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Jonathan Kay: Already, the Norway conspiracy theories have begun Posted on July 25, 2011 by zandocomm


Jonathan Kay: Already, the Norway conspiracy theories have begun

 
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  Jul 23, 2011 – 3:52 PM ET | Last Updated: Jul 23, 2011 7:02 PM ET

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after theNorway killings, Alex Jones’ massively-surfed Infowars site already is fronting with the theory that the tragedy was all part of a conspiracy by European elites to deflect populist disgust at bailouts:

The false flag attack in Norway arrives as populism grows in Germany, Europe’s reluctant paymaster for the contrived debt-based economic crisis. Establishment politicians in Germany have balked at a second bankster bailout … TheEU and the European political establishment are beholden to the bankers and their “free market” – as in free to loot and plunder – neoliberal policies and have now pulled out all the stops in an effort to crush resistance to endless bailouts designed to crash local economies and destroy national sovereignty.

It is no mistake the corporate media is comparing Anders Behring Breivik to Timothy McVeigh. Hours after the terrorist attack, Norway’s public broadcaster NRK cited Tore Bjørgo at the Police College in Oslo who said the attack resembled the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. The 1995 attack blamed on Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people …

The Oklahoma City bombing was a false flag event used to roll out several draconian aspects of the police state in the 1990s … Breivik is obviously a patsy for a Gladio operation to destroy political opposition to the bankers. Operation Gladio was a “strategy of tension” devised by the elite that employed terrorism – assassination and bombings – to discredit political opponents in Europe. It was set-up by the CIA and staffed in part with former members of Mussolini’s secret police.

This is the first of many conspiracy theories of this type that will circulate on this subject, I predict. I also wouldn’t be surprised if a few hard-right conspiracists jump in with the idea that Breivik is in fact a patsy for a Muslim group — or perhaps for Islamist stooges who themselves are trying to discredit the war on Islamist terror.

6pm update: Ah, here we go — just like I predicted in the previous paragraph: the first of what no doubt will be many, this one from Pamela Geller:

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