Sunday, Feb 05th
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The death of Muammar Gaddafi has left Libya in a delicate and uncertain situation. He died a “tyrant”, but he is a man Libya will live to remember.
In 1969, at the age of 27, Gaddafi took over power in a bloodless military coup that toppled King Idris, and in 1970, he formulated his Third Universal Theory - a middle road between communism and capitalism, as was written in his Green Book.
There are many voices out there telling us who we should, or should not be. Those loud voices try to manipulate our minds in order to have us follow the generally acceptable ways of the majority. Yet, true success is not nearly as complicated as we have made it look.
The Durban UNFCCC Conference
There is an old African riddle I am very fond of: “How do you eat an elephant?” To which the answer is “A bite at a time.” It should be on every one’s lips at the climate change talks in Durban.
It can seem that climate change is so big, so complex, so all encompassing that, like our culinary elephant, it is too big to handle and there is nothing we can do to make a difference. Not true. It just needs to be taken a bite at a time.
The world greeted the death of Muammar Gaddafi, as the end of his 42 years of despotic reign over Libya.
No doubt, Gaddafi’s death leaves the Libyan people in an awkward position with the new National Transitional Council (NTC) government, who have been in power just for a few months, but already are being accused of numerous human-right abuses including war crimes against humanity.
News that Christopher Alder’s body still is still in the mortuary 11 years after his family thought they had buried him has shocked the community.
It shows that even in death, racism and injustice continue to haunt our people.
Christopher, a black man and former paratrooper died in a Hull police station in 1998 surrounding by mocking police officers. He died tragically in what can only be described as the most degrading and disgusting of circumstances.
