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Western Global Airlines N545JN, a CIA-linked cargo plane lands in Africa, carrying 67 tons of fresh cash and a dead body.
2016 continued the trend of increasing false flag terror events, increasingly sloppily carried out. Donald Trump was elected as US President, defeating Hillary Clinton. It saw a record low in the faith of US citizens in the commercially-controlled media, and perhaps not coincidentally the launch of a "fake news" campaign to try to discredit websites which encourage readers to check the official narrative.

2016 saw an increase in attacks upon civilians in Europe and USA, ascribed to "Islamic terrorism". The run up to the US Presidential Election saw a large amount of emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server, which was understood to have contributed to the victory of Donald Trump. These emails led directly to the 'Pizzagate' citizens' investigation which alleged paedophilia in the US political establishment, and then to the introduction of the phrase "Fake news website", in a now infamous article published in the Washington Post, under the name of Craig Timberg. Google also began extensive interference in search results, whichZach Vorhies exposed with a leak in 2019.

Rise of "Terrorism"

2016 saw several incidents of "terrorism", particularly in Europe. These included attacks in airports in Brussels and Istanbul, the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the Nice truck event and the 2016 Munich shooting (the last two of which were filmed by Richard Gutjahr, who was present with his camera ready to roll at both events).

Saumur Daesh Cell

Full article: 2016 Saumur Daesh Cell

In September 2016, an apparent hideout was discovered, complete with arabic language newspapers and ISIS flags. This was later claimed to be part of a terrorism exercise, an explanation accepted without question by the commercially-controlled media. Operation Gladio/B remains a third rail topic for corporate media, although the UK Daily Express did publish two articles around the 15th anniversary of 9-11 which questioned the US government's official narrative.

Brexit

Full article: Brexit

A referendum on exiting the EU threw the UK conservative party into turmoil after a narrow and apparently unanticipated win for the "Brexit" camp. This was in spite of the last minute murder of anti-Brexit MP, Jo Cox, by a "lone nut", which didn't significantly change the outcome. This has prompted concern the UK may be the first of several members of the European Union whose citizens declare that they want to leave.

2016 United States presidential election

Full article: 2016 United States presidential election

The 2016 United States presidential election inspired a lot of criticism of the process, and for many people came down to choosing the lesser evil between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The revelations came thick and fast in the run up to polling day, including Hillary Clinton's Email debacle, which led to the exposure of the 7th floor group that the FBI termed a "shadow government".

"Fake News websites"

Full article: Fake News website

In November 2016, an article by Craig Timberg was uncritical in its echoing of allegations made by PropOrNot, an anonymous website which listed over 200 websites (including Wikispooks) that echoed Russian Propaganda, even if unwittingly so. After widespread criticised online and threats of legal action by some of the websites named, the [Washington Post]] added a disclaimer to the article that it could not "vouch for the validity of PropOrNot's finding".

Western Global Airlines N545JN

Full article: Western Global Airlines N545JN

One of the more extraordinary stories of the year - almost completely ignored by Western corporate media - was the 13 February 2016 emergency landing of a large cargo aircraft (Western Global Airlines N545JN) at the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Blood stains on the side of the plane from a cargo door lead ground staff to discover 67 tonnes of mint condition South African banknotes and a dead body. After a few days of representations from the US embassy, the crew of 5 were released, together with the plane and its cargo. No charges were filed, and the commercially-controlled media did not report the incident in US or Europe.

Internet Shutdowns

Project Censored reported in 2017 that 2016 had been a record year for internet shutdowns.

Other Events

The Knights of Malta experienced a period of turmoil beginning in December 2016, which the commercially-controlled media mostly avoided covering. One article reported "treachery... greed, cover-ups, betrayal, corruption... blackmail... a successful coup" involving the highest levels of the Vatican, and a suspicious 120 million Swiss franc account rumoured to be of Nazi or other dirty money origin, and managed by its Geneva-based trustee Ariane Slinger whose name appeared in the Panama Papers.

