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Norway Officials Admit They Knew Nothing About Libya But Joined Regime Change Efforts Anyway
September 19, 2018


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A new official report produced by the Norwegian government illustrates the continuing absurdity of NATO expansion and foreign adventurism in places very far away from the “North Atlantic” explicit in the name North Atlantic Treaty Organization — places like Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine or Syria.

Top Norwegian officials have now admitted they “had very limited knowledge” of events unfolding in Libya during 2010 and 2011, prior to NATO’s military intervention on behalf of anti-Gaddafi rebels a war that resulted in regime change and a failed state ruled by competing governments and extremist militias to this day. Norway enthusiastically joined the US, UK, and French led bombing of the country initiated in March 2011 even knowing full well its military knew next to nothing of what was unfolding on the ground.

But what did decision-makers have to go on? Consider this absurd admission from the official report: “In such situations, decision-makers often rely on information from media and other countries,” the report reads.

The commission that produced the report was chaired by former Foreign Minister Jan Petersen, and ultimately concluded that politicians in Oslo dragged the nation into the US-led bombing campaign with no regard for what could come next.

The commission report states that there were “no written sources” that so much as attempted to assess the nature of the conflict Norway was about to join. The officials failed to “assess the type of conflict Norway was taking part in” it finds.

NATO’s name for the operation was the US code name ‘Operation Odyssey Dawn,’ and Norway flew 596 strike missions during the first five months of the NATO intervention, dropping 588 bombs on Libyan targets, according to the report. Norway had provided six F-16 fighter jets and its pilots were reported to have conducted 10 percent of all coalition strikes against pro-Gaddafi forces.

Norway’s former Center Party leader Liv Signe Navarsete said of the final report:

“When you look at what happened next, with Libya becoming a hotspot of terrorism, this is not a decision to be proud of.”

The war had been sold to the European public on “humanitarian” grounds and included sensational atrocity stories, many which were later proven false, painting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as an irrational homicidal maniac.

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One notable story explicitly promoted by the State Department as well as US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice was the Viagra-fueled mass rape story, which claimed that Gaddafi had supposedly supplied his troops with Viagra in order to unleash sexual terrorism on the civilian population. Amnesty International and other human rights investigators later the proved the story completely false.

Some Norwegian politicians now claim the country was hoodwinked into another US-led regime change operation similar to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003. However, considering European leaders had the glaringly obvious example of Iraq and the lies it was built on so recent in history, this appears yet more excuse making designed to evade public responsibility.

Libya has long been forgotten in Western mainstream media, but has come back into headlines as a small civil war has lately erupted within areas under control of the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli. Since Gaddafi’s overthrow the country has been fought over by three (and at times up to four) competing governments while the streets are ruled by Islamist militias, including in some areas ISIS terrorists.

According to a CNN report last year, open air slave markets have since come into existence as Libya remains largely lawless and as a once stable national infrastructure and economy has crumbled.

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Norway Officials Admit They Knew Nothing About Libya But Joined Regime Change Efforts Anyway
September 19, 2018


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A new official report produced by the Norwegian government illustrates the continuing absurdity of NATO expansion and foreign adventurism in places very far away from the “North Atlantic” explicit in the name North Atlantic Treaty Organization — places like Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine or Syria.



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The original source of this article is Zero Hedge
Copyright © Zero Hedge, Zero Hedge, 2018


Oh wow :laff:
 

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I recently had an interview with an engineering consultant firm over the phone and the hiring manager told me about how he went to Kenya and they were looking at some sort of smart city that was being developed there. Any word on this?
 

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I'll be damned if Addo decides to entertain this proposal. There should be no outside representation at the AU :snoop:



Hold the fukk up. What. Israel is not even in Africa. Plus, how the hell does Israel get a seat but Haiti can't be added as a full member of the AU?

Addo better not back this bullshyt.
 

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Nigerians like most West Africans are the anglo saxons of Africa. Bantus especially Congolese are the Slavs. Nothing Russian about Nigerians.

Nigerians are too big of a monolith to put a blanket statement on.

Igbos and Yorubas are industrious and quite hard working. The Igbos very skilled in commerce and business, the Yorubas in law, politics and the arts (not to say that the traits are mutually exclusive). Hausa-Fulani you will tend to see as more laidback/relaxed. They do, however, do well with cattle rearing and agriculture.

If you only you had a leader that could see this and have each region develop based on what its dominant in :snoop:

I mean look at the US. You have industries based not just on geographic advantage, but human capital.
 

