2018
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In 2018, the antics of President Trump dominated commercially-controlled media coverage, "sucking the oxygen" from discussion about more weighty topics such as the rollout of universal surveillance and a police state under the guise of the "war on terror".[1] On 5 November 2018, 'Anonymous' published leaked documents from a hitherto unregarded UK charity named the Integrity Initiative, which was to expose it, and its parent group the Institute for Statecraft as UK deep state run propaganda outfits focussed on promoting Russophobia.
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Deep state exposures

The UK government lost a seven-month legal battle and were forced to admit that MI5 operatives were allowed to participate in crimes. After being legally required to publish the document,[2] they posted a barely legible copy online on 1st March.
Integrity Initiative leak
- Full article: Integrity Initiative/Leak
- Full article: Integrity Initiative/Leak
2018 saw leaks 1, 2 and 3 by 'Anonymous' of material from the Integrity Initiative, followed by another on 5 January 2019, which lead the group to shut its doors. It was exposed as part of the UK Deep state's "fake news" effort - pretending to be exposing Russian propaganda while actually engaging in Russophobic propaganda.
US Citizens' Fears

Skripal Affair
- Full article: Skripal Affair
- Full article: Skripal Affair
The Skripal Affair saw the UK government accuse Russia of using a nerve agent, novichok, against Sergei Skripal. The Institute for Statecraft, while showing no interest in who was responsible for the attack, showed intense interests into public perceptions of culpability. It paid £12,000 for a report by Harod Associates(an IfS member's company) into media coverage and public reactions to the Skripal Affair. The 47 page report aimed "to provide an initial analysis of mainstream and social media reporting as it developed, following the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 4th March 2018." It had numerous appendices, including a 74 people analysis of how the event played out on social media in USA.
Yellow vests
The Yellow vests movement started in October 2018 and was subject to increasingly violent repression by the French state authorities.
Continuing trends
2018 was a year of expanded internet censorship and continued mass surveillance, amid talk of "fake news", "hate speech", "hate groups" and the online "radicalisation" of vulnerable people through exposure "extremist" material (including "non-violent extremism").
Universal surveillance
- Full article: Universal surveillance
- Full article: Universal surveillance
Australia lead the way amongst Western "democracies" in rolling back civil liberties about privacy. In December it passed laws which claim the right to compel both "local and international providers — including overseas communication giants such as Facebook and WhatsApp — to remove electronic protections, conceal covert operations by government agencies, and help with access to devices or services."[4]
Internet Censorship
- Full article: Internet censorship
- Full article: Internet censorship
YouTube was increasingly aggressive in closing down channels which breach its guidelines, closing down channels with hundreds of videos at a stroke.[5] KPFA banned Guns And Butter after 15+ years due to "anti-semitism".
Austerity
In UK, the NHS was predicted to delay over 50,000 operations as funding and resources are throttled,[6] in USA trumps budget reduced funding for the EPA while prioritising the MICC and other big businesses.
CPU Design Flaws
- Full article: Backdoor
- Full article: Backdoor
In early January, a range of flaws were revealed, including 2 problems with the design (not the implementation) of both Intel and AMD CPUs going back around 20 years. They reportedly have great potential for exploitation to compromise data security.[7]
Events
Event | Date | Description |
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Elsagate | ||
Russiagate | ||
Danske Bank money laundering scandal | ||
Brexit | ||
Reframing Russia | An IfS/II discussed project about "The RT Challenge" which was publicly launched in 2019, not under the II/IfS name. | |
Saratov Airlines Flight 6W703 | ||
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting | A school shooting in Florida in 2018 | |
Toxic Dagger | The largest chemical warfare exercise in the UK, coinciding with the Skripal Affair. | |
Skripal Affair/Boshirov and Petrov in the UK | Overview of what Boshirov and Petrov did in the UK | |
Skripal Affair | A purported chemical weapons attack. The Integrity Initiative carried out extensive research into how to control the narrative of the event. | |
2018 Gaza Massacre | A massacre of at least 135 unarmed protestors including many women and children, and the wounding of many thousands more by Israeli IDF sniper teams, during the Palestinian 'Great March of Return' and the weeks following its end on 15 May 2018 | |
California Fires | The deadliest and most destructive wildfire season ever recorded in California. | |
Douma attack | ||
2018 Brussels DisinfoLab | ||
Clade X | A pandemic/biowarfare preparation exercise by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | |
Bilderberg/2018 | The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government. | |
2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue | Spooky/MICC conference attended by Maria de Goeij whose trip report on it for the Integrity Initiative was leaked. | |
Cold War Then and Now? | A free conference that appears to have been part of a broader campaign by the Institute for Statecraft to promote Cold War 2.0. | |
Tackling Tools of Malign Influence | Integrity Initiative conference about "Russian Propaganda" | |
Integrity Initiative/Leak | A series of 7 leaks, starting on 5 November 2018, of unknown origin and veracity. After some time, the II disputed the authenticity of some of the documents, but was not clear about which. | |
Integrity Initiative/Leak/1 | ||
Yellow vests movement | A series of mass demonstrations in France expression dissatisfaction with the political process. Subject to increasingly violent repression. | |
Integrity Initiative/Leak/2 | ||
Le Cercle/2018 (Washington) | Dates maybe not exact | |
Integrity Initiative/Leak/3 | ||
Workshop on Identifying and Combating Disinformation in Big Data |
New Groups
Group | Image | Description |
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National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence | ![]() | |
Luminate | ![]() | Foundation for funding global media and civil society groups |
Independent Office for Police Conduct | ![]() | |
Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact | ![]() | |
Global Preparedness Monitoring Board | ![]() | |
Brood of Holy Wisdom | ![]() | |
Extinction Rebellion | ![]() | A mass civil disobedience movement |
Poynter Institute/List | ![]() | The Poynter Institute list was a list of 515 websites that it termed "untrustworthy". |
New Websites
Event | Image | URL | Description |
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The Deep State Blog | ![]() | http://deepstateblog.org | |
DisinfoPortal | ![]() | https://disinfoportal.org/ | A "one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war" from the Atlantic Council. |
Parler | ![]() | https://www.parler.com | |
Rogue Media Labs | ![]() | https://roguemedia.co/ | A website which republished all the Integrity Initiative Leak documents |
Groups that were Wound Up
Group | Image | Description |
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"Independent Police Complaints Commission" | ![]() | |
UN/Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force | ![]() | A part of the UN's "counter-terrorism" project. |
==Quotations==
Deaths
Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Cause of death | Summary | Description |
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Herman Sandberg | 1918 | 2018 | Journalist | |||
Philipp Jenninger | 10 June 1932 | 4 January 2018 | Germany Stuttgart Baden-Württemberg | Diplomat Spook Politician | Spooky german politician | |
Peter Preston | 23 May 1938 | 6 January 2018 | Author Journalist Propagandist Editor | |||
Peter Sutherland | 25 April 1946 | 7 January 2018 | Dublin Eire | Infection | Lawyer Deep politician Businessperson | A deep politician who held some key posts including Chairman of Goldman Sachs, WTO head, Attorney General of Ireland ... |
Alan Hart | 17 February 1942 | 15 January 2018 | Author Journalist | UK journalist supporter of the 9-11/Truth movement. | ||
Luc Beyer de Rycke | 9 September 1933 | 18 January 2018 | Paris | Journalist Politician | Cercle visitor. | |
Franz Lütolf | 6 June 1924 | 18 January 2018 | Academic Banker Economist Deep politician | General Manager and Member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Bank Corporation and a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee. | ||
William McDonough | 21 April 1934 | 22 January 2018 | New York Waccabuc U.S. | Deep state operative | CFR, TLC, 7 Bilderbergs, Group of Thirty, NY Fed Chairman.. | |
Robert Parry | 24 June 1949 | 27 January 2018 | Journalist | Veteran US investigative reporter | ||
John Perry Barlow | 3 October 1947 | 7 February 2018 | California San Francisco U.S. | Musician Activist Poet | ||
Henri de Monpezat | 11 June 1934 | 13 February 2018 | ||||
Ruud Lubbers | 5 July 1939 | 14 February 2018 | Netherlands Rotterdam | Diplomat Politician Deep state operative | Dutch deep state operative and Prime-Minister. Close ties to the SDS as Minister of State. | |
John Orr | 3 September 1945 | 19 February 2018 | Police officer | DCS John Orr led the Lockerbie investigation (1988 to 1990) | ||
Nils Wilhjelm | 17 June 1936 | 5 March 2018 | Denmark Nykøbing Falster | Politician Businessperson | Danish Minister of Industry, businessman and multi-Bilderberger | |
Peter Peterson | 5 June 1926 | 20 March 2018 | Financier Deep state functionary Businessperson | Long time CFR chair | ||
Robert Forrester | 4 May 1953 | 22 March 2018 | Spook | |||
Dagfinn Vårvik | 8 June 1924 | 25 March 2018 | Politician | |||
