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"neither the United Kingdom nor the United States had the intelligence that proved conclusively that Iraq had those weapons. The Prime Minister was disingenuous about that. The United Kingdom intelligence community told him on 23 August 2002 that, “we ... know little about Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons work since late 1988”. The Prime Minister did not tell us that. Indeed, he told Parliament only just over a month later that the picture painted by our intelligence services was “extensive, detailed and authoritative”. Those words could simply not have been justified by the material that the intelligence community provided to him." Lord Butler of Brockwell 22 Feb 2007 : Column 1231 Lords Hansard "I am aware, of course, that people will have to take elements of this on the good faith of our intelligence services, but this is what they are telling me, the British Prime Minister, and my senior colleagues. The intelligence picture that they paint is one accumulated over the last four years. It is extensive, detailed and authoritative. It concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population, and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability." Hansard House Of Commons Debates 24th September 2002 Col 3 Tony Blair Blair planned Iraq war from start Michael Smith Sunday May 01 2005, The Sunday Times "In order that the committee is as objective and non-partisan as possible, the membership of the committee will consist entirely of non-partisan public figures acknowledged to be experts and leaders in their fields. There will be no representatives of political parties from either side of this House. I can announce that the committee of inquiry will be chaired by Sir John Chilcot and it will include Baroness Usha Prashar, Sir Roderick Lyne, Sir Lawrence Freedman and Sir Martin Gilbert. All are, or will become, Privy Counsellors. The committee will start work as soon as possible after the end of July. Given the complexity of the issues it will address, I am advised that it will take a year" Hansard House Of Commons Debates 15 June 2009 Col 24 PM Gordon Brown "The President. I'm not trying to characterize threats. The threat is a vicious aggression against Kuwait, and that speaks for itself. And anything collaterally is just simply more indication that these are outlaws, international outlaws and renegades" 1990 Aug 5 Su Bush (George) Remarks by President Bush ("This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait") Margaret Thatcher Foundation Did the US betray the Iraqis in 1991 By Lev Grossman Monday, April 7, 2003 CNN "What I want to do today is draw the House’s attention to an allegation by Ron Suskind, a United States investigative author, in his book “The Way of the World”. Mr. Suskind’s information is based on conversations that he had with none other than Sir Richard Dearlove, head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, and his deputy Nigel Inkster. From those conversations, Mr. Suskind learned that one of the United Kingdom’s top agents, Michael Shipster, actually met—in Amman in 2003, just before the war—Tahir Jalil Habbush, who was Saddam Hussein’s head of intelligence. Apparently, Mr. Habbush was a well-established source of intelligence. I should be interested to know what has happened to him, because he is not one of the members of Saddam Hussein’s former regime who have been apprehended or brought to justice in any way. In fact, it has been suggested that he has been protected by western intelligence sources. Mr. Habbush told Michael Shipster that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, and that far from seeking to conceal the presence of such weapons, he actually wanted to conceal their absence because he was more concerned about a possible invasion from Iran than about an invasion from the United States. The sources of that information—Richard Dearlove and Nigel Inkster—have queried the exact recollection of those conversations, but they have not denied the substance of the allegation that one of our top agents obtained information that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. It would appear that that intelligence was ignored, and we also know from other sources—such as Brian Jones, the former branch head in the Defence Intelligence Staff, and more recently, as mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice), Carne Ross, who was First Secretary at the United Nations for the Foreign Office until 2004—that there are lots of facts in the run-up to the Iraq war that have yet to come to light" Hansard House Of Commons Debates 25 march 2009 Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak) Col 361 "Once my report had been circulated to members of the Security Council, I received a telephone call from U.S. Ambassador Peter Burleigh inviting me for a private conversation at the U.S. mission. As he had less than five weeks before, Burleigh informed me that on instructions from Washington it would be ‘prudent to take measures to ensure the safety and security of UNSCOM staff presently in Iraq.’ The United States had begun measures to reduce its staff levels in embassies throughout the region, and British authorities were doing the same. Repeating a familiar script, I told him that I would act on this advice and remove my staff from Iraq." Saddam defiant : the threat of weapons of mass destruction and the crisis of global security by Richard Butler (UNSCOM) Page 224 A failure of intelligence: Former Ministry of defence WMD intelligence analyst Dr Brian Jones Former Ministry of defence WMD intelligence analyst Dr Brian Jones BBC One 9th of July 2004 "According to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Washington, who was at the dinner, Blair told Bush he should not get distracted from the war on terror's initial goal - dealing with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Bush, claims Meyer, replied by saying: 'I agree with you, Tony. We must deal with this first. But when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq.'" Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war Decision came nine days after 9/11 Ex-ambassador reveals discussion David Rose Sun 4 Apr 2004 "The Prime Minister: We believe that the sanctions regime has effectively contained Saddam Hussein in the last 10 years. During this time he has not attacked his neighbours, nor used chemical weapons against his own people." House Of Commons 1 November 2000 Written Answer Col 511 W Tony Blair "On Iraq I opened by sticking very closely to the script that you used with Rice last week. We backed regime change, but the plan had to be clever and failure was not an option. It.would be a tough sell for us domestically, and probably tougher elsewhere in Europe. The US could go it alone if it wanted to. But if it wanted to act with partners there had to be a strategy for building support for military action against Saddam… Wolfowitz said that he fully agreed. He took a slightly different position from others in the Administration, who were focussed on Saddam's capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction. The WMD danger was of course crucial to the public case against Saddam, particularly the potential linkage to terrorism. But Wolfowitz thought it indispensable to spell out in detail Saddam's barbarism. This was well documented from what he had done during the occupation of Kuwait, the incursion into Kurdish territory, the assault on the Marsh Arabs and to his own people. A lot of work had been done on this towards the end of the first Bush administration. Wolfowitz thought that this would go a long way to destroying any notion of moral equivalence between Iraq and Israel." Christopher Meyer to David Manning, “Iraq and Afghanistan: Conversation with Wolfowitz,” memo, March 18, 2001 Document 6 "I read the available UK and US intelligence on Iraq every working day for the four and a half years of my posting. This daily briefing would often comprise a thick folder of material, both humint and sigint. I also talked often and at length about Iraq’s WMD to the international experts who comprised the inspectors of UNSCOM/UNMOVIC, whose views I would report to London. In addition, I was on many occasions asked to offer views in contribution to Cabinet Office assessments, including the famous WMD dossier (whose preparation began some time before my departure in June 2002)." Carne Ross: Testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry, 12 July 2010 Iraq Inquiry Page 13 "When I was briefed in London at the end of 1997 in preparation for my posting, I was told that we did not believe that Iraq had any significant WMD. The key argument therefore to maintain sanctions was that Iraq had failed to provide convincing evidence of destruction of its past stocks. Iraq’s ability to launch a WMD or any form of attack was very limited. There were approx 12 or so unaccounted-for Scud missiles; Iraq’s airforce was depleted to the point of total ineffectiveness; its army was but a pale shadow of its earlier might; there was no evidence of any connection between Iraq and any terrorist organisation that might have planned an attack using Iraqi WMD (I do not recall any occasion when the question of a terrorist connection was even raised in UK/US discussions or UK internal debates). There was moreover no intelligence or assessment during my time in the job that Iraq had any intention to launch an attack against its neighbours or the UK or US" Carne Ross: Testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry, 12 July 2010 Iraq Inquiry Page 14 "I mean, there is a reason why weapons inspectors went in there, and that is because we know he has been developing these weapons. We know that those weapons constitute a threat." For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary April 6, 2002 President Bush, Prime Minister Blair Hold Press Conference Remarks by President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair in Joint Press Availability Crawford High School Crawford, Texas "Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also." Middle East Volume 383: debated on Wednesday 10 April 2002 PM Tony Blair “By linking these countries together in his ‘axis of evil’ speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea" Minute Straw to Prime Minister, 25 March 