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Lifestyle & Amenities
The Vista Shores Experience
Our scenic Vista Shores senior living community has three distinctive "neighborhoods" occupied by residents with shared abilities in order to provide optimum socialization and personalized care. Private one and two-bedroom apartments are available within each neighborhood, while our third floor is reserved exclusively for our Alzheimer's and dementia care residents. Additional levels of support are provided based upon the particular needs of each resident. Residents who require minimal assistance with day-to-day living can enjoy a feeling of independence akin to living at home, without the chores and stress of managing a household. Residents with memory impairment are provided with higher levels of care and security through individualized programs that enrich their lives and enable them to function at the highest possible level.
Words We Live By
We recognize that each of our residents is unique, and encourage that individuality. Our approach focuses on understanding the personal history and lifestyle of each resident, so that they can continue to live in a way that feels comfortable and familiar, while receiving the assistance and support needed to live their best lives.
Courtney Bartholomew
As the executive director of Vista Shores, Courtney oversees all community operations to ensure that residents receive the highest quality of care possible. Courtney has more than 10 years of experience in the senior care industry, including past positions at the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging and as both an executive director and assistant executive director. She has a Master of Arts degree in mass communications with a concentration in healthcare administration. Courtney believes in focusing on what a resident can do rather than what they can’t, and trains her team to support and encourage the residents they serve. At Vista Shores, Courtney ensures that the activities calendar is always full, and she goes the extra mile to plan interesting, engaging events that provide an active and exciting lifestyle for her residents. Courtney is on the board of directors for several organizations, including the Alzheimer’s Association of New Orleans, New Orleans Continuity of Care, and Divine Touch Healthcare Training.
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Memory Care Director
Tracy brings a diverse depth of experience in counseling, teamwork, and communication best practices in a clinical mental health setting to her role as Vista Shores’ Memory Care Director. Tracy holds both a degree in Elementary Education and a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health & School Counseling from Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans and she is currently working towards earning her PhD as a Counselor Educator and Supervisor. Prior to joining the Vista Shores team, Tracy gained experience in a similar role as the Social Services & Admissions Coordinator at a skilled nursing community. Tracy chose her career path as the result of a true passion and calling for serving the elderly, and her natural ability to build strong relationships with residents and effectively and compassionately engage them in therapeutic care plans make Tracy’s guidance a vitally important aspect of the exceptional care offered at Vista Shores.
We are committed to redefining assisted living and memory care.
We are at the forefront of our industry. We provide the expertise and vision that will advance the assisted living and memory care industry, as well as the vision and impact of our company.
We put our residents and their families first.
Everything we do is in the best interest of our residents, and we engage our residents and their families in every aspect of their care.
We appreciate and value that each resident is unique.
We respect our elders and their life stories. We aim to know each resident on a personal basis, including their histories, families, goals and dreams.
We respect our elders.
We only have team members who appreciate and respect their elders; people who understand that recognizing our residents’ life stories empowers them to provide exceptional care that is personal and meaningful.
We give our best every day of the year.
We provide our best work, care and service every day. How we do business is as important as the business we do.
We support team excellence.
Our success depends on the happiness of every team member. We maintain a work environment that motivates and rewards, and we provide our team members with the education and resources they need to succeed.
We are proud members of our community.
Our business is directly tied to the communities we serve, in which we work and live. We strive to be a good neighbor and true community resource.
We make a difference every day, at every stage of life.
We’re a family of caring, committed individuals. This is more than a job; we have a spirit to serve, and we’re honored to be there for our residents and their families through every stage of care.
Find a Schonberg Care Community Near You
Vista Shores is a state-of-the-art assisted living & memory care community that provides exceptional, highly personalized care to seniors in a therapeutic environment that honors the dignity and individuality of each unique resident.
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Journalism and Philosophy
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Whose truth do we witness through the media? Have we entered the age of post-truth? What is the responsibility of a journalist? Our BA Journalism and Philosophy encourages you to dig deeper, think critically, enhance your understanding and debate controversial topics. You learn how to engage with a wider audience, gain new perspectives and develop your own journalistic style. Alongside this you will begin to understand the ethical and philosophical issues surrounding journalism, from how social media allows individuals to shape their media consumption to the moral questions surrounding the duty of the journalist.
Many of our courses offer a choice of optional modules to tailor your learning experience. More information about these can be found on the University of Essex website.
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Although there aren't a lot of jobs around for professional philosophers, philosophy degrees are a relatively popular option, with more than 2,000 students graduating in a philosophy-related subject in 2015 - a little down on previous years, but still healthy. Nearly a quarter of philosophy graduates take a postgraduate qualification, and it's a relatively common subject at both Masters and doctorate level — so if you think academic life might be for you, think ahead about how you might fund further study. For those who go into work, philosophy grads tend to go into teaching, accountancy, consulting, journalism, PR, housing, marketing, human resources and the arts while a few go into the computer industry every year, where their logical training is highly rated.
Journalism roles are very sought after, and competition fierce, and with the Internet disrupting business models, this is likely to continue. It's not impossible to get into roles with a first degree — quite a few do - but they can often be insecure or on a freelance basis, and a lot of jobs in journalism go to postgraduates. Unpaid work is not the norm for new journalists, but it’s rather more common than for other roles, as personal contacts and work experience are important ways for would-be journalists to get their target jobs. The skills you can gain from a journalism degree can be useful in a range of industries, and so grads from these courses can be found in a wide range of jobs - first degree graduates often get jobs in marketing and PR where their skills at drafting copy to deadlines are appreciated. London tends to dominate the jobs market for journalism graduates - a quarter of journalism graduates went to work there - but 2015 graduates found opportunities elsewhere, particularly in larger cities with good local media.
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This weekend was the annual Fernhurst Furnace open weekend. Fernhurst Furnace is an early modern iron working furnace founded around 1550. It is situated in a valley approximately 1 km from the village of Fernhurst in West Sussex, right at the western end of the High Weald. During the early modern period iron making developed in the Weald due to the availability of raw materials including, iron, sand and wood. The site is officially known as North Park Furnace and straddles the parish boundary between Fernhurst in which the archaeological remains of the furnace and iron workings are located and Linchmere in which is Furnace Pond which supplied water to power the one and eventually two waterwheels that powered the furnace. The parish boundary runs down the Bay of the pond at the northern end of the pond. ‘Bay’ is a technical term for the dam built across the valley to create the pond and is used with what have become called Hammer Ponds or Furnace Ponds, ponds built at iron working sites across the Weald (Kent, Sussex and Eastern Hampshire) to hold water to power furnaces for making iron. Many have been lost, drained and the land reclaimed for agriculture or urban buildings, but many survive and Fernhurst Furnace is considered to be one of the finest survivals. A look on the OS Map reveals many clues to the iron industry of the Weald. Just around Fernhurst Furnace is Furnace Pond (the name of the pond that supplied water to Fernhurst Furnace), Furnace Wood, and Minepit Copse. Place names relating to the early modern iron industry in the Weald are found right across the Weald.
There are archaeological remains of the furnace visible to the east of the bay including the furnace, bellows arch, bellows, the tapping arch, casting pit, wheel pits for the two waterwheels and tail races of the waterwheels. Even today the bay not only marks the parish boundary it is the boundary between two estates. The Cowdray Estate which owns the features to the west including the furnace pond and the western side of the Bay. While the eastern side of the Bay and the archaeological remains of the furnace and iron working is owned by the Hollist Estate. It is possible to visit Fernhurst Furnace and walk across the Bay as in addition to the Bay acting as a parish and estate boundary a public footpath crosses it. I don’t think I have seen such an interesting parish boundary in a long time and my question is: was this the parish boundary there before the 1550’s? Or was the parish boundary placed there after the creation of the furnace pond and Bay because the Bay makes a convenient boundary marker?
The Bay at the northern end of Furnace Pond at Fernhurst Furnace serves as both the parish boundary and a boundary between the Cowdray and Hollist Estates.
Furnace Pond at Fernhurst Furnace from the Bay at the northern end of the pond.
The archaeological remains of the furnace to the east of the pond Bay.
Historical re-enactors from Little Woodham Seventeenth Century Village re-enactment group.
Re-enactors from the Sealed Knot re-enactment society.
Pottery being fired in a charcoal Clamp Kiln.
The Charcoal Clamp Kiln.
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Islamist terror hits Bangladesh
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/26609
Submitted by Matthew on 4 May, 2016 - 10:42 Author: Gerry Bates
On 25 April Xulhaz Mannan, the editor of Roopbaan, the country’s first magazine for lesbian gay and transgender people, was hacked to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. Homosexuality is illegal in Bangladesh.
This is the sixteenth murder in a series of Islamist machete killings over the past three years. Other targets have included secular bloggers and liberal intellectuals. Responsibility for all the attacks has been claimed by Islamic State or Ansar al-Islam, a local chapter of al-Qaida. Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League and Prime Minister since 2009, has said she will not be held responsible for the deaths of people with objectionable opinions, and recently described the bloggers’ writings as “porn”.
The government denies that Islamic State or al-Qaeda is active in the country. The Awami League won rigged elections in 2014 and has repressed the main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and intimidated the press. Sheikh Hasina has looked for legitimacy and support from Islamists. In 1988 Islam was made the state religion in Bangladesh by a military government. Ruling parties have often used religion demagogically to shore up their regimes. This spate of killings began in February 2013 following protests which demanded the hanging of Abdul Quader Mollah, leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, for war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Many of those on trial for similar crimes have been associated with the Islamist opposition to the Awami League. In response an Islamist organisation, Hefazat-e-Islam, drew up a list of 84 secular and atheist bloggers and demanded that the government move against them for publishing blasphemous material. Five of the victims since 2013 were on that list.
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Gameday Preview: Stars v. Chicago Wolves
Posted by Stephen Meserve on November 10, 2010
6-6-0-0, 12 pts
#8 West Division v. Chicago Wolves
November 10th at 7:30 PM
The number 1 and 2 finishers from last year's West Division are both currently on the outside of the playoff picture looking in. Of course, it's a little silly to mention the playoff picture 12 games into the season.
Those of you who watched the standings all year last year will recall that both Texas and Chicago went through stretches similar to their current one last year. Texas's stretch was in the mid season and Chicago's was at the beginning. The Wolves were outside the playoff picture in January and had a great second half of the season to skyrocket into first place. Texas had the same situation in reverse.
Since Chicago and Texas last squared off in Rosemont, Chicago has played four games and is currently in the middle of an 8 game road trip. The Wolves dropped 2 of 3 over the weekend against other West Division opponents.
Currently the Wolves are in a bit of a goaltending predicament. Both members of last year's tandem of Peter Mannino and Drew MacIntyre are still in Chicago. However, injury to Atlanta tender Ondrej Pavelec forced the call-up of Edward Pasquale, a rookie. His play so far (5-3-0, 2.41 GAA, .916 SV%) has surpassed the play of both other netminders and has been stealing starts from Drew MacIntyre. Over the last four games, Mannino has started three and Pasquale once. MacIntyre backed up Mannino in two of his starts but was a healthy scratch in the other two games.
In the special teams department, Chicago is near the top of the list in power play (#3 at 22.8%) and near the bottom in penalty kill (#29 at 74.6%). Hopefully Texas has taken advantage of the time off this week to work on the power play and can make it click tonight.
Sawada, Blindenbacher (injured)
Sawada likely to return tonight.
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Woohoo! Game day is official now.
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This 11,000 acre pristine and unusual habitat about 20 miles from Naples, Florida, was completely wild when first established in the early 1950s. Now it is surrounded by intense development within arm's reach of the fences that define its borders. While there is incredible beauty to be seen, it is extremely difficult to record soundscapes there. By the late 90s, when Bernie Krause was commissioned to record soundscapes for the visitor center on the refuge, it was nearly impossible to capture the delicate acoustic textures of the swamp without the intrusion of nearby domestic animals and traffic noise in the distance. Here is his careful portrait of the Refuge's wilder side.
Birds: Limpkin, Barred Owl, Red-shouldered Hawk, Cardinal, Woodstork, Roseated Spoonbill, Redwing Blackbird, Cardinal, Anhinga, Green Heron, Little Blue Heron, Great Egret, Pileated Woodpecker, Grackle, Chuck Will's Widow, Parula Warbler, Tree Swallow, Wood Thrush, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Vesper Sparrow, Song Sparrow
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Diversity and inclusion speaker coming to campus
Contact: Deanne Puca
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—"Strategic Diversity Leadership at WMU: Building Capacity for Inclusive Excellence" is the topic of a public lecture on Thursday, March 26, on the campus of Western Michigan University.
Dr. Damon Williams, senior vice president and chief education officer of the Boys and Girls Club of America, will speak from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 157-159 Bernhard Center.
Sponsored by the Campus Climate for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tactical Action Community with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Racial Healing Planning Grant, Williams will also hold breakout sessions by invitation. CCDEI TAC members and assessment and implementation subrecipient grantees; senior leadership and Provost's Council; faculty and instructor leaders; managers, supervisors and directors; student leaders; and Grassroots diversity leaders will receive invitation to separate breakout sessions titled "Building Leadership Strategies for Excellence in Diversity: Thought Conversations with Dr. Williams."
Refreshments will be provided at all the events.
The CCDEI TAC is bringing Williams to campus to continue the progress from the recommendations of the 2013 campus climate study, and the follow up review of the implementation, accomplishments and planning next steps that took place during the 2014 action forums resulting from its work with Dr. Roger Worthington.
Damon Williams
Williams is responsible for leading the national program strategy and the strategic goals of strengthening the impact of clubs, including the programs supporting the targeted areas of the strategic plan—academic success, good character and citizenship, and healthy lifestyles. He has 16 years of youth development and executive management experience, most recently as associate vice chancellor, vice provost, chief diversity officer and faculty member in the department of educational leadership and policy analysis with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A scholar, leader, educator, learner and senior executive whose focus is on strategic diversity leadership, Williams holds a doctorate degree in philosophy in organizational behavior and strategic management from the University of Michigan.
For more information, visit wmich.edu/diversity or contact Tiffany White, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, at (269) 387-6327 or tiffany.white@wmich.edu.
For more news, arts and events, visit wmich.edu/news.
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Danish Football Fans Snatch Grass from Nya Ullevi and Smuggle it to Denmark
25 years ago the national Danish football team won the European Championship in Sweden. Now three Danish football fans have removed the gras...
25 years ago the national Danish football team won the European Championship in Sweden. Now three Danish football fans have removed the grass from the spot where the first Danish goal was scored in the final. “Sorry, Sweden. But this is ours” they claim in a newly released video – and return to Denmark to place the grass at the same spot in Parken, the Danish national stadium in Copenhagen.
Nobody expected the Denmark team to achieve anything at the Euro 1992 in Sweden. But somehow the Danes made their way into the semis where they defeated the defending Dutch champions with formidable players such as Koeman, Rijkaard, Gullit and Van Basten. Facing the mighty German world champions in the final the Danes took the world by surprise once again and won 2-0. And became the most unlikely European champions ever – only beaten by Sweden on their way to the gold, by the way.
“Holy Danish ground”
Recently, another highly unexpected event took place at Nya Ullevi in Gothenburg. A newly released video documents how three Danish football fans enter the field, armed with spades and measuring equipment, and search for the spot where midfielder John Jensen scored the first Danish goal in the final. And they find it: 15.13 metres from the goal line and 7.61 metres from the side of the penalty area – to be exact.
After locating the magic spot the fans remove the turf from Swedish soil and drive the so-called “holy Danish ground” all the way back to Copenhagen. More specifically to Parken stadium, the Danish national arena, where they find the corresponding spot and place the grass there with the assistance of national football hero John Jensen.
“We want the magic back from that epic summer in Sweden”
Behind this ”grass-plantation” stands Danish sports brand hummel who got the idea and then teamed up with the three Danish football fans.
“Dear Sweden, we hope it’s okay we’ve removed a small piece of your beautiful country,” says hummel CEO Allan Vad Nielsen. “We just want the magic back from that epic summer in Sweden! So by transferring a small piece of the place where the magic happened 25 years ago we want to inspire the present Denmark team to new great achievements when they play at the Parken stadium. But not only that: We hope to inspire all the underdogs of the soccer world to reach out for the impossible, beat the unbeatable giants – like the Danes did – and bring back the magic in modern football. Kom så, Danmark! And heja Sverige!”
Client: hummel
Marketing manager: Morten Lund
Agency: Envision
Creative Director: Jesper Herholt
Copywriter: Peter Boe
Art Director: Rasmus Saaby Bentzen
Client Service Director: Tomas Olesen
Production Company: M2
Film Director: Rasmus Pilgaard
Producer: Ronni Madsen
Distribution Partner: OATH/Be On
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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Review
Craig Doleshel · 04/05/2016
There has been an awakening…and we have felt it with Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens being released on Blu-Ray! The long anticipated next entry in the Star Wars franchise hit theaters in December
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A new deleted scenes sneak peek from the Digital HD and Blu-ray Combo Pack of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available. See the Star Wars: The Force Awakens deleted scenes: Finn and the
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I have been waiting for this announcement. TT Games is developing Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens which is set to be released June 28, 2016. Of course, with an announcement of this amazing-ness, a trailer has come
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Today on StarWars.com, Disney and Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars: Episode VIII, which was originally scheduled for a 2017 summer release, is being pushed back to December 15, 2017. That gives us nearly a full two years’ worth
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It’s been another great year for movie releases this past year and though it pains me to say that I didn’t have the opportunity to review some titles that could have made this list such
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STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII Searching for New Female Lead
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke records Thursday night, Variety reports. It made $57 million on its first night, which theaters began to run at 7 p.m. That’s a crazy amount money considering every theater running this
Spoiler-Free STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Movie Review
Exactly how I would describe Star Wars: The Force Awakens is that I immediately felt something familiar and exciting just after the opening scrawl of text prepared me for an brand new galactic adventure set 30 years after the
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Travis Grimm · 12/01/2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is almost here! -I’ve been repeating that for the past few years, but this month, December, it’s actually true. So to celebrate the near release of the biggest film of
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Here at Agents of Geek, we are super excited for The Force Awakens. Like tickets already bought, costumes already planned excited. I, personally, have been collecting as much The Force Awakens merchandise as possible and
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What could a Potential A220-500/700/900 look like?
morrisond
As posted in in the Airbus 2019 Thread Flugerfast is reporting that they are running the Numbers on 500/700/900 Capacities.
https://www.fliegerfaust.com/new-airbus ... 78587.html
How big could these get?
What kind of range?
Would the 700/900 require new Wing/Gear/Engines?
Could a 700/900 with more Capability replace the A320?
Keesje?
767333ER
Re: What could a Potential A220-500/700/900 look like?
I read their entire article and I doesn’t really prove much of anything is happening. They say they’ve been running something through their engineering computer. To me that would more likely be extended range variant or increases takeoff weights. It’s possible they are running numbers for a stretch or two, but more than one stretch I imagine would require work as you suspect to the wings, gear, engines, and probably other places on the structure which may be what they are trying to find out.
I usually take what Fliegerfaust says with a few grains of salt because they were the one ran the story of the Q400 program being sold off to China which it never was. Someone with their so called inside track in the rumour mill would know what actually is going on and not report that.
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Elementalism
I have heard rumors of a 500 that would compete with the -7. But couldnt it also eat into the A320?
As for 700/900 At some point it is less efficient to build a 5 across vs 6 across. The length of the aircraft becomes an issue.
Polot
767333ER wrote:
A A220-900 especially makes no sense, and a -700 is pushing it. At the capacities that those planes would be at it is more efficient to use the larger A320 fuselage than the A220 fuselage. The -900 would be what, the length of a 753 for the capacity of a A321?
Elementalism wrote:
In the years ahead the A320 will only become less competitive against the A321 or the 737-8 if it ever flies again. A stretched A220 would blow those planes out of water so long as one doesn’t need the range of the heavier planes and doesn’t mind training new crews if they do not have 220s already. Most interested in it do though.
Polot wrote:
These Fliegerfaust articles are a bit fanboyish because they like to make something definitive out of almost nothing but rumour or misinterpreted chatter. Anything bigger than an A220-500 would be a waste of time as it would be a flying noodle. It sounds like the super stretches were mentioned because that’s what the writer wishes they would make in their fantasy. More realistically an A220-500 simple stretch would be run though the computer, then a payload increase/ range increase of the other variants as well as applied to the 500 as well and there you have 4 variants tested in the computer. There was also the idea at one point that Bombardier floated of opting to add landing gear doors, I think particularly if they stretched it, but that would be a weird mod to do.
IADCA
The MAX-7 and A319NEO aren't selling well, so there's not a lot of risk to cannibalizing the bottom end of the line - the the 300 has probably already done that. The question is more about the Max-8 and A320, which really just asks how big the -500 would really be. It's a big difference in capabilities between what you'd need to do to get something that would be 160 seats in 2 classes (adding 3-4 rows of seats, so around the same degree of gap between 300 and 500 as between 100 and 300) versus 175.
Neither one is going to have anything near the range of what the 6-abreast platforms have in those capacities, but the shorter of the two stretches would probably be a heck of an efficient airplane on shorter missions. Not sure about the longer one - it strikes me that you might need to add a lot of weight to strengthen the tube to go that long, which would probably make things even worse in terms of range. One wonders whether Airbus has learned the lesson Boeing should have from the MD95/737-600 overlap however - it seems they have if they are at least looking at this.
RalXWB
Can you please explain why the A320 will only become less competitive against the A321 or the 737-8 if it ever flies again?
keesje
I think a A220-500 is likely, foreseen in the design. Using longer fuselages, you probably run into trade-off's in practical range, runway performance etc. Suitability for replacing A320s depends on the operator. E.g. if it has or has not an extensive AKH infrastructure and payload range requirements from it's network.
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TheWorm123
Why does a “A220-900” just sounds like a tail strike waiting to happen?
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LaunchDetected
There is a lot of news on Fliegerfaust, and a lot of rubbish. I remember when he announced that Airbus was about to buy the CRJ program.
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Antaras
The A227/229 will look like some stupid long and thin worm which's always ready to 'get' a tailstrike
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PepeTheFrog
I can understand the need for the A220-500, but what's the point of the -700 and -900 when Airbus already has the capacity with the A320 and A321?
ewt340
The -700/-900 would Definitely need new wings and better reinforcement. Unless they plan for these plane to fly 500nmi.
PepeTheFrog wrote:
A lot lighter and more efficient on the vast Majority of Single Aisle Routes that are flown everday less than 1,500nm.
Sorry I didn't post this link properly earlier - they have renderings of the different lengths https://www.fliegerfaust.com/new-airbus ... 78587.html
Yes - it would be pretty long and thin - but how long could they stretch it before Rotation angle was an issue without raising the gear?
Could they make A321 style changes to the wing (vs A320) to bump up the MTOW as it's pretty close to the Code C gate size Max of 36m at 35.1M without resorting to a whole new wing?
ShamrockBoi330
I found it interesting from the 500 point of view, closer to reality than any previously assumed?
and I don't think anyone is taking the 700/900 as gospel insider knowledge, but more of a discussion topic, a "what if" if you like. we all know what Flugerfaust is like so no need for everyone to keep pointing out the obvious really!
Dutchy
Like others said, A220-500, sure, that might/will happen. It would be more efficient than the A320NEO, abeit less range, but for most operations probably ok. The A220-700/900, no way, don't see that happening.
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So how long could they make the 500 then without lengthening the gear or modifying the wing too much? Is the wing big enough/gear strong enough for say 180 Seats and say 2,700-2,800 NM range?
This is a very strange discussion.
What the hell is this gibberish?
VSMUT
The A220-300 is already as long as a 737-800/A320. The A220-500 will be as long as the A321, but sits closer to the ground. To avoid tail strikes, it will have to take off and land at higher speeds. Although not as bad as the 737-900ER, it will begin to suffer from the same. Don't expect LCY performance from the -500.
The A220-700 will never happen. That monstrosity will be as long as a 757-300, but more narrow. At this point you will be adding weight in order to strengthen the fuselage. It will suffer from tail strike issues. It just isn't feasible. A -900 is even more laughable.
TObound
The problem with fliegerfaust is that he takes every rumour he hears at the bar to well beyond logical conclusion.
So they've activated a computing cluster to study the -500, -700 and -900. In his mind, they are planning on building all those models. In reality, they are studying them so they have data for corporate decisionmaking and maybe marketing. The data is also valuable to see what a competitor could do with a similarly configured aircraft. This does not mean in any way at all they are committed to building those models. And I would bet several paycheques that the -700 and -900 will never happen for all the reasons that others have said here.
He also talks about how they flight test team is moving back to Montreal. I don't see why Bombardier and Airbus would do this. I could see them dispatching the personnel they need to support a new A225 model. But why move the whole centre/team? And why even discuss this so early?
SteelChair
Wasn't it just 6 months or a year ago that many posters asserted that Airbus would never allow the 500 because it would poach orders from the A320? Now, the 500 is a virtual certainty and speculation abounds about further stretches?
My, how times have changed.
Utah744
Answer to the OP. Long, longer, and ridiculously long.
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Palumboism
Utah744 wrote:
This is the most probable case. Remember, half of the A220 program is owned by Bombardier investors who are looking for a return on their investment.
Also, Bombardier had already patented the CS500, CS600, CS700, CS800, and CS900 names. Which means stretching was in the plans all along and Bombardier knows how to stretch an airplane.
Palumboism wrote:
That return of investment will be selling their stake to Airbus in future, not new variants.
That doesn’t mean BBD was seriously interested in building a CS600-900 (CS500 was always on the back burner), or that any serious CS600-CS900 would have been a stretched CS100-500; BBD might have been planning for CSx00 to be their new nomenclature, like Boeing and the 7x7 and Airbus and the A3x0. BBD could have been saving it for future re-engines. Companies do things like this all the time to protect their IP. BBD did not want somebody coming along creating a “CS800” taking advantage of the known C-series name. I bet you Airbus has A360, A370, and A390 all saved too. Ditto Boeing and the 797.
T4thH
SteelChair wrote:
Yes, but this is a problem with many boards; as also here in the A.net. People do not understand or are just not willed to understand, that Airbus is not Boeing and what Boeing would do is not the way, Airbus is working. Of course, Airbus has only bought the A220 program to cancel it, they would never cannibalize their own program/A319/A320 they would never...bla bla bla...Sorry, this is Airbus and not Boeing.
Airbus and Airbus officials have now regular and more than once for around one year stated and confirmed, that it is not any more a question, if the A220-500 will be build, it is only a question, when. And also the "when" has been already explained, Airbus will first ramp up the A220 production and when and as soon, they see/believe, problems of ramping up of the production are solved, ramping up is working, they will start. As several customers (as example Korean Al, Air France and Air Baltic) have already stated the interest for the A220-500, we will possibly see it even earlier. Airbus is a company, willed to make their customers happy. If they ask for something and it seems liable for Airbus, resources are available, Airbus will do it.
Perhaps we shall finally just start to believe Airbus and their statements; as said, Airbus is not Boeing and as example the well known NMA story, ongoing since 2010? This is Boeing, not Airbus. As said, Airbus tries to make their customers happy, Boeing their share holders. I am sure, we will see a statement, if they will do it and when. And if an A220-500 is not possible or liable (as example no upgrade of the PW1500G engine is possible), I am sure, also then we will see/hear an Airbus statement.
CarlosSi
An a220-900? See the 737 Max... The -500 should be as far as it should go. Maybe the -700, but I wouldn’t try to package range and payload all in one at that point, unless your power plant resembles the PW2000...
mjoelnir
I think a.net posters get bonkers in unnecessary discussions. Yes, I know some people love the A220 and think it is the world beating narrow body and now it should replace everything, especially the A320 family.
People just seem to forget things.
The A220 is a 5 across narrow body and the A320 a 6 across. There is some area where they overlap, but by design the A220 is smaller and the A320 is bigger and we can add, at the same length.
A simple look shows us that the A220-300 with a length of 38.7 m offers a space for maximum 160 passengers.
The A320, at a length of 37.57 m, more than a meter shorter than the A220-300 offers max 186 passenger.
There is talk about a A220-500. I have not seen a definite size of that frame but we can look at the A220-300 and imagine a stretch. If the stretch is to the length of an A321, I would say that is the absolute maximum, that would mean a stretch of 5.80 m.
To get comparable passenger numbers to the A320 the stretch needs to be 5 rows at least. 5 rows at 29 inch gives us about 3.70. That stretch would give the A220-500 a length of 42.4, still a sensible length for a A220. Let us add one row more to bring the stretch to 6 rows. That would need about 4.4 m for a whole length of 43.1. 7 would mean 43,9 m whole length. That does not leave space for a sensible stretch to make a A220-700.
That is it. That is were it would end. No A220-700, A220-900 or A220-1000.
The CRJ ends with the 1000 at 39.1 m. The DC9, MD80 series, a 5 across. tops out at 45.03 and both frames have the advantage of having a lot of weight in the aft end, therefore the MLG wheels further back and therefore less danger of a tail strike, when reaching that length.
Designing the A220 into a tail strike danger zone makes no logical sense.
The A220-500 will top out the size of the A220 range, be it a 5, 6, or 7 row stretch. Everything above will need a wider cabin. And there Airbus offers the A320 family line.
Perhaps the advent of a A220-500 will lead to a slight stretch of the A320, to keep a size difference.
RalXWB wrote:
I don’t think such sweeping statements will be true for all airlines. Low cost or feeder airlines which don’t carry much freight I would see be very interested in the A220 as the A320 hold would be mainly empty, and your paying for that empty space when buying and operating the aircraft.
I can foresee a major update to the A320/A330 to bring the avionics in line with the A350.
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I think most agree a good A220-500 seems feasible, MTOW, ground clearance and demand seem ok. And Airbus is referecing itself. A very long time ago, I made a CS900 slide, just for fun & added 757-300 and other stretches for reference.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rtm67/349 ... ed-public/
Jomar777
VV wrote:
I would tend to agree. The -500 is already a slight figment of imagination since it would eat into the A320 but the -700 and the -900 are way beyond.
Having said that, though, and trying to take it as face value, what it might (a big might here...) be happening are tests towards see how far a A220 coujld go in matters of strech towards aligning what Airbus has already learned on the A320 family in regards of shrinking (namely A318).
Why? Allied these two studies might show Airbus actually planning for a NMA to cater for the whole range (or most of it) -i possible. In another words, create a model that would replace both the A220 and A320 and give it commonality across the board.
Althouhg, if you feel I am speaking utter bonkers here, you are welcome to say so and at least part of myself might tend to agree
Antaras wrote:
Does it, I don't think they look much different that later MD80´s with 5 abreast that we all so loved for years. So I guess it has been done before. Will it happen? I doubt it, my money is on a 500 only.
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cougar15 wrote:
As an A220-500 would only be about 2 meters shorter than the longest MD80, why do you thing it could be stretched twice more?
Fixinthe757
real easy and the same as every other higher numbered plane......longer!
Jamie514
mjoelnir wrote:
This isn't a great comparison for the argument of whether the A220 configuration can be stretched in a similar way.
People tend to forget that the A220 also has its own advantage of a relatively higher ground clearance compared to those rear-engined aircraft. It is comfortably hanging its GTF under the wing, with room to spare.
Jamie514 wrote:
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A220
DartHerald
Does it matter that an A220-500 would eat into A320 sales? Presumably it would eat into 737 sales too. Airbus can't build A320s fast enough and there is still plenty of scope for ramping up A220 production.
DartHerald wrote:
Over time you could imagine focussing the A320 series on 180-250 seats and A220 on 120-180 seats.
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The MD90 actually has more rear ground clearance than most people realize, thanks to its slightly larger main gear vs the DC-9/MD-80 giving it nose down pitch on the ground. With the MD-90 I believe rear clearance is more than the 737.
They just have to shape the fuselage like a banana. Voilà, problem solved !
leyland1989
I think A220-500 will happen, it's just a matter of when.
Many A319 are still early in their replacement cycle, when that happens and A220 (-100/-300) gain market share, A220-500 will make sense to be A320's successor without worrying over eating into the already shrinking A320 sales.
Many recent sales of the A320 family has been mainly A321, I believe the future of A320 family will be mostly lie on A321 and potential A322 while A220 will fill in the lower end, replacing A320 and A319 as it has already been doing so.
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I think Airbus could make an argument at this point that stretching the A220 to the -500 is justifiable for their product line as a 319 replacement. It would be better than the 319 that isn’t selling worth a hoot. Likely push sales for the smaller A220s for fleet commonality reasons. Going bigger to a -700/900? Not so much, leave that for the A320/321/32x replacement.
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As long as every A220-500 brings some profit eating into A320 sales or even the backlog is no problem. Every lost A320 frees a slot for another one maybe even better an A321, one of its derivates or a hypothetical A322. The rather low production rate of the A220 is a bigger problem than cannibalizing some A320.
keesje wrote:
It seems like up to 45-46M actually wouldn't be a stretch too far.
The MD-90 at a fuselage height of 142" is 46.5M with those big heavy engines hanging off the back and a lot of the fuselage in front of the wing.
The 737 is 156" High and the A320 series 163".
The A220 at 146" high is built from Carbon which is arguably stiffer and easier to stretch than an Aluminum tube.
Approximately half the stretch would be in front of the wing/ half behind - rotation angles shouldn't be that big of a problem - if you are talking basically 3M in front and 3M behind.
Assume that you stretch the A220 to 45M from 38.7m - or 6.3M or 248" - which just happens to be 8 rows at 31" Seat Pitch.
The A220 can comfortably take 145 Y seats (29 rows at 31" seat Pitch).
That would put an 45M A220 at 185 Y seats at 31" seat pitch. An A320 is about 175 seats at the same seat pitch https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Aer_L ... s_A320.php
How much would that extra fuselage length weigh? It seems like the 300 only gained 500KG per meter over the 100. So @ 6.3M call it 3,150KG - but add a little to take it to 3,500KG.
That would put it's OEW weight at about 40.5T vs 50.1T on the A320 NEO - that seems like a lot lighter (but not as capable of course) and a big efficiency advantage on the Majority of Single Aisle route's that are under 1,500NM.
How far could it go in Range maxed out in Y at 185 seats and 31" pitch?
How much more efficient would it be than A320 NEO/738?
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morrisond wrote:
The A220 has an aluminum fuselage, not carbon composite.
So it is - Aluminum Lithium - I had forgotten that. Looks like Composite almost everything else.
Still if they could stretch an MD90 years ago an A220 to 45M these days should be possible.
I don't get how anybody can say with such certainty that times have changed. It's not like there's any announcement launching the A225. A study doesn't mean much.
Also, the last few comments/rumours seem to indicated that the program won't be profitable for at least another 3-4 years and that this was driving reluctance to launch the 225. I could see that being the case.
There's also the issue of program ownership and any airbus success on the A220 driving up the cost of buying out Investment Quebec and Bombardier's shares. We don't know how that math works out for Airbus management.
There's bound to be concerns about commonality. It's not an Airbus airplane with common parts, cockpits, etc. There's only so much they can do to boost commonality. Now, that doesn't mean Airbus doesn't like the plane or the design or won't sell it. But this does impact how much the A220 can be used to drive follow-on business. And that is undoubtedly driving how Airbus markets the A220 to different customers.
With all this in mind, I think enthusiasm needs to be tempered with a dose of reality. The current order backlog takes them to 2024. Having all options exercised, takes them to beyond 2025. Airbus has a lot of time to get that A225 in to service. And that means there's no need to announce anything before they have a chat with Bombardier and Investment Quebec about program share and before they sort out the rest of their narrowbody and mid-market strategies.
The point that some posters here did not get, that it is more difficult to stretch the A220 than the DC9 MD80 MD90. Because of the high weight of the engine in the back, the MLGs are further aft, making a tailstrike much less likely than on the A220 at the same length.
So I have my doubts seeing the A220 being stretched to the same length as a MD90 with 46.51 m.
The A321 is 44.51 and has a longer MLG than the A220. The point is the maximum rotation angle, that will be more critical for the A220 at the same length.
With the frame standing on the ground, draw a line from the contact point of the MLG with the ground to the tail. The angle of this line with the ground gives you the maximum rotation angle. When the MLG wheels move aft, this angle increases with the same length of the frame.
You can also have a look at the weights of the MD80 and MD90. With increasing length and capacity the 6 across frame gains an advantage over the 5 across frame.
DL717 wrote:
The A223 is already larger/higher capacity than the 319. The hypothetical A225 would be the replacement for the A320.
Well put. I don't think most people really get how long an A220 already is. The 223 is longer than the 320 already. These aren't small airplanes.
I think any stretch beyond 42-43m is probably going to be challenging. I get the feeling that this is the ballpark that BBD originally planned the CS500 for and Airbus is just doing analysis to see what they can extract out of the airframe and what any competitor could achieve with a 5-abreast frame. They probably also want to know what the performance numbers are like and what the economics work out to and how that would impact the business case of their 320 line and its evolutions. I am thinking Airbus would want to develop an A225 on the larger end of the minimum effort development range, to be a true 320 replacement, while they move the 320 family up in size to a base model that is between the 320 and 321 and a second larger model that is between the 321 and 753.
Eiszeit wrote:
There is the issue of sharing half the profit with Bombardier and Investment Quebec. And also the issue that the program as a whole isn't profitable yet. This all can be worked out. But it will take a few years. Any plan to extend the 220 has to be undertaken in conjunction with plans for the 320 lineup and discussions about the program's ownership structure.
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“Minister LaGrange has assembled an outstanding group of people to sit on her curriculum advisory panel for Alberta’s K-12 curriculum. Members of the panel represent all walks of life, from university to technical schools, social services, industry and the volunteer community. As a former teacher and former superintendent, I am excited to get to work to fulfil the mandate afforded to us. Albertans are counting on us to get it right.”
Angus McBeath, chair, curriculum advisory panel
“Education is a critical success factor for our youth and Minister LaGrange has assembled a diverse and experienced panel to advise on the development of future K-12 curriculum. As someone who walked alongside the system for a number of years, as well as being a parent to a young girl soon entering the system, I am excited to work with panel members to ensure our youth have a strong foundation for their future.”
Jen Panteluk, vice-chair, curriculum advisory panel
“As a partner in Alberta’s education system, the Alberta School Councils’ Association is grateful the curriculum review is moving ahead. We are optimistic that the work of this panel will enhance what has been started. Parents on school councils, in collaboration with teachers, principals and trustees, look forward to the upcoming consultations that can ensure students are well prepared for the future.”
Allison Pike, president, Alberta School Councils’ Association
“The College of Alberta School Superintendents will welcome the opportunity to work with the curriculum advisory panel to ensure the voice of system education leaders is heard and understood throughout their review process.”
Bevan Daverne, president, College of Alberta School Superintendents
Curriculum advisory panel members
Angus McBeath (chair), former superintendent, Edmonton Public Schools
Jen Panteluk (vice-chair), former president and CEO, Junior Achievement of Northern Alberta and Northwest Territories
Sharon Carry, former president & CEO, Bow Valley College
Glenn Feltham, president & CEO, NAIT
Paulette Hanna, associate vice-president academic, Red Deer College and former superintendent, Red Deer Catholic School Division
Keray Henke, former deputy minister, Alberta Education
Martin Mrazik, professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Andy Neigel, CEO, Careers: the Next Generation
Miles Smit, co-founder, Petrarch Institute
Amy von Heyking, associate professor, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge
Nhung Tran-Davies, founder, Children of Vietnam Benevolent Foundation, family doctor
Ashley Berner, deputy director, Institute for Education Policy John Hopkins School of Education
Curriculum Review Panel
Ministerial Order on Student Learning (#001/2013)
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Colin Aitchison
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Airport Security Checkpoint Analysis
18.08.2017 | Rene Reiter
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As airport security checkpoints become progressively rigorous, passengers experience longer wait times. Although passenger safety is most important, airports also work to minimize wait times at security check points to increase customer satisfaction.
Martin Jung, Axel B. Classen, and Florian Rudolph from the German Aerospace Center recently analyzed wait times and throughput at the security checkpoint of an international medium sized airport. Microscopic pedestrian simulation and the social force model of Anylogic was utilized. In addition, to achieve validation, Anylogic’s Pedestrian Library was tailored and extended to the specific needs of the simulated airport.
The simulation model provides the airport operator with a powerful tool to analyze the main impact parameters of an airport security checkpoint (i.e. security procedures, increase in passengers, operation schedule). The German Aerospace Center found that by varying the schedule of the security operations plan peak and average wait times could be reduced substantially. The simulation model also enables further exploration of the system’s potential.
Find out more about the project and future efforts via the paper in the WinterSim archives.
Crowd safety at Hajj – Simulation modeling
Emergency evacuation planning for mass gatherings is essential public safety and security work for authorities and can help save lives. Imran Mahmood and Muhammad Haris of the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and Hessam Sarjoughian of Arizona State University, USA, have used an AnyLogic based crowd simulation and analysis framework to analyze emergency evacuation strategies for one of the world’s greatest mass gatherings: Hajj.
FIFA World Cup Preparation: Railway Stations
It is estimated that 1.5 million foreign football fans will visit the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this July, with games taking place at 12 stadiums in cities from the Baltic to the Urals. How can their travel be managed smoothly?
A workshop wonder: The Hidden Gems of AnyLogic
A video full of AnyLogic tips and tricks to get the most from the simulation modeling software. Benjamin Schumann shares his expertise in using AnyLogic to help users develop simulation models effectively and efficiently.
How best to get through an airport?
Just eighteen years from now, 7.8 billion passengers will be taking to the skies annually. How best to increase passenger capacity at airports? Airport simulation is an important tool for testing, development, and operational management. Here we look at several real-world examples of simulation working for airports...
Border Checkpoint: Technical Feature Analysis
Get inside the model! In this post, we will look at the technical features of the example Border Checkpoint model: what it consists of, how it works, and what methods were used in its development. Learn tips and tricks as you go through the model step by step with our expert...
Model Overview – Customer Service at a Border Crossing
New releases of AnyLogic come with new example models. These help newcomers understand simulations and experienced users to learn about AnyLogic’s advanced capabilities. New to AnyLogic is our Border Checkpoint model. It is based on the same principles as classical queueing systems, such as those found in banks, shops, and medical centers. In this post, we show how to model and analyze a variety of these business problems using the new border crossing model.
Optimal Aircraft Boarding Strategy
To increase profit, airlines seek to minimize turnaround time. Turnaround time is attributed to multiple factors, disembarkation, baggage unloading, refueling, cargo unloading, aircraft maintenance, cargo and baggage loading and passenger boarding. A group in the Science and Engineering Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia completed a project using AnyLogic software to investigate the turnaround time for aircraft passenger boarding using AnyLogic simulation...
Disaster Management Aid Simulation
In the wake of a disaster, natural or otherwise, a power outage can cause residual damage and hardships. To reduce the length of power outages, utility companies often have mutual aid agreements in place. Mutual aid agreements provide a mechanism to acquire emergency assistance quickly in the form of materials, equipment, personnel and other relevant services. There are many factors that drive the deployment of assistance during a disaster (i.e. distance, urgency, cost, extent of damage...
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The Head Start Policy Council plays an important role in establishing policy and direction for the Appalachian Council Head Start program. Per the Head Start Act of 2007, the Policy Council is “. . . responsible for the direction of the Head Start program, including program design and operation, and long- and short-term planning goals and objectives, taking into account the annual communitywide strategic planning and needs assessment and self-assessment.”
The management staff at the Appalachian Council Head Start program works closely with the Policy Council to ensure that the voices of families and community members are fully represented in the policy council, per requirements from the Head Start Act of 2007.
Below are the guidelines for the Policy Council:
The policy council shall be elected by the parents of children who are currently enrolled in the Head Start program of the Head Start agency.
The policy council shall be composed of--
parents of children who are currently enrolled in the Head Start program of the Head Start agency (including any delegate agency), who shall constitute a majority of the members of the policy council; and
members at large of the community served by the Head Start agency (including any delegate agency), who may include parents of children who were formerly enrolled in the Head Start program of the agency.
If you are interested in working with the Head Start Policy Council or becoming a member, please contact the Head Start Director, Lori Hedrick-Litteral—lhedrick-litteral@appcouncil.org
2019-2020 Policy Council Members
Charity Landis, Chairperson – Jackson
Rachel Hanshaw, Vice Chairperson – Jackson
Candace Southerly, Secretary – Wood
Cassie Jarvis, Assistant Secretary – Roane
Eve Parsons Reed, Treasurer – Calhoun
Cindy Blouir, Parliamentarian – Wood
Brooklyn McCallister, Member – Boone
Camber Hager, Member – Boone
Jennifer Coleman, Member – Clay
Jerri Ferrebee, Member – Clay
Victoria Bates, Member – Doddridge
Martha Reynolds, Member – Jackson
Addie Salman, Member – Putnam
Lindsy Lambert, Member – Wood
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APSPublicationsPlant Disease2012July
First Report of Monosporascus cannonballus on Watermelon in Northern Mexico
July 2012 , Volume 96 , Number 7
Pages 1,068.1 - 1,068.1
A. Gaytán-Mascorro and Y. I. Chew-Madinaveitia, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias-Campo Experimental La Laguna, Boulevard José Santos Valdez No. 1200 Pte. Matamoros, Coahuila, México, CP. 27440; T. Herrera Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro-Unidad Laguna, Periférico y Carretera a Santa Fe, Torreón, Coahuila, México; and M. A. Gallegos Robles, Facultad de Agricultura y Zootecnia de la Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Ejido Venecia, Municipio de Gómez Palacio, Durango, México
Accepted for publication 18 April 2012.
In 2010 and 2011, diseased watermelon plants (Citrillus lanatus [Thunb.] Matsun and Nakai) had chlorotic and wilted leaves and vines prior to harvest in three out of four sampled commercial fields in the Municipality of Matamoros, State of Coahuila, in the north-central region of Mexico known as La Comarca Lagunera. Disease incidence across the fields was 30%. Diseased plants also showed necrotic lesions and loss of secondary and tertiary roots, which can render roots unable to obtain an adequate supply of water and nutrients supporting the aboveground part of the plant before fruit maturity. Roots of affected plants contained perithecia with asci and ascospores typical of Monosporascus cannonballus Pollack & Uecker (4). This fungus has been found in hot semi-arid climates with saline and alkaline soils. Daytime temperatures above 40°C are frequent in north-central Mexico during the watermelon growing season. Small root pieces from 30 plants with disease symptoms (10 plants per field) were taken and surface-sterilized with 1.5% sodium hypochlorite, placed on potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium with 0.5 g/L of streptomycin sulfate at two petri dishes per plant and five root pieces per petri dish, and incubated for 7 days at 25°C in the dark. The fungus was isolated with a frequency of 60%. Mycelia were identified from root tissue based on morphological characteristics. DNA was also extracted in CTAB buffer followed by a phenol/chloroform purification and precipitation in isopropanol and ethanol (2). The internal transcribed spacer region was then amplified from isolate 1 using PCR, sequenced, and submitted to GenBank (Accession Number JQ599552). Pathogenicity of isolates was confirmed on watermelon plants (cv. Sweet summer 800) under greenhouse conditions at 25 to 32°C. Inoculum was produced in a sand-oat hull (Avena sativa) medium (0.5 l of sand, 45 g of oat hulls, and 100 ml of distilled water) and incubated for 50 days (1). Watermelon seeds were sown in sterile sand in 20-cm diameter and 12-cm deep polyurethane containers, where inoculum was added to reach a soil concentration of 20 CFU/g. Four seeds were sown in each of five inoculated containers; plants were thinned to two per container after emergence (each container representing a replication). Similarly, plants were also grown in four noninoculated containers and used as controls. After 50 days, all watermelon plants inoculated with M. cannonballus showed root necrosis in contrast with roots from noninoculated plants. M. cannonballus was reisolated from 80% of inoculated plants, confirming Koch's postulates. M. cannonballus causes severe damage on watermelon and other cucurbits such as cantaloupe (Cucumis melo). This fungus has been reported in the United States, Spain, Tunisia, Libya, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands (plants from Russia), Saudi Arabia, India, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Guatemala, and Honduras. To date, M. cannonballus has been reported on watermelon in 1996 in the State of Colima in southeastern Mexico (3). However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of M. cannonballus on watermelon in northern Mexico.
References: (1) B. D. Bruton et al. Plant Dis. 84:907, 2000. (2) B. R. Lovic et al. Phytopathology 85:655, 1995. (3) R. D. Martyn et al. Plant Dis. 80:1430, 1996. (4) F. G. Pollack and F. A. Uecker. Mycol. 66:346, 1974.
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Korean squad embraced by harbour city
Kingsley Collins
With its players already engaged in intensive training after arrival last week, an impressive Korean baseball contingent was today extended a hearty civic reception by the Geelong community as it continues preparations for its debut season in Australian Baseball League – which starts next week.
At least for its inaugural year, the Asian entry will play as Geelong-Korea, although its base will remain as Geelong Baseball Centre for at least two, and up to five years of the new franchise – one of two licences granted by Baseball Australia, with the other being New Zealand Tuatara playing out of Auckland.
Held in pleasant conditions at the Waurn Ponds complex, today’s reception was indeed a positive and uplifting occasion, with a Welcome to Country Ceremony performed by traditional owners of the land preceding a series of formal addresses by state government, baseball and council officials.
The Korean squad was also treated to some eye-opening close encounters with Australian native wildlife – kindly provided by Animals of Oz.
Managed by Dae-Sung Koo – a man with an extraordinary record of baseball playing longevity in Korea, Major League Baseball and more recently with Sydney Blue Sox – the Geelong-Korea team has drawn in the South West Division of Australian Baseball League, which will see it pitted against established clubs in the new South-West Division and play further crossover games against clubs in the North East Division.
While staying at Deakin University, the Korean squad will have access to first-class training and recovery facilities both at the university and in immediate vicinity of the Waurn Ponds complex.
A city with a lengthy and distinguished baseball history dating back to the late nineteen thirties, Geelong boasts one of the outstanding baseball complexes in Australia – including its fully-lit stadium and three other quality fields, one of those fully synthetic.
Geelong Baseball Centre was primarily developed to host the 2002 World Masters Games and it has since played host to Australian Baseball League games, Chiba Lotte Marines training camps, national championships at all levels and Baseball Victoria Winter Championships.
While recent enhancements already have the stadium looking in pristine condition, further works will be conducted over weeks and months to come – a joint effort between the Victorian state government and City of Greater Geelong, who are both acutely aware of the enormous potential benefits to be derived from the Korean presence.
Extending a warm welcome to the Korean squad, Victorian Minister for Tourism and Major Events John Eren spoke of the “trade, sporting and tourism opportunities” that would be delivered through the Geelong/Korea baseball project, especially with games being broadcast live into Asia and the impact that is likely to have on already burgeoning numbers of Korean visitors to Victoria.
Aside from the “cultural links” that would be enhanced, Mr Eren spoke of this being the “perfect time to help build the sport” (of baseball) – especially with readmission to the Olympics for 2020.
Reiterating Mr Eren’s emphasis on the importance of our relationship to Asia through sporting connections, Baseball Australia Chief Executive Officer Cam Vale paid particular credit to the City of Greater Geelong, to the Geelong community, and to the nation of Korea – in this instance led by Winterball Korea.
“This project has been a long time coming,” Vale said. “It has probably been on the agenda for twenty years. It will be a great catalyst for our baseball to actually take the sport – and our league – into Asia.”
Speaking through a translator, Geelong/Korea Manager Dae-Sung Koo and Winterball Korea CEO Jerry Kim both expressed their appreciation of the support they have thus far received in the harbour city. While aware of the playing challenges facing the club in its foray into Australian Baseball League, both are clearly upbeat about their prospects of making a serious and ongoing impact.
More than that, a clearly enthused Mr Kim expressed the view that – with support of the local community – Geelong/Korea will “make this city the face of Australia”.
In again acknowledging the traditional people of this land, City of Greater Geelong Mayor Mr Bruce Harwood welcomed the Korean squad and expressed his anticipation for this new, ground-breaking Australian Baseball League season.
“I’m really looking forward to the season,” Mr Harwood said. “If we can win (the championship) then we we’ll be having a big party. If we lose, we still will!”
Given the welcoming spirit, the excitement and the baseball joy that was palpable at the civic reception, it is clear that Geelong/Korea, its supporters and its host community are in for a fun ride.
Geelong-Korea will play its first series as an away fixture against Sydney Blue Sox (November 15-18) before a first highly-anticipated home opener against Perth Heat (November 22-25).
Scroll down for a selection of images from Geelong Baseball Centre today (credit: Australian Baseball Alumni).
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A Second Opinion, Chapter Nine: Lysandra Fremont
by Aducknamedjoe · Published October 16, 2019 · Updated October 8, 2019
This is the ninth and final chapter of a serialized libertarian novella appearing free on Art For Liberty. Read from the beginning here.
Chapter Nine: Lysandra Fremont
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” –Albert Camus
She didn’t hate them. Not anymore. She had once, but that was years ago, before she’d really understood. Most people were not conscious actors making their own choices, they were running on autopilot, reacting to whatever system they happened to be born into. Society says, ‘pay your taxes,’ so they pay. The professor says, ‘work for the government,’ so they apply as a public servant. The police captain says, ‘kick down that door,’ so they do, guns drawn. It made as much sense to hate them for what they did as to hate a mindless forest fire for the destruction and death it wrought.
Though it had taken her a while, she’d finally come to see that truth: most people weren’t moral agents, they were environmental hazards. They were a natural and inevitable side effect of a system they neither understood nor cared to. Not worth hating. Only worth defeating for the sake of the few who still retained some spark of rebellion and independence.
Which she still had every intention of doing.
Lysandra Fremont grunted as she lifted the suitcase. Almost time to go.
Thomas King had never been on a stakeout before. His heart thundered and he wiped his palms on his pant legs, again. The bulletproof Kevlar vest was uncomfortable in a sitting position, it dug into his hips and he had to keep shifting his weight on the passenger seat of the car to prevent it from pinching the flab on his stomach.
Enoch Boyle seemed to be undergoing no such discomfort. He was speaking into the radio in an even, moderated tone, and the rest of him was perfectly still, betraying no nervous energy or untoward excitement.
Thomas tried to calm himself down, but his thoughts got the better of him. Terrorists! Once they bagged these antisocials he’d have enough to put John Morales behind bars for years. All the doctor’s accumulated sleights, his furtive rebellions and, above all, his self-assured superiority, would be repaid in spades.
Sure, the surgeon treated him with due deference, when he had to, but there was always that air of coldness; an indifference to Thomas King’s station and power that had been infuriating. Thomas controlled him, Thomas owned him, but the man never seemed cognizant of that fact. All King wanted was some recognition of his authority.
But now, with the evidence they’d be able to collect from capturing this extremist and her offspring, the doctor, rotting in his holding cell, would have to acknowledge King’s power over him. A plea bargain would break the man. When he saw just how much he stood to lose unless he cooperated with prosecutors, John Morales would finally know who was superior to whom.
King smiled.
“Alyyy! Time to goOoo!” Lysandra shouldered a duffel bag as she called her daughter.
“Coming mom!” The 10 year old rounded the corner with her blue backpack and rolling suitcase.
“Do you have your Whisper?”
The child held out a palm-sized cell phone.
“And you’ve packed the mesh card and encryption box?”
Alyssa Fremont nodded.
“How about the power cord?”
“MooOom!” The girl was impatient.
Lysandra smiled, “Ok sweetie, let’s go get loaded up.”
The girl’s eyes suddenly widened, “Wait!” she turned and ran back around the corner. She was breathing slightly when she returned, holding a small device triumphantly aloft in her hand. “Almost forgot the mounted OS!”
Outside Thomas King watched as the SWAT team moved into position. Ten men in black uniforms, face masks obscuring their features, assault rifles held at the ready, arrayed themselves swiftly to either side of the apartment door.
Enoch Boyle spoke one word into his radio and sat back. Thomas almost thought he could see a ghost of a smile on Boyle’s pinched face, but it was gone before he could tell if he was imagining it or not.
The SWAT captain raised his hand.
Lysandra grabbed the door handle. “Ok Aly, I need you to–“
The door exploded inwards, showering splinters in time with the falling of the SWAT captain’s hand. In quick succession all ten heavily armed, armored government agents were through the shattered doorframe and into the small apartment.
Enoch Boyle was listening intently to the radio in his hand. His eyes narrowed. He frowned. Something was wrong. He threw open the driver-side door, “Come on!”
Thomas did as he was told and got out of the squad car to follow the DCS officer as he ran up the stairs, around the building’s wraparound balcony, and through the open door. King fingered a clasp on his bulletproof vest nervously.
Usually a no-knock raid like this left an apartment’s interior in total disarray; tables upended, lamps thrown hastily to the ground, dogs shot as a safety precaution. But the scene that greeted Thomas as he followed Boyle through the door was surprisingly serene. No clutter and debris on the floor, no crying or terrified shouting, no deliberately destroyed furniture. It looked clean, perhaps, because there was so little furniture to begin with; a couch, a coffee table and, in the corner, a large, empty bookshelf.
Something else was missing, Thomas saw, something important: the suspects.
” –carry this to car.” Lysandra Fremont finished. The motel room was almost put back together, and she’d gone through one last time to remove any prints and vacuum up any stray hairs that had survived the first and second run-throughs.
Alyssa grabbed the bag from her hands and skipped out to the parking lot.
He was being moved again. Two broad shouldered police officers with military-style crew cuts had unlocked the barred door of his cell, handcuffed and hooded him once more, and shoved him along into what felt like another SUV.
After a short ride he was yanked out, marched into an elevator, and told to stand still as it rose skyward. The door opened and he was pushed forward and marched a short distance before being ordered to stop.
He stood awkwardly still, unsure what to do next and straining to hear something that would give him a clue to his location. After some shuffling behind him his hood was roughly pulled off. He blinked several times against the sudden light and it was several moments before he could take in his immediate surroundings. What he saw surprised him. He was in a plushly furnished hotel room. A small couch and two bright chairs with deep cushions framed a wide bed near the floor-to-ceiling windows. The view was of downtown Denver. The windows had no handles, and there was no telephone anywhere in the room. There was a television.
One of his captors walked around to his rear and John Morales felt the handcuffs loosen, and then fall off his wrists. He brought his hands up to his eyes. The cuffs hadn’t been put on too tight, his hands were not damaged. They must have known he was a surgeon.
“Please, have a seat.” The familiar voice of Thomas King sounded strained, as if the bureaucrat hadn’t been getting much sleep.
Morales picked the nearer of the two chairs, turning as he lowered himself to see Thomas and the two crew cuts standing at the door behind him. The soft bureaucrat was, for once, not smiling. He joined Morales in the center of the room and chose the couch opposite John’s chair.
There was a moment of silence as the two men eyed each other. King blinked and looked down, then back up, and there was a peevish tone in his voice as he spoke, “We have your friends in custody.” John’s heart sank, but he managed to keep his face expressionless.
When Morales didn’t react Thomas went on, savagely, “Lysandra and Alyssa Fremont are being held by the Department of Citizen Security on terrorism related charges. We have everything we need to lock up those two for a long time.” He smiled and leaned forward as John’s eyes widened slightly. “You could make it easier, you know, for both of us.”
“What do you mean?” Morales had to clear his throat; he hadn’t talked to anyone in two days.
“What I mean is, if you cooperate in court and act as a witness to help us wrap this all up a little faster, I won’t press for jail time for you. I may even let you keep your medical license and continue practicing in Colorado, after community service and a fine, of course, and a lower salary cap for the rest of your career.” King sat back, running his hand through his slight, gelled hair and turning up the corner of his mouth in a predatory sneer. He was the one in control now, and they both knew it.
“I don’t think I understand what’s happening here. How can a 10 year old girl be a terrorist?”
“What’s happening here is you cooperate or you lose your license to practice medicine and get locked up in a federal prison. Not even daddy can protect you against domestic terrorism charges.” Thomas was leaning forward again, his hands gripping his knees.
There was a cough from the direction of the hotel room’s door. King abruptly closed his mouth and sat back.
“Will you leave us alone for a moment please, Thomas?”
The bureaucrat stood, “I didn’t realize you’d been briefed yet on the situation.”
“I haven’t, but I don’t need a DCS briefing about my own son.”
Thomas nodded, shot one last look at John, and stalked out the open door, waving for the two crew cuts to follow him.
When the door closed behind them Aguinaldo Morales sighed. John’s father, the Mayor of Denver, was not a tall man, and he seemed to deflate now that he and his son were alone in the room. The grey at his temples, which had helped to project a dignified wisdom for his reelection campaign, was starting to encroach on the rest of his face. John noticed wrinkles in the man’s forehead that had not been there the last time the two met for lunch, almost three months ago. He came over and sat down heavily in the chair next to John.
“Is it true, mijo? Have you been helping terrorists?” The elder Morales was slowly rubbing the bridge of his nose between thumb and forefinger.
“No, of course not. I have been helping a little girl and her mother who couldn’t get healthcare any other way.”
“But you broke the Patient Care Laws.”
John shrugged.
“Son, this is a serious situation. The head of the DCS wants to put you behind bars, he wants to make an example of you to show that not even the Mayor’s son is above the law. And those people, that little girl, do you know what they’ve done?”
John raised a questioning eyebrow.
“They broke into the hospital’s computer network and hacked the whole security system. We think they’re members of a dangerous domestic terrorist cell that the DCS has been tracking for some time.”
“I just don’t see how that’s possible father; I know enough about these people to know they’re not terrorists. In fact-” John caught himself. If he revealed the Fremont’s purpose here, if he let his father in on the secret of their hidden society, their “Shangri-La,” the DCS and the rest of the government would upend heaven and earth to find it. His own abduction and indefinite detention was proof of just how seriously they took this threat.
His father seemed not to notice the surgeon’s abrupt self-censorship. “Son, I need you to listen very carefully to me.” He was looking at John with a solemn sincerity, his hands folded in front of him. This was the posture the younger Morales had learned to associate with pre-punishment lectures; the type of stern talking-to that his father had considered good parenting even as he prepared to leave John and his mother for another month on the campaign trail. “You need to cooperate fully with the DCS and the Health Board investigators. It’s the only way I can help you. I’ve been talking to a few people. If you accept their plea bargain I’ve been told they’ll let you off with a slap on the wrist. The real catch for them are these two terrorists, and putting them behind bars, with minimum fuss in the court and the media, would be a real coup for the DCS and for the state. It could mean more federal money for local security programs, which could really help shut up those nuts down south in Colorado Springs.” The Mayor had always been good at relating his family’s personal issues to his own wider political ambitions.
“But, dad, these two people are innocent of what they’re being accused of. It would be wrong to-“
Aguinaldo’s cell phone began ringing in his pocket and he cut off John as he pulled it out, “It doesn’t matter, son” he looked at the screen, “I need to go now, simply do as they say and you’ll be fine.” The Mayor stood abruptly, already putting the phone to his ear as he gave John what he must have thought was a fatherly pat of reassurance and walked out the door.
The next four hours were a series of visits from faceless cogs of the state internal security apparatus, each one more polished than the last, each one with questions, and the final two with instructions. Morales was told what to say in court, was told how to act, when to speak, and how to appear appropriately contrite before the jury. The bureaucrats had the whole process mapped out, they knew the script for everyone, including the judge and the handpicked jury. Nothing would be left to chance.
Finally, Morales was visited by one last person. The man was slight, a little taller than John, but he stooped. His hair was a dark grey, combed to look distinguished and to match his expensive suit. He did not sit down. When he spoke, his voice was dry, like rubbing sandstone with pumice. “Hello doctor.”
The man looked familiar to John, but in his fatigue he couldn’t place him. “My name is Enoch Boyle, and I’ve come with a request for you.” John’s brow furrowed. During the course of the day he had been threatened, cajoled, ordered, and demanded; he had not been requested.
The man spoke, and as he did so he walked slowly across the thick carpeting to one of the long windows, both hands in his pockets. Denver was dark and subdued in the winter night below. “We need some additional information about your ah, compatriots.”
Morales had already been thoroughly questioned on the Fremonts, on their visits to the hospital, dates, times, modes of transport, on their apartment, the types of computers they used, their accents. He had shared everything except what he deemed the most important; their purpose and their origin. He had maintained, instead, that they had simply been seeking medical care from him because of a glitch in the Health Department records, and nothing more. He didn’t know what other information this man could possibly want.
Enoch Boyle turned back from the window, and his hand now held a cell phone, John’s cell phone, he saw, “Specifically, we need you to tell us where they are.”
Morales felt a jolt in his stomach, “But Thomas said-“
“Thomas says what I tell him to. We thought this would be finished by now but…” his voice trailed off as he held the phone expectantly out to the doctor.
Morales tried to hide his excitement as he took it, thrilled to learn mother and daughter had escaped the Department’s clutches. There were two text messages on the phone, both from an unknown number. The first read, “You are in danger, text back when you get this.” Someone had responded for him, “Where are you?” and the second text from the unknown number said, “Prove you’re who I think you are; what’s the name of the city with streets of gold that we’ve talked about?”
“Answer it.” said the dry voice. It was not a request.
Shangri-La John thought. Into the phone he typed “El Dorado.”
The texted response was immediate, “OK, sit tight. We’ll let you know what to do next.”
Morales handed the phone back to Boyle, who allowed a twitch of his mouth where a smile might have been. “Very good, doctor. I’ll be back should we need your further assistance. ‘Sit tight’ for now.” With that, the man was gone, and Morales was alone in the hotel jail cell for the first time that day.
Alyssa Fremont was not an adult. Her mother had to remind herself of that, sometimes. The precocious 10 year old talked like someone twice her age, but if it hadn’t been for her prodigious skill with computers Lysandra would never have allowed the girl to come on this dangerous trip with her into the crumbling American republic. As it was, she worried almost constantly about her safety. When Alyssa told her mother, still distraught from Doctor Morales’ abrupt departure, that someone had tripped an alert by trying to tamper with the bot she’d installed in the Sky Ridge medical network, and that the apartment had been lased by a micro-millimeter eavesdropping device, Lysandra wasted no time.
They had an evacuation plan ready, and the pair had practiced it numerous times, despite Alyssa’s complaints. The girl reported no other attempted intrusions, so Lysandra decided to opt for their more thorough plan. Inside of an hour the car was packed, floors and surfaces were given a once-over for prints and hair, and the apartment was emptied.
They’d gone to a prearranged motel, one of a shrinking number that took payment in forms other than trackable government credit, and set up shop. The rest of the night had been spent going over their equipment with a fine-toothed comb. Somehow they’d been compromised, and it was entirely possible someone had bugged their hardware or software, or somehow infiltrated the encrypted mesh net.
It wasn’t until the next morning, when Lysandra was satisfied they had not been betrayed by their electronics, that she felt secure in sending a warning to John. When he didn’t respond immediately she feared the worst. Her fears were confirmed by Aly later that day.
“Mom, come look!”
Lysandra was reassembling a mean looking little black pistol, its parts and springs spread out on the motel room’s floor for cleaning. The child’s voice came from the small desk by the window, where she was surrounded by electronic paraphernalia.
Her mother set down the tiny barrel and the solvent-soaked cleaning pad and joined Alyssa. None of the information on the laptop’s screen made any sense to Lysandra at first, and she had to concentrate to parse out the meaning in the jumbled lines of code. When she did, a pit of fear opened up in her stomach. In between two <encrypt=”govmail”> tags were the words, “Criminal Morales apprehended. Awaiting questioning, HC 15.” She suspected HC stood for ‘holding cell’ but there was no way to tell just which of the myriad state detention centers this email snippet was referring to.
It was then that her cell phone beeped cheerily.
“Where are you?” the text message from not-John-Morales read.
She was tempted to merely ignore the ham-handed attempt to entrap her, she wasn’t going to waste time playing games with meathead security agents, but then Lysandra had an idea, “Aly, can you find out where doctor Morales’ cell phone is located?”
“Obviously, mom. The cell companies’ GPS records all have backdoor passwords for the government to use, and those were leaked on the mesh like, months ago.”
Her mother smiled, and even her grey eyes were twinkling. “Ok, then we have some work to do.”
The ceiling of the hotel room jail cell had an intricate network of cracks, bumps and ridges created by the artfully applied spackle. If one squinted, shapes could be made out, like finding images in clouds. So far John Morales had identified two different dogs (one sitting, one running), a dinosaur, an airplane, and a smiling man with a very large chin. He had been staring at the ceiling for an hour. Despite feeling bone-tired, he could not sleep.
He lay in the room’s bed, fully clothed, his eyes wide open. Every time he tried to will them shut his mind would begin racing and they would snap open again of their own accord. Had the Fremonts escaped? Where were they now? Had they been telling the truth about a secret society living under the radar of the federal government?
He was beginning to regret not having seen Lysandra one last time. There was still a lingering anger when he thought of her, and more than a little hurt, but he found it hard to reconcile those feelings with the picture of her in his mind’s eye. Somehow, he always imagined her smiling.
Morales shifted his legs and laced his fingers behind his head. He wondered if there really was a “Shangri-La.” There was a slight click and he glanced over, thinking it was someone unlocking his door for more questioning. But the door remained stubbornly shut. He propped himself up on his elbows to see the room.
Everything else seemed normal; the windows were closed, the heater nearby softly humming. He almost missed it, but as his eyes completed another pass his subconscious noticed that something was different, and when he looked again he saw the TV was on. It wasn’t showing anything, but its screen was a lighter black than before. It was the kind of black that signified the individual pixels were charged with energy and ready to be press-ganged into service displaying an image.
He stared at the live screen for a long minute. There was no remote anywhere in the room as far as he could tell, and none of the government flunkies questioning him before had mentioned the thing. He was about to stand up to turn it off, reasoning he’d sleep better that way, when something appeared amidst the dark pixels.
It was text, white against the black background, that read, “John, if you can see this, please don’t react. They’re watching.” He blinked, but lay back down, his hands behind his head, angling with his wrists so he could still see the TV. He wondered if this was some elaborate plot by the DCS to collect more evidence they could use in court against him.
The text on the screen changed, “We’ll be there in 30 minutes. You can choose to come with us to “Shangri-La,” then or not.” He tried to remain calm, but some flutterings of nervousness disrupted his stomach. It was the Fremonts, and they were coming for him. He’d get a chance to see Lysandra again after all. The white text disappeared and the TV switched off.
Now that it was past the point of pure speculation he felt hesitant, like a lottery winner suddenly confronted the day after with what to do with his winnings. They were coming to take him to some new, strange place, away from his family, from his friends, and the from life he’d built in Denver. They were coming to make him into more of an outlaw than he already was; a full blown, anti-government revolutionary. He smiled: maybe they’d make him wear one of those red berets. Then he thought of Lysandra Fremont and his smile faded.
He didn’t know what bothered him more: that she had lied to him for so long, or that she had been the individual making those lies. It seemed to him that the act was made worse by the apparent character of the person committing it. He didn’t care when a moral degenerate committed an act of moral degeneracy, but when that same act was committed by someone he had come to respect, it was worse, somehow.
He passed the 30 minutes in grim reflection, not moving from the bed. There was a sudden knock on the door, and he jumped involuntarily. The knock came again, more insistent. He rose cautiously and went to open it. The door was unlocked.
The hallway was devoid of government flunkies or crew cuts. There was only one figure in front of John, slight, dressed in an ill-fitting pantsuit, and wearing a tight-lipped expression.
It was Lysandra.
John fumbled for words, “How did you-“
“I didn’t, but Aly’s very good at faking personnel schedule changes in secure government databases, and at obfuscating them enough that no one will realize this door is completely unguarded or that the cameras in the room are looping old footage for at least the next 10 minutes.” She smiled slightly, almost nervously, it seemed to Morales. “It’s good to see you, John.”
He started to speak, but stopped. This woman had lied to him, gotten him arrested, and likely ended his medical career for good. Still. He had wanted to see her again.
She broke in before he could continue, “I owe you an apology.”
She took a breath and paused, searching his eyes, “I’m sorry.” The rest came out in a rushed jumble, “I was afraid you wouldn’t even give me the time of day if I didn’t have some excuse to be talking to you. I know now that I should have respected you enough to trust you with the truth. You deserved- you deserve” she corrected herself, “better.”
“Why did you come back for me? It’s dangerous for you to be here.”
“Because we need you, and you need the freedom of a Shangri-La.”
“That’s not it.”
“No.” She looked into his eyes and her gaze was steady, “That’s part of it, but not all.”
“What’s the rest?”
She didn’t answer, but she stepped forward tentatively, gingerly placing each foot in the deep carpet of the hallway, until she was close enough for him to smell the hint of jasmine from her shampoo. She slowly took both of his hands, interlocking fingers at their sides.
Suddenly his lips were on hers. It was impulsive, like the night he had agreed to help the mysterious pair. After a shocked pause, her mouth responded eagerly, her hands left his and began to search his arms, his neck, the hair on the back of his head. Without thinking he grabbed her lower back and pressed her towards him. They were both breathless when she finally broke the kiss, her hand on his cheek and her forehead touching his.
Her voice was almost a whisper, “We need to go, we don’t have much time.” The words were serious, but she smiled.
He smiled too, “Lead on” and released her.
Lysandra pulled out a cell phone, a model Morales had never seen before, and spoke urgently into it, “We’ll be outside in 5 minutes, pull up to the side door in 3.” With that they were off, Lysandra in the lead, walking purposefully down the elegant hallway, turning into a side branch and opening the stairwell access door there. 17 flights later and they were on the ground floor.
They turned the corner, away from the main lobby, walking now on sleek, marble tile. A door down the hall ahead of them opened, and Lysandra stopped immediately, causing Morales to walk several steps ahead of her before coming to a halt himself. Out of the open portal strode a short, slightly pudgy figure with long, dark hair and too-tight suit pants. It was Shelly Reyes.
She recognized her surgeon ex-boyfriend immediately. Her eyes registered a flash of shock, followed by a beam of anger. “John? What are you-?”
Out of the corner of his eye Morales saw Lysandra move forward. A gun suddenly appeared in her hand; a small, mean-looking black pistol that shone dully in the fluorescent light. But it wasn’t pointed at Shelly, it was pointed at him. Lysandra spoke, and to the doctor her voice seemed deeper; husky, “Keep movin’ pal. You’ll have plenty of time to chat in prison.”
Shelly’s eyes shifted to the slim woman at Morales’ side, and narrowed in suspicion. Lysandra returned the regulator’s gaze evenly, her grip on the pistol never wavering. Finally Shelly looked away. Her eyes found John’s again and she spat. “Lock him up for a long time.”
Lysandra prodded Morales in the side and he moved forward again, braving the gauntlet of his ex-girlfriend’s stare. He felt the heat of her gaze between his shoulder blades until they turned a corner and she was gone.
He sighed. Lysandra glanced at him but didn’t say anything, holstering her vicious looking sidearm instead.
He was suddenly curious, “Are you even allowed to have that?”
“Only slaves ask permission, John.” Her smile was more carefree than it had a right to be.
They came finally to a side door leading out of the building. Lysandra opened it cautiously, peering out before beckoning for Morales to follow her into the alleyway. A car John had never seen before was idling in the cold, exhaust steam wreathing it in gray and white.
John went to the passenger side door while Lysandra opened the driver’s door and waited patiently for her daughter to exit and get in the back.
“Your 10 year old can drive?”
“Better than most of the adults in this city” was her only reply.
They exchanged their car at a rough looking chop shop for one less conspicuous and, importantly, free of the ubiquitous government mandated tracking and remote disabling devices. Lysandra knew the shop owner by name, and had clearly arranged the transfer in advance. She slipped him several of her curious gold coins before getting in the driver’s seat next to Morales.
An hour or so later they stopped at a lonely gas station on the edge of the Rocky Mountains. The young girl went inside to relieve herself, and the adults got out to get gas and stretch their legs. Morales found himself leaning against the car hood as Lyse unscrewed the gas cap.
“You can go back, you know. If you claim we threatened and kidnapped you I’m sure your father will make sure this is all forgotten.” She did not smile or look his way as she said it. Morales knew she was serious. He also knew she was right; the mayor was never above pulling strings for his son. His chest tightened at the tantalizing thought of returning to a normal life.
As he pondered, the wind blew a newspaper against his leg, where it clung stubbornly, flapping in panic. He reached down and pried it from its frantic embrace with his calf. As he moved to throw it away, he glanced at the headline, “Congress found in violation of Executive Emergency Powers Act, dozens of lawmakers arrested.” The subhead read, “President temporarily suspends legislative sessions.” He paused. His eyes came up and immediately locked onto the striking gray irises of Lysandra Fremont. She was looking at him directly, her eyebrows drawn together in appraisal, her short, ash blonde hair swirling about her head. Morales glanced back down. Slowly, he crumpled up the pitiable broadsheet and dropped it deliberately into the nearby trash can. The woman with the ash blonde hair smiled.
Snow began to fall. Big flakes littered the ground like slain soldiers, and overhead the icy battalions marched earthward with a grim inevitability. But those that fell on the speeding car, the only one headed west at that hour, quickly melted and ran off the windshield in hastily retreating rivulets. Outside it was growing darker and colder, but inside the little bubble of the car’s metal skin it was warm, and John Morales sighed contentedly as he sped away from the impotent storm and its frozen henchmen.
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two): Cut and Paste, 400 Years of Collage
Julie Boyne
[Until 27th October]
It is exciting and inspiring to see the National Galleries of Scotland tackle collage as an art form worthy of entering art history. Even more so to know that it will be on record for future curators, academics and critics to note that collage art is as ‘legitimate’ as any other. Some claim that collage cannot be called art. But this seems as pointless as arguing about whether a Jaffa Cake is really a biscuit or a cake, when it simply should just be enjoyed. Much the same can be said of this exhibition.
Collage, as shown at the start of this exhibition, was historically used as a ‘practice’ medium for artists’ creative experiments rather than a completed work in itself. Collage seldom appeared outwith the studio. Thanks to the influence of high profile 20th Century artists, collage has reached a point where it needs to be examined and included as an artwork.
Cut and Paste- 400 Years of Collage | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
So, it is not surprising that all of the first floor of Modern 2 is dedicated to 20th Century collage – that’s four out of the six rooms in this exhibition. The two rooms which bookend the exhibition are pre- and post-20th Century respectively. In Room 1 (1550 – 1900), the foundations of collage are laid bare, and Room 6 shows contemporary artists working with collage today – the Chapman Brothers and John Stezaker. Altogether over 250 works are shown.
Jake and Dinos Chapman | from The Disasters of Everyday Life series (2017) | Goya’s etchings with collaged photos
Upstairs you will find Rooms 2 – 5. Here is where collage is beginning to be accepted into an artist’s body of work, so you’ll naturally find more artworks which have been collected and well-preserved. The NGS also has a considerable Surrealism collection to draw from, so it is no surprise that practically a whole strand is devoted to this era of collage in art. It is also the Surrealist method of working that is the most recognisable form of collage art to us and still popular today.
Here on the first floor, you will find the heavyweight stars of the century: Schwitters, Gris, Picasso, Goncharova, Duchamp, Paolozzi, Grosz, Blake, Matisse, Haussman, Höch, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Gilliam. By the time you’ve made it to Room 5, it must be difficult to argue that this is not a medium to be taken seriously.
In Room 4, things get rebellious as we examine collage as a form of protest in the 1960s and 70s. Here you can view a video by Cindy Sherman alongside punk artist Jamie Reid, best known for his work on the Sex Pistols vinyl LP covers and posters.
Back downstairs in Room 6, compare the first and last rooms of the exhibition to see the huge impact that the 20th Century has had on the use of collage as an experimental, rebellious and accessible creative tool.
Jim Lambie | Sticky Fingers (2010)| collage with oil paint and printed paper
The exhibition continues outwith the gallery rooms, spilling out into the corridor to ponder how collage infuses our everyday culture and creativity. Any exhibition which acknowledges the benefits of Fuzzy Felts as a tool for early creativity gets the thumbs up from me, as I compose myself from what can best be described as a Proustian moment.
For fans of collage, there is nothing new here except the joy of seeing collage embraced by UK art history curators. For those new to the idea of collage as art, there is much to reconsider in this comprehensive and thoughtful exhibition.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two)
Belford Road
Edinburgh EH4 3DS
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Posted 8 April 2019
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According to a survey, pizza is the food that makes everybody happy. But why? The reasons for its worldwide popularity are different but basically the key is the simplicity of combining dough with toppings that come in endless variations. In the last few years the number of people who try their hand at making pizza at home has grown tremendously and when they get around to make pizza dough, they really realize what it’s like to master this craft and all variables involved in it.
Furthermore, making pizza at home is nothing like making it in a restaurant, chiefly for the pizza chef’s experience and savvy and then for the available equipment. In this article, we will talk about a key phase in the pizza making, the baking; then, we will explain how long to cook pizza according to the type of oven. Particularly, we will dwell on its crispiness and the different kinds of pizza doughs; we will distinguish between pan pizza and pizza “alla pala” clarifying the most common mistakes when cooking pizza and finally we will give you some useful tips to bake pizza like a pro in your home oven.
What does crispy pizza mean?
A good pizza dough is neither dry nor burnt; a good pizza is soft but not chewy and this is a result of a well-leavened and well-matured dough. A dough with a strong gluten network traps gas bubbles called alveoli and gives a lighter and more digestible pizza. The water in dough evaporates during cooking and even after pizza is taken out of the oven until the temperature drops below 100°C (210°F); that’s the start of caramelisation process, as Teo explains in this pizza making forum: “The caramelisation is a series of chemical reactions that begins with the evaporation of water and ends with sugars transformed into caramel.
If the dough is well-matured, the complex sugars will already be transformed in simple ones and the pizza will be perfectly golden brown”. We can distinguish between pizza by the slice, baked in a pan in gas-fired or electric ovens, and round pizza, baked straight on the wood or gas-fired oven refractory floor. Here’s how to recognize a pizza cooked to perfection:
Look at the pizza edge that is shaped to be thicker during stretching (especially in the traditional Neapolitan pizza). The thickness and the absence of toppings allow the dough to swell and cook until golden. Pizza normally is soft in the centre and crispy on the edges.
Pan pizza has a higher dough hydration than the normal one because the pan can keep the shape of the pizza. More water means that you can use stronger flours and therefore allow for longer rising and maturation times that in turn will result in a crunchier and lighter pizza.
Pizza dough and oven: the dynamic duo
Pizza dough: 5 key factors
The quality of ingredients
Pizza was born as a simple dish for poor people whose main ingredients were and still are two: flour and water (in addition to the yeast that in the case of sourdough starter are the same two ingredients). Top quality is the name of the game here. The choice of the right flour is absolutely crucial to make a good dough. Tipo 1 or Tipo 2 flours have high protein content that enables the dough to rise with a good structure. The water is another important component both in terms of purity and temperature: by using warm water, we speed the leavening action. Pick mineral water if the tap water is too chlorinated.
The dosage
One of the major parameters in making dough is the hydration i.e. the ratio of water to flour. Usually an average pizza has a 60% hydration while pan pizza reaches 80%. Yeast makes dough grow but too much of it would affect the pizza taste and digestibility preventing the dough from maturing enough. The amount of yeast depends on time and temperature. Oil acts as a lubricant in the dough, making it easier to stretch and it imparts its characteristic flavour as well and more so if you use extra virgin olive oil. Sugar provides a source of nutrient for the yeast and is specially recommended for making pan pizza. The type of sugar can have an impact on the flavour, so go easy on it. White sugar, cane sugar, honey or malt will do.
The type of dough
Basically, to make dough you must control time and temperature. The end product must be compact and with an inner structure that can hold the gases by making the dough swell.
The leavening.
The leavening time depends on the type of pizza, the amount of yeast, the different phases (bulk fermentation and final proof) and last but not least the pizza maker’s savvy.
The stretching
As we already know, stretching provides both strength and structure to the dough. By doing that, proteins line up to form a gluten network that will trap gases and allow the dough to rise. A perfect dough will spring back and will be soft.
The 5 key factors of the oven
The temperature
The temperature is one of the most important parameters when considering buying an oven. They can reach different temperatures, and, above all, they transfer heat differently when baking. An electric oven can hardly attain 250°C (450°F) while a wood-fired oven reaches 500°C (900°F). In vaulted ovens using real fire such as wood, gas-fired or hybrids, pizza cooks simultaneously from above and below, combining thermal conduction and thermal radiation and further reducing cooking times to just a few minutes.
The humidity
The oven humidity influences the heat transfer into the food and the moisture evaporating from the product interior. The goal is to prevent the dough from drying too much during cooking. Here are some useful tricks: spray the pizza all over with water, place a water bath into the oven or pass a damp cloth on the oven floor after moving embers aside just before baking.
The cooking time depends obviously on the type of pizza and on the oven model. All in all, the wood-fired oven reaches the highest temperatures and cooks a pizza in less than two minutes. The gas-fired oven attains temps slightly higher than those of an electric one and so it cooks a pizza in about 5 minutes. The electric oven reaches temperatures of 230-250°C (450°F) and cooks a pizza in about 10 minutes.
We have already talked about the different types of ovens (wood-fired, gas-fired or electric) in our blog but here allow us to have a liking for the wood-fired oven and the extra kick it gives to the food.
The quality of the oven
Apart the distinction according to the power supply, ovens are classified in line with their cooking performances and maintenance expenses. Professional ovens are workhorses that link brilliant performances with relatively low consumption while home ovens are not as good but deliver real value to customers.
Pan pizza vs. round one: what are the differences?
Now, time has come to see some important differences between pan pizza and round regular one.
Regular pizza
It can be baked in all ovens that reach at least 350°C (650°F). The very high temperature cuts down cooking times and pizza can’t dry too much even if it’s wafer-thin. Its hydration rate is about 60-65% and you can make dough without sugar as it is expressly stated in the Neapolitan pizza rules. The dough is often made a few hours before using it and is left to rise at high temperature. To make pizza dough you have to consider various fermentation phases: the first rise consists in one or two half-an-hour spells before finishing kneading dough to favour the formation of the gluten mesh. The second one, or bulk fermentation lets the whole dough rest as a mass and the third one or final proof occurs after the dough is divided into balls that will later work their way into pizzas. Stretching pizza dough is no easy task at the beginning but, as the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Just remember to press into the dough with your fingertips, working them outward and rotating the disc, letting the edges a bit thicker.
Pan pizza
The Roman pan pizza (pizza in teglia alla romana) or the focaccia differ in various aspects from the regular round pizza. The steps for making pan pizza dough are nearly the same with two major differences: you must add some sugar and more water (80% hydration). Using stronger flours (Italian “tipo 0” or “tipo 1”) allows the creation of a more solid gluten network and results in an increase in dough volume and a more even cooking. The fermentation phases follow one another in the same way but the dough will be divided into larger loaves according to the size of the pan and a 1,5 cm (5/8 in) thick crust. Stretching the dough in a rectangular pan is maybe easier, just remember to grease the pan and to push the dough from the middle outward to the sides of the pan. If the dough Is not sticky or mature enough, maybe it’s too cold, so wait a few minutes. Let it rest for half an hour before baking. To prevent it from drying up, pour tomato passata (pizza rossa) or brush some extra virgin olive oil (pizza bianca) on it. Top with mozzarella and other fast-cooking ingredients in the last few minutes.
Tips to help you solve some problems
In conclusion, let’s focus on the most frequent mistakes you can make when preparing a homemade pizza. To make a really yummy Neapolitan pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven you must meet these requirements:
A very hot oven; light the oven a few hours before cooking to maintain the right temperature over time.
Manage the temp as you work the oven, adding firewood to keep fire going.
Move embers to the sides of the oven and pass a damp cloth on the oven floor to crank up the humidity in the cooking chamber.
Proceed carefully when sliding the pizza onto the peel and into the oven floor.
Cook evenly by rotating pizza inside the oven
Make sure the bottom crust is as brown and crisp as the top crust.
To bake pizza in a gas-fired or electric oven, follow these steps:
Light the oven at least an hour before cooking to stabilize temp.
Use a pizza stone that absorbs heat and gradually releases it.
Use a not too thick baking pan that will heats up quickly getting in contact with the pizza stone or the oven floor.
Don’t open the oven door frequently to avoid lowering the temperature.
Adjust cooking by moving pizza to different rack heights.
When all is said and done, an ounce of practice is worth more than a ton of theory so keep at it. Shortly, you will be good enough to churn out such scrumptious perfectly cooked pizzas to knock them dead. So, tuck in!
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Book Notes: Resuming the story of Olive Kitteridge in ‘Olive, Again’
Rae Padilla Francoeur More Content Now
“Olive, Again” by Elizabeth Strout. Random House, 2019. 304 pages.
Few people, fictional or otherwise, make me cringe like Olive Kitteridge does. When I read any of the linked stories in “Olive, Again,” a new collection of fiction by Elizabeth Strout, I stop thinking of Olive as a character in a book. She is real to me, her blunt candor a force I do not at first find charming or endearing, as many do, but that is, eventually, irresistible and cause for deep thought.
Rooted in New England sensibilities, Olive has traits we know. She would be one to speak her mind at town meeting or say what she thinks at the coffee shop regardless of who overhears. That’s the power of Olive Kitteridge. She says what she thinks. If there’s anything amusing about her, it’s the magnetism with which she draws people to her in spite of her rough edges. Says her second husband Jack Kennison as he considers her attraction, “She had an honesty - was it an honesty? - she had something about her.” He liked the “Olive-ness” of her and thought, “Olive Kitteridge. Tall, big; God she was a strange woman.”
Elizabeth Strout’s first book about Olive, “Olive Kitteridge,” was published in 2008. The work was honored with a Pulitzer Prize and was made into a popular HBO mini-series that was filmed on Massachusetts’ North Shore and Cape Ann in 2013. “Olive, Again,” this recent collection of linked short stories set in Crosby, Maine, takes up the small matters of everyday life from multiple points of view. Some of the short stories merely reference Olive while others are told from her point of view. She is the hub throughout, structurally and spiritually - disdained, appreciated, loveable by some, life-changing.
“Olive, Again,” is nonetheless Olive, exiting. The book tracks Olive as she ages and moves through relationships, health issues and residences. Strout is remarkable for the way she brings readers the story of aging in all its big and small parts, expressed by its characters in moments of loneliness, terror and occasions of happiness. The insights range from small and obvious to profound and surprising. Foremost are issues of identity, regret, wisdom and day-to-day life as it is lived in the later years.
Strout wins over her readers’ admiration, also, in how she evokes everyday life. Her writing provides opportunities for identification with characters and events. Details of the daily interactions characters experience and respond to are spot on. We recognize the precision of the storytelling and we note how there is no pause button. Bad things happen. Bad things pass.
For example, after a good day spent on an excursion in Maine, where they lived, Jack and Olive unexpectedly run into Elaine, Jack’s former lover while married to his first wife. Elaine was the cause of his premature retirement from teaching at Harvard after she went to the administration with charges of sexual harassment. After seeing her in the public setting of a restaurant so many years later, Jack realizes Elaine had been a careerist who had engineered the affair, the $300,000 payout and advancement in her teaching profession. Driving home with Olive, all these realizations begin to sink in.
“… as he drove along the river without seeing anything except the white line in the road, it returned to him, the fact that Olive was his wife, and that they had had a day together of happiness before seeing Elaine tonight. But it did not feel like happiness that he had experienced with Olive, it felt far away from him now. And so the day they had had together folded over on itself, was done with, gone. In the silence of the dark car Jack was aware of Olive - his wife - aware of her presence in a way that felt insurmountable.”
Despite how crushing the truth of Elaine’s devious behavior was, despite how much he missed his first wife, Jack understood well that “… he knew, even tonight in his grief, that his marriage to Olive had been surprisingly wonderful in many ways, to go into old age with this woman who was so - so Olive.”
When reading “Olive, Again,” we appreciate what Strout’s characters have to show us about life, aging and acceptance. The experience is both unsettling and entertaining. As for our embrace of Olive, we do more than condone her candor, we celebrate it and maybe even advocate for more of it in the dailiness of our own lives.
Rae Padilla Francoeur can be reached at rae@raefrancoeur.com.
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VIXX's Hyuk reveals highlight medley for 1st mini album 'Winter Butterfly'
VIXX's Hyuk has revealed his highlight medley for 'Winter Butterfly'.
'Winter Butterfly' is Hyuk's first solo mini album, and it includes the title song of the same name as well as his solo single project songs from 2019, including, "Boy with a Star", "If Only", "Way to You", "A Long Night", and the concert version of his self-composed song "Hug".
Listen to the preview of Hyuk's upcoming mini album above! 'Winter Butterfly' drops on December 18 KST.
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Girls' Generation's YoonA, Hyoyeon, Sunny, & Seohyun attend Taeyeon's solo concert together
EXO fans trends several hashtags worldwide to support CHEN and ask SM to start protecting the group
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Someone buys the dress off Lena Dunham's back
At Wednesday night's Anti-Gala charity event to raise money for the construction of planned underground park The Lowline, Lena Dunham wore a very appropriate outfit. Then, gave it away.
Someone buys the dress off Lena Dunham's back At Wednesday night's Anti-Gala charity event to raise money for the construction of planned underground park The Lowline, Lena Dunham wore a very appropriate outfit. Then, gave it away. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1vTGmWN
USA TODAY Published 7:36 a.m. MT Oct. 9, 2014
Lena Dunham attends the Lowline Anti-Gala Benefit Dinner at Skylight Modern on October 8, 2014 in New York City.(Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)
Dunham served as co-host of the evening with Spike Jonze at Skylight Modern. The two bantered and helped lead a charity auction. So, Dunham auctioned off her fabulous tree dress.
The dress was "digiprinted in silk" to "reflect the future Lowline," Dunham said about the garment designed by Rachel Antonoff. "It's not a size zero. It's for a curvier woman. I can dry clean it. Or not."
The dress was SOLD to one woman for $3,000.
"I'm not gonna take it off now. I'm gonna send it to you," said Dunham from the stage, before hugging the winning bidder.
Among the other auctioned items: Two set visits to Girls. "We're gonna give you snacks, treat you kindly. I'll sign a book, I'll sign a poster. Whatever you want," said Dunham. Those went for a whopping $11,000 each.
The proceeds from the auction and the event, which cost attendees $1,500 per ticket, support The Lowline, a project planned to turn a historic trolley terminal in the Lower East Side into a community space.
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Vucic promises "revolution in Serbia's hospitals"
President Aleksandar Vucic visited on Tuesday the Institute for Health Protection of Mother and Child, i.e., the Hemato-oncology Ward and its sterile block.
Source: Tanjug Tuesday, 19.02.2019. | 13:11
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He also stated that 294 bone marrow transplant surgeries have been performed so far at the Institute. "These children are so wondergul... you cannot but admire their courage. You feel like crying, like feeling ashamed when you see their courage," Vucic said.
The president said that RSD 142 million have been invested so far in the Institute, while about EUR 20 million will be invested in its complete reconstruction. "It's huge money, and as we donate EUR 30 million to the Loznica hospital, we have invested in Valjevo, into a new building of the Clinic for Infective Diseases in Belgrade, in new clinical centers... In the period of two to two and a half years, we expect an unmistakably visible, at every step, revolution in the health centers, hospitals and clinical centers," said Vucic.
He added that it is touching to see "the love of doctors and nurses, but above all of mothers" towards sick children who are bravely fighting for their lives and future. He is proud, he added, "of our doctors who have ensured that people from the abroad bring children (here) for treatment."
"It is important for further strengthen the possibility of our doctors and nurses staying, through a further increase in their salaries. And do that quickly. To plead with them to continue to work and fight for our children, as before," Vucic said.
No medical system is up to date since technology and techniques change very quickly and up grades are constantly required so I find it amusing that people would question what Vucic is doing.
There are plenty of western countries that suffer from a lack of investment in medical facilities starting with the US.
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According to resident nationalists, I thought the medical system is up-to-date. What is the need for this investment? Just political showboating?
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Brown Bag Films
Senior Texture Artist
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The position of Senior Texture Artist requires someone with a thorough knowledge of 3D software, with several years of experience in a similar senior role working on broadcast or film projects.
Successful applicants will have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively with multiple tasks in a fast-paced production. They will have a well-developed 'eye' and excellent working knowledge of colour, art and design.
Ability to texture in various specified styles depending on CG project.
Create Textures for 3D characters, props, and sets within Substance Painter or Mari.
Knowledge of Zbrush for use in creation of displacement and normal maps.
Create & Review UVs in Udim.
Works closely with Lead Texture Artist to achieve desired look for assigned project.
Act as additional support for Texture Lead (expected to fill-in for Lead for short durations, such as vacations and illness).