Peter Munk | 8 November 1927 | 28 March 2018 | Businessperson | Suspected Canadian deep state operative | ||
Arthur S. Hulnick | 1935 | April 2018 | Spook Academic | |||
Milagro de Mier | April 2018 | Washington DC | Drowning | Activist | An anti-GMO activist who reportedly drowned in 2018. | |
Efraín Ríos Montt | 16 June 1926 | 1 April 2018 | Lawyer | The only head of a nation state to have been found guilty of genocide in his own country. | ||
Winnie Mandela | 26 September 1936 | 2 April 2018 | South Africa Johannesburg | |||
Mete Sozen | 22 May 1930 | 5 April 2018 | London UK | Academic Deep state functionary | A professor of Structural Engineering who wrote a series of official government reports after "terrorist" deep events. | |
Maksim Borodin | 15 April 2018 | Russia Yekaterinburg | Falling | Journalist | Russian journalist who fell to his death from his apartment in unclear circumstances | |
Vittorino Chiusano | 27 February 1925 | 17 April 2018 | Italy Turin | Politician | Italian politician who promoted a unified Europe. Attended all the Bilderberg meetings from 1963 up to 1967. | |
Richard Pipes | 11 July 1923 | 17 May 2018 | Historian | Hawkish cold warrior historian | ||
James Eberle | 31 May 1927 | 17 May 2018 | Mariner | Chatham House Director in retirement | ||
Bernard Lewis | 31 May 1916 | 19 May 2018 | US New Jersey | Historian | ||
Luis Posada Carriles | 15 February 1928 | 23 May 2018 | Doctor "Terrorist" Assassin | |||
Joseph Recarey | 5 June 1967 | 25 May 2018 | Police officer Epstein Affair/Premature death | A Palm Beach detective who was active in breaking open Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking/sexual blackmail activities. Died, aged 50, "after a brief illness." | ||
Mārtiņš Bunkus | 30 May 2018 | Latvia Riga | Gunshot | Lawyer | Assassinated lawyer who had worked on suspect financial institutions in Riga | |
Razan al-Najjar | 11 September 1996 | 1 June 2018 | Gaza | Nurse | ||
Frank Carlucci | 18 October 1930 | 3 June 2018 | Virginia McLean U.S. | Spook Deep state actor | A Princeton roommate of his fellow US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. | |
John Thomson | 27 April 1927 | 3 June 2018 | Diplomat | |||
Charles Krauthammer | 13 March 1950 | 21 June 2018 | Cancer | Journalist Neoconservatism | Single Bilderberger Washington Conference on International Terrorism visitor | |
Şarık Tara | 22 April 1930 | 28 June 2018 | Billionaire Businessperson | Turkish single Bilderberger billionaire businessman | ||
Peter Carrington | 6 June 1919 | 9 July 2018 | Politician Deep politician | UK Deep politician. Bilderberg chairman. President of the Pilgrims Society. Secretary General of NATO. Chairman of the UK Conservative Party. Busy guy. | ||
Thorvald Stoltenberg | 8 July 1931 | 13 July 2018 | Politician | Norwegian politician with deep state connections | ||
Ron Dellums | 24 November 1935 | 30 July 2018 | ||||
Stephen Goodson | 4 August 2018 | Author Politician Banker | ||||
Mark Minnie | 14 August 2018 | Gunshot | Author Police officer VIPaedophile/Premature death | A paedophile investigator shot dead nine days after publishing a book about a 1980s VIPaedophile network involving members of the South African government | ||
Uri Avnery | 10 September 1923 | 20 August 2018 | Author Activist | |||
John McCain | 29 August 1936 | 25 August 2018 | Arizona Cornville U.S. | Brain tumour | Deep politician | Vietnam War veteran, sang about bombing Iran to voters, called the JFK assassination "the intervention". appears on a picture with Simon Elliot. |
Alexander Zakharchenko | 26 June 1976 | 31 August 2018 | Donetsk Donetsk People's Republic | |||
Lars Wohlin | 24 June 1933 | 24 September 2018 | Politician | |||
Walter Laqueur | 26 May 1921 | 30 September 2018 | Academic | An ex-patriot German Jewish professor of History and "terror expert" who attended the 1981 Colloquium on Clandestine Collection | ||
Viktoria Marinova | October 2018 | |||||
Jamal Khashoggi | 13 October 1958 | 2 October 2018 | Turkey Istanbul | Violence | Author Journalist Editor | assassinated journalist |
Saak Karapetyan | 3 October 2018 | Spook Lawyer | "Russian deputy attorney general" who reportedly died in a helicopter crash | |||
Pik Botha | 27 April 1932 | 12 October 2018 | South Africa Pretoria | Diplomat Politician Lawyer Deep state operative | South African deep state operative | |
... further results |
References
- ↑ http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/95490
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/02/mi5-agents-are-allowed-to-commit-in-uk-government-reveals
- ↑ https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/americas-top-fears-2018/
- ↑ https://sg.news.yahoo.com/australia-passes-cyber-snooping-laws-global-implications-103222310.html
- ↑ https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-03-youtube-deletes-entire-health-ranger-video-channel-deletes-over-1700-videos-in-latest-politically-motivated-censorship-purge.html
- ↑ http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/95522
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/business/computer-flaws.html