This was reprinted and/or republished in Xinhua, People’s
daily, Global times and many other media portal in China, and “lianhe zaobao”
from Singapore put this article in their website. Professor Lucio Pitlo III’s
analysis is attracting many interests. It coincided that Global time also published
an editorial commenting the Manila AIIB membership. Its general tune is
positive, and describes it as “the road to happiness is full of hardships”.
Why Philippine
membership of AIIB is full of twists and turns
Professor Luico
Pitlo III. January 2016.
On Dec 30, 2015, just before the deadline of
qualification as a founding member of AIIB, the Philippines hit a buzzer beater
and announced its joining. Looking back at the process of Philippines
membership of AIIB, It is really full of twists and turns. Philippines were
among the first batch of 21 countries who had the intention to become the
founding member of AIIB. However, when a big number of major western powers
joined the bank one by one, Philippines instead hung back. At the time the
public almost forgot the issue of Philippines membership, Philippines caught
the last train to the surprise of many.
Why did the Philippines “start early, finish late”? Lucio
Blanco Pitlo III, a scholar from De La Salle University Philippines, elaborates
the reasons behind.
Showing posts with label Foreign News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreign News. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Warning: shallow, do not dive!
Warning: shallow, do not dive!
(Beauty and boxing bouts, and intellectual
poverty; December 22, 2015)
Somebody
texted me from out of the blue, “Miss Philippines is Miss Universe!” The text
came from a colleague whom I would consider very much brighter the average Juan
de la Cruz. He writes, and has a book to his name. No average Joe can do that.
So I found it ironic that he would enthuse over something I consider shallow –
beauty pageants.
Ms.Pia
Alonzo Wurtzbach won the Miss Universe title at the pageant held the
entertainment capital of the U.S.A. Las Vegas, Nevada. I was at my business
office when I received the text and to test the reaction of some of the staff I
walked over as asked the accounting department, “What would you prefer to our
country to be, rich but never getting such Miss Universe awards or poor with
awards for beauty.”
Out
of seven ladies only one said she preferred we be a rich Japan than a poor but
beauties laden Philippines. One explained, “The Miss Universe title puts us on
the map again! At least we are recognized for something.” One said, “Our
country gains from the recognition!”
I wondered what
we would gain, and what we already had lost, like in boxing bouts in Las Vegas
where Pacquiao wins tens of millions of dollars but Filipinos paid hundreds of
millions of dollars to the Las Vegas entertainment and gambling lords, and to
foreign satellite broadcast companies to watch the matches.
What
is clear profit in the case of the Miss Universe pageant from the broadcast and
advertising rights goes to the capitalist organizers (still Mr. Donald Trump
behind dummies?) and owners of the Miss Universe pageant franchise, and the
state of Nevada where taxes for the staging of the event is paid. Will
Ms.Wurtzbach’s win promote tourism to the Philippines? Maybe yes, but maybe
tourism would be aided by better governance in the Philippines that don’t
project news such as the “laglag-bala” and the Hong Kong Tourist massacre to the
World.
Don’t
get me wrong. I love to watch the beautiful in everyday setting. Natural, not
contrived. Genuine, not plastic. They are focal points of aesthetic relief in
whatever setting one is, but especially in this urban jungle where the majority
of us live today. I find them especially uplifting when their beauty also
exudes the fragrance of high intelligence and character.
I
am not at all trying to demean Ms.Wurtzbach and her ilk, they have to do what
they do to achieve high social goals they set for themselves. It’s the
capitalist entertainment and marketing Establishment that make them become
these cheap ala vaudeville and burlesque shows with glittering, garish,
outlandish, opulent (reminds one of Liberace) and then skimpy costumes to
enrapture TV audiences all over the world to take their fees paid to broadcast
companies.
Ms.Wurtzbach
is, no doubt, a beautiful and intelligent lady. The latter quality is confirmed
by her very intelligent, conformist and safe answer to the question about U.S.
military bases in the Philippines which, of course, she does not explain would
be like all the military bases the U.S. has set up around the world –
intentional magnets for insurgency, terrorism and regional war the U.S.
covertly nurture to launch campaigns of tension and terror from.
The
Wurtzbach answer to the U.S. bases question has brought in a national debate,
but with a character like that comedienne and porn actress (as I learned from
researching on the Internet) Ethel Booba commenting and supporting the
Wurtzbach view against the advice of Teddy Casiño to balance the view with some
caveats about the problems the U.S. military presence creates – it should be
obvious whom Wurtzbach should take advice from if the really s concerned about
the Filipino nation’s welfare.
(Ethel Booba
with her fellow intellectuals)
Senator
and presidential candidate Miriam
Defensor Santiago had a tweet or text to Ms.Wurtzbach apparently in connection
with the view on U.S. military presence, “Congratulations, @piawurtzbach! You are regal. But
from what I’ve heard, we need to talk. See you! #MissUniverse2015,” which may
give credence to a colleagues impression that Miriam Santiago may be the truly
anti-U.S. imperialist presidential candidate now (because of the U.S.
obstruction of Santiago’s ICC nomination, they say).
