{"id":82,"date":"2011-10-26T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-10-26T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:51:08","slug":"6-things-libya-will-never-see-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/6-things-libya-will-never-see-again\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unusual Tyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from an article &#8220;6 Things Libya Will Never See Again&#8221; Posted by Saya on October 24, 2011 at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2011\/10\/16-things-libya-will-never-see-again\/\">disinfo.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.<br \/>\nThere is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law.<br \/>\nHaving a home considered a human right in Libya.<br \/>\nAll newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 dinar (U.S.$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.<br \/>\nEducation and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83 percent.<br \/>\nShould Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms are all for free.<br \/>\nIf Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need, the government funds them to go abroad, for it is not only paid for, but they get a U.S.$2,300\/month for accommodation and car allowance.<br \/>\nIf a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidizes 50 percent of the price.<br \/>\nThe price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.<br \/>\nLibya has no external debt and its reserves amounting to $150 billion are now frozen globally.<br \/>\nIf a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession, as if he or she is employed, until employment is found.<br \/>\nA portion of every Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.<br \/>\nA mother who gives birth to a child receive U.S.$5,000.<br \/>\n40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $0.15.<br \/>\n25 percent of Libyans have a university degree.<br \/>\nGaddafi carried out the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Manmade River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gadhafi is painted as a brutal tyrant and the news is full of rejoicing Libyans celebrating his end. To doubt the story is to doubt a consensus that appears grounded in fact and yet it&#8217;s an unusual tyrant that has so much evidence of good work for his people thrown up in his defence; also it is an unusual tyrant who can count Nelson Mandela as a friend. On a visit to Libya Mandala said of Gadhafi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who say I should not be here are without morals. This man helped us at a time when we were all alone, when those who say we should not come here were helping the enemy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not to say that Gadhafi was not guilty of the crimes of which he is accused but there seems to be a deeper story an another side that is being wilfully ignored by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>The following report by RT questions the UK, US and French motivation for going into Libya suggesting that he was planning to use Libya&#8217;s gold to challenge the west&#8217;s financial domination.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k_6kimMf7h8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media consensus picturing Gadhafi as a monster hated by his people is shocking because there are so many facts that contradict this picture. It&#8217;s not necessary for people to agree with Gadhafi &#8230; it may be true that he committed atrocities, but it&#8217;s not the whole truth. Any questioning of the consensus picture seems to happen only on the internet where it is freely available but not unless you search for it.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Di Vito, an Italian activist who visited Libya suggests that there was coordinated media manipulation to present a particular picture of a humanitarian mission supporting a popular uprising.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hDejIHc1XI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the abuses carried out by Gadhafi they appear to be at least matched by the abuses of the rebels. Susan Lindauer presents a horrific picture of who they are and what they do:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfv1uPBmR5g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The brutal killing of Gadhafi is consistent with the pattern of abuses perpetrated by the rebel forces. The fact that their new government the &#8216;National Transitional Council&#8217; has asked NATO to continue their bombing campaign indicates that there is still resistance and division in Libya and highlights the extent to which the NTC requires NATO&#8217;s support against significant numbers of their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lytjBS86N0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the consensus of the mainstream media the evidence seems to be that the NATO mission was more directed at the slaughter of civilians that their salvation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_LJtBADQNng\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Online References and Articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalciviliansforpeace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">globalciviliansforpeace.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/woyingi.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/23\/gaddafi-mandela-african-mercenaries\/\">woyingi.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalresearch.ca\/\">globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_the_2011_Libyan_civil_war_before_military_intervention\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/norway-libya-correlations-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penny For Your Thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from an article &#8220;6 Things Libya Will Never See Again&#8221; Posted by Saya on October 24, 2011 at disinfo.com: There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/6-things-libya-will-never-see-again\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,100,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}