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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you want to learn WHY Bill and Hillary Clinton are so close to Wall Street... [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)46. 'We came. We saw. He died'
Libya has oil. Lots of oil.
"Libya has some of the biggest and most proven oil reserves 43.6 billion barrels outside Saudi Arabia, and some of the best drilling prospects."
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/component/acymailing/archive/view/listid-3-alerts-precis/mailid-74-three-little-words-wikileaks-libya-oil.html
Mohammad Gaddafi shared the oil wealth with the Libyan people, not just the one-percent Wall Street types.
For over four decades, Gaddafi promoted economic democracy and used the nationalized oil wealth to sustain progressive social welfare programs for all Libyans. Under Gaddafis rule, Libyans enjoyed not only free health-care and free education, but also free electricity and interest-free loans. Now thanks to NATOs intervention the health-care sector is on the verge of collapse as thousands of Filipino health workers flee the country, institutions of higher education across the East of the country are shut down, and black outs are a common occurrence in once thriving Tripoli.
-- http://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-from-africas-wealthiest-democracy-under-gaddafi-to-us-nato-sponsored-terrorist-haven/5482974
While little reported in the USA, Libya's former leader also used the wealth to better life throughout the poorest nations of Africa.
''War on Libya is War on Entire Africa.''
In 2010 Gaddafi offered to invest $97 billion in Africa to free it from Western influence, on condition that African states rid themselves of corruption and nepotism. Gaddafi always dreamed of a Developed, United Africa and was about to make that dream come true - and nothing is more terrifying to the West than a Developed, United Africa.
-- http://www.reunionblackfamily.com/apps/blog/show/7869956-war-on-libya-is-war-on-entire-africa-
In 2010 Gaddafi offered to invest $97 billion in Africa to free it from Western influence, on condition that African states rid themselves of corruption and nepotism. Gaddafi always dreamed of a Developed, United Africa and was about to make that dream come true - and nothing is more terrifying to the West than a Developed, United Africa.
-- http://www.reunionblackfamily.com/apps/blog/show/7869956-war-on-libya-is-war-on-entire-africa-
Wall Street-on-the-Potomac prefers to do business with those it can relate to: greedy types.
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If you want to learn WHY Bill and Hillary Clinton are so close to Wall Street... [View all]
Octafish
Mar 2016
OP
K&R....but...but...it's 'so 90's...' - the statutes of realization have apparently expired...
islandmkl
Mar 2016
#3
the role of Glass-Steagal in the economic crash as been debunked by both sides repeatedly. nt
Jitter65
Mar 2016
#6
pretty much the same trajectory for me. "the bell can't be unrung" <-- totally.
nashville_brook
Mar 2016
#21
Ms. Clinton was paid $225,000 by UBS to speak to the Wealth Management department on July 11, 2013.
Octafish
Apr 2016
#38
That was a walk down Memory Lane; Hillary's "commodities trading profits" were from that era
BernieforPres2016
Mar 2016
#25
President Obama thought this way once. He resisted using a Super PAC in 2012.
Trust Buster
Mar 2016
#28
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Octafish
Apr 2016
#42
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NCjack
Mar 2016
#30