‘Jade Helm’ military exercise causing political firestorm in Texas, western states
Published May 06, 2015FoxNews.com
A massive military exercise planned in states across the American West has touched off a political firestorm, with several top Texas officials now questioning the military’s plans – if only to calm the Internet and constituent furor surrounding it.

The seven-state war simulation exercise, known as “Jade Helm 15,” is planned for this summer. It involves training exercises on private and public land – while such exercises are hardly unique, even the military acknowledges the “size and scope” of this one sets it apart.

While the White House and Pentagon are downplaying concerns, this hasn’t stopped a barrage of blogs and tweets warning about whether the federal government is preparing for “martial law.” Even actor Chuck Norris is keeping his “eyes of a ranger” on the situation.

Western-state officials are now caught between a desire to calm their residents – and yet not appear to stoke any conspiracy theories.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott already has asked the State Guard to monitor the training exercises, after officials faced worried residents at a packed town hall meeting.

This alone triggered accusations that the Republican governor is “pandering to idiots.”

On Monday, the governor defended his actions. “There was, frankly, an overreaction to the simple fact that someone has to be in charge with gathering and disseminating information,” said Abbott, speaking to reporters. “We stepped in to play that role, which is a role to be applauded.”

On Tuesday, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert also released a lengthy statement saying his office has been “inundated” with calls on the matter.

“This military practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law,” he said. “Certainly, I can understand these concerns.”

At the same time, Gohmert said he understands why military officials want to test whether Special Forces groups can move around a civilian population and handle various threat scenarios.

Gohmert explained that his concerns stem from the way the military is approaching the exercise. He cited a widely circulated map which details the seven states that are part of the exercise – California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Texas. The map has Utah and Texas colored red and labels them “hostile.” It labels other states as “permissive,” leaning hostile” and “leaning friendly.”

Gohmert said he was “rather appalled” that the “hostile” areas “have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,’ and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution.”

He called this an “affront” to residents there and urged the military to change its approach and tone. “The map of the exercise needs to change, the names on the map need to change, and the tone of the exercise needs to be completely revamped so the federal government is not intentionally practicing war against its own states,” he said.

And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate, told Bloomberg he’s reached out to the Pentagon to “inquire about this exercise.” He said he has no reason to doubt the Pentagon’s assurances, but he understands residents’ concerns – and backs Abbott’s actions.

But the White House and Pentagon are pushing back. Last week, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said he has “no idea what [Abbott is] thinking.”

“In no way will the constitutional rights or civil liberties of any American citizen be infringed upon while this exercise is being conducted,” Earnest said.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren likewise said it “poses no threat” to civil liberties.

“This is a several weeks long training exercise with the purpose to refine the skills of our special operations forces,” he said, while batting back “strange Internet conspiracy theories” and “wild speculation” about the operation.

Special Operations Command said in a March press release that the exercise, from July 15 through Sept. 15, will only take place on “pre-coordinated” public and private lands – with permission from landowners and officials. Much of it would be in “remote areas,” though residents may see an uptick in “vehicle and military air traffic and its associated noise.”

An official with Special Operations Command also told Fox 13 Salt Lake City that the purpose was to replicate “potential terrain” soldiers might find themselves in overseas. As for labeling states like Utah “hostile,” the official said that was part of the design. “It is fictional and is not intended to represent any belief that the state of Utah is hostile,” the official said.

The politics have gotten tricky for western state lawmakers, however, as it puts them between concerned residents and America’s soldiers.

In Texas, Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director Manny Garcia called on Abbott to apologize to the military, accusing the governor of giving “credence to conspiracy theorists by ordering the Texas State Guard to monitor U.S. military operations.”

Meanwhile, Chuck Norris, a.k.a. “Walker, Texas Ranger,” is backing up the governor.

Writing on the conservative website WorldNetDaily, he said: “Concerned Texans and Americans are in no way calling into question our brave and courageous men and women in uniform. They are merely following orders. What’s under question are those who are pulling the strings at the top of Jade Helm 15 back in Washington. The U.S. government says, ‘It’s just a training exercise.’ But I’m not sure the term ‘just’ has any reference to reality when the government uses it.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

why did 6 money making walmarts mysteriously close over night due to "plumbing problems.??

And S California is labeled hostile . ??

6 walmarts, all with chronic plumbing issues across the country. No other businesses or dwellings affected, no known permits issued , no known plumbing contracts, no notice to employees, no view inside any of them?

They are practicing taking over the US.

All I know is that if you want priceless entertainment...

head straight to the Yucca Valley Walmart...



One of the coolest places out here to visit...

I absolutely love it there...

Not one single visit have I not at some point ended up taking a quick corner with the cart for fear of busting up and offending someone...

Who better to monitor a military exercise in Texas than Chuck Norris?

Operation Jade Helm 15, a Special Operations Command training exercise, has sparked heated buzz about a potential military coup in the Lone Star State.

And television's Texas Ranger is the latest critic to admit that the exercise has him worried.

"Concerned Texans and Americans are in no way calling into question our brave and courageous men and women in uniform," Norris wrote in a recent op-ed for WND.com. "They are merely following orders. What's under question are those who are pulling the strings at the top of Jade Helm 15 back in Washington. The U.S. government says, 'It's just a training exercise.' But I'm not sure the term 'just' has any reference to reality when the government uses it."

Last week, citizen concerns prompted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to ask the Texas State Guard to keep an eye on the summer exercise — a decision that comedian Jon Stewart called "adorable" in pitting the state's part-time Guard troops against the vastly superior firepower of U.S. Special Operations Command.

Or as Stewart described it: "Like an 8-year-old picking a fight with the Predator."

On his show Monday night, Stewart made clear he's had enough. "There's no Texas takeover!" he said. "Enough of the fear mongering. These types of exercises have been going on in Texas for years, right?"

Stewart noted that during Gov. Rick Perry's tenure in 2001, the training exercise Operating Roving Sands involved more than 15,000 troops from all branches of the military, and did not attract much attention.

So what's changed?

"America elected a brutal socialist Muslim Kenyan ineffective Harvard-schooled constitutional professor agitator warlock," Stewart said, tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Norris has a more intricate theory.

"I think it is more than coincidental that the FBI director just confessed in February that the presence of ISIS can be felt in all 50 states of the U.S. and that the Pentagon is suddenly running its biggest military training exercise with every branch of the military across seven Southwestern states," Norris said.

"Whether deterrence, display of power or something more covert or devious, let's not come with any patronizing nonsense of impotence and simplicity when its origin is in Washington," he went on.

Stewart's riposte to that: "You have a choice to make, and when you make it just remind yourself — and I never thought I'd be saying this — what would Rick Perry do?

Union job action.

No, I do not believe its a take over Ghost, but I do believe there will be scattered tests given in this exercise to see what the reaction would be- just small ones mind you. This also proves where the mindset of Washington is now as far as concerns of its own citizenry - is it not? This is the biggest training op they ever did here. And it is training to fight here. FIght who?

So on one hand we should respect and revere our military, and on the other we should fear and distrust them...

You stooopid Americans.

They don't need to take anything from you as they already own your soul.

You sold your soul to these criminal loon politard politicians years ago ....

A frightening foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that over the past nearly 36 hours the vast intercontinental military tunnel complex constructed by the United States Air force over the past nearly 45 years was hit with two powerful nuclear explosions at its main terminuses in Colorado and Virginia used nearly exclusively by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

According to this report, this unprecedented nuclear attack began on the evening of 22 August when one of the main air pressure relief tunnels for this CIA tunnel, located at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida, was forced open allowing millions of cubic feet of air to rush suddenly into the atmosphere. The unique sound of this event was captured by video [1st video left] during a baseball game being played at Tropicana Field near MacDill, though US officials blamed the “mystery noise” on a faulty sound system.

This GRU report, however, points out that Russian engineers are well acquainted with this unique sound as they work feverishly to prepare an additional 5,000 bomb shelters ordered by Prime Minister Putin this past spring to be completed by the end of 2012.

Russian engineers were, also, able to duplicate this unique sound this past March when they were called into the Ukraine to vent a number of deep underground tunnels from poison gas that had killed three people near Kiev and which was, likewise, captured by video. [2nd video left]

Within a few hours of the venting of this vast tunnel complex, this report continues, a nuclear device was detonated at its western terminus located near Trinidad Colorado with the second blast occurring nearly 12 hours later at the eastern terminus near Culpeper Virginia, and both causing powerful earthquakes felt by tens of millions of Americans.

Unbeknownst to the vast majority of the American people is that the vast military tunnel network constructed since the early 1960’s under their country has cost an estimated $40 trillion and with the exception of this attack shows no sign of abating.

The only known photo of one of the massive US Air Force boring machines used to construct this vast tunnel complex was taken by Little Skull Mountain in Nevada in December 1982 [see bottom photo] and is similar in design to those used to construct the Chunnel between England and France.

Maps of these tunnels, and the underground bases associated with them, have been compiled over the years by many independent researchers along with lists of their probable locations.

The specific tunnel attacked by these nuclear devices, this GRU report says, was being used by the CIA during their moving of their headquarters and all of their assets out of their Langley Virginia location to their new base located in Denver Colorado that was begun in 2005 for reasons still not fully explained.

The GRU speculates that the timing of this attack in hitting the western terminus first, then the eastern one, was more than likely meant to “trap and destroy” whatever the CIA was currently moving through this tunnel from Langley to Denver.

Most interesting to note is that this attack comes nearly a decade to the day after the 11 September 2011 internal war between the CIA and the US military establishment that rained destruction upon America, and then the world, but whose final battle has yet to be fought, or won, by either side.

To what the final outcome of this titanic struggle will be it is not in our knowing, other than to note that when two powerful forces like these collide, and as they have done so many times in the past, the ultimate losers end up being the American people whose delight in total ignorance as to what is happening around them continues to astound the whole world.

August 24, 2011 EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked back to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com.

[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”.]

Ok Barbarian, then why did 6 money making walmarts mysteriously close over night due to "plumbing problems.??

Annnd back to reality

This institution right here has been around for over 240 years. I have transition in this uniform, various shades of it, under five presidents—all of it peacefully. You may have issues with the federal government. You may have issues with the administration. So be it. But this institution has been with you for over 240 years. Period.

get partially up a climb...

then take aim and fire!!!...

99.69 percent of people with the first name Gary are male.

I watched the national news folks belittle the govenor of Texas last night, similar to the flack Ron is getting here. We need to all wake up to reality. This Jade Helm is not to overthrow the patriots or anycrap like that. It is training for the very near future when the dollar collaspes to nothing, because it is coming. There will be shutdown of virtually everything we know. Starvation, rioting, anarchy, you name it. Its comng, the government knows it, and they are getting ready for it. You should two. The sh#t is goung to hit the fan lke nothing we have ever seen here before. It is inevitable. Be prepared my friends, its not going to be pretty.

Jade Helm 15 is the US Govt Military " training operation and simulations" to go on from 15 july to 15 Aug this year across the country and urban warfare and riots controls are the focus. In short fighting HERE. THe Walmarts closed also coincide with the areas of intensity of these Military ops coming up. Now tunnels below some of those walmarts have been discovered. A joint venture of NSA, DHS and many other FED agencys have been building these. There are fully stocked literal citys supposedly hidden in these tunnels. All over the south these tunnels have been constructed. Info of tunnels in Colorado and west as well. These Walmarts were all very high money making stores for the chain. They were closed and windows covered overnight with no warning to emoloyees. SOme say the walmarts are being used to stage construction areas for these tunnels. No state or county applications have ever been recorded for these tunnels.

It happens that the walmarst closed across the country are also in the operation zone of Jade Helm 15..



Those are facts and walmarts well know association with DHS is also fact.

This is training to fight US citizens here in this country.

No how on earth would you surmise I hate America? Ive been a life supporter of the military and LEO community. I was in the LEO community.

Mr. President, I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed. I do say, no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Depending on the breaks.

The funny part is that when nothing happens this summer Ron will claim it was because watchful citizens like He, Bundy and Chuck Norris were able to make 'em behave and that he was right all along.

May 8, 2015 - 08:27am PT
Ron Anderson 0wns all you stooopid fools.

Hahaha .

While the progs are attempting to do that, it's a long way off.

Philo, Doc and the crew said EXACTLY those things. Repeatedly.

Survival, since you were there in that thread, I don't need to prove anything as you know im correct.

YOu all cheered that the govt would come in and squash them with blackhawks and missiles. Remember that? So out of one side of your mouths , you obviously think something like that could happen , and out of the other side you say it wont ever happen. Confused mouths you have.

Philo, Doc and the crew said EXACTLY those things. Repeatedly.

Even though I haven't presented any conspiracy theory .

Its about mysterious walmart closings, JadeHelm15, possible consequences and questions about inconsistencies..