What is going on in Libya could accurately be described as an internationally organized armed robbery. What the attackers are after is Libyan wealth and oil resources. How can you protect civilians by dropping bombs in cities? Worse still is that this crime is being committed with connivance of UN (or United Neocolonialist) in coordination with their imperialist media to fool the whole world. Africa is poor but we should not mistaken poverty as stupidity.

Alex, Richard, Africa is not poor!! The problem is its riches are not benefiting its people. That is the reason for the International African Summit. If Aricans at home and abroad control the resources of Africa then Africans will realize power and take our rightful place in the world order of things. And yes, the African Union needs to morph into the United States of African and consolidate a continent wide military.

While the police are out murdering, raping, planting contraband (or any other type of "evidence" of "wrongdoing'), distributing controlled substances in the name of the war on drugs, judges and legislators are the brains behind the White nationalist American organized criminogenic society.

The AU had failed in most occasions to solve disputes on d African continent - talk of Somalia, Sudan, DRC, IC, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola etc. History has shown that sometimes u need a military might to force truce during dispute, just as NATO did in Yugoslavia and Iraq. Without a strong military force, AU will remain a congregation of bench warmers.

How we continue to mention bodies like the AU and the UN as if they were a credible organization is what truly gets my goat,the UN is a tool and the AU is a subsidiary,how can we honestly expect anything good from them? maybe we have forgotten so quickly,the Un helicopters took part in Bombing the presidential villa of a legitimate African leader in Laurent Gbagbo,while the AU applauded,now are we still in any doubt as to their legitimacy?

This is the funniest site on the internet.

Fulaniyira
Africans need to learn to control and embrace African (black) imagery. By controling your imagery as Africans in the global community is sends a powerful messgage and it helps heal the Afrikan mind. Historically speaking, whites globally have long controlled the imagery of African and we must take destroy the negative imagery and replace, embrace, and uplift our own African imagery! Hotep/Ase/Obadao! Afrikan Power!

Inorite JJ?

Besides the grammar and spelling errors, the conspiracy theories and the way they don't understand the global implications of the actions that world leaders undertake for the good of our country. They have their own little world JJ. They act like they are not part of America. If that is the case, why do they continue to live here? It's pretty wacky.
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Please visit www.waynemadsenreport.com for more information from Wayne on Libya and other important issues:

June 4-5, 2011 -- TRIPOLI, LIBYA. WMR Exclusive. Western Libya portrait is not what is being painted by the Western media

Western media reports continue to indicate that Libyan rebels trying to oust Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi from power, backed by daily NATO air strikes, are gaining ground in western Libya. During a six-hour drive from the Tunisian border to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, this reporter saw no signs of Libyan rebel successes in western Libya. In fact, I witnessed a spontaneous pro-Qaddafi demonstration on the main Tunisia-Tripoli highway in a town about one and a half hours west of Tripoli.

The green flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiryah not only adorn flag poles in towns from Tripoli to the Tunisian border, but a number of private residences are flying the green flag from their rooftops, on flag poles, and even from outside of top floor windows in medium size and small towns alike along the main highway.

There are some telltale signs of previous fighting in the western part of the country -- bullet holes in the walls of some buildings and even some more extensive structural damage -- but there are no signs that the rebels, backed by the United States, NATO, and the European Union, have any substantial support in western Libya.

The one major sign of the Libyan civil war lies not in western Libya but across the Tunisian border where several refugee tent cities have been set up to accommodate thousands of refugees, most of them black African guest workers from sub-Sahara and Sahel nations who were set upon by rebels who said the workers were "mercenaries"brought to Libya by Qaddafi to fight on his behalf. In fact, there is a strong anti-black racialist element within the Libyan rebel movement that used the mercenary meme to justify heinous war crimes by rebel units against blacks from other African nations, as well as native Libyan blacks.

While many of the refugee camps on the Tunisian side of the Libyan frontier are sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross, one is funded by the United Arab Emirates, one of the nations participating in President Obama's "coalition of the willing" that is waging a war on behalf of the Libyan rebels. From our hotel on the Mediterranean coast, we expect to see and hear the attacks conducted against military and some civilian targets a further few miles inland in downtown Tripoli.

