by Terrence Aym

Created on: February 08, 2011

As evidence mounts that the world may fast be slipping into the next Ice Age, Washington insiders are hurrying to solidify a new power base for centralized government operations.

Fears that the US capital might be struck by another more deadly terrorist attack—or other disasters—prompted agencies a decade ago to hurriedly establish back-up operations in case catastrophe struck.

Despite the fact that many conspiracy theories are weaved around the subjects that follow—including some fairly wild-eyed, tin foil hat scenarios—most conspiracy theories have a basis in fact, although the facts are distorted or wildly exaggerated.

The actual story of the Denver airport, the nation's "second capital," the impending Ice Age possibility, and the threat the Yellowstone supervolcano presents to the people of the United States of America and their government follows:  

The nation's "Doomsday capitol"

As long ago as the 1990s during the Clinton Administration, civilian agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Agriculture and Federal Bureau of Investigation created a secondary nexus in Denver, Colorado.  The theory was that establishing an emergency capitol—a "Washington outside Washington"—would afford a higher level of security if located near the geographical center of the country with the Rocky Mountain range at its back instead of the Atlantic Ocean on its doorstep.

Agencies duplicated resources and some moved their entire headquarters there such as the National Geospatial Technical Operations Center.

Denver is a logical choice as many government assets exist in or near the city: Nellis AFB and Groom Lake are within defense range, much of the US nuclear arsenal is stockpiled in the general region, the mountains make a ground attack force next to impossible, and Denver sits a mile above sea level.

In addition to the civilian agencies, the Pentagon also moved segments of its operations—including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the super-secret Strategic Intelligence Department, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and others—to the more secure "Doomsday capitol." Some of the Pentagon assets occupy part of newly refurbished levels deep underground inside the famous Cheyenne Mountain NORAD facility.

After the 9-11 al-Qaeda attacks, the CIA, NSA and some smaller nuclear intelligence agencies that are virtually invisible to the proverbial man-on-the-street, also transferred

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