Another take-  while Amy Goodman pimps the NATO line on Libya

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16 Things Libyans Will Never See Again
By: mir Friday October 21, 2011 2:14 am  

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Future Libyans may look back and thank America,  Britain and France for freeing them from that evil socialist Moammar Gadhafi.  Now like us they will know all the benefits and wonders of the “free market”.  In Gadhafi’s Libya:

“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

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. Is this what you call a dictator Traditional wedding in Tripoli, Libya

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 are 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 is 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 are 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 country.

Add to the above Women were full and equal participants in Libyan society.  Under the ultra religious fanatics (we backed) out of Benghazi women will at best become second class citizens or at worse, property.

“Charley Wilson’s war”  all over again!

Interesting piece, although the audio feed from Cairo is so bad it’s almost unintelligible.

As for the second segment: the Canadian government arresting George W. Bush is almost as likely as would be a posthumous indictment of Franklin D. Roosevelt for the internment of United States citizens of Japanese descent in 1942.