New details have been released in the FBI"s investigation into the Las Vegas shooting that suggest high-ranking officials have kept important information from the public.
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Las Vegas casinos are arguably the most intensely surveilled place on earth, oddly, not a single image or video of alleged Vegas shooter Stephan Paddock has been released.
Why has the PR team hired by Mandalay Bay been pushing bogus conspiracy theories clearly meant to discredit legitimate inquiry into the Las Vegas shooting?
Amidst numerous unanswered question, the Las Vegas mass-shooting has curiously faded from the headlines. Is this a deliberate silence?
In my last article ‘A Tactical Analysis Of The Las Vegas Mass Shooting Incident,’ I outlined the precarious nature of the mainstream narrative and why the Vegas event in particular requires serious independent investigation into the possibility that Stephen Paddock did not plan or execute the event alone, or, he did not plan or execute the event at all, and someone else with far more tactical knowledge and shooting experience committed the murders outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Given that the FBI and Vegas sheriff’s timeline seems to change every few days and that Mandalay surveillance footage is locked up tight, I think it is safe to say that someone more professional, and not muzzled by bureaucracy, needs be involved.
Setting aside the inconsistencies in the official narrative, questioning the motives behind this particular attack does not really bring us any closer to a practical solution. Of course, if you are one of those people that obsessively embraces the “crisis actor” theory, then you likely think that nothing much needs to be solved because “no one actually died.” I am not very interested in this impractical theory reminiscent of ‘The Truman Show’, nor the people that promote it. It reminds me of the 9/11 hologram plane theory — remember, the theory designed to discredit the more legitimate 9/11 truth movement which included hundreds of scientists, architects and engineers with real arguments and evidence? Yeah, those establishment disinformation tactics did not go away; they are still being used today to undermine honest and rational investigations of other potential false flag events.
Ask “fake event” theorists for ANY concrete evidence that a single death was theatrical and that thousands of concertgoers and their families are part of the conspiracy, and these guys will demand that YOU show them the dead bodies and prove that the event “wasn’t faked.” In other words, you must prove a negative, which is of course impossible.
Tell them you happen to know people with friends and family who were harmed in the event and they’ll call you a liar or a government “agent.” Show them numerous photos of dead bodies and they’ll claim the bodies are actors. Show them first hand accounts of people on the ground — hey, all those people must be actors, too. Ask them for proof again and they’ll try to pawn the burden of proof off on you; proof that they will then again deny when it is presented. It is a pointless circle of idiocy that makes alternative research look ridiculous.
If the establishment is seeking to stage a false flag, why go through the trouble of an elaborate, costly and harder-to-contain Kabuki play with numerous actors that might not keep quiet when they could simply shoot some real people with real bullets and be done with it?
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This article will be focusing on the very real shooting (and attacks like it) which did in fact occur. Perhaps not the way that the mainstream media and the FBI claim, but still taking place all the same. How do we prevent such attacks in the future? What about Gladio-type false flag events(the Vegas event has numerous Gladio markers)? Can those be stopped, or is this an impossible task?
As far as false flag attacks are concerned, the long-term solution would be to nullify the people who fund and plan these scenarios. Until the day this is accomplished, though, we need some short-term protections.
I believe it is indeed possible to stop future mass shooting events, and to be sure, the solution does NOT involve further gun control measures or confiscation. Why? Because gun control does nothing to prevent mass shootings.
Just take a look at the Paris attacks perpetrated by ISIS. France has strict gun laws in line with what gun control advocates in the U.S. would like to see implemented. Even off-duty police officers in France were not allowed to carry their sidearms until after the Paris attacks in 2015.
French gun laws did nothing to stop ISIS terrorists from killing over 130 people in a single night using weapons already highly restricted in the country. All they accomplished was disarming innocent citizens and making them easy targets.
The nation of India also has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, yet this did nothing to prevent the Mumbai attacks in 2008 in which 164 people were killed.
Norway had extremely tough gun laws in 2011, but these were easily circumvented by Anders Breivik who murdered 69 members of a Workers Youth Camp on the island of Utoya.
As I noted in my previous article, the Vegas attack was initiated using more complex sniper-like tactics as evidenced in the choice of the shooter’s perch as well as in the calculations for bullet drop from an elevated position. I believe this was done quite deliberately; most mass shooters tend to be poorly trained and attack a crowd haphazardly at point blank range in order to achieve maximum casualties in the shortest amount of time. However, in Vegas, and Nevada in general, the likelihood of running into a person with a conceal carry weapon is rather high. Paddock (or whoever) might not have lasted more than a minute before being confronted with multiple defenders armed with their own sidearms.
The Vegas shooter was smart to avoid a point blank, ground level confrontation. But how do we make future shooters think twice about longer range attacks at crowded events?
The federal government and DHS will probably call for stricter security measures in locations in which many people congregate. I would not be surprised to see demands for TSA-style security in streets in major tourist areas and at concerts, sporting events, etc. Body scanners and luggage scanners in major hotels? Count on it, eventually. Hardcore anti-gun ordinances within major cities, much like the gun measures in places like Washington D.C.? Do not be shocked.
As mentioned above, none of this will really stop a determined mass shooter or terrorist (and certainly not a false flag), but without an alternative solution, frightened people have a tendency to go along with the deluded notion that more government means more security.