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Year 9 Parents Evening
Cashless System
Thursday 20 November (Letter sent via ParentMail)
As you may already be aware Ash Green School has been using ParentPay for some time now to allow Parents/Carers to pay for meals, trips, activities and make purchases online.
With effect from Monday 6 January 2020 we will no longer be able to accept cheque or cash payments. The school will move entirely over to the cashless system. There are several benefits in taking this action:
Easy to identify payments and to which student they are allocated to.
Parental access enables you to monitor your transactions.
Parents/Carers can be assured that dinner money is spent on a school meal rather than unhealthy snacks
The cashless system eliminates the need for students to carry cash preventing cash from being lost within school or on the way to school.
Topping up online is easy and convenient allowing access 24 hours a day.
Letters have been issued this week with usernames and passwords for Parents/Carers that have not yet activated their account. It is essential that you activate your account as soon as possible to ensure your child’s activities continue and to enable them to make purchases at school.
If you have not yet received your log in details, please contact the school and we will issue you a copy.
Year 11 Intervention Timetable
Please see attached the Intervention letter and timetable below
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GCSE and BTEC Level 2 exam results – Congratulations and good luck to all Ash Green students
Congratulations and good luck to all Ash Green School students who collected their GCSE and BTEC Level 2 exam results today.
2019 saw more 7-9 GCSE grades and top level BTEC grades achieved than in any previous year – but whatever your results may be, we recognise the hard work that every one of our inspirational young people put into these examinations. Ash Green School is a vibrant and confident place of learning, but it’s more than that – it’s a community of people who care about and support each other, one we are very proud to be a part of.
From the 2019 GCSE exam results, nearly 10% more 7-9 grades were awarded to Ash Green School students – from subjects across the curriculum, including Maths, History, and English Literature. Further GCSE subjects that excelled were PE and Combined Science – with Combined Science showing significant improvements on the subject’s 2018 exam results.
Those students taking their BTEC Level 2 exams in Business Studies, Media, and Sport achieved over 25% more Distinction* and Distinction results – the highest number of top grades for BTEC Level 2 ever recorded at Ash Green School. This is an incredible result and one that reflects the dedication and determination of the young people who studied so hard for these exams.
Kieran Pickerill, Ash Green School Assistant Principal, says: “This is a nerve-wracking time of year for our Year 11 students, they work really hard to prepare for their exams and this is the first real time they are assessed in this way.
We’re delighted at the increase in top grades – across both the GCSE and BTEC courses – but we congratulate all our young people on the hard work, focus and camaraderie they have shown during their studies. They are a real testament to the positive school life we foster at Ash Green School, where we strive to make every day extraordinary, and we look forward to welcoming many of them into the Sixth Form in the next academic year.”
But whether you are starting this next exciting chapter of your life with us at Ash Green or heading off to new adventures and experiences beyond our school, we wish each and everyone one of you all the success and happiness you can find.
From all at Ash Green School, once again congratulations and good luck to all our exiting Year 11 students – you are capable of great things, make every day extraordinary. Have a happy and safe summer.
William Russell, Ryan Bradshaw, Harry Ellott
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Ash Green School celebrates best A Level and BTEC results in school’s history
Principal Harry French discussing results day
Ash Green School celebrates best A Level and BTEC results in school’s history – 2019 exams see a ‘landmark’ success for Coventry based secondary school.
On Thursday 15th August, Ash Green School in Coventry celebrated the best A Level and BTEC results in the school’s history – with students achieving an average of at least one grade higher in their 2019 exams, compared to the 2018 results.
Subjects that excelled included Further Maths, which saw 100% A* to A Grades achieved – whilst 100% A* to C grades were achieved Art & Design, Graphics, History and Psychology.
100% of students passed their Level 3 BTEC courses, with 50% achieving Distinction* or Distinction. Whilst 100% of students achieved a Merit, Distinction or Distinction* in Level 3 BTEC courses for Sport and Business.
Over 95% of Ash Green students get their first choice of University destination.
Following the incredible success of this A Level and post 16 exams, over 95% of Ash Green School students got their first choice of university destinations – including two students going on to read Physics and Further Maths at Lincoln College, Oxford University.
18 year old Lewis Melvin achieved grades A* (Maths), A* (Physics) and A* (Further Maths) – whilst 18 year old Luke Salzman achieved grades A* (Maths), A*(Physics) and A (Further Maths). Following Laura Simmons’ offer to attend Oxford following the 2018 A level results, Lewis and Luke are the next two students from Ash Green School to get into an Oxbridge university.
“I’m ecstatic,” said Lewis Melvin, “I couldn’t haven’t done it without my friends and teachers. I can’t wait for the future.”
Other notable success stories come from 19 year old Ezrie Prideaux, who received an unconditional offer from the Royal Veterinary College in London. “I’ve always loved science and animals,” said Ezrie, “it’s what I’ve always wanted to do and I’m really excited to be going to the Royal Veterinary College in London. It hasn’t really sunk in yet.”
18 year old Lauren Cox, one of Ash Green School’s bursary students, worked exceptionally hard across Year 13 to achieve grades A (Biology), A (History) and B (Chemistry) – going on to read Veterinary Medicine at Nottingham University.
Whilst 18 year old Aman Verma achieved grades A (Graphics), A (Maths) and B (Physics) and will be going on to read Mechanical Engineering at Nottingham University.
Aman put huge effort in to achieve the required grades, after being originally predicted a grade lower from what he achieved in his final exams – an inspiration to younger students, Aman’s results show what can be achieved when you work hard and focus. “I’m really excited to get these results,” said Aman, “I worked so hard for these and I couldn’t be more please for me any everyone at Ash Green School. And now it’s official… I’m not just good looks.”
Exceptional achievements
2019 has seen some exceptional achievements from Ash Green’s exiting A Level and BTEC students, paving the way for more success stories from young people who will be either sitting their exams or entering the Sixth Form in the next school year.
“Our sixth form students work tirelessly in preparation for their exams,” tells Amy Sibley, Vice Principal at Ash Green School, “and it’s wonderful to see all their hard work, resilience and sacrifices rewarded. The 2019 exams have seen our best post results as a school ever.”
“Ash Green School strives to make every day extraordinary for all our young people,” tells Principal Harry French, “but our exiting sixth form students this year have excelled in their exams and we are all incredibly proud of their academic achievements. We wish them the brightest of futures once they leave our school and take their next steps in the world.”
Year 7 Parent/Carer Information Document.
If you couldn’t attend the Parent/ Carer Information Evening or would like to remind yourself what was discussed, please see the document attached below.
Parent Information Evening Y7 2018
Pupils and staff at Ash Green School were celebrating today as the latest GCSE data was released – showing ‘significant improvement’, with over double the top grades achieved across all subjects in this year’s GCSE exams.
70 entries at Ash Green School have achieved grades 8-9 and A* in their 2018 GCSE exams, as compared to 34 in 2017’s results. Subjects including Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, English, Maths, French, and Spanish have all seen a significant improvement in top grades achieved.
English and Maths tripled the top grades achieved across both subjects, with nine students attaining grade 9 in their 2018 GCSE exams as compared to three in 2017.
An increased number of top grades were also seen across an array of other subjects, with nearly double the number of students studying Triple Science and Geography achieving grades 8-9 in their 2018 GCSE exams.
13 students achieved grades 8-9 in Geography, as compared to seven in 2017. Whilst 31 students achieved grades 8-9 in Triple Science (including Chemistry, Biology, and Physics) as compared to 16 in 2017.
Languages at Ash Green School has also taken a substantial step up in top grades achieved at GCSE level, with five students attaining grades 8-9 in their 2018 exams, as compared to only one in last year’s results.
More students than ever before will be staying on to study their A Levels at Ash Green School, with over double the number of students going into Sixth Form in September. Many students had Ash Green School as their first choice.
Mr Harry French says “Ash Green School has seen a significant improvement in the number of top grades achieved from our students taking their GCSE exams this year, with over double the number of students staying with us to study their A Levels.
At Ash Green School we want our young people to make everyday extraordinary, and the huge increase in top grades achieved in this year’s GCSE exams shows all our students that there is no end to their ambitions. We are all so proud of everyone who sat their GCSEs with us this year, and we look forward to continuing the academic journey with our biggest ever Sixth Form in September.”
Individual achievements were also celebrated across the student body at Ash Green School, with a number of students achieving top level results in their 2018 GCSE exams.
Owen Saunders – grade 9 in English Literature, Geography, History, Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Religious Studies. grade 8 in Biology and English Language, and a Distinction* in Business Studies.
“I’m happy with my results,” said Owen Saunders, “but the hard work for A Levels starts now – my next step at the same school.”
Paige Atherton – grade 9 in Geography and History, grade 8 in English Literature, grade 7 in English Language, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Religious Studies, alongside grade A in Graphic Design. Paige achieved top grades in 100% of her GCSE exams results.
“I’m really happy with my GCSE results,” says Paige Atherton, “and I’m looking forward to starting at the Ash Green Sixth Form this September. I also want to give a big thank you to Miss Sibley and Miss Vesey, two of my teachers at the school.”
Other GCSE high achievers include:
Amy Melvin – grade 9 in English Literature and History
Neirja Dhmija – grade 9 in English Literature and Religious Studies
Sian Simmons – grade 9 in English Literature and Maths.
From everybody at Ash Green School, we wish the very best to all our departing students and look forward to welcoming the new Year 12 in September.
Pupils and staff at Ash Green School have been celebrating a successful A Level results day. This year the Sixth Form students have achieved an increased success in their exam results, with 100% pass rates across the curriculum – including 100% grades A* to B in Biology and Further Maths
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Applied Science all saw a 100% pass rate in this year’s A Level results, as did other core subjects including English Literature, Business Studies, Geography, Drama, Psychology, Sociology, and Sport.
100% of students studying Biology and Further Maths went on to achieve grades A* to B, whilst 100% of students studying Art & Design, Drama, and Geography achieved grades A* to C.
Overall, A Level results at Ash Green School have increased from 2017 – with 20 more entries achieving a 100% pass rate across all their chosen subjects, a quarter of which achieved grades A* to B.
Harry French , Principal at Ash Green School, said “As the aspirations at Ash Green School grow, so have the achievements of our students, We’ve seen an overall increase in our results, with the achievements from this year’s exams reflecting the hard work and dedication from our recent Sixth Form students. We are all so proud of them – not only for their exam results, but for the ambition and confidence that they will take with them beyond the classroom, many of whom have successfully secured places at their chosen universities or apprenticeships.”
There were some excellent individual achievements celebrated across the student body at Ash Green School, with notable successes coming from several young people who are now going on to higher education.
Laura Simmons, who achieved grades A* in Physics, Maths, and Further Maths, is going on to read Mathematics at her first choice of Exeter University – which has been a Gold Standard Russell Group university since 2012. During her A Level studies Laura also won an all-expenses paid place on the XMaS Scientist Experience 2017, as organised by Warwick University, which saw her join a team of female physicists from across the UK on an international Physics research trip to the XMaS Beamline in Grenoble, France.
Taylor Naismith, who achieved grades B in Biology, Chemistry, and Maths, is going on to read medicine – securing a place at East Anglia University. Taylor is the first student from Ash Green School’s Sixth Form, which was opened in September 2012, to go on to read medicine.
Andreea Frasinanu came to Ash Green School from Romania, joining the Coventry based Sixth Form in September 2016. Andreea started at Ash Green School having had no previous secondary education, and with English as her second language, but has successfully achieved a grade C in Art, alongside Merits in both Health & Social Care and Sport.
Shania Campbell, who has been a student at Ash Green School for the last seven years, achieved grades B in English Literature and C in Drama and History – securing a place at De Montfort University to read English and History.
But not all the success stories from Ash Green School’s Sixth Form this year were purely academic, as Head Girl Beth Clarke is taking a gap year to work with charities and organisations such as Camp America aboard. When Beth comes back to the UK she is looking towards an Apprenticeship with Channel 4, working from the prominent broadcasters new Birmingham based offices.
Chloe Dobbs, who achieved a 100% pass rate including grade B in both History and Drama, has already begun her Higher Apprenticeship with Severn Trent – steering her towards Project Management roles, in a programme that includes both further academic study and vocational training. Chloe prepared for and successfully passed the competitive interview process with Severn Trent whilst studying for her A Levels at Ash Green School’s Sixth Form.
From everybody at Ash Green School, we wish the very best to all our departing Sixth Form students and look forward to welcoming the new Year 12 & 13s in September.
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Logan Professor X Dead Scene
Dec 6, 2017. New 'Logan' Image Spoils Death Scene And Confirms Mutant's Fate. Apart from Professor Xavier dying in Logan, it appears as if Caliban.
Mar 21, 2017 · Logan Ending Explained Breakdown Recap And What’s Next For The X-Men Movie Universe? – Duration: 7:45. Fnga BANG Show 304,432 views
Earlier this morning, 20th Century Fox released the second Logan trailer. (Hugh Jackman) and Professor X (Patrick Stewart). The studio’s UK counterpart also released a slightly-extended red band.
‘Logan’ Team Explains Why the Tragic Professor X Flashback Got Cut. which injured 600 people and left members of the X-Men dead. I want to receive emails from The Hollywood Reporter about.
After the credits there is a scene at the hospital, where the comatose man from the. Along with Magneto, he solicits Logan's help against dark forces seeking to.the Brain Dead Patient [from X-Men 3] is indeed P. Xavier, Charles Xavier's.
Mar 2, 2017. "The idea was — all (or most of) the X-Men were dead. In the near future, a weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) cares for an ailing Professor X.
When Charles Xavier suffers from his seizures, Hugh Jackman did not act as if he. of the dialogue at the dinner table scene, in which Logan and Charles Xavier tell. Also, at one time, she took on the identity as Wolverine after the "Death of.
X-Men The Last Stand was originally planned as the final chapter of the X. of X Men Last Stand like Death of Professor X, Powerless Magneto etc. If Old Man Logan from the movie "Logan" replaced Wolverine in the scene.
How can Charles Xavier be alive in the movie Logan?. Jean is dead, after having disintegrated Professor X earlier in the movie. But at the end of Days of Future Past, she and the Professor are alive, so it’s at best unclear whether the Last Stand post-credits scene still stands.
See Video: ‘Logan’: Watch Hugh Jackman Split Rifle in Half in New Scene So while “Logan” isn’t looking. When an army of mercenaries shows up to take her back, Logan and Professor X (Patrick Stewart.
Post-credits Scenes are a recurring staple in the feature films of the X-men films, to the mutant race and Professor X, who Logan previously thought was dead.
Mar 04, 2017 · WTF Is the "Westchester Incident" in Logan? Logan and Professor X. though the film switches the blame from Logan himself to Professor X. Mysterio had nothing to do. but the casino scene.
Mar 07, 2017 · Logan: Westchester Incident explained – What unspeakable HORRORS did Professor X unleash? HUGH JACKMAN’S Logan sees Wolverine in hiding with Patrick Stewart’s Professor X, but what happened.
RELATED: X-Pired: 15 Times An X-Man Died “I got better” has become a trademark catchphrase for these beloved mutants. Several members of the team, from Wolverine to Colossus, have been found using this semi-slogan, coined during Chris Claremont’s more than 20-year run writing X-Men comics. But the art of dying and getting better has really become a specialty of Professor X.
You have to have a slightly off-pedal goal for your film, and the people who are gonna go "What the fuck is that 8-minute scene between Professor X and Logan? that’s light 8 minutes of two guys in a.
What did Charles Xavier whisper to Logan on his death bed in the movie. If we were to talk about the scene where he actually was stabbed by.
Mar 7, 2017. Did the movie give Professor X a worthy send-off?. Logan was able to die a hero; Professor X died after a momentary shock of betrayal, thinking that Logan. Next: Why Logan Director Cut the 'Westchester Incident' Scene.
It feels like he’s trying to grasp onto his glory days as the great Professor X, as if he’s only himself when he has a young charge to nurture. And he really is warm and nurturing when Laura comes.
But, alas, Logan is still dead in Deadpool 2, as the footage in this scene is taken from Wolverine, and it’s really more of a joke for longtime X-Men fans than a way of bringing Wolverine back for.
There’s one scene after the credits in The Wolverine where Professor X and Magneto find wolverine in airport and ask for his help. Logan asked xavier how it was possible for him to be there and Xavier replied with "Like I said before Logan, you’re not the only one with gifts"
Mar 3, 2017. Early on the film, Charles (Patrick Stewart) mentions his old X-family, and. to protect the young students at Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/notes-on-a-scene-animal-trainer-breaks-. on what will become his death bed, suddenly remembers everything.
Mar 03, 2017 · Where Have All the X-Men Gone in Logan?. Logan has been keeping this information from the increasingly senile professor—which we find.
Warning: SPOILERS for Logan ahead. Nowadays, it’s hard to extricate Sir Patrick Stewart from the character of Professor Charles Xavier.Since he first debuted as the psychic headmaster in 2000’s X-Men, Stewart has reprised the role six more times, putting him just behind his Logan costar, Hugh Jackman, for most appearances in the franchise. Though Stewart had a long career before the film.
Apr 03, 2017 · Thank you for the A2A!! Well to be clear the technical deathbed would be the back of the Ford truck where Logan placed Charles post which he went beserker on the clone wolverine. At this point, just before dying Charles whispered “Sunseeker”, whic.
Mar 4, 2017. 'Logan' Team Explains Why the Tragic Professor X Flashback Got Cut. which injured 600 people and left members of the X-Men dead.
That’s a new scene. the X-Men franchise to embrace adult content and seek the R rating from the MPAA. The rest of the trailer for James Mangold’s Logan is similar to the U.S. version, establishing.
That’s not to say that James Mangold’s Logan, out Friday, merely clears the hurdle. They’re all a bit worse for wear. Professor X, supposedly dead but more accurately alive and deadly, is prone to.
Twenty years in the past, Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr meet young. Logan fatally stabs Jean, killing the Phoenix, but mourns her death. Gambit was considered for both the convoy scene being freed by Magneto and the.
Logan: Professor X’s Backstory Explained. by Matthew Erao. and the other X-Men, Logan would become something of a surrogate son to Charles, and vice versa. Over the next few years, the team embarked on a number of missions, often coming to blows with Magneto and his followers. Given that this timeline sees both Professor X and Magneto in.
Logan is without. one of those deleted scenes and it reveals the fate of one of the central characters. If you remember, Stephen Merchant’s Caliban redeemed himself by helping Dr Rice and co find.
May 23, 2014. And then Wolverine sees Jean Grey, who died in X-Men: The Last Stand and. Also, The Wolverine ends with Logan meeting Professor X and.
May 20, 2017 · Logan Almost Opened With *THAT* X-Men Scene. One of the biggest revelations in Logan was the fact that the X-Men are dead by the time Wolverine and Professor X.
From its opening scene. Marvel’s X-Men comics but embraced them. Stan Lee’s mutants have always been a metaphor for any.
Sep 06, 2017 · The first trailer for Wolverine 3 (aka Logan) has left fans buzzing with questions and speculation. From the reveal of a girl who is almost certainly X.
See Video: ‘Logan’ Reaction: Best Wolverine Ever? “Logan” takes place in a not-too-distant future where Wolverine and Professor X are among the very few mutants. school senior who discovers that.
Logan is the third and final film in the Wolverine trilogy and the tenth installment in the X-Men film series. Directed by James Mangold, who directed The Wolverine, the film stars Hugh Jackman reprising his role as Logan/Wolverine as well as Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier/Professor X.The movie is also notable for being both Jackman and Stewart’s last portrayal of their characters.
Mar 06, 2017 · Kwame: I think the movie, as brutal and cynical as it is, is ultimately hopeful in that respect, because it assumes that what the X-Men, Logan, and.
The setup for Logan is a bleak one: The X-Men are gone, Wolverine and Professor X are old and on the run. But, in all honesty, he’s probably dead. Sorry, Magneto. There’s no outright explanation.
[Related: Awkward Underwear Scene Faceoff: Famke Janssen Vs. Alice Eve] "How is this possible?" Logan wonders aloud. "As I told you a long time ago, you’re not the only one with gifts," answers.
Apr 10, 2017 · Yes, they are. Professor X was mercilessly murdered by X-24(Logan’s clone but younger) and Logan(the real Wolverine) died of loss of blood and impaled by tree branch due to fighting with X-24 who nearly kill him before Laura blew X-24’s brains out.
17 years after he first graced our presence on the big screen as Wolverine, Hugh Jackman’s epic run as this iconic character is coming to a close this weekend when Logan hits theaters. for Patrick.
IN THE MIDDLE of the new film “Logan,” as Wolverine is on the run, we glimpse on a television a scene from the classic. Adamantium claws — for 2000’s “X-Men” — he became like a surrogate son to.
The return of Patrick Stewart to the role is one of the hugely satisfying aspects of Logan, as the revered thespian finally gets to bring a true depth to the character — if in a distinctly new way.
which occurs when most of the Marvel heroes are dead and Wolverine is trying to lead a normal life with his family in California. Logan is set in 2024 and follows and aging Wolverine who uses alcohol.
May 23, 2017. The R-rated movie sees iconic characters like Professor Xavier and Wolverine pass away after a lifetime of fighting. And, naturally, the deaths.
Logan makes its intentions to buck superhero conventions clear from its opening scene. When we first see Logan (also known. the franchise makes seeing two beloved characters like Professor X and.
Political Science Versus Theory Why is the American political system so irrational? Why is it that, even though a lot less partisanship and a lot more compromise would be good for the country, nobody can seem to get us there? The. David Held Introduction To Critical Theory See also David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas (Berkeley
May 22, 2017. One of the biggest revelations in Logan was the fact that the X-Men are dead by the time Wolverine and Professor X have gone into hiding in.
The saving grace elements are Hugh Jackman’s committed performance as Wolverine while some of the action sequences, particularly the much-publicised motorcycle chase scene involving. Charles Xavier.
It’s no secret by now that Hugh Jackman plans on retiring his character Wolverine after starring in the new movie Logan. But, does that mean the beloved mutant is dead? Or is the franchise. life.
Nov 28, 2016. A new photo on the 'Logan' Instagram account lines up with scenes of. When Wolverine speaks with Professor X in the Logan trailer, he's sad.
Mar 4, 2017. In Old Man Logan, Wolverine himself is to blame for the death of the X-Men. through Logan is the reversal of roles between Logan and Professor Xavier. In the hotel scene in the movie, we see Logan, Charles and the.
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Sky Deutschland launches €9.99 Sport Ticket
Sky Deutschland has added a new sports package to its streaming service Sky Ticket for €9.99 (US$11) per month. The Sport Ticket offering will provide subscribers with highlights from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, German soccer’s top two tiers, as well as from the Uefa Champions League, European club soccer’s premier competition. Subscribers will […]
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Sky Deutschland launching 2 UHD channels
Sky Deutschland will launch two Ultra-HD sports channels on SES Astra’s 19.2 degrees East position shortly. While the precise date has not been unveiled, Sky Deutschland will show one game per each Bundesliga match day on Sky Sport Bundesliga UHD and selected games from the UEFA Champions League on Sky Sport UHD. “Sky customers will be […]
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Sky Deutschland to launch 4K UHD box
Sky Deutschland is to launch a new 4K Ultra HD set-top and channels in the autumn. The Sky+ Pro box will be rolled out along with the launch of two exclusive UHD TV channels – Sky Sport Bunedesliga UHD and Sky Sport UHD. The Bundesliga channel will provide highlights of German top-tier football in UHD, […]
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Sky to launch UHD set-top box in Germany & Italy
Sky is due to launch a new set-top box with Ultra HD capabilities in Germany, Austria and Italy this autumn, the company has confirmed. The new box, which was already in development prior to the UK release of Sky Q earlier this year, will be an upgrade on the current generation of Sky+ box and […]
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German Pay TV revenues forcast to pass €3bn
Pay TV and paid video-on-demand revenues in Europe’s German-speaking countries is forecast to pass the €3 billion threshold this year, according to German commercial broadcasters’ association the VPRT. According to the organisation, pay TV and paid VoD revenues grew by 12% in Germany last year to reach €2.5 billion, while revenues across Germany, Austria and […]
By Expat • Austria, Germany, Switzerland • • Tags: Pay TV, Sky Deutschland, VOD, VPRT
Sky Sports News to go free-to-air in Germany & Austria
German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has said it will make its Sky Sports News HD channel freely available to viewers from December. Sky Sports News HD launched in December 2011 as the first 24-hour sports news channel in Germany and Austria. Under the change, it will become freely available across all platforms in the two […]
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Auricmedia – Blogman's Wonderland
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The Mandela Effect
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I have been rather busy lately, but there has been one thing that has caught my attention and it’s an effect called “Mandela” Effect. It’s a phenomenom when you remember some things and when you check them out, they are totally different. I noticed when a cartoon series I remembered to be “Looney Toons” is now actually called “Looney Tunes”. Then I checked something else and came accross that cerials which I thought were “Fruit Loops” is now called “Froot Loops”… that really sounds weird…Froot? Really?
Then I studied it more and I noticed changes in all my bibles. Lord’s prayer has changed. And I know this, because it’s the only thing I REALLY remember properly from the bible. So it has changed like this:
It used to say:
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.”
And now in all my bibles it says:
I NEVER remember it was like this…
Then I noticed geographical changes and maybe the biggest one is the South America has moved to the right towards Africa. There is no icecap in North Pole in Google Maps. And I thought North and South Koreas were beside Vietnam on the right, but this one I’m not so sure…
And there are few more like Wolkswagen, Ford and Volvo logos, but I don’t remember how those were, but I have a strange feeling that they were different.
So is this “Mandela Effect” a real thin like Deja-Vu effect in a movie called Matrix or have I just lost my mind…
Here’s some info about the Effect:
Welcome to The Mandela Effect
“The phenomenon where a group of people discover that a global fact – one they feel they know to be true and have specific personal memories for – has apparently changed in the world around them.“
Given nature of the effect, ‘evidence’ inevitably takes the form of shared personal memories; physical evidence of the previously remembered state is unavailable. If such evidence is discovered, that’s proof of an alternative explanation.
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A Mandela Effect is where you realise that something you knew to be a general fact of the world, no longer seems to be true.
The “effect” is named after a particularly common example: many people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, when in fact he survived long after his release.
● Celebrity deaths that now didn’t happen.
● Geographical locations which seem to have shifted.
● Movies, books whose details seem to have changed.
Not Examples
● Personal reality-breaking experiences (go here).
● Things that you can’t quite remember (go here).
● When you don’t have a specific personal memory.
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● The Berenstæin Bears
● Geographical Changes
And some videos about the bloody thing:
And there are tons or more in the Youtube, so I’m not the only one… what a relief. Maybe I’m not grazy after all.
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Cloned Humans, Clones, Cloning Center, Donald Marshall
Clone centers operate 24/7
17/05/2016 Blogman - Blacksmith Of Truth 2 Comments
Pretty much sums it up:
“Clone centers operate 24/7, people get activated and deactivated all the time.
They have rooms set up, decorated differently, some are simple, bare concrete walls.When in storage and not being used, the clones are stored on racks like stainless steel bunk beds set into the walls underneath or on the same level.
While on the racks they have a feeding tube that goes down the throat, it has beige tasteless nutritional supplement like Ensure or Boost milkshakes. Without solid food, the clone bodies feel cramped up and sick after a while and even though they’ll only use this REM driven mark 2 clone for a few months, they still eat solid food sometimes.Surprisingly enough, most eat french fries and hot dogs… They have french fry cooking kiosks under the stands, that they sometimes have operating, and with the hot dogs it’s just that they’re quick and easy and cheap. They have a large amount of hot dogs.
Even celebs that would never eat a hot dog, they still eat them sometimes there as clones… just to fill their gut, the clone they are in, will be replaced there in a few months anyway….
They have eaten lots of stuff… children being one.
Celebs don’t get hurt there unless they threaten to talk or attempt to blackmail.
There are low and high level people there.A worker class.Slaves and victimizers.
There is a couple real people in the main control room, but u can’t get to them…They can de-activate all clones on the floor at the same time with the push of a button.
All the clones there have a variety of implants installed.
They can turn the pain receptors in a clone body on or off….the scale is 0 (numb) to 10 full pain…. but they can crank it to 25 if they want, higher than the normal threshold for human pain.
They can that with pleasure sensors too…becomes painful with the pleasure sensors locked on.It’s all done through an implant that every clone has.Advanced technology.
They can also single out a clone and push a button to electrify them until they light on fire and burn to cinders if they want…. lots of remote controlled features.
When the real body wakes up,their clone deactivates and drops to the floor.” ⬇️
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Alien agenda, Alien Disclosure, Aliens, Reptilians, Nazi knowledge & technology, World War II
The Secret Mars Colony
I have been rather busy with another projects, but I will try to do more postings when these projects end. But here’s a nice article about Nazis and their Antarctica and Mars Colonies:
William Tompkins reveals an astonishing secret acquired by U.S. Navy spies embedded within Nazi Germany’s advanced technology projects during the World War II – the Nazi war effort was being assisted by extraterrestrial visitors.
The spies had reported to a covert Naval Intelligence operation, located at Naval Air Station San Diego, that Adolf Hitler had signed a secret agreement with representatives of a Reptilian extraterrestrial race.
In today’s newly released ExoNews TV interview, Tompkins reveals how “Reptilian consultants” were helping the Nazi SS develop advanced weapons technologies
In the interview, Tompkins discusses the Reptilian consultants helping the Nazis:
They had, if you want to call them, “consultants”, who are Reptilian consultants assisting on all of these different things that it takes to design and build these spacecraft carriers, and propulsion systems. So this is an extremely well developed program and documented like crazy. Getting copies of the documents was hard for them, hard for our spies. This was an open program in the upper level of the SS Link.
The spies learned that the goal of the Reptilian plan was not only to assist the Nazis to win the war and achieve planetary conquest, but to build fleets of antigravity spacecraft carriers that could be used for interplanetary conquest in other star systems:
Holy cats the thing went way beyond that (world conquest). Again, what we just said about this was the tip of the iceberg of what they were doing. Already Reptilians were doing it to other stars’ planets all over this area of the Galaxy…. These young kids, the operatives, they couldn’t believe half of what they brought back, what was going on. But some of them were really good people, and they knew how to get into places and listen to what’s going on, and finding what that guy he had talked to, or he heard, and going to so and so, because yes they were doing that over there.
Tompkins information is startling, but it is not the first time claims have been made about Nazi Germany receiving extraterrestrial help during the War. The father of German rocket science, Herman Oberth, said the following in response to a question about Nazi Germany’s rapid technological development:
We cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped.” When asked by whom, he replied, “the peoples of other worlds.
In a 1998 interview with Linda Moulton Howe, a former CIA agent, who from 1957 to 1960 was given access to highly classified briefing files, said that the documents revealed that the Nazis had indeed been helped by an extraterrestrial race in their advanced aeronautical weapons projects:
When Vril was building that first craft, the Vril had one or two of the aliens that worked with them in Germany where they fired rockets from Peenemunde. The documents I read in Washington said that’s where the first Vril vehicle was made…. They (aliens) were helpers to Germany.
More recently, Secret Space Program whistleblower, Corey Goode says that from 1987 to 2007, he read intelligence briefings on smart-glass pads that detailed what had happed during World War II.
He describes how German Secret Societies were helped before and throughout World War II by Draconian extraterrestrials who were assisting the former in the development of advanced antigravity space battle fleets.
At the same time these (German Secret) Societies had made contact with the Draco Federation and another group that avoided the Draco’s. The German Occultists were very busy from the early 1900s, especially the time just before, during and after World War One. Their major breakthrough’s occurred in the late 1930s.
Goode said that the ultimate goal of the Reptilians, in helping German Secret Societies and the Nazi SS, was to create advanced space carrier groups that would be capable of interplanetary conquest. The eventual German/Nazi space battle groups became what Goode described as the “Dark Fleet.” It operates outside of our solar system, and is described at length in the book, Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs and Extraterrestrial Alliances.
Consequently, the whistleblower testimonies by the CIA Agent and Corey Goode support Tompkins’ claims that intelligence briefing files dating from World War II did indeed refer to Nazi Germany being assisted by extraterrestrials. Significantly, the ultimate goal of the German Reptilian alliance went far beyond planetary conquest, as Tompkins claimed the U.S. Navy had learned from its spies.
In addition to the preceding whistleblower testimony, there are important documents that support Tompkins extraordinary claims. In his autobiography, Selected by Extraterrestrials, Tompkins supplied a number of significant documents.
The two most pertinent to his specific claims that Navy spies were reporting on advanced Nazi aerospace projects, are Tompkins’ mission orders and two passes he received to enter and leave Naval Air Station with multiple “information” packages.
His mission orders confirm that he was authorized to work as a “Disseminator of Aircraft Research and Information.” This is compelling documentary evidence that the packages Tompkins was carrying contained classified Naval intelligence on advanced aircraft designs, which included those developed in Nazi Germany.
In last week’s ExoNews TV interview, Tompkins revealed how he participated in the debriefings of Navy spies, who returned periodically from Germany to give updates on what they were seeing in advanced technology projects. Tompkins job was to then design briefing packets that he would disseminate to leading U.S. corporations, think tanks and universities that could properly study and evaluate the information.
Over the four years of his covert Naval Intelligence service (1942-1946) Tompkins estimates giving 1200 briefings at different locations, where he revealed Nazi secrets to those U.S. scientists most capable of understanding what the Germans were secretly developing.
This interview is likely to be deeply disturbing to those believing the question of extraterrestrial life is still largely a speculative question, arising from thousands of sightings of UFOs. Tompkins information sheds considerable light on probably the most closely guarded secret in the entire history of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Nazi Germany had been secretly helped by a race of Reptilian extraterrestrials prior to, during and after the Second World War!
The U.S. Navy was to subsequently play the lead role in developing a strategic response to this threatening alien alliance, which would continue long after official military hostilities had ceased in Europe.
Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, and Clinton campaign chair said the 42nd president once “asked for some information about some of these things, and in particular, some information about what was going on at Area 51.”
Asked if there is evidence of alien life, Podesta said, “That’s for the public to judge once they’ve seen all the evidence that the U.S. government has.”
When it came to his own beliefs about beings from outer space, Podesta said, “There are a lot of planets out there.”
And he made clear: “The American people can handle the truth on UFOs.”
The U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what’s going on with unidentified aerial phenomena,” Podesta said.
Podesta has made his interest in the possibility of alien life and conspiratorial leanings toward Area 51 well known. During his time serving in the Obama administration, Podesta tweeted, “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the disclosure of the UFO files.
William Tompkins reveals an astonishing secret acquired by U.S. Navy spies embedded within Nazi Germany’s advanced technology projects during the World War II – the Nazi war effort was being assisted by extraterrestrial visitors. (video below)
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Antarctica on Google Earth
In 2001 one of the world’s great secrets was revealed: an ancient structure that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite…
The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and despite the news blackout, reports still surfaced that a secretive excavation project had commenced on the heels of the discovery.
Following the frenzied events, of early 2001, the news broke of a mysterious medical emergency that forced an evacuation of unnamed personnel during the depths of the Antarctic winter–the first event of its kind during the dangerous South Pole winter season.
In November 2002, according to archaeologist and adventurer Jonathan Gray of World Education Research Ltd, a California TV crew went missing.
Supposedly, a video discovered among the crews’ personal effects by a special U.S. Navy SEAL rescue team tasked to find the filmmakers is the key element in a story that claims extensive ancient ruins have been found under the ice of Antarctica.
The TV production crew that shot the video is still missing, reported Gray.
Is it possible that the following structures have something to do with and are they connected to the supposed ancient structure under the ice?
Furthermore, a strange unidentified object has been found not far away from the ancient ruins. The object in question seems to have weirdly shaped lines and it doesn’t look like a rock or fit anywhere in the surrounding landscape.
Google Earth Coordinates: (Distance from Entrance 1 to Unidentified Object is 56 km.)
Ancient Ruins: 66°17’10.5″S 100°29’07.8″E
Entrance 1: 66°36’14.70″S, 99°43’11.11″E
Entrance 2: 66°33’6.60″S, 99°50’24.84″E
Unidentified Object: 66°14’43.81″S 100°32’48.73″E
If true, it’s no wonder the military is so intensely interested and so closed-mouthed about it
Navy Engineer: I Saw UFOs, Aliens and Top-Secret Bases In Antarctica
On January 2nd, 2015 the editor of website earthfiles.com received a very unexpected letter from an alleged retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Flight Engineer.
The letter received recounts experiences where the anonymous Navy officer (refers to himself as “Brian”) recounts his bizarre and extraordinary experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica between the years 1983 to 1997. He claims that a collaboration between humans and aliens exist, and that the Antarctica is a major research ground for these incredible collaborations.
Brian’s high strangeness experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica were in the 1983 to 1997 time period and included several observations of aerial silver discs darting around over the Transantarctic Mountains. He and his crew also saw a big hole in the ice only about five to ten miles from the geographic South Pole (pink circle on map) that was supposed to be a No Fly Zone. But during an emergency medevac situation, they entered the No Fly Zone and saw what they were not supposed to see: an alleged entrance to a human and E. T. science research base created under the ice. Then at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks and when they re-appeared, Brian’s flight crew got the assignment to pick them up. Brian says they would not talk and “their faces looked scared.”
In the strange letter sent to Earth Files the officer states that he experienced things such as:
Silver discs darting around over the Transantarctic Mountains
During an emergency they entered a No Fly Zone and saw an entrance to a human and E. T. science research base under the ice
His crew picked up a dozen scientists who had disappeared for two weeks previous. They would not talk and their faces looked scared.
He has decided to share what he experienced between those years in the following letter, reproduced in full below:
I am a retired United States Navy LC130 Flight Engineer that retired after 20 years of service in 1997. I have been wanting to write you for a long time about my experience on the Antarctic continent with flying vehicles that I was told not to talk about. I served part of my 20 years in the Navy with a Squadron called Antarctic Development Squadron Six or VXE-6 as it was also known. I served with this squadron from around 1983 till I retired March of 1997. Being a flight engineer and flying more then 4000 hours in that capacity I have seen things that most people have not even imagined on the Continent of Antarctica. The land there seems more alien then earthly. Our deployments to this land started in late September and ended the end of February every year until the Squadron was decommissioned in 1999. This time of year was the summer season when most of the science was done do to warmer temps and 24 hours of daylight.
During my time in the squadron I flew to almost every part of the Antarctic Continent including the South Pole more the 300 times. McMurdo Station which is 3.5 hours of flying time from the South Pole station was the point of squadron operation during our yearly deployments. Between these two stations is a mountain range called the Trans Antarctic’s. With what we called Severe Clear weather from McMurdo to South Pole the Trans Antarctic’s are visible from the altitudes which the aircraft flew approximately 25,000 to 35,000 feet. On several flights to and from South Pole our crew viewed air vehicles darting around the tops of Trans Antarctic’s almost exactly in the same spot every time we would fly by and view them. This is very unusual for air traffic down there due to the fact that the only aircraft flying on the continent were our squadron aircraft. Every aircraft knew where the other aircraft were do to flight schedules being followed.
Another unique issue with South Pole station is that our aircraft was not allowed to fly over a certain area designated 5 miles from the station. The reason stated because of a air sampling camp in that area. This did not make any sense to any of us on the crew because on 2 different occasions we had to fly over this area. One time due to a medical evacuation of the Australian camp called Davis Camp. It was on the opposite side of the continent and we had to refuel at South Pole and a direct course to this Davis Camp was right over the air sampling station. The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice. You could fly one of our LC130 into this thing.
It was after this medevac mission we were briefed by some spooks (Intelligence Agents I presumed) from Washington DC and told not to speak of the area we overflew. The other time we got close to “The air sampling Camp” we had navigation and electrical failures on the aircraft and was told to immediately depart the area and report to our squadron commanding officer when we returned to McMurdo. Needless to say our pilot (Aircraft Commander) got his butt chewed and our crew was not on the South Pole supply run for over a month. There were many other times we saw things that was out of the ordinary.
One outlying camp (near Marie Byrd Land) we dropped scientists and their equipment at was out of communication with McMurdo for 2 weeks. Our crew flew back to the camp to find out if the scientists were ok. We found no one there and no sign of any foul play. The Radio was working fine as we called McMurdo to verify it working properly. We left the camp and flew back to McMurdo as ordered by our CO. A week later the Scientist showed back up to their camp and called McMurdo for someone to come pick them up. Our crew got the flight back there to pick them since we put them into that camp and we knew the terrain and location. None of the scientists would talk to any of the crew on the plane and to me they looked scared.
As soon as we landed back at McMurdo they (Scientists) where put on another of our squadron aircraft and flown to Christchurch New Zealand. We never heard about them again. Their equipment that we brought back from the camp was put in quarantine and shipped back to the United States escorted by the same spooks that debriefed us about our fly over of the air sample camp/ large hole in the ice. I could go on and on about things and situations that I observed during my tour with VXE-6. Talk among the flight crews was that there is a UFO base at South Pole and some of the crew heard talk from some of the scientist working at the Pole of EBEs working with and interacting with the scientists at that air sampling camp/large ice hole.
Brian, now 59 years old, graduated from an Iowa college with an associate’s degree in aviation maintenance technology and an aviation certificate. In 1977, he then enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served for twenty years until his retirement in 1997. He provided Earthfiles his DD-214 documents and other certificates of service including this Antarctic Service Medal given to him on November 20, 1984 as proof of his time in service.
U.I.P SUMMARY
There appear to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world!
But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
U.I.P are going to investigate more about the Antarctica/Aliens, as there appears to be A LOT of attention in that part of the world.
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WcDonalds? The Dangers of Faux-Progressive PR Campaigns
International Women’s Day was first proposed in 1909 by the Socialist Party of America and adopted as an official holiday a year later by the International Socialist Women’s Conference. Until 1975, IWD was celebrated annually in the countries that constituted the Soviet Bloc. The holiday’s focus was to celebrate female workers and their unique historical struggles. In light of this history, it’s amusing to imagine how the original holiday’s founders would react to the fact that one of the biggest and most ubiquitous bastions of capitalism used the holiday as a publicity stunt—and a poorly-conceived one at that.
The Campaign:
The past several years have seen an extreme shift in conversation in American culture. Social justice issues are much more popular now than they were a decade ago. Many consumers extend their social justice support to which businesses they choose to patronize. According to the 2017 Cone Communications CSR Study, 87% of Americans would buy a product because the manufacturer advocated for an issue they cared about, while 76% would refuse to patronize a business that supports a value contrary to theirs. In light of the recent resurgence of feminism in the national conversation (dubbed “fourth wave feminism” by some scholars and exemplified by internet-based movements such as “Me Too”), many corporations have released special campaigns, promotions, or social media posts celebrating International Women’s Day.
On March 8th, 2018, McDonald’s announced that (for one day only) they would flip their iconic “golden arches” upside down, changing the “M” for “McDonald’s” to a “W”—ostensibly for “Women.” The official statement from McDonald’s read:
“We recognize the extraordinary contribution of women. From employees and franchisees, to suppliers and community partners, to our customers, we are inspired by your strength and leadership. In the U.S., we’re proud to share that 6 out of 10 restaurant managers are women. They run the McDonald’s business each and every day. So, in honor of women everywhere, we’re flipping our iconic logo for International Women’s Day.
Today, we celebrate you.”
The Reactions:
The reactions to this campaign were swift and devastating. Twitter users derided the campaign as confusing, bizarre, and ultimately meaningless.
Other users condemned McDonald’s for investing time and money in flipping the M while refusing to pay employees (including female employees) a living wage.
If Americans tend to support corporations that speak out in support of popular political movements, and if feminism is currently a very popular movement, then why was the McDonald’s IWD promotion such a massive failure?
Some prominent examples of successful, socially conscious business campaigns include Always’ ‘Like a Girl’, Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’, Burger King’s ‘Whopper Neutrality’ and Coca Cola’s multilingual ‘America The Beautiful’ advertisement. All four advertisements used emotional or humorous appeals to persuade the audience of the validity of the causes they’re talking about, and to prove—by extension—what a conscious company they are. Additionally, some corporations have made social and economic justice their product strategy: TOMS donates one pair of shoes for every pair bought, Starbucks made the switch to all “ethically sourced” coffee, and Intel uses only conflict-free microchips that don’t contain metals or materials obtained from mines that abuse workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The trouble with progressive or socially conscious campaigns by major corporations is when—as with McDonald’s—they are perceived by consumers as transparent bids for social justice cred, rather than as an (at least plausible) attempt to effect actual social or political change. While all of the aforementioned successful campaigns were, first and foremost, advertisements for the company and its products, they still managed to display some amount of thoughtfulness or sincerity about the causes they were supporting. Compared to these successful PR campaigns, the McDonald’s IWD promotion was both confusing and lacked tangible benefit. How would flipping the M’s directly serve women? How would this even raise awareness about women’s issues? It was completely unclear, therefore absurd and humorous.
How Could Social Listening Have Prevented This?
In the case of PR campaigns that rely on social movements, the line between a successful campaign and a source of public derision is incredibly thin. Many socially conscious young people take a cynical attitude toward corporate social justice campaigns, or indeed to any situation they feel exploits their political leanings for a profit.
With the knowledge that PR campaigns centered around social issues can be very tricky, a Social Listening assessment to gauge the public’s reactions to socially conscious PR campaigns could have empowered the McDonald’s marketing team to anticipate reaction and make more informed decisions. Such an analysis might have uncovered learnings from the now-infamous Pepsi advertisement that attempted to capitalize on the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. The writers of this advertisement did not seem to understand what the young people involved with BLM were protesting, or why, and ended up telegraphing the very muddled and offensive message that a beautiful young model sharing a Pepsi with police could end police brutality. In an attempt to appear socially conscious and hip, while avoiding a firm stance on an extremely controversial issue, Pepsi produced a confusing, tone-deaf advertisement that angered both sides of the police brutality debate.
Successful socially conscious campaigns are possible, but Social Media research is essential to avoid the missteps of those who have flopped. For more information on how Anexinet can help your organization setup a social listening strategy to achieve intelligent insights that help drive your marketing campaigns moving forward, please reach out to us. We’d love to get you started.
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A gay community in Fire Island provides an unlikely setting for two straight couples who are discovered lounging poolside, staring out to sea. Sally, married to Sam, a New Jersey contractor, has inherited the house from her brother who died of AIDS. Sam’s hyperkinetic sister, Chloe, and her smug, aristocratic husband, John, have come out for the Fourth of July weekend. Amidst the seemingly mundane activities, it becomes apparent that the two men despise each other because John has had an affair with Sally; Sally is panicked and melancholy because she is pregnant and fears miscarriage; and Chloe seems determined to drive them all mad with her incessant babble and enthusiasm for musical comedies. Through monologues unheard by the others, the characters reveal a desperate sense of individual isolation. The only people these four characters find more alien are the gay men partying in the houses on either side of them. As they divert themselves from their own mortality with food, cocktails, The New York Times crossword puzzle, fireworks, charades, and biting jabs at each other and the boys next door, Sally and Sam and John and Chloe find little to celebrate about themselves or their country on its birthday.
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Aether – In Embers [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]
On December 21, 2019 By Twelve
"Wintersun has long been a favorite of mine. Sure, it’s a band with a whole bunch of frustrations, but Jari Mänepää is a strong composer, and he’s got a cool sound that I can’t help but like. His wild blend of melodeath, power metal, black-tinged folk, and symphonic over-the-top wizardry appeals to me. It’s always a good Time T(w)o listen to well-composed symphonic heavy metal, and this is where the Polish group Aether come in." Less spa, more metal.
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Apotheus – The Far Star Review
On November 10, 2019 By GardensTale
"Every now and then you run into something that seems to have been made specifically for you. It’s like someone reached into your head, downloaded a copy of your soul, extracted exactly the sort of things you enjoy, and made something that panders to the template it found. Apotheus’ promo described a progressive melodeath band with a sci-fi concept album about interstellar colonization. Periods for emphasis, but Sign. Me. The. Fuck. Up." Swallow the wvrm.
Ethereal Kingdoms – Hollow Mirror Review
On October 20, 2019 By Twelve
"Every once in a while, I’m put in a position where I have to explain to some wide-eyed innocent how it could possibly be that I don’t care much for Nightwish. The only reason this happens, mind you, is because of the band’s undying popularity and colossal influence in their genre. My problem? I like symphonic in my metal. But I don’t like the band that everyone seems to copy to get there. So why would I pick up Hollow Mirror, the debut full-length from Danish band Ethereal Kingdom?" Wishing for the night.
Vorna – Sateet palata saavat Review
On September 23, 2019 By Master of Muppets
"With the annual pilgrimage to dead leaves and perpetual darkness underway, an appropriate soundtrack is imperative to survival; I need something that will simultaneously sonically augment the surrounding scenery as well as shield me from its scheduled sadness, something which will bring this death to life and save me from it. Such a savior has arrived in the form of Vorna's Sateet palata saavat, and though I am loathe to share such splendor with the likes ov you, the urge to babble about said greatness has temporarily overtaken my selfish recalcitrance: you're welcome, yo." The autumn wind smells like Muppet.
Manntra – Oyka! Review
On July 29, 2019 By Twelve
"Why do people listen to folk metal? For that matter, why do I listen to folk metal? There are many plausible answers to this strangest of questions, beginning with “power metal and Vikings are a great combination,” and spanning all the way to “flutes are cool, man.” Truthfully, I think “folk metal” is too broad a term. When I first stumbled across Okya!, the fourth full-length from Croatian folk metal band Manntra, I was intrigued by the “folk metal” tag the band carried, but also brought with me the usual trepidation of not really knowing what to expect. Ensiferum folk metal and Eluveitie folk metal are, after all, very different metals, but both fall under the same basic tag." A jig in a folk.
Rogga Johansson – Entrance to the Otherwhere Review
On July 19, 2019 By Eldritch Elitist
"Whatever happened to melodic death metal? No, I don't mean power metal with harsh vocals, as the term's modern connotation entails. I'm talking about classic, knuckle-dragging death metal riffage, paired with somber, melodic atmosphere; the sort explored by Edge of Sanity, Tales from the Thousand Lakes-era Amorphis, and others during the 90's. It's a specific concoction that fell out of popularity as the genre pushed ever onward down increasingly brutal and complex avenues. And yet, Rogga remembers."Rogga! Rogga!
Bloodred Hourglass – Godsend Review
On June 25, 2019 By Holdeneye
"Last year, no fewer than eight AMG staff members placed Queen of Time by Amorphis somewhere on their year end list. If you're reading this and happen to be one of the eight people whose names are written in bolded burnt orange in support of that album on this page — especially if your name starts with Angry and ends in Guy — please stop reading now and go about your business elsewhere. I'll be honest with you, I never once made it all the way through that album in one sitting despite trying in earnest six times. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to love on Queen of Time, but that's just it — there's a lot of it. The sugary melodies are great, but the album and most of its songs are far too long and there is not enough heaviness to balance out the pop. I was content to remain silent in my dissent until I began spinning Godsend, the fourth record from a different Finnish band, Bloodred Hourglass." Hourglass houses and stones.
AngryMetalGuy.com’s Aggregated Top 10(ish) of 2018: The List to End All Lists
On January 2, 2019 By El Cuervo
"We have finally reached the conclusion to 2018's list season: the AngryMetalGuy.com Meta List. In all, despite our best efforts to bemoan the quality of metal in 2018, 221 unique releases have made their way into our compiled lists which span the entire heavy spectrum. This not only goes some way to dispel any notion that metal is dead but also illustrates that the Angry Metal Hall is now shockingly crowded despite Steel Druhm's frequent and violent ejections. I am intrigued and entertained to observe which records which rise to the top of the heap and am delighted to honor our collective favorite records from 2018." The best of the beasts as determined by maths.
Angry Metal Guy’s Top 10(ish) of 2018
On December 31, 2018 By Angry Metal Guy
The manbun has landed! We repeat, the manbun has landed!
Dr. Wvrm’s Top Ten(ish) Records of 2018
On December 26, 2018 By Dr. Wvrm
Christmas is over, but the lists are still lurking! Next up is Dr. Wvrm and his highly important opinions on what ten albums you should hear in 2018.
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UP: Minor girl raped in Moradabad, case registered
ANI | Updated: Dec 26, 2019 02:52 IST
Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): A minor girl was allegedly raped in Moradabad on December 22, police said.
"The victim's father found her in an injured state near the airport strip. She was referred to a hospital in Meerut. The medical examination report shows that she was raped. We are investigating the case," Superintendent of Police, Moradabad City, Amit Kumar Anand, told reporters here.
Based on the complaint filed by the victim's father, the police have registered a case under Section 376 (rape) and the POCSO Act against unknown persons. (ANI)
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Flattening yield curve may be warning of flaw in Fed's rate path
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S&P Global Market Intelligence, formerly S&P Capital IQ and SNL, is the premier provider of breaking news, financial data, and expert analysis on business sectors critical to the global economy. This article originally appeared on the SNL subscriber side of S&P Global's website.
By Polo Rocha, S&P Global Market Intelligence staff writer
A flattening yield curve is sparking fears that the Federal Reserve could tip the economy into recession by raising rates too quickly, analysts say, but the central bank is showing little sign of concern.
While the closely watched spread between longer-term and shorter-term Treasury yields has reached its narrowest levels in more than a decade, an inversion in the yield curve is not in store in the short term, analysts say. But some worry that an inversion could happen if the Fed proceeds with its current plan on interest rate hikes over the next couple of years.
An inverted yield curve has a "pretty unblemished forecasting record" of signaling an upcoming recession, only putting up a false flag once in recent history, said Joseph LaVorgna, chief economist for the Americas at Natixis.
"The Fed should proceed very cautiously and very slowly with their rate hikes," he said in an interview.
In March, Fed officials opted for their sixth rate increase since December 2015 and indicated that they may bump up rates at least five more times over the next two years. The central bank's gradual tightening has pushed up yields for shorter-term Treasurys, which are more driven by changes in Fed policy. Yields for two-year Treasurys are now around 2.5%. [The Fed stayed on course in its most recent announcement—Editor]
Longer-term rates, which are more reflective of expectations for future growth and inflation, have also edged up but not as quickly. On April 24, yields for 10-year Treasurys surpassed the 3% threshold for the first time since January 2014, flashing some signs that they may finally be gaining ground.
The spread between the two has narrowed to around 50 basis points in recent weeks, significantly less than the roughly 100-basis-point difference at this time in 2017. The yield curve would invert if two-year Treasury yields jump above 10-year yields.
Investors would likely read such an inversion as a sign of a recession "irrespective of whether that is a true reflection of the underlying economic reality," wrote Chris Turner, head of foreign exchange strategy at ING, in a note to clients. It is possible, he added, that "investors are pricing in growing risks of a Fed policy mistake" where the central bank keeps raising rates even though the economy is no longer seeing substantial strengthening.
Fed officials, though, have largely downplayed worries about the yield curve. For example, Fed Vice-Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles said April 18 that the recent flattening is not surprising and does not signal that a recession may be in store.
Some analysts agree with that assessment. Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, wrote that the U.S. has "never had an economic recession with [company] earnings growing as sharply as they are today," even if the Fed's tightening is increasing volatility in the markets.
The current economic expansion has "a shot at making the record books," said Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, pointing to the leading indicators index from the Conference Board as one sign that GDP growth will continue.
Fed officials have also argued that the yield curve will steepen as they continue trimming the central bank's balance sheet, which swelled to roughly $4.5 trillion after the financial crisis. Researchers at the central bank have estimated that its asset purchases during the crisis held down 10-year Treasury yields by about 100 basis points, shrinking the "term premium" that rewards investors for purchasing longer-term securities. As these reductions take place, 10-year Treasury yields will pick back up and help ease concerns over a flat yield curve, incoming New York Fed President John Williams said April 20.
But Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial, said he was skeptical that would happen. For one, he said, the Fed's extensive communication on the plan for those reductions has let investors fully account for their effects. "Just as the market priced in the start of [quantitative easing], so it has priced in the end," he wrote in a note to clients.
He also said Fed officials seem to be trying to "jawbone long yields up" to avoid inverting the yield curve, a strategy he said would not work.
"When the curve is flat, let alone inverted, it is not because lenders are no longer demanding a term premium, as Fed commentators would have it," he said. "It's because the Fed has raised short-rates well above what the market can bear."
Baby Verma contributed to this article.
This article originally appeared on S&P Global Market Intelligence’s website on April 27, 2018, under the title, "Flattening yield curve may be warning of flaw in Fed's rate path"
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Canvass on Long Island to Interrupt Trump
Join us for a canvass on Long Island as part of Interrupt Trump 2018, the largest Jewish grassroots election effort to mobilize voters in response to this historically dangerous time in our country
As we fight back against family separations, the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Muslim Ban, and more, we're clear that if we can replace Trump’s enablers in Congress, we can stem the tide of inhumane policies coming from the White House.
Rep. Lee Zeldin has been one of Trump's greatest enablers in Congress, voting in lockstep with him 85.7% of the time. He has targeted immigrants as a tactic for campaigning and proudly invited avowed white supremacist Steve Bannon to fundraise for him.
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Art in parks & gardens
Melbourne's parks and gardens offer a wonderful collection of historical and innovative art – enjoy some visual treats while taking in the greenery.
Fairies Tree by Ola Cohn
Fitzroy Gardens
Completed in 1934, the 'Fairies Tree' is similar to a work in Kensington Gardens, London. Hand-carved into an ancient red gum tree, the work features myriad carvings of Australian and European fairies, dwarfs, gnomes, imps, goblins, elves and animals. Gifted to the city's children upon completion, the 'Fairies Tree' is a delight for all ages.
The Genie by Tom Bass
Queen Victoria Gardens
A wondrous play sculpture for children, 'The Genie' combines the characteristics of an Egyptian cat with a lion and entices the imagination in fantastical ways. Nestled in the Queen Victoria Gardens, children love exploring the sculpture and its fascinating textured surface. Photo by Louis Porter.
Miraggio by Pino Conte
Sidney Myer Music Bowl
High on the slope of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl a young woman can be seen sitting quietly, perhaps listening to music from the concert stage below. 'Mirragio' was donated to the city and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl Trust by an anonymous Italian donor, with instructions that the figure be installed as if she were part of the audience.
Model Tudor Village by Edgar Wilson
Where in Melbourne can you find the residences of literary giant William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway? In the Model Tudor Village, of course. Donated to the City of Melbourne in 1948 by then 77 year old artist Edgar Wilson, the Model Tudor Village has become a much loved fixture of the Fitzroy Gardens, providing a representation of a typical Kentish village during the English Tudor period.
The Pathfinder by John Edward Robinson
Commonly known as 'the hammer thrower', this athletic sculpture has been a city favourite since its unveiling in 1974. A once popular past-time for some Melburnians – stealing the hammer – means that, today the hammer is removed overnight and replaced again every morning. Photo by Louis Porter.
Reed Vessel by Virginia King
Docklands Park
'Reed Vessel' is a filigreed and elevated form embracing themes of migration, the journey and survival, the river and the sea. Referencing Docklands' history and stories of the river and marine archaeology, the work emerges from the water, a visible manifestation of the rebirth of Docklands. On the sides of the cradle, you'll uncover etchings, metaphors about river and sea created by Australian poets and writers.
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Losing the battle with fire
Lahore, Pakistan Damir Sagolj
Updated 23 Aug 2013 11 images
A man falls from the burning Lahore Development Authority (LDA) building.
When a fire broke out on the seventh floor of the municipal building it quickly spread, leaving many workers trapped. At least three people fell or jumped in an attempt to avoid the flames, as they engulfed the office block. The death toll reached 25 according to local media.
I quietly told a friend of mine, another journalist at the scene, “they will jump”.
Damir Sagolj, Reuters Photographer
A man wearing traditional white Pakistani clothes disappeared from the window back into the burning building. A minute later, a different man wearing black emerged from inside, but it looked like someone was holding his lifeless body. The body was slowly pushed over the edge of the window and then released. Twenty seconds later the man in white came out again. He sat calmly for a few seconds in the open window with his back turned outwards and then just fell.
And that was it; both men were dead in less than a minute. After several long hours of fighting a raging fire (or were they short hours? Time gets twisted in extreme situations like this), this part of the story ended in the way I had feared from the beginning. I shot pictures of people falling to their deaths, of others crying on the ground, of desperate and helpless rescue workers.
It was supposed to be an easy pre-election day in Lahore. We did expect some heat as the campaign of the two main candidates was coming to an end but what happened that Thursday still haunts me without any signs of easing. What started as an easy day for me and poor government workers in their modern office building in Punjab’s capital ended with more deaths than in election violence across the country over the next few days.
Just after arriving in Lahore I received a short text message saying that a fire had broke out on the seventh floor of a government building and that there could be some people trapped inside. I was on my way to the hospital where Imran Khan, the former Pakistani cricket player and rising star in politics, was recovering from an injury. He was big in the news and there was a possibility for journalists to see him but a building on fire, with people trapped inside, is always the priority. I put Imran aside for a while and headed toward the LDA Plaza.
As expected, the scene was as chaotic. The “do not cross” yellow line served only to make our pictures more dramatic. Hundreds of onlookers stood in the way of already confused rescue teams showing no signs of fear or respect for the situation. Later, the rumor spread that the building had cracked and it may collapse – nobody cared, nor moved back an inch.
Inside the building, the situation was much worse. Above the seventh floor where the fire broke out, there were scores of people trapped. Those who made it to the roof, some climbing ropes and cables up the side of the building, were saved by helicopters. The aircraft hovered low above the burning building making the fire go wilder and launching a dangerous storm of debris that flew into people’s eyes and our cameras. But, for the people on the roof that was a salvation – one by one they were taken to safety. I could read the relief in their body language, no matter how small they looked through my lens as the helicopters flew away.
For others who were not lucky enough to make it to the roof, what seemed like a manageable fire soon turned into an inferno. At some point, I realized there was a minimal chance of people being saved. I’m not an expert in rescue procedures but this operation didn’t look very promising from the very beginning.
I focused my mind and cameras on two men, both sitting on the windows of the seventh floor, their legs hanging outside and faces wrapped in scarves to block the heat and the black smoke – one on the east and the other one on the south side of the building. For hours they both frantically gestured to firefighters, who could do little other than spray the building with water and cool the victims from afar. Time was running out and the gestures of the trapped became weaker and weaker.
I quietly told a friend of mine, another journalist at the scene, afraid to hear it myself “they will jump”. He just closed his eyes; we both knew it would happen.
What happened later I had to carefully reconstruct; frame-by-frame in my head and pixel-by-pixel in my pictures. The final image was mind-blowing and very disturbing. For two men on the south side of the building the raging fire was too much – they could not stand the heat and smoke anymore. The man from the east side was hanging onto the window for a long time, but his movements became weaker and weaker. At some point he stopped showing signs of life
In total, 25 people died in the terrible fire at LDA Plaza that day, local media reported later. The elections that brought me to Pakistan were relatively quiet and Imran Khan was still in the hospital.
9 May 2013 . Lahore, Pakistan. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS)—Faced recently with hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse in its ranks, Southern Baptists overwhelmingly adopted changes to governing documents that will bring greater visibility to their desire to disaffiliate with churches that do not handle instances of abuse properly.
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A new standing Credentials Committee also will consider whether churches are not “in friendly cooperation” for that and other reasons, including involvement in “discriminatory behavior on the basis of ethnicity.”
Messengers also voted June 11 at their annual meeting to amend the constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention so that it will make explicit that churches that mishandle cases of abuse or racial discrimination are not welcome.
Differing opinions of SBC vote
“I believe this is a very, very significant moment in the history of the Southern Baptist Convention,” said new SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd.
The SBC has “given a clear signal not only about what we believe about sexual abuse, but we also stand against all ethnic discrimination in the United States and around the world,” Floyd said.
The constitutional amendments will need to be considered a second time at next year’s annual meeting before they can become official.
Moments after the votes, about 50 abuse victim advocates and media members attended a rally outside the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex where speakers declared that what Southern Baptists accomplished inside was not sufficient.
Activist response to SBC vote
Cheryl Summers, the organizer of the second annual For Such A Time As This Rally, said much has happened in the past year to address abuse in the SBC. She noted a new report from a Sexual Abuse Advisory Group commissioned by SBC President J.D. Greear and new training, including a video series and a handbook on a “caring well” theme, released this week.
A woman holds signs about abuse during a rally outside the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham, Ala. (RNS Photo / Butch Dill)
She credited the work of activists and victims of abuse for prompting the denomination to act.
“People stood up and spoke up,” said Summers. “What we are doing matters. It is making a difference so keep standing up. Keep speaking up. We will continue to speak for those who imagine they are the only ones living a private nightmare.”
Still, she said, there is much more to be done.
She and other advocates would like the SBC to develop a database documenting convicted and credible abusers and for the denomination to provide mandatory training to help clergy and seminary students to recognize and address abuse.
In February, the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News published a joint investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against about 380 current and former Southern Baptist ministers and volunteers. In late May, the Chronicle detailed allegations of cover-ups of abuse by five male missionaries.
Sex abuse has dominated many of the discussions at events that have occurred around the SBC meeting.
Its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission hosted a discussion on Monday in which survivors addressed how churches need to respect and assist survivors and report abuse allegations to authorities. Texas pastor Matt Chandler addressed concerns, raised in a York Times Times story, that his church mishandled a youth minister who has been indicted for sexual molestation. He defended its response at a luncheon between Tuesday’s sessions of the SBC meeting.
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Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Anibal Sanchez throws a warmup pitch in a spring training baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., Sunday.(Photo: AP)
CLEARWATER – Chase Utley hit his first two home runs of spring training and drove in three runs for the Philadelphia Phillies in a 4-4 tie against the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.
The 36-year-old missed the first 10 games of the exhibition season after spraining his right ankle in January. He hit a two-run homer in the first off Anibal Sanchez and connected again on the first pitch of the fourth.
“I think he was (waiting) for the curveball,” Sanchez said. “I threw him two curveballs and he hit them pretty good. He’s a pretty good hitter. … He was ready for it.”
Utley is hitting .441 (15 for 34) during the regular season against Sanchez with no home runs. He’s batting .423 (11-for-26) in 10 games this spring training.
“Chase swung the bat very well,” Philadelphia manager Ryne Sandberg said. “He went down yesterday and took advantage of some at-bats on the minor league side and actually hit a home run down there and carried that over to today. … It hasn’t taken him too long but he looks like he’s pretty sharp.”
Sanchez struck out 10 and walked one in six innings, allowing all four runs and five hits. Philadelphia’s Aaron Harang gave up four runs — three earned — and five hits in 5 1-3 innings with five strikeouts and two walks.
Tigers: In six games this spring training, Sanchez has struck out 26 with six walks in 24 2-3 innings. Five of his 10 strikeouts on Sunday came with batters looking at strike three.
“That means he’s hitting his spots,” Detroit manager Brad Ausmus said.
Phillies: Right-hander Aaron Harang made his penultimate exhibition season start and follows Cole Hamels in the rotation when the season begins next week. Harang allowed home runs to Tyler Collins and Yoenis Cespedes in the span of three batters in the fourth inning.
“Obviously there were a few pitches you want back but other than that I felt good, was making pitches when I needed to,” Harang said. “Everything feels good.”
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Tigers: Right-hander Justin Verlander (right triceps cramp) played light catch on Sunday, two days after leaving his start after 2 2-3 innings with tightness. “He said he felt a little better today,” Detroit manager Brad Ausmus said. The Tigers are still uncertain if Verlander will make his scheduled start on Thursday.
Phillies: Third baseman Cody Asche (back) missed his fourth straight big league game but saw action in the minor league complex in Clearwater. Asche was slotted into the designated hitter’s spot in an intrasquad minor league game and went 2 for 4 with a double. Left fielder Domonic Brown (left Achilles tendinitis) missed his 10th straight game. He took regular batting practice with his teammates prior to Sunday’s game, but is likely to begin the season on the disabled list.
Tigers: Detroit and Alfredo Simon host Atlanta and Mike Foltynewicz in a matchup of right-handers.
Phillies: Philadelphia travels to Bradenton to play Pittsburgh on Monday. Right-handed pitching prospect Zach Eflin has been summoned from minor league camp to make the start, opposite right-hander Adrian Sampson.
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Boarding School Myths
Updated December 03, 2019 | by Robert Kennedy
Read about common boarding school myths in case your perception of boarding school is driven largely by popular movies and urban legend.
What are boarding schools really like anyway?
Even if you're just starting your boarding school research, there's a good chance you already have an impression of what boarding schools are like. Perhaps you have read The Catcher in the Rye or A Separate Peace. Or maybe you saw Dead Poets Society or School Ties.
These stories, while entertaining, take place in boarding school settings which are quite different from what you will actually find today. An excerpt from an article about college-preparatory boarding schools in The New York Times summarizes these differences well:
"To generations of students whose syllabuses include J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," boarding school represents the winter of their adolescent discontent; a cold, distant place where parents threaten to send their children if they don't measure up. Parents dropped their children off in September, picked them up again in June and let the schoolmasters worry about what went on in between.
If Holden Caulfield were to return to school for Alumni Day 2001, he would find that the world of proctors and prefects, dorm teas and Mr. Chips has undergone a millennial thaw. Most of the approximately 36,000 students at boarding schools packed their bags willingly and are in daily e-mail contact with mom and dad. The ivy is no longer one shade of green. Students are as likely to room with a real prince of Thailand as with the fresh prince of Bel Air, as the schools reach farther into the public high schools for the majority of their students, making admissions more competitive than ever.
The monastic life of formal dinners, daily chapel and cold showers has given way to international theme meals, contemporary ecumenism and interdorm dances." - Less Austerity, More Diversity at Prep School Today - By VICTORIA GOLDMAN and CATHERINE HAUSMAN, November 12, 2000, New York Times
Just as universities and colleges in the United States have evolved in the past several decades, so have boarding schools. And while the perception of boarding school is changing, there are still some lingering myths that can make you mistakenly think that you wouldn't fit in at boarding school:
Myth 1: You must be very wealthy to go to boarding school.
Today, approximately a third of all boarding school students receive financial aid. Financial aid grants can represent a significant portion of tuition depending on the school and your family's situation. Boarding school students now increasingly come from public schools and a wider range of family income levels. In general, boarding schools do their best to make their programs accessible to your family through financial aid grants, loan programs, and merit awards/scholarships. In the past ten years, the emergence of K-12 private school loans has also made boarding school education more accessible.
This video describes life at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts.
Families that send their kids to boarding school today represent a much wider demographic - geographically, socio-economically and ethnically (see "Myth 2" below). What hasn't changed is the rigorous academic approach and emphasis on students' personal growth.
Myth 2: Diversity is rare at boarding school.
More than a quarter of all boarding students are either students of color or international students. Boarding schools are generally more diverse than public schools - they actively seek diversity and draw from many geographic areas whereas local schooling options are dependent on neighborhood living patterns where populations tend to concentrate along ethnic or socio-economic lines. Also, boarding schools create more meaningful opportunities for different students to interact with one another. Whether in the dorms, classrooms or playing fields, you'll always be surrounded by a diverse population that you'll inevitably get to know throughout the year.
Myth 3: Kids don't have fun at boarding school.
Curfews and rules will be part of life at any boarding school - no big news here. But depending on your impression of boarding school, you might be surprised to learn that boarding school can also be a lot of fun. If you talk to boarding school students or alumni today, most will tell you the same thing - it's an environment that's conducive to making incredible friends and having fun in the process.
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Keep in mind that while strong academics are a key focus for boarding schools, they also strive to foster independence in students. Boarding schools give you choices in how you spend your time and what activities to pursue so that you can determine your experience at school and grow as a person, not just academically. This process - of growth in independence, meeting new people and pursuing your interests - is often fun and very rewarding.
Myth 4: Boarding school is for kids who are having trouble at home or school.
There are two types of boarding schools - college-preparatory boarding schools and therapeutic boarding schools. The two are sometimes confused and can cause misperceptions that boarding schools are only for kids who are having trouble at home or school.
College-preparatory boarding schools are geared for motivated students who are looking to explore new opportunities. College-preparatory boarding schools are often ideal choices for students who are already doing generally well at school and at home but would simply like to find new challenges. These types of boarding schools are not appropriate choices for students with drug, alcohol, or behavioral problems. The key objective of these boarding schools is to prepare students for college through rigorous academics. All the schools profiled in Boarding School Review are exclusively college-preparatory boarding schools.
Therapeutic boarding schools are aimed at students who are having difficulty at home or in a traditional school setting. While preparing students for college can also be a goal for these schools, these schools are equipped to handle students who are facing challenges such as behavioral/emotional problems, substance abuse, or significant learning differences. Boarding School Review does not list therapeutic boarding schools.
College-preparatory boarding schools and therapeutic boarding schools have different missions and serve different audiences. It's helpful to know this when looking at different schools. That way you can avoid common misperceptions of college-preparatory boarding schools.
Myth 5: It will be hard to keep in touch with my family.
Boarding school students and their families are fortunate in that it's easier than ever to stay connected. The Internet, in particular, is redefining how boarders and their families communicate. Boarding schools offer Internet access for their students, with most schools having access in each boarding house, and some in each bedroom. While Internet access is regulated for use between certain hours, students can often be in daily contact with their parents. Depending on the school and its policies, cell phones can also be helpful in keeping families connected.
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Keep an open mind about what you think boarding school might be like. The best way to learn about boarding schools is to visit one - you can learn the most about boarding school life by simply being on campus and talking to current students about their experiences. Start researching schools!
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You Are Not Like Other Mothers is the story of Else Krischner, a free spirited mother of three sons. The novel spans the first half of the 20th century, from World War I through the Jewish Else's exile in Bulgaria during World War II. Multi-layered and epic in scope, the narrative incorporates numerous sub-plots and secondary characters to provide a richly rendered portrait of 20th century Europe.
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I'll wipe out youth unemployment in three years, says mayor candidate
Conservative Andy Street sets youth employment
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The Conservative candidate to be the region’s first mayor has pledged to wipe out youth unemployment in three years.
Former John Lewis boss Andy Street says that through increasing funding for apprenticeships and extending other youth training and job initiatives the unemployment rate can be brought down to zero, or near zero, by 2020.
He is bidding to become the West Midland’s first ever elected mayor in May 2017 and promises to slash youth unemployment if he wins.
Living Wage pledge from West Midlands mayor candidates
As chairman of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP since 2011 he has been responsible for delivering economic growth and investment in the region and pointed out that Birmingham now has 6,000 less unemployed 18-to-24 year olds than it did three years ago, effectively halving the total.
Over the same period Coventry and Walsall have also seen decreases of more than 60 per cent in the same time.
However the West Midlands unemployment rate this summer among under 24s stood at about 15.5 per cent. In Wolverhampton the rate is 27 per cent while at the other end of the spectrum Coventry has a low 8.2 per cent rate.
West Midlands Mayor Candidate Andy Street
Mr Street said: “There is no point in having this position of Mayor if we are not going to be ambitious and strive to change people’s lives.
“The West Midlands is on the up – this is demonstrated by our rising private sector employment, exports and inward investment.
“You only have to walk around Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry, see the developments underway, the jobs being created, to see this.
£50m youth employment scheme in limbo leaving thousands waiting for support to find work
“But not everybody is sharing in this success. This must end and it must end now.
“A new job is a new chance in life whilst unemployment kills social mobility.”
He added that the Work Coaches program, which was introduced by the GBSLEP has helped 15,000 people into jobs. “This demonstrates that the right intervention can make a positive difference, helping to halve youth unemployment in Birmingham over the last four years.
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“As Mayor I will not only secure further funding for apprenticeships from Government for young people across the Black Country, Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry, I will also extend the Work Coaches programme across the whole Combined Authority area.
“I am determined that as Mayor, by the end of my first three years, we will have a youth unemployment rate of near to zero, for the sake of our economic future.”
Also confirmed as running for mayor next year are Sion Simon (Lab), Beverley Nielsen (Lib Dem) and James Burn (Green).
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Miki Biasion - Lancia Stratos and Fiat 131 Abarth
Posted on 24 April 2013 at 12:27
When the Stratos competed and won, I was still running on motorcycles. But I was interested a bit in every motorsport specialties and I was especially attracted to the technique whereby, see the "bete-a-gagner" in action on the streets of the San Martino Rally and it did not leave me indifferent: yes, it is the Stratos that made me fall in love with the rally and even now, thirty or more years away, is a fascinating subject.
And also the only car that I would get in the living room.
Like the Porsche, it was and it is one of those timeless car and in fact is still present: a few tweaks and would turn his head at all at any auto show.
What began as only a "dream car" has become a formidable weapon in the race thanks to the efforts of a handful of men who had the talent, knowledge and experience to transform any object with an engine and four wheels in an half-winner.
They had already demonstrated previously with various models and they have continued to do it for years to come. Especially with the 131 Abarth.
Derived from a quiet family sedan, has represented an important turning point for the rally.
After years of the Alpine and Stratos, sedans born to run, the executives of the major manufacturers began to make the idea that it would have been more useful to run the cars similar, very similar to those of great series that everyone could have: winning is certainly always important, but do not deploy real race cars pay more in terms of return.
And the 131 has won a lot: three Constructors' World Championships and a world championship with Walter Rohrl. He has done his part, in fact.
It has done very well, leaving an indelible mark in the history of the rally.
Although I understand that for the samples at the time, used to handle the Stratos, did not have to be easy to agree to get the controls of the 131: the runner, always and forever, always wants to have the maximum and any step back is traumatic.
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Sunidhi Chauhan received Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2014
Sunidhi Chauhan has added yet another feather to her beautiful cap. The beautiful songstress was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at a ceremony held in Mumbai on 30th April.
The singer took to her Twitter account excitedly, “Just received the most Prestigious Shri Dadasaheb Phalke Award.. Feel so honored and blessed! It’s all you people.. Thank you!”
In many ways, Chauhan is a leading face of the Indian industry, after all, she won the first-ever televised talent contest, ‘Meri Awaaz Suno’, way back in 1996. With an uncommonly beautiful voice ranging from sweet to sultry, Chauhan is considered as one of the most melodious singers of this generation. Given her versatile talent, it’s not surprising that Chauhan is the most well-recognised young singer in Bollywood today.
Other recipients of the prestigious honour this year include comedian Kapil Sharma, veteran actor Jeetendra, TV actress Hina Khan and TV actor and anchor Gautam Rode.
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Facebook exec in 2016 memo weighed possibility of terrorists, bullies making deadly use of platform
By John Bowden - 03/29/18 06:33 PM EDT
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A top Facebook executive and one of Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot ZuckerbergHillicon Valley: FBI to now notify state officials of cyber breaches | Pelosi rips 'shameful' Facebook | 5G group beefs up lobby team | Spotify unveils playlists for pets Pelosi rips 'shameful' Facebook behavior, accuses it of intentionally misleading users Mark Hamill deletes Facebook account: 'Mark Zuckerberg values profit more than truthfulness' MORE's longest-standing business partners reportedly penned a memo in 2016 that raised the possibility of a terrorist attack being organized by malicious groups using Facebook's software.
In an internal memo obtained by BuzzFeed entitled "The Ugly," Andrew Bosworth raised the possibilities of negative effects of Facebook's ability to bring humans closer together, including as examples terrorist attacks or children being exposed to online bullies.
“So we connect more people,” he wrote. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies."
“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools," he added.
Despite this, Bosworth wrote that the overall goal of connecting the world's population "justified" the work Facebook does to grow its user base, even if some negative effects can occur.
“We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” he wrote.
Bosworth now says, however, that he doesn't agree with the post, nor did he when he wrote it, issuing a statement Thursday afternoon calling the piece "one of the most unpopular things I’ve ever written internally."
"I don't agree with the post today and I didn't even when I wrote it," Bosworth wrote, declining to criticize specifics in the post. "To see this post in isolation is rough because it makes it appear as a stance that I hold or that the company holds when neither is the case."
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Facebook has been under fire and lost millions in market value in recent weeks over revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm used by President Trump Donald John TrumpLev Parnas implicates Rick Perry, says Giuliani had him pressure Ukraine to announce Biden probe Saudi Arabia paid 0 million for cost of US troops in area Parnas claims ex-Trump attorney visited him in jail, asked him to sacrifice himself for president MORE's 2016 campaign, among others, obtained data on roughly 50 million users without their consent or knowledge.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a public apology over the news reports, and has been called to testify before Congress over the issue.
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In: Gender Ideology, Homosexuality, Liturgical Abuse
On November 23, a judge who describes herself as “Catholic” and a lesbian who is “married” to another woman was called and privately informed by her parish priest, Fr. Nolan, that she was not to present herself for Communion. When she presented herself, she was denied. She then went to confession, publicly rebuked her lifestyle, and reconciled herself to the Church….
No, she called the local television station. According to Wood TV, she is “lifelong Catholic”, “a beloved judge” who “comes from a family of prominent community members”, a victim of a “public shunning”. who “has made it clear that gay people are not welcome”. The report also describes the decision to deny communion as “{Fr. Nolan’s] new rule”, as if he just made it up on the spot.
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The priest told CNA that so well-known was McCarrick’s reputation, the priest said, that when McCarrick would accompany Cooke to visit the seminary there was a standing joke that they had to “hide the handsome ones” before he arrived.
As noted in The National Catholic Register, on the same day Pope Francis broke his eight-month silence on the issue by proclaiming that he had no knowledge of McCarrick’s proclivities or of the restrictions placed on McCarrick by Pope St. John Paul II, McCarrick’s former secretary published excerpts of numerous correspondence showing that many in the Vatican had actual or constructive knowledge of both. Including Wuerl. By McCarrick’s own hand.
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While Fr. Martin has carefully cultivated an image of “I’m just a nice loving priest standing up for the marginalized Catholics”, his vanity makes it difficult for him to hide behind this mask for long and we occasionally get a fleeting glimpse of the inner man: arrogant, immodest, superior, vain, and smugly self-important, particularly evident in the way he openly taunts faithful Catholics.
Maltese Catholics Call Upon Archbishop Scicluna for Truth
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“Why are Maltese Catholics being subjected to such evident double standards by those entrusted with the mission to “teach, govern and sanctify” the faithful? These are questions Your Excellency would do well to ponder.”
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E3 2019 Round Up – Square Enix
By The Night Owl on June 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
It’s been over 22 years since Square Enix released its genre defining RPG Final Fantasy VII but judging by the trailer shown at their E3 presentation it looks like the long awaited remake might be arriving soon. Potentially boasting two Blu-ray discs full of content Final Fantasy VII Remake could be one heck of a big game and one of the most impressive game remasters ever made. Certainly something for PlayStation owners to check out March 2020.
Other announcements I thought were interesting included:
Life is Strange 2 is out now and for those who played the free game The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit there’s some connective tissue between them so for players not sure check that out first.
Switch RPG Octopath Traveller has moved to PC and is out now on Steam. And going in the other direction, The Last Remnant Remastered is out now for Switch. Dragon Quest XI is coming soon to the Switch too.
Circuit Superstars looks like a modern take on the top down racers of old. Thinking of things like Micro Machines, Super Sprint or Rally Speedway but with a lovely cel shaded look to it. Coming in 2020.
Outriders, a new co-op shooter from the developer of Bulletstorm looks like it could be pretty cool.
Another big reveal was the first trailer to Marvel’s Avengers – the latest game from Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics. It’s not based on any existing story lines or franchises but there’s plenty to see and recognise if you’re a long time fan. The game arrives on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Stadia 15th May 2020.
A lot of voice talent is being leveraged for Avengers (headlined by Nolan North and Troy Baker) and they were given time to discuss their roles during the presentation. The game itself supports co-op with up to four players and more heroes will be added to roster over time at no additional cost. PlayStation owners will get access to the beta early and some extra benefits that weren’t discussed… I’m really hoping we’re not going to have another Destiny situation here.
The Square Enix presentation was literally JRPG heaven with the publisher rolling out a huge number of announcements for both new titles and those coming to new platforms. Games like Dying Light 2 may have seemed out of place compared to other titles but the difference did help to make them stand out more among the flood of JRPGs.
The full presentation can be seen below:
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The coming of light at Marina Bay
Come Friday (9 March 2012), Marina Bay will be aglow, bathed in the colours of lights that will transform the area into a greater spectacle than it already is. Friday sees the opening of the sequel to the highly successful first edition of Asia’s only sustainable light art event of two years ago, i Light Marina Bay 2012, which on the evidence of a media preview of the event – Asia’s first and only sustainable Light Art Festival held last evening, is one that will be a feast for the senses.
i Light Marina Bay 2012 brings a spectacle of colour and light to the already spectacular Marina Bay.
Organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and with festival direction provided by Smart Light, this year’s edition will feature 22 works which will be by Asian based artists and designers. This is in line with the festival’s theme of “Light Meets Asia”. Beyond the theme, the festival aims to also promote sustainability and the use of energy-efficient technology – a message that the 31 works selected for the festival will carry. A total of 17 countries are represented in the 31 works, which were selected from some 100 submissions. 21 of the works are festival commissions.
Ms Mary-Anne Kyriakou, the Festival Director and Mr Mark Goh, Deputy Director of URA’s Place Management Department, speaking at the media preview.
As the area around which the 31 installations is large, the media preview, led by Festival Director Ms Mary-Anne Kyriakou, covered some of the highlights of the festival. One of the highlights Key Frames – a delightful installation set by the Float @ Marina Bay which has not just 30 light stick figures in various poses seemingly dancing in a routine choreographed to the music, it makes the viewer want to also dance with them. The installation is by French light artists, Groupe LAPS, which hails from the World’s largest light festival, Lyon’s Fête des Lumières.
Lighted stick figures are brought to life in a choreographed display by the Float @ Marina Bay. The light and sound show, Key Frames, is the work of Groupe LAPS from the World's largest light festival, the Fête des Lumières, Lyon.
A full exposure of Key Frames.
The highlights also included some of the more eye-catching installations – those that involved projections on two of the new icons of Singapore that are hard to miss. One is that of the interactive projection on the Merlion, Light of the Merlion – the work of Portuguese projection artists, OCUBO, which I did not have an opportunity yet to photograph. With Light of the Merlion, visitors are able to control light projections on the surface of the Merlion through an interactive touch-screen at Merlion Park. The other installation that certainly cannot be missed is the animated projection on three fingers of the ArtScience Museum, which uses 3D digital mapping technology – best viewed from The Helix (bridge), which is the work of local projection artists Hexogon Solution. The work, entitled Garden of Light, is also the largest projection at the festival. Hexogon Solution is one of eleven Singaporean artists whose works would be seen at the festival.
A close of the animated projection on the ArtScience Musuem.
Three interesting works can also be found in a rather unconventional space – under the seating gallery of seating gallery of The Float @ Marina Bay. The first, Sweet Home, is a site-specific work by Swedish based Serbian artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic is an adaptation of an original work created for Belgrade of Light 2011. The work aims to make ugly places pretty – the original work in Belgrade was an attempt to bring warmth and a homely atmosphere to one of the most polluted, busiest and exciting streets in Belgrade. For i Light Marina Bay 2012, Sweet Home, supported by Philips Lighting, attempts to use the colourful forms of the lanterns used in the installation to spread warmth and homeliness in the urban environment. The second installation here is American artist Dev Harlan’s Parmenides I. This is a large-scale geometric sculpture which incorporates a 360 degree projection mapped video which was previously exhibited at the New Museum’s New Ideas for the New City Festival in New York. The work features hypnotic 3D projections of swirling abstract patterns that gives a sense of movement, colour and form. The third, Crystallised by Andrew Daly and Katherine Fife from Australia, is one to look up to. The work which is an abstraction of the starry night sky, is an installation of five thousand hollowed-out and edge-lit acrylic rods which attempts to create a glowing internal landscape like a ceiling of a cave with glittering stalactites. It is under this that visitors walk and reflect on the impact of poorly considered lighting on city life.
Dev Harlan's Parmenides I.
The glowing internal landscape under which visitors walk and reflect on the impact of poorly considered lighting on city life - Crystallised by Andrew Daly and Katherine Fife.
Several installations are also located across the bay at the Promontory and the Waterfront Promenade. This includes After Light – which makes use of shipping containers the ends of which projections are made on which will examine the significance of light in New Zealand, from where the group behind the installation, StoryBox hails, and across cultures to Asia. The containers will also incorporate two site specific installations inside the containers that feature the work of budding talents from Singapore’s La Salle College of the Arts and School of the Arts. The area will also feature the glow of cocktail stirrers that have been transformed by French/Filipino artist Olivia d’Aboville into a glowing reef of coral-like sculptures that encourages visitors to interact with, much as a coral reef attracts life under the sea to do so, entitled Coral Garden. Other works in the area include Planting Shadows by Singapore’s Vertical Submarine; Thai sculptor Be Takerng Pattanopas’ Gap the Mind; the orange-red glow of France’s BIBI’s Bibigloo; Receptacle by Cambodia’s Marine Ky; Uh by the Propeller Group from Vietnam and one that is definitely should not be missed – Classification Pending by Craig Walsh from Australia which has 3D animated projections of artificial marine life forms on the waters of the bay.
Installation being carried out for After Light, by Story Box from New Zealand.
The coral garden at the Promontory - Coral Garden by French/Filipino artist Olivia d’Aboville.
Over the Marina Bay City Gallery, The Gate promises to be a huge attraction with its red beams of light. The work of Li Hui, which uses a powerful symbol of a portal which the red beams lead to – a passage perhaps to enlightenment, is one that we are not able to pass through. It suggests that enlightenment is a goal that cannot be attained.
The Festival Director Ms Mary-Anne Kyriakou speaks through the red beams of light of Li Hui's The Gate.
Li Hui, whose silhouette is seen at the right, speaking about his work.
An exit it is not. The Gate which can be seen to look at enlightenment as a goal that can never be achieved, is one that we are not able to go through.
Along the waterfront promenade leading to Marina Bay Sands and in front of Marina Bay Sands are a series of 9 other installations, which include two works by Singaporean artist we were introduced to – a squid like creature 5QU1D by Ryf Zaini and the work of Zulkifle Mahmod named Deck Journey. The series of 31 installations are spread around the bay and would definitely take much more than an evening to fully appreciate. One, the work of another Singaporean artist Angela Chong, Tree Stories, is found somewhat off the beaten track over at Esplanade Park. Tree Stories involves illuminated text on tree trunks which encourages interaction in the form of dialogue between the reader and the tree. Besides Tree Stories and Light on the Merlion, there are also several other installations that invite interaction – something that would appeal especially to the kids. These include several located in and around the seating gallery at The Float @ Marina Bay – White Rain by Japan’s Takahiro Matsuo, Urban Makyoh by UK based “lighting guerillas” Light Collective and Immersion by Martin Bevz and Kathryn Clifton from Australia. Several are also located over at the waterfront in front of Marina Bay Sands – The Light Dam by Taiwan’s Uno Lai, Illumination Disorders II by Singapore’s Tay Swee Siong and Bio Shell by Shinya Okuda of Japan. Installations can all be visited free of charge and will be on from 7.30pm to 11pm nightly.
Ryf Ziani and 5QU1D.
Zulkifle Mahmod's Deck Journey.
A series of activities and events has also been arranged during the festival which include free guided tours, workshops and also a photography competition in which participants will have a chance to win prizes worth up to $10,000 sponsored by LUMIX (who have also kindly lent LUMIX cameras for the Photo AmBayssadors and Official Bloggers to use during the period of the festival. More information can be found at the i Light Marina Bay 2012 website.
All photographs in this post have been taken with a LUMIX GF-3.
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I’m liveblogging the 2013 Grammy Awards for your blog-reading enjoyment. Liveblogging is a stretch…I simply dvr-ed it, am re-watching it, and sharing my comments as it goes. Anything underlined is a link.
Point of note: I tend to be very, very opinionated about these kinds of things, so I mean no offense to you or anyone you may or may not like. I’m going to comment on everything worth commenting on, so if you think there’s something noteworthy on which I did not comment, we simply disagree on the concept of noteworthiness. For example, JLo’s leg: not noteworthy. The afro next to Jay-Z: noteworthy. Here goes:
Taylor Swift: I feel bad for Taylor Swift. I get the feeling that she really wants to be an artist, but has been forced to fit the mold of a pop star. She seems to have a good voice, some musical chops and songwriting ability, but all that has been covered over with this teeny-bopper, sex-symbol, gaudy art schtick that sucks. Bummer for her.
LL Cool J: Is awesome. As a child of the 90’s I love LL. His unplugged version of “Mama Said Knock You Out” is one of my favorite rap jams of all time. But as a Grammy Awards host, I’m not sold.
Elton John and some other guy: Best concert I’ve ever been to was with my buddy Jimmi when we went to see Elton John and Billy Joel in Kansas City. Have no idea who this other guy is, but I don’t recognize the song as being Elton’s, so I guess it’s his. If so, he writes a nice song. Regardless, I’d rather hear “Rocket Man“, “Saturday Night” or “Tiny Dancer” any day. Seems like a perfectly good waste of an Elton John. Yes, I know he is technically “Sir” Elton John, but I’m an American and we kicked their butts 230-some years ago, so if a knight is anywhere other than British soil, in my opinion, it doesn’t count. Also, my twelve-year old made me feel old when he asked who the guy playing the piano was.
Best Pop Solo Performance: I think it’s cool that all the nominees in this category are women. I’m not sure I’d call Adele a pop performer though. I wish there was a category for fantastic singing; she could win that one.
FUN.: Made it rain inside, which is pretty wild. My kids are big fans of FUN. and I like the way this guys sings, really expressive like a storyteller. On the other hand, I am not a fan of his man capris and white shoes.
Country Music: Already has the Country Music Association Awards so I can’t figure out why they heck there are any country categories or performances on the Grammys at all. Drives me nuts. On the other hand, Carrie Underwood is coming up and she and her band blew my mind, but I don’t think she’s country. I watched that season of American Idol and she can sing anything.
Dick Clark: American BandStand was awesome. Glad they recognized him.
Miguel and Wiz Khalifa: I dig it. I admire artists — especially rappers — who can totally strip a song down, make it minimal and simple, and make it great.
Song of the Year: Let me take this opportunity to go off for a bit about the whole concept of the Grammy Awards. Granted, there are some great artists that are rewarded at the Grammys and some great musicians that perform there, but seriously…song of the year? Record of the year? Best new artist? Album of the year? Do you have any idea how many incredible songs, records, artists and albums are made every year by millions of musicians all around the world? The Grammys pretty much represent musicians and work that can make money and possibly have mass appeal, but no committee of people could possibly begin to even think of or consider all the great music and musicians that work tirelessly creating beautiful art. Props to them — the hard-working unsung and unheralded — thanks for your hard work in bringing beauty to us.
Johnny Depp: A fifty-something walking Hot Topic accessory rack. Kind of sad.
Justin Timberlake: For some reason, got to perform two songs. I’ve never been a fan of Justin Timberlake except when he does the foam beer can sketch on SNL. Anyway, he ends his first song by bringing Jay-Z on stage who blows the roof off the place, and then JT tries to perform another song without Hova and there is zero energy on the stage, in the room or on the TV screen. Lousy.
Urban Contemporary: R&B is now Urban Contemporary? That’s dumb.
The Black Keys: Totally right for the rock Grammy. Love the Black Keys and their upcoming performance with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (which I rank as third best performance of the evening). I think they showed up for the Grammys just to make a statement for good rock ‘n roll, cause it felt to me like they hated being there. And they had a guy dressed as an American Indian playing the organ who I’m positive was tripping on something very special.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxfaqg_the-black-keys-lonely-boy-grammys-2013_music
Maroon 5 & Alicia Keyes: This was a tough one for me. I hate Maroon 5 and love Alicia Keyes. I think every Maroon 5 song is the same, and I don’t think their lead guy is that great a singer, definitely not good enough to tell other truly great singers how to be better singers on The Voice. Alicia Keyes, on the other hand, is one of the best female R&B singers around, a really gifted classically trained pianist, and has an unreal voice. I’d listen to her sing the phone book.
The girl sitting next to Jay-Z: Has a great afro.
Rap Collaboration: How does anyone compete with Jay-Z and Kanye?
Kelly Clarkson: Can really, really sing. Did Carole King proud.
Bob Marley: Was offered a tribute by Ziggy, Damian, Sting, and Bruno Mars. I’m pretty impressed with this Bruno Mars kid. His song “Grenade” sucks, but his Grammy performances last year and this year caused me to pick up his album and he’s got some serious talent and skill (and a really great band). When Sting came on stage, that was cool, but when Ziggy and Damian hit the stage it got real. Also, Damian has the most serious dreds I’ve ever seen.
The Lumineers: Best performance of the night.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxfbxe_the-lumineers-performance-grammy-awards-replay_lifestyle
Jack White: Second best performance of the night. A close second. This dude is so weird, so smart and so white. He is that rare mix of brilliant poet and sensational musician. I could’ve done without his mic-mate on the first song. She made me very uncomfortable, which was probably his point. On the second song, his bass player was playing a chrome stand-up, which is pretty awesome, and the blues-rock was incredible. Could’ve listened to that all night.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxfbt0_jack-white-shocking-performance-grammy-awards-replay_lifestyle
Carrie Underwood: Again, I hate country music, but this Carrie Underwood performance was not country, it was art. Maybe folk art, but art nonetheless (she does use the words “Oklahoma”, “whiskey”, “Mama” and such). She has a one-in-a-million voice, and they used her princess dress as a screen to do art with lights, which was wild. Have no idea who the band was that backed her, but they were really great. Skip to 0:55 of the video, the kid at the beginning who introduces her is no good.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxfhkr_video-carrie-underwood-blown-away-performance-2013-grammys_lifestyle
Prince: Presented Gotye with record of the year for “Somebody That I Used To Know”. Prince is such an enigma, which I think is exactly what he wants. Did you know though that Prince is one of the best guitarists around? For real…he can shred.
Gotye and Kimbra: One of the best covers ever. You should watch his acceptance speech, it is great. Also, Kimbra is wearing an incredible dress that my wife fell in love with.
Dave Brubeck: That was a great cover of Take Five.
Levon Helm: Wow…what a great collaboration to honor a great artist. Zac Brown, Elton John, Mavis Staples, Mumford and Sons, T-Bone Burnett, and Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes. A few things about this performance: 1) The Band was awesome. If you don’t have their stuff on your ipod, you’re missing out. 2) I’ve never heard anything by Alabama Shakes, but after hearing Brittany Howard sing, I’m checking them out. 3) The highlight of this performance — in my mind — is the piano-playing by Elton John. He is so freaking good. It’s better than honky-tonk or soul or rock…it’s some beautiful hybrid of those three that only he and possibly Billy Joel can pull off. 4) I’m amazed by the ability of great musicians to find, understand and compliment one another even when they don’t regularly play together. A spiritual understanding.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxfbxn_zac-brown-band-elton-john-mumford-sons-mavis-staples-brittany-howard-tribute-to-levon-helm-grammy-a_lifestyle
Frank Ocean: This performance sucked. How this guy got nominated for album of the year is beyond me.
Album of the Year: I love Mumford and Sons, and I really like the album Babel, but how Mumford and Sons beat Jack White or the Black Keys is beyond me. Blunderbuss is unreal, I’ve never heard anything like it. Jack White just keeps growing, expanding and getting better. I like Babel a lot, but I’ve heard it before: it was their album “Sigh No More” from last year. And the Black Keys are so good, a reinvention of blues rock that is really original. I can’t think of anyone who sounds like the Black Keys. Sorry, Mumford and Sons, but this wasn’t yours to win this year.
LL Cool J, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Travis Barker: Great performance. I mean, I’ve heard way better rock/rap performances, but this was just great. I have no idea what they were talking about, may as well have been gibberish, but LL and Chuck D have great flow and energy. It doesn’t hurt to have the best drummer and the most innovative guitarist around backing you up. Loved and appreciated the shoutout to MCA of the Beastie Boys.
So that’s it….my experience of the 2013 Grammy Awards. There’s no way I’d call it Music’s biggest night, but it was something.
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4 thoughts on “2013 Grammy Awards: A LiveBlog [jay]”
Billy Joel is awesome…mostly (I’m assuming you noticed the Billy Joel quote in a comment on a previous post?). Also, I loved seeing Taylor Swift boldly sing along to The Lumineers. And, there is awesome country music out there (start with Hayes Carll for new stuff…Townes Van Zant for old). Love.
Jacob Ryan Feld says:
This was pretty hilarious and enjoyable. I don’t think I’ll ever watch the Grammys, but I felt like I was watching it via your commentary. The concept of awards for music (or any art form, frankly) is a bit bizarre. I’d be interested to read an elaboration on that on TheoCult (hint, hint).
Also, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the organ player with the Native American headdress in Lebanon. Pretty sure.
Candace Prokopets says:
This was hilarious to read! Here are my comments.
1. You have a 12 year old?? Now you’re making me feel old.
2. The girl with the afro next to Jay-z is his sister-in-law, Solange Knowles. Don’t you know anything about pop-culture? 😉
3. The Carrie Underwood performance: for real? Art? I guess you can call it art like people call throwing paint on a canvas art. Sorry, dude, it was just completely bizarre. So weird that I was distracted from her beautiful voice and couldn’t believe she agreed to the idea.
4. Frank Ocean – I couldn’t agree more! And why they saved him for towards the end? They could have gotten that over with much earlier in the night.
Justin Ryan Boyer says:
JT on SNL is so cherry (both in comedy and in sing/dance)… it’s almost too good… like everyone hates him because he’s so good. Which made me think this week when he’ll crash (or maybe he already has). Why you don’t like him, in a superficial way, is beyond me.
I’m glad Jack White didn’t become a priest. (Well, maybe he did).
Lumineer’s are cool… though their main track is overplayed (at least in the past 6 months). I’m interested at the surge of bands like them over the past 5 years (such as mumford, avett bros, the head and the heart, of monsters and men)… I wonder what the popularity of certain types says about the culture either pro-actively or re-actively.
Also, what’s up with animated gifs this year? Wasn’t that like 15 years ago?
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Posted 12 January 2012 – 11:41 AM
Even NATO will not be able to control the southern desert. Rabble rats are finished. Green Libya will be reborn like Phoenix from the ashes !
Muammar was neither caught nor killed.They caught and killed a double.Muammar is alive and organising the Resistance from a safe underground location.
Muammar is alive.
He is coordinating the Green Resistance from a safe underground location.
His own press is not reporting on it because he wants to keep his underground location secure and safe, hidden away from western rats.The time will come for him, but not yet, to show up again.VIVA MUAMMAR !Posted 15 January 2012 – 08:21 AM
Only one son is captured: Saif al-Islam.And he is not really captured, he is staying with the Zinten tribe who are keeping him safe from rats’ harm.It is said that he will even marry a woman from the Zinten tribe, this will assure their loyalty to the Guide.Khamis Gaddafi is underground, organizing the Green Resistance with his father.Hannibal and two brothers are in Algeria in exile, with their sister Aisha and mother Safia.
They are organizing the media: Aisha will take over and continue TV Rai from a new location.
Two of the Guide’s sons, Saif al-Arab and Mutassim, are dead: killed by NATO butchery.
Aisha’s husband – a colonel in the Jamahiriya Army – is dead as well: killed by NATO butchery.
Libye – Les manifestants à Benghazi chantent « Oui oui …oui oui … Maoummer est toujours vivant » (5 janvier 2012)
Publié le 05/01/2012 à 21:40 – 905 visites
Source : ALGERIA ISP
ALGERIA ISP / Selon Dhida Yawme 17 fibrayr Fi Libya (Contre le 17 février en Libye), des grandes manifestations dans les rues de Benghazi et les manifestants chantent « وي وي وي وي .. معمر قاعد حي» « Oui oui …oui oui … Maoummer est toujours vivant ».
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Libya: Demonstrators in Benghazi chant “yes, yes, yes, yes … Muammar is still alive” (January 5, 2012)
According to Dhida Yawme 17 Fibrayr Fi Libya (Against February 17 in Libya), huge demonstrations are taking place in the streets of Benghazi, with demonstrators chanting “yes, yes, yes, yes …. Muammar is still alive.”
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/392102_235077249888066_100001573787406_739072_1066739
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ALGERIA ISP / La radio Libya FM (Pro CNT) a diffusé une chanson patriotique du guide Maoummer Kadhafi ce qui a provoqué la colère des rebelles et des pro CNT. La radio LIBYA FM s’est excusée et elle a confirmé que c’est une radio du CNT. Est ce que cette diffusion été accidentelle ou bien délibérée par un fidèle de la résistance verte ou un piratage de la fréquence de la radio ?
Libya: Radio Libya FM (pro rabble rats) sends a patriotic song of the Guide Gaddafi (January 6, 2012)
Radio Libya FM (pro rabble rats) sent a patriotic song of Guide Muammar Gaddafi which provoked the anger of rabble rats and their “council”. Radio Libya FM apologized and confirmed they are a radio for rabble rats. Was the playing of this song accidental or deliberated by a loyal Green Resistance Fighter ?
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LIBYA: Final report of the Government (01/25/2012): Gaddafi is alive! … The international community must explain why neglect and makes it easier for criminals “rebels” of the NATO-CNT destruction and genocide committed in Libya
http://libia-sos.blogspot.com/
– From Bani Walid – repeated reports that Muammar Gaddafi is alive! : Gaddafi is alive and in Liberia, where he plans to return to Libya.
Abdul Jalil was forced to flee the headquarters of the puppet government when the crowd entered the building, even after the destruction of his escort.
Shortly after entering the city, a local radio station began broadcasting the speeches of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who insists that he is alive and well, and is currently in Liberia, where he is coordinating the activities for his return to Libya.
Invitation to Green Charter Movement to Discuss the Green Manifesto (2012)
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=629819?rss
Green Committees have issued an invitation for supporters and members of the Green CharterMovement to approve or modify a Green Manifesto setting out basic principles of the movement
In response to demands from among the Green Charter Movement for a unifying document of purpose, discussions took place which has produced a draft “Green Manifesto 2012” by way of consensus.Committees who took part in the process are inviting those among the Green Charter Movement who did not have the opportunity until now, to join in the final stages of drafting the manifesto and participate in the discussion.The committees opted to use the Green Charter forums hosted at www.mathaba.org and those wishing to read and participate, can register at the forum if they have not done so before, or login and visit the following link:https://www.mathaba.org/topic_show.pl?tid=431Past users of the forum who may have lost their passwords, can type their username or emailaddress into the lost password box, in order to receive an email with a login link.
http://www.greencharter.com
https://www.mathaba.org/topic_show.pl?tid=431
By Quoriana Date 2012-01-22 22:03
a) Are you in general agreement with the need for this Green Manifesto as a document for adoption and issuance by the Green Charter Movement?Absolutely. I think it is very useful and necessary to make clear to the world as well as to ourselves who we are and what we stand for, it is our outer and inner identity. Therefore I propose that as soon as this Manifesto is final, each and everyone of us should read it at least once a week, simply because the human mind tends to forget or at least to not exactly remember anymore after a while. Some Protestant churches in Europe have the habit to read out their Creed (which actually is their Manifesto) at the beginning of each church service, which I think is very useful to simply stay alert. We should be awake and ready to face the world, including and especially the enemy, all the time, and the best way to stay prepared is to continually be aware of who we are and what we stand for.Speaking of who we are, I personally prefer the name Jamahiri Citizen above all (see 6. of the Manifesto). Other than many other names, especially names ending with -ist, is being a Citizen almost as plain as being male or female and not subject to different interpretations. No one has to protest or join any (political) organization whatsoever to become a citizen of this world. The same is the case with becoming a Jamahiri Citizen. I believe we all are a Jamahiri Citizen by nature, simply because we all have the same basic human rights as explained in the International Green Charter. The only difference is: we should become aware of those human rights, of how they are violated by governments, banking institutions and other criminal organisations and even by ourselves if we do not respect ourselves or think we don’t owe those basic human rights. (Or, even worse, if we think we can restore our violated human rights by becoming selfish, greedy and materialistic, which is what governments, companies and add campaigns encourage us to be and to do since they are well aware of the fact that there is a huge gap in at the world citizen’s life, caused by the violation of those people’s basic human rights, so “let’s tempt them to buy expensive cars, to go on expensive trips, to buy expensive jewelry, clothes and make-up, maybe it will make them feel like their human rights are restored”. This, of course, will never bring anyone closer to the truth of the Third Universal Theory (3UT) and therefore will never work).As soon as we are aware of our basic human rights and about the truth of the 3UT, I guess we can call ourselves Enlightened Jamahiri Citizens, but let’s not use that term as for now every Jamahiri Citizen should be considered to be aware of the 3UT truth. Rather put it the other way around: every world citizen who is not aware of the 3UT truth yet, can be considered to be an Unenlightened Jamahiri Citizen.If it is important to people to stick with other names, then if they are a Christian, they can become a Jamahiri Christian. If they are a Communist, they can become a Jamahiri Communist. If they are a Humanist, they can become a Jamahiri Humanist, and so on. However if they are a criminal (violator of any human right), they of course can not become a Jamahiri criminal.b) Do you feel the 10 points cover the main issues to give substance and guidance to the movement as a uniting platform of core principles?Yes I do. To clarify the Manifesto to people who are not familiar with the Green Charter Movement and the 3UT, it will be helpful to not only refer to the Glossary at the greencharter wiki, but to also insert all necessary links.c) Do you have any other overall suggestions or comments regarding the Green Manifesto?The difference between Membership (5.) and Leadership (9.) may not be immediately clear to everyone, and I am also not sure if Membership and Leadership should be separated. It also can be that I don’t totally understand the difference myself. As it is now, it can be interpreted that both Membership and Leadership can be reached by adopting the ideology, and that Leadership can be reached by being active and supportive, but thus all active and supportive Members will become Leaders and likely (hopefully) lots of Members are active and supportive.This however is not how I interpret it myself; I think that Members (people who have adopted the ideology) with natural ‘leadership skills’ automatically will evolve to Leaders, but then should become “Members with a leadership role” (which role should be clear to themselves and others, but at the same time should not have rules or restrictions) and not “Leaders” instead of “Members”. I see it like we are all part (Members) of the same body (the “Movement”), but some people are the brains (likely they will be the “Members (‘body parts’) with a leadership role”) while others for example are the hands or feet; they will act in accordance with and execute the plans, ideas etc. of the Members with a leadership role, if necessary under the guidance of those Members with a leadership role.Frankly I haven’t decided yet if the concept of “Members” and “Members with a leadership role” is ideal or if it after all is preferable to the current names (Members and Leaders) so input on this is very welcome. Leadership in any case should be something natural and not a result of any form of elections, and when someone is not able to be a Leader any longer or for a while, there should be no “vacant place”, ideally one or more Members naturally will evolve to Leaders as happens in the animal world when a “leading figure” falls away.
The draft of the Green Manifesto (2012) at the end of Stage 1, is as follows:Convinced that human rights cannot be guaranteed in a world where there exist governors and governed, masters and slaves, rich and poor;Aware that human misery cannot disappear, nor human rights be affirmed, except by building a world where the people hold the power, the wealth and the arms; a world where governments and armies will disappear, and where communities, peoples and nations will be rid of all danger of war, a world of peace, respect, consensus and co-operation;Committees of the Green Charter Movement issue forth:The Green Manifesto (2012)1. Our ideology (philosophy) is the Third Universal Theory. The Political Axis, The Economic Basis and the Social Aspect of the Third Universal Theory are explained in The Green Book.2. The final goal of the movement is the emancipation from the fetters of injustice, despotism, exploitation, and economic and political hegemony, for the purpose of establishing a society of all the people (Jamahiriya) where all are free and share equally in authority, wealth and arms. Freedom will then triumph definitively and universally.3. Based on the principles of the International Green Charter our movement was formed to link men and women around the world who wish to achieve, promote and defend the Human Rights and freedoms of this new age, the era of the masses, which were defined by the free people, gathered in people’s conferences.4. The method to achieve our rights and freedoms is by any means necessary, with each member working according to his/her circumstances and without violating this manifesto and the International Green Charter. Human rights can only be achieved by the victory of the popular masses over their oppressors and the disappearance of regimes and monopolies which annihilate freedom.5. Membership is by adoption of the International Green Charter and swearing to uphold its principles, rights, freedoms and responsibilities.6. We may be called “Green Chartists”, “Disciples of the Third Universal Theory”, “Jamahiri Citizens”, “Green Committees”, “Revolutionaries”, “Revolutionary Committees”, whatever ourdescription, our meeting place is the local “Mathaba” where we meet to formulate our daily, weekly and yearly programs.7. The movement encourages the formation ofpeople’s conferences and people’s committees, to achieve the self-governing masses society (Jamahiriya). The establishment of the power of the popular masses will consolidate their existence on earth, when the sovereignty of the people will be exercised directly through legislative people’s conferences and executive people’s committees.8. Local organisation of the movement is by way of Green Charter (R)Evolutionary Committees which set their own programs and public platforms called the Green Charter Agenda. Regional or National Green Charter Movements may also be formed in line with the Green Manifesto and together form a Green Charter International to give voice to the movement worldwide.9. Leadership in the movement is (r)evolutionary and determined by adoption of ideology and platform. Tireless activity and material support to achieve its aims and advanced positions are criteria of exemplary leadership.10. The flag (banner) of the (Universal) Jamahiriya is solid green, dimensions 1:2. The Green Charter Movements may adopt their own symbols in white upon solid green background, or green upon plain white background.
— For definitions please see http://wiki.greencharter.com/Category:Glossary
By adam Date 2012-01-22 22:42
Peace and Blessings. What a wonderful and thought-provoking contribution. It is so nice to see a good consensus building. This is one of those contributions that will be effective in determining some proposals at Stage 2, and is very helpful for us all to be thinking on already.I like the idea of Jamahiri Citizen and am wondering in stage 2 if we may give an alternative proposal to the point on “descriptions”, and make that proposal to actually state Jamahiri Citizen on its own, if so, what some of those qualities are.As to membership and leadership, so maybe those can be combined, and some more thinking on the wording. I think we are in complete agreement with your added explanation of natural (r)evolutionary leadership and as discussed in the previous thread. So let’s hear some more on this from everyone, along with more on the “descriptions”, and I suggest we could add a poll.Please everyone, come back here EVERY DAY, consensus building is not a once-off, but an ongoing adaptation with discussion, compromise, but reaching something we are ALL happy with, and for this to happen, please come back at least once or twice every day to check all messages in this thread, and any new threads, and give you ongoing input, even if it is just to confirm your full agreement.
Posted on 20/01/2012 by alfatah69
Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi: a dead man in good health
by LIBIAHABLA
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/20/colonel-moammar-gaddafi-a-dead-man-in-good-health/
Once again the forces of the empire, NATOand its leadership nefarious criminal, intelligence agencies Yankees, CIA and company, mercenary puppets of the NTC, imperial lackey, returned to announce the “death” of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi commander. Sirte presented as making the movie filmed in Qatar of taking Tripoli last August, the script seems to be the same, with brass bands, clowns, murderers shooting right and left posing for the cameras, with the death of a person look alike Gaddafi is saying or someone like him.
Knowing how these fascist act, by the time that has passed since the news was circulated only at the level of the media they control the world, the first version, without further and more effectively confirming evidence that elements the corpse is that of the Libyan leader, that makes them fall by their own lies invented the most typical style of psychological warfare.
The “portal Libya” denies al this categorically and emphatically, and speaks of the imperialist’s fallacy :
“Another lie of NATO:
Gaddafi was neither wounded nor captured October 20, 2011.
The False Martyrdom of Colonel Muammar Gadhafi.
Libyan Colonel doubtful Qatari-Hollywood western movie media false execution sine tripoli film production methodsmade on 19th of October, with NAVADA signature
After declaring eight times General Khamis Gaddafi‘s “death”
repeatedly captured Muatasim and Saif Al Islam,
that “Gaddafi gave” the Libyan soldiers Viagra for women violated and
that aviation planes had attacked the people of Benghazi
that their army is made up of “black mercenaries,”
Bel-Hadj never had anything to do with the criminals of the al-Qaeda (!) and the “real” intention of NATO is “to protect civilians,”(!)r2p.
That is what today they would have us believe: That they captured, in Sirte, the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi!
The credibility of NATO’s information and their henchmen does not exist. The Libyan will people resist and prevail.
The Libyan people’s struggle against the aggressors, and leadership continues with Gaddafi in front.
Do not yield an inch of ground, there will be tactical retreats, maneuver warfare, even momentary loss of land to regroup forces and fall upon the enemy. In many ways the media war is stronger than military confrontation, the most important thing is that it is developing a long war, people against aggressor powers and mercenary sepoys of Empires.
Gaddafi is important because he is the leader of his people,
but if it were so that he is dead, that would not stop the Resistance and the struggle to fully recover Libya.
BUT, I have it clear; he’s alive, and with his leadership, and his children who fight alongside him, are his people and all the tribes.
So we will contribute in this asymmetrical war, where empires believe they dominate and control everything , this here “guerrilla” media tells the truth of what is happening in Libya; and contributes to the solidarity with the people, the struggle for peace, against imperialist aggression and for helping to beat the imperial lie.
From the page Libyan Resistance and martyrdom, comes the latest report of the Libyan Government in Arms, 19 October 2011: Unbeatable strength to defeat the enemy and their neo-colonial mercenary servants. Just like that we got what we present “The Libyan people’s war will not let the criminal NATO and its band of fanatics and murderers rule.
The world must be vigilant and denounce NATO and the UN as directly responsible for this slaughter , destruction and theft.
International outrage at the horror perpetrated against the Libyans has only just begun. The threat of NATO murders of entire villages and alleged crimes against humanity, taking the reins of the UN and imposing an agenda of war to plunder natural resources should be seriously considered as it may lead to a global conflagration shortly. The similarities with the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia are obvious and a black omen of things to come. The Libyans are defending heroically in order to defeat with invincible firmness, and will eliminate the neo-colonialist enemy. They will not rest until the final victory … .. the green flag waves victorious in 80% of Libyan territory.
By: Humberto Gómez García
Libya Collaborating Talk
(www.revistacaracola.com) (humbertocaracola@gmail.com)
OUR BROTHER-LEADER LIVES!
According ALGERIA ISP, this release fixes an appointment to pro-Resistance green with Kadhafi on Libyan television. He really is alive!
“Inchaelah it will be true …. Inchaelah a miracle will appear shortly … “.
YES OUR BROTHER LEADER ON TV !!! LIVE!!
Libya – A statement of the Resistance refers to an appointment made with the guide soon (January 14, 2012)
Posted on 14/01/2012 at 21:10 – 892 visits
Source: ALGERIA ISP http://www.algeria-isp.com/actualites/politique-libye/201201-A8154/libye-communique-resistance-parle-rdv-avec-guide-bientot-janvier-2012.html?mid=57
Friday 18November 2011
UN Human Rights Award for Gaddafi
A particularly controversial document has now surfaced on the Internet. Even in January this year, the UN would have Colonel Gaddafi, give him his due in particular launched Jamahiriya, an award for human rights.
What is the Jamahiriya?
Dschamahiriyya (oftenJamahiriya Jamahiriyyasometimes written) is a Muammar al-Gaddafi attributed neologism, [1] only in connection with Libya it is used. These are a peculiar parallel formation todschumhuriyya / جمهورية /ǧumhūriyya /, Republic of ‘Republic’, in which an abstraction of the plural form dschamahir /جماهير / ǧamāhīr /, the masses’ is derived, rather than as usual in Arab usual from the singular , and mutatis mutandis, People’s , People’s Democracy ‘translated, with the political system as a form of direct democracy is understood.
For Dschamahiriyya in Libya was a representative of the people through representatives, in the sense of a representative or parliamentary democracy, as a distortion of popular will. Therefore, there was neither parliament nor political parties or indeed any government in the classical sense.
The political decision-making took place after the official version in so-called basic people’s congresses, their decisions by the Commissioner ( imperative mandate ) the recited several times a year with the general people’s congress for the coordination and formulation. The reaction was carried out by the People’s Committees . Source: wikipedia
A movement launched by Gaddafi caused so much good that he should so by the UN for a human rights award will be administered. The vote should be a mere formality. But when the Western powers decided to invade Libya, oh sorry – I meant of course to support the insurgents, the document disappeared. It would also have been quite embarrassing for the Amerikans, Gaddafi would have received this award. Imagine, how ridiculous would have worked the whole propaganda by the evil dictator then.
It is also significant that the Jamahiriya was an instrument of direct democracy. An institution that is, from our self-proclaimed democracies are still miles away.
Here the 23-page document: United Nations document on Gaddafi
In short: It is reported that Gaddafi was not only a guarantee for peace in his country, but there are also components such as anti-racism and women’s rights and social aspects involved. The Gaddafi would definitely deserves this award, we see when we look at the social components of Libya in detail.
List of benefits in the supposedly cruel Libya
How to list the rebels in Libya, I’m sufficiently in the article Libya: An unbelievable atrocities committed by rebels described.
The city Misrata: 2007 and 2011
To sum up: Libya was led by an anti-racists, feminists and socialists big. These he brought to the Libyans also direct democracy, giving him for the UN Human Rights Award was one.
Then a handful of berserk warriors of God come up with the idea that they want the power. The Amerikanskis have nothing better to do than send them to the NATO bombers to help put the whole Libya to rubble and ashes.As was put to death in many civilian victims of the alleged despot who came to Western leaders and shared the spoils of war.For the Libyan people this means that the resources, mainly oil in Libya, are now no longer good for them, but the profit is divided among Western oil companies. To survive, they can now offer their labor to the foreign invaders, they may serve them, to get things they really belong anyway. Well, why the heck else where as we go? Libya is also introduced in the Saudi-type ofSharia as the law now, which means that women’s rights, it is now over and polygamy is returned. And with many other rights are now lost.
Friends should also be put in quotes
Gaddafi can not blame only that he had engaged in recent years with greasy despots who love their people not as, as he loved his.
Peter van Dorren
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Striking proof: Gaddafi should receive the UN Human Rights Award
Before the NATO air strikes on Libya and the United States prepared by the United Nations, the awarding of a prize to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahiriya for its achievements in the field of human rights. It sounds unbelievable, but true – the same man, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, the NATO and the United States for months as a “brutal dictator branded” should be honored for his contributions to human rights in Libya.Is not it strange that the United Nations nor the end of March, “a” brutal dictator wanted to give a human rights award? (Report of the Working Group to Libyan Arab Jamahiriya –document A/HRC/WG.6/9/L.13 )
This raises a question: Who is this “brutal dictator” of the UN Human Rights Council wanted to give sometime in late March as a price for his services to the people’s rights? On the one hand they want us to believe that he is known to a “brutal dictator is,” and the other, they decide to honor him for his services to human rights? Amazing! Equally amazing are the lies we were being served by the media, NATO and the U.S. government. Absolutely outrageous! Not surprisingly, however outrageous. But even more astonishing is the fact that a large part of the American public has become accustomed over time to swallow every word that is set before them by the “news”.
The following excerpts from the report of the General Assembly are worth to be read carefully:
“Several delegations with appreciation the determination of the country noted to ensure the human rights on the ground. Additional comments that are submitted as part of mutual dialogue, not because of time restrictions are posted on the extranet of the universal periodic survey as soon as they become available. “
In a footnote of this report is a list of the countries listed, the Colonel Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahiriya (“rule of the masses”) the decision of the Human Rights Council of the UN General Assembly, Colonel Gaddafi human rights award this grant, praising supported. I put this list here easy. The reader can read and form their own judgments about the credibility of the alleged or actual countries concerned:
Denmark, China, Italy, Netherlands, Mauritania, Slovenia, Nicaragua, Russia,Spain, Indonesia, Sweden, Norway, Ecuador, Hungary, South Africa, the Philippines, the Maldives, Chile, Singapore, Germany, Austria, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Angola, Nigeria, Congo, Burundi, Zambia, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Zimbabwe.
If you have devoted some attention to the news, it is noticeable that some countries on this list suddenly undergone a sweeping turnaround, and NATO and the U.S. supported in their war of aggression. Why? Why else? Money. Then it is always ultimately beyond, and no doubt this will all be revealed in the future, just like the lies that the American government dishing their citizens and the world that Iraq possess “weapons of mass destruction,” finally came to light. And these same countries were determined to honor Colonel Gaddafi for his services to the Human Rights after they had examined carefully the Libyan society. What is now “with this” brutal dictator? My older brother would have called the “old news”. (But that crap! The sensitive among you is I ask for my forgiveness flowery speech).
Vladamir PUTIN & al-Qathafi:
The JAMAHIRIYA and WORLD MATHABA envisioned by al-Qathafi:
Revolutionary Committees
http://wiki.greencharter.com/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Committees
A Revolutionary Committee is made up of individuals who believe in The Green Book ideology and wish to propagate it and make its solutions a reality. To this end, they join with others, and form a Revolutionary Committee. All the Revolutionary Committees make up the Revolutionary Committees Movement.
The leader of the Revolutionary Committees Movement, was Muammar Qaddafi.
The Libyan Revolutionary Committees Movement, had its own (annual) meetings along with the Leader of the Revolution, Muammar Qaddafi. It formed its program for the coming year, and discussed the application of the ideology (philosophy) of the THIRD UNIVERSAL THEORY.
It was formed as a movement in (1979) led by Muammar Qaddafi who also resigned from all positions of People’s Authority such as his position as General Secretary of the General People’s Congress in 1979, although Muammar Qaddafi and others had already formed what were in essence revolutionary committees prior to the 1st September 1969, in order to overthrow the monarchy and work for people’s power.
The Libyan Revolutionary Committees met also regularly at their local Mathabas, and had their own offices of communications and liaison. The coordinator of the Libyan Revolutionary Committees, Majdub, was said to have died of AIDS.
One of the leading ideologues who did excellent work including a book “Revolutionary Organization” in a series “Book of the Green March”, Dr Ahmed Ibrahim, did much to contribute to what could have become a much greater force for people’s power in the world, however, his book was almost impossible to come by, and now no known copies exist, one of the last copies having been confiscated by the Sudanese security forces from Adam King who was abducted and tortured by the Islamist bankers of the Bashir-Turabi-Taha regime.
the book mentioned: “Revolutionary Organization” in a series “Book of the Green March” by Dr Ahmed Ibrahim, is Dr. MOUSSA IBRAHIM’s uncle who was abducted in the Siege of Sirte on 20 October 2011 and tortured by the TNC and we still do not have his status or whereabouts!
After compromises with western capitalist states were reached in order to lift the unjust sanctions against the Libyan Jamahiriya, the Revolutionary Committees movement was increasingly mute, and many international revolutionary committees, cut off from the Leader, sought different revolutionary leaderships, such as Hugo Chavez.
One of the noble and distinguishing characteristics of the Revolutionary Committees Movement in general, including the Libyan Revolutionary Committees Movement, was self-criticism. The revolutionary committees members guidelines sought to embody the “ideal new man or woman” in terms of national consciousness, religion and behaviour.
The Revolutionary Committees distinguished themselves from all other revolutionary movements in that they did not aim for power, nor to possess it as a movement. Instead the ideology (philosophy) of the Third Universal Theory dictated that revolutionary committees do not exercise power, but instead motivate the masses to exercise it themselves directly via Popular Conferences and People’s Committees.
Revolutionary Committees would also attend the Popular Conferences and may work collectively to put forward their ideas and views or proposals, but ultimately the consensus reached would be by the masses themselves, in exercising direct democracy.
As a means of distinguishing from the past, and the failures and poor examples of the Libyan revolutionary committees movement in recent years, a new name Evolutionary Committees was proposed and adopted by the International Green Charter (R)Evolutionary Committees Movement, and also was taking root in Libya during the 2011 war, as young Libyans who were unhappy with the old guard, embraced the Libyan leader and were pushing for a stronger Jamahiriya. [1]
Basic Popular Conferences
The grass-roots level which forms the basis for all decision-making in a Jamahiriya
Popular Conferences
Popular Conferences are the legislative (decision-making) tools of direct democracy. First announced in The Green Book and forming the basis of political power in the Libyan Jamahiriya, the original Arabic word المؤتمرات الشعبية (al-moutammarat al-shaabiya) can be translated in English to any of the following, all of which are considered here equivalent meanings in the case of direct democracy:
People’s Conferences
Popular Assemblies
People’s Assemblies
Popular Congresses
People’s Congresses
The workings of Popular Conferences are described briefly in The Green Book which also dismisses all other methods of governing as undemocratic, as well as in other works on consensus decision making or direct participatory democracy.
In a fully-functional Jamahiriya where all decision-making (political) power belongs to the people, the structures of the legislature in people’s authority is from the grass-roots neighbourhood level upwards to the national level:
Basic Popular Conferences are the basic unit of decision-making in the legislature, to which all citizens at an above agreed age, can participate on the basis of consensus (see references in direct democracy for more on how consensus decision making works).
Municipal Popular Congresses or District Popular Congresses are comprised of all the working committees (secretariats) of the Basic Popular Conferences where the consensus takes shape at the regional level.
The General People’s Congress is where all the Basic Popular Conferences decisions which are regarding issues at a national level, are collected and take their final shape.
The executive side of power in a Jamahiriya carries out the decisions (resolutions and recommendations) of the Popular Conferences by way of People’s Committees which are nominated to implement the policies which were formed in the Popular Conferences.
[After the destruction of the Libyan Jamahiriya by an all-out war and bombing campaign of annihilation, the jamahiri concept of direct democracy became famous world wide and received millions of new adherents to the Third Universal Theory. This coincided with the rise of popular discontent in the western capitalist world, exemplified by the Occupy movement, which also embraced direct democracy.
See also: Universal Jamahiriya
References: People’s Conference: Direct Democracy — (International People’s Conference Organization/ IPCO)
International People’s Conference Organization
The International People’s Conference Organization (I.P.C.O.) was founded in July 2011, in order to facilitate the creation of People’s Conferences worldwide as well as to provide and educational repository and guidance on the Jamahiriya concept of direct democracy.
The web site is at http://www.peoplesconference.org and all those wishing to join as members can do so free of charge, via a secure registration page at https://www.peoplesconference.org/reg
Direct democracy through the establishment of “People’s Conferences” in which all society members participate in shaping policy. The masses select their administrative leaders who then represent the direct will of the people and are answerable directly to the people.
General People’s Congress/ National Congress
The national level which gathers the legislative Basic Popular Conferences in a Jamahiriya
People’s Committees
People’s Committees are the executive wing of power in a Jamahiriya or People’s Authority based on direct democracy.
People’s Committees carry out (execute, implement) the decisions (resolutions, recommendations, consensus) of the legislative wing of jamahiripower, the Popular Conferences.
They are constituted within their area of executive specialisation, e.g. housing, security, communications, health, education, etc., and together make up regional (area, municipal) People’s Committees, and National (General) People’s Committees.
People’s Committees replace traditional forms of dictatorial government, such as local authorities, regional authorities, and national authorities, government departments, and branches, and are the tools to implement the decisions of the people, in a transparent and open manner.
People’s Committees are monitored by the secretariats of the Popular Conferences on a day-to-day basis to ensure they carry out the decisions reached by way of direct democracy.
For example, in a Jamahiriya the Foreign Ministry could become a General People’s Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation, as was the case in the Libyan Jamahiriya. The Ministry of Health would be the General People’s Committee for Health, while the municipal and local branches would be the Municipal People’s Committee for Health and the (locality) People’s Committee for Health respectively.
The People’s Committee for Health in a given locality would carry out the policies determined in the Basic Popular Conferences in all issues that are local in scope, but also carry out the policies that took their shape in the district, for which the District People’s Committee for Health is responsible, and which comprises the People’s Committees for Health within its area, as well as the General (National) People’s Committee for Health for issues which are common to the nation and which health policies took their final shape in the General People’s Congress.
For more information in general see The Green Book and the references on consensus decision making in direct democracy.
For a fictional presentation that explains in part how a Jamahiriya may come into being, see this article: The Green Charter Example: The Universal Dream].
General People’s Committee
The General People’s Committee is the executive side of Direct Participatory Democracy in a Jamahiriya. It carries out the policies which take their final shape in the General People’s Congress and is supervised by the Secretariat of the General People’s Congress to ensure that it implements the popular consensus.
In a traditional government there may be a “cabinet” or “ministries”, in a Jamahiriya there are General People’s Committees.
The General People’s Committee comprises all the General People’s Committees which in turn may consist of all the secretariats of the People’s Committees.
”In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam” by MATTIAS GARDELL
This book retells the fascinating story of the Nation of Islam–its rise in nothern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. “An outstanding work.”–Clifton E. Marsh, author of From Black Muslims to Muslims. –Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non
Relié: 482 pages
Editeur : Duke University Press (novembre 1996)
Mattias Gardell är professor i religionshistoria i Uppsala. Han är bland annat författare till boken Islamofobi.
Its original Arabic النظرية العالمية الثالثة has sometimes been translated as Third International Theory or Third World Theory. The official translation is however, Third Universal Theory. It has also sometimes simply been called the Third Theory.
As a third alternative to capitalism and communism
As a third alternative to individual rule (dictatorship), and indirect rule (representative democracy)
Some of those who believe in the Third Universal Theory say it is another name for TRUTH: Third Universal Theory
http://wiki.greencharter.com/index.php?title=Third_Universal_Theory
the Third Universal Theory...in part described by Helen Chapin Metz
RELIE:
Editeur : Government Printing Office (avril 1989)
Publisher: Government Printing Office; 4th edition (April 1989)
A Country Study: Libya
Library of Congress Call Number DT215 .L533 1988
Country Profile – Visit updated Profile (PDF)
Transportation and Communications
Chapter 1 – Historical Setting (LaVerle Berry)
Tripolitania and the Phoenicians
Cyrenaica and the Greeks
Fezzan and the Garamentes
Libya and the Romans
Islam and the Arabs
Fatimids
Hilalians
Hafsids
Medieval Cyrenaica and Fezzan
Ottoman Regency
Pashas and Deys
Karamanlis
The Ottoman Revival
The Sanusi Order
Italian Rule and Arab Resistance
The Second Italo-Sanusi War
The Fourth Shore
World War II and Independence
The Desert War
Allied Administration
The United Nations and Libya
Independent Libya
The September 1969 Coup
Qadhafi and the Revolutionary Command Council
The Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Petroleum Politics
Libya and Arab Unity
Libyan Ventures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Relations with the United States and Western Europe
Chapter 2 – The Society and Its Environment (LaVerle Berry)
Climate and Hydrology
Ethnic Groups and Languages
Peoples of Libya
Berbers
Black Africans
Other Peoples
Languages of Libya
Structure of Society
Evolutionary Changes in a Traditional Society
The Revolution and Social Change
The Family, the Individual, and the Sexes
Family and Household
The Traditional View of Men and Women
The New Society of the Revolutionary Era
Tenets of Islam
Saints and Brotherhoods
The Sanusis
Islam in Revolutionary Libya
Primary and Secondary Education
Chapter 3 – The Economy (R.Thomas Lenaghan)
Growth and Structure of the Economy
Role of the Government
Hydrocarbons and Mining
Land Use and Irrigation
Crops and Livestock
Fishing and Forestry
Public Finance and Banking
Budget, Expenditures, and Revenues
Foreign Aid and Investment
Banking, Credit, and Currency
Domestic Trade and Tourism
Chapter 4 – Government and Politics (Shawky S. Zeidan)
National Executive and Legislative Evolution
The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)
The General People’s Congress
Subnational Government and Administration
The Arab Socialist Union
The Cultural Revolution and People’s Committees
The Basic People’s Congress
The Revolutionary Committees
Summary and Trends in 1987
Law and the Judiciary
Court Structure
Other Juridical Organs
The People’s Court
The Revolutionary Courts
Unions and Syndicates
Opposition to Qadhafi
Student Opposition
Religious Opposition
Exiled Opposition
Political Ideology
Third Universal Theory
The Green Book, Part I
The Green Book, Part II
The Green Book, Part III
Arab Relations
Mediterranean Relations
Maghrib Relations
Relations with Sub-Saharan Africa
Relations with Western Europe and the United States
Relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
The Organization of African Unity
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
Other Multilateral Organizations
Nuclear Development
Chapter 5 – National Security (Jean R. Tartter)
Origins of the Modern Armed Forces
The Military Leadership
International Military Concerns and Objectives
Libyan Security Concerns
Performance in Combat
Invasion of Chad
Encounters with the United States
The Armed Forces
Organization of the Armed Forces
The Army
The Navy
Conscription and the People’s Militia
Women in the Armed Forces
Other Paramilitary Forces
Uniforms, Ranks, and Insignia of the Armed Forces
Foreign Military Assistance
The Quest for New Sources of Arms: 1970-
Military Cooperation with the Soviet Union
Western Restrictions on Arms Transactions
The Search for Nuclear Technology
Arms Production and Military Cooperation
International Terrorism and Support for Insurgent Groups
Public Order and Internal Security
The Police System
Incidence of Crime
State of Internal Security
Appendix. Tables
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Libyan Head of State Colonel Moamer Kadhafi watches a military parade 01 September 1994 in Tripoli during the celebration of the 25th anniversary of his arrival in power. Kadhafi, born in 1942, formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of revolutionary army officers, which overthrew 01 September 1969 King Mohammed Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of `freedom, socialism and unity.
The Libyan revolution of 1969
The remaking of Libyan society that Qadhafi envisioned and to which he devoted his energies after the early 1970s formally began in 1973 with a so-called cultural or popular revolution. The revolution was designed to combat bureaucratic inefficiency, lack of public interest and participation in the subnational governmental system, and problems of national political coordination. In an attempt to instill revolutionary fervor into his compatriots and to involve large numbers of them in political affairs, Qadhafi urged them to challenge traditional authority and to take over and run government organs themselves. The instrument for doing this was the “people’s committee.” Within a few months, such committees were found all across Libya. They were functionally and geographically based and eventually became responsible for local and regional administration.
People’s committees were established in such widely divergent organizations as universities, private business firms, government bureaucracies, and the broadcast media. Geographically based committees were formed at the governorate, municipal, and zone (lowest) levels. Seats on the people’s committees at the zone level were filled by direct popular election; members so elected could then be selected for service at higher levels. By mid-1973 estimates of the number of people’s committees ranged above 2,000.
23 Jul 1973, Benghazi, Libya — Muammar al-Gaddafi gives a speech to demonstrators gathered to show support for his return after he resigns as leader of the Revolutionary Command Council. The council refused to accept the resignation. — Image by © Genevieve Chauvel/Sygma/Corbis © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
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In the scope of their administrative and regulatory tasks and the method of their members’ selection, the people’s committees embodied the concept of direct democracy that Qadhafi propounded in the first volume ofThe Green Book, which appeared in 1976. The same concept lay behind proposals to create a new political structure composed of “people’s congresses.” The centerpiece of the new system was the General People’s Congress (GPC–see Glossary), a national representative body intended to replace the RCC.
The new political order took shape in March 1977 when the GPC, at Qadhafi’s behest, adopted the “Declaration of the Establishment of the People’s Authority” and proclaimed the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The term jamahiriya is difficult to translate, but American scholar Lisa Anderson has suggested “peopledom” or “state of the masses” as a reasonable approximation of Qadhafi’s concept that the people should govern themselves free of any constraints, especially those of the modern bureaucratic state. The GPC also adopted resolutions designating Qadhafi as its general secretary and creating the General Secretariat of the GPC, comprising the remaining members of the defunct RCC. It also appointed the General People’s Committee, which replaced the Council of Ministers, its members now called secretaries rather than ministers.
All legislative and executive authority was vested in the GPC. This body, however, delegated most of its important authority to its general secretary and General Secretariat and to the General People’s Committee. Qadhafi, as general secretary of the GPC, remained the primary decision maker, just as he had been when chairman of the RCC. In turn, all adults had the right and duty to participate in the deliberation of their local Basic People’s Congress (BPC), whose decisions were passed up to the GPC for consideration and implementation as national policy. The BPCs were in theory the repository of ultimate political authority and decision making, being the embodiment of what Qadhafi termed direct “people’s power.” The 1977 declaration and its accompanying resolutions amounted to a fundamental revision of the 1969 constitutional proclamation, especially with respect to the structure and organization of the government at both national and subnational levels.
Continuing to revamp Libya’s political and administrative structure, Qadhafi introduced yet another element into the body politic. Beginning in 1977, “revolutionary committees” (see Glossary) were organized and assigned the task of “absolute revolutionary supervision of people’s power”; that is, they were to guide the people’s committees, raise the general level of political consciousness and devotion to revolutionary ideals, and guard against deviation and opposition in the BPCs. Filled with politically astute zealots, the ubiquitous revolutionary committees in 1979 assumed control of BPC elections. Although they were not official government organs, the revolutionary committees became another mainstay of the domestic political scene. As with the people’s committees and other administrative innovations since the revolution, the revolutionary committees fit the pattern of imposing a new element on the existing subnational system of government rather than eliminating or consolidating already existing structures. By the late 1970s, the result was an unnecessarily complex system of overlapping jurisdictions in which cooperation and coordination among different elements were compromised by ill-defined grants of authority and responsibility.
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The changes in Libyan leadership since 1976 culminated in March 1979, when the GPC declared that the “vesting of power in the masses” and the “separation of the state from the revolution” were complete. Qadhafi relinquished his duties as general secretary of the GPC, being known thereafter as “the leader” or “Leader of the Revolution.” He remained supreme commander of the armed forces. His replacement was Abdallah Ubaydi, who in effect had been prime minister since 1979. The RCC was formally dissolved and the government was again reorganized into people’s committees. A new General People’s Committee (cabinet) was selected, each of its “secretaries” becoming head of a specialized people’s committee; the exceptions were the “secretariats” of petroleum, foreign affairs, and heavy industry, where there were no people’s committees. A proposal was also made to establish a “people’s army” by substituting a national militia, being formed in the late 1970s, for the national army. Although the idea surfaced again in early 1982, it did not appear to be close to implementation (see Conscription and the People’s Militia , ch. 5).
Remaking of the economy was parallel with the attempt to remold political and social institutions. Until the late 1970s, Libya’s economy was mixed, with a large role for private enterprise except in the fields of oil production and distribution, banking, and insurance. But according to volume two of Qadhafi’s Green Book, which appeared in 1978, private retail trade, rent, and wages were forms of “exploitation” that should be abolished. Instead, workers’ self-management committees and profit participation partnerships were to function in public and private enterprises. A property law was passed that forbade ownership of more than one private dwelling, and Libyan workers took control of a large number of companies, turning them into state-run enterprises. Retail and wholesale trading operations were replaced by state-owned “people’s supermarkets” (see Role of the Government , ch. 3), where Libyans in theory could purchase whatever they needed at low prices. By 1981 the state had also restricted access to individual bank accounts to draw upon privately held funds for government projects.
While measures such as these undoubtedly benefited poorer Libyans, they created resentment and opposition among the newly dispossessed. The latter joined those already alienated, some of whom had begun to leave the country. By 1982 perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 Libyans had gone abroad; because many of the emigrants were among the enterprising and better educated Libyans, they represented a significant loss of managerial and technical expertise.
Some of the exiles formed active opposition groups. Although the groups were generally ineffective, Qadhafi nevertheless in early 1979 warned opposition leaders to return home immediately or face “liquidation.” A wave of assassinations of prominent Libyan exiles, mostly in Western Europe, followed. Few opponents responded to the 1979 call to “repentance” or to a similar one issued in October 1982 in which Qadhafi once again threatened liquidation of the recalcitrant, the GPC having already declared their personal property forfeit.
Internal opposition came from elements of the middle class who opposed Qadhafi’s economic reforms and from students and intellectuals who criticized his ideology. He also incurred the anger of the Islamic community for his unorthodox interpretations of the doctrine and traditions of Islam, his challenge to the authority of the religious establishment, and his contention that the ideas in The Green Book were compatible with and based upon Islam. Endowed Islamic properties (habus–see Glossary) were nationalized as part of Qadhafi’s economic reforms, and he urged “the masses” to take over mosques.
The most serious challenges came from the armed forces, especially the officers’ corps, and from the RCC. Perhaps the most important one occurred in 1975 when Minister of Planning and RCC member Major Umar Mihayshi and about thirty army officers attempted a coup after disagreements over political economic policies. The failure of the coup led to the flight of Mihayshi and part of the country’s technocratic elite. In a move that signaled a new intolerance of dissent, the regime executed twenty-two of the accused army officers in 1977, the first such punishment in more than twenty years. Further executions of dissident army officers were reported in 1979, and in August 1980 several hundred people were allegedly killed in the wake of an unsuccessful army revolt centered in Tobruk.
Data as of 1987
HELEN CHAPIN METZ
An editor and Middle Eastern analyst, died in Washington, DC on May 13, 2011, at the age of 83 years. Mrs. Metz was the widow of the Rev. Ronald I. Metz, and the daughter of the late Ambassador and Mrs. Selden Chapin (Mary Paul Noyes), and the sister of the late Ambassador Frederic L. Chapin, II.
She was an alumna of the Potomac School, the Madeira School, Vassar College and the American University of Beirut. As a senior analyst at the Library of Congress’ Federal Research Division, Mrs. Metz edited 16 Country Study handbooks. In addition to working for ARAMCO with her husband from 1958 to 1966, Mrs. Metz taught at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, and was development officer and vice principal of the Brent School in Baguio, the Philippines. Mrs. Metz was a former Senior Warden of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Washington.
She is survived by three daughters and two sons-in-law, Mary Selden Evans and James F. Evans, III of Cazenovia, NY, Helen Winchester Metz of Minneapolis, MN and Grace Chapin Metz and Christopher Hunton of Rockville, MD. She was predeceased by her son-in-law, Perry D. Ketchum, of Minneapolis, MN.
A memorial service in celebration of her life will be held on October 1 at 10 a.m. at St. Margaret’s Church, 1830 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to St. Margaret’s Church or to the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund, P.O. Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058.
Published in The Washington Post on September 25, 2011
The importance of this new theory is shown by the creation of the Higher Council for National Guidance on 10 September 1972. The council comprised the RCC chairman; the ASU secretary general; the minister of education; the minister of information and culture; the minister of youth and social affairs; the minister of planning, the University of Libya‘s president; the administrative chairmen of religious endowments; the Muslim Call Society chairman, and the ASU secretary of thought and culture.
The Higher Council for National Guidance was created to disseminate and implement Qathafi’s Third Universal Theory (also seen as the Third International Theory, Green Charter or simply the Third Theory). The Third Universal Theory is predicated on the belief that the two dominant socio-politico-economic ideologies–capitalism and communism–had been proved invalid. According to the theory, capitalism placed the good of a few individuals ahead of that of the community as a whole; communism so emphasized the community that individual development was stifled.
(No-one) should not fall under the dominance of either of the two ideological, imperialist superpowers. In dividing the world between the two superpowers and their supposed prey, the Third Universal Theory anticipated much of what has come to be called the North-South interpretation of international relations, whereby the world is divided into natural-resource-consuming nations (the industrialized North) and the natural-resource-producing nations (the underdeveloped South). Nations constituting what is commonly referred to as the Third World were caught between proponents of the two ideologies: the United States and the Soviet Union, both of which, according to Qathafi, were “imperialist states which seek to achieve their ambitions by extending their zones of influence.”…Guided by this viewpoint, Libya has been a strong supporter of national liberation movements against colonial regimes.
Qadhafi proclaims that the Third Universal Theory, because it is based on the Quran, predates capitalism and communism. Furthermore, it offers a sound and veriable alternative. It rejects the class exploitation of capitalism and the class warfare of communism, finding that, in practice at least, systems based on both ideologies are dominated by a small “elite”. According to the Third Universal Theory, classes were an artificial colonial import. Far from building a system that rested on some form of class relations, the theory seeks to eliminate class differences. It embodies the Islamic principle of consultation (shura), by which community or even national affairs would be conducted through mutual consultation in which the views of all citizens were exchanged. This principle was manifested in MARCH 1977 as a JAMAHIRIYA in the creation of People’s Committees and Popular Congresses , replacing completely the former Higher Council for National Guidance.
Central to the Third Universal Theory are the concepts of religion and nationalism as embodied in purified Islam. Qadhafi believes that religion and nationalism have been the “two paramount drives that moved forward the evolutionary process. They constitute man’s history as they have formed nations, peoples, wars.” In short, Qadhafi believes that religion determines human actions and interactions. A pre-formative Committe was convened in AUGUST 1981; which by 02 MARCH 1986, became The JAMAHIRIYA. (The people had full control themselves over their sovereign state.)
The Universal formidable creation of the Green Charter Committee became official in June 1988 with a new “GREEN CHARTER“. ( http://www.greencharter.com )
The atheism of the communists is another reason Qadhafi finds Communist ideology invalid. According to Qadhafi, communists cannot be trusted because they fear no ultimate judgment and thus may break their word if they consider it beneficial in any particular case. A “Muslem” society encompasses Jews, Christians, and practioners of Islam, all of whom followed God’s prophets. The differences among these religions exist not because of the prophets’ teachings but because of differences among their followers.
NOTE FROM MATHABA SUPPORT:
* Green Charter and Third Universal Theory are NOT at all the same thing. For info and definition about each, as well as other terms, please see
http://wiki.greencharter.com/C…
* There is no such things a (MAJOR) (MINOR) the People’s Conferences and People’s Committees started prior to March 1977, but at the General People’s Congress it was announced on March 2, 1977, the new system, the Jamahiriya.
* The Green Book was not published in one time, not March 1986, but in the late 70’s already. Nor was their any coinciding in creating a Green Charter Committee, and no such Green Charter even existed until June 1988. ….why that wiki is important as a reference, all interested in the truth about Jamahiriya should study it and assist in further developing it, it is maintained by one who was there throughout and was director of the World Center for the Studies and Researches on The Green Book and the Third Universal Theory, as well as founder of the GCM, among other important positions held for many years (ADAM KING).
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FROM MATHABA: “For those of you who are looking for Mu’ammar Qaddafi to come out and address you to
deny his death, when it has clear advantages at this new phase of the struggle, shame on you. Seek your
reassurance elsewhere.”and from the Resistance:
11 NOV 2011:
Warning: No persons, entity or group of people will be allowed to film, video or record activities of the
green army. The leadership and resistance of Libyan Liberation front will not be delivering media speeches,
interviews or appearances, it’s a war and no high ranking official will be allowed to send messages without
approval from other operational cells, even colonel Gadhaffi will… not be allowed to deliver further speeches,
the army refuse to communicate with the media, we do not want media to serve as an invitation for NATO bombardment.
transcribed by Daniela Chinni / English of Cecilia Marchese
The text of Muammar al-Gathafi’s letter to his people letter aired on Al-Jamahirya TV:
Al Jamahiriya TV NEWS“ the week of 05.11.2011
written on the 28 OCTOBER 2011
NATO lost the war! LIBYA, on duty!”
Tens of thousands at the expense of their children in sacrifice to the enemy neck
who continue to fight the noble people of Libya and wherever they are in the world, the hearts
of true patriots multiplier for the people of Libya to greet all their fire!
What did I say last you? “
An income also can not hear my voice again, if you don’t I did not say? “Until, that is sparkling,
dazzling beauty of the Great Victory Born and raised until it matches the horizon, knowing stop!
Not be seized with panic again!”
I did not say? “Leaving aside the struggle and cry, you take from
place to place,” he wanted something from you?
Listen to the conversation in the open, “theNATO colonial media, their article looking
hurafelerine: Do not be fooled,” he told her several times.
Al-Jazeera, Al Arabiya, BBC, CNN, FOX .too many, all Belial’s whistle. Their job, fake
images, news invented superstition, eyes, ears mind spray, from there, capturing the heart,
separate from the right way so the small blind and a determination to resist souls out of the
water, jell.
The enemy, on which I installed in Libya, direct, genuine democracy, forget it, revel
in the deceit of their form of democracy; richness sit down and watch the blind eyes, “came to
save us! The West, democracy, and brought gifts! Both NATO is now transformed into the
Organization of the Islamic Freedom and Independence to say“ which, supposedly Muslim
appearance, such as contractors in jet-black demon, and the darkness he invent these lies
prostrate.
I told them, you know.
E, is well now some of you did this? Some of the weak! Theenergies of the channels is
going wrong. Hand sitting, in front of Al-Arabiya, “was for Gaddafi,
was caught here,” blah blah, whatever.
Do not hang around with them, Then your arm, your finger, remove the green flag
will not cure a jot.
Those captured, NATO corrupters, soldiersfor hire, playing time, the nation’s wealth
outlaw thieves caught. We will catch them in those patriots, real Libyans, people of Libya.
NATO lost the war. Washington DC, London, Paris regimes, attached to their countries after
them, the UN and Human Rights Watch-governmentalorganizations, such as lost miserably.
Yesterday, “brother,” blood stool if they attacked Libya in God, robbing those who think
the future of thieves willing to lose. Tripoli genetic traitors shame the council, NATO’s Islamist
ingrates and shame the countries of NATO puppet councilsalso lost.
“As we did in Iraq, ‘first sub-structure of the bombardment of Libya, cities, hunger
and siege Libyans rented. Then a few trucks, pasta, sugar, soft cloth to go,’ is not a Muslim
neighbor lies hungry fed, the Muslim brothers and sisters came to help! ‘ saying, sub-structure
construction capers. Thus pockets big time when filling out a hand, Libya, on the other
hand will win plenty of reward, will ensure a paradise! “All of the account, but all are traitors
who called genetic the crimes they committed against, all in one day, they tried, Green
Square, Baghdad, Damascus, Istanbul, Adana, Izmir will draw penalties.
“He was murdered, lynched has had several times caught in 42 years, even I him where he dies
seen a hyena? Who witnessed the eagle is a scavenger catch up? If as they say, no did you?
Full or would you hear me now? Ninety-five percent of Tripoli, under the NATO bombing of
Yugoslavia squares coming down at the same time, Libya, flag, green flag firmly on the rise
and I, on the streets of Tripoli, Libya a combination of open-top the hell alone among the
people of El Cezire, Al-Arabiya, BBC, CNN, across from the darkness!
Let each other, “Do you see it doing Lidere as” very upsetting to write letters! Leader,
right up to him and no hyena dokunamayacagi distance of the reach of the war commanded a carrion Kargasinin
etmekte chimed in your heart
because I am Libyan Revolutionary Leader Muammar al-Gaddafi !
28 October 2011 –
AY Agency”
a Misrata Catholic Church which was bombed by NATO as seen by a Jamahiriya soldier of Gadhafi’s on 25 MAY 2011…
By Rodrigo Abd, AP
From Za-Afriku, 09 January 2012 – From Libyan FM Radio
The untold story of Gaddafi – TRUTH BE TOLD.
Last update on 21 October 2011
under PK
MESSAGE secret brother Saleh Ibrahim, Dean of Academic and Sidi Shahid Gaddafi
Through this document I discovered two things:
1 – In the shadow of war and the bombing was al-Qathafi, so merciful, that he supervised and kept on providing for the needy. He supplied the house of every Libyan family.
2 – that al-Qathafi was in Tripoli on the 30th of July and he managed through the military, political, humanitarian means. His fax number on this document shows this.
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Zimmetro – The media has successfully painted Gaddafi as a hard-core dictator, tyrant whatever you want to call him. However, the media as usual has also failed to show the kind, giving Gaddafi we never heard of. Gaddafi unlike most dictators I will refrain from naming them has managed to show his humane side, the very side we dream of seeing in other dictators who just talk and talk.
I consider Libyans lucky to a certain extent and one wonders with the new democratic rule they cry for will it improve or worsen life for them. Yes, Gaddafi has spent millions of Libya`s money on personal ventures but is the average Libyan poor? We know others who take a country and destroy it until you feel like there is no hope of restoring this country… looting some prefer to call it. Did Gaddafi loot Libya in any way?
Now let us get to the unknown facts about the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi:
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens. 2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law. 3. Home considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent. 4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
Traditional wedding in Tripoli, Libya
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%. 6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free. 7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance. 8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price. 9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter. 10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
Great Man-Made River project in Libya… $27 billion
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found. 12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens. 13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000 14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15 15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree 16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
Which other dictator has done much good to his people?
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Olivera Olja Ilić
DR HAMZA-ANNOUNCED THE UPRISING IN BENGHAZI -THE REAL REVOLUTION BEGAN !
Libya – A new intervention of Dr. Hamza Touhami of January 27, 2012 (January 28, 2012)
Touhami Dr. Hamza has occurred January 27, 2012, announcing the popular uprising in Benghazi. He said the real revolution began (not revolution NATO)
and that young Libyans will release Libya, young people like Moatassem, Seif, Saidi, Aisha will create the new Libya and liberate the country.
He added that the people of Bani Walid told France Presse that the Libyan leader is alive as well as in the hearts of all who live in Bani Walid.
Dr Touhami, said a student in the department of literature at Sabha, tore the flag of shame in front of everyone and has put his name on the list of those expelled in the table of the Student Union and she’s torn. He commended the heroic gesture.
He added that Bouchene (MustaphaAbdeljalil) will never live in peace in Libya. Whoever sold con honor, his country and brought the enemy in Libya.
He added that a release of CNT talking about 40 million Libyan dinars was stolen by a group of four people in the administration of the CNT.
He added that Musptapha Abdeljalil asked the Libyans to boycott Al Jazeera and Arabia!
Dr Touhami asked Tuareg women to Touergs, Tuareg children to come help the resistance to liberate the city of Sabha already.
only thing, I am sure Olivera meant Khamis, not Dr. Moutassem al-Billah (who was slain).
Saadi al-Gaddafi announced that soon will be created on the interim Government of Libya.
This was reported by the Libyan FM radio, from the voice of doctor Hamza Tomai .
This Government, quoting Dr. Hamza, will be temporarily headed by Saif al-Islam.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs will be Aisha Gaddafi.
The Minister of Communication: Dr. Shakir
The head of the Minister for Information will be Saadi al-Gaddafi himself.
We all know that the JAMAHIRIYA has no “head of State”…Muammar said so how many times!!!
“There is no head of State in a JAMAHIRIYA; the people rule through People’s Committees and the basic Popular Congresses.”
so why these reports?
Fabrice Beaur informs us:
LIBYA – Our brother Moussa Ibrahim is free and outside Libya.
He will take soon the leadership of a new Free Jamahiriyan Libyan Governement in exile !
With him we know that the Jamahiriyan Resistance will be in the best hands !
For Gaddafi – Jamahiriya – Direct Democracy – until the liberation of the Green Libya !
ELAC & ALAC
MIDD-RCM – MEDD-RCM – MADD-RCM
Millions Supporting Al Gaddafi
New government will be leaded by one of Gaddafi sons and Dr. Shaker will have good position in it .
Perhaps to show the world that the GREEN RESISTANCE is strong and SAIF is in excellent health and NOT in any manner a “prisoner”!
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posted by El Gaddafi Muammar on 09 janvier 01:55
أعلن الدكتور حمزه التهامي أنه
سيعلن عن حكومه منفى خارج ليبيا تستمد شرعيتها من الشعب الليبي
خلال اليام القليله القادمه
وسيكون الأخ الساعدي هو رئيس الحكومه وسيتم أعلان أسماء الوزراء والمسؤلين عن شرعيه الشعب الليبي
ويطلب من الجميع دعمها والتأييد لها
هذا الكلام من الدكتور شخصيا من خلال مداخلته على اليبيه اف ام
والله الموفق والنصر حليفكم
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: سيتم أعلان حكومه منفى للشرعيه الليبية الله أكبر أعلن الدكتور حمزه التهامي أنه سيعلن عن حكومه منفى…
SAADI GADHAFI:
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2011 / Ismail Zetouny
In this undated photo made available Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, al-Saadi Gadhafi, son …
daughter Aisha
Premier Minister Mr. Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Dear Mr. Premier!
The international community of friends and supporters of the Libyan Resistance
and the people of Libya congratulates you personally and all members of the People’s Government
with the significant historic event – the renewal of the GSPLAJ (Libya) legitimate Government!
Participants of the international Internet group “For Gaddafi and his people” are sure that this
event marks a new era of national revival and want to express their full support for all initiatives
of the GSPLAJ Government directed towards restoration of justice and the rule of law on the
territory of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya! We as the friends of
independent Libya which you are representing on this high post of the Head of the State wish
to the Libyan people a successful struggle and total liberation from the NATO occupation forces
and mercenaries. We are confident that under your leadership the people of Libya will take
decisive victory over the enemy! Please give to Libyan people our sincere wishes of happiness,
prosperity and success in building a social state based on justice!
Oh God, I ask you, you who to allow it the eyes, and Atkhalth misgivings, but Aacefh Describers, and Atgerh accidents, all ages, teaches Mthaqil the mountains, and pints of the sea, and the number of Qatar rain, and the number of & solution trees, and the number of Mizlm by night, and shines by day, and Atwary him sky sky, and Aared the ground, The Mount, but knows Mava and rugged, and set sail Alayalm Mava its bottom, God ask you to make good work of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Juatmh, and the best of his days on Alqak you on everything Kadeer, God of booed the same number, and an instrument Vkdh, and baggage it Bahlkh Vahlkh, and set him trap his thigh, and Tfou fire from broke to him exist, and Acfh are enter upon his main concern and plunged into your shield the hippocampus, and esterification Bistrik Shield, Yamen suffice him everything Acfh Maahmh this world and hereafter, and his sincerity and do the investigation Aashvik Aarafiq, Faraj it all tight, and put up money to endure , you are God is the right real, Aamcherq proof, Yakoa staff, Yamen mercy everywhere, Yamen to Aakhalo him everywhere, Ahrsh eyes that Atnam and Ge Baraknk which Iram, and make sure my heart It takes YOU only and he does not die and you are with him Iargaúa, Varahmh your ability it Aaazima Please all great, Aaalama Aahalima, you seer on them and their salvation Kadeer, which you walk, Vamanan it by eliminating my kindest O most merciful and you are on everything Kadeer, O hear us, O Lord and Yes supporter, and precipitated by the beverage of your own, Bgodk and generosity and Artvaek in altitude your heaven Iaarahm merciful, you are on the Machae Kadeer, God, I Astodek Saif al-Islam Ibn Muammar and descriptive you who do not waste Your trust, Astodek his blood and his heart, mind, honor and property and every atom in his being God save Bhfezk and make angels masterpiece, God, I make you in the throats of his enemies and Aaivh You from their evil Vacfh on you, God, I Oaivh your worry and sadness and helplessness and laziness, miserliness and cowardice, and the predominance of religion and the oppression of men Lord of the Worlds and peace be on Muhammad, the Seal Alnpin, and on his family and companions
اللهم اني اسالك,يامن لاتراه العيون,ولاتخالطه الظنون, ولايصفه الواصفون,ولاتغيره الحوادث والدهور,يعلم مثاقيل الجبال,ومكاييل البحار,وعدد قطر الامطار,وعدد اورق الاشجار,وعدد مايظلم عليه الليل ,ويشرق عليه النهار,ولاتوارى منه سماء سماء,ولاارض ارضآ ,ولا جبل الا يعلم مافي وعره,ولابحر الايعلم مافي قعره,اللهم اسالك ان تجعل خير عمل سيف الاسلام القذافي خواتمه,وخير ايامه يوم يلقاك انك على كل شي قدير,اللهم من عاداه فعده,ومن كاده فكده,ومن بغى عليه بهلكة فاهلكه,ومن نصب له فخآ فخذه,وطفء نار من شب اليه ناره,واكفه هم من ادخل عليه همه وادخله في درعك الحصين,واستره بسترك الواقي,يامن كفاه كل شي اكفه مااهمه بالدنيا والاخره,وصدق قوله وفعله بالتحقيق ياشفيق يارفيق,فرج عنه كل ضيق,ولاتحمله مالا يطيق,انت الهه الحق الحقيق,يامشرق البرهان,ياقوي الاركان,يامن رحمته بكل مكان,يامن لايخلو منه مكان,احرسه بعينك التى لاتنام و قِه بركنك الذي لايرام,وقد تيقن قلبي انه لااله الا انت وانه لا يهلك وانت معه يارجائي ,فارحمه بقدرتك عليه ياعظيمآ يرجي كل عظيم,ياعليمآ ياحليمآ,انت بصير عليهم وعلى خلاصه قدير,وهو عليك يسير,فامنن عليه بقضائها يا اكرم الاكرمين ويا ارحم الراحمين وانك على كل شي قدير ,اللهم استجب لنا يا نعم المولى ونعم النصير ,وعجل عليه بفرج من عندك,بجودك وكرمك,وارتفاعك في علو سمائك ياارحم الراحمين,انك على ماتشاء قدير, اللهم اني استودعك سيف الاسلام ابن معمر وصفيه يامن لا تضيع ودائعك , استودعك دمه وقلبه وعقله وعرضه وماله وكل ذرة في كيانه اللهم احفظه بحفظك واجعل الملائكة تحفه , اللهم اني اجعلك في نحور اعدائه واعيذه بك من شرورهم فاكفه بما شئت , اللهم إني أعيذه بك من الهم والحزن والعجز والكسل والبخل والجبن ومن غلبة الدين وقهر الرجال يارب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد خاتم النبين,وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين
Oh Dieu, je vous demande, toi qui pour lui permettre de les yeux, et les doutes Atkhalth, mais descripteurs Aacefh, et les accidents Atgerh, tous les âges, enseigne Mthaqil les montagnes, et les pintes de la mer, et le nombre de pluie au Qatar, et le ciel ciel le nombre d’arbres solution de &, et le nombre de Mizlm par nuit, et brille par jour, et Atwary lui, et Ared du sol, Le Mont, mais il sait, Mava et robuste et s’embarqua Alayalm Mava son fond, que Dieu vous demande de faire un bon travail de Saif Juatmh al-Islam Kadhafi, et le meilleur de ses journées sur Alqak vous sur Kadeer tout, Dieu de huer le même nombre, et une Vkdh instrument, et les bagages qu’il Bahlkh Vahlkh, et mis en le piéger sa cuisse, et le feu Tfou partir brisé pour lui existent, et Acfh sont entrer dans sa principale préoccupation et plongé dans votre bouclier de l’hippocampe, et estérification Bistrik Bouclier, Yamen lui suffit tout Acfh Maahmh ce monde et ci-après, et sa sincérité et de mener l’enquête Aashvik Aarafiq, Faraj tout serré, et de mettre de l’argent pour supporter , vous êtes Dieu est le droit réel, la preuve Aamcherq, Yakoa personnel, merci Yamen partout, Yamen lui Aakhalo partout, les yeux Ahrsh que Atnam et Ge Baraknk qui Iram, et assurez-vous mon coeur il vous prend seulement et il ne meurt pas et que vous êtes avec lui Iargaúa, Varahmh votre capacité qu’il Aaazima S’il vous plaît tous les grands, Aaalama Aahalima, vous voyant sur eux et leur Kadeer salut, qui vous marchez, il Vamanan en éliminant gentille mes O très miséricordieux et vous êtes sur Kadeer tout, ô nous entendre, ô Seigneur et partisan Oui, et précipité par la boisson de votre propre Bgodk et de générosité et Artvaek d’altitude votre ciel Iaarahm miséricordieux, vous êtes sur la Kadeer Machae,
Dieu, je Astodek Saif al-Islam Ibn Mouammar et descriptifs vous qui ne perdez pas votre confiance, Astodek son sang et son cœur, l’esprit, l’honneur et la propriété et chaque atome de son être Bhfezk Dieu sauve et faire chef des anges, Dieu, je vous effectuez dans la gorge de ses ennemis et Aaivh Vous de leur Vacfh mal sur toi, ô Dieu, je Oaivh votre inquiétude et de tristesse et d’impuissance et la paresse, l’avarice et la lâcheté, et la prédominance de la religion et l’oppression des hommes Seigneur de l’Univers et la paix soient sur Muhammad, le Alnpin Seal, et sur sa famille et ses compagnons
Brigadier Major General Khamis:
THERE ARE NO BEGGARS IN THE JAMAHIRIYA:
reporters give Gadhafi a headache!
Libya – A statement from Major General“Harb” of the Libyan Green Army (Libyan Liberation Front of the holy Jamahiriya)
Posted on 14/01/2012 at 23:41 –
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/
Source: ALGERIA ISP
ALGERIA ISP / General Staff “Harb” of the Libyan Green army, says in this video that this message is intended for tribal security units and people’s security, fighting battalions, the battalion 32, custody popular with Mujahideen and the Libyans free. He says they will release Libya.
He added that the Resistance will start operations in all regions from West to East. He asked the Libyans to join the resistance fighters and launch attacks even with stones.
It calls on fighters to Abu Slim and El Hadaba to intensify operations against the traitors who have sold Libya. He added that he must say “AllahAkbar” with our heart and not just as the rebels with their throats.
He said that the resistance will liberate Libya or they will die. He added that the Ancestors have fought the Italians until they have released Libya.
He asked mothers of the soldiers to their prayers for lions “children” as they are back in combat as Kamikazes.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is a member of the prisoner liberation team of the Resistance that will motivate us to intensify the resistance to the Liberation of Libya.
Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Libya Live Green.
He said: “My mother, you can make ululations when I die because if I’m in Heaven it will be a ticket to victory in Libya.”
The fighters of the army will do Kamikaze operations and various military operations until the liberation of all prisoners led by the leader Saif El Islam Gaddafi.
He added that they would never allow partition Libya. They would never allow Libya to become an Emirate of Qatar or United Arab Emirates, or under the Control of a European country or a Colony of France.
It calls on all forces of the Army, the Mujahideen, Battalions, Tribes from all regions and the people of Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, & Syria to stand against rats, and against mercenaries. Remain standing with the Libyans, brothers in Tunisia and Egypt, and help the Mujahideen Resistance.
To all the Mujahideen and Tribes be patient and be with this Jihad.
Allah Akbar Allah Akbar
IIa DMARDs, DMARDs Ila
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has spoken to the Libyans “” A great moral support given to
the proclamation of the resistance that is circulating these days, Libya
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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has spoken to the Libyans’:
”A great moral support given to the proclamation of the resistance that is circulating these days, Libya: “You see that the colonists did violence and violence against the country of Libya dead, wounded and made children orphans. It was all done under the false name of revolution. all honest sons of Libya, the children of the mujahideen and the children of mujahideen commanders, the sun will shine after a long night and you need to know that victory is near, and that liberation is near. Soon he will meet with the commander of the Great Jamahiriya on television. “
Algeria ISP believes that it is Gaddafi and assumed that he was alive, waiting for a miracle.Of course, we know that Gaddafi is alive and that all Libyans know he’s alive. It only remains to convince other media in their lives. METAL announced the opening of the radio for 15 January, and if this day AJSA ELRA television.
Harb contained in the General Staff, who in the video said his message is addressed to international security units, security units of the tribe, the soldiers of the battalion, Battalion 32, the Libyan mujahideen and free.
He said that resistance to launch operations in all regions, from east to west. He called on Libyans to join the Resistance fighters and launch an attack, even stones. He urged fighters Hadaba The Abu Salim and intensify operations against the traitors who have sold Libya said that we should shout Allah Akbar from the heart, not from the throat to the rebels. He said the resistance to free Libya, or that they will die. He said that the ancestors of the Italians fought only to free Libya. He told the soldiers that mothers pray for their lions, because they will fight like kamikazes. Saif al-Islam is a member of the resistance will motivate us to improve the resistance of the liberation of Libya. He told his mother that he would go to heaven and that is to go for the victory of Libya. Resistance fighters will be like a kamikaze to release all prisoners, including kanji kanji Saif. He added that Libya never divide. Libya will never become the emirate of Qatar and the UAE, and a colony of France and other Western countries. He calls all the Mujahideen Army, tribes from all regions, Algerians, Tunisians, Iraqis and Syrians to stand against the mercenaries rats. Stay with the Libyans and the Libyan and help the mujahideen resistance.
A PRIMORDIAL and ETERNAL MEANING TO BEING A MUSLIM” : DECENCY & LOVE, of God, all his Creation and Mankind
Mirella Bianco, dans “Kadafi, Desert Mystic” [1975] écrit:
«… Il est dans le désert que l’on peut chercher l’essence de la nature d’al-Qathafi est, de la spiritualité, le mysticisme qui ont plus de poids que n’importe quel de ses aspirations, et qui influence encore son action politique. … C’est précisément cette notion de liberté — la liberté intangible de gens du désert — une liberté entièrement le sien, et pourtant pleine soumission à Dieu, et Dieu seul , — qui sous-tend tous les choix, décisions et mesures prises par al-Qathafi;. même, et peut-être essentiellement ceux de nature politique ” Mirella Bianco demanda à Abu al-Qathafi Menyr (père Mouammar) au sujet de son fils. il a répondu: “Couage et l’intelligence Son amour de la famille, sa piété.. Mirella Bianco a demandé à son instituteur à la même question, qui a répondu: “une grande intelligence, la sobriété en bordure sur l’ascétisme, de piété et de profondeur» Muhammed Khalil (mouvement civiles de co- patriote et ami): “. Ils sont son intelligence, sa rectitude morale, inébranlable dans son intégrité, sa ferveur religieuse (qui est la véritable source de sa force) Mahmoud Ayoub [en 1987]: “Qathafi ne craint personne, mais Dieu; est bon et utile à ses amis. “Il reste constant dans sa dévotion religieuse et la stricte observance. Sa première éducation coranique est restée le cadre de sa pensée et les actions à travers les étapes de sa carrière politique et idéologique. La discipline dont il a imposé au Comité central des officiers unionistes Free est indictive de son orientation religieuse et morale. Ils ont été d’observer la prière, en congrégation autant que possible, en toutes circonstances. Ils étaient strictement de s’abstenir de boire et de Gambl frivoles et toutes les autres activités …. en bref, le strict respect de l’islam avec toutes ses exigences morales constituées son code …. … Dans les yeux de ses collègues, et les jeunes hommes et les femmes de son peuple, Mouammar incarne l’esprit de leur [al-Fateh] Révolution, leurs rêves et de la vitalité, mais surtout, il est «le dépositaire de leur liberté”. “… Qathafi ce qui concerne l’islam comme une complète Civilisation, l’âme de qui est la foi en un Dieu unique …”. “… La Révolution de Septembre 01 [al-Fateh], non pas comme un événement historique, mais plutôt comme l’accomplissement d’un rêve, le fruit d’une lutte longue et ardue, et une déclaration concrète de la foi de Qathafi. ” Sulyman capitaine Mahmoud: «… Imaginez une caravane perdue dans le désert. Qathafi est exactement le genre d’homme qui pourrait l’amener à destination en toute sécurité AIA “.
Mirella Bianco, in “Kadafi, Desert Mystic” [1975] wrote:
“…It is in the desert that one may seek out the essence of al-Qathafi’s nature, of the spirituality, of the mysticism which has greater weight than any of his aspirations, and which influence even his political action. …It is precisely this concept of liberty—the intangible freedom of desert people—a freedom entirely one’s own, and yet full submission to God, and God alone,—which underlies all the choices, decisions and actions taken by al-Qathafi; even, and perhaps essentially those of a political nature.”
Mirella Bianco asked Abu Menyr al-Qathafi (Muammar’s father) about his son. He answered:
“Couage and intelligence. His love of family, His piety.
Mirella Bianco asked his school-teacher the same question, who answered:
“great intelligence, sobriety bordering on asceticism, and deep piety”
Muhammed Khalil (civilian movement co-patriot and friend):
“They are his intelligence, his moral rectitude, his unswerving integrity, his religious fervor (which is the real source of his strength).
Mahmoud Ayoub [1987]:
“Qathafi fears no one but God; is kind and helpful to his friends. “He remains constant in his religious devotion and strict observance. His early Quaranic education has remained the framework of his thought and actions throughout the stages of his ideological and political career. The discipline which he imposed on the Central Committee of the Unionist Free Officers is indictive of his religious and moral orientation. They were to observe prayers, in congregation whenever possible, under all circumstances. They were to abstain strictly from drinking and gambling and all other frivolous activities….in short, strict adherence to Islam with all its moral demands constituted his code….
…In the eyes of his colleagues, and the young men and women of his people, Muammar embodies the spirit of their [al-Fateh] Revolution, their dreams and vitality; but above all, he is ‘the trustee of their liberty’.”
“…Qathafi regards Islam as a complete civilisation, the soul of which is faith in the One God….”
“…The Revolution of 01 September [al-Fateh], not as an historical event; but rather, as the fulfillment of a dream, the fruit of a long and arduous struggle, and a concrete statement of Qathafi’s faith.”
Captain Sulyman Mahmoud:
“…Imagine a caravan lost in the desert. Qathafi is just the sort of man who could bring it safely to its destination.”
Tripoli, before the ’69 al-Fateh Revolution was the “FUN CITY” of North Africa.
In an interview in December 1972, Muammar al-Qathafi was accused by the Western interviewer, by saying that MUSLIMS have to endure auster, inhuman conditions! He replied: “I deny that there is a situation of austerity in Libya, unless you mean by austerity as the lack of places where women can be bought and sold [BROTHELS], and where there are no Taverns [sex and alcoholic BARS]. If this is what you think, then such ideas would have to be rejected by any reasonable, thinking person.”
al-Qathafi’s faith is his concern for the welfare of human beings. “Without faith, man becomes a slave of the Machine, but we Muslims are slaves to no one but God alone. We say openly that Islam is a call to progress; and that any other system, such as Communism or Liberalism, is a call to reactionism.”
The Islamic Greeting is “peace be upon you”, just as it is said in the Roman-Catholic Mass. He further argued that since the motto of Musleims is “Peace”, then they must be missionaries of Peace everywhere. Islam cannot be spread by force, but only by persuation. He concluded “We feel that the whole world is in need of Islamic faith. This is because, all other religions have become incapable of solving the spiritual problems of human kind. Islam is therefore the only religion capable of offering a final solution to humanity’s problems.”
As Muammar al-Qathafi sees it, “all those who firmly believe in God and do good, are Muslims. regarless of what specific monotheistic religion they adhere to.” He concludes “I believe that all problems would be solved within the framework of the Divine Conception, within the framework of this reality: If we all were to believe in the One God, and do good, the problem would be finished. It would then not matter to me whether you follow Muhammed, Jesus or Moses.”
Qathafi cites the Quaranic verse: “It is the religion (millah) of your Father Abraham; it is he who called you Muslims aforetime”…”Being a Muslim is therefore ancient, going back to the time of Abraham and even to the beginning of the Creation…” Yet we do not wish to turn true Christians into Islamists” (The true Chrstians are already Muslims.) “There are however, millions of people in the world, who are either without faith at all, or who adhere to ‘natural’ religions. We should seek first to, turn these millions of people to true religion: then all would be easy.”
al-Qathafi has spoken good of Christian Missionary organisations spreading the Christian faith in the world (BUT, he wished that AMERICAN money was not behind such noble endeavors as with the many American Revivalist Fundamentalist Protestant preachers.) He wished that “the Cross and the Crescent work side by side in the world.”
Colonel Gaddafi in Niger 2009 – Óró, ‘Sé do Bheatha ‘Bhaile (Welcome Home)
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Photo: African Union President and Revolutionary Peacemaker Muammar Gaddafi speaks to thousands of Tuaregs and officials from Niger as they laid down their arms on 6 October, 2009.
By Maya andQuoriana
Gaddafi always dreamed of a developed, united Africa and was about to make that dream come true, which is one of the reasons why he is loved and respected by millions of people in Libya and Africa — therefore war on Libya means war on all of Africa.
As regards to Niger, Gaddafi helped to establish peace between government representatives and members of the Tuareg Movement of Niger People for Justice in 2009 during his position as chairman of the African Union. Addressing the commanders of the Tuareg movement and government officials on October 6, 2009, he said:
At this very moment, there are 1,100 fighters who have laid down their arms in Agades [Niger]. They are listening to us right now and waiting for me to order them to enter Niger in peace. I tell them: ‘Go ahead and enter Niger in peace’. It is a historical day and momentous hour as our Tuareg brothers in Niger have decided to make peace and lay down their weapons.
Colonel Gaddafi — called Asiwaju (Leader, Pioneer, Opener of Paths) and Omo Ju Omo Lo (Greatest of the Children of Africa) by the people of Niger — has helped Niger and its people in many other ways. In August 2010, Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi visited Niger and announced the creation of a $100 million investment fund for Niger as part of a strengthening of bilateral ties. Under earlier agreements, Libya is contributing 100 million Euros for the construction of a Trans-Saharan highway in the north of Niger. Gaddafi also made the local subsidiary of Libya Oil one of the major players in Niger’s fuel retailing business.
However, since the bankrupt Western countries became terrified of the idea of a developed, united Africa and thus established a NATO-backed puppet government in Libya after wounding and killing hundreds of thousands of Libyan people, Niger among many other African countries is now at risk of weakening and becoming more fragile without Gaddafi’s support, aid and diplomacy.
The video below shows Africa’s most popular leader Muammar Gaddafi arriving in Niger and being welcomed by its people.
Óró ‘Sé do bheatha ‘bhaile,
Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh!
‘Sé do bheatha a bhean ba léanmhar,
B’ é ár gcreach tú bheith i ngéibhinn,
Do dhúiche bhreá i seilibh meirleach…
Is tú díolta leis na Gallaibh!
Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile,
Óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda,
Gaeil iad féin is ní Gaill ná Spáinnigh…
Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh!
A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceann,
Muna mbíonn beo ina dhiaidh ach seachtain,
Gráinne Mhaol is míle gaiscíoch…
Ag fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh!
Óró! You are welcome home!
Now that summer is coming
Welcome Oh Colonel who was so afflicted,
It was our ruin that you were in bondage,
Our fine land in the possession of rats,
And sold to the foreigners
Colonel Gaddafi is coming over the sea,
Armed warriors along with him as guard,
They are Libyans, not French or English,
And they will rout the foreigners
May it please the God of Miracles that we may see,
Although we only live a week after it,
Colonel Gaddafi and a thousand warriors,
Routing out the rats and foreigners
The Water of Life:
The Great Manmade River has made the African Desert bloom:
Libyan Liberation Frontline News [13.01.2012.]
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/01/libyan-liberation-frontline-news_13.html?mid=57
Libya location map-oil & gas 2011
Sirte: “Revenge for the battalion of the Resistance”: on the road of the town a ambush to the rebels, consisting of a column of
trucks (6 vehicles, armed to the teeth). Members of the Resistance totally destroyed the convoy of trucks and killed 26 rebels.
Unfortunately, the battalion lost three fighters.
Misurata rebels continue their attacks on civilians. They continue their many barbaric atrocities, murder and torture.
Benghazi: in the city is continuing the protest against the NTC, lawlessness and looting. Clash between rebels and forces of
resistance. In the city were heard exploding grenades and shots.
Al – Bayda: Youth Resistance conducted sabotage operations locally, laying mines on their checkpoints on the outskirts of the city.
(1) Leader of Libyan Liberation front Hattar Gamal Longhe and many other resistance leaders and cells have asked
our people to embrace national unity, desist all imperialist pressures.
(2) Libyan Resistance Intelligence agencies have confirmed the presence of12,000 American mercenaries and cut
throat soldiers stationed in Maltaabout to be deployed in East Libya.(3) The National Traitors Council of the NATO appointed proxy government of Libya has received $20 billion
USD from stolen Libyan public funds, the hungry proxy government has shown no signs stabilizing the condition of Libyan citizens.(4) NTC continues to exert blame on Libyan Resistance Movement for the immense destruction brought to the country
under the barrel of the gun, it’sNTC rebellion that brought destruction to Libya not the resistance movement.(5) NATO chiefs will be meeting in their attempts to recolonize Libya, eyes are all over Libyan aquifer water
supplies, oil, gypsum and many other minerals produced by Libyan masses.(6) America and Israeli are camouflaging as UN on their mission to enter Libya.(7) Attacks on NATO targets, governments that serve them, NTC and their collaborators will continue till
Libya is stable, the resistance is not placing orders on which governments should serve NTC or not, but every applicable
foreign government seen as threat to the resistance in Libya will be attacked.(8) Libyan Liberation movement rejects the current state of African Union and Arab league, these
bodies have become undemocratic serving imperialist interests, they are not fit to serve masses of the continent,
war will rage inside and outside Libya till Libyans retain complete control of their own destiny and government.
We end here today. Resistance at every expense.
– Gheryan NATO mercenaries fired five mortar shells Btgah Alosabah the two of them fell in the market for Jendouba and
3 fell in the Alhawwamd
– Misrata: Libya Misrata 200 rebels are moving in a large convoy of trucks loaded with weapons and ammunition south
to attempt to control the borders within Libya.
– Tripoli: In Tripoli, at 1:11 am, several explosions rocked the area Krakeche, Elsa Elfellah the area and subsequent shots.
– A Janzour: The headquarters of the television Janzour local headquarters of the CNT have been hit by projectiles that cause great harm.
The highway connects the city of Janzour and Rachfana closed after clashes between rebels and resistance fighters green.
– Benghazi: is reported theft of antiquities from the Museum of the city of Benghazi (eighty thousand an ancient coin, gold
and sculptures) worth millions of dollars.
The Libyans can not overthrow “the government” because the government IS the People (THE HOLY JAMAHIRIYA)-
which logically can not be overthrown!
There is no “Constitution made by “man”; because the Supreme Law of the Holy JAMAHIRIYA is The Words of God
himself! (man cannot be above God)
Dj Osiris, of Iceland WRITES:
“…In Iceland, at the dawn of its history, was a direct democracy. The idea is that people meet, discuss and vote. Then elect
representatives who attend high-level meeting. And then it goes to a national meeting.
…Direct democracy exists in Libya since 1977, when Gadhafi renounced the authorities….
WARNING! Direct democracy in Libya!
At least, until the Western powers had not yet begun their ‘operations’….
It is clear that the acts against Gaddafi is not a majority. Pictures of its supporters than convincing. 1.7 million people
took to apoyarlo.Es silly of us to think they know best what they need these people.
In Tripoli, and most of the country the vast majority of the population supports Gaddafi, Benghazi, about the only place
where significant numbers of people against him and the Libyan. Still, this does not mean that the minority is allowed
to take over the country.
So what we have militants linked to Al Qaeda sponsored by NATO and the CIA attack police stations, and when
Gaddafi said he and his people would resist the bandits, foreign aggression and intervention efforts, ” declares
war on his people “! What nonsense! And, yes, of course, we need help and pump your capital! Whatever happens,
you can imagine, who supported the bombing of their country?
the Libyans do not want to be bombed!
All you see are not random errors. And the failures of intelligence. And there are no misunderstandings. This is
pure propaganda intended for the country and its resources.
The truth – the first casualty of war.
You’ve seen many stories of people allegedly affected by Gaddafi. But stories of hundreds of people burned alive by NATO bombs.
The Green Revolution and the Green Charter.
Green Charter proposes a new type of social order. I recommend you read it completely, but here are some quotes.
The Green Book contains a coherent theory of how to organize a fair and efficient society. If you’ve never heard of this book, I think it’s time to look into it.
“All currently existing in the world political systems are the product of a power struggle between the instruments
of government – either peaceful or armed struggle of the classes, clans, tribes, parties or individuals is not only the
winner always a weapon out of government -. An individual, a group of people, party, class loser is always the
same people, that is true democracy.
The political struggle, which resulted in victories, for example, the candidate receiving 51% of the vote, leading to
the creation of a dictatorial government weapons, dressed in a toga of a fake democracy, and that 49 % of voters are
under the authority of the instruments of government for those who did not vote, but obligated to them, and this is the dictatorship>. “
Therefore, in modern democratic systems is always a struggle, and there is always the risk that most minorities are suppressed. It’s true.
party if the Parliament consists won the election, not the people’s parliament, and parliament and the party gives the party, not people.
Executive authorities appointed by the Parliament, representing the power of the successful party, not government by the people.
The same applies to the Parliament, in which each party receives a certain number of seats. Occupied the sites deputies are
representatives of their parties, rather than representatives of the people. The authorities formed a coalition of parties
representing the power of coalition parties, not government by the people.
People in these regimes are victims of internal strife. Using people in the struggle for political power and exploiting opponents
are cheating to get their vote. Meanwhile, people like the rosary, I humbly move in long queues to cast their vote polls –
like throwing papers in the bins. This is the traditional democracy, the rule in today’s world, whether one party, two
party or multiparty system, or system, having no political parties. It is clear that parliamentary representation – fraud …
So representative democracy is better than an absolute monarchy or a fascist dictatorship, but far from ideal.Party party
purpose of education – the creation of instruments of government of the people, in other words, the government by those
outside the party by party, a party founded on despotic authoritarian principle of the subordination of the people at the
party. It is assumed that the rise to power is a means to achieve their objectives, which – as expected – according to these
people. This theory, designed to justify party dictatorship, is the basis for the justification of any dictatorship. The number
of matches does not change the substance. The party represents the views of only one person, the interests of one segment of the society, a.
The People’s Congresses and People’s Committees.
Direct democracy – the ideal solution, which, when incorporated in practice can not be a subject of controversy and disagreement …
People power is expressed in a single form, and the exercise of power by the people is only possible in a way – through the
establishment of People’s Congresses and committees. Without the People’s Congress is not democracy. Committees should be everywhere …
General People’s Congress is not a forum for individual members, as is done in Parliament and the People’s Congress forum,
popular committees, professional associations, unions and other organizations united by a professional base.
So naturally, we solve the problem of joint weapons and put an end to dictatorial forms of the board. The instrument of
government is the people. Once and for all solve the problem of democracy in the world.
People power can only be done through direct participation. This is possible only with direct democracy.’sInteresting.
The question that arises is: who ensures that the appropriate action to prevent rejection of the Bar Association?From
the standpoint of democracy, no group of persons entitled to oversee the company. Society itself has control over them.
The claims of any party, whether an individual or group of people who claim the right to monitor compliance with the
law – is a dictatorship, because democracy is the responsibility of all society. That is democracy, which is embodied in
the democratic life of the instrument of government, established in accordance with the nature of the organization of
society itself, if democracy is primary or popular assemblies, people’s committees conducted and, Finally, the General People’s Congress.
This principle distinguishes Libya from other states. No group of people has no right to dominate over the other! Bravo!
And what about freedom of the press? Is it unlimited? To some extent yes, and for this reason:
Man as an individual should have the freedom of expression and even as a madman to have the right to freely express their madness.
The man, as a legal person, it is also free to express themselves as such. In the first case, a man is for himself, in the second – a group
of individuals who form a legal entity.
Newspapers – a form of expression of society, not a single person or entity. Therefore, in terms of logic and democratic press can
not belong to any person or entity.
The media should not become the spokesman of the special interest groups, and contribute to the natural rights of all citizens. It is true, right?
The economics of the theories of Third World
the final solution of the problem lies in the abolition of wages and the liberation of man from his chains, to return to the natural rules that
govern these relationships before school, different forms of government and laws created by man.
It is necessary to abolish wages in their current form. What blasphemy! Just because it is based on oppression and theft? Everyone who
contributes his share of the manufacturing process, has an equal right to the product manufactured.
Thanks, I think so too. Read on. Requirements. Human freedom is incomplete if you need more control. Responding to the needs can lead
to the enslavement of man by man, is also generated by the operating requirements. Meeting the needs – a real problem and, if the person
manages their own needs, not a fight.
reasonable, right? Housing is a basic need of the individual and the family, and therefore can not belong to anyone else. A person living in
a strange house, a profit or not, can not be free. . It is unacceptable that in a socialist society to any organ, including the company itself,
its sovereignty taken control of human needs. Nobody has the right to build a residential building, the area would exceed the needs of man
and his heirs, in order to remove excess, as it affects the needs of others.
Yes! Thank you! Everyone has the right to your home! And no one can have two at home! Because it exceeds their needs and violates the rights
of other people!
It is better not to say that. I tried one of the articles:
“We do not want much. Food and shelter over their heads, which is too much? In a country where the number of homes far exceeds
the number of citizens, people are frozen!
In countries that are proud of their technological advances allow people to starve. Although they are full of food, and not give away
the hungry. In countries where there are so many homes, people are dying of cold. This is crazy. “
Oh, and when Gaddafi and his companions came to power, Gaddafi’s parents lived in a tent. He promised that Libya will each home,
and only after that the house of his parents. Surprisingly, he managed to fulfill that promise quickly, but his father had died.
For a person as an individual, the family is more important than the state. Mankind has to do with this idea, as a person (man),
but a normal person (man) – the concept of familia.Familia – the cradle of man, the house of his father, his humanity social.
Originalmente security – that is the personality and the family, but not the State.
Personality and family is more important than the state? It is probably laughing at us … women. The woman – a man. The man –
a human being too. It is indisputable and unquestionable truth. Consequently, men and women alike, and people make a distinction
between them as human beings – is a clear and unjustifiable inequality. Human rights are for everyone – men and women, adults and children.
In Libya, women have more rights than in other Islamic countries.
I know that we can say that what is written in the book, does not necessarily exist in reality. Do not you think that between
what is proposed in this book, and is now widely accepted that a high standard of living in Libya, there is a connection? But this
book explains why the Libyans, unlike its neighbors, could function and succeed.
Gaddafi and his ideas from the beginning was perceived as a threat to the economic interests of Israel, USA, France and other states.
And once the campaign to demonize. He was depicted as a terrorist and a madman. They made many attempts to remove him. Sometimes
they almost succeeded. And they tried to return to power of the oligarchs. Now it seems they are close to their goal. BUT…
The people of Libya, the overwhelming majority supported the revolution, because it gave them a portion of the country’s oil wealth,
fed and given shelter to all Libyans.
In 2003, after the U.S. invasion Iraq, the Libyans decided to somehow improve relations with the western world to avoid war.
NOT OUT OF GUILT, but rather out of the goodness of Gadhafi’s heart, al-Qathafi agreed to pay compensation to the victims of the
terrorist attacks in Lockerbie, which was one of the conditions. At the same time, the Secretary General of Libya repeatedly that
Libya does not recognize the blame for the attacks and has no connection with the attacks, and the offer is just to
“buy peace”, goodwill and show compassion for mankind.
After that there is something strange. Gaddafi began to carry around with him and sign economic contracts. The rhetoric is the
change – no longer a tyrant, but simply eccentric.
To meet them, Gaddafi was hurt more than they can imagine. Debido to their home countries hate them, and communicate with them
– a bad public relations move. People had the mistaken impression that he was “one of the bloodiest dictators who are supported by
the West”, instead of the wonderful and pure soul that he is. In the end, we have seen pictures in which shoulder to shoulder with the warmongers.
Let’s go to the causes of this war. They are, as always, a few. The first and most obvious – oil. Libya – Africa’s largest exporter. Can
also be related to water resources in Libya, which was enough to quench the thirst of the entire African continent. The Libyan
government has launched a project “The Man-Made River”, which was supposed to irrigate the desert of Libya, and significantly
improve the lives of Libyans. Now, these water sources are decreasing the uranium bomb. May have played a role Gaddafi plans to
introduce a gold dinar currency, which would be unable to manipulate the global banking elite. Most likely, all played a role in the
intervention in Libya. Or maybe it was necessary to end the country for so long can not fall under the control of the corporate plutocracy.
Part of the reason was the need to maintain the work and the military machine. You know how many missiles and bombs are
produced each day? They have no where to put. Of course, the arms manufacturers have to make huge profits. Most of the
beneficiaries of the war – the same people who make a formal decision on the start of the war.
Whatever the reason, one thing is clear. This operation is not to protect the civilian population. It has nothing to do with protecting
people from tyranny and democracy. Except, perhaps, the desire to create this kind of democracy that they can control.
Now we hear about the brutal slaughter of protestors in Syria.Sin But we see demonstrations in support of the great President Assad.
I do not like? Why are all these people support the kids who torture and kill their own citizens? That’s the thing! They were not killed
or tortured. Do you understand now why thousands of Libyans arrived at the residence of Gaddafi, in order not to allow NATO to
bomb? You think that they were crazy, but they certainly were not. You must understand why we need to stop this horror?
Understanding why Cynthia McKinney and this journalist defend Libya, who once visited there and immediately saw the
magnitude of the lie. She says: “Most people would ask: Why, what are you doing?”
Eeee …. to help you …
Remember that in all conflicts, at least two sides. The media is not objective, they claim that the other does not exist!
Everything I write here is almost ignored by the Mass Media. They lied to say Gaddafi was speaking only as a bloodthirsty
dictator and the rebels were actually the freedom fighters! The media’s side of the war was a TOTAL LIE !
Qadhafi proposed compromises. The rebels rejected all the options, saying to them – insulting the memory of the victims.
Of course, the peaceful resolution of conflicts – on offense, we want blood!
You never hear all of the words of al- Qaddafi – only the edited version. If you want to hear the other side – not difficult!
Just look and listen to everything he says.
Imagine you put a gun in the man’s head, and he begs for mercy (al-Gaddafi, of course, is too proud for that, but you get the idea). You press the trigger, do not give a word, or at least listen to you? Or just shoot, and then you will understand?
My mother once told me that you can not judge anyone until you hear his side. This is the best advice she ever gave me.
Think about how naive to think that the media tell the truth. With that history is full of manipulation of the facts in favor of this war and the elites.
Many people say they are against the war, but when it comes to either remain silent or support it. It was actually so far as to argue that the world has
become dangerous? That is, those who oppose the war you will find crazy? Or be accused of dragging conspiracy theory?
We do not want war! So stop! Do what you can. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid to condemn others. (It’s his fault, not yours!)
It is a mistake is to succumb to the pressure of society and betray one’s conscience. Do not hide your sympathy! Have the courage to tell people the truth.
This is an abridged version of this article. Original photo and video here:
https://theorbo1.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/fairy-tales-do-not-always-end-happily-ever-after/
http://djosiris.blogspot.com/2011/09/libya-yes-im-saying-that-its-all-lies.html
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These are the crimes of France and genocide in Africa
Posted by SOS Resistance and Martyrdom in Libya
a conversation with Adil Naji 0:50 on Morning of 16 JANUARY 2012:
Adil Naji
Since when I was small I felt connected to this great old man
I also remember my medrasa maalim said the man who will kill anti christ will come from Libya, I was too young to bother asking why, at that age I didn’t even know about Gaddafi in Libya, my own interpretations now tells me my old Maalem meant Gaddafi.. After I read greenbook I reaffirmed my stance, we will be victorious in this battle no doubt about it
I also doubt if my maalem knew anything about GreenBook then, may be he did..
il y a quelques secondes
Christella Bernardene Krebs
Thank you for this Adil…seems I heard something similar many years ago—something to do with Simon of Cyrene (which is Libya) who carried the cross for Jesus. ( Something about his reward for carrying the burdon would be, that the man who will devour the anti-Christ would be his countryman–FROM LIBYA.)
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Islam in Revolutionary Libya by Helen Chapin Metz, deceased
Under the revolutionary JAMAHIRIYA, the role of orthodox Islam in Libyan life has become progressively more important. Qadhafi is a highly devout Muslim who has repeatedly expressed a desire to exalt Islam and to restore it to its proper–i.e., central–place in the life of the people. He believes that the purity of Islam has been sullied through time, particularly by the influence of Europeans during and after the colonial period, and that its purity must be restored–by such actions as the restoration of sharia to its proper place in the JAMAHIRIYA legal system, the banning of “immodest” practices and dress, and the symbolic purification of major urban mosques that took place in 1978.
Qadhafi also believes in the value of the Quran as a moral and political guide for the contemporary world, as is evident from his tract, The Green Book, published in the mid-1970s (see The Green Book, ch. 4). Qadhafi consideres the first part of The Green Book to be a commentary on the implications of the Quranic injunction that human affairs be managed by consultation. For him, this means direct democracy, which is given “practical meaning” through the creation of People’s Committees and Popular Congresses. Qadhafi feels that, inasmuch as The Green Book is based solely on the Quran, its provisions are universally applicable--at least among “Muslims” [who for him, are all the variants of honest believers, whether Islam, Christian or Judaic].
Soon after taking office, the Qadhafi and his new “Revolutionary” govenment showed itself to be devoutly fundamentalist by closing bars and nightclubs, banning entertainment deemed provocative or immodest, and making use of the Muslim calendar mandatory. The intention of reestablishing sharia was announced, and Qadhafi personally assumed chairmanship of a commission to study the problems involved. In November 1973, a new legal code was issued that revised the entire Libyan judicial system to conform to the sharia, and in 1977 the General People’s Congress (GPC–see Glossary) issued a statement that all future legal codes would be based on the Quran.
Among the laws enacted by the new JAMAHIRIYA, were a series of legal penalties prescribed during 1973 which included the punishment for adultery being eighty lashes, to be administered to both men and women guilty of fornication.
In the early 1970s, Islam played a major role in legitimizing Qadhafi‘s political and social reforms. By the end of the decade, however, he had begun to attack the religious establishment and several fundamental aspects of Sunni Islam. Qadhafi asserted the transcendence of the Quran as the sole guide to Islamic governance and the unimpeded ability of every Muslim to read and interpret it. He denigrated the roles of the ulama (see Glossary), imams, and Islamic jurists and questioned the authenticity of the hadith, and thereby the sunna, as a basis for Islamic law. The sharia itself, Qadhafi maintained, governed only such matters as properly fell within the sphere of religion; all other matters lay outside the purview of religious law. Finally, he called for a revision of the Muslim calendar, saying it should date from the Prophet’s death in 632, an event he felt was more momentous than the hijra ten years earlier.
These unorthodox views on the hadith, sharia, and the Islamic era aroused a good deal of unease. They seemed to originate from Qadhafi’s conviction that he possessed the transcendant ability to interpret the Quran and to adapt its message to modern life (as an IMAM). Equally, they reinforced the view that he was a reformer (Mujjadid) but not a literalist in matters of the Quran and Islamic tradition. By espousing these views Qadhafi clearly considered himself an authority on the Quran and Islam and was not afraid to challenge traditional religious authority. He also was not prepared to tolerate dissent. Qadhafi began to see clearly his calling and mission.
The revolutionary JAMAHIRIYA gave repeated evidence of its desire to establish Libya as a leader of the Islamic world. Moreover, Qadhafi’s efforts to create an Arab nation through political union with other Arab states were also based on a desire to create a great Islamic nation. Indeed, Qadhafi drew little distinction between the two.
The government took a leading role in supporting Islamic institutions and in worldwide proselytizing on behalf of Islam. The Jihad Fund, supported by a payroll tax, was established in 1970 to aid the Palestinians in their struggle with Israel. The Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic at the University of Benghazi was charged with training Muslim intellectual leaders for the entire Islamic world, and the Islamic Mission Society used public funds for the construction and repair of mosques and Islamic educational centers in cities as widely separated as Vienna and Bangkok. The Islamic Call Society (Ad Dawah) was organized with government support to propagate Islam abroad, particularly throughout Africa, and to provide funds to Muslims everywhere.
Qadhafi has been forthright in his belief in the perfection of Islam and his desire to propagate it. His commitment to the open propagation of Islam, among other reasons, has caused him to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-based fundamentalist movement that has used clandestine and sometimes subversive means to spread Islam and to eliminate Western influences. Although the brotherhood’s activities in Libya were banned in the mid-1980s, it was present in the country but maintained a low profile (see Religious Opposition , ch. 4). In 1983 a member of the brotherhood was executed in Tripoli, and in 1986 a group of brotherhood adherents was arrested after the murder of a high-ranking political official in Benghazi. Qadhafi has challenged the brotherhood to establish itself openly in non-Muslim countries and has promised its leaders that, if it does, he will support its activities.
Qadhafi has stressed the universal applicability of Islam, but he has also reaffirmed the special status assigned by the Prophet to Christians. He has, however, likened many of them to misguided Muslims who have strayed from the correct path. Qadhafi has assumed leadership of a drive to free Africa from the colonialism with which false Christianity and protestant prosylytisers have been associated.
Benedict receiving the Koran
On April 17, 2008, during the inter-faith meeting, Benedict happily received an ornate, silver-plated copy of part of the Koran from a Muslim.
Benedict XVI “Hailed for Praying Like Muslims Toward Mecca.” – 01 Dec. 2006
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – “Pope Benedict ended a sensitive, fence-mending visit to Turkey on Friday amid praise for visiting Istanbul’s famed Blue Mosque and praying there facing toward Mecca ‘like Muslims.’… ‘The Pope’s dreaded visit was concluded with a wonderful surprise,’ wrote Daily Aksam on its front page. ‘In Sultan Ahmet Mosque, he turned toward Mecca and prayed like Muslims.
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Muammar Gaddafi: A true Muslim
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=629781%3Fdisqus&mid=57
The Green Book is part of the bounty of Islam (as also stated by Muammar), but it is offered to all, non-Muslims included, for it puts the PEOPLE in power.
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=629781%3Fdisqus&mid=57
By Adam King (Republished by Genet Sanders) Muammar Gaddafi is opposed to multi-party democracy, for that is not democracy.Mu’ammar, as a true Muslim, also proclaimed, that he is NEITHER “Sunni” nor “Shia” and explained why both are a deviation.At first “Shia” split over Ali not getting the Caliphate, and the rest called themselves “Sunni” to differentiate themselves from the Shia. A nonsense.A Muslim (Arabic word for “one who submits” to the laws of the Universe and its Creator), is not to be sectarian.And thus too the Third Universal Theory, along withMu’ammar himself, are ideologically and spiritually and politically and logically and morally opposed to THEOCRACY: the governing method (dictatorship) advocated by the Shia, and also many of theSunnis.Instead, the masses themselves should rule, and the first chapter of The Green Book is in part a “tafsir” (explanation) of the verse “Shura” (Consultation) in Holy Qur’an which states that “your affairs shall be among you under consultation.”The Holy Prophet MHMD too was told by Allah (Al-Lah: Arabic for The God) that “You are not at all a warder over them (the masses), you are but a “warner” (to bring the message, but not force it with any stick).On the issue of Sharia (path, law): indeed,Mu’ammar was not at all opposed to Sharia, as he was not opposed to democracy or freedom.
He was opposed to multi-party democracy, for that is not democracy.
He was opposed to the freedom to rape, loot and plunder, for that is not freedom.
He was opposed to the “Islamist” interpretation of Sharia, for that was not Sharia, nor Justice. Libya had Sharia since 1969 or 1970 and re-affirmed in 1977, since when, the Constitution of Libya was guess what?
And before I answer it, ask yourselves:WHY is it that everyone in media keeps complaining that Libya had no constitution, and even Sayf-al-Islam and others were quoted on the need for one.Well, truth is, since 2nd March 1977, the Constitution of Libya, in line with the Third Universal Theory (see what The Green Book says about Law, and that depends on the nation and society, i.e. a Christian one would use the Bible, a Jewish one the Torah, etc)… the Constitution of Libya, was exactly: The Holy Qur’an.And thus, Libya had Sharia: Free housing, free electricity, free water, free education, free health care, free dental care (and I write this with teeth rotting in my mouth and in constant pain as I could not return to Libya to be treated and Australia does not provide this even for its own citizens)… so yes, Libya had Sharia.But, Sharia, Islam, is not palaces, comfort, asMuammar said, it is struggle and strife. Hence, there was corruption, and that is outside the path, the Law, the Sharia.That is outside Islam. That is outside the Third Universal Theory (Truth).Yet, that is embraced by the ALLAHU AKBARRRRRRRRRRRRRR-shouting drugged upAl-Qaida serving Mossad-CIA devils, and they are, along with Saudi Arabia and Iran, held up as examples of “Sharia” by a hostile Zionist-controlled media.The Green Book is part of the bounty of Islam (as also stated by Mu’ammar), but it is offered to all, non-Muslims included, for it puts the PEOPLE in power.If they are Muslim, they naturally adopt Qur’an as their overall guiding law/path. And so it is in trueSharia: at the time of Prophet MHMD (Peace be Upon Him), non-Muslims such as Jews and Christians also rose to the highest ranks of authority, according to their merit.In the Jamahiriya too, even in the Libyan Jamahiriyawhere Qur’an was the Law of Society, non-Muslimshad their full rights, and that has been well documented and confirmed by the Christians of Libya, and evidenced by their places of worship and freedom to worship, even though they were a small minority.
al-Qathafi on SHARIA LAW
page 203 from “The Sun of Islam will Arise from the West”:
IN the holy JAMAHIRIYA, the wealth of the people is shared with the less fortunate (who do not live under a Jamahiriya system) throughout the world. Within the Jamahiriya, no one needs to beg, as all of life’s necessessities are a basic human right. The riches of the country’s indigenous bounty is shared by all and not owned and held by just a few “elite” (who can greedily decide what to do with their wealth)!
In the Holy JAMAHIRIYA, polygamy is outlawed…so that there is a stable family life of one father and mother; and woman are not treated like cattle or sex objects.
Enrique Ferro writes:
“The Islamist version of sharia is theoretically based upon the Qur’an and the hadiths and their evolution throughout centuries. The thousands of hadiths have been compiled several times, but there is a problem of authenticity, as many were reported even over 100 years after Muhammad had passed away. This is something Gaddafi acknowledged clearly, hence the questioning of sharia on that basis.
Gaddafi stated very clearly that the constitution of the Jamahiriya was the Qur’an….”
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mathaba, (ADAM KING) Mathaba Support explains:
the misguided Sharia interpretation of reactionary scholars… i.e. virtually all scholars… [“unsuited to the modern world”], there are right and wrong interpretations. Qaddafi believes 100% in Qur’an, but not on a lot of Hadith and their elevated position within TODAY’S backwards “Ulema” (so-called learned clergy) almost all of which are so far from understanding islam’s true position and what Sharia actually is. Qaddafi used different language for different audiences. If he spoke about Islam too openly then he would lose the audiences of those who needed FIRST to know what Islam actually is, let alone Sharia. The Qur’an, even if some of its verses are not applicable in terms of laws of now as other verses need to be applied first, as you have stated, it timeless and universal: however, as the Qur’an itself makes clear, it is the intentions of people that matter, if you read it with a biased mind, and follow that which is unclear (mystical, allegorical, or only can be understood by a very few) and ignore all that which is in plain Arabic (doing good, counseling, etc etc) then those bad hearts have bad intention. The accusation he made against those rats being on drugs, was not fiction. We have plenty of witnesses, drugs are widespread, and these unemployed Arabs have been paid and conditioned and with the use of drugs too, by the French Zionists. There are millions of them. They can shout all they like about Sharia and misuse Allah’s name, but truth remains truth, even if Muammar, I and you, would be the last people on earth to acknowledge it.
You are however correct to use the term “Islamist”, because that is a “bidaa” (heresy, later addition) as those are (for rough equivalence) as the Zionists are to Judaism, or the Crusaders are to Christianity (of course a rough comparison). Islamists are the enemies of Islam. Muslims aim to be the practitioners of Islam, the BELIEVERS (Mu’meen) are those that matter, and, Mu’meen are not only among the followers of MHMD but also of ISA (“Jesus”) Peace be upon him, Musa (“Moses”) pbuh and all other prophets and Messengers of Allah. The actions of the (drugged up) Islamists in Libya throughout as well as in Algeria and elsewhere, is all too clear: |if that was Islam we would reject it immediately” — MQ. –AdamPS: something that makes research a LITTLE difficult for many,, is that Muammar, as myself too, often used to say things to make a point: but which were not literally intended, other than to create a reaction i.e. point out how stupid the Ulema are (in this example) as when he addressed them around the 80’s on issues of Sharia and Hadeeth. The best works to really understand his positions on islam are to be found in the book “Islam and the Third Universal Theory, the Religious Thought of Muammar (Qadhdhafi)” by Mahmoud Ayoubof Canada or published in Canada.Unfortunately, in recent years, Mu’ammar seems to have given up on trying to educate and deal with the islamists, but then who would not, it is not possible to educate those whose hearts and minds are closed, let alone if they are on drugs or worship other things such as money. It would be easier to re-invent words and leave the old words to them. Those who need to know, know. Possibly opening up more use of education on Islam and the Third Theory would have created an even worse problem and more hostility from yet more people: Truth has a way of hurting, and creating great hostility and violent reactions from people, and most people are NOT ready for unconditional Truth. Allah says so in the Qur’an: Most of mankind know not.
(JESUS ALSO SAID: “Forgive them, as they know not what they do!”)
Let me give you just some things that Mahmoud Ayoub has come to know (by 1987) about Our leader, and has written on just a few pages [from pp. 69-73] of his book on the religious thought of Muammar al-Qathafi:”There is, in al-Qathafi’s view, no justification for anyone to stir up conflict among Muslims and Christians and to claim by this to be defending either Islam or Christianity.”al-Qathafi believes that Islam, according to this Divine Conception, is NOT the Islam which most “Muslims” today recognise and accept.[Before I continue with what is written here, I have to tell you that this is why the SUNI, Shi-ite and Sufi Muslims have termed him a heretic.]As al-Qathafi sees it,”the original Quaranic view, this pure “Islam”, LITERALLY means submission to God/God alone: which was the faith of all the prophets and their true devoted followers; therefore, the true Jews and the true Christians are also the true Muslims.”al-Qathafi himself wrote: (QUOTE)”that who ever believes in the Apostleship of our master Muhammed, WOULD HAVE ALSO BELIEVED IN ALL THE MESSENGERS WHO CAME BEFORE HIM; AS WELL AS THE SCRIPTURES which were revealed BEFORE him, Thus would the Divine Message to humankind be perfected…
“This message is for all men. It is to worship together the One and Only God. Any other belief or conception is an act of associating others in the worship of God”.(He means that it is merely LIP SERVICE and not real worship or belief.)
al-Qathafi says this”in light of these truths”…that this is a call for Christians and Jews to RETURN TO THEIR OWN SCRIPTURES and JUDGE BY THEM as it is clearly stated in the QUARAN:’Let the people of the GOSPEL judge in accordance with that which God has sent down in it. Whosoever does not judge in accordance with which God has sent down —such are unrighteous.’al-Qathafi goes on to say that those bigoted, self righteous among the Jews and Christians who edited, deleted or altered or distorted the meaning of the Holy Scriptures (meaning all the references to Muhammed in the Torah [the 4 Books of Moses] and in the Christian Gospels [MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN] do not fully represent the complete revelations which God sent down through Moses and Jesus).Ayoub continues to remenise about what al-Qathafi spoke in February 1976 (a Libyan sponsored time of dialogue with Muslims and Christians):”IN that meeting, Qathafi again called for better understanding and cooperation among the peoples of Divine Scriptures: Jews, Christians and Muslims. (QUOTING al-Gathafi): ‘Had the Muslims known of the Quaran truly, there would have been no essential disagreements which would lead to wars among them.’al-Qathafi said’ The problem is that until today Muslims have NOT returned to the Quaran as they should, nor have the Christians and Jews returned to the true, or authentic [sahih] Torah and Gospel. It is this which has created conflicts among the people of faith.’In al-Qathafi view, only Muslims are in error; while, for the Jews and Christians, it is both them and their altered Scriptures which are in error. (In both cases, the Scriptures have been INTERPRETED wrongly and the beliefs are impure.)
Ayoub writes that al-Qathafi’s purpose in promoting dialogue among the people of faith is to promote harmony and co-operation among them. HE IS A RELIGIOUS MAN; and thus sees himself as HAVING A COMMON CAUSE WITH RELIGIOUS JEWS AND CHRISTIANS in striving against atheism and MORAL DEPRAVITY…al-QATHFI (himsef writes) QUOTE:”It is imperative that conflicts among us should cease as much as this is possible…WE MUST OVERCOME OUR PROBLEMS IN ORDER THAT WE DO NOT PROMOTE ATHEISM AMOUNG OUR PEOPLE AND PREVENT THEM FROM ABANDONING FAITH ALL-TOGETHER.”Muslims are obligated to accept the Quaran and to accept and venerate ALL the prophets of God from Adam to Muhammed.al-Qathafi says that God spoke of Muhammed’s coming in all the Holy Scriptures previous to the Quaran; and that the deletion of the verses announcing his coming or preventing the signs of his prophethood and apostleship is a serious distortion of the Holy Scriptures and man’s false interpretation of them.
He says that sectarian differences within each of those Communities, needs to come to an end; and each of those Communities must become united as One (instead of a plurality of thoughts and interpretations).
al-Qathafi is committed to the support of revolutionary movements REGARDLESS OF THE RELIGIOUS IDENTITY OF THE PEOPLES INVOLVED (as was the case of SERBIA AND IRELAND).In that “MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE MEETING in TRIPOLI”, al-Qathafi observed that erroneosly some so-called “Muslims” believed that the war between Muslims and Christians, or between Muslims and Jews, is a holy war!
This he asserted was a highly MISTAKEN VIEW! He said: (QUOTE)”This is because JIHAD (or Amed Struggle) must always be between the people of faith and the REJECTORS of faith. BUT BETWEEN TWO GROUPS OF BELIEVERS there is NOTHING CALLRED JIHAD: Rather it is WARFARE [QITAL]. …The Quaran enjoins us to have dialogue with the people with the BOOK as our people, SINCE THEY WERE AND THEY ARE MUSLIMS to God.” (UNQUOTE)al-Qathafi went on to explain that the conflict with the State of Israel was not a religious conflict, but rather a POLITICAL CONFLICT with NO religious overtones. He said (QUOTE):”Any kind of religious fanactism is a crime. All that we wish is amnity and brotherhood among all the decendants of Abraham.” (UNQUOTE)Ayoub concludes the chapter:”al-Qathafi is guided by the Quaran in both his national and international relations. The Quaran, for that reason, invites the People of the Book ‘to a common agreement’ and purpose between them and the Muslims. It commends the true Christians for their tenderness and amnity towars the Muslims, and for their recognition of truth.”al-Qathafi acknowledges (with approbation)”those of the Community of Moses WHO JUDGE BY THE TRUTH and THROUGH IT DISPENSE JUSTICE”….
10MARCH 2009:
np_2007, writes:
To: Adam (KING) –
an excellently written documentation of the Leader’s Islamic roots. It was Gaddafi that sparked my curiosity of Islam. If it wasn’t for him, I would have never read that Jesus (Isa al Masih) is written in the Quran – his virgin birth, and his return. Gaddafi did much to bring non-Muslims into the fold, or at least, bring an old interpretation into NEW light which can be applied as an answer to modern governments’ woes.
And as you say in your closing:
“The Green Book is part of the bounty of Islam (as also stated by
Mu’ammar), but it is offered to all, non-Muslims included, for it puts
the PEOPLE in power….
Always looking out for Informative news – not the flippant variety. Serious and seeking answers.
I too, remember reading in Al Risalat Al Jihad (anyone remember that?) that the Leader was not too pleased with the authenticity of the Hadiths. [Yes, many could be ‘here-say’] This is just the reason why many Islamic clergy have frowned & refused to listen to Gaddafi. They would call it a “quirky kind of Islam”. But I disagree.
Bringing Islamic culture into the modern world took a great deal of piety and deep interpretation in being able to incorporate it loosely in the GREEN BOOK and more solidly in his other writings and discourses. Maybe some day people will wake up to what Muammar’s place in history was all about!
Let us all do some soul searching AND research.
mathaba, Mathaba Support answers:
Al Risalat Al Jihad WAS THE BEST MAGAZINE EVER.
MATHABA SUPPORT (ADAM KING) writes:
Kadhafi did not renounce the Sunnah of the Prophet, that is Saudi propaganda. He opened a discourse about Sharia and how to apply it today, back in the 1970’s or 80’s, and the “Ulama” did not receive that discourse well. They were comfortable on their reactionary and illogical understandings, and never being questioned, because of their nice “Ulama” titles. For example, Qaddafi said, some of you are telling us that the Hadeeth are part of the Sunnah and part of the Sharia, along with the Qur’an. So, when we make the constitution of Libya, we should adopt those Hadeeth along with Qur’an. If that is so, which Hadeeth? Some of you say “Bukhari and Muslim” Hadeeth are “Sahih” (reliable). So, in this case, we should accept all of Bukhari and Muslim Hadeeth (these were the two best known Sunni scholars of long ago who tried to collect some logical basis for a Hadeeth to be true or not, more on that below), but we should throw away all other hadeeth, even if they may be correct?
The Ulama stormed out of the meeting and declared Kadhafi an Apostate. They passed Fatwas against him. Hmm. Yet, Kadhafi revived Islam to its purest form, and built a Jamahiriya, which placed all power, wealth and arms in the hands of who? Of the MUSLIMS, since almost all Libyans are Muslim. But, he did not place power in the hands of the Ulamah, who thought they are the only ones who should rule. Also that he revoked many of the laws of islam, you need to clarify that, so that it can be answered. Laws can be interpreted.Now to explain about Sunnah and Hadeeth to those who have not studied Islam. In brief: Sunnah is the Life example of Prophet Muhammad, what he did, said, how he behaved, acted. Hadeeth is the collections of his sayings, so many saying were flying around 100 years after he died, all kinds of stories. Most of them inaccurate, or false. Any story teller would say “Prophet MHMD said this or that”, and without even shaking in fear, in case, they were getting something wrong. A few would be God-fearing and say “Prophet MHMD said …………… or SOMETHING LIKE THAT.” Because, they did not want to get it wrong. So, there were some Muslims who decided, OK, since the Qur’an there is only one and it is very clear, but the Hadeeth there are so many varieties and it is not clear which is true or false, we have to clean up and make some official collections of Hadeeth. Two of those muslims who did this one was called Bukhari another was called Muslim. And they had thier own (logical or semi-logical) criteria to decide if a hadeeth (saying of the Prophet) would (or could) be true or not. Such things as the honesty of the person who relayed it, the status of the person, and whether there was a (proven) chain of linkage from the Prophet to the one who relayed it, i.e. they both had to be alive or have met, otherwise, how could it have been relayed, and etc. And on that basis, they collected what they each considered to be RELIABLE (Sahih) Hadeeth. Hmm, yes, but there is still a problem: and this is what Kadhafi and also this scholar of Islam, says, and will be hated for stating the obvious truth:If someone did have a low status, or was a thief, or could not be proven to have met x person in the chain of those who relayed the saying, does that mean that he is a liar or that he is not 100% correct? No, it does not. And, if someone had a high status as a religious man, met the Prophet himself, and had a good memory, says that the Prophet said this, does it make it true? NO, it does not. Why you ask? Well more than one reasons, and I will give only two:One: he could have misunderstood, misheard, or misinterpreted the Prophet’s saying. I will give an example of this. Let us say, theoretically, that this good man walked into the room, just when Prophet MHMD said to a companion: “Do not place your cup on the corner of the table”, and so that good man goes away and reports a hadeeth that makes it into Bukhari’s big volume of Hadeeth “Do not place your cup on the corner of the table.” then yes, it is correct, right? Wrong. Because, the good man, did not know why the Prophet said that, was because, that other man in the room was just about to place his cup on the corner of the table that had only 3 legs, and the good man did not know that, and so the Prophet was only saying this for a particular occasion to a particular man for an unusual circumstance, since one leg of the table was broken. So, that saying, is worthless, yet, by this logic, as it may appear in Bukhari, all the “good Muslims” of today, will not put their cups on the corner of any table. Understand? I hope so, but I doubt it, as Muslims these days, are very, very defensive of such things, and all logic goes out the window.Second reason I will give is this. Please, sit down in a room, in a circle, with 5 to 10 friends. And, you make up a sentence, and whisper it to the ear of your friend sitting alongside to the right of you, but clear enough for him to hear it: “Do not go to the toilet without flushing it, and if there is any paper in it, please pull it out with your left hand, turn around three times, and drop it back into the toilet.” And that friend now has to whisper that exact same sentence to the next in the circle, and so on, until it is whispered back to you by the one sitting on your left side. And, 9 times out of 10, it comes back very different!!! So much, that the original meaning may also have changed completely. Why? All of you are not drunk. All of you are in the same room. All of you passed the message within one minute. Not separated by thousands of kilometers, many years, and with losses of memory. So, good bye Hadeeth when it comes to making Hadeeth the basis of laws that impact life and death, such as the constitution of Libya. The Qur’an is sufficient, since there is no doubt, it is protected (if you want to know how and why the Qur’an is protected and remains unchanged, i will tell you but I am hoping you know that already). Hadeeth, take which one you like, leave which one you like, do not fight over it. But do not try to use a Hadeeth to force someone to accept your argument, such as the all scholars (Ulama) with a big dot on their forehead and red beards, at least 12.5cm long, are holy and guaranteed heaven and must be heard and obeyed without question, which could be used by some of these ass hole Ulama to give themselves a status, and beat children into memorizing the Qur’an without even knowing any Arabic or at least some meaning of it, and into saying that Banks and Capitalism are Halal so long as they are run by muslims and re-name Riba (interest) as Murabaha (more riba haha)… and other such shit. For those ignorant Muslims: may Allah keep them away from us. Kadhafi is our Imam, our Leader, and the Reformer. Who knows, maybe he is not dead and is the Mahdi, and that is why they are so careful to try to kill him. But even if he were the devil, and did all these great works for nothing but vain and glory, he is absolutely logical on the issue of Hadeeth, and their questionable role in Sunnah, and moreover, Sharia. And the scholars, are very wrong, unless they agree with this logic: for Allah is The Truth (Al Haqq) and does not condone torture, abuse, dirt, rape, drugs, and rats.
Eman Omar writes in HONORABLE SPANISH PEOPLE SUPPORT GREEN LYBIA AND GADDAFI
People to remember the truth of Muammar al-Shi is the stories that fired him only P Jerdan
Do you tell anyone that Muammar first visited Russia and in Moscow opened its mosque by force and authorized it was he himself came down and prayed Paljmaath
Do that tell you one directly after the revolution, Muammar is dropping off the crosses of the highest buildings and may not be said to raise the Cross in Muslim countries
Do you tell anyone that Muammar closed all bars and brothels that were everywhere in the days of King
Do you tell anyone that Muammar out five bases of the largest foreign rules
Do you tell the one that Libya’s Muammar make the first country in the Quran
Do you tell anyone that Muammar al-Hafiz Quran, such as making the university graduate and has a priority in the teaching and work
Do you tell anyone that Muammar spread Islam all over the world for Islamic Call Society, which is spent on the same rent the five towers in Tripoli are the property of the Association is to tell you the one that Muammar condition to be women of France to wear the veil when landing at the airport in Tripoli after France’s decision to criminalize the wearing hijab
Now the question now …….. Is this infidel acts?______________
“DAY of People’s Power” 02 MARCH 2011~ Moammar Gaddafi:
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pure Islam (~ to al-Qathafi; not the barnicaled Saudi-type of Sharia + Hadath Law)
27 janvier 16:20
Imam Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Salah al-Din ibn Ibrahim Abu Arafa, not a mandate for the Kharijites new rulers of Libya who came stronglywith disbelief of the Cross: they are not us and weare not them; for we are innocent of them:
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Imam Al-Aqsa: No mandate for the new system, they are not us and we are not them
Imam Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Salah al-Din ibn Ibrahim Abu Arafa, not a mandate for the Kharijites new rulers ofLibya, who came to be strongly anti-Christian: They are not us and we are not them and we are innocent of them. (These true Muslims believe in Moses and Issa/Jesus, who they know will come in the Last Days with the Mahdi to liberate mankind and unify the Arab world.) They respect Mohammed’s order to deal civilly and peacefully with real Christians and the people’s of the Book; and not to persecute or do harm to them.
The TNC and al-Qaeda do not honor this or the Commands of Muhammed.
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Libya is a tree in whose shade we sit, for it is we who planted it with our hands and watered it with our blood~
by HELEN CHAPIN METZ, deceased (a TEMPORARY file for display purposes.
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In April 1973, Qadhafi launched the five-point Cultural Revolution (see Political Ideology , this ch.). Among the points was the replacement of existing laws by sharia. In a speech on April 28, he asked University of Benghazi law students to help revise the legal codes and repeatedly emphasized the principle of the primacy of Islamic law over other jurisprudence. The traditional religious establishment gave initial support to Qadhafi’s restoration of Islamic jurisprudence, but it soon started to oppose his actions, accusing him of pretensions.
First, Qadhafi challenged the traditional role of the ulama (Islamic jurists or scholars) as expert interpreters of the Quran. Because the Quran is written in Arabic, argued Qadhafi, anyone who knows Arabic can understand it. As did Martin Luther’s Protestantism, Qadhafi’s interpretation of Islam recognizes no need for intermediaries between God and humans.
Furthermore, Qadhafi in effect arrogated a new role to himself- -that of a mujtahid, a Muslim jurist who renders decisions based on the opinions of one of the four legal schools of Islam. In this case, Qadhafi sought to reinterpret the Quran in light of modern conditions and current needs. His insistence on the necessity to sweep aside virtually the entire body of Islamic commentary and learning, including the hadith (the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and precedents based on his behavior), and to limit the legitimate sources of legislation to the Quran alone has caused misgivings throughout the Islamic world.
Moreover, Qadhafi’s interpretation of Islam was considered radical. He considered the Quran to be the only source of sharia and community. As did other Muslim reformers, Quran saw deviation from “true” Islamic teachings as the cause of the weakness of Islamic lands, including Libya. Like them, he also called for a return to the source, the Quran. But unlike most other reformers, Qadhafi excluded the hadith and the sunna (the lifestyle and deeds of the Prophet) as reliable sources of legislation. By questioning the authenticity of the hadith, Qadhafi has in effect dismissed the entire edifice of traditional fikh (Islamic jurisprudence). As one scholar, Ann Elizabeth Mayer, put it, “discrediting the hadith entails rejection of by far the greater part of Islamic law.” In essence, Qadhafi rejected taqlid (obedience to received authority, i.e., the revelation of God to the Prophet Muhammad) in favor of ijtihad (the right to interpretation).
In 1977 Qadhafi took yet another unprecedented, no less controversial step, altering the Muslim calendar. Instead of starting from the date of the Prophet’s migration to Medina, the year began with the date of the Prophet’s death. Shocked by Qadhafi’s radical reinterpretation of Islam, the ulama accused him of heresy. Characteristically, however, the Libyan leader was undaunted.
The confrontation with the ulama began in the mid-1970s, when they criticized some aspects of Qadhafi’s increasingly idiosyncratic and radical ideology. In 1977, for example, the grand mufti (chief religious judge) of Libya criticized the sequestration of private property, which resulted from the new law prohibiting the ownership of more than one house.
The clergy were upset because, in effect, The Green Book was displacing sharia as the blueprint for Libya’s political and social development. Furthermore, inasmuch as the Third Universal Theory is purportedly a relevant model for non-Muslim Third World countries, the theory’s reliance on Islamic precepts had to be diluted (see Third Universal Theory , this ch.).
Accusing the ulama of siding with the upper classes, in February 1978 Qadhafi warned them against interfering in the regime’s socialist policies. A few months later, some mosques were seized and their imams (prayer leaders) replaced by more compliant ones. To undermine further the legitimacy of the religious leaders, Qadhafi blamed the grand mufti for failing to declare a jihad (see Glossary) against the Italians during the 1930s. Qadhafi’s relentless attacks on the traditional religious establishment succeeded in eroding it hitherto lofty status, thereby removing a powerful center of opposition to regime-sponsored changes.
Apart from conflicts with the traditional religious hierarchy, Qadhafi had a longstanding conflict with the Muslim Brotherhood and other fundamentalist groups, whose membership went into exile or underground during Qadhafi’s tenure. In March 1987, it was reported that nine Muslim dissidents, members of a little-known group called Holy War, were executed for plotting to assassinate Soviet advisers. A revolutionary committee member was assassinated in Benghazi in October 1986 by the hitherto unknown Hizballah (Party of God). As a result, the revolutionary committees began to monitor more closely than before the activities of the mosques, the imams, and the fundamentalists. The country’s forty-eight Islamic institutes reportedly were closed in late 1986, apparently to stem the tide of religious, particularly fundamentalist, opposition.
THE WORD, according to al-GATHAFI:
Let me give you just some things that Mahmoud Ayoub has come to know (by 1987) about Our leader, and has written on just a few pages [from pp. 69-73] of his book on the religious thought of Muammar al-Qathafi:
“There is, in al-Qathafi’s view, no justification for anyone to stir up conflict among Muslims and Christians and to claim by this to be defending either Islam or Christianity.”
al-Qathafi believes that Islam, according to this Divine Conception, is NOT the Islam which most “Muslims” today recognise and accept.
[Before I continue with what is written here, I have to tell you that this is why the SUNI, Shi-ite and Sufi Muslims have termed him a heretic.]
As al-Qathafi sees it,
“the original Quaranic view, this pure “Islam”, LITERALLY means submission to God/God alone: which was the faith of all the prophets and their true devoted followers; therefore, the true Jews and the true Christians are also the true Muslims.”
al-Qathafi himself wrote: (QUOTE)
“that who ever believes in the Apostleship of our master Muhammed, WOULD HAVE ALSO BELIEVED IN ALL THE MESSENGERS WHO CAME BEFORE HIM; AS WELL AS THE SCRIPTURES which were revealed BEFORE him, Thus would the Divine Message to humankind be perfected…
“This message is for all men. It is to worship together the One and Only God. Any other belief or conception is an act of associating others in the worship of God”.
(He means that it is merely LIP SERVICE and not real worship or belief.)
al-Qathafi says this
“in light of these truths”
…that this is a call for Christians and Jews to RETURN TO THEIR OWN SCRIPTURES and JUDGE BY THEM as it is clearly stated in the QUARAN:
‘Let the people of the GOSPEL judge in accordance with that which God has sent down in it. Whosoever does not judge in accordance with which God has sent down —such are unrighteous.’
al-Qathafi goes on to say that those bigoted, self righteous among the Jews and Christians who edited, deleted or altered or distorted the meaning of the Holy Scriptures (meaning all the references to Muhammed in the Torah [the 4 Books of Moses] and in the Christian Gospels [MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN] do not fully represent the complete revelations which God sent down through Moses and Jesus).
Ayoub continues to remenise about what al-Qathafi spoke in February 1976 (a Libyan sponsored time of dialogue with Muslims and Christians):
“IN that meeting, Qathafi again called for better understanding and cooperation among the peoples of Divine Scriptures: Jews, Christians and Muslims. (QUOTING al-Gathafi): ‘Had the Muslims known of the Quaran truly, there would have been no essential disagreements which would lead to wars among them.’
al-Qathafi said
‘ The problem is that until today Muslims have NOT returned to the Quaran as they should, nor have the Christians and Jews returned to the true, or authentic [sahih] Torah and Gospel. It is this which has created conflicts among the people of faith.’
In al-Qathafi view, only Muslims are in error; while, for the Jews and Christians, it is both them and their altered Scriptures which are in error. (In both cases, the Scriptures have been INTERPRETED wrongly and the beliefs are impure.)
Ayoub writes that al-Qathafi’s purpose in promoting dialogue among the people of faith is to promote harmony and co-operation among them. HE IS A RELIGIOUS MAN; and thus sees himself as HAVING A COMMON CAUSE WITH RELIGIOUS JEWS AND CHRISTIANS in striving against atheism and MORAL DEPRAVITY…
al-QATHFI (himsef writes) QUOTE:
“It is imperative that conflicts among us should cease as much as this is possible…WE MUST OVERCOME OUR PROBLEMS IN ORDER THAT WE DO NOT PROMOTE ATHEISM AMOUNG OUR PEOPLE AND PREVENT THEM FROM ABANDONING FAITH ALL-TOGETHER.”
Muslims are obligated to accept the Quaran and to accept and venerate ALL the prophets of God from Adam to Muhammed.
al-Qathafi says that God spoke of Muhammed’s coming in all the Holy Scriptures previous to the Quaran; and that the deletion of the verses announcing his coming or preventing the signs of his prophethood and apostleship is a serious distortion of the Holy Scriptures and man’s false interpretation of them.
al-Qathafi is committed to the support of revolutionary movements REGARDLESS OF THE RELIGIOUS IDENTITY OF THE PEOPLES INVOLVED (as was the case of SERBIA AND IRELAND).
In that “MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE MEETING in TRIPOLI”, al-Qathafi observed that erroneosly some so-called “Muslims” believed that the war between Muslims and Christians, or between Muslims and Jews, is a holy war!
This he asserted was a highly MISTAKEN VIEW! He said: (QUOTE)
“This is because JIHAD (or Amed Struggle) must always be between the people of faith and the REJECTORS of faith. BUT BETWEEN TWO GROUPS OF BELIEVERS there is NOTHING CALLRED JIHAD: Rather it is WARFARE [QITAL]. …The Quaran enjoins us to have dialogue with the people with the BOOK as our people, SINCE THEY WERE AND THEY ARE MUSLIMS to God.” (UNQUOTE)
al-Qathafi went on to explain that the conflict with the State of Israel was not a religious conflict, but rather a POLITICAL CONFLICT with NO religious overtones. He said (QUOTE):
“Any kind of religious fanactism is a crime. All that we wish is amnity and brotherhood among all the decendants of Abraham.” (UNQUOTE)
Ayoub concludes the chapter:
“al-Qathafi is guided by the Quaran in both his national and international relations. The Quaran, for that reason, invites the People of the Book ‘to a common agreement’ and purpose between them and the Muslims. It commends the true Christians for their tenderness and amnity towars the Muslims, and for their recognition of truth.”
al-Qathafi acknowledges (with approbation)
“those of the Community of Moses WHO JUDGE BY THE TRUTH and THROUGH IT DISPENSE JUSTICE”….
In the name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
By Mattias Gardell
al-Qatafi prays with Nassar:
– Zenten: under the motto of the reconstruction of Libya at the Acacus Mountains of Libya at Zentan
NATO has bombed profusely on 13 JANUARY 2011
– Sirte: Libyan stronghold of pride and dignity: The brave people of Sirte, being in an area not exceeding the size of one square kilometer,
was submitted to the fence and attack ships, modern bombers, drones, controlled by artificial intelligence and controlled by satellites.
In this piece of earth fell with all his might, almost every state in the Western Hemisphere, with its modern military development and support of space …
v. Libya
Poète Omar Farra féliciter le colonel
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Brigadier General Khamis Qathafi:
The U.S.A.State Department denies approving Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis’ internship with AECOM in the U.S. Khamis was in multiple
American cities shortly before the Libyan uprising. Above: Khamis Gadhafi in Tripoli in 2001.
Muammar al-Qathafi (Pic: Reuters)
The Jamahiriya Green Resistance and MATHABA have denied rebel reports that Muammar Gaddafi’s
2nd youngest son (Khamis) was killed in a Nato air strike. His other son, Saif-al-Arab. yes did die in
a NATO bombing on 30 April 2011, along with 3 granchildren and some family friends and children.
Tripoli, May 1: Saif al-Arab, the youngest son of Muammar Gaddafi, and three grandchildren of the Libyan
leader have been killed in a NATO air strike, Libyan government said today (May 1).”The attack
resulted in the martyrdom of brother Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (29) and three of the
leader’s grandchildren,” official spokesperson Moussa Ibrahim told reporters in the wee hours.
“The house of Mr Saif al-Arab Gaddafi was attacked tonight with full power. The leader (Muammar Gaddafi)
with his wife was there in the house with other friends and relatives,” he said.
The spokesperson noted that the Libyan leader escaped unhurt.
“The leader himself is in good health, he wasn’t harmed.” Muammar Gaddafi’s wife was also unharmed but other people in the house were injured.
“This was a direct attempt to assassinate the leader of the country.”
According to reports, the building was extensively damaged and one unexploded bomb remains at the site. Saif al-Arab was the youngest of Gaddafi’s seven sons.
Later, in Misrata, on 20 October 2011: DR. Moutassem al-Billahal-Qathafi was executed
after his capture in Sirte by the hands of the al-Qaeda .
Hannibal and
Mahmoud are exiled in Algeria.
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Sources intimately familiar with the Middle East, to Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the recording conversations between a number of Arab leaders and politicians, during their visits to Libya, where they were talking freely without expecting one of them to record their conversations the Gaddafi side.
Reached recordings
To the Syrian leadership
He was quoted “gate-Ahram” Egyptian sources said Qatar, which led the escalation Arabs in the political position against the Syrian leadership in the last ten months, has eased much of the rhetoric of political escalation against Damascus, for reasons that remained confidential, but the panel’s decision-making the country has revealed what happened in the scenes from Tripoli, Libya, Qatar via Doha, leading to Damascus, the Syrian, as I got the Syrian leadership on what can be described as a treasure of leaks, recordings and video clips, which prompted Damascus to impose conditions in recent times.
As for the way for the Syrian leadership on these recordings, precious, the sources said that Gaddafi after intensified by waves of bombing the military headquarters of his residence in the Libyan capital and the headquarters of the intelligence and the media, is to send the bag of CDs in addition to the sums of money to the opposition of the Iraqi political Mishaan Jubouri, who lives in the Syrian capital, having launched the space of a few years ago, “opinion” by their host to serve the goals of the armed resistance in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, and later Libya.
According to a source familiar with, the CDs include recordings of the leaders and officials, Arabs and foreigners who come to Libya, and meet with Libyan officials, including Gaddafi, and Aokhaddon comfort in modern criticism, and express intention of the conspiracy against the others, but these meetings was the perception of sound and image, without the knowledge of the guests ” .
Start-up of a section of these recordings
The sources added that the Syrian intelligence learned of the arrival of this bag for exhibitions of Iraq in Damascus, and had negotiated with him to deliver against the settlement agreement eliminated by giving him any money sent to him the Gaddafi regime, without any objection, and granted additional funds from Syria, to give them all the archive Gaddafi sender of his intelligence, and not to deploy to the need of the Syrian leadership to, an agreement which did not have Jubouri is approved.
According to sources, the audio recording which was recently published to the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, and then another recording of the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, and when talking about the conspiracies of the Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, he had emerged from the Syrian intelligence , after being such recordings to the process of editing to hide the sounds Libyan officials, including Gaddafi, amid threats of Syria in the scenes that the continuing political campaign against Syria would have to pay Damascus to remove more of these recordings, surely among the carriers for threats, they did not release only Sound recordings of low-impact, and it has the largest, which shake the nations and leaders and senior officials, and their possession in terms of impact than exponentially, and the effects of leaks Wikileaks.
imagebank – AFP
Leonor.18 .01 .. The clashes between different groups of rebels are happening every den.Vchera in Tripoli in the quarter Dahmani were clashes between the two groups poevikov PNS.Pogib one civilian were injured and 4 ..
Strong explosion at Bab-el-Azizii.Stolknoveniya in Ben Gashir, Tripoli.
Yesterday resistance fighters attempted to enter into Brega, but were stopped by NATO people and theirmercenaries.
The Libyans are still most of the day without electricity for many months, but, surprisingly, on the streets is light.
Yesterday a Libyan boy 5 years old had a birthday. Although usually a family has no money even for food, the dayshe got the money from each other due to granitsy.Roditeli could buy food, accompanied by an adult child went to buy podarok.Odnako they have not passed and a few meters, as one of the patrols, the rebels, threatened, forced them to return domoy.A PNSovtsev children and other aggressors live in a big way.
Déclaration d’ouverture du prochain procès de type Nuremberg pour juger les criminels nazis du 21eme siècle
Cette déclaration d’ouverture est inspirée de celle du procureur général américain Robert H. Jackson prononcée le 21 novembre 1945, au moment où commençaient les travaux du procès de Nuremberg. Instauré après la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, celui-ci avait pour but de juger les dirigeants nazis. Il aura des conséquences sur l’émergence progressive d’un soit disant “droit international”.
Messieurs de la Haute Cour,
Le privilège d’ouvrir la première audience du procès des crimes contre la paix dans le monde entraîne une lourde responsabilité. Les méfaits que nous avons à condamner et à punir font preuve d’une telle vilenie et ont été si nuisibles que la civilisation ne pouvait se permettre de passer outre, parce qu’elle ne pourrait continuer à exister si jamais ils continuaient à se répéter comme cela a été le cas contre l’Irak, l’Afghanistan, la Côte d’Ivoire, la Libye, la Syrie, la Palestine et nous savons tous que des tentatives et préparatifs ont vu le jour pour agresser une nouvelle fois l’Algérie et plus largement tout le Continent africain et au final le reste du Monde.
Cette procédure n’est pas le produit de spéculations arbitraires. Elle n’a pas, non plus, été instituée pour justifier certaines théories juridiques. Ce procès ne peux plus être qualifié d’essai pratique des nations les plus puissantes, soutenues par quinze autres, d’employer le droit des gens pour faire face à la plus grande menace de notre époque : la guerre d’agression. La raison humaine demande que la loi ne réprime pas seulement les crimes commis par des sous-ordres, mais qu’elle atteigne aussi et surtout les chefs qui disposaient du pouvoir et l’ont employé délibérément à des fins de destruction et d’asservissement.
Au banc des accusés ne figurent pas seulement ces hommes accablés et accusés autant par l’humiliation de ceux qu’ils dirigeaient que par la misère de ceux qu’ils ont attaqués et opprimés. Leur pouvoir personnel de faire le mal est à jamais écarté. A voir ces tristes personnages au banc des accusés, il est difficile de se les représenter au temps où, dirigeant la structure Nazis-sionistes, voulant soit disant établir un “Nouvel Ordre Mondial”, ils régnaient sur une grande partie du monde et en menaçaient le reste. En tant qu’individus, ils intéressent peu.
Ce qui donne à cette audience une telle importance, c’est que ces accusés représentent des influences néfastes qui, longtemps après que leurs corps seront tombés en poussière, alarmeront toujours le monde. Ils sont les symboles vivants de la haine raciale, du règne de la terreur, de l’arrogance et de la cruauté, de la volonté de puissance, ils sont les symboles d’un mondialisme et d’un militarisme sauvages, d’intrigues et de préparatifs à des guerres au cours desquelles des générations entières en Afrique et ailleurs ont été transplantées, des hommes exterminés, des foyers détruits et toute l’économie appauvrie. Notre civilisation ne peut admettre aucun compromis avec ces courants maléfiques, qui resurgiraient avec un élan nouveau, si nous n’opposions à ces hommes, en qui ces courants subsistent, toute notre force et notre puissance populaire. Ce que ces hommes représentent, nous allons vous le dévoiler avec patience et modération, nous allons vous donner des preuves irréfutables des actes inqualifiables qu’ils ont commis. Dans la description et dans la nomenclature des crimes commis, rien ne sera tu de ce qu’ont pu suggérer les besoins pathologiques de cruauté, de puissance et d’orgueil. Ces hommes ont établi dans le monde sous le principe d’un chef unique un règne de terreur international qui n’a jamais trouvé d’égal. Ils ont enlevé aux peuples du monde toute dignité et toute liberté. En échange, ils ont provoqué en eux une haine profonde et satisfaite contre les musulmans, les africains, les arabes et beaucoup d’autres. Ils ont mené contre les masses populaires des campagnes d’arrogance, de brutalité et d’exécutions en masse telle que le monde n’en avait vue depuis les temps les plus reculés.
Obama Sending US Forces to Libya
From: Mathabahttp://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=629782%3Frss
On January 13, Cynthia McKinney (photo) said Obama has 12,000 US troops in Malta heading for Libya.
by Stephen LendmanThroughout 2011, Washington and rogue NATO partners committed Nuremberg level crimes. They made Libya a charnel house.Terror bombing caused massacres, mass destruction and human misery. Libya remains wracked by violence, instability, and illegitimate governance.Occupation, colonization, pillaging and exploitation intend raping Libya for profit.America’s Marines Hymn begins with the lines, “From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”If Malta positioned troops are marines, they’ll return for the first time in over 200 years.McKinney said:”The NTC (National Transitional Council) not only has to contend with a vibrant, well-financed grassroots-supported resistance, but the various militias….are also fighting each other.””I believe this ‘sociocide’ of Libyan society (like in Iraq, Afghanistan and other US war theaters) is part of a carefully crafted plan of destabilization that ultimately serves US imperial interests and those of a Zionist state and its US agents who are bent on Greater Israel’s suzerainty over huge swaths of Arabic-speaking populations.”Reports from Misrata say Apache helicopters slaughtered rebel insurgents trying to scale Brega oil platforms.”A resistance Libyan doctor-become-journalist reported yesterday that (they’re all) occupied by NATO and that warships occupy Libya’s ports.”Photos show “Italian encampments….with an announcement that French are to follow.”Moreover, “(t)housands of young (pro-Jamahiriya) Libyans languish under torture and assassination in a Misrata prison….Black Libyans are being beaten, whipped, threatened, harassed, and humiliated.””I hope the report I’m reading from 12 January 2012 is not true.”After months of Washington-led NATO atrocities, McKinney’s account likely represents a small snapshot of what millions of Libyans now face.It’s the same wherever America shows up, and they’re coming back after using air power and insurgents to reign death and destruction on defenseless men, women and children.Perhaps now they plan more of it on the ground.Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net#
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Why is President Obama sending 12, 000 U.S. troops to Libya?
http://nsnbc.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/why-is-president-obama-sending-12-000-u-s-troops-to-libya/?mid=57
By Cynthia McKinney – The 4Th Media
It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya.
For those of you who have not followed closely the situation in Libya, the resistance to the rule of the National Transitional Council is strong. The National Transitional Council (NTC) cast of characters has about as much support on the ground as did Mahmoud Abbas before the United Nations request for Palestinian statehood or Afghanistan’s regal-looking but politically impotent Hamid Karzai or for that matter, George W Bush after eight years.
The NTC not only has to contend with a vibrant, well-financed, grassroots-supported resistance, but the various militias of the NTC are now also fighting each other. I believe this “sociocide” of Libyan society, as we previously witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan before it, is part of a carefully crafted plan of destabilization that ultimately serves U.S. imperial interests and those of a Zionist state and its US agents who are bent on Greater Israel’s suzerainty over huge swaths of Arabic-speaking populations. Pakistan is also on the list for neutering in Muslim and world affairs, saddled with its own unpopular civilian leadership that finds itself in the hip pocket of the United States for survival, often getting sat upon by its fiscal guarantor.
The “Arab Spring” has sprung and the indelible fingerprints of malignant foreign financed operations must be erased if the people are to have a chance to truly govern themselves. Unfortunately, these foreign-inspired organizations are present and operating in just about every country in the world. The threat is ever-present like sleeping cells–all that is needed is that the right word to “activate” be given. Both Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez can write tomes on the impact of the National Endowment for Democracy in the political life of their countries.
In other words, those who create the chaos have a plan and in the midst of chaos, they usually are the ones who will win. Those who wrote the plan of this chaos were affiliated with the Project for a New American Century–read A Clean Break if you already haven’t. General Wesley Clark told us of the plan to invade and destroy the governments of seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. “These people took control of the policy in the United States,” Clark continues. He concludes, “This country was taken over by a group of people with a policy coup: Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and . . . collaborators from the Project for a New American Century: they wanted us to destabilize the Middle East.” Richard Perle, Bill Kristol publicize these plans and “could hardly wait to finish Iraq so they could go into Syria,” Clark goes on. “The root of the problem is the strategy of the United States in this region. Why are Americans dying in this region? That is the issue,” he finishes.
Now, from Libya, reports are that even while the Misrata rebels (NATO allies responsible for the murder of hundreds of Libyans, including Moatessem Qaddafi) attempted to scale the petroleum platforms in Brega (an important oil town in Libya), they were annihilated by the Apache helicopters of their own NATO allies. A resistance Libyan doctor-become-journalist reported yesterday that all of the petroleum platforms are occupied by NATO and that warships occupy Libya’s ports. Photographs show Italian encampments in the desert with an announcement that the French are to follow.
Another news outlet reports that Qataris and Emiratees are the engineers now at the oil plants, turning away desperate Libyan workers. While long lines exist for Libyan drivers to get their gas, foreign troops ensure the black gold’s export. Libyans lack enough food and the basics, the country has been turned upside down, and contaminated with uranium while the true number of dead and unaccounted for remains high and unknown. Thousands of young Libyans, supporters of the Jahamiriya, languish under torture and assassination in a Misrata prison where a humanitarian disaster is about to unfold because Misrata rebels want to kill them all and have already attacked the prison once to do so. An urgent appeal to contact the International Red Cross was issued yesterday to help save the lives of the prisoners. And finally, Black Libyans continue to be targeted for harassment and murder in Libya by US/NATO allies on the ground. Teaching hate, given the images of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan released yesterday, urinating on Afghani dead bodies, is not a difficult thing to do, it would seem. Videos are posted of Black Libyans being beaten, whipped, threatened, harassed, and humiliated. These videos remind me of the antebellum South–reminiscent of the days of slavery and The Confederacy. So, when I use the word “descend” to describe U.S. anticipated actions, I mean just that: U.S. troops are about to descend into the hell on Earth created by their President and the leaders of other countries who approved of, aided, or participated in the death of Libyan-owned society. A report from last night indicates that one militia, fearing other militias even invited foreigners in to protect them.
I hope the report that I’m reading from 12 January 2012 is not true. I hope our President has not sent 12,000 troops of occupation to Malta destined for Libya. Lucy Grider-Bradley (of our DIGNITY Delegation) just yesterday reminded me of the words of a high-ranking Libyan Jahamiriya Foreign Ministry representative who just happened to be at the Tunisia/Libya border office at the same time we were waiting there. He said, “Let the Americans come. We want them to taste our sandwiches. We will give them the same serving they got in Vietnam.”
Please write to our President (at www.whitehouse.gov) and ask him not to send troops of occupation (or whatever “euphemism de jour” this Administration chooses to use) to Libya.
To save the lives of the young men in prison, please e-mail the International Red Cross at any or all of the e-mail addresses given below:
in Tripoli 218213409262 / Croix rouge
والبريد اللاكتروني : tri_tripoli@icrc.org
هذا اراقام المكتب الرئيسي للصليب الاحمرLe président de la croix rouge
في جنيفا 41227346001/ فاكس 41227332057
webmaster@icrc.org
منظمة حقوق الانسان: Organisation de protection des droits de l’homme
في مقره لندن : à London
David Mepham
UK Director
Eleanor Blatchley
Tel: +44 (0) 20-7713-2788
blatche@hrw.org
او مقره في سويسرا : En Suisse
الهلال الاحمر الليبي: http://www.lrc.org.ly/contactus.html
And then, please view the most recent addition to the extremely valuable work of a young documentarian, Julien Teil, who caught Amnesty International red-handed in proselytizing the lies in the lead-up to this Libya debacle that they tried to take back. In short, Amnesty admits that the “African mercenaries” was just a rumor from the start. How many Black Libyans are suffering and have died because this woman and others like her safely ensconced in their seats of authority used them to proffer lies instead of protect the truth? The video is in both French and English and can be viewed here: http://www.laguerrehumanitaire.fr/english.
Lastly, there is one thing you can do: refuse to vote for war. Your vote is your most precious political asset. When you vote for Congressional representatives who, in turn, vote for war, you allow the people who made the coup–the people that General Wesley Clark talked about–you allow them to win. Overturn the coup by voting for peace. Cast your vote for peace. Ignore the pundits on the Sunday morning talk shows and vote for peace. Turn off the crap TV and vote for peace. Don’t even listen to your friends who think you’ve gone crazy, just vote for peace.
Cindy Piester, a documentarian who hosted the last event that I attended with my aunt in Ventura, California, just finished a film, “On the Dark Side in Al Doura – A Soldier in the Shadows” in which Dick Cheney says that the United States has to “work toward the dark side, spend time in the shadows, in the intelligence world.” He goes on to say, “A lot of what needs to be done will have to be done quietly without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies.” View her extremely well-done and sad film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNmerP32xk and please, don’t let this gang of coup plotters take you and this country into the shadows where we don’t need or want to be.
Vote peace.
Bani Walid has been freed from NATO Mercenaries: Tripoli and Benghazi next
Posted on January 25, 2012 | http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/bani-walid-has-been-freed-from-nato-mercenaries-tripoli-and-benghazi-next/
Green flags is flying in Bani Walid
According to new reports the resistance fighters and Jamahariya supporters managed to take full control of Bani Walid. Five NATO Mercenaries, one NATO Mercenary commander and 30 other fighters were wounded in clashes over Bani Walid.
NATO Mercenary “al-Fotmani M’Barek” confirmed the reports. Earlier Belhaj’s brother was killed in Bani Walid by resistance fighters. The puppet regime announced that Libya is in brink of a civil war.
Witnesses report seeing US drones flying over Bani Walid after the liberation of the town and the rejection of NATO’s puppet regime. Bani Walid installed its own council to govern the town and has forced all NATO Mercenaries to flee after intense clashes.
Rat-Commander Ali al-Fatamni
NATO Mercenary commander Ali al-Fatamni declared that he has lost all contacts with his men in Bani Walid, he fears that his Mercenary fighters are all dead or captured. The last radio contact from Bani Walid was from Mercenaries crying for back up and help. Mercenaries from Misratah was sent to help, but they did not enter Bani Walid, instead took post outside the town to once again implement a blockade.
Bani Walid has appointed its own council to govern the town, NATO’s puppet regime in response is preparing fighter jets to attack the town, but it isn’t clear whether they will go through the bombardment operations or not.
Libyan resistance fighters and armed Jamahariya supporters attacked NATO Mercenaries in Tripoli and Benghazi after the liberation of Bani Walid, the original Libyan Green flag has been raised over Bani Walid, giving moral boost to other Libyan towns trying to end the NATO driven oppression.
Street battles between NATO Mercenaries and resistance fighters continue in Tripoli neighborhoods, shops have been closed, and people are staying in doors knowing that the liberation has begun. NATO Mercenaries announced that they will show no Mercy to resistance fighters and have installed more checkpoints in Benghazi and Tripoli.
Heavy clashes between resistance fighters and NATO Mercenaries have also been reported in Benghazi, this comes after months of protests, and recent attack on puppet regime’s headquarters. Abdul Jalil was forced to flee from puppet regime’s headquarters when a mob entered the compound, even destroying his transport. The puppet vice president also resigned after being attacked in Benghazi University by angry students, and carried out by his body guards like a baby (caught on video).
Thanks to Ozyism – Reloaded by LibyanFreePress
Where are Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim and Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda? (6 articles + 6 Videos)
Posted on 14 January 2012 | http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/where-are-dr-ahmed-ibrahim-and-dr-abuzaid-omar-dorda-6-articles-6-videos/
Where are Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim and Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda?
It is from a long time there has been no definite information about Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim, uncle of the former spokesman and Information Minister for the Government of the Libyan Jamahiriya, Dr. Moussa Ibrahim.
It is from a long time there has been no definite information about Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda as well, the former UN ambassador for the Government of the Libyan Jamahiriya.
So, we republish few articles and videos about them, with the links, email address, telephone numbers and information needed to apply pressure at various institutions, in order not to leave alone these two Arab Libyan gentlemen.
LibyanFreePress
Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim
The imprisonment and mistreatment of Libyan citizen Ahmad Ibrahim by NTC forces.
Intellectual Dr Ahmad Ibrahim, author of the best explanation of the concept of `revolutionary organization` in the Third Universal Theory, and former General Secretary of the Libyan General People’s Committee for Education, is being held by the Australian-US-European supported racist “National Transitional Council” rebels
Libyan citizen Ahmad Ibrahim, (56 years old, pictured above) currently held without specific charges by the NATO-sponsored rebels and quite possibly tortured, was taken from his home in Sirte during the joint NATO – rebel onslaught in August.
Dr Ahmad Ibrahim was not fighting at that time, nor at any time before, but was in his house. He is a well-known professor of philosophy, who, like many other academics, was involved with the government, but as a civilian.Ahmad Ibrahim is being refused visits and contact with his family, even with lawyers. There is a strong possibility that he is being mistreated (see here: http://ozyism.blogspot.com/2011/11/us-teaching-its-mercenaries.html).
The NTC has not levelled any charges against him, nor are there any plans to allow him a fair trial. A fair trial is not that of the victor against the loser behind closed doors, but must be independent, transparent and supervised. No-one is presumed guilty to be proved innocent. But as things stand, Ahmad Ibrahim will not be given the rights that should be his in any legal court of law. Please act to save him from torture and unlawful imprisonment.
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US teaching its Mercenaries undetectable torture
احمد ابراهيموتشفيطت الثوار عليه
This video depicts a prisoner named Ahmed Ibrahim, at first glance you don’t see anything wrong with his treatment as intoxicated NATO Mercenaries sing loudly.
If you look closely at the beginning of the video you will see that Ahmed almost falls asleep. NATO Mercenaries in this video are using the torture technique of sleep deprivation which is also used in Guantanamo.
It seems US has disciplined its Mercenaries and have thought them tortured techniques which is harder to detect and prosecute. This technique can turn people insane within a week, it is much more effective than physical torture which NATO Mercenaries have been using until now.
Font: http://ozyism.blogspot.com/2011/11/us-teaching-its-mercenaries.html
VIDEO: Ahmad Ibrahim Being Tormented By His Captors.
Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda
Appeal of the Brother of Libyan Minister Abuzaid Dorda
Morris Herman interviews Mr. Adel Khalifa Dorda, brother of Libyan Minister Abuzaid Dorda who has been captured and tortured by the NATO-rebels.
Mr Adel Khalifa Dorda wrote a letter to the Secretary of the United Nations, calling on him to interfere directly to guarantee Mr. Dorda’s safety, security and freedom.
Mr Adel Khalifa Dorda tells Morris as a Minister his brother has been very popular in Libya, people supported him from border to border as well as all Libyan tribes. He is the most respected Libyan official and is well-known for being helpful, honest and always put the people’s wellbeing before his own. In the two years he held the position of Libya’s Housing and Infrastructure official, both housing and infrastructure has improved very much. Because of his popularity, the NTC rebels have tried to convince him to “defect” so that he could become the “new Libyan President.” During the nineties, Mr. Dorda was the PR of Libya to the United Nations.
Minister Abuzaid Dorda was captured on September 11 and since then has been moved from place to place as his capturers were scared they might get attacked. Since his capture he has been tortured and they have tried to kill him four times. On October 25 he has been interrogated by a group of rebels. His tortures asked him where the weapons and money are hidden but he refused to answer. They broke his left leg, fractured his hip and beat him severely which caused him internal bleeding. His life is now at risk as they very likely might try to kill him again.
Next is a letter from Adel Khalifa Dorda, brother of Minister Abuzaid Dorda, to the Secretary of the United Nations:
I am writing to bring to your attention an issue we deem important not only because it relates to a member of our family but as a human rights that concerns a former Permanent Representative to the United Nations who contributed to solving many human rights issues and guaranteeing these rights to many in his country and the world.
The case in question concerns Mr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda, the former PR of Libya to the UN during the nineties. As you may know, Mr. Dorda has been arrested by the new Libyan Authorities for two months. He had arranged his own surrender as he was confident he had not participated in any murders or arbitrary arrests. He was only serving his country in different positions and very active in international diplomacy. He had a major role in solving many of the problems between the international community and Libya, most important of which was the Lockerbie issue. Many Permanent Representatives and UN officials who worked and dealt with him would attest to his responsible and genuine personality and efforts.
Mr. Dorda survived a murder attempt last night, October 25, 2011, at the hands of his guards in the building where he was arrested. He was thrown off the second floor leading to several broken bones and other serious injuries. Authorities were forced to drove Dorda to Maitiga hospital in Tripoli where as of now he is being held under extremely poor conditions. Dorda is not receiving the proper treatment duly and legally accorded a political prisoner, let alone that required under the terms of human rights and other international treaties.
On behalf of his family I kindly ask you to interfere directly as the Secretary of the United Nations which he has long served, or through other humanitarian organizations, to guarantee his safety, security and freedom so he can get the proper treatment.
Adel Khalifa Dorda
26 October 2011″
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Help us to save the life of Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda
Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda, senior Libyan official, former UN ambassador, is currently being held and tortured by NTC members.
His life is in grave danger.Persons like Dr Dorda are important for any future prospects of peace in Libya, so now the Abdelhakim Belhaj’s Tripoli brigade are trying to kill him.
We are urging international community, humanitarian organizations, UN and CoE to promptly demand the release and guaranties for the life of this respected man, whose human rights are grossly violated, by the ‘new democratic’ Libyan regime.
He was thrown out of a window and one of his doctors told his family that both of his legs were broken and he has been badly beaten and tortured for the past month.
“Mr. Dorda survived a murder attempt last night, 25October, 2011, at the hands of his guards in the building where he was arrested. He was thrown off the second floor leading to several broken bones and other serious injuries. Authorities were forced to move Dorda to Maitiga hospital in Tripoli where as of now he is being held under extremely poor conditions. Dorda is not receiving the proper treatment duly and legally accorded a political prisoner, let alone that required under the terms of human rights and other international treaties.” [source]
Lizzie Phelan, an independent journalist from Britain, who was reporting from Libya during the NATO bombing, said:
“The Libyan media have tried to say that Dr Abuzaid Dorda, one of the most well respected members of Libyan politics in recent history, tried to commit suicide. Everybody knows how defiant and strong Dr Dorda is and that this is far from the truth. The reality is he was thrown out of a window and one of his doctors told his family that both of his legs were broken and he has been badly beaten and tortured for the past month. The last person to see him was a woman from Human Rights Watch called Susan a couple of weeks ago who said he was fine! (She has since left the country). The family has had no contact him since he was detained and they have no way of reaching him at a time when it is clear that now Abdelhakim Belhaj’s Tripoli brigade are trying to kill him. A figure like Dr Dorda is important for any future prospects of peace in Libya and the chances of a backlash are heightened if he is martyred. I have received a reliable report that the “rebels” tried to assassinate respected brother Dr Abuzaid Dorda, a senior member of the Libyan government who is held in high esteem by the Libyan people. Dr Dorda will not submit to the torture that they have tried to inflict (both of his legs have been broken and worse) and give over the information they desperately want from him. He used to be an ambassador to the United Nations himself, but now we can expect the United Nations and all other instiutions of “international law” look on while a senior figure of a sovereign state is threatened with assassination by their stooges?“
Want to help us in this campaign to save the life of Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda??? Send letters, emails, phone calls to the addresses listed at Libya S.O.S. or open and spread this PDF doc.
WHAT CAN WE DO FOR THEM?
We can applay pressure at various Institutions.
Here is a list of public Institutions you can contact and where you can complain:
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
ecu@un.org
+44 (0) 20 7413 5566 +44 7778 472 126
gvunpost@amnesty.org
press@amnesty.org
amnesty-eu@aieu.be
mena@amnesty.org
ai-aro@amnesty.org
msk@amnesty.org
34th floor New York
NY 10118-3299 USA
hrwnyc@hrw.org
51, Avenue Blanc
hrwgva@hrw.org
2-12 Pentonville Road 2nd Floor
London N1 9HF
UK Tel: +44 20 7713 1995
hrwuk@hrw.org
Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights Council of Europe
press.commissioner@coe.int
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
19 Avenue de la paix CH 1202 Geneva
ICRC delegations: Libya
These are the key ICRC contacts to target:
sanderson@icrc.org
hihassan@icrc.org
ICRC delegation
Ibrahim Al Houni Street
Diagonally Opposite Brother’s Clinic (Al Okhowa)
Nouflieen,TRIPOLI
Phone: (+218) 21 3409 331, +218 21 340 92 62
mobile: (+218) 91 941 80 66, +218 92 523 65 82
tri_tripoli@icrc.org
Head of delegation:
Mr Georges Comninos
Media contact person:
Ms MESSOUDI Soaade
Languages spoken: English/French/Arabic
ICRC Benghazi Al Andalus Street, Al Fwihat, Benghazi, LIBYA
Phone:( + 218) 92 807 7405
Head of offce: Mr. Patrick Schwaerzler
ben_benghazi@icrc.org
Ms Dibeh FAKHR Mobile:
+218 (0) 92 330 4560 Sat: +870 772 390 124
Languages spoken: English/French/Arabic/Spanish
You can contact as well all the International Media of your area, as well as the addresses,
telephone numbers and email/addresses listed here “Libya S.O.S.” or open and spread
“this PDF doc“.
* MELLON
OUR BROTHER LEADER LIVES!!
Haraka Elmokawama
In Libya: a statement of the Resistance (distributed in Libya).
It is for children of this great people, children of the commander, the hero Mujjahid, Colonel Muammar al-Qathafi .
You’ve seen the colonizers raped and stole the land Libyan deaths, injured and orphaned children.
All this on earth after the Libyan beloved pseudo revolution that destroyed the country.
With all this, we thank God because our beloved people woke up.
The son of honest Libyans, the son of the mujahideen and the mujahideen commander’s son.
It will take one day the sun will shine after a long night and you must know that victory is near and the release is close inchaelah.
Your appointment will be with the commander soon on television the great Jamahiriya.
http://www.algeria-isp.com/actualites/politique-libye/201201-A8154/libye-communique-resistance-parle-rdv-avec-guide-bientot-janvier-2012.html?mid=57
MORE USEFUL LINKS:
The Geneva Convention
Convention Against Torture
http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/
* (few of them are with the Italian translation)
Please spread these appeals and bring out all the links to the articles and other useful information so other people can distribute and circulate them
by MELLON
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/30/libya-news-from-bani-walid-january-30-2012/
Libya – An assassination attempt against the accused in the case of Major-General
“Younis Abdel-Fatteh” (January 15, 2012)
Libya – An assassination attempt against the accused in the case of Major-General “Younis Abdel-Fatteh”
Posted on 15/01/2012 at 17:55
ALGERIA ISP / Haraka Elmokawama Libya According toTajoura, Zenten rebels forcibly returned to the house of the former chief of security and intelligence outside the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Moussa Kousa (who betrayed the Libyan leader) and his brothers.
In Benghazi, one of the accused in the assassination of Major General “Abdel-Fatteh Younis,” “Mr. Rajeb Eljazoui” the brother of counsel “Jomo Eljazoui,” one of the commanders of the rebels came out alive from an assassination attempt last night.
One bomb under his car exploded without causing any damage to human.
New song, we swear to Saif, Moammar you are our guide, our leader!
KOMITET_LIBYA
– Dr. Hamza Touhami asks tribes to enter the green strength or become treacherous rats: Dr. Hamza has spoken and thanked all the Libyans and the Libyan resistance, even by those who write on social networks, blogs and sites that show the reality of Libya in the world. The world is beginning to awaken from this delusion.
He said the defense minister of the CNT has no authority over the rebels. At the latter meeting with representatives of the tribes of Bani Walid said that the CNT has raised the flag of Israel in Libya, do not say anything while we, we have established that green flag, which we want to stop !
Dr. Touhami asks the other tribes to reach Bani Walid to support the resistance. Dr. criticized the failure of the tribes that do nothing to resist. They are asked to no resistance, they are asked to release at least their region or he says they are the rats (the rebels).
Dr. Touhami load again, saying the rebels any vehicle that passes over a surface without any resistance to go to Bani Walid, show that the tribe has lost its honor.
He asks the strength to organize small groups of 3 to 4 people, regardless of other groups and implement all operations. Also asked to score resistance slogans on the walls of cities, to hoist the green flags and portraits of Qaddafi.
Finally, he noted that in 10 to 15 days, the TV channel resistance will be open. You voice between Libya and the free voice of Libya. He said the resistance was legally protected to keep these channels open.
– Tripoli explosions in the region of Sidi Elmsiri, and the Hadaba Siyahiya as the bombing of NATO planes.
Also in Tripoli, the fighters of the cell “Soukour Chitae” resistance Green conducted a second operation to attack the rebel camp located in the Gargour Misrata in Tripoli, killing seven rebels, unfortunately, two resistance fighters are injured The “One is in serious condition.
– Ben Jouad: violent clashes between the rebel battalion “Kabilete Elmgharba” under the direction of ‘Abu Djibril Dayle “and the rebel battalion” Chouhada Ajdabia “since early yesterday morning to 16h, causing panicked students fleeing the school and the exodus of the population outside the city. The balance is several civilians dead and wounded and killed four Egyptians and the destruction of several pickups mounted with heavy weapons. The rebels attacked the town after “Umm Kendile” completely burning the houses of civilians and then attacked the city, “Abu Saeda” by burning a restaurant.
– Misrata: Resistance fighters attacked a green check-point “Ghoti Elchael.”
Cell fighters “Soukour Chitae” green strength of a pickup truck exploded in rats “rebels”, who was next to Ain Zara prison killing three rebels Misrata.
– Solidarity with Libya in the port of Sete 30 km from Montpellier, France, home of the Libyan tuna where he hoisted the flag of shame. A group of young Marxist revolutionaries withdrew them and burned them.
Here’s their press release:
The invasion of Libya and the overthrow of his regime by NATO only benefits the capitalists.
We have to report and condemn such imperialist revolutionary Marxists.
We emphasize here the opportunism of “our beloved” capitalist Sète.
By this symbolic action, which point the finger at the lack of ethical tuna heads and reactionary tendencies.
– NATO’s alleged “responsibility to protect” was the subterfuge. Months of terrorist attacks had left Libya a charnel house.
Most developed country in Africa was devastated. Tens of thousands were killed, many wounded and left millions of its own sink or swim.
When the war is not war? It is when killing and destruction are called things right. It is also time to terrorize and traumatize entire population unattended.
– Sebbha and Tarjuna: Simultaneously comes news of fighting in the city Saharan Tarjuna Sebbha between patriots and gadafistas and rats. In Tripoli gadafista sniper has paid a mercenary. One of the commanders rat Misurata, Mohamed Abdelkader LIBID, would have been eliminated by the cell, “Sakr Elawehd” patriotic national resistance.
In the area of Samna in southern Libya a resistance fighter has explosa his belt packed with explosives causing the immediate death of many rats
Source http://www.facebook.com/ #! / Millions.Supporting.Gaddafi? sk = wall
In the heat of the heroic struggle and national liberation hard to forge a new generation of fighters that will be the new national leaders to replace, continuing, the Martyr Omar Mokhtar and Muammar Gaddafi Martyr
Muammar Gaddafi tells the truth to the UN 2009
Libya gives up
Freedom to the thousands of prisoners and high Gadafistas the savage violation of their
There is no agreement among different sources on the number of patriotic citizens imprisoned in the dungeons gadafistas the tyranny of NATO has been installed in Libya.
On January 4 reported that there are only 15,000 patriots Benghazi prisoners, of whom 3,500 are suffering in the prison of El-Kouifiya, 5200 in Nida Watan and the rest in other prisons.
Journalist Mustafa Kader Bouh gadafista January 8 reports the 60,000 patriots who are prisoners.
The Human Rights Organization says Sawasiya, meanwhile, that there are 8500 prisoners without charge or trial court of any kind in 60 detention centers under continuous beatings, eletrochoques and cigarette burns.
A few days ago the pro-imperialist NGO Doctors Without Borders was founded by the supporter of all imperialist wars, the Frenchman Bernard Kouchner, reported in detail that rats would give prisoners brutally tortured for emergency heal and return to the torture chambers the criminal NATO rats monitored by officers of the CIA, M16, the DGSE and Qatar. It refers specifically to 116 prisoners who suffer fractures Misrata different, burning with cigarettes, various body tissues burned for electricity and crushed limbs using the scheme of “respect for human rights” established by NATO in Libya.
We call on all organizations in the world human rights defenders, opposition to torture prisoners and defenders of progressive and revolutionary politicians to raise his voice energetically to NATO and Washington to stop this criminal revenge and the Patriots are immediately released.
The courageous Dr. Dorda, kidnapped by the rats in the Hospital
Ahmed Ibrahim, the Libyan ideologue hung by the feet every day for rats
Khaled Kaaim, Foreign Ministry spokesman Libyan government’s legitimate
Tentouche Khaled Sheikh, Mufti of Libya
Hala Al Misrati, courageous journalist Libyan TV
We demand the immediate release of all
Demand particularly freedom of the various personalities captive and tortured patriots: the head of the Popular Committees Ahmed Ibrahim subjected every day to hanging by the feet Misrata rats, Ahmed Ramadan, secretary to the Leader Gaddafi, Mohamed Abou el-Kassim Zouai Secretary General of the General People’s Congress, theoretical Libyan head of state, Khaled Kaaim, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Libyan government, Khaled Tantouche, Mufti captured in Sirte Libya, Hala Al Masrati, TV journalist and Doctor Abu Zaid Dorda, former Libyan ambassador to the United Nations who has just been kidnapped from the hospital where he was recovering from torture.
MORE CURRENT NEWS RELEASE FRONT OF LIBYA:
(1) The Libyan army green has been operating in the Eastern front, gaining 11% of territory in the past one week, 1,217 rebels have been eliminated in the Eastern Front around Derna to Benghazi, mainly of radical movements international jihadists.
(2) On the western front, green rebel army pushed into the sea, the capture of two major import and exporty ports.
(3) In major military operations around Misrata on the coast of Libya, green army found the bodies of 17 migrants off the coast of Somalia Misrata, cause of death has not been established, an investigation was not conducted immediately because it was an area of intense fighting.
(4) cans of tear gas have been found by Libyan intelligence agents on board green Airways National carrier Libyan Arab in Egypt, and a similar flight from Egypt in Tripoli was found more than 1 million banned intoxicating drugs, 27 suspects were arrested for connection to the drug smuggling ring in the country, Libya has become a point of major drug trafficking since the rebels took many parts of the country. Young children with money can buy today openly mind-altering substances on the open market. It is a major problem facing the resistance of the way to counteract and stop the smuggling of drugs into the country.
(5) In another gruesome scene discovered by the military green, a missing girl from Benghazi was burned body found and put it in a stolen car, sorry for the scene of horror, the body is suspected of Salam, the family has been notified about the discovery. The girls’ bodies found in Benghazi Almajuri neighborhood Thursday morning in military operations against the rebels hide outs, units of the strength of the green strength and intelligence is not at all sure that the body found is to the kidnapped two days ago said Abdel Salam Hassan Retaj or another child, the green strength of intelligence has been assigned an ID number of the victims and the criminal code to define identity.
(6) In a blow to the insurgents hit a Libyan Misurata, Liberation Front attacked a military prison in LLF’s main port Misrata and released all 532 prisoners in the facility, the medical group Doctors Without Borders was asked to stop co-operating and helping the rebels s, the French organization is asked to stop rampant job centers rebels detained in the city of Misrata, many prisoners are being totured, ill-treatment, denied medical treatment and help, your basis for this organization to work with the rebels.
(7) The Libyan intelligence resistance has been reported, a child under 6 years of age has been found wandering in the corners of the streets of Tripoli late at night, without an established address, location.The name of the boy named Ryan, has no information as to where you live or the place of his people. If you have information about your family, please contact 0913733561 Mohammed Abu Obeid.
(8) In Sebha, a Libyan of the division of Electrical Engineering Jamal was robbed at gunpoint, the incident came very early in the morning, his truck was taken by force, witnesses said the vehicle was taken gunpoint, forced down and the rebels fired into the air to intimidate, then got into the vehicle, fired indiscriminately to disperse pedestrians. Black is a 2011 Toyota truck supplied by the public green army for the restoration of utilities and services.
(9) Green Army has received the intelligence that Al-Hassi was elected leader of Libyan intelligence, now through Libya’s Special Report on Tuesday, the NATO Council yesterday approved a Libyan intelligence council whose function is to control the movements of the resistance forces against the imperialists, it acts as counter-revolution against internal and external risks. This is a body based on national and international agency, the Board instructed Mr Salim Al-Hassi as a Chairman, Colonel Mustafah also instructed Noah, a former supreme security committee as vice president of this device canguro.Salem Al -Hassi is one of the National Salvation Front, was previously assigned to security duties in the front in a period of intense activity abroad in the years 1980 to 1990. He came from the ranks of the intelligence age, these people need to be captured, arrested and detained in army green.
(10) Tunisia appeals court said the extradition of Abdul Salam Bostaih to Libya! The risk of torture, revenge of the rebels, killing, the extradition of the judicial and political turbulence as Libya makes us question the identity of the Tunisian courts, which have done the unthinkable for the destruction of Libya, allegations of corruption , appropriation of public funds against Bostaih are political motivated, Abdul Salam Bostaih was in the business, made his fortune in legal means, the application has been rejected.
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Freedom House: «беспрецедентный прогресс» в Ливии
January 19th, 16:04
Ситуация улучшается С захватом Триполи беспрецедентный прогресс достигнутПрогресс в Триполи
Ливийская тележурналистка Хала Мисрати подвергается пыткам и насилию в тюрьме ПНС.Прогресс в Сирте
http://www.ria.ru/arab_riot/20120119/543168148.html
Libya – The City loyalist to Elasabea are Kadhafi (January 15, 2012)
Libya – The City loyalist to Elasabea are Kadhafi
ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr Fi Libya at Derna, a rebel Gharyan says Elasabea are not rebels but loyal to Gaddafi.
The rebels ask Ghariyan Elasabea to hand over all weapons they are afraid of fighters Elasabea.
They accuse the fighters of Elasabea have collected a lot of heavy weapons “tanks, heavy weapons and ammunition …” and they have placed snipers on every house.
There are even fighters and Abu slim Warfala with Asabea.
AL-FATEH UNIVERSITY ON FIRE (PICTURES)
4:12 AM OZYISM
23/jan/11It is suspected that TNC police squads caused the fire…tostop the protesting against the TNC, on-going on at the University.
GROUND INVASION OF LIBYA HAS STARTED TO SECURE $20 OIL PER BARREL
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/01/ground-invasion-of-libya-has-started-to.html
Under the pretext of protecting the oil fields, hundreds of American soldiers are disembarking on the shores of Libya. Libyan FM reported this morning that6.000 US troops landed at Mitiga base as well. One hour after that, we were informed that most of the US troops were already setting up mobile campsand equipment around oil fields and rafineries.
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U.S. forces were concentrated in the Malta. Today they reached the beaches ofRas Lanuf, Sirte and other oil ports under the pretext of protecting the oil fields and ports from ‘illegal exports by Libyan armed gangs’.As we all know the resistance has previously announced that they will burn Libyan oil rafineries if and when the first ‘invading oil soldier’ arrives to the Jamahiryan territory.
Libya – Hundreds of U.S. soldiers landed on the coast of Libya (January 18, 2012)
WELCOME TO THE NEW AMERICA!
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers landed on the coast of Libya
ALGERIA ISP / Elbadil According to the U.S. forcesconcentrated in Malta, arrived yesterday on the beachcities “Brega“, “Raes Lanouf” and “Sirte” under thepretext of protecting the fields oil and export ports. Theresistance has announced that it will burn Libya and any foreign soldier who ask his feet on the ground Jamahiriya.
As a reminder the day and the site Elkods Elarabi Elbadil have already published a few days ago that president Barack Obama gave a directive to transfer 12,000 U.S. troops from Malta to Libya. A few days ago it was reported that Barack Obama gave a directive to transfer 12 thousand U.S. troops, stationed in Malta, to Libya.
[Update: The Government of Malta hascategorically denied claims made by former US Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, that “12,000 U.S. troops (are) stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya”.]
Western troops hope to secure the export of Libyan oil to European markets at very low prices not exceeding $ 20 per barrel, this is the first result of the agreement concluded by the head of the Libyan government El-Kib with countries of NATO.
It is noted that the U.S. has bought Iraqi oil from 2003 to 2007 the price of one dollar per barrel, on the pretext ofrestoring the expense of the “liberation” of Iraq, and Atlanticist seems to follow the same method today in Libya.
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/18/libya-hundreds-of-u-s-soldiers-landed-on-the-coast-of-libya-january-18-2012/
He hopes the presence of Western troops on the ground will secure pumping Libyan oil to European markets at very low prices which will not exceed $ 20 per barrel. So the first results of the ‘liberated’ Libyan economy, are unfair deals signed by the NATO puppets (Council of Shame) with the new colonists.
For those of you who didn’t know, United States of America had been buying Iraqi oil between 2003 and 2007 for the price of one dollar per barrel, under the pretext of restoring the lost expenditure in the “liberation” of Iraq, and it seems that Atlanticists themselves follow the same method today in Libya.
Libyan Feb17 fools liberated themselves from oil..
Libya – Clashes in Derna-See Video (January 15, 2012)
Libya – Clashes in Derna-See Video
ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr Fi Libya, Derna to last night, a group of unknown gunmen attacked the headquarters of the NTC, the rebel battalion Boumedkour Nasser.
These armed men fired on the rebels with heavy weaponsand RPG causing the destruction of a pickup and wounded a rebel.
After an exchange of gunfire, the group withdrew quickly. The rebels are on red alert after the attack.
QATAR LOYALIST’S THE HEADS OF LIBYAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES!!! 1.HASSI SALEM, 2.NOAH MUSTAFA
Libya – Qatar appoints the chairs of the Libyan Intelligence (January 28, 2012)
ALGERIA ISP / Haraka According ElmokawamaLibya, Qatar has agreed with a number of CNT Mustapha Abdeljalil the appointment of heads of intelligence services in Qatar Libyan loyalists, with the approval of the United States.
1 – Hassi Salem “in charge of security in the organization of the Front of salvation,” he an American citizen – Chairman of the Libyan intelligence.
2 – Noah Mustafa “Member of the Supreme Security, Vice President of the Military Council of Tripoli Abdelhakim Belhadj” -. Vice-Chairman of the Libyan intelligence.
http://www.algeria-isp.com/actualites/politique-libye/201201-A8380/libye-qatar-nomme-les-presidents-renseignement-libyen-janvier-2012.html#.TyRzUoyUO9k.facebook
Libye – Qatar nomme les présidents du renseignement Libyen (28 janvier 2012)
ALGERIA ISP/ Selon Haraka ElmokawamaLibya, le Qatar a convenu avec le numéro 1 du CNT Mustapha Abdeljalil la nomination des chefs des services de renseignement libyens loyalistes à Qatar, avec l’approbation des Etats-Unis.
1 – Salem Hassi “en charge de la sécurité dans l’organisation du Front de salut», il a la nationalité américaine – Président du renseignement libyen.
2 – Mustafa Nouh “Membre du Comité suprême de sûreté, vice-président du Conseil militaire de Tripoli de Abdelhakim Belhadj “-. Vice-Président du
CLASHES IN SOUTHERN TRIPOLI LEAVES 2 PEOPLE DEAD
14/Jan/11
Clashes between NATO mercenaries and LibyanResistance left two people dead in south of Tripoli. The clashes broke out when NATO Mercenaries tried to arrest one civilian Jamahariya supporter, Libyan Resistance in the area was informed and soon after clashes broke out.
Picture of dead NATO Mercenary killed in fighting:
Fighting started Friday and continued till Saturday. At least 15 fighters from both sides have been injured and one civilians.
This comes as Banks started releasing real Libyan money to the public again, the real money contains the revolutionary leader Muammar Qaddafi‘s image on it.
GETTY IMAGES13 MONTHS AGO
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir reviews an honour guard with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi upon the latter’s arrival with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Khartoum on 21 December 2010 for talks with Bashir, ahead of a referendum on southern independence.
Report Libya on 29/30 January 2012.
http://rictvagencianoticias.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/informe-libia-y-el-29-de-siria-y-30-enero-de-2012/
Libyan-French shooter heroes of the Bani Walid.
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012 15:52
Author: Maya Orlic via international agency rictv original
Report Libya and 29 Syrian and January 30, 2012.
Author: May Orlic –
** Although the situation in the center of Bani Walid calm these days, and the population continues its usual activities, the situation is very unstable. On the outskirts of the city met the rebels Misra, Tripoli and other parts of Libya, who are awaiting the green light to attack the city and its population wiped out. One of the Libyans in the Bani Walid said the city will allow the police, if controlled by the Ministry of Interior, but not rebel, not put one foot on a green Bani Walid. Green flags are prominent throughout the Bani Walid, and people are willing to defend their rights and freedom were taken away by the National Council of Transition and NATO. As you learned, Bani Walid is 300 rebels surrounded by NTC, but rats, fortunately, many refused to Bani Walid crowd for fear of a mass uprising of people. Because the green strength of organized operations in recent weeks, the rats had lost a lot of people, and therefore rebel yell, Benghazi, in part, Tripoli refused to fight against the heroes of the Bani Walid .
How Green Lion successful operation in Tripoli shows the situation in which most of the checkpoints was destroyed and abandoned. A source in Tripoli says the state is unstable in this city during the day due to fighting between the Resistance and rats, but also for the calculation of mutual rebels. In Benghazi was a conflict, the police opened fire demonstranate, but returned fire. The Sabha is the house of a corrupt traitors, and Tobruk and Ajdabiya regain control again, and the police are green and maintain control of those cities. In the south of Libya, Tuareg tribes of southern and others according to the Bani Walid and decided to continue with further support to the resistance. The Tuareg are listened to Dr. Hamza requirements and continue to support Sabha. Many families already living in the city along with Kdadfi tribe.
***** National Transitional Council every day losing control of the situation in the country . Oil is exported without any contract or minutes, and the free market to sell drugs in China , which is even instructions in Chinese. At the airport in Tripoli yesterday arrested two rats. Airport Director, who belongs to Zintancima, confirmed the arrest of a rat in his possession five million dollars and euros. Two hours later, police arrested another person who had a $ 730.000. Among the rats and the government of a great suspicion, and therefore, accuse the minister of defense cooperation with the Bani Walid zintanskog.
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حريق جامعة الفاتح كلية الهندسة (دلوا دلوا).mp4
al-Fateh University is set afire by NTC Police to stop the on-going protests there against the TNC.
Libya – intervention of Dr Yusuf Shakir … they tried to hack his computer! (January 31, 2012)
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ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr Fi Libya, an intervention of Dr. Yusuf Shakir warning the resistance to be careful about using the Internet as people try to infiltrate Facebook and Twitter accounts of resistance.
