Libya XII

Cloaked War of Choice  - by Marc Herbermann

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2011/04/195_84454.html

"The current incidents in Libya are hard to believe. A country rich in oil but nearly defenceless was being strafed by massive bombing raids of three nations. The major attacker is led by a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who goes to war in disregard of the constitution of his country. The 'international coalition', in reality a small fraction of the international community, assaulted a sovereign country that hasn't attacked it. Now passing reins to NATO forces apparently broadens the basis of approval but doesn't provide legitimacy. NATO neither helps to prevent genocide, nor does it support 'democratic freedom fighters.'

Instead, it sides with one party in a civil war and imposes a selective arms embargo. Libya continues to serve as a hotbed for US sponsored armed militias and mujahideen veterans. According to a West Point study by Joseph Feller and Brian Fishman in 2007, the area from Benghazi to Tobruk represents one of the greatest concentrations of jihad terrorists in the world.."

Libya Newslinks 10 - 11 April 2011

http://williambowles.info/2011/04/12/libya-newslinks-10-11-april-2011/

RT:'Protecting' Libyans With A Silent Killer (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/silent-killer-uranium-depleted/

"there is a good chance [DU] weapons with the highly poisonous readioactive element has been used.."

Bec.De.Corbin wrote:

... shows how the rebels make their weapons of scrap.

Just like the Libertarias of the Spanish Civil War. Just like the People of the Mexican Revolucion. Just like People of Russia during the Great Patriotic War (WW2). Just like the People of the Chinese Revolution. Just like the People of the Nationalist Vietnamese War of Liberation.

They had to get whatever weapons they could get their hands on.

What they couldn't get their "hands on" they had to make

in the form of 'garage factory' 'Saturday night specials.'*

*See above wars and Revolutions.

VIVA LA REVOLUCION LIBERTARIA A LIBYA!!!!!

At some point the pallets full of US dollars will come floating in to Libya and make them renters in their own desert country. Libya will become another Somalia or Yemen with al-CIA'da terrorizing the people. The war on democracy continues.

[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/844... fascists want to arm Reb-Qaeda[/url] Neofascists picking up where fascistas left off in 1943

Libya: Qatar Arming Rebels With Anti-Tank Missiles

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6230872&c=MID&s=AIR

There's More Than One Possible Position on Libya  - by Kate Heartfield

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/decision-canada/There+more+than+possib...

"None of the parties in this election is talking about Libya, mainly because there isn't much difference between them in their Libya policy. Scratch that: mainly because none of them has a Libya policy, or even a Libya inclination.."

US, Allies, See Libyan Rebels In Hopeless Disarray

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-libya-usa-rebels-idUSTRE73D...

"...the more the intelligence agencies learn about rebel forces, the more they appear to be hopelessly disorganized and incapable of coalescing in the foreseeable future. US government experts believe the state of the opposition is so grave that it could take years to organize, arm and train them into a fighting force strong enough to drive Gaddafi from power and setup a working government..."

and then of course there is the rather significant lack of any popular mandate from Libyans to do so...

False Pretense To War in Libya  -  by Alan Kuperman

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27889.htm

"...But an intervention did not prevent genocide, because no such bloodbath was in the offing. If bloodbath was unlikely, how did this notion propel US intervention? The actual prospect in Benghazi was the final defeat of the rebels. To avoid this fate, they desperately concocted an impending genocide to rally international support for 'humanitarian' intervention that would save their rebellion.."

RT Libya: And Sarkozy Aims to Rule NATO? (and vid)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27890.htm

RT talks to Johan Galtung

World Leaders Slam West War In Libya

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174742.html

"Leader of the BRICS group, the world's five major emerging powers, have criticized the West for waging war on Libya, which has caused civilian casualties in the North African state. 'We share the principle that the use of force should be avoided. We maintain that the independence, sovereignty, unity and territoriality of each nation should be respected.' The countries, which represent more than 40 percent of the world's population said in a statement."