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
Afghanistan/2001 Invasion		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		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)
Biden–Ukraine corruption scandal		Maybe this scandal would have swung the US/2020 Presidential election the other way if the media had reported on it?
Julian Assange/Imprisonment
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
2017 Refugee False Flag		A failed attack which appears to have been intended as a false flag to be blamed on Syria.
"Strike Hard Campaign"		A research project into repressive social control carried out against Chinese Muslims.
2016 Batley and Spen by-election		By election caused by the murder of Jo Cox
Exercise Alice		Secret 2016 UK pandemic exercise modelling the impact of a coronavirus outbreak
US/2016 Presidential election/Iowa DNC Caucus
Western Global Airlines N545JN		67 tons of cash and a body found on a CIA plane. Not known to have been reported by corporate media in Europe or North America.
2016 Brussels Bombing/Media manipulation		False Belgian media reporting on the Mass murder in Brussels
2016 Brussels Bombing		A terrorist attack in Brussels involving 3 explosions which reportedly killed more than 30 people and injured hundreds more. Responsibility for the attack was immediately attributed to ISIS by the commercially-controlled media, clearly assuming the people are still buying this "Muslim suicide bomber" Official Narrative
Panama Papers		A huge (2.6TB) cache of confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. Those identified include numerous wealthy and powerful political figures and organisations of many countries.
Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme
Bilderberg/2016		The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
2016 Orlando nightclub shooting		2016 mass shooting at gay nightclub in Florida
2016 Magnanville stabbing		President Hollande called it “incontestably a terrorist act” and said France was facing a terror threat “of a very large scale”
Jo Cox/Murder
2016 EU Referendum
2016 Istanbul airport attack
Nice truck event
2016 Munich shooting		A shooting spree supposedly carried out by an 18 year old, for as yet unexplained purposes.
Ritual at CERN
2016 Saumur Daesh Cell		In 2016 gardeners in Saumur, France found what appeared to be a Daesh cell, complete with recording equipment and props such as ISIS flags. Local police were told by the French Ministry of Defense that it was an exercise, although local police knew nothing of it.
Exercise Cygnus		Simulation exercise to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic in the UK. One of the purposes of the scenario prepared by experts from Imperial College London was to overcome Whitehall skepticism of their earlier absolutely wrong epidemic forecasting, and to drill politicians to make certain prepared responses in case of an emergency. Held October 2016.
2016 Hurriyah car bombing hoax		A real bomb in the Hurriyah area of Baghdad reported as having killed people by commercially-controlled media but exposed as a hoax after CCTV footage appeared online.
Russiagate
US/2016 Presidential election		The one time Russia managed to decide the American election; bypassing all intelligence agencies with a then 50 billion budget.
Le Cercle/2016 (Washington)		The most recent known Cercle meeting known to have been photographed. Guest Václav Klaus later published 7 photos of the event online.
2016 Berlin attack		Reported truck hijacking in Berlin attributed to ISIL.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Shadow Brokers
Integrity Initiatives International
Swiss Propaganda Research			Swiss Propaganda Research (SPR) is an independent non-profit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is run anonymously by independent academics. High quality articles are available in up to 14 languages.
Ballard Partners			Influential lobbying firm
Proud Boys		Group	A FBI affiliated "opposition" group.
Snopes/Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors
European Counter Terrorism Centre
Global Engagement Center
UK National Cyber Security Centre
PropOrNot/List			The PropOrNot list was a list of websites that it stated "Reliably Echo Russian Propaganda"

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Children's Health Defense		https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender	Critic of vaccine safety and other health issues
PropOrNot		http://www.propornot.com/	A spooky group which kicked off the steadily intensifying "Fake News Website" campaign
Babylon Bee		https://babylonbee.com/	Satirical website censored since 2020.
WinterWatch		https://www.winterwatch.net
Gab		https://gab.com/	Gab is a social networking service with a strict free speech approach for which it is criticized in corporate media.
TikTok		https://www.tiktok.com/	Like YouTube but videos have a duration from fifteen seconds to three minutes.
Tucker Carlson Tonight		https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight	The most-watched program on cable news

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Earhart Foundation			Funder of a number of European organisations to support free-market scholars 1929-2016
Dickstein Shapiro			Law firm identified as implicated in corruption by Sibel Edmonds.
Public Interest Lawyers		Commercial Law
Muslim Contact Unit		Intelligence agency	Spooky unit of the UK Metropolitan Police interested in "radicalisation" of Muslims.
Northern Party			IfS backed UK political party

 

