Occupy Wall Street Protests Intensify

Over 1000 people gathered today in degenerate New York City, to protest the greed of the few which has exploited so many. Over a hundred people were arrested.

More will appear tomorrow…

Unbelievable Bloodshed in Libya

The Libyan rebels are now bogged down fighting a war against the government of their country with no popular support. It is common knowledge that they are being rewarded by the governments of the UK, Canada and the United States for their insurgency with expensive air and missile support launched offshore.

Now, in this shocking video released by Sky News, survivors of the excesses of the terrorists talk about what they’ve experienced. Especially disturbing is a physician, who speaks candidly about seeing injured enemies of the rebels being summarily slaughtered at his hospital.

Apparently the terrorists also went on a mass-rape spree, according to another refugee.

It is relevant to ask ourselves, in this era when the governments of the west are facing the slashing of social programs at home and a possible default on our national debts, why we should be forced to pay exorbitant prices to terrorists for murdering and raping Libyan people: ordinary people, physicians and housewives, who have never threatened or harmed any European or North American.

When people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama whine and moan about victimizing innocent people, or angrily lash out at international terrorism, they should begin to face real questions about these people they have funded, supported and praised.

Noam Chomsky Lecture

I found this interesting and very pertinent. Enjoy:

Hope Y’all Paid Your Taxes…

I’m sure every American is proud to have paid his taxes, secure in the knowledge that the dollars spent are going to worthy causes like creating jobs and helping those less fortunate than himself. Unfortunately, thanks to people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a sizeable chunk of money is going to support a terrorist army in Libya, a country which has never threatened any American and never even talked about attacking the United States (not in the last 20 years, anyway).

When this U.S. taxpayer funded and CIA trained force takes control of an area, the terrorists commonly treat the surrendered population with a degree of harshness which is being described in terms of a complete liquidation. According to local reporters:

“Pro Gaddafi Soldiers who surrender have been Executed by Rebels in Cold Blood ! Blindfolded, hog-tied, beat, Executed, Hung, beheaded, put on fire, had their bodies mutiliated, and in one documented case a Soldier had his heart cut out of his chest when he proclaimed that his “heart is for Gaddafi” and the rebel took a bite out of the heart. In Misrata the Rebels burned some soldiers and then waved and danced around with the charred remains of their corpses. This is incredible but true facts of the kind of people that comprise the bulk of the benghazi terror gangs, aka “Opposition” forces.”

I’m not embedding the video (which the western press has been predictably silent about) as it’s quite graphic. People with strong stomachs can view a bit of the destruction at uruknet.

Every American ought to be writing to his congressman demanding an explanation for this hateful, ultraviolent lunacy, financed by the people of the United States, completely outside of congressional channels. Those that benefit by spreading this sort of misery ought to be held financially responsible to pick up the tab… which by all accounts is now past the billion dollar mark.

Following The Money: Libya & Big Oil

Down below, Tod asked:

Kucinich is great civil servant. Gregory, I believe it but, where are your sources that this is being done “at the behest of transnational oil companies and other big money”?

I appreciate the opportunity to respond in detail and hope I can answer this question to everyone’s satisfaction.

Corporate interests have been behind most of the wars stretching back into the early part of the 20th century, and we can go back to WWII to see examples. IBM (a truly evil company) sold the German SS punch card machines and computers by which they were able to mechanize their concentration camps. Royal Dutch Shell cut off the oil supplies to Japan which instigated the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The People’s Oil and Gas Ministry of the USSR supplied Nazi Germany with fuels which the Wehrmacht used to invade the Soviet Union. On the other side, Mercedes Benz (ostensibly a German company) sold the British Army designs for an airplane engine which Rolls Royce modified and produced to bomb women and little kids in Dresden. None of these examples are secrets any longer and they serve to illustrate the soulless, psychopathic desire of corporations to put profits ahead of people’s genuine interests, even going so far as to enrich their shareholders by murder and mayhem.

With that background, we can look at the mainstream media and figure out what’s going on in North Africa presently. As of right now, it is known that the Libyan rebels are being trained and equipped by the CIA (Los Angeles Times) and are presently being supported by the U.S. Air Force, which is going so far as to shoot unarmed civilians (Daily Mail) in a most heartless fashion. Most reprehensible of all: the leader of this uprising is a man who has boasted about recruiting suicide bombers to kill Americans in Afghanistan (The Telegraph). It’s certainly difficult to believe that Barack Obama and his wealthy friends are causing all this mayhem in the interests of the everyday American worker, since I can’t find any evidence that the Libyan government has ever threatened the peace and stability of the United States.

The situation only makes sense when we realize that, thanks to the meddling of the transnational ruling class, which is currently putting the American and Libyan people in great danger, their puppets in the rebellion have captured an oil field. Oil from these sources is now being exported to Qatar (this whole microstate is a shill for all the big oil companies, run by a corrupt sheik), and the Qatari figurehead is now buying the low sulfur crude oil at a huge discount, to be sold at gigantic profit on the world market as it comes in (Hubbard, Associated Press). If the ruling families play true to form, they’ll pocket much of the money themselves, before passing it on to the large oil companies we’re all familiar with (Freedomhouse).

The oil which will be bought, refined, and resold by transnational corporations is being ostensibly purchased from a man who has been installed by the CIA, and who has a proven track record of being absolutely hostile to the United States. He’ll be given a fraction of the money that the oil is actually worth, and he’ll be given weapons with which he can continue to raise hell in Libya with… not to mention air and artillery support paid for by you. Remember him when you make out that check to the IRS.

This oil will be refined, sold, and end up in cars, here in North America and in China and elsewhere. You’ll pay a dollar a litre (or more) for what was traded for a few rounds of Kalashnikov ammunition. Multiply that about a billion times and we can see why it is so profitable to cause chaos in Libya.

In the old days, private soldiers signed on to loot and pillage for a take of the goods they stole from the enemy society. This is where the rank of “private” comes from (it’s a cognate of privateer, or pirate). Today, US Soldiers are lucky if they get minimum wage and a couple thousand dollars bonus in return for getting shot at, psychologically damaged and often killed, as they steal billions and billions from their brothers overseas. The big transnational companies which will buy, refine, and sell the oil have no allegiance to the soldiers and pilots in the US military. The corporate interests aren’t really American. They belong to an international ruling class that considers the concept of nationality to be quaint and silly.

I hope that explains my own position in more detail. There is no reason that the people of the United States should spend hundreds of millions of dollars to kill people in Libya, a country which has not attacked the United States. Certainly there’s no reason Americans should support a man like Abdel Hakim Al-Asidi in any fashion. With the ongoing slide of the United States into a third-world economy, I believe (as Dennis Kucinich has amply pointed out) that the people can hardly afford it anyway.

More on the oil deals between Al-Asidi and Qatar

American Attacks on Libya Wasteful and Hypocritical

Dennis Kucinich (Member of Congress) has given a fantastic interview criticizing the recent attacks on Libya. Barack Obama’s bombing of Libyan cities was done at the behest of transnational oil companies and other big money, international interests. Libya has never attacked the United States, and the American people have not authorized any attacks on Libya through congressional channels. This is, therefore, a crime rather than an act of war.

It is worth noting that the violent attacks in Libya have so far cost the American people 550 million dollars. That’s one half of a billion dollars which could have been spent supporting public employees, infrastructure, giving unemployed Americans jobs, and countless other worthwhile projects which remain woefully underfunded.

When it comes to improving the lives of everyday people, those in power throw up their hands and claim poverty; but, there’s always plenty of money for guns, bombs and missiles to secure the interests of the wealthy.