The Red Hand Conspiracy: France’s Secret Terror War

The name “Red Hand” was already familiar to French authorities. In the early 1950s, an ultra-nationalist terrorist organization by that name had operated in Morocco and Tunisia. As these French colonies moved toward independence, the Red Hand struck violently against self-determination leaders, leaving their signature on each attack: a hand of Fatima—a popular amulet in Maghreb countries—painted in blood red on victims’ doors.

When Morocco and Tunisia gained independence in March 1956, the Red Hand seemingly disappeared. But its return with renewed vengeance against the Algerian independence movement suggested something more sinister at play.

Unmasking the Conspiracy

By the mid-1980s, authors Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop unveiled a shocking revelation: the “Red Hand” was actually a façade. Christian Durieux was an agent of the DST, France’s internal security service. The writer Pierre Geneve was actually Kurt-Emile Schweizer, better known as an author of erotic fiction.

Both men had been instructed to publicize the Red Hand by Colonel Marcel Mercier, a former resistance fighter and Dachau concentration camp survivor who worked for the SDECE, France’s foreign intelligence and counter-espionage service. Mercier collaborated closely with Colonel Robert Roussillat, head of Service 8, a special division responsible for covert operations.

The implications were staggering: high-ranking officers of France’s secret services were directly implicated in hundreds of targeted assassinations and state-sponsored terrorism. The Red Hand was merely smoke and mirrors designed to throw public opinion off the scent.

https://intotheshadows.channel/war/red-hand-conspiracy-france-secret-assassinations-algerian-war/

PROMISes, Sex Slaves, and Spying: A Brief History of the Blackmail-Surveillance Nexus

P.R.O.M.I.S.

The story of the PROMIS software in the 1970s weaves a complex narrative of foreign double-agents, human trafficking, and murder.
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DEADLY GAME

A series of murders were allegedly committed in order to try to contain the scope of the spying.

Freelance journalist Danny Casolaro supposedly slashed his wrists in a hotel room after a source contacted him about the so-called Octopus: an international network of intelligence operatives.vi Also assassinated was Robert Maxwell, a UK-based publishing magnate, born in Czechoslovakia as Ján Hoch. The young Hoch escaped Nazi occupation and was decorated by the British military for his service to the Allies. MI6 used Maxwell (Hoch) as a front for its publishing arm, Springer-Verlag.vii

Using his contacts with Czech communists, he allegedly facilitated the export of aircraft parts to Israel, which helped the country win the Arab-Israeli War 1948. Maxwell became a Member of Parliament for the British Labour Party and was supposedly suspected by UK intelligence of being a Soviet-funded double-agent, though this appears to have been part of an MI5 smear campaign against the Labour Party.viii Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, supposedly inserted its own bugs into PROMIS and contracted Maxwell to distribute the rigged software.ix Maxwell died in 1991 after falling off his yacht.

The yacht, Lady Ghislaine, was named after his youngest child. In the same year as her father’s death, Ghislaine Maxwell met Jeffrey Epstein, a financier, fixer, and human-trafficker who was working for the CIA to blackmail businesspeople, intellectuals, politicians, and royalty.x Many suspect that Epstein was also working for Mossad.xi Epstein also died when details of his dark empire began to emerge: officially by suicide in 2019. Some people suspect that US, British, and/or Israeli intelligence helped Epstein and Maxwell, respectively, to fake their deaths, but there is little evidence to prove these theories. Elements of the Maxwell family continued their father’s interest in software.

https://www.pipr.co.uk/promises-sex-slaves-and-spying-a-brief-history-of-the-blackmail-surveillance-nexus/

Rituals in Plain Sight — How the Hidden Elite Shape Reality Through Place and Performance

Mystical Toponomy

When crimes are exposed but no one takes action against those responsible, it functions like a peculiar advertisement for the secret rulers (the “cryptocrats”). It portrays them as criminal masterminds who are so clever that they never face consequences.

This whole situation resembles a classic occult trick, where the real point — like the idea that exposing wrongdoing leads to justice — is mocked by turning it upside-down. The name “Truth or Consequences” was given to a city in New Mexico through a process involving Masonic rituals, word games (“onomatological” — the study of the origin and meaning of names), and “mystical toponomy” (the mystical or magical study of place-names and their deeper significance). This term, mystical toponomy, was first identified by researcher James Shelby Downard. The use of these special names and places acts as a kind of spiritual or karmic challenge, especially when the secret rulers are trying to reveal things they’ve kept hidden.

“Mystical toponomy” and “alchemical cant language” (secret coded speech used in occult traditions) are part of a system that connects historical events (“action in time”) with certain physical locations seen as “places of power.” The cryptocracy views the world as a giant chessboard, with significant locations serving as squares, mirroring the checkered (tessellated) floor found in Solomon’s Temple and Masonic lodges, as well as the chessboard landscape in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass.

https://thedukereport.substack.com/p/rituals-in-plain-sight

Jerusalem warns of Israeli push to destroy Al-Aqsa and build ‘Temple’

The Governorate of Jerusalem has warned of increasingly open and accelerated moves by extremist Jewish groups that it says are now working methodically to target, and ultimately destroy, Al-Aqsa Mosque to replace it with the so-called ” Third Temple”.

In a statement on Wednesday, the governorate said the public activities of these groups have become “an organised colonial project” led and supported by political and religious actors within the Israeli establishment, aiming to impose “full sovereignty over Al-Aqsa Mosque and to establish the alleged Temple in its place”.

The statement stressed that what is currently being shown through “preparations, rituals, and readiness” is no longer a mere religious dream or myth but a “coordinated colonial project” with institutional backing.

https://www.newarab.com/news/jerusalem-warns-israeli-push-destroy-al-aqsa-build-temple

5 Homoerotic Military Initiation Rituals, From Elephant Walks to Body Buffets

Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men, says that the thinking surrounding these rituals is, “If you endure together this kind of mortifying, humiliating and embarrassing homosexual act, then that not only toughens up your body, but it will also build and strengthen that bond around you.”

https://hornet.com/stories/homoerotic-military-rituals/

New US border checks from December 26 – and it could mean handing over your DNA

Starting next month, US border authorities will be allowed to photograph travelers at airports and use facial recognition to compare their information with existing records.

The records can be held for up to 75 years.

They could also force noncitizens to provide other personal information, such as fingerprints or DNA, the document states.
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It comes after the CBP began imposing a $30 fee on anyone entering the US for more than 29 days.

https://www.the-sun.com/travel/15522117/

The British Army is the only military in Europe that still recruits 16-year-olds.

Exclusive: The Scandal of the British Army’s Child Soldiers

Almost a year ago, I turned my attention to the abuse of child recruits at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate. I teamed up with Children’s Rights International (CRIN) to pool resources and data. We were shocked by what we learnt.

My exclusive investigation reveals how 16-17.5-year-old children recruited into the British Army face disproportionate levels of bullying, physical and sexual violence, compared to their peers in mainstream education. Many of these children, as my story reveals, come from working-class backgrounds or have specific vulnerabilities, such as having spent time in care.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/newsletter-scandal-british-army-child-soldiers/

From the Preface to “On Terrorism and the State” by Gianfranco Sanguinetti

So, does On Terrorism and the State contain State secrets?

Indeed it does: this book contains State secrets. The fact that it is the State’s own secret services that organize and pull the strings of terrorism — is this not, then, the main secret of the Italian State? And it is precisely this fact that is broadly substantiated in On Terrorism and the State.

What really is not convincing is not my arguments, but the contradictory behavior of the State and its faithful servants, in respect to my book: on the one hand, they speak about it in order to say nothing about it, if only to have Italians think that what I have to say “is not convincing”; on the other hand, a few days after the televised “account,” the political police and a judge known for the unfortunate zeal with which he tries to make believable all the official lies on terrorism, initiated a complex and obscure judicial-police prosecution of me. So am I to think that I have committed the crime of not having been “convincing”? If our Legal Code were to make provisions for such an offense, there wouldn’t be enough prisons in Europe to contain our politicians, journalists, judges, policemen, trade-union leaders, industrialists and priests. No: it is not about being unconvincing, nor I am accused of being so, but rather it is about the fact that I have been too convincing in accusing the State of these crimes, and that this same State has now attempted to take revenge — but, as one will see, with the embarrassed awkwardness befitting those who are guilty and wish to pose as innocent. The men who govern this State are, as one knows, the same as at the time of the massacre at the Piazza Fontana [in 1969], and, in order not to be placed in the position of being accused, they are, as it were, continually obliged to accuse other men of their own and other crimes as well — as if these men wished to give a supplementary practical confirmation to Madame de Staël’s theory, according to which “the life of any [political] party that has committed a political crime is always linked to this crime, either in ing it or in making it forgotten by dint of power.”
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So Italian terrorism is the last riddle of the society of the spectacle, and only he who reasons dialectically can solve it. It is because of this lack of dialectic that the riddle of terrorism continues to deceive and mow down all the victims liberally sacrificed on the altar by the State, because it is on this unsolved riddle that the State provisionally maintains itself. It is thus necessary and sufficient to solve the riddle, not only in order to put an end to terrorism, but also to provoke the collapse of the Italian State. Only he who has an interest in this collapse will be able to solve the riddle of terrorism practically. But who has an interest in deciphering the riddle of terrorism? Clearly nobody, except the proletariat, for only the proletariat has the necessary urgency, motives, force and capacity required to destroy the State that deceives and exploits it. The aims of the provocations of the last few years and the pedagogic campaign of indoctrination of the masses that followed it were to teleguide people’s thinking, to oblige them to think certain things. With terrorism, the State has hurled a mortal challenge to the proletariat and to its intelligence: the Italian workers can only take it up, and, in doing this, prove that they are dialecticians, or they can passively accept “inevitable” defeat. All those who today talk about social revolution without denouncing and combating the terrorist counter-revolution have a corpse in their mouths.

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1637973/

These Mountains Fight Back Between Anarchist Commons and Fascist Environmentalism (part II of Dams, Forest Fires, and the Hidden Commons)

While the recent spree of wind turbine construction across Catalunya does not come with the paramilitary violence needed to carry out the same construction in Oaxaca—in Oaxaca there are still Indigenous communities defending the commons, whereas in most of Europe the countryside has already been depopulated—these wind farms are nonetheless a continuation of the legacy of Franco’s hydroelectric dams. And those in turn were a continuation of the massive deforestation of the Pyrenees in the 19th century, to build the railroads, launch the steel industry, and at the same time impoverish the commons that gave sustenance to the rural peasantry who made up the backbone of so many social rebellions in those years.

Under capitalism, there is startlingly little difference between such vastly different sources of energy. And today’s wind farms and other energy infrastructures, though they seem to lack the explicit violence of their forebears, have already been linked to expropriations and other conflicts that affect the growing wave of people resurrecting the commons. And more than that, they constitute a chess piece played with perspicacity, holding down a position so the enemy—that’s us—cannot take it.

Green energy remonetizes many rural spaces that a cumbersome industrial agriculture had had to abandon, and it architecturally occupies those spaces in a way that prevents us from resuscitating the commons, accessing land, and cultivating food autonomy, a healthy relationship in which we heal the planet and ourselves without any need for State or Capital.

https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2024/09/10/these-mountains-fight-back-between-an-anarchist-commons-and-fascist-environmentalism-part-ii-of-dams-forest-fires-and-the-hidden-commons/