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The Boston Marathon bombings were suspicious events with an even more suspicious effort at cover up.
A year of increasing lawlessness by the US government, expanding the 'might is right' ethos in historically unprecedented ways.

2013 was a year of increasing lawlessness by the US government. On July 17, 2013 an objection to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 was struck down, giving the US government the legal right to detain anyone indefinitely without charge.

Edward Snowden Affair

Full article: Edward Snowden Affair

NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, leaked documents which revealed that mass surveillance was much more widespread than earlier realized. He confirmed the accounts of earlier whistleblowers such as Russel Tice.

"National Security"

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In 2013, the core mission of the FBI was changed quietly from law enforcement to "National Security". This reflects a wider shift away from explicitly defined, clear laws which are subject to review and challenge towards an opaque and deliberately ill-defined basis for the exercising of personal power.

The Boston Marathon bombings

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The Boston Marathon bombings were followed by an unprecedented city wide lock down which lacked even a purported legal basis. This appears to have been a further step down the road of conditioning people to the US Police State logic of "we have more guns than you, do as we say". WhoWhatWhy has been active in challenging the US government's official narrative of the event.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	8 November 1994	31 December 2016
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.
Al-Salam weapons deal	21 December 2005	2017	A large arms deal signed during the government of Tony Blair.
Al-Sweady Inquiry	2009	December 2014	Inquiry that cleared the British Army of accusations of torture of prisoners of war in Iraq. Heavy deep state presence.
Barack Obama/Presidency	20 January 2009	20 January 2017	The Barack Obama administration
Iraq Inquiry	24 November 2009	6 July 2016	"The point of the delay is to give the impression Chilcot has been absolutely painstaking and therefore the bucket of whitewash he will throw cannot be hiding anything. Do not be fooled." (Craig Murray)
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?
Azerbaijani laundromat	2012	2014	Complex money laundering operation run by Azerbaijan uncovered in 2017.
Cicada 3301	4 January 2012	2014	An elaborate series of puzzles that was published on the internet between 2012-2014
Hedges v. Obama	13 January 2012	28 April 2014	The plaintiffs challenged the 2012 NDAA contending that indefinite detention on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban was so vague as to allow unconstitutional, indefinite detention of civilians based on vague allegations. The Court of Appeals struck down an initial agreement, and the US Supreme Court concurred, arguing that the plaintiffs could not prove they would be affected by the law, so had no standing to contest it.
Julian Assange/Imprisonment	19 June 2012	24 June 2024	Five years de jure in Belmarsh Prison (2019-2024)
Clapper v. Amnesty International USA	29 October 2012	26 February 2013	James Clapper sought to dismiss Amnesty International's challenge of the Fisa Amendments Act. They Supreme Court ruled that dragnet surveillance could not be challenged since the plaintiffs were unlikely to be targets of surveillance - something that was revealed a few months later by the Edward Snowden leaks to be untrue. The decision appear to be nevertheless unchallenged.
2014 Ukraine coup	2013		Regime change war in Ukraine.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Saleh v. Bush	13 March 2013	10 February 2017	A legal claim that the Iraq war was an illegal act of aggression, dismissed in 2017 by the Westfall Act since it was carried out by US government employees within the scope of their employment.
Boston Marathon bombings	15 April 2013 14:49:00	19 April 2013 20:42:00	A suspicious bombing with an even more suspicious attempt at a clean up - including the murder of Ibragim Todashev while in police custody.
Edward Snowden Affair	5 June 2013		Edward Snowden provides undisputed documentary evidence that the NSA and other intelligence agencies were engaged in illegal universal surveillance. The commercially-controlled media reports this extensively but does not call for prosecutions. The relevant governments pass legislation to retroactively legalise the crimes, explaining that this is necessary protection against "terrorists".
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Le Cercle/2013 (London)	20 June 2013	23 June 2013	Slightly exposed meeting of Le Cercle attended by Václav Klaus
Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack	21 August 2013	21 August 2013
EuroMaidan	21 November 2013	2014	Ukraine coup of 2014
Yanukovitch postpones EU deal	21 November 2013 00:00:00		President Yanukovich embarrassed the European Union by postponing the signing of its Agreement in favor of joining Russia’s Common Union with other Commonwealth Independent States
Vitaly Klitschko/Emails	27 November 2013 00:00:00	27 November 2013 00:00:00	Treasonous e-Mails from Vitaly Klitschko regarding plans to destabilize Ukraine (Hacked by Anonymous and released on 23 February 2014
EU won't accept "Russian veto"	29 November 2013 00:00:00		European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso announces that the EU will “not accept Russia’s veto” of the Kiev/EU Agreement.
Nuland & Pyatt visit Maidan	10 December 2013 00:00:00		US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt visit protestors on Independence Square in Kiev
McCain visits Maidan	14 December 2013 00:00:00		US Senator John McCain addresses anti-government demonstrators On Kiev's Independence Square (Maidan)

