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Jul 14, 2011

gassing up the narrative hot air balloon


wn.com
swearing in Ambassador Roger Noriega
who testified this month before the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism

"Noriega was the chief architect of the coup d'etat against Haiti's internationally recognized democratically elected President [Aristide] and all 7,000 elected officials of Haiti. In another display of his lack of professionalism, and again displaying behavior generally begging for anger management training, Roger Noriega threw a temper tantrum going as far as saying he thinks he has worked for the US government long enough! The New York Times today attributed Noriega's abrupt decision to the administration's appointment of Caleb McCarry, a Republican Congressional staffer, to the role of transition coordinator on Cuba, which took "primary responsibility for Cuba...away from him." Noriega, an arch conservative of Mexican descent, worked as a staffer for the Aristide-hating Senator Jessie Helms, who was bent on destroying Aristide, and the Clinton administration, from the very start. Going against all of the principles of democracy, Noriega's administration, under his direct orders, caused rifts throughout the Caribbean and Latin America that have reverberated throughout the world." July 30, 2005
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What do we know about Paraguay and the Tri-Border Area (TBA)? A review for those who have not been following along:

We know that human trafficking represents the fastest growing organized criminal industry, and a huge flow of trafficked human beings comes into the United States through Texas, among other places.

Following the trail to South America brings one to the Tri-Border Area, now also known as the Bangkok of Latin America, since after the tsunami many hardened sex tourists diverted to the TBA.


And we know that lots of AGENTS are in the TBA.

But immigration officer Emilio Osses, who oversees one of the Argentine checkpoints in the area, said that contrary to popular belief, this is not the worst trafficking hotspot on Argentina's border.He says that this tri-border area is heavily controlled — saturated with officers from at least eight local, federal and international agencies, including lots of CIA agents.
SEE: THE BANGKOK OF LATIN AMERICA

We noted at that time the EXTENSIVE NARRATIVE in place about the TBA being tied to Hezbollah since around 2002, and the continued raising of the early 1990s bomb attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina, also courtesy of Hezbollah. If you pay attention, you will notice these bombings get brought up over and over and over again by authorities and experts who want you to believe in the narrative.

See: where is the house of cake?
See: violence around the world

After doing many posts about Paraguay and the TBA, we learned that this entire narrative is what is technically known as a Crock Of Shit.

We found all sorts of curious things about Paraguay.


Powerful people at think tanks have been yakking about the TBA since 2002.

After September 11th, the U.S.-led “war on terror” moved swiftly into Afghanistan. Once the heavy combat had diminished, speculation turned to what the next target would be. The Philippines, the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Yemen, Somalia, and Indonesia were all discussed as possibilities. Except for a few disparate stories, the tri-border region of South America received little attention as a locus of terrorist activity despite a recent history of Islamist terrorist activity. But this region, which already has a history of mass casualty Islamic terrorism, is also an area of concern.(http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_16a.html) LINK DEFUNCT

...Board of directors for that think tank include Ted Turner, Sam Nunn, Pete Dominici, Richard Lugar, etc. See think tanks: where experts go to reverse engineer plans for world domination.
The "history of mass casualty Islamic terrorism" of course refers to the Argentinian bombings in 1992 and 1994, which come up over and over and over again to JUSTIFY the narrative. However, forensic evidence showed that the bombs were INSIDE the Jewish controlled buildings, and that's why these attacks have never been solved.

SEE: WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE, in particular THIS LINK. 

To be crystal clear, the "history of mass casualty Islamic terrorism" linked to Hezbollah in South America, in particular the TBA, is a false narrative. The narrative also presents the TBA as an organized crime paradise. That is a half truth. The TBA IS an organized crime paradise BECAUSE it is crawling with international spooks. The spooks are on the payroll of organized crime, running the trafficking rings. That's why the trafficking problems never get solved. Furthermore, all the top organized crime bosses have Israeli passports, a FACT well known to the authorities for many years.

Organized crime is ORGANIZED. That's the point.
How does organ trafficking work if not for corrupt people in hospitals?
How does human trafficking happen if not for corrupt people in customs?
How does drug trafficking happen if not for corrupt people in law enforcement?
How does money laundering happen if not for corrupt people in banking?
How does weapons trafficking happen if not for corrupt people in the military?
How does disease kill so many if not for corrupt people in the sciences?

ALSO SEE: DEATH BY HOT POTATO

Organized crime is run by the "Russian Mafia." The "Russian Mafia" is run by Jews with Israeli passports. Israel will never extradite these criminals.

We also learned about Fernando Lugo, pedophile president of Paraguay with many connections to the CIA.

We also learned about the Chaco, in Northern Paraguay, and all the mysterious things going on there.

Pardon the recap, but if you want to understand why all the following "news" is a pack of lies, please read the above links.

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original image from news.cnet.com



Roger Noriega, pictured at top, testified last week before the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism. He currently has a job with the AEI, a famous neocon think tank that was instrumental in helping the US commit the Iraq war war by peddling lies. He told the committee that Hezbollah is working with the drug cartels along the US / Mexico border, and and trying to radicalize Islamic populations in several Mexican cities, and represents a threat to the homeland, and:

...If our government and responsible partners in Latin America fail to act, I believe there will be an attack on U.S. personnel, installations or interests in the Americas as soon as Hezbollah operatives believe that they are capable of such an operation without implicating their Iranian sponsors in the crime.
He mentions a "key operative" as Ghazi Atef Salameh Nassereddine Abu Ali, born in Lebanon and now Venezuela's #2 diplomat to Syria.

And supposedly this guy Nassereddine has a couple of brothers, and they were blacklisted by the US Treasury in 2008 for fundraising and logistical support of Hezbollah. From his written statement:http://www.aei.org/docLib/20110707-Noriega-Testimony.pdf

Using his diplomatic status, Nassereddine has built and consolidated relationships with Hezbollah officials in the Middle East, first in Lebanon and now in Syria. Meanwhile, his brother Abdallah Nassereddine, maintains relationships in the broader Islamic community via a multi-national organization known as the Federation of Arab and American Associations. (FEARAB has affiliates throughout South America and the Caribbean with most regional meetings held in Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires.) All the while, their younger brother, Oday Nassereddine, has established a powerbase in Venezuela by setting up training operations on Margarita Island, and is now recruiting adherents via the Circulos Bolivarianos in Barquisimeto, 170 miles southwest of Caracas. (The Circulos Bolivarianos are ubiquitous neighborhood monitoring committees made up of the most radical followers of Hugo Chávez.)
FEARAB???? FEAR ARAB???? Get it? Of course what self-respecting terrorist Arab enemy of Israel scum WOULDN'T pick an acronym that spells FEAR ARAB? We mean that is just so believable, isn't it? It sounds like something straight out of Rita Katz's Site Intelligence made-for-teevee Osama tape headquarters.

Weirdly, some other brothers blacklisted in May 2009 for the very same activities by the US Treasury were named Ali, Kassam, and Husain (Hassan) Tajideen (Tajidden) [it's important to not have ANY CONSISTENCY WHATSOEVER when spelling Arabic names in English because it allows for the maximum confusion]; and Husain was allegedly killed in that mysterious Ethiopian plane crash off the coast of Lebanon (scoll down to Jan 25 for the beginning of the plane crash coverage). Somehow they had all this trouble finding the black boxes and everything, but Tajideen's body was miraculously recovered right away and buried in record time.

"Father (C) and relatives of Hassan Tajeddin, a victim of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane, mourn during his son's funeral at Hanawei village, southern Lebanon, January 26, 2010." Reuters


"Lebanese Nejmeh Tajeddine, center, mourns over the coffin of her husband, prominent businessman Hassan Tajeddine _ a very rich and influential Shiite family in southern Lebanon and a strong Hezbollah supporter _ who was one of few people so far identified from Monday's Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crash, during his funeral in the southern village of Hanaway near the port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010." AP photo

We don't know what other people see here but we know what we see. Just for comparison, this is one of the more haunting images of grief we've come across, aside from the funeral of the little girl in When The Levees Broke (the 2006 documentary).

http://peterthomson.tv/boxing-day-tsunami-2004-wave&page=6


And now we have a new set of brothers, the Nassereddines, who have a very similar profile to the Tajideen brothers.


See: passenger of interest
"Kassim Tajideen is an important financial contributor to Hizballah who operates a network of businesses in Lebanon and Africa. He has contributed tens of millions of dollars to Hizballah and has sent funds to Hizballah through his brother, a Hizballah commander in LebanonIn addition, Kassim Tajideen and his brothers run cover companies for Hizballah in Africa."
Meanwhile Hugo Chavez has cancer, which Mr. Noriega finds a good thing, but most likely that South American terror network has already "metastasized," and something might happen in Brazil. In any case before that happens we suggest Chavez should ask Lugo who treated him in Brazil, since Lugo enjoyed a complete recovery.

See: fakers?



Fernando Lugo in May and October 2010. tiwy.com
Proving that he is a sick president?
Maybe he can thank the doctors in Brazil, since he routinely left Paraguay for treatments.




So, our point here is that this narrative is being puffed up again with more hot air. There's a lot going on and this is but one of the threads. We do expect that another false flag directly affecting Americans will be REQUIRED to catapult the propaganda. A narrative has been set up over many years that will allow instantaneous linkages through Mexico and South America, then to West Africa, and then to Lebanon and Syria, and then to Iran; the ultimate goal being, of course, "whatever war Israel wants." These experts are ready to go with all their fabricated history -- they can hop on teevee at a moment's notice and set the narrative up for ALL THE GULLIBLE AND LAZY AMERICANS WHO CALL THEMSELVES PATRIOTS BUT NEVER LIFT A FUCKING FINGER TO LOOK ANYTHING UP INDEPENDENTLY OR HAVE AN INDEPENDENT THOUGHT OR CRITICAL THINKING SESSION. It works the same way every time. These recent hearings about Hezbollah and the TBA threatening American national security fit into that narrative, which, as pointed out exhaustively in the above links, is a Crock Of Shit, just like the pre-Iraq War narratives turned out to be a Crock Of Shit.

See this video found by HHQ, around minute 55 for the run up to the war against Iraq.




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This is what passes for democracy in Greece... and America

                   Notes from the Field
From Sovereignman, July 14, 2011
By Simon Black
Reporting From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Last night I had quite an unexpected surprise.

You see, at my hotel here in Thessaloniki, there's a delegation from some group of the European Parliament called the Committee on Regional Development. They're here to help... Hey, isn't that what they always say? The Committee wants to supervise Greece working its way out of the debt crisis and make sure that Greece's poor are getting the support they need.

The hotel's restaurant was filled with these sycophantic parasites last night-- an entire room full of people with a superiority complex who think that they are entitled to make decisions about other people's lives and money.

They sat at dinner drinking fine wine and polishing up steak tartare making proud, bombastic proclamations about the virtues of foreign aid, the democratic process, and the great progress of Greece's austerity measures.

Coincidentally, not 300 meters down the road, a campsite has been gathering for economic refugees, Thessaloniki's former middle class that has been vanquished by the crisis. Some of the children swung by the restaurant's outdoor terrace begging for change, only to be waved off by one of the delegate's extended pinkie fingers as he sipped his wine.

It couldn't have been more ironic... the perfect image of what passes for democracy today, right here in the country that invented it.

Today's democracy is nothing more that pseudo-authoritarian rule by an elite few, executed by legions of self-deluding freeloaders who have convinced themselves that their current bureaucratic roles are both necessary and honorable... as well as a stepping stone into the next job which will be even more necessary and honorable.

With each successive position up the bureaucratic ladder comes more power, more privilege... until they actually expect to be called "The Honorable..." so and so, or "His Excellency" so and so, etc. 

My dictionary suggests a few definitions for 'honor'. One of them refers to a person's chastity... and I doubt it applies in this case given the political establishment's Twitter record. The other definition says, "conferred as a distinction, especially an official award for bravery or achievement."

In the United States, they must be confusing the term 'achievement' with 'destroying the economy and culture of the formerly most powerful nation on earth.'  President Obama is apparently so honorable that he can't even be bothered to hold negotiations anymore about debt compromise, arguing that Ronald Reagan wouldn't be doing that...

He seems more concerned about his esteem and rank being respected than facing the grim facts of economic reality.

Simultaneous on Capitol Hill, Comrade Bernanke sent the dollar plummeting once again. Just to put things in perspective, the entire eurozone is on the precipice of a meltdown, and the euro had been falling for days. The second this man opened his mouth, the dollar plunged... indicating that investors would rather take a chance on European insolvency than Bernanke.

It was truly pathetic... and yet another example of what passes for democracy today: One man who has never been elected is essentially given control of the money supply to do with it as he deems best in his sole discretion.

All in all, as usual, it's going to come down to the taxpayers. The bureaucrats will go on enjoying their steak tartare and ignoring the huddled masses. The politicians will go on posturing over title. The central bankers will keep making interest free loans to their friends and destroying their currencies.  We get stuck with the fallout.

In the end, the governments will make it a matter of national security and patriotism, ensuring that we 'do our duty to the nation' by coughing up more of our livelihood. I stumbled across this WW2 propaganda video a few days ago in which Daffy Duck tells us all that it's our patriotic duty to give as much as possible to the government.

Should we expect a new video soon suggesting that it's our patriotic duty to buy Treasury bonds...? In what passes for democracy today, you can bet on it.



Until tomorrow,

Simon Black
Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com                   

The Webbot Interview: Silver, Gold & The End Of The World As We Know It

From Road to Roota,
By Bix Weir

In June I sat down with the good folks over at Time Monk Radio Network to have a long chat about Silver, Gold and the coming global changes. The timing of this interview couldn't be better as we head into "The Summer From Hell"! TMRN is a web based radio program that is dedicated to discussing all the interesting things related to Clif High's Webbot Project. You can find out more about this group at www.webbotforum.com as well as Clif's websitewww.halfpasthuman.com.
I have linked the relevant articles below each segment to provide a full understanding of each topic that is discussed. I have linked both Public Road (free) and Private Road (paid) articles.
Here's the interview:

PART 1
The Road to Roota Theory
Transition 2011 & The Tree of Liberty

PART 2
When The Music Stops...Who's Got The Silver?
The Great Silver Mystery...Revealed!

PART 3
$1,000 Silver Is Conservative!
$7,000 and ONE BANK
Private Road article:
JP Morgan: Operation Silver Slam

PART 4
Melt The Witch
Who's The Little Man Behind The Curtain?
Private Road Article:
SPECIAL REPORT: Where's the Price of Silver Going and Why?

PART 5
Collateral Damage: U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11 2001
Golden Secrets

PART 6
Outstanding Silver Issues at the CFTC
Greenspan's Golden Secrets

PART 7
The Road to the Perth Mint
Private Road Article:
SPECIAL REPORT: Confirmation From "The Insider"(with expected Time Frames)

PART 8
Golden Road Trips
A Final Checklist for Everyone

PART 9
The Hidden Meanings in the New $100 Bill
Private Road Article: SPECIAL REPORT: On The Brink

To gain access to all the Private Road articles click here:

Who is Rupert Murdoch? A Word Or Two on What Isn’t Being Said


By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor, Veterans Today

Today the British papers not owned by Rupert Murdoch “rumored” that he might be jailed.  Americans, even Brits, have little or no idea  what is at risk here.  There is simply no one who can report it when the individual who, not only controls the world’s largest news organization turns out to be, well, what?


Who is Rupert Murdoch?
What he is not is an Australian “right wing” billionaire.  Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish.  Why is this important?
Murdoch is now admitted to have controlled the political systems in Britain and America for two decades.  He has had the power to choose national leaders, make policy, pass laws at will.  Where did the power come from?
We now know it came from spying, blackmail, bribery and propaganda.
What is his agenda?  Ah, there’s the rub.
Was it about selling newspapers using scandals or spying in the name of Israel to push Britain and the United States into wars for Israel?  There is a simple answer.
Murdoch’s primary motivation isn’t even that he is “for Israel.”  Murdoch is, perhaps, the most influential Israeli, more powerful than Netanyahu.  The problem with that is that his beliefs are what we call “ultra-nationalist.”
This makes him a threat.  Ultra-nationalists are known to support wars, plan terrorist acts, manipulate populations into strife and racism, foster fear and panic, even financial ruin.
What are we describing here?
If you aren’t totally brain dead, you realize I am describing Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Murdoch owns Fox News and so much else you may not have a time to look at the list.  If he doesn’t own it he doesn’t want it.
Fox is a network and Murdoch, owning so many newspapers across America and being a foreigner shouldn’t be able to control such a thing.  How did he do it?
Reagan “appointed” Murdoch an American citizen.  Murdoch promised to have Fox News support Republicans and say whatever was needed, no matter how false, how stupid or, as we  have seen now for decades, how genuinely evil.
What he really did, however, was use Fox as a base to allow Israel to run spy operations.
These went two ways:
1.  Israel got lots of military technology and secrets they could sell to America’s enemies for money.  This is good “Murdoch” business sense, as we all see now.
2.  Murdoch helped Israel gain control of congress.  They literally run the United States.  The tools?  As in Britain, bribery and blackmail, police, military and congress.
No surprises for anyone.
Murdoch has, in fact, engineered the last 20 plus years of American history, picking politicians, throwing elections, establishing policies.  Were the decisions his own?
I don’t think so.  I think Murdoch represents a group, mostly financial, making up the Rothschild family, the Federal Reserve Banks and organized crime.
There is an Israeli or Jewish aspect to some of this but not in the sense of being “pro” or “anti” Semitic.  The Murdoch empire, married to the “lily white” “no Jews allowed” Republican Party simply put their own very powerful spin on the good old “New World Order,” pushing it into drug running, arms and human trafficking, manipulated international currencies and debt on a massive scale, ran America and the European Union into economic collapse, worked with oil companies to set up price fixing schemes…
This is what Murdoch and his friends have done, all the while pointing their fingers at Osama bin Laden and the evil “liberals.”
They divided Britain, starting at first as “conservatives” and then changed to “liberals.”  What they did in Britain is undermine legal government, destroy the nation and the public’s trust in the government, Blair, Cameron, it doesn’t matter, Murdoch chose both and ran and runs both like hand puppets as he did with Bush and his friends.
The ideas are simple.  Bilk the countries out of every last cent, use a portion to bribe or blackmail politicians, buy police and get even more money.
Then you lie to the people, give them enemies to hate, arrange wars for them to fight and stand back and watch them destroy themselves.
Are there people really this evil?
Yes there are, Murdoch, the gang at his companies, the gang at Fox News, the folks in the US called “neocons,” the Israeli lobby in the US, the ADL, AIPAC and the Likudist faction in Israel run by Netanyahu.
These folks hate the United States.
A similar group hate Britain.  Australia has their own, he runs that place entirely, right into the ground.  He also runs Germany, Canada, he runs much of what was once the “free world.”
Am I describing Satan?
Pretty much.
His strongest advocates, those who have stood with his thieves and liars against all that is decent, all that is good, all that is right is the Evangelical and “Zionist” communities in the United States.  They were and are the “fertile ground” for his message of hate and deceit.
Who does Murdoch claim to hate?
Muslims for sure, they are all bad.  Everything he touches in his hundreds of publications and TV shows or the phony news his gang of cutthroats create, hate of Muslims is always on top.  This pleases his Israeli friends.  If things keep going as they are, he may need to hide out there and Israel will always protect him, maybe plow down a few Palestinian homes to give him a grand estate.  After all, Muslims are an easy target, living in petty dictatorships run by thieves who we have now learned have always run to Washington and Tel Aviv for orders.
Take out a second.  Think the word “Palestinian.”  Do you also think “terrorist?”  Do you see a child being killed by an Israeli helicopter or innocent people killed by a TV villain, almost invariably played by Jewish actors, perhaps a sick “inside joke” of Murdoch’s.
Even the “revolutionary types” did the same.  The Islamic people of the world have been played, exploited and crushed since 1919.  History will show it carefully planned and financed by a certain European banking family, one that 6 years earlier had established an illegal banking system in the US.
Learn about the real Balfour Declaration and how it was gotten through blackmail, learn who wrote it and to whom it was sent.
The story reads exactly like the things that are coming out in Britain day after day.
Murdoch tells his followers to hate “smart people.”  There has to be fear of the educated, the “elites.”  You can’t have rampant racism and blind ignorance until you destroy public trust in the natural leaders, until you destroy real culture and replace it with mechanized music, scandal mongering, dirty sex and endless conspiracies.
Murdoch is the real king of conspiracy theories.
Look at the endless list of wild accusations that came from Fox alone.  Then look at the others, the accusations, the wild and insane things that were written into history but likely planned by Murdoch.
9/11 probably had Murdoch’s hand in it as did the London bombings on 7/7.
There could be no great conspiracy without control of the news.
Now we find the news itself controlled the governments and may well have written the scripts to the wars, the rigged elections, the acts of terror and the misdirection that sent America into a decade of cruel and useless bloodletting after terror groups that never existed in the first place.
Now, today, as our British cousins are reeling in the revelations that their government for decades has not been their own, a diseased hybrid of crazy old man, Israeli spies and the paid stooges that the people thought were serving them….
And it goes on in America, full blast, Murdoch and his creatures, planning the future of America.
One of his creatures is Boehner.
Another is Palin.
Then there is Gingrich.
There was the entire Bush administration.
But, to get to the dark heart of evil, first you look at Fox News.
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran.  A 100% disabled vet.  He has been a featured commentator on TV and radio including Al Jazeera and his articles have been carried by news services around the world. He has been a UN Diplomat, defense contractor and is a widely published expert on military and defense issues.  Duff is Senior Editor at one of  the most widely read Veterans Online publications Veterans Today
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Israel, 9/11 and Jonathan Kay

Kay is the Comments Pages Editor of one of Canada’s most influential national broadsheet newspapers The National Post and is a fellow at the neoconservative think-tank the ‘Foundation For the Defense of Democracies’ which has been characterized by journalist Jeffrey Blankfort as “[o]ne of the most influential and powerful of the Zionist lobbies which changed its name and sprung into action immediately after 9/11.

Western imperialism just lost another war

Breaking, from the Voice of Mossad (which is often well-informed):
The Libyan War ends. Obama makes Moscow peace broker. NATO halts strikes 
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 14, 2011

Bar the shouting, the war in Libya virtually ended Thursday morning, July 14, when US President Barack Obama called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hand Moscow the lead role in negotiations with Muammar Qaddafi for ending the conflict - provided only that the Libyan ruler steps down in favor of a transitional administration.
The US president thus accepted the Russian-Libyan formula for ending the war over the heads of the NATO chiefs who rejected it when they met Russian leaders at the Black Sea resort of Sochi last week.
DEBKAfile's sources note that this same proposal first came from the Libyan ruler himself four months ago: On April 4, just ten days after NATO launched its air operation on behalf of the Libyan rebels, Qaddafi sent emissaries to Athens to propose Greek Prime Minister Georges Papandreou as mediator. The heads of NATO, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, turned him down, certain at the time they were within easy reach of a quick victory to topple him.
By the time Obama had decided to call Medvedev, individual governments which had spearheaded the anti-Qaddafi campaign were quietly melting away.
From Saturday, July 9, DEBKAfile's military sources report, NATO discontinued its air strikes against Libyan pro-government targets in Tripoli and other places.  The halt though unannounced was nonetheless an admission that 15,000 flight missions and 6,000 bombardments of Qaddafi targets had failed to achieve their object: Col. Qaddafi, without deploying a single fighter jet, firing an anti-air missile or activating terrorist cells in Europe, had waited for NATO to run out of steam and was still in power.
In an overview of the war to British air force commanders Wednesday, July 13, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox remarked that while no one knows when it will end, British ground corps, naval and air forces do not have the means to continue the war.
He admitted candidly that sustaining the high tempo of air strikes by RAF Tornado and Typhoons, as well as Navy warships and Army Apache attack helicopters, did "increase the pressure on both personnel and equipment as planning assumptions are tested, and it tests the ability of defense companies to support front-line operations."
In early June, DEBKAfile's military sources reported that NATO was short of warplanes for enforcing the no- fly zone over Libyan air space approved by the UN Security Council, its arsenals of smart bombs and missiles were depleted and its stocks of munitions and replacement parts almost down to zero.
This has now been confirmed by the British defense secretary, who added that British and European military industries lack the capacity for supporting a war effort that goes beyond a few weeks.
Our military sources disclose that Italy, a key player in NATO's military effort, last week secretly withdrew its Air Force Garibaldi-551 planes from the campaign – dealing the operation another grave setback.
And in the last 10 days, France has also scaled back the military assets it had invested in the fighting after despairing of the anti-Qaddafi rebels based in Benghazi ever making headway against Qaddafi's forces. First, Paris tried to transfer its backing from Benghazi to the secessionist Berber tribes fighting Qaddafi in Western Libya. On June 30, President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered weapons to be parachuted to the tribal fighters in western Libya, contrary to UN and NATO decisions. But the Berbers preferred to use the French guns for plundering towns and villages instead of fighting government forces.
On Monday, July 11, after that experience, Defense Secretary Gerard Longuet said it was time for talks to begin between Qaddafi and the rebels. Paris, he said, had asked the two sides to begin negotiations.
This was backhanded confirmation of the claim Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam made to the French media that his father was engaged in contacts for ending the war through emissaries who met with President Sarkozy.
While Minister Longuet said the Libyan ruler cannot stay in power, he refrained from demanding his ouster by force or his expulsion from the country. This formula therefore came close to Qaddafi's terms for ending the war.
DEBKAfile's diplomatic sources hail the agreement Presidents Obama and Medvedev reached on terms for negotiating the war's end with Muammar Qaddafi as a major victory for the Libyan ruler and a resounding fiasco for NATO.
It also knocks over the international war crimes tribunal's demand to extradite Qaddafi and his sons as war criminals.
Instead of sitting in the dock of the world court, they will now take their seats at the negotiating table for a deal one of whose objects will be to rescue NATO from the humiliation of defeat at war. But its main purpose will be to agree on the shape of a regime for the transition to democracy and its makeup. Qaddafi, while consenting to step down, will not doubt insist on his sons and loyalists being co-opted with full privileges to the future administration in Tripoli. The rebels will take up the offer for lack of any other options.
Libyan diplomacy is liable to be protracted and exhausting with many ups and downs and perhaps even limited military engagements on the ground.

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Related:

NATO will be Defeated in Libya




LIBYA CAMPAIGN WAS STAGED TO RESHAPE AFRICA



NATO and Rebel War Crimes in Libya


Silver is Now Rarer than Gold


From wealthwire.com  JULY 13, 2011
Most investors assume that because silver is almost 50 times cheaper than gold, it's more abundant.july 2011 silver coins
They're wrong.
The amount of available silver is far rarer than the amount of available gold.
This fact is often overlooked by even the most seasoned silver investors. And it's this lack of silver stockpiles that has become one of the most critical factors in what could jolt prices, lifting silver into an entirely different asset class all together.
So forget $100 silver — $100 is now considered a timid prediction. Some experts are now calling for silver prices to be on par with gold!
Let me quickly explain how we got here. Global silver mining has increased significantly over the past two decades.
Silver output has more than doubled since the early 1990s in places like Mexico, Australia, and Peru. Other countries have seen even more dramatic production spikes. In China, a relatively new major supplier of the metal, silver mining has scaled up from less than 10 million ounces in 1991 to more than 100 million ounces today.
Overall, the world's total silver mining production has increased from 400 million ounces in the early 1990s to about 700 million ounces today.
july 2011 silver producing regionsjuly 2011 total world silver mine production
 click to enlarge                                          source: CPM Group
But despite a sharp increase to supplies, the global demand for silver is far outpacing global production.
In fact global silver production has be unable to meet global demand for more than fifteen years. The world's silver mines are simply not producing enough silver to meet demand.
In 2010, global silver demand exceed 1.05 billion ounces; but as you saw in the chart above, global mining has only provided about 700 million ounces.
So how has the market been filling this deficit?
Over the last two generations, major government stockpiles of silver have been sold off to supply the industry. The United States government alone has dumped nearly 5 billion ounces of silver into the market since WWII.
Of course, any government's well of silver reserves are finite. And over the past few years, government supplies of silver have been drying up. Data from the Silver Institute shows net government sales of silver falling drastically in the past decade.
2001200220032004200520062007200820092010
Net Government Sales
(million ounces)
63.059.288.761.965.978.542.528.915.544.8
This is one of the major reasons it is critical to act now.
Without government stockpiles to feed it, the market only has few other places to buy its silver. Scrap metal is one option for the market, and will continue to help supply rising demand in the near term. But this well will also quickly run dry — and that will create a real problem for consumers who need silver...
Silver is Actually Rarer than Gold
Silver is 17.5 times more abundant in the Earth's crust than gold. But the amount of above-ground gold far exceeds the amount of silver.
In 1950, there were 10 billion ounces of available silver above ground. By 1980, that number shrank to 3.5 billion. And today, no significant government stockpiles of silver exist anywhere in the world. The USGS actually lists the U.S. government's current stockpile of silver simply as:“None.”
july 2011 usgs silver report
The exact opposite is true of gold. In 1950, there were an estimated 1 billion ounces of above-ground gold. Today, there are nearly 5.8 billion ounces across the globe.
The world currently produces about 700 million ounces of silver per year.
So where does it all go?
Believe it or not, most of it winds up as garbage. We literally throw billions of dollars' worth of silver in trash bins every year.
Silver is required in the production of products like CDs, cell phone batteries, calculators, printed circuit boards, hearing aids, electronic switches, TV screens, catalytic converters, inks, computer monitors, RFID chips, and thousands more. Once any of these items have served their purpose, they generally get tossed. And it's simply more expensive to recycle the silver from these products than it is to dig more out of the ground.
july 2011 silver scrap
Tiny bits of silver in electronics are thrown away every day.
I expect that the world's trash dumps will be a precious source of resources like silver in the future.
You see, gold is produced, but it's not consumed. Even though gold is a highly desired item, it's not an industrial commodity.
In other words, gold is desired, but silver is needed.
All of the gold that has ever been mined is basically still around. Studies suggest that 98% of all gold mined throughout history is still available in either coins, bars, artifacts, and jewelry. But silver is different.
From 1990 to 2000 alone, over two billion ounces of silver disappeared from the market to consumption.
Despite the lack of global stockpiles, new technology will continue to discover more industrial applications for silver, putting a further strain on world supplies. Consider the new photovoltaic industry as an example...
In China, the production of photovoltaic solar panel has doubled every single year since 2003. The demand for silver from the global photovoltaic industry has soared in the past few years, and global demand is expected to reach 150 million ounces per year by 2015 — just to satisfy the photovoltaic industry.
Silver Demand from the Photovoltaic Industry
july 2011 photovoltaic silver
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But to widen the supply deficit even more, the Silver Institute forecasts industrial uses of silver will rise sharply over the next five years. The organization estimates that by 2015, the demand for silver from industry will increase 36%.
Meanwhile, the demand for silver for jewelry and investment is reaching record levels. A survey of 340 retail jewelers representing ~4,000 individual stores recently showed silver jewelry sales hitting record highs. The survey found:
  • 87% of jewelry retailers said their silver jewelry sales increased in 2010
  • 52% said their silver jewelry sales increased between 11% and 25%; 28% saw an increase over 25%
  • Retailers rated the following categories as giving them the “best” maintained margin:
    • Silver jewelry 57%
    • Diamond jewelry 20%
    • Bridal jewelry 15%
    • Gold jewelry 4%
    • Platinum jewelry 4%
The UK's Royal Mint, which makes the Britannia silver bullion coins and other collector silver coins, reported silver coin production in the first half of the current year has doubled.
In the meantime, American Eagle Silver bullion coins continue to move at a record-setting sales pace. The latest sales figures indicate the U.S. Mint sold over total of 3.4 million Silver Eagles in June. This figure earned the title as the "Best Ever June," and ranked seventh place in all-time monthly sales.
This is all very much in line with reports from other mints around the world, which have also seen a huge surge in silver coin sales over the period.
There's no doubt the silver market will have to face a serious deficit. And in order to balance the deficit, silver will have to come from somewhere...
I believe the majority of this silver will come from investors. And for investors to sell, we'll need to see higher prices.
The world has been drawing down its above-ground supply of silver for decades, diminishing the only source of what is available for investment. And only now have we begun to collectively recognize silver as a solid investment.
This is the perfect market for silver prices to appreciate. Global supply deficits continue to be ignored year after year by investors. This is slowly changing, but owning silver has not gone mainstream yet...
Even as premiums rise and available retail supply dwindles, there is still time. The opportunity in silver is huge.
I maintain that the very best form of silver you can own is physical — and in your personal possession.
* Luke Burgess is an analyst at Wealth Daily, and the Investment Director for Hard Money Millionaire and Underground Profits.

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