10 FALSE FLAGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
At it’s simplest, the term false flag means pretending to be the enemy.
Hard Boiled Dreams of the World
March 15, 2007
The name comes from ships and armies that, in previous centuries, deceived their foes by displaying another country’s flag.
These days, false flag activities are much more sophisticated…and debauched. These aren’t your granddaddy’s covert operations.
Fake Terror, Deception, and Disgrace
The most commonly known false flag operations consist of an intelligence agency staging a terror attack such that an uninvolved entity gets blamed for the carnage.
Another type of false flag operation might consist of directing purposefully belligerent and trigger-happy clandestine demonstrators to mingle with peace activists in order to disrupt and discredit a passive protest event.
Yet another type of false flag activity consists of infiltrating the opposition, then making easily disproved claims which will embarrass and undermine the credibility of the organization.
An Ignorant Public Enables False Flags
When the Constitutional Convention closed in 1787, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?"
Franklin replied: "A republic, if you can keep it."
Why did our forefathers think the Republic would be so hard to keep?
What foreign threat did they envisage as the United States’ most deadly enemy? Actually, the founding fathers believed one of our biggest enemies would rise from within: apathetic ignorance.
Thomas Jefferson wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
One hundred and forty-five years later, President Eisenhower echoed Jefferson’s fear when he left office in 1961:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. "
Endless War
Unfortunately, security and liberty were nearing death in the greedy clutch of corporate fascism by the time Eisenhower spoke those words. The world’s largest industrial military machine already needed unending war to feed the nation’s economy, and line the pockets of the war profiteers.
False flag operations, with healthy doses of propaganda and ignorance, provided a great recipe for endless war.
Two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler explains the situation better than I can.
From his book, War is a Racket:
"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. "
False Flag Greatest Hits
And that’s where we stand today…much of the population still apathetically ignorant, if not from lack of desire to educate themselves, then by state secrets privilege and a main stream media that buries truth beneath an avalanche of corporate-advertiser-approved garbage. But as the pendulum swings out of control, the population does seem to be waking up.
So, while the world impotently waits for the next false flag…one that will likely have the remaining uninformed masses proposing a nuclear attack on Iran, let’s reminisce and countdown 10 False Flags that Changed the World. Number 10 on the list is…
Nero, Christians, and the Great Fire of Rome
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #10
It was the night of July 19, 64 A.D., when 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, 4 of the 14 Roman districts were burned to the ground, and seven more were severely damaged.
Nero: Fiddling While Rome Burned?
Nero might have been playing a kithara while Rome burned, but he wasn’t playing a fiddle.
That’s because violins weren’t invented until around 1550.
Nero, probably the most infamous Roman emperor, was a great-grandson of Caesar Augustus.
When his mother’s husband (also her uncle, and Nero’s adopted father…) was murdered with poisoned mushrooms, Nero succeded to the throne.
Like many kids in those days, he wanted to be a famous singer and a poet. His talent was poor, but as emperor, the empire doubled as captive audience.
His mother tried to control Nero, to the point of having intercourse with him. He tried to murder her by booking her on a ship that was designed to fall apart at sea.
Unfortunately, his mom was a good swimmer. After she survived, he had a soldier kill her. This shocked the public, a little bit, but they got over it.
Neropolis
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. 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 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. It also appears that Nero did everything he could to stop the fire…
Nero’s Reaction to 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.
Fake Terror Gives Poll Numbers a Bump
People knew of Nero’s plans for Neropolis, and all his efforts to help the city could not counteract the rampant rumors that he’d help start the fire.
As his poll numbers dropped, Nero’s administration realized 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 strange new cult of religious nuts at hand. This cult was unpopular because they 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 lucky for Nero, two of the cult’s biggest leaders—Peter and Paul—were currently in town.
So, 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 (upside down, at his own request) and Paul was 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.
Such is the fate of those unwittingly caught in a false flag operation
Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #9
In 1898, elites within the United States government falsely accused Spain of blowing up the USS Maine in order to stoke the American people into a flag-waving frenzy which resulted in the Spanish-American War.
Death of the Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire, reaching its territorial height in the late 1700s.
As evidence of Spain’s once vast footprint, the Spanish language is still the 3rd most spoken language in the world. (Even if you don’t think you speak Spanish, you probably know some Spanish words: Can you say tornado? Bonanza? Patio? Quesadilla? Enchilada? Taco grande supreme?)
