(RussiaToday) – After nearly a two month manhunt, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was found and killed. Revolutionary forces flooded his hometown, Sirte, and according to some reports, the US fired a drone missile at his convoy causing his death. Michel Chossudovsky, director for the Centre for Research on Globalization, tells us more about today’s events. Read the rest of this entry »
(DetroitFreePress) – Drivers face drug checkpoints on highways near Flint
At least seven times this month, including Tuesday, motorists have said they have seen a pickup towing a large sign on I-69 or U.S.-23 that depicts the sheriff’s badge and warns: “Sheriff narcotics check point, 1 mile ahead — drug dog in use.” Read More Here
(WashTimes) – Cybercommand chief opposes U.N. net control – Read More Here
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(ABCNews) – MIT Develops New Radar Technology: Military Could See Through Walls
Looking through walls is no longer something we read about in comic books or watch in Superman movies.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory has presented new radar technology that would allow humans to see through a solid wall. Read the rest of this entry »
(EuroPac) – Herman Cain’s Hidden Nine – Peter Schiff
Herman Cain has been gaining much traction with his 9-9-9 Plan, a bold proposal to replace our dysfunctional tax code with what could be a simpler, less invasive, and more economically stimulative alternative. While I don’t agree with the full spectrum of Mr. Cain’s policy choices, I applaud his courage on the tax front. Judging by his rising poll numbers, this appreciation is widely shared. However, the plan has deep flaws, the most glaring of which is its creation of a hidden payroll tax which represents a fourth “nine.” This serious pitfall has been unmentioned by Mr. Cain and overlooked by those who have analyzed his plan. Read More Here
(Reuters) – FOREX-Dollar slumps to record low versus yen – Read More Here
(NYTimes) – G.E. Profit Up Despite ‘Volatile’ Economy – Read More Here
(ActivistPost) – Capitalism: The Cure, Not The Problem – Read More Here
(ZeroHedge) – Student Loan Bubble To Exceed $1 Trillion: “It’s Going To Create A Generation Of Wage Slavery” And Another Taxpayer Bailout – Read More Here
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(AJC) – Debt Problems are Endemic Worldwide: Bob Chapman Reports
(RussiaToday) – Political journalist Pierre Guerlain discusses the killing of Gaddafi and how it neatly ties up a lot of loose ends. Read the rest of this entry »
Because His Study Shows the Earth Has Warmed Since the 1950s! — Climate Depot Responds
(ClimateDepot) – Berkeley University Professor Richard A. Muller is a very confused man. Muller is claiming in a October 21, 2011 OPED that skeptics of man-made global warming fears no longer have any basis to doubt “global warming” because his new study confirms that the Earth has warmed since the 1950s! Muller seems to imply that the terms “global warming” and man-made global warming are interchangeable and any warming is somehow “proof” of human causation. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Gaddafi at one point was a hero to the Western world, but for the last year Gaddafi was looked at as a villain. There are many reports explaining the reasons why the change of heart from the Western powers. Pepe Escobar, correspondent for the Asia Times, helps us understand what happened and what lies ahead for Libya. Read the rest of this entry »
Libyans get a taste of new found “freedoms” bestowed by NATO and Al-Qaeda rebels
(PaulWatson) – The hard fought “freedoms” that are apparently about to bestowed on Libyans after the NATO-backed overthrow of the Gaddafi regime were in full evidence yesterday when NTC fighters captured Gaddafi alive before summarily executing him with a bullet through the head. Aware of how bad this looked, the interim NTC Prime Minister hastily put out a cover story claiming Gaddafi had died in crossfire. Read the rest of this entry »
(EconomicCOllapse) – Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unemployed and another 9.3 million Americans are currently “underemployed”. During this economic downturn, a lot of Americans have been forced to take part-time jobs because they have been unable to find full-time jobs. For many, this can be a soul-crushing experience. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – It is imperative that Ron Paul get on the ballot next year if we are going stop the wars and return fiscal sanity to the nation. Read the rest of this entry »
Former Soviet leader says protest movement highlights need for “global governance”
(PaulWatson) – Former Communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev told an audience at Lafayette College on Wednesday night that the United States’ economic problems heralded the need for a new American “perestroika,” defined by a “new world order” and a system of “global governance”. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – It looks like the U.S. Navy is attempting to intimidate sailors on the ship that we were told buried Osama bin Laden at sea.
On Thursday, the Navy said it would discharge 64 sailors – 49 from the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson that supposedly carried the body of the former CIA asset to its watery grave – for using and distributing the legally available drug Spice. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – In a recent interview on Infowars Nightly News(INN), international bestselling author Jeffrey M. Smith reveals in shocking detail the biotechnology industry’s laundry list of perpetual crimes against humanity via its propagation of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Smith explains how biotech giant Monsanto, in particular, has rigged the entire system to push its deadly products on the populations of the world. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (SteveWatson) – In New Ads Ron Paul Slams Romney, Cain On Support For Bailouts – Congressman still polling in top tier, raises $2m from latest money bomb – Read Here
Ex-CIA agent argues corporate press have not sidelined Paul’s campaign, despite scientific studies confirming the fact
(PaulWatson) – In a rambling monologue, CNN’s Anderson Cooper desperately attempts to dismiss the accusation that CNN, and the mainstream media as a whole, are unfairly blacklisting Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, despite two scientific studies confirming that very fact. Read the rest of this entry »
(Youtube) – Video: Tea Party Activist Speaks At Occupy San Diego
Rick Amato was invited to speak at an Occupy San Diego gathering. It was going well until he took a poll on how many were “socialists” in the crowd and how many did not identify with socialism. After that, it all went down hill. Video Link Here
(ActivistPost) – Occupy Nova Scotia Update: Is ONS Becoming Centralized? (Video) – View Here
(NYDaily) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Occupy Wall Street protesters: City will now require permits
The city is planning to take a harder line on demonstrators camping out in Zuccotti Park – and insist on permits every time they want to march through Lower Manhattan, he said.
“We will start enforcing that more,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show. Read More Here
(DrinkingWithBob) – Video: “Ultimate Goal” of Occupy Wall Street???? – without a specific goal and demands, this occupation will go on forever… – View Here
(BeforeItsNews) – Occupy Money: Pay with Silver to Beat the Banks! – Read More Here
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(WeAreChange) – David Banner @ #OccupyWallStreet, Illuminati, NWO, Music Disconnect w/ People
(Reuters) – Gaddafi killed by crossfire, says Libya’s interim prime minister – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: 80% People in Tripoli still want Gaddafi – Video Link Here
(Youtube) – Video: Shocking Truth About Gaddafi
FLASHBACK – May 2011 – (RussiaToday) – Video: The Real Reason for NATO Attacking Libya EXPOSED – View Here
(DailyMail) – Video: Video Shows Gaddafi Alive Before Being Shot ‘Like a Dog in the Street’ – Video Link Here
(Ind) – Gaddafi’s death breached the law, says Russia – Read More Here
(Reuters) – Gaddafi family demands body; NATO ends Libya war – Read More Here
(Youtube) – Video: 1980s Sitcom Predicted Gaddafi’s Death – View Here
(Guardian) – Iraq rejects US request to maintain bases after troop withdrawal – Read More Here
(Interfax) – The Military Roadmap. America’s “Next Libyas”: Iran, Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, Yemen
Gaddafi death hasn’t stopped war in Libya – expert – ”What we have been witnessing is a redistribution of spheres of influence, where the United States is the main player.” Read More Here
(PressTV) – US to build underground hangar in Iraq
The United States is planning to set up an underground hangar complex in Iraq despite the deadline approaching for the withdrawal of American troops from the country, Press TV reports. Read More Here
(ActivistPost) – Libya Before and After Image Shows What a NATO/UN Humanitarian Mission Looks Like
All hail humanitarian war. Regime change can be a bitch. Start with sanctions because of ‘humanitarian’ reasons. If they don’t work, arm ragtag mercenaries and implement a ‘no-fly zone’ through an international body. If the rebels can’t hunt down the defunct leader, then just bomb the hell out the country until a bloody carcass vaguely resembling the leader turns up. Then claim that the humanitarian intervention was a wild success. PS: Make sure you destroy enough of the infrastructure to secure a huge IMF bondage loan for reconstruction.
The before and after picture of Libya below shows what the U.S./NATO means by a humanitarian war:
(DailyMail) – ‘Peace Candidate’ Signals More Middle Eastern Regime Change
Three down, two to go: Obama warns other Middle Eastern dictators as Libyan fighters set their sights on the the ‘germ of Syria’ Read More Here
FLASHBACK – (RussiaToday) – Video: Putin – Who gave NATO right to kill Gaddafi?
Who gave coalition forces in Libya the right to eliminate Gaddafi? That’s the question Vladimir Putin’s been asking, during an official visit to Denmark. The Russian Premier also said NATO’s effectively joined one of the warring sides in the conflict. And more responsible action should be taken instead. Video Link Here
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(RussiaToday) – Drones, Dictators, Dirty Deals: Gaddafi worth more dead than alive?
Despite the death of Moammar Gaddafi, NATO has yet to announce the end of its seven-month long bombing campaign in Libya. What started off as a mission to protect civilians quickly targeted a dictator who had fallen out of favour with the West. Gaddafi never lived to see his trial for war crimes at the Hague. And as RT’s Gayane Chichakyan reports, he could simply have been worth more dead than alive to the Alliance. Read the rest of this entry »
(NorCalTruth) – Michael Ruppert was one of over 2,500 people who were out Occupying Santa Rosa on 10/15/11, I happened to run into him. Read the rest of this entry »
(TruthBeToldComics) – The Big Lie comic book, featuring many important facts regarding the 9/11 attacks, will be presented on KPFA’s Guns and Butter program with Bonnie Faulkner!
The Big Lie will be one more important item offered by KPFA in its annual Fall Pledge Drive.
(NorCalTruth) – Russ Baker visited the California coastal community of Point Reyes on 9/29/11.
Russ is the author of Family of Secrets – The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put it in The White House, and What Their Influence Means for America.
After discussing some very interesting details and facts presented in his book, Russ was able to answer some questions from the audience. Read the rest of this entry »
(BFP) – American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan, DOD Sued Over Theft of Private Info about almost 5 Million Soldiers, Police State: Feds: ‘States Have no Rights’, Pepe Escobar: The US Power Grab in Africa, Chris Floyd: Family Values- The Roman Rigor of Obama’s Death Squads, Lebanese Imam Charged for Collaborating with Israel, UNICEF Pressures Israel on Child Detainees, Kyrgyzstan Rushes into Moscow’s Economic Embrace, Cryptome: Treasury Holds Secret Meeting with 1%, South East Asia’s Failing War on Drugs, How Liberals Buy into Stupid Wars & More! Read the rest of this entry »
(NewWorldNextWeek) – Welcome back to NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news and open source intelligence. This week: Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about the European penny drops as more banks need more bailouts while the public debt clock ticks up to $40 trillion. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews Michael Betancourt about the threat that Occupy Wall Street presents to our modern form of capitalism that relies on ignorance and passivity in the population in order to operate schemes of fraud and bubbles. Read the rest of this entry »
(TheTrutherGirls) – If I am Christian, does that mean I’m stupid and crazy? Judging by the comments on my last video, I guess it does in some people’s book., but I’m more concerned with what is in the Book of Life.
I have never made a video about my personal spiritual beliefs and this one barely scratches the surface. As a Christian, even a Christian heretic (as i usually describe myself), I feel it has been made very CLEAR to me by the Lord not to follow this movement. I realize that saying that may make me unpopular with those who would like to jump on the bandwagon, but that’s how it is. Read the rest of this entry »
Cartoon lambasting the Federal Reserve from 1916 – a year before the Fed was created.
(WashingtonsBlog) – The non-partisan Government Accountability Office released a report today showing widespread corruption and conflicts of interest in the Federal Reserve. Read the rest of this entry »
(HealthDay) – The rate of antidepressant use among Americans of all ages increased nearly 400 percent over the last two decades, and 11 percent of Americans aged 12 and older now take antidepressant drugs, according to a federal government report released Wednesday.
The analysis of 2005-2008 data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys also showed that antidepressants are the third most common prescription drug taken by Americans of all ages and the most frequently used by those aged 18 to 44. Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Occupy Trenton Finalizing Lawsuit Against State As Senator Supports #OccupyWallStreet – Read More Here
(Cryptogon) – MTV Real World Casting Call for Occupy Wall Street Protestors
An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.
—Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
So, Obombya, the Goldman Sachs’ shill, and MTV are now behind this Occupy Wall Street situation.
Sign wavers will not like Gustave Le Bon’s old book, but it’s an operations manual for those who take advantage of crowds. There are free versions of it all over the Internet, and on Amazon for the Kindle.
Occupy Wall Street protesters may get a new platform to voice their opinions after MTV’s “The Real World” reality TV show posted a casting call reaching out to supporters of the movement.
The casting call, posted on Monday this week by “Real World” production company Bunim/Murray on website Craigslist, stated they were “seeking cast members to tell their unique stories” and specifically asks people if they are part of the Occupy Wall Street movement and in their 20s.
“The producers of Bunim/Murray productions are targeting young passionate people to be a part of the next cycle,” of the TV show, an MTV spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday. – Source: cryptogon.com
(KurtNimmo) – Poll Declares Majority of Zuccotti Park OWS Would Vote for Obama
It has been difficult to pin down the OWS crowd politically. Beyond their signs and encounters with the corporate media calling for taxing the rich and complaining about student loans and a lack of employment opportunities, the OWS as a whole has remains politically amorphous. Read More Here
(HigginsBlog) – The Great Discussion – Can The Tea Party And #OccupyWallStreet Find Common Ground? – Read More Here
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(Ustream) – Peter Schiff @ Occupy The Fed 10-20-11
Economist and representative of the 1% shows up on Wall St to discuss the concerns of Occupy Wall St. protesters. – Read the rest of this entry »
(AustralianBroadcastingCorporation) – Thousands of Japanese forced to evacuate their homes by the Fukushima nuclear disaster are facing the prospect of never being able to return. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Occupy Wall Street continues to spread across the global. The movement which started in Lower Manhattan began to voice its disdain for the economic structure a little over a month ago. The message is to end corporations’ grip on governments worldwide. Gerald Celente, publisher for The Trends Journal, tells us who the source of the people’s frustration is and who’s to blame. Read the rest of this entry »
(ClimateDepot) – The proponents of man-made global warming are now claiming that man-made climate change is worse than they predicted. In a October 18, 2011 Daily Climate article, global warming activists claim that the “evidence builds that scientists underplay climate impacts.” Read the rest of this entry »
(EconomicCollapse) – Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino. The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end. The word “derivatives” sounds complicated and technical, but understanding them is really not that hard. A derivative is essentially a fancy way of saying that a bet has been made. Originally, these bets were designed to hedge risk, but today the derivatives market has mushroomed into a mountain of speculation unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Estimates of the notional value of the worldwide derivatives market go from $600 trillion all the way up to $1.5 quadrillion. Read the rest of this entry »
“We consider this as part of our duty to defend humanity against the scourge of intolerance, violence and fanaticism.” – Ahmad Shah Massoud, from “Massoud’s Letter To The People Of America,” (1998).
Two days before the events that dramatically altered our perceptions of the Middle East and changed the political landscape in the West, Afghanistan’s George Washington, Ahmad Shah Massoud, was killed by the shadow CIA and the Bush White House on September 9, 2001, because he stood in the way of their evil plans for Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
(SherrieQuestioningAll) – Calling ALL Class Action Lawyers – GET GOING! Here is your ruling – Mass. Supreme Court Ruling: ALL PREVIOUS FORECLOSURES ILLEGAL AND NOT VALID, No legal title transferred! DO NOT BUY A FORECLOSURE! – Read More Here
(CSM) – A Long, Steep Drop for Americans’ Standard of Living
Think life is not as good as it used to be, at least in terms of your wallet? You’d be right about that. The standard of living for Americans has fallen longer and more steeply over the past three years than at any time since the US government began recording it five decades ago. Read More Here
(DailyMail) – Does one ‘super-corporation’ run the global economy? Study claims it could be terrifyingly unstable
A University of Zurich study ‘proves’ that a small group of companies – mainly banks – wields huge power over the global economy.
The study is the first to look at all 43,060 transnational corporations and the web of ownership between them – and created a ‘map’ of 1,318 companies at the heart of the global economy.
The study found that 147 companies formed a ‘super entity’ within this, controlling 40 per cent of its wealth. All own part or all of one another. Most are banks – the top 20 includes Barclays and Goldman Sachs. But the close connections mean that the network could be vulnerable to collapse.
