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In 2017, "Terrorism" dropped from being the #2 fear of US citizens in 2016 to #22! Their biggest fear was "corrupt government officials", up 15% in one year to 75%.
In 2017 the legal, ideological and technical foundations of internet censorship were expanded under the veil of the pretext of "counter-terrorism". US adults' biggest fear continued to be, not "terrorism" but "corrupt government officials".

In 2017 the phrase "deep state" was widely (with contrasting definitions) used by the commercially-controlled media. This followed their introduction of the "Fake News" meme in November 2016. 2017 saw reports of censorship of many the 200 sites listed by PropOrNot, including Naked Capitalism, Truthdig and Counterpunch and an April adjustment of Google's search algorithm to send less visitors to progressive websites. The case Saleh v. Bush was concluded in February 2017, and the Bush administration officials deemed not guilty of war crimes since "The actions that (Bush administration officials) took in connection with the Iraq War were part of their official duties". The ADL reported that "Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged Nearly 60% in 2017", although this finding has been criticised.

Deep state exposure

Full article: Deep state/2017 Popularisation

After years of being ignored, the phrase "deep state" became popular after the 2016 US Presidential election and in early 2017 had a huge rise in popularity, particularly in the case of the US Deep State. In February, the Trump administration shut down the 7th floor group. This may have been intended to muddy the waters, since multiple different meanings were introduced, but the longer term effect seems to have been to give the phrase a wide airing and promote interest in the topic.

2017 Refugee False Flag

Full article: 2017 Refugee False Flag

The 2017 Refugee False Flag plot was never carried out, after carelessness in Vienna airport lead to its being exposed

In April, carelessness by 'Franco A.', an officer of the German Bundeswehr, lead to uncovering of the False Flag plot after he was arrested with a firearm in Vienna airport. Having created a fake Syrian identity in 2015, he was charged in 2017 with two conspirators for planning an "act of state-threatening violence". The commercially-controlled media reported on their arrest, but did not spend long on their case. They were released in November 2017 on grounds of lack of evidence.

Shadow brokers

The year continued to feature various leaks, including a leak of intelligence agency hacking tools, which were offered for sale by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers.

"Fake News"

Full article: “Fake News”

The "Fake News website" meme introduced in November 2016 appears to have been intended to smear websites to bolster faith in the commercially-controlled media, was quickly reduced to the issue of "fake news". Global efforts were underway in 2017 to try to automate censorship (a.k.a. "fact checking") and crack down on whistleblowers. In the UK, Conservative MP Damian Collins is heading an inquiry into combatting the so-called "fake news" problem, which is reportedly considering increasing the maximum punishment for publishing real information online, from 2 years to 14 years. Various commentators have suggested that the net effect of the "fake news" meme may have been a type of blowback - encouraging everyone to be more critical consumers of news, checking facts and sources.

"War On Terror"

The Home Office tweet announcing that they would set up a new commission to "counter extremism".

Full article: War On Terror

In January, outgoing US president Barack Obama signed Executive Order 12333. This expanded the provision for mass surveillance by removing legal restrictions on the NSA sharing intercepted raw data with agencies including the FBI, the DEA, and the Department of Homeland Security.

In UK three acts of "Muslim terrorism" in the run up to the General Election continued the "War On Terror". They had little detectable affect upon the election result.

Action Counters Terrorism

Full article: Action Counters Terrorism

In March 2017, the UK government - still unreceptive to the population's growing doubts about the 9/11 official narrative - re-branded its "counter terrorism" activity by launching a campaign entitled "Action Counters Terrorism".

"Commission for Countering Extremism"

Full article: Commission for Countering Extremism

After the Manchester bombing, the UK Home Office announced their intention to set up a "Commission for Countering Extremism‎" with an unusually militaristic photo (left) which was criticised fairly widely.

