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A subvertisement of the short lived 2008 Counter-Terrorism advertising campaign
In the UK, the "counter-terrorism" strategy of tension was stepped up, while the truth about the so-called acts of terror was quietly repressed in USA.

2008 in UK saw the launch of a campaign to promote the "war on terror". After criticisms that this was promoting paranoia and fear, it was shut down. An inquest into the death of Diana over a decade earlier that she had been "unlawfully killed". In USA, the FBI quietly wrapped up its $100M cover-up operation of the 2001 Anthrax attacks, officially naming the just deceased Bruce Ivins as the "lone nut" perpetrator. In 2015 Richard Lambert, the chief FBI investigator in the case, launched legal action against the FBI, alleging legal malpractice.

Counter-Terrorism advertising campaign

Full article: 2008 Counter-Terrorism advertising campaign

A real poster from the 2008 campaign

The UK police force launched a "Counter-Terrorism" campaign to promote the "war on terror". Activists subvertised by activists protesting its perceived fear-generating and racist accents.

Amerithrax Cover-up concluded

Full article: 2001 Anthrax attacks

Bruce Ivins was officially named as a "lone nut" who carried out the 2001 Anthrax attacks just after he was found dead. The FBI's Amerithrax "investigation" reportedly cost $100,000,000. In 2015, its chief investigator, Richard Lambert, filed a lawsuit alleging malpractice, claiming amongst other things that the FBI suppressed evidence which would have definitely exonerated Ivins.

Financial crisis of 2007–08

Full article: Financial crisis of 2007–08

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Saville Inquiry		An investigation into Bloody Sunday which left 14 people dead.
Saifullah Paracha v. George W. Bush		A habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay.
Al-Salam weapons deal		A large arms deal signed during the government of Tony Blair.
Diana Spencer/Inquest		The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive conference
Bilderberg/2008		The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
2008 Counter-Terrorism advertising campaign		A UK government program to ramp up fear of "terrorism" that was banned after public complaints.
US/2008 Presidential election
Le Cercle/2008 (Washington)		Other dates uncertain
2008 Mumbai attacks		An incident of "terrorism" used to introduce the Indian National Investigation Agency. The perpetrators may have connections to the CIA and deep state.
Security and Defence Learning/2008
Facing Jihad conference
Gaza War (2008–09)		Three weeks of assault launched against Gaza by Israel, including the use of white phosphorus, leaving over 1000 people dead and over 5000 injured.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
J Street		501(c)(4) charitable organization
International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence		Think tank Non-profit
Centre for Social Cohesion		Think tank
Muslim Charities Forum		Charity
World Policy Conference
Özyeğin University			Training future Turkish businesspeople
SITE Intelligence Group
United Against Nuclear Iran
Innovative Medicines Initiative			Big Pharma capture of EU policy making and budgets
Sibel Edmonds/State Secrets Privilege Gallery			The State Secrets Privilege Gallery was created by Sibel Edmonds as a way of fingering people she was prohibited from mentioning
Visor Consultants
European Forum on Antisemitism
UK Border Agency
Quilliam Foundation		Commercial Think tank
Quanta Dialysis Technologies Ltd
Justice for Megrahi		Lobby	A single issue justice campaign group trying to overturn the 2001 conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.
National Investigation Agency

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Investigating The Terror		http://www.InvestigatingTheTerror.com	Website of British writer, researcher and filmmaker who writes on terrorism, the security services, declassified history and the philosophy and politics of fear.
Deep Politics Forum		http://deeppoliticsforum.com	A discussion group on Deep Politics. It maintains an archive of related files and a YouTube video channel. It also has a presence on Facebook and Twitter.
The Rwanda Document Project		http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/	A document archive pertaining to Rwanda from 1990 onwards
Foreign Policy Journal		http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/	Provides critical analysis of U.S. foreign policy outside of the standard framework offered by political officials and the mainstream corporate media.
Daily Beast		https://www.thedailybeast.com/	Democraic Party-leaning website owned by billionaire Barry Diller.
Occidental Observer		http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/	In an era of identity politics where every conceivable ethnic, religious and cultural identity is promoted by its members/adherents as a means of securing recognition for whatever their purpose ju-jour, "White" identity is the only one where this is NOT allowed. It is a taboo subject and thus suitable for exploration on Wikispooks

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Lehman Brothers		Commercial	The bank which collapsed in 2008, resulting - according to the official narrative - in the Global Financial Crisis.
Bear Stearns			Defunct American bank
Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire		Intelligence agency
Kaupthing Bank			Icelandic bank where the government did not guarantee for assets in branches abroad.
Search for International Terrorist Entities
Border and Immigration Agency			Defunct UK Government agency.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Jacques Segard	1927	2008			Businessperson	French businessman
Philip Agee	19 July 1935	7 January 2008	Cuba		Whistleblower Spook	Spent twelve years in the CIA from 1957 to 1969 before becoming the most important CIA whistle blower ever.
John Harvey-Jones	16 April 1924	9 January 2008	United Kingdom Herefordshire UK Hereford		Spook Mariner Businessperson	UK spook, media operative and businessman. Participated in the 1983 foundation meeting of European Round Table of Industrialists
Adam Butler	11 October 1931	9 January 2008	United Kingdom Warwickshire UK Lighthorne		Politician
Charles Elwell	16 May 1919	11 January 2008			Spook	M15's "Witchfinder-General"
Anthony Solomon	27 December 1919	18 January 2008	Manhattan		Central banker	Group of Thirty, Trilateral Commission
Evan Galbraith	2 July 1928	21 January 2008			Diplomat Deep state functionary	Attended the 1982 Bilderberg as US Ambassador to France
Richard Darman	10 May 1943	25 January 2008	United States Washington DC	Acute myelogenous leukemia	Deep state functionary Businessperson	A panelist of the session on The Public Sector And Economic Growth at the 1987 Bilderberg
Andrew Downey Orrick	18 October 1917	27 January 2008	California San Francisco		Banker
Suharto	8 June 1921	27 January 2008	Indonesia Jakarta
Gerry Patrick Hemming	1 March 1937	29 January 2008			Spook Soldier Pilot
Lev E. Dobriansky	9 November 1918	30 January 2008			Spook Academic	Academic working with Ukrainian exile groups for the CIA.
David Orr	10 May 1922	2 February 2008		Undisclosed	Businessperson	Bilderberg businessman
Andrew Bertie		7 February 2008	Italy Rome Lazio		Teacher
Joseph Sneed	21 July 1920	9 February 2008	United States California San Francisco
Tom Lantos	1 February 1928	11 February 2008	United States Maryland Bethesda National Naval Medical Center		Politician Academic Businessperson
William F. Buckley	24 November 1925	27 February 2008	US Connecticut Stamford		Author Editor Commentator Television personality	Bilderberg TV speaker
Francis Pym	13 February 1922	7 March 2008	Sandy Bedfordshire		Politician
Diomede Catroux	1 May 1916	8 March 2008			Diplomat
Clyde Cameron	11 February 1913	14 March 2008			Politician
Michael Corbin	29 April 1955	18 March 2008			Author Journalist Radio host Speaker
William Hyland	18 January 1929	25 March 2008			Spook Academic
David Newsom	6 January 1918	30 March 2008			Diplomat	US diplomat who attended the 1979 Bilderberg as US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Gwyneth Dunwoody	12 December 1930	17 April 2008	United Kingdom Oxford Oxfordshire		Politician
Roland Carnaby	1956	29 April 2008		Gunshot	Spook Deep state operative Businessperson	A senior spook who was shot by a Houston police officer following a high speed motor car chase and died of his wounds.
Deborah Palfrey	18 March 1956	1 May 2008	United States Florida Tarpon Springs	Hanging	9-11/Premature death Epstein Affair/Premature death	Ran an escort agency in Washington D.C. that was frequently used by Washington insiders, and was aware of some 9/11 insiders who let information slip before the event.
Lucius Durham Battle	1 June 1918	13 May 2008	US Washington DC		Diplomat
Brian Keenan	1942	21 May 2008	Cullyhanna South Armagh		Soldier Activist	IRA member who received an 18-year prison sentence in 1980 for conspiring to cause explosions.
William E. Odom	23 June 1932	30 May 2008	Vermont Lincoln	Heart attack
Harlan Cleveland	19 January 1918	30 May 2008			Diplomat	Attended the 1967 Bilderberg as US Permanent Representative to NATO
Dennis Weatherstone	29 November 1930	13 June 2008	US Connecticut		Banker Businessperson
Sarah Bryant	17 December 1981	17 June 2008
George Carlin	12 May 1937	22 June 2008	United States California Santa Monica		Comedian	A comedian who developed an highly accurate observational interest in deep politics towards the end of his life.
Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz	8 July 1926	26 June 2008		Gunshot	Pilot	Operation 40 pilot
Brand Fourie	1916	July 2008			Diplomat
Jesse Helms	18 October 1921	4 July 2008	North Carolina Raleigh		Journalist
Charles Wheeler	15 March 1923	4 July 2008	London United Kingdom		Spook Journalist Propagandist	Triple Bilderberger propagandist. BBC Washington correspondent.
Tony Snow	1 June 1955	12 July 2008	United States Washington DC	Cancer	Propagandist	White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush
Kurt Furgler	24 June 1924	23 July 2008	Switzerland St. Gallen		Politician	President of Switzerland. 3 Bilderbergs, from 1970 to 1980
Bruce Ivins	22 April 1946	29 July 2008	United States Frederick Maryland Frederick Memorial Hospital	Drug overdose	Researcher 9-11/Premature death Scientist	A biodefense researcher at Fort Detrick, Maryland who, the FBI concluded, sent anthrax letters with crude anti-Zionist messages to the US politicians who were holding up the rollback of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11. After an investigation costing around $100,000,000 Ivins was declared to be a "lone nut" responsible for the crime shortly after he was found dead.
Anne Armstrong	27 December 1927	30 July 2008	United States Texas Houston		Diplomat Politician
Peter Rodman	24 November 1943	2 August 2008			Lawyer
Alexandre Isayevich Solzhenitsyn	11 December 1918	3 August 2008	Russia Moscow		Author Soldier Teacher
Robert Maheu	30 October 1917	4 August 2008	Nevada Las Vegas		Spook Lawyer Deep state actor Businessperson	Howard Hughes' right-hand man for many years. A deep state operative suspected of contracting Thane Eugene Cesar to assassinate RFK.
Grayston Lynch	14 June 1923	10 August 2008	Florida Tampa		Spook	Grayston Lynch was a top CIA operative during the 1960's and until 1971 when he joined BNDD/BUNCIN (DEA).
Barry Jennings		19 August 2008		Unknown	9-11/Premature death Witness 9-11/Whistleblowers	A key 9/11 witness whose testimony contradicted the 9/11 report. He was reported dead without further explanation, aged 53. No death certificate is available on the internet, the cause of death is unknown & his entire family went missing without explanation at the same time.
Benyamin Givli	1919	19 August 2008			Spook
Yuri Nosenko	30 October 1927	23 August 2008
Alain Griotteray	15 October 1922	30 August 2008			Politician Editor Deep state operative Businessperson
Kenneth Johannemann		31 August 2008		Gunshot	9-11/Premature death	A janitor at the World Trade Centre who saw explosions and rescued someone from the base of the buliding who had been burned by one.
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