How cities are responding to the heightened terror threat --- During the Bush administration, Israeli-American dual citizen and Director of Homeland Security Chertoff mandated that American police forces be trained by Israeli groups in crowd control, counter-terrorism and intelligence gathering.Since that time, shootings of unarmed civilians has gone up 500%, attacks on legal political protests by police have become a scandal and huge stockpiles of ammunition and military heavy weaponry have been distributed to law enforcement groups in every region of America, both local and federally controlled.Additionally, Army Chief of Staff General Odierno has offered the use of the US Army, an offer published in the Council on Foreign Relations journal, Foreign Affairs, to suppress political dissent by force, a violation of his oath of office and, quite literally, an act of conspiracy against the sovereignty of the US and State governments.The current problem with law enforcement and the diminishment of legal rights of Americans is now at levels that cannot be ignored any longer. It has become obvious to an ever increasing number of Americans that something is in the works, perhaps a political coup or a military take-over.
Years ago such things were done behind closed doors, now it seems it can be done in the open, just like shooting down presidents, killing senators in plane crashes or blowing up office buildings. Instability in the United States is very real. With Mitt Romney planning a new war while cutting taxes for the rich, one in four Americans is suffering from malnutrition and one in five children live with constant hunger in a nation that spends billions of dollars to subsidize and store excess food. There is now a legitimate concern that armed law enforcement officers, numbering over 800,000, with constables and auxiliaries taking that number over 1 million, foreign led criminal organizations may systematically be gaining control of America in a form of “rot from within.” It doesn’t take a genius to track down the money behind half of America’s politicians to their source, bank fraud, narcotics, gun running, medical scams and the oil monopoly. This is the new organized crime. What had once been police is how a “hodge-podge” thousands of agencies, each one falling like dominoes, unable to resist offers of advanced military weapons, offers of “informal discretionary funding” (bribes) and quickly degenerating into an army of occupation. Key to this has been Israeli training, sending into America so-called experts who have long operated in an environment where killing civilians under cover of a rigged racist system of government has been official policy for over six decades. Israel’s militarized police are trained to violate human rights on a daily basis. 116 UN resolutions have been filed and passed by majority vote by the General Assembly citing them with apartheid and genocide, exactly the description of America that Mitt Romney and his friends are offering America. POLICE KILLINGS In my own town recently, a police officer shot and killed an Iraq War veteran while the man was asleep. The officer had been called to the home because the family was concerned about their son who was having trouble adjusting. They let the officer in the house, and rather than waking the sleeping veteran, the officer simply emptied his pistol into the man’s body. I just did a Google search of the phrase: “police shoot unarmed man” and got 1,610,000 results. Either we talk about little else or this seems to happen a lot. In almost every case, the officers responsible for these killings are trained in the Israeli martial art of Krav Fit, contracts pushed by the Department of Homeland Security. Israeli groups train in crowd control, use of military weapons and armoured vehicles against America’s “Occupy dissidents,” the poor, the homeless, mental patients and veterans, so far. When the amount of ammunition is counted up and the military firepower estimated, the list may well expand to “anyone not willing to submit to live as human slaves.” KILLINGS ALWAYS COVERED UP The death toll is never counted but is currently in the hundreds, perhaps thousands. Police are never properly investigated, never called to account, just as with the IDF team that ended their standoff with 22 year old American waif, Rachel Corrie, who was crushed TWICE by a “free” Caterpillar bulldozer, a gift from the American people, donated to be used to crush the homes of Palestinians. In this incident, Corrie was protecting 6 small children. An Israeli court found the only way Corrie could be dealt with, by an entire platoon of IDF Commandos, was to drive over her with a bulldozer. This was considered a legal use of force against an American citizen. And Israel wonders why tens of millions of Americans suspect them for plotting 9/11? HOUSTON WHEELCHAIR KILLING This police incident was a classic. The victim was living in a group home for the mentally ill. He was in a wheelchair having lost an arm and leg some time before in a rail accident. Two Israeli trained Houston Police were sent. The spokesman for the Houston Police, Jodi Siva, claimed the man “cornered” one of the police officers and threatened him with an object. Both officers had completed Krav Fit martial arts training from their Israeli instructors at a cost of thousands of dollars a day. There is, within this tragedy an aspect of absurdity. Other than guns and watching sports, martial arts is one of the biggest forms of recreation in the United States. I began formal training at 8 and continued as a trainer or in competition well into my 50s. Of course all US Marines have advanced martial arts training as with Army Rangers, Special Forces, SEALS, specialized units of the Air Force and about 4 million civilians who hold “black belt” or above level training. There are two initial issues here, one, of course, is turning to what may officially be the least athletic nation on earth, Israel, for training in an area of athletic prowess, sort of a “coals to Newcastle” type of thing. Israel is not Okinawa or Korea. If I want violin or chess lessons, Israel will be among my first 100 choices. The second, of course, is that the whole thing is a “con” in the first place, the only time a police officer in Houston was involved in a potential terror plot, he mistakenly killed a CIA agent. This is quite an interesting story from May 2008: *Federal sources close to this case have told me CIA Agent Roland Carnaby had proof a “suitcase nuke” had arrived inside the U.S. from Israel on Tuesday. He was chasing the device and the Israelis who had it.* *As local law enforcement was called-in, for some unknown reason cops allegedly began chasing the CIA Agent instead of the Israelis and ultimately shot the CIA Agent dead!* The Houston wheelchair shooting is a classic. We have two armed police officers, highly trained in the mysterious martial arts of Israel, we have a subject in a wheel chair with one arm and one leg and in his hand is a ballpoint pen. The officers, of course, had batons, tasers, and were wearing body armour. A more likely scenario, one with a typical Israeli aspect to it, would have had the second officer simply take the handles of the wheel chair, run it out into the street and under a passing bus or perhaps a bulldozer of one could be arranged. The victim had committed no crime, had no warrants but was suspected of “causing a disturbance.” Group homes, such as this one, are seldom staffed with competent professional personnel and are generally a method of bilking government programs out of money while commonly physically and emotionally abusing residents. Personnel working in “group homes” typically have, themselves, criminal records. This is the average qualification in the United States for taking care of the old, the helpless and the infirm. The officer who killed the unidentified man is named Matthew Jacob Marin. He has been placed on a 3 day administrative leave. This is his second killing in the past few years. In August, a Jeffrey T. Johnson, a legitimate armed suspect, was shot and killed by two New York police officers, also trained by Israeli companies. The officers were 8 feet from Johnson when he drew his weapon. They then opened fire, hitting Johnson but also hitting 9 other people in the area, spraying bullets everywhere. The incident began when Johnson shot and killed his Israeli employer who had recently ended his employment for reasons Johnson had found “unsatisfactory.” New York police who cornered Johnson, who was armed with a Spanish made Star .380 7 shot pistol with 2 rounds remaining in the magazine, then opened fire, hitting Johnson then “accidentally” shooting 9 others, some as far “off line” as 120 degrees. Was the Israeli training team brought in there from the Haifa School for the Blind? Two days ago, an 83 year old crime victim, Delma Tower of Lynchburg, Virginia was killed by police for “failing to obey orders.” The 83 year old was fleeing armed intruders who had broken into her home, she was barefoot, wearing a night dress and was not wearing either her glasses or hearing aid. Police were unable to discern a half-naked 83 year old woman who was nearly blind from the two large male armed intruders, who of course escaped while the victim of the crime, while is so often the case, died in a hail of police gunfire. Each month, the National Rifle Association prints a magazine read by millions of Americans. This organization, one that works closely with police and is associated with the Romney campaign, lauds civilians who use their right to bear arms and reports carefully selected stories where civilians making use of their constitutional rights, but are not killed by police who mistake them for criminals. I could list a hundred, a thousand such shootings. Sometimes weapons are found at the scene, sometimes those killed have criminal records, and incidents like this have a long history. What has changed today is that those killed are simply gunned down, no weapon mysteriously dropped by the police, victims are often aged, sometimes even financially well off, there seems to be an agenda that, more than anything else, resembles terrorism, the random killing of any American anywhere, anytime and under any circumstances by police who are unable to explain what they do. Moreover, nobody ever seriously questions anything that police do. It is almost as though a mass psychosis has taken over American law enforcement, every face a potential “bin Laden,” every minor confrontation solved only with volleys of gunfire. The only common factor in so many of these incidents is the Israeli training, teaching American police to mimic Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people. It seems American police have caught Israel’s national obsession of fearfulness and feigned victimization. *Press TV: Tragedy of US police training by Israeli companies * www.veteranstoday.com <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veteranstoday.com%2F&h=BAQEGjszf&s=1> http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/27/press-tv-tragedy-of-us-police-training-by-israeli-companies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veteranstoday.com%2F2012%2F09%2F27%2Fpress-tv-tragedy-of-us-police-training-by-israeli-companies%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddlvr.it%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter&h=pAQHsvNIK&s=1> ********************************************************************The extreme militarization of American police forces has been brought to public attention by the tactics employed against Occupy protesters, which often appear more appropriate to counter-terrorism operations than to the control of non-violent protest. According to investigative journalist Max Blumenthal, however, the proper term for this ruthless suppression of dissent should be “Israelification.” In an article which begins with examples of American police training alongside Israeli security forces, Blumenthal writes, “Having been schooled in Israeli tactics perfected during a 63 year experience of controlling, dispossessing, and occupying an indigenous population, local police forces have adapted them to monitor Muslim and immigrant neighborhoods in US cities. Meanwhile, former Israeli military officers have been hired to spearhead security operations at American airports and suburban shopping malls, leading to a wave of disturbing incidents of racial profiling, intimidation, and FBI interrogations of innocent, unsuspecting people. The New York Police Department’s disclosure that it deployed ‘counter-terror’ measures against Occupy protesters encamped in downtown Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park is just the latest example of the so-called War on Terror creeping into every day life. Revelations like these have raised serious questions about the extent to which Israeli-inspired tactics are being used to suppress the Occupy movement.” According to Blumenthal, the transformation began after September 11, when American law enforcement officers began to look to the Israelis for counter-terrorism expertise and in response the Israel Lobby “provid[ed] thousands of top cops with all-expenses paid trips to Israel and stateside training sessions with Israeli military and intelligence officials.” Many of these trips and training sessions were arranged by JINSA, the stridently pro-Israel organization whose advisors have included such prominent Neocons as Douglas Feith and Richard Perle. The Anti-Defamation League has also provided Israeli-run training senssions to over 700 police officers through its course on Extremist and Terroist Threats and claims to have provided a background in Israeli perspectives to another 45,000 through its Law Enforcement and Society program, which is required training for all new FBI agents. The Israeli influence has been particularly strong in New York City where, Blumenthal writes, “under the leadership of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, ties between the NYPD and Israel have deepened by the day. Kelly embarked on his first trip to Israel in early 2009 to demonstrate his support for Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. … Kelly returned to Israel the following year to speak at the Herziliya Conference, an annual gathering of neoconservative security and government officials who obsess over supposed ‘demographic threats.’ … Back in New York, the NYPD set up a secret ‘Demographics Unit’ designed to spy on and monitor Muslim communities around the city.” Not only dissidents but even ordinary criminals may be treated as terrorists under the Israel model, which can also include the routine use of torture. Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham School of Law’s Center on National Security, told Blumenthal, “After 9/11 we reached out to the Israelis on many fronts and one of those fronts was torture. The training in Iraq and Afghanistan on torture was Israeli training. There’s been a huge downside to taking our cue from the Israelis and now we’re going to spread that into the fabric of everyday American life? It’s counter-terrorism creep. And it’s exactly what you could have predicted would have happened.” “Given the amount of training the NYPD and so many other police forces have received from Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus,” Blumenthal concludes, “and the profuse levels of gratitude American police chiefs have expressed to their Israeli mentors, it is worth asking how much Israeli instruction has influenced the way the police have attempted to suppress the Occupy movement, and how much it will inform police repression of future upsurges of street protest. But already, the Israelification of American law enforcement appears to have intensified police hostility towards the civilian population, blurring the lines between protesters, common criminals, and terrorists.” http://www.rawstory.com/.../report-israeli-model.../ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F...%2Freport-israeli-model...%2F&h=PAQFAShnm&s=1> ******************************************************************************************** http://www.jpost.com/.../IDF-vets-train-NY-Jewish <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2F...%2FIDF-vets-train-NY-Jewish&h=KAQHnHeRg&s=1> ... *IDF vets train NY Jewish paramilitaries* On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 4:25:26 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.securitynewsdesk.com/how-cities-are-responding-to-the-heightened-terror-threat/ > > > How cities are responding to the heightened terror threat > > By SecurityNewsDesk <http://www.securitynewsdesk.com/author/secnewsdesk/> > | April 11, 2016 | 0 > <http://www.securitynewsdesk.com/how-cities-are-responding-to-the-heightened-terror-threat/#respond> > > [image: Description: How cities are responding to the heightened terror > threat] > How cities are responding to the heightened terror threat > > *Tim Compston, Features Editor at SecurityNewsDesk, finds out how cities > are responding to the heightened terror threat post-Paris.* > > What unfolded in Paris last November has cast a long shadow over cities > across Europe and beyond. In the aftermath we have witnessed the French > bring in tougher counter-terrorism measures; and Brussels – where some of > the suspects originally came from – on lockdown for nearly a week, and then > suffering its own metro and airport attacks. We also saw the evacuation of > the Niedersachsenstadion stadium in Hannover prior to a friendly football > match between Germany and the Netherlands. > > Sadly, of course, the tragic events of that Friday evening, where 130 lost > their lives, was not the first time that a terrorist attack had assailed > the French capital, the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket incidents also > remain fresh in the memory. Perhaps the most shocking thing this time > around was how the attackers were able to maraud through one of the world’s > most iconic cities as they mercilessly targeted multiple bars and > restaurants, those attending a rock concert at the Bataclan concert hall – > where 89 perished, and an international soccer match at France’s national > stadium. Thankfully at the Stade de France none of the suicide vest-wearing > terrorists were able to circumvent security at the ground to reach the > thousands of fans inside. Probably the closest analogue to Paris is what > happened in Mumbai, India, over a period of three days back in 2008. > > [image: Description: How cities are responding to the heightened terror > threat] > > Against the backdrop of the unprecedented terrorist outrage wrought on > Paris, a number of stark realities on the ground continue to give cause for > concern regarding the safety of our cities. These include, specifically: > the sheer number of foreign fighters who have taken up arms in Syria and > Iraq and are now returning to their home countries, predominantly to urban > areas, and the large-scale influx of migrants, coupled with ineffective > external border checks. Added to this the way that automatic weapons from > the Balkans, and elsewhere, appear to be easily obtainable, means that > terrorists have access to substantial firepower to outgun first responders. > > *Dealing with danger**[image: Description: How cities are responding to > the heightened terror threat]* > So what can our city authorities, the police, and governments do to > dial-up the protection of the public at a time when multiple attacks – like > Paris, Mumbai, and 7/7 in London – and, lone wolf incidents such as those > visited on Ottawa and Sydney, are on very much an upward trajectory? > > The sort of action that the Belgium government took in Brussels > post-Paris, with schools and even the metro system shut down for close to a > week, and soldiers patrolling the streets, may have deterrent value but, > practically, is just not sustainable over an extended period of time for a > modern city to function. By contrast, intelligence-driven raids to arrest > and disrupt the activities of suspects, and the sharing of information > across borders, are integral to a proactive anti-terrorism effort. > > *Police tactics* > Given the large loss of life at the Bataclan theatre, in particular, it is > clear that when the worst happens time is of the essence. On the other side > of the English Channel, London’s Metropolitan Police recently invited the > media to a terrorism training exercise for an insight into the tactics that > firearms officers would look to employ, given the reality that today’s > terrorists are not necessarily looking to negotiate their way out of a > siege-type situation but rather will keep on killing those around them. The > Metropolitan Police’s Assistant Commissioner, Patricia Gallan – who is > Scotland Yard’s Head of Specialist Crime and Operations – told the BBC that > officers would ‘go forward’ to confront gunmen in the event of a > Paris-style attack which may mean, initially, they have to ‘walk over > casualties’. > > Of course the public also has a vital role to play in keeping themselves > and their cities safe, whether that is remaining vigilant for any > suspicious activity or educating themselves about what to do in the event > of a terrorist gun attack where they may need to seek safety before the > police can reach them. Interestingly, the National Counter Terrorism > Policing unit in the UK has just released an information film detailing > specific advice entitled: ‘Stay Safe: Firearms and Weapons Attack’. This > sets out three key steps that people can take, under the headings: ‘run, > hide, and tell’. > > *Connected communications* > > [image: Description: How cities are responding to the heightened terror > threat] > > Jeff Spaeth, Corporate Vice President – Systems and Software Enablement, > Motorola Solutions > > New approaches to tactical communications for the emergency services are > coming on stream, alongside proven solutions like Tetra (Terrestrial > Trunked Radio) networks – a form of PMR (Private Mobile Radio) – which > should help to enhance situational awareness in the face of terrorism and > tie-in with a growing thirst for data. The UK is adopting a solution based > on 4G public safety LTE (Long-Term Evolution) technology for the Home > Office-led Emergency Services Network (ESN). > > Jeff Spaeth, Corporate Vice President – Systems and Software Enablement, > Motorola Solutions, contrasts what happened in the past, where > communication was voice centric, with the situation today: “As a first > responder you would push a button to talk instantly to a group of people > but now we are going from ‘push to talk’ to ‘push to talk’ plus data, plus > video. Today the data part is done many times on the PMR network but when > you move to things like broadband and LTE people get significantly more > bandwidth and data,” concludes Spaeth. > > *Smarter cities* > When there is the potential for incidents to escalate at a number of > locations city-wide simultaneously, causing confusion and stretching > resources, a smarter joined-up approach to real-time situational awareness > could, potentially, help the authorities to get a handle on what is > actually going on. Some may now look to replicate the route taken by Rio de > Janeiro, Brazil, and the Operations Centre (ROC) there. Although not > instituted to deal with terrorism specifically, the facility at Cidade Nova > brings together government departments and agencies from across the > municipality – 30 in total – and, in so doing, has helped slash incident > response times by an impressive 25 – 30 percent. As a result of advanced > urban systems for visualisation, monitoring, and analysis, the Centre is > breaking down many of the traditional barriers which have constrained the > way things function, not just in South America, but globally. > > *Face recognition* > Turning to Rustom Kanga, CEO of iOmniscient which specialises in video > analytics, he confirms that the company has supplied a solution to the > Royal Thai Police to automate their policing efforts following the > devastating bomb attack on the Erawan Shrine near the Hyatt Hotel in > Bangkok last summer that left 12 people dead and 125 injured. In light of > what happened Kanga reports that the Thai police were keen to upgrade their > existing systems by implementing a face recognition solution: “They are > putting our solution in for face recognition, and things like that, to make > Bangkok a ‘smart’city”. The Royal Thai Police already has an Oracle > database of faces of people of interest so, reports Kanga, the iOmniscient > system is the first step, in the process of automating how this resource is > used. Added to this iOmniscient’s Kanga reckons that the challenge > ultimately in Bangkok, and other cities, is to use video analytics to cope > with complex situations so it is not just a question of detecting an > abandoned bag or performing face recognition, the real requirement is to > solve the entire problem whether that be detecting the bag and, > potentially, investigating at the time to prevent an incident or, if that > is not possible, to track those involved and arrange for an arrest. > > *Public and private* > Of course it is not just access to publically-owned video surveillance and > other security assets that can help with situational awareness. Andrew > Elvish, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, at Genetec points > out that a ‘federation’ capability such as that unlocked through a ‘unified > security platform’ makes sense for cities. This means, essentially, that > cameras from a sports stadium or other sites in a city can be tied into a > real-time crime centre run by the police, for example: “In the event of an > unpredictable situation like Paris the police and first responders can get > eyes on that venue very quickly,” says Elvish. > > [image: Description: Corporate Vice President – Systems and Software > Enablement, Motorola Solutions] > > *Re-thinking evacuation* > Post-Paris Lee Doddridge, Director at security consultancy Covenant, > believes that those responsible for major city-based facilities should > revisit the actions they plan to take should they find themselves in the > firing line. He reveals from recent work – through Covenant – that when > scenarios are brought up many people may want to evacuate inside a site > like a shopping centre – and do a dynamic lockdown – but, according to > Doddridge, that doesn’t necessarily work if the terrorists are already in > your facility: “You have got to get people away as quickly as you can.” > > Added to this, Doddridge explains that employees really need to change > their mind-set compared to what is the norm in a less threatening > situation: “It is amazing when we run through that [a terrorist attack] and > people say that we can’t use that entry/exit because it is staff only but > then you make them realise in this life or death situation all of those > things go out the window.” > > *Stopping power* > Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) is also a growing consideration for major > buildings in our cities to stop and deter life threatening, and property > damaging, vehicle-borne attacks with bollards, blockers and barriers all > very much in the mix. Iain Moran, High Security Manager at ATG Access, > reports that when developments are being built from scratch there is more > awareness now of the need to design hostile vehicle mitigation into the > scheme itself: “From initial concept we are being engaged as designers and > manufacturers very early on to try and design schemes that are less > obtrusive, we are designing products into street furniture and even bus > shelters.” > > *Eye in the sky* > Although the emergency services do have access to helicopters the numbers > are limited, even in major cities. Given this capability gap some are > looking to supplement their ‘eye-in-the-sky’ capability with less expensive > but still effective solutions like drones. According to Aeryon Labs, Halton > Regional Police in Canada, for example, has successfully deployed a sUAS > (small Unmanned Aerial System) for bomb disposal operations in conjunction > with a ground robot. > > *A joined-up approach* > To sum up, what Paris and now Brussels have underlined, above all else, is > the extent of the challenge which terrorism presents today. This threat is > necessitating new thinking from the police tactics employed to a more > joined-up approach to how our cities are monitored and, significantly, a > greater onus on what the public can do to ensure their own safety. > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmZWU2OGt1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjA0ODkxODE-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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