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Iraq's Ramadi retaken, but rebuilding it a huge task

By W.G. Dunlop17 hours ago

A member of Iraqi pro-governement forces flashes the sign of victory atop an armoured vehicle on February 8, 2016 in the Jwaibah area, on the eastern outskirts of Ramadi, after Iraqi troops retook it from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists (AFP Photo/Moadh Al-Dulaimi)

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq has completely retaken Ramadi from the Islamic State group, but now faces the enormous challenges of removing bombs, reestablishing basic services and rebuilding the shattered city, officials said Tuesday.

Government forces recaptured areas on the eastern outskirts of the Anbar provincial capital from IS after weeks of fighting, and authorities say that all areas immediately surrounding the city have been retaken.

"All of Ramadi is now liberated" and responsibility for security is being handed over to local police, Anbar Governor Sohaib al-Rawi told journalists in Baghdad.

But the city's civilian population has been displaced, and "the biggest challenge before us is clearing the areas of mines" so residents can return, Rawi said, adding that he hopes to obtain international support to remove explosives.

Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said that clearing the city of explosives would cost an estimated $15 million.

"The key right now is to extract the IEDs (improvised explosive devices). This is the single largest, most difficult obstacle preventing people from coming home and rebuilding their lives," said Grande, speaking at a roundtable alongside Rawi.

But the city's problems go far beyond bombs.

- Widespread destruction -

"The level of destruction in Ramadi is as bad as anything we have seen anywhere in Iraq," Grande said.

"Houses are destroyed, bridges are destroyed, roads are infested with IEDs, water systems are ruined, schools are ruined, health centres are ruined and businesses are shut," she said.

Initial work will be in the Tamim area of southwestern Ramadi, and will include repairing the water system and six health centres, as well as providing six ambulances and dozens of generators, Grande said.

The second phase will focus on central Ramadi, and will include repairing water stations, bringing in three mobile electrical grids and connecting them to hundreds of generators, she said.

The UN has already secured the $10 million needed for the first phase, but the second will cost an additional $25 and $30 million, plus the cost of clearing explosives.

And even that is only the beginning: "Thousands of homes have to be rebuilt. Thousands of buildings have to be rebuilt," Grande said.

Rawi said that the provincial government had not received funds from Baghdad since the beginning of December, and that it will have to use part of its 2016 budget to pay debts from the previous year.

Iraq announced in December that it had recaptured Ramadi, located west of Baghdad, but daily fighting with IS jihadists continued for more than a month on the city's eastern outskirts.

- 'Famine' in Fallujah -

Iraqi forces "were able to liberate areas east of Ramadi" including Sichariya, Juwaiba and Husaiba, meaning that all areas immediately surrounding the city have been recaptured, the joint operations command said in a statement on Tuesday.

They "were also able to open the Ramadi-Baghdad road passing through Khaldiyah," it said, referring to a government-held area along the route.

IS overran large areas of Iraq in June 2014, but security forces and allied tribesmen held out in parts of Ramadi until May 2015, when the jihadists seized the city in an assault spearheaded by a wave of car and truck bombs.

But the capture of Ramadi was the last major advance by jihadists in Iraq, and Baghdad's forces slowly tightened the noose around it in the following months before moving into the city itself.

IS still holds Fallujah, east of Ramadi, and Mosul, Iraq's second city that is located in the north.

Fallujah has been largely cut off by security forces, and the situation inside the city "has reached a state of famine", Rawi said.

Iraq is deploying thousands of soldiers to an area southeast of Mosul for operations aimed at cutting supply lines linking it with areas farther south, which will set the stage for direct efforts to retake the city.

Syrian rebels demand U.S. action ahead of peace talks

Residents look for survivors in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria January 9, 2016.

REUTERS/KHALIL ASHAWI

Rebel groups urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do more to stop Russian bombing raids in Syria as pressure mounted on Washington ahead of a new round of peace talks this week.

World powers are meeting in Germany on Thursday to try to revive the first effort in two years to negotiate an end to the war after it faltered in the starting blocks last week.

But with Moscow backing a Syrian government push for all-out military victory against Western-backed rebels, Western officials and opposition delegates hold out little hope.

Opposition spokesman Salim al-Muslat said Obama could stop the Russian attacks, although he did not spell out how.

"If he is willing to save our children it is really the time now to say 'no' to these strikes in Syria," he told Reuters.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing for a ceasefire and more humanitarian aid access ahead of a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Munich.

Moscow said Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Wednesday on the need for a ceasefire in Syria and the provision of humanitarian aid to blockaded areas.

But one U.N. diplomatic source said Russia was "stringing Kerry along" in order to provide diplomatic cover for Moscow's real goal - to help President Bashar al-Assad win on the battlefield instead of compromising at the negotiating table.

"It's clear to everyone now that Russia really doesn't want a negotiated solution but for Assad to win," said the diplomatic source, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A senior adviser to Assad, Bouthaina Shaaban, told Reuters in Damascus on Tuesday that there would be no let-up in the army advance, which aimed to recapture the city of Aleppo from rebels and secure Syria's border with Turkey.

Asked how soon a ceasefire could be put in place, a Russian diplomat who declined to be identified said: "Maybe March, I think so." The Washington Post said Moscow had sent a letter to Washington this week proposing to stop its bombing on March 1, allowing it to continue for another three weeks.

FABIUS QUESTIONS U.S. COMMITMENT

Saudi Arabia's King Salman plans to visit Moscow in mid-March, Russia's RIA news agency said, a meeting that would bring together the main sponsors of the opposing sides. Riyadh said on Tuesday it was willing to commit special forces to Syria should a U.S.-led coalition deploy ground troops against Islamic State.

Saudi-backed rebels said they would go to Munich but would only go to U.N. peace talks in Geneva later this month if Russia stopped bombarding their positions and humanitarian aid reached civilians in the areas they control.

Muslat reiterated calls for more military support, notably anti-aircraft missiles, a demand that has so far fallen on deaf ears for fear they could fall into the hands of Islamic State.

"If we had these, this would solve the problem of Syria," he said. "We really guarantee that they do not go anywhere - that they will be in the hands of the moderates under the eye of our friends, whether European or American."

Opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said the Russian and Iranian intervention in Syria was bolstering the extremist threat in the Middle East, but the rebels would not give up.

On the ground, rebels say they are fighting for survival.

A commander of a Turkmen contingent within the Levant Front rebel group, Zekeria Karsli, said his men faced attacks on three fronts: Islamic State to the east, Syrian government forces to the south and Kurds to the west.

"Unfortunately the military situation on the battlefield is pretty bad. Russian planes are hitting us from the air and the Iranian/Assad block is hitting us from the ground," he told Reuters near the Oncupinar border post.

He said Russian warplanes were carrying out hundreds of sorties every day and that the north of Aleppo city was encircled. But he said routes in to rebel-held parts of the city from Idlib province to the west were still open.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also questioned the commitment of the United States.

"There are the ambiguities including among the actors of the coalition ... I'm not going to repeat what I've said before about the main pilot of the coalition," Fabius said.

"But we don't have the feeling that there is a very strong commitment that is there."

Turkey, meanwhile, upbraided the United States for supporting Syrian Kurdish PYD rebels, saying they were attacking civilians in collaboration with the Russians in what amounted to a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

"Are you on our side or the side of the terrorist PYD?" President Tayyip Erdogan said, referring to Washington's backing of the group against Islamic State.

FIGHTING OVER ALEPPO

United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has set a target date of Feb. 25 to reconvene talks between the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva.

But in less than two weeks, the offensive by Syrian forces, Hezbollah and Shiite militias directed by Iran - all backed by Russian bombing raids - have reversed opposition gains on the ground and encircled rebels inside Aleppo, a strategic prize now divided between government and opposition control.

This has caused alarm among U.N. and Western officials, who believe the goal of the Syrian-Russian-Iranian campaign is to destroy the opposition's negotiating power in Geneva, kill them on the ground, and secure the first major military victory since Moscow began bombing opposition forces in Syria in September.

"It'll be easy to get a ceasefire soon because the opposition will all be dead," a Western diplomat told Reuters. "That's a very effective ceasefire."

The latest fighting around Aleppo has killed about 500 people on all sides, a monitoring group said.

Other Western officials said Kerry overestimated his ability to bring Moscow around. They said he appeared to believe that since he had achieved what some saw as unachievable by getting a nuclear deal with Iran, he could do the same with Syria.

They noted that the two cases were different. With Iran, Russia wanted a political agreement whereas in Syria it is pushing for a military victory by the Syrian government.

"The Russians are playing cat and mouse with Kerry," a senior European diplomat said.

Western officials said Moscow was clearly not committed to a ceasefire that would halt what it sees as military momentum that favours the Syrian army and its Iranian-backed supporters.

FALSE ASSUMPTIONS

Christopher Harmer, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, said Washington had falsely assumed there was no military solution to the Syria crisis.

"The Assad regime has no interest in a political solution," he said. "The Russians have no interest in a political solution. Iran has no interest in a political solution. Hezbollah has no interest in a political solution."

Russia says its air strikes have been targeting Islamic State, the militant Islamist group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq, and not Western-backed opposition groups. But U.S. and European officials say that is not the case.

The Kremlin rejects claims that it has abandoned diplomacy in pursuit of a military solution, saying it would continue to providing military aid to Assad to fight "terrorist groups" and accusing Syria's opposition of walking away from the talks.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar have not hidden their view that there is little point in holding negotiations while the Russian air strikes and Syrian government advance continue.

On the other side, Iran says the Saudis - not Iran, Russia or Assad - are the major obstacle to peace. "There are some countries that it seems don't want peace to be restored in Syria," a senior official involved in the Syria talks said.

(Additional reporting by John Irish in Paris, Louis Charbonneau in New York, Parisa Hafezi in Ankara, Tom Miles in Geneva, Jonathan Landay in Washington and Michelle Nichols in New York; Editing by Philippa Fletcher)

There’s Something Strange Happening Here In Burns, Oregon…

February 9, 2016/in Uncategorized /by Belinda Bee

We captured this article from TVOI News – Voice of Idaho before it disappeared! When we went to look for the article we noticed it was in “cache” form only, meaning that someone has taken the website & article down. So we have cut & pasted the article here, word for word, including pics & links, for future reference. Feb. 7, 2016

About two years ago the Nation watched as Cliven Bundy stood in opposition against an unjust seizure of his ranch and grazing rights by the BLM. The event grew as patriotic Americans responded and came to his aid. The growing protest was ultimately successful in forcing the BLM to turn tail and retreat in face of the growing support that they could no longer control.

Fast forward now to January 2, 2016 and we have a similar situation with the BLM in small town out west called Burns, Oregon.

Since the start of this protest, the MainStream Media (MSM) has been putting forth articles and news reports using such adjectives as “armed militants”, “right wing racists”, “terrorists” or “armed thugs”. Every story I read or listened to was basically the same, always one sided. I follow the belief that there are 3 sides to every story; you could call it her side, his side and the Truth. So when only one side is ever told, it is safe to assume that there is an agenda afoot. An agenda the MSM never speaks about.

So in my quest to get to the Truth, I decided to take an eight day vacation from my full time job to travel 3,000 miles via plane and car to that small town out west call Burns. What you are about to read is exactly what I witnessed and learned from my westward trip. I hope that this article, and those to follow, will help you see through the smokescreen of lies the media, at the bequest of our federal government , have been and are still telling us as the means to controlling the narrative.

Contrary to the MSM stories one finds on the situation in Burns Oregon, the real terrorists in Burns Oregon are not the farmers, ranchers or loggers, nor are they the patriotic first responders.

The farmers, ranchers and loggers are salt of the earth people. They are hardworking folks who bust their butts every day to earn a living as many of us do on a daily basis.

The Patriotic first responders; men and women who have left behind their lives, families, friends and jobs in order to come to Burns to bring attention to the illegal land grabs and the usurpation of our Constitution. These people present no threat to the people of Burns as evidenced by the fact that they frequent the local stores, shops, restaurants and bars without any issues.

At first glance, it is easy to accept the media story that Sheriff David Ward invited the FBI to take over local control of the situation to help protect the citizens of Burns Oregon from a band of “armed occupiers”. But that is for another article. So let’s take a closer look at several key issues that most may not be seeing.

In past decades whenever there was a civil protest it was customary for the local police and maybe the use of the state police to control and insure that the protest remains peaceful. During the protests of the late 60’s when demonstration began turning violent, State’s at the request of their Governors started to call in the National Guard to assist the police in maintaining order and protecting the public.

The question to ask is why didn’t Oregon Governor, Kate Brown, in accordance with Title 32 of the United States Code, call for the Oregon National Guard to assist in any local police action in response to the “armed occupiers” at the Malheur Refuge. Could it be that Gov. Kate Brown was appointed to her position, not elected by the People of her State, as was Sheriff David Ward of Harney County? Could it be that these appointed officials are beholden, not the good People of Oregon, but strictly to those entities that placed them in their position and power. Another unusual fact is that Special Agent Greg Bretzing in charge of the Malhuer Refuge Occupation happens to be linked to a Nation Security breach along with other fraud and corruption violation, as reported by The Shasta Lantern. Clickhere to view that article.

But, here in Burns the situation is much different and potentially much more ominous and deadly, as evidenced by the murder of LaVoy Finicum, by agencies yet to be fully disclosed. Authorities acting under the color of law but not in adherence to our laws, first closed down the Burns school system, even though the “armed occupiers”, of which only 4 are now remaining, are located 30 plus miles from downtown Burns in the middle of nowhere. WHY? Why was this necessary?

Road blocks, closures and check points are now common place in in and around Burns. Many of the local people have claimed that they are being randomly pulled over by “authorities” demanding they provide their ID’s for just driving down the street. There are locals being stopped at armed check points and forced out of their vehicle at gun point while their personal belongings and vehicle are thoroughly searched.

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One rancher, Thom Davis, related his story in which he had a slowly dying horse on the range that needed to be humanly put down in order to relieve its suffering. The only trouble being that he was not that far from one of these check points and feared that should he have ended the horse’s suffering with a shot to the head, he too would have suffered the same fate. A fate that was later confirmed when he talked to the sheriff.

In another case the authorities actually took their vehicle a quarter mile beyond the check point and made them walk to get it.

Yet, in another case, Alexandra Puckett, described in a facebook post, the treatment and gun point threats from authorities that her husband and his mom encountered while trying only to feed their cows.

These actions taken by authorities have more in common with those of a Military Occupying Force in Iraq or Afghanistan they do with normal police actions here in American. The terrorization of Burns and throughout Harney County is, by no stretch of the imagination, being conducted by the ever increasing militarization of Federal and State agencies. With many reports of in conjunction with an illegal and unconstitutional buildup of a foreign mercenary army of PMC’s, an invading army if you will, acting under the color of law but not in adherence to our laws. Claim as they do that they are FBI, their tactics and use of vehicle void of any US military or alphabet agency marking or insignia’s, and lack of compliance with US Law, even when asked they present no documentation that they are indeed FBI. A video clip of this fact can be seen here.

Additionally, other armored assets from distant counties are in Burns. I ask, is all this really necessary to protect the public from 4 people still at the Refuge located 30 miles away, armed with a few rifles and hand guns, and already contained by authorities so they cannot escape from there. Or is something else going on here?

Further there are claims that Blackhawk helicopters are being stationed at Burns Airport and in the surrounding area. For a link to that report click here.

Further there are claims that Blackhawk helicopters are being stationed at Burns Airport and in the surrounding area. For a link to that report click .

In a recorded phone call to Major Bomar, Judge Darby explains that the forces present in Burns are most likely under the command and control of the UN and the IMF. In other words, foreign forces acting freely on US soil, a clear violation of our Constitution.

Judge Darby audio click here.

Why, you ask, would foreign PMC’s be doing here on the ground in the middle of nowhere in eastern Oregon, and under whose authorization are they being allowed to operate? Could it be that they are here to seize control of these lands for the mineral rights and related wealth for foreign governments? Well, as usual it’s all about following the money. In this case the money is the mineral wealth that these lands contain.

As most are aware Hillary Clinton has sold our uranium to Russia, for personal gain and power. While China is buying up as much gold as possible, and gold is another mineral the lands out west are still rich in. Could China be laying claim to this gold as collateral for our national debt?

Further info can be found here and here.

It is time for the People of America to start asking questions of their representatives as to whose authority these foreign forces and here operation under and why none of them are Obeying their Oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic!

It’s time We The People embrace our differences, differences that make each and every one of us an Individual, Unite in One Voice and Demand a Redress of Grievances to address these issues in a manner that is consistent with the procedures set forth in the US Constitution . Our Founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence :

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall deem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”

Therefore, We have the Constitutional Right and Duty to cast aside an overbearing federal government and build anew, by putting the Power back into the hand of its Rightful Owners…We the People.

To do otherwise plays into their bloody hands.

Here is why we cut & paste this article, it is a screen shot where the website shows it has been “cached”, meaning it no longer exists:

