The Corbett Report: False Flags Don't Fly

Those who have studied history know that nothing invigorates and empowers an authoritarian regime more than a spectacular act of violence, some sudden and senseless loss of life that allows the autocrat to stand on the smoking rubble and identify himself as the hero. It is at moments like this that the public—still in shock from the horror of the tragedy that has just unfolded before them—can be led into the most ruthless despotism: despotism that now bears the mantle of "security."

Acts of terror and violence never benefit the average man or woman. They only ever benefit those in positions of power.

This is why Nero fiddled while Rome burned: it gave him a chance to throw the Christians to the lions and rebuild the capital of the Roman Empire in his own image.

This is why Hearst and the warmongers of the emerging American Empire were delighted by the destruction of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor: it gave them the excuse they needed in order to rouse the public
into supporting the Spanish-American War.

This is why Israel attacked the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967 during the Six Day War, strafing and torpedoing it relentlessly for hours in a vain attempt to send it to the bottom: the Israelis believed that the loss of the Liberty
could be blamed on Egypt and draw the Americans into war.

This is why there are hundreds of documented examples of governments staging attacks in order to blame them on their political enemies. In every civilization, in every culture, in every historical period, authoritarians have known that spectacular acts of violence help to further consolidate their own power and control. And sadly, throughout history there have been all too many willing to allow attacks to occur, to pretend that attacks have occurred or even to attack their own population in order to further their political agenda.

To think that such staged provocations and false flag attacks no longer occur would be as unrealistic as believing that human nature itself has changed, that powerful people no longer seek to increase their power, that influence is never used for deceit or manipulation, that lies are no longer told to satisfy greed or slake the thirst for control. It is to believe that our society is immuned from those things that we have seen in every other society in every other era. In short, it is a dangerous delusion.

The people are once again learning the power of this delusion. They are learning the extent to which they have been lied to. They are once again studying their history.

The Russians are learning how the FSB was caught planting bombs in Moscow in the 1990s during a terror scare that swept Putin into power and stirred the public into supporting the Second Chechen War. They are learning how their autocratic ex-President came to power campaigning on the graves of those his old FSB cronies had killed.

The Israelis are learning how Mossad has been caught time and again posing as the very Muslim terrorists they claim to be opposing. They are learning how Israel uses the specter of terror to further extend their blank cheque drawn on American funds to expand their police state at home and maintain their hardline stance,
the world's sixth-largest nuclear superpower supposedly threatened by the possibility that one of their neighbours may one day obtain a single nuclear weapon.

The British are learning how their SAS officers were caught dressing up as Arabs in Iraq, driving around with trucks full of munitions, shooting at police to stir up ethnic tensions and insure that permanent bases could be built in the region. They are learning how Haroon Aswat, the supposed mastermind behind the 7/7
bombings, was working for British Intelligence.. They are learning how British military intelligence took part in IRA bombings.

The Indians are learning how the Mumbai attack was helped by an U.S. Agent who is cooperating with investigators so that he won't face questioning by foreign authorities.

The Canadians are learning how their own provincial police dressed up as protestors in 2007 and threatened violence against other police in order to force a crackdown on peaceful protests.

And the Americans are learning that there were multiple bombs found, dismantled and taken out of the Alfred P. Murrah building on April 19, 1995. They are learning that Timothy McVeigh had written a letter to his sister in which he claimed to be in the Special Forces for the U.S. Army. They are learning the bombing was being directed by FBI informants, just as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was. They are learning about 9/11
and the Gulf of Tonkin and Operation Northwoods and their own Army Counterinsurgency Manuals that teach officers how to commit false flag attacks to blame on their enemies.

In short, the people are learning the truth.

And now we see the same build-up to a false flag event taking place that we saw in 1995. At that time the U.S. had a corporate media desperate to fling mud at anyone concerned by the actions of their government, and it had a government that was desperately unpopular in the face of growing dissatisfaction. Today we see the exact same factors at play.

If anything, the situation today is worse than it was in the run-up to the Oklahoma City Bombing, with media consolidation meaning that groups of concerned citizens like the Oath Keepers are being attacked by the controlled minions on both the left and the right. And now it is not just the militia that is being demonized by
the establishment: it is veterans and gun owners, third party supporters and libertarians, anti-war protestors and human rights campaigners, people who are upset with the government giving trillions to the banks that have engineered our current financial crisis in the first place. In short, everyone is now a potential terrorist, according
to the governmental and media agencies that deign to limit our range of acceptable opinion and control dissent.

Even the word 'terrorist' means something more than it did back in 1995, after the false flag anthrax attack allowed the passage of the Patriot Act, after the boogey of Al-CIAda gave the NSA the opportunity to announce that they were collecting everyone's emails and everyone's telephone calls, after the former Homeland Security Secretary came out and admitted that the Bush administration had made up terror threats in order to scare the people into supporting the government, now we know what the real definition of terrorism is. It is governments scaring their own populations into line.

