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Libyan Coup: The Truth As you've probably noticed, I was pretty "vocal" regarding the coup taking place in Libya. Since I started expressing my opinion, I've received a lot of positive feedback from you. Most of my readers know what is really happening behind the closed curtains, but I was surprised to see that there are still people who don't understand what a coup is and what's the purpose behind it. Today I will tell you about my first hand experience with an Western-coup. And like all coups, it also received the name of "people's revolution". I didn't live in Libya under dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but I lived in Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Wars Vs. Coups Before going any further, please allow me to tell you what the purpose of a coup is. The human species, unfortunately, has a very bloody history. There was always a war taking place somewhere on our planet. From our distant history, to the modern times, mankind never knew peace. The main purpose of a war is to gain wealth. Long time ago, it was an easy scheme, and Julius Caesar said it best: "veni, vidi, vici" - "I came, I saw, I conquered". Once the war was over, the winner took over the lands and wealth of the defeated. But things are more complicated in modern times. Wars are not so simple anymore. Weapons are very expensive, the human loss is not easily tolerated by modern society, the motives for an invasion/war must be good (see Pearl Harbor or 9/11), keeping an army abroad is very expensive (for example, the budget for keeping the US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010 only, reached $663.8 billions - Wikipedia), not to mention the destruction caused to an invaded country and the social distress. A more simple and effective solution is for the "conqueror" to place in power a corrupted leader controlled by him. This way, the conqueror controls the entire country and all its wealth, without expenses, destruction or distress. But things get complicated when the leader of a country is a dictator or an incorruptible patriot. And here is where coups work their black magic. Examples of Coups A good example is Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, who in 1999 won the elections for the first time. His opponent was Carlos Perez, a former Venezuelan president, a pro-American and corrupted leader who gave the wealth of his country for personal materialistic gains. He lived and died as a wealthy man in Miami, USA. Hugo Chavez is an incorruptible patriot, therefore inconvenient to the Western powers who are desperately trying to remove him from power. Chavez speaks of numerous failed assassination attempts (Washington Post). The Bush administration also planned for a coup to take place in 2002, but fortunately it failed because Chavez is very loved by his people. 1. Democracy Now: "CIA Documents Show Bush Knew of 2002 Coup in Venezuela" 2. The Guardian (UK): "Venezuela coup linked to Bush team" 3. Project Censored: "Bush Administration Behind Failed Military Coup in Venezuela" 4. Venezuela: Chavez accuses US of assassination plot Steve Kangas writes: "CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: “We’ll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us.” The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator’s security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be “communists,” but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow." Examples include: - the coup to overthrow the democratically elected leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran; - the ouster of democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala; - one coup per year (between 1957-1973) in Laos; - the installation of the murderous “Papa Doc” Duvalier in Haiti; - the assassination of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic; - the overthrow of Jose Velasco in Ecuador; - the assassination of the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba in the Congo (later Zaire); - the overthrow of the democratically elected Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic; - the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart in Brazil; - the overthrow of the democratically elected Sukarno government in Indonesia; - a military coup in Greece designed to install the “reign of the colonels” (when the Greek ambassador complained about CIA plans for Cypress, Johnson told him: “F**k your parliament and your constitution”); - the overthrow of the popular Prince Sahounek in Cambodia; - the overthrow of Juan Torres in Bolivia; - the overthrow and assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile; - the assassination of archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador, and dozens of other incidents rarely if ever taught in American school history lessons. As John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man), as a former respected member of the international banking community and National Security Agency economist, told Amy Goodman: “Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring—to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government…. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men.” Perkins’ job was “deal-making”: "It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of the loan—let’s say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador—and this country would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure—a Halliburton or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn’t possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can’t do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, “Look, you’re not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.” And today we’re going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they’ve accumulated all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It’s an empire. There’s no two ways about it. It’s a huge empire. It’s been extremely successful." If coups are so repaying, then why are wars still taking place? Most of the money for these loans, according to Perkins, is provided by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the two premier neolib loan sharking operations (it is important to note that the Straussian neocon, Paul Wolfowitz, is now president of the World Bank, thus demonstrating how closely related the neocons and traditional neolibs are). If the loan sharks are unable to steal natural resources (oil, minerals, rainforests, water) as a condition of repaying this immense debt, “the next step is what we call the jackals.” "Jackals are CIA-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn’t work, they perform assassinations—or try to. In the case of Iraq, they weren’t able to get through to Saddam Hussein… His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn’t get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die and kill, which is what we’ve obviously done in Iraq." My personal experience: The 1989 Romanian Coup I was in Romania during the 1989 so called "people's revolution" under dictator Ceausescu. In fact, it was a 100% Western coup, with