Tanzania wins praise over tropical disease control

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Dr. Mwele Ntuli Malecela

Donors, international organizations and other health development partners have showered Tanzania with accolades for the great strides that it has made in a quest to control Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) advisor for NTDs, Ms Angela Weaver, speaking on behalf of donors, applauded Tanzania through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) for being one of Africa’s role models in NTD control.

NTDs that are endemic to Tanzania include river blindness (Onchocerciasis), elephantiasis (Lymphatic filariasis or LF), bilharzias or snail fever (Schistosomiasis), intestinal worm infection (soil-transmitted helminthiasis) and a  bacterial infection of the eye also known as Trachoma.

The Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme National Coordinator, Dr Upendo Mwingira, said that NTDs affect many regions in the country and it is estimated that over 40 million are affected with more than three diseases being present in each region.
Dr Mwingira said that since the programme was started, their biggest challenge has been getting the people to trust the drugs.

Many associate them with interfering with fertility as well as encouraging people with illness signs to visit centres and make use of the numerous campaigns that are carried out.  Unlike other diseases, NTDs in previous years wasn’t given much attention because they don’t cause many mortalities but in recent years it has been determined that blindness, worm infection and physical disabilities halt economic development as resources are diverted to care and treatment for the sick.

“Tanzania has demonstrated a remarkable job despite the challenges that exist and has gone far in delivering drugs for the treatment of millions. Next week there will be a large global meeting in London and Tanzania will be a part of it which I know will share its experiences with others,” Ms Weaver said.

A representative from Mectizan Donation Programme, Dr Kisito Ougoussan, when echoing the words of Ms Weaver, said that NTD control had been successful largely because of the strong partnership that the country has with its partners. Dr Ougoussan cautioned that whilst the five-year Master Plan is being prepared, it is important not to forget the challenges associated with the supply chain of drugs and urged that medical professionals also had to be logisticians.

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare yesterday hosted its third stakeholders’ meeting that brought together development partners, international organizations, regional and district medical offices to talk about its successes in controlling NTDs and the challenges they face.

Speaking at the opening, the National Institute of Medical Research Director General, Dr Mwele Malecela, who spoke on behalf of the MOHSW Permanent Secretary, Ms Blandina Nyoni, said that the success should not bring about complacency. Previously NTDs were being controlled through individual projects but this changed since 2009 after adopting the integrated control approach.

In 2010, a total of 36 districts were administered with drugs and in 2011 this was scaled up to 76 districts. In 2010 a total of 15.3 million treatments were distributed and 25 million in 2011. “This is a great achievement and we are proud to be among the first countries to implement the integrated approach for NTD control,” she said.

Dr Malecela said that it was not enough to protect ourselves from AIDS, TB and Malaria but at the same time be complacent when we are dying of other diseases prematurely. She said that although the challenges in communicable diseases control in this era seem to be undefeatable, there was definitely hope in Africa to face and reduce the burden and that consolidated efforts with knowledge, skills and the tools were needed to make a difference.

By MASEMBE TAMBWE, Tanzania Daily News

AGOA still top priority for US foreign policy

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Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State, Mr Jake Sullivan

The United States has reiterated its commitment to support African entrepreneurs and African business people to create jobs and sell products.

Speaking to the international media including the “Daily News on Saturday” in a telephone interview from Washington DC, the Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State, Mr Jake Sullivan said the support has been a very serious focus of Secretary Clinton’s over the course of the past three years.

“She, in 2009 in her first year in office, went to Kenya to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum, where she immediately began engaging a broad range of African leaders on the question of how we can deepen economic and trade ties between the United States and Africa,” he said.

Responding on the question of how the United States and the US market can provide greater opportunity for African entrepreneurs and African business people to create jobs and sell products, he said that over the course of the past three years, that has continued to be a central question that the Secretary of State has consistently posed to people in our government and to people in Africa.

“And so in 2012, as we host the AGOA Forum here in the United States, we’re looking for making practical improvements to AGOA so that more people in more countries in Africa can take advantage of that act and what it has to offer,” said the director.

He further said that at the same time, the US was very much focused on an entrepreneurship initiative across the continent that finds young entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs from every corner of the continent.

“We always say to them, look, if you’ve got a good idea, the United States is prepared to back you, not just with money but with opportunities to link you to markets, with opportunities to link you to other folks in the business sector that you can partner with in order to grow your business and in order to make your idea something that has real staying power,” he explained.

He added that: “So I would say on the trade front, on the entrepreneurship front and then very importantly on the regional integration front, where Sub-Saharan Africa trades with itself less than almost anywhere else in the world, the United States would like to help countries there break down barriers so that farmers or business people in one country can trade effectively with their neighbours and sell their goods and sell their products and sell their services.

That will therefore remain an important diplomatic and development priority for the US as relates Africa.”  He further said that there were about a dozen different ways in which the United States was trying to work through all kinds of innovative means to support job growth and business development in Africa.

By JAFFAR MJASIRI, Tanzania Daily News

Anonymous ‘threatens’ to take down Facebook in Operation Global Blackout (VIDEO)

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Following a massive attack waged Thursday on several government and entertainment industry websites, hacktivists with Anonymous continued their assault over the weekend, momentarily taking CBS.com offline.

The next target very well might be Facebook.

The shut-down of the file sharing site Megaupload last week prompted thousands of users to participate in an Anonymous-led attack on opponents of the service, which left the websites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Motion Picture Association of America and Universal Music Group, among others, momentarily crippled.

The move, believed to be the largest Anonymous-led online initiative in the group’s history, was continued during the weekend when operatives participating managed to divert all traffic away from CBS.com. For around 20 minutes, the television network’s main site was unavailable on the Web to surfers across the world. Additionally, a second assault on Universal Music Group, or UMG, was waged and once again rendered the site unavailable. Universal is the largest record label in America and already revealed itself as an opponent to Megaupload before last week’s raid.

Sunday’s take-down of CBS.com and UMG was also accompanied by similar initiatives on foreign websites linked to anti-copyright legislation, including Polish and French government sites. According to some alleged Anonymous members, however, the bombardment doesn’t stop just there. In a new video uploaded to YouTube on Monday, a person claiming to work under the guise of Anonymous announces plans to take on the social networking giant Facebook in the coming days.

“An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people, and the government of the United States,” recites a digitized voice in the video clip. “While SOPA and PIPA may be postponed from Congress, this does not guarantee that our Internet rights will be upheld.” To insure that online freedoms aren’t further crushed, says the Anonymous operative, an assault should be launched on Facebook to make it clear to the US government just how strong the opponents of Internet laws such as SOPA and PIPA are.

“We’ve already crashed CBS, Warner Brothers and FBI sites; Facebook is our next aim. This will be enough to show them indeed that we are not playing,” continues the video.

The US Copyright office, the Recording Industry Association of America, BMG and other sites were targeted in last week’s attacks, which used a Distributed Denial-of-Service, or DDoS assault, to render the sites unavailable. Participants allege that they also waged an attempt at taking down the websites for both the Department of Defense and the White House, but were unsuccessful at taking them offline.

According to the latest clip, another DDoS attack will be launched on January 28 against Facebook in the same manner that the previous week’s assaults were conducted against the entertainment industry and government sites. The narrator of the clip and an accompanying text description provide detailed information on how to go about conducting the attack, which is done using a simple piece of software called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, or LOIC.

Nearly 6,000 users broke the servers of the FBI and others last week using the LOIC program in an attempt that was mostly under the radar until news outlets eventually broke the story. With an attack against Facebook being plotted days in advance, a DDoS attack, while difficult to conduct to a degree worthy of taking down Mark Zuckerberg’s tremendous amount of servers, could very well happen.

“While it is true that Facebook has at least 60,000 servers, it is still possible to bring it down,” announces the voice in the video.

Others aligned to the group have shunned the would-be ambush, however, and insist that it does not represent the mission of the group as a whole. With no formal leader or membership though, it is easy for conflicting ideas and agendas to easily go viral on the Web without any authorization from those involved in past missions.

“Lulz at people saying we would take down Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube,” reads a tweet in response from the YourAnonNews account. “Why would Anon take down how we send our messages?”

Regardless of the legitimacy of the claim made in the latest YouTube clip, it is not the first attack on Facebook perpetrated by an alleged member of Anonymous. A previous attack was scheduled for November 5, 2011, but never materialized. In that case, a similar YouTube video was released ahead of time and informed viewers that “Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world.”

The November 5 attack was expected to accompany similar assaults, including a takedown of FoxNews.com, that while reported, fell through.

“When you’re planning to hack someone, don’t tell them in advance. More importantly, don’t tell them exactly when you’re planning to rock their universe,” Matt Peckham, a tech writer for TIME, said before the last planned take-down.

In the new video, however, the alleged Anonymous operative uses the YouTube platform not just as a means of preparing for the assault, but as a recruitment tool

“Would you like to become part of the greatest Internet protest and first official cyber war?” asks the video’s narrator.

CAF picks Ethiopian official for Yanga, Zamalek clash

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Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) Information Officer, Boniface Wambura

Ethiopian referees are expected to officiate at the first leg match of the preliminary round of this year’s African Champions League between Yanga SC and Zamalek of Egypt, penned for February 18, Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) has revealed.

TFF Information Officer, Boniface Wambura, said the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appointed Bamlack Tessema to serve as the match’s referee and will be assisted by Yilma Knife and Mussie Kindie.  Tanzanian Waziri Sheha, will be the fourth official while Malawian Charles Kafatia, will be the match commissioner.

Yanga will host Zamalek at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam in what promises to be a tough assignment for the former and nothing but victory will put the Tanzanians in better position in their campaign. Beating Zamalek, though, looks a tall order to both Yanga technical bench and the team’s fans given that Yanga have had less impressive preparations towards the match.

Yanga, according to the team’s head coach, Kostadin Papic, failed to train for almost a week prior to the team’s participation in the Mapinduzi Cup played in Zanzibar early this month because of, among others, financial constraints.

The team’s leadership, though, sprang into action and settled the matter but it was hardly surprising to see the Jangwani Street side crash out of the quarterfinals in Mapinduzi Cup considering it had extremely few days to prepare for the event.

Yanga’s participation in the Mapinduzi Cup, nevertheless, gave Papic and the rest of the technical bench an opportunity to assess the players’ performance and the team’s spell in the next few assignments in the Mainland Premier League will further serve as useful drills for the players.

Meanwhile, TFF has insisted that it was regularly contacting Yanga during the hearing of the complaints lodged by the club’s former Kenyan defender, John Njoroge, at the world soccer governing body, FIFA, in which the player was demanding compensation after Yanga had prematurely ended its contract with him.

Njoroge demanded that he should be paid a total of 17,159,800/- entitled to him after Yanga had prematurely terminated the contract and FIFA ruled in his favour, in which the world soccer governing body ordered Yanga to pay the player within 30 days after the ruling.

TFF Secretary General, Angetile Osiah, said the federation was sending Yanga all letters from FIFA on the case, adding that TFF had been working closely with FIFA on the issue. Osiah’s statement, therefore, quashed comments issued by Yanga Secretary General, Mwesigwa Celestine, on Wednesday this week, in which the latter claimed that he had yet to receive any letter from FIFA on Njoroge’s case.

Source Tanzania Daily News

A message to the Libyan people: it is through you that Africa will be united

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A message to the people of Libya by Dennis South.

Assalamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatohu!

My dear Libyan people, the majority of whom are, without doubt, the bravest people, and the most inspirational people, on Mother Earth, I have a message for you. It is a message about all of you, not just those who support the Jamahiriya and Brother Leader (but mostly for those who support the Jamahiriya and Brother Leader).

There is a saying that you may have heard of that comes from the Scriptures: “A Prophet is without honor in his own land.” The meaning is obvious: Sometimes, people who are very great, or simply very good people, are not appreciated in their own land. It often happens that that Prophet is appreciated, but he is appreciated by other people from other lands.

At this very moment, you, my dear Libyan people, are being watched, very anxiously, by millions and millions and millions of human beings on this earth, all of whom are biting their nails, hoping beyond hope, that your true government, The Great Arab Socialist Libyan People’s Jamahiriya, will resume its rightful role as the true government of Libya. As the people’s government.

Many of you Libyan people may not be aware of the following fact: Millions of Americans are aware that their government, the U.S. government, is corrupt to the core. And, at this moment, the day after the Libyan Jamahiriya took back the city of Bani Walid (January 24th, 2012), those millions of Americas, like myself, are shouting for joy at your success!!! Why?

The answer is simple: They have become very aware of the fact that their government, unfortunately, is an imperialist, dangerous, government. They are also aware that their own government has created hell for them in the U.S. Our jobs have been shipped overseas. Some 30 million U.S. citizens are unemployed, and the economic forcasters state that there is “no hope” that those people will ever be employed again. Their government is forming a police state. U.S. police departments now use drones, as was revealed by a Russia Today report, to spy on their citizens.

Millions of U.S. citizens know–very clearly–of the plight of the Libyan Jamahiriya. And on January 24th, when Bani Walid came back into the hands of the Libyan Jamahiriya government, those U.S. citizens danced for joy! They cried tears of happiness. Why? Because they identify with you, because they are oppressed by the same entities that have been oppressing you.

No one knows what the future holds. But, I make the following plea to you: If, by the Grace and Mercy of Almighty Allah, you regain control of your country from its traitors and foreign demons, you should return to all of the policies that were implemented by Brother Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahirya, especially with regard to your help of African nations.

If the U.S. and its devil allies have not dried up all of your oil wells, by the time that you re-take your land, I pray that you continue to help African nations to develop. I pray that you continue to stay out of the global economic banking system. I pray that you continue the Jamahiriya’s plans to open up three banks in Africa for the purpose of snatching Africa away from the control of international gangsters, and for the goal of creating Africa as a free, strong and independent continent.

I will tell you something, whether you believe it or not: If you regain control of your country, there will be a toppling of corrupt African governments all over the continent of Africa. Because those Africans who love you, and who love Brother Leader, will be SO very happy that all that Brother Leader had hoped for will begin to happen rapidly: corrupt African leaders will be overthrown by their citizens; countries of Africa will begin to start talking about uniting; African countries will begin to move themselves away from the influence of the U.S. corrupt political system.

Your victory in Libya will shake the entire world, but especially African nations. Their citizens will be ecstatic. There will be dancing [appropriate dancing, of course!] in the streets!! You will be looked upon as a BIG BROTHER!! You will be honored in Africa, and the world, forever.

We need you so much! And I had hesitated to speak these words to you, because it is probably not my place to lay such a burden on you. But, in point of fact, it was not myself who laid that burden on you. It was Allah.

Some of you might feel bitter that no African country–or very few–held out a hand to help you. But remember what Brother Leader said: The African nations are too weak. Some African nations did offer to send troops. But Brother Leader rightly told them not to come to Libya, because the march across the desert would be much to difficult for them to withstand. Brother Leader also told them to stay in their own countries, because one day the U.S. and its devil allies would be coming to their countries. So, it would be necessary for the Africans to defend themselves, as best they could.

So, do not be angry that African nations did not help you. They could not help you. They are too weak, and, unfortunately, too many of them are ruled by corrupt leaders.

My dearest Libyan brothers and sisters. I believe that there is a reason that Almighty Allah left you alone, with no support from any outside entity. I believe it was to strengthen you. I believe that, for some reason, Almighty Allah has chosen you to be the BIG BROTHER to the African people; to the African continent. I believe that it is through you that Africa will be united, which is a dream of Brother Leader, who is not dead, as you very well know.

When I heard that you had re-taken Bani Walid, butterflies shot through my stomach! I was on the verge of tears–happy tears. You are LOVED! You have no idea how much the people of the world love you; pray for you; and wish for your success. Because, your success will mean their success.

You are not alone! You have Allah. You have Muhammad. You have Muammar. And you have Libya. And you have us! You have those millions of us in this world who are watching you–whether they are black, white, brown or red– hoping beyond hope that you will succeed in regaining control of your country! And my last words are,

Allah, Muammar, Libya wa bas!!!

Your brother from the U.S.,

Dennis South

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Pakistan: Gaddafi Stadium / Pakistan’s late PM Ali Bhutto’s speech in honour of Gaddafi

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The Gaddafi Stadium is a cricket ground in Lahore, Pakistan. Originally Lahore Stadium, the facility was renamed in 1974 in honour of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi following a speech he gave at the 2nd Organisation of the Islamic Conference meeting in Lahore. The stadium houses the headquarters of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Photos are taken on January 10, 2012 by the thief.

Below is the speech of Pakistan’s late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of February 26, 1974, in which he admires Muammar Gaddafi’s efforts for Muslim unity and his positive role in the Arab world.

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Libya: “And I hope they will win” (interview with Joe Fallisi)

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Federico Dal Cortivo interviews Joe Fallisi, Italian tenor and human rights activist. Fallisi has denounced the Italian government over the war against Libya.

Translated from Italian by Alexander Synge

Q: Mr. Fallisi, on Thursday 27 October, you filed a charge at the Public Prosecutor’s office in Rome against the State of Italy for having violated Art. 11 of the Constitution by engaging in “hostilities against a foreign State”. This decision is, I think, counter-current, since all the parties in parliament and the Chief of State, Napolitano, fully support the NATO war. How did you reach it?

A: I came to the conclusion that it was my duty as a citizen to oppose this infamous development in Italy’s history. We find here the blackest page in the chronicles of recent years. I feel I am not represented in any way either by the government or by the opposition. Or by the so-called “President of the Republic”, an old hand in the Stalinist, Atlantic, Freemasonry camp, always ready to shed (radioactive) crocodile tears whenever the occasion requires it. You’re right, Parliament has “fully supported” the predatory assault on Libya willed by the Euro-American usurocrats. The decision to tear up a vital article of the constitution was taken by all, alongside the vile decision not to honour the treaty which was to bind us in friendship with the Great Arab Libyan People’s Socialist Jamahiriya. Again, the centre-right-left Caste has removed its mask, providing us with yet another reason for a revolution which one day shall rid us of them all.

Q: The attack on Libya was justified by France, Great Britain and the USA as “humanitarian intervention”, required to save the lives of civilians. What’s your view on this? What were the real reasons behind the war (never actually declared) which so closely resembles the war against Serbia in 1999?

A: The sages of India would say we are up to our necks in the era of Kali Yuga, a time in which power is in the hands of brutality (introductory information can be found in the three eloquent sections “Problemi che sorgono nel Kali Yuga”, “Cambiamenti nelle persone” and “Condizioni delle caste” here). Add to this the fact that we live in the society of spectres, Ersatz, Big Brother and Total Propaganda. The voice of those in power is the voice of falsehood. By definition, everything is placed on its head. The wielders of power use the most invasive media, which serve them, which are capable of palming off lies of gigantic, global proportions as though they were real. Just as we saw, for example, with the willing serfs in America who swallowed both the ridiculous elections (which Bush actually lost but which we are told he won) and Bush’s successor – who received his Nobel peace prize just before embarking on a career as warmonger (not only that, since he wasn’t born in one of the States of the Union, he wasn’t even entitled to run for the election). We see it in the targeted assassination of Bin Laden’s ghost – the spectral spectacle par excellence (see here)! To justify their crimes they take refuge in the doubtful criteria of political correctness, of democratic mystification (see vol. I of Qaddafi’s Green Book). It goes without saying that these people are about as interested in saving “civilian” lives as vampires are in the health of their… patients. They are the worst foes of the freedoms of peoples and true human rights. If more proof were needed, look at the obscene attack on the Jamahiriya – which by the way, before the “Islamic” monsters and northern Atlantic terrorists wreaked their havoc, had ensured living standards of the first order. Ask the martyred people of Sirte what kind of “protection” they received (along with phosphorus, uranium and anthrax – see, for instance, here and here).

Anglo-Judeo-America (a term I use for all predatory countries of the North and the West of the world) is made up of countries in the hands of Shylock (the supranational banking and financial power behind the Federal Reserve, the IMF and ECB). Anglo-Judeo-America will soon be insolvent. The empire is in a state of decline, in each and every sense of the word. Bolstering it we find only media manipulations and lethal arms, which the empire increasingly feels it can use at will. It is a well-known fact that when capitalism dies, it can rise from the grave again if the corpse is infused once more with the breath of life. That breath of life is called War. However, the old solution can only work when the economy, the means of production and the body of society display at least some signs of health, but now we face only advanced decay. We are watching the zombies as they walk over the edge of a cliff. Disaster has become inevitable.

