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POPSShould America Start Drilling? The US needs to stop grovelling to Chavez and others and start using its own natural resources of which it has plenty. I'm sick of America kissing ass for oil when we have so much ourselves.
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POPSWho In Their Right Mind?! Gaddafi's Oddest Idea: Abolish Switzerland Relations between Libya and Switzerland soured in July 2008 when Gaddafi's son Hannibal and his wife were arrested by police in Geneva for allegedly beating their two servants at a local hotel. Gaddafi was so enraged by his son's two-day detention, he immediately retaliated by shutting down local subsidiaries of Swiss companies Nestlé and ABB in Libya, arresting two Swiss businessmen for supposed visa irregularities, canceling most commercial flights between the two countries and withdrawing about $5 billion from his Swiss bank accounts. Then came Gaddafi's suggestion that Switzerland be carved up like a wheel of Swiss cheese. During the G-8 summit in Italy in July, Gaddafi said Switzerland "is a world mafia and not a state," adding that the Italian-speaking part of the country should be returned to Italy, the German-speaking part given to Germany and the French-speaking part ceded to France.
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POPSQaddafi/Gadhafi/Gaddafi/Qadhafi Brings His Stand Up Show To The UN
The View From Twitter Mark Knoller: If Qadhafi ever gives up the de facto leadership of Libya, could you see a talk show in his future? Andy Levy: Qaddafi: We are all pirates. Except for the pirates. America? Pirates. Israel? Pirates. Pirates? Not pirates. Ben Smith: RT @mkoshark: Gadhafi is set to close his #UN speech with a shameless plug to watch his stint on next season’s Dancing With the Stars Chris Lehmann: I’m assuming the aide responsible for giving an Attaboy to Qaddafi after that performance is now planning to defect. Mike Madden: RT @owillis:Qadafi: so this is what @glennbeck sounds like in a diff language. Jake Tapper: AND…Qadaffi’s done. Roughly 90 minutes of sheer poetry. Ben Smith: Qaddafi: You are the ones who hate the Jews. Mark Knoller: At 90 minutes into the Qadhafi speech, 2nd shift of UN translators come on duty. Mark Knoller: Qadhafi even has his own health care reform: accuses capitalist countries & companie
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POPSObama: From Savior to Leftist Windbag in Nine Months Hugo Chavez got a big round of American-hating applause when he said “it doesn’t smell like sulfur in here anymore” in reference to President Bush whom he had previously referred to as the devil. Words are cheap and Obama used a whole lot of them to promote his socialist-light agenda to the nation last year. There might not be much in the ways of original ideas floating around in his head - just a collection of discarded Democrat lost causes from the past half century or so - Obama has convinced himself that as a man of destiny he doesn’t have to bother with trivial matters like telling the truth or keeping his word. In an effort to sell healthcare reform to the nation that it doesn’t want, Obama habitually plays fast and loose with the truth. It’s gotten to the point where he can barely speak on the subject for longer than a few minutes without someone wanting to cough up the word “liar” in the background, just like Rep. Joe Wilson did last week.
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POPSGaddafi's translator 'collapsed with exhaustion' In his rant Gaddafi - who has not visited the UN since he took power in 1969 - read from a yellow folder of handwritten notes and spoke about Israel, the Taliban, swine flu and the US invasion of Grenada. He also suggested the Security Council be renamed the 'terror council' castigating it for failing to stop 65 wars since 1945. Another Arabic interpreter emphasised with the translator's exasperation. 'He’s not exactly the most lucid speaker. What drugs was this nut job Gaddafi on? He's a world class spacer.
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POPSTaking a Stand Article was interesting. However, it switched gears a bit in the last half where the author hits on the other issues like UN Protocol and complaints from leader(s) about the UN Charter vs what is really taking place within.
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POPSGaddafi Tent: Bedford Orders Work To Be Stopped On Libyan Dictator's Tent At Donald Trump Estate Muammar Gaddafi is making preparations to stay at the Bedford, New York, estate owned by Donald Trump during the Libyan leader's visit to the United States this week, a source with direct knowledge of the arrangement tells the Huffington Post. Officials in Bedford are being tight-lipped about the arrangement. A spokesperson for the Bedford Hills police department declined to comment on the matter. "I'm not going to confirm or deny anything," said Sgt. Tom Diebold, referring the Huffington Post to the Secret Service. Calls there were not immediately returned. The Libyan leader had tried to pitch his famous tent in Manhattan's Central Park, but city officials rejected his request. Earlier Gaddafi had tried to set up a temporary residence in Englewood, New Jersey, only to run into opposition from the local mayor and other officials.
