What Libya Had Achieved, What Has Been Destroyed.

[ghulam muhammed]

Destroying a Country's Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed

Against the backdrop of war propaganda, Libya's economic and social achievements over the last thirty years, have been brutally reversed

No euphoria.... A historical reversal in the country's economic and social development has occurred. The achievements have been erased.

The NATO invasion and occupation marks the ruinous "rebirth" of Libya's standard of living That is the forbidden and unspoken truth: an entire Nation has been destabilized and destroyed, its people driven into abysmal poverty.

"Differently from other countries that went through a revolution – Libya is considered to be the Switzerland of the African continent and is very rich and schools are free for the people. Hospitals are free for the people. And the conditions for women are much better than in other Arab countries." (Russia Today, August 25, 2011)

Public Health Care in Libya prior to NATO's "Humanitarian Intervention" was the best in Africa. "Health care is [was] available to all citizens free of charge by the public sector. The country boasts the highest literacy and educational enrolment rates in North Africa. The Government is [was] substantially increasing the development budget for health services.

The adult literacy rate was of the order of 89%, (2009), (94% for males and 83% for females). 99.9% of youth are literate (UNESCO 2009 figures, See UNESCO, Libya Country Report)

"In a relative short period of time, Libya achieved universal access for primary education, with 98% gross enrollment for secondary, and 46% for tertiary education. In the past decade, girls’ enrollment increased by 12% in all levels of education. In secondary and tertiary education, girls outnumbered boys by 10%." (World Bank Libya Country Brief, emphasis added)

The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya had established a system of price controls over essential food staples, which was maintained until the onset of the NATO led war.

While rising food prices in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt spearheaded social unrest and political dissent, the system of food subsidies in Libya was maintained.

Libya`s frozen overseas financial assets are estimated to be of the order of $150 billion, with NATO countries holding more than $100 billion.

Prior to the war, Libya had no debts. In fact quite the opposite. It was a creditor nation investing in neighboring African countries.

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26686

[anajmi]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-1 ... -says.html

farts get straight to the point.

[ghulam muhammed]

Col Gaddafi killed: was he executed?
A video of Col Gaddafi alive and talking after he was captured by rebel fighters has given rise to suspicions that he was later executed with a shot to the head.

The shaky 21-second clip, filmed on a mobile phone and posted on YouTube within hours of his death, showed the former dictator badly injured but still able to stand up.

The footage appears to show that rebel leaders were misleading Libyans when they said Gaddafi had been shot in the head in a firefight.

Despite official statements that he had been “wounded in both legs” and “shot in the head” as he resisted capture, there is no sign of blood on his trousers in the video.

Hours later a photograph of his body shows a new wound — a clean bullet hole in his left temple.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... cuted.html

[Fatwa Banker]

GM,
Can you please post the analysis from this guy after fellow Muslims in mosques are blown up by Wahabis ? Had they finished their prayer or were they in the process of praying or chatting afterward when they were blown up ?

Libya is considered to be the Switzerland of the African continent

Anyone with a plate of food in Africa is considered to be in Switzerland

schools are free for the people. Hospitals are free for the people

...but the people are not free. This writer should note that even prisons provide education and healthcare for free.

Nonsense for the masses....

As an early cynic of what happened in Egypt, I am not sure if this is going to bring about any change in Libya as the Mayters may take over. Religious institutions are the only organized groups under Muslim dictatorships.

[anajmi]

I cannot imaging the condition of farts these days. Their bought and paid for dictators are getting hanged, killed, hammered, you name it. And to top that off we got shit cleaners gathering in Zucotti Park.

It is ironic that fart is a cynic of what has happened in Egypt when the military that is controlling is Egypt is still toeing the American/Israeli line. Maybe he is looking to change sides after getting hammered from both sides eh?

[ghulam muhammed]

Trump on Gadhafi death: ‘Big deal. What do we get out of it?’

On his YouTube page on Thursday, the one-time prospective Republican presidential candidate said, “So the reports are that we caught Gadhafi. Big deal. What do we get out of it? They have the oil. The rebels would have given us everything if we had some leader that knew how to negotiate. The rebels were being routed four months ago — absolutely routed by Gadhafi and his men.”

“If we would have said, ‘We want 50 percent of the oil,’ they would have said, ‘Absolutely, you have a deal. Help us, help us. Please, you have a deal,’” Trump said. “What do we get? We get nothing.”

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-gadhafi-dea ... 3QD;_ylv=3

[ghulam muhammed]

The CIA is behind the Rebellion: The Euro-American Attack on Libya has nothing to do with "Protecting Civilians"

The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West’s response to popular uprisings in strategic, resource-rich regions of the world and the beginning of a war of attrition against the new imperial rival, China.

President Barack Obama’s historical distinction is now guaranteed. He is America’s first black president to invade Africa. His assault on Libya is run by the US Africa Command, which was set up in 2007 to secure the continent’s lucrative natural resources from Africa’s impoverished people and the rapidly spreading commercial influence of China. Libya, along with Angola and Nigeria, is China’s principal source of oil. As American, British and French planes currently incinerate both “bad” and “good” Libyans, the evacuation of 30,000 Chinese workers is under way, perhaps permanently. Statements by western officials and media that a “deranged and criminal Colonel Gaddafi” is planning “genocide” against his own people still await evidence. This is reminiscent of fraudulent claims that required “humanitarian intervention” in Kosovo, the final dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the biggest US military base in Europe.

The detail is also familiar. The Libyan “pro-democracy rebels” are reportedly commanded by Colonel Khalifa Haftar who, according to a study by the US Jamestown Foundation, set up the Libyan National Army in 1988 “with strong backing from the Central Intelligence Agency”. For the past 20 years, Colonel Haftar has been living not far from Langley, Virginia, home of the CIA, which also provides him with a training camp. The Mujihadeen, which produced al-Qaida, and the Iraqi National Congress, which scripted the Bush/Blair lies about Iraq, were sponsored in the same time-honoured way, in leafy Langley.



http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24225

[anajmi]

I am a bit skeptical of this. It is not normal modop for the Americans. They'd rather just buy a tyrannical dictator. I believe the Americans have lost sight and focus of what is good or bad for them and are digging holes for themselves around the world.

[ghulam muhammed]

Bro anajmi,

There is a saying in Sanskrit, "Vinaash Kaal, Viprut Buddhi".

[ghulam muhammed]

The End of History: Now that the CIA’s proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya?

If Washington’s plans succeed, Libya will become another American puppet state. Most of the cities, towns, and infrastructure have been destroyed by air strikes by the air forces of the US and Washington’s NATO puppets. US and European firms will now get juicy contracts, financed by US taxpayers, to rebuild Libya. The new real estate will be carefully allocated to lubricate a new ruling class picked by Washington. This will put Libya firmly under Washington’s thumb.


With Libya conquered, AFRICOM will start on the other African countries where China has energy and mineral investments. Obama has already sent US troops to Central Africa under the guise of defeating the Lord’s Resistance Army, a small insurgency against the ruling dictator-for-life. The Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, welcomed the prospect of yet another war by declaring that sending US troops into Central Africa “furthers US national security interests and foreign policy.” Republican Senator James Inhofe added a gallon of moral verbiage about saving “Ugandan children,” a concern the senator did not have for Libya’s children or Palestine’s, Iraq’s, Afghanistan’s and Pakistan’s.

Washington has revived the Great Power Game and is vying with China. Whereas China brings Africa investment and gifts of infrastructure, Washington sends troops, bombs and military bases. Sooner or later Washington’s aggressiveness toward China and Russia is going to explode in our faces.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=27205

[ghulam muhammed]

British firms urged to 'pack suitcases' in rush for Libya business

The starting pistol for British firms to pursue contracts in Libya has been fired by the new defence secretary, Philip Hammond, who urged companies to "pack their suitcases" and head there to secure reconstruction contracts.

"Libya is a relatively wealthy country with oil reserves, and I expect there will be opportunities for British and other companies to get involved in the reconstruction of Libya," he told the BBC in an interview.

The National Transitional Council has already said that it intends to reward countries who showed support for its fight against the Gaddafi regime, with Britain and France likely to lead the way.

The success of British contractors in the country – which could see billions of pounds spent on reconstruction over the next decade – will be seen as a huge victory for prime minister David Cameron, who visited Tripoli and NTC members last month, along with Nicolas Sarkozy.

British gains in Libya include business and reconstruction contracts, as well as oil. As Libya's £100bn in frozen assets around the world are released, it is a sizeable pot.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oc ... a-business

[ghulam muhammed]

THE ZIONIST MURDER OF MUAMMAR GADDAFI

THE BRUTAL MURDER of Muammar Gaddafi by Zionist-owned Libyan insurgents is an example of what happens to political leaders who defy international Jewish bankers.

Gaddafi refused to do the bidding of the Rothschild-centered global banking cartel in 5 areas:

• A Gaddafi-Centered African Union With A Common Currency
• A Gaddafi-Run Central Bank Of Libya
• A Gaddafi-Holding Of 150 Tons Of Gold
• A Gaddafi-Run Libyan Oil Industry
• A Gaddafi-Run ‘Blue-Gold’ Water Reserves

IN JULY OF 2011, the son and heir apparent of Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, stated that it wasn’t just Libya’s ‘black gold’ (oil) that the Zionist West wants, but Libya’s ‘blue gold’ (water) – the some 500 miles of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System that lies beneath Libya’s surface.

The Nubian Aquifer is the only fresh water source that remains in North Africa and thus is the focus of what has become known as “Water Wars.”

Gaddafi’s main threat to International Jewry’s Banking Cartel was his plan for a common African currency—the gold-backed Libyan dinar—which would have replaced the all fiat-issued US dollar, British pound, and French franc as the main currency in Africa.

Jewish banking interests were clearly at stake as the US dollar is maintained by the Jewish-run Federal Reserve Bank; the British pound by the Jewish-run Central Bank of England; and the French franc by the Jewish-run Banque de France.

http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=666

[Ala maqaam]

Libya and Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi:

1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.

2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.

3. Home considered a human right in Libya, Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent.

4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.

5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.

6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms all for free.

7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it not only free but they get US$2,300/month accommodation and car allowance.

8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya is US$0.14 per liter.

10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to US$150 billion now frozen globally.

11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs US$0.15

15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.

[ghulam muhammed]

The Gaddafi paradox
The writer was India’s ambassador to Libya

Inspired by Soviet Russia, he made daily necessities available at highly subsidised rates; in the late 1990s a Libyan citizen could buy 40 kg of wheat flour, 40 kg of sugar, 40 kg of rice and 40 litres of cooking oil for just five Libyan dinars each. This ensured that none went hungry, though there wasn’t anything luxurious about their lives. By getting an over 1,500-km-long underground water-supply system constructed to bring running potable water to the homes of thousands of Libyans, he won the hearts of many, and surely those of the Libyan housewives. Education and healthcare were good in Libya by African standards. $11,000 per capita income per annum is higher than many countries. Then why did the Libyans turn against him?

In 2008 Libya was suspected to be contemplating a revision of contracts with oil companies that would result in higher revenues for Tripoli. In 2009, Gaddafi threatened to nationalise oil companies from the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Norway and Canada, which created quite a flutter in the Western capitals. His idea that the government should be dismantled and oil wealth distributed to over five million Libyans directly wasn’t liked by his ministers and senior officials nor by many foreign oil companies.

Yes, Gaddafi was a despotic ruler, a fact known to the US and the West for decades. But they didn’t mind doing business with him thanks to the lure of Libyan oil.

It is too early to assess the prospects of the TNC in Libya: half of its leaders are turncoats with the taint of long years of service to Gaddafi’s regime. They cannot overnight metamorphose into upholders of human rights and democracy. There seems, at the moment, no leader who can rise above tribal loyalties, avoid reprisals and offer a workable vision.

http://www.asianage.com/columnists/gaddafi-paradox-225

[ghulam muhammed]

US double standard: Gaddafi bad, Karimov good
The US shows its hypocrisy by accusing "tyrants" of human rights abuses while not owning up to supporting dictators.

Like a business that maintains two sets of records, one for the tax inspector and the other containing the truth, the United States has two different foreign policies. Its constitution, laws and treaty obligations prohibit torture, assassinations, and holding prisoners without trial. In reality there are secret prisons such as Guantánamo. Similarly, there are two sets of ethical standards in America's dealing with other countries. Enemies are held to the strictest standards. Allies get a pass. This double standard is the number-one cause of anti-Americanism in the world.

In the human rights brief on Karimov, one major highlight is Central Asia's Tiananmen Square, the 2005 massacre of between 750 and 1250 peaceful demonstrators at Andijan, a southern town along the restive border with Kyrgyzstan, near the ancient Ferghana Valley. Karimov personally ordered Uzbek militia, Interior Ministry troops and regular army units to surround a square and gun down the protesters, then travelled to the site in order to witness the carnage. A few dozen people managed to escape, scrambling across a border crossing. Shocked Kyrgyz sentries, who had a view of the killing orgy, admitted the refugees. Uzbek troops chased the escapees into Kyrgyzstan, dragged them back and executed them on the Uzbek side of the bridge.

These Soviet-style persections did not prevent President Obama from personally calling Karimov last month on the occasion of Uzbekistan's 20th year of independence.

Karimov is one of three Central Asian strongmen (along with Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan) who have retained absolute power since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. He presides over an autocracy whose level of corruption and dysfunction is staggering - even by dismal regional standards. All media is state-controlled. Opposition parties are banned. With substantial reserves from the Caspian Sea oil bonanza and by some measures the world's largest reserves of natural gas, Uzbekistan has the means to provide a comfortable living for all of its citizens. However, a tiny coterie of businessmen connected to the regime diverts nearly all of the proceeds of the nation's patrimony to numbered accounts overseas, leaving most of the population unemployed and in abject poverty.

The dichotomous US approaches to Gaddafi and Karimov - kill one, pay millions to the other - were pointed out in an eerily-prescient Uznews.net piece published on February 22, 2011, at the commencement of the NATO air campaign in Libya.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/op ... 37925.html

[ghulam muhammed]

Western Companies See Prospects for Business in Libya

WASHINGTON — The guns in Libya have barely quieted, and NATO’s military assistance to the rebellion that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi will not end officially until Monday. But a new invasion force is already plotting its own landing on the shores of Tripoli.

Western security, construction and infrastructure companies that see profit-making opportunities receding in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned their sights on Libya, now free of four decades of dictatorship. Entrepreneurs are abuzz about the business potential of a country with huge needs and the oil to pay for them, plus the competitive advantage of Libyan gratitude toward the United States and its NATO partners.

When Colonel Qaddafi’s body was still on public display, a British venture, Trango Special Projects, pitched its support services to companies looking to cash in. “Whilst speculation continues regarding Qaddafi’s killing,” Trango said on its Web site, “are you and your business ready to return to Libya?”

The company offered rooms at its Tripoli villa and transport “by our discreet mixed British and Libyan security team.” Its discretion does not come cheaply. The price for a 10-minute ride from the airport, for which the ordinary cab fare is about $5, is listed at 500 British pounds, or about $800.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/world ... wanted=all

[ghulam muhammed]

The cost of killing Gaddafi

Let all US-NATO nations realize that the people of the world are no fools. Citizens of these nations may be fooled since mainstream media have blinded them with lies &false versions to brainwash them but nemesis for the innocent deaths will follow US-NATO & their leaders for the destruction they are doing to the people, the environment & to nations throughout the past decade.

In 2009 Libya was a friend to the US so much so that Libya allowed several US corporate giants to enter & approval was given for training of Libyan security personnel & civilians. These were the civilians that eventually became “rebels” given arms by the West to overthrow Gaddafi in a movement called “liberating Libya”. Arming locals has become a new strategy to avoid deaths to coalition forces while NATO is tasked to take on the indiscriminate air strikes. So what has been the cost for killing a man who has ruled a nation for 42 years without debt to the IMF or the World Bank? It took 8 months for US-NATO to take over Libya, the pro-US Libyan Government may celebrate & rejoice but that celebration is as short-lived as the jubilations in Iraq & Egypt where the people are beginning to realize their country would have still been better off with Saddam Hussein & Hosni Mubarak!

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/10 ... ddafi.html

[ghulam muhammed]

Arab Spring for Him, Arab Winter for Her

The latest from Tripoli: Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, reveling in the successful overthrow of tyranny and Qaddafi and the triumph of Islam, declares to his people that an old law restricting the number of wives per husband will be henceforth abolished. He did not discuss future elections, mind you. He did not mention what new democratic notions would be implemented. He did not discuss improvements in the judicial system.

Instead, the head of Libya’s new and improved interim government informed oppressed Libyans all over the country that “Sharia allows polygamy.”

Under the old regime, the law regarding multiple marriages was fairly simple and direct. It declared that if some man wished to take a second partner, then Wife No. 1 had to agree to his acquisition of any new spouse. Imagine what a damper that was on universal compliance with Islamic law. Abdel-Jalil finds this sort of spousal-agreement law ripe for abolition. It must, he hammered home, “be stopped.”

UN chief Ban Ki-moon solemnly refers to the recent results as a “landmark election” and a “key step in the democratic transition of the country.” The European Union has hailed the election as a superb example of “democratic fervor.”

Equally significant: Tunisia’s new assembly, about 40 percent of which will go to Ennahda, will vote on the fate of individual rights: among them, women’s rights. And say what you will about the corrupt Ben Ali family, which once ruled Tunisia, but it was very strong on women’s rights: men were not permitted to divorce simply by uttering a few words; nor were they permitted multiple wives.

Now victory has come, in some instances. Just not to women.

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog ... winter-her