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Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Afghanistan/2001 Invasion	7 October 2001	30 August 2021	The war in Afghanistan, instigated within a month of 9/11, supposedly in retaliation, with the claimed justification - for which no evidence has been presented - that the attacks were planned by Ossama bin Laden, and that he was based in Afghanistan.
Biden–Ukraine corruption scandal	2010	2020	Maybe this scandal would have swung the US/2020 Presidential election the other way if the media had reported on it?
Julian Assange/Imprisonment	19 June 2012	24 June 2024	Five years de jure in Belmarsh Prison (2019-2024)
Elsagate	2014	2019
"2014 Ukraine coup/Anti-Terrorist-Operation"	15 April 2014	24 February 2022	Olexander Turchynov, as acting President of Ukraine, announced the start of "anti-terrorist operation" against Donbas protestors in 2014.
Russiagate	November 2016	2019
Danske Bank/Money laundering scandal	2017	2018
Donald Trump/First Presidency	20 January 2017	20 January 2021	The Donald Trump administration
Brexit	March 2017	31 January 2020	The United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.
Reframing Russia	1 June 2017	31 May 2020	An IfS/II discussed project about "The RT Challenge" which was publicly launched in 2019, not under the II/IfS name.
Project Ireland 2040	2018		The Great Replacement in Ireland?
DEFUSE	2018	2018	A rejected proposal from Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance to weaponise naturally occuring bat coronaviruses, to preempt "zoonotic spillover". Authenticity questionable.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018	23 January 2018	26 January 2018	~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World"
Saratov Airlines Flight 6W703	11 February 2018	11 February 2018
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	The 54th Munich Security Conference
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting	14 February 2018	14 February 2018	A school shooting in Florida in 2018
Toxic Dagger	20 February 2018	12 March 2018	The largest chemical warfare exercise in the UK, coinciding with the Skripal Affair. Held February 2018.
Skripal Affair/Boshirov and Petrov in the UK	2 March 2018	4 March 2018	Overview of what Boshirov and Petrov did in the UK
Skripal Affair	4 March 2018	4 March 2018	A purported chemical weapons attack. The Integrity Initiative carried out extensive research into how to control the narrative of the event.
Brussels Forum/2018	8 March 2018	10 March 2018	Annual 3 day spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and German Marshall Fund. Discussed the "Fight for Economic Equality".
2018 Gaza Massacre	30 March 2018	15 May 2018	A massacre of at least 135 unarmed protestors including many women and children, and the wounding of many thousands more by Israeli IDF sniper teams, during the Palestinian 'Great March of Return' and the weeks following its end on 15 May 2018
2018 California Fires	3 April 2018	22 November 2018	At the time the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season ever recorded in California.
Douma attack	7 April 2018	7 April 2018
2018 Brussels DisinfoLab	11 April 2018 08:30:00	11 April 2018 13:30:00	A 2018 conference set up jointly by the EU Disinfolab and the Atlantic Council
Clade X	15 May 2018	15 May 2018	A pandemic/biowarfare preparation exercise by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Held May 2018.
Bilderberg/2018	7 June 2018	10 June 2018	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue	11 June 2018	13 June 2018	Spooky/MICC conference attended by Maria de Goeij whose trip report on it for the Integrity Initiative was leaked.
Exercise Mataika	16 August 2018	16 August 2018	2018 "pandemic" exercise planning for non-pharmaceutical interventions like social distancing and face masks, and contact tracing. "Dissent is quashed using various means"
Cold War Then and Now?	13 October 2018 09:30:00	13 October 2018 16:30:00	A free conference that appears to have been part of a broader campaign by the Institute for Statecraft to promote Cold War 2.0.
Tackling Tools of Malign Influence	1 November 2018	2 November 2018	Integrity Initiative conference about "Russian Propaganda"
Integrity Initiative/Leak	5 November 2018	29 March 2019	A series of 7 leaks, starting on 5 November 2018, of unknown origin and veracity. After some time, the II disputed the authenticity of some of the documents, but was not clear about which.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/1	5 November 2018	5 November 2018	The first of many leaks which exposed covertly organised groups of Russophobic academics, journalists, government officers and deep state operatives who strategised about how to alert to people to a purported Russian "threat".
Yellow vests movement	17 November 2018		A series of mass demonstrations in France which expressed the dissatisfaction with the political process. Subject to increasingly violent repression.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/2	29 November 2018	29 November 2018	The second Integrity Initiative Leak, 24 days after Integrity Initiative Leak 1.
Le Cercle/2018 (Washington)	30 November 2018	2 December 2018	Dates maybe not exact
UNAIDS/Programme Coordinating Board/Meeting/43	11 December 2018	13 December 2018	A Geneva meeting of the 43rd Programme Coordinating Board of UNAIDS
Integrity Initiative/Leak/3	13 December 2018	13 December 2018	The 3rd tranche of documents released as part of the Integrity Initiative Leak, on 13 December 2018.
Workshop on Identifying and Combating Disinformation in Big Data	13 December 2018 08:00:00	13 December 2018 12:00:00

