10 false flags operations that shaped our world
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From Nero to 9/11, via Pearl Harbour and the Gulf of Tonkin
incident... Joe Crubaugh provides an "all time greatest hits" of false
flag operations, whereby one scenario is repeated... as the world
keeps falling for the same lie.
The most commonly known false flag operations consist of a government
agency staging a terror attack, whereby an uninvolved entity gets
blamed for the carnage. As at least two millennia have proven, false
flag operations, with healthy doses of propaganda and ignorance,
provided a great recipe for endless war. _In "War is a Racket", Two-
time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: "I
spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during
that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big
Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a
racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and
especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped
make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to
collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central
American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify
Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in
1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American
sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American
fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that
Standard Oil went on its way unmolested." _You may not have heard of
these operations, but perhaps you have heard of these?
1. Nero, Christians, and the Great Fire of Rome
Rome, the night of July 19, 64 AD. The Great Fire burst through the
rooftops of shops near the mass entertainment and chariot racing venue
called Circus Maximus. The flames, whipped by a strong wind, rapidly
engulfed densely populated areas of the city. After burning
uncontrolled for five days, four of the 14 Roman districts were burned
to the ground, and seven more were severely damaged._It was no secret
that Nero wanted to build a series of palaces which he planned to name
"Neropolis". But, the planned location was in the city and in order to
build Neropolis, a third of Rome would have to be torn down. The
Senate rejected the idea. Then, coincidentally, the fire cleared the
very real estate Neropolis required.
Despite the obvious benefit, there's still a good probability that
Nero did not start the fire. Up to a hundred small fires regularly
broke out in Rome each day. On top of that, the fire destroyed Nero's
own palace and it appears that Nero did everything he could to stop
the fire. Accounts of the day say that when Nero heard about the fire,
he rushed back from Antium to organize a relief effort, using his own
money. He opened his palaces to let in the homeless and had food
supplies delivered to the survivors._Nero also devised a new urban
development plan that would make Rome less vulnerable to fire. But,
although he put in place rules to insure a safer reconstruction, he
also gave himself a huge tract of city property with the intention of
building his new palace there. _People knew of Nero's plans for
Neropolis, and all his efforts to help the city could not counteract
the rampant rumours that he'd help start the fire. As his poll numbers
dropped, Nero's administration realised the need to employ False Flag
101: When something - anything - bad happens to you, even if it's
accidental, point the finger at your enemy._Luckily, there was a new
cult of religious nuts at hand. The cult was unpopular because its
followers refused to worship the emperor, denounced possessions, held
secret meetings and they were always talking about the destruction of
Rome and the end of the world. Even more luckily for Nero, two of the
cult's biggest leaders, Peter and Paul, were currently in town. Nero
spread word that the Christians had started the Great Fire. The
citizens of Rome bought his lie hook, line and sinker. Peter was
crucified and Paul beheaded. Hundreds of others in the young cult were
fed to the lions or smeared with tar and set on fire to become human
street lamps.
2. Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain
The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire, reaching its
territorial height in the late 1700s. By 1898, Spain was losing
territories regularly. Cuba too was becoming increasingly hard to
control and a minor revolution had broken out. This wasn't welcome
news to people in the United States who owned Cuban sugar, tobacco and
iron industry properties valued at over $50 million (worth ca. $1.2
billion today)._The main stream media, then dominated by newspaper
magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, exaggerated -
and outright fabricated - stories of horrible conditions under Spanish
rule. Following the age-old maxim, "If it bleeds, it leads", the
newspapers published stories about Spanish death camps, Spanish
cannibalism and inhumane torture. The newspapers sent reporters to
Cuba. However, when they got there, they found a different story.
Artist and correspondent Frederick Remington wrote back to Hearst:
"There is no war. Request to be recalled." Hearst's famous reply:
"Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." And
he did. His newspaper, continually screaming how Spanish Cuba was
going to hell in a hand basket, convinced big business interests in
the US to put pressure on anti-war President William McKinley to
protect their Cuban investments. McKinley, in response, sent the USS
Maine battleship to Havana Harbour as a calming show of force.