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Vocativ			"A mouthpiece for Israel’s armed forces... that's half soft porn and half IDF press releases".
Graphika			UK deep state connected analysis company
AFD			Right wing populist party in Germany.
Aspen Institute/New Voices Fellowship			Bill Gates-funded inattentive to groom "experts and advocates" from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to "change public opinion and shift public policy" .
White Helmets		Non-profit	Western back group whose founder James Le Mesurier was found dead in Istanbul 3 days after a Russian press spokesperson tweeted that he was "a former agent of Britain's MI6".
Occupy Central		Protest movement	A civil disobedience movement which first manifested on the streets of Hong Kong's financial district on September 28, 2014. Plenty of support from National Endowment for Democracy.
Border Force			UK's border enforcement agency
Macro Advisory Partners		Commercial
Black Lives Matter			Advocacy and protest organization. Has a tendency to become very popular around elections and subsequently... dissappear.
Courage Foundation			A trust for fundraising the legal defence of individuals such as whistleblowers and journalists.
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Judicial Conduct Investigations Office
Operation Underground Railroad			Anti-sex trafficking NGO
Right Sector			A coalition of "far-right" groups which sent members to participate in the Anti-Terrorist-Operation in the Donbas.
Equilibrium Gulf Limited
Cambridge Analytica			A big data mining company

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
One America News Network		https://www.oann.com/	American news channel.
Worldnewsdailyreport.com		https://worldnewsdailyreport.com	"Where facts don't matter"
Center for Syncretic Studies		http://syncreticstudies.com	A "public geopolitical and ideological education institution which sees itself as part of the intellectual currents therein" also referred to as a "neo-fascist think tank"...
Vice News		https://www.vice.com/en us/news	Warmongering agenda, with skateboards
Rumble		https://rumble.com/	Video hosting website. An alternative to YouTube.
Qwant		https://qwant.com/	A French-based search engine with its own indexing engine. It claims that it does not employ user tracking or personalize search results in order to avoid trapping users in a filter bubble.
Patreon		http://www.patreon.com/	A site to encourage donations for content providers, but from late 2020 deleting dissident accounts.
JANCOM		https://web.archive.org/web/20131024082404/http://jancom.org/JANCOMOverview.html	The Justice for Asil Nadir Committee (JANCOM) is independant from and has no ties to Asil Nadir or the Nadir family and was set up in August 2012 by a group of retired professionals who do not believe that Asil Nadir received just and fair trials in either 1992-93 or 2011-12.
The Harrogate Agenda		http://harrogateagenda.org.uk/	Web presence of "The Harrogate Agenda", a movement aimed at making the the citizens of the UK legally sovereign over both Parliament and the Crown.
Telegram		https://telegram.org/	Telegram is a social media service.
Neon Nettle		https://neonnettle.com/	A media website; anti-globalist in nature.
Alchetron		https://www.alchetron.com/	A machine generated encyclopedia

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Economic Hogeschool Sint-Aloysius			Catholic Flemish/Belgian university of applied sciences from 1925 to 2013
Comverse		Commercial	American Tech company which does most of its research and development in Israel.
Stratesec		Commercial	A "security company" which did unspecified security work on the World Trade Center from 1993-2001 and which numbered Marvin Bush amongst its directors.
Defence Strategy & Solutions LLP		Military Commercial
Office for Judicial Complaints
UK Border Agency

 

A Website that Closed

Event	Image	URL	Description
Wikiscanner		https://web.archive.org/web/20120408180929/http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/	A public database that live scanned and cross-checked IP-adresses of Wikipedia editors. It turned out in the few years it ran that many topics were actively edited and monitored by deep state fractions, spooks, royals, US Senators, corporations and even the NSA, FBI and CIA themselves. WEF Member and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called it a "good site for transparency" but did nothing when the owner went broke and pulled the site from the internet.

