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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.

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
Saville Inquiry		An investigation into Bloody Sunday which left 14 people dead.
Saifullah Paracha v. George W. Bush
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
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.
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
International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence		Think tank Non profit
Centre for Social Cohesion		Think tank
J Street		501(c)(4) charitable organization
Muslim Charities Forum		Charity
World Policy Conference
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
European Forum on Antisemitism
UK Border Agency
Quilliam Foundation		Commercial Think tank
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.
The Rwanda Document Project		http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/	A document archive pertaining to Rwanda from 1990 onwards
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.
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.
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
Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire		Intelligence agency
Border and Immigration Agency

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Philip Agee	19 July 1935	7 January 2008	Cuba		Whistleblower Spook
John Harvey-Jones	16 April 1924	9 January 2008	Herefordshire UK Hereford England		Spook Mariner Businessperson
Adam Butler	11 October 1931	9 January 2008	Warwickshire UK Lighthorne England		Politician
Charles Elwell	16 May 1919	11 January 2008			Spook	M15's "Witchfinder-General"
Anthony Solomon	27 December 1919	18 January 2008	Manhattan
Evan Galbraith	2 July 1928	21 January 2008			Diplomat Deep state functionary
Richard Darman	10 May 1943	25 January 2008	Washington DC U.S.	Acute myelogenous leukemia	Deep state functionary Businessperson
Suharto	8 June 1921	27 January 2008	Indonesia Jakarta
Andrew Downey Orrick	18 October 1917	27 January 2008	California San Francisco		Banker
Gerry Patrick Hemming	1 March 1937	29 January 2008			Spook Soldier Pilot
Andrew Bertie		7 February 2008	Italy Rome Lazio		Teacher
Joseph Sneed	21 July 1920	9 February 2008	California San Francisco U.S.
Tom Lantos	1 February 1928	11 February 2008	Maryland Bethesda National Naval Medical Center U.S.		Politician Academic Businessperson
William F. Buckley	24 November 1925	27 February 2008	US Connecticut Stamford		Author Editor Commentator Television personality
Diomede Catroux	1 May 1916	8 March 2008			Diplomat
Clyde Cameron	11 February 1913	14 March 2008			Politician
David Newsom	6 January 1918	30 March 2008			Diplomat
Gwyneth Dunwoody	12 December 1930	17 April 2008	Oxford Oxfordshire England		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	Florida Tarpon Springs U.S.	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
William E. Odom	23 June 1932	30 May 2008	Vermont Lincoln
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	California Santa Monica U.S.		Comedian
Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz	8 July 1926	26 June 2008		Gunshot	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 England		Journalist
Tony Snow	1 June 1955	12 July 2008	Washington DC U.S.
Kurt Furgler	24 June 1924	23 July 2008	Switzerland St. Gallen		Politician
Bruce Ivins	22 April 1946	29 July 2008	Frederick Maryland Frederick Memorial Hospital U.S.	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	Texas Houston U.S.		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's 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, and 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.
Thomas Bata	17 September 1914	1 September 2008	Canada Toronto		Businessperson
Osborn Elliott	25 October 1924	28 September 2008	New York U.S.		Editor
Relus ter Beek	18 January 1944	29 September 2008	Netherlands Assen		Politician
David Binney	3 November 1940	4 October 2008	Mount Pleasant South Carolina
Dick Franks	13 July 1920	12 October 2008	Aldeburgh		Spook	Head of MI6
Stephan Adolphus Kock	May 1927	27 October 2008	Scotland		Spook Deep politician	An ex-pat Czechoslovak businessman and arch-spook
Bernard Rogers	16 July 1921	27 October 2008	Virginia Falls Church U.S.
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