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How the Magician In Vegas Entertains You

Nikita — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:55:41 +0000

Las Vegas is in itself a Magical city. Magic is anything that is unimaginable, astounding, attention grabbing, awe inspiring, mouth gapping. That is what Vegas is , a complete definition of magic .Imagine then what it would be to have a well known magician in Vegas taking his audience with him in all his skills of enthralled performances.

Magic is all but a creation of illusion in a way to make the spectators believe the happening of an impossible task in front of their eyes. The magician in Vegas are not only illusionists but comedians, skilled dancers, stunt performers , clowns, painters, cards changes, currency, and artists of many more tricks. The magician in Vegas plays with the mind of the audience in a way that it causes distraction. The attention is grabbed to the action and later the spectator is amazed to see the outcome. The significance of timing is implemented in this art. The moment the attention is attracted towards a specific object that is retained by the viewer and later is replaced with the next.

Magic is not limited to one particular skill that requires making things disappear or other such unbelievable actions but it is a spectacular feat of adventurism as well, like cycling around the opening of a well or rope walking, a show of flexibility of body muscles over a fine tune of music in a dance, making audience laugh with funny gestures of a clown, painted face are also very amusing for the young viewers who insist on emulating them. The most interesting stunt by a magician in Vegas is of simulating currency as a lot of people are easily allured to line their pockets with thousands of bucks.

A well known performer magician in Vegas is Magic “Magnet” that attracts a tumultuous crowd. The pigeon flying out of a hat, flames billowing out makes the viewers hold their breath and no one can help but shriek over a crazy man who has blatantly sliced a bottle neck figured girl into two and that stands up and bows before the audience back in “one” piece. Another unbelievable act is when a dame is ruthlessly pushed into a closed aquarium too small for her and is kept there for a while but later she steps out and bows before the thunderous applause of the spectators. How can one think of chewing something un-delectable and later pulling out a trail of colorful paper? But it’s right there on the stage performed by a magician in Vegas. Everyone out there is all praise for the invaluable show put up for them to pay them back for what they spent on the expensive tickets. In comes the red lipped clown with a heavy pout, dancing and prancing, emulating the known political, silver screen celebrities making the audience laugh to their heart fill. It’s a magic show in a magical moonlit night in Las Vegas. Magic was introduced by social outcasts of lepers in medieval ages and later in Middle Ages it evolved to what it is in modern times.

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Fake Russian invasion broadcast sparks Georgian panic

Nikita — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:48:39 +0000

(CNN) — A television station in Georgia triggered a panic when it broadcast a mock half-hour report about a Russian invasion of the country. | Emotions are still raw in many parts of Georgia after Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles advanced into the former Soviet Republic in August 2008. | That invasion was triggered after Georgian troops attacked pro-Russian separatists in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/14/georgia.invasion.scare

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Jango Fett Costume for Halloween

