U.S.: bankers may be blacklisted as 'terrorists'

LEAKED DOCUMENT: “FACTS” AND “EVIDENCE” NOT CONSIDERED WHEN ADDING AMERICANS TO TERROR LISTS

Government is secretly blacklisting innocent Americans as terrorists

by STEVE WATSON | INFOWARS.COM | JULY 24, 2014

http://www.infowars.com/leaked-document-facts-and-evidence-not-considered-when-adding-americans-to-terror-lists/

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A newly leaked government document reveals that agencies such as the NSA, CIA, and FBI do not require or seek “concrete facts” or “irrefutable evidence” that someone is a terrorist before adding them to official watch lists.

Indeed, the National Counterterrorism Center document reveals that the rules for adding Americans to databases such as the “no-fly list” are so broad in scope, that only a “reasonable suspicion” is needed to add someone who might commit “violent acts”or engage in “intimidation or coercion” at some point in the future. Government agents now need only what is vaguely referred to as “fragmentary information” in order to put names on the lists.

The 166-page document was written as a guidance to government terrorism watch lists by officials at the Pentagon, as well as the major government intelligence agencies. While the document is unclassified, it’s key points were “quietly approved” by President Obama.

The document was made public by The Intercept, the website for which journalist Glenn Greenwald now writes.

The document also reveals that people who have been acquitted in court of terrorism charges are kept on the databases owing to the fact that they “may nevertheless meet the REASONABLE SUSPICION standard.” The government considers it appropriate for such candidates to “remain on, or be nominated to, the Terrorist Watchlist.”

The document states “In determining whether a REASONABLE SUSPICION exists, due weight should be given to the specific reasonable inferences that a NOMINATOR is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his/her experience and not on unfounded suspicions or hunches. Although irrefutable evidence or concrete facts are not necessary, to be reasonable, suspicion should be as clear and as fully developed as circumstances permit.”

In some cases, this “reasonable suspicion standard ” is even bypassed, meaning that Americans can end up on watch lists by merely being related to or associated with someone who is suspected.

“The immediate family of suspected terrorists—their spouses, children, parents, or siblings—may be watchlisted without any suspicion that they themselves are engaged in terrorist activity.” the Intercept report notes.

“Another loophole is quite broad—’associates’ who have a defined relationship with a suspected terrorist, but whose involvement in terrorist activity is not known.” it continues.

“A third loophole is broader still—individuals with ‘a possible nexus’ to terrorism, but for whom there is not enough ‘derogatory information’ to meet the reasonable suspicion standard.” the report also states.

Even more bizarrely, people who are known to be dead are added and kept on the lists, in case someone else adopts their identity.

The document reveals activities that could lead to one being added to a watch list include “destruction of government property,” and “damaging computers used by financial institutions.” The document defines terrorism as any act that is “dangerous” to property and intended to influence government policy through intimidation.

The document also makes reference to the fact that because the so called underwear bomber was able to get on a plane despite being on the no-fly list, a “threat-based expedited upgrade” was made to the government guidelines.

This effectively gives a single Federal official the unilateral authority to flag “entire categories” of people the government is tracking onto special elevated watch lists for extra scrutiny. The power to carry this action out is vested in the assistant to the president for homeland security and counter terrorism, a position that does not require Senate confirmation.

Once a person is added to a watch list, all law enforcement agencies in the country have access to their details. Police are able to run cross checks. Meaning that anyone placed on the lists could be pulled over for a traffic infraction but end up being arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist.

As we have previously reported, many innocent American citizens have been added to terrorism watchlists over entirely innocent activities. Once a person is added to a list, they can remain in federal databases for up to 30 years, lawsuits have noted. The process for getting off of the watchlists has been declared unconstitutional in court. Further lawsuits have indicated that the government terrorism watchlists are extremely prone to abuse and error.

Commenting on the leaked information, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s national security project, Hina Shamsi, said that it proves the government is “secretly blacklisting people as suspected terrorists” with little or no evidence.