If you think about it, the (still timid) emerging powers (BRIC, Venezuela…), with substantially healthy economies, or economies which are healing, have no need for war – except in defence. Perhaps Russia and China will actually have to defend themselves. And soon. While the war against Africa (on so many fronts) is directed toward crushing sovereign nations in order to devour their marrow (just look at Iraq, and the clear parallels with the situation in Libya), geopolitically and strategically we also see that it’s a war directed against Russia and China.

Q: Do you know if NATO used bombs containing Depleted Uranium during the heavy airstrikes on Tripoli and other Libyan cities? A recent study by Massimo Zucchetti, a nuclear technology teacher at the Politecnico in Turin, states that “there is discussion over the impact on Libya’s environment of arms containing DU, particularly Tomahawk cruise missiles with DU warheads, and that, according a worst case scenario, we can plausibly reckon on an increase in the incidence of tumours of about 6,200 cases per year for the next 70 years. It has been calculated that 112 missiles were launched on the first day of the war and it is more than likely that 1,000 or so had been launched before the war ended.”

A: There can be no doubt that the bloodthirsty “willing” predators (including shameless Italy) dumped an enormous quantity of bombs onto the soil of Libya (more than the quantity used during WWII). Most warheads included depleted uranium (or enriched uranium, see here). After all, that’s how today’s democracy works. A crime has been committed not only against humanity but also against Mother Nature. What shall we do with our nuclear waste? The best thing is to use it for arms to make high-penetration missiles. Best not to waste anything. Translating into permanent injury for today’s ‘flavour of the month’ bad guys (as I pointed out in an earlier interview, the harm is practically eternal). Plus the advantage that it costs nothing to transfer the uranium from the waste deposits. Returning to Kali Yuga, I’d like to point to certain key aspects of the dark age we live in. “‘Civilized’ warfare (with its codes of conduct and honour precisely set forth) is a thing of the past. Men fight like the Asuras and Rakshasas. As opposed to the other Yugas, who would cease their fighting from sunset to dawn, cremate the fallen and meditate upon war, the fighters of the era of Kali do not stop. Their only concern is final victory. Sadism becomes more marked. (…) The kshatriyas, the regal, warrior caste, is corrupted (…); their chiefs become rogues, criminals and terrorists. They try to use their remaining power to exploit the people: the kings themselves become thieves who will steal from their subjects rather than protect and defend them”. The fact that the State “warriors” (mercenaries) of the present day are also (unhealthy) carriers of this radioactive plague seems to accord well, mutatis mutandis, with the picture I have just painted. As for the costs of war, these costs are to be paid for precisely by the country that has been invaded and destroyed, plus the interest imposed by the loan sharks. The oil is used for this purpose too (see Iraq). The North Atlantic Terrorist Organization has just told the cutthroat-breast murderers of Benghazi (news – 17:00, 30 October 2011 – see Libya S.O.S.) that (at present) the costs of the war come to 480,000,000 dollars. Who knows whether the sum includes interest or not? Probably not.

Q: Geopolitically speaking, the attack on Libya shows just how determined the United States and its allies are to create an enduring escalation of warfare in the area of the Mediterranean and Near East, clearly with a view to destabilising all who do not bend to what the Latin Americans balefully call “Washington’s will”. We’ve recently heard from observers, including Russia’s envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, that Libya will be followed by Syria and Iran. Can you give us your thoughts on this?

A: For at least a decade, Syria and Iran (by the way, Iran is a tougher ‘nut’ to crack…) have also been in the sights of the Washington-London-Tel Aviv globalists (see here). As for Syria, an NTC has already been formed, also known as CNT (by a macabre coincidence of history CNT was the acronym for the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists). The NTC was constituted in Turkey, a faithful ally of Washington, and Turkey is one of the backstabbing Muslim States responsible for the rape of Libya. Erdogan, again, reveals his fake-Islamic dönme identity. Those who believe he might be the new condottiero of a new Ottoman empire and of a renewed Islam in the Middle East will just have to think again. His anti-Zionism is false (he obliged the Mavi Marmara to raise the flag of Comoros, not the Turkish flag, just before it set sail from Istanbul as part of the 2010 Freedom Flotilla. Erdogan played a key role in aborting Freedom Flotilla II, already foundering as a result of the “aid” received from Qatar. His conduct is yet another instance of the twisted representation of reality that characterises our society-of-all-that-is-spectral. And the Turks are waking up to this state of affairs. The lords of chaos could do to Turkey, with its Kurdish minority, what they’ve done to Libya and what they’re planning to do to Syria. He who lives by the sword…

Q: From the military angle, during the operations, “Operation Odyssey Dawn and Unified Protector”, which began with the French Armée de l’Air’s surprise attack on 19 March, the NATO coalition was flanked by Arab aircraft. To be more precise, Qatar with six Mirage 2000-5EDA and DDA aircraft and the United Arab Emirates with 12 aircraft (Mirage 2000-9 EAD/DAD and F16E/F). This basically means that a part of the Arab world, too, came out against Qaddafi – which is something we already saw during the Gulf War. What’s your take on this Arab participation?

A: Yes. The Anglo-Judeo-American predators are carving up Libya together with key Arab and Islamic countries (excepting Syria and Algeria, both threatened), and with the practically full support of the Palestinian resistance organizations. It is, actually, a tragedy within the tragedy, and the most squalid chapter in their recent history. As we were saying, it goes deeper than just the monarcho-theocratic Gulf dictatorships (led by Qatar, whose boots-on-the-ground actions were decisive). These dictatorships sold out long ago to America and are de facto collaborators of the Zionist entity. Iran, too, cheered as they watched the nauseating spectacle of Qaddafi’s lynching. Iran’s Minister of Defence says he’s keen to work together with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egypt, the oppressor Egyptian army and the Al-Qa‘ida filth in Benghazi. Hezbollah’s Lebanon dances to the same tune and, from the start, has been a key player in spreading Al-Jewzeera and Al-Arabiya’s colossal lies, and demanding a “no-fly zone”, i.e. an imperialistic attack on yet another Arab country. And, sadly, even the Palestinians (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PFLP…) have been crying for Libya’s blood. This is a particularly shameless act of betrayal, after the unceasing support of Qaddafi’s Libya for their cause, with no underhand dealings with the enemy whatsoever. The Jamahiriya – which respected and practised the fundamentals of the Koran – was considered by its theocratic foes overly non-religious. The great Qaddafi had always considered, and has always defended, management of the common good as the task of the masses, self-organised as people’s committees, curbing the priestly rabble, with their tyrannical ways, as well as foreign meddling. The fundamental rights that all Libyan citizens enjoyed under the Jamahiriya, including, especially, women’s rights, were incomparably greater than you’ll find in any other Muslim State. It was the battle conducted to safeguard the Jamahiriya against a reactionary minority – and Nasser first, and Saddam afterwards, were to conduct the same battle. As for the (atheistic, materialistic and dictatorial) groups of Trotskyite-Stalinist origin, their hatred of the Libyan experiment consisted (consists) in the fact that this experiment – a third way, transcending twentieth-century totalitarianism and moribund capitalism – showed (shows) up their own illusory ambitions, already condemned by history (see Green Charter Movement Third Universal Theory (1) and (2). There is more to Qaddafi’s death sentence than his flaws, shortcomings and errors (the worst being his reckless “openings” to the West – give a vampire a hand, or even a finger, and he’ll tear off your arm and then devour your heart and brain). There is more. That ‘more’ is to be found in his immense merits (see video 1, video 2, video 3), his intelligence and sincerity, his courage (see video 4, video 5, video 6). The North Atlantic handed him over to the monstrous torturers and racists who sully the name of Islam. Neither they nor Hamburgerland’s witch [Hillary Clinton], will have reason to cheer. Qaddafi represents the green idea which shall live on and shall indicate the only way out for humanity. Like a star, he is eternal. The one who laughed as he pummelled his corpse is now a dead man walking. He shall walk for only a brief time still.

Q. The Western media and other media too. For example, Al Jazeera, which showed only the (often false) footage that the aggressors wanted to be shown. The brutality of the loyalist troops. Popular ‘support’ for the rebels. Silence over the tremendous consequences of the airstrikes on the civilian population. The blood on the rebels’ hands. A well-oiled propaganda mill, after the ‘mistakes’ of the Viet Nam war (once upon a time, reporters would flock to the front line). Now, all we see are the embedded TV and newspaper hacks and their endless drivel. What are your thoughts on the West’s so-called free press?

A: The press is now completely in the hands of the loan sharks and warmongers. Here we see political correctness in action. And it makes very little difference if you think you’re a ‘left-winger’ (note the etymology!) or a ‘right-winger’. Both camps belong to the same system of exploitation and manipulation of the masses. I saw a newspaper hack from the ANSA agency at my press conference on 27 October. He quietly disappeared after the first quarter of an hour. Of course, not one word from his ‘agency’ about my press conference. ANSA has in fact just entered into a fraternal agreement with Al-Jewzeera (something Mr Napolitano commented on approvingly).

Q: What about Italy? What’s the outcome for Italy, and its squalid, two-faced political class? Our FM, Frattini, took his orders from the Anglo-Saxons and from the powers that be, north of the Alps. And the government and the fake opposition grovel and obey every order issued by NATO, with Giorgio Napolitano’s support. The man who applauded the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 is now an unconditional supporter of NATO in Libya.

A: Ours is a longstanding ‘commitment’ to bombing (including mustard gas), invading and colonizing Libya (and massacring and deporting its inhabitants). It goes back to 1911. From the Giolitti government through to Mussolini’s, Italy incessantly plagued Libya until 1943, including horrific incidents such as Al Kufra. We betrayed Austria at the start of WWI. Toward the end of WWII, we betrayed Germany as well. All in all, we’re pretty good at betraying people! Berlusconi offered Jamahiriya Italy’s apologies along with war reparations, and he stipulated a Friendship Agreement. He’d done something that was not only right and just but also beneficial for our country. He then lost his one and only chance to go down in history with at least a feather in his cap. He will now be remembered only as the unreliable, cowardly, opportunist liar he really is. A real ItaGlian. As for Napolitano, I think I’ve already said enough.

Q: Lastly, Mr Fallisi, what can Libya expert now that it’s been ‘freed’ by NATO?

A: To find out what’s going on in Libya I urge everyone to stay away from the embedded mainstream media. Thankfully, snippets of truth can still be picked up here and there from the internet, at sites such as Mathaba Libya News, AlFatah69, Eccleza, Libya360, MCC43, LibyaSOS, ResistenciaLibia, AlgeriaISP, LibiaSOS and STcom. You will learn that resistance to the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization and to the Kali Yuga “rebels” has only just begun. The Libyan people are unwilling to lay their heads on the chopping block. I embrace them with all my heart and I hope they will win.

December 2011.

The interview can be read in Italian language here.

Listen here to Joe Fallisi’s new song “Do not stand at my grave and weep”, dedicated to Aisha Gaddafi and to all the mothers of the Jamahiriya (poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye – 1932; music by Joe Fallisi – 2011).

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Amnesty International removes results, closes down voting page after Muammar Gaddafi takes lead in Human Rights Hero contest

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On the last day of 2011 it became crystal clear Brother Leader Muammar Gaddafi was in the lead in an online poll by Amnesty International USA for “Human Rights Hero”, followed by Michael Jackson and Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab – but after having noticed the results in favour of Gaddafi, Amnesty International fraudulently and cowardly changed the rules of its poll and closed down the voting page a whole month earlier than initially stated in their rules.

The voting page currently shows a messages that states that “The entry period has now ended”. On the Rules page the closing date has been changed from January 31, 2012 to December 31, 2011 (compare current Rules page to initial Rules page which is still visible via google cache):

Initial Rules page:

Current Rules page:

As comments on an article at mathaba.net point out:

Even if Amnesty International removed the result and even if it hindered further votes: Victory is ours! They obviously were shocked. They had to react. They had to commit mistakes. They had to manipulate.

NATO uses “human rights” for crimes against humanity. NATO uses “protecting civilians” for killing civilians.

and:

Amnesty International USA provides no reason for the early closing. But it isn’t hard to guess. Of all the names in the tag cloud, one name was growing bigger each day. And that name was Muammar Gaddafi. And if the promotion closed yesterday [December 31], then that probably makes Muammar the winner.

Have Amnesty announced a winner yet? No.

Have they said when they will announce the winner? No.

Some have suggested that the voting for Muammar Gaddafi was fake, or rigged by social media. But as someone else has pointed out there are not a large number of social media pages about Gaddafi, and the active twitter community supporting him is also not large. And Amnesty International probably knows this.

No, the reason for Muammar Gaddafi leading, and now presumably winning the promotion, is that many more people around the world than Amnesty ever thought possible, hold Muammar in high regard, recognise all the good he did, and are not fooled by the derogatory propaganda fed to the world during all of last year.

This latest example of Amnesty International (USA)’s reluctance to accept facts, in this case facts that are literally in front of their face on their own website, only reinforces what many of us already know – that Amnesty’s presumed objective to uncover truth about human rights is a farce, and their real interest is either to tell a story, or to bury one. The lack of integrity in this case is obvious to all with eyes to see. Does it matter? Yes. Many influential people make decisions on the basis of Amnesty’s reports.

It will be interesting to see what happens now. Whether their Human Rights Hero promotion silently disappears, whether a small name in the tag cloud is announced as winner, or whether Amnesty does the right thing by awarding the title of Human Rights Hero to the name that clearly led on the closing day – that of Muammar Gaddafi!”

as well as:

So there is just one thing left to say (no matter if they closed the page down or doing something else desperate):

CONGRATULATION, Muammar… you deserve it!!!

Amnesty International USA can be reached at [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

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Human Rights Hero: Vote for Muammar Gaddafi

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Muammar Gaddafi transformed Libya from the poorest country in the world to the most prosperous country of Africa, more prosperous than Brazil, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

Amnesty International, which has proven to be responsible for the deaths of many Libyans by supporting the American-European war on the country and by remaining silent throughout, is now looking for a Human Rights Hero.

Styling itself as a “human rights defender”, Amnesty International has chosen to ignore the major human rights violations that took place and are still taking place in Libya by not even mentioning Libya once in their magazine in the midst of the war in June, July and August.

Though Amnesty International has admitted “it was told” that many of the so-called mercenaries who were detained, tortured and killed by the NATO-backed Libyan rebels were nothing but migrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa, the human rights organisation has not undertaken anything to help them or the black Libyans who had full rights under Jamahiriya government and who were tortured and massacred by the NATO-rebels in the name of democracy and humanitarian intervention (see The Humanitarian War in Libya – there is no evidence).

“Gaddafi used billions of dollars to connect states in Africa. This man has something to make Western powers, who have grown strong sucking the blood of Africa, fearing that if Africa became independent and used the tremendous resources that Africa has, and that the Western world needs, in order to become powerful and stay powerful in the 21st century.

