Reports that NATO is now rushing boatloads of fresh rebel fighters from Misratah to Tripoli.
A day ago a Reuters reporter revealed that NATO sent in at least 200 rebels, to Tripoli by sea, at the beginning of the assault on Tripoli.
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Obama says NATO will continue in Libya, even after Gaddafi leaves
U.S. President Obama just stated that he expects the situation in Libya to continue to require NATO forces to help even after Gaddafi is gone.
Obama said they expect fighting throughout Libya to continue after Gaddafi is gone, and U.S. military officials will work with NATO to support the new government of Libya.
Iran moving nuclear equipment underground, says Israel will attack
The new facilities that are being opened were built years ago, and the reason was because the U.S. and its ally Israel were constantly making threats against Iran, against international law, that they will bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.”-Seyed Marandi, Tehran University
Iran has begun moving centrifuges and uranium enrichment equipment to underground bunkers. They have already told the International Atomic Agency about the move.
Iranian officials say the move is to try and protect scientists. Already several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated. Iran suspects Israel or the Untied States of the assassinations.
Rebels pushed out of Tripoli, Libyan government tanks bagan rolling out of nowhere, surprising rebels, the whole of Tripoli is a trap
“I have a feeling that the government is luring the rebels in, allowing them to have fun on Green Square and then very well counter-attacking them.”-Franklin Lamb, director of Americans for Middle East Peace
Russian media says early morning, August 22, Libyan governments tanks began rolling out of hiding places, targeting surprised rebels.
Many of the tanks targeted rebels who were attacking Gaddafi’s military compound. The tanks were joined by Libyan army guntrucks.
More tanks have been spotted at the port of Tripoli. Earlier rebels claimed the Libyan army surrendered. Now rebels say they control only 15%-20% of Tripoli.
Also, a convoy of at least 22 Libyan army vehicles entered Tripoli and took control of the center of the city. They are now erecting barricades.
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.
What Economic Recovery? S & P’s downgrades Nevada & New Jersey, Idaho gets upgrade, more to come in November
“In our opinion, the longer-term deficit reduction framework adopted as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) could undermine the already fragile economic recovery and complicate aspects of state and local government fiscal management.”-Gabriel Petek, S&P’s
Standard & Poor’s has already downgraded the credit rating of Nevada, New Jersey and several U.S. counties, for 2011.
Many counties and cities got super downgrades, meaning credit rankings of triple B, or less. S&P’s says many local governments are in very bad shape fiscally.
Six states were actually upgraded. They are Idaho, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oregon, South Dakota and Louisiana. But only Wyoming and Nebraska made the triple A rating.
In a statement issued by S&P’s on August 18, they indicate more downgrades for state and local governments are coming. It’s all based on state budget plans, and what happens with the Federal Debt Limit Deal (Budget Control Act of 2011).
S&P’s will make more credit rating decisions in November.
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.
BBC finally admits to helping the United States overthrow democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister, BBC doing the same thing in the U.S.?
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).
Government Incompetence: Japan government now realizes contamination too high to cancel evac orders!
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.
What Economic Recovery? Editor says we were never in a Recession, we ARE in a Depression, big bank speculators to blame
“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.”