By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

[ Editor’s Note: What we are seeing with this folks, once again, is an attack on alternative media. It is a textbook media psyops that goes by the term, “Poison the well.”

“They” have their hooks deep into Alt media, as they never could have let it remain independent and a solid counter to MSM. Do they every invite the likes of Gordon or I, or Mike Harris or Fetzer to debate their shills on their networks? No… never… and for a good reason. It would not work out for them so well.

But no dummies they, for short money (compared to regular media) they have shown they can drop stuff like this on us and it will take off like wildfire. Sure, their operatives are to blame, but so is the gullible audience, as there have been a long history of these.

I remember way back when, the militia story (ADL maybe) about 2000 “barefoot” African troops at a military base in SC, Charleston I think, in a warehouse complex of UN-painted armored vehicles… the “advance guard” of a black invasion under NATO. That was my real first exposure as to how stupid Johnny lunch bucket could be… off the charts stupid.

“They” used to use small fry, throw-away talent for stuff like this because there is an endless supply of them. But the evolution of Disinformation Planet and head psyops kahunaa you know who was ever more aggressive, as it showed they could even come out of the shadows to do this in plain sight.

And despite their very spotty track record, the audience is still there. So the problem is not them, but the audience. Please share your thoughts as to why so many people could be so stupid as to believe this silly stuff.

The worst part about it is when “they” view us as advanced plantation animals, who deserve the appropriate right for their real position on the food chain… they have some justification, due to these Pied Piper idiots. I think they should all have tatoos on their forehead… Jade Helm – 2015… Jim W. Dean ]

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- First published … April 18, 2015 -

There may well be a National Guard exercise called “Jade Helm.” Thus far, no one has seen anyone, nothing has happened and we can assure you this, nothing will happen. The whole thing is a hoax, part of the grand “fear porn” game.

Anyone spreading wild Jade Helm rumors, originated as Zio-Neocon talking points sent out to their paid bloggers, is going to have to sit in the corner with a tin foil hat for some time. We are talking a dozen states with 1200 of our own troops. Were it 60,000 we would at least see a rise in business at fast food restaurants and whore houses.

But, I did see Paul Watson, head shill of “DisInfoWhores” warning us of martial law and, of course, the giant ISIS training camp just across the Rio Grande. Why would people make things like this up? What do they have to gain in attacking the US government?

By attacking our military, branding their training exercises as preludes to alien invasion and inciting people to abuse or even kill our own kids in uniform, the Neocon right and their Zio masters are having a good laugh.

This isn’t the first time we have had a phony crisis like this, no, we get one every few months. When martial law isn’t declared, when our right wing nutcases, who are far more dangerous than an army of bible thumping FBI agents, aren’t locked up in the backrooms of shuttered Walmart stores, who is going to apologize?

Here is what I suggest; jot down all the predictions, martial law, the ISIS invasion from Mexico, gun seizures and even the alien invasion. When its all over, and it may well be over already, let’s ask the geniuses who have connected the non-existent dots where, exactly, they got their information from?

We already know but this is just for fun. Here is what we expect at VT. There will be a very small training exercise, just like the dozens run every year. Troops will be visiting Texas, eating great chili and drinking cheap beer.

Those who still have their senses about them will remember that this is our army, that these are our kids, that some of them have been through hell fighting Israel’s enemies, and we are going to treat them with the respect they deserve.

Were Ted Cruz or that nutcase from Tennessee in the White House, I might have a moment or two, but even then I would use common sense. Nothing has happened. Everything I have seen in print has been preposterous, delusional and total crap.

Now, if you have nothing else to do, your TV doesn’t work and you can’t find your comic books, then do go hide in your basement until it all blows over.

Hey, thanks for listening.

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Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War.He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Six people have been arrested in connection with a terrorism investigation in Minnesota, where authorities have been tracking youths who have traveled or tried to travel to Syria to fight with militants, including the Islamic State group, authorities said.

A spokesman for the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office said the arrests were made Sunday in Minneapolis and San Diego but there is no threat to public safety. Spokesman Ben Petok did not give details about the charges. He said more information would be released Monday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI planned a news conference Monday to announce details. The news conference was billed in a press release as an announcement of a joint terrorism task force operation.

Kyle Loven, spokesman for the Minneapolis office of the FBI, said six people were arrested Sunday but gave no further details. An FBI spokesman in San Diego referred questions to Loven.

Authorities say a handful of Minnesota residents have traveled to Syria to fight with militants within the last year. At least one Minnesotan has died while fighting for the Islamic State.

Since 2007, more than 22 young Somali men have also traveled from Minnesota to Somalia to join the militant group al-Shabab.

Four Minnesotans have already been charged in connection with supporting terror groups in Syria, including the Islamic State group.

One man, 19-year-old Hamza Ahmed, had been stopped at a New York City airport in November as he and three others were attempting to travel to Syria. Ahmed has been indicted on charges of lying to the FBI during a terrorism investigation, conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group, and attempting to provide material support. He has pleaded not guilty.

But there have been no public charges filed against his three companions, and little information had been released about them. An FBI affidavit said they are all between the ages of 19 and 20 and live in the Twin Cities.

Addis Ababa (AFP) - Ethiopia condemned Sunday the reported killing of Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya, and vowed to continue its fight against Islamist extremists.

"We strongly condemn such atrocities, whether they are Ethiopians are not," Ethiopian Minster of Communications Redwan Hussein told AFP.

Ethiopia's embassy in Egypt was working to verify if those killed were indeed Ethiopians, he added.

The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday released a video purportedly showing the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya.

The 29-minute video purports to show militants holding two groups of captives, described in a text on the screen as "followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church".

A masked fighter in black brandishing a pistol makes a statement threatening Christians if they do not convert to Islam.

A large number of Ethiopians leave their country -- Africa's second largest in terms of population with more than 90 million people -- seeking work elsewhere.

Many travel to Libya and other north African nations for jobs, as well as to use it as a stepping stone before risking the dangerous sea crossing to Europe.

Ethiopian troops are fighting in neighbouring Somalia as part of an African Union force battling the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab Islamist insurgents.

"There are elements of IS around Ethiopia who are already carrying out operations, even though under a different name," Redwan said, in reference to the Shebab. "We will keep on fighting them."

Almost two-thirds of Ethiopians are Christians, the majority of those Orthodox Copts -- who say they have been in the Horn of Africa nation since the first century AD -- as well as large numbers of protestants.

Mexico City (AFP) - Federal police gunned down 16 civilians in western Mexico in January, a report said, contradicting official accounts that nine people had died in the crossfire of a shootout.

The investigation by journalist Laura Castellanos, which was published Sunday by the weekly magazine Proceso and the news website Aristegui Noticias, is the latest allegation of abuse to hit Mexico's security forces.

The report came a day after the National Security Commission revealed that it had anonymously received a video that appears to show "an excessive use of force or abuse of authority by federal police officers" in Apatzingan, Michoacan state.

The commission did not provide more details and said the video was handed over to the attorney general's office to launch an investigation.

Spokesmen for the attorney general's office and the commission, which oversees the federal police, told AFP they could not comment on the report because the investigation is ongoing.

Authorities have said nine people died from "friendly fire" when former members of a rural militia clashed with federal police in Apatzingan. Officials detained 44 people that day.

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The second shooting came hours later, when officers opened fire on a dozen vehicles carrying people who were chasing a police convoy, hoping to free their comrades, the report said.

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Today chemical warfare has come full circle.

Reports from Syria about chemical weapons used in that conflict also involve chlorine — a widely available substance that has legitimate industrial and commercial uses. Both government forces and insurgents deny accusations of using the gas.

A report last year by a fact-finding mission set up by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said a toxic chemical, almost certainly chlorine, was used repeatedly in attacks on villages in Northern Syria.

"Leaves on plants ... wilted 'like autumn leaves,'" it cited witnesses as saying. "In one case, a child standing close to the impact site died later because of exposure to the toxic chemical."

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the report's findings pointed to the regime of President Bashar Assad using chlorine as a weapon.

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Both sides denying using chemical weapons while accusing the other of poison attacks.

There was no point in denying it a century ago in Flanders Fields.

The first large-scale use of chlorine as a weapon, at Ieper, Belgium, on April 22, 1915, unleashed massive use of gas by both Germany and the Allies during the last three years of the 1914-1918 war. Chemical weapons killed nearly 100,000 and injured around 1 million more during the conflict.

The horrific scale of World War I gas casualties — and the suffering they caused — helped launch what has been hailed as one of the most successful disarmament campaigns in history. It culminated in the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention and creation of the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The watchdog with 190 member states won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.

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"That amounts to more than 70,000 metric tons of chemical agent," Uzumcu said. "To put this figure into perspective, it takes only one drop of much of this agent to kill an adult instantly."

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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was the worst offender. He was accused of using mustard gas and the nerve agent taubun in his country's war with neighboring Iran, as well as his 1987-88 crackdown on Iraq's Kurdish minority.

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Photos taken after the Halabja attack on March 16, 1988, showed bodies of men, women, children and animals lying in heaps on the streets.

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In 1995, 13 people were killed and about 6,000 sickened when packages containing the nerve agent sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult.

Meanwhile, the world's two biggest owners of chemical weapons, the United States and Russia, are methodically destroying their stockpiles.

Russia has destroyed about 86 percent of its stockpile, and the U.S. about 90 percent. Russia is expected to finish destruction by the end of 2020 and the U.S. by September 2023.

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