WAR IS PEACE. The "unintended" consequences of regime change...

News from Libya is Grim

NATO's "humanitarian" intervention is taking a heavy toll on Libyans.

(AP) – Clashes between protesters and militias aligned with the military in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi left 27 people killed and dozens wounded, a health official said today. The violence broke out yesterday after protesters stormed a base belonging to Libya Shield, a grouping of militias tasked with maintaining security. The protesters were demanding that militias leave their camp and submit to the full authority of Libya's security forces.

The death toll is likely to increase public backlash against militias, who have been accused of acting with impunity, abusing citizens, and enforcing their own agendas. Libyan officials have provided few details of the clashes. Witnesses say some of the protesters came armed. The camp was believed to house dozens of Libya Shield militiamen, while the protesters who attacked their camp were estimated to number several hundred. Hospital officials said the protesters made up most of the casualties. Prime Minister Ali Zidan described the events as "sad and painful" and urged people to be cautious and exercise self-restraint. Read more.



BACKGROUND:
"NATO powers, led by the United States, Britain and France, began bombing Libya on 19 March, supposedly with a United Nations Security Council mandate to “protect civilians”. Western mainstream media, including the New York Times, enthusiastically endorsed the NATO military onslaught, even though technically and legally it went well beyond the mandate to set up a “no-fly zone” over Libya purportedly to protect civilians, who were allegedly coming under attack from the state forces of Muammar Gaddafi."

Read more at Global Research:
Libya: New York Times Drip Feeds Truth on NATO’s Civilian Atrocities
Reporting War Crimes AFTER the Facts. Ex Post Facto 
Investigative Journalism by the ‘Paper of Record’.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy."
      - From the Novel "1984" by George Orwell

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four"
      - Winston | 1984 by George Orwell

THE REAL REASON ISRAEL ATTACKED SYRIA 
by StormCloudsGathering | Published on May 6, 2013

There is much more to Israel's recent attacks on Syria than we are being told by the mainstream media.

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On Friday, May 3, 2013, Israel launched an air strike on a Syrian convoy. Followed a second attack on Sunday, May 5th, which targeted a scientific studies and research center in Jamraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. The total amount of deaths and injuries is still unclear at this point.

Israeli officials were silent in regards to the strikes until Syria issued a public statement to the United Nations, condemning them as an act of war and asserting their right to retaliate. This is the second time this year Israel as initiated unprovoked attacks against Syria.

So what's really going on here? Why on earth would Israel do something like this?

The first thing to be aware of is that these recent moves on Syria are indirects attacks on Iran. Syria and Iran are bound by a mutual defense treaty. And any large scale war that breaks out with either one, will most likely draw in the other.

Likewise, any moves made by Israel, can and will be interpreted as a move by the United States. Because if Israel gets involved in a conflict with Iran, the United States will join the fight. This is not just an assumption. On April 17, 2013 the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee voted to endorse Resolution 65, which affirmed that the United States will fully back Israel militarily and financially should it attack Iran. This is very serious considering that Israel has openly indicated its desire to use military force on Iran on numerous occasions.

Now this aggression by Israel comes right on the heels of accusations by the U.S. government that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against its own population, and that this constituted a red line that may justify military intervention. Just days later the Obama administration mysteriously backed down from these claims. And the mainstream media went silent.

Now we know why, as it turns out, a UN investigation into the matter revealed that it was actually the NATO backed rebels which used the sarin gas in the conflict, not the Syrian government. This is more than an embarrassing mix up. There's evidence that this event was set up to frame the Syrian government and to create the pretext for U.S. military involvement.

In January of this year, leaked documents from a U.K. based defense contractor, revealed a proposal by Quatar to have the firm provide false evidence that Syria had given the go-ahead for the use of chemical weapons in the country. In the documents, they claim that the plan had full approval from Washington.

If this is in fact what happened, what's shocking here is that in their attempt to frame the Syrian government, NATO has actually facilitated the use of chemical weapons on a civilian population. This is a war crime by any measure.

Now of course after Syria went public about the air strikes, Israel was forced to put forth an official justification. And they are now claiming that these attacks targeted shipments of missiles headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, some analysts believe that the real motive was to derail Syria's progress in their fight against foreign militants that have been entering the country from Lebanon. Hezbollah, which is the most powerful military force in Lebanon, has sided with President Assad's government, in what they say is a war against foreign backed terrorists. And on May 1st they indicated they may directly intervene into the conflict.

Russia has also taken the side of the Syrian government, repeatedly calling for an end to external interference, and warning that U.S. plans to increase material support to the rebels may have serious consequences. Among these consequences, Russia has indicated the risk of thermonuclear war. China has issued similar warnings.

