Libya | 232 comments (232 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

via twitter @samgadjones (none / 1)

Via ex uni peers - a pic of Saif Gaddafi signing away £1.5m of Libyan oil money to my alma mater, the LSE pic

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 07:43:33 AM EST
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many expats evacuated from Aden, those left behind stockpiling, lying low, planning exit strategies but say no hostility directed to them

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 08:06:04 AM EST
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Davos @WEF revokes #saif gaddafi 's Young Global Leader status: that'll teach him .... But is Switzerland taking sides?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 08:24:42 AM EST
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But wouldn't he make a great game show host?

His father has (almost literally) thrown him under the bus, his country is on fire, and now this.

Today is just not his day.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 08:28:19 AM EST
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ceebs:

Young Global Leader

<snort>

Keynesianism is intellectually hard, as evidenced by the inability of many trained economists to get it - Paul Krugman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 08:53:07 AM EST
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But it's OK, (none / 1)

because his local Neighbourhood Watch group in Hampstead will be happy to have him back.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 09:20:34 AM EST
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'Young Global Leader"! At Davos? Just imagine the dignity that Saif Gaddafi confers on the other Davos Young Global Leaders! See the list.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 11:58:49 AM EST
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You mean like Zuckerberg or Defense Minister Theodore Maria Xerox von and zu Guttenberg?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 12:34:43 PM EST
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