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Foreign Intelligence Brief #365: On Neon Green Oceans And Killing Moammar Gadhafi

With NATO considering a broader role in Libya, Obama maintains that an assassination of Moammar Gadhafi is out of the question. Too bad that intransigent, decades-old dictatorships only ever topple when the dictator in question is either dead or given safe passage to a Venezuelan lap dance. With the latter out of the question (hello criminal court, frozen assets, etc), it makes me wonder what NATO’s “larger” role will be. Get ready to be an accessory to murder, Canada! 

The immorality of state-sanctioned killing juxtaposed, just when you thought you couldn’t loathe him and his thugs any more.

But wait? Why did the US hurl over a hundred cruise missiles into Libya at $1 million apiece, killing soldiers and airmen just following orders, when a two buck bullet would have accomplished exactly what it was that they really wanted in the first place, ie. regime change? Good ol’ Gerald Ford and his 1976 Executive Order #11905, Section 5, Article H:

No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.

Isn’t it just astounding that George W. Bush didn’t rescind that!?

When asked for his position on killing Gadhafi, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said: “Can I do it?”

I made that up.

Meanwhile, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad does his best to do his worst. Sigh.

Ashamed of last night’s drunken social media performance? There’s an app for that.

The thing that you never want to stop working stops working.

On paywalls and the economics of modern reporting.

Lastly, and I don’t mean to scare the living shit out of you, but radiation has spiked 1,250 times higher than normal in the waters off the Japanese coast. The story goes on to say that there is no cause to worry, so…er…don’t worry?

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