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DR F. DEJAHANG ???MY News PUNCH 22-04-2020 DOCUMENT FOLDERS????FULL NEWS HYPERLINK "" The only antidote to a campaign of lies by corporate media is a campaign of truth?by alternative media ‘For one, the information industry can easily muddy the waters of the understanding, thanks to their arsenal of weapons of mass confusion.’Antidote to Corporate Media Lies ??????Mainstream Vs. Alternative MediaKEY ?? MSC?PHD RESEARCH, (MPhilPhD)?=ALL Articles for Political Science, Mathematics and Productivity the Student Room BSc, MSc & PhD Project Mangers etc.PPTs in SLIDESHARE International Studies Research Degrees (MPhilPhD) PPT .. Clinton’s Attorneys Claim Tulsi Gabbard Must Be a ‘Russian Asset’ Because She’s ‘Anti-War’Clinton’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss Tulsi Gabbard’s $50 million defamation lawsuit filed by?the Hawaii Congresswoman?last year, citing anti-regime change and anti-war tweets and assorted smear articles as evidence of Clinton’s “Russian Asset” claim. Times & Regime Collapse – "The System Cannot Handle It" ..unlike anything we’ve seen since the 1930s. An avalanche of government-debt crises is sure to follow, he said, and “the system just can’t handle this many defaults and restructurings – at the same time”. Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation,Some have queried how it could be that President Putin would co-operate with President Trump to have OPEC+ push oil prices higher – when those higher prices precisely would only help sustain U.S. oil production. In effect, President Putin was being asked to underwrite a subsidy to the U.S. economy – at the expense of Russia’s own oil and gas sales – since U.S. shale production simply is not economic at these prices. In other words, Russia seemed to be shooting itself in the foot. Was Panic Selling Oil Today? Goldman Answersby Tyler DurdenMon, 04/20/2020 - 21:42In the annals of market history, April 20, 2020 will be forever remembered the day when, for the first time ever, the deliverable WTI future contract plunged 50%, 60% - the drop accelerating - then 70%, 80%, 90%, 99%, ... and then the unthinkable happened: after the May WTI contract dropped to $0.00, meaning it was free to get delivery of oil, it proceeded to slide into negative territory - a never before seen event in market history - as oil producers were paying their customers to take delivery of physical oil in a world in which oil storage has essentially run out.?And so the price of oil tumbled, dropping further into negative territory, before finally stopping at -$40.32, the lowest price ever recorded for a barrel of WTI. this god getting back at the US for blocking Iran and Venezuela from selling oil? (probably)????Over 20 million in war-torn Yemen need humanitarian aid – UNICEFDUBAI, June 11 (Reuters) - Eighty percent of Yemen's population, or more than 20 million people, need some form of humanitarian assistance as Arab air strikes and civil war ravage the impoverished country, aid agency UNICEF said on Thursday.The figure is up by almost 5 million people since the organisation's latest report last week.For over 11 weeks, an Arab military coalition has been bombing the Houthi militia, the dominant group in Yemen at the moment, in a bid to restore the country's exiled president to power and support local fighters resisting the Houthi advance in battlefields nationwide. ???? HYPERLINK "" How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theoryA conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration’s Iraqi WMD. And the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin is playing the role of Judith Miller.By Max Blumenthal and Ajit Singh???'Pandemic drones' could single people out in a crowd for coughing, sneezing, or running a temperature, developers say — here's how they workCanadian drone company Draganfly announced a collaboration on "pandemic drones" with the Australian Department of Defense and the University of South Australia? The drones will use sensors and computer vision systems to monitor people's temperature and heart rates.?The system is also able to detect people coughing in crowds. has nearly 10 times the number of COVID-19-related deaths than its Nordic neighbors. Here's where they went wrong.Sweden, which has yet to order any lockdown amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, has seen 14,777 COVID-19 cases so far, and 1,580 deaths from the virus.The virus has been more nearly ten times more deadly in Sweden than other Nordic countries.?Norway, which has half as many people, has seen 7,127 cases, and just 181 deaths, and Finland, which has a population similar to Norway's, has seen 3,868 COVID-19 cases and 94 deaths.Charts released by?Pantheon Macroeconomics?show that Sweden's cases have yet to plateau, while Norway's case count appears to be on a downslide.?? HYPERLINK "" How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theoryA conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration’s Iraqi WMD. And the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin is playing the role of Judith Miller.By Max Blumenthal and Ajit Singh Oil Prices Turn Negative As Global Demand VaporizesYes, producers are paying buyers to take the stuff off their hands.Alberta Premier?Jason Kenney?has called on the federal government to expand aid to the?oil and gas?industry as the price of some Canadian oil products turned negative on Monday.Oil analysts say a growing number of producers are willing to pay buyers to take oil off their hands due to a lack of storage space for unwanted product. This is particularly true of “landlocked” producers, such as those in Alberta’s oilsands and some producers in the U.S., who have limited access to global oil shipping routes.’s anti-Chinese racist campaign strategy mobilizes right-wing extremistsIn a direct attack on China and a clear indictment of international cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally ordered?withholding funds from the World Health Organization. In a White House statement, Trump accused the international body of “preferential treatment” for China and “mismanaging” the pandemic. this COVID-19 crisis going to further divide the people even more than ever?????German Lawyer Sent to Psych Ward for Organizing Protest Against COVID-19 LockdownIn the Soviet Union, activists were sent to state psychiatric wards. According to the state, any and all opposition to government policy was considered a form of mental illness.?Stephanie Buck?writes about the treatment of the “social parasite” Joseph Brodsky.?In 1963, Russian poet Joseph Brodsky was seized and sent to a mental institution… Hospital workers pumped him with tranquilizers and repeatedly woke him during the night. He was given cold baths and wrapped in wet canvas that shrank and cut his skin while drying.It is not likely German lawyer BeateBahner will be tortured like Brodsky. However, that does not make her arrest and forced confinement in a mental institution any less egregious.? 20 million in war-torn Yemen need humanitarian aid????Does Anybody Have? 1 Oil Tanker I can Borrow???A conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration’s Iraqi WMD.????And the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin is playing the role of Judith Miller.By Max Blumenthal and Ajit Singh??US War Reporter Says:'I’ve reported on war for years. I’m more afraid now than I’ve ever been.'?Why??Corporate media spreads fake news claiming Nicaraguan President Ortega is dead – then he gives a fiery speech condemning US militarism????'Pandemic drones' could single people out in a crowd for coughing, sneezing, or high temperature,...So....? Brain Dead too?????Sadi was introduced to the generation of Iranians that are now in their fifties with the following verses at the primary school age:The sons of Adam are limbs of each otherHaving been created of one essence.When the calamity of time afflicts one limbThe other limbs cannot remain at rest. HYPERLINK "" \o "Like" LikeShow likestwo hours agoReplyFereydoun DejahangIf thou hast no sympathy for the troubles of othersThou art unworthy to be called by the name of a man.* HYPERLINK "" \o "Like" LikeShow likestwo hours agoReplyFereydoun Dejahang on humanity from Persian literatureCOMING SOON??Canadian Oil Prices Turn Negative As Global Demand Vaporises$-0.01 DOWN -3.03(100.331%)????Trump’s anti-Chinese racist campaign strategy mobilises right-wing extremists????German Lawyer Sent to Psych Ward for Organizing Protest Against COVID-19 Lock-down!???H/T Sed KimIt's almost like poetic justice with US oil price plunging into Negative????H/T Ali Yes More Than That Sed , It's Divine Justice, Every Evil Empire Has Its Time > 'CONT'??Then It's Curtains Drawn So That It is History in a Short Time??Exploitation Has its Day but Comes to an End Sooner or Later.????“The most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate 270 times as much viral load as the least potent type...”??Coronavirus’s ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated, and mutations affect deadliness of strains, Chinese study findsThe most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate 270 times as much viral load as the least potent typeNew York may have a deadlier strain imported from Europe, compared to less deadly viruses elsewhere in the United States? H/T Marion Mourtada9 hrs ·If we think we feeling anxious and caged and uncertain now with this corona thing, imagine how Yemen and Syria felt to name a few as that war mongering virus crept up slowly and slowly into their country .. The fear for tomorrow, the fear for their kids as the whole world practically just stood by and watched. May the coronavirus humble us... May the war mongering nations citizens come out and keep their virus at bay on inflicting a millions times worse onto other nations than the coronavirus ever had.Coronavirus’s ability to mutate ‘has been vastly underestimated’????Georgia to open gyms, nail salons, bowling alleys, and more on Friday, restaurants and movie theaters next Monday Lahut?14 hours ago????Netanyahu: Killing 300 Protesters in Gaza Was ‘Wise’ Decision???? The US’s Failed Response to the Pandemic Is Rooted in Anti-Blackness?by J Bhattacharya, Truthout April 20, 2020?? H/TT? Stay-in-Place Rules Won’t Fix Economy If Virus Still Rages, Fauci SaysTruthout???? Trump’s Praise for Astroturf Protests Is a Divisive ReelectionStrateg Truthout?? Trump’s Inaction on the COVID-19 Crisis Seems More Deliberate Each Day Truthout?'Pandemic drones' could single people out in a crowd for coughing, sneezing, or high temperature,...So....? Brain Dead too?????Op-EdPolitics & ElectionsTrump’s Inaction on the COVID-19 Crisis Seems More Deliberate Each DayMillions of Americans are making painful sacrifices every day, and Trump doesn’t seem to give a single damn.by William Rivers Pitt, TruthoutApril 20, 2020 InterviewEconomy & LaborGig Workers at Instacart and Grocery Stores Demand Safety Gear and Hazard PayGrocery stores are one of the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!April 20, 2020 Truthout & ElectionsPelosi Picks Friend With Corporate Ties to Oversee COVID-19 Bailout FundRep. Donna Shalala has connections to companies that are well-positioned to benefit from the bailout.by Jake Johnson, Common DreamsApril 20, 2020Truthout AnalysisPolitics & ElectionsTrump’s Praise for Astroturf Protests Is a Divisive Reelection StrategyTrump and the Republicans have decided that opening up the economy as soon as possible is their ticket to reelection.by Heather Digby Parton, SalonApril 20, 2020 Truthout & LaborLifting Stay-in-Place Rules Won’t Fix Economy If Virus Still Rages, Fauci SaysThe economy won’t recover “unless we get the virus under control,” Fauci contends.by Chris Walker, TruthoutApril 20, 2020 Truthout & LaborMillions of Essential Workers Are Being Left Out of COVID-19 Safety ProtectionsEven as the U.S.’s federal worker-safety agency has been inundated with complaints, it has rolled back safety standards.by Michael Grabell, Bernice Yeung&Maryam Jameel, ProPublicaApril 20, 2020 Truthout InterviewHuman RightsImagining Protest in a Quarantined WorldKelly Hayes talks with Lisa Fithian about how we can resist from a distance.by Kelly Hayes, TruthoutApril 20, 2020 Truthout News AnalysisWar & PeaceDeclaring War on a Virus Ignores the Neoliberal Policies That Put Us HereThe language of war and invasion from outside veils the racist and classist response of the state to the present crisis.by Candice Amich&NimanthiPerera-Rajasingham, TruthoutApril 20, 2020 Truthout Op-EdRacial JusticeThe US’s Failed Response to the Pandemic Is Rooted in Anti-BlacknessThe pandemic is showing us how racism impairs our ability to respond, hurting all of us.by Jhumpa Bhattacharya, TruthoutApril 20, 2020 New Anti-China Campaign Is Built On Lies To avoid self-examination of the failures that let that U.S. exceed Covid-19 casualty numbers of every other nation the powers that be decided to blame someone else.Trump first attempt was to blame the World Health Organization for not providing all information. But 16 U.S. administration officials?were embedded with the WHO in Geneva. They relayed real time updates of all information the WHO received.As the Democrats and the media?did not join him?Trump in blaming the WHO another scapegoat was needed. Everyone then agreed that it China would be the most convenient target. Virus of the Lie“If we saw this pandemic as a conflict, then we could talk about two fronts,” Carl Miller, research director of the UK-based Demos Group’s Centre for Social Network Analysis, told Al Jazeera.?The first line is the pressure on health services, and the second is the social and political turmoil that the virus and our response to Covid-19 have caused. “The battle against false news is key on this front,” adds Miller. Propaganda Multiplier It is one of the most important aspects of our media system – and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. S Kim3 hrs?·?The UAE suddenly calling out racist Indian hindu nationals is not sincere, for the most they are probably bored with lockdown and filled with Coronovirus economic emotions and now angry because these migrants are no longer useful slaves in their communities, the migrants now has become more of a burden in their economy than a boost to their economy so now suddenly they can call out racist Indian migrants.. When are the UAE citizens making a noise against its murderous policy regarding Yemen.????Saudi Warplanes Continue Bombing YemenTEHRAN (Tasnim) – Saudi warplanes continued to carry out airstrikes against several areas across Yemen despite claims of the halt of aggression by the Riyadh regime, the spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces said Wednesday. Are Living in a Failed StateThe coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.SPECIAL PREVIEW: JUNE 2020 ISSUEStaff writer for?The AtlanticOLIVER MUNDAYWhen the virus?came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years. We had learned to live, uncomfortably, with the symptoms. It took the scale and intimacy of a pandemic to expose their severity—to shock Americans with the recognition that we are in the high-risk category. torpedoed the entire global economy to stop China's riseBy Kevin BarrettThis is very interesting news that Israel is now saying that US intelligence warned them in November about a potentially catastrophic pandemic in Wuhan, China, and apparently other US allies were also warned in November.This confirms what ABC News reported earlier this week and, of course, the Trump administration denied it. You’re not supposed to believe anything until it’s been denied maybe twice or three times. So we'll have to wait for a couple more denials before we can be sure that this is true. Australia collapses, becoming Asia’s first airline to be claimed by coronavirusVirgin Australia had already furloughed 80 per cent of its 10,000-strong workforce but will continue to operate some flights for essential workers, freight and the repatriation of AustraliansThe airline had more than A$5 billion (US$3.2 billion) in debt as of the end of 2019 deaths 41% higher than government's hospital-only figures – ONSThe total number of coronavirus-related deaths in England and Wales up to 10 April was 41% higher than the government's hospital-only figures for the same period.The new statistics, revealed in an Office for National Statistics report, take into account deaths in care homes and the community.Overall, 13,121 deaths involving?COVID-19?occurred in England and Wales up to 10 April - and registered up to 18 April - which is 41% higher than the 9,288 people who died in UK hospitals up to 10 April reported by the Department of Health.??Juan González: “Make No Mistake: This Country Is Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism”We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons at protests to demand an end to coronavirus shutdowns and are being egged on by the president. “We should make no mistake, that this country is edging closer and closer to neo-fascist authoritarianism,” says González, expressing concern these actions will become normalized in the lead-up to a bitter national election in November. ’s Patriotic Color Revolution Call, against “Unreasonable Quarantine Demands”rump caught his political opponents flatfooted when he endorsed the patriotic protests against several Democrat Governors’ unreasonable quarantine demands, channeling the nascent Color Revolution spirit nationwide to show the rest of his compatriots that he truly has the people’s support as he gradually reopens America, which was a strategic twist to World War C that also represents his greatest counterstrike against the “deep state’s” Hybrid War on his country. ???? A Government Against the PeopleLoyalty to the president is the chief qualificationThe 24/7 intensified media coverage of the coronavirus story has meant that other news has either been ignored or relegated to the back pages, never to be seen again. The Middle East has been on a boil but coverage of the Trump administration’s latest moves against Iran has been so insignificant as to be invisible. Meanwhile closer to home, the declaration by the ubiquitous Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that current president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro is a drug trafficker did generate somewhat of a ripple, as did dispatch of warships to the Caribbean to intercept the alleged drugs, but that story also died.’s Patriotic Color Revolution Call, against “Unreasonable Quarantine Demands”ByAndrew Korybko, April 21, 2020 A Government Against the PeopleBy Philip Giraldi, April 21, 2020 Defies American Naval PowerBy Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, April 21, 2020 of Speech: The Next Casualty of COVID-19?By Brett Jordan, April 21, 2020 Blames China for His Own FailingsBy Stephen Lendman, April 21, 2020 Gates Foundation’s Vaccination ActivismBy Eric Wagner, April 21, 2020 in the Desert: US Mercenaries at Syrian Base Are LeavingBy Steven Sahiounie, April 21, 2020 and China: A Case of Geopolitical MisdirectionBy Hassanal Noor Rashid, April 21, 2020 If the Lockdown Was All a Big Mistake?By Rep. Ron Paul, April 21, 2020 Capitalism: Entrenching Dispossession and DependencyBy Colin Todhunter, April 21, 2020 US Shale Oil Plunges, Trump Admin Takes Aim at VenezuelaBy Whitney Webb, April 21, 2020 Versus the People in the Era of the PandemicBy Prof Prabhat Patnaik, April 21, 2020 : Perspectives on the Pandemic by Dr. John IoannidisBy John P.A. Ioannidis and Journeyman Pictures, April 21, 2020 : Respiratory Doctor Exposes the Fake Virus PandemicBy Makia Freeman, April 21, 2020 Closes Brazil’s Embassy and Consulates in VenezuelaBy Telesur, April 21, 2020 : The Economic and Social Impact on Ocean IslandsBy Kester Kenn Klomegah, April 21, 2020 Your Bank Goes Bust…Run! Or…By Brett Redmayne-Titley, April 21, 2020 Gulf Kingdoms Are Finally Waking Up to Hindu Extremists’ Inherent IslamophobiaBy Andrew Korybko, April 21, 2020 Agribusiness Model Is FailingBy F. William Engdahl, April 21, 2020 Decade on the LeftBy Leo Panitch and Ronan Burtenshaw, April 21, 2020 Swiss Doctor on Covid-19By Swiss Propaganda Research, April 21, 2020 : COVID-19: Closing Down the Economy Is Not the SolutionBy Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 21, 2020 Distanciamento Social da DemocraciaBy Manlio Dinucci, April 21, 2020 Coronavirus Data, Fear Campaign. Spread of the COVID-19 InfectionBy Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 20, 2020 are Currently Not Measuring the Incidence of Coronavirus Diseases, but the Activity of the Specialists Searching for ThemBy Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, April 20, 2020 COVID-19 Testing Made the Problem Worse? Confusion Regarding “The True Health Impacts”By Kevin Ryan, April 20, 2020 Occupation and the Pandemic: The Coronavirus and the Conditions of Palestinian WorkersBy G.N. Nithya, April 20, 2020 ‘China Lied, People Died?’ Look Who’s Talking!ByThomas L. Knapp, April 20, 2020 Michael Sch?fer Fake news. Our german government DID NOT sent China an invoice. This is a plain lie. It was only our german tabloid BILD, which phantazised about this. But the editors of BILD, the SPRINGER publishing house, is a media outlet of the CIA. This is known in Germany since the 1970s. Please be more accurate in your reporting.? ?China furious as leading German newspaper writes out ?130BN bill for 'coronavirus damages'?GERMANY has rattled China by joining the UK, France and the US in a rare attack, after Berlin called out Beijing's responsibility for the global pandemic and a leading newspaper issued a ?130bn invoice.?By OLI SMITH?PUBLISHED: 00:01, Tue, Apr 21, 2020 | UPDATED: 11:19, Tue, Apr 21, 2020? ? is' a lie' Also:War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength & Moon made of Green Cheese????The Virus of the Lie??The US’s Failed Response to the Pandemic Is Rooted in Anti-Blackness?by J Bhattacharya, Truthout April 20, 2020?Experts Warn: Years of US Intervention Have Set the Stage for a Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak in Haiti Since 2004, successive administrations have partnered with Washington to loot Haiti, stripping away its assets to the point of collapse and leaving it woefully unprepared to face the coming pandemic.by Alan Macleod the National Security State Is Using Coronavirus to Push AI-Driven Mass Surveillance Last year a government commission called for the US to adopt an AI-driven mass surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country. Now, many of the “obstacles” cited as preventing its implementation are being removed under the guise of combating coronavirus.by Whitney Webb has the media ignored sexual assault allegations against Biden?Why are sexual assault allegations against Biden being ignored?Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has been accused of sexual assault by a former staffer. Tara Reade, who worked with Biden when he was a Delaware senator, alleges he inappropriately touched her and penetrated her with his fingers without consent in 1993. The Elephant Cries After Being Rescued Following 50 Years Of Abuse In ChainsNothing makes me cry more than hearing a story of a helpless animal that is abused. And this story is no different. For 50 years, this elephant was held captive. Read on for the full story. the elephant was left bleeding from spiked shackles and living on hand-outs from passing tourists after he was captured and tied up by his “owner”.?=ALLRaju The Elephant Cries After Being Rescued Following 50 Years Of Abuse In Chains?Fort Detrick, July-August 2019, must never be forgotten.H/T David KerstenTuesday, 6 August 2019.A timely circumstantial coincidence, is it not?And yes, it produces viruses as weapons.Research into deadly viruses and biological weapons at US army lab shut down over fears they could escapeFort Detrick researchers banned from working with anthrax, Ebola and smallpox until procedures improvedTim WyattTuesday 6 August 2019 13:19 ?America’s main biological warfare lab has been ordered to stop all research into the deadliest?viruses?and pathogens over fears contaminated waste could leak out of the facility.Fort Detrick, in Maryland, has been the epicentre of the US Army’s bioweapons research since the beginning of the Cold War.But last month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – the government’s public health body – stripped the base of its license to handle highly restricted “select agents”, which includes?Ebola,?smallpox?and?anthrax.The unusual move follows an inspection by the CDC at Fort Detrick which found several problems with new procedures used to decontaminate waste water.For years the facility used a steam sterilisation plant to treat waste water, but after a storm flooded and ruined that machinery last year, Fort Detrick switched to a new chemical-based decontamination system. Robertson Blames COVID-19 on Gays, Abortion, and Those Who Are “Anti-Israel” friendlyatheist.2020/04/20/pat-robertson-blames-covid-19-on-gays-abortion-and-those-who-are-anti-israel/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR16LRR_h_JLNqhm5nKBGwTQ45u7Rws0n8L_AjYwmBUbWbthAAQFN3SlKc0??Fully Armed Rally-Goers Enter Kentucky’s Capitol Building With Zero Resistance“I’m not a Kentucky resident… I’m a complete stranger. I walked in [and security acted like] ‘Cool, come on in. Enjoy the capitol,’” one of the gun-toting men saidBy?PETER WADE? OlsonGood morning!From Gayle Donlon-Wolfe:“In Arizona today, I stood with fellow nurses. I was called names, spit at, cigarette smoke blown in my face, called a fake nurse...I stood strong and looked very protester in the face. I cried for protesters who inevitably will get sick and increase the spread in our state. But what is more important than the tears I shed today, I stood for what is right.”