2018
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 Trump's vaunted tax cuts are another gift to the hyperrich |
In 2018, the antics of President Trump dominated commercially-controlled media coverage, "sucking the oxygen" from discussion about more weighty topics such as the rollout of universal surveillance and a police state under the guise of the "war on terror".[1] On 5 November 2018, 'Anonymous' published leaked documents from a hitherto unregarded UK charity named the Integrity Initiative, which was to expose it, and its parent group the Institute for Statecraft as UK deep state run propaganda outfits focussed on promoting Russophobia.
Contents
Deep state exposures
The section of the IPA that admits that MI5 operatives can carry out crimes in the UK, as published on March 1st, 2018 by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office after losing a 7 month legal battle
The UK government lost a seven-month legal battle and were forced to admit that MI5 operatives were allowed to participate in crimes. After being legally required to publish the document,[2] they posted a barely legible copy online on 1st March.
Integrity Initiative leak
- Full article: Integrity Initiative/Leak
- Full article: Integrity Initiative/Leak
2018 saw leaks 1, 2 and 3 by 'Anonymous' of material from the Integrity Initiative, followed by another on 5 January 2019, which lead the group to shut its doors. It was exposed as part of the UK Deep state's "fake news" effort - pretending to be exposing Russian propaganda while actually engaging in Russophobic propaganda.
US Citizens' Fears
![The Chapman University Survey of American Fears stated that fear is up from 2017, although the top fear (of "corrupt government officials" is down 0.9% from last year[3]](/wiki/File:US_Citizens%27_Fears_2018.jpg)
Skripal Affair
- Full article: Skripal Affair
- Full article: Skripal Affair
The Skripal Affair saw the UK government accuse Russia of using a nerve agent, novichok, against Sergei Skripal. The Institute for Statecraft, while showing no interest in who was responsible for the attack, showed intense interests into public perceptions of culpability. It paid £12,000 for a report by Harod Associates(an IfS member's company) into media coverage and public reactions to the Skripal Affair. The 47 page report aimed "to provide an initial analysis of mainstream and social media reporting as it developed, following the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 4th March 2018." It had numerous appendices, including a 74 people analysis of how the event played out on social media in USA.
Continuing trends
2018 was a year of expanded internet censorship and continued mass surveillance, amid talk of "fake news", "hate speech", "hate groups" and the online "radicalisation" of vulnerable people through exposure "extremist" material (including "non-violent extremism").
Universal surveillance
- Full article: Universal surveillance
- Full article: Universal surveillance
Australia lead the way amongst Western "democracies" in rolling back civil liberties about privacy. In December it passed laws which claim the right to compel both "local and international providers -- including overseas communication giants such as Facebook and WhatsApp -- to remove electronic protections, conceal covert operations by government agencies, and help with access to devices or services."[4]
Internet Censorship
- Full article: Internet censorship
- Full article: Internet censorship
YouTube was increasingly aggressive in closing down channels which breach its guidelines, closing down channels with hundreds of videos at a stroke.[5] KPFA banned Guns And Butter after 15+ years due to "anti-semitism".
Austerity
In UK, the NHS was predicted to delay over 50,000 operations as funding and resources are throttled,[6] in USA trumps budget reduced funding for the EPA while prioritising the MICC and other big businesses.
CPU Design Flaws
In early January, a range of flaws were revealed, including 2 problems with the design (not the implementation) of both Intel and AMD CPUs going back around 20 years. They reportedly have great potential for exploitation to compromise data security.[7]
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" | .svg) | 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. | |
| ... further results | ||||||
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References
- ↑ http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/95490
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/02/mi5-agents-are-allowed-to-commit-in-uk-government-reveals
- ↑ https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/americas-top-fears-2018/
- ↑ https://sg.news.yahoo.com/australia-passes-cyber-snooping-laws-global-implications-103222310.html
- ↑ https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-03-youtube-deletes-entire-health-ranger-video-channel-deletes-over-1700-videos-in-latest-politically-motivated-censorship-purge.html
- ↑ http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/95522
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/business/computer-flaws.html
