Orlando False Flag: This Is Just the Beginning
Foreword by Eric Gajewski: Talk about #propaganda. Now with the latest false flag in Orlando we can be further drawn into war with Islam, have more of our rights taken away (more police state), more gun grabbing by the commies in our government and have people "feeling sorry" for the sodomites and legitimizing their sinful way of life further...what a win for the #NWO. Was this the new "holocaust" of the West to legitimize the sodomites? This country is doomed!
#massdeception #lustloses #policestate
This is a comprehensive blog covering all angles of this most recent false flag. We will first start with Mike King's article from tomatobubble.com.
THE ORLANDO SHOOTING HOAX
It is the standard practice of your intrepid reporter here at The Anti New York Times to restrain his instinct-driven, ferocious feline sidekick and wait a few days before definitively slamming the stamp of bullshit on a false false-flag event carried out with crisis actors, fake blood, dead "lone gunmen," no corpses, no ambulances and goofy "spontaneous" vigils. Not this time. Sugar, the floor is yours!
"It's all a bunch of $#@*&^% ^^$%$@!!!
The producers at LHS (Langley-Hollywood Studios) have really, and we do mean really, "pushed the envelope" with this latest stunt involving the "Pulse" sodomite club in Orlando, Florida -- setting an astonishing, and we do mean astonishing "lone gunman" record of 50 kills plus 53 wounded! Eat you heart out Rambo!
How was it possible that in a small crowded club, Rambomar was able to wield a long gun without someone being able to grab either him or the barrel before he could methodically shoot 103 people -- a task which would have required at least 3 magazine replacements? Yes, they were queers, but dominant queers are often weight-lifting macho types who aren't afraid to fight. And the submissive types would have ran for their lives in terror. How did he get past the club's bouncers while wielding a rifle? How could he kill so many people, in the dark, with small .22 caliber bullets (far less lethal than .38's and .45's). He would have had to score 50 head or heart shots to accomplish such an amazing feat.
In addition to the impossible (and invisible) body count, the act of fiction managed to heavily hit upon three propaganda themes at one time:
Sympathy for SDT (sodomites, dykes & trannies)
Anti-gun hysteria
Anti-Muslim hysteria
On the heels of this terrible Trifecta, Homo-Obongo wasted little no time breaking out into his scripted "Comforter-in-Chief" routine:
“We know enough to say this was an act of terror and act of hate. While the violence could have hit any American community. This is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender."
"Our friends?" Speak for yourself, faggot. (better get your "homophobic" slurs out now before they become banned as "hate speech" TM).
The conveeniently dead gunman, Omar Mateen, had, we are told:
"pledged his support for ISIS and invoked the names of the Boston marathon bombers in 911 calls made amid his attack on the crowded venue, according to the FBI."
"ISIS" = B.S... The Boston Smoke Bomb = B.S... A single gunman blasting at least 103 people = B.S.(2) Play it again Sugar, and bring the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live along with you:
Omar Rambo: 50 dead & 53 wounded -- one bullet at a time (semi-automatic rifles do not spray bullets like Rambo's movie machine gun). Who knew he had such talent with a gun? And why didn't the fags run away?
Another "tell", as they say in poker parlance, is the usual crisis acting "hand-to-the-mouth" and dry-eyed crying routines. Other indicators include the dramatic carrying of victims, to no place in particular, by camera-friendly bystanders (don't they know how to call an ambulance?) and the corny scripted vigils that materialize almost instantly.
Dry-eyed "crying", hands-to-the-face "mourners", instant cheesy vigils popping up all over the world,"spontaneous" marketing logos.
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These ridiculous false false-flag shooting attacks will only grow more and more "deadly" with each passing event. The planners will not stop until they either grab America's guns, or their transparent tricks are finally called out. But who in the public arena would dare to call the Orlando "massacre" an impossible hoax? Maybe, Donald Trump? Don't hold your breath.
Trump:
"Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!"
In fairness to Trump, if he were to actually question the official account of this charade, the Piranha Press would tear him apart and Boobus Americanus would run away from him by the millions. In the land of the TV mind-slave, politicians are damned for telling the truth --- and blessed if they don't. Fortunately, your intrepid member-supported bloggers (hint-hint) here don't have to bite our tongues. Count on us to keep shouting the unfiltered truth until the usual suspects finally pull the Internet plug on "hate speech" TM.
Even Rambo with a fully automatic machine gun would be hard-pressed to match Omar's laughably high one-bullet-at-a-time body count -- 50 dead & 53 wounded!
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Boobus Americanus 1: I read in the New York Times today that the lone gunman down in Florida had recently pledged his allegiance to ISIS.
Boobus Americanus 2: Such a tragedy. I totally agree with Obama's gun-control initiatives and sympathy for gay rights; but I also have to agree with Trump's tough stand on ISIS.
Orlando Nightclub Shooting Another False Flag?
By Kevin Barrett on June 12, 2016
It sure walks, talks and quacks like one
All spectacular “left-wing” terror during the Cold War was by Operation Gladio; today, almost all “Islamic terror” is by Gladio B
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor
They’re calling it “the worst US terror attack since 9/11.” A Muslim is being blamed for shooting up a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing more than fifty people.
Robert David Steele and 25 other experts explain today’s false flag epidemic in ANOTHER French False Flag: Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernardino
In the recently-published Another French False Flag, former CIA clandestine services officer Robert David Steele – who admits he executed one false flag operation for the Agency – lists ten “key indicators of a modern false flag.” The most important is #10: “Who benefits?”
So let’s start there.
The entire world just spent the past week celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali – and Ali’s religion, Islam. It was the best PR week Islam ever had.
What’s more, we didn’t spend the past week celebrating “house Muslim” Uncle Tom style Islam. We just spent an amazing week cheering for Muhammad Ali, a Muslim fighter, a truth jihadi, a man willing to sacrifice everything for truth and justice…a man who famously cheered on armed Palestinian resistance with the immortal words:
“In my name and the name of all Muslims in America, I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland and oust the Zionist invaders.”
For the people behind the Islamophobia-based “clash of civilizations” – and the long list of false flags that created it – the past week of Muhammad Ali adulation was the ultimate PR nightmare. Meanwhile, during the exact same week, the Zionists have been panicking, fearing that Obama is going to take his revenge on Netanyahu by helping the Security Council pass a resolution essentially recognizing and officially establishing the State of Palestine within its pre-1967 borders.
The usual suspects may have responded with a massive publicity stunt in Orlando designed to make us forget Muhammad Ali … and make it much harder, if not impossible, for Obama to force the Israelis to withdraw from the territory they stole in 1967. In other words, this keeps the Clash of Civilizations going, and Israel expanding.
And who benefits from that? No Muslims that I can see.
Will the alleged perpetrator be interrogated to find out what he did or did not do, what his motives may have been, and who his associates were? Apparently not. Once again, we see the “perp shot dead, will never be interrogated or tried” syndrome. If international terrorism sponsored by groups like ISIS were really what it is made out to be, obviously live captures of all suspected terrorists would be the top priority, so interrogations could take place and terror networks taken down.
Another major indicator of “false flag” is the scale of the carnage. More than 50 dead? Only one shooter? And the guy was not even a special forces professional, but a flaky security guard?! (Who just happened to be on all the National Security radar screens, like so many others now-proven patsies.) Sorry, MSM, that doesn’t pass the smell test.
It’s funny how almost all “Muslim terrorists” are either ridiculously ultra-competent supermen able to take down skyscrapers and blow up the Pentagon using a couple of package-openers as their only weapons; kill ludicrously large numbers of people in mass shootings without any military training; or otherwise perform amazing feats of mass carnage … or else they are the world’s LEAST competent destruction-wreakers, dufuses who can’t get a match lit to try to blow up their own shoe, or who pack their underwear with sterno camping fuel and no detonator and somehow expect their crotch to explode.
Aside from the handful of supermen, practically every wannabe Muslim terrorist in the USA since 9/11 has been a total dufus. As Trevor Aaronson writes in The Terror Factory, almost all of the “Islamic terror plots” in the US since 9/11 have actually been FBI terror plots sold to some hapless patsy – a homeless street person, a retarded teenager – by a professional con artist.
Real terrorism usually falls in the middle of the bell curve: A handful of people (if any) get killed, and/or something of fairly modest size gets blown up. This is the pattern with the 94% of terrorist attacks that, according to the FBI, are not committed by Muslims, but rather by radical Jews, hispanics, leftists, animal rights activists, and so on.
But Muslims…whoah! They’re either supermen, defying the laws of physics to make skyscrapers disappear at free-fall acceleration through the path of most resistance or shooting huge crowds of people with a single Glock pistol…or they’re retarded kids, homeless people, schlemiels who couldn’t succeed in stepping on an ant if the FBI bought them size 20 shoes and released an ant colony next to their feet.
Statistically, the odds that Muslims would almost always either be way-too-lethal or else way-too-incompetent, while all other categories of terrorists would fall in the middle of the bell curve, must be about 20 trillion to one. Go ahead, pull up the statistics and do the math. The inescapable conclusion is that most plots and attacks attributed to Muslims are PR stunts concocted by the FBI and the Deep State, respectively.
We were told, almost immediately after the Orlando shooting, that “the shooter had pledged allegiance to ISIS.” Robert David Steele remarks: “The tape pledging allegiance to ISIS is patsy perfect.” And since ISIS is a Western public relations operation, a 4th generation warfare psy-op, the ISIS pledge in itself pretty much proves that the shooting was an inside job. (For details, see the section “Who is ISIS” in Another French False Flag.)
Mateen’s parents were born in Afghanistan, and he was ‘on the radar’ of U.S. officials for some time, but was not the target of a specific investigation, law enforcement officials told ABC News.”
If the deep state had been running him, setting him up for an event like Orlando, he would indeed have been “on the radar” – but his handlers would have made sure he wasn’t targeted by any specific investigation. This is what happened prior to 9/11 when Lt. Col. Anthony Schaeffer of Able Danger was ordered by his superiors to put yellow sticky pads over the faces of Mohammed Atta and other future “9/11 hijackers” and forget he had ever heard of them.
So if the carnage in Orlando is real (and I haven’t yet seen any indications that it isn’t) how might it have been produced? The two obvious possibilities include:
(1) Professional killers i.e. multiple shooters may have done the damage and/or assisted the patsy, as appears to have been the case in many other false flags including the Fort Hood shooting, the Batman theater shooting, the Sikh Temple shooting, and the more recent Paris and San Bernardino shootings. Robert David Steele remarks: “Multiple shooters are detected by proper forensics on all bullet paths and all spent rounds. I doubt responsible forensics will be done (if 50 real bodies) am pretty sure that if it were, it would identify multiple weapons not found on the scene from the spent round signatures. This is all way too pat.”
(2) The patsy may have been given the equivalent of special forces training, perhaps with the aid of MK-Ultra style hypnotherapy, obviating the need for professional assistance.
Of course, it’s always possible that yet another Muslim-named super-terrorist just appeared out of nowhere and decided, for unfathomable reasons, to stage a murderous PR stunt that would erase “Muhammad Ali Week” from the public mind and help Netanyahu resist the international push to force Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories.
But though it’s still to early to know for sure, the above-cited circumstantial evidence suggests that we should place the Orlando nightclub shooting in the “strongly suspected false flag” category.
Courtesy of Robert David Steele
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Updates:
For what it’s worth, there was an active shooter drill in Orlando six months ago.
BeforeItsNews remarks:
“For those who truly imagine outside the box, it’s crucial to understand the purpose behind the cynical utilization of Orlando, Florida. Home to Disney World and consequently the destination of so many families and their children over generations, it has become the one location you go to get away from it all. You leave the home behind and all of the negative evening news and you travel to the land of make-believe to involve yourself in childhood fun and fantasy.
“What’s the point? Well, what better means to galvanize the parents and children across America to take up the problem of gun control in earnest than by shooting up their adult and childhood playground.”
Editor’s note: The Disney World locale also reinforces the propaganda line: Muslims hate gays, Walt Disney, childhood happiness, families, mom, apple pie, free speech for cartoonists, etc. etc. THEY HATE OUR WAY OF LIFE SO WE MUST SUPPORT ISRAEL. -KB
Pakistani defense analyst Zaid Hamid tweets: “Is this a co-incidence that the shooter worked for a private mercenary contracting outfit G4S which is close to Mossad/MI5/CIA??”
