Category Archives: International

International

Egypt recognizes Rebels as new government of Libya, admits they supported rebels from the beginning

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, has announced that Cairo recognizes the Libyan Transitional National Council (rebels) as a legitimate representative of Libya.

Not only does Egypt recognize the rebels as the government of Libya, but Egyptian officials have revealed that they have been supporting them from the beginning.

Proof of this is that as many as 38 Egyptians had been arrested by Gaddafi’s forces, after they were caught helping the rebels.

One Libyan rebel official confirmed that the Libyan rebellion is connected to the regime change in Egypt: “We thank Egypt that has helped make this revolution succeed, because the Mubarak regime’s downfall helped Gaddafi’s downfall, for they are allies.”-Abdul Mon’em al-Houni

International, U.S.

Libyan embassy in Japan raises Rebel flag, Rebel flag clue that monarchy could return to Libya

The Libyan embassy in Japan has replaced the all green flag with the flag of the rebels.  Japanese media say the embassy staff reported that the government of Libya had changed.

The flag of the rebels is also the old flag of the Kingdom of Libya, which lasted from 1951-969.  The Kingdom of Libya fell because the king was so greedy that most of the oil wealth went to him (as well as European countries) while many Libyan’s suffered.  Some accounts show that Libyan’s suffered more under the king, than under Gaddafi.

During the time of the Kingdom, the United Kingdom was the main developer and controller of Libya’s oil.  The United Kingdom is currently one of the NATO members bombing the crap out of Libya.

The United States also maintained a huge air base, called Wheeler Air Base, in the Kingdom of Libya.

The rebel’s use of the flag of the old Kingdom of Libya suggests that this is just an attempt by Europe and the United States to regain control in North Africa.  After all, even the U.S. Marine Corps hymn mentions attacking Tripoli in the past.

Business/Economics, International

Sweden’s King & Queen kicked out of German restaurant

“Whether you’re a street sweeper or queen, we just didn’t have a table or enough manpower in the kitchen at that time and our hands were tied.”-Nadine Schellenberger, restaurant Zum Gueldenen Stern

Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf, and German-born Queen Silvia, were refused service at one of Germany’s oldest restaurants, the Zum Gueldenen Stern founded in the 16th century.

The hostess said they were busy hosting a wedding party, and she just didn’t recognize the royals: “I didn’t recognize them, I mean without crowns and scepters…I am just not up on royal families and I don’t have time for glossy magazines.”

A letter of apology will be sent.  As far as finding something to eat that night, the Swedish royals had to settle for…a lowly pizza!

International, U.S.

March 11 Tsunami picked up on Radar in California

Japanese and California scientists are now reporting they were able to track the March 11 tsunami on radar.  It was the first time a tsunami was observed on radar.

For the past ten years, scientists from California and Japan, have been using radar to track ocean currents. They discovered they could track large tsunamis as well.

The radar did not pick up the actual tsunami surge, but the changes in the ocean currents caused by the surge.  The scientists hope radar could be used as an tsunami early warning system.

 

International

Pacific Ring of Fire: March 11 now being called world’s first “megadisaster”, it was a real air bender, more to come

Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics published a study which showed the March 11, 9.0 quake in Japan hit the upper atmosphere as well.

Disturbances in the upper atmosphere, directly above the epicenter of the earthquake, were picked up by more than 1,000 GPS systems. The effect is called seismotraveling ionospheric disturbances, literally air bending.

This is not the only study that shows a connection between major quakes and the atmosphere.  An earlier NASA report showed the atmosphere above Japan “heated up” days before the March 11 disasters: “Our first results show that on March 8 a rapid increase of emitted infrared radiation was observed from the satellite data.”-Dimitar Ouzounov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

It wasn’t just the 9.0 quake that hit the atmosphere, air bending also took place immediately after the massive tsunami hit Japan.

It turns out that air bending took place after the 2004, 9.3 Sumatra quake.  But, the 9.0 Japanese quake of March 11 produced air bending three times that of the 2004 Sumatra quake.  This is one reason why March 11, 2011, is being called the world’s first megadisaster.

The other reason is all the massive aftershocks that keep rocking Japan. Just in the last week three aftershocks, greater than 5.0, hit northern Japan within days of each other.  Japanese scientists have warned that such huge aftershocks could continue for years.


 

 

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Germany to ban “like” button on Facebook, because it’s a spy tool for the United States

“Whoever visits Facebook.com or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years.”-Thilo Weichert, privacy commissioner

German officials, in the state of  Schleswig-Holstein, have discovered that every time the Facebook ‘like’ button is clicked, it sends your private info back to several U.S. databases.  This violates European privacy laws.

Website owners are ordered to remove ‘like’ buttons, and other similar buttons, from their websites, or face a U.S.$72,000 fine.

 

International

Emergency Press Conference in Libya, NATO and rebel forces killed 1,300 people in past 11 hours

The Libyan government holding emergency press conference.  They say that Tripoli has been under constant attack by rebel and NATO forces for the past 11 straight hours.

They say the hospitals are full of dead and dying.  At least 1,300 residents of Tripoli are dead, another 5,000 are wounded.  Libyan officials say that is far more than what they have in military forces in Tripoli, and it is proof that U.S. led NATO does not care about civilians.

They say their hospitals are now overwhelmed, even the International Red Cross is unable to handle the situation.

The Libyan government warns that if the rebels win then Libya will be turned into another Afghanistan.  The Libyan rebels are made up of tribalists and al-Qaeda, the very thing the United States is fighting in Afghanistan (at least that’s what U.S. officials claim as the reason for being in Afghanistan).

International

End near in Libya? Gaddaffi Sons captured, emabassy in Brazil lowers Libyan flag

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.

International

Israel invades West Bank, while offering peace to Gaza

“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