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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China

Syria passes bill on multiparty law

Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2011

PressTV

25th July, 2011

The Syrian government has approved a bill that paves the way for a new multiparty law as part of efforts on its declared political reform program.

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Norway Terror Attacks a False Flag

Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2011

Norway Terror Attacks a False Flag: More Than One Shooter on Island; Oslo Police Drilled Bomb Blasts; Was It NATO’s Revenge for Norway’s Decision to Stop Bombing Libya?

Webster Tarpley

Tarpley.net

24th July, 2011

Washington DC, July 24, 2011 – The tragic terror attacks in Norway display a number of the telltale signs of a false flag provocation. It is reported that, although the world media are attempting to focus on Anders Behring Breivik as a lone assassin in the tradition of Lee Harvey Oswald, many eyewitnesses agree that a second shooter was active in the massacre at the Utøya summer youth camp outside of Oslo. It has also come to light that a special police unit had conducted drills or exercises near the opera house in downtown Oslo which involved the detonation of bombs during 2010– exactly what caused the bloodshed a few hundred meters away this Friday. Further research reveals that United States intelligence agencies had been conducting a large-scale program of recruiting retired Norwegian police officers with the alleged purpose of conducting surveillance inside the country. This program, known as SIMAS Surveillance Detection Units, provided a perfect vehicle for the penetration and subversion of the Norwegian police by NATO.

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Libya: Demonization and Self-determination

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2011

Sara Flounders

Global Research

24th July, 2011

If you went to a shopping center, a street corner or a graduate school of a top university in the U.S. and conducted a pop quiz asking who are the kings or crown princes of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain; the emir of Kuwait, Qatar or Dubai; and the sultan of Oman, most people would not be able to name any of them.

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NATO in trouble

Posted by seumasach on July 23, 2011

Manuel Domingos Neto

Pravda

23rd July, 2011

Only despair before the crisis would lead European leaders to calculate so badly with their intervention in Libya. Inspired by the toppling of Arab regimes and relying on wearing down Qaddafi, they mounted an unconvincing justification for “humanitarian” help. They encouraged defections from the Libyan government and froze one hundred billion dollars in reserves of the country.

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They’re still bombing Iraq

Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2011

Panic as US Warplanes Attack Southern Iraq
Two Days of Live Ammo Raids Have Locals Scared, Puzzled

Jason Ditz

Antiwar.com

20th July, 2011

The latest indication yet that the Obama Administration’s much vaunted “end” to the war in Iraq last year was entirely illusory, reports are pouring in from southern Iraq’s Maysan Province that US warplanes launched a number of live ammunition attacks just north of Amara.

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NATO mistakes Muammar Gaddafi for the gutless wonders they are

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011

Lisa Karpova

Pravda

21sy July, 2011

Part of the massive mainstream media campaign of lies and disinformation is the attempt to declare that Muammar Gaddafi is going to agree to go off somewhere into exile, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

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Leanor is a Frequent Visitor to Libya – She Tells All

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011

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France suggests plan for Gaddafi to stay in Libya

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011

So there you have it: the so-called rebels have not taken Brega as widely trumpeted by desperate western media sources. It looks rather that they have suffered a defeat losing 60 fighters in the battle, a significant loss for what John Bolton describes as an insignificant force. Since Gaddafi is clearly winning and most of Libya has rallied round him, why should he step down? Only because of threats from NATO which are probably vacuous- the political will, the heart seems to have gone out the Atlanticist terror grouping.

Telegraph

21st July, 2011

Gaddafi insists he will neither step down nor flee the country he has led for four decades. With the Nato-led air campaign against Gaddafi’s forces entering its fifth month and the fighting in a stalemate, the international community is seeking exit strategies.

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Why is Obama giving Libya to the Russians?-Bolton

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011

There is no greater proof of the disastrous course of this war from a NATO point view than the fact that enemies of NATO such as ourselves are able to cite neo-cons like Bolton in defence of our case. His article is a futile rant against the inevitable ebbing of US power in the world.

But in the last four months, neither America nor its NATO allies have successfully identified and strengthened (quietly or otherwise), a truly significant cadre of pro-Western voices in Libya

This sums up the rebels: they are pro-Western but insignificant in terms of support from the Libyan people.

Reuters

20th July, 2011

John R. Bolton, the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (from 2005 to 2006), is of counsel at Kirkland & Ellis and is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The opinions expressed here are his own —

WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) – With President Obama’s Libya policy staggering from one embarrassment to another, last week he and Secretary of State Clinton outdid themselves. They publicly welcomed Russia’s effort to insert itself as a mediator, an act of such strategic myopia that it must leave even Moscow’s leadership speechless.

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Telegraph exposes Libyan rebel terror

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011

Within the context of the western press which has done so much to orchestrate a cacophony of lies around events in Libya, this is a remarkable recognition suggestive, not of a few rotten apples as Amnesty seems to want to imply, but sustained terror. The normally gung-ho Telegraph is showing disillusionment with this war, a reflection of just how disastrous it has been.

The headless corpse, the mass grave and worrying questions about Libya’s rebel army

Telegraph

21st July, 2011

The streaks of blood, smeared along the sides of this impromptu mass grave suggested a rushed operation, a hurried attempt to dispose of the victims.

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‘Iran will deny UN rapporteur entrance’

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011

PressTV

21st July, 2011

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says the Islamic Republic will not allow the UN special Rapporteur on human rights to enter the country.
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