Cooper In California – The Porterville Presentation

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Many of you may remember the VNS breaking exclusive a few months back on

“Operation New Dawn“.

Well, today is the start of their New Dawn and I would like you to read a tid-bit found a few days ago in an investment newsletter and internet group…

“A New Dawn … a New Day ~ Wednesday September 1st Operation New Dawn begins in Iraq … Message written by Phoenix …

As of Wednesday September 1st Operation New Dawn begins in Iraq.

We celebrate the launch of the last and final phase for the United States military in Iraq and with great hope and expectation we pray to see great things for the nation of Iraq and it’s people.

For years the specter of war and blood shed has haunted the nation of Iraq bringing pain, suffering and sorrow but through unwavering perseverance in the face of all odds, victory and freedom has appeared from beneath the ruble of warfare and now stands tall to face the bright light of a new day.

The New Dawn brings hope and opportunity to the people of Iraq and hope and stability to the region.

The New Dawn brings the light of hope to illuminate the darkness allowing the seeds of tomorrows great nation to sprout…taking root in the soil well tilled by a multitude of hands…from a multitude of nations for the welfare of all.

This Dawning of the New Day brings with it change and hope for the peoples of Iraq and the world will witness the birth of a New Government, a New Budget, and a New Economy.

The Sleeping Giant has awoken….awoken to the light of the New Day….and the world will witness the rebirth of Babylon and her mighty towers shall stretch to the sky and all the world will be amazed as the great wealth once hidden….is seen sparkling as new gold in the bright clear light of the new day.

As has been said from days of old…

“It is always darkest right before the dawn” and right now it is evident that this saying has never been more true.

In the darkness before this great new dawn of this great new day confusion is rampant … shadows …dark images…sounds in the night and howls of creatures unseen … chaos some would say.

But know full well the new dawn is about to break and as the light of the New Day begins to flow the darkness will flee and the truth will be made evident and jubilation will abound as all marvel at the birth of this great nation of Babylon rising like a mighty tower to take it’s rightful place as the Queen of the Nations at whom all will marvel as the merchants of the earth rush to her and the peoples of the earth will drink deep of her riches.

All hail Babylon and may all whom drink from her cup prosper now and forever. September 1st 2010…the New Dawn….of the New Day.

Phoenix”

Ladies and Gentleman

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“In Memory and Musings”

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California students get tracking devices

RICHMOND, Calif.—California officials are outfitting preschoolers in Contra Costa County with tracking devices they say will save staff time and money.

The system was introduced Tuesday. When at the school, students will wear a jersey that has a small radio frequency tag. The tag will send signals to sensors that help track children’s whereabouts, attendance and even whether they’ve eaten or not.

School officials say it will free up teachers and administrators who previously had to note on paper files when a child was absent or had eaten.

Sung Kim of the county’s employment and human services department said the system could save thousands of hours of staff time and pay for itself within a year.

It cost $50,000 and was paid by a federal grant.

It’s amazing how many people emailed me after broadcasts telling me I was wrong in saying this was coming and also telling me how I was wrong in pointing out the power of federal grants – Doyel

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This article is a good research companion to our current re-broadcasts from December…

Carl Thompson

There are two essential elements of winning the battles on the ground in Afghanistan:  One is the high ground and the other is the villages. The high ground has the traditional tactical advantage and the village is the center of power for the enemy.  Some important things to consider about high ground:

• Allows clear observation of your own forces and the enemy forces
• Better communication capability among the forces who possess the terrain due to Line of Sight radios
• Better focus of fires and plunging fires upon the enemy
• Better concealment during a fight

Some important things to consider about a village:

• It is where the people live
• It is the source of recruits for the government and the enemy
• It is where the supply base for the enemy will be
• It is the center of gravity for winning

These are the two strategic areas that must be held in order for us to win. Without holding the high ground we will take casualties from incoming fire and constantly find ourselves fighting uphill. It gives the enemy a place to hide and our risk factor goes way up.

The terrain advantage would seem apparent, but this is not always the case. There were three firebases in one river valley that were put directly in the middle of the valley. The enemy couldn’t have placed them better themselves. The Taliban had phenomenal unobstructed views of the firebases and could see everything going inside and outside of the HESCOs. The combat posts were probably placed in their initial location because it was an open area that was easily accessible for logistics and convoys. There is a saying in the military that “You can always improve your position.”

However, sometimes improving your position is moving it. No one should have built those combat locations with so little protection. There were bullet holes in the roofs of the buildings and people were getting hit there all of the time. The mistake made with those positions wasn’t locating the firebases there to begin with, but rather improving them and leaving them there. It fits the definition of insanity perfectly — doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Soldiers just sat there day after day taking casualties.

Just moving the location of the firebases a few meters uphill against a mountain wall completely changes the angle of the attacker and allows for vastly improved protection against enemy fire. However, no one wanted to be the commander to say that the location was bad and admit a mistake.

Consequently, the soldiers on the ground took incoming fire daily at the same locations and often took casualties. This problem would likely have been fixed if the battalion or brigade staff had to sleep in one of those locations for just a few days.  Another key piece of knowledge about terrain is what sort of firepower you have available.

