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| In 1971, the US abandoned the gold standard. Many nations' central banks continued to hold US dollars, due in part to the petrodollar. |
In 1971 the US abandoned the gold standard after holders of dollars, concerned about currency inflation due to the rapid creation of dollars due to the Vietnam War started buying gold. This might have caused a large amount of capital flight away from the US dollar, but the petrodollar system stimulated a replacement demand, and several other currencies followed suit to leave the gold standard, rendering them equally suspect as inflation proof investments.
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"War On Drugs"
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“War On Drugs”
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The US government under Richard Nixon began a "War On Drugs" which has not ended to this day. The official narrative declared that illegal drugs represented a serious threat the the social order, and so special laws were needed to prevent users from themselves. John Ehrlichman, the White House Domestic Affairs Advisor later admitted that this was a fraud.
Club de Berne
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The Club de Berne, a little known association of intelligence agencies, was founded in 1971. It is known to be associated with "counter-terrorism" (spinning off the Counter Terrorist Group in 2002) but its importance is unknown since no documents have yet emerged from the group.
Events
| Event | Date | Description |
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| Tuskegee syphilis experiment | A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press. | |
| Operation Paperclip | A transfer of top German scientists to USA. | |
| Cold War | The official narrative had 2 diametrically opposed systems locked in combat with one another since soon after WW2. Each of the "superpowers" and its team of allies needed to outdo each other by creating ever more and deadlier weapons, creating a kind of perpetual war for perpetual peace, with the warring parties engaging mainly in covert/proxy wars. Deep state interests blossomed in the climate of fear and paranoia. | |
| Operation Demagnetize | "The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s. | |
| Vietnam War | The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like. | |
| Phoenix Program | A clandestine CIA research project into the use of terror as a means of social control. Techhniques from South East Asia, were later developed in Latin America | |
| Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation | ||
| The Troubles | ||
| Operation Condor | ||
| Great Oil Sniffer Hoax | A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure. | |
| Inslaw | The Inslaw affair was a complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record. | |
| Bilderberg/1971 | ||
| "War on Drugs" |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
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| Ulster Defence Association |  | ||
| Watergate/White House Plumbers | | A covert action group which intended to get caught, and attract odium to Richard Nixon | |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies |  | Think tank Military ranks | |
| World Finance Corporation | | ||
| University of Paris-Sud | | ||
| Vancouver School of Theology | | Military ranks | |
| Military Reaction Force |  | Military Secret | |
| Southern Poverty Law Center |  | ||
| Club de Berne |  | Shadowy group of intelligence agencies of the 28 states of the European Union (EU), Norway and Switzerland. | |
| Association of European Border Regions |  | ||
| Information Policy Unit | | Propaganda |
A Group that was Wound Up
| Group | Image |
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| Information Liaison Department | |
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