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“TROUBLE: U.S. Sets “DEFCON 3″
by Newsroom
 
“At 9:43 PM Eastern US last night (Sunday, June 19) the Armed Forces of the United States were reportedly ordered to set condition “DEFCON 3.” This is an extraordinary development and signals serious trouble, LIKELY requiring an expedited military response.
 
The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and unified and specified combatant commands. It prescribes five graduated levels of readiness (or states of alert) for the U.S. military. It increases in severity from DEFCON 5 (least severe) to DEFCON 1 (most severe) to match varying military situations.  The chart below explains the system – click the image to enlarge.
 
 
To understand the severity of DefCon 3, it would help to realize that on September 10, 2001, the US Military was at DefCon 5. When the attacks of September 11 took place, the US Military was upgraded only to DefCon 4. For the US to have implemented DefCon 3 at 9:43 PM EDT on a Sunday night, means something very big is taking place. 
 
UPDATE 5:56 AM EDT:
 
At 10:14 PM EDT last night “Unusual strategic activity” was observed in Russia.
At 10: 25 PM EDT last night, “We do not know what Russia is reacting to; nothing observable in any operations theater.”
At 11:01 PM last night “Unusual United States strategic activity now being observed. Source reports to SuperStation95 “I have no context for any of this. I do not know why this is taking place.”
At 11:32 PM last night “Multiple sources verifying information. Still looking for more – information is still sketchy.”
 
UPDATE 6:08 AM EDT:
 
At 12:38 AM EDT this morning “Multiple, solidly reliable confirmations of DEFCON-3″
At 1:35 AM EDT this morning “RC135V has just left from Mildenhall (UK) to do a flyover of large armored and infantry movements across Russia. We are getting word of movement from ALL 4 MILITARY DISTRICTS! Also seeing a pattern of almost all Russian military Satellites changing position.
At 1:42 AM EDT – Very long coded message over US “SkyKing” network 8992 KHz
At 1:50 AM EDT – OSINT and other sources indicate that the US military has gone into full nuclear readiness mode.
• Military channels are transmitting unusual encrypted messages at 11175 Khz.
•Sources indicate that multiple armed US bombers are in the air. Some bases no longer have any grounded aircraft. Fighters are also in the air.
•Local civilians are making report of increased activity at US military bases across the country.
• DWS has moved to DEFCON 3, DWS sources have been confirmed by WM sources.
• US response appears to be a reflection of Russian activities, based on available information.
•Buzzer at 4625 KHz is no longer active.
At 2:05 AM EDT this morning “It’s official, there is some type of Crisis.  Numerous, extremely high level officials arriving at Pentagon.”
At 2:23 AM EDT this morning B52 activity overheard via LiveATC.com ATC feed. Nothing further other than they are active from ANDERSEN AFB, Guam
At 2:45 AM EDT – NATO Military activity taking place in the Baltics. 
At 3:00 AM EDT this morning – “NATO Movements underway. Still no info about the actual nature of the “Crisis.”
At 4:23 AM EDT this morning – We are beginning to receive information from our European sources that several fighter launches have taken place in Europe. Unknown if related to the current situation or for a drill.
U.S. and Russian forces are in the air, likely moving to control points. We have no reports of any engagements. Domestic assets are moving into defensive positions.
 
Possibly Related Material (Updates Continue Below Following This Related Material):
 
American and Russian fighter jets had a tense showdown in the skies above Syria as the Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels. U.S. and Russian fighter jets bloodlessly tangled in the air over Syria on June 16 as the American pilots tried and failed to stop the Russians from bombing U.S.-backed rebels in southern Syria near the border with Jordan. The aerial close encounter underscores just how chaotic Syria’s skies have become as Russia and the U.S.-led coalition work at cross-purposes, each dropping bombs in support of separate factions in the five-year-old civil war. The near-clash also highlights the escalating risk of American and Russian forces actually coming to blows over Syria, potentially sparking a much wider conflict between the world’s leading nuclear powers.
 
The incident began when at least two twin-engine Su-34 bombers, some of Moscow’s most advanced warplanes, struck what the Pentagon described as a “border garrison” housing around 200 U.S.-supported rebels in At Tanf on the Syrian side of the Syria-Jordan border. The rebels had been “conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area,” the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.
 
The United States and its allies in Syria clearly did not expect the air strike. The rebels in At Tanf are party to a shaky ceasefire agreement between rebel forces and the regime of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad—and, by extension, the Russian military contingent backing Al Assad. The Los Angeles Times reported that Russian planes had not previously been active over At Tanf. The Su-34s’ initial strike wounded, and perhaps killed, some of the rebels in At Tanf.
 
The U.S. Navy scrambled F/A-18 fighters to intercept the Russians, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Navy has deployed two aircraft carriers to the region for strikes on ISIS. As the F/A-18s approached the Su-34s, officials with U.S. Central Command—which oversees America’s wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan—used a special hotline to contact their Russian counterparts directing Russia’s own intervention in Syria.
 
Arriving over At Tanf, the American pilots apparently spoke directly to the Russian aviators. “Pilots CAN communicate with one another on a communications channel set up to avoid air accidents,” Central Command confirmed in a statement to The Daily Beast. Washington and Moscow had established the hotline as part of a so-called “Safety of Flight Memorandum of Understanding” that the two governments signed in October specifically in order to avoid the kind of aerial confrontation that occurred over Syria last week.
 
With the American jets flying close enough to visually identify the Su-34s, the Russians departed the air space over At Tanf. Some time shortly thereafter, the F/A-18s ran low on fuel and left the area in order to link up with an aerial tanker. That’s when the Su-34s reportedly returned to At Tanf —and bombed the rebels again. According to the Los Angeles Times, the second strike killed first-responders assisting survivors of the first bombing run.
 
The next day, senior U.S. Defense Department officials organized an “extraordinary” video conference with Russian counterparts to discuss the incident. The meeting included Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs Elissa Slotkin and U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, a strategic planner on the Pentagon’s joint staff, plus unspecified Russian Ministry of Defense officials.
 
“Department officials expressed strong concerns about the attack on the coalition-supported counter-ISIL forces at the At Tanf garrison, which included forces that are participants in the cessation of hostilities in Syria, and emphasized that those concerns would be addressed through ongoing diplomatic discussions on the cessation of hostilities,” Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook explained in a statement. “Regarding safety, department officials conveyed that Russia’s continued strikes at At Tanf, even after U.S. attempts to inform Russian forces through proper channels of on-going coalition air support to the counter-ISIL forces, created safety concerns for U.S. and coalition forces,” Cook continued. “Department officials requested Russian responses to address those concerns.”
 
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov confirmed, via the country’s state-owned media, that the teleconference took place—but he did not specify the results of the “extraordinary” meeting.
 
Russian warplanes had previously shadowed planes belonging to the U.S.-led coalition over Syria, but the coalition always described the Russians’ behavior as “professional.” By contrast, in April Russian Su-24 bombers repeatedly buzzed the U.S. Navy warship USS Donald Cook while the vessel sailed in international waters in the Black Sea. A Pentagon spokesman called the Russians’ actions in that incident “provocative and unprofessional.”
 
The Kremlin should be keenly aware of the potential for unwanted—and potentially destabilizing—bloodshed that exists in the air over Syria. In November, a Russian Su-24 bomber flying a mission over Syria strayed over the Syria-Turkey border into Turkey (False- CP) and a Turkish F-16 fighter promptly shot it down.
 
The two Russian crew members ejected. One flier died when Syrian rebels on the ground opened fire on his parachute. Russian, Syrian and Iranian forces launched a complex rescue mission that ultimately retrieved the surviving pilot. One Russian marine died and a helicopter was destroyed during that operation. The fallout from the November incident continues, with Russia and Turkey exchanging threats—and Moscow imposing economic sanctions on Ankarra including limits on some food imports to Russia from Turkey.
 
It’s not clear how close the U.S. fighters came to attacking and potentially shooting down the Su-34s over At Tanf. Central Command declined to say what the rules of engagement are for American pilots flying over Syria. “ROE are actually specifics that we don’t get into,” Central Command said in a statement. The last time a U.S. military warplane shot down a Russian—actually, Soviet—plane was in 1953, over Korea or China, depending on which historians you believe. The last time a Russian or Soviet warplane shot down an American aircraft was in 1970, when a U.S. Army plane strayed over Armenia.
 
Resuming Updates:
 
At 4:32 AM EDT A huge explosion has struck an ammunition depot at a military firing range in southern Russia. The Defense Ministry said around 600 people have been evacuated. The incident took place at Ashuluk testing range near the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia.
As of 6:23 EDT this morning Currently NATO has an abnormal amount of fighters and C-130s up over Europe.
x10 F-16
x2 F-15
x2 A342
x1 c135
x1 p3
x1 A310
x1 EC35
x2 C17
x12 c-130
x1 K35R
x2 Eurofighter Typhoon
x1 M28B
x1 UH1
6:28 AM EDT Confirm that there are heavy troops and equipment movements in Europe and in Russia. It seems to be a show of force. The military are not saying anything, but the rumor mill believes that there has been a strike by Russia on American-backed rebels in Syria overnight, which has led to a war of words.
7:17  AM EDT Now eerily quiet. This is a developing story.  Please check back…” 
 


Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2016/06/trouble-us-sets-defcon-3.html



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    • KnowMoreThanYou

      Sounds Like a Nice Story for a red dawn type movie script. Nice one!!! But real? No!!

    • my2pesos

      What a difference a day can make.
      .
      .
      Is this the same ‘Putin’ that was interviewed on ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’ yesterday?

    • El_Puerco

      Russian planes bombed US special ops in Syria.

      If they want to be part of the ceasefire they have to sign up for the ceasefire and disclose their positions.

      If they don’t sign up for the ceasefire disclosing their positions then they can expect to be bombed.

      It really is as simple as that. :razz:

    • Leo

      Russia is more than ready for a nuclear stand off even a nuclear war with the U S . Russia has even prepared its population far better than the U.S. in case such a event actually happens . My money is on the Bear . :cool: being a U.S. citizen I am already nuclear toast . :shock:

      • dagiles

        There will be no nuclear war allowed by our Galactic Friends.They have repeatedly shut down nuclear weapons for years. Dont even worry about nuclear war. Nuclear fusion bleeds into other dimensions and nuclear fusion kills the soul….not gonna happen dont even worry about it.

        If you dont believe me do the research :cool:

        • Arte Vespule

          They sure didn’t stop the first two….

    • TEXASPROUD

      It really pisses me off that our own government doesn’t care enough about it’s citizens to have EVER built nuclear bomb shelters for it’s people. Russia built millions of state of the art shelters for its citizens. Just PROOF that Illuminati are counting on a nuclear war that will wipe out more than half of the American population should/when we go to war.

      That’s why I’m happy that I have my trust in Jesus Christ! With HIM I feel safe and secure. The Lord will protect his remnant…

      We are marching on like sheeple to the slaughter of the New World Order. Just blindly following our government and the world; not asking questions and relying on our cellphones; our iPods; our reality TV; our sports teams. The music of this world is luring our youth into realm of demonology through the use of demonic and satanic binaural beats and back-masking on everything we buy! We are Relying on EVERYTHING OTHER than the one who craves relationship with us…..

      God created you to know him personally. Psalm 139:13-14 “You created every part of me and put me together in my mother’s womb.”
      John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son so that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life.”

      Jesus Christ is God’s only solution for our Sin.. For the wages of sin is death. He died in our place
      Romans 5:8 “But God showed hsi great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while were still yet sinners.”

      He rose from the dead:
      1 Corinthians 15: 3-6 “Christ died for our sins.. he was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day…He was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.. After that he was seen by more than five hundred”

      Through Jesus alone we can know God personally and experience God’s love.
      HE IS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD…
      John 4: 6 “Jesus said to them, ‘ I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

      We must believe in and receive Christ.
      John 1:12 “to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God. All they had to do was to trust and believe in Jesus to be saved.”

      We receive Christ by FAITH
      God promised eternal life to all who receive Christ
      1 John 5: 12-13 “Whoever has God’s Son has life; whoever does not have His Son, does not have life. I have written this to you who believe in the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”

      GOD BLESS YOU….

      • b4

        you ,with bible in hand,will be toast just like every other fool–dream on–your insane

      • Meneer de uil

        The Lord = Lord Anu(nnaki) from Nibiru the destroyer which has it’s own sun, Nemesis. This is called the second sun or old black sun. I once was the great Marduk but got defeated now I’m teached otherwise by great galactic beings and got placed in a human shell as karma and experience it myself. This disception has been created to learn good and bad with free will. It has been used to the extreme by all the manipulation used today which was not as agreed.

        It’s true the government and military is infiltraded by demonic reptilian and other entities which are beings fought at this moment. They still use humanity as puppets to fight eachother.

        The reason behind this is that this is indeed the time to ascend to a higher dimension. Humans have a special place in the revolution and are creator god themselves. They have disabled upon creation their special ability’s which are being activated by the photonic particles send through earth in this revelation and all creatures living on it. DNA is mutating from charcoal to chrystalline this is happening in the here and now! The negative entities try to disrupt this by chemtrail nanoparts, GMO food, toxic fluoride water in combination with HAARP, 3/4G, WIFI so your body resonates at lower frequencies. All hate, fear, extremes makes you feel angry and lower your personal vibrational level which is necessary for ascension to raise to the ultraviolette level in which Nibiru is visible. You are great light beings being mislead, polluted with all kind of beliefs to be used in the end game so most hate and not love and finally unite!

        This great disception can be turned into a great soul rebelution if the divine continuous of all see this and focus on a better world without negative misleading elites. The military shall drop their weapons as soon as they see they are being used and something greater is coming to their eyes to see!

        Make love, not war!

    • welovetheUSA

      The propaganda on Russia is going to be nothing but lies, unbelievable that Obama, the CIA and these idiot women who run foreign policy are ing to start a nuclear war with Russia and China..treason on a scale this country has never seen before. The state department spent over five billion dollars of tax payer money to overthrow Ukraine, idiots. Our military will never beat Russia or China in any war, the CIAs own research department said war with Russia would last 60 hours wiping us and half the world off the map.
      There is no reason to have any war, not with Russia or China, it’s these crazy ideology neocons, Obama, these Susan Rice, Noonan,Powers, Jarrett, the CIA, Israel..NATO..They are all insane.
      http://philosophers-stone.co.uk

      Because these greedy banks have destroyed the American dollar and want to hide their failures, they are willing to wipe out humanity off the face of the earth to hide from the world..has to stop, put them in jail, impeach Obama and his team of idiots for treason and crimes against the world.
      There are no killings in America that the CIA has not set up themselves, wake up..

    • Lucifer Morningstar

      WAR
      WAR
      WAR
      WAR
      WAR
      TO A WAR
      TO A WAR
      :evil: :twisted:

      • Equalizer

        Flacid Dinglestar…You wouldn’t know the difference between war and life, unless you have lived, died and have experienced the honor to come back from the dead to enlighten misspent idiots (you). There are only a handful of us whom have. WAR is only for carcass worms and human maggot$ like george soros who believe there is power on earth by destroying and absorbing youthful life force. Maggot or worm, you lose in the end parasite.

        • Lucifer Morningstar

          Jokey faggot who spends too much time on BIN. Git gud and go kill your ugly self lol. :evil:

    • greendragon76

      Over this past weekend, 6/17 – 6/19, I drove my family from mid-Michigan to Nashville, Tennessee. I drove, US-127, I-69, I-65. Saw heavy military columns in every state we went through. hard to believe that they would be holding “training exercises” in three states on the same weekend.

    • Daddywags

      Snopes says this is false… What about the EU? You’d think the BBC would pick up on it… If it is true, you have have time enough to reenact the nuclear drills of the early 60′s: Go to the center of your room, put your head between your knees and kiss your booty good-bye!! :wink:

      • Takealook

        The BBC is a Zionist rag. They are as criminal as the US Zionist owned media with only a few drops of real news that accidentally makes it to press.

    • my2pesos

      The Russians ~ Rust ‘in’ Ashes ~ Rust He ‘as’ Sin
      .
      .
      Rust ‘as’ Dust ~ Star ‘US’ Stud……….(10)
      .
      .
      Ashes ‘to’ Ashes ~ As He ‘at’ SS Hoes…………(12)
      .
      .
      Dust ‘to’ Dust ~ Stud ‘to’ Stud……….(10)

      • Equalizer

        My pesos~ as to “worthless”
        .
        .
        2 pissholes ~ “excrement” Exit holes

        my2pesos = Worthless “Excrement”

        • Lucifer Morningstar

          You just scurred cuz you know if WW3 begun you would git rekt. :evil:

    • ItsEverywhere

      Anything fro m “Superstation 95 Atlanta” is erroneous at best, but usually just blatant propaganda lies.

    • putupjob

      links lead nowhere.

    • Anonymous

      I guest it must be Russia’s fault. After all, will all those NATO exercises right outside it’s border and the black sea. What is Russia to do, just sit and let this happen? I don’t think so, you pinch the bear the bear will rip your head off.

    • DISPENSER

      “RC135V has just left from Mildenhall (UK) to do a flyover of large armored and infantry movements across Russia.”
      No, it didn’t. The RC135 does not do flyovers of Russia. They do fly out of Mildenhall.

      The putrid swine we have in charge of the US not only refuse to destroy ISIS, they send them, and other extremist weapons and support in an attempt to overthrow the legally elected leader of Syria. Stop putting our brave warriors in harms way to support your fantasies of a caliphate in the middle east. Sit back and let Russia deal with the threat from ISIS, and similar groups. They get things done.

      • VirusGuard

        Yes i worked at Mildenhall and have been seen lots of american air bases all over the UK but not a single airbase from anyone apart from the US will be found in it’s turf.

        We like the rest of Europe are under US millitary occupation left over from WWII but when you look back it was Russia that beat the Germans , not come late americans who’s banker puppets now want to own the world.

        >>>>>>> GO HOME YANKS, WE DONT NEED OR WANT YOU HERE <<<<<<

    • Visionofficer

      Wow. The extent to which people will go for a headline. I have zero chatter about this from anyone other than this author. Nice book stuff. The last time we were at DEFCON 3 was March 16, 2015. It lasted for about two days. Until someone reveals a source that is credible other than “secret Pentagon sources”, I’m not buying it.

    • knowing

      you are wrong. we are at DEFCON 2 for number of days now.

    • Didianna

      He has done lots of research at least. The crop circle analyser also expects; Four crop circles on June 6, 2016, warnings about attacks on USA; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjt5fHpRVY

    • VirusGuard

      I think you are all missing the point as to what is behind this new batch of propaganda.

      You see we have the BREXIT vote where the government has tried to play the race card and now they are making it look like we need to all stick togeather to keep them russians at bay.

      Russia has my full suport in taking out ISIS in Syria and the USA can piss off back home if they don’t like it and they can also stop playing with words about “Moderate Rebels” or was the guy that killed the MP, Mrs Cox also a so called “Moderate Rebel” and needs to be set free.

    • coveredlikeatent

      All we can hope for is when the missiles fly there destination is dc and a total surprise.

    • TC

      Several critical details about the situation in Syria were not mentioned in this account. Russia has offered to work together with NATO forces to eliminate the mercenaries from 80 countries that are attacking the Syrian government and are supplied through Turkey, Jordan and Israel. Russia was invited to assist by the internationally recognized government of Syria represented by Assad, a president who was elected with an 83% majority in internationally observed elections. All other forces flying over or operating there are illegal and in violation of the UN charter. Nevertheless, Syria and Russia have offered to not attack groups sponsored by the US if the US will name and locate them. The US has agreed but has not done so and together with its allies continues to supply and protect groups of mercenaries that continue to attack Syrians. The last message by Kerry was that it would take at least 3 to 4 months to designate the groups that it supports. Russia has realized the US is playing a game and called the bluff by bombing a group of apparently US backed mercenaries while its air force was absent. This may or may not be the reason for Defcon 3 but if Syria is the cause it is important that the facts be stated correctly.

    • Youcef

      In my psychic predictions video you can actually see a defcon 2 situation that will occur.

      So buccle up folks it is going to go one notch up!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnu_w5QFMww

      • Lucifer Morningstar

        Hayabusa-san! What’s up? :evil:

      • wreakhavoc

        I’m sorry if I disagree. You miss the significant events with EU and brexit, that was an significant event that might lead to an end of EU or perhaps a meltdown in worst case (starting from Europe!). So if you are a psychic I must say you unfortunate ain’t that sharp.

    • wreakhavoc

      That was message was on June 19. Its June 29 now. It seems very quite for being defcon 3.

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