Libya News Round Up and Interpretation. From WSJ " Libya is among the post-Arab Spring nations grappling with a difficult question as they move toward democracy: Whether or not to use the security tools left behind by former dictators. Libya plans elections this Saturday. One of the government's main security concerns is to keep the country safe from a pro-Gadhafi counterrevolution. The risk is that Libya could follow a pattern seen in other post-authoritarian countries, from Russia to Iraq, in which new leaders weaken the rule of law in the interest of power or stability. Since Gadhafi's overthrow in a bloody conflict last year, Libya's caretaker government has created two new national-security agencies—one called Preventive Security, for domestic intelligence, and one called Foreign Security, for operations abroad. The effort is headed by 50-year-old Salem al-Hasi, a long-exiled anti-Gadhafi activist and Islamic scholar who, in just months, has gone from working as a language teacher at a U.S. military college in Georgia to serving as Libya's new national intelligence chief. Electronic surveillance is a sensitive subject for Libya's new leaders. In an interview, Mr. Hasi's deputy denied that Libya has put Gadhafi-era surveillance gear to use. "We don't have the staff or know-how to do this," said Mustafa Nu'ah, the deputy, in a brief phone interview. Mr. Hasi didn't respond to requests for comment.... read article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304782404577488493816611850.html ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFlhtQlzlaI

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US and NATO intervention on behalf of Libyan Rebels Music Agricantus song is Viaggi Getting to the facts We cant let them get away with it again! • A war started on a lie -- "Benghazi Massacre Propaganda Party Line" (Viet Nam (Tonkin) Iraq (WMD)... • Abuse of a no fly zone to inflict collective punishment on regime supporters or even hapless inhabitants! • Being so snake like they send our soldiers into battle without a legal defined protection against war crimes charges called "A congressional declaration of War" Especially when there is a total failure on the entire media to actually read the CIA world factbook report on Libya which would have told them: • That Libya has a 0.15% (10,000) incarceration rate US is 430% higher at .66% (2 million) • Libya has a much lower crime and poverty than the US • That Libya in fact scores No 1 in Africa in both standard of living and Human Development Per the UN and the CIA • That Libyans stay in school 1 more year than Americans, and the examinations are more rigorous. Arguments by pro intervention forces Official Line • Benghazi Massacre Talking Point: • Gaddafi blew up PA flight • Gaddafi kills and jails his own people • Libyans are poor and uneducated • People in Libya want freedom • Its too late for peace -- we have to push on because our goal is regime change Facts that contradict official Line • Heated rhetoric, failing to mention amnesty offer,. etc • US bombed Tripoli attempting to assassinate Gaddafi • US has caused 1 million deaths through war • Libya's death rate per 1,000 is 3 • US death rate per 1,000 is 8 • Libya's incarceration rate is 9.000 out of 6,000,000 (1.5 per 1,000) • US incarceration rate is 2 million (1 per 150) • Libya has higher education, health care and less poverty than the US • While it is true Libya is a repressive regime. Until the Patriot Act is repealed the US is also not free. We are terrorized by Corporations and the Military industrial Complex • On the other hand they assure us that Regime Change is not the objective of NATO intervention Why I and many american political leaders support the Libyan Loyalists over a bunch of Western SuperPower Bullies shoving privatization down the throats of the people, selling off their free health care and oil and banking down their throat What they say • Beghazi Massacre • Gaddafi blew up PA flight • Gaddafi kills and jails his own people • Libyans are poor and uneducated • People in Libya want freedom • Its too late for peace -- we have to push on because our goal is regime change What they don't mention • Libya lower poverty more avg years of school than US • Less racism. No sexism even in army • No 1 in Africa in Health Care Education and Standard of living -- even when accounting for small population and oil revenues • Gaddafi Benghazi Speech cherry picked to justify a national invasion and national massacre -- " I will give a propagandist reason for starting this war. Never mind if it is plausible or not -- the victor will not be asked afterwords whether he told the truth or not ! • Sending young men into these circumstances without the full support of the Nation via a declaration of War is morally repugnant The media failure to do any due diligence is like the ratings agencies co-signing junk as AAA -- they should never be trusted again -- as they function currently -- they are either idiots or have been ordered to disregard these troubling issues -- even the NY Times recirculates this garbage The hilarity of state violence • 27 of the 32 people we interviewed on the street did not know there was hostilities underway in Libya after 60 days of US sponsored bombing • The hubris of trotting the same logic of Vietnam and Iraq • The "sanitation" of remote warfare politically • The "sanitation" of a compliant corporate media • The sanitation of a uneducated frightened over worked populace and its inadvertant acquiescence to the Bombing of Libya • What makes it messy is that we are not completely done for yet -- and we The White House Corporate Media Intl Banker Choreographed Narrative scrutinized have the Internet Libya, a small country with 2 billion a year in military spending is now being assaulted by NATO with its 1.5 TRILLION in arms expenditures -- started as a method of "protecting civilians" -- NATO has now become the primary active belligerant in the Libyan Conflict..... Editorial backed by cold facts ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF3mqDlEqLc