Where Have All the “Crisis Actors” Gone?

By Prof. James F. Tracy

Global Research, June 23, 2015

Region: USA

Theme: Media Disinformation, Police State & Civil Rights

Crisisactors.org, the website established to represent the collaboration between the Visionbox professional actors studio and FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute has been dormant since August 2014. This is according to information obtained from Internet Archive on June 15, 2015.

On July 29, 2014 a notice retrieved from Internet Archive for crisisactors.org announces:

Maintenance

We apologize for the inconvenience, but Crisis Actors is currently undergoing maintenance.

On August 5, 2014 a moderately revised statement announces:

Sorry! We’re under maintenance. We are making some updates to the site. We’ll be back soon, thanks for your patience [sic].

Less than one month later, on August 26, 2014 a static page is prompted via the url that has remained through June 19, 2015.

404: Not Found. Please double check the address you’ve just entered. If you entered “www.example.com/networkname.com”, try “networkname.com instead.”

It is clear from the continuum of these announcements and their identical features that the most recent notification is an attempt to convince the casual browser that the site never existed, when in fact it appears it is being retained for possible future use.
One may recall that in late 2012 the use of professional actors for a variety of roles in “live shooter drills” was becoming common practice. Indeed, as the Sandy Hook massacre event was dominating the news cycle crisisactors.org even maintained a department of “Crisis Actors News”–hyperlinked headlines of stories on active shooter drills where its stable of actors are presumably engaged.

Weber Co. Sheriff’s Office conducts active shooter drill – Fox 13 Now – Salt Lake City
Henn. County deputies train for active shooter incident – KARE
San Bernardino County Sheriff Department staged a series of active shooter on … – Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
MSA Security: Active Shooter Response Training Could Help Schools – GroundReport
Roanoke County Police hold active shooter drill – WDBJ7
Roanoke County police train for active shooter emergency – WSLS
VIDEO: Airport Police Conduct ‘Active Shooter’ Training in Light of Sandy Hook … – Pacific News Center
Mobile Simulators Provide ‘Active Shooter’ Training To Ohio Officers – 10TV
Active Shooter Drill Taking Place at CSUN – KTLA
Sheriff-elect: Crews trained, ready for active shooter situations – KTIV
It’s only a drill: Police conducting “active shooter” training on UGA campus – Online Athens
Police conduct active shooter drill in area school – Q13 FOX
Sandy Hook: Ithaca Police Finish ‘Active Shooter’ Training on Day of Conn … – The Ithaca Independent
UA teachers receive training to take on active shooter – Akron Beacon Journal
Police Officers Get “Active Shooter” Training – fox4kc.com
Special training helps prepare for active shooter; ALICE techniques being … – 10News
Tucson Police conducts active shooter drill – KVOA Tucson News
Active shooter drill spooks students, teachers – FOX 4 News
ALiCE training offers active shooter prep for schools – Bellefontaine Examiner
Program takes notes from tragedies in active shooter training – KHOU

In the months leading up to the Sandy Hook school massacre “live shooter drills” using “crisis actors,” sometimes to the alarm of unwitting bystanders, was becoming increasingly commonplace. Image credit: crisis actors.org

Vistionbox likewise carried a description of the Crisis Actors project on its website as late as December 26, 2012:

Crisis Actors is a professional group of actors trained at Visionbox to develop and portray characters in emergency training scenarios. The intensity at which they work recreates real life pressures that first responders going through the training must cope with.
Crisis Actors, at this time, consists of two teams.
The first team is the same group that makes up our professional acting ensemble and is the initial group to work on this project. Our actors with the guidance of filmmaker John Simmons, school safety expert Steve Hoban, and Executive Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincon, have developed scenarios aimed at training first responders (teachers, administrators, custodians, etc) how to effectively manage an emergency with quick and powerful decisions. This special group has sessions with police officers, 911 operators, school administrators, mall security, radio experts, and school safety training professionals. There is an endless amount of scenarios this group can tackle, which range anywhere from weather issues, to a missing child, to an unknown intruder.
The second team is a group of highly talented actors that have been working on their acting craft by training with Master Acting Teacher Jennifer McCray Rincon on classic material written by Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Shakespeare, Brecht, and other influential playwrights. Eventually, the second team will go through the same training the first team went through. This intense work will eventually be applied to portraying characters in a Crisis Actor training scenario.
For more information please visit the Crisis Actors website, call us at 720.810.1641, or email us at info@visionbox.org

By January 16, 2013 as the Visionbox and Crisis Actors websites were besieged with hits following Anderson Cooper’s reportage (below) and attendant mainstream media coverage the above post had been deleted.
Along these lines, on October 31, 2012, “Visionbox Crisis Actors” issued a press release announcing their services, “Active Shooter Crisis Actors Target Mall Shootings via Visionbox.” This article clearly references the actors’ coordination with law enforcement.

The actors regularly rehearse scenarios involving the Incident Command System and crisis communications, and appear in interactive training films produced in both 2D and stereoscopic 3D.

The press release is reproduced in its entirety below as preserved at Fellowship of the Minds. 

Active Shooter Crisis Actors Target Mall Shootings via Visionbox
DENVER, CO, October 31, 2012 — A new group of actors is now available nationwide for active shooter drills and mall shooting full-scale exercises, announced Visionbox, Denver’s leading professional actors studio.
Visionbox Crisis Actors are trained in criminal and victim behavior, and bring intense realism to simulated mass casualty incidents in public places.
The actors’ stage acting experience, ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary American theater, enables them to “stay in character” throughout an exercise, and improvise scenes of extreme stress while strictly following official exercise scenarios.
The actors regularly rehearse scenarios involving the Incident Command System and crisis communications, and appear in interactive training films produced in both 2D and stereoscopic 3D.
Producers Jennifer McCray Rincon and John Simmons formed the group to demonstrate emerging security technologies, help first responders visualize life-saving procedures, and assist trainers in delivering superior hands-on crisis response training.
For example, with a large shopping center, the producers review all security camera views and design dramatic scenes specifically for existing camera angles, robotic camera sweeps, and manually-controlled camera moves.
The producers then work with the trainers to create a “prompt book” for the actors so that key scenario developments can be triggered throughout the mall shooting simulation, and caught on tape.
The actors can play the part of the shooters, mall employees, shoppers in the mall, shoppers who continue to arrive at the mall, media reporters and others rushing to the mall, and persons in motor vehicles around the mall.
Visionbox Crisis Actors can also play the role of citizens calling 911 or mall management, or posting comments on social media websites.
During the exercise, the producers use two-way radio to co-direct the Crisis Actors team from the mall dispatch center and at actors’ locations.
Within this framework, the exercise can test the mall’s monitoring and communications systems, the mall’s safety plan including lockdown and evacuation procedures, the ability of first responders and the mall to coordinate an effective response, and their joint ability to respond to the media and information posted on the Internet.
Security camera footage is edited for after-action reports and future training.
For more information visit www.Visionbox.org and www.CrisisActors.org.
Visionbox is a project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center. Crisis Actors is a project of the Colorado Safety Task Force established by Colorado State Senator Steve King.
Contact:
Nathan Bock
Amanda Brown info@visionbox.org

Yet there may be much more to the Visionbox Crisis Actors project reverberating through the flurry of alleged shooting incidents taking place since the early 2010s. For example, Visionbox is proficient in using social media such as Facebook and Twitter to “broadcast” a catastrophic event to both participant “actors” and the public at large. In addition, the theatric entourage/ is also knowledgeable at “crowdsourcing,”or monitoring how an event is relayed and interpreted through the body politic via Facebook, Twitter, and so on.
In December 2012 Visionbox Crisis Actors produced a detailed 73-page syllabus, “Social Media in Emergency Management,” an instructional class foregrounding the central role of social media to coordinate and convey a catastrophic event. The course objectives include:

o Explain why social media is important for emergency management.

o Describe the major functions and features of common social media sites currently used in emergency management.

o Describe the opportunities and challenges of using social media applications during the five phases of emergency management.

o Describe better practices for using social media applications during the five phases of emergency management.

o Describe the process for building social media capabilities and to sustain the use of social media in emergency management organizations (state, local, tribal, territorial).

o Explain why using social media is important to emergency management.

o Identify the changes in media and public information.

o Explain the communication opportunities available to emergency managers through social media.

o Describe several examples of using social media in a variety of emergency management functions in different types of disasters.

o Identify the challenges of using social media and explore ways that these might be addressed.

As Sofia Smallstorm has suggested through her meticulous research, the Sandy Hook massacre was in fact mediated to a significant degree via social media. Earlier intimations by this author and other independent researchers–that “crisis actors” might have been present in the most significant “live shooter event” in the US to date–left Vistionbox Crisis Actors and their defenders, such as CNN’s Anderson Cooper, bristling with indignation.
“We are outraged by … James Tracy’s deliberate promotion of rumor and innuendo to link Crisis Actors to the Sandy Hook shootings of December 14, 2012,” the crisisactors.org site fumed just two days before Cooper’s famous January 11, 2013 broadcast calling out the “conspiracy theory professor.”

We do not engage our actors in any real world crisis events, and none of our performances may be presented at any time as a real-world event. James Tracy’s so-called research is copied almost verbatim from a tightly-connected group of hate blogs and YouTube channels that use only one another as sources. From the thousands of comments of these sites’ devoted followers, one thing is clear: They are nothing but thrill-seekers using any pretext to vent their irrational hate against the Sandy Hook community and a nation of mourners.

Yet these very researchers may have identified several Visionbox actors who closely resembled supposed emergency responders and family members on the scene in Sandy Hook on December 14, 2012 and thereafter, some of whom made themselves readily available for press interviews. This was detailed in a MHB post appearing in April 2013, “Crisis Actors at Sandy Hook?”
A foremost link between Visionbox/Crisis Actors, Anderson Cooper and Connecticut is the fact that Visionbox’s founder and director referenced in the above press statement, Jennifer McCray Rincon, received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale University. Cooper and Rincon were both attending Yale in the late 1980s, with Cooper graduating with an undergraduate degree in 1989, and Rincon receiving her MFA in 1987.
That the alliance between Visionbox, Crisis Actors and FEMA is no longer trumpeted on the internet and in press releases, and that the crisisactors.org website has “disappeared”, may very well be a matter of coincidence. For others it may be concerning, particularly in the midst of the catastrophic civic breakdowns over the past few years in Boston, Ferguson and Baltimore, in addition to the numerous active shooter events, most recently manifest in Charleston South Carolina.
As a final observation and in light of the above it is worthwhile noting that between June 15 and 19, 2015 the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston was conducting The Active Shooter Threat Instructor Training Program, ”designed to provide a field training agent or officer with high quality training and instill the analytical knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for the highest proficiency in this specialized field,” the course description reads. “The course takes Active Shooter Threat Tactics Training to the next level by emphasizing leadership, teach backs, and adult learning as well as the traditional technical skills needed by field training officers and special agents.”

Charleston Shooting: Evidence of Stagecraft     ~ slowly, ever sooo slowly ...the peeps r waking up ! wakey ,wakey eggs & bakey ?

jay008 / http://jaysanalysis.com/2015/06/22/charleston-shooting-evidence-of-stagecraft/

The face of a cut-out. Patsy or staged?

By: Jay Dyer
Jay’s Analysis has covered mass shootings in the past, having highlighted key patterns that always emerge in events given major media attention.  These are important to analyze because shootings, disappearances, kidnappings occur fairly regularly, yet curiously only certain “stories” are chosen for exclusive media focus for weeks on end.  Why might that be?  Why is Dylan “Storm Roof” chosen as the media spectacle at the Charleston, SC shooting at the AME Church on June 17th, yet a black man shooting churchgoers is not, nor this black man shooting whites for racial reasons?  As Dave McGowan has observed, in the 70s and 80s the great fear was the omnipresent serial killer, supposedly always an intelligent, middle-aged white male, and since Kent State or Columbine, the transition has been made to the young, white mass shooter (or Cho-Seung Hui).  (Charleston is also the location of the dubious black church burnings of the 90s).
In regard to our last so-called mass shooting, Elliot Rodgers supposedly killed numerous college age girls and, predictably, posted his “manifesto.”  I wrote concerning what appears to be a mass media Psy Op, and with Roof all the same signs are seen.  This time around, however, the racial component has been added for good measure, fueling the Soros-funded strategy of 2015 as the summer of racial rage.  I wrote last year:

1. The killer/suspect is associated with the establishment in some relatively high level way.  Loughner was a fan of, and had attended Giffords’ events.  Breivik was associated with bizarre “Knights Templar” and masonic groups, Holmes was involved in advanced mind control programs, and Lanza’s father did have a connection to the Libor rigging scandal.  Now, with Elliot Rodger, there is a connection to high level Hollywood.  In any major media psy op of this nature the actor in the scenario is someone chosen from among the establishment’s own ranks or outer circles, often with some familial connection to military intelligence.

2. The event is ready-made to run on the mainstream media, on the spot, with the narrative already loaded into the teleprompters.  Indeed, within hours, we have heard that the shooter visited men’s rights sites and was trying to work on his “game.”  Since he had apparently failed at this, and at Hollywood, it logically follows that men and sexuality are the root of the evil.   It’s never Hollywood and the culture of death itself or Prozac that are responsible, or course.  Those are non-factors for the establishment media, though almost all the mass killers are on SSRI drugs.

3.  The shooter’s “details” emerge, with a cartoonish, voluminous “Manifesto” that appears out of nowhere “online.”  Laughably, the mainstream propaganda machine parrots endlessly how the innernetz is untrustworthy and cannot be used for gathering alternative news analysis, but when it comes to shooter/terrorist “Manifestos” shady internet sources are never wrong!  They just appear – poof!  Right after the event, prepackaged and politicized to demonize the target group the psy op was intended to attack.  In this case, it was gun owners and masculinity.  In all the previous cases, even though it was not true, the media immediately accused “gun owners,” “video games,” “men/masculinity” (identified and caricatured as misogyny), “conservatives,” “veterans,” “racism,” etc.  Essentially, anyone who is not a gay Marxist or feminist is pure evil.

4. Ready-made gun control legislation was in the works to be immediately trotted out the following day.  In this case, Senator Keen revives gun control legislation following the Elliot Rodger shooting.  Surprise! – one of the victim’s fathers is ready father immediately pins the blame on guns!  The Hollywood cult of conformity foams at the mouth to implement the utopian myth of total technocracy, oblivious to reality and nature, as if the inland empire of illusion will be able to mind control the entire populace into accepting the new world order.  Never mind that a socialist technocracy will be an utter nightmare, the Leftist Cult of Mindlessness, run by corporate fascists above them, and international banks above them, never cease to give up their dreams of rewriting all of reality as if it were one of their screenplays.

5.  The shooters are always conspicuously killed, suicided or nowhere to be found (aside from Breivik).  There’s no talking to Holmes, Dorner, Cho, Rodgers, Lanza, etc., because they always shoot themselves or are shot.  Holmes is still around, but you’ll not hear from him, as he was drugged out of his mind.  Following a host of nonsensical, conflicting accounts of what transpired, we can always rest assured the killer will not be able to comment.  Conflicting accounts of what guns were used, how many people were killed, and how it was pulled off, will be ignored and forgotten.  The only thing that will remain in the mainstream media repeat cycle will be the killer’s fetishes and the need for gun control and removing all penises from the earth. It’s all the more ironic and synchronicitous, since I just wrote about Hollwood brainwashing a few days ago.

6. The mainstream media will revel in the bizarre use of twilight language, filled with double meanings, innuendos and clues that fly over the heads of the zombie public.  In this case, there is a play on the title “Hunger Games killer,” given that he was hungry for sex and couldn’t attain it in the market, and lacked “Game,” as lifted from the men’s rights and pickup artist sites.  His hunger was such that since he lacked game, he had to kill guys, even though his ridiculous, cartoonish “Manifesto” said he would kill blondes.  In the twilight language, the killer will be likened to some film or pop culture figure they either did or did not (in reality) have a fascination with.  Columbine boys were like Neo in the Matrix, Holmes was Batman/Joker, Lanza was in some video game, and Elliot Rodgers is now associated with Christian Bale from American Psycho.  Why, it’s almost as if they are…actors following a script.

With Roof, all the ridiculous staged elements are beginning to surface.  Shawn Helton of 21stCentury Wire has detailed the anomalies and inconsistencies that have emerged to date:

There are critics who question the ‘official narrative’ of the Charleston shooting, due to its seemingly ready-made storyline, in addition other details revealed since the dramatic incident took place.

On June 18th, in a Boston Globe news release, we learned that the allegedly racially motivated shooter Roof, had dozens of ‘black friends’ listed on his apparent Facebook profile, a profile that has since been deleted:

“His Facebook page has since been removed. But before it was taken down, I combed through the list of 81 “friends” to see if anyone could tell me anything about him. I couldn’t help but notice that Roof had a penchant for befriending black people.”

The report speculates that Roof was merely a twisted voyeur, collecting Facebook friends out of hate. However, it’s important to note, that if Roof is the same person who wrote the manifesto discussed above, its extremely doubtful he would have befriended people of a different race based on the nature of the text.

‘Staging Hate?’ – Many photos of Roof depict heavy-handed symbolism for dramatic effect. (Photo link bbci.co.uk)

Was the Charleston shooting about race, guns or something else?

While the world was fully focused on the events unfolding in Charleston, the US House of Representatives pushed through the ‘fast-track’ Trade Promotion Authority, enabling large-scale trade deals such as the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to move ahead with little to no obstruction from US leaders.

‘Acting Out Violence’ – U.S. Army Sgt. Megan Girr seen during a simulated drill. (Photo link commons.wikimedia.org)

Roof is said to be from Eastover, South Carolina, and is said to have planned the attack over the last 6 months. Eastover recently ran a multi-agency drill with the South Carolina Army National Guard, which simulated casualties during a training exercise at McCrady Training Center, on June 30th, 2014.

We’ve seen evidence of active shooting drills or exercises prior to other alleged attacks and shootings – is this a coincidence or pattern?

We should also consider that SSRIs have often been linked to events like Sandy Hook, the Aurora theater shooting, the Tuscon shooting, as well as other high-profile shooting events… ”

Sandy Hook Fraud: Robbie Parker (Actor!)

Charleston Shooting Hoax Crisis Actors "We Feel Nothing But Love" Exposed (Redsilverj)

Roof’s newly-created Facebook profile was primarily black friends, many of whom were also newly created profiles.  For a person of his age, a newly-created blog replete with a “manifesto” (registered in Russia?) and newly-created social media profile is uncommon.  Generally, his age niche has hundreds of friends with a longer Internet footprint, yet Roof oddly mirrors Adam Lanza in this respect, replete with bowl cut and all.  Given the presence of drills, a tell-tale sign of stagecraft and covers, we can also expect to see odd behavior from (bad) crisis actors that recall Robbie Parker from Sandy Hook fame.  It is also odd that his bond hearing was televised for mass audience viewing, which suggests the entire affair is designed to achieve maximal emotional effect.  As a side note – “Dylann Storm Roof” – is that a name for a mass shooter or a soap opera lead/weather man?
Is this evidence of a crisis actor?  It is certainly possible, when we keep in mind gun control is the other important factor in these events, as the problem-reaction-solution formula inevitably leads to calls by government for restricting and banning firearms.  In fact, New York City was recently caught staging a fake “public service announcement” utilizing a fake gun shop, using actors buying “Lanza” and “James Holmes” guns.  “Guns with History” is completely fake. Shooter’s Log comments:

“In an exclusive, the Shooter’s Log has learned that actors were used to portray customers in a fake gun shop “public service announcement” produced by States United Against Gun Violence earlier this year.

The New York City Mayor’s Office of Media has confirmed these facts in its response to a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request submitted in March.

“States United To Prevent Gun Violence opens a ‘gun store’ in NYC as a hidden camera social experiment to debunk safety myths,” the CeaseFire USA project claimed in its description of the video. The “social experiment,” like the “gun shop” itself, was pre-arranged, permits approved by the city indicate.

“Actors are interviewed on camera in a fake gun store,” the permits’ scene descriptions reveal.”

While I am not definitively stating I know all aspects of this event were staged, like Sandy Hook and the Boston Bombing, it is important to consider this possibility as we learn more about Sandy Hook, mass Psy Ops and the use of crisis actors becomes more widely known.  I would like to highlight ISIS videos (see this archive for ISIS exposes at JaysAnalysis) as a potent reminder that intelligence controlled mass media has no problem scripting mass events, as well as mentioning yet again the fake war broadcast by Charles Jaco for CNN in Gulf War I.

cnn fake news cast

As I have written ad nauseam the last few years, the strategy of tension we have seen in other nations as a function of U.S. foreign policy based around color revolutions and strategies of tension are the same Psy Ops run here in the homeland.  The same think tanks and foundations that dream up the “revolutions” for minorities are behind the same unrest domestically.  I wrote:

“Destabilization of regions is a classic tactic of political intrigue, yet most people think the color revolutions and “Arab Springs” are real.  Not only are they not real (although there are real discontents among the populace), the “springs” are revolutions that are engineered, with the recent trend including the implementation of social media in fostering fake revolutions.  These revolutions are engineered by front groups for the purpose of controlling Eurasia.   This was the geo-political stratagem of the West which was announced years ago, and Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of the necessity of controlling Eurasia to control the world for the American Empire.  Destabilization is the neo-conservative approach to this area, however, and if we recall last year, Henry Kissinger noted that we would see a series of acts of destabilizations in the Middle Eastern nations that were, in a large part, given impetus by color revolutions.”

Many are discovering the patterns of the “shooters,” but setting aside the question of how real or staged each event is, which is itself a high level Psy Op to gauge online reactions through algorithmic tracking, the higher level pattern is that of the strategy of domestic tension (order out of chaos) in hyping a race war and coming to the rescue with more centralized, technocratic police state control.  From Ferguson to Baltimore, from Lanza to Roof, the inimical mass media psychological warfare program is a unified one, constructed around racial and gender division with calls for the medical establishment to psychologically diagnose and monitor individuals as a means to restrict and ban guns based around loose, redefined categories of “mental illness” to disarm on a mass scale.