The Turkey/Syria border has been rocked with explosions killing innocent civilians, the work of terrorists. The idea that the Assad government would do these things is absurd to the nth degree. That regime is not comprised of angels. Quite the opposite. They are just not that stupid. Why, when already under covert attack, would Assad go to such great lengths to justify the attack? It’s almost as if he’s begging for a military invasion.

History is littered with false-flag attacks. Some time, when perusing American history, find out what a young congressman named Lincoln was trying to do in introducing the “Spot Resolutions.”

Graham Greene wrote the book “The Quiet American” about his Vietnam experience in the early 1950’s. On January 9, 1952 a bomb exploded in Saigon, killing ten people with dozens more injured. The terrorist act was immediately, and without evidence, blamed on two Chechen brothers the Viet Minh, later referred to for demonization purposes as the “Viet Cong,” or simply “Cong.” Vietnamese Catholics later uncovered the man suspected to be the real terrorist, an American military officer named Scott, who resided quietly in the background. His purpose was to exacerbate the already-inflamed tensions between Vietnamese Buddhists and Catholics.

The weapon used in the Saigon explosion was a plastic explosive known only to the CIA. A small amount, perhaps the size of a Tic Tac box, created the massacre.

Here’s a critical aspect that bears on the events of our current day: When the bomb went off, a Life Magazine photographer was perfectly positioned to capture the immediate aftermath. (I would guess, given Henry Luce’s participation in Operation Mockingbird*, that it was no coincidence.) One of his photos, a man with his legs blown off, was published in the magazine along with the conclusion that Viet Minh were responsible. That photo (beneath the fold) served to demonize the Viet Minh for the American public. Good and evil were reversed in the public mind.

Boston was nothing new, and what’s going on now in the coordinated attack on Syria is a formula that has been in use at least since 1952, probably as long ago as 1952 BCE.
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*My apologies for Wiki link, notably unreliable when it comes to information regarding the National Security State. Since it names names and explicitly states the purpose of the domestic covert operation, even as it surely omits the really juicy stuff, it has in my view the credibility of a hostile witness.
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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and one of the founders of what came to be known as “Reaganomics.” Although he has apparently not done much reading about all of the details to emerge about 9/11, he did cross that line, expressing skepticism, and never retreated.

… Every time I write a column that is the truth or the truth as I am able to discover it, instead of hawking the propaganda line, I move up on the list of those who are persona non grata in the Empire.

Consequently, the words below are posted on the English language version of a French blog, and nowhere in The US.

Not too long ago a writer or reporter for the Huffington Post discovered to his surprise that Pat Buchanan and I disagreed with all the wars that had been launched to protect us from terrorism. He asked me for an interview, and I agreed.
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I took down the post that last night was upsetting to me. Frankly, I got tired of the insults and stupidity. I am not crazy, paranoid, or prone to fantasies. I am, like millions of Americans, simply one for whom the spell is broken. I can’t be fooled anymore, at least not for long, and I don’t trust their so-called terrorist events. Once that spell is broken, they are easy to see.

Up above is a captured still from a video taken in Boston after the supposed bombing, which was really nothing more than two very loud booms that scared the shit out of people. I have made some crude marks using Paint, not unlike the blood on the pavement there, which came from plastic bags (seen lying on pavement in other stills).

I inserted two blue triangles, best I can do with that program. These are two actors, each having a role to play. The woman in red and black was seen going towards the bomb site as others were running away. I don’t know her real name. She appears to be positioned, like the black woman between the two yellow circles, to provide cover. The black woman is operating as an assistant and in other stills can be seen signalling on the progress of the operation, so to speak.

The man is wearing a grey hoodie, and was seen crouching against a wall in front of Lens Crafters as people were running in panic. His name, we are told, is Christian Williams, but a better guess, I am told, is Carlos Arredondo Steve Kolander, who is most likely some kind of spook. His job was to supply the fake prosthetic for “John Bauman,” most likely Lt. Nick Vogt, a guy who lost his legs in Afghanistan in 2011. (Picture below fold.) As he crouches on the sidewalk in other stills, it appears as though he moves the prosthetic out of hiding and waits to move in.

The yellow triangle, just to offer perspective, is the back of Vogt’s head. It is propped up as he observes Arredondo removing his real prosthetic legs and replacing them with the fake stumps that will later appear in the shock photo as Vogt is wheeled out of the arena. If you observe inside the yellow circles, you can make out the prosthetics. The one on our left is the new one for that day, and on the right, is Vogt’s actual prosthetic leg in the process of removal. Later the new stumps will be covered with blood. (Note the similarity in the shirt on Vogt to the shirt worn by “Bauman” in the wheel chair photo.)

There ya go. It’s over folks. The incident was staged. I don’t need to know anything else, because if it was real, they would not stage this part.
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• Most people should not own guns. They will not take the time to learn gun safety or become good shots, or have the nerve to use them in an emergency.
• I include myself in that.
• But we should all be allowed to own a gun if we want.
• People above who should not own guns might own guns, so we should have laws that say we should not allow any guns in public places like theaters, schools, or fundamentalist churches.
• Or Tea Party or Democratic Party gatherings.
• I know that we ignore most of the Bill of Rights these days, but the Second Amendment pretty much says clearly that we have a right to bear arms. That militia clause is confusing, but probably had to do with a time when we did not have standing armies.
• There’s always a hitch, and it is this: Some weapons we might call “guns” are really dangerous – machine guns, rocket launchers, tanks. These did not exist in 1790. So we have to draw a line.
• “Assault” weapons are just guns with fancy handles. You still have to pull the trigger each time you shoot one bullet. That ought to be on this side of the line.
• Weapons that fire more than one round at a trigger pull can cause immense harm. Put one of those in my hands when a bear charges or a CIA patsy or a guy who doesn’t like paying taxes and thinks he is John Galt, and we have a problem.
• I lied in the title of this post above. I can do that if I want.

President Obama is said to have been very angry when the gun control bill did not pass. Take that with a grain of salt, as he’s an actor and that was probably staged for the cameras. But where he stands on gun control … who knows. What is worrisome with our National Security culture is that we will cede enough power to the executive that he won’t have to pass some silly law to disarm the populace. He’ll just do it. (“The Executive” is shorthand for the executive branch, which has pretty much been freed of all constitutional restraints since 9/11. It includes the military.)

But I cannot see that working – there are too many guns, too many ways to get guns, and anyway, what’s a few rifles when an assault helicopter is bearing down, or as in Collateral Murder, you can be killed from a helicopter so high in the sky that you cannot even hear it. Our biggest gun problems are cops, warriors, TSA agents, private soldiers, intel agents and patsies.

If one views Syria as a mere proxy battle between the US and Russia, then use of Chechens as patsies in the Boston bombing makes more sense. Public figures could easily communicate in private and convey their threats and make their deals, but every word by an official has to carry with it a demonstration of the power to carry out threats. So in some fashion the Boston bombing, while at once keeping Americans in a high state of tension, also served to send a message to the Russians.

(It also was a nice cover for another bombing incident at the JFK Archives.)

What to make of it all? Who knows. If Russia has made it clear by its own actions that an attack on Syria is a red line, and if the Americans are now a telling Russia that they are ready to cross that line*, then we’ve got problem. But all of this posturing and redlining has a purpose. Powerful people are talking to one another.

In our highly censored environment we only hear the voices of our sock puppets. But American and NATO forces so far have caused the deaths of 70,000 Syrians, and the Russians are keenly aware that many more are at risk if the Americans unleash the NATO dogs once more. The stakes are high – I wonder if the people in DC who so easily kill so many have more surprises in store for Syria as well as poor schmucks who like to run in foot races.
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*No one in Washington gives two shits about chemical weapons. Get real. Americans drenched Vietnam in Agent Orange and sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein and then sat idly by while he gassed Kurds … This country is the Bizzaroville, a poster child for hypocrisy in the art of posturing.