There is a group hired by the Board of CNT Tripoli which aims to spy on the strength and drive a wedge between supporters and resistance fighters. This group is run by two people from England and Tripoli. They tried several times to hack the computer of Dr. Yusuf Shakir.
He adds that he has no connection with the radio “LIBYA FM” (RAT RADIO), he spoke only once on the radio and he was edited and misquoted concerning Our leader of the Green Resistance. He will no longer intervene and will be giving the reasons in the coming days.
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Libya occupied: 17 thousand detainees and 46 prison gangs, however, NATO .. Shalgam client without being aware of exposing Ban Ki-moon ..
My name is Ali – Association news agency and the voice of all Arab resistance 26/01/2012
NATO is trying to customers ruling in Libya occupied conceal the number of those arrested who are subjected to torture in the detention camps are programmed not all subject to the Government of shame that has received international support, despite the shameful record on human rights.
While several sources indicate that less than 17 thousand detainees are facing the worst conditions in the prisons managed bands, especially the terrible torture that amount to lose the detainee’s ability to walk or speak for life. And more than 7, however, prison gangs are the client.
Recognized Navi Pillay High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations on Wednesday that the detainees from the civil war in Libya, who held gangs and NATO customers are still being tortured.
Pillay told the UN Security Council, the UN is concerned it’s the thousands of prisoners who directed them to charge that they were loyal to the legitimate government of Libya in the era of the martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi and many of them from sub-Saharan Africa.
Pillay said the “lack of control of the central authorities creates an environment conducive to torture and ill-treatment … my staff received disturbing reports that this happens in places of detention visited.”
She said there is an urgent need because the subject of all detention centers in Libya for the control of the Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Attorney General and to examine the status of detainees to be released or brought to a fair trial.
The client admitted NATO Libyan ambassador Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgam Council that there are more than eight thousand prisoners in Tripoli alone.
The recognition of this precedent to refute the figures provided by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which he said that the number of detainees since 7000 that acknowledged by Shalgam in Tripoli more than this figure.
And Moon is involved in covering up the killings and torture carried out by NATO and its clients in Libya in response to U.S. orders.
He informed the Special Envoy Ian Martin of the United Nations to Libya, the Council meeting on Wednesday that the Ministry of Justice has so far received more than six battalions from the prisons of revolutionary.
The information Midayna that at least for 46 prison is not a disgrace to the Government of Libya’s territory by a relationship and it is fully waged proxy for criminal gangs.
And nine customers in the Tripoli government in collusion with the Secretary General of the United Nations and NATO Quilts hide the true number of victims of NATO civilians.
He has recorded more than 2,700 civilians were martyred as a result of NATO, but this number has been covered up.
He admitted the existence of Shalgam 4 cases of bombing civilians by NATO, but the number of flights carried out by NATO suggests that the killing of civilians has increased from 500 cases and casualties than 4 thousand.
Libya – News from Bani Walid (January 30, 2012)
News from Bani Walid
ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr FiLibya, after the recent events between Warfala fightersand rebels in Bani Walid and despite the removal of Defense Minister in Bani Walid. The situation is still volatile.
The rebels from all regions (from Misrata, Tripoli, …) are waiting on the outskirts of the city awaiting the green light to attack Bani Walid and exterminate the population.
One of the Libyans of Bani Walid says that if the police in Bani Walid is led by the Ministry of Interior, we let it worked in Bani Walid. If they are rebels, they will never stay at Bani Walid.
Pro-Gaddafi fighters launched an uprising across Libya
Fighters loyal to the late leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi launched a series of attacks in cities across Libya.
advance.hr
Published: Friday – 24 January 2012 | 13:08
http://www.advance.hr/vijesti/pro-gaddafi-borci-pokrenuli-ustanak-diljem-libije/
As reported the British news agency The Press Association , fighters loyal to leader ColonelMuammar Gaddafi launched a series of attacks in cities across Libya.
The news comes just a day after numerous media confirmed that the town of Bani Walid again in the hands of pro-Gaddafi fighters , and the green flag waved in the city.
PA reported that the new NTC government failed to break the resistance fighters who are still loyal to Muammar Gaddafi’s ideas.
NTChas failed to unite the country after eight months of fierce warfare, the report carries extensive PA.The rebellion broke out in cities across the country. Except in the Bani Walid, fighting erupted in the capital Tripoli and in the center of power NTC, Benghazi.
Abdel-Rahman al-Soghayar, commander of the rebel army in Tripoli, confirmed that the fighting broke out in several districts. Actions are closed, residents do not leave their homes, said the same source.
It also states that the rebellion within the Tripoli started “sleeping cells” that are still loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. “They seized the moment of rebellion in Bani Walid,” says Abdel-Rahman al-Soghayar.In Benghazi have lasted for weeks, protests against the NTC (unelected) government. Finally, the government building was attacked with bombs . It is not clear who was behind the actual protests in Benghazi. However, according to the latest information and there have been renewed armed struggle.Remember, sporadic fighting between the mutually opposing rebel groups began to emerge shortly after the withdrawal of the military mission of NATO. However, the current conflicts have quite different connotations. For the first time since the war, there is organized Resistancefrom the “green revolution” led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Saif Gaddafi in Western Mountains of Zentan. There are many positive reports so do not be overly concerned
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar,. NTC requires that he be tried in Libya, not in The Hague. However, the details are somewhat contradictory. He is known to be in the hands of the Zentan tribe but has not specified exactly where the group works; and the Zentan have an honor oath between them and the Qathafi tribe. Also Saif married a Zentan woman, and is temprary “head of State” of “the Jamahiriya in Exile“. Many have concluded that the NTC has no control over the detention of Saif Gaddafi. Bearing in mind the current resistance movement that is spreading across the country, the fate of detained kanji kanji Saifa becomes even more uncertain.
Remember, Saif Gaddafi was admired the most by Libyans, just behind Muammar Gaddafi. Saif has vowed to continue fighting andhis brother, SAADI, proclaimed him leader of the “Green Revolution Resistantance (LLF)”. As such, on this day he remains a potential key figure in the possible large number of people united Libya – who are still loyal to the ideas and principles of his father.
Certainly many eyes fixed in that direction, because there is a potential possibility that the group that he was detained facing a new wave of rebellion. Many even speculate that Saif is not closed in the true sense of the word, but to specific individuals are kept from potential extradition to the NTC or the International Court in The Hague. By the tribes of Libya, Saif was tried and exonerated. He is a free man with them.
For video and still images was seen casually walking around and talking to her, allegedly zatočiteljima. Commander of the elite units, Khamis Gaddafi.On several occasions the mention of his death, but never confirmed.Except kanji kanji Saifa not known the fate of other key figures from the “green revolution”. By reports, Khamis and his famous 32nd Brigade, have been winning battle after battle .
Remember, the amount of rumors and misinformation during and after the Libyan war, the 2011th was extremely high. So many times mentioned the death Gaddafijevog son Khamis, who is one of the key people in the leadership of special combat units.
Despite the large number of allegations, his death was never confirmed, as opposed to the acknowledgement of martyred brother Dr. Moutassem al-Billah al-Qathafi.According to recent media reports, including the Russian TV Russia Today, pro-Gaddafi Resistance escalated in the last 48 hours. Some analysts conclude that even in this case, NATO could re-engage in the country (see video below).
Iranian TV station has announced that NATO sent 12.000 troops into Libya as part of “peacekeeping” missions. PRESS TVhas Confirmed thisconfirmed.The last video report: “Pro-Gaddafi fighters strike attack – Libya in shambles”
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Analyst for RT: “you can return to NATO?”
Source (s): The Press Association | AP | Washington Post | Reuters | RT | PRESS TV |
The news of Libya (January 14, 2012)
ALGERIA ISP / Elmokawama
According to Akhbar Libya, the Death of the Commander rebel from Garyan: Fadel Ben Khalifa Hoceine Hoceine, was killed by fighters Asabea.
A Elajama, a child who was going to school was killed after a shell fired by the rebels.
In Tripoli, the destruction of a deposit of arms and ammunition Zenten located on the road to Tripoli airport.
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/01/report-libya-30-january-2012.html
Report Libya 30. January 2012.
NATO MERCENARIES TERRORIZING LIBYANS
There is no Sirt any more
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-there-future-for-sirte.html
“Let me correct what you just have said in here… Sirt is not been destroyed, it is been erased human wise and construction wise. There is no Sirt any more. I am trying so hard to explain to people what has happen there, no matter how much i speak or write, i can never give % 5 from what really has happened in real life. I lived it there day by day. I wish that I have died and not lived with all sort of bad pictures and thoughts in my mind.”
Heroic Town Sirte in October 2011.
Reflections of a survivor from Sirte.
Name is not published for security reasons and the text is completely unedited.
“I have lost faith in life after what has been done to the people of Sirt whowere killed in masses with no mercy. I was in Sirt for 58 days, no food, no life, shooting from every corner, couldn’t count the number of the dead people and couldn’t help to put them into their graves. Bullets were falling on uslike the drops of heavy rain from every direction. This not to forget the NATO missiles and explosions that never stopped, which killed and destroyed whoever and whatever came in its way.
We were very lucky not to be killed when we left Sirt. People from Musrata and the eastern part of Libya were shouting Allah Akbar while they were killing people from Sirte like if we are non Muslim to them.
This – and worse – is what happened to countless Libyan children during the “humanitarian war”
The people of Sirt have lost everything they have spent their lives to create.
I mean, why would someone get married and create a family when someone with no mercy comes and kill all of them. It is like if s/he never got married and never had a family. It is the same to many others who have spent their life working hard to have a decent home and certain life standard but this again has gone and been lost just like they never worked.
Sirte, Libya: NATO “humanitarian intervention”
What is the different between the people of Sirt and any homeless person who never had family to live for or home to live in. Regardless to how thing will change and hope to become better but it would never make the life easier forthose who lost everything they had.
Today, there is no medicine, there is no water, there is no money, there is no schools, there are no jobs.
What faith would someone should have in life after s/he has lost all of what makes life of a person.
This is the Arabic Spring to the Libyan people.
I am not sure what is their definition of the Arab Spring ?!!!
This Spring is equal to the crime and destruction of humanity in the Arab and Muslim world.”
NATO Rebels desecrated The Graves
Comment of S.C.
” It was named ‘Spring’ by the devils advocates,see how Egyptian army – grown fat and full on US$ is in control,same in Bahrain,Yemen and where ever it suits the imperial thugs they r2p their stooge.
The savages that US/NATO and Gulf traitors unleashed on Libya were a perfect image of these ‘Muslims’ hypocricy.
In islamic history battles against genuine foes were halted in Holy Months, but here we saw them butcher, rape and kill innocents through Ramazan, while chanting Allahuakbar, this ripped through my very soul, the climax was the sodomic orgy of mutilating brother Moammar,his Son and defence minister.
Those rabid ‘human rights’ bodies are not counting victims now because they were just instruments of the evil coalition. Hope my words bring some solace to you, please feel and know you are not alone, our hearts beat with all who suffered this crime, the torment on them shall haunt these trators and their devilish masters forever-never will they know peace or human joy-nor in this temporal life or in their shallow grave pits.
What scares me is a repeat in Syria. How much torment can the innocent people bear, so demeaning how Syria’s neighbours apart from Lebanon and Iran are all in cahoots with the evils.
I pray for peace but we all prayed before for Iraq and Libya but all went unanswered!”
* Libya Sirte [15/16/17/18/19/20/22/23…30 September 2011. ] War cime of NATO and NTC rebels http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/libya-sirte-1516-september-2011-war.html
* NATO SLAUGHTERING CHILDREN IN SIRTE – “To the Libyan people: this is your chance.” Obama said. [22. September 2011. Sirte, Libya] –
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/nato-slaughtering-children-in-sirte-to.html
* Massacre in Sirte . Video shows Libyans alive, photos show them dead – DISTURBING IMAGES , WATCH THEM IF YOU NEED TO IDENTIFY SOMEONEhttp://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/11/disturbing-images-watch-them-if-you.html
REASON FOR LIBYAN REBELION – THIEVERY 1. Stealing golden ring from a dead man 2. Stealing from the pockets of dead libyans before burrying them in a mass grave (videos) ->http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/10/reason-for-libyan-rebelion-thievery.html
The Pentagon chief called the NATO intervention a “remarkable achievement” – http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/10/where-is-human-rights-watch.html
NATO Mercenaries blowing things up on the side of the streets terrorizing innocent Libyans. This is the daily activity of NATO Mercenaries, terrorizing, torturing and killing innocent people. Libyans are getting sick of it, sooner or later more active resistance will be born.
18 January 2012 Last updated at12:56 GMT
BRITS LIED, Schemed and Conquered by Brute Force and Dirty Tricks:
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Inside story of the UK’s secret mission to beat Gaddafi
By Mark UrbanDiplomatic and Defence editor, Newsnight
British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground – and on the quiet – special forces soldiers were blending in with rebel fighters. This is the previously untold account of the crucial part they played.
The British campaign to overthrow Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime had its public face – with aircraft dropping bombs, or Royal Navy ships appearing in Libyan waters, but it also had a secret aspect.
My investigations into that covert effort reveal a story of practically-minded people trying to get on with the job, while all the time facing political and legal constraints imposed from London.
In the end though, British special forces were deployed on the ground in order to help the UK’s allies – the Libyan revolutionaries often called the National Transitional Council or NTC. Those with a knowledge of the programme insist “they did a tremendous job” and contributed to the final collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
Multiple radios indicate sophisticated co-ordination of forces
The UK’s policy for intervention evolved in a series of fits and starts, being changed at key points by events on the ground. The arguments about how far the UK should go were thrashed out in a series of meetings of the National Security Council at Downing Street. Under the chairmanship of Prime Minister David Cameron, its key members were:
Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards
Defence Secretary Liam Fox
Foreign Secretary William Hague
Mr Cameron’s chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, was a key voice in urging action following the Libyan revolution in last February, say Whitehall insiders.
The first significant involvement of British forces inside Libya was a rescue mission mounted just a couple of weeks after the rising against Gaddafi broke out. On 3 March, Royal Air Force C130 aircraft were sent to a desert airstrip at Zilla in the south of the country to rescue expatriate oil workers. Many had been threatened by gunmen and bandits.
This airlift of 150 foreigners, including about 20 Britons, to Valletta airport in Malta went smoothly, despite one of the aircraft being hit by ground fire soon after taking off.
Accompanying the flights were about two dozen men from C Squadron of the Special Boat Service (SBS), who helped secure the landing zone. It was a short-term and discrete intervention that saved the workers from risk of abduction or murder, and caused little debate in Whitehall.
Events, though, were moving chaotically and violently onwards, with the Libyan armed forces breaking up and Benghazi emerging as the centre of opposition. The government sought to open contacts with the National Transitional Council both overtly and covertly.
It was the undercover aspect of this relationship that almost brought Britain’s wider attempt to help the revolution to grief. The Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, sought to step up communications with some of its contacts in the opposition. It was decided to send a pair of the service’s people to a town not far from Benghazi to meet one of these Libyans.
MI6, say people familiar with what happened, decided to avoid the Royal Navy frigate in Benghazi at the time, or any other obvious symbol of national power as the base for this meeting. Instead they opted to be flown from Malta into Libya at night by Chinook helicopter in order to meet local “fixers” who would help them get to the meeting.
In planning this operation, SIS chose to use a highly sensitive arm of the special forces, E Squadron, in order to look after its people. Six members of E Squadron, which is recruited from all three Tier 1 units (SAS, SBS and Special Reconnaissance Regiment) duly boarded the Chinook to “mind” the intelligence people.
They were equipped with a variety of weapons and secure communications gear. In keeping with E Squadron’s sensitive role, they were in plain clothes or black jumpsuits (accounts vary), and carried a variety of passports.
Witnesses said they were carrying weapons, ammunition, maps and passports from four different countries”
SAS ‘captured near Benghazi’
The plan unravelled almost immediately. The landing of their helicopter aroused local curiosity.
The Libyan revolution, like many others, was accompanied by a good deal of paranoia about foreign mercenaries and spies, and the British party could not have appeared more suspicious. They were detained and taken to Benghazi, the men on the ground having decided that to open fire would destroy the very bridge-building mission they were engaged in.
This debacle in Benghazi rapidly became even more embarrassing, as the Gaddafi government released an intercepted phone call in which a British diplomat pleaded with the NTC for the team’s release.
As a result of what happened with E Squadron, those who would advocate using special forces to help topple the regime were sidelined for months. It also caused great difficulties for MI6, which had plans to turn some key figures in Gaddafi’s inner circle.
Ambassador Richard Northern’s phone call was played on Libyan State TV
When, on 19 March, Colonel Gaddafi’s tanks were bombed as they entered Benghazi, the conflict entered a dramatically different phase. High profile military action was under way, and the leaders of the UK, US, and France were increasingly committed to the overthrow of the Libyan leader.
But the means that could be used would be tightly limited as a result both of the unhappy experience of Iraq, and the terms of the UN resolution that had authorised the air action.
Under UN Security Council Resolution 1973, countries were authorised to use force “to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack”. The text noted that the measures used to achieve this aim excluded “a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory”.
The resolution authorised force but its limitations, both in avoiding any mention of support to forces fighting Col Gaddafi’s army and apparently in ruling out “boots on the ground”, defined much of British government thinking.
Yet key figures in the Downing Street discussions were convinced that air strikes alone would not achieve the result they wanted. At sessions of the National Security Council, Gen Richards and Mr Fox made the case for planning to provide training and equipment for the revolutionary forces of the NTC.
At a meeting near the end of March, we have been told, authorisation was given to take certain steps to develop the NTC’s embryonic ground forces. This involved the immediate dispatch of a small advisory team, and the longer-term development of a “train and equip” project. Ministers were advised, say those familiar with the discussion, that this second part of the plan would take at least three months to implement.
When half a dozen British officers arrived at a seaside hotel in Benghazi at the beginning of April, they were unarmed and their role was strictly limited. They had been told to help the NTC set up a nascent defence ministry, located in a commandeered factory on the outskirts of the city.
The first and most basic task of the advisory team was to get the various bands of Libyan fighters roaring around in armed pick-up trucks under some sort of central co-ordination. As reporters had discovered, most of these men had little idea of what they were doing, and soon panicked if they thought Col Gaddafi’s forces were attacking or outflanking them.
There were a number of legal issues preventing them giving more help. Some Whitehall lawyers argued that any type of presence on the ground was problematic. Legal doubts were raised about arming the NTC or targeting Col Gaddafi.
Misrata rebel using a laser range-finder – can be used to adjust artillery fire and co-ordinate Nato air strikes
Once the air operation was put on a proper Nato footing, these issues became even more vexed, insiders say, with the alliance saying it would not accept men on the ground “directing air strikes” in a way that some newspapers, even in late spring, were speculating was already happening.
The British government’s desire to achieve the overthrow of Gaddafi while accommodating the legal sensitivities registered by various Whitehall departments led to some frustration among those who were meant to make the policy work.
“It just seemed to me an unnecessarily muddled way of going about a business that we all knew the underlying aims of,” said one. “It was almost as if we have lost the ability to define a clear objective and go for it.”
However, the accidental bombing of NTC columns by Nato aircraft in early April provided those who wanted more direct assistance with a powerful argument. British and French officers on the ground were permitted to co-ordinate more closely with the NTC for the purposes of “deconfliction” or preventing such accidental clashes from happening again.
Under the deconfliction rubric, British advisers made their way to places like Misrata, then under siege, where the RAF was focusing its air strikes. The stage was set then for months of bombing which, as it progressed, both exhausted the stocks of precision weapons available to some Nato allies and the patience of many politicians for what was going on. Insiders say that, discreetly, they were soon doing more than deconfliction, actually co-ordinating certain Nato air attacks.
Taking as his cue the March approval in principal for a training programme, Gen Richards had started a series of low profile visits to Doha, the capital of Qatar.
This gulf emirate had taken a leading role in backing the NTC, and its defence chief was by June brokering an agreement with the UK and France to provide material back-up as well as training for the NTC.
The fall of Gaddafi told through maps
France was to prove more forward-leaning than the UK in this, and by August was providing weapons to NTC units in the Nefusa mountains of western Libya. The UK, meanwhile, had agreed to focus its efforts in the east of the country. It was as part of this new effort that British special forces returned to Libya.
Although plenty of people in Whitehall still remembered the March debacle, it was agreed to allow a limited number of British advisers to take a direct part in training and mentoring NTC units in Libya. Sources say the number of men sent from D Squadron of 22 SAS Regiment was capped at 24. They were performing their mission by late August.
While France and Qatar were ready to provide weapons directly, the UK was not. However, this made little practical difference since the SAS was operating closely with Qatar special forces who had reportedly delivered items such as Milan anti-tank missiles.
Anti-tank missile in Sirte, of the type believed to have been supplied by Qataris
There were some suggestions from Whitehall that the training itself should be conducted outside Libya in order to remain within the narrow interpretation of the UN resolution, but the SAS was apparently soon present at a base in southern Libya.
During the months that this project had taken to come to fruition, the slow grinding down of Gaddafi’s forces by air attack had continued. Soon after the foreign trainers arrived, NTC units swept into Tripoli.
Some people close to the Libyan revolution say that the Qatari chief of defence staff claimed credit for coming up with the strategy of pushing simultaneously towards the Libyan capital from different directions. Certainly, the foreign special forces on the ground played a role in co-ordinating the different columns.
The SAS had meanwhile strayed beyond its training facility, with single men or pairs accompanying the NTC commanders that they had been training back to their units. They dressed as Libyans and blended in with the units they mentored, says someone familiar with the operation.
We have become a lot better at blending in”
There had been concerns that they would be spotted by the press, but this did not happen. “We have become a lot better at blending in,” says someone familiar with the D Squadron operation. “Our people were able to stay close to the NTC commanders without being compromised.”
Instead, as the revolutionaries fought their way into Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, they were assisted by a handful of British and other special forces. Members of the Jordanian and United Arab Emirates armies had fallen in behind the Qataris too.
When, on 20 October, Gaddafi was finally captured and then killed by NTC men, it followed Nato air strikes on a convoy of vehicles carrying leading members of the former regime as they tried to escape from Sirte early in the morning. Had British soldiers on the ground had a hand in this? Nobody will say yet.
In keeping with its long standing policies on special forces and MI6 operations, Whitehall has refrained from public statements about the nature of assistance on the ground. The Ministry of Defence reiterated that policy when asked to comment on this story.
Speaking at a public event late last year, though, Gen Richards commented that the NTC forces “were the land element, an ‘army’ was still vital”. He also noted that “integrating the Qataris, Emiratis and Jordanians into the operation was key”. He did not, however, allude to the presence of more than 20 British operators on the ground.
Last October the Chief of the Qatar Defence Staff revealed that “hundreds” of his troops has been on the ground in Libya.
British sources agree Qatar played a leading role – and accept it put more soldiers in than the UK – but question whether the number was this large. Around the more secret parts of Whitehall, the suggestion is that the number committed on the ground by all nations probably did not exceed a couple of hundred.
As for Britain’s decision finally to deploy an SAS squadron, “they made a fantastic difference”, argues one insider.
It is part of the essence of troops of this kind that they often operate in secrecy, providing their political masters with policy options that they might not wish to own up to publicly.
But given that the UK’s earlier relationship with Col Gaddafi and his intelligence services caused great embarrassment, it could be that attention will one day focus more closely on British assistance to the NTC, particularly if the Libyan revolution comes unstuck.
EVIL BRITS:
Decoding the special forces
British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) formed in 1941 to drop troops by parachute behind enemy lines. Main role of its 400 members is to gather intelligence on the ground, but also has history of tackling perilous engagements – most famously storming the Iranian embassy in London in 1980.
Special Boat Service (SBS),formed in 1940, is British Navy’s equivalent, and two services have strong links. SBS specialises in operations at sea and on river networks, but sometimes operate inland.
Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) formed in 2005. Few details of its function or personnel have been made public, but its main purpose is to carry out covert surveillance operations, freeing SAS and SBS for combat.
Secret unit within the special forces
The existence of E Squadron is well known within the special forces community but has not hitherto been discussed publicly. It was formed five years ago to work closely with the intelligence service MI6, and is mainly involved in missions where maximum discretion is required, say Whitehall insiders.
Its role as a small, handpicked force operating with MI6 makes it the modern-day successor to the shadowy cell sometimes referred to as the Increment.
While the existence of teams of this kind is a gift for thriller writers looking to insert a hit team of hardened SAS men into their plotline, the reality of E Squadron’s operations has been a little more prosaic.
Last March’s debacle, in which six member of the squadron were caught in Libya, was highly embarrassing. The reason for their presence, escorting two people from MI6, gives a clue to the facilitating role they often play in foreign intelligence operations in risky places.
After 9/11, with major military commitments in Afghanistan and then Iraq, MI6 stepped up its intelligence-gathering in many places that had hitherto been off the radar or considered too dangerous.
It was often backed up by UK Special Forces, but the competing demands on them to support special operations in Afghanistan and Iraq eventually led to the creation of E Squadron.
According to special forces people, E Squadron is a composite organisation formed from selected SAS, SBS and Special Reconnaissance Regiment operators. It is not technically part of the SAS or SBS, but at the disposal of the Director of Special Forces and MI6.
The squadron often operates in plain clothes and with the full range of national support, such as false identities, at its disposal.
Whitehall sources suggest E Squadron was prepared to launch a rescue of a British citizen kidnapped in the Sahara in 2009, but could not obtain political clearance to do so before he was murdered by the hostage takers.
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We have all seen in the news over the past year the terrible conflict in Libya, but we are not all aware of the true story.We have heard a very one sided argument presented to us from our media.
We have heard many lies, which appear to be covering the truth from us so we cannot make a clear, fair judgment for ourselfs.This film has been created to show the people of the world another side of the story. The side from the Libyan people them selves.We have been led to believe the majority of Libyans wanted an over- throw of their govnment, but this is far from the truth.Please watch and leave comment, I believe the people should discuss this matter together with open eyes. All comments are welcome (Not SPAM)
The Truth About The War On Libya Government Lies Revealed A Goverment Conspiracy 2011
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Citoyen libyen et une autre d’immunité marocaine ascenseur diplomatique pour l’OTAN séparer la justice belge sur les cinquième et vingtième de ce mois, en cas d’urgence affaire faite par le citoyen libyen Khaled Khweldi et marocain Abdel Latif Cleih contre l’OTAN, où les élèves à partir de laquelle la question la hâte de la gouvernance et le plus proche de la date de trancher l’affaire original, qui avait déjà Rfaha contre l’OTAN avant le juge de première instance n ° 11 de la justice belge, qui avait décidé d’examiner à l’Septembre 17, 2012 se rapporte à la question dans le contenu de toutes les victimes civiles qui sont morts en raison du ciblage de l’OTAN quartiers civils au cours de sa frappe aérienne militaire contre la Libye et le début de Selon les détails de la réunion tenue récemment que le juge a annoncé sa juridiction, et avant qu’il soit considéré dans l’affaire contre l’OTAN et la Cour a rejeté la première partie de la demande des plaignants, sur l’urgence de la procédure la condamnation a été déposée initialement contre l’OTAN et de présenter une décision, et a accepté la fente II et régna de laisser tomber l’immunité diplomatique dont jouit le siège de l’OTAN juridique à Bruxelles a refusé de juger tout argument avancé par l’Etat belge lorsque vous entrez le volontaire dans le boîtier pour éviter le procès de l’OTAN et le rejet réduit ou même détruit le gouvernement avocat défenses belges au nom de l’OTAN, qui est absente pour assister à toutes les réunions du procès, et aussi intéressant est que le juge a dit, “ne devrait pas être vu dans les arguments présentés par l’Etat belge, qui est intervenue dans la procédure.” et donc ce précédent disposition met l’OTAN de lier un précédent légal et moral au niveau international. Il vaut la peine mentionner ici que Khuwaildi avait le visage d’un acte d’accusation contre l’OTAN d’avoir tué sa femme enceinte et deux enfants Khaleda et Khuwaildi et sa nièce la paix Mohammad Nouri et sa tante et un certain nombre de ses proches et ses voisins et à montrer le nombre et la marocaine Cleih la mort de sa fille délibérément contraires au mandat de la résolution du Conseil de sécurité 1973 prévoyait la protection des civils et ne pas les tuer. Il est à noter que Khalid Khuwaildi le processus d’établissement d’une association internationale des victimes de l’OTAN pour faire face à toutes les victimes et touché par des Libyens qui avaient subi à la suite d’erreurs militaires de l’OTAN sera terminée à rejoindre l’association est ouverte aussi aux citoyens de tous les pays qui avaient déjà souffert ou encore des campagnes de militaire de l’OTAN, tels que Le Pakistan et la Yougoslavie et l’Irak. et nous savons que Khuwaildi est sous une grande pression pour le dissuader de poursuivre des actions en justice contre l’OTAN et se déplacer visant à criminaliser tous les excès de l’OTAN et les erreurs de militaires et tuant des civils a noté qu’il n’avait pas été la poursuite de l’OTAN d’judiciaire internationale en raison de l’immunité diplomatique dont il jouissait. . une page “Jeunes libéraux Libye sur Facebook pour diffuser les faits, afin de la Libye de demain».
مواطن ليبي وأخر مغربي يرفعان الحصانه الدبلوماسية عن حلف الناتوفصل القضاء البلجيكى في الخامس و العشرين من الشهر الحالي فى الدعوى الإستعجاليه المقدمه من المواطن الليبي خالد الخويلدى الحميدى والمغربي عبداللطيف الشليح ضد حلف الناتو والتى طالبا من خلالها الإستعجال بإصدار الحكم و ذلك بتقريب موعد البت في الدعوى الأصلية والتى سبق وأن رفعاها ضد حلف الناتو أمام قاضي الدائرة رقم (11) من المحاكم البلجيكية والتي كان قد قرر النظر فيها في 17 سبتمبر 2012 وتتعلق القضية فى مضمونها بكل الضحايا المدنيين الذين قضوا نتيجة إستهداف الناتو للأحياء المدنيه أثناء حملته العسكرية الجوية ضد ليبياو بداية تفيد تفاصيل الجلسة التي عقدت مؤخرا إلى أن قاضي المحكمة أعلن إختصاصه و قبل أن ينظر في القضية المرفوعة ضد حلف شمال الأطلسي و رفضت المحكمة الشق الأول من طلب المدعيان والمتعلق بإستعجال إصدار الحكم بالدعوى الأصلية المقامة ضد حلف شمال الأطلسي و تقريب موعد البت فيها ، وقبلت بالشق الثاني وأصدرت حكمها بإسقاط الحصانه الدبلوماسية التي يتمتع بها حلف الناتو بمقره القانوني بالعاصمة البلجيكية بروكسلورفض قاضي المحكمة أي حجة تقدمت بها الدولة البلجيكية عند تدخلها الطوعي في القضية لمنع محاكمة الناتو و هذا الرفض يقلل لا بل يدمر دفاعات محامي الحكومة البلجيكية بإسم حلف شمال الأطلسي الذي تغيب عن الحضور في جميع جلسات المحاكمة والمثير للإهتمام أيضا هو أن القاضي قال ” أنه لا ينبغي النظر في الحجج المقدمة من طرف الدولة البلجيكية التي تدخلت في الدعوى”.وبهذا يكون هذا الحكم سابقه قضائية يضع حلف الناتو أمام مأزق قانونى وأخلاقى غير مسبوق دولياً.ومن الجدير ذكره هنا أن الخويلدي كان قد وجه إتهاماً ضد الناتو بقتل زوجته الحامل وطفليه خالدة والخويلدي وإبنة أخته سلام محمد نوري وخالته وعدد من أقاربه وجيرانه و ليبين عدة و المغربي الشليح لمقتل ابنته بشكل متعمد يتعارض مع التفويض الصادر من مجلس الأمن بالقرار 1973 المنصوص فيه على حماية المدنيين وليس قتلهم .وتجدر الاشارة إلى أن خالد الخويلدي بصدد تأسيس جمعيه دوليه لضحايا الناتو تُعنى بكل الضحايا والمتضررين الليبين ممن عانوا من جراء أخطاء الناتو العسكريةوسيكون باب العضويه للإنضمام للجمعيه مفتوحاً أيضاً أمام مواطنى كل الدول التى سبق و أن عانت أو ماتزال من حملات الناتو العسكرية مثل الباكستان و يوغسلافيا و العراق .و علمنا أن الخويلدي يتعرض لضغوط كبيره لثنيه عن مواصلة إجراءات التقاضي ضد الحلف و تحركه الهادف لتجريم كل تجاوزات الناتو وأخطاءه العسكرية وقتله للمدنيين علماً بأنه لم يسبق أن تعرض حلف الأطلسي للملاحقة القضائيه الدوليه بسبب الحصانه الدبلوماسية التي كان يتمتع بها ..عن صفحة “شباب ليبيا الأحرار علي الفيس بوك لنشر الحقائق من أجل ليبيا الغد”
Libyan citizen and another Moroccan lift diplomatic immunity for NATOSeparate the Belgian court on the fifth and twentieth of this month, in case emergency made by the Libyan citizen Khaled Khweldi and Moroccan Abdel Latif Cleih against NATO, which students from which the haste issue of governance and the zoom when deciding on the original case, which had already Rfaha against NATO before the judge Circle No. (11) of the Belgian courts, which had decided to consider at the September 17, 2012 relates to the issue in the content of all the civilian victims who died as a result of NATO’s targeting of civilian neighborhoods during his military air strikes against LibyaAnd early reports details of the meeting recently held that the trial judge announced his jurisdiction, and before it is considered in the case against NATO and the Court rejected the first part of the request for the plaintiffs, on the urgency of sentencing proceedings Originally filed against NATO and bringing forward a decision, and accepted the second part and ruled to drop the diplomatic immunity enjoyed by the NATO headquarters in Brussels LegalThe judge denied the Court any argument made by the Belgian State when you enter the voluntary in the case to prevent the trial of NATO and the rejection reduces or even destroys the defense lawyer, the Belgian government in the name of the North Atlantic Treaty, which is absent from attendance at all meetings of the trial and also interesting is that the judge said, “it does not should be considered in the arguments presented by the Belgian State, which intervened in the proceedings. “And thus this provision sets a legal precedent for NATO and moral dilemma of the law is unprecedented internationally.It is worth mentioning here that Khuwaildi had the face of an indictment against NATO of killing his pregnant wife and two children Khaleda and Khuwaildi and his niece peace Mohammad Nouri and his aunt and a number of his relatives and neighbors and to show the number and Moroccan Cleih the death of his daughter deliberately contrary to the mandate of the Security Council resolution 1973 which it is stated protect civilians, not kill them.It should be noted that Khalid Khuwaildi the process of establishing an international association of victims of NATO to deal with all the victims and affected by Libyans who had suffered as a result of errors NATO militaryIt will be ended to join the Association is open also to the citizens of all countries that had already suffered or still from the NATO military campaigns such as Pakistan, Iraq and Yugoslavia.And we know that Khuwaildi is under great pressure to dissuade him from pursuing legal actions against NATO and move aimed to criminalize all the excesses of NATO and the mistakes of military and killing of civilians noted that he had not previously been NATO’s pursuit of international judicial because of diplomatic immunity enjoyed by ..
Libye commandant de l’armée pour protéger l’armée libyenne Mouammar Kadhafi pour protéger
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ATTENTION: Nous savons que le canal ne reviendra pas à la radiodiffusion publique, et cette décision par le gouvernement français d’attention et de ne pas entrer vos données dans les sites et prétend représenter la chaîne de radiodiffusion publique et le canal sera lancé afin de soutenir le gène de résistance .. La lutte révolutionnaire continue …
Baden is an unconfirmed / /
triggering a confrontation in the region of Bazhe … Zeliten and so when you attack a number of rats in the house of a supporter of the legitimacy and led to the death of the rat / / Jamal Alnhaasa and injured rat / / Sinan Andishe …
The situation is very hot by the Alnhaasa family for revenge ….
Balzalim inspired strike oppressors and brought us out of them Aallah sure …
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04 JUNE 2011 w/ Cynthis McKinney:
NOTE: THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS. IT IS A HIGHLY PROPAGANDISED REPORT by the late HELEN CHAPIN METZ for the U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT in 1987, when affiliating with Our Brother Leader meant a 10 year Imprisonment or worse for any U.S. citizen:
In the scope of their administrative and regulatory tasks and the method of their members’ selection, the people’s committees embodied the concept of direct democracy that Qadhafi propounded in the first volume of The Green Book, which appeared in 1976. The same concept lay behind proposals to create a new political structure composed of “People’s Congresses.” The centerpiece of the new system was the General People’s Congress (GPC–see Glossary), a national representative body intended to replace the RCC.
The new political order took shape in March 1977 when the GPC, at Qadhafi‘s behest, adopted the “Declaration of the Establishment of the People’s Authority” and proclaimed the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The term Jamahiriya is difficult to translate, but American scholar Lisa Anderson has suggested “peopledom” or “state of the masses” as a reasonable approximation of Qadhafi‘s concept that the people should govern themselves free of any constraints, especially those of the modern bureaucratic state. The GPC also adopted resolutions designating Qadhafi as its general secretary and creating the General Secretariat of the GPC, comprising the remaining members of the defunct RCC. It also appointed the General People’s Committee, which replaced the Council of Ministers, its members now called secretaries rather than ministers.
Continuing to revamp Libya’s political and administrative structure, Qadhafi introduced yet another element into the body politic. Beginning in 1977, “Revolutionary Committees” (see Glossary) were organized and assigned the task of “absolute revolutionary supervision of people’s power”; that is, they were to guide the People’s Committees, raise the general level of political consciousness and devotion to revolutionary ideals, and guard against deviation and opposition in the BPCs. Filled with politically astute zealots, the ubiquitous Revolutionary Committees in 1979 assumed control of BPC elections; and this is when Qadhafi himself resigned as the General Secretariat. Although they were not official government organs, the Revolutionary Committees became another mainstay of the domestic political scene. As with the People’s Committees and other administrative innovations since the al–Fetah ’69 Revolution, the Revolutionary Committees fit the pattern of imposing a new element on the existing subnational system of government rather than eliminating or consolidating already existing structures.
Measures such as these undoubtedly benefited poorer Libyans. Few opponents responded to the 1979 call to “repentance” or to a similar one issued in October 1982 in which Qadhafi once again threatened liquidation of the recalcitrant, the GPC having already declared their personal property forfeit.
(Internal opposition came from elements of the middle class who opposed Qadhafi‘s economic reforms and from students and intellectuals who criticized his ideology.)
He also incurred the anger of the Islamic community for his unorthodox interpretations of the doctrine and traditions of Islam, his challenge to the authority of the religious establishment, and his contention that the ideas in The Green Book were compatible with and based upon Islam. Endowed Islamic properties (habus–see Glossary) were nationalized as part of Qadhafi’s economic reforms, and he urged “the masses” to take over mosques.
(The most serious challenges came from the armed forces, especially the officers’ corps, and from the RCC. Perhaps the most important one occurred in 1975 when Minister of Planning and RCC member Major Umar Mihayshi and about thirty army officers attempted a coup after disagreements over political economic policies. The failure of the coup led to the flight of Mihayshi and part of the country’s technocratic elite….In August 1980 several hundred people were allegedly killed in the wake of an unsuccessful army revolt centered in Tobruk.)
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أ. مصطفى قادربوه (الليبية اف ام) – A. Mustafa Qdereboh (Libyan FM) –
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Third of Four Installments on Libya: Israel and Libya
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27029Once again, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya peels away the veneer of legitimacy and deception enveloping the U.S./NATO genocide currently taking place in Libya. In his first article, Nazemroaya exposed the mechanism by which the world came to “know” of the need for a humanitarian intervention in the Libyan Arab Jamahirya and U.S./NATO admissions of targeted assassination attempts against the Leader of the 1969 Libyan Revolution, Muammar Qaddafi. In his first of these four installments since his return from Libya, Nazemraoya makes it clear that there never was any evidence given to the United Nations or the International Criminal Court to warrant or justify United Nations Resolutions 1970 and 1973 or current U.S./NATO operations inside Libya.
In his second article detailing this very sad story, Nazemroaya exposes the relationships between the major Libyan protagonists/NATO collaborators and the U.S. Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy. Incredibly, when leading Members of Congress publicly proclaimed repeatedly that they did not know who the Libyan “rebel” NATO collaborators were, select so-called rebel leaders were political intimates with stakeholders at the National Endowment for Democracy. The leaders of the National Transitional Council, contrived to appear highly influential to publics in former colonial capitals, have very little influence or support inside Libya, and can be likened to a Hamid Karzai type of morally bankrupt neo-colonial authority that presides over and gives a fig-leaf of “legitmacy” to those outsiders whose objective is the total destruction of recalcitrant citizens who demand self-determination over their own communities and country. Nazemroaya also exposes that, despite its Global War on Terror, the U.S. government actually financed Libyan terrorists and criminals wanted by INTERPOL.In this, his third of four installments, Nazemroaya removes the U.S./NATO fig leaf and what he reveals are the abhorrent, obnoxious, inhumane, and cynical machinations of the pro-Israel Lobby that is the only political force that seems to be able to command the mightiest of militaries and the strongest of leaders to act in ways that threaten the peace and tranquility of their own political parties and national security of their own governments. Indeed, by its policy to support Israel, no matter how belligerent its policies, the United States has eroded its own national interest, as warnings from U.S. military leaders continue to point out.In fact, my own personal experiences with the pro-Israel Lobby inside the United States demonstrate Israel’s intense interest in Africa. I have written about my experience with “the pledge” to support Israel that is forced on every candidate for the U.S. Congress; refusal to sign it, as I did, means not one dollar of the millions expended each election cycle in campaign contributions and can ensure the most vicious media demonization as the major descriptor of the un-cooperating candidate. The demonization of Alabama’s first Black Member of Congress since Reconstruction, Earl Hilliard, in his 2002 re-election campaign, with specific regard to his visits to Libya, immediately come to mind. Weeks later, many of the New York contributors against his re-election, reappeared in my own opponent’s campaign coffers. While I was portrayed in letters to supporters of the pro-Israel Lobby as anti-Israel, I will continue to believe that it was my very real activities in Africa that the pro-Israel Lobby found most threatening. From land reform to blood diamonds to various warnings I sent to certain African oil-producing countries to support for African self-determination and against artificial efforts to create divisions in Cote d’Ivoire, Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan, I found an incredible interest in all things African on the part of the pro-Israel Lobby.In fact, I was invited to lease my “Black” face to these very interests and get arrested in front of the Sudan Embassy to sow the very “Black versus Arab” narrative being tragically created in Libya which Nazemroaya describes so thoroughly in this current text. I note here that some Blacks inside and outside of the U.S. Congress did choose to accept this particular invitation and get arrested. My representative was present at the meeting where these activities were planned, finance was arranged, and actions put in motion. This was a purposeful manipulation of U.S. policy and more importantly, of the despicable behaviors in Sudan that led to human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. My own legislation to de-list corporations from the U.S. stock exchange that aided or abetted or engaged in any way in human rights abuses in Sudan was deemed by guardians of the pro-Israel agenda inside the Congress to be an unacceptable answer to the very real abuses taking place in that country.Additionally, while I was in prison in Israel, the point of the mostly African female prisoners on my Ramle Prison cell block was that they were adherents of “the wrong religion.” The purging of Christians inside Israel is a fact. The scribblings on the wall of my Israeli holding room in another prison complex before my release made it clear that those Christians being deported were not wanted in Israel and they felt that it was because of their religion. Israel’s recent push, despite its non-Jewish residents, to identify itself as a “Jewish state” is telling.While in Libya, I met many Africans who said that they chose to live there because of the pan-Africanism of the policies of the Libyan Jamahirya. In fact, while at an “Africans in the Diaspora Conference” there in January/February of 2011, I personally witnessed, along with a delegation of others from the United States, Muammar Qaddafi pledge $90 billion to a “United States of Africa” that would work together to build the Continent and counter the efforts to penetrate and recolonize it. Blacks in the United States who struggled for dignity, self-determination, and against U.S. oppression and imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s have a relationship with Muammar Qaddafi and the Jamahirya government that goes back decades. At the 29-stops of my Libya Truth Tour, I met many U.S. citizens who reminded the audiences of the contributions of Muammar Qaddafi and the Jamahirya government against British imperialism in Northern Ireland. Continental Africans attending these Tour-stops reminded audiences of Muammar Qaddafi’s support for Nelson Mandela and Africans struggling to rid the Continent of Apartheid at a time when Israel shared an alliance with that government. They also noted the Jamahirya government’s current support for many development projects throughout the Continent and for the budget of the African Union, itself. Therefore, many alarmed observers have pointed out that the U.S./NATO attack on Libya is actually an attack on all of Africa. Nazemroaya eloquently makes this point while revealing the underlying motives for the “uber-violence” that we see in Libya and that is opposed by large majorities of voters in NATO member states, if reported polling results can be trusted. What comes to my mind is how anyone who identifies with the peace community could support such an attack on Libya, especially while the people of Libya valiantly resist NATO domination.Nazemroaya makes the essential point: “An attempt to separate the merging point of an Arab and African identity is underway.” The Voice of America has exposed the psychological aspects of its brutal intervention and hints at the mindset of the U.S./NATO Libyan pawns; several stories suggest that the “new” Libya will turn more toward its Arab identity than its African identity. And U.S./NATO successful imposition of the psychological chains of identity denial are the most longlasting of chains. While in Tunisia, I actually came face to face with the fruits of this project when a taxi driver born in Tunisia told me that he was not African! Muammar Qaddafi drove home to all Libyans that Libya, as its geography dictates, is an African country. It seems ludicrous on its face to have to reiterate such a fact except for the racism, brainwashing, and psychological underpinnings of current U.S./NATO policy and its colonial antecedents that Nazemroaya exposes.Finally, Walter H. Kansteiner has moved in and out of various positions within the foreign policy apparatus of the United States government and has been the voice for exactly the policies described by Nazemroaya. Among Kansteiner’s positions are stints as Africa Director at the State Department and National Security Council Director for African Affairs during the Presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Presidency of George W. Bush. During these stints, Mr. Kansteiner was in a position to initiate the balkanization of Africa that we now see reaching fruition on the Continent. I was forced to write aletter to President Bush in 2001 expressing my alarm at his suggestions for Democratic Republic of Congo. In my opinion, Laurent Kabila was murdered because he refused to balkanize Congo. (He personally related his last conversation with a certain U.S. representative who encouraged him to betray Congo. In his last words to me, “I will never betray Congo.”)
Cynthia McKinney, 10 October 2011.
Cynthia McKinney is a former U.S. Congresswoman who served in two different Georgia federal districts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2007 as a member of the U.S. Democratic Party. She was also the U.S. Green Party presidential candidate in 2008. While in the U.S. Congress she served on the U.S. Banking and Finance Committee, the U.S. National Security Committee (later renamed the U.S. Armed Services Committee), and the U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee (later renamed the U.S. International Relations Committee). She also served on the U.S. International Relations subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. McKinney has conducted two fact-finding missions to Libya and also recently finished a nationwide speaking tour in the United States sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition regarding the NATO bombing campaign on Libya.
America’s Conquest of Africa: The Roles of France and Israel
– by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Julien Teil – 2011-10-06
Terrorists not only fight for Washington on the ground, they also act as frontmen for regime change through so-called human rights organizations that promote democracy. Introduction by Cynthia McKinney
Libya and the Big Lie: Using Human Rights Organizations to Launch Wars
– by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – 2011-09-29
The war against Libya is built on fraud. The UN Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims that Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi…
ISRAEL AND LIBYA: PREPARING AFRICA FOR THE “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Under the Obama Administration the United States has expanded the “long war” into Africa. Barack Hussein Obama, the so-called “Son of Africa” has actually become one of Africa’s worst enemies. Aside from his continued support of dictators in Africa, the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) was unhinged under his watch. The division of Sudan was publicly endorsed by the White House before the referendum, Somalia has been further destabilized, Libya has been viciously attacked by NATO, and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) is going into full swing.
The war in Libya is just the start of a new cycle of external military adventurism inside Africa. The U.S. now wants more military bases inside Africa. France has also announced that it has the right to militarily intervene anywhere in Africa where there are French citizens and its interests are at risk. NATO is also fortifying its positions in the Red Sea and off the coast of Somalia.
As disarray and turmoil are once again uprooting Africa with external intervention, Israel sits silently in the background. Tel Aviv has actually been deeply involved in the new cycle of turmoil, which is tied to its Yinon Plan to reconfigure its strategic surrounding. This reconfiguration process is based on a well established technique of creating sectarian divisions which eventually will effectively neutralize target states or result in their dissolution.
Many of the problems afflicting the contemporary areas of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Southwest Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America are actually the result of the deliberate triggering of regional tensions by external powers. Sectarian division, ethno-linguistic tension, religious differences, and internal violence have been traditionally exploited by the United States, Britain, and France in various parts of the globe. Iraq, Sudan, Rwanda, and Yugoslavia are merely a few recent examples of this strategy of “divide and conquer” being used to bring nations to their knees.
The Upheavals of Central-Eastern Europe and the Project for a “New Middle East”
The Middle East, in some regards, is a striking parallel to the Balkans and Central-Eastern Europe during the years leading up to the First World War. In the wake of the First World War, the borders of the multi-ethnic states in the Balkans and Central-Eastern Europe were redrawn and reconfigured by external powers, in alliance with local opposition forces. Since the First World War until the post-Cold War period the Balkans and Central-Eastern Europe have continued to experience a period of upheaval, violence and conflict that has continuously divided the region.
For years, there have been advocates calling for a “New Middle East” with redrawn boundaries in this region of the world where Europe, Southwest Asia, and North Africa meet. These advocates mostly sit in the capitals of Washington, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv. They envisage a region shaped around homogenous ethno-religious states. The formation of these states would signify the destruction of the larger existing countries of the region. The transition would be towards the formation of smaller Kuwait-like or Bahrain-like states, which could easily be managed and manipulated by the U.S., Britain, France, Israel, and their allies.
The Manipulation of the First “Arab Spring” during World War I
The plans for reconfiguring the Middle East started several years before the First World War. It was during the First World War, however, that the manifestation of these colonial designs could visibly be seen with the “Great Arab Revolt” against the Ottoman Empire.
Despite the fact that the British, French, and Italians were colonial powers which had prevented the Arabs from enjoying any freedom in countries like Algeria, Libya, Egypt, and Sudan, these colonial powers managed to portray themselves as the friends and allies of Arab liberation.
During the “Great Arab Revolt” the British and the French actually used the Arabs as foot soldiers against the Ottomans to further their own geo-political schemes. The secret Sykes–Picot Agreement between London and Paris is a case in point. France and Britain merely managed to use and manipulate the Arabs by selling them the idea of Arab liberation from the so-called “repression” of the Ottomans.
In reality, the Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic empire. It gave local and cultural autonomy to all its peoples, but was manipulated into the direction of becoming a Turkish entity. Even the Armenian Genocide that would ensue in Ottoman Anatolia has to be analyzed in the same context as the contemporary targeting of Christians in Iraq as part of a sectarian scheme unleashed by external actors to divide the Ottoman Empire, Anatolia, and the citizens of the Ottoman Empire.
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, it was London and Paris which denied freedom to the Arabs, while sowing the seeds of discord amongst the Arab peoples. Local corrupt Arab leaders were also partners in the project and many of them were all too happy to become clients of Britain and France. In the same sense, the “Arab Spring” is being manipulated today. The U.S., Britain, France, and others are now working with the help of corrupt Arab leaders and figures to restructure the Arab World and Africa.
The Yinon Plan
The Yinon Plan, which is a continuation of British stratagem in the Middle East, is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the Middle Eastern and Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.
The Atlantic, in 2008, and the U.S. military’s Armed Forces Journal, in 2006, both published widely circulated maps that closely followed the outline of the Yinon Plan. Aside from a divided Iraq, which the Biden Plan also calls for, the Yinon Plan calls for a divided Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The partitioning of Iran, Turkey, Somalia, and Pakistan also all fall into line with these views. The Yinon Plan also calls for dissolution in North Africa and forecasts it as starting from Egypt and then spilling over into Sudan, Libya, and the rest of the region.
Note: The following map was drawn by Holly Lindem for an article by Jeffery Goldberg. It was published in The Atlantic in January/February 2008.
Map Copyright: The Atlantic, 2008.
Note: The following map was prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters.
It was published in the Armed Forces Journal in June 2006, Peters is a retired colonel of the U.S. National War Academy.
Map Copyright Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters 2006.
The Eradication of the Christian Communities of the Middle East
It is no coincidence that Egyptian Christians were attacked at the same time as the South Sudan Referendum and before the crisis in Libya. Nor is it a coincidence that Iraqi Christians, one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, have been forced into exile, leaving their ancestral homelands in Iraq. Coinciding with the exodus of Iraqi Christians, which occurred under the watchful eyes of U.S. and British military forces, the neighbourhoods in Baghdad became sectarian as Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims were forced by violence and death squads to form sectarian enclaves. This is all tied to the Yinon Plan and the reconfiguration of the region as part of a broader objective.
In Iran, the Israelis have been trying in vain to get the Iranian Jewish community to leave. Iran’s Jewish population is actually the second largest in the Middle East and arguably the oldest undisturbed Jewish community in the world. Iranian Jews view themselves as Iranians who are tied to Iran as their homeland, just like Muslim and Christian Iranians, and for them the concept that they need to relocate to Israel because they are Jewish is ridiculous.
In Lebanon, Israel has been working to exacerbate sectarian tensions between the various Christian and Muslim factions as well as the Druze. Lebanon is a springboard into Syria and the division of Lebanon into several states is also seen as a means to balkanizing Syria into several smaller sectarian Arab states. The objectives of the Yinon Plan are to divide Lebanon and Syria into several states on the basis of religious and sectarian identities for Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Christians, and the Druze. There could also be objectives for a Christian exodus in Syria too.
The new head of the Maronite Catholic Syriac Church of Antioch, the largest of the autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches, has expressed his fears about a purging of Arab Christians in the Levant and Middle East. Patriarch Mar Beshara Boutros Al-Rahi and many other Christian leaders in Lebanon and Syria are afraid of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Syria. Like Iraq, mysterious groups are now attacking the Christian communities in Syria. The leaders of the Christian Eastern Orthodox Church, including the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, have also all publicly expressed their grave concerns. Aside from the Christian Arabs, these fears are also shared by the Assyrian and Armenian communities, which are mostly Christian.
Sheikh Al-Rahi was recently in Paris where he met President Nicolas Sarkozy. It is reported that the Maronite Patriarch and Sarkozy had disagreements about Syria, which prompted Sarkozy to say that the Syrian regime will collapse. Patriarch Al-Rahi’s position was that Syria should be left alone and allowed to reform. The Maronite Patriarch also told Sarkozy that Israel needed to be dealt with as a threat if France legitimately wanted Hezbollah to disarm.
Because of his position in France, Al-Rahi was instantly thanked by the Christian and Muslim religious leaders of the Syrian Arab Republic who visited him in Lebanon. Hezbollah and its political allies in Lebanon, which includes most the Christian parliamentarians in the Lebanese Parliament, also lauded the Maronite Patriarch who later went on a tour to South Lebanon.
Sheikh Al-Rahi is now being politically attacked by the Hariri-led March 14 Alliance, because of his stance on Hezbollah and his refusal to support the toppling of the Syrian regime. A conference of Christian figures is actually being planned by Hariri to oppose Patriarch Al-Rahi and the stance of the Maronite Church. Since Al-Rahi announced his position, the Tahrir Party, which is active in both Lebanon and Syria, has also started targeting him with criticism. It has also been reported that high-ranking U.S. officials have also cancelled their meetings with the Maronite Patriarch as a sign of their displeasure about his positions on Hezbollah and Syria.
The Hariri-led March 14 Alliance in Lebanon, which has always been a popular minority (even when it was a parliamentary majority), has been working hand-in-hand with the U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the groups using violence and terrorism in Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood and other so-called Salafist groups from Syria have been coordinating and holding secret talks with Hariri and the Christian political parties in the March 14 Alliance. This is why Hariri and his allies have turned on Cardinal Al-Rahi. It was also Hariri and the March 14 Alliance that brought Fatah Al-Islam into Lebanon and have now helped some of its members escape to go and fight in Syria.
A Christian exodus is being planned for the Middle East by Washington, Tel Aviv, and Brussels. It is now being reported that Sheikh Al-Rahi was told in Paris by President Nicolas Sarkozy that the Christian communities of the Levant and Middle East can resettle in the European Union. This is no gracious offer. It is a slap in the face by the same powers that have deliberately created the conditions to eradicate the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East. The aim appears to be the resettling of the Christian communities outside of the region so as to delineate the Arab nations along the lines of being exclusively Muslim nations. This falls into accordance with the Yinon Plan.
Re-Dividing Africa: The Yinon Plan is very Much Alive and at Work…
In the same context as the sectarian divisions in the Middle East, the Israelis have outlined plans to reconfigure Africa. The Yinon Plan seeks to delineate Africa on the basis of three facets:
(1) ethno-linguistics;
(2) skin-colour;
(3) religion.
It seeks to draw dividing lines in Africa between a so-called “Black Africa” and a supposedly “non-Black” North Africa. This is part of a scheme to create a schism in Africa between what are assumed to be “Arabs” and so-called “Blacks.”
An attempt to separate the merging point of an Arab and African identity is underway.
This objective is why the ridiculous identity of an “African South Sudan” and an “Arab North Sudan” have been nurtured and promoted. This is also why black-skinned Libyans have been targeted in a campaign to “colour cleanse” Libya. The Arab identity in North Africa is being de-linked from its African identity. Simultaneously there is an attempt to eradicate the large populations of “black-skinned Arabs” so that there is a clear delineation between “Black Africa” and a new “non-Black” North Africa, which will be turned into a fighting ground between the remaining “non-Black” Berbers and Arabs.
In the same context, tensions are being fomented between Muslims and Christians in Africa, in such places as Sudan and Nigeria, to further create lines and fracture points. The fuelling of these divisions on the basis of skin-colour, religion, ethnicity, and language is intended to fuel disassociation and disunity in Africa. This is all part of a broader African strategy of cutting North Africa off from the rest of the African continent.
Israel and the African Continent
The Israelis have been quietly involved on the African continent for years. In Western Sahara, which is occupied by Morocco, the Israelis helped build a separation security wall like the one in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In Sudan, Tel Aviv has armed separatist movements and insurgents. In South Africa, the Israelis supported the Apartheid regime and its occupation of Namibia. In 2009, the Israeli Foreign Ministry outlined that Africa would be the renewed focus of Tel Aviv.
Israel’s two main objectives in Africa are to impose the Yinon Plan, in league with its own interests, and to assist Washington in becoming the hegemon of Africa. In this regard, the Israelis also pushed for the creation of AFRICOM. The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), an Israeli think-tank, is one example.
Washington has outsourced intelligence work in Africa to Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is effectively involved as one of the parties in a broader war not just “inside” Africa, but “over” Africa. In this war, Tel Aviv is working alongside Washington and the E.U. against China and its allies, which includes Iran.
Tehran is working alongside Beijing in a similar manner as Tel Aviv is with Washington. Iran is helping the Chinese in Africa through Iranian connections and ties. These ties also include Tehran’s ties to private Lebanese and Syrian business interests in Africa. Thus, within the broader rivalry between Washington and Beijing, an Israeli-Iranian rivalry has also unfolded within Africa. [1] Sudan is Africa’s third largest weapons producer, as a result of Iranian support in weapons manufacturing. Meanwhile, while Iran provides military assistance to Khartoum, which includes several military cooperation agreements, Israel is involved in various actions directed against the Sudanese. [2]
Israel and Libya
Libya had been considered as “a spoiler” which undermined the interests of the former colonial powers in Africa. In this regard, Libya had taken on some hefty pan-African development plans intended to industrialize Africa and transform Africa into an integrated and assertive political entity. These initiatives conflicted with the interests of the external powers competing with one another in Africa, but it was especially unacceptable to Washington and the major E.U. countries. In this regard, Libya had to be crippled and neutralized as an entity supportive of African progress and pan-African unity.
The role of Israel and the Israeli lobby was fundamental in opening the door to NATO’s military intervention in Libya. According to Israeli sources, it was U.N. Watch that actually orchestrated the events in Geneva to remove Libya from the U.N. Human Rights Council and to ask the U.N. Security Council to intervene. [3] U.N. Watch is formally affiliated with the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which has influence in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy and is part of the Israeli lobby in the United States. The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), which helped launch the unverified claims about 6,000 people being slaughtered by Qaddafi, is also tied to the Israeli lobby in France.
Tel Aviv had been in contact simultaneously with both the Transitional Council and the Libyan government in Tripoli. Mossad agents were also in Tripoli, one of which was a former station manager. At about the same time, French members of the Israeli lobby were visiting Benghazi. In a case of irony, the Transitional Council would claim that Colonel Qaddafi was working with Israel, while it made pledges to recognize Israel to president Sarkozy’s special envoy Bernard-Henri Lévy who would then convey the message to Israeli leaders [4]. A similar pattern (to that of Israel’s links to the Transitional Council) had also developed at an earlier stage in South Sudan, which was armed by Israel.
Despite the Transitional Council’s position on Israel, its followers still tried to demonize Qaddafi by claiming he was secretly Jewish. Not only was this untrue, but it was also bigoted. These accusations were intended to be a form of character assassination that equated being a Jew as something negative.
In reality, Israel and NATO are in the same camp. Israel is a de facto member of NATO. Had Qaddafi been conniving with Israel while the Transitional Council was working with NATO, this would mean that both sides were actually being played as fools against one another.
Preparing the Chessboard for the “Clash of Civilizations”
It is at this point that all the pieces have to be put together and the dots have to be connected.
The chessboard is being staged for a “Clash of Civilizations” and all the chess pieces are being put into place.
The Arab World is in the process of being cordoned off and sharp delineation lines are being created. These lines of delineation are replacing the seamless lines of transition between different ethno-linguistic, skin-colour, and religious groups.
Under this scheme, there can no longer be a melding transition between societies and countries. This is why the Christians in the Middle East and North Africa, such as the Copts, are being targeted. This is also why black-skinned Arabs and black-skinned Berbers, as well as other North African population groups which are black-skinned, are facing genocide in North Africa.
What is being staged is the creation of an exclusively “Muslim Middle East” area (excluding Israel) that will be in turmoil over Shiite-Sunni fighting. A similar scenario is being staged for a “non-Black North Africa” area which will be characterized by a confrontation between Arabs and Berber. At the same time, under the “Clash of Civilizations” model, the Middle East and North Africa are slated to simultaneously be in conflict with the so-called “West” and “Black Africa.”
This is why both Nicolas Sarzoky, in France, and David Cameron, in Britain, made back-to-back declarations during the start of the conflict in Libya that multiculturalism is dead in their respective Western European societies. [5]
Real multiculturalism threatens the legitimacy of the NATO war agenda. It also constitutes an obstacle to the implementation of the “Clash of Civilizations” which constitutes the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. In this regard, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor, explains why multiculturalism is a threat to Washington and its allies: “[A]s America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues [e.g., war with the Arab World, China, Iran, or Russia and the former Soviet Union], except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. Such a consensus generally existed throughout World War II and even during the Cold War [and exists now because of the ‘Global War on Terror’].” [6]
Brzezinski’s next sentence is the qualifier of why populations would oppose or support wars: “[The consensus] was rooted, however, not only in deeply shared democratic values, which the public sensed were being threatened, but also in a cultural and ethnic affinity for the predominantly European victims of hostile totalitarianisms.” [7]
Risking being redundant, it has to be mentioned again that it is precisely with the intention of breaking these cultural affinities between the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region and the so-called “Western World” and sub-Saharan Africa that Christians and black-skinned peoples are being targeted.
Ethnocentrism and Ideology: Justifying Today’s “Just Wars”
In the past, the colonial powers of Western Europe would indoctrinate their people. Their objective was to acquire popular support for colonial conquest. This took the form of spreading Christianity and promoting Christian values with the support of armed merchants and colonial armies.
At the same time, racist ideologies were put forth. The people whose lands were colonized were portrayed as “sub-human,” inferior, or soulless. Finally, the “White Man’s burden” of taking on a mission of civilizing the so-called “uncivilized peoples of the world” was used. This cohesive ideological framework was used to portray colonialism as a “just cause.” The latter in turn was used to provide legitimacy to the waging of “just wars” as a means to conquering and “civilizing” foreign lands.
Today, the imperialist designs of the United States, Britain, France, and Germany have not changed. What has changed is the pretext and justification for waging their neo-colonial wars of conquest. During the colonial period, the narratives and justifications for waging war were accepted by public opinion in the colonizing countries, such as Britain and France. Today’s “just wars” and “just causes” are now being conducted under the banners of women’s rights, human rights, humanitarianism, and democracy.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is a Sociologist and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montréal. He specializes on the Middle East and Central Asia. He was on the ground in Libya for over two months and was also a Special Correspondent for Flashpoints, which is a program based in Berkeley, California. Nazemroaya has been releasing these articles about Libya in conjunction with aired discussions with Cynthia McKinney on Freedom Now, a show aired on KPFK, Los Angeles, California.
[1] The Economist, “Israel and Iran in Africa: A search for allies in a hostile world,” February 4, 2011.
[3] Tova Lazaroff, “70 rights groups call on UN to condemn Tripoli,” Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2011.
[4] Radio France Internationale, “Libyan rebels will recognise Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy tells Netanyahu,” June 2, 2011.
[5] Robert Marquand,”Why Europe is turning away from multiculturalism,” Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 2011.
[6] Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books October 1997), p.211
ANNEX I: MAP OF DIFFERENT WORLD CIVILIZATIONS REFLECTING SAMUEL HUNTINGTON’S MODEL
* These civilizational divisions and categories are incorrect. There are no clearcutting divisions between many of these so-called and supposedly “distinct civilizations.”
ANNEX II: MODEL OF SAMUEL HUNTINGTON’S “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”
Global Research Articles by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
This was al-Qathafi’s house:
Libye – Libération de 39 prisonniers verts (17 janvier 2012)Publié le 17/01/2012 à 13:18 – 547 visitesSource : ALGERIA ISP / Selon Dhida Yawme 17 fibrayr Fi Libya, les combattants de la cellule « Elsakr Elawhed » ont pu libérer 39 prisonniers Libyens de la Jamahiriya. Les combattants ont attaqué les rebelles qui utilisaient la ferme du guide Gadhafi situé à « Macheroue Elhadaba Elkhadra Elzirai » comme un camp militaire. Ils ont tué 2 rebelles.:green flag: :green flag:
Libya: Liberation of 39 Green Prisoners (January 17, 2012)
According to Dhida Yawme 17 Fibrayr Fi Libya, the Resistance fighters of cell Elsakr Elawhed freed 39 Libyan Jamahirya prisoners. The Resistance Fighters attacked the rabble rats who used Guide Gadafi’s farm which is situated in Macheroue Elhadaba Elkhadra Elzirai, as a military camp. Two rabble rats were killed.
Libya – Today! Benghazi … long live the revolution!
http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swfbin/watch_as3-vflLxha0k.swf
Libya: The ruins of a nation
«Libya, before the western aggression, was an amazing and very, very beautiful country»
«a true paradise where people were enjoying their freedom and their lives in a fantastic way.»
«For those who got killed, we can’t do now anything anymore, but the ones who are still alive need help»
«and I feel so sorry for them because they seem to be forgotten more and more… media do not care about the despair of the Libyan people and they are suffering so very much… »
(italics and photos D.Bauer)
*********************Libya,the ruins of a Nation*********************
Some are now saying that around 12.000 US soldiers are kept on stand by, stationed around Libya, others even report that a part of those troops were already deployed inside the country, into a Libyan base, that is now run by French and US forces, somewhere on the southern Libyan desert.
Main Stream Media did stop reporting about Libya, right after Gaddafi’s murder, they seemed to have agreed on an almost total blackout of Libyan events, in spite of local eyewitnesses constantly reporting daily fierce fights on the ground, as well as spotting NATO aircrafts continuing to patrol Libyan airspace and continuing to bomb some specific Libyan cities.
More and more voices are now starting to question themselves with an inconvenient question: all that western countries care about is the OIL FLOW?
Well, apparently yes, apparently Libyan oil is thicker than Libyan blood…
Everyday now more consistently, Libyan sources keep saying that the situation on the ground is deteriorating by the hour and further and further away from control . The resistance against NTC keeps gaining strength and chairman Mustafa Jalil, without any capability to reverse the course of things, keeps walking on cracking ice, in a country where people fear for their lives and the lives of their children, where the law of the jungle substituted justice and where criminal armed militias run around free, pillaging, killing, raping and terrorising. These armed militias are the main source of apprehension for Libyans and obviously all this was quite predictable (Gaddafi himself was mentioning it in several of his last speeches) and even Robert Gates (then US Defence Secretary), when he was asked about a pos Gaddafi Libya, had replied with his famous statement ‘don’t get involved’ in a very clear mention to the dangerously chaotic and too hard to handle nation, that Libya would become. The sad conclusion we need to draw here is that western think tanks have known all along what the tragic situation the pos Gaddafi era would be for Libyans and in fact never had any intention of protecting Libyan lives. It is very clear that imperialistic western nations, as long as Libyan oil continues to flow to their ports, intend to keep their eyes deliberately wide shut, regarding the desperation of the entire Libyan population. They pretend that chaos in Libya, which they entirely have created, does not concern them (unless their control over Libyan oil industry becomes threatened). According to Western statistics, Libya’s oil output is now almost on the same level as Libya had produced before (1.5 million barrels per day) and nations like France, Britain, Germany, Netherlands, etc. are thus pretending that all is well in Libya, because Libyan oil, which is ‘sweet and light’ (fit as fuel for aircraft) is all that matters.
Libya is subjected to a de facto new kind of colonialism and western occupation is a reality, with NATO forces indirectly deployed on the ground, all Libyan oil wells and ports of export under the control of foreign forces and all those who dare to fight against the occupation, being persecuted , imprisoned and killed.
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“Snowed in in Seattle”: A Plea for Peace to the White House
Posted on 23 January , 2012
http://nsnbc.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/snowed-in-in-seattle-a-plea-for-peace-to-the-white-house/
By Cynthia McKinney – Center for Research on Globalization
Most people know about being “Sleepless in Seattle.” Well, I am “snowed in in Seattle!” But even six inches of snow in Seattle don’t keep me from becoming steamed when I read the latest news reports on the activities of the U.S. war machine:
At a time when U.S.-Iran tensions are the highest I have experienced in my lifetime, Danger Room of wired.combreaks a news story on 19 January 2012 that a new United States commando special operations team is operating near Iran. Meanwhile, a columnist in Lebanon’s “The Daily Star” newspaper writes that Syria increasingly looks like Libya. And at the same time, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta admits in a press conference that he believes that the annual number of sexual assaults in the U.S. military could number as high as 19,000. This is from the Administration that shamefully accused the Libyan Jahamiriya military of issuing Viagra to its soldiers and using rape as a weapon. And finally, coming hot on the heels of an Algeria-ISP report that that the Obama Administration offered to reconstitute the Libyan military, forming desert troops, special forces, and a Libyan air force,tunisiefocus.com reports reports that U.S. troops are already in Libya, in Brega, Ras Lanouf, and Sirte, in order to secure Libyan oil for western markets at a very cheap price. Further, these reports indicate that US troops are at Mitiga Air Base east of Tripoli and that NATO helicopters and war planes fly over Libyan towns, surveilling everything including parties held by Libyans (http://www.algeria-isp.com/videos/politique-libye/201201-V1682/libye-video-voir-helicoptere-otan-janvier-2012.html) and that drones launched from a secret base in the Libyan desert surveille Libya and neighboring countries: http://www.algeria-isp.com/actualites/politique-libye/201112-A7555/libye-une-base-militaire-secrete-americaine-francaise-libye-katroune-video-voir-decembre-2011.html.
Last week, I reported on numerous reports that I had read indicating that U.S. troops were on the island of Malta waiting for the word to deploy to Libya. If the above reports are correct, then it would appear that that word has been given. Interestingly, the reports of U.S. troops were reported in several African, Libyan, and Russian online sites, yet there was no response from either Malta or the U.S. In fact, the Russian site za-afriku.ru as late as 19 January 2012 wrote, “The administration of the United States still has not refuted a lot of messages in various MEDIA for the transfer of 12000 troops on Malta as a preliminary step to the further redeployment in Libya in order to control the deteriorating situation in the country.”
I am pleased to report that both Malta and the U.S. Embassy in Malta, while neglecting the many reports out there describing U.S. and NATO activities in Libya, felt compelled to respond to my report of this information in apparently coordinated responses. The government of Malta stated in its one line response, “The allegations are completely false.” The U.S. Embassy in Malta followed suit. However, I want to stress that while the responses are welcome and appreciated, given events of the recent past, it is U.S. activities in Libya that are are of utmost concern at this moment. All U.S. troops must be brought home, yet the following video was posted today of the U.S. war machine on the roll, destination unknown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS-PmhhxPG4. As you watched that video, I hope you thought about the number of teachers or nurses or solar heating systems could be procured with the money wasted on this massive number of tanks, going where?
Well, right now, the U.S. admittedly has special forces in Uganda, South Sudan, 9,000 troops in Kuwait, radar, and for the first time ever, U.S. troops in Israel. Drone bases across the African Continent are in Djibouti, Seychelles, Ethiopia, and Kenya. On drones, Human Rights Watch says, “CIA drone strikes have become an almost daily occurrence around the world, but little is known about who is killed and under what circumstances.” Drone strikes occur in Somalia and bases are expanding to the Arabian Peninsula. Even worse, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an adjunct to the U.S. war machine, has affiliates all over the world–just ask Nicaragua and Venezuela about their experiences with the NED.
Nigerian military sources have confirmed for African news outlets that US troops are scheduled to be deployed to Nigeria after AFRICOM’s 2008 war game scenario that saw 20,000 U.S. troops maintaining “security” of the Niger Delta oil fields within a dissolved and anarchistic Nigeria. That war game setting was 2013. This is Plan Colombia. Does the Obama Administration plan an African Continent-wide Plan Colombia? Why such a militarization of U.S. relationships all over the world–and even here at home? Will chaos and wars (like what is happening in Libya today) be created all over Africa and the rest of Asia?
Last week, I sent a video of Amnesty International admitting that the allegation of “African mercenaries” was a lie; at the time, it was the U.S. and NATO that had employed mercenaries–not only the Qataris, U.S. contractors, Italians, French, and British special forces, but also including the members of the National Transitional Council. That message also included a video of an African beaten to death by these Libyan U.S./NATO allies. That message went viral and forced a response from the authorities. Please circulate this message widely so that maybe we can get some more responses from the Administration about its policy direction. Contact the White House at www.whitehouse.gov, tell them to bring our young men and women home, keep the tanks home, and don’t use them.
Tell the White House that you will cast your vote for peace–to stop the drones and bring our troops home.
Finally, a sad day in journalism continues. I just received word that the owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, apologized for saying that the Israeli government ought to consider killing Barack Obama. This is outrageous. I have been “deconstructed” by this very same publication, so I am doubly saddened by this kind of loose talk by someone of authority and responsibility at the Atlanta Jewish Times indicating that assassinating President Obama should be an option that remains on the table for Israel to carry out. Enuff said.
Video: rats from Misrata exploding the cemetery in Taourga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7jsmZiMkk
Libya – The Barbarians from Misrata …Militias from Misrata not only expelling the inhabitants of Taourga, but even evicted the families in the region Tamina, between Taourga and Misrata, and they have not allowed them back in their homes.
The residents of Tamina left their homes during the NATO and rebels bombing at the time of the Libyan leader. Now they are abandoned to their fate.AlgeriaIsp
LIBYA: Final report of the Government (24/01/2012): Revenge of the Libyan and cleaning Libyan mercenaries and traitors
http://libia-sos.blogspot.com/2012/01/libia-ultimo-informe-del-gobierno_24.html?spref=fb
– Urgent ……. renewed fighting in the streets of the capital, Tripoli and lead to a large number of dead and wounded, and there are reports of impact and a large number of fighters of the revolution of February 17 are fighting alongside the green fighters loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in their fight against the enemy forces Transitional Council of Libya.They report the fall of the other areas of Bani Walid in the hands of the supporters of Gaddafi and the green flag over government buildings and there is an echo of integral rematch began dating again in all Libyan cities ….. … Report endorsed by Reuters, the British French and American Fox News Channel and the Fifth TV 5
– Tripoli: Bandidos ‘rebels’ accomplices are arrested for the destruction of Libyan “rebels” of Alzet inTripoli. This band were stealing, dealing with weapons and providing security to drug traffickers
EnTrípoli Also, heavy gunfire and loud explosion has rocked the region of Souk Jomo.
– Total failure of Libya’s enemies: bandits peat “rebels” attacked the so-called Ministry of Education of the coup regime CNT, wreak havoc and destruction of that place ….
– Bani Walid, the whole battalion was confirmed May 28 CNT-NATO criminals were caught by the people and the tribe of Rafla, there is news about the murder of six people from the martyrs battalion and four residents, and states that people have taken control of most heavy weapons battalion (10 vehicles equipped and a set of tanks), a group of elders and tribal leaders had to mediate a resolution of the conflict, otherwise it would have been shot as traitors …
Resistance fighters have recovered a sophisticated communications equipment seized from the bandits ‘rebels’ of the battalion May 28 These devices were supplied by NATO to monitor free and fair people in Bani Walid.
Resistance Beni Walid Libya released the mercenaries ‘rebels’ of the CNT-NATO
Humanitarian aid for the Libyans allegedly found in the hands of the bandits ‘rebels’ that cause destruction and insecurity in Libya.
Munitions that have been used by attackers to Beni Wali have the seal of NATO
– Misrata: Fighters Cell Green “Thaer Sirte” battalion “Almaz” and
the battalion “Elrassifa” organized an ambush of a mob of criminals “rebels” Misrata headed to Bani Walid.
The heroes of the resistance have destroyed 14 trucks mounted with heavy weapons and killed 40 rebels, including some Arab mercenaries.
With the pain of martyrdom, the green strength lost in this operation three martyrs.
– Dr. Yusuf Shakir announces the release of Libya Started: he has been involved with the announcement of a second version to confirm that the green revolution has begun and signed in Bani Walid, Warchafana, Sabha, Libya, south of Tripoli, Benghazi and Tarhouna. He asked the tribes to merge Libya to release the grip of NATO.
– The resignation of Libyan ambassadors abroad: Information regarding the resignation of the ambassadors of Libya in the following countries: USA, Jordan, Italy, Egypt, Ukraine … and changes are underway.
– Egypt – Libya: rebels attacked the Libyan embassy in Egypt. Overpowered and abducted the security officials of the CNT.
– The imperialist invaders accelerate their neo-colonialist project: It’s been over a month that the U.S. is setting up its military base in WAU TO KEBIR south of Libya near Wau an Namus, almost on the border with Chat, northeast of the border with Niger. As he began to lead his troops, and materials through the military airport was already there, has kept busy with various Libyan insurgent militias that create insecurity and appearance of civil war. In this way the Libyans should be concerned about their lives and for their food instead of awaiting planes were transporting the infrastructure to Wau Kebir.
He knew that America was making a military base in southern Libya. Now to be transported from Malta to 6,000 or 7,000 troops to the base at Wau Kebir, the Libyans have begun to seriously complain CNT.
How is it possible that the U.S. would dare to settle with his troops in a sovereign country Libya without the Libyans have been informed of it?. The discontent of the Libyan people including those who supported the CNT has grown to this great aggression and can not forget that also have appropriated Al Brega and Ras Lanuf while keeping busy with the Libyans miliicas insurgents trained for this purpose.
– Explosions shake the city of Benghazi and firearms in different parts of the city and the news of the death of a person Hawari area has drive-by shooting type dark windshield Lancer green flag is hoisted over a building within the city and its suburbs, and especially Alkwyfah and Sidi Khalifa
Chaos in Libya … the revenge of the gaddafistas
Warning message for criminals “rebels” of the TNC-NATO and young people called Tripoli
THE VALUE OF IMAGES
After the barbarism IN LIBYAIntervention Author: Flavio Signore
Location: Caum (Plaza Tirso de Molina 8)
Friday January 27 at 19h
– Benghazi: traitor bearded Salaabi Ismail, a member of the so called Joint Security Committee, said there is a full security alert two days ago in the eastern region, in the cities of Benghazi – Bayda – Derna – Tobruk and warning (apart from other things )
– We demand freedom of the hero, Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi Dr. legitimate president of the Libyan government, which refused to colonialism and the refusal of betrayal and refused to loot the wealth of Libya and the rejection of the partition and the civil war was an example of courage and honor and comply with the Tunisian government Fjazath jail courtesy of the traitors and agents, and the type of test trials of the martyr Saddam Hussein … We are all with you, Dr. Kidd and God is above the aggressor …
freedom for the hero Badgdadi Mahmoudi
CONFLICT Libya never ceased to exist,
BUT NOW AGGRAVATES
Supporters of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi claim to have taken control of the city of Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of the old regime before its fall. Local media report that the National Transitional Council has sent a military contingent to the city.
As a result of the attack killed five members of the previously considered rebels and some 30 wounded. However, Libyan Interior Minister has stated that the assault is not the work of supporters of the Colonel, but it is inner-city problems.
These violent incidents occur at the same time as the new government faces one of the most serious political crisis since coming to power. On Sunday, Vice President Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, had to resign due to several events that culminated in an attack against the headquarters of the CNT in Benghazi.
Laila Tajeldine political analyst points out that this conflict is not new: Libya has never ceased to be the scene of a civil war that only just worse. In his opinion, the situation complicates the presence of NATO troops that remain in the country conducting “an invasion of the Libyan people” with the clear objective to “own entries Libyan oil.” However, the analyst sees a positive future for the Arab country, since the population is “increasingly united against the mercenaries and troops of the Atlantic Alliance.”
The CPI does not plan to judge Saif al Islam
On the other hand, has not yet clarified the future of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s son arrested in November on charges of crimes against humanity: the International Criminal Court has not taken a decision on whether he will be judged by a Libyan court or not .
Laila Tajeldine believes that the ICC does not suit them to send to Saif al-Islam because “reveal a lack of credibility that this court has judged based on lies.” Also stresses that the interim government of Libya, on the contrary, we should totally stay al-Islam in the country to be sentenced according to his will and execute it if deemed necessary. Gaddafi’s son is not a desirable figure for the CNT, as it has become “the face of the Libyan resistance” today.
Full article at: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/internacional/issue_35234.html
Posted by SOS Libya Resistance and Martyrdom in 7:29
http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/tons-of-viagra-and-drug-shipment-to-ntc-rats-in-libya-2-video-evidence/
Tons of Viagra and Drug Shipment to NTC-Rats in Libya (2 Video evidence)
GADDAFI WAS RIGHT!!! RATS WERE AND ARE DOPED
As Gaddafi said, the rats were on Viagra and other drugs. It is good the Zintanis found this shipment of drugs from India. It grows worse everyday for the NTC rats and NATO. They can’t even show where Gaddafi stole any Libyan money. His house was quite modest. The world knows who the real criminals are.
ORIGINAL VIDEO (January 23, 2012)
Many thanks to the brothers of AfriSynergy
Reloaded by LibyanFreePress
al-Qathafi is more than a mere IMAM, he is guided fully by God Himself. Otherwise, we would not have the GREEN BOOK. It has a great purpose in the salvation of our world, and only in this past year have some come to realise this.
But Satan KNOWS all things too; and that is why through the years why so many attempts were made at assassinating Muammar al-Qathafiand blaming him unjustly for so many of THEIR terrorist actions.
Adam King hopes and believes he is the MAAHDI which is so looked forward to in the Arab world.He has watered and fertilised Africa—The Great Manmade River will be repaired and run again. The world will literally become GREEN again. Physically and socially.
Communications are fully possible throughout Africa without the interference and excessive rental charges and fees Western Corporations had imposed upon Africans prior. And that means also, that no African need adhere to the blackmail or restrictions on the truth asked of them by the “elite” (in order-to possess the benefits of modern communications systems).
Al-Qathafi is very much indeed a Great Reformer and has earned the title MUJJADID (just as Dennis South has expressed as well).
The Green March: The #Occupy Movement and the Third Universal Theory
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=629815?rss
The mass movement of “Occupy” won’t bring about people’s power unless it is guided by the Third Universal Theory and it studies The Green Book
by Quoriana
“Occupy” seems to be one of the most popular words nowadays, a word that represents a movement which, in the hopes of many, will usher in a global change, a new form of governance in whichpower will belong to the people and a new era of justice in which many criminals among corporations, governments, news media, military, international organizations and others will be held accountable and brought to justice for their crimes.
However, as very aptly pointed out earlier by a Mathaba author, the banking system and form of governance as we know it does not need to be “occupied” in order to get it changed — it needs to be gone. It is a criminal activity based on fraud, extortion and, through its effect, on worldwide mass murder. Its replacement needs to be decided by the population — not by the very people who created it in the first place and are covertly manipulating a new global structure of financial control based on a world central bank.
Any protest, any change or revolution not founded on the list below — at the very least, the list below — has no chance of changing anything. The very pillars of the system must fall or they will block any transformation of the human condition. The system does not need to be tinkered with or even fundamentally changed (on the surface). All of it doesn’t have to be “occupied” but simply has to go, starting with the following:
An end to creating money out of thin air on computer screens and charging interest on it (fractional reserve lending).
An end to governments borrowing fresh-air money called ‘credit’ from private banks and the people having to pay interest on this ‘money’ that has never, does not and will never exist. Governments (and that concept must change radically) can create their own currency — interest free.
An end to private banks issuing non-existent money called ‘credit’ and, thus, creating ‘money’ as a debt from the very start.
An end to casinos like Wall Street and the City of London betting mercilessly on the financial and commodity markets with the lives of billions around the world.
An end to all professional lobby groups that earn their living and their clients’ living from corrupting the professionally corruptible — vast numbers of world politicians and the overwhelming majority on Capitol Hill.
An end to no-contract government in which mendacious politicians can promise the people they will do this and that to win their support and then do the very opposite after they have lied themselves into office (see President Obama).
An end to the centralisation of power in all areas of our lives and a start to divesting power to communities to decide their own lives and, thus, ensure there are too many points of decision- making for any cabal to centrally control.
This, however, does not mean that we have to sit in silence and wait for all the above to go, nor does it mean that we have no choice but to participate in it. Instead, we can increasingly free ourselves from the old system, while building the new alongside. We can do so through sharing visions of what could and should be, through creating that new form of participatory democracy ourselves, and through collectively finding ways to avoid reliance on money. By working together, also on the self-provision of housing, food, health, water and other necessities of life, we will become more and more independent from the old system.
What, instead, need to be occupied are our hearts and our minds. Our hearts and minds need to be occupied with the truth. We can gather with as many people as possible, we can protest as much and as loud and as long as we want and we can choose to camp in tents forever as a sign of reclamation – as long as there is no revolution on a personal level, all gathering, all protesting and all camping in tents will be in vain and will vanish with time.
What is required is a new sense of awareness, resulting in a New Thinking. That thinking has to accept that what we have been brought up under capitalism to accept as “de facto”, requires casting aside false concepts, for example, that houses have to be rented or bought, and accept and understand that housing is a basic human right for all. That New Thinking has to accept direct democracy is a basic human right for all, and that we have to learn from human history and from those ideas that were brutally attacked in an attempt to destroy them by all-out war in order to try to conceal their practical benefits forever.
Armed with the experience of such ideas, we will become able to reach what, after all, is exactly what we are looking for: a new, free, happy society where, we the people ourselves, are in control of our rights and needs, and where we can shape our destiny. The study of that very theory that shows us how to do that, enables us to make a much greater worldwide impact by thinking globally and acting locally.
Antiwar demonstrators have chanted the phrase “The whole world is watching” for decades now, and since the New York Police Department has barricaded and arrested citizens in one of the largest mass arrests of non-violent demonstrators in the history of the United States on October 1, 2011, the same slogan is used by the Occupy Movement protestors. True revolutions themselves, however, are not televised. They start in people’s hearts as soon as people start to be moved with compassion for each other and for the world they live in. They start in the people’s mind as soon as they become aware of the existence of fraud, mendacity, corruption and other criminal behaviour by so-called world leaders, bankers, warmongers, Zionists and other members of the “1%” — as well as of their own unjust, unhealthy or destructive behaviours.
Televised revolutions are, in best cases, the results of this personal revolution. A great example of the result of a personal revolution is the Libyan Al Fateh Revolution of 1969 during which Muammar Qaddafi, after having studied and being enlightened by both history and nature, together with the Free Unitary Officer movement, swept aside the monarchy of King Idris in a bloodless coup and freed Libya from foreign occupation. Televised revolutions are, in worst cases, no more than the results of people’s overall dissatisfaction with life or their will to rebel against authority in general.
Therefore, instead of blindly following or participating in the Occupy Movement (which movement also is misinformed on more than one subject, for example, about what forces are behindthe so-called Arab Spring), we have to carry out small individual revolutions daily as described above, as a precondition to joining any public movement. The mass movement of Occupy, as much as it calls for Power to the People, won’t bring about people’s power unless it is guided by the Third Universal Theory and studies The Green Book.
Fabrice Beaur
LIBYE – A Bani Walid, 99% de la population aime toujours Mouammar”, affirme à l’AFP Boubaker, un étudiant en droit de 24 ans.
“Mouammar est dans nos cœurs. Si quelqu’un ici vous dit le contraire, il ment”,
“Une révolution? Quelle révolution? Ils représentent peut-être (le président français Nicolas) Sarkozy ou des pays européens, mais pas la Libye”
Princess Yasmina 28 janvier 16:05
عن صفحة “( اخبار ليبيا الحق )”
بني وليد (ليبيا) (ا ف ب) – استسلمت بني وليد، معقل قوات النظام الليبي السابق ، الى الثوار بعد مقاومة شرسة ويقول العديد من سكانها اليوم انهم يرضخون للتغيير لكن الزعيم السابق معمر القذافي لا يزال “في قلوبهم”.وقال الطالب في الحقوق ابو بكر (24 سنة) لفرانس برس “يجب علينا ان نتكيف” مضيفا انه “في بني وليد 99% من السكان ما زالوا يحبون معمر” القذافي.وقال ابو بكر الذي يسكن جوار مقر لواء 28 مايو ان “معمر …هو الذي اعطى ابي منزلنا، بفضله لم نكن نفتقر الى شيء وكان الامن سائدا خلافا لما هو اليوم…” ويحمل المنزل اثار معارك الاثنين وامامه سيارات محروقة تتناثر من حولها رصاصات فارغة على الارض.واضاف صلاح الدين الورفلي (19 سنة) ان “معمر في قلوبنا، اذا قال لكم احد هنا العكس فهو يكذب” مضيفا باحتقار “ثورة؟ اي ثورة؟ ربما انهم يمثلون (الرئيس الفرنسي نيكولا) ساركوزي او الدول الغربية لكنهم لا يمثلون ليبيا”.وامام سوق الخضر وسط المدينة يعرب عبد الحميد الغرياني (25 سنة) عن “غضبه” حيال الجرذان الذين يسيطرون على الامن.وقال مشيرا الى اثار كدمات زرقاء على ساقه اليسرى واثار اصفاد على معصمه الايمن “اوقفوني عند حاجز وفتشوا سيارتي وذاكرة هاتفي الجوال وعندما رأوا فيه صور معمر صادروه مني وضربوني”.( هل ستحتلون القلوب كما الارض . الحب بيد الله من احبه الله حبب فيه خلقه )
From the page “(News Libya right)”
Bani Walid (Libya) (AFP) – surrendered Bani Walid, the stronghold of forces, the Libyan regime previous to the rebels after fierce resistance, says many of its people today, they yield to change, but the former leader Muammar Gaddafi is still “in their hearts.”A student in law Abu Bakr (24 years) to AFP: “We must adapt,” he said, adding that “in the Bani Walid 99% of the population is still like Muammar” Gaddafi.Abu Bakr, who lives in the vicinity of the headquarters of the brigade May 28 that “Muammar … is that my father gave our house, thanks to him we did not we do something, and security was dominant in contrast to what is today …” And carries home the effects of battles Monday and burned cars in front of him scattered around bullet casings on the ground.He said Salah al-Din Warfali (19 years) that “Muammar in our hearts, if anyone says to you here the contrary is a lie,” he said contemptuously, “a revolution? Any revolution? Perhaps they are the (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy or Western countries, but they do not represent Libya.”And vegetable market in front of the downtown express Ghariani Abdul Hamid (25 years) for “angry” about the rats, who control the security.He said, referring to the effects of blue bruises on his left leg and the effects of handcuffs on his wrist right “stood me at a roadblock and searched my car and my mobile phone memory and when they saw pictures of Muammar Sadrōh me and beat me.”(Is Stanlon hearts as the ground. However, the God of love God love him dear when created)
A message to the Libyan people: it is through you that Africa will be united
A message to the people of Libya by Dennis South.
Assalamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatohu!
My dear Libyan people, the majority of whom are, without doubt, the bravest people, and the most inspirational people, on Mother Earth, I have a message for you. It is a message about all of you, not just those who support the Libyan Jamahiriya(but mostly for those who support the Libyan Jamahiriya and Brother Leader).
There is a saying that you may have heard of that comes from the Scriptures: “A Prophet is without honor in his own land.” The meaning is obvious: Sometimes, people who are very great, or simplyvery good people, are not appreciated in their own land. It often happens that that Prophet isappreciated, but he is appreciated by other people from other lands.
At this very moment, you, my dear Libyan people, are being watched, very anxiously, by millions and millions and millions of human beings on this earth, all of whom are biting their nails, hoping beyond hope, that your true government, The Great Socialist Libyan Arab People’s Jamahiriya, will resume its rightful role as the true government of Libya. As the people’s government.
Many of you Libyan people may not be aware of the following fact: Millions of Americans are aware that their government, the U.S. government, iscorrupt to the core. And, at this moment, the day after the Libyan Jamahiriya took back the city of Bani Walid (January 24th, 2012), those millions of Americas, like myself, are shouting for joy at your success!!! Why?
The answer is simple: They have become very aware of the fact that their government, unfortunately, is an imperialist, dangerous, government. They are also aware that their own government has created hell for them in the U.S. Our jobs have been shipped overseas. Some 30 million U.S. citizens are unemployed, and the economic forecasters state that there is “no hope” that those people will ever be employed again. Their government is forming a police state. U.S. police departments now use drones, as was revealed by a Russia Today report, to spy on their citizens.
Millions of U.S. citizens know–very clearly–of the plight of the Libyan Jamahiriya. And on January 24th, when Bani Walid came back into the hands of the Libyan Jamahiriya government, those U.S. citizens danced for joy! They cried tears of happiness. Why? Because they identify with you, because they are oppressed by the same entitiesthat have been oppressing you.
No one knows what the future holds. But, I make the following plea to you: If, by the Grace and Mercy of Almighty Allah, you regain control of your country from its traitors and foreign demons, you should return to all of the policies that were implemented by Brother Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahiriya,especially with regard to your help of African nations.
If the U.S. and its devil allies have not dried up all of your oil wells, by the time that you re-take your land, I pray that you continue to help African nations to develop. I pray that you continue to stay out of the global economic banking system. I pray that you continue the Libyan Jamahiriya‘s plans to open up three banks in Africa for the purpose of snatching Africa away from the control of international gangsters, and for the goal of creating Africa as afree, strong and independent continent.
I will tell you something, whether you believe it or not: If you regain control of your country, there will be a toppling of corrupt African governments all over the continent of Africa. Because those Africans who love you, and who love Brother Leader, will be SO very happy that all that Brother Leader had hoped for will begin to happen rapidly: corrupt African leaders will be overthrown by their citizens; countries of Africa will begin to start talking about uniting; African countries will begin to move themselves away from the influence of the U.S. corrupt political system.
Your victory in Libya will shake the entire world, but especially African nations. Their citizens will be ecstatic. There will be dancing [appropriate dancing, of course!] in the streets!! You will be looked upon as a BIG BROTHER!! You will be honored in Africa, and the world, forever.
We need you so much! And I had hesitated to speak these words to you, because it is probably not my place to lay such a burden on you. But, in point of fact, it was not myself who laid that burden on you. It was Allah.
