Iraq Demands Return Of 3,000 Yr Old Assyrian Artifact Which Is Up For Sale At Christie’s

iraqNiamh Harris – A 3000-year-old Assyrian artifact is about to go on sale at Christie’s auction house in New York where it is expected to fetch more than $10 million.

However, the Iraqi government has demanded a halt to the sale of the two meter frieze and is demanding the plundered artifact is returned to its native Iraq.

The rare antiquity, which depicts the deity known as Apkallu, or “winged genius,” was excavated in the middle of the 19th century from the ruins of the Northwest Palace in Nimrud, in what is present-day Iraq. Continue reading

Mainstream fake-news: the devious limited hangout Jun 4

biowarJon Rappoport – Big media attacks “fake news.” Independent reporters rightly point the finger at big media as the predominant purveyor of fake news.

Here I want to comment on one of the most devious forms of MSM fake news: the limited hangout.

When necessary, news outlets will do a partial exposure of a hidden crime. The assumption is, once the story is published and broadcast, everyone will shake their heads and say, “That’s terrible,” and move on. The whole thing will be forgotten in a matter of days, as if the whole truth has been revealed. Limited hangout.

From media’s point of view, a limited hangout means: “We won’t do any further digging. We’ll shut down further investigation.” Vital questions won’t be asked:

Why did the criminals do what they did? Why are they still at large? Who is refusing to press charges and make arrests? What deeper crimes are still secret? Continue reading

Iraqis Erect 30-Foot Christmas Tree To Celebrate Defeat Of ISIS

Sean Adl-Tabatabai – Residents of Baghdad have erected a 30-foot-tall Christmas tree to mark the defeat of ISIS who were beaten back by Iraqi Security Forces.

Breitbart.com reports: Presidential spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders also remarked on the incredible display in a December 24 tweet reading, “Thank God for the President’s leadership in fight to defeat ISIS”: Continue reading

Strange Messages From The Middle East: Part Two: Iraq

finjanJoseph Farrell – Yesterday, you’ll recall, I blogged about the strange statement of Russian Major General Igor Konshenkov, a statement that was clearly directed to the war party in Washington. Konshenkov, you’ll recall, stated that the Russian air and missile defense systems in Syria were now fully operational, and that they had an operational range that would be a “surprise” to Washington and to any and all “unidentified flying objects” entering Syrian airspace.

As I pointed out, the more prosaic and probable meaning of that statement was simply “any unknown” object entering Syrian airspace not supplying proper electronic “ident” or identification from transponders or in response to commands from Russian and/or Syrian authorities to identify itself (or be shot down). But, as in the case of Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s use of “tectonic consequences” should Washington pursue its war path, General Konshenkov’s message carried deeper and undeniable implications, for “unidentified flying objects,” he would know, carries a certain colloquial meaning in American English which is unavoidable.

That colloquial meaning is simply “flying saucer,” i.e., a nuts-and-bolts advanced technology not originating from earth or humans, and a nuts-and-bolts technology that originates from advanced human black projects. Interpreted with this in mind, General Konshenkov’s remarks take on a whole new and much deeper, mysterious, and more profound set of meanings and implications, meanings and implications that imply some “off-world, outer-space” connection to Middle Eastern geopolitics.

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Iraq and 9/11

Michelle Walling – Gulf War I was a set-up. Saddam Hussein asked us. He was strapped for cash from the Iran-Iraq War. He had received a $5 billion loan at the direction of our own government (through Baker and Kissinger), that he otherwise would not have qualified for, and couldn’t pay it back (as expected). The invasion of Kuwait was the only option he had left, assuming that he didn’t want his government to suffer a complete economic collapse.

Kuwait had once belonged to Iraq. Saddam did not intend to destroy it. He only wanted it to be part of Iraq. He made his intentions very clear before the invasion.

On July 25th 1990 he had asked us our position before invading, through our U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie, who told him, “ I have direct instructions from President Bush (Senior) to improve our relations with Iraq. We have considerable sympathy for your quest for higher oil prices…we have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, like your dispute with Kuwait…Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960’s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.”

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In short,we said, through both the President and the Secretary of State that “whatever you want to do with Kuwait is OK with us”.

Immediately after Saddam invaded Kuwait, the U.S. responded by freezing Iraq’s assets, warning Saudi Arabia that he was out of control, and began preparations for war.
April Glaspie was silenced. The public was never told of the treachery of Baker and Bush. Saddam Hussein was set up.

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