#G0603* - LIBYA's GREAT Man Made River

#G0603* -  LIBYA's GREAT Man Made River

Hi,

just why EXACTLY is NATO slaughtering Libyans and destroying their achievements?

No politician has yet given a clear and coherent explanation of EXACTLY why we are attacking Libya.

Who gains?

Do we seek a puppet government or just a tribal change and what moral right have we to impose this on a free and sovereign people AGAIN.

NATO involvement in this war they have escalated is an obscene and unlawful intervention founded on moral or ethical grounds, that any politician has presented - NONE!

The Man Made River

Libya

Libya's Great Man-Made River Project

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.
Up until recently, Libya's supply of water came from underground aquifers or desalination plants on the coast. Water derived from desalination or aquifers near the coast was of poor quality and sometimes undrinkable. This problem also meant that little water was available to irrigate land for agriculture, which is vital in this largely desert country.

digger used to create the trench

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. The most important of these aquifers, or water bearing rock strata, were laid down during a geological time when the Mediterranean sea flowed southward to the foot of the Tibesti mountains, that are situated on Libya's border with Chad. During that period the Mediterranean sea frequently varied in level, as a result of which, various sedimentary deposits were formed.
Geological activity caused the up thrust of mountainous formations (Jabal Nefussa and Jabal Al Akhdar) and the associated downward movement formed natural underground basins. Between 38,000 and 10,000 years ago the climate of North Africa was temperate, during which time there was considerable rainfall in Libya. The excess rainfall infiltrated into porous sandstone and was trapped between layers, forming reservoirs of underground fresh-water.
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.

one of the reservoirs

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.
By 1996 the Great Man-Made River Project had reached one of its final stages, the gushing forth of sweet unpolluted water to the homes and gardens of the citizens of Libya's capital Tripoli. Louis Farrakhan, who took part in the opening ceremony of this important stage of the project, described the Great Man-Made River as "another miracle in the desert." Speaking at the inauguration ceremony to an audience that included Libyans and many foreign guests, Col. Qadhafi said the project "was the biggest answer to America... who accuse us of being concerned with terrorism."
The Great Man-Made River, as the largest water transport project ever undertaken, has been described as the "eighth wonder of the world". It carries more than five million cubic metres of water per day across the desert to coastal areas, vastly increasing the amount of arable land. The total cost of the huge project is expected to exceed $25 billion (US).

pipes on the way to extend the system

Consisting of a network of pipes buried underground to eliminate evaporation, four meters in diameter, the project extends for four thousand kilometres far deep into the desert. All material is locally engineered and manufactured. Underground water is pumped from 270 wells hundreds of meters deep into reservoirs that feed the network. The cost of one cubic meter of water equals 35 cents. The cubic meter of desalinized water is $3.75. Scientists estimate the amount of water to be equivalent to the flow of 200 years of water in the Nile River.
The goal of the Libyan Arab people, embodied in the Great Man-Made River project, is to make Libya a source of agricultural abundance, capable of producing adequate food and water to supply its own needs and to share with neighboring countries. In short, the River is literally Libya's 'meal ticket' to self-sufficiency.
Each pipe of the river project is buried in a trench approximately seven metres deep, excavation of which requires the removal of some 100,000 cubic metres of material each working day. Excavation is carried out by large hydraulic excavators fitted with 7.6 cubic metre buckets. Once the trench has been prepared, prestressed concrete cylinder pipes 7.5 metres long and weighing up to 80 tons are brought to the site using a fleet of some 128 specially designed transporters.

pipe being delivered

Pipes are placed in the trench using large cranes, capable of lifting up to 450 tons, and joined to the already laid pipe by pushing them into place with a bulldozer. The joint between the pipes is sealed using a rubber ring seal installed in a special groove on the end of the pipe and this joint itself sealed, both inside and outside the pipe, with cement grout. The trench is then backfilled, covering the pipe with a minimum of 2 metres of material and restoring the desert surface.
After backfilling, the pipe is adequately supported by the soil and can be hydrostatically tested. This requires the fitting of specially designed steel bulkheads at each end of the test section and filling of the line with water from wells drilled adjacent to the conveyance. Up to 8 kilometre lengths of the conveyance are tested at a time, and, after allowing adequate time for the concrete lining of the pipe to absorb water, the line is pressurised to test both the pipe and its joints.

large hydraulic excavator

The plant, equipment and logistical support for this project are also on a vast scale. Some 10,000 people and 4,500 pieces of equipment are employed on the work. Two thousand five hundred tons of cement per day are supplied by the Libyan Cement Company and hauled in a fleet of 127 cement tankers to the pipe plants at Brega and Sarir.
The Great Man-Made River Project is bringing water to the people and providing water for municipal, industrial and agricultural use. The strategy of the responsible Libyan authority is aimed at increasing both crop and livestock production to a level that achieves the highest possible rate of self-sufficiency and reduces dependence on imports from foreign markets to the lowest possible level. It also aims at increasing the productive capabilities of the labor force and of the capital investments in the sector, and at producing raw materials for food processing industries.

land of desert and camels

According to the writer Ali Baghdadi, "the river is a new lesson and an example in the struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, food security and true independence. No nation that depends on a foreign country to feed its people can be free. The Great River is a triumph against thirst and hunger. It is a defeat against ignorance and backwardness. It reflects the determination of Libyans to resist colonial pressure, to acquire technology, to develop, to improve their lives, and to control their own destiny in accordance with their own free will."

Text from New Dawn Magazine

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21 Yerars ago this hypothesis was put forward and we are absolutely no further forward.

It is worth remembering that every revolution in history has come about based not on a plan but on an idea whose time had come!



"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." 
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

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British Politicians with pens and treachery, in pursuit of their own agenda and greed, have done more damage to the liberty, freedoms, rights and democracy of the British peoples than any army in over 1,000 years.

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#G360* - NASTY BLACK RULE IS WORSE THAN THOSE NASTY WHITE RULERS!

#G360* - NASTY BLACK RULE IS WORSE THAN THOSE NASTY WHITE RULERS!

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Postcard From Zimbabwe
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: April 7, 2010
HWANGE, Zimbabwe

Here’s a measure of how President Robert Mugabe is destroying this once lush nation of Zimbabwe:
In a week of surreptitious reporting here (committing journalism can be a criminal offense in Zimbabwe), ordinary people said time and again that life had been better under the old, racist, white regime of what was then called Rhodesia.

“When the country changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, we were very excited,” one man, Kizita, told me in a village of mud-walled huts near this town in western Zimbabwe. “But we didn’t realize the ones we chased away were better and the ones we put in power would oppress us.”

“It would have been better if whites had continued to rule because the money would have continued to come,” added a neighbor, a 58-year-old farmer named Isaac. “It was better under Rhodesia. Then we could get jobs. Things were cheaper in stores. Now we have no money, no food.”

Over and over, I cringed as I heard Africans wax nostalgic about a nasty, oppressive regime run by a tiny white elite. Black Zimbabweans responded that at least that regime was more competent than today’s nasty, oppressive regime run by the tiny black elite that surrounds Mr. Mugabe.

A Times colleague, Barry Bearak, was jailed here in 2008 for reporting, so I used a fresh passport to enter the country as a tourist. Partly for my own safety, I avoided interviewing people with ties to the government, so I can’t be sure that my glimpse of the public mood was representative.

People I talked to were terrified for their personal safety if quoted — much more scared than in the past. That’s why I’m being vague about locations and agreed to omit full names.

But what is clear is that Zimbabwe has come very far downhill over the last few decades (although it has risen a bit since its trough two years ago). An impressive health and education system is in tatters, and life expectancy has tumbled from about 60 years in 1990 to somewhere between 36 and 44, depending on which statistics you believe.

Western countries have made the mistake of focusing their denunciations on the seizures of white farms by Mr. Mugabe’s cronies. That’s tribalism by whites; by far the greatest suffering has been endured by Zimbabwe’s blacks.

In Kizita’s village, for example, I met a 29-year-old woman, seven months pregnant, who had malaria. She and her husband had walked more than four miles to the nearest clinic, where she tested positive for malaria. But the clinic refused to give her some life-saving antimalaria medicine unless she paid $2 — and she had no money at all in her house. So, dizzy and feverish, she stumbled home for another four miles, empty-handed.

As it happened, the clinic that turned her down was one that I had already visited. Nurses there had complained that they were desperately short of bandages, antibiotics and beds. They said that to survive, they impose fees for seeing patients, for family planning, for safe childbirth — and the upshot is that impoverished villagers die because they can’t pay.

I also spent time at an elementary school where the number of students had dropped sharply because so few parents today can afford $36 in annual school fees.

“We don’t have desks. We don’t have chairs. We don’t have books,” explained the principal, who was terrified of being named. The school also lacks electricity and water, and the first grade doesn’t have a classroom and meets under a tree.

This particular school had been founded by Rhodesians more than 70 years ago, and the principal mused that it must have served black pupils far better in Rhodesian days than today.

At another school 100 miles away, the deputy headmaster lamented that students can’t even afford pens. “One child has to finish his work, and then he lends his pen to another child,” he explained.

Zimbabwe is one of my favorite countries, blessed with friendly people, extraordinary wildlife and little crime. I took my family along with me on this trip (my kids accuse me of using them as camouflage), and they found the scenery, people and wild animals quite magical.

At a couple of villages we visited, farmers were driving away elephants that were trampling their crops — and they were blaming Mr. Mugabe for the elephants. That struck even me as unfair.

The tragedy that has unfolded here can be reversed if Mr. Mugabe is obliged by international pressure, particularly from South Africa, to hold free elections. Worldwide pressure forced the oppressive Rhodesian regime to give up power three decades ago. Now we need similar pressure, from African countries as well as Western powers, to pry Mr. Mugabe’s fingers from his chokehold on a lovely country.

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Much of Africa has suffered as a result of decolonisation which is a EUphemism for anti white racism. Many of the countries were all but empty of people when the European travellers arrived.

Captain Cook careened in Table Bay for over 3 months and his departure log was:
'A green and verdant land totally uninhabited by man'!

There were very few people South of the Tugella when the Dutch East India Company arrived.

The Southern Swazi were starting to emigrate south at the same time and it was largely constraint by realisation that the land south of the Tugella was occupied that gave rise to the consolidation of the Southern Swazi and the dispute of Nandi with Senzenakona that gave rise to the emergence of the Zulu who may never have arisen had Tchaka not been both illegitimate as a result of isifibi (sp?) and impotent with NO libido being in medical terms a 'picnic'.

The Xhosa were a reneged Impi that thrived under Mkilikatze and the failed impi that turned north to cross the Vaal were also Southern Swazi who failed to assimilate or assimilated as Zulu but failed and were driven out in Tchaka's expansionist rule of terror.

Having been an active campaigner, to some extent, against apartheid and in SOWETO 9the SOuth WEst TOwnships) during the 1976 confrontation it is clear to me that the Nats. made the same error as the Rhodesians - they failed to create a middle class amongst the blacks - there were families like the Dlamini who were very wealthy but still they were denied any form of integrationary middle class status and rigging of elections by the Nats. and the verkramters was clear with the railway HQ being moved to Durban to unseat the more verlighter like von Keyserling etc.

There was no buffer zone and thus the underclass was easily inspired to uprising by Communist trained or inspired indigenous terrorists. Walter Sitole, Nelson Mandella, Robert Mugabe and their murderous henchmen.

Much of the problem was the deliberate sabotage of the British Empire influence by US inspired jealousy after WWII to which can be attributed the whole of the problems in the Middle East, and much of the problems of Africa in a US backed corporate expansionism that has proved a failure in term s of sociology.

That the Bantu are the main victim of the departure of the white Africans driven back to largely alien lands like Britain and Australia - where those of Dutch origin were so distanced that they found return nigh impossible. The two Portugese colonies were run by peasant peoples from Portugal and were both fairly disasterous under Portugals control and the Salazarri tenure led to collapse.

Jimmy Carter's pucillanimity gave rise to the demise of Angola when having instigated invasion he pulled out leaving General Hertzog high and dry outside Luanda with only withdrawal across The Caprivi as his only option.

Now the only competent intervention would be America and they have absolutely no idea how to fight any kind of war that isn't crassly amateur - war is NOT about destroying the enemy it is about imobilising the enemy with minimum casualty and minimum damage or you end up with wasted territory and destroyed trust - so very American!

France is utterly useless militarily hence they are depende3nt on Mercenaries of Legion Etrangere, Germany IS a military power but teenage in its approach fearing its propensity for the enjoyment of aggression & Britain has been emasculated even before the last 13 unlucky years of communist rule fronted by the crippling ineptitude of Labour.

I do rather think the outlook for Africa is Black!

However it is increasingly becoming obvious that the future may well be even worse as China takes over! It has now reached the stage where no Western intervention is possible for fear of confrontation with China as they now OWN so many African Countries and within 10 years will OWN South Africa.

There is no value to SA in nationalising the mines other than as the hidden hand of China where IGoldi will be the cost of solvency keeping the government in power - China is making moves to increase Gold holdings over the next 5 to 10 years by 10,000 physical tons to underpin The Yuan - this is the main reason why Gold has risen in price to $1,200 and will continue rising with a figure of $4-5,000 realistic within a relatively short time.

Investment? I suggest a chain of fully equipped Chinese takaways across Africa now that Chinese labour is being imported to undercut the local blacks in terms of wages and output!

Afghanistan is little different as the Chinese watch America and their allies make fools of themselves and play the long game for the copper. Survival into the future has blow all to do with oil with which we are awash but everything to do with CLEAN water, SAFE sewage and the means to transmit power which is dependent on COPPER which is very much a finite resource and has underpinned Chinas interest in certain countries in Africa and also Afghanistan which has THE largest unmined reserves known on the planet.

The idiocy of some of the Green Schemes for power generation are quite staggering - be that wind, tide or solar - already Britain is looking at a bill of £780+ per household per annum until we have built the network for Green Power not to mention the means of hoped for production.



We note the simpering Alex Salmond posturing about The Hydro and Green Power from wind being the bulk of electricity in Scotland by 2025 - can we all have some of what he is smoking AND his art COLLECTION, - Scotland can't even afford the copper for the new gridding! Why do you think The French, on a subsidy from The EU, has laid a cable the whole length of Britain all the way from France to Scotland - The French know what will happen!!!

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." 
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), 

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Greg L-W.
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British Politicians with pens and treachery, in pursuit of their own agenda and greed, have done more damage to the liberty, freedoms, rights and democracy of the British peoples than any army in over 1,000 years.

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