tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511104214693308337.post1835688069258867811..comments2023-10-06T03:45:38.951-07:00Comments on Wahyusamputra: QadhafiWahyusamputrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113407940308381597noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511104214693308337.post-65764816458888260852011-07-15T07:31:02.881-07:002011-07-15T07:31:02.881-07:00“Secrecy is for losers,” as the late Senator and U...“Secrecy is for losers,” as the late Senator and United Nations Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say. If this is indeed the case, it would be hard to find a bigger loser than the U.S. government.<br /><br />http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2003/s033103.html<br /><br />Update on Libya: <br /><br />"George Bush, Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Guardian etc etc the usual hacks in this matter, make freedom sound like a threat and democracy sound like a punishment.<br /><br />"Also I don't see any reports of the following:<br /><br />"1 -- That on Sunday 7/10/11 France calling on NATO to immediately stop its counterproductive and counterintuitive bombing, as more countries witness public demonstrations against NATO’s actions in Libya. French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said in Paris that it was time for Qaddafi loyalists, which France acknowledges have been rapidly increasing in number, and Libyan rebels “to sit around a table to reach a political compromise” because, he said, “there was no solution with force." <br />or <br /><br />"2- On 9 July 2011, NATO claimed its aircraft carried out another “precision strike on a pro-Qaddafi missile firing position near Tawurgha, south of Misrata. According to its media office, “NATO intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance were conducted over a period of time to ascertain the military use of the site. It was confirmed as being used to launch indiscriminate attacks on Libyan civilians in the area and a staging area by pro-Qaddafi villagers, including planning attacks on rebel forces near the port and city of Misrata.” The next morning, 7/10/11, local inhabitants denied that the farm had any military activity on the property and an examination of the farm buildings failed to discover any. <br /><br />"or 3 <br />On May 13, 2011, a peace delegation of Muslim religious leaders having arrived in Brega to seek dialogue with fellow Sheikhs from the east of Libya, was bombed at 1 a.m. in their guesthouse by two US MK 82 bombs. Eleven of the Sheikhs were killed instantly and 14 were seriously injured. NATO claimed the building housed a “Command and Control Center.” All witnesses and the hotel owner have vehemently denied this claim. <br /><br />"or 4 <br />On June 6, 2011, at 2:30 a.m. the central administrative complex of the Higher Committee for Children in central Tripoli, two blocks from this observer’s hotel, was bombed with a total of 12 bombs/rockets. The complex housed the National Downs Syndrome center including its records and vital statistics office, the Crippled Women’s Foundation, the Crippled Children Center, and the National Diabetic Research Center. <br /><br />"or<br />5. On June 16, 2011 at 5 a.m. NATO bombed a private hotel in central Tripoli, killing three people and destroying a restaurant and Shisha smoking bar. <br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/14/libya-gaddafi-troops-demoralised-prisoners-of-warWahyusamputrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113407940308381597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511104214693308337.post-90723664536013614272011-07-10T01:45:35.911-07:002011-07-10T01:45:35.911-07:00General Wesley Clark told Amy Goodman on Democracy...General Wesley Clark told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now four years ago [in May,2003] that soon after 9/11 a general in the Pentagon informed him that several countries would be attacked by the US military. The list included Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. [13] <br /><br />In May 2003, John Gibson, chief executive of Halliburton's Energy Service Group, told International Oil Daily in an interview, "We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don't like being kept out of markets because it gives our competitors an unfair advantage." [14] <br />14. "Halliburton Eager for Work Across the Mideast," International Oil Daily, May 7, 2003.<br /><br />The seven countries above are all distinguished by one salient fact: none of them accept the authority of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), nor, therefore, of the subsidiaries of the BIS, the IMF and the World Bank, or the control that those two institutions exercise over the economies, loans and repayment terms, and economic and financial priorities of the countries that do accept that authority.<br /><br />With the establishment of the world's newest state, the Republic of South Sudan (ROSS), that list of seven must now be extended to eight.Wahyusamputrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113407940308381597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511104214693308337.post-59014954829500012042011-06-28T14:40:47.433-07:002011-06-28T14:40:47.433-07:00"The moving finger writes, and having writ, m..."The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.<br />Not all thy piety nor wit can call it back to cancel half a line,<br />Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."<br /><br />Omar Khayyam, Rubayyat<br /><br />The past is past - it's already happened and can not be changed, and we all did whatever we did in this world that none of us created, that we all got dropped into.<br /><br />We all live in the present, out of which grows the future, and that we may do something to change, but we can change only ourselves. <br /><br />Forgiveness is always necessary, and that includes ourselves. (Two things have no limits, human stupidity and the universe, said Einstein, and I'm not sure about the universe.) Forgiveness includes ourselves, and if galloping acidification indeed results in dead oceans, we may not have much more time.<br /><br />It's tough on French banks that they hold most of Greek debt, as British banks hold most of Irish debt, but that can't be changed either. Only what they do about it can change.Wahyusamputrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113407940308381597noreply@blogger.com