More Military Hardware Movement [video]
YouTube – TheBarros1998
January 20, 2012
[Potent News Editor’s note: Unfortunately, it doesn’t say exactly where this was filmed.]
[hat tip: Disclose.tv]
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Canada Shifts Troops, Armored Vehicles From Afghanistan To Arctic
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January 22, 2012
Canadian troops head to the Arctic for major military exercise
The Canadian military is planning a major exercise in the Arctic. This will be the first [of] its size in decades.
It will be the first time that Canada’s armoured vehicles, used in the heat of Afghanistan, will be tested on the frozen tundra.
The exercise will allow the army to test its weaponry against defensive positions made out of ice, which can be almost as hard as steel.
More than 1,500 troops will be deployed for the Arctic Ram exercise which will run from February 14 to 26.
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Kenora Daily Miner And News
January 20, 2012
Kenora reserve soldiers train for Arctic Ram winter combat exercise
By Reg Clayton
-“With the (withdrawal of Canadian) combat forces from Afghanistan, this is an opportunity to reacquire skills to shoot, move and communicate in high arctic conditions. The ability to operate in the arctic is identified as one of six core tasks under the Canada First Defence Strategy.”
As if January in Northwestern Ontario isn’t cold enough, two reserve soldiers with Kenora’s 116th Independent Field Battery have volunteered for Arctic Ram; a joint winter combat operations exercise taking place northwest of Yellowknife from Feb. 17 to 27.
Bombardier Kyle Friesen and Bombardier Brandon Thompson prepared for the deployment by taking part in the Winter Warfare training course in Kenora this week…
Thompson, who is from Fort Frances, is looking forward to participating in Arctic Ram with friends from other artillery units he’s known since basic training and other courses he’s been on during his three years with the Kenora reserve.
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Capt. Jon Baker explained the 116th Independent Field is one of three artillery components attached to 38 Brigade Group responsible for all army reserve units in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. Friesen and Thompson will participate in Arctic Ram along with reserve and regular forces soldiers from Edmonton, Shilo and the 1st Canadian Mechanized Unit.
“With the (withdrawal of Canadian) combat forces from Afghanistan, this is an opportunity to reacquire skills to shoot, move and communicate in high arctic conditions,” Baker said. “The ability to operate in the arctic is identified as one of six core tasks under the Canada First Defence Strategy.”
Last year five Kenora reservists took part in Northern Bison 2011. The joint training exercise of the 38 Brigade designated arctic response company group put their cold weather training to the test as 265 soldier travelled more than 300 kilometre by snowmobile from Churchill, Manitoba to Arviat, Nunavut.
http://www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3443774
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Increased Military Traffic Seen Across North America – Potent News Blast [video]
By Amir Alwani
Potent News
January 21, 2012
[UPDATE #4: Global Research sheds some light on what the traffic I witnessed might have been related to, the upcoming “Arctic Ram” exercise.]
[UPDATE #3: Alex Thomas of The Intel Hub added 2 excellent videos and some words which I’ll also include at the bottom of this article.]
[UPDATE #2: I’ve just received word from a reliable source that 6 tanks (that is, 2 on one transport vehicle and 4 on another transport vehicle) were also seen being transported west on the Queensway (Trans-Canada Highway) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on January 19th 12th, 2012. The source said that she had lived in Ottawa for 20 years and had never witnessed anything like that before.]
[UPDATE #1: Someone asked me exactly where I witnessed this so I’ve now added pictures I took from Google maps to clear things up.]
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Yesterday morning (January 20th, 2012), around 4AM I stumbled upon 20-30 tanks on train cars here in Halifax, Canada (at a train stop beside Fairview Cemetery).
Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me at the time and when I came back to film no more than 15 hours later, the tanks had apparently already been transported away.
Here is a video of the location where I saw the tanks, as well as some commentary by me:
A couple months ago my girlfriend’s co-worker had told her that she also witnessed a similar scene.
RELATED: Multiple Military Train Convoys Filmed In Oregon As Domestic Troop Movements Continue To Skyrocket Amid Super Congress Tyranny (August 2, 2011)
The same day I spotted tanks, someone else apparently filmed the following video in Watsonville, CA, US:
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Video Description:
I filmed this on Thursday January 19th after a dozen or so train cars went by on a stretch of track south of Santa Cruz California. It was heading southeast through Watsonville. Cause for alarm or just old tanks being shipped from one base to the other? Real or fake?
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This video was filmed in Hayward California:
This video was filmed in Castroville California:
The fact that the military equipment filmed above is covered in woodland camo confirms that they are NOT set to be used in the Middle East.
Amir Alwani is a psychonaut who makes metal, electronic and hip-hop music. He is also the founder and editor of the online independent media outlet known as Potent News.
This article was edited and updated by Alex Thomas of The Intel Hub.
The Gaddafi Mercenaries and the Division of Africa [video]
Global Research TV
January 12, 2012
How Amnesty International spread rumors and fuelled media disinformation during NATO attacks on Libya in 2011.
For more information visit:
http://www.thehumanitarianwar.com
A production by Julien Teil
Written by Julien Teil and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Teil and Nazemroaya were in Tripoli, Libya during Spring 2011, reporting independently from the ground.
Articles by Julien Teil on Global Research:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&authorFirst=Julie…
Articles by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya on Global Research:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&authorFirst=Mahdi…
David Swanson: Atrocities of War: Video of US Marines Creates Outrage [video]
RT
January 12, 2012
As Washington attempts to limit the damage done by the now-infamous YouTube video which apparently depicts US marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, critics say such actions are the inevitable outcome of an unjustified war.
As US defense secretary Leon Panetta condemned the footage “in the strongest possible terms,” Afghan President Hamid Karzai released a statement on Thursday calling the alleged desecration of the dead bodies “completely inhumane.”
With Karzai imploring the US military to punish those responsible, Panetta promised “those found to have engaged in such conduct will be held accountable to the fullest extent.”
The Pentagon further stated it was still in the process of identifying the four soldiers who mockingly urinated on the slain fighters while a fifth one stood back and filmed the incident.
But while the Pentagon attempts to fight off claims that there are systemic problems in the American military, David Swanson, author and campaigner at rootsaction.org, told RT the latest scandal is not an isolated incident.
“This is not a group of four or five sociopaths who somehow made it through screening and got into deployment in the service of the United States. This is the result of the inevitable training that is necessary to get men and women to take part in a war that is not defensive, that has no reasonable moral or legal justification.”
In fact, Swanson argues that scandals like this can actually lead people to overlook greater injustices being committed.
“My outrage in particular is in the fact that these soldiers have apparently murdered these people and the scandal is that they are urinating on them. The hatred that is necessary to get people to do such a thing is necessary to motivate soldiers to fight in a war that has no other credible rationale. The war itself is an atrocity, and so we pick out these particular atrocities and we get outraged. But we don’t look at the underlying fact, and we end up with this incredibly bizarre phenomenon of being upset that someone is peeing on a body that he has killed.”
Originally aired on RT, January 12, 2012
http://rt.com/news/taliban-marines-urination-scandal-651/
Also availalbe on David Swanson’s website, War Is A Crime:
http://warisacrime.org/content/video-i-discussed-our-brave-troops-urination-p…
Corbett Report Radio 047 – Geopolitics with Madison Ruppert [audio]
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Corbett Report Radio
January 12, 2012
Madison Ruppert of EndTheLie.com is our guest tonight on the program as we go over the latest news and geopolitical updates from around the world, including the recent car bomb assassination of yet another Iranian nuclear scientist, the growing tensions between NATO and Russia, China’s place on the chessboard, and more.
[CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW]
Works Cited:
Was Israel behind yet another assassination of a nuclear scientist?
Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – Part I / Part II / Part III
Leon Panetta admits Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon
Russia strikes back against US-NATO missile system with their own advanced radar
Syrian state media reports Russian naval flotilla arrival in Tartus
US and NATO are on the March Part I / Part II
