Libya’s problem with the west–financial?

The Great Man-Made River Project, Libya [$27 billion]:As part of a massive water-transfer scheme, Libya has been working since 1985 to irrigate 387,000 acres of arid land and provide several major cities with water. Twenty-five years in, the Great Man-Made River Authority has irrigated around 50,000 acres of land, despite several pipeline blowouts. The project calls for extracting water from sandstone aquifers deep beneath the desert and piping it to the country’s coastal regions. Three phases of the project have been completed; phase four is under way. Work should be finished by 2030.

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LIBYA’S GREAT MAN-MADE RIVER

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by Andre Fomine

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Note for WoP readers: Gulam Asgar Mitha sent me this. The piece throws good light on the machinations of world’s financial barons, the modern day shylocks who control the United States as well as US satellites, her partners and the associates. Who ever wants to cross the barrier set by these barons, is made an example this or the other way.

 It makes me recall the story of an international bank in the 1980’s, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, founded by a Pakistani banking genius Agha Hassan Abidi.  Till this bank served the interests of the US and her finance barons, it was considered a model banking institution. It was a bank from a developing country that had established its foothold right in the heart of world’s empires of finance. However, when the cold war ended, the Soviet Union collapsed and the US emerged as  a singular super power; to usher herself into a New World Order, the same banking model was termed as world’s sleaziest bank.

In this particular context the post below elaborates how these banking warlords control the world and tail twist such countries that try to bite at a tentacle of these octopuses of planet’s evil finance.

But there is a word of a caution for such states as well that try to break the evil barriers set by these overlords.

All such developing states whether Muslim or Non Muslim should first try to set their own house/s in order. Should strive to secure their peoples’ basic human rights, their basic requirements of bread and butter and above all the right to decide who will govern, how will govern and a secure future for their children.

Now in Libya’s context, Gaddafi failed and fail did he miserably. One shouldn’t forget the age old maxim which holds even today: when you’ve holes in a wall of your own house, you won’t be able to stop intruders and thieves entering and looting your house.

When people are suppressed, governments turn into monarchies and rulers declare their states as ‘democratic republics’, no elections, no freedom of speech and writings howsoever innocent censored by a team of ruthless media sniff dogs, its then and only then that foreign powers, the finance barons and their agents launch their attacks, especially when frustrated people fight out state’s tyranny, these forces of evil join the people in their struggle, but in the frenzy of their struggle against despots, the oppressor regimes, and dictators they do not bother to identify the marionettes who dance to the tune of their foreign masters and thus spoil the whole brie. What comes up next is mostly not what the people want. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and the current uprising in Libya is a testimony to this bitter fact, It applies unfortunately mainly to Islamic states majority of whom [including our own land of the pure] are in the clutches of puppet regimes, who always feel pleasure acting to the winks and blinks of their foreign bosses.

They do indulge in lot of rhetorics, too much is made of patriotism and using emotion ridden gimmicks hoodwink their own people.

Today’s article mirrors the behind the door evil doings of these financial cabals who have no respect, no feeling for the people as well as for those puppets [regimes] who instead of their people, exclusively bank upon these forces that ultimately sink them to oblivion. [Nayyar] 

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Libya’s GMMR –a multi-billion dollar project was implemented with no financing. Libya has never secured loans from the Zionist bankers.

Is the war on Libya about banking?

Here is an excerpt related to the banking aspect of West’s annoyance over Libya. The entire article is of great interest and import and offers insight into the current crisis in Libya.

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LIBYA’S GREAT MAN-MADE RIVER (GMMR)  by Stephen Lendman 

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A previous article quoted General Wesley Clark’s book, “Winning Modern Wars,” saying Pentagon sources told him two months after 9/11 that war plans were being prepared against Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, Sudan and Libya.

“What do these seven countries have in common,” asked Brown? None (as well as Afghanistan) are “listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements.”

It’s the central bank for central bankers, a banking boss of bosses accountable to no government, privately owned by its members, the most powerful with most influence.

Outliers, of course, put “them outside (its) long regulatory arm.” Months before America attacked Iraq; Saddam Hussein began selling oil in Euros, not dollars, threatening its reserve currency and petrodollar dominance.

Gaddafi “made a similarly bold move,” an initiative toward replacing the dollar with “the gold dinar,” hoping for “a united African continent (under) this single currency.”

Many Arab and African countries endorsed the idea, but not America or the West, “French President Nicolas Sarkozy calling (Gaddafi) a threat to the financial security of mankind.” He wasn’t deterred.

Moreover, “the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State owned.” In other words, it creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, interest free to be used for productive economic growth, not profits and bonuses for predatory bankers.

As a result, imperial Washington, Britain and France included Libya on their “globalist (hit list to integrate it into) its hive of compliant nations,” at the expense of its own internal interests. They include oil and gas development, projects to make the desert green, as well as providing free education, healthcare, and other essential social services from oil revenues and Central Bank of Libya created money.

“So, is this new war all about oil or all about banking,” asked Brown? “Maybe both – and water as well,” noting that with “energy, water and ample (interest-free) credit to develop the infrastructure to access them, a nation can be free (from) foreign creditors,” especially predatory Western ones, entrapping countries in debt for greater profits.

Perhaps that was Saddam’s real threat, now Gaddafi’s and other nations on the Pentagon’s hit list.

[Gulam Asgar Mitha]

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NATO war on Libya was long-planned. All military interventions require months of preparation, including:

•  strategy and conflict objectives;
• enlisting coalition partners;
• selecting targets;
• promoting political and public support;
• deploying troops;
• in Libya, recruiting, funding, and arming so-called rebels; and
• post-conflict imperial plans.

Washington wants one despot replaced with another, a useful puppet to salute and obey orders, not independent-minded ones like Gaddafi who went along most often but not always on all issues, some major enough to want him ousted. An important overlooked one is discussed below.

Other objectives are to colonize Libya, balkanize it like Yugoslavia and Iraq, prevent democracy from emerging, privatize its state enterprises, exploit its people, establish new Pentagon bases, and control its oil, gas and other resources, a key one getting little attention – Libya’s Great Man-Made River (GMMR).

The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) lies beneath four North African countries – Chad, Egypt, Sudan and Libya, called the world’s largest fossil water system because it’s ancient and non-renewable. In fact, the Qur’an’s (Koran) Surah 2, Verse 74 says:

“For among rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder send forth water.”

In fact, three major aquifers lie beneath the Sahara, NSAS the largest, containing an estimated 375,000 cubic km of water.

Covering two million square km, it’s an ocean of water beneath the desert for irrigation, human consumption, development, and other uses. At 2007 consumption rates, it could last 1,000 years. Gaddafi calls NSAS the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” Its web site says it’s the largest global underground network of pipes and aqueducts, consisting of:

– over 1,300 wells;

– 7 million miles of pre-stressed steel wire to strengthen 12-foot diameter pipes;

– 3,500 km of pipeline covering an area equal to Western Europe;

– four pipelines – two east and two west, connecting with links north; and

– thousands of miles of roads between and connecting its various lines and infrastructure, supplying 6.5 million cubic meters of fresh water daily to Libyans and others in the region. Extracting water at a depth of from 1,600 – 2,500 feet, the system purifies and supplies it mainly to populated coastal cities.

Conceived in the late 1960s, feasibility studies were conducted in 1974. Construction then began in 1984, divided in five phases, each largely separate, then combined into an integrated system. Funded by Gaddafi without loans from other nations or Western banks, the project cost $25 billion so far.

Inaugurated in August 1991, phase I provides two million daily cubic meters of water along a 1,200 km pipeline from As-Sarir and Tazerbo to Benghazi and Sirt, via the Ajdabiya reservoir. Phase II delivers one million daily cubic meters from the Fezzan region to the fertile Jeffara plain in the Western coastal belt, also supplying Tripoli.

Phase III is in two parts. Its first adds an additional 1.68 million cubic meters daily through another 700 km of pipeline and pumping stations. It also supplies 138,000 more cubic meters daily to Tobruk and the coast from a new Al-Jaghboub wellfield through another 500 km of pipeline.

The final phases involve extending the distribution network by pipelines linking the Ajjabiya reservoir to Tobruk, then connecting Eastern and Western systems at Sirt into a single integrated network. When fully operational, Gaddafi hopes to make the desert as green as Libya’s flag.

The project is owned by the Great Man-Made River (GMMR) Authority, funded by Gaddafi’s government as explained above. However, with war raging, the system is jeopardized as well as Gaddafi’s dream to turn the desert green.

On April 3, AFP headlined, “Libya warns of disaster if ‘Great Man-Made River’ hit,” saying:

If GMMR is bombed, it could cause a “human and environmental disaster.” Libya has three underground pipeline systems, for oil, gas, and water. If one is hit, the others are affected, potentially disastrously. According to project manager Abdelmajid Gahoud:

“If part of the infrastructure is damaged, the whole thing is affected and the massive escape of water could cause a catastrophe,” depriving millions of Libyans of fresh water, 70% of 6.5 people for human consumption, irrigation, and other purposes.

Moreover, if Gaddafi is ousted, the enterprise will be privatized, making water unaffordable for many, perhaps most Libyans. In other words, neoliberal control will exploit it for maximum profits.

A FINAL COMMENT

On April 13, Ellen Brown’s Truthout article headlined, “Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking?” raised an important easily overlooked issue, saying:

“Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank (the Central Bank of Benghazi),” suggesting others with sophisticated know-how had it on the shelf ready to go months earlier.

A previous article quoted General Wesley Clark’s book, “Winning Modern Wars,” saying Pentagon sources told him two months after 9/11 that war plans were being prepared against Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, Sudan and Libya.

“What do these seven countries have in common,” asked Brown? None (as well as Afghanistan) are “listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements.”

It’s the central bank for central bankers, a banking boss of bosses accountable to no government, privately owned by its members, the most powerful with most influence.

Outliers, of course, put “them outside (its) long regulatory arm.” Months before America attacked Iraq, Saddam Hussein began selling oil in Euros, not dollars, threatening its reserve currency and petrodollar dominance. Gaddafi “made a similarly bold move,” an initiative toward replacing the dollar with “the gold dinar,” hoping for “a united African continent (under) this single currency.”

Many Arab and African countries endorsed the idea, but not America or the West, “French President Nicolas Sarkozy calling (Gaddafi) a threat to the financial security of mankind.” He wasn’t deterred.

Moreover, “the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State owned.” In other words, it creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, interest free to be used for productive economic growth, not profits and bonuses for predatory bankers.

As a result, imperial Washington, Britain and France included Libya on their “globalist (hit list to integrate it into) its hive of compliant nations,” at the expense of its own internal interests. They include oil and gas development, projects to make the desert green, as well as providing free education, healthcare, and other essential social services from oil revenues and Central Bank of Libya created money.

“So, is this new war all about oil or all about banking,” asked Brown? “Maybe both – and water as well,” noting that with “energy, water and ample (interest-free) credit to develop the infrastructure to access them, a nation can be free (from) foreign creditors,” especially predatory Western ones, entrapping countries in debt for greater profits.

Perhaps that was Saddam’s real threat, now Gaddafi’s and other nations on the Pentagon’s hit list.

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