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 2/10/2016 3:29:44 PM
	Iraq's Ramadi retaken, but rebuilding it a huge task By W.G. Dunlop17 hours ago A member of Iraqi pro-governement forces flashes the sign of victory atop an armoured vehicle on February 8, 2016 in the Jwaibah area, on the eastern outskirts of Ramadi, after Iraqi troops retook it from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists (AFP Photo/Moadh Al-Dulaimi) View Gallery Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq has completely retaken Ramadi from the Islamic State group, but now faces the enormous challenges of removing bombs, reestablishing basic services and rebuilding the shattered city, officials said Tuesday. Government forces recaptured areas on the eastern outskirts of the Anbar provincial capital from IS after weeks of fighting, and authorities say that all areas immediately surrounding the city have been retaken. "All of Ramadi is now liberated" and responsibility for security is being handed over to local police, Anbar Governor Sohaib al-Rawi told journalists in Baghdad. But the city's civilian population has been displaced, and "the biggest challenge before us is clearing the areas of mines" so residents can return, Rawi said, adding that he hopes to obtain international support to remove explosives. Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said that clearing the city of explosives would cost an estimated $15 million. "The key right now is to extract the IEDs (improvised explosive devices). This is the single largest, most difficult obstacle preventing people from coming home and rebuilding their lives," said Grande, speaking at a roundtable alongside Rawi. View gallery Deputy Special Representative of the UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Lise Grande (R) and Suhaib … But the city's problems go far beyond bombs. - Widespread destruction - "The level of destruction in Ramadi is as bad as anything we have seen anywhere in Iraq," Grande said. "Houses are destroyed, bridges are destroyed, roads are infested with IEDs, water systems are ruined, schools are ruined, health centres are ruined and businesses are shut," she said. Initial work will be in the Tamim area of southwestern Ramadi, and will include repairing the water system and six health centres, as well as providing six ambulances and dozens of generators, Grande said. View gallery Map of Iraq detailing the fighting between Ramadi and Fallujah and the movement of displaced civilia … The second phase will focus on central Ramadi, and will include repairing water stations, bringing in three mobile electrical grids and connecting them to hundreds of generators, she said. The UN has already secured the $10 million needed for the first phase, but the second will cost an additional $25 and $30 million, plus the cost of clearing explosives. And even that is only the beginning: "Thousands of homes have to be rebuilt. Thousands of buildings have to be rebuilt," Grande said. Rawi said that the provincial government had not received funds from Baghdad since the beginning of December, and that it will have to use part of its 2016 budget to pay debts from the previous year. Iraq announced in December that it had recaptured Ramadi, located west of Baghdad, but daily fighting with IS jihadists continued for more than a month on the city's eastern outskirts. View gallery Displaced Iraqis, who fled regions controlled by the Islamic State group near Fallujah, carry their … - 'Famine' in Fallujah - Iraqi forces "were able to liberate areas east of Ramadi" including Sichariya, Juwaiba and Husaiba, meaning that all areas immediately surrounding the city have been recaptured, the joint operations command said in a statement on Tuesday. They "were also able to open the Ramadi-Baghdad road passing through Khaldiyah," it said, referring to a government-held area along the route. IS overran large areas of Iraq in June 2014, but security forces and allied tribesmen held out in parts of Ramadi until May 2015, when the jihadists seized the city in an assault spearheaded by a wave of car and truck bombs. But the capture of Ramadi was the last major advance by jihadists in Iraq, and Baghdad's forces slowly tightened the noose around it in the following months before moving into the city itself. IS still holds Fallujah, east of Ramadi, and Mosul, Iraq's second city that is located in the north. Fallujah has been largely cut off by security forces, and the situation inside the city "has reached a state of famine", Rawi said. Iraq is deploying thousands of soldiers to an area southeast of Mosul for operations aimed at cutting supply lines linking it with areas farther south, which will set the stage for direct efforts to retake the city.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 2/10/2016 3:57:21 PM
	U.S. officials: Russian airstrikes have changed ‘calculus completely’ in Syria James R. Clapper Jr., director of National Intelligence, testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 9, 2016. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) By Greg Miller February 9 at 7:26 PM Russian military intervention in Syria has turned the course of that country’s civil war against U.S.-backed rebel groups, increasing the likelihood that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his loyalists will remain in power, U.S. intelligence officials testified Tuesday. The assessment amounts to an acknowledgment by U.S. spy agencies that Russian airstrikes have derailed the Obama administration’s aims of pushing Assad aside as part of a political settlement to the nearly five-year old conflict. “The Russian reinforcement has changed the calculus completely,” Lt. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in Senate testimony. Assad is “in a much stronger negotiating position than he was just six months ago,” Stewart said. “I’m more inclined to believe that he is a player on the stage longer term than he was six months to a year ago.” As recently as last summer, U.S. intelligence officials were openly talking about an “endgame” for the Syrian leader, who is also supported by Iran. [U.S. struggles to secure Syrian cease-fire as humanitarian crisis mounts] Stewart’s remarks came during a pair of Senate hearings on Tuesday that served as a grim survey of the security problems — including cyberattacks, terror threats and failing states — that seem certain to confront the next occupant of the White House. Among those testifying were Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., FBI Director James B. Comey and CIA Director John Brennan, who was making his first public appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee since the panel issued a scathing 2014 report on the agency’s use of brutal interrogation methods on terrorism suspects. The lingering tensions behind that Senate probe erupted during a heated exchange Tuesday between Brennan and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who demanded an admission from the CIA chief that his staff had improperly accessed files of Senate investigators combing through agency records. As Wyden made his case, Brennan bristled, saying, “This is the annual threat assessment, is it not.” Brennan seemed to be chiding Wyden for raising the computer intrusion issue during a hearing that is annually devoted to examining security threats. But the confrontation only continued, with both men raising their voices. Ultimately, Brennan admitted “very limited inappropriate actions” by CIA staff but accused Senate investigators of comparable transgressions and came close to shouting at Wyden: “Do not say that we spied on Senate computers or your files! Do not say that!” Clapper led his testimony with warnings about the nation’s vulnerability to cyberattacks from Russia, China and other adversaries — putting computer-based intrusions at the top of his security-risk list as he has done in recent years. Director of Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate committee Tuesday that there are diverse security and safety challenges to the U.S. He said he doesn't expect the array to disappear any time soon. (AP) But Clapper also cited the spread of the Islamic State beyond its base in Syria, recent signals that North Korea remains determined