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by Centrino 1835 days ago
Gaddafi had launched the idea of a pan-African gold dinar at least since 2002. He was killed in 2011. The driving force for military action against Lybia in 2011 was not the US, but France. Obama and Hillary Clinton only reluctantly went along with Sarkozy's initiative for military action. Your suggested link between Ghaddafi's killing and "debt based fiat systems" is a conspiracy theory promoted by Russian propaganda channels like RT, but not backed up by facts.
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>Gaddafi had launched the idea of a pan-African gold dinar at least since 2002. He was killed in 2011.

True, and I don't claim it's fact (discussed in sibling comments) - just something to consider. But there's also a difference between floating the idea, and amassing enough gold to actually pull it off, and he was acquiring quite the stack from what I hear.

>Your suggested link between Ghaddafi's killing and "debt based fiat systems" is a conspiracy theory promoted by Russian propaganda channels like RT, but not backed up by facts.

There's that phrase again. Not everything RT says is a lie. I don't make the claim to know the inner workings of the global political elite. I just like to see which of my friends only get their propaganda from MSNBC/CNN/Fox, and which like to sprinkle in a little zerohedge and RT

And there's a nice angle that Sarkozy's election campaign was maybe financed by Lybian money ( the court case is ongoing as of now)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Libyan_financing_in_...