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NATO pressing for Libyan ground war

Published: 06 May, 2011, 00:41

Libya: An armed Libyan tribal man on horseback. (AFP Photo / Saeed Khan)

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As the air war over Libya seems to be bringing forces to a stalemate, NATO is considering a ground campaign – a move which would escalate the already violent conflict.

NATO spokesperson James Appathurai has said the use of ground forces may be the only way to alter the current situation and bring about an end to the Gaddafi regime.

The UN Security Council should adopt a new resolution on Libya. Resolution 1973 does not envisage land operations. We need a new resolution,” said Appathurai.

Under the current air operation civilian casualties continue to rise, and signs of success dwindle. Adding additional components of force would likely increase the civilian bloodshed.

Journalist Pepe Escobar from the Asia Times explained a ground campaign has always been the plan, but the international community will be less likely to allow it.

China, Brazil and other BRIC nations are highly likely to veto any UN resolution which would place ground troops in Libya – but that does not mean NATO will not try.

International law, as we learned for the last few years, is dead,” he said, arguing NATO or others may move forward with ground forces or assassination attempts in Libya even without a UN resolution.

Intervening with ground forces or conducting strategic assassinations will not make the situation better, it will worsen, Escobar added. Humanitarian interventions like these often circumnavigate international law and add insult to ongoing problems as opposed to bettering the situation. The situation in Libya has not improved since NATO got involved.

They [United States] don’t know what they want, so they change their minds each day,” he remarked.

The inability of the United States to make clear what it wants from an outcome – regime change, humanitarian assistance or otherwise – causes additional problems.

The US initially led the campaign but later withdrew leaving NATO allies in charge, yet they remain heavily involved behind the scenes. This will continue to complicate the overall NATO mission.

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3rdbasegeorge May 09, 2011, 00:07
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Multiply the thought age of the earth by the number of Jupiters moon's minus ONE and you have a rough figure of for how long the dominion of mankind has experienced the distinct impression that,"using techniques for social control and engineering (including usery, subliminal symbolic logic, the occult and a myriad of cabals 'or secret societies'), super rich bloodlines (essentially one) have managed to trick and hypnotize the [dominion of mankind]worlds population into total submission." At each point of frequency in this realization or 'automatic' assertion WAR has occurred.
Yet the instigation of this interspecious, chemical and physical science in discrete appreciation of reality has not occurred in a metaphysical vacuum.  In fact preceding mankind was the dominion of the first creation Allah HU Akbar, failing the metaphysics of resurrection generating behaviour by attempting to exchange significant mass between heavenly bodies.  They crashed the stars together and became ALIEN ated from the mode of production, they fell from heaven and became the AGENTS of disease.  The ruin of their wisdom is original and thus so inexperienced , near total.  They are what you will discover in the course of intelligent deduction on the antithetical nature of the behaviour of real objects or the invention of excellent 'camera' systems, not the Rothschilds, nor Judaism etc.

nicholas nicola May 08, 2011, 13:59
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Over the last three thousand years, using techniques for social control and engineering (including usery, subliminal symbolic logic, the occult and a myriad of cabals 'or secret societies'), super rich bloodlines (essentially one) have managed to trick and hypnotize the worlds population into total submission.
Firstly by using more simple forms of magic, like religion, then progressing through monarchy and pseudo science and now to (so- called) democracy through capitalism, this bloodline has saddled itself onto the back of the global community, sucking like a parasite on the resources of all.
It is a bloodline, but they practice a religion also...it is the religion of pomp and circumstance, it is the religion of progression, of (so-called) stability, of monotony, of control of thoughts and of perceptions. If they can convince you that they dont exist, and that this is just 'how life is'...then they dont exist to you, and you cant see their controls.
It is the religion of total dominance and the religion of wanting and having it all...NOW.

They call themselves the Illuminati.
By controlling social structures such as the Masons, Judiasm, Scientology, Christianity and various other pagan structures (the English Royal family) - through systems such as patronage, reward, threat of loss and death, shady country club promotions and politic manouverings, they have and continue to manage and dominate all areas of thought and behavior (and thus resources, it is ALL ABOUT CONTROL OF RESOURCES). This is how they work, through misinformation, deceipt, patronage and lies. You only have to read Noam Chomsky to understand their lies.

Libya is just a stage, just an expression, of a system of mentalities and their corresponding behaviors. Remember...the Illuminati wants everything, NOW.
Libyan resources...Doomed to be stolen by the Illuminati..

3rdbasegeorge May 07, 2011, 14:15
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"The African Monetary Fund is expected to totally supplant the African activities of the International Monetary Fund" -http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27936.htm-
 So it should. So it will be deferred to by the IMF itself.  The alternative opens up terrorism, division, lack of access to robust markets for the trouble laden economies of the progressive tax rate. France, Britain and the USA have successfully raised in the Security Permanent Veto Council, the potential inadequacy of a gilt dinar standard.  Also, the threat of Libya going the way of Iraq in vs Iran inadequacy.  The latter depleting the reward per interaction of Western expenditure on oil threatening the marginal superiority of Western Military Revenue, while oil reserves are still capable of being diverted to Libyan Military Expenditure.  Inclusiveness, freedom, growth and wealth of Libyan political economics guaranties the Wests ability to stay ahead of Libyan Militarism in spite of oil spending.  Thus suspicion of Israels depression of Palestine grows by the day.  Germany is the premier economy in Europe, embittered tortured Jewish minds, do mistakenly perceive future Nazism against surrounded Palestinian populations as the promise of catching up to Germany.  Perhaps even punishment of their own race as an exhortation against future failing, wife beater terrorism.