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US orders media silence over Bahrain
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April 4, 2011
Source: Press TV
President of Bahrain's Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab says the US media have been ordered not to cover news on the government's brutal crackdown on Bahraini people.
Reports from the Center's colleagues in the United States say “In the US some news agencies and TV stations were asked not to report on Bahrain and not to embarrass President Barack Obama's administration,” Rajab told Press TV.
He went on to say that the US and the Western governments have chosen to keep silent over ongoing atrocities in Bahrain due to their support for the country's authoritarian regime.
According to unconfirmed reports, over 420 people have been arrested during ongoing protests in the kingdom, Rajab pointed out.
The Bahraini protesters continue to demand the ouster of the 200-year-old-plus monarchy as well as constitutional reforms.
At least 25 people have been killed and about 1,000 others injured during the government-sanctioned crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators.
Joined recently by police units and troops from Saudi and the United Arab Emirates, the Bahraini government forces have launched a deadly crackdown on the popular revolution that began to sweep the Persian Gulf island on February 14.
The Saudi-backed forces have recently been sighted while destroying religious and historical monuments of the Muslim Persian Gulf state.
On Wednesday, the Human Rights Watch accused Bahraini forces of using violence against people that had already received injuries during earlier attacks.
The rights body said it had documented several cases in which the forces had "severely harassed or beaten" patients under medical care in the country's Salmaniya hospital in Manama.
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Re: UN Fighters Over Libya
Dash-Ate wrote:Possible??
US orders media silence over Bahrain
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April 4, 2011
Source: Press TV
President of Bahrain's Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab says the US media have been ordered not to cover news on the government's brutal crackdown on Bahraini people.
Reports from the Center's colleagues in the United States say “In the US some news agencies and TV stations were asked not to report on Bahrain and not to embarrass President Barack Obama's administration,” Rajab told Press TV.
He went on to say that the US and the Western governments have chosen to keep silent over ongoing atrocities in Bahrain due to their support for the country's authoritarian regime.
According to unconfirmed reports, over 420 people have been arrested during ongoing protests in the kingdom, Rajab pointed out.
The Bahraini protesters continue to demand the ouster of the 200-year-old-plus monarchy as well as constitutional reforms.
At least 25 people have been killed and about 1,000 others injured during the government-sanctioned crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators.
Joined recently by police units and troops from Saudi and the United Arab Emirates, the Bahraini government forces have launched a deadly crackdown on the popular revolution that began to sweep the Persian Gulf island on February 14.
The Saudi-backed forces have recently been sighted while destroying religious and historical monuments of the Muslim Persian Gulf state.
On Wednesday, the Human Rights Watch accused Bahraini forces of using violence against people that had already received injuries during earlier attacks.
The rights body said it had documented several cases in which the forces had "severely harassed or beaten" patients under medical care in the country's Salmaniya hospital in Manama.
I hope so.
Geez did I say that....? Or just think it....?
Re: UN Fighters Over Libya
Libyan oil was liberated!! Mission accomplished!! Sorry no little girls going to school here. WAR is a business and business is good.
Libyan Rebels Preparing to Export Oil
Edward Yeranian | Cairo April 05, 2011
Photo: AP
An undated handout file picture made available by the Italian oil and gas company, Eni, shows the new Eni gas compression plant on the shore of Mellitah, Libya (file photo)
Libya's rebels are about to export their first oil shipment under a deal with Qatar to market crude from eastern Libya.
The Libyan opposition provisional national council is on the verge of gaining a key source of revenue as it prepares to begin shipping oil from the eastern port of Marsa al Hariga.
An oil tanker arrived Tuesday to take delivery of the first shipment.
Most of Libya's oil fields are in rebel-controlled territory, but production has slowed to a trickle due to the political and military conflict. A rebel spokesman said recently that the provisional council was hoping to increase production from 150,000 barrels per day to 300,000 barrels per day.
Al Jazeera TV reported Tuesday that fighting on the fringes of several eastern Libyan oil fields was endangering production facilities. It said forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had cut power to the Serir oil field and had arrested some employees at the Mesila field. Unconfirmed reports Monday spoke of artillery fire from pro-Gadhafi forces on both oil fields, but there was no confirmation of damage.
The government of Qatar has agreed to help the rebels market crude oil from eastern Libya. The opposition needs hard currency and weapons to fight Gadhafi loyalists. Qatar, France and Italy, Libya's former colonial power, have recognized the rebels as the country's legitimate government.
Khattar Abou Diab, who teaches political science at the University of Paris, says both Libya's strategic location on the Mediterranean Sea and the country's oil and gas reserves make it a prize for international rivals:
He says that Libya is the gate to sub-Saharan Africa, and that oil is one of two key interests. The first, he says, is geo-political, and the second is oil and gas, because Libyan oil is among the least expensive to extract and among the best in terms of quality. He says there may also be untapped oil fields that oil companies know about and are hoping to compete for.
Abou Diab says Italy, Britain and France all want to protect their interests in Libya, as do China and Russia. He notes Libya returned U.S. oil concessions several years ago when political ties were restored. The French oil conglomerate Total has important oil interests in eastern Libya, and Italy has an important gas pipeline from the town of Brega.
Current fighting between Gadhafi loyalists and rebel forces has paralyzed Brega and the neighboring oil facility town of Ras Lanouf.
In western Libya, gasoline is reported to be in short supply and recently-imposed U.N. economic sanctions are crippling the economy.
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http://www.voanews.com/english/news/afr ... 67869.html
Libyan Rebels Preparing to Export Oil
Edward Yeranian | Cairo April 05, 2011
Photo: AP
An undated handout file picture made available by the Italian oil and gas company, Eni, shows the new Eni gas compression plant on the shore of Mellitah, Libya (file photo)
Libya's rebels are about to export their first oil shipment under a deal with Qatar to market crude from eastern Libya.
The Libyan opposition provisional national council is on the verge of gaining a key source of revenue as it prepares to begin shipping oil from the eastern port of Marsa al Hariga.
An oil tanker arrived Tuesday to take delivery of the first shipment.
Most of Libya's oil fields are in rebel-controlled territory, but production has slowed to a trickle due to the political and military conflict. A rebel spokesman said recently that the provisional council was hoping to increase production from 150,000 barrels per day to 300,000 barrels per day.
Al Jazeera TV reported Tuesday that fighting on the fringes of several eastern Libyan oil fields was endangering production facilities. It said forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had cut power to the Serir oil field and had arrested some employees at the Mesila field. Unconfirmed reports Monday spoke of artillery fire from pro-Gadhafi forces on both oil fields, but there was no confirmation of damage.
The government of Qatar has agreed to help the rebels market crude oil from eastern Libya. The opposition needs hard currency and weapons to fight Gadhafi loyalists. Qatar, France and Italy, Libya's former colonial power, have recognized the rebels as the country's legitimate government.
Khattar Abou Diab, who teaches political science at the University of Paris, says both Libya's strategic location on the Mediterranean Sea and the country's oil and gas reserves make it a prize for international rivals:
He says that Libya is the gate to sub-Saharan Africa, and that oil is one of two key interests. The first, he says, is geo-political, and the second is oil and gas, because Libyan oil is among the least expensive to extract and among the best in terms of quality. He says there may also be untapped oil fields that oil companies know about and are hoping to compete for.
Abou Diab says Italy, Britain and France all want to protect their interests in Libya, as do China and Russia. He notes Libya returned U.S. oil concessions several years ago when political ties were restored. The French oil conglomerate Total has important oil interests in eastern Libya, and Italy has an important gas pipeline from the town of Brega.
Current fighting between Gadhafi loyalists and rebel forces has paralyzed Brega and the neighboring oil facility town of Ras Lanouf.
In western Libya, gasoline is reported to be in short supply and recently-imposed U.N. economic sanctions are crippling the economy.
Find this article at:
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/afr ... 67869.html
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Re: UN Fighters Over Libya
C'mon Dash-Ate, we all know the mission isn't over until the President of the U.S.A. announces it on an aircraft carrier after pretending to be Maverick.
I FEEL THE NEED...THE NEED... FOR SPEED!!!
We're done! Well, there's just a couple more things I need y'all to do before y'all go home...
I FEEL THE NEED...THE NEED... FOR SPEED!!!
We're done! Well, there's just a couple more things I need y'all to do before y'all go home...
Re: UN Fighters Over Libya
Not possible. The media doesn't work that way. Although, the last regime in Washington did a great job of excluding news agencies that didn't tow the part line.Dash-Ate wrote:Possible??
US orders media silence over Bahrain
Unless a media outlet is breaking the law, the government cannot control what they say. Faux News is a good example.
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Libya update!! Sweet freedom is upon them. We know he has WMD...opps I mean "He's killing his own people!! (so we must now rain bombs down upon the terrorized population. High explosives cure all problems)
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/03 ... 15364There is no question anymore as to why the Obama administration is attempting to impose a change of the regime of Libya.
On March 17th I wrote about the invasion of Libya being about two main objectives: privatizing the national oil company and the state-owned central banking system. I pointed out that the US and British inserted language in the UN resolution that allowed them to freeze the accounts of the nationalized oil company as well as the central bank of Libya. Well, before they have even won their coup, the CIA backed pro-west opposition has taken the time to announce that they have formed a new national oil company and central bank. Obviously they have allowed our neo-liberal economic hit-men to write-up the legal documentation for this action and I am sure it hands over control to multinationals outside Libya. This is why so many globalist apologists and neo-liberals have been running around the last week claiming that the real government in Libya is the Transitional National Council.
It has always been about gaining control of the central banking system in Libya. Oil is just a profitable side issue like every other state asset that is waiting in Libya to be privatized and sold off to multinational corporations like Bechtel, GE, and Goldman Sachs. Oil is important and it is certainly a target but it isn’t the driving force behind these global wars for profit. Banking is.
Once the Coalition Provisional Authority took over in Iraq, the second thing they did, after signing a law banning the Baathists and disbanding the military, was to sign over the state-owned central banking system to privately held banking interests, bringing Iraq online with the web of private central banks. That took place the very first day of the CPA’s control of Iraq.
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/03 ... 15364There is no question anymore as to why the Obama administration is attempting to impose a change of the regime of Libya.
On March 17th I wrote about the invasion of Libya being about two main objectives: privatizing the national oil company and the state-owned central banking system. I pointed out that the US and British inserted language in the UN resolution that allowed them to freeze the accounts of the nationalized oil company as well as the central bank of Libya. Well, before they have even won their coup, the CIA backed pro-west opposition has taken the time to announce that they have formed a new national oil company and central bank. Obviously they have allowed our neo-liberal economic hit-men to write-up the legal documentation for this action and I am sure it hands over control to multinationals outside Libya. This is why so many globalist apologists and neo-liberals have been running around the last week claiming that the real government in Libya is the Transitional National Council.
It has always been about gaining control of the central banking system in Libya. Oil is just a profitable side issue like every other state asset that is waiting in Libya to be privatized and sold off to multinational corporations like Bechtel, GE, and Goldman Sachs. Oil is important and it is certainly a target but it isn’t the driving force behind these global wars for profit. Banking is.
Once the Coalition Provisional Authority took over in Iraq, the second thing they did, after signing a law banning the Baathists and disbanding the military, was to sign over the state-owned central banking system to privately held banking interests, bringing Iraq online with the web of private central banks. That took place the very first day of the CPA’s control of Iraq.
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