Note: Please rec Conchita's diary here which is serving as Mothership.
Of the range of actions open to us as the massacre in Libya continues, one thing I sure as hell don't have to do is spend my money with the companies who have the most lucrative contracts with Gaddfi, whom he needs to get his oil to market. BP's love affair with the Colonel even attracted the wrath of the US when it seemed the company had helped in the release of the Lockerbie bomber in order to smooth the way for an oil contract, last year.
"US accuses BP of Libya oil deal on Lockerbie bomber" (UK Standard)
Four senators from New Jersey and New York asked the State Department to investigate the possibility of any links between the firm's involvement in the early release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who was sent home to Tripoli from Scotland on compassionate grounds last year, and an agreement which will see BP begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Sidra, off Libya.
The request to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for an official investigation comes a day after the same senators asked her to press Britain's government to look into the circumstances surrounding the release of the convicted bomber.
Gaddafii is not stopping at machine-gunning mourners in funeral processions.
Breaking, AP News:
Libyan forces fired machine-guns at thousands of mourners marching in a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi Sunday, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi attacked demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weapons.
Other reports, UK Telegraph:
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi turns helicopter gunships on own people
For action items, again please go to Conchita's Action list in her diary.
Also for up-to-the minute posts from what is looking like HQ Facebook go to Libyan Youth Movement Facebook.
I have made a decision to post the below video, as graphic as it may be in some short parts, because the major media cannot or will not get the horrible truth out. Everyone please do something or tell someone. God help our human race.
Libyan calls for help: