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Internet Restored In Tripoli As Rebels Take Control
angry tapir writes "Internet connectivity was restored in Tripoli late Sunday local time, as rebel forces took control of many parts of the capital city of Libya. A new mobile network set up by the rebels in the east of Libya in April, called Libyana Al Hurra, and a similar network in Misrata, will soon also be linked to the Libyana Mobile Phone network in Tripoli, said Ousama Abushagur, a Libyan telecommunications engineer in the U.A.E, who led the team that set up Libyana Al Hurra."
When we look back in the year 3000 at what caused the stagnation, decline and eventual collapse of the United States, the year the progressive income tax was instituted will be clearly recognized as the year the US turned into a farce of itself. The fact that in the more than 100 years that followed it achieved some of the greatest scientific, technological and industrial breakthroughs ever, and for entire generations had a standard of living unprecedented in all of history, clearly can count for naught against the fact that there was a progressive income tax.
Nor will historians in New New York possibly identify the (well-meaning) decision of the Greatest Generation to shield their children from all the privation and pain they themselves endured, which has resulted in the current power-holders being a generation of self-centered pricks with no beliefs beyond "I got mine, fuck you", as planting the seed of the disaster we find ourselves in.
I don't mind paying taxes - they purchase civilization.