20 Urban Shield 2013 Scenarios Which Prove The Terrorists Are Us The American PeopleKim M.Planet InfowarsOctober 24, 2013

Out of 47 “scenarios” being practiced by first responders during Urban Shield 2013 this October 25 – 28 in the San Francisco Bay Area, at least 20 of them are “domestic” – either stated explicitly, or implied (see below in BOLD CAPS) – and possibly more.

Overall, the scenarios vary widely in scope – up to and including “odor investigation” – but the “domestic terrorists” are generally characterized as being anything from “anarchists” (Tea Partiers? Christians? Patriots?) to “homegrown” terrorists (recent American-Moslem converts duped into FBI-sting operations?)

Interesting to note that, as of this writing, the English “Urban Shield” Wikipedia entry has disappeared… but you can still get it in French. (Too bad for you if you don’t read French.)

However, there is still a brief mention of Urban Shield in the English Wikipedia entry for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ASCO).

According to Wikipedia’s ASCO entry, Urban Shield is the largest urban “SWAT” exercise in America. Always held in autumn, it provides “opportunities” for first-responder teams from all over the nation totrain in what appears to be mostly “terrorist” scenarios.

(As an aside – since I scan the news feeds daily – I’ve been noticing variations of ALL these “scenarios” making the news on a regular basis, including recently locking down an entire school district in Richmond, California due to an “odor investigation”… for an odor which turned out to be from a smelly barge starting its engine several miles outside the city limits. Oh, the hysteria.)

You should also be pleased and comfortedto note that among the many“public/private partners” (and corporatesponsors) taking part in this year’s UrbanShield will be the Boy Scouts, FedEx andVerizon Wireless.

And, in addition to the 18 federal agencieslisted (including Louisiana StateUniversity?), there will also be 12 foreigncountries keeping us safe from domesticterrorists: Israel, Brazil, Guam, IsraeliYamam, Norway, Switzerland, France,Jordan, Bahrain, Singapore, Canada andQatar. With all this “help” – in what isturning out to be a huge multi-billiondollar industry – it makes you wonder whois keeping us safe from the “helpers?”

Scenario #1: FitnessAssessment/Confidence CourseScenario #2: Medical Checkpoint #1

SCENARIO #3: INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE RECONNAISSANCETactical teams will be provided a scenario in which they must rescue a judge from a Homegrown Violent Extremists group. Teams will be tested on their ability to develop a plan of action.Host: Alameda County Sheriff’s Office – Black CommandLocation: Alameda County Firearms Training FacilitySponsors: TCI Tactical Command IndustriesFulcrum Concepts LLCZMB IndustriesZistos Portable Video Systems

SCENARIO #4: COLLEGE CAMPUS HOSTAGE RESCUETactical teams will be evaluated on their ability to transition between many different tactics based on a rapidly evolving, dynamic scenario.Host: Livermore Police Department – Black CommandLocation: Las Positas Community CollegeSponsor: VieVu-Video Cameras

SCENARIO #5: SWAT & K9 INTEGRATION DURING DEPLOYMENTTactical teams will coordinate with K9 units to search a rural wooded area for suspected narco-terrorists who recently murdered one CHP officer and wounded another.Host: Alameda County Sheriff’s Office – Black CommandLocation: Del Valle Regional Park PropertySponsor: None listed

SCENARIO #6: HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS ASSAULTTactical teams will properly respond to a terrorist attack at a school, testing their ability to operate under fire, and rescue hostages.Host: Fremont Police Department – Gold CommandLocation: Coyote Hills Shooting Range, FremontSponsor: 5.11 Tactical SeriesTCI Tactical Command Industries

SCENARIO #7: ANARCHIST REFINERY BOMBERTeams are presented with a scenario testing their ability to operate in a large open area and minimize damage to critical infrastructure.Host: Redwood City Police Department – Silver CommandLocation: Port of Redwood CitySponsor: Digital SandboxScenario #8: Water Treatment Facility WMD Attack

SCENARIO #9: DOMESTIC TERRORIST WATERSHED TAKEOVERTactical teams will be evaluated on their ability to respond to a chemical attack while mitigating further terrorist activity and rescuing hostages.Host: San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office – Silver CommandLocation: Crystal Springs ReservoirSponsor: Fraser OpticsScenario #10: Medical Checkpoint #2

SCENARIO #11: HIGH RISK SEARCH WARRANTTactical teams will be presented with a scenario to work in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to successfully execute a buy-bust search warrant.Host: Drug Enforcement Agency – Silver CommandLocation: Simunitions Training Warehouse, South San FranciscoSponsor: None listed