Nikita — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:36:48 +0000

Jango Fett was born to a family of farmers on the arena of concord Dawn, a planet long associated with the heavily-armored super-soldiers known as the Mandalorians. Jango’s father served as Journeyman Protector, a title held by a civilian in Concord Dawn, having taken over the job when previous Protector Jaster Mereel was exiled. Jango had a gigantic bigger sister named Arla. In 41 BBY, Jango somehow lost his armor in the Meridian Sector. While looking for it, Jango met a woman named Sheeka Tull. She helped him find his armor, and they started a relationship. The 2 spent a year together, which ended when their ship got attacked by pirates. They each entered separate escape pods and never saw each other again. Fett led the Mandalorians for the remainder of the war until the disastrous Battle of Galidraan where the Death Watch led them into a trap. The Governor of Galidraan had secretly been hiding the Death Watch on his world. He was also facing an insurrection by some of his colonists, so he hired the True Mandalorians, under Jango Fett, to eliminate the rebels, which they did. [**] under the advice of the Death Watch leader, Vizsla, the governor also told the Jedi Council that a bunch of Mandalorians were slaughtering’political activists.’ a bunch of Jedi were dispatched to the planet to address the Mandalorians, controlled by Jedi Master Dooku and his Padawan Komari Vosa. In the ensuing battle, the True Mandalorians on the planet were wiped out. Jango, the only survivor, became enraged and demonstrated his extraordinary physical capabilities by killing many of the attacking Jedi with his bare hands before ultimately surrendering. Fett eventually escaped from slavery, and tracked the Death Watch to Corellia. There, he avenged Jaster Mereel’s death, slaughtering Vizsla ( with help from a family of dire-cats ) and a good lots of his supporters. Shortly after the Invasion of Naboo, Jango was approached by a person named Tyranus, who offered him a bounty on his previous Jedi apprentice, Komari Vosa, who was now the deranged leader of a crime syndicate known as the Bando Gora. Jango had to compete with Montross, the previous Mandalorian traitor whom Tyranus had also made contact with about the bounty. In order to gain an audience with Jabba, Jango fought a gang of outlaws led by Longo Two-Guns, who had a price on his head that was posted by the Hutt. When Jango came to Jabba to collect his reward, he asked the slimy crimelord about the Bando Gora. [**] it turned out that Jabba essentially had zip to do with Vosa or the crime syndicate. Having captured Jango, the Bando Gora prepared to make him into a mindless slave. It was here that Jango bought most of his facial scars. Vosa herself came to demand of him the name of his employer, but Zam Wesell freed Jango before being injured by the crazy Dark Jedi. After a long duel with Vosa, Jango Fett came out smiling. As he prepared to close her off, Vosa asked if he would opt to leave her dead or alive. Jango, looking at the ruined female nearing her death, lowered his weapons. Vosa murmured’He is here.’ then was choked with the Force to her last breath. Jango did not fully retire from his career, but he took fewer jobs and spent more time on Kamino, where he raised Boba in the Mandalorian ways while helping the Kaminoans in developing training programs for the clone troopers. To assist him in this job, he recruited one hundred coaching sergeants, seventy-five of whom were Mandalorians, to help in the task. These men became known as the Cuy’val Dar-’Those Who No Longer Exist’. Shortly before the Clone Wars, Ashaar Khorda employed Jango to retrieve the statue called the infant of Shaa. Khorda hoped to use the infant’s power to break Coruscant in the upcoming conflict. Fett succeeded in attaining the statue, but was persuaded by his rival and recent Zam Wesell to re-steal the statue from Khorda to save the galactic capital. A last-minute effort by Fett and Wesell saved the infant from unleashing its power within a central Coruscant power core. Jedi Master Yarael Poof sacrificed himself to contain the fracturing statue and forestall the annihilation of Coruscant, and Fett returned the statue to Seylott, the planet where the child was created, for safekeeping. In the cloning process, Fett instantly became one of Tyranus’s bodyguards. Had he not already known, Fett probably now realized that Dooku ( the Jedi Master who led the attack on Galidraan ) and Tyranus were the same person. This information would seriously help his son later. So why not opt to dress up inthis deluxe Adult Jango Fett Costume this Halloween. Do not forget to include your Jango Fett Blaster, Backpack and Helmet to finish the outfit.

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Carbon Tax Cap And Trade Catastrophe — Excerpt — Home Grown Terrorist

Nikita — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:54:15 +0000

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Driving home John, the number two man in the FBI, felt the power of his new Mercedes as he opened it up on the highway. It leapt to sixty miles an hour in nothing flat. Too fast John thought, too damn fast. He was thinking about what was happening with the Iranians, not his new car.

As he sped to his new temporary hotel apartment home in his new Mercedes, he was shaking his head wondering what was going wrong in America and why? He felt like one of those people one saw interviewed on TV after a tragic school shooting or a murder struck there small community, and they mumbled in a daze that they thought it couldn’t happen here. No, not here in the good old USA: no homegrown terrorists suicide bombings, no dissatisfied underclass, no greedy banks ruining the economy, no Iranian backed junta ready to take over. But it was happening. It was all too real. The shear horror of what was taking place hit John with full force. He had to pull over to the side of the road to compose himself. How could these people possibly make a deal with the Iranians?

As soon as John got home he called his boss Casey, the head of the FBI, and said they had to meet in Philadelphia, that it was urgent. Casey told him to make it the following morning around 10 AM and got off the phone muttering that this better be worth it.

The following morning John met Casey at their favorite Deli as planned. The first words out of his mouth were, “The Iranians gave me a brand new Mercedes for setting up Ross Phalen. I feel like a crook.”

Casey replied, “You mean more like a traitor. What do you expect, you’re a double agent?”

“I’m only doing this because it’s in our National interest.”

“Are you sure?”

John said, “I don’t like the way this conversation is going. I have something urgent to tell you. I feel like I am being set up to take a fall if something goes wrong.”

“Not by me John. Just be sure you aren’t setting yourself up. You are walking a fine line. Now what is this urgent information you have to tell me that forced me to cancel an important meeting with the future Director of Homeland Security?

“I have to tell you, Casey that the Iranians handle things in a more pleasant manner than you do.”

“I am not in the pleasant business, John. What do you have?”

“Okay Casey, you asked for it. This is the down and dirty of it. Dawa and an associate who is a professor of economics at New York University by the name of Alhali Huseini met me for lunch yesterday. After giving me the car for a job well down, they told me they had a new project for me. I was to find a respected reporter for a major newspaper and give him the story that our major banks and investment brokerage houses were hiding off balance sheet losses of about two trillion dollars in CECOFS and it could very likely wreck our economy. I am to get the details from the good professor when I’m ready to talk to a reporter and reveal this monumental scandal.

The Iranians say they are in a conspiracy with the Chinese who will sell a trillion dollars worth of the CECOFS to drive the price down to near zero as they were inflated to more than four times their real worth to begin with by the banks so they could show huge profits and recover from the sub prime disaster of 2007 – 2009, from which they have never really fully recovered. I am also to fill in some of the more aggressive bloggers on the Internet so the story will have legs.

The Iranians figure this could cause our financial institutions to crumble, and out economic system to self destruct leaving them in a position to put a junta of their choosing in control to take advantage of the ensuing chaos without the need to explode another terrorist bomb. There is more, but I can’t remember it all. The Russians are in on this in some way. I have a week to find a reliable reporter and destroy the United States. Do you have any thoughts?

John thought Casey was going to choke on his buttered bagel.

Casey said, “What the hell is a CECOF? How did this happen? Who let the banks and brokers get away with this? Where were the Banking Commission, the SEC, and all these new regulatory agencies Congress created in 2010 when all this phony profit stuff was happening? How could the banks have concocted these financial instrument and priced them at four times what they are worth? What the hell do you expect me to do about this? This could be a catastrophe. It could cause our economy to collapse.”

“The CECOF stands for Carbon Emission Credit Option Funds. I don’t know who let these financial institutions get away with this scheme. I don’t know how they manipulated the price of the options. My guess is they now have these computer geeks who make up these crazy formulas, and I’m not even sure the CEOs of the major financial institutions know what kind of a pile of manure they are sitting on top of. These computer geeks get paid fortunes, as I understand it to come up with exotic financial formulas. All they have to do is change a decimal point here and a symbol equaling something else there, and they can inflate the value of whatever phony financial instrument they have created.”

Valuing saving the Nation from pollution and Global Warming is a very subjective thing. These computer guys can have a field day determining what these Carbon Option certificates should trade for. They can raise their value by determining that the underlying Carbon fines they are supposed to protect against are going to go up sharply because Global Warming due to carbon emissions is much more of a problem now than it was six months ago. “

“Who knows what ephemeral nonsense they base their valuations on? The problem is that people and financial institutions have been buying them at these inflated values. It has something to do with the initial Cap and Trade legislation Congress passed in 2010 where certain companies got Carbon Credits verses the new taxes they were supposed to pay as fines for not curbing carbon emissions, and then traded them to other companies that needed them more because they had worse carbon emission problems and fines to pay. It’s all very confusing, and the legislation made it even more difficult to comprehend as politics dictated, which companies got what Cap and Trade credits, not actual need.”

“The problem has been exacerbated because these inflated CEOF’s have gotten into a lot of pension plans whose investment officers thought they were doing the patriotic thing. “

“The heads of these Investment Companies go along because they don’t really understand the underlying liability to their Companies, and they want big bonuses for showing profits phony or not. It is like a giant game of musical chars. Unfortunately it looks like the music is about to stop and our Country is going to be without a seat at the table of credit worthy Nations. As you have told me, greed must have driven them to this. Sounds familiar, sounds like I’ve heard this song before. I don’t have the answers. I’m only speculating based on my limited knowledge. What I expect you to do is to tell me what to do. I need answers from you. I could arrest Dawa, Alhali, and there boss Wady Hussein, but I don’t know how deep their organization is, and this information will probably get out anyway. What do you want me to do?”

Casey frowned and said, ‘Do nothing until you hear from me. I have to see the Secretary of the Treasury, the head of the Federal Reserve, and the President. I can’t make a decision here on my own. This is too big. I can hardly believe it. Wait until you here from me.”

“I only have one week.”

“Just go home and do nothing and say nothing for now. I will get back to you as soon as I can.”

“Why do I have the feeling that either way I’m going to be screwed by you or the Iranians”?

“Look at it this way John. If we screw you at least history will recognize you as a patriot instead of a traitor when the truth eventually comes out if it ever does.”

“Great, but will any one I care about know the truth? What about my family? What about me?”

“Don’t leap to conclusions John. You have been reading too many spy novels.”

“Why do I feel like you wrote them?”

“Go home John.”

As John drove home he noticed that sweat was starting to form on his upper lip again. He tried brushing it away with his sleeve, but the fear wouldn’t go away. He didn’t trust Casey any more. He didn’t trust Wade. He didn’t trust anybody. He felt alone, horribly alone. He missed Alice. He yearned for the good old days when he was a junior officer in the New York office of the FBI, and weekends meant mowing the lawn, ice cold beer, hamburger barbeques, and making love to Alice. He could almost smell the burgers, or was that him being grilled on the hot seat?

*****

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1 year divcast- fake profiles and a political comment

Nikita — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:15:04 +0000

Eirini Voutskoglou U may find all the screenshots of my reviews in divcast.gr – Is facebook’s power the fake profiles? – Web speech is public speech – How stupid can some users be? – I’m willing to help my country paying more taxes but i deserve to see some justice – Twitter and friendfeed in Buzz is so f*cking stupid [very few subtitles in english]

Cell phones Q&A

Nikita — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:36:23 +0000

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I gotta know because this is human being sent to my crush so I don’t wanna ask him out like TWICE if I can relieve it haha.Are the lg dimple phones deeply loud?I am thinking of buying and lg dimple but i am wondering if it’s very loud.Are the mobile phones from china on ebay really as unpromising as associates variety out eg cheap clones?are the mobile phones from china on ebay really as bad as populace make out eg cheap clones that will solitary last 5 min? you very soon can get massively similar apple i phones for lb50 obviously next to postage on top of that, i be very zealous on getting one untill one person put me of by bleak mouthing them what do you guys think?Are the t-moblie phones activation free?They have be showing commercials that their giving away free samsung phones. 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My 3G normally doesnt see in unless Im within an area near no service.. but since I woke up today my phone has said 3G and get practically no service.. while my friends phone, also at&t gets sound service and isnt using the 3G. Whats goin on?At&t blackberry – Can you use the regular internet plans?If you add the regular internet while you own a different phone, will it work if you put your sim in a blackberry lacking paying the higher blackberry plans?At&t blackberry pearl?at verizon wireless they make you bring back a data plan(which is approaching email and stuff and I dont need that) if you achieve the blackberry pearl and its like an extra $30 a month…does At&t trademark you do the same point with their pearl?AT&T Blackjack 2 Purchase?Hey Evrybody Im looking to find out just for a while more information before purchasing the blackjack 2. this is my first cell phone, and want to clear sure everything works out right so here it is: as this is my first phone, we are adding a file and updating to a family plan. if i purchase the blackjack while count a line, will in attendance be any discount when i purchase it in the store? and except, how much will it cost in the at&t store? gratefulness!At&t brink gridiron?if you have more than one phone contained by a family that have internet on it and requires edge…do you own to pay the price to return with edge for respectively phone or just one price?AT&T cell phone put somebody through the mill?Last nite online I added a 200 text message pack to my cell phone plan. After I added it I read where it said ” $5.00 per mth/per unit” or something to that effect. My interview is if I have 2 phone lines on my plan (mine & my mother) does that be set to that I will be charged $10mth total or will I just be charged $5mth but merely my phone line have the 200 message package? OR… can both phone lines on my plan can send/recieve messages not to exceed 200 between both or I’ll receive charged. Just curious. ThankxAt&T cell phone users, this quiz is for you!?I would like to know what number you dial to access your voicemail. Not the password, in recent times the number. I am trying to leave a voicemail on an AT&T users phone minus it ringing and I guess I need that number. I hold also heard it may be specific to particular regions so if you know the number for Michigan users or SW Michigan users that would be the best I think.AT&T Cell Phone?How much does it cost for text messaging for att cell phones. and are near any additional charges ?AT&T cell phone?it says PUK unavilible….she wishes to take to the the store right?AT&T charge for certificate messages past we read them?I was wondering if AT&T charges for article messages before we enlarge and read them. I remember they used to charge only if you start the text message. Does anyone know how it is in a minute? More Cell phones Questions & Answers please visit : CesFAQ.com

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Facts About Murals

Nikita — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:49:23 +0000

Have you ever seen a crazy cool mural that you canât stop looking at? That is probably because murals are simply a skillful attempt at creating illusion. They can totally expand our horizons and often times they transport us to another time or place through images. In their simplest form, murals are simply decorative artistic renderings on a common wall or living space that is generally grand in scale. Certain materials are needed to complete a mural but painting easel is not one of them. Here are some truly interesting facts about the fantastic murals of our world.

Overall, muralists are fascinated with rich culture and historical events and it shows up in their work. Someone who paints a mural is super multi-faceted, a very skilled painter, and has the talent to paint on a number of rough surfaces with accuracy. Some of the most famous masters in the history of murals come from the Veronese and Teipolo centuries just like Michelangelo.

Heatherlee is a muralist who is currently active in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota. Check out her childrens murals by clicking this link or visiting hlnguyen.com and book a mural with her today!

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The links between religious issues and terrorism

Nikita — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:56:44 +0000

Terrorism emanates a distorted ideology, which dictates massive destruction of institutions, foundations and national symbols, while insinuating thoughts and ideas, which do not comply with common sense. On the other hand, an ideology doesn’t wait for reasons. So does religion.

Religion has often been the root cause for acts of terrorism around the globe. Regardless of being produced from Muslims, Christians or Jews, religious extremism always aims to kill a large number of innocent people so that society is forced to put pressure on the government to proceed to policy changes.

The power of religious beliefs is difficult to overcome. Being focused on the interpretation of supernatural and moral claims about what is real and what is good, religion encompasses tradition, history, and faith. Moreover, religion reflects a social construct which views a particular religion as indisputably true and tries to progress to a higher objective truth emanated by this religion. However, although the truth is objective, the way people interpret what is allowed to do in the name of religion is subjective.

Terrorism and religion are closely related.

Islamic terrorist groups are blinded by religion and own convictions about destroying anything non-Muslim as inferior and threatening. One good explanation of the flourishing terrorism in the Middle East is poor education, poverty, and political instability, which led people to believe in a great power, the power of Allah, expressed through suicide terrorism.

Something similar happened in Christianity in the years of the Crusades. Bearing a religious character and called from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire to conquer Jerusalem from Muslims, the Crusades were military conflicts between the Christian Europe and the rest of the world, namely Muslims, Mongols, Magyars, Slavs and Orthodox Christians. In the name of religion, innocent people were brutally beaten and killed.

Jewish terrorism is not new either. Extremist behaviors in Palestine, but also the UK, France and Israel are being committed by religious zealots, who cannot accept any peaceful settlement mainly with the Muslims.

To my view, in today’s world Muslim terrorism is the most dangerous. In the years of the Crusades people were less educated and advanced and it was natural to behave with extreme aggression in order to convince the opposite part that one religion was better than the other. Today, killing in the name of God is an act of desperate contradiction to the religious essence. Religion dictates to do the good and love the different. Instead of fostering diversity in the name of religion, Muslims proceed in the mass destruction of any other religious belief to gain eternity in Paradise. How crazy this is… And how unlikely to end…

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Getting Support for Your Direct Marketing

Nikita — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:33:45 +0000

Most marketing firms do a lot of direct marketing. One might even suggest it’s traditionally the bread and butter of a marketing firm’s income. However, in order to properly manage a direct marketing campaign your firm will need to have adequate direct marketing support services, including lettershop services. These support elements will do the grunt work in your direct marketing campaign.Direct marketing support services many involve such things as printing, mailings database management, and campaign management. While lettershop services handle issues tied to the distribution of your direct marketing campaign. This includes many mundane tasks such as labeling, presorting, folding, tracking and so on. However, as mundane as these tasks may be they are critical to the completion of a successful direct marketing campaign.In most direct marketing campaigns, direct marketing support services, and lettershop services are handled by an outside vendor. As with the selection of any outside vendor, we suggest you do your research. But there’s a problem with this. Obviously, competitive marketing firms may be loathing giving you any information about the companies they use for direct marketing support services, and lettershop services. But we have found a way around that one, and it may sound silly but it actually works.Call your congressman.Stop laughing. We are serious.Why, you may ask, we are not trying to get a bill passed? We are just looking for some good vendors for direct marketing support services and lettershop services, how could our congressmen help with that? Well, it is quite simple, political candidate do a lot of direct mailings, and they usually use local companies. Also, you are a small business in your congressman’s district; he will have a reason to help you.Okay, so now you have found a good company to handing your direct marketing support services and lettershop services. Are there any other pitfalls? Of course there are. As with many other outside vendors, those dealing with direct marketing support services and lettershop services make money on volume. Meaning that quality control, though a priority, may not be their top priority. So you need to be especially carefully that all printed material, databases and instructions are given both verbally and in writing.In our experience, if you have never worked with the vendor, we suggest you do this in person. Although thanks to digital printing a lot may be done via phone, FTP and email, we still feel that these initial contacts should be done in person. And do not give this job to a new hire or an intern. That is just asking for trouble. This needs to be done by someone who has been at your firm for at least a year. Someone who can think on his or her feet.Another important thing about vendors who offer direct marketing supports services and lettershop services is that they see direct marketing campaigns every day. They have a sense of what works and what does not. If they question some aspect of your campaign, listen to them. They probably know what they are talking about. And, as you and vendor build trust; you may find them giving you pointers that they only share with valued customers. We might add that the referral from you congressman, might also help grease the early client vendor relations. And you thought that was a crazy suggestion, right?

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The Impossible Democracy In Libya

Nikita — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:56:50 +0000

In those last days, some people started to repeat that a democratic reformation is coming to Libya, and there serious steps will be taking about it; we could hear that there are supervisors coming from EU to supervise the democratic electoral boxes in Libya too.

After the independence for more than half a century*; the Libyan state had started and couldn’t be a democratic one, and when we review the Libyan political history till now, we find that there is one defect still stand to reach the point that even someone with crazy mind could say, “It’s a democratic state.”

We all know there are several kinds of democracy; kingdom and republic, those can be different in their application to the democratic rule in many ways according to their distinguish conditions, but they share one consideration which is that all the members of community are the same before the law.

Libya has fallen into ideological dilemma which made its citizen does not know until this day, what democracy really is?

The ideological dilemma is that old Libyan thinking, which made the king ( Idris al-Sanousi ) and his family’s members and all those who pleased them, are not ordinary people like the rest members of the Libyan community, and so during the short life of Libyan kingdom, democratic ideology could not grow in Libya.

Then came ( Alfateh ) revolution and Libya became republic which later becomes ( Jamahiriya ), and authority, army and wealth as they claim now in people’s hand; so the Libyans become very glad that its leadership is from common people not from that holly Libyan families.

However, what really happen after the revolution and bringing down the holly royal system, itself becomes holly-revolutionary system, so colonel ( Gaddafi ), and members of his family and all the members of his tribe are holly ones not ordinary people like the others in Libyan community.

The Libyan becomes able to criticize Allah, but not able even to dream that he wants simply to criticize ( Gaddafi ), or a member of his family or his tribe.

So how my friends we could be able to dream that in the coming period there is a slight possibility of democratic regime in Libya, unless all the Libyan community’s members are equal before the law, and we all know, that it is impossible for ( Gaddafi) , and his family to become an ordinary people again not as now holly ones.

Therefore, please believe that there is no democratic system in Libya and will not be any, until the disappearance of those holly Libyan characters who make the Libyan similar to idol worshiper, although he knows it does neither harm nor use.

Abdulrazig Almansori

Tobruk – Libya

November 9 , 2004

* 1- The Libyan kingdom from December 24 , 1951 to August 31 , 1969 .

2- The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from September 1 , until now .

Note : April 14, 2008 : This article first published in Arabic at ( akhbar-libya.com ) website , and this is the first translation to English by Miss ( Zahra Ali ) .

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