Under The late Colonel Gaddafi the Libyan people enjoyed the highest living standard in all of Africa:
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"The government of Muammar brought the Libyan government from poverty and debt, to prosperity and debt-free status in 41 years.Jehad
Before Gaddafi, literacy in Libya was only 10%. Since Gaddafi’s leadership, literacy has risen to 90%.
Undernourishment in Libya is at 2% – a figure lower than that of the world center of “democracy,” the United States of America.
Education from grade school through to college is free in Libya.
Healthcare is free and Libyan pharmacies and hospitals are comparable to high-quality European facilities.
Libya ranks No. 53 on the United Nations Index of Human Development.
Libya has the highest standard of living in Africa.
In 1969 before Qaddafi it was the lowest in the world at just $60 per year income
Libya gives free land and seeds to anyone who wants to farm that land.
There is virtually no homelessness in Libya as everyone is given a home.
Women in Libya have equal rights, not only as a philosophy, but in practice.
Under Gaddafi’s oil-revenue-sharing program, each Libyan gets $500 (Dollars) deposited into his or her bank account each month.
For any medical care, operations, or health treatments that are unavailable in Libya, the citizen is given full expenses for travel, treatment and accommodation abroad to wherever is required for the treatment to be given.
No other country in the world does this. Yet they say no democracy in Libya.
On marriage, each couple is gifted $60,000 to do with as they please; furnish their home, take a holiday, honeymoon, buy car, etc.
Libyans have a direct participatory democracy based on People’s Conferences that puts other “democracies” to shame.
Prior to Qaddafi revolutionary re-making, Libya was a large US military base used for bombing trainings. Libya was home to the largest US military base in North Africa."
The above statements by Amb. Abdulrazaq Oyebanji Hamzat were never uttered in the Corporate Media as we watched Richard Engel give us a gleeful play-by-play of the beaten and battered Qaddafi getting his head blown off on national TV. Libya is now ruled by Saudi Arabian, UAE backed religious thugs who won't waste any time stripping away every benefit named above and putting women back into Burkas.
3:20 PM PT: It would seem that many here, including the editors disagree with the information concerning Qaddafi and his treatment of the Libyan people. I stand by my post and the information in it. Under Qaddafi, Libyans did enjoy the highest living standard on the continent of Africa. Just because it does not fit with our official government narrative I am asked to recheck my information. I did and I stand by everything I have written.
7:02 PM PT: Here I offer more support material to "debunk" the Western myth that Gaddafi is no more a two dimensional bad guy than Hugo Chavez. Don't allow your heroes, or villains to be preformed and handed to you by the Corporate Media and the "powers that be".
"Life for most Libyans is worse than it was under Gaddafi’"
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How the life in Libya was under Gaddafi's rule:
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Debate in Libya was better under Gaddafi:
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