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2012 was the year in which the US executive claimed the right to officially dispense with the formality of legal proceedings if it saw fit.

"End of constitutional democracy"

Full article: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

The 2012 NDAA claimed the legal right for the US Executive to kidnap and detentain indefinitely anyone, anywhere. Michel Chossudovsky wriote that "Barack Obama will go down in history as “the president who killed Constitutional democracy” in the United States.” Chris Hedges lead a group of activists who challenged the bill's legality in Hedges v. Obama. His case proceeded to the US Supreme Court, where he was finally defeated in April 28, 2014.

Shootings

Annecy shootings

Full article: Annecy shootings

The Annecy shootings were a deep event in France, the significance of which has still to emerge.

Sandy Hook

December 2012 saw an event at a school in Sandy Hook which was used to pass gun control legislation.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
SDS	“The United States, while announcing record levels of foreign military sales, effectively pulled the plug on the international arms trade treaty being negotiated at the UN in July 2012, despite at least ninety countries wanting to sign up to an adequate, if not inspiring draft text.”	Andrew Feinstein	9 August 2012
SDS/Activities	“The United States, while announcing record levels of foreign military sales, effectively pulled the plug on the internernational arms trade treaty being negotiated at the UN in July 2012, despite at least ninety countries wanting to sign up to an adequate, if not inspiring draft text”	Andrew Feinstein	9 August 2012

 

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?
"Arab Spring"	December 2010	June 2012	A neologism coined by western Establishments to describe a series of allegedly 'popular uprisings' that occurred throughout the Arab world from December 2010 through to around mid-2012 and which were planned triggered and orchestrated by western Deep State interests using well developed 'Colour revolution' methodologies.
Leveson Inquiry	13 July 2011	29 November 2012	Investigation of phone hacking
Berezovsky v Abramovitch	31 October 2011	31 August 2012
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.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2012	25 January 2012	29 January 2012	2113 guests in Davos
Munich Security Conference/2012	3 February 2012	5 February 2012	The 48th Munich Security Conference
Brussels Forum/2012	23 March 2012	24 March 2012	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
Bilderberg/2012	31 May 2012	3 June 2012	The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Julian Assange/Imprisonment	19 June 2012	24 June 2024	Five years de jure in Belmarsh Prison (2019-2024)
Le Cercle/2012 (Morocco)	28 June 2012	1 July 2012	An invitation letter of this meeting was leaked online
Annecy shootings	5 September 2012	5 September 2012	A mysterious shooting which was generally avoided by the corporate media.
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.
US/2012 Presidential election	6 November 2012	6 November 2012	Barack Obama was re-elected
Halifax International Security Forum/2012	21 November 2012	23 November 2012	Spooky conference in Canada discussing the "New Normal" and Western nations' "special burden".
Security and Defence Learning/2012	28 November 2012	29 November 2012
Sandy Hook	14 December 2012	14 December 2012	A shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
McCain Institute		International affairs think tank	Training "right" political leaders around the world in its image.
Defense Clandestine Service
Better Than Cash Alliance			A lobby group to accelerate transition from cash to forced digital payments
Hammarskjöld Inquiry Trust		Fund raising
Cybereason
Zinc Network			A "a privately owned communications agency that supports communities, brands and governments drive positive social change". Partnered with the Institute for Statecraft to propose a network of 56 NGOs in a bid for £9.75M funding from the UK/FCO.
Rappler			Filipino online news website and "fact checker" largely funded by CIA or other deep-state run foundations.
International Cybersecurity Dialogue
Friends of Europe/Young European Leaders
University of Law		Military ranks For-profit	Private UK law university
Gatestone Institute
Apolut			German-language independent media
Peaceful Change Initiative			NGO-builder funded by the British foreign office
German Marshall Fund/Young Strategists			The CIA/deep state German Marshall Fund cultivating a cadre of emerging foreign policy leaders, with focus on East Asia
National School for Government
Joint Forces Command
Hammarskjöld Commission			A group to report whether there was evidence enough to justify a reopening of the UN inquiry into the death of Dag Hammarskjöld. Their September 2013 verdict: Yes
Spain/Department/Homeland Security
International Common Law Court of Justice		Court	An organisation describing itself as "a lawful citizens tibunal of concience"
The TerraMar Project
Academics For Peace
European Platform for Democratic Elections			NGO doing election observations. Its judgement on what is deemed a "fair" election or not, might possibly be influenced by who finances it, which includes several NATO governments and deep state foundations. Also makes an "enemies list"
Aktis Strategy			Now defunct following allegations of "gross financial mismanagement"

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
TruePublica		http://truepublica.org.uk/about/	UK independent media website.
Archive.today		http://archive.today
SOFREP		https://sofrep.com/	Digital news and media website focused on frontline news about United States Armed Forces activities across the globe.
The Times Of Israel		https://www.timesofisrael.com/	News website
Liberty Blitzkrieg		http://Libertyblitzkrieg.com
Spy Culture		http://www.spyculture.com	A website focused on the intersection of the intelligence agencies and the entertainment industries.
MintPress News		https://www.mintpressnews.com/	An independent website.
Wikidata		https://www.wikidata.org/	Support database for Wikipedia
Memory Hole Blog		http://memoryholeblog.org/	A forum for news, criticism and commentary on sociopolitical issues and phenomena overlooked or misreported by corporate media
Ron Paul Institute		http://ronpaulinstitute.org/	Independent thinking with a libertarian angle
Medium		http://www.medium.com/	Online corporate publishing platform

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness		Panel during Obama administration of mostly industry CEOs from outsourcing companies, created to advise "possible ways to improve the nation's economy".

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Christian Kind	1927	2012			Journalist	Head of the Swiss newspaper NZZ's foreign editorial office. Attended the 1979 and 1989 Bilderbergs.
Cor Van Der Klugt	30 March 1925	6 January 2012	Netherlands Vosselaar		Businessperson	Dutch businessman
Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan		11 January 2012	Iran Tehran		Academic Scientist	An assassinated Iranian nuclear weapons specialist
Charles Price	1 April 1931	12 January 2012	US California Indian Wells		Diplomat Businessperson	US diplomat Bilderberger in Epstein's Black book
Manuel Fraga Iribarne	23 November 1922	15 January 2012	Spain Madrid		Politician Deep state operative	Member of both Le Cercle and the 1001 Club.
Thérèse Delpech	11 February 1948	17 January 2012	Paris		Propagandist Deep state operative	French representative of a neoconservative/transatlantic clique that took control over the political and strategic direction of France in the 1990s. Attended the 2012 Bilderberg
Daniel Marvin	10 October 1933	19 January 2012			Soldier Assassin
Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah	3 October 1944	21 January 2012		Cancer	Diplomat	As Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US
Jacques Maisonrouge	20 September 1924	25 January 2012			Businessperson	French/US IBM executive. "‘Down with borders’, a revolutionary student slogan of the 1968 Paris university uprising, is also a welcome slogan at IBM.”
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro	9 September 1918	29 January 2012	Italy Rome Lazio		Politician Lawyer
Carlo Sartori	3 July 1946	13 February 2012			Academic Editor	Italian TV manager at RAI and a prominent mass media analyst
Robert Carr	11 November 1916	17 February 2012			Politician
Robin Corbett	22 September 1933	19 February 2012	United Kingdom Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire		Journalist Politician	Had strong ties with the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (People's Mujahedin of Iran) and also chairman of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom.
Marie Colvin	12 January 1956	22 February 2012	Syria Homs		Journalist	Corporate war reporter. Died while embedded with rebel forces in Syria.
Andrew Breitbart	1 February 1969	1 March 2012	United States Los Angeles California		Journalist Blogger	A political commentator who died of "heart failure" after exposing Anthony Weiner's sexting
James Q. Wilson	27 May 1931	2 March 2012	Boston Massachusetts		Academic Neoconservatism	Provided guidance on how best to coordinate the national "war on drugs".
Norman St John-Stevas	18 June 1929	2 March 2012	London UK		Politician Lawyer	UK Conservative politician
Richard Descoing	23 June 1958	3 April 2012	New York US		Academic Civil servant	Single Bilderberger who died in unexplained circumstances.
Michael Sands	14 December 1945	6 April 2012	Los Angeles California		Spook Hollywood/Premature death Hollywood publicist	Publicist for Gary Devore. Close to the CIA. Choked to death on free food sample
Mike Wallace	9 May 1918	7 April 2012	US Connecticut New Canaan		Journalist
