Libya Chemical Weapons & NATO Chemical Threat

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Cynthia McKinney

SPECIAL FROM WAYNE MADSEN

Real danger of chemical weapons falling into hands of radical Islamists —  and potential of NATO creating chemical disaster

TRIPOLI, LIBYA — Chemical weapons and chemical weapons precursor materials that were declared by Libya to the United Nations and United States but not yet destroyed are stored in warehouses at facilities adjacent to Libyan military bases now being attacked by U.S. and NATO forces. Libyan chemical and environmental engineers now warn that if NATO and the U.S. manage to force Libyan security forces to abandon their positions around the military bases and chemical weapons storage facilities, chemical weapons could end up in the hands of the radical Islamist Salafist forces that make up part of the Libyan rebel coalition force.

One Libyan chemical engineer was blunt in his warning about the chemical weapons and their current lack of security. He said, “the U.S. and U.N. took over responsibility for protecting these weapons, which include mustard gas canisters . . . now, the U.S. and U.N. are placing these weapons in danger of being captured by the “Al Qaeda” forces, being sold on the black market, or being used against the United States after the alliance between “Al Qaeda” and the United States terminates after a rebel takeover of Libya.” The engineer added, “the last time America allied itself with “Al Qaeda” in Afghanistan, they attacked you country. After Libya, they will attack you again.”

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Cynthia McKinney from Libya: Day Three

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Cynthia McKinney

From Cynthia McKinney: Tripoli Dispatch – Day Three (includes photos and video link!)‏

From Wayne Madsen (www.waynemadsenreport.com):

June 5-6, 2011 — TRIPOLI, LIBYA. NATO war crimes in Libya exposed

In the current NATO war on Libya, the citizens of European and North American NATO countries are being treated to the largest propaganda blitz by their governments in cahoots with corporate media outlets since the U.S.-led invasions and occupation of Iraq. The situation on the ground in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, could not more different from what is being portrayed by Western news networks and newspapers.

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National Security Decision-Making in the USG

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Marcus Aurelius Recommends

DoD major commands have serious staffs that try to do the right thing.  The same cannot be said for White House staffers or the intelligence community staffs promoted to their maximum level of incompetence.  Reading between the lines of the below article, it's possible to see a national security decision-making process that is to close to “ready fire aim.”

Washington Post, June 5, 2011, Pg. 17

Rewriting Rumsfeld's Rules, By David Ignatius

Phi Beta Iota: David Ignatius is clearly among the lead writers striving to give Dr. Robert Gates a “legacy” (mythical as it might be).  Missing from his various odes are the fact that decisions are not being made on the basis of facts or with the public interest firmly in mind.

 

Afghanistan Ground Truth: Deja Vu & Nested RECAP

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Chuck Spinney Recommends...

The Lost Villages

Saying goodbye to a once-friendly land, now taken without a fight by the Taliban.

ANNA BADKHEN, Foreign Policy, 03/06/11

BALKH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The villages fell without a battle.

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See Also:

Open Source Insights Into the Taliban

New Army Chief of Staff: Out of Touch? NEW: Blistering Bullshit Flag Waved from Afghanistan

US Intelligence Lies to “Defer” to General Petraeus

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Interviews: Bill Black & Yves Smith Our Financial Fraud Crisis

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Bill Black is an expert on white-collar crime.

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Financial Rape of Libya — Assassination vs Invasion

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Gaddafi's Stolen Billions: Max Keiser Explains ‘Financial Terrorism' RT  –  18 hours ago Watch video

Phi Beta Iota: China and Russia both appear to have explained to Goldman Sachs executives that they will be assassinated if they do not make good on their financial rapes against those two countries.  Libya appears to have adopted the same response.  Tony Blair appears to have been the key political proponent of the financial rape of Libya.  Russian Television offers a useful glimpse into the reality behind the “get Guaddafi” invasion now occurring at our expense–an invasion that is illegal by both US Constitutional law and international law.  Meanwhile, Wall Street seeks to force a rise is the US debt limit.  Assassination of bankers is now on the table.

Republicans & Democrats Both Screwing the Public

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Chuck Spinney Recommends...
My only complaint about the analytical and moral content of this speech is that Sanders is not tough enough on the Pentagon (really the MICC).
Chuck Spinney
La Ciotat, France
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Published on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by CommonDreams.org

Sen. Sanders Calls Out GOP and Dems on Corporate Tax Rates, Breaks for Wealthiest

Statement and Senate Floor Remarks by Sen. Bernie Sanders

WASHINGTON – Congress and the White House are now focused on how we deal with our huge deficit — a crisis brought about over the last 10 years by two wars, tax breaks for the rich, the Wall Street bailout and a prescription drug program — all unpaid for. The deficit also increased as a result of the declining tax revenues during a current recession, caused by the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street.

The debate over deficit reduction comes at an unusual moment in American economic history. While the middle class is in rapid decline and poverty is increasing, the wealthiest people in our country and largest corporations are doing phenomenally well. Over the last several decades almost all new income created in this country has gone to the top 1 percent, who now earn more income than the bottom 50 percent. Further, the United States now has the most unequal distribution of wealth of any major country with the top 400 individuals owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million.

Given the reality of record-breaking corporate profits and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, it should be a surprise to no one that every recently published poll suggests that the overwhelming majority of the American people want the deficit to be addressed through shared sacrifice. They do not believe that the deficit should be reduced solely on the backs of working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor — many of whom are already suffering as a result of the recession. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the Republicans have proposed.

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Phi Beta Iota: The hypocrisy of the Democratic Administration is exceeded only by the hypocrisy of the Republican Party–one bird, two wings, same shit, just different colors.   We await a knight speaking truth.