Libya: The real war starts now

By Pepe Escobar
Voltairenet.org

Political, economic and social instability in Libya did not end with the fall of Tripoli and the alleged victory of NATO rebels. Gaddafi’s decision to go underground has caught everyone by surprise. The unfolding scenario is reminiscent of Omar Mukhtar’s legacy, the Libyan leader who struggled against Italian colonialism for nearly twenty years, from 1912 to 1931. Everything can still change in a country where most of the population hasn’t said its final word yet and the neo-colonial powers in place are very fragile.

Gaddafi (left) vs Abdel Hakim Belhadj (right).
Gaddafi could become the new «Lion of the Desert»

Enough about The Big G’s downfall. Now comes the real nitty-gritty; Afghanistan 2.0, Iraq 2.0, or a mix of both.

The "NATO rebels" have always made sure they don’t want foreign occupation. But the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - which made the victory possible - can’t control Libya without boots on the ground. So multiple scenarios are now being gamed in NATO’s headquarters in Mons, Belgium - under a United Nations velvet cushion.

According to already leaked plans, sooner or later there may be troops from Persian Gulf monarchies and friendly allies such as Jordan and especially NATO member Turkey, also very keen to bag large commercial contracts. Hardly any African nations will be part of it - Libya now having being "relocated" to Arabia. ...

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See also:
Tony Catalucci: Genocide, rebel infighting, failed offensives mark third week of NATO's "victory" in Libya

James Petras: NATO War crimes in Libya

We will never heal. We have to demand a new investigation

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Architects & Engineers - Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 - AE911Truth.org


David Chandler of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth


Robert Scheer: How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11

Tony Cartalucci:The War on Terror is a Fraud

Winter Patriot: Ten years of murderous nonsense

Former Malaysian PM: Bush lied about 9/11 

Paul Krugman: Bush, Giuliani and the other fake heroes of 9/11 

The Onion: Remembering 9/11 A Pleasure For Nation Compared To Remembering Past 10 Years

The following video, All you all you need to know about 9/11 in less than five minutes, provides a brilliant satirical commentary on the official 9/11 conspiracy theory (narrator, James Corbett).



And Paul Craig Roberts' provides a razor sharp logical dissection of the contentions of three prominent anti-Truthers: The "Critics" of 9/11 Truth. Do They Have a Case?

The ideology of Tony Blair, imperialist

Bringing on the NWO: "A catastrophic and catalyzing event".

Former Uk Ambassador, Craig Murray, who was booted from the UK diplomatic service for his opposition to the use by the UK Government of information gained through torture by the notorious, boil 'em alive, billionaire President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, today launched a brief but violent blog assault on former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, by whose government he was sacked.

The pretext for the attack was this report of Blair's cheer leading for war on Syria and Iran. Blair, Murray suggests, is best understood as a serial killer addicted to mass murder like Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot.

This, I suggest is nonsense. Tony Blair is unquestionably a serial liar whose lies were critical in the launch of an unjust war on Iraq. But to understand what drives Blair, one need to consider the ideology that motivates him or those who pull his strings.

The Project for the New American Century (Authors: Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush and misc. NeoCons) stated in 1997 that America must seek global hegemony through a massive military build-up which is likely to be long delayed "absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor" (i.e., we need 9/11 now).

It is in this context that Blair's actions are intelligible. He is a mouthpiece for the NWO, as announced by George H.W. Bush in 1991, and as driven by the World Trade Organization and the GATT round (signed by Bill Clinton) and the War on Terror (Bush/Blair/Obama).

So folks must decide: do they believe in a New World Order, under which the nations of the world, as racial, cultural and religious entities are crushed out of existence, and where a plutocratic elite control the world through a system of pseudo-democracies and elite-controlled media and education establishments, or do they want to preserve the 20th century system of often somewhat democratic nation states, with the inherent risk that such a system entails of repeated international conflicts.

the RULING elites in the NAFTA, EU and NATO states have opted for the New World Order. Consistent with that decision, these states must seek to co-opt or crush all states seeking to preserve their sovereignty, and their distinctive political, cultural and religious traditions. The essentials of this policy were spelled out in 2002 in a Guardian newspaper article by Tony Blair's foreign policy adviser Robert Cooper.

The most logical way to deal with chaos, and the one employed most often in the past, is colonisation. But this is unacceptable to postmodern states. Empire and imperialism are words that have become a form of abuse and no colonial powers are willing to take on the job, though the opportunities - perhaps even the need - for colonisation is as great as it ever was in the nineteenth century. Those left out of the global economy risk falling into a vicious circle. Weak government means disorder and that means falling investment.

All the conditions for imperialism are there, but both the supply and demand for imperialism have dried up. And yet a world in which the efficient and well-governed export stability and liberty seems eminently desirable.

What is needed is a new kind of imperialism, one compatible with human rights and cosmopolitan values: an imperialism which aims to bring order and organisation but which rests today on the voluntary principle.

We already have voluntary imperialism of the global economy through institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank. These multilateral institutions provide help to states wishing to find their way back into the global economy and into the virtuous circle of investment and prosperity. In return they make demands which, they hope, address the political and economic failures that have contributed to the original need for assistance.

There we have it. The Blair policy: to all those who challenge US/NATO the message is: you will be assimilated -- resistance is futile.

In Libya, Britain attempted voluntary co-option, but the patience of the French appears to have been exhausted when Gaddafi cancelled arms purchases from France in favor of deals offering better value for money with Russia and China. Obama supported France and assimilation by force is now underway. As a consequence, Blair has moved on to the next phase of the drive for global empire, the assimilation of Syria and Iran.

Even now, it may not be too late for either country to join the Empire of the Willing. No doubt Tony Blair, Middle East envoy on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU, would be happy to meet with representatives of these recalcitrant states and attempt to work out a deal.

