[KingOfJericho]

Originally Posted by mact3333

the decline of western society...you guys find this entertaining huh?...hmm.

Not nearly as much as the people in that video do.

[Blake]

Originally Posted by mact3333

the decline of western society...you guys find this entertaining huh?...hmm.

are you fucking kidding me? the people in those videos are clearly doing a victory lap with his dead body and joyously shouting allah ackbar.

[lopealle]

RIP.....but of course he had it coming

[Gregxi]

Originally Posted by mact3333

the decline of western society...you guys find this entertaining huh?...hmm.

I do not think that this is any type of decline, this has gone on for thousands of years, so more par for the course
I do find some satisfaction in seeing a cruel dictator who murdered thousands of people for no good reason being drug through the streets entertaining though.

I would have preferred that he had been drawn and quartered then drug through the streets, but that's just me

[infinitekidM2C]

just learned what "drawn and quartered" actually means...pretty sick s

To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III (1216–1272) and his successor, Edward I (1272–1307). Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered (chopped into four pieces).

[Gregxi]

^ So you agree with me

[carve]

Originally Posted by KingOfJericho

Yeah he dead.

Maybe he's just resting

[KingOfJericho]

These guys seem very well organized so I'm sure their new government will be a massive improvement.

[driersheets]

Originally Posted by mact3333

the decline of western society...you guys find this entertaining huh?...hmm.

he was a dictator. i dont see anything wrong with this...

[san~man]

Originally Posted by infinitekid2002

just learned what "drawn and quartered" actually means...pretty sick s

To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III (1216–1272) and his successor, Edward I (1272–1307). Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered (chopped into four pieces).

Didn't see Braveheart, did you?

[infinitekidM2C]

Originally Posted by san~man

Didn't see Braveheart, did you?

yeah i did numerous times...guess i forgot that part

[Javi335]

Iran gettin closer, im gonna build a bunker ... can i get some wi fi inside it?

[RevsPlease]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051361/Gaddafi-dead-Dictator-begged-life-summarily-executed.html

Check it out.

[stylinexpat]

Originally Posted by RevsPlease

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051361/Gaddafi-dead-Dictator-begged-life-summarily-executed.html

Check it out.

Very well written article. Thanks for the link.

[Oregano123]

Financial Heist of the Century: Confiscating Libya’s Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)

By Manlio Dinucci
www.globalresearch.ca

The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters.

In the crosshairs of “willing” of the operation “Unified Protector” there are sovereign wealth funds, capital that the Libyan state has invested abroad.

The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) manages sovereign wealth funds estimated at about $70 billion U.S., rising to more than $150 billion if you include foreign investments of the Central Bank and other bodies.

But it might be more.

Even if they are lower than those of Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, Libyan sovereign wealth funds have been characterized by their rapid growth.

When LIA was established in 2006, it had $40 billion at its disposal.

In just five years, LIA has invested over one hundred companies in North Africa, Asia, Europe, the U.S. and South America: holding, banking, real estate, industries, oil companies and others.

In Italy, the main Libyan investments are those in UniCredit Bank (of which LIA and the Libyan Central Bank hold 7.5 percent), Finmeccanica (2 percent) and ENI (1 percent), these and other investments (including 7.5 percent of the Juventus Football Club) have a significance not as much economically (they amount to some $5.4 billion) as politically.

Libya, after Washington removed it from the blacklist of “rogue states,” has sought to carve out a space at the international level focusing on “diplomacy of sovereign wealth funds.” Once the U.S. and the EU lifted the embargo in 2004 and the big oil companies returned to the country, Tripoli was able to maintain a trade surplus of about $30 billion per year which was used largely to make foreign investments.

The management of sovereign funds has however created a new mechanism of power and corruption in the hands of ministers and senior officials, which probably in part escaped the control of the Gadhafi himself:
This is confirmed by the fact that, in 2009, he proposed that the 30 billion in oil revenues go “directly to the Libyan people.”

This aggravated the fractures within the Libyan government.

U.S. and European ruling circles focused on these funds, so that before carrying out a military attack on Libya to get their hands on its energy wealth, they took over the Libyan sovereign wealth funds.

Facilitating this operation is the representative of the Libyan Investment Authority, Mohamed Layas himself: as revealed in a cable published by WikiLeaks. On January 20 Layas informed the U.S. ambassador in Tripoli that LIA had deposited $32 billion in U.S. banks. Five weeks later, on February 28, the U.S. Treasury “froze” these accounts.

According to official statements, this is “the largest sum ever blocked in the United States,” which Washington held “in trust for the future of Libya.”

It will in fact serve as an injection of capital into the U.S. economy, which is more and more in debt. A few days later, the EU “froze” around 45 billion Euros of Libyan funds.

The assault on the Libyan sovereign wealth funds will have a particularly strong impact in Africa.

There, the Libyan Arab African Investment Company had invested in over 25 countries, 22 of them in sub-Saharan Africa, and was planning to increase the investments over the next five years, especially in mining, manufacturing, tourism and telecommunications.

The Libyan investments have been crucial in the implementation of the first telecommunications satellite Rascom (Regional African Satellite Communications Organization), which entered into orbit in August 2010, allowing African countries to begin to become independent from the U.S. and European satellite networks, with an annual savings of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Even more important were the Libyan investment in the implementation of three financial institutions launched by the African Union: the African Investment Bank, based in Tripoli, the African Monetary Fund, based in Yaoundé (Cameroon), the African Central Bank, with Based in Abuja (Nigeria).

The development of these bodies would enable African countries to escape the control of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, tools of neo-colonial domination, and would mark the end of the CFA franc, the currency that 14 former French colonies are forced to use.

Freezing Libyan funds deals a strong blow to the entire project. The weapons used by “the willing” are not only those in the military action called “Unified Protector.”

Il Manifesto, April 22, 2011