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On August 6, during a National Pandemic Preparedness Planning Webinar for the workplace, Kevin Burton, CEO of Burton Asset Management, characterized Infowars as "a group of crazies" disseminating conspiracy theories about the H1N1 virus, promised by the government and the United Nations to become a pandemic this autumn.

OKLAHOMA CITY - National Level Exercise 2009, known as NLE 09, has come and gone and Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security Fusion Center Coordinator Kim Carter said he was pleased with the results of the exercise, which was held July 24-31. Red Dirt Report was very interested in NLE 09, since Oklahoma was directly involved in the exercise, which is part of the annual TOPOFF exercise involving FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security as well as foreign troops from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico.

The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say.