Strange Prayer's

Dr. Mercola's Discusses Health Liberty!

2012-01-24T10:07:00.000Z

i love Dr Mercola so much it makes me cry lol

Learn to love fevers, not fear them

2012-01-22T21:30:00.002Z

http://www.naturalnews.com/034686_fever_infection_medical_myths.html#ixzz1jtqsZULp

and not so coincidentally perhaps

Hyperthermic or Fever Therapy for Cancer
http://www.alternative-doctor.com/cancer/hyperthermia.html

Raymond Francis – The Body is a Self Repairing, Self Regulating System – January 17, 2012

2012-01-22T21:28:00.000Z

http://www.oneradionetwork.com/health/raymond-francis-the-body-is-a-self-repairing-self-regulating-system-january-17-2012/

a wonderful conversation

Cellular Health with Dr. Dave Woynarowski

2012-01-22T21:22:00.006Z

http://www.longevitywarehouse.com/Articles.asp?ID=371

Excellent 20 min Omega 3 discussion

How omega-3 fatty acids protect your body from rapid oxidation and premature aging.

Why the Standard American Diet is severely deficient in omega-3s and at the root of heart disease, inflammation, mental disorders, and cellular oxidation.

The three critical factors that play an important role in neurotransmitter health and production.

What causes premature cell death (and accelerates the aging process!).

Bill Still #36 - Meet the New Boss

2012-01-17T10:16:00.002Z

love Bill Still

Plz see The Secret of Oz for more by Bill Still

Unplug Yourself: How Advertising and Entertainment Shapes Your Subconscious

2012-01-12T22:32:00.000Z

Really neat article

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30220.htm

By Andre Evans

January 11, 2012 "NaturalSociety" -- They say the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious. Usually, people are more influenced by their innate subconscious desires or intent than a rational and planned decision. This aspect of human nature is heavily influenced by your daily activity.

How Corporations Influence Your Subconscious
In western society, the subconscious mind of the individual is often subject to a number of heavy influences, through entertainment mediums especially. Television, movies, and music create a profound subconscious effect on the human mind that influences and dictates the choices that they will make to at least some degree.

If you see a certain car advertisement, whether or not you rationally decide your stance on it, you are being pre-programmed to at least accept or acknowledge any claims made by the advertisement itself.

Likewise, the choice of television shows and dramatic elements appearing on TV have a psychological influence on those who watch them. According to statistics, by age 18 the average American youth will have seen over 200,000 simulated acts of violence. The glorification of drug and alcohol use predisposes an individual to rationally accept and sometimes consent to these actions.

The human self image is psychologically manipulated. When you compare yourself to a famous individual or a person who is depicted as ‘successful’, you may be setting yourself up to subconsciously feel less valuable from the comparison. This subconscious act creates people who are wildly insecure about their physical and mental image.

Romance and sex is also psychologically implanted through advertisements and drama. The use of sex appeal to sell products is obvious. Similarly, dramatic scenes of love and romantic feelings often prey on the human desire to feel loved, and will program an individual to act or react to those situations in certain ways. Displays of sexual suggestiveness and simulated depictions of sexual relations in media all contribute to influencing increased sexual activity in young people. Not only that, but they also lead to unhealthy obsession with sex into later years, generally resulting in pornography usage.

Its not just television and movies either. With internet advertising, viral videos depicting most of these things in horrific detail, and video games, a horde of negative media pervades over society. This power of subconscious influence guides and decides the goals, desires, and opinions of each individual.

A blurring of reality with fiction occurs in this scenario, where the individual is influenced to orient themselves in alignment with these false goals and aspirations that are implanted into them through these mediums. In extreme cases, their ability to distinguish reality from fiction is impaired, and culminates in some explosive form. If you add drugs to the entire equation (legal or illegal), you may end up with self destruction.

Unplug Yourself from Subconscious Influence

Of course, if you are at least aware of the psychological programming, you can intellectually dissent to it, despite the fact that its continued appearance will dull your senses to how serious the programming actually is. People who are exposed to simulated violence, sex, substance abuse, and drama often become upset, whereas the average person may simply accept these things as easily as they have incrementally conditioned to lose perspective.

It’s highly important to be aware of the psychological programming that occurs on a daily basis. People are taught to live in a simulated reality, with pre determined goals, aspirations, and false expectations. Unplug yourself and others from this form of subconscious influence, thereby unlocking your full potential- rather than being unconsciously controlled by a vague ideal or false images.

If i could

2012-01-08T09:55:00.000Z

sing this and do it some sort of justice... i'd be soooooo plzed

10 Inventions of Nikola Tesla That Changed The World

2012-01-08T02:06:00.000Z

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/10-inventions-of-nikola-tesla-that.html

"Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate nearly 70 years after his death. Was he for real? A crackpot? Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control?

We know that he was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers of his day -- namely Thomas Edison, whom we are taught in school to revere as a genius. He was also attacked by J.P. Morgan and other "captains of industry." Upon Tesla's death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, and to this day none of this research has been made public."

Gimme Sunshine

2012-01-08T02:00:00.000Z

sang some Ryan at a party, so nice, so good to sing Ryan

5 World Changing Benefits of Cold Fusion

2012-01-05T13:45:00.003Z

http://ColdFusionNow.org Here are . Learn what Cold Fusion technology consists of, where it started and where it is headed. Then check out the website and blog over athttp://ColdFusionNow.org to learn more.

A New Global Economic Restructuring

2012-01-01T21:41:00.003Z

Despite the possibility that it is a hoax to discredit a real economic restructuring - i'm going to keep this up here coz its interesting...

and if this has even a grain of truth in it, its worth sharimg

Heres the preamble

"James Martinez reads a statement from representatives of a new global currency that is being announced and slowly integrated into our consciousness as a way to end the tyranny of the current banking systems.

A New Global Economic Restructuring:

Conscious Media Network has been approached by a representative of global leaders and financiers from 130 nations to broadcast a statement about a new global economic restructuring arising in 2012.

The statement will be delivered via a video-taped interview with a layperson on behalf of the consortium that has been working behind the scenes, on the problem of the unsustainable global economy for the past 8 years. The party who drafted this statement has stated, in response to conspiracy concerns, that "The usual suspects are not the suspects" and that the Global Elite also understand that the unsecured, digital money system has failed us all, including themselves.

This announcement is to serve as the introduction of a New Global Economic Structure that will begin surfacing in 2012. Those involved in this plan are calling it the "greatest humanitarian effort" in modern history. It will be for each of us to determine over time if this is a truthful statement.

CMN is serving as a neutral party for this broadcast and its claims as the economic consortium does not wish to break this news through mainstream media at this time. Please give this your serious attention, as it may be heralding a new way of conducting commerce on the planet that will effect us all well into our future.

A portion of this plan does include a dissolution of debt in a carefully considered and planned way. The plan itself is paradigm shattering, and only hinted at in the video-taped statement.

Please distribute this far and wide."

Full transcript here: http://www.cmn.tv/news/new-world-currency/

Dr Reverses advanced MS in 9 months with these foods

2011-12-23T12:49:00.004Z

So inspiring

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/23/overcoming-multiple-sclerosis-through-diet.aspx?e_cid=20111223_DNL_art_1

extract
Nutrition for Your Brain and Central Nervous System

Through her research into MS, Dr. Wahls discovered that, for some unknown reason, in addition to the commonly known symptoms, MS patients' brains also tend to shrink. This roused her curiosity, and led her to research other diseases that have similar brain shrinkage, namely Huntington's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Disease. One common denominator is poorly functioning mitochondria. Mitochondria are like little 'batteries' in your cells that manage the energy supply to the cell, and unless you consume the correct nutrients, eventual mitochondrial malfunction is the obvious result.
She discovered that three nutrients in particular are essential for proper mitochondrial function:
Animal-based omega-3 fat
Creatine
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) or better yet the reduced version known as Ubiquinol
Just by adding those three to her diet, her decline began to slow. But she wasn't improving, so she continued sleuthing through the medical research in search for an answer. When she discovered the Institute for Functional Medicine, Dr. Wahl began to find more clues.
As mentioned earlier, myelin is an insulating, waxy substance that sheathes the nerves in your central nervous system. Your myelin also needs specific nutrients to function properly, such as:
Vitamin B1
Vitamin B9
Vitamin B12
Animal-based omega-3 fat
Iodine
Furthermore, the neurotransmitters in your brain need sulfur and B6 for optimal functioning. Eventually, Dr. Wahls designed her own eating plan, based on the nutrients she now knew she needed for optimal mitochondrial-, myelin-, and neurotransmitter function, because while your body can create some nutrients, others must be provided through your diet.

Alizbar & Ann"Sannat (на перекрестке балканских дорог)

2011-12-22T13:45:00.002Z

:) wow

Solstice Blessingness

2011-12-22T13:32:00.001Z

Stolen quote from a comment by 'flz' at DW blog comments - it just made my day/solstice :) thanxyou

Just about sums up the current state of play generally for me, kind of - obviously, the heavily armored men in the actual physical sense are bit of a bummer aswell. Peace.

"Unarmed vulnerability at the feeling level is the door to the infinite.

It makes sense to me that the attacks against David for expressing his unarmed feeling come from heavily emotionally armored men.

If our collective evolution is currently moving us to a greater internal balance of masculine and feminine, it would also make sense to me that heavily emotionally armored men might feel *deeply* threatened by displays of unarmored feeling.

Conscious heart love is a difficult and rude awakening to the ego. Anyone who displays its signs will likely attract negative reactions from others. And the thing is this: the armored self actively believes it is doing the right thing by taking aim at another and shooting its rejection of them.

To lose the armor and be restored to truly infinite vulnerability to our feeling dimension of being is to risk total rejection by many.

This is the price and risk love is."

What is the Best "Drug" for Slashing Your Risk of Cancer?

2011-12-19T15:38:00.000Z

Lovely Mercola article (answer =vitamin D3)

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/19/why-are-cancer-cases-rising-by-nearly-50-in-the-next-20-years.aspx?e_cid=20111219_DNL_art_1

My Word on David Wilcock

2011-12-19T15:17:00.000Z

After last weeks drama over at DivineCosmos.com i felt to add my personal comment to the affray. In Hollys words, DW just 'does it for me' - and i know he doesn't 'do it' for everyone but i like part of my incoming news stream to be like an Indiana Jones movie, to be honest its about all i can stomach these days without loosing it to extreme pessimism/depression/powerlessness/wtv. DW said a little while back that without his input into the so called conspiracy/alt. news web, that many 'lightworkers' would have left planet through suicide over the last few, to be fair, i count myself among this number. He is constantly reminding his readers that all of this is a FREQUENCY WAR, which in itself is worth all the tea/gold/wtv in China. And, well basically cuts to the chase, you know, the one where the good guys actually do win. (i jest but you get the drift). Hes been a light in the dark and a shoulder of the best kind. I have massive appreciation for him.

I am aware that his information is disappointing to some people. For instance if you like the Alex Jones and David Icke style news streams, you are likely to feel starved of intensity and drama over at Divine Cosmos - even in the current climate of death threats, mistaken abductions and secret Chinese gold hoarding - compared to AJ and DI its basically calm and reassuring over there. Its a personal preference but really, i feel i am of far more use when i am cultivating a sense of optimism....and David feeds that. What does AJ and DI feed? Nuff said.

Heres the latest installment

The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Financial Tyranny, Part II: History Lesson

David Wilcock Receives Death Threats for his last article

2011-12-15T13:00:00.000Z

Emergency broadcast with Kerry Cassidy from last night

http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Project-Camelot-32k-121411.mp3

the article in question

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/995-lawsuit-end-tyranny

Huge love to David

David Wilcock: CONFIRMED: The Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit That Could End Finanical Tyranny

2011-12-13T20:33:00.005Z

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/995-lawsuit-end-tyranny

DW - always kicking ass - includes audio and transcript of a recent interview with Benjamin Fulford, who as mentioned in the articles recent update. Share link/article far and wide, publicity is protection!

And Now for Something Completely Predictable- War with Iran

2011-12-08T19:08:00.000Z

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29908.htm

By Terry Jones

December 07, 2011 "The Age" -- In the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare. Mercenaries had always existed, but under Edward III they became the mainstay of the English army for the first 20 years of what became the Hundred Years War.

Then, when Edward signed the Treaty of Bretigny in 1360 and told his soldiers to stop fighting and go home, many of them didn't have any homes to go to. They were used to fighting, and that's how they made their money. So they simply formed themselves into freelance armies, aptly called ''free companies'', that proceeded around France pillaging, killing and raping.

One of these armies was called the Great Company. It totalled, by one estimate, 16,000 soldiers, larger than any existing national army. Eventually it descended on Pope Innocent VI, in Avignon, and held him to ransom. The pope made the mistake of paying off the mercenaries with huge amounts of cash, which only encouraged them to carry on marauding. He also suggested they move on into Italy, where his arch-enemies, the Visconti, ran Milan. This they did, under the banner of the Marquis of Monferrato, again subsidised by the pope.

The nightmare had begun. Huge armies of brigands rampaging through Europe was a disaster second only to the plague. It seemed as if the genie had been let out of the bottle and there was no way of putting him back in. Warfare had suddenly turned into a profitable business; the Italian city states became impoverished as taxpayers' money was used to buy off the free companies. And since those who made money out of the business of war naturally wished to go on making money out of it, warfare had no foreseeable end.

Wind forward 650 years or so. The US, under George W. Bush, decided to privatise the invasion of Iraq by employing ''contractors'' such as the Blackwater company, now renamed Xe Services. In 2003 Blackwater won a $US27 million no-bid contract for guarding Paul Bremer, then head of the Coalition Provisional Authority. For protecting officials in conflict zones since 2004, the company has received more than $US320 million. This year the Obama government contracted to pay Xe Services a quarter of a billion dollars for security work in Afghanistan. This is just one of many companies making its profits out of warfare.

In 2000 the Project for the New American Century published a report, Rebuilding America's Defenses, whose declared aim was to increase the spending on defence from 3 per cent to 3.5 per cent or 3.8 per cent of American gross domestic product. In fact it is now running at 4.7 per cent of GDP. Britain spent about $US57 billion a year on defence, or 2.5 per cent of GDP, while Australia spends just under $20 billion, or 2 per cent of GDP.

Just like the taxpayers of mediaeval Italian city-states, we are having our money siphoned off into the business of war. Any responsible company needs to make profits for its shareholders. In the 14th century the shareholders in the free companies were the soldiers themselves. If the company wasn't being employed by someone to make war on someone else, the shareholders had to forgo their dividends. So they looked around to create markets for themselves.

Sir John Hawkwood's White Company would offer its services to the pope or to the city of Florence. If either turned his offer down, Hawkwood would simply make an offer to their enemies. As Francis Stonor Saunders writes in her wonderful bookHawkwood: Diabolical Englishman: ''The value of the companies was the purely negative one of maintaining the balance of military power between the cities.'' Just like the Cold War.

In 1989 I picked up an in-house magazine for the arms industry. Its editorial was headed ''Thank God for Saddam''. It explained that, since the collapse of communism and end of the Cold War, the order books of the arms industry had been empty. But now there was a new enemy, the industry could look forward to a bonanza. The invasion of Iraq was built around a lie: Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, but the defence industry needed an enemy, and the politicians duly supplied one.

And now the same war drums, encouraged by the storming of the British embassy last week, are beating for an attack on Iran. Seymour Hersh, in The New Yorker of November 21, wrote: ''All of the low enriched uranium now known to be produced inside Iran is accounted for.'' The recent International Atomic Energy Agency report which provoked such outcry against Iran's nuclear ambitions, he continued, contained nothing that proved that Iran was developing nuclear weapons.

In the 14th century it was the church that lived in symbiosis with the military. Nowadays it is the politicians. The US government spent a staggering $US687 billion on ''defence'' last year. Think what could be done with that money if it were put into hospitals, schools or to pay off foreclosed mortgages.

The retiring US president Dwight D. Eisenhower famously took the opportunity of his farewell to the nation address in 1961 to warn his fellow countrymen of the danger in allowing too close a relationship between politicians and the defence industry.

''This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience,'' he said. ''In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.''

It exists. The genie is out of the bottle again.

Terry Jones is a comedian, director and member of the Monty Python team

The Profits of War - UK Joins Gold Rush to Patch Up War-torn Libya

2011-11-12T20:13:00.000Z

NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over - with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich country are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it. RT's Laura Smith adds up the profits of war.