2002, ‘Crawford/Iraq’ Page 2 "On the WMD Programmes of Concern paper, the Foreign Secretary commented: "Good, but should not Iraq be first and also have more text? The paper has to show why there is an exceptional threat from Iraq. It does not quite do this yet."" FOI305712 WMD PROGRAMMES OF CONCERN Excerpt of minute from Simon McDonald to Peter Ricketts, copied to PS, PS/PUS, Stephen Wright, Michael Wood, Graham Fry, Alan Goulty, William Ehrman and Head:MED, dated 11 March 2002, titled Iraq Page 43 "Scope of the paper: The Foreign Secretary felt that an earlier draft did not demonstrate why Iraq posed a greater threat than other countries of concern. The new draft highlights some unique features (violation of SCRs; use of CW agents against own people). You may still wish to consider whether more impact could be achieved if the paper only covered Iraq. This would have the benefit of obscuring the fact that in terms of WMD, Iraq is not that exceptional." FOI305712 WMD PROGRAMMES OF CONCERN Excerpt of minute from John Scarlett to David Manning, copied to Sir Richard Wilson, ‗C‘, [redacted], Stephen Lander, Peter Ricketts, Mike O‘Shea, Simon Webb, joe French, Tom McKane, Julian Miller and Jane Hamilton Eddy, dated 15 March 2002, titled ‗WMD PROGRAMMES OF CONCERN – PUBLIC VERSION‘ Page 50 "Thereafter, if it appears that we do have to change our public line, I wonder if we might finesse the presentational difficulty by changing the terms? Instead of talking about tonnes of precursor chemicals (which don‘t mean much to the man in the street anyway), could we focus on munitions and refer to ―precursor chemicals sufficient to produce x thousand Scud warheads/aerial bombs/122mm rockets filled with mustard gas/the deadly nerve agents tabun/sarin/VX‖ ? Presumably we know from UNSCOM what types of munitions the Iraqis had prepared or were working on at the time of the Gulf War. I realise that this would not in the end hoodwink a real expert, who would be able to reverse the calculation and work out that our assessment of precursor quantities had fallen. But the task would not be straightforward, and would beimpossible for a layman. And the result would, I think, have more impact on the target audience for unclassified paper" FOI305712 WMD PROGRAMMES OF CONCERN Letter from Tim Dowse, FCO NPD, to Julian Miller, CO, copied to Peter Ricketts, Stephen Wright, William Ehrman, William Patey, MED, John Williams, News Dept, John Walker, ACDRU, Paul Schulte, DPACS, MOD, and [redacted], DI GI, DIS, dated 25 March 2002, titled ‗IRAQ: MATERIAL FOR PUBLIC RELEASE‘ Page 73 “What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons, that he continues in his effortsto develop nuclear weapons, and that he has been able to extend the range of his ballistic missile programme" IRAQ’S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THE ASSESSMENT OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT The September Dossier Page 3 JULY 27, 2010 Iraq Inquiry Commission, Hans Blix Testimony, Part 1 Former United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix testified before the British Iraq Inquiry CSPAN Part 1 "DR BLIX:.. I said that Iraq cooperates on the whole well on procedure, in particular on access. On no particular occasion were we denied access." Hans Blix Testimony To Iraq Inquiry July 27th 2010 transcript Page 47 "Iraq is destroying its al-Samoud 2 missiles, which exceed a UN-imposed range limit. So far, it has crushed about 28 of the weapons. And it has begun excavating a site where it insists it destroyed bombs containing anthrax in the early 1990s. It has allowed more of its scientists to be interviewed. And it has given Mr Blix some documentation. "Noting that Iraq was now showing a "great deal more" co-operation, including allowing seven new interviews, Mr Blix pointed in particular to the crushing of the missiles. That, he said, was "the most spectacular and the most important and tangible" evidence of real disarmament." Divided Security Council awaits Blix's assessment David Usborne The Independent Friday 07 March 2003 Blair spells out demands on Saddam Staff and agencies The Guardian Wed 12 Mar 2003 "I made it, for example, in the meeting in July and in my advice in July, that regime change was not a basis for legal -- for lawful use of force. It could be that another lawful basis for force might lead to regime change. Indeed, it might be the only way to achieve it, but wanting regime change was not of itself a lawful basis for the use of force" Date: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 Subject/Role: Attorney General, June 2001 – June 2007 Witnesses: Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith QC Testimony to Chilcot Inquiry Page 26 "I don't think. So I couldn't have given definitive legal advice at that stage, because the whole point was he had had the advice in July about what needed to happen. The self-defence didn't work, the humanitarian crisis didn't work. Put in those terms, there wasn't a basis for military action. If there was going to be a basis for military action, it had to be as a result of the new United Nations Security Council Resolution. That needed to say there was material breach. That advice had been given." Date: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 Subject/Role: Attorney General, June 2001 – June 2007 Witnesses: Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith QC Testimony to Chilcot Inquiry Page 29-30 Tuesday, 26 January 2010 Straw rejected advice that Iraq invasion was 'unlawful BBC Elizabeth Wilmshurst Rumsfeld remark sparks Whitehall panic Oliver Burkeman in Washington and Richard Norton-Taylor Tue 11 Mar 2003 "A2 WHAT PRESIDENT CHIRAC ACTUALLY SAID 9. The Government motion passed by the House of Commons on 18 March 2003 contained a reference to the behaviour of France: "That this House . . . regrets that despite sustained diplomatic effort by Her Majesty's Government it has not proved possible to secure a second Resolution in the UN because one Permanent Member of the Security Council made plain in public its intention to use its veto whatever the circumstances." 10. In proposing the motion, the Prime Minister identified the Permanent Member as France, which he said had undermined support for a second resolution: "Last Monday [l0 March], we were getting very close with it [the second resolution]. We very nearly had the majority agreement. If I might, I should particularly like to thank the President of Chile for the constructive way in which he approached this issue. "Yes, there were debates about the length of the ultimatum, but the basic construct was gathering support. Then, on Monday night, France said that it would veto a second resolution, whatever the circumstances." 11. In fact, France said no such thing. On the contrary, in the interview that Monday night, President Chirac made it very clear that there were circumstances in which France would not veto a resolution for war. Early in the interview, he identified two different scenarios, one when the UN inspectors report progress and the other when the inspectors say their task is impossible—in which case, in his words, "regrettably, the war would become inevitable". That portion reads: "The inspectors have to tell us: "we can continue and, at the end of a period which we think should be of a few months"—I'm saying a few months because that's what they have said—"we shall have completed our work and Iraq will be disarmed". Or they will come and tell the Security Council: "we are sorry but Iraq isn't cooperating, the progress isn't sufficient, we aren't in a position to achieve our goal, we won't be able to guarantee Iraq's disarmament". In that case it will be for the Security Council and it alone to decide the right thing to do. But in that case, of course, regrettably, the war would become inevitable. It isn't today." (see http://special.diplomatie.gouv.fr/articlegb9l.html) 12. From that, it is plain as a pikestaff that there were circumstances in which France would not have vetoed military action, namely, if the UN inspectors reported that they couldn't do their job. 13. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Prime Minister misinformed the House of Commons on 18 March about the position of France." The Foreign Affairs Select Committee published the report of its inquiry into The Decision to go to War in Iraq on 7 July 2003 "Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood): In trying to heal the divisions in the world that have appeared with regard to the difference of view about how to handle the crisis in Iraq, did the Prime Minister apologise to President Chirac for misleading all of us about the position of France on the second resolution? I think that he told the House, and many of us, that France had said that it would veto any second resolution. It is now absolutely clear that President Chirac said on 10 March that the inspectors needed longer, but if they failed to disarm Iraq, the Security Council would have to mandate military action. Does that not mean that he misled us and should apologise to us as well? The Prime Minister: I am sorry, but again, we have a complete disagreement on this issue. First, the remarks that President Chirac made are now on the record and are history, and were about France saying no whatever the circumstances. "SIR RODERIC LYNE: Was there a conscious decision for reasons of domestic political presentation to pin the blame on the French when, in fact, the situation was that we had failed to get the Chileans and the Mexicans across and had no prospect at this stage actually of getting our resolution?" Hansard House Of Commons Debates 4 June 2003 Claire Short Col 166-7 MR RYCROFT: Yes. SIR RODERIC LYNE: Okay. Thank you. MR RYCROFT: I think that's exactly right." Friday, 10th September 2010 MATTHEW RYCROFT Iraq Inquiry Chilcot Testimony Page 71-72 "SIR MARTIN GILBERT: You told the BBC that you'd been in the corridor in Number 10 when Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell, and I quote: "... decided effectively to play the anti-French card on the day after President Chirac's television interview." Did you interpret Chirac's words as ruling out the possibility of future French support for Iraq? SIR STEPHEN WALL: No, I didn't. I was absolutely clear he had said "ce soir", "this evening". I can't remember the precise nature of the