Robert David Steele: “An alert reader has pointed out that only the stupid would accept the video taped pledge of allegiance to ISIS at face value. In a clandestine environment, the shooter could be told that he is auditioning for a possible operational promotion, and asked to do this, even given a script. A prospective candidate for access agent status going against ISIS would be assigned to increase mosque attendance and signs of commitment. There is NOTHING so far that suggests this individual had anything against gays or any reason to actually target gays. All signs point to a false flag event.”
From George Washington’s blog: “Mateen worked for the British company G4S since 2007. Throughout that time, G4S has been what people might call a private, special operations military outfit. It is said to be three times the size of the British military. In 2012, a G4S employee was charged with making a bomb threat at the Olympics. Similar bomb threats were connected to G4S in 2013 and May 2016. Previously called Securicor, G4S provided security at all three airports affected by the 9/11 attacks. Securicor/G4S had bought Argenbright Security—the 9/11 airport security firm—just nine months before the 9/11 attacks. The company later ran operations at Guantanamo Bay. These facts suggest that all aspects of the attack, including initial reports of two suspects in the shootings and that someone was holding the door closed to prevent people from escaping, should be carefully investigated.”
From Tomato Bubble: “The producers at LHS (Langley-Hollywood Studios) have really, and we do mean really, “pushed the envelope” with this latest stunt involving the “Pulse” sodomite club in Orlando, Florida — setting an astonishing, and we do mean astonishing “lone gunman” record of 50 kills plus 53 wounded! Eat you heart out Rambo! How was it possible that in a small crowded club, Rambomar was able to wield a long gun without someone being able to grab either him or the barrel before he could methodically shoot 103 people — a task which would have required at least 3 magazine replacements? Yes, they were queers, but dominant queers are often weight-lifting macho types who aren’t afraid to fight. And the submissive types would have ran for their lives in terror. How did he get past the club’s bouncers while wielding a rifle? How could he kill so many people, in the dark, with small .22 caliber bullets (far less lethal than .38’s and .45’s). He would have had to score 50 head or heart shots to accomplish such an amazing feat.”
Reports of multiple shooters are coming in including this Facebook post:
Eyewitness account from the Palm Beach Post who said he heard another gun from a different direction: “Fifty people were trying to jump over each other trying to exit the place. There was a guy holding the door and not letting us exit. He’s like ‘Stay inside, stay inside.’ As he is saying that, the shooter keeps getting closer and closer and the sound of the bullets is getting closer. Everyone starts to panic. People are getting trampled. Let us out, let us out!…I’m pretty sure it was more than one person. I heard two guns going at the same time. It was very, very crazy.’’
Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a leading contributor to Another French False Flag and We Are NOT Charlie Hebdo, just published Orlando Shooting in which he asks: Where are the bodies and where are the videos? And, who benefits?
Robert David Steele is keeping a running list of updates at PhiBetaIota. Sample: “Multiple sources including retired FBI agents are suggesting that the FBI used its investigations to recruit Omar Mateen as an informant, and note his anomalous change of last name. They also point out that the FBI could have been told to stand down (as they were for 9/11) because Mateen was part of a covert psychological false flag operation — as Dick Cheney demonstrated on 9/11, the murder of any number of US citizens is now ‘okay’ if it serves the political agenda of the deep state… In our experience, the FBI does not ‘drop’ investigations, but rather ‘succeeds’ at turning the hapless individual into an official ‘informant’ to be used in manufacturing a terror event. FBI informants can also be ‘taken over’ without the good people of the FBI being witting of the ‘branching’ toward ends not sanctioned by the FBI bureaucracy.” And: ” GS4, Omar Mateen’s employer, receives $234 million a year to help ID suspected terrorists entering the USA; Omar Mateen passed multiple FBI and private sector security checks (the narrative about his being mentally ill may be scripted); GS4 is the primary contractor used by the Obama Administration to bus illegal immigrants from the border deep into the heartland, where they are released, with no legal obligations; Wackenhut, a subsidiary of GS4, has been a cover company for the CIA and has very strong right wing even extremist tendencies; it’s founder is a former FBI officer. It has been suggested that the FBI Futures Working Group, under the guise of preventing mass terrorists events, actually scripts false flag operations and their narratives. Phi Beta Iota:We have no direct knowledge. We do note two additional anomalies surfaced by Fox News: 01 the alleged terrorist drove 300 miles from his home and work area. Why? Was this an assigned target? 02 an exiting witness saw a second person armed with a machine gun who could have been a paramilitary officer or a policeman, it was too dark to see.”
