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Why the Quarantine of Planet Earth was First Imposed and WHY it is Now OVER! Commentary by Rayelan
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Date: Saturday, 9-Jun-2012 16:04:18
Date: Saturday, 9-Jun-2012 16:04:18
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Why the Quarantine of Planet Earth was First Imposed and WHY it is Now OVER!
Gunther had described, in great detail, an ancient structure which was built by extraterrestrials that “shot” souls to earth and “caught” them after their trip to earth was finished. I was amazed that John knew about it.
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE PORCH
This has
been an eventful week to say the very least. From a disastrous conference call
to a three ring circus of misunderstandings, outrage of all sorts, opinions
public and private to quiet investigations and intrigue, events have unfolded
at break neck speed.
Several
weeks ago a private document containing the names and personal contact
information of certain individuals was leaked and published on the Internet
without the consent of those on the list. Because that action could have and
now has caused harm, an investigation was launched to track its source and
reveal the person who had to have been one of the limited number of people
rightfully in possession of the document. When all roads led to one individual
a conference call among those involved in the investigation was held. Various
aspects of the search were shared and discussed as well as a plan of action in
regard to the guilty party. However there were still a couple of pieces of
evidence it was felt needed to be obtained before the identity of the culprit
could be shared with all those affected by the incident.
Drake and I
were on that conference call and we also discussed his plan to announce on the
Sunday Evening Block party show on Freedom Reigns his intention of moving his
voice to another network. I too expressed my intention of leaving Freedom
Reigns although in a more graceful and less impacting way. I also stated that I
had never wished to have a regular roll in Internet Radio in the first place
but had taken on the Tuesday show as a favor. Therefore I would not be moving
to another network. In the middle of our conversation we received a skype
message that most of us on the call were requested to attend another conference
call in regard to Freedom Reigns at 8 pm est. It was stated that the call would
be for the purpose of clearing up some rumors and addressing some concerns
which affected the Freedom Reigns team.
Those of us
requested to attend did so and I recorded it through my own conference line. As
it turned out the stated purpose of the call was not indeed the reality. In
fact there was neither discussion allowed nor any opportunity for it afforded.
Instead the individual who had requested the call chose not to speak and had
another speak. That individual made wild statements about some fantasy threats
which by the way had NEVER been made, informed everyone on the call that he was
in charge, there would be no disclosure in regard to the LARGE amount of monies
having been donated to the network to anyone. He further stated that none of
us, all working exclusively on a volunteer basis, had a right to any answers in
that arena regardless of whether or not we were accused of having profited. He
then said if any of us didn’t like it we could leave and “don’t let the door
hit you on the ass on the way out.” This he said twice and then announced they
had scheduled a show and he had to hang up. Click.
Needless to
say most of us on the call accommodated his wishes and resigned on the spot,
removed ourselves from the skype chat rooms and where appropriate from other
Freedom Reigns public discussions. There were two who stayed and we respect
their reasons and decision to do so.
After the call
all who had resigned rejoined my conference line and discussed the situation.
The general consensus was that the truth of the various issues which led to the
outburst to begin with were better left outside the public arena and none of us
wished to display the dirty laundry in the public square as it were. In short
we chose to let the situation resolve itself. Unfortunately the Block Party
show went on anyway and not one word of truth was shared. To be fair I don’t
think the unwitting person who caused the exodus is even aware that he was
used. Many false claims have since been made in the Freedom Reigns forum, FB
page and chats but as is always the case with truth, it will out sooner or
later and for the moment, that is all I wish to say on the matter unless the
lies being told should cause more harm to the innocent.
That should
provide clarity on the subject of Drake and me leaving Freedom Reigns and if it
doesn’t Drake will have to chime in on his own behalf. The investigation I
mentioned will be completed and the results shared with those it impacts. Any
resulting actions will be their decision.
On
Wednesday night while I was conducting my regularly scheduled conference call
on Debt Elimination and Collection Fraud my skype messages began to go berserk
and emails were coming in from all over the place with questions and statements
like; “what is your stand on this?”, “this is nuts what in the hell is going
on?”, “has Drake lost his mind?”, “what do you think of the vote?”, “that’s it
I am having no more to do with this”, “who thought up this crap?”, and the
worst one from far too many which is downright scary, “so how should I vote?”. I
had no flying idea what they were talking about because of course I couldn’t be
running my call and listening to Drake at the same time. By the time my
conference was over it was well after midnight and I took myself off to
dreamland having decided to deal with whatever the great drama was on the
morning.
