Jade Helm

Jade Helm is a military "exercise" set to take place in the US between July 15, 2015 and Spetember 15, 2015. This first link describes what sounds like a fairly harmless scenario - soldiers training to fight in difficult conditions and among citizens who may not trust them. But what if it's more than just this? What if it's indicative of a coming war? WWIII? A war with Russia? Some theorize that it is a plan to 'round up' US citizens that aren't willing to parrot the mainstream lines. Some theorize that it's a plan to round up Christians in the name of oppression. And some further theorize that it's to round up anyone they can catch and toss them in to a "FEMA camp" or some other type of holding facility. The closure of five WalMart stores in the same region where Jade Helm is set to take place has only added fuel to the speculative fire.

The real truth is that no one outside of those who designed this "exercise" really knows what's going to happen. It could be completely innoculous, albeit strange, military training, though that begs the question of why. US troops have already fought and experienced locations such as Afghanistan and Iraq and have been familiarized with terrain, weather, etc. Newer troops can be trained on base. There's no legitimate need to spread the US military out over multiple states, in areas where they will be in contact with regular citizens while armed, for some sort of training exercise. Worse still, they have stated that there will be incidences of plainclothes soldiers walking the streets and mingling with the population. Why? Is this some sort of recon mission? Is it a way to learn to gain the trust of the people? If so, how will that translate to doing the same in a different country, particularly those that have a distrust of the US and the US military in general? Americans mixing with other Americans in America isn't much of a challenge. Americans trying to mix with the people of, say, Libya, in Libya, is a much different story.

Let's suppose that those who view this in what some would call an "extremist" manner are correct, and that it is a plan to round up as much of the population as possible. This isn't completely outrageous thinking, and it is absolutely possible to accomplish. Those now-empty WalMarts are nothing more than large warehouses where many people can be kept. At least one of the closed WalMarts now sports black tarps over its front windows and an interior completely devoid of anything but shelving (there is actual video of this, taken just a couple of days ago - it should be easy to locate on YouTube). The DHS and FEMA have an agreement with large "box stores" such as WalMart that they are able to use store locations to hold people in the event of a crisis or other event that leaves significant portions of the population displaced from their homes/towns/states. That isn't speculation, it's actually true.

Jade Helm is set to take place in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Feel free to discuss your thoughts and theories in the comments.