The EU and NATO sanctions on Libya are being severely felt by Libya's civilians. Petrol stations are rationing gasoline and long lines of cars sit waiting for gasoline to be delivered to the pumps. The NATO, EU, and U.S. policy of "collective punishment" of western Libya's civilian population is being compares to Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank. In fact, many Libyans believe that Obama's crippling sanctions on western Libya were crafted by Israel's lobby in Washington, which pressured the Obama administration into adopting them.

NATO has conducted nightly air strikes against western Libya, including downtown Tripoli, since March 19. The attacks begin around 12 midnight local time and at the time of this report we are expecting another NATO bombing of Tripoli in a little less than an hour.

Cynthia,

Thanks for the update. Looks like America has got caught lying again. I would hope that you start pushing for a United States of Africa so the military forces on the African continent could be centralized and the positions of African people could be enforced against all invading forces. What you think?

Self-Acceptance: Its an agreement with yourself to appreciate, validate, accept and support who you are at this very moment, even those parts you'd like to eventually change.

From Cynthia McKinney: Tripoli Dispatch - Day Three (includes video link!)

From Wayne Madsen (www.waynemadsenreport.com):

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

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

The NATO missile attack that killed Muammar Qaddafi's son, Seif al Arab Qaddafi, on April 30, was an attempt to kill Muammar Qaddafi himself. This editor visited the devastated home where Seif was killed, along with his friend and three of Muammar Qaddafi's grandchildren. The only reason why Muammar Qaddafi survived the blast was that he was away from the main residence tending to some animals, including two gazelles, kept in a small petting zoo maintained for his grandchildren. Muammar Qaddafi escaped the fate of his son and grandchildren by only about 500 feet. The residence was hit by bunker buster bombs fired from a U.S. warplane. One of the warheads did not detonate and was later removed from what remained of a bedroom in the home. Libyan authorities do not have the technical capabilities to determine if the warhead contained depleted uranium.

NATO and the Pentagon claimed the residence was a military compound, yet there is no evidence that any military assets were located in the residence that was flanked by the homes of a Libyan doctor and businessmen. The Qaddafi residence actually is owned by Qaddafi's wife. The neighbors' homes were also badly damaged in the U.S. air attack and are uninhabitable. Only a few hundred yards away from the Qaddafi compound sits the embassy of Cote d'Ivoire.

The presence of a foosball table and swing set in the yard of the Qaddafi compound belies the charge by the Pentagon that the home was a military target. However, considering that Qaddafi was present in the compound during the attack, it is clear that President Obama violated international law and three Executive Orders signed by three past presidents -- Ford, Carter, and Reagan -- in trying to assassinate the Libyan head of state. In fact, while Obama's order to kill Qaddafi was being carried out, the President of the United States was preparing to yuck it up with Washington's illuminati and Hollywood's glitterati at the White House Correspndents' Dinner in Washington.

Obama's order to kill Qaddafi is reminiscent of George W. Bush's order to kill Sadaam Hussein at the outset of the U.S. war against Iraq, an assassination order that was also a violation of international and U.S. law.

THIS IS ONE OF THE WAYS THE WEST IS TAKING WEALTH AWAY FROM AFRICAN PEOPLE. WEALTH THAT COULD BENEFIT ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE, BUT ONLY BENEFIT OUR OPPRESSORS, WHO MAINTAINS THE GLOBAL UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE, AND KEEP US LOCKED IN HIS ECONOMIC MATRIX, ONLY BLACK PEOPLE CAN LIBERATE BLACK PEOPLE. EUROPE IS NOT OUR LEADERSHIP. OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS, ARE OUR LEADERS, IN THE NAME OF OUR CREATOR. OUR TIMELESS HISTORY AFRICA.

Cynthia McKinney ... a lying self-absorbed, hypocritical fat sow, LOL!! She's perfect for this website!!

Jayson

If the enemy is not doing anything against you, you are not doing anything" Ajabu, Cynthia keep full steam ahead!!