But there is something else that's different now from what it was in 1995. The people are learning something else about terrorism: they are not terrorists for speaking out against their government. They are not terrorists for wanting the government to stop selling their children into servitude to pay bankers their bonuses. They are not terrorists for pointing out that the FBI and the CIA and Mossad and MI6 are behind every major terrorist event.

The people are not terrorists because they do not want to see more death. They do not want more destruction, the spilling of the blood of their fellow citizens is not in their interests. Death and destruction only ever serves the governmental and financial and industrial interests who always grow in power and wealth in the wake of every tragedy. Time and again, the people pay with their lives, and the governments and the banks and the war machine only grows and prospers.

The people do not want terrorism because it does not benefit them. It only benefits the existing power structure.

And this time, if there is another staged event to blame on the government's enemy of the day, the people will know who to blame.

Related works from The Corbett Report:

You Are Being Prepped

OKC Was an Inside Job

http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20100419_false_flags.htm

Alan Watt Talks to Helen Skopis on Greek International Radio

http://www.CuttingthroughtheMatrix.com
Alan Watt in his unique style says it as it is. He is one on his own, in the sense that he doesn't take money from advertisers just so that he can say it as it is and not how corporations dictate.

Robert GREEN STANDS for ELECTION to PARLIAMENT

SK-H160 - Robert GREEN STANDS for ELECTION to PARLIAMENT

Robert GREEN

Robert Green is standing as a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate
for the Parliament at Westminster

To Represent the people of Aberdeen South
as a PPC for SACL

Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers

Robert GREEN

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Robert Green is standing as a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

for the Parliament at Westminster

To Represent the people of Aberdeen South

as a PPC for SACL

Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers:

http://www.sacl.info/

For more details of Robert Green see:

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Robert is a tireless campaigner who goes that extra mile for his constituents. Anne & Hollie Greig were driven out of Aberdeen South by the failure of the authorities to address the apparent involvement of the corrupt element within their ranks involved in serial sex abuse and then seemingly the murder of Anne's brother to hide the evidence.

Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers has a huge task to address - clearly the Political Parties that have so betrayed us all are in an incestuous relationship with the Bankers, Police, Lawyers & The Spec. in Scotland.

Child abuse is systemic and endemic in Scotland as is the mysogenistic bullying of women and children in the Scottish Courts.

For details of the Spec.

http://thessoe.blogspot.com/

INDEPENDENT Leave-the-EU Alliance endorses Robert Green's brave candidacy in his attempt to clean up Scotland starting with Aberdeen South.

See our web site:

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Good luck Robert and all who can help him.

Regards,

Greg L-W.

ABERDEEN SOUTH:

Candidates:

Amanda Harvie (Conservative)

Anne Begg (Labour) born 1955. Educated at Brechin High School and University of Aberdeen. Worked as a history and English teacher prior to being elected, winning Disabled Scot of the Year award in 1988. First elected as MP for Aberdeen South in 1997. Begg was born with Gaucher Disease and is the first full time wheelchair user to be elected to the Commons. When first elected she was keen not to be seen solely as a disabled MP and tended to avoid disability issues, but has more recently spoken out more on disability issues. Her main interests are social justice and pensions. Voted for a rebel amendment against the war in Iraq (more information at They work for you)

John Sleigh (Liberal Democrat) Educated at Glasgow University. Assistant to Nicol Stephen MSP

Mark McDonald (SNP) born Inverurie. Educated at Dyce Academy and Dundee University. Deputy group leader on Aberdeen council.

Rhonda Reekie (Green)

Susan Ross (BNP) Trained counsellor, working in the health sector.


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Total 2001 Population: 89808

Male: 49.2%

Female: 50.8%

Under 18: 19.7%

Over 60: 20.3%

Born outside UK: 7.6%

White: 97.3%

Black: 0.4%

Asian: 0.9%

Mixed: 0.5%

Other: 1%

Christian: 53.2%

Muslim: 0.7%

Graduates 16-74: 31.1%

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Owner-Occupied: 68%

Social Housing: 18.9% (Council: 15.8%, Housing Ass.: 3.2%)

Over Charged By Lawyers 99%

Privately Rented: 10.7%

Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 7.1%

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How Greece Can Impact YOU!

by Bryan Rich 04-17-10

The economic problems in Greece have made front page news for the better part of the past three months. And I’ve written several columns here in Money and Markets on the ongoing drama and its influence on the global currency markets.

But with all of this incessant talk about Greece, what does it have to do with you?

That’s a common question. And the answer: Potentially, a lot.

You see, Greece represents the growing mound of looming landmines in a global economy that has been damaged by the worst economic crisis in more than 80 years. And if there’s anything that should have been clear from the collapse in global financial markets in 2008, it’s that the world is a highly interconnected place, and so are its financial markets. So problems in Greece will likely mean problems for you and me.

Here’s why …

In a fragile economic recovery, investor and consumer confidence plays an important role in repairing economies … and likewise, restoring investment values and opportunities.

So a hiccup in investor optimism can be a huge blow to a fragile economy. It can make businesses more defensive and consumers stingier, thus sending stock prices lower and risk premiums higher.

In short, a lack of participant confidence can mean round two of a bear market in global stocks, and potentially a double dip recession for the global economy. And that’s highly possible because …

A Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Underway

ECB Executive Board member Juergen Stark said this week that the global economy may be entering a new “sovereign debt crisis.”

Respectfully, he’s a bit late in admitting that.

Last November, Dubai sent tremors through financial markets by announcing it would be “restructuring” its debt. The government later offered its bondholders just 60 cents on the dollar for their investment.

Now, Greece’s shaky finances represent a threat to the lifespan of the euro, the second most widely held currency in the world. And it stands on wobbly footing as the second domino in an unraveling global sovereign debt crisis. The other potential candidates include Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain … even the UK, Japan and the U.S.

That’s a lineup of suspects that, if under the gun of global investor scrutiny for their respective burgeoning debt problems, could mean a lot to you and me — and to the outlook of the global economy.

But the euro zone and the IMF stepped up last weekend and provided details of aggressive financial aid as a lifeline to Greece. And given the initial bounce in the euro and decline in market interest rates for Greek government debt, the hope was that Greece’s default threat had finally been put to bed.

Not so. In fact …

The Greece Problem
Is Far from Over

Those initial favorable responses to the aid plan are already being reversed as Greece’s bond yields and the euro are back to pre-rescue announcement levels.

The 16 euro members must unanimously agree to give Greece the funds.

For the near term, the rescue plan could plug the gap for Greece. It has 11.6 billion euros of government debt to refinance over the next month — and another 20 billion euros by the end of the year.

And funding from its fellow euro-zone countries could allow Greece to roll-over that debt, without having to pay the prohibitively high interest rate that global investors would require from such a high-risk borrower.

However, accessing those funds is no slam dunk. All sixteen member countries would have to agree to disburse the funds, and only if they deemed Greece unable to raise funds on its own.

Perhaps even more troubling, though, is if the euro lifeline gets extended, that opens up a can of worms. Because it means the euro-zone officials have breached the treaty guidelines upon which the euro was developed.

And it will also likely mean that Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland will be next in line for a handout — a recipe for a political and economic disaster in Europe and a potential break-up of the euro.

From there … the other debt-burdened dominos in line could become even more vulnerable.

Greece … a Big Deal

As the crisis in Greece continues to unfold, investors will look for safety.

With the U.S. stock market climbing, almost daily, to new post-crisis highs and the U.S. economic data showing solid recovery, Greece sounds like a distant problem.

But as you can see, the drama in Greece is a big deal! Not just for Europe, but for the world economy — and for institutional and individual investors alike.

Unfortunately, the euro zone is in a no-win situation. The European monetary union countries, with damaged balance sheets and a bleak outlook for growth, are stuck. And with a one-size fits all monetary policy and currency, they lack critical tools, such as devaluation, to work their way out.

So expect the sovereign debt crisis to continue to build. And be cautious of a quick downturn in global risk appetite, which can send stock markets and global demand heading south, and global capital heading for safety.

Regards,

Bryan

The Famine, Athens, 1942

Troubled Words (Paraponemena Logia)

On the desks of need
And in the school of poverty
We learned about society
and the feeling of old pain

Our songs contain troubled words
Because we've been treated unfairly
even from the cradle of our birth

Our place in the world
was not more than ten feet of land
the size of a house
and the wall of our yard

Our songs contain troubled words...

Giorgos Dalaras- Paraponemena Logia

To understand Greeks, one must understand the history that has shaped them. In 1942, 100,000 Greeks died of starvation. The famine in occupied Greece was the result of a number of factors. A German effort to plunder the country to support its own war effort and thus feed its troops, a British blockade designed to put pressure on the Axis, and finally an inability on the part of the Greek Quisling government to mobilize available resources to feed the urban poor due to incomptence and corruption. So many Athenians died that the dead did not even receive the Orthodox rites of burial. The deep wounds inflicted during this terrible ordeal radicalized and alienated many Greeks, setting the stage for the subsequent civil war which will tear at the very fabric of Greek society.

