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Italy, France sending troops to advise Libyan rebels ... France and Italy announced Wednesday that they will send military officers to Libya to advise rebels fighting for the ouster of leader Moammar Gadhafi and his regime. Following a similar announcement by the British government Tuesday, French government spokesman Francois Baroin said a "small number" of French troops was being sent to advise the rebels' Transitional National Council. French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet has ruled out sending ground troops to fight alongside the rebels. "This is a real issue that deserves an international debate," he said, adding, "We are working within the framework of the 1973 resolution," a reference to the U.N. resolution that authorized action in Libya. "You cannot please everyone all the time," he said. Italy will send military advisers to train the rebels in self-defense tactics, Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maurizio Massari announced. – CNN Wire Staff
Dominant Social Theme: The people have had enough and thanks to FaceBook are rebelling.
Free-Market Analysis: Initially it took a kind of sleuthing to figure out what was going on as regards Middle Eastern and African turmoil. Rising food prices were part of it. But just as significantly, Western powers-that-be had decided on a wholesale military takeover of the Middle East and the upper portion of Africa. From Syria to Egypt, to Yemen and even the Ivory Coast, Africa is ablaze not with purely internally-inspired violence but with Western fomented revolts designed to prepare nations for a process of "Internationalization."
This interpretation (our own and others' in the alternative media) is not of course reflected in the official line. But to us it seems obvious. This unrest and regime change is yet another step in the elite's plans to set up one-world government. We have a hard time understanding how people can look at what's happening and declare it's all coincidence, or just a combination of factors coalescing coincidentally and all at once.
We won't go through all the details as reported but both Tunisia and Egypt were destabilized in part by USA-fomented AYM youth revolts and other forms of undercover activities that owe a great deal to US State Dept and CIA training and involvement.
At the time an elaborate cloak of denial and secrecy surrounded these missions. One had to peer closely to see what was going on – and we did. But now with all the turmoil one has to wonder where it ends. France was involved throughout the Ivory Coast regime-change; the West is going to be frankly involved in Libya until Gaddafi is gone (if and when he goes), and no doubt other flash points will soon make themselves apparent.
CNN in this article excerpted above provides us with fairly clear coverage of the current uptick in Western involvement in Libya. The article begins by reporting on increased British involvement and then moves on to Italy and France and their burgeoning involvement despite previous protestations to the contrary. Britain is sending military officers to the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi in an "advisory role" to help rebels with command and control functions and also to deliver aid to the local populace and France and Italy are next.
Notably, British officials explain the country's expanded role in Libya within the context of "civilian protection and its provision expressly ruling out a foreign occupation force on Libyan soil." The phrase "civilian protection" is actually a code word for "R2P," which was voted on by the UN Security Council back in 2005, and which has now been used to involve the West in a series of burgeoning overseas wars.
We have already covered R2P extensively. R2P basically abrogates national sovereignty and the Treaty of Westphalia that goes back 400 years by insisting that countries have an affirmative obligation to act to "protect civilians" when their governments have taken violent or even genocidal actions towards citizens. Of course the general language used in R2P means that the Security Council can now basically declare war on whomever it wants with impunity and decide what constitutes an act of agression against a nation's citizenry by its leaders.
Given that the Anglo-American axis basically controls the Security Council, this brave new world provides the Anglosphere elite with enormous new powers. Anglo-American elites can now leverage the world's military power against those states it wishes to destabilize without being seen in contravention of international rules regarding military aggression.
In the case of Libya, the US (the Anglo-American elite's "Bad-Boy Enforcer") has remained rhetorically cautious about placing troops on the ground, even as Barack Obama has called repeatedly for the removal of Colonel Gaddafi. Despite this goal, The White House remains adamant, CNN reports, that there will be "no U.S. ground forces in Libya, though U.S. intelligence operatives remain there." A fine distinction?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was instrumental in getting the West directly involved in Libya within a military context has recommend the US send perhaps $25 million in various goods and services to the beleaguered Libya rebels facing off with the Colonel. Clinton also continues to maintain that rebel forces are mostly "business people, students, lawyers, doctors, professors who have very bravely moved to defend their communities and to call to an end to the regime in Libya."
