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The burnt out Euromaidan in Kiev, Feb. 20, 2014.

2014 saw the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In 2014, the amount of property taken by civil asset forfeiture exceeded that taken by burglary.

Peer-reviewed Research into Oligarchy

In the fall of 2014, the academic journal Perspectives on Politics published Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, the first academic study of whether the US was a de facto democracy - i.e. whether the will of the people influenced whether legislation got enacted. It began by asking "Who governs? Who really rules? To what extent is the broad body of U.S. citizens sovereign, semi-sovereign, or largely powerless?" and concluded that "Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts." This was not followed up on by commercially-controlled media and as of December 2017, it was still the only paper on this topic.

In 2014, the amount of theft by government exceeded that from burglars

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Al-Salam weapons deal		A large arms deal signed during the government of Tony Blair.
Iraq Inquiry		"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)
Hedges v. Obama		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.
Al-Sweady Inquiry
Saleh v. Bush		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
Obama warns Yanukovitch		Obama Warns President Yanukovitch against military action on the Maidan protesters.
Maidan sniper shootings		53 people including 20 police officers killed by snipers during the Maidan protests.
EU-RF-Ukraine agreement		Representatives of the Russia Federation, the EU and Ukraine (President and opposition) meet in Kiev and reach agreement on the way forward
Yanukovitch deposed		Verkhovna Rada (The Ukraine Parliament) votes to depose duly elected President Viktor Yanukovitch
Joe Biden/Pledges support for Yatsenyuk		US VP Joe Biden phones Arseniy Yatsenyuk to offer support and commend the Junta on its RESTRAINT - no kidding
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370		A commercial airliner which went missing. Reported to be seen flying towards black site, Diego Garcia. The president of Malaysia became visibly concerned that Boeing and the CIA were covering up something.
Crimea referendum		Referendum in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol on the future status of the peninsula
Crimea annexation announced		Vladimir Putin announces the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian Federation following the referendum 2 days earlier
Financial Flows and Infrastructure Financing
Ukraine troops leave Crimea		Ukrainian troops leave Crimea. The pullout follows an order by Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov
UN GA vote on Crimea		UN General Assembly adopts resolution calling upon states not to recognize changes in status of Crimea region
Flint water crisis		A mass poisoning in Flint Michigan
NATO suspends co-operation with Russia		NATO foreign ministers suspend all practical civilian and military co-operation with Russia at a meeting in Brussels.
Donbas govt bldgs occupied		Protesters occupy government buildings in the eastern cities of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, calling for a referendum on independence.
Kiev Junta announces ATO		Acting President, Olexander Turchynov, announces start of "anti-terrorist operation" against Donbas protestors.
Sinking of MV Sewol		A ferry sinking which killed hundreds of schoolchildren. Officially, an accident, but information hidden and falsified in investigation.
2014 Ukraine coup/Geneva agreement		Ukraine, Russia, EU and US diplomats meet in Geneva to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Agreed statement issued.
2014 Ukraine coup/Forged antisemitic leaflets		Threatening anti-Semitic leaflets distributed in Donetsk. They are quickly revealed as forgeries designed to discredit the rebels
Massacre in Odessa		Events in Odessa culminated in the deaths of 48 (official narrative) and up to 120 (evidence-based alternative narrative) anti-Kiev Junta demonstrators by fire, gun-shots and beatings in and around the Odessa Trade Union building.
Putin visits Crimea		President Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to Crimea since its incorporation back into Russia in March
Donbas status referenda		Referendums on the future status of the Donesk and Luhansk Oblasts in Eastern Ukraine take place
Yanukovych statement		Ousted President Yanukovych issues a statement on the referendums conducted in Eastern Ukraine the previous day
Ukraine/2014 presidential election		Elections for a new president of Ukraine in spite of the fact that the existing President Yanukovitch had not resigned nor been legally removed by due constitutional process
Bilderberg/2014
Poroshenko inauguration		Pyotr Poroshenko sworn in as fifth President of Ukraine following his victory at the elections of 25 May 2014 which were boycotted by much of the South-East of the country
Russian embassy attack		The Russian embassy in Kiev is subjected to sustained attack by protestors while the Ukrainian police look on
Report of Junta using civilian planes as cover		Militia Soldier - Elena, from Sloviansk tells of Ukrainian fighter planes using civilian airliners as cover prior to attacking the city
Le Cercle/2014 (London)		Dates include June 20 but are uncertain
2014 Australia turboprop drug bust		35 kg of heroin were accidentally found by local police aboard a CIA plane
Gaza War 2014
Antonov 26 19 blue downed		Antonov 26 transport plane of the Ukrainian Air Force crashed near Izvaryne
Mil SitRep for MH17 area		Military Situation report for the MH17 area
UKr BUK on TV		Ukraine army Buk system footage day before shooting down Flight MH17 - English Subtitles
1st Ukr SU-25 downed		Shot down near Gorlovki/Gorlovka/Horlivka
2014 Ukraine coup/ATO map 16 JUL 2014		Military situation in Donbass at 16 JUL 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17		A Boeing 777-200 plane, of Malaysian Airlines, which crashed in Ukraine, east of Donetsk on 17 July 2014, killing all 298 on board. President of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad was very suspicious of the immediate sole blaming of Russia.
Ukr SBU comms intercepts		Alleged SSU, radio interception of conversations between "terrorists", "Boeing-777" plane crash (YouTube upload time approx)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Leaves departure gate		Aircraft leaves the departure gate at Amsterdam's Schipol airport
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Takeoff		The aircraft became airborne from Schipol runway 36C
Cruising altitude reached		Aircraft reaches cruising altitude of FL310 (31,000 ft)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/First altitude change		Just prior to entering Ukrainian airspace, the flight climbed to FL330 (33,000 ft)
Weather conditions		Map compiled from ICAO weather station data at 13:00 UTC
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Last ADS-B contact		Last contact by the ADS-B (Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) of flight tracking web sites.
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New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Bellingcat		Blog post	Self-styled "Site for citizen investigations of current events using open source information" lead by Eliot Higgins and "8 volunteers", allegedly funded by a Kickstarter campaign. The site is popular with the commercially-controlled media and has paid for articles from Dan Kaszeta, a member of the Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
South Front		Analytical project
Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism
Mayday Rescue Foundation
Warsaw Institute
Airwars		NGO
Correctiv
Tayen Lane
European Leadership Network/Young Leaders			90 members in their early careers who are rising stars and specialists in security policy, economics, journalism, law and civil society.
Faculty
Jews for justice for Germans		Pressure group	A deliberately tongue-in-cheek attention-grabbing name for a group that understands the gross injustices that Germany and Germans have been subjected to at the hands of Jewish-dominated interests for the greater part of the 20th century and especially over their alleged responsibility for both world wars and the horrors accompanying them.
Brazzaville Foundation		Commercial Military ranks
Moonscape Ventures
Counter Extremism Project