Vegas is not a stranger to crisis, but it seems to have forgotten how to prevent it. Many Americans are unaware that back in 1992 during the Rodney King riots, Las Vegas had to deal with its own major civil unrest with millions of dollars in damage and multiple deaths. This was barely reported because of Vegas’s habit of burying stories that might stain the tourist destination’s fun-loving image. But, it did take place.
West Las Vegas erupted in violence in the wake of the Rodney King trial, including snipers shooting at police officers and bystanders, but the Vegas Strip went largely untouched. This was perhaps because hotel and casino private security at that time had a reputation for being rather well armed and vicious. Many hotels had their own rooftop shooters ready and waiting. Given, Vegas was still highly “mobbed up” in the 1990s, but one must admit that their security was not to be trifled with.
No major federal measures were needed and intrusive security was minimal. Can this effect be achieved again (without the mob)? Yes.
If mass shooters, terrorists and “others” seek to attack highly populous events using advanced tactics, then the organizers of these events should be employing private security groups with applicable tactical training and experience. There are thousands of well-trained veterans and civilians out there with the skills necessary to stop an active shooter, and they are not being employed where they are most capable. A team of two people trained in counter-sniping positioned near the concert at the Mandalay Bay could have cut down the shooter within a couple minutes rather than 10 minutes (or more), saving dozens of lives.
To be clear, I am not talking about poorly organized volunteer security made up of people not vetted, led by other men of questionable competence. I am not talking about guys who claim they have training but are never asked to prove it before they show up for the “gig.” And I am not talking about security groups composed of individuals who barely know each other and have never worked together, as we have seen in scenarios like the Berkeley riots.
What I am talking about is the employment of quiet, vetted and tested professionals hired out for specific events in which large crowds will be present.
The Feds are not needed and, in most cases, not wanted. Private security firms WITHOUT federal affiliations could handle the protection of major venues without constitutional violations by simply placing people at events with the proper training. The mere presence of these people may even act as a deterrent for future attacks.
Security should also be organized and managed independently from the venues which they are tasked to protect. As we have seen recently with the very odd behavior of MGM security employee, Jose Campos; including his disappearance right before he was expected to give his accounting of events at the Mandalay and his sudden reappearance on the Ellen Show to give a farce of an interview devoid of hard facts or timeline confirmations, rent-a-cops owned by the venue are more vulnerable to manipulations and possible “coaching” after a crisis event occurs.
Excitement seekers and the public at large should avoid events that refuse to pay for truly independent and tactically skilled security, and instead choose typical rent-a-cops, retired cops and moonlighting cops that need extra cash. It is clear in light of the Vegas attack that these people do not have the ability to obstruct any attacker using more advanced combat strategies. Nor are they likely to be honest about what really happened after the fact.
On top of this, more training and more responsibly armed Americans continue to be the best methods towards defusing and deterring active shooters. The point is, if the American public does not pursue alternative solutions and take tactical realities into account, then the only other option will be government interference on a scale that will promote totalitarianism in the name of safety. It is time for the American people to grow up, stop waiting for Big Brother to protect them and start taking their security into their own hands.
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Kymberley Suchomel, aged-28, attended the October 1 Harvest Music Festival. She survived what happened, dying mysteriously days later.
Below are portions of what she posted on Facebook days after the mass shootings, suggesting multiple gunmen involved, saying:
“From about 50 feet in front of us, and a little to the right, fire crackers were set off. Let me repeat that…FIRE CRACKERS WERE SET OFF. I verbally stated some(one) just shot of fire crackers in close proximity to so many people.’ I was literally pissed off.”
“(A)bout 15 seconds later, the first volley of gunfire was released. It was a shorter volley than any of the others, and the gunfire was not as close together either. EVERYONE looked up, down, around. We thought it was more fire crackers at first…”
“Then people started to panic…That is when the 2nd volley went off…(A) 3rd volley hit…and it was close. Very, very close to us. I could physically see the impact of the bullets on the astro-turf, I could feel the warmth & the passing of bullets.”
“We ran. I don’t know what direction we ran, I don’t know towards which landmark we ran. We just ran…(T)he gunfire…got closer and closer.”
“That exact moment is when I started to really panic. That is the exact moment in which I thought this was it, I was going to die, I was never going to see my family again.”
“(T)he gunfire wasn’t stopping this whole time. It wasn’t ceasing. It wasn’t slowing down. And It was directly behind us, following us. Bullets were coming from every direction.”
Let’s repeat that. Suchomel said “(b)ullets were coming from every direction,” adding “(b)ehind us, in front of us, to the side of us…There was more than one gun firing. 100% more than one.”
“I have bene (sic) watching the news non-stop since I arrived back home to my family. And it just doesn’t make sense. The story that are feeding everyone doesn’t add up to our eyewitness accounts. There is something wrong with what they are saying & the evidence seems fake if you ask me.”
“Every single survivor I have talked to also remembers multiple shooters, and at least one from the ground- why aren’t we being taken more seriously? Tons of things don’t add up.”
We went to Las Vegas for a super fun, down to Earth country concert featuring our favorite artists. We left scared, scarred, traumatized and broken. And for that, we demand answers.”
How a 28-year-old woman passed away days after her Facebook post remains unanswered – reportedly from natural causes.
Her Facebook account of the shootings was removed days after it went viral online.