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Sometimes I consider the idea that colonialism is far more insidious and damaging than slavery.

60 years after colonialism and African nations are still doing this shyt. Between this and the Israel (potential) fiasco, it's almost like Africans want to lose.

Don't think it has shyt to do with colonialism...

it's like Poitier said... there's just something in us that makes us do this dumb shyt time and time again. Because we've been doing very dumb shyt for centuries now
 

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Sometimes I consider the idea that colonialism is far more insidious and damaging than slavery.

60 years after colonialism and African nations are still doing this shyt. Between this and the Israel (potential) fiasco, it's almost like Africans want to lose.

Uh... No. African leaders are just dumb as rocks since the Atlantic slave trade.

For every ONE Thomas Sankara there are 50 Dos Santos or Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo...
 

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Don't think it has shyt to do with colonialism...

it's like Poitier said... there's just something in us that makes us do this dumb shyt time and time again. Because we've been doing very dumb shyt for centuries now

It's greed and PHD(pull him down) syndrome that's a major problems for most of the continent.
 

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You wrote this in a thread in the locker roo

Israel helped save many Biafrans when the rest of the world didn't do much to save us from bombs and starvation. :yeshrug:

That's why, in part, Igbos are converting to Judaism.

I didn't address it in the thread, but I have to question how true this is.

I wrote previously about the nature of how and why Islam and Christianity took root in Africa(among other places)


Christianity and the church are linked to institutions and resources....which is why it spreads across the world.
Resources and institutions and global links that the indigenous religion does not....and the poor people across the world want access to those things.

Schools and education, most importantly.Public works projects, infrastructure, medicine, clean water.
The Church assumes the responsibilities that the state doesn't or can't do.

These missionaries feed people in poor countries where poverty is REAL poverty, so I think in survival mode people just focus on that.

I'm sure we've both had discussions and arguments with older relatives over the topic of these missionaries and the damage they do.

They won't listen.

I would have to think that this is what is in play here as well. Some of the rank and file people may have others reasons(some spiritual in nature) but the leaders of that community and a good % of the people have to be doing it for the reasons that people adopted Islam and Chrsitianity in the past.....access to resources, institutions, and networks.


As always, I try to be respectful to the lives of people lost in the ongoing conflict. But from what I've read about the war....Israel wasn't the only country or group of people assisting Biafra, yet I've seen no equal public display of affinty towards those groups as I've seen toward jews, Israel and to judaism.
Even people who aren't fond of Igbos concede that they are generally intelligent and business minded. The people who endured the war were grateful for the assistance, but they had to have known the ulterior motives of the state of Israel in providing that assistance. The same state of Israel that traded and supported Apartheid South Africa long after the world had turned their back on them and imposed sanctions. Same State of Israel that has (by policy) discriminated against fellow ETHIOPIAN jews who were practicing judaism for centuries.

I have to beleive that these recent Igbo converts are aware of this.

This comment was really spurred by the video posted above of Netanyahu trying to SERIOUSLY have Israel join the African Union.
WHAT the F???????
 

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You wrote this in a thread in the locker roo



I didn't address it in the thread, but I have to question how true this is.

I wrote previously about the nature of how and why Islam and Christianity took root in Africa(among other places)




I would have to think that this is what is in play here as well. Some of the rank and file people may have others reasons(some spiritual in nature) but the leaders of that community and a good % of the people have to be doing it for the reasons that people adopted Islam and Chrsitianity in the past.....access to resources, institutions, and networks.


As always, I try to be respectful to the lives of people lost in the ongoing conflict. But from what I've read about the war....Israel wasn't the only country or group of people assisting Biafra, yet I've seen no equal public display of affinty towards those groups as I've seen toward jews, Israel and to judaism.
Even people who aren't fond of Igbos concede that they are generally intelligent and business minded. The people who endured the war were grateful for the assistance, but they had to have known the ulterior motives of the state of Israel in providing that assistance. The same state of Israel that traded and supported Apartheid South Africa long after the world had turned their back on them and imposed sanctions. Same State of Israel that has (by policy) discriminated against fellow ETHIOPIAN jews who were practicing judaism for centuries.

I have to beleive that these recent Igbo converts are aware of this.

This comment was really spurred by the video posted above of Netanyahu trying to SERIOUSLY have Israel join the African Union.
WHAT the F???????

I will address your moral outrage later. For now, I’ll say that moral considerations don’t matter with respect to state building
:yeshrug:
 
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