The New York Post reports that Omar Mateen was gay. So will the whole MSM script be re-written to blame gays instead of Muslims? Will Donald Trump call for gays to be banned from the USA and forced to register? NY Post: “The ex-wife of Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen claimed Monday that she believed he was homosexual — as it was revealed that he frequented the gay nightclub where he staged the nation’s worst massacre in modern times. Sitora Yusufiy, who was married to Mateen in 2009 for three months, made the shocking claim on Brazilian television station SBT Brazil. Her fiancé, Marco Dias, speaking in Portuguese on her behalf, said Yusufiy believed that Mateen had ‘gay tendencies’ and that his father had called him gay in front of her. Dias also claimed ‘the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media.’ [Apparently the FBI wants to keep blaming Muslims and NOT change the script to blaming gays. -ed.] The bombshell came as a male former classmate of Omar Mateen said he had been asked out romantically by the mass killer, who reportedly was a virtual regular at the Pulse nightclub, having visited it more than a dozen times over the years.”
Orlando Mass Shooting: This Is Who and Why They Did It
Millenium Reporter
Orlando Mass Shooting:
Another Obvious False Flag
and Government Psyop
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Why did they carry out a ‘mass shooting’ in a gay night club?
State of the Nation
There should be no doubt that the alleged mass shooting in the Orlando gay night club is a classic false flag operation and government-coordinated psyop. Not only does it have all the typical signatures of a purposely hole-ridden narrative, it has an extremely explicit purpose behind it.
All of the initial news accounts speak of a lone gunman who killed 50 people and sent score to the hospital. Why do these ridiculous false flags ALWAYS begin with a lone gunman. These G-men co-conspirators just can’t seem to shake their Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) inspired Lone Patsy Syndrome.
A close reading of the multitude of press reports clearly indicates gross inconsistencies and impossible facts that have rendered the official account from Orlando law enforcement completely implausible, as well as impossible. There are so many details which make no sense that the fix is quite obvious. The following link contains a series of those various and sometimes conflicting media reports.
Shooting at a night club in Orlando with reports of another shooter at a nearby hospital.
This whole process of official obfuscation is critical to the very nature of a false flag operation. The many seeds of doubt that are sown by the MSM set up the whole nation so that the real perps will NEVER get caught. Just like the LHO lone patsy, they love to put the blame on just one individual — 20 dead and 42 hospitalized! Did he have a military machine gun or a newfangled gattling gun?!
Who & Why?
In any event the only questions that ever really matter when trying to solve such a transparent false flag shooting event is WHO really did it and WHY did they do it.
It ought to be quite obvious by now that Obama was put into the White House by his masters to accomplish five primary goals: (i) Enact Obamacare (ii) Restart the Cold War with Russia (iii) Crash the Economy (iv) Promote Gay Marriage and (v) Nullify the 2nd Amendment.
He has been wildly successful at achieving four of these goals. The last one has remained elusive. This particular challenge has not NOT been met because of his lack of presidential initiative and personal will however. He just hasn’t found the right formula necessary to unlawfully abrogate the Second Amendment. So many false flags executed during Obama’s 2 terms have been engineered — from Sandy Hook to San Bernardino — to do just that incidentally.
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Special Note:
It’s no secret that Obama has zealously used the latest version of the NDAA to implement false flag operations anywhere, anytime, he so chooses. The NDAA has illicitly legislated powers to the Executive Branch to execute false flag shootings, bombings and assassinations within the 50 states for propaganda purposes in the interest of ‘National Security’. This is precisely the reason for the dramatic increase and intensity of mass shootings throughout the country. Yes, the U.S. Federal Government has unlawfully arrogated power unto itself to commit heinous atrocities against the American people in order to ‘protect’ the citizenry and homeland. Only in AMERIKA, also known as the USSA!
“FALSE FLAGS” are LEGAL PROPAGANDA PRODUCED by the Department of Defense
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The Gay Mafia and the LGBT Movement
With this total gun control goal in mind, the POTUS et al. have decided to conscript the most powerful political force in the nation—the Gay Mafia. To the uninitiated, it ought to be clearly understood that the worldwide LGBTTTT movement was specifically created to function as the most powerful political force on the planet. In this way the continuing social engineering experiments being conducted around the globe can be greatly accelerated, and unimpeded when necessary, by the Gay Mafia.
LGBT MOVEMENT: The Most Powerful Political Force In America Today
Please be aware that no one gets the job done like the LGBTTTT wrecking crew. They will now take up the anti-gun cause like there’s no tomorrow. Their extensive MSM network now walks in lockstep and executes like clockwork, so organized and unified are their respective forces. Any resistance to their agenda will be met with ad hominem attacks about being a “HATER” or some similar absurd pejorative. Absurd or not, those despicable labels work like a charm. Much of America has been hardwired to react negatively to such highly charged negative language.
Now we know why Christina Grimmie was also shot in Orlando just one day before
It is no coincidence that a very charismatic Christian female singer was horrifically gunned down at an Orlando venue just one day ago. This coordinated and calculated shooting was just part of the very same psyop run by the same G-men.
Charismatic Christian Singer Gunned Down ‘For NO Reason’
Question: What won’t the Obama Administration do to illegally take the guns from law-abiding American citizens?
Answer: There is absolutely nothing they won’t do to grab the guns before his term ends.
Therefore, one can only expect a sharp uptick in mass shootings and assassinations by firearms just like those in Orlando this weekend
Orlando, Florida: Home of Disney World and all things fake and fabulous
For those who really think outside the box, it’s important to perceive the purpose behind the cynical utilization of Orlando, Florida. Home to Disney World and therefore the destination of so many families and their children over generations, it has become the one place you go to get away from it all. You leave the home behind and all of the negative evening news and you travel to the land of make-believe to immerse yourself in childhood fun and fantasy.
What’s the point? Well, what better way to galvanize the parents and children across America to take up the issue of gun control in earnest than by shooting up their adult and childhood playground? Put them together with the Gay Mafia (working behind the scenes) and the LGBT Movement (working out in front) and you have yourself quite a formidable force to be reckoned with.
State of the Nation
June 12, 2016
Author’s Note
The ruling elites and banksters are truly scared sh*tless! They know that the whole world is on to their multi-decade con game. TPTB also know that when the SYSTEM goes bust, they’re toast … literally. From 9/11 to JFK, from Oklahoma City to Waco, everyone knows that the elites have always employed the US Gov’t to do their dirty work. It’s crucial to understand that the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 was specifically carried out by the U.S. Federal Government in order to terminate the militia movement after the Saving & Loan scandal. TPTB knew the anger was growing by the day and that it had to be somehow short-circuited or else they would be under legitimate threat.
BEWARE: Obama is now on the home stretch. He only has 6 months left to grab the guns. Please understand that there is no room for mission failure; he is under dire threat should he not succeed. Hence, there is a great likelihood that we will see an unparalleled spate of false flag mass shootings around the country. The planned usurpation of the right to bear arms is the single most important reason for the installation of a Manchurian Candidate. He cannot fail unless the American people are properly forewarned of his premeditated treason and betrayal of the Constitution.
Editor’s Note
The following CNN news report was lifted before it was scrubbed from the Internet. The entire article is a total joke and stands as a testament to the transparent collusion between the MSM and the NWO G-Men.
References
The True Purpose(s) Behind The Many False Flag Mass Shootings And Bombings
This Is Why The Mass Shootings Are Being Staged On College Campuses
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Police: 20 feared dead after Florida nightclub terror attack
By Ashley Fantz, Faith Karimi and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Orlando, Florida (CNN)Approximately 20 people are dead inside Pulse nightclub, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said Sunday morning, just hours after a shooter opened fire in the club. At least 42 people have been transported for medical treatment, he said.