In
the end, Ms.Wurtzbach’s answer to the pageant question reflects a very
dangerous proposition that is being fed into the minds of the mass Filipino
audience enthused by the Ms. Universe win of their “beauty champion”. It was a
shallow answer that may have deeper motives behind the question being brought
up and abysmal consequences for the future of this nation. Shallow waters can
be very dangerous realms. ###
Monday, December 21, 2015
The NED, the NGOs and the CIA PART TWO
The NED, the NGOs and the CIA
posted April 26, 2014 at 12:01 am by Rod Kapunan
After the people became suspicious of the PCIJ’s line of investigative journalism; that corruption appears to be a monopoly of people not identified with the yellow government, while sanitizing the elite and the oligarchy, a new news network was organized. The appearance of Rappler, a media organization intended to cater to internet users, elicited the same question as to who might be funding the new media outfit that seems to enjoy the privilege of having access to confidential government files often not accorded to ordinary news organizations.
The NED, the NGOs and the CIA PART ONE
The NED, the NGOs and the CIA
posted April 12, 2014 at 12:01 am by Rod Kapunan
William Blum, the author of the book, “Rogue State,” said that while the object of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in the post Cold War era has been relegated to history, many are not inclined to believe that subversion has lost its relevance. Rather, it has only been redirected at overthrowing governments that refuse to tow the line gleaned from the NED’s slogan of “Supporting Freedom Around the World.”
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Shooting anti-terrorist Russia - U.S.-Turko-Nato Crime
Shooting
anti-terrorist Russia - U.S.-Turko-Nato Crime.
Blog November 25, 2015
The November 24, 2015 attack of two Turkish war planes against the Russian Su 25 with air-to-air missiles causing its crash and the eventual murder of two Russian pilots shot at by Turkey’s sponsored Turkmen terrorist elements while parachuting. Turkey’s claim that the Russian plane was in Turkish airspace, a doubtful claim in the first place, does not justify the hostile act against the Russia plane which exhibited no threat to Turkish security and which was part of anti-terrorist operations upon invitation of the Syrian government.
Proof of the lawless, terrorist character of Turkey’s “Syrian opposition” allies operating on the ground in Syrian territory is the criminal murder of the two Russian pilots while descending on their parachute. This is a clear violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention and constitutes a “war crimes” under Protocol 1 which is considered the World over as inhuman and barbaric – which is what the terrorists that the U.S., Nato and Turkey have been supporting with thinly veiled funding and arming through the U.S. client Gulf States and Turkey’s arming and oil buying from Daesh (ISIS) across its borders.
Erdogan-Nato-US goal - Sabotage Syrian Peace
What particular reason the Turko president Erdogan wants to expand Turkish territory into Northern Syria is a mystery to many, particularly when Erdogan by his hostile actions imperils his nation’s energy supply that reliant on Russia and Iran’s gas and oil. There’ll be immediate negative impact on Turkey, as resource-earning tourism also heavily benefits from Russian tourists which now have stopped. Erdogan can be likened to BS Aquino in the Philippines spiting China, cutting of his nose to spite a major economic resource.
Many thought the “Paris Attack” of November 13, 2015 changed the complexion of the Syrian “Regime Change” the West had obsessed with and turned the tide towards collaboration with all parties, including Syria’s allies Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, to prioritize the war against DAesh (ISIS). Obviously the dark forces behind the façade of new found wisdom and cooperation against terrorism, neocons and their minions, doubled or tripled their efforts to sabotage the process emanating from the Vienna Talks with Syria, Iran, Russia for political settlement of the Syrian Crisis.
Russia’s
leadership and sacrifice for humanity.
To informed world citizens its clear the West is on a campaign of “perpetual war” since the Soviet Union broke up and U.S. neocons saw visions of global hegemony. The Yugoslav “Balkanization” transpired, followed by strategies like “Project for a New American Century” and “Which Path to Persia”. 9/11 was staged as basis for the “War on Terror” that launched attacks on seven secular states exposed by Gen. Wesley Clark in 2007. The U.S. and allies launched “color revolutions” and wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Georgia and Ukraine. Then the U.S. announced a “Pivot to Asia” to threaten Asia’s stability and harmony.
With Putin’s leadership Russia has risen from the rubble of the Soviet Union to establish a stronger Russian state, paying off its debt to Western interest and since the 2008 Russo-Georgian War started more militantly defending its security perimeter. As the U.S. “War on Terror” attacks on seven states began Russia, with China supporting from behind, led the UN Security Council opposition to the attacks on Iraq, Libya, sought political resolution of tensions with Iran and then defence of the legitimate government of Syria. Since the “Paris Attack” Russia has led the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in Syria.
