Reports on Gadhafi and the Future of Libya
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-10-20/reports-gadhafi-and-future-libya
Libya's National Transitional Council says former President Muammar Gadhafi has been captured or killed. What it means for the eight months old uprising and the country's political future.
Guests
Nadia Bilbassy
senior U.S. correspondent, MBC TV -- Middle East Broadcast Centre.
Amb. Richard Haass
president, Council on Foreign Relations, author of "A War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars," and former director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Asma Magariaf (May-gariff)
a DC-based Libyan American activist. She was born in Libya before her family fled the country as dissidents became hunted down by Qaddafi's regime. She has written about human rights and rule of law in Libya.
Fadel Lamen
president, American Libyan Council.
James Kitfield
senior correspondent, National Journal.
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Get the government out of telling lender who they can lend to. This is one of the reason we are in the mess we are in. Reinvestment Act 1977.
"What To Do About the Housing Market"
NOTHING! the most beautiful word the government never uses and the word that describes what government should do.
For a change can we let the market repair itself, this constant government interventionism on anything is destroying everything.
The sooner we let things seek there natural course the sooner we can recover.
The failure of an existing homeowner is an opportunity for the next the next homeowner.
Gadhafi has been EVICTED "with extreme prejudice."
It may be a whoop-de-doo in Libya but in the measure of human well-being on planet Earth it is a non-event.
Potentates like Mummar are extolled and revered in their time only because of a "great man" attitude toward history. We hoist up criminals to do the dirty work of state in a time when Nationalism is obsolete. Our military has all the legitimacy over our lives of a high school football team, it only matters inside some frenzied ecstasy of gameboy victory and defeat. Armies these days are the terror police of global corporate power.
Do you want "that" with Gadhafi or without Gadhafi?
How about a trade agreement of corporate personhood on the side?
The "cradle of democracy and Western Civilization" -Greece(according to our glorious 4th grade history texts vetted by Texas mamas) is in turmoil today not because of a ruthless dictator, but because its populace is being extorted and robbed by the very banksters who make and break "great men."
(Are Herman and Barack and Rick GREAT? Only in the assertions of
the wealthy rampaging trash they protect.)
Is it logical to think that the US, Italy other nations that have supported Gadhafi in some way over the last four decades would like him dead rather than alive and placed on trial for crimes against humanity. What would be the chances that during a trial he would point out the complicit support of these nations?
Also what can you tell us about what is happenning with Libya's oil? Are the multinational oil vultures circling?
UK firm; Heritage Oil PLC buys control of Libyan oil field company
AP Oct 4, 2011, 12.43pm ISTTags:Sahara Oil Services
LONDON: British company Heritage Oil PLC has acquired a controlling interest in a Libyan company licensed to provide oil field services including offshore and land-based drilling.
Heritage said Tuesday that it paid $19.5 million for a 51 per cent stake in Sahara Oil Services Holdings Ltd. Heritage said the acquisition will allow it to play a significant role in Libya's oil and gas industry.
Sahara Oil Services was established in 2009 and is based in Benghazi.
Heritage says it established a base in Benghazi this year and has been dealing with senior members of the National Transitional Council.
WHO WILL CONTROL LIBYA'S OIL?
Who'll control Libya's oil economy if Gadhafi falls?
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By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
Kevin G. Hall
WASHINGTON — If Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi falls, his nation's ability to return to normal will depend in no small part on who controls its production of oil, which is synonymous with the Libyan economy.
Oil accounts for anywhere from 70 percent to 90 percent of Libya's earnings from exports, and the shutdown of oil deliveries amid a widening conflict has sent global prices soaring.
Though it has Africa's largest reserves, Libya isn't a major oil producer. It exports only about 1.2 million barrels a day, largely to Europe, while daily world demand totals about 88 million barrels a day, according to the International Energy Agency.
Libya is, however, the first member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to teeter on collapse. Several others_ including larger producers Algeria and Iran_ face growing unrest, and markets are alarmed at the possibility of instability spreading perhaps even into Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest producer.
Oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange soared above $103 a barrel in intraday trading on Thursday, but settled at $97.28 after assurances from Saudi Arabia that it could replace lost Libyan production.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/24/109397/wholl-control-libyas-oil-ec...
In August Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar reported that an al-Qaeda asset is now leading the military of rebel-controlled Libya. According to Escobar, the alleged Al Queda asset Abdelhakim Belhadj, who commanded a military offensive in Libya has become the de facto commander of the Libyan rebel forces. Within a few weeks NPR reported picked up the story.
Who is in control of the Libyan forces at this time?
Over at Huffington Post their front page has links to the gruesome pictures of Gaddafi's alleged dead body. Disgusting. Here in the US are national and local papers will barely allow a mention of Americans who have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan. And now the world can look at Gaddafy's dead body. This blood lust is so sickening.
Cheney and Bush are responsible for more deaths and injuries than Gaddafi. When the same accountability standards are applied to all war criminals the world will be a fairer and much better place
kathleen: It is a planetary process. Notice how frackers and brokers of natural gas continue to merge here in the Homeland. I recall Quadhafi on his tractor in 1969 planting oats. He probably knew things about water in Libya the OILY will never comprehend. Thinking about the petroleum economy always makes me thirsty. T. Boone Pickens charges $20 for a little dixie cup of refreshment.
Someday the banksters and financiers and creditors will be "hiding in a hole" begging the thirsty not to shoot. (OK Mastermind, take one for the team!)
" Grady Lee Howard wrote:
kathleen: It is a planetary process. Notice how frackers and brokers of natural gas continue to merge here in the Homeland. I recall Quadhafi on his tractor in 1969 planting oats. He probably knew things about water in Libya the OILY will never comprehend. Thinking about the petroleum economy always makes me thirsty. T. Boone Pickens charges $20 for a little dixie cup of refreshment.
Someday the banksters and financiers and creditors will be "hiding in a hole" begging the thirsty not to shoot. (OK Mastermind, take one for the team!)
October 20, 2011 - 11:05 am"
The IMF/Bush/Enron/AIPAC/et al Rape/Foreclosure of Latin America has been largely ignored during the current crisis, but you might find it interesting.
They took Dams, whole Rivers, Power Plants even the water supplies of the tiniest Villages.
In one, the natives had wooden pipes bringing water from a mountain spring to the Town for free.
Enron put in a metal pipe and charged astronomical fees to use the water. The Villagers revolted and ran the Bush/Enron thugs and thieves out of town.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
First Of All Kathleen:
The US has not been supporting Gadhafi on and off for the last 4 decades. Do you remember when that "terrible man " you would call Reagan sent his fighter jets to Tripoli and destroyed his compound killing one of his daughters?
And those terrible multinational oil companies are going to help Libya back on it feet. Do not think they have knowledge or expertise to get there oil fields pumping again.
"kathleen wrote:
Over at Huffington Post their front page has links to the gruesome pictures of Gaddafi's alleged dead body. Disgusting. Here in the US are national and local papers will barely allow a mention of Americans who have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan. And now the world can look at Gaddafy's dead body. This blood lust is so sickening"
Kathleen:
If you have ever read history about the Arabs instead of relying on HP trash, you would know that the Arabs have been killing each other for centuries. These backward cultures have the Tribe mentality.
What would it matter to Libyans if the OILYgarchs pump?
All they will get is pollution and tainted water.
We need to ask the same questions in the "Homeland."
I'm tired of tapeworms taking all our nourishment.
Isn't it amazing how some people (not just monte this time) are able to post an informed, intelligent, Comment about a show before it even airs!
Oh, wait, they can't?
Never mind.
P.S. - It explains why their Comments have nothing to do with this story!
meanconser on October 20, 2011 @ 7:02 pm wrote: “If you have ever read history about the Arabs instead of relying on HP trash, you would know that the Arabs have been killing each other for centuries.”
Unlike, say, the Europeans, with their Crusades, their Inquisitions, their Hundred Years War, their Thirty Years War, their Napoleonic Wars, their two World Wars (to name a few).
Maybe if you engaged your brain (assuming you have one) and stopped mindlessly parroting talking points from the RNC, Faux News, or Squawk Radio, you might say something intelligent one day.