Three weeks after arriving, on the night of February 15, 1898, the USS
Maine exploded, killing 266 men. There are two theories for the
explosion: some believe the explosion was caused by an external mine
that detonated the ship's ammunition magazines. Others say it was
caused by a spontaneous coal bunker fire that reached the ammunition
magazines. Currently, the evidence seems to favour the external mine
theory._Without waiting on an investigation, America's mainstream
media blamed the tragedy on Spain and beat the drums for war. By
April, McKinley yielded to public pressure and signed a congressional
resolution declaring war on Spain. To help pay for the Spanish-
American War, congress enacted a "temporary" tax of 3 percent on long-
distance telephone bills. This was essentially a tax on the rich, as
only about 1,300 Americans owned phones in 1898. Although the Spanish-
American War ended in 1898, the temporary tax was only abolished in...
2005. Over its lifetime, the 107-year-old tax generated almost $94
billion - more than 230 times the cost of the Spanish-American War.
The Spanish-American War put a large nail in the coffin of Spain's
global empire. And by the end of 1898, the United States, which was
founded in opposition to imperialism, found itself in control not only
of Cuba, but of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Hawaiian
Islands as well.
3. The Manchurian Incident
The economic slump following 1929's thorough and convincing near-
obliteration of Wall Street hit Japan especially hard: exports fell,
unemployment rose. Japan, not being rich in natural resources, needed
oil and coal to make power to run machines to produce goods to sell to
other countries to make money to buy food to have enough energy.
Manchuria, a province of China, had its fair share of oil and
coal._After Japan decided it needed to invade Manchuria, they needed a
pretext to justify the invasion. They chose to create a false flag
attack on a railway close to Liutiao Lake... a big flat area that had
no military value to either the Japanese or the Chinese. The main
reason the spot was chosen was for its proximity (about 800 meters
distant) to Chinese troops stationed at Beidaying. The Japanese press
labelled the no-name site of the blast Liutiaogou, which was Japanese
for "Liutiao Bridge." There was no bridge there, but the name helped
convince some that the sabotage was a strategic Chinese
attack._Colonel Itagaki Seishiro and Lieutenant Colonel Kanji Ishiwara
ordered officers of the Shimamoto Regiment to place a bomb beneath the
tracks. The original bomb failed to detonate and a replacement had to
be found. Then, at 10.20pm, September 18, 1931, the tracks were blown.
Surprisingly, the explosion was minor. Only one side of the rail was
damaged, and the damage was so light that a train headed for Shenyang
passed by only a few minutes later. But it was a good enough excuse to
invade...
The Japanese immediately charged the Chinese soldiers with the
destruction, then invaded Manchuria. A puppet government known as
Manchukuo was installed. The League of Nations investigated and in a
1932 report denied that the invasion was an act of defence, as Japan
had advertised. But rather than vacate Manchuria, Japan decided to
vacate the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations.
4. Secrets of the Reichstag Fire
In 1933, just a week before general elections that might place enough
Nazis in office to make Hitler defacto dictator, the Reichstag, which
housed the parliament of the German Empire, was set on fire. Adolf
Hitler assured everyone that communist terrorists started the fire.
Hitler's party member Hermann Göring stated that he had secret
evidence that would soon be made public; evidence that proved
communists did it. These proclamations came on top of weeks of Nazi-
organized street violence designed to whip the public into a
pathological fear of communists._The next day, the Nazis convinced a
senile President von Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Decree. The
decree, using defence against terrorism as an excuse, suspended just
about every major civil liberty set forth in the Weimar Constitution:
habeus corpus (the right to know why you're being put in jail)? Gone.
Freedom of opinion? Gone. Freedom of the press? Not any more. Freedom
to organise and assemble? Deported. The Reichstag decree even allowed
the government to spy on its own citizens' personal mail and telephone
conversations without a warrant... something most Americans today
could hardly begin to fathom... a precursor to President George W.