Despite Clinton's description, it has gradually become evident that the forces opposing Gaddafi involve Islamic elements as well, perhaps radical elements. Thus we can see once again that the West is supporting Islam in the context of larger, national confrontations. France and the UN just finished backing a Muslim takeover of the Ivory Coast and now we see the same thing occurring in Libya.
We have long made the point that the West is actually involved in setting up a kind of Islamic power-crescent in the Middle East and Africa that will provide justification for continuing the phony war on terror, which has proven so effective in implementing DOMESTIC authoritarian policies. Libya only strengthens that case, as does the advancing political clout of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
While the composition of rebel forces may be somewhat as Ms. Clinton describes them, the level of help obviously has been much greater than the US wants to acknowledge. And there are various kinds of evidences available that the US in particular was planning this sort of regime change for a number of years.
Within Libya, the lines have already been drawn. The Transitional National Council that speaks for the rebels claims that a future for Libya with the Gaddafi family still in power is an "impossibility." A spokesperson explains that, "Gaddafi is not willing to leave and . . . will stay here and fight until the last drop of his blood, and if that is his choice and that is the case, then the Libyan people will hunt him down, find him and charge him with the criminal offenses he's created against the Libyan people."
Unlike with Laurent Gbagbo of the Ivory Coast who was recently deposed and painted somewhat laboriously as a "Strongman," given that he has a background as a history professor, there is little difficulty in positioning Colonel Gaddafi as murderous tyrant. There is therefore not a lot of sympathy for Gaddafi in the West and regime change can likely proceed unimpeded, so long as the military action does not turn exceptionally costly for Western forces.
But the larger issue still lingers. This has to do with the scope of Western military activity and definitive intelligence involvement in destabilizing these countries. It is impossible from our view to look at these actions simply as an effort to obtain control over more raw resources and energy. There are too many countries involved now and some of them (Yemen, Syria and the Ivory Coast) have either tangential or non-existent involvement with oil, strategically or otherwise.
No, what we see here is a dramatic escalation of the Anglo-American efforts to till the ground industriously to create more hospitable soil for global governance. We are not necessarily predicting these aggressive actions will work as planned, but that they are being tried at all – and with blatant obviousness – illustrates the strangeness of the times in which we live.
Conclusion: If someone ten years ago had said Western countries led by the Anglosphere would be deeply involved in conflicts in the Iraq, Afghanistan, the Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen all at once (have we left any out?), the rationale for such activities probably would not be clear at all. In fact, the rationales still are not clear. It begins to look more and more like a low-key WORLD WAR – operating under the good-natured guise of installing "democracy" – rather than a series of relief missions and support activities. It is easy to be lulled by individual justifications for Western involvements in individual states, but when takes a step back and looks at the totality of what is now taking place, the view is startling and increasingly – deeply – disturbing.
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Posted by Reader on 04/23/11 08:59 AM
It is impractical to do global business these days and square accounts in gold or silver. Those days are gone...
Trust me, Gaddafi was happy with paper Euro or Dollar...
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Posted by The Daily Bell on 04/22/11 02:55 PM
And remind us - who imposed regulatory democracy on Africa? ...
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Posted by jjkorman1 on 04/22/11 02:40 PM
So much for Westphalia! Tell me again how eveil Colonialism was and how effective Democracy has been in Africa?
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Posted by Rob on 04/22/11 02:47 AM
"Backing off? So disappointing. No rave about Jews eating children or how "all" Jews run the world out of Tel Aviv?"
More straw men. How does one back off from an argument he never made in the first place? The raving and psychological quirks are all yours. I think Freud and the later Jewish psychologists of the Frankfurt School would have referred to this as "projection".
"The Venetian banking families were Jewish, the Rothschilds were and are "Jewish" " or maybe something else " and banking is as much as Jewish industry as protection/shakedowns are part of the Italian mafia tradition.
But because banking is such a powerful industry, Jewish financiers basically run the Western world. But this is different from implying that ALL Jews run the world or ALL Jews are bankers, etc."
Aha....Yet somehow, this gets labeled "Anglo-Sphere? Jewish media, Jewish banking, Jewish lobbies = Anglo-Sphere. Got it.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Aha....Yet somehow, this gets labeled "Anglo-Sphere? Jewish media, Jewish banking, Jewish lobbies = Anglo-Sphere. Got it.
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Yes, and since Venice was a center of Jewish banking you would refer to ancient Venice as - what? - "Jew-ice?"
And because the Rothschilds live in Europe and Britain we should perhaps refer to these localities respectively as "Jew-ope" and "Jew-ain." Money Power emanates from the City of London and the US is its enforcer. Hey, there's another one - "City of Jew-on!" Idiocy.
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Posted by Gavin on 04/22/11 02:12 AM
Moldovan (or Russian) TV guest arguing that Gaddafi was attacked because he was the leader of a movement to replace dollars with gold dinars and therefore threatened the Anglosphere.
"ROTHSCHILDS FINISH OFF GADDAFI"
Click to view link
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Posted by Rob on 04/22/11 02:09 AM
"But to propose the idiocy that all Jews are part of the banking conpiracy, or that a Jewish shoemaker in Tel Aviv is part of a larger Zioinist plot to rule the world is as ludicrous as it naive. "
@DB
This is what is called a straw man argument, and you've just provided a classical example of it. Amusing coming from someone imputing naivete or even idiocy to his opponents.
Nobody said ALL Jews are part of a conspiracy, but to ignore the fact of greatly disproportionate Jewish influence in American media and the power of Zionist lobbies like AIPAC, and that American politicians are in thrall to these interests, and to persistently merely harp on "Anglo" sphere this and that, comes across as disingenuous, especially when you resort to logical fallacies to buttress your case.
To ignore this element, especially when pontificating about the causes of U.S. intervention in mid-east affairs seems, at best, obfuscatory. Good luck with your European version of the patriotard circle jerk.
P.S.: They had a saying in Eastern European countries during the communist era: The people who really run a society, are the ones you're never allowed to criticize.
Reply from The Daily Bell
"Nobody said ALL Jews are part of a conspiracy."
Backing off? So disappointing. No rave about Jews eating children or how "all" Jews run the world out of Tel Aviv? Again, it is very simple, though obviously you wish to complicate perhaps for psychological reasons ...
The Venetian banking families were Jewish, the Rothschilds were and are "Jewish" - or maybe something else - and banking is as much as Jewish industry as protection/shakedowns are part of the Italian mafia tradition.
But because banking is such a powerful industry, Jewish financiers basically appear to run the Western world. But this is different from implying that ALL Jews run the world or ALL Jews are bankers, etc. One is idiocy, and the other reasonable observation.
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Posted by Rob on 04/22/11 01:16 AM
"Yes, if the popular information about the Rothschilds is correct, the Rothschilds at this point ARE the City of London. That is they constitute its power base. So what? What's your point?"
@DB
The point is that this so-called "Anglo-American" establishment you keep harping on, with its constant wars on behalf of the Zionist entity and it's neo-conservative Jewish advocates in the States is extremely kosher.
Of course, it's much safer and politically correct to deflect attention from the tribe and blame those evil manipulative WASP white men for everything.
It seems the "Daily Bell's" view is analogous to what is referred to in the United States as the patriotard movement, best exemplified by men like Alex Jones, who will do anything to deflect attention from those "poor, manipulated Jewish people", and prefers to blame everything on evil white men and their "Germanic Death Cult," as he calls it. Replacing "Anglosphere" with Judaeo-sphere and "Anglo-American" with Anglo-Judaic or Anglo-Zionist seems somehow more accurate and accurate.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Nonsense. We've pointed out numerous times that the Rothschild empire, assuming we are correct, likely uses some of the same sorts of strategies as the Italian mafia - like deals with like. That explains the Jewish element in the banking conspiracy. If the Rothschilds were eskimos, you 'd probably find eskimos involved.
But to propose the idiocy that all Jews are part of the banking conspiracy, or that a Jewish shoemaker in Tel Aviv is part of a larger Zioinist plot to rule the world is as ludicrous as it naive. We figured that was your viewpoint. You are welcome to it.
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Posted by Zenbillionaire on 04/21/11 08:14 PM
@ DB
"The nexus of command and control is the City of London and other connected avenues of power. Israel and the poor, manipulated Jewish people have always been tools in this larger, criminal enterprise"
Whoa there, aren't we getting things a bit backward? My understanding was Rothschild funded the City rather than the other way around. Didn't Rothschild save the Crown at some point? Bailed out the Bank of England? Bought the Suez Canal for the Queen? Are we talking about the same family?
Reply from The Daily Bell
Yes, if the popular information about the Rothschilds is correct, the Rothschilds at this point ARE the City of London. That is they constitute its power base. So what? What's your point?
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Posted by William3 on 04/21/11 07:55 PM
Here's an excellent interview with Paul Craig Roberts on the Libyan situation --
Click to view link
Substitute "American Empire" for power elite, and many of his views are similar to DB's. He affirms that the CIA is essentially leading the opposition in Libya.
His main thesis for the West's goal to remove Gadhafi is to solidify Africa's natural resources in the Western camp, specifically against China. His view is that Gadhafi's oil deals with China ruffles feathers in the American Empire.
Robert's foreign policy experience in the US government serves him well now as he critiques his former employer.
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Posted by Jdb on 04/21/11 07:48 PM
@DB
"Israel and the poor, manipulated Jewish people have always been tools in this larger, criminal enterprise." So has the rest of the world...but only a jew knows how to cry a river...
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Posted by Zenbillionaire on 04/21/11 06:52 PM
So exactly who needs to be in attendance at this soiree before we can call it a world war? I noticed Mr. Obama recently authorized the use of Predators on Libya. How much longer before he sends them into Mendocino? Damned Hippies.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Wild times.
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Posted by Guercyking on 04/21/11 03:59 PM
I enjoy reading your columns, although I do not always agree with your conclusions. But your analysis is often to the point. What we have here is a guerrilla warfare on a planetary scale against the domination of the anglo-saxon tribe.
The multiplication of their military operations is a sign of desperation in retaining the control they have exercised on this planet for the past few hundreds. They have already failed but it will take several decades of defeats before they admit it, if ever.
New powers are rising that will forever change the international landscape and they will be left behind as a new multipolar world is created.
The events in Ivory Coast reflects the beginning of the end of their control of the African Continent and there is also a Muslim Renaissance that cannot be denied. The resurgence of China as an economic superpower, which historically (for the past 5,000 years or so) has accounted for 15-25% of the world economy is another sign of things to come. The rebirth of the Russian Empire is another nail in the coffin of western anglo-saxon dominated rule: The Georgia incident was a key turning point.
The rise of India and Brazil will ensure the advent of this multipolar world of the 21st Century. These are exciting times indeed.
Reply from The Daily Bell
We are not quite sure of this analysis but we agree that the elites are losing control and the "one world order" is in no sense preordained. The Afghans have been fighting money power for hundreds of years and have faced it again in the past decade without giving in. We note that in the Ivory Coast the "sporadic shooting" of diehard Gbagbo supporters has been going on for about two weeks now, despite pronouncements every other day that the capital would soon be pacified.
Now the warlords themselves have taken to fighting with each other. The French have started something that may not be easily subdued. It is like that elsewhere, too. The elites, having lost their secret weapon of dominant social themes, have fallen back on force. But one man with a rifle in a city can be deadlier than a tank. Force is not a god way to build global governance. In fact it is almost impossible. This is the conundrum the elites now face ...
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Posted by Bob on 04/21/11 03:21 PM
@DB wrote: "manipulated Jewish people have always been tools in this larger, criminal enterprise".
Just facts.
Prior to the Jewish Bolsheviks took-over the Russian Empire, in early 1900s, 35% of all the top-level merchants in the Ukraine capital Kiev were Jews. Most of them, together with their families, were slaughtered by fellow Jews, well before Stalin established his dictatorship.
By the way, Stalin was a great master killing Jews by Jewish hands. During his "Great Purges" of old Bolshevik and Red Army leaders (Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev, etc.,), almost all of these Soviet Jewish leaders were killed by the State secret police NKVD headed by Yagoda who was himself a Jew.
Almost the entire Trotsky assassination team in Mexico comprised of Soviet and American Jews. Stalin always used minorities to terrorize and kill the a majority since, to a large extent, minorities always hatred the majority with little if any respect for the country well-being, culture, and traditions.
Reply from The Daily Bell
OK. Your point is?
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Posted by Bob on 04/21/11 12:19 PM
TUNISIA. Tunisia's former dictator and his wife were agents of Mossad
State television showed the Tunis documents proving that the former dictator, Ben Ali was an agent of the Mossad.