UK General Election

Full article: UK/2017 General Election

In UK the Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election when her party was a long way ahead in the polls, aiming to increase her parliamentary majority. The opposition Jeremy Corbyn however defied predictions by closing the gap and increasing the seats held by the Labour Party, resulting in a hung parliament, leading the Tories to form a coalition with the DUP.

Young people in particular were heavily in support of the Labour party. The UK suffered three acts of "terrorism" during the election campaign, the 2017 Westminster attack, the Manchester Bombing & the June 2017 London attack. In spite of heavy coverage by the commercially-controlled media, these did not appear to greatly influence the election outcome, which was a hung parliament and an increased support for the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Afghanistan/2001 Invasion	7 October 2001	30 August 2021	The war in Afghanistan, instigated within a month of 9/11, supposedly in retaliation, with the claimed justification - for which no evidence has been presented - that the attacks were planned by Ossama bin Laden, and that he was based in Afghanistan.
Al-Salam weapons deal	21 December 2005	2017	A large arms deal signed during the government of Tony Blair.
Barack Obama/Presidency	20 January 2009	20 January 2017	The Barack Obama administration
Biden–Ukraine corruption scandal	2010	2020	Maybe this scandal would have swung the US/2020 Presidential election the other way if the media had reported on it?
Julian Assange/Imprisonment	19 June 2012	24 June 2024	Five years de jure in Belmarsh Prison (2019-2024)
Saleh v. Bush	13 March 2013	10 February 2017	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.
Elsagate	2014	2019
"2014 Ukraine coup/Anti-Terrorist-Operation"	15 April 2014	24 February 2022	Olexander Turchynov, as acting President of Ukraine, announced the start of "anti-terrorist operation" against Donbas protestors in 2014.
Day X plot	2015	February 2017	A failed attack which appears to have been intended as a false flag to be blamed on Syria.
Russiagate	November 2016	2019	A string of ever-mutating revelations about the Russian government having taken control of the US presidency by blackmailing Donald Trump
Danske Bank/Money laundering scandal	2017	2018
War on Journalism	2017		The "War on Journalism" is a global campaign to try to suppress fact-based reporting. It is a deep state response to increased awareness of big media's mendacity and that many "democracies" offer their citizens no real choice.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	2952 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
Donald Trump/First presidency	20 January 2017	20 January 2021	The fist Donald Trump administration. Operation Warp Speed, Russiagate.
Russia’s Strategy on NATO'S Eastern and Southern Flanks	27 January 2017 09:30:00	27 January 2017 16:30:00	A CIDOB/The Institute for Statecraft/NATO meeting
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
2017 Copeland by-election	23 February 2017	23 February 2017	Blairites scheming to lose, to reflect badly upon Jeremy Corbyn
2017 Stoke Central by-election	23 February 2017	23 February 2017	British by-election wher one Blairite Labour MP replaced another.
Brexit	March 2017	31 January 2020	The United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.
Wikileaks/Vault 7	7 March 2017		Release of electronic surveillance and cyber warfare tools from the CIA arsenal.
Action Counters Terrorism	7 March 2017		A replacement for the highly criticised Prevent "branding platform" of "counter-terrorism".
2017 Westminster attack	22 March 2017	22 March 2017	A combined vehicle assault and stabbing at an iconic London location
Brussels Forum/2017	23 March 2017	25 March 2017	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The overarching theme was "‘End of Complacency – Era of Action?"
Vigilant Guard 17	23 March 2017	31 March 2017	March 2017 military exercise held in Georgia, practicing "any sort of catastrophic event". Also coinciding with Atlanta bridge collapse.
2017 Manchester bombing	22 May 2017	22 May 2017	A highly suspicious 2017 bombing in Manchester, UK, that reportedly killed 22 people and injured hundreds. Provided a pretext for suspending campaigning in the UK/2017 General Election
Reframing Russia	1 June 2017	31 May 2020	An IfS/II discussed project about "The RT Challenge" which was publicly launched in 2019, not under the II/IfS name.
Bilderberg/2017	1 June 2017	4 June 2017	The 65th Bilderberg Meeting
June 2017 London attack	3 June 2017	3 June 2017	Three men drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and attacked people with knives.
UK/General election/2017	8 June 2017	8 June 2017
Grenfell Tower fire	14 June 2017	14 June 2017	The worst UK residential fire since World War II.
Answering Russia's Strategic Narratives	22 June 2017	22 June 2017	Invitation only one day event organised by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, sponsored by The Institute for Statecraft, about "Russian propaganda"
Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty	7 July 2017	7 July 2017	Legally binding international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.
Democracy and Propaganda - Can independent media defend universal values?	12 September 2017	13 September 2017	An EED "fake news" conference in Ukraine
A World in Flux: The Future of Democracy Europe and the Middle East	12 September 2017	13 September 2017	Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia with a host of spooky participants
SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028	October 2017	October 2017	A tabletop pandemic planning exercise that gave advice how to handle "communication challenges" in a vaccination campaign after the public has become aware that it is more damaging than the disease. Held October 2017.
2017 Las Vegas shooting	1 October 2017	1 October 2017	The most deadly mass shooting in US history, one about which many questions - most particularly "Why?" - remain unanswered. The original official narrative of a single "lone nut" shooter was confused as of February 2018.
Wikileaks/Vault 8	November 2017		A leak of some of the source code of the Vault 7 leaks.
Paradise Papers	November 2017	November 2017	A set of 13.4 million confidential electronic documents about use of tax havens to house around $10 trillion. The highly skewed nature of the exposure (very little from the US) suggest it was a modified hangout
Halifax International Security Forum/2017	17 November 2017	19 November 2017	Spooky conference in Canada

