Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Tripoli's streets see jubilation mixed with caution as rebels score symbolic victory in capturing the Libyan leader's fortified compound.
The capture of Gaddafi's heavily fortified residence appears to be a pivotal moment in Libya's tumultuous six-month revolution. As the news spread, rebel fighters hooted and cheered, firing wildly into the air. But the fighting continued in some parts of the city. Not everyone was convinced that Libya's brutal civil war was now finally over.
"It's a symbolic victory. Gaddafi is still free. He hasn't been captured. That means the game isn't over yet," one sceptical Tripoli resident, Ishmael, said. Others were more upbeat, still trying to digest the news that the leader's grip on Libya was finally over. "It's very good," one said simply.
Luke Harding in Tripoli
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 23 August 2011 21.41 BST
WEDNESDAY 24TH AUGUST 2011
SYRIA IS STILL IN THE IRON GRIP OF BASHAR ASSAD
Last week, President Obama and a host of European leaders called on the Syrian leader to step down. While Assad marshaled tanks and troops and sent them into the streets to face off against anti-government demonstrators, pushing the death toll well into the thousands, the United States and European Union countries clamped down with new sanctions against Damascus. Even the leaders of Turkey, an ally of Syria, have called on Assad to stop the bloodshed.
But if you’re waiting for the regime in Damascus to disappear, don’t hold your breath. Syria is no Libya, and Assad is no Gadhafi. What’s more, Israel may not even want such an outcome.
To be sure, anyone who said a year ago that three Arab dictators would be toppled by popular uprisings in the space of nine months would have been called a naïf. But that doesn’t mean the Arab world is about to birth another fallen dictator. A few elements make Syria’s case different from the uprisings in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia.
For one thing, opposition to Assad has materialized much more slowly, both inside and outside the country. Domestically, anti-government demonstrations have yet to explode into a full-scale armed uprising as they quickly did in Libya and Tunisia. The Assad family long has maintained its iron rule over Syria by stoking the fires of the country’s sectarian divisions, and while Assad might be reviled by some in the country, others -- including the Alawite community from which he hails – view him as a patron of sorts.
By Uriel Heilman · August 23, 2011
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Wednesday 17th August 2011
Mumbai: The fallout of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare’s arrest in Delhi was an outpouring of anger and indignation across Maharashtra. Rallies, relay fasts and peaceful protests were held right from his village Ralegan Siddhi to almost every part of the state. Thousands of protesters were also arrested. The government’s action is expected to give a further impetus to the movement against corruption in the following days, say Hazare’s supporters from all walks of life. In Mumbai alone, over 3,000 people were picked up on the charges of unlawful assembly following demonstrations across the city.
“Approximately, 3,000-4,000 people have been detained and released across Mumbai,” City Commissioner of Police Arup Patnaik said.
In what seemed like a second movement for independence, people in large numbers sang the patriotic song Vande Mataram and shouted slogans “Anna Hazare Hum Tumhare Saath Hai (Anna we are with you) and Corruption Hatao (Eliminate corruption).
Supporters of Indian rights activist Anna Hazare shout slogans as they are being detained during a rally in support of Anna Hazare’s fight against corruption, in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Tuesday 9th August 2011: London, UK.
All over the news this morning, continuing riots and mayhem in London, England. It's the third night of looting and burning now... August 6-8th local calendar.
The reports say it's mainly unorganised groups of young people going about looting shops, burning vehicles, residences, coming into face-to-face conflict with police riot squads. There are hundreds of people involved in these pockets and hundreds more bystanders who are making police operations all the more difficult. The catalyst for these activities was the fatal shooting of a young unarmed man of African descent by the local police in Tottenham, London, last Thursday 4th August...
All over the news this morning, continuing riots and mayhem in London, England. It's the third night of looting and burning now... August 6-8th local calendar.
The reports say it's mainly unorganised groups of young people going about looting shops, burning vehicles, residences, coming into face-to-face conflict with police riot squads. There are hundreds of people involved in these pockets and hundreds more bystanders who are making police operations all the more difficult. The catalyst for these activities was the fatal shooting of a young unarmed man of African descent by the local police in Tottenham, London, last Thursday 4th August...
To paraphrase what Anastasia says:
This monetary system was set up to provide ongoing Mass Slavery
~ but without the overheads.
The Hopi Prophecy also says:
"Many will appear to have lost their souls in these final days. So intense will the nature of the changes be that those who are weak in spiritual awareness will go insane, for we are nothing without spirit. They will disappear, for they are just hollow vessels for any thing to use. Life will be so bad in the cities that many will choose to leave this plane. Some in whole groups... Only those who return to the values of the old ways will be able to find peace of mind. For in the Earth we shall find relief from the madness that will be all around us... As we get close to the time of arrival the Purifier there will be those who walk as ghosts through the cities, through canyons they will have constructed in their man made mountains. Those that walk through these places will be very heavy in their walk, it will appear almost painful as they take each step for they will be disconnected from their spirit and the Earth... Many things will begin to occur that will not make sense, for reality will be shifting back in and out of the dream state... We will receive many warnings allowing us to change our ways from below the Earth as well as above. Then one morning in a moment. We will awaken to the Red Dawn. The sky will be the colour of blood, many things will then begin to happen that right now we are not sure of their exact nature. For much of reality will not be as it is now... No thing living will go untouched, here or in the heavens.
"The way through this time it is said is to be found in our hearts
and reuniting with our spiritual self.
Getting simple and returning to living with and upon the Earth
and in harmony with her creatures.
Remembering that we are the caretakers, the fire keepers of the Spirit..."
:D ... Just as Anastasia teaches us in the Books : )
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