"Arabian Sights"

"Never allow the public to cool off; never admit 
a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be 
some good in your enemy; never leave room for 
alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on 
one enemy at a time and blame him for everything 
that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie 
sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it 
frequently enough people will sooner or later 
believe it.": Joseph Goebbels : Nazi chief of propaganda

  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4433.htm
"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the 
major media" --former CIA Director William Colby 
(died suddenly after freak canoe accident) 
Bernstein's 1977 Oct. Rolling stone article.

"just because millions of people suffer from the 
same delusions does not mean that they are right."--Eric Frumm


"People who shut their eyes to reality simply 
invite their own destruction, and anyone who 
insists on remaining in a state of innocence long 
after that innocence is dead turns himself into a 
monster."-- James Baldwin Biography - Fiction 
Writer, Essayist, Social Critic, 1924-1987


CIA And Media Ventriloquism, The War Party's "Atrocity" Porn

  "This is a massacre," the frantic Libyan woman, 
speaking by telephone while cowering in her 
apartment in Tripoli, told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"I hope you know that people around the world are 
watching and praying and wanting to do 
something," Anderson told her, as if he were a 
stage prompter hinting at a performer's next 
line. Whether or not she had been given a copy of 
the script, the caller performed as expected: 
"[T]he first step [is to] make Libya a no-fly 
zone. If you make Libya a no-fly zone, no more 
mercenaries can come in.... There needs to be 
action. How much more waiting, how much more 
watching, how much more people dying?"...

It's...possible that her call for international 
action to impose a no-fly zone was a desperate 
plea from a victim, rather than an act of media 
ventriloquism in which an anonymous figure 
endorsed the first plank of a military campaign 
proposed by the same neo-conservative kriegsbund that manipulated us into Iraq.

  Surely it was a [no] coincidence that the "Cry 
in the Night" from Libya was echoed on the same 
network a few nights later by Iraq war architect, 
former World Bank president, and accused war 
criminal Paul Wolfowitz, who several days prior 
to Cooper's dramatic broadcast called for a 
NATO-enforced "no fly zone" over Libya.

In fact, the day following that interview, an ad 
hoc group calling itself the Foreign Policy 
Initiative, which coalesced from the remnants of 
the Project for a New American Century, published 
an "open letter" to Mr. Obama demanding military 
intervention – beginning with a no-fly zone – in 
Libya.  The neo-con framework for managing the 
Libyan crisis would create a regional 
protectorate administered by NATO on behalf of 
the "international community." This would nullify 
any effort on the part of Libyans, Egyptians, 
Tunisians, and others to achieve true independence.

On previous experience with media campaigns on 
behalf of humanitarian conquest, my incurable 
cynicism leads me to hear in Cooper's "Cry in the 
Night" a faint but unmistakable echo of the 
tearful, palpably earnest testimony of "Nayirah" 
–   the wide-eyed Kuwaiti girl who, using an 
assumed name to "protect her family," described 
what had befallen her country in the wake of the Iraqi invasion.

Bravely composing herself as she recounted 
horrors no human eyes should behold, the 
precociously self-possessed 15-year-old volunteer 
nurse related to the Congressional Human Rights 
Caucus how Iraqi soldiers stormed into the 
al-Addan Hospital, tore newborn infants from 
incubators, and hurled them to the floor. A short 
time later this testimony was "confirmed" by 
others who offered similarly anguished testimony 
before the UN Security Council.

During the three-month build-up to the January 
1991 attack on Baghdad, the image of Kuwaiti 
"incubator babies" was endlessly recycled as a 
talking point in media interviews, presidential 
speeches, and debates in Congress and the UN. A 
post-war opinion survey found that the story of 
the "incubator babies" was the single most potent 
weapon deployed by the Bush administration in its 
campaign to build public support for the attack on Iraq.

This "atrocity" account was particularly 
effective in overcoming the skepticism of people 
espousing a progressive point of view...

The trick is to leave the target audience at once 
shivering in horror at a spectacle of sub-human 
depravity, panting with a visceral desire for 
vengeance, and rapturously self-righteous about 
the purity of its humane motives. People who 
succumb to it are easily subsumed into a hive 
mind of officially sanctioned hatred, and 
prepared to perpetrate crimes even more hideous 
than those that they believe typify the enemy...

William Norman Grigg
CIA And Media Ventriloquism - The War Party's "Atrocity" Porn

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27592.htm


  What Is the National Front for the Salvation of 
Libya? ... the NFSL was an outfit funded by the 
CIA and Saudi Arabia during the Cold War. ..."
      
redantliberationarmy.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/what-is-the-national-front-for-the-salvation-of-libya/

NATO invasion of Libya 'disgusting idea' /Video
Pepe Escobar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGi5iCDtcjE



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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Fidel Castro:

The Plan is to Occupy Libya

...One can agree with Gaddafi or not. The world 
has been invaded with all kinds of news, 
especially using the mass media. One has to wait 
the necessary length of time in order to learn 
precisely what is the truth and what are lies, or 
a mixture of events of every kind that, in the 
midst of chaos, were produced in Libya. For me, 
what is absolutely clear is that the government 
of the United States is not in the least worried 
about peace in Libya and it will not hesitate in 
giving NATO the order to invade that rich 
country, perhaps in a matter of hours or a few short days.

Those who with perfidio'us intentions invented 
the lie that Gaddafi was headed for Venezuela, 
just as they did yesterday afternoon on Sunday 
the 20th of February, today received an fitting 
response from Foreign Affairs Minister Nicolas 
Maduro when he literally stated that he was 
“wishing that the Libyan people would find, in 
the exercise of their sovereignty, a peaceful 
solution to their difficulties, that would 
preserve the integrity of the Libyan people and 
nation, without the interference of imperialism…”

As for me, I cannot imagine that the Libyan 
leader would abandon his country; escaping the 
responsibilities he is charged with, whether or 
not they are partially or totally false.

An honest person shall always be against any 
injustice being committed against any people in 
the world, and the worst of all, at this moment, 
would be to remain silent in the face of the 
crime that NATO is getting ready to commit against the Libyan people.

The leadership of that war-mongering organization 
has to do it. We must condemn it!...

Fidel Castro Ruz
February 21, 2011
http://monthlyreview.org/castro/2011/02/21/the-plan-is-to-occupy-libya/



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Let us take a brake and reflect a bit....
in Italian it is  : Intermezzo
French : entre-actes
German:eine Pause

We are all glued to our TV since 2 weeks ,
watching what is happening in Libya

Did anyone see any mercenaries ??
those foreign mercenaries Qaddafi is accused to have used ??
I did not !!

I am not defending Colonel Qaddafi ,
but, I am just seeking the naked-Truth.


Raja

Visit my Blog
before the mercenaries get there first !!
http://frustratedarabdiary.blogspot.com/

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