BREAKING! Headquarters for the Naval Sea Systems Command breached! - TWO SHOOTING LOCATIONS - IT IS ALL BUT CONFIRMED THIS IS A TERRORIST ATTACK

STICKY POST FOR NOW - CONSTANTLY UPDATED AS WE LEARN MORE

Washington Navy Yard. Less than a mile from the U.S. Capitol, I believe.

The Navy Yard is an extremely secure facility! Documents with the highest classification!

This post stuck here for a while so that updates can be added as they occur.

For local coverage that is really on top of developments, go to WUSA.

PASTORIUS UPDATE - This is a Secure Operations building - highly classified - The War Plans are in this building.

FOX NEWS PUT UP A SCROLL A FEW MINUTES AGO, SAYING, "AMBULANCES ARRIVE ON SCENE WITH POLICE ESCORT.

I have never heard of ambulances being given a Police Escort before.

This could mean one of two things,

1) they anticipated terrible traffic problems, so they believe they needed a convoy of Emergency vehicles all with sirens blaring (but frankly, that would just cause even more trouble,

or

2) THEY BELIEVE THIS IS A TERRORIST OPERATION WHICH MAY ROLL OUT IN STAGES, and that a stage might be planned wherein Emergency responders are attacked.

THIS COULD BE THE FIRST STAGE OF JIHADIST ATTACKS IRAN THREATENED US WITH IN RESPONSE TO SYRIA.

RELATED? - This story came out yesterday - FBI WARNS: MUSLIM TERRORISTS PLAN TO ATTACK FUEL STORAGE PLANTS INSIDE U.S.

AOW here....This facility houses the command center for naval operations in the eastern Mediterranean.

4 civilians and one officer shot.

Another man shot very close to one of the Navy Yard's gates @ New Jersey and M.

All flights at DCA (Reagan Washington National) are grounded indefinitely.

11th Street Bridge is closed and being used as triage center.

Streets being closed all over D.C., including those around Capitol Hill.

PASTORIUS - This photograph (picked up from Twitter) seems to indicate the shooter SHOT HIS WAY INTO THE BUILDING.

AOW here....Local news now stating that at least 10 people have been shot.

PASTORIUS -

NBC4 Washington: Four Dead, 12 Shot at D.C. Navy Yard; Active Shooter Still At Large

live feed Washington DC Fire, and EMS Live Audio Feed 

Shooter 'contained'...
3,000 workers told to 'shelter in place'...
NBC: At least 2 cops among victims...
Flights halted out of Reagan airport...
WH: 'Citizens: Listen to the Authorities'...

KRLA LOS ANGELES RADIO: SHOOTER DESCRIBED AS A "BLACK MALE, WITH A BEARD, WEARING A CAP"

MULTIPLE SHOOTERS ARE BEING REPORTED BY SOME SOURCES NOW, INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON POST:

WaPo sticking with three gunmen, according to police spokeswoman

WaPo
One of the shooters is “down,” police said, but two remain in a building on the grounds.

One of the shooters at large is dressed in fatigues. At least one has a long gun, police said.

NBC: Authorities originally believed there was a lone gunman, but sources later confirmed to News4 that the shooting was carried out by at least two gunmen.

USA TODAY - The shooter was described as a black male with a dark complexion, approximately 5'10" to 6 feet tall, 170 pound with a black shirt and black hat. He is believed to be barricaded somewhere and have multiple guns.

PASTORIUS COMMENT - I'm pretty sure the first few people shot were Law Enforcement, as the shooters tried blasting their way into the building. I believe the shooters shot their way in, because of the photograph higher up in this article, which shows people attending to a downed person OUTSIDE the Naval Yard buildings. 

This would indicate that shots were fired BEFORE THE SHOOTERS EVEN ENTERED THE BUILDING, or at the entrance.

IMAGINE WHAT THIS MUST BE LIKE FOR THE POLICE WHO ARE RESPONDING.

D.C. Naval Yard Shooting Thread II: Police Enter Building, More Shots Heard – Update: NBC Says Two Separate Shooting Locations – Update: Reports Say 8 Dead

Report of shots fired at Bolling AFB, couple of miles from Navy Yard

AOW here....Video interview of a few witnesses.  Apparently there were no shots fired at Bolling AFB.  But emergency vehicles did leave the Navy Yard and head down I-95 South.

One shooter dead. 

From ABC News: 

...The shooter is described as a former Navy official in his fifties whose work status was recently changed. His name has not been released.... 