But nothing lasts forever, and like every empire since the beginning of time (save the USA, which is still young…) Spain’s status as the world’s greatest power was not to last.
By 1898, Spain was regularly losing territories. Although Spain still ruled Cuba, it, 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 (which was a chunk of change in the 1890s!)
The main stream media, then dominated by newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, exagerated—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. Americans ate it up and asked for more gravy.
So the newspapers sent more reporters to Cuba.
When they got there, however, the reporters found a different story. Artist and correspondent Frederick Remington even 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 handbasket, convinced big business interests in the U.S. to put pressure on anti-war President William McKinley to protect their Cuban investments.
McKinley, in response, sent the USS Maine battleship to Havana Harbor as a calming show of force.
Instead, the battleship exploded…
USS Maine Explodes in Havana Harbor
Three weeks after arriving, on the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded.
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 favor the external mine theory.
One thing, however, is almost certain: if the explosion was caused by a mine, it wasn’t planted by Spain.
Nevertheless, the explosion killed 266 men. Without waiting on an investigation, America’s main stream 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.
Wars and Taxes
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 Birth of an American Empire
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.
Not a bad catch for one second-class battleship.
The Manchurian Incident
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #8
In 1931, Japan wanted to invade further into the Asian continent. So, in a brilliant display of false flag stategy, Japan blew up its own frickin’ railway and said, "Uh, well, hmmm…China did it! Yeah, that’s the ticket. It was China. Now, instead of going to the beach, we gotta go kick their butts out of Manchuria."
The best false flag operation is just juvenile schoolboy behavior inflated large enough to accommodate a nation-state’s ego, and the Manchurian Incident is no exception. In fact, in this incident, there’s even a tinge of adolescent let’s-make-a-pile-of-fireworks-and-light-it-with-a-match mischievousness involved. But the story starts earlier than 1931…let’s go back to 1929. Does anybody remember what happened in 1929?
1929
Grand Teton National Park was created…yeah, that’s right…
The first Academy Awards were presented in a 15-minute ceremony at a private dinner for 250 people at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel…yep, uh-huh…
The Amos and Andy radio program debuted…yeah, but think about money…money makes the world go round…what happened to everybody’s money in 1929?
That’s right! You got it. That was the year everybody’s money disappeared…
The Great Depression
The economic slump following 1929’s thorough and convincing near-obliteration of Wall Street was worldwide. It hit Japan especially hard: Exports fell, unemployment rose, Tokyo Disneyland shut down—well, it would have shut down, but it wasn’t around yet, Mickey Mouse only being a few months old and all.
Japan, not being rich in natural resources if you don’t include wasabi, needed oil and coal.
The country needed this 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 to get up early on Monday and do it again. And Manchuria, a province of China, had its fair share of oil and coal.
Dynamite and a Make-Believe Bridge
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 it’s proximity (about 800 meters distant) to Chinese troops stationed at Beidaying. The Japanese press labeled 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 sabatoge 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 10:20 PM, 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…
Baby Steps Toward WWII
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 did investigate, and in a 1932 report, denied that the invasion was an act of defense, as Japan had advertised.
Rather than vacate Manchuria, Japan decided to vacate the League of Nations. And soon there was WWII…
Secrets of the Reichstag Fire
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #7
When people hear "King of Beers" they think of Budweiser. And when "King of Rock ‘n’ Roll" is mentioned, Elvis Presley comes to mind. But when somebody talks about the "King of False Flag Operations," ten to one they’re referring to 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. It wasn’t a wastebasket variety fire, either; by the time the firemen and police arrived, that thing was a smoking hugeonic conflagration.
Fear Mongering Nazis
Der Fuhrer of the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler, assured everyone that Communist terrorists started the fire. Hitler’s partner in villainy, Hermann Göring, said 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 defense 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 organize and assemble? You gotta be outta your Commie-paranoid skull — without a doubt, gone.
The Reichstag decree even allowed the government to spy on it’s own citizens’ personal mail and telephone conversations without a warrant…something most Americans today could hardly begin to fathom (at least before President George W. Bush signed a secret order in 2002 ordering the National Security Agency to do just exactly the same thing.)