See also:
The beautiful people who rule the World

Cecil Rhodes' secret society for Anglo-Saxon global empire and Alex Jones--Master of Misdirection

John Buchan, Canadian Governor General (1935 - 1940) On Conspiracies Driving World Events

London Riots, John Cleese, Breivik, Norway: Islam, rape and "whores"

It's hard to call a Muslim immigrant a racist for speaking out against his fellow Muslims...

Meaning that criticism of the mores and behavior of immigrants to Europe by European natives is racist?

The European genocide by means of lib-left psychological warfare is truly well underway.

But at least a few aging liberals are beginning to have some vague intimation of the harm that they have wrought.

London is no longer an English city

says John Cleese

I don't know what's going on in London, because London is no longer an English city. ...

I had a Californian friend come over two months ago, walk down the King's Road and say, "Where are all the English people?"

I mean, I love having different cultures around. But when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, "Well, what's going on?"

Pathetic, really. Cleese is a man of great talent -- as an actor. But what he demonstrates by these comments is that the media custom of treating the political views of the stars of the entertainment world as though they were of some special merit worthy of report is both absurd and detrimental to the public interest.

Politically, Cleese is a moron. He sees the English, his own people, displaced from their own capital city by 2.7 million immigrants and several million children of immigrants and he says:

I don't know what's going on.

LOL.

Bloody fool.

The English are being ethnically cleansed. That's what's going on, John.

"I mean, I love having different cultures around. But when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'"

Bloody fool squared.

The British culture is not the parent of Islam, it is not the parent of violent black identity culture, it is not the parent of Hinduism or any of the other wonderful different cultures that Cleese loves "having around."

The obvious fact that this damn fool celebrity fails to understand is that when you ethnically cleanse the English from London, English culture is eradicated and foreign culture take its place.

If you love diversity, you'd better damn well keep the diverse cultures, races, breeds of dogs or whatever it is that you so love to be diverse well separated. There's nothing racist about this, unless you call opposition to genocide racism -- as liberals do.

You'd think anyone could understand that. And over 70% of the British population do. But it is too difficult to understand, apparently, for the slimy globalist tools like David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the celebrity fools who get the media coverage and dictate the political agenda.

Peak Oil Postponed

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Worldwide proven oil reserves are estimated at around 1.35 trillion barrels, or 43 years production at current rates. However, that excludes Canadian and Venezuelan tar sands with 3.6 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, or 116 years production at current rates. Tar sands oil costs around $31 a barrel to extract and upgrade to the quality of conventional crude. So as long as the price of oil stays over $31 (currently $85.00), peak oil will likely be postponed until: (a) output in one of the major oil producing regions is terminated by a political or geological catastrophe, or (b) a convenient and cheaper alternative to oil becomes widely available.

Natural gas seems most likely to replace oil at some point this century. World reserves total about 190 trillion cubic meters or 1.1 trillion barrels of oil equivalent, enough to substitute for oil at present consumption rates for about 30 years. And that's not counting conventional gas reserves yet to be discovered, or shale gas, or deep water gas, or gas in tight sedimentary deposits that new technology is now making available, or methane hydrates, which exist in vast abundance on the seafloor throughout the temperate and polar regions, which might keep the World powered for another hundred years or so.

In fact, natural gas is already a lot cheaper than oil. At around $4.00 a thousand cubic feet, gas in North America is less than a third the price of oil on an energy equivalent basis (6000 cubic feet having the same energy content as a barrel of oil). Natural gas is bulky, however, which makes it expensive both to transport and to store, and unsuitable for some applications, e.g., as a motor or aviation fuel. Moreover, the major gas producing regions of the World are mostly remote from the densely populated and industrialized areas of high energy demand.

But as new methods are applied to the extraction of gas from shales and other unconventional sources, supplies will increasingly be developed close to places of use. In addition, the World's infrastructure for gas transportation and storage will continue to expand in range and capacity. We can expect, therefore, to see natural gas continually encroach on the market for oil.

In addition, there is solar power, a source of the highest quality form of energy: electricity. Both solar thermal and photoelectric generation can achieve efficiencies of more than 40%, which means that global energy demand could be met by solar installations covering only a tiny fraction of the World's land (desert) area. Cost, however, remains high, which means that solar power will continue to be of only marginal significance, without major cost reductions in photovoltaic cell manufacture, and major technical advances in battery technology and electrical transmission systems, including perhaps, the development of World-wide superconducting grids, ensuring the availability of solar power 24/7 during every season of the year.

With the disaster of Fukushima spreading poison around the World, let us hope that the nuclear option will be abandoned altogether.

The State of Climate Science: Have We Passed Peak Civilization?

Scientists: Clouds reflect sunlight. Could it be true? Image source

A recent empirical study by Spencer and Braswell published in the journal Remote Sensing (RS), challenges beliefs about human-caused climate warming with evidence that climate warming predictions ignore a significant role of clouds on surface temperatures.

This conclusion is vehemently denied by a number of prominent climate modellers and has resulted in the resignation of the RS's Editor in Chief. It has also prompted a rebuttal that passed RS's peer-review process like a dose of salts, and a rebuttal video, that ends with these reassuring words:

Results that purport to overturn decades of science are almost always wrong.

Oh, well then, no need for further observation or experiment.

Except now we have the rebuttals of the rebuttal, some of which are, if nothing else, entertaining, including this from philosophy of science grad, Tallbloke, and this by physicist Luboš Mot.

To a non-specialist, a striking feature of this controversy is that it pits warmist modellers and curve fitters against skeptical experimenters, which raises the question of whether "climate science" as the term is used by the warmist camp is, perhaps, a misnomer. In particular, one may ask, what is scientific about a modeling exercise that makes predictions about the climate fifty or a hundred years hence, which cannot be tested except over a similar time-scale?

All that can be tested today are some of the components of the climate models, for example, how things like cloud cover, solar activity, or sea surface temperature are related to air temperature. This is the work of experimentalists such as Richard Linzen, Willie Soon or John Christie.

Generally what the experimentalists find does not seem to support the conclusions of either the modellers, or the curve fitters, such as Kevin Trenberth, Phil Jones, or Michael Mann.

Without questioning anyone's integrity, the conflict between these groups suggests that much of what goes under the name of climate science is not so much science as futurology based on some questionable techniques that produce questionable predictions.

Is this a sign of the times? Is science morphing into something else? A branch of politics, perhaps? Have we, as some observers suggest, reached "peak civilization," and begun the descent into the New Dark Age?

See also:
Al Gore's assault on the integrity of science

Why we're bombing Libya

By Stephen Gowans

While the class character of regimes under siege by Western powers is often explored in analyses of imperialist interventions and is frequently invoked to justify them, it neither explains why capitalist imperialist powers intervene nor stands as a justification for their actions.

The relevant consideration in explaining why interventions occur is not the political orientation of the government under siege, nor its relations with its citizens, but whether it accommodates the profit-making interests of the dominant class in the intervening countries. Does it welcome foreign investment, allow repatriation of profits, demand little in the way of corporate income tax, open its markets, and offer abundant supplies of cheap labor and raw materials? Or does it impose high tariffs on imports, subsidize domestic production, operate state-owned enterprises (displacing opportunities for foreign-private-owned ones), force investors to take on local partners, and insist that workers be protected from desperation wages and intolerable working conditions?

Much as it might be supposed that imperialist interventions target worker and peasant-led governments alone, this is not the case. Regimes that promote national bourgeois interests by denying or limiting the profit-making interests in their own countries of the dominant class of other countries are routinely targeted for regime change, especially if they are militarily weak or have pluralist political systems that afford space for destabilization and political interference. Since the effects are the same in imperialist countries of a local regime, say, expropriating a foreign-privately-owned oil company, no matter whether the company is turned over to local business people, the state, or the company’s employees, it is a matter of supreme indifference to imperialist countries whether the expropriation is carried out by communists, socialists or radical nationalists. Whether you’re inspired by Marx and Lenin, 21st century socialism, or the actually-existing capitalist policies that the United States, Germany and Japan followed to challenge Britain’s industrial monopoly, if you’re going to mess with the profit-making opportunities of an imperialist country’s capital class, it will mess with you.

Al Gore's assault on the integrity of science

I am skeptical of long-term forecasts about global warming. According to Al Gore, this makes me a "denier", a term implying that I not only reject alarmist claims about human-caused climate change, but that I am a Holocaust "revisionist," which is to say an anti-Semitite and, therefore, a racist.

In an interview with an Alex Bogusky, Gore makes absolutely clear his intention to draw a parallel between skepticism about anthropogenic climate warming and racism.

Although this is a claim of astounding asininity, it is, presumably, an effective tactic in what Gore terms "winning the argument," an argument in which he has a huge personal financial stake.

But it is much more than that. It is an obscene attack on civilized and rational discourse.

Climate change projections are just that, projections. There is nothing settled about projections that cannot be definitively tested in less than the time over which the projections have been made.

Yes, science is about projections. But what scientific illiterates such as Al Gore like to call "settled science" is about projections that have been experimentally verified with such certainty that they are described as laws, although even as laws they are subject to skepticism, for otherwise they would not be a part of science. But there is no way that a 50- or 100-year projection of climate variation can be tested with absolute certainty in less than 50 or 100 years.

And even then, confirmation of a projection is not proof of the principles underlying the projection. In the case of climate projection, proof of the underlying principles appears to be theoretically impossible, since the climate is a complex, non-linear system. It was precisely the realization of the non-linearity of climate models that gave rise to chaos theory, which reveals the fundamental unpredictability of most of what happens in the World.

But there are much simpler reasons for skepticism about alarmist predictions of climate warming. Such predictions are based, for the most part, on attempt to project the effect on climate of human-caused increases in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. But as experts in the field readily acknowledge, there are many other effects of human activity that impact climate, but which current climate models fail to adequately consider.

Black carbon, for example, or soot, a product of fossil fuel and vegetation burning, also traps energy in the atmosphere, thereby exacerbating the warming effect of carbon dioxide, whereas atmospheric sulfur pollution adds reflective white sulfate particles to the atmosphere, which have a direct cooling effect while serving as nuclei for water droplet, and hence cloud, formation.

Clouds, have a large effect on the Earth's energy balance by blocking outgoing radiation between Earth and space and reflecting incoming solar radiation. Such cloud effects are likely much greater than those of  either carbon dioxide or black carbon.

The variable activity of the sun must also be considered. For example, the sun's magnetic field affects the amount of cosmic radiation reaching the Earth's upper atmosphere. The mesons, to which cosmic rays give rise in the atmosphere cause water vapor nucleation and cloud formation. Moreover, long-term fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field seems to explain historic changes in global temperature rather well. This and other solar effects need to be fully evaluated before climate change models could possibly have significant long-term predictive value.

Another great uncertainty concerns the fate of anthropogenic carbon dioxide once it has been added to the atmosphere. Some of it is assimilated by vegetation and increases the pool of carbon in soils and plants. Some dissolves in the ocean. Some is sequestered through geological processes. We know rather little about how changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration affect the rates at which these various sinks for carbon dioxide function.

Therefore, the one thing we can say with certainty about the effect of human activity on climate, is that we cannot predict it with any certainty.

This is not to say we should be unconcerned about human effects on the environment. There is merit in the precautionary principle, and I firmly believe we should aim to reduce the human impact on the environment. But we cannot turn the World's economy on a dime and we should not be focusing on carbon dioxide very largely to the exclusion of all else. Technology is advancing rapidly across the spectrum of industrial activity. Recycling is intensifying, resource use efficiency is increasing. We may need to encourage these trends in some areas. But we should be motivated on the basis of rational discourse, not by insults from self-serving bullies.

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Al Gore's participation in the debate about climate change constitutes a serious threat to the integrity of science. His resort to blind brutal partisanship encourages bad science by inhibiting vigorous criticism of research that supports the climate alarmist view, while promoting vicious attacks on scientists with the temerity to investigate ideas that counter the climate alarmist program.

And it should be remembered that Al Gore's Nobel prize was not a science prize. It was a "peace" prize awarded by the same corrupt or unbelievably stupid Norwegian politicians who awarded the "peace" prize to President Barak O'Bomber.

See also:
Climate Science: Peak Civilization?

How odd was it to pack 17 Navy Seals in one helicopter as backup to Army Rangers on a routine mission?

On August 6, 17 members of the US Navy's elite commando SEALs Team 6 died when the Chinook helicopter they were in was brought down in Afghanistan by insurgent rocket fire. The SEALs were providing back-up to an Army Ranger raid on an "insurgent cell." All 38 people aboard the aircraft died, resulting in the greatest one-day loss of American life during the Afghanistan war.

Bad luck, one might think, but neatly balanced by the good luck that the very same Navy SEALs Team enjoyed on May 2nd when their helicopter "malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s compound at about 3:30 p.m. ET Sunday, stalling as it hovered." Fortunately, the pilot was able to "set the machine down gently inside the walls of the compound, but then couldn’t get it going again."

It was a heart-stopping moment for President Barack Obama, who had been monitoring the raid in the White House Situation Room since 1 p.m., surrounded by members of his war cabinet.

Obviously, everyone was thinking about Black Hawk Down and Desert One,” a senior administration official recalled.

But not to worry.

The SEALs disembarked.

The assault team went ahead and raided the compound, even though they didn’t know if they would have a ride home”

The special forces put bombs on the crippled chopper and blew it up, then lifted off in a reinforcement craft just before 4:15 p.m., capping an astounding 40 minutes that gave the United States a tectonic victory in the 10-year war on terror touched off by 9/11.

“The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden,” Obama said at the White House Monday.

1980, Desert One helicopter crash

That happy outcome was good luck not only for the SEALs, who got to live another 95 days, but for President Obama who took the credit for authorizing the SEALs intrepid incursion into the sovereign territory of America's ally, Pakistan, during which they bravely assassinated the sick and aging former US ally, Osama bin Laden, shot bin Laden's wife in the leg and, for no apparent reason, killed bin Laden's son Khalid.

Had that stalling helicopter crashed and the SEALs Team 6 been wiped out, Obama's chances of reelection in 2012 would have been as dismal as Jimmy Carter's chances of a second term following the failed Iran hostages rescue mission, which ended in disaster when a helicopter crashed into a C-130 Transport, killing eight servicemen.

But not everyone believes things went so well for the SEALs at Abbottabad. As Paul Craig Roberts reported:

The Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview with an eye witness to the US attack on the alleged compound of Osama bin Laden. The eye witness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded. Of the three helicopters, "there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he [the helicopter] was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire." The witness says that there were no survivors, just dead bodies and pieces of bodies everywhere. "We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing."

Which naturally raises the question, how come no SEALs were reported killed during the Abbottabad raid?

If they died, the news was surely bound to come out. So what point would there have been in failing to report such deaths at the time?

In order to fake a more satisfactory account of their deaths at another time and another place?

As we noted earlier:

Helicopters go down all the time in Afghanistan. Four Chinooks, and several other types this year already. So it would have been simple enough to conceal losses in Pakistan -- just add the names to the list of those killed in the latest crash, and return some well charred bodies for burial. Without a DNA test, the deception would be undetectable.

Now it seems, not everyone in the US military is satisfied by the account of the way in which Seal Team 6 met its end. Thus, the The New York Times reports, Admiral William H. McRaven, the  new commander of American Special Operations forces, has had to defend the use of 17 members of  the elite Navy Seals Team 6, to back up the August 6 raid by Army Rangers on an Afghanistan "insurgent" cell, which ended in disaster when the chopper was brought down by enemy fire.

According to the Times,

 The commander, Adm. William H. McRaven, said “there was nothing unusual about this mission” to warrant the sustained criticism heard from some retired commandos and military analysts, who have questioned how the operation was planned and carried out and whether it was an appropriate use of the vaunted Navy Seals.

 Furthermore, said the admiral the most highly trained Navy and Army commando teams are "regularly assigned to support commanders of units in a local area of combat if that contributed to the overall mission."

“We have to be fungible as a force,” Admiral McRaven said. “And if we are not fungible as a force, then we are not of value. It is not unusual at all for Seals or Rangers or Army Special Operations forces to be part of a quick-reaction force, as in this case.”

So there you have it. Nothing odd about a crack special forces team being wiped out while serving as back-up during a routine anti-insurgency mission in Afghanistan. Just fungibility.

Libya: No need for pith helmets

Manuel Noreiga: jailed since 1989

In his article, Take Up the White Man's Burden, Eric Margolis adopts the "re-colonization of Libya" meme. But the notion is hopelessly misleading.

There will be no return to the tropics of pith-helmeted white men bound to serve "their captives' need." There are plenty of Libyan Ph.D.'s in economics and politics and all the rest of the technical twaddle deemed necessary for the management of a modern government.

Post-Gaddafi, the Government of Libya will be of the people, by the people, and ostensibly for the people, provided that the presumed interests of the people happen to coincide with those of the New World Order.That is to say, there will be an elected government, the members of which will find it richly rewarding to conform to the wishes of the multinational corporations so anxious to reconstruct Libya after the recent unfortunate deconstruction by aerial bombardment.

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The Libyans who make up the government will enjoy all the perquisites of office, including the after-office payoffs that make puppetry such an rewarding occupation for the likes of Blair/Brown/Cameron/Sarkozy/Obama. And should they ever think to betray their corporate masters, they have the horrible examples of Saddam, Manuel Noriega, and now Gadhafi to remind them of their own true interest.

They will be assimilated: Resistance is futile

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In Libya, so many are saying, we are witnessing the recolonization of Africa.

NATO’s operation in Libya is a perfectly planned political spectacle which marks the beginning of the second colonization of Africa

so says Lode Vanoost, former deputy speaker of the Belgian Parliament.

But this is to misunderstand what is happening not only to Libya, not only to Africa, but to the entire World.

Colonization is about Lebensraum. It is the process of occupying land for the purpose of establishing populations derived from that of the occupying power. Colonization is about nationalism and the expansion of strong nations at the expense of the weak.

What is happening in Libya and throughout most of the World today has nothing to do with nationalism or the expansion of living space for the dominant nations of the World. What we are seeing is the exact opposite of nationalism. It is the assimilation of all nations into a single melting pot controlled by a corporate, mainly financial, elite in collaboration with the great Western foundations established by robber barons, past and present.

The objective is not to establish European, or American or Chinese colonies in Africa. The objective is to impose a global system of monopoly capitalist control.

There is nothing nationalistic or racist about this system. Anyone can join the racket. Europeans, Russians, Indians, Chinese, Africans, all are welcome to join the ruling elite, provided only that they have a billion or two behind them and they are prepared to sacrifice the interest of their own people without limit.

Locally, US/NATO installs a compliant native group in government. Members of the puppet regime, the African or central Asian equivalents of Blair/Brown/Cameron/Sarkozy/Obama enjoy both the perquisites of government and the bribes and after-office payoffs of the corporate interests that are to receive unfettered access to national resources and markets.

Gadhafi was, in contrast, an old-fashioned tyrant who believed in building up his country's infra-structure, educational system, and industry. He had the daft idea that Libya is somehow for the Libyans. Well bollocks to that racist poison: hence, We Came, We Saw, He Died.

But once assimilated into the globalist collective, Libyans will, apparently, be able to look forward to a brighter future under the leadership of the Al Qaeda terrorist commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj.

Or as Tony Cartalucci says in a post headed Libya: The Greatest Betrayal:

...let's not labor under any delusions. Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy are heads of state in name only. It is the depravity and megalomania amongst the banks, corporations, and the institutions they have contrived, that are responsible for the most egregious betrayal in Western history. For 10 years the West's leadership have stirred up hatred and fear amongst their populations to justify a lengthy and very costly global war that has sent US, British, Canadian, German, French, and many other troops, around the world, into dangerous adversity, and ultimately to their graves to fight "the forces of terror."

Now, almost as if savoring the irony, the New York Times, on behalf of the corporate-financier oligarchs that presume dominion over the Western world, fully admit that Al Qaeda terrorists, men who literally killed US troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan are now in Libya and are the benefactors of billions of dollars in Western aid, diplomatic recognition, training, weapons, the lending of intelligence assets, the full unwavering support of the West's "media," NATO-member air support, and even graced with Western special forces fighting side-by-side with them on the ground. This timely confession is also in response in part to revelations that the Libyan rebel commander now filling the streets of Tripoli with indescribable horror is a hardcore Al Qaeda leader, reported first in the Telegraph months ago, and again this week on RT and covered in depth by respected geopolitical analyst Dr. Webster Tarpley...

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On the Libya NATO is in the process of destroying, Aangirfan reports here.

On the chief of the plutocratic oligarchy that seeks power in Libya now, Aangirfan reports here.

Utoya, Norway - Breivik Atrocites: The police were running an exercise

Source: Aftonpost, August 26, 2011

Trente på Utøya-scenario 22. juli

 Norwegian to English translation

On July 22, only hours before Anders Behring Breivik began shooting children on Utøya, the police emergency squad concluded an exercise in which they enacted an almost identical scenario.

AVANDREAS GROUND FOSS

Four days in advance, and also the same Friday that the [Breivik] attacks were carried out, a trained police special unit carried out a terror attack exercise that corresponded almost exactly to the situation that hours later met the 22 police officers in the emergency squad on Utøya. 

Aftenposten has confirmed from key sources in the management of the Oslo police that the exercise was terminated at 1500 hours that same Friday. 

All officers from the emergency squad that participated in the government quarter of Oslo following the car bombing and later came ashore on Utøya and arrested Anders Behring Breivik had earlier that same day and in the previous days participated in training on a very similar scenario.

The training involved: a mobile terrorist attack in which one or more perpetrators only goal would be to shoot as many people as possible and then shoot the police when they arrive.

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Police special unit trains continuously. But every quarter, they train to different types of scenarios. 
These are different scenarios police envisions might occur where the emergency squad must be inserted. There may be actions indoors, in cities or out in other environments. 

According to police, this is a scenario they train on several times a year and has trained for several years, especially after some events in other countries.

The similarity with what actually happened on Utøya, was mere coincidence, says a key police source, who declined to be quoted by name.

26 minutes
The car bombing in the government quarter of Oslo occurred only 26 minutes after the emergency exercise ended.

At 17.30 staff of the Oslo police were told a shooting at Utøya. 

The Emergency squad set out for the North Buskerud Police District, but at 18.02, six minutes before they arrived, they were advised to meet with local police at Storøya. 

Seven people from the emergency squad and three officers from Nordre Buskerud Police District climbed into a 4.9 meter long police dinghy, but the boat was so heavily loaded that it began taking on water. The police then transferred to a privately-owned boat and headed for Utøya.

See Also:

Norway's 9/11: The Horror Is In The Message Winter Patriot

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NORWAY ATTACKS, AND 9 11 Aangirfan

Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites Peter Dale Scott

The violent videos of Breivik's 'mentor' Telegraph

CONFIRMED: Libya War is CIA Op 30 Years in the Making

An article by Tony Cartalucci, confirms the CIA/private think tank pedigree of the war on Libya.

