ni ukosefu wa akili kuleta maada kama hizi za kusadikika,,,,hakuna asiyejua kwamba halaiki la waandamanaji waliuawa na majeshi ya gadaf akiwaita panya,,,kiukweli huyu jamaa alikuwa ni dikteta kwelikweli ukithubutu tu kupinga/kukosoa au kutoa mawazo mbadala umekwenda na maji kifo cha panya
The recent Hillary Clinton email leaks have opened a can of worms everywhere including in Africa. Wikileaks released an unclassified U.S. Department of State document emailed to Clinton, dated April 2, 2011. Sidney Blumenthal, the sender of the email confirmed what the world already suspected. Qaddafi was not killed for humanitarian purposes but for the oil and for money. His ideas of an African gold-backed currency were his major undoing.
In April 2011, then President of the World Bank, Robert Bruce Zoellick spoke at a panel discussion about how he hoped the World Bank would have some sort of role in the reconstruction of Libya along with other countries.
“Reconstruction now means (Ivory Coast), it now means Southern Sudan, it means Liberia, it means Sri Lanka, I hope it will mean Libya,” he said.
To the ordinary person, this was the World Bank hoping to come in to help a failing state but to Economist John Perkins,, the World Bank was not to be considered as fulfilling its supposed mandate. It was in actual fact a U.S. bank together with its sibling, the IMF. The United States controls about 16% of the World Bank while the second largest member, Japan has a paltry 7%. The United States again has around 17% voting rights in the International Monetary Fund. His point was that these institutions were and still are extensions of the Western foreign policy.
“So, we might ask ourselves: What happens when a “rogue” country threatens to bring the banking system that benefits the corporatocracy to its knees?” he asked later saying the Western empire has a standing army (NATO) to violently protect its position.
Libya was the “rogue” nation but the question is: Just what did Gaddafi have in mind?
According to the IMF, Libya’s Central Bank is 100% state owned and in 2011, it was estimated to have 144 tons of gold in its vaults. Muammar Gaddafi’s plan was to introduce a gold-backed currency which he hoped African and Muslim nations would adopt. He felt it could rival the euro and the dollar, and rightly so too.
Sidney Blumenthal, in his email to Hillary Clinton confirmed, “Qaddafi's government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver. During late March, 2011 these stocks were moved to SABHA (south west in the direction of the Libyan border with Niger and Chad); taken from the vaults of the Libyan Central Bank in Tripoli.”
He went on to say the gold and silver was valued at $7 billion and was one of the reasons Nicolas Sarkozy embarked on a French attack of Libya.
“Sarkozy's plans are driven by the following issues:
a. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,
b. Increase French influence in North Africa,
c. Improve his internal political situation in France,
d. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,
e. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi's long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in, Francophone Africa,” wrote Blumenthal.
If Qaddafi had succeeded, the United States of America and Europe would have been forced to buy oil and minerals in the gold backed currency thus tipping the scales. This was a horror the West dared not experience. The situation would have been a more lethal re-enactment of Saddam Hussein’s currency wars when he supported the new Euro currency at the expense of the United States Dollar. At this point, the U.S. was highly insecure about the effects of the new currency to its economy. Hussein’s decision to sell oil in the then new currency was a blow to the U.S. worsened by the proclamation that the dollar was the “currency of the enemy”. Currency wars have therefore been a fact of history with the Hussein situation being a peculiar intra-Western conflict that culminated in the Middle East instability promulgated by U.S. interventionist policies. That Qaddafi would be killed for planning to introduce an African currency to the fray is not surprising but that does not make it acceptable.
The leaked Clinton email has far-reaching implications on the fluid state of post-colonial relations with the West. If anything, it is an eye-opener. Where Africa seeks to build an independent economic structure, the West is seen to try and derail those plans so as to retain its primacy in world affairs.
With regard to the creation of a new currency, Ministry of Peace Founder, Dr James Thring said, “It’s one of those things that you have to plan almost in secret, because as soon as you say you’re going to change over from the dollar to something else, you’re going to be targeted.”
And Qaddafi was targeted. He may not have been the most democratic leader in the world but Libyan citizens had arguably the best way of life in Africa. His plan of action (without the human rights violations) should be a blueprint for African development.
Image Credit: Time Magazine
ni ukosefu wa akili kuleta maada kama hizi za kusadikika,,,,hakuna asiyejua kwamba halaiki la waandamanaji waliuawa na majeshi ya gadaf akiwaita panya,,,kiukweli huyu jamaa alikuwa ni dikteta kwelikweli ukithubutu tu kupinga/kukosoa au kutoa mawazo mbadala umekwenda na maji kifo cha panya
kwaiyo tusijalibu hata sikumoja kutetea udikteta alafu tuseme tutabaki salama,hatutabaki salama kamwe.acheni kabisa propaganda za kijinga na kutengeneza vijihabari vya kiingereza visivyokuwa na mantiki ya jambo
kila raia wa nchi husika ni muhimu na anaakili iweje wewe mmoja ndio ujione unaakili kuliko wote na ndiye utawale pekeyako kama ilivyofanya ccm zenj ni kuleta machafuko yasiyo ya lazima.
kitisho kikubwa cha uhuru ulimwenguni ni kukosekana kwa wakosoaji!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhindo wacha fikra mgando. Hili Jamvi ni kubwa kuliko unavyodhani. Hili ni jamvi la those who dare speak. Tubishane kwa facts na siyo kudhalilishana. Hivi ccm zenj inahusiana na nini na mada hii. Kama una muda wa kusoma hebu tafakari yafuatayo yanayohusu [udikteta wa] Gaddafini ukosefu wa akili kuleta maada kama hizi za kusadikika,,,,hakuna asiyejua kwamba halaiki la waandamanaji waliuawa na majeshi ya gadaf akiwaita panya,,,kiukweli huyu jamaa alikuwa ni dikteta kwelikweli ukithubutu tu kupinga/kukosoa au kutoa mawazo mbadala umekwenda na maji kifo cha panya
kwaiyo tusijalibu hata sikumoja kutetea udikteta alafu tuseme tutabaki salama,hatutabaki salama kamwe.acheni kabisa propaganda za kijinga na kutengeneza vijihabari vya kiingereza visivyokuwa na mantiki ya jambo
kila raia wa nchi husika ni muhimu na anaakili iweje wewe mmoja ndio ujione unaakili kuliko wote na ndiye utawale pekeyako kama ilivyofanya ccm zenj ni kuleta machafuko yasiyo ya lazima.
kitisho kikubwa cha uhuru ulimwenguni ni kukosekana kwa wakosoaji!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nilikoseakuandika ni Dollar 300.000 sio Dollar Milioni 300Mkuu MM, heshima kwenu..
naona namba nane (8) umechemsha.. maana dola 300m ... ni nyingi sana...
Mchezo huu hautaki hasira!Huyu pumbavu alimsaidia Nduli IDD Amin zana na askari wakati wa vita ya Kagera, sisi akatusaidia ujenzi wa msikiti Dodoma.
Kweli Uswahili ni punguani
Walitakiwa wajue tu katika Dunia hii uwezi pata kila kitu. Wanapata uhuru waliotaka tuone sasa maisha yao yataendaje.Suala sio unapewa nini ktk nchi yako, bali ni kwa kiasi gani nyote mna nafasi sawa za kimaisha ktk nchi yenu. Gaddafi hakuruhusu uhuru huo japokuwa aliwapatia huduma nyingi bure.
Mzizi, hata wewe akitokea mtu akasema anakupa kila kitu lkn usijihusishe na harakati mbalimbali za maisha utakubali?
Walibya sio wajinga, kumbuka waliitwa ni mende na panya.
Leo hii naamini kama Gaddafi angekubali kuitisha uchaguzi baada ya kufanikiwa yote hayo, angekuwa mtu maarufu zaidi duniani. Lkn kwa uroho wa kutawala yeye na familia yake, alipuuza sauti zilizodai uhuru wa kisiasa. Ni kosa kubwa sana