Cynthia,
You mean we missed him by 500 feet? We need better intel or larger bombs.
Sincerely,
America

Anatomy of a Murder: How NATO
Killed Qaddafi Family Members
From Cynthia McKinney
How many times must a parent bury a child? Well, in the case of Muammar Qaddafi it's not only twice: once for his daughter, murdered by the United States bombing on his home in 1986, and again on 30 April 2011 when his youngest son, Saif al Arab, but yet again for three young children, grandbabies of Muammar Qaddafi killed along with Saif at the family home. Now, I watched Cindy Sheehan as she bared her soul before us in her grief; I cried
when Cindy cried. Now, how must Qaddafi and his wife feel? And the people of Libya, parents of all the nation's children gone too soon. I don't even want to imagine. All my mother could say in astonishment was, "They killed
the babies, they killed his grandbabies." The news reports, however, didn't last more than one half of a news cycle because on 1 May, at a hastily assembled press conference, President Obama announced the murder of Osama bin Laden. Well, I haven't forgotten my empathy for Cindy Sheehan; I haven't forgotten my concern for the children of Iraq that Madeleine Albright said were OK to kill by U.S. sanctions if U.S. geopolitical goals were achieved. I care about the children of Palestine who throw stones at Israeli soldiers and get laser-guided bullets to their brains in return. I care about the people of North Africa and West Asia who are ready to risk their lives for freedom. In fact,
I care about all of the children--from Appalachia to the Cancer Alley, from New York City to San Diego, and everywhere inbetween. On 22 May 2011, I had the opportunity to visit the residence of the Qaddafi family, bombed to smithereens by NATO. For a leader, the house seemed small in comparison, say, to the former Clinton family
home in Chappaqua or the Obama family home. It was a small whitewashed suburban type house in a typical residential area in metropolitan Tripoli. It was surrounded by dozens of other family homes. I spoke with a neighbor who described how three separate smart bombs hit the home and exploded, another one not exploding. According to the BBC, the NATO military operations chief stated that a "command and control center" had been hit. That is a lie. As anyone who visits the home can see, this home had nothing to do with NATO's war. The strike against this home had everything to do with NATO adopting a policy of targeted assassination and extra-judicial killing--clearly illegal. The neighbor said he found Saif Al-Arab in his bedroom underneath rubble; the three young grandchildren were in a different room and they were shredded to pieces. He told of how he picked up as many pieces as he possibly could. He told us that there are still pieces there that he could not get. He asked us to note the smell--not
the putrid smell of rotting flesh, but a sweet smell. I did smell it and thought there was an air freshener nearby. It smelled to me of roses. He asked me why this was done and who was going to hold NATO accountable.

By Jehron Muhammad

Libyan Rebels Out of Business

(FinalCall.com) - Not anticipating
the emergence of a stalemate and the
creation of two Libyas may have
thrown an unintended monkey
wrench in plans by Western powers
and Arab allies' desire to allow
Libyan rebels—now called the
Interim National Council—to sell
captured oil.
According to published reports, the
complexity of sanctions of Libya may
mean companies wanting to do business
with the rebels do so without
political or legal cover.
This all began in March with Qatar
marketing one million barrels of captured
crude “on behalf of Libya's
Interim National Council” and delivering
“four shipments of petroleum
products to the countries eastern port
of Benghazi,” reported Oil & Gas
Journal.
This “move” actually occurred,
reported Qatar's state news agency
QNA, within the context of the resolutions
taken by the participating
countries in the London conference
on Libya (that included EU member
states, the U.S., the UN, NATO and
the Organization of Islamic
Conference) held on March 29.
QNA also said the move came from
a directive from Qatar's ruler Emir
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
“to ease the suffering of the Libyan
brethren and to meet their humanitarian
needs.” What was not said is that
the rebels are in dire need of funds to
finance the revolt against the Col.
Muammar Gadhafi's government.
The chairman of Libya's National
Oil Corp. responded by sending a letter
of protest to the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries concerning
the assistance that fellow
member Qatar is giving to rebels selling
Libyan oil. In the letter NOC
Chairman Shokri Ghanem said it was
“very unfortunate” Qatar tried to market
Libyan oil and purchase fuel on
behalf of rebel forces opposed to the
rule of Col. Gadhafi.
The export of Libyan oil by the
rebels also hit another snag.
The Liberian-flagged tanker
Equator was able to bypass NATO's
blockade in the first week of April,
sailed into the eastern port of Marsa el
Haria and “loaded up to one million
barrels of the light sweet crude so
prized by refiners before setting sail
through the Suez Canal for east Asia,”
reported Reuters. “Oil traders
believed it would unload on China.”
This never happened. In fact since
refueling in Singapore, the tanker has
sat anchored off the archipelago.
“AIS live ship tracking data on
Reuters, based on satellite signals sent
from the vessel, shows its massive
iron hull immersed in 15 meters (49
feet) draft water—indicating it was
still carrying (the same cargo) on May
10,” reported Reuters.
In addition Reuters has been told by
more than a dozen “shipping and
sanctions experts … that the tanker's
expensive cargo has been caught in
legal political limbo created by international
sanctions in Libya.” So even
though many western nations are
ready to assist the rebels with finding
a way to sell the stolen crude, or even
purchase it themselves, but no one is
willing to take the risk as the standoff
and emergence of two Libyas seems
to have made touching the oil too hot
and too dangerous to handle.
On top of that journalist Emma
Farge, who has been following this
crisis, told NPR's Market Place host
Kai Ryssdal “that the political will
has dissipated. So especially in the
United Nations, you have a divided
council, where you have the European
powers who are willing to address the
issues of the problems with the sanctions
regime, but others who are more
relaxed, such as Russia and China.”
And even if the rebels are able to
find a buyer the potential for sabotage
of oil fields by Libyan forces is high.
According to NPR's Martin Kaste,
reporting on Weekend Edition from
Libya, rebels said last month
“Gadhafi forces sabotaged” the two
distant oil fields of Mila and Sarir that
supply the terminal in Tobruk.
According to Mohammed Saleh, who
works for an oil marketing company,
all the fuel received now comes to
“Tobruk just by gravity.”
Kaste said “by gravity” because the
booster system that usually pushes oil
through the pipeline was also
attacked. “Now Tobruk is just getting
the oil that was already inside the 300
mile long pipeline.” And since Tobruk
is the rebels only major oil terminal,
“the attacks have put them out of
business.”
President Obama grapples with Middle East issues

