Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list
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Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list
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#2I generally find this blogger too alarmist, but much of the list here appears accurate, and shocking to me. Faked terrorism seems much more common than I would guess. Of course, the more liberal/democratic the country, and the more recent, the more weak/stetched the case is.
but still, the lesson to me is that this sort of "conspiracy" is not at all implausible, even in a country like Canada....
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#3I don't see the recent "secret weapons" in Iraq thing.
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#4I think most of us have come to believe that governments themselves are better terrorists than the real ones.
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#5Not really surprising, but how do we stop it? Can it be stopped, or is corruption in government, just something we're forced to live with forever?
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#6It's a bit of a mixed bag. The Columbian think wasn't a politically motivated false flag operation, for instance, it was murder for financial gain.
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#7Not really surprising, but how do we stop it? Can it be stopped, or is corruption in government, just something we're forced to live with forever?
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
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#8It's a bit of a mixed bag. The Columbian think wasn't a politically motivated false flag operation, for instance, it was murder for financial gain.
Yes, it's a bit misleading to mix in US State Dept contingency plans (Northwoods) with actual false flag operations (Israeli bombings in Egypt).
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#10I generally find this blogger too alarmist, but much of the list here appears accurate, and shocking to me. Faked terrorism seems much more common than I would guess. Of course, the more liberal/democratic the country, and the more recent, the more weak/stetched the case is. but still, the lesson to me is that this sort of "conspiracy" is not at all implausible, even in a country like Canada....
>Of course, the more liberal/democratic the country, and the more recent, the more weak/stetched the case is.
Not really, quite the opposite. The most "liberal" countries are the worst perpetrators of such things, if we're talking about Western democracies. They usually do it outside their territorry to assert influence on countries and place allies in power, grab resources, prevent unfavorable regime change etc.
(Nothing to do with establishing democracy either: they are impartial to that, and have worked with regimes such as the apartheid in S.A., Pinochet etc, including of course people like Noriega, Saddam and Ossama, which they later broke ties with when their foreign interests didn't ally as well, but who were just as scum when they were pals).