Libya is just another vulnerable nation in
an automation like drive for ever faster accumulation of capital
heedless of human suffering. China in the past was one such vulnerable
nation and is presently seeking to prevent being so again. China and the
few other nations outside the US block of satellites and allies are
soberly monitoring the massive investments in a frenetically intensified
manufacturing of ever larger stores of weapons of mass destruction.
Before we jump to the conclusion that the Chinese failure to protect Libya was heartless, mystifyingly unintelligent, perhaps without remorse, let us seek to understand the position that China might have felt itself to be in vis-à-vis the ever consolidating world of consummate US/NATO military power and the net of U.S. controlled international fiduciary institutions and central banking that in effect span the globe in an unchallengable grip of war preparation.
Footnotes:
(1)
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
In last year's 2010 United Nation Human Development Yearly Index of all Nations,
Libya is ranked 53rd in the world, well above nine European nations, for example, Russia, which is ranked 65th.
High human development: Libya 53rd in world (#1 in Africa) Neighbors Tunisia 81st, Algeria 84th
Medium human development (developing countries) Egypt 101, Morocco 114 , Gabon 93,
Low human development (developing countries)
Yemen 133, Sudan 154
( The Human Development Index (HDI ) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide.
Life Expectancy Index
Education Index
[Mean Years of Schooling Index ] Expected Years of Schooling
Income Index
Very high human development (developed countries)
Bahrain 39 having braced by Qatar 38 and Portugal 40
(Bahrain has a very unequal income and services range)
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The Library of Congress Federal Research Division Libya country profile of Libya, April 2005 reads, " Basic health care is provided to all citizens. Health, training, rehabilitation, education, housing, family issues, and disability and old-age benefits are all regulated by ... the Social Care Fund . The health care system is not purely state-run but rather a mixed system of public and private care. In comparison to other states in the Middle East, the health status of the population is relatively good. Childhood immunization is almost universal. The clean water supply has increased, and sanitation has been improved. The country's major hospitals are in Tripoli and Benghazi, and private health clinics and diagnostic centers, offering newer equipment and better service, compete with the public sector. The number of medical doctors and dentists reportedly increased sevenfold between 1970 and 1985, producing a ratio of one doctor per 673 citizens. In 1985 about one-third of the doctors in the Libya were native-born, with the remainder being primarily expatriate foreigners. The number of hospital beds tripled in this same time period. Malaria has been eradicated, and significant progress has been made against trachoma and leprosy. In 1985 the infant mortality rate was 84 per 1,000; by 2004, the U.S. Agency for International Development estimated that the infant mortality rate had dropped to 25.7 per 1,000. ... estimates report an infant mortality rate of less than 20 per 1,000.
Having control of their own oil wealth has enabled Libyans, along with neighboring Algerians to provide their citizens with a relatively high income. South Africa is higher but unevenly distributed between white and nonwhite.
(2)
A 1,000 word article with 10,000 words of footnotes, published 4/22/11 by OEN and Countercurrents
Capitalism's Warplanes: CIA & al Qaeda Destroy Socialist Libya's 53rd Highest Living Standard
- in addition to the article:
Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts,
" First of all, notice that the protests in Libya are different from the ones in Egypt or Yemen or Bahrain or Tunisia and the difference is that this is an armed rebellion.
There are more differences: another is that these protests originated in the eastern part of Libya where the oil is - they did not originate in the capital cities. And we have heard from the beginning, credible reports that the CIA is involved in the protests and there have been a large number of press reports that the CIA has sent back to Libya its Libyan asset to head up the Libyan rebellion." [interview on PressTV , 4/16/11]
Regarding the nature of the rebel leadership: Its key members have important connections to the United States. Khalifa Heftir, a former Libyan Army colonel, has spent the last 25 years living seven miles from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia with no obvious means of support.* Mahmoud Jibril "earned his PhD in 1985 from the University of Pittsburgh under the late Richard Cottam, a former US intelligence official in Iran who became a renowned political scientist specializing on the Middle East." Jibril "spent years working with Gaddafi's son Saif on political and economic reforms " (b)ut after hardliners in the regime stifled the reforms, Jibril quit in frustration and left Libya about a year ago." ** Jibril has been out of Libya since the uprising began, meeting with foreign leaders.*** Then there is the rebel government's finance minister, Ali Tarhouni, who has been in exile for the last 35 years. His latest job was teaching economics at the University of Washington.
* "Professor: In Libya, a civil war, not uprising", NPR, April 2, 2011. click here
** Farah Stockman, "Libyan reformer new face of rebellion", The Boston Globe, March 28, 2011.
***Kareem Fahim, "Rebel leadership in Libya shows strain", The New York Times, April 3, 2011.
from Stephen Gowans, Wordpress, 4/23/11
West on guard against the outbreak of peace in Libya
3.
Former Assistant Secretary of US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts interviewed on PressTV, 4/16/11
"Libyan revolutionaries have set up a central bank and that they have started limited production of oil and they are dealing with American and other Western firms. It begs the question that we've never seen something like this happen in the middle of a revolution.
In my opinion, what is going on is comparable to what the US and Britain did to Japan in the 1930s. When they cut Japan off from oil, from rubber, from minerals like ore; that was the origin of World War II in the pacific. And now the Americans and the British are doing the same thing to China. ... The Chinese had 30,000 people there and they've had to evacuate 29,000 of them
Before we jump to the conclusion that the Chinese failure to protect Libya was heartless, mystifyingly unintelligent, perhaps without remorse, let us seek to understand the position that China might have felt itself to be in vis-à-vis the ever consolidating world of consummate US/NATO military power and the net of U.S. controlled international fiduciary institutions and central banking that in effect span the globe in an unchallengable grip of war preparation.
Footnotes:
(1)
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
In last year's 2010 United Nation Human Development Yearly Index of all Nations,
Libya is ranked 53rd in the world, well above nine European nations, for example, Russia, which is ranked 65th.
Medium human development (developing countries) Egypt 101, Morocco 114 , Gabon 93,
Low human development (developing countries)
Yemen 133, Sudan 154
( The Human Development Index (HDI ) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide.
Life Expectancy Index
Education Index
[Mean Years of Schooling Index ] Expected Years of Schooling
Income Index
Very high human development (developed countries)
Bahrain 39 having braced by Qatar 38 and Portugal 40
(Bahrain has a very unequal income and services range)
---------------------------------
The Library of Congress Federal Research Division Libya country profile of Libya, April 2005 reads, " Basic health care is provided to all citizens. Health, training, rehabilitation, education, housing, family issues, and disability and old-age benefits are all regulated by ... the Social Care Fund . The health care system is not purely state-run but rather a mixed system of public and private care. In comparison to other states in the Middle East, the health status of the population is relatively good. Childhood immunization is almost universal. The clean water supply has increased, and sanitation has been improved. The country's major hospitals are in Tripoli and Benghazi, and private health clinics and diagnostic centers, offering newer equipment and better service, compete with the public sector. The number of medical doctors and dentists reportedly increased sevenfold between 1970 and 1985, producing a ratio of one doctor per 673 citizens. In 1985 about one-third of the doctors in the Libya were native-born, with the remainder being primarily expatriate foreigners. The number of hospital beds tripled in this same time period. Malaria has been eradicated, and significant progress has been made against trachoma and leprosy. In 1985 the infant mortality rate was 84 per 1,000; by 2004, the U.S. Agency for International Development estimated that the infant mortality rate had dropped to 25.7 per 1,000. ... estimates report an infant mortality rate of less than 20 per 1,000.
Having control of their own oil wealth has enabled Libyans, along with neighboring Algerians to provide their citizens with a relatively high income. South Africa is higher but unevenly distributed between white and nonwhite.
(2)
A 1,000 word article with 10,000 words of footnotes, published 4/22/11 by OEN and Countercurrents
Capitalism's Warplanes: CIA & al Qaeda Destroy Socialist Libya's 53rd Highest Living Standard
- in addition to the article:
Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts,
" First of all, notice that the protests in Libya are different from the ones in Egypt or Yemen or Bahrain or Tunisia and the difference is that this is an armed rebellion.
There are more differences: another is that these protests originated in the eastern part of Libya where the oil is - they did not originate in the capital cities. And we have heard from the beginning, credible reports that the CIA is involved in the protests and there have been a large number of press reports that the CIA has sent back to Libya its Libyan asset to head up the Libyan rebellion." [interview on PressTV , 4/16/11]
Regarding the nature of the rebel leadership: Its key members have important connections to the United States. Khalifa Heftir, a former Libyan Army colonel, has spent the last 25 years living seven miles from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia with no obvious means of support.* Mahmoud Jibril "earned his PhD in 1985 from the University of Pittsburgh under the late Richard Cottam, a former US intelligence official in Iran who became a renowned political scientist specializing on the Middle East." Jibril "spent years working with Gaddafi's son Saif on political and economic reforms " (b)ut after hardliners in the regime stifled the reforms, Jibril quit in frustration and left Libya about a year ago." ** Jibril has been out of Libya since the uprising began, meeting with foreign leaders.*** Then there is the rebel government's finance minister, Ali Tarhouni, who has been in exile for the last 35 years. His latest job was teaching economics at the University of Washington.
* "Professor: In Libya, a civil war, not uprising", NPR, April 2, 2011. click here
** Farah Stockman, "Libyan reformer new face of rebellion", The Boston Globe, March 28, 2011.
***Kareem Fahim, "Rebel leadership in Libya shows strain", The New York Times, April 3, 2011.
from Stephen Gowans, Wordpress, 4/23/11
West on guard against the outbreak of peace in Libya
3.
Former Assistant Secretary of US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts interviewed on PressTV, 4/16/11
"Libyan revolutionaries have set up a central bank and that they have started limited production of oil and they are dealing with American and other Western firms. It begs the question that we've never seen something like this happen in the middle of a revolution.
In my opinion, what is going on is comparable to what the US and Britain did to Japan in the 1930s. When they cut Japan off from oil, from rubber, from minerals like ore; that was the origin of World War II in the pacific. And now the Americans and the British are doing the same thing to China. ... The Chinese had 30,000 people there and they've had to evacuate 29,000 of them
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