Day 8 (20 day story) year 2007
2007 – “Report Suspicious Activity”
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2007 “Made in America”
01/10/2007 – NEWS: Bush announces planning to send 21,500 troops to Iraq.
2007 “Global Warming”
01/30/2007 – GLOBAL WARMING: CBS NEWS: “Two private advocacy groups told a congressional hearing Tuesday that climate scientists at seven government agencies say they have been subjected to political pressure aimed at downplaying the threat of global warming. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/groups-say-scientists-pressured-on-warming/
02/2007 – GLOBAL WARMING: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) report finds ExxonMobil spent nearly $16 million to fund skeptic groups and create confusion around the certainty of global warming and used its access to the Bush administration to block federal policies and shape government communications on global warming.
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdf
International debates between scientists and government officials continue to volley.
03/2007 – GLOBAL WARMING: United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “Fourth Assessment Report” on Climate Change
The report is the largest and most detailed summary of the climate change situation ever undertaken, produced by thousands of authors, editors, and reviewers from dozens of countries, citing over 6,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies.
2007 “Un Employed”
REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY: AAA rating agencies Moodys. Standard & Poor’s and Fitch make billions in profits on the sub prime home mortgage advice they gave investors. Advisors in control took advantage of the ones being controlled
08/17/2007 (Friday): Lending Market Collapses. I remember. We had an appointment the following Monday with a lending broker. Over that weekend our life altered direction.
2007: Lenders began foreclosure proceedings on nearly 1.3 million properties, a 79% increase over 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis#Housing_market
2007 – American credit card debt surges. Prime interest rate is 8.25%.
2007 – 850,912 people and business declare BANKRUPTCY.
2007 – Our inflated assets deflated.
2007 – C.P.I. (Consumer Price Index): The value of $1 U.S.D is .80 cents compared to 2000.
2007 “Future of Terrorism”
2007 – Over 1 MILLION illegal immigrants leave and or deported nation wide.
2007 – Missing $1 billion in tractor-trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces.
12/06/2007 CBS News: Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq – $10 billion – Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported – $1.4 billion
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Day 7 (20 day story) year 2006
YEAR 2006 – “Where Do We Go From Here”
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2006 “With US or your a Terrorists”
01/19/2006 – NEWS VIA Audio Tape: After a year of silence, Osama bin Laden says al-Qaeda is, planning to attack the United States.
2006 “Sticking to His Guns”
02/09/2006 – NEWS: President Bush signs the law renewing the Patriot Act, including a statement stating that he does not consider himself bound by its requirement to tell Congress how the law is being used.
02/15/2006 – NEWS: House releases report on the response to Hurricane Katrina, assigning blame on all levels of government.
2006 “GLOBAL WARMING”
An Inconvenient Truth (Documentary Film 2006) opened the world’s eyes to climate change and sparked a worldwide conversation that continues today.
Climate change reports are in the news media. Pros and cons are advertised as truth and fiction.
2006 “Economy”
2006 – American economy starts its downward flow.
2006 – AAA Rating agencies make billions in profits – Home loans started declining. – Over 90% of subprime mortgages were adjustable-rate mortgages.
2006 – 617,660 file bankruptcy
2006 – Unemployment 7 Million
2006 – US: Products bought in America are overwhelmingly made in China and India.
Early 2006 – “Revolt of the Generals “six retired generals, publicly criticized Bush’s handling of the Iraq war and some generals demanded the firing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
2006 – Scandals of military prisoner abuse surface.
2006 – War spending in Iraq and Afghanistan steadily increases.
2006 “WHO GETS TO BE AN AMERICAN?”
2006 – Millions of people protest over proposed change to U.S. Immigration Policy.
11/07/2006 – NEWS: Democrats take back Congress
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Day 6 (20 day story) year 2005
Year 2005 – Art Title: “Katrina”
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Slide 30. 2005 – “CAFTA“
06/01/2005 – Paul Wolfowitz, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense and one of the 25 signatories of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), becomes President of the World Bank.
08/02/2005 – Bush signs CAFTA Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Slide 31. 2005 – “Katrina“
08/25/2005 – Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast causing severe destruction from Florida to Texas. 80% of New Orleans was under water. More than one million Gulf Coast residents were displaced. Investigators ignored multiple witnesses reports of hearing explosions before the levees broke.
Slide 32. 2005 – “FEMA“
2005 – The Federal Emergency Management Agency – FEMA – was not properly prepared to meet the Katrina challenge. Over 1,300 people perish in one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States.
Slide 33. 2005 – “Patriot Act“
12/15/ 2005 – The New York Times reports that in 2002, Bush signed The US Patriot Act to allow the National Security Agency to spy on Americans suspected of being connected to terrorist activity without a warrant. This order is in open disregard to our Bill of Rights and the US Constitution that Bush had sworn to defend.
12/17/2005 – Bush confirms secret eavesdropping program and lashed out at those involved in publicly revealing the program.
Slide 34. 2005 – “H.R. 4437”
12/16/2005: H.R. 4437 the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act is passed by the Unites States House of Representatives. It is now a Felony crime to help an illegal immigrant to enter or remain in the U.S. – By 2007 over 1 million people had left the US on their own.
2005 – The housing market boom starts to decline as foreclosures increase.
2005 – Gas Prices go up from $1.70 to $3.10 per gallon.
Exxon Mobile, Chevron, BP, Conoco Phillips, Valero Energy and American arms of Royal Dutch Shell earned $110. Billion in Profit. When asked how they could justify these increases, their response was “We have a right to make a profit”.
2005 – War spending in Iraq and Afghanistan increases as the “War on Terror” Continues.
2005 – Majority of Americans believe the Iraq invasion was a mistake.
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Day 5 (20 day story) year 2004
Year 2004 – Art Title: “No Draft”
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Mood Of The Nation: In 2004 during our presidential election President George W. Bush said there would be NO DRAFT! This made us feel that the war in Afghanistan and Iraq were under control. His words made us feel that our soldiers would be coming home soon.
11/04/2004 – Bush wins Re-Election
Backdoor Draft: Bush promised the American people that there would be no draft. Instead he called in the “Backdoor Draft” which kept more than 50,000 military service members in service beyond their original agreements.
Americans were not aware that increases in military spending also went to hiring private multinational mercenaries to fight for us.
02/03/2004 – CIA admits that the imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction was not present before the 2003 Iraq invasion began.
06/09/2003 – The Senate Intelligence Committee released a unanimous “Report on Pre-War Intelligence on Iraq,” evaluating the assessments that formed the basis for the Bush administration’s justifications for the war.
It strongly criticized the CIA and other intelligence agencies, concluding that “most of the major key judgments” on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were either “overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence report.”
It challenged the CIA’s assertions (declaration, statement, claim, allegation, affirmation), that Iraq was reconstituting (building up again) its nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs.
It also concluded that there were “no operational links” between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, exposing another false justification for the war used by Bush and Cheney.
In October, the Iraq Survey Group’s final report confirmed that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction nor a formal plan to revive its WMD program.
In response, Bush says “Removal of Iraq’s repressive dictatorship is grounds enough for waging war” and contended “America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison.” That was not what he said before to the UN, Congress and the American People.
2004 – US Home-ownership all time high of 69%.
2004 – Federal budget deficit reached a record $413 billion in 2004.
The “Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that two-thirds of the 2004 deficit were the result of Bush Tax Cuts.
The Bush administration countered that the president’s tax cuts had in fact kept the country’s recession shallow and brief and were now stimulating the economy.
2004 – The United States has the highest prison population in the world.
Ten (10) million people were on probation, in jail or in prison.
2004 – Iraq descends into chaos.
