False flag

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Overview

A false flag is any operation carried out in such a way that it appears to have been perpetrated by a different government (under a "false flag").

In the years after the 9/11 attacks, the term has been increasingly used to refer to any deadly event, not necessarily directly perpetrated by the "flagging" government but possibly merely encouraged or permitted by them, and then carefully blamed on a particular target (government or other threat) so as to build domestic support for a war on the blamed party. In this usage, it is basically a frameup.

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  • False Flag attack on USA on or around 9/21 (aka The Kennebunkport Warning): this doesn't seem to have happened. It may have been a complicated hoax designed to discredit genuine warnings in the future, or it may have been an overreaction to available data, or there may have been a genuine risk of an attack which luckily didn't happen for whatever reason.

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