State of emergency declared in Libyan capital amid fresh violence
End the Lie – Independent News
November 16, 2013
Libyan protesters gather during a demonstration calling on militiamen to vacate their headquarters in southern Tripoli on November 15, 2013. (AFP Photo / Mahmud Turkia)
A 48-hour state of emergency was declared in the Libyan capital of Tripoli after fresh clashes erupted on Saturday. Vehicles full of fighters from Misrata headed to Tripoli from the eastern suburb of Tajura, according to media reports.
Violence in Tripoli reignited at sundown as fighting between militia groups intensified, Ukranian medics working on the ground told ITAR-TASS.
“After a break in fighting, you could hear shots being fired once again over Tripoli,” one medic said. “Hospitals received more dead and wounded. We haven’t seen this in Tripoli since the 2011 armed conflict.”
The state of emergency was declared in the city after at least one person was killed and dozens wounded in another wave of violence on Saturday, Al Jazeera reported. The unrest began in the capital on Friday. More than 40 people were killed and another 400 were wounded.
“Officially, there were more than 40 victims in the clashes in Tripoli in the past two days, but according to our data, the number of victims is much larger,” one of the medics said.
Due to the situation in Tripoli, some of the streets in the city were blocked off. Local residents formed protection brigades by their houses in order to ensure safety from the militias, the medics added.
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan has appealed for restraint, stating that “the coming hours and days will be decisive for the history of Libya and the success of the revolution.”
On Saturday, thousands of protesters gathered to remember those who died in Friday’s clashes, as the government declared three days of mourning. Zidan also demanded that all armed militias leave Tripoli “without exception.”
“The existence of weapons outside the army and police is dangerous,” he said. “All armed militias need to leave Tripoli, without exception.”
Friday’s clashes began as thousands of protesters gathered in Tripoli on Friday, calling to intensify the security presence and end the militias’ rule which was established in 2011 after the uprising that ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi. The protesters marched from a downtown mosque to the headquarters of the militia waving Libyan flags and chanting slogans such as “We want an army, we want police.”
According to a Reuters report, the militia fired an anti-aircraft cannon into the crowd. The protesters initially fled, but then returned heavily armed. The majority of stores in the city were closed following the clashes.
The main cause of the violence is Libya’s weak government and armed forces which are struggling to control militias, Islamic militants, and other fighting groups which have refused to surrender their weapons two years after assisting the NATO-backed ouster of Gaddafi.
Part of the militia was formed from local brigades of rebels, including Islamic militants who fought against Gaddafi’s government. After the fall of the leader, the government tasked the former rebel forces with maintaining security. However, the militia has not been put under state control, prompting the armed groups to act on their own agenda.
Source: RT
Deconstructing the National Defense Authorization Act
Activists move to establish a constitutional protection zone
by Ardy Ragian
City on a Hill Press
November 15, 2013
Dan Johnson, president of People Against the NDAA spoke at a meeting last Wednesday in Santa Cruz calling for support of PANDA and the repeal of the indefinite detention provisions (Sections 1021 and 1022) of the National Defense Authorization Act. Photo by Aimee Hare
The Romero institute, a non-profit law firm, is spearheading a mission to strengthen an anti-National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Santa Cruz resolution passed in April 2012 through its project, the Campaign to Make Santa Cruz a Constitution Protection Zone. Last Wednesday, the group organized an anti-NDAA event at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, with People Against the NDAA (PANDA) director Dan Johnson as the keynote speaker.
The NDAA has been in effect for 51 years and prior to 2012 has primarily existed to fund U.S. armed forces and aid military families. As a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the NDAA has transformed into a “haystack bill” that continues to grow with added provisions such as 1021 and 1022, which were signed into effect on Dec. 31, 2011 by President Obama.
“In a nutshell, [these provisions] authorize the application of the laws of war to American soil, making us a battlefield,” Johnson said. “They authorize the military to detain any person, including American citizens, without a charge and without a trial, essentially affording the military the authority to ship any person here on U.S. soil, or any American citizen abroad, to Guantanamo Bay.”
California passed AB351 in October to halt provisions 1021 and 1022 from being applicable, a bill Johnson said “doesn’t even attempt to enforce California’s oath.”
“The bill says, ‘the state can’t participate in detention, prosecution or investigation if the NDAA violates the constitution,’” Johnson said. “All you have to do is go in court and claim the NDAA didn’t violate the constitution. Problem solved, you’re not prosecuted and you’re not punished.”
Santa Cruz passed a resolution in April 2012 supporting the repeal of sections 1021 and 1022.
Communications director of the Campaign to Make Santa Cruz a Constitution Protection Zone Robert Moddelmog said like California’s AB351, Santa Cruz’s legislation had good intentions behind it, but fell short in solidifying a constitutional protection zone.
“The signed resolution states that the city of Santa Cruz ‘hereby supports the repeal of the NDAA’s detention provisions described above,’” Moddelmog said, “and directs the mayor to write letters to our congressman and senators ‘indicating the city’s support for legislation to repeal those detention provisions,’”
Moddelmog says while this is an admirable stance, Santa Cruz needs to go one step further and actively stop any violations of the constitution from occurring, rather than only asking for its repeal.
Johnson stressed the government doesn’t have to present any evidence in taking these actions, it merely has to allege you are “suspected” of being a danger or of aiding terrorism.
“Terrorism is a method, and terror is an emotional reaction,” Johnson said, “you can’t legislate either out of existence.”
Johnson expressed his concerns regarding the vagueness of what constitutes being a terrorist, citing numerous reports such as the Department of Homeland Security’s terrorism study and a Responses to Terrorism (START) report released 31 days after the NDAA was signed. START categorizes terrorist acts by ideological motivations, such as “extreme right-wing” or “single issue.”
For example, the START report describes “extreme right-wing” terrorist groups as “groups who are nationalistic, anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty and believe in conspiracy theories involving grave threats to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”
“Regardless of what words you put in here, the key is suspicion, reverence, and belief,” Johnson said. “All of those are thoughts, none of those are actions … Is thought a crime now?”
Massacred Christians Left In 2 Mass Graves By Obama Armed Syrian Rebels
Friends of Syria
November 12, 2013
Syrian/Al-Qaeda rebels funded and armed by Obama did this. That makes Obama guilty of war crimes and mass murder.
The bodies of 30 Christian civilians, including women and children, killed by Islamist militias, have been found in two separate mass graves, in the city of Sadad. The number of Christian civilians confirmed dead in this small town halfway between Homs and Damascus has reached 45. Many are injured and several are missing.
According to eyewitnesses, many of the civilians were killed by militia gangs of ‘Al- Nusra Front’ and ‘Daash’. The city has been completely destroyed and looted. Some of the militants who invaded the city were holed up in the Syriac Orthodox Church of St Theodore, which was profaned. Sadad is an ancient Syriac village which dates back to 2000 BC located in the region of Qalamoon, north of Damascus. It had 14 churches, a monastery, temples, historic landmarks and archaeological sites.
Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh said: “What happened in Sadad is the most serious and biggest massacre of Christians in Syria in the past two and a half years… 45 innocent civilians were martyred for no reason, and among them several women and children, many thrown into mass graves. Other civilians were threatened and terrorized. 30 were wounded and 10 are still missing.
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Syria News
Five Children Killed and 27 Injured by Militant Attack on School in Damascus
FSA Crimes
November 11, 2013
Aftermath of last week’s shelling of the Aaisha al-Sidiqa School in Damascus.Five children were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit a school in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, state television reported.
“The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St. John of Damascus school with mortar rounds has risen to five dead, all of them children, and 27 injured,” a news alert on Syrian state television said.
Just last week, militants targeted another school, the Aaisha al-Sidiqa school in the Zahira neighbourhood of Damascus, with mortar fire injuring four first graders.
Communist Chinese troops ‘boots on the ground’ in Hawaii (Nov 12th)
by Frankie Gotz
Canadian Awareness Network
November 9, 2013
by: Kevin Whiteman
freepatriot.org
“For the first time in American history, troops from Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will openly be on sovereign American soil starting early next week, as reported by China’s governmental controlled Xinhua News Agency on Nov. 6, 2013.
Almost totally ignored by the American media, PLA troops will be in Hawaii from the 12th through the 14th of this month, to be hosted by the U.S. military’s Pacific Command, also headquartered in the Aloha State.
Communist Chinese troops will be participating in the U.S. government’s massive GridEx II military, quasi-military and civilian emergency response exercise.
The New York Times reported on Aug. 16, 2013 that GridEx II specifically is consists of:
… thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, F.B.I. antiterrorism experts and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada and Mexico are preparing for an emergency drill in November that will simulate physical attacks and cyberattacks that could take down large sections of the power grid.
They will practice for a crisis unlike anything the real grid has ever seen, and more than 150 companies and organizations have signed up to participate.
Three days after the NY Times article, the Department of Defense official website quietly noted rather generically that Chinese troops were invited to “attend next year’s Rim of the Pacific multilateral naval exercise.”
Not quite done yet, the American Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appeared before the world’s press corps with Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Chang Wanquan.
The duo stated they’ve agreed “to expand the current system of defense exchanges and joint exercises.”
Open Arms…
In what the Beijing-ran news agency refers to as “non-traditional security areas,” the American commander of all US Forces in the Pacific, Admiral Samuel Locklear was quoted by Xinhua as “looking forward” to Chinese troops participating in the disaster relief drill.
“In relation to our ability to do this with our Chinese counterparts,” the Admiral said, “this kind of exercise gives us a place to start, and get into the rhythm of understanding and trusting each other.”
“I’m looking forward to it,” he added. “I think it will be a great exercise.”
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Is it just me or is there a scary trend happening? We have the beloved Just Trudeau as candidate who is running to be Prime Minister in next election, openly stating he admires China for it’s dictatorship, do we really want this guy to be Prime Minister?
We see countless elitists organizations around the world , like the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), perpetuating business into Asian countries and claim that China is the future. Andre Desmarias from the Power Corporation of Canada, who is part of the CCCE states that Canada bridges the gap between China’s collectivism and America’s individualism.
George H. W. Bush spoke of a new world order at the United Nations (UN) in 1991. Countless politicians around the world are talking about ‘one world government’ and blatantly use the term ‘new world order‘ in many speeches. We have foreign troops being deployed and being trained in Canada and the United States. What is going on? Why are foreign troops being trained here in North America?
Moa Zedong is the communist father of China, and it was the UN that put him in power. Canada is a signatory to the UN and is heavily involved with the organization since it formed after WWII. The UN openly states they want to establish a one world government under their control. The UN gives peace awards to dictators who commit genocide. People in Canada and the US better start waking up and paying attention to what’s going on, because in my opinion I see ourselves very slowly moving towards totalitarianism.
And what’s this GridEx training about? Will there be a false flag?
Regional War Scenario. NATO-US-Turkey War Games Off the Syrian Coastline
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
November 5, 2013
According to Turkish press reports, Turkey’s High Command will be hosting NATO’S Invitex military exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean in a clear act of provocation directed against Syria.
The Invitex-Eastern Mediterranean war games are scheduled from November 4 to 14.
Deafening silence. Not a single Western media has reported on these war games.
The official release by the TKS High Command suggests a war games scenario involving a regional war, under the assumption that the ongoing US-NATO-Israeli covert war on Syria could lead to military escalation. The countries considered to be a threat to Turkey and NATO are not mentioned.
According to the press dispatch of the Turkish Armed forces, various types of naval operations are envisaged. While the word “war” is not mentioned, the stated objective consists in the “handling of a regional crisis”, presumably through military rather than diplomatic means.
Turkish frigate F-245 TCG Oruç Reis
The focus is intended “to enhance co-operation and mutual training between participant countries.” Reading between the lines this suggests enhanced military coordination directed against potential enemy countries in the Middle East including Syria and Iran.
“NATO, the U.S. Navy and the Turkish Navy-Air Force-Coast Guard platforms will participate in the exercise, a statement from Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) said Nov. 4.”(Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey)
A significant deployment of both naval and air power is envisaged. According to the TKS communique, the participant units are:
NATO SNMG-2 (three frigates), U.S. Navy (one frigate), Turkish Navy (three frigates, two corvettes, four fast attack boats, three submarines, two oilers, two patrol boats, one landing ship, one tug boat, one maritime patrol aircraft, five helicopters, one amphibious team, one Naval WMD Destroy Team, (Multi National Maritime Security Center of Excellence), Turkish Coast Guard (three Coast Guard Boats) and Turkish Air Force aircrafts. (Ibid)
VIDEO — #MillionMaskMarch: Anonymous supporters rally worldwide to protest corruption, police state
RT
November 4, 2013
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