In an earlier article, Libya: Another revolution or special op? I answered by own question about the present color revolution. Yes, it is headed by Washington, Israel, The City of London, the Vatican and their Mary Pranksters of the CIA, with all the bells and whistles, protest signs and revolutionary Libyan flags, for a news movie for Western Media.
Additionally, as Land Destroyer’s Tony Cartalucci tells us with some material from the Wall Street Journal, “After the corporate owned media’s failed attempt in February 2011 to portray the Libyan unrest as ‘unarmed protesters’ being brutalized by Qaddafi, reports began trickling in of what was actually a full-scale rebellion with weapons coming across the border from Egypt. These reports are now confirmed, as large scale operations to supply the rebels with weapons have now been admitted by both the US and Egyptian governments.” Well, isn’t that special?
Also, former Libyan army Captain, Ibrahim Sahad, who was in D.C. offering strategic guidance to the revolution(s), still seems to be in the catbird seat. Only now, and not unpredictably, the US, the UK, and France, even Poland, i.e. the Globalists, have raised the stakes by closing the airspace over Libya. This is said to be an act only enforceable with boots on the ground to take out anti-aircraft. But perhaps hovering Harriers, and other exotic aircraft that can pinpoint or cluster bomb the government forces and compounds, and separate them from the revolutionaries. No problem for the big guys, I think.
But then this intervention sic war was not declared by an act of Congress. Obama hopped, skipped and jumped the process by delaying it, so that Britain and France had to play bad cops, making it look like the UN was declaring the war, and he was playing the benevolent cop, issuing repeated warnings for Qaddafi to step down and out. Yet, since when does the UN take precedence over Congress in deciding when to go to war? And since when do you ask a leader to step down when he seems to have more powerful support from his people than the so-called revolutionaries?
Additionally, Obama said that in any case Qaddafi and his followers will be prosecuted for their violence against the revolutionaries, who in fact burned down the building of the General People’s Congress, the parliament of Libya, in a raging fire. This would be like protestors in the United States burning down the Capitol. These are neither the Egyptian nor Tunisian non-violent protestors. And their crimes are more numerous, reports David Rothscum in The World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya Into Chaos.
Take a look at the whole article. It represents a valid pro-Qaddafi revue based on the facts of his rule, which began 41 years ago in a bloodless coup of a sick monarch away for medical treatment. As Rothscum writes, “His [Qaddafi’s] ideology is based on unification and he attempted to peacefully merge his country with Egypt and Syria. It would take a miracle for the violence unfolding now to lead to a single state democratic government in Libya, with full control over the entire country. The country is more than twice the size of Pakistan, but with 6 million inhabitants. Endless deserts divide many of the cities in the nation. If anything we should ask ourselves how many more nations will be shattered into pieces in the coming months, as the world cheers.” God help those nations without strong leaders.
And then we have the oil wealth of Libya, the frozen Gaddafi/Libyan billions in Europe and the US. And the billions in Libya, including huge gold reserves in the Libyan Central bank amounting to 143.7 tonnes of gold, worth more $6.5 billion according to the Financial Times. To whom would all these assets accrue if Gaddafi were toppled: to the US, Wall Street, England, France, Israel? Would there be a feeding frenzy, a coin toss, more infighting dividing the spoils? It’s possible.
As I mentioned in my last article, we’ve been gunning for the offbeat Colonel Gaddafi since 1986, when we bombed his house, missed him, but killed one of his children. This was in “Operation El Dorado Canyon, which was quite a shindig. After several days of diplomatic talks with European and Arab partners, PresidentRonald Reagan ordered a strike on Libya on April 14,” reminiscent of our latest gang-bang.
Well, they are doing it. It is déjà vu all over again, as Yogi says. And where would all that Libyan oil (not just the 2 percent we bought per year) go? Again, to whomever took down Gaddafi? Again, as with Gulf War 1 and later the Iraq War, it was the allies in pursuit of oil as well as Hussein, due to his OPEC pricing antics, his sideway drilling for Kuwait oil, Bush’s made-up threats Saddam was about to use (non-existing) WMD on us. But the real danger we face, is the budget-busting 3 trillion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to which we returned to raise the $3 trillion plus price tag and body count, 5,000-plus dead US soldiers, a million dead Iraqis, and, as yet, an unknown Afghan number of dead.
We also are warring now with Pakistan, firing missiles from drones at them that kill more innocent people than supposed Al Qaeda and Taliban bad guys. This is another of those non-Congressional approved romps while Congress sputters with anger for not being consulted. This Libyan romp is in “shock and awe” phase and the generals promise to discretely miss the just-cause revolutionaries. Not. What’s really worse is that our war-torn economy is coming apart.
In my own New York City, as in cities across the nation, we are cutting thousands of school teachers, closing senior centers and firehouses, reducing basic services because New York City and State are both in multi-billion dollar debt and the federal government can’t help close the debts, though they can help unseat Qaddafi. All while Obama pontificates about saving lives of “innocent people,” a “humanitarian effort” [sic], colonizing, starting another war that will cost hundreds of millions, as we continue on our hegemonic march for oil and real estate.
What everyone notices about Libya is that unlike the Egyptian case, the vast number of Libya’s people were not in the streets, although the ones that were, were somewhat inept, thuggish, some even having trouble handling armaments. And second, Gaddafi’s army, rightfully, was not playing neutral, or even, as the Egyptian Army, encouraging Mubarak to take a hike. No, Qadaffi’s army was and is onboard all the way. The fact is, Muammar Qaddafi could be a thorn in our side for more than a few days like Saddam Hussein was the first time, more like a few years until Hussein was found in his spider hole and brought to “justice.” Even after his execution, the war has continued to this day, with 50,000 of our troops still present. It ain’t over till it’s over, one more Yogism.
“Meanwhile,” Cartalucci writes, those still under the illusion that humanitarian concerns drive the UN Security Council’s decision to authorize a Libyan no-fly zone, would do best to refresh their memories of how the globalists used the UN to become mired in a decade of war with Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Pakistan. It should also be remembered that the “Neocon” cadre of the globalist cartel within the confines of the Project for a New American Century engineered the entire “War on Terror” including their wish for a “new Pearl Harbor“ a year before 9/11.” Amen.
“The lack of coverage of the situation . . . isn’t disturbing just because the atrocities being committed there merit coverage. It’s especially alarming because, unlike Libya, both are close U.S. allies and recipients of major U.S. military and economic assistance, meaning the U.S. actually bears a responsibility to make sure its assistance is not being used in ways that are contrary to American Values.”
“One network has been paying close attention to the revolts . . . al Jazeera English. It filed a detailed video report . . . from the scene of a government attack on protesters in the capital of Sant’a.” Watch it from this linked article. Thus, this is not the way to make friends in the Mid-East but more likely fundamentalist enemies.”
Cartalucci adds, “Today, the Project for a New American Century exists as William Kristol’s Foreign Policy Initiative, and is once again writing letters reminiscent of the ranting insanity signed off by America’s leading ‘Neo-Cons’ urging for one foreign intervention after another. They also played a central role in the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ hoax in 2010. Their latest ‘letter’ is addressed to President Obama under the title, ‘Foreign Policy Experts Urge President to Take Action to Halt Violence in Libya.’” Let’s halt the American violence and the President’s excesses, starting wars without going to Congress first—despite the fact it’s been a tradition post WW II.
Thus, here we are again, “Marching to Pretoria,” this time Libya, with all the hoopla of a Gilbert and Sullivan musical, the “Pomp and Circumstance” of Empire and our crumbling, colonizing economy. Why can’t we take out a few minutes out and nationalize the Fed to get us off the debt feeding-tube of fractional-reserve lending, which has kept us broke on and off for a hundred years—and effectively aided and abetted in our impoverishment by Wall Street, our new third party, the one with our money, including the infamous Koch-head brothers? (Thank you Paul Krassner.)
They are oh so heady on their billions and throwing the millions around like loose lines, getting the Republicans and Dems high on the high life of Globalism while our people scuttle to keep their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, fill their tank, put food on the table, and keep their heads above the waves from the sinking Titanic of state. Add to that, the Asian earthquakes, faulty reactors, insinuations of HAARP (High frequency Active Auroral Defense Research)’s energy-direction system behind the Japanese quake and tsunami. At the very least, it seems, we survive at the benevolence of the world’s quirky reactors in the hands of the quirkier maniacs who bank on these operations.
But then spring is here and winter at last behind us. Let it be for the political landscape as well a time of blooming, of life, of mating and procreation, and not this constant death and disaster the Globalists have us in line for, whether they are the Rothschilds in London, the Vatican nation in Rome, the Mossad of Israel, their reactor builders of 1956, the French, and the rest of Europe’s bordello Empire, not to forget the US’s Rockefellers, Morgans, Banks of America, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, who have a finger in it all, and us.
But I will sing for spring in spite of all, remembering last Sunday, a sun-splashed, blue-skied day when I got lost in the bright woods of the 1,100 acre Rockefeller Preserve since the trail signs had been wiped away by winter and 48 inches of snow. It was nice for awhile to be lost and watch the trail turn into deep woods. After awhile, it grew a trifle weird, and I had to phone the State Park service to pick me up. The preserve is in the Pocantico Hills. There I was standing by a single sign to locate me, “David’s Loop,” (oh my god). This as the dark green pickup truck finally rolled up and I breathed a sigh of relief. This as the world remained lost and wandering in the darker wood of incalculable error, looking for peace’s exit one more time.
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. An EBook version of his book of poems “State Of Shock,” on 9/11 and its after effects is now available at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.He has also written hundreds of articles on politics and government as Associate Editor oftheintrepidreport.com(formerly Online Journal). Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.
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Libya: In revolution or allied war?
Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jerry Mazza
In an earlier article, Libya: Another revolution or special op? I answered by own question about the present color revolution. Yes, it is headed by Washington, Israel, The City of London, the Vatican and their Mary Pranksters of the CIA, with all the bells and whistles, protest signs and revolutionary Libyan flags, for a news movie for Western Media.
Additionally, as Land Destroyer’s Tony Cartalucci tells us with some material from the Wall Street Journal, “After the corporate owned media’s failed attempt in February 2011 to portray the Libyan unrest as ‘unarmed protesters’ being brutalized by Qaddafi, reports began trickling in of what was actually a full-scale rebellion with weapons coming across the border from Egypt. These reports are now confirmed, as large scale operations to supply the rebels with weapons have now been admitted by both the US and Egyptian governments.” Well, isn’t that special?
Also, former Libyan army Captain, Ibrahim Sahad, who was in D.C. offering strategic guidance to the revolution(s), still seems to be in the catbird seat. Only now, and not unpredictably, the US, the UK, and France, even Poland, i.e. the Globalists, have raised the stakes by closing the airspace over Libya. This is said to be an act only enforceable with boots on the ground to take out anti-aircraft. But perhaps hovering Harriers, and other exotic aircraft that can pinpoint or cluster bomb the government forces and compounds, and separate them from the revolutionaries. No problem for the big guys, I think.
But then this intervention sic war was not declared by an act of Congress. Obama hopped, skipped and jumped the process by delaying it, so that Britain and France had to play bad cops, making it look like the UN was declaring the war, and he was playing the benevolent cop, issuing repeated warnings for Qaddafi to step down and out. Yet, since when does the UN take precedence over Congress in deciding when to go to war? And since when do you ask a leader to step down when he seems to have more powerful support from his people than the so-called revolutionaries?
Additionally, Obama said that in any case Qaddafi and his followers will be prosecuted for their violence against the revolutionaries, who in fact burned down the building of the General People’s Congress, the parliament of Libya, in a raging fire. This would be like protestors in the United States burning down the Capitol. These are neither the Egyptian nor Tunisian non-violent protestors. And their crimes are more numerous, reports David Rothscum in The World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya Into Chaos.
Rothscum asks, “Why is the United States so opposed to [Qaddafi]? He is the main threat to US hegemony in Africa, because he attempts to unite the continent against the United States. This concept is called the United States of Africa. In fact, Qaddafi holds all sorts of ideas that are contrary to US interests. The man blames the United States government for the creation of HIV. He claims that Israel is behind the assassination of Martin Luther King and President John. F. Kennedy. He says that the 9/11 hijackers were trained in the US. He also urged Libyans to donate blood to Americans after 9/11. Qaddafi is also the last of a generation of moderate socialist pan-Arab revolutionaries that is still in power, after Nasser and Hussein have been eliminated, and Syria has aligned itself with Iran.” That is an intelligent mouthful.
Take a look at the whole article. It represents a valid pro-Qaddafi revue based on the facts of his rule, which began 41 years ago in a bloodless coup of a sick monarch away for medical treatment. As Rothscum writes, “His [Qaddafi’s] ideology is based on unification and he attempted to peacefully merge his country with Egypt and Syria. It would take a miracle for the violence unfolding now to lead to a single state democratic government in Libya, with full control over the entire country. The country is more than twice the size of Pakistan, but with 6 million inhabitants. Endless deserts divide many of the cities in the nation. If anything we should ask ourselves how many more nations will be shattered into pieces in the coming months, as the world cheers.” God help those nations without strong leaders.
And then we have the oil wealth of Libya, the frozen Gaddafi/Libyan billions in Europe and the US. And the billions in Libya, including huge gold reserves in the Libyan Central bank amounting to 143.7 tonnes of gold, worth more $6.5 billion according to the Financial Times. To whom would all these assets accrue if Gaddafi were toppled: to the US, Wall Street, England, France, Israel? Would there be a feeding frenzy, a coin toss, more infighting dividing the spoils? It’s possible.
As I mentioned in my last article, we’ve been gunning for the offbeat Colonel Gaddafi since 1986, when we bombed his house, missed him, but killed one of his children. This was in “Operation El Dorado Canyon, which was quite a shindig. After several days of diplomatic talks with European and Arab partners, President Ronald Reagan ordered a strike on Libya on April 14,” reminiscent of our latest gang-bang.
Back then “18 F-111F strike aircraft of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, flying from RAF Lakenheath supported by four EF-111A Ravens of the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing, from RAF Upper Heyford in England, in conjunction with 15 A-6, A-7, F/A-18 attack aircraft and EA-6B Prowler Electronic Warfare Aircraft from the aircraft carriers USS Saratoga, USS America and USS Coral Sea on station in the Gulf of Sidra, struck five targets at 02:00 on April 15, with the stated objective that their destruction would send a message and reduce Libya’s ability to support and train terrorists. Reagan warned that ‘if necessary, [they] shall do it again.’”
Well, they are doing it. It is déjà vu all over again, as Yogi says. And where would all that Libyan oil (not just the 2 percent we bought per year) go? Again, to whomever took down Gaddafi? Again, as with Gulf War 1 and later the Iraq War, it was the allies in pursuit of oil as well as Hussein, due to his OPEC pricing antics, his sideway drilling for Kuwait oil, Bush’s made-up threats Saddam was about to use (non-existing) WMD on us. But the real danger we face, is the budget-busting 3 trillion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to which we returned to raise the $3 trillion plus price tag and body count, 5,000-plus dead US soldiers, a million dead Iraqis, and, as yet, an unknown Afghan number of dead.
We also are warring now with Pakistan, firing missiles from drones at them that kill more innocent people than supposed Al Qaeda and Taliban bad guys. This is another of those non-Congressional approved romps while Congress sputters with anger for not being consulted. This Libyan romp is in “shock and awe” phase and the generals promise to discretely miss the just-cause revolutionaries. Not. What’s really worse is that our war-torn economy is coming apart.
In my own New York City, as in cities across the nation, we are cutting thousands of school teachers, closing senior centers and firehouses, reducing basic services because New York City and State are both in multi-billion dollar debt and the federal government can’t help close the debts, though they can help unseat Qaddafi. All while Obama pontificates about saving lives of “innocent people,” a “humanitarian effort” [sic], colonizing, starting another war that will cost hundreds of millions, as we continue on our hegemonic march for oil and real estate.
What everyone notices about Libya is that unlike the Egyptian case, the vast number of Libya’s people were not in the streets, although the ones that were, were somewhat inept, thuggish, some even having trouble handling armaments. And second, Gaddafi’s army, rightfully, was not playing neutral, or even, as the Egyptian Army, encouraging Mubarak to take a hike. No, Qadaffi’s army was and is onboard all the way. The fact is, Muammar Qaddafi could be a thorn in our side for more than a few days like Saddam Hussein was the first time, more like a few years until Hussein was found in his spider hole and brought to “justice.” Even after his execution, the war has continued to this day, with 50,000 of our troops still present. It ain’t over till it’s over, one more Yogism.