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Description
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
Luminate		Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies.
Gannett/Assets		The assets of Gannett, the mass media corporation.
Obama Foundation Fellows		Obama Foundation group that "supports outstanding civic innovators — leaders who are working with their communities to create transformational change and addressing some of the world’s most pressing problems."
Google News Initiative		Google and the deep state buying domination over corporate media and creating tools to censor independent voices.
Transantlantic Leadership Network		Behind-the-scenes transatlantic think-tank
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency		The agency that cares so much about security, it's in the name twice.
Climate Disinformation Coalition		Coalition of NGOs lobbying to introduce more censorship of social media. Partners with the spooky Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
Centre for Societal Security		Military program at the Swedish Defence University, designed to indoctrinate "society's key actors" in following the official narrative in "security" matters.
Independent Office for Police Conduct
Global Virome Project
Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact
Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
Brood of Holy Wisdom
Byline Times
Center for Countering Digital Hate		Front group to coordinate internet censorship, i.e. to "deplatform"/"demonetize"/shadow ban dissident opinion on YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, Paypal etc.
Extinction Rebellion		A mass civil disobedience movement
Poynter Institute/List		The Poynter Institute list was a list of 515 websites that it termed "untrustworthy".
Office of National Intelligence (Australia)		Australian intelligence agency responsible for advising the Prime Minister and National Security Committee.
Office of National Intelligence		Australian intelligence agency

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
The Deep State Blog		http://deepstateblog.org
DisinfoPortal		https://disinfoportal.org/	A "one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war" from the Atlantic Council.
Parler		https://www.parler.com
Rogue Media Labs		https://roguemedia.co/	A website which republished all the Integrity Initiative Leak documents

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
Theranos		American pharma company that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Possibly a CIA front company, for an unknown purpose.
"Independent Police Complaints Commission"		A group interested in complaints about the UK police
UN/Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force		A part of the UN's "counter-terrorism" project.
The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army		Improbable militia presumably a propaganda exercise to create support for war in the Western liberal opinion.

 