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller	13 July 1913	16 April 2012	Denmark Copenhagen		Deep politician Shipping magnate Businessperson	Danish shipping magnate and Danish deep politician
Stanley Rogers Resor	5 December 1917	17 April 2012			Civil servant	United States Secretary of the Army during the Vietnam War.
Chuck Colson	16 October 1931	21 April 2012	United States Virginia Falls Church		Lawyer	Indicted for conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglaries
Shukri Ghanem	9 October 1942	29 April 2012	Austria Vienna		Politician
Eduardo Valle	10 March 1947	3 May 2012	Mexico Matamoros		Politician	In 1994 he named the political and economic state of Mexico as "narco-democracy" and in 2003 he referred to it as "narco-state".
Frank Pearl	27 May 1943	4 May 2012		Cancer	Financier Media executive	Five times Bilderberger financier; "the richest and most influential man whom no one really knew." Accused of fraud after his death.
Aatos Erkko	16 September 1932	5 May 2012			Editor Media executive	Finnish multi millionaire media owner. Attended Bilderberg/1991, then used his media empire to propagandize for Finland joining the EU in the 1994 referendum. Trilateral Commission. Possibly a CIA asset, like his father.
Kostas Karras	21 June 1936	6 May 2012			Politician Actor	Greek actor and politician. Bilderberg Steering committee, 19 Bilderbergs
Nicholas Katzenbach	17 January 1922	8 May 2012	United States New Jersey Skillman		Lawyer Deep state actor	United States Deputy Attorney General at the time of the JFK assassination who assisted in the cover up
Giampiero Cantoni	10 February 1939	9 May 2012	Italy Rome		Politician Banker Businessperson	Italian entrepreneur and Senator for Silvio Berlusconi's party. Exposed as confidential informant to the US embassy.
Curtis Smothers	26 August 1943	14 May 2012			Academic Lawyer Judge
Mary Richardson Kennedy	4 October 1959	16 May 2012	New York United States Bedford
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi	1 April 1952	20 May 2012	Libya Tripoli		Spook
Svenn Stray	11 February 1922	20 May 2012			Politician Lawyer Deep state actor	Bilderberger Norwegian Foreign minister
Eugene Dinkin	10 June 1938	21 May 2012			Whistleblower Spook	AN "unsung hero" spook who intercepted a communication about the JFK assassination. Shared this with journalists in the press room of the United Nations office in Geneva. Smeared as having poor mental health
Lars Ericsson		June 2012		Drowning	Spook	Leader of Sweden's most powerful and secretive intelligence service Office for Special Acquisition, found drowned in 2012.
Richard F. Stolz	1925	9 June 2012			Spook	Senior CIA Spook and a 31 year veteran of the clandestine service
Roger Garaudy	17 July 1913	13 June 2012	France Paris		Philosopher
Peter Archer	20 November 1926	14 June 2012			Spook Politician Lawyer
Jack Caulfield	12 March 1929	17 June 2012			Spook Deep state functionary
Michael Palliser	9 April 1922	19 June 2012			Diplomat Businessperson	Spooky UK diplomat
Yitzhak Shamir	22 October 1915	30 June 2012	Israel Tel Aviv		Spook Politician
Gianfranco Cicogna Mozzoni	29 September 1962	30 June 2012	South Africa Klerksdorp		Deep state operative	Partner of spook and sexual blackmailer Ghislaine Maxwell in the 1980s. Died in fiery air crash in 2012. His grandfather was deep politician Giuseppe Volpi.
Robert Jeker	26 August 1935	July 2012			Financier	Swiss financier who attended several Bilderberg meetings as CEO of Credit Suisse.
Ben-ami Kadish	2 September 1923	16 July 2012			Spook
Jean François-Poncet	8 December 1928	18 July 2012	France Paris		Diplomat Politician	French Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late 1970s, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the early 1980s. A panelist on Operating The Alliance at the 1985 Bilderberg.
Alastair Burnet	12 July 1928	20 July 2012			Journalist Broadcaster Editor	Economist editor who didn't go to the Bilderberg.
Alexander Cockburn	6 June 1941	21 July 2012	Germany Bad Salzhausen		Journalist Editor	Leftist journalist with a sense of humor and diverse range of opinions. A great read.
George Lauder	2 March 1924	25 July 2012			Spook Propagandist	CIA officer who was among other things Acting Chief of the Latin American Division, before in the 1980s becoming defender of its reputation as Director of Public Affairs.
Gore Vidal	3 October 1925	31 July 2012	United States California Hollywood Hills		Author
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