Sunday, April 10, 2011

6 Year Old Girl Groped By TSA





More disgusting molestation of a 6 year old girl that could be Al-Qaeda


U.N., French attack Gbagbo heavy weapons in Ivory Coast | Reuters

U.N., French attack Gbagbo heavy weapons in Ivory Coast | Reuters

NHS chiefs ration healthcare to meet cuts target

NHS chiefs ration healthcare to meet cuts target | Society | The Guardian

Growing numbers of patients are being denied treatment for conditions such as loss of sight, arthritis and infertility as the NHS increasingly rations healthcare in order to save money, research by the Guardian shows.

Services for patients with mental health problems and addictions and those who need physiotherapy after accidents are being scaled back, while operations to fix hernias or remove cataracts or varicose veins are either being refused or delayed.

Big protest in Baghdad to demand U.S. leave Iraq

Big protest in Baghdad to demand U.S. leave Iraq - BlackListedNews.com

A day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that American troops could remain here for years, tens of thousands of protesters allied with Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American Shiite cleric, flooded the streets demanding an end to the American military presence.

The protests were scheduled before Gates' comments - made Friday during a visit to troops in northern Iraq - although his statements may have fueled some of the day's fervor. The protesters were whipped up by comments drafted by al-Sadr, who sent a message to the crowd threatening to reconstitute his militia, the Mahdi Army, if the American military did not leave this year.

Navy successfully uses Northrop lasers aboard ship

Navy successfully uses Northrop lasers aboard ship - The Daily Breeze

The U.S. Navy used a laser developed in Redondo Beach by Northrop Grumman Corp. to demonstrate how the weapon can defend a ship against small boats, the company and military branch said Friday.

The open ocean tests were conducted between October of last year and this month at the Pacific Ocean Test Range near San Nicolas Island off the Central California coast.

The at-sea tests "validated the potential to provide advanced self-defense" that ships can use to keep threatening small boats at a "safe distance," the Navy said in a statement.

Stiglitz Calls for New Global Reserve Currency to Prevent Trade Imbalances

Stiglitz Calls for New Global Reserve Currency to Prevent Trade Imbalances - Bloomberg

The world economy needs a new global reserve currency to help prevent trade imbalances that are reflected in the national debt of the U.S., said Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

A “global system” is needed to replace the dollar as a reserve currency and help avoid a weakening of U.S. credit quality, said Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University in New York. The dollar fell to an almost 15-month low against the euro last week, and the U.S. trade deficitwidened more than forecast in January to the highest level in seven months.

Naples joins statewide redlight camera protest

Naples joins statewide redlight camera protest » Naples Daily News

Naples will join other Florida cities in a statewide protest against red light camera ticketing.

Locally, the protest is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Pine Ridge Road and U.S. 41.

Liberty groups throughout the state are organizing the simultaneous event to bring attention to red light ticketing. The Libertarian Party of Florida, Campaign for Liberty, Florida Civil Rights Association, and multiple tea party groups are among the event's organizers.

Participants of the red light camera protest are urging citizens to contact their state legislators and tell them to support SB 672 and HB 149, a law that would ban red light cameras in Florida.

» Supreme Court rules prosecutors can lie and fabricate evidence

» Supreme Court rules prosecutors can lie and fabricate evidence Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be held accountable for knowingly or intentionally sending an innocent man to prison and even death row.

Pharmaceutical drugs causing spike in diseases they supposedly treat

Pharmaceutical drugs causing spike in diseases they supposedly treat
(NaturalNews) A recentU.S. News & World Reportpiece highlights new studies that point to serious problems down the road for the over-medicated population. According to reports, more than 60 percent of American adults now take at least one drug every day for a chronic health problem, and more than half of seniors take at least three medications every day. But the end result is more diseases like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, arthritis and cancer.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/032016_pharmas_disease.html#ixzz1JB5h5DQL

Arab Leauge proposes no-fly zone over Gaza

PressTV - AL proposes no-fly zone over Gaza
Amid successive deadly attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip, the Arab League plans to press the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over the coastal sliver.


The organization's Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Sunday that the body plans to present the UN Security Council with the proposal, AFP reported.

Japanese Experts: Effort is in danger of failing… and reactors too hot to cover in concrete

Japanese Experts: Effort is in danger of failing… and reactors too hot to cover in concrete — TEPCO admits there is no end in sight « Energy News

… A month into the crisis, the utility acknowledges,there is no end in sight. …

Some Japanese experts now say the effort is in danger of failing unless Japan seeks more help from international experts to bring it to an end. Tetsunari Iida, an engineer-turned-industry critic, said the situation is “beyond the reach” of Japan’s closely knit nuclear establishment. …

[E]xperts say the overheated fuel rods are likely to have suffered extensive damage, and there is a complication for seemingly every advance. …

Tokyo Electric officials told CNN they can’t say when they’ll be able to restore those normal cooling. …

Satoshi Sato, a Japanese nuclear industry consultant, called the current line of attack a “waste of effort.” Plant instruments are likely damaged and unreliable because of the intense heat that was generated, and pumping more water into the reactors is only making the contamination problem worse, he said.

There is no happy end with their approach,” Sato told CNN. “They must change the approach. That’s something I’m sure of 100 percent.”

After the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world’s worst to date, the Soviet Union encased the plant’s damaged reactor in a massive concrete sarcophagus. Iida said Fukushima Daiichi’s reactors remain too hot to pour concrete, but he suggested pouring a slurry of minerals and sand over them to carry away heat before encasing them. …

YES! Iceland's Got the Balls No One Else in Europe or America Has! "... it's still a bailout and the people of Iceland are having none of it

YES! Iceland's Got the Balls No One Else in Europe or America Has! "... it's still a bailout and the people of Iceland are having none of it." | Before It's News

Iceland voted yesterday in a second referendum on the proposed Icesave deal, rejecting it by a 57% to 43% margin

9/11: Blueprint for Truth - WTC Building 7 - 10 minute Segment from New ...

A visit from the census

The Global Banking System Runs Entirely On Cocaine Money

Gaddafi 'accepts' AU plan to end fighting

Gaddafi 'accepts' AU plan to end fighting - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has accepted a "road map" for a ceasefire with rebels, according to a delegation of African leaders.

The announcement followed a meeting between the leaders and Gaddafi on Sunday in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, just hours after NATO air raids targeted his tanks, helping the rebels push back government forces who had been advancing quickly towards their eastern stronghold.

Jesse Ventura: 16 mln docs cover-up?! US Revolt needed!

Egypt’s Tahrir Square Closed as Protesters Barricade Entrances

Egypt’s Tahrir Square Closed as Protesters Barricade Entrances - Bloomberg

WEEKEND IN NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA ~~ PEACE AND JUSTICE IN PHOTOS

WEEKEND IN NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA ~~ PEACE AND JUSTICE IN PHOTOS « Desertpeace

China Lashes Out At US "Hypocrisy", Blasts US Human Rights "Double Standard" In Pursuing "World Hegemony"

China Lashes Out At US "Hypocrisy", Blasts US Human Rights "Double Standard" In Pursuing "World Hegemony" | zero hedge

Cairo’s central Tahrir Square was closed to traffic as dozens of protesters barricaded several entrances a day after it was forcibly evacuated by security forces and soldiers.

Groups of protesters lay in makeshift tents or explained their demands to passersby in the square, which was at the heart of 18 days of protests that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak.

“We want to see court rulings against the people who were running this country,” said 31-year-old Mahmoud Youssef, who owns a clothing store. “We want speedy trials. We want to feel that something is being done.”

Mubarak Breaks 2 Month Silence To Fight 'Lies'

Mubarak Breaks 2 Month Silence To Fight 'Lies'

CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, breaking a two-month silence, said Sunday that accusations of corruption against his family were lies and he had the right to defend his reputation.