conversation other than the Prime Minister was giving Alastair his marching orders to play the anti-French card with the Sun and others, but I do recall after Alastair had started doing that, so probably about lunchtime on that day, getting a call from Joyce Quinn, now Baroness Quinn, former Europe Minister, who said to me, "Stephen, do the Prime Minister and Alastair know that what they are claiming Chirac said is not what he actually said?" and I said "Joyce, I believe they do know, yes"" Iraq Inquiry Wednesday, 19th January 2011 Page 68-69 https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20171123123237/http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk//media/51760/20110119-wall-final.pdf "There is no evidence that any bulk Sarin-type agents remain in Iraq - gaps in accounting of these agents are related to Sarin-type agents weaponized in rocket warheads and aerial bombs. Based on the documentation found by UNSCOM during inspections in Iraq, Sarin-type agents produced by Iraq were largely of low quality and as such, degraded shortly after production. Therefore, with respect to the unaccounted for weaponized Sarin-type agents, it is unlikely that they would still be viable today." UNRESOLVED DISARMAMENT ISSUES IRAQ’S PROSCRIBED WEAPONS PROGRAMMES 6 March 2003 Page 73 "SADLER: Can you state here and now -- does Iraq still to this day hold weapons of mass destruction? KAMEL: No. Iraq does not possess any weapons of mass destruction. I am being completely honest about this." Interview transcript Transcript of part one of Correspondent Brent Sadler's exclusive interview with Hussein Kamel September 21, 1995 "Thus, the authority to use force under resolution 678 has revived and so continues today." In the Matter of the Legality of the Use of Force Against Iraq and the Alleged Existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction UK Parliament "SIR RODERIC LYNE: to what extent did the conflict in Iraq exacerbate the overall threat that your Service and your fellow services were having to deal with from international terrorism? BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER: Substantially." BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER Tuesday, 20 July 2010 Iraq testimony (MI5 Head) Page 24-25 "THE CHAIRMAN: You said a little while back, in answer to a question from Sir Roderic Lyne, that in your judgment the effect of the invasion of Iraq was to substantially increase the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom. Two questions really on that. How far is that really the hard-evidence-based judgment and how far is it a broad assessment?... BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER: I think we can produce evidence because of numerical evidence of the number of plots, the number of leads, the number of people identified, and the correlation of that to Iraq and statements of people as to why they were involved, the discussions between them as to what they were doing. So I think the answer to your first question: yes." BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER Tuesday, 20 July 2010 Iraq testimony (MI5 Head) Page 33-34 "In 2003, having had an upgrade in resources after 9/11, which my predecessor agreed, and another small one in -- another one, not small actually, in 2002, by 2003 I found it necessary to ask the Prime Minister for a doubling of our budget. This is unheard of, it's certainly unheard of today, but he and the Treasury and the Chancellor accepted that because I was able to demonstrate the scale of the problem that we were confronted by." BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER Tuesday, 20 July 2010 Iraq testimony (MI5 Head) Page 27 "SIR RODERIC LYNE: The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons in 2004 concluded that war in Iraq had possibly made terrorist attacks against British nationals and British interests more likely in the short-term. Now, how significant in your view a factor was Iraq compared with other situations that were used by extremists, terrorists, to justify their actions? BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER: I think it is highly significant and the JIC assessments that I have reminded myself of say that. By 2003/2004 we were receiving an increasing number of leads to terrorist activity from within the UK and the -- our involvement in Iraq radicalised, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people, some British citizens -- not a whole generation, a few among a generation -- who were -- saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan, as being an attack on Islam." BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER Tuesday, 20 July 2010 Iraq testimony (MI5 Head) Page 18-19 "So although the media has suggested that in July 2005, the attacks on 7/7, that we were surprised these were British citizens, that is not the case because really there had been an increasing number of British-born individuals living and brought up in this country, some of them third generation, who were attracted to the ideology of Osama bin Laden and saw the west's activities in Iraq and Afghanistan as threatening their fellow religionists and the Muslim world." BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER Tuesday, 20 July 2010 Iraq testimony (MI5 Head) Page 19 "Al Qaida and associated groups will continue to represent by far the greatest terrorist threat to Western interests, and that threat will be heightened by military action against Iraq" JIC Assessment, 12 March 2003, ‘International Terrorism: War with Iraq - The Report of the Iraq Inquiry - Executive Summary - GOV.UK https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535407/The_Report_of_the_Iraq_Inquiry_-_Executive_Summary.pdf Page 48 "As specialist medical professionals, we do not consider the evidence given at the Hutton inquiry has demonstrated that Dr David Kelly committed suicide. Dr Nicholas Hunt, the forensic pathologist at the Hutton inquiry, concluded that Dr Kelly bled to death from a self-inflicted wound to his left wrist. We view this as highly improbable. Arteries in the wrist are of matchstick thickness and severing them does not lead to life-threatening blood loss. Dr Hunt stated that the only artery that had been cut - the ulnar artery - had been completely transected. Complete transection causes the artery to quickly retract and close down, and this promotes clotting of the blood. The ambulance team reported that the quantity of blood at the scene was minimal and surprisingly small. It is extremely difficult to lose significant amounts of blood at a pressure below 50-60 systolic in a subject who is compensating by vasoconstricting. To have died from haemorrhage, Dr Kelly would have had to lose about five pints of blood - it is unlikely that he would have lost more than a pint. Alexander Allan, the forensic toxicologist at the inquiry, considered the amount ingested of Co-Proxamol insufficient to have caused death. Allan could not show that Dr Kelly had ingested the 29 tablets said to be missing from the packets found. Only a fifth of one tablet was found in his stomach. Although levels of Co-Proxamol in the blood were higher than therapeutic levels, Allan conceded that the blood level of each of the drug's two components was less than a third of what would normally be found in a fatal overdose." Our doubts about Dr Kelly's suicideMon 26 Jan 2004 The Guardian "Strenuous efforts were made to ensure that no individual statements were made in the dossier which went beyond the judgements of the JIC. But, in translating material from JIC assessments into the dossier, warnings were lost about the limited intelligence base on which some aspects of these assessments were being made. The Government would have seen these warnings in the original JIC assessments and taken them into account in reading them. But the public, through reading the dossier, would not have known of them. The dossier did contain a chapter on the role of intelligence. But the language in the dossier may have left with readers the impression that there was fuller and firmer intelligence behind the judgements than was the case: our view, having reviewed all of the material, is that judgements in the dossier went to (although not beyond) the outer limits of the intelligence available. The Prime Minister’s description, in his statement to the House of Commons on the day of publication of the dossier, of the picture painted by the intelligence services in the dossier as “extensive, detailed and authoritative” may have reinforced this impression." Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction Report of a Committee of Privy Counsellors Chairman: The Rt Hon The Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 14th July 2004 Para 464 Page 128 "We conclude, with the benefit of hindsight, that making public that the JIC had authorship of the dossier was a mistaken judgement, though we do not criticise the JIC for taking responsibility for clearance of the intelligence content of the document. However, in the particular circumstances, the publication of such a document in the name and with the authority of the JIC had the result that more weight was placed on the intelligence than it could bear. The consequence also was to put the JIC and its Chairman into an area of public controversy and arrangements must be made for the future which avoid putting the JIC and its Chairman in a similar position"Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction Report of a Committee of Privy Counsellors Chairman: The Rt Hon The Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 14th July 2004 Para 466 Page 128 "the Government's dossier in September 2002 did not make clear that the intelligence underlying those conclusions was very thin, even though the JIC assessments had been quite clear about that." Iraq Volume 664: debated on Tuesday 7 September 2004 Lord Butler House of lords "I saw many intelligence assessments when I was at the Foreign Office. Doubt and intelligence assessments go hand in hand; doubt is in the nature of intelligence work. One is trying to guess the secrets that somebody is trying to keep, so it inevitably follows that one is trying to carry out a task even worse than that of the Israelites: to make bricks out of straws in the wind. To be fair to the agencies, they were always absolutely frank about the limitations of their knowledge. That is why I was frankly astonished by the September dossier, which bore no relation in tone to any of the intelligence assessments that I saw. It was one-sided, dogmatic and unqualified. The root problem is that intelligence was used in order to sell policy, so it was required to be much more firm and definite than intelligence can ever be" Iraq Volume 424: debated on Tuesday 20 July 2004 Robin Cook "We spent a long time at dinner on IRAQ. It is clear that Bush is grateful for your support and has registered that you are getting flak. I said that you would not budge in your support for regime change but you had to manage a press, a Parliament and a public opinion that was very different than anything in the States. And you would not budge either in your insistence that, if we pursued regime change, it must be very carefully done and produce the right result. Failure was not an option. Condi's enthusiasm for regime change is undimmed. But there were some signs, since we last spoke, of greater awareness of the practical difficulties and political risks… From what she said, Bush has yet to find the answers to the big questions: - how to persuade international opinion that military action against Iraq is necessary and justified; - what value to put on the exiled Iraqi opposition; - how to coordinate a US/allied military… He also wants your support. He is still smarting from the comments by other European leaders on his Iraq policy." David Manning to Tony Blair, “Your Trip to the U.S.,” memo, March 14, 2002 "On Iraq I opened by sticking very closely to the script that you used with Rice last week. We backed regime change, but the plan had to be clever and failure was not an option. It.would be a tough sell for us domestically, and probably tougher elsewhere in Europe. The US could go it alone if it wanted to. But if it wanted to act with partners there had to be a strategy for building support for military action against Saddam. I then went through the need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors and the UNSCRs and the critical importance of the MEPP as an integral part of the anti-Saddam strategy. If all this could be accomplished skilfully, we were fairly confident that a number of countries would come on board… Wolfowitz said that he fully agreed. He took a slightly different position from others in the Administration, who were focussed on Saddam's capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction. The WMD danger was of course crucial to the public case against Saddam, particularly the potential linkage to terrorism. But Wolfowitz thought it indispensable to spell out in detail Saddam's barbarism. This was well documented from what he had done during the occupation of Kuwait, the incursion into Kurdish territory, the assault on the Marsh Arabs and to his own people. A lot of work had been done on this towards the end of the first Bush administration. Wolfowitz thought that this would go a long way to destroying any notion of moral equivalence between Iraq and Israel." Christopher Meyer to David Manning, “Iraq and Afghanistan: Conversation with Wolfowitz,” memo, March 18, 2001 Document 6 "The central issue was to influence the Americans. Blair had already taken the decision to support regime change, though he was discreet about saying so in public. It would be fruitless to challenge a fixed, five-year-old policy that had bipartisan support in the US. It was hard to see how Saddam could be de-fanged without being removed from power. Blair was also firmly wedded to the propositions that, to have influence in Washington, it was necessary to hug the Americans close" DC confidential : the controversial memoirs of Britain's ambassador to the U.S. at the time of 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War by Christopher Meyer Page 241 "We discussed whether the central aim was WMD or regime change… TB felt it was regime change in part because of WMD but more broadly because of the threat to the region and the world" The Alastair Campbell diaries. Volume 4, The burden of power : countdown to Iraq Page 198 "He was a lot steelier than when he went on holiday. Clear that getting Saddam was the right thing to do." The Alastair Campbell diaries. Volume 4, The burden of power : countdown to Iraq Page 288 "It was a pretty good discussion, though focused as much as anything on the idea that we were having to deal with a mad America and TB keeping them on the straight and narrow. JP referred to the idea that TB would have sleepless nights, that we knew it could go to a difficult choice between the US and the UN. TB said he believed it would be folly for Britain to go against the US on a fundamental policy, and he really believed in getting rid of bad people like Saddam" The Alastair Campbell diaries. Volume 4, The burden of power : countdown to Iraq Page 307 "Even so, we are surprised that neither policy-makers nor the intelligence community, as the generally negative results of UNMOVIC inspections became increasingly apparent, conducted a formal re-evaluation of the quality of the intelligence and hence of the assessments made on it." Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction Report of a Committee of Privy Counsellors Chairman: The Rt Hon The Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 14th July 2004 Para 362 Page 106 "We didn't in the JIC step back in January… 2003, at the time of the first report, the interim report, of the inspectors and say, "Let's look again at all our intelligence and all of our inferences against what has been found on the ground". It wasn't asked for, it wouldn't have been welcome" Sir David Ormand Iraq Inquiry testimony 2010 Page 55-56

In todays video, I spoke with Miko Peled about Israel, his background coming from Israel and a family actively involved in Israel's founding and growth. We discussed the Israeli state, the treatment of Palestinians, the myths about Israel and his experiences growing up there. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/kelley-vlahos-on-iraq-the-neocon-influence-ukraine Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Miko's Links Bio - Peled’s maternal grandfather, Avraham Katznelson was a signer on the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His father, Matti Peled was a general in the Israeli army and pioneered an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in the 1970’s which led him to meeting Yasser Arafat in an effort to convene him to recognize the State of Israel and adopt the Two State Solution. In 1997, Miko’s sister lost her daughter, Smadar, in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. This tragedy is what finally drove Miko to embark on his journey to discover Palestine. Miko Peled is an author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine. Educated in Jerusalem, Japan and the United States, Peled is also an accomplished professional martial artist. For 23 years, Peled ran a martial arts school that was dedicated to teaching leadership skills and non-violent conflict resolution through martial arts. Website - https://mikopeled.com/ Twitter - @mikopeled Mikos' Books Books The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five by Miko Peled Palestine a four thousand year history by Nur Masalha Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine by Ibrahim Nasrallah Clips Israel’s ultra nationalist settlers who brought the far right to power Channel 4 News Min 3:30 Israeli sniper appears to shoot unarmed Palestinian man in Gaza Guardian News Show Notes 6 Day War Zionism Israeli From Prominent Founding Family Calls For An End To Zionism | A Conversation With Miko Peled Kim Iversen Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel WRITTEN BY Kali Robinson March 9, 2023 CFR The allocation of water resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Page 7 David Cameron: Israeli blockade has turned Gaza Strip into a 'prison camp' This article is more than 13 years old Prime minister intervenes in Middle East dispute and hopes Turkey can stop Iran's nuclear weapons programme Nicholas Watt in Ankara and Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem Tue 27 Jul 2010 The Guardian Hansard, the House of Commons' 28 June 2010 Col 583 "Everybody knows that we are not going to sort out the problem of the Middle East peace process while there is, effectively, a giant open prison in Gaza." Liz Truss says pledges support for Israel, says she is a 'huge zionist' Truss said the UK and its allies will ensure Iran will 'never' obtain a nuclear weapon By Anders Hagstrom Fox News Published October 3, 2022 Keir Starmer interview: I will work to eradicate antisemitism ‘from day one’ Speaking exclusively to Jewish News, the Labour leadership frontrunner opens up about his Jewish family and plans to visit Israel for the first time with his kids By JACK MENDEL February 14, 2020 Jewish News Israel: Military Alliances Show full question Question for Ministry of Defence UIN 193414, tabled on 11 July 2023 HOW THE UK MILITARY SUPPORTS ISRAEL’S COMBAT OPERATIONS AGAINST PALESTINIANS As violence escalates in Israel and Palestine, we take readers through the expanding military relationship between the UK and Israel, which has been erased by the British media. The deepening alliance involves UK military training of Israel for combat, joint exercises, arms deals, as well as intelligence cooperation. MARK CURTIS 15 MAY 2021 Declassified UK Israel bombs Gaza following Jenin assault Jets strike Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip after rockets are fired towards southern Israel following Israeli offensive in Jenin. A person wears a gas mask during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces amid an Israeli military operation, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank A person wears a gas mask amid an Israeli military operation, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters] Published On 5 Jul 2023 5 Jul 2023 AlJazeera 15 years of blockade and health in Gaza (July 2022) Format News and Press Release Sources Health Cluster WHO Posted 9 Oct 2022 Gaza children face acute water and sanitation crisis Water and power shortages put children's health at risk By Abeer Abu Shawish and Catherine Weibel GAZA, State of Palestine, 1 September 2017 Abu Akleh shooting: fatal shot came from Israeli forces, says