PASTORIOUS CUTTING IN:

CNN forgets Fort Hood: 'I've Never Heard of Such a Thing Happening'... Navy Official 2:00 pm(ish): This is not over Police still say they believe two other shooters may be on the loose. at 2:10 press briefing D.C. police now confirm 12 dead still looking for a white male wearing tan military/navy uniform & beret and a black male 40-50 olive uniform 5'10" about 180 lbs medium complexion gray sideburns FBI taking over in manhunt for these 2 area residents encouraged to stay in

AOW here....One of the potential suspects -- the white man -- has now been ruled out by the police.

Dead suspect now identified as Aaron Alexis of Texas.

Washington Nationals to Play in the Wake of Shooting.   The stadium is just a few scant blocks from the Navy Yard.  UPDATE: Game postponed to tomorrow.

This appears to be Aaron Alexis:



According to the Washington Post:

...The first, sketchy details about the suspect give no hints about what may have gone wrong.

Aaron Alexis, 34, grew up in Brooklyn with his mother, Sarah, and father, Anthony Alexis, according to his aunt Helen Weeks.

“We haven’t seen him for years,” Weeks said of her nephew in a telephone interview. “I know he was in the military. He served abroad. I think he was doing some kind of computer work.”

A 2007 Navy Times feature cites an Aaron Alexis as having graduated from Navy boot camp that year from the Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Its unclear if this is the same Alexis, but the newspaper listed his occupational specialty as an airman recruit. A deleted web profile of an Aaron Alexis listed him as being stationed at Naval Air Station in Fort Worth.

Officials said police theorize that there may be additional shooters because of witness accounts and surveillance video among other information. One of those officials also said all the weapons were not accounted for....

NBC released this photograph of Aaron Alexis:

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Did Aaron Alexis have Thai connections?

Hold.

The.

Phone.

1) How did a man basically tossed out of the Naval Reserve afford to go to Thailand in the first place?

2) Why would such a man be hired in ANY capacity at the Washington Navy Yard?

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"He appeared to fire at selected targets"

Just whom did Aaron Alexis specifically target — if indeed he actually fired at selected targets?

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

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9/11/13 In Washington, D.C.

From the Washington Post (emphases mine):

9/11 anniversary: Prayers and discord mark D.C. area’s commemorations on sweltering day

Moments of silence, prayer and discord mingled with the roar of motorcycles, the echo of taps and a recording of Jimi Hendrix playing the national anthem on Wednesday as Washington marked the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

On a sweltering summer day, perspiring Muslims and Christians argued on the Mall, bands of flag-bearing bikers cruised the city, and President Obama told relatives of Sept. 11 victims that “our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been.”

As the commemorations unfolded, the flags around the Washington Monument flew at half-staff, stirring in the southerly breeze.

A former Marine, Tobiath Steinmetz, clad in biblical garb, carried a full-size wooden cross on the Mall.

[...]

On the Mall in Washington, before a ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks, a small group that included Muslim Americans bickered with a small group of Christian activists over the role and merits of Islam.

A phalanx of park police on motorcycles were on hand to keep the groups separated.

“We’re just regular, God-fearing, Bible-believing, patriotic, red-blooded Americans,” said Ruben Israel, 52, of Los Angeles, who spoke for a group carrying banners that read, “You Need Jesus” and “Repent of Your Wicked Heart of Unbelief.”

“I think every Christian should be offended that they want to have a rally on 9/11,” he said, referring to the Muslims. “We’re here to promote Jesus Christ as the answer to that bloody religion.”

Isa Hodge, 39, of the American Muslim Political Action Committee, said his group had a permit from the National Park Service for the rally.

“Since the day of 9/11, that horrible event that happened . . . there’s been a fear campaign that’s been promoted over the last 12 years to make the word ‘Muslim’ synonymous with ‘terrorist,’ ” he said.

“The rhetoric has been so deeply ingrained in the American citizen that we’re the problem, Muslims are the problem,” he added. “We, as Muslims . . . are for the Constitution, the preservation of the Constitution, and the freedoms and the civil liberties.”

Hodge and Israel got into a face-to-face dialogue, which seemed to go beyond the sentiments of the day.

Discussions were refereed by Capt. P.J. Beck of the U.S. Park Police.

“They just want to be here to evangelize what they’re going to do,” he said of Israel’s group. “They want to do what they want to do,” he said of Hodge’s group.

“We’re here to make sure it all happens,” he said.

Scholar Cornel West appeared for the Muslim rally.

