watched the latest episode of 'motherland:fort salem' last night after blogging. and it hit me. all 3 shows i've been blogging about for the last few years are ending this summer. this is the final season of 'motherland: fort salem' and that was announced before filming began. 'animal kingdom' just started it's last season, also announced as the last season before filming began. and this summer, 'the cw' burns off the last episodes of 'dynasty' after they made the decision a few weeks back to cancel the show. : :
so, in 1 summer, all 3 of the shows i blogged about come to an end. : :
'motherhood: fort salem'? underwhelming. : :
they had a huge cliffhanger last season and it's apparently too big. the original 'dynasty' started that trend of prime time shows. they married off amanda and michael and had armed gunmen come in and shoot up the wedding. who lived? who died? : :
we waited all summer. and then it was ali macgraw's character that died (lady ashley). and the show just couldn't get it together for a few episodes. (some blame that on joan collins 'sick out' to get the money she deserved. that was not the problem. the problem was the writers didn't know what to do.) : :
it was kind of dull. i didn't realize that as i was introduced to some new characters at a factory that the witches on the run and in hiding were working at. i was willing to give them time to develop. : :
but at the end of the episode, the witches were on the run again because the factory had been exposed. so why waste my time - and the show's opening episode - with all that set up and all that dialogue - especially to the bald man who we will never see again? : :
next week's episode looks strong it looks like they're going to get focused. : :
by the way, if you think that the slow opener meant we got to see abigail's relationship develop or raelle's, we didn't. they were present in scenes with their partners but nothing happened, not even some nice romantic moments. : :
it really was a nothing episode. since they knew this was the final season, they should have worked hard when it came to the writing. : :
victor webster's character (blanton) ran in place but he added enough menace to make it seems like the scenes offered more than they actually did.
: :
Wednesday, June 22, 2022. The persecution of Julian Assange is a war
on the press and a war on the truth, Moqtada al-Sadr remains out of
power, and much more.
Around the
world, everyone watches as US President Joe Biden continues to persecute
Julian Assange. The Geneva Press Club Tweets:
#Journalists associations, medias, editors in chief, mobilize on June 22, 11 AM CEST in Geneva to #FreeAssange
This persecution of Julian is about silencing the press. Monday April 5, 2010, WIKILEAKS released US military video of a July 12, 2007 assault in Iraq. 12 people were killed in the assault including two Reuters
journalists Namie Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. That is when the
persecution begins. It was an intimidation carried out by multiple
presidents starting with Barack Obama, continuing with Donald Trump and
now the baton for killing the press has been handed off to Joe Biden.
This has had the effect of scaring off many traditional news outlets.
They once partnered with Julian to report and now they act as though
they've never heard of him. Saving their own asses? They may think
that. If they do, they're dead wrong. An attack on Julian is an attack
on all. And if the attack on Julian is not loudly and publicly
rebuked, you can be sure that next up will be THE WASHINGTON POST or THE
MIAMI HERALD or some other institution -- despite the US Constitution
-- the same one that's being ignored in this attack on Julian.
We now know, courtesy of a Yahoo News investigation, that through 2017 the CIA hatched various schemes either to assassinate
Assange or to kidnap him in one of its illegal “extraordinary
rendition” operations, so he could be permanently locked up in the US,
out of public view.
We can surmise that the CIA also believed it needed to prepare the
ground for such a rogue operation by bringing the public on board.
According to Yahoo’s investigation, the CIA believed Assange’s seizure
might require a gun battle on the streets of London.
It was at this point, it seems, that Cadwalladr and the Guardian were encouraged to add their own weight to the cause of further turning public opinion against Assange.
According to her witness statement, “a confidential source in [the]
US” suggested – at the very time the CIA was mulling over these various
plots – that she write about a supposed visit by Farage to Assange in
the embassy. The story ran in the Guardian under the headline “When Nigel Farage met Julian Assange.”
In the article, Cadwalladr offers a strong hint as to who had been treating her as a confidant: the one source mentioned
in the piece is “a highly placed contact with links to US
intelligence”. In other words, the CIA almost certainly fed her the
agency’s angle on the story.
In the piece, Cadwalladr threads together her and the CIA’s claims of
“a political alignment between WikiLeaks’ ideology, UKIP’s ideology and
Trump’s ideology”. Behind the scenes, she suggests, was the hidden hand
of the Kremlin, guiding them all in a malign plot to fatally undermine
British democracy.
She quotes her “highly placed contact” claiming that Farage and
Assange’s alleged face-to-face meeting was necessary to pass information
of their nefarious plot “in ways and places that cannot be monitored”.
Except of course, as her “highly placed contact” knew – and as we now
know, thanks to exposes by the Grayzone website – that was a lie. In
tandem with its plot to kill or kidnap Assange, the CIA illegally installed cameras inside, as well as outside, the embassy. His every move in the embassy was monitored – even in the toilet block.
The reality was that the CIA was bugging and videoing Assange’s every
conversation in the embassy, even the face-to-face ones. If the CIA
actually had a recording of Assange and Farage meeting and discussing a
Kremlin-inspired plot, it would have found a way to make it public by
now.
Far more plausible is what Farage and WikiLeaks
say: that such a meeting never happened. Farage visited the embassy to
try to interview Assange for his LBC radio show but was denied access.
That can be easily confirmed because by then the Ecuadorian embassy was
allying with the US and refusing Assange any contact with visitors apart from his lawyers.
The war on Julian is a war on the press and a war on the truth.
Kevin Gosztola discussed the issues in the video below.
US House Rep Ilhan Omar Tweets:
The prosecution of Assange is still indefensible!
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Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
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On his show @mehdirhasan makes the case for why the prosecution of Assange is indefensible. Give it a listen
At TRUTHOUT, Marjorie Cohn notes, "This the first time the United States has prosecuted a journalist or
media outlet for publishing classified information. The extradition,
trial and conviction of Julian Assange would have frightening
ramifications for investigative journalism. On June 17, the editorial board of The Guardian wrote, 'This action potentially opens
the door for journalists anywhere in the world to be extradited to the
US for exposing information deemed classified by Washington'."
Turning
to Iraq, the government remains without a prime minister, without a
president, all this time after the October 10th elections. Some in the
western media are apparently butt hurt over getting it so wrong last
fall when they praised Moqtada al-Sadr as a "kingmaker" and ran all
these puff pieces on the man who leads a cult, on the man responsible
for the deaths of US troops, on the man who has terrorized minority
groups in Iraq, etc. If you missed it, after months of being unable to
form a government, Moqtada announced he was taking his toys and going
home. The 73 MPs in his bloc have resigned from Parliament.
Now the western press whores are trying to sell that as a victory.
Moqtada has a master plan! He's playing three dimensional chess! This will force everyone to bend to his will!
Dubious claims at best.
Moqtada
couldn't hack and he left. Arabic social media has been addressing it
for the last two weeks. The government in Iran put pressure on the KDP
leadership (the Barzani family) and Moqtada was about to experience a
very public break in coalition. The KDP got a huge number of votes.
Without them, Moqtada was nowhere near getting enough members in his
coalition to form a government.
It would have
been an even bigger failure so Moqtada elected to take his toys and go
home -- hoping there was a least one shred of dignity left that he could
cover himself in. (There wasn't.)
After
winning last year’s election, Sadr appeared to be in the driver’s seat
of Iraqi politics — and claimed to be on a path to form a majority
government and sideline his main rivals, former prime minister Nouri
al-Maliki and parts of the Iran-aligned Popular Mobilization Forces
(PMF).
Eight
months later, Sadr seems to be walking away from the
government-formation process, throwing Iraqi politics into uncertain
terrain.
What’s
his end game? Our interviews with senior figures within Sadr’s group
suggest he may now focus on leading protests against political
opponents. The protest space is where Sadr has been uniquely powerful as
the leader of one of the largest Islamist movements in the region, organized around his personal authority as a charismatic, religious figurehead.
For Iraq, the result now may be further political instability — and
potentially another early election. But more critically, the approaching
summer will put added pressures on Iraq’s government amid scorching
heat and growing public anger over the lack of jobs and basic services.
This summer may see a repeat of last year’s blackouts,
for instance — and protests. And supply disruptions could exacerbate
ongoing protests over unemployment, wages and working conditions in the
public sector.
A replay of the delicate balancing act that served Sadr well in the past
seems likely. He reportedly will now try to retain his influence across
the government’s most powerful institutions while rallying anti-establishment protests in the streets. But will it work this time?
It's
a strong piece. At last, a report at THE POST treats Nouri al-Maliki
as the instrument of power he remains. I think he's a thug. My
thoughts don't do a damn thing to alter the power he does and the power
that he's used in 2021 and still today. It was a huge mistake for the
US media to impose a blackout on Nouri in order to sell Moqtada as some
form of leader. They also note -- as we've for years now -- Moqtada is
not the protest leader. He controls his cult, yes. The October
Revolution that emerged in 2019 was not led by him. He attempted to
co-opt it and, when he failed, he began attacking them. These were
young Shi'ites. Too many e-mails come into the public account that
still don't grasp that point. Sunnis were not part of The October
Revolution. Moqtada's hold on the average Shiite was never that strong
to begin with. It's grown weaker. (As has his hold on his cult which
is why he got so many fewer votes this go round. Despite ordering his
cult to vote in these elections.)
So let's add to the analysis with some other basics.
Nearly
20 years after he emerged as the angry young man opposed to US forces,
he's no longer young. He does not speak for the youth. Nor do they
want him to. He wants to be the face of protests. He wanted that in
2019 so he tried to co-opt the movement. He realized in early 2020 that
he couldn't, so he attacked the movement. By the time he was ordering
them, April 2020, to not allow males and females to protest together,
they were openly laughing at him and carrying protest signs that
ridiculed him.
His aging out as the 'voice of
youth' is not uncommon in any country. It is especially not uncommon in
a country where so many have died due to the war that the median age is
now is now 21-years-old.
Here's another reality he's going to have to come up against.
If
he starts the protests up again, his cult will turn out, yes. Other
Shi'ites? He's going to be protesting against a new government. How is
that going to work this summer?
Let's say
everything breaks the way they need it for Nouri's group. So in 30 days
or so, they're in power. And there's Moqtada, in early August, calling
them out for what they haven't done?
They will
only have been in power a few weeks and the entire country is aware
that it was Moqtada who, for over eight months, was unable to deliver.
That it was Moqtada who finally stepped aside and quit. That had he
done this earlier, a government could have been formed before the
obscene summer heat hit Iraq.
Anything can
hapen. But Moqtada's got a lot of negatives and they make his ability
to recapture the days of 2005 much, much more difficult.
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subscribe to peacock and 1 good thing there is 'last light.' that's an upcoming show which will star matthew fox. he hasn't done t.v. since 'lost' and i'm really eager to see this new show.
i started to post last night. i got the sentences above in while i was going through the e-mails and then i saw dalton's e-mail asking me what i thought of the premiere of 'animal kingdom'?
i hadn't seen it.
i went to my cloud and there were 2 new episodes. next sunday, they'll air another 2 episodes. i don't know if that's the plan for every sunday. remember this is the final season - which sucks. there's so many ways this show could continue.
1st off smurf. it's the same actress but she looks good this season. maybe because they're not trying to make her so young? leila george plays the character and i found that out after i watched both episodes.
i did not know her as anything but smurf in the flashbacks (now, with ellen barken off the show, she's the only smurf). turns out she's sean penn's ex-wife (my sympathies, i imagine that was a two-year nightmare) her parents are greta scacchi and vincent d'onofrio. so i'm guessing the was born shortly after they did 'the player' together. (in the robert altman film, vincent played screenwrite david whom tim robbins' character griffin kills. then he watches david's lover - played by greta - from outside the house at night while he speaks with her on the phone.)
i wonder what else she was in?
she turned her head in the 1st episode at a certain angle and she reminded me of some 1. i couldn't pin down who. but that's why i looked her up after watching both episodes. maybe it was of her mother greta? i just felt like i'd seen her before - off 'animal kingdom' - when she titled her head a certain way.
so we're learning more about the past. these 2 episodes really focused on what it was like for pope and his sister to grow up with smurf as their mother. she lied, she manipulated and she tricked them constantly.
in the present, deran may be finding a new boyfriend. if so, things are going to have to calm down 1st. the community is seeing the cody's as soft, deran's told. so he has to go bust a head and threaten others - 'influencers.' pope and the others also take down smurf's old fence who refused to do business with them after smurf died but showed up in the 1st episode wanting their help to run 1 of her competitor's out of business. they pretended to take the job but then burned down the fence's business and inventory.
pope has an empty lot. he gets upset when he finds out j has put it up for sale.
he confronts his nephew who insists it was only to get the value. j says that they need to consolidate their holdings, sell some off, blah blah blah. he's going to find a new attorney for them. deran is backing j up. wonder if he'll end up regretting that.
j shows up at the law offices and meets with a young woman who is not an attorney.
and?
after the meeting, they're having drinks together. it's really hard to trust j.
there's some mystery about what pope wants to do with his empty property. he finds a guy stealing tools and attacks him until the guy says he's a carpenter. then pope offers him the choice between being beat up or working for him to build - whatever. there are no plans and the carpenter seems as in the dark as the audience is.
i'm assuming it has to do with something from the past.
craig?
obsessed with seeing his son and his ex is jerking him around. he's also gone sober for his son. deran tells j he liked his brother better when he was using.
deran and j seem to be closer this season. i'm like pope in that i don't trust j, not after every thing he's done the last seasons.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Joe Biden continues to persecute Julian
Assange, Hillary Clinton continues to be annoying, climate change hits
Iraq hard, and much more.
US President Joe Biden continues to persecute Julian Assange.
In the video above, from Australia's ABC, Julian's brother Gabriel implores Joe to end the persecution.
Though
the prime minister of Australia has stated previously that this
persecution is wrong and needs to end, he shrinks on the world stage
unable to defend one of his country's own citizens now that he's prime
minister. Aden-Jay Wood (GBN) notes:
But the brother of Mr Assange, Gabriel Shipton, believes the case has “gone on too long” and “could be ended so easily.”
He
added in an interview on GB News’ Mark Steyn: “Joe Biden could just
drop these charges, move on, just let it go and Julian could walk free.”
AP notes, "The Australian government has been under mounting pressure to intervene since the British government last week
ordered Assange's extradition to the United States on spying charges.
[. . .] Albanese, who came to power at elections a
month ago, declined to say whether he had spoken to President Joe Biden
about the case."
This persecution of Julian is about silencing the press. Monday April 5, 2010, WIKILEAKS released US military video of a July 12, 2007 assault in Iraq. 12 people were killed in the assault including two Reuters
journalists Namie Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. That is when the
persecution begins. It was an intimidation carried out by multiple
presidents starting with Barack Obama, continuing with Donald Trump and
now the baton for killing the press has been handed off to Joe Biden.
This has had the effect of scaring off many traditional news outlets.
They once partnered with Julian to report and now they act as though
they've never heard of him. Saving their own asses? They may think
that. If they do, they're dead wrong. An attack on Julian is an attack
on all. And if the attack on Julian is not loudly and publicly
rebuked, you can be sure that next up will be THE WASHINGTON POST or THE
MIAMI HERALD or some other institution -- despite the US Constitution
-- the same one that's being ignored in this attack on Julian. Branko Marcetik (JACOBIN) offers this exercise:
In the authoritarian political system that exists in Russia, it can be
very hard to learn the truth about what the government is up to, let
alone force it to change its behavior or obtain any sort of justice for
its crimes. This makes government leaks, the whistleblowers who leak
them, and the journalists and press outlets that publish them, all the
more vital.
It also means all of those entities have a big target on their backs.
So let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s say Moscow has engaged in a
years-long attempt to catch and imprison the man responsible for
publishing a series of massive leaks that proved deeply embarrassing to
the Kremlin.
Though he’s not a Russian national, has never lived in the country,
nor was he there when he committed his supposed “crime,” the Russian
government has taken the radical step of trying to have him extradited
to its soil, so it can put him through a trial that’s a foregone
conclusion and imprison him for god knows how long — effectively
asserting the right to prosecute and jail any journalist anywhere in the
world if they happen to publish something that displeases Russia’s
ruling elite.
What was it that displeased them? One was the several tranches of secret documents he released about the variouswars
Moscow has fought in the twenty-first century, revealing war crimes we
never knew about, a civilian death toll higher than we thought, and
various cover-ups and behind-the-scenes subterfuge. Another was the
decades worth of diplomatic cables that gave us unprecedented insight into the workings of Russian and other nations’ foreign policy.
But maybe his greatest crime in the minds of the country’s ruling class was publishing scandalous information
about the corruption and political manipulation of one section of the
political elite, embarrassing revelations almost certainly fed to him by
an adversarial foreign power with its own particular motivations.
The Kremlin has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish these acts of truth-telling, and to deter any future ones. It pressured PayPal to cut off payments to him, gave immunity
to a criminal and sex offender if he helped them catch him, and used
its assets in the hacker world to attack a foreign government’s websites
and create the pretext for its security services to enter the country
he was staying in. It eventually forced him to spend seven years in a
foreign embassy to avoid capture by Russian authorities, leading to the
partial unravelling of his sanity. Once they finally caught him, they
promptly imprisoned him without charge for the next three years, some of it spent in solitary confinement, a vicious form of torture. As a result of Moscow’s actions, when he finally showed up to his extradition trial, he struggled to say his name and age, and the extreme stress ultimately caused him to have a stroke.
All for the crime of exposing war crimes and corruption.
If you haven't caught on yet, the evil Russia above? It's not Russia. That's what the US government is doing to Julian.
Yet, the dogged pursuit of Mr. Assange has been renewed by the Biden
administration. The only guarantee that it has provided is that it will
not hold him in a maximum security prison, which has strict confinement
rules, and that if convicted, he could serve his sentence in his native
Australia if he requested it. Its position runs counter to its stated
aim of bringing the U.S. back to the forefront of world democracies that
promote values enshrined in the West as pivotal, such as freedom of
expression accorded to the press. Subjecting Mr. Assange to trial will
be a blow against media freedom in the U.S. and will also criminalise
investigative journalism, particularly one that is pointed at the inner
workings of the deep state. Mr. Assange’s representatives have filed an
appeal before the British High Court. With the present Labor party-led
Australian government — Mr. Assange remains an Australian citizen — also
expressing its displeasure at the continued pursuit, the onus is on the
British judiciary to do right by him.
Responding to the news that the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has
certified Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face
charges under the Espionage Act, Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International
Secretary General said:
“Allowing Julian Assange to be extradited to the US would put him at
great risk and sends a chilling message to journalists the world over.”
“If the extradition proceeds, Amnesty International is extremely
concerned that Assange faces a high risk of prolonged solitary
confinement, which would violate the prohibition on torture or other
ill treatment. Diplomatic assurances provided by the US that Assange
will not be kept in solitary confinement cannot be taken on face value
given previous history.”
“We call on the UK to refrain from extraditing Julian Assange, for the US to drop the charges, and for Assange to be freed.”
Julian Assange is likely to further appeal the extradition on
separate grounds that it violates his right to freedom of expression.
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
+44 20 7413 5566
email: press@amnesty.org
twitter: @amnestypress
The world is watching, Joe Biden, as you terrorize Julian and as you try to burn the US Constitution.
The world is watching.
As
people converse about Joe's advanced age and whether he would be up for
the job of a second term, while Joy Behar hisses and stamps her feet
and calls for the conversation to end because she doesn't like it, a
really important point is being missed.
Joe can't run for office again.
Not unless we're going to have another pandemic.
That's the only reason he won last time.
When
he was forced to be onstage, either his eye exploded, his dentures
slipped loose, he made one stupid remark after another, he got angry and
looked crazy? Are people forgetting the debates?
Are they forgetting that he had to hide in his basement?
Joe
can't run, he can't campaign. He's too old. He's too cranky. And
people don't like him. The polls make that clear right now, yes. But
it's also true that on the campaign trail, people didn't like him He
was constantly getting into fights with potential voters. And he
couldn't draw crowds. People have better things to do then go see
someone in mental decline offer excuses for why the working people of
America are constantly being screwed over.
If
2024 demanded real campaigning, the type we've had for every campaign
except 2020, Joe's not up to it. Before the pandemic hit, it was
obvious he wasn't up for campaigning. Four years older, and he's going
to be this time? All the 'energy shots' in the world won't manage to
keep him up. They will keep him cranky, as they did in 2020. And
someday that will be the big news. Historians will talk about it, how
the campaign insisted upon 'energy shots' to keep Joe awake. It's like
the shots JFK got for 'his back' that the press ignored in real time.
On
elections, maybe it's time the press said enough to Hillary Clinton,
told her to sit that fat ass down and maybe focus on that marriage with
that husband who continues to stray?
Hillary wants you to vote. She wants the transgender community to disappear.
We've wanted Hillary to disappear for years but she's never taken a hint.
She wants to say that elections are important.
The press should hold her feet to the fire.
The
obvious should be pointed out. She wants to whine about CNN or this
person or that person promoting Donald Trump in 2016. We all know she
and her campaign wanted that to happen and they promoted Donald.
Underestimating just how much the American public loathed her, they were
convinced she could win against Donald.
She was wrong.
If
she wants to give advice now about how important elections are, the
press should shoot back that maybe she should have realized that before
she attempted to elevate who she perceived as the worst candidate in the
bunch because she thought it would be an easy win.
Donald
Trump got the nomination. Maybe he would have anyway. But let's not
deny the reality that she and her campaign worked to get him that
nomination.
Instead of begging the country's forgiveness, she wants to pretend like it didn't happen.
And she wants to tell others that they are harming elections.
Neither
the transgender community nor anyone who advocates for their rights is
harming the Democratic Party's chances in the next election. That's
reality.
Hillary Clinton harmed the party's
chances when she and her team came up with the strategy to get the media
to elevate Donald so she could have an easy win.
CNN gushed today over the finds in a newly emerged city. Not to rain on
the parade but the reason we're seeing the ancient city is that the
Tigris River has dried up so much that the city was visible again for
the first time in centuries -- plural. That's not a good thing.
This is also the first year that Iraq's seen Lake Sawa dry up.
These are not good things for the Iraqi people.
And this is only going to get worse in the immediate future.
Another major sandstorm is predicted in the next few days. Iraq's seen
these repeatedly this year. People have to go inside. Some that don't
make it in time end up hospitalized. Iraq's always had sandstorms but
they haven't been as frequent and as massive as the ones this year.
Temperatures are rising and the water is disappearing.
A report
from the European Union Institute of Security Studies projects that the
number of days when temperatures in Baghdad hit 120 degrees will go
from roughly 14 per year to more than 40 over the next two decades.
The
study forecasts that the Iraqi capital, which is already seeing longer
heat waves each summer and higher peak temperatures, will be one of the
places hardest hit by global warming.
Baghdad set a new record high of 125.2 degrees on July 28, 2020. The next day it cooled down to 124.
This morning, Aland Qaradaxi (RUDAW) reports, "The water flowing into the Alwan dam in Khanaqin has decreased sharply
due to the presence of mud and silt, as well as Iran’s building of dams
which has restricted the water flow, leading to only two cubic meters of
water entering the dam daily." RUDAW also notes, "The level of Erbil’s underground water has decreased around 500 meters
over the past two decades, the Kurdistan Region’s ministry of
municipalities and tourism warned on Friday."
There
are all these issues and yet Iraq, eight months after the October 10th
elections, still can't name a prime minister or president.
Maybe it wouldn't matter if they could?
It's not like the previous governments in Iraq have ever done a damn thing.
AFP notes, "A cholera outbreak in Iraq has infected at least 13 people and scores
more suspected cases have been sent for analysis, most from the northern
Kurdistan region, health officials said on Sunday."
TELUGUSTOP.COM reminds, "Cholera is an extremely virulent disease, whose
symptoms in its most severe form include a rapid onset of watery
diarrhoea and dehydration that can lead to death.The disease is acquired
by consuming food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio
cholerae."
Today is June 21st. The first
official day of summer in the US. What happens every summer at this
site? We note the cholera outbreaks in Iraq. Sometimes it's a 'minor'
summer. Sometimes, like 2015, it's major. But why are they happening?
Why are they still happening?
Because one
failed government after another has refused to ensure that the Iraqi
people have potable water. The 13 diagnosed -- and the nearly 4,000 in
the same province who have sought medical care at hospitals already this
month -- have resulted in what? An ambitious project to finally bring
Iraq's infrastructure up to date? No. The same public reminder to boil
water and that you, the individual, not the government, are responsible
for ensuring that your water is safe to drink -- by boiling it first.
It's not like Iraq's not dealing with other health crisis. IRAQI NEWS AGENCY reports 305 new cases of COVID in Iraq.
