OPCW down in flames (thankfully), along with the USA's Douma, Syria "fake news" narrative. Shocking threats to (now former) OPCW senior members and their family and children: “I fear those behind the crimes that have been perpetrated in the name of ‘humanity and democracy,’” the official confided, “they will not hesitate to do harm to me and my family, they have done worse, many times, even in the UK… I don’t want to expose my self and my family to their violence and revenge, I don’t want to live in fear of crossing the street!” John Bolton (recent USA NSC "advisor") gots an OPCW look in with this one little "violent threats upon your family" trick against then- first Director-General of the OPCW, Jose Bustani: The US intervention at the OPCW could possibly violate the chemical weapons convention, which forbids state parties from attempting to influence investigations. It would not be the first time Washington has attempted to bully the OPCW into submission. During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002, the George W. Bush administration engineered the ouster of the OPCW’s First Director-General, Jose Bustani. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/world/to-ousted-boss-arms-watchdog-was-se... The Bush administration was concerned that Bustani’s negotiations with Iraq about allowing international inspectors could undermine its plans for war. Bustani later revealed that John Bolton, then an under secretary of state, had personally threatened him and his family with violent retaliation. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/29/john-bolton-trump-bush-bustani-kids-opcw... The US pressure on the OPCW over Douma also took place under Bolton’s watch. When the US bombed Syria in April 2018 and pressured OPCW officials just three months later, Bolton was in the midst of his first months as President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor. (Bustani, meanwhile, was among a group of panelists who heard direct testimony from Alex at a gathering convened by the Courage Foundation in October 2019.) https://couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-panel-statement/ America the bully. A bully is fundamentally weak, fears the truth, and lives in shame. This is the USA. This is why the empire must end, and thankfully one, and now a few on the world stage, have stood long enough without being murdered that the uni polar world's end is quite near. Prepare yourself wisely - change comes soon. The rest of the comprehensive OPCW take down here: New Leaks Shatter OPCW's Attacks On Douma Whistleblowers https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-attacks-douma... Authored by Aaron Maté via TheGrayZone.com, https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/11/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-attacks-douma-whi... ... Western media outlets complicit in cover-up The OPCW’s unprecedented rebuke of two career officials has received a warm reception in mainstream media outlets that have carefully ignored the OPCW scandal to date, turning a blind eye as one explosive internal document after another appeared on Wikileaks. Though the scandal was itself a product of disclosures by the OPCW’s own staff, The Guardian bizarrely described it instead as “a Russia-led campaign” that has now “been dealt a blow” by the OPCW’s inquiry. The New York Times published reports by Reuters and the Associated Press that also aired the inquiry’s conclusions without a scintilla of critical scrutiny. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/inquiry-strikes-blow-to-russia... https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/02/06/world/europe/06reuters-syria-secu... https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/06/world/europe/ap-eu-chemical-weap... ... As the email by a “former senior official at the OPCW” – someone who was not among the pair of dissenting inspectors – made clear, fear within the organization is almost as profound as the pressure to self-censor and conform to the dominant narrative. The experience of the OPCW’s first director-general, Jose Bustani – who was ousted from his position after direct threats from John Bolton to him and his family – attests to the threats these new whistleblowers face. When Bustani heard Alex’s testimony, he came away from the meeting firmly convinced that something had gone extremely wrong at the OPCW. https://couragefound.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Analytical-Points.pdf “The convincing evidence of irregular behaviour in the OPCW investigation of the alleged Douma chemical attack confirms doubts and suspicions I already had,” Bustani said after the session. “The picture is certainly clearer now, although very disturbing.” Bustani added that he hoped the Douma revelations “will catalyse a process by which the [OPCW] can be resurrected to become the independent and non-discriminatory body it used to be.” ... Thank you Aaron Maté! On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 04:35:02PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 10:15:34AM -0700, Razer wrote:
On 04/07/2017 09:21 AM, grarpamp wrote:
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
It gets 'better' ... The New York Times reporter writing the hit piece blaming the Syrian govt for the chemical weapons attack that never happened also 'co-wrote the Iraq aluminum tube story in 2002':
https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/850359176505298949 On never happening...
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/63xaqh/us_launches_missiles_at_syrian...
"Allow me to break it down a bit, and prove to you that this is a massive false flag for multiple reasons First, our narrative "Gas Attack" happens 45 minutes after the Susan Rice story makes FOX news First outlets to run the story: WSJ, NYT, MSNBC, and CNN. Plaster pictures of dead kids all over their outlets. Completely ignoring and derailing the biggest scandal in modern US political history. "
ps: Stockholm authorities busy inciting nationwide fear right now too...
US Trump/Repubs killing net neutrality so problematic live feeds from indie street journos can get region killed because oh muh tier-1 bandwidths are aching.
The US even ignored it's own 'Rebels" eyewitness account. They claimed it was an SU-22 that hit the building containing the CWD. That aircraft isn't normally capable of carrying CWDs and I SERIOUSLY DOUBT the Russians would give the SAF the proper mounts to do so, even if available. I'm also VERY SKEPTICAL that the CW agent was Sarin. There's loads of pics of USAID's "White Helmets" handing the victims without even gloves on yet no reports of sick or dead 'helmets', and initial reports coming out of Idlib passed on by regional twitter accounts at the time claimed it was probably Chlorine.
Nevertheless, this was NOT a "Chemical Attack", it was a "Chemical Release" from a building under control of the so-called 'rebels' who were apparently manufacturing CWDs in the vicinity of civilian populations and the US is using it as a post-facto excuse, by distorting the facts, for their weeks-old boots-on-Syrian-soil-illegally invasion of the country.
All the creeps are cheering:
https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/850381753554313216 https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/850185408394780674 https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/850386646725926912 https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/850381915890753536
https://twitter.com/SaudiEmbassyUSA/status/850229963995336705
Raytheon's stocks rose 2.1% pre-trading day even though many of the missiles failed.
https://twitter.com/ReutersBiz/status/850317898711257089 https://twitter.com/IraqiSecurity/status/850386466207387649
And from today's "surprise fscking surprise" dept - looks like the news of Wikileaks' death is premature - to whomever blew the whistle on this one, thank you:
WikiLeaks Releases New Documents Questioning Syria Chemical Attack Narrative https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wikileaks-releases-new-documents-ques...
A whistleblower with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), responsible for conducting an independent investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma on April 7, 2018, has presented WikiLeaks with a body of evidence suggesting the chemical weapons watchdog agency manipulated and suppressed evidence.
A prior official OPCW report of the investigation issued last March found "reasonable grounds" for believing a toxic chemical was used against civilians, likely chlorine. Long prior to any independent investigators reaching the site, however, Washington had launched major tomahawk airstrikes against Damascus in retribution for "Assad gassing his own people".
WikiLeks release: A statement from the panel tasked with investigating evidence from a OPCW whistleblower regarding the Douma alleged chemical attack in Syria, April 7, 2018. casts doubts on the accuracy of the OPCW final report. https://t.co/0y1MRStibG — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 23, 2019
WikiLeaks published documents based on evidence presented by the internal OPCW whistleblower to an expert review panel on Wednesday. “The panel was presented with evidence that casts doubt on the integrity of the OPCW,” WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson wrote. ...