tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67576719266546034192024-03-13T17:28:37.982+00:00HaderzaA Western Woman's Times in TripoliUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-79529447628096349922011-08-21T00:36:00.000+01:002011-08-21T00:36:09.156+01:00War Propaganda: Libya and the End of Western Illusions<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><em>Five months into the bombing campaign, it is no longer possible to believe the initial official version of the events and the massacres attributed to the "Gaddafi regime". Moreover, it is now essential to take into account Libya’s legal and diplomatic rebuttal, highlighting the crimes against peace committed by television propaganda, the war crimes perpetrated by NATO military forces, and the crimes against humanity sponsored by political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance.<br />
</em>Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on erroneous information. They still believe, in fact, that in February the "Gaddafi regime" crushed the protests in Benghazi with brutal force and bombed civilian districts in Tripoli, while the Colonel himself was warning of "rivers of blood" if his compatriots continued to challenge his authority.<br />
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During my two months’ investigation on the ground, I was able to verify that these accusations were pure propaganda intoxication, designed by the NATO powers to create the conditions for war, and relayed around the world by their television media, in particular Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC and France24.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">(follow <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26084">link</a> for rest of article by<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Thierry Meyssan)</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-68234191914135500012011-08-19T15:34:00.006+01:002011-08-21T00:45:08.337+01:00Washington Tried to Snatch $1.5 billion to pay its NTC employees<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: HelveticaNeueLight, 'Segoe UI Light', Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">The United States tried to seize on Monday 1 500 000 000 dollars owned by the Libyan state, but at the last minute South Africa got in its way. The documents emanating from this episode, and unveiled by <i>Voltaire Network</i>, reveal that the members of the NTC and their staff are the direct employees of a US entity.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLight, 'Segoe UI Light', Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">The war propaganda has entered a new phase, involving the coordinated action of satellite TV stations. CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera have become instruments of disinformation used to demonize governments and justify armed aggressions. These practices are illegal under international law and the impunity of the perpetrators must be stopped.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 20px;">"Words and, especially, images can be used to prepare the worst crimes. In this case, the intoxication by CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera constitute "<i>crimes against peace</i>." They should be considered as being more serious than the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by NATO in Libya and by Western intelligence agencies in Syria insofar as they precede and make them possible.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 20px;">Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be tried by International Justice."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 20px;"><br />
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<div class="lettrine" style="margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; text-align: justify;">On 8-9 August 2011, a large number of casualties occurred in the city of Zliten, in the district of Misurata. 85 people were killed including 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men as a result of NATO’s deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Many of the injured civilian victims are in critical condition and near death.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 20px;">Zliten has been under constant NATO bombardment for several days. The recent NATO attacks started at about 11:30 p.m. EET on August 8, 2011. At least 7 civilian homes belonging to local farmers were destroyed, killing entire families. In all 20 families were the targets of the NATO bombings.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 20px;">This video exposes the media’s role of covering up the truth. The mainstream media did not report about this properly or accurately. The media did this to whitewash NATO’s war crimes against the Libyan people.</div><br />
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In Zliten, 85 people were killed including 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men as a result of NATO's deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Many of the injured civilian victims are in critical condition and near death.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zliten has been under constant NATO bombardment for several days. The recent NATO attacks started at about 11:30 p.m. EET on August 8, 2011. At least 7 civilian homes belonging to local farmers were destroyed, killing entire families. In all 20 families were the targets of the NATO bombings.</div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This video exposes the media's role of covering up the truth. The mainstream media did not report about this properly or accurately. The media did this to whitewash NATO's war crimes against the Libyan people.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-90146844452766001832011-07-31T12:31:00.000+01:002011-08-14T02:32:33.433+01:00Ashraf Abdel Fatah Younis<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">At the graveside, Mr Younis's son Ashraf broke down, crying and screaming as they lowered the body into the ground and - in a risky display in a city that was the first to shed Gaddafi's rule nearly six months ago -pleaded hysterically for the return of the Libyan leader to bring stability. "We want Muammar to come back! We want the green flag back!" he shouted at the crowd, referring to Gaddafi's national banner."</span><br />
