Chronology 1

1861-1941 - The first Five U.S. False Flag Episodes
and Other Ignoble Acts

See Chronology 2 for more.

Some of these False Flag events demonstrate that a large number of government officials in multiple countries who share a belief or follow orders have cooperated in successfully secret conspiracies. Search on the date range to find the references available at uschronology.com. Thirty cases from the Korean War to Irag were examined by John Quigley in "The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II."

1861 January 6 - New York Mayor Fernando Wood proposes secession from the united States to the City Council to transform New York City into a massive free-trade zone without protective Whig/Republican tariffs. Mercantilist are firmly in control of the Whig Party and its President, Lincoln. The southern states are angry with the federal government, not the northern states.

1861 January 9 - South Carolina supplies Ft. Sumpter with food and water on the condition that no Union naval vessels try to land at the fort. The South Carolina Militia fires on the USS Star of the West attempting to re-supply the Army of the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor with two hundred fresh soldiers and additional armaments with which to enforce duties borne mostly by the southern States whose slave owners bought English products to repay the loan of slaves by the English East Indian Trading Company.

1861 January 21 - Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis delivers his farewell address to the Senate: "I feel no hostility to you, Senators from the North. I am sure there is not one of you, whatever sharp discussion there may have been between us, to whom I cannot now say, in the presence of my God, I wish you well; and such, I am sure, is the feeling of the people whom I represent towards those whom you represent. I therefore feel that I but express their desire when I say I hope, and they hope, for peaceful relations with you, though we must part. They may be mutually beneficial to us in the future, as they have been in the past, if you so will it. The reverse may bring disaster on every portion of the country."

1861 March 2 - As feared, President Buchanan signs the Morrill Tariff Act, placing tariff duties on imported raw materials, purchased primarily by the northern States of 5 to 10%, and duties on imported manufactured goods, purchased primarily by the southern States, of 25 to 30%. In a last ditch effort to restore the Union before relinquishing Congress to the Republicans the following December, the Democratic 37th Congress proposes a 13th amendment (the Corwin Amendment), which would require any future amendments on the subject of slavery be unanimous: "No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws [statutes] of said State." It is hoped that the Confederate States will ratify this amendment thereby peacefully rejoin the Union, but at the price of the highest tariffs in U.S. history. The message was clear to the southern Senators as they exited the Senate.

1861 March 11 - The Confederate Constitutional Convention frames its version of the federal Constitution for the seceded States clarifying what they feel were the ambiguities and shortcomings of the Constitution for the united States:

• references to the "general welfare" from the federal Constitution, Preamble and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 are eliminated;
• a line-item veto for the Confederate President is clarified;
• the Confederate Post Office must not be subsidized by taxes but operate on its own revenues;
• Confederate subsidies to facilitate commerce are prohibited;
• Confederate import tariffs designed to benefit domestic industries are prohibited;
• unrelated riders to Confederate appropriations legislation are prohibited.

1861 April 6 - False Flag 1: Secretary of State William H. Seward covertly assures Confederate Commissioner and former constitutionalist Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the federal United States John A. Campbell that Fort Sumter will be evacuated. Realizing that he has been lied to by the united States government, Democratic Governor Francis W. Pickens of the Independent Republic of South Carolina orders the Militia to fire on Fort Sumter before a flotilla sent by Republican President Lincoln arrives to enforce the Morrill Tariff Act. On 1861 July 3 President Lincoln confides to Republican Senator Orville H. Browning of Illinois, "[T]he plan succeeded. They [the rebels] attacked Sumter -- it fell, and thus, did more service than it otherwise could."

1846 May 11 - False Flag 2: After his offer to forgive $4.5 million owed to U.S. citizens in exchange for Mexico's California and New Mexico territories was rejected, President James K. Polk orders U.S. troops into disputed territory on the Texas-Mexican border to provoke a Mexican response. In a message to Congress President James K. Polk falsely stated that Mexico had "invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil" to initiate the Mexican-American War, and seize the territories by force.

1898 February 15 - False Flag 3: The explosion and sinking of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana, Cuba harbor is used to initiate the Spanish-American War thanks in large part to the propaganda issued by the Hearst media. "We could not leave them to themselves -- they were unfit for self-government -- and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was ... there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them." - William McKinley - (1843-1901) 25th US President - Source: 1899, on the Filipinos, following the U.S. invasion of the Philippines in 1898. During the invasion and occupation, U.S. forces killed an estimated 200,000 Filipino civilians. Address to the Methodist Episcopal Church; cited in Olcott, The Life of William McKinley (1916), v. 2, p. 110; estimate of civilian casualties from U.S. Library of Congress, "The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War," 1998.

1903 January 21 - Establish a standing army to fight foreign wars: The unconstitutional Militia Act of 1903 abolishes State funding of the Militias, which are replaced with the National Guard, and armed by the federal government, which reserves the right to recall its armaments at any time.

1913 February 25 - Enable politics of envy and demand for more government: Despite evidence to the contrary, Lame Duck Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox declares that the 16th Amendment (eliminates proportionality requirement for taxation) received the required ratification by three-fourths of the State legislatures, destroying the balance between taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. The only States to properly ratify the 16th amendment were North Dakota, Tennessee, Arizona and New Mexico.

1913 May 31 - Enable unlimited government spending: Despite evidence to the contrary, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan declares that the 17th amendment (popular election of United States Senators) received the required ratification by three-fourths of the State legislatures. Although unanimous ratification is required on amendments affecting State suffrage in the Senate, as per Article V. This fraud ends the most important feature of federalism -- the State's check on the United States government -- by concentrating unwarranted power in the Federal government in the District of Columbia.

1913 October 3 - Enable unlimited government spending: Unconstitutional Underwood Tariff Act of 1913 creates a Direct tax on personal incomes (profits) of United States citizens, under the guise of an Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Indirect tax.

1913 December 23 - Enable unlimited government spending: President Wilson signs the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act of 1913 with which Congress has shirked in its Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 requirement to regulate the value of money and unlawfully transfers the issuing of credit to an elitist monopoly: the Federal Reserve System.

1914 September 2 - False Flag 3 profit: Congress creates the Bureau of War Insurance to compensate shipping companies that have suffered losses during the Great War (World War I) - War Risk Insurance Act of 1914, 38 Public Statutes at Large 711, 712 (1914).

1913 March 26 - False Flag 4 preparation: By arming merchant ships and ording them to ram U-boats, Britain forced Geramany to stop allowing vessels to abandon ship, and sink them without warning. In the diplomatic wrangling over the German submarine campaign in 1915- 1916, the United States Government persistently failed to acknowledge the validity of the German point that it was not reasonable to expect a submarine to endanger herself by giving warning to a merchantman that was likely to be armed and under orders to ram any U-boat encountered.

1915 May 7 - False Flag 4: A submarine of the German Imperial Navy sinks the Royal Mail Ship (R.M.S.) Lusitania, killing 124 U.S. citizens, and motivating the hitherto isolationist Americans to war, despite the fact that its passengers were warned in U.S. newspaper ads bought by Germany not to board the ship. The American and British manifests of this "armed merchant cruiser" (Lloyd's Registry) were falsified, claiming that it had no armaments, when in fact it was carrying tons of munitions.

1916 - President Wilson expresses regret at having signed the Federal Reserve Act, "A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the Federal Reserve System. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world -- no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." Until the passage of this act, the value of the Dollar remained relatively the same as what it was since the founding of the Republic, in 1789. In the near century since its passage the value of the "dollar" has decreased to 6.7 cents -- a fifteen-fold depreciation, destroying the value of savings and wages.

1917 June 4 - False Flag 4 result: Congress declares war on Germany "Whereas the Imperial German Government have committed repeated acts of war against the ... United States of American ... a state of war exists between the United States and the Imperial German government." The antagonists were prepared to renegotiate boundaries as they had done to end so many of their past European wars, but U.S. entry into the war against Germany extended WW I and its devastation, and resulted in the Versailles Treaty, which economically suffocated Germany, and paved the way for Hitler and WW II.

1917 June 21 - Enable unlimited government spending: While the Army and Navy of the United States are in France "making the world safe for democracy," Congress passes the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act of 1917, requiring that all commercial banks in the nation deposit their gold (lawful Money) with the Federal Reserve System (central bank).

1927 February 27 - Enable unlimited government spending: Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act of 1927, indefinitely extending the charter of the Federal Reserve System.

1920s - Enable Roaring 20s: With easy credit the Federal Reserve floods the economy with so much unneeded money that much of it is invested in the stock market or used to expand farms and other speculative acts.

1929 - Cause Recession: The Federal Reserve Board of Directors suddenly reduces credit to end the speculation, causing investors, farmers and others to withdraw their savings from banks that were authorized to loan more than they had (fractional reserve banking), so the banks ran out of money and many lost everything.