By the time
I turned on my computer on Thursday morning the issue had become a three ring
circus of controversy. I was bombarded with telephone calls, skypes and emails the entire day with not one minute in
between. I listened to the recording of Drake’s show from the night before
while I fielded questions, dealt with outraged people, confused people and
those who thought the “Rapture” had come. It was absolute lunacy the whole day.
I knew I would either have to draft an email to my entire list stating my
opinion or the calls and other messages were not going to stop. So I did. That
email was subsequently posted here on NESARA with a title not written by me
added to it. Of course that too went viral as is the nature of the beast we
call the Internet.
I stated MY
OPINION on the whole idea of the POLL voting, any notion of negotiation with
the Cabal etc. I have not changed my stance on that. While Drake and I are
friends and work together on many things we do not always see eye to eye and
that is how it should be. I do understand that there was a “between the lines”
message in Drake’s statements which there always is but most never get. Even so
I do not support the strategy or agree with its purpose as it was explained to
me.
Even if a
POLL is simply to indicate a sampling of public opinion and reaction to a set
of demands or negotiations or possible actions, the idea of sharing the results
with the enemy is to my mind LUNATIC. We have been subjected to all manner of
death and destruction for thousands of years by the same sick and twisted
bloodlines that seized control from the time of Babylon. Never once have they
told the truth, kept an agreement or acted in any way even remotely resembling
honor or in the interest of humanity and this planet. Through incest and
intermarriage over the centuries that gene pool is now so shallow and dangerous
it would be suicide for a flea to dive into it. That is a simple biological
fact and has nothing to do with hate or fear or even understanding.
The “Cabal”,
encompassing many disguises is evil personified and mankind will never be safe
from its tentacles until it is eradicated from our midst. However that might be
done is yet to be seen and I’m sure there are no limits to the suggestions which
would come forth if the public were polled on that issue. It isn’t rocket
science to figure out why a rabid dog can never be loosed and must be
destroyed. That action is not just to protect every other living being within
its scope but to put it out of its misery as well.
There is
only one solution to my mind that will finally bring an end to centuries of
suffering of the masses at the hands of the few and that is UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
with no quarter given save that of Due Process of Justice. The thing stolen
from us must be for the sake of decency and right, be granted to them. We
cannot shout Constitutional Justice from the rooftops while we ignore the
Constitutional parameters for our actions and not be in fact no better than
them. We are better than that.
Negotiating
with the “Devil” (Cabal) can never work because the Devil never plays fair. In
any agreement he makes you can be a thousand percent sure he already has a plan
in place whereby he will not be made to hold up his end of the bargain and you
will lose not only what you thought to gain but at least ten fold to boot. A
person who will accept an ounce of evil in exchange for a pound of good will
soon find himself totally devoid of ANY good and deserves what he got. This is
not a matter of hate or intolerance but pure common sense. The rabid dog has
only one ability in regard to you, to bite and infect and he cannot help it as
that has become his nature.
We have
seen the same scenario repeated hundreds even thousands of times throughout
history and have yet to learn from it.
The Creator
put all species on this planet in pairs to work together for the perpetual
continuation of this world in harmony with the greater plan of which we are not
privy. Humans thus far are the only species which not only has defied that plan
but as yet does not get it. This is why a smattering of male members of humanity
so many thousands of years ago were able to grab and keep the power to control
the rest. For harmony to exist there can be no wars, no killing, no power in
the hands of the few and no brute force to settle differences. Those things are
the stuff of military mind set and if this great global disaster we face today
is handled and solved by that same mind set it will not last and it will indeed
continue for as long as it takes for humanity to learn its true purpose in
nature.
I don’t
have the answers but I can say that I see no balance emerging or even strived
for. I see no common sense being implemented but instead just more of the same
type of decision making which got us into this mess. So long as force and deals
trump intellect and wisdom we will never be truly free and from my perspective
here on this porch damned few are ready to be.
Teri Hinkle
Drake Poll Announcements
I was asked by a principal at GVN (Global Voice Network) with a message from Drake to post this, and I have posted it on the GVN Group FB page as requested.