????Americans like KKK can be the most selfish people. Then there are the doctors and nurses and first responders who put themselves on the line to help and save people.?=ALLMore Turkish logistic equipment, weapons to al-Dawoudia village Northern HasakaHasaka, SANA- In a new violation of the International laws and norms, Turkish occupation forces continue to bring logistic equipment and weapons into the villages and towns which Turkey and its terrorist mercenaries occupy in the countryside of Hasaka. Defies American Naval PowerBy?Lucas Leiroz de AlmeidaGlobal Research, April 21, 2020Region:?Middle East & North Africa,?USATheme:?Intelligence,?Militarization and WMD,?US NATO War AgendaIn-depth Report:?IRAN: THE NEXT WAR??10???1??0????11Iran is already beginning to challenge American naval power. The country recently reported on the development of an advanced mapping and communication network for submarines. The network consists of a complex wireless communication system called “Waza” and integrates an entire national defense project: with land and sea forces inferior to those of enemy countries, such as the United States, Iran invests in its submarine power, since it has several different classes, many of which were built by Russia decades ago and are still capable of venturing into distant waters. f you accept Western Government like USA, UK,.. story about this COVID-19 you probably believedIraq has WMD! But just hold on do you remember HYPERLINK "" Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq – Mother JonesAdvertise with?Mother JonesIllustration: John UelandAt a congressional?hearing examining the march to war in Iraq, Republican congressman Walter Jones posed “a very simple question” about the administration’s manipulation of intelligence: “How could the professionals see what was happening and nobody speak out?”THE EDITORS8/14/92Defense Secretary Dick Cheney declares President Bush Sr. wise not to invade Baghdad and “get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.”4/15/93Saddam Hussein?reportedly tries to assassinate Bush Sr.1/26/98Project for a New American Century (PNAC)—founded by Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, and other top neocons—demands President Clinton undertake the “removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime.”6/23/98“The good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States.”—Halliburton CEO Cheney8/7/98Al Qaeda bombs US embassies in Africa, killing 220 and injuring some 4,000.10/31/98Clinton signs the Iraq Liberation Act. Regime change becomes official US policy.Late 1998Gen. Anthony Zinni, head of US Central Command, examines Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi’s military plan to overthrow Saddam with 1,000 men. He warns Congress it is “pie in the sky, a fairy tale.”Nov 1999Chalabi-connected Iraqi defector “Curveball”—a convicted sex offender and low-level engineer who became the sole source for much of the case that Saddam had WMD, particularly mobile weapons labs—enters Munich seeking a German visa. German intel officers describe his information as highly suspect. US agents never debrief Curveball or perform background check. Nonetheless, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and CIA will pass raw intel on to senior policymakers.?[Date the public knew: 11/20/05]8/27/00America must not act as “an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments.”—VP candidate Cheney10/3/00Debating Al Gore, George W. Bush says he’d commit troops only with an “exit strategy,” and he’d be “very careful about using our troops as nation builders.”10/11/00In a subsequent debate, Bush says: “If we’re an arrogant nation, they’ll resent us. If we’re a humble nation, but strong, they’ll welcome us.”10/12/00Al Qaeda attacks USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 and injuring 39.11/6/00Congress doubles funding for Iraqi opposition groups to more than $25 million; $18 million is earmarked for Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, which then pays defectors for anti-Iraq tales.11/7/00Election night: Indecision 2000 begins.Nov 2000Future Chief Justice John Roberts flies to Florida to advise Jeb Bush during recount.12/12/00Supreme Court hands presidency to George W. Bush.Early 2001Enron CEO Ken Lay named to Bush Energy Department transition team. Jack Abramoff appointed to Interior Department transition team.1/30/01Saddam’s removal is top item of Bush’s inaugural national security meeting. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill later recalls, “It was all about finding a way to do it. The president saying, ‘Go find me a way to do this.'”?[Date the public knew:?1/10/04]2/11/01“Iraq is probably not a nuclear threat at the present time.”—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells Fox News’ Tony Snow2/14/01Dick Cheney‘s energy task force begins secret meetings with oil company executives.?[Date the public knew:?4/16/01]2/16/01Bush: “To send a clear signal to Saddam,” US and UK bomb targets near Baghdad.2/24/01Saddam “has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction.”—Secretary of State Colin Powell2/26/01Future Iraq Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III says: “The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism.”?[Date the public knew:?4/29/04]3/5/01Pentagon produces document titled “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts” for Cheney’s task force. Includes a map of areas for potential exploration.?[Date the public knew:?7/17/03]4/10/01Lone CIA analyst known only as “Joe” tells top Bush brass that aluminum tubes bought by Iraq can only be for nuclear centrifuges.?[Date the public knew:?8/10/03]8/6/01On vacation in Crawford, Bush receives a Presidential Daily Briefing warning, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” FBI highlights Al Qaeda activities consistent with hijacking preparations, as well as surveillance of federal buildings.?[Date the public knew:?5/18/02]CIA officer flies to Crawford to call Bush’s attention to document. Bush replies, “All right, you’ve covered your ass now.”?[Date the public knew:?6/20/06]8/10/01Major air raid on Iraq.8/17/01Memo to CIA from Energy Department experts eviscerates “Joe’s” theory that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq are for nuclear centrifuges. Memo given to National Security Adviser?Condoleezza Rice, who later claims tubes are clear evidence of Iraqi nuke program.?[Date the public knew:?5/1/04]Sep 2001Curveball granted German asylum, ceases cooperating. British spy agency MI6 has told CIA that “elements of [his] behavior strike us as typical of…fabricators.”?[Date the public knew:?11/20/05]9/10/01NSA intercepts messages that say, “The match is about to begin” and “Tomorrow is zero hour.” Not translated until Sept. 12.?[Date the public knew:?6/10/02]9/11/01Al Qaeda attacks. Minutes taken by a Rumsfeld aide five hours later: “Best info fast. Judge whether good enough [to] hit SH [Saddam Hussein] @ same time. Not only UBL [Usama bin Laden].”?[Date the public knew:?9/4/02]9/12/01According to counterterror czar Richard Clarke, “[Bush] told us, ‘I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this.'” Told evidence against Al Qaeda overwhelming, Bush asks for “any shred” Saddam was involved.?[Date the public knew:?3/22/04]9/17/01Bush wants Osama “Dead or Alive.”9/18/01Anthrax attacks begin.9/18/01In a move a federal judge will later call “conscience-shocking,” EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman says area around Ground Zero is safe and encourages residents to return.9/18/01Chalabi meets with top DOD officials.?[Date the public knew: 5/04]9/19/01Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, chaired by Richard Perle and featuring Henry Kissinger and Newt Gingrich, declares that Iraq should be invaded after Afghanistan.?[Date the public knew:?10/12/01]9/20/01British PM Tony Blair advises Bush not to lose focus on Al Qaeda. Bush replies: “I agree with you, Tony. But when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq.”?[Date the public knew:?5/1/04]9/20/01PNAC letter to Bush: “Even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.”?[Date the public knew:?9/21/01]9/21/01Bush briefed by intel community that there is no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11.?[Date the public knew:?11/22/05]9/21/01Justice Department lawyer?John Yoo?declares Fourth Amendment flexible, writing: “[T]he government may be justified in taking measures which in less troubled conditions could be seen as infringements of individual liberties.”?[Date the public knew:?10/24/04]9/25/01Yoo forges doctrine of preemption, writing that Bush may use his war powers to act against groups or individuals, even if it would be “difficult to establish [that they] have been or may be implicated in attacks.”?[Date the public knew:?3/22/02]Oct 2001Rumsfeld sets up own intelligence unit to look for Iraqi links to terrorism.?[Date the public knew:?10/24/04]Oct-Nov 2001Prisoners rendered to Egypt and Jordan. After prolonged torture and subsequent years of imprisonment at Guantánamo, some of these same prisoners are found to have no terror connection and released.?[Date the public knew:?6/27/06]10/7/01Afghanistan invaded.10/8/01Office of Homeland Security established.10/11/01Terror alert: Terrorists could attack unspecified targets in “next several days.”10/25/01Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act passes 98-1 in the Senate.10/30/01Head of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announces, “We believe the United States could very well be targeted this week.”11/8/01The?New York Times?and?Frontline?report that an Iraqi general witnessed the Iraqi military training Arab fighters to hijack airplanes.?Mother Jones?later reports general to be bogus Chalabi plant.?[Date the public knew:?3/1/06]11/11/01Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, top Al Qaeda paramilitary trainer, captured in Pakistan.11/21/01Bush collars Rumsfeld physically and asks: “What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq? What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret.”—Bob Woodward.?[Date the public knew:?4/18/04]11/24/01“American Taliban” John Walker Lindh captured.11/26/01Bush declares, “Saddam is evil.”Late Nov 2001Osama bin Laden, pinned down at Tora Bora, slips away.12/2/01Enron declares bankruptcy.12/3/01Terror alert.12/9/01Cheney on?Meet the Press: “Well, the evidence is pretty conclusive that the Iraqis have indeed harbored terrorists.” Also claims 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi spy in Prague, a claim he’ll repeat long after CIA and Czechs disavow.12/12/01Rumsfeld demands plan for war against Iraq. Gen. Tommy Franks proposes softening up Iraq: “I’m thinking in terms of spikes, Mr. Secretary. Spurts of activity followed by periods of inactivity.”?[Date the public knew:?8/3/04]12/22/01Shoe bomber?Richard Reid?tries to blow up an AA flight from Paris to Miami.12/28/01Gen. Franks briefs Bush on Iraq war plans.?[Date the public knew: 3/5/03]Early 2002Bush approves “The Program,” which permits NSA to surveil US citizens without a warrant, court approval, or signoff from the Justice Dept.?[Date the public knew: 12/16/05]Jan 2002The FBI, which favors standard law enforcement interrogation practices, loses debate with CIA Director?George Tenet, and Libi is transferred to CIA custody. Libi is then rendered to Egypt. “They duct-taped his mouth, cinched him up and sent him to Cairo,” an FBI agent told reporters. “At the airport the CIA case officer goes up to him and says, ‘You’re going to Cairo, you know. Before you get there, I am going to find your mother and I’m going to fuck her.'”?[Date the public knew: 6/13/04]?Under torture, Libi invents tale of Al Qaeda operatives receiving chemical weapons training from Iraq. “This is the problem with using the waterboard. They get so desperate that they begin telling you what they think you want to hear,” a CIA source later tells ABC.?[Date the public knew: 11/18/05]1/9/02Yoo memo to Pentagon brass declares that the laws of war, including the Geneva Conventions, do not apply to the conflict in Afghanistan.?[Date the public knew: 5/24/04]1/11/02William Howard Taft IV, the State Department’s chief legal adviser, responds to Yoo: “Your position is, at this point, erroneous in its substance and untenable in practice. Let’s talk.”1/11/02First 20 detainees?arrive at Guantanamo.1/22/02Navy photo released showing detainees bound and hooded. Rumsfeld defends the detentions of “committed terrorists.”1/23/02Pakistani militants kidnap?Wall Street Journal?reporter Daniel Pearl.1/25/02White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales echoes Yoo: “In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.”?[Date the public knew:?4/26/04]1/27/02Cheney calls Gitmo detainees “the worst of a very bad lot. They are very dangerous. They are devoted to killing millions of Americans.”1/29/02Bush delivers “Axis of Evil” State of the Union. Speechwriter David Frum later says phrase was the fruit of being asked: “Can you sum up in a sentence or two our best case for going after Iraq?”?[Date the public knew: 1/8/03]Early Feb 2002Daniel Pearl beheaded.?[Date the public knew: 2/21/02]Feb 2002“I was asked by one of the senior commanders of Central Command to go into his office. We did, the door was closed, and he turned to me, and he said, ‘Senator, we have stopped fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan. We are moving military and intelligence personnel and resources out of Afghanistan to get ready for a future war in Iraq.'”—Sen. Bob Graham.?[Date the public knew: 3/26/04]Feb 2002DIA intelligence summary notes that Libi’s “confession” lacks details and suggests that he is most likely telling interrogators what he thinks will “retain their interest.” Also states: “Saddam’s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control.”?[Date the public knew: 10/26/05]2/7/02Presidential directive defines Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees as “enemy combatants” exempt from prisoner-of-war protections.2/12/02With “profound sadness,” Ken Lay refuses to testify before Congress.2/12/02Attorney General?John Ashcroft?calls on “all Americans to be on the highest state of alert.”2/13/02Total Information Awareness program leaked.2/26/02Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson sent to Niger to check out claims Iraq buying uranium-rich yellowcake.?[Date the public knew: 7/6/03]March 2002“Fuck Saddam. We’re taking him out.”—Bush to Rice and three senators.?[Date the public knew:?12/8/03]March 2002As?The New Yorker?later reports: “Chalabi’s defector reports were now flowing from the Pentagon directly to the Vice President’s office, and then on to the President, with little prior evaluation by intelligence professionals.”?[Date the public knew: 10/27/03]3/5/02Joe Wilson?tells CIA there’s no indication that Iraq is buying yellowcake.?[Date the public knew: 7/6/03]3/8/02First of Downing Street memos prepared by Tony Blair’s top national security aides. “There is no greater threat now than in recent years that Saddam will use WMD…Washington believes the legal basis for an attack on Iraq already exists…Regime change has no basis in international law.”?[Date the public knew: 9/18/04]3/12/02Color-coded terror alert system introduced.3/13/02Bush on Osama: “I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.”3/14/02Downing Street memo: “Condi’s enthusiasm for regime change is undimmed…Bush has yet to find the answers to the big questions…what happens the morning after?”?[Date the public knew: 9/18/04]3/15/02British intel reports that there’s only “sporadic and patchy” evidence of Iraqi WMD. “There is no intelligence on any [biological weapons] production facilities.”?[Date the public knew: 9/18/04]3/22/02Downing Street memo: “US scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and Al Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing…We are still left with a problem of bringing public opinion to accept the imminence of a threat from Iraq…Regime change does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam.”?[Date the public knew: 9/18/04]3/24/02Saddam “is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time.”—Cheney on CNN3/25/02Downing Street memo: “There has been no credible evidence to link Iraq with Al Qaida…In the documents so far presented it has been hard to glean whether the threat from Iraq is so significantly different from that of Iran or North Korea as to justify action.” [Date the public knew: 9/18/04]Late March 2002Cheney tells Republican senators that the question is no longer if the US will invade Iraq but when.?[Date the public knew: 5/5/02]3/28/02Pakistani forces capture Al Qaeda “operations chief ” Abu Zubaydah and CIA ferrets him away to underground interrogation facility in Thailand. Bush told he’s mentally unstable and really only Al Qaeda’s travel agent.?[Date the public knew: 11/2/05]4/4/02Blair visits Bush in Crawford to discuss Iraq. Bush tells Britain’s ITV: “I made up my mind that Saddam needs to go.”4/8/02Bush promotes “Operation TIPS” program to turn postal workers, bus drivers, meter readers, and even lobstermen into freelance government spies.4/9/02Bush calls Zubaydah one of “top operating officials of Al Qaeda, plotting…murder.” Later asks Tenet, “I said he was important; you’re not going to let me lose face on this are you?…Do some of those harsh methods really work?” Zubaydah is then tortured and speaks of all variety of plots.?[Date the public knew: 6/20/06]4/11/02Hugo Chávez?briefly removed from power in Venezuela in a US-endorsed coup.May 2002Primary corroborator of Curveball’s claims that Iraq has mobile weapons labs is judged a liar and Chalabi plant by DIA. A fabricator warning is posted in US intelligence databases.?[Date the public knew: 3/28/04]5/8/02Jose Padilla?arrested at O’Hare airport.?[Date the public knew: 6/10/02]5/18/02The 2001 “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” warning leaked to press.5/20/02FBI Director Robert Mueller says another terrorist attack “inevitable.”5/21/02Asked if he has a plan to attack Iraq, Gen. Franks replies: “That’s a great question…my boss has not yet asked me to put together a plan to do that.”5/21/02Based on statements made by Zubaydah, FBI warns of attacks against railroads, Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, and rushes agents to sites.?[Date the public knew: 6/20/06]5/23/02Bush states opposition to 9/11 hearings. Senate subcommittee votes to subpoena administration about Enron.5/24/02FBI warns of Memorial Day attacks by scuba divers.Summer 2002French debunk yellowcake theory: “We told the Americans, ‘Bullshit. It doesn’t make any sense,'” says French official.?[Date the public knew: 12/11/05]June 2002To a deputy raising doubts about Iraq war, Rice says: “Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind.”?[Date the public knew: 1/7/04]June 2002Iraq bombing begins. Military will fly 21,736 sorties and attack 349 targets between now and the start of the war.6/4/02Karl Rove and GOP chair Ken Mehlman’s PowerPoint presentation for midterm strategy highlights “Focus on War and Economy.”6/6/02Coleen Rowley, the FBI agent who tried to alert her superiors to flight training taken by Zacarias Moussaoui, testifies before Congress.6/10/02In midst of 9/11 hearings, Ashcroft interrupts trip to Russia to announce arrest of Padilla, who’s now accused of “dirty bomb” plot. Declared an enemy combatant, he’ll be held four years without access to court system.Mid-2002Cheney and?Scooter Libby?begin meeting directly with CIA analysts.?[Date the public knew: 6/5/03]July 2002Gen. Franks secretly requests $700 million for war preparations. Bush approves, unbeknownst to Congress. Money taken from appropriation for the war in Afghanistan.?[Date the public knew: 4/18/04]7/11/02“Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.”—Richard Perle7/15/02Despite indications he was tortured into confession, Lindh cops to 20 years.7/23/02Downing Street memo written by foreign secretary after his visit with CIA’s Tenet and other US officials: “There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable…The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy…The most likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections.”?[Date the public knew: 5/1/05]Aug 2002White House Iraq Group created to market war. Members include Rove, Libby, Rice, as well as spinmeisters Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin.?[Date the public knew: 8/10/03]8/1/02Justice Department memo asserts that Bush’s wartime powers supersede international anti-torture laws and treaties, defines torture as only that which is “equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.”?[Date the public knew: 6/8/04]8/7/02Bush given Iraq war plan by Gen. Franks.8/20/02“We may or may not attack. I have no idea yet.”—Bush. “There are Al Qaeda in Iraq…There are.”—Rumsfeld.8/26/02“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends…and against us.” —Cheney8/26/02Newsweek?reports prisoners abused by US allies in Afghanistan.Sep 2002Bombing against Iraq intensifies.Sep 2002Tyler Drumheller, CIA’s European operations chief, calls German Embassy in Washington seeking access to Curveball. Germans warn he’s “crazy” and “probably a fabricator.”?[Date the public knew: 11/20/05]9/3/02Bush asks skeptical congressional leadership to support action against Iraq.9/5/02Upon hearing from Tenet that no National Intelligence Estimate had been produced to assess justification for war, Sen. Graham demands one.9/7/02“From a marketing point of view you don’t introduce new products in August.”—White House Chief of Staff Andy Card on rollout of the war9/7/02Bush claims a new UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report states Iraq is six months from developing a nuclear weapon. There is no such report.9/8/02Page 1?Times?story by?Judith Miller?and Michael Gordon cites anonymous administration officials saying Saddam has repeatedly tried to acquire aluminum tubes “specially designed” to enrich uranium. “The first sign of a ‘smoking gun,’ they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.”9/8/02Tubes “are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs…we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”—Rice on CNN9/8/02“We do know, with absolute certainty, that he is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.”—Cheney on?Meet the Press9/10/02Orange terror alert.9/11/02Bush marks 9/11 with Statue of Liberty backdrop.9/12/02Bush repeats aluminum-tube claim before UN General Assembly.9/13/02Cheney tells Rush Limbaugh: “What’s happening, of course, is we’re getting additional information that, in fact, Hussein is reconstituting his biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons programs.” There is no such new intel.9/16/02“The president hasn’t made a decision to do anything with respect to Iraq.”—Rumsfeld9/16/02White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey estimates Iraq war could cost $200 billion.Mid-Sep 2002American relatives of Iraqis sent as CIA moles return from Iraq. All 30 report Saddam has abandoned WMD programs. Intel buried in the CIA bureaucracy. President Bush never briefed.?[Date the public knew: 1/3/06]9/18/02Bush calls Saddam’s offer to let inspectors back into Iraq “his latest ploy.”9/19/02Rumsfeld tells Congress that Saddam “has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin, and mustard gas.”9/19/02Classified UK memo notes there’s “no definitive intelligence that [the aluminum tubes are] destined for a nuclear programme.”?[Date the public knew: 9/24/02]9/23/02Institute for Science and International Security releases report calling the aluminum- tube intelligence ambiguous and warning that “U.S. nuclear experts who dissent from the Administration’s position are expected to remain silent. ‘The President has said what he has said, end of story,’ one knowledgeable expert said.”9/24/02Britain releases dossier to public saying Iraq could launch biological or chemical attack within 45 minutes. Dossier later determined to be “sexed up.”9/25/02“You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror.”—Bush9/25/02Citing Libi intel, Rice says: “High-ranking detainees have said that Iraq provided some training to Al Qaeda in chemical weapons development.”9/26/02Classified DIA assessment of Iraq’s chemical weapons concludes there is “no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons.”?