Russia’s bombing has been instrumental in sending the Daesh fighters in Syria into strategic retreat, as well as exposing the farce of U.S. and Western “War on Terror” by showing the satellite photos of convoys of thousands of Daesh (ISIS) oil tanker trucks queuing to sell illicit oil from Daesh (ISIS) controlled refineries through Turkish agents (reports of Erdogan’s son as major agent) and into Turkey. Obama had been forced into token bombing of a hundred or so such oils, but Obama and Nato deceptive statements on the Turko crime against Russia’s Su 25 and sacrifice of its men against Daesh (ISIS).
Disinformation
in Christian Philippines.
The Filipino people tout itself as the “only Christian nation in Asia” yet it falls into the most unchristian acts against its fellow Christians in many parts of the Wrold, particularly in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa). In the Syria it is the secular government of Bashar al Assad that is protecting all religious groups from the terror of the U.S. sponsored terrorist groups including the Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and the Daesh (ISIS). Yet in the Philippines one of the foremost Christian radio stations DZFE 98.7FM just replays criminally deceitful U.S. propaganda through VOA (Voice of America) broadcasts against Assad, Russia and for the terrorists’ cause.
Another radio network that uses VOA broadcasts is DZRJ on both its FM and AM stations. Some newspaper columnists have been the tools of the U.S., Nato and Daesh (ISIS) like Manila Standard’s Atty. And Fr. Ranhillo Aquino who’s been tearing at Assad since the onset of the destabilization and disinformation campaign against Assad by the U.S. Thankfully he stopped after a series of our letters to him, but there are others like Randy David of the Inquirer and Akbayan writer Walden Bello who mask themselves as progressives but actually mouth U.S. propaganda against Assad.
We ask the people with the True Christian spirit in the Philippines to start helping this nation discern the whole truth, the truth of which is genuinely good and which is genuinely evil. It is Russia now championing true Christian values, rising above the demonic sectarianism the West under the control of the essentially amoral-finance capitalist and/or Zionist Financial Oligarchy promoting the anti-human harmony ideologies of the likes Samuel Huntington and “The Clash of Civilizations” and Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History”. Truly Christian and humanist Filipinos must cleanse the disinformation infecting Philippine society. ###
(UPDATE: "Russian information sources have updated the status report on one of the two Su 25 pilots as having survived the shoot down by U.S.-Turko warplanes, rescued by the Syrian Army and now safely back in a Russian military base. ---- Furthermore, I will stop buying Turkish products now, I used to buy Turkish virgin olive oil. Remember Stalingrad! Likewise, we reiterate support for the secular and republican Bashar Al Assad against the sectarian Erdogan hiding behind the skirt of U.S. hegemony and its NATO parasite military alliance.")
Blog November 25, 2015
The November 24, 2015 attack of two Turkish war planes against the Russian Su 25 with air-to-air missiles causing its crash and the eventual murder of two Russian pilots shot at by Turkey’s sponsored Turkmen terrorist elements while parachuting. Turkey’s claim that the Russian plane was in Turkish airspace, a doubtful claim in the first place, does not justify the hostile act against the Russia plane which exhibited no threat to Turkish security and which was part of anti-terrorist operations upon invitation of the Syrian government.
Proof of the lawless, terrorist character of Turkey’s “Syrian opposition” allies operating on the ground in Syrian territory is the criminal murder of the two Russian pilots while descending on their parachute. This is a clear violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention and constitutes a “war crimes” under Protocol 1 which is considered the World over as inhuman and barbaric – which is what the terrorists that the U.S., Nato and Turkey have been supporting with thinly veiled funding and arming through the U.S. client Gulf States and Turkey’s arming and oil buying from Daesh (ISIS) across its borders.
Erdogan-Nato-US goal - Sabotage Syrian Peace
What particular reason the Turko president Erdogan wants to expand Turkish territory into Northern Syria is a mystery to many, particularly when Erdogan by his hostile actions imperils his nation’s energy supply that reliant on Russia and Iran’s gas and oil. There’ll be immediate negative impact on Turkey, as resource-earning tourism also heavily benefits from Russian tourists which now have stopped. Erdogan can be likened to BS Aquino in the Philippines spiting China, cutting of his nose to spite a major economic resource.
Many thought the “Paris Attack” of November 13, 2015 changed the complexion of the Syrian “Regime Change” the West had obsessed with and turned the tide towards collaboration with all parties, including Syria’s allies Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, to prioritize the war against DAesh (ISIS). Obviously the dark forces behind the façade of new found wisdom and cooperation against terrorism, neocons and their minions, doubled or tripled their efforts to sabotage the process emanating from the Vienna Talks with Syria, Iran, Russia for political settlement of the Syrian Crisis.
To informed world citizens its clear the West is on a campaign of “perpetual war” since the Soviet Union broke up and U.S. neocons saw visions of global hegemony. The Yugoslav “Balkanization” transpired, followed by strategies like “Project for a New American Century” and “Which Path to Persia”. 9/11 was staged as basis for the “War on Terror” that launched attacks on seven secular states exposed by Gen. Wesley Clark in 2007. The U.S. and allies launched “color revolutions” and wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Georgia and Ukraine. Then the U.S. announced a “Pivot to Asia” to threaten Asia’s stability and harmony.