“Meanwhile,” Cartalucci writes, those still under the illusion that humanitarian concerns drive the UN Security Council’s decision to authorize a Libyan no-fly zone, would do best to refresh their memories of how the globalists used the UN to become mired in a decade of war with Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Pakistan. It should also be remembered that the “Neocon” cadre of the globalist cartel within the confines of the Project for a New American Century engineered the entire “War on Terror” including their wish for a “new Pearl Harbor“ a year before 9/11.” Amen.
This is not to mention that we also have, as Truthout called it, a No Cover Zone, with media ignoring the brutal crackdowns by US Allies on Bahrain and Yemen. While the West focused on Libya last week, “Bahrain and Yemen’s mostly nonviolent protestors [were] are being brutally put down by the armed forces in those countries.
“The lack of coverage of the situation . . . isn’t disturbing just because the atrocities being committed there merit coverage. It’s especially alarming because, unlike Libya, both are close U.S. allies and recipients of major U.S. military and economic assistance, meaning the U.S. actually bears a responsibility to make sure its assistance is not being used in ways that are contrary to American Values.”
“One network has been paying close attention to the revolts . . . al Jazeera English. It filed a detailed video report . . . from the scene of a government attack on protesters in the capital of Sant’a.” Watch it from this linked article. Thus, this is not the way to make friends in the Mid-East but more likely fundamentalist enemies.”
Cartalucci adds, “Today, the Project for a New American Century exists as William Kristol’s Foreign Policy Initiative, and is once again writing letters reminiscent of the ranting insanity signed off by America’s leading ‘Neo-Cons’ urging for one foreign intervention after another. They also played a central role in the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ hoax in 2010. Their latest ‘letter’ is addressed to President Obama under the title, ‘Foreign Policy Experts Urge President to Take Action to Halt Violence in Libya.’” Let’s halt the American violence and the President’s excesses, starting wars without going to Congress first—despite the fact it’s been a tradition post WW II.
Thus, here we are again, “Marching to Pretoria,” this time Libya, with all the hoopla of a Gilbert and Sullivan musical, the “Pomp and Circumstance” of Empire and our crumbling, colonizing economy. Why can’t we take out a few minutes out and nationalize the Fed to get us off the debt feeding-tube of fractional-reserve lending, which has kept us broke on and off for a hundred years—and effectively aided and abetted in our impoverishment by Wall Street, our new third party, the one with our money, including the infamous Koch-head brothers? (Thank you Paul Krassner.)
They are oh so heady on their billions and throwing the millions around like loose lines, getting the Republicans and Dems high on the high life of Globalism while our people scuttle to keep their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, fill their tank, put food on the table, and keep their heads above the waves from the sinking Titanic of state. Add to that, the Asian earthquakes, faulty reactors, insinuations of HAARP (High frequency Active Auroral Defense Research)’s energy-direction system behind the Japanese quake and tsunami. At the very least, it seems, we survive at the benevolence of the world’s quirky reactors in the hands of the quirkier maniacs who bank on these operations.
But then spring is here and winter at last behind us. Let it be for the political landscape as well a time of blooming, of life, of mating and procreation, and not this constant death and disaster the Globalists have us in line for, whether they are the Rothschilds in London, the Vatican nation in Rome, the Mossad of Israel, their reactor builders of 1956, the French, and the rest of Europe’s bordello Empire, not to forget the US’s Rockefellers, Morgans, Banks of America, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, who have a finger in it all, and us.
But I will sing for spring in spite of all, remembering last Sunday, a sun-splashed, blue-skied day when I got lost in the bright woods of the 1,100 acre Rockefeller Preserve since the trail signs had been wiped away by winter and 48 inches of snow. It was nice for awhile to be lost and watch the trail turn into deep woods. After awhile, it grew a trifle weird, and I had to phone the State Park service to pick me up. The preserve is in the Pocantico Hills. There I was standing by a single sign to locate me, “David’s Loop,” (oh my god). This as the dark green pickup truck finally rolled up and I breathed a sigh of relief. This as the world remained lost and wandering in the darker wood of incalculable error, looking for peace’s exit one more time.
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. An EBook version of his book of poems “State Of Shock,” on 9/11 and its after effects is now available at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. He has also written hundreds of articles on politics and government as Associate Editor of theintrepidreport.com(formerly Online Journal). Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.