[Date the public knew: 5/30/03]9/26/02In a Rose Garden speech, Bush says: “The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons.”9/26/02In a speech in Houston, Bush says of Saddam: “After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad.”9/27/02Rumsfeld calls link between Iraq and Al Qaeda “accurate and not debatable.”9/28/02Bush’s address to nation: “The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more, and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given.”Oct 2002National Intelligence Estimate produced. It warns that Iraq “is reconstituting its nuclear program” and “has now established large-scale, redundant and concealed BW agent production capabilities”—an assessment based largely on Curveball’s statements. But NIE also notes that the State Department has assigned “low confidence” to the notion of “whether in desperation Saddam would share chemical or biological weapons with Al Qaeda.” Cites State Department experts who concluded that “the tubes are not intended for use in Iraq’s nuclear weapons program.” Also says “claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa” are “highly dubious.” Only six senators bother to read all 92 pages.?[Date the public knew: 7/18/03]Oct 2002Administration decides not to take out?Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?because, though he is not yet working with Al Qaeda, any terrorist in Iraq helps case for war. “People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” a former NSC member later says.?[Date the public knew: 3/2/04]Oct 2-24, 2002DC-area sniper attacks.10/4/02Asked by Sen. Graham to make gist of NIE public, Tenet produces 25-page document titled “Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs.” It says Saddam has them and omits dissenting views contained in the classified NIE.10/4/02Knight Ridder reports: “Several senior administration officials and intelligence officers, all of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity, charged that the decision to publicize one analysis of the aluminum tubes and ignore the contrary one is typical of the way the administration has been handling intelligence about Iraq.”10/6/02NSC memo to White House warning of the Niger uranium claim: “The evidence is weak…the Africa story is overblown.”?[Date the public knew: 4/23/06]10/7/02Bush delivers a speech in which he says, “Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof—the smoking gun—that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” Also says Iraq is exploring ways of using drones to target the US, although Iraq’s drones have a reach of only 300 miles.10/7/02CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin, writing for Tenet, sends a letter to Congress declaring that the likelihood of Saddam using WMD unless attacked is “very low.”?[Date the public knew: 10/8/02]10/8/02Knight Ridder reports: “[A] growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war. These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses…’Analysts at the working level in the intelligence community are feeling very strong pressure from the Pentagon to cook the intelligence books,’ said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.”10/11/02Congress—including all serious Democratic contenders—votes to grant Bush power to go to war.10/16/02Bush tells public, “I have not ordered the use of force. I hope the use of force will not become necessary.”10/20/02Saddam empties prisons.10/21/02In Lackawanna, New York, six American citizens of Yemeni descent are hyped as a “sleeper cell” and indicted on terror charges despite scant evidence.Nov 2002CIA station chiefs from Middle East gather for a secret meeting at the US Embassy in London. The message: War is inevitable, just a few months away.?[Date the public knew: 1/3/06]Nov 2002At largest CIA prison in Afghanistan, code-named Salt Pit, a case officer orders guards to strip a young detainee naked, chain him to the concrete floor, and leave him overnight. He freezes to death.?[Date the public knew: 3/3/05]11/5/02GOP gains control of Senate.11/7/02“War is not my first choice. It’s my last choice.”—Bush11/8/02UN Security Council passes Resolution 1441 offering Iraq “a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations.” Iraq agrees and UN weapons inspectors return.11/14/02Rumsfeld handicaps war length: “Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”11/25/02Bush elevates Homeland Security Department to Cabinet.11/27/02Weapons inspections begin in Iraq.12/2/02Rumsfeld?signs off on “Category III” interrogation techniques including “the use of scenarios designed to convince the detainee that death or severely painful consequences are imminent for him and/or his family.” It is later shown that these methods are torture as defined in US federal law, and that DOD knew that at the time. [Date the public knew: 6/22/04]12/6/02White House sacks Lindsey over war cost estimates.12/7/02Iraq submits a 12,200-page declaration to the UN documenting all its unconventional arms. US discredits the report because it does not mention the tubes or the Niger uranium.12/21/02Asked by Bush if there’s any reason to doubt existence of WMD, Tenet says: “It’s a slam-dunk case.”?[Date the public knew: 4/17/04]12/31/02New war cost estimate generated: $50-$60 billion.12/31/02“You said we’re headed to war in Iraq. I don’t know why you say that…I’m the person who gets to decide, not you.”—Bush to press corpsJan 2003CIA balks at being made to bolster weak WMD intel. In a heated conversation with Scooter Libby, CIA’s McLaughlin says: “I’m not going back to the well on this. We’ve done our work.”?[Date the public knew: 10/3/05]Jan 2003Faith-based czar John DiIulio dubs Bushies “Mayberry Machiavellis.”Jan 2003National Intelligence Council warns Bush that war in Iraq could lead to an anti-US insurgency and “increase popular sympathy for terrorist objectives.”?[Date the public knew: 10/30/04]1/3/03“The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American.”—Bush1/9/03Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N.’s IAEA, echoes DOE’s view that the aluminum tubes sought by Iraq are likely for artillery rockets, not centrifuges. A senior Bush official responds, “I think the Iraqis are spinning the IAEA.”1/9/03After nearly two months, UN’s?Hans Blix?says his inspectors have not found any “smoking guns” in Iraq.1/11/03Bush tells Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar?that he plans to go to war two days before he tells Secretary Powell.?[Date the public knew: 4/18/04]1/20/03Bush signs presidential directive giving Pentagon control over postwar Iraq.1/24/03IAEA tells?Washington Post, “It may be technically possible that the tubes could be used to enrich uranium, but you’d have to believe that Iraq deliberately ordered the wrong stock and intended to spend a great deal of time and money reworking each piece.”1/27/03UN press release: “It would appear…Iraq had decided in principle to…bring the disarmament task to completion through the peaceful process of inspection.” Weapons inspectors have examined 106 locations and found “no evidence that Iraq had revived its nuclear weapons programme.”1/28/03In State of the Union, Bush says “the 16 words”: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” Bush adds Saddam has “tried to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production” and has “mobile biological weapons labs.”1/29/03“Iraq poses a serious and mounting threat to our country.”—Rumsfeld1/31/03Notes of meeting between Bush and Blair make clear Bush intends to invade Iraq even if UN inspectors found no evidence of WMD. Bush told Blair he’d considered “flying U2 reconnaissance planes…over Iraq, painted in UN colours” to tempt Iraqi forces to fire on them, which would constitute a breach of UN resolutions.?[Date the public knew: 2/3/06]2/1/03During UN speech rehearsal, Powell throws draft written by Libby into the air and says: “I’m not reading this. This is bullshit.”?[Date the public knew: 6/9/03]2/4/03After reading draft of Powell’s speech, CIA agent emails his superior with concerns about “the validity of the information based on ‘CURVE BALL.'” Noting he’s the only US agent to have ever met Curveball (who was hung over at the time), the agent asks: “We sure didn’t give much credence to this report when it came out. Why now?” Deputy head of CIA’s Iraqi Task Force responds: “Let’s keep in mind the fact that this war’s going to happen regardless of what Curveball said or didn’t say…the Powers That Be probably aren’t terribly interested in whether Curveball knows what he’s talking about.”?[Date the public knew: 7/9/04]2/4/03CIA’s Drumheller makes personal appeal to Tenet to delete Curveball’s intel from UN speech.?Date the public knew: 6/25/062/4/03Powell asks Tenet to personally assure intel for speech is good. Tenet does.?[Date the public knew: 6/25/06]2/5/03In UN speech, Powell says, “Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.” Cites Libi’s claims and Curveball’s “eyewitness” accounts of mobile weapons labs. (German officer who supervised Curveball’s handler will later recall thinking, “Mein Gott!”) Powell also claims that Saddam’s son Qusay has ordered WMD removed from palace complexes; that key WMD files are being driven around Iraq by intelligence agents; that bioweapons warheads have been hidden in palm groves; that a water truck at an Iraqi military installation is a “decontamination vehicle” for chemical weapons; that Iraq has drones it can use for bioweapons attacks; and that WMD experts have been corralled into one of Saddam’s guest houses. All but the last of those claims had been flagged by the State Department’s own intelligence unit as “WEAK.”?[Date the public knew: 7/18/03]2/6/03Reiterating Powell’s claim, Bush says an Iraqi drone loaded with bioweapons could strike US mainland. The US Air Force is on the record as saying that “the small size of Iraq’s new UAV strongly suggests a primary role of reconnaissance.”?[Date the public knew: 9/26/03]2/7/03Rumsfeld ups war length estimate: “It could last…six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”2/7/03Three State Department bureau chiefs prepare a secret memo warning that “serious planning gaps for postconflict public security and humanitarian assistance…could result in serious human rights abuses, which would undermine an otherwise successful military campaign, and our reputation internationally.”?[Date the public knew: 8/18/05]2/7/03As anti-war demonstrations increase, DHS Secretary Ridge warns of Al Qaeda “credible threats” and raises the terror alert level to orange.2/8/03UN’s Team Bravo, led by American bioweapons experts, searches Curveball’s former work site in Iraq and disproves many of his claims.?[Date the public knew: 11/20/05]2/8/03In radio address to the nation, Bush warns that “firsthand witnesses [read: Curveball] have informed us that Iraq has at least seven mobile factories” for germ warfare.2/10/03DHS advises Americans to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape to protect themselves against radiological or biological attack.2/14/03Blix again tells UN Security Council that Iraq appears to be cooperating with inspectors.2/15/03Largest demonstrations in history. In 600 cities worldwide, millions protest war.2/20/03Rumsfeld: “There is no question but that [the invasion] would be welcomed.” Later says: “Never said that. Never did…You may remember it well, but you’re thinking of somebody else.”2/23/03“UN weapons inspectors are being seriously deceived…It reminds me of the way the Nazis hoodwinked Red Cross officials.”—Perle2/25/03Gen. Eric Shinseki tells Congress “several hundred thousand troops” will be needed to occupy Iraq. Rumsfeld retaliates, naming Shinseki’s successor 14 months before the end of his term.2/27/03US diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigns, citing the “distortion of intelligence” and “systematic manipulation of American opinion.”2/27/03Wolfowitz tells congressional hearing: “I am reasonably certain that they will greet us as liberators…the notion of hundreds of thousands of American troops is way off the mark.”3/1/03Iraq destroys four missiles, meeting a UN deadline to begin disarming.3/3/03IAEA official tells US that the Niger uranium documents were forgeries so error-filled that “they could be spotted by someone using Google.”3/7/03US, Britain, and Spain present a revised draft resolution giving Saddam an ultimatum to disarm by March 17 or face the possibility of war. France refuses to sign on to ultimatum.3/7/03Blix tells UN Security Council that there’s “no evidence” of mobile bioweapons facilities in Iraq.3/7/03“After three months of intrusive inspections, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq.”—IAEA’s ElBaradei3/8/03On CNN, Joe Wilson says, “I think it’s safe to say that the US government should have or did know that [the Niger documents were] fake before Dr. ElBaradei mentioned it in his report at the UN yesterday.” Decision to discredit Wilson made at a meeting within the Office of the Vice President.?[Date the public knew: 5/3/04]3/8/03“We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq.”—Bush3/15/03Bush,?Tony Blair, and Spain’s president have “emergency summit.” Bush gives UN one day to find a diplomatic solution.3/16/03Cheney on?Meet the Press: “We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.” (Cheney later claims he misspoke.) Adds, “I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators.”3/17/03Threat level elevated to orange.3/17/03US and UK fail to secure UN resolution authorizing use of force. Bush gives Saddam 48 hours to surrender.3/18/03Washington Post?article headlined “Bush Clings to Dubious Allegations About Iraq” notes, “As the Bush administration prepares to attack Iraq this week, it is doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that have been challenged—and in some cases disproved—by the United Nations, European governments and even U.S. intelligence reports.” Story is buried on Page A13.??And a plane hit the Pentagon..!??Why does the USA have more Corona cases than any other country?????Hypothesis PHD RESEARCH- Did CIA released the virus in Wuhan to push the elite depopulation agenda, test biological weapons on the public and also slow down China from becoming the only superpower.That market in wuhan exists for centuries. Never a virus. And now suddenly COVID-19.In 1997, the National Research Council revealed that the US also used chemicals to test the potential of biological weapons in the 1950s. Zinc cadmium sulphide was dispersed by plane and sprayed over a number of cities, including St Louis in Missouri and Minneapolis in Minnesota.The US has a history of testing biological weapons on the public – were infected ticks used too?? and over again, the military has conducted dangerous biowarfare experiments on AmericansKevin Loria Sep 25, 2016, 9:00 PM? into deadly viruses and biological weapons at US army lab shut down over fears they could escape?. Admits Bio-Weapons Tests? Foundation's Seed Agenda in Africa 'Another Form of Colonialism,' Warns Protesters'This neoliberal agenda of deregulation and privatization poses a serious threat to food sovereignty and the ability of food producers and consumers to define their own food systems and policies,' says campaigners the GMO mutations in Africa and beyond.????A conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration’s Iraqi WMD.??With COVID-19 we see another invisible virus in our soul “A database of racist incidents against Asian Australians has received 178 responses in two weeks, as Queensland police also condemned a rise in anti-Asian racism during the Covid-19 pandemic.The survey, launched by community group Asian Australian Alliance, has received 12 reports a day since 2 April, ranging from racial slurs to physical assault.The majority of racist incidents were committed against women (62%) and 86.5% of in-person racist incidents were committed by strangers, according to the survey.On Wednesday, Queensland police announced there had been 22 incidents of racially-motivated offences against Asian Australians in recent weeks – including robberies, assaults and verbal abuse.In one case, a 15-year-old girl was charged by police for allegedly punching a 26-year-old woman in the face in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall after she accused her of having Covid-19." and other drags killed more people in the US yesterday than COVID-19 virus but we don’t see that trending everywhere at all.????Anyone else experienced this glitch??The glitch is that you selected to show most relevant and not show all comments?Jan Martin?Its idiots like you Diane Hume who is poisoned by the toxic Western Media and believe garbage on countries who rightfully refuses to bow to the US and its lap dogsKim Jong Un in 'grave danger' after surgery Compares US to a ‘Primitive Society’ Over Handling of COVID-19??David Kersten?·?Dutton has simply done what Washington has instructed all its lackeys to do.Frydenberg drew the short straw and has been selected to back up Dutton.Morrison gets to stay clear of the ruckus with his "there, there" platitudes.Australian politics. 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