It will be very interesting to see what happens when the Libyan revolution, now underway, is over. I wonder if Big Oil has a plan? Well, of course, they do. I guess i wonder how many months it will take before they run the place.

Clam, the “tiny population” of Libya, (larger than seven other “Arab/mideast” nations) has in fact seen more of the oil money measure pretty much in any terms than the people of any other African oil producing country, measured any way you’d like to measure it.

Libya is more similar to a Gulf emirate than to Nigeria or Angola, that much is true, but that’s not because the current (?) regime is so competent or benevolent. It simply reflects the fact that Libya is a desert country with a largely Arabic population, relying on an oil-rent as the base of its economy. Hence, in ecolgy. economy, demography and ethnic set up, it’s more similar to Kuweit than to Angola.

But the reason you are programmed to hate Libya and fear Gaddafi

Actually, my dislike for Gaddafi, his regime, its friends like Genoud, Caignet, Verges, Ziegler and Garaudy, and all forms of Strasserism, Marlenism or National Bolshevism comes not from big oil or the Reagan administration “programming” me, but from being an indiepop kid in skinhead-infested early nineties central Germany – and from colonel G’s treatment of poor African refuges, which btw has the full approval of western governments and media.

Yes, I’m aware of so called “tribal issues” which in other regions (outside of Africa) tend to be called by different names. I still have not seen specific information linking anything like this to the specific factionalization reported in the news over the last week, but I may have missed it.

Clam, the “tiny population” of Libya, (larger than seven other “Arab/mideast” nations) has in fact seen more of the oil money measure pretty much in any terms than the people of any other African oil producing country, measured any way you’d like to measure it. Having said that, of course the Revolutionary regime has gotten quit rich off it. But the reason you are programmed to hate Libya and fear Gaddafi is because the oil companies have received so little from exploitation in this area and the policy of the oil companies and Western nations is to stand by until they can take over again. So keep an eye out for that happening.

Stockpiling food and buying gold was a recommendation in one segment I was subjected to. 😐

“some CIA guys who were also hanging around there”
What a coincidence…

Here in Europe we don’t follow American politics that much, but the usual news channels I do follow haven’t reported any response from the Tea Party. Are they being ignorant as normal, or don’t they understand that what is now happening in the Arab world is against their interests?