In his first public comments since being ousted from power on February 11, Mubarak said information sent to Egypt's public prosecutor would show he owns no financial assets or real estate abroad.

Details of bank accounts owned by his sons Alaa and Gamal would disprove any suspicions of profiteering and illegal gains.

The Big Con

Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Boehner-Obama Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year

Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Boehner-Obama Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) - The federal debt increased $54.1 billion in the eight days preceding the deal made by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cut $38.5 billion in federal spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which runs through September.

The debt was $14.2101 trillion on March 30, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and $14.2642 on April 7.

B. D. S. (Jackson 5) Chicago Flashmob

Gas prices keep soaring as U.S. fuels other countries' growth

Gas prices keep soaring as U.S. fuels other countries' growth - News - Progress-Index

How high will they go?

Gasoline prices, already too high for most people's liking a month ago, have continued to soar and seem to be closing in inexorably on their record high above $4 a gallon.

And while most petroleum market-watchers remain convinced that political upheaval in the Middle East and ensuing speculation on the commodities markets are behind the price increase, evidence suggests that there may be another cause that's even less likely to go away anytime soon.

On Friday morning, according to travel club AAA Midatlantic and the Oil Price Information Service, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in the Richmond-Petersburg metro area was $3.642. That was up from $3.625 the day before, from $3.50 a week earlier, from $3.406 a month ago and from $2.766 on the same day last year. It's still below the all-time high of $4.006 set in July 2008, but it's close enough to be causing real pain at the pump.



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Black Man Sent 'KKK Warning' To O'Fallon Police, City Hall, Authorities Say

Black Man Sent 'KKK Warning' To O'Fallon Police, City Hall, Authorities Say

A black man in southern Illinois has been charged with conveying false threats to city officials, for allegedly penning letters signed as "KKK warnings."

In November of 2006, the town of O'Fallon, Illinois's police department received the following letter,according to CBS in St. Louis: "Get all the blacks from Chevy Chase Apartments from out of O'Fallon before we burn the hole [sic] complex down. KKK warning."

Ten days later, a similar letter arrived at City Hall. "Get all the blacks out of O'Fallon before we start burning the[ir] houses down. KKK warning," read the second letter, the Belleville News-Democrat reports.

Justin Lamar Kidd, a 28-year-old African-American living in O'Fallon, was arrested in the case on Wednesday, and indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of maliciously conveying a false threat,as KSDK writes. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each charge.

Japan's Onagawa Nuclear Plant Loses Power in Latest Quake

Japan's Onagawa Nuclear Plant Loses Power in Latest Quake
TOKYO, Japan, April 8, 2011 (ENS) - Four people have died and more than 100 were injured in the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked the northeast coast of Japan's Honshu island on Thursday, the second quake stronger than 7.0 to hit the area in less than a month.

Many buildings were damaged and over 3.6 million households are without electric power.

Thursday's quake did not change the status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled in the March 11 earthquake, but it caused a power supply interruption to a different nuclear plant and a uranium enrichment facility.

Globalists Coming Full Circle: Obama executes final leg of Neo-Conservative imperialism

Activist Post: Globalists Coming Full Circle: Obama executes final leg of Neo-Conservative imperialism
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Long before the verified lies of Qaddafi's "door-to-door" genocide and even before the media cleverly tagged the engineered destabilization of the Middle East the "Arab Spring," Libya was already marked for destabilization and regime change. For nearly thirty years the US and UK have funded groups both inside Libya and beyond its borders in various attempts to remove Qaddafi from power. The current administration's feigned ignorance over the nature of the rebels in Libya is nothing short of absolute deception. The CIA and MI6 are on record for decades following, and in many cases supporting, these very groups.

Below is a partial time line covering Western efforts to implement regime change in Libya.

1980s: US-CIA backed National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL) made multiple attempts to assassinate Qaddafi and initiate armed rebellion throughout Libya.
1990s: Noman Benotman and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) wage a campaign of terror against Qaddafi with Osama Bin Laden's assistance.
2003: Upon Qaddafi's abandonment of WMD programs, Libya's collaboration with MI6 & the CIA to identify and expose the LIFG networks begins, giving Western intelligence a windfall of information regarding the group.
2005: NFSL's Ibrahim Sahad founds the National Conference of Libyan Opposition (NCLO) in London England.
2011: Early February, the London based NCLO calls for a Libyan "Day of Rage," beginning the "February 17th revolution."
2011: Late February, NFSL/NCLO's Ibrahim Sahad is leading opposition rhetoric, literally in front of the White House in Washington D.C. Calls for no-fly zone in reaction to unsubstantiated accusations Qaddafi is strafing "unarmed protesters" with warplanes.
2011: Late February, Senators Lieberman and McCain and UK PM David Cameron call for providing air cover for Libyan rebels as well as providing them additional arms.
2011: Early March; it is revealed UK SAS special forces are already operating inside Libya
2011: Mid-March; UN adopts no-fly zone over Libya, including air strikes. Immediately, the mission is changed from "protecting civilians" to "ousting Qaddafi." Egypt violates the arms embargo of UN r.1973 with Washington's full knowledge by supplying Libyan rebels with weapons, while Al Qaeda's ties to the rebels are admitted by everyone including the rebels themselves.

Recently, Fareed Zakaria on his CNN show interviewed a former Libyan Al-Qaeda associate, Noman Benotman, to dispel "allegations" that Al Qaeda was playing a key role in the rebellion against Qaddafi. Benotman would concede that Al Qaeda was involved but not significantly, suggesting there were only a few hundred fighters. The Washington Times would later quote Benotman upgrading the number to a thousand. Then after Libyan rebel leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi admitted to recruiting extremists into his ranks and that he believed Al Qaeda members were "good Muslims," Benotman began back peddling and even claiming, "The way they start to make statements or to understand the conflicts is unbelievable, beyond my imagination. The only explanation I can offer is because they have been affected - whether they like it or not - by the wave of democracy."

Japan tsunami victims search continues

Japan tsunami victims search continues | World news | The Guardian
Japan tsunami victims search

The search is continuing for victims of the tsunami that struck Japan's north-east coast almost a month ago, while officials said they hoped to stop pumping radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea.

More than 20,000 Japanese troops and 110 from the US conducted land, sea and air searches for the thousands of victims whose bodies have yet to be recovered

Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk

Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk - Jeff McMahon - The Ingenuity of the Commons - Forbes

• Unusual Reading At Chatanooga Nuclear Plant

• Milk Contamination At EPA Maximum

• Highest Levels Yet In Boise Rainwater

Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday.

Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted by EPA, the data shows. The Phoenix sample contained 3.2 picoCuries per liter of iodine-131. The Los Angeles sample contained 2.9. The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standarddesigned to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat.

The cesium-137 found in milk in Vermont is the first cesium detected in milk since the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accident occurred last month. The sample contained 1.9 picoCuries per liter of cesium-137, which falls under the same 3.0 standard.

Soros and friends reorder global finance at new Bretton Woods

Soros and friends reorder global finance at new Bretton Woods | The Examiner | Op Eds | Washington Examiner
While all the focus is now on the three-ring circus in Washington vis-a-vis passing the fiscal 2011 budget the Democrats failed to pass in 2010, up in New Hampshire this weekend at Bretton Woods, the Institute for New Economic Thinking is convening a very important conference, "CRISIS and RENEWAL: International Political Economy at the Crossroads."

It's no accident they're meeting on the very same site as the Bretton Woods Conference -- formally United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference -- that met from July 1-22, 1944, during World War II to plan the postwar financial world after the expected defeat of Germany and Japan.



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/04/soros-and-friends-reorder-global-finance-new-bretton-woods#ixzz1J8PWpOCZ

Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact

Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact - Yahoo! News
LONDON (Reuters) – A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it.

Scientist accidentally passes insect virus to wife by sexual contact

Scientist accidentally passes insect virus to wife by sexual contact | Mail Online

A biologist has inadvertently made history after becoming the first person to pass on an insect-borne virus to another human by sexual contact.

Researcher Brian Foy contracted the Zika virus, which causes severe fatigue and joint pain, while on a field trip to Senegal.

Five days after his return he fell ill, followed by his wife Joy who started showing symptoms too.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1374480/Scientist-accidentally-passes-insect-virus-wife-sexual-contact.html#ixzz1J8NkY53O

Toddler Rushed to Hospital After Reportedly Being Served Alcohol at Applebee's

Toddler Rushed to Hospital After Reportedly Being Served Alcohol at Applebee's - FoxNews.com

A 15-month-old boy was rushed to a hospital after he was accidentally served alcohol in a kids' meal at a Michigan Applebee’s, MyFoxDetroit.com reports.

Taylor Dill-Reese, the boy’s mother, said her son started acting strangely Friday at the Madison Heights restaurant after drinking from his sippy cup what she thought was apple juice. When Dill-Reese tasted the drink, it turns out it was margarita mix, according to MyFoxDetroit.com.



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Scientists link oil on dolphins to BP spill

Scientists link oil on dolphins to BP spill | Reuters

(Reuters) - Scientists confirmed on Thursday that they have discovered oil on dead dolphins found along the U.S. Gulf Coast, raising fresh concerns about the effects of last year's BP oil spill on sea life.

Fifteen of the 406 dolphins that have washed ashore in the last 14 months had oil on their bodies, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said during a conference call with reporters.

US unveils indictment for 9/11 suspects

PressTV - US unveils indictment for 9/11 suspects
US prosecutors have compiled and announced charges against five suspects accused of involvement in planning the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
The indictment against the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others was unveiled on Sunday, AFP reports.

"From in or about December 1999, through in or about June 2000, al-Qaeda selected operatives to pilot the airplanes to be hijacked and dispatched the operatives to the United States to obtain flight training and otherwise carry out the plot," the indictment said.

This comes a week after Washington announced that the suspects would face a military tribunal.

NATO launches air strikes against Misrata, Ajdabiya

NATO launches air strikes against Misrata, Ajdabiya | The Raw Story

BENGHAZI, Libya – NATO launched air strikes against Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's troops in the stricken port city of Misrata on Sunday after regime forces killed at least 11 people there over the weekend, rebels said.

And in Brussels, an alliance official confirmed to AFP that NATO warplanes had destroyed 11 regime tanks on the road to the eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya and another 14 tanks near Misrata.

WikiLeaks: British officials toured Libyan chemical weapons lab months before Tony Blair visit

WikiLeaks: British officials toured Libyan chemical weapons lab months before Tony Blair visit - Telegraph
WikiLeaks: British officials toured Libyan chemical weapons lab months before Tony Blair visit

Scientists from Britain and America visited the chemical weapons facility as it was being built in August 2006.

The cable, a copy of which was leaked to the WikiLeaks website and seen by The Daily Telegraph, detailed a visit by the scientists to a military facility in Tajura, on the outskirts of Tripoli.

Army "ready to use force" to clear Cairo square

Army "ready to use force" to clear Cairo square - Yahoo! News

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling generals said on Saturday they were ready to use force to end protests in Tahrir Square after troops cracked down on demonstrators overnight and sparked violence that medical sources said killed two people.

Soldiers and police had used tasers and batons to try to drive out protesters from the square, the epicenter of protests that toppledHosni Mubarak on February 11. Gunshots echoed across the square in the overnight operation.

Tornado Has Damaged Over Half of Iowa Town, Deputy Says

Tornado Has Damaged Over Half of Iowa Town, Deputy Says - FoxNews.com

MAPLETON, Iowa -- A small Iowa town remains barricaded after a tornado destroyed much of it Saturday evening, and no one is being allowed back into the city.

Monona County Sheriff's Deputy Roger Krohn told the Sioux City Journal as much as 60 percent of the town of Mapleton may have been damaged or destroyed.



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'Naked' penguins have scientists perplexed

'Naked' penguins have scientists perplexed – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
'Naked' penguins have scientists perplexed
A mysterious ailment is causing penguins to lose their feathers, according to researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

French and UN "Peacekeepers" murdering babies by the thousands in Ivory Coast

French seize Ivory Coast main airport as fighting rages 

The French army took over Ivory Coast's main airport Sunday as the battle for Abidjan raged into a fourth day and rival leaders blamed each other for chilling massacres in the west.

The French Licorne (Unicorn) force took control of the airport in the main city Abidjan and Paris reinforced its troops in the city with 300 men as more than 1,500 foreigners sought refuge at a French military camp amid violence and looting in the city.

Fierce fighting has been raging in Abidjan and other parts of the west African country between forces backing internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara and incumbent strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to step down after disputed November elections.

Story continued: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/french-seize-ivory-coast-main-airport-as-fighting-rages-20110403-1csys.html

China says U.S. human rights outcry is interference

China says U.S. human rights outcry is interference - Yahoo! News

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said it was willing to discuss its differences on human rights "with mutual respect" with the U.S. on Saturday after rejecting a recent official report from Washington as interference in its internal affairs.

"China would like to conduct dialogue on the basis of equality and mutual respect. But China resolutely opposes using the issue of human rights to interfere in China's internal affairs," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement posted on the ministry's website www.fmprc.gov.cn.

Harry Reid predicts DREAM Act will still pass

Harry Reid predicts DREAM Act will still pass - Phoenix Civil Rights | Examiner.com
Phoenix civil rights groups have been constantly harping on politicians to move the DREAM Act forward again. Maricopa County Latinos have been on the edge ever since the DREAM Act didn’t pass last year. Some have even called for a revolution. Most, however, have taken the middle ground and have been pushing politicians, such as Harry Reid, to continue efforts to pass the legislation.

Dutch Mall Shooting? But I Thought Guns Were Illegal There

Im just wondering how it is possible for this to have occurred where you cant have a gun

Pilger: Euro-Amero Attack on Libya has nothing to do with "Protecting Civilians"

The CIA is behind the Rebellion
The Euro-American Attack on Libya has nothing to do with "Protecting Civilians"
David Cameron's Gift of War and Racism, to Them and Us

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24225
by John Pilger Global Research, April 8, 2011


The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West's response to popular uprisings in strategic, resource-rich regions of the world and the beginning of a war of attrition against the new imperial rival, China. 

President Barack Obama's historical distinction is now guaranteed. He is America's first black president to invade Africa. His assault on Libya is run by the US Africa Command, which was set up in 2007 to secure the continent's lucrative natural resources from Africa's impoverished people and the rapidly spreading commercial influence of China. Libya, along with Angola and Nigeria, is China's principal source of oil. As American, British and French planes currently incinerate both 'bad' and 'good' Libyans, the evacuation of 30,000 Chinese workers is under way, perhaps permanently. Statements by western officials and media that a 'deranged and criminal Colonel Gaddafi' is planning 'genocide' against his own people still await evidence. This is reminiscent of fraudulent claims that required 'humanitarian intervention' in Kosovo, the final dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the biggest US military base in Europe. 

The detail is also familiar. The Libyan 'pro-democracy rebels' are reportedly commanded by Colonel Khalifa Haftar who, according to a study by the US Jamestown Foundation, set up the Libyan National Army in 1988 'with strong backing from the Central Intelligence Agency'. For the past 20 years, Colonel Haftar has been living not far from Langley, Virginia, home of the CIA, which also provides him with a training camp. The Mujihadeen, which produced al-Qaida, and the Iraqi National Congress, which scripted the Bush/Blair lies about Iraq, were sponsored in the same time-honoured way, in leafy Langley. 

Libya's other 'rebel' leaders include Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Gaddafi's justice minister until February, and General Abdel-Fattah Younes, who ran Gaddafi's interior ministry: both with formidable reputations for savagely putting down dissent. There is a civil and tribal war in Libya, which includes popular outrage against Gaddafi's human rights record. However, it is Libya's independence, not the nature of its regime, that is intolerable to the west in a region of vassals; and this hostility has barely changed in the 42 years since Gaddafi overthrew the feudal king Idris, one the more odious tyrants backed by the west. With his Bedouin hyperbole and bizarre ways, Gaddafi has long made an ideal 'mad dog' (Daily Mirror), now requiring heroic US, French and British pilots to bomb urban areas in Tripoli, including a maternity hospital and a cardiac centre. The last US bombing in 1986 managed to kill his adopted daughter.

What the US, British and French hope to achieve is the opposite of a people's liberation. In undermining efforts Libya's genuine democrats and nationalists to free their country from both a dictator and those corrupted by foreign demands, the sound and fury from Washington, London and Paris has succeeded in dimming the memory of January's days of hope in Tunis and Cairo and distracted many, who had taken heart, from the task of ensuring that their gains are not stolen quietly. On 23 March, the US-backed Egyptian military issued a decree barring all strikes and protests. This was barely reported in the west. With Gaddafi now the accredited demon, Israel, the real canker, can continue its wholesale land theft and expulsions. Facebook has come under Zionist pressure to remove a page calling for a full scale Palestinian uprising - a 'Third Intifada' - on 15 May.

None of this should surprise. History suggests nothing less than the kind of machination revealed by two senior diplomats at the United Nations, who spoke to the Asia Times. Demanding to know why the UN never ordered a fact-finding mission to Libya instead of an attack, they were told that a deal had been done between the White House and Saudi Arabia. A US 'coalition' would 'take out' the recalcitrant Gaddafi if the Saudis put down the popular uprising in Bahrain. The latter has been accomplished, and the bloodied King of Bahrain will be a guest at the Royal Wedding in London. 

The embodiment of this reaction is David Cameron, whose only real job has been as PR man to the television industry's asset stripper, Michael Green. Cameron was in the Gulf selling arms to the British-invented tyrannies when people rose up against Yemen's Abdullah Saleh; on 18 March, Saleh's regime murdered 52 demonstrators. Cameron said nothing of value. Yemen is 'one of ours', as the British Foreign Office likes to say. In February, Cameron revealed himself in an attack on what he called 'state multi-culturalism' - the code for Muslims. He said, 'We need a lot less of the past tolerance of recent years.' He was applauded by Marine Le Pen, leader of France's fascist National Front. 'It is exactly this kind of statement that has barred us from public life for 30 years,' she told the Financial Times. 'I can only congratulate him.'

At its most rapacious, the British empire produced David Camerons in job lots. Unlike many of the Victorian 'civilisers', today's sedentary Westminster warriors - throw in William Hague, Liam Fox and the treacherous Nick Clegg - have never been touched by the suffering and bloodshed which, at remove in culture and distance, are the consequences of their utterances and actions. With their faintly trivial, always contemptuous air, they are cowards abroad, as they are at home. War and racism and the destruction of Britain's hard-won social democracy are their gift. Remember that when you next take to the streets in your hundreds of thousands, as you must. 

www.johnpilger.com

Troops launch new search for Japan tsunami victims

Troops launch new search for Japan tsunami victims - USATODAY.com
TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese and U.S. militaries launched another all-out search for the bodies of earthquake and tsunami victims Sunday along Japan's ravaged northeast coast.