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This comes up every time there’s a move towards holding Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And it’s deliberately provocative. That administration knows perfectly well that Mahmoud Abbas has already said there can be no further talks until there is some kind of moratorium on Israeli expansion. The predictable response? Not, let’s sit down. It’s to mobilize AIPAC.

Flashback: Canada ‘regrets’ Israeli settlements

Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian
March 15, 2010

United States determined to persuade Israel into substantive peace talks with Palestinians, Obama administration source says

Palestinian boys play soccer in the Arab neighbourhood of east Jerusalem, where Netanyahu supports the building of 1,600 Jewish homes. Photograph: Ammar Awad/REUTERS

President Barack Obama and the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, are on a collision course today in a row described by a senior Israeli diplomat as the worst crisis between the two countries for more than three decades.

An Obama administration source told the Guardian that the White House and US state department are intent on pushing Israel into substantive peace talks with the Palestinians and will not shy away this time as they did when the last effort ended in embarrassing failure in September.

“No one gets anywhere by accusing each other. We are hoping to lay the foundations for negotiations,” the source said. In order to get negotiations under way, the US is demanding that Netanyahu cancel or freeze plans to build 1,600 planned Jewish homes in Palestinian East Jerusalem. But Netanyahu, speaking at a meeting of his own Likud party, showed no signs of backing down. “The building in Jerusalem, and in all other places, will continue in the same way as has been customary over the last 42 years,” he said.

The Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, in a weekend telephone call to other Israeli diplomats, expressed alarm about the extent of the confrontation.

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With the caveat, of course, that laying the filter of ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ over these issues muddles them horribly, this is an excellent account of undercover police operations, their rewards and risks. It’s complicated. And as Officer A points out, the risks involve destabilizing proper and legitimate social movements – the balance of power is disrupted is police infiltrate every organization that comes along. Often, the police end up running the organizations – it’s a matter of public record that CSIS ran the Heritage Front, a Canadian neo-Nazi organization, through its agent Grant Bristow. They even tried taking over the Reform Party, a grassroots conservative movement, in its formative years. Perhaps they were ultimately successful with that, who knows. The info block below contains similar material.

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Tony Thompson, The Observer
March 14, 2010

For four years, Officer A lived a secret life among anti-racist activists as they fought brutal battles with the police and the BNP. Here he tells of the terrifying life he led, the psychological burden it placed on him and his growing fears that the work of his unit could threaten legitimate protest

They got drunk together, stood shoulder to shoulder as they fought the police and far-right activists, and became so intimately acquainted with each other’s lives that in the end they were closer than brothers. But it was all a sham. Hidden among the close-knit and highly motivated group of violent far-left activists was a serving police officer, operating deep undercover, whose presence was intended to bring the group to its knees.

That man, known only as Officer A, has now come forward to give his account of the years he spent working for Scotland Yard’s most secret unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), on a mission to prevent disorder on the streets of London. For four years in the mid-1990s, he lived a double life six days a week, spending just one day a week with his wife and family.

Week after week, year in and year out, he lived and breathed the life of a hardcore Trotskyist agitator with a passion for heavy drinking, a deep-seated hatred of the police and a predilection for extreme violence. It was a persona that took him to the heart of some of the most violent groups in the capital at a time when tensions between extreme left and extreme right were at their peak.

“I never had any respite when I was back at home. I simply couldn’t relax,” said Officer A. “The respite for me was being back in my undercover flat because that was where I was supposed to be. Even if my targets were not there, I felt more at ease. I had a really good time with my targets and enjoyed their company enormously – there was a genuine bond. But I was never under any illusion about what I was there to do. They were not truly my friends. The friendship would last only up until the point when they found out what I really was. I was under no illusion about what would happen to me if they did.”

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Let’s look at this as a sort of media test case. Apparently, there’s been a low intensity war simmering on the southern border of the US for some time now. The local press covers stories of bombings, incursions, and helicopter flyovers. All of these are at least indicative of a power struggle both within the Mexican military and externally, between drug gangs and the existing Mexican establishment. So the question is – why haasn’t there been any wider coverage of this? And what is the function of the relationship between the local press and the national press? Are glaring exclusions of this sort systemic or deliberate? Does the relationship fall within the parameters of Chomsky’s ‘propaganda model‘ of the media? (A model with both systemic and deliberative elements) Or are we seeing the invisible hand of the state trying to avoid a general panic, mass xenophobia, keep the lid on a political situation, or some other intent? Clearly, the CIA is wrapped up in the drug trade, that’s practically mainstream information. Have their pet gangs gotten out of control, destined to be cast as the next ‘Al-Qaeda’ but on the southern US border? Dying states are dangerous for the same reason dying animals are. This article raises as many questions as it answers about what’s going on in Texas.

Related: Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border | Border guards are now Olympic thought police – Amy Goodman detained | US Border Guards to Expand Use of X-Ray Body Scanners | Sarnia resident plans ‘moon’ protest of US border spy balloon | Military spycraft patrols Ontario border from Fort Drum | Incoming CSIS chief to seek biometric data at border | New US border technology directed at insidious threat: Canadians | Predator drones patrolling border irk Manitoba MLA | U.S. set to launch Predator drones to monitor Manitoba border | Military Tech on the Home Front: Predator drones to begin surveillance of Canada-US border | Homeland Security Assuming Broad Powers, Turning Swaths of U.S. into “Constitution-Free Zone” | Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies | U.S. Northern Command, Canada Command establish new bilateral Civil Assistance Plan | Nunavut taken aback by military plan for drone patrols | U.S. to patrol Manitoba border with drone aircraft

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
March 12, 2010

Navy chopper with armed troops conducts surveillance in south Texas border town, authorities couldn’t care less

While the U.S. government and federal authorities busy themselves targeting American citizens as domestic terrorists, it seems they couldn’t care less about the fact that the military of a foreign power is flying around American airspace with wanton abandon.

Residents of Falcon Heights, a south Texas border town, saw a Mexican helicopter hovering over a house shortly after 6pm on Tuesday night. The chopper conducted surveillance for about 15 minutes before flying back to Mexico.

“They had armored individuals in the chopper, open ramp, very military looking, in style and preparation,” said Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr.

“It’s proof the Mexican military sees no boundaries,” reported local KRGV News’ Stephanie Stone, adding that the incident wasn’t the first of its kind and wouldn’t be the last.

“The markings I understand read ‘La Marina’ which is equivalent to the Mexican Navy,” said Gonzalez.

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Sending mixed messages here ensures that other parties to the ‘peace process’ – which by all appearances seems more a decades-long stalling tactic – enter from a position of weakness, wherein the debate’s already been set around how many new settlements Israel is going to build. It’s an effective misdirection, an additional bargaining chip to ensure territorial gains rather than losses.

Flashback: Israel denies Gaza war crimes in report to UN | Chomsky says Israel, ‘US military base’ | Israel rules out Gaza probe | UN body endorses Gaza war crimes report | UN body debates Gaza war crimes report | UN condemns ‘war crimes’ in Gaza | Israeli soldiers allege abuses against Palestinians | Israeli troops kill apartheid wall protester | Israeli military whistleblowers: troops fired on children | Israel pulls land forces from Gaza, gunboats continue shelling coast | Israel admits troops used phosphorus shells in Gaza | Israel steps up Gaza withdrawal after ceasefire | Hamas joins fragile Israeli ceasefire | Israel declares ceasefire | Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel | Video shows proof of phosphorous bombs in Gaza | Aid destroyed as UN’s Gaza HQ hit by Israeli fire | Protests over Israel’s Gaza offensive held in Canadian, world cities | Israel ignores ceasefire plea, pounds Gaza | UN relief agency halts aid to Gaza, citing Israeli attacks on staff | Rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel | Israel is on its way to reoccupying all of the Gaza Strip | Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza | Tanks, rockets, death and terror: Gazan civilian catastrophe unfolding | They hate us for our bombs | Israeli army set for invasion | Food, medicine, fuel needed in Gaza, agencies warn | Gaza relief boat carrying former Congresswoman rammed by Israelis | Worldwide protests urge end to attacks on Gaza

CBC News
March 11, 2010

Canada voiced muted criticism Thursday over the planned expansion of 1,600 new Israeli housing units in disputed East Jerusalem.

In a statement released in Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Canada “regrets” Israel’s settlement decision, because it undermines the pursuit of peace in the region.

The statement echoes Washington’s strong condemnation of the move, which cast a pall over U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel this week to revive the stalled Middle East peace process.

Biden was there to mediate indirect peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Israelis and Palestinians must build an atmosphere to support negotiations, not complicate them, he said.

The Interior Ministry announced the construction plans just as Biden was wrapping up a series of meetings with Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A spokesman for Netanyahu said he was unaware of the construction plan just announced by the Interior Ministry.

Efrat Orbach, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman, said the new homes are to be built in Ramat Shlomo, a neighbourhood for ultra-Orthodox Jews in east Jerusalem.

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By who, Dr. No? It’s difficult to believe that any state agency would do this sort of thing to its citizens – and yet there are plenty of examples of it. Wartime germ spraying tests in England. The MKULTRA brainwashing program. Yet here, truth is not only stranger than fiction – it literally trips you out. Ergot (the bread mould), has long resulted in psychedelic experiences for ancient Europeans who dubbed it St. Anthony’s Fire. Sandoz, the CIA, Timothy Leary, Huxley and others synthesized the drug from this mould and/or popularized its use in popular psychiatry , on unsuspecting psychiatric patients and in grotesque mind control experiments on soldiers. It was thought to create a ‘model psychosis’. In the controlled experiment undertaken in a small French village outlined below, a psychological false flag event has been staged. It’s a simple misdirection trick, like the street performer’s shell game, only in this case undertaken by the state. The bread, here, stands in for the more usual ‘terrorism’. The side effects of the drug have to be blamed on something (usually someone in the ordinary wartime false flag) . The desired outcome is to gather data on the social effects of mass drugging, undertaken without consent. And if it has a traumatizing, pacifying effect as well then so much the better. Just like torture.

Flashback: Report: France ‘deliberately’ used soldiers as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’ | ‘They were looking for the ideal Manchurian Candidate’ | Government Experiments on U.S. Soldiers: Shocking Claims Come to Light in New Court Case | Psychologists Helped Guide CIA Interrogations | Vets Sue CIA Over Mind Control Tests | Atomic-testing veterans to receive whopping $24,000 each in compensation | Remembering Brainwashing | Chinese Torture Techniques Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo | Canadian MKULTRA project mind control victim to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing | Much of Britain sprayed in secret germ warfare tests

Henry Samuel, The Telegraph
March 11, 2010

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment

Heads, made out of bread by this Thai artist. Seemed appropriate somehow.

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.

On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: “I am a plane”, before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.

Time magazine wrote at the time: “Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead.”

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Iceland has spanked the global central banks that engineered the crisis it now suffers from. As covered here, Icelanders are justified in their anger. It remains to be seen how Iceland is spanked in turn. Iceland, apparently, will not bow to IMF debt slavery, it has not yet been pacified in the way that some developing nations have been. The consequences will reverberate throughout the economic system. One of the most interesting questions to be resolved is whether or not Iceland will be able to survive outside of the nascent ‘new world order‘ should the IMF and the EU treat it as a pariah state. Will new local economies and trans-border trade arise outside of the centrally controlled economic system? Will barter trade in local resources short circuit any future banking tax or carbon taxation for this region? Wish them luck, and stay tuned.

Flashback: Icelanders to vote no on debt deal | Iceland stares into Icesave abyss | EU executive recommends fast-track membership for Iceland | No solution in dispute over Iceland deposits | Iceland sets date for Icesave vote | Iceland says IMF aid likely delayed | Iceland blocks central bank debt repayment deal | Icelandic parliament rolls over, votes for EU membership | Iceland to be fast-tracked into the EU | Iceland’s government collapses | In Iceland, the heat is on | Police fire pepper spray at Iceland protesters | Icelanders storm central bank in protest | Iceland inflation soars to 17.1% | 5 injured during protest in Iceland over economic meltdown

Gudjon Helgason,Sylvia Hui, The Associated Press
March 6, 2010

By overwhelming margin, voters turn down repaying Netherlands and UK for Internet bank failure

A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest against a government referendum in Reykjavik. Iceland’s voters on Saturday resoundingly rejected a $5.3 billion plan to pay off Britain and the Netherlands for debts spawned by the collapse of an Icelandic Internet bank, according to initial results. (Bob Strong/Reuters)

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND—Iceland’s voters on Saturday resoundingly rejected a $5.3 billion plan to pay off Britain and the Netherlands for debts spawned by the collapse of an Icelandic Internet bank, according to initial results.

Results returned from around 74,150 ballots counted so far in a country of about 320,000 showed that 93 per cent of voters said “no” in the referendum, compared to just 1.6 per cent who said “yes.”

The referendum results are indicative of how angry many Icelanders are as the tiny island nation struggles to recover from a deep recession. The global financial crisis wreaked political and economic havoc on Iceland, as its banks collapsed within the space of a week in October 2008 and its currency, the krona, plummeted. The Icelandic government was the first to fall as a result of the meltdown. [Ed. Note: This was no systemic, blame-free crisis. It was engineered by criminals working in the Icelandic banking system.]

Icelanders were deciding whether to approve the payment of $3.5 billion to Britain and $1.8 billion to the Netherlands as compensation for funds that those governments paid to around 340,000 of their citizens who had accounts with the collapsed bank Icesave, an Icelandic Internet bank that offered high interest rates before it failed along with its parent, Landsbanki.

“This result is no surprise,” Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said. “Now we must turn to the task of finishing the negotiations on Icesave.”

The debt owed to Britain and the Netherlands is a small sum compared to the massive amounts spent to rescue other victims of the global meltdown — $182.5 billion was paid out to keep U.S. insurance giant American International Group Inc. alive — but many taxpayers in the country say they can’t afford to pay it.

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The CBC/CP in their reposting of this article, and in prior coverage, have been stripping out references to ‘conspiracy theories’ and the 9/11 truth movement. And they are well to do so, since to point to a couple of online postings from 2006 and to highlight concerns Bedell shared with large swathes of the American and Canadian populations as a suggested motivating factor for his suicidal attack on the pentagon is, well, rampant speculation. Why no media highlight of the paranoia and suicidal ideation caused by going off of anti-depressant meds? In light of the fact that the 9/11 truth angle was being widely covered in the American media mere hours after the shootings took place (well before any real police investigation could get underway), it was quite possibly an ideologically motivated propaganda campaign: as PrisonPlanet journos reveal, media mentions of the looming danger of 9/11 truth groups spiked in the weeks prior to the shooting (including in the conservative press), culminating in the release of a major SPLC report conflating populist dissent – constitutionalism, etc. – with skinheads and violent extremism. The CBC omission mentioned above is thus likely well intentioned and appreciated, but in the interest of covering this story completely, StatismWatch has opted to reproduce the text of the original unedited article. Note how the writers throw in a suggestion at the end for the reader to connect recent anti-state lone wolf attacks with ‘radical Islamic extremism’. In the interest, then, of fully examining – or stretching – all parallels between such cases, this journal also feels compelled to include mention of the case of another psychiatric patient engaged in a robotic attack that led to a security crackdown.

