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NATO claims 'no end in sight' to bombing campaign in Libya


The Intercept
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 19:31 UTC
NATO-led destruction of Libya, 2011
NATO-led destruction of Libya, 2011
The U.S. launched a major new military campaign against ISIS on Monday when U.S. planes bombed targets in Libya, responding to requests from the U.N.-backed Libyan government. Strikes took place in the coastal town of Sirte, which ISIS took in June of last year.

The strikes represent a significant escalation in the U.S. war against ISIS, spreading the conflict thousands of miles from the warzones in Syria and Iraq.

All of these attacks took place without congressional authorization or even debate.

"We want to strike at ISIL anywhere it raises its head," said Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook. "Libya is one of those places." He said the airstrikes "would continue as long as [the Libyan government] is requesting them," and that they do not have "an end point at this particular moment in time."

The U.S. has long planned to spread its military campaign to Libya. In January, Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that the U.S. was preparing to take "decisive military action against ISIL" in Libya.

Comment: Further reading:
The psychos have a CIA spook in charge of the Libyan Army, have been arming terrorist militias, and are trying to create a 'unity government' that will both give them access to resources and call in 'reinforcements' to defeat a 'terrorist threat'. In other words, it's more of the same for NATO: contrived chaos to 'legitimize' more war and more destruction. Not satisfied with stealing billions, if not trillions, of Libya's resources, they're back for more.

Silencing Libya: NATO returns to the scene of the crime


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Vader

NATO to Russia: Do some things for us and we'll get on just fine


Fort Russ
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 19:03 UTC
russian cartoon
© Minuteman Media
This is what the West, as well as some enlightened citizens in Russia, who call themselves 'free people' and who wish our country only good, demand from Russia:
  • Lift the siege on Aleppo.
  • Do not kill terrorists worldwide, which receive funding from the United States, Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
  • Do not interfere with the laying of gas pipelines from Qatar to Europe.
  • Do not obstruct the US Navy from amassing a fleet in the Black sea close to the Maritime borders of Russia.
  • Return Crimea to their puppet Ukraine, in order to station a NATO fleet and missile bases there.
  • Do not lay gas pipelines to Europe.
  • Do not stop Ukraine's blackmailing Russia for gas transit.
  • Do not demand payments of debts from Ukraine.
  • Do not interfere with the placement of NATO bases in Georgia and Ukraine, on Russia's borders, and along with this to refuse support for Donbass.
  • Do not interfere with the work of foreign 'charities' and NGO's.

Comment: All perfectly reasonable from the Empire's point of view.

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Bell

The Hague has cleared Slobodan Milosevic over Bosnia, what about accusations made about Vladimir Putin over Ukraine?

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:27 UTC
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Hague Tribunal confirms Western allegations about former Serb President Milosevic's role in the Bosnian war were untrue. What about the identical observations made about Putin's role in the Ukrainian war?

Those of us with memories that extend back to the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s will remember the way Western governments and the Western media cast Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as the villain of the piece.

Milosevic was made out to be a fascistic ultra nationalist presiding over a corrupt and authoritarian regime in Serbia who regularly murdered his opponents, tyrannised the people of Kosovo, and who orchestrated wars in Bosnia and Croatia as part of a megalomaniac ethnicist project to create a Greater Serbia. He was made out to be the puppet master behind the Serbs in the long Bosnian war, and was accused of committing genocide both in Bosnia and in Kosovo.

When Milosevic eventually fell from power following Western backed protests against him, he was put on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in The Hague on all these charges. Though he died whilst the trial was underway, the Western media from time to time continues to repeat these charges as if they had been proved to be true. Anyone who has ever questioned these charges, or who has suggested that there might be more to the wars in Yugoslavia than an evil plot by Milosevic and his associates, is regularly denounced as an apologist for "ethnic cleansing" and genocide, and as a stooge of Milosevic or at best a "useful idiot".

It is therefore very interesting to see how over a succession of trials the international tribunal in The Hague, as well as other investigations and tribunals, have comprehensively rejected the entire case against Milosevic as Western governments and the Western media have told it.

Comment: It's a formula and it works. The media are not called the "Mighty Wurlitzer" by the CIA for nothing. The media works hand-in-glove with the PTB to advance their agenda. NBC was recently caught red-handed disseminating information to manipulate the Turkish coup.

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Propaganda

The rebels formerly known as al-Qaeda: Reuters' new talking points on Syrian suicide bombers


Reuters
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:55 UTC
dugma
Future suicide bomber shows the truck he intends to use to kill innocent Syrians, and himself in the process.
What do Islamist militants do while waiting to be sent on a suicide bombing mission?

Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal takes us to the insurgent front line in Syria in his new documentary, interviewing would-be suicide bombers to see what daily life is like as they wait to be sent to their death.

The film, "Dugma: The Button", shot in late 2014 and last year, follows members of the then al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebel group Nusra Front as they wait to be deployed as suicide bombers -- showing them in a restaurant, washing up dishes or chatting as gunfire rings out nearby.

The group announced last week it was cutting ties with al Qaeda and renamed itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.

"I hope that it will first of all make people understand that our enemies are human beings and they are not perfect human beings," Refsdal told Reuters in an interview.

"They are clumsy sometimes, they do mistakes, they have regrets sometimes, they have dilemmas."


Comment: Understanding should not equate to condoning. Yes, some members of terrorist groups like AQ or ISIS are damaged human beings. But that does not excuse their actions. Since the U.S.'s proxy-terror regime-change campaign in Syria is not working so well, there is an effort to brand al-Qaeda as a "moderate rebel" group. They are not.


Comment: The trailer for Refsdal's documentary:



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Gold Seal

Demonization campaign finally unravels: Milosevic cleared of all false accusations, as the NATO war machine rages on

Neil Clark
RT
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:31 UTC
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© Marko Djurica / ReutersSupporters of Slobodan Milosevic wait in line to pay their respect at the former president's grave in Pozarevac March 10, 2007.
The ICTY's exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should take NATO claims regarding its 'official enemies' not with a pinch of salt, but a huge lorry load.

For the past twenty odd years, neocon commentators and 'liberal interventionist' pundits have been telling us at every possible opportunity, that Milosevic (a democratically elected leader in a country where over 20 political parties freely operated) was an evil genocidal dictator who was to blame for ALL the deaths in the Balkans in the 1990s. Repeat after me in a robotic voice (while making robotic arm movements): 'Milosevic's genocidal aggression' 'Milosevic's genocidal aggression'.

But the official narrative, just like the one that told us that in 2003, Iraq had WMDs which could be launched within 45 minutes, was a deceitful one, designed to justify a regime change-op which the Western elites had long desired.

The ICTY's conclusion, that one of the most demonized figures of the modern era was innocent of the most heinous crimes he was accused of, really should have made headlines across the world. But it hasn't. Even the ICTY buried it, deep in its 2,590 page verdict in the trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who was convicted in March of genocide (at Srebrenica), war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Mr. Potato

With a historic low approval rating of 10%, French President Hollande has the gall to say Trump is 'sickening'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:25 UTC
French President Francois Hollande
© REUTERS/ Philippe Wojazer
The French President with an approval rating of 10% takes aim at Donald Trump.

Just last week we had Hillary Clinton and the US liberal media "hyperventilating" over non-existent comments made by Vladimir Putin on the US elections, and "expert" neocon technology consultants "almost certain" Russia hacked the DNC emails.

The Russian President has an approval rating that ranges around 85%. He is respected the world over. He hunts down ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists wherever they hide. He does his job, which in case anyone forgot is to look after the best interests of the Russian people.

Just to add some more context as to how deeply Vladimir Putin is inserting himself in the US elections, here is one of the very few quotes he has made about the US elections on June 17, 2016:
"We will judge by the deeds, not words of the new United States president and will seek ways to normalize ties and advance our cooperation in economy and international security."
Of course we are certain that liberal progressive reading the above quote will interpret it as KGB code for 'we must elect Trump so we can then takeover Estonia.'

We now turn our attention to French President Francois Hollande, who has an approval rating of around 10%. Hollande is the most unpopular leader in modern French history, but will run again for president of France.
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Attention

Trump calls Hillary the founder of ISIS, supporters cheer "lock her up"


RT
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:20 UTC
trump
© Eric Thayer / ReutersTrump attends a campaign event at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida August 3, 2016
Donald Trump said Wednesday Hillary Clinton "should get an award" from Islamists for founding Islamic State, claiming her policies as secretary of state precipitated the group's formation. Trump's supporters were quick to nod a "lock her up."

"Take a look at Orlando. Take a look at San Bernardino. Take a look at the World Trade Center. Take a look at what's going on, and then worldwide, and we let [Islamic State or IS, formerly] ISIS take this position," the Republican presidential nominee said during an election rally in Daytona Beach, Florida. He drew a list of flaws in US policy in Libya and the Middle East, laying all the blame on his opponent, Clinton.

"It was Hillary Clinton that... she should get an award from them as the founder of ISIS. That's what it was. Her weakness. Her weak policies," the New York mogul stressed, with the crowd then responding with "Lock her up! Lock her up!"

Comment: He may be a raging egotist, but when it comes to Hillary, he's right.

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Gold Coins

Price of gold bullion surges as China and Russia amass precious metal


Sputnik
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:12 UTC
Gold ingots
© Sputnik/ Pavel Lisitsyn
China and Russia are steadily accumulating gold as they seek to reduce dependence on the US dollar, financial information website Marketwatch reported.

Russia and China's policy of buying gold has helped the price of the precious metal to reach its highest level for more than two years, according to financial information website Marketwatch.

On August 2 the price of gold future contracts for December delivery closed at $1,372.6 per troy ounce, their highest level since March 2014.

"China and Russia, the world's No. 1 and No. 3 producers, are catching up to the big industrial countries in stocks of bullion in their official reserves," remarked Marketwatch analyst David Marsh.

Comment: Rattled investors seek shining path to gold and silver

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Snakes in Suits

Killary, Queen of War: The road map ahead

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:57 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Sputnik
It all starts with a Wahhabi-Zionist lovefest.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry was forced to go on a non-denial denial overdrive about a visit to Israel on July 22 by a delegation led by retired Gen. Anwar Eshki.

Eshki happens to be close to Saudi intel superstar and onetime close Osama bin Laden pal Prince Turki bin Faisal, who recently met in the open with former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) generals Yaakov Amidror and Amos Yadlin.

While in Israel, Eshki met with Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold, and Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the top IDF honcho in the West Bank.

There's absolutely no way the House of Saud would not have given a green light for such a visit - and such high-level meetings. By the way, the Interior Ministry in Saudi Arabia bans all travel to Israel - as well as Iran and Iraq.
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Info

EU Council extends Libya mission until August 2017, approves $19 million budget


Sputnik
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:52 UTC
Libya refugees
© Flickr/ European External Action Service
The Council of the European extended the mandate of the planning mission EUBAM Libya until 21 August 2017, according to official statement.

The Council of the European prolonged the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Libya for another year, until august 21, 2017 and has allocated additional $19 million to supports its efforts, the EU institution said in a statement on Thursday.

EUBAM in Libya was established by the Council of the European Union in May 2013, and was given the mandate to support the Libyan authorities in improving and developing the security of the country's borders. On February 15, 2015 the European Union extended the mission by six months, until August 21, 2016.

"On 4 August 2016, the Council extended the mandate of the planning mission EUBAM Libya until 21 August 2017. It also approved a budget of €17 million for the period from 22 August 2016 to 21 August 2017. As part of the EU's comprehensive approach to support the transition to a democratic, stable and prosperous Libya, EUBAM Libya is mandated to plan for a possible future EU mission providing advice and capacity-building in the area of criminal justice, migration, border security and counter-terrorism," the statement reads.
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