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25221Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-69129669936684394602011-06-09T23:13:00.000+01:002011-08-14T02:52:33.113+01:00Uranium<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Just had a text from the government warning us not to go anywhere near even less touch anything where they have bombed. Humanitarianism has been stepped up to more uranium I guess, but they don't want to say...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-70886369921670398412011-06-07T22:50:00.001+01:002011-08-14T02:51:21.695+01:00Hell raining down on Tripoli<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">around 60 bombs and missiles on Tripoli, outskirts and centre today. during the day that is, they are still going. as are the sirens of the ambulances.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-51563585687075454212011-06-04T16:48:00.001+01:002011-08-15T11:55:16.133+01:00What you dont know about the libyan crisis<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"></span><br />
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<div class="uiAttachmentTitle" data-ft="{"type":11}" style="color: #333333; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong><a href="http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_7783.shtml" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "ZAQCimzD6AQB77eFkl8w8Id4xZS3PjXCx2ctW8iQ8Sr08BA", event, bagof(null));" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ten reasons why the U.S. war in Libya is a CIA operation</a></strong></div><span class="caption"><a href="http://www.finalcall.com/" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "1AQB2efx_AQBDRpeGu6t3lRoSzyPlHeD0EI8GYzIgymMdug", event, bagof({}));" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.finalcall.com</a></span><div class="mts uiAttachmentDesc" style="color: grey; margin-top: 5px; word-wrap: break-word;">Under the guise of “protecting innocent civilians,” the U.S. military, Africom, NATO, and the United Nations are now bombing Libya, raining destruction upon the Libyan economic and military infrastructure and killing untold numbers of innocent Africans. </div><br />
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<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><div class="bigArticleText" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><div align="justify">The International Criminal Court has requested an arrest warrant for Colonel <span id="yiv1107265137Zoom">Gaddafi and his sons </span>for “crimes against humanity”, accusing them of ordering, planning and participating in illegal attacks on civilians. <span id="yiv1107265137Zoom">Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, said, “Based on the evidence collected, the prosecution has applied to pre-trial chamber one for the issuance of arrest warrants against Moammar Muhamad abu Minyar Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Sanoussi.”</span></div><div align="justify">But what is the evidence? The <a href="http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/1365E3B7-8152-4456-942C-A5CD5A51E829.htm" rel="nofollow" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">press release</a> on the website of the International Criminal Court makes frequent reference to “direct evidence” but fails to cite any of this evidence in detail. In order to try and clarify the grounds for the prosecution, I emailed the ICC:</div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"><div _yuid="yui_3_1_1_8_130564387219061" align="justify"><em _yuid="yui_3_1_1_2_130564387219069">I’m looking into the ICC Prosecutor allegations of war crimes against Col. Gaddafi and his sons and am struggling to find the evidence on which these accusations are based. Referring to the press release issued on 16th May 2011 (<a href="http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/1365E3B7-8152-4456-942C-A5CD5A51E829.htm" rel="nofollow" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/1365E3B7-8152-4456-942C-A5CD5A51E829.htm</a>) there is frequent reference to “direct evidence” obtained by the ICC but nothing in the way of the actual evidence itself. Can you point me to a comprehensive analysis of this evidence so I can refer to it in my article?</em></div><em><div align="justify">A secondary point of which you could be assistance relates to the following passage: “The Office will further investigate allegations of massive rapes, war crimes committed by different parties during the armed conflict that started at the end of February, and attacks against sub-Saharan Africans wrongly perceived to be mercenaries” Given that some of the parties involved in these rapes and attacks against sub-Saharan Africans were armed and funded by Western powers via their proxies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, will NATO-affiliated forces also be under investigation for their part in these atrocities? Are NATO forces being investigated for the deaths of civilians as a consequence of Operation Mass Appeal, in addition to covert actions carried out by special operations forces prior to the NATO-led bombing campaign?