Reports indicated FBI agents seized cellphones from Harvest Music Festival workers after the October 1 incident. Reportedly all messages and videos from the weekend were wiped clean before returning them.
Venders reported the same thing happened to them. Laptops at the scene were seized and wiped clean.
Why? Was it to prevent eyewitness evidence from getting out – contradicting the official story? There’s plenty to contradict.
Was the FBI complicit in what happened? The initial narrative changed, Stephen Paddock still accused of being a lone gunmen in all official reports.
No witnesses were interviewed suggesting multiple shooters, including at least one on the ground, according to Suchomel.
She’s dead and can’t elaborate further. So is Paddock, a millionaire. Did he take his own life as reported or was it taken from him?
Why would a man of his means conduct mass shootings and commit suicide when he had everything to live for?
How could anyone bring an arsenal of weapons into a Las Vegas hotel and casino unnoticed with security cameras everywhere?
Why didn’t housekeeping report around 10 suspicious bags of luggage in Paddock’s room for three days before the incident?
If he shot from his 32nd floor windows, why were they intact, not smashed, no bullet holes in them?
From what’s known, Paddock was used as a convenient patsy, a similar scenario playing out in all these type false flags, media scoundrels reporting official accounts, never challenging them.
The single gunman claim lacks credibility. It’s unclear if Paddock had anything to do with what happened – likely not, his explanation unable to be heard.
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This CNN image of the Las Vegas mass shooting shows people standing very close to the police and even calmly using their cellphones. Why? Image credit: CNNThe Las Vegas false flag mass shooting that occurred on the night of October 1st, 2017, is without doubt another false flag operation. The clues are everywhere, the official narrative is full of holes and the event fits the pattern of the false flag formula we have to come to know. We have another patsy who is a highly unlikely precision killer, we have evidence of multiple shooters, we have foreknowledge and we have no semblance of a motive. We live in such a twisted world that now, when events like these happen in the US, in an attempt to get to the truth we have to truly consider the possibility that the incident may have been a false flag hoax, i.e. a drill with crisis actors, fake ammo and fake blood. However, in this case, I personally know someone I trust who said their daughter’s friends were shot and injured. So: did real people die in this Las Vegas false flag operation? Was it a mixture of real casualties and crisis actors? Let’s take a look at the evidence and you can decide for yourself.
Right off the bat, the official narrative is very difficult to swallow for many reasons. It seems impossible for an out-of-shape 64 year old man, with no military training, to kill 59 people and injure 500 from the height and distance he was at in the time he was said to have fired. Many videos have exposed the muzzle flashes that were occurring around the 4th or 5th floor. If the bullets were even real, there were multiple shooters.
However, it is far from proven that there were actually real bullets fired that killed real people. Consider these 3 pieces of eyewitness testimony in this video (embedded above). A man down on the ground claims that:
“Someone has tapped into the sound system. There’s no hits, no hits. It’s the sound system.”
Another person in the same video shouted 3 times:
“They’re not real gunshots.”
A third person states:
“I really don’t see anybody actually injured.”
Someone in the comments below that video claimed they knew someone who died, and linked to this LiveLeak video. However, this video doesn’t definitively prove anyone has died. It shows people who appear to have been hit … including some that bystanders say were hit in the head but are still breathing (is this even possible?). It also shows more of that bright red “blood” that was used during the Boston marathon false flag bombing (see image below).
Bright red “blood” from the Las Vegas false flag mass shooting. Real or fake? Image credit: LiveLeakIf the patsy Stephen Paddock really had discharged his AR-15 rifle for 10+ minutes as we were told, there would have been plumes of smoke emanating from the window from which he was firing … yet in the multiple videos of the event, there was no smoke. Not even a little. Therefore, how can we seriously entertain the notion that real shots were fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel?
How is it that eyewitnesses in this video at the 9-min. mark were able to see where the alleged shots were coming from, but it took the cops (in CCTV-ville Las Vegas) an entire 72 minutes to get to the scene?
Las Vegas false flag event: alleged eyewitness Mike Cronk.Remember the crisis actors in false flag ops like 9/11 who just knew too much information right after the event had unfolded – information they could not possibly have known were they not plants, being handled by governmental operatives? This guy on 9/11, “Mark Walsh”, is surrounded by the Men in Black as he trots out his story about how he witnessed the whole event and that the towers collapsed “mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just too intense.” Talk about a scripted narrative! Who talks like that? Who talks like that right in the middle of an emotional crisis? The same type of planted actors can be found in the Las Vegas false flag too. This video exposes some of them who appear to have incredibly detailed information about the event that could not possibly have known unless they were reciting a script.
Every false flag shooting or bombing seems to have some key “heroes” who were not only eyewitnesses but also active participants in saving people’s lives. In the case of this Las Vegas false flag op, the MSM have decided to give a lot of air time to a guy we are told is called “Mike Cronk”. Mike apparently saved his buddy “Rob Macintosh”, who, we are told, was shot 3 times in the chest but still survived … and seems to be doing remarkably well in hospital, fully conscious and smiling for the cameras. Amazingly, Cronk didn’t even get any blood on him despite being next to his best friend who got shot in the chest so would have been spurting blood everywhere. This video shows footage of Mike Cronk’s testimony and the “injured” Rob Macintosh who isn’t even hooked up to IV.
