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The Boston Marathon bombings were suspicious events with an even more suspicious effort at cover up.

A year of increasing lawlessness by the US government, expanding the 'might is right' ethos in historically unprecedented ways.

2013 was a year of increasing lawlessness by the US government. On July 17, 2013 an objection to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 was struck down, giving the US government the legal right to detain anyone indefinitely without charge. Philip Marshall was found dead as he was completing his 4th book about the events of September 11, 2001, while investigative journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash in June after mentioning that he thought that his car was being tampered with. However, Mark Gorton published Fifty Years of the Deep State, a highly recommended expose of the cabal which organised the JFK assassination and lies at the heart of the US Deep State to this day.

Google Trends reveals a spike in search interest in the term "hate speech" in January 2013 - of unknown origins. This term was to be frequently used by those seeking to legitimize internet censorship

Edward Snowden Affair

Full article: Edward Snowden Affair

An NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, leaked documents which revealed that mass surveillance was much more widespread than earlier realized. He confirmed the accounts of earlier whistleblowers such as William Binney and Russ Tice.

"National Security"

Full article: “National Security”

In 2013, the core mission of the FBI was changed quietly from law enforcement to "National Security". This reflects a wider shift away from explicitly defined, clear laws which are subject to review and challenge towards an opaque and deliberately ill-defined basis for the exercising of personal power.

The Boston Marathon bombings

Full article: Boston Marathon bombings

The Boston Marathon bombings were followed by an unprecedented city wide lock down which lacked even a purported legal basis. This appears to have been a further step down the road of conditioning people to the US Police State logic of "we have more guns than you, do as we say". WhoWhatWhy has been active in challenging the US government's official narrative of the event.

Publications

Full article: Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State

50 years on from the JFK assassination, Mark Gorton published Fifty Years of the Deep State, an expose of the cabal which lies at the heart of the US Deep State. This was broadcast in 2014 by Unwelcome Guests.

CIA Admission

A 2013 declassified document was used to admit that the CIA was involved in the 1953 Iran coup d'état, ending 60 years of official silence on the topic.

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
Al-Salam weapons deal		A large arms deal signed during the government of Tony Blair.
Iraq Inquiry		"The point of the delay is to give the impression Chilcot has been absolutely painstaking and therefore the bucket of whitewash he will throw cannot be hiding anything. Do not be fooled." (Craig Murray)
Hedges v. Obama		The plaintiffs challenged the 2012 NDAA contending that indefinite detention on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban was so vague as to allow unconstitutional, indefininte detention of civilians based on vague allegations. The Court of Appeals struck down an initial agreement, and the US Supreme Court concurred, arguning that the plaintiffs could not prove they would be affected by the law, so had no standing to contest it.
Clapper v. Amnesty International USA		James Clapper sought to dismiss Amnesty International's challenge of the Fisa Amendments Act. They Supreme Court ruled that dragnet surveillance could not be challenged since the plaintiffs were unlikely to be targets of surveillance - something that was revealed a few months later by the Edward Snowden leaks to be untrue. The decision appear to be nevertheless unchallenged.
2014 Ukraine coup
Al-Sweady Inquiry
Saleh v. Bush		A legal claim that the Iraq war was an illegal act of aggression, dismissed in 2017 by the Westfall Act since it was carried out by US government employees within the scope of their employment.
Boston Marathon bombings		A suspicious bombing with an even more suspicious attempt at a clean up - including the murder of Ibragim Todashev while in police custody.
Edward Snowden Affair		Edward Snowden provides undisputed documentary evidence that the NSA and other intelligence agencies were engaged in illegal universal surveillance. The commercially-controlled media reports this extensively but does not call for prosecutions. The relevant governments pass legislation to retroactively legalise the crimes, explaining that this is necessary protection against "terrorists".
Bilderberg/2013		The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Yanukovitch postpones EU deal		President Yanukovich embarrassed the European Union by postponing the signing of its Agreement in favor of joining Russia’s Common Union with other Commonwealth Independent States
Vitaly Klitschko/Emails		Treasonous e-Mails from Vitaly Klitschko regarding plans to destabilize Ukraine (Hacked by Anonymous and released on 23 February 2014
EU won't accept "Russian veto"		European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso announces that the EU will “not accept Russia’s veto” of the Kiev/EU Agreement.
Ebola/2014 event
Nuland & Pyatt visit Maidan		US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt visit protestors on Independence Square in Kiev
McCain visits Maidan		US Senator John McCain addresses anti-government demonstrators On Kiev's Independence Square (The Maidan)

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Vocativ
White Helmets		Nonprofit
Occupy Central		Protest movement	A civil disobedience movement which first manifested on the streets of Hong Kong's financial district on September 28, 2014|
Border Force
Courage Foundation
Judicial Conduct Investigations Office
Cambridge Analytica			A big data mining company

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Center for Syncretic Studies		http://syncreticstudies.com
Patreon		http://www.patreon.com/	A site to encourage donations for content providers
JANCOM		http://jancom.org/	The Justice for Asil Nadir Committee (JANCOM) is independant from and has no ties to Asil Nadir or the Nadir family and was set up in August 2012 by a group of retired professionals who do not believe that Asil Nadir received just and fair trials in either 1992-93 or 2011-12.
The Harrogate Agenda		http://harrogateagenda.org.uk/	Web presence of "The Harrogate Agenda", a movement aimed at making the the citizens of the UK legally sovereign over both Parliament and the Crown.
Alchetron		https://www.alchetron.com/	A machine generated encyclopedia

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Stratesec		Commercial	A "security company" which did unspecified security work on the World Trade Center from 1993-2001 and which numbered Marvin Bush amongst its directors.|
Defence Strategy & Solutions LLP		Military Commercial
Office for Judicial Complaints
Serious Organised Crime Agency
UK Border Agency

