Libya is the latest nation to experience the violent civil unrest that has plagued North Africa since December. But in August 2010 things were much different. In fact, the country was making steps to rectify its long-sullied international image. One of these steps was devising a youth conference to be held in Tripoli. We had wanted to get inside the country for a long time, so when Vice founder Shane Smith learned of the event he submitted his credentials and was invited to take part in the festivities.
What was presented as a nationwide multimedia presentation on Libya’s open-armed embrace of the global youth turned out to be a thinly veiled propaganda symposium where speakers espoused pro-Gadhafi messages and anti-Zionist rhetoric. It was very clear, however, that the event was organized to promote Gadhafi’s goal of creating the United States of Africa—a federation of all or most African countries, which would theoretically operate under a single currency and be chaired by Gadhafi himself.
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The role of American technology and software has been overlooked. The U.S. taxpayer-funded Internet as well as Google, Facebook, and dozens of other Web sites have given billions access to the modern world, and most don't like what they see about their relative status. Hence the revulsion at their servitude.
Well done, American taxpayers and investors.
That's the problem that Tin Pot Dictators and other criminal masterminds face. They can't get good help. El Jefe announces a charm offensive but he has the usual gange of idiots working for him. The one thing they know how to do is lock people up and start dissecting them alive. This Vice TV crew are very lucky that they got out. Seriously they need to be sure their local and national police know that bad guys might come hunting them.
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