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702 ABC Sydney reports that Libya’s interim leaders have rejected the idea of deploying any kind of international military force or observers. The UN’s special envoy for post-conflict planning for Libya, Ian Martin, says he drew up a contingency plan for the possibility of unarmed military observers in Libya. At the time he had been thinking in terms of monitoring a ceasefire.
But the situation has changed and, he told journalists, it was clear now the transitional leadership wanted to avoid the deployment of any international military force.
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IfLizWereQueen: Not all of Africa disapprove of Gaddafi and many are suspicious of the West and their involvement in Libya–with good reasons.
The rebels are smart to turn down the deployment of any international military force–especially since some members of the UN have in the past two weeks suggested a type of coalition government between Gaddafi and the rebels. Appreciation lingers especially in South Africa for Muammar Gaddafi’s opposition to South Africa’s apartheid, explains David Smith in the Guardian. Gaddafi also gained influence by investing in projects throughout Africa. Just yesterday we heard that South Africa refused to release $1. 5 billion of Gaddafi’s assets and recognize the rebel authority.
Today, The Southern Times (the newspaper for Southern Africa) has a lengthy article titled Why the West Wants Gaddafi out. It is very interesting and plausible.
HERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT THE SOUTHERN TIMES ARTICLE REPORTS THAT GADDAFI HAS DONE FOR AFRICA:
“It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern times – connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting and several other technological applications such as telemedicine and distance teaching. And thanks to the WMAX radio bridge, a low cost connection was made available across the continent, including in rural areas.
It began in 1992, when 45 African nations established RASCOM (Regional African Satellite Communication Organization) so that Africa would have its own satellite and slash communication costs in the continent.
This was a time when phone calls to and from Africa were the most expensive in the world because of the annual US$500 million fee pocketed by Europe for the use of its satellites like Intelsat for phone conversations, including those within the same country. An African satellite only cost a one-time payment of US$400 million and the continent no longer had to pay a US$500 million annual lease.
The first totally indigenously built satellite and manufactured on African soil, in Algeria, is set for 2020.
This satellite is aimed at competing with the best in the world, but at ten times less the cost, a real challenge.
This is how a symbolic gesture of a mere US$300 million changed the life of an entire continent.
Gaddafi’s Libya cost the West, not just depriving it of US$500 million per year but the billions of dollars in debt and interest that the initial loan would generate for years to come and in an exponential manner, thereby helping maintain a system that plundered the continent. “
AND THERE ARE MANY MORE REASONS WHY AFRICANS LIKE GADDAFI
Why the West Wants Gaddafi out
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If you are among those who wondered why the French led this attack, look no further than money.
You can count be among those who have been puzzling as to why France led the charge against Gaddafi. I can’t remember the last time, until now that the French led an international charge against anything so publicly.
According to this article, it is easy to understand the French wrath against Gaddafi: ”…The US$30 billion frozen by Mr Obama belongs to the Libyan Central Bank and had been earmarked as the Libyan contribution to three key projects which would add the finishing touches to the African federation – the African Investment Bank in Sirte, Libya; the establishment in 2011 of the African Monetary Fund to be based in Yaoundé, Cameroon with a US$42 billion capital fund; and the Abuja-based African Central Bank in Nigeria, which when it starts printing African money will ring the death knell for the CFA franc through which Paris has been able to maintain its hold on some African countries for the last 50 years. “
Note: The London Evening Post also has a great article on this topic: The lies behind the West’s War on Libya
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It’s all about the money.
“In an article posted on the Market Oracle, Eric Encina observed: ‘One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned. . . . Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations.’”
http://theglobalrealm.com/2011/04/16/whats-really-going-on-in-libya/
What is the first thing the rebels did? – Establish a central bank modeled after Western central banks that issue debt-based currency.
thank you for sharing gigi3. I am going to go read the article you recommended right now.
I always wondered what the heck was prompting France to be so aggressive against Gaddafi. It’s unusual for them to lead the pack on anything very often. I mistakenly thought it was just because they were being a stand-in for the USA who no doubt have banksters supporting the coup too, but until a few days ago, I had not delved into it deep enough to see that France had reasons all their own.
Debt-based currency! those A-holes. Their intention is not to merely make slaves of Africa. They intend to make slaves of the world. If the majority don’t wake up soon, it’s gonna be too late. The millionaires and billionaires in control of our government have NO INTENTION of job creation. The want more Americans to sink into poverty because poor people are easier to control.
The history of western carving up continents they dominated, into the states now in existence, is indicative of the attitude that has made Africa and the middle East very apprehensive about letting the west into their internal affairs.
There’s another side to that, too, Liz. A lot of Africa supports Robert Mugabe, too. And there are those in Africa that are very grateful to the East African governments because they prevented a takeover by Qaddafi of the African Union, that was supported by most of the cruelest dictators in Africa. He wanted to declare himself “King of Africa”. No joke. Kenya, Tanzania opposed vociferously and stopped it.
The best documentary I have ever watched on the history of money is The Money Masters. It is 3 1/2 hours long. I have now watched it three times. You can easily break it down into 30-45 minute segments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXt1cayx0hs
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING!!!, is more paramount to the central bankers/global oligarchs than controlling the issuance of money through a debt-based monetary system.
“Give me control of a nation’s money
and I care not who makes the laws.”
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
You are right about that ondelette. Thanks for pointing that out. It is good to keep a balance. Gaddafi does have more than few extremely weak points to his character–not the least of which is his grandiose sense of self-importance. yes, I do remember reading in more than one place where he has expressed ambitions to be ruler of Africa.
It looks like people sometimes must choose between one monster or another monster. In Libya it happens to be Gaddafi or the Global banksters who will create at least as much misery as Gaddafi in their own way.
In the USA it seems to me that we too have a similar choice of two unacceptable choices.
I just read a mind-blower about an hour ago. It was reported that one of Gaddafi’s sons al-Saadi was discussing surrendering. The story quoted Abdel Belhaj who is the Tripoli Commander for the Rebels.
Either the story is made up by Belhaj for the purpose of demoralizing the Gaddafi loyalists OR Al-Saadi is, like many of the meddlers from NATO, a complete and ignorant fool.
Abdelhakim Belhaj, an al-Qaeda asset is the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli. Abdelhakim Belhaj, aka Abu Abdallah al-Sadek, is a Libyan jihadi. Born in May 1966, he honed his skills with the mujahideen in the 1980s anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. He’s the founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). In 2007, LIFG was calling for a jihad against Gaddafi but also against the US and assorted Western “infidels”.
I’m sure than he would like nothing better than to bash in the head of one of Gaddafi’s sons.
It looks like al Qaeda is no longer the boogeyman, rather; they are the new “freedom fighters” who helped liberate Libya.
The WH has issued messaging guidelines for the upcoming 10th anniversary of 9/11. Shush; they don’t want you talking about al Qaeda any more. Glenn Greenwald wrote about this yesterday.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/30/9_11/index.html