The Slippery Slope to Fascist Dictatorship
So, after scaring the bejeezus out of the masses with dramatic warnings of impending attacks from Communist terrorist bogeymen, the Nazis were elected by German citizens convinced that trading in their constitutional rights was necessary for the Nazis to protect them.
Once elected, the Nazis wasted no time beginning the slide to dictatorship. Less than a month later they passed the Patriot Act — oops, I’m sorry, the Nazis called their legislation the Enabling Act. Regardless the title, the law allowed Hitler and his cabinet to enact legislation without the consent of parliament.
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote: "Now it will be easy to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda."
And they did.
But 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.
But, from an outsider’s point of view, German citizens were clearly content frogs in a slow-heated cauldron of boiling water. By the time the detention camp populations grew from thousands to millions, the Nazi cancer was terminal.
And that’s how a false flag operation handed one nation to a really neat guy…a celibate vegetarian who neither smoked nor drank…who liked cars and planes, eating out, watching films…a charming man who was kind to animals, and sickened by the sight of blood…an insomniac who liked Schubert, Beethoven, and Wagner…a guy who pretended to listen to advice, then always made his own decisions.
That’s how it happened.
Fake Invasion at Gleiwitz
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #6
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 immitation of the previous year’s infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, the transmission went dead for a moment of dramatic silence.
Word of Gleiwitz Reaches Rest of World
Soon, the airwaves popped and crackled to life again, and this time Polish voices (clever little devils, those Germans…) 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. The day World War II began.
Alfred Naujocks: The Man Who Started World War II
Alfred Helmut Naujocks was an intellectual go-to tough man. It was Naujocks who 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.
Operation Himmler
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 defense. The actions were all part of a larger plan, called Operation Himmler.
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!
See how it was all Poland’s fault? See how war was started under the premise of defending Germany? See how a psychopath seems like a savior to the dupes he claims to be protecting? Learn from history…
Where Are They Now?
Had it not been for the Nuremberg trials in 1945, the real story behind the Gleiwitz attack might have never been uncovered. It was there that the operation’s leader, Alfred Naujocks, spilled the beans in a written affidavit.
After that fateful night, Naujocks had several more years of adventures with the Nazis. Then he deserted Germany and turned himself over to Allied forces in 1944. He was held as a war criminal until the war was over. After testifying at the Nuremberg Trials, he became a businessman in Hamburg, and may have helped some Nazis escape to South America on the side. He died in 1966.
As for the Gleiwitz radio station, it still boasts a 38-story tower, nicknamed the Bavarian Eiffel Tower, that’s the tallest wooden tower in the world. In 2004, the station became home to the Museum on Radio History and Visual Arts.
The Myth of Pearl Harbor
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #5
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor that decimated the U.S. 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.
Because the United States manipulated Japan into attacking, purposefully allowed their operation to proceed, and then played the victim for all it was worth, the Pearl Harbor Attack makes it into the top 5 of HDotW’s 10 False Flags that Changed the World.
The Sneak Attack Myth
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 Harbor. U.S. intelligence, which had broken every major Japanese code, also deciphered many Japanese dispatches.
In May, Japanese Adm. Nomura warned his superiors that Americans were decoding his dispatches. However, nobody in Tokyo thought the Japanese codes could be broken, and the transmissions continued.
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 Harbor. Surprisingly, Washington chose not to share this information with the officers at Pearl Harbor.
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, U.S. 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 Harbor 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, U.S. 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 4 hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But, as many messages before, it was withheld from the Pearl Harbor commanders.
In addition to the US-decoded radio transmissions from the attack fleet, there were many specific warnings delivered to Roosevelt via non-American sources: a Yugoslav double agent named Dusko Popov, a dispatch decoded by the Dutch Army, a message from Kilsoo Haan of the Sino-Korean People’s League.
Despite repeated denials, it’s clear the Roosevelt administration knew full well of the "sneak" attack long before it arrived.
The Destroyed Pacific Fleet Myth
Although many ships were damaged at Pearl Harbor, 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.
The Myth of U.S. Reluctance for War
It’s true the American public, still nursing an anti-war sentiment leftover from the first World War, was reluctant to jump into a second World War. There were also many members of Congress backed by wealthy Americans who had significant financial ties to the fascist powers of Germany and Italy at the time.
But, 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 defense 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 8 of the recommended actions.
As with recent wars, it all boiled down to oil. 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 Harbor happen, and even helped Japan by making sure their attack was a surprise.
He did this by withholding information from Pearl Harbor’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."
It worked.
Speaking as someone who has personally stood on the USS Arizona Memorial and watched the oil still leaking from the wreckage, I can say that the Pearl Harbor Attack was one of the greatest false flag operations of all time.
Israeli Terrorist Cell Uncovered in Egypt
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #4
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 U.S. Information Agency libraries — one in Alexandria, and one in Cairo.
Then, they firebombed a British-owned Metro-Goldwyn Mayer theater, and a railway terminal, and the central post office, and a couple more theaters…
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.
What Made Israel Stoop to Terrorism?
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 a bit 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 U.S. 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. And, since there were no Egyptians planning attacks against Americans, Ben Gurion’s proteges did the next best thing: they recruited Israeli agents to PRETEND to be Egyptian terrorists.
Unit 131
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 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.
Unit 131 decided to call their terrorist plan Operation Suzannah. The name came from Susan Kauffman, the fiancee of Victor Levy, one of the Israeli terrorists. The name also referred to the unit’s call to action: the unit would activate when it heard an Israel radio broadcast of the American song, Oh! Susannah.
In the summer of 1954, Colonel Binyamin Gibli, the chief of Aman, arranged for the tune to be broadcast…
Israeli Terrorist Ring Busted
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 theater 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.
The Wicked Web Unravels
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 frameup 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. And, although Ben Gurion never admitted fault, he did resign his post as Defense Minister.
What Happened to the Terrorists?
Yosef Carmon and Max Binnet both committed suicide in an Egyptian prison.
Dr. Moshe Marzouk and Shmuel Azar were both sentenced to death in a very public trial.
Much of the world persuaded the Egyptian government not to hang the two terrorists, including intervention from US President Eisenhower, Indian President Nehru, and even the Pope. Egypt, referring to America’s hanging the Rosenbergs, responded: "Egypt (will) treat its spies in precisely the same manner adopted by the United States." Marzouk and Azar were hanged in a Cairo prison.
Meir Meyuhas and Meir Za’afran, after spending seven years in jail, were both released in 1962. Sworn to silence, they returned to Israel and reconstructed their lives far from the public spotlight.
Victorine Marcelle Ninio was tortured in an Egyptian prison. With her feet severely beaten, and threatened with rape, she threw herself out of a window and almost died.
After healing in a hospital and enduring the spy trial, she was sentenced to 15 years in a prison for women in Kanather — the longest sentence ever for a female political prisoner in Egypt. She was released as part of a prisoner exchange following 1967’s Six-Day War, and quietly returned to Israel, having become a source of political embarrassment. However, by 1974 much of Operation Suzannah had become public, and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir attended Ninio’s wedding.
Robert Dassa spent fourteen years in an Egyptian prison at Tura, where he ran the prison basketball team. He was also released as part of the Six-Day War prisoner exchange in February of 1968. In 1979 he returned to Egypt as a journalist to cover Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s visit to Alexandria. Thirteen years later he wrote a book about his experience.
Victor Levy and Philip Nathanson were sentenced to life in prison, where they made friends and even ran a successful duck farm with the approval of the prison administrator. The were also released in the Six-Day War prisoner exchange, and returned quietly to Israel.
Avraham Seidenberg, who had betrayed Unit 131 to Egyptian Intelligence, was the only spy who escaped. He returned to a hero’s welcome in Israel. When his perjury, and probable roll as an Egyptian double agent, was discovered, Seidenberg was sentenced to 10 years in an Israeli prison. After serving as an exemplary prisoner, he was released. He briefly sold television sets in Tel-Aviv. Then, in 1972, and still denying everything, he moved to California.
U.S.-Sponsored Terrorism: Operation Northwoods
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #3
Most Americans can’t conceive that officials at the highest levels of the U.S. Government would murder thousands of its own citizens to advance an empirical agenda. We should all, very carefully, think again…
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 U.S. armed forces gave written approval to sink U.S. 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 — and the international community — would beg and scream for the marines to storm Havana. Another benefit would be the wave of patriotism that would spur American teens to join the Army, do the fighting and dying, and return home with bloody stumps in place of their limbs. But, put simply, starting a war with communist Cuba was the motivation for the Pentagon’s Northwoods plan.
Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. (Chief of Navy Operations), General George H. Decker (Chief of the Land Forces section), General Leyyman L. Leymnintzer (Chief of the Joint Chief of Staff), General Curtis E. LeMay (Chief of the Air Force section), General David M. Shoup (Commander of the Marines)
Operation Northwoods
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. (The complete declassified Top Secret document can be read at George Washington University’s online archive: Northwoods Document.)
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 U.S. 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.
(Note: This was the favorite choice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.)
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.
To turn neighboring countries against Cuba, false Cuban planes would be used to bomb the Dominican Republic. The U.S. plan called for using actual Soviet bombs, and intercepting fake Cuban weapons shipments, such that the frame-up of Cuba would be complete.
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.
Blowing up a U.S. battleship in Cuban waters when Cuban planes and ships are in the area, so they can be blamed. A fake air/sea rescue operation was planned, as well as fake funerals and fake passenger lists published in the Main Stream Media to "cause a healthy wave of national indignation." The document actually mentions how a similar incident — the US Maine false flag operation — successfully started the Spanish American War in 1898.
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 Rejected
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, ironically, by a Cuban sympathizer in the streets of an American city.
Even more ironically, in 1975 President Ford appointed retired General Lyman Lemnitzer to the Commission on CIA Activities to investigate whether the CIA had committed acts that violated American laws.
Phantoms in the Gulf of Tonkin
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #2
Until 1964, Vietnam was not a U.S. war.
Sure, the U.S. had sent 400 special forces to train South Vietnamese troops in 1961. And more troops were sent to police the country in 1963. And every now and again U.S.
newspapers printed photos of Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire in public.
But, even the threat of Communism toppling regimes like dominoes wasn’t good enough to sell a full-blown war. Until August 2…
The Rush to War
On August 2, 1964, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked a U.S. destroyer, the USS Maddox. The boats reportedly fired torpedos at the U.S. ship in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin, about thirty miles off the Vietnam coast.
On August 4, the U.S. 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 testified. He 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 preapproved 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 U.S. troops were fighting in Indochina.
The Phantom Attack
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 U.S. destroyers misinterpreted radar and radio signals as attacks by the North Vientamese navy. It’s now known that no North Vietnamese boats were in the area. So, for two hours, the two U.S. destroyers blasted away at nonexistent radar targets, and vigorously manuevered to avoid phantom North Vietnamese ships.
Even though the second "attack" only involved two U.S. 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 or needed.
The War Powers Resolution
After the Vietnam War turned into a quagmire for the U.S., 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 U.S. military in hostilities. It’s still in effect to this day.
"If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco." ~Lyndon B. Johnson.
"We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities." ~President George W. Bush.
Same tune, different song…
The September 11, 2001 Attacks
10 False Flags that Changed the World: #1
What really happened on September 11, 2001? There are too many speculations to examine in this space, but one ludicrous conspiracy theory deserves mention. It goes like this:
A 44-year-old former CIA asset, operating out of a cave in Afghanistan, coordinated a plot whereby — without any inside help — four hijacked airliners, piloted by 19 flight school dropouts, flew around the most secure airspace in the world for almost two hours, unopposed by 35 in-range USAF bases. Then the incapable pilots brought down three (yes, 3…) Manhattan skyscrapers, and even rammed a jet into the headquarters of the world’s most technologically superior military without a single anti-aircraft missile being fired.
Many people who were witness and victim to the tragedy agree that, without help from both Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, this theory fails to explain the catastrophic events of that day.
According to WTC maintenance employee, William Rodriguez:
"There’s reality, and there’s illusion. When illusion becomes reality, that’s a problem. Nine-eleven is a giant illusion. Besides, what can they do to me? I’m a national hero, Bush told me so himself."
On September 11, 2001, Rodriguez opened locked stairwell doors for firefighters and single-handedly rescued 15 people. He was the last person to exit the North Tower alive.
An Opportune Nightmare
In criminal investigations, detectives look for a motive. In the case of the 9/11 tragedy, there were so many motives that it might be shorter to list who DIDN’T stand to benefit. Nevertheless, here are some reasons some might have welcomed the attacks…
The Twin Towers Were an Asbestos Bombshell
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.
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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.
War Profiteers Needed a New Pearl Harbor
Rebuilding America’s Defenses, a year 2000 report from the neo-conservative think tank, Project for the New American Century, says:
"To preserve American military preeminence in the coming decades, the Department of Defense must move more aggressively…the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor."