Police have shot and killed the gunman, Mina told reporters.
“It’s appears he was organized and well-prepared,” the chief said, adding that the shooter had an assault-type weapon, a handgun and “some type of (other) device on him.”
Orlando authorities said they consider the violence an act of domestic terror. The FBI is involved.
The shooting began around 2 a.m., and an officer responded, Mina said. The officer engaged in a shootout outside the club, after which the gunman ran into the club.
“That turned into a hostage situation,” Mina said. Authorities were getting calls from people inside the club but away from the gunman, the chief said.
More police rushed to the scene and broke down a door with an armored vehicle, helping some 30 clubgoers flee to safety, Mina said. At that point police shot and killed the gunman, he said.
CNN affiliate WKMG video captured clubgoers carrying injured people from the club.
“It’s just shocking,” said Christopher Hansen who was inside Pulse. He heard gunshots, “just one after another after another. It could have lasted a whole song,” he said.
“Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running,” the nightclub posted on its Facebook page shortly after the violence began.
Orlando police warned residents to stay away from the area, and urged people not to call their offices. They declined to provide the number of casualties, saying details will be available later. Bomb sniffing dogs are on the scene.
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‘Just bang, bang, bang!’
Pulse describes itself as “the hottest gay bar” in the heart of Orlando.
Hours before the shooting, the club urged partygoers to attend its “Latin flavor” event Saturday night.
Jovial, well-dressed crowds heeded the call in an event that turned into a nightmare.
“It was just, bang, bang, bang!” partygoer Hansen said of the gunfire.
Ricardo Negron Almodovar said he was in the club when the shooting started about 2 a.m. He barely escaped.
“People on the dance floor and bar got down on the floor and some of us who were near the bar and back exit managed to go out through the outdoor area and just ran,” he posted on the club’s Facebook page.
“I am safely home and hoping everyone gets home safely as well.”
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Anthony Torres, who was at the club with friends, said he heard shots as he hurriedly drove off.
“The shots did not sound like a regular handgun, it sounded like it was shooting repetitively and it wouldn’t stop,” he said.
“So we knew what it was and we left there pretty quick. It was over 70 cop cars that were arriving there … It happened so quick that people got separated from each other.”
Tearful relatives waited outside the club as lights from police cars flashed in the background. Some implored the media to help them get word on their loved ones.
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‘Just a lot of people screaming’
The sound of gunshots echoed beyond the club.
Jose Torres was clocking in to work at a Dunkin’ Donuts across the street when he heard them.
“It was something that I never heard before,” Torres said. “I had to run inside the store, and I saw just a lot of people screaming, crying. Just screaming and coming out running like crazy.”
Torres said he ducked into the Dunkin’ Donuts and called 911 as several people dashed out of the club, bleeding. Police and SWAT teams rushed to the scene.
“They don’t let nobody in or out,” he said. “The SWAT team is inside there.”
FBI agents were also assisting at the scene, agency spokeswoman Amy Pittman said.
Authorities have conducted a controlled explosion near the nightclub, according to Orlando police.
Tom Fuentes, a CNN law enforcement analyst, said controlled explosions are used to breach a door or when a subject is barricaded in a room and police want to use a stun grenade to temporarily freeze their central nervous system.
Hospitals on lockdown
Authorities urged caution as police officers hovered nearby with weapons and dogs.
A few miles away, the Orlando Regional Medical Center was placed on lockdown, the hospital said in a statement. Only essential workers are being allowed access into the building.
Arnold Palmer Hospital and Winnie Palmer Hospital were also placed on lockdown out of an abundance of caution, officials said.
Mass Shooting Kills 50, FBI Says it’s “an Act of Terror” (But No Ambulances?)
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WHERE ARE THE AMBULANCES?
What is very interesting when you watch any of the footage that is coming out is that THERE ARE NO AMBULANCES OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEAMS ANYWHERE NEAR THE SCENE!
At no time during the hours i have been watching have i seen any emergency medical staff! The entire area is cordoned off by police cars at either end of the street and NO AMBULANCES ARE ON SITE despite a hospital be