Flashback: Gunman shot and killed after shooting 2 Pentagon police officers | Public may not hear fate of Greyhound bus killer | Against protocol, bus decapitation accused released from Ontario institution in 2005 | Bus decapitation accused was guided by voices, trial hears | Greyhound introduces security screening of passengers, bans fruit, carry-ons | Second Greyhound stabbing suspect also required ‘psychological help’, media clamour for airport-style security renewed | Police drop off and pick up new Greyhound knife assault suspect | Greyhound bus passengers now subject to arbitrary luggage searches | ‘Please kill me,’ bus beheading suspect pleads as history of psychiatric treatment surfaces | Psych tests ordered for beheading suspect | Edmonton bus terminal ‘wide open’, security needed: ex-security guard | Bus beheading ‘a mystery’

Tracier Cone, Brooke Donalds, Associated Press
March 5, 2010

The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.

It’s still unclear why John Patrick Bedell opened fire Thursday at the Pentagon entrance, wounding two police officers before he was fatally shot. The two officers were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries.

Bedell was diagnosed as bipolar, or manic depressive, and had been in and out of treatment programs for years. His psychiatrist, J. Michael Nelson, said Bedell tried to self-medicate with marijuana, inadvertently making his symptoms more pronounced.

“Without the stabilizing medication, the symptoms of his disinhibition, agitation and fearfullness complicated the lack of treatment,” Nelson said.

His parents reported him missing Jan. 4, a day after a Texas Highway Patrol officer stopped him for speeding in Texarkana. Bedell told the highway patrolman he was heading to the East Coast, and began acting strangely — sitting on his knees by the side of the highway and turning off his cell phone when it would ring.

Bedell said it was his mother calling, prompting the patrolman to answer the phone and talk briefly with her. Family friend Reb Monaco said Kaye Bedell asked the officer to take him to a mental health facility, but that the son refused.

The patrolman let Bedell go after issuing a speeding ticket and a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, including a pipe and a green plastic box with marijuana residue.

The next day, Kaye told deputies in California that her son had no reason to travel to the East Coast because he had no friends or family there and she and her husband were worried about his mental state, San Benito County Sheriff Curtis Hill said.

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Amazing… the author even alludes to the fact he recognizes that the Black Bloc, Crimethinc, etc., aren’t necessarily to be regarded as political anarchists, which has a long, rich intellectual history. It will be clear to readers of this site that this is not an anarchist site (neither are we left or right), nor would we ever promote anarchism – there is a moral brightline based on whether a limited state with a mandate to protect citizen’s rights has a right to exist that lies between movements such as libertarianism and anarchism – but for a mainstream writer to see this nuance, and to even bring up the issue of the potential use of the Black Bloc as a cover for police provocation is real progress in the political dialogue of this nation.

Flashback: Vancouver Olympics protesters fall silent as Black Bloc ruins it for everyone | Olympic protesters smash store windows | Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As ‘Anarchists’ At Pittsburgh G20 | G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’ | G20 protests: Riot police, or rioting police? | Rioters Were Paid To Provoke the Police in Bulgaria | Greek Cops Caught on Video Posing as Anarchists | ACLU wants probe into police-staged DNC protest | Ex-Italian President: Provocateur Riots Then “Beat The Shit Out Of Protesters” | Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of ‘Fear’ | Police inspector posed as militant protester | Quebec police admit agents posed as protesters | Canadians who trust our secret police should think again

Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun
February 27, 2010

Destructive tactics fail to attract public sympathy for the cause and alienate moderate activists

It’s the ample corroborating material that takes his statement from the realm of mere assertion or, say, false confession extracted by Iran (both potential objections to this story) to the realm of probability. Factor this knowledge of international intelligence involvement in Pakistani terror organizations into your judgement next time you hear that some dispossessed Muslim kid went to Pakistan to get ‘jihad training’, was subsequently trailed around by the secret service for months upon return, incited by informants to discuss plans with no hope of fruition before being set up in a sting.