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POPSGaddafi hat die UNO entlarvt - er hat Recht! Ich kann leider keinen Fehler in Gaddafi's Rede finden. Die fünf Vetomächte China , Frankreich , Russland , England und die USA diktieren. Ein Land kann alles blockieren. Da es sich um Atommächte handelt, sind Worte wie ''Terrorismus '' bzw. ''Terrorrat '' nicht abwägig. Vor allem unter Betrachtung des Überfalls der USA auf den Irak bzw. ihre und die Kriegsverbrechen Englands. Dass Afrika von den Kolonialmächten ausgeplündert wurde, ist eine Tatsache. Auch das entspricht der Wahrheit. Wenn ich mir jetzt sehe, dass sich unsere Bundesregierung auf dem gleichen Weg wie die USA befindet, dann wird mir übel. Wurde die Grenze zum Staatsterrorismus gegen die eigene Bevölkerung mit der Einführung der Todesstrafe für Deutsche durch CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP und Grüne nicht schon überschritten? Wer jetzt mit "Lockerbie " argumentiert und Gaddafi einen Terroristen nennt, sollte vielleicht das hier lesen: Die Lockerbie Beweise waren gefälscht
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POPSTony Blair, British Petroleum And The Lockerbie Deal He put compassion for the oil industry ahead of any compassion for my daughter, for the families of all those people killed by a convicted mass murderer and terrorist. It just shows that the power of oil money counts for more than justice.' It sure does. Khadaffi paid out about $1.5 billion in compensation to the victims of the Lockerbie bombing - and then got most of it back in exchange for a deal allowing access to Libya's oil. With the freeing of al-Megrahi, and probably the non-prosecution of whomever it was that fired that shot from inside the Libyan embassy in London that murdered policewoman Yvonne Fletcher while she was patrollingin front of it in 1984, the deal's complete. I think blood money is a pretty appropriate term. And if you look at how al-Megrahi was received back home in Libya as a hero and role model , I can almost guarantee you that there will be a further cost to this whole endeavor in the future. H/T Doug Ross
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POPSUgandan govt takes over Gaddafi's defamation case Bujeldain said in an affidavit that Gadaffi, the leader of the Revolution of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, was being defamed by the continuous publication of related stories by the Red Pepper newspaper. Accordingly, Vincent Mugabo, the Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate, summoned Red Pepper editor-in-chief Richard Tusiime and senior editor Francis Mutazindwa to answer charges of defaming a foreign dignitary with the intention of disturbing the peace between Uganda and Libya.
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POPSIn the land of the blind....whose in bed with who? Libyan oil exports to the US were resumed and in 2005, US energy companies invested in the country for the first time in more than two decades. In May 2006, Washington announced the full resumption of diplomatic ties with Libya. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has signed an agreement to pay Libya $5bn as part of a deal to resolve colonial-era disputes. Rome and Tripoli have spent years arguing over compensation for the colonial period. Mr Berlusconi's investment company controls Italy's three biggest private television stations. And, when he is in office, his appointees also run three public ones. Opponents complain that an Italian voter cannot escape blanket coverage favourable to Mr Berlusconi. They also say his control of the media extends beyond the news agenda, and that comedians who lampooned him when he was last prime minister never appeared on TV again.
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POPSDesert Fox to African 'King of Kings'??? Tensions between Libya and the West reached a peak during the Ronald Reagan administration, which tried to overthrow Gaddafi. The Reagan administration viewed Libya as a belligerent rogue state. On April 15, 1986, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi killing 45 Libyan military and government personnel as well as 15 civilians. Among the fatalities of the April 15 retaliatory attack by the U.S. was Gaddafi's adopted daughter, Hannah.
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POPSa United States of Africa Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been elected as chairman of the 53-nation African Union. Some African leaders are wary of his plans to create a United States of Africa, with a single government.
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