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Searx		https://searx.me	An open source decentralised search engine
Linguistic Determinism		http://linguistic-determinism-art-language.blogspot.co.uk/
The Intercept		https://theintercept.com/	Pierre Omidyar's website that has published a selection of documents from Edward Snowden.
Fort Russ		https://www.fort-russ.com	Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot.
StopFake		https://www.stopfake.org	Spooky "fact checking" website to counter "Russian Propaganda" backed by an alliance of groups including the Integrity Initiative. Some staff crossover with the Institute for Statecraft.
Middle East Eye		https://www.middleeasteye.net/	Online media outlet
Vera Graziadei blog		http://veragraziadei.wordpress.com/	Blog of Vera Graziadei
Al Masdar News		https://www.almasdarnews.com/
Russia Insider		https://russia-insider.com/	A news aggregator that has alienated many earlier contributors.
Skeptical about skeptics		http://www.skepticalaboutskeptics.org/	A site dedicated to countering dogmatic, ill informed attacks leveled by self-styled skeptics on pioneering scientific research and researchers
NewColdWar.org		https://www.newcoldwar.org	Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot.

 

==Groups that were Wound Up==  ==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
François de Rose	1910	2014				Single Bilderbeger
Christopher Jeans	1945	January 2014			Editor Producer
Ralph Davidson	1928	2014			Editor	Director of Refugees International
Thomas Patrick Melady	4 March 1927	6 January 2014	US Washington DC	Cancer	Author Diplomat
Thomas Jones	21 July 1920	7 January 2014			Businessperson	US military-industrial businessman who attended the 1966 and the 1987 Bilderbergs.
Ariel Sharon	26 February 1928	11 January 2014	Israel Ramat Gan		Soldier Politician
Fritz Molden	8 April 1924	11 January 2014	Austria Schwaz Tirol		Author Diplomat Journalist Publisher	Austrian journalist, publisher, diplomat who attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Alistair McAlpine	14 May 1942	17 January 2014
Otis G. Pike	31 August 1921	20 January 2014	Florida Vero Beach
Beurt SerVaas	1919	2 February 2014			Politician Businessperson
Barry Rubin	28 January 1950	3 February 2014			Author Academic
Shirley Temple	23 April 1928	10 February 2014	California Woodside U.S.		Diplomat Actor
Steven Dale Green	2 May 1985	18 February 2014	Kentucky Lexington			A US soldier convicted of raping and murdering an Iraqi girl.
Tennant Bagley	11 November 1925	20 February 2014	Belgium Brussels		Spook
Gordon Douglas Brown		21 February 2014			Whistleblower	Exposed massive corruption by De Beers
Autumn Radtke		28 February 2014	Singapore	Falling	Businessperson	A tech-valley CEO of a bitcoin exchange who died a violent death, aged 28. It was ruled a suicide.
John Wilkinson	23 September 1940	1 March 2014	Isle of Man		Politician
Maurice Faure	2 January 1922	6 March 2014	France Cahors		Soldier Politician	French politician who co-signed the Treaty of Rome for France in 1957.
Samuel Lewis	1 October 1930	10 March 2014			Diplomat	Single Bilderberg US Ambassador to Israel for 8 years
Tony Benn	3 April 1925	14 March 2014	London UK England		Politician
Fred de Brouwer		14 March 2014
Jose Medeiros Ferreira	1942	18 March 2014	Portugal Lisbon		Politician Academic	Portuguese politician
Lawrence Walsh	8 January 1912	19 March 2014	Oklahoma Nichols Hills		Lawyer Judge
Robert Strauss	19 October 1918	19 March 2014	Washington DC D.C U.S.		Diplomat
Murray Weidenbaum	10 February 1927	20 March 2014	Missouri Clayton U.S.
James R. Schlesinger	15 February 1929	27 March 2014	Maryland Baltimore U.S.	Pneumonia	Spook Academic Deep state operative	USDSO, DCI, RAND, US Defense secretary
Charles Keating	4 December 1923	31 March 2014	Phoenix Program Arizona U.S.		Fraudster Swimmer	Maybe the highest profile player who was jailed for his part in the Savings and loan fraud.
John Judge		April 2014	Washington DC		Researcher Activist
Michael Ruppert	3 February 1951	13 April 2014	California Calistoga		Author Activist Narcotics investigator Talk show host 9-11/Dissident	Former cop who famously confronted John Deutch about CIA drug dealing. Later became a dissident journalist.
Paulo Malhães	17 April 1938	25 April 2014	Brazil Sao Paolo		Torturer	Admitted torturing and murdering dissidents
Vasco Graça Moura	3 January 1942	27 April 2014	Portugal Lisbon		Author Politician Lawyer Translator
Andreas Gerwig	10 November 1928	30 April 2014	Ebenda		Politician	Swiss politician
Kenneth Tomlinson	3 August 1944	1 May 2014			Editor
Lynn Williams	21 July 1924	5 May 2014			Leader of the Labour Party	Labour leader, Bilderberg Steering committee, 9 Bilderbergs
Cedric Thornberry	22 June 1936	6 May 2014			Human rights lawyer UN diplomat
Umberto Cappuzzo	30 April 1922	13 May 2014	Italy Rome		Soldier	Senior Italian military leader and Le Cercle attendee.
Jean-Luc Dehaene	7 August 1940	15 May 2014	France Quimper		Politician	Attended the 2004 Bilderberg as former Prime Minister of Belgium
Richard Leonard (propagandist)	1922	18 May 2014			Journalist Propagandist
Joel Bainerman	1957	31 May 2014			Author Economist
Eldon Griffiths	25 May 1925	3 June 2014			Politician Editor
Reiulf Steen	16 August 1933	5 June 2014	Norway Oslo		Politician
Jean-François Probst	8 March 1949	12 June 2014			Politician	Cercle visitor.
Asher Ben-Natan	15 February 1921	17 June 2014			Diplomat Deep state operative	"A central figure in Israel’s defense and diplomacy establishment" who spoke at the 1979 JCIT
Avraham Shalom	7 July 1928	19 June 2014			Spook
Fouad Ajami	18 September 1945	22 June 2014	US Maine	Cancer	Academic "Terror expert"	Triple Bilderberg "terror expert"
Howard Baker	15 November 1925	26 June 2014	Tennessee Huntsville U.S.		Politician Deep state operative
Jean-Maxime Leveque	9 September 1923	29 June 2014	Paris		Banker	Shady French financier invited to attend Le Cercle
Richard Mellon Scaife	3 July 1932	4 July 2014	Pennsylvania Pittsburgh U.S.		Businessperson
John Seigenthaler	27 July 1927	11 July 2014	Tennessee Nashville U.S.		Editor	Connected to several US Democratic party leaders, including Robert F. Kennedy and Al Gore
Olli Kivinen	24 March 1939	20 July 2014	Finland Palojärvi Vihti
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