The American Media is now controlled and owned by major corporations, which make it "Corporate Media". The Viacom Corp. owns CBS-TV, channel 2; General Electric owns NBC-TV, channel 4; Disney owns ABC-TV, channel 7; FOX News is owned by NewsCorp., or the racist Australian krackkker Ruppert Murdock. When you combine corporations who influence and control government policy and media, who spout corporate dictates, you have Fascism. As we speak we are living in a "Fascist" country controlled by a "Corporate Government". The United Snakes of Aggression is a Corporation. The Constitution is the greatest piece of fiction ever written, besides the King James version of the Bible.

I really appreciate your feedback, questions, comments, and additional information. I am in the process of doing so many things at the moment that I have not yet had an opportunity to write up the horrific details of the murder of the Libyan of darker skin. I will do so at my earliest opportunity. I have received questions about how this actually started and I have the information on that, too. I am down here with two attorneys in addition to the journalists so whatever I send out I want it to able to be tested in a court of law. NATO's serial allegations could not and would not stand up in a court of law. Therefore the psy-ops operation to win in the court of public opinion--as Frank Wisner coined it, "the Mighty Wurlitzer." While a wurlitzer is a brand of high quality musical instruments, usually referring to pianos and organs, the term "Mighty Wurlitzer" was coined by CIA agent Frank Wisner to describe the network of small organizations and magazines that the agency used to propagate its message during the Cold War: a mass of information and intelligence capable of playing the tunes the rest of the world would dance to. The world is being subjected to a massive "perception management" campaign, especially on Libya right now. Soon, the Wurlitzer will be focused and playing a tune for you to believe on Iran, Venezuela, and more. At the 1999 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. murder trial, Mr. William Schaap, attorney, military and intelligence specialization, co-publisher "Covert Action Quarterly" testified that approximately 30% of the CIA budget at that time was devoted to this "Wurlitzer." Imagine what it is today! And finally, please remember, it was Wisner's son whom President Obama sent in recently to manage events in Egypt! If you believe anything at all from these guys, then you are truly being played!

With that having been said, let me quickly respond to the rape issue and later I will send out something more comprehensive and at the standard that I have indicated above. Here's what Amnesty International has said as reported on 9 July 2011 in the New York Times: "Amnesty International said in a statement on Thursday that the group’s researchers, working in eastern Libya, Misurata and in refugee camps along the Tunisian border, 'have not to date turned up significant hard evidence to support this allegation' of systematic rape."

Diamond mining is one of Africa’s largest industries—and with being one of the world’s most precious and highly coveted commodities comes high demand and ongoing conflicts. It wasn’t until recently that the diamond mining industry started to take notice of Zimbabwe, because traditionally, South Africa and Botswana have been better-known hubs of diamond reserves. However, with major companies like Rio Tinto entering Zimbabwe, awareness of the country as a major contender in diamond mining has started to accelerate. With conflict diamonds, or blood diamonds, starting to raise awareness and new legislatures taking place, Zimbabwe has gained international headlines. Most recently, there has been debate over the Zimbabwean new government plan to take 100 per cent ownership of alluvial diamond mines in the country.

