Puppet MastersS


Big Bomb

How NATO undid decades of post-colonial development in mere months

FILE PHOTO: Lybia's Leader Muammar Gaddafi attends a meeting with seven hundred Italian women at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica on June 12, 2009 in Rome, Italy.
© Franco Origlia/Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Lybia's Leader Muammar Gaddafi attends a meeting with seven hundred Italian women at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica on June 12, 2009 in Rome, Italy.
Thirteen years ago, the NATO operation against Libya demolished one of the most well-off African nations

Once one of the leading and most economically prosperous countries in North Africa, Libya has today become a hotbed of instability and destruction. This country is yet another victim of the so-called 'Arab Spring'.

In January 2011, the first riots began, the day after the news of the flight of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from his own country became known. The first protests hit the Libyan cities of Benghazi, Derna, and Al-Bayda. The discontent was caused by excessively long construction times for housing. Protesters began to seize unfinished houses, attack contractor offices and municipalities.

Indeed, there were problems with construction times. Immediately after the start of the protests, then leader Muammar Gaddafi condemned the rallies, but at the same time noted that the construction times for housing had been delayed and promised to punish the perpetrators. On January 27, Reuters reported that the Libyan government had set up a $24 billion fund "to provide housing for the population."

Comment: Gaddafi worked for his country and his people, primarily, rather than the western elites. The NATO countries and nudging from Israel rewarded with balkanisation. Still his work was not in vain, he set an example for others.

1) Gaddafi in SOTT articles, in summary; in title; 220+ articles, 600+ articles, (for Qaddafi in title; 10+ articles, in summary; 90+ articles)
A former Italian premier, in an interview, has contended that a French air force missile brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya's then-leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Former two-time premier Giuliano Amato appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to either refute or confirm his assertion about the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, which killed all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight.

In an interview with Rome daily La Repubblica, Amato said on Saturday he is convinced that France hit the plane while targeting a Libyan military jet.

While acknowledging he has no hard proof, Amato also contended that Italy tipped off Gaddafi, and so the Libyan, who was heading back to Tripoli from a meeting in Yugoslavia, didn't board the Libyan military jet.

What caused the crash is one of modern Italy's most enduring mysteries.

Some say a bomb exploded aboard the Itavia jetliner on a flight from Bologna to Sicily, while others say an examination of the wreckage, pulled up from the seafloor years later, indicates it was hit by a missile.

Radar traces indicated a flurry of aircraft activity in that part of the skies when the plane went down.

"The most credible version is that of responsibility of the French air force, in complicity with the Americans and who participated in a war in the skies that evening of June 27," Amato was quoted as saying.

NATO planned to "simulate an exercise, with many planes in action, during which a missile was supposed to be fired" with Gaddafi as the target, Amato said.

In the aftermath of the crash, French, US and NATO officials denied any military activity in the skies that night.
Best of the Web: Hillary's emails confirm France and US killed Qaddafi for his gold and oil
Clinton e-mails reveal Washington's obsession with overthrowing Qaddafi government in Libya
The Ugly Truth: video Of Libyan rebel beheading Gadhaffi soldier and other Nato war crimes
The despicable and heinous timeline of Gaddafi's murder
Why they came for, and killed, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi
Qaddafi Compound Hit by U.K. Missiles as Coalition Says Leader's Forces in Disarray
NATO: Qaddafi loyalist resilience surprising
2) About Gadaffi's "The Green Book"
The Green Book is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. It was "intended to be read by all people". It is said to have been inspired in part by The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung). Both were widely distributed both inside and outside their country of origin, and "written in a simple, understandable style with many memorable slogans".
The book has three chapers:
Chapter 1: The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People

Chapter 2: The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism

Chapter 3: The Social Basis of the Third International Theory
See also Wiki. The Green Book Center has versions "in European languages and in CIS languages at separate sites."

Given the independent mind of Muammar Gadaffi, adding a little inspiration from The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung), it is not hard to imagine how his administration ended up in the red/black books of the NATO alliance partners.

3) On Lockerbie
There's plenty of evidence that suggest that, if the FBI does indeed re-open the Lockerbie case file, they should be looking past the "usual suspects" aka patsies of Libyan terrorists:
4) Libya in the SOTT articles, in title; 800+ articles, in summary, 2410+ articles
In a massive show of support for limitless executive power, Congress rejected legislation that would have terminated national emergency powers allowing Washington to wage war across the Middle East - and to test biological weapons on US citizens.

