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Failing Empire and Media Distraction
by stylus Wednesday, May 11 2011, 11:37pm
international / social equality/unity / opinion/analysis

How easily are we distracted?

The Bin Laden media circus – no credible evidence of claims whatsoever -- continues to take space in the Corporate (CFR) media. This desperate, diversionary, tissue-thin tactic presents no surprise to analysts who are extremely familiar with mass media trickery, ‘perception management' as it is known today, and the effect mis-disinformation has on society at large! A flagrant war crime committed by NATO – the brazen, FAILED assassination attempt on Muammar Gaddafi, which resulted in the CRIMINAL MURDERS of three of his very young grandchildren and his youngest son, has been removed from public consciousness by the absurd, unproven claims relating to Hollywood Osama Bin Laden.

Nevertheless, REALITY is not so easily hidden or dismissed; criminal murder is criminal murder, made the worse as the crime was committed before the EYES OF THE WORLD, are you reading this, Russia, China and the puppet UN?

If you require proof of a criminal global elite simply ask yourselves some pertinent and simple questions; how is it that International Legal Institutions only prosecute enemies of the US and ignore the flagrant crimes of NATO, the US and allies? UAV Drones are terrorist weapons, they kill more civilians than combatants YET this terrorist, criminal activity is conducted almost daily by the USA, there is NO AVOIDING that REALITY!

Since the 50’s the USA has murdered more INNOCENT civilians in its wars of ‘freedom’ (imperialist expansion) than all the nations of the world combined – fact, spelled F-A-C-T! Research and verify the truth for yourself! So why haven’t charges been laid against the culpable in the CIA, Pentagon and US administration that order these brazen and heinous CRIMES? It is important to remember that in an uncorrupted State there are no favourites; NO ONE is ABOVE the LAW!

What we witness in the world today is pervasive CORRUPTION made possible by puppet governments of the WORLD supporting the worthless, printed on demand, unpegged, US dollar.

Analysts noted with consternation that western forces desperately established a Central Bank 'with governor,' connected to the US Federal Reserve system, in Benghazi before the conflict has even been resolved.

Gaddafi’s ‘crime’ was that he refused Western financial SLAVERY and established his own Sovereign Bank and Sovereign Wealth Fund for his nation and people -- who, I would add, enjoyed the highest standard of living in Africa. We note that the US has recently STOLEN Libya’s Sovereign Wealth Fund to finance its wars and fund CIA backed rebels. It should also be noted that western forces and their puppets, world-wide, directly or indirectly work for a few dozen PRIVATE Banking global elites. VERIFY that REALITY for yourself, we have no need for unsubstantiated media stories and absurd fabrications; evidence of the above is freely available in the public domain – for NOW!

We, the GLOBAL MORAL majority number in the Billions while criminal elites are a mere few hundred – Justice, Peace and Fair Play are only an embrace away. Do not allow the nefarious minority to keep us divided any longer!

[Disseminate this story widely and help eliminate nefarious criminal elites and their puppets.]

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Gaddafi Offers Oil and Nation's Wealth to the People
by Philip Pank via stan - The Times Thursday, May 12 2011, 11:18pm

Originally published February, 2009:

Forty years into the revolution he unleashed on Libya Muammar Gaddafi has announced plans to dismantle the Government, hand the riches from Africa's biggest oil reserves to the people and nationalise foreign oil operations that have recently been allowed back into the country.

“The administration has failed and the state economy has failed. Enough is enough. The solution is, we Libyans take directly the oil money and decide what to do with the money,” he says.

To end the corruption that has sapped the vast oil wealth, bundles of cash should be delivered to the poor, three quarters of the ministries should cease to exist and the workers should run hospitals and schools.

The announcement has left diplomats and the 40 overseas oil companies operating in the country on edge.

Colonel Gaddafi, once derided as a “Mad Dog”, is basking in a new-found friendship with the West but anything is possible in a land that reflects the quixotic nature of its leader.

Across the country, from the smallest desert oasis to campuses and state companies, thousands of people are taking up his proposals at official public gatherings. Never before have the annual Libya's Basic People Congresses - in effect the country's top executive and legislative bodies - been invited to consider such reform.

“Libyans, this is your historic opportunity to take your oil wealth, power and full freedom,” Colonel Gaddafi said on the eve of the five-day round of meetings.

Many feel that they have not had their equal share even if outward signs of poverty in the deeply religious society are scarce. Satellite dishes adorn the low concrete apartment blocks; bread is cheap; petrol is 17 cents a litre, and imported cars carry families along the fertile coastal strip. Disaffection rarely spills into violence.

But the call to reform has been eagerly embraced by many. At the African University for Higher Studies, Abdul Hamid Amer told a meeting: “We must abolish the Cabinet. The ministries of health, education and transport should be abolished. The people should be left to run the ministries on their own.”

An outline of the plans is that $33 billion (£23 billion) from oil revenues, less $21 billion paid to foreign contractors to build roads, houses, hospitals and schools, leaves $12 billion for the people. That, plus $6 billion left over from last year's budget and $8 billion from taxes and tourism, leaves five million Libyans in line for a bonanza. Flow charts set out eight alternative plans for redistributing the wealth, for consideration at congress.

Not everyone has bought into the plan, Proposal for Distribution of the Wealth. Dr Bashir Zimbl said the draft was “a wrong title because the wealth has been distributed in the past and they are now playing with it”.

A young father confided: “We are not against giving the people the money but not in this way. We think they should have higher wages and fight corruption.”

Once the public deliberations end tomorrow they will be handed up to the 600-strong General People's Congress for consideration on March 2.

In theory, Colonel Gaddafi bows to their judgment and the people will then learn what is to become of their money. The Western oil companies that have been operating in Libya since 2003 - when Colonel Gaddafi abandoned his weapons of mass destruction and Libya took responsibility for bombing Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie - may also have a keener grasp of their future. Another motion is to nationalise foreign-run oil projects.

Among those to have arrived since international sanctions were lifted are the British groups BG, BP and Shell. “Obviously we do not know how it will go,” said one petrochemicals group. “At the moment we are not investing in plants and kit. We are investing in surveys, so there is nothing to lose.”

Diplomats, too, are waiting to see which way the whimsical leader will blow as he strikes his last policies before the 40th anniversary of his revolution in September.

“It has been a rollercoaster ride for Libyans and countries that need to relate to Libya,” one Western diplomat said.

“Today, at the international level, Libya is pretty much centre stage at the UN and AU and is negotiating a stronger relationship with the EU. I see more for Libya to gain by keeping in that direction so I expect it will, but the international normalisation is moving faster than domestic reform.”

Yet even seasoned observers have learnt not to second guess Colonel Gaddafi.

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[Puts a new perspective on the 'humanitarian' (Oil) intervention, doesn't it ?]


[We could have done without the appalling music clip!]


 
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