Ben Ali was actively involved in operations conducted by the Mossad not only in Tunisia but also in the north African region. In particular, the former dictator was involved in the killings of Palestinian activists in Tunisia.
Earlier media reported that the wife of a former dictator of Tunisia Leila Al-Tabris was also an agent of the Mossad. She has actively participated in the killings of Palestinian activists in Tunisia.
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Israel is such a small country with so much money to pay for such huge intelligent operations. How could it be? The answer is simple: the money coming from World Central Banks owned & controlled by the Rothschild Crime Inc. The money also control the puppet American government and the Congress.
Well, there is always the end to everything. The question is how soon?
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"Israel is such a small country with so much money to pay for such huge intelligent operations. How could it be? The answer is simple: the money coming from World Central Banks owned & controlled by the Rothschild Crime Inc. The money also control the puppet American government and the Congress."
Yes, which brings us again to the critical questions. Is the world run by powerful banking families, one in particular, or is the world run by "Jews" and Israel. To ask the question is to answer it. The nexus of command and control is the City of London and other connected avenues of power. Israel and the poor, manipulated Jewish people have always been tools in this larger, criminal enterprise.
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Posted by Brian C. on 04/21/11 11:19 AM
The Western powers continue to influence events in the Middle East, thereby undermining sovereign states their right to self determination. An unintended consequence of the Anglo-American alliance's efforts to destabilize the region and create an environment more suited towards global governance could be the rise of modern Islamic states with Islamic banking systems rather than Western style central banking systems.
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Posted by Bionic Mosquito on 04/21/11 11:03 AM
"Western countries led by the Anglosphere would be deeply involved in conflicts in the Iraq, Afghanistan, the Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen all at once (have we left any out?)..."
Some in Pakistan would raise their hands...sadly.
I would add, if someone said ten years ago that you had to be seen naked before you were allowed to fly; and any government agent at any time could draw up a warrant on his on authority., and and and...well, you get my point.
Yes, it is interesting to watch this house of cards, built one card at a time. Yet certainly, such a house of cards will eventually crumble.
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Posted by ManofMani on 04/21/11 10:31 AM
Would it possible to relocate to the neighborhood where the elves live? It is becoming intolerable to live near people who not only can't see/understand what is happening, but also don't care. What I would give to have one person with whom I could discuss, in person, world events. Until such time as one appears Daily Bell is my sanity check. Thanks.
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Posted by B McCain on 04/21/11 10:15 AM
Of what benefit to the West would it be to enjoin the Muslim world? The muslims have made it obvious that thier plan is to install a worldwide Muslim Caliphate to take over the world for allah and implement wordwide Sharia law. This could not possibly benefit the anglo elite who also have a plan for world domination. This would most likely culminate in a huge bloody battle between the east and the west unless the west and the rest of the so called infidels become submissive to the Islamic allah and the Islamic Caliphate. It seems that the west may be leaning towards this now. So prepare your festive burkas.
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Posted by Barbara Paolucci on 04/21/11 09:53 AM
We know that a large number of the rebels are Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda. We know that the Brotherhood wants control of the Middle East and has been involved in overturning each nation's government. We know that they want the wealth the not so royal, royal families possess and control of the oil fields. We know that Egypt's new government has cut off Israel's supply of gas via the pipeline and is just biding its time before it breaks the treaty. We know that one of their goals is to united all Muslim nations. We know that they intend on wiping Israel off the map and then the USA. And we know that the Brotherhood, Hamas, Al Qaeda etc. and their main supporter, Iran all intend on killing non believers worldwide. Then they'll kill each other and we'll see if its Sunni or Shia that ends up being the only Muslims left on the planet. I could go on but, you get the idea.
Why should France, Italy or any sane nation help anyone in the Arab world except the Chrisitans who wish to leave! They are the only group of people being tortured, raped, sold into the sex trade and murdered. Who rises up to speak for and protect these innocents! Ah, but they don't have oil fields or power and they are just Christians so no one cares I guess.
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Posted by Fabian on 04/21/11 09:22 AM
I read lately that efforts in Libya are to take over Chinese investment in the oil rich east and that Syria is next because Russian have a huge naval base in this country that's a thorn in US's naval domination of the Mediterranean see.
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