Flashback: CIA admits Blackwater presence in Pakistan | Taliban: Blackwater to blame for Pakistan attacks | How the US Funds the Taliban | Taliban Chief Blames Blackwater, ISI for Peshawar Blast | Ex-CIA agent confirms US ties with Jundullah | Iranian commanders assassinated, Iran fingers Western intelligence | Madsen: CIA collusion with “Al Qaeda” financiers and attack planners | Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated | Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups | Western Governments Funding Taliban & Al-Qaeda To Kill U.S. Troops, Destabilize Countries | The Main Result of the “War on Terror”: The Destabilization of Pakistan | Report: CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan | Delta Force Officer: We Weren’t Allowed to Kill Osama Bin Laden | Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead | CIA, Pakistani ISI have long, complicated relationship | US scales up covert destabilization efforts in Iran, continues funding ‘al-Qaeda’ | Report: U.S. Gave Green Light For Taliban Prison Attack | Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh: US Indirectly Funding Al-Qaeda Linked Sunni Groups in Move to Counter Iran | US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift Evacuation

Steve Watson, Infowars.net
February 26, 2010

Al Qaeda affiliate says his group was armed and assisted by U.S., Britain and Israel

The leader of a Pakistan based terrorist organisation closely affiliated with Al Qaeda has detailed how his group benefited from extensive political and financial support from the CIA in return for continued attacks against the government, the people and the infrastructure of Iran.

Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Pakistan-based Jundullah terrorist organization was captured earlier this week by Iranian security officials in the south of the country.

Rigi was tracked by Iranian intelligence when he boarded a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday.

According to officials, Rigi was using a forged Afghan passport which was issued to him by the U.S. government.

The 31-year-old terror leader issued a statement on Iranian state TV yesterday, during which he alleged that he had made a pact with the U.S. for safe haven and unlimited military aid to pursue terrorist activities against the Iranian government.

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Flashback: Authorities Quietly Reverse Underwear Bomber Official Story | How the US Funds the Taliban | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell – Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | Professor fingers Thermite charges as responsible for 9/11 demolition | Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups | Western Governments Funding Taliban & Al-Qaeda To Kill U.S. Troops, Destabilize Countries | New York “Terror Plot” Another Government Provocateured Set-Up | Not very cricket: Witnesses report Pakistani security abandoned convoy prior to attack | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | German Intelligence Agents Caught Staging False Flag Terror in Kosovo | Cheney Considered False Flag Operation to Justify War with Iran | US scales up covert destabilization efforts in Iran, continues funding ‘al-Qaeda’ | Declassified: Israel, USA Attempted Deliberate Sinking of USS Liberty During Mideast War | Canadians who trust our secret police should think again | British Special Forces Caught Carrying Out Staged Terror In Iraq? | Operation Northwoods Declassified: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba | RCMP bombed oil site in ‘dirty tricks’ campaign

George Washington’s Blog via Infowars.com
February 20, 2010

The U.S. invaded and occupied the Dominican Republic in 1965.

Everyone knows about Operation Northwoods, where 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 following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

The plans for Operation Northwoods were signed on March 13, 1962.

Nine months earlier, another false flag attack was apparently discussed in order to justify an invasion of the Dominican Republic.

Specifically, according to official State Department records, Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles wrote on June 3, 1961:

The Vice President [Lyndon Johnson], [Attorney General] Bob Kennedy, Secretary [of Defense Robert] McNamara, Dick Goodwin [who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs], [head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] General Lemnitzer, Wyn Coerr, and Ted Achilles were here. Bob McNamara and Lemnitzer stated that under the terms of the contingency paper, they were required to be prepared to move into the island on short order if required to do so, and this, in their opinion, called for substantially more troops that we had in the area. After some discussion we considered two more aircraft carriers, some destroyers, and 12,000 marines should be moved into a position some one hundred miles off the Dominican Republic shore…

The tone of the meeting was deeply disturbing. Bob Kennedy was clearly looking for an excuse to move in on the island. At one point he suggested, apparently seriously, that we might have to blow up the Consulate to provide the rationale.

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