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    Interesting comment by bevin at MoA Archived Message

    Posted by t on August 17, 2023, 11:21 pm

    From: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/open-not-ukraine-thread-194.html#comments

    "This new revolt of the global south follows in the footsteps of previous movements, notably that of Gaddafi, who pushed for pan-Africanism and sought to replace the French Franc with an African currency based on the classical Libyan gold Dinar.

    "This was revealed in hacked Clinton emails from 2011 (released in 2015). One of them featured Clinton Foundation employee Sydney Blumenthal (a proxy for a CIA agent, it was later learned) telling Hillary the following:

    "The vaults of the Libyan Central Bank in Tripoli. This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French.franc (CFA).

    "Blumenthal goes on to intimate that:

    “French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began”, and that this “influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya”...'

    Simplicius on Niger is one of the links given at The World News page at
    https://socialistincanada.ca/

    Posted by: bevin | Aug 16 2023 18:57 utc | 18

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    • Interesting comment by bevin at MoA - t August 17, 2023, 11:21 pm