The report maintains that a world dominated by America, both economically and militarily, is good for everybody on the planet — especially the greedy pockets of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex.
One may wonder what highly-intelligent brains are doing the thinking in the PNAC tank. Members have included:
Dick Cheney
Jeb Bush
Donald Rumsfeld
Paul Wolfowitz
Scooter Libby
John Bolton
Dov S. Zakheim
Robert B. Zoellick
Richard Perle
William Kristol
Dan Quayle
The fact is, war profiteers needed a new war to keep the gravy train rolling. Thanks to 9/11, they got two: one in Afghanistan, and one in Iraq.
While citizens pay the Pentagon more money to fight these wars, let’s not forget what 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.
The Patriot Act
Besides enabling the neocons to fund the growth of an empire already glutted with over 700 overseas bases in 130 countries, the attacks handed a lackluster administration the political power to abolish fundamental American freedoms while increasing corporate domination.
Eight days after the attacks, the 342-page Patriot Act was given to Congress. That same week, letters armed with anthrax from a U.S. 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.
Oil
In early 2001, executives from Shell, BP, and Exxon met with Dick 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 U.S. invaded Iraq.
And now? A new Iraq hydrocarbon law expected to pass in March 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 30 years.
Helping Let 9/11 Happen
Put two and two together, and the picture that most clearly takes shape is an inside job that exploited a genuine terrorist plot.
According to this theory, real terrorists were groomed and sent on a mission to hijack and crash planes into American targets. However, elements within the U.S. government knew of the coming attacks and decided to benefit from them.
These insiders obstructed investigations by the FBI, ensured a standdown of air defenses, rigged buildings to collapse, and influenced the terrorist organization at a high level — high enough to choose the targets and the date of the operation.
These insiders cleared the way, let it happen, and planted plenty of evidence to incriminate the patsies.
Blocked Investigations
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 the fall of 2000, two of the Flight 77 hijackers moved in with an FBI informant while they took flight-school lessons in San Diego. The CIA already had the two under surveillance because they had just returned from an al Qaeda summit in Malaysia.
Somehow, both the CIA and the FBI allowed the two suspected terrorists to travel in and out of the country and buy airline tickets without raising a flag.
In July of 2001, Phoenix FBI special agent Kenneth Williams sent FBI headquarters a memo, subtitled "Osama bin Laden and Al-Muhjiroun supporters attending civil aviation universities/colleges in Arizona." His recommendation to investigate terrorists training at aviation schools was ignored by FBI headquarters.
In August, 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 U.S. 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 U.S. wasn’t taking preventative actions. But in each case the U.S., as if by design, chose not to investigate.
War Games and the USAF Standdown
"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; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." ~Condoleezza Rice, May 16, 2002.
Because of the Pentagon’s MASCAL exercise in October, 2000, and the disruption of al Qaeda’s Operation Bojinka in 1995, we know the above quote from Condoleezza Rice is categorically bull excrement.
We also know that on the morning of 9/11, multiple Air Force war games and drills were in progress, all under the umbrella command of Dick Cheney. The hijackers would have never made it to their targets without these multiple, simultaneous 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.
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."
Biowarfare Exercise Tripod II was a terror drill that called for FEMA’s National Urban Search and Rescue Team to arrive in town the night before the attacks. Because the drill involved setting up a command post at Pier 29, it was all good and ready for Rudolph Giuliani to use when his regular disaster command post in WTC Building 7 collapsed.
"If our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the twin towers would still be standing, and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. That is treason!" ~Retired Air Force Colonel Robert M. Bowman, former director of the U.S. "Star Wars" space defense.
The WTC Demolitions
Except for the three WTC collapses on 9/11, no fire — and there have been some very severe ones — has ever caused a steel-framed high-rise building to collapse.
Not the Windsor Building fire, which engulfed a 32-story building in downtown Madrid in February, 2005. The building burned like a torch for twenty hours, reaching temperatures above 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit. But once the fire cooled, cranes had to be assembled and it took 6 months to disassemble the skeleton piece by piece, at a cost of over $28 million.
And not the One Meridian Plaza fire, which started in a 38-floor skyscraper in Philadelphia in 1991. Philadelphia’s worst fire ever raged for 18 hours, gutted eight floors, and was hot enough to crack granite. But no part of the building collapsed.
And not even the First Interstate Bank fire that destroyed floors 12-16 of a 62-story building in Los Angeles in 1988. Despite being regarded as the worst, most devastating high-rise fire in the history of Los Angeles, and blazing for over three hours, there was no damage to the main steel structural members and only minor damage to one secondary beam.
Yet, three steel-framed skyscrapers collapsed on September 11, 2001. And World Trade Center 7 wasn’t even hit by a plane. The 47-story building’s 58 steel perimeter columns and 25 steel core columns all broke, simultaneously, at 5:20 pm.
The offices of the Secret Service, Department of Defense, SEC, IRS, and CIA offices, along with all their files, disappeared into the footprint of WTC 7, along with the rest of the building. To this date, nobody has explained how or why the building collapsed.
The closest official explanation has been from FEMA’s report:
"Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires on the 5th to 7th floors. The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue."
In other words, they don’t know either. Some witnesses reported demolition bombs and charges inside the buildings. Some physics professors point to evidence that thermite was used. Some employees note that there were powerdowns and construction crews "upgrading cable" during the previous weekend. But, really, what made the buildings collapse?
Only one thing’s for sure: It wasn’t jet fuel from hijacked planes.
Protecting the Official Lie
The masterminds behind a false flag operation on the scale of the 9/11 attacks could hardly paint a flawless picture. For people who look, there are quite a few visible brush strokes that betray the fake official story.
The Missing Black Boxes
Each plane that hit the WTC had two black boxes: a flight data recorder, and a cockpit voice recorder. These nearly indestructible black boxes are built to withstand 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour and an impact of 3,400 G’s.
Honorary firefighter Mike Bellone and retired New York firefighter Nicholas DeMasi claimed to have found three of the four black boxes in the WTC rubble before 2002. They said they turned the boxes over to FBI agents, who then told them to stay quiet.
But, according to the FBI and the 9/11 Commission Report, even though the WTC rubble was combed for fingernails and bone fragments, not a single one of the four indestructible black boxes was found. However, National Transportation Safety Board spokesperson Ted Lopatkiewicz said that he couldn’t recall a domestic case before 9/11/01 in which the recorders were not recovered.
Planted Evidence
While the FBI would have us believe that the four indestructible black boxes were vaporized when the airplanes hit the twin towers, hijacker Al-Suqami’s passport was found by a passerby in the vicinity of Vesey Street minutes after the first plane hit the north tower. Even though the plane and its passengers were almost entirely vaporized, the pristine passport must have flown out of his pocket and avoided the steel-melting fireball.
Besides the magic passport, other suspicious evidence has conveniently surfaced to make sure the hijackers are linked to 9/11. For instance, two of ringleader Mohamed Atta’s bags didn’t get checked onto the plane. His luggage was the only passenger’s luggage that didn’t make the flight. Besides procedure manuals for Boeing aircraft, the bags contained Atta’s passport, a Koran, and lots of letters.
FBI agent Warren Flagg says, "How do you think the government was able to identify all 19 hijackers almost immediately after the attacks. They were identified through those papers in the luggage. And that’s how it was known so soon that al-Qaida was behind the hijackings."
Resisting an Investigation
From day one, President Bush fought against the creation of a Sept. 11 commission. Only after enormous pressure due to the 9/11 Widows did he finally cave in. But even then, he refused to testify under oath, or on the record. And then, he asked the commission to let mastermind Dick Cheney do all his talking, in the White House. And he asked the commission not to take notes, either. So, who looks guilty?
Conclusion
If you follow the money…and we’re talking trillions of dollars here…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.
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"The bottom line is that all wars are contrived. Rich bankers and financiers pull the strings to put these horrific events like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor into motion. It’s simply bizarre." ~Ross Wittenberg, former Vietnam pilot with over 100 combat missions and a commercial pilot for Pan Am and United for some 35 years.
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"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." ~Hermann Göring, Nazi war criminal.
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"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty." ~George W. Bush, speaking before the UN General Assembly.
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"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." ~Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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"No one could have conceivably imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft - fly U.S. aircraft into buildings full of innocent people - and show no remorse. This is a new kind of — a new kind of evil. And we understand. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while." ~George W. Bush.
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Go to the previous article in this series:Phantoms in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Go to the original article in this series:10 False Flags that Changed the World.
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