Bush secret order in 2002 ordering the National Security Agency to do
just exactly the same thing._So what about the fire? The only thing
historians seem to agree on is that Marinus van der Lubbe, a former
Dutch Communist and mentally disturbed arsonist hungry for fame, was
found inside the building. Despite the Nazi attempt to blame the fire
on a group of communists, the communists were later acquitted by the
Nazi government itself. After years of extensive investigation, most
historians believe the Hitlerites themselves set fire to the Reichstag
using van der Lubbe as their patsy: they knew a nut was going to try
to burn down the building and not only did they let him do it, but
they may have befriended him, encouraged him and even helped the blaze
spread by scattering gasoline and incendiaries._Most Germans, feeling
safe from terrorism again, didn't mind that their freedom and liberty
had been stolen, or that so much of their life and work had become so
strictly controlled. On the contrary, they felt very enthusiastic and
patriotic about the new government because they ignorantly believed
the new government cared about them. And as long as the average
citizen worked hard, kept his mouth shut and let his kids take part in
the Hitler Youth organization, he stayed out of the detention camps.
5. The Fake Invasion at Gleiwitz
In the late evening of Thursday, August 31, 1939, German covert
operatives pretending to be Polish terrorists seized the Gleiwitz
radio station in the German/Poland border region of Silesia. The
station's music program came to an abrupt halt, followed by frantic
German voices announcing that Polish formations were marching toward
town. Germany was being invaded by Poland! Then, like a bad imitation
of the previous year's infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, the
transmission went dead for a moment of dramatic silence. Soon, the
airwaves popped and crackled to life again, and this time Polish
voices called for all Poles in the broadcast area to take up arms and
attack Germany. _In no time, radio stations across greater Europe
picked up the story. The BBC broadcast this statement: "There have
been reports of an attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz, which is
just across the Polish border in Silesia. The German News Agency
reports that the attack came at about 8.00pm this evening when the
Poles forced their way into the studio and began broadcasting a
statement in Polish. Within quarter of an hour, says reports, the
Poles were overpowered by German police, who opened fire on them.
Several of the Poles were reported killed, but the numbers are not yet
known." And thus, Hitler invented an excuse to invade Poland, which he
did the next day: September 1, 1939. World War II began.
What really happened? Alfred Helmut Naujocks received the orders from
Heinrich Müller, chief of the Gestapo, to put the staged terrorist
attack together at the Gleiwitz station. At Naujock's disposal were
what the Germans had codenamed "canned goods," which were dissenters
and criminals kept alive in detention camps until the Gestapo needed a
warm dead body. To add cogency to the Gleiwitz attack, Naujocks
brought along one such canned good: Franciszek Honiok. Honiok, a
German from the Silesian region, was a known Polish sympathizer.
Before arriving at the station, the Gestapo gave him a lethal
injection. Then, they dressed him up like a Polish terrorist and
brought him to the front of the radio station. Naujocks later
testified that the man was unconscious, but not dead yet, when he was
shot full of pistol rounds. When the police and press found Honiok's
body, they assumed he'd been one of the fictional Polish terrorists
that attacked the station._In all, there were 21 fake terror actions
along the border that same night, many of them using "canned goods"
from German prisons so there would be plenty of bodies in the morning:
evidence of Polish attackers that had been shot in self defence. The
next day, after a long night filled with fake terror, Hitler gave a
speech to the German Army, complete with synthetic anger: "The Polish
State has refused the peaceful settlement of relations which I
desired, and has appealed to arms. Germans in Poland are persecuted
with bloody terror and driven from their houses. A series of
violations of the frontier, intolerable to a great Power, prove that
Poland is no longer willing to respect the frontier of the Reich. In
order to put an end to this lunacy, I have no other choice than to
meet force with force from now on. The German Army will fight the
battle for the honour and the vital rights of reborn Germany with hard
determination. I expect that every soldier, mindful of the great
traditions of eternal German soldiery, will ever remain conscious that
he is a representative of the National-Socialist Greater Germany. Long
live our people and our Reich!"_Had it not been for the Nuremberg
trials in 1945, the real story behind the Gleiwitz attack might never
have been uncovered. It was there that the operation's leader, Alfred
Naujocks, spilled the beans in a written affidavit.
6. The Myth of Pearl Harbour
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a sneak
attack at Pearl Harbor that decimated the US Pacific Fleet and forced
the United States to enter WWII. That's what most of us were taught as
school children... But, except for the date, everything you just read
is a myth. In reality, there was no sneak attack. The Pacific Fleet
was far from destroyed. And, furthermore, the United States took great
pains to bring about the assault._On January 27, 1941, Joseph C. Grew,
the U.S. ambassador to Japan, wired Washington that he'd learned of
the surprise attack Japan was preparing for Pearl Harbour. On
September 24, a dispatch from Japanese naval intelligence to Japan's
consul general in Honolulu was deciphered. The transmission was a
request for a grid of exact locations of ships in Pearl Harbour.
Surprisingly, Washington chose not to share this information with the
officers at Pearl Harbour. Then, on November 26, the main body of the
Japanese strike force (consisting of six aircraft carriers, two
battleships, three cruisers, nine destroyers, eight tankers, 23 fleet
submarines, and five midget submarines) departed Japan for
Hawaii._Despite the myth that the strike force maintained strict radio
silence, US Naval intelligence intercepted and translated many
dispatches. And, there was no shortage of dispatches: Tokyo sent over
1000 transmissions to the attack fleet before it reached Hawaii. Some
of these dispatches, in particular this message from Admiral Yamamoto,
left no doubt that Pearl Harbour was the target of a Japanese attack:
"The task force, keeping its movement strictly secret and maintaining
close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into
Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack
the main force of the United States fleet and deal it a mortal blow.
The first air raid is planned for the dawn of x-day. Exact date to be
given by later order."_Even on the night before the attack, US
intelligence decoded a message pointing to Sunday morning as a
deadline for some kind of Japanese action. The message was delivered
to the Washington high command more than four hours before the attack
on Pearl Harbour. But, as many messages before, it was withheld from
the Pearl Harbour commanders.Although many ships were damaged at Pearl
Harbour, they were all old and slow. The main targets of the Japanese
attack fleet were the Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers, but Roosevelt
made sure these were safe from the attack: in November, at about the
same time as the Japanese attack fleet left Japan, Roosevelt sent the
Lexington and Enterprise out to sea. Meanwhile, the Saratoga was in
San Diego._Why did Pearl Harbour happen? Roosevelt wanted a piece of
the war pie. Having failed to bait Hitler by giving $50.1 billion in
war supplies to Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China as part of
the Lend Lease program, Roosevelt switched focus to Japan. Because
Japan had signed a mutual defence pact with Germany and Italy,
Roosevelt knew war with Japan was a legitimate back door to joining
the war in Europe. On October 7, 1940, one of Roosevelt's military
advisors, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum, wrote a memo detailing
an 8-step plan that would provoke Japan into attacking the United
States. Over the next year, Roosevelt implemented all eight of the
recommended actions. In the summer of 1941, the US joined England in
an oil embargo against Japan. Japan needed oil for its war with China,
and had no remaining option but to invade the East Indies and
Southeast Asia to get new resources. And that required getting rid of
the US Pacific Fleet first._Although Roosevelt may have got more than
he bargained for, he clearly let the attack on Pearl Harbour happen,
and even helped Japan by making sure their attack was a surprise. He
did this by withholding information from Pearl Harbour's commanders
and even by ensuring the attack force wasn't accidentally discovered
by commercial shipping traffic. As Rear Admiral Richmond K. Turner
stated in 1941: "We were prepared to divert traffic when we believed
war was imminent. We sent the traffic down via the Torres Strait, so
that the track of the Japanese task force would be clear of any
traffic."
7. Israeli Terrorist Cell Uncovered in Egypt
In July, 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell was activated inside Egypt.
The ensuing attacks, cleverly designed to look like the work of Arabs,
blasted and torched American and British targets. First, the Israeli
terrorists firebombed the Alexandria Post Office. Then, they
firebombed the US Information Agency libraries: one in Alexandria, and
one in Cairo. Then, they firebombed a British-owned Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer theatre, a railway terminal, the central post office, and a
couple more theatres..._To smuggle their bombs inside the buildings,
the terrorists used devices shaped like books, hiding them inside book
covers. Once inside, bags filled with acid were placed on top of the
nitroglycerin bombs. After several hours, the acid ate through the
bags and ignited the nitroglycerin, causing explosions and blazing
infernos.
In the early 1950s, the United States was making fast friends with
Egypt, taking advantage of the new pan-Arab Egyptian government of
Gamal Abdel Nasser. The warming relationship between the US and Egypt
caused a very insecure Israel to feel threatened. Nassar also had
plans to nationalize the Suez Canal, which had been controlled by the
British for decades. Egypt had been known to blockade Israeli shipping
through the canal and Israel feared Nassar would make a blockade
permanent._After US President Eisenhower began encouraging the British
to leave the Suez Canal Zone, Israel started looking for a way to make
the British stay, and a way to remain best buddies with America. And
what better way to treat your best friend than to stab them in the
back and tell them one of your other friends did it?
David Ben Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister, thought that
Egyptian terrorist attacks against Americans would be a perfect way to
cool the growing US/Egypt relationship. Since there were no Egyptians
planning attacks against Americans, Ben Gurion's protégés did the next
best thing: they recruited Israeli agents to pretend to be Egyptian
terrorists._The top-secret Israeli terrorist cell, Unit 131, had
existed since 1948. In 1950, Israel's Directorate of Military
Intelligence Aman was created and Israel sent an undercover agent,
Colonel Avraham Dar (alias: John Darling, British citizen of the
island of Gibraltar), to recruit more members to Unit 131. He also
trained them in how to build bombs and terrify Americans and British
civilians working and living in Egypt._Before the terrorist cell was
activated, another Israeli agent named Avraham (Avraham Seidenberg)
was sent to take control from Avraham Dar. Seidenberg first went to
Germany to establish an alias: he assumed the identy of Paul Frank, a
former SS officer, complete with underground Nazi connections. By
1954, his new identity was in place and he went to Egypt to take
command of Unit 131. Everything was going well for the Israeli
terrorists it seemed. But, there was one thing the members of Unit 131
didn't know: their terrorist sleeper cell had itself been infiltrated
by the Egyptian intelligence service. The new Unit 131 leader,
Seidenberg, had betrayed them to the Egyptians. So, when Unit 131
member Philip Nathanson made his way to bomb the British-owned Rio
theatre in Alexandria, not only was he being followed, the Egyptian
intelligence service had a fire engine waiting to put out the flames.
As Nathanson stood in the ticket line, his bad luck turned worse when
one of the bombs in his pocket ignited and then exploded. Nathanson
was burned but not killed. As nearby pedestrians shouted warnings and
wondered if he was a suicide bomber, Egyptian policemen stepped in,
calmed the crowd, and identified Nathanson as one of the terrorists
who had been blowing up American and British buildings._Nathanson was
interrogated by Egypt's military intelligence and confessed the whole
plot, which led to more arrests. When the Israeli spies were given a
public trail, all the details of their terrorist training in Israel
came to light._Former Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion and Israel's
Aman chief, Binyamin Gibli, tried to frame their own Defense Minister
Pinhas Lavon. They even offered forged documents as proof. The frame-
up worked for a while, so much so that the entire incident is still
popularly known as the Lavon Affair. Lavon resigned and Ben Gurion
came out of political retirement to replace him as Israel's Defense
Minister. However, the truth did finally emerge. In 1960, a review of
the inquiry discovered the fake documents, as well as perjury by
Seidenberg. A committee of seven Cabinet members cleared Lavon.
Although Ben Gurion never admitted fault, he did resign his post as
Defense Minister.
8. Operation Northwoods
In 1962, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously proposed state-
sponsored acts of terrorism on American soil, against American
citizens. The head of every branch of the US armed forces gave written
approval to sink US ships, shoot down hijacked American planes, and
gun down and bomb civilians on the streets of Washington, D.C., and
Miami. The idea was to blame the self-inflicted terrorism on Cuba's
leader, Fidel Castro, so the American public would beg and scream for
the Marines to storm Havana. _The public learned about Operation
Northwoods 35 years later, when the Top Secret document was
declassified by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review
Board. Among other things, Operation Northwoods proposed:_- Faking the
crash of an American passenger plane. The disaster was to be
accomplished by faking a commercial flight from the US to Jamaica, and
having the plane boarded at a public airport by CIA agents disguised
as college students going on vacation. An empty remote-controlled
plane would follow the commercial flight as it left Florida. The
commercial flight's pilots would radio for help, mention that they had
been attacked by a Cuban fighter, then land in secret at Eglin AFB.
The empty remote-controlled plane would then be blown out of the sky
and the public would be told all the poor college students aboard were
killed._- Using a possible NASA disaster (astronaut John Glenn's
death) as a pretext to launch the war. The plan called for
"manufacturing various pieces of evidence which would prove electronic
interference on the part of the Cubans" if something went wrong with
NASA's third manned space launch. _- Blowing up buildings in
Washington and Miami. Cuban agents (undercover CIA agents) would be
arrested, and they would confess to the bombings. In addition, false
documents proving Castro's involvement in the attacks would be "found"
and given to the press. _- Attacking an American military base in
Guantanamo with CIA recruits posing as Cuban mercenaries. This
involved blowing up the ammunition depot and would obviously result in
material damages and many dead American troops. As a last resort, the
plan even mentioned bribing one of Castro's commanders to initiate the
Guantanamo attack. That deserves repeating: the Pentagon considered
using our tax dollars to bribe another country's military to attack
our own troops in order to instigate a full-scale war.
Operation Northwoods was only one of several plans under the umbrella
of Operation Mongoose. Shortly after the Joint Chiefs signed and
presented the plan in March, 1962, President Kennedy, still smarting
from the Bay of Pigs fiasco, declared that he would never authorize a
military invasion of Cuba. In September, Kennedy denied the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs, General Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the
nation's highest ranking military officer. And by the winter of 1963,
Kennedy was dead... killed, apparently, by a Cuban sympathiser in the
streets of an American city.
9. Phantoms in the Gulf of Tonkin
On August 2, 1964, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked a US
destroyer, the USS Maddox. The boats reportedly fired torpedoes at the
US ship in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin, about thirty
miles off the Vietnam coast. On August 4, the US Navy reported another
unprovoked attack on the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy._Within
hours, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a retaliatory strike. As
the bases for North Vietnamese torpedo boats were bombed, Johnson went
on TV and told America: "Repeated acts of violence against the armed
forces of the United States must be met not only with alert defense,
but with a positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak
tonight." The next day, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara assured
Capital Hill that the Maddox had only been "carrying out a routine
mission of the type we carry out all over the world at all times."
McNamara said the two boats were in no way involved with recent South
Vietnamese boat raids against North Vietnamese targets._At Johnson's
request, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The resolution
pre-approved any military actions Johnson would take. It gave Johnson
a free ticket to wage war in Vietnam as large as the President wanted.
And, true to his large Texas roots, Johnson got a big war: by 1969,
over half a million US troops were fighting in Indochina. Despite
McNamara's testimony to the contrary, the USS Maddox had been
providing intelligence support to South Vietnamese boats carrying out
raids against North Vietnam. McNamara had also testified that there
was "unequivocable proof" of an "unprovoked" second attack against the
USS Maddox. In fact, the second attack never occurred at all._At the
time of the second incident, the two US destroyers misinterpreted
radar and radio signals as attacks by the North Vietnamese navy. It's
now known that no North Vietnamese boats were in the area. So, for two
hours, the two US destroyers blasted away at nonexistent radar targets
and vigorously manoeuvred to avoid phantom North Vietnamese ships.
Even though the second "attack" only involved two US ships defending
themselves against a nonexistent enemy, the President and Secretary of
Defense used it to coerce Congress and the American people to start a
war they neither wanted nor needed._After the Vietnam War turned into
a quagmire, Congress decided to put limits on the President's
authority to unilaterally wage war. Thus, on November 7, 1973,
Congress overturned President Nixon's veto and passed the War Powers
Resolution. The resolution requires the President to consult with
Congress before making any decisions that engage the US military in
hostilities. It is still in effect to this day.
10. The September 11, 2001 Attacks
Like many buildings built in the 1970s, the twin towers were
constructed with vast quantities of cancer-causing asbestos. The cost
of removing the Twin Tower asbestos? A year's worth of revenues at a
minimum; possibly as much as the value of the buildings themselves.
The cost to disassemble the Twin Towers floor by floor would have run
into the double-digit billions. In addition, the Port Authority was
prohibited from demolishing the towers because the resulting asbestos
dust would cover the entire city, which it did when they collapsed,
resulting in many cancers with a confirmed link to the WTC
dust._Despite its questionable status, in January of 2001, Larry
Silverstein made a $3.2 billion bid for the World Trade Center. On
July 24, the Port Authority accepted the offer. Silverstein then took
out an insurance policy that, understandably, covered terrorist
attacks, which happened seven weeks later. To date, Silverstein has
been awarded almost $5 billion from nine different insurance
companies. What was an asbestos nightmare turned into a $1.8 billion
profit within seven weeks.
Donald Rumsfeld said about the Pentagon on the morning of September
10, 2001: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion
in transactions." That bombshell was pretty much forgotten by the next
morning. So, as a reward for losing $8,000 for every man, woman, and
child in America, taxpayers patriotically forked over another $370
billion and counting to invade Iraq. True to form, the Pentagon
promptly lost $9 billion of that money, too.
Eight days after the attacks, the 342-page Patriot Act was given to
Congress. That same week, letters armed with anthrax from a US
military lab entered the mail. Subsequently, while Congressional
offices were evacuated, examined, cleaned and nasal cavities swabbed,
the Patriot Act remained largely unread. Then, with little debate, the
Patriot Act became law, giving the Bush administration unprecedented
power to access people's medical records, tax records, information
about the books they bought or borrowed and the power to conduct
secret residential searches without notifying owners that their homes
had been searched.
In early 2001, executives from Shell, BP, and Exxon met with *****
Cheney's Energy Task Force while it was developing its new national
energy policy. Later, the companies freely admitted interest in
profiting from Iraq's oil fields, even before the US invaded Iraq. And
now? A new Iraq hydrocarbon law expected to pass in March 2007 will
open the door for international investors, led by BP, Exxon and Shell,
to siphon off 75 percent of Iraq oil wealth for the next thirty years.
According to statements by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a Bronze Star
recipient with 22 years of experience in intelligence operations, a
classified intelligence program codenamed Able Danger had uncovered
two of the three 9/11 terrorist cells a year before the attacks and
had identified four of the hijackers. Shaffer alerted the FBI in
September of 2000, but the meetings he tried to set up with bureau
officials were repeatedly blocked by military lawyers. Four credible
witnesses have come forward to verify Shaffer's claims. _In August
2001, a Pan Am International Flight Academy instructor warned the FBI
that a student (Zacarias Moussaoui) might use a commercial plane
loaded with fuel as a weapon. The instructor asked "Do you realize
that a 747 loaded with fuel can be used as a bomb?" Moussaoui was then
arrested on immigration charges, but despite the repeated urging of
the school and local agents, FBI headquarters refused a deeper
investigation. The US also received dozens of detailed warnings
(names, locations, dates) from the intelligence agencies of Indonesia,
Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, India, Argentina,
Morocco, Russia, Israel, France and even the Taliban. It would seem
that the entire world was onto the bungling Saudi hijackers and
somewhat perplexed that the US wasn't taking preventative actions. But
in each case the US, as if by design, chose not to investigate.
Instead. Condoleezza Rice, on May 16, 2002, stated: "I don't think
anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane
and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it
into the Pentagon."_We also know that on the morning of 9/11, multiple
Air Force war games and drills were in progress. The hijackers would
have never made it to their targets without these war games: Operation
Northern Vigilance ensured that many jet fighters that would have
normally been patrolling the east coast were flying over Alaska and
northern Canada in a drill that simulated a Russian air attack,
complete with false radar blips. _Remarkably, operation Vigilant
Guardian simulated hijacked planes in the north eastern sector, while
real hijackers were in the same airspace. This drill had NORAD and the
Air Force reacting to false blips on FAA radar screens. Some of these
blips corresponded to real military aircraft in the air posing as
hijacked aircraft. That's why when NORAD's airborne control officer,
Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, heard Boston claim it had a hijacked airliner,
her first words were, "It must be part of the exercise."
Changing colours
If you follow the money, you can see that the people with the most to
gain occupied the key military and civilian positions to help 9/11
happen, as well as to cover up the crime. Such is the hallmark of
false flag operations throughout history. But the incredible scale of
the 9/11 sham, and the sheer number of people who still refuse to see
the mountain of truth in front of their eyes...that's what makes the
September 11, 2001 attacks the greatest false flag operation of all
time._Hermann Göring stated: "Naturally the common people don't want
war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in
Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine 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."_Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, a book still forbidden in some
countries (such as France), wrote: "In the size of the lie there is
always contained a certain factor of credibility, since the great
masses of the people...will more easily fall victim to a great lie
than to a small one."
Joe Crubaugh is a freelance writer, artist, and software consultant.
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