Las Vegas false flag mass shooting: this 4chan user knew about it 3+ weeks in advance.There are at least 2 examples of foreknowledge here. The first is the Hispanic woman who allegedly told everyone that “you’re all gong to fucking die” 45 minutes before the shooting started. The other is the prediction made by an anonymous user on 4chan (see image above). Truthstream Media shone light on the motive, which is not only the predictable gun control agenda, but also the more specific agenda to roll out metal detectors/body scanners throughout American hotels – as a stepping stone to having them virtually everywhere in society, so that wherever you go you will be monitored, radiated and bombarded with personalized advertising as in The Minority Report.
Question everything. Like Sandy Hook and other false flag hoaxes, this Las Vegas false flag op has elements of being a hoax, yet there is also evidence real people were shot. Please post your thoughts and comments.
*http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/false-flag-formula-15-ways-to-detect/
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwRaDZCP918
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_J-nHkBLA
*https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=956_1507066205
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45hI6YuC-I
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCbgITbNgI
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZr8swu7S4
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqxUuyHFzc
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On Sunday, reportedly at least 59 people were killed, another 527 injured in a mass shooting incident during a concert near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
Police blamed a lone gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, called a “local resident,” reportedly firing from a window on the Mandalay hotel’s 32nd floor. Raw video footage from a taxi driver showed muzzle flashes from the 4th floor. The Harvest Music Festival took place across the street.
Did he take his own life as Las Vegas police claimed or did SWAT team members lethally shoot him? His brother, Eric, said “(t)here is no reason we can imagine why Stephen would do something like this.”
“We have no idea how this happened. It’s like an asteroid just fell on top of our family.” Stephen was “not an avid gun guy at all…He ha(d) no military background or anything like that.”
Police located Marilou Danley’s whereabouts, living outside America, thought to be his “companion” and “roommate,” calling her a “person of interest.” She’s not considered a suspect.
City police tweeted overnight: “Confirming that one suspect is down. This is an active investigation. (P)lease do not head down to the Strip at this time.”
Was it a lone wolf attack or something more sinister? It’s too soon to know. One gunman able to kill or wound hundreds of people single-handedly raises suspicions.
Nearly two dozen rifles and other firearms allegedly found in his room begs an obvious question. How could anyon get them into the hotel unnoticed? How many suitcases and/or satchels are needed to transport this arsenal, along with munitions?
Dead men tell no tales, so his account of what happened won’t be told. Witnesses on the scene suggested multiple shooters. One unnamed individual insisted there were more than one. It would seem likely given the high casualty count.
Even using a semi-automatic weapon, one shooter able to cause this much carnage singlehandedly begs a couple of questions. Were others involved? Was the incident as reported or a false flag?
It’s reminiscent of multiple July 22, 201l shootings on Norway’s Utoeya Island, scores of children killed, blamed on Anders Breivik, called a lone gunman.
Several eyewitness saw two shooters. Evidence suggests Breivik couldn’t have acted alone.
The incident was also reminiscent of the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School incident.
The official narrative blamed Adam Lanza. Investigative work by Professor James Tracy questioned whether any shootings took place – “at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation’s news media” described things.
Contradictions abounded. Key questions weren’t answered. How did one alleged gunman fire so many shots in so little time and supposedly inflict so many casualties?
Connecticut’s coroner, Wayne Carver, and police officials said Lanza shot each victim from three to 11 times – 182 shots, one every 2 seconds plus likely misses.
Yet the official narrative called him the sole gunman, a youth with no military training, said to have used a 30-shot magazine in one weapon, having to reload over half a dozen times to have done the alleged shootings himself.
Tracy explained “(p)hotographic and video evidence (was) lacking in terms of its capacity to demonstrate that a mass shooting took place on a scale described by authorities.”
There was “no visual evidence of Lanza’s violent entry” – nor any “broken glass, blasted security locks and doors, bullet casings and holes, bloodied walls and floors,” no evidence that any more than small number of the school’s 600 students were evacuated.
Tracy concluded that the incident was an “elaborate hoax,” citing the following reasons:
1. “Proof of death (was) suppressed.”
2. “Emergency protocols were not followed.”
3. “Drill protocols were” used instead.
4. “(F)oreknowledge of the event” existed.
5. Reports about weapons used were “contradictory.”
6. No verifiable evidence indicates Adam Lanza’s responsibility for the shootings – after supposedly killing his mother, then taking his own life after the incident.
7. Authorities and media sources “displayed inappropriate behavior.”
8. Photos of the crime scene and victims “look(ed) staged or fake.”
9. The crime scene was deliberately contaminated and destroyed, making it unusable for investigation.
10. Alleged “(d)eceased children sang at the 2013 Super Bowl.”
Was Sunday’s Las Vegas incident another Utoeya Island, Norway or Sandy Hook-type incident? The fullness of time may tell.
Note: ISIS claiming responsibility for the Las Vegas shootings is meaningless. America supports the terrorist group. Why would it bite the hand feeding it!
On Monday, the FBI said Paddock has no connection to ISIS. What’s behind Sunday’s carnage remains to be revealed.
The official account has a familiar disturbing aroma. Was Paddock a convenient patsy? He’s not around to tell his side.
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[image: © press]False flags always target the psychological state of mind of the public. Mind control is the goal.
To boil it down, a false flag is an operation staged to blame someone for a crime, someone who didn’t commit the crime.
Why? Because by blaming that person or group, and by convincing many others to blame that person or group, you achieve an important objective.
Simplistic over-exaggerated version: “Last night, a homeless man was found shot dead in an alley. The gun was found next to his body. The Mayor’s fingerprints were on the [planted] gun. The Mayor was arrested at his office. The election nears. The Mayor’s opponent now appears to have a clear path to victory…”
Less simplistic version: “…the worst mass shooting in US history. Stephen Paddock, 64, has been named as the Las Vegas shooter. He is dead. He killed 58 people at a concert and wounded 515 others. In the Congress, calls are rising for new gun control laws…”
But, as it turns out, the evidence suggests there were multiple shooters in the Mandalay Hotel. Paddock may or may not have been one of them. The overall operation was designed to invoke widespread horror and fear, and usher in new restrictions on gun ownership…
The other possible shooters in the hotel would have been professionals, tasked with killing as many people as possible at the country music concert.
Gun control would not be the only agenda in this false flag.
Heavily militarized police all over this country would be another agenda.
Putting a significant dent in the economy would be another—if attendance at public events and in crowded public places diminishes.
Such a reduction in attendance could even affect political forums and other gatherings where free speech and the right to assemble are vital. (We’ve already seen significant disruptions of these events.)
Invoking fear and passivity in the population is another basic agenda. This leads to the attitude: “Let the authorities handle everything.”
We could see new, more outrageous violations of Constitutional search and seizure principles, all in the name of “the need for security.”
As in the aftermath of Sandy Hook (archive here), there may be new calls for psychiatric screening of the population, including young children, in order to “spot criminals before they commit crimes.” This is sheer madness, because no so-called mental disorder is based on any defining lab test, and many of the prescribed drugs (SSRI antidepressants) push people over the edge into committing violence. —More violence, more calls for psychiatric screening, more drugs, more violence: an escalating scenario and repeating cycle, leading to tighter Control from above.
When was the last time you saw a major false flag exposed by the mainstream press, and then admitted to by the actual perpetrators, who then explained their true objectives?
Never.
False flags are, over the long term, essential to maintaining and expanding the status quo: power is collected and increased at the top, and then exerted downward.
Note: All prior analyses I’ve made about the duration of the shooting, and numbers of people killed and injured, are subject to change. Why? Because as yet, we have no accurate reports on how many of the 515 people injured were actually shot versus trampled or hurt in some other fashion. Also, police reports that are emerging differ on the duration of the shooting. The NY Times is talking about roughly 7 minutes. Newsweek suggests the duration is longer.
Nevertheless, the background of the purported shooter, Stephen Paddock, gives no indication of any competence with auto weapons, gives no indication he could have dealt with the problems and challenges of using such a weapon—and on top of that, his state of mind at the time, as an non-professional, would have been unstable, to say the least.
Any reasonable law-enforcement group investigating this mass shooting would certainly keep its options open, regarding other perpetrators. But that is not what is happening here. The books are closed on this case. There is no going back.
The desired result has been achieved. One shooter, mass killings. End of story. Objective achieved.
That rush to judgment and “closure” is also a prime feature of the false flag. It has to be.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
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Las Vegas, NV – The official narrative is that the alleged shooter, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire on concert-goers located in a fairgrounds area on Las Vegas Boulevard from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The deadly shooting rampage in Las Vegas left at least 59 dead and over 500 injured.
SWAT officers responded to the hotel room and used an explosive breach to enter the room and engage the suspect, but believe that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to officers gaining access to the room. Police also confirmed that the shooter had cameras set up in his hotel room to monitor the hallways outside of his room, as well as to record himself during the attack.
Police found 23 guns, ammunition, and a dead Paddock upon entering the grisly scene in his hotel room.
Leaked photographs of the scene show Paddock lying dead on the hotel room floor with blood pouring from his mouth.
Strangely, there appear to be shells on top of the blood.
Police say they do not yet have a motive for the mass killing.
Interestingly, Paddock appears to have left some kind of note on the side table – which the police have yet to acknowledge or release the contents of.
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The #StephenPaddock suicide note that the govt. is hiding from us. pic.twitter.com/z3JRAE80z6
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) October 3, 2017
Subsequently, Paddock’s motives remain a mystery, with the millionaire property developer having no criminal history and not fitting the typical profile for a mass shooting suspect.
In fact, he appears to have checked into the high roller hotel days before the devastating mass shooting, although no one claims to have seen him carry the numerous suitcases full of weapons and ammunition it would have taken to carry out the attack.
Housekeepers said they “saw no signs of anything” suspicious, Nevada Rep. Dina Titus told CNN.
READ MORE: 5 Critical Facts You Need to Know About Stephen Paddock
Additionally, there has been no footage released of Paddock bringing the numerous suitcases of guns into the hotel. While this could be due to the ongoing investigation, releasing hotel security footage would seemingly quell a rising tide of disbelief in the official narrative.
Keep in mind that Las Vegas hotels and casinos are some of the most thoroughly recorded areas in the country – with virtually every square inch being subject to monitoring by security cameras.
In similar cases, often within the first 24-hours, police will at least release still images of the suspect captured by the building’s security cameras – yet there has been nothing of the sort released to date.
Cops have repeatedly said investigations are ongoing and have yet to make public any details.
