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Henry
Joined: 03 Apr 2001 Posts: 2878 Location: NYC
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: thank goodness for fairly priced, non-mon0polized oil trade |
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our thanksgiving present
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110501931.html?nav=hcmoduletmv
here...read it.
"Oil Wealth Fuels Gaddafi's Drive For Reinvention
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 6, 2007; Page A01
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Brother Leader Moammar Gaddafi still exhorts his people to greatness from billboards, banners and murals. But these days a different kind of command is driving Libya's transformation as the newly opened country taps into oil wealth: "izala," Arabic for "raze it to the ground."
Surveyors are spraying the word in red paint up and down Libya's Mediterranean coast. The orange-vested road crews are tagging for demolition the old Libya -- low-rise, stucco Libya, sleepy under decades of Gaddafi's socialist economy and international sanctions.
To rise in its place, Gaddafi's officials say: the increasingly capitalist Libya, with new buildings for the country's new stock exchange. Airports to ferry in and out a dreamed-of annual flow of 30 million oil workers, tourists and other travelers. The world's second-largest port after Singapore. Railways. Highways. Hospitals. Schools. Luxury beachfront hotels." etc. etc. etc. |
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