Alluvial diamond mining involves digging and sifting through sand, gravel and mud using a sieve or shovel. The diamonds have been removed from the kimberlite from natural erosion and then settled in a new environment such as a river bed or shoreline. The recent Zimbabwe legislation to take 100 per cent ownership for all alluvial diamond mines in the country was announced by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirari.

In addition to this massive takeover, the government will own a 51 per cent share in all other mining projects. This includes minerals such as non-alluvial diamonds, platinum and gold. Economic Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere said to press, “The shareholding in the mining sector as it relates to the state shall be as follows: 100 per cent for alluvial diamonds.”

With these new enforcements, communities will also receive 10 per cent of gross profit from the mining of mineral resources. These funds aim for the betterment of Zimbabwe communities and neighborhoods and will go towards a number of different community projects including education, infrastructure and healthcare.

Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act

In 2007, the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act (IEEA) was conceptualized in Zimbabwe. This act means that local Zimbabweans are entitled to own 51 per cent in all foreign-owned companies. The IEEA has historical significance as part of the government’s plans to correct wrongs that happened in Zimbabwe’s past in regards to the issue of land redistribution.

The IEEA targets foreign-owned companies that operate in Zimbabwe and are valued at more than $500,000. For those companies, they must sell at least 51 per cent of their shares to Black Zimbabweans indigenous to the country by 2015. This affects big miners that have stakes in Zimbabwe such as Rio Tinto and Anglo Platinum.

The Herald newspaper, a state-controlled newspaper in Zimbabwe, reported that outside of alluvial diamond mining, the planned law would affect all other new companies that have not yet met the country’s indigenization requirements.

The Kimberley Process

The Marange diamond field is one that has gained notoriety as a major site of reported diamond smuggling and human rights violations. Marange, in eastern Zimbabwe, was reported by Human Rights Watch to be a culprit of forced labour of both adults and children that included beating and torturing local villagers. Trade from the area was suspended.

In May 2000, The Kimberley Process was created to end illegal trade in diamonds such as blood diamonds that are used to fund conflict and war. Governments and the diamond industry adjoined in Kimberley, South Africa to discuss the abatement of trading diamonds in conflict zones. The Kimberley Process was a result of this, which set up an international system for the export and import of diamonds. Marange has been under speculation under the Kimberly Process, thus being suspended. Savior Kasukuwere, Youth Development, Indigenization and Empowerment minister said that the government cabinet has now resolved that alluvial diamond mining in Marage fields would commence. “This is the position of government and those companies will be sitting down with us to discuss [it] but the broad principle is that the alluvial diamonds belong to the state and they must benefit the people of Zimbabwe,” Kasukuwere said to The Herald.

However, Zimbabwe has had troubles selling the Marange field diamonds because of the ban from Kimberley Process, barring its members from dealing with diamonds and affirming that diamonds from the Marange field may have been spawned from human rights abuses.

Zimbabwe has certainly undergone changes within the diamond mining sector and with recent changes in legislation and ownership requirements, many foreign-owned firms will have to relinquish part ownership to local Zimbabweans. Though these requirements are aimed to help the local people of Zimbabwe, only time will tell what parties will actually benefit from the implementations.

one thing africa has an abundance of now on the market and that is land. there is a massive land grab going on right now in africa by american universities. what can we do to checkmate these activities. it is imperative that black universities. social organizations, activists, religious orders, lodges and psuedo lodges and churches act... they can do so by the will of the people who financially support these organizations. it's sensless to one day wake up and wonder what the hell happened when all around you white folk will lay claim to what in all truthfulness belongs to you and your posterity. but they got it because we stood aside and allowed it to take place. there is a serious need for a united land trust for african peoples. that is if we are at all serious about the future of that continent, its land and its peoples. only blacks in the west can do this..!!!

Black folk in the US continue to build the country. Our sense of style and originality influence music, fashion, dance and more. We get locked in prison at disproportionally high rates and as a result entire towns develop around prisons. We spend more for cell phones and their usage than other groups. The exploitation continues....

Hey Ajabu...good to see you and your nostrils back on Tv standing up for Terrell and Dontarius. Maybe they can say hi to your son when they see him in prison.