As in most of the major events that we're seeing unfolding right now, the real motives have nothing to do with the official justifications given by the government or the mainstream media. This has nothing to do with protecting the Syrian people. This much should be clear by the simple fact that NATO has backed these insurgents despite numerous atrocities. And is covering for them now even when they use chemical weapons. Nor is this about Iran attempting to build a nuke. Both the Mossad and the CIA have stated that Iran has yet to even decide to make a nuclear weapon, much less start.

What this really comes down to is that Iran is sitting on the world's third largest oil reserves and its not cooperating with the U.S. and NATO agenda in that region.

These attacks all have one goal in mind; to topple Syria and to draw Iran into an open confrontation. Which would then give the U.S. and NATO the pretext for an outright invasion. Handing them a stake, that what they want.

[ video of statements by James Baker and Hillary Clinton (psychos) here. They share a good laugh with Charlie Rose about their plans for mayhem ]

Now, how this crisis will play out is impossible to predict. Human decisions are what will determine how far this escalates. As of yet, Iran and Syria have exercised considerable restraint in the face of these attacks, although its uncertain how long they can afford to do so.

If this aggression continues, there will be a breaking point. The reality is the powers that be are intent on taking down Iran and Syria and they're willing to go to any lengths to make this happen.
However, they can do that has long as they have full control of the U.S. military personnel and this is their Achilles heel. If you want to affect the outcome of this situation. This is where you need to strike. As an American, you have access to U.S. military personnel. You can write letters to soldiers. You can send them videos. You can post in military forums. And if you live in a town with a military base, you post posters and hand out flyers. If all this seems like too much for you, then simply working to spread the message via Facebook and Twitter is a good start.

All this may seem like a long-shot, but if even one high-level officer speaks out against the plans to go to war with Iran, it could have a ripple affect that prevents this from moving forward. It may be that you don't know anyone in the military directly, however if you make a concerted effort to reach out to as many people as possible, you increase the chances that this information will reach someone who does know someone.

Regardless of our chances, we have to try. A lot of innocent people are going to die if we fail. Sitting back and doing nothing is morally unacceptable."

HatTip - YouTube : StormCloudsGathering 

BACKGROUND:
The Road to World War 3
by StormCloudsGathering | Published on Sep 11, 2012 

We are on a road that leads straight to the World War 3, but in order to see that and to fully understand what is at stake you have to look at the big picture and connect the dots. This video examines the history of the dollar, its relation to oil, and the real motives behind the wars of the past two decades.

Thomas Jefferson Would Want Reparations for Haiti's Wretched Victims

Is it indicative of the fear Haiti instills in the bosoms of tyrants that the vital role Haiti played in the abolishment of slavery globally is left out of most popular narratives and histories? No? Then, it must be by design.

Why is it that films like "Lincoln," for one, do not dare utter, never mind credit Haiti as the place where the quest for an end to slavery flourished and was fought and won in spectacular fashion over six decades before Lincoln "freed the slaves?"

Proper respects are due to Abraham Lincoln for inadvertently giving his life to a fellow white supremacist; however, Abraham Lincoln was not fighting the Civil War to free the slaves. He fought it to hold together the Union.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued 61 years after Haiti abolished slavery. Arguably, Abraham Lincoln was not so much influenced by his moral fortitude, conscience or abolitionist leaning, as he was by the pivotal events that took place in Haiti 1791-1804.

American history classes should explain how much Haiti inspired Nat Turner, John Brown, Denmark Vesey and others who led slave uprisings. Haiti's freedom fighters were heroes of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. He wrote the famous ode: Until She Spoke in their honor.

Moreover, Charles Deslondes, who was of Haitian descent, led perhaps the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history in Louisiana -- consisting of some 200 men. The end that he and his tortured comrades came to is a blight that US historians sought to expunge from scrutiny by future generations in the "land of the free."

The Haitian Revolution - Battle Vertieres, 1803 

Haitian revolutionaries fought for 13 years to win the world's only successful slave rebellion, which required that they defeat the world's most powerful armies and unconscionable practitioners of chattel slavery: Spain, Britain and France. It should be common knowledge that Haiti also played a direct role in the abolishment of slavery and the independence of six countries in Latin America. Haiti supplied arms and men to Miranda and Simon Bolivar of Venezuela in their war for independence from Spanish colonialism. Haitian leaders Dessalines and Petion only asked one thing of them, free the slaves.

Yet today's tyrants, like the slave-owning Thomas Jefferson, would have the world believe that Haiti's enslavers, oppressors, invaders and exploiters are the "victims" of a violent Haitian population.

Thomas Jefferson observed, "The situation of the St. Domingo fugitives (aristocrats as they are), calls aloud for pity and charity. Never was so deep a tragedy presented to the feelings of man." While he disapproved of any federal intervention, he thought individual states should provide assistance for those French émigrés. In a letter to Governor Morris, Jefferson said the United State received "the wretched fugitives.. who escaping from the swords and flames of civil war, threw themselves on us naked and houseless, without food or friends, money or other means, their faculties lost and absorbed in the depth of distresses."

In 1794, the U.S. Congress showed compassion when a House of Representatives committee passed a resolution establishing a committee of relief that had funds available to support the oppressed from St. Domingo."

    p. 4 Haitians and African-Americans / A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope by Leon D. Pamphile

Haiti 1791-1804 — Hell on earth for all tyrants

Haitian rebels beat back the foreign invaders

"Yes, we have rendered to these true cannibals war for war, crime for crime, outrage for outrage; yes, I have saved my country; I have avenged America;"

"After the terrible example I have just given, sooner or later Divine Justice will unchain on earth some mighty minds, above the weakness of the vulgar, for the destruction and terror of the wicked. Tremble! tyrants, usurpers, scourges of the new world!"

"War, even to Death, to Tyrants! this is my motto; "Liberty! Independence!" this is our rallying cry."

— Jean-Jacques Dessalines  

Haiti Today:
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Published on Thursday, February 21, 2013 by Common Dreams

UN: No Compensation for Cholera UN Caused in Haiti

The United Nations, blamed for causing the outbreak of cholera in Haiti which killed over 7000 and sickened over half a million, has rejected a November 2011 claim for compensation on behalf of victims of the disease, stating, "claims are not receivable."

"Today, the United Nations advised the claimants’ representatives that the claims are not receivable pursuant to Section 29 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations," a spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated on Thursday. "The Secretary-General telephoned Haitian President Michel Martelly to inform him of the decision, and to reiterate the commitment of the United Nations to the elimination of cholera in Haiti."

Four Women Return, Two Haiti Villages to Get Solar Electrification

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 16, 2013

Contact: Mèt Ezili Dantò of Zili Dlo and the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) erzilidanto@yahoo.com

Zili Dlo: Clean water, renewable power, cultural education and skills transfer for Haiti / Dlo Pwòp, Enèji Solè, Edikasyon anviwoman e kiltirèl pou Ayiti


PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI : The first four Haiti mothers to be sponsored by Zili Dlo for solar energy skills training arrived back from India on March 17, 2013. They left Haiti in September 2012 and the training in solar energy was for six months, paid for by the Indian government under their programs known as the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation and Special Commonwealth Assistance for Africa Programme (ITEC/SCAAP)

Zili Dlo makes history again. Our four women, ages 35 to 48, are the first peasants and market women from Haiti to receive direct specialized solar-training in India. The two rural mountain villages - Okadè Petionville and Fon Batis, Arcahaie - to get solar electrification. Zili Dlo executed the idea to make this possibility available to Haiti mothers. The program at Barefoot College takes an illiterate woman and makes her into a solar engineer in six months and shows that she can bring solar electrification to a village.

Zili Dlo had been searching for this sort of relevant relief for Haiti's majority population and after extensive research, arranged for our first mothers to be educated in India. While the ladies were in school, Zili Dlo kept in contact with the communities, the energy committee created at each village, and helped their families and husbands with resources to pay for their children's  schooling and other household expenses.

Zili Dlo's executives in Haiti, especially co-director Rea Dol at SOPUDEP, worked together with Mèt Ezili Dantò of HLLN to arrange for the ladies' travel documents, clothes, visas, medical clearances, state approvals and specific Zili Dlo indigenous cultural orientation on Haiti so our mothers would be informed ambassadors on the various magnificent landmarks of our wonderful Haiti homeland. More information on the Zili Dlo solar project is at our: "Ezili Dantò" public page on Facebook http://on.fb.me/IfvcQ0

In Haiti, Zili Dlo is run by both Fanm Vodou Pou Ayiti (Euvonie Georges Auguste) and SOPUDEP (Rea Dol). The team at Zili Dlo is excited about the successful return of our ladies and if all goes well, has plans to electrify two other Haiti villages and give skills training to four more Haiti mothers once this first initiate is completed. To do this, Zili Dlo will be working with more colleges abroad and will set up a training school in Haiti with our initial four women to help train other Haiti solar mothers. Zili Dlo co-executive director, Euvonie Georges Auguste will supervise the second group of villages we will soon choose to get solar electrification, while Rea Dol at SOPUDEP follows through on finishing the first two villages at Fon Batis and Okadè.

