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The Al Khufrah Oasis in southeastern Libya (near the Egyptian border) is one of Libya’s largest agricultural projects, and is an easy-to-recognize landmark for orbiting astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Because only about 2 percent of Libya’s land receives enough rainfall to be cultivated, this project uses fossil water from a large underground aquifer. The Libyan government also has a plan called the Great Man Made River to pump and transport these groundwater reserves to the coast to support Libya’s growing population and industrial development. http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/news/concerts-news/item/green-circles-al-khufrah-oasis-libyaThe Al Khufrah Oasis in southeastern Libya (near the Egyptian border) is one of... more
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![ARMY GENERAL: "WE RUSHED INTO [LIBYA] WITHOUT A PLAN...NOW WE'RE GOING IN CIRCLES"](http://i2.crtcdn1.net/images/spacer.gif)
Accordign to this LATimes article, President Obama's obsession with rushing into a Libyan War was based on "faulty" assumptions, was initiated without a plan, leaving the Libyan rebels, NATO allies, and the U.S. military "going in circles."
Obama pushed ahead with his Libyan War, despite the fact that it was "not popular at the Pentagon." Even Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates and "top uniformed officers" have shown sparse interest in getting involved in Libya at the same time we are trying to hold our national head above water in Afghanistan.
The air-strikes campaign failed to shove Kadafi off his throne and, indeed, has been unable to even stop Kadafi's forces from bombing civilians and taking back the towns the Libyan rebels, NATO and the U.S. spent so many resources capturing.
The rebels remained poorly trained, poorly motivated, disorganized, easily distracted, and angry that NATO/U.S. aren't doing more to fight their war for them.
It seems that Obama, once again, by his insistance on getting the U.S. and NATO involved in
This disaster leaves us with some questions:
1. Why was/is Obama so obsessed with starting a Libyan War?
2. What is it he is lying about to--or withholding information from--the American people this time?
3. Will Obama's Libyan War end up as an Afghanistanian Quagmire--one where we cannot win but cannot leave, either?
3. What the hell do we do now?
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[BEGIN QUOTE] "We rushed into this without a plan," said David Barno, a retired Army general who once commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. "Now we're out in the middle, going in circles." ...
....Privately, U.S. officials concede that some of their assumptions before they intervened in the Libyan conflict may have been faulty. Among them was the notion that air power alone would degrade Kadafi's military to the point where he would be forced to halt his attacks, and that the U.S. could leave the airstrikes primarily to warplanes from Britain, France and other European countries......
...His decision to intervene in Libya was not popular at the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and top uniformed officers have shown little interest in taking a major role in the conflict while they are fighting the war in Afghanistan. Obama managed to overcome his advisors' objections by promising to keep the U.S. role limited....If the alliance's most powerful member isn't willing to escalate, few other members will be eager to do so.[END QUOTE]
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latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-libya-assess-20110419,0,4991088.story
LOS ANGELES TIMES (latimes.com)
NEWS ANALYSIS
WITH U.S. IN SUPPORT ROLE, NATO'S LIBYA MISSION IS 'GOING IN CIRCLES'
Kadafi's forces have been able to intensify their
counteroffensive while NATO members don't appear
willing to escalate their intervention.
By David S. Cloud and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
(Cloud reporting from Washington and Parker from Benghazi, Libya.)
7:24 PM PDT, April 18, 2011
A month ago in Libya, troops loyal to Moammar Kadafi were advancing on opposition-held areas, tens of thousands of civilians feared for their lives, and rebel forces appeared in disarray with little prospect of driving Kadafi from power.
After four weeks and hundreds of airstrikes by the U.S. and its NATO allies, in many ways little has changed.
Kadafi's tanks and artillery no longer threaten the de facto rebel capital of Benghazi in eastern Libya, and Kadafi's combat aircraft and helicopter gunships are grounded. But the disorganized rebel forces are still outmatched and outnumbered by Libyan army units, which, along with their leader, show no sign of giving up.
Rather, Kadafi has intensified his counteroffensive in recent days. Human rights groups accused Kadafi's military of using cluster bombs and truck-mounted Grad rockets to bombard residential areas of Misurata, the only city in western Libya still in rebel hands.
"We rushed into this without a plan," said David Barno, a retired Army general who once commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. "Now we're out in the middle, going in circles."
The failure of the international air campaign to force Kadafi's ouster, or even to stop his military from shelling civilians and recapturing rebel-held towns, poses a growing quandary for President Obama and other NATO leaders: What now?
Privately, U.S. officials concede that some of their assumptions before they intervened in the Libyan conflict may have been faulty. Among them was the notion that air power alone would degrade Kadafi's military to the point where he would be forced to halt his attacks, and that the U.S. could leave the airstrikes primarily to warplanes from Britain, France and other European countries.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the charge within NATO to launch the air campaign in Libya, argued last week that the alliance needed to step up its attacks to fulfill the United Nations mandate to protect civilians. But winning agreement to escalate the intervention could further divide the already badly split alliance.
The U.S. military moved into a support role early this month, and Obama has given no indication that he will send U.S. warplanes into combat missions again, let alone reconsider his promise not to use ground troops in Libya.
His decision to intervene in Libya was not popular at the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and top uniformed officers have shown little interest in taking a major role in the conflict while they are fighting the war in Afghanistan. Obama managed to overcome his advisors' objections by promising to keep the U.S. role limited.
If the alliance's most powerful member isn't willing to escalate, few other members will be eager to do so.Accordign to this LATimes article, President Obama's obsession with rushing into... more
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Our cosmos was "bruised" in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background. There's something exciting afoot in the world of cosmology. Last month, Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and Vahe Gurzadyan at Yerevan State University in Armenia announced that they had found patterns of concentric circles in the cosmic microwave background, the echo of the Big Bang. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/submit-an-article/15029-before-the-conventional-big-bang-Our cosmos was "bruised" in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers... more
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One clever designer has taken a large group of famous brand logos and simplified them using only circles. From the list it is not hard to spot Red Bull and Apple among the groups. Though a few take a few guesses till the correct answer is made.
Luckily on the Flickr page the logos are titled, however many remain titled ?? leaving you spending too much time wondering.
"Unevolving a logo to just a series of coloured circles, how many can still be recognised? This study shows how the most simplest of logo and brand designs are often the most recognisable when shed of all detail.
In most cases, each circle represents one letter or one container. So in the case of Orange, a self contained logo, one circle for the orange container and one circle for the wording. Typebased logos like Twitter, FedEx and eBay just have one circle per letter.
It's an ongoing study, so new logos and brands will be added."-Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamsblog/sets/72157625155090078/One clever designer has taken a large group of famous brand logos and simplified them... more
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Jan Souman, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, recently published his findings, that people actually really do walk in circles when lost, without any land marks to guide them.
Another finding that was found after the experiment was conducted on nine people, that when people walked during overcast or nightime environment they were more likely to go round in circles then people who could see the sun or moon, who managed to travel fairly straight.Jan Souman, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in... more
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Recent crop circles in the U.K. seem to be about a giant solar flare occurring soon.
And a prophecy of the Bible Book of Revelation and also Isaiah in the Old Testament on the possibility of a giant solar flare scorching the earth with great heat.
The sun seems to not be following its normal cycle, where there are very few sunspots over the last year, so an unusual solar flare is possible.
Copyright 2009 by T. Chase. From the Revelation13.net web site, for more on this see Revelation13.net (Revelation 13: Prophecies of the Future, Astrology, Nostradamus, Bible Prophecy, the King James version English Bible Code).Recent crop circles in the U.K. seem to be about a giant solar flare occurring soon.... more
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