U.S. Ignores Plea for More Libya Strikes: France

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The United States has rebuffed a French request for U.S. warplanes to resume major air raids in Libya, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said April 14 after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

'Libyan Rebels' Create Central Bank, Oil Company    -  by Alex Newman

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24308

"...One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations.

And when Gadhafi is gone and the dust has settled, according to Encina, you will see the allied reformers move in to reform Libya's monetary system, pumping it full of worthless dollars, priming it for a series of chaotic inflationary cycles. The future of Libya's vast gold stockpiles could also be in jeopardy..."

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And that brings us back to the puzzle of the Libyan central bank. In an article posted on the Market Oracle, Eric Encina observed:

One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned ... Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations.

Libya not only has oil. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its central bank has nearly 144 tonnes of gold in its vaults. With that sort of asset base, who needs the BIS, the IMF and their rules?

The 'global elites' need some circus music to go with their less than inspired meddling if NATO's prosecution of the Colonel is any indication.

As soon as a Canadian was put in charge of NATO's military efforts, one could see the writing on the wall. All this half-assed intervention is doing is giving false hope to the 'rebels'. The Yanquis tucking tail, the Eurowankers bickering as usual about how to offload the heavy lifting onto someone else and.....Canada holding the bag like the international doofusses we are.

ETA: quote from the Asia Times article linked above.

NATO using DEPLETED URANIUM IN LIBYA.

Depleted Uranium has a half life of around 4.468 billion years. That's a lot of Libyans getting cancer and other illnesses thanks to the "freedom loving" Western countries for a very, very, very long time.

Here is the description of what DU does: "the silent killer that will never stop killing".

I would compare it to al-jazeera. Their own corporate profile is over here.

They could be described as an English-language Russian business network. Pro-Russian, pro-government without being slavishly so. Wikipedia notes that they are funded by the Russian government. A healthy dose of critical coverage of some of the same stories in Western countries. Somewhat light-hearted or even a bit "fluffy". I find them a good source for a view that is pro-business  but not pro USA or pro Canada.

Maybe compare RT to state funded networks in other countries: CBC, BBC, China Central Television, Deutsche Welle, France 24, NHK World and so on.

Updates On Libyan War: April 17

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/updates-on-libyan-war-april-17/

Imperialist Powers Prepare Escalation Of Libyan War  -  by Patrick Martin

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/liby-a18.shtml

"The US, Britain and France are moving towards a significant escalation of the war against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, with leaders of the US backed 'rebellion' calling for the deployment of ground troops from the NATO powers, as well as stepped up bombing..

There is absolutely no reason to take sides with the 'rebels' against the Gaddafi dictatorship. They represent not a genuine revolt from below but the subversion of such a revolt by a collection of CIA agents, former Al Qaeda militants, and ex officials of the Gaddafi regime.."

BRICS Summit Denounces 'Use of Force' Against Libya  - by John Chan

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/bric-a18.shtml

"The Sanya summit reiterated opposition to teh bombing campaign, declaring 'we share the principle that the use of force should be avoided.."

Tripoli Vicar: People Are Worn Out..

http://www.blogfrommiddleeast.com?xstart=b&new=76940

"Please, Father, let's put an end to war and bombs. They have destroyed our family, upset our social life, children no longer go to school. We are shocked,' dozens of Libyan women told Tripoli's Vicar Apostolic. 'I appreciated, he added the position of the BRICS countries - because it favours diplomatic action over the use of force."

Libyan Rebel's Story Shows Links to Taliban, Al Qaeda, NATO  - by Ned Parker

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-qaeda-20110417...

"He once lived under the Taliban's protection, met with Osama bin Laden and helped fund a group the US has listed as a terrorist organization. Abdul Monem Muktar Mohammed, was leading a convoy of 200 cars west of Ajdabiya, Libya, when a bullet struck him in the chest his aides say.."

Europe is ready to send an armed force to Libya to ensure delivery of humanitarian aid, and Britain said Tuesday it will dispatch senior military officers to advise the opposition - signs that Western nations are inching closer to having troops on Libyan soil.

The bid by the European Union to deploy the armed force to escort humanitarian aid drew an immediate warning from Moammar Gadhafi's regime that this would be tantamount to a military operation.

The new tactics seem to have been spurred by the continued deadlock after two months of fighting between Gadhafi's army and rebel forces. There has also been growing international concern over the fate of the besieged rebel city of Misrata, where NATO admits it is unable to halt heavy shelling by Gadhafi's forces with airstrikes alone.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/04/19/libya-nato-un-gadhafi-rebe...

[url=http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24389]Canada's Involvement in the US-NATO led War on Libya: Some Important Facts[/url]

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· In 1969, Muammar Qaddafi led a bloodless coup to overthrow King Idris I, a monarch imposed by the British after WWII. At the time, Libya was the poorest country in the entire world; with a literacy rate below 10%. Since then, the Libyan government has improved all aspects of their society.

· Libya now has a literacy rate above 90%.

· Libya has the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa.

· Libya also has the highest life expectancy of all of Africa.

· Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.

· Libya has the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa.

· Libya has the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent.

· In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands, and again, far lower than that of the United States.

· They have free health care and treatment, and education is free of charge. Talented youth have an opportunity to study abroad at the expense of the Libyan government.

· Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech Republic, and far lower than the United States

Hands off Libya! Al-CIA'da out!

But it will supply Canada with some union jobs so it must be a good thing.  With our current expertise and capabilities in manufacturing super hummers for dictators if we can then add some plants for new jets we start to get a good picture of our  future economy.  NATO is an imperial aggression alliance.  I sure wish at least one party had a policy plank that said Canada needs to withdraw from NATO and concentrate on non-military solutions to the globes problems.  Blessed are the peacemakers.  

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Northern Shoveler wrote:

But it will supply Canada with some union jobs so it must be a good thing.  With our current expertise and capabilities in manufacturing super hummers for dictators if we can then add some plants for new jets we start to get a good picture of our  future economy.

That's not what Herr Harper has in mind.

He wants to make Canada an inviting home for the arms industry to make their profits.

Herr Harper also suffers from the same kind of envy toward Uncle Sam and his belligerence and war machine that Benito Mussolini suffered from in his envy toward Adolf Hitler.

Lies About The War on Libya  - by Thierry Meyssan

http://www.voltairenet.org/article169513.html

"the main lies of Atlanticist propaganda.."

Euro-American Land Invasion Of Libya Imminent  -  by Glen Greenwald

http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/euro-american-land-invasion-lib...

"...The official Euro-American invasion of Libya is about to begin. The European scheme is transparently cynical. They seek to land a 'battle-group' in Misrata under humanitarian pretences, and then inevitably clash with Gaddafi's soldiers dug in nearby.."

N.Beltov wrote:

I would compare it to al-jazeera. Their own corporate profile is over here.

They could be described as an English-language Russian business network. Pro-Russian, pro-government without being slavishly so. Wikipedia notes that they are funded by the Russian government. A healthy dose of critical coverage of some of the same stories in Western countries. Somewhat light-hearted or even a bit "fluffy". I find them a good source for a view that is pro-business  but not pro USA or pro Canada.

Maybe compare RT to state funded networks in other countries: CBC, BBC, China Central Television, Deutsche Welle, France 24, NHK World and so on.

Mad Max Keyser (the Keyser Report) is very entertaining and has some chilling analysis, if it weren't for his harping on the need to stock up on precious metals.  Alyona has grown up and her show has improved considerably in the past year.  The network has run documentaries on the criminalization of child prostitutes in the US, on conscientious objectors, etc.  

Hoodeet wrote:

Definitely time to start getting out of NATO. Long overdue.)

we used to have a political party that thought so...

Obama OKs Use of Armed Drone Aircraft In Libya

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42708159/ns/politics#

"President Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya..."