as many recent reports portend, (e.g. http://counterpunch.org/roberts07162007.html). Here in Oregon, we're now facing and trying to mobilize to shut down Noble Resolve, which includes, along with natural disaster emergency response drills, War on Terror scenarios.

We are now urging all concerned to flood the media, elected representatives and government officials with the following demand:

JUST SAY NO TO NOBLE RESOLVE - NO SUITCASE NUKES FOR OREGON

Continuity of Government (COG)

By coincidence I was doing some research on COG and I found the following:

"According to one report, on September 11, 2001 three of the E-4Bs were participating in a live command-level exercise known as Global Guardian. The exercise is an annual event, and is staged to test the readiness of the US military's command and control procedures involved in waging thermonuclear war. The 2001 exercise started the week before September 11 under the directorship of Admiral Richard Mies, commander-in-chief of STRATCOM. According to various reports, the drill was in "full swing" at the time of the 9/11 attack."

I'm doing a research piece that will identify one of these E-4B's involved in a war game exercise on 9/11.

According to the report mentioned, “These E-4B National Airborne Operations Center planes—nicknamed “Doomsday” planes during the Cold War—are intended to control nuclear forces from the air in times of crisis. They are capable of acting as alternative command posts for top government officials from where they can direct US forces, execute war orders and coordinate the actions of civil authorities in times of national emergency.”

This was not a new exercise. In the 1980’s, the E-4B’s were used in similar drills in “top-secret exercises… testing a program called continuity of government (COG) that would keep the federal government functioning during and after a nuclear war.” Noteworthy is that “Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld participate in the COG exercises,” and they were “regular participants in top-secret exercises, designed to test a program called continuity of government (COG).”

for more see here:

Paul Thompson, Complete 9/11 Timeline, Context of '(1992-2000): Secret Continuity of Government Exercises Prepare for Terrorist Threat'
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a92cogcontinues

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