£300 million pounds and counting!

Next time you fill up at your petrol station think about the price (£1.40 per litre at present)

Ever wondered how much it would cost to involve your country in another countries business?  Of course the country is Britain; I failed to add the prefix of Great as we all seem to have lost this feeling recently.  The other country is oil rich Libya which was certainly in need of a new leadership.

It seems sickening that the UK was at the fore-front of using military action using our expertise and military hardware including human resources to infiltrate the Libyan dictatorship’s downfall.

 Britain was not the only country with a keen interest in the vast oil fields or replacing a leadership that would be under the control or influenced by these capitalists.  France, Italy and the USA were also involved, as mentioned in my previous journals vast amounts of tax-payers money (which we cannot spare) was poured into this conflict.  The task of removing Gaddafi’s regime was almost completed with the death of Gaddafi, a spokes-person quoted that he was pleased it only lasted 8 months but failed to mention the total cost and what intentions were surrounding the oil fields and refineries or at least that of the people of Libya.

Here’s a quote from international journalist Eric Margolis.

“Nobody cares in Libya about democracy. What they care about is oil, business contacts and arms contacts from the new Libyan government,”

For him it is obvious that “the West has great interest in Libya.”

Margolis says that it all reminds him of “the old pirate thing from the Caribbean: “dead men tell no tales.”

“And Gaddafi and his family had a lot of tales to tell about foreign involvement,” Margolis said.

Lift off your blind-fold for a glimpse at this and share your thoughts because we have and are still paying for these conflicts that involve countries that have oil and minerals.

If Libya did not have oil or any natural resources then they would have there own civil war like many African nations locked in power struggles.  Britain has supplied aircraft, ammunition, secret missions, weapons and military might to gain control over oil and this has reflected on the high prices at the petrol pump.

We are all paying for this; we seem to forget the blood-shed and the cost of human lives.  The same story goes on in Afghanistan still costing lives and money for natural resources that are untapped such as OIL…