</div></em><div align="justify"><em>I look forward to your response and clarification.</em></div></blockquote><div align="justify">The ICC promptly responded, providing me with a document entitled, <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnifcrimes.com%2FLibya_redacted.pdf&rct=j&q=PUBLIC%20REDACTED%20Version%20Prosecutor%E2%80%99s%20Application%20Pursuant%20to%20Article%2058%20as%20to%20Muammar%20Mohammed%20Abu%20Minyar%20GADDAFI%2C%20Saif%20Al%E2%80%90Islam%20GADDAFI%20and%20Abdullah%20AL%E2%80%90SENUSSI&ei=6lzSTZzbL8618QO-jLXvCg&usg=AFQjCNHcWuMO-4ysBOGoXFBRgL7hkigFgw&cad=rja" rel="nofollow" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PUBLIC REDACTED Version Prosecutor’s Application Pursuant to Article 58 as to Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar GADDAFI, Saif Al‐Islam GADDAFI and Abdullah AL‐SENUSSI</a>.</div><div align="justify">Needless to say, “redacted” is the operative word.</div><div align="justify">Sources backing up the frequent assertions in the document regarding crimes against humanity carried out by Gaddafi and his sons are notable by their absence. For example, the document states, “In the early days of the demonstrations, GADDAFI transmitted orders through his Secretariat to “discipline” civilians, by killing them and destroying their property, who had openly rebelled against the regime. Further, AL‐SENUSSI, upon GADDAFI’s instructions, directed and coordinated the operation of the Security Forces in Benghazi and expressly ordered the shooting at civilians. Demonstrators were attacked by members of the Security Forces who opened machine gun fire on them in different areas of the city, such as the Juliyana bridge and Jamal Abdun Naser Street.” The sources for these alleged transmissions and subsequent attacks are not provided. Further, the report uses vague generalisations concerning the history of Libya in an attempt to bolster its case. “Direct evidence of the plan to use extreme and lethal violence is corroborated by the scale, scope and duration of the attacks; the pattern of the attacks in various cities; the speeches and statements of GADDAFI, SAIF AL‐ISLAM and AL‐SENUSSI; the history of the regime’s response to any political opposition within Libya; and the complete authority exercised by GADDAFI and his subordinates over all important security decisions.” Again, the “direct evidence” is not sourced, while appealing to a state’s prior human rights record is not proof by any measure of the current crimes of which they stand accused.</div><div align="justify">The report continues, stating, “On 20 February, SAIF AL‐ISLAM spoke on Libyan state television, refusing to recognize the Libyans’ demands, blaming the unrest on “foreign agents” and threatening the country with a “civil warʺ “worse than Iraq and worse than in Yugoslavia” that would cause “thousands of deaths”. No mention is made of the presence of the SAS and CIA in the country prior to this point, validating the claim that “foreign agents” were in fact involved in the unrest. Nor does the report concede the rather obvious point that a “civil war” cannot by definition be waged without more than one party, thus implicating forces backed by foreign powers in the “thousands of deaths” that Saif Al-Islam hinted might follow.</div><div align="justify">The document again makes the claim that Gaddafi opened fire on peaceful protestors without providing any sources for this claim, stating, “During that night, massive demonstrations against GADDAFI took place in different areas of Tripoli after the sunset prayers. GADDAFIʹs Security Forces opened fire as soon as they met groups of peaceful demonstrators that were walking towards the Green Square. Similar incidents were replicated throughout the day mainly in the areas of the Green Square and city center, Mojam’a Al‐Mahakem Court compound and Al‐Dribi. The protesters set on fire government buildings, including the General People’s Congress, and at least one police station and one ministry.” The report provides no video, photographic or any other evidence for these assertions. Perhaps the following point is intended to provide such evidence: “On 22 February GADDAFI spoke on State television from his headquarters in Bab Al‐Azizia, Tripoli. He refused to acknowledge any legitimacy of the demonstrators’ demands and did not regret the crimes committed by his Security Forces. On the contrary, GADDAFI called the protesters ʺratsʺ, “garbage” and “mercenaries” and threatened “to clean Libya inch by inch, house by house, small street by small street, individual by individual, corner by corner until the country is clean from all garbage and dirt”.” Clearly, threatening such actions is not proof by any measure that such actions were indeed carried out – if that were the case, one must present a prosecution for war crimes against the State of Israel, since shortly before Operation Cast Lead the deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai threatened a “shoah”. The slaughter that followed proved that this was no empty threat – yet the ICC has made no effort to present a case for prosection against Israel for the killing of Gazan civilians, which included over 300 children in the death toll.</div><div _yuid="yui_3_1_1_2_130564387219072" align="justify">The report continues with more unsupported assertions, stating, “On 25 February, Friday, one week after the beginning of the attacks and a day of prayer for the Muslim community, GADDAFI issued further instructions to attack civilians. He learned that demonstrations were scheduled that day after the prayers and instructed the deployment of Security Forces throughout the city. Snipers strategically placed awaited the crowds to leave the mosques. Multiple sources describe how civilians were shot at throughout the city when they were pouring from the mosques after the prayers. On this day alone GADDAFI’s forces killed up to one‐hundred civilians in Tripoli in the areas of Green Square, Souq al‐Jomaa, Arada, Zawyet al dahmani, Tajoura and Fashloom, among others.” Despite refering to “multiple sources” not a single one of these is cited.</div><div align="justify">The document then continues. “In sum, the evidence demonstrates that GADDAFI conceived a plan to quell the popular demonstrations of February 2011 by all means, including through the use of extreme and lethal violence.” Unfortunately, as appears to be self-evident from the frequent unsourced assertions combined with the proliferation of redactions throughout the document, it is perhaps fair to conclude the there is very little evidence to demonstrate the central claims of the International Criminal Court’s prosecution against Colonel Gaddafi and his sons. <a href="http://nifcrimes.com/Libya_redacted.pdf" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_new">This is perhaps best highlighted on page 17 of the document</a>: (<a href="http://nifcrimes.com/Libya_redacted.pdf" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">http://nifcrimes.com/Libya_redacted.pdf</a>)</div><div align="justify">E. SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE AND OTHER INFORMATION ESTABLISHING REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT MUAMMAR MOHAMMED ABU MINYAR GADDAFI, SAIF ALISLAM GADDAFI AND ABDULLAH AL‐SENUSSI COMMITTED CRIMES WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 58(2)(d) OF THE ROME STATUTE1. REDACTED<br />
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6. REDACTED</div><div align="justify">Following on from this I emailed the ICC once again:</div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"><div align="justify"><em>Many thanks – it would seem that the evidence is flimsy and circumstantial at best (that is, the evidence that hasn’t been redacted) – most of the key claims (use of snipers against civilians etc) appear to be completely lacking sources. Will a version of this be released for public consumption without the redactions?</em></div><em></em><div align="justify"><em>Can you respond to my second point with regards to prosecuting NATO forces for civilian deaths/attacks on hospitals and civilian infrastructure and the repeated use of depleted uranium? Also, is a case going to be brought against Israel for the recent killing of protestors as well as the attack on the humanitarian ship Spirit of Rachel Corrie in international waters?</em></div></blockquote><div align="justify">The evidence for these crimes against humanity is certainly overwhelming in comparison to the evidence provided by the ICC in their case against Gaddafi, yet the ICC has remained steadfastly silent when it comes to the crimes committed by NATO and Israeli forces, both recent and historical. The crimes of which Gaddafi and his sons are accused by the ICC may indeed have occurred, although the paucity of evidence provided – at least, in the redacted public version cited above – seems to cast some doubts on this. No conclusive video or photographic evidence has been provided by either the ICC or the mainstream media who have made similar accusations. If it existed, there is little doubt that it would have been broadcast to the world constantly across the news channels.</div><div align="justify">Contrast this with the strong evidence of war crimes committed by Western powers such as the US, UK and Israel, and the corresponding absence of prosecutions against these nations by the ICC, and it seems fair to say that the institution has a conception of justice which appears to be one-sided at best.</div></div></td></tr>
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No boarding (no diversion) was conducted.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A total of 941 vessels have been hailed, 40 boardings and 5 diversions have been conducted since the beginning of arms embargo operations.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">…</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">====</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">China Presses For Immediate Ceasefire In Libya</strong></div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Xinhua News Agency</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">May 17, 2011</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">China calls for immediate ceasefire in Libya</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">BEIJING: China on Tuesday called for an immediate ceasefire in Libya, saying that the future of the North African country should be decided by its own people.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“We are keeping a close watch on the situation in Libya, and once again call on relevant parties to cease fire immediately and solve the current crisis through peaceful means, such as negotiations and dialogue,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu at a regular news briefing.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">====</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Russian Foreign Minister: West Oversteps UN Resolution In Libya</strong></div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="www" href="http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/05/16/50376863.html" style="color: #3478e3; text-decoration: none;">english.ruvr.ru/2011/05/16/50376863.html</a></div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Voice of Russia</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">May 17, 2011</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Coalition oversteps UN mandate in Libya – Moscow</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At a session in Cairo Sunday, the foreign ministers of the Arab League agreed to ask the Saudi-based Arabsat satellite operators to block the signals of all government-owned broadcasting organizations in Libya.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Russia sees this as deliberate trouble-stirring which has no justification in international law.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about this in Moscow Monday:</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“I am at a loss over how my esteemed colleagues in the Arab League could have interpreted Security Council resolution 1973 as a go-ahead to start stifling freedom of speech. I am not taking sides in the civil war that is the Libyan conflict and believe the family of nations must safeguard the freedom of expression and seize on every opportunity to hear from all Libyan quarters.”</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At a scheduled meeting with the visiting UN envoy for Libya Abdelilah al-Khatyb, Russian diplomats are going to tell him that the anti-Gaddafi coalition cannot be allowed to overstep its UN mandate for the Libya campaign and should also speed up action on the UN initiative for a humanitarian truce in the Libya war.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On Tuesday, Moscow will also host discussions with delegates from Muammar Gaddafi. Talks with the Benghazi-based rebels will have to wait until they have a logistical opportunity to send a delegation to Moscow.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">…</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On Sunday, the chief British military officer General David Richards urged the coalition to widen its menu of targets in Libya, so that Gaddafi has no option but to leave his post and go. Apparently, compliance with the UN resolutions to protect Libyan civilians was not on the general’s mind.</div><div style="color: #555555; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many international analysts have gone as far as to suggest that the Libya crisis may prompt further moves to reshape the permanent membership of the UN Security Council.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-68794120042493271922011-05-17T21:31:00.000+01:002011-05-17T21:31:27.497+01:00The Gold Theft Plan behind the Libyan Invasion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/GQQGOnfpccc?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQGOnfpccc&feature=share<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQGOnfpccc&feature=share">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQGOnfpccc&feature=share</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757671926654603419.post-72061595542418360802011-05-17T21:27:00.000+01:002011-05-17T21:27:37.941+01:00The Truth about 'Civilized Transitions': NATO's Civilizing Bloodbath in Libya<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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</b></div><div align="justify"><strong>"What about giving Gaddafi an exit strategy?"</strong> -- <em>Channel 4 News</em> presenter to somebody or other, 16 May, 2011</div><div align="justify">This is what it comes down to: A TV 'news' presenter reveals in all its starkness, how the Empire corrupts totally. Here we have an apparently intelligent and educated person dismissing the leader of a country as if he's just another expendable piece of the Empire's junk. 'Yeah, why you don't just get rid of him, make him go away'. It's absolutely outrageous that we accept this kind of rubbish and it's echoed right across the MSM (see below).</div><div align="justify">By what right does the media pass judgement in this way? Worse still, we accept it as legitimate news making, where 'received opinion' is folded faultlessly into the mix. It's assumed that we have every right to pronounce on the fate of others, made especially easy when the self-same 'news' presenter has helped in demonizing Gaddafi and turning him into the <em>other</em>.</div><div align="justify">Perhaps if she'd also asked, 'What about giving NATO an exit strategy?", I would have more sympathy but it would in no way alter the fundamental assumption that the presenter is fully immersed in the idea that we can behave as we please, commit even worse crimes in the name of <em>preventing</em>crimes! The arrogance of Empire knows no limit.</div><div align="justify">Elsewhere some British military buffoon calls to demolish what's left of Libya and blow Gaddafi away by bending the 'rules' even more than they've already have been. So here we have a military man acting and behaving as if he were an elected politician and the BBC has no problem with this:</div><blockquote><div align="justify"><strong>"General Sir David Richards told the</strong> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8514034/Nato-must-target-Gaddafi-regime-says-armed-forces-chief.html" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><strong><em>Sunday Telegraph</em></strong></a> <strong>direct attacks should be launched against the infrastructure propping up Colonel Gaddafi's regime."</strong> -- '<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13402945" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Libya: Fox supports call for intensified campaign</strong></a>', BBC News Website, 15 May, 2011</div></blockquote><div align="justify">Echoing the call by Tory 'Defence' minister Liam Fox who says that he agrees with Richards that Nato needs to 'upscale' its assault on Libya. The BBC's sub says it all:</div><blockquote><div align="justify"><strong>'Within rules'</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>Col Gaddafi's removal is not a specified military objective of the action.</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>But in the interview with the Telegraph, Gen Richards said it would be "within the rules" should he be killed in a strike on a command and control centre."</strong> (ibid)</div></blockquote><div align="justify">And on another, equally misleadingly titled piece, 'Why UN acted over Libya and Ivory Coast - but not Syria', the BBC tells it like it is, the Empire's point of view that is:</div><blockquote><div align="justify"><strong>'Claire Bolderson looks at how the UN came up with the resolutions and asks whether it is likely to do the same elsewhere.</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>/../</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>A month into the rebellion, town after town had fallen back under the Libyan leader's control and Col Gaddafi was threatening to wipe out the opposition.</strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>At the UN there were fears of a massacre</strong>. -- '<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13389470" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Why UN acted over Libya and Ivory Coast - but not Syria</strong></a>', BBC News Website, 16 May 2011 (my. emph. WB)</div></blockquote><div align="justify">Note how the BBC inserts the assumption--now made fact--that a massacre was about to occur, an assumption based on nothing more than rumour.</div><div align="justify">What's interesting is that aside from mentioning French intervention in the Ivory Coast (also done under the cover of the UN), none of the other countries in the Middle East, aside from Syria (of course) are unpacked at all. Instead, we read,</div><blockquote><div align="justify"><strong>"While Egypt and Tunisia had been through what the French ambassador at the United Nations, Gerard Araud, calls "civilised transitions", in the case of Libya he says "at our borders, across the street from Europe, we could have had an incredible bloodbath""</strong>.</div></blockquote><div align="justify">'Civilized transitions'? What transitions? And so close to home? There have been no transitions anywhere. Instead we have launched a civilizing bloodbath as a diversion. The point is, as with the <em>Channel 4 News</em> quote, massive assumptions are made about our God-given right to intervene wherever we choose, however we choose.</div><div align="justify">The question the piece poses 'Why UN acted over Libya and Ivory Coast - but not Syria', is not answered except in a roundabout kind of way. Instead it quotes Carne Ross, 'head of the consultancy Independent Diplomat'[1] and ends with the predictable assumption,</div><blockquote><div align="justify"><strong>""If Libya turns into a quagmire - a protracted civil war - then there'll be a lot more hesitation about these kind of interventions in future""</strong></div></blockquote><div align="justify">So no discussion of the legality, let alone the morality of such actions. Instead the piece worries that unless Gaddafi is taken out <em>now</em>, it will make it more difficult to do the same elsewhere in the future! There you have it; the media in total lockstep with the Empire.</div><div align="justify"><strong>Note</strong></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1. 'Independent? Check out its board of </span><a href="http://www.independentdiplomat.org/about-us/board-of-directors" style="color: navy; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">directors</span></strong></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> amongst whom are:</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Avis Bohlen, former Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control; former US Ambassador to Bulgaria; former Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Paris; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; chair of the board of directors for International Research & Exchange Board (IREX) and member of the board of the American Academy of Diplomacy</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A. Whitney Ellsworth (Chair)</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Publishing consultant; former publisher of The New York Review of Books; former board member and chairman of Amnesty International USA; former member and vice-chairman of AI International Executive Committee; board member and secretary of Human Rights First and board member The Andrei Sakharov Foundation (USA).</span></div></div></td></tr>
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/us-libya-gaddafi-italy-idUSTRE74C48220110513">Frattini told reporters that he believed what he had been told by Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Catholic bishop in Tripoli, that Gaddafi had probably left Tripoli and had probably even been wounded by NATO airstrikes.</a>" </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Bishop Martinelli denies ever having said anything of the sort: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">"What the foreign minister said is not right because I never said that the Libyan leader was wounded," Martinelli told Radio France Internationale.</span></span></span><br />
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</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; line-height: 22px;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; line-height: normal;">Bishop Giovanni Martinelli remarked on April 27 saying, “The United Nations has decided to make war and to not allow any form of dialogue as a means of resolving disputes.” He described the escalation of fighting as “a defeat for humanity,” saying that “nothing will change” on account of the Western powers’ intervention."</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com