to develop a nuclear weapon capable of striking the United States, and the rising danger that “home-grown” terrorists might launch plots inspired by attacks last year. “The perceived success” of the attacks in Paris, Chattanooga, Tenn., and San Bernardino, Calif., “might motivate others to replicate opportunistic attacks with little or no warning, diminishing our ability to detect terrorist operational planning and readiness,” Clapper said in testimony submitted to the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees. Despite nearly 15 years of U.S. counterterrorism operations after the Sept. 11 attacks, Clapper said, “there are now more Sunni violent extremist groups, members and safe havens than at any time in history.” At one point, Clapper described his grim presentation, only half jokingly, as a “litany of doom.” Clapper’s testimony on Syria came as thousands of civilians have fled that country’s largest city, Aleppo, amid a barrage of Russian airstrikes and advances by regime forces aimed at dislodging rebel factions that had maintained control of much of the city since 2012. The Russian-backed advances in recent weeks coincided with the collapse of peace talks in Geneva, once seen as key to the Obama administration’s efforts to engineer Assad’s departure as part of a negotiated end to the civil war. Obama had said that he was “confident that Assad’s days are numbered” during the last presidential election cycle four years ago. The United States has also carried out hundreds of airstrikes, and trained and armed thousands of rebel fighters, in pursuit of that elusive outcome. Instead, many experts now see moderate groups in Syria as pinned between two more powerful forces: Assad and the Islamic State. U.S. officials said the terror group continues to draw substantial support from beyond Syria despite territorial setbacks in recent months. The number of foreign fighters who have gone to Syria since the conflict started has surged to 36,500, up from estimates of 20,000 a year ago. At least 6,600 of those fighters have migrated to Syria from Western nations, Clapper said, compared with 3,400 a year earlier. The Paris attacks, which involved militants who had fought in Syria, were widely regarded as a chilling demonstration of the foreign fighter threat in Europe. Islamic State-related arrests in the United States surged to 60 in 2015, five times the number a year earlier. Beyond its military involvement in Syria, Russia has also emerged as an increasingly aggressive adversary of the United States online, Clapper said. “Russia is assuming a more assertive cyber posture,” Clapper said, adding that Moscow is increasingly willing “to target critical infrastructure systems and conduct espionage operations even when detected and under increased public scrutiny.” Just days after North Korea launched a satellite into space — a move widely seen as a test of its long-range missile capability — Brennan said that Pyongyang was seeking not only to demonstrate its capability but “showcase” its technology for potential buyers of its missiles and weapons systems. U.S. officials also said they have seen no indication that Iran is violating any aspect of a multinational agreement reached last year to dismantle aspects of its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions. (The Washington Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 2/10/2016 4:58:22 PM
	NEW HAMPSHIRE Grand Old Panic as Trump blows away the establishment Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Jon Ward, Holly Bailey and Andrew Romano February 10, 2016 Watch video As the results of the Republican primary in New Hampshire rolled in Tuesday night, two things became clear. The first was that a plurality of voters — real Americans casting real ballots in a real primary contest — decided that they would rather have tinsel-haired Manhattan mogul Donald Trump as their nominee than any of seven other Republicans in the race. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, Trump was trouncing the rest of the field, with 35 percent of the vote; his closest rival, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, trailed by 19 percentage points. Not long ago, this electoral outcome would have been considered about as likely as a victory by a 74-year-old Jewish socialist running on a platform of free college tuition. GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters Tuesday night at his campaign’s watch party at the Executive Court Banquet Facility in Manchester, N.H. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The second thing that became clear Tuesday night is that a viable mainstream challenger to Trump and the insurgent Iowa caucus winner, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — that long-awaited white knight who could “consolidate establishment support” and save the party from self-immolation next fall — has not emerged yet, and may not emerge for some time. If he or she emerges at all. As the Republican primary contest continues, New Hampshire may come to be known as the place where the establishment’s chances of nominating one of its own went to die. Heading into New Hampshire, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was supposed to be the establishment’s savior. He was young, polished and attractive. He was Latino. He was politically conservative but rhetorically moderate. And he had surprised everyone by nearly beating Trump in Iowa. Then Rubio self-destructed in Saturday’s GOP debate, and New Hampshire’s notoriously late-deciding primary voters — two-thirds of whom told exit pollsters that the debate was an “important” factor in their decision — split their support among the various other establishment contenders. Republican candidate Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to supporters at his presidential primary night rally on Tuesday in Manchester, N.H. (Photo: Carlo Allegri/Reuters) The only problem? It’s hard to see how any of the other establishment Republicans get past Trump and Cruz at this point. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who mauled Rubio in Saturday’s debate and hoped for a boost in New Hampshire as a result, isn’t even likely to try. As soon as it became clear that Christie would not finish in the top five Tuesday, despite spending more days in the Granite State, at 75, than any other candidate, the governor announced that he was heading home to “take a deep breath” and reassess his struggling campaign. Meanwhile, even as Kasich, the man who finished second to Trump, celebrated at his victory party in Salon A of the Concord Courtyard Marriott, his advisers and supporters admitted that he faced significant challenges ahead. “He has almost no money,” said Spencer Bachus, a former Republican congressman from Alabama who served for 16 years with Kasich. “The big money has gone to Bush, Trump is self-financed and Cruz has a lot of Texas money. John has been operating on a shoestring.” (Bachus added that Kasich had a powerful record to run on, having added 400,000 jobs to Ohio’s economy in the wake of the Great Recession.) One senior Kasich adviser acknowledged that a win in South Carolina, the next state to vote, could well be out of reach for the Ohio governor, but offered the following rationale for staying in the game there: “to keep the narrative alive and keep [Kasich’s] name in the headlines.” A major question for the Kasich team is whether their candidate’s more inclusive approach to politics can gain traction with a GOP base that has veered sharply to the right and seems allergic to the very idea of compromise. Kasich, who made his name as a congressional budget hawk in the 1980s, has said that he "was tea party before there was a tea party.” But his position on immigration, his conciliatory words on gay marriage and his decision to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act have opened him up to charges on the right that he is this cycle’s Jon Huntsman — the former Utah governor who also won about 17 percent of the vote in New Hampshire before his campaign collapsed. Republican presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich celebrates taking second place in Concord, N.H., Tuesday night. (Photo: Mary Schwalm/Reuters) But that didn’t stop Kasich from celebrating his unlikely second-place showing Tuesday night. As the smell of Asian meatballs wafted through the packed ballroom, a series of campaign surrogates took to the stage to fire up the faithful. Among the loudest battle cries was: “Unite, don’t divide.” Just minutes before, unbeknownst to Kasich’s supporters, the Ohio governor had slipped into a side entrance of the building, shed his suit jacket and headed straight for the men’s room, accompanied by a single security guard. After running a largely positive campaign, heavily inflected with his own emotive brand of compassionate conservatism and a pragmatic, non-ideological vision for America, Kasich continued to pitch himself as the GOP’s anti-Trump Tuesday night. “We’re gonna solve the problems in America, not by being extreme, not by being first a Republican or Democrat, but by reminding everybody that we are Americans,” the governor told his supporters. “Tonight, the light overcame the darkness.” At his victory party in Manchester, Jeb Bush, who was battling with Cruz and Rubio for third place, also announced that New Hampshire had resuscitated his bid for the presidency. “This campaign is not dead,” Bush said. “We’re going on to South Carolina.” “The pundits had it all figured out last Monday night when the Iowa caucuses were complete,” he continued. “They said it was now a three-person race between two freshman senators and a reality-TV star. And while the reality-TV star is still doing well, it looks like you guys have reset the race.” But as with Kasich, it was unclear Tuesday night exactly how Bush, who is currently mired at 4 percent in the national polls, will capitalize on the muddled results from New Hampshire. Supporters at Bush’s rally worried — and rightly so — that the lack of mainstream consensus would only make life easier for Trump and Cruz. SLIDESHOW – New Hampshire results are in >>> “You look at those numbers, and you say somebody’s got to drop out,” said Allen Hubsch, a 52-year-old real estate attorney from Los Angeles who flew to New Hampshire to watch the primary process up close. “The non-Trump wing has got to consolidate. It’s more important that Trump not win than it is that any particular candidate win.” Bush’s aides insisted Tuesday night that such consolidation could wait, and that the primary process should go on for several weeks, at least until the winner-take-all contests begin in mid-March. (Before then, each state will award delegates proportionally, based on the percentage of the popular vote each candidate receives.) Their goal, of course, is to sap Rubio’s strength — and to convince mainstream Republicans to coalesce around Bush instead. New Hampshire helped with the first part of the equation. For months, the mantra of the Rubio campaign was 3-2-1: third place in Iowa, second place in New Hampshire, first place in South Carolina. But on Tuesday, Rubio’s trajectory was turned upside down, and he was left staring into the abyss of a possible fifth-place finish. “Our disappointment tonight is not on you,” Rubio told his supporters. “It’s on me. It’s on me.” For 72 hours, Rubio had been insisting that he did fine in the debate and that he had meant to repeat — four times in a few minutes — the same line about Barack Obama knowing “exactly what he is doing” and wanting to “change America.” But on Tuesday Rubio finally acknowledged the obvious. “I did not do well on Saturday night,” he said. “So let me tell you this: That will never happen again.” Still, many Rubio fans were unconvinced. “It’s all downhill from here,” said Alex Veras, a military veteran who had traveled up from Haverhill, Mass., to knock on doors for Rubio and was hoping to celebrate at the senator’s victory party in Manchester. Instead, Veras said, the “party” turned out to be a crowded ballroom filed with people staring silently at a TV screen. “It was like a funeral scene,” added Veras. The outlook for Rubio had all seemed so different a week ago. In his prep for the debate, Rubio was flawless, according to one senior adviser who participated in the sessions. “He was agile, fluent and ready to go,” insisted the adviser. Then came Saturday night. “I don’t know what went wrong,” said the top Rubio adviser. By early this week, prospective new donors had suddenly stopped returning calls from Rubio’s advisers, who watched helplessly as their candidate faded in the polls. A man dressed as a robot stands outside a polling place as he waits for Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio to arrive on voting day in Manchester, N.H. (Photo: Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Rubio’s robotic debate performance mattered to residents like Tina Tedesco, an Italian immigrant and first-time voter from Huxnet, N.H., who had been torn between Rubio and Trump until she watched the debate. “He kept saying the same thing,” she explained outside the Radisson Hotel, where a somber Rubio crowd had assembled to watch the returns. “He seemed flustered and unsure of himself,” added her friend Patty Abrams. In the end, both women pulled the lever for Trump. “We’re sick of being politically correct,” said Tedesco. After a disappointing loss in Iowa, Trump — who had criticized the idea of a ground game as late as last week, saying it was meaningless if a voter didn’t like a candidate’s “ideas”— tweaked his strategy ever so slightly in New Hampshire. He added a small town hall and made several unpublicized stops at diners around the Granite State in addition to his regular schedule of big rallies. Aides declined to say if their boss would embrace smaller stops in future contests, but onstage Tuesday, Trump thanked his campaign manager and joked that “we learned a lot about ground games in one week.” Trump’s victory puts him in a strong position to win South Carolina, where he currently has a 20-point lead over Cruz, his closest rival. Aides insisted Trump is also well-positioned heading into Super Tuesday, touting the massive rallies he has held in Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma and other key GOP states. But all of that seemed far off as Trump took the stage Tuesday night to the sound of the Beatles’ song “Revolution.” “You say you want a revolution,” sang John Lennon. “We all want to change the world.” But before Lennon could deliver the next line — “When you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out” — someone cut the song short, and Trump, his face flushed red, began to speak.
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	Syrian rebels demand U.S. action ahead of peace talks LONDON/ONCUPINAR, TURKEY \| BY GUY FAULCONBRIDGE AND HUMEYRA PAMUK Residents look for survivors in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria January 9, 2016. REUTERS/KHALIL ASHAWI Rebel groups urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do more to stop Russian bombing raids in Syria as pressure mounted on Washington ahead of a new round of peace talks this week. World powers are meeting in Germany on Thursday to try to revive the first effort in two years to negotiate an end to the war after it faltered in the starting blocks last week. But with Moscow backing a Syrian government push for all-out military victory against Western-backed rebels, Western officials and opposition delegates hold out little hope. Opposition spokesman Salim al-Muslat said Obama could stop the Russian attacks, although he did not spell out how. "If he is willing to save our children it is really the time now to say 'no' to these strikes in Syria," he told Reuters. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing for a ceasefire and more humanitarian aid access ahead of a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Munich. Moscow said Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Wednesday on the need for a ceasefire in Syria and the provision of humanitarian aid to blockaded areas. But one U.N. diplomatic source said Russia was "stringing Kerry along" in order to provide diplomatic cover for Moscow's real goal - to help President Bashar al-Assad win on the battlefield instead of compromising at the negotiating table. "It's clear to everyone now that Russia really doesn't want a negotiated solution but for Assad to win," said the diplomatic source, speaking on condition of anonymity. A senior adviser to Assad, Bouthaina Shaaban, told Reuters in Damascus on Tuesday that there would be no let-up in the army advance, which aimed to recapture the city of Aleppo from rebels and secure Syria's border with Turkey. Asked how soon a ceasefire could be put in place, a Russian diplomat who declined to be identified said: "Maybe March, I think so." The Washington Post said Moscow had sent a letter to Washington this week proposing to stop its bombing on March 1, allowing it to continue for another three weeks. FABIUS QUESTIONS U.S. COMMITMENT Saudi Arabia's King Salman plans to visit Moscow in mid-March, Russia's RIA news agency said, a meeting that would bring together the main sponsors of the opposing sides. Riyadh said on Tuesday it was willing to commit special forces to Syria should a U.S.-led coalition deploy ground troops against Islamic State. Saudi-backed rebels said they would go to Munich but would only go to U.N. peace talks in Geneva later this month if Russia stopped bombarding their positions and humanitarian aid reached civilians in the areas they control. Muslat reiterated calls for more military support, notably anti-aircraft missiles, a demand that has so far fallen on deaf ears for fear they could fall into the hands of Islamic State. RELATED COVERAGE › Syrian opposition says Russian strikes must stop before peace talks › Syrian, Russian forces carrying out ethnic cleansing around Aleppo - Turkish PM › U.S. envoy says 'looking at all options' for moving humanitarian aid in Syria "If we had these, this would solve the problem of Syria," he said. "We really guarantee that they do not go anywhere - that they will be in the hands of the moderates under the eye of our friends, whether European or American." Opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said the Russian and Iranian intervention in Syria was bolstering the extremist threat in the Middle East, but the rebels would not give up. On the ground, rebels say they are fighting for survival. A commander of a Turkmen contingent within the Levant Front rebel group, Zekeria Karsli, said his men faced attacks on three fronts: Islamic State to the east, Syrian government forces to the south and Kurds to the west. "Unfortunately the military situation on the battlefield is pretty bad. Russian planes are hitting us from the air and the Iranian/Assad block is hitting us from the ground," he told Reuters near the Oncupinar border post. He said Russian warplanes were carrying out hundreds of sorties every day and that the north of Aleppo city was encircled. But he said routes in to rebel-held parts of the city from Idlib province to the west were still open. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also questioned the commitment of the United States. "There are the ambiguities including among the actors of the coalition ... I'm not going to repeat what I've said before about the main pilot of the coalition," Fabius said. "But we don't have the feeling that there is a very strong commitment that is there." Turkey, meanwhile, upbraided the United States for supporting Syrian Kurdish PYD rebels, saying they were attacking civilians in collaboration with the Russians in what amounted to a campaign of ethnic cleansing. "Are you on our side or the side of the terrorist PYD?" President Tayyip Erdogan said, referring to Washington's backing of the group against Islamic State. FIGHTING OVER ALEPPO United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has set a target date of Feb. 25 to reconvene talks between the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva. But in less than two weeks, the offensive by Syrian forces, Hezbollah and Shiite militias directed by Iran - all backed by Russian bombing raids - have reversed opposition gains on the ground and encircled rebels inside Aleppo, a strategic prize now divided between government and opposition control. This has caused alarm among U.N. and Western officials, who believe the goal of the Syrian-Russian-Iranian campaign is to destroy the opposition's negotiating power in Geneva, kill them on the ground, and secure the first major military victory since Moscow began bombing opposition forces in Syria in September. RELATED COVERAGE › U.S. needs to mull options if Syria ceasefire talks fail - official › Wounded Syrian rebels say Russia crippling their insurgency › Iraq PM says sending ground troops to Syria would be 'dangerous escalation' "It'll be easy to get a ceasefire soon because the opposition will all be dead," a Western diplomat told Reuters. "That's a very effective ceasefire." The latest fighting around Aleppo has killed about 500 people on all sides, a monitoring group said. Other Western officials said Kerry overestimated his ability to bring Moscow around. They said he appeared to believe that since he had achieved what some saw as unachievable by getting a nuclear deal with Iran, he could do the same with Syria. They noted that the two cases were different. With Iran, Russia wanted a political agreement whereas in Syria it is pushing for a military victory by the Syrian government. "The Russians are playing cat and mouse with Kerry," a senior European diplomat said. Western officials said Moscow was clearly not committed to a ceasefire that would halt what it sees as military momentum that favours the Syrian army and its Iranian-backed supporters. FALSE ASSUMPTIONS Christopher Harmer, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, said Washington had falsely assumed there was no military solution to the Syria crisis. "The Assad regime has no interest in a political solution," he said. "The Russians have no interest in a political solution. Iran has no interest in a political solution. Hezbollah has no interest in a political solution." Russia says its air strikes have been targeting Islamic State, the militant Islamist group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq, and not Western-backed opposition groups. But U.S. and European officials say that is not the case. The Kremlin rejects claims that it has abandoned diplomacy in pursuit of a military solution, saying it would continue to providing military aid to Assad to fight "terrorist groups" and accusing Syria's opposition of walking away from the talks. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar have not hidden their view that there is little point in holding negotiations while the Russian air strikes and Syrian government advance continue. On the other side, Iran says the Saudis - not Iran, Russia or Assad - are the major obstacle to peace. "There are some countries that it seems don't want peace to be restored in Syria," a senior official involved in the Syria talks said. (Additional reporting by John Irish in Paris, Louis Charbonneau in New York, Parisa Hafezi in Ankara, Tom Miles in Geneva, Jonathan Landay in Washington and Michelle Nichols in New York; Editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 2/10/2016 6:03:17 PM
	There’s Something Strange Happening Here In Burns, Oregon… Posted on February 10, 2016 [by Jean Haines]by Jean February 9, 2016/in Uncategorized /by Belinda Bee We captured this article from TVOI News – Voice of Idaho before it disappeared! When we went to look for the article we noticed it was in “cache” form only, meaning that someone has taken the website & article down. So we have cut & pasted the article here, word for word, including pics & links, for future reference. Feb. 7, 2016 About two years ago the Nation watched as Cliven Bundy stood in opposition against an unjust seizure of his ranch and grazing rights by the BLM. The event grew as patriotic Americans responded and came to his aid. The growing protest was ultimately successful in forcing the BLM to turn tail and retreat in face of the growing support that they could no longer control. Fast forward now to January 2, 2016 and we have a similar situation with the BLM in small town out west called Burns, Oregon. Since the start of this protest, the MainStream Media (MSM) has been putting forth articles and news reports using such adjectives as “armed militants”, “right wing racists”, “terrorists” or “armed thugs”. Every story I read or listened to was basically the same, always one sided. I follow the belief that there are 3 sides to every story; you could call it her side, his side and the Truth. So when only one side is ever told, it is safe to assume that there is an agenda afoot. An agenda the MSM never speaks about. So in my quest to get to the Truth, I decided to take an eight day vacation from my full time job to travel 3,000 miles via plane and car to that small town out west call Burns. What you are about to read is exactly what I witnessed and learned from my westward trip. I hope that this article, and those to follow, will help you see through the smokescreen of lies the media, at the bequest of our federal government , have been and are still telling us as the means to controlling the narrative. Contrary to the MSM stories one finds on the situation in Burns Oregon, the real terrorists in Burns Oregon are not the farmers, ranchers or loggers, nor are they the patriotic first responders. The farmers, ranchers and loggers are salt of the earth people. They are hardworking folks who bust their butts every day to earn a living as many of us do on a daily basis. The Patriotic first responders; men and women who have left behind their lives, families, friends and jobs in order to come to Burns to bring attention to the illegal land grabs and the usurpation of our Constitution. These people present no threat to the people of Burns as evidenced by the fact that they frequent the local stores, shops, restaurants and bars without any issues. At first glance, it is easy to accept the media story that Sheriff David Ward invited the FBI to take over local control of the situation to help protect the citizens of Burns Oregon from a band of “armed occupiers”. But that is for another article. So let’s take a closer look at several key issues that most may not be seeing. In past decades whenever there was a civil protest it was customary for the local police and maybe the use of the state police to control and insure that the protest remains peaceful. During the protests of the late 60’s when demonstration began turning violent, State’s at the request of their Governors started to call in the National Guard to assist the police in maintaining order and protecting the public. The question to ask is why didn’t Oregon Governor, Kate Brown, in accordance with Title 32 of the United States Code, call for the Oregon National Guard to assist in any local police action in response to the “armed occupiers” at the Malheur Refuge. Could it be that Gov. Kate Brown was appointed to her position, not elected by the People of her State, as was Sheriff David Ward of Harney County? Could it be that these appointed officials are beholden, not the good People of Oregon, but strictly to those entities that placed them in their position and power. Another unusual fact is that Special Agent Greg Bretzing in charge of the Malhuer Refuge Occupation happens to be linked to a Nation Security breach along with other fraud and corruption violation, as reported by The Shasta Lantern. Clickhere to view that article. But, here in Burns the situation is much different and potentially much more ominous and deadly, as evidenced by the murder of LaVoy Finicum, by agencies yet to be fully disclosed. Authorities acting under the color of law but not in adherence to our laws, first closed down the Burns school system, even though the “armed occupiers”, of which only 4 are now remaining, are located 30 plus miles from downtown Burns in the middle of nowhere. WHY? Why was this necessary? Road blocks, closures and check points are now common place in in and around Burns. Many of the local people have claimed that they are being randomly pulled over by “authorities” demanding they provide their ID’s for just driving down the street. There are locals being stopped at armed check points and forced out of their vehicle at gun point while their personal belongings and vehicle are thoroughly searched. One rancher, Thom Davis, related his story in which he had a slowly dying horse on the range that needed to be humanly put down in order to relieve its suffering. The only trouble being that he was not that far from one of these check points and feared that should he have ended the horse’s suffering with a shot to the head, he too would have suffered the same fate. A fate that was later confirmed when he talked to the sheriff. In another case the authorities actually took their vehicle a quarter mile beyond the check point and made them walk to get it. Yet, in another case, Alexandra Puckett, described in a facebook post, the treatment and gun point threats from authorities that her husband and his mom encountered while trying only to feed their cows. These actions taken by authorities have more in common with those of a Military Occupying Force in Iraq or Afghanistan they do with normal police actions here in American. The terrorization of Burns and throughout Harney County is, by no stretch of the imagination, being conducted by the ever increasing militarization of Federal and State agencies. With many reports of in conjunction with an illegal and unconstitutional buildup of a foreign mercenary army of PMC’s, an invading army if you will, acting under the color of law but not in adherence to our laws. Claim as they do that they are FBI, their tactics and use of vehicle void of any US military or alphabet agency marking or insignia’s, and lack of compliance with US Law, even when asked they present no documentation that they are indeed FBI. A video clip of this fact can be seen here. Additionally, other armored assets from distant counties are in Burns. I ask, is all this really necessary to protect the public from 4 people still at the Refuge located 30 miles away, armed with a few rifles and hand guns, and already contained by authorities so they cannot escape from there. Or is something else going on here? Further there are claims that Blackhawk helicopters are being stationed at Burns Airport and in the surrounding area. For a link to that report click here. Further there are claims that Blackhawk helicopters are being stationed at Burns Airport and in the surrounding area. For a link to that report click here. In a recorded phone call to Major Bomar, Judge Darby explains that the forces present in Burns are most likely under the command and control of the UN and the IMF. In other words, foreign forces acting freely on US soil, a clear violation of our Constitution. Judge Darby audio click here. Why, you ask, would foreign PMC’s be doing here on the ground in the middle of nowhere in eastern Oregon, and under whose authorization are they being allowed to operate? Could it be that they are here to seize control of these lands for the mineral rights and related wealth for foreign governments? Well, as usual it’s all about following the money. In this case the money is the mineral wealth that these lands contain. As most are aware Hillary Clinton has sold our uranium to Russia, for personal gain and power. While China is buying up as much gold as possible, and gold is another mineral the lands out west are still rich in. Could China be laying claim to this gold as collateral for our national debt? Further info can be found here and here. It is time for the People of America to start asking questions of their representatives as to whose authority these foreign forces and here operation under and why none of them are Obeying their Oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic! It’s time We The People embrace our differences, differences that make each and every one of us an Individual, Unite in One Voice and Demand a Redress of Grievances to address these issues in a manner that is consistent with the procedures set forth in the US Constitution . Our Founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence : “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall deem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness” Therefore, We have the Constitutional Right and Duty to cast aside an overbearing federal government and build anew, by putting the Power back into the hand of its Rightful Owners…We the People. To do otherwise plays into their bloody hands. Here is why we cut & paste this article, it is a screen shot where the website shows it has been “cached”, meaning it no longer exists:
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