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Libya Report

Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2011

Translated from

Leonorenlibia

14th August, 2011

Tonight NATO bombarded Zliten again and NATO planes once more entered Libyan air space in order to bomb Tripoli’s Al Forjan district. NATO have bombed Zawia for two consecutive days.

NATO’s mercenaries have entered Zawia, taken photos of themselves, raised their flag on a building anomy to flee once the Libyan army arrived. The NATO bombing opened the doors to the mercenaries, but, even so, they only advanced during the bombing leaving as soon as it had finished and the Libyan army turned up to pursue them.

Tawerga is under Libyan control.

Misrata is divided with the NATO mercenaries controlling part of it given that “the leaders of the armed rebels are from Misratah”.

El Gharain is presently calm and completely under government control.

The Nafusa mountains are, at the moment, a swarm of  mercenaries armed by Qatar who try to make incursions into all the small villages round about making the whole area very dangerous with both NATO bombing and rebel incursions.

The Libyan government says that these fighters are criminals and thieves who bring disaster wherever they go.

At the moment there is no medical care in Benghazi and illness is spreading.

Al Brega is completely under government control.

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Libya: NATO massacre of Zliten civilians unreported by media

Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2011

Libya: NATO massacre of Zliten civilians unreported by media

Madhi Darius Nazemroaya

Voltairenet

13th August, 2011

On 8-9 August 2011, a large number of casualties occurred in the city of Zliten, in the district of Misurata. 85 people were killed including 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men as a result of NATO’s deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Many of the injured civilian victims are in critical condition and near death.

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La Libye et la fin des illusions occidentales

Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

14th August, 2011

Cinq mois après le début des bombardements, il n’est plus possible de croire la version officielle du début des évènements en Libye et des massacres imputés au « régime de Kadhafi ». Simultanément, il faut désormais tenir compte de la riposte judiciaire et diplomatique libyenne qui met en évidence les crimes contre la paix commis par la propagande TV, les crimes de guerre perpétrés par les militaires de l’OTAN, et les crimes contre l’humanité commis par les dirigeants politiques de l’Alliance atlantique.

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Reflexiones en voz alta sobre Libia

Posted by seumasach on August 14, 2011

Leonorenlibia

14th August, 2011

English translation at the bottom

Reflexiones en voz alta sobre Libia DE UN CRIMINAL DE UN CRIMINAL DE LAS ALTAS INSTANCIAS

¿Por qué esa alegría bajo nuestra destrucción

mientras nosotros en la opulencia decaemos?,

¿por qué ese insólito empeño en una dignidad

que nos ofende y que nunca conocimos?,

¿por qué vuestros niños asesinados por nosotros

tienen incluso muertos esa luz celeste que nos desconcierta?,

¿por qué está más poblado de vida vuestro interminable desierto

que nuestras pobladas ciudades de cristal y fantasmas?,

¿por qué impresionan más vuestras viviendas bombardeadas

que nuestras cuidadas mansiones?,

¿por qué son cómo las ruinas fenicias, romanas y griegas

que ambicionamos,

puesto que donde comenzó la civilización

la obediencia debida al guión

de la farsa y la tragedia

nos dice que aquí debemos de sepultarla?,

¿por qué os resistís a ser felices fáciles,

cómo lo es nuestro cándido rebaño

que con su silencio nos aclama;

felices de ingesta de la mierda

y acopio del estiércol;

no felices arduos y anacrónicos como vosotros,

de almas intactas, de familias juntas, de amor fraterno?.

¡Malditos salvajes, que sabéis más de nosotros por vuestro instinto

que nuestros bien cebados orangutanes que agachan su estudiosa cabezota

para dormir un sueño moribundo dentro de sus tranquilas almas de perro¡

¿no os apiadáis de nuestro desamparo de poderosos,

de cómo quedamos desnudos frente al mundo,

con el hacha en la mano y la sangre en los pies?,

¿no tenéis compasión por nuestros ojos esquivos de criminales,

de nuestro belfo triste de ricos todopoderosos

e impotentes a un tiempo?,

Os tenemos en nuestra infinita clemencia humanitaria,

sin comida, sin electricidad, sin combustible, sin agua;

y resistís como rocas el aluvión de nuestros bravos guerreros,

de corazón de pedernal y cerebro de hierro,

que desde aviones invulnerables os matan de manera impecable.

Y estáis ahí, aguantando;

recordando para nadie la ralea que somos.

Dejad que venga nuestro reino,

el de nuestro padre Lucifer;

el que nos garantiza muchas vidas

para disfrutar de tanto botín al alcance de la mano;

ese reino donde cuando más grandilocuente es la palabra,

mayores son las sombras que cobija,

aquel en donde protección es exterminio

a manos de hordas caníbales,

donde democracia es espejismo

a cargo de las corporaciones de la muerte;

donde ciudadano es ser esclavo de ladrones,

donde disidencia es falso señuelo

en los dibujos animados de la toma y retirada de las plazas.

Dejadnos infectar las palabras que nos quedan

para herir todo lo vivo,

dejad que venga nuestro reino de baratijas

y os daremos de beber

si antes nos dáis de vuestra sangre,

¿qué creíais, que era solo el petróleo y el agua

los fluidos necesarios para nuestra sed sobrehumana?.

Es sangre lo que demandamos

en primera instancia,

y que nos debe de ungir como muertos vivientes

todas las mañanas inciertas

cuando nos levantamos del hartazgo

del baño de sangre del día anterior.

Si nos dáis la sangre, los hijos, los órganos;

así sólo os mataremos a unos cuantos miles,

no sois muchos, por eso vinimos.

Era fácil la tarea,

nos dijeron este enjambre nuestro de asesores de tripa gorda,

de cabrones de voz misericordiosa,

de expertos bien nutridos,

estrategas de los muertos por anegada,

haraganes de la obediencia debida,

mantis perversas adscritas a la jauría,

mercenarios de las palabras huecas y falsas,

delincuentes con muchos masters y titulaciones,

pedorros de la nueva rama guerrera de la filosofía de trinchera,

sociópatas, amigos de conveniencia de atentados en casa y fuera de ella;

todos nos decían que érais pan comido, visto y no visto,

y vosotros, malditos, creciendo en el castigo,

subiendo para vosotros mismos

y para un nuevo amanecer de los pobres y los pueblos

cuando las alas de nuestros buitres se replieguen del cielo.

Aquí nos tenéis en la foto fija del crimen frente al mundo,

quedaríamos en evidencia

si no hubiésemos preñado ya a la perra

que ha vuelto a parir la parda camada del silencio,

de la complicidad, del temor,

de las conciencias y los ojos ciegos.

¡Malditas seáis; tribus atávicas, tenaces, obsoletas, indoblegables¡;

¿por qué no sentís hacia nosotros la inmensa lástima que merecemos?,

¿es preciso decir que matar nos ha matado sin remedio?

 

Screaming reflections on Libya by a criminal, a criminal in high places

Why this joy under our destructive power

whilst we decay in opulence?

Why this rare dignity

which offends us and is unknown to us?

Why do your children murdered by us

have, even dead, that celestial light which disconcerts us?

Why is there more life in your endless desert

than in our crowded cities of glass and ghosts?

Why are your wrecked homes more imposing

than our perfect mansions?

Why are they like the Phoenician, Roman and Greek ruins

which we aspire to

since where civilisation began

our obedience to the tragic, farcical plot

tells us that here we must bury it?

Why do you resist the facile happiness

proclaimed by our trusting flock

with their silence;

happy on ingested shit

and copious horse-dung;

not your resilient joy from another time

of integrity, family and fraternal love?

Damn savages, who instinctively know more of us

than our indulged orangutangs which lay down their studious pigheads

to a  sleep of moribund dreams,their souls  at peace like a dog!

Don’t you pity us in the vulnerability of our power,

how we stand naked before the world

with an axe in the hand and blood at our feet/

Don’t you pity us with our shifty, guilty eyes,

our sad,twisted mouth revealing the impotence

of the rich and all-powerful?

We have you in our infinite, humanitarian clemency

without food, electricity, petrol and water;

and you resist like rocks the alluvium of our brave warriors

flint-hearted and iron-headed,

who from safe heights kill you in a most impeccable manner.

And there you are, just taking it;

revealing to everyone  our pedigree.

Let our reign come,

that of our father Lucifer;

he who assures us many lives

to enjoy so much booty ready to hand;

that reign where the more grandiose the word

the deeper the shadows behind it,

where protection is extermination

at the hands of cannibal hordes,

where democracy is a mirage

run by corporate killers;

where the citizen is the slave of thieves,

where dissidence is a diversion,

a cartoon of the occupation and withdrawal from town squares.

Let us infect the words left to us

so as to wound all that is living,

let out reign of trinkets come

and we will let you drink

if you give us first your blood.

Did you think that only oil and water

sufficed to quench our superhuman thirst?

It is blood that we demand in the first instance,

and we must be anointed as living dead

by all those uncertain mornings

when we awake from the satiety

of the proceeding days bloodbath.

If you give us blood, children and organs

we will only kill a few thousand,

you aren’t many, that’s why we came.

It was an easy job,

our swarm of pot-bellied advisors,

very concerned bastards,

well-nourished experts,

ubiquitous death strategists,

obedient parasites,

praying mantis followers of the pack,

mercenaries of the false and hollow word,

delinquents with their masters degrees,

little farts from the new warrior school of trench philosophy,

sociopaths, new found friends of terror at home and abroad;

all told us you were a piece of cake, seen or unseen,

and you, damn you, growing under punishment,

raising yourselves up for a new dawn of the poor and the peoples

as the wings of our vultures beat overhead.

Here you have us in our criminality

caught in a still before the whole world,

we are testimony

if we hadn’t made the bitch pregnant

with another litter of the silent brood,

to complicity, fear,

bad conscience and wilful blindness.

God damn you and your tribe; atavistic , tenacious, obsolete, unyielding!;

Why don’t you feel for us the immense pity which we deserve?

Must it be that through killing we have killed ourselves irredeemably?

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Make no mistake: NATO committed war crimes in Libya

Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2011

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Brasileiros visitarão a Líbia

Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2011

Agua Verde

12th August, 2011

Um grupo de políticos e ativistas sociais brasileiros embarca neste domingo (14) rumo à Líbia, atendendo a convite do dos Comitês Populares líbios.

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France to “go to the end of the mission” in Libya

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

NATO’s mission to protect civilians will go on until there are no more civilians to protect

 

PanARMENIAN.Net 

12th August, 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country will stick with the international campaign against Libya’s longtime leader until the end.

Sarkozy said Friday, August 12 that France’s military effort – central to the nearly five-month-old NATO-led operation – “will remain constant.”

He said there is no choice but to “go to the end of the mission.”

The U.N.-mandated campaign against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces has been deadlocked for long periods, and public support for the costly mission has waned.

Sarkozy was speaking to forces aboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which was operating off the Libyan coast for months and was crucial to the NATO campaign. The carrier is returning to port in Toulon on the Mediterranean for maintenance, the Associated Press reported.

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Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

Libya — Lather, Rinse, Repeat — Syria:
Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn

Maximilian C.Forte

MRZine

10th August, 2011

Two of my favorite quotes come into play here, one by the English poet, Alexander Pope, who explained that “some people will never learn anything . . . because they understand everything too soon,” and George Bernard Shaw, much more resigned and ironic in stating that “we learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”  From various misguided and superficial “open letters” to “the left” on Libya, to the recent renewal of righteous interventionism with respect to Syria, it seems that the greatest deficit in Western thinking about these unruly and barbarous others is not a deficit in sincerity, as I once mistakenly thought, but a learning deficit.  One detects a strong tendency among liberal imperialists and assorted self-designated “progressives” to think of their actions and thoughts as being above history, as if residing in some altostratus of unimpeachable rectitude.  If they pretend to act and think as if they were gods, it is not an historical accident.  At the end of their day, as believers in Western progress, they remain convinced that they are at the high point of evolutionary teleology.  At the last stage of a dying empire, imperial advocates (not confined to any one ideology) are still gripped by the conviction that theirs is the highest stage of human achievement.  They resent history (inevitable imperial decline) as much as they resent particularity (difference they can never tolerate).  High up in the clouds, perched on the wings of various stealth bombers, they preach the ideology of universal, individual human rights.  Blinded by their own wind, they lose the ability to see that even their own “universal declaration of human rights” contained distinct concerns for social and economic rights — though buried at the end, past the point of the current imperial attention deficit disorder (Arts. 21-27).  If people have the right to eat, but not the right to tweet, then they are judged to be living under tyranny.  This is shallow humanitarianism, callous in its disregard for the materialities that make human life possible, a humanitarianism at the end of empire and as bankrupt as the state powers whose authority the humanitarians invoke.

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Ex-terrorist says terrorists and NATO lost war

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

Ex-terrorist from Benghazi in France recognizes that NATO and the terrorists have already lost

Leo Vershinin

Pravda

11th August, 2011

In a TV interview, Dr. Rejeb Muftakhov Budabusa, judging by numerous paraphrases and a more or less detailed digest, made ​​a considerable impression on “all Paris” not having forgotten that in February and early March, he ardently advocated “peaceful demonstrations” in Benghazi and for “salvation from the punishment of Cyrenaica.”

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NATO reneges on its mission

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

11th August, 2011

After 150 days of bombing, NATO has razed numerous facilities while failing to achieve any convincing military results. This is largely due to its lack of strategic forethinking. In Libya, NATO assumed it could apply the same classic methods that were conceived for different settings. It is now stuck in a quandary. The greatest military alliance in history, which was initially created to confront the USSR and was then slated to become the world’s policeman, has fallen woefully short of its recycling goals.

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UN chief alarmed at Libya civilian toll

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

“The Secretary General is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties as a result of the conflict in Libya,”

What then is an acceptable number of civilian casualties in an operation aiming to protect civilians?- how many civilians can you kill while protecting them?

PressTV

12th August, 2011

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the rising civilian casualties in Libya, saying there will be no military solution for resolving the conflict in the North African nation.

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