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2010-08-31 Africa North

Gaddafi: Europe will 'turn black' unless EU pays Libya £4bn a year

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Posted by tipper 2010-08-31 14:36|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Europeans decided to risk letting Europe "no longer be European" when they stopped having children at a sufficient rate. Someone will be living there, "European" or not, whether from Libya or elsewhere.

Posted by ryuge 2010-08-31 18:02|| 2010-08-31 18:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Precisely Ryuge. When one culture enthusiastically embraces pharmaceutical birth control while another categorically rejects it, the outcomes are soon manifested.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-31 18:15|| 2010-08-31 18:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The BBC's David Willey says Col Gaddafi's visit to Rome was overshadowed by another controversial speech he made - to two groups of several hundred young Italian women, hired at a fee of 70 or 80 euros each from a local modelling agency.

He told them that Islam should become the religion of Europe and gave them free copies of the Koran, after he had lectured them for an hour on the freedoms enjoyed by women in Libya.

Nuff said on your motives - A friend of the west - I dont think so

Posted by Glolumble Bonaparte5096 2010-08-31 18:23|| 2010-08-31 18:23|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO ROME didn't somuch "fall" as was bloodily
"VISITED" by the Barbarians.

* HISTORY CHANNEL + OTHER > By most accounts, ALERIC/ALARIC is portrayed as not personally hating Rome, + is depicted as MIL OR VIOLEN DEFEATING + SACKING ["Robbing"] ROME, BUT NOT DESTROYING IT PER SE EITHER A CITY OR AS A WORLD POWER.

Ditto POST-ARMADA SPAIN vee the RISE OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, + the DUTCH. Many Perts argue that Spain's wealth + geopol power was actually GREATER FOR CENTURIES AFTER THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA THAN PRIOR???

"FALL OF ROME" = IMO is correctly more akin to contemporary Pert arguments that its not the POST-COLD WAR USA THAT IS "WEAKENING" PER SE AS MUCH AS THE REST OF THE WORLD IS "RISING" TO
NEWFOUND LEVELS OF STATE, REGION-SPECIFIC GEOPOL INFLUENCE ALA "GLOBALISM" = OWG-NWO.

e.g. DRUDGEREPORT ARTIC > THE US = US ECON IS "RUSTING" WHILE OTHER WORLD NATIONS ENJOY BETTER OR HIGHER ECON GROWTH RATES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-31 20:36|| na 2010-08-31 20:36|| Front Page Top

#5 So much for 'soft' diplomacy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-08-31 21:17|| 2010-08-31 21:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Too bad those F-111s hit the wrong tent...

Posted by tu3031 2010-08-31 21:44|| 2010-08-31 21:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm not buying drinks, but if there was an #rclight needed....

Posted by Frank G 2010-08-31 22:22|| 2010-08-31 22:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm not so sure Gaddafi is in the wrong, here. Think about what he is asking for. There is a flood of Africans heading to Italy via Libya. He is offering to stop them, if the Italians make it worth his while.

Why should he spend a fortune protecting Italy? Just because he is a nice guy? He would have to go out of his way, and spend some big bucks, to stop these illegals. Think of it as reimbursement for the costs.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-31 22:55|| 2010-08-31 22:55|| Front Page Top

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