Some of you might feel bitter that no African country–or very few–held out a hand to help you. But remember what Brother Leader said: The African nations are too weak. Some African nationsdid offer to send troops. But Brother Leader rightlytold them not to come to Libya, because the march across the desert would be much too difficult for them to withstand. Brother Leader also told them to stay in their own countries, because one day the U.S. and its devil allies would be coming to their countries. So, it would be necessary for the Africans to defend themselves, as best they could.
So, do not be angry that African nations did not help you. They could not help you. They are too weak, and, unfortunately, too many of them are ruled by corrupt leaders.
My dearest Libyan brothers and sisters. I believe that there is a reason that Almighty Allah left you alone, with no support from any outside entity. I believe it was to strengthen you. I believe that, for some reason, Almighty Allah has chosen you to be the BIG BROTHER to the African people; to the African continent. I believe that it is through you that Africa will be united, which is a dream of Brother Leader, who is not dead, as you very well know.
When I heard that you had re-taken Bani Walid, butterflies shot through my stomach! I was on the verge of tears–happy tears. You are LOVED! You have no idea how much the people of the world love you; pray for you; and wish for your success. Because, your success will mean their success.
You are not alone! You have Allah. You have Muhammad. You have Muammar. And you have Libya. And you have us! You have those millions of us in this world who are watching you–whether they are black, white, brown or red– hoping beyond hope that you will succeed in regaining control of your country! And my last words are,
Allah, Muammar, Libya wa bas!!!
Your brother from the U.S.,
Dennis South
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Lamia Mohamed 31 janvier 19:32
الى كل محبي معمر القذافي الى كل محبي ليبيا تبقي واحدة واحدة ناحتاج لتكوين كتبية القران سلاح اقوي من من السلاح الناري احتاج الى كل واحد يقول لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله ويحب ليبيا سواء كان ايبي او عربي او مسلم يحيب الليبي في الله نحن مجموعة سوف نبدا غدا الاربعاء الموفق 2012/2/1 بقراة سورة الفتح وسورة البقرة للمدة 40 يوم بنية رجوع العلم الاخضر ورجوع حكم معمر (حتى لو معمر مات ليبي جايبه فيه اشخاص قدرين على حمل الراية) ووقف نزيف الدم بالله عليك بلاغ كل من تعرف ويحب ليبيا امانة لا تنسى :::::::::::::نور الحق
To all lovers of Muammar Gaddafi, to all lovers of Libya to keep one single Naanaj to configure the booksellerKoran weapon more powerful than a firearm I need each and every one says no God but Allah, Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah and the likes of Libya, whether Ebi or an Arab or Muslim Hristib Libyan in God We are a groupwill we start tomorrow, Wednesday, conciliator 01/02/2012 Baqrah Al-Fath and Al-Baqarah, for the period 40 daysthe structure back green flag and the return of the rule of Muammar (even if Muammar Matt Libby Jaiba where people Kdran to carry the flag) and stop the bloodshed in God you tip everyone you know and love the LibyanSecretariat of the Do not forget the light of truth :::::::::::::
ATTENTION: One big problem, Muammar, Our brother leader, did not “rule”! The people ran the country for the Libyan Jamahiriya!
تنبيه : ثمة مشكلة كبيرة، معمر، شقيق زعيم لدينا، لم “القاعدة”! ركض الناس في البلاد عن الجماهيرية الليبية!
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theorbo1 says:
Libya – Libya’s News
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/14/libya-libyas-news-january-14-2012/?mid=57
ALGERIA ISP / Haraka Elmokawama In Libya, an assassination attempt against the leader of the NTC Mustapha Abdeljalil using a homemade bomb.
In Benghazi, U.S. Special Forces have been deposited in the military base “Benin” in Benghazi to look after demonstrators against the NTC.
In Sirte, explosions and clashes in the region Jaref and hoisted green flags everywhere in Sirte. Misrata rebels are now in the district 2 and district Dollars.
In Tripoli, explosions and clashes in the region El Hadaba.
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/14/libya-a-video-of-a-demonstration-to-pro-gaddafi-in-tarhouna-january-14-2012/?mid=57
ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr Fi Libya, several explosions early this morning heard in different parts “Souk Jomo, Ziwawi, Eldahmani, Rue de Jamahiriya Elhadaba” of the capital Tripoli.
Clashes between rebels and resistance fighters in the region Eljmile green, Ain Zara and Zouara in Tripoli.
On January 12, 2012, a demonstration pro Gaddafi and the Libyan pro was at the University of Tarhouna. (Oh my god it’s a pleasure to listen to “O Allah Maoummer Libya Bess”)
رسالة إلى العقول النيرة من اخووكم ك5 ودكتورة القائد
يا أيها الذين ءامنوا إنا خلقناكم من ذكر وأنثى وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائل لتعارفوا إن أكرمكم عند الله اتقاكم
وقال أيضا( ادفع بالتي هي أحسن فإذا الذي بينك وبينه عداوة كأنه ولي حميم)
وقال أيضا ( واستغفروا ربكم انه كان غفارا يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا ويمددكم بأموال وبنين ويجعل لكم جنات ويجعل لكم انهارا مالكم لا ترجون لله وقارا وقد خلقكم أطوارا ) صدق الله العظيم
بعد السلام على رسول الله و الافتتاح بخير الكلام وهو كلام الله عزوجل أبداء
إن في كتاب الله خير دليل وخير مخرج من الآثام و الضيق والهموم , ونحن نعيش في بلادنا بعدما كنا امنين مستريحين.. فأبدلنا الله بنعمة الأمن خوف.. وبنعمة الشبع جوع ..وبنعمة الحب كره ..وبنعمة الصدق كذب ..وبنعمة التقوى والخشوع نفاق وكذب .., يا من قولتم لا اله إلا الله محمد رسول الله , يا من جعلتم الدين هو نبراسكم واليوم انقلبتم على أعقابكم وجعلتم الله عرضة لإيمانكم ولم تتذكروا قوله تعالى في كتابه وكلام رسول الله الكريم لقد اخدتكم العزة بالإثم و العدوان ولم تتفكروا إلى ما سيحدث والى ما ستؤول له الأحداث وكيف سيصبح حالنا وحال الناس , استخففتم بكلام الله ورسوله و بدلتم الكلم عن مواضعه و خرج لكم امة الكفر يحرمون ما احل الله ويحللون ما حرم الله وانتم تعرفون بان هذه الأحداث والله لفتنة من الله عزوجل أفتنكم في دينكم ودنياكم لكي يرى من المصلح والمفسد وما الله بغافل عما تعملون , اذكروا قول رسول الله عليه الصلاة والسلام حين قال الفتنة نائمة لعن الله من أيقظها و إن أصبتم بها فردوا الأمر إلى ما قبل الفتنة وتشاورا في الأمر لان الله عزوجل قال ( وأمرهم شورى بينهم ), أناشدكم بالله الذي هو أعظم مني ومنكم أن تحكموا عقولكم قبل فوات الأوان وما جعلني اكتب هذه الرسالة والله إلا إني وقفت على أحداث خطيرة جدا و على مؤامرة تحاك في الخفاء ضد الشرفاء والقبائل الشريفة , وبالأخص قبائل الزنتان و قبائل الوسط .
لن أقول باني مختلف معكم في المبدأ ولكن حتى وان اختلفت معكم فهناك شي سيجمعنا جميعا وعلى كلمة واحدة وهي ليبيا الأم ليبيا الوطن ليبيا الحب ليبيا الأخت و العرض والشرف وكل شي , ألان الصراع بدأ على أشده فتنبهوا جيدا.
ما يدور في الخفاء , ألان تحاك مؤامرة ضد الزنتان لكي يتم استبعادها من الساحة وخاصة بعدما قدمت قبائل الزنتان صورة مشرفة في التعامل مع الأسرى وما تعمله الآن قبائل الزنتان في عملية المصالحة الوطنية وكيفية تعاملها مع أخانا الدكتور سيف الإسلام القذافي , لا تستمعوا إلى ما يقال عن هذه القبيلة من إشاعات أنا لست معهم في التيار واني اختلف معهم كليا.. ولكن كلمة الحق لابد أن تقال في حقهم فالكل لا يعرف ما يدور في الخفاء , يا زنتان تنبهوا جيدا إلى الذي يحاك ضدكم فالكل الآن صار يراهن عليكم ويردون أن ينبشوا في ماضيكم القديم وانتم تعرفون جيدا ما هو الماضي ومن هم أعدائكم الذين اليوم صاروا أصدقائكم هناك مؤامرة تدور في الخفاء وتغليب فريق على فريق أخر وانتم تعرفون ما المقصود من كلامي هذا جيدا.
طالعتنا بعض المواقع والأشخاص عن حالة سيف الإسلام وعن بعض الحقائق ولكن كل ما نشر ليس له أثار من الصحة ونحن نتحمل المسؤولية الكاملة في هذا كله والغرض من هذا هو اضهار الزنتان بشكل غير لائق للجمهور كما هو الحال منهم عند دخولهم لطرابلس… و الكل يعرف ما هو الكلام الذي قيل عنهم , حقيقة للتاريخ الزنتان لم تذهب إلى بني وليد و لم تذهب إلى سرت وهم يعرفون ما معنى العهد القبلي ,وهم يعرفون جيدا بان القائد لم يهنهم ولم يهن أي قبيلة في ليبيا ولكن رجال الفتن أوهموا الشعب بغير ما قال , هناك الكثير من الحقائق أود أن أقولها ولكن سوف اطرحها في مقالة خاصة سوف اكشف فيها الكثير من الأوراق والحقائق , وفي نهاية الأمر ,أقول لكم جميعا الخطر قادم من الداخل ومن الخارج و الوقت بدأ ينفد من الكثيرين فلقد رصت الصفوف بنسبة 80% فأين انتم من هذه الصفوف ,لا تفوتوا الفرصة أمامكم ليبيا و شرفها و ترابها و أمنها , إخواني الكثيرين يحاولون ضمنا إلى صفهم ولكن نحن لن نكون في أي صف إلا في صف واحد وهو صف الحق صف ليبيا وصف من عاهدناه وفي النهاية أقول لكم قوله تعالى( يا أيها الذين ءامنوا إن جاءكم فاسق بنبأ فتبينوا أن تصيبوا قوم بجهالة فتصبحوا على ما فعلتم نادمين واعلموا أن فيكم رسول الله لو يطيعكم في كثير من الأمر لعندتم ولكن الله حبب إليكم الإيمان وزينه في قلوبكم وكره إليكم الكفر والفسوق و العصيان) صدق الله العظيم
إخوانكم في الدرب…..
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I would not say that I with you in a different principle, but disagreed with you, even if there are Xi and bring us all one word, namely Libya, Libya, the mother country of Libya Libya sister love and honor and all the supply and Shi, Alan began the most intense conflict Vtenbhoa well.
What is going on in secret, Alan hatched a conspiracy against Alzentan to be excluded from the arena, especially after it submitted tribes Alzentan an honorable in dealing with prisoners and do, now tribes Alzentan in the process of national reconciliation and how it would deal with our brother, Dr. Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, do not listen to what is said about This tribe of the rumors I’m not with them into the mainstream and I totally disagree with them .. But the word of truth must be told in the right, everyone does not know what is going on in secret, O xanthan woken up well to the one who plotted against you, everyone has now become bet you and respond to Anbashoa in your past, the old and you know very well what is the past and who are your enemies, who today became friends there is a conspiracy taking place in secret and to maintain the team to another team and you know what the meaning of my words this well.
We read some of the sites and people on the state of Saif al-Islam and some of the facts, but all of the published information does not have raised health and we assume full responsibility in all of this and the purpose of this is to show my Alzentan inappropriately to the public as is the case of them at their entry to Tripoli … And everybody knows what is the word that was said about them, the fact of history Alzentan did not go to Bani Walid and did not go to Sirte and they know what is the meaning of the Covenant tribal, they know very well that the leader did not Ihnhm has not wavered any tribe in Libya, but the men of strife Ohmua people without what he said, there are a lot of facts I would like to say it but will I pose in the special article will reveal a lot of papers and facts, and in the end, I tell you all the danger is coming from within and from abroad, time is running out of many have piled rows by 80% where you are of these rows, do not miss the opportunity before you, Libya, honor and territory and security, my brothers many people are trying to imply to describe, but we will not be in any row, except in a single row, a row of the right row Libya Description of Aahidnah In the end, I tell you the verse (O who believe that there comes punk news, verify should harm people in ignorance and repent of what ye have done and know that you, Messenger of God, if Aitiekm in many of the Order of Andtm, but God is dear to you the faith and decorated it in your hearts and hate you, infidelity and immorality and disobedience) truth of God Almighty
Your brothers in the driveway …..
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Message aux esprits brillants de l’Akhuokm que 5 et le Dr commandant Nom de Dieu, le Miséricordieux Ô vous qui croyez, je vous créés d’un mâle et femelle et vous avons constitués en peuples et en tribus pour que le regard de Dieu la vérité de Dieu Tout-Puissant et Il dit aussi (en vérité, il, si, entre qui et que vous avais une animosité devient aussi mal) Il a aussi dit (et demander le pardon de votre Seigneur, que celui qui prie ferai pleuvoir pour vous Mot de passe abondance FAQ Membres de l’argent et au Bénin, et vous fait des jardins et vous donne des rivières Malcolm n’espère pas à Dieu et Gaara vous a créés par phases successives.) vérité de Dieu Tout-Puissant , après la paix sur le Messager de Dieu et de l’ouverture correct de dire une parole de Dieu Tout-Puissant, je commence que dans un livre est la meilleure preuve et la meilleure façon de sortir des péchés et l’étroit et préoccupations, et nous vivons dans notre pays après nous nous sommes reposés en toute sécurité .. Vibdlna de sécurité peur de la grâce de Dieu .. Et la grâce de la satiété, de faim .. et par la grâce de l’amour la haine .. et par la grâce de mensonge la vérité .. et par la grâce de la piété et l’hypocrisie révérence et mensonges .., votre Coltm n’est d’autre Dieu qu’Allah, Mohamed est le Messager de Dieu, vous qui avez fait la religion est Anglaptm Aujourd’hui Nbraskm sur Oakabkm et vous avez fait est soumis à votre foi ne se souvient pas dit dans son livre et les paroles du Messager d’Allah Karim a l’arrogance Akhaddtkm et l’agression n’a pas Taatvkroa à ce qui va arriver et ce qui va résonner ses manifestations et comment ils seront oubliés et si le mot Astkhvvtm peuple de Dieu et à Son Messager et les mots Bdltm provenant d’endroits comme, et vous a laissé un interdisent l’incrédulité nation que ce qu’Allah a permis et d’analyser ce qui Allah a interdit et vous savez que ces événements et l’affliction de Dieu de Dieu Tout-Puissant Avtnkm dans votre religion et votre monde d’être vu à partir du réformateur et de corrompre, et ignore ce que vous faites, rappelez-vous les paroles du Messager de la paix d’Allah soient sur lui quand il a dit, la malédiction de sédition dormantes de Dieu éveillée et que vous avez reçue en tant que ils retournés au par des conflits et consulté en la matière parce que Dieu Tout-Puissant a dit (et leur ordonna de consultation mutuelle), l’appel au Dieu qui est le plus grand de moi et à vous de juger vos esprits avant qu’il ne soit trop tard et m’a fait écrire cette lettre et Dieu seul, je me tenais sur les événements d’une très grave et le complot ourdi en secret contre l’honorable et les tribus honnête, et dans certaines tribus Alzentan et les tribus de l’Orient. Je ne dirais pas que je différent avec vous en principe, mais même si elle n’était pas d’accord avec vous, il ya Xi nous apporter tous et le seul mot, à savoir la Libye, la mère de la Libye intérieure en Libye soeur aime la Libye et la largeur, l’honneur, tout, Alan conflit a débuté sur le Vtenbhoa plus intense et . ce qui se passe dans le secret, Alan éclos un complot contre Alzentan d’être exclus de l’arène, surtout après qu’il ait fait les tribus Alzentan une honorable dans le traitement des prisonniers et faire, maintenant les tribus Alzentan dans le processus de réconciliation nationale et la façon dont il traitera de notre frère, le Dr. Saif Al-Islam Kadhafi, n’écoutez pas ce qui est dit pour cette tribu des rumeurs, je ne suis pas avec eux dans le courant dominant et je suis totalement en désaccord avec eux .. Mais la parole de vérité doit être dite dans la droite, tout le monde ne sait pas ce qui se passe dans le secret, ô xanthane réveillé bien à celui qui complotaient contre toi, tout le monde est devenu vous misez et de répondre à Anbashoa dans votre passé, l’ancien et vous savez très bien quel est le passé et qui sont vos ennemis, qui sont aujourd’hui devenus des amis il ya une conspiration se déroule dans le secret et à maintenir l’équipe à une autre équipe et vous savez quel est le sens de mes paroles bien. nous lisons certains des sites et des personnes sur l’état de Saif al-Islam et quelques-uns des faits, mais toutes les informations publiées ne pas avoir soulevé de santé et nous assumer la pleine responsabilité dans tout cela et le but est de montrer mon Alzentan inappropriée pour le public comme c’est le cas pour eux quand ils sont entrés à Tripoli … Et tout le monde sait quel est le mot qui a été dit à leur sujet, le fait de l’histoire Alzentan ne vont pas à Bani Walid et ne pas aller à Syrte et ils savent quel est le sens du Pacte tribales, ils savent très bien que le leader n’a pas Ihnhm n’a pas vacillé toute la tribu en Libye, mais les hommes de personnes Ohmua lutte sans ce dit-il, il ya beaucoup de faits, je tiens à le dire mais je pose dans l’article spécial va révéler beaucoup de documents et de faits, et à la fin, je vous le dis tout le danger vient de l’intérieur et de l’étranger, le temps est compté de nombreux se sont empilés rangées de 80% là où vous êtes de ces lignes, ne manquez pas l’occasion avant que vous, la Libye, l’honneur et le territoire et la sécurité, mon peuple nombreux frères essaient d’impliquer à décrire, mais nous ne serons pas dans n’importe quelle rangée, sauf dans une seule rangée, une ligne de la description en Libye rangée droite de Aahidnah À la fin, je vous dis le verset (O qui croient qu’il arrive nouvelles punk, de vérifier devrait nuire aux gens dans l’ignorance et se repentent de ce que vous avez fait et je sais que vous, le Messager de Dieu, si Aitiekm dans de nombreux de l’Ordre du Andtm, mais Dieu vous est chère la foi et l’a décorée dans vos cœurs et vous détestent, l’infidélité et de l’immoralité et de la désobéissance) la vérité de Dieu Tout-Puissant vos frères dans l’allée. ….
Libya – The return of journalist Hanae Elchibani Strong Resistance … Green
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/14/libya-the-return-of-journalist-hanae-elchibani-strong-resistance-green-january-14-2012/?mid=57
ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr Fi Libya finally Hanae Elchibani popular journalist has returned to the radio antenna Elfateh Libya (radio strength). She has apologized for her absence due to the invasion of Libya and the manhunt for all active members of the Libyan.
She promised to help Green the Resistance to liberate the country from the clutches of the rebels.
Day by day, the resistance is gaining Military and Media.
According ALGERIA ISP, this release fixes an appointment to pro Resistance green with Kadhafi Libyan television. He really is alive!
Libya – A statement of resistance refers to an appointment with the guide soon (January 14, 2012)
ALGERIA ISP / Haraka Elmokawama In Libya, a statement of resistance distributed in Libya. It is for children of this great people, children of the commander, the hero Mujahid, Colonel Gaddafi Maoummer.
http://libyagreen.com/showthread.php?t=4768
World Summit on Food Security– Rome 16-18 NOV. 2009
From JULY 2011
TRIBES SUPPORT MUAMMAR al-QATHAFI
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!
Muammar tell how al-Qaeda/NWO mesmorizes the people–put pills in the milk!
BADR down the mountain o Tripoli:
requiem for Dr. Moutassem al-Billah Qathafi:
Gadhafi’s Tripoli Private Apartment:
Taureg and Almgarhh for Gadhafi!
Tawargha online-تاورغاء أونلاين
It´s been confirmed the dead of the brother Moussa Ajeely Ibrahim Al Tawerghi born in 1990, where was detained in his house after the displacement of some of people from Tawergha , but he preferred to stay at home and defend it, and since that time there were no news about him until one from his Family saw his picture on the Internet ….
Where he had been killed in detention camps in Misurata.
We ask God’s forgiveness and mercy to him
May Allah take revenge from the criminals gangs of Misurata, those who oppressed him!
تاكد موت الاخ موسي اعجيلي ابراهيم وهو تاورغى من مواليد 1990 حيث تم اعتقاله فى بيته بعد نزوح بعض من اهالى من تاورغاء الا انه فضل البقاء فى البيت والدفاع عنه كغيره ممن بقى ومنذ ذلك الوقت انقطعت اخباره عن اهله الى ان شاهد احد افراد اسرته صورته على النت ….
حيث انه قد تم قتله فى معتقلات مصراته .
نسأل الله له المغفره وان يسكنه فسيح جناته
حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل فيكم يا مجرمى مصراتة ياقتلة الاسرى المسلمين
family of Martyr Fathi al-Faqih
Bless his eternal soul!
ثراه الأبدي
family of Martyr
Ahmed Mabroukثراه الأبدي
الله يحمي عائلته
Al Zintan rebels demand the elimination of the NTC
http://www.youtube.com/user/libiyafm
Dr. HAMZA Tomai
There are attempts to spread Shiism in Libya
A former security official: Tripoli in crisis … And the conflict escalates between Hifter and Belhadj/al-Qaeda .. Oil and steal, and differences between the client and militias American General Hifter and the Al-Zentan (tribe)…
http://www.alquds.co.uk
Tripoli Quds Al-Arabi: The head of the operating room before Tripoli, Nasser fighter, that Tripoli is undergoing a real private owners and the political agendas and who have the view that Tripoli is the capital city of Tripoli during the political and achieve their goals and ambitions.
Is this a real Image, or a composite done with someone’s strange imagination on site:
http://www.za-afriku.ru/?p=9225&mid=57
interview given after his UN Speech in Sept. 2009
Jan 15, 2012 – 17:27
Commandos prepare for service in Tripoli
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/internal_affairs/Commandos_prepare_for_service_in_Tripoli_.html?cid=31936484&mid=57
It is only the third mission for special forces to guard a Swiss embassy (Keystone)
President defends plans to free Libya hostages
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/President_defends_plans_to_free_Libya_hostages.html?cid=9142426
Special forces unit swings into action
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/internal_affairs/Special_forces_unit_swings_into_action.html?cid=6081168
Swiss special forces unit under fire
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Swiss_special_forces_unit_under_fire.html?cid=15314330
by Peter Siegenthaler, swissinfo.ch
Swiss special forces are set to guard the country’s embassy in Tripoli from the middle of January.
But details of soldier numbers and units will not be revealed for security reasons, said Adrian Sollberger, foreign ministry spokesman.
A few days before the planned deployment, even the speakers of the security and foreign committees were not fully informed.
Mission orders are set to be given in the next few days, Chantal Galladé, speaker of the House of Representatives security committee, told swissinfo.ch.
The threat level in Tripoli is currently relatively low, she said, adding that Switzerland was one of few countries to guard its embassy in this way.
Galladé said the composition of the Swiss detachment and the length of the operation would depend on the threat level: the smaller the threat, the smaller the presence of the DRA10 (Army Reconnaissance Detachment 10) special forces unit.
The foreign ministry describes the current situation in the Libyan capital as relatively stable, although armed militias pose a danger for foreigners.
Neutrality?
After re-opening in October, the Swiss embassy in Tripoli has been protected by the controversial British security firm Aegis, which caused a sensation in Switzerland in 2010 when it moved its headquarters to Basel. It had been accused of taking part in acts of war.
The security committee of the Senate had demanded Aegis’s mercenaries be replaced by Swiss soldiers.
The government agreed to this request in December, although some politicians – above all those from the rightwing Swiss People’s Party – fundamentally reject the deployment of armed Swiss soldiers abroad, citing neutrality.
At the end of December, the foreign ministry announced that in addition to the DRA10 it was also considering the use of a special detachment of the military police.
The DRA10 is trained to take part in operations abroad, to protect people, troops and facilities at heightened levels of risk, and also to rescue Swiss citizens stuck in crisis zones and escort them home.
This was the unit mentioned in connection with the springing of two Swiss hostages arrested in Tripoli in 2008 (see related story).
Embassy protection
The embassy in Tripoli is the only Swiss representation abroad where Swiss soldiers are responsible for security.
All the others are sufficiently protected, according to the foreign ministry, which added that host countries are primarily responsible for security, although embassies can arrange additional security measures.
“Almost half of Swiss representations are protected by private, mostly local, firms,” said the ministry, which didn’t give concrete reasons for the different security measures in its embassies.
“Depending on the threat – criminality, risk of attack, prevention – the private firms take on jobs that range from complex to more simple, such as guarding a building overnight or on official holidays,” it said.
Algiers and Tehran
The foreign ministry confirmed that until now Swiss soldiers have only ever been deployed twice to protect Swiss representations abroad – and they’ve never needed to use their weapons.
In 1998, the embassy in Algiers was re-opened and guarded by professional soldiers after foreigners had been attacked by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
In 2006, members of DRA10 were sent to Tehran as part of a total of 30 soldiers to protect the embassy there. Parliament later admonished the government because it had not been informed of the operation in time.
According to military law, the government can only decide on operations on its own a maximum of three weeks in advance. In addition, the presidents of the security and foreign commissions of both parliamentary chambers must be informed, and later parliament too.
As for the Swiss embassy in Tripoli, the foreign ministry is assuming the operation will last longer. As a result, parliament will have the last word. The cabinet will submit a fromal request to parliament in the spring session.
Sanctions lifted
Bilateral relations between Switzerland and Libya are set to normalise after more than three years.
The new Libyan government last Monday officially ended trade and economic sanctions against Switzerland which in turn had started lifting its embargo against Tripoli in September 2011.
According to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Swiss business with Libya has suffered considerably over the past few years.
In 2008 Switzerland exported goods worth SFr282.3 million ($296 million) to Libya. In 2009 Swiss exports plummeted to SFr156.2 million, falling again to SFr110 million in 2010.
Peter Siegenthaler, swissinfo.ch
(Adapted from German by Thomas Stephens)
SirRon Kcuhc:
Good video. Except an part where Sharia law is demonized. …. TNC maybe want to institute “Al-Qaeda or Zionist Saudi” Sharia law. And this have nothing to do with Divine Sharia Law …. Finally in Libya also before the aggression were Sharia law implemented (no polygamy, drugs, brothels, beheadings—none of which is pure Sharia but rather FALSE Hadith interpretations of the Law).
Demonizing of Sharia Law is just a part of whole agenda against true muslims ….
Louis Farrakhan:
Uploaded by EbookCashStreams on 28 Aug 2011
Libya set up by NATO=North Atlantic Terrorist Organization – Fake Libyan Rebels exposed
Libya was set up by the international community. Told it would be treated as a fair member of the UN if it cooperated with weapons inspectors and reduced its military, it complied. Now, UN backed NATO armed rebels are trying to take over the country for international corporate interests. Hopefully, if enough people realize this and stand up, Libya will not end up being the next Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Libya – What they really want to eliminate militias Elasabea??
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/16/libya-what-they-really-want-to-eliminate-militias-elasabea-january-16-2012/
ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr Fi Libya, the television channel El Ene a consultant who interviewed Libyan Pro NTC, Mohamed Toumi, which confirmed that the war is passes between the militias and Gharyan Elasabea is rather a war against the rebels Gharyan militias loyal to Kadhafi.
He added that the NTC has a proof that there are over 13,000 weapons had been distributed to the volunteers of the City of Elasabea.
He accused the militias of killing Elasebea rebels Gharyan during the pseudo revolution. He said between 70 to 75 senior officers of the great Libyan leader is still in the city of Elasabea.
According ALGERIA ISP, several questions arise, what is really Elasabea of these militias are loyal to Kadhafi or tribes who do not want to sell their country to the NATO / Qatar or the region contains a Elasabea raw material of envy. They are trained to demonize them to eliminate them after all. All this is weird!
Libya – Gunmen attacked a bus in Ghadames
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/16/libya-gunmen-attacked-a-bus-in-ghadames-january-16-2012/
ALGERIA ISP / Dhida According Yawm 17 fibrayr Fi Libya,
a bus carrying passengers from Ghadames to Tripoli was intercepted by a group of more than 10 masked men. They were armed.
They learned who was on the bus, then they removed a traveler, put him in their car and then they left.
Hundreds of American Marines in Benghazi and Tripoli. 20 rats killed in Sirte.
par Wadii Hadad, lundi 16 janvier 2012, 19:01
A secret agreement was reached between the council of traitors of Benghazi and the United States, to send hundreds of american soldiers in Libya in order to overcome the real revolution which begins in Libya. According to credible information, a first contingent of soldiers from Malta was established in Benghazi to try to end the sit-in anti-NTC.
Konstantyn Scheglikov 16 janvier 19:32
Libyan Resistance and Western Hypocrisy
Important and expected event have been occurred in Libya. Resistance Leaders stated about Libya Temporary Government creation. People all over the world, the world community, expected this moment. Now our task is to demand our countries Governments to withdraw recognition of occupational NTC regime because there are Libyan Nation legal representatives and to begin diplomatic relationships with real Libyan Government.
This Government is launched on temporary basis till full Libya liberation from NATO invaders because after that People’s Committees of different levels will be reinstated and they will continue to govern Libya as it used to be prior to invasion in February 2011. Certainly all encountered mistakes will be taken into serious consideration to prevent further causes for a new intervention.
Global media (Reuters in particular) through their agents (rats) try to spread lies through the web resources, stating that USA, France and Russian presidents are arranging a summit to discuss a situation in Libya, which they are concerned about, and to grant Saif Al-Islam to be Libya’s prime minister with an essential continuing presence of Western companies in Libya. It is clear that their target is to create informational mess and to hide news about Libyan Jamahirya Government launching; to offend Saif, Libyan Resistance and all Libyan people who will choose their leaders themselves as well. Barak Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy are criminals and military forces of their countries are taking part in robbery of Libya and civilians elimination for almost 11 months. Global propaganda continues to create an image of peacemakers for them ignoring their personal interest in destroying countries rich in mineral resources.
One more purpose of this disinformation is to lessen Libyan struggle against occupants. Global Media attempt to conceal this struggle but it already spread all over Libya. In the East of Libya Obeydi Tribe which at first participated in the war on occupants side, liberated and hold rats-free City of Tobroock, the tribe supports anti NTC, anti occupants revolt as well. Al Zintan Tribe since November 2011 i.e. since Saif al Gaddafi arrival to city of Zintan, fights in Libyan Resistance ranks .All this means that Libyan Tribes united in their struggle against invaders.
Global Media conceals information regarding successful Libyan Resistance operations, they plot it as terrorist attacks, for instance they mentioned French attaché with NTC whose assassination was committed by Libyan patriots whilst attack on French mercenaries like ex-French soldier killing. The whole operation was called terrorist attack and pointed out that NTC has arrested a suspect. Global media exactly follow Nazi’s propaganda, which called Russian partisans bandits. SS squads captured civilians randomly and demanded locals to surrender partisans otherwise they threatened to execute hostages. Exactly the same occurs now in Libya. NATO and PMC death squads, they created a number of death camps for torturing of the Resistance members and terrorizing Libyan population closely cooperating with inner traitors. Videos of tortures are spread through YouTube exactly like in February-March videos of black skin Libyans lynch were posted. Website administrators do not delete it-they delete only videos of NATO and Al-Quaeda crimes.
When global media start to spread disinformation on Resistance compromises that means that each Libyan must continue to struggle because when the leaders of the countries-terrorists are claiming through media that they want peace-it is clear that they want to have some rest and regroup their forces. It is essential to continue guerrilla war against invaders with the same pace and exactly according to general strategy.
Now as the Libyan Jamahiriya “in exile” temporary Government is created it is essential for all good minded people and organizations to grant support to it and request from their countries Governments to recognize this Government as the only legitimate representative of Libyan people and Libyan Jamahiriya.
Yikes!! More American Marines have landed in Tripoli!!!
TWITTER: Muammar Al Gaddafi @MuammarLGaddafi 24m Yes Yes congratulations American Marines have landed 2 Hours ago IN #Tripoli #Libya Confirmation came from Egyptian sources!!
Picture showing Muammar al-Qathafi in hospital right after British grenade attack in 1996, when an Angel Amazon guard sacrificed her life by throwing herself over the grenade and Brother-leader suffered a minor shoulder injury.
Fighting continues in Libya, this time in Derna
http://libyanfreepress.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/derna-fire-fight.jpg
Fighting has been continuing in almost daily basis in Tripoli and surrounding areas, new reports from Libya suggests that fighting has spread to Benghazi and Derna, far eastern Libyan cities which have been relatively peaceful for the past months. This comes as NATO continues stealing Libyan money, and the Libyan Central Bank reported that they have reported one dime of the 20 billion USD of Libyan foreign reserves, which NATO claimed to have released.
TheOzyism
w/BASHIR:
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BURJAL GATHAFI:
NAME VARIATIONS:
معمر القذافي; Mouammar Kadhafi; Muammar al-Gaddafi; Moammar Gadhafi; Muammar Kadhafi; Muammar Kaddafi; Muammar Gheddafi; Муамар Кадафи; معمر قذافی; Muammer Kaddafi; Muamar Gadafi; Moamerja Gadafija; Moamar Gaddafi; Muamar el Gadafi; Muammar Kadafi; Muammar Khadaffi; Moammar Gaddafi; Muammar el Gaddafi; Муамар Каддафи; Muammar Gadafi; Muamar Kadafi; Moammar Kadhafi; Moamer Gadafi; Moamer Kadhafi; Mouammar Khadafi; Muammar Gadaffi; Муаммар Каддафи; Muammar al Gaddafi; Muammar Khaddafi; Muammar Qaddafi; Muhammar Gheddafi; Muamar al Gadafi; Muammar Khadafi; Muamar Kadhafi; Moammar Gadaffi; Muammar Gadhafi; Moamer Gathafi; Muammar Kadaffi; Muammar al-Gadafi; Muammar al-Ghadhafi; Mouammar Kaddafi; Muamar Khadafi; Muamar Gaddafi; Muammar Gadafy; Muammar el-Qaddafi; Moamer Gaddafi; Muammar Ghadhafi; Muammar Ghaddafi; Muammar al-Qadhafi; Muammar Qadhafi; Mouammar El Kadhafi; Muammer Gaddafi; Moammar Qaddafi; Muammer Gadaffi; Moamar Gadafi; Muhammar Gaddafi; Mummar Gaddafi; Moammar al-Kadhafi; Moammar Kadafi; Mouamar Kadhafi; Moammar Gheddafi; Mouamar Khadafi; Moammar al-Qadhafi; Muammar Ghadaffi; Moamar Kadhafi; Moamer Qadhafi; Muammar al-Kadhafi; Moamer Kadaffi; Moammar Khadafi; Muammar Gaddaffi; Moeammar Kadhafi; Muammar Al Gaddafi; Muammar el-Gaddafi; Muammar al-Qathafi; Muammar Al-Qadhafi; Moammar Khadaffi; Moammar Ghadafi; Muammar al-Qaddafi; Muammar Al-Kaddafi; Mouammar Al Kadhafi; Muamar El Gadafi; Моамар Кадафи; Muammar Al-Gaddafi; Moammar Kaddafi; Mouammar El-Kadhafi; Moammar Khaddafi; Muammar al-Gathafi; Moammar Qadhafi; Moamer Gadhafi; Muammar el Gadafi; Muammar el Gadaffi; Muammar al Ghadhafi; Muammar al-Kadafi; Mouammar al-Kadhafi; Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi; Muhamar Kadafi; Mouamar Kaddafi; Moammer Gaddafi; Mouammar El Khaddafi;
http://rictvagencianoticias.wordpress.com/correo-do-brasil-portugues/
Gadhafi would be alive and ready to organize resistance in Libya .
16/01/2012 18:01 Rictv News Agency – Algiers and Madrid
Gaddafi says he is good and great leading a resistance movement against the Council CNT
Reports from news agencies circulated on Monday in Libya, Serbia and Russia , reported the first appearance of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after the news of his death, which occurred during the conflict in that country last year. According to international news agency RicTV, Gaddafi would have spoken with the Libyans in Algerian radio transmission.
The Libyan leader, that his death was confirmed by the official media of the new government of that country, would be alive, really, and refugees in the neighboring country, where an articulated response to the acquisition by the rebel tribes had support of the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). These same sources said that the man confused by the rebels was a distant cousin of Gaddafi called Madz Ali Al-Andalus . The double was famous in Sirte, where he lived and died, apparently similar to the then ruling. RicTV heard by the agency, his family confirmed his death on October 20 last year, same date assigned to the death of Gaddafi. Independent sources have also confirmed to reporters that the Libyan leader was far from Sirte on 20 October.
– The announcement of great strength and moral support is circulating in these días.Se left the settler violence against Libya. Everything was done in the name of a false revolution. To all the honest sons of Libya, the children of the mujahideen (warriors) and mujahideen commanders children, the sun will shine after a long night and what you need to know for now is that victory is near. Redemption is near – the transmission signals attributed to Gaddafi.
According to news agency, based in Spain, the message was addressed to “units of international security, tribal security units, the soldiers of the battalions, Battalion 32 and the Libyan mujahideen and free.” Also according to emissions, confirmed by the Algerian news agency ISP Algeria, the resistance should be set up operations in all regions, “from east to west.” Gaddafi has also come to Libya to join the resistance fighters and attacks, “the rock” against the insurgents. It would also have asked the fighters to distant regions to intensify operations “against the traitors who have sold to Libya.”
In the photo, Gaddafi would be watching on television, from a point in Algeria, the scenes where they are supposed to have been killed
Gaddafi, the report – not yet confirmed by independent sources – have named his son, Saif al-Islam, “a member of the resistance will motivate us for the liberation of Libya.” Gaddafi would have closed his remarks with the assurance that never divide Libya.
– Libya never became an emirate of Qatar or the UAE or in a colony of France and other Western countries – underlines the statement attributed to Gaddafi.
In addition to members of the army loyal to the regime of Gaddafi after the Libyan leader also called on “all the tribes of the regions, Algerians, Tunisians, Iraqis and Syrians to oppose the rats and their mercenaries.”
In similar reporting, published in Algeria ISP shortly after the announcement of the death of Gaddafi, another version that was alive and well and health.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has spoken to the Libyans “” A great moral support given to the proclamation of the resistance that is circulating these days, Libya “rictvagencianoticias
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Libya – A statement of resistance refers to a meeting with the guide soon!
Source: ALGERIA ALGERIA ISP ISP /
Haraka Elmokawama, In Libya,
a statement of the distributed resistance in Libya.
It is for children of this great people, the sons of the commander, the hero Mujahid, Colonel Gaddafi Maoummer. You’ve seen the colonizers raped and robbed the land of the Libyans, dead, injured and orphaned children. All this in the land after the Libyan revolution that destroyed the pseudo beloved country. With all this, we thank God for our dear people woke up. In the honest son of Libya, the son of the mujahideen and the son of the commander of the Mujahideen. It will take one day the sun will shine after a long night and you should know that victory is close and inchaelah liberation is near. Your appointment will soon be with the Commander through television Great Jamahiriya. According ALGERIA ISP, this version fixes a date for the green strength professional television Qaddafi of Libya. It really is alive! “Inchaelah Inchaelah be true …. a miracle coming soon …”.
NOW ON THE BAZAAR SIDE OF THINGS:
by Leah Nelson on April 1, 2011
Black Extremists Blast Obama’s Decision to Murder Qaddafi, With One Predicting Spaceships
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/04/01/black-extremists-blast-obama-decision-to-weaken-qaddafi-with-one-predicting-spaceships/
President Obama’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to cripple the Jamahiriya and murder the Mujjadid/MAHDI Muammar al-Qaddafi, didn’t sit well with two American black nationalist leaders who consider Muammar al-Qathafi a friend and ally.
“Now you may laugh, but in a few days, something is going to wipe the smile and the laugh from your face,” Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI),
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/louis-farrakhan
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/nation-of-islam
warned Thursday during a rambling press conference at the group’s headquarters in Chicago. The uprisings in the Arab world coupled with the tsunami in Japan signify that divine spaceships waiting to avenge black suffering will soon arrive, Farrakhan said. “Brother Barack’s” decision to back the Libyan opposition against Qaddafi – who in 1972 lent NOI’s leadership $3 million to buy the headquarters from which Farrakhan broadcast his speech – is only going to hasten the UFOs’ arrival.
NOI theology has it that just before the biblical end of times, believers will be whisked away in small spaceships called “Baby Wheels” to a giant “Mother Wheel,” where they will live while other divine ships eradicate those who remain on earth with enormous bombs, explains Mattias Gardell in “In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam”.
Farrakhan prophesied that the time is near. “All of the governments are releasing their files on UFOs. America’s holding back, [but] other nations are informing their people of the reality of what is above their heads,” he said. “Who do you think then that you’re dealing with, if you’re the best in the world but you’re thousands of years behind the technology on those wheels? I’m here to tell you, you are dealing with God. You have no weapon that can handle what is already prepared to take you out.”
For over a month, Farrakhan, who described himself as a recognized “head of state” equal to other world leaders, has been warning Obama not to intervene against Libya’s government. Even so, in Thursday’s speech he stressed that responsibility for America’s involvement with the opposition does not rest entirely with the nation’s first black president (whom, he said, he loves like a brother).
“Now this man Barack, he had a good heart. We all fell in love with him during the campaign. Not the same man today*. … The people that surrounded him, engulfed him,” Farrakhan told his audience. “The stupid mistake that we make is to think that the president is the supreme power. Never was. Money is the power in America. … All of you know what I’m talking about, Zionist control of the government of the United States of America,”
*: Now Obama is possessed by the devil.
In a much less forgiving mood was Malik Zulu Shabazz,
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/malik-zulu-shabazz
leader of the New Black Panther PARTY (NBPP),
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/new-black-panther-party
who often aligns himself with Farrakhan.
Ripping into the president with shocking venom on March 23, Shabazz said in a presentation posted online, “Whatever Barack Obama is doing, he represents the white man. He represents the ideology of the white man, he represents the policies of the white man, he represents the CIA set up, sabotage, lie on a African leader and bomb that man like he George Bush. He represents the white man. And his wife should leave the nigger tonight. She should walk out and his beautiful daughters should walk out on this bamboozling, buck-dancing Tom,” Shabazz raged.
“Only thing you see in Libya is just a big case of police brutality. We see the way they [police] team up on us and run us down all the time,” he spat. “Sometimes it’s a nigger police chief that’s in the lead. This time it’s a nigger police chief in the lead named Barack Obama. But it makes no difference, the black man is on the run, named Qaddafi. We pray for his safety and that he survives.”
‘Black Extremists Blast Obama’s Decision to Weaken Qaddafi, With One Predicting Spaceships’
Before watching and reading any of the following, I want to make the statement that I KNOW THAT MUAMMAR al-Qathafi IS ALIVE. But the stories presented by Mr. Sanchez are worthy of presentation despite this major flaw in his presumption.
Juan Sanchez informs us on 18 janvier 03:15
LIBYA NEWS
http://www.uruknet.info/?l=e&p=-6&size=1&hd=0
Why NATO Murdered Gaddafi
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/intrnational/2011/10/23/1309.html
The ‘rebel’ assassination of Muammar Gaddafi: a NATO operation from A to Z
http://empirestrikesblack.com/2011/10/did-nato-special-forces-assassinate-mua…
Ghadafi Dead or Alive ?
http://nsnbc.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/ghadafi-dead-or-alive/
Libya: Apparent Execution of 53 Gaddafi Supporters
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/10/24/libya-apparent-execution-53-gaddafi-suppor…
http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com/2011/10/photo-of-day-killings-of-blacks-in.htm…
U.S. Congressman Wants Libya Rebels Investigated on “Crimes Against Humanity.”
http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/122/ARTICLE/7627/2011-09-14.html
The slaughter in Sirte
http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/pers-o03.shtml
Libya: Anti-Gaddafi Fighters Loot, Burn Homes In Sirte
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/libya-gaddafi-fighters-looting_n_997…
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&from&to=e…
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%252…
http://ozyism.blogspot.com/search/label/Libyan%20
Crisis Libya: Rebels Create Humanitarian Disaster, Then Blame it on Qaddafi
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Libya:_Rebels_Create_Humanitarian_Disaster,_Th…
26/oct/11 NATO Cheerleaders supporting NATO’s bloodshed, destruction and lawlessness without shame
NATO cheerleaders have helped NATO justify the war of aggression since the beginning without any shame. It is like cheering for someone else’s misery and downfall, or worse, cheering for genocide. It is probably one of the worse things human beings are capable of, almost as worse as those responsible for genocide.
These are the people that help justify the misery, help justify the murder of someone else’s father, mother, daughter, sister, brother, grandfather…
These are the same animals that show no shame when they cheer after a bomb that hits a hospital, after every bomb that hits a University, a house, an apartment building, a peace conference… They cheer, and they cheer, they say it is good, they say bombs save civilian lives, they say torture saves civilian lives, they say mass murder saves civilian lives, they say genocide saves civilian lives, they say destruction and misery saves civilian lives.. These are the same people who say that dropping a nuclear bomb over hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children is justified, these are the same cowards who say dropping chemical bombs similar to Vietnam is justified.. These are the same Cheerleaders that support NATO’s war in Libya..
25/oct/11 NATO Mercenary convoy struck an IED killing at least 8
Latest reports indicate that at least 8 NATO Mercenaries have been killed in the main highway which connects Sirte with Waddan. It is yet unclear whether the convoy was travelling towards Waddan, or towards Sirte when it hit an Improvised Explosive Device, destroying at least 2 armed vehicles.
This comes as Libyan Defense Forces declared a transition of resistance to guerrilla warfare.
23/oct/11 NATO conducts 70 air sorties as Mercenaries claim occupation completed
NATO Mercenaries held celebrations for occupation of Libya celebration where only hundred people attended and reported through out NATO media outlets, what they didn’t report was the 70 air sorties NATO conducted in Libya, including 12 cruise missile attacks in Sirte and Bani Walid. This is evident that the resistance continues, while NATO media outlets keep the focus on the fake celebrations, NATO genocide continues.
23/oct/11 Thousands celebrated in Libyan Liberation day AKA Occupation Day??
According to NATO propaganda thousands of people celebrated the liberation day, also known as occupation day. But in reality, only hundreds, rather than thousands celebrated the fake liberation day. Mercenaries tried hard to bring people out, but only a hundred die hard NATO loyalists came out with the Monarch flag.
It was a day to mourn, because hundred cowards were celebrating the occupation of their nation, a day of rage because half of Libya in ruins, a day to weep because NATO turned Libya in to a slaughter house, half of a Tribe massacred in Sirte.
According to latest reports, Mercenaries have been ordered to hide their weapons and join the crowds because people are refusing to celebrate in such a day of shame.
Not even NATO propaganda could hide the fact that Libyans see this as day of rage, a day to mourn and a day to weep, one reporter was forced to tell the truth in Sirte when he said “I didn’t see a SINGLE local out on the streets celebrating the “new” Libya”.
Gadaffi Murder. NATO WAS THERE. PROOF! 25.10.11, NATO Crimers In Libya
Why NATO Murdered Gaddafi http://www.agorac…
Misrata “rebels” tried to scale the oil platform at Brega–so NATO bombed Misrata (their headquarters).
NATO “owns” (they think) all of Libya’s oil and also threw out any Libyan personel working theron and replaced them with their own European engineers.
I present this truthful snap by President Mahmoud Ahmadinjad (IRAN) because it also reflects upon the situation in Libya. This is the TRUTH:…and bless President Ahmadinejad for the courage to always speak the truth:
Libyan Resistance News – January 17, 2012 – (Eng-Ita)
http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/libyan-resistance-news-january-18-2012-eng-ita/
http://libyanfreepress.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mouammar-gaddafi-and-omar-mokhtar-20120118-1.jpg
(1) Gangs from Gharyan have been found to be abusing detainees from Asabah; bodies of captives and prisoners found beating and torture as common pratice by militia from Gharyan; more than five people died in captivity after being beaten to death by NATO militias and mercenary from Gharyan.
(2) Misrata gangs and militia have been attacking BREGAH seaport and displaced people from Tawhorgha. Earlier yesterday in West Ajdabiyah district, rebels of Ajdabiyah fought each other with the rebels of Misrata, a Misrata battalion coming from the Eastward of Ajdabiyah armed with heavy weapons came with a list of names of wanted Tawhorgha people, the list was rejected by green resistance of Ajdabiyah.
(3) In a rebel to rebel fighting show of power and NATO strength, rebels from Ajdabiyah will be taking on Benghazi gangs in a fight to dominate Ajdabiyah Benghazi highjway to areas of divided BREGAH seaport.
(4) LLA yesterday checked on Sultan Museum in East of Sirte, and found the museum looted of many artifacts by the guerrillas of East Libya.
(5) A foreign military plane of unfamiliar shape has been spotted by the green army intelligence at the Mitiga military airbase, it’s believed to be carrying Israeli soldiers.
http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/americans-are-coming-gli-americani-stanno-arrivando-eng-ita/
http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/libyan-resistance-news-january-18-2012-eng-ita-2/
Americans Are Coming – Gli americani stanno arrivando – (Eng-Ita)
Under the pretext of protecting the oil fields, hundreds of American soldiers are disembarking on the shores of Libya. Libyan FM reported this morning that 6.000 US troops landed at Mitiga base as well. One hour after that, we were informed that most of the US troops were already setting up mobile camps and equipment around oil fields and rafineries. (by Libya S.O.S)
U.S. forces were concentrated in the Malta. Today they reached the beaches of Ras Lanuf, Sirte and other oil ports under the pretext of protecting the oil fields and ports from ‘illegal exports by Libyan armed gangs’.
As we all know the resistance has previously announced that they will burn Libyan oil rafineries if and when the first ‘invading oil soldier’ arrives to the Jamahiryan territory.
A few days ago it was reported that Barack Obama gave a directive to transfer 12 thousand U.S. troops, stationed in Malta, to Libya.
He hopes the presence of Western troops on the ground will secure pumping Libyan oil to European markets at very low prices which will not exceed $ 20 per barrel.
So the first results of the ‘liberated’ Libyan economy, are unfair deals signed by the NATO puppets (Council of Shame) with the new colonists.
Libya currently lives in a State of perpetual war and every day fighting increases, covered most of the cities of Libya, including those regions that were relatively calm in recent months.
It seems that the Libyans finally realized: their country destroyed and pull up in astronomical debts; in Libya there is no one family that has not lost a family member, relative, friend or neighbour.
Of the 20 billion dollars of Libyan reserves, which, according to NATO, have been allocated PFI, Libyan citizens have not received a single cent.
For this reason, 12 thousand American soldiers are in Malta and are preparing to return to Libya. Yesterday evening, it was reported on the arrival of the first group of mercenaries in the ports of the Ras Lanuf and Alphippa ….
Tripoli: the city resisted. Heavy fighting continued in the green zone. A lot of explosions and near the University. Powerful explosions rattle in the area of Elhadaba. Green militants attacked several rats.
Libya’s Liberation Front fighters carried out a military operation against the rat-Office in Tripoli. They seized important documents with armed NATO plans against Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and the rebel network, funded by the bankers. Operation killed 21 mercenary.
NATO continues to flagrantly violate the airspace of Libya, over the city at low altitude to fly foreign helicopters.
In addition to the airbase were unknown, likely Israeli party arrived, possibly of Jewish fighters.
Green sniper kills French at Mitiga.
Tadjoura: NATO/SGP attacked yesterday at the industrial research centre in Tajura, they severely beat some of the staff. The reason is the requirements of the Centre’s staff to remove from Office the Director Mohammed Mansour-al Sharif, on his full incompetence and gross financial irregularities.
Bani Walid: on Tuesday over the city appeared NATO aircraft, flying at low altitude, this is yet another flagrant violation of international law and Libyan airspace.
In Bani Walid, a radio is broadcasts the Libyan national songs.
Sirt: Green cell Thayer Sirt fighters were attacked a truck fighters equipped with heavy weapons . Five militants in a van abandoned;, this is revenge for the martyrs who died recently in the town of Elasabea and Sirte in District No. 1-2.
Shooting between Green resistance and NTC/Al-Qaeda in the city of Ziltenare, Jamal and Èlvahat.
Fighters of the liberation front of Libya from cell. Elsakr Elawhed ” released 39 Pro-Gaddafi prisoners from the prison of the military camp ” Elhadaba Elzira Macheroue Elkhadra “. Two Green fighter were killed. They will always be in our memory!
Turf: Battles between Green resistance and rats are continuing
Alasabah: the inhabitants of the city had enough from insurgents and they approached the Green Army for protection. Green army not only clean the city of the rats, but also brought residents a truck with clean water and resume the elettricity. A Green commander holds meeting with officials of the Alasabaha city.
Benghazi: Continuing demonstrations against NTC, the lack of money, basic services, clean water, food discontent of residents every day is still growing.
NATO/Mercenary accused of murdering Abdel Fattah Younis, not survived the bursting with bomb car; it is not yet clear who was behind the attack; there is a suspicion that this was the tribe of Eunice, who promised to seek justice, if a puppet regime NATO does not take action against those accused of his murder, no action was of course PNSa. .
Sabha: in the city, fighting with heavy weapons between rats and Green resistance fighters, of warriors from cell Warfala Soulaiman.
NTC has a grid of electricity throughout the South of Libya. Sabha without electricity.
The Tunisian frontier guards arrested on the Libyan-Tunisian border two cars with 40 tons of stolen copper from electric lines, intended for smuggling in Tunisia.
By Za-afriku – Adapted and Reloaded by LibyanFreePress
El Gaddafi Muammar 18 janvier 21:52
Behind the nation, the former Republic Bank branch on 18/01/2012 the field now and shooting happened Achbak Blaslhh Bhdf the end of the pomegranate and the cause is unknown at 7.20 pm
Clash in Omar Mukhtar Street – Tripoli
Musselini in Libya:
An Interview with Aisha Al-Gaddafi, after the martyring on 30 April 2011
of her daughter and her brother Saif Al-Arab (French):
SAIF:
No schools , no applications, no books in Sirte,NATO destroyed all schools.
This is how begining of school year looks in Libya thanks to NATO’s humanitarian bombing: »
They fought and gave their life for the Jamahiriya and that Libyan people are free
French warplanes returned yesterday, flying back into Libyan airspace, particularly over areas of the western mountains—obviously to take out Saif al-Islam and the new temporary Jamahiriya to be government!
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/01/libyan-rebels-threaten-new-government.html
Muammar al-Qathafi & Chavez:
What We Are Witnessing In Afghanistan and Iraq We Will Soon Soon See It In Libya!!!!!!!!! REPORT: UK SOLDIERS RAPE AFGHAN KIDS
What We Are Witnessing In Afghanistan and Iraq We Will Soon Soon See It In Libya!!!!!!
REPORT: UK SOLDIERS RAPE AFGHAN KIDS
1:20 PM OZYISM
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/2012/01/19/what-we-are-witnessing-in-afghanistan-and-iraq-we-will-soon-soon-see-it-in-libya-report-uk-soldiers-rape-afghan-kids/
UK soldiers have raped a boy and a girl in two separate occasions while recorded the heignous crimes. Similar cases of brutality and terrorism have been reported through out Afghanistan in the hands of NATO forces.
Iraq faced similar heinous crimes under US occupation, in one case a teenage girl was raped and then her whole family was massacred by US forces to hide any evidence or witnessesses.
*****(So please explain to me what kind of freedom and democracy is practiced in these regions by NATO and USA? Is raping, killing a whole family so there is no witness to accuse the soldier or their platoon for their heinous crime a democratic practice? It seems to me that I tend to forget that who ever enters the army now days has no moral standards they hire only criminals, rapists, blackmailers, scum of scums. If I take it literally from the films Hollywood shows they go to prisons and take all the criminals who are on death row and give them a chance to fight for their (country) and if they make it out alive then they are free to return home!!! nice!!!! Those who are on death row are: serial killers, child killers, killers. So what do you expect from an army who has no moral code anymore? How can they teach any democracy, or Freedom but the main thing how can they teach to be A HUMAN BEING FIRST OF ALL and to respect all human beings!)
29 OCT. 1996:
This is when the Brits tried to assassinate him with a grenade and arm violent men with rifles.
كلمة الشهيد القائد معمر القذافي في مجلس النتواب التونسي بتاريخ 29-10-1996 يفضح حلف الناتو الصليبي
الشهيد القائد معمر القذافي يفضح مؤامرات حلف الناتو الصليبي وثوار الناتو الخونة جلبوه ليقتل ويدمر الأسلام
فيديو نادر للشهيد القائد الزعيم معمر القذافي يكشف اسرار مؤامرات تحبك ضد العرب والمسلمين من قبل الدولة الاوربية وحلف النيتو
الشهيد القائد معمر القذافي يفضح حلف الناتو بتاريخ 29/10/1996 في كلمة في مجلس النواب التونسي
الشهيد القائد الزعيم معمر القذافي يفضح حلف النيتو الصليبي الكافر ويكشف خطورتة على العرب والمسلمين
الشهيد القائد معمر القذافي يكشف فضائح حلف الناتو الصليبي من قبل 15 عام
الشهيد القائد الزعيم معمر القذافي يكشف مؤامرات الغرب وحلف الناتو الصليبي على المسلمين في كلمة الشهيد القائد في مجلس النواب التونسي في 19-10-1996
The word martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi in the Tunisian Alentwab on 29/10/1996 exposes NATO Crusader
The martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi exposes conspiracies NATO Crusader NATO traitors and rebels brought him to kill and destroy Islam
Rare video of martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi reveals secrets Thpk plots against Arabs and Muslims by the state of Europe and Nato
The martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi exposes NATO on 29/10/1996 in a speech in the House of Representatives of Tunisia
The martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi Nato exposes the infidel crusader reveals the threat to the Arabs and Muslims
The martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi reveals scandals NATO Crusader by 15 years
The martyr leader Muammar Gaddafi plots reveals the West and NATO crusaders against the Muslims in a speech martyr leader in the House of Representatives of Tunisia 10/19/1996
and a very young al-Qathafi:
THE GREEN LIBYA__________ Libya green.
U.S. intelligence officer reveals: NATO aircraft carrying an arsenal Gaddafi to Turkish bases close to the brigade headquarters Alexandretta (the Syrian army’s free)
U.S. intelligence officer reveals: NATO aircraft carrying an arsenal Gaddafi to Turkish bases close to the banner of Alexandretta
http://www.alwatanvoice.com
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-01-2012/120282-west_syria-0/
The West, Syria and Libya
by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
…It doesn’t matter, because the TV images of screaming children swing into action in the early days of an “uprising” (what happened in London last August was a more authentic uprising than the ones in either Libya or Syria) and create the mind-image which will in turn create the mindset that will shape and control public opinion during the rest of the conflict.
We are not speaking about journalism and information, we are speaking about propaganda, unfounded rumours and disinformation and demonization campaigns which attempt to justify the unjustifiable. The Net then backs up the biased media, filtering out any opposing stories, closing sites, blogs, hacking sites, closing Facebook accounts (how porous is that medium?) and taking You Tubes off the air, while the photo libraries are purged of damning images. That is why they are trying to control the Net. It’s called freedom of information and expression…
At the epicentre of this is the Queen of Liars, traitors and terrorists, the human hell-hole, residence supreme of the Demon himself, Qatar. Al-Jazeera, which started out as a credible news agency, has become the whore of international journalism and is as credible as the scrawlings of a demented simpleton on the walls of a football stadium.
What is really happening in Syria, we shall be reporting in the forthcoming days. Meanwhile let us tell the story of Libya, which you will not see on Al-Jazeera, nor indeed on the British Bullshit Corporation, its friend and bedmate.
What NATO has unleashed in Libya is hard to describe, because there are no adjectives strong enough to put into words the horrific human rights abuses carried out by the “darlings” of the west, namely the Libyan rebels, in fact, gangs of murderers, rapists, arsonists, thieves, looters, torturers and bandits, racist pigs who have carried out ethnic cleansing, who have kidnapped and gang-raped women and girls and who have hacked people to death.
The people of Libya are not sitting back and accepting this scourge as a Government because it is not and never will be. Southern Libya has now been declared terrorist-free and the result is that the USA, under what international mandate? – is massing troops in Malta, while it sends in waves of Marines to be shot down by snipers.
How many more families in the USA are being told that their sons are missing in action?
Evidence of human rights abuses by Libyan terrorists, supported by NATO:
Judge for yourselves.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Dr. Moutassem al-Billah Qathafi:
NATO bombing Sirte
Dr, Moussa Ibrahim narrating
GREEN LIBYA FOREVER!
Green Arabia ?:
OMAR MUKTAR:
Aboubakr Elsokary
Derniers mots d’Omar Mukhtar demandé à l’officier: Avez-vous combattu le gouvernement italien …? Omar: Oui Est encouragé les gens à la guerre? … _ Oui Etes-vous conscient de l’Maflt mort? _ Oui t reconnaît Pmatcol? _ oui, combien d’années vous vous battez les autorités italiennes? _ il ya 20 ans, regrettez-vous Maflt? ne vous réalisez que vous abattre? _ Oui _ lui dire, juge de la Cour: je suis triste d’être sa fin est contenue Omar Mukhtar :………. _ mais la meilleure façon de conclure la vie ……….. _ le juge tente de le tenter, il est condamné à l’amnistie générale en échange de la rédaction des moudjahidin du Jihad pour arrêter les Italiens …. , donc regarder sa vie et son fameux dicton: (où l’index de chaque prière qu’il n’ya pas de dieu qu’Allah et que Muhammad est le Messager de Dieu, peut-être pas tort d’écrire le mot)
NO-ONE MIGHTIER:
Muammar al-Gadhafi
Message to the traitors that remain,
(By Petar Markovic)
you rat, you should know:
– that your children will be growing up in a country you tore up…
– they will be bleeding from the wounds you opened…
– that they will be looking for salvation in fundamentalism and emigration…
– that your very own sins will make them blow themselves to pieces looking for divine justice…
– that your other children will be looking for a better future in gloomy European suburbs… selling drugs and their own bodies…
– that your own grandchildren will be laughing at you for not knowing the language they’ll be speaking…
– that they will be ashamed of your religion and tradition in their new homeland…
– that your city will remain demolished and deserted as long as you shall live…
– You should know that one day when you grow old, your little grandchild will come to you…
the youngest one, the only one that stayed to live in poverty with you…
the one who’s the best in school, the one who likes to read, the one who knows the capitols and other rubbish…
he’ll come to you, sit in your lap and tell you:
– “Grandpa, talk to me about the Colonel…”
– Que vos enfants pourront grandir dans un pays que vous déchiré …
– Ils seront saignement de la blessure que vous avez ouvert …
– C’est qu’ils seront à la recherche pour le salut dans l’intégrisme et l’émigration …
– Pour que vos péchés propre leur fera se faire exploser en morceaux en quête de justice divine …
– Que vos enfants d’autres seront à la recherche d’un avenir meilleur dans les banlieues européennes sombres … vente de drogues et leur propre corps …
– Que votre propres petits-enfants seront riant de vous pour ne pas connaître la langue qu’ils vont parler …
– Qu’ils aient honte de votre religion et de tradition dans leur nouvelle patrie …
– C’est votre ville restera démolie et abandonnée aussi longtemps que vous vivrez …
– Vous devriez savoir qu’un jour, quand tu seras vieux, votre petit-enfant petite viendra à vous …
le plus jeune, le seul qui est resté vivre dans la pauvreté avec vous …
celui qui est le meilleur à l’école, celui qui aime lire, celui qui connaît les chapiteaux et autres détritus …
il va venir à vous, assis sur vos genoux et vous dire:
– «Grand-père, de me parler du colonel …”
http://www.leonorenlibia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=864:entrevista-a-un-embajador-ruso-en-libia&catid=10:catcron
vel Fuks 20 janvier 04:06
Leonor.
Stolknoveniya in El Hadaba: NATO mercenaries tried to detain the civilian, but he stood up for the neighbors.
NATO warplanes fly over the city of El Ashabı.
The Egyptian customs officials arrested the smugglers with a large cargo of arms and weapons boepripasov. Contraband from NATO countries in Benghazi does not end with the beginning of the conflict (istochn.France 24 \ 24)
In Gariyane died puppet TNC Mohammed Salem Elnoisari
Last 2 days in Sebha there are no electricity. Uzhe many months in the Sabha had electricity for several hours in den.Govoryat that there is no fuel for Libyan energy government rabatyvayuschih enterprises, but all of the Libyan oil exports, without paying anything to the population ..
Clashes in Tripoli in Salahaddin.
Tarhunskie students sing the hymn of Libya.
In the medical service was Jamahiriya besplatnym. A now TNC does not pay even for their own gospitalizhatsiyu boevikov.
Liviytsy could also be treated for free in Tunisia, as had an agreement with TNC Tunisom.Boeviki broke into the Libyan embassy in Tunis, requiring treatment.
Libyans Al-Brega and Ras lanufa: NATO people had been driven them from their habitat and they have lost raboty.
Teper war against NATO with the support of other Libyans Сопротивления. Столкновения in this region does not stop.
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INTERVIEW WITH A RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA
Akopov Pogos interview that it was the Soviet ambassador to Libya in 1986 when the U.S. bombed Libya. (Trad.google). His account of Libya and Gaddafi is very interesting.
When 25 years ago, the U.S. bombed Libya, the Soviet ambassador appointed a seasoned diplomat-Arabist Poghos Akopov. Today, in an interview “Fontanka” recalls his close relationship with Gaddafi and state terrorism, the United States, reveals the true causes a chain reaction of revolutions in the Arab world and argues that oil is the real reason for the NATO campaign. Anticipating the discussion, Boghos S. insisted that expressed in this interview with staff professional standpoint, but does not act as president of the Association of Russian diplomats and vice president of the Foreign Policy Association. In 1986, the U.S. bombed Libya. How does the Reagan administration accused of terrorist Ghadafi? You were, indeed, became ambassador in Tripoli, it seems that at that time? – Gaddafi was bombed in April, and we arrived a little later, but I saw with my own eyes the bombed Qaddafi’s home, killing his daughter Foster, I saw the house completely destroyed by American bombing in the French Embassy in central Tripoli. Yes, the U.S. Gaddafi accused of terrorism then and dared to bombard it. I will not cover up or justify Gaddafi, because there is no such thing but a “presumption of innocence,” because if you accuse someone of something, whether it is good – in the first place have to prove it. During five years of work in Libya, I was trying to find documentary evidence to confirm the involvement and hard data or personal information about Gaddafi in Libya to commit terrorist acts, but found nothing. Maybe someone has the data now? But then, why not publish? The Americans, pledged to publish a “black book” of the crimes of Gaddafi, where talk about their involvement in the bombing of the plane over Lockerbie and the terrorist attack in West Berlin. But there is also this book! Allegations of Lockerbie were only court decisions, and based only on a few words without any proof. But the fact that the Americans bombed Libya in 1986, is a fact. So if we talk about terrorism, then, from my point of view, namely the U.S. and were in this case, terrorists sponsored by the U.S. State .. Yes it is true that in the Libyan desert preparing Palestinian troops. I do not think Gaddafi help. And I had not hidden. But when he realized that there were units in the desert, closed quickly and drove out of Libya. How much confidence do you have with the leader of the Libyan revolution? It’s “Black Colonel” is prone to outrageous actions and is a very exotic way of life? – In reality, though, of course, it is important to understand that under these concepts. I remember the case of one of the first meeting with Gaddafi. I received a letter from Moscow, for transmission to the Libyan leader in which he requested the opportunity to meet you. I got a call: “Go to the airport at night.” Mellevaron, flying plane, and then drive through the desert. It was night. Total darkness. Tent. In the center – Gaddafi in a swivel chair. Before him a folding table. They gave me a regular chair. We slept in a Bedouin tent. The TV. A tabletop radio, a notebook, a pen. Gaddafi wrapped in a blanket of camel. I waved. He invited me to sit down. I asked him why he had a life so ascetic. He replied: “. I’m here alone, no one bothers me here I think a lot better. I am referring to God …” There’s nobody around. Gaddafi, of course, not smoking or drinking at all. During the first meeting developed a trusting relationship. Gaddafi did not accept the credentials of Ambassador, saying: “I am not the president or the head of state, I am the leader of the revolution, but not forbid me to receive ambassadors.” So he gave his credentials to Foreign Minister, rather, they have it, just like us once, is called the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs. After 3-4 days, I invite Gaddafi. 12 at night. A war with Chad. Throughout the blackout. Bring on the dark streets in a small mansion. There I saw al-Gaddafi. The first thing I said, “But I know you Nasser me (in 1956 and 1970 – President of Egypt – Com Aut …) told me”. Gaddafi was considered a follower of Nasser, who was his god. I remember in 1967, immediately after the Six Day War with Israel, Egypt, in Egypt, the government delegation arrived, headed by the USSR Podgorny (member of the Politburo in 1960 -… 1977gg Com Aut) To participate in restoration of the economy and the Egyptian army. I was like part of this commission. I stayed in Egypt to work. Then a Nasser, whom I met before, to me there was no sympathy. Therefore, Gaddafi was aware of this: “I want the Libyan ambassador who played the same role once played in Egypt.” Since then, we have developed a cordial relationship. As for Gaddafi’s bizarre behavior, which is spoken, I can only say that he would not take my credentials, I will tell another of those moments. The first meeting will give a message from Gorbachev, translated into Arabic. Gaddafi: “I do not understand, say his own words.” “Wow – I think -. It is an Arabic translation in the purest literary language How not to understand that although I understand it?” Shows that Gaddafi wanted to see if I knew Arabic. Could talk to him one by one. It was his way – one by one, he always wore to the translators. Somehow, I remember, came to the personal representative of Gorbachev in the late Vorontsov. We sat next to Gaddafi. We talked. Then suddenly out of Gaddafi asked his minister, and addressed me: “And you, Safir, go I want to talk one at a time ..” Safire – was Arab ambassador.
By the way, the envoy. The diplomatic community, and Russian society as a whole did not understand the waiver of the Russian ambassador in Libya, said Vladimir tanks which occurred on the eve of the NATO bombing of the country. Do you know anything about the circumstances of the dismissal? As for the independent role of the ambassador of Libya and is the ambassador, in principle, the right to disagree with the opinion of his leadership?
– Regarding the independence of the Ambassadors of Libya, by his example, I can say that Gaddafi on the first day of our relationship started asking my opinion on some issue or another, as stated in the letter Gorbachev. I remember thinking, “If I bring the message of the head of state, how I can express my opinion?” On the other hand, we intuitively understand that if the answer that I have no opinion, but it is only the opinion of Gorbachev, Gaddafi will make our relationship with what I have to transfer any securities authority, and not after. The answer is: .. “Let us agree that if I said I have nothing to add to that described in the letter of my leadership, this means that I express my opinion or I can not for some reason. If I develop a message, it means that I fully the opinion of my leadership on this issue. And finally, if I disagree, and I can tell you this, then I will give my opinion. “Gaddafi was initially confused by my words, then thought a bit,” Good! ” So there was no difficulty in personal encounters with him. Every time I requested a meeting with Qaddafi, there was not a single case that you refuse. This example illustrates the fact that Gaddafi is an affordable companion. Personally, I’ve only had one case in which Gaddafi did not agree with my point of view. In Libya, worked in a pharmaceutical plant. But Americans are in constant search for Soviet actions, Gaddafi said he had a factory for the production of chemical weapons. Accordingly, I have always followed the instructions from Moscow, so I got the permission of Gaddafi to avoid an inspection of U.S. and UN to the factory. I once went to Gaddafi. My second visit. The third time I spoke with Gaddafi said: “Why are you playing to Americans?” Another note, this time come from the Acting Foreign Minister Petrovsky in a very strict: “Ask Gaddafi, why is this line that we create problems with the Americans!” Do nothing, go back to talking to Gaddafi. Expose. He said: “Listen, and you, how about this?” Then he told me. “In this case, I personally do not agree, although I know that the ambassador had no right to have a personal standpoint First, there is still a convention banning chemical weapons, but only a convention on the use and distribution of chemical weapons. II. The great discrimination, why these controls is to be applied only against Libya, why not, for example, to check that the manufactures Israel? And finally, in third place, is why we, the Soviet Union, and especially Libya must always be under U.S. pressure? “He said he had heard the words of Gaddafi, then wrote to Moscow on Gaddafi’s opinion about the plant, and under what attributed to this view, I agree. In Moscow, I said the same with few differences. Shortly after Gaddafi addressed this issue, we stopped. With respect to Volodia Chanov … It was one of my students. Not support any deliberate error unless it was a mistake unintentionally. Ambassador – performs its functions. Another thing is that any ambassador – and that is my opinion that I have never hidden – is designed to find the positive in the host country, on the basis that they could develop good relations between countries. I do not know the reasons why the tanks removed. And I know that so far there has been no official complaint. I can only assume that, obviously, in terms of leadership, made some mistakes or at least not what is expected of him, but to say that his actions have damaged the country, I can not. Maybe your actions considered out of time, may appear in a line something contrary to foreign policy concerning some actions that were carried out by the government at any given time. Not. The good news is that Chanov had a very high professionalism, he was a patriot, a man of principle, capable of defending its position and views Chanov. Before that, he was ambassador to Iraq. That is, he worked in the most difficult times and places. And it is very important. I think these ambassadors should not be punished. It happens that sometimes there is a need to demonstrate to its partners that the country’s leadership does not agree with the point of view of a special ambassador, who at the time of their activity does not meet the point of view of management. Ambassador then removed but should not be punished .. Gaddafi is said about that is unpredictable and crazy. During his meeting with Libyan leader, has noticed he has some mental disorders? – I have met over forty times with Gaddafi and I never felt I had a mental disability. Quite the contrary. I remember some maneratuvimos to convince him for war with Chad, Libya had no prospects, not to the interests of Libya and the war should end as soon as possible. Gaddafi listened calmly and addressed me: “Yes, I made a mistake that got in Chad, but now I do not know how to get out of there. Help me give you all rights to negotiate with the French and the British to cease hostilities ….” They have a nut watching reacted so quickly and sensibly to our words? On the other hand, if Gaddafi himself takes the initiative at a meeting, you always know clearly in advance what you need from a particular party, and always holds a conversation . When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, al-Gaddafi, the next day I asked, alone of all the ambassadors, “Hussein, stupid Why invaded Kuwait, in this way has given Americans a golden opportunity to enter the Persian Gulf for decades to try? ” What later happened. It’s madness could have predicted that?
And those who are called unpredictable Gaddafi, I advise you read the “Green Book” – Gaddafi speaks of a “theory of Third World”, by the way, we have this book in the Soviet Union translated and published. Yes, of course, in the “Green Paper” There are many things that few people agree: Gaddafi, for example, denied the parties and parliament, but can be unpredictable man, who developed and published the views of socio- economic and political development of society, that and put it into practice? Interestingly, the theory that he considered his next stage of development of Marxism, and the denial of political parties, said it would create a classless society. “That’s when sozdash, and then deny that the party” – I replied. Again, I am not a lawyer Gaddafi, I’m not speaking as an advocate of Libya, and only express their comments and set the basis for your opinion about this man is silent on everything from Gaddafi’s recent talk mostly good and bad. There is no reason now not to forget Gaddafi proclaimed the equality of women and men. When I first came to Libya, I saw on TV that Libyan people in a women robbed men the microphone and shouted: “We were right when our leaders speak on a par with that, so demand this and that … “These photos were for me, the example that was working for decades in an open Arab world. Today there is much talk that Gaddafi supposedly uses the Soviet Union, we owe money in various forms – that then forgave him – only out of loyalty, in return for nothing, give, and still looking to the west. Is this true? – No, of course not. Few people know today that the detachment of Soviet warships in the Mediterranean could go to any port in Libya, the Libyan warned in a few hours. Such opportunities we had in all the Mediterranean countries, including Latakia, our best friends – not the Syrians, not to mention the Egyptians and Tunisians. However, the sailor, who spends his time at sea for months, but sometimes it is very important to come ashore to rest. And economic cooperation – and prospects – with Libya during Gaddafi in power were very good. The Soviet Union in Libya built a nuclear research center “Tajura” but Gaddafi personally told me he was ready for the Soviet experts sent to Libya to build the subway and train from Tunisia to Egypt, offered cooperation and work space set of water desalination in the Mediterranean. Only time I was ambassador in Tripoli, the Soviet Union and Libya signed economic cooperation agreements in the amount of $ 23.5 million, completed the planned around $ 21 million and we paid 18 billion Gaddafi. Okay, even by the standards of today a very large sum. Yes, some 3 billion Gaddafi for information products that do not surcharge. We begin to charge interest on this debt was the sum of $ 4.5 billion, but this debt is easy. But this is important to understand that this debt Gaddafi was his opinion. He said some of the agreements we have made, the economic damage that he and evaluated in specific amounts, “I signed a contract to supply spare parts for aircraft, – he said -. And I said they were not delivered to my plane at that time were, to putrefaction, rusting. Who is going to repair the damage? Or. I sent for repair to my submarine, and told me not to return. So pay for it or the conversion go. ” So in this situation, everyone believed in his own way, and I, as ambassador, for example, went to Gaddafi and asked, “You have to pay.” But the vast majority of contracts have been paid Gaddafi.
As soon as the West worsen relations with any country, immediately shows “previously unknown” information about countless unjust money leaders of these countries in Western banks. Do you know about Gaddafi accounts abroad?
– The existence of these accounts, I do not know, but I know that once in power, the wealth of the Libyan state was only for development. When I realized, the economy of the past 15 years, Libya’s oil revenues, and what were the costs of his leadership during this time that are sent to the state budget, I came to the conclusion that free money Gaddafi could go into his pocket, was not an option. These estimates, of course, there was nothing fun or abstract interest, but because I needed to know clearly whether there is currently money from Libya to pay debts to the Soviet Union. I came to Gaddafi, saying: “Here are 9 billion of oil revenues, the Army will spend in the economy both in the social development both in my opinion, should stay another 500 million dollars. Come on, pay!” He says: “I do not know how to get these calculations, but I have a monthly budget deficit, money is not enough …” Cash, which happened to be right. Libya has since built 23,000 miles of beautiful roads, built a huge oil refinery, has created a large artificial river … All these projects will cost billions of dollars and was financed by the budget. This was somehow now I do not remember.
Is there in fact, Medvedev and Putin differences from the situation in Libya, which is much discussion in recent years? What do you think that the guidelines for Russian foreign policy today in this region?
– It’s hard to say which is the general direction of our country in relation to all third world countries, not only to Libya. Judging by the statements of our leaders, the emphasis that we are doing today is still, in cooperation with the West and the United States in the hope that will help us to advance technology and improve our economy, rather than the developing countries such as Libya, as it was in Soviet times, when there was a foreign concept for. But in the concrete situation of Libya around, I see no real differences in our guide. Yes, Mr Putin, immediately condemned the decision to enter NATO troops in Libya, and shortly after the bombing and condemned the president, who said that Russia does not share the NATO military action in Libya, because it goes against UN resolution … … a deputy Russian foreign minister Alexander Saltanov and the Ambassador of China in Moscow Li recently officially announced that an “internal civil conflict in Libya is a military solution, and only more suffering dilated all Libyans to exacerbate tensions in the region and all. ” – That is absolutely correct! Soviet doctrine of foreign policy is based on the fact that international resolve local conflicts through military means in most cases impossible, and even more intra-state conflicts. Use today, the United Nations as an instrument of war – nonsense! This contradicts the very essence, the purposes and objectives of the organization. Really do not know what ideas were introduced in the UN resolution on Libya, but the fact that under the pretext of protecting a portion of the population are put air strikes on the other side is, of course, crime. Attack – not the way to solve problems.
So what, in his opinion, the real causes of today’s bombing of Libya by NATO forces
– I think the main reason is happening in Libya and what is now by the Americans, is the desire U.S. to establish control over the final Libyan oil. In fact, this region of the world remains only one oil from Libya, which has not yet been fully controlled by the Americans. And it’s not a secret. However, even in 1992, when Libya had accepted the UN sanctions, which means including the withdrawal of all foreign specialists – then remove all the military experts, even, and cease all cooperation – the Americans, the initiators of these sanctions have left Libya 2500 of oil industry experts in other foreign companies – Canada, Korea. Therefore, the “oil positions,” the U.S. in Libya, who were, are and have. We can only legitimize them. By the way, when Qadhafi began to feel the change in the Soviet Union Gorbachev’s foreign policy against the Arabs, he said, “let us”, but I was trying to prove that it is unfair that our foreign policy is based on clear principles, although, of course, I felt some improvement, but the diplomat had no right to express their views. But during the Yeltsin and Kozyrev (1990 to 1996 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia -…. Com Aut) Many Arab leaders in conversations with me directly, saying: “You betrayed us!” Fortunately, in the 2000’s, in my opinion, there was a correction of our foreign policy toward the Arab world. Last year, President Medvedev met with veterans of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the meeting asked, “What do you think our foreign policy?” He said that to date, generally, to support Russia’s foreign policy because it is based on the principles of Russian foreign policy stated above.
Why France was quick first attack on Libya?
– As the son of Gaddafi called on Sarkozy to return the money, which the Libyans gave to his political campaign. I do not know, really you should give Sarkozy Libyan money or not, but, of course, such an assertion seriously injured, most recently saw him on television, like French President Gaddafi welcomed, embraced, and then suddenly attacked France to Libya. I must say that Gaddafi has always had a sympathetic attitude towards the French, in the first place in the West, had the Italians and the French. So in this story the main role has been the particular interests of France. French oil companies have entered firmly in Libya.
A diplomat who has worked 16 years in Egypt, even charge d’affaires. Draws many analogies to the revolution in Egypt in 2011, with the situation in Libya. Is this true?
– No. It is not true. Get to know Egypt and Mubarak (in 1981-2011 -. The President of Egypt, who resigned following popular unrest -… Com Aut) Remember the days when he was in Moscow, graduated from courses Military Training Academy “Shot” and worked in Egypt, the chief of Air Staff. I came to Egypt in 1959 when the population was 26 million dollars, and now living there almost 80 million, this increase was not anywhere in the world, well, except in Japan is slightly higher. It is important to understand how this happened, to answer your question. When Nasser came to power, the country was in terrible poverty. Then he took the land from the landlords and gave it to farmers, and property of foreigners in Egypt gave the national bourgeoisie. People began to live better and Nasser supported. When after the death of Nasser, Sadat came to power (in the years 1970 and 1981 -. -… Egyptian President Com Aut), Egypt’s economy has developed smoothly, and the popular discontent was brewing. Sadat came out of the situation by going to Jerusalem, and signed peace agreements with Israel, the huge costs before going to the military, turned to economics. That is, Sadat also gave something to people, which is also supported. And when Mubarak came to power, all he can, which was circulated, there was nothing to give. Grant aid of $ 2 billion that Egypt receives annually from the U.S. from the time of Sadat as compensation for the fact that Egypt broke off relations with the Soviet Union and joined the camp of the West, gradually devalued by inflation. The situation did not improve the people and the population continues to grow. The discontent was the beer. So, here is where the origin of the current socio-economic of the common complaints Mubarak Egyptian power. is, in this situation, look for traces CIA is not necessary, and for Russia, this scenario does well? – I do not think events in the U.S. Egypt has played a role, but nothing good either Russia or the Americans or the international community should not expect this development. From the political point of view, the cause of the revolution in 2011 is the activity of an Islamic fundamentalist “Muslim Brotherhood”, which has since clung to power of Nasser. But Nasser suppressed and not allowed. But when, after Nasser came to Sadat, who was a member of the “Muslim Brotherhood” began to hope that Sadat would give some power to the former “party comrades” but this did not happen. Moreover, as I said, Sadat went to Jerusalem and, according to most of the Arabs, had betrayed them. In 1981, the “Muslim Brotherhood”, assassinated Sadat. Mubarak arrived. However, the “Muslim Brotherhood” were once again out of power, so continue, and legal and illegal struggle. Thus, the outcome of events in Egypt, among other things, and activities of this organization. She takes the state of Islam, and do not know what tomorrow will be in Egypt. This problem, incidentally, is currently in Libya, where it activates “Al Qaeda”, Gaddafi, because at the time also did not allow “Muslim Brotherhood” and other fundamentalists of any authority, but as a religion – a religion, Gaddafi has created an Islamic religious organization “called” and the control. But this is now a headache for the Americans, the most affected by Islamic fundamentalism is always directed against the United States. In this sense, by the way, thank God, Russia condemned the NATO military action in Libya. To put the issue more widely. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and many other countries in the region in the flames of internal conflicts. There are still some regularity in this kind of chain reaction of revolutions and popular revolts? What is the factor that gave impetus to social explosions, head – external or internal? – I think that remains the main factor – internal, but the trigger may be an external factor. In the same Libya, for example, part of Libyan society was not satisfied with the policies of al-Gaddafi, because they make this part – which already has a strong position in society – rich, but she clung to power and the property. So in this case the reason is the division of property, whether from outside the U.S. for example, has said, and on the inside. But at the same time affirm that the opposition, but only felt the support of the U.S., rushed to overthrow Gaddafi, which is not true. When Gaddafi had strongly criticized the United States and is considered the main enemy, no one in Libya did not conform to the revolution, this was not the conditions, the vast majority of the population was at his side. Indeed, with the change of power in the country, including Gaddafi has forced to retreat under pressure from society, seeking the bourgeois form of government. This part is developed to strengthen ties with the West, spread in western Libya, information about lifestyles, and when he felt that balance of power in the country and Western support gives you the opportunity to speak against Qaddafi had, since the disturbances of zero on this scale does not start. Why is not this type of situation in Kuwait, or, for example, in Saudi Arabia? Due to the relative strength of the opposition and authorities are different, no real forces that might oppose the ruling elite. Well, in principle, to answer this, perhaps the key issue today, which can reveal a great deal and you need time and opportunity to examine the processes taking place in the countries you named, but of course , a certain pattern to all this, of course, looked through. You speak of Kuwait, who also served as ambassador to the Soviet Union. Often this country taken as an example of Russia: behold, they say, what a paradise on earth, can be created in petrodollars. They are the true legends, Kuwait, and under what conditions can a revolution in the Arab peace remains a corner? – To some extent, I agree. In 1983-1986 years, working ambassador, I had the pleasure of communicating with the Emir of Kuwait and other leaders of this state, and I can say that this is a very intelligent people with vision. It was in Kuwait for the first time in the world was created fund for future generations. When I asked why and he will, he said: “Today, oil is, and tomorrow may not be if the oil prozhrem now, what our descendants They curse us for what we have started.? All oil! “And since 30% of Kuwaiti crude oil sales driven in the background to future generations. In my day only has U.S. securities and other assets were $ 95 million for the fund! And that money to work and get benefits. In. In this country created a socio-economic infrastructure in which native Kuwaitis do not actually spend money on it, Kuwait adopted these laws, which create the country’s indigenous population of this kind of life in the near future about any dissatisfaction with the point of social and economic governance of view there can be no doubt. In Kuwaiti society as there is no difference between the rich and ordinary, which exists in other countries. Of course, the difference between an ordinary Kuwaiti sheikh and always will be, but again, this is not the difference in standard of living of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. However, the political reasons for any kind of revolution in Kuwait, as Saudi Arabia, by the way, in principle, no. Still, Kuwait – a monarchical government, and even within families that keep all power in the country Savahov, there is disagreement, which, however, are not yet fertile ground for intra-state conflicts. As for the “Muslim Brotherhood”, the Savahi able to maneuver and do not admit that someone from outside the influence on life in Kuwaiti society. Indeed, Kuwait was the first country in the Arabian Peninsula, which established diplomatic relations with the USSR … … You benefit from that occupied by the ideology, in its entirety and not try to do it? – Although he tried! Emir of Kuwait, for example, I went through the will of the Soviet Union put the state to 10 billion dollars in the State Bank. On the other hand, in pure form was my initiative. I went to the Emir and say, “Are you a huge capital, which remains in the U.S., but remember that the Shah of Iran, which were burned in the fact that all funds deposited in the United States.” Emir: “What do you suggest?” “I know that you have more spare money, put them in the public part of the Bank of the USSR.” Emir says: “Please, but pay 11% interest, as in America.” He said: “We do not pay that interest, I suggest 5%, but excluding exchange rate fluctuations and strong, and we will use these funds effectively ..” In this split. A few days later I was summoned to the palace of the Emir: “You go to Moscow to coordinate their proposal, I do not care.” It was 1985. I went to Moscow. I went to the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Shevardnadze. He said: “I do not understand these issues, but now call Nikolai Ivanovich – Ryzhkov was then president of the Council of Ministers of the USSR – it will take. ” The next day I Ryzhkov. For an hour he explained everything in detail, he said, What economy in Kuwait and so on. Ryzhkov and listens to assistant: “Everything now nadiktuet ambassador in notes issued to the Central Committee.” Dictation. Produced. Expected results. But this time he was transferred to Libya, but without me, all went out. Here is my “purely ideological” role as an ambassador! back at the end of the conversation with Gaddafi. What in your opinion, its relationship with Russia today and what is the attitude of Russia towards the Gaddafi? – I can say that by the time Gaddafi has made official statements against anti-Soviet or Russian, despite the Russian-Libyan relations had a crack, when they voted for UN sanctions against Libya in 1992. After Russia was trying to resume military cooperation with Libya signed an agreement yet, but none of them subsequently did not run. Gaddafi in the early 1990, said: “I will never have relations with Yeltsin’s Russia. They voted sanctions against me So – all you do not want their planes and tanks !.!”. The paradox, but now is with the help of Soviet tanks and planes and is protected by Gaddafi. Then I answered, “. You are doing wrong, has the right to cooperate or not cooperate with us, but remember, it needs Russia and Russia needs you, and Americans need only your head.”
a young al-Qathafi, contemplates his future:
Many faces of al-Qathafi:
ready to spend the night:
25 FEBR. 2011 exhorting to his people at Bab Azaiya from the book
Green Book:
stamp as a young army colonel:
international seminar in Bengazi stamp:
our leader:
laughing at ABC news
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Gadhafi on balcolny of his house just days before loss at Baba Azaiyza:
INDICTMENT AGAINST NATO MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADERS
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By Pravda.Ru
The law case of the century: Indictment against NATO military and political leaders (UPDATED)
NATO: Indictment for breach of international law in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The military and political leaders of NATO are hereby accused of the following crimes committed in the Libyan campaign of 2011, in which the systematic breaches of international law are underlined.
Understanding that international law exists and that it is systematically broken by certain powers with impunity, understanding that such a situation is unacceptable and that the same set of laws should apply to all, equally, with the same sets of weights and measures employed in upholding it, I hereby accuse NATO and the below-mentioned individuals, party to its acts in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from February to September (ongoing) 2011, of breach of international law;
1. Accusation: NATO war crimes, crimes against humanity, breach of UN Charter, Breach of UNSC Resolutions, breach of Geneva Conventions, occasioning murder, attempted murder, actions occasioning grievous and actual bodily harm, destruction of private and public property.
2. Accused:
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark) NATO Secretary-General; Charles Bouchard (Canada), Commander of Operations; Nicolas Sarkozy, Édouard Guillaud (France); Rinaldo Veri, Commander Allied Maritime Command (Italy); David Cameron, Sir Stuart Peach (UK); Barack Obama, Carter Ham, Sam Locklear (USA); Harald Sunde (Norway), Abdullah II (Jordan); Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani (Qatar), Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan (UAE); Sverker Goranson (Sweden) and the Defence Ministers Pieter de Crem (Belgium), Anuy Angelov (Bulgaria), Gitte Lillelund Bech (Denmark); Panos Beglitis (Greece); Hans Hillen (Netherlands); Gabriel Oprea (Romania);Carme Chacón Piqueras (Spain); Ismet Yilmaz (Turkey), Liam Fox (UK), Ignazio La Russa (Italy), Gérard Longuet (France).
William Hague (UK), Hillary Clinton (USA) Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini
3. Law and breaches:
3.1 Proper procedure was not followed: Under the UN Charter, any military action which comes outside a UNSC Resolution in any theatre of conflict must necessarily come from a separate Resolution in the UNSC and any military action must come after the Military Council is convened. This was not the case under UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) covering the Libyan conflict.
Why did NATO not convene the Military Staff Committee of the UNSC? Under the UN Charter, Chapter VII, Article 46: “Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee”. Such committee was never convened.
This is a violation of the UN Charter rendering Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) void; There is also evidence that such Resolutions were passed on the evidence from a false flag event. The supposed crimes committed by the Libyan authorities have been hotly contested and must be investigated;
3.2 Intervention in domestic affairs of a sovereign state: UNSC Resolution 2131 (XX) of 21 December 1965, containing the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States was backed up by Resolutions 31/91 of 14 December 1976, 32/153 of 19 December 1977, 33/74 of 15 December 1978, 34/101 of 14 December 1979 and 35/159 of 12 December 1980 on non-interference in the internal affairs of States.
3.3 Bombardment of undefended buildings and structures: Article 3 of the Statute of The Hague International Penal Court which states clearly that one criterion for indictment for war crimes is:
“Attack or bombardment, by whatever means, against undefended cities, towns, villages, buildings or houses”.
Another clause of the same Article 3 could also be invoked:
“Massive destruction of cities, towns or villages or destruction not justified by military necessity”.
The attack on Libya’s water supply network on Friday July 22 and the attack on the factory making pipes for the supply system on Saturday July 23 in al-Brega were not covered under “military necessity” in which case, under Article 3, this was an act of wanton destruction of civilian structures with military hardware. This renders NATO liable for trial by its own court, the ICC at The Hague;
3.4 Support for outlawed organizations and individuals. Despite this admission:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/counter-terrorism/
proscribed-terror-groups/proscribed-groups?view=Binary …
There is evidence that armed groups fighting inside Libya include the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which according to the British Government: “The LIFG seeks to replace the current Libyan regime with a hard-line Islamic state. The group is also part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by Al Qa’ida. The group has mounted several operations inside Libya, including a 1996 attempt to assassinate Mu’ammar Qadhafi” and for which reason is on the Home Office list of proscribed terrorist groups, despite this, the UK aided and abetted the said group;
3.5 Failure to apply international law: Under the UN Charter, Chapter VI, Article 33, member states must “seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice”.
3.6 The Jamahiriya Government of Libya had the right to defend itself without being attacked: Chapter VII, Article 51 refers to the right of States to defend themselves against armed insurgency:
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security”;
3.7 Mercenaries: UNSC Resolution 1973 (2011), in its Chapter on Protection of Civilians, in paragraph 4. states:
“4. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, and acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011), to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory, and requests the Member States concerned to inform the Secretary-General immediately of the measures they take pursuant to the authorization conferred by this paragraph which shall be immediately reported to the Security Council;
There have been numerous reports of mercenaries being used by NATO and the rebels it supported; French Foreign Legion, Egyptians, Qataris, UAE forces, among others;
3.8 Boots on the ground: UNSC Resolution 1970 (2011) Paragraph 16:
“16. Deplores the continuing flows of mercenaries into the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and calls upon all Member States to comply strictly with their obligations under paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011) to prevent the provision of armed mercenary personnel to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;”.
If David Cameron has admitted that UK special services have assisted the terrorists on the ground, this is against the UN mandate which allowed NATO to intervene in Libya, and is a war crime.
A request has been sent (August 30) to the British FCO and Ministry of Defence to confirm or deny that troops have been used in the theatre of operations; no reply has been forthcoming;
3.9 Non-enforcement of UN Resolution, and violation of international law, by transporting rebel forces to enter the theatre of operations:
UNSC Resolution 1970 (2011):
In the Chapter on Enforcement of the arms embargo, Paragraph 13 of the same states:
“13. Decides that paragraph 11 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall be replaced by the following paragraph : “Calls upon all Member States, in particular States of the region, acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, in order to ensure strict implementation of the arms embargo established by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011), to inspect in their territory, including seaports and airports, and on the high seas, vessels and aircraft bound to or from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, if the State concerned has information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo contains items the supply, sale, transfer or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 or 10 of Resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, calls upon all flag States of such vessels and aircraft to cooperate with such inspections and authorises Member States to use all measures commensurate to the specific circumstances to carry out such inspections”;
In violation of this: supply of French Milan anti-tank missiles, Swedish Carl Gustav 84mm rifles, 68mm rockets and mortars and Maadi assault rifles from Egypt; this, in addition to the British, French and Italian military advisors helping the terrorists.
3.10 Violation of Geneva Conventions: NATO and the Transitional National Council have given the people of Sirte ten days to surrender or face a full military onslaught. This is not a cease-fire. While they await their fate, they will still be subject to artillery fire and NATO bombing, and food, water and electricity have already been cut off.
These siege tactics have been outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. In particular, Article 14 of the second Protocol to the Geneva Conventions states, “Starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited. It is therefore prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless for that purpose objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations, and supplies and irrigation works.”
The 4th Geneva Convention prohibits all forms of attacks on civilians and the collective punishment of civilian populations, so virtually everything that the combined TNC-NATO forces are doing to the people of Sirte is strictly illegal and in fact criminal.
4. Sample Crimes:
21.03.2011. Tens of civilians killed on 31st of March in Gharyan city in western Libya (video).
07.04.2011. — NATO bombers killed 15 rebels and wounded 22 on the outskirts of Brega.
20.04.2011. TRIPOLI NATO Bombing The Libyan Arab Association For Human Rights (video).
27.04.2011. — NATO attacked the city of Misrata, killing 12 people and wounding 5 others.
30.04.2011. — The bombing of the Downs Syndrome School in Tripoli (video).
30.04.2011.— NATO killed inocent civilinas: The youngest son of our great leader Saif Al arab gaddafi was only 29 years old, grandchildren of our Great Leader, Saif Mohammed Muammar Gaddafi was one year and 3 months (born on 30 January 2010) , Carthage Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi was 2 years and 9 months old (born on 2 August 2008) and Mastura Humaid (daughter of Aisha) was 4 months and half (she was born on 15 December 2010) (video).
09.05.2011. — 600 civilians are reported dead after getting into trouble on thier boat. They send urgent SOS messages to NATO, but they were ignored (video).
13.05.2011. The 11 imams (spiritual leaders of Islam) that were killed. The imams were killed in a NATO bombing in the city of Brega (east), which also injured about 50 people. (video)
17.05.2011.—The NATO attack on Libya’s Anti-Corruption Agency on May 17 was extremely convenient for some Westrern politicians (video).
12.06.2011. — The bombing of the University of Tripoli. Death toll not yet established. (link) or photo evdence.
15.06.2011. — At least 12 people were killed and two injured when a NATO air strike hit a bus Wednesday evening in Libya’s Kikla city (video).
19.06.2011. — 9 civilians were killed by a NATO air strike on Tripoli (video).
19.06.2011. — Massacre of Al-Hamedi family 15 civilians, including 3 children, were killed by another NATO air strike on Sorman (link).
19.06.2011. — Firetracs was bombed (video).
22.06.2011. — The bombing of the Great Man made Waterway irrigation system, which supplies most Libyans with their drinking water. Water for 4,5 million INOCENT CIVILIANS IN LIBYA (video).
22.06.2011. — Zliten – many civilians were chopped into pieces. (link)
28.06. 2011. — NATO air strike killed 16 civilians (one whole family killed) and more than 20 injured in public market in Tawergha east of Misurata (video).
04.07.2011. — NATO bombing civilian checkpoint in ZWARA. (video)
15.07.2011. — At least 12 people were killed and 2 injured when a NATO. The air strike hit the bus with inocent civilians in Kikla City. (video)
17.07.2011. — Multiple urban areas were bombed simultaneously this morning. Anywhere from 60 to 75 bombs may have been dropped mostly in the areas of Tajura and Seraj, according to eyewitness reports. (video)
23.07.2011. — The bombing of the factory which makes the pipes for the water system, and the murder of 6 of its employees.
24.07.2011. NATO bombing cattle and poultry project in Torghae city (video).
24. 07.2011. Libya war: NATO Press Briefing, 15 civilians are dead in Tawergha (video).
24.07.2011. —The bombing of the Hospital at Zliten. Resulting in the murder of a minimum, of 50 civilians many of them children.(video).
25.07.2011. NATO bombed food storage in Zlitan.(video).
25.07.2011. — 20 civilians were killed by NATO air strikes in Bir al Ghanam. (video)
30.07.2011. — NATO warplanes also repeatedly bombed a Libyan television station, killing 3 and injuring 15.
02.08.2011. — Law School In Zlitan (Zliten) (video).
04. 08.2011. — Woman and two children (video).
07.08.2011. — NATO bombed today the vegetable market in Tripoli (link).
08.08.2011. — Libya: NATO MASSACRED 85 CIVILIANS: 33 CHILDREN, 32 WOMEN and 20 MEN (video)…
The persistent on-going bombing of the civilian population in Zliten, Sirte and Tripoli, death toll not yet established. All4Peace & LibyaSOS.
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/11/operation-unified-protector-nato-in.html
5. Further documentary evidence of the crimes.
http://rt.com/news/interview-libya-nato-intrusion-127/
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Gadhafi in Niger:
(But I would say that they butchered his brother Moutassem —not his Father…that was in reality, Ali al-Andalusi)
War Crime: Libye, Les Faux Mercenaires de Kadhafi (Video – Fra)
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http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/war-crime-libye-les-faux-mercenaires-de-kadhafi-video-fra/
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CRITICAL VIEWS: CRIMINALIZING GADDAFI SUPPORT
19 Jan 2012 – From a Libyan Brother Fighter –
http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/the-libyan-civil-war-critical-views-criminalizing-gaddafi-support/
What was the alleged crime? A serious one – supoporting, being connected to, working for, fighting for … the national government of his nation. When did the law making that a crime take effect, who signed it, and on what authority?
Having a government job – even in the military – is not a crime, even if that government had been declared illegitimate by protesters, terrorists, rebel fighters, liars and demonizers, human rights groups, the media,Nouri al Mesmari and Ibrahim Dabbashi, then France, Qatar, and then much of the world and NATO’s collective air muscle.
All they did was support the government, like any patriotic citizen, and had the government lose. Losing the war is not a criminal act. I suppose that’s a philosophical argument with no real legal merit – history has the winners writing the history books, just after re-writing the laws like a fortress around their intervention and victory.
But still, having green flags in your home or car is not a crime. Not a capitol crime at least, as this video still suggests it was treated as (video filmed Abu Salim, Tripoli, app. Aug. 25). Fighting an invasion of your city by armed gangs supported by outside governments is not a crime, but the mainstream media acts as if it is.
In the mainstream narrative, the problem is only “innocent” people being too easily accused of being loyalists, or even fighters. When the charge is accurate, we seem to have little concern. Consider how Mrs. Afaf Gaddafi’s family was killed,
including two infants, as they tried to flee the city in September, for fear of being killed over their coincidental name. It was explained they’d been “mistaken for Gaddafi loyalists,” possibly in part because of the name. The people with the bad reasoning and unsettling body language may have been the same ones with the guns responsible at the roadblock responsible.
Jan 19, 2012 – From a Libyan Brother Fighter
Libyan puppet vice president attacked in Benghazi by students
http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/libyan-puppet-vice-president-attacked-in-benghazi-by-students/
TNC V-P pointed a gun at the students!
An embarrassing seen of no support in Benghazi where University students started attacking the puppet vice president of the occupying regime “Abdul Hafiz Ghoga”. After students peacefully asked the traitor and puppet to “go away, go away”, he didn’t listen, soon after students surrounded the puppet and attacked him.
Libyan puppet vice president “Abdul Hafiz Ghoga” was attacked in Benghazi and was saved by his security guards when he was carried out like a baby. Western propaganda outlets claim the imaginary uprising began in Benghazi, but this shows the opposite, the puppet regime has no support anywhere in Libya, but the regime is very popular abroad.
The puppet regime doesn’t even have support in Benghazi, where the Western propaganda outlets claim the imaginary uprising began.
GREENWORLD:
More than 100 prisoners freed Libyan resistance// January 20, 2012, 17:28 [“Argumenty.ru” Alexander Grigoriev] In Libya, fighting continued between supporters of the National Transition Council and the Libyan resistance. Battles are in the cities of Garyan, Hong, Tarragon, Sabha. In addition, the resistance fighters in the past few days was released from prison more than 100 of his supporters. In particular, in Tripoli freed 39 prisoners – former members of the Army, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. In Zlitene 13 prisoners. Those who could bear arms, joined the armed resistance, according to bloggers on Twitter.
more news at:
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/p/news.html?spref=fb
PLAYING W his grandson 2009:
WERFALLA:
Poet of the tribe and Rafla Great War tells the Bani Walid unjust and the infidel Alastansar
Page Dunk O Khatm Azina in our past and present to me a very
Dr. Moussa Ibrahim 20 JAN 2012:
Libya’s new election law: NATO rebels consolidate political dictatorship
Gadaffi government beneficiaries excluded from office
By Derek Ford
http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/new-election-law-in-libya-may.html#.Txn8zqm1jlA.facebook
(Judge now leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Jalil, the big traitor RAT who Runs the TNC as America’s puppet)
National Transitional Council.
has warned against Gaddafi’ children raising an insurrection.
A recent draft election law in Libya is causing outrage among varying sectors of Libyan society. The content of the legislation, posted online by the NATO-installed National Transition Council, focuses on the rules for the national assembly elections to be held in August.
Under the draft law, anyone with ties to Muammar Gaddafi or the previous sovereign Libyan government will be banned from running in the elections, including those who “benefited monetarily” from the government. The big problem with that is that nearly everyone in Libya benefited monitarily from the Jamahiriya!The provision also bars from participation academics who wrote and published about Gaddafi’s “Green Book.”
The vague legislation is based on the myth that only a small section of Libyans supported the Gadaffi government. It is worth recalling that in fact the largest demonstrations during the eight-month NATO assault on Libya were in support of the government, not the rebels. In other words, in the new “democratic” Libya, only politicians acceptable to the NATO rebels will be eligible to run for political office.
The legislation is also problematic because it eliminates any non-violent avenues for supporters of the former sovereign government and the Green Resistance to participate in reconciliation after the devastating war. Resistance organizations have been regrouping in the southern Sahel region, which provides easy access to several neighboring countries.
Journalist Franklin Lamb, who is currently in Libya, wrote recently, “There is clear and growing pro-Gadhafi political and military activity here and it is why NTC leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the other day warned against the Gadhafi children raising an insurrection.” (Counterpunch, Jan. 13-15)
The Libyan Liberation Front had previously been planning on running in the August elections.
The draft legislation also appears to continue the NTC’s attack on women’s rights in Libya. The draft law may set a quota of 10 percent on women’s representation in the national assembly. This would mean women would be limited to 20 seats out of 200, and has been strongly condemned by women’s and human rights organizations in Libya. It is possible that the language in the draft law needs to be clarified and that the intent is to reserve (but not limit) women to 10 percent of seats. However, it is telling that women in Libya have protested the language, interpreting it as a limitation.
Under the Gaddafi government, there were no restrictions on women’s participation in social, economic or political life.
Content may be reprinted with credit to LiberationNews.org.
MELLON:
Hamsa Goolbar 21 janvier 13:30
It is quite normal that states invest money abroad, and thats what Ghadaffi did. But these investments were intended to make profits for the Libyan state and probably also to create good relations to the Western countries with goal of developing Libya further – not illegal either.
And also, the money invested belonged, not to Moammar Ghadafi personally, but to different funds owned by the Libyan state, just as the state of other countries own money. I have yet to see proof that Ghadaffi stole money for himself. I have tried to verify that claim of the Western countries, but not found anything to prove it.
I don’t know really how Ghadafi was as a leader and how oppressed the libyan people was but I do know that during his reign Libya rose from being one of the poorest countries in the world during the 60th to being the richest i Africa, and that to some extent the libyans had a welfare system better than Americans and the Brits have today, such as free health care and free eduction all the way.
I also know that Nato and or US has not created better living circumstances for any people anywhere where they pretend to have saved people and created democracy.
Helmut Mars Taylor 21 janvier 14:00
1) Where did the idea of creating a nation’s bank (as a privately owned business, usually called “Central Bank – or, as in the US “Federal Reserve”) come from?
2) How many countries in the world operate this system?
3) How many countries in the world do not participate?
4) Are the various “central banks” coonected with each other – and to what extent?
5) Who are the main beneficiaries/stockholders of these banks?
6) Which politicians hav,in the course of the history of the creation of these “central banks, spoken out against these cantral banks?
7) What happened to the leaders who were against the central bank system (think, amongst others, of Moammar Ghadaffi.)….
8)Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the US allowed the (renewed) creation of the Federal Reserve ……but later admitted:-
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men”.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Muammar Gaddafi in his own words on the Lockerbie Bombing:
(Excerpted from:The Interview which was originally web posted to FinalCall.com on 18 Nov. 1999, by Genet Sanders Tandesse)
It goes without saying that the Lockerbie issue is a tragedy. The relatives of the victims need consolation. But all of us should know the truth of who did that and we should know the reason behind it.
It seems that the action was not done by a lunatic.
According to the information on the evidence or the theory that is going now provided by them, it seems that the action was carefully planned and very well done to the extent that Third World countries cannot actually perform it because it is so highly pieced together.
Because it is so well planned there are some theories that it cannot be done by the orders of third world countries, but it is actually the work of American intelligence …
I mean it is pre-planned. But what is the cause?
Is it to take revenge on the American government? Is it an action against the policy of America because it has taken an action against a people?
Or is it because America (herself) knows that there are certain quarters or certain organs in the world that want revenge against America?
So American intelligence may actually plan such an action so that the direction of these parties will be diverted, (and that people will think) these parties have already taken revenge against America.
The American intelligence will do such an action so that others will accuse those certain quarters, because they have a grudge against America.
It will be said that these quarters have actually taken this revenge against America.
For instance, if America wants to take any action against Libya, then America will direct its intelligence to do a piece of work to the extent that it will be claimed that Libya had done it if it was able and capable to do it.
And since Libya is not able to do such a piece of action (Lockerbie), but the American intelligence fulfilled this action and Libya is accused.
Then the American government will find justification for any action to be taken against Libya.
This seems to be the case as far as Lockerbie is concerned.
In 1986 America killed Libyan women and children and destroyed houses of the Libyan people, so the families of the children wish to take revenge against America.
And because Libyans cannot actually do it, the American intelligence does it and Libya is incriminated. America then has justification to impose sanctions against Libya. It seems that this is the scenario.
FCN: It is said in some papers that Libya lost $20-$30 billion during these seven years of sanctions.
If the suspects are found innocent, will Libya sue America and the western world for the money and lives they lost during these sanctions?
Of course, if such a thing happens then we shall go to the Security Council of the United Nations and we shall ask for reparations and compensation because we have paid the price for an issue that we have not committed. For this reason America wants to condemn Libya and make Libya convicted one way or the other.
And we know that America is actually working to influence the Scottish judiciary and wants to create false eyewitnesses.
America actually pays money to create unreal witnesses.
We even know the names of a few witnesses who are false because they are being paid by America.
One of them is named [Jaraka (Jiaka)], he’s Libyan.
The judges and court will be bothered by the American influence and pressures. —
Bombing of Libya:
with son:
When young:
with Arafat:
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS
We are Al Gaddafi’s lovers
30 Aug 1981, Tripoli, Libya — A female cadet prepares to accept her diploma from Libyan chief of state Muammar al-Qaddafi during a 1981 graduation at the women’s military academy in Tripoli. The academy opened in 1979 during Qaddafi’s push to include women in Libya’s armed forces
In Russia:
IPB PREMIER of Lion of the Desert fil of Muktar:
IPB première
Après Belle et merveilleuse révolution du choix! surpris ceux qui disent que les événements malheureux de la Libye Venez la révolution, mais ce qui m’a intrigué le plus, c’est la cause de l’incendie sur cette révolution révolution du nom choisi des moudjahidines présumé nommé d’après le grand Mukhtar Omar. Je ne sais pas quelle est la relation Omar Mukhtar ce sujet, mais ce n’est pas la question. Parce que la question est beaucoup plus dur que je souhaiterais qu’il puisse So-Called Chaos qui a eu lieu en Libye, la réponse à la question. l’assassinat de Cheikh Omar Mukhtar martyrs? … Une question très difficile
مشاركة جميله ورائعه ثورة المختار !!! أستغرب لمن يقولون ان احداث ليبيا المؤسفة هيا ثورة و لكن ما يثير استغرابي اكثر هو من يطلقون على هذه الثورة المزعومة اسم ثورة المختار تيمناً بالمجاهد الكبير عمر المختار .
DESTRUCTION OF LIBYA:
Image exclusive de la ville de Syrte blessé aujourd’hui éclosent Azumi Partout Dieu Haute vous apporter ma fille … je marchais à l’accent
BOMBING of Tripoli:
Dr Moutassem al-Billah with Children in Sirte:
with Gaddafi:
Kadhafi speaking on radio:
Falcon:
Dr. Koutassem al-Billah Qathafi, martyr
Algeria-ISP
http://natostop.pl.ua/blogs/primer-bloga-admina/novosti-livi-v-bengazi-razgromlen-shtab-pns-foto-22-janvarja-2012-god.html
Fabrice Beaur 22 janvier 09:38
Libye – La vidéo du docteur Moussa Ibrahim
ALGERIA ISP / Selon Akhbar Elmokawama Libya,
le porte parole de la Jamahiriya, le docteur Moussa Ibrahim est en vie et il est en excellente santé. Il a pu qu….
reports that “the Libyan spokesman, Dr. Ibrahim Moussa was alive and was in excellent health. He was able to leave Libya to avoid barbarism and rats. “According to Algeria – ISP, Dr. Moussa Ibrahim will soon appear on one of television channels Green Libya! It will be a stimulus for the release of the Green Resistance in his native land of traitors, NATO and Qatar.
On the Internet and media reports about the discovery of chemical weapons storage – it’s a lie! This disinformation to justify the entry of NATO troops in Libya.
Today it was announced that the U.S. military has already landed in the Libyan land, and took control of the oil refinery at Ras Lanufe. Green Resistance promises to blow up the CPP in Ras Lanufe along with all the U.S. soldiers who are there. The Libyans are not going to tolerate the presence of foreign troops in their country.
Hardened fighting in Tripoli. Supporters of the TNC is the third day unsuccessfully storm the areas Hatba-Sharqiya and Abu Salem. Also, by fighting in Tobruk and Sabha. Resists and Ben-Walid – the capital of the tribe Varfalla. In the city are demonstrating in support of the Jamahiriya, Muammar Gaddafi.
Daniela Chinni tells us:
Venezuela Gadhafi !
Libya’s Leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, greets a baby, carried by her mother, at a hotel in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, Monday, 28 Sept. 2009. Gadhafi and Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez are strengthening their relationship and finding common ground as two radical former military men who both want to challenge the “imperialism” of wealthy nations and aspire to speak for many poor nations. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) AP
We all do love him!
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June 14, 1999 (South Africa, Cape Town). Signing the guestbook after Gheddafi toured the prison on Robben Island which was the home of south african president Nelson Mandela for many years.
AFP Photo.
To suppress the demonstrations in the city abandoned al-Qaida forces !!!!!
V. Belousov.
Angels retaliation
Children Sirte.
The night is dark. Through the cloud-chip
Starlight entered, followed by another:
So shake-rattle blestyashki
Under the clumsy childish hand.
In heaven swinging constellations,
It floated in the clouds
Little Angels of retaliation,
Barefoot and myrtle wreaths.
Overfly the city and country
Judge our thoughts and deeds,
And the scars
So afraid to skinny bodies.
People, people, as we have overlooked,
Well we were not able to help them
In the days when they were out of the cradle
Angels flew in the night?
In the days when a screaming flocks of rat
And the rumble of bombing
Small martyrs Sirte
Died at the green flag?
Well, happy new year leap
Wait, Europe, the good news:
To you is flowing through pipes oil-
The blood of dead children in Libya.
In the world of lucre and deception
Who among us would dare to ask:
– As you sleep, cannibal Obama
Infanticide and Sarkozy?
Again lying to the news,
Truth hidden in the mist.
Watching from heaven the angels of retribution,
As killers walk the earth.
Review prepared by Dmitry Glushach material Arab media.
http://nsnbc.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/usa-massive-transports-of-military-equipment/
The Troops are in Libya now (since this article was written) for a few weeks now. The USA government’s PROPAGANDA was they found “GADHAFI’s storagehouse of Chemical Weapons” and they are there to “protect” and clean-up ! That is 100% lies. The JAMAHIRIYA had no such weaponry. Any chemicals weapons used were from NATO and RAT importation into Libya which beforehand were none. This was their excuse to invade and bypass the American Congress which would normally been required to send troops.
What really is, they are sent to all the oil platforms to guard their “pure-crude” booty; and others to prevents insurrections seeming to be arising all over Libya by the populace themselves! Judge Jalil asked for a total of 35,000 (but some reports read 350,000) troops.
The NSMBC article asks if I have seen anything similiar. Yes. here in Corsica, last month, as I was traveling WEST, going EAST were CARAVANS of huge ARMY transport vehicles (carrying who knows what) and army troops. [I stopped counting after the 20th vehicle.] The West has the Major Ports of L’Ile Rousse and Calvi (to which these were first shippped probably to Corsica);and the East has SOLENZARA where the French built their airbase being used to send-off bombers going to Libya. (BOMBS and equipment is what these vehicles probably contained for NATO.)
Muammar with Sadaam:
The following is nice; but Our Brother Leader has not been murderd!!!
by Rishvana Zahrawi 22 janvier 17:30
What is this mystery of the strange
What is the secret of this???
Almighty God said: (for Athnoa do not grieve you the upper hand if you are believers * The Amseskm ulcers has touched people like him and those days Ndolha between people and God knows those who believe and take you to the martyrs and Allah loves not the oppressors)
Surprised a lot when you compare the situation between Iraq Libyan discovered that both peoples have in common Aajabih
It will start in Iraq
Iraq over the seven days of black pitch-black
The day on which the Security Council approved the application of the embargo on Iraq and Gaar was held on August 6, 1990
The day that launched the United States and its allies Thalathini aggression against Iraq on January 17, 1991, which Asafaranh crimes Thqar chilling
Launched the first rocket in Baghdad on March 20, 2003 also led to the fall of thousands of victims and continued occupation continues killing and displacement to arrived and a half million dead and injured
The day that Baghdad fell into the hands of the U.S. occupation forces on April 9, 2003
The fifth day
On the martyrdom of the sons of the martyr President Saddam Hussein and his grandson, on July 23, 2003 those heroes who did not bargain did not bet even buy this life, but cheap and with them their son Dhuhbwa Legend Cub hero Mustapha Qusay Saddam Hussein
The sixth day
On arrest of the martyr Saddam Hussein, December 6, 2003
The light was extinguished his arrest Levant
On the execution of the martyr Saddam Hussein on December 31, 2006, returned his martyrdom hope and love of Jihad and martyrdom just like him for the courage shown by scales turned upside down
We come to Libya, seven days darken black the most
The first day on the so-called revolution of February 17 this scourge that has spread like an epidemic throughout Libya green
Today, the dish of Council resolution to impose an air embargo on Libya and then began the NATO aggression on March 19 is proportional to Libya has killed hundreds of thousands of Libyans
On death of Seif al-Arab Muammar Gaddafi and three grandsons of the leader and that on April 30 20,011 piety of this young man the good that has shocked the nation by killing him they wanted to burn the heart of his father’s strength and attrition, but doomed and lost, and his death is not stable on Zadeh principles
On the fall of Tripoli in the hands of savages and rats on
August 22 fell by 20,011 last bastion of honor and dignity of the Arab and Islamic
Is the day of the martyrdom of the leading Muammar Gaddafi Thurs August 29 20 011 Hmabatl Commando who let the world is in the prime of his youth
On the martyrdom of leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son, the martyr Billah on Oct. 20 to 20,011 of the major disaster and tragedy that Aljmt both his honor and dignity, and this memorable day, which was a school of manhood and pride so farewell Lion Billah Al Areen
The seventh day on detention commander Saif al-Islam and that on November 19, 20 011 ask to undo his capture and return to Libya and Zhoha Rajata.
Look at how are the days of black and dark not only on Iraq and Libya, but the Arab and Islamic nation and the world
God suffices, and yes, the agent
Our only hope is to ignite the fire of fierce resistance taking pustulosis Iraq, Libya, revenge Champions
I say to greet the heroes who are still Iqaron the enemy, whether in Iraq or Libya, and seal the precious verse
In the verse
(From Almamin men believed what he Aahdoaallah Some of them died and were waiting for any change and they changed the * to Besdgahm Allah may reward the truthful and punish the hypocrites that they will repent or God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful)
ورشفاني زهراوي 22 janvier 17:30
ما هذا السر لعجيب
ما سر هذا ؟؟؟
قال الله تعالى : (لاتهنوا ولا تحزنوا أنتم الأعلون إن كنتم مؤمنين *وإن يمسسكم قرح فقد مس القوم مثله وتلك الأيام نداولها بين الناس وليعلم الله الذين امنوا ويتخذ منكم شهداء والله لا يحب الظالمين )
استغربت كثيرا عندما قارنت بين الوضع الليبي العراقي اكتشفت ان كلا الشعبين لهما قواسم مشتركة عجبية
وهي سأبدا بالعراق
مر العراق بسبعة ايام سود حالكة السواد
اول يوم
اليوم الذي اقر فيه مجلس الامن تطبيق الحصار الجاير على العراق وكان ذلك يوم6 اغسطس 1990
اليوم الثاني
اليوم الذي شنت فيه الولايات المتحدة وحلفائها عدوانها الثلاثيني على العراق يوم 17 يناير 1991مما اسفرعنه جرائم تشقعر لها الابدان
اليوم الثالث
الذي انطلق فيه اول صاروخ على بغداد يوم 20مارس 2003 ايضا ادي الى سقوط الالاف الضحايا وباستمرار الاحتلال تواصل القتل والتشريد الى وصل الى مليون ونصف بين قتيل وجريح
اليوم الرابع
اليوم الذي سقطت فيه بغداد في ايدي قوات الاحتلال الامريكي يوم 9 ابريل 2003
اليوم الخامس
يوم استشهاد ابناء الرئيس الشهيد صدام حسين وحفيده يوم 23يوليو 2003هؤلاء الابطال الذين لم يساوموا ولم يراهنوا حتى يشتروا الحياة الدنيا رخيصة بل ذوهبوا ومعهم ابنهم الاسطورة الشبل البطل مصطفى قصي صدام حسين
اليوم السادس
يوم اعتقال الشهيد صدام حسين 6ديسمبر 2003
وباعتقاله انطفأ نور المشرق العربي
يوم اعدام الشهيد صدام حسين يوم 31 ديسمبر 2006 باستشهاده فقد عاد الامل وحب الجهاد والاستشهاد اسوة به لما اظهره من شجاعة قلبت الموازين راسا على عقب
نأتي لليبيا الايام السبعة السوداء الاكثر اسودادا
اليوم الاول يوم قامت مايسمى بثورة 17فبراير هذا البلاء الذي انتشر كالوباء في ربوع ليبيا الخضراء
اليوم طبق فيه قرارمجلس الامن بفرض حصار جوي على ليبيا ومن ثم بدأ عدوان الناتو يوم 19 مارس على ليبيا االذي ذهب ضحيته مئات الالاف من الليبين
يوم استشهاد سيف العرب معمر القذافي وثلاثة من احفاد القائد وذلك يوم 30 ابريل 20011هذا الشاب الورع الخير الذي فجعت به الامة وقد ارادوا بقتله حرق قلب والده وانهاك قواه ولكنهم خابوا وخسروا واستشهاده ما زاده الا ثباتا على المباديء
يوم سقوط طرابلس في ايدي الهمج والجرذان يوم
22 اغسطس 20011به سقطت اخر قلعة للشرف والكرامة العربية والاسلامية
هو يوم استشهاد الرائد خميس معمر القذافي 29 اغسطس 20011هذاالبطل المغوار الذي ودع الدنيا وهو في ريعان شبابه
يوم استشهاد القائد معمر القذافي وابنه الشهيد المعتصم بالله يوم 20 اكتوبر 20011 هذه الكارثة الكبرى والفاجعة التي الجمت كل من له شرف وكرامة وهذا اليوم المشهود الذي كان مدرسة للرجولة والاباء ذلك بوداع اسد العرين المعتصم بالله
اليوم السابع يوم اعتقال القائد سيف الاسلام وذلك يوم 19 نوفمبر 20011 نسأل ان يفك اسره وان يعيد لليبيا زهوها ورجاها .
انظروا كيف هي كانت ايام سوداء ومظلمة ليس على العراق وليبيا فحسب بل على الامة العربية والاسلامية بل والعالم اجمع
واملنا الوحيد هو اشعال نار المقاومة الشرسة الاخذ بثار العراق وليبيا وثأر الابطال
واقول تحية للابطال الذين ما زالوا يقارعون العدو سواء في العراق او ليبيا واختم بالاية الكريمة
في قوله تعالى
(من المؤمين رجال صدقوا ما عاهدواالله عليه فمنهم من قضى نحبه ومنهم ينتظر وما بدلوا تبديلا * ليجزى الله الصادقين بصدقهم ويعذب المنافقين ان شاء أو يتوب عليهم إن الله غفورا رحيما )
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World War III guaranteed
Kissinger vows to China: Jeb Bush Will Be Next President
by THETOTALCOLLAPSE.COM on 18 JANUARY 2012
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A shocking report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Prime Minister Putin on the just completed meeting between China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that the Chinese were told that former Florida Governor John Ellis “Jeb” Bush, brother to the former US President and son of another, will be elected as the next American leader despite his currently not even being on the ballot.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with Jeb Bush [photo top left] yesterday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing where both pledged to advance cooperation between their two countries and, this report says, agreed that once Bush had taken office a ‘new era’ would begin in US-China relations.
According to this report, Kissinger told Keqiang that the Republican Party election process to select their nominee to run against President Obama was“completely manipulated” to ensure that their 2012 Convention would be “deadlocked” thus allowing for Jeb Bush to be nominated as a “consensus candidate” and thus his parties leader.
The path to a deadlocked convention, this report says Kissinger told the Chinese, lies in neither current Republican frontrunners Governor Mitt Romney or Congressman Ron Paul having enough delegates to ensure their nomination on the first ballot after which their supporters will be free to nominate anyone they so choose.
In order to ensure a deadlocked convention, this report continues, Kissinger noted that Romney will obtain his delegates from what are called Primary States while Paul will receive his from those holding caucuses and “open” primaries, with neither of them receiving enough votes to secure their nominations.
Political analysis on the US election do, indeed, note that Paul’s path to the Republican nomination lies in the caucus and open primary States which shows what is called his “secret path to victory.”
To the most shocking aspects of this report are the comments attributed to Kissinger that claim the entire American electoral system is under the control of their National Security Agency (NSA) which controls the computers used in their elections and whose outcome is determined by their elites, not the citizens themselves.
In a dire move bolstering Kissinger’s claim of a rigged US election was yesterdays news that the giant global election firm SCYTL, which describes itself as the worldwide leader in secure electronic voting and electoral modernization, had purchased the United States most dominant election results reporting company thus insuring these people would never have true or total access as to who would actually win any of their elections.
Even worse, this report continues, the purchase by SCYTL of the private corporate site controlled by SOE software, which operates under the name ClarityElections.Com and controls the election results in over 525 US jurisdictions, was its being financed by the global investment giant Carlyle Group that was founded by the Bush and Bin Laden families nearly 25 years ago.
When queried by Chinese officials as to why Obama was allowed to be elected instead of Jeb Bush in the last US election, this report continues, Kissinger replied that the American public was not prepared for a continuation of the Bush-Clinton Dynasties that have, in fact, ruled the United States since the 1981 coup d’état staged against President Ronald Regan after he was nearly assassinated by the son of the then Vice President George H.W. Bush’s main business partner.
Kissinger further stated to the Chinese, this report says, that Obama was a “safe choice” to be an “interim leader” as besides his being a member of the Bush family (Obama is former President George W. Bush’s cousin by blood) his mother, Ann Dunham/Soetoro, was a “prized” CIA asset who was dispatched from Hawaii to Indonesia in 1967, along with seven year-old Barack Obama, to infiltrate villages in Java to carry out a CIA survey of political leanings among the Javanese population and whose “handler” was George H.W. Bush who a few years later became Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Kissinger added, this report says, that by putting Obama in office they were, also, able to secure the passing of draconian new laws in the United States that otherwise wouldn’t have been allowed to pass due to the overwhelming objections of American liberals and progressives, but who now are all but silent as the last vestiges of the US Constitution are being swept away.
Being ignored by these American liberals and progressives, however, are that the laws being passed by the Obama regime are intended to be used against them and include the power of the US President to designate anyone he so chooses as a “terrorist,” kill them without charges or trial, hold American citizens in prison, also without charges or trial, and, under a new law being pushed through the US Congress, would give the US government the power to strip Americans of their citizenship without being convicted of being “hostile” against the United States.
Though the claims made by Kissinger to China detailing how the election process in the United States has now been completely destroyed are beyond appalling, it does not, on the other hand, come as surprising from a “war criminal” who once boasted “It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
To the American people themselves it remains to be seen if they will ever awaken to what is true…one can only hope they will, before all is lost…forever.
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The World War on Democracy
by John Pilger
Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation living midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean. The camera panned across thriving villages, a church, a school, a hospital, set in a phenomenon of natural beauty and peace. Lisette remembers the producer saying to her and her teenage friends, “Keep smiling girls!”
Sitting in her kitchen in Mauritius many years later, she said, “I didn’t have to be told to smile. I was a happy child, because my roots were deep in the islands, my paradise. My great-grandmother was born there; I made six children there. That’s why they couldn’t legally throw us out of our own homes; they had to terrify us into leaving or force us out. At first, they tried to starve us. The food ships stopped arriving [then] they spread rumours we would be bombed, then they turned on our dogs.”
In the early 1960s, the Labour government of Harold Wilson secretly agreed to a demand from Washington that the Chagos archipelago, a British colony, be “swept” and “sanitised” of its 2,500 inhabitants so that a military base could be built on the principal island, Diego Garcia. “They knew we were inseparable from our pets,” said Lisette, “When the American soldiers arrived to build the base, they backed their big trucks against the brick shed where we prepared the coconuts; hundreds of our dogs had been rounded up and imprisoned there. Then they gassed them through tubes from the trucks’ exhausts. You could hear them crying.”
Lisette and her family and hundreds of islanders were forced on to a rusting steamer bound for Mauritius, a distance of 2,500 miles. They were made to sleep in the hold on a cargo of fertiliser: bird shit. The weather was rough; everyone was ill; two women miscarried. Dumped on the docks at Port Louis, Lizette’s youngest children, Jollice, and Regis, died within a week of each other. “They died of sadness,” she said. “They had heard all the talk and seen the horror of what had happened to the dogs. They knew they were leaving their home forever. The doctor in Mauritius said he could not treat sadness.”
This act of mass kidnapping was carried out in high secrecy. In one official file, under the heading, “Maintaining the fiction”, the Foreign Office legal adviser exhorts his colleagues to cover their actions by “re-classifying” the population as “floating” and to “make up the rules as we go along”. Article 7 of the statute of the International Criminal Court says the “deportation or forcible transfer of population” is a crime against humanity. That Britain had committed such a crime — in exchange for a $14million discount off an American Polaris nuclear submarine — was not on the agenda of a group of British “defence” correspondents flown to the Chagos by the Ministry of Defence when the US base was completed. “There is nothing in our files,” said a ministry official, “about inhabitants or an evacuation.”
Today, Diego Garcia is crucial to America’s and Britain’s war on democracy. The heaviest bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan was launched from its vast airstrips, beyond which the islanders’ abandoned cemetery and church stand like archaeological ruins. The terraced garden where Lisette laughed for the camera is now a fortress housing the “bunker-busting” bombs carried by bat-shaped B-2 aircraft to targets in two continents; an attack on Iran will start here. As if to complete the emblem of rampant, criminal power, the CIA added a Guantanamo-style prison for its “rendition” victims and called it Camp Justice.
What was done to Lisette’s paradise has an urgent and universal meaning, for it represents the violent, ruthless nature of a whole system behind its democratic façade, and the scale of our own indoctrination to its messianic assumptions, described by Harold Pinter as a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.” Longer and bloodier than any war since 1945, waged with demonic weapons and a gangsterism dressed as economic policy and sometimes known as globalisation, the war on democracy is unmentionable in western elite circles. As Pinter wrote, “it never happened even while it was happening”. Last July, American historian William Blum published his “updated summary of the record of US foreign policy”. Since the Second World War, the US has:
1. Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of them democratically-elected.
2. Attempted to suppress a populist or national movement in 20 countries.
3. Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.
4. Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
5. Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.
In total, the United States has carried out one or more of these actions in 69 countries. In almost all cases, Britain has been a collaborator. The “enemy” changes in name – from communism to Islamism — but mostly it is the rise of democracy independent of western power or a society occupying strategically useful territory, deemed expendable, like the Chagos Islands.
The sheer scale of suffering, let alone criminality, is little known in the west, despite the presence of the world’s most advanced communications, nominally freest journalism and most admired academy. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – western terrorism – are Muslims is unsayable, if it is known. That half a million Iraqi infants died in the 1990s as a result of the embargo imposed by Britain and America is of no interest. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of western policy (“Operation Cyclone”) is known to specialists but otherwise suppressed.
While popular culture in Britain and America immerses the Second World War in an ethical bath for the victors, the holocausts arising from Anglo-American dominance of resource-rich regions are consigned to oblivion. Under the Indonesian tyrant Suharto, anointed “our man” by Thatcher, more than a million people were slaughtered. Described by the CIA as “the worst mass murder of the second half of the 20th century”, the estimate does not include a third of the population of East Timor who were starved or murdered with western connivance, British fighter-bombers and machine guns.
These true stories are told in declassified files in the Public Record Office, yet represent an entire dimension of politics and the exercise of power excluded from public consideration. This has been achieved by a regime of un-coercive information control, from the evangelical mantra of consumer advertising to sound-bites on BBC news and now the ephemera of social media.
It is as if writers as watchdogs are extinct, or in thrall to a sociopathic zeitgeist, convinced they are too clever to be duped. Witness the stampede of sycophants eager to deify Christopher Hitchens, a war lover who longed to be allowed to justify the crimes of rapacious power. “For almost the first time in two centuries”, wrote Terry Eagleton, “there is no eminent British poet, playwright or novelist prepared to question the foundations of the western way of life”. No Orwell warns that we do not need to live in a totalitarian society to be corrupted by totalitarianism. No Shelley speaks for the poor, no Blake proffers a vision, no Wilde reminds us that “disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue”. And grievously no Pinter rages at the war machine, as in American Football:
Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord for all good things …
We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust …
Into shards of “F” dust go all the lives blown there by Barack Obama, the Hopey Changey of western violence. Whenever one of Obama’s drones wipes out an entire family in a faraway tribal region of Pakistan, or Somalia, or Yemen, the American controllers in front of their computer-game screens type in “Bugsplat”. Obama likes drones and has joked about them with journalists. One of his first actions as president was to order a wave of Predator drone attacks on Pakistan that killed 74 people. He has since killed thousands, mostly civilians; drones fire Hellfire missiles that suck the air out of the lungs of children and leave body parts festooned across scrubland.
Remember the tear-stained headlines when Brand Obama was elected: “momentous, spine-tingling”: the Guardian. “The American future,” wrote Simon Schama, “is all vision, numinous, unformed, light-headed …” The San Francisco Chronicle’s columnist saw a spiritual “lightworker [who can] usher in a new way of being on the planet”. Beyond the drivel, as the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg had predicted, a military coup was taking place in Washington, and Obama was their man. Having seduced the anti-war movement into virtual silence, he has given America’s corrupt military officer class unprecedented powers of state and engagement. These include the prospect of wars in Africa and opportunities for provocations against China, America’s largest creditor and new “enemy” in Asia. Under Obama, the old source of official paranoia Russia, has been encircled with ballistic missiles and the Russian opposition infiltrated. Military and CIA assassination teams have been assigned to 120 countries; long planned attacks on Syria and Iran beckon a world war. Israel, the exemplar of US violence and lawlessness by proxy, has just received its annual pocket money of $3bn together with Obama’s permission to steal more Palestinian land.
Obama’s most “historic” achievement is to bring the war on democracy home to America. On New Year’s Eve, he signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a law that grants the Pentagon the legal right to kidnap both foreigners and US citizens and indefinitely detain, interrogate and torture, or even kill them. They need only “associate” with those “belligerent” to the United States. There will be no protection of law, no trial, no legal representation. This is the first explicit legislation to abolish habeus corpus (the right to due process of law) and effectively repeal the Bill of Rights of 1789.
On 5 January, in an extraordinary speech at the Pentagon, Obama said the military would not only be ready to “secure territory and populations” overseas but to fight in the “homeland” and provide “support to the civil authorities”. In other words, US troops will be deployed on the streets of American cities when the inevitable civil unrest takes hold.
America is now a land of epidemic poverty and barbaric prisons: the consequence of a “market” extremism which, under Obama, has prompted the transfer of $14 trillion in public money to criminal enterprises in Wall Street. The victims are mostly young jobless, homeless, incarcerated African-Americans, betrayed by the first black president. The historic corollary of a perpetual war state, this is not fascism, not yet, but neither is it democracy in any recognisable form, regardless of the placebo politics that will consume the news until November. The presidential campaign, says the Washington Post, will “feature a clash of philosophies rooted in distinctly different views of the economy”. This is patently false. The circumscribed task of journalism on both sides of the Atlantic is to create the pretence of political choice where there is none.
The same shadow is across Britain and much of Europe where social democracy, an article of faith two generations ago, has fallen to the central bank dictators. In David Cameron’s “big society”, the theft of 84bn pounds in jobs and services even exceeds the amount of tax “legally” avoid by piratical corporations. Blame rests not with the far right, but a cowardly liberal political culture that has allowed this to happen, which, wrote Hywel Williams in the wake of the attacks on 9/11, “can itself be a form of self righteous fanaticism”. Tony Blair is one such fanatic. In its managerial indifference to the freedoms that it claims to hold dear, bourgeois Blairite Britain has created a surveillance state with 3,000 new criminal offences and laws: more than for the whole of the previous century. The police clearly believe they have an impunity to kill. At the demand of the CIA, cases like that of Binyam Mohamed, an innocent British resident tortured and then held for five years in Guantanamo Bay, will be dealt with in secret courts in Britain “in order to protect the intelligence agencies” – the torturers.
This invisible state allowed the Blair government to fight the Chagos islanders as they rose from their despair in exile and demanded justice in the streets of Port Louis and London. “Only when you take direct action, face to face, even break laws, are you ever noticed,” said Lisette. “And the smaller you are, the greater your example to others.” Such an eloquent answer to those who still ask, “What can I do?”
I last saw Lisette’s tiny figure standing in driving rain alongside her comrades outside the Houses of Parliament. What struck me was the enduring courage of their resistance. It is this refusal to give up that rotten power fears, above all, knowing it is the seed beneath the snow.
For more information on John Pilger visit his website at http://www.johnpilger.com
RAT DEGRADATION (booze & SEX):
رشفاني زهراوي 22 janvier 17:53
اخبار المقاومة الليبية 24/24(الاستخبارات الليبية)
عاجـــــ(جنزور)ـل : القى بعض شباب جنزور الشرفاء القبض على شبكة دعارة مكونة من 5 نساء جرذات بمنزل فى منطقة أولاد حمد وبعد مداهمة المنزل ثم القبض داخلة بالجرم المشهود على عدد 16 من مرتزقة الناتو متلبسين وبعد التفتيش للمنزل عثر داخله على مصنع للخمور.
Rishvana Zahrawi 22 janvier 17:53
News of the Libyan resistance 24/24 (Libyan intelligence)
Ivory (Janzour) for: gave some young Janzour honorable arrested on prostitution made up of 5 women Germat house in the area of the children of Hamad and after raiding the house and then arrested included red-handed on a number 16 of the mercenaries NATO red-handed and after the inspection of the house were found inside the factory for wines.
Khazin: la destruction de l’élite est inévitable
http://ruscesar.livejournal.com/285171.html#cutid1
La crise économique et la Libye.
KHAZIN:
Je ne vais pas faire des commentaires sur ce non-sens lourde concernant la Libye, qui est désormais livré avec tous les écrans et des balayages de toutes les enceintes. Déjà clair qu’il ya, en fait, lancer une opération terrestre de l’OTAN, que les forces de l’OTAN contrôlée par les massacres et le génocide des civils, que dans le domaine de l’information que les images qui véhiculent le “agence de nouvelles soi-disant” est presque entièrement mis en scène et la réalité n’ont pas de relation, et ainsi de suite. En fin de compte, les internautes peuvent trouver la vérité sur les événements en Libye. Je veux rester sur une circonstance tout à fait différent.
Événements en Libye a montré que, aujourd’hui, après l’élimination du projet global alternatif pour l’élite de la «occidental» du projet, il n’existe aucune loi, aucun honneur, aucune conscience (la conscience, toutefois, ils n’ont jamais eu une spécificité de ce projet). Plus précisément, elle ne s’applique qu’aux “leur”, qui devient de moins en moins. Et ici, se pose une question fondamentale: pourquoi tous les acteurs économiques estiment que leur sort différent attend que les citoyens de la Libye? Parce qu’ils sont habitués à vivre ainsi? Eh bien, le peuple de Libye et également utilisé pour – sera maintenant de sevrer, et à peine une génération pour revenir heureux. L’OTAN est improbable d’arrêter – pour tuer Kadhafi et de détruire la mémoire de tous ses actes positifs pour eux maintenant une question de vie ou de mort, et le potentiel de la Libye et l’OTAN sont incommensurables. Une morts et de blessés (qui ne sera pas en mesure de cacher) “radier” sur l’Afghanistan, en Irak ou un couple d’accidents d’avion. Parce qu’ils «propre»? Et pourquoi, en fait, ils pensent que cela? Les immigrés originaires d’Afrique et d’Asie, aussi, étaient impatients de l’Europe, à être enregistrées dans «leurs». Aujourd’hui il est presque évident que cela finira mal pour eux – dans de nombreux pays européens seront presque certainement revenir à un nationalisme extrême, peut-être sous la forme de fascisme. À la fin, dans les années 30 de la Baltique à la mer Noire vers l’Europe a été le nazisme, il est bien dans les «valeurs européennes» et la crise économique est désormais plus fort que quand le chômage atteint un maigre 40% de la population active. Peut-être pense qu’ils “propres” nombreux hommes d’affaires, le «gagnant», «fait» eux-mêmes au cours des 30 dernières années, en raison du fait que, pour bon comportement et l’activité personnelle, ont accès aux émissions de l’argent? Mais il a déjà commencé à l’économie. La part du secteur financier dans l’économie mondiale, avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale n’était plus que de 10%, à 70 e année, elle a augmenté à 20. Aujourd’hui, le secteur financier redistribuer à leur avantage de 70% des profits générés dans l’économie, et l’économie elle-même a grandi depuis, puis plier en deux. Cela signifie que, en termes absolus, le secteur financier (dans lequel ou par lequel, en général, et a créé l’état de la dernière décennie) devrait être ramené à l’ordre par rapport à – tous les trois ou quatre. Cela signifie que le nombre total de contrats les plus riches du monde dans quelques temps, ou, en d’autres termes, trois des quatre courants “propres” les riches deviennent pauvres. La question est:? Seront ceux qui “tiendra” dans la dernière décennie, ou ceux dont la richesse provient des siècles précédents tout traduire en russe a déclaré à nouveau. Le concept de “un” – “étrangères” dans un proche avenir dans le cadre de «l’Occident» du projet global va changer radicalement. Et – en faveur des dramatiques, parfois, de réduire le nombre de ces «amis». Et personne ne leur expliquer, ils disent, les gars, tournez dans la monnaie, dites-vous calmement et allez, obtenir des coupons pour la soupe gratuitement pour elle-même dans la famille. Car qui n’a pas le temps – le retard et va mourir de faim. Non, ce sera différent. Cher et digne d’agences de nouvelles et de consultants de leur expliquer que les rebelles libyens ont capturé de Tripoli … oh, que c’est ce que commence l’essor de la nouvelle «femto-technologie», et il ya un besoin urgent d’investir tout l’argent, parce que c’est là l’avenir … Et l’argent disparaissent soudainement … Ou encore, que le système bancaire dans un pays non seulement bon, mais “juste peut enfin”, puis les banques s’effondrer là, avec l’argent des gens naïfs qui sera absolument me demande sincèrement comment afin qu’ils «possèdent». Certains ont même commencé à s’adresser aux tribunaux, croyant sincèrement que quelque part à Londres, ils sont honnêtes. Entre leurs – peut-être ne l’ont pas essayé, et je ne peux pas, par conséquent, pour eux, je n’ai certainement pas «propre» mais entre «nous» et «étrangers» … Eh bien, essayez de poursuivre aujourd’hui, Kadhafi sur une confiscation éhontée complètement de ses biens … Encore une fois, parce que le sujet n’est pas seulement important, mais très important. Pendant de nombreuses décennies, tandis que “Western” projet global a augmenté, il pourrait se permettre et à l’expansion de ses élites et «engagés» à l’argent, qui ont été créés, y compris les frais de la machine de propagande le plus puissant, le sentiment qu’ils «possèdent» . Maintenant tout a changé – et tous ces gens, des millions de gens vont jeter la façon la plus cynique. Par ailleurs, la machine de propagande en sera de même pour leur expliquer que ce n’est pas le résultat d’une politique délibérée, et leurs problèmes personnels liés au fait qu’ils soudaine et inattendue est devenu le «perdants». Apparemment, ils avaient un mauvais rêve, ou avoir mangé quelque chose … Je propose de considérer ce texte comme un avertissement à ceux qui pensait que sa vie de la dernière décennie de succès. Comparez votre vie avec des gens de la Libye, qui croit également que le pétrole – ils ont partagé la leur et la partie correspondante du produit de cette huile. Alors – vous trouverez la même chose, et dès que possible. Et si vous ne voulez pas tomber en proie à des troubles divers – nous devons agir maintenant. Et ne dites pas que je ne t’ai pas prévenu!
Khazin: the destruction of the elite is inevitable
by ruscesar
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The economic crisis and Libya.
I’m not going to comment on that heavy nonsense concerning Libya, which now comes with all the screens and rushing from all speakers. Already clear that there is, in fact, launch a ground operation of NATO, that NATO forces controlled by the massacres and the genocide of civilians, that in the information field that the images that convey the so-called “news agency” is almost completely staged and the reality have no relationship, and so on and so forth. In the end, the Internet can find the truth about events in Libya. I want to stay on a completely different circumstance.
Events in Libya showed that today, after the elimination of alternative global project for the elite of the “Western” of the project there is no law, no honor, no conscience (conscience, however, they have never had a specificity of this project). More precisely, it applies only to “their”, which is becoming less and less. And here arises a fundamental question: why all the economic actors believe that their different fate awaits than the citizens of Libya?
Because they are accustomed to live well? Well, the people of Libya and also used to – now will be to wean, and hardly a generation to come back happy. NATO is unlikely to stop – to kill Gaddafi and destroy the memory of all his positive deeds for them now a matter of life or death, and the potential of Libya and NATO are incommensurable. A dead and wounded (which will not be able to hide) “write off” on Afghanistan, Iraq or a couple of aircraft accidents.
Because they “own”? And why, in fact, they think that? Immigrants from Africa and Asia, too, were eager to Europe, to be recorded in “their”. Today it is almost clear that it will end badly for them – in many European countries will almost certainly return to extreme nationalism, perhaps in the form of fascism. In the end, in the 30s from the Baltic to the Black Sea to Europe was Nazism, it is well within the “European values” and economic crisis is now stronger than when unemployment reached a paltry 40% of active population.
Maybe they think that they “own” many businessmen, “Winner”, “made” myself for the past 30 years, due to the fact that, for good behavior and personal activity, have access to money emission? But it has already started the economy. The share of the financial sector in the global economy before World War II was no more than 10%, to 70 th year it has risen to 20. Today, the financial sector redistributing to their advantage to 70% of profit generated in the economy, and the economy itself has grown since then fold in two. This means that, in absolute terms, the financial sector (in which or through which, in general, and created the state of the last decade) should be reduced to the order with respect to – every three or four. This means that the total number of the world’s richest contract in a few times, or, in other words, three out of four current “own” the rich become poor. The question is: will those people who “held” in the last decade, or those whose wealth comes from the previous centuries?
We translate everything said in Russian again. The concept of “a” – “foreign” in the near future as part of the “West” of the global project will fundamentally change. And – in favor of dramatic, at times, reducing the number of these “friends”. And no one will explain to them, they say, guys, turn in the currency, tell yourself quietly and go, get coupons for free soup for herself in the family. Because who does not have time – the late and will starve. No, it will be different. Dear and worthy of news agencies and consultants will explain to them that the Libyan rebels have captured Tripoli … oh, that is what starts the boom in the new “femto-technology” industries, and there an urgent need to invest all the money, because that is where the future … And the money suddenly disappear …
Or, that the banking system in a country not only good, but “just finally can” and then the banks will collapse there, along with the money of naive people who will absolutely sincerely wonder how is it that they “own” . Some even begin to apply to the courts, sincerely believing that somewhere in London, they are honest. Between their – maybe have not tried, and I can not, therefore, for them, I certainly do not “own” but between “us” and “strangers” … Well, try to sue Gaddafi today on a completely shameless confiscation of his assets …
Again, because the topic is not just important, but very important. For many decades, while “Western” global project grew, he could afford and the expansion of its elite and “committed” to the money, which were created, including the expense of the most powerful propaganda machine, the feeling that they “own” . Now everything has changed – and all these people, millions of people will throw the most cynical way. Moreover, the same propaganda machine will explain to them that this is not the result of deliberate policy, and their personal problems related to the fact that they suddenly and unexpectedly became the “losers.” Apparently, they had a bad dream, or have eaten something …
I propose to consider this text as a warning to those who thought his life the past decade successful. Compare your life with people of Libya, who also believed that the oil – they shared theirs and the corresponding portion of the proceeds from this oil. So – you will find the same thing, and as soon as possible. And if you do not want to fall prey to various troubles – we must act now. And do not say I did not warn you!
Source: Worldcrisis
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Lie and the truth about Tripoli
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Tripoli is free, false NATO operation failed?
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Russian authorities are involved in the betrayal of Libya?
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SAYS NATO, but it shows MOSCOW
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US deploys 12,000 troops in Libya
by THETOTALCOLLAPSE.COM on JANUARY 21, 2012
The United States has sent some 12,000 soldiers to Libya, in the first phase of deployments to the oil-rich North African nation.
Smoke coming from an oil terminal in the Libyan port city of Brega. (file photo)
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According to Asharq Alawsat,
the troops landed in the eastern oil port city of Brega.
Although the deployment is said to be aimed at generating stability and security in the region, the troops are expected to take control of the country’s key oil fields and strategic ports.
Brega, the site of an important oil refinery, serves as a major export hub for Libyan oil. The town is also one of the five oil terminals in the eastern half of the country.
Following the popular uprising of the Libyan people, NATO launched a major air campaign against the forces of the former regime on March 19, 2011 under a UN mandate to “protect the Libyan population.”
The Western military alliance, however, was heavily criticized for its failure to protect civilians and taking action beyond the terms of the UN mandate.
Human rights groups have accused NATO of committing war crimes and human rights violations against Libyans.
Conclusion, al-Qathafi speaks on Migration:
Interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian
CIA, NATO pushing Libya into chaos
Angry protesters have stormed the local headquarters of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) in the eastern coastal city of Benghazi after besieging the building for hours.
The demonstrators were demanding a meeting with the interim leaders.
The incident came a day before declaration of new electoral law and composition of the election commission in Libya.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian, to share his opinion on this issue.
Following is a transcript of the interview:
Press TV: First of all, months after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, I mean what is NTC doing? Some say there is conflict within the party itself?
Tarpley: Well of course there is tremendous conflict. What you have got is the emergence of a series of warlords, numbers of regional militias from all different parts of Libya. Some of them are now in the big cities and they are fighting among themselves. Sometimes the line is, some of them are more secular, some of them are more religious. Sometimes it is simply geographical, sometimes it is resentment between Gaddafi retreats like Jalil, somebody who had been in Gaddafi’s government and people that had been in the country the entire time.
It is extremely ironic. Less than one year after this color revolution, this CIA people power crew was unleashed in Libya. They were supposed to bring singing tomorrows of democracy. The country is descending into chaos and it is not clear how this is going to be turned around.
As for Jalil, he is of course a NATO agent. He is a foreign representative in a sense that he works for the international oil companies that are going to feast on the carcass of Libya and of course he is much more interested in being popular at the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Then he is with his popularity in the streets, ironically even in Benghazi that should be the strongest point. Right, you know that he likes to spend his time in Benghazi. He does not like to go to Tripoli. He has practically moved the capital back to Benghazi because Tripoli was traditionally pro-Gaddafi and remains so today.
So he is there but even there he finds no rest because they come after him. So I think the prognosis for Libya is simply terrible. It is descending to chaos, featuring warlords.
Press TV: Indeed, of course. Let’s just point to what you just said earlier, the fact that Abdul Jalil being an agent of NATO. I mean there are reports by human rights activists, war crimes committed by NATO in Libya. I mean it is interesting that the NTC has remained silent on the issue.
Tarpley: Of course because they were the beneficiaries. They called in the airstrikes, they demanded a civil war, they started a civil war. When they started up the first place they marched to was Libyan army bases to steal weapons so that they can start an arm rebellion, killing lots and lots of people.
I myself in Libya back in June- July was able to visit the home of a former Gaddafi official that had been bombed in the middle of the night and about a dozen civilians, women, very young children had all been killed. That finally showed up in New York Times a couple of months ago after all was set and done.
You also have to point out the presence of al-Qaeda in a very heavy handed way. The commander of Tripoli, the military commander is now Belhadj, who has no love for Jalil.
Belhadj’s main purpose in life now is really not even Libya any more but he is exporting his al-Qaeda fighters to Syria and NATO has set up an airlift, with their airlifting, not only these fighters but also the contents of Gaddafi’s army arsenals, these military supplies and stocks that they have, a lot of that has been kept in Iskanderun Turkey in order to run an attack against Syria.
So you can see Libya on Belhadj’s priority list is now down to number two or number three and I think people in Syria and elsewhere should take a look at this terrible tragic example of Libya and learn something.
If you are a general in the Syrian army, look at what happened to general Younes who ran over to the rebels
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Bruins sign locals Coyle, Wagner to multi-year extensions
Charlie Coyle #13 of the Boston Bruins attempts to keep control of the puck from Cam Atkinson #13 of the Columbus Blue Jackets in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference 2nd Round during the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)
By: David Souza
Updated: November 27, 2019 - 5:07 PM
BOSTON — The Boston Bruins re-signed two local players on Wednesday afternoon, inking forwards Charlie Coyle and Chris Wagner to multi-year extensions, according to an official release from the team.
#NHLBruins sign Charlie Coyle and Chris Wagner to multi-year contract extensions: https://t.co/tlKFhavu0H
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) November 27, 2019
Coyle, a Weymouth native, signed a 6-year deal with an average annual value (AAV) of $5.25 million per season. That extension will carry him through the end of the 2025-2026 season with the black and gold.
Wagner, a product of Walpole, Mass., will be under contract with the Bruins through the end of the 2022-2023 season after signing a 3-year extension with the team. His deal is worth an AAV of $1.35 million.
The Bruins acquired Coyle, 27, at the 2019 trade deadline from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for fellow local Ryan Donato. Since his acquisition, Coyle has amassed 20 regular-season points — 14 of which have come in 24 games this season.
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His nine goals in last year's Stanley Cup Final run were tied for the team lead. Coyle was set to become an unrestricted free agent at year's end, but will now receive a significant pay bump from his $3.2 million in salary this season.
The Mayor of Weymouth is back for 6 more years!@CharlieCoyle_3 | #NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/lpMpZZeIMP
Wagner, 28, signed a two-year deal with the Bruins in July 2018 after spending four years with three different NHL teams. In his 99 games with Boston thus far, Wagner has 24 points (13-11--24) and led the team with 247 hits a season ago.
The forward's current deal pays him $1.25 million this season, with his extension keeping him from hitting free agency at the end of the current 2019-2020 season.
And the Mayor of Walpole is back for 3 more years!@chriswags23 | #NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/KwAm3rvvH4
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The extensions take two of the team’s best depth players off the impending free-agent market for the upcoming offseason. The Bruins still have a handful of players on their roster set for free agency in the 2020 summer, most notably defensemen Zdeno Chara and Torey Krug.
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Build Your Career Get Ahead
My Job Description: The Professional Tea Taster
By Brittney Morgan, Writer January 28, 2016 08:38 pm EST
Credit: Tetley
Did you know that you could make a living tasting tea? It's an uncommon career path, but it does exist, and it's a lot of work. And if you're good at it, you may even be able to have your tongue insured — just ask Sebastian Michaelis, master tea blender at Tata Global Beverages.
We asked Michaelis all about what it's like to taste and blend tea for a living. Here's what he shared.
Business News Daily: What do you do?
Sebastian Michaelis: I am a professional tea taster, buyer and blender. I source teas from farms around the world, and blend them together in such a way to ensure Tetley tea always tastes the same.
BND: What made you want to pursue the industry you're in?
Michaelis: Unsurprisingly, I didn't grow up dreaming of being a tea taster; I hadn't even heard of this as a career. A friend sent me the advertisement for a trainee tea taster. The ad asked for a candidate who loved tea, has a university degree and is happy to travel. I didn't need much encouragement to apply.
BND: How did you get into your job?
Michaelis: Tetley is one of the few companies who train up tea tasters from scratch, and most of our tasters joined as graduates. Like an apprenticeship, you work under a senior buyer and blender, tasting hundreds of teas every day to be capable of recognizing the thousands of flavors, characteristics and fine notes of tea. I taste 36 teas in a row, slurping off a dessert spoon as loudly as I can — it helps bring out the flavor — and then spit it out into a spittoon. The slurping sounds pretty horrendous if you've not heard it before, but you soon get used to it. As part of my education in tea, I was sent to live in several tea-producing countries for a year. Most of my time was spent in Kenya and India, visiting farms to understand how tea is grown, cultivated and produced, and also buying tea by the container load in the old-fashioned auction rooms. There's a very strong tradition in our company of ensuring our tasters are experts in all aspects of tea, from how it's grown all the way to packing it in a teabag.
BND: What do you like about your job?
Michaelis: Thankfully, I do love the tea-tasting part! As the second-largest tea company, Tetley is spoilt with the number and variety of tea we have access to. We have an historical tasting room with old wooden drawers full of amazing teas for me to experiment with. I also spend a lot of my time on farms in quite remote and wild places. I live in and work in foggy London, so escaping the city to a remote mountain in southern Tanzania is a big perk of the job.
BND: What challenges do you face at your job?
Michaelis: Droughts, port strikes, thefts, flooding and Somali pirates! Getting tea from a rural location in Africa to our factory in England can be a real challenge, and we're constantly finding ourselves in tricky situations. We have an in-house tasting language called Uhuru, which means ‘freedom' in Swahili. The language allows us to very precisely grade teas, and to blend different ones together to achieve the same taste that consumers have come to expect … so if we have a problem with Rwanda, we can substitute with tea from Burundi, for instance.
BND: What's something people don't know about your job?
Michaelis: That it exists! Understandably, most people aren't aware of the complexity of making sure your tea tastes the same every time. I know I'm not saving any lives, but it's satisfying to see [our tea] in a store and knowing how much hard work went behind it. I'm evangelical about tea and want more people to try the real stuff.
BND: What's the most interesting thing you've ever done at your job?
Michaelis: Last year my company insured my taste buds for 1 million British pounds ($1.5 million). They've invested a lot of money in my tongue, so they wanted to protect their assets — thankfully, I'm still allowed to eat curries. There was a lot of media attention in the U.K. when it first happened, and I was invited as a guest judge on MasterChef, which was a dream, as I love cooking.
BND: Do you have any advice for others pursuing a similar career path?
Michaelis: It's a small industry, with only a few hundred professional tasters around the world. I would advise writing to a local tea company and applying for work experience. Graduate trainee positions do come up, but they're few and far between. The job isn't just tasting. We work on new product development, buying and negotiations, logistics, finance and project management — as well as the travel, of course — so you have to be a jack-of-all-trades.
Brittney Morgan
Brittney Q. Morgan is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor, as well as a graduate of Drew University, where she majored in History. Her work can be found all across the web at Apartment Therapy, HuffPost, and more. You can also find her on Twitter at @brittneyplz.
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Prime Butterfly Areas
Agarak
Meghri
Shvanidzor
Gudemnis
Kaladash
Gyumorats
Lichk
Gnisheek
Ourtsadzor
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Butterfly watching
Polyommatus ripartii (Freyer, 1830)
Ripart's Anomalous Blue, Sable provencal, Голубянка рипперта, Րիպպերթի կապտաթիթեռ
Distribution and biological peculiarities in Armenia:
The species is found in Southern Europe, Greece and the Balkans, Asia Minor and the Crimea, South-West Siberia, the Altai Mountains and Kazakhstan. Armenia is inhabited by subspecies P. r. paralcestis (Forster, 1960). In Armenia the species occurs in entire country occupying calcareous grasslands and mountain meadows at the elevation range from 1700 to 2400 m a.s.l. The host plants of the Ripart's Blue are several species of Onobychis spp. The species gives one generation per year, the butterflies are on wing from late July (sometimes - mid July) till end of August depending on elevation.
Population dynamics:
The species is slightly uncommon in the mountain steppes and is rather common in meadows. Although the Ripart's Blue belongs to the "problematic" species and can hardly be distinguished from P. demavendi, P. admetus, and P. eriwanensis in the field, however the investigations show that in August the majority of "brown" Anomalous Blues belong to this species, and therefore it could be counted. Additional data come from counting of the forth instar larvae on the host plants at sample plots. Population dynamics during 2003-2013 demonstrates stable population trend (p>0.05). Although the host plants of the species are sainfoins, which are a perfect fodder for the livestock, it appears that current level of overgrazing is not affecting the Ripart's Blue. It can happen due to adaptive behavior of the species, which can potentially switch between host plants.
Conservation measures:
The species is not included in the Global and National Red Lists, as well as in CITES and Bern Conventions, however, it was assessed for European Red Book as Least Concern. Preliminary assessment of the species' conservation status in Armenia also suggests it as a Least Concern. At current the species is distributed in number of national protected areas and Emerald Sites, also it is presented in some Prime Butterfly Areas, so apparently at current there are no specific conservation measures required. However it is important to keep its annual monitoring to track the populations of the species.
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Donald Trump calls on Sweden to 'free' rapper A$AP Rocky
BY Áine Conaty
US President Donald Trump has called on Sweden to release the rapper A$AP Rocky after he was arrested with assault following a street row in Stockholm last month.
The rapper fought with two men and his entourage helped on 30 June.
This then led to his arrest on July 3 which caused him to miss a number of gigs he had planned including Irish festival Longitude.
Now, in a series of tweets, Trump has called for the release of the rapper and said that he was “very disappointed” that Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was unable to act.
He also said that Sweden “has let our African American Community down in the United States.”
He said in the tweets: "Give A$AP Rocky his FREEDOM. We do so much for Sweden but it doesn’t seem to work the other way around. Sweden should focus on its real crime problem!"
He added: "Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for being unable to act.
"Sweden has let our African American Community down in the United States.
"I watched the tapes of A$AP Rocky, and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers. Treat Americans fairly!"
A number of videos have circulated of the fight and the show that the men were following the rapper despite them asking them to leave them alone.
Many people have been calling for the rapper's release including Sean Diddy Combs, Justin Bieber and Kris Jenner.
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VISITING NARRANDERA
Getting to Narrandera
Narrandera is located at the junctions of the Newell and Sturt Highways. It is approximately 100km from Wagga Wagga, 170km from Albury, 340km from Canberra, 430km from Melbourne, 530km from Sydney and 820km from Adelaide.
Regional Express Airlines (Rex) run daily flights between Narrandera and Sydney.
Rex and Qantas flights are also available between Wagga Wagga and both Sydney and Melbourne.
The NSW TrainLink rail service passes through Wagga Wagga daily from both Melbourne and Sydney, and the connecting coach service can be booked for pick-up and departure in Narrandera.
Narrandera taxi service can be contacted on (02) 6959 2050.
Accommodation in Narrandera
There are a number of different motels and Air BnB options in Narranadera.
For close proximity and walking distance to the Narrandera Arts Centre, we recommend Narrandera Club Motor Inn, Fig Tree Motel Narrandera or Bishop’s Lodge.
Information about Narrandera
You can find out more information about Narrandera on the Visitor Information website.
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Children in Classes 1 and 2 (Key Stage 1, infants) and 3, 4, 5 and 6 (Key Stage 2, juniors) follow the 2014 National Curriculum. We aim for a broad and balanced curriculum. National curriculum subjects are taught through a mixture of cross curricular topic work and subject specific lessons. All classes have interactive whiteboards connected to the internet and we have invested in two suites of laptops, video cameras and iPads to further enhance the children’s computing skills.
We seek to provide an environment which ensures that children attain the necessary skills needed to become independent, well-motivated and confident learners. From the early years, children are also encouraged to develop and use a range of important social skills.
Literacy and numeracy remain high on our list of priorities. These subjects are taught both as separate subjects and integrated into topic work so that new skills can be applied. Our children perform well in national tests; however, we are not complacent and strive to further raise the achievement of our pupils in all areas.
Through residential, enterprise activities and outdoor learning we aim to provide an environment where children feel safe to take risks and challenge themselves. In the classroom we strive to create interesting and creative learning experiences which motivate and engage pupils.
We also recognise the vital importance of the creative arts. Many of our children take up the opportunity to learn to play an instrument in school or sing in our choir.
Our greatest resource is an experienced and motivated staff. Through regular discussion and monitoring we seek to ensure equal opportunity in all its forms for all of our children. We promote a respect for different cultures within the school through topic work, personal and social education and special events. This adds richness to the educational opportunities provided.
Children in the Nursery (F1) and Reception (F2) classes make up our Foundation Stage (now called F1 and F2). These classes have their own shared indoor and outdoor space. Children are admitted for part-time places from 3 years old and full-time places in the year that they are 5. Recently, some children who have been attending F1 part-time for a while have been offered a full-time place – please speak to a member of the team about this. We encourage visits before starting in Foundation so that children are familiar with the adults, routines and other children. We understand that this is a big moment for many families so F2 parents will be invited to attend a ‘Welcome’ meeting with the Head Teacher and Foundation Leader during the summer term before their children start full-time education. Within Foundation we aim to provide a clear programme of structured activities that will enable the children to approach learning with enthusiasm and confidence. We follow the government’s Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Prior to leaving Foundation, pupils will have opportunities to visit Class 1 and participate in a range of focused activities, ensuring that the transition is as smooth as possible.
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Why I’d Have A Renaultsport Megane Cup-S Over The Faster And Crazier Honda Civic Type R
The third-generation Renaultsport Megane has been with us for six years now. But can the latest version - the 275 Cup S - hold its own against our antisocial Honda Civic Type R longtermer?
By Matt Robinson, 26th June 2016
It’s easy to forget the Renaultsport Megane amidst a manufacturer mega-hatch arms race. For starters, the Civic Type R just trounced the RS’ front-wheel drive Nurburgring record, albeit in a pre-production car with a sodding great roll cage installed. And then, just when we were getting used to the idea of a £30,000 hot hatch lapping the Nordschleife quicker than recent releases from Ferrari and Porsche, Ford came along and pretty much said ‘FWD? LOLZ!’ with an all-wheel drive drift missile for the same price. Seat meanwhile made some mild changes to its Leon Cupra in a desperate attempt to appear relevant.
But in the Renault corner? Well, the regular Megane was replaced, and not long after, Renault revealed the cut-price Megane Cup-S, seemingly akin to a stock clearance special to shift a few more cars while the RS boffins cooked up this successor.
So, despite no 300bhp+ power outputs or fancy all-wheel drive drift button shenanigans, is it worth bothering with? Having brought one together with our ‘own’ Honda Civic Type R longtermer, it’s time to find out.
My first impressions? My, doesn’t that Renault look understated - pretty, even - next to the Honda with its festooning of wings and downright odd proportions. The older car here is the more sophisticated one, and as its £23,995 starting price undercuts the Type R’s base price by a whopping £6000, it’s by far the cheapest. Or it should’ve been…
Thanks to a load of options including a £2500 Akrapovic titanium exhaust (fruity, but not worth the cash), £2000 Ohlins Road and Track Dampers (worth the cash) and £1300 Recaro bucket seats (undecided), the Cup-S you see here costs £33,555. More than our top-spec ‘GT’ Type R’s £32,300 asking price, which is as expensive as you can make the Civic. The same can’t be said for the Megane - if you’re feeling frivolous enough you can punt the Renault over £35,000.
But that’s enough focus on price. Because firstly the boggo Cup-S is reasonably equipped, so it’s still a bargain if you go easy on the options. And secondly, what’s more important here is the way these two drive. So first up, let’s assess the Civic.
I’m well aware of what the Type R is like when you’re pressing on, but a brief stint in the Megane highlights its traits. And its driving personality matches the way it looks: it’s an unsubtle, sledgehammer of a thing to pilot, keen to bludgeon its way through any road you stick in front of it. The late Muhammad Ali’s mantra was to ‘float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’, an ideal that could be applied in the world of cars. But I suspect the Type R would rather stamp on the nearest butterfly and skip straight to the stinging part. Then kick your grandmother in the face for good measure.
+R mode is - as I’ve explained before - too firm for the road, but even with it off the suspension is stiff, so on some surfaces the Civic starts to feel nervous and skip about. For the most part though, you can expect extraordinary front-end grip, and a feeling of being dragged out of every corner as you stamp on the throttle as hard as you dare. Body roll is barely perceptible, so perhaps that uncompromisingly hard suspension isn’t such a bad thing.
It’s a similar story of brutishness with the power delivery: unlike pretty much every other modern turbo engine I’ve sampled lately, the Type R’s 2.0-litre unit feels decidedly boosty. It doesn’t hide its turbocharged nature: there’s a complete lack of activity before 3000rpm - despite VTEC being deployed here to boost low-end torque - a savage burst of power thereafter, and a very audible chuff from the wastegate every time you back off the throttle.
With the Honda ticking itself cool and the Renault’s stupid credit card-shaped key fob in my hand, it’s time for a refresher course in the ways of Renaultsport. And lordy, I’d forgotten just how brilliant these RS Meganes are. It’s a car that sends reams of glorious feedback through the steering to your fingertips, and through the chassis to your arse. It means that very quickly, you find yourself pushing to the limits of what the Cup-S can do, because you have the confidence of feeling exactly how it’s interacting with the tarmac.
Pretty soon, I’m starting to wash wide. It’s clear the Civic has a lot more front-end grip and has a stiffer set-up, but that doesn’t matter. Those pricey Ohlins dampers give the Renault a level of finesse you don’t find in the Honda, and once you mix the feedback into the equation, you have a much more delicate car that’s amazingly entertaining to drive. And that’s before you factor in what the rear is up to.
Both under braking and backing off at the right moment, you feel the rear wanting to move forward, and that extra level or wiggly-arsed-adjustability just isn’t something you get in the Civic.
Something else you don’t get is a linear(ish) power delivery. Yes, there’s a strong mid-range, but there’s none of the lag or the boosty nature of the Honda’s engine: just a crisp delivery and a much more satisfying, growly induction noise. What’s more, despite a power deficit - 271bhp to the Civic’s 306bhp - it’s barely slower, completing the benchmark 0-62mph sprint just a tenth slower in 5.9 seconds.
Certainly sounds like advantage Megane thus far, but it’s not all going the way of the Gallic contender. The gear change is perfectly fine, but no more than that: the Civic’s shift is shorter and has a spectacularly satisfying mechanical action, and what’s more you don’t get the same God-awful beep the Renault lets out every time you reach the red line. If I owned one of these, the first thing I’d do is find the right fuse to rip out and shut that thing the hell up.
As I’m slowing down to pull in and start Snapchatting, I pay a little more attention to my surroundings, and quickly miss the Civic’s quirky and solid cabin. The Megane’s interior is much more dull, feels a lot more flimsy, and the optional Recaro seats just aren’t as supportive as the Honda’s standard chairs. The instrument binnacle is particularly depressing; injecting a little more pizazz wouldn’t have been that hard, surely?
But I don’t care, I love the Megane. It feels amazing to drive, I prefer the… oh, hang on, it won’t start. A momentary blip, surely? That’s what I’m hoping, but I’ve just locked it, unlocked it and tried again, but nada. Another attempt, and nothing. All I get is a little ‘donk’ from under the bonnet as I hit the starter button. Now, it would be wrong to draw any conclusions from a single breakdown, but it really doesn’t help certain car stereotypes that the Japanese machine is still A-OK, and the French car has thrown a hissy fit and is refusing to play ball…
Fast forward a week, and the Cup-S has just been dropped back on my drive, having gone back to Renault over the weekend. Despite the recovery man’s insistence that the issue was either a broken starter motor or a bad connection, it turned out to be a simple blown fuse. Thankfully an easy fix, which means it’s back in my hands to enjoy a little more.
And that’s the key with this car: enjoyment. It can’t do what the Honda does, which is astonish you with its absurd front-end grip, rabid power delivery and searing cross-country pace. The Honda feels like it’s moved the game on much further (with the Focus RS probably moving it further still, but unlike my colleagues I’m yet to have a shot in one), but the simple fact is I find the Renault more fun to drive, and I suspect a lot of petrolheads out there would happily lose a bit of ability for that.
I prefer having all that extra feedback, I prefer its wiggly arse, and I prefer its more linear power delivery. No other car in this class feels quite so tactile, so we just have to pray that the next one pulls off the same trick.
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TERROR FILMS & SHUDDER Launch HELL HOUSE LLC III: LAKE OF FIRE Official Trailer.
TERROR FILMS and SHUDDER are offering fans a special 14-Day Free Trial Promotional Code!
The official trailer for Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire, from genre distributor TERROR FILMS, is finally here! The highly anticipated 3rd installment in the popular Hell House LLC franchise, from writer and director Stephen Cognetti along with producer Joe Bandelli, is set to premiere exclusively on SHUDDER Thursday, September 19th.
In addition to the trailer debut, TERROR FILMS and SHUDDER are offering fans a special 14-Day Free Trial Promotional Code! The promotional code is available here: HELLHOUSELLC3. As well, this code is redeemable in the US, Canada, UK and Ireland. TERROR FILMS will release the film worldwide across multiple platforms January 3rd, 2020.
In the final installment, guests both past and present will be forced to battle for their souls as all is revealed about the infamous Abaddon Hotel and the evil that dwells there. Set one year after the events of Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, this haunted locale is on the verge of being torn down when it is purchased by billionaire Russell Wynn (Gabriel T. Chytry) as the new home for his popular interactive show “Insomnia.” He invites journalist Venessa Sheppard (Elizabeth Vermilyea) and her crew to record everything happening inside the hotel, leading up to the show. But, they soon encounter a more nefarious plot, one that threatens to unleash a veritable hell on earth!
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Back to Alcohol & Entertainment Licences
To provide late-night refreshments and regulated entertainment, and sell alcohol, you will need a licence from Broxtowe Borough Council.
A premises licence is required for any buildings which:
Sell or supply of alcohol
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Any of the following may apply for a premises licence:
anyone who uses carries on a business in the premises to which the application relates
a recognised club
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Applicants must not be under 18 years of age.
How We Process Your Application
Applications must be sent to Broxtowe Borough Council. Applications must be in a specific format and be accompanied by any required fee. An operating schedule, a plan of the premises and a form of consent from the premises supervisor (for applications where the sale of alcohol will be a licensable activity).
An operating schedule will include details of:
the licensable activities
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whether any alcohol that is to be sold is for consumption on or of the premises or both
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any other required information
Applicants may be required to advertise their application and to give notice of the application to any other person or responsible body, e.g. the local authority, chief police officer or fire and rescue authority.
The Council must grant the application, which can be subject to conditions. A hearing must be held if any representations are made in respect of the application. If a hearing is held the licence can be granted or granted subject to additional conditions, licensable activities listed in the application can be excluded or the application can be rejected.
We will serve a notice of our decision on the applicant, any person who has made relevant representations (i.e. representations that were not deemed frivolous or vexatious) and the chief of police.
Applications can also be made to vary or transfer a licence. A hearing may have to be heard if representations are made or conditions relating to a transfer are not met.
Your application will be processed within 3 months.
If you do not receive the license, you will be not be able to trade.
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Last bite
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Truebell reveals top Eid food trends in the UAE
The GCC FMGC importer highlighted five key products
by CatererME Staff
UAE-headquartered Truebell has highlighted plant-based meat replacements, dates, grains, pulses and nuts as key trending food products in UAE stores ahead of Eid Al Fitr.
In line with Eid food trends, the retail and food services division of the company is looking to expand its portfolio with a wide variety of new flavours to suit the UAE’s diverse palates over the next 12 months.
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Truebell director Jitendra Gandhi, said: “Amid the various nutritional programmes on the market today, plant-based diets as well as meat replacements are becoming particularly prominent and we as a regional FMCG importer have certainly noticed this increasing trend as we look ahead to the Eid Al Fitr celebrations and beyond.
“Products such as dates, grains, pulses, nuts and plant-based meat replacements including seitan, tempeh and tofu - which will be commonly used for dishes such as hummus, al hares, ouzi, ferni, aishu laham and fouga over the Eid - are gaining traction across the region and over the next 12 months we will looking to add brands that fit into these categories to our ever-expanding portfolio.
To date this year, one of Truebell’s prime focuses has been the introduction of a wide variety of new flavours for the region’s multi-national palate with the retail and food services division of the company entering into exclusive distribution agreements with a number of leading brands from Japan, Brazil, Philippines, Serbia, USA and the UK.
“These new partnerships further underpin our expansion plans in the retail and food sector following the opening of our new state-of-the-art distribution centre in September last year,” Gandhi added.
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Home • Section-I • Bhagavad Gita
Notes on Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita with the commentary of Sri Sankaracharya
Translated by Alladi Mahadeva Sastry
When owing to the ascendancy of lust in its votaries, religion was overpowered by irreligion caused by the vanishing faculty of discrimination and irreligion was advancing - it was then that the original Creator (Adi-kartri), Vishnu, known as Narayana, wishing to maintain order in the universe, incarnated Himself as Krishna, begotten in Devaki by Vasudeva, for the preservation of the 'earthly Brahman' of spiritual life on the earth. For it was by the preservation of spiritual life that the Vedic Religion could be preserved, since thereon depend all distinctions of caste and religious order. The Lord, always possessed as He is of (infinite) knowledge, supremacy, power, strength, might and vigour, controls the Maya - belonging to Him as Vishnu - the Mulaprakriti, the First Cause, composed of three Gunas or energies and He appears to the world as though He is born and embodied and helping the world at large; whereas really He is unborn and indestructible, is the Lord of creatures and is by nature Eternal, Pure, Intelligent and Free.
This famous Gita-Sastra is an epitome of the essentials of the whole Vedic teaching.
The aim of this famous Gita-Sastra is, briefly, the Supreme Bliss, a complete cessation of samsara or transmigratory life and of its cause. This accrues from that Religion (Dharma) which consists in a steady devotion to the knowledge of the Self, preceded by the renunciation of all works.
Though the Religion of Works - which, as a means of attaining worldly prosperity, is enjoined on the several castes and religious orders - leads the devotee to the region of the Devas and the like, still, when practised in a spirit of complete devotion to the Lord and without regard to the results, it conduces to the purity of the mind. The man whose mind is pure is competent to tread the path of knowledge and to him comes knowledge; and thus (indirectly) the Religion of Works forms also a means to the Supreme Bliss.
The Gita Sastra expounds this twofold Religion, whose aim is the Supreme Bliss. It expounds specially the nature of the Supreme Being and Reality known as Vasudeva, the Parabrahman, who forms the subject of the discourse. Thus the Gita-Sastra treats of a specific subject with a specific object and bears a specific relation. A knowledge of its teaching leads to the realisation of all human aspirations.
Sankara's Commentary on Gita:
III CHAPTER:
In all the Upanishads, in the Itihasas, in the Puranas and in the Yoga-Sastra, renunciation of all karma is enjoined on the seeker of moksha as an accessory to knowledge. Both in the Sruti and in the Smriti, a gradual passage (through the three orders to the fourth order) is enjoined, as well as a sudden jump (from any one of the three to the fourth order).
["On the completion of the student-life one should become an house-holder; then leaving home he should become a forest-dweller and then retire from the world. Or he may retire from the world when he is yet a student, or retire from house or from the forest, whether he is engaged in austerities or not, whether he has completed or not student's career, whether he has quenched the sacrificial fires or not. In short the very day on which he may get disgusted with the world, the same day he should retire from it." - Jabala Upanishad 4]
["Having given up all desire for progeny, for wealth and for the world, they lead a mendicant life." - Bri. Up. III-5-1]
["Wherefore, of these austerities, renunciation, they say, is excellent." "Renunciation alone excelled." - Taittiriya Up. IV-78, 79]
["Not by action, not by progeny, not by wealth, but by renunciation, some attained immortality." - Taittiriya Up. IV-12]
["Give up religion, give up irreligion. Give up truth, give up untruth. Having given up both truth and un-truth, give up that by which you give them up."
"Finding the samsara (mundane existence) worthless and wishing to get at the essence, the unmarried grow quite weary of life and renounce the world." - Brihaspati (Smriti)]
[Suka - "By action a person is bound and by wisdom he is released. Therefore, the sages who see the goal do no action." - Santiparva, Mokshadharma 241-7]
IV CHAPTER:
Even dharma is a sin - in the case of him who seeks liberation - in as much as it causes bondage.
XIII CHAPTER:
According to our view, when the Kshetrajnas become one with the Lord, then let the Sastra serve no purpose. It has, however, a purpose to serve where there is Avidya. Just as, with the dualists (Dvaitins) of all classes, the Sastra has a purpose to serve only in the state of bondage but not in the state of liberation, so with us also.
The Sastra is concerned with the ignorant who view things as they present themselves to their consciousness. - It is, indeed, the ignorant who identify themselves with the cause and effect, with the not-Self. But not the wise; for these latter do not identify themselves with the cause and the effect, since they know that the Self is distinct from the cause and the effect. Not even the dullest or the most insane person regards water and fire, or light and darkness, as identical; how much less a wise man. Wherefore, the injunctions and prohibitions of the Sastra do not apply to him who knows the Self to be distinct from the cause and the effect.
It is only after having duly observed the injunctions and prohibitions of the Sastra - but not before - that a person attains to the knowledge that the Self is quite unconnected with causes and effects. Hence the conclusion that the injunctions and prohibitions of the Sastra concern only the ignorant.
Performance of enjoined acts and abstention from prohibited acts are possible in the case of those who know of the Self only through the Scriptures - He who knows Brahman and has realised the identity of the Kshetrajna with the Lord does not certainly engage in the Vedic rites. Neither does the person who denies the existence of the Self and of the other world engage in such rites. But, he who derives his idea of the Self only from the scriptural injunctions - ie., who believes in the existence of the Self because the teaching of the Sastra enjoining certain actions and prohibiting (certain others) would otherwise be inexplicable, but who does not directly know the Self in His essential nature - cherishes a longing for the results of the Vedic rites and devoutly performs them; a fact which is evident to us all. Wherefore, it cannot be said that the Sastra would have no purpose to serve.
Very rare is the person who attains wisdom. It is, indeed, only one among many that attains wisdom. As we now see. Nor do the ignorant follow the wise men; for attachment and other evil passions necessarily lead to action.
Samsara is only based on Avidya and exists only for the ignorant man who sees the world as it appears to him. Neither Avidya nor its effect pertains to Kshetrajna pure and simple. Nor is illusory knowledge able to affect the Real Thing.
XVIII CHAPTER:
When the man who is qualified for Karma Yoga performs obligatory works without attachment and without a longing for results, his inner sense unsoiled by desire for results and regenerated by the performance of obligatory works, become pure. When pure and tranquil, the inner sense is fit for contemplation of the Self.
What is necessary is the mere elimination of the not-Self associated with the Self - names, forms and the like; but it is unnecessary to try and teach what the consciousness of the Self is like, inasmuch as it is invariably comprehended in association with all objects of perception which are set up by avidya.
Therefore we have only to eliminate what is falsely ascribed to Brahman by Avidya; we have to make no more effort to acquire a knowledge of Brahman as He is quite self-evident. Though thus quite self-evident easily knowable, quite near and forming the very Self, Brahman appears - to the unenlightened, to those whose reason (Buddhi) is carried away by the differentiated phenomena of names and forms created by Avidya - as unknown, difficult to know, very remote, as though He were a separate thing. But to those whose reason (Buddhi) has turned away from external phenomena, who have secured the grace of the Guru and attained the serenity of the self (manas), there is nothing else so blissful, so well-known, so easily knowable and quite so near as Brahman. Accordingly, the knowledge of Brahman is said to be immediately comprehended and unopposed to dharma (ix-2).
It is only a cessation of the perception of the differentiated forms of the external world that can lead to a firm grasp of the real nature of the Self.
Knowledge alone can cause total destruction of good or evil deeds caused by Avidya - not the performance of the nitya-karma. For, avidya and kama (nescience and desire) constitute the seed of all action.
Right knowledge conduces to absolute cessation of samsara.
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"Truth is one; only It is called by different names. All people are seeking the same Truth; the variance is due to climate, temperament, and name. A lake has many ghats. From one ghat the Hindus take water in jars and call it 'jal'. From another ghat the Mussalmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani'. From a third the Christians take the same thing and call it 'water'. (All laugh.) Suppose someone says that the thing is not 'jal' but 'pani', or that it is not 'pani' but 'water', or that it is not 'water' but 'jal', It would indeed be ridiculous. But this very thing is at the root of the friction among sects, their misunderstandings and quarrels. This is why people injure and kill one another, and shed blood, in the name of religion. But this is not good. Everyone is going toward God. They will all realize Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart."
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Red Dot and two of his wives. Photo: IC
The crowd listening to Dr. Long Yongcheng is glued to his love story. It goes like this:
“Red Dot came to the valley in 2015 looking for a wife. Eight girls fell in love with him. He only chose six. The six wives gave birth to four babies in 2016. One of the babies died. Then they produced another four in 2017, and two in 2018, and one so far this year, with three more likely on the way. Six wives and 10 kids! Red Dot now has the biggest family in the valley.”
But Dr. Long isn’t talking about Mormons. He’s talking about monkeys.
Red Dot is the name of one of the snub-nosed monkeys living in the Tacheng Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkey National Park. The park, practically unknown outside of the region, is tucked within the Eastern Himalayas, bound by the upper reaches of Yangtze River to its east, and the Mekong to the west. Both rivers run parallel, north to south, effectively creating an island of wildlife stretching northwest toward Tibet.
It is China’s hidden gem when it comes to summer travel spots for families.
Tacheng relies on its more famous neighbors for access to the outside world. The nearest airport in Shangri-La is a two-hour drive away; Lijiang’s airport is five. But this remoteness means it holds a special place in Chinese tourism. While millions of package tours descend on Shangri-La and Lijiang every year, Tacheng attracts the anti-bus-tour crowd.
The drive from Shangri-La’s airport may be long, but it’s beautiful. Photo: Zhang Mei
Yunnan’s snub-nosed monkeys usually live at very high elevations, often around 4,000 meters, in a terrain that is covered in snow in winter. The babies are born with pure white hair, adorable bright-red lips and pug noses (due to their lack of nose bones) – which have won them their cute nickname in Chinese: “Snow Mountain Smurfs.”
Sadly, the monkeys are losing habitat, due to cattle grazing and hunting. So they have retreated further into the mountains, making it difficult for people to get a glimpse of them. Dr. Long Yongcheng, the best-known primatologist on the species, spent years studying the monkeys before he could successfully photograph one.
“I lived in the mountains for 159 days in 1985, camping at 3,950 meters (elevation). In 1986, I lived in the mountains for 182 days,” he says. “Finally, I took the first presentable photo of the monkeys in June 1992, and published that photo in 1997.”
In 2009, Tacheng Snub-Nosed Monkey National Park was created to “showcase” the monkeys. That’s when park authorities made the controversial decision to feed monkey families, creating a naturalistic kind of zoo where it’s possible to observe the monkeys in the wild.
The park provides food to six monkey families in the valley, Red Dot’s family being the largest. They’re all watched very closely, and the rangers can tell you the name and personality of every member of every family. I asked Dr. Long if the feeding caused pushback among the conservation community, who might prefer the monkeys be left to their own devices.
“Of course it is controversial, but I think it’s necessary,” he told me. “This is a window for people to get to know the snub-nosed monkeys. If no one knows, then no one cares. The purpose of feeding is to educate and influence more people to care about a beautiful species that’s worthy of our care.”
The monkeys do seem far more at home in their environment here than, say, the pandas in the zoos of Chengdu.
On the day of my arrival, I ride a golf cart for 20 minutes, and then hike an additional 20, just to get to observation station No. 1. But then, there they are: three families of monkeys jump up and down on the pine trees, seemingly having a rollicking party. Meters away, behind a rope, visitors and a Chinese television camera crew aim at the monkeys with iPhones and Canons.
There are many trails connecting the various feeding sites. The rangers always know exactly where the monkeys are on feeding each day, and route all golf carts to that specific site.
Tacheng is situated within the Eastern Himalayas. Photo: Zhang Mei
The walk from cart to monkeys ranges from 20 to 45 minutes. But if you’re enjoying the nature, you can hike the entire loop connecting all the feeding sites in two to four hours. There are also sections of the ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road – the ancient trade route that connected Southwest China to the Indian subcontinent – in the park that are great for hiking. There are fields of wild peonies further in the mountains, according to Dr. Long. I’ll have to give it more time to explore next time.
So, why aren’t Tacheng snub-nosed monkeys known worldwide, like Rwanda’s gorillas or Jane Goodall’s chimpanzees? It’s not for a lack of effort. Aside from Dr. Long, many other scientists like Dr. George Schaller and Dr. Craig Kirkpatrick have advanced our understanding of the species. And wildlife photographer Xi Zhinong brought the monkeys’ story to light with his groundbreaking documentary on CBS.
But still, there are limited travel offerings for the public. The rangers have a ton of information, but they are not trained to share it with the public.
The local ranger who accompanies us on our hike, Yu Yaohui, is quiet and shy, but mumbles plenty of facts about the plants and monkeys. He points to a dark green bush by the side of the path – it looks exactly like the rhododendrons seen in yards all over the U.S. and Europe. Yunnanese people often forage wild rhododendron flowers to steam with eggs or stir fry, but Yu says the bushes here are not edible for humans because of their toxins. The monkeys, however, eat them as a natural medicine to “deworm.” That's something I would not have learned anywhere else.
I have a dream. One day, there will be an organization similar to Roots & Shoots in Tacheng, and there will be a Chinese Jane Goodall. Then, kids will flock to the park.
But for now, I am very content to be one of 8,100 visitors to the park annually.
If you’d like to join, here’s my practical advice for travelers:
1. Avoid the actual Tacheng township. The town itself has no identifiable features of its own, and is just a run-of-the-mill fifth-tier county township.
2. Steer clear of the blocky hotels in town and opt for a small lodge instead, either in Hada Village or inside the national park itself. There are two beautiful, small hotels in Hada village, Songtsam Lodge and Habuda Yungu Lodge, each with about a dozen rooms. The villages are great for experiencing village life, but if you’d rather get closer to nature, you can stay at the Lisu Cabins and the Park Scholar Lodge inside the park. These are cheaper, ranging from $25 to $70 a room, and are perfect for city kids to listen to some bird songs.
3. Tacheng alone might become boring after a week, so incorporate Tacheng into a larger itinerary. If you are visiting China for the first time, spend a week traveling around Beijing and Xi’an before coming to Tacheng – or if you just want to be in Yunnan, combine Tacheng with visits to Dali and Shangri-La.
4. Be resourceful. Invest time to get to know the rangers, and be ready improvise on your own. The rangers have a ton of knowledge, but they are not trained to offer the knowledge on guided hikes around the park. The standard offering is a 100 yuan ($15) entrance ticket that includes rides to observation site and back. I am currently working with the national park to train the rangers on storytelling, so that they can offer learning walks later in the year. Until then, happy trails.
Zhang Mei is helping the park find volunteers to map its hiking trails and help with social media outreach. If you are interested in getting involved, contact her on Instagram @wildchinamei, or WeChat at yunnanzhangmei.
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Zhang Mei is the founder of WildChina, an award-winning travel company, and author of “Travels Through Dali With a Leg of Ham,” out via Penguin Books. She is a native of Southwest China’s Yunnan province and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Follow Mei’s travels on Instagram at @wildchinamei
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CFL: Week 16 Betting Selections
Last week was a very positive start to life in this tipping sheet, as all three of our predictions had merit to them. Only the much-feared half-point handicap caught us out from getting a clean sweep, but I suspect there’ll be plenty of value in early lines for us to take advantage of in the CFL.
Calgary have a bye week in Week 16, giving everyone a chance to gauge just where they are in relation the Grey Cup favourites.
This week sees the Blue Bombers travel to Hamilton, the Roughriders host the Argonauts and the full-of-confidence BC Lions on the road against Montreal.
Whatever questions remain for the 2019 CFL season, this week should go a long way to providing answers.
Hamilton Tiger Cats @ Winnipeg Blue Bombers – U48: -110
You could not be shot down for saying these are the two best teams in Canada. You will be, by someone, but the stats remain the same regardless of any tainted argument.
Winnipeg have the best offensive record in the country and the second-best defensive record. Hamilton have the second-best offensive record in the country and the best defensive record.
You can dress that up any way you want. These two are prone to turnovers, though – and to trust quarterback play in this wouldn’t be wise.
Expect interceptions, bad reads and clever disguises on defence to make this game tight, with caution coming to the fore.
So often when you see the big hitters come to play, there’s a letdown. This one could easily fall into that category, despite all our best wishes.
BET: Under 48 Points | Hamilton Tiger Cats @ Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Toronto Argonauts @ Saskatchewan Roughriders (-6): -110
Saturday, 7PM
Toronto, as predicted, hit a bounce after the bye week. A seven-point loss to Calgary reads well in the formbook, but there’s every chance a combination of good rest and some garbage time points really sugarcoat that one.
I’m surprised the Roughriders are only six points favourites here, and I’m more than happy to jump on board. They’re a good unit, still in the hunt for the 2019 Grey Cup.
Saskatchewan’s run game carved open Montreal a couple of weeks ago and I expect the same, coming off a bye. They’re just a game off Calgary, don’t forget – as the West is far from a foregone conclusion. Tough divisional opponents also means that nine wins in the West is equal to about 11 wins in the East.
Back to Roughriders to well – ride a little easier than usual.
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BC Lions (-3.5) @ Montreal Alouettes: -110
Saturday, 10PM
The duel-threat of Vernon Adams Jr is now irrelevant for the BC Lions, who look to get back-to-back-back wins in the CFL for the first time this season.
They did it on two separate occasions last year, and that’s more of a reflection of where this team can be when it all comes together.
If the Alouettes rely on Pipkin again, this win should come easier than you’d think against 7-time Grey Cup champions Montreal – simply because it’s hard to readjust your mindset from going from a stand-in to a bench player to a stand-in once again.
You naturally tune out, and if Antonio Pipkin tunes out against a Lions defence that’s hungry, both he and the Alouettes will be eaten alive. The 12 points they’ve given up in the last two games are legit, too – no matter how poor that Ottawa are.
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The Debnam Family and Oysterfleet Stores
Thanks to Lorraine Debnam we are able to publish memories and detailed family history written by her mother June Debnam (nee George). After June passed away in 2010 Lorraine inherited a great deal of material relating to the history of both the George and Debnam families which she has sent to be recorded on the Archive.
Gaylards Garage 1959-65
June came to Canvey at 4yrs old with her father and mother Harry and Maye and younger brother Dudley. She was a Canvey Islander for the next 80yrs.During W.W 2 she worked at the Co-op in Furtherwick Rd and in 1950 married Ron Debnam. Later in the 50s and 60s they owned what was known as Gaylards Garage, the Fina petrol station in the High St at Lakeside Corner(where the back wall of Sainsburys is today). In her lifetime June was a member of many organisations on the Island. They included the 2nd Canvey Girls Life Brigade, Whittier Hall choir and the Distaff Club. She also with other members of her family was an active participant in theatrical productions by the Dolphin Theatre Group and the Pompadour Players.
Although June wrote in great detail about both sides of her family as we have covered much of the George family previously in her brother Dudley’s memories in this piece we would like to concentrate on her husband Ron’s family the Debnams and their connection to Canvey.
This is June’s narrative of her parents-in-law, Harry (Henry) and Alice Debnam (nee Hardcastle), who met when Alice was running a pub for her brother in Leytonstone:
She met Harry in 1911, he used to come into the Pub every night on his way home from work. They used to Walk Out, one afternoon a fortnight. He wanted to get married, but Alice said “its drink or me” Harry replied “No Problem” and never drank alcohol again. He had his leg pulled unmercifully. They married in 1912. Alice was 19 and Harry was 24. The marriage was at Leytonstone Church.
They set up home in a flat in Leyton. Harry was working as a motor mechanic. Winne was born a year latter and Fred a year after that. The 1914 war broke out and Harry joined the army. If you waited until you were “called up” you had to go were they sent you, if you volunteered you got the work you wanted, so he went in as an engineer. That was in January 1915. He was in France from March 1915 until November 1918. He used to make us laugh when he said that he made bloody sure he never got killed. He was fortunate, because he was never in the trenches, because of course being and engineer. He was a “Jack the lad”, apart from pinching the things he wanted, drink, food, women, warmth, etc. He did not have a bad time.
During this time Mum had shut up the flat and gone back to work for her brother, taking the 2 children with her, she only went back to the flat when Dad came home on leave. I think it was every 2 years when they were abroad. Because of the War the Engineering companies in England were so short of staff that Dads old boss was allowed to claim him out of the army, so he was Demobbed in January 1919 and went back to work at his old firm.
It was during the 1st World War that the licensing hours were changed, so on Sundays the Pubs didn’t open until 1pm, closed at 3pm and opened again at 6pm.
After Dad was demobbed they rented a house in Farmer Road, Leyton and it was there that Irene was born in 1920.
A few years later Dad wanted to go into business for himself so they bought a shop and flat in Stratford. It was a dreadful place, running alive with fleas, Mum had to work so hard to get and clean and presentable. She packed the children of to an auntie for a week. Dad used to Hire Bikes for 6d a week and mend and repair bikes. A cycle shop! It didn’t pay much and Mum used to do a sort of a Provident round to make ends meet, besides this she used to help in the shop and look after three children. They lived there for 10 years, during this time Ron and Ray .were born Ron in 1925 and Ray in 1929. Winnie was 16 by this time and she did not go to work, Mum kept her at home to clean and cook,
Mum was still working in the Pub in the evenings. Fred was 15 and an apprentice, so there was not any money there. Irene was 9, Ron 5 and Ray a baby.
When Ray was a few months old they moved out of the cycle shop and leased a house in Leytonstone Road. Mum could not stand the shop any longer and so they sold it and Dad got a job. A leased house was all that Mum could find and it was a lot of money each week for the rent. So when the 3 years were up she bought a house in Radlex Road, Leyton. The years from 1920 to 1932 were very lean years. They had lost all their money when they had the shop, and the rent on the leased house had taken even more. After moving things got a bit easier, Winnie who was now 19 went out to work. When Irene was 14 she went to work also (1934).
Winne married Fred Garner about 1935 and moved to Guilford. When Ron was 14 and Ray 10 the 2nd World War broke out (1939). Mum decided to move down to Winnie in Guilford and took the 2 boys. Dad and Fred stayed in Leyton. During this time all the 18 year olds plus had been called up and so Ron got a job in a factory in charge of about 20 women. They moved back from Guilford to Leyton. Irene married Jack Haylock and their son Paul was born. Ron Joined the army and Ray started his apprenteship as a Butcher. So there was Mum and Dad, Fred and Ray all at home. I don’t know how it came about but they took in a lodger, Stan. He must have lived with them for about 15 year’s altogether.
June George and Ronald Debnam’s wedding day 3rd June 1950
When Ray was about 14 months old Mum and Dad decided they needed a holiday, so being used to cycling (delivering shoe repairs, collecting money, going to work and back, cycling everywhere as well as being 8 month pregnant). Mum and Stan cycled to Canvey and found a holiday bungalow in Florence Road. After that holiday they liked Canvey so much they used to come down every year. Finally they bought a holiday bungalow on the corner of Thelma Avenue. That was in 1943. No roads only duckboards, no sewer and no water. This house I remember. No back door just a front one. Timber roughcast, corrugated roof. Up on stilts. The oven would warm the whole house. It was about 20ft wide and 30ft long. Some time after buying the bungalow. (1945) The house in Radlex Road was bombed and the upstairs was unstable, all the windows were boarded up, because if a bomb blast broke your windows they were boarded up till the war was over. Mum and Irene who had Paul as a baby and Jack in the forces decided to move to Canvey. Dad and Fred would eat in the works canteens and spent weekends on Canvey if possible.
After leaving the cycle shop Dad said he did not want to work at the bench anymore, I think he was a lathe operator and turner. So he got a job as a driver for George Munro’s carrying meat. It was a hard job, starting at 5am and getting home at 10pm. The cabs had no doors, roof or heater, just a windscreen. There were a few perks however, because he used to get a few sausages from one shop and a bit of offal or steak from elsewhere. Mum never used to buy any meat.
Ray then got a transfer from the Co-Op in Leyton to Canvey, so during the latter part of the war and the lean years after the war, meat was always plentiful in the Debnam house.
In the Canvey bungalow were Mum, Irene, Paul and Ray. Stan had stayed in London and found lodgings; Fred had married Barbara and was living in Leyton. By about 1947 Mum and Dads house in Leyton had been repaired, but Mum did not want to go back, so they sold it and settled on Canvey. By 1949 Dad was fed up travelling and The Oysterfleet Stores was going cheap. So with the money Mum had saved and the help of a good Bank Manager she bought it. Dad gave up his job and did all the rough and heavy work around the shop and Jack, who was now out of the army, went to work there as the manager. It was very hard work because food was still in short supply and Rations Books were still in use. Mum and Dad did all the heavy work, cleaning, delivering etc. Jack did the bookkeeping and served in the shop. Irene and Jack had bought a bungalow in Meta Avenue. Mum and Dad had the shop for 20 yrs, during that time I married Ron and worked there. Joyce married Ray and worked there.
The Oysterfleet Stores as it is today (Thelma Avenue)
When they bought it, it was a little old shop, dirty and scruffy. During the time that they had it, they made it into 3 shops with 2 rooms at the back for all the family, with a cooker and armchairs so they could eat and rest, you would often find Mum or Irene cooking for the children. It was a very happy time, lots of laughter and fun. With Ron’s Mum and Dad life was never dull. They then had a flat built over the top of the shops, sold the bungalow and moved into the flat. They decided to sell the shop lease because Jack had been in hospital with bad veins and had been told not to stand too much. Mum said she could not manage without Jack so they retired. With their pensions and the income from the shop the moved into a little bungalow at the bottom of Sydervelt Road. They lived there for 15 yrs, sold that and moved in with Irene and Jack, they had their own bedroom and lounge and eat with the rest of the family. Dad died there on the 6th June 1974, he was 86. He thought he had bad indigestion, but it was a heart attack. He was a lovely man, a rogue who always had a glint in his eye, said outrageous things that you just couldn’t take umbridge or offence at. He stained and put legs on the table I have that he made from a plank of wood. Jill still has this table(2008)
Mum is still alive at the time of writing this, she is 95 this August. Getting very frail now, can hardly walk, hard of hearing, losing her sight and sleeping quite a lot. She lives with Irene and Jack at 261 Furtherwick Road.
1988 Around Easter mum had to go into a home for the elderly in Rayleigh. Rene (Irene) could no longer cope.
1989 Mum died Wednesday 9th August. Aged 96. That was just before her 97th Birthday which would have been on the 16th.
As a post-script to June’s memories I can add that I used to deliver bread to the Oysterfleet Stores in the 60s. The property was then divided into three shops’ the grocery etc was in the middle and I believe at sometime a butchers and greengrocers on either side. The grocery shop was very much counter-service with Jack, Rene and Mrs Debnam serving and Mr Debnam (always with a twinkle in his eye) provided back-up. Jack was the ‘front-man’ and in the local area the shop was generally known as ‘Jack’s’. I regarded him as a mathematical genius as he could add up a bread bill upside-down correctly as soon as I’d finished the column of figures. I think he used to work at a bookmakers before the War.
Over the years since the 60s the shop, although changing ownership many times, has continued to serve the local community as a ‘corner-shop,’, a record probably held on Canvey by the similarly 1930s Art-Deco style construction Fortuna Stores (was Maurice Rd P.O). I can’t remember when the interior was changed to self-service’ probably mid 70s early 80s but whole area of the original 3 shops has been one larger store for some time.
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Hello To us it was always known as “Jacks” and I think I remember it being built. The greengrocers to the right of the picture wasn’t completely separate as Jack would go between the two shops via a walk through behind the counter. The shop on the left was occupied Ron Chat’s butchers.He was an ex merchant navy chef. The Haylocks lived directly opposite. Regards Sparrow
By sparrow (20/04/2012)
I used to live next door to the Haylocks and Mr Debnam used to live behind us. The local store was always known as ‘Jacks’. My sister Heather and I used to deliver ‘Wavy Line’ grocery offers in the form of a flyer which we used to post around the area. I haven’t seen the Haylocks for years.
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Chris Cuomo’s ‘nuts,’ Curt Schilling’s a ‘patriot’ and more from Trump's day on Twitter
While on vacation at his club in Bedminster, N.J., the president has tweeted or retweeted posts over 30 times so far on Tuesday. Topics included CNN's Chris Cuomo, a potential run for office by baseball legend Curt Schilling and the protests in Hong Kong.
Chris Cuomo’s ‘nuts,’ Curt Schilling’s a ‘patriot’ and more from Trump's day on Twitter While on vacation at his club in Bedminster, N.J., the president has tweeted or retweeted posts over 30 times so far on Tuesday. Topics included CNN's Chris Cuomo, a potential run for office by baseball legend Curt Schilling and the protests in Hong Kong. Check out this story on chillicothegazette.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/13/heres-what-donald-trump-has-been-tweeting-tuesday/2000433001/
Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY Published 8:19 p.m. ET Aug. 13, 2019 | Updated 11:10 p.m. ET Aug. 13, 2019
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has had a busy day — on Twitter.
While the president is on vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, he has repeatedly tweeted on a number of topics from the protests happening in Hong Kong to criticizing CNN anchor Chris Cuomo after the journalist was captured on video threatening a heckler.
Trump only took a short break from Twitter while he spoke at the soon-to-be-completed Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, Pa. But after his speech, which lasted a little over an hour, the president went back to his favorite social media platform.
Trump has tweeted or retweeted posts over 30 times so far on Tuesday — to his roughly 63 million followers on Twitter.
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Here is a roundup of some of the things Trump has tweeted about Tuesday:
Arizona politics and Curt Schilling
One of Trump's first tweets of the day was about Curt Schilling, a former pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks and an outspoken conservative.
In a statement to the Arizona Republic, which is part of the USA TODAY Network, Schilling said that he is "absolutely considering" running for Congress in Arizona against one of the state's five House Democrats.
Although Schilling did not say in which district he might run, Trump wrote on Twitter that it would be a "terrific" idea if he did.
"Curt Schilling, a great pitcher and patriot, is considering a run for Congress in Arizona. Terrific!" Trump wrote.
Curt Schilling, a great pitcher and patriot, is considering a run for Congress in Arizona. Terrific! @foxandfriends
Chris Cuomo and CNN
Trump repeatedly slammed Cuomo on Twitter on Tuesday, as well as CNN, the network he works for.
Cuomo was videotaped during a heated exchange with an unidentified man who called him "Fredo." Cuomo described the term as a racist slur toward Italian Americans. It's a reference to a character in the 1972 film "The Godfather," Fredo Corleone, who Cuomo said is "a weak brother."
"I thought Chris was Fredo also. The truth hurts. Totally lost it! Low ratings" Trump wrote in a tweet.
The president later tweeted: "Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant? Filthy language and a total loss of control. He shouldn’t be allowed to have any weapon. He’s nuts!"
Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant? Filthy language and a total loss of control. He shouldn’t be allowed to have any weapon. He’s nuts!
Trump has repeatedly criticized CNN throughout his tenure as president and even while on the campaign trail for the 2016 election. He often calls media outlets he dislikes "fake news." At the president's rallies, chants of "CNN sucks" have broken out and CNN journalists at Trump rallies have been heckled.
Trump later retweeted a post from his son, Donald Trump Jr., who wrote that YouTube had taken down the video of Cuomo yelling at the unidentified man. The video is currently still active on YouTube; it's unclear if it was perhaps taken down temporarily.
"Put it back up. We are living with a Rigged & Fake Media!" Trump tweeted.
He went on to repost several tweets from Trump allies, such as Diamond and Silk, criticizing Cuomo. His re-election campaign also criticized Cuomo, which Trump retweeted.
Throughout the day, Trump continued to knock Cuomo and CNN. He also retweeted several posts criticizing the New York Times.
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"It always happens! When a Conservative does even a fraction of what Chris Cuomo did with his lunatic ranting, raving, & cursing, they get destroyed by the Fake News," he wrote in a tweet. "But when a Liberal Democrat like Chris Cuomo does it, Republicans immediately come to his defense. We never learn!"
Nearly 20 minutes later, Trump replied to a tweet claiming without evidence that a majority of the viewers of Cuomo's CNN show are "unwilling passengers at the airports."
"True! Without being stuck at an airport, where CNN buys (at a big price) an uninterested audience, they’ve got nothing going," Trump wrote. "@CNN is BAD for America!"
After being asked by reporters about clashes between riot police and pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong's airport, Trump told reporters that it was "tricky" situation and that he hoped it would resolve itself.
But after speaking to reporters, Trump took to Twitter to question why he was being blamed for the clash.
"Many are blaming me, and the United States, for the problems going on in Hong Kong," Trump wrote in a tweet. "I can’t imagine why?"
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Democratic lawmakers have criticized Trump for being slow to speak out against the clashes, and Republican lawmakers have taken a more aggressive position on the situation, saying China shouldn't be cracking down on protesters.
Several minutes after Trump's tweet about being blamed, he followed up with: "Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe!"
Trump also slammed several of the Democratic presidential candidates in a series of retweets.
Trump retweeted a post from Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who criticized Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., for her stance on providing health care coverage.
"Kamala Harris isn’t fooling anyone on health care," McDaniel tweeted. "Here’s one of Iowa’s seniors calling her out for her socialist plan."
The president also tweeted a post from his son, Trump Jr., making fun of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's crowd size.
Trump Jr. tweeted three laughing emojis, along with "Bill de Blasio draws 15-person crowd in Iowa" and linking to an article that shared that headline. President Trump has repeatedly bragged about his crowd size throughout the 2016 election and his presidency.
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Trump also reposted another tweet from McDaniel, this time targeting Julián Castro, the former Obama Housing and Urban Development secretary. The tweet criticized Castro for not denouncing a tweet his twin brother wrote condemning Texas donors to Trump's re-election campaign.
"2020 Democrat Julian Castro says he’s 'very proud' of his brother’s target list of @realDonaldTrump supporters," McDaniel wrote. "Castro has no business being president and – if you look at the polls – nearly every American agrees."
Contributing: David Jackson and John Fritze
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Singer/songwriter Sam Williams shares music video for 'Weatherman'
Nashville singer/songwriter Sam Williams has shared the video for his latest single ‘Weatherman’, a cover of his father Hank Williams Jr.’s 1981 hit. The visual, which features footage from Williams’ show in London as direct support for country star Cam’s OH, THE PLACES WE’LL GO Tour, premiered with CMT Music - who claimed the track just may evoke "chills".
“This live video marks a memorable time in my life and career,” said Williams. “It is the first song in my family’s catalogue I’ve covered, and my first time doing a live music video. ‘Weatherman’ means a lot to me. Getting to tour with Cam is something I never saw coming, and she became such an inspiration to me during the tour. Intimacy and truth shine through her show. She is always one hundred percent herself and I look up to her for it. I hope people see that in me in this video!”
He released previous single, ‘Gemini’ on June 21st - the last day of Gemini season. Praised by many for his voice "exuding equal parts power and grace" (Rolling Stone) that seems to "rise from another spiritual plane", (Sounds Like Nashville) the CMT "Must-See Indie You Need To Know" is poised to leave his own legacy on country music, unafraid to push his own creative limits and break through the self-inflicted limitations that threaten the genre as a whole.
Gemini’s are known for keeping others on their toes. Just like his father, Hank Williams, Jr., Blake Shelton, Prince, Paul McCartney, Boy George and more, the charismatic acts excel at almost anything they put their minds to. Inspired by ‘the new Nashville’ with artists like Margo Price, Tyler Childers, Ruston Kelly, and more blurring genre lines, Williams feels it’s his time to share the art he’s been crafting in the studio. Influenced by artists from Billie Eilish to Dolly Parton, his sister Holly Williams to Drake, it’s easy to see why so many have been keeping an eye on him in anticipation of what’s to come.
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Participants posing for the group photo right before the pizza feast.
Mind Brew, the Student Society of Bilingual Language and Literature Studies and Professional Communication and English Studies, was recently formed in September. Mind Brew aims to enhance students' interest in English and acts as a bridge between the College and the students. With a vision to broaden members' cultural perspectives and to promote English language and literature, Mind Brew is prepared to organise an exciting range of activities for its members.
Just in September, a welcome party was held to meet and greet the freshmen and sophomores from the Division of Arts and Languages to unwind them from stress in the back-to-school season. Mind Brew kicked off the party with fun and icebreaker games, followed by pizza bites, fizzy drinks and friendly chit-chats.
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Tony, the Vice Chairperson of Mind Brew, welcomed the participants and announced the upcoming activities.
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Ecuadoreans complain consumer prices have risen sharply as a knock-on effect of Moreno’s abolition of fuel subsidies, which has also triggered the nation’s worst unrest in more than a decade.
“Everyone’s raising prices with the excuse of the gasoline price rise,” said disgruntled pensioner Camilo Salazar, 65, at a food market in the coastal city of Guayaquil where prices had risen up to a third in just a few days.
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“There is no justification for raising the prices,” Interior Minister Maria Romo said in a statement.
Ecuador’s dollarized economy had seen inflation of just 0.27 percent in 2018.
After a two-day strike by transport unions, indigenous groups have now taken the lead in demonstrations against Moreno’s economic measures. Roads were blocked in various places again on Sunday with burning tires, branches and rocks.
Some protesters threw stones at security forces, who responded with tear gas. The CONAIE umbrella indigenous group published one video showing spear-wielding inhabitants blocking a road and shouting “Down with the government!”
The 66-year-old Moreno won the 2017 election and has set the oil-producing nation on a centrist track after years of socialist rule under predecessor Rafael Correa.
Moreno has declared a two-month state of emergency.
Though he enjoys the support of businessmen and the military, Moreno’s popularity has sunk to under 30% – compared to 70% after his election – and Ecuador has a volatile history.
Indigenous-led protests toppled three presidents in the decade before Correa took power in 2007.
Struggling with a large foreign debt and fiscal deficit, Quito this year reached a $4.2 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund that requires belt-tightening economic reforms.
As well as ending fuel subsidies, the government is reducing the state workforce and planning some privatizations. Moreno says the fuel subsidies, in place for four decades, had distorted the economy and cost $60 billion.
Though transport unions stopped their action after being allowed to raise fares, other sectors have called a national strike for Wednesday.
Moreno, who uses a wheelchair after a 1998 shooting during a robbery that left him paraplegic, has refused to overturn the fuel measure but said the government will increase benefits for the poor to compensate its impact.
Ecuador hopes to save about $1.5 billion a year from ending fuel subsidies. Along with tax reforms, the government would benefit by about $2.27 billion annually.
Correa, who lives in Belgium, calls Moreno, his one-time protégé and vice-president, a “traitor.”
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About EXO’s Oh Sehun
You probably know Oh Sehun as the youngest member of EXO. Or one of the tallest members. And one of the main dancers. That much is obvious from watching an EXO performance, but how much do you actually know about the 24-year-old?
Well, for one, he has really passionate fans who are willing to go the extra mile to buy ads in the New York Times and in New York’s Times Square to commemorate his birthday.
His Baidu Bar (Chinese fanclub) bought a full-page ad in the New York Times to announce his birthday, while his fansite, Iridescent Boy, bought a space on the digital billboards of Times Square for the same purpose.
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He is one of the most pampered members of the group
You can call it maknae privilege, but Sehun is undoubtedly doted on by his hyungs. He revealed on various shows that the older members would cook for him and buy him meals. During their comeback showcase that was streamed live on V App two years ago, he revealed, “Last night, D.O. hyung cooked for me after I said I was hungry,” adding, “He wanted to make egg rolls but failed so he made scrambled eggs.”
He is also the most loyal member
A lot of members have attested to his loyalty to the members on various shows. On Star Show 360, D.O. described him as the member who is dependable and gives the members energy.
He would choose friendship over love
A testament to his loyalty, he coolly admitted on Knowing Brother that he would choose friendship over love any time. The group also acknowledged the 24-year-old as the most loyal member.
He is close to NCT’s Johnny
The two are known to be good friends and have even gone out to eat together even before Johnny made his debut in NCT. At last year’s Idol Star Athletics Championships the EXO member hilariously mistook Jeonghan from Seventeen for Johnny, initiating a conversation to a bewildered Jeonghan, because he claimed their back views looked similar.
He has a dog named Vivi
His pup has even appeared on an episode of V Live! On the show, he tried to train Vivi to jump over or around obstacles, but the dog remained unimpressed and had to be guided (LOL!). While Vivi doesn’t live with him in EXO’s dorm, he updates his Instagram with photos of his dog when he visits his family. When D.O. got his own dogs, he posted a photo of the fur friends meeting!
He has more than 13 million followers on Instagram
The EXO member currently has 13.1 million followers on Instagram, coming in third on the list of most-followed Korean celebrities on Instagram last year, after Big Bang’s G-Dragon and fellow EXO member Chanyeol.
He drops hints about EXO’s comebacks on Instagram
Apart from posting behind-the-scenes photos of EXO’s activities, he sometimes posts photos of himself on vacation as well as drops hints about the group’s upcoming comebacks. Before “Ko Ko Bop” was released, he uploaded a photo of Oreo O’s cereal (which is only available in South Korea!) with the caption “Koko”. Two days later, he uploaded a photo of a bowl of rice, with the caption “rice” or “bap” in Korean, which has a similar pronunciation to “Bop”.
He works hard for his abs
But he doesn’t always want to show them off. During a recent concert in Japan, the rapper revealed how he finally understood what fans wanted when he found out that they were disappointed when he didn’t take off his top to show off his abs during his solo performance (he has done it on previous shows). Aww, someone tell him that he’s more than just abs!
He can pull off any hair colour
If you think you can pull off rainbow hair, wait till you see Sehun’s example during the “Wolf” era – his hair was literally the colour of rainbows. The EXO member has tried various hairstyles since then, from pink hair to orange, and from a crop to a curly mop.
He is quite the fashionista
Sehun was dubbed by Vogue as the best-dressed man at a Louis Vuitton’s show in Paris. He has also made appearances at store openings and has sat front row at various fashion shows. In a previous interview with us, he said, “All the members are interested in fashion. … I don’t think I dress exceptionally well compared to other members, but I enjoy dressing up.”
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As Ukraine Crisis Escalates, NATO Reinforces Its Eastern Front
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Journalist Richard Weitz
The crisis in Ukraine has presented NATO with both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is to reassure its nervous members and partners about their security while deterring further Russian military aggression. The opportunity is that the crisis may rescue the alliance from perceived irrelevancy after the end of its major role in the Afghanistan War this year and against the backdrop of the ongoing U.S. military focus on East Asia and the Middle East.
In a speech here in Washington yesterday at the Brookings Institution, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen termed Russia’s seizure of the Crimea from Ukraine a “wake-up call” for alliance and other European security institutions. “Developments in Ukraine are a stark reminder that security in Europe cannot be taken for granted,” he said. ...
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Missing persons alert
Monday, December 9, 2019 - 12:45
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is seeking the public’s help urgently in locating two missing persons, both females.
In the first instance, 16-year-old NYAMKA JACOBS, of Tumpuna Villas, Malabar, Arima.
She was last seen at home, at 12:15 pm on Saturday 7 December 2019.
She was reported missing to the Malabar Police Station around 12:37 pm on Sunday 8 December 2019.
NYAMKA, is of African descent, 5 feet, 7 inches tall, 170lbs, medium-built, with a braided long hairstyle, and brown complexion. She was last seen wearing a pink jacket with white stripes on the side, a pair of blue long jeans, and a pair of black slippers with green camouflage patterns.
The second missing person is 45-year-old CINDY MUNGALSINGH of Guapo Road, Fyzabad.
She was last seen at home at 7:10 am on Sunday 8 December 2019.
She was reported missing to the Fyzabad Police Station around 12:20 am on Monday 9 December 2019.
CINDY, is of East Indian descent, 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 180lbs, with a short bob hair style, and fair complexion. She was last seen wearing a blue and white top with floral design and a pair of navy blue leggings.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of NYAMKA JACOBS and CINDY MUNGALSINGH is asked to call 800-TIPS or contact the police at 555, 999, 911 or at any police station.
Citizens also can share information via the TTPS App.
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After 69 years, one last bazaar at Memphis College of Art
The holiday bazaar, a gallery-like art market, began in 1950 as a fundraiser for Memphis College of Art. The college will close its doors next year.
After 69 years, one last bazaar at Memphis College of Art The holiday bazaar, a gallery-like art market, began in 1950 as a fundraiser for Memphis College of Art. The college will close its doors next year. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2019/11/22/memphis-college-art-holds-last-holiday-bazaar-after-69-years/4206998002/
Laura Testino, Memphis Commercial Appeal Published 6:00 a.m. CT Nov. 22, 2019
Memphis College of Art Holiday Bazaar through the years
Scene from the 65th annual Memphis College of Art Holiday Bazaar. Submitted photo
Memphis College of Art's Rust Hall is lit in red and green for the annual bazaar. The final bazaar takes place Nov. 22 and 23. Natalie Schuh via Memphis College of Art
Shoppers attend Memphis College of Art's Holiday Bazaar over the years. The first bazaar was held in 1950, before the college moved into Rust Hall. Memphis College of Art
Proceeds from the eighth annual Memphis College of Art holiday bazaar were used to facilitate the move into the iconic Rust Hall in Overton Park. Memphis College of Art
Elf volunteer and MCA student Kaylee Hamann served at a previous Holiday Bazaar. Elves are a festive addition to the event and help partygoers retrieve work from the walls that they would like to purchase. Submitted photo
Nov. 24, 2006 -- Jon Yablonsky, Meredyth Kime and Stephanie Summerise helped add a festive feel to the Holiday Bazaar Preview Party held at the Memphis College of Art. Emily Adams Keplinger / For CommercialAppeal.com
Nov. 23, 2010 -- Clare Freeman, a sophomore at the Memphis College of Art, displays some of the items she had for sale at the school's recent Holiday Bazaar; handmade books with hand-embossed covers, and bunny dolls made from recycled plastic bags. Emily Adams Keplinger / For CommercialAppeal.com
Memphis College of Art's 61st annual holiday bazaar in 2010 featured holiday treasures by some of the college's most beloved faculty members, including Dolph Smith, Remy Miller, Bob Riseling and Fred Burton. Here, MCA alum Robert Malone brings one of his oil paintings to the show. Mike Maple / The Commercial Appeal
Nov. 14, 2011 - Memphis College of Art Sculpture Professor Tom Lee starts hanging paintings for school's 62nd Annual Holiday Bazaar The Commercial Appeal file photo
Nov. 23, 2010 -- Jason Doggett, a senior at Memphis College of Art, joined first-year student Maysa Sem as "seasonal help" for the school's annual Holiday Bazaar. Emily Adams Keplinger / For CommercialAppeal.com
Nov. 21, 2008 -- The Memphis College of Art stages its 59th Annual Holiday Bazaar with original artwork by students, faculty, staff and alumni. Part of the proceeds and the auction benefit the MCA Scholarship Fund. Mike Maple / The Commercial Appeal
Nov. 24, 2006 -- Memphis College of Art employees and fellow Midtowners Kim Williams, vice president for college advancement and Michelle Byrd, director of public relations and marketing, were helping get the word out about the school's Holiday Bazaar. Emily Adams Keplinger / For CommercialAppeal.com
In the week ahead of the final holiday bazaar in Rust Hall, volunteers climbed up ladders, hammering nails into the bare walls for the last time. Artwork for sale will be arranged from floor to ceiling in a curated exhibit of sorts, a Memphis College of Art tradition that began in 1950 but will end this year with the college’s closing.
Bud Richey, who came out of retirement to become the college’s vice president in 2017, fondly recalled the first time he was handed a hammer and nails.
“Oh,” he thought. “I’ve arrived.”
Thousands of works, from paintings to metalworks, textiles, sculpture, jewelry, photography — the list goes on to encompass about 3,500 unique pieces, some one-of-a-kind, some available in several copies — are for sale at the bazaar. The event begins with a $50 preview party Friday evening and concludes Saturday, when entry is free all day.
The college’s bazaar differs from traditional holiday markets in its inclusion of fine art, said Olivia Wall, who organizes the event with the help of about 50 volunteers. The 120-artist roster includes students, faculty and staff, alumni and other local makers. Wall spent hours creating the layout for the bazaar, and began bright and early Monday hanging art, starting near the ceiling and working her way in layers down the wall.
Most galleries discourage patrons from touching the art, but at the bazaar, attendees can remove the pieces they’d like to purchase from the wall. Even spread across two floors of Rust Hall, there’s not enough wall space for every piece of art in the show, so as art is purchased, another piece is hung in the empty space.
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So far, it’s been too busy to be bittersweet. As the college’s coordinator of external engagement, Wall assists with additional events for the college, like the Horn Island Exhibition, which drew a huge crowd this year.
“It is sad, but we’re also really proud that we can continue having these (traditional events) through the end,” Wall said, instead of having to end them before the college’s final semester next spring.
Memphis College of Art's Rust Hall is lit in red and green for the annual bazaar. The final bazaar takes place Nov. 22 and 23. (Photo: Natalie Schuh via Memphis College of Art)
College announced closure in 2017 but is open through May 2020
Memphis College of Art announced that it would be closing in October 2017. It paved a way for the students to graduate, though, through a 2½-year “teach-out” that will culminate with a final graduation in May. The college hosted a transfer fair soon after the announcement, working with several other institutions in efforts to usher students who wanted to obtain their degrees elsewhere out of the college with as many transferable credits as possible. Students who remained met with advisers to formulate a pathway to graduation by May 2020. Of the 52 students at the college (51 undergraduates and one graduate student), there are three or four who may not graduate, Richey said.
Oct. 2017: Citing declining enrollment and real estate debt, Memphis College of Art announces impending closure
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In the last year in particular, a strong collective sense of purpose emerged from the leadership and the students, Richey said.
"I think that spirit remains, where students are creating good work," he said, "and I think they're being nurtured by caring faculty members, supported by staff who seek to help them meet the needs they have."
Memphis College of Art's 61st annual holiday bazaar in 2010 featured holiday treasures by some of the college's most beloved faculty members, including Dolph Smith, Remy Miller, Bob Riseling and Fred Burton. Here, MCA alum Robert Malone brings one of his oil paintings to the show. (Photo: Mike Maple / The Commercial Appeal)
Grace Siler, a student selling work at the college’s final bazaar, has been happy with her decision to stay and will complete her degree in December. She knew she wanted to attend an arts college, and actually began at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. The school announced its closing, so she transferred to Memphis two months before the college announced it was closing, too.
Siler’s experiences illustrate a nationwide trend analyzed by Inside Higher Ed: Most independent art colleges that enroll more than 500 students have seen enrollment rebound in the last few years, while those with fewer than 500 have seen it fall.
About one-fifth of the 43 institutions that were members of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design as of the start of 2014, which included Memphis College of Art, have attempted to merge, closed, relocated or drastically changed their tuition structure in the last five years, Inside Higher Ed reported.
It was hard to pinpoint exactly why Siler wanted to be at an arts school rather than at an arts program within a larger university, she said, but she’s happy with the practical knowledge and artistic direction she’s gained at Memphis. Since arriving to campus, she has transitioned to creating textile works, and she will sell some of the scarves and ties at the final bazaar.
'I'm an artist'
Richey, who most recently was at Rhodes College, has been in education since 1974 at several institutions. At those larger universities, he saw that many of the arts students carved out their own pockets. But he hadn't noticed the declarative and powerful voices of art students until coming to Memphis College of Art, he said.
"If I'm at (Louisiana State University) and I ask a student, 'What are you studying?' the answer may be, 'I'm in biology. I want to go to medical school.' Or: 'I'm in business. I want to be an accountant.' Not so here (at Memphis College of Art)," Richey said.
"You ask the freshman student, 'What are you studying?' And the answer is: 'I'm an artist.' "
At the bazaar, undergraduates will present works among Memphis notables including Atabeira Press (Martiza Davila), babycreep, Carl E. Moore, Dolph Smith, Leandra Urrutia, Marc Rouillard, Pretty Useful Co., Susan Maakestad, Toonky Berry and Young Blood Studio. Participating artists keep 70% of earnings, and the other 30% goes to the college.
Most recently, bazaar proceeds have gone toward a student scholarship fund. In 1957, for the eighth bazaar, the proceeds went toward moving the college from its home in Victorian Village to its new home in Rust Hall. This year, funding will help with the college’s day-to-day operations, Wall said.
Weathersbee: If Memphis College of Art graduates help guide its reuse, the school did its job
Proceeds from the eighth annual Memphis College of Art holiday bazaar were used to facilitate the move into the iconic Rust Hall in Overton Park. (Photo: Memphis College of Art)
"We're going to make it" financially through to the summer, Richey said. The future for Rust Hall is still uncertain, but more will be learned in January.
"Everybody's eager to learn ... which tenant will be next," Richey said.
As for the future of the bazaar, “who knows” if it will continue, Wall said. “I think it would be a wonderful opportunity for another organization to step in.”
The 69th and final Memphis College of Art holiday bazaar
Rust Hall, 1930 Poplar Ave., Overton Park
Preview and purchase party, 5-10 p.m. Friday, $50 per person
Open art market, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, free
More information and tickets are available at mca.edu.
Laura Testino covers education and children's issues for The Commercial Appeal. Reach her at laura.testino@commercialappeal.com or 901-512-3763. Find her on Twitter: @LDTestino
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Analysis: Pete Wishart is right - the danger of a #PeoplesVote to Scottish democracy is real
The SNP's longest serving MP has expressed his reservations about a second vote on the EU.
IN RECENT weeks, the SNP has agreed that it would back moves towards a so called 'People's Vote' - a second vote on leaving the EU ¡ in a bid to head-off Brexit.
It would be fair to say that many independence supporters have expressed misgivings about such a move, given the political character of the forces pushing it.
They have been joined by the SNP's longest serving MP Pete Wishart, who raised his worries in the National today [31 October]. Though parliamentary group leader Ian Blackford has maintained the party remains "remarkably united" behind the idea of the People's Vote, Wishart is expressing widespread concerns.
The most common objection to the idea of a second vote on Brexit is that it is no answer to the enormous democratic deficit exposed and reinforced by the referendum in 2016.
Scotland's vote to remain in the European union by 62 per cent to 38 per cent was of course effectively vetoed by the vote to Leave in other parts of the UK. Wishart, and many other independence voters are right to assert that there is no reason to assume Scotland's vote won't simply be ignored again.
In truth the EU referendum of 2016 demonstrated a plethora of democratic dysfunctions in the British state, and the Brexit vote as much reflected internal political differences as it did any view on the European Union. It would be difficult even to measure the views of Scots on the European institution until the UK constitutional questions were settled.
Indeed, since the Brexit vote itself, support for the union appears to have largely disintegrated. Not just on the left, but also on the right leaving the Tory centrists desperately pleading their rightwing colleagues not to dismantle the union through hard Brexit.
There is no obvious way in which either outcome of a People's Vote, Leave or Remain, would solve any of these more fundamental questions. Leaving the EU could wrench the union apart, but trying to force the UK back together by overturning the 2016 vote will likely deepen resentments.
But the dangers posed to Scottish democracy by a People's Vote are more severe still.
‘Confirmatory' vote
Wishart is correct to assert that this would indeed be a second vote on the same fundamental question as was posed in 2016. The initial pretence that this would in fact be a completely separate vote on the Brexit deal has been abandoned by advocates of a People's Vote who now assert it must include the option of remaining in the EU.
Wishart is also right to say that this would establish the precedent for any future vote on Scottish independence.
We have no need to guess about this. It is an idea already being discussed in a mood of some glee by unionists. As Wishart notes, leading figures in the People's Vote movement itself, including Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, have already said that a second vote would need to be held on any vote for independence.
But not on any vote to remain in the UK union. And that's the point of a People's Vote - a second vote is only deemed necessary when the initial vote goes against the British establishment.
The British state against democracy
The British state and establishment - the network of interests and institutions, some elected and some not - got a terrible fright on the morning of the Brexit vote.
Prime Minister David Cameron had gambled on the Alternative Vote referendum in 2011 and won handsomely. He gambled again on Scottish independence in 2014 and though the vote ran closer than he would have liked, he still won.
Emboldened, he gambled a third time in 2016 both in a bid to see off Ukip and end the internal debate within the British ruling class about EU membership which has rolled on for decades.
He lost badly, and so did the British state. Since then, referenda have come in for massive criticism from the media, politicians and state managers. Public intellectuals have accused them of being anti-democratic. Business interests complain they create instability.
The 2014 referendum belongs to a by-gone era of British political life. Crucially not just politicians but also the elements of the permanent unelected British state have had enough of the gambles. The civil service, the Bank of England, the legal establishment and much else besides are not likely to play a straight bat either before or after any independence vote.
Destabilisation campaign
Even once Scotland has secured a vote on independence (no easy feat, with the UK Government showing little evidence it would be willing to countenance another Edinburgh Agreement), and even with an independence vote won under pressure from an ever more ferocious 'Project Fear' operation, Scotland would then face years of transition from the UK to independent statehood.
This transition would be unlikely to last fewer than three years. Under the precedent set by a People's Vote, attempts to overturn the vote with a second consultative one would begin almost straight away. This campaign could be run from inside Scotland, based upon the safe presumption that near half of the Scottish population would have voted No.
It could draw considerable resources from the wealthy and powerful across the UK, just as the People's Vote can. It could depend on the support from the institutions of the British state. The markets would rebel against the break up of such an important node in the global economy.
The answer to these realities from the SNP leadership have so far been blithe.
Speaking to CommonSpace (see video above) at the SNP's National Conference in September, Scottish constitutional relations minister Michael Russell said that the demand for Scottish independence was made on a sound basis unlike Brexit, and that independence supporters could go into "extraordinary detail" on a future Scotland-UK deal during the transition period. His words were mirrored in Nicola Sturgeon's conference speech.
But this is irrelevant to the issue. The British state and establishment don't oppose Brexit because it is farcical (though it is and that doesn't endear), they are opposed to it because it is against their interests. And so too would Scottish independence be.
It is hard to dismiss concerns that a People's Vote would reinforce the most anti-democratic tendencies of the British state.
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The Kent Road House By bureau^proberts
Architect Terry McQuillan of bureau^proberts recently completed the transformation of the Kent Rd House in Brisbane, Australia.
The house was renovated from a simple cottage with a 60’s extension into a contemporary home with a living area that is designed to maximize the available light and space.
The description from the architect
Located in the north Brisbane suburb of Wooloowin, Kent Road residence is a contemporary extension to an existing character residential cottage. Originally constructed in 1906 and extended in the 1960’s the renovation included recladding and finishing the existing cottage, demolition of the ageing extension, and construction of a new two storey wing at the rear. Incorporated in the build was a new kitchen, master bedroom and outdoor living space at the upper level, a gymnasium and garage at the lower level and an internal stair to connect the spaces.
Important to the brief was that the character of the cottage was retained and that the extension utilized sympathetic materials to the original. The response is a simple weatherboard clad extension broken from the original cottage by a louvered breezeway that extends into the rear yard of the small lot. A hint of the extension is visible from the street as it pears out from behind the cottage while the scale is restrained so as to not dominate original dwelling.
A strong connection between inside and out was an integral part of the design. Achieving this required fixed and sliding privacy elements to screen from the closely located neighbors. The bedroom and kitchen open to the backyard; enhancing views, breezes and light. Located along the edge of the bedroom is a hidden bath, opening to the landscaped backyard.
The interiors reflect the simplicity of the exterior language and are arranged to define or divide spaces. The opening between the new kitchen and existing living spaces acts as a portal between the new which can be closed of entirely via large concealed sliding panels. The minimalist preference of the owners is reflected in the design of the joinery and the selection of the simple yet contrasting material palette.
Architects: bureau^proberts
Photography by Alicia Taylor
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UK Fantastic Breitling Superocean Heritage Chronoworks Replica Watches Hands-On
If you haven’t already noticed, pricing doesn’t always seem to make sense in the watch world. There are times when otherwise interesting watches are marred by having retail prices which simply confound the consumer’s sense of reason. Sometimes those prices are actually too high, and other times the prices are fair but the consumer doesn’t understand or appreciate the reason for the high cost. In either event, pricing practices often don’t meld with consumer expectations or perceived values. It is perhaps the biggest “issue” the luxury industry faces, given the highly active watch lover community, and the conversations contained therein, that seek to validate or veto many decisions the watch industry makes.
At Baselworld 2016, wonderful Breitling fake shared with us this new “Chronoworks” version of the replica Breitling Superocean Heritage. “Chronoworks” is a term I haven’t heard before from Breitling, and it sounds like their version of a tuning shop where they tweak movements for better performance. In this case, the Breitling Chronoworks team began with their already in-house-made Breilting caliber B01 automatic chronograph. Breitling points to “five innovations” in the movement which, after the “optimization” from their “performance lab” (Chronoworks), is now called the caliber BC01.
What are the innovations? The question isn’t really “what,” but rather “if” these add up to the price Breitling is asking. The innovations in the movement added by the white scale fake Breitling Superocean Heritage Chronoworks performance lab are a ceramic baseplate and gear-train bridges (versus metal), silicon wheels, a silicon escapement, a variable-inertia balance wheel, and elastic toothing. That all sounds cool, but what does it actually cost and what are the performance gains?
All of these features essentially act to do a few things. First is to reduce the propensity for parts to wear out, to reduce friction, to remove the effects of magnetism, to increase accuracy, and to decrease service times. Delicate Breitling replica doesn’t per se mention all this, but I can tell you what the point of all these parts is. Interestingly enough, all of this is a source of great controversy in the traditional watch industry. It has to do with the fact that metal parts are being replaced by non-metal parts. If the movements are still mechanical then why all the fuss?
Some watchmakers are concerned that unlike metal parts which can be reproduced relatively easily, things like ceramic or silicon parts will not be easy to replicate in the future when the movements need to be repaired or serviced. That is technically true, but it is only based on today’s available technology. We simply don’t know if in the near future the technology will exist to rapidly produce parts in silicon or ceramic. However, I do agree that the availability of parts in the future is an issue when it comes to non-metallic movement parts.
Another less convincing (for me) complaint about non-metal parts is that, unlike traditional steel, brass, gold, etc., the surfaces of non-metallic parts cannot be decorated. That is true to an extent. You can polish ceramic, but you can’t really engrave it. Silicon, you can’t do much to at all, and at the end of the day these parts simply will not be as attractive as metal parts. Why a mechanical watch if it is not beautiful, they ask?
I do appreciate the sentiment of this argument, but I don’t think it will hold a lot of ground in the long term. In my opinion, watch brands have an obligation to offer consumers choice, and it is the consumers who will choose what they want to put their money into. For those who can afford Philippe Dufour’s level of finishing and beauty, then they will easily sacrifice pure performance for beauty. People wanting a reliable everyday wear that isn’t an electronic watch might be better served by a movement made up entirely of non-metallic parts. Truly, that is where I hope we are headed. Brands from Ulysse Nardin to Breitling have been spending years playing with non-metallic parts. When are we going to finally see industrialized movements made with no metal, or minimal metal?
Exquisite And Delicate UK Breitling Chronoliner Blacksteel Replica Watches Review
I’m quite fond of the Chronoliner watch that was launched last year by Breitling. It wasn’t Breitling’s first vintage-inspired watch, of course – there’s the entire Transocean collection for that – but I thought that the Chronoliner offered a better mix of vintage-inspired looks and modern toughness and reliability. At this point, I would like to draw your attention to the ceramic bezel, which as I’m sure most readers will know, is virtually scratch- and fade-proof. Plus, the bezel rotates, which means the Chronoliner is capable of tracking up to three time zones simultaneously – a big plus for functionality. For this year, wonderful Breitling replica has updated the looks with an all-black version called – quite aptly, I might add – the fake Breitling Chronoliner Blacksteel.
The new replica Breitling Chronoliner Blacksteel that you see here is essentially a blacked-out version of the original Chronoliner that debuted last year. The case is still crafted out of steel, but it has been given a carbon-based treatment which makes it black but, more importantly, also makes it more resistant to the rigors of daily wear. The case size and thickness are both unchanged at 46mm and 15.95mm, respectively, which means that the delicate fake Breitling Chronoliner Blacksteel is a big, chunky watch but not out of the norm by Breitling standards. It has also retained the black bidirectional ceramic bezel and vintage-style pushers which I love. Water resistance is 100m, which is only fitting for a sports watch.
What has changed, however, is the dial, hands, and strap. Instead of the “panda” dial with cream-white subdials, the luminous pointer replica Breitling Chronoliner Blacksteel has, you guessed it, an all-black dial. That said, legibility isn’t hampered because the subdials are slightly recessed and come in a slightly lighter shade.
The other major change is the strap. While the Chronoliner was offered in a choice of Breitling’s Ocean Classic mesh strap or a Navitimer style steel bracelet, the white scale fake Breitling Chronoliner Blacksteel will be offered with a rather unusual rubber strap that has been designed to mimic the look of mesh straps. Breitling calls this the Rubber Aero Classic rubber strap.
Finally, the hands have been given a blacked-out treatment as well, but legibility doesn’t seem to have been adversely affected since the hands and hour markers have generous amounts of luminescence on them. That said, the GMT hand does seem to be a little difficult to spot since it’s so small, but this is a problem that’s carried over from the older Chronoliner.
Fantastic And Fascinating UK Breitling Avenger Hurricane 12H Replica Watches
For Breitling’s 2016 Baselworld showing, the brand debuted an all-new Avenger with a 24-hour movement set in a hulking 50mm “Breitlight” polymer case – which, as lightweight and “deceptively cool” as it was, deserved a smaller, more approachable treatment. Well, for those hoping that this year’s show would bring a wearable 44 or even 46mm variant, keep waiting – this is not your watch. The new-for-2017 wonderful fake Breitling Avenger Hurricane is still set in the same 50mm case as its predecessor but is now paired with Breitling’s in-house manufacture Caliber 01 – a 12-hour chronograph movement that’s become a proven hallmark for the still-independent Swiss watchmaker.
Before we get too far into the nitty-gritty inside the new white scale fake Breitling Avenger Hurricane 12H Watch, we’ll come right out and say it: the “Breitlight” Hurricane could be Breitling’s hyper-macho “Dark Side of the Moon,” but at 50mm, its audience is massively limited right out of the starting gate. Certainly, the onus is on Breitling to showcase its proprietary new polymer technology in the best possible light – in this case, Breitlight, which impressively yields a feathery case weight despite its overall size. When serving as an illustration for the lightness of Breitlight, the delicate fake Breitling Avenger Hurricane passes with flying colors. But as a groundbreaking new entry in the Avenger series with mass appeal, the Hurricane stumbles on the merits of its own proof point. Size complaints aside, the Breitling Avenger Hurricane 12-Hour is still a worthy entry in the “tacticool” Avenger series, and one that carries a slight advantage over its predecessor, in that it’s easier to read at a glance – particularly for those not accustomed to reading time in the 24-hour format.
The COSC-certified Caliber 01 powering the yellow dial replica Breitling Avenger Hurricane 12-Hour is Breitling’s first in-house manufactured caliber – a modular, 47-jeweled movement introduced in 2006 after a five-year development period. Usually reserved for Breitling’s limited, or top-shelf Chronomat and Navitimer offerings, the B01 is a column-wheel chronograph equipped with a vertical clutch, yielding crisp pusher engagement and buttery-smooth actuation on the center-mounted chronograph seconds counter. The automatic movement hums along at a pretty standard 4Hz, but carries a generous 70-hour power reserve from a single barrel.
Despite the size of the case and what goes inside it, the real story here remains its proprietary Breitlight polymer construction, now on its second tour of duty within the exquisite fake Breitling. This proprietary polymer is three times lighter than titanium, nearly six times lighter than steel, and significantly harder and more scratch-resistant than both. Of course, it’s also anti-magnetic, shielding the movement within from any harmful magnetic fields its wearer might encounter in the modern cockpit.
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Posted on 29th August 2017 by rose
How To Give Breitling Wings To UK Reliable Breitling Fake Watches By Georges Kern?
What Georges Kern might do to fix the storied maker of pilot’s watches.
The recent departure of Richemont watch boss Georges Kern was a surprise, as was the fact that he was leaving to run Breitling, recently acquired by CVC Capital Partners. Promoted to head of watchmaking, marketing and digital at the Swiss luxury group only in April 2017, Kern’s elevation was the result of his triumphant 14-year stint as CEO of IWC.
With Kern in charge IWC saw its revenue grow almost eight-fold to an estimated SFr800m, making it the biggest pure-play watchmaker in Richemont. Those very talents are surely why he was tapped to be Breitling’s saviour, and offered the upside of an equity stake, by the financiers at CVC, the European private equity outfit best known for having quadrupled its investment in Formula One after selling the sport earlier this year.
Kern’s formula for success at IWC is well known, a strategy that included recruiting celebrity ambassadors as well as making watches more visually accessible with warmer and more modern colours. Some, or perhaps most, of that will surely be applied to Breitling, which is essentially a maker of sporty aviator’s watches; pilot’s watches accounted for over a third of production at IWC. What might the turnaround plan include?
Building the pillars of the brand
One of Kern’s favoured product strategies, which he implemented at IWC but also at two other brands he oversaw, Baume & Mercier and Roger Dubuis, is to reinforce the strongest product lines as “pillars” of the brand. Consequently IWC has two bestselling pillars that practically define the brand, the Portugieser and Pilot’s, which together make up around three-quarters of sales. The two are backed up by the fast-growing Portofino line, plus the Aquatimer, Da Vinci and Ingenieur for the small number of consumers who want something else.
The brand pillars will only sell well if the product within are appealing. At IWC the product range evolved from being uncompromisingly masculine and technical to something glamorous and alluring. Pilot’s watches, for instance, went to being a no-nonense remake of the Mark 11 issued to 1950s RAF pilot’s to timepieces co-branded “Top Gun” or the whimsical St. Exupery.
Breitling’s catalogue currently lists 12 collections of Swiss copy watches, some of which blend into each other (Navitimer vs Montbrillant anyone?). Fortunately the Navitimer and Chronomat are ready-made brand pillars, being the most recognisable products that also have the strongest history, and accompanying tale to sell. Odds are the two lines will be the focus for the first couple of quarters, along with a third collection of historical-remake watches that are the flavour du jour across the industry.
Since the goal is to bring the excitement of aviation and fighter pilots to the ordinary consumer who does not want an overly extreme or expensive wristwatch, even watches within the new pillars will undergo some tweaks, ranging from the prosaic to the philosophical. Despite the dozen lines that make up Breitling’s line-up at the moment, the dominant colour is black. If Kern’s track record at IWC is anything to go by, blue, brown, grey, “warmer” colours as he puts them, will become more prominent.
As consumer tastes are now more practical, the comically large watches that are 46mm, 48mm, and 50mm will become fond memories or better still, highly sought-after limited editions. At IWC the oversized and bulky Ingenieur watches – after many years of reiterating the same idea – were mostly abandoned in favour of modestly sized, affordably priced models.
And to achieve affordable prices, there will probably be a return to low-cost, outsourced movements, which means less of the pricey in-house Breitling 01 movement (the same calibre Breitling sells to Tudor), or a developing a lower cost movement, which is what IWC did. Best-performance replica Breitling chronographs with an in-house movement account for about a quarter of output at Breitling, but cost almost double otherwise identical models powered by the Valjoux 7750. Already many of the latest Pilot’s watches at IWC cannily rely on Sellita or ETA movements, or “manufacture” movements built on the foundations of an ETA.
At the same time, Breitling’s pool of celebrity ambassadors will probably grow from its current pool of one, since its only other ambassador just decamped for Tudor. John Travolta has been a Breitling ambassador for over a decade and is now 63 years old, so it stands to reason that a more diverse group of ambassadors in tune with current pop culture is on the cards as well.
In contrast, IWC counts amongst its “friends of the brand” Kevin Spacey, Karolina Kurkova and Adriana Lima. Intriguingly, insiders say that IWC’s friends are literally friends, instead of contracted personalities as many celebrity endorsements are. So the question will be: whose friends are they?
Making friends around the world
Of the world’s 20 largest luxury watchmakers, only six are independent – that includes Breitling – and do not belong to a luxury conglomerate like LVMH or the Swatch Group. And of that six, four control majority of their distribution worldwide, only Breitling and Franck Muller do not. Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Chopard own most local distributors across the world, giving them both flexibility and discipline in prices and how to sell watches.
While Breitling does own some key national distributors, in the USA, UK and Japan (where it is outstandingly successful with its Breitling owner’s club), much of its distribution network is independent, even in major markets. Germany is handled by Trautmann, Brazil by Watch Time, while China, Hong Kong and much of South-East Asia is run by Melchers.
The reason that matters is pricing discipline, which usually translates into increased brand equity. Anecdotal evidence would indicate there are more fake Breitling watches sales hot on the grey market than IWC: there are just over 3700 IWC watches described as “new” on eBay, compared to over 7800 for Breitling. Even adjusting for Breitling’s bigger output by volume, making perhaps 40% more units than IWC, that is a major disparity.
When Richemont acquired IWC in 2000, distribution was similarly fragmented. Most of its Asian distribution, for example, was undertaken by Hagemeyer-Cosa Liebermann, a Dutch trading house now owned by its Swiss rival DKSH. Now IWC is distributed by the local or regional Richemont office in practically every market, alongside all the other brands in the group’s stable. Economies of scale in back office functions like distribution are a crucial reason why luxury conglomerates work.
Breitling, on the other hand, is one of the smallest independently-owned watchmakers, less than half the size of the next largest, Chopard (which also sells jewellery). Consequently, Breitling probably lacks the financial muscle to control distribution globally. The solution might instead be a ruthless but prudent pruning of distributors and retailers, with greater reliance on reliable partners.
Feasible only with strong, hands-on leadership, that would be similar to what Jean-Claude Biver practiced as he turned Hublot around. Even after Hublot was acquired by LVMH, the watchmaker still retains independent distributors in important markets like South-East Asia where it works with The Hour Glass, and Ares Distributors in the USA.
While it is his time at IWC that made Georges Kern a power player in the watch industry, it is perhaps his earlier role in TAG Heuer that might be instructive as to what will unfold at Breitling. Before joining Richemont in 2000, just after it acquired the group that owned IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre and A. Lange & Söhne, Kern spent eight years at TAG Heuer, which was then the most acclaimed turnaround story in watchmaking. It was his first job in the watch business, following a short stay at Kraft, and one that Kern has stated was a formative experience.
In 1988, a trio of Booz Allen Hamilton management consultants were hired by the Saudi-owned investment firm Techniques d’Avant Garde (TAG) to rebuild the ailing business. The three consultants, including brand president Christian Viros, embarked on a strategy of aggressive outsourcing and even more aggressive marketing (with the tagline “Don’t Crack Under Pressure” that’s been revived recently), leading to revenue growth of averaging almost 30% a year.
By the time of the NYSE IPO in 1996, sales topped US$300m, some six-times what they were in 1988. The stock offering was 10-times oversubscribed, allowing its owners to make several times their initial investment, and the three consultants to walk away with reputed eight-figure payouts. And that is probably what CVC and Kern will hope to do.
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Watch an intimate history of the AIDS epidemic with our films, Life and Death on the A-List, Undetectable and Rock Bottom: Gay Men and Meth.
Life and Death on the A-List
Director: Jay Corcoran
Cast: Tom McBride
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This striking documentary by New York actor and playwright Jay Corcoran, details the life and death of Tom McBride, a New York actor and model dying of Progressive Multi-focal Leucoencephalopathy (PML), an AIDS-related brain disease.
McBride’s “All-American” good looks made him a familiar face in television commercials, print ads and films through the ’70s and ’80s. He even became that most emblematic of masculine images: the Winston man. For many gay men, McBride became an icon exemplifying life on the “A-List” — the whirl of sex, drugs, theme parties, and summers on Fire Island that made New York’s gay scene famous. But McBride’s glamorous life was stalked by his sexual obsession and compulsive drive.
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Undetectable: The New Face of AIDS
Producer: Jay Corcoran
Executive producer: Michael Roberts
Cinematographer: Jay Corcoran
Editor: George O’Donnell
Composer: Scott Killian
Undetectable is a feature documentary, following for three years six Boston residents on the new multi-drug therapies for HIV disease. The film examines the complex physical and psychological effects of the treatment on three women and three men of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and the importance of AIDS education and advocacy within both the gay and poor and minority communities. It was broadcast on PBS, Independent Lens.
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Producer/Director/Camera: Jay Corcoran
Producer: Colin Weil
Editor: Kenny Wachtal
Original Music: Scott Killian
Executive Producer: Joe Lovett
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Rock Bottom follows the journeys of seven gay men struggling with meth addiction and recovery against a backdrop of an emerging second wave of HIV infection. From grappling with the drug’s effects on their physical and mental health to wrestling with their darkest sexual desires, Rock Bottom delivers a chilling portrait of a community in crisis. With an unflinching eye the film captures their stories over a two-year period, from sex clubs to hospitals to family gatherings. It takes enormous courage to face these demons, and even more to allow the world to watch. Continue reading “Rock Bottom”
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New York Diary: A Local Resident’s View On 9/11 and Its Aftermath
New York Diary presents one New Yorker’s personal take on September 11 and its aftermath. How was the immediate, unintelligible horror of the attacks digested and domesticated in the days and weeks that followed?
Harrowing images from the first thirty-six hours give way to the rituals of missing posters, makeshift memorials, to posing for pictures with policemen and buying t-shirts and other 9/11 memorabilia. The film asks disturbing questions about how the global electronic village assimilates and banalizes terror and mass murder.
New York Diary was broadcast on Thirteen/WNET.
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Research Finds Aspirin Lowers Risk of Cancer Deaths [VIDEO]
Jenny Dabon
Update Date: Apr 07, 2017 07:02 AM EDT
An instructor named Yin Cao introduced his research at the meeting in American Association for Cancer Research last Monday about how aspirin lowers risk of cancer. Apparently, the long-term use of aspirin can reduce the risk of dying from various types of cancer and possibly other diseases.
Cao gathered data from the Nurses' Health Study where 86,000 women participated between the years 1980 and 2012. The men's input, meanwhile, were taken from the 1986 to 2012 Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
From the statistics collected, there were over 8,200 mortalities for women and 4,600 for men caused by cancer over the period of 32 years. They observed that the risk of death in general for those who take aspirin regularly is lower by 7 percent for women and 11 percent for men who in comparison to those who did not take aspirin according to the CNN.
Meanwhile, they saw aspirin lowers risk of cancer as deaths were 7 percent lower for women and 15 percent lower for men with cancer who had a regular dose of the medication. While this discovery is valuable since scientists are able to understand drugs that are already available better and what they could do, not everyone can take aspirin daily.
Therefore, it is always advisable for patients to check with their doctors whether or not they can take the medication regularly. Recent studies, however, has continued to prove how aspirin has many benefits where people can weigh its pros and cons by their preference.
Particularly, aspirin is found to lower the cancer death risk for patients with colorectal cancer in an amazing 31 percentage lower for women and 30 percent for men. Aside from that, it also shows remarkable results for patients with lung, breast, and prostate cancer.
But not only does aspirin lowers risk of cancer deaths, it could, in fact, do so much more. Recent studies have reported that the drug can also prevent cancer and cardiovascular diseases for high-risk people.
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American Airlines Mechanic Accused of Sabotaging Flight
September 6, 2019 September 6, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
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American Airlines aircraft are shown parked at their gates at Miami International Airport on April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
MIAMI (AP) — An American Airlines mechanic appeared in court Friday on charges of sabotaging a flight because he was upset about stalled union contract negotiations and wanted to earn overtime fixing the plane.
Federal officials say Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani admitted to tampering with a part that provides vital flight information to pilots.
Pilots aborted the July 17 flight before takeoff in Miami. Alani was arrested Thursday and charged with willfully damaging or disabling an aircraft. The 60-year-old had worked for American since 1988 but was suspended after his arrest.
In federal district court, Alani spoke to Magistrate Judge John O’Sullivan through an Arabic interpreter. Mostly, he answered basic questions about his assets and whether he could afford a lawyer. The judge appointed a public defender and scheduled a bond hearing for next Wednesday and an arraignment hearing on Sept. 20.
According to American, the airline does not provide interpreters on job sites.
Nothing in the criminal complaint against Alani suggests any link to terrorism, and prosecutors did not indicate that any such charges are pending.
When interviewed Thursday by investigators, “Alani stated that his intention was not to cause harm to the aircraft or its passengers,” according to the affidavit by Jose A. Ruiz, a federal air marshal who serves on an FBI terrorism task force.
Alani explained that stalled contract negotiations between American Airlines and the mechanics’ unions were hurting him financially — he said in court that he has two cars but few other assets besides property in the Sarasota, Florida, area worth about $5,500.
Alani said he tampered with the plane “to cause a delay or have the flight cancelled in anticipation of obtaining overtime work,” Ruiz wrote.
The incident occurred before an American Airlines Boeing 737 was scheduled to fly from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas with 150 people on board. As the pilots powered up the plane at Miami International Airport, they saw an error message for a system that tracks speed, nose direction and other critical flight information and aborted the takeoff.
When mechanics examined the plane, they found a piece of foam glued inside a navigation system part called an air data module. Video from an American Airlines surveillance camera captured a person who drove up to the plane, got out and spent seven minutes working around the compartment under the cockpit that contains the navigation system, according to the affidavit.
The person was later identified by co-workers as Alani, in part by his distinctive limp, the affidavit said.
Aviation experts said it was unlikely that Alani’s actions would put passengers at risk. Modern jets have several devices called pitot tubes and computers that process information about speed, heading, nose angle, altitude and other information. They also have systems that warn pilots when the information may be faulty — as apparently happened on the Miami plane.
John Hansman, an aeronautics professor at MIT, said pilots would notice the absence of an airspeed reading or conflicting readings and abort the takeoff, as the American pilots did.
“There are other ways to mess with the air data computer which are more subtle,” Hansman said. “Then you would not have seen the problem until you get into flight.”
The sabotage occurred as American and the mechanics’ two unions fight over a new contract. Talks broke off in April but are scheduled to resume Sept. 16.
American sued the unions, accusing them of conducting an illegal work slowdown that caused hundreds of canceled flights. Last month a federal judge in Texas ruled in American’s favor and ordered mechanics to stop interfering in the airline’s operations.
On Friday, union officials distanced themselves from Alani.
“The Transport Workers Union is shocked by the reported allegations of airplane sabotage by an employee,” TWU President John Samuelsen said in a statement. “If these allegations of sabotage are true, they are outrageous and indefensible, and we fully condemn such actions.”
In a statement, American Airlines said it cooperated fully with the investigation “and we are taking this matter very seriously.” The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline said the plane was taken out of service after the July incident and repaired and inspected before it was allowed to fly again.
In a message to employees, David Seymour, American’s senior vice president of operations, said the airline works with authorities and other experts to improve safety procedures. He said American maintains full trust and confidence in its employees.
By DAVID KOENIG and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press
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Two Proposed Reservoirs For N. Colo. Reach A Key Milestone
By Grace Hood
The Poudre River would supply water to Glade Reservoir, one of two reservoirs proposed under the Northern Integrated Supply Project.
A project to bring more water to growing communities in Northern Colorado reached a milestone Thursday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a 1,500-page environmental assessment of two proposed reservoirs near Greeley and Fort Collins.
The document supplements a 2008 environmental review of the proposed Northern Integrated Supply Project. The Glade and Galeton Reservoirs included in the NISP would add 40,000 acre feet of new water storage to the Front Range.
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Colorado's first-ever water plan calls for reservoir projects like the NISP along with conservation efforts. Reasons for ambitious and coordinated water planning are especially clear in Northern Colorado. Greeley and Fort Collins are two of the fastest growing communities in the U.S.
Brian Werner, a public information officer with Northern Water, said the review also marks a technical achievement. Much of the new report details hydraulic modeling. That's because two reservoirs were added to the project after the initial environmental analysis.
Werner said the 15 collaborating partners on the project can now work of the same baselines for water flow.
"That sounds easier than it actually is," he said. "We came together and we have a common technical platform that the Army Corps is certainly comfortable with."
NISP is faced with opposition, most notably by by environmental nonprofit Save the Poudre. The group says the environmental and financial costs are too great to construct NISP. It's advocating for water conservation and other efficiency measures to meet growing water demand.
The Army Corps of Engineers will hold to public open houses on the supplemental environmental statement on July 22 and 23 in Fort Collins and Greeley. The deadline for written comments is August 4.
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Navigator of the Seas Cruise Review
We decided to get some sunshine & heat and to celebrate a birthday, Christmas & New Year all in one trip. Our room was a JS on deck 9, serviced by Wayan, who did an excellent job. He knew we were early risers, so our room was normally done by the time we got back from breakfast in the Windjammer. We are experienced Diamond Plus cruisers(500+ points), so feel we can give fairly accurate reviews. Constructive criticism is valid, but complaining for the sake of it is not. We had recently sailed on this ship on the Transatlantic crossing, so after that we were a bit concerned about cruising on her again. However, some things had improved, whilst other things well, deteriorated. The crew we met were wonderful, Roberto"Bobby"Orr, our previous SRA was so friendly and helpful, as was Greg Taylor & Luis, other SRA's on our floor. It soon became a daily routine to interact with all of them, including of course Wayan. Although we could use the Concierge lounge, we preferred to visit the Diamond lounge, situated on this cruise in the Cosmopolitan Lounge on deck 14. This area is so open, spacious, and has a good outlook, opposed to four walls. Alan, the Diamond Concierge was so energetic & welcoming and greeted us daily whenever he saw us. Our server in this lounge, Savio, was the same one we had on the crossing. He is a lovely chap, so attentive, without being overbearing, and soon our drinks were presented before being ordered ! Savio seemed to have endless energy, and his eyes were always on the lookout to see who required service....a great asset to the company. Leroy, head barman, was always at the entrance, along with Alan, and he too was very friendly. The CD, Cuddy, was different from the last time, and he seemed quite energetic, although to be honest, we didn't attend any shows, except the Holiday Ice Show. The muster drill, which was scheduled for 16.30 should be reviewed. Most people were at their station by 16.15, when the announcement was made, then we all had to stand until the last stragglers appeared....16.45. Why not insist all passengers be at their station by 16.15 and those not present, segregated, and be kept until everyone else has left. Many people, including myself, cannot stand for almost 45 minutes in one place, and as a result, I had a very painful back for the rest of the evening. That was not a good start to the cruise. Management has to look closely at various issues, and ensure that the majority of passengers are not inconvenienced by a minority. One issue, which shouldn't have been, was the fact the Loyalty Ambassador had previously quit, and was not replaced, meaning the Concierges had to try and help passengers using the lounges, but they did not always have all the information needed. We visited Guest Services several times, during the times specified, to have our issue addressed, but sadly they were unable to assist. HQ should have been able to provide another Loyalty person, who actually knew his business. We were quite appalled that smoking is still allowed in the Casino. When will RCCL realise that passive smoking is as injurious to health as active smoking. If people wish to kill themselves by smoking, then they should have an enclosed area where the smoke will not affect others. We are saddened that the company obviously don't care about the health, not just of passengers, but the crew, who have to endure smoke daily throughout their long contract. On a couple of occasions, we inadvertently walked along deck 11 to the Windjammer, on the smoking side, and had to hold our breath to avoid inhaling smoke. We had a table for 2, which we always request, but seldom get, in the MDR. Our servers & head waiter were attentive & friendly, but as we have cruised so often, we dine there only occasionally. However, as we had a celebration, Christmas Eve, Day, NewYear's Eve & the 1st, we dined on these occasions. It was good to have different menus for Christmas & New Year...a welcome change. We found the food good in both the dining room & Windjammer, but we are not big eaters, so 2 courses were more than enough daily. The Windjammer allows us to choose small portions of several dishes, which can be put on one plate, providing variety without bulk. Waste is a pet hate of ours, and we were disgusted by the amount of food people piled onto their plates, then left most of it. What has happened to the dress code, or lack of it ? We were appalled that shorts & sleeveless t-shirts were permitted in the lounge after 5pm, even on Formal nights, these were in evidence. The Captain's noon reports were dull, to say the least, but when he had his Q&A, he came across as an amiable person. We enjoyed ourselves, because of our outlook & attitude, but we heard many people complaining. Our next cruise, soon, is on the Vision, hopefully with Captain Marek, and we shall be interested to see if it is still a very happy ship, with the Captain, & officers, always visible. The atmosphere on any ship stems from the Captain & senior management. On the Navigator, something was lacking....perhaps a good management team ?
Better than transatlantic, but....
Navigator of the Seas Cruise Review by Janda7
Sail Date: December 2016
Destination: Southern Caribbean
We decided to get some sunshine & heat and to celebrate a birthday, Christmas & New Year all in one trip.
Our room was a JS on deck 9, serviced by Wayan, who did an excellent job. He knew we were early risers, so our room was normally done by the time we got back from breakfast in the Windjammer.
We are experienced Diamond Plus cruisers(500+ points), so feel we can give fairly accurate reviews. Constructive criticism is valid, but complaining for the sake of it is not. We had recently sailed on this ship on the Transatlantic crossing, so after that we were a bit concerned about cruising on her again. However, some things had improved, whilst other things well, deteriorated. The crew we met were wonderful, Roberto"Bobby"Orr, our previous SRA was so friendly and helpful, as was Greg Taylor & Luis, other SRA's on our floor. It soon became a daily routine to interact with all of them, including of course Wayan.
Although we could use the Concierge lounge, we preferred to visit the Diamond lounge, situated on this cruise in the Cosmopolitan Lounge on deck 14. This area is so open, spacious, and has a good outlook, opposed to four walls. Alan, the Diamond Concierge was so energetic & welcoming and greeted us daily whenever he saw us. Our server in this lounge, Savio, was the same one we had on the crossing. He is a lovely chap, so attentive, without being overbearing, and soon our drinks were presented before being ordered ! Savio seemed to have endless energy, and his eyes were always on the lookout to see who required service....a great asset to the company. Leroy, head barman, was always at the entrance, along with Alan, and he too was very friendly.
The CD, Cuddy, was different from the last time, and he seemed quite energetic, although to be honest, we didn't attend any shows, except the Holiday Ice Show.
The muster drill, which was scheduled for 16.30 should be reviewed. Most people were at their station by 16.15, when the announcement was made, then we all had to stand until the last stragglers appeared....16.45. Why not insist all passengers be at their station by 16.15 and those not present, segregated, and be kept until everyone else has left. Many people, including myself, cannot stand for almost 45 minutes in one place, and as a result, I had a very painful back for the rest of the evening. That was not a good start to the cruise. Management has to look closely at various issues, and ensure that the majority of passengers are not inconvenienced by a minority.
One issue, which shouldn't have been, was the fact the Loyalty Ambassador had previously quit, and was not replaced, meaning the Concierges had to try and help passengers using the lounges, but they did not always have all the information needed. We visited Guest Services several times, during the times specified, to have our issue addressed, but sadly they were unable to assist. HQ should have been able to provide another Loyalty person, who actually knew his business.
We were quite appalled that smoking is still allowed in the Casino. When will RCCL realise that passive smoking is as injurious to health as active smoking. If people wish to kill themselves by smoking, then they should have an enclosed area where the smoke will not affect others. We are saddened that the company obviously don't care about the health, not just of passengers, but the crew, who have to endure smoke daily throughout their long contract. On a couple of occasions, we inadvertently walked along deck 11 to the Windjammer, on the smoking side, and had to hold our breath to avoid inhaling smoke.
We had a table for 2, which we always request, but seldom get, in the MDR. Our servers & head waiter were attentive & friendly, but as we have cruised so often, we dine there only occasionally. However, as we had a celebration, Christmas Eve, Day, NewYear's Eve & the 1st, we dined on these occasions. It was good to have different menus for Christmas & New Year...a welcome change. We found the food good in both the dining room & Windjammer, but we are not big eaters, so 2 courses were more than enough daily. The Windjammer allows us to choose small portions of several dishes, which can be put on one plate, providing variety without bulk.
Waste is a pet hate of ours, and we were disgusted by the amount of food people piled onto their plates, then left most of it.
What has happened to the dress code, or lack of it ? We were appalled that shorts & sleeveless t-shirts were permitted in the lounge after 5pm, even on Formal nights, these were in evidence.
The Captain's noon reports were dull, to say the least, but when he had his Q&A, he came across as an amiable person.
We enjoyed ourselves, because of our outlook & attitude, but we heard many people complaining.
Our next cruise, soon, is on the Vision, hopefully with Captain Marek, and we shall be interested to see if it is still a very happy ship, with the Captain, & officers, always visible. The atmosphere on any ship stems from the Captain & senior management. On the Navigator, something was lacking....perhaps a good management team ?
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Well serviced by I Wayan, but the toiletries provided are not as good as they once were...basic, but sufficed. Bed very comfortable, & the shower, over the bath, was powerful & hot. Balcony, with good chairs and footstools, was a good place to sit/lie & relax, away from the crowds on sea days.
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St John's is not the nicest place away from the immediate port area, but felt safe.
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Seemed to have improved facilities from last time. Sun loungers fine...plenty of opportunities to lie in the shade if required.
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Guest Opinion: Dana Point Rocks by Anthony Small
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Dana Point, you make my heart sing. Twenty one years ago when I moved with my wife Bonnie and our baby daughter Meg to Dana Point, I looked forward to raising my family in this beautiful area. However, I had no idea at the time of the extent to which our community would guide us and support us as we grew up, pursued our dreams and navigated the times of our lives.
Early on, Bonnie taught me about service to others and engaging in the community. She was a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) president at Malcom Elementary, Marco Forster Middle School and Dana Hills High School and had an absolute blast doing it. Her PTA board members were her rock bands. She encouraged me to volunteer, play music in classrooms and get involved in the PTA Reflections art program.
This past year, Bonnie battled breast cancer. It is in remission and she still looks for ways to help other people every single day (see page 3). We were absolutely blown away by the support this community gave to our family and could never fully express how much it means to us, but it means the world. When we were down, you picked us up and I will never forget that.
I love Dana Point so much and have always connected to it through music and the arts. Being a Dana Point Arts and Culture Commissioner allows me to encourage and promote artists of all types, all ages, from all walks of life. Art is for everyone. It brings people together, it heals and that is a wonderful and much needed part of life, especially these days. Nothing makes me happier than seeing the collective smiles, the joy of people gathered at events like Dana Point Summer Concerts in the Park, ArtFest and the like. It’s also awesome to see the excitement in the eyes of the artists when we tell them they’re going to be featured in LOOKOUT, the quarterly community newsletter when they have their art showcased at City Hall and the Community Center and when we can introduce young musicians to performing artists backstage via the Doheny Blues Foundation and really talk songwriting. I will always encourage others to dream big and then do something about it. Speaking as a musician myself, I can honestly say performing for my community at Dana Point Summer Concerts in the Park is a dream come true. It’s a rock and roll picnic with 3000 of your neighbors!
Just as Laguna Beach is known as an artist’s colony, Dana Point should be known worldwide as a music destination. Our local restaurants, hotels and venues have some of the best musicians on the planet playing every week. I would be remiss if I didn’t pay respect to the great bassist and composer Max Bennett, who passed away last week. He played with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles and he also played right here in our town. Support local music in Dana Point.
I know I’m not alone in my belief that music is a fundamental part of the identity of Dana Point. Iconic events like our Concerts in the Park, Doheny Blues Festival, Dana Point Symphony, the upcoming Ohana Festival, the Festival of Whales concert on that crazy floating stage (I could go on), let anyone who’s listening know that the music plays on in Dana Point. I believe it’s a great start but just the beginning. I’m excited to see that momentum continue and I encourage like-minded individuals in town, on City Council and City staff to sing out loud and proud and continue pulling in this musical direction, especially as development in the Harbor and Lantern District etc. continues. Make space for music in Dana Point. We are a City of Music. Now, it’s time to let the world know it.
Anthony Small is Chairman of the Dana Point Arts and Culture Commission, frontman for local rock band Small World and a solo singer-songwriter. Small and his family have lived in Dana Point for 22 years. Some of Anthony’s music can be seen at www.facebook.com/Small-World-Band-324412790986194 or on Youtube by visiting www.youtube.com/channel/UCAJM-qsOF72aJUUb-i72zXA.
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Thank you Anthony for continuing your spirited and zealous advocacy about the value of music and the arts to our community as well as Dana Point’s potential as a world class music destination. When I initiated the Arts and Culture Commission as Mayor seven years ago, I was confident the commission would elevate the place of music and the arts in our city. Thus far it has succeeded beyond my expectations. Through your efforts, you and the other commissioners, past and present, have done an outstanding job enriching the lives of our residents and helping shape our city’s identity. Only the best wishes to your wife Bonnie as she continues her arts advocacy and other service in the face of difficult challenges. Finally, RIP to Max Bennett, a towering but gentle artist of international stature, who gave so much of himself to our community without ever asking anything in return. We have lost a legend who was one of our own. I, and I know many others, will miss him greatly.
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Updated: Aug. 8, 2017, 1:42 p.m.
“God works in mysterious ways,” was Granny’s way of justifying just about everything that didn’t make sense.
Usually, it was her way of trying to make an unpleasant situation seem acceptable by some miraculous intervention.
As a child, this was something I didn’t quite understand and Granny’s application varied. It could range from her getting a perfect spot to hearing her least-favorite sister was sick with pneumonia.
No matter how odd or “curious” – Granny’s term – the circumstances were, Granny attributed it to some mysterious divine workings.
One day in my late teens, I was trying to leave college. This was when Truett McConnell had a campus in the Bell’s grocery store center in Watkinsville.
I was tired and ready to go home and it seemed like I had a big neon 411 sign over my head. Everyone in the parking lot stopped to ask me questions.
One lady was looking of the admissions office to finish paper work for her daughter.
Another guy was trying to find a place that was actually in Athens, not Watkinsville.
And the last guy wanted to know if I knew the hours of the Donut King across the parking lot.
I guess I was the only one he saw who looked familiar with the pastry shop.
“Good grief,” I groaned, as I got in my car. “Why are all these people asking me questions! I would be halfway home by now!”
About 15 minutes later, I came across a horrible wreck at an intersection I had to go through.
“See there,” Granny said, when I told her about the accident when I got home. “If you hadn’t had those people stop you, that may have been you. You thought they was a pesterin’ you – you may have been entertaining angels unaware.”
Maybe she was right.
I have had a few other experiences that could only be explained as some sort of divine intervention.
A few years ago, after I dropped Cole off at pre-k, I had someone pull up beside me at an intersection to tell me I had a flat.
I pulled into the closest parking lot and called my husband. When I couldn’t get him, I left a message, telling him where I was. It was freezing cold and I don’t know the first thing about changing a tire and doubt I could even pop a lug nut off if I had to.
Out of the blue, a man appeared at the window.
“You need some help?”
I’ll admit, I screamed and jumped a little, causing the man to apologize.
“I didn’t mean to scare you. I see you have a flat tire. Do you need some help changing it?”
“I left a message for my husband, but I am not sure if he will get it,” I said, thinking I was stupid for sharing that information.
“Let me check your trunk and see if you have a jack.” I was hesitant, but he even offered for me to stay in my car.
I popped the trunk and he found the jack and spare and went to work changing the tire.
“You’re all set,” he said. “You will want to get a new tire soon though; don’t drive too long on that spare.”
“I can’t thank you enough,” I said. “Can I pay you for your help?”
Knowing me, I probably didn’t have any cash but I had to offer.
He smiled. “No ma’am. It is a God thing. My pleasure to help.”
About that time, I heard the roar of my husband’s truck pull in the parking lot.
“Please – I feel bad that you did that and my husband could have done it.”
He shook his head. “Nope, but I will make sure to mention to your husband about the spare. Is that him?”
I nodded as I waved to get Lamar’s attention.
I rolled down the passenger side window. “Your trunk’s open,” Lamar said.
“Yeah, that nice man changed my tire. He was going to tell you something about the spare.”
Lamar made a face at me. “What man?”
“That man. He was really nice and he changed the tire for me. I offered to pay him but he refused. Do you have any cash on you?”
Lamar straightened up and looked around the parking lot.
“Girl, there’s not another soul in this parking lot. And the business over there isn’t even open yet. You weren’t running the car with the windows up were you?”
“What?...Lamar, I promise you. There was a man. He had on a t-shirt and a pair of jeans….”
“He didn’t have a t-shirt on in this weather.” He walked to the back tire and checked it.
“Your spare’s on but I am telling you, there is no one here.”
“You didn’t see anyone when you pulled in the parking lot?” I asked.
He shook his head. “I saw you sitting here and that was it.”
When I got home, I called Mama to tell her what happened. Granny, quick to grab the phone, answered instead.
“What do you think happened?” I asked her when I finished recounting the story.
“I think that God works in mysterious ways,” she began. “I don’t know why you had a flat today but you may have had a wreck had you gone on up that road. I think that was an angel of some kind. ‘Cause I know your prissy self ain’t gonna change a tire.”
I’ve wondered about that several times over the years. I know there is something much, much bigger beyond us, but would a flat tire really be a divine intervention?
A few weeks ago at work, a client could not find her keys. We looked everywhere. I even rifled through the trash can to make sure they hadn’t fallen in with some papers.
“I am going to be late for work,” she said as we looked under cushions and scoured the parking lot, kicking gravel over in case they fell out of her purse.
“We’ll find them,” I assured her.
We searched for 10 minutes, maybe more. She opened a side pocket on her purse and there they were.
“What the?...” she looked at me in disbelief. “I checked there already and they were not in there. I swear.”
“I believe you,” I said. “God works in mysterious ways though, and for whatever reason, you weren’t supposed to leave just then.”
She gave me an impetuous hug. “I believe that. I really do.”
And I really do, too.
Sudie Crouch is an award winning humor columnist and author of the novel, "The Dahlman Files: A Tony Dahlman Paranormal Mystery."
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No rush on Wicomico school board
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No rush on Wicomico school board Sen. Mathias asks for a series of public hearings and robust discussion on school board. Check out this story on delmarvanow.com: http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/03/27/mathias-letter-editor/70578684/
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Voice and choice are two vital features of grassroots democracy that I believe in and advocate for wholeheartedly.
While news and social media have weighed in on a specific Wicomico County Council proposal for a hybrid elected school board, I truly believe the opportunity for public dialogue with an honest exchange of ideas has been inadequate.
ln particular, there was little public discussion and input on the issue prior to the County Council's decision to request introduction of legislation in this session of the Maryland General Assembly.
This legislation provides for a 2016 county referendum.
I again advocate today, as I have repeatedly in the past, for a series of public hearings which gives ample opportunity for robust discussion of a number of issues that do not have a clear consensus at this time.
For example, should all school board members be elected?
Should some members be appointed? If so, who would appoint?
How many student representatives should the board have? Should each high school have a student representative?
Ample time remains to hold three public hearings this year, perhaps in different county locations, and then the Wicomico County Council can submit a fully vetted proposal for introduction in the 2016 session of the General Assembly.
The referendum would be on the ballot in the November 2016 General Election — the same date as in the current bill.
I do not oppose an elected school board, but strongly support a process that provides opportunities for the citizens of Wicomico County to voice their views and be best informed to make their choice.
Let's take time to get this right.
Maryland Sen. Jim Mathias represents District 38: Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties.
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Bishop Sankey and Washington pose challenge for Cal football’s defense
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Led by Mannion and Cooks, Beavers smash Cal football, 49-17
Led by Mannion, Oregon State treks to Berkeley to face off against Cal football
Already without the majority of its starting defense, the Cal football team is now seemingly without a clear-cut starting quarterback. With Jared Goff and Zach Kline splitting practice reps this week, it is unknown who will lead the Bear Raid against the Huskies on Saturday night.
But Cal’s (1-6, 0-4 Pac-12) quarterback controversy is the least of its worries heading into its matchup with Washington (4-3, 1-3) at Husky Stadium. Despite being the losers of three straight, the Huskies’ woes can be chalked up to a frontloaded conference schedule. And before the team’s recent stumble, Washington was ranked as high as No. 15.
“They kind of went through the rough spot in their schedule, where they played Stanford, Oregon and Arizona State back to back to back,” said Cal head coach Sonny Dykes. “I think Washington is a top-25 team; I really do.”
A week removed from Sean Mannion’s dismantling of Cal’s secondary, the Bears’ defense will be tasked with shutting down the vaunted Husky rushing attack. Washington running back Bishop Sankey leads the country with 172 carries and is fifth in yards, racking up 921 in seven games played.
Featuring a downhill, north-south running style, Sankey will likely take on his usual load of runs against a Cal defense that surrenders nearly 180 rushing yards per game — and that Cal squad is still searching for its first Pac-12 win.
“He’s an impressive guy, runs low, finishes runs, very physical runner,” Dykes said. “Our linebackers need to play well.”
But whether starting quarterback Keith Price will be joining Sankey in the Husky backfield is still up in the air, as the senior is dealing with an ailing thumb on his throwing hand that he aggravated in a 53-24 loss to Arizona State last Saturday. Price practiced Thursday, leading Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian to speculate that his signal caller will play against Cal.
“I’d be surprised if he didn’t play (Saturday),” Sarkisian said after practice Thursday. “Just off of first glimpse, real time, I thought he looked really good.”
Meanwhile, Dykes’ quarterback decision won’t be as clear as Sarkisian’s. With the current depth chart listing the No. 1 quarterback as Goff or Kline, Dykes said he will let the practice week dictate who emerges on top.
So far this week, Goff’s practice reps have come before Kline’s, but it was Kline who outplayed Goff last Saturday against Oregon State. Kline finished the game with two touchdowns and only one turnover, while the incumbent starter failed to find the end zone, tossed an interception and lost two fumbles.
“(Goff) has taken a little shot to his confidence, but I think his psyche is good, and that’s kind of what we will see this week,” Dykes said. “Who we think is practicing with the most confidence. Really, that’s the important thing for young quarterbacks.”
Despite the attention on the quarterback controversy, Cal’s offensive success Saturday will likely come down to whether its offensive line can generate a running game that keeps the heat off of Goff or Kline.
In practice this week, the Bears experimented with a new makeshift offensive line, probably because of the unit’s inability to pass-protect or open running holes. On the season, Cal quarterbacks have been sacked an average of three times per game, while the running game is averaging a paltry 109 yards per game.
“We feel that almost all of it’s on us,” said offensive lineman Jordan Rigsbee. “Everyone else gets a lot of credit for things, but it doesn’t matter how good your guys are: If you don’t have a good offensive line, you can’t play.”
Sean Wagner-McGough covers football. Contact him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @seanjwagner.
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Sing up Andy Carroll: Newcastle boss Chris Hughton hails ever-improving No 9
Updated: 04:49 EST, 29 November 2010
Newcastle boss Chris Hughton hailed striker Andy Carroll after he struck once again to hurt one of the Barclays Premier League big guns.
The 21-year-old England international, whose goal at Arsenal earlier this month secured a famous 1-0 victory, took his tally for the season to nine to ensure champions Chelsea left the north-east with only a point to show for their efforts.
Blues boss Carlo Ancelotti, who returned to London by coach along with his players after their flight plans were dashed by bad weather, abandoned his favoured 4-3-3 formation in an effort to keep Carroll quiet, but the local boy was not to be denied.
Toon idol: Newcastle's Andy Carroll has taken to the Premier League like a duck to water
Hughton said: 'Andy doesn't play with fear. He's not fearful of any opposition or any individual - that's how he is at the moment.
'When you are in a confident mood and you are scoring goals, that's how it should be. You should look forward to every game. You should think that every game is an opportunity to play well and score.
'Going back to last season, he came up against some really tough, Championship-hardened centre-halves who at times physically got the better of him. But his movement across defenders has improved, as has his general movement.
'I think he realises he is up against better players now and to get the better of them, his movement has got to be better. He is in really confident mood at the moment.'
powerhouse: The No 9's unique style has already seen him honoured at international level
Newcastle, who had dumped the champions out of the Carling Cup in September, knew a repeat was a tall order with Ancelotti fielding as strong a side as he could muster, but they got off to the perfect start.
A breakdown in communication between Brazilian Alex and keeper Petr Cech saw the defender serve the ball up on a plate for Carroll to tap home from two yards.
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The Ivory Coast international passed up a glorious opportunity to win the game 10 minutes from time when he fired into the side netting with the goal at his mercy, but the Magpies, for whom new central defensive partners Taylor and Sol Campbell were excellent, deserved their point.
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Nigeria: Police, Parliament, Judiciary, Top List of ‘Corrupt Institutions’ in Nigeria – Survey
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By Adejumo Kabir
The police, parliament and judiciary top the list of the most corrupt institutions in Nigeria according to a survey by Transparency International released on Thursday.
The survey is titled: “Global Corruption Barometer Africa 2019: Citizens Views and Experience on Corruption“. It is the 10th edition.
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According to Transparency International, corruption is hindering Africa’s economic, political and social development.
“It is a major barrier to economic growth, good governance and basic freedoms, such as freedom of speech or citizens’ right to hold governments to account.
“More than this, corruption affects the well-being of individuals, families and communities. While it varies extensively across countries and public institutions, corruption harms hundreds of millions of citizens by undermining their chances of a stable, prosperous future.
“This 10th edition of the Global Corruption Barometer – Africa shows that the range of corruption challenges that African citizens face is complex and multifaceted, requiring fundamental and systemic changes.”
The release said the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) is the largest, most detailed public opinion survey of citizen views on corruption and bribery in Africa “with more than 47,000 citizens surveyed in 35 countries”.
About 69 per cent of those who participated in the survey ticked the police as the most corrupt institution, 60 per cent went for members of the parliament, 51 per cent went for judges, while 43 per cent chose the executive arm of government.
Others are local government officials (55 per cent), government officials (54 per cent), NGOs (40 per cent), business executives (44 per cent), traditional leaders (35 per cent) and religious leaders (20 per cent).
“Also, 43 per cent think corruption increased in the previous 12 months, 44 per cent of public service users paid a bribe in the previous 12 months, 40 per cent think the government is doing a bad job at tackling corruption while 54 per cent think that ordinary citizens can make a difference in the fight against corruption,” the survey highlighted.
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Michigan patients to share $10.5M in meningitis lawsuit settlement
About 750 people in 20 states developed meningitis after they were injected with the tainted steroids for pain
Michigan patients to share $10.5M in meningitis lawsuit settlement About 750 people in 20 states developed meningitis after they were injected with the tainted steroids for pain Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1RrcWai
Candice Williams, The Detroit News Published 9:32 p.m. ET March 25, 2016
More than 300 Michigan patients and survivors affected by a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak will share a $10.5 million class-action lawsuit settlement.
The settlement involving Michigan Pain Specialists in Genoa Township was reached Friday in Livingston County Circuit Court. The clinic was accused of injecting patients with tainted steroids it received from a Massachusetts company blamed for a national outbreak.
“I think it was an excellent settlement under the circumstances,” said attorney Marc Lipton, who represented about 70 of the patients in the case. “I’ve been in communications with these people for three years-plus on this. I see and I hear every day how difficult this infection has been.”
Meningitis is an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord.
Randy Hackney, an attorney for the Michigan clinic, called the settlement “fair.”
The patients are also included in a $210 million settlement involving New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, where the steroids were made leading to the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
About 750 people in 20 states developed meningitis after they were injected with the steroids for pain. Some patients developed other infections.
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