==A Website that Closed==  ==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Alfredo Alcaino	10 January 1926	2018			Politician Lawyer Deep state operative	Chile born Cercle visitor, deep state connected lawyer
Philipp Jenninger	10 June 1932	4 January 2018	Germany Stuttgart Baden-Württemberg		Diplomat Spook Politician	Spooky german politician
Peter Preston	23 May 1938	6 January 2018			Author Journalist Propagandist Editor	Editor of the The Guardian for twenty years.
Peter Sutherland	25 April 1946	7 January 2018	Dublin Eire	Infection	Lawyer Deep politician Businessperson	A deep politician who held some key posts including Chairman of Goldman Sachs, WTO head, Attorney General of Ireland ...
Odvar Nordli	3 November 1927	9 January 2018			Politician
Alan Hart	17 February 1942	15 January 2018			Author Journalist	UK journalist supporter of the 9-11/Truth movement.
Luc Beyer de Rycke	9 September 1933	18 January 2018	Paris		Journalist Politician	Cercle visitor.
Franz Lütolf	6 June 1924	18 January 2018			Academic Banker Economist Deep politician	General Manager and Member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Bank Corporation and a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Stansfield Turner	1 December 1923	18 January 2018			Spook
William McDonough	21 April 1934	22 January 2018	New York United States Waccabuc		Deep state operative	CFR, TLC, 7 Bilderbergs, Group of Thirty, NY Fed Chairman..
Robert Parry	24 June 1949	27 January 2018			Journalist	Veteran US investigative reporter
Gene Sharp	21 January 1928	28 January 2018			Scientist	Political scientist credited with writing handbooks for non-violent resistance, which are also used in color revolutions.
John Perry Barlow	3 October 1947	7 February 2018	United States California San Francisco		Musician Spook Activist Poet	Member of the drug-promoting music band Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - and with strong ties to CIA. He may also have been involved in the conceptual origin that spawned CIA-connected entities such as Facebook.
Carlos Robles Piquer	13 October 1925	8 February 2018			Diplomat Politician	Cercle visitor.
Henri de Monpezat	11 June 1934	13 February 2018	Denmark		Royalty	Prince Consort of Denmark. Attended Bilderberg/1969.
Ruud Lubbers	5 July 1939	14 February 2018	Netherlands Rotterdam		Diplomat Politician Deep state operative	Dutch deep state operative and Prime-Minister. Close ties to the SDS as Minister of State.
John Orr	3 September 1945	19 February 2018			Police officer	DCS John Orr led the Lockerbie investigation (1988 to 1990)
Valentin Falin	3 April 1926	22 February 2018			Diplomat Historian
Sergio Balanzino	20 June 1934	25 February 2018	Belgium Brussels		Diplomat	Twice acting Secretary General of NATO.
David Mullins	28 April 1946	26 February 2018			Economist	Federal Reserve economist who moved on to the speculator hedge fund Long Term Capital Management until its spectacular collapse.
Nils Wilhjelm	17 June 1936	5 March 2018	Denmark Nykøbing Falster		Politician Businessperson	Danish Minister of Industry, businessman and multi-Bilderberger
Helmut Maucher	9 December 1927	5 March 2018			Businessperson	CEO of Nestlé from June 1990 to June 1997, where he attended the 1992 and Bilderberg meeting
Piero Ostellino	9 October 1935	10 March 2018			Journalist	Spooky Italian journalist who attended Bilderberg/1982.
Adrian Lamo	20 February 1981	14 March 2018		Drug overdose	Hacker	American hacker who committed "suicide" in 2018.
Tankmar Horn	16 August 1924	16 March 2018			Businessperson	Finnish diplomat and businessman. Deep state father.
Ivor Richard	30 May 1932	18 March 2018			Politician	British Labour politician, British Ambassador to the United Nations
Peter Peterson	5 June 1926	20 March 2018			Financier Deep state functionary Businessperson	Long time CFR chair
Robert Forrester	4 May 1953	22 March 2018			Spook
Dagfinn Vårvik	8 June 1924	25 March 2018			Politician Editor	Norwegian politician for the Centre Party and editor-in-chief. Attended Bilderberg/1975.
Peter Munk	8 November 1927	28 March 2018			Businessperson	Suspected Canadian deep state operative
Frances Stockdale Symms	1937	28 March 2018
Arthur S. Hulnick	1935	April 2018			Spook Academic
Milagro de Mier		April 2018	Washington DC	Drowning	Activist	An anti-GMO activist who reportedly drowned in 2018.
Efraín Ríos Montt	16 June 1926	1 April 2018			Lawyer	The only head of a nation state to have been found guilty of genocide in his own country.
Winnie Mandela	26 September 1936	2 April 2018	South Africa Johannesburg			Anti-apartheid activist and politician. Sentenced to jail in political trial.
Mete Sozen	22 May 1930	5 April 2018	London UK		Academic Deep state functionary	A professor of Structural Engineering who wrote a series of official government reports after "terrorist" deep events.
Maksim Borodin		15 April 2018	Russia Yekaterinburg	Falling	Journalist	Russian journalist who fell to his death from his apartment in unclear circumstances
Gerd-Helmut Komossa	11 November 1924	26 April 2018	Germany Bonn		Spook Soldier
Baki Ilkin	3 October 1943	29 April 2018			Diplomat	High-ranking Turkish diplomat who attended the 1983 Bilderberg meeting.
Peter Temple-Morris	12 February 1938	1 May 2018			Politician	Former British Conservative MP
Richard Pipes	11 July 1923	17 May 2018			Historian	Hawkish cold warrior historian
James Eberle	31 May 1927	17 May 2018			Mariner	Chatham House Director in retirement
Bernard Lewis	31 May 1916	19 May 2018	US New Jersey		Historian Neoconservatism	Spooky academic who attended the 1979 and 2002 Bilderbergs, as well as the Washington Conference on International Terrorism.
Richard Goodwin	7 December 1931	20 May 2018			Author	Aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Helped plan 1964 Brazil coup.
Faith Ryan Whittlesey	21 February 1939	21 May 2018			Politician
Luis Posada Carriles	15 February 1928	23 May 2018			Doctor "Terrorist" Assassin
Joseph Recarey	5 June 1967	25 May 2018			Police officer Epstein Affair/Premature death	A Palm Beach detective who was active in breaking open Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking/sexual blackmail activities. Died, aged 50, "after a brief illness."
Ola Ullsten	23 June 1931	28 May 2018			Diplomat Politician	Single Bilderberger Prime Minister of Sweden
Mārtiņš Bunkus		30 May 2018	Latvia Riga	Gunshot	Lawyer	Assassinated lawyer who had worked on suspect financial institutions in Riga
Razan al-Najjar	11 September 1996	1 June 2018	Gaza		Nurse	Palestinian nurse executed by Israeli soldiers.
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