In a separate piece, Tony Cartalucci exposes the current NATO operations inside Libya as a desperate psychological war with the corporate media explicitly deceiving the public with misleading headlines under which facts are buried by mountains of minutia, carefully worded propaganda, unverified innuendos, and outright lies.


Photo: Images and reports are beginning to trickle in as NATO-backed genocide unfolds throughout Tripoli's streets, indicating the destruction of infrastructure and the specific targeting of black Africans written off by the corporate media as "suspected mercenaries." Benghazi rebels have been long reported to harbor extremist ideologies and an intense ethnic & racial hatred.

And here's Webster Tarpley on the Al Qaeda pirates taking over of the Mediterranean (U-Tube Vid).

And Chris Floyd on Dead Sirte: Another Murderous Twist in NATO's Coil of Lies

NATO Unloads more ordnance on Libya than the Luftwaffe dumped on Britain during WW2

Nazi Luftwaffe over England
Image source

As of yesterday, NATO reports having conducted a total of 20,395 air sorties over Libya since March 31, including 7,681 strike sorties.

NATO does not report how much high explosive was delivered to Libyan targets, but we can make a rough estimate. A Canadian CF-18 can deliver between six and eight tons of armaments, depending on which particular version of the plane is deployed, whereas and American B-2 stealth bomber can deliver up to 60 tons in a single sortie. It would seem conservative, therefore, to assume an average bomb load of around ten tons per strike sortie (even allowing for a percentage of aborted missions), or a total of 77,000 tons.

That compares favorably with the 74,000 tons that the Nazis managed to drop over England during the Blitz of WW2, and amounts to more than ten kilograms of high explosive for every citizen of Libya.

NATO blast in Tripoli. Image source

There is a difference, though, between the Luftwaffe dropping bombs more or less haphazardly in the vicinity of London or some other very large target -- usually at night from above a blanket of cloud -- and NATO delivering laser guided smart bombs in Libya today. Smart bombs yield much more useful death and destruction per ton.

Nazi bombing of Britain during WW2 killed about 40,000 civilians. No reliable estimates of the death toll from NATO bombing in Libya are available: but is it likely to be less than 40,000?

Meantime:

The Tripolitanians aren't cheering that much;

the African Union won't recognize the rebel Transitional Council;

But unlike Libya all is peaceful in Morocco (Human Development Index rank 125 versus Libya, the highest in Africa, at 58)

And those ingrates in South Africa have started talking about NATO war crimes in Libya.

And NATO declares being in Gadaffi’s political camp a capital offence.

On a more cheeful note: NATO nations set to reap spoils of Libya war.

Tripoli Falls: Why No Celebration?

Where are the crowds throwing flowers? Image source

Gadhafi falls. Yet the news headlines are hardly triumphal. The reason, I suspect, is that few believe we have seen the end of NATO's war on Libya. Almost certainly, what we are seeing now is only the end of the beginning.

Their way smoothed by NATO bombing, the rebels, who may have been aided by any number of Iraq- or Afghanistan-war-hardened mercenaries funded by NATO, have been able to enter Tripoli and will most likely soon occupy the seats of government.

We saw something very much like this in Afghanistan when the US bombed a way open for the Northern Alliance to enter Kabul in the first months of the war. Yet that war is still ongoing ten years later.

Likewise in Iraq. The Iraq Army, softened up by heavy aerial bombardment, was unable to mount a significant defense of Baghdad. But the occupation of the capital was only the beginning of the war, which continues sporadically even now.

At latest report, Gadhafi sons "released" by rebels. Source

Gadhafi is said to have distributed millions of automatic weapons to the Libyan populace. The prospect of deadly violence for years to come seems high.

But this war may differ from the others in that NATO troops will play little if any role on the ground. Why? Because NATO now has an army of trained mercenaries at its disposal who, under the guise of Libyan rebels, can do any necessary ground fighting as effectively and more cheaply than American, Canadian or other NATO forces and without that unpleasantness with flag-draped coffins returning home to America, Britain, France, etc. on a regular basis.

There is already talk of the foreign oil companies returning to Libya. But a return to full production could take years if Libyan nationalists and Gadhafi loyalists engage in a guerrilla struggle to expel the colonists.

Offshore exploration, authorized by the "Rebel" government may now proceed, although the possibility that the loyalists are able to launch the odd Skud missile could be a deterrent. A Macondo-sized spill in the Med, would end any prospect of offshore drilling for years to come.

Meantime:

The Tripolitanians aren't cheering that much;

the African Union won't recognize the rebel Transitional Council;

But unlike Libya all is peaceful in Morocco (Human Development Index rank 125)

And those ingrates in South Africa have started talking about NATO war crimes in Libya.

The New American World Order: How It Works

To understand how the American empire works, one needs to know three things.

First, asVitali and colleagues at Einstein's alma mater -- the ETH in Zurich Switzerland -- demonstrate in a highly technical arxiv.org publication, a few dozen mostly financial corporations have direct or indirect control over a large proportion of the rest of the World's transnational corporations.

Second, as theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains, the large multinational corporations based in the United States are dependent for their intellectual resources not on Americans or the American educational system, but on the H1B, the genius visa, that brings to America scientific and engineering talent from throughout the World.

Third, as John Stewart demonstrates, American democracy is a system under which the multinational corporations, through ownership of the media, ensure that the American people vote for one or other of the candidates acceptable to -- which is to say controllable by -- the managers of the great multinational corporations, i.e., the dynamic members of the plutocratic elite. (As the John Stewart clip indicates, Ron Paul is not an acceptable candidate for President because he is opposed to multiple, trillion dollar wars, which are an important source of income to a number of very large multinational corporations and the means by which those corporations gain unrestricted access to the World's resources and markets.)

From these premises, the basic characteristics of the American New World Order can be inferred:

Money rules: global governance means plutocracy.

National governments must serve global, not national, interests. For example, the failure of America's government-mandated and controlled education system to develop to the full the intellectual resources of the American population is not a concern, since American corporations can obtain intellectual resources more cheaply by pillaging the resources of other nations than by supporting a first-rate, tax-funded system of education in America.To the extent that America's educational system minimizes the resistance of the public to brainwashing by advertising and the media, it serves a positive New World Order function.

Redrawing the Middle East Map, as proposed by war strategist Ralph Peters
 in the US Armed Forces Journal: Image source.

Consistent with their role under the New World Order, national governments must seek to destroy the identity, culture, religion, and unique genetic inheritance of every nation, thereby facilitating the international free flow of people, capital and goods that is essential to profit maximization by transnational corporations. This is a policy of universal genocide, as the term genocide was defined by Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term.

National governments that seek to remain independent, whether to maximize the human potential and well-being of their own people, or to further the ambitions of their own ruling elite, are to be destroyed by US/NATO, the enforcement arm of the New World Order. After the crushing of Libya, the nation with the highest human development index in Africa, on the absurd pretext of protecting the people from their own government, will come the subordination of Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, or so it has been announced (see map). There will then remain to be dealt with, those most nationalistic of nations, Russia and China.

By then, the United States, itself, will present no impediment to the global rule of a deracinated international plutocracy. Having served its purpose as the engine for the destruction of the nations of the Earth, America will have fragmented into an assemblage of racial, religious and cultural entities at war with one another and incapable of a coherent democratic will able to assert a national interest.

Are the alternative media just nuts?

There are plenty of complacent self-congratulatory bloggers who will tell you that the mainstream media (MSM) are rubbish and that the only useful sources of information are the alternative media, a claim that is utterly absurd. The alternative media provide almost no news at all. They leech off the MSM, picking and choosing and putting their own spin on the selected data.

Almost no alternative media site offers original news reporting. Wikileaks, for example, provides not news, but carefully screened stolen documents, including some that may be doctored or entirely fraudulent.

True, some in the alt. media world occasionally make some actual news gathering effort. Matt Drudge made a lightening visit to Afghanistan in the opening days of the American assault on that country with laughably trivial results in reportable news. Webster Tarpley recently spent a couple of days reporting from Libya. But collectively, the alt. media news gathering effort is essentially nil.

The MSM provide more than just news, however. Opinion is cheaper than news and the MSM is full of it. Here the alt. media provide real competition, some of which may be enlightening. Yet much, probably most, comment in the alt. media is ill-informed, paranoid or outright insane -- proving that George H. W. Bush is a reptilian extra-terrestrial being one amusing example.

The questionable value of alt. media commentary is a common feature not only of the work of unknown bloggers, but of people who might be expected to make some sense. Former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray (CM), for example, whose blog caters to a bizarre collection of Communists, settler immigrants, Anglophobic racists, Muslim proselytizers and other oddities.

Among the oddities, was occasionally to be found the worthy Canspeccy attempting to engage with advocates of various bizarre ideas in the belief that it could be fruitful to attempt rational debate on the Internet. But I have now, it seems, been banned from commenting on craigmurray.org.uk, which is perhaps as well, since there are surely being better things to do with what remains of my one and only life.

However, inasmuch as I am inclined to devote time to scribbling on the Internet, craigmurray.org.uk offers a fascination source of nonsense for examination.

Here, for example, is Craig Murray writing today about the recent UK riots and, in general, on Britain's current social and economic difficulties.

... In both public and private organisations, the earnings differential between the highest and lowest paid should be limited by law to a factor of four, including the effect of all non-salary perks and benefits. ... Will Hutton has been promoting a factor of ten in the public sector – that is far too wide an equality gap.

My response to this, which failed to pass "moderation" was:

The first half dozen paragraphs of this post are excellent. Nicely written. Punchy. To the point.

But the rest is totally nuts.

"the earnings differential between the highest and lowest paid should be limited by law to a factor of four ..."

LOL

Exit the financial services industry, which accounts for 9.4% of Britain's GDP, produces a 25 billion pound annual trade surplus and pays a quarter of all corporate taxes.

For that matter, exit pretty well all relatively senior business people, professionals and civil servants, including ambassadors, for better paid opportunities abroad. Or will the Murrayite Socialist Republic have a wall around it like East Germany?

There are quite sensible and simple solutions to poverty and ignorance, but recreating a Soviet-style system in Britain is not one of them.

It is the widespread acceptance of the idea that all problems must be solved by a further expansion of a monstrous bureaucracy (which already consumes more than half the wealth of the country) that is destroying Britain.

But I suppose one last push by the Commies for total control of everything might be useful inasmuch as it will hasten the day of the counter-revolution.

To quote further, Murray wrote:

... [the] wish to promote worker partnership and cooperatives needs to be given concrete form by legislation forcing all companies to give truly significant – I am thinking around forty per cent – shareholdings to employees.

Oh, dear! exit all footloose corporations from the UK.

Then comes:

[If one] really wants to roll back the excesses of the last thirty years, then natural monopolies like the utilities companies and the railways need to be returned fully to public ownership. PFI should be discontinued and all PFI assets nationalised without compensation.

Oh dear! again. Murray, I suppose, is too young to remember what a crap state Britain's major industries were in the last time they were nationalized. I actually worked for one of them, The Central Electricity Generating Board, at their Research Centre on the Campus of the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Capenhurst in Chester -- next to the uranium enrichment plant.

In some ways, it was a great place to work. My colleagues were smart people. During the year that I spent there, I shared an office with a physicist and a chemist from whom I learned more useful science than during the three previous years I'd wasted in university obtaining a PhD.

The pay was good. Whether it exceeded four times the then average wage I am not sure, but my starting salary, at the age of 23, was twice that of a university assistant lecturer. And the conditions of work were excellent. When I traveled on business, a secretary obtained first-class rail tickets for me and arranged a taxi to take me to the station.

The thing was, though, that the entire project was absurd. Our objective? To find ways to increase the national demand for electricity.

LOL.

But CM's economic vision extends even more widely.

There is of course much else, of which limiting banking transactions to the actual funding of purchase of property, goods and services, rather than gambling on future values of those things, is perhaps the most important.

Well, I suppose that's OK since the banking sector will pretty well have abandoned Britain due to the cap on incomes, so no new ex-migration of capital, technology or talent can be expected to come from this. And I suppose the Government could restore the Post Office's role as a savings bank. Probably a post office manager can still be had for less than four times the average wage.

But why not simply impose sensible controls on private credit creation and then allow the market to work within that framework? The banking industry worked well under post 1929-crash regulations until those regulations were idiotically or criminally repealed. The obvious thing is to restore those regulations. But to rely on a market mechanism operating within a sensible framework of laws, when you can impose government micro-management on every aspect of business activity is, I suppose, anathema to an advocate of Soviet-style Utopia.

Under CM's "radical reforms" the average wage will, incidentally, be much lower than now, not only because half of Britain's companies will have packed up and gone offshore driving the country into the deepest of economic depressions, but simply because by eliminating salaries more than four times the present average, the average will be greatly reduced.

Hammarskjöld's plane shot down: Utoya push back?

Wreckage of Hammarskjöld's plane, Northern Rhodesia, 1961.

Evidence reported yesterday suggests that the plane that crashed in Northern Rhodesia killing UN Chief, Dag Hammarskjöld, on September 17, 1961 may have been shot down by one of the colonial powers.

According to telegrams seen by the Guardian that were dispatched in the days immediately prior to Hammarskjöld's death reveal:

US and British anger at an abortive UN military operation that the secretary general ordered on behalf of the Congolese government against a rebellion backed by western mining companies and mercenaries in the mineral-rich Katanga region.

A British-run commission of inquiry blamed the crash on pilot error.

Does the timing of this report indicate a coordinated Scandinavian push back in response to the Breivic attrocities in Norway?

Meantime, Sweden has made an offer of military assistance in the war on Libya that NATO has found it possible to refuse.

As a neutral country, Sweden has had a longstanding interest in seeing the UN work as an honest mediator of international disputes. Sweden's failure to offer anything of use in NATO's perverse interpretation of UN Resolution 1973, is not, therefore, altogether surprising.

As the toll of Libyan civilians killed by NATO bombing mounts in a fraudulently justified war for control of Libyan resources, this might be a good time for Canada to consider adopting a position of political neutrality. Not that one can expect such originality of thought either from the Tories or the pathetic pro-war NDP opposition.

Moreover, Canadian neutrality would be costly, since as a neutral, we could not expect automatic access to NATO military technology, e.g., dud British subs, or overpriced US-built F-35's.

But perhaps we could enter into some shared-cost programs with Sweden. They have a very quiet sub with an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system based on the Stirling engine, and a punchy littler fighter too.

Hackgate Udated August18, 2011

News of the World Hollywood reporter is arrested Guardian
James Murdoch admits News Corp. paid off convicted criminal The Raw Story
MP calls for review of 24-year-old murder case BBC
Concern in Jewish World Over Murdoch Fallout Arutz Sheva
Murdoch reporter's letter blows whistle on News International phone cover-up Daily Mail
Tom Watson, MP on latest revelations CNN Vid.
Murdoch Lawyer: James Murdoch's "very misleading" evidence to MPs Presse Gazette
James Murdoch CM&S testimony ‘contradicted by emails sent to committee’ John Ward
News of the World reporter's implicates Murdochs in hacking cover-up Guardian
And much more here Murdoch Empire and Its Nest of Vipers

UK Riots: Updated August 18, 2011

It's a yob: Brian Gable, Globe and Mail

Not the last time London will burn New Internationalist Blog
London riots: Social meltdown Fulham interview U-Tube Vid
Riot-hit London boroughs among worst unemployment blackspots Guardian
How the Government handled the 1911 Llanelli riots Wales on Line
Libs plan to shame rioter, make them clean up their own mess Mirror
The long history of London's riotous mob Vancouver Sun
London police read encrypted Blackberry messages of arrested rioters Guardian
Mom distraught after turning in daughter over U.K. riots TO Star
The Real Source of the British Riots U-Tube Vid.
Police water cannon and plastic bullets? The failure of the welfare state Peter Hitchens
"Left-wingers at last meet the filthy thing they have created, and which they ignored when it did not affect them personally."
Cameron: 'national service' for 16-year-olds and human rights law reform Daily Mail
After the inferno Economist
...the backlash could extend beyond crime to include welfare and other social issues. "The left is imploring the public to consider the underlying causes of the riots. They should be careful what they wish for. Voters might conclude that the deep-seated causes are not poverty, discrimination and austerity—the riots took place in a country whose government currently spends half of its national income—but welfare dependency, broken homes and moral nihilism. ..."
Cameron: Riot-hit UK must reverse `moral collapse' AP
UK gangs thrive in August riots AP
Hackney Woman Says NO to London Rioters U-Tube Vid
London Riots and the Big Picture Gilad Atzmon
Riots and corruption: The fish rots from the head down Washington's Blog
Tottenham is a government-created welfare ghetto Freedom Radio

Chuckie and Cam visit riot-hit Tottenham. Image Source

David Starkey On Newsnight (Whites Have Become Blacks) Newsnight
Historian attacked for noting that that many urban white youths have adopted black ganster culture
Trying to be honest in a rigid culture of unjustified certainty John Ward
The Run-up for the Riots in London Occidental Observer
Bill Bratton Accepts Job to Help Britain Control Gang Violence NBC
Britain, having deliberately recreated America's racially divided society, imports an American to manage the resulting conflict.