#Gaddafi family

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Aisha posted these photos of her son, Muammar, and Grandad Muammar, sharing a watermelon, and says she wishes she could turn back time 🥺🍉🟩

[soup-mother]

knowing my luck my inexplicable link to one of the former premiers of my state will also have connections to Gaddafi

[dr-drea]

just found out I once did a presentation with the current Miss Libya during my exchange semester. Wtf is my life even??!

[dandelionh3art]

Real Reasons why Gaddafi was killed

1. Libya had no electricity bills, electricity came free of charge to all citizens.

2. There were no interest rates on loans, the banks were state-owned, the loan of citizens by law 0%.

3. Gaddafi promised not to buy a house for his parents until everyone in Libya owns a home.

4. All newlywed couples in Libya received 60,000 dinars from the government & because of that they bought their own apartments & started their families.

5. Education & medical treatment in Libya are free. Before Gaddafi there were only 25% readers, 83% during his reign

6. If Libyans wanted to live on a farm, they received free household appliances, seeds and livestock.

7. If they cannot receive treatment in Libya, the state would fund them $2300+ accommodation & travel for treatment abroad.

8. If you bought a car, the government finances 50% of the price.

9. The price of gasoline became $ 0.14 per liter.

10. Libya had no external debt, and reserves were $150 Billion (now frozen worldwide)

11. Since some Libyans can't find jobs after school, the government will pay the average salary when they can't find a job.

12. Part of oil sales in Libya are directly linked to the bank accounts of all citizens.

13. The mother who gave birth to the child will receive $5000

14. 40 loaves of bread cost $0.15.

15. Gaddafi has implemented the world's biggest irrigation project known as the "BIG MAN PROJECT" to ensure water availability in the desert.

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[ladybugmania]

KARMA: ITS REAL AND ITS COMING FOR THEM

Karma doesn’t read party lines. It doesn’t care about your billions, your penthouses, your offshore accounts, or your private golf courses. It cares about what you’ve done, and what you’ve destroyed.

The Trump administration, with its parasitic entourage of soulless billionaires, has spent years dismantling lives, dividing families, mocking the poor, gutting healthcare, peddling hate, and fueling a culture of narcissism and cruelty. These people believe they’re untouchable. That power, wealth, and a red hat will shield them from consequence.

But karma is patient. It watches. And when it strikes, it doesn't only strike the tyrants, it echoes through bloodlines. It stains the hands of sons and daughters. It crawls into the very DNA of these legacy families. History has proven this: Mussolini and his wife, hung by their feet, Saddam pulled from a hole, Gaddafi dragged through the streets, Ceausescu executed beside his wife, Hitler a coward’s suicide, Milosevic rotted in a cell. There are many more throughout history. Each of them thought they were gods, until karma reminded them they were just rotten parasitic humans.

Trump and his sycophants aren’t special. They’re not immune. When you play god with the lives of millions, you don’t get away clean. Their lies, their greed, their cruelty, it’s all recorded in the ledger of the universe, and no PR firm or Supreme Court puppet can erase it.

And to the MAGA faithful: you chant like zealots at a cult revival, blind to the fact that you’re just pawns, expendable in the endgame of kings who will sell you out faster than they flip a property. You cheer now. But karma remembers every cheer that rose while another life was crushed beneath the boot.

So let them build their golden fortresses. Let them laugh now. The fall always begins with the belief that the fall is impossible. And when karma knocks, it doesn't tap, it shatters.

And it shatters really hard.

Yours Truly

Mothhawk

[abla-soso]

I've said before and I'll keep saying it: Palestine exposed Western liberals and Syria exposed Western leftists.

Their unchecked racism and ideological blind spots are just as nasty as liberals..

You can easily figure out how much these Leftist Western experts on Syria don't actually know a goddamn damn thing about Syria when you ask them a simple question.

Don't ask them if they can understand Arabic, or if they have ever spoken to actual Syrians who lived through Assad's brutal regime, and how long ago they figured out where Syria is located on the map.

Don't ask why the vast majority of Palestinians are staunch supporters of the Syrian revolution. Don't ask them why Hamas has always supported Syrian rebels.

No.

Just ask them about the Assad family's very long and loving relationship with America.

Just ask them about the Assad Family's very friendly and servile relationship with Israel from the late 60's onwards. Ask them why Syria was such a good neighbor to Israel all these many decades.

Then ask them how exactly Bashir differed from his family regarding his policy towards Israel, enough for Israel to waste resources on toppling him. Bashir is still every bit an Assadist royal as his father before him.

Temporarily allying himself with Hezbollah to save his own ass (because he could no longer trust America to not replace him with another Assadist royal), doesn't fucking mean he has suddenly become anti-Israel or anti-American imperialism.

This is an utterly deranged, completely laughable "analysis" that can't be uttered by anyone familiar with the history of the Assad royal family and its loving relationship with America and Israel.

Asssad is not and has never been against America, but his main concern - after the Arab Spring - is keeping himself in power, and if that necessitated Russian and Iranian propaganda portray him as a revolutionary leader fighting against American imperialism, he'd gladly take it.

You might be ignorant enough or dumb enough to believe Russian and Iranian propaganda, but America isn't.

America knows Assad is a cowardly rat who would crawl back - after crushing the rebellion - to the biggest superpower that can secure his power. That's America and Israel.

This is why America and Israel never bothered to topple Assad the same way they toppled their other puppets in the Middle East. That is why they've only sent their terrorist mercenaries to fight off Hezbollah and Syrian rebels but never targeted Assad's forces. I was there in 2011. I saw countless videos of these US-backed terrorists fighting and slaughtering the Syrian rebels while not harming a single fucking Assad-backed fighter.

They want Assad weakened enough to crawl back to them and only rely on them for protection, but they don't want his regime or his royal family gone. They're their biggest fucking allies in the Middle East, for fuck's sake! They might get rid of Assad in the future if he proved to be too concerned with his own survival (like Gaddafi did), but they won't ever get rid of the Assad Family.

[probablyasocialecologist]

The charge that the United Nations is failing to listen to Israeli women elides the fact that, to date, no women have testified publicly about experiencing sexual violence. As Israeli advocates have correctly insisted, this doesn’t mean sexual violence did not occur. Many of the victims of violence on October 7 are dead and will never be able to tell their stories in their own voices, and others may not speak publicly for years, if ever. However, we do not honor the voices of those who may have experienced sexual violence by ventriloquizing them or claiming to speak on their behalf. This is especially true in a context where independent investigations are being intentionally frustrated, and where it is not at all obvious that victims of violence on Oct 7 desire a war of vengeance. As Israeli hostages being held in Gaza continue to die from violence there, many of their families are calling for a ceasefire.

Historically, women have not only been silenced or disbelieved about sexual violence. They have also been spoken for and instrumentalized, particularly in conflict situations. For example, in 2011, claims that Viagra had been distributed to Mohammar Gaddafi’s soldiers to encourage mass rape were widely circulated, including by the then-United States Ambassador to the United Nations and ICC Prosecutor, despite an acknowledged lack of victim testimony verifying the claims. These rumours provided essential context within which Security Council support for military intervention was generated. They were subsequently debunked, with an International Commission of Inquiry finding claims of an overall policy of sexual violence against civilians unsubstantiated, but only after the war was complete.

‘Believe Women’ does not, and cannot, mean ‘Believe the IDF’, the Israeli police or security force, or even those who claim to be feminist advocates. As Judith Levine has suggested, the actual victims of violence on October 7 ‘are disappearing into propaganda, becoming talking points to legitimize the pain of other women, children, and men in the killing field on the other side of the fence.’ The dangers of propaganda are particularly pressing in a conflict that has already seen eyewitness testimony of atrocities, such as the beheading of over forty babies, being withdrawn only after being widely circulated and even repeated by United States President Joe Biden.

In contrast to calls for swift condemnation and authoritative statements of what happened, proper investigations that allow victims time and space to speak with adequate material support and protections take time and are almost impossible in conditions of active conflict. In the former Yugoslavia, for instance, the investigation conducted by a Commission of Experts took years and could only begin once peace was established. By refusing to cease hostilities and allow an independent investigation conducted in accordance with international standards of fairness, Israel is prioritising shielding itself from accountability for its own actions in Gaza. As a result, Israel is deferring and potentially denying its opportunity for justice and accountability as well as the opportunity for victims’ voices to be heard on the international stage.

[thelostdreamsthings]

‼️Real Reasons why Gaddafi was killed

1. Libya had no electricity bills, electricity came free of charge to all citizens.

2. There were no interest rates on loans, the banks were state-owned, the loan of citizens by law 0%.

3. Gaddafi promised not to buy a house for his parents until everyone in Libya owns a home.

4. All newlywed couples in Libya received 60,000 dinars from the government & because of that they bought their own apartments & started their families.

5. Education & medical treatment in Libya are free. Before Gaddafi there were only 25% readers, 83% during his reign

6. If Libyans wanted to live on a farm, they received free household appliances, seeds and livestock.

7. If they cannot receive treatment in Libya, the state would fund them $2300+ accommodation & travel for treatment abroad.

8. If you bought a car, the government finances 50% of the price.

9. The price of gasoline became $ 0.14 per liter.

10. Libya had no external debt, and reserves were $150 Billion (now frozen worldwide)

11. Since some Libyans can't find jobs after school, the government will pay the average salary when they can't find a job.

12. Part of oil sales in Libya are directly linked to the bank accounts of all citizens.

13. The mother who gave birth to the child will receive $5000

14. 40 loaves of bread cost $0.15.

15. Gaddafi has implemented the world's biggest irrigation project known as the "BIG MAN PROJECT" to ensure water availability in the desert.

16. ‼️Libya used to be one of few countries with sovereign central banks. Muammar Qaddafi, President of the African Union at that time, was planning to issue gold denominated African dinar to replace Francs in Francophone Africa, to help his African brothers from centuries of economic plunder.

[pocketnewsforyou]

Wednesday 5/7/2025

Trump administration’s proposition to send migrants to Libya has been blocked by US judge

When a reporter asked Trump to respond to the allegations that his administration would send immigrants to Libya he responded “I don’t know. You’ll have to ask the Department of Homeland Security.” According to Retuers “Libyan officials have denied the country is communicating with the United States.” However, a US official confirmed to NPR “[t]he Trump administration is planning to deport migrants without legal status to Libya.” Libya has been in conflict since 2011 after the overthrow of former ruler Muammar Gaddafi; “the west is ruled by a UN-backed government, of which Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is prime minister, while military strongman Gen Khalifa Haftar controls the east.” The State Department advises Americans to not travel to Libya citing “crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” Since the administration has not specified where the migrants would be sent to, many are concerned they will be sent to prisons that have been described as “hellscape” and “open slave market.” The concerns are based on the administration’s deporting of Venezuelan immigrants to Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) in El Salvador, “a mega-prison notorious for human rights abuses.” Many families and lawyers of the immigrants have come forward claiming many of the deported are US citizens and/or have no criminal record, showing a lack of due process which US District Judge Brian Murphy ruled non-citizens are also entitled to in the US. When the plans to deport migrants to Libya were released, Judge Murphy ordered a block saying it would “clearly violate” his previous ruling. The Trump administration has ignored multiple court orders to bring deported migrants back to the US, stating it was El Salvador’s responsibility, to which the president of El Salvador responded it was not possible to send the migrants back. Many are concerned and outraged with the multiple cases of citizens with no criminal records being deported to CECOT with no way of getting back to the US. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389739/libya-immigration-crackdown-trump-deportations 

https://newrepublic.com/post/194980/trump-answer-deportations-libya 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yry9y089eo 

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

The former coordinator of Libyan-Egyptian relations, Ahmed Qaddaf Al-Dam, explained in an interview on the Saudi Al-Arabiya channel that the issue of Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi is a humanitarian and moral issue, adding that Lebanon has become like Libya and we are all striving, along with the charities in Lebanon, to get Hannibal out, continuing, “We hope he will forgive.” "It is for those who imprisoned him and those who abused him."

[ramon-tikaram-love]

Ramon Tikaram is a British actor and singer of Indo-Fijian and Malaysian descent, born in 1967.

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Four members of the UK's richest family are on trial in Switzerland amid allegations they spent more money caring for their dog than their servants.

The Hinduja family, worth an estimated £37bn ($47bn), is accused of exploitation and human trafficking.

The family own a villa in Geneva’s wealthy neighbourhood of Cologny, and the charges against them all relate to their practice of importing servants from India to look after their children and household.

It’s alleged that Prakash and Kamal Hinduja, together with their son Ajay and his wife Namrata, confiscated staff passports, paid them as little as $8 (£7) for 18-hour days, and allowed them little freedom to leave the house.

Although a financial settlement over exploitation was reached last week, the Hindujas remain on trial for trafficking, which is a serious criminal offence in Switzerland. They deny the charges.

This week in court, one of Geneva’s most famous prosecutors, Yves Bertossa, compared the almost $10,000 a year he claimed the family had spent on their dog, to the daily amount they were allegedly paying their servants.

The Hinduja family's lawyers did not specifically deny the allegations of low wages, but said they must be viewed in context - noting that the staff were also receiving accommodation and food.

The charge of long hours was also disputed, with one defence lawyer arguing that watching a film with the Hinduja children could not really be classed as work.

Some former servants testified for the Hindujas, describing them as a friendly family who treated their servants with dignity.

But the allegations that servants’ passports were confiscated, and that they could not even leave the house without permission, are serious, because they could be judged as human trafficking.

Mr Bertossa is calling for prison terms, and millions of dollars in compensation as well as legal fees.

Dark side of Geneva

It is not the first time that Geneva, a hub for international organisations as well as the world’s wealthy, has been in the spotlight over the alleged mistreatment of servants.

In 2008, Hannibal Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was arrested in his five star Geneva hotel by police acting on information that he and his wife had been beating their servants, including with a coat hanger. The case was later dropped.

But it caused a huge diplomatic row between Switzerland and Libya, with two Swiss citizens arrested in Tripoli as a retaliatory measure.

Just last year, four domestic workers from the Philippines launched a case against one of Geneva’s diplomatic missions to the United Nations, claiming they had not been paid for years.

The Hinduja's ongoing, high profile case will draw attention, once again, to the darker, uglier side of the city that likes to call itself "the city of peace".

[alamwamal]

I wanted to share this but this is the only source that says it normally, everyone else is talking how immigrants are treated baldly in Libya.

I'm sure there are cases of mistreatment, but if it was the norm there won't have been more than 3 million immigrant in a country with 7 million people. We the people want half of these at least out of the country but we are not monsters.

What angers me is that people keep talking about how immigrants are treated, but no one is talking how Libyans themselves are treated.

Have you seen western media cover these news bellow? Two PMs were kidnapped and dissapeared and their fate is still unknown. By the way the video of the man verified to be authentic.

Warlord Hafter who lived 22 USA and worked with CIA is given free pass to even work with Russia and bring wagner troops to Libya.

His son Saddam Hafter -mentioned in the video was in the USA last week, there's a human rights case against him as an American citizen but did you hear about his crimes?

Meanwhile UN talks about torture crimes no one even heard about done by a militia in Tripoli in time for a political conflict, and instead of fighting a political solution after the government appointed in 2020 failed, they resort to distractions. Yes distractions because they don't want to talk about the bigger crimes committed by Dbaiba (appointed by UN, his family has a history of corruption while working with Gaddafi) or Hafter (22 of CIA and USA affiliated)

No human rights can be established under corrupt traitor governments.

Change governments first, then we can talk about human rights.

and if we are going to talk about human rights, we need to start with crimes against politicians.

If a politician cannot be protected, who's going to protect the simple citizen?

If we can't protect a normal citizen who has a family or even a big family or tribe (like the PM), who's going to protect an immigrant?

The political situation in Libya is dire and complicated, there are many foreign countries interfering starting from USA and Russia, up to Italy, France, Israel, UK, Turkey, down to UAE Saudia Egypt, Algeria, etc.

Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any way out in the horizon.

[onheirpodcast]

Prince Laurent seems to be trying to achieve royal scandal bingo. While we couldn't cover every scandal in this episode (keep your eyes and ears peeled for an episode where we do cover them though!), we gave a whistle stop tour of some of his controversial highlights:

The Congo - in 2011, Laurent travelled to the DRoC against government advice. Diplomatic relations between the Congo and Belgium are very tricky due to the atrocities committed in the Congo by King Leopold II. In 2020, Laurent even defended Leopold, saying he had never actually been in Belgium so couldn't be held accountable

Finances - like all good controversial royals, Laurent has been embroiled in financial drama. He was accused of using Navy funds to decorate his home, and had to pay back the government after using official money for holidays and shopping trips

