Tragic… this happened a few days ago and I would have thought that this big of a story would have been covered more…
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It is outside of the US so as usual unless it impacts us directly there is little interest.
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There is little interest because the American Media chooses to not make it of interest. They are well known for barely mentioning what is happening in the rest of the world. One or two days at best on the Evening News and in Newspapers is usually all things as serious or dramatic things like this are mentioned. It takes something special, like a nuclear power plant going on the fritz after an earthquake or an invasion of a sovereign nation by a major world power to get on their radar. They would rather cover (endlessly) missing and presumed dead blond girls.
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We have important things to worry about, like what gender you woke up as, and where you should pee.
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Depends on what you consume. If you were an NPR listener, you’d know all about it.
… or an Internet user. 
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Ah. When you said American media, I assumed that you meant like news programs.
New york times has extensive coverage.
two dams broke and flooded the city.
no govt infrastructure to warn the inhabitants to evacuate.
a ■■■■ show for sure.
Allan
I love it when the cons say that the media doesn’t cover a thing, and the response is: “well…your media doesn’t cover it”.
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The ten year long civil war hasn’t helped matters there. Barely anything functions in Libya now thanks to the war.
I doubt that mainstream media will admit an inconvenient truth about the floods; the 2011 NATO bombing campaign and resulting civil war is a gift that keeps on giving.
This horrific catastrophe is not only the product of severe weather, intensified by climate change. It flows from the war NATO waged against Libya in 2011, which shattered the country and plunged it into civil war. Those who launched the NATO war in Libya or applauded it as a “humanitarian” intervention, and who today are backing a NATO war against Russia in Ukraine on similar grounds, bear direct political and moral responsibility for the Derna catastrophe.
Last year, hydrologist Abdelwanees Ashoor wrote articles warning that Derna’s dams were in poor condition, and that a major flood would be “likely to cause one of the two dams to collapse.” Ashoor continued, “If a huge flood happens, the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city.”
No repairs were done, however, because of the civil war that has raged between rival governments in eastern and western Libya since NATO destroyed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in the 2011 war.
NATO imperialism and the Libya flood catastrophe - World Socialist Web Site
We did that!
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Looking at Google Earth, I could only see one dam on that wadi, but it appes to have been nothing more than an earthen plug. If this rain event over topped it, it would have eroded out almost instantaniously
I was wondering when you’d get around to blaming this on the US.
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Not America, just the bozos who run the military-security complex in Washington.
They destroy nations for fun and profit. They are bringing their expertise home to destroy America.
Sure, sure
None of which, whether it is true or not, has anything to do with abnormally heavy rainfall and simple earthen dams on normally dry wadis washing out.
The dams were not maintained because the US created a civil war by bombing Libya and arming Islamic rebels.
Last year, hydrologist Abdelwanees Ashoor wrote articles warning that Derna’s dams were in poor condition, and that a major flood would be “likely to cause one of the two dams to collapse.” Ashoor continued, “If a huge flood happens, the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city.”
No repairs were done, however, because of the civil war that has raged between rival governments in eastern and western Libya since NATO destroyed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in the 2011 war.
The conflicts and division in Libya are not an accident. They were bought and paid for by NATO taxpayers.
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The CIA leak sheets we call media are not going to cover Libya because they sold bombing it into the Chaos during Obama…
Seems they have the same goal in Ukraine…
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Too bad Russia doesn’t put a stop to it.