10/25/2004 “Report Suspicious Activity”: 380 tons, or about 100 truckloads of explosives are reported missing from a military installation south of Baghdad.
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Day 4 (20 day story) year 2003
Year 2003 – Art Title: “21 Days to Baghdad”
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01/15/2003 – White House announces huge deficits expected to top $200 billion in 2003 (due to the Bush Tax Cuts and the War in Afghanistan)
01/28/2003 – In his State of the Union address Bush said erroneously: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” and announces he is ready to attack Iraq even without a UN mandate.
02/05/2003 – US Secretary of State Colin Powell tells the United Nations about the threat of Iraqi weapons. He held up a vial of white powder equivalent to a teaspoon of anthrax and said that a lesser amount had closed down the United States Senate in 2001. Powell noted that according to UN Inspectors Iraq “could have produced 25,000 liters” of Anthrax”. While the UN inspectors had not accounted for any of this deadly material.
No Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) – Anthrax Coincidence
Much searching in Iraq found no WMD and the 2001 Anthrax scare was a domestic issue that had nothing to do with 9/11 or being under terrorist attack. Critical information was falsified and exaggerated, with the complicity of Mainstream Media, to engage our support for war in the Middle East.
The person the FBI named in 2006 as a possible suspect for the anthrax letters had no link to Iraq. He was Bruce Ivins, a scientist working at the Army’s biodefence labs at Fort Detrick, MD. Ivins denied any involvement and he committed a suspicious suicide in 2008. No formal charges were ever filed against him and no direct evidence of his involvement has been uncovered.
02/15/2003: Largest protest day in human history.
Massive peace demonstrations take place in the US and around the world, protesting the potential invasion of Iraq. They were ignored by our elected officials and by our mainstream media.
What do we have in common?
Fear! I wanted to protest but I was afraid.
02/18/2003: 100,000 U.S. troops were assembled in Kuwait in preparation for the invasion of Iraq.
03/20-21/2003: U.S. invades Iraq “21 days to Baghdad”
The world watched as U.S. Forces and their allies attack Baghdad.
05/11/2003: Weeks after the 21 days of Baghdad, Generals in charge of operations were removed from Iraq. On May 11, 2003 Paul Bremer took charge as the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
His first two orders destabilized the remaining Iraqi government and dismantled the Iraqi military putting 400,000 Iraqi soldiers out of a job. Soldiers were told to lay down their weapons and go home. Tune into a local radio station and wait further instructions. The resulting massive unemployment fueled the insurgency.
During his 13 months in Iraq, Paul Bremer established 100 new orders for governing the Iraqi people, including:
Order #12: Trade Liberalization Policy: Suspends all tariffs, customs duties, import taxes, licensing fees and similar surcharges for goods entering or leaving Iraq. This led to an immediate and dramatic inflow of cheap consumer products, which essentially wiped out all local providers of the same products.
Order #40: BANK LAW: Turned the banking sector from a state-run to a market-driven system overnight by allowing foreign banks to enter the Iraqi market and to purchase up to 50 percent of Iraqi banks.
Order #81: PLANT VARIETY LAW: Prohibits Iraqi farmers from using their own seeds and forcing them to buy seeds from multinational seed corporations from the US and Europe.
07/09/2003 – Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the price of the Iraq war is about 3.9 billion a month. Nearly double the 04/2003 estimates.
We were told that Iraq was building and concealing Weapons of Mass Destruction. This justified the war but there were no WMD. Oops!
2003 Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan lowers Federal Reserve’s key interest rate to 1%. New and refinanced Home Mortgages are BOOMING as Americans take advantage of the lowest interest rates since 1958.
2003 – Census Bureau reported the number of Americans living in poverty had increased by 1.3 million in 2003 and the ranks of those without health insurance had increased by 1.4 million, the third straight annual increase in both categories.
2003 – Depression: 10 Million Americans suffer from Major Depressive Disorder.
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