Links, Tuesday, 21st

Morning / Afternoon! **waves**

NATO’s “Success” in Libya, ISIS Replaces Gaddafi

Third week of February marked 6th anniversary of ‘popular’ up-rising in Libya that ultimately led to the overthrow of Gaddafi regime. Thanks to NATO’s intervention and the chaos it left behind, today’s Libya lies in ruins, over-run by a multitude of militias and the self-styled Islamic State. While NATO intervention itself was a drastic failure, as we had previously reported, its aftermath has turned out to be even more devastating, forcing the country to descend into utter chaos. What was previously a reasonably stable Libya is today a picture of extreme debilitation where power cuts are routine, water shortage is acute, inflation rate is sky high and a liquidity crisis is looming large. Not to forget that the country does not have a central government and is being run by a militia whose authority and legitimacy is openly challenged by rival factions.

Could there be a better context for the world’s most ruthless and powerful terror organization, ISIS, to grow and establish control over large swaths of the oil rich country? ISIS emerged in Iraq when the country was in shatters after the US forces hadwithdrawn in 2008-09. Today, ISIS has emerged in Libya when its condition is no different from that of Iraq. This is not a coincidence; for, this is how Western interventionism works and creates chaos in countries that don’t subscribe to its imperialist agendas.

http://journal-neo.org/2017/02/21/nato-s-success-in-libya-isis-replaces-gaddafi-2/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/21/goose-stepping-our-way-toward-pink-revolution/ :

“The system the deep state primarily serves is not the United States of America, i.e., the country most Americans believe they live in; the system it serves is globalized Capitalism. The United States, the nation state itself, while obviously a crucial element of the system, is not the deep state’s primary concern. If it were, Americans would all have healthcare, affordable education, and a right to basic housing, like more or less every other developed nation.

The Trump regime (whether they’re sincere or not) has capitalized on people’s discontent with globalized neoliberal Capitalism, which is doing away with outmoded concepts like the nation state and national sovereignty and restructuring the world into one big marketplace where “Chinese” investors own “American” companies that manufacture goods for “European” markets by paying “Thai” workers three dollars a day to enrich “American” hedge fund crooks whose “British” bankers stash their loot in numbered accounts in the Cayman Islands while “American” workers pay their taxes so that the “United States” can give billions of dollars to “Israelis” and assorted terrorist outfits that are destabilizing the Middle East to open up markets for the capitalist ruling classes, who have no allegiance to any country, and who couldn’t possibly care any less about the common people who have to live there.”

My life is back to chaotic now that I can do things! I been so busy. Went to the Sam’s Club picked up MUCH needed supplies that had run out. Went to doctor appointment for pancreas and found out it’s not quite as bad as my Dr. thought it was (Awesome good news!) He figured I had pancreatitis divisivism. (divided pancreas) and it’s not, the dye he used shows a very narrow passage way in the shape of an S, and it’s narrow enough it was completely blocked from draining. So what he wants to do instead of full out surgery, he wants to put an other stent in the S area and it should keep me good!! O.O

4 to 6 weeks from now he wants to do that procedure! In the meantime I have to take Creon which is suppose to help me with digestion. BUT I can’t take pills and I had asked if I can crush or break open this capsule. He said I could but the box says NO, so I have to call the pharmacy and ask them if it will be painful or bad to do the crushing….

Then I have been summoned to the Social Security office to account for my mismanagement of my nephew’s account b/c I have been Out of Commission. I am hoping they have an understanding policy. I don’t want to get into trouble, but I haven’t had time to do his SS Payee Report. 🙁 Now I have to be accountable. I am taking my medical files with me to show them I have been OOC, and my daughter is going with me so I can prove she has been helping me. God, what penalties can come from this? Any one? **very uncomfortable now**

And on that note, MORNING everyone.. LOL Yes I know it’s 1pm. Shutup.. lol