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A planned military training operation is gaining the attention of the consipracy crowd at the moment. The claim is that the US military is conducting a Psyop upon the American public with a large scale military drill called Operation Jade Helm 15.
For the last few days, more well known sites such as Infowars, Before Its News have been stirring the rumours that this exercise is nothing more than a 'disinfo psyop' in order to bring around the public perception of military occupation being normal. The buzz from this has started to grow large enough for mainstream media to take notice of the claims of Infowars:
http://www.news.com.au/world/conspi...aw-military-coup/story-fndir2ev-1227274062108
The central theme, and main claim amongst these sites, is that the end goal is martial law where dissidents are rounded up and imprisoned. A large part of this has come from a slideshow where a map of the USA has been divided up and parts, namely Texas, marked as "hostile" territory. Infowars claims:
The US military have actually released a media notice in several publications to counter what has been speculated in order to avoid it getting further out of hand. JADE HELM 15 is to begin July 15 and is a major exercise to test military capabilities:
The main cause of all this misguided excitement is the below slideshow released by Special Ops Command which, ironically, was to disclose the purpose and extent of the exercise to local officials within the affected states/areas and seek their approval.
Update: Quite a good debunking here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ise-freaking-out-the-internet-is-no-big-deal/
For the last few days, more well known sites such as Infowars, Before Its News have been stirring the rumours that this exercise is nothing more than a 'disinfo psyop' in order to bring around the public perception of military occupation being normal. The buzz from this has started to grow large enough for mainstream media to take notice of the claims of Infowars:
http://www.news.com.au/world/conspi...aw-military-coup/story-fndir2ev-1227274062108
The central theme, and main claim amongst these sites, is that the end goal is martial law where dissidents are rounded up and imprisoned. A large part of this has come from a slideshow where a map of the USA has been divided up and parts, namely Texas, marked as "hostile" territory. Infowars claims:
Update: Quite a good debunking here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ise-freaking-out-the-internet-is-no-big-deal/
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