales and the share prices of weapons manufacturers rise. And security firms are licking their chops at the prospect of legislation mandating backscatter machines (or other x-ray devices) at all casinos nation-wide. Maybe someone can give Mike Chertoff a call?
But the bottom line is not just financial. With the emergence since Trump's election of a pronounced and visible division between the relatively conservative 'masses' and the relatively liberal 'elite' in the US, and with it coming just as US influence abroad wanes dramatically, what better way to stamp your authority on the herd than to terrorize it then 'protect' it by locking it down into ever-finer orders of control.
As an essayist and print author, Joe has been writing incisive editorials for Sott.net for over 10 years. His articles have appeared on many news sites and he has been interviewed numerous times by Sputnik News and Press TV. His articles can also be found on his personal blog JoeQuinn.net.
A contributing writer at SOTT.net, Niall Bradley's articles are cross-posted on his personal blog, NiallBradley.net. Niall is co-host with Joe Quinn of NewsReal, and co-author of Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False-Flag Terror Attacks.
Reader Comments
no criminal record, no history of violence, no military experience, was "not an avid gun nut", had no particular religious or political views, and was not previously known to law enforcementThe perfect profile on the type of person the PTB wants to be identified as a "national security" threat - one that needs to be monitored with uninhibited surveillance
Sounds like you and me? ... if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to be scared off
Paddock had worked with military contractors. Where his vast amount of personal wealth came from is unclear. He was a common fixture at the casino. He was given his room free of charge. How odd is that?
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This include more personal info about Paddock. Consider the source, but worth
seeing, imo.
Is it possible they don't know!!!
We might be looking to the past to explain what went down but what about if this is new? What about if there was no ideological belief driving the patsy or multiple shooters? Be it religious or political.
The patsy's profile again seems very odd... is it possible he got in with the wrong people or maybe he thought he was part of something and didn't know he'd be a patsy?
Could all these have been a distraction for something else that went down in Vegas that night? Seems like one hell of a distraction if that were the case.
Maybe the deep state is as dumbfounded as the rest of us and that's why they haven't been quick with a pre-made story?
Also, there's one way he could have got all those guns upstairs... if someone with the proper authorisation at the hotel cleared the way for him!
1. Either it was the deep state for reasons not clear but just to do with your usual shock doctrine and gun control stuff.
2. Huge distraction for something else that went down in the area or surrounding area
- thinking either something was stolen or something was moved around either into the area or out.
- Clearly a paramilitary group of some sort was involved.. professional people, either hired by someone or working for the deep state. If hired by someone, (who has that sort of cash and power), thinking some big time drug cartel... why they'd be involved, don't know. If deep state, the fact that a ready made story hasn't been presented, maybe the 'play' isn't over yet and this was just 'stage 1' that'll lead to 'stage 2'. Thinking if something was moved into the area by the ds, probs a dirty bomb of some kind. There's been talk for awhile now about one of those being set off in the states. After that I presume we'll get our ready made story by the ds and Trump will have his war with whoever gets the blame.
Anywhose, just some crazy theories. Underlying basis being that since the deep state hasn't come out with a ready made story, something else is up.
Best to just stick with the evidence though. Shock Doctrine. Usual DS BS.
Honestly I've been avoiding this story for the last week because each mass shooting leads to further weaponization of the populace rather than an attempt to start a serious dialogue in the US regarding our fundamental violent and Empirical nature. Each time I hear "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" I die a little inside because it is the opposite of the truth. The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to attack the fundamental issues of THE PEOPLE that leads them to violence in the first place.
Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither. And to me, liberty involves living without the daily fear and reminders that I won't be safe unless I carry a deadly weapon and am prepared to use it. If I truly believed that, I would take steps aside from simply learning to handle, load, and fire a weapon. But many don't. Their idea of being prepared is simply owning a gun, never learning how to use it in a self-defense situation.
If you listen to the stories from people who were under fire, many say they didn't dare draw their weapons for fear of being shot by police. So how does a gun make you safer when you're 32 floors below the shooter?
Illusionoffreedom That's 'Sorcha Faal', known disinfo agent, and prolly the same outfit as Neon Nettle, EU Times, and Yournewswire. They take stuff that is true or plausible, add made-up stuff from their 'Kremlin sources', then churn out outlandish theories.Yes possibly. But it does make some interesting connections. Who can we really trust? Nobody, lol. I think we know the basics of what this event was all about... But details will be open far and wide!
Niall They are disinfo geniuses...sometimes their articles read in a very similar way to SOTT articles...that's clever.Indeed. We've long suspected that they track what we (and others) are saying, but twist key ideas or elements along the way. That's the best kind of disinfo; they're with you all the way until... the train has subtly changed to another track or been loaded up with nuclear capabilities.
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The brother of the Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock is a suspected drug dealer who is wanted by the police, a report said.
Bruce Paddock has been arrested in the past over a number of alleged crimes, including selling marijuana, theft and arson, according to legal documents obtained by entertainment website, TMZ.
Hmmm... where did Stephen Paddock get all his money? He was a retired accountant... who was he doing accounts for?
His dad was a big time crook, his bro a petty crook... what about good old Stephen?
Exactly what I was thinking when he was ranting about their money. So where exactly did he get all this money that is just sooo normal to him and his family!?
Running guns and doing dirty work for the Cabal pays really well!
Strikes me as an actor. True grief and anguish appear to be missing in face and body. If your 1st degree family member supposedly did something like this, would you be out talking to reporters in front of the house, or inside having requested some respectful privacy at such a difficult time?
Remarkably few photos of this Lone Wolf fellow seem to be out there.
Can someone do a facial recognition search for images?
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If your 1st degree family member supposedly did something like this, would you be out talking to reporters in front of the house, or inside having requested some respectful privacy at such a difficult time?Depends on the family. My family would be requesting privacy. The family next door growing up would have been all over the news. Plenty of people are drawn to the limelight, and grief and shock can do strange things.
Joe and Niall, keep up the good work. Especially given all of the cell video evidence which has been consistently and curiously missing from all of these mass shooting events.
I also have a point maybe someone has made, but I've not seen it.
If you look into all the terror attacks supposedly by the Red Brigade, et al., Achille Lauro(sp?) the Uganda raid where the only death was, strangely, Bibi Nuthin but a Yahoo"'s brother. (Killing off the conscience of the family?), you will usually see the hand of Mossad.
If you look at terror attacks, and in particular most of the Operation Gladio attacks all over Europe by supposed leftists (but were really false flags to keep the pressure up against socialism in Europe), you will see the prevalence of multiple shooters shooting up populated areas with military grade weapons.
Notice how many of our shootings are now matching that particular M.O.? After all, psychopaths do not have a lot of creative thinking skills, (same with Authoritarian follower flunkies.) So what they do is go back and grab old events that fooled enough people for long enough. 9/11 was just the JFK rejected Operation Northwoods, combined with 'Pearl Harbor-esque' predictions/hopes, and timing.
7/7 seemed to mimic 9/11. (Although I do not know much about 7/7 other than I do not believe the official story.)
But it seems like this Las Vegas M.O. matches the Operation Gladio standard tactic of military small arms (not explosives) aimed into masses of people, in crowded places like train stations, airports, etc.
Here, the apparent goal is to increase pressure creating the ultimate security state, as you positively and correctly point to the current best guess seeming to be setting a precedent that will allow all and anyone to be considered as suspects in some version of:
1) 'pre-crime' as defined by computers instead of psychics in P.K. Dick's 'Minority Report' (film. I've never read that book.) and,
2) Thought crime, as 'our' governments hope to find out via what we type on our computers which they illegally access, then profile, and then deconstruct via standard Stasi well honed protocol, which has long been happening in the US and Western Europe, as directed against open thinking souls, or just random targets for harassment to keep fear levels up.
The truth has never been more critical, and more effectively lied about, with the idiot masses refusing to wake up because, as you well point to Hashattack2's thoughts:
"The perfect profile on the type of person the PTB wants to be identified as a "national security" threat - one that needs to be monitored with uninhibited surveillance
Sounds like you and me? ... if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to be scared of"
That last sentence has been the catch phrase of the masses who have no clue what it is like to be under the sites and scopes of 'our' internal monitors, who are copying E. Germany's Stasi. *
R.C.
* And then the guy moved here in the 1990s?, (on 9/11/01) I recall that hewas working as a security/anti-terror consultant? for the NYPD? Beyond that, he was the prime motivator behind the creation behind our monolithic security state's quite Germanic (and not USA English sounding) "Department of Das Homeland Security" [Link]
NOT a coincidence.
R.C.
When the wall fell, the truth came out about how one of nine? persons in East Germany were 'employed' by the bloated 'Homeland Security' apparatus. Marcus Wolf was the leader of that too, and somehow, rather than getting punished for all the murders of innocents, he was effectively 'paperclipped into the USA'. How? Ask the guys behind 9/11; they'll almost certainly know.
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There’s an interview where a young woman, who had left the venue earlier after witnessing some sort of altercation with another lady, in which she seemed to be threatening that ‘she was about to die,’ and then a little later, ‘that they were all about to die,’ it effected the young woman so much, that she and her friends had left the venue… they had gone back to their rooms when shortly afterwards the shooting started. Perhaps this was just some crazy coincidence, though who says that given quiet a lot of people carry guns on their person… (Sorry I have no link for the interview)
Though the guy so far has no real motive for shooting complete strangers, somehow the media have suggested that he had lost money at the casino, yet at the same time I heard he had donated a hundred thousand to a Philippine’s charity… the whole thing stinks. And now I hear he had explosives… BS BS BS
It’s a country music concert… full of strangers, what’s the motive… I suspect a type of programming, that a mentalist might employ, well a psychopath creating the narrative that aligns with some existing or conditioned narrative… maybe
The Deep State types knew the referendum was coming up, knew the Catalonians were going ahead regardless, and likely knew, through backchannels, that the Spanish state would physically block and break up the voting. Then the EU just had to stay mute for 24 hours until Catalonia dropped off the front pages.
HashAttack2 "no criminal record, no history of violence, no military experience, was "not an avid gun nut", had no particular religious or political views, and was not previously known to law enforcement The perfect profile on the type of person the PTB wants to be identified as a "national security" threat - one that needs to be monitored with uninhibited surveillance. Sounds like you and me? ... if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to be scared off "Indeed--"we have met the enemy and they is us."
It is very important to keep up with the Joneses.
They live across the street from you.
They didn't use to live there, but now they do and they have all the latest stuff.
With their latest stuff and all their gadgetry, they have become VERY IMPORTANT.
With their latest stuff and all their gadgetry, they are liable to take over your place and kick you out in the street and leave you homeless and starving, if you don't get the latest stuff and all the gadgetry to protect yourself and to be hip and cool.
This is also called 'scientific evolution' and it is controlled remotely.
Have a nice day.
My computer has been on the fritz, for about 3 weeks, but it has been repaired (remotely) and it is all better now.
ned, out
Just saying it is not proving it folks. Your talking about long guns and full auto fire here, FIRE! nothing i have seen is even remotely fire in any of these videos of secondary gunmen. Since this happened i have been looking for ANY video proof of fire from the 23nd floor and it's just NOT there to be seen.
Do you thing you see muzzle flashes in a video? Fine post it here and prove it, the ones here don't do it.
Niall All talk of other shooters and fire from other floors is dumb in light of the fact that all those WINDOWS are intact and not shot out, Why is this so hard to get ones head around?Because all that talk was made on the night itself, before all saw the Mandalay in daylight the next morning.
Stephen Paddock represents the culmination of this thinking and for the reasons indicated: uninhibited, extensive, blatant, and accepted-by-the-American-populace (gaslighting anyone?) surveillance.
I don't know what to think. We have to entertain all ideas and be patient. I will tell you that I live in Las Vegas, and I know for a fact that situations occur which never appear in print or on TV. For example, two other shootings occurred in Las Vegas during the NBA All Star game many years ago: one in front of Caesars and one in the MGM parking garage. I had numerous eye witness accounts given me. They only reported the off-strip shooting at a strip club. I have personally driven into a hotel's porte cachiere with 5-6 police officers surrounding a man with their guns drawn (I was immediately waved off property.) and never saw a mention on either TV or in the newspaper.
"Sorcha Faals" is a trip. I don't know who this person or group is, but I will tell you that I have tried to verify some of their information in the past and been successful. Simply running it down on the internet. Much of what Sorcha sez is disinformation...perhaps to maintain their anonymity.
Like the Orlando shooting, we've seen absolutely Zero footage of anyone dead. No blood in any pics either (that I've seen). I've heard that in these types of events, cops seize people's phones and cameras. But with 30,000+ people fleeing in all directions, how can that happen? It can't! Unless they can somehow wipe all non-PC footage from everyone's devices remotely?????
So many holes, I can't possibly cover them all. Just from the perspective of an experienced firearms user, what we've seen aren't actual pictures from the room where semi auto guns were used to bump fire 1000's of rounds. Not only would there be piles of shell casings, but the guns would be roasted, their plastic parts melted off. Yet we see none of this. I can only suspect that the room in the pics has been set up to fool very ignorant people. Ignorant of how firearms actually work.
Needless to say, they don't hold water IMO.
My thanks for the article and brilliant detective work, demonstrated without bias.
I saw a video where a guy gave a tour of the suite Paddock had (convienant no?), and the two windows are about 50' apart. So there's a break between different kinds of shots that's approx 5 seconds apart. Assuming that he was the only shooter, he'd have to have been able to sprint 50 feet, grab and level the rifle and get it shooting in 5 seconds. Sounds impossible to me. But then I don't believe that the images that are online are from a room where 1000+ bullets were fired. The guns certainly hadn't been fired that many times using a bump stock.
You guys killed it. At least you're questioning the "facts" as we've been given them. That's more than I can say for most of the media.
It may look upon the surface that they [Service to Self] succeeded in the event you ask us about, but all did not go to plan. Never before has one of the Service to Self mass events been so clearly seen and decoded so quickly acting as a catalyst for so many more individuals to wake up to the truth. Even those locked hard and fast into the third dimension and fourth narrative are seeing the inconsistencies within this event and are asking questions they have never asked before. This atrocity, this event you ask us about, is more than a catalyst for awareness. It has become a seed point into the downfall of the Service to Self structure....
Events like these...are designed to take away your faith, your strength, and your unity. For your despondence, your feelings of shock, of confusion, of helplessness, defeat, and grief, they are the sustenance for the negative. Yet, we see how quickly you decode, how quickly you spring back, how quickly you understand, and how quickly you reconnect....
Comment: See also:
Serious Problems With Official Las Vegas Massacre Narrative
Las Vegas Terror Attack: Clear Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Multiple Hotels