With Putin’s leadership Russia has risen from the rubble of the Soviet Union to establish a stronger Russian state, paying off its debt to Western interest and since the 2008 Russo-Georgian War started more militantly defending its security perimeter. As the U.S. “War on Terror” attacks on seven states began Russia, with China supporting from behind, led the UN Security Council opposition to the attacks on Iraq, Libya, sought political resolution of tensions with Iran and then defence of the legitimate government of Syria. Since the “Paris Attack” Russia has led the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in Syria.
Russia’s bombing has been instrumental in sending the Daesh fighters in Syria into strategic retreat, as well as exposing the farce of U.S. and Western “War on Terror” by showing the satellite photos of convoys of thousands of Daesh (ISIS) oil tanker trucks queuing to sell illicit oil from Daesh (ISIS) controlled refineries through Turkish agents (reports of Erdogan’s son as major agent) and into Turkey. Obama had been forced into token bombing of a hundred or so such oils, but Obama and Nato deceptive statements on the Turko crime against Russia’s Su 25 and sacrifice of its men against Daesh (ISIS).
The Filipino people tout itself as the “only Christian nation in Asia” yet it falls into the most unchristian acts against its fellow Christians in many parts of the Wrold, particularly in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa). In the Syria it is the secular government of Bashar al Assad that is protecting all religious groups from the terror of the U.S. sponsored terrorist groups including the Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and the Daesh (ISIS). Yet in the Philippines one of the foremost Christian radio stations DZFE 98.7FM just replays criminally deceitful U.S. propaganda through VOA (Voice of America) broadcasts against Assad, Russia and for the terrorists’ cause.
Another radio network that uses VOA broadcasts is DZRJ on both its FM and AM stations. Some newspaper columnists have been the tools of the U.S., Nato and Daesh (ISIS) like Manila Standard’s Atty. And Fr. Ranhillo Aquino who’s been tearing at Assad since the onset of the destabilization and disinformation campaign against Assad by the U.S. Thankfully he stopped after a series of our letters to him, but there are others like Randy David of the Inquirer and Akbayan writer Walden Bello who mask themselves as progressives but actually mouth U.S. propaganda against Assad.
We ask the people with the True Christian spirit in the Philippines to start helping this nation discern the whole truth, the truth of which is genuinely good and which is genuinely evil. It is Russia now championing true Christian values, rising above the demonic sectarianism the West under the control of the essentially amoral-finance capitalist and/or Zionist Financial Oligarchy promoting the anti-human harmony ideologies of the likes Samuel Huntington and “The Clash of Civilizations” and Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History”. Truly Christian and humanist Filipinos must cleanse the disinformation infecting Philippine society. ###
(UPDATE: "Russian information sources have updated the status report on one of the two Su 25 pilots as having survived the shoot down by U.S.-Turko warplanes, rescued by the Syrian Army and now safely back in a Russian military base. ---- Furthermore, I will stop buying Turkish products now, I used to buy Turkish virgin olive oil. Remember Stalingrad! Likewise, we reiterate support for the secular and republican Bashar Al Assad against the sectarian Erdogan hiding behind the skirt of U.S. hegemony and its NATO parasite military alliance.")
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Lucio Pitlo III interview on CCTV re: APEC
From Lucio Pitlo
Last Nov 18, i was interviewed by CCTV in Makati. They were essentially soliciting views and feedback on the speech given by Chinese President Xi Jinping during the APEC CEO Summit. Here is the link:
http://news.cntv.cn/2015/11/19/VIDE1447897563632856.shtml
They interviewed several people, including business leaders and some academics. It was aired in a Chinese-language national TV program but the interviews with non-Chinese respondents remain in English. My take on the issue can be seen in the last part of the video clip. The interview was quite longer than this but they have to pick only some excerpts from it because of program time constraints.
Last Nov 18, i was interviewed by CCTV in Makati. They were essentially soliciting views and feedback on the speech given by Chinese President Xi Jinping during the APEC CEO Summit. Here is the link:
http://news.cntv.cn/2015/11/19/VIDE1447897563632856.shtml
They interviewed several people, including business leaders and some academics. It was aired in a Chinese-language national TV program but the interviews with non-Chinese respondents remain in English. My take on the issue can be seen in the last part of the video clip. The interview was quite longer than this but they have to pick only some excerpts from it because of program time constraints.
Monday, November 16, 2015
Advancing “Social Protection” and a “Social Asean”
Advancing “Social Protection” and a “Social Asean”
Tina Ebro called us to join a forum on “social protection”, i.e. ensuring the economic and social needs of peoples are provided for and ensured in all societies today. Of course this is not a new idea. Religious values that have evolved since ancient times have generally all advocated this in its various concepts of justice.
The more modern social ideologies universally advocate this. Even the ideology of individualistic capitalism believe its system is the best to fulfil this, and of course its anti-thesis called socialism and its variant communism believe only its own system based on forms collective ownership of tools and factors of production.
Tina Ebro called us to join a forum on “social protection”, i.e. ensuring the economic and social needs of peoples are provided for and ensured in all societies today. Of course this is not a new idea. Religious values that have evolved since ancient times have generally all advocated this in its various concepts of justice.
The more modern social ideologies universally advocate this. Even the ideology of individualistic capitalism believe its system is the best to fulfil this, and of course its anti-thesis called socialism and its variant communism believe only its own system based on forms collective ownership of tools and factors of production.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Payback for centuries of colonialism and “The War on former colonies”
Breaking Commentary:
November 14, 2015; 2:17pm
Payback for centuries of colonialism and “The War on former colonies”.
The news electrifying the World at this very moment is the on-going simultaneous attacks at at least a dozen points in Paris that reports and Internet rumours now being texted to us say have killed from at least 120 people as BBC reports to an SMS message to me from an ambassador of a Middle Eastern country stating that the casualties have now reached over 250.
Reports from the international news agencies are focusing the Bataclan concert hall which informs readers of numerous deaths at that hall that can seat 1,500. The other places marked on a map shown in a BBC report names the other places: Stade de France, Belle Equipe bar, Petit Cambodge restaurant, Le Carillon bar, La Casa Nostra.
One indication that may point to the motives is the comment barked by one of the assailants at the Bataclan concert hall to the victims, “It’s Hollande’s fault, he shouldn’t have intervened in Syria”. But one has to be careful jumping to conclusions pointing the finger at any one of the following “logical suspect” because that logic itself may be the hidden agenda of the dastardly incident.
Reviewing the statement shouted at the victims one may be immediately tempted to conclude: a) it’s ISIS; b) its Syrian President Assad’s loyalists; 3) it’s some other terror groups; it’s all of the above. The ISIS did warn months before, especially during the Charie Hebdo aftermath that they’d wage a terror campaign in France in particular and Europe in general. But for “intervening in Syria” one can suspects that it may be a revenge from Assad’s forces.
Before making any conclusion please read article below that advices one and all to consider the possibility that this was done by those who want to justify intensification of attacks on Assad and imposition of a “no fly zone” (ala Libya) against Assad (and therefore against the Russians, Iranians, Hezbollah now helping Assad) and even bombing runs against Assad’s forces.
But whatever we will find in the next few days behind this latest world-shocking World atrocity I believe it is justifiable to believe that all these is payback for the centuries of the violence of European and American colonial and imperialist mass violence against Third World nations which became resurgent after the 2001 “false flag” attack on 9/11 on the World Trade Towers which the U.S. war-mongering elite factions used to launched a resurgence of imperialist attacks on them under the guise of the “War on Terror”.
This has to be tied to the million-strong surge of refugees and migrants from the Third World nations’ victims of the “War on Terror” now swamping Europe from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen which have all been pushed to destruction by U.S.-Nato attacks the past decade and a half. At the same time this can be seen as payback for continuing sycophancy to U.S.-Nato domination of European policy even when it is clearly undermining European long term social cohesion and stability.
It may be too late for Europe to see that they should never have accepted to join any of the U.S. led “anti-terror” campaigns destroying the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries and instead took its own direction of “prospering their neighbours in MENA. Now the impoverished, hopeless neighbours destroyed by the U.S.-Nato wars are pouring into Europe – including certainly thousands of families who have lost loved ones back home and harbouring hatreds waiting to erupt.
The U.S. war faction spread the disease of internecine hatred and fanatical factionalism all over the World’s neighbourhoods, especially on the Eurasian continent where every country and religion is interconnected. The U.S. however is insulated from all that by the two moats around the U.S. of A., the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. They’re behind the chaos around the World believing they are insulated after all.
Only the countries and nations of the Eurasian continent understand that the entire neighbourhood most prosper and be safe and secure for any one country or nation to be secure, peaceful and enjoy uninterrupted harmony. This is why now it is becoming clear that Russia, China, India, and across the seas Brazil and South Africa. The BRICS alliance msut fix this World that the U.S. and Nato has been wrecking. The “one Belt, One Road” that will push trade-trade instead of the war-war of the West must triumph to establish the Global Age of Harmony and Prosperity.
The First Question to Ask After Any Terror Attack: Was It a False Flag?
By WashingtonsBlog
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror
November 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "WashingtonsBlog"- - In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack)admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:
(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see this.
(2) A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland.
(3) Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson.
(4) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.
(5) The Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all admit that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely blamed it on the Nazis.
(6) The British government admits that – between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings (and see this, this and this).
(7) Israel admits that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).
(8) The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.
(9) The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.
(10) The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.
(11) The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this) (Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special. They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and other countries.
False flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include – by way of example only:
(13) Official State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals.