Without going into details, a spokesperson from the National Counterterrorism Center described the government watch lists as “an important part of our layered defense” against terrorists.

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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

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People Are Waking Up to False Flags Operations

Governments from Around the World – Including Western, Islamic, Asian and African Nations – ADMIT They Use False Flag Terror

Submitted by George Washington on 07/08/2014 11:12 -0400

• ABC News
 
• Department of Justice
 
• Evans-Pritchard
 
• FBI
 
• Finland
 
• Iran
 
• Iraq
 
• Italy
 
• New York Times
 
• Poland
 
• White House

 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-08/governments-around-world-%E2%80%93-including-western-islamic-asian-and-african-nations-%E2%80%93-adm

Painting by Anthony Freda

Governments from Around the World Admit They Carry Out False Flag Terror

Governments from around the world admit they carry out false flag terror:

• A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson

• Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939, and declared that the fire originated from Finland as a basis launching the Winter War four days later

• Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this andthis)

• The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister

• The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out false flag attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change

• The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watchthis BBC special

• As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

• 2 years before, American Senator George Smathers had suggested that the U.S. make “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]“.

• And Official State Department documents show that – only nine months before the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan was proposed – the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The 3 plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals

• A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists

• The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the ANC for the bombing

• An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admitthat, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author)

• Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion)

• According to the Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.

• The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings

• As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”.

• Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials (remember what the anthrax letters looked like). Government officials also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a justification for regime change in that country

• Similarly, the U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war.  Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney saidthat the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties.   Top U.S. government officials nowadmit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction  (despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was not the state which backed the hijackers)

• Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”

• United Press International reported in June 2005:

U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.

• Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians

• Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (andsee this)

• At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliamentsaw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence

• A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat

• U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants

• The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar – recentlyadmitted that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists

• High-level American sources admitted that the Turkish government – a fellow Nato country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish governmentadmitted on tape plans to carry out false flag attacks and blame it on the Syrian government

So Common … There’s a Name for It

This tactic is so common that it was given a name for hundreds of years ago.

“False flag terrorism” is defined as a government attacking its own people, then blaming others in order to justify going to war against the people it blames. Or as Wikipedia defines it:

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy’s strategy of tension.

The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy’s flag, instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, was hung, it was called a “false flag” attack.

Indeed, this concept is so well-accepted that rules of engagement for naval,air and land warfare all prohibit false flag attacks.

Leaders Throughout History Have Acknowledged False Flags

Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the danger of false flags:

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
- Plato

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
- U.S. President James Madison

“A history of false flag attacks used to manipulate the minds of the people! “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.
- Adolph Hitler

“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.

“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”.
- Josef Stalin

People Are Waking Up to False Flags

People are slowly waking up to this whole con job by governments who want to justify war.

More people are talking about the phrase “false flag” than ever before.

NATO Expansion Map (1949-2004)

NATO - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- was founded in 1949 as a US-directed military alliance to counter the might of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in central and eastern Europe. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 199, NATO's original reason for being no longer existed. Many people understandably expected that NATO would be dismantled. Instead, Washington moved to expand it. In the years since the end of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall, twelve new countries have been added. This map shows how NATO was expanded eastwards to include countries that had been part of the Soviet Union itself. This expansion helps to explain why many Russians regard the US as the real threat to stability. 

