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On May 1, 2001, the CIA informed the White House that “a group presently in the United States” was in the process of planning a terrorist attack.
Some of the most persistent conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks involve people supposedly benefiting from foreknowledge of the event, whether it be a group of World Trade Center workers who “fortuitously” called in sick and escaped certain death that day, or investors who “fortuitously” bought “put options” on United and American Airlines stock immediately before the attacks, thus profiting when the prices of those stocks fell afterwards.
American businessman Larry Silverstein, who famously signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center complex in June 2001, two months before the attacks, is at the center of another story about profiting from the event:
Just months before 9/11, the World Trade Center’s lease was sold to Larry Silverstein. Silverstein took out an insurance plan that ‘fortuitously’ covered terrorism. After 9/11, Silverstein took the insurance company to court, claiming he should be paid double because there were 2 attacks. He won, and was awarded $4,550,000,000.
While the story obviously contains elements of fact, it’s also partly fiction — most notably the implication, made via the use of scare quotes around the word “fortuitous,” that Silverstein’s decision to purchase terrorism insurance just before 9/11 was no mere coincidence.
There are several underlying assumptions at work here: that the World Trade Center must not have had terrorism insurance before Silverstein took over; that selecting such coverage was purely optional; and that because he “chose” to buy such coverage when he did, Silverstein must have known in advance that (and when) terrorists would strike.
It’s important to note that, despite appearances, Silverstein wasn’t actually the sole leaseholder of the World Trade Center: He led a consortium of investors and lenders which included GMAC Commercial Mortgage (a General Motors subsidiary), Westfield America Inc. (a shopping center developer), and real estate investor Lloyd Goldman. All these entities had a voice in deciding how much insurance coverage the properties would have, and each had some claim on whatever insurance monies were paid out.
Hu, long having been anointed by Deng as Jiang’s successor, took over the presidency in 2003, and also held the offices of General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. Hu presided over nearly a decade of consistent economic growth and a relatively smooth recovery from the Global Financial Crisis. China emerged as a major world power during Hu’s term, as China began taking on a more prominent role globally, such as at the G20 and global efforts at combating climate change. Hu’s chief domestic focus was building a more egalitarian society focused on improving living standards for disadvantaged populations. During Hu’s tenure, China’s influence in Africa, Latin America, and other developing countries increased.
Android began in 2003 as a project of the American technology company Android Inc., to develop an operating system for digital cameras. In 2004 the project changed to become an operating system for smartphones.
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After spending nine months on the run, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is captured on December 13, 2003. Saddam’s downfall began on March 20, 2003, when the United States led an invasion force into Iraq to topple his government, which had controlled the country for more than 20 years.
It is the most elite club in the world. You simply have to be very, very rich and very, very generous. On a global scale. This is the Good Club, the name given to the tiny global elite of billionaire philanthropists who recently held their first and highly secretive meeting in the heart of New York City. The names of some of the members are familiar figures: Bill Gates, George Soros, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, David Rockefeller and Ted Turner. But there are others, too, like business giants Eli and Edythe Broad, who are equally wealthy but less well known. All told, its members are worth $125bn. The meeting - called by Gates, Buffett and Rockefeller - was held in response to the global economic downturn and the numerous health and environmental crises that are plaguing the globe. It was, in some ways, a summit to save the world.
Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1:00 a.m. PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six).
Xi became President in 2013, and also held the offices of General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. Xi increased the profile of the office of president in foreign affairs, for example receiving other heads of state during the 2015 China Victory Day Parade, going on high-profile visits to the United Kingdom and the United States, and making an important address at the Global Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Term limits for the president were removed in 2018.
On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii, and in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill.
On June 8, 2013, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James R. Clapper denounced as “reckless” the disclosures of “intelligence community measures used to keep Americans safe.” He condemned the leaks as having done “huge, grave damage” to the U.S. intelligence capabilities.
Later that month, U.S. President Barack Obama was dismissive of Snowden, saying, “I’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker.” In early August, Obama said that Snowden was no patriot and that Americans would have been better off if they had remained unaware of the NSA surveillance activities that Snowden revealed. Obama also said that he had “called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before Mr. Snowden made these leaks…. My preference, and I think the American people’s preference, would have been for a lawful, orderly examination of these laws; a thoughtful fact-based debate that would then lead us to a better place.”
On August 4, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said on the weekly ABC interview show This Week that Snowden “has caused us some considerable damage to our intelligence architecture. Our adversaries are changing the way that they communicate.”
In September, DNI Clapper acknowledged that Snowden may have done a public service and started a needed debate about the balance between privacy and security. “As loath as I am to give any credit for what’s happened here, which was egregious, I think it’s clear that some of the conversations that this has generated, some of the debate, actually probably needed to happen,” he said. “It’s unfortunate they didn’t happen some time ago, but if there’s a good side to this, that’s it.”
On January 29, 2014, DNI Clapper gave public testimony to a session of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He asked that “Snowden and his accomplices” return the purloined NSA documents. When Clapper was asked whether the word “accomplices” referred to journalists, Clapper’s spokesperson Shawn Turner responded, “Director Clapper was referring to anyone who is assisting Edward Snowden to further threaten our national security through the unauthorized disclosure of stolen documents related to lawful foreign intelligence collection programs.”
In late June 2013, Former US President Jimmy Carter said: “He’s obviously violated the laws of America, for which he’s responsible, but I think the invasion of human rights and American privacy has gone too far … I think that the secrecy that has been surrounding this invasion of privacy has been excessive, so I think that the bringing of it to the public notice has probably been, in the long term, beneficial.”
Earlier that month, former Vice President Dick Cheney suggested that Snowden might be a spy working for the Chinese government
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On October 22, 2016, AT&T reached a deal to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion. If approved by federal regulators, the merger would bring Time Warner’s properties under the same umbrella as AT&T’s telecommunication holdings, including satellite provider DirecTV.
Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft who has spent billions in a philanthropic drive to improve health worldwide, said: “The next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus … or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu.”
This would include 20th Century Fox, National Geographic, FX Networks, X-Men, Family Guy, and of course, The Simpsons.
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The reason for drastic 2 week shutdown was to decrease the amount of hospital visits so they were not over ran.
The presidency of the Superior Court of Justice of Ica and the Decentralized Office of Control of the Magistrature ODECMA Ica, in relation to the news spread in some media, where they state “ Sala affirms that the covid-19 was created by Bill Gates, Soros, Rockefeller, etc. («New world order») ”and they develop the news, specifying that the Criminal Appeals Chamber of Chincha and Pisco, reflected these arguments in the order of hearing that declared the request for an extension of preventive detention to be founded, make known the following:
That, in such circumstances, the head of the Decentralized Office for the Control of the Magistracy – ODECMA Ica, has ordered the initiation of a preliminary investigation to the superior judges of the Criminal Appeals Chamber of Chincha and Pisco, in order to collect the elements evidence that helps determine the existence or not of alleged irregularities.
The preliminary investigation carried out by the Disciplinary Body takes place within the framework of due administrative procedure, and is for the clarification of the disputed facts.
The lawyer Miguel Pérez Arroyo published the extract of the controversial judicial reasoning, and LP published the order issued on December 21, 2020, which confirmed the resolution that declared the requirement to extend the preventive prison founded .
The presidency of the Superior Court of Justice of Ica and the Decentralized Office of Control of the Magistrature Odecma Ica issued a statement in which they announced that the beginning of a preliminary investigation to the superior judges that reflected in a resolution that the covid-19 is an invention of the “global criminal elites” (new world order) that make up billionaires like Bill Gates, George Soros, Rockefeller and company.
The Plenary Agreement 01-2017 in its 18th foundation states: “… an extension of the preventive detention cannot be accepted if the criminal process was paralyzed without any cause of justification that legitimizes it …” In the sub judice case, the criminal process was paralyzed due to the Covid 19 pandemic, created by the criminal elites, who dominate the world; and that it paralyzed the activities in almost all the countries of the globe, and no one imagined its advent and its continuation in the future. This event has an “unpredictable” nature, and is a justified cause that paralyzed, and will continue to hinder, not only the judicial work of the world’s Courts of Justice, but all economic, social and cultural activities, and until now it has been doing so with pre-existing restrictions, including in our country. Therefore, no world government, natural and legal persons, or the defendant’s defense, can maintain that this pandemic has the quality of “predictable”, except for its creators of the new world order like Bille Gate [sic], Soros, Rockefeller, etc. that handled it and continue to direct it with extreme secrecy within their environments and global corporations, with projections for the 2030 project. This being the case, the covid 19 pandemic undoubtedly constitutes a “special difficulty in hindering the investigation or criminal process ”.