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Gaddafi killed in Libya

RT made this report awhile ago, along with discovery of depleted uranium & heavy metals. The argument for oil is documented, the geography as well, since the early 40's when Roosevelt started planning American dominance. Just as an aside while we were planning our dominance during the war, we were helping the axis defeat Britain through our lend-lease program (Much to Churchill's dismay). The shift to the east doesn't require any current events knowledge outside of knowing we're at war in the East.

As an aside RT's news is pretty God damn shoddy (not to be absolutist) and I prefer:
http://en.rian.ru/
 
I normally like Bill Maher, but I'm really getting sick of him gushing over Obama, as if the guy is personally taking out all these despots. Enough with the jokes about how badass Obama is. Just stop already. I would prefer if he would take a serious look at US economic interests abroad, and stop congratulating the current administration. I mean, he's always carrying on about US exceptionalism and what a joke it is, but he seems perfectly happy to turn a blind eye to the very real problems contributing to it.

I get that he's just trying to offset the Republican media, but critical thinking is in order here. If he's not willing to do it, then there's nothing left but fringe media, and I really don't want to start down that road. The United States needs a mainstream non-partisan outlet, holding its feet to the fire.
 
soundsystem00 said:
We need to find an alternative fuel.

I'm sure we already have, but the oil industry has too much of a monopoly.
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We have biofuel. Which is causing famine:

This year's famine in the Horn of Africa has a complex set of causes, not least a dire political situation that has made problems much worse, but it has served to refocus attention on global food prices – and the impact of harvesting biofuels such as corn ethanol.

The US is the world's largest producer and exporter of corn, giving it the power to dictate global market responses.

Domestic consumption of corn, as ethanol, has driven up the price of corn worldwide, according to studies from the World Bank and other institutions.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/15/us-corn-belt-farmers
 
Sharia law serves as a basis for most law in middle eastern countries, doesn't it? I'm pretty sure it was around in Libya, too. It's just how strongly they enforce certain things, which remains to be seen.
 
It's funny Gaddafi who was our agent in 'decolonization' (Meaning to steal from Britain) is dead, his successor a former General underling. Just another White Terror waiting to happen, but since the revolution was bloody no one would even blink. It isn't a surprise finding the military the main power, considering in the Middle East they are the oligarchy. In Egypt they're still protesting while the military scrambles for a figure. In Tunisia which has progressed out of Military rule, there results will just be a figure de facto of the military*. Just like in Iran whose had several revolutions and demonstrations asking for freedom only getting new characters to revolt against later.

Just as an aside Tunisia military was complaining about the hypocrisy from the west, when using rhetoric like "Internet should be free" while they sent Microsoft trainers and using SmartFilter to shot down communication. Which may come as a surprise, when it was found SmartFilter was used in Iran during its protest while China uses Green Dam/Great Wall. SmartFilter was(is) used for every revolution including Syria.
 
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Pindar said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...e-of-all-law/2011/10/23/gIQAxvea9L_story.html

http://translate.google.com/transla...i-discours-formation-gouvernement-interimaire
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That looks familiar.

When Muammar al-Gaddafi came to power in the Libyan Revolution, he promised to reinstate sharia law and abrogate imported laws which contradicted Islamic values. Initially, however, Article 34 of the 1969 constitution stated that all old laws remained in effect, except for those which contravened the new constitution. In 1973, Gaddafi suspended all legislation, and stated that sharia would be the law of the land. The dual-court system was also abolished that year, replaced by a single court system which aimed to bring together Islamic and secular principles. However, by 1974, progress in the Islamicisation of the law had come to a halt.
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Am I to congratulate these corpse-ripping fanatics on their new found liberty?

Hillary Clinton has certainly topped George W. with these disgusting displays of war-mongering and excess triumph. I guess these liberals were at first merely jealous of George W.'s seemingly successes at first and then they hated him for not killing enough Muslims and succeeding in this barbarism.

R.I.P. Muammar Ghaddafi - Pariah of the Western World
 
Gaddafi it seems was quite progressive for a dictator and raised his country to have the highest living standards in the whole continent. He didn't play ball with the imperialistic West though which was his downfall. I forsee another Iraq with bombings, beheadings you name it in the thirst for control of the country. The imperialists just love a bit of chaos though so it plays into their hands while they 'restore' order.
 
Qaddafi was, quite simply, a man who knew too much. Taken alive, he would have almost certainly have been handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which had indicted him -- along with his son, Saif al-Islam, and brother-in-law and military intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi (whereabouts unknown) -- for crimes against humanity in late June. Imagine the stir he would have made in The Hague. There, along with any number of fantasies and false accusations, he would almost certainly have revealed the extent of his intimate relations with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the details of his government's collaboration with Western intelligence services in counterterrorism, with the European Union in limiting migration from Libyan shores, and in the granting of major contracts to big Western oil and construction firms.
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/24/the_man_who_knew_too_much?page=0,0

"When there is no one left to bear witness to our crimes, they are soon forgotten." :|
 
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