Surprise! I found even more facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about !

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31. You get to decide what is important?

So, Gaddafi's Libya had a high standard of living. Yay!

He did a lot better for his people economically than all the murderous dictators and their Chicago Boy advisers whom we put in in South America and Central America. The people did better than the indentured (slave) laborers from Pakistan who are dying by the hundreds to build vanity projects in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, etc. But you get to decide which murderous dictator is a good guy. Right.

They attacked after careful deliberation after Gaddafi's army started shooting at libyan civilians

That happened after the CIA, according to leaked transcripts (a leak is not a conspiracy), armed and fomented the civil unrest. (Same M.O. as in Syria, as in Ukraine.) These are classic Color Revolution tactics - don't just have an obvious coup; wait for an event and piggyback your gangsters on top of it.

(What's with these conspiracy-theories that big banks are to blame for everything?)

Gee, the guy was trying to start a bank. I suppose you want me to investigate whether United Fruit was behind the failure of that project. Banks have an interest in banking. That's not CT.

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You really should get out of the bubble that says anyone who disagrees with corporate conventional wisdom is a CTer. There are plenty of legitimate sources of non-corporate news. Just because TPTB constantly tries to "dirty up" the legitimate ones with the "kidnapped by aliens" crackpots does not make all alternative news CT.