(14) As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the followingABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
(15) In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper promoting attacks on nations within the Organization of American States – such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely blaming them on Cuba.
(16) The U.S. Department of Defense even suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on Guantanamo.”
(17) The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war.
(18) A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists.
(19) A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.
(20) A declassified 1973 CIA document reveals a program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby traps, pretending that they were training them on how to investigate terrorist acts:
The Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with foreign police/security organizations through its field stations ….
[CIA provides training sessions as follows:]
a. Providing trainees with basic knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and incendiaries as they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations.
b. Introducing the trainees to commercially available materials and home laboratory techniques, likely to he used in the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries by terrorists or saboteurs.
c. Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of target analysis and operational planningthat a saboteur or terrorist must employ.
d. Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques giving practical experience with both manufactured and improvised devices through actual fabrication.
***
The program provides the trainees with ample opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges, incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques.
(21) The German government admitted (and see this) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.
(22) A Mossad agent admits that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist trasmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.
(23) The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the ANC for the bombing.
(24) An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author).
(25) The United States Army’s 1994 publication Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces – updated in 2004 – recommends employing terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA’s “Dirty Wars“. And see this.
(26) Similarly, a CIA “psychological operations” manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels noted the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a “martyr” for the cause. The manual was authenticated by the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that – during the 1984 presidential debate – President Reagan was confronted with the following question on national television:
At this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing, which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the hiring of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order to create martyrs.
(27) An Indonesian fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that “elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked”.
(28) Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion).
(29) As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”.
(30) At the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs were videotaped getting out of police cars, and were seen by an Italian MP carrying “iron bars inside the police station”. Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa subsequently admitted that police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify aviolent crackdown against protesters.
(31) The U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war. Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction. Despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq wasnot the state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials have alleged that 9/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S. government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion. The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when it knew Iraq had nothing to do with it.).
(32) Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials (remember what the anthrax letters looked like). Government officials also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a justification for regime change in that country.
(33) According to the Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.
(34) The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.
(35) Police outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were filmed planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester
(36) Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
(37) Similarly, in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School – a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept of ‘netwar’ – called for western intelligence services to create new “pseudo gang” terrorist groups, as a way of undermining “real” terror networks. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla’s ‘pseudo-gang’ strategy was, Hersh reported, already being implemented by the Pentagon:
“Under Rumsfeld’s new approach, I was told, US military operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers,local citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists…
The new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it calls ‘action teams’ in the target countries overseas which can be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. ‘Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?’ the former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties. ‘We founded them and we financed them,’ he said. ‘The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren’t going to tell Congress about it.’ A former military officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon’s commando capabilities, said, ‘We’re going to be riding with the bad boys.’”
(38) United Press International reported in June 2005:
U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.
(39) Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians.
(40) Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and see this).
(41) A 2008 US Army special operations field manual recommends that the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as “paramilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations, expatriates, transnational terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism members, black marketers, and other social or political ‘undesirables.’” The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S. special operations can involve both counterterrorism and “Terrorism” (as well as “transnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking, illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.”)
(42) The former head of Secret Services and Head of State of Italy (Francesco Cossiga) advisedthe 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests from teachers and students:
He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior … infiltrate the movement with agents provocateurs inclined to do anything …. And after that, with the strength of the gained population consent, … beat them for blood and beat for blood also those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.
(43) At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.
(44) Egyptian politicians admitted (and see this) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts in 2011 to try to discredit the protesters.
(45) Rioters who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the Mexican president in 2012 admitted that they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path. According to Wikipedia, photos also show the vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence.
(46) A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat.
(47) On November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping protests, as was shown by videos and pictures distributed via social networks.
(48) The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently admitted that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists.
(49) High-level American sources admitted that the Turkish government – a fellow NATO country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.
(50) The Ukrainian security chief admits that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others. Ukrainian officials admit that the Ukrainian snipers fired on both sides, to create maximum chaos.
(51) Britain’s spy agency has admitted (and see this) that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on targets, framing people by writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming it on the target.
(52) U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants
(53) Similarly, police frame innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. The practice is so well-known that the New York Times noted in 1981:
In police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim.
Newsweek reported in 1999:
Perez, himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by telling an appalling story of attempted murder and a“throwdown”–police slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally justifiable. Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then planted a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them during a stakeout.
Wikipedia notes:
As part of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of officers from the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit, describing routinely beating gang members, planting evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked shootings.
(As a side note – and while not technically false flag attacks – police have been busted framing innocent people in many other ways, as well.)
(54) A former U.S. intelligence officer recently alleged:
Most terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own security services.
(55) The head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office said that most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags. Similarly, the director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom said:
By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.
(audio here).
(56) Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the “benefits” of of false flags to justify their political agenda:
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.
– Adolph Hitler
“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
– Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.
“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”.
– Josef Stalin
Postcript parties – such as NBC News, as well as Muslims, Jews, Scientologists, African-Americans and Neo-Nazis – play this game as well.
