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bvar22

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30. Now that Qaddafi has been "taken care of" by the IMF and Global Banks.....err., ah..NATO,

Reply to Arctic Dave (Reply #29)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:48 PM

Feb 2013

...North Africa is WIDE OPEN for some Good Old American Disaster Capitalism!!!

” For all his dictatorial megalomania, Gaddafi is a committed pan-African - a fierce defender of African unity. Libya was not in debt to international bankers. It did not borrow cash from the International Monetary Fund for any "structural adjustment". It used oil money for social services - including the Great Man Made River project, and investment/aid to sub-Saharan countries. Its independent central bank was not manipulated by the Western financial system. All in all a very bad example for the developing world.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html

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