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Published on 23-11-2008
Tom Burghardt
Vigilant Shield 09: A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations?
On November 17, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) concluded Vigilant Shield 09 (VS09), described in a press release as a training exercise focused on “homeland defense and civil support.”

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by Matthew Rothschild
Global Research, November 16, 2008
The Progressive - 2008-11-12
This week and into next, NorthCom and NORAD are conducting a joint exercise called “Vigilant Shield ’09.”
The focus will be on “homeland defense and civil support,” a NorthCom press release states.
From November 12-18, it will be testing a “synchronized response of federal, state, local and international [...]

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Northcom to train 4,700 service members for “specialized domestic operations”
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Northcom has announced that two more U.S. military units will be assigned for domestic homeland security missions, bringing the total number of combat ready service members operating inside the U.S. to around 4,700, as fears grow about the increasing [...]

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…while the mainstream media buries its head in the sand
by Naomi Wolf
The following is the spin of military spokespeople in response to questions about the deployment of the First Brigade on US soil for the first time in over 200 years.
The Army Times initially reported that the First Brigade would handle domestic crowd control [...]

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Tom Burghardt
Antifascist Calling reported October 6 that nine months prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Donald Rumsfeld signed off on revisions for the Pentagon’s secretive Continuity of Operations Program (COOP).

http://www.reuters.com/…
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David Morgan
Reuters
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:11 EDT
Washington - The U.S. military began moving its Cold War command center from deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, without fully analyzing potential security threats posed by the relocation, a report said on Thursday.

http://www.roguegovernment.com/…
06-02-2008
Air Force Times
Northern Command will stand up new units to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive — CBRNE — attacks.