OHCHR Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh spent a quarter century covering life under Israeli military rule. Al Jazeera Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh spent a quarter century covering life under Israeli military rule. 24 June 2022 Human Rights Amendment to clarify equality in Nation-State Law rejected Yesh Atid - Telem brought bill to insert clause guaranteeing equality to all citizens in controversial nation state law, which Gantz, Blue and White vowed to change during election campaigns. By JEREMY SHARON JULY 29, 2020 The Jersuselm Post 9263RD MEETING (AM) SC/15203 20 FEBRUARY 2023 Security Council Expresses ‘Concern’, ‘Dismay’ over Israeli Settlement Expansions, Adopting First Presidential Statement on Question of Palestine in Years UN Israel ramps up demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem World Feb 8, 2023 PBS Begin–Prawer Plan Mike Pompeo tells Jewish leaders he would 'push back' against Corbyn This article is more than 4 years old US secretary of state made comments in recording leaked to Washington Post Rowena Mason and Heather Stewart Sun 9 Jun 2019 U.S. Security Cooperation with Israel FACT SHEET BUREAU OF POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS JULY 30, 2021 Haaretz Exclusive | 2,279 Calories per Person: How Israel Made Sure Gaza Didn't Starve State forced to release 'red lines' document for food consumption in the coastal Strip following legal battle; official: state has right to determine who it assists. Amira Hass Follow Oct 17, 2012 Syria says Israeli jets strike Aleppo airport, shutting it down State media says Israel Air Force struck from Mediterranean Sea, inflicting damage to site; no immediate reports of injuries By EMANUEL FABIAN and TOI STAFF 7 March 2023 The Times of Israel Israeli missile strikes put Damascus airport out of service By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE January 2, 2023 AP Reports: Israeli airstrikes in Syria target pro-Iran weapons facilities, kill 6 Pro-opposition group says Israel hit central province of Hama; IAF jets reportedly fly over Beirut shortly before attack By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF 25 December 2020 SEPTEMBER 12, 2002 Israeli Perspective on Conflict with Iraq

In todays video, I spoke with Kelly Vlahos, of the Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft. We spoke about the Neocon role in starting and pushing for the Iraq War and the influence of their hawkish push in further wars, up until this day in Ukraine. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-interview-with-patrick-macfarlane-oppenheimer-usg-experimentation Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Kelley's Links QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT BIO - Kelley Beaucar Vlahos comes to QI from The American Conservative, where for the last three years she served as the magazine’s executive editor. Before joining TAC in 2017, Vlahos served as a contributing editor to the magazine, reporting and publishing regular articles on US war policy, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007. She also organized the magazine’s major annual foreign policy conference for the last three years. Prior to that, Vlahos was director of social media and a digital editor at WTOP News in Washington, DC from 2013 to 2017. She spent 15 years as an online political reporter for FOX News at the channel’s Washington D.C. bureau, as well as Washington correspondent for Homeland Security Today magazine. She is on the board of PublicSquare.net, a non-profit media project promoting informed Left-Right debate. Her recent media appearances include C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Tucker Carlson Tonight, NPR’s 1A, POTUS on Sirius XM, and Al Jazeera. Before moving to the nation’s capital, Vlahos earned her degree in Journalism-Mass Media at Central Connecticut State University and worked her way through local and regional newspapers in her home state of Connecticut, including The New Britain Herald and The Torrington Register Citizen. She is co-host of the Crashing the War Party podcast with Daniel Larison. Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/VlahosAtQuincy https://quincyinst.org/ Books Scott Horton - Scotts Books - Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan By Scott Horton Enough Already: Time To End The War On Terrorism By Scott Horton Jeremy Scahill - Jeremy's Books Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill Michael Hastings The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings Peter Van Buren We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (2012) by Peter Van Buren Gian Gentile Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency (2013) by Gian Gentile Show Notes Previous interview with Kelley - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/the-media-s-role-in-the-iraq-war-other-military-actions-an-interview-with-kelly-vlahos 1980s Contra Proxy Iraq Liberation Act 1998 https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/iraq-an-interview-with-matthew-hoh Letter to Bill Clinton - January 26, 1998 "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor" PNAC, Rebuilding America's Defences Page 51 https://resistir.info/livros/rebuilding_americas_defenses.pdf “confirming Iraqi use of chemical weapons. We also know that Iraq has acquired CW production primarily from Western firms, including possibly a U.S. foreign subsidiary” “Iraq Use of Chemical Weapons,” unclassified memo from Jonathan Howe to the secretary of state, November 1, 1983, National Security Archives, www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/iraq24.pdf. U.S. ASSERTS IRAQ USED POISON GAS AGAINST THE KURDSBy Julie Johnson, Special To the New York Times Sept. 9, 1988 "Normal relations between the United States and Iraq would serve our longer-term interests and promote stability in both the Gulf and the Middle East. The United States Government should propose economic and political incentives for Iraq to moderate its behavior and to increase our influence with Iraq. At the same time, the Iraqi leadership must understand that any illegal use of chemical and/or biological weapons will lead to economic and political sanctions, for which we would seek the broadest possible support from our allies and friends. Any breach by Iraq of IAEA safeguards in its nuclear program will result in a similar response. Human rights considerations should continue to be an important element in our policy toward Iraq. In addition, Iraq should be urged to cease its meddling in external affairs, such as in Lebanon, and be encouraged to play a constructive role in negotiating a settlement with Iran and cooperating in the Middle East peace process. (5) We should pursue, and seek to facilitate, opportunities for U.S. firms to participate in the reconstruction of the Iraqi economy, particularly in the energy area, where they do not conflict with our non-proliferation and other significant objectives. Also, as a means of developing access to and influence with the Iraqi defense establishment, the United States should consider sales of non-lethal forms of military assistance, é.g., training courses and medical exchanges, on a case by case basis." NSD 26 10/02/1989 U.S. Policy Toward the Persian Gulf (3 pages) Foreign Affairs Committee 28th June 2022 Parliament TV - 11 hour 18 min Ben Norton's article: UK refuses to admit Saudi Arabia is authoritarian, while condemning China and Russia First Debate Transcript: Page 5 By ABC News Oct. 3, 2000 Elliott Abrams Bill Kristol and Scott Horton Debate U.S. Interventionism Reason TV Conservative group launches campaign to push for GOP support for Ukraine By Mariana Alfaro August 15, 2023 WAPO Sir Tony Blair knighthood: More than one million sign Change.org petition calling for ex-prime minister to have honour removed There is opposition to Sir Tony Blair's appointment as a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter due to his record while in 10 Downing Street, including the 2003 military invasion of Iraq By Greg Heffer, political reporter Saturday 8 January 2022 Sky MI6 regrets helping Vladimir Putin to win power, says ex-spy chief The Times October 1st 2018 Second Chechen War War in Ukraine: The Economist interviews Tony Blair Ukraine’s counteroffensive might yet surprise critics By David Petraeus and Frederick W. Kagan August 24, 2023 WAPO Kimberley Kagan ISW Amazon and Microsoft battle for $10bn 'war cloud' contract with Pentagon iraq rebuilding contracts awarded Halliburton, Stevedoring Services of America get government contracts for early relief work. March 25, 2003 CNN Money Halliburton Subsidiary Wins Follow-On Oil Contract In Iraq

In this interview with Patrick Macfarlane, we discuss Patrick's Oppenheimer documentary, the experiments involved, why he made the documentary and more. I would absolutely recommend watching his documentary. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-interview-with-kevin-booth-documentary-film-maker-close-bill-hicks-friend-the-war-on-drugs Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Patrick's Links https://libertarianinstitute.org/ https://vitaldissent.com/ https://twitter.com/patmacfarlane_ Books Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans by Lisa Martino-Taylor The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome Poisoner in Chief by Stephen Kinzer American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine by Angela N. H. Creager Show Notes An Interview With Patrick Macfarlane: China, Taiwan And US/Western Provocations Human Experimentation in the Radiological Weapons Group By Patrick MacFarlane JUL 20, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokJgWqlar4 Doctors of Death By Gregg Herken and James David; Published: January 13, 1994 NYT DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments: Roadmap to the Project Experiments List Operation LAC Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis cause worry OCTOBER 3, 2012 CBS Nevada Test Sites Ernest Lawrence DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments: Roadmap to the Project Chapter 2. Narratives and Records Series Descriptions Lieutenant General Leslie Groves Yes, Robert Oppenheimer Really Did Poison His Professor’s Apple Before he was the world’s most famous physicist, he was a depressed college student with a bad revenge plot. BY KATEY RICH JULY 20, 2023 Vanity Fair Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Executive Summary DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments: Roadmap to the Project American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J Archive.org Page 44 Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75th anniversary of atomic bombings Published 9 August 2020 BBC Atomic Veterans Were Silenced for 50 Years. Now, They’re Talking. May 27, 2019 The Atlantic Operation Sea-Spray THE LIVING WEAPON | ARTICLE Secret Testing in the United States PBS Operation Midnight Climax "We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn't it, Harry? So get out the bottle, boy... and relax. They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform" “Playboy Interview: John Lennon,” Playboy, January 1981, http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/dbjypb.int3.html. Montreal Experiments "Scheider explained that the toxic material was to be injected into some substance that Lumumba would ingest: "it had to do with anything he could get to his mouti, whether it was food or a toothbrush, * * * [so] that some of the material could get to his mouth."U.S. Senate, An Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities: Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975), Page 24, 25 "The earliest of the CIA’s major programs involving the use of chemical and biological agents, Project Bluebird, was … investigating the possibilities of control of an individual by application of special interrogation techniques. In August 1951 the project was renamed Artichoke … Overseas interrogations utilizing a combination of sodium pentothal and hypnosis, after physical and psychiatric examination of the subjects, were also part of Artichoke. MK-ULTRA was the principal CIA program involving the research and development of chemical and biological agents … LSD was one of the materials tested in the MK-ULTRA project. Because MK-ULTRA records were destroyed, it is impossible to reconstruct the operational use of MK-ULTRA materials by the CIA overseas." U.S. Senate, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1976) Page 385-395 Marshall Islands calls for US to pay more compensation over nuclear tests This article is more than 1 month old Pacific nation plagued by environmental effects of 67 bomb tests between 1946 and 1958, including Castle Bravo detonation in 1954 Reuters in Washington Thu 13 Jul 2023 The Guardian Radium Girls

Interview Clip - US Senator & Ex Official Says US Would Blow Up Taiwan's Microchip Factories In Event Of A War With China, Joseph Solis-Mullen, China, Taiwan, Cold War To see the full interview and show notes visit - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-interview-with-joseph-solis-mullis-historical-sino-western-relations-the-new-cold-war Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-interview-with-scott-horton-bill-hicks-the-war-on-drugs-scott-s-anti-war-journey https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Josephs Links https://libertarianinstitute.org/author/joseph-solis-mullen/ https://mises.org/profile/joseph-solis-mullen https://twitter.com/solis_mullen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

In todays video, I conducted an interview with Matthew Hoh, about the Afghanistan war and his time there. Along with his unique perspective of personally being there, he also backs up that experience with great knowledge of the subject area. The interview is packed with great information about the US War in Afghanistan and beyond. Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ Afghanistan: An Interview With Matthew Hoh - YouTube Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Bio - Matthew has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. - Center for International Policy | Matthew Hoh Matthew Hoh - Twitter Matthew Hoh | Peace, believe it is possible ~Shea Brown ResignationLetter - Matthew Hoh The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War By Craig Whitlock (truthovercomfort.co.uk) The Afghan Papers The War In Afghanistan Cost America $300 Million Per Day For 20 Years, With Big Bills Yet To Come Christopher Helman Forbes Staff Hank Tucker Forbes Staff 0 Aug 16, 2021 President Biden Delivers Remarks on Ending the War in Afghanistan The White House Min 21:30 U.S. official resigns over war in Afghanistan Last month, Matthew Hoh became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency NBC Oct. 27, 2009 By Karen DeYoung This article is more than 12 years old British soldier who spoke out against Afghan war jailed for going awol Peter Walker The Guardian 5 Mar 2010 Obama Bets Big on Troop Surge Extra 30,000 U.S. Soldiers for 18 Months; Republicans Say Timetable Poses Risk By Peter Spiegel, Jonathan Weisman and Yochi J. Dreazen Dec. 2, 2009 WSJ U.S. Efforts Fail to Curtail Trade in Afghan Opium NYT By Alissa J. Rubin and Matthew Rosenberg May 26, 2012 UN Opium Chart Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A By Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen Oct. 27, 2009 NYT Russel Company Opium Forbes Family Opium Wars List of Skull and Bones members https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/1.2_The_global_heroin_market.pdf https://www.unodc.org/pdf/report_2001-06-26_1/analysis_afghanistan.pdf "It is no coincidence that Afghanistan began to emerge as a significant producer of illicit opium in precisely the period of protracted war, which began in 1979 and still persists. Peace has not yet been made in Afghanistan and faction-fighting, warlordism and particularistic nationalisms remain endemic. Though the recent historical record is patchy, it is clear that the country was not among the world´s main opium producers until the late 1970s. Opium has been cultivated and consumed in the region for centuries and there is some evidence that opium poppy has been a traditional crop in parts of Afghanistan since the 18th century." Page 30 Durand Line "People are supporting the government. In 2008 we conducted a survey in Helmand, it showed that 79% of the instability had local factors, like drug mafia, warlords, criminals, corruption and others. 21% of it was due external factors, which could be divided into sub factors. Majority of people are observers, they watch who is doing what? Waiting for the government and Taliban that who is going to do what. All this majority could be your partner if they know that their life is secure. They know how to gauge their safety in the locality. They know the power of the government, when they have the perception that the government cannot secure itself so how can the government provide security to me. For example when 50 Taliban can destabilize a whole district, so what will the people think? I spoke to about 200 community elders a while ago for one of my papers that was published in Foreign Policy. I asked them what is the number of police in your districts and number of Taliban, and population. I asked that why is it possible that a large number of about 500 security forces cannot defeat about 20 or 30 Taliban. The community elders replied that the security people are not there to defend people and fight Taliban, they are there to make money. They are selling their fuel, send soldiers or police to go home and the salaries are received by their chief or sell weapons. I asked the elders that ok the government is not protecting you, but you are about 30 thousand people in the district if you don’t like Taliban then you must fight against them. Their response was that we don’t want this corrupt government to come and we don’t want Taliban either, so we are waiting to see who is going win." Shahmahmood Miakhel, Lessons Learned interview, 2/7/2017Governor of Nangarhar province; former country director for Afghanistan at U.S. Institute of Peace. Former adviser to Afghan Interior Ministry and U.N. mission in Afghanistan Page 6 Leaked Cables Offer Raw Look at U.S. Diplomacy By Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren Nov. 28, 2010 NYT Warlord, Inc. : extortion and corruption along the U.S. supply chain in Afghanistan Author: John F Tierney; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs. Publisher:[Washington, DC] : [U.S. House of Representatives], 2010. Warlord Inc: Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan (truthovercomfort.co.uk) AT WAR WITH THE TRUTH U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it, an exclusive Post investigation found. By Craig Whitlock Dec. 9, 2019 WikiLeaks: Afghan vice-president 'landed in Dubai with $52m in cash' This article is more than 12 years old Ambassador in Kabul reports pervasive 'wealth extraction' by establishment and apparent powerlessness of US to stop it The Guardian Jonathan Steele and Jon Boone Thu 2 Dec 2010 Governments, Oil, Banking And Arms Sure Love Think Tanks (truthovercomfort.co.uk) RUSI Atlantic Council RUSI BAE Lloyd J. Austin III > U.S. Department of Defense > Biography WestExec Advisors - Wikipedia Books A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Book by Neil Sheehan The Best and the Brightest: Amazon.co.uk: Halberstam, David: 9780449908709: Books No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes eBook : Gopal, Anand: Amazon.co.uk: Books Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan Paperback – 16 Aug. 2017 by Scott Horton The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War 16 Sept. 2021 By Craig Whitlock

Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/the-buck-stops-at-the-qatar-world-cup-and-sports-washing-the-economic-links Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/afghanistan-an-interview-with-matthew-hoh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njmAE83Su28 In todays video, I conducted an interview with Matthew Hoh, about the Russia-Ukraine war and the US/UK/NATO side of it. Along with his unique perspective of personally being in the Iraq and Afghan wars, he also backs up that experience with great knowledge of the subject area. The interview is packed with great information about the war, events leading up to it, the Western reaction and Russia & China. Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Bio - Matthew has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. - Center for International Policy | Matthew Hoh Matthew Hoh - Twitter Matthew Hoh | Peace, believe it is possible ~Shea Brown Eisenhower Media Network Bush Putin Best Friends MI6 regrets helping Vladimir Putin to win power, says ex-spy chief The Times October 1st 2018 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1997: Biden Predicts NATO Expansion = Russia Conflict Leaked telephone call between Nuland and Pyatt, the then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine John McCain tells Ukraine protesters: 'We are here to support your just cause' The Guardian Sun 15 Dec 2013 NPR 'World Is Watching,' U.S. Diplomat Tells Ukraine December 11, 2013 INNOCENCE ABROAD: THE NEW WORLD OF SPYLESS COUPS By David Ignatius The Washington Post September 22, 1991 Victoria Nuland US has invested $5 billion in Ukraine Min 7:26 - CNN'S AMANPOUR U.S. Point Person on Ukraine Crisis; Ukraine Media Freedom; Imagine a World Aired April 21, 2014 - 14:00:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. (5 Billion) Kiev protesters occupy government building amid uneasy truce The Guardian Fri 24 Jan 2014 Ukraine's Ultra-Nationalist Neo-Nazi Problem Operation Orbital UK - which trained 22,000 Ukrainians between 2015 and 2022 Operation Unifier Canada - Between September 2015 and February 2022, 33,789 Security Forces of Ukraine (SFU) candidates have participated in training held in Ukraine... Training of Ukrainian recruits has since resumed. Canada is participating in UK-led efforts to train recruits for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the training of Ukrainian combat engineers in Poland. https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/is-the-ukraine-russia-war-assistance-humanitarian-or-a-proxy-war - More Resources Here Russia-Ukraine Prisoner Swaps Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say A secretive operation involving U.S. Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine’s still outgunned military Ukraine Wants the U.S. to Send More Powerful Weapons. Biden Is Not So Sure. President Biden wants to avoid provoking Russia at a moment when American officials fear Vladimir V. Putin could escalate the war to compensate for recent losses NYT By David E. Sanger, Anton Troianovski, Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt Sept. 17, 2022 "Some American officials express concern that the most dangerous moments are yet to come, even as Mr. Putin has avoided escalating the war in ways that have, at times, baffled Western officials." Russia will pay "a heavy price" for war in Ukraine, CIA director says From CNN's Katie Bo Lillis "I think if you take a step back now, it's hard to see the record of the war — Putin's record — as anything other than a failure so far,” Burns said at a cybersecurity conference in Washington, DC. “Not only has the weakness of the Russian military have been exposed, but there's going to be long term damage done to the Russian economy and to generations of Russians as a result of this.” October 14 Reuters Sweden shuns formal joint investigation of Nord Stream leak, citing national security Royal Navy divers train Ukrainians to hunt for mines with underwater drones 26 August 2022 EIA Gov JULY 25, 2022 The United States became the world’s largest LNG exporter in the first half of 2022 Politico Europe accuses US of profiting from war UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05788788 Date: 01/07/2016 September 16, 2011 For: Hillary From: Sid Re: France, UK, et al, jockeying in Libya/oil President Trump's Pick for Secretary of State Just Confirmed 'Hundreds' of Russians Were Killed in a U.S. Attack in Syria https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/irrefutable-proof-the-mainstream-media-self-censor-make-huge-omissions-or-are-directed-to Leaked Audio - John Kerry

Previous Video - Afghanistan: An Interview With Matthew Hoh In todays video, I conducted an interview with Richard Grove, touching on a number of topics, including the Rothschilds, banking, British-American history, powerful figures in history and more. I would like to thank Richard for his time and look forward to our next interview, when we can go into more depth for specific topics. I encourage everyone to continue pulling on the threads we discussed, as you may find more to it than you think. Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAMG9jPqUh4 https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Richard Grove - Twitter https://autonomyunlimited.com/ https://tragedyandhope.com/ https://grandtheftworld.com/ The Rothschilds Timeline "The Rothschilds supply gold to Wellington - Spread out across Europe, the Rothschild brothers developed an unrivalled network of secret routes and fast couriers. In the closing years of the Napoleonic Wars, the five Rothschild brothers worked to supply gold to Wellington's army. By 1814 Wellington, advancing north across Spain, had driven the French back to the Pyrenees, but was in desperate need of money to pay his troops. Nathan Rothschild was commissioned by the British Government to supply the Duke with the necessary funds, and together with his brothers he set up a network of agents to buy up coin and transfer it to Wellington in the form of local currency. The Waterloo commission underlined the success of a business built on strong family ties and an unsurpassed communications network." "Lionel de Rothschild funds the 'Suez' purchase - Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879) speedily raised the funding for the British Government to acquire a major interest in the Suez Canal. The money, some £4 million, was advanced by Lionel at the request of his friend, Prime Minister Disraeli. The canal was vital to British interests in the area and allowed Prime Minister Disraeli to declare, famously, to Queen Victoria, "You have it, Madam". The 1875 deal was one of the London bank's most celebrated transactions, underscoring the bank's reliability, discretion and solidity." Rothschilds finance the establishment of De Beers - In 1870, diamonds were discovered near the South African town of Kimberley and a huge wave of adventurers descended on the area. A mass of claims were registered by small operators, who lacked the capital and expertise necessary to develop them. Natty, 1st Lord Rothschild decided that commercial success would only be possible by amalgamating several of the small concerns. Through their major holding in the Anglo-African Diamond Mining Company Limited the Rothschilds participated in the buying out of smaller claim holders, culminating in a battle between the Barnato Diamond Mining Company and De Beers, under the leadership of Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes asked Rothschilds for financial backing. De Beers eventually amalgamated with Barnato and became De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited in 1889. Evelyn de Rothschild, banking heir and adviser to the queen, dies at 91 Standing 6-foot-4, Mr. Rothschild saw himself as a keeper of his family’s legacy Image without a caption By Michael S. Rosenwald November 10, 2022 The Washington Post The Aristocrats: The Rothschilds 2020 (Documentary) https://www.coalitionforinclusivecapitalism.com/ https://www.inclusivecapitalism.com/news-insights/squawk-box-vatican-forms-alliance-with-the-council-for-inclusive-capitalism/ How George Soros funded progressive ‘legal arsonist’ DAs behind US crime surge By Isabel Vincent December 16, 2021 NY Post George Soros-backed groups have spent $40 million to elect 75 progressive prosecutors over the last decade - meaning one in FIVE Americans now live in areas covered by his criminal justice reformers By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 8 June 2022 "The aim of this dispatch is to provide material countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other countries" NARA Record Number 104-10009-10022 Document 1035-960 the CIA countering criticism of the Warren commission Source ratical.org download PDF Page 2, another source, the document is visible without download, Cable Sought to Discredit Critics of Warren Report NYT December 26th, 1977 - Cia Document referring to this document Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 28, 2022 Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors Louis Jolyon West "Dr. L. J. West, a psychiatrist hired to help defend Ruby, said Ruby had hallucinations early Sunday that all the Jews in the country were being slaughtered and that he was responsible because of his killing of Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy." COAST PSYCHIATRIST HIRED TO TREAT RUBY April 29, 1964 NYT E Howard Hunt "Deathbed confession" of involvement in Kennedy assassination On the morning of May 7 , House and Grey drove out to Kew . ' We spoke of the probability of an ocean liner being sunk , ' recorded House , ' and I told him if this were done , a flame of indignation would sweep across America , which would in itself probably carry us into the war . ' An hour later , House was with King George in Buckingham Palace . ' We fell to talking , strangely enough , ' the Colonel wrote that night , ' of the probability of Germany sinking a trans Atlantic liner . . . . He said , " Suppose they should sink the Lusitania with American passengers on board . . . . ' 999 That evening House dined at the American Embassy . A despatch came in , stating that at two in the afternoon a Ger man submarine had torpedoed and sunk the Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland . Many lives had been lost. The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour ... Front Cover Edward Mandell House Houghton Mifflin, 1926 Lusitania https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/world-government-supranational-entity-nwo-collectivism “We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.”—CFR member James Paul Warburg - Revision of the United Nations Charter: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Revision of the United Nations Charter, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session, on Feb. 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 20, 1950 Front Cover United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Revision of the United Nations Charter U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 Page 494 "For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the U.S.A. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political "ammunition," as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the CFR-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people - and thus paid off and retained his internationalist political support." Curtis Fall My Exploited Father In Law FDR Page 185 "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." Woodrow Wilson The New Freedom Page 13-14 SAXON GREATNESS; Statement of His Aims, Written for W.T. Stead In 1890. He Believed a Wealthy Secret Society Should Work to Secure the World's Peace and a British-American Federation. Give this article April 9, 1902 NYT Are We Ready for a New World Order? | WGS2022 World Government Summit Clips Secretary Pompeo Participates in Q&A Discussion at Texas A&M University U.S. Department of State Min 29:25 Bill Clinton Speaks of Carroll Quigley