1930 June 16 - Cause Depression: With the nation's economy barely in recovery, President Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs 46%. This provoked a worldwide trade war resulting in an almost complete cessation in foreign trade, thus turning the Panic of 1929 into the worldwide Great Depression.

1933 March 6 - Defraud Americans and extend depression: Franklin Roosevelt issues Proclamation 2039 (Bank Holiday) under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended--"[T]he President ... may prohibit ... by means of licenses, or otherwise ... the export [or] hoarding of gold or silver [C]oin." -- all (commercial) banks are to suspend business operations for three business days, and cease redeeming legal tender Federal Reserve Notes (Bills of Credit) for gold Coin (lawful Money). The Trading with the Enemy Act was thought to have been automatically repealed with the ratification of the 1921 peace treaty with Germany, but Roosevelt found an appointee-candidate who rendered a legal opinion that the act might still be used. Every act of FDR hobbled free market recovery, extended the depression, increased the debt, and eventually bankrupted the U.S. FDR then used trade restrictions to goad Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor (False Flag 5), so he could incite Americans to enter WW II, and extend his presidency as a "war president".

1940 October 7 - False Flag 5 preparation: Lieutenant commander Arthur H. McCollum, head of the naval intelligence Far East desk, responds to the inquiry of Franklin Roosevelt, Esq. on how to provoke war with the empire of Japan:

• Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore.
• Make an arrangement with Holland [Nederland] for the use of base facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch East Indies [now Indonesia].
• Give all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chaing Kai-shek.
• Send two divisions of submarines to the Orient.
• Keep the main strength of the US [f]leet, now in the Pacific, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands.
• Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil.
• Completely embargo all trade with Japan in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire.

1940 October 8 - False Flag 5 preparation: Commander-in-chief the Navy, Vice-admiral James O. Richardson warns Franklin Roosevelt that he is placing the pacific fleet in unnecessary danger: "[S]enior officers of the [n]avy do not have the trust and confidence in the civilian leadership of this country [nation] that is essential for the successful prosecution of a war in the Pacific." Four months later Richardson was relieved of his command (CINCUS) when it was split into the pacific and Atlantic fleets. CINCPACFLEET had been initially offered to rear admiral (two stars) Chester Nimitz -- bypassing several vice admirals (three stars) with greater standing -- who turned it down, citing a "lack of seniority." The post was then given to another junior admiral, rear admiral Husband E. Kimmel, who is immediately promoted to admiral (four stars). Speculation is that the real reason Nimitz turned down the job is that he believed the Japanese would attack Hawaii, and the commander of CINCPACFLEET would be blamed for being ill prepared. One month after the Japanese did attack, Kimmel was demoted and relieved of his command, and Nimitz named to replace him.

1941 January 6 - False Flag 5 preparation: Acting Japanese Consul-General for Honolulu, Hawaii, Otojiro Okuda transmits to the Japanese Foreign Ministry a coded response of an inquiry into the number of warships in Pearl Harbor. Although the report is decoded for the White House, Franklin Roosevelt does not inform admiral Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet or admiral Harold "Betty" Stark, chief of naval operations. Throughout the rest of the year, the same "J" code is used to relay reports to the Foreign Ministry of increasing sensitivity, involving bombing approaches to anchored vessels and recommendations for a sneak attack. Still Kimmel and Stark were never notified.

1941 January 27 - False Flag 5 preparation: Ambassador to the Empire of Japan, Joseph Grew sends a message to the Department of State, "The Peruvian Minister has informed a member of my staff that he has heard from many sources, including a Japanese source, that in the event of trouble breaking out between the United States and Japan, the Japanese intended to make a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor with all their strength."

1941 February 10 - False Flag 5 preparation: Franklin Roosevelt, orders Action D, directing the navy of the United States to conduct "Pop-up" cruises off the coast of Japan as a provocation to war. "I just want them to keep popping up here and there and keep the Japs [sic] guessing. I don't mind losing one or two cruisers. But I don't want to lose five or six."

1941 June 23 - False Flag 5 preparation: The day after fascist Germany invaded the communist Soviet Union, Special Advisor to the President, Harold Ickes, writes a memo to Franklin Roosevelt: "There might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such a situation as would make it not only possible but easy to get into this war in an effective way. And if we should thus indirectly be brought in, we would avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of communistic Russia."

1941 July 5 - False Flag 5 preparation: Franklin Roosevelt orders the Panama Canal closed to the civilian Merchant Marine Fleet of the empire of Japan, forcing Japanese cargo carriers to make a seven-thousand mile detour around South America. This places Japanese commerce at a competitive disadvantage and forces Japan to use more of its limited petroleum.

1941 July 19 - False Flag 5 preparation: Director of the war plans division of the navy department, Rear Admiral Richmond K. Turner, submits a confidential report to chief of naval operations, Admiral Harold "Betty" Stark entitled "The Possible Effects of an Embargo" in which he stated, "An embargo would probably result in a fairly early attack by Japan on Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, and possibly would involve the United States in early war in the Pacific." He recommended that "trade with Japan not be embargoed at this time."

1941 July 24 - False Flag 5 preparation: Franklin Roosevelt issues the empire of Japan an ultimatum to leave Vietnam (French Indochina).

1941 July 26 - False Flag 5 preparation: Franklin Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8832 under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 that freezes all Japanese assets United States, which is an act of war. Since the United States had been the primary source of petroleum to the Empire of Japan, it is expected that the Japanese will run out of this vital fuel by 1943. This forces Japan to search for an alternate source of fossil fuel in the Dutch East Indies, and to protect that supply preparations must be made for war against the United States.

1941 August 28 - False Flag 5 preparation: Franklin Roosevelt rejects a proposal from Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoye of the Empire of Japan to meet face to face, and attempt to peacefully resolve their differences.

1941 September 4 - False Flag 5: The ostensibly neutral USS Greer stalks the a belligerent German U-boat for three hours while radioing its position to the British Royal Navy. When it become apparent the Royal Navy would not arrive in time, the Greer shells the submarine -- an act of war. Franklin Roosevelt reports to the nation that the submarine fired first in an unprovoked attack. Lieutenant Commander Station HYPO, Pearl Harbor, Joseph John Rochefort decodes a message indicating that three days previous the civilian Merchant Marine Fleet of the Empire of Japan has left China and been militarized. This report is officially ignored by Franklin Roosevelt.

1941 October 10 - False Flag 5 preparation: President Roosevelt in a message to Congress urges the repeal of Section 6 of the Neutrality Act which would allow the arming of U.S. merchant ships against "the modern pirates of the sea", the U-boats.

1941 October 16 - False Flag 5 preparation: After a meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of war, Henry Stimson writes in his diary, "We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move -- overt move."

1941 October 18 -False Flag 5 preparation: Secretary of the interior, Harold Ickes: "For a long time I have believed that our best entrance into the war would be by way of Japan. ... To insure a successful Japanese attack -- one that would enrage America into joining the war -- it is vital to keep Kimmel and General Short out of the intelligence loop."

1941 November 5 - False Flag 5 preparation: United States military intelligence code breakers intercept a communication to the Japanese Embassy in the District of Columbia that November 25th is to be the deadline for reaching a peaceful settlement to the dispute with the U.S. over the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese occupation of French Indochina. All communications to the Japanese embassy were decoded and translated within 24 hours of their being intercepted by military and naval intelligence.

1941 November 11 - False Flag 5 preparation: United States military intelligence code breakers intercept a communication to the Japanese Embassy in the District of Columbia stating that "The situation is nearing a climax, and the time is getting short."

1941 November 14 - False Flag 5 preparation: In reply to commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet, Husband E, Kimmel's inquiry as to what preparations he is to make if the Empire of Japan attacks the United Kingdom's colonies in East Asia, chief of naval operations admiral Harold "Betty" Stark finally replies, "Just what we will do in the Far East remains to be seen."

1941 November 15 - False Flag 5 preparation: In a confidential press briefing with the New York Times, New York Herald-Tribune, Time, Newsweek, the Associated Press, United Press International and International News Service, Army Chief of staff General George C. Marshall says, "The United States is on the brink of war with the Japanese …. We know what they know and they don't know we know it." Marshall predicts that war will break out in "the first ten days of December." Although Marshall shared what he knew with the national media, commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet, admiral Husband E. Kimmel and commander of the army in Hawaii, lieutenant general Walter Short did not know what Marshall knew. And Marshall knew that they did not know.

1941 November 16 - False Flag 5 preparation: The USS Kearney is sunk by a German U-boat. Georgia Representative Edward E. Cox, says of the incident, "[I]t is probably the incident for which we have been waiting." John T. Flynn, Chairman of the New York Chapter of the America First Committee, expresses outrage at the temerity of the actions of Franklin Roosevelt: "Is anyone surprised that an American ship has been fired on by a German U-boat? Do Americans think that our war vessels can hunt the ships of any nation and escape attack? American war vessels, under orders from the war-like [secretary of the navy, Frank] Knox, are hunting down German submarines in the combat waters off Iceland without authority of Congress or the American people. ... They [Roosevelt and Knox] are praying for the sinking of American vessels with the American [United States] flag on them in order to arouse the American people to a war fever. The American people must realize what is being done -- that they are the victims of a conspiracy to hurry them into this war.

1941 November 16 - False Flag 5 preparation: United States military intelligence code breakers intercept a communication to the Japanese Embassy in the District of Columbia stating that "The deadline absolutely cannot be changed," the dispatch said. "After that, things are automatically going to happen."

1941 November 23 - False Flag 5 preparation: Commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet Admiral Husband E, Kimmel orders his fleet to conduct round the clock patrols of the waters north of Hawaii, judging that would be the most likely avenue of approach were the Empire of Japan to attack the United States. The next day Franklin Roosevelt issues the "Vacant Sea" order, ordering Kimmel to recall his ships from the North Pacific and search only to the south. Two weeks later the Japanese attack came from the very area Kimmel had attempted to monitor. The "Vacant Sea" order was issued about one hour after the Pearl Harbor strike force commanded by Admiral Chuichi Nagumo left port.

1941 November 25 - False Flag 5 preparation: Franklin Roosevelt announces at a Cabinet meeting that the United States would be at war in the with the Empire of Japan in a few days. Lieutenant Commander Station HYPO, Pearl Harbor, Joseph John Rochefort informs commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet, admiral Husband E. Kimmel that he has confirmed that a fleet of submarines had left the Empire of Japan and is heading directly towards Hawaiian waters. Kimmel, who understands the conventional naval wisdom: "If you detect submarines, then look for carriers," realizes his ability to react is seriously handicapped by the "Vacant Sea" order of Franklin Roosevelt. The Signal Intelligence Service intercepts a coded transmission from the Japanese Foreign Ministry to their Embassy in the District of Columbia, extending the deadline for the commencement of hostilities from November 25 to November 29, when "things are automatically going to happen."

1941 November 26 - False Flag 5 preparation: Navy code breaker intercept a communication from Admiral Isoruko Yamamoto to the Japanese First Air Fleet, indicating that Pearl Harbor had been targeted: "The task force, keeping its movement strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet and deal it a mortal blow. The first air raid is planned for the dawn of x-day. Exact date to be given by later order." Secretary of state Cordell Hull meets secretly with freelance newspaper writer Joseph Leib, and shows Leib several intercepts of Japanese intelligence messages concerning Pearl Harbor, indicating the planned attack, and that President Franklin Roosevelt plans to let it happen. Hull asks Leib to corroborate the story -- keeping his name out of it -- but yet hoping to somehow prevent the "sneak attack." Leib was not able to find a single news bureau that would run the story, but was able to run it on the foreign cable service of the United Press, where only one newspaper published any portion of it.

1941 November 28 - False Flag 5 preparation: Chief of naval operations, Admiral Harold "Betty" Stark orders commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet admiral Husband E. Kimmel to maintain a defensive posture. "Negotiations with Japan appear to be terminated. ... the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act." The day before army chief of staff general George C. Marshal sent a similar message to commander of the Army in Hawaii, lieutenant general Walter Short

1941 November 29 - False Flag 5 preparation: The Signal Intelligence Service intercepts a communication to the Japanese Embassy in the District of Columbia stating that the decision to go to war has been made but "do not … give the impression that negotiations are broken off."

1941 December 6 - False Flag 5 preparation: At 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, officer-in-charge of Station US of the navy, commander Laurence Safford begins decoding a 14-part message, transmitted from the Japanese Foreign Ministry to their embassy in the District of Columbia. At 9:30 that night, Safford presents them to Franklin Roosevelt, who upon reading the passage that states, "The Japanese government cannot tolerate the perpetuation of such a situation [United States support of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War] since it directly runs counter to Japan's fundamental policy to enable all nations to each enjoy its proper place in the world," says, "This means war." When a presidential advisor suggests a preemptive strike, Roosevelt immediately dismisses it saying, "No we can't do that. We are democracy and a peaceful people. ... But we have a good record."