While the mountains can be treacherous or a great opportunity, depending on your position in the fight, using your weapons effectively can make the difference between a position you get shot at constantly and the location of a tactical advantage.  One firebase was sitting in a half-bowl of mountains. The Pakistan border was on the back side of the mountains and insurgents were moving through a pass as well as the mountains at night.

The ANA had an old D70 howitzer artillery piece that we could not use for indirect fire due to lack of technical expertise. However, it was great for direct fire. Direct fire was simple — point and shoot. The half-bowl of mountains around the firebase provided an excellent shooting gallery for the D70. Once the D70 was placed in that location, movement across the mountains came to a standstill.

Similarly, we had a mortar platoon that could not do indirect fire and it was placed in the middle of a village instead of being used in the narrow river valley to shoot up at the enemy, so we had a useless weapons system in a village that would have been phenomenal in the river valley.

Certain weapons systems have an ability to fight “up” better than others and should be purposely used in that capacity. If those weapons aren’t available, then positions should not be put at locations where they are vulnerable to the enemy on higher terrain unless absolutely necessary. And if the position needs to be put in a vulnerable location, it should be moved as soon as possible to a more secure site.

The village is the most important piece of terrain that exists. The people in the village are who we need to win. Unfortunately, the village is often the least understood place for Americans. Often, regular force commanders station their soldiers outside of a village by 2-3 kms. This leaves the village vulnerable to the enemy at night and the soldiers unable to respond to a problem or support the local police quickly and effectively.

Conventional American commanders tend to think of “battlespace” and kinetic operations as something to be planned on large and massive scales with large numbers of units coordinating movement. They are also concerned about risk assessments, packing lists and various other issues including force protection measures. This is a crippling mindset to us winning.

The main problem with this mindset is that it lends itself to American units isolating themselves from the people for safety and force protection reasons. We need to be in the villages 24/7 in safehouses with the ANA backing up the ANP when they need it.

Providing protection and safety for the people is what will win them over.  If the Americans and the ANA spend their time hiding behind HESCOs at night, then we shouldn’t blame the people for being so intimidated by the enemy that they refuse to help us find them. They have to be in the village at night with no protection or backup when the bad guys come in to kidnap their family or shoot up their house.

The American preoccupation with filling out patrol forms, packing lists, coordinating timelines and submitting everything 24 hours or more in advance is destroying our ability to work with the people in the villages who need quick response to issues as they come up. The leaders on the ground need flexibility and support to win the villages — not micromanagement.

If a trusted source comes to the Americans with good information on bad guys in the area, usually the Americans won’t put something together for at least 2-4 hours. By then the intelligence has become history. We need to be in the villages whenever possible and flexible enough to react almost immediately.

Running a support base along a road for supply and support purposes is fine, but packing it with hundreds of troops so that a battalion commander can have troops available to him for operations he wants to run is inadvisable. It will give the commander control over his troops, but will lose us the war. We need soldiers out securing neighborhoods and denying the enemy the terrain of the villages and their people.

By having forces in the villages we deny the enemy the key terrain of the people.  Additionally, anyone who wants to give us information on the bad guys is more capable of passing that. Quite often, we patrol through a village once every 3-4 weeks or maybe 2-3 times each year. If anyone wants to talk to us, they have to come out to our location and that is not good for their safety. The person will be seen going back and forth and will be targeted to be killed.

If the bad guys decide to run operations in a village we are running a safehouse, their job becomes exponentially harder. Who are the people on our side going to tell when the Taliban knock on their door? Who is going to come help the people of the village when the Taliban come to collect taxes, demand information or kidnap relatives of people there to hold hostage? Who do the people come to when the ANP are corrupt?

Getting into a village and being a part of the day to day operations affords us opportunities to gather vastly more intelligence and take the initiative away from the enemy.  The Taliban need to be worried about taking the high ground from us and getting into the villages. This should be difficult for them since we are entrenched in villages and the people are on our side. Instead, we are trying to get into the villages and taking fire from the high ground.

We need to change the tactics that we are using. We should give the ANA the lead and operate in support of them. That means doing things their way, not ours. Trying to make the ANA more like us separates them from the villages and mountain tops and pulls them into a firebase with the Americans. This strategy has consistently yielded poor results and lost us ground. We should stop and adjust to something that will allow us to win.

http://www.idga.org/article.cfm?externalID=3000

Police say it’s ‘very possible’ attacks near fairgrounds had racial overtones

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100824/NEWS01/8240366/Police-say-it-s-very-possible-attacks-near-fairgrounds-had-racial-overtones

“On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it ‘beat whitey night.’ “

“State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, D-Des Moines, who has worked to fight gang-related violence, said he doesn’t have enough information to decide if the fights were racially motivated.”

Can you imagine the news coverage this would get if it were the other way around?

UPDATE - It Gets Even Worse…

Suspect released by Police Sergeant who had ties to “ringleader”

http://www.dmgov.org/Departments/CityManager/PDF/PIO_CitySourceApril09.pdf

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The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013150,00.html

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Ask A Freemason

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1_HV85Tgys&feature=player_embedded

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Read the IMF report here:

Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability

I suggest you save this .pdf for your OFF-LINE research library!

Socialist Keynes would be happy to see his Bancor being pushed again.