A Website that Closed

Event	Image	URL	Description
Gawker		http://gawker.com	A formerly highly popular website. In 2014 it published 3 important exposes by Mark Gorton. Closed in 2016.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Shimon Peres	2 August 1923	2016			Politician
Loran Schmit		2016			Politician	The Nebraska Senator who appointed Gary Caradori to investigate the case of the Franklin child prostitution ring.
Marwan Khreesat	1946	2016			Spook Bomb maker Double agent Triple agent?
Peggy Seagrave		2016			Author	Co-author of several highly interesting books on Asian deep politics and history.
Cesare Pucci	1934	2016			Spook	Leader of Italian intelligence services
Robert Hanson	1925	2016			Businessperson	Attended the 1982 Bilderberg as President and CEO of John Deere Finance
Judith Kaye	4 August 1938	7 January 2016	New York US Manhattan			Judge with close ties to Sullivan & Cromwell
Lars Roar Langslet	5 March 1936	18 January 2016				Double Bilderberg Norwegian Minister of Culture
George Weidenfeld	13 September 1919	20 January 2016	London England		Editor Publisher
Mustafa Koç	29 October 1960	21 January 2016		Heart attack	Businessperson	Turkish businessman. Attended all Bilderbergs from 2004 until his death in 2016
Cecil Parkinson	1 September 1931	22 January 2016			Politician
Robert Pickus	31 October 1923	22 January 2016	California St. Helena
Dieter Spethmann	27 March 1926	1 February 2016	Germany Düsseldorf		Businessperson	German businessman who attended the 1968 and 1980 Bilderbergs
Drew Lewis	3 November 1931	10 February 2016	Arizona Prescott U.S.		Politician Businessperson
Antonin Scalia	11 March 1936	13 February 2016	Texas Shafter U.S.		Judge	US judge
William H. Schaap	1 March 1940	25 February 2016			Author Lawyer
James Kimsey	15 September 1939	1 March 2016	Virginia McLean U.S.		Businessperson Millionaire	Internet service provider AOL founder with deep military ties, Bilderberg
Aubrey McClendon	14 July 1959	2 March 2016	Oklahoma Oklahoma City	Car crash	Businessperson	A US businessman who died in suspicious circumstances.
Morgan Murphy	16 April 1932	4 March 2016	Chicago Illinois		Politician	Chicago Democrat politician
Jean-Bernard Raimond	6 February 1926	7 March 2016	France Neuilly-sur-Seine		Politician
William B. Bader	8 September 1931	16 March 2016			Spook Historian
Meir Dagan	30 January 1945	17 March 2016			Spook
Lothar Späth	16 November 1937	18 March 2016			Politician Businessperson
Guido Westerwelle	27 December 1961	18 March 2016	Germany Cologne	Leukemia	Premature death Politician	Atlantik-Brücke, Bilderberg 2007, ousted after a media campaign. Died aged 54 of acute myeloid leukemia.
Anker Jørgensen	13 July 1922	20 March 2016	Denmark Copenhagen		Politician	Prime Minister in the 1970s and 80s
Nigel Wylde	16 March 1947	21 March 2016		Cancer	Spook
Mae-Wan Ho	12 November 1941	24 March 2016			Activist Scientist	Biochemist among the first warning against the dangers of genetic engineering
Lester Thurow	7 May 1938	25 March 2016			Economist	US political economist
Robert Sayre	18 August 1924	31 March 2016			Diplomat
Hans-Dietrich Genscher	21 March 1927	31 March 2016	Germany Wachtberg		Politician Deep state operative	West-German deep state operator
Robert MacCrate	18 July 1921	6 April 2016			Lawyer	Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer, investigated My Lai.
Duane Clarridge	16 April 1932	9 April 2016	Virginia Leesburg		Spook Deep politician
John Jones (lawyer)	14 June 1967	18 April 2016	London UK	Struck by train	Lawyer	Assange lawyer who jumped in front of train
Gerasimos Arsenis	30 May 1931	19 April 2016			Politician	Attended the 1994 Bilderberg as Greek Minister for National Defense
S. Ichtiaque Rasool	1930	20 April 2016			Author Researcher Academic
Philippe Brewaeys	3 September 1957	2 May 2016	Brussels		Researcher Journalist
Robert Bennett	18 September 1933	4 May 2016	Virginia Arlington U.S.		Politician
Walther Kiep	5 January 1926	9 May 2016	Germany Kronberg im Taunus		Politician Fraudster Perjury	Politician, financial fraudster, perjurer, attended 4 Bilderbergs from 1974 to 1980
Mark Lane	24 February 1927	10 May 2016	Virginia Charlottesville U.S.		Author Researcher Lawyer	Early researcher into the JFK Assassination whose worked helped to prompt the CIA's coining of the phrase "Conspiracy theorist".
Berend Udink	12 February 1926	24 May 2016	Netherlands Goedereede		Politician	Double Bilderberger Dutch politician
Omar Mateen	16 November 1986	12 June 2016	Florida Orlando U.S.		Mass murderer
Gilles Lamontagne	17 April 1919	14 June 2016	Quebec Quebec City		Politician
Jo Cox	22 June 1974	16 June 2016	Birstall West Yorkshire England		Politician	Jo Cox was a UK politician murdered in the run up to the 2016 EU Referendum. Echoing the assassination of Sweden's Anna Lindh, the event appears not to have greatly influenced the outcome, and was officially carried out by a "lone nut".
John Ashe	20 August 1954	22 June 2016	New York Dobbs Ferry U.S.		Premature death Bureaucracy Clinton body count	Former Chairman of the UN GA who died a conveniently timed and unusual death before he was due to testify in court.
Patrick Mayhew	11 September 1929	25 June 2016	Kent UK		Politician Lawyer
Edward Sheafer	27 November 1940	27 June 2016	Pennsylvania Central City U.S.		Spook
Elie Wiesel	30 September 1928	2 July 2016	New York Manhattan U.S.		Author Activist Academic
Michel Rocard	23 August 1930	2 July 2016	France Paris		Politician Deep state actor	French politician who spoke on "The Western Global Response To The Soviet Challenge" at the 1986 Bilderberg.
Abner Mikva	21 January 1926	4 July 2016			Academic Lawyer Judge
Jørgen Schleimann	22 January 1929	7 July 2016			Journalist Director Editor	Quad Bilderberg Danish editor
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