Each of our four Haiti mothers will be responsible for running and supervising a specifically community-created energy center and for installing, repairing and providing maintenance for solar lighting units in the households of their villages for a minimum of five years

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Special thanks for the Indian government for making the ITEC/SCAAP program available to our Haiti mothers and for paying for the education, expenses and travel to Barefoot College. Zili Dlo sends a great thank you to the honorary Consul of India in Haiti, Eddy Handal, Mrs. Pierreline from his office and to everyone at the Haiti foreign ministry particularly Mrs. Euvonie Georges Augustes, for all the great help on this project. The entire Zili Dlo team also gives special Chapo ba thanks to our four mothers - Marie Andrea Saint Felix, Marie Ilma Meriste, Madeleine Saint Louis and Magalie Luc - for the good job they did at Barefoot College representing Haiti, Zili Dlo and their mountain communities. We thank all the husbands of our solar women for their unwavering support throughout this process, their children and the entire community at Okadè and Fon Batis for making this project successful.

For specifics on phase two of this Zili Dlo solar electrification project, contact Mèt Ezili Dantò of HLLN at erzilidanto@yahoo.com. 

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Four Zili Dlo solar mothers  at Toussaint Lourverture airport in Port au Prince Haiti.
Marie Ilma Meriste, Marie Andrea Saint Felix, Magalie Luc and Madeleine Saint Louis return to Haiti March 17, 2013 after six months of Zili Dlo sponsored training in Tilonia India on how to fabricate, install, use and repair solar panels and solar lighting equipment. 

Marie Ilma Meriste, Marie Andrea Saint Felix, Madeleine Saint Louis, Marc Diew Benit, Marc Dieu Benit, Rousso Dol and Magalie Luc at Toussaint Lourverture airport, Port au Prince.

Zili Dlo: Dlo Pwòp, Enèji Solè, Edikasyon anviwoman e kiltirèl pou Ayiti 

Zili Dlo delegation made up of the Haiti solar mothers children, husbands, families and Zili Dlo arrival delegation meet our mothers at the airport today, March 17, 2013 after these rural women from remote Haiti village make their first ever trip outside of Haiti to learn about renewable energy and come home to transfer these skills to others rural women and men in their communities.

Zili Dlo se Dlo Pwòp, Enèji Solè, Edikasyon anviwoman e kiltirèl pou Ayiti
Zili Dlo: Clean water, renewable power, cultural education and skills transfer for Haiti

Co-executive director of Zili Dlo - Rea Dol heads delegation of families, friends, children, husbands, uncles and members of the remote rural communities of Okade and Fon Batis to join the first four Zili Dlo solar engineers at the airport, welcoming them back to Haiti after 6-months schooling in solar electrification in Tilonia, India. 

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
Zili Dlo, created by Ezili Danto of HLLN and run in Haiti by Rea Dol and Euvonie Georges Auguste (Fanm Vodou Pou Ayiti and Rea Dol (SOPUDEP) has a mission to make renewable energy, clean water/sanitation and renewable access a reality for the poorest and most marginalized rural and urban communities in Haiti through relevant skills transfer and indigenously relevant culturally grounding education. Currently, Zili Dlo women run a solar powered, high-tech water filtering unit delivering clean wate. Four illiterate rural mothers will electrify, with solar lamps, re-chargers and panels at two remote villages and run a mini power plant at a special community-created energy center for their villages. Our intention is to complement our solar renewable sources by adding wind turbine and some generators powered by Haiti-environmentally friendly biofuels such as Jathropa. Make a donation 

Marie Ilma Meriste, Fritzer Louis, Marie Andrea Saint Felix, Mme Pierreline Sénat Executive Secrétary, Consulate of India for Haiti, Magalie Luc, Elisee Henry and Madeleine Saint Louis.

Zili Dlo se Dlo Pwòp, Enèji Solè, Edikasyon anviwoman e kiltirèl pou Ayiti
The beautiful and most talented Mme Pierreline Sénat, Executive Secrétary, Consulate of India for Haiti is flanked by the four Zili Dlo mothers returning from India and two husbands. Madame Pierreline was a tremendous asset to us. The plane was three hours late arriving out of Guadaloupe, having begun the 12hour journey from Deli to France, France to Guadaloupe and Guadaloupe to Haiti. Ms. Pierreline from the Haiti Consul's office stayed with our delegation at the Lourverture airport when they arrived and with her inside access, was able to shepherd our mothers through the process and assure those waiting outside that our solar mothers had indeed arrived. Thanks for the special attention and working on a Sunday too! Much obliged Mme Pierreline Sénat. Thank you very much for your kindness, professional courtersy and for going way beyond the call of duty for our Zili Dlo solar mothers! This folks, I am most proud to say, is a shining example of a competent and capable Haiti. Loved it! Chapo ba bel fanm. Mesi anpil.- Ezili Dantò of HLLN