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10 Reasons to bomb Libya

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
HDI-Weltkarte; Quelle: wikimedia commons

HDI World Map (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Human Development Index (HDI; data from 2007, published on November 4, 2010)

  • > 0.900
  • 0850-0899
  • 0800-0849
  • 0750-0799
  • 0700-0749
  • 0650-0699
  • 0600-0649
  • 0550-0599
  • 0500-0549
  • 0450-0499
  • 0400-0449
  • 0350-0399
  • 0300-0349
  • <0.300
  • No data
  1. Libya has an index of 0.755, the highest standard of living of the whole of Africa. In terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2007, it has been more than comparable European countries such as Poland and Portugal. This is amazing, especially since 85% of Libya is desert (Sahara) and the land is extremely dry.
  2. Libya has the highest per capita income in Africa.
  3. Medical care is free. In more complex diagnoses or necessary operations Libyans were sent abroad for decades. Also Bonner clinics, for example, did good business with patients from Libya, where their stay was fully state-funded. Each Libyans was equipped with 5000 euros for the hospital stay. (more ...)

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Russian Moss (1) or Green with Envy

Friday, 07 August, 2009

First I'm going pale and green: Before envy. Among Vultures, the Treasure of Silver Lake, in the valley of death, Deerslayer, through the wilds of Kurdistan, Winnetou ten, sigh, an Indian dream come true - the Pierre Brice of the East rides past. With a brown horse in person at the eastern border of his vast empire along, and checks the state of the frontier forts on the Mongolian border in the province of Tuva. Freedom and adventure! The Yearling!

Could we imagine in our Chancellor or our President us, perhaps? That the Chancellor would called into the desert or wilderness? The well known, there is no longer in Germany, just as an eastern border. All this has long been abolished, and one can hardly imagine any politician who personally pace off the border or would ride off. Or you might imagine Merkel as in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the border with Poland on the fresh begüllten fields of a former LPG, now pig breeding facility for 100,000 sows rides? (more ...)

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