Two masked men wearing hoodies and wielding handguns burst into the Pine Eagle Charter School in this tiny rural community on Friday. Students were at home for an in-service day, so the gunmen headed into a meeting room full of teachers and opened fire.
Someone figured out in a few seconds that the bullets were not drawing blood because they were blanks and the exercise was a drill, designed to test Pine Eagle's preparation for an assault by "active shooters" who were, in reality, members of the school staff. But those few seconds left everybody plenty scared.
Principal Cammie DeCastro said it became clear very quickly just how many of the school's 15 teachers would have survived. The answer: "Not many," she said.
Elementary teacher Morgan Gover, 31, said only two teachers would have lived to tell the tale. She admitted being scared, and also acknowledged she would have been among the casualties, having taken several fake direct hits from the shooters.
"I'll tell you, the whole situation was horrible," she said. "I got a couple in the front and a couple in the back."
Comment: It's heart-breaking to see how brainwashed ordinary Americans are that when something like this happens, they cow even deeper into submission and thank the government terrorists for traumatizing them.
It's all over but the crying.
© Oliver Weiken/EPA An Israeli jet takes off from an air force base outside Beersheva. Officials said warplanes bombed a convoy carrying missiles from Syria to Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes have bombed a convoy carrying missiles from Syria to Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, Israeli officials said.
The air strike, which is understood to have been carried out from Lebanese airspace, took place on Friday after the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his security cabinet approved the attack in a secret meeting on Thursday night.
The target was a convoy carrying a shipment of advanced long-range ground-to-ground missiles to Hezbollah and not a Syrian chemical weapons facility, according to unnamed Israeli officials.
The attack was first reported in the US media on Friday, with
US officials claiming the Israelis had hit a building.The US president, Barack Obama, reiterated on Friday that he does not foresee deploying US forces on the ground in the Syrian civil war. But the
New York Times reported that US officials were on Friday considering military options, including carrying out their own air strikes.
The details of the Israeli strike remain vague but Netanyahu has repeatedly warned in recent weeks that Israel would be prepared to take military action if chemical weapons or other advanced arms were to reach Hezbollah from Syria.
Comment: Chemical weapon lies being used as an excuse by Israel to bomb any Syrian targets they choose to.
Uche Orieh
YouTubeFri, 19 Apr 2013 07:12 UTC
This was recorded before suspect # 2 was captured.
I smell a rat. Some of the reporting on this hasn't added up. The family and friends of these two suspects gave a different accounts of the people they actually are vs. the image that the Govt. and media portrayed.
Ask yourself this; if your image was plastered all over the TV and you're accused of a terrorist attack, what would you do? What
could you do? My thoughts on this...
Its been two weeks since the Boston marathon bombings and the smell of lies and corruption is pungent in the air. While the mainstream media has failed to do any sort of investigative journalism on the event (sans Ben Swann of Reality Check and Judge Napolitano of Freedom Watch) they have done a fine job of regurgitating and re-enforcing the same non-sense story that the FBI concocted. Even when that story changed, they changed their reporting to fit that story. How bogus!
Thanks to the internet and to our divine ability to
Think, people around the world have been probing, questioning and taking apart the official story since the day the news broke out. Of course, these people are the "conspiracy theorists" - always coming up with some crazy idea about the government being out to get them. But what happens when the crazy "conspiracies" have facts, evidence, eyewitness testimonials, motives and historical data that proves the involvement of government conducting terror attacks on its own citizens all the time?
Alex Seitz-Wald
Salon.comThu, 02 May 2013 06:55 UTC
© Salon
It's good to be Alex Jones. Matt Drudge, the conservative Web entrepreneur and news aggregator, proved prophetic when he predicted that 2013 would be "
the year of Alex Jones." The longtime conspiracy broadcaster is finally breaking into the mainstream consciousness after a buzzy interview with Piers Morgan and his Boston bombing conspiracy, and traffic to his websites has
never been higher. The conspiracy business is booming.
And make no mistake, it is a business. That's not to say that Jones isn't a believer - there are easier ways to make money - but Jones has built a multi-platform new media empire in his Austin, Texas, Free Speech Systems LLC that reaches millions of believers and
promises advertisers that it will "direct lucrative buyers to you from our daily audience of active enthusiasts." And all told, Jones is very likely raking in millions.
Jones didn't invent the business model, but he may have perfected it. He comes from a long line of what historian
Robert Goldberg calls "conspiracy entrepreneurs" that stretches back through at least the early Red Scare, and up through the John Birch Society, the JFK assassination and the Roswell incident to the Jones school of the New World Order. But while others merely got by on the sale of their books and tapes and lectures to a niche audience, Jones has industrialized conspiracy for a mass audience.
Alex Seitz-Wald
Salon.comSat, 04 May 2013 04:45 UTC
A gun activist is planning a massive march on D.C., with participants' rifles illegally slung over their shouldersLibertarian activist and radio host Adam Kokesh is hoping to get 1,000 people to march on Washington on July 4 - armed with loaded rifles. The plan, launched with
a Facebook group today, is to gather on the Virginia side of the Potomac, where gun laws are lax, and then march across the bridge with loaded rifles slung over their shoulders into the District, where openly carrying weapons is generally prohibited.
"This will be a non-violent event," the Facebook group warns, "unless the government chooses to make it violent." Already, over 200 people have said they'll attend the march. Here's the message:
On the morning of July 4, 2013, Independence Day, we will muster at the National Cemetery & at noon we will step off to march across the Memorial Bridge, down Independence Avenue, around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, & the White House, then peacefully return to Virginia across the Memorial Bridge. This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide. This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent. Should we meet physical resistance, we will peacefully turn back, having shown that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free.
Kokesh is a former Marine who was
discharged in 2007 after violating the military's code against engaging in political activity while in uniform. Kokesh was highly active in the antiwar movement after serving in Iraq, participating in numerous protests and getting arrested on occasion.
Comment: Adam Charles Kokesh, an interesting character. He has his own
Wikipedia page, where we read:
Kokesh was a corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and is a veteran of the Iraq War. He is an outspoken opponent of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq and has received media attention related to anti-war protest activities. He is the son of Charles Kokesh, a Santa Fe venture capitalist, founder of a firm called Technology Funding, and owner of the Santa Fe Horse Park.
He brought home a pistol from Iraq in 2004 in violation of military rules, which prevented his return for a second Iraq tour.
In no time at all, he became a fairly high-profile media personality on the alternative news circuit, an outspoken anti-war activist, 9/11 Truther, Ron Paul supporter, etc, etc.
Remember PATCONThe following information is gleaned from the outstanding documentary about the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing,
A Noble Lie.
Short for 'PATRIOT CONSPIRACY' - Patcon was an undercover FBI operation launched around 1991. Modelled after COINTELPRO, which officially ended in 1971 (yeah right!), the idea was to infiltrate every militia group, every neo-nazi group, in fact - every single group that was in any way critical of the government - by placing a combination of paid informants and sheep-dipped agents inside all of these groups.
By the time this counter-insurgency program was active, they had sent young Tmothy McVeigh to Camp Grafton for explosives training in preparation for his role in the Oklahoma City Bombing. More than that, however, they created a 'terror cell' with other ATF and FBI informants and named it the Ayran Republican Army, members of which McVeigh hung around with in Elohim City in Oklahoma.
This is what McVeigh was doing during the few months for which there is 'no record' prior to the OKC bombing. Besides explosives training, this quiet, obedient soldier developed a 'legend' for himself so that by the time he resurfaced in Oklahoma, he is playing the role of 'raving anti-government activist'. In short, McVeigh was 'sheep-dipped'. He never 'left the army'. There are no discharge papers because he wasn't 'discharged'. He was selected for Special Ops. McVeigh was even
accidentally filmed at Camp Grafton in North Dakota during
this time.
Why he agreed to speedy execution remains somewhat mysterious for now, but the fact that he was visited repeatedly by notorious mind control hypnotist and CIA shrink Louis Jolyon West (of MK-Ultra and Sirhan Sirhan fame), coupled with his rigid obedience to the government he believed he was serving, meant that he was 'a good soldier' to the very end.
Just something to keep in mind.
© Mika/Corbis
Teachers gathered for a meeting on April 26 were horrified when two masked men ambushed their meeting and began firing blanks. The 15 instructors at the Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway, Oregon did not realize that it was an emergency drill and not a real attack.
After the terrifying test, school officials say they will train teachers to better respond to a surprise attack. Students were not present on school grounds when the drill occurred, as the children were home for an in-service day,
The Oregonian reported. Two men wearing masks and hooded sweatshirts stormed the meeting room and began firing. At first, the teachers didn't know what was happening and then they realized that the shooting was not drawing blood and thus was part of a test.
'I'll tell you, the whole situation was horrible,' elementary teacher Morgan Gover, 31, told the local paper.
© APReport says killer robots, such as the Britian's Taranis aircraft, pictured, should 'not have power to destroy human life'
Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input 'should not have the power of life and death over human beings,' a new draft U.N. report says. The report for the U.N. Human Rights Commission this week has called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of killer robots until an international conference can develop rules for their use. According to the report, the United States, Britain, Israel, South Korea and Japan have developed various types of fully or semi-autonomous weapons.
The U.N. Human Rights Commission deals with legal and philosophical issues involved in giving robots lethal powers over humans, echoing countless science-fiction novels and films. Report author Christof Heyns, a South African professor of human rights law, focuses on a new generation of weapons that choose their targets and execute them.
He calls them 'lethal autonomous robotics,' or LARs for short, and says: 'Decisions over life and death in armed conflict may require compassion and intuition.
Charyn Pfeuffer
MSNThu, 02 May 2013 11:50 UTC
Palm Beach County sheriff launches a new violence-prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo.If you live in Florida and have a gripe with the government, you may want to think twice before speaking your mind. In an unprecedented move, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has been awarded $1 million for a new violence-prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn. and Aurora, Colo.,
reports The Palm Beach Post.
Catalina Camia
USA TodayMon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00 UTC
© Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty ImagesRon Paul is a former Texas congressman and GOP presidential candidate
Former congressman Ron Paul was no fan of the police presence and manhunt tied to the Boston Marathon bombings.
The libertarian-thinking, former GOP presidential candidate slammed what he called the "military-style takeover" of Boston on April 19, the day Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked residents of Boston and its nearby suburbs to "shelter in place."
"The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city," Paul wrote on the
website of Lew Rockwell, a libertarian writer. "This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged in connection with the blasts that left three people dead and more than 260 injured. His older brother, Tamerlan, died in a firefight with police hours before Dzhokhar was tracked down.
Comment: It's heart-breaking to see how brainwashed ordinary Americans are that when something like this happens, they cow even deeper into submission and thank the government terrorists for traumatizing them.
It's all over but the crying.