So he became a threat. In order to vamp on him and destroy him and destroy what he was doing with Africa and for Africa, they manufactured this false play that he was killing his own people in order to put him out of power, assassinate him, destroy the good that this man has done and put a puppet regime in power so that they would no longer have to contend with the idea of the United States of Africa, which the African Union was moving towards under Brother Gaddafi’s guidance, help and monetary assistance.

What was also leading to this humanitarian award to Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahirya was the UN report that was issued around January 2011, a multi-country report that seemed to give Libya, and subsequently the Jamahiriya government, rather high marks and praise as early as January 2011 around a whole range of issues.

What Brother Gaddafi did coming to power in a bloodless coup is, he nationalized the oil, he removed Britain and America from their bases in Libya and he used Libyan oil to finance revolutionary movements against puppet regimes in Africa and other parts of the world. This made him persona non grata in the West, and it also set him up as an enemy of those who have traditionally misused Africa and poisoned African leadership.

When I say poison, I don’t mean with physical poison, but African leaders who wanted more for themselves than they wanted for the liberation of our people – these are the types of leaders that America supported. They did not support Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Ture and many of those revolutionaries and many of those revolutionary thinking Black leaders, Patrice Lumumba and others. These are the Black Leaders who were murdered or abandoned or who were set up to destroy their power, because they were the leaders who understood a United Africa. Not all of these separate states.

Kwame Nkrumah, Gamal Adel Nasser, they wanted to lift up the idea of the Honorable Marcus Garvey-that there should be one Africa. That is what Nasser wanted, that is what Nkrumah wanted, that is what Muammar Gaddafi spent billions of dollars trying to promote: an African Union on the way to a United States of Africa. This is what made him such a threat to the West, and unfortunately for them, he’s still there, he’s still alive. They will ultimately have to deal with that man.

If I can make a point with this. He raised the standard of living with the Libyan people to the highest on the African continent and even the highest in the Middle East. He freed women who were Muslims to be a part of government, to be a part of a society where they don’t sit back and allow men to do everything.

The women are partners with the men in Libya. He was a socialist in orientation in the early days, but as he became involved deeper and deeper with the Quran, he saw himself as a reformer of Islam, and he was in the process of reforming Islam in his country and influencing the development in others.

I was there with him when he spent $33 billion to create a marvel in the 20th century where they discovered water under the desert. And he invested $33 billion to bring that water up out of the desert, and I was with him on the day that we pushed a certain button and the water began from near Benghazi into Tripoli, almost to the Tunisian boarder.

He made agriculture an absolute must for Libya, that they would produce their own food. He made it possible for the Libyans to get land and equipment to farm the land so that Libya would never have to depend on others for the basic necessities of food. This is what this man was doing, not only for Libya, but he was doing it for Africa as well. He became a thorn in the side of Europe, so now they want regime change.

The man was not in any office of power, he’s the revolutionary leader. We call him Brother Leader Muammar Gaddafi. He set up a participatory democracy where the people make the decisions for the future, and he guides the revolution.

I was with him when African presidents would come in, and he encouraged them and said, “Look, we are revolutionaries and you cannot have a revolution and every four years or eight years you bring somebody else in who may or may not continue the trend that you have started.” So when people say he has been in power too long, it takes a long time to bring a mind out of a colonial and slave mentality. He is not interested in power in that sense for himself, but he wants to empower the people.

Everybody there has a place to live. And he has sent hundreds of thousands of Libyans all over the world to study and the Libyan government pays for their education. If there is an operation that a Libyan needs and they have to go to Europe or America for that operation, the Libyan government pays for it. There is no government on the earth that does that for their people to the degree that this man has done.

That kind of leader with that kind of work for his people is an enemy to those who want to live off the sweat, blood and labor of the poor, but not give the poor anything in return. This is why some say that if this man came to America with what he has done for Libya and was trying to do for Africa, maybe they would renounce the 22nd Amendment and change it and make Gaddafi president in America for life.”

Therefore, do not support the fake human rights organisation Amnesty International, but support the true Human Rights Hero Muammar Gaddafi and the human rights standards of the Jamahiriya instead. Go to www.amnestyusa.org/heroes and add “Muammar Gaddafi” as Human Rights Hero. Please spell his name exactly like that as this is how a true human rights activist has submitted his name; any other spellings will not be added to the already existing votes.

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Gaddafi and Libya: a young American’s rant

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A young American speaks out against the Western war on Libya and the mainstream media which portrayed Gaddafi as a cruel dictator who was “killing his own people”.

After having read the Green Book, he wonders why people are even calling Gaddafi a dictator as Gaddafi didn’t have any real power because he gave all power to the people and also made Libya the most prosperous African Nation.

He notices that the NATO-rebels are “nothing but animals” and that they are still killing Libyan people every day, especially black Libyans, and concludes that “Gaddafi made the ‘democracy’ of the United States look like a big fat joke.”

About the videos below he said: “I just want people to understand that not everyone outside of North Africa or the Middle East is ignorant to what’s going on right now. As an American, not at all do I approve of the horrible, inhumane activities that NATO has sponsored to these rebels.”

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