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 Gadhafi the ‘Delusional’Posted on Feb 28, 2011
With calls from abroad, including from the U.S., for him to resign and a situation closely resembling civil war raging within his nation’s borders, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s insistence that his people “love” him might run up against some strong evidence to the contrary. —KA
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By BRIAN, March 2, 2011 at 11:15 pm Link to this comment
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Truthdig the Delusional, looks to be losing its relevancy, by posting this MSM propaganda.AP is NOT a good source esp on a controversial subject.
Did you know:
http://www.medialens.org/articles/the_articles/articles_2002/rk_secret_war.html
no airstrikes on civilians…
http://williambowles.info/2011/03/01/“airstrikes-in-libya-did-not-take-place”-–-russian-military-—-rt/
http://empirestrikesblack.com/2011/02/libya-the-rest-of-the-story/
Gadafi is one more target of Colour regime change
Report thisBy rico, suave, March 2, 2011 at 9:52 am Link to this comment
I’ll miss old M Gad- he wears such cool clothes, especially the shades. He’s the first metrosexual despot.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, March 1, 2011 at 8:01 pm Link to this comment
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The same could be said of many of the US politicians.
Report thisBy rico, suave, March 1, 2011 at 4:36 pm Link to this comment
Lee:
No question Walker is feeling his oats. I doubt he’ll get what he wants in the union busting dept.
Report thisBy Leefeller, March 1, 2011 at 4:10 pm Link to this comment
Well Rico,.... there are different kinds of love. Walker said he had three people call him , who said Walker should stick to his guns, sounds a lot like Gadhafi kind of love to me.
Damn Democracies .....not really.. more like unrepresentative Republics which really means the winner gets to screw the non winner?
Balancing the budget has nothing to do with collective bargaining, the unions already conceded to help in cutting the budget, if I am wrong, please show me the light.
Report thisBy fearnotruth, March 1, 2011 at 3:51 pm Link to this comment
another take: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62380.shtml
(note: citation for ‘consideration’, not ‘recommendation’)
please bear that in mind when taking exception
the page at the cited URL also posts comments
- CA editors also note their reason for posting this analysis
as ‘in-depth’ and ‘reasoned’ rather than ‘knee-jerk’, as we see
flooding both the MSM and AM (alt-media) and smells a bit ‘fishy’
Critical Analysis
World cheers as the CIA plunges Libya into chaos
By David Rothscum with Axis of Logic Editorial Statement
David Rothscum Reports. Axis of Logic
Sunday, Feb 27, 2011
[...]
How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have
it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the
facts for a moment.
Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech
republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of
Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the
population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around
the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.
People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP)
at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government
took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya
had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent.
The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived
below the poverty line than in the Netherlands.
How does Libya get so rich? The answer is oil. The country has a lot of oil, and
does not allow foreign corporations to steal the resources while the population
starves, unlike countries like Nigeria, a country that is basically run by Shell.
Like any country, Libya suffers from a government with corrupt bureaucrats
that try to gain a bigger portion of the pie at the cost of everyone else. In
response to this, Kadaffi called for the oil revenue to be distributed directly to
the people, because in his opinion, the government was failing the people.
However, unlike the article claims, Kadaffi is not the president of Libya. In fact
he holds no official position in the government. This is the big mistake that
people make. They claim that Kadaffi rules over Libya when in fact he doesn’t,
his position is more or less ceremonial. He should be compared to a founding
father.
The true leader of Libya is an indirectly elected prime-minister. The current
prime-minister is Baghdadi Mahmudi. Calling Khadaffi the leader of Libya is
comparable to calling Akihito the leader of Japan. Contrary to what your media
is sketching, opinions in Libya vary. Some people support Gadaffi but want
Mahmudi out. Others want both out. Many just want to live their life in peace.
However, effort is taken to sketch the appearance of a popular revolt against
the supposed leader of Libya, Gadaffi, when in fact he is just the architect of
Libya’s current political system, a mixture of pan-Arabism, socialism, and
Islamic government.
[...]
Report thisBy rico, suave, March 1, 2011 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment
Leefeller:
Do you have a sound bite or quote of Walker insisting his people love him? Or are you just going by the election results? (Damn democracy! Stupid ignorant voters.)
Report thisBy Leefeller, March 1, 2011 at 3:17 pm Link to this comment
Gadflies insistence that his people love him sounds just like Governor Walkers insistence that his people love him….. With all this love in the air, my giddiness is so much more prolific than usual!
Report thisBy lilbear68, March 1, 2011 at 1:45 pm Link to this comment
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calling him unfit to lead is a joke and a sop to others that are in charge of countries
Report thisnone of these sewer rats are leaders they are just in charge or head of a country, that does not make them leaders. to be a leader it takes skill and talent. to be able to charm, win votes or kill rivals does not make you a leader
By Duane Seigler, March 1, 2011 at 9:32 am Link to this comment
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http://libyarevoltcontinues.blogspot.com/
Report thisBy fearnotruth, March 1, 2011 at 4:11 am Link to this comment
RE: No option is off the table. That of course includes a no-fly zone,” she added.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told lawmakers: “We do not in any way rule out
the use of military assets” to deal with Gadhafi’s regime.
...says it all - in the wake of intelligence nexus operatives, stimulating, aiding and
abetting another ‘look-alike, people-power, color revolution’, we see the worn out,
used up puppet colonel literally with a gun to his head
don’t be fooled by the decades-long, so-called anti-western, hard-line stance of the
col. - he did good service - now he like the rest of the old-guard despots, has out-
served his usefulness and he must go
one hopes ‘the people’ can spin their ‘revolt’ out of control of intelligence operatives -
Report thisone hopes so-called ‘journalists’ in the west will try to expose their plans to install
more useful puppets
By Marshall, March 1, 2011 at 3:17 am Link to this comment
Honestly, Gadhafi should just ditch his country and catch the next flight to
Report thisHollywood. The guy’s got a face made for TV, an ego bigger than Charlie Sheen
and offscreen antics that’ll feed the tabloids for years to come. This guy can live
like a king if he plays his cards right!