уторак, 10. мај 2011.

Uporedimo Libiju i Nigeriju


Uporedimo sta su vlade uradile i kako zive ljudi u Libiji i Nigeriji. Nakon toga mozemo da se zapitamo kome je potrebnija pomoc i sta je medjunarodna zajednica ucinila za jedne i druge.

 Krenimo sa Libijom. Ovo su neke cinjenice koje sam pronasao u mojoj kratkoj pretrazi po Internetu.

Libijci imaju najveci  BNP po glavi stanovnika (14.192 $.)
Primanja na račun nezaposlenosti iznose: 730 $.
Plata jedne medicinske sestre iznosi oko 1.000 $.
Za svako novorođeno dete država porodici plaća 7.000 $. 
300 000 domova je izgradjeno za siromasne
Libija ima najnizi procenat smrtnosti kod dece u celoj Africi
Posle sklapanja prvog braka svaki bračni par dobija 64.000 $ od države za kupovinu stana.
Prilikom otvaranja privatnog biznisa svaki građanin dobija 20.000 $ početnog kapitala od države.
Obrazovanje je u potpunosti besplatno.
Zdravstveno osiguranje za svakog državljanina u potpunosti je besplatno.
Cene hrane su jako niske. Kao odgovor na sve vise cene hrane u svetu, vlada Libije je ukinula sve poreze na hranu.
U libiji manji broj ljudi zivi ispod granice siromastva, nego u Holandiji !
Električna energija za upotrebu u domaćinstvu je besplatna.
Država osigurava kredite za kupovinu stambenih objekata i vozila bez kamate.
Prilikom kupovine automobila svakom građaninu država plaća 50% cene vozila (pripadnicima oružanih snaga 65%).
Cena goriva je minimalna, llitar benzina košta oko 0.14 $

Malo je poznato sta je u Libiji uradjeno po pitanju snabdevanja vodom za pice i navodnjavanje: Uradjena je mreza cevi duzine 2 333 milja, koja doprema vodu sa juga iz 4 velika podzemna rezervoara sa juga zemlje do severnih centara. Projekat koji traje vec 26 godina i kostao je 20 milijardi $ je skoro zavrsen

Otkuda Libiji toliko bogatstvo ? Odgovor je – nafta. Libija ima velike rezerve nafte i ne dozvoljava stranim kompanijama da im kradu resurse dok stanovnistvo umire od gladi, kao sto je slucaj u mnogim drugim zemljama.


 Jedna od njih je Nigerija – zemlja kojom prakticno upravlja kompanija Shell

Nigerija takodje poseduje velike prirodne rezerve. Nalazi se na devetom mestu u svetu sa rezervama nafte. Nigerija raspolaze i velikim rezervama prirodnog gasa – tu se nalazi na petom mestu.
Zemlja ima veliki priliv od izvoza nafte, ali tuzna je cinjenica da narod nema nikakve koristi od prirodnog bogatstva njihove zemlje.
  Prema izvestajima 80 % prihoda ide drzavi, 16% pokriva troskove proizvodnje a preostala 4% ide investitorima. Medjutim Svetska Banka je dala procenu da kao rezultat korupcije, da od 80% prihoda koji ide drzavi korist ima manje od 1% stanovnistva !
 70% ljudi u Nigeriji zivi ispod granice siromastva.
 Videli smo da ljudi nemaju nikakve koristi od reursa koji drugi eksploatisu, ali zato s druge strane te iste kompanije (na prvom mestu Shell) su nanele, a i dan danas to rade, ogromnu stetu prirodnoj sredini i zdravlju ljudi.
 Vise od 6 000 izlivanja se dogodi  svake godine. Ogromna prostranstva, koja su ljudi koristili za poljoprivredu  su nepovratno unistena.




 Pored toga problem predstavlja i ilegalna i štetna akcija "gas flaring". To su otvorene vatre koje nastaju pri palenju prirodnog gasa koji se oslobadja kad se nafta vadi iz zemlje.
 Takvom akcijom emituju se velike količine "greenhouse" gasova i upropaštavaju ogromne količine prirodnog gasa.. Gas flaring je jedan od vodecih izvora ugljen dioksida zajedno sa koktelom od jos 250 opasnih otrova, kao sto je benzen, zagadjujuci na taj nacin  zemlju, vazduh i vodu. U oblasti delte uz otrove imamo  i 458 011 kilovata toplotne energije (sagorevanja ima na vise od 100 lokacija) i kisele kise kao posledicu velike kolicine sumfora i azot oksida u vazduhu. Gas flaring u regiji delte prouzrokuje respiratorna oboljenja, slepilo, rak i veliki broj obolenja kod novorodjencadi medju lokalnim stanovnistvom.





 Toksicna jedinjenja su usla u vodene tokove i zemlju ugrozavajuci delatnosti od kojih ljudi zive (poljoprivredu i ribolov) vekovima, a samim tim i njihov opstanak. Ogromna kolicina toplote koja se oslobadja, je sa druge strane totalno izmenila klimu u regionu.

 Jos davne 1969-te predsednik Yakubu Gowan je doneo zakon da 5 godina od registracije naftna kompanija mora da totalno prekine sa ovom stetnom akcijom. Ova odluka je totalno ignorisana od strane naftnih kompanija i one su nastavile to da rade sve do danasnjih dana, placajuci s vremena na vreme simbolicne kazne.

  I onda, u jednom trenutku ljudi su poceli da se bune protiv takve stetne  politike.
 Ken Saro-Wiwa, pisac i TV producent je pokrenuo nenasilnu kampanju protiv ekstremnog  unistavanja zivotne sredine od strane multinacionalne naftne industrije.
  U jeku kampanje Saro-Wiwa je uhapsen i zajedno sa jos 8 aktivista osudjen na smrt vesanjem!!

Mislim da se moze zakljuciti da Nigerijci imaju vladu koja stiti multinacionalne kompanije koje unistavaju njihovi zemlju i njihove zivote ( prosecan zivotni vek u Nigeriji je 48 godine, a u oblasti Delte 44 godine. U Libiji prosecan zivotni vek je 77 godina! )

I na kraju, postavimo sebi par pitanja: Kome je vise potrebna pomoc – Libijcima ili Nigerijcima ?
Mozemo li se sloziti da su ljudi u Nigeriji vise ugrozeni i da im je vise potrebna pomoc ?
 Pa kako onda da ovi „oslobodioci“ koji trenutno „oslobadjaju“ Libijski narod,  nisu oslobodili narod Nigerije od njihove vlasti i pomenutih multinacionalnih naftnih kompanija ?
 Da li su ti „oslobodioci“ iskreni ? Da li mozda imaju vlastiti interes da uniste Libiju ? (a nema vece garancije za unistenje zemlje nego sto je krvavi gradjanski rat! )
I sta mislite – da li su pobunjenici u Libiji zapoceli pobunu bez saglasnosti i inicijative nekoga iz vana ?

I na kraju – da li podsticanje rata i zatim otimanje resursa od slabijih zemalja vama zvuci kao uspostavljanje demokratije i slobode  ??

 Pogledajte ovaj dvominutni video, koji objasnjava kako stvari funkcionisu na ovoj planeti i sta se upravo sada desava u Libiji







Mislim da bi Libija mogla da se uporedi sa bivsom Jugoslavijom. Libija sa svojim plemenima, Jugoslavija sa republikama / narodima i za obe se moze reci da su diktature. Ali za ove diktature se moze reci da su vise-manje bile u korist naroda, sa manje korupcije i vise brige za svoje gradjane od nekog prosecnog demokratskog drustva.
 I jednom srecne** drzave preko noci bivaju bacene u 15-ti vek

** Znam da ne mozemo pricati o sreci kada je rec o drzavi koja je imala politicki zatvor  (Goli Otok). Mozda bi bolje bilo reci – zemlje koje su imale veliki potencijal da budu srecne.
 Goli Otok nije bio jedini problem u bivsoj Jugoslaviji i Libija sigurno ima mnogo vlastitih problema. Ali ono sto hocu da naglasim – rat ce mozda resiti neke od njih, ali ce stvoriti sigurno 1000 drugih.

Ukoliko i vi mislite da je pogresno ovo sto se upravo sada dogadja u Libiji, molim vas ucinite nesto. Razgovarajte sa vasim prijateljima, prikljucite se na Internetu nekoj grupi za zaustavljanje rata u Libiji ili  posetite sledeci miting podrske Libijskom narodu.

Hvala


Lets compare Libya and Nigeria




Lets compare what the governments have done for their people, and how  people live in Nigeria and Libya. Then we could ask ourself  who among them needs more help, and what international community has done for the people.
Lets start with Libya. Here are few facts that I found on my short search on the Internet:
Libyans had the highest actual income per capita in Africa, and the lowest infant mortality rate. They had free university education for low-wage earners, free healthcare for low-wage earners, including a medicine allowance and for those that qualified; a $76,000 wedding gift, home loans were available at 10% of a families yearly salary, gasoline at 44 cents a gallon, subsidized New-car purchases, 300,000 homes built for the poor, and a guarantee of land ownership for all Libyans. Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.   Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa.   Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands.
And little is known about Libya water resources : While many countries in the Middle East and North Africa bicker over water rights, Libya has tapped into an aquifer of 'fossil water' to change its topography – turning sand into soil. The 26-year, $20 billion project is nearly finished. …The Great Man-Made River irrigates Libya’s large desert farms. The 2,333-mile network of pipes ferry water from four major underground aquifers in southern Libya to the northern population centers. Wells punctuate the water’s path, allowing farmers to utilize the water network in their fields. http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtually-unknown-in-west-libyas-water.html
How did Libya get so rich? The answer is oil. The country has a lot of oil, and does not allow foreign corporations to steal the resources while the population starves, unlike countries like Nigeria, a country that is basically run by Shell:
How abaut Nigeria ? Nigeria also have big natural reserves. Nigeria's oil reserves are the ninth largest in the world. Nigeria also has vast largely unexplored natural gas reserves, the world's fifth largest. So it has huge income from the oil export, but the sad fact is that the people in Nigeria benefit nothing from their natural resources
 Reportedly, 80 percent of Nigeria’s energy revenues flow to the government, 16 percent cover operational costs, and the remaining 4 percent go to investors. However, the World Bank has estimated that as a result of corruption 80 percent of energy revenues benefit only 1 percent of the population. 70% of Nigerian population live below poverty line

So people get nothing from their country’s gas and oil resources, but on the other hand oil corporations ( Shell before all) has done enormous damage to people’s helth and environment.

 More than 6,000 oil spills have occurred in the Delta — the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill each year.






Gas flaring is one of the world's leading sources of carbon emissions — releases 400m/A of carbon dioxide into the air, along with a cocktail of 250 known toxins like benzene, contaminating the soil, air and water.
In the Delta, toxins are accompanied by 45.8011 kilowatts of heat as well as noise and acid ram, a by-product of sulphur and nitrous oxide.





Flaring in the Delta region causes respiratory illnesses, blindness, cancer and birth defects amongst local people. The toxic compounds in the gas have entered streams and fields, endangering the fishing and farming people rely on for their subsistence and livelihood. Nigeria, once a large net exporter of food, now imports some of its food products
Back in 1969 President Yakubu Gowan ordered that within 5 years of set-up, a company must cease flaring. This order was ignored. Oil companies have continued to flare gas to those days, merely paying nominal fines for breaking this law.
  And then, at some point people in Nigeria started to raise their voice against that policy.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize  led a nonviolent campaign against extreme and unremediated environmental degradation of the land and waters of by  the operations of the multinational petroleum industry.
At the peak of his non-violent campaign, Saro-Wiwa was arrested, hastily tried by a special military tribunal, and hanged with eight other MOSOP leaders

So, we can conclude that Nigerians have a government which protects multinational companys which are destroying their country and their lives (Life expectancy in Nigeria is 48 years, and  in the Delta region is 44 years. In Libya life expectancy  is 77 years !!)
At the end let ask ourselves few questions:  Who among them need more help? Could we agree that Nigerian people are more threatened and that they need more help?
 So, how came those "liberators" who right now are trying to liberate people of Libya didnt liberate people of Nigeria from their government and those multinational oil corporations?
Are those „liberators“ earnest? Do they have their own interest to destroy Libya? ( and nothing is a better guarantee to destroy Libya than a bloody civil war)
 What do you think - did those protesters start mutiny without outside incentive ?

Does war initiation and resorce deprivation against third-worlds countries sound
like establishing democracy and freedom to you?


Look at that short 2 min video which explains how the things work on our planet and what is up right now in Libya :






I think that Libya could be compared with  ex-Yugoslavia. Libya with their tribes and Yugoslavia with their republics, both are dictatures, buth with less coruption and more care for people then the average democratic soceity.
 Once happy ** countryes, over the night was thrown in to the 15th century.
 Thats why people from ex YU areas have so much compassion and simpathy for Libyan people.
**I now that you can't say happy for country with political prison camps(Goli Otok) . It would be better to say - countries with great potential to be happy, and Libya it certanly is (or  unfortunetly was ? )
 Goli otok wasn't the only problem in ex-Yugoslavia, and Libya has many of their own problems as well. But what I want to point out is that war potentialy could solve some of them, but it will create 1000 more along the way !!.


So, if you think that what is happening right now in Libya is wrong, please do something. Talk with your friends, join some group on internet against bombing Libya or visit next meeting for stopping war in Libya.

 Thanks