Friday, June 10, 2011

From The Honorable Sis. Cynthia McKinney: Secret Bombings, Stealing Oil, Stealing A Continent, NATO's Libyan Child Soldiers? Vietnam War Lies

 
From The Honorable Sis. Cynthia McKinney: Secret Bombings, Stealing Oil, Stealing A Continent, NATO's Libyan Child Soldiers? Vietnam War Lies

Yesterday, I went to the home of a darker-skinned Libyan murdered by the Libyan NATO allies because of the color of his skin.  I will write a full report of this shocking meeting. 

Revelations of secret bombing in Yemen bring President Obama closer to Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard Nixon and their secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War than is appropriate for any Nobel Peace Laureate.  How many wars is this President going to start?  As many as the American people will allow. 

Der Spiegel reports that the Pentagon released the remaining papers of the Pentagon Papers while admitting that lies were told about the war.  We know that.  But here it is from them.  The four volumes of the Gravel Papers can be accessed through Der Spiegel by clicking on the link below.  How many more lies will the U.S. government tell the American people and the international community?  As many as the American people will allow.

Are NATO's allies child soldiers?  Isn't that against the law?  So what else is new with this war?  How long will war crimes and crimes against humanity be committed by NATO?  As long as the American people allow these crimes to be committed.

Please see these:

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Libyan rebel group sells first oil to U.S.
By Jamie Crawford, CNN National Security Producer
June 9, 2011 -- Updated 1012 GMT (1812 HKT)
A charred car sits near an oil terminal in the section of eastern Libya now held by the Transitional National Council.
A charred car sits near an oil terminal in the section of eastern Libya now held by the Transitional National Council.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Tesoro, a U.S. refiner, entered into a deal May 25 with the Transitional National Council
  • Deal is for 1.2 million barrels of Libyan crude oil, the State Department says
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in UAE for Libya Contact Group meeting
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Washington (CNN) -- The rebel government in control of the eastern part of Libya has made its first sale of oil from territory it controls, the State Department confirmed Wednesday.


 
Tesoro, a U.S. oil refiner, entered into a deal May 25 with the Transitional National Council based in Benghazi, Libya for 1.2 million barrels of Libyan crude oil, the State Department said in a written statement. The shipment was scheduled to arrive aboard the MT Equator, a Liberian-flagged tanker, at the Single Point Mooring in Hawaii on Wednesday. The dollar value of the deal is not known.


 
U.S. support for additional oil sales with the TNC will continue as a means to support additional revenue streams for the Libyan people, the statement said.


 
The sale was made possible following an April announcement by the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department that established a new licensing policy with Libya. That action was taken to ease barriers to certain oil related transactions with the TNC, in place because of wider U.S. sanctions on Libya.
The announcement came the same day Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the United Arab Emirates for a meeting with the Libya Contact Group, a coalition of various countries and international organizations that seek to build support for the TNC while preparing for Libya's future after the presumed end of Moammar Gadhafi's regime. This is the third meeting of the group.


 
France, Italy and Qatar are among the small number of countries who have officially recognized the TNC as the legitimate government of Libya. While the United States has yet to take that step, President Barack Obama "has invited them to open an office in Washington," a senior administration official told reporters traveling with Clinton.


 
"We are still considering it but there's no final decision as of right now," the official said of U.S. efforts to offer formal recognition to the TNC.


 
Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, traveled to Benghazi last month for two days.
8 June 2011 Last updated at 18:57 GMT

Hedge Funds 'Grabbing Land' In Africa

A worker on small-scale farm in Zimbabwe (archive shot)  
Foreign firms are snapping up farming land in Africa, a new report says

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Hedge funds are behind "land grabs" in Africa to boost their profits in the food and biofuel sectors, a US think-tank says. 


 
In a report, the Oakland Institute said hedge funds and other foreign firms had acquired large swathes of African land, often without proper contracts.
It said the acquisitions had displaced millions of small farmers. 


 
Foreign firms farm the land to consolidate their hold over global food markets, the report said.
They also use land to "make room" for export commodities such as biofuels and cut flowers.
"This is creating insecurity in the global food system that could be a much bigger threat than terrorism," the report said. 


 
The Oakland Institute said it released its findings after studying land deals in Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Mali and Mozambique. 


 
'Risky Manoeuvre'
It said hedge funds and other speculators had, in 2009 alone, bought or leased nearly 60m hectares of land in Africa - an area the size of France.

In The Field

Umaru Fofana BBC African Service, Sierra Leone When I visited Lungi-Lol in rural Sierra Leone I saw men hoeing thousands of hectares of farmland owned by Addax, a Swiss-based bio-energy company.
They are growing sugarcane to produce biofuels. 


 
Campaigners say this contributes to food insecurity, but many people here welcome Addax's presence.
Francis Koroma, who works on the farm, says: "We thank God for Addax. I am gainfully employed and I receive about $70 (£46) a month. Before, I spent a whole year without getting $50."
Villagers are unaware of the controversy surrounding biofuels.


 
Abdulai Conteh , a local traditional leader, said: "Some people are doing business here but I have no idea what they are doing with our land. I see them growing sugarcane. That's all I know."
"The same financial firms that drove us into a global recession by inflating the real estate bubble through risky financial manoeuvres are now doing the same with the world's food supply," the report said.
It added that some firms obtained land after deals with gullible traditional leaders or corrupt government officials.


 
"The research exposed investors who said it is easy to make a deal - that they could usually get what they wanted in exchange for giving a poor tribal chief a bottle of Johnnie Walker [whisky]," said Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Institute. 


 
"When these investors promise progress and jobs to local chiefs it sounds great, but they don't deliver."
The report said the contracts also gave investors a range of incentives, from unlimited water rights to tax waivers. 


 
"No-one should believe that these investors are there to feed starving Africans.
"These deals only lead to dollars in the pockets of corrupt leaders and foreign investors," said Obang Metho of Solidarity Movement for New Ethiopia, a US-based campaign group.


 
However, not all companies named in the report accept that their motives are as suggested and they dismiss claims that their presence in Africa is harmful.


 
One company, EmVest Asset Management, strongly denied that it was involved in exploitative or illegal practices.


 
"There are no shady deals. We acquire all land in terms of legal tender," EmVest's Africa director Anthony Poorter told the BBC. 


 
He said that in Mozambique the company's employees earned salaries 40% higher than the minimum wage.
The company was also involved in development projects such as the supply of clean water to rural communities. 


 
"They are extremely happy with us," Mr Poorter said.


 
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Children Work With Weapons To Aid Libya's Rebels

By Sara Sidner, CNN
June 9, 2011 -- Updated 0249 GMT (1049 HKT)
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Libyan kids help refurbish weapons
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Nasser spends most of his time now in the yard of a weapons workshop
  • Libyan rebels say they can use all the help they can get
  • With schools closed by the fighting, young people have little to do
Misrata, Libya (CNN) -- The eyes of 15-year-old Nasser are fixed on a small metal part that belongs to a massive metal gun. He scrubs every tiny little crevice with a toothbrush until the bristles bend in awkward directions from the strain.


 
This is how he now spends his time six days a week for 10 hours a day in the open yard of a makeshift weapons workshop.


 
Nasser is one of Misrata's children. A boy who for more than 100 days suffered the frightening sounds of rockets falling from the sky and tanks blasting their way through the city as government forces battled to control the uprising against it from Misrata's citizens.


 
"It was really scary," he said. "People really suffered especially during the first days of the war. There was not really anything, we lacked everything."


 
Four months later school is still out but the fighting has been pushed to three fronts outside the city. There is little for children to do. Nasser has found something along with a few other boys and he dismisses those who say children shouldn't be working on machines of war.

NATO making progress in Libya?

New lies from Gadhafi's regime
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"I'd tell them to get back to work and try to understand the situation we are living these days," the 15-year-old said and quietly went back to putting together the gun he had just finished cleaning.
The adult men working in the same area have nothing but good things to say about the effort the youth are making even the youngest among them.


 
"When I saw our young people my feeling is great," Ali Mohamed said. "Our children, they will be the future of our country and they should know how they defend our city."


 
The reality is rebel fighters are short on gun power and need whatever help they can get in order to obtain more weapons. They say defending the city means using all kinds of makeshift weaponry on Misrata's three battlefronts. The heaviest and most powerful guns are usually attached to pick-up trucks.
The guns are often taken off tanks and re-purposed elsewhere. The tanks that are captured are usually burned or otherwise rendered useless but there are a few that have survived intact, and yet with all the shortages of weaponry not one is being used on Misrata's front lines.


 
"We cannot use the tanks because we received orders from NATO not use them so they put restrictions on how we can use them," rebel fighter Mohamed Wabash tells CNN.
There is frustration setting in as opposition fighters have also been told to hold their positions but in this spontaneous uprising, war has not been meticulously planned. Strategies are being hatched in real time as the fighting rages on.


 
But rebels on Misrata's western front made an unexpected move forward after they say Gadhafi forces tried to once again advance toward the city. Rebels fought back with all their make-shift weapons and managed to push Gadhafi forces three kilometers west inching them that much farther toward the rebels goal, the capital of Tripoli.


Full release of the Mike Gravel Pentagon Papers admitting wartime lies

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Radio: We Want Freedom Now! Cynthia McKinney Live!
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