In this interview with Kevin Booth, we talk about his friendship throughout the years with Bill Hicks, his documentary film making, the war on drugs, Alex Jones and more. Kevin also produced some of Bill Hicks live shows, like Sane Man. I have created a Video and Audio version, due to my camera issues. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-example-of-a-politicians-hypocrisy-public-deceivery-bilderberg-mi6-bp-david-lammy-sunak Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/an-interview-with-scott-horton-bill-hicks-the-war-on-drugs-scott-s-anti-war-journey Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ https://rumble.com/user/TruthOverComfort https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/ Tik Tok @truthovercomfort https://www.tiktok.com/@truthovercomfort Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Kevin Booth's Links https://twitter.com/americandrugwar?lang=en Profile and All Documentaries - https://www.google.co.uk/search?sxsrf=AB5stBgh5A3hodUzNdW_Y4Mqtx8vGXfUqA:1690389434611&q=Kevin+Booth&si=ACFMAn-RuLols7Cpmmm1c63YqwDqHg5PF1YUOfiWr1Cm6F7c5snbY1MpHzJ_a_rWR3JltfX5Nu1eGgHUgJygOB1YWH7a62s3XHfe8K1bQCAqV1MtIMZd0aSG7MgQHapeyfMQqhp1V7O__cREpYU0SCCk80wr05B67Pc-pYa4Q6MdwGWeof9LqBQ%3D&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCuqCu56yAAxVBTUEAHTP3BPMQ6RN6BAgoEAE&biw=1745&bih=846&dpr=1.1 American Drug War: The Last White Hope 2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD3snUVJiQE American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCxaKoPN_yg Shadows of Sofia - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shadows+of+sofia Documentaries Culture High The House I Live In Kids For Cash Books Dark Alliance By Gary Webb Bill Hicks Sane Man Part 1 & Part 2 Relentless (Not Full) Bill Hicks American The Bill Hicks Story Rant In E Minor Revelations Show Notes Joe Rogan: Live from the Belly of the Beast Video 2001 Ninja Bachelor Party 1991 Bill Hicks Kevin Booth Sackler Family CoreCivic - Revenue Report GEO Group Annual Reports Page 4 & 23 Why are jail phone calls so expensive? BY TYLER KENDALL OCTOBER 13, 202 CBS President Obama Signs the Fair Sentencing Act AUGUST 3, 2010 White House Obama signs bill reducing sentencing gap By the CNN Wire Staff August 3, 2010 CNN Harry J. Anslinger Public Enemy Number One: A Pragmatic Approach to America’s Drug Problem Jun 29, 2016 Scott Horton Interview Incarceration in the United States "Although there are approximately 25,000 inmates who are waiting to work in UNICOR, only 8% of work-eligible inmates participate in the program where they typically earn between 23¢ to $1.15 per hour." Program Details UNICOR is a life-changing correctional program that has a profound impact on everyone in the community Gary Webb Coca Leafs Celerino Castillo III Offenses Statistics based on prior month's data -- -- Last Updated: Saturday, 15 July 2023 Shocking video shows man locked in jail cell on minor charge 'being ignored by prison guard as he dies from food allergy' Michael Saffioti, 22, turned himself in to police on July 2 last year for misdemeanour marijuana charge Mother received a call next morning letting her know her son was dead Autopsy report reveals Saffioti died from severe allergic reaction to dairy His mother is suing county in $10m wrongful death suit By DAILY MAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 03:39, 7 November 2013 - Video Settlement over Snohomish County Jail death totals $2.4M Originally published July 27, 2015

Jean-Luc Brunel, the former boss of a French model agency, accused of rape over a number of years and under investigation by French authorities on suspicion of trafficking underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in prison, in an alleged suicide. Brunel has been accused of rape over many years, including in a 1988 CBS 60 minutes piece. Among a number of figures surrounding Jeffery Epstein who been found dead. Jeffery Epstein, A Dead Clinton Aide And A Congressional Investigation Jean-Luc Brunel, held on suspicion of supplying girls to Epstein, found hanged - The Guardian 19th of Feb Jean-Luc Brunel: Epstein associate found dead in Paris prison cell Published - The BBC 19 February Jean-Luc Brunel Wiki Modeling agent Jean Luc Brunel charged with rape of a minor in Jeffrey Epstein probe - NBC December 19th 2020 GIUFFRE VS. MAXWELL Deposition VIRGINIA GIUFFRE 05/03/2016 Jean Luc Brunel 60 minutes American Girls in Paris 1988 Diane Sawyer report Bill Richardson Wiki

In today's video, I interview Stuart J Hooper, about the Military-Industrial Complex and how it has progressed over the years. Stuart is a lecturer and PHD researcher in the Military-Industrial Complex, Elites, War and Globalism. We discuss the complex that came out the ashes of WW2 and continued to grow through the cold war and to this day. We touch on how it has evolved, by using private contractors, arms corporations and Silicon Valley tech companies. Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Stuart J Hooper - Twitter - Youtube Afghanistan: $2 TRILLION Military Industrial Complex Boondoggle Aug 21, 2022 Allied Bombing Eisenhower Farewell 1961 Speech Military-Industrial-Complex Min 6 - Scientific Elite Min 9 - Transcript Iran coup Guatemala coup 1954 MK Ultra Gladio Five Eyes Iraq and Blackwater BP Iraq Oil Deal Blackwater Nisour Square massacre 45 Minutes From Attack Erik Prince WSJ Article Yemen Jeremy Hunt defends UK-Saudi ties after Yemen bus deaths - BBC News Saudi Arabia: Typhoon Aircraft Show full question Question for Ministry of Defence UIN 89805, tabled on 14 September 2020 UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia: Q&A Research Briefing Published Friday, 29 January, 2021 ‘The Saudis couldn’t do it without us’: the UK’s true role in Yemen’s deadly war Tech Amazon and Microsoft battle for $10bn 'war cloud' contract with Pentagon In Q Tel UkraineX: How Elon Musk’s space satellites changed the war on the ground Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan is getting rid of the military's 'top recruiting incentive' of free education, 19 GOP lawmakers say Iran-Contra - Nicaragua Senate passes $40 billion Ukraine aid package - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3494632-senate-passes-40-billion-ukraine-aid-package/ Senate Blocks Bill - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3494868-senate-blocks-48-billion-aid-package-for-restaurants-other-small-businesses/ Is the Ukraine-Russia War Assistance Humanitarian Or A Proxy War?​ (truthovercomfort.co.uk) Governments, Oil, Banking And Arms Sure Love Think Tanks (truthovercomfort.co.uk) The US: The Country That Pretends To Care About Other Peoples Citizens More Than It's Own (truthovercomfort.co.uk) Shareholders Disney Lockheed Martin Apple Books The Power Elite by C Right Mills Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips - Giants: Who Really Rules The World? Abby Martin Peter Phillips Apr 14, 2019 Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre ARMS AND INFLUENCE by THOMAS C. SCHELLING Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet Front Cover Yasha Levine The Future of War: A History by Lawrence Freedman Killing Hope US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum

In todays video, I conducted an interview with James Corbett, about the Media, his recent video "The Media Are The Terrorists" and the Werther effect (copy cat effect ). We discuss the reasons why the media are seemingly incapable of telling the truth for certain subjects, the societal effect of the media and how tragic events are often a televised movie like event in peoples minds. The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and more. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series. Previous Video - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/the-buck-stops-at-the-qatar-world-cup-and-sports-washing-the-economic-links Previous Interview - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/russia-ukraine-an-interview-with-matthew-hoh Please feel free to comment if I have missed any links in the show notes. https://www.youtube.com/@truthovercomfort9162/videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jc56qKZUGuFj/ Twitter @truthovercomfo2 - https://twitter.com/truthovercomfo2 Instagram truthovercomfort30 - https://www.instagram.com/truthovercomfort30/ Episode 430 - The Media Are the Terrorists (Some of the show notes can be found in here) Conspiracy theory rock SNL (GE) Mass Media Course https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/abc-anchor-admits-the-network-quashed-the-epstein-scandal-years-before-it-came-out Project Veritas Leaked Audio ABC https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/irrefutable-proof-the-mainstream-media-self-censor-make-huge-omissions-or-are-directed-to John Kerry - Leaked Audio Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim PART 2: CNN Director Reveals That Network Practices ‘Art of Manipulation’ to ‘Change The World’ (Covid Death Count) YouTube Blacklists Federal Reserve Information. It's Up To YOU To Spread It! Chris Hayes Tweet Werther Effect The Psychological Implications of Media-Covered Terrorism RAND The Bombings of America That We Forgot Time Magazine Brian Williams is guided by the beauty of our weapons in Syria strikes Corbett Report Radio 182 - The Copycat Effect with Loren Coleman Witness survives by pretending to be dead April 17, 2007 CNN Neil Postman Books BBC Sir Jeremy Fleming Guest Edits Today Best of Today Highlights from GCHQ director Sir Jeremy Fleming's guest edit of Today Show Release date:29 December 2022 Episode 432 - The CIA and the News Media 2.0