 

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Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
R. Daniel McMichael	1925	2013				Worked as an administrative agent for the Scaife Family Charitable Trusts
Donald Duster	1932	2013			Businessperson	Chicago businessman. A non-caucasian who attended the 1971 Bilderberg
Paolo Pansa Cedronio	15 November 1915	2013			Diplomat	Deputy NATO Secretary General and Italian Ambassador to the United States. Not known to be a Bilderberger.
Preben Munthe	15 October 1922	3 January 2013			Economist	Conservative Norwegian Bilderberger and Trilateral Commission Member. Consultant for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
Luigi Spaventa	5 March 1934	6 January 2013	Italy Rome		Academic	Single Bilderberger Italian politician
Alasdair Milne	8 October 1930	8 January 2013			Television
Franz Froschmaier	29 July 1930	8 January 2013	Belgium Brussels		Politician Lawyer	German lawyer/politician
Aaron Swartz	8 November 1986	11 January 2013	New York United States Brooklyn		Hacker	A hacker who died a suspicious death after using his talents to promote freedom of information
Anthony Cavendish	20 July 1927	12 January 2013			Spook Journalist Banker Deep state operative	"Leading member" of Le Cercle.
Tony Martin	21 February 1942	17 January 2013	Trinidad Cocorite
Mehmet Ali Birand	9 December 1941	17 January 2013	Turkey Istanbul Şişli		Journalist	Turkish journalist with Milliyet and CNN Türk. Spoke positively of Fethullah Gülen. Attempted framed by intelligence services.
Donald Hornig	17 March 1920	21 January 2013	United States Rhode Island Providence		Chemist Teacher	US nuclear detonators scientist and presidential science advisor
Alden Clausen	17 February 1923	21 January 2013	United States California Burlingame		Central banker	Double Bilderberg President of the World Bank Group
Olivier Chevrillon	28 January 1929	22 January 2013	France Paris		Deep state functionary	French media CEO and civil servant
Max Kampelman	7 November 1920	25 January 2013			Diplomat Spook Deep state functionary	Neocon US arms negotiator with decades-long support for hardline "pro-Israel" advocacy groups
Johan Goudswaard	27 November 1921	26 January 2013	Netherlands Wassenaar		Businessperson	Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors in the Dutch multinational Unilever when he attended the 1975 Bilderberg, and went on to invest heavily in the USA.
Kuan-Teh Jeang	1959	27 January 2013			Virologist	NIH virologist under Anthony Fauci who died under unclear circumstances in 2014. Judy Mikovits claim he was "suicided" to silence him.
Ed Koch	12 December 1924	1 February 2013	New York Manhattan		Politician Lawyer	Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
Philip Marshall		2 February 2013		Gunshot	Author 9-11/Premature death Pilot CIA/Drug trafficking/Premature death 9-11/Dissident	A CIA pilot who published two popular and insightful books on 9-11. He was found shot dead with his children.
Oswald LeWinter	2 April 1931	13 February 2013			Spook Poet Academic Deep state operative	A shady character who issued a lot of conflicting statements and claimed to be ex-CIA. The official narrative about him - "it's all lies, he's a complete fraud" - scores for simplicity, but does not explain how he could have been so well informed on such a wide range of deep state operations.
Gerald Hinteregger	12 November 1928	17 February 2013	Vienna		Diplomat	Single Bilderberg Austrian diplomat.
Ray O'Connor	6 March 1926	25 February 2013	Australia Perth Western Australia		Politician
Gene Corley		1 March 2013		Cancer	Academic Deep state functionary	Coauthored reports to support the US government narrative about 9-11, OKC, Waco. Generally worked as a member of the same tight clique of deep state functionary colleagues.
Hugo Chávez	28 July 1954	5 March 2013	Venezuela Caracas		Politician	64th President of Venezuela - probably assassinated with cancer-causing drugs.
Dirk Coetzee	15 April 1945	7 March 2013				South African security police death squad leader who tracked down and eliminated opponents of the apartheid regime
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist	10 July 1922	8 March 2013	Germany Munich		Soldier Deep politician Media executive	German deep politician
Max Jakobson	30 September 1923	9 March 2013			Diplomat Journalist	Source of information for the CIA and close advisor of President Uhro Kekkonen
Cartha DeLoach	20 July 1920	13 March 2013	South Carolina Hilton Head Island		Police officer	Third most senior official in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. Member of the Knights of Malta.
William Van Cleave	27 August 1935	15 March 2013			Academic	US academic member of the Committee on the Present Danger and of Team B
André Fontaine	30 March 1921	17 March 2013	Paris		Journalist Historian	French historian and journalist
Svein Blindheim	29 August 1916	17 March 2013			Whistleblower Soldier	Resistance hero who later revealed Stay Behind activities, and was convicted to prison for it.
James Herbert	8 April 1943	20 March 2013	Sussex UK		Author	A best selling horror writer who died suddenly, 6 months after remarking that "I wanted to have another knock at the Establishment".
Boris Berezovsky	23 January 1946	23 March 2013	Berkshire Sunninghill UK	Hanging	Mathematician Government official Businessperson	A Russian billionaire oligarch who fell out with Vladimir Putin. Found dead in 2013 - the corner returned an open verdict.
Anthony Lewis	27 March 1927	25 March 2013	Massachusetts Cambridge		Journalist	US writer for the New York Times. According to Chomsky "as far to the critical extreme as you can find" allowed in the corporate media Overton window.
Ralph Klein	1 November 1942	29 March 2013	Canada Calgary Alberta		Politician	Canadian politician who attended the 1995 Bilderberg as Premier of Alberta
Michael Jenkins	9 January 1936	31 March 2013			Diplomat	UK diplomat
William W. Wells	1925	6 April 2013			Spook	Considered one of the CIA's top clandestine operators.
Margaret Thatcher	13 October 1925	8 April 2013	London United Kingdom Westminster UK		Politician Lawyer Deep state functionary	Three term UK PM whom the UK Deep State used to push through radical privatisation: "There is no such thing as society."
Ian Henderson	1927	13 April 2013			Spook Deep state operative	A UK official who was widely accused of torture
Tamerlan Tsarnaev	21 October 1986	19 April 2013	United States Massachusetts Watertown		Informant?	Official perpetrator of the Boston Bombings, possibly an FBI double agent. Died after an encounter with US police custody.
Antonio Maccanico	4 August 1924	23 April 2013	Italy Rome		Politician	Italian politician
Jim Tucker	31 December 1934	26 April 2013	United States Virginia Fredericksburg		Journalist Activist	Early watcher of the Bilderberg Group
Jürgen Warnke	20 March 1932	27 April 2013	Selb		Politician Lawyer Deep state actor	A German lawyer and politician who attended Le Cercle.
Jérôme Heldring	21 December 1917	27 April 2013	Netherlands The Hague		Journalist	Chief editor of NRC Handelsblad from 1968 to 1972, connected to the paper from 1953. Transatlantic conservative, but warned that the peace dividend was a lie and the west had failed to develop to that dividend at all in 2012.
Giulio Andreotti	14 January 1919	6 May 2013	Italy Rome Lazio		Politician	"The ultimate insider of Italian political life", who as Italian Prime Minister publicly confirmed the existence of Operation Gladio
Malcolm Shabazz	8 October 1984	9 May 2013	Mexico Mexico City	Beaten to death
Billie Sol Estes	10 January 1925	14 May 2013	United States Texas Granbury		Fraudster	Texas businessman connected to fraud involving his friend and future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, and a string of murders, including John F. Kennedy.
Jack Hawkins	25 October 1916	17 May 2013	Virginia Fredericksburg		Spook	Employed by the CIA for the military planning, training of Cuban exiles, and the effective military command of forces in the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961.
Paul Finney	28 October 1929	18 May 2013			Journalist Editor Deep state functionary	"Honorary Bilderberg Secretary General for the United States" as of 1981, US editor and author
Ibragim Todashev	22 September 1985	22 May 2013	US Florida Orlando			A friend of Boston bombings "lone nut" Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was murdered during an FBI interview.
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