November 14, 2015; 2:17pm
Payback for centuries of colonialism and “The War on former colonies”.
The news electrifying the World at this very moment is the on-going simultaneous attacks at at least a dozen points in Paris that reports and Internet rumours now being texted to us say have killed from at least 120 people as BBC reports to an SMS message to me from an ambassador of a Middle Eastern country stating that the casualties have now reached over 250.
Reports from the international news agencies are focusing the Bataclan concert hall which informs readers of numerous deaths at that hall that can seat 1,500. The other places marked on a map shown in a BBC report names the other places: Stade de France, Belle Equipe bar, Petit Cambodge restaurant, Le Carillon bar, La Casa Nostra.
One indication that may point to the motives is the comment barked by one of the assailants at the Bataclan concert hall to the victims, “It’s Hollande’s fault, he shouldn’t have intervened in Syria”. But one has to be careful jumping to conclusions pointing the finger at any one of the following “logical suspect” because that logic itself may be the hidden agenda of the dastardly incident.
Reviewing the statement shouted at the victims one may be immediately tempted to conclude: a) it’s ISIS; b) its Syrian President Assad’s loyalists; 3) it’s some other terror groups; it’s all of the above. The ISIS did warn months before, especially during the Charie Hebdo aftermath that they’d wage a terror campaign in France in particular and Europe in general. But for “intervening in Syria” one can suspects that it may be a revenge from Assad’s forces.
Before making any conclusion please read article below that advices one and all to consider the possibility that this was done by those who want to justify intensification of attacks on Assad and imposition of a “no fly zone” (ala Libya) against Assad (and therefore against the Russians, Iranians, Hezbollah now helping Assad) and even bombing runs against Assad’s forces.
But whatever we will find in the next few days behind this latest world-shocking World atrocity I believe it is justifiable to believe that all these is payback for the centuries of the violence of European and American colonial and imperialist mass violence against Third World nations which became resurgent after the 2001 “false flag” attack on 9/11 on the World Trade Towers which the U.S. war-mongering elite factions used to launched a resurgence of imperialist attacks on them under the guise of the “War on Terror”.
This has to be tied to the million-strong surge of refugees and migrants from the Third World nations’ victims of the “War on Terror” now swamping Europe from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen which have all been pushed to destruction by U.S.-Nato attacks the past decade and a half. At the same time this can be seen as payback for continuing sycophancy to U.S.-Nato domination of European policy even when it is clearly undermining European long term social cohesion and stability.
It may be too late for Europe to see that they should never have accepted to join any of the U.S. led “anti-terror” campaigns destroying the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries and instead took its own direction of “prospering their neighbours in MENA. Now the impoverished, hopeless neighbours destroyed by the U.S.-Nato wars are pouring into Europe – including certainly thousands of families who have lost loved ones back home and harbouring hatreds waiting to erupt.
The U.S. war faction spread the disease of internecine hatred and fanatical factionalism all over the World’s neighbourhoods, especially on the Eurasian continent where every country and religion is interconnected. The U.S. however is insulated from all that by the two moats around the U.S. of A., the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. They’re behind the chaos around the World believing they are insulated after all.
Only the countries and nations of the Eurasian continent understand that the entire neighbourhood most prosper and be safe and secure for any one country or nation to be secure, peaceful and enjoy uninterrupted harmony. This is why now it is becoming clear that Russia, China, India, and across the seas Brazil and South Africa. The BRICS alliance msut fix this World that the U.S. and Nato has been wrecking. The “one Belt, One Road” that will push trade-trade instead of the war-war of the West must triumph to establish the Global Age of Harmony and Prosperity.
The First Question to Ask After Any Terror Attack: Was It a False Flag?
By WashingtonsBlog
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror
November 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "WashingtonsBlog"- - In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack)admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:
(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see this.
(2) A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland.
(3) Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson.
(4) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.
(5) The Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all admit that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely blamed it on the Nazis.
(6) The British government admits that – between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings (and see this, this and this).
(7) Israel admits that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).
(8) The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.
(9) The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.
(10) The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.
(11) The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this) (Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special. They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and other countries.
False flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include – by way of example only:
·
The murder of the
Turkish Prime Minister (1960)
·
Bombings in Portugal (1966)
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The Piazza Fontana
massacre in Italy (1969)
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Terror attacks in Turkey (1971)
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The Peteano bombing in Italy (1972)
·
Shootings in Istanbul,
Turkey (1977)
·
The Atocha massacre in
Madrid, Spain (1977)
·
The abduction
and murder of the Italian Prime Minister (1978)
·
The bombing
of the Bologna railway station in Italy (1980)
(12) In 1960, American Senator George Smathers suggested that the U.S. launch “a
false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of
actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and
[overthrow Castro]“.(13) Official State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals.
(14) As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the followingABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
(15) In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper promoting attacks on nations within the Organization of American States – such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely blaming them on Cuba.