If you guys are interested or have been following this, here is what is says:
ANNOUNCEMENT: I WAS JUST CONTACTED BY GVN WITH A MESSAGE FROM DRAKE REGARDING THE VOTE POLLING AND ITS DATA. I WAS ASKED TO POST THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELAYING THAT THE ORIGINAL LADY DRAGON POLL HAS BEEN TABULATED AND IS NOW CLOSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING THE INITIAL “SAMPLING” OF VOTES.
I WAS INFORMED THAT THE LADY DRAGON SAMPLE INDICATED APPROXIMATELY 94% IN FAVOR OF THE CONDITIONS LISTED FOR THAT POLL. I WAS ASKED TO RELAY TO THE PEOPLE HERE THAT DRAKE HAS REQUESTED THAT THE SOLDIERHUGS POLL REMAIN OPEN AND AGGREGATING VOTES FOR LONGER TABULATED SAMPLE TO BE COLLECTED SOMETIME TUESDAY.
AS SUCH, PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHARE AND VOTE ON THE SOLDIERHUGS POLL IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY. ADDITIONALLY, I AM PASTING SOME LOCATION DEMOGRAPHICS FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS FOR THE SOLDIERHUGS SITE AS OF THIS MORNING JUST IN CASE FOLKS WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW ITS GOING. VERY INTERESTINGLY, CANADA WAS THE 2ND LARGEST DEMOGRAPHIC BEHIND THE US. AS OF THIS MORNING JAPAN IS #2 WITH NEARLY 4 TIMES THE NUMBERS OF CANADA. THANK YOU TO ALL…
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70 facts that Barack Obama does not want you to see....
The Economic Collapse
June 9, 2012
Why is the economy going to collapse? Have you ever been asked that question? If so, what did you say? Sometimes it is difficult to communicate dozens of complicated economic and financial concepts in a package that the average person on the street can easily digest. It can be very frustrating to know that something is true but not be able to explain it clearly to someone else. Hopefully many of you out there will find the list below useful. It is a list of 70 numbers that show why we are headed for a national economic nightmare. So why does the title of the article single out Barack Obama? Well, it is because right now he is the biggest cheerleader for the economy. He is attempting to convince all of us that everything is just fine and that the economy is heading in a positive direction. Well, the truth is that everything is not fine and things are about to get a whole lot worse. Certainly others should share in the blame as well. Congress has been steering the economy in the wrong direction for decades, the "too big to fail" banks have turned Wall Street into a pyramid of risk, leverage and debt, and the Federal Reserve has more power over the financial system than anyone else does. Our economy has been in decline for quite a while now, and soon we are going to smash directly into an economic brick wall. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are in denial about this. A lot of people out there doubt that an economic collapse is coming. Well, if you know someone that believes that the U.S. economy is going to be "just fine", just show them the list below.The following are 70 facts that Barack Obama does not want you to see....
$3.59 - When Barack Obama entered the White House, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.85. Today, it is $3.59.
22 - It is hard to believe, but today the poverty rate for children living in the United States is a whopping 22 percent.
23 - According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities permanently shut down in the United States every single day during 2010.
30 - Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer. Today, that number is above 30 percent.
32 - The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.
35 - U.S. housing prices are now down a total of 35 percent from the peak of the housing bubble.
40 - The official U.S. unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row.
42 - According to one survey, 42 percent of all American workers are currently living paycheck to paycheck.
48 - Shockingly, at this point 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.
49 - Today, an astounding 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives benefits from the government.
53 - Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.
60 - According to a recent Gallup poll, only 60 percent of all Americans say that they have enough money to live comfortably.
61 - At this point the Federal Reserve is essentially monetizing much of the U.S. national debt. For example, the Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department during 2011.
63 - One recent survey found that 63 percent of all Americans believe that the U.S. economic model is broken.
71 - Today, 71 percent of all small business owners believe that the U.S. economy is still in a recession.
80 - Americans buy 80 percent of the pain pills sold on the entire globe each year.
81 - Credit card debt among Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket has risen by 81 percent since 1989.
85 - 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.
86 - According to one survey, 86 percent of Americans workers in their sixties say that they will continue working past their 65th birthday.
90 - In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
93 - The United States now ranks 93rd in the world in income inequality.
95 - The middle class continues to shrink - 95 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were middle class jobs.
107 - Each year, the average American must work 107 days just to make enough money to pay local, state and federal taxes.
350 - The average CEO now makes approximately 350 times as much as the average American worker makes.
