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To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/3/2013 10:14:28 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 85487

BS Gaddafi was revered in Africa as a leader. Obama's buddies at Goldman Sachs screwed him out of $2B and then had there white house hit man rub him out so the oil thieves could come in and rape Libya.

To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/3/2013 10:17:22 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 85487

Guy sounds like a real despot….or did until Hitman Obama wanted strut his murderous stuff. 1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens. 2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law. 3. Home considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent. 4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$ 50,000 ) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family. 5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%. 6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms – all for free. 7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US $2, 300/mth accommodation and car allowance. 8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price. 9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0. 14 per liter. 10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally. 11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found. 12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens. 13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US $5 ,000 14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15 15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree 16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert

To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/3/2013 10:23:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

koan, you really need to tune out from your daily indoctrination shows like Rachel Madcow and get educated before forming your opinions. • Nelson Mandela called Muammar Gaddafi one of the 20th century’s greatest freedom fighters, and insisted that the eventual collapse of South Africa’s apartheid system owed much to Gaddafi and Libyan support. A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today. Read more: dailymail.co.uk Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter \| DailyMail on Facebook Why They Killed Gaddafi “A Story You Must Read” Monday, June 11, 2012 5:53 To wit, match Muammar Gaddafi’s record up against that of your favorite candidate: • Gaddafi nationalized his nation’s oil reserves and used the revenue to build schools, universities, hospitals, and infrastructure. • Money from Libya’s oil revenue is deposited into the bank account of every citizen. • He raised the literacy rate from 20 per cent to 83 per cent. • He built one of the finest health care systems in the “Third World.” All people have access to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines—free of charge. If a Libyan needs surgery that is unavailable in Libya, funding is provided for the surgery overseas. • He raised the life expectancy from 44 to 75 years of age. • Basic food items were subsidized and electricity was made available throughout the country. • He developed huge irrigation projects in order to support a drive towards agricultural development and food self-sufficiency. • Recognizing that water, not oil, would be the scarcest resource of the future, Gaddafi initiated the construction of the Great Man Made River, which took years to complete. Referred to as a wonder of the modern world, this river pumps millions of gallons of water daily from the heart of the Sahara desert to the coast, where the land is suitable for agriculture. • Any Libyan who wanted to become a farmer was and still is given free use of land, a house, farm equipment, livestock and seed. • Gaddafi vowed that his own parents, who lived in a tent in the desert,would not be housed until every Libyan was housed. He fulfilled that promise. • Under Gaddafi, Libya has now attained the highest standard of living in Africa. • Gaddafi put up a communications satellite—the first in Africa—to bring the continent of Africa into the 21st century of technology. This also interrupted the massive fees that European companies had been charging the Africans. • He gave women full access to education and employment, and he has enabled women to serve in the armed forces. • Gaddafi started and financed the African Union to tie all of the Mother continent into an eventual body with a common purpose called the “United States of Africa.” • Gaddafi did so much to develop Africa that even Obama’s arrogantCaucasian cohort Hillary Clinton had to admit as she stood before the African Union: “I know it is true over many years, Gadhafi played a major role in providing financial support for many African nations and institutions…” She could not claim America did ANYTHING but exploit, exploit, exploit—and murder! • He was the first and only leader in the Arab world to formally apologize for the Arab role in the trade of African slaves. He acknowledged that Blacks were the true owners of Libya and proclaimed in his Green Book, “the Black race shall prevail throughout the world.” • Nelson Mandela called Muammar Gaddafi one of the 20th century’s greatest freedom fighters, and insisted that the eventual collapse of South Africa’s apartheid system owed much to Gaddafi and Libyan support. * Published by The Final Call and LibyaSOS

To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/3/2013 10:51:24 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By longnshort Respond to of 85487

The kids were throwing up with fear. I throw up with fear when I read your posts.

To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/3/2013 11:04:24 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 85487

To: koan who wrote (52710)

9/3/2013 11:07:22 PM

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To: koan who wrote (230957)	9/3/2013 8:32:31 PM
From: koan	of 230973

I was a junior when pot happened-lol. Now that period, the Hippie period, was even better than the first two years of going to parties, hooking up, and making out in the hills every weekend with some hot chick. But, I discovered The Republic by Plato, the first two years and the Allegory of the Cave, and that changed my life. The second two years I discovered The Stranger by Camus, and Ken Kesey and acid, and pot and Higway 61 revisted and that really changed my life. Now I was taking showers, stoned, with wonderful enlightened women. I wore this album out. Only album I ever wore out-lol: youtube.com

To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/3/2013 11:45:26 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin independent.co.uk Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi TUESDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2013 A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources. Yet now Libya has almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters. Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to sell crude oil on the black market. Ali Zeidan, Libya’s Prime Minister, has threatened to “bomb from the air and the sea” any oil tanker trying to pick up the illicit oil from the oil terminal guards, who are mostly former rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi and have been on strike over low pay and alleged government corruption since July. As world attention focused on the coup in Egypt and the poison gas attack in Syria over the past two months, Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi two years ago. Government authority is disintegrating in all parts of the country putting in doubt claims by American, British and French politicians that Nato’s military action in Libya in 2011 was an outstanding example of a successful foreign military intervention which should be repeated in Syria. In an escalating crisis little regarded hitherto outside the oil markets, output of Libya’s prized high-quality crude oil has plunged from 1.4 million barrels a day earlier this year to just 160,000 barrels a day now. Despite threats to use military force to retake the oil ports, the government in Tripoli has been unable to move effectively against striking guards and mutinous military units that are linked to secessionist forces in the east of the country. Libyans are increasingly at the mercy of militias which act outside the law. Popular protests against militiamen have been met with gunfire; 31 demonstrators were shot dead and many others wounded as they protested outside the barracks of “the Libyan Shield Brigade” in the eastern capital Benghazi in June. Though the Nato intervention against Gaddafi was justified as a humanitarian response to the threat that Gaddafi’s tanks would slaughter dissidents in Benghazi, the international community has ignored the escalating violence. The foreign media, which once filled the hotels of Benghazi and Tripoli, have likewise paid little attention to the near collapse of the central government. The strikers in the eastern region Cyrenaica, which contains most of Libya’s oil, are part of a broader movement seeking more autonomy and blaming the government for spending oil revenues in the west of the country. Foreigners have mostly fled Benghazi since the American ambassador, Chris Stevens, was murdered in the US consulate by jihadi militiamen last September. Violence has worsened since then with Libya’s military prosecutor Colonel Yussef Ali al-Asseifar, in charge of investigating assassinations of politicians, soldiers and journalists, himself assassinated by a bomb in his car on 29 August. Rule by local militias is also spreading anarchy around the capital. Ethnic Berbers, whose militia led the assault on Tripoli in 2011, temporarily took over the parliament building in Tripoli. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has called for an independent investigation into the violent crushing of a prison mutiny in Tripoli on 26 August in which 500 prisoners had been on hunger strike. The hunger strikers were demanding that they be taken before a prosecutor or formally charged since many had been held without charge for two years. The government called on the Supreme Security Committee, made up of former anti-Gaddafi militiamen nominally under the control of the interior ministry, to restore order. At least 19 prisoners received gunshot shrapnel wounds, with one inmate saying “they were shooting directly at us through the metal bars”. There have been several mass prison escapes this year in Libya including 1,200 escaping from a prison after a riot in Benghazi in July. The Interior Minister, Mohammed al-Sheikh, resigned last month in frustration at being unable to do his job, saying in a memo sent to Mr Zeidan that he blamed him for failing to build up the army and the police. He accused the government, which is largely dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, of being weak and dependent on tribal support. Other critics point out that a war between two Libyan tribes, the Zawiya and the Wirrshifana, is going on just 15 miles from the Prime Minister’s office. Diplomats have come under attack in Tripoli with the EU ambassador’s convoy ambushed outside the Corinthia hotel on the waterfront. A bomb also wrecked the French embassy. One of the many failings of the post-Gaddafi government is its inability to revive the moribund economy. Libya is wholly dependent on its oil and gas revenues and without these may not be able to pay its civil servants. Sliman Qajam, a member of the parliamentary energy committee, told Bloomberg that “the government is running on its reserves. If the situation doesn’t improve, it won’t be able to pay salaries by the end of the year”.

To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/4/2013 7:38:03 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

When the Libyan rebels massacred that black city in Libya, the kids were scared there too. And there are scared kids in Syria ... on both sides.

To: koan who wrote (52710)	9/4/2013 10:39:59 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Obama said today "my credibility is not on the line the international community's credibility is on the line" he's delusional