‘In effect, less than one per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,’ says James Glattfelder, a complex systems theorist at the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich, who co-wrote the research, to be published in the journal PLoS One. Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Britons are ‘lazy’ and ‘addicted to benefits’, China claims
Britain’s “sloth-inducing” work ethic and dependence on benefits are to blame for the current economic downturn, a senior Chinese official has claimed.
Jin Liqun, chairman of China Investment Corporation (CIC), the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, warned that Europeans should “work a bit harder” if they want to pull the eurozone out of recession. Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – An Unprecedented 26 Million Americans Are Now Underemployed – Read More Here
(InternationalForecaster) – An Overpriced Marked Meets The Global Economic Slowdown – Bob Chapman
It could then be that this is the top of the stock market, which is fundamentally very overpriced. The latest rallies are the result of statements by French President Sarkozy and German chancellor Mrs. Merkel that a financial solution is at hand for Europe. This announcement named the end of the month as the date for release of this information. Thus far there has been no further comment. This was the justification for a very strong rally. In the wings there are large short and put positions, which tell us that there is a body of speculators that believe the fundaments are not in place, nor was the recent rally justified. Read the rest of this entry »
Second version of Stuxnet virus is virtually identical to first incarnation
(PaulWatson) – The re-emergence of the Stuxnet virus in a virtually identical form to its previous incarnation heralds a “new round of cyber war,” and given the fact that the last version was created by the U.S. and Israel, it’s obvious where the finger of blame should be pointing once again. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – NATO peacekeepers have unleashed tear gas on ethnic Serbs, pushing them away from a disputed border crossing. The Serbs had barricaded the area, claiming it belongs to them, as they still don’t consider Kosovo an independent country. RT’s Maria Finoshina is there with the latest for us now. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Dylan Ratigan, host of the MSNBC program The Dylan Ratigan Show, made an appearance in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday amid the growing Occupy Wall Street protests. One demonstrator, however, verbally unleashed on the pundit, calling him out for making far too much money off of Wall Street himself to show his support. Former MSNBC co-hort Cenk Uygur looks on as a protester explains in the aftermath why he is anti-Ratigan. Read the rest of this entry »
(TennesseeNewsPress) – TSA Checkpoints Now On TN Highways
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security on Tuesday partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and several other federal and state agencies for a safety enforcement and awareness operation on Tennessee’s interstates and two metropolitan-area bus stations. They are randomly inspecting vehicles on highways in Tennessee. Read More Here
(AJC) – Video: New Law Bans Cash on 2nd Hand Sales!
House bill 195 basically says those who buy and sell second hand goods cannot use cash to make those transactions, and it flew so far under the radar most businesses don’t even know about it.
(NaturalNews) – Traipsing towards tyranny: New FBI service to track suspects using advanced facial recognition system
In just a few months, it will be a whole lot easier for the US government to track and and identify Americans. Nextgov reports that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is soon to launch a new facial recognition service that allows law enforcement agencies to run pictures of the face of a suspect through an advanced database system, and rapidly discover their identities.
The system, which is part of a $1 billion overhaul of the agency’s fingerprint database, is said to utilize various “biometric markers” to identify suspects, including iris scans and facial point recognition. The service can also identify suspects by comparing and matching voice samples and other collected data. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Saudi Arabia arrests YouTube activists
The video also points to the wealth of 11 Saudi billionaires that are among the world’s richest men, while nearly 30 percent of Saudis suffer from poverty in a country that is the holder of 20 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Read More Here
(Paulwatson) – Senator: TSA Forced Me To Go Through Body Scanner
Lawmakers slam “baloney” Americans are forced to put up with at the hands of “arrogant” TSA screeners
“Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, raised the issue, saying he’s been forced twice to go through the scanning machines when he would have preferred another method of screening,” reports the Washington Times.
“Maybe I look like a terrorist,” Hatch joked sardonically.
Hatch also said that he had witnessed TSA screeners “force” other travelers to go through the naked body scanner when they had expressed a wish to pass through the standard x-ray metal detector instead. Read More Here
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(NewsChannel5) – Tennessee Becomes First State To Fight Terrorism Statewide
You’re probably used to seeing TSA’s signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR).
“Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate,” said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Mathaba claims “NATO and Clinton are desperate to show a ‘victory’ in Libya, by way of a compliant media, and the NTC is anxious to provide that ‘victory’ for their masters, in order to secure further support. The NTC leaders and their factions are all fighting amongst each other, and are dissatisfied with the spoils, which so far have not been forthcoming due to the armed population putting up a fierce resistance, and the globalist bankers being unable to keep their promises to the Libyan traitors.” Read the rest of this entry »
(Reuters) – Gaddafi body being taken to secret location: NTC official – Read More Here
(AP) – Video: Raw Video: Clinton Reacts to News of Gadhafi – Video Link Here
FLASHBACK – September 2011 (Telegraph) – Tony Blair’s six secret visits to Col Gaddafi
Tony Blair’s close relationship to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has come under fresh scrutiny after it emerged he had six private meetings with the dictator in the three years after he left Downing Street. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Video: Clinton’s Journey: Gaddafi Reported Killed in Sirte
In the wake of the wholesale destruction of the Libyan town of Sirte by al-Qaeda affiliated rebels and NATO, the National Transitional Council has announced it captured Moammar Gaddafi, who was supposedly wounded after a NATO attack. AFP provided a photograph that appeared to show him wounded or dead. Read More Here
(Infowars) – Our moral decline: Blood-lust in the streets of Libya suffices for justice
It appears that Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi may have been handed down his final verdict by NATO rebels, but it’s perhaps an even more bloody awful fate already suffered by a morally detached western civilization.
The man who liberated his country from the tyrannical monarchy of King Idris back in 1969… was tried and sentenced by bullet today. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Analysis – Death of Libya’s Gaddafi avoids awkward trial
Any trial might have given the flamboyant, often idiosyncratic Gaddafi a podium from which to harang both Libya’s new rulers and Western powers, as well as potentially try to embarrass them on issues they would rather forget. As Libya was nudged back from international isolation in the last decade, international oil companies signed deals worth billions. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Libyan Oil Fully Liberated On News Gaddafi Dead
All we can say is be careful who you shake hands with. Next up: burial at sea. – Source: Reuters
(FoxHouston) – U.S. Predator Drone Fired on Qaddafi Convoy, Official Says
A U.S. Predator drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the convoy said to be carrying Muammar Qaddafi in the moments before his death, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Thursday.
The official said the drone and French jet fired on a “large convoy” leaving Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte. A French defense official earlier said about 80 vehicles were in the convoy — the official said the strike did not destroy the convoy but that fighters on the ground afterward intercepted the vehicle carrying Qaddafi.
President Obama said Thursday that the death of Qaddafi ends a “long and painful chapter” for the Libyan people. Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Libya: capture of Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte ‘complete’
“Sirte has been liberated. There are no Gaddafi forces any more,” said Col Yunus Al Abdali, head of operations in the eastern half of the city. “We are now chasing his fighters who are trying to run away.”
However, there were reports that Gaddafi loyalists had donned civilian clothing and were firing indiscriminately at people. Read More Here
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(PaulWatson) – Killing Gaddafi Spares ICC Embarrassment For US & Britain
Like Milosevic, Gaddafi would have thrust western support for Al-Qaeda fighters under the spotlight
The death of Muammar Gaddafi, killed by NATO and US-backed rebels, will be hailed by western powers, not merely because they have now seized control of another oil-rich country under the dubious auspices of the “Arab Spring,” but because Gaddafi will be prevented from exposing western support for Al-Qaeda terrorists under the glare of a UN International Criminal Court trial. Read the rest of this entry »
Dodgy business dealings and secret meetings will remain undisclosed
(SteveWatson) – The assassination of Muammar Gaddafi via a combination of NATO bombs and US-backed al Qaeda affiliated rebels, serves to sweep away a myriad of, shall we say, uncomfortable circumstances. Perhaps the most damning of those are the intimate links shared between Gaddafi and his “good friend” Tony Blair.
The former Libyan dictator’s death negates any requirement for a UN International Criminal Court trial, a la Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic. Thus Blair’s intimate business dealings and multiple secret meetings with Gaddafi during his tenure as British Prime Minister and beyond will be kept away from public scrutiny. Read the rest of this entry »
(SOTT) – A ground-breaking investigation examines the most secret aspect of America’s shadowy drone wars and maps out a world of hidden bases dotting the globe.
They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a fourth that almost no one talks about at an air base in the United Arab Emirates. Read the rest of this entry »