Here are five good reasons to question the official narrative being sold to the public.
While there is no way to confirm this is actually a suicide note, regardless of what it is, why hasn’t the public been told what is in that note?
Paddock was clearly seeking to send a message in his well-planned attack. So WHERE is the message? WHERE is the manifesto? No suicide note?
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) October 3, 2017
The #StephenPaddock suicide note that the govt. is hiding from us. pic.twitter.com/z3JRAE80z6
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) October 3, 2017
As we previously reported, an interview with a witness raises startling questions, as the eyewitness claims to have seen a woman push her way to the first row of the concert roughly 45 minutes before the shooting began and levy threats indicating that everyone would soon be dead.
READ MORE: Top CBS Exec: No Sympathy for Vegas Victims as "Country Music Fans Often are Republican Gun Toters"
“So there was a lady who pushed her way forward into the first row and she started messing with another lady. She told us we were all going to die tonight – it was about forty five minutes before the shots were fired,” the witness states.
How did a 64-year-old man, not in peak physical condition, with “no military background” and who wasn’t a “gun guy at all” operate such advanced weapons in such a proficient manner?
As Jon Rappoport has pointed out, it would have been virtually impossible logistically for Stephen Paddock to kill and wound 573 people in less than five minutes of shooting with the kinds of weapons that he is alleged to have used.
According to Rappoport’s reporting:
Yesterday, I did a brief analysis of the number of people killed and wounded at the Vegas Concert (573) in roughly four and half minutes, which is the police estimate of the duration of the attack.
The lone shooter killed or wounded 2.1 persons per second. It is HIGHLY doubtful Paddock could have done that. His distance from the concert, his lack of professional skill, his state of mind, among other factors, rule against it.
While it is possible that many of the injuries were from the crowd trampling each other, the numbers for the shooting simply don’t add up.
As we previously reported, a video, confirmed to be taken by a Las Vegas cab driver, appears to capture and confirm the presence of multiple shooters.
Cori Langdon, taxi driver, and resident of Las Vegas was in the taxi lane at Mandalay Bay when the shooting began. At first, Langdon didn’t know what was going on, but when the shots began, she quickly realized and began filming. What she captured could be considered the most important evidence in regards to the reports of multiple shooters.
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In the video, shots begin to ring out. At first, the shots are far away and then, all of the sudden, they are right on top of her. This happens several times during the first two minutes of the video. As Langdon continues filming, the shooting becomes clear that it is coming from two different spots and Langdon even confirms this by saying, “It is now coming from further away.”
Using multiple firing positions is a military tactic designed to throw off the enemy. A single firing position is relatively easy to pinpoint, so the use multiple points of fire is employed to ‘blur’ the locator’s image.
According to a report in the Courier Mail:
Australian Brian Hodge, who previously worked at Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast, claimed he was staying in the room next to the shooter on level 32 at the Las Vegas resort.
He said he managed to escape the initial horrific scenes inside the hotel but found himself forced to hide in a bush for several hours after the event.
“I got outside safely and was hiding in bushes,” Mr Hodge said.
“There were multiple people dead and multiple shooters. I was just hiding waiting for police to come get us.”
While some will claim that these are just “conspiracy theories,” the reality is that every aspect must be critically analyzed and questioned, rather than making a quick rush to judgment. No one here is claiming to know what happened, we only want answers to all these loose ends.
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Las Vegas, NV – The gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting, who opened fire on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival — which is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in US history — has been identified as Stephen Paddock.
The shooting rampage left at least 58 dead and 515 injured, according to the latest report from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department.
The shooter, Stephen Paddock, is a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, who opened fire on concert-goers located in a fairgrounds area on Las Vegas Boulevard from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
SWAT officers responded to the hotel room and used an explosive breach to enter the room and engage the suspect, but believe that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to officers gaining access to the room.
In spite of the myriad of conspiracy theories and fake photos and motives posted online, Police do not yet have a motive and Paddock’s motivation is unknown.
Although ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, without evidence, police claim that Paddock has no known ties to any terrorist organization, according to NBC.
Here is what we know about the shooter thus far.
Police said the shooter was a “local individual” who was firing from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel just outside the concert area. Authorities report that Paddock died inside the hotel room after a police SWAT team used an explosive breach to blow open the door and then attempted engaged with him. Police believe that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to officers gaining access to the room.
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Although ISIS has attempted to take responsibility for the attack, Sheriff Joe Lombardo, when asked by a reporter if the shooting was an “act of terrorism,” said “no, not at this point. We believe it was a local individual. He resides here locally. I’m not at liberty to give you his place of residence yet, because it’s an ongoing investigation, we don’t know what his belief system was at this time. … Right now we believe he is the sole aggressor at this point and the scene is static.”
BREAKING: #ISIS claimed #LasVegas attack, reporting through "Amaq that executor is one of its "soldiers" & he converted to Islam months ago pic.twitter.com/4E85vEIUzH
— SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) October 2, 2017
The ISIS claims should be taken with a grain of salt, as the group has been shown to previously have attempted to piggyback on unrelated events/crimes in an effort to bolster their terror credentials.
1. ISIS in recent months has made a number of demonstrably false claims for attacks and incidents that had no jihadi terror nexus.
