20 yrs ago tonight, 9:34pm EDT, Operation Iraqi Freedom began when the US, UK, and other “Coalition of the Willing” partners launched a "Shock and Awe" aerial bombing campaign and invasion of Iraq to find and destroy nonexistent WMDs. The total cumulative cost exceeded $2 trillion. Recall that $2.3 trillion went mysteriously missing on Sept 10, 2001, according to testimony by Donald Rumsfeld.
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320 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired by US warships deployed in the region.
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Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 (PDF report by Oxford professor Neta C. Crawford)
Larry Blake, born March 19, 1915, (d. 1971) the auteur behind the 1961 Civil Defense scare album, "The Complacent Americans" that you gotta hear it to believe it.
"The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! Flash of brightness. A tremendous roar... And I, the complacent American, thinking that no one would ever dare attack an American city. And I told my friends that nuclear war would never happen... but it did. I always thought I was a good American - patriotic and civic minded. But I was wrong. I failed myself and my country." The album ends with these comforting, yet difficult to believe, words:
"Follow all these rules and you WILL survive!"
The Office of Civil Defense, a sub-branch of the U.S. government was later replaced by FEMA.
Future Life #27, June 1981:
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Solid black areas represent primary targets; open circles represent secondary targets. Yep, my ass would of been blown off this map.
Photo by Michael Sullivan for the article "Survivalists" ("they're Americans preparing for the worst—nuclear holocaust, economic collapse, race riots. They're taking to the hills, but are their fears warranted?") by Suzanne Weyn from Future Life #27, June 1981.
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Painting by Hans Ulrich and Ute Osterwalder for the cover of "Flow my Tears the Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick, 1975.
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Observer I by Piotr Baćko:
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My cat when I'm 1 second late with dinner.
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Patrick McGoohan [March 19, 1928 - January 13, 2009].
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Donald Trump said Friday (March 17) that Mar-a-Lago has "bomb shelters" and from a 2007 Esquire article, "we did tests..."
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Trump (Jan 2007)
Monkey news...
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Monkey Times
320 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired by US warships deployed in the region.
Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 (PDF report by Oxford professor Neta C. Crawford)
Larry Blake, born March 19, 1915, (d. 1971) the auteur behind the 1961 Civil Defense scare album, "The Complacent Americans" that you gotta hear it to believe it.
"The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! Flash of brightness. A tremendous roar... And I, the complacent American, thinking that no one would ever dare attack an American city. And I told my friends that nuclear war would never happen... but it did. I always thought I was a good American - patriotic and civic minded. But I was wrong. I failed myself and my country." The album ends with these comforting, yet difficult to believe, words:
"Follow all these rules and you WILL survive!"
The Office of Civil Defense, a sub-branch of the U.S. government was later replaced by FEMA.
Future Life #27, June 1981:
Solid black areas represent primary targets; open circles represent secondary targets. Yep, my ass would of been blown off this map.
Photo by Michael Sullivan for the article "Survivalists" ("they're Americans preparing for the worst—nuclear holocaust, economic collapse, race riots. They're taking to the hills, but are their fears warranted?") by Suzanne Weyn from Future Life #27, June 1981.
Painting by Hans Ulrich and Ute Osterwalder for the cover of "Flow my Tears the Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick, 1975.
Observer I by Piotr Baćko:
My cat when I'm 1 second late with dinner.
Patrick McGoohan [March 19, 1928 - January 13, 2009].
Donald Trump said Friday (March 17) that Mar-a-Lago has "bomb shelters" and from a 2007 Esquire article, "we did tests..."
Trump (Jan 2007)
Monkey news...
Monkey Times
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