By Peter Koenig
May 25, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Government assisted killing of their own citizens for political purposes has become a common pattern. The media are getting ever bolder in disguising such events as ‘Terror’, spreading fear. The public swallows these lies again and again.
British elections are planned for 8 June 2017.
At the end of a pop concert by US singer Ariana Grande in Manchester, an enormous ‘controlled’ explosion killed at least 22 people and injured 59, as reported by British media. Many of them are children and adolescents, as most of the concert-goers were young people.
The singer is unharmed. The concert hall accommodates 21,000 people. After the blast, panic broke loose, resulting in a mass stampede. It is not clear whether people were also killed in the stampede.
Hours after the explosion, although BBC reported it was not evident what exactly happened, UK police and authorities talked immediately of an act of terror.
Early Tuesday morning, 23 May, British authorities said that the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the explosion. The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Ian Hopkins, stated investigators believe the attack was carried out by a lone suicide bomber “carrying” a homemade device. He was killed by the blast.
The IS-Propaganda agency Amak apparently issued the claim of IS’s responsibility for the deadly blast. Did an independent authority check whether this is indeed true?
The attacker, is now named by US officials (why US officials?) as Salman Abedi, 22, a British citizen, born in the UK. He is told having detonated the improvised explosive device.
Another 23-year-old suspect was apprehended in the south of Manchester. But so far, the Chief Police Officer refused to talk to the media about suspects.
Prime Minister, Theresa May raised the threat warning to the highest level, from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’, saying other attacks may follow. This is the highest security level in the UK. She also urged police to investigate whether the attacker was alone or may have acted as a member of a wider terror group.
The attack is the worst in the UK since 56 people were killed in the 7 July London bombings in 2005.
Both, Theresa May and her election opponent, Labor Leader Jeremy Corbyn expressed their deep sorrow to the victims’ families. All campaign activities for the 8 June elections have been suspended.
Mr. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, proclaiming on what the raised threat level means for the city, said, "there will be additional police officers on London's streets over the coming days - including additional armed officers. You will also see some military personnel around London - they are there to help our police service to keep us safe and guard key sites.”
The head of Counter Terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, Mr. Mark Rowley, informed that “there has been an arrest and there are currently multiple searches and other activity taking place as I speak. However, at this stage it is still not possible to be certain if there was a wider group involved in the attack; 24 hours in we have a number of investigative leads that we are pursuing to manage the ongoing threat.”
All of this points to a rapid militarization of the UK, akin to France. What EU country will be next?
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Why would the Islamic State
kill children in England, when they know
exactly that this provokes further NATO – EU
– US military aggression against them? And
why in England, just before elections? Do
they not know that they incite election
results unfavorable to them, unfavorable to
the Muslim society, electing the candidate
that promises even more discrimination
against Muslims? A candidate even less eager
to find a peaceful solution in the Middle
East?
Of course, they know. ISIS / IS (Daesh),
Al-Qaeda and most other terror groups
fighting in the Middle East proxy-wars for
the West, are the creation of the West. We,
The People, should wake up to this reality
and see such terror attacks at crucial
points in time as what they are –
provocations, false flags, to dupe the
public into asking for what the
establishment, the ruling class wants – more
“protection”, like a gradual but ever
accelerating militarization of the west.
Even the installation of Martial Law is not
far-fetched. Former French President
Hollande has tried to introduce it in
France’s Constitution ever since the Hebdo
Charlie (false flag) attack; so far
unsuccessfully (see
http://www.globalresearch.ca/germany-and-nato-towards-martial-law-preparing-for-a-fascist-repression-in-europe/5590292
and
http://www.globalresearch.ca/french-election-fraud-will-macron-be-able-to-form-a-government/5589262
).
This gives the Deep State-installed EU
government, i.e. Brussels, the legitimacy to
clamp down and if needed violently repress
protests in European cities, as they may
arise with increasing neoliberal financial
domination of western economies, imposed
austerities, privatization of public
services, educations systems, health care –
cuts in pensions, in brief, the imposition
of a fascist economy. We are almost there,
just look at Greece.
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As always, the question to
ask is Cui Bono? – At first sight it looks
like the act of ‘terror’ might benefit
Theresa May and her conservative Tories.
They propagate clamping down on terrorism,
on immigration to keep ‘terrorists’ out.
Snap-elections decided without much warning
by PM Theresa May, are scheduled for 8 June,
just 17 days away from the attack, but
enough time to launch massive
pro-conservative and anti-Labor propaganda.
Interestingly, Jeremy Corbyn has been making
rapid gains lately in the polls. The
supposed ‘terror’ attack, may set his gains
back and advance the “pro-security” Tory
leader, Theresa May. As if Jeremy Corbyn and
Labor were against ‘security’ – This is the
implied falsehood of the presstitute –
foreseeable, like in The Theft of an
Election Foretold.
Interestingly too, the recent French
elections were also preceded by a terror
attack. Just days ahead of the first round
of elections, a gunman opened fire on a
police car on Champs Élysées, killing one
policeman and injuring two, the gunman was
immediately killed by French police; the
chief witness gone. End of story.
The incident most likely helped propel
Macron and Le Pen into the second round.
That’s what the dark hands of the ‘system’
wanted. So, it would be easy to focus the
propaganda on the self-styled centrist,
pro-Europe, pro-globalization, pro-NATO, and
naturally, pro-enhanced security, i.e.
pro-militarization of Europe, the Rothschild
banker, Emmanuel Macron – who eventually
‘won’ in a landslide, against Marine Le Pen,
who campaigned pro French sovereignty,
against Brussels, against the euro and
against NATO.
We will see later this year whether more
killing is needed to get Mme. Merkel
re-elected.
Peter Koenig is an economist and
geopolitical analyst. He is also a former
World Bank staff and worked extensively
around the world in the fields of
environment and water resources. He lectures
at universities in the US, Europe and South
America. He writes regularly for Global
Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th
Media (China), TeleSUR, The Vineyard of The
Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is
the author of Implosion – An Economic
Thriller about War, Environmental
Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction
based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank
experience around the globe.