Led by Representative Paul Gosar, a handful of Republican members of Congress launched a protest against 41 nominal "national emergency" declarations, many of which are decades old.

Rep. Gosar has argued the National Emergencies Act is "tyrannical," granting 148 separate powers to the executive branch.

This July 18, the House voted down five resolutions to terminate national emergency powers which date back as far as 2003. The countries affected by the five resolutions include Congo, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Iraq. Each vote saw a coalition of pro-war Democrats and Republicans join together in overwhelming numbers to protect the executive branch's emergency authorities.
5) Gaddafi on Ukraine 2009

Since 2009 Gaddafi and Libya are gone. Changes in Ukraine have been even more dramatic and are ongoing.

6) The GDP chart of Libya from this Wiki is illustrative of the western sponsored post-post colonial development.
Libyan GDP before and after civil war



Black Magic

Ukraine's losses 'in the millions' - retired Polish general

Rajmund Andrzejczak
© Mateusz Slodkowski / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty ImagesRajmund Andrzejczak.
Kiev does not have the resources or manpower to continue the fight against Russia, Rajmund Andrzejczak has said.

Ukraine's losses in the conflict with Russia should be counted "in the millions," the former chief of the Polish General Staff, Rajmund Andrzejczak, has claimed. Kiev "is losing the war" and does not have the resources to sustain the fight against Moscow, he added.

In an interview with the Polsat broadcaster on Monday, the retired general described Ukraine's battlefield situation as "very dramatic" and insisted that "there are no miracles in war."

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's decision to replace his top general, Valery Zaluzhny, with Aleksandr Syrsky has failed to make a significant difference as the same issues remain for Kiev's new commander-in-chief, Andrzejczak added.

Comment: See also:


Eye 2

Best of the Web: Netanyahu to Biden: 'There's no way to destroy Hamas without Rafah ground op'

netanyahu
© Image source/GPO via Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed more about his Monday phone call with President Joe Biden. He informed a closed meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that he made it clear to Biden that there's no way to eradicate Hamas without a ground operation in Rafah.

Biden had reiterated to Netanyahu that the US sees a Rafah invasion as a "mistake" given the presence of over one million internally displaced Palestinian civilians in the city amid an already soaring death toll.

"The Americans asked that we not do an operation in Rafah," Netanyahu told defense officials. "But there is no other choice. We need control over the Philadelphi Route," he continued in refence to the Egypt-Gaza border area.

Arrow Up

Google helped boost Obama, Clinton presidential runs while censoring Republicans: report

3 googlers
© Politico/Getty Images/KJNWannabe US President Hilary Clinton • Former US President Barack Obama • US President Joe Biden
Google has been putting its thumb on the scale to help Democratic candidates win the presidency in the last four election cycles during which it censored Republicans, according to a right-leaning media watchdog.

The Media Research Center published a report alleging 41 instances of "election interference" by the search engine since 2008.

The MRC published a report accusing Google of having "utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates...while targeting their opponents for censorship."

The report comes weeks after AllSides conducted an analysis which found that news aggregator Google News skewed even more off the charts in 2023.

Google has also come under fire after its Gemini AI image generator produced "woke"-inspired and historically inaccurate images such as black Vikings, female pope and Native Americans among the Founding Fathers.


Google has denied the claims made by MRC.

Comment: See also:


Arrow Down

US rejects Russian ceasefire proposal for Ukraine

peaceU/R
© unknownUkraine • PEACE • Russia
CIA Director William Burns warned that the US is running out of time to support Ukraine...

Russia's attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington. US officials reiterated their stance, stating that they would only engage in talks with Moscow with Kiev's consent.

According to Reuters, in late 2023 and early 2024, Russian intermediaries reached out to US officials seeking to establish a ceasefire. The Kremlin was hoping to freeze the fighting along the current lines of control. "The contacts with the Americans came to nothing," an unnamed senior Russian official told the outlet.

Russian officials said some progress was made, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan agreed to a call with his counterpart in the Kremlin. Putin's adviser, Yuri Ushakov, suggested the idea of a ceasefire to Sullivan, but Sullivan refused to talk about Ukraine.

Putin has also suggested talks during public remarks, including in his interview with Tucker Carlson.

Comment: There is no winner in war and no honor by starting one.