SCENARIO #12: COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTER TAKEOVERTeams are provided a scenario testing their ability to work in a confined area under duress.Host: San Francisco Sheriff’s Department – Green CommandLocation: San Bruno Jail ComplexSponsor: Securus TechnologiesATK Force On Force

SCENARIO #13:EXTREMISTMANHUNTTactical teams willrespond to violentterrorist(s) who havegunned down anundercover agent andtaken hostages.Host: San FranciscoSheriff’s Department –Green CommandLocation: San Bruno JailComplexSponsor: SecurusTechnologiesATK Force On ForceScenario #14: TerroristAttack on Public Transit

SCENARIO #15:TRANSAMERICAPYRAMID CENTER TAKEOVERThis scenario was developed to test tactical teams response to a homegrown terrorist attack on a San Francisco high rise building.Host: San Francisco Sheriff’s Department – Green CommandLocation: Transamerica Pyramid CenterSponsor: Digital SandboxScenario #16: Human Trafficking InterdictionScenario #17: Medical Checkpoint #3Scenario #18: Laboratory TakeoverScenario #19: Parking Structure WMD Dispersal DeviceScenario #20: Critical Infrastructure Assault (SF-Oakland Bay Bridge)Scenario #21: Commuter Train AssaultScenario #22: Maritime InterdictionScenario #23: Military Installation AssaultScenario #24: Airplane HijackingScenario #25: Medical Checkpoint #4Scenario #26: Vehicle Assault (Old Mervyn’s Headquarters)Scenario #27: Dignitary RescueScenario #28: High Rise RappellingScenario #29: Chemical Sabotage

SCENARIO #30: DOMESTIC TERRORIST SCHOOL TAKEOVERTactical teams will be provided an active shooter scenario testing their ability to effectively engage the terrorist(s) and effect a rescue of the hostage(s).Host: Alameda County Sheriff’s Office – Blue CommandLocation: Canyon Middle School, Castro Valley

Sponsor: Black OPS AirsoftApplanix A Trimble CompanyScenario #31: Hospital AssaultScenario #32: Technology ShowcaseEOD Scenario #1: Explosive Ordnance Disposal Response 1EOD Scenario #2: Explosive Ordnance Disposal Response 2

EOD SCENARIO #3: EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL RESPONSE 3Two teams work together to enter a booby trapped apartment, render safe a number of booby traps, and analyze chemicals present for their use in IEDs.Host: Alameda County Sheriff’s Office – Black CommandLocation: Alameda County EOD Bomb RangeSponsor: HazMasterG3

FIRE SCENARIO #1: ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORIST SABOTAGEResponding US&R task force teams will be confronted with multiple and conflicting priorities while freeing two trapped construction workers.Host: South San Francisco Fire Department – Red CommandLocation: South San Francisco Fire Department Trench Rescue Training SiteSponsor: MES Municipal Emergency Services Inc.

FIRE SCENARIO #2: IED EXPLOSION IN A CONFINED SPACEAn IED placed in a refinery pipe maze by environmental terrorists is accidentally detonated by bomb squad personnel while attempting to render the device safe.Host: South San Francisco Fire Department – Red CommandLocation: South San Francisco Vehicle and Equipment Maintenance FacilitySponsor: FoxFury Personal Lighting Solutions

FIRE SCENARIO #3: BUILDING COLLAPSEA member of the Sovereign Citizen movement has driven a truck into a government building which resulted in a partial building collapse and fire.Host: South San Francisco Fire Department – Red CommandLocation: South San Francisco Fire Department Collapse Structure Training FacilitySponsor: Parrot AR Drone

FIRE SCENARIO #4: HIGH-ANGLE RESCUEThe sniper attack on a government high-rise building by a Homegrown Violent Extremist (HVE) has left two window washers injured.Host: South San Francisco Fire Department – Red CommandLocation: Boston Properties, South San FranciscoSponsor: None listed

FIRE SCENARIO #5 AND 11: COOPERATIVE USAR/HAZMAT RESPONSEUS&R and Hazmat task-force teams will cooperatively respond to a car bomb detonated by extremists that has resulted in a collapse of a medical research facility.Host: South San Francisco Fire Department – Red Command

Location: Alexandria Development Building, South San FranciscoSponsor: Western Shelter SystemsGraingerApplanix A Trimble CompanyFire Scenario #6: Terrorist Bus Hijacking/Low-Angle Rescue

FIRE SCENARIO #7: CLANDESTINE DRUG LAB EXPLOSIONAn explosion of an IED at a clandestine drug lab has resulted in members of a SWAT team and other first responders becoming contaminated with unknown chemicals.Host: South San Francisco Fire Department – Red CommandLocation: South San Francisco Vehicle and Equipment Mainenance FacilitySponsor: None listedFire Scenario #8: Odor InvestigationFire Scenario #9: Cargo Container Sabotage

FIRE SCENARIO #10: MONITORING/DETECTION DIRTY BOMB ATTACKMembers of an anarchist group have detonated a dirty bomb in the mail room of a credit card processing facility, resulting in exposure to employees.Host: South San Francisco Fire Department – Red CommandLocation: Boston Properties, South San FranciscoSponsor: MES Municipal Emergency Services Inc.Fire Scenario #12: Arson Fire

SOURCES:

http://www.urbanshield.org

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ blogs/ on-leadership/ wp/ 2013/ 10/ 11/ the-tea-party-is-giving-anarchism-a-bad-name/

http://www.examiner.com/article/another-terrorism-report-demonizes-christian-patriots-preppers

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1341/the-creeping-homegrown-threat

http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/why-are-feds-cultivating-their-own.html

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_shield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_County_Sheriff%27s_Office

http://www.alamedacountysheriff.org/

http://publicintelligence.net/alameda-urban-shield-2013/

http://info.publicintelligence.net/AlamedaCountyUrbanShield2013.pdf

http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_24267003/richmond-residents-report-strong-gas-odor

http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_24276573/gas-smell-that-enveloped-richmond-came-from-disabled

Leaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police For Gun Confiscations And Martial LawKit DanielsInfowars.comOctober 26, 2013

MP told Constitution may be suspended by DHS Infowars has confirmed the identity and authenticity of the source of the video below as a member of the U.S. Army military police in Arizona. Military Police Leak FEMA Gun Confiscation Plan VIDEO BELOWhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LavSGvONNxcThe video, shot in September 2013, shows an army commander briefing the MPs on their new command structure under the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security for domestic operations with the National Guard.

The MP began recording the exchange after being shocked to hear that they were now under FEMA control. In this video you can clearly hear the commander discuss the suspension of the Constitution for martial law and gun confiscations in America.

In essence, the military police is to provide security for FEMA while the agency confiscates our guns during a government-declared domestic crisis. “They did that in Katrina, right,” the commander said. “They just go on and take away people’s guns.” This is yet another piece of the larger pattern of demonization of gun owners, libertarians, conservatives, Christians and anyone who will not bow downto enslavement by a hijacked government occupied by ruthless tyrants who desire only total control.

We’ve already seen gun confiscations in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005:

NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4

Unmarked Military Gunboats Patrol Louisiana CanalsInfowars.comOctober 26, 2013

Gunboats Seen Patrolling in Eden Isles, Louisiana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu3mqjHB9R8A video shows unmarked military gunboats patrolling the canals around Slidell, Louisiana.

Apparently, the residents have never seen this in the area before.

Is this part of some kind of drill or is it just normal now in the new Amerika to see armed troops patrolling public canals?

Police State 2000 VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKty_3IlXOc

Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqv9t1zVww

Martial Law 911-Rise of the Police State VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIzT6r56CnY

EndGame Blue Print to Global Enslavement VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-CrNlilZho&ob=av3e

Leaked Memos Reveal GCHQ Efforts To Keep Mass Surveillance SecretGuy TaylorLondon GuardianOctober 26, 2013

Edward Snowden papers show UK spy agency fears legal challenge if scale of surveillance is made public The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has repeatedly warned it fears a "damaging public debate" on the scale of its activities because it could lead to legal challenges against its mass-surveillance programmes, classified internal documents reveal.

Memos contained in the cache disclosed by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden detail the agency's long fight against making intercept evidence admissible as evidence in criminal trials – a policy supported by all three major political parties, but ultimately defeated by the UK's intelligence community.

Foremost among the reasons was a desire to minimise the potential for challenges against the agency's large-scale interception programmes, rather than any intrinsic threat to security, the documents show.

The papers also reveal that:

• GCHQ lobbied furiously to keep secret the fact that telecoms firms had gone "well beyond" what theywere legally required to do to help intelligence agencies' mass interception of communications, both in the UK and overseas.

• GCHQ feared a legal challenge under the right to privacy in the Human Rights Act if evidence of its surveillance methods became admissible in court.

• GCHQ assisted the Home Office in lining up sympathetic people to help with "press handling", including the Liberal Democrat peer and former intelligence services commissioner Lord Carlile, who this week criticised the Guardian for its coverage of mass surveillance by GCHQ and America's

National Security Agency.

The most recent attempt to make intelligence gathered from intercepts admissible in court, proposed bythe last Labour government, was finally stymied by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 in 2009.

A briefing memo prepared for the board of GCHQ shortly before the decision was made public revealed that one reason the agency was keen to quash the proposals was the fear that even passing references to its wide-reaching surveillance powers could start a "damaging" public debate.

Referring to the decision to publish the report on intercept as evidence without classification, it noted: "Our main concern is that references to agency practices (ie the scale of interception and deletion) could lead to damaging public debate which might lead to legal challenges against the current regime." A later update, from May 2012, set out further perceived "risks" of making intercepts admissible, including "the damage to partner relationships if sensitive information were accidentally released in open court". It also noted that the "scale of interception and retention required would be fairly likely to be challenged on Article 8 (Right to Privacy) grounds".

The GCHQ briefings showed the agency provided the Home Office with support in winning the PR battle on the proposed reforms by lining up people to talk to the media – including Lord Carlile, who on Wednesday gave a public lecture condemning the Guardian's decision to publish stories based on theleaked material from Snowden.

Referring to the public debate on intercept evidence, the document notes: "Sir Ken McDonald [sic] (former DPP [director of public prosecutions]), Lord Goldsmith (former AG [attorney general]) and David Davis (former Shadow HSec [home secretary) [have been] reiterating their previous calls for IaE[intercept as evidence].

"We are working closely with HO [Home Office] on their plans for press handling when the final reportis published, e.g. lining up talking heads (such as Lord Carlisle [sic], Lord Stevens, Sir Stephen Lander,Sir Swinton Thomas)."

Carlile was the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation in 2001-11, and was awarded a CBE in 2012 for his services to national security.

Another top GCHQ priority in resisting the admission of intercepts as evidence was keeping secret the extent of the agency's co-operative relationships with telephone companies – including being granted access to communications networks overseas.

In June, the Guardian disclosed the existence of GCHQ's Tempora internet surveillance programme. It uses intercepts on the fibre-optic cables that make up the backbone of the internet to gain access to vastswaths of internet users' personal data. The intercepts are placed in the UK and overseas, with the knowledge of companies owning either the cables or landing stations.

The revelations of voluntary co-operation with some telecoms companies appear to contrast markedly with statements made by large telecoms firms in the wake of the first Tempora stories. They stressed that they were simply complying with the law of the countries in which they operated.

In reality, numerous telecoms companies were doing much more than that, as disclosed in a secret document prepared in 2009 by a joint working group of GCHQ, MI5 and MI6.

Their report contended that allowing intercepts as evidence could damage relationships with "Communications Service Providers" (CSPs).

In an extended excerpt of "the classified version" of a review prepared for the Privy Council, a formal body of advisers made up of current and former cabinet ministers, the document sets out the real natureof the relationship between telecoms firms and the UK government.

"Under RIPA [the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000], CSPs in the UK may be required to provide, at public expense, an adequate interception capability on their networks," it states. "In practice all significant providers do provide such a capability. But in many cases their assistance – while in conformity with the law – goes well beyond what it requires."

GCHQ's internet surveillance programme is the subject of a challenge in the European court of human rights, mounted by three privacy advocacy groups. The Open Rights Group, English PEN and Big Brother Watch argue the "unchecked surveillance" of Tempora is a challenge to the right to privacy, as set out in the European convention on human rights.

That the Tempora programme appears to rely at least in part on voluntary co-operation of telecoms firms could become a major factor in that ongoing case. The revelation could also reignite the long-running debate over allowing intercept evidence in court.

GCHQ's submission goes on to set out why its relationships with telecoms companies go further than what can be legally compelled under current law. It says that in the internet era, companies wishing to avoid being legally mandated to assist UK intelligence agencies would often be able to do so "at little cost or risk to their operations" by moving "some or all" of their communications services overseas.

As a result, "it has been necessary to enter into agreements with both UK-based and offshore providers for them to afford the UK agencies access, with appropriate legal authorisation, to the communications they carry outside the UK".

The submission to ministers does not set out which overseas firms have entered into voluntary relationships with the UK, or even in which countries they operate, though documents detailing the Tempora programme made it clear the UK's interception capabilities relied on taps located both on UK soil and overseas.

There is no indication as to whether the governments of the countries in which deals with companies have been struck would be aware of the GCHQ cable taps.

Evidence that telecoms firms and GCHQ are engaging in mass interception overseas could stoke an ongoing diplomatic row over surveillance ignited this week after the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, accused the NSA of monitoring her phone calls, and the subsequent revelation that the agency monitored communications of at least 35 other world leaders.

On Friday, Merkel and the French president, François Hollande, agreed to spearhead efforts to make the NSA sign a new code of conduct on how it carried out intelligence operations within the European Union, after EU leaders warned that the international fight against terrorism was being jeopardised by the perception that mass US surveillance was out of control.

Fear of diplomatic repercussions were one of the prime reasons given for GCHQ's insistence that its relationships with telecoms firms must be kept private .

Telecoms companies "feared damage to their brands internationally, if the extent of their co-operation with HMG [Her Majesty's government] became apparent", the GCHQ document warned. It added that if intercepts became admissible as evidence in UK courts "many CSPs asserted that they would withdraw their voluntary support".

The report stressed that while companies are going beyond what they are required to do under UK law, they are not being asked to violate it.

Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty and Anthony Romero Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union issued a joint statement stating:

"The Guardian's publication of information from Edward Snowden has uncovered a breach of trust by

the US and UK Governments on the grandest scale. The newspaper's principled and selective revelations demonstrate our rulers' contempt for personal rights, freedoms and the rule of law. "Across the globe, these disclosures continue to raise fundamental questions about the lack of effective legal protection against the interception of all our communications. "Yet in Britain, that conversation is in danger of being lost beneath self-serving spin and scaremongering, with journalists who dare to question the secret state accused of aiding the enemy. "A balance must of course be struck between security and transparency, but that cannot be achieved whilst the intelligence services and their politicalmasters seek to avoid any scrutiny of, or debate about, their actions. "The Guardian's decision to exposethe extent to which our privacy is being violated should be applauded and not condemned."

BBC News - Ex-GCHQ chief: 'Nobody is reading all your emails' VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RmGOhCjgM

Armed Agents Seize Records Of Reporter, Washington Times Prepares Legal ActionGuy TaylorThe Washington TimesOctober 26, 2013

Maryland state police and federalagents used a search warrant in anunrelated criminal investigation toseize the private reporting files ofan award-winning formerinvestigative journalist for TheWashington Times who had exposedproblems in the Homeland SecurityDepartment’s Federal Air MarshalService.

Michael Savage InterviewsAudrey Hudson Armed Feds RaidReporters Home, ConfiscateConfedential Docs VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mAHdOsDYVAReporter Audrey Hudson said the investigators, who included an agent for Homeland’s Coast Guard service, took her private notes and government documents that she had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act during a predawn raid of her family home on Aug. 6.

The documents, some which chronicled her sources and her work at the Times about problems inside the Homeland Security Department, were seized under a warrant to search for unregistered firearms and a “potato gun” suspected of belonging to her husband, Paul Flanagan, a Coast Guard employee. Mr. Flanagan has not been charged with any wrongdoing since the raid. The warrant, obtained by the Times, offered no specific permission to seize reporting notes or files.

Full article here

“So Help Me God” Now Optional for Air Force Cadet Oath Kurt NimmoInfowars.comOctober 25, 2013

Group opposed to religion in themilitary says oath is unconstitutional

Following a complaint by the MilitaryReligious Freedom Foundation, the U.S.Air Force Academy in Colorado on Fridaydecided to make the phrase “so help meGod” optional when cadets recite theHonor Oath.

The part of the Cadet Honor Oath inquestion has cadets swear that they willnot lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those whodo, according to Fox News 21 in ColoradoSprings.

“We will not lie, steal or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to do my duty and to live honorably, so help me God,” the oath states.

The foundation claims the oath violates the Constitution.

The Air Force says the decision to make the phrase optional is part of a policy of religious and cultural tolerance.

“Here at the Academy, we work to build a culture of dignity and respect, and that respect includes the ability of our cadets, Airmen and civilian Airmen to freely practice and exercise their religious preference – or not.” Lt. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson, Academy Superintendent, told Fox News. “So, in the spirit of respect, cadets may or may not choose to finish the Honor Oath with ‘So help me God.’”

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation was established in 2005 for the purpose of opposing evangelical Christians in positions of power within the military. The organization’s founder, Michael Weinstein, has described targets of the foundation as “a small subset of evangelical Christianity that’s called premilliennial, dispensational, reconstructionist, dominionist, fundamentalist, evangelical Christianity or just Dominionist Christianity.”

Mr. Weinstein characterizes evangelical Christians in the military as “incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.”

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