The US Helped Overthrow Gadaffi And Create A Liberal Democracy. Now It Is A Failed State.

ISIS in Libya (image source)

“We are helpless and not being able to do anything against this deliberate destruction to the oil installations. NOC urges all faithful and honorable people of this homeland to hurry to rescue what is left from our resources before it is too late.”

The above statement from Libya’s National Oil Corp references the seizure of state oil assets by Islamic State extremists, whose influence in the country is growing exponentially as the world's attention is focused on Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Over the past year amid the power vacuum the West created by engineering the demise of Moammar Qaddafi but failed to address the poblem of what, in a country of warring tribes and sects, would replace him.

The latest IS attacks occurred in Es Sider, a large oil port closed for at least a year due to the conflict between the three groups that claim to be the legitimate government of Libya.

Reports from the most reliable sources available suggest seven guards were killed on Monday in suicide bombings while two more lost their lives on Tuesday as ISIS attacked checkpoints some 20 miles from the port. “Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, Libya’s biggest oil ports, have been closed since December 2014,” Reuters reports. “They are located between the city of Sirte, which is controlled by Islamic State, and the eastern city of Benghazi.”

ISIS also destroyed storage tanks tanks holding hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Es Sider and Ras Lanuf,” Ali al-Hassi, a spokesman for the the Petroleum Facilities Guard said.

Islamic State is advancing east from Sirte in order to gain control of the country’s oil infrastructure, much as the group has done in Syria and Iraq. As Middle East Eye wrote last summer, “the desert region to the south of the oil ports has been strategically cleared in a series of attacks by IS militants on security personnel and oil fields, where employees have been killed and kidnapped, and vehicles and equipment seized.”

“I expect they will try and take Sidra and Ras Lanuf and the oil fields on the west side of the oil crescent,” one oil worker said. “There are few people left to protect the oil fields apart from local security from isolated towns.”

Efforts to protect Libya’s oil are complicated immeasurably by the fractious (and that’s putting it politely) political environment.

In short: since the removal of strongman Gadaffi and his natural successors by a US, french and UK (the FUKUS axis) bombing campaign the country that was africas most prosperous and socially advanced has become a lawless failed state, a modern day Wild West. Stable government is now a distant memory, warlords and gangsters rule without constrain in their territories.

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Sweden's Migrant Crackdown Could Spell The End Of Open Borders Across Europe

The border is no longer open to all travellers The Oresund Bridge spans the channel between Denmak and Sweden. (Image Source)

As we have reported many times over the past year, Sweden has been more hard hit by the crimes and lawlessness of illegal immigrants from primitive third world societies than anywhere else in Europe. This is because it's relatively small population of around nine million mean migrants make up a larger proportion of the total than in nations such as Britain France and Italy with populations of around sixty million, and also because the seld righteousness of the socialist elite that has governed Sweden for decades led authorities to turn a blind eye to what was going on in cities and towns.

Even the Sweden hating socialists cannot ignore the epidemic of rape crimes, assaults and the general contempt for Swedish society, law, culture and traditions that illegal immigrants from Africa and the middle east have expressed through their actions. While Swedish people are being imprisoned for 'hate crimes' because they have expressed very reasonable ctiticisms of migrants and the Islamic faith, violent hate attacks on Christians are going unpunished in the interests of multiculturalism.

Things are changing however, the problems caused by migrants have resulted in a swing to the right in Swedish politics and the rise of the anti - EU, anti - immigration Sweden Democrat party appears to have shocked the political estblishment so much they have fallen victim to a rare attack of common sense.

From today, Sweden has reinstated border controls and will require migrants to present valid travel documents and work permits as they enter the nation, a major shift from the previous policy of welcoming all comers without question (and not even checking them for weapons). While the move been welcomed by many the news has been received very negatively by the United Nations’ own migratory body which gives every indication it is committed to a course that will destroy European nations. TheLocal, Sweeden reports.

Working to campaign on behalf of migrants and to encourage migration worldwide, (although interference in the domestic politics of member nations is not part of its charter) the UN Refugee Agency announced in a press conference: “Unfortunately, it looks as though those wishing to gain asylum to Sweden will have to present valid identification… There is a tremendous strain to be on the run and you can not expect that those who are entitled to asylum will also have the right documents with them from the beginning – it is quite impossible.

“But that’s where we find ourselves now, unfortunately. We look on this with growing concern”.

The idiocy of these people is utterly gobsmacking. When the terrorist group ISIS has announced its intention to flood Europe with jihadists posing as refugees, how is it unreasonable to control who enters a nation.

The reinstatement of border controls by Sweden, probably the softest of soft touches for bogus refugees among European nations could trigger a wave of similar moves across Europe, as hardening attitudes towards migrants become more acceptable to the otherwise reticent media and political elites. The supranational bureaucracies and the smooth faced deal makers who lead them may be horrified that their push towards global government (to which the elimination of national borders would represent a huge step) may express anger at being defied but in the end there is nothing they can do if national leaders choose to ignore them.

Despite the rhetoric surrounding the new border checks, which will mean travellers on trains and buses have their paperwork checked as they cross the border into Sweden from Germany and Denmark will actually be effective is another matter entirely. Despite police being deployed to the frontiers they were banned from profiling individuals for passport checks, were under-staffed, and in any case continued to admit migrants even if they didn’t have any paperwork at all, as long as they signed asylum papers. According to official figures, on the first full day of checks there were 1,600 asylum applications — no reduction from the same period in the previous week.

The world is run by wankers.

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