sabato 27 agosto 2011

The Rape of Libya: NATO Special Forces on the Ground, by Bill Van Auken

Five days after “rebels” entered Tripoli, under the cover of NATO bombing and led by foreign special forces, the abject criminality of imperialism’s takeover of Libya is becoming increasingly evident.

Fighting continues to rage throughout the Libyan capital, whose two million residents have been made hostages of the armed gangs and Western special forces troops that have seized control of the city’s streets.

The focus of NATO operations has become a frantic effort to hunt down and murder Muammar Gaddafi, who has ruled the country for 42 years. A $2 million bounty has been placed on his head, and the British media now openly boast that SAS special forces troops are leading the search for him and his family. A vast array of US armed Predator drones, AWACS spy planes and other surveillance equipment has been concentrated on the North African country to facilitate the manhunt.

Fierce Gunbattle in Tripoli Streets, Smoke from air attacks 26.08.11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25lPaRAJnMg

The pretense that the US and its European NATO allies were intervening in Libya to “protect civilians and civilian populated areas from threat of attack,” as stated in the United Nations Security Council resolution, has effectively been abandoned. Behind the fig leaf of this resolution the naked imperialist and colonial character of the war has emerged.

The Security Council’s stipulations that ground troops not be introduced into the country, that an arms embargo be kept in place and that mercenaries be prevented from entering Libya have all been flouted in this criminal operation to seize control of an oil-rich former colony and loot its resources.

There is barely any attempt to hide the fact that special forces, intelligence agents and mercenary military contractors have organized, armed and led the “rebels”, who have not made a single advance without the prior annihilation of government security forces by NATO warplanes.

After being terrorized for five months by NATO bombs and missiles, the people of Tripoli are now facing sudden death and a looming humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the NATO campaign to “protect civilians”.

Kim Sengupta of the Independent reported Thursday from the Tripoli neighborhood of Abu Salim, which the “rebels” stormed under the cover of NATO air strikes. Known as a pro-Gaddafi area, its residents have been subjected to a reign of terror.

FREE LIBYA - 25.08.2011 - UPLOAD THIS - Stop the EU / NATO rats!

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“There was no escape for the residents of Abu Salim, trapped as the fighting spread all around them,” Sengupta reported. “In the corner of a street, a man who was shot in the crossfire, the back of his blue shirt soaked in blood, was being carried away by three others. ‘I know that man, he is a shopkeeper,’ said Sama Abdessalam Bashti, who had just run across the road to reach his home. ‘The rebels are attacking our homes. This should not be happening.

“‘The rebels are saying they are fighting government troops here, but all those getting hurt are ordinary people, the only buildings being damaged are those of local people. There has also been looting by the rebels, they have gone into houses to search for people and taken away things. Why are they doing this?’”

Asked why local residents were resisting the NATO-led force’s takeover of the city, Mohammed Selim Mohammed, a 38-year-old engineer, told the Independent, “Maybe they just do not like the rebels. Why are people from outside Tripoli coming and arresting our men?”

Meanwhile, other reports laid bare war crimes carried out by NATO and its local agents on the ground in Tripoli. Both the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies documented a massacre perpetrated against Gaddafi supporters in a square adjacent to the presidential compound that was stormed and looted on Tuesday.

“The bodies are scattered around a grassy square next to Moammar Gadhafi’s compound of Bab al-Aziziya. Prone on grassy lots as if napping, sprawled in tents. Some have had their wrists bound by plastic ties,” AP reported.

“The identities of the dead are unclear but they are in all likelihood activists that set up an impromptu tent city in solidarity with Gadhafi outside his compound in defiance of the NATO bombings.” AP said that the grisly discovery raised “the disturbing specter of mass killings of noncombatants, detainees and the wounded.”

FREE LIBYA - 25.08.2011 - All people in the world supports Jamahirya - Stop the EU / NATO WAR!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkqgv7_free-libya-25-08-2011-all-people-in-the-world-supports-jamahirya-stop-the-eu-nato-war_news

Among the bodies of the executed the report added were several that “had been shot in the head, with their hands tied behind their backs. A body in a doctor’s green hospital gown was found in the canal. The bodies were bloated.”

Reporting from the same killing field, Reuters counted 30 bodies “riddled with bullets”. It noted that “Five of the dead were at a field hospital nearby, with one in an ambulance strapped to a gurney with an intravenous drip still in his arm.” Two of the bodies, it said, “were charred beyond recognition.”

Amnesty International has raised urgent concerns about the killing, torture and brutalization of people being rounded up by the “rebels,” particularly African migrant workers who have been singled out for retribution because of the color of their skin.

In a report from a makeshift detention camp set up by the NATO-led forces in a Tripoli school, Amnesty stated:

“In an overcrowded cell, where some 125 people were held with barely enough room to sleep or move, a boy told Amnesty International how he had responded to calls by al-Gaddafi's government for volunteers to fight the opposition.

“He said that he was driven to a military camp in Az-Zawiya, where he was handed a Kalashnikov rifle that he did not know how to use.

“He told Amnesty International: ‘When NATO bombed the camp around 14 August, those who survived fled. I threw my weapon on the ground, and asked for refuge in a home nearby. I told the owners what happened, and I think they called the revolutionaries [thuuwar], because they came shortly after.

“‘They shouted for me to surrender. I put my hands up in the air. They made me kneel on the ground and put my hands behind by head. Then one told me to get up. When I did, he shot me in the knee at close range. I fell on the ground, and they continued beating me with the back of their rifles all over my body and face.

“‘I had to get three stitches behind my left ear as a result. In detention, sometimes they still beat us and insult us, calling us killers.’”

FREE LIBYA - 25.08.11 - Appeal to all people in the world! The Libyan genocide must be stopped!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkq09v_free-libya-25-08-11-appeal-to-all-people-in-the-world-the-libyan-genocide-must-be-stopped_news

A pro-Gaddafi soldier told a similar story, recounting that he was captured August 19 while bringing supplies to his unit. “He said that he was beaten all over his body and face with the backs of rifles, punched and kicked. He bore visible marks consistent with his testimony.”

Amnesty said that “rebel” leaders estimated that one-third of the detainees were “foreign mercenaries,” meaning sub-Saharan Africans. “When Amnesty International spoke to several of the detainees, however, they said they were migrant workers. They said that they had been taken at gunpoint from their homes, workplaces and the street on account of their skin colour.” Several said that they feared for their lives and that guards had told them that they would be “eliminated or else sentenced to death.”

Among those detained were a family of five from Chad, including a minor, who were taken off of a truck while being driven to a farm to collect produce. A 24-year-old man from Niger who had worked in Libya for five years told Amnesty that armed men had seized him from his home, handcuffed and beaten him and thrown him into the trunk of a car. “I am not at all involved in this conflict,” he said. “All I wanted to do was to make a living. But because of my skin colour, I find myself here, in detention. Who knows what will happen to me now.”

The human rights group also cited a report from a Reuters reporting team which saw a “rebel” pickup truck carrying three black men in the back. One of them told Reuters he was Nigerian. “He sobbed as he said: ‘I do not know Gaddafi. I do not know Gaddafi. I am only working here.’”

News reports and statements from international aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe in the city as a result of the NATO siege. Reporting from a local hospital, the Telegraph said: “As battle raged in the Tripoli streets hundreds of casualties were brought in, rebel fighters, Gaddafi’s soldiers, and unlucky civilians, laying next to each other in bed and even on a floor awash with blood, screaming or moaning in agony. Many died before they could be treated.”

The paper interviewed Dr. Mahjoub Rishi, the hospital’s Professor of Surgery: “There were hundreds coming in within the first few hours. It was like a vision from hell. Missile injuries were the worst. The damage they do to the human body is shocking to see, even for someone like me who is used to dealing with injuries.” Most of the casualties, he said, were civilians caught in the crossfire.

The Telegraph reported that Tripoli’s two other major hospitals were similarly overflowing with casualties and desperately understaffed, as were all of the city’s private hospitals.

The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned that the city is facing a medical “catastrophe”.

The group told Reuters that “Medical supplies ran low during six months of civil war [i.e., NATO bombardment] but have almost completely dried up in the siege and battle of the past week. Fuel supplies have run out and the few remaining medical workers are struggling to get to work.” The lack of fuel means that hospitals that have kept their power by running generators can now no longer do so.

FREE LIBYA - 25.08.11 - Viva Muammar Gaddafi, Libya And Its People

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkqgvm_free-libya-25-08-11-viva-muammar-gaddafi-libya-and-its-people_news

Health officials in Tripoli report that blood supplies have run out at the hospitals and that food and drinking water is unavailable over whole areas of Tripoli.

Meanwhile the governments of Algeria, Venezuela and South Korea have all reported that their embassies in Tripoli have been attacked and looted by “rebel” gunmen. While the governments of Algeria and Venezuela had opposed the NATO invasion and supported Gaddafi, South Korea, a close US ally, had taken no such positions.

The universal euphoria of the US and much of the European media, which is “embedded” with NATO and its “rebels,” cannot conceal the brutal reality that a war waged under the pretense of human rights and protecting civilians has unleashed immense death, human suffering and destruction.

Far from a “revolution” or struggle for “liberation,” what the world is witnessing is the rape of Libya by a syndicate of imperialist powers determined to lay hold of its oil wealth and turn its territory into a neo-colonial base of operations for further interventions throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Global Research, August 26, 2011

Libya talks - the song Hey Arabs

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=147744065314291

ليبيا تتحدث - أغنية هييه عرب

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0VAD-VtR4

Muammar Gaddafi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlQOYz-jdE

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26216#.Tljjp-8TnXk.facebook

He will fulfill his promises, for example – to equip hospitals:

or, for example – to develope sports:

or, for example – to improve streets:

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BATUKE! 2011 - INTERNATIONAL AFRO-LATIN MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL IN THE UK

Welcome to 2011 edition of BATUKE!
INTERNATIONAL AFRO-LATIN MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL IN THE UK
London Friday 09, Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 September 2010
Kizomba UK is happy to invite you to a week-end long celebration of the Afro-Latin culture & its origins in the heart of the most cosmopolitan Capital City in Europe: London!
Last year was a complete sold-out and we're happy to come back in 2011 with more classes, more shows, more clubs and the same great atmosphere that everyone enjoyed last year!
See BATUKE! Media Gallery Now @ http://www.kizombauk.com/-batuke-gallery.html
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☼ BATUKE! IS...
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BATUKE! is a unique opportunity to explore the culture of the Luso-African diaspora (Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Sao Tome, Guinee Bissao) and its many influences (West Indies, Brazil, Europe, Portugal).
International & UK guests will be teaching, performing & partying in London during this one-of-a-kind event starting on Friday 09 September, culminating on Saturday 10th and finishing late on Sunday 11th September.
BATUKE! is...
1 Unique Event right in Central London
2 FULL Days Workshops & Entertainment
3 Party Nights in some of London’s top venues
For the comfort of our guests and to ensure the best possible experience, this event has a limited capacity: BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
Full program, line-up and online booking as well as regular updates are already available on http://www.KizombaUK.com/!
See you in September or before that on a dance floor near you!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Kizomba UK Team
Web: http://www.KizombaUK.com/
Email: Kizomba.UK@googlemail.com
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☼ WORKSHOPS
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In 2011, the exploration of the Afro-Latin world continues, going deeper into the origins & reaching wider influences. Come & learn new styles, from the most popular Kizomba & Zouk to the faster Semba and other traditional dance forms which influence the way you dance today!
With over 45 intensive workshops & classes in many different styles of modern and traditional Afro-Latin & Caribbean dances, BATUKE! is so much more than a Kizomba festival! The program of classes in 2011 includes:
Kizomba
Semba
Zouk
Kuduro
Marrabenta
Makuela
Rebita
Afro-Mix
Coladera
Taraxinha ; )
Afro Fusion
Cumina
Gumbe
Afrocuban Orisha
Rumba Cubana
... and more TBC
Whatever your level is, you'll be able to learn something new, that’s a promise!
Absolute Kizomba beginners will be catered for with intensive first-starters classes and can attend all Open level classes.
Improvers / Intermediates will appreciate more specialized workshops while adv. students get a chance at masterclasses
Everyone will be on a par when it comes to certain rarely-taught dance forms such as Gumbe (Guinea-Bissao) or Cumina (Jamaica)
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http://www.kizombauk.com/-batuke-workshops.html
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☼ ARTISTS
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Some of them, you already know, others you will discover once you’re here! In any case, Kizomba UK has gathered an original line up of most respected teachers and performers from here or there! Our guests will not only be teaching, but also performing!
FULL LINE UP NOW ON THE WEBSITE:
http://www.kizombauk.com/-batuke-artists.html
Saturday evening shows will be arranged into one unique & uninterrupted performance. Sit down for BATUKE! exclusive 2011 production "Musseke", Concept & Direction by Iris De Brito.
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http://www.kizombauk.com/-batuke-artists.html
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☼ PROGRAM OVERVIEW
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Dance your socks off! That's the bottom line: eat and rest just enough to have the energy to go to the next workshop, listen to the next debate, watch the next show or attend yet another party...
All Workshops & classes will be held:
@ The Urdang Academy
The Old Finsbury Hall
Rosebery Avenue
London EC1R 4RP
The building is situated right next door to accommodation
we recommend, it's only 1 minute walk!
FRIDAY 09 SEPT.
Welcome Party @ Vox Bar (VAUXHALL)
9pm / 3am
UK-based artists will show our international crowd how it's done!
Classes, Shows, Animations & Party until 3am!
Dress-Code: London Glamour!
SATURDAY 10 SEPT.
Masked Ball @ Conway Hall (HOLBORN)
8pm / 3am
Exclusive 2011 sit-down production Musseke with all artists
Followed by grandiose ball in this English Heritage building
Dress-Code: Bring a Mask!
SUNDAY 11 SEPT.
Beach Party @ Zoo Bar & Club (LEICESTER SQUARE)
7pm / 2am
Jack & Gil competition with all artists + shows
Party one last time with our international guests
Dress-Code: Beach Wear
With more than 300 different languages spoken, London can lay claim to being the most diverse city ever: almost 30% of the city's residents were born outside England with many tens of thousands more who are 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants.
Host to the largest Afro-Portuguese community outside Portugal, London is an interesting place from which to explore the immensely rich culture of African countries of Portuguese expression (PALOP) as well as its many influences all present here.
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☼ ACCOMMODATION
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See a selection of links and a few recommendations as to where to stay while you here. Watch out for BATUKE! situation map with all the key venues of the week-end pin-pointed there!
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☼ PRICING
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Life is too short and sometimes complicated, so we’ve made this one simple for you with 2 prices only.
Book now to secure your place while you can!
From £80!
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☼ MERCHANDISE
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BATUKE! 2010 DVD COLLECTOR AVAILABLE NOW!
Get for free when you buy a BATUKE! 2011 GOLD PASS
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☼ PARTNERS
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BATUKE! is supported by various partners throughout Europe including the Angolan Embassy & Mozambique.
If you too would like associate your organization to BATUKE! in any way, please email us @ Kizomba.UK@Googlemail.com!
Current partners include:
Studio Afro-Latino
The Urdang Academy
AfroLatinoPromotions
Mozambique Embassy
Official Media Partner: REVISTA PONTE
Visit: http://www.revistaponte.com/
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lunedì 22 agosto 2011

Fake Social Media Messages Led To War Against Libya on 22 Aug. 2011, by Marinella Correggia

The mother of all lies was sent to the world through a twitter message by Al Arabiya, February 23th. A message which makes Qadafi out to be a Hitler, and even more outrageous and cruel: "the repression in Libya has already claimed 10,000 dead and 50,000 injured."

It may be a ballon d'essai to check if the world was able to swallow it; it did: Even the progressive people in Europe said:

"We must stop the genocide."

"Bengazi is like Guernica."

But who is the source of this news? It was the terrorist rebels indeed (who kept repeating it): Al Arabyia says it received the news from "Sayed al Shanuka, Libyan member of the International Criminal Court, who was interviewed from Paris"

February 24th, just one day after the "genocide news," the International Criminal Court dismisses that man: "A clarification on media information regarding the ICC position on the Libyan situation is necessary. Various media sources have published information regarding the situation in Libya attributed to Mr Sayed Al Shanuka (or El-Hadi Shallouf), presented as a "member of the International Criminal Court" (ICC).

The ICC wishes to clarify that this person is neither a staff member nor counsel currently practicing before it, and by no means can he speak on behalf of the Court. Any declaration he made is given solely in his personal capacity.

The only official position to date is the ICC Prosecutor's statement, published on 23 February 2011. The decision to seek justice in Libya should be taken by the Libyan people. Currently, the Libyan State is not a Party to the Rome Statute. Therefore, intervention by the ICC on the alleged crimes committed in Libya can occur only if the Libyan authorities accept the jurisdiction of the Court, (through article 12(3) of the Rome Statute).

In the absence of such a step, the United Nations Security Council can decide to refer the situation to the Court. The Office of the Prosecutor will act only after either decision is taken."

But nobody seems to notice this official statement.

A few days later, March 3rd, it is Ali Zeidan's turn, a self-appinted spokesperson from the Libyan League for Human Rights which always, only from Paris, presents more terrifying data: 6,000 victims (3,000 in Tripoli, 2,000 in Benghazi, 1,000 elsewhere). But Zeidan's denunciation is not published in the LLHT website, and by the way Zeidan is not the president nor the director: another fake source. Zeidan is indeed a spokesperson of Benghazi terrorists. And he is the same Zeidan who, on March 23rd, stated: "In future oil agreements, we will remember those who helpd us" (by bombing more!).

It is indeed this data, 10,000 or 6,000 victims in a few days of protests, plus those allegedly "injured by Qadafi," which is taken as gold by the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

(But when in June the chief Prosecutor Ocampo issues a warrant for the three, the figure is no longer 6,000 but 208).

No matter, it is the huge figure which is used as the basis for the UN resolutions and for the war. The assumption is that if, in few days, "Qadafi killed so many people, what will happen if Libyan tanks enter Benghazi?" Indeed Dennis Ross, the White House political advisor, then stated: "Up to 100,000 people could be killed and everybody will blame us if we don't intervene."

This is what the UN resolutions and the war are based on... a tweet from a fake source.

(By the way, even in former wars in the past 20 years, there were fake smoking guns: incubators switched off in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers; weapons of mass destruction, mass graves and girls crying in front of a camera that they escaped death or rape).

About Marinella Correggia - Ecopeace activist since 1991, author, committed now against the awful NATO war against Libya

domenica 21 agosto 2011

Alberghi di Roma: Kaire Hotel, grande qualita a buon prezzo (cucina e location 10/10)

Per conoscere una città, la sua gente, i suoi segreti, i suoi piatti ti devi affidare a gente brava, ti devi affidare a delle persone che conosco lo Spirito di quel posto. Noi di "Roma da Vivere" conosciamo la capitale, conosciamo la città eterna, conosciamo ROMA.

Se vieni a Roma, cerca il Kaire Hotel de Roma. Per maggiori informazioni: www.kairehotel.com - 0630609476.

ROMA DA VIVERE - Movida e Cultura nella città eterna (www.roma-da-vivere.blogspot.com)
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Estate 2011: Il meglio del Tango sul LUNGO TEVERE

Roma da Vivere e' sul Posto...
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Gostoso veneno - Una band brasiliana sul Lungo Tevere

L'estate romana al ritmo della musica brasialiana.
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