(16) The U.S. Department of Defense even suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on Guantanamo.”
(17) The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war.
(18) A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists.
(19) A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.
(20) A declassified 1973 CIA document reveals a program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby traps, pretending that they were training them on how to investigate terrorist acts:
The Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with foreign police/security organizations through its field stations ….
[CIA provides training sessions as follows:]
a. Providing trainees with basic knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and incendiaries as they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations.
b. Introducing the trainees to commercially available materials and home laboratory techniques, likely to he used in the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries by terrorists or saboteurs.
c. Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of target analysis and operational planningthat a saboteur or terrorist must employ.
d. Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques giving practical experience with both manufactured and improvised devices through actual fabrication.
***
The program provides the trainees with ample opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges, incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques.
(21) The German government admitted (and see this) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.
(22) A Mossad agent admits that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist trasmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.
(23) The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the ANC for the bombing.
(24) An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author).
(25) The United States Army’s 1994 publication Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces – updated in 2004 – recommends employing terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA’s “Dirty Wars“. And see this.
(26) Similarly, a CIA “psychological operations” manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels noted the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a “martyr” for the cause. The manual was authenticated by the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that – during the 1984 presidential debate – President Reagan was confronted with the following question on national television:
At this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing, which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the hiring of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order to create martyrs.
(27) An Indonesian fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that “elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked”.
(28) Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion).
(29) As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”.
(30) At the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs were videotaped getting out of police cars, and were seen by an Italian MP carrying “iron bars inside the police station”. Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa subsequently admitted that police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify aviolent crackdown against protesters.
(31) The U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war. Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction. Despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq wasnot the state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials have alleged that 9/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S. government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion. The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when it knew Iraq had nothing to do with it.).
(32) Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials (remember what the anthrax letters looked like). Government officials also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a justification for regime change in that country.
(33) According to the Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.
(34) The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.
(35) Police outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were filmed planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester
(36) Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
(37) Similarly, in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School – a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept of ‘netwar’ – called for western intelligence services to create new “pseudo gang” terrorist groups, as a way of undermining “real” terror networks. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla’s ‘pseudo-gang’ strategy was, Hersh reported, already being implemented by the Pentagon:
“Under Rumsfeld’s new approach, I was told, US military operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers,local citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists…
The new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it calls ‘action teams’ in the target countries overseas which can be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. ‘Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?’ the former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties. ‘We founded them and we financed them,’ he said. ‘The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren’t going to tell Congress about it.’ A former military officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon’s commando capabilities, said, ‘We’re going to be riding with the bad boys.’”
(38) United Press International reported in June 2005:
U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.
(39) Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians.
(40) Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and see this).
(41) A 2008 US Army special operations field manual recommends that the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as “paramilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations, expatriates, transnational terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism members, black marketers, and other social or political ‘undesirables.’” The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S. special operations can involve both counterterrorism and “Terrorism” (as well as “transnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking, illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.”)
(42) The former head of Secret Services and Head of State of Italy (Francesco Cossiga) advisedthe 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests from teachers and students:
He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior … infiltrate the movement with agents provocateurs inclined to do anything …. And after that, with the strength of the gained population consent, … beat them for blood and beat for blood also those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.
(43) At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.
(44) Egyptian politicians admitted (and see this) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts in 2011 to try to discredit the protesters.
(45) Rioters who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the Mexican president in 2012 admitted that they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path. According to Wikipedia, photos also show the vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence.
(46) A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat.
(47) On November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping protests, as was shown by videos and pictures distributed via social networks.
(48) The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently admitted that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists.
(49) High-level American sources admitted that the Turkish government – a fellow NATO country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.
(50) The Ukrainian security chief admits that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others. Ukrainian officials admit that the Ukrainian snipers fired on both sides, to create maximum chaos.
(51) Britain’s spy agency has admitted (and see this) that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on targets, framing people by writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming it on the target.
(52) U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants
(53) Similarly, police frame innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. The practice is so well-known that the New York Times noted in 1981:
In police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim.
Newsweek reported in 1999:
Perez, himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by telling an appalling story of attempted murder and a“throwdown”–police slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally justifiable. Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then planted a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them during a stakeout.
Wikipedia notes:
As part of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of officers from the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit, describing routinely beating gang members, planting evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked shootings.
(As a side note – and while not technically false flag attacks – police have been busted framing innocent people in many other ways, as well.)
(54) A former U.S. intelligence officer recently alleged:
Most terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own security services.
(55) The head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office said that most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags. Similarly, the director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom said:
By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.
(audio here).
(56) Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the “benefits” of of false flags to justify their political agenda:
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.
– Adolph Hitler
“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
– Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.
“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”.
– Josef Stalin
Postcript parties – such as NBC News, as well as Muslims, Jews, Scientologists, African-Americans and Neo-Nazis – play this game as well.
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