H.E. Dr. Ali Treki has been
elected by acclamation for one
year as the President of
the United Nations General
Assembly - to commence in
September of 2009.
Some background
information: HON. DR. ALI A. TREKI -
Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of The Great
Socialist Peoples Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya To the United
Nations (At the Time of
Original Airing) Curriculum Vitae:
Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki
Name: Ali Abdussalam Treki Date &
Place of Birth: 1938,
Misrata / Libya Social Status: Married,
with 4 children. DIPLOMAS:
**Masters Degree in History
from the Faculty of
Literature, Garyounes University,
Benghazi, Libya. **Ph.D in
History from Toulouse
University, France. MEDALS
OF HONOR: Decorated with the
Great Al-Fateh Medal
(Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), in addition
to 26 other medals from
numerous countries.
RELEVANT FUNCTIONS:
25/8/1970: Plenipotentiary Minister
(Minister of External
Affairs and Unity). 19/9/1970:
Director of Political
Affaires Department. 1972-1974:
Director of African-Asian
Affaires Department. 1974-1976:
Deputy Secretary of
Political Affaires Department, Ministry
of Foreign Affaires
1976-1979: Secretary of Foreign Affaires,
(Minister). 1979-1981:
Secretary of Foreign Affaires,
(Minister). 1981-1982:
Secretary of Foreign Affaires,
(Minister). 1982-1984:
Permanent Representative of the
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to
the United Nations. 1984-1986:
Secretary of the People's
Bureau for Foreign Liaison
(Minister). 1986-1991:
Permanent Representative of the
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to
the United Nations. 1991-1994:
Permanent Representative
of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to
the League of Arab States.
1995-1999: Secretary
(Ambassador) of the
People's Bureau in France. 3/1999-
2/2000: Deputy Secretary
for African Affaires. 2/2000-
6/2003: Secretary of the
General People's Committee for
African Unity (Minister).
13/9/2003-Present: Ambassador
and Permanent
Representative of the Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya to the United
Nations, New York.
The Green
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The thinker Muammar Qadhafi does not present his thought for simple amusement or pleasure. Nor is it for those who regard ideas as puzzles for the entertainment of empty-minded people standing on the margin of life. Qadhafi’s ideas interpret life as it erupts from the heart of the tormented, the oppressed, the deprived and the grief-stricken. It flows from the ever-developing and conflicting reality in search of whatever is best and most beautiful. Part One of the Green Book heralded the start of the era of the Jamahiriya (state of the masses). Part Two inaugurated an international economic revolution which does away with the old economic structures and brings them down on the heads of the exploiters. Part Three of the Green Book launches the social revolution. It presents the genuine interpretation of history, the solution of man’s struggle in life and the unsolved problem of man and woman. Equally it tackles the problem of the minorities and black people in order to lay down sound principles of social life for all mankind. The living philosophy is inseparable from life itself and erupts from its essence. It is the philosophy of Muammar Qadhafi.
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The Great
Socialist
People's
Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya
is situated
in North
Africa,
stretching
along the
Mediterranean
shoreline
for nearly
2,000
kilometers.
Its area is
1,775,500
square
kilometers
making it
the fourth
largest
country in
Africa.
Egypt is on
its eastern
border;
Sudan, Chad
and Niger
are to the
south and
Tunisia and
Algeria lie
to the west.
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A Not So Brief Summary of a
30 Minute “Conversation”
videotaped June 12, 1991
with:
HON. MU-AMMAR AL GADDAFI
(H.H.C.)
*I do include as
an "obiter
dictum"
interpretation
some of my
thoughts (from
July 2004)
about the
Program,
Colonel Gaddafi,
the Country of
Libya and the
Libyan
Revolutionary example
according to my
own
understandings.
You are
invited to
consider them
but emphasis
they are my
interpretations
alone and you
may well want to
disregard them
or consider them
in in terms of
your own
understanding,
and particularly
are all
obviously open
to clarification
by those
familiar with
and responsible
for official
Libya Policy
including
evolving
modifications
which may be
relevant in the
early Spring of
2010.
Thank you for
viewing. Harold
H. Channer /
2010
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In a "Conversation"
originally taped in 1991
Colonial Gaddafi talks
primarily about his concept
of Government, Economics and
Social Organization which
collectively constitutes his
"Third Universal Theory".
His ideas are largely
contained in his "Green
Book” which he summarizes
here. This is particularly
timely as United Nations
sanctions have recently
(2004) been lifted and Libya
is very possibly posed to
have a major effect on the
World - particularly IF and
as his ideas and those
behind the organization of
that society - are valid in
an Historical sense! The
program was not intended as
a "News" oriented exercise -
but rather as an opportunity
for him to present to the
American people - and the
people of the World - his
Philosophy which is unique
and deserves a hearing in
something other than the
prejudicial terms in which
most reporting about that
Country has been couched.
He explains the
organizational schema in
Libya is termed a
"Jamaihiriya" - or "State of
the Masses" system - which
he claims is destined to
become characteristic of the
whole World - as an
Historical inevitability!
The country is divided
in a large number of "People
Congress's" with meeting
halls established
everywhere in the country
where all citizens over 18
year of age are actually
able to meet directly to
debate and decide on
policies of local, national
and international concern, -
and Sovereignty is
theoretically vested in the
People Congress's. It
seems very much like the
traditional New England
notion of "Town Hall
Meetings" - allusions to
which were so prevalent in
the American "political
season of Ross Perot" at the
time the program was
originally videotaped and
aired. Mr. Perot received
some 20% of the National
vote in 1992, and the
term "Direct Participatory
Democracy" is more and more
a common place reference in
theoretical political
parlance. In practice the
situation in Libya is much
more complicated of course,
but the idea and impetus is
in keeping with the best,
most progressive ideas and
ideals of the modern
era. The notions of
Representative
Democracy as advanced by
America's founding fathers
in 1776 must have seemed
equally impossibly chaotic
to the well established
"Ancien Regime"
Dynastic States in Europe of
the time. REAL Democracy
can at times seem Untidy.
His ideas and the
organization of the Country
MAY WELL have great
significance as an early and
appropriate model to the
World?
Colonel Gaddafi also
criticizes, in an
interesting manner, the
economic assumptions of the
United States, Multi
National Corporations and
International Institutions
such as the International
Monetary Fund and the World
Bank which collectively
might be seen as
representing a "Modern Day
Ancien Regime". Technology
is advancing and ushering in
an era of unprecedented
productive capabilities. He
points out that the
"Ownership" of technology is
very narrowly held around
the World by a very small
Plutocratic ownership class
- while the bulk of the
worlds citizens are resigned
to serve only as laborers in
a system where technology,
often measured as Capital
Assets, is increasingly
responsible for production.
Echoing themes found in his
"Green Book" he states in
the program that
"Wage earners, however
improved their wages may be,
are a type of Slave"..."Wage
earners are but slaves to
the masters who hires them".
This is likely to find
resonance among a great
number of American as well
as others around the World
when and where it fully
dawns that a minuscule
"class" own virtual all the
capital assets which are
increasingly responsible for
production. And even when a
economic boom occurs under a
so called "liberal wing" of
the ruling class as occurred
in the United States during
the recent so called: "dot
com" bubble, the system
was structured in an
inherently flawed manner so
as to further enrich the few
with preferential stock
options and immoral and
illegal financial slight of
hand shenanigans. However
even during the growth
period and particularly
following the bursting of
the bubble as the dust
settled, it was obvious that
the experience had left
massive numbers of the
"workers" penniless - many
all but destitute - while
the wealthy owners pocketed
millions. It might
justifiably be claimed such
an outcome was inherent in
the system and financial
assumptions about the way
Capital Formation is allowed
to be achieved. Enron,
Worldcom, Arthur Anderson
and the whole panoply of
corporate and financial
scandals which rocked
America and the system which
created them and that still
goes all but unchallenged
and continues to undermine
confidence in the
United States - was not, in
other words, the result of a
momentary mistake or lack of
judgment here and there but
intrinsic to the assumptions
of and the very structure of
the system itself. Despite
all the "happy talk" by
Sycophant and Myopic
Courtesans - Sinecured
Courtiers - the System
itself which has held sway
for 200 years and daily
declares itself invincible
(representing the "End of
History" according to
Francis Fukuyama) is
struggling under the weight
of it's "Inherent
Contradictions" (It seems
Marx may have been right
about that) and is very
possibly vulnerable to
competition by newer more
appropriate Models. Again
Libya - particularly at the
level of basic grounding
ideas and principals - may
have moved ahead of the
curve?
As Difficult - in
practical terms as it
obviously would be -
Colonial Gaddafi would
"Abolish the Wage System"!!
There are few public road
side signs in Libya but one
which is very prominently
and widely displayed says:
"Partners Not Wage Earners".
Libya seems unique in
attempting to make sure
those who make up an
organization are
"Owners or Partners"
of the operation rather than
merely
"Wage Slaves". Entrepreneurs
are encouraged in Libya and
helped in their start up
trials but there is
customarily one aspect there
which is unique:
"They Are Not Allowed To
Hire Anyone!! .....
"Everyone Involved in the
Enterprise Must Be a Partner
- Or Owner - of the
Corporate Entity”.
Again the reality is
somewhat more complicated
but the Democratization
of the Economy is again very
much with the tide of
History. Colonial Gaddafi
said to me in off camera in
informal conversation (in
English) :
"It
Is Often Difficult Being
Straight in a Crooked
Crooked World" !
Indeed one telling moment in
the taped "Conversations"
(you could look it up - it's
right there in the program)
was when I made a statement:
"That It Is Unfortunate That
in The United
States Everyone Is Asking
For 'Jobs' When They Should
Be Asking For Ownership" and
he empathically answers
"EXACTLY!!"
To challenge "employment" as
the Holy Grail seems
outlandish to most in the
Ruling Circles of the Modern
Ancien Regime" - but when
considering the increasing
"input" to production by
technology and particularly
with impending Cyber
additions to the pattern -
questioning and challenging
the proposition that all
income distribution to the
masses should be through
"jobs" (which is the case
with the vast majority of
the World's population) may
be destined to soon become a
front and center issue of
World debate in the time
ahead.
"Partners Not Wage Earners"
might well become a real
rallying call with deep
political implications.
Unfortunately there is
little concern with this
among the very well
ensconced old order where
all assets -
again increasingly
responsible for production -
are so narrowly held by a
small group who can control
the entire society by
their selection of compliant
managers for their "Wholly
Owned and Operated" Media
Outlets" etc. Resting on
long accepted practice they
feel they are assured of an
army of compliant
"Wage Slaves"
to manage and man their
institutions as faithfully
as the Loyal Royal retainers
on Mediaeval feudal
estates. Metaphorically
they are as Gaddafi surmises
"Industrial Age Serfs “
-
in a Dawning Age of
Cybernetic Cotton Picking
Machines - and increasingly
everything else under the
rubric “The Means of
Production”. Aristotle
observed that the Slave
conditions which applied in
ancient Athens would be
necessary - so that some
could lead a civilized life
of the mind and spirit - and
would be remain necessary
"unless and until the loom
learned to weave."
That age may be dawning and
even at hand - and again
Libya may be ahead of
History's curve.
Libya is very well
positioned to play an
extremely important
modernizing role in the
Middle East and the Islamic
World where the United
States has very likely
become mired in a
inappropriate disastrous
extension of Military Power
in what can only be seen by
most of the World as an
extension of traditional
European Style Colonial
rule. Besides threatening
to exhaust the American
National Treasury it has
created a deep well of
resentment among the World's
growing hordes of Les
Miserables reduced
metaphorical and actually to
attending to and manicuring
the lawns within the gated
communities - Castle Keeps -
of their plutocratic
overlords - much like their
counter part serfs on the
Feudal estates of the "good
old days". Or the current
system which insists on
characterizing itself as the
Model for the "End of
History" - for the Ages as
It were - while the poverty
plagued masses of the World
(over 50% live on less than
$2.00 a day) are left to die
of Aids and other easily
preventable diseases.
Gaddafi has won the
whole hearted support of
Nelson Mandela by taking a
Progressive position
concerning Africa with it's
daunting problems which are
all but being ignored by the
"Established Powers” that be
– often inappropriately
referred to as “The
International Community".
He has had interesting
communications with Fidel
Castro, Hugo Chavez of
Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula
Da Silva Lula of Brazil and
many of the Progressive
elements of "World Public
Opinion" which the New York
Times characterized as "The
Other World Super Power"
aligned against the United
States in it's Unilateral
March to War in Iraq. It
would seem that if there is
any hope for the needed
change which treats the
Earth as United Whole System
including the Masses and all
within a proper ecological
context - it will only come
from the will of the people
inspired by a vision of the
means toward the Universal
Justice and Practical
efficiencies predicated on
ideas truly relevant to the
dawning new realities.
Tax Cuts for the already
wealthy will not serve -
catering to the powerful
alone is actually counter
productive - for, in truth,
the politically and
economically powerful are
sure to be a "lagging
indicator" - the last to see
- the wisdom and the means
of doing the "Right Thing"
which may now be possible
for the whole of Planet
Earth. There are other
sources of course - but a
big change is, as Bob Dylan
sang, "Blowing in the Wind"
- and Libya presents an
interesting possible source
worthy of
study particularly for ideas
which are neither Right Wing
or Left Wing - neither
Proletarian Marxist or
Plutocratic Capitalist but
grounded on ideas and
principles which are able to
subsume and ultimately
accommodate both with
comprehensively conceived
understanding of the
consequences of the crucial
times in which we live and
particularly within which
all Humanity's progeny will
hopeful prosper - "one and
all."
Democratic Ownership
Economics - or even
assumptions which could lead
toward that direction -
would represent a real
Paradigm shift which the Old
Order shows no real sign of
contemplating. But as
always it seems the new
ideas never come in
Societies which are heavily
structured upon assumptions
and institutions and habits
of thought - of the outdated
Paradigm. It was the
"Loutish" America example
which inspired Les
Miserables of France and It
may well be that the example
of Libya might become a
Model - which has the basic
ideas and issues right - and
in keeping with the times -
and might inspire the
Emerging Masses of the World
including - in the end -
the People of the United
Sates and its allies to
think anew the need for a
just and Historically
relevant future pathway out
of the morass they so
proudly proclaim
as representing the "End of
History?" Of course the
bulk of "establishment
thought' will pooh-pooh the
notion of any need for
fundamental change and will
deride and scoff at any who
attempt to question the
basic legitimacy of the old
order. But the mighty force
of their propaganda machine
need not restrain the
thinking of people around
the world - including the
United States of America -
whose leaders seem - to
increasing numbers around
the World - to be caught
like a deer in the head
lights - unable to
comprehend the changes the
times call for and can only
flail about defending the
old outmoded ways of
Political, Economic and
Social organization. This
"Conversation" might help
instill thinking about
possible new ways of seeing
the world - and it's
necessarily liberating
potential for a new order of
things. For that reason you
would be encouraged to view
this brief and therefore
inherently limited
introduction to one system
which challenges the whole
proposition by which the
world has been and is being
run by a system of thought
which can increasingly be
seen as mired in an
Historical "Ancien Regime"
myopia!?
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