|
Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 1:19:29 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by clone on Mar 30, 2011 20:32:51 GMT -8
virtually unknown in the West: Libya's water resources 3/3/11 The 1st of September marks the anniversary of the opening of the major stage of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project. This incredibly huge and successful water scheme is virtually unknown in the West, yet it rivals and even surpasses all our greatest development projects. The leader of the so-called advanced countries, the United States of America cannot bring itself to acknowledge Libya's Great Man-Made River. The West refuses to recognize that a small country, with a population no more than four million, can construct anything so large without borrowing a single cent from the international banks. ...In the 1960s during oil exploration deep in the southern Libyan desert, vast reservoirs of high quality water were discovered in the form of aquifers. ... ...In Libya there are four major underground basins, these being the Kufra basin, the Sirt basin, the Morzuk basin and the Hamada basin, the first three of which contain combined reserves of 35,000 cubic kilometres of water. These vast reserves offer almost unlimited amounts of water for the Libyan people. The people of Libya under the guidance of their leader, Colonel Muammar Al Qadhafi, initiated a series of scientific studies on the possibility of accessing this vast ocean of fresh water. Early consideration was given to developing new agricultural projects close to the sources of the water, in the desert. However, it was realized that on the scale required to provide products for self sufficiency, a very large infrastructure organization would be required. In addition to this, a major redistribution of the population from the coastal belt would be necessary. The alternative was to 'bring the water to the people'. In October 1983, the Great Man-made River Authority was created and invested with the responsibility of taking water from the aquifers in the south, and conveying it by the most economical and practical means for use, predominantly for irrigation, in the Libyan coastal belt. twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtually-unknown-in-west-libyas-water.html
|
|
|
Post by clone on Apr 11, 2011 18:52:31 GMT -8
Mysterious Libyan Pipeline Could Be Conduit for Troops The New York Times December 2, 1997 Libya calls it the Great Man-Made River Project, and says the gargantuan lattice work of underground pipes, wells and pumping stations will someday make the desert bloom from Tripoli to Kufra. But in separate interviews, three engineers working on the $25-billion project said the official explanation was improbable or incomplete. They said they suspect the system of underground pipes and reservoirs, which is being built largely with American equipment, has some clandestine military purpose. "If Saddam Hussein said he was building a 4-meter pipe to 100 miles from Kuwait, 100 miles from Iran, 100 miles from Turkey, for the purpose of moving water, would you believe him?" asked one European engineer. A tunnel of pipes 4 meters, or 13 feet, in diameter is large enough to accommodate military vehicles, even a rail line. When the project is completed, Libya will have more than 2,000 miles of tunnel stretching from Tunisia to Egypt. In the south, it will reach almost to Sudan and Chad, a country with which Libya has tense relations. www.fas.org/news/libya/971202-nyt.htm
|
|
|
Post by yb on Apr 12, 2011 20:46:33 GMT -8
Reason for war? Gaddafi wanted to nationalise oil 25.03.2011 "Oil should be owned by the State at this time, so we could better control prices by the increase or decrease in production," said the Libyan leader. These statements have worried the main foreign companies operating in Libya: Anglo-Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, U.S. ExxonMobil, Hess Corp., Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum and ConocoPhillips, the Spanish Repsol, Germany's Wintershall, Austria's OMV , Norway's Statoil, Eni and Canada's Petro Canada. In 2008, the Libyan state oil company, National Oil, prepared a report on the subject in which officials suggested modifying the production-sharing agreements with foreign companies in order to increase state revenues. english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/25-03-2011/117336-reason_for_war_oil-0/
|
|
|
Post by yb on Apr 12, 2011 20:57:01 GMT -8
America's true reason for attacking Libya becomes clear with new central bank * March 30th, 2011 11:28 am ET The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company. Perhaps when this conflict is over those rebels can become time management consultants. They sure do get a lot done. What a skilled bunch of rebels - they can fight a war during the day and draw up a new central bank and a new national oil company at night without any outside help whatsoever. If only the rest of us were so versatile! But isn't forming a central bank something that could be done after the civil war is over? According to Bloomberg, the Transitional National Council has "designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi." – The Economic Collapse via Uruknet www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/america-s-true-reason-for-attacking-libya-becomes-clear-with-new-central-bank
|
|
|
Post by clone on Apr 23, 2011 20:08:44 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by clone on May 1, 2011 23:45:23 GMT -8
THE INVASION OF LIBYA: Behind the US-NATO Attack are Strategies of Economic Warfare May 1, 2011 It is apparent then, because -- with an operation decided not in Bengazi, but in Washington, London and Paris -- the National Transitional Council has created the "Libyan Oil Company.” This is an empty shell, much like one of those companies that are ready key in hand for investors in tax havens. It is intended to replace Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) when the "willing" have taken control of oil fields. Its task will be to grant licenses on terms highly favorable to U.S., British and French companies. www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24567
|
|
|
Post by moo on May 6, 2011 20:33:48 GMT -8
The U.S. government spared the public no indignity this week when U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice insisted that "Libyan government troops were being issued Viagra and told to rape as a terror weapon." Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris writes, "This sort of tactic is nothing new. It is reminiscent of the incubator babies story. In the run-up to the first Gulf War in 1990, a tearful Kuwaiti girl testified before a congressional committee that she had witnessed Iraqi troops removing premature babies from incubators and stealing the incubators, leaving the babies to die." The incubator tale was later thoroughly debunked. Susan Rice’s Viagra Hoax: The New Incubator Babies April 30, 2011 www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/04/30/susan-rices-viagra-hoax-the-new-incubator-babies/
|
|
|
Post by 146m on May 13, 2011 19:15:36 GMT -8
'Libya war costs surpass US estimate' Thu May 12, 2011 7:1PM US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the aerial war on Libya has cost the United States about 750 million dollars so far, despite the Pentagon's initial assessment. "It's probably at this point somewhere in the ballpark of 750 million dollars," AFP quoted Gates as saying on Thursday. Pentagon officials previously anticipated that the operation would cost the US military 604 million dollars from the start of the US-backed military effort on March 19 to April 4. Meanwhile, US officials failed to provide an explanation for the hike in the cost of the aerial operations. www.presstv.ir/detail/179606.html
|
|
|
Post by clone on May 28, 2011 21:16:10 GMT -8
Canada orders 1,300 smart bombs $100,000-apiece weapons to be used in Libyan mission May 18, 2011 OTTAWA — As the Libyan war enters its third month the Defence Department has quietly ordered more than 1,300 laser-guided smart bombs. The department could not provide comment about the purchase of the 500-pound Paveway bombs, but sources confirmed the new stocks are for the Libyan campaign, to replace those already dropped and for future missions against the North African country. www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canada+orders+smart+bombs/4800255/story.html___________________ Canada drops 240 'smart' bombs on Libya, won't reveal cost of mission The Canadian Press – 3 days ago OTTAWA — Canadian warplanes have dropped 240 laser-guided bombs on Libyan targets since March 31, the military says. But the Canadian Forces have deemed several other key aspects of the country's mission in Libya too sensitive for public consumption. www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h2xk5jF0tWmDT0V-YkeI3f5cBaVg
|
|
|
Post by BIS on May 30, 2011 23:10:14 GMT -8
Libya all about oil, or central banking? Middle East - Apr 14, 2011 Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank - this before they even had a government... And that brings us back to the puzzle of the Libyan central bank. 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. Libya not only has oil. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its central bank has nearly 144 tonnes of gold in its vaults. With that sort of asset base, who needs the BIS, the IMF and their rules? www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD14Ak02.html
|
|
|
Post by clone on Jun 4, 2011 15:47:38 GMT -8
Fresh calls for Lockerbie public inquiry 24 May 2011 The Mirror said Mr Manly told police he found that a padlock near the Pan Am desk at Heathrow's Terminal Three appeared to have been severed with bolt cutters. This would have cleared the way for a bomb to be planted among Pan Am luggage which had already passed through security checks, the newspaper said. Mr Manly told The Mirror: "I can't believe the statement was lost. No-one at the trial knew about the break-in." Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-71746/Fresh-calls-Lockerbie-public-inquiry.html
|
|
|
Post by nazibucks on Jun 12, 2011 17:31:45 GMT -8
|
|
vietnam irak yugoslavia
Guest
|
Post by vietnam irak yugoslavia on Jun 15, 2011 8:02:08 GMT -8
Michel Collon about the intervention in Libya, English Subtitles.avi www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXFAsz6_W50_______________________ Humanitarian intentions of the West are just a pretext – investigative journalist Published: 26 May, 2011, 21:07 With G8 leaders talking politics and economy in the French town of Dauville, investigative journalist and author Michel Collon criticized Western governments for blowing money on wars in the Middle East. The war in Libya, dubbed by the West a “humanitarian mission,” was “a manipulation from the beginning,” declared Collon. The US and its allies always say they have humanitarian intentions, but it always turns out to be nothing but a pretext for intervention. www.worldwidenewscast.com/?p=56415
|
|
|
Post by cambodia on Jun 15, 2011 8:27:01 GMT -8
|
|