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Western Global Airlines N545JN, a CIA-linked cargo plane lands in Africa, carrying 67 tons of fresh cash and a dead body.
2016 continued the trend of increasing false flag terror events, increasingly sloppily carried out. Donald Trump was elected as US President, defeating Hillary Clinton. It saw a record low in the faith of US citizens in the commercially-controlled media, and perhaps not coincidentally the launch of a "fake news" campaign to try to discredit websites which encourage readers to check the official narrative.

2016 saw an increase in attacks upon civilians in Europe and USA, ascribed to "Islamic terrorism". The run up to the US Presidential Election saw a large amount of emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server, which was understood to have contributed to the victory of Donald Trump. These emails led directly to the 'Pizzagate' citizens' investigation which alleged paedophilia in the US political establishment, and then to the introduction of the Fake news" meme, in a now infamous article published in the Washington Post, under the name of Craig Timberg.

Rise of "Terrorism"

2016 saw several incidents of "terrorism", particularly in Europe. These included attacks in airports in Brussels and Istanbul, the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the Nice truck event and the 2016 Munich shooting (the last two of which were filmed by Richard Gutjahr, who was present with his camera ready to roll at both events).

Saumur Daesh Cell

Full article: 2016 Saumur Daesh Cell

In September 2016, an apparent hideout was discovered, complete with arabic language newspapers and ISIS flags. This was later claimed to be part of a terrorism exercise, an explanation accepted without question by the commercially-controlled media. Operation Gladio/B remains a third rail topic for corporate media, although the UK Daily Express did publish two articles around the 15th anniversary of 9-11 which questioned the US government's official narrative.

Brexit

Full article: Brexit

A referendum on exiting the EU threw the UK conservative party into turmoil after a narrow and apparently unanticipated win for the "Brexit" camp. This was in spite of the last minute murder of anti-Brexit MP, Jo Cox, by a "lone nut", which didn't significantly change the outcome. This has prompted concern the UK may be the first of several members of the European Union whose citizens declare that they want to leave.

2016 United States presidential election

Full article: 2016 United States presidential election

The 2016 United States presidential election inspired a lot of criticism of the process, and for many people came down to choosing the lesser evil between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The revelations came thick and fast in the run up to polling day, including Hillary Clinton's Email debacle, which led to the exposure of the 7th floor group that the FBI termed a "shadow government".

"Fake News"

Full article: “Fake News”

In November 2016, an article by Craig Timberg was uncritical in its echoing of allegations made by PropOrNot, an anonymous website which listed over 200 websites (including Wikispooks) that echoed Russian Propaganda, even if unwittingly so. This was widely criticised online, and inspired threats of legal action by some of the sites targeted, prompting the [Washington Post]] to add a disclaimer to the bottom of the article that it could not "vouch for the validity of PropOrNot's finding".

Western Global Airlines N545JN

Full article: Western Global Airlines N545JN

One of the more extraordinary stories of the year - almost completely ignored by Western corporate media - was the 13 February 2016 emergency landing of a large cargo aircraft (Western Global Airlines N545JN) at the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Blood stains on the side of the plane from a cargo door lead ground staff to discover 67 tonnes of mint condition South African banknotes and a dead body. After a few days of representations from the US embassy, the crew of 5 were released, together with the plane and its cargo. No charges were filed, and the commercially-controlled media did not report the incident in US or Europe.

Internet Shutdowns

Project Censored reported in 2017 that 2016 had been a record year for internet shutdowns.

Other Events

The Knights of Malta experienced a period of turmoil beginning in December 2016, which the commercially-controlled media mostly avoided covering. One article reported "treachery... greed, cover-ups, betrayal, corruption... blackmail... a successful coup" involving the highest levels of the Vatican, and a suspicious 120 million Swiss franc account rumoured to be of Nazi or other dirty money origin, and managed by its Geneva-based trustee Ariane Slinger whose name appeared in the Panama Papers.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Date
2023	“Last week’s indictment of McGonigal is a classic case of raising more questions than were answered. The evidence presented by prosecutors suggests the FBI counterintelligence expert wasn’t introduced to Deripaska until his waning days with the bureau in 2018, aided by a pair of Russian diplomats. In 2019, after he’d retired, the indictment says McGonigal went to work for the oligarch to help him evade U.S. sanctions and to investigate a rival. But the Times also reported that U.S. counterintelligence — in which McGonigal had been a key player — had tried unsuccessfully to recruit Deripaska as an asset in the years around the 2016 election. Like the Woody Allen character Zelig, Deripaska — a 55-year-old aluminum magnate who at one time was the richest man in Putin’s Russia — is turning up in the background everywhere in the ongoing corruption of American democracy. The oligarch’s history of multimillion-dollar business dealings with Paul Manafort — Trump’s campaign manager in the summer of 2016 — is central to the theory of Russian interference, after it was confirmed that Manafort shared key campaign data with a suspected Russian intelligence agent also connected to Deripaska. In 2019, Deripaska did manage to get those U.S. sanctions lifted, in a controversial deal backed not only by Team Trump but critically by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. That same year, a Deripaska-linked aluminium company announced it would build a large plant in Kentucky, where McConnell was running for re-election. (It eventually wasn’t built.) This is the same McConnell who, during that critical fall period in 2016, refused to sign a bipartisan statement warning about Russian election interference.”	January 2023

 

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.
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?
Julian Assange/Imprisonment	19 June 2012	24 June 2024	Five years de jure in Belmarsh Prison (2019-2024)
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.
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.
Day X plot	2015	February 2017	A failed attack which appears to have been intended as a false flag to be blamed on Syria.
2015 European refugee crisis	July 2015	2016	Crisis in Europe over the escalating numbers of refugees from Middle-Eastern and North African countries.
2016 Batley and Spen by-election	2016	2016	By election caused by the murder of Jo Cox
Brussels Forum/2016	2016	2016	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
"Strike Hard Campaign"	2016		A research project into repressive social control carried out against Chinese Muslims.
Havana syndrome	2016		Attack on US embassy staff and spies in different locations around the world.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
Exercise Alice	February 2016	February 2016	Secret 2016 UK pandemic exercise modelling the impact of a coronavirus outbreak
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Western Global Airlines N545JN	13 February 2016	13 February 2016	67 tons of cash and a body found on a CIA plane. Not known to have been reported by corporate media in Europe or North America.
2016 Brussels Bombing	22 March 2016	22 March 2016	A terrorist attack in Brussels involving 3 explosions which reportedly killed more than 30 people and injured hundreds more. Responsibility for the attack was immediately attributed to ISIS by the commercially-controlled media, clearly assuming the people are still buying this "Muslim suicide bomber" Official Narrative
2016 Brussels Bombing/Media manipulation	22 March 2016		False Belgian media reporting on the Mass murder in Brussels
Panama Papers	April 2016	April 2016	A huge (2.6TB) cache of confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. Those identified include numerous wealthy and powerful political figures and organisations of many countries.
Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme	April 2016
Le Cercle/2016 (London)	June 2016	June 2016	Alan Duncan reports that the group met in St James’s Court Hotel in Westminster
Bilderberg/2016	9 June 2016	12 June 2016	The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
2016 Orlando nightclub shooting	12 June 2016 02:02:00	12 June 2016 05:14:00	2016 mass shooting at gay nightclub in Florida
2016 Magnanville stabbing	13 June 2016 09:00:00	13 June 2016 09:00:00	President Hollande called it “incontestably a terrorist act” and said France was facing a terror threat “of a very large scale”
Jo Cox/Murder	16 June 2016	16 June 2016
2016 EU Referendum	23 June 2016	23 June 2016
2016 Istanbul airport attack	28 June 2016	28 June 2016	Shootings and suicide bombings at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul,
Nice truck event	14 July 2016	14 July 2016	French vehicle-ramming attack in Nice on 14 July 2016. It was filmed by Richard Gutjahr, who 8 days later filmed the shooting in Munich.
2016 Munich shooting	22 July 2016	22 July 2016	A shooting spree supposedly carried out by an 18 year old, for as yet unexplained purposes.
Ritual at CERN	August 2016	August 2016	Alleged occult ritual occurring in the grounds of CERN
2016 Saumur Daesh Cell	21 September 2016	21 September 2016	In 2016 gardeners in Saumur, France found what appeared to be a Daesh cell, complete with recording equipment and props such as ISIS flags. Local police were told by the French Ministry of Defense that it was an exercise, although local police knew nothing of it.
Exercise Cygnus	18 October 2016	20 October 2016	Simulation exercise to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic in the UK. One of the purposes of the scenario prepared by experts from Imperial College London was to overcome Whitehall skepticism of their earlier absolutely wrong epidemic forecasting, and to drill politicians to make certain prepared responses in case of an emergency. Held October 2016.
2016 Hurriyah car bombing hoax	30 October 2016	30 October 2016	A real bomb in the Hurriyah area of Baghdad reported as having killed people by commercially-controlled media but exposed as a hoax after CCTV footage appeared online.
Russiagate	November 2016	2019
US/2016 Presidential Election	8 November 2016	8 November 2016	The one time Russia managed to decide the American election; bypassing all intelligence agencies with a then 50 billion budget.
Halifax International Security Forum/2016	18 November 2016	21 November 2016	Spooky conference in Canada
Le Cercle/2016 (Washington)	December 2016	December 2016	The most recent Cercle meeting known to have been photographed. Guest Václav Klaus later published 7 photos of the event online.
2016 Berlin attack	19 December 2016	19 December 2016	Reported truck hijacking in Berlin attributed to ISIL.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Shadow Brokers
Integrity Initiatives International
Ballard Partners			Influential lobbying firm
Proud Boys		Group	A FBI affiliated "opposition" group.
Swiss Policy Research			Swiss Propaganda Research (SPR) is an independent non-profit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is run anonymously by independent academics. High quality articles are available in up to 14 languages.
Snopes/Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors
European Counter Terrorism Centre
Global Engagement Center			A "de facto U.S. government propaganda operation" run by the US State department.
CARB-X			A globalpartnership focused on antibacterial products, financed by the super-spooky BARDA and the Gates Foundation.
UK National Cyber Security Centre
Galvani Bioelectronics			Well-funded Google/GlaxoSmithKline joint venture working on hacking the nervous system
PropOrNot/List			The PropOrNot list was a list of websites that it stated "Reliably Echo Russian Propaganda"

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Babylon Bee		https://babylonbee.com/	Satirical website censored since 2020.
DCLeaks	DCLeaks.webp	https://dcleaks.com	Website that published hacked material during the 2016 election year.
NewsBud		https://www.newsbud.com	Independent research site founded by Sibel Edmonds, active 2016-2021. It was the continuation of Boiling Frogs Post.
Children's Health Defense		https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender	Critic of vaccine safety and other health issues
PropOrNot		http://www.propornot.com/	A spooky group which kicked off the steadily intensifying "Fake News Website" campaign
WinterWatch		https://www.winterwatch.net
Gab		https://gab.com/	Gab is a social networking service with a strict free speech approach for which it is criticized in corporate media.
TikTok		https://www.tiktok.com/	Like YouTube but videos have a duration from fifteen seconds to three minutes. The company is filled with "former" CIA spooks
Tucker Carlson Tonight		https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight	The most-watched program on cable news

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Union Graduate School			College in New York State, merged with Clarkson University in 2016.
Earhart Foundation			Funder of a number of European organisations to support free-market scholars 1929-2016
Dickstein Shapiro			Law firm identified as implicated in corruption by Sibel Edmonds.
Public Interest Lawyers		Commercial Law
Muslim Contact Unit		Intelligence agency	Spooky unit of the UK Metropolitan Police interested in "radicalisation" of Muslims.
Clinton Global Initiative
Northern Party			IfS backed UK political party. Electoral flop.

 

A Website that Closed

Event	Image	URL	Description
Gawker		http://gawker.com	A formerly highly popular website which helped expose The Deep State. In 2014 it published 3 important exposes by Mark Gorton. In 2015 it published parts of Epstein's black book. Closed in 2016 by harassment lawsuits.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Shimon Peres	2 August 1923	2016			Politician	Spooky Israeli politician
Loran Schmit		2016			Politician	The Nebraska Senator who appointed Gary Caradori to investigate the case of the Franklin child prostitution ring.
Marwan Khreesat	1946	2016			Spook Bomb maker Double agent Triple agent?	Spooky Jordanian bomb maker
Peggy Seagrave		2016			Author	Co-author of several highly interesting books on Asian deep politics and history.
Cesare Pucci	1934	2016			Spook	Leader of Italian intelligence services
Stanley Adams	1927	2016			Whistleblower	Hoffmann-LaRoche whistleblower who was jailed for industrial espionage when found out.
Albert Breton	1929	2016			Economist	Canadian economist and advisor to Pierre Trudeau who attended Bilderberg/1984 while sitting on commission preparing recommendation of a free trade agreement with the United States.
Robert Hanson	1925	2016			Businessperson	Attended the 1982 Bilderberg as President and CEO of agricultural machinery producer John Deere.
Judith Kaye	4 August 1938	7 January 2016	New York US Manhattan			Judge with close ties to Sullivan & Cromwell
Ahmad Bishara	19 January 1945	13 January 2016				Kuwait academic and activist who advocated liberal political reforms in the autocratic emirate. Attended the 2003 Bilderberg meeting.
Lars Roar Langslet	5 March 1936	18 January 2016				Double Bilderberg Norwegian Minister of Culture
George Weidenfeld	13 September 1919	20 January 2016	London United Kingdom		Editor Media executive	Bilderberger Member of the House of Lords whose name appeared in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book. Suspected UK deep state operative.
Mustafa Koç	29 October 1960	21 January 2016		Heart attack	Businessperson	Turkish businessman. Attended all Bilderbergs from 2004 until his death in 2016
Cecil Parkinson	1 September 1931	22 January 2016			Politician	British Conservative politician and cabinet minister. Tagged for high positions, but forced to resign after revelations that his former secretary was pregnant with his child.
Robert Pickus	31 October 1923	22 January 2016	California St. Helena		Spook	Spooky "peace activist" who proposed that in "the current political climate, war is essential for justice to prevail".
Marvin Minsky	9 August 1927	24 January 2016	US Boston Massachusetts		Programmer	Influential cognitive and computer scientist. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein.
Giulio Regeni	15 January 1988	25 January 2016			Spook	Italian spook who was tortured to death by intelligence services in Egypt
Dieter Spethmann	27 March 1926	1 February 2016	Germany Düsseldorf		Businessperson	German businessman who attended the 1968 and 1980 Bilderbergs
Drew Lewis	3 November 1931	10 February 2016	United States Arizona Prescott		Politician Businessperson	Secretary of Transportation under Reagan, best known for presiding over the firing of the striking U.S. air traffic controllers in 1981. Bilderberg/1988
Antonin Scalia	11 March 1936	13 February 2016	United States Texas Shafter		Judge	US judge
Boutros Boutros-Ghali	14 November 1922	16 February 2016				"The UN Secretary General the West Loved to Hate"
William H. Schaap	1 March 1940	25 February 2016			Author Lawyer
James Kimsey	15 September 1939	1 March 2016	United States Virginia McLean		Businessperson Millionaire	Internet service provider AOL founder with deep military ties, Bilderberg
Aubrey McClendon	14 July 1959	2 March 2016	Oklahoma	Car crash	Businessperson	A US businessman who died in suspicious circumstances.