the sole purpose of looting the country of its wealth! There were hundreds of reasons for the Romanian coup to take place. First of all, Ceausescu was a communist & pro-USSR. - Romania had NO external debt + US $2.7 billions in the National Bank + US $10 billion to receive from other countries from exports (in 1989!). The exports were rapidly increasing. - Romania was mass-exporting cereals, wine, weapons (especially the PKM), ammunition, etc. - while keeping the imports low. - Romania also had oil fields and all the petrol used was internaly produced. - Romania's gold exploitation gave a $5 billions/year profit and the country's gold reserve was fairly big (tens of tons). The gold mines were expanding. - All Romanians had jobs, the unemployment was 0%, all had cars, homes and savings in the National bank. Even though the communist state had major expenses (it was building roads, apartment buildings, factories, etc.), the country was getting wealthier each year. When the coup started, Ceausescu was abroad, negotiating with some Arab countries the establishment of the first European Bank. Imagine that! Romania was about to become a world player. Fairly rich & with a solid economy. Were the people unhappy? Yes, but not because they were poor. The social distress had to do with the people's liberties being restrained by Ceausescu's Police (Militia) and Secret Services. Also, the people had money, but there were not too many products to spend them on. Everything was limited and rationalized. The country was prospering at high speed, but the people were paying the price. Ceausescu was a dictator and oppressor. His intentions might have been good, but the price was too high. And that's why the coup was successful. Even so, the Romanians never imagined that removing Ceausescu from power could mean what it actually meant. Most of them thought that his son, Nicu (who was very loved, especially in Sibiu) will step in his father's place and give more liberties to the people. That's all the people ever hoped for, back then. But the Western powers had other plans. They infiltrated highly trained agents to start a war from inside. At the same time, their "diplomats" planned a "people's revolution". All state's influence was working against Ceausescu. The secret agents working for the coup to take place were active everywhere, from those shooting civilians in the streets, to those more subtle spreading disinformation on TV and making the Army fight against the Police and the people. It was a nightmare! Not even the 'Army Chief of Staff' had any clue of what is really going on. During the coup, there was only one thing shouted everywhere: "the terrorists"! Nobody ever heard of terrorists or terrorism in Romania before, and most people had no idea what this word even meant. Who invented this word and for what purpose? The civilians were armed by the Army and asked to call themselves "revolutionaries". They were warned that terrorists are killing civilians and they should shoot back without questions. Also, they were informed that the Police was working for Ceausescu and they will shoot them at sight. Imagine the chaos! The people were shooting each other, while the highly trained foreign agents were conducting guerrilla strikes against the army, police and the people. A sniper shot at my father-in-law and it was a near miss. He was going home, carying groceries. There was nothing offensive about him, just a random dude arriving home from work. I went and saw the bullet holes and marks in that building. I can only imagine what he went through, knowing that his wife and daughter were in the same building. Then, the sniper begun randomly shooting through the windows of all apartments. The people were lying on the floor, while the widnows were being shuttered apart by flying bullets. There are thousands of buildings in Romania who still bare the marks of those sad days. Thousands of innocent people had been killed or wounded during the coup. Highly trained special troops operated in Romania. They knew exactly how the Romanian armored vehicles can be taken out with ease. They clogged the exhaust pipes in some light tank models, making the exhaust smoke to flood the interior and choke the soldiers inside. Those trying to escape, had been executed outside. They also infiltrated demonstrators, giving them free alcoholic drinks. It was December and most people drunk to get warm. Afterwards, the angry mob was easily controllable. They've led them towards governmental buildings or police stations. The mob killed innocent people without even knowing why. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, were caught and executed by firing squad after a brief and shameful "trial". Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu during their "trial" Executed by firing squad The judge killed himself few years later, when he finally understood that he was manipulated. Nicu Ceausescu, dictator's son, was arrested and convicted. He died only few years later, in 1996. Then, the Economic Hitmen have been sent to do their job: rob Romania of it's wealth. Click to watch "The Confessions of an Economic Hitman". 22+ years later, Romania is almost economically dead. All its industry died, thousands of huge factories had been closed, millions of workers had been fired. Most of them never found work again. All gold mines had been closed and the gold from treasury moved abroad. Romania received some papers in exchange, called certificates. Fare trade, isn't it? American companies are taking over Romania's gold deposits as we speak. "Rosia Montana" is one of the oldest and largest European gold mines. Romania is banned from exporting cereals in the EU. Other European countries have this job. Agriculture also died in time. There are only few private corporations who make money from agriculture. I'm expecting Monsanto to knock at the door from time to time and take over. It's easy to pay out those involved and take over their already established businesses. Romania has now enormous external debt (especially towards the International Monetary Fund) and making more and more each year. The people are against taking any more loans from the IMF, they are protesting each year - but nobody minds them! The energetic and oil national companies had been sold to Western corporations, who raise the price of energy and gas each 3-4 months. The price for 1 gallon of gas is US $8+ in Romania, while the minimum wage is $200+/month (yes, the equivalent of 25 gallons of gas). The salaries drop periodically, instead of raising, not even being able to keep up with inflation. This is what will happen in Libya in the following years. The country will be looted by all its fortune and the people will be left to die. All I want is for people to understand that there is no such thing as the "people's revolution", only well-planned coups. NATO is a big step towards the one world government, entirely controlled by the elites. The Occupy Movement could be the first REAL, People's Revolution. I only hope for it not to be hijacked from inside and turned against us. This is what they do best! You might also like: