"A deepening row over the London School of Economics and its dealings with the Gaddafi regime [of Libya] has claimed the career of the university's director. Sir Howard Davies resigned after fresh revelations that the institution had been involved in a deal worth £2.2m to train hundreds of young Libyans to become part of the country's future elite. [Director Davies was also an advisor to Gaddafi's "sovereign wealth fund"].

An independent inquiry headed by Lord Woolf...will examine the LSE's relationship with Libya and with Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam... which include a donation of £1.5m from a charitable foundation run by Saif, who studied at the LSE... Woolf will also examine the "academic authenticity" of Saif's doctoral thesis... The LSE Council will carry out its own investigation into the running of LSE Global Governance, the research centre that accepted the Gaddafi donation."

-- London Guardian

"As [Libyan] state security forces were reported to be firing relentlessly into crowds of civilian protesters on Monday, and with Saif Gaddafi appearing on television to threaten a civil war in which the regime "will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet", many of his erstwhile associates were questioning their friendships with him...

In the introduction to his [LSE] doctoral dissertation on global governance, published in 2008, Gaddafi wrote: "I shall be primarily concerned with what I argue is the central failing of the current system of global governance in the new global environment: that it is highly undemocratic."

While studying for his PhD, Saif enjoyed a life of considerable luxury in one of London's wealthiest and most prestigious suburbs... During his time in London Gaddafi mixed socially with Lord Mandelson and the financier Nathaniel Rothschild, and was said to be on friendly terms with the Duke of York [Prince Andrew].

He played a leading role in talks that led to the 2009 release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people died. While flying Megrahi home to Libya on a private jet, Gaddafi Jr gave a television interview in which he said the release had been linked to lucrative business deals."

-- London Guardian

"The Duke of York [who was trade ambassador at the time] is also said to have played a behind-the-scenes role in encouraging the terrorist's release."

-- London Telegraph

So, Gaddafi says that global governance "is highly undemocratic"?? He should know. But this stunning revelation is hardly worth a Ph.D. from the prestigious LSE. According to the directors of the LSE Global Governance centre:

"It is the lack of state authority...that gives rise to a combination of political and criminal violence... What is needed are global security forces, much like emergency forces within a well-governed state... Of course, global institutions exist that are supposed to deal with finance, economic development, security and the environment. But these institutions are fragmented and access to power is very unequal...

Global climate change has been called a threat more serious than that of international terrorism, and the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. Climate change and other human induced damage to the environment are, of course, associated with the spread of the energy intensive model of development... We can only solve the economic crisis if we can generate sustainable growth and this can only be done through matching potential productivity gains from new technologies with appropriate expenditure on a global low-carbon infrastructure and the redistrubution of resources to the most vulnerable."

-- "The Hydra-Headed Crisis", by David Held, et al

Of course, the author expects the reader to accept this premise without question, along with the bold claim that "redistribution" is the only course of action to solve the world's problems. These proposals would require central planning and "state authority" on a scale that would dwarf the oppressive and inefficient Soviet Union, but the Fabian Socialist founders of the LSE were prime sponsors of that utopian failure also.

They tolerate the appearance of democracy, as long as it doesn't interfere with actual "governance" of the herd.

The myth of "human induced" climate change is the simply the latest pretext for establishing a global dictatorship with Young Global Leaders like oil barons Nathaniel Rothschild and his pal Saif Gaddafi in the vanguard. See our article "The Earth Charter and the Ark of Hope" for more on the sustainable development agenda, including a point-by-point analysis of the Earth Charter.

UPDATE: In May, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Europe charged Muammar and Saif Gaddafi with "crimes against humanity".

UPDATE: A story on Israel's Channel 2 last year revealed that Muammar Gaddafi's mother was Jewish, which technically makes him Jewish as well.