THX2ICH

Iran has attacked no-one in 100 years (a great bit of Salbuchi commentary)

2011-11-12T20:06:00.003Z

ReWilding: Strengthening our Epigenetic Health with Daniel Vitalis

2011-11-11T20:41:00.000Z

Daniel Vitalis on OneRadioNetwork - fascinating and so comprehensive - 2+ hours of quality info

The Wizard of the Secret of Oz for President 2012

2011-10-28T13:44:00.000+01:00

Quote
1. No more national debt. Forbid it.

2. End fractional reserve lending; banks can only lend money they actually have.

3. Replace debt-based Federal Reserve Notes with debt-free U.S. Notes.

Remember: It's not what backs the money, it's who controls its quantity.

Debt-free currency advocate Bill Still, creator of the documentaries The Secret of Oz and The Money Masters announces his candidacy for the Libertarian Party nomination.

NATO Imperialism - Global Dictatorship - Currency Wars

2011-10-27T22:53:00.000+01:00

I just want to rectify something i feel that is crucial to understand that the previous 2 articles failed to mention, which is that Libya under Gaddhafi issued debt free money. Yes, that bastard issued money as a unit of exchange only - as opposed to our 'democratic' style currency creation which is fundamentally that banks create money as debt out of thin air and lend it, at interest, to our governments, to be owed by and paid back by future generations, a concept so blinding that many people cannot even see it.

A number of other Middle-East Countries, notably pre-occupation Iraq and currently Iran, issue debt free currency because Islam, quite understandably, sees 'usery' as a crime against humanity, as did Jesus Christ.

Here you go - some further revelations about the Libyan economy

http://my.firedoglake.com/cmsemrow/tag/libya/

Have we been snookered into war again? The USA media portrayed conditions in Libya as people living in poverty, starving, with high unemployment while Gaddafi used the nation’s wealth for foreign investments to enhance his & his family’s personal wealth.

In truth every person in Libya of working age receives a USA equivalent $1,000/ month whether they work or not. This is their share of nationalized oil & investment profits. It is an individual choice to work outside the home or not. In the Arab culture where several generation & unmarried women live together in one household a family can live quiet comfortably with their combined royalty income. Oil revenues also funds education, health care, infrastructure and military. Profits from foreign investment are added to the
national treasury to fund infrastructure modernization projects such as resurrecting the ancient aqueduct system, turning dessert into an ocean of wheat, reducing Libya’s foreign food dependence. Under Gaddafi’s management Libya is basically debt free (its debt = monthly operating expenses), the people pay no income or sales tax and its currency is backed by gold. In fact Libya’s Dinar is so strong the government was considering a plan that would require payment for Libyan products to be either in Dinars or other gold or mineral backed currency, rather than the international reserve currency, the dollar. This, as Iraq’s Saddam Hussein found out, is something the USA absolutely will not allow. The USA will go to any length including war, violent regime change, or global economic destabilization to protect the dollars as the world reserve currency. The dollar has no collateral value, it is backed instead by the might of the USA’s nuclear armed military, which in recent years the government has demonstrated its willingness to use with or without UN, NATO or even Congressional support.

So what’s going on in Libya? Why in a nations where poverty, starvation, homelessness, are not an issue did the peaceful protests by youth of Banghazi in support for their brothers in Tunisia & Egypt turn into protests against their government? Why, unlike the national protests of its neighbors did the Libyan peaceful demonstrations remain isolated to Banghazi rather than spread to every population center, including Tripoli? Why did the peaceful demonstration of Banghazi’s youth turn into an armed rebellion especially in light of the success of the non-violent revolutions of its neighbors?

Is this another United States Institute of Peace (USIP)[http://www.USIP.org] operation similar to the Orange revolution in Ukraine (2004) or the Rose revolution in Georgia (2003) where covert USA operative incite impressionable youth into civil disobedience, and rebellion, destabilizing government leading to regime change? The USA military for decades has brainwashed recruits to discard their family & social mores and religious beliefs, to dehumanize the enemy enabling them to kill, torture and follow orders of commanding officers without question. Recently these well established brainwashing techniques were modified & specifically aimed
at impressionable, rebellious youth of academia. The USIP provides a mechanism to transfer these military techniques and by infiltrating universities it can quietly identify vulnerable students & leaders, educate them in techniques of civil disobedience & peaceful protest, start discrediting regime, accuse it of corruption and provoke civil disobedient with regime change the only demand.

These operations generally, upon inception, have USA approved leadership ready to step in once the regime is brought down, Libya is no different. The opposition ruling counsel are western educated former Gaddafi regime ministers of finance, oil & justice. Their service during the rebellion has provided them the popular support necessary to take control once the Gaddafi is ousted. Unfortunately it was necessary for NATO to destroy the Libyan infrastructure to assure control of Libya’s natural resources is transferred to USA/EU to pay for the no fly zone and reconstruction contracts. USA/EU corporation will make billions in profit off Libya taking it from a debt free nation with gold backed currency to a debtor nation.

So will the re-colonization of Libya last? Or go the way of the Orange & other eastern European Revolution of the early 2000’s.? Will the Libyan people stand by and watch their oil privatized, the $1,000 monthly royalty, free education & health care taken away,
replaced with an income & sales taxes, health insurance premiums, and tuition? Will they accept foreign occupation troops, imposition of martial law and delay path to democracy? Will they accept foreign contractors rebuilding their infrastructure & pumping their oil? Unlike the peoples of Tunisia & Egypt the Libyan have had an armed revolt from the beginning, therefore
after the months of bloodshed do we think they will just sit down & let another colonial power rape their nations wealth & impoverish the population, especially after they have lived the good life? Or will there be continuous war as there has been in Iraq & Afghanistan?

Just because the USA wants the dollar to remains the reserve currency and capitalism the economic policy of world doesn’t mean we the USA taxpayer should support the efforts of the privileged 1% for world domination using our military & taxes. It’s time for us to take the blinders off. Turn away from decades of national brainwashing. Let the people of other nation determine their own type of government & economic policy. While we follow their lead, and proceed with our own peaceful revolution replacing the government for and of the privileged, with one for and of all the people.

The top ten myths in the war against Libya

2011-10-27T21:15:00.002+01:00

And from the same source - though slightly more retrospective now - this is rather excellent too

The top ten myths in the war against Libya
Maximilian C. Forte

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77439

Since Colonel Gaddafi lost his military hold in the war against NATO and the insurgents/rebels/new regime, numerous talking heads have taken to celebrating this war as a ‘success.’ They believe this is a ‘victory of the Libyan people’ and that we should all be celebrating. Others proclaim victory for the ‘responsibility to protect,’ for ‘humanitarian interventionism,’ and condemn the ‘anti-imperialist left.’ Some of those who claim to be ‘revolutionaries,’ or believe they support the ‘Arab revolution,’ somehow find it possible to sideline NATO’s role in the war, instead extolling the democratic virtues of the insurgents, glorifying their martyrdom, and magnifying their role until everything else is pushed from view. I wish to dissent from this circle of acclamation, and remind readers of the role of ideologically-motivated fabrications of ‘truth’ that were used to justify, enable, enhance, and motivate the war against Libya -and to emphasize how damaging the practical effects of those myths have been to Libyans, and to all those who favoured peaceful, non-militarist solutions.

These top ten myths are some of the most repeated claims, by the insurgents, and/or by NATO, European leaders, the Obama administration, the mainstream media, and even the so-called ‘International Criminal Court’ - the main actors speaking in the war against Libya. In turn, we look at some of the reasons why these claims are better seen as imperial folklore, as the myths that supported the broadest of all myths - that this war is a ‘humanitarian intervention,’ one designed to ‘protect civilians.’ Again, the importance of these myths lies in their wide reproduction, with little question, and to deadly effect. In addition, they threaten to severely distort the ideals of human rights and their future invocation, as well aiding in the continued militarization of Western culture and society.

1. GENOCIDE

Just a few days after the street protests began, on 21 February the very quick to defect Libyan deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbashi, stated: ‘We are expecting a real genocide in Tripoli. The airplanes are still bringing mercenaries to the airports.’ This is excellent: a myth that is composed of myths. With that statement he linked three key myths together - the role of airports (hence the need for that gateway drug of military intervention: the no-fly zone), the role of ‘mercenaries’ (meaning, simply, black people), and the threat of ‘genocide’ (geared toward the language of the UN’s doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect). As ham-fisted and wholly unsubstantiated as the assertion was, he was clever in cobbling together three ugly myths, one of them grounded in racist discourse and practice that endures to the present, with newer atrocities reported against black Libyan and African migrants on a daily basis. He was not alone in making these assertions. Among others like him, Soliman Bouchuiguir, president of the Libyan League for Human Rights, told Reuters on 14 March that if Gaddafi’s forces reached Benghazi, ‘there will be a real bloodbath, a massacre like we saw in Rwanda.’ That’s not the only time we would be deliberately reminded of Rwanda. Here was Lt. Gen Roméo Dallaire, the much worshipped Canadian force commander of the UN peacekeeping mission for Rwanda in 1994, currently an appointed senator in the Canadian Parliament and co-director of the Will to Intervene project at Concordia University. Dallaire, in a precipitous sprint to judgment, not only made repeated references to Rwanda when trying to explain Libya, he spoke of Gaddafi as ‘employing genocidal threats to “cleanse Libya house by house”.’ This is one instance where selective attention to Gaddafi’s rhetorical excess was taken all too seriously, when on other occasions the powers that be are instead quick to dismiss it: US State Department spokesman, Mark Toner waved away Gaddafi’s alleged threats against Europe by saying that Gaddafi is ‘someone who’s given to overblown rhetoric.’ How very calm, by contrast, and how very convenient - because on February 23, President Obama declared that he had instructed his administration to come up with a ‘full range of options’ to take against Gaddafi.

But ‘genocide’ has a well established international legal definition, as seen repeatedly in the UN’s 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, where genocide involves the persecution of a ‘a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.’ Not all violence is ‘genocidal.’ Internecine violence is not genocide. Genocide is neither just ‘lots of violence’ nor violence against undifferentiated civilians. What both Dabbashi, Dallaire, and others failed to do was to identify the persecuted national, ethnic, racial or religious group, and how it differed in those terms from those allegedly committing the genocide. They really ought to know better (and they do), one as a UN ambassador and the other as a much exalted expert and lecturer on genocide. This suggests that myth-making was either deliberate, or founded on prejudice.

What foreign military intervention did do, however, was to enable the actual genocidal violence that has been routinely sidelined until only very recently: the horrific violence against African migrants and black Libyans, singled out solely on the basis of their skin colour. That has proceeded without impediment, without apology, and until recently, without much notice. Indeed, the media even collaborates, rapid to assert without evidence that any captured or dead black man must be a ‘mercenary.’ This is the genocide that the white, Western world, and those who dominate the ‘conversation’ about Libya, have missed (and not by accident).

2. GADDAFI IS ‘BOMBING HIS OWN PEOPLE’

We must remember that one of the initial reasons in rushing to impose a no-fly zone was to prevent Gaddafi from using his air force to bomb ‘his own people’ - a distinct phrasing that echoes what was tried and tested in the demonization of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. On February 21, when the first alarmist ‘warnings’ about ‘genocide’ were being made by the Libyan opposition, both Al Jazeera and the BBCclaimed that Gaddafi had deployed his air force against protesters - as the BBC ‘reported’: ‘Witnesses say warplanes have fired on protesters in the city.’ Yet, on March 1, in aPentagon press conference, when asked: ‘Do you see any evidence that he [Gaddafi] actually has fired on his own people from the air? There were reports of it, but do you have independent confirmation? If so, to what extent?’ US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates replied, ‘We’ve seen the press reports, but we have no confirmation of that.’ Backing him up was Admiral Mullen: ‘That’s correct. We’ve seen no confirmation whatsoever.’

In fact, claims that Gaddafi also used helicopters against unarmed protesters aretotally unfounded, a pure fabrication based on fake claims. This is important since it was Gaddafi’s domination of Libyan air space that foreign interventionists wanted to nullify, and therefore myths of atrocities perpetrated from the air took on added value as providing an entry point for foreign military intervention that went far beyond any mandate to ‘protect civilians.’

David Kirpatrick of The New York Times, as early as March 21 confirmed that, ‘the rebels feel no loyalty to the truth in shaping their propaganda, claiming nonexistent battlefield victories, asserting they were still fighting in a key city days after it fell to Qaddafi forces, and making vastly inflated claims of his barbaric behavior.’ The ‘vastly inflated claims’ are what became part of the imperial folklore surrounding events in Libya, that suited Western intervention. Rarely did the Benghazi-based journalistic crowd question or contradict their hosts.

3. SAVE BENGHAZI

This article is being written as the Libyan opposition forces march on Sirte and Sabha, the two last remaining strongholds of the Gaddafi government, with ominous warnings to the population that they must surrender, or else. Apparently, Benghazi became somewhat of a ‘holy city’ in the international discourse dominated by leaders of the European Union and NATO. Benghazi was the one city on earth that could not be touched. It was like sacred ground. Tripoli? Sirte? Sabha? Those can be sacrificed, as we all look on, without a hint of protest from any of the powers that be - this, even as we get the first reports of how the opposition has slaughtered people in Tripoli. Let’s turn to the Benghazi myth.

‘If we waited one more day,’ Barack Obama said in his March 28 address, ‘Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.’ In a joint letter, Obama with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy asserted: ‘By responding immediately, our countries halted the advance of Gaddafi’s forces. The bloodbath that he had promised to inflict on the citizens of the besieged city of Benghazi has been prevented. Tens of thousands of lives have been protected.’ Not only did French jets bomb a retreating column, what we saw was a very short column that included trucks and ambulances, and that clearly could have neither destroyed nor occupied Benghazi.

Other than Gaddafi’s ‘overblown rhetoric’, which the US was quick to dismiss when it suited its purposes, there is to date still no evidence furnished that shows Benghazi would have witnessed the loss of ‘tens of thousands’ of lives as proclaimed by Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy. This was best explained by Professor Alan J. Kuperman in ‘False pretense for war in Libya?’:

‘The best evidence that Khadafy did not plan genocide in Benghazi is that he did not perpetrate it in the other cities he had recaptured either fully or partially -including Zawiya, Misurata, and Ajdabiya, which together have a population greater than Benghazi….Khadafy’s acts were a far cry from Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Bosnia, and other killing fields….Despite ubiquitous cellphones equipped with cameras and video, there is no graphic evidence of deliberate massacre….Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy” warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away”. Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end”.’

In a bitter irony, what evidence there is of massacres, committed by both sides, is now to be found in Tripoli in recent days, months after NATO imposed its ‘life-saving’ military measures. Revenge killings are daily being reported with greater frequency, including the wholesale slaughter of black Libyans and African migrants by rebel forces. Another sad irony: in Benghazi, which the insurgents have held for months now, well after Gaddafi forces were repulsed, not even that has prevented violence: revenge killings have been reported there too - more under #6 below.

4. AFRICAN MERCANARIES

Patrick Cockburn summarized the functional utility of the myth of the ‘African mercenary’ and the context in which it arose: ‘Since February, the insurgents, often supported by foreign powers, claimed that the battle was between Gaddafi and his family on the one side and the Libyan people on the other. Their explanation for the large pro-Gaddafi forces was that they were all mercenaries, mostly from black Africa, whose only motive was money.’ As he notes, black prisoners were put on display for the media (which is a violation of the Geneva Convention), but Amnesty International later found that all the prisoners had supposedly been released since none of them were fighters, but rather were undocumented workers from Mali, Chad, and west Africa. The myth was useful for the opposition to insist that this was a war between ‘Gaddafi and the Libyan people’, as if he had no domestic support at all - an absolute and colossal fabrication such that one would think only little children could believe a story so fantastic. The myth is also useful for cementing the intended rupture between ‘the new Libya’ and Pan-Africanism, realigning Libya with Europe and the ‘modern world’ which some of the opposition so explicitly crave.

The ‘African mercenary’ myth, as put into deadly, racist practice, is a fact that paradoxically has been both documented and ignored. Months ago I provided anextensive review of the role of the mainstream media, led by Al Jazeera, as well as the seeding of social media, in creating the African mercenary myth. Among the departures from the norm of vilifying Sub-Saharan Africans and black Libyans that instead documented the abuse of these civilians, were the Los Angeles Times,Human Rights Watch which found no evidence of any mercenaries at all in eastern Libya (totally contradicting the claims presented as truth by Al Arabiya and The Telegraph, among others such as TIME and The Guardian). In an extremely rare departure from the propaganda about the black mercenary threat which Al Jazeera and its journalists helped to actively disseminate, Al Jazeera produced a single report focusing on the robbing, killing, and abduction of black residents in eastern Libya (now that CBS, Channel 4, and others are noting the racism, Al Jazeera is trying to ambiguously show some interest). Finally, there is some increased recognition of these facts of media collaboration in the racist vilification of the insurgents’ civilian victims - see FAIR: ‘NYT Points Out “Racist Overtones” in Libyan Disinformation It Helped Spread.’

The racist targeting and killing of black Libyans and Sub-Saharan Africans continues to the present. Patrick Cockburn and Kim Sengupta speak of the recently discovered mass of ‘rotting bodies of 30 men, almost all black and many handcuffed, slaughtered as they lay on stretchers and even in an ambulance in central Tripoli.’ Even while showing us video of hundreds of bodies in the Abu Salim hospital, the BBC dares not remark on the fact that most of those are clearly black people, and even wonders about who might have killed them. This is not a question for the anti-Gaddafi forces interviewed by Sengupta: ‘‘Come and see. These are blacks, Africans, hired by Gaddafi, mercenaries,’ shouted Ahmed Bin Sabri, lifting the tent flap to show the body of one dead patient, his grey T-shirt stained dark red with blood, the saline pipe running into his arm black with flies. Why had an injured man receiving treatment been executed?’ Recent reports reveal the insurgents engaging in ethnic cleansing against black Libyans in Tawergha, the insurgents calling themselves ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin,’ vowing that in the ‘new Libya’ black people from Tawergha would be barred from health care and schooling in nearby Misrata, from which black Libyans had already been expelled by the insurgents. Currently,Human Rights Watch has reported: ‘Dark-skinned Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans face particular risks because rebel forces and other armed groups have often considered them pro-Gadhafi mercenaries from other African countries. We’ve seen violent attacks and killings of these people in areas where the National Transitional Council took control.’

Amnesty International has also just reported on the disproportionate detention of black Africans in rebel-controlled Az-Zawiya, as well as the targeting of unarmed, migrant farm workers. Reports continue to mount as this is being written, with other human rights groups finding evidence of the insurgents targeting Sub-Saharan African migrant workers. As the chair of the African Union, Jean Ping, recently stated: ‘NTC seems to confuse black people with mercenaries. All blacks are mercenaries. If you do that, it means (that the) one-third of the population of Libya, which is black, is also mercenaries. They are killing people, normal workers, mistreating them.’

The ‘African mercenary’ myth continues to be one of the most vicious of all the myths, and the most racist. Even in recent days, newspapers such as the Boston Globe uncritically and unquestioningly show photographs of black victims or black detaineeswith the immediate assertion that they must be mercenaries, despite the absence of any evidence. Instead we are usually provided with casual assertions that Gaddafi is ‘known to have’ recruited Africans from other nations in the past, without even bothering to find out if those shown in the photos are black Libyans. The lynching of both black Libyans and Sub-Saharan African migrant workers has been continuous, and has neither received any expression of even nominal concern by the US and NATO members, nor has it aroused the interest of the so-called ‘International Criminal Court’. There is as little chance of there being any justice for the victims as there is of anyone putting a stop to these heinous crimes that clearly constitute a case of ethnic cleansing. The media, only now, is becoming more conscious of the need to cover these crimes, having glossed them over for months.

5. VIAGRA-FUELED MASS RAPE

The reported crimes and human rights violations of the Gaddafi regime are awful enough as they are that one has to wonder why anyone would need to invent stories, such as that of Gaddafi’s troops, with erections powered by Viagra, going on a rape spree. Perhaps it was peddled because it’s the kind of story that ‘captures the imagination of traumatized publics’. This story was taken so seriously that some people started writing to Pfizer to get it to stop selling Viagra to Libya, since its product was allegedly being used as a weapon of war. People who otherwise should know better, set out to deliberately misinform the international public.

The Viagra story was first disseminated by Al Jazeera, in collaboration with its rebel partners, favoured by the Qatari regime that funds Al Jazeera. It was then redistributed by almost all other major Western news media.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, appeared before the world media to say that there was ‘evidence’ that Gaddafi distributed Viagra to his troops in order ‘to enhance the possibility to rape’ and that Gaddafi ordered the rape of hundreds of women. Moreno-Ocampo insisted: ‘We are getting information that Qaddafi himself decided to rape’ and that ‘we have information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were against the government.’ He also exclaimed that Viagra is ‘like a machete’ and that ‘Viagra is a tool of massive rape.’

In a startling declaration to the UN Security Council, US Ambassador Susan Rice also asserted that Gaddafi was supplying his troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape. She offered no evidence whatsoever to back up her claim. Indeed, US military and intelligence sources flatly contradicted Rice, telling NBC News that ‘there is no evidence that Libyan military forces are being given Viagra and engaging in systematic rape against women in rebel areas.’ Rice is a liberal interventionist who was one of those to persuade Obama to intervene in Libya. She utilized this myth because it helped her make the case at the UN that there was no ‘moral equivalence’ between Gaddafi’s human rights abuses and those of the insurgents.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also declared that ‘Gadhafi’s security forces and other groups in the region are trying to divide the people by using violence against women and rape as tools of war, and the United States condemns this in the strongest possible terms.’ She added that she was ‘deeply concerned’ by these reports of ‘wide-scale rape’. (She has, thus far, said nothing at all about the rebels’ racist lynchings.)

By June 10, Cherif Bassiouni, who is leading a UN rights inquiry into the situation in Libya, suggested that the Viagra and mass rape claim was part of a ‘massive hysteria.’ Indeed, both sides in the war have made the same allegations against each other. Bassiouni also told the press of a case of ‘a woman who claimed to have sent out 70,000 questionnaires and received 60,000 responses, of which 259 reported sexual abuse.’ However, his teams asked for those questionnaires, they never received them – ‘But she’s going around the world telling everybody about it…so now she got that information to Ocampo and Ocampo is convinced that here we have a potential 259 women who have responded to the fact that they have been sexually abused,’ Bassiouni said. He also pointed out that it ‘did not appear to be credible that the woman was able to send out 70,000 questionnaires in March when the postal service was not functioning.’ In fact, Bassiouni’s team ‘uncovered only four alleged cases of rape and sexual abuse: ‘Can we draw a conclusion that there is a systematic policy of rape? In my opinion we can’t.’ In addition to the UN, Amnesty International’s Donatella Rovera said in an interview with the French daily Libération, that Amnesty had ‘not found cases of rape…Not only have we not met any victims, but we have not even met any persons who have met victims. As for the boxes of Viagra that Gaddafi is supposed to have had distributed, they were found intact near tanks that were completely burnt out.’

However, this did not stop some news manufacturers from trying to maintain the rape claims, in modified form. The BBC went on to add another layer just a few days after Bassiouni humiliated the ICC and the media: the BBC now claimed that rape victims in Libya faced ‘honour killings’. This is news to the few Libyans I know, who never heard of honour killings in their country. The scholarly literature on Libya turns up little or nothing on this phenomenon in Libya. The honour killings myth serves a useful purpose for keeping the mass rape claim on life support: it suggests that women would not come forward and give evidence, out of shame. Also just a few days after Bassiouni spoke, Libyan insurgents, in collaboration with CNN, made a last-ditch effort to save the rape allegations: they presented a cell phone with a rape video on it, claiming it belonged to a government soldier. The men shown in the video are in civilian clothes. There is no evidence of Viagra. There is no date on the video and we have no idea who recorded it or where. Those presenting the cell phone claimed that many other videos existed, but they were conveniently being destroyed to preserve the ‘honour’ of the victims.

6. RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (R2P).

Having asserted, wrongly as we saw, that Libya faced impending ‘genocide’ at the hands of Gaddafi’s forces, it became easier for Western powers to invoke the UN’s 2005 doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect. Meanwhile, it is not at all clear that by the time the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973 that the violence in Libya had even reached the levels seen in Egypt, Syria, and Yemen. The most common refrain used against critics of the selectivity of this supposed ‘humanitarian interventionism’ is that just because the West cannot intervene everywhere does not mean it should not intervene in Libya. Maybe…but that still does not explain why Libya was the chosen target. This is a critical point because some of the earliest critiques of R2P voiced at the UN raised the issue of selectivity, of who gets to decide, and why some crises where civilians are targeted (say, Gaza) are essentially ignored, while others receive maximum concern, and whether R2P served as the new fig leaf for hegemonic geopolitics.

The myth at work here is that foreign military intervention was guided by humanitarian concerns. To make the myth work, one has to willfully ignore at least three key realities. One thus has to ignore the new scramble for Africa, where Chinese interests are seen as competing with the West for access to resources and political influence, something that AFRICOM is meant to challenge. Gaddafi challenged AFRICOM’s intent to establish military bases in Africa. AFRICOM has since become directly involved in the Libya intervention and specifically ‘Operation Odyssey Dawn’. [url=http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/201104020071.html]Horace Campbell[/url argued that ‘US involvement in the Libyan bombing is being turned into a public relations ploy for AFRICOM’ and an ‘opportunity to give AFRICOM credibility under the facade of the Libyan intervention’. In addition, Gaddafi’s power and influence on the continent had also been increasing, through aid, investment, and a range of projects designed to lessen African dependency on the West and to challenge Western multilateral institutions by building African unity - rendering him a rival to US interests. Secondly, one has to ignore not just the anxiety of Western oil interests over Gaddafi’s ‘resource nationalism’ (threatening to take back what oil companies had gained), an anxiety now clearly manifest in the European corporate rush into Libya to scoop up the spoils of victory - but one has to also ignore the apprehension over what Gaddafi was doing with those oil revenues in supporting greater African economic independence, and for historically backing national liberation movements that challenged Western hegemony. Thirdly, one has to also ignore the fear in Washington that the US was losing a grip on the course of the so-called ‘Arab revolution.’ How one can stack up these realities, and match them against ambiguous and partial ‘humanitarian’ concerns, and then conclude that, yes, human rights is what mattered most, seems entirely implausible and unconvincing - especially with the atrocious track record of NATO and US human rights violations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and before that Kosovo and Serbia. The humanitarian angle is simply neither credible nor even minimally logical.

If R2P is seen as founded on moral hypocrisy and contradiction - now definitively revealed - it will become much harder in the future to cry wolf again and expect to get a respectful hearing. This is especially the case since little in the way of diplomacy and peaceful negotiation preceded the military intervention - while Obama is accused by some of having been slow to react, this was if anything a rush to war, on a pace that by very far surpassed Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Not only do we know from the African Union about how its efforts to establish a peaceful transition were impeded, but Dennis Kucinich also reveals that he received reports that a peaceful settlement was at hand, only to be ‘scuttled by State Department officials’. These are absolutely critical violations of the R2P doctrine, showing how those ideals could instead be used for a practice that involved a hasty march to war, and war aimed at regime change (which is itself a violation of international law).

That R2P served as a justifying myth that often achieved the opposite of its stated aims, is no longer a surprise. I am not even speaking here of the role of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in bombing Libya and aiding the insurgents - even as they backed Saudi military intervention to crush the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain, nor of the ugly pall cast on an intervention led by the likes of unchallenged abusers of human rights who have committed war crimes with impunity in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I am taking a narrower approach - such as the documented cases where NATO not only willfully failed to protect civilians in Libya, but it even deliberately and knowingly targeted them in a manner that constitutes terrorism by most official definitions used by Western governments.

NATO admitted to deliberately targeting Libya’s state television, killing three civilian reporters, in a move condemned by international journalist federations as a direct violation of a 2006 Security Council resolution banning attacks on journalists. A US Apache helicopter - in a repeat of the infamous killings shown in the Collateral Murder video - gunned down civilians in the central square of Zawiya, killing the brother of the information minister among others. Taking a fairly liberal notion of what constitutes ‘command and control facilities’, NATO targeted a civilian residential space resulting in the deaths of some of Gaddafi’s family members, including three grandchildren. As if to protect the myth of ‘protecting civilians’ and the unconscionable contradiction of a ‘war for human rights’, the major news media often kept silent about civilian deaths caused by NATO bombardments. R2P has been invisible when it comes to civilians targeted by NATO.

In terms of the failure to protect civilians, in a manner that is actually an international criminal offense, we have the numerous reports of NATO ships ignoring the distress calls of refugee boats in the Mediterranean that were fleeing Libya. In May, 61 African refugees died on a single vessel, despite making contact with vessels belonging to NATO member states. In a repeat of the situation, dozens died in early August on another vessel. In fact, on NATO’s watch, at least 1,500 refugees fleeing Libya have died at sea since the war began. They were mostly Sub-Saharan Africans, and they died in multiples of the death toll suffered by Benghazi during the protests. R2P was utterly absent for these people.

NATO has developed a peculiar terminological twist for Libya, designed to absolve the rebels of any role in perpetrating crimes against civilians, and abdicating its so-called responsibility to protect. Throughout the war, spokespersons for NATO and for the US and European governments consistently portrayed all of the actions of Gaddafi’s forces as ‘threatening civilians’, even when engaged in either defensive actions, or combat against armed opponents. For example, the NATO spokesperson, Roland Lavoie, ‘appeared to struggle to explain how NATO strikes were protecting civilians at this stage in the conflict. Asked about NATO’s assertion that it hit 22 armed vehicles near Sirte on Monday, he was unable to say how the vehicles were threatening civilians, or whether they were in motion or parked.’

By protecting the rebels, in the same breath as they spoke of protecting civilians, it is clear that NATO intended for us to see Gaddafi’s armed opponents as mere civilians. Interestingly, in Afghanistan, where NATO and the US fund, train, and arm the Karzai regime in attacking ‘his own people’ (like they do in Pakistan), the armed opponents are consistently labeled ‘terrorists’ or ‘insurgents’ - even if the majority of them are civilians who have never served in any official standing army. They are insurgents in Afghanistan, and their deaths at the hands of NATO are listed separately from the tallies for civilian casualties. By some magic, in Libya, they are all ‘civilians’. In response to the announcement of the UN Security Council voting for military intervention, a volunteer translator for Western reporters in Tripoli madethis key observation: ‘Civilians holding guns, and you want to protect them? It’s a joke. We are the civilians. What about us?’

NATO has provided a shield for the insurgents in Libya to victimize unarmed civilians in areas they came to occupy. There was no hint of any ‘responsibility to protect’ in these cases. NATO assisted the rebels in starving Tripoli of supplies, subjecting its civilian population to a siege that deprived them of water, food, medicine, and fuel. When Gaddafi was accused of doing this to Misrata, the international media were quick to cite this as a war crime. Save Misrata, kill Tripoli - whatever you want to label such ‘logic’, humanitarian is not an acceptable option. Leaving aside the documented crimes by the insurgents against black Libyans and African migrant workers, the insurgents were also found by Human Rights Watch to have engaged in ‘looting, arson, and abuse of civilians in [four] recently captured towns in western Libya’. In Benghazi, which the insurgents have held for months now, revenge killings have been reported by The New York Times as late as this May, and by Amnesty International in late June and faulted the insurgents’ National Transitional Council. The responsibility to protect? It now sounds like something deserving wild mockery.

7. GADDAFI – THE DEMON

Depending on your perspective, either Gaddafi is a heroic revolutionary, and thus the demonization by the West is extreme, or Gaddafi is a really bad man, in which case the demonization is unnecessary and absurd. The myth here is that the history of Gaddafi’s power was marked only by atrocity - he is thoroughly evil, without any redeeming qualities, and anyone accused of being a ‘Gaddafi supporter’ should somehow feel more ashamed than those who openly support NATO. This is binary absolutism at its worst - virtually no one made allowance for the possibility that some might neither support Gaddafi, the insurgents, nor NATO. Everyone was to be forced into one of those camps, no exceptions allowed. What resulted was a phony debate, dominated by fanatics of one side or another. Missed in the discussion, recognition of the obvious: however much Gaddafi had been ‘in bed’ with the West over the past decade, his forces were now fighting against a NATO-driven take over of his country.

The other result was the impoverishment of historical consciousness, and the degradation of more complex appreciations of the full breadth of the Gaddafi record. This would help explain why some would not rush to condemn and disown the man (without having to resort to crude and infantile caricaturing of their motivations). While even Glenn Greenwald feels the need to dutifully insert, ‘No decent human being would possibly harbor any sympathy for Gadaffi,’ I have known decent human beings in Nicaragua, Trinidad, Dominica, and among the Mohawks in Montreal who very much appreciate Gaddafi’s support - not to mention his support for various national liberation movements, including the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Gaddafi’s regime has many faces: some are seen by his domestic opponents, others are seen by recipients of his aid, and others were smiled at by the likes of Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Condoleeza Rice, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. There are many faces, and they are all simultaneously real. Some refuse to ‘disown’ Gaddafi, to ‘apologize’ for his friendship towards them, no matter how distasteful, indecent, and embarrassing other ‘progressives’ may find him. That needs to be respected, instead of this now fashionable bullying and gang banging that reduces a range of positions to one juvenile accusation: ‘you support a dictator’. Ironically, we support many dictators, with our very own tax dollars, and we routinely offer no apologies for this fact.

Speaking of the breadth of Gaddafi’s record, that ought to resist simplistic, revisionist reduction, some might care to note that even now, the US State Department’s webpage on Libya still points to a Library of Congress Country Study on Libya that features some of the Gaddafi government’s many social welfare achievements over the years in the areas of medical care, public housing, and education. In addition, Libyans have the highest literacy rate in Africa (see UNDP, p. 171) and Libya is the only continental African nation to rank ‘high’ in the UNDP’s Human Development Index. Even the BBC recognized these achievements:

‘Women in Libya are free to work and to dress as they like, subject to family constraints. Life expectancy is in the seventies. And per capita income - while not as high as could be expected given Libya’s oil wealth and relatively small population of 6.5m - is estimated at $12,000 (£9,000), according to the World Bank. Illiteracy has been almost wiped out, as has homelessness - a chronic problem in the pre-Gaddafi era, where corrugated iron shacks dotted many urban centres around the country.’

So if one supports health care, does that mean one supports dictatorship? And if ‘the dictator’ funds public housing and subsidizes incomes, do we simply erase those facts from our memory?

8. FREEDOM FIGHTERS – THE ANGELS

The complement to the demonization of Gaddafi was the angelization of the ‘rebels’. My aim here is not to counter the myth by way of inversion, and demonizing all of Gaddafi’s opponents, who have many serious and legitimate grievances, and in large numbers have clearly had more than they can bear. I am instead interested in how ‘we’, in the North Atlantic part of the equation, construct them in ways that suit our intervention. One standard way, repeated in different ways across a range of media and by US government spokespersons, can be seen in this New York Times’ depiction of the rebels as ‘secular-minded professionals - lawyers, academics, businesspeople - who talk about democracy, transparency, human rights and the rule of law.’ The listing of professions familiar to the American middle class which respects them, is meant to inspire a shared sense of identification between readers and the Libyan opposition, especially when we recall that it is on the Gaddafi side where the forces of darkness dwell: the main ‘professions’ we find are torturer, terrorist, and African mercenary.

For many weeks it was almost impossible to get reporters embedded with the rebel National Transitional Council in Benghazi to even begin to provide a description of who constituted the anti-Gaddafi movement, if it was one organization or many groups, what their agendas were, and so forth. The subtle leitmotif in the reports was one that cast the rebellion as entirely spontaneous and indigenous - which may be true, in part, and it may also be an oversimplification. Among the reports that significantly complicated the picture were those that discussed the CIA ties to the insurgents; others highlighted the role of the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, and USAID, which have been active in Libya since 2005; those that detailed the role of various expatriate groups; and, reports of the active role of ‘radical Islamist’ militias embedded within the overall insurgency, with some pointing to Al Qaeda connections.

Some feel a definite need for being on the side of ‘the good guys’, especially as neither Iraq nor Afghanistan offer any such sense of righteous vindication. Americans want the world to see them as doing good, as being not only indispensable, but also irreproachable. They could wish for nothing better than being seen as atoning for their sins in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a special moment, where the bad guy can safely be the other once again. A world that is safe for America is a world that is unsafe for evil. Marching band, baton twirlers, Anderson Cooper, confetti - we get it.

9. VICTORY FOR THE LIBYAN PEOPLE

To say that the current turn in Libya represents a victory by the Libyan people in charting their own destiny is, at best, an oversimplification that masks the range of interests involved since the beginning in shaping and determining the course of events on the ground, and that ignores the fact that for much of the war Gaddafi was able to rely on a solid base of popular support. As early as February 25, a mere week after the start of the first street protests, Nicolas Sarkozy had already determined that Gaddafi ‘must go’. By February 28, David Cameron began working on a proposal for a no-fly zone - these statements and decisions were made without any attempt at dialogue and diplomacy. By March 30, The New York Times reported that for ‘several weeks’ CIA operatives had been working inside Libya, which would mean they were there from mid-February, that is, when the protests began - they were then joined inside Libya by ‘dozens of British special forces and MI6 intelligence officers’. The NYT also reported in the same article that ‘several weeks’ before (again, around mid-February), President Obama Several ‘signed a secret finding authorizing the CIA to provide arms and other support to Libyan rebels,’ with that ‘other support’ entailing a range of possible ‘covert actions’. USAID had already deployed a team to Libya by early March. At the end of March, Obama publicly statedthat the objective was to depose Gaddafi. In terribly suspicious wording, ‘a senior US official said the administration had hoped that the Libyan uprising would evolve “organically”, like those in Tunisia and Egypt, without need for foreign intervention’ - which sounds like exactly the kind of statement one makes when something begins in a fashion that is not ‘organic’ and when comparing events in Libya as marked by a potential legitimacy deficit when compared to those of Tunisia and Egypt. Yet on March 14 the NTC’s Abdel Hafeez Goga asserted, ‘We are capable of controlling all of Libya, but only after the no-fly zone is imposed’ - which is still not the case even six months later.

In recent days it has also been revealed that what the rebel leadership swore it would oppose - ’foreign boots on the ground’ - is in fact a reality confirmed by NATO: ‘Special forces troops from Britain, France, Jordan and Qatar on the ground in Libya have stepped up operations in Tripoli and other cities in recent days to help rebel forces as they conducted their final advance on the Gadhafi regime.’ This, and other summaries, are only scratching the surface of the range of external support provided to the rebels. The myth here is that of the nationalist, self-sufficient rebel, fueled entirely by popular support.

At the moment, war supporters are proclaiming the intervention a ‘success’. It should be noted that there was another case where an air campaign, deployed to support local armed militia on the ground, aided by US covert military operatives, also succeeded in deposing another regime, and even much more quickly. That case was Afghanistan. Success.

10. DEFEAT FOR ‘THE LEFT’

As if reenacting the pattern of articles condemning ‘the left’ that came out in the wake of the Iran election protests in 2009 (see as examples Hamid Dabashi andSlavoj Žižek), the war in Libya once again seemed to have presented an opportunity to target the left, as if this was topmost on the agenda - as if ‘the left’ was the problem to be addressed. Here we see articles, in various states of intellectual and political disrepair, by Juan Cole (see some of the rebuttals: ‘The case of Professor Juan Cole,’ ‘An open letter to Professor Juan Cole: A reply to a slander,’ ‘Professor Cole “answers” WSWS on Libya: An admission of intellectual and political bankruptcy’), Gilbert Achcar (and this especially), Immanuel Wallerstein, and Helena Sheehan who seemingly arrived at some of her most critical conclusions at the airport at the end of her very first visit to Tripoli.

There seems to be some confusion over roles and identities. There is no homogeneous left, nor ideological agreement among anti-imperialists (which includes conservatives and libertarians, among anarchists and Marxists). Nor was the ‘anti-imperialist left’ in any position to either do real harm on the ground, as is the case of the actual protagonists. There was little chance of the anti-interventionists in influencing foreign policy, which took shape in Washington before any of the serious critiques against intervention were published. These points suggest that at least some of the critiques are moved by concerns that go beyond Libya, and that even have very little to do with Libya ultimately. The most common accusation is that the anti-imperialist left is somehow coddling a dictator. The argument is that this is based on a flawed analysis - in criticizing the position of Hugo Chávez, Wallerstein says Chávez’s analysis is deeply flawed, and offers this among the criticisms: ‘The second point missed by Hugo Chavez’s analysis is that there is not going to be any significant military involvement of the western world in Libya’ (yes, read it again). Indeed, many of the counterarguments deployed against the anti-interventionist left echo or wholly reproduce the top myths that were dismantled above, that get their geopolitical analysis almost entirely wrong, and that pursue politics focused in part on personality and events of the day. This also shows us the deep poverty of politics premised primarily on simplistic and one-sided ideas of ‘human rights’ and ‘protection’ (see Richard Falk’s critique), and the success of the new military humanism in siphoning off the energies of the left. And a question persists: if those opposed to intervention were faulted for providing a moral shield for ‘dictatorship’ (as if imperialism was not itself a global dictatorship), what about those humanitarians who have backed the rise of xenophobic and racist militants who by so many accounts engage in ethnic cleansing? Does it mean that the pro-interventionist crowd is racist? Do they even object to the racism? So far, I have heard only silence from those quarters.

The agenda in brow-beating the anti-imperialist straw man masks an effort to curb dissent against an unnecessary war that has prolonged and widened human suffering; advanced the cause of war corporatists, transnational firms, and neoliberals; destroyed the legitimacy of multilateral institutions that were once openly committed to peace in international relations; violated international law and human rights; witnessed the rise of racist violence; empowered the imperial state to justify its continued expansion; violated domestic laws; and reduced the discourse of humanitarianism to a clutch of simplistic slogans, reactionary impulses, and formulaic policies that privilege war as a first option. Really, the left is the problem here?

Gaddafi and the attempted humiliation of Africa

2011-10-27T21:12:00.001+01:00

Having read vast amounts this week trying to get a clear picture on the situation in libya - this just came into my in-box and i felt it one of the most thorough evaluations i'd read of the most recent events so....

Source - http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77459

The execution of Gaddafi and the attempted humiliation of Africa
Horace Campbell

The inability of the Western media and other ‘information’ sources to manage the news of the execution of Colonel Gaddafi was compounded by the news, according to the New York based Human Rights Watch, that 53 supporters of the ousted regime were executed at a hotel in Sirte with their hands tied behind their backs (Huffington Post October 26, 2011). Wall-to-wall news bulletins of the demise of Colonel Gaddafi, which should have been a moment of victory for the imperial forces, have now turned into a public relations disaster and nightmare for those military planners who want to distance themselves from the gruesome details of the executions. These immoral and illegal actions by the military forces and private contractors in Libya backed by NATO were furthered with disrespect for religious and cultural traditions where the mortal remains of Gaddafi and his son, Muatassim, were kept in a meat freezer until the bodies started to decompose.

Finally a supposedly secret burial failed to resolve the tussle between those who had hijacked the body in the on-going struggle inside the National Transitional Council (NTC) between the three centers of power, Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata. The factions fear each other and they have lost the one factor that united them, hatred for Gaddafi. With fear of other factions in the NTC, the Benghazi section is calling for the United Nations Security Council to extend the mandate of the no fly zone until 31 December 2011. There are members of the UNSC such as Russia who oppose this extension. The African Union must call for the immediate end to the mandate of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

It is now becoming clear that the Western leaders (especially those from Britain, France, Italy and the United States) used the cover of protection of civilian lives to go to Libya to carry out regime change. Gaddafi had vowed to fight to the end and he did. The destruction of Libya by NATO jets was totally unnecessary. Can the people of the West and their leaders say that Libya is now better off in October 2011 than it was in March 2011?

In a moment of revolutionary upheavals all over the world, the leaders of France, Britain and the United States intervened in Libya to divert attention from their problems and to derail the wave of revolutionary change that is now underway internationally. Italy, which is in the throes of a profound crisis, tagged along to protect its colonial heritage and oil contracts in Libya.

On Tuesday 25 October 2011 the Los Angeles Times reported that Libya had more than US$200 billion in reserves. As outlined in my article, ‘Global NATO and the Recolonisation of Africa’, it is no secret that leaders such as France’s Nicolas Sarkozy deeply want to get their hands on this money to save the banks in Europe and to save the Euro. But the crisis in the Eurozone area is too far gone and the depth of the structural and systemic crisis is too extreme to save the politicians who oversaw this military campaign inside Libya.

The NATO forces (meaning the countries of this Libya campaign) that were using international morality and international law to justify the recolonisation and destruction of Africa are now exposed. The attempt to humiliate Gaddafi was a failed effort to humiliate oppressed peoples and decent elements within the armed forces of these societies who are seeking another world. In this article, I seek to reconstruct the decision at the highest levels to execute Colonel Gaddafi and to analyse the urgency for organising to oppose the remilitarisation of Africa.

PLANNING FOR THE EXECUTION OF GADDAFI

When on Sunday 23 October 2011, US secretary of state Hilary Clinton said on the US television Channel NBC's ‘Meet the Press’ that she backed a proposal that the United Nations investigate Gaddafi’s death and requested that Libya's TNC also look into the circumstances, it was clear that the execution had backfired. This was the height of hypocrisy, or what would be called a pre-emptive strike on her own reputation. Under international law and the Geneva Conventions, Hillary Clinton could be held to account for her statements in Tripoli on 18 October when she called for Gaddafi’s capture or killing.

Security planners and military strategists of the Obama Whitehouse are now cowering in shame on the fallout from the failure of the Libyan quagmire and the exposure of the bankruptcy of the US military and imperial logic.

Back in March The New York Times reported that the National Security Council of the White House had debated the execution of Colonel Gaddafi. The article, ‘Before Qaddafi’s Death, U.S. Debated His Future’, stated that the White House considered ‘The killing of Colonel Qaddafi … [as] one of the three scenarios considered last Wednesday.’ The article in the Times also said, ‘Putting the colonel on trial, either in Libya or The Hague, was one of a host of situations for which the administration planned.’

The next day Colonel Gaddafi was killed. What is being asked all over the world is why kill him? Why not put him on trial, what is it that the western leaders do not want to come out in a trial?

GADDAFI’S ESCAPE FROM TRIPOLI

‘Mansour Dhao Ibrahim, one of the military leaders who survived the murder and execution of the Gaddafi entourage has revealed that Colonel Gaddafi had escaped from Tripoli to Sirte on 21 August. Reports in the international media are that the decision for Gaddafi to stay in Sirte was based on Muatassim, the colonel’s son. The report continued that Gaddafi’s son and the military entourage had ‘reasoned that the city, long known as an important pro-Qaddafi stronghold and under frequent bombardment by NATO airstrikes, was the last place anyone would look.’

In August 2011, after the capture of Tripoli by the Qatari Army, the British Special Air Service and private military contractors to Tripoli, there was euphoria at NATO headquarters. Having declared that Tripoli had been ‘liberated’, the NATO headquarters had been issuing communiqués since August that all Libya was about to be liberated. There was anxiety when there was stiff resistance in Sirte and every other day, NATO was declaring that Sirte was about to fall.

NATO, which had started the war under the pretext of responsibility ‘to protect’, had destroyed the most of Libya . From the nature of the resistance, NATO and their satellite intercepts had found out that Gaddafi was in Sirte, hence the NSC meetings and deliberations.

The New York Times’ report on the ‘Last Days of Gaddafi’ has revealed for posterity that:

‘The colonel traveled with about 10 people, including close aides and guards. Muatassim, who commanded the loyalist forces, traveled separately from his father, fearing that his own satellite phone was being tracked. Apart from a phone, which the colonel used to make frequent statements to a Syrian television station that became his official outlet, Colonel Qaddafi was largely “cut off from the world”.’

It was this satellite phone that was tracked so that when Sirte was bombed to smithereens, there was only one option left for Gaddafi, and that was to make a run to escape.

British news reports from both the Telegraph and The Independent UK since 21 August 2001 had been reporting that SAS and US Special forces were hunting for Gaddafi. British SAS forces and U.S. Special Forces had been scouring the Sirte area for Gaddafi, unable to find him.

According to these reports, when the resistance continued for two months, the British and US Special Forces on the ground disguised as Libyan NTC fighters had been coordinating the bombing campaign of Sitre. These SAS forces synchronised the bombing and one or two weeks before the execution, ‘NATO had pinpointed Gaddafi’s position after an intelligence breakthrough.’

Once the SAS and the coordinating forces confirmed Gaddafi’s position, ‘an American drone and an array of NATO eavesdropping aircraft had been trained on his Sirte stronghold to ensure he could not escape.’

This was when the debates on execution intensified and the drones were deployed to ensure that Gaddafi did not escape from Sirte.

US DRONES VS. FRENCH JETS

‘About two weeks ago, as the former rebels stormed the city center, the colonel and his sons were trapped shuttling between two houses in a residential area called District No. 2. They were surrounded by hundreds of former rebels, firing at the area with heavy machine guns, rockets and mortars. “The only decision was whether to live or to die,” Mr. Dhao said. Colonel Qaddafi decided it was time to leave, and planned to flee to one of his houses nearby, where he had been born. On Thursday, a convoy of more than 40 cars was supposed to leave at about around 3 a.m.’

With the voice recognition technology picking up any call made by Gaddafi, the drones were called in when the convoy carrying Gaddafi was pinpointed by the drone.

According to The Daily Telegraph (as reported by Empire Strikes Black):

’They built up a normal pattern of life picture so that when something unusual happened this morning such as a large group of vehicles gathering together, that came across as highly unusual activity and the decision was taken to follow them and prosecute an attack.

‘Electronic warfare aircraft, either an American Rivet Joint or a French C160 Gabriel, also picked up Gaddafi’s movements as he attempted to escape.’

Hilary Clinton had flown to Tripoli on Tuesday 18 October and from The New York Times report on the debate on Gaddafi’s future, Clinton made her position clear as reported in the international media when she declared that she wanted Gaddafi killed or captured.

Was this a clear message to the Special Forces on the ground that the NATO forces wanted Gaddafi killed? The Geneva conditions explicitly stated that prisoners of war should be humanely treated. In normal situations of the rule of international law this question of the manner of the execution would be taken up under the Geneva Conventions.

‘In a Toyota Land Cruiser, Colonel Qaddafi traveled with his chief of security, a relative, the driver and Mr. Dhao. The colonel did not say much during the drive. NATO warplanes and former rebel fighters found them half an hour after they left. When a missile struck near the car, the airbags deployed, said Mr. Dhao, who was hit by shrapnel in the strike. He said he tried to escape with Colonel Qaddafi and other men, walking first to a farm, then to the main road, toward some drainage pipes. “The shelling was constant,” Mr. Dhao said, adding that he was struck by shrapnel again and fell unconscious. When he woke up, he was in the hospital.’

Sensitive to the repercussions of this attack on the convoy, the British media declared early that the RAF had not been involved in the aerial attack. With great bravado, the French took credit for firing missile that stopped the car carrying Colonel Gaddafi.

French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet revealed that a French Mirage-2000 fired a warning shot at a column of several dozen vehicles fleeing Sirte.

MANAGING THE NEWS OF THE EXECUTION OF GADDAFI

It is now known that Gaddafi was alive after the airstrike by the French jets. With the clear mandate emanating from the discussions at the highest levels, the ‘NTC forces’ were on the ground to find the wounded Gaddafi. These newspapers would have the world believe that it was by chance that these ‘NTC’ fighters happened to find the wounded Gaddafi. Thanks to cell phone technology and alternative news sources, we know that when these ‘NTC forces’ captured Gaddafi, he was alive.

There are also visual images of the humiliation of the wounded Gaddafi and then later the dead body.

Once Gaddafi was executed with a bullet to the head, the great challenge for the NATO forces was how to manage the news of the execution, with the full knowledge that there were visual images of Gadddafi alive and then dead.

This was when the disinformation planners came up with the theory that Gaddafi was killed in crossfire. But the inconsistencies from the western news sources were so blatant that it was embarrassing for the psychological warfare experts of NATO. Was it crossfire, was it stray bullet, was it an assassination? There were too many cell phone images of what transpired for the western intelligence agencies to attempt to cover the clear violation of international law.

In this disinformation effort to convince the world that Gaddafi was killed in a crossfire or by a stray bullet, events were moving too fast so NATO could not control the disinformation and lies. Throughout the war, disinformation had been central to the operations.

As Lizzie Phelan had reported for Pambazuka News and other media, NATO had been willing and able ‘to not just fabricate events but to create.’ The fabrications now failed and it was clear that the manner of the killing of Gaddafi was meant to humiliate him. One does not have to support Gaddafi to realise that this kind of killing will not lay any basis for a society free from revenge killings. The disinformation backfired – even those who opposed the antics of Gaddafi in Africa were now opposed to the wanton disregard for international law.

From all corners of the world, NATO and the US Africa Command were being condemned. Despite efforts by western news agencies to place a microphone before those who would parrot the western line, the disregard for law and the hypocrisy of those who had used the mandate of the ‘responsibility to protect’ to carry out executions were too blatant. The Russians called for an end to the NATO mission and called for the UN Security Council to end the mandate of the no fly zone. At the United Nations, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who has repeatedly accused NATO of exceeding its UN mandate in Libya, has called for ending the mandate of the no-fly zone on October 31. Churkin said extending the UN authorisation beyond Monday October would be ‘unrealistic.’

In Africa, even those who had been opposed to Gaddafi, especially when he called his people rats, were now seeing the real criminal actions being carried out by NATO. Former Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu condemned the killing of Gaddafi, saying mob justice and violence should always be deplored.

‘The manner of the killing of Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday totally detracts from the noble enterprise of instilling a culture of human rights and democracy in Libya... the people of Libya should have demonstrated better values than those of their erstwhile oppressor.’

The same managers of disinformation realised that this manner of the execution revealed the true nature of the NATO/AFRICOM operations so the New York Times editorialised on October 20 that:

‘But a gruesome video broadcast on Al Jazeera – apparently showing him being dragged, beaten and then, perhaps, shot to death by armed men – is deeply troubling, if it is real.

‘Libyans must resist further reprisals and channel their passion into building a united, free and productive country. If not, they risk even more chaos and suffering.’

This same newspaper did not bring out whether there was any the role of US Special Forces and the British SAS on the ground, but from all corners of the world, there were now Human Rights reports calling for an investigation into the manner of the killing. Bloggers and articulate writers were reminding the imperialists that the Third Geneva Convention clearly states (article 13): ‘Prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity.’

The Fourth Geneva Convention (article 27): ‘Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honor, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity.’

The discovery of the 53 corpses at the Mahari hotel, and another ten dumped in a nearby reservoir reveal a glimpse of the bloodletting and indiscriminate killings.

Africans from sub-saharan Africa were being particularly targeted and the opposition to the NTC intensified all over the continent, if not over the world.

CAN NATO CONTROL LIBYA?

From the start of the war against the peoples of Libya in March 2011, it became clear that the objective of the war was regime change. Those decent humans who had been offended by the leadership of the Libyan society calling their people rats and feared for a massacre were soon shown the reality that it was the NATO bombing that was a greater threat.

The NATO-led air campaign was launched in March under a UN mandate to protect civilians from Gaddafi's forces trying to crush popular protests. It was clear that the objective of NATO was not to protect civilians and there was opposition to this NATO operation.

The destruction of Libya was meant to ensure greater western control over that society.

Throughout the war, the African Union spoke with one voice and called for a roadmap that would establish an inclusive government. Experience from Burundi and the work of the Nyerere and Mandela foundations point to the truth that it is in Africa where there is expertise to bring reconciliation. From the actions of the USA, France and Britain, they do not want peace and reconstruction in Libya. France continues to ensnare China in the spoils of war by promising reconstruction contracts. But if the BRICS societies support the African Union, there will be no contracts to be given out by France. National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil would like the UNSC to extend the mandate of the no fly zone on the grounds of controlling surplus weapons. However, Jalil has no means to exercise political leadership.

The NTC is divided. Three months after Tripoli was ‘liberated’ the leaders in Benghazi are still afraid to move to Tripoli. The Misrata elements of the ‘uprising’ hijacked the body of Gadddafi and kept the body in a meat freezer in Misrata. Humiliation was piled upon total disrespect for religious and traditional customs as the bodies were made a public spectacle. When the bodies started to decompose, they could no longer keep the bodies and Gadddafi and his son were buried in the desert.

AFRICAN UNITY CANNOT BE HALTED

Fifty years after Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1961, we now have another gruesome execution of an African leader with the objective of halting the liberation and independence of Africa. In normal circumstances NATO commanders, United Nations personnel, point persons for the Arab League, and other imperial actors would be required to testify before an impartial enquiry in order to justify their role if any in these atrocities. It required the tenacious work of peace loving persons to ensure that Belgium and the USA were named as the murderers of Patrice Lumumba.

Today, international law can only be enforced by a new international alliance of societies that want to avoid total destructions.

In the midst of this crisis, the criminal actions carried out in Libya point to the reality that we are not in normal circumstances. How can the United Nations or NATO investigate crimes committed on their watch? Under the cover of providing security from the air for the TNC, NATO, the UN, and the other imperial actors in this campaign, granted themselves the alibi now being espoused for cold blooded murder. It is unthinkable to believe that NATO and the UN did not know what the NTC and other special forces were doing on the ground. Given the turn of events in Libya, which erupted in the cold blooded bloodletting, what seems to be emerging is some kind of sinister plot to obliterate any remnants of the former regime. There is no justification for such bloodletting. These people, including Gaddafi should have been captured and brought to trial under international law. International law cannot be exercised in a piecemeal manner to suit the whims and fancies of big powers. International law must be applied equally in all circumstances and in all areas of the world.

What has emerged in Libya is a double standard.

The same leaders who proclaim themselves as upholders of human rights applauded the humiliation and execution of Gaddafi. Decent human beings all over the world were outraged and it is now clearer that the decision to execute Gaddafi was made to silence one voice for anti-imperialism.

The execution had the opposite effect and the work for expelling foreign military forces from Africa will be now more intense.

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Lizzy Phelen - Testimony of an Independent Journalist from inside Libya (must see)

2011-10-20T22:12:00.001+01:00

The Medicine of the Future - Abraham-Hicks

2011-10-15T12:14:00.002+01:00

simply brilliant - simultaneously disconcerting and the ultimate empowerment - meanwhile while we're all working on our moods, i still recommend taking your vitamins or whatever else inspires you.

The Energy of the Future - Nassim Haramein

2011-10-15T12:11:00.002+01:00

Streaming here for a few pounds http://www.indigoplatformstv.com/video/1303
1hr 50 lecture from Project Camelots recent Awake and Aware Conference

DRA's new lush toons

2011-10-07T13:20:00.004+01:00

Ashes and Fire

Love it! heart melty goodness

David Wilcock: The Source Field Investigations -- Full Video!

2011-08-07T12:23:00.003+01:00

What a gift!! nearly 2 hours of lecture - woo hoo :) Brilliant stuff!

Deep Nutrition

2011-08-05T19:00:00.000+01:00

The Renegade Health show interviews Dr. Catherine Shanahan about her observations of the current genetic consequences of the modern diet in contrast to more primitive/traditional diets.

http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2011/04/04/how-our-food-can-damage-our-dna/

http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2011/04/05/every-culture-has-these-4-types-of-food/

Just seek relief (Abe-Hicks)

2011-07-31T21:21:00.007+01:00

GAPS Diet for Autism Spectrum Disorders (also aspergers, epilepsy, schizophrenia, bi-polar, ADHD etc)

2011-07-31T19:47:00.005+01:00

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/31/dr-natasha-campbell-mcbride-on-gaps-nutritional-program.aspx?e_cid=20110731_SNL_Art_1

brilliant summary

"Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has a full-time medical practice in the United Kingdom where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems.

Here, she shares her insights about Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), which can make a child particularly prone to vaccine damage, and the GAPS Nutritional program; a natural treatment for autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression and schizophrenia."

http://gaps.me/

http://www.doctor-natasha.com/

see also Body Ecology by Donna Gates

The EU Health Freedom Debacle

2011-07-26T20:30:00.001+01:00

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=17B0C76B66D6118CB172C0A6073F0BE8

In April of this year (2011) there was a change in legislation in the European Union that will affect all of us who take nutritional supplements and herbal remedies. We seem to have been kept in the dark about this by the media, but one organisation has worked phenomenally hard on our behalf to inform us and give us the tools on how to voice our opinions and keep our freedom of choice.

In this video Dr Verkerk talks about;
>> massive restrictions on allowed ingredients, including vitamin and mineral forms, as well as botanicals.
>> massive restrictions on maximum permitted doses of vitamins and minerals.
>> massive restrictions on what can be said about any product with beneficial properties.
>> imposition of pharmaceutical-type standards, making it difficult for many truly natural products to comply.

The Alliance for Natural Health – www.anh-europe.org and www.anh-usa.org

Currently to the best of my knowledge, all these herbs and supplements are gradually disappearing from shelves little by little, classic totalitarian tip-toe style, shops are merely selling their current stock up until their sell by dates with no further products being produced to avoid shocking the consumer.

The Wider Implications of the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic

2011-07-18T11:43:00.004+01:00

http://soundcloud.com/healthranger/interview-john-cannell-vitamin-d

Important 1 hour discussion between Mike Adams and the Director of the Vitamin D Council John Cannell on the devastating consequences of the Vitamin D deficiency epidemic in the 'cave dwelling' developed world and how insufficient research funding is preventing further understanding and delaying vital supplementation which could save billions globally in remedial health care.

Oh i just gotta add this link i just found - i was thinking co-factors and the vitamin A relationship and found
http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/2005/12/vitamin-d-is-critical-for-health.html
for a fab list of food sources, that coincidentally links into my last post about low-carb diets!

The Vitamin D Council

http://www.NaturalNews.com/033029_John_Cannell_vitamin_D.html

extract

Some examples of what else you will learn from Dr. Cannell in the interview:

• What the Vitamin D Council upped the daily Vitamin D dose recommendations to for adults, teens, children, and infants

• The links between Vitamin D deficiency and mental disorders such as schizophrenia and autism, as well as Vitamin D deficiencies and other disease like: diabetes, bone disorders, kidney health, cancer, mood, heart disease

• Why Vitamin D level affects so many different aspects of health and areas of the body through its numerous mechanisms of action

• How Vitamin D affects your genetic code and works in a very primitive way to treat and heal a variety of diseases

• Why Cannell recommends at least 5000 units of Vitamin D a day

• What percentage of breast milk in the US has no Vitamin D in it... it's a startling statistic!

• What percentage of human genomes are directly regulated by Vitamin D

• How Vitamin D affects the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of seasonal vaccines

• Why weaning toddlers from formula to juice is dangerous for their health and Vitamin D levels

• How you can calculate how much Vitamin D you are making outdoors just by viewing your shadow

• The best place to buy an affordable in-home blood test that properly measures your Vitamin D levels

• The effect our country's obsession with soap and cleanliness could be having on our Vitamin D levels

• How the cosmetology industry has played a huge part in the generation of the myth that sunlight is a carcinogen

• How Vitamin D acts as a chelating agent to rid your body of heavy metals and toxins

And much more!

This information about Vitamin D and its powerful ability to fight cancer risks and fortify your health is not something to miss out on.

To access the interview and soak up some beneficial Vitamin D wisdom, visit this link:
http://soundcloud.com/healthranger/...

Learn more:http://www.NaturalNews.com/033029_John_Cannell_vitamin_D.html#ixzz1SS6v1Pn9

The Big Fat Lie

2011-07-13T19:22:00.005+01:00

discussing the commonly recommended low fat /high carb diet as potential perpetrator of the obesity epidemic
Heres part 1

plus - a related article

One Third of Libya Turns Out to Support Qaddafi in World's Largest March Ever

2011-07-07T22:44:00.002+01:00

"1.7 million people, or around 95% of the population of Tripoli, one third of the entire population of Libya, have turned out in perhaps the largest demonstration ever in world history last Friday, to demand an end to the NATO bombings of Libya."

One Third of Libya Turns Out to Support Qaddafi in World's Largest March Ever | Libya |Axisoflogic.com

Is your medication causing malnutrition?

2011-07-07T22:28:00.001+01:00

(NaturalNews) Most people trust that the medicines that they take will help them overcome illness, enhance their health and promote well-being. Unfortunately medications often deplete important nutrients from the body, and people don't find the relief that they seek.

People who have become malnourished as a result of their medications are vulnerable to a host of nutrition related diseases. To make matters worse, they may find themselves having to treat malnourishment with a new batch of medications and this may become a dangerous cycle.

For instance, statins which are used to control cholesterol levels reduce CoEnzyme 10 and other important nutrients. Statins may also result in lower levels of A, D, K, folic acid and iron in the body. Cholesterol gets a bad rap, but it helps the body digest fats and nutrients and is important for regulating hormones.

Even common medications such as laxatives and antacids can deplete or block the uptake of essential nutrients. PPI antacids, for example interfere with Vitamin B-12. Furthermore blocking acid production for long periods of time using antacids may reduce the body's ability to absorb minerals. Loss of B12 over time may result in anemia, as well as other conditions including fatigue. Blocked acid production by antacids can leave the body vulnerable to infections and bone fractures as well.

The use of antibiotics has become a hot topic because the overuse of these medications has led to antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the loss of healthy bacteria. Antibiotics may also be harmful because they deplete the body of essential nutrients such as zinc, magnesium, Vitamins B, and iron.

Another group that decrease nutrients are pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs. Aspirin and salicylates available over the counter for example, rob the body of folic acid and potassium. Other medicines commonly used for pain and swelling such as Cortisone, and Prednisone reduce levels of the nutrients calcium, magnesium, folic acid,vitamins D and C to name a few.

Diuretics such as Lasis and Endecrin deplete sodium, potassium, magnesium and Vitamins B1 and B6. Other medications that serve as a diuretic like Enduron deplete levels of Co-Q 10, and sodium and other important nutrients. Women who take hormone replacement drugs and birth control drugs are also at risk for malnutrition as they deplete levels magnesium , zinc and B2, B6, B12 and folic acid.

SSRI (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) drugs that are widely used are also associated with nutritional deficiencies. While a SSRI is commonly used to treat depression, they are also prescribed for some sorts of injuries, pain and are used on occasion to treat allergies. SSRI interferes with the absorption of B-12 as well as other nutrients like biotin and folic acid. SSRIs may also deplete Co-Q 10.

Before beginning a new medication consult with your doctor, or pharmacist to find out what your nutritional risks are. Here are just a few important nutrients commonly depleted by medications and some of the ways that can lead to new disease.

* Lack of proper levels of sodium may result in; nausea, diarrhea, weight loss, and muscle cramps

* Magnesium depletion may result in soft bones, fatigue, heart palpitations, convulsions and acne

* Zinc loss may disturb digestion and retard growth

* Iron is important in growth, vitality and a deficiency leads to anemia

* Vitamin A is essential in bone and tooth development and health. It is also important for the immune system.

* B1 is crucial for heart health, fights depression, constipation and fatigue. Provides protection for the heart

* B5 lack of this important vitamin may result in insomnia, abdominal pain, depression, rapid pulse, lowered blood pressure and disturbed electrolytes.

* B12 crucial for development and health of nervous system, lack of B12 may result in anemia.

* Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ 10)is crucial in all cellular functions, and is highly concentrated in heart tissue. A deficiency mayleadto heart disease.

Learn more:http://www.NaturalNews.com/032923_drugs_malnutrition.html#ixzz1RSP9djby

My Natural Recovery from Lyme & Vaccine Damage

2011-07-07T22:00:00.004+01:00

The personal story of Alixs recovery from years of undiagnosed & misdiagnosed ill-health to the vibrant condition in which we find her today - a really conscise 12 and a half mins summary

Alix is a natural health journalist. She is editor of Med Nauseam, the award-winning blog (www.mednauseam.com) featuring articles based on research supporting dietary and environmental causes of acquired illness. Alix is co-founder of SpiroChicks (www.spirochicks.com), a Lyme lifestyle blog. She also writes for Technorati and BlogCritics. She is known for delivering hard-hitting nutrition presentations--Vitamin Vampires-- to parents, to employees of companies like Twitter, support groups, and to groups of medical doctors. She has been lauded as "The Al Gore of nutrition, only funnier." Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Information presented on www.naturalnews.tv is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Content is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. Always consult a licensed health professional.

Alixs website
www.mednauseam.com

The Last Word on Snake Oil by James Corbett

2011-07-07T21:50:00.003+01:00

the Rockefeller family roots - this is such a joy, in a weird way, transparency rocks - James Corbett hits it home

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:
http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=2287

Death by Vaccination: The Gates Foundation and the New Eugenics by Gary Null & Richard Gale

2011-07-07T21:44:00.001+01:00

http://www.garynull.com/home/death-by-vaccination-the-gates-foundation-and-the-new-eugeni.html

"While lecturing at the elitist TED 2010 conference in Long Beach, CA, Bill Gates slipped a statement while speaking on the dangers of climate change and over population: “Vaccines? I love them.”

Today the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is “the most powerful charity in the world, and one of the most quietly influential international organizations of any sort.”[1] The Foundation is funded to the tune of $34.6 billion plus an additional $30 billion from Warren Buffet’s investments. This is almost the entire budget of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Gates has followed in the footsteps of the Rockefellers’ lead to usher the New Green Revolution, an aggressive onslaught of genetically modified seeds (GMOs) to increase large scale corporate-influenced agriculture in Africa, India and elsewhere. The international GMO initiatives have devastated small cooperative farms that have served as the lifeline of food for centuries and as resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of farmers. Of course nobody among the oligarchic elite, such as Gates, Rockefeller and Monsanto execs, will suffer from the consequences of this failed revolution....

continues here

Daniel Vitalis on Surthriving the Apocalypse - OneRadioNework Interview

2011-07-07T21:31:00.025+01:00

http://www.oneradionetwork.com/daniel-vitalis/daniel-vitalis-health-motivator-and-longevity-strategist-june-28-2011/

this is a fab 2 hours - i love listening to Daniel

Healing With Colostrum

2011-06-30T15:03:00.000+01:00

Really neat article

Bovine Colostrum, The Forgotten Miracle

Stephen R Blake, Jr, DVM

The use of bovine colostrum in medicine, dates back thousands of years. Ayurvedic doctors have used it for physical and spiritual purposes throughout the history of time. Bovine colostrum was used in the United States, and all over the world, for immune problems, prior to the discovery of sulfa drugs and antibiotics. Thousands of scientific studies and human clinical trials worldwide have proven bovine colostrum to be safe and therapeutic.

Current research over the past two decades has shown that colostrum is one of the most important nutritional supplements available for enhancing and helping in tissue repair. All colostrum is not created equal and should be evaluated before use. My research has shown that colostrum should be from a dairy, where there is no use of hormones, antibiotics, nuclear contamination, or pesticides. It should be prepared without freezing and excessive heat. It should be water soluble, and for best effect, in a powder form.

Pasture-fed herds are the preferred source of colostrum. These herds produce colostrum that contains more beneficial enzymes, which assist in the assimilation of the colostrum, and is a more diversified immune source. The bovine only supplies colostrum to its young at birth, and there is no placental transfer of antibodies. The human infant gets 60% of its antibody protection via the placenta and 40% from the mother's milk during the first two days after birth, as do many other species. This fact allows them to survive on milk replacement.

If a calf does not receive colostrum, they will die within a week's time. The unique property of bovine colostrum is that it is a universal donor for all mammals. Colostrum contains all of the immune factors necessary for protecting the newborn from bacteria, allergens, toxins and viruses. Colostrum also contains a balanced proportion of growth factors that are required for growth and healing. Current research shows that colostrum triggers at least fifty different functions in the newborn.

Over the past seven months, I have been incorporating the use of bovine colostrum into my general practice. I have found that bovine colostrum, which meets the above requirements, facilitates any modality I use: Classical Homeopathy, acupuncture, Bach Flower therapy, glandular therapy, aromatherapy, massage, and nutrition. All of these modalities have benefited from using colostrum, in one way or another. I have found that colostrum cream is the best topical healing agent I have ever used in 26 years of practice. The colostrum contains EgF (Epithelial Growth Factor), IgF (Insulin-like Growth Factor), and TGF-A & B (Transforming Growth Factors, alpha and beta), which are necessary for healing the epithelium, muscle, nerve, gastrointestinal tract, joints, etc.

It also contains Lactoferrins, which have natural antimicrobial activity. This is in a water-soluble

base that contains essential oils and vitamin E. I have used it in open wounds, suture lines, abscesses, ruptured cysts, warts, dry and moist dermatitis, insect bites, burns, etc, and found it to be the most effective product I have ever used in clinical practice. I have also used it orally for gingivitis and in the ear canal with equally good results. It is tolerated well by all the animals I have used it on, and if the animals consume it, it receives benefit from it internally as well.

A fascinating fact about colostrum, is that it contains polyproline-rich peptides, which are a regulator of the thymus gland (master immune gland) of the body. It establishes homeostasis in the thymus gland, by regulating an under active or overactive thymus. The research on the growth factors in colostrum, has shown that salivary amylase and HCI in the stomach, potentiate their activity. I have also observed the same principle in animals, as well as in myself. For that reason, I advise my clients to feed it free choice, in powder form, at least 30 minutes or longer before feeding. I suggest once per day, first thing in the morning.

Palatability in the canine has been 100%, and 90%+ in the feline. Many of my clients prefer the capsules or the tablets for the convenience of dispensing, and empty the quantity they need out of each capsule. Concentration and dose is the same either way. Colostrum has a very specific effect on the gastrointestinal tract and I have found that it improves the integrity of the intestinal mucosa better than any product I have ever used.

It facilitates the balancing of the intestinal flora, stabilizes the immune status of the gut, and aids in digestion and proper motility of the bowel. Since 70% of the gamma globulins come from Pyers Patches in the intestinal tract, and 90% of all toxins, bacteria, viruses and fungi enter the body through the gut, it only makes sense that we should concentrate our efforts on this organ system.

I have used it for IBD, gastroenteritis of all kinds, hemorrhagic enteritis, colitis, non-specific diarrheas, absorption deficiencies, pancreatitis, constipation, obstipation, and food allergies. It has helped in all of these conditions and has no adverse side effects. It is not a panacea for these problems, but it is very effective in aiding the healing process necessary for resolving these conditions. I have noted that homeopathic cases of mine, that I felt were properly repertorized but had not responded, were now responding with the addition of colostrum.

My conclusion is that many of our animals are deficient in the enzymes, growth factors, and immunologic components, necessary for them to respond to the homeopathic remedy in an optimum way. I have found similar situations in cases utilizing other modalities, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, nutritional, Bach Flowers and aromatherapy. The point that I am trying to make, is that it will complement any modality you are using, and with the confidence that it will do no harm.

My experience thus far, has shown that a pet's need for any particular supplement they are on can be reduced or eliminated, once they have been on colostrum. This is probably due to the increase in efficiency in the absorption of substances from the gut, better efficiency of tissue repair from the growth factors, and a healthier immune system from the immunoglobulin and other immune factors provided by the colostrum.

I have noted that joint-related problems, that originally were helped with glucosamine and then declined, improved when they were given colostrum. From my reading, I have found that IgF, is essential for the utilization of the glucosamine, and without adequate amounts, they do not respond. It has been found that in human species, growth factor production begins declining after the onset of adolescence and by the age of 80 years is absent. Without these factors, death ensues because without them you cannot repair the worn out cells in each of the organ systems, resulting in organ failure.

From observing animals for nearly three decades, I conclude that animals mirror humans and respond very much the same to whatever medical modality is used. In conclusion, I would like to suggest that the fact that the bovine is a universal donor for colostrum, produces more colostrum than any other domestic animal, and that it can be obtained humanly is no accident. This natural source of a package that contains all of the immune and growth factors necessary for life is no accident and should be considered in any health related problem.

Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association - July 1999, Volume 18, Number 2, pp 38-39.

(taken from

http://holisticvetpetcare.com/Bovine-Colostrum.htm)

Outrageous Raw Ice Cream from David Wolfe & Truth Calkins

2011-06-12T11:26:00.000+01:00

http://www.longevitywarehouse.com/SuperFood-Tonic-Recipes-DVD-with-Truth-Calkins-p/superfoodtonicrecipes.htm

Omega-3 Fats Reduce First-time Heart Attack Death Risk by 35%

2011-06-12T11:16:00.004+01:00

from the Beyond Health Newsletter

. . . but more would have gotten even better results

A new study in the British Journal of Nutrition looked at fatal and non-fatal heart attacks in people without a prior history of heart disease to see if regularly taking 250 mg/day or more of omega-3 fatty acids (vs. taking less than 250 mg/day) had made a difference.

The answer was a resounding yes! The risk of sudden cardiac death was reduced by a whopping 35%. There was, in addition, a 17% reduction in the risk of total fatal coronary events.

Omega-3 fats are one of two classes of "essential" fatty acids -- meaning that the body cannot manufacture them so they must be obtained from the diet. Deficiencies in omega-3 fats are rampant, while most people get far too much of the other essential fatty acid, the omega-6s. More than 90% of the population is deficient in omega-3s, and in one survey, 20% had so little it couldn't even be measured by standard tests.

In Europe, 250 mg/day is the recommended intake for omega-3 fatty acids; in the US, 8-12 ounces a week of seafood, which would provide an average of 250 mg/day omega-3s, is the government recommendation.

However other research has indicated that intakes of 900 to 1,000 mg/day and more confer even greater protection. In light of this, a co-author of the study said that "250 mg/day . . . should be considered a minimum, not an optimum, level of consumption."

As usual, official recommendations are too low. The modern diet is way too high in inflammatory omega-6s and way too low in anti-inflammatory omega-3s, and this sets up an inflammatory condition in the body that underlies just about every chronic disease, including heart disease and cancer. While it is encouraging to see that even 250 mg/day made a significant difference, correcting this imbalance takes a lot more omega-3 than 250 mg a day. Supplementing with Beyond Health's EFA Formula and Fish Oil Formula is highly recommended.

Musa-Veloso, K. Impact of low v. moderate intakes of long-chain n-3 fatty acids on risk of coronary heart disease. British Journal of Nutrition. Published online ahead of print 31 May 2011. Available on CJO 2011 doi:10.1017/S0007114511001644.

(I recommend Blue Ice fermented fish oil)

The Great Cancer Hoax: The Brilliant Cure the FDA Tried Their Best to Shut Down...

2011-06-11T10:22:00.000+01:00

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/11/burzynski-the-movie.aspx

Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business from BurzynskiMovie on Vimeo.

QUOTE

Important! The producers of this powerful film are allowing a full and FREE preview through June 13th! Please tell everyone you know to watch this film in it's entirety through June 13, 2011.
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Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food and Drug Administration in American history.

In the 1970’s, Dr. Burzynski made a remarkable discovery that threatened to change the face of cancer treatment forever. His non-toxic gene-targeted cancer medicine could have helped save millions of lives over the last two decades had his discovery not been criminally suppressed by the US government, as his therapy, called “antineoplastons,” have been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.

This documentary takes you through the treacherous 14-year journey Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to finally obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of antineoplastons.

His story is yet another testament that fact can be far stranger than fiction, as the film exposes the powerful, unscrupulous forces that work to maintain the status quo of the medical- and pharmaceutical industry at any cost—including the lives of millions of people.

Sources:

Burzynskimovie.com

Dr. Mercola's Comments

Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski was born in the early 1940's in Poland, and was trained as both a biochemist and a physician. He's spent the last 35 years developing and successfully treating cancer patients suffering with some of the most lethal forms of cancer at his clinic in Houston, Texas.

I recently interviewed Dr. Burzynski about his cancer treatment—a gene-targeted approach using non-toxic peptides and amino acids, known as antineoplastons. Here, I will follow up with a review of his recently released documentary, Burzynski, The Movie.

It's an absolute jaw-dropper...

For anyone who has ever been affected by cancer, either directly or indirectly, the facts presented in this film will hit you like a rude slap in the face.

You will learn that not only did the US Federal government spend 14 years actively suppressing a cancer treatment that had a FAR greater success rate than any other treatment available, they also spent well over $60 million of US taxpayer dollars trying to put the inventor of the treatment in jail in order to steal his patents and either suppress or cash in on his discovery.

This film is an absolute MUST-SEE, as the summary I'm about to present below simply cannot do it justice. It's available for purchase at BurzynkiMovie.com, where you can view the first half-hour for free. The site also contains a large number of video clips, as well as a full transcript of the entire film, along with links to all the documentation presented.

Alizbar - Остров / Island

2011-06-09T13:11:00.003+01:00

i'm not sure i'm allowed this much beauty lol

The Source Field Investigations by David Wilcock

2011-06-09T13:01:00.007+01:00

DW's forthcoming book is this summers 'must have'

- if there is such a thing and will be released August 18th 2011.

To disperse his information further afield & boost his mainstream presence

pre-order at Amazon.co.uk

or Amazon.com

Alizbar - Out of Time Fairytale (Сказка вне времени)

2011-06-09T10:12:00.008+01:00

i'm so in love with these guys right now

Harp & Hang Drum Impro (wow)

2011-06-08T19:44:00.002+01:00

i'm loving all the grooves from these guys today, so this hang drum is quite a thing then....

Sweet's "Blockbuster" by John Otway

2011-06-08T13:32:00.001+01:00

"John Otway fans are born, we are not manufactured. We do not choose, we are chosen. Those that don't understand, don't matter and those who understand need no explanation."

See him live at Chagstock, Devon 2011

Happy June!

2011-06-02T18:25:00.000+01:00

So hot today :) at last....

Government Circles - Colin Andrews

2011-05-30T16:30:00.000+01:00

I enjoyed this - some great comments and understanding, highly reputable crop circle researcher Colin Andrews discusses paranormal versus crop art, covert op's & consciousness.

The World's First Bitcoin Road Trip

2011-05-30T10:41:00.006+01:00

this is awesome!!!

see also
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
http://bitcoinme.com/
http://bitcoinmonitor.com
http://www.bitcoin.org/

"Q. What is Bitcoin?
A. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the network.

Q. How does Bitcoin work?

A. Bitcoin utilises public-key cryptography. A coin contains the owner's public key. When a coin is transferred from user A to user B, A adds B’s public key to the coin, and the coin is signed using A's private key. B now owns the coin and can transfer it further. A is prevented from transferring the already spent coin to other users because a public list of all previous transactions is collectively maintained by the network. Before each transaction the coin’s validity will be checked."

The Last Word on Osama Bin Laden

2011-05-27T10:03:00.003+01:00

I love a decent history lesson
- from the regularly epic - Corbett Report
& www.corbettreport.com

Inside Job (2010) - The Global Financial Crisis of 2008....... (full docu)

2011-05-26T22:50:00.005+01:00

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28189.htm
'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. The film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

......an interesting though limited retrospective overview
Pleeeeeze see The Secret of Oz by Bill Still for a deeper understanding of why we're in the mess we're in

DW Update on Disclosure

2011-05-08T20:12:00.001+01:00

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/936-disclosurebinladen

Thought provoking & educational as ever, lovely David Wilcock gives an update on current events including Bin Laden's death & the official movement towards ET disclosure.

Julian Assange Russia Today Interview May 2, 2011

2011-05-08T20:08:00.000+01:00

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62924.shtml

via Axis of Logic - "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange interviewed by Russia Today, criticizes Guardian, New York Times, and Facebook. Gives his opinion on the Arab revolutions." Nice

A Gesture of Solace and Pleasure For Gaza

2011-05-04T10:29:00.001+01:00

A Gesture of Solace and Pleasure For Gaza | Common Dreams

Salbuchi - Osama's 9 Lives

2011-05-03T18:50:00.004+01:00

Nice - i love Salbuchi
subscribe to his youtube here

The Love Police: Royal Wedding Megaphone Rant

2011-05-02T21:22:00.002+01:00

Charlie Veitch for your edification & amusement

Landless Peasants

2011-05-01T18:48:00.000+01:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/gardening/exclusive-the-end-of-the-good-life-2277463.html

just when you thought you'd grow have to all those banned herbs yourself...

"The century-old right of people to demand an allotment from their council may be abolished by the Government under plans to scale back red tape, it emerged yesterday.

Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, is examining plans to free local authorities from a 103-year-old obligation to provide plots of public land for cultivation by gardeners. The proposals could see local authorities, many of them strapped for cash under government-imposed cuts, selling off allotment land for social housing or even for profit to major companies."

http://www.landshare.net/news/act-now-to-save-allotments/

Charlie Veitch of Love Police Arrested for Anti-Royalist Conjecture

2011-04-29T00:12:00.001+01:00

See Charlie in action

EU Herbal Medicine Ban

2011-04-29T00:06:00.003+01:00

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_herbal_medicine_ban/?copy

Exxon, other oil companies 'swimming in' profit

2011-04-28T18:22:00.002+01:00

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/28-5

"Exxon Profit Up 69 Percent as Gas and Oil Prices Boost Top Five Oil Companies

by Susanna Kim

Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell today reported first-quarter profit increases of 69 percent and 30 percent, respectively, from the same period last year. With rising gas and oil prices, analysts expected the five biggest oil companies -- with Exxon as the largest -- to report that they are swimming in revenue."

Cancer causing hormones? Hormone doctor takes on NBC and New York Times

2011-04-27T10:38:00.001+01:00

http://www.NaturalNews.com/032198_bioidentical_hormones_cancer.html

If they can't patent it then they suppress it...

(NaturalNews)Ladies, there is another study that says hormones cause cancer. Oh, by the way, all you women out there taking these natural hormones - there is no difference. There are no studies out there to show that there is any difference. You shouldn't take any of those because they are all the same and they all cause cancer.Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC's chief medical editor is fond of generalizing about hormones on the air. According to Neal Rouzier, MD of Palm Springs, she doesn't understand her own ignorance and owes the viewing public a grave apology.

"She couldn't be any more wrong," the hormone doctor told me, "and so I sent a little note to the studio telling them that their doctor was wrong. Then I sent twenty articles along with that note showing evidence that she was wrong. I also requested that she, on national television, set the record straight so that she doesn't confuse the public further. I didn't hear anything back and there was no verbal apology to the public about what she said."

Dr. Rouzier's tone suggested that he actually expected a response from NBC. He has gotten responses from other misinformed television personalities. When one popular health correspondent said that estrogen and progesterone cause cancer, the hormone doctor sent her a note:Progesterone does not cause cancer, but Provera (synthetic for progesterone) does. You cannot use progesterone and Provera in the same sentence.

The response:Well, the reason I used progesterone is because if I said Provera it would have confused everyone and people don't even know the difference anyway.

The hormone doctor replied:Thank you for further confusing the public and not stating it correctly so that they would learn that there is a difference as opposed to you furthering that misunderstanding, which is really a shame.

Unfortunately, most of the journalists who write about it don't understand it, Dr. Rouzier contends. Most of thedoctorsthat they copy when they write don't understand it or misstate the issues, which makes for extreme confusion. Even in the face of evidence that adamantly shows that there is a difference between Provera and bioidentical progesterone, physicians will frequently mistake or misquote them as being the same, whereas they are not and the falsehood continues to spread.

A journalist in theNew York Timesrequested evidence from Dr. Rouzier that Provera causes cancer and progesterone prevents it. When he sent her 12 studies proving it, the reply was:Well, I don't believe those studies.

Excuse me. Those are from cancer journals. What is it that you don't understand? You don't like it because what they are saying is correct and therefore instead of making any retractions, you continue to propagate what is wrong. You have the ability to help by writing for theNew York Times, but you refuse to see the truth.

This is why so many of us remain confused. We see some good doctor or some good journalist stating that hormone therapy is bad or harmful. Then, when a doctor like Dr. Rouzier presents overwhelming evidence in favor of bioidenticalhormones, the picture changes dramatically.

Doctors come away from the Dr. Rouzier's hormone courses asking, how come we don't know this? We have been misled and how come somebody doesn't stand up and make a correction? It's because the national media will not let the truth be known.

About the author:
Mike Bundrant is a retired mental health counselor, NLP trainer and publisher of Healthy Times Newspaper.

You can find Mike at inlpcenter.com and Healthy Times Newspaper

Learn more:http://www.NaturalNews.com/032198_bioidentical_hormones_cancer.html#ixzz1KiNPtcEb

Keiser Report: Banking XXX

2011-04-13T11:36:00.000+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NdUU1wWa4

thx to Project Avalon

Industry’s war on nature: ‘What are the bees telling us?’

2011-04-13T11:23:00.006+01:00

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24268

again thx to GaryNull.com

by Rady Ananda

While industries continue to pollute the planet with their toxic chemicals, toxic waste and toxic spills, Earth’s pollinators sing a swan song that leaves no doubt as to the folly of modern civilization. Our ability to hear and appropriately respond to the crisis of declining pollinators will determine humanity’s survival.

“In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist, philosopher and social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse.” Queen of the Sun

Steiner believed the industrialization of bees would lead to their demise. It looks like he was right. In the past two decades, the United States has lost 100-300 billion bees, and the problem has spread to Europe and beyond. While industrialized beekeeping operations do kill millions of bees each year, several other factors contribute to their massive die-off.

Pollinators are sickened by lack of a diverse diet from the tens of millions of monoculture acres. By ingesting genetically modified crops, pollinators also ingest GM microbes, to their detriment. By and far, though, agrochemicals contribute most to pollinator decimation. In a last ditch effort to save the hive, some bees seal off hive cells that contain inordinate amounts of pesticide. But even these hives eventually die.

Bolstering industry’s multi-factor assault on nature, the ubiquitous communications industry adds electromagnetic pollution, causing bees (and birds) to lose their ability to navigate. Taking advantage of weakened, disoriented bees, exotic pathogens like the Varroa mite, imported via globalized trade, suck the remaining life out of them. And, so, we see the collapse of the honeybee and North American bats.

Much of this we learn in Taggart Siegel’s part philosophical love story, part documentary, Queen of the Sun: What are the bees telling us? Theatrically released on March 25, the award-winning film is further supported by a newly released report from the United Nations Environment Programme, Global Bee Colony Disorders and other Threats to Insect Pollinators.

A sure way to collapse an ecosystem is to decimate a keystone species – one from which the entire localized web of life radiates. Pollinators contribute nearly ten percent to the global food economy, or about $218 billion USD (€153 billion) a year. Of the 100 or so crop species that provide 90% of the world’s food, bees pollinate 71 of them, according to UNEP’s report. Among the 20,000 known bee species worldwide, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is most important, contributing between $33 and $82 billion annually (€22.8 to €57 billion).

So while we are witnessing the planet’s sixth extinction spasm (popularly detailed in Ed Wilson’s The Diversity of Life), it is the bee that garners our deserved attention.

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The Emergence of Vaccine Induced Diseases

2011-04-13T11:21:00.002+01:00

http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2011/04/11/the-emergence-of-vaccine-induced-diseases.aspx

thx to GaryNull.com

Unwary Vegans Beware

2011-04-13T11:00:00.001+01:00

a sensitive subject treated kindly- another excellent well-balanced article by Mercola which, as ever, is intended primarily for the sincerely heath conscious. I love Mike Adams at Natural News with his more pro-vegan stance & justified outrage at the treatment by State (France) of these poor parents & he makes some extremely important arguments about the non-investigation of deaths in non-vegan junk food babies etc etc & within the landscape of child rearing abominations advocated by the mainstream this incident pales by comparison..... all that notwithstanding it is still my belief that Veganism can be just as dangerous as a junk food diet especially for the groups Mercola specifies (ie pregnant, breast-feeding, infants & children & of course 'protein types').
It goes without saying, though i will anyway, that a 100% vegan diet done well, especially a raw vegan diet, is an exceptionally detoxifying way of life but it just lacks, in my view the 'building' element needed by those groups. I don't think most people need much animal protein but that inclusion appears to be essential for those people. There are probably people who can thrive indefinitely on vegan, but i don't know any. It seems that at some point the cracks begin to show but as Mercola mentions it can take a deceptively long time. It is the currently virtually unchartered territory of second and third generation vegans (raw or otherwise) that concerns me most.
My love to the parents.
ps I do personally believe we make our own reality, therefore our own 'laws' to some extent, with our conscious and unconscious beliefs, so the catch is just the extent to which we can impact our unconscious beliefs from the conscious realm & thus make a realistic challenge to consensus reality.

Bitcoinme.com - Digi Currency

2011-04-11T17:31:00.001+01:00

http://www.bitcoinme.com/

like a global digital 'lets' scheme??!

What you need to know about Cooking Meat

2011-04-11T11:30:00.002+01:00

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/11/when-are-hotdogs-better-for-you-than-chicken.aspx
fab article, as ever from Dr Mercola, i don't eat meat myself but for those who do this is a must read

Proof that Depression is NOT a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain

2011-04-06T10:46:00.001+01:00

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/06/frightening-story-behind-the-drug-companies-creation-of-medical-lobotomies.aspx

Happy Vernal Equinox

2011-03-20T09:46:00.001Z

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/19/selective-un-intervention-libya

"humanitarian military intervention"..... i'll leave that one for you to ponder

& where next for "Team Democracy?"

Cut Warfare Not Welfare - Sat 26th March

2011-03-18T19:50:00.000Z

Our Heart to Japan

2011-03-15T22:02:00.008Z

Uploaded by rysa5 on Mar 14, 2011

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Twelve Seriously Unsustainable Things by Mike Adams

2011-03-11T10:44:00.004Z

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031669_life_on_earth_unsustainable_agriculture.html

Exceptional summary from Natural News

If you look around what's really happening in our world today, there's an inescapable pattern that curiously emerges: Much of what's going on is simply unsustainable. It can't go on for much longer, in other words. And it must collapse due to the laws of economics or physics.

Here, I've put together a collection of twelve systems that are utterly unsustainable on our planet. Each of these twelve is scheduled for some sort of collapse or shut down in the coming years. They range from economics to medicine, population and the environment. And interestingly, the collapse of just one of these twelve would have devastating consequences across human civilization. What happens when two, three or ten of these things collapse?

This article doesn't cover the consequences of the collapse of these unsustainable things, but we'll work on covering that in future articles. Here are the twelve:

1) Debt-based banking and economic systems

There's little question that our global fractional reserve banking system is headed for a catastrophic collapse. It's a system based on debt rather than sound money principles, and the laws of economics dictate that the global multiplication of money and debt is entirely unsustainable.

This system will collapse, and when it does, it will be so large that the economic devastation will be global. Governments have actually made this worse, of course, by bailing out the dishonest investment institutions that have made the situation worse. The coming financial collapse will teach humanity some hard lessons about honest money.

When it comes to money, banking and debt, Ron Paul has always been right, after all.

2) Conventional agriculture and "rape the planet" farming

The current agricultural system that feeds the planet is simply unsustainable. It is a "rape the planet" model that clear-cuts forests to grow GMO soybeans that feed factory cattle which are turned into processed meat. Even the plant crops grown through conventional agriculture depend on chemical fertilizers from sources that are running out ( fossil fuels, phosphate mines, etc.).

Furthermore, the mass application of chemical pesticides, fungicides and Monsanto's Roundup chemicals is destroying the viability of soils while polluting the world's farms, rivers, streams and oceans. This system is unsustainable. When it collapses, humanity will learn (the hard way) that only sustainable agriculture can sustain human life on our planet.

3) Mass-consumption economies based on buy-it-and-trash-it behavior

When children are raised to be good little Americans (or Canadians, or Australians, etc.), they're taught to consume more stuff. In America, it was even called "patriotic" by former President George Bush. To support your local economy, you're supposed to go out and buy stuff that you don't need, then chuck it into the trash after you use it, then go out and buy more!

Virtually the entire first-world economy is based on this idea that people need to consume more stuff, then throw it away, then consume more. That's what all the corporate advertising is for, to convince people that they are inadequate unless they buy and consume more high-priced cars, designer jeans, electronic gadgets and throwaway home cleaning supplies.This system is insane. And it cannot continue indefinitely.

4) The accelerating loss of farming soils

There's a great documentary you need to see on this called Dirt. (www.DirtTheMovie.org) It explains the value of dirt (soil) and why conventional agriculture methods are destroying the dirt upon which our civilization depends. We even wrote about the movie here: http://www.naturalnews.com/031597_D...

No dirt = no food. Get it? And the dirt is disappearing at an alarming rate, thanks to the unsustainable practices of conventional agriculture, with all its tilling, soil destruction, poisons and GMOs. I wonder what the people will plant their seeds in when all the cropland dirt is either dead or gone?

5) The mass poisoning of the oceans and aggressive over-fishing

Oceans ecosystems are collapsing. This isn't some future prediction, it's happening right now. Ocean acidification is destroying the coral reefs and mollusks all across the globe. At the same time, human civilization treats the oceans as giant planetary toilets into which all the toxic chemicals of modern civilization are flushed: Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, fertilizers, heavy metals, hormone-disrupting chemicals and a whole lot more.

Massive fish die-offs are becoming increasingly common (http://www.naturalnews.com/031645_d...), and fish populations are plummeting across several species. We are beginning to see the results of mankind's ongoing poisoning of the oceans.

6) Mass genetic pollution of the planet through GMOs

It will be the great, dark legacy of our modern civilization: The widespread genetic contamination of the planet through the use of GMOs.

Genetically engineered seeds are spreading their altered genetic code all across the world. The DNA of GMO crops is now detectable in soils, foods and water systems. What's the upshot of all this? It's a big unknown, of course, and that's the frightening part: No one before has ever "played God" with the planet, right out in the open, and then observed what happens after a few years (or decades). Thanks to companies like Monsanto, we are the experiment, and no one know if it might ultimately lead to something like a widespread crop failure or even the alternation of natural web-of-life interactions across multiple ecosystems.

And if genetic pollution causes problems, how do you "clean" that pollution? You can't! Genetic pollution endures. Once crops become infected with GE seeds, it's all but impossible to eliminate the DNA contamination.

7) The drugs-and-surgery conventional medical system

Big Pharma's days are numbered -- based on economics if nothing else. The monopolistic pricing, the deadly side effects and the corrupt, criminal operations of the industry make it all utterly non-sustainable.

Big Pharma and the whole chemical approach to medicine is bankrupting companies, cities, states and nations. No nation can economically survive in the long run if it keeps spending its money on Big Pharma sick care schemes. Ultimately, those nations that hope to survive will need to ditch Big Pharma and return to natural medicine and preventive nutrition.

That day is coming. Sooner that you think, probably.

8) Widespread pharmaceutical contamination of the human population and the environment

Until the day comes that Big Pharma collapses into ruin, the pharmaceutical pollution of the planet will continue. Right now, pharmaceutical factories in India (which export their pills back to the states to be sold as brand-name drugs) are dumping untold thousands ofgallonsof dangerous chemical drugs into the waterways there (http://www.naturalnews.com/025415_w...).

In the U.S. and Canada, the water near every major city is heavily contaminated with pharmaceuticals. (http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html)

The situation is so bad that Big Pharma's chemical runoff threatens the future of life on our planet! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029314_w...)

Fortunately, this sad chapter in human history will soon come to an end.

9) Runaway human population growth

Here's the one nobody wants to talk about. But make no mistake: The human population growth we see right now is entirely unsustainable. The available of cheap food and fossil fuels over the last century has contributed to an unprecedented population explosion that is now nearing its end. There are only so many acres of farmland, after all, and only so many acre-feet of water to irrigate it.

Don't misinterpret this, however, of thinking that I support some sort of population reduction measures a la Bill Gates and his quote about reducing the world population by 10 - 15 percent through the use of vaccines and health care (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_v...).

Unlike some of the truly evil world leaders, I don't believe in killing off human beings just to reduce global population. Rather, it makes more sense to teach sustainable living practices along with good parenting and well-considered parenthood. Strangely, most of the new children brought into the world today are not the result of stable, well-prepared parents choosing to have children, but rather the unintended consequences of casual copulation.

10) Fossil water consumption for agriculture

We just published a story on this issue, talking about how the Ogallala Aquifer is running dry, threatening the agricultural output of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and even parts of Colorado and Texas (http://www.naturalnews.com/031658_a...).

This is a global issue, affecting India, China, North America, South America and nearly every nation that produces any significant agricultural yields. Fresh water is running out all across the world, and while additional water supplies can always be created through desalination, for example, that's a very expensive way to replenish the water, and it's almost entirely dependent on fossil fuels (see below). Even if you could build enough desalination plants to irrigate the world's croplands, the resulting food prices would still result in mass starvation by those who couldn't afford the food which might cost ten times the current price.

Imagine paying $20 for a loaf of breadand you get the idea of what's coming.

11) Fossil fuel consumption

I realize this is a highly contentious issue, with some people claiming that there's an "unlimited supply of oil" in our planet because it's replenishing itself all the time. This idea simply doesn't square with what we know: The Earth is a finite object, occupying finite space. Inside it can only be a finite amount of fossil fuels. The recharge rate of fossil fuels is on the scale of millions of years, meaning we can't simply wait around for more fuel to reappear if we use up the current reserves.

There is convincing evidence right now that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, has been lying about its output capacity for at least the last decade. It can't reach its production targets, and there is reasoned speculation that its own best-producing oil wells are approaching their end. Even if oil remains available for a few more decades, it still becomes increasingly expensive oil, meaning that everything else down the supply chain becomes more expensive, too: Food, fuel, consumer goods, etc.

The era of cheap fossil fuels is coming to an end. Although fossil fuels will no doubt be around for several decades more, the cheap stuff is long gone, it seems. The citizens of Earth will soon need to find an alternate way to power their cities, cars and businesses in the 21st century.

Oh, and by the way, solar probably isn't the answer, as solar panels depend on rare earth metals that are entirely dependent on Chinese mining operations (http://www.naturalnews.com/028160_r...). Wind energy also hasn't panned out as it should have. And the governments of the world continue to suppress free energy technologies such as Cold Fusion, which has now been proven to work by even the U.S. Navy (http://www.naturalnews.com/025925_c...).

12) The widespread destruction of animal habitat

Here's one that drives some people nuts. What? We can't keep clear-cutting the rainforests to plant genetically engineered soybeans?

Not if you want the planet to survive, actually. There's a delicate web of life on our planet upon which human life ultimately depends. The more animal habitat we destroy, the more it ultimately comes back to haunt us.

Now, I'm not in favor of the insane green police and the UN's freedom-stealing efforts to pigeon-hole human beings into centrally-controlled behavior boxes. The key here is finding ways for people to live in balance with nature while still maintaining their freedoms.

And that depends on education. We need to continue to teach people how to make sound decisions about where they buy their wood furniture (to avoid the slashing of old-growth forests). We need to teach people who eat meat to buy truly free-range, grass-fed meat rather than factory-farmed meats that depend on soybean mega-farms. And of course, we also need to make people aware of the benefits of getting more plant-based foods into their diets where possible, because when properly prepared, plant foods provide a lot of nutrients with a smaller ecological footprint than most meats.

I'm not against those who eat meat, by the way. I just think that people need to consider where their food comes from no matter what they're eating, and then take steps to reduce the ecological footprint of the food they're choosing to consume. The best answer to this is to buy local food. In fact, I would argue that eating some beef steaks from a local farmer is more ecologically sound than juicing up organic fruits and vegetables grown and imported from Chile (unless you live in Chile, of course).

That's an arguable point, of course, and opinions differ sharply on this, but I believe that we really need to focus on eating local foods just as much as we do on what we're eating. Personally, I don't eat cows, but even for the plants I consume, I'm working hard right now on growing more of my own so that I'm acting with integrity -- "walking the talk" so to speak -- to be aligned with what I'm advocating for others.

While we're at it, one of the best ways to reduce the destruction of animal habitat is to grow your own food by turning your yard into a garden. Reduce your demand for store-bought food and you unquestionably reduce your ecological footprint on the planet.

And reconsider how much seafood you eat. Most seafood is extremely damaging to ocean ecosystems. I don't have space to discuss it all right here, but we'll cover it more on NaturalNews in the near future.

Life is on the line

So those are 12 of the biggest things that are entirely unsustainable on our planet right now. Human life depends on most of them. It makes you wonder: How will humans survive when these systems and resources upon which we depend have run out or collapsed?

That is a question we'd all better be asking ourselves right now. Because the age of cheap fuel, cheap money, cheap water and cheap food is fast ending. The future of life on our planet will require something far more evolved than the infantile, selfish and self-destructive mindset that humanity has so far demonstrated.

Debt-based money systems don't cut it. Burning up all the fossil fuels is only a fool's abundance. Medicating the humans and animals with toxic, synthetic pharmaceuticals is a form of medical insanity. These things will all come to an end.

The question is: Who will survive the end of these things and be around to help shape the next society which must operate with far greater humility and wisdom?

Learn more:http://www.NaturalNews.com/031669_life_on_earth_unsustainable_agriculture.html

Abraham-Hicks: This will make you laugh!

2011-03-10T13:30:00.000Z

Judge Arrested for Treason by Member of the British Constitution Group - Birkenhead 7th 2011

2011-03-10T10:31:00.001Z

http://wp.me/p1hCs1-Q - InformedMinds Blog
http://nominedeus.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/and-the-sun-shines-in-maybe/

Today, history was made, time will show the true magnitude of the event of the 7th at Birkenhead.

This was a declaration of lawful INTENT, an expression of right... In a nutshell, a wonderful (if noisy) revocation on their presumed legitimacy to rule! We only want a fair playing field, one law for all... surely not an unreasonable goal?

Here is a very different form of protest, not a protest an assertion . 'Judge' Michael Peake was 'civilly arrested' for treason, he failed to produce the warrant he claimed on the record to hold under the Queen, nor did he affirm his standing on his oath of office, time and again refusing to acknowledge his oath with its ascribed duties and obligations. Administrative law, not justice.

Also details emerging of a sheriff not exercising his obliged duties (full story on that bombshell to come out in time, and it's massive), and police behaving very well it seems, and yet still protecting a criminal at large - aiding and abetting his "rescue" - or if you prefer "importing" aid and comfort to the enemy...

The mainstream media are telling us 300 supporters on the ground in support of lawful rebellion, less jaded eyes say it could have been far more that turned out to support Roger Hayes defend himself from an utterly corrupt and morally bereft judiciary, and in the process 'civilly arrest' the Judge, Michael Peake and Seize the court - which was held for almost an hour.

Blessed Unrest

2011-03-07T21:24:00.000Z

Paul Hawken's speech at the Bioneers conference on the worlds largest movement, the hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizations that address social and environmental justice.

Join the global WiserEarth community at
http://www.WiserEarth.org

Subtitles are available in several languages.
Please click on the 'cc' icon (or menu) in the video player above or the "Interactive Transcript" pane/tab on the right of this description box.

Don't see your language?... Help us translate it at
http://universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/eTuu7iz4tHWN/
(You can download the subtitles there too).

Video copyright: Bioneers (2007)
http://www.bioneers.org

The Great Irish Oil Heist 2011

2011-02-25T11:06:00.002Z

Coincidences regarding the timing of the IMF in Ireland, from interview with Robin Wilson Louth - Independent Candidate

(obviously i'm not advocating fossil fuel eco-destruction here.... its just a crime scene on so many levels....)

The End of Poverty?

2011-02-23T23:30:00.000Z

Awesome, must see....

Available on iTunes: http://www.iTunes.com/Movies/TheEndof...

Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking advantage of poor, developing countries. Renowned actor and activist, Martin Sheen, narrates THE END OF POVERTY?, a feature-length documentary directed by award-winning director, Philippe Diaz, which explains how today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Consider that 20% of the planet's population uses 80% of its resources and consumes 30% more than the planet can regenerate. At this rate, to maintain our lifestyle means more and more people will sink below the poverty line. Filmed in the slums of Africa and the barrios of Latin America, THE END OF POVERTY? features expert insights from: Nobel prize winners in Economics, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz; acclaimed authors Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Perkins, Chalmers Johnson; university professors William Easterly and Michael Watts; government ministers such as Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and the leaders of social movements in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and Tanzania. It is produced by Cinema Libre Studio in collaboration with the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. Can we really end poverty within our current economic system? Think again.

Local Wild Cuisine

2011-02-23T12:28:00.002Z

a quick summary with nice pictures by Holly

Part 1

Part 2

Many Herbs in the EU will soon be illegal

2011-02-23T12:21:00.002Z

http://www.anh-europe.org/node/3113

see also http://www.anh-europe.org/campaigns/freedom-health-choice

After April 2011, many herbal products and food supplements containing herbs will become ILLEGAL. This is because of changes in law at a European level. On 30 April 2011 a European Directive, known as the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive(THMPD) comes fully into force. After this time, only herbal medicines that have been registered under the scheme will be available EU-wide. For a wide range of herbal products, especially those from non-European traditions such as Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine, the requirements of the scheme are either impossible to meet or are prohibitively expensive. In many cases, both constraints apply so the result is that virtually no herbal medicines from these traditions have been registered. These products will effectively be banned after April 2011. The ban will also effect medicinal herbs in food supplements, which are used by many thousands of people across Europe to help maintain their health.

We have developed a comprehensive 3-initiative strategy to address these issues, along with our collaborators at the European Benefyt Foundation.

We urgently need help from the public, practitioners and companies on the legal challenge we are in the process of preparing. We aim to challenge the EU Directive (THMPD) based on the fact that it is disproportionate, non-transparent and discriminatory. We need to raise £90,000 (€102,240) to fund legal costs for the first stage of our challenge, which will be a judicial review in the UK High Court. We then aim to have our case expedited to the European Court of Justice, which will require further funding.

Please help us to raise awareness of the action we are taking to protect the rights of Europeans to use herbs. And if you use herbs, please donate generously to enable us to fund this greatly needed legal action!!! (Note: The action we are taking does not currently include a petition).

Nearly all drug trials scientifically invalid due to influence of the mind

2011-02-22T17:00:00.001Z

(NaturalNews) "A new study in Science Translational Medicine has cast doubt over the scientific validity of nearly all randomized, double-blind placebo controlled studies involving pharmaceuticals used on human beings. It turns out that many pharmaceuticals only work because people expect them to..."

Again ... Lol WooHoo!

Read More http://www.naturalnews.com/031451_drug_trials_placebo_effect.html

Abe on Aging

2011-02-21T20:23:00.006Z

Woohoo!

Abe-Hicks: Its not the getting there, its the going there that counts

2011-02-07T16:07:00.001Z

love love love

Andrew Wakefield - What really happened - Gary Null's in-depth report

2011-02-02T21:00:00.008Z

'must hear' interview with Nephrologist Dr Suzanne Humphries about the fallacy of vaccination

2011-02-02T20:00:00.002Z

In this interview, you'll hear Dr Humphries talk about vaccines, including:

* Why she became concerned about vaccines after noticing kidney failure in patients who recently received vaccines.

* Why vaccines are often contaminated with unknown viral strains, and why the vaccine industry has covered up known vaccine contamination (and knowingly sold contaminated vaccines to be used on the public).

* Why the entire vaccine industry needs to be questioned, and why a new effort is needed to scientifically assess whether vaccines are really safe or effective.

* Why the fairy tale that "vaccines eradicated polio" is a false mythology -- here's what really happened.

* Why the "smallpox" vaccine has never been proven to be effective against smallpox at all.

* Why vaccine industry research is extremely flimsy and ignores rigorous standards of scientific evidence. (Using improper placebos designed to minimize the appearance of side effects, for example.)

* Why the vaccine industry won't test vaccines versus unvaccinated children (they're terrified of the results).

* Why children caught up in outbreaks of measles are often the very same children who were vaccinated against measles!

* Why vaccines may actually suppress the immune system and cause increased vulnerability to future infections.

* Why many childhood infections such as chicken pox are perfectly natural, normal and even HEALTHY.

* Why the outlandish and unscientific behavior of the vaccine industry is causing an erosion of credibility across all "science."

* Why many of the people engaged in pushing vaccines have financial ties to vaccine companies.

* Why the vaccine industry is utterly unwilling to tolerate anyone asking intelligent questions about the safety of vaccines.

Dr Humphries is one of the signers of the groundbreaking new document just released by the International Medical Council on Vaccination, called VACCINES: Get the Full Story: http://www.NaturalNews.com/031173_vaccines_science.html

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=BAE7F6323813CFAFB8338173FB11D429

The Secret of Oz - Best Docu Winner of 2010

2011-02-02T19:50:00.005Z

& my personal favorite edu-docu of the moment - re-released

New version removes bogus quotes ... and more. The world economy is doomed to spiral downwards until we do 2 things: outlaw government borrowing; 2. outlaw fractional reserve lending. Banks should only be allowed to lend out money they actually have and nations do not have to run up a "National Debt". Remember: It's not what backs the money, it's who controls its quantity.

24 Countries that began 2011 with Protests

2011-01-30T10:46:00.000Z

quote from comments
"We need debt free money. We must abolish fractional reserve lending and the grand scale digital usury"

Tunisia Uprising: Why the revolution was not televised in the West

2011-01-28T10:05:00.000Z

Salbuchi - Your Free Will

2011-01-27T22:33:00.000Z

Gotta love this guy :)

Sheepdog Soldier

2011-01-24T21:24:00.007Z

10 quid on ebay - i can sleep out in it

The real deal - i love this painting- it seems to fit here - it feels protective - by Kirby Sattler

(so go and buy a print)

lots of love xx

Making Light

2011-01-24T20:27:00.003Z

2 wonderful gifts from Holly
some lovely insider irreverence from the leading edge of nutrition with Daniel Vitalis

and always a pleasure Terence McKenna

Time for clean up - (FasterEFT)

2011-01-16T17:17:00.015Z

Lovely Robert Smith - with some heart felt genius :)

http://www.youtube.com/user/HealingMagic

http://www.fastereft.com

i know i go on about it but...

2011-01-14T22:33:00.001Z

http://www.naturalnews.com/031002_butter_misinformation.html

Alan Watt - Shock And Awe: The Manipulation Of The Human Psyche 1 of 4

2011-01-14T22:12:00.004Z

Such a great speaker, the whole 4 parts are well worth watching - an incredibly succinct summing up of the state in which we find eachother in 2011

Holly also posted this hour and a bit radio interview recently too - so

and somehow todays article by Mike Adams links in with this material too so - & i quote .... "it doesn't make you very popular".... lol

really good stuff

Bruce Lipton 'The Power Of Consciousness'

2011-01-11T20:00:00.002Z

Gorgeous interview :)