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Gaddafi's The Green Book

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

This is the only authorized and official English translation of the Green Book which was distributed globally by the Gaddafi regime. The Green Book is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. It is said to have been ins...

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

Sam Tallent said that he read The Green Book, which was written by Muammar Gaddafi, and found it didn't make any sense. He explained that Gaddafi was asked to claim responsibility for a bombing, and then, to make him look good, he was presented as a great thinker with other intellectuals.

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So they sat him down with three other intellectuals in England and he had his green book is his book The Third Way. Everybody was just like Jesus Christ. I was so excited to read it. I was like this m...

— Episode: Ep 436 - Ample Men (feat. Sam Tallent)

Episode: Ep 436 - Ample Men (feat. Sam Tallent)

Sam Tallent said that he read The Green Book, which was written by Muammar Gaddafi, and found it didn't make any sense. He explained that Gaddafi was asked to claim responsibility for a bombing, and then, to make him look good, he was presented as a great thinker with other intellectuals.

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So they sat him down with three other intellectuals in England and he had his green book is his book The Third Way. Everybody was just like Jesus Christ. I was so excited to read it. I was like this makes no fucking sense at all.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The speaker said that if the podcast 'The Other Two' were to win an Oscar, it would be ironic since it's coming out after 'Green Book' won, which they considered to be a problematic film.

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I was going to say yes for this they're going to change the rules because the Oscars famously don't matter anyway if Green Book wins wow this is going to play after Green Book has won right it's like...

— Episode: "The F----t Call" (w/ Chris Kelly and Sa...

Episode: "The F----t Call" (w/ Chris Kelly and Sarah Schnei...

The speaker said that if the podcast 'The Other Two' were to win an Oscar, it would be ironic since it's coming out after 'Green Book' won, which they considered to be a problematic film.

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I was going to say yes for this they're going to change the rules because the Oscars famously don't matter anyway if Green Book wins wow this is going to play after Green Book has won right it's like after Green Book or Bohemia and Rhapsody has taken home the gold oh my god it's sick they're going to tie the world we live in is incredibly sick

Watch What Crappens

The book was mentioned in passing as having won an Oscar, which surprised one of the speakers.

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I was like, yeah, I'm just gonna wow my IMDB really is not as long as I thought it would be but I was in the green book which won an Oscar.

— Episode: RHOP: Love the Sinner, Hate the Cenote

Episode: RHOP: Love the Sinner, Hate the Cenote

The book was mentioned in passing as having won an Oscar, which surprised one of the speakers.

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I was like, yeah, I'm just gonna wow my IMDB really is not as long as I thought it would be but I was in the green book which won an Oscar.

Real Dictators

The hosts referenced the book while debating Gaddafi's political philosophy, noting that they used it to argue that it supports press multiplicity and democratic principles. They also described it as Gaddafi's sacred ideological work in the context of his broader actions. Overall, the discussion treated the title as a historical artifact rather than a recommendation.

Episode: Colonel Gaddafi Part 5: Reagan vs Gaddafi

The speaker explained that they had to use the Green Book to argue that it supported press freedom and democracy, indicating its role in defending multiplicity of the press.

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And in arguing for this kind of view, I had to employ the Green Book itself, saying that my understanding of the Green Book is that it's not against multiplicity of the press because the Green Book espouses and advances the idea of democracy, and this is part of democracy.

And of course, if you look, you know, without taking this out of context today and you read this piece, you would say that Yusuf Sawani was actually advancing Green Book ideas.

Though Yusuf Sawani did not encounter Gaddafi individually, he did have cause to interact with him in an academic capacity. Gaddafi, you know, came to university on many occasions and came to lecture. And he had his own auditorium that was called the Green Auditorium.

Episode: Colonel Gaddafi Part 4: The Munich Olympic Massacr...

The discussion mentioned Gaddafi's ideological work, describing it as his sacred Green Book.

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the publication of his sacred Green Book.

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