Allah's Having A Real Tough Week

[Dancefortwo]

Khadaffi....  he didn't end well.

Thanks for the spelling correction.  So I googled him.  Here's how it ended for him. 

 
Fleeing to a construction site, Gaddafi and his inner cohorts hid inside drainage pipes while his bodyguards battled the rebels.......   A video appears to picture Gaddafi being poked or stabbed in the anus "with some kind of stick or knife" or possibly a bayonet. Pulled onto the front of a pick-up truck, he fell off as it drove away. His semi-naked, lifeless body was then placed into an ambulance and taken to Misrata; upon arrival, he was found to be dead. 

I think I'm getting his death mixed up with Saddam Hussein so I googled him too.

 On 13 December 2003, in Operation Red Dawn, Saddam was captured by American forces after being found hiding in a hole in the ground near a farmhouse in ad-Dawr.     ........    Saddam was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging 

I shouldn't laugh at this but, well, it's kinda funny.  These were two assholes, both hiding inside of holes.

[Dānu]

You can tell the assholes by how the false face of dignity falls when confronted by the possibility of accountability. The J6'ers are the same, crying in court and so on.

[Minimalist]

I shouldn't laugh at this but, well, it's kinda funny.  These were two assholes, both hiding inside of holes.

The same should happen to Fuckface.

[pattylt]

While climate change is certainly a factor in these floods and earthquakes, the areas being devastated aren’t to blame.  They aren’t the ones contributing huge amounts of CO2.  Where some blame is evident is in the ability to handle these devastations.  Their infrastructure is terrible and their governments are corrupt.  To me, that’s the real horror.  How many have and will die because of lousy housing, ignored access to help, further deaths due to contaminated water, etc.

I’d love to see the people rise up and demand better government.  It probably won’t happen as war lord mentality is a hard nut to crack and religious war lords even more so.

there is no connection between climate change and seismic activity. I am in agreement with the rest.

Wasn’t there speculation that intense fracking was causing some rumblings of earthquakes?  I realize this isn’t climate related but has that been proven or disproven?  Is Morocco involved in fracking or areas nearby?  I know Morocco just occasionally has earthquakes and may be totally unrelated to anything other than Mother Nature.

Morocco also had a much better response to their disaster than Libya due to better governance.

[Minimalist]

Morocco, not so much.  But Algeria right next door is a major oil producer... and earthquakes don't give a flying fuck about artificial political boundaries.

[Dānu]

I recall seeing a headline that the Moroccan government was refusing or impeding foreign aid aimed at alleviating the suffering. If true, I'm not sure one should praise their government.

[Minimalist]

It's true.

https://apnews.com/article/morocco-earth...e03d29f98b

Rescue teams are frustrated that Morocco did not accept more international help after earthquake

PARIS (AP) — The text-message alert came in the middle of the night: A massive earthquake had hit Morocco. French volunteers scrambled to pull together a nine-person search-and-rescue team, listening devices and other gear to look for people buried under rubble.
The only thing the French aid workers didn’t have was a green light from Morocco to hop on a flight, which could have landed them in the North African country’s disaster zone little more than 24 hours after the Sept. 8 quake that killed more than 2,900 people and injured at least 5,530 others in flattened villages and townhouses.
“The green light never came,” said Arnaud Fraisse, the team’s coordinator and founder of aid group Rescuers Without Borders. “All of our team members who train regularly year-round for this type of thing are miserable that they couldn’t leave and put their skills to use.”

Well, boys.  Call Libya.  Maybe they will want your help?

[epronovost]

I recall seeing a headline that the Moroccan government was refusing or impeding foreign aid aimed at alleviating the suffering.  If true, I'm not sure one should praise their government.

Only French international aid. And the situation is a bit complicated. On one hand, if you keep in ear out for what is going on in Africa, former French colonies are wracked by a massive anti-colonial popular sentiment. They perceive France as extremely arrogant towards them and to have strong armed and keep trying to strong arm them in neo-colonialist trade deals where their most valuable assets and resources fall into French private interests and their intellectual elite gets poached all the while France plays hot and cold with refugee, temporary workers and economic migrants of lower wealth stratum. This anti-French sentiment has allowed a bunch of Junta to take power in the area without too much of a fuss from the local population. Morocco also accuses France and many other countries of using NGO and international help to basically incrust themselves in their politics and, due to demands for oversights and control of those funds, to make a bureaucratic mess of things. Is the Moroccan government right to freeze French money? I don't know enough to present a cogent opinion on the subject, but a cursory reading of the situation implies the answer is not that clear cut.

[skyking]

there is no connection between climate change and seismic activity. I am in agreement with the rest.

Wasn’t there speculation that intense fracking was causing some rumblings of earthquakes?  I realize this isn’t climate related but has that been proven or disproven?  Is Morocco involved in fracking or areas nearby?  I know Morocco just occasionally has earthquakes and may be totally unrelated to anything other than Mother Nature.

Morocco also had a much better response to their disaster than Libya due to better governance.

the scale and depth of the typical severe earthquake is much deeper and larger than some well drilling could cause.
Fracking is 2 to 3 kilometers depth, and this most recent earthquake was 18.5 kilometers.
The dangerous quakes are slips along plate boundaries and fault lines, and are going to happen no matter what we do or don't do on the thin little slice of the earth and air that we fuck over constantly.