Bad Guys

Timofey Bordachev: The West loves democracy until it gets results it doesn't like

FILE PHOTO: A man votes at a polling station during the presidential election in Moscow, Russia.
© Sputnik / Maksim BlinovFILE PHOTO: A man votes at a polling station during the presidential election in Moscow, Russia.
The US and its allies have tried to manipulate this country's politics since the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s

One of the most curious cases in the turbulent history of post-Cold War US-Russian relations is the decision of the US authorities to reduce financial aid to Moscow after the free elections to the State Duma in 1993 gave a significant number of seats in the new Russian parliament to representatives of the former ruling Communists and the nationalist LDPR. This direct reaction by Washington to the results of the popular will in a foreign country was a perfect example of how the West views the nature of, and challenges facing, democratic institutions in countries it considers dependent on it.

Comment: The papacies of the ideology of western democracy are situated in Washington and Brussels. Interpretation that falls outside of their decrees may get hit by defamation attacks, sanctions, bans and crusades.

See also:
On the leash of the US State Department and MI6: how western military-intelligence structures finance and arm the Russian opposition to foment chaos and terror in the country
SOTT Focus: The End of Democracy: "What I'm Describing is Military Rule"
OSCE violating its mandate - Moscow
US is not a democracy - Putin


X

US is not a democracy - Putin

USdebate
© Jim Bourg/Getty Images2020 US Presidential Debate • Joe Biden • Donald Trump
The Russian leader has called the political situation in America a "catastrophe"...

The US has become a global laughing stock by criticizing democratic processes in other nations while suppressing a presidential candidate in its own election, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has claimed.

Speaking to journalists in Moscow early on Monday morning, shortly after preliminary results indicated he would be reelected with 87% of the vote in the Russian presidential election, Putin stated:
"The whole world is laughing at what is happening" in the US. We are behaving with more restraint than their opponents in other countries, but this is just a catastrophe, not a democracy - that's what it is."
Putin claimed that the current US administration is using all its resources to attack a candidate for this year's presidential election, seemingly referring to Donald Trump. The former US leader is facing a litany of lawsuits despite being the presumptive Republican nominee for the vote in November.

Comment: There is no rebuttal to any of the above. Putin is correct.


Russian Flag

Scott Ritter: Putin's 'dedicated work' added to reinvigorated Russia

Putin office
© Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/Go to the mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin
Putin started to rise to political prominence during the country's times of trouble in the 1990s, when the very existence of the Russian nation was up in the air, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.

The three-day presidential elections have wrapped up in Russia, where an overwhelming majority of voters opted for incumbent Vladimir Putin remaining in office for a new six-year term.

Putin prevailed over his three competitors, including head of the Liberal Democratic Party Leonid Slutsky, Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov, and New People Party nominee Vladislav Davankov.

Speaking to Sputnik, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter looked back at Putin's previous years of presidency in light of the Russian head of state's election victory. According to Ritter, the process of reinvigorating the Russian nation was one of the key achievements by Putin.

The ex-US Marine Corps intelligence officer said:
"One should understand that this process 'didn't happen in a vacuum' and was the byproduct of a quarter century of dedicated work on behalf of Vladimir Putin for Russia and the Russian people."

Cut

Niger severs ties with US military after alarm raised junta will supply uranium to Iran

uranium cake
© fileUranium yellow cake
Niger announced over the weekend that it is suspending military cooperation with the United States, in a significant blow to the Pentagon's presence in West Africa, which is likely to result in Washington being forced to withdraw its troops, also in a major blow to AFRICOM's influence on the continent.

Last year's coup saw a military-led government come to power, which from the start signaled rough and uncertain times ahead for US-Niger relations. A Saturday statement by Nigerien junta spokesman Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said,
"Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships capable of truly helping them fight against terrorism."
This charge of the US not respecting the West African nation's sovereignty comes in reaction to recent Western intelligence claims that Niger has been engaged in secret talks and deal-making to grant Iran access to its uranium. US officials have also bitterly complained about Niger cozying up to Moscow.

Tank

Moscow: NATO won't bring stability to Caucasus

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenber caucasus armenia
© Stepan Poghosyan/Photolure via REUTERSNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attends a joint press conference with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan, Armenia March 19, 2024.
The bloc's desire to gain a foothold in the region is no secret, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

Russia is well aware of NATO's attempts to court post-Soviet republics in the South Caucasus, but the bloc's overtures will bring no benefit to the region, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Peskov commented on NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's tour this week of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia to boost ties with these nations.

Peskov said that the NATO chief's trip is further proof of the bloc's push to gain more clout in the region. "NATO's overall aspiration to secure a foothold in the Caucasus is well-known. One could see this with the naked eye."

Comment: