Sinister Cultural Marxist
24th February 2011, 16:47
I just wanted to post this for those who think that these protests in Libya are some kind of eeeevil Imperialist plot by NATO to steal the oil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8252345.stm
An SAS team has been training Libyan special forces in counter-terrorism techniques, a newspaper claims.
The Daily Telegraph reports that a team of up to 14 men have been providing training in areas including covert surveillance for six months.
An SAS source quoted by the paper suggests a possible link between the training and the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.
Hey, I wonder if those units might have something to do with the brutal oppression of protesters?
http://news.marweb.com/libya/economics/libya-wto-liberalize-economy-private-economy-active-public.html
The new Libyan prime minister Shukri Ghanem said that Libya intends to apply for the membership of the World Trade Organization. He said that oil will not be privatized, rather will be open to investment, while the public sector will not be removed immediately but will work side by side with the private sector.
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"Ghanem who was appointed a prime minister last Saturday indicated that the oil sector is vital for Libya's efforts to encourage private sector investments, noting that "talking about oil industry does not mean we are privatizing tomorrow, but oil industry will be ready to receive more investments from foreign companies." He considered that "this will make it imperative for the Libyans themselves gradually to buy shares in the companies listed in the Bourse."He continued that reforms, almost in all sectors, will seek to encourage local and foreign private investments. Speaking about the pace of reform, he added that "the private sector will carry out a greater role but that does not mean the role of the public sector will end (abruptly) in a single day. They will complete each other."
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The Libyan prime minister stressed that the new government "is determined to introduce liberalism to the economy and encourage active participatory approach to both the private and public sectors to boost them." Ghanem also talked about lifting the economic embargo from his country in 1999, noting "this will facilitate Libya's integration in the world economy." He reiterated Libya's commitment to the objectives of OPEC which was recently exposed to pressure. He said that one of the challenges facing OPEC is the return back of the Iraqi oil to the market."News Agencies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7892112/BP-admits-lobbying-UK-over-Libya-prisoner-transfer-scheme-but-not-Lockerbie-bomber.html
BP said it pressed for a deal over the controversial prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) amid fears any delays to negotiations would damage its “commercial interests” and disrupt its £900 million offshore drilling operations in the region.
But it denied claims that it had been involved in negotiations concerning the release of Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber freed by Scottish authorities last year.
The admission came just hours after Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, pledged to investigate allegations of BP's
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Business/Libya-Eni-is-oil-company-with-most-to-lose-in-Libya_311712801702.html
As the former colonial power, Italy is the biggest investor in Libya and Rome-based Eni is at the forefront of the relationship. Italy’s largest company pumps almost 250,000 barrels a day in the North African country, or about 14 percent of its total production. Eni’s shares dropped the most in 19 months Monday as unrest worsened.
“Italy and particularly Eni are heavily exposed in Libya and stand to lose a great deal if things fall apart,” said Nicolo Sartori, an energy and security researcher at Rome’s IAI Institute for International Affairs. “Eni’s production and exploration interests in the area are considerable.”
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/middle-east-north-africa/libya?ta=lawsCustoms&pg=3
Homosexuality is considered a criminal offence in Libya, for which the minimum prison sentence is three years. The authorities are known to charge and convict homosexuals under this law. Sexual relations outside marriage are also punishable by law.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0223/Qaddafi-s-ties-to-rebel-groups-scrutinized-as-African-mercenaries-patrol-Libya
Although there is little independent media access to verify the events unfolding in Libya, experts say Colonel Qaddafi has strong relationships with various African warlords and rebel groups, some of whom may now be filling the role of for-hire mercenaries. Those ties come from his role in both stirring up and resolving disputes in the troubled African Sahel region, where he has won support and loyalty from African leaders now studiously quiet about the brutal civil conflict in Libya.
“Qaddafi has had a long term relationship with other African nations, and although he was in close relations with all of the presidents of these countries over time, all the rebel groups used to go to Tripoli too, to get funding,” says Thierry Vircoulon, Central African project director for the International Crisis Group in Nairobi. “He played both sides.”
Libya’s aid to its poorer African neighbors may have been an ego boost for a man who liked to see himself as a leader of a unified Africa, but his aid money did very little to help uplift the lives of the very poor, say experts like Vircoulon. Most of the aid comes in the form of investment, from the luxury LAICO (Libyan African Investment Company) hotel chains scattered around many African capitals to the OilLibya petrol stations found in many major African cities. These investments don’t create many jobs, and they certainly don’t do much in the way of uplifting the lives of rural Africans, but they are visible reminders of Libya’s importance on the continent.
Ties to regional rebels and warlords
When Qaddafi did invest in people, they were usually soldiers and quite often rebel leaders. He has reportedly offered training and financial aid to myriad militant groups and figures, including warlords like Liberia's former President Charles Taylor, Sierra Leone's former rebel leader Foday Sankoh, and current Chad President Idriss Deby, also a former rebel leader. Mr. Deby’s government is believed to be heavily reliant on Libya for its budgetary needs.
Gaddhafi is such a brave anti-imperialist! Surely, whatever replaces him will be a dog of the capitalists, right? :rolleyes::rolleyes: NATO already has Gaddhafi's oil, if anything the instability is bad for the EU since it occurred after a long process of trying to draw Libya back into "the West"
If anything, Gaddhafi has turned into an inverse Imperialist ... he profits by bringing foreigners in to oppress his own citizens, while useful idiots in places like Latin America run around calling him some kind of socialist revolutionary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8252345.stm
An SAS team has been training Libyan special forces in counter-terrorism techniques, a newspaper claims.
The Daily Telegraph reports that a team of up to 14 men have been providing training in areas including covert surveillance for six months.
An SAS source quoted by the paper suggests a possible link between the training and the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.
Hey, I wonder if those units might have something to do with the brutal oppression of protesters?
http://news.marweb.com/libya/economics/libya-wto-liberalize-economy-private-economy-active-public.html
The new Libyan prime minister Shukri Ghanem said that Libya intends to apply for the membership of the World Trade Organization. He said that oil will not be privatized, rather will be open to investment, while the public sector will not be removed immediately but will work side by side with the private sector.
...
"Ghanem who was appointed a prime minister last Saturday indicated that the oil sector is vital for Libya's efforts to encourage private sector investments, noting that "talking about oil industry does not mean we are privatizing tomorrow, but oil industry will be ready to receive more investments from foreign companies." He considered that "this will make it imperative for the Libyans themselves gradually to buy shares in the companies listed in the Bourse."He continued that reforms, almost in all sectors, will seek to encourage local and foreign private investments. Speaking about the pace of reform, he added that "the private sector will carry out a greater role but that does not mean the role of the public sector will end (abruptly) in a single day. They will complete each other."
...
The Libyan prime minister stressed that the new government "is determined to introduce liberalism to the economy and encourage active participatory approach to both the private and public sectors to boost them." Ghanem also talked about lifting the economic embargo from his country in 1999, noting "this will facilitate Libya's integration in the world economy." He reiterated Libya's commitment to the objectives of OPEC which was recently exposed to pressure. He said that one of the challenges facing OPEC is the return back of the Iraqi oil to the market."News Agencies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7892112/BP-admits-lobbying-UK-over-Libya-prisoner-transfer-scheme-but-not-Lockerbie-bomber.html
BP said it pressed for a deal over the controversial prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) amid fears any delays to negotiations would damage its “commercial interests” and disrupt its £900 million offshore drilling operations in the region.
But it denied claims that it had been involved in negotiations concerning the release of Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber freed by Scottish authorities last year.
The admission came just hours after Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, pledged to investigate allegations of BP's
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Business/Libya-Eni-is-oil-company-with-most-to-lose-in-Libya_311712801702.html
As the former colonial power, Italy is the biggest investor in Libya and Rome-based Eni is at the forefront of the relationship. Italy’s largest company pumps almost 250,000 barrels a day in the North African country, or about 14 percent of its total production. Eni’s shares dropped the most in 19 months Monday as unrest worsened.
“Italy and particularly Eni are heavily exposed in Libya and stand to lose a great deal if things fall apart,” said Nicolo Sartori, an energy and security researcher at Rome’s IAI Institute for International Affairs. “Eni’s production and exploration interests in the area are considerable.”
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/middle-east-north-africa/libya?ta=lawsCustoms&pg=3
Homosexuality is considered a criminal offence in Libya, for which the minimum prison sentence is three years. The authorities are known to charge and convict homosexuals under this law. Sexual relations outside marriage are also punishable by law.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0223/Qaddafi-s-ties-to-rebel-groups-scrutinized-as-African-mercenaries-patrol-Libya
Although there is little independent media access to verify the events unfolding in Libya, experts say Colonel Qaddafi has strong relationships with various African warlords and rebel groups, some of whom may now be filling the role of for-hire mercenaries. Those ties come from his role in both stirring up and resolving disputes in the troubled African Sahel region, where he has won support and loyalty from African leaders now studiously quiet about the brutal civil conflict in Libya.
“Qaddafi has had a long term relationship with other African nations, and although he was in close relations with all of the presidents of these countries over time, all the rebel groups used to go to Tripoli too, to get funding,” says Thierry Vircoulon, Central African project director for the International Crisis Group in Nairobi. “He played both sides.”
Libya’s aid to its poorer African neighbors may have been an ego boost for a man who liked to see himself as a leader of a unified Africa, but his aid money did very little to help uplift the lives of the very poor, say experts like Vircoulon. Most of the aid comes in the form of investment, from the luxury LAICO (Libyan African Investment Company) hotel chains scattered around many African capitals to the OilLibya petrol stations found in many major African cities. These investments don’t create many jobs, and they certainly don’t do much in the way of uplifting the lives of rural Africans, but they are visible reminders of Libya’s importance on the continent.
Ties to regional rebels and warlords
When Qaddafi did invest in people, they were usually soldiers and quite often rebel leaders. He has reportedly offered training and financial aid to myriad militant groups and figures, including warlords like Liberia's former President Charles Taylor, Sierra Leone's former rebel leader Foday Sankoh, and current Chad President Idriss Deby, also a former rebel leader. Mr. Deby’s government is believed to be heavily reliant on Libya for its budgetary needs.
Gaddhafi is such a brave anti-imperialist! Surely, whatever replaces him will be a dog of the capitalists, right? :rolleyes::rolleyes: NATO already has Gaddhafi's oil, if anything the instability is bad for the EU since it occurred after a long process of trying to draw Libya back into "the West"
If anything, Gaddhafi has turned into an inverse Imperialist ... he profits by bringing foreigners in to oppress his own citizens, while useful idiots in places like Latin America run around calling him some kind of socialist revolutionary