Topic: POLITIK - on March 2, 2011 at 2:06:00 PM CET
"I am ready to have my accounts verified. My salary is only 465 dinars....says Gaddafi
"There is no way for anyone to hate me,"
"My riches are the Libyan people - I have no assets - I take no pride in keeping American dollars."
"My great libyan people granted me a palace in every city"
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 2, 2011 at 9:17:00 AM CET
London School of Useful Idiots: How a cadre of Blair cronies, ex-MI5 chiefs and top dons at a top university supported Gaddafi for his millions
The trouble with Fred Halliday was that he drank too much. He repeatedly warned colleagues at the London School of Economics, where he was professor of international relations, that taking money from Libya would come back to haunt them.
Fred spoke ten languages including several from the Middle East. He could see that the university where he had taught for 15 years was dealing with the Devil and risking its precious international reputation. He didn’t even want Saif Gaddafi to be a student there.
They didn’t listen to him. Not just because he drank, of course, but because they were greedy for Libyan money, a donation of a whopping £1.5million that Saif, now 38, made to the LSE a year after they had given him a PhD.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 2, 2011 at 7:48:00 AM CET
LSE investigates Gaddafi's son plagiarism claims
The London School of Economics has confirmed it is investigating allegations that Colonel Gaddafi's son plagiarised his PhD thesis.
Saif al-Islam studied at the LSE from 2003 to 2008, gaining both a Master of Science degree and a doctorate.
But allegations have emerged that he used a ghost writer, and copied sections of his thesis.
In 2009, he pledged a £1.5m donation to the LSE from the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 2, 2011 at 7:46:00 AM CET
Eine Person in Fußnoten
„Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg“ Das öffentliche Bild von Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ist kein Plagiat. Es ist eine Eigenleistung der Presse und entstand in mühevoller Kleinarbeit. Die Vorwürfe, dabei sei bewusst getäuscht worden, sind abstrus. Eine Rekonstruktion.
Der CSU-Vorstand hat am Montag den Bundestagsabgeordneten Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg einstimmig zum Generalsekretär der Partei berufen. Der 36 Jahre alte Politiker kündigte an, er wollen eine deutliche Aussprache pflegen, die auf Substanz gegründet sei.(1) Schon lange gilt Guttenberg als eines der Talente der CSU.
faz.net Guttenberg-Talk bei Maischberger: Dann lieber einen Playboy
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 1, 2011 at 6:54:00 PM CET
Guttenberg geht
Mit einer dramatischen Abschiedserklärung hat der deutsche Verteidigungsminister Guttenberg (CSU) die Konsequenzen aus seinem Plagiatsskandal gezogen. Der Rücktritt sei der „schmerzlichste Schritt meines Lebens“, er sei mit „Herzblut“ bei der Arbeit gewesen. Doch nun sei er am Ende seiner Kräfte angelangt, so Guttenberg. Die Opposition warf Guttenberg vor, den nötigen Schnitt zu spät und in „unanständiger“ Weise gemacht zu haben. Die CSU will Guttenberg in der Politik halten - doch die Opposition zweifelt an einem Comeback.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 28, 2011 at 2:40:00 PM CET
Dealing with Dictators: My Meeting with Muammar
About a year and a half ago, I spent some time with Muammar Gaddafi. He was in New York City to address the U.N. General Assembly and was staying in a nondescript concrete building on Manhattan's East Side. Through the American p.r. firm that managed his Western press coverage, Gaddafi had agreed to be interviewed by Michael Elliott, the editor of TIME International, and me. Michael and I made our way through a gauntlet of machine-gun-toting cops, secret-service agents and assorted swarthy tough guys. While we waited for Gaddafi, members of his all-female praetorian guards paced the room, dressed in desert khakis, black berets and leopard-skin stiletto heels. We were given only one ground rule for the interview: when directing questions