— Paul Cruickshank (@CruickshankPaul) October 2, 2017
Sheriff Lombardo said numerous firearms were found inside the hotel room. Police sources have confirmed to KTNV that Paddock had more than 10 firearms in the room, two shooting platforms and cameras set up to see police arriving. Authorities believe that Paddock utilized long range rifles during the attack, according to News 8 Now.
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Police reportedly found where Paddock was shooting from by listening to where the gunshots were coming from, according to Las Vegas Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.
Police suspect the guns used in the shooting were altered to fire more rapidly. Some experts say the inconsistent pattern of gunfire captured in footage of the attack does suggest the guns were modified – possibly via a “trigger crank” or “bump stock.”
Police began searching for a “person of interest,” named Marilou Danley, 62. She was described as a “companion” of the shooter. Danley allegedly lived with the shooter in Mesquite, according to police. Public records show she had lived at the same address as Paddock since January 2017, reports Heavy.
According to a CNN report, Danley has since been cleared of any involvement in the shooting, and was not even in the country when the shooting occurred. Police reportedly made contact with after locating her in the Philippines.
“Marilou Danley is no longer being sought out as a person of interest,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told CNN. “LVMPD detectives have made contact with her and do not believe she is involved with the shooting on the strip.”
During an interview with NBC News, Paddock’s brother Eric said that the entire family stunned as there was “absolutely no indication he could do something like this.” He told NBC that his brother “was just a guy” who liked to go to shows in Las Vegas and gamble, and that he was semi-retired and had a girlfriend.
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Eric Paddock, who lives in Florida, told the Daily Mail that the family is “dumbfounded.”
“He’s my brother, we don’t have a very close relationship but we talk occasionally. There’s no rhyme or reason here, it makes no sense. He has no political affiliation, no religious affiliation, as far as we know. This wasn’t a terror attack,” Eric Paddock told the Daily Mail.
“He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something,” the shooter’s brother, Eric Paddock, added.
“We are completely dumbfounded,” Eric Paddock told the Orlando Sentinal. “We can’t understand what happened.”
Details of Stephen Paddock’s background are still being investigated, and the family told NBC News that they would be releasing a statement through the police on Monday.
According to his brother Eric Paddock, the shooter was a retired accountant. He was divorced, was not known to have children, and was living with a woman (presumed to be Marilou Danley) in a home in Mesquite. He is not know to have a criminal record.
Paddock was in the midst of going through a break-up – although the identity of the woman is unknown, according to NBC News. The NBC report noted that it was unclear if these relationship issues had anything to do with the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Additionally, law enforcement sources told CBS News that Paddock had recently been gambling, including at the Mandalay Bay casino, and used Marilou Danley’s ID at a “slot club.” Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told CBS that there was a “gaming club, slot club, that casinos use and he was at one point using that card to gamble with. We know he’s been gambling.”
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Paddock had recently made large gambling transactions, but it was not whether this was the result of winning or losing, according to an NBC News reports. “He was a wealthy guy playing video poker … on cruises,” his brother said, adding that “Stephen could afford anything he wanted and played $100-a-hand poker.”
Public records reveal that Paddock was a pilot. Paddock was awarded a private pilot license on November 17, 2003, and was rated as being able to fly a single-engine airplane and an instrument airplane, according to the FAA records.
Paddock owned two aircraft, according to NBC News.
Paddock appears to have worked as an accountant or auditor, ABC News reports.
NBC News reports Paddock worked for a few years for a defense contractor. The defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, said in a statement that Paddock worked for a predecessor company from 1985 to 1988.
“We’re cooperating with authorities to answer questions they may have about Mr. Paddock and his time with the company,” Lockheed Martin said in a statement.
His father was a bank robber, Eric Paddock said. The FBI lists the late Benjamin Hoskins Paddock as being on the FBI’s most-wanted list from June 10, 1969, until May 5, 1977. The father escaped from prison in 1969 and lived on the run until 1978, when he was arrested in Oregon, the Eugene Register reported at the time.
He kept a low profile. Law enforcement has no “derogatory information” about Stephen Paddock, besides the fact that he received a citation several years ago that was handled in the court system, Sheriff Lombardo said.
The bodies are not yet cold, the blood not yet dry, the triage rooms still receiving victims, and already, people are attempting to exploit the Las Vegas tragedy to espouse their political ideology. Revealing the extreme politicizing of the mass shooting, a top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, took to social media to proclaim that she “is not even sympathetic” towards the victims of the shooting that left at least 58 dead and over 500 injured at a country music festival at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Sunday night.
wrote Geftman-Gold on Facebook, likely referring to the Sandy Hook school shooting.
The shooter, identified as Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nev., opened fire on a massive crowd during a country music festival from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay Hotel late Sunday night.
Law enforcement sources say they located the shooter on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, and that he opened fire on the concert-goers from the upper room floor of the hotel, according to the Las Vegas-Journal Review.
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Currently, there are conflicting reports as to whether the shooter took his own life or was killed by police. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said police had located a number of firearms in the room he occupied in the hotel.
Lombardo attempted to dispel the notion that there were multiple shooters, claiming that reports of multiple shooters and that explosives were used were false.
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Despite claims of responsibility by ISIS, police said that Paddock had no known connection to terrorism, and that law enforcement is not calling this a terrorist attack at this point, according to NBC News.
“The gunfire began during a performance by the singer Jason Aldean, the closing act of the Route 91 Harvest Festival, according to Gail Davis, who was in the audience of more than 22,000,” according to The New York Times.
Additionally, Hillary Clinton, who is never one to let a good tragedy go to waste, took no time to begin politicizing this tragedy.
Going after a group not yet connected w/ a attack that we know little about as victims r still in the hospital is not putting politics aside pic.twitter.com/5E51xh20EN
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) October 2, 2017
It’s important to note that this is not the first time a CBS employee has shown politicized animosity towards the GOP, as the June shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was labeled by CBS anchor Scott Pelley as “foreseeable, predictable and to some degree, self-inflicted.” Pelley’s intimation was that due to Rep. Scalise’s support for gun rights, this was the predictable outcome.
Revealing exactly how the immediate politicizing of these tragic events does a disservice to the public, when James Hodgkinson opened fire on Rep. Scalise earlier this year, The New York Times immediately (and falsely) attempted to blame the shooting on a erroneous link between Sarah Palin and the shooter of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.).
Often, the transformation of human tragedy into trying to score political points ends up in reporting that is extremely biased and often inaccurate.
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The original thread was deleted by the person who made the original post that Geftman-Gold’s comments appeared on, but were not deleted by Geftman-Gold, according to the Daily Caller.
Unfortunately, these guilt by association tactics are what often lead to more evil idiots being duped into carrying out murder against innocent people because they are perceived as the enemy for alleged connections with rival groups.
Ever hear of the Us vs. Them tactics of manipulation? Creating a bunch of “Thems” can be dangerous, no matter who the “Us’s” are.
As the right claims Paddock is a liberal extremist and the left claims he’s a right-wing nut, neither group seems to care about the actual victims at all. Even the NY Times said that “what we need most of all isn’t mourning, but action to lower the toll of guns in America.”
Sadly, every time Americans experience a tragic shooting, whether it’s Charleston, Aurora, Sandy Hook, Orlando, or Mainstreet USA, there is an overwhelming response by supposed “objective” media and political groups alike, who use death and destruction to promote their agenda.
Now for the final news flash.
The murderous villains in all of these cases have already used this death and destruction to make their point. And you’re going to do what? Ride their coat tails? You’re going to use their violence to promote your ideas, in turn immortalizing evil? Through this action, you are doing exactly what these psychopaths wanted. You are perpetuating the turmoil that these savage criminals sought out through the use of violence. For what?
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It could take decades for psychologists to study these killers in an attempt to find reasons for their heinous crimes. Yet still, we may never know what goes on in someone’s head for them to be able to kill so many innocent people.
However, one thing is certain, and that is that blowhards attempting to demonize their political enemies through guilt by association, cannot and will not ever obtain that reason by jumping on these death bandwagons.
The bottom line is that an evil and obviously sick person killed innocent people and no amount of speculation about putting the blame on rap music, heavy metal, video games, violent tv, or political affiliation will change that fact. Anyone who attempts to garner support for their cause through associating their political opposition with an insane killer is acting within the same skewed reality of evil mass murderers and will be complicit in the horrid society that ensues.
Las Vegas, NV – In what is now being deemed the deadliest mass shooting in US history, at least 50 people are confirmed dead and over 400 people have been sent to area hospitals, after a gunman, identified as 64-year-old Stephan Paddock, opened fire on concert-goers during a music festival.
The mass shooting took place at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival across the road from the Mandalay Bay hotel, on the south side of the Las Vegas Strip.
Interestingly, an interview with a witness raises startling questions, as the eyewitness claims to have seen a woman push her way to the first row of the concert roughly 45 minutes before the shooting began and levy threats indicating that everyone would soon be dead.
Investigators said they have identified a woman who had been traveling with Paddock, Marilou Danley, and want to question her.
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According to police, Danley was not with Paddock when he checked into Mandalay Bay. Paddock was utilizing some of her identification, Lombardo said, adding that police “have had a conversation with her,” believing Danley “at this time not to be involved.”
CNN reports that she was not in the country when the shooting occurred. Police later confirmed that she had been located in the Phillipines.
Law enforcement sources say they located the shooter on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, and that it appears Paddock opened fire on the concert-goers from the upper room floor of the hotel, according to the Las Vegas-Journal Review.
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Currently, there are conflicting reports as to whether the shooter took his own life or was killed by police. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said police had located a number of firearms in the room he occupied in the hotel.
Lombardo attempted to dispel the notion that there were multiple shooters, claiming that reports of multiple shooters and that explosives were used were false.
Police also said that Paddock had no known connection to terrorism, and that law enforcement is not calling this a terrorist attack, according to NBC News.
This is in spite of the recent statement from ISIS claiming responsibility for the attack.
A statement published by the group’s Amaq propaganda agency claimed the attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State”.
“The Las Vegas attacker is a soldier of the Islamic State in response to calls to target coalition countries,” it said.
In a second statement, Isis claimed the gunman “converted to Islam several months ago”.
Paddock was not known to the federal authorities but was known to local law enforcement, according to law enforcement sources.
Numerous videos posted on social media show large crowds of people running and ducking for cover as the sound of gunfire rings out.
— KingLurch (@austinnolson) October 2, 2017
The report by the eyewitness raises many important questions about the attack.
So, who was this woman that allegedly gave an ominous warning prior to the largest mass shooting in US history? Where did security take her after escorting her out, and do they have a record of it?
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