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Commission for Countering Extremism			A "counter-extremism" group set up after the 2017 Manchester bombing.
EU Disinfolab			II aligned group focused on "Russian Propaganda"
Security Without Borders
Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Spain			The Integrity Initiative's first foreign cluster, set up in Spain in January 2017
Democracy Integrity Project
Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Netherlands			The Integrity Initiative's Dutch Cluster, set up with help from the Dutch MOD
Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Leaders			The leaders of the various Integrity Initiative clusters
Credibility Coalition			fact checker
Substack			Online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters.
Zentrum Liberale Moderne			German think tank used by government as cut-out to monitor and analyze "system-oppositional" media.
Patriot Front			American white nationalist group that bears many hallmarks of an FBI entrapment operation, setting the stage for a false flag terrorism event
Forbidden Stories			An "independent" NGO and media outlet financed by the usual cluster of deep state connected foundations.
ACT for NIH			Big Pharma lobbying firm
Faktisk			Norwegian "fact-checking" website with close personnel ties to the intelligence services and the military.
"Intellectual Dark Web"			A group of intellectuals promoted with money and/or visibility by the deep state to act as a more credible alternative to the too obvious shills in legacy corporate media.
Justice for Kurds			More about the objectives of Israel than any genuine justice for Kurds.
Peraton			Large spooky military contractor counting "misinformation"
Red Tape Initiative
Best for Britain		Military ranks	A George Soros funded Pro-EU organisation.
Open Philanthropy			Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201.
"UN/Office of Counter-Terrorism"		Agency
Alliance for Securing Democracy			"A well-funded national security advocacy group"
Lawyers Committee for 911 Inquiry		Charity	A organisation of professionals seeking legal accountability for the events of 9-11 and the prosecution of those responsible
The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army			Improbable militia presumably a propaganda exercise to create support for war in the Western liberal opinion.
Octant
Labour Against The Witchhunt			Lobby group for pro Jeremy Corbyn supporters in UK Labour Party.

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Big League Politics		http://www.bigleaguepolitics.com	Big League Politics is a politically independent news website, reporting from a Pro-Trump point of view.
The Post Millennial		https://thepostmillennial.com/	Canadian news website.
BitChute		https://bitchute.com/	Video hosting website. Alternative to YouTube.
EverybodyWiki		https://en.everybodywiki.com/	A wiki that keeps articles which are deleted by Wikipedia
Presearch		https://engine.presearch.org/	Decentralized search engine that takes in community feedback in it's development.
UnHerd		https://unherd.com/	British online magazine; "hosting alternative viewpoints to a mainstream audience". Does however financially tie in with the George Soros network.
Saidit		https://saidit.net	A non-corporate, open source, alternative to Reddit.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
British Bankers' Association		A trade association for bankers which was working with the Integrity Initiative.
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia		NATO dominated court established to justify own actions and keep control over Western Balkans region.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute		Neoconservative French think tank

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Nuno Brederode Santos	1944	2017			Journalist	Portugese journalist and presidential advisor.
George Krimsky	1942	2017			Journalist	US journalist that was part of Cold War propaganda apparatus
Greg Szymanski		2017			Researcher Radio host
Maidhc Ó Cathail		2017			Researcher Journalist	Author, analyst and political commentator.
Rogério Martins	30 September 1928	2017			Politician Engineer Businessperson	Portuguese industrial manager for Siemens and parliamentarian who attended the 1982 and 1983 Bilderberg meetings
Luc Coene	11 March 1947	5 January 2017			Economist Central banker	Belgian central banker
Mário Soares	7 December 1924	7 January 2017	Portugal Lisbon		Politician	Portuguese politician
Victor Lownes	17 April 1928	11 January 2017				Clermont set Playboy executive
Udo Ulfkotte	20 January 1960	13 January 2017			Whistleblower Journalist Editor	Former editor of a German broadsheet who exposed press corruption while also subscribing to Islamophobic views.
Vahit Halefoglu	19 November 1919	21 January 2017	Turkey Istanbul		Diplomat Politician	Turkish senior diplomat at Foreign Minister
Tam Dalyell	9 August 1932	26 January 2017	Scotland West Lothian			Labour MP who posed the "West Lothian Question"
Albert Stubblebine	6 February 1930	6 February 2017	US New Jersey		Spook Soldier	US major general who publicly dissented from the 9-11 Official narrative
John R. Simpson	13 February 1932	10 February 2017			Police officer	Interpol director who set the agenda of fighting "international terrorism", against French opposition.
Omar Abdel-Rahman	3 May 1938	18 February 2017				Found guilty of Seditious conspiracy, defended by Lynne Stewart
Vitaly Churkin	21 February 1952	20 February 2017	New York US		Diplomat	Russian Un Ambassador who died of what officially was a heart failure, at a time when there was a lot of Western diplomatic pressure on Russia and several other diplomats had died in a short period of time.
Peter Corterier	19 June 1936	22 February 2017			Politician Deep state functionary	Double Bilderberg German politician involved in NATO support activities, such as President of the Atlantic Treaty Association. Possible deep state functionary.
David Waddington	2 August 1929	23 February 2017
Gerald Kaufman	21 June 1930	26 February 2017			Politician	British Labour Party politician
Gordon Thomas	21 February 1933	3 March 2017			Author Journalist
Anthony Beilenson	26 October 1932	5 March 2017			Spook Politician Lawyer	Spooky US lawyer
David Rockefeller	12 June 1915	20 March 2017	New York US Pocantico Hills		Financier Deep politician Billionaire	US deep politician. CFR founder. Only person to attend over 50 Bilderberg meetings.
Robert Silvers	31 December 1929	20 March 2017	New York		Editor Deep state operative	US editor with deep state ties, Director of the US Ditchley Foundation
Martin McGuinness	23 May 1950	21 March 2017	Northern Ireland Derry	Amyloidosis		Stated in August 2016 that he was ready to answer any questions about his past if new truth and justice structures were established in Northern Ireland. Died in March 2017.
Khalid Masood	25 December 1964	22 March 2017	London Westminster UK			Named by UK police as the perpetrator of the 2017 Westminster attack
Denis Voronenkov	10 April 1971	23 March 2017	Ukraine Kiev		Politician	A vocal critic of Vladimir Putin. Assassinated in 2017.
Deane Hinton	12 March 1923	28 March 2017			Diplomat
Klaus Liesen	15 April 1931	30 March 2017	Germany Essen		Businessperson	One of the ten most powerful "grey eminences" in the German economy. Bilderberg/1981
Yevgeny Yevtushenko	18 July 1933	1 April 2017	Oklahoma Tulsa		Author Filmmaker Poet Writer Academic Editor Actor Media executive
Giovanni Sartori	13 May 1924	4 April 2017	Italy Florence Tuscany		Political science	US-oriented Italian political scientists. Bilderberg/1985.
Sheila Abdus-Salaam	14 March 1952	12 April 2017	New York US		Judge	A US judge found dead in the Hudson River in 2017
Piero Ottone	3 August 1924	16 April 2017	Italy Camogli		Journalist Editor	Italian journalist and editor
Agustín Edwards Eastman	24 November 1927	24 April 2017			Media mogul	One of the richest people in Chile, who attended WEF AGMs until his death, aged 89.
Sterling Seagrave	15 April 1937	1 May 2017			Author Historian	Author of numerous other books which address unofficial and clandestine aspects of the 20th-century political history of countries in the Far East.
Tom Bolan	30 May 1924	May 2017			Lawyer	Silent partner to the sexual blackmail operative Roy Cohn in their politically potent law firm for three decades.
Luigi Ramponi	30 May 1930	5 May 2017	Italy Rome		Spook	Italian spook, Trilateral Commission
Hugh Thomas	21 October 1931	7 May 2017			Author Historian	UK historian. Chairman of the neoliberal and military hawkish Centre for Policy Studies.
Mauno Koivisto	25 November 1923	12 May 2017	Finland Helsinki		Politician	Finnish politician President of Finland from 1982 to 1994. Also the country's prime minister twice, from 1968 to 1970 and again from 1979 to 1982.
Helga Steeg	8 June 1927	17 May 2017				Tri-Bilderberger executive director of the International Energy Agency
Roger Ailes	15 May 1940	18 May 2017	US Florida Palm Beach		Media mogul	Established Fox Television in 1996 with Rupert Murdoch.
Peter Marychurch	13 June 1927	21 May 2017			Spook	A former head of GCHQ.
Alistair Horne	9 November 1925	25 May 2017			Journalist	UK historian with deep intelligence ties
Zbigniew Brzezinski	28 March 1928	26 May 2017	US Virginia Falls Church		Politician Deep politician	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Konstantinos Mitsotakis	18 October 1918	29 May 2017	Greece Athens		Politician	Attended the 1993 Bilderberg as Prime Minister of Greece
Manuel Noriega	11 February 1934	29 May 2017		Brain tumor	Soldier Politician Puppet leader	A puppet leader being used in CIA Drug trafficking.
Adnan Khashoggi	25 July 1935	6 June 2017	London UK		Arms Dealer	Multi-billionare arms dealer.
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann	5 February 1933	8 June 2017	Nicaragua Managua		Diplomat Politician Clergy
Barbara Kulaszka	1953	15 June 2017		Cancer	Lawyer	lawyer, known for her works involving free speech cases.
Helmut Kohl	3 April 1930	16 June 2017	Germany Ludwigshafen		Politician	Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1980s. Chancellor of Germany 1982-1998
Mats Johansson	26 December 1951	24 June 2017			Editor	Swedish editor mentioned as a person of interest by the Integrity Initiative, but died in 2017
Torvild Aakvaag	27 January 1927	9 July 2017			Businessperson	Single Bilderberg Director General of Norsk Hydro
... further results

 

A Birth

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Kali Cook	2017	US	7 September 2021	COVID-19/Premature death	A death of a 4 year old girl being used to promote the COVID-19/Vaccine.

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