Wednesday, August 31, 2011

August 2011 headlines in brief...

The coup:

LaRouchePAC: Obama's Coup Follows Path of Hitler's Enabling Law

Meanwhile, the financial world war (as we called it in May 2010) accelerates...

RT (Max Keiser): World is witnessing financial WWIII

Hugo Chavez hedges his bets...

Bloomberg: Chavez Emptying Bank of England Vault as Venezuela Brings Back Gold Hoard

But will this stave off a fate like Libya?

Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): Disaster capitalism swoops over Libya

And so, "mission accomplished" in this war which, like Iraq, had its share of false pretenses: Iraq had it's "yellow cake uranium", Libya had its "Qadaffi strafing civilians" (though Obama's own Secretary of Defense debunked this)... Iraq had it's "Curveball," and so did Libya, thrown via twitter...

Pravda: Fake Messages Led to Libya War

Now, there are issues with the following headline (the man probably doesn't deserve to be called a terrorist), but, in a startling turnabout from the situation of 20 to 30 years ago, reporting in the West has reached such a point of infuriating risibility that Pravda is considered more credible...

Ex-terrorist says terrorists and NATO lost war

I was told by participants in the events and their leaders the demonstrations were peaceful. The people there made many complaints to the authorities, but there was no aggression. And then the crowd began bombing, someone opened fire on an armed military base, someone set fire to a police station, and all seemed to roll into a ditch.

There were some strange people with guns who started the violence in the streets, young people began to engage in combat units, though an interesting game, and then the fighting started...


"...some strange people..." -MI6? SAS? CIA? There have been many allegations hitherto of agents provocateur from these agencies to have instigated the Libyan uprising as an armed revolution (in contrast to the mostly peaceful protests in Tunisia and Egypt). But, to our awareness, this is the first allegation to have come from one who was among the rebels.

We also find "some strange people" among the rebels in this video...

ObamasLibya: CIA/Al-qaida rats fighting side by side in Libya

Yes, a dis-infowar is in full swing...

LibyaSOS: WHAT HAPPENED IN TRIPOLI FROM 20th to 22nd of AUGUST - THE TRUTH !! REAL GREEN SQUARE Vs FAKE CNN's GREEN SQUARE

There was also briefly posted on the Rayyisse YouTube channel a video alleging the same of Qadaffi's compound, with the following description saved here...

Libya : Bab al-Azizia Fake Video [23-08-2011] الجزيرة : البيت الصامد
Les images diffusées par les televisions ce 23-08-2011 montrant les rebelles à Bab Aziziya sont fausses . Elles proviennent directement du studio de hollywood qatari . En plus des informations directement colléctées chez des Libyens sur place , voici cette video ou vous pourrez comparer les videos et images originales contre celles diffusées par les televisions aujourd hui . Sur AlBayte Assamad n'existe pas les figures géometriques ressemblant à des étoiles à huit branches et aussi regardez bien le panneau "Allah Akbar". Je n'ai mis que deux details importants et visibles mais vous pourrez remarquer d'autres . Je vous laisse voir. Regardez bien et verifiez , comparez . Mais Allah était présent pendant qu'ils préparaient leur plan diabolique , et , il les a aveuglés ! Allah Akbar ! *********


The Libyan situation certainly bears some resemblance to Operation Ajax against Iran's Mossadegh in 1953. Lo and behold, the motivation is the same - oil - and the same company that was the primary beneficiary of the overthrow of Mossadegh stands to gain considerably in Libya as well...

Independent: Dash for profit in post-war Libya carve-up

In the years preceding February's revolution, British businesses played a key part in wooing Muammar Gaddafi – part of a wider campaign by Western intelligence agencies to roll back Libya's pariah status in exchange for investment opportunities and co-operation in the fight against violent Islamists.

Sir Mark Allen, a veteran Arabist and deputy head of MI6 who led negotiations with Colonel Gaddafi, was even hired by BP after his retirement to help to secure drilling rights. The oil giant is the only big British company to state publicly that it plans to return to Libya...


Now that it has been rendered a clean slate...

Rense (with Susan Lindauer): NATO's Libyan War Crimes

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Civil uprisings spread world-wide, even in some unlikely places beyond the focus of most media coverage (the Arab world, Greece, Britain), such as...

Spiegel: Arson in Berlin - Car Burnings are a 'Precursor to Terrorism'

Cryptome: Chile Protest Photos

TMJ4 (Wisconsin): Witnesses describe mobs, some people claim racially-charged attacks

Yet as these occur in more 'democratic' countries, and as the social networking sites that are celebrated when used against Libya's Qadaffi and Syria's Assad are similarly utilized domestically, the governmental reaction really should not be too surprising...

SFGate (San Francisco): BART admits halting cell service to stop protests

Thinq: Cameron threatens to shut down UK social networks

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New developments on some dated stories...

EIR (William Jones): Britain’s Surrogate War Against the Union, 1861-65

Global Research: CIA Forced to Release Long Secret Official History of Bay of Pigs Invasion

DailyMail: Explosive Jackie O tapes 'reveal how she believed Lyndon B Johnson killed JFK...'

TruthOut: Former Counterterrorism Czar Accuses Tenet, Other CIA Officials of Cover-Up

WhoWhatWhy: Who–and What–Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid?