Canadian 2009,

The selling of any items and or "Stuff" you cant find a use for, Also , all things you dont know what function they serve.
May also include all things ...smelly, broken,delapitated, worn out, banged up, etc...
One may find such "Sales" taking place in and around large cities and towns or villages all across the land organized by people who are in extreme need of financial help and /or very needy of cash!

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy