Weird News

[Lamplighter]

In Ghana during the ebola outbreak, mobs of people panicked over rumors of doctors
killing people with syringes and drinking their blood and other acts of cannibalism.

Were they really that much different than Texans this week,
panicking over underground prisons being built in empty Walmart stores,
and Obama ordering military takeovers of Texas, Utah, and southern California ?

Conspiracy Theories Over Jade Helm Training Exercise Get Some Traction in Texas
NY Times - MANNY FERNANDEZ - MAY 6, 2015

The eight-week exercise starting in July and planned for locations in Texas, New Mexico, California
and other Southwestern states, they say, is part of a secret plan to impose martial law,
take away people’s guns, arrest political undesirables, launch an Obama-led hostile takeover
of red-state Texas, or do some combination thereof.

But when Gov. Greg Abbott issued a directive to the Texas State Guard to keep watch
over the military operation, seeming to give those concerns some official credence,
it raised a more credible question: To what degree has the extreme become mainstream in Texas?
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Chuck Norris has also weighed in, questioning, in a commentary on the conservative website WND,
“those who are pulling the strings at the top of Jade Helm 15 back in Washington.”

Walmart has responded as well, in the other direction — it dismissed rumors that tunnels
were being built by the military beneath closed stores, including one in Midland, Tex.,
as part of a Pentagon-led takeover.
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