Libyan western supported rebels claim they’ve captured two of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi’s sons. This after days of ground fighting in Tripoli.
There were also rumors that Tunisia offered Gaddafi asylum. Gaddafi says he will stay in Tripoli “until the end.”
In Brazil, the Libyan embassy lowered the Libyan flag, and raised the flag of the Libyan rebels.
“Between 100 and 120 people have been arrested. In terms of size, there has never been such an arrest operation on this scale in the Hebron area before.”-Samira Halaika, Palestinian Member of Parliament in West Bank
Israeli troops raided Hebron, West Bank, and detained 120 men. Analysts say it was a desperate attempt by Israelis to prevent any attacks coming from West Bank. Officially Israel says all the men are members of Hamas, but local Palestinians say they is no proof to support that claim. Palestinians in the West Bank responded by throwing rocks at the Israeli soldiers. The Israelis responded by shooting at the rock throwers. Yeah, rocks versus bullets, cry me a river Israel!!!
While Israel troops were raiding West Bank in the middle of the night, Israeli officials offered Gazans a cease fire, but only if they stop launching their retaliatory rockets. Of course Israel immediately launched air strikes after making the cease fire offer. One Hamas official responded: “All attempts by the occupation to hit at Hamas are doomed to fail; experience has shown that it only makes Hamas stronger. If the [Israeli] aggression stops, Hamas will consult with the Palestinian factions about how to deal with the situation.”-Mushir al-Masri, Palestinian MP in Gaza
“The United Nations has to take procedures to stop the Israeli offensive on Gaza.”-Nabil El-Araby, Arab League Secretary General
After an emergency meeting, the Arab league has condemned the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and demand action by the United Nations.
The Arab League also condemned “Israeli aggression against the Egyptian forces”.
More than a week ago Israeli officials admitted they were willing to go to war to stop the UN recognition of Palestine as a UN member. Also, recently a former Israel defense official admitted that plans have been made to take the Sinai.
In 1951 Iranians elected a Prime Minister for the first time. It meant the downfall of the British backed Pahlavi regime. But not for long.
The U.S. CIA has admitted many years ago, that it was ordered by President Eisenhower to overthrow the democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Now the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) has admitted they helped the CIA.
The British were upset about their Anglo-Iranian oil company (now called British Petroleum, aka BP) losing control of Iran’s oil fields. They convinced Eisenhower that the democratically elected Mosaddegh was a proxy of the Soviet Union. So begins the long history of the British government using the United States as a puppet to enact regime changes all over the world (most recently Afghanistan, Iraq, and ongoing efforts in Libya).
How did the CIA do it? The way they did it is now a classic text book example in University political science classes. They started small by finding corrupt news media sources within Iran. They paid them to write false news stories about the democratically elected government. The BBC now admits to taking a part in this role.
After getting enough media sources printing false stories, they then bribe corrupt individuals, and even unemployed people, to run a round claiming abuse at the hands of the government. This escalates to riots. In 1953 so many people in Iran were believing the false stories, and there were enough unemployed and disenfranchised Iranian people that there was a full blown coup. The Pahlavi regime was returned to power.
If you look at some of the “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East right now, they smack of classic CIA/British regime change tactics.
One of the reasons these regime change tactics work is that some of the false news reports actually contain examples of true abuses. However, the false media stories exaggerate the true abuses, to make it look like the government is out to get everybody. If this tactic lasts long enough, and the number of riots, with the expected police crack downs, increases it will create a downward spiral in social politics within the affected country.
The BBC admitted to the Iranian people that they helped overthrow their democratically elected government, back in 1953, though a documentary which recently aired on the BBC Persian TV channel.
It was the 1953 U.S./U.K. backed coup that led to the 1979 Iranian Revolution against the U.S. and U.K.
People of the United States don’t think it can’t happen here. You lovers of PBS should be aware that BBC now owns PBS. Why do you think there are so many British TV programs now playing on a supposedly U.S. TV channel? It’s not because the executives of PBS are Anglophiles. Oh, and don’t forget Rupurt Murdoch’s take over of many so called independent U.S. news corporations. Murdoch became a U.S. citizen solely so he could legally begin taking over U.S. media. Murdoch is member of the British Empire (aka Commonwealth).
When orders were finally given to evacuate areas around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, government officials led people to believe it would only be a few months.
It’s more than five months, and now the government realizes the level of contamination is so bad that it will be “…a long, long time…” before some city and towns can be considered safe for people to live in.
A meeting is being arraigned with local officials to explain the severity of the situation, and to better explain to evacuees why they might never be able to return home.
“It is much worse than a recession, in fact it is even worse than a depression… The White House has told us we have been on a recovery…which is a complete lie.”-Edward Spannaus, Executive Intelligence Review
“…there will be no recovery…until we take steps to deal with the Wall Street gambling casino, the speculators, which is what is really killing our economy.”
“…shutting down the big speculator banks. And the way to do that is by restoring Franklin Roosevelt’s law, the Glass Steagall law, which would shut down the gambling casino, wipe out the phoney debts, and that would enable us to get around to rebuilding our economy…”
“I question even the term ‘investors’ these days, because an investor is someone who invests for the long term. And what you see today in these markets, is very short term speculation.”
“As long as these banks are sitting on huge piles of money, from bailouts, from the Federal Reserve giving them free money, and they’re just speculating with this, they’re not investing, not lending to businesses, they’re not doing anything to create jobs.”
“The State of America’s Children is absolutely horrific and what’s worst of all is that very few people in America know about this…added to this we’re going through what I call a Main Street Depression, it is worse than the 1930s…”-Stephen Lendman, commentator Chicago
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a non-profit child advocacy group, revealed that 31 million children live in families that are one or two paychecks away from economic catastrophe.
The Casey Foundation’s study also found that between 2007 and 2009, 5.3 million children had to leave their homes due to foreclosure.
The Children’s Defense Fund echo’s the Casey Foundation’s report. The CDF says the bad economy is driving up the number of children involved with dropping out of school, hunger, crime, etc, to record levels.
Many other organizations are coming up with corresponding data.
The U.S. Federal court says a Florida family used fortune telling to intimidate people out of $40 million.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Laurence Bardfeld said the victims forked over cash, gold coins and jewelry. The fortune tellers said bad things would happen if they didn’t pay up.
The Sun Sentinel reports that one victim, a bestselling author, gave an estimated $20 million.
For the past couple of weeks Berlin has been plagued with car fires. At first police thought it was the usual anti-elitists targeting the cars of wealthy people, but many cars were not owned by the rich.
Now, hundreds of Germans are rioting in Hamburg. It started during a street festival. People began attacking and burning banks.
2,500 police are on the streets, using water cannons. Police don’t relate this to the increasing number of poor people in Germany. Police say these Hamburg riots happen every year.
“The bureau calls for credible and decisive action to compel Israel to abide by its legal obligations and to protect Palestinian civilians under prolonged military occupation from the damaging effects of settlements and settlers.”-UN Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
The UN Committee for Palestinians is upset over Israel’s planned illegal building of 5,200 settlement homes in Palestinian territory around al Quds (Jerusalem).
The committee said it violated existing UN resolutions, and guaranteed that there will be no peace. The committee also called on the UN Security Council to take action against Israel: “The Security Council and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions bear a special responsibility in this regard.”