"Sounds like their drill was a huge success if they've convinced you that such a possibility is less remote than say a meteorite hitting the city."

Oh sure, it sounds unlikely, but have you sen THIS underwear:

www.mcphee.com/items/10891.html

Makes it a little more likely NOW, doesn't it... ;)

And it's also important to note that the scenario itself is less relevant than testing their response capabilities for extreme circumstances. Ok - so what if it's not a nuclear attack? How about an 8.0 earthquake (not improbable) or Bonneville Dam rupturing or...oh....say a volcano erupting and sending thick choking ash that stalls cars over thousands of square miles and blowing down whole forests for hundreds of miles and sending mud slides down every major riverbed for hundreds of miles knocking out bridges.

Geee....we've never had that last one happen before in the northwest!!

All of the scenarios require the same response coordinating it's just adapting to the circumstances. So when they drill they pick the worst case scenario because if you know how to respond when you've got only 1/2 your capability (or less) the rest is easy when you have all your resources available.

As for who's invited - it really all depends on who's doing the drill and what the scenario is. If there was a nuclear attack the local services wouldn't be available - they'd be in complete dissarray. Who would we call in then??

Hmmm....the National Guard? The Army? Who do you think helps out in these mass disaster situations? They're the ones with the serious rescue equipment for all circumstances and terrain - not the local services.

Sorry Enrika. I'll see if I can be a little more unreasonable next time.:)

There's a one in a bajeesusillion chance that a meteor will smack into Skidmore Fountain! We have to be prepared!!!

Quick, you grab the gerbil while I make adobe bricks out of Playdoh and shredded paper plates! It's the end of the world!!!

Sorry, I'm being obnoxious today. Angel, you're so right. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I believe that a great deal can be learned from people's reactions to those drills, though, don't you? Hey, I'm just asking...

Love and light, dear ones.
Rev

"As for "Why Portland?", it's because it's an average size big city with lots of bridges that they can pretend are 'cut off' during the exercise. "

Hey - that's what I said!

Your not going to notice anything happening at hospitals in town, this drill is a computer drill... Yes there are military people in town right now but it is not a live person calorie using drill as some emergency drills are. The drill was set to run August 20th-24th primarily in Salem and Portland with the St. Johns area being the detonation zone in their mock drill. Yes I actually have read through the writings on this from different sources.

Some of the "False Flag" evidence that was presented is based on several happenings that coincided with major military drills:

1)Internal Look Simulation of Iraq Invading Kuwait Coincides with Start of Desert Storm
Norman Schwarzkopf: "We went ahead and did an exercise, what's called a command post exercise, which is what Internal Look was to test our ability to deal with this particular scenario ... Just so happened we were in the middle of conducting the Internal Look command post exercise at the same time the crisis developed in the gulf."
2) Oklahoma City Bombing,
3) 9/11
4) London Tube Bombing
and I believe there were a few more smaller ones...
One weird coincidence was that Noble Resolve 7-1 was in Virginia this last April, right at the same time the Virginia Massacre happened...

Some of the paranoia is definitely coming from the train of events that have been occurring. Not only do we have these comments that people are paying attention to:

Cheny , "The greatest threat now is 'a 9/11' occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities."

Chertoff he said he had a “gut feeling” that the US faced an increased chance of a terrorist attack this summer.
Remarks like this were heard prior to the WTC “attack” almost 6 years ago, and it makes you wonder whether history is going to repeat itself.

Republican Senator Rick Santorum "Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view,"

We have Bush passing two presidential directives:
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51

HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20
Passed in May This directive, completely unnoticed by the media, and given no scrutiny by Congress, literally gives the White House unprecedented dictatorial power over the government and the country, bypassing the US Congress and obliterating the separation of powers. The directive also placed the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic “security”.

Peter DeFazio as part of the Homeland Security Committee asked to review this directive. White House staff had initially said it would provide the document to Homeland Security Committee staff so DeFazio could review it. But on July 18, White House staff, the congressmen wrote, "informed the committee that the request had been reconsidered and rejected. In fact, the committee staff was told the document is 'close hold,' and 'frankly we are not willing to share it.' "

Then in July we got this Executive order:
A presidential Executive Order issued on July 17th, repeals with the stroke of a pen the right to dissent and to oppose the Pentagon's military agenda in Iraq.

The Executive Order entitled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq" provides the President with the authority to confiscate the assets of "certain persons" who oppose the US led war in Iraq:

"I have issued an Executive Order blocking property of persons determined to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people."

In substance, under this executive order, opposing the war becomes an illegal act.

On top of that we have Former National Security Advisor and founding member of the Trilateral Commission Zbigniew Brzezinski tacitly warned a Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that an attack on Iran could be launched following a staged provocation in Iraq or a false flag terror attack within the U.S. he stated this in Feb.

Oh and of course people are looking at this scenario;

America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.

Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.

On August 1st Ellison was to appear on CNN, he did and completely apologized for his statement against the president, what else happened that day? A Minnesota Bridge collapses, and according to investigation it is looking a little iffy on how that happened, Supposedly there was a warning that day to avoid that bridge.

Remember that CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil.

And the Russian media and former Russian military members continue to warn that an American and Israeli strike on Iran is imminent.

While many drills are run every month, Nobel Resolve 07, with it’s “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in 2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in South Carolina. Some speculated that four-star Gen. Kevin Byrnes, of the Fort Meade TRADOC command, was fired due to his exposure of the drill.

We should not live in a constant state of panic and fear, or make any irresponsible predictions about Noble Resolve 07. But perhaps we should just be aware of what is happening around us.

Tia

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