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~-W.hat is really going on with Libya? The answer to . this question lies buried beneath several layers of successful western disinfonnation. I visited Libya twice while working for Simply Living Magazine -once in June 1988 to attend an international peace conference, and once in January 1989 to investigate the alleged chemical weapons factory. I can tell you from personal experience, that Libya is nothing like what the pop ular media would have us believe. What then, is the reason for the hysteria that just a few western countries display when anyone mentions the word "Libya"? My research has led me to believe that Libya is or was, one of tbe only countries on the planet, wbo decided years ago, not to participate in the approaching "New World Order". Libya, since the 1969 revolution, has enjoyed a period of rapid economic growth, unparalleled by virtually any other country. Being an oil rich nation, Libya is one of the only countries not to have borrowed money from the Internationalists -ie the IMF and the World Bank(s). This has given Libya more freedoms, internally, than countries who are "on the financial nipple" so to speak. Libya's spokesman Colonel Qadhafi, has made many ref erences over the years, to a coming "New World' Order", and has repeatedly warned other nations of what was ahead. It is most likely that this is the backbone of the real reason for the "west's" undeclared war against Libya. It has been pointed out to me that here in Austraiia, the public has never been told the truth about Libya, or what Qadhafi has been saying on the international platform. Instead we are repeatedly tord that he is a "madlfi.an", and "the grandfather" of all terrorism. Every European I spoke to of Libya, was amazed and horrified at the image p.or rrayed of Qadhafi in AustraJja. Our discussions usually ended with the comments "and I thought Australia had an independent media". (They were even mQre horrified when I told! them that we get exactly the same news on virtually every TV, radio ~tation and newspaper.) Qadhafi foresaw years ago, a pattern of countries pushed into accepting World Bank/IMF loans, with all the small but potent conditions that were attached. He saw country after country ibowing to the international banking fraternity as its JUNE-JULY 1992 NEXUS·33