Tuesday, April 19, 2022

BLOG #8: EOTO 2 Awareness

The Importance of Awarness

 Awareness is defined as the "knowledge or perception of a situation or fact." In today's society, it is extremely important to have a high awarness of everything in the world around us. As the world becomes more corrupt and misleading, it is important to have a high sense of knowledge about the aspects of life that surround us. When it comes to media, awareness is definitely one of the most important traits to contain. Without this high sense of awarness, one could become brainwashed and misleaded by false knowledge and interpretation. 

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The History of False Flags

Throughout history, we have come across many uses for awarness. One topic we have seen over the years is the idea of a "false flag." A false flag is defined as  a hostile or harmful action (such as an attack) that is designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the person or group responsible for it. The name origionally derived from the pirates. Prirates would fly a different countries flag on their ship, then attavk their enemy. The enemy would then think a different country attacked them then the one that actually did. This tactic often led to more wars and attacks, especially unnecessary ones. The concept of the False Flag began to transition to different countries and military forces. Throughout history we have seen many examples of a False Flag being used. Some of the most famouse wars incidents consist of the Mukden Incident, Gleiwitz Incident, Manila Incident, and Tonkin Incident. 

The Mudken Incident 

The Mudken Incident was one of the first operations to successfully use the concept of the False Flag. In 1931, Japan was was in need of finding a way to attack China in order to protect their South Manchuria Railway. They set off explosives on the railway, and blamed it on China. They then used this act as a excuse to start war with China. The countries were in war for months, and Japan came out on top, gaining full occupation of the entire railway. 

The Gleiwitz Incident 

Germany wanted to take over more polish land, so they devised a plan using the False Flag tactic. In 1939, Germany had a famous news network named the Gleiwitz Radio Station. The Germans decided to use this radio station as part of their plan. On August 31st 1939, seven German soilders dressed in Polish uniforms and stormed the transmitter station. They then went on to use the station's microphone to announce to eveyone in polish "Attention! This is Gliwice. The broadcasting station is in Polish hands." This incident made sparked an aggressive attack on Poland, and World Word II started to begin. 

Gleiwitz incident - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Shelling of Mainila Incident

During the Winter War, the Soviet Union had signed three treaties agreeing to no longer invade Finland. Despite the treaties, Stalin invaded Finland using the False Flag tactic. On November 26, 1939, The Soviet  Union shelled their own village, Mainila. Despite the Finish trying to compromise with them, the Russians spread rumors and propaganda about Finland shelling them. They then went to war with Finland for five months. 


The Golf of Tonkin Incident 

This incident occured between the United States and North Vietnam. The two ships fired missels at one another. The reason this is considered a False Flag is because nobody truly kows what happened. Each side how their own story and spread propaganda about the incident. Both presidents exaggerated the attacks and word spread througout the world. 


False Flags Today

In today's world, Flase Flags are hard to execute. With live video, satellite photos, social media, news networks and so much more, it is extremely hard to get away with such a tactic. Although difficult to execute as well as the older times, False Flags still remain today. Recently we have seen false flags with the Russian and Ukraine war. Russia was trying to state that Ukraine began the war and thats why they attacked "back." Many False Flag conspiracy theories also are brought up in our generation. This includes the Theory that Bush conducted 9/11 in order to have reason to invaid Iraq. Another consists of leftists planning the Parkland School Shooting in order to ban the second amendment. 

False flags are real, but far less widespread than social media suggest -  Poynter

False Flags are all around us in the world today. Throughout the years, the definition and tactics of False Flags have changed, but they still hold the same use. False Flags have to do with awareness and the perception that people receive because of them. It is extremely important to pay attention and get the full story, before believing something. 

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