400 - According to Forbes, the 400 wealthiest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined.
$500 - In some areas of Detroit, Michigan you can buy a three bedroom home for just $500.
627 - In 2010, China produced 627 million metric tons of steel. The United States only produced 80 million metric tons of steel.
877 - 20,000 workers recently applied for just 877 jobs at a Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama.
900 - Auto parts exports from China to the United States have increased by more than 900 percent since the year 2000.
$1580 - When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today an ounce of gold costs more than $1580 an ounce.
1700 - Consumer debt in America has risen by a whopping 1700% since 1971.
2016 - It is being projected that the Chinese economy will be larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2016.
$4155 - The average American household spent a staggering $4,155 on gasoline during 2011.
$4300 - The amount by which real median household income has declined since Barack Obama entered the White House.
$6000 - If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.
$10,000 - According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.
49,000 - In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.
50,000 - The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
56,000 - The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.
$85,000 - According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.
$175,587 - The Obama administration spent $175,587 to find out if cocaine causes Japanese quail to engage in sexually risky behavior.
$328,404 - Over the next 75 years, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars. That comes to $328,404 for each and every household in the United States.
$361,330 - This is what the average banker in New York City made in 2010.
440,00 - If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to totally pay it off.
500,000 - According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.
2,000,000 - Family farms are being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farms in the United States has fallen from about 6.8 million in 1935 to only about 2 million today.
$2,000,000 - At this point, the U.S. national debt is rising by more than 2 million dollars every single minute.
2,600,000 - In 2010, 2.6 million more Americans fell into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.
5,400,000 - When Barack Obama first took office there were 2.7 million long-term unemployed Americans. Today there are twice as many.
16,000,000 - It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
$20,000,000 - The amount of money the U.S. government was spending to create a version of Sesame Street for children in Pakistan.
25,000,000 - Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.
40,000,000 - According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.
46,405,204 - The number of Americans currently on food stamps. When Barack Obama first entered the White House there were only 32 million Americans on food stamps.
88,000,000 - Today there are more than 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment. That is an all-time record high.
100,000,000 - Overall, there are more than 100 million working age Americans that do not currently have jobs.
$150,000,000 - This is approximately the amount of money that the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress are stealing from future generations of Americans every single hour.
$2,000,000,000 - The amount of money that JP Morgan has admitted that it will lose from derivatives trades gone bad. Many analysts are convinced that the real number will actually end up being much higher.
$147,000,000,000 - In the U.S., medical costs related to obesity are estimated to be approximately 147 billion dollars a year.
295,500,000,000 - Our trade deficit with China in 2011 was $295.5 billion. That was the largest trade deficit that one country has had with another country in the history of the planet.
$359,100,000,000 - During the first quarter of 2012, U.S. public debt rose by 359.1 billion dollars. U.S. GDP only rose by 142.4 billion dollars.
$454,000,000,000 - During fiscal 2011, the U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt.
$1,000,000,000,000 - The total amount of student loan debt in the United States recently surpassed the one trillion dollar mark.
$1,170,000,000,000 - China now holds approximately 1.17 trillion dollars of U.S. government debt. Yet the U.S. government continues to send them millions of dollars in foreign aid every year.
$1,600,000,000,000 - The amount that has been added to the U.S. national debt since the Republicans took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. This is more than the first 97 Congresses added to the national debt combined.
$5,000,000,000,000 - The U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars since the day that Barack Obama first took office. In a little more than 3 years Obama has added more to the national debt than the first 41 presidents combined.
$5,000,000,000,000 - What the real U.S. budget deficit in 2011 would have been if the federal government had used generally accepted accounting principles.
$11,440,000,000,000 - The total amount of consumer debt in the United States.
$15,734,596,578,458.59 - The U.S. national debt as of June 7, 2012.
$200,000,000,000,000 - Today, the 9 largest banks in the United States have a total of more than 200 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives. When the derivatives market completely collapses there won't be enough money in the entire world to fix it.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-u-s-economy-by-the-numbers-70-facts-that-barack-obama-does-not-want-you-to-see
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WWII Kodachrome Pictures .. Priceless!