Ukraine: Rand Corp. to collect their ’30 shekels’

Rand Corp Memo Is Fascist Zionist Neocon Manifesto

By Karl W. B. Schwarz
7-5-14
http://rense.com/general96/randcorp.html

The recently released (or leaked) Rand Corporation recommendations for how to handle the Ukraine matter is literally a Fascist Death Warrant Manifesto. I agree with RT on their assessment that the memorandum is a clear statement for genocide and assesses what is the prime US export. For all this talk about democracy, freedom, liberty and self-determination they are a mockery to each and every one of those words. The prime US export is deceit and terrorism to promote US military hardware sales and their futile pursuit that this is still a unipolar world controlled by the USA.
Even as you read this the USA is in total collapse mode and the citizens of the USA have one place to point the finger of blame… Washington DC. The PressTV ran a parallel commentary on this latest revelation as to how sick in the mind some people are in the US government and those in the EU that aid and abet the madness.
This memorandum of advice includes internment camps for people who voted for self-determination to be closer aligned with Russia and wishing no desire whatsoever for a relationship with this Fascist Zionist Jew Neocon government the USA and EU desired to install in Kiev. That is exactly what the people in the eastern states of Donetsk and Lugansk voted against and are now being bombed and shelled incessantly for blocking a move on ‘The Grand Chessboard’. That lunatic book… written by the hate-Russia lunatic Zbigniew Brzezinski that is the idiotic business plan for USA global domination. It has been a total failure and complete disaster since September 11, 2001 when they launched it.
They desire to be an autonomous republic in Donetsk and Lugansk, not under the boot heels of the US-EU promoted Fascist Zionist Jew Neocon government in Kiev. Then along comes Rand Corporation to collect their ’30 shekels’ and advising on killing any resister, internment camps, executions of those that led this movement to stand up to them. The memorandum suggests the outright genocide on a group of Ukrainians and a high level of up to 35% Russian citizens in the Donbas region that have no desire whatsoever to be a part of the US, EU and NATO objectives are out of Washington DC and Brussels as their dictates to Kiev. The regime change was illegal, but sought by the USA and EU because President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign the EU agreement, and then allow a flood of EU and USA NATO nitwits into Ukraine. To get their way they had their Svoboda Maidan snipers shooting both the protestors and the police as part of their evil push to install a puppet government in Kiev that would do exactly as USA and EU demand. That is called premeditated murder and was sponsored by the USA and certain parties in the EU. Then we get this incredibly arrogant and obtuse moron named Zbigniew Brzezinski mouthing off again with his ‘hate Russia’ mindset that Russia has to just roll over to what this senile idiot has to say. This is a citation from his most recent rant about the USA must arm Ukraine and put Russia in its place. “Russia has neither the right to protect its national interests nor the right to be different. A regional power, enclosed in its rigid bounds, Russia is unable to establish viable alliances with leading global players. It should give up its vain hopes of some mythical Eurasian Union development. Its only alternative is to take the role of the Western civilization humble satellite”. So thinks an old US hawk Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former National Security Adviser and a prominent geostrategist. Folks, that assessment by Zbigniew Brzezinski is not even remotely in touch with reality. Russia is now, by far, the world’s largest energy producer. Much of this hyperventilation and constant provocation by the USA is because on this side of the world Russia is a dominant force and player.

This is the author of ‘The Grand Chessboard’, the lunatic book that PNAC and USA leaders and policy makers have used as their roadmap for the Global War on Terror. It is a colossal failure and for the USA itself has been a complete catastrophe. This is the same idiot that while National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter suggested they needed to create Al Qaeda as a means to destabilize the Islamic regions of the USSR and into control of the USA. Well… that has proven to be a complete disaster for the USA, too. Both the US State Department (spokesperson Jen Psaki) and this moron have been trying to paint the picture that Russia is to blame and they have alienated all of Ukraine against Russia intervention and interference. That is not true, or even close to the truth. “”It should be noted that some of Brzezinski's assertions surprisingly resemble those of the notorious US State Department's spokeswoman Jen Psaki. He claimed, for instance, that "Russia has generated in Ukraine widespread hostility towards Russia on the part of some 40 million people," while the recent survey conducted on April 25-29, 2014 by the influential Razumkov Centre in Kiev indicated that despite of the aggravation of Russia-Ukrainian relations more than a half of respondents consider Russians a friendly and fraternal nation.””
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_07_04/Brzezinski-calls-to-isolate-Russia-urges-US-to-arm-Ukrainian-military-0295/ Less than half of the people voted in Ukraine in the recent election of Petro Poroshenko, and even then he barely won. There was no mandate handed to the USA handpicked Zionist Jew government they have installed in Kiev. He does not have a majority of the people of Ukraine behind him. I have already squared off with this weasel-word liar Zbigniew Brzezinski when he tried to paint the picture in August 2008 that Russia was the aggressor when Georgia attacked South Ossetia in yet another USA brain fart they dream up because of their Global War on Terror Grand Chessboard LIE.

If you missed the article I wrote when Time magazine gave this idiot air time and column inches, click here.

The people of Ukraine know their nation and its dynamics better than any of these Ivory Tower morons in Washington DC who sit in their cushy offices and produce idiot ideas after lunatic ideas so they can collect their Easy Money from the political cowards seeking cover for their own stupidity. The Ukrainians do not want to be the next low-wage labor pool for the EU. The Ukrainians do not want NATO bases in their nation as part of this US and EU led agenda. They want the same rights as other nations to travel, build an economic future and not treated like a third world nation. The EU is desperate because their agenda is collapsing on all sides. Their coveted Euro has been applied to nation after nation in such harsh economic terms that it has increased costs, decreased real incomes, and increased structural unemployment. They prove every day in Brussels that it was merely a conversion from the communism of the former USSR states to the New Tyranny of the Fascist Zionist Neocons. It was a step out of one tyranny into yet another and slightly different tyranny. EU is literally covered up with prostitutes and sex workers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. That is the biggest benefit those nations and its citizens got from EU membership. Freedom to travel across EU and be a paid whore for their EU masters. Many in Ukraine will soon learn that same lesson as they already have in Romania, Bulgaria and other places where this incessant drive to expand the EU and NATO are not what is promised in return. The siren song of all of the benefits and economic growth is a cruel lie. Most of the former USSR states that define the Central and East Europe area have pathetic economic conditions as a result of their participation in this false freedom of the EU. Ask Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania… they will tell you all about it. Many of the EU proponents in Ukraine will soon learn that they cannot afford the layer, after layer, after layer of EU regulations that are designed to benefit the larger (and original) EU members and put the screws to the new members. Many in Ukraine have desired to have economic freedom and build good and sound economic futures. They clearly see what EU has done to Bulgaria, Romania and other vassals that are now merely slave camps for low wage workers that cannot now afford the huge increases in the cost of living. Many of the Central and East European nations that were once part of the USSR by force, now clearly see that when the EU comes to town their nation is doomed. That is why there is so much uprising in Europe against the unelected EU elite. The lucky ones that have skills get work permits for Germany, Switzerland, France, etc. but that leaves them far away from their families and loved ones for extended periods of time. I see that every day in Europe, people from Hungary, Romania, Croatia and elsewhere far from home because the EU in their homeland is a nightmare. The EU is deathly afraid of referendums because when given the choice people have rejected this fascist drive over and over again. Their attempt to micromanage everything is anti-nation state, anti-democratic, and is merely the appearance of freedom and liberty. Their obtuse regulatory systems crush any appearance or pretense of freedom and liberty. Nigel Farage of the UKIP has stood up to them. They are about to have a nervous breakdown in Brussels due to the ascendancy of Marine Le Pen and her Front National Party that is moving towards no EU, no EURO, and no NATO for France. Their handwringing about the rise of dissent is because people are flat out rejecting the EU tyranny, and that part of it that is lock-step with USA tyranny. The partial members of the EU that refuse to adopt the Euro currency are Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary. Those economies are doing reasonably well, while the rest of the economic stability across the other full EU members is in shambles except for the elite insiders manipulating the best positions for their agenda. I was in Slovakia when their currency converted from Slovak Crowns to Euro and overnight every person in that nation took an almost one-third decrease in their net worth when the rate was at 30.1260 SKK to the Euro rather than the promised range of 20 to 22 SKK per Euro. The smartest group of the lot has been Norway, which has refused EU, Euro and NATO. Their economy is very strong by any measure against any full EU member. Even smarter has been Switzerland, still home to one-third of the wealth in the world. The EU has even had to rely on them to help prop up their failing Euro and EU experiment.

These people in DC are not promoting democracy, freedom or liberty; they are promoting insanity, fascism and tyranny.

America needs a regime change… in Washington DC. Get out and vote in November 2014 and kick these idiots out, every last damned one of them, kick them out.

Controversial Jewish Holocaust Skeptic Speaks Out

David Cole Breaks Years of Silence at IHR Meeting

Controversial Jewish Holocaust Skeptic Speaks About His Clash With Zionist Thugs, His Secret Life as a Republican Party Activist, and His Views Today

Institute for Historical Review
March 2014

A man who made headlines during the 1990s as a controversial Jewish “Holocaust denier” has broken 18 years of silence to speak publicly for the first time about the challenges, achievements and mishaps of that era, and his secretive career since then.

David Cole – now 45 years old – was in good form as he addressed a spirited, well-attended IHR meeting in southern California on Feb. 22, 2014. His lively, articulate presentation was packed with colorful anecdotes, humorous asides and eye-opening insights. The event included an introduction by IHR director Mark Weber, and a robust question-and-answer session.

A two-hour audio recording of the event is available from the the IHR as a two disc CD set.

Mark Weber, Bill Nelson and David Cole, at February 2014 IHR meeting

Cole explained how and why he became a skeptic of the standard Holocaust narrative, and he vividly recalled the campaign of physical violence and threats against him by the extremist Jewish Defense League (JDL). He described how JDL thugs attacked him at a meeting at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1992. One first tried to push him down a flight of stairs, and then others threw food at him. Finally, a JDL thug assaulted him, hitting him in the face and bloodying his nose.

During the 1990s, Cole was prominently involved in the much-publicized global controversy on the role and function of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex during World War Two, and the extent to which it was a center of mass killings. His widely viewed “Cole- Piper Auschwitz video,” based on his 1992 visit to the camp site, exposes some of the deceit and fakery of the familiar Holocaust narrative.

During those years, Cole also presented his provocative views on national television, including an appearance on the popular “Phil Donahue” show. In April 1992 he appeared together with Mark Weber on the nationally syndicated “Montel Williams Show”. He was also interviewed in prominent periodicals, includingThe New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Jerusalem Report. Cole spoke at two IHR conferences, in 1992 and again in 1994. (The text of his address at the 1992 gathering, “A Jewish Revisionist's Visit to Auschwitz,” is posted on the IHR website.)

In response to new JDL threats against his life, and a $25,000 bounty on his head, Cole decided in 1997 to leave Holocaust revisionism. He adopted a new identity (“David Stein”) and in 1998 began a career as a filmmaker, Republican Party activist and conservative commentator. His work under his new name was carried by every major conservative organ in the U.S., including Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Fox News,Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and The Washington Times.

He also ran one of the largest GOP organizing operations on the West Coast, “Republican Party Animals,” which mixed congressmen, military leaders, and administration officials with rock and roll, pole dancers, and abundant alcoholic beverages.

When his past caught up with him last May, news of his hidden life was announced in a range of websites and periodicals. The most detailed revelatory item, titled “Hollywood Conservative Unmasked as Notorious Holocaust Revisionist,” appeared in the British newspaper, The Guardian:

“To those who knew him, or thought they knew him, he was a cerebral, fun-loving gadfly who hosted boozy gatherings for Hollywood's political conservatives. David Stein brought right-wing congressmen, celebrities, writers and entertainment industry figures together for shindigs, closed to outsiders ... Over the past five years Stein's organisation, Republican Party Animals, drew hundreds to regular events in and around Los Angeles, making him a darling of conservative blogs and talk shows ... There was just one problem. Stein was not who he claimed.”

In his talk at the IHR meeting, Cole provided an inside look at the Republican Party, based on his collaboration with important local and national GOP figures. The Party’s real focus, he emphasized, is a never-ending scramble for funding. “In the end it is always about money,” he said. His collaboration with the GOP, Cole went on, was not driven by affection for the ideology or policies of George W. Bush and the Republicans, but rather by contempt for liberal-leftist hypocrisy, cant and arrogance.

Cole also said that he stands by what he said and wrote during the 1990s about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. He is not a Holocaust revisionist to make any kind of political point. There is no political or ideological “agenda” or motive behind his non- conformist views on this subject, or his extensive investigation of the Holocaust issue, he explained.

In response to a question, he spoke specifically about the large-scale deportations of Jews from Hungary in May-June 1944. As he noted, it is often claimed that this mass transfer was organized to kill the deported Jews, especially by gassing at the Auschwitz- Birkenau camp. There is no evidence for that “stupid, ridiculous notion,” he said. In fact, he went on, “there is so much evidence” to show that those Jews were deported for labor.

There’s much more about this, Cole added, in his forthcoming memoir, Republican Party Animal.

Ex-Mossad Agent: Israel Uses ‘False Flag’ in Most Operations

Ex-Mossad Agent: Israel Uses ‘False Flag’ in Most Operations to Avoid Suspicion in Arab States

Mossad 'Regularly' Faked Australian Passports

By Global Research

Global Research, July 01, 2014

Middle East Onlline 26 February 2010

This article was published by Global Research on March 30, 2010.

Israel’s Mossad has regularly faked Australian passports for its spies, an ex-agent said on Thursday, as anger grew over the use of foreign travel documents for an alleged assassination.

Former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky told ABC public radio that the spy agency had used Australian passports for previous operations before last month’s assassination of a top Hamas commander in Dubai that has been blamed on Israel.

He said agents had little trouble passing themselves off as Australians as few people in the Middle East have much knowledge about the country.

“Consider the fact that Australians speak English and it’s an easy cover to take, very few people know very much about Australia,” he said.

“You can tell whatever stories you want. It doesn’t take much of an accent to be an Australian or New Zealander, or an Englishman for that matter.

“And I know people had been under Australian cover not once (but) quite a few times. So why not use it (again)?”

Australia summoned the Israeli ambassador and warned that the countries’ friendly ties were at risk after Dubai police named three Australian passport-holders in a list of new suspects in the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhuh.

Britain, Ireland, France and Germany expressed similar outrage after people holding documents from their countries were also linked to the January 20 killing in a luxury Dubai hotel.

Israel has previously dismissed claims from Ostrovsky, who is now an author and has detailed various accusations against the country in his books.

He said Mossad prefers to use ”false flag” passports as Israeli papers frequently invoke suspicion in the Middle East.

“They need passports because you can’t go around with an Israeli passport, not even a forged one, and get away or get involved with people from the Arab world,” he said.

“So most of these (Mossad) operations are carried out on what’s called false flag, which means you pretend to be of another country which is less belligerent to those countries that you’re trying to recruit from.”

Ostrovsky said Mossad had a “very, very expensive research department” dedicated to manufacturing the fake documents which simulates different types of paper and ink.

“If they create a passport at a top level for use of that nature… I don’t think anybody will be able to find the difference,” he said, adding there was no chance any of the people named as suspects were Mossad agents.

“Except for James Bond, who actually pronounces or announces his arrival at the scene by saying, ‘I’m Bond, James Bond’, most people who work in the intelligence field don’t present themselves by their real name,” he said.

The Australian newspaper said Ali Kazak, a former Palestinian representative to Australia, had warned in 2004 that a Mossad agent in Sydney had obtained 25 false Australian passports.

In March 2004, two suspected Mossad agents were arrested in New Zealand and later convicted for fraudulently trying to obtain passports from the country, prompting diplomatic sanctions.

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