Terrorism? If so, which terrorists?
The highly suspicious declaration by French authorities only hours after
the crash of a TGV train, at 3.10pm on November 14th on the Paris-Strasbourg line, that the train derailed due to "excessive speed" has since been contested by the driver of the train himself, who asserted that he was operating the train at the designated speed for that part of the track: 176km/h.
Bizarrely, even before the contents of the train's "black box" have been analyzed, and indeed on the very same day as the crash (one day after the Paris attacks), French prosecutors appear to have
discounted sabotage as a possible cause, despite
the fact that an explosion was heard as the train derailed, and that in its more than 30-year history, no TGV train has been involved in a fatal crash.
One possible reason for this irrational approach to the disaster that killed 11 people and injured 42, is that
any reference to a terrorist attack as the cause of the derailment would immediately recall the worst terrorist atrocity in France prior to the Paris attacks last weekend.On June 18th, 1961,
at 3.10pm, a French train on the Paris-Strasbourg line derailed, killing 28 people and injuring 170. Several days before, a stationmaster near the crash site received a letter threatening an attack on the line. The letter was apparently ignored by police and the truth about the attack -
that it was caused by a bomb on the line - was kept secret for 20 years.
The reason for the cover-up appears to have centered on the fact that the perpetrators were members of a NATO covert paramilitary force tasked with carrying out terrorist attacks on French civilians and politicians in an effort to influence French public and political opinion on the question of Algerian independence, and ensure the continued allegiance of European countries to NATO's ideology of thwarting closer Soviet-European ties. At one point the group, known as the
Organisation of the Secret Army (OSA),
attempted a coup d'etat against the government of Charles de Gaulle.
It is possible therefore that the reason French authorities were so quick to discount terrorism as the cause of the TGV crash one day after the Paris terror attacks was
to avoid establishing a link, if only circumstantial, between previous home-grown terrorism of the NATO variety, and the current Muslim terror threat. Two threats which, in the final analysis, may be revealed as having the same origin.
Then again, the BBC seems to be blaming it on the children!
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Reader Comments
I do not like the coincidences and forecasts like that even done by myself.
It started as comments I started putting here and there as soon as the first attack came Nov.14th.
Resume I made in Saturday was [Link]
Then came Sunday...
1. Donbass guys published an article Nov.11th where they analyzed this year developments in Ukraine and forecasted escalation in EU. Use www.translate.ru (google sucks) upon
[Link]
It is mostly about Ukrainian civil war but here and there they draw conclusions for Europe there.
I was laughing how far the draw conclusions - until three days later.
2. Pattern:
a: 9/11 -> Iraq war
b: Moscow blasts -> Second Chechen War
c: Paris blasts -> ???
Remember Charles De Gaulle air carrier sailed to Syria just few days before it. It can join the war on Syrian anti-American side or on American anti-Syrian side. Would terrorist attack - and its MSM attribution - influence the choice?
Would France eventually send International Legion to Syria, leaving the homeland almost without trained and equipped military?
Would France firmly decide to keep guys close motherland?
That call can be influenced by how MSM would recreate the terrorists attack
3. 07 Jan 2014 -> Charli Hebdo attack. Few days later Kiev an all-out attack on Donetsk, that went below radar as media was saturated with Paris tragedy. All the November there are news of Kiev amassing army in Donbass yet again. Even Deutch Welle gave Poroshenko a run about OSCE reports showing that. OSCE SMM is run by OUN(M) follower, so he is sympathetic with pro-OUN(B) Kiev regime. If even such an OSCE cannot avoid reporting military amassing by Kiev - then it should be really huge.
Well, this forecast did not materialized (yet?) - while fighting erupts here and there in Donbass no large-scale offensive reported yet.
4. Marine Le Pen in recent surveys proved to get #1 popularity in France. Such a tragedy would force her to commit to some fixed position, either to set herself hardliner or a dove. So MSM would get a fixed target to shoot at. Either she would be marked a "crazy Nazi" or a "weakling and traitor". This is what is being done to Putin repeatedly. Marine preferred to take a hard stance "FN : Le Pen demande l'expulsion des étrangers fichés pour leurs liens avec l'islam radical". Now mainstream politicians would be able to take most topics from her while still positioning themselves "reasonable middle ground"
5. Clear EuroMaidan patterns were used. Euromaidan-1 only leaved for 3 weeks, Euromaidan-2 (partially overlapping) was very unpopular initially, lead by three politicians of incompatible positioning and huge anti-rating. To fan the flames repeatedly was used the same pattern:
a. Friday evening - someone reported arrested/beaten/crippled/killed - to instill a shock and fear.
b. Weekends - MSM non-stop keeps threatening and frightening commoners, making them enraged fear-driven irrational haters.
It was always done in Friday evening to make full use of Weekends. Never in working days when people would be busy and the fear would be preempted from their minds by routine tasks.
When the "ISIS attack" came I thought that whoever did it needs driving people crazy and irrational much faster than it was OK for Kiev, so probably it would be not MSM alone, but also some real - but significantly lesser - tragedies. That was my forecast made on Friday.
Saturday came with TGV crash. But it was not the last accident! Fear in people had to be recharged with some tragedy in Sunday evening so people would go to Sunday/Monday night exhausted and hopeless. So, was there yet another accident in Sunday evening? Yes, about 16:00 the relative of a celebrity Lars Diarr was murdered as well.
Well, it is close to what marketing calls fear-uncertainty-doubt attack. Every single accident has a plausible deniability and there is nothing to disprove the coincidence theory. But people have gut feeling of working over thin ice and expecting unpredictable and murderous blow from any angle. When repeated enough, such weekends turn them into irrational and hate-driven puppets mob.