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Saturday, June 11, 2011

40 Years In The Desert: It's Official, Libya is a Bug Hunt

http://40yrs.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-official-libya-is-bug-hunt.html

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 06:05 PM PDT

So a NATO Spokesman has just admitted that NATO is attempting to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi:

A U.N. resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission told CNN Thursday.

Asked by CNN whether Gadhafi was being targeted, the NATO official declined to give a direct answer. The resolution applies to Gadhafi because, as head of the military, he is part of the control and command structure and therefore a legitimate target, the official said.

NATO has been ramping up pressure on the regime, employing helicopters last weekend for the first time against Gadhafi's forces. Explosions are heard often in Tripoli, evidence of allied air strikes.

NATO began bombing Libya on March 31, under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians who have been targeted by Gadhafi's military.

Unsurprising. Since Gadhafi's forces are not folding up under the air assault, the French and the British are desperate to avoid defeat, or worse, the need to send in ground troops, either of which will sink both UK PM Cameron and French President Sarkosy.

This was intended to be a neat neo-colonial adventure with the attendant electoral boost, killing a few "wogs" for a few votes, but now its looking like a complete clusterf%$#. http://40yrs.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-official-libya-is-bug-hunt.html

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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Dean Minnich: Wheels wobbling on Shoemaker's cart

Blog: Dean Minnich - Post: Wheels wobbling on Shoemaker's cart

Link: http://www.deanminnich.com/2011/02/wheels-wobbling-on-shoemakers-cart.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Wheels wobbling on Shoemaker's cart

In commissioner Haven Shoemaker's letter to the editor in Monday's Times, the squeaking (squawking?) sound you hear is of wheels wobbling, about to fall off the cart, just shy of two months in office.

Understandably, the new commish is unhappy with criticism of the board's decision to disassociate itself with an admittedly obscure and misunderstood United Nations subgroup called ICLEI, which stands for International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. More specifically, the board took some heat for voting to quit the county's participation without putting the item on the agenda, let alone having a public hearing on the merits of the program.

Much has been made -- too much -- of the fact that the United Nations initiative pledges efforts to cooperate with rest of the world on the ideals of preserving natural resources and cleaning the environment...

http://www.deanminnich.com/2011/02/wheels-wobbling-on-shoemakers-cart.html

Labels: Commissioner Haven Shoemaker, Enviro, People Minnich-Dean, People Shoemaker-Haven, UN United Nations

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