Morgan Murphy	16 April 1932	4 March 2016	Chicago Illinois		Politician	Chicago Democrat politician
Nancy Reagan	6 July 1921	6 March 2016	US Los Angeles California		Actor First lady
Jean-Bernard Raimond	6 February 1926	7 March 2016	France Neuilly-sur-Seine		Politician	French Minister of Foreign Affairs 1986-1988
Asa Briggs	7 May 1921	15 March 2016			Spook Historian	Official BBC historian with significant intelligence ties.
William Bader	8 September 1931	16 March 2016			Spook Historian	US spook who in 1967 brought to Congressional attention that the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident" was a fraud perpetrated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as a casus belli for the Vietnam War
Meir Dagan	30 January 1945	17 March 2016			Spook
Lothar Späth	16 November 1937	18 March 2016			Politician Businessperson	German politician
Guido Westerwelle	27 December 1961	18 March 2016	Germany Cologne	Leukemia	Politician	Atlantik-Brücke, Bilderberg 2007, ousted after a media campaign. Died aged 54 of acute myeloid leukemia.
Anker Jørgensen	13 July 1922	20 March 2016	Denmark Copenhagen		Politician	Prime Minister in the 1970s and 80s
Nigel Wylde	16 March 1947	21 March 2016		Cancer	Spook Soldier	British officer spook who raised concerns about false flag attacks and wholesale surveillance
Mae-Wan Ho	12 November 1941	24 March 2016			Activist Scientist	Biochemist among the first warning against the dangers of genetic engineering
Lester Thurow	7 May 1938	25 March 2016			Economist	US political economist and supporter of governmental involvement in the direction of the economy who attended Bilderberg/1977.
Robert Sayre	18 August 1924	31 March 2016			Diplomat
Hans-Dietrich Genscher	21 March 1927	31 March 2016	Germany Wachtberg		Politician Deep state operative	West-German deep state operator
Robert MacCrate	18 July 1921	6 April 2016			Lawyer	Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer, investigated My Lai.
Duane Clarridge	16 April 1932	9 April 2016	Virginia Leesburg		Spook Deep politician	Founding director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center
Donald Easum	27 August 1923	16 April 2016	New Jersey Summit		Diplomat	US diplomat with deep state connections.
John Jones (lawyer)	14 June 1967	18 April 2016	London UK	Struck by train	Lawyer	Assange lawyer who jumped in front of train
Gerasimos Arsenis	30 May 1931	19 April 2016			Politician	Attended the 1994 Bilderberg as Greek Minister for National Defense
S. Ichtiaque Rasool	1930	20 April 2016	US Maryland Bethesda		Author Researcher Academic	Wrote a working paper on global warming for the 1989 Bilderberg, proposing a large program of training dedicated cadre "motivated and placed in various strategic positions in industry, government and academia" and making it "a permanent and prominent part of our scientific, political and foreign policy agendas."
Philippe Brewaeys	3 September 1957	2 May 2016	Brussels		Researcher Journalist
Robert Bennett	18 September 1933	4 May 2016	United States Virginia Arlington		Politician	Mormon US Senator who attended Brussels Forums
Walther Kiep	5 January 1926	9 May 2016	Germany Kronberg im Taunus		Politician Fraudster Perjury	Politician, financial fraudster, perjurer, attended 4 Bilderbergs from 1974 to 1980
Mark Lane	24 February 1927	10 May 2016	United States Virginia Charlottesville		Author Researcher Lawyer	Early researcher into the JFK Assassination whose worked helped to prompt the CIA's coining of the phrase "Conspiracy theorist".
Berend Udink	12 February 1926	24 May 2016	Netherlands Goedereede		Politician	Double Bilderberger Dutch politician
Omar Mateen	16 November 1986	12 June 2016	United States Florida Orlando
... further results

 

A Birth

Title	Born	Summary	Description
Howard Marks	10 April 2016	Drug trafficker	Oxford attending large scale drug smuggler with MI6 among his wide range of contacts

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