1941 December 7 - False Flag 5: Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold "Betty" Stark arrives at his office at 9:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, where he is shown the last part of the intercepted, fourteen-part message from the Japanese Foreign Ministry to the Japanese Embassy. The message states that the "message" (Japanese declaration of war against the United States) is to be delivered to Cordell Hull, secretary of state by 1:00 PM EST (8:00 AM Hawaii time). Afterward, all cryptographic materials in the embassy were to be destroyed. At the suggestion of a junior officer that Stark alert commander in chief of the pacific fleet, Vice Admiral Husband E. Kimmel that this probably means war is imminent, Stark does nothing. Three and a half-hours later, the Axis war (World War II) becomes a world war with the Japanese attack upon the British colony of Singapore. Pearl Harbor is also attacked. 15% of 101 warships are either temporarily or permanently disabled. 96 army planes and 92 navy and marine corps planes are lost. In addition the material damage, there are 2,897 killed (similar to 9/11), 879 wounded, and 26 missing. In the next few days, Japanese forces seize 1,951 prisoners of war -- many of whom died in captivity -- on the Federal enclaves of the Guam and Wake islands. Years later, Stark said that his actions on this date had been determined by "higher authority" -- Secretary of War, Frank Knox, and Franklin Roosevelt.

1941 December 8 - False Flag 5 continued: President Franklin Roosevelt condemns the "deliberate [and] unprovoked attack ... on Pearl Harbor" in his war message to the 14th Congress. Two days later, congress declares war on Japan. Also on the day after naval forces of the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the coast guard ship Leonard Wood is attacked seven thousand miles away from U.S. territorial waters in the British colony of Singapore, further demonstrating the unlawful actions of the Roosevelt administration in its efforts to goad Japan to attack.

1941 December 11 - False Flag 5 result: Dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States. In his war message to the Reichstag, Hitler blames Franklin Roosevelt for "incit[ing the] war, then falsif[ying] the causes". "Roosevelt has been guilty of ... [i]llegal seizure of ships and other property of German ... nationals ... and looting of those being ... interned. Roosevelt ... ordered the American Navy to attack everywhere ships under German ... flags, and to sink them. ..." Hitler goes on to accuse Roosevelt of making "profits out of inflation," and creating the crises to cover his own failures for "not succeed[ing] in bringing about even the slightest improvement in his own country [nation]. ..." At the end of 1941 unemployment in the United States is at 5.6 million, 9.9% of the national labor force; virtually unchanged from the end of 1930 when it stood at 4.3 million and 8.7%. Director of Communications, Rear admiral Leigh Noyes orders all existing diplomatic naval documents relating to the attack on Pearl Harbor be sealed for the next 54-years. Noyes also gives the order to "Destroy all notes or anything in writing."

1942 March 27 - Enable extortion of businesses by congressmen and unlimited government spending: While the army and navy of the United States are in Asia, Europe and the Pacific "for a world in which this [n]ation ... will be safe for our children," congress passes the War Powers Act of 1942, giving the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to suspend contracts, regulations or licenses; and permitting the Federal Reserve System to directly purchase United States Treasury obligations, making the FRS a printing press to finance huge deficits of the Federal government. As a result of this act, the annual budget deficit for 1943 was nearly half the entire Gross National Product.

1942 February 1 - Respect for Constitution - Regarding proposed internment of United States citizens of Japanese ancestry, Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy tells attorney general, Francis Biddle, "[T]he constitution is just a scrap of paper to me."

1942 October 21 - Enable unlimited government spending: The 13th congress passes the Internal Revenue Act of 1942, asking United States citizens to volunteer for the "Victory Tax," a temporary, three-percent payroll-income tax withholding, which "shall not apply with respect to any taxable year commencing after the cessation of hostilities in the present war"; and transforming the Tax Board of Appeals into the United States Tax Court -- another administrative law court without Trial by Jury -- with the additional powers of reviewing its own decisions on appeal. Although the Axis War (World War II) ended less than three years later with the surrender of the Empire of Japan, the temporary "Victory Tax" remains in effect -- more than half a century later.

Subsequently:

• Like the 9/11 Commission, the Roberts Commission covered up the causes for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
• The culpable supreme court of the United States ruled that extra-constitutional Executive Agreements negotiated with foreign nations by the President in secret have the same force as ratified treaties.
• The President ordered over 100,000 United States citizens into concentration camps.
• Periodical publications disagreeing with the government were deemed seditious, and denied mailing privileges.
• Wage and price controls were first enacted.
• Federal income tax withholding started.
• The supreme court determined that the power of congress to regulate interstate commerce extended to production, and consumption by the same person.
• The President seized control of nearly all goods and services in the nation.
• The President required the Social Security Number to be used for identification purposes.