Magufuli and Tanzanians must learn from Gadhafi and Libya: Why Magufuli should involve all Tanzanians in his ambitions

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· 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.

· 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.

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Hivyo vitisho vyenu havituondoi kwenye ajenda yetu.
Anachopinga Magufuli ni wizi kwenye madini yetu hajakataza na wala hatokataza wazungu kuchimba,ili mradi wanafuata sheria zetu
 
Asante mkuu.
Nakuomba uchukue muda kutafsiri kwa Kiswahili chetu maana huenda wasikuelewe. Kama hukuona ya ngao ya hisani na maswali ya usaili wa TRA basi endelea kupuuza ombi langu!
 
Asante mkuu.
Nakuomba uchukue muda kutafsiri kwa Kiswahili chetu maana huenda wasikuelewe. Kama hukuona ya ngao ya hisani na maswali ya usaili wa TRA basi endelea kupuuza ombi langu!
sawa mkuu nimecheka sana poa tu
 
Hivyo vitisho vyenu havituondoi kwenye ajenda yetu.
Anachopinga Magufuli ni wizi kwenye madini yetu hajakataza na wala hatokataza wazungu kuchimba,ili mradi wanafuata sheria zetu
Hivi siyo vitisho lilopo ni kuwa asibague wengine wakati wa vita hii ya kiuchumi! Mwenzake guadhafi aliwabagua wengine ndipo wazungu wakatengeneza makundi ya kipinzani wakawapa silaha na wakaja wenyewe wakapika majungu dunia nzima ikakubali wakammaliza. Vita ya haki haibagui!
 
Hivi siyo vitisho lilopo ni kuwa asibague wengine wakati wa vita hii ya kiuchumi! Mwenzake guadhafi aliwabagua wengine ndipo wazungu wakatengeneza makundi ya kipinzani wakawapa silaha na wakaja wenyewe wakapika majungu dunia nzima ikakubali wakammaliza. Vita ya haki haibagui!
Hivi kwa mtazamo wako magufuli amembagua nani?
 
Kwani anaowapiga pingu kila siku mbona mahakamani wanakutwa hawana hatia?

Au wewe hujuwi maana pana ya neno ubaguzi?
kukutwa huna hatia sio lazima kwamba hukufanya kosa,lakini wewe unajua kabisa kabisa kumwita Rais dikteta uchwara ni kosa.
 
kukutwa huna hatia sio lazima kwamba hukufanya kosa,lakini wewe unajua kabisa kabisa kumwita Rais dikteta uchwara ni kosa.

Hebu fikiria kidogo nini maaa ya neno dikteta (dictate)......dictator

Tabia za mtu husababisha apewe jina kwa matendo yake

1. Nimesema mimi....dictator

2. Hakuna wa kunishauri.....dictator

3. Mhimili wangu ndio unamizizi zaidi ya mingine...dictator

4. Nimesema hakuna shughuli za kisiasa.....dictator nk nk

Dictate nikutamka utakacho hatakama nikinyume cha katiba lazima kitekelezwe......nahapa ndipo ikaja ya dikteta uchwara..maana nikuamuru tu bila sheria wala katiba.
 
· 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.

· 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.

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It's a good article.However we ought to ask ourselves the following important questions.
1.America owns 17% and Japan 6%,who owns the rest.
2.Libya controls
100% of it's Central Bank,who controls Central Banks in other countries?
3.Libya wanted a gold backed currency,which is the ideal situation leading to a no ifnlation scenario.What are currencies in other countries backed by,nothing?Only worthless paper in circulation?Is the T.sh.in circulation backed by Gold,or we have only the worthless T.sh. papers in circulation.
4.The World Bank and France had their eyes on Libyan oil and money.Doesn't this prove that the World Bank,and for that matter other Western countries' institutions and western countries in general are not trustworthy?
 
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