“We need to keep the focus on priceless and precious human beings, no matter who they are,” he said. “They could be in Syria. They could be in Somalia. They could be in Tel Aviv. They could be on the West Bank.”

“They could be U.S. drones doing it,” he said. “They could be gangsters who did it 12 years ago.”

In the background, loudspeakers blared Vivaldi and Hendrix, and a woman shouted, “Blessed are the peacemakers!”

Bystanders carried placards protesting drone strikes and an attack on Syria.

Retired Episcopal bishop George E. Packard of New York, a former Army platoon leader in Vietnam, gave a blessing at the rally: “May we give to America back a certain kind of peaceful presence on this day.”

Packard said afterward that he had been among the clergy summoned to the ground-zero field morgue in New York 12 years ago.

“I stood with the Muslim chaplain, and the Jewish chaplain, and the Catholic chaplain,” he said. “And we would say prayers over the small body parts we’d find, and there was a kind of brotherhood there.”

He lamented that Wednesday’s remembrances were so “strident.”

Meanwhile, motorcyclists who had been denied a permit to parade downtown en masse instead rode about in smaller, colorful groups to commemorate the day and protest their permit denial.

Roger W. Snuffer of Somerset, Pa., had ridden to Washington on a pristine motorcycle decked out in an American-style flag with the number 93 in the blue canton, in honor of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville.

Snuffer said he was in the National Guard on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I actually had to go out to the site and recover pieces,” he said as he stood by his motorcycle on Constitution Avenue in a red, white and blue head bandanna. “So it means a lot to me about 9/11.”

“My opinion is, some of the people in the country have forgotten,” he said. “It’s something to remember and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Damn. I wish that I had had to work yesterday!

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9/11 In My Classroom

On September 10 in my American Government/Current Events class, I presented a very effective lesson on 9/11. I made the day “come alive” for my students and the parents who were sitting in on the class. Not a dry eye in the room by the time I was done.

I personalized the lesson with details that my students will never read in history books: the days-long chirping of those cell phones at Ground Zero, the very small body parts, the pink mist in the air, the several hours I spent as I awaited word of the fate of one of my friends in the Pentagon (He, a wonderful man with several kids and a disabled wife, was called out of the building, out of the very room that was destroyed, a few minutes before the plane struck), the children who perished in the day care center at the Pentagon, tales of recovery personnel and what they went through in those weeks following 9/11, the anthrax attacks (the devil in the mail box), the many lost freedoms and the many resulting inconveniences, how this generation will never be as free as my generation, the travesty of the Flight 93 Memorial, and more — including the whitewash of Islam and my anger at today’s dhimmitude and political correctness.

I spoke without notes.

I spoke from the heart.

The last segment of my lesson plan consisted of playing Bruce Springsteen’s “You’re Missing” on the classroom's excellent sound system:

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Obama's Monday News Blitz

From White House Dossier:

As the lead-up to his prime time presidential speech on Syria Tuesday, President Obama Monday will conduct interviews with the NBC, ABC and CBS network anchors, as well as with PBS, CNN, and Fox, according to a White House official.

The interviews will air Monday night.

The foundation is being laid right now by the networks: Syria, Syria, Syria. At the moment, I am watching CBS, but all the other networks are doing the same thing.

Demagoguery.

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Hollywood, Obama, And Syria

What kind of reasoning is the following?  Are they afraid that they are closet racists after all?

From Ed Asner Explains Hollywood Silence on Obama, Syria: They 'Don't Want to Feel Anti-Black':

In 2003, ahead of a U.S. attack on Iraq, a robust anti-war movement in Hollywood included [2] a TV commercial starring Martin Sheen and Sean Penn visiting Baghdad. There were online petitions signed by Ed Asner; letters to President George W. Bush pleading for peace were signed by Matt Damon, Tim Robbins, Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin; former M*A*S*H star Mike Farrell fronted multiple press conferences where celebrities denounced war. In interviews, Janeane Garofalo stopped identifying herself as an actor -- she preferred to be called a member of the U.S. anti-war movement.

The good news for President Barack Obama as he considers a military response against Syria for using chemical weapons against rebels is that he probably won't have to deal with a similar anti-war movement from Hollywood. But that's not because there isn't opposition. It's just not organized, and, as Asner and Farrell – two of the industry's most vocal progressive activists -- told The Hollywood Reporter [9] Friday, perhaps it never will be.

While some conservatives see hypocrisy [10], Farrell says that an all-out war in Iraq under Bush, a Republican who was very unpopular in Hollywood, was a much bigger deal than potential missile strikes against Syria under the direction of Obama, a Democrat who drew millions for his campaigns from showbiz industry donors....

Read more HERE. Asner has quite a rant.

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China Moving Warships Toward Syria?

With a hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning:

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Gateway Pundit

Because of my recent vacation in Williamsburg/Jamestown (photo essay) and the start-up of the 2013-2014 school term, I've been a bit out of the loop the past few weeks.

Therefore, this information (dated September 3, 2013) about Jim Hoft's health came as a sad surprise to me:

It would be quite impossible not to have noticed Jim’s absence this past week and a half. As has been periodically posted and updated, Jim’s health is in serious condition. He has been in the hospital battling a blood infection and complications from an infected knee replacement. Last Friday, Jim had surgery to remove his knee. The surgery went well. This morning, Jim had surgery to replace a heart valve, which was, also, damaged due to the infection. Jim is in the best of hands and is receiving extraordinary care. But his path to recovery will be a difficult one, and he and his family could use all the prayers you have to give.

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

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Our scheduled guest this week is Elizabeth Gonzalez (Layla) of The HILL Chronicles.

Listen to the August 30, 2013 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

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The show broadcasts live for 30 minutes every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is 646-915-9870. Callers welcome!

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"Can Obama write his own laws?"

From this excellent essay:

As a reaction to the crack epidemic of the 1980s, many federal drug laws carry strict mandatory sentences. This has stirred unease in Congress and sparked a bipartisan effort to revise and relax some of the more draconian laws.

Traditionally — meaning before Barack Obama — that’s how laws were changed: We have a problem, we hold hearings, we find some new arrangement ratified by Congress and signed by the president.

That was then. On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder, a liberal in a hurry, ordered all U.S. attorneys to simply stop charging nonviolent, non-gang-related drug defendants with crimes that, while fitting the offense, carry mandatory sentences. Find some lesser, non-triggering charge. How might you do that? Withhold evidence — for example, the amount of dope involved.

In other words, evade the law, by deceiving the court if necessary. “If the companies that I represent in federal criminal cases” did that, said former deputy attorney general George Terwilliger, “they could be charged with a felony.”

But such niceties must not stand in the way of an administration’s agenda. Indeed, the very next day, it was revealed that the administration had unilaterally waived Obamacare’s cap on a patient’s annual out-of-pocket expenses — a one-year exemption for selected health insurers that is nowhere permitted in the law. It was simply decreed by an obscure Labor Department regulation.

[...]

Yet this president is not only untroubled by what he’s doing, but open and rather proud. As he tells cheering crowds on his never-ending campaign-style tours: I am going to do X — and I’m not going to wait for Congress.

That’s caudillo talk. That’s banana republic stuff. In this country, the president is required to win the consent of Congress first.

At stake is not some constitutional curlicue. At stake is whether the laws are the law. And whether presidents get to write their own.

In other words, we have a lawless administration.

Since the essay posted on the web on August 15, the essay has garnered 3797 comments. One of the comments:

FORWARNED wrote:

1:00 AM EST

President Obama's approach is worse than Charles describes. Legislation is a product of compromise. If President Obama is allowed to continue disregarding laws he doesn't personally agree with, the legislative process is a sham. Legislators can have no confidence that provisions they negotiate for as part of the compromise will be enforced.

Plus, let's not forget that Obamacare was his own legislation, passed only by Democrats, and even then, he's refusing to enforce it!

The only recourse at this point, since Obama's lawlessness is expanding and quickening, is a new judicial interpretation of standing that would give citizens a right to sue for enforcement of the law as written.

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This Week On The Gathering Storm: Midnight Rider!

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Our scheduled guest this week is Midnight Rider.

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More Serfdom Via ObamaCare

From the New York Times on August 12, 2013:

A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law

WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.

The limit on out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and co-payments, was not supposed to exceed $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. But under a little-noticed ruling, federal officials have granted a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits, or no limit at all on some costs, in 2014.

[...]

The health law, signed more than three years ago by Mr. Obama, clearly established a single overall limit on out-of-pocket costs for each individual or family. But federal officials said that many insurers and employers needed more time to comply because they used separate companies to help administer major medical coverage and drug benefits, with separate limits on out-of-pocket costs....

Read the rest HERE.

A rude awakening is coming, that's for sure. But the time the awakening occurs, individuals and families will be far along the road of serfdom.

And the Obamamaniacs continue to sing his praises. Unbelievable!

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Is this for real?

Boy prays to Obama:



Please tell me that the above is some kind of sick spoof.

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