Insulting Belgium - despite being a prince of the realm, Laurent has regularly criticised his family (the Belgian Head of State) and Belgian politicians. Similarly, he has spoken of the Flemish culture in a derogatory way

Foreign diplomacy - against goverment instruction, Laurent has spent time with leaders of many foreign nations, including China, Sri Lanka, Algeria and Libya. He was particularly close to Colonel Gaddafi

Poor behaviour - Laurent was famously spotted on his phone during the national anthem during Belgian National Day. He has also been known to wear ear plugs and fall asleep during official events and even miss engagements altogether

Identifying as a different nationality - recently, Laurent has begun to claim he is Italian and wishes to have Italian nationality. This is not the first time he has done so; he has claimed to feel both French and Libyan in the past

[terrasu]

Forever stuck on the fact my maternal grandmother:

Born 1920

Moved south when her dad was looking for work

Lived through the great depression and the dust bowl

Wanted to study journalism, but was too poor for college

Idk what she did during WWII

Married, had a son, divorced/widowed (?), met my grandfather

Knew him for 6 weeks before marrying him

Moved to South America (Venezuela and Columbia) where my grandfather worked as an oil engineer and survived an extremely Catholic government that limited her body choices

Learned Spanish (living in Texas RGV probably helped)

Had five kids total

Survived the tail end of La Violencia (maybe close to a decade) and the start of the Columbian Internal Armed Conflict

Moved to Libya while it was a monarchy

Learned Arabic (to some degree)

Survived at least one distillery/moonshine explosion + worked to smuggle goods/treif* into Libya

Survived Gaddafi's coup + rule until 1974 when the family fled to Indonesia

Which was under the rule of Sudharto

Learned Indonesian (to some degree)

And smuggled treif into Indonesia

...and I never got to talk to her bc she passed just after I was born in '97

*Trief means "strangled" directly. Non kosher food. You get the point.

[bloodmaarked]

my friends // hisham matar

first published: 2024 read: 22 december 2024 - 31 december 2024 pages: 458 format: paperback

genres: fiction; literary fiction; historical fiction; african literature (libya) favourite character(s): rana least favourite character(s): didn't have one

rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 thoughts: what a wonderful book to end 2024 on. i feel like i went into my friends pretty much blind, having bought it on a whim to join a book club discussion taking place with the author in january. i frankly had no idea if i would enjoy this, but the positive reviews were reassuring and i can confirm they weren't wrong at all. my friends is beautifully written, thoughtful, and moving.

from the first page i was taken in by hisham matar's writing. it's the kind of writing that can very easily err on the side of ostentation and obnoxiousness, but somehow i connected with it immediately and i melted into the prose. i think the writing kept me sustained through some of the slower moments towards the middle/end of the book.

i love the exploration of key themes like relationships, identity, and the connection to one's country. it was bittersweet to see the formation and decay of friendships and how it was true to life; often they didn't end in a moment of contention, but they simply faded over time. for a moment at the end of the book i wondered what had happened to rana, for example, especially given her storyline. but the more i thought about it, the more i realised her friendship with khaled was a reflection of true life, and sometimes relationships disappear into the background despite the things you might go through together. i also felt the depiction of khaled's relationship with his family was very touching, as well as the inner turmoil over the split between his home and his family left behind in libya and the life he carves out for himself in london over several decades.

given the background of the author - that he lived in libya during gaddafi's regime, that his father was exiled due to being an outspoken dissident, how the author himself spent his time being educated and living in london - i'm not surprised that he wrote this particular story with such impact. tangentially, it got me thinking about the discussion of which authors can write about which topics, should you write about an experience that isn't yours, etc. in light of the story i thought of it in the sense that, there's nothing wrong with writing about an experience that isn't your own, but i don't think an author without hisham matar's experience could've written this book in the way that he did - and perhaps couldn't have done it justice at all. only he could've crafted this story in the way that he did. and even more tangentially, it got me thinking about how you inadvertently put a part of yourself into anything that you create, and another person could craft the exact same thing as you and never do it in the unique way that only you could. which is kind of wonderful (though i digress).

i can't wait to hear the author talk about this book in his own words at the book club, and i highly recommend my friends. i almost couldn't have asked for a better close to my 2024 reading journey, and i'm so excited for what's to come in 2025!