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Siro Lombardini	1924	2013			Economist
Arthur Furer	1924	2013
R. Daniel McMichael	1925	2013
Preben Munthe	15 October 1922	3 January 2013			Economist
Luigi Spaventa	5 March 1934	6 January 2013	Rome		Academic
Alasdair Milne	8 October 1930	8 January 2013			Television producer
Franz Froschmaier	29 July 1930	8 January 2013	Belgium Brussels		Politician
Aaron Swartz	8 November 1986	11 January 2013	New York Brooklyn U.S.		Hacker	A hacker who died a suspicious death after using his talents to promote freedom of information
Anthony Cavendish	20 July 1927	12 January 2013			Spook Journalist Banker	"Leading member" of Le Cercle.
Tony Martin	21 February 1942	17 January 2013	Trinidad Cocorite
Alden W. Clausen	17 February 1923	21 January 2013	California Burlingame U.S.		Central banker
Donald Hornig	17 March 1920	21 January 2013	Rhode Island Providence U.S.		Chemist Teacher
Olivier Chevrillon	28 January 1929	22 January 2013	France Paris
Ed Koch	12 December 1924	1 February 2013	New York Manhattan		Politician Lawyer
Philip Marshall		2 February 2013		Gunshot	Author 9-11/Premature death Pilot CIA/Drug trafficking/Premature death 9-11/Dissident	A CIA pilot who published three popular and insightful books on 9-11. He was found shot dead with his children.
Oswald LeWinter	2 April 1931	13 February 2013			Spook Poet Academic Deep state operative	A shady character who issued a lot of conflicting statements and claimed to be ex-CIA. The official narrative about him - "it's all lies, he's a complete fraud" - scores for simplicity, but does not explain how he could have been so well informed on such a wide range of deep state operations.
Gene Corley		1 March 2013		Cancer	Academic	Coauthored reports to support the US government narrative about 9-11, OKC, Waco. Generally worked as a member of the same tight clique of colleagues.
Hugo Chávez	28 July 1954	5 March 2013	Venezuela Caracas		Politician	64th President of Venezuela
Dirk Coetzee	15 April 1945	7 March 2013
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin	10 July 1922	8 March 2013	Germany Munich		Soldier Publisher Deep politician
Cartha DeLoach	20 July 1920	13 March 2013	Hilton Head Island SC		Spook
William Van Cleave	27 August 1935	15 March 2013			Academic
Andre Fontaine	30 March 1921	17 March 2013	Paris		Journalist Historian
James Herbert	8 April 1943	20 March 2013	Sussex UK		Author	A best selling horror writer who died suddenly, 6 months after remarking that "I wanted to have another knock at the Establishment".
Boris Berezovsky	23 January 1946	23 March 2013	Berkshire Sunninghill UK	Hanging	Mathematician Government official Businessperson	A Russian billionaire oligarch who fell out with Vladimir Putin. Found dead in 2013 - the corner returned an open verdict.
Anthony Lewis	27 March 1927	25 March 2013	Massachusetts Cambridge		Journalist
Ralph Klein	1 November 1942	29 March 2013	Canada Calgary Alberta		Politician
Michael Jenkins	9 January 1936	31 March 2013			Diplomat
Margaret Thatcher	13 October 1925	8 April 2013	London Westminster UK England		Politician Lawyer Deep state functionary
Ian Henderson	1927	13 April 2013			Spook Deep state operative	A UK official who was widely accused of torture
Tamerlan Tsarnaev	21 October 1986	19 April 2013	Massachusetts Watertown U.S.		Informant?	Official perpetrator of the Boston Bombings, possibly an FBI double agent. Died after an encounter with US police custody.
Antonio Maccanico	4 August 1924	23 April 2013	Italy Rome		Politician
Jim Tucker	31 December 1934	26 April 2013	Virginia Fredericksburg U.S.		Journalist Activist
Jürgen Warnke	20 March 1932	27 April 2013	Selb		Politician Lawyer Deep state actor	A German lawyer and politician who attended Le Cercle.
Jérôme Heldring	21 December 1917	27 April 2013	Netherlands The Hague		Journalist
Giulio Andreotti	14 January 1919	6 May 2013	Italy Rome Lazio		Politician
Billie Sol Estes	10 January 1925	14 May 2013	Texas Granbury U.S.		Fraudster
Jack Hawkins	25 October 1916	17 May 2013	Virginia Fredericksburg		Spook
Paul Finney	28 October 1929	18 May 2013			Editor
Ibragim Todashev	22 September 1985	22 May 2013	US Florida Orlando			A friend of Boston bombings "lone nut" Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was murdered during an FBI interview.
Frank Lautenberg	23 January 1924	3 June 2013	New York U.S.		Politician
Michael Hastings	28 January 1980	18 June 2013	Los Angeles California U.S.	Car crash	Journalist	An investigate journalist.
Peter Fraser	29 May 1945	22 June 2013			Lawyer
Frank B. Kelso II	11 July 1933	23 June 2013	Virginia Norfolk U.S.		Mariner
Marc Rich	18 December 1934	26 June 2013	Switzerland Lucerne		Banker Oil dealer Businessperson
Leonard Garment	11 May 1924	13 July 2013	New York U.S.		Lawyer
William Scranton	19 July 1917	28 July 2013	California Montecito U.S.
Thomas Clines	18 August 1928	30 July 2013	US Virginia Middleburg		Spook Soldier	"Ted Shackley's career-long deputy and sidekick"
Arnold Burns	14 April 1930	1 August 2013	New York Manhattan
Renato Ruggiero	9 April 1930	4 August 2013	Italy Milan		Politician
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