Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
August 14, 2012
False flag attacks occur when government engages in covert operations
designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations seem
as if they are being carried out by other entities.
False flag terrorism is a favorite political tactic used by
governments worldwide. They influence elections, guide national and
international policy, and are cynically used to formulate propaganda and
shape public opinion as nations go to war.
Nero and the Great Fire of Rome
The Roman consul and historian Cassius Dio, his contemporary Suetonius and others say the Emperor Nero was responsible for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD.
Legend claims Nero had one-third of the city torched as an excuse to
build Domus Aurea, a 300 acre palatial complex that included a towering
statue of himself, the Colossus of Nero.
Prior to the fire, the Roman Senate had rejected the emperor’s bid to level a third of the city to make way for a “Neropolis,” an urban renewal project.
The Roman historian Tacitus
wrote that when the population of Rome held Nero responsible for the
fire, he shifted blame on the Christians for “hating the human race” and
starting the fire.
The Spanish American War: Remember the Maine
By the late 1800s, the United States was looking for an excuse to
kick Spain out of Cuba. U.S. business was heavily invested in sugar,
tobacco and iron on the Caribbean island.
The U.S.S. Maine
was sent to Havana in January of 1898 to protect these business
interests after a local insurrection broke out. Three weeks later, early
on the morning of February 15, an explosion destroyed the forward third of the ship anchored in Havana’s harbor, killing more than 270 American sailors.
President McKinley blamed Spain after the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry declared that a naval mine caused the explosion.
American newspapers blamed the Spanish despite a lack of evidence. “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,” newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst told Frederic Remington after the illustrator reported that the situation in Cuba did not warrant invasion.
A number of historians and researchers later argued that the ship was
blown up by the United States to provide a false flag pretext to invade
Cuba and expel Spain.
The United States occupied Cuba from 1898 until 1902, although an
amendment to a joint resolution of Congress forbid the U.S. to annex the
country.
Wilson’s Pretext for War: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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