Subject: WWII Kodachrome Pictures .. Priceless! This is pretty good stuff. Give the webpage time to load all the photos. Back in the mid '70s when I was working at Hellers Camera in Bethesda Md. I had a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania in an advanced base sectional dock, somewhere in the Pacific in about 1944. The quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format camera, which puzzled me since I did not think Kodachrome (the only modern color film of the time in the US) was available in sheet films. A guy I worked with was an old Kodak hand (and WWII vet, a radioman in Europe) and told me that they did have sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one machine to process the film, located in Rochester. The exposed film was sent there for processing. And note the almost complete lack of basic safety equipment. I saw only one pair of safety glasses, and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves. Working without gloves around sheet metal is an injury waiting to happen. Notice most of the woman had lipstick and nail polish on. WWII could not have been won without the woman of America stepping into men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers. Fascinating! Some of these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2012... Boggles my mind. Thought you’d find this interesting! http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914 |
Special Operations Forces Organize Against Obama
Special Operations Forces Organize Against Obama
Saturday, June 09, 2012 10:26
My good friend Larry Bailey retired from the Navy in 1990 after a 27-year career as a SEAL, rising to Captain. Captain Bailey's most significant military assignment was as Commanding Officer of the Naval Special Warfare Center, where all Navy SEALS undergo basic and advanced training.
Bailey and others from across the spectrum of US special forces have banded together to form Special Operations Speaks. I'll let them speak for themselves:
Honorably discharged veterans of the Special Operations communities of all the Armed Services have organized an effort to elect Mitt Romney President of the United States. This group, “Special Operations Speaks,” or “SOS,” will be structured along quasi-military lines, with an umbrella organization coordinating the efforts of several subordinate Service-unique specialties. The Army will be represented by “Rangers Speak Out” and “Green Berets Speak Out;” the Navy by “SEALs Speak Out;” the Air Force by “Air Commandos Speak Out;” and the Marine Corps by “MARSOC Speaks out.”
SOS is configured as a “Super Political Action Committee” (Super PAC) that will enable it to exert maximum influence as an advocate for the election of Mitt Romney as President of the United States. Subsequent to the 2012 campaign, SOS will continue to exert pressure on behalf of the Special Operations community.
Of particular interest to SOS is the urgency of maintaining the level of secrecy that has heretofore been a hallmark of Special Operations. The recent leaking of highly classified information from the offices of the Commander-in-Chief himself clearly indicates the need to protect sensitive information from the public (and enemy’s) eye. SOS will educate the public and its representatives in the US Congress about this issue.
Until November 6, 2012, SOS will organize and execute operations designed to help elect Mitt Romney and to defeat Barack Hussein Obama.
There's a petition at the site for an investigation by the House Homeland Security Committee into who leaked the secret information about the SEAL raid that got bin Laden. Please sign up.
Also, rest assured that just as they defended us during their active duty, our special operations forces are still doing the job.
Commando Competition Promotes Special Ops Skills, Collaboration
Commando Competition Promotes Special Ops Skills, Collaboration
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2012 - As elite commandos from across the Western Hemisphere compete this week in a grueling counterterrorism and special operations skills competition, the commander of Special Operations Command South said they're building the relationships required to confront transnational organized crime gripping much of the region.
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A member of the U.S. special operations forces competes in the rifle qualification event for Fuerzas Comando, June 7, 2012, at the Colombian National Training Center in Tolemaida, Colombia. Photo by Army Sgt. Karen Kozub
Fuerzas Comando 2012 kicked off this week at the Colombian National Training Center in Tolemaida, Colombia.
Competitors from 21 nations across the Americas and the Caribbean are taking part in the ninth annual event, sponsored by U.S. Southern Command and designed to promote military-to-military relationships, increased interoperability and improved regional security, Navy Rear Adm. Thomas L. Brown, II, told American Forces Press Service.
The participants in this year's Fuerzas Comando hail from The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States and Uruguay.
The eight-day competition consists of sniper, assault, aquatic, physical fitness, strength and endurance events that challenge commandos psychologically, as well as physically. It will wrap up with a multinational airborne operation and wing exchange June 13, with a closing ceremony the next day.
The event has sparked healthy competition among participants, Brown said, but added that they also get to learn a lot about other regional forces and how they operate. "The practical side is that we gain a better understanding of each other's equipment, capabilities and skills," he said.
Along with better understanding, he said competitors develop the kind of mutual trust they need to work together.
"Special operations is a very human-centric business. It's not as much dependent on platforms and technical capabilities. It is really about people," Brown said. "Relationships are critical... to confront the threats that we face in the hemisphere together."
Transnational organized criminals, violent extremist groups and dangerous non-state actors present a particular challenge because they operate without respect for national boundaries and sovereignty, he noted.
Nations working to confront them don't have that advantage. "We must respect them, so we have to overcome that advantage through increased cooperation and increased information flow wherever we can," Brown said. "In a nutshell, that's the science behind why we have to work hard at this."
As special operators test their tactical skills this week, their senior military and government leaders are coming together in Bogota to explore ways to promote those efforts. Each participating nation has sent senior special operations commandos and ministerial-level policymakers associated with the country's terrorism policies, procedures and strategies to the seminar.
"This is the one forum that we have annually where we can come together as a region and talk about ideas, [about how to] increase our effect, collectively, against these dangerous non-state-actor threats we face," Brown said.
Representatives of Southcom, U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. interagency will participate in panel discussions and speaker engagements designed to stimulate dialogue about transnational organized crime and ways to address it. They'll share best practices and lessons learned by U.S. special operators and tips about tools they've found valuable, particularly low-cost ones with a high return. "You just can't have enough communication on that," Brown said said.
While acknowledging a temptation to overload participants with as much information as possible, Brown said he's committed to providing "a little less PowerPoint and more time for an exchange of ideas" that better promotes relationship-building.
Brown said he's particularly pleased that Mexico, Canada and the Bahamas – countries that fall under U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility – have joined this year's event.
"Many of the challenges we face are hemispheric challenges, and they don't follow a dividing line of our national security system," he said. "We have to draw [organizational command] lines somewhere, and that is fine," he continued. "But we are working hard to break down those stovepipes and ensure that Northcom and Southcom are working together as a team. And I think this exercise is an example of how we are doing that."
Brown called Fuerzas Comando 2012 and its associated senior-leader seminar examples of a concerted effort to promote regional cooperation and engagement across the special operations community.
He noted another recent example, the International Special Operations Forces Conference that Navy Adm. William H. McRaven, the Socom commander, hosted last month in Tampa. Delegates from 96 countries gathered to exchange ideas, along with their different tactics, techniques and procedures and explored ways to establish a global special operations partnership.
"I watch the region's special operations leaders making connections and increasing the level and value of the cooperation between them," Brown said. "And I see that as a direct outshoot of exercises and forums where we develop these relationships between special operations forces across national and regional boundaries."
Brown is working with Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, the Southcom commander, to explore ways to expand these partnership-building initiatives into new areas. In doing so, he said he's tapping capabilities from throughout the Defense Department, including Socom, the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Defense Analysis, the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies and Joint Special Operations University, as well as civilian academic institutions.
"We are increasingly working on the cognitive side, sharing ideas," and encouraging more countries to work together, multinationally, he said. "So we are increasingly trying to connect the dots across the region."
As they connect the dots, Brown said he's pleased by the media attention Fuerzas Comando is receiving. It's helping to educate to the public across the hemisphere about how the United States is cooperating and sharing ideas and facilitating cooperation in support of regional security, he said.
But Brown said it's also drawing attention to the special operators from across the region who have stood up to provide that security.
"The quality and dedication of the troops from these partner nations, the pride they show, and the important role they play in security in the region is having a direct effect on people's quality of life," he said. "And I think that's a good message to get out there."
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Biographies:
Navy Rear Adm. Thomas L. Brown II http://www.socso.southcom.mil/cmd_grp.aspx
Related Sites:
U.S Southern Command http://www.southcom.mil/Pages/Default.aspx
Special Operations Command South http://www.socso.southcom.mil/default.aspx
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By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2012 - As elite commandos from across the Western Hemisphere compete this week in a grueling counterterrorism and special operations skills competition, the commander of Special Operations Command South said they're building the relationships required to confront transnational organized crime gripping much of the region.
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A member of the U.S. special operations forces competes in the rifle qualification event for Fuerzas Comando, June 7, 2012, at the Colombian National Training Center in Tolemaida, Colombia. Photo by Army Sgt. Karen Kozub
Fuerzas Comando 2012 kicked off this week at the Colombian National Training Center in Tolemaida, Colombia.
Competitors from 21 nations across the Americas and the Caribbean are taking part in the ninth annual event, sponsored by U.S. Southern Command and designed to promote military-to-military relationships, increased interoperability and improved regional security, Navy Rear Adm. Thomas L. Brown, II, told American Forces Press Service.
The participants in this year's Fuerzas Comando hail from The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States and Uruguay.
The eight-day competition consists of sniper, assault, aquatic, physical fitness, strength and endurance events that challenge commandos psychologically, as well as physically. It will wrap up with a multinational airborne operation and wing exchange June 13, with a closing ceremony the next day.
The event has sparked healthy competition among participants, Brown said, but added that they also get to learn a lot about other regional forces and how they operate. "The practical side is that we gain a better understanding of each other's equipment, capabilities and skills," he said.
Along with better understanding, he said competitors develop the kind of mutual trust they need to work together.
"Special operations is a very human-centric business. It's not as much dependent on platforms and technical capabilities. It is really about people," Brown said. "Relationships are critical... to confront the threats that we face in the hemisphere together."
Transnational organized criminals, violent extremist groups and dangerous non-state actors present a particular challenge because they operate without respect for national boundaries and sovereignty, he noted.
Nations working to confront them don't have that advantage. "We must respect them, so we have to overcome that advantage through increased cooperation and increased information flow wherever we can," Brown said. "In a nutshell, that's the science behind why we have to work hard at this."
As special operators test their tactical skills this week, their senior military and government leaders are coming together in Bogota to explore ways to promote those efforts. Each participating nation has sent senior special operations commandos and ministerial-level policymakers associated with the country's terrorism policies, procedures and strategies to the seminar.
"This is the one forum that we have annually where we can come together as a region and talk about ideas, [about how to] increase our effect, collectively, against these dangerous non-state-actor threats we face," Brown said.
Representatives of Southcom, U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. interagency will participate in panel discussions and speaker engagements designed to stimulate dialogue about transnational organized crime and ways to address it. They'll share best practices and lessons learned by U.S. special operators and tips about tools they've found valuable, particularly low-cost ones with a high return. "You just can't have enough communication on that," Brown said said.
While acknowledging a temptation to overload participants with as much information as possible, Brown said he's committed to providing "a little less PowerPoint and more time for an exchange of ideas" that better promotes relationship-building.
Brown said he's particularly pleased that Mexico, Canada and the Bahamas – countries that fall under U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility – have joined this year's event.
"Many of the challenges we face are hemispheric challenges, and they don't follow a dividing line of our national security system," he said. "We have to draw [organizational command] lines somewhere, and that is fine," he continued. "But we are working hard to break down those stovepipes and ensure that Northcom and Southcom are working together as a team. And I think this exercise is an example of how we are doing that."
Brown called Fuerzas Comando 2012 and its associated senior-leader seminar examples of a concerted effort to promote regional cooperation and engagement across the special operations community.
He noted another recent example, the International Special Operations Forces Conference that Navy Adm. William H. McRaven, the Socom commander, hosted last month in Tampa. Delegates from 96 countries gathered to exchange ideas, along with their different tactics, techniques and procedures and explored ways to establish a global special operations partnership.
"I watch the region's special operations leaders making connections and increasing the level and value of the cooperation between them," Brown said. "And I see that as a direct outshoot of exercises and forums where we develop these relationships between special operations forces across national and regional boundaries."
Brown is working with Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, the Southcom commander, to explore ways to expand these partnership-building initiatives into new areas. In doing so, he said he's tapping capabilities from throughout the Defense Department, including Socom, the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Defense Analysis, the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies and Joint Special Operations University, as well as civilian academic institutions.
"We are increasingly working on the cognitive side, sharing ideas," and encouraging more countries to work together, multinationally, he said. "So we are increasingly trying to connect the dots across the region."
As they connect the dots, Brown said he's pleased by the media attention Fuerzas Comando is receiving. It's helping to educate to the public across the hemisphere about how the United States is cooperating and sharing ideas and facilitating cooperation in support of regional security, he said.
But Brown said it's also drawing attention to the special operators from across the region who have stood up to provide that security.
"The quality and dedication of the troops from these partner nations, the pride they show, and the important role they play in security in the region is having a direct effect on people's quality of life," he said. "And I think that's a good message to get out there."
# # #
Biographies:
Navy Rear Adm. Thomas L. Brown II http://www.socso.southcom.mil/cmd_grp.aspx
Related Sites:
U.S Southern Command http://www.southcom.mil/Pages/Default.aspx
Special Operations Command South http://www.socso.southcom.mil/default.aspx
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