Excerpted from Inside Hitler's Greece by Mark Mazower:

"A world away from the fashionable boulevards of central Athens , it was the slums on the city's outskirts which bore the brunt of the famine. In the inter-war period, shantytowns had sprung up or been constructed at a convenient distance from the heart of the city to house thousands of the refugees who fled from Asia Minor after the 1922 disaster. Their inhabitants, who had arrived with a few personal possessions lived in shacks made of tin and boards which were difficult to heat or keep clean. Families of four or five people shared a single room; often, instead of proper plumbing, there were open sewers running behind the muddy alleys. Unlike other Greeks, these newcomers had no family home in the provinces to return to when times were hard. They were the country's first genuine urban proletariat, and they had been badly neglected by the state.

Before the war, they and their children had earned a living in the poorly ventilated factories for low wages; others work as street vendors or domestic servants. When the occupation began thousands of them lost their jobs as industrial plant and stocks were requisitioned and fuel shortages halted economic activity. Major prewar employers like the textiles and chemicals sectors were forced to reduce output to 10 to 15% of their usual levels. Desperate to earn money, people turn to peddling goods or begging. At the docks in Piraeus a crowd of odd job men occupied the quayside. 'Ex-clerks, workers, chauffeurs, and cashiers whose jobs have been scrapped, have become porters and try to earn their miserable daily bread carrying bags on carts or on their backs. Street vendors sold dirty looking pieces of carob cake figs and other fruit or matches, cigarettes, old clothes. Beggars lay on the pavement. In the center of Omonia Square stretched out on blankets above the warm air vents on the Metro there were people of all ages, holding out their hands to passerby.

There are no official figures for the extent of unemployment in the poorer quarters, but Marcel Junod of the Red Cross reckoned that over half of the working-class population was out of work. Two thirds of these families were enrolled in local soup kitchens but they were not fed more than two or three times a week and even then not all members of the family were catered for. Junod observed that women, in particular, tended to go without food to leave some for their children.

For many the only means of survival was to gather wild grass and other weeds from the countryside around the city. These were then boiled, if there was fuel available and eaten without oil. But these grasses had virtually no nutritional value: 5 kilos were needed to produce the daily dose of hydrocarbons required by the human body. Children searched through rubbish bins for scraps of food or waited in the service entrance of large hotels. Others clustered around the doors or restaurants. Some German officers tormented urchins by throwing scraps from balconies and watching them fight among themselves. Soldiers eating olives in the street attracted a crowd of children. As soon as one spat out an olive stone, the children rushed for it: the fastest would put it in his mouth and suck it clean.

Though malnutrition enfeebled the body and made work increasingly exhausting, working families have little choice if they wished to stay alive but to continue as though nothing was happening. Chyrsa P., a widow, went to work three days a week to earn food for her three tubercular children, even though she was ill herself. Gregorios M., who had been laid off work walked several hours each day to the hills to pick wild plants to bring home. He already showed the edemas that were signs of severe malnutrition but he had a mother, wife and child to feed.

To make matters worse the hot dry summer was followed by an unusually harsh and prolonged winter: there was snow on the streets of Athens and at night the temperature fell below freezing. Because coal and wood had become very expensive and sometimes unobtainable, houses were not properly heated and people succumbed to colds, flu and TB. After several weeks of malnutrition people weakened quickly. Vitamin deficiency caused tumors and boils to appear on their hands and feet and unless cured these spread onto the body and face. Around half the families in the poor quarters showed these symptoms by the beginning of 1942.

The final stage before death was a state of physical and mental exhaustion. This is the point at which people simply collapsed and were unable to raise themselves up again. A builder working on a house in the suburb of Psychiko suddenly fainted in the summer heat. A woman, who had been walking with her two undernourished children through central Athens collapsed in the street leaving the children to cry. Demobilized Greek servicemen, veterans of the Albanian campaign, lay in doorways or propped up against walls. One freezing December evening a young man collapsed on Skoufas Street. 'Get up get up or you're done for,' someone said to him. 'My God why have you brought me to such a state?' the young man whispered, ' Why am I not at home instead of crawling like a dog through the streets at night. Why my God? What did I do to you?' He was a conscript from the island of Zakynthos, one of many who had been unable to return home following the end of the fighting and now begged on the streets without any government support.

In a shack in the refugee quarter of Dourgouti, 40-year-old Androniki P. lay slumped by the door covered in an old blanket, having sold the rest of her possessions to buy food. Her husband, who had died several days earlier, lay inside. Her three children sat crying but she was too weak to help them. In another hut in Agios Georgios, an unemployed worker lay unable to move while his children clustered around his bed asking for bread. Many of the people enrolled in the soup kitchens were too weak to make the journey there. In the working-class district of Dourgouti which may be regarded as a typical example of the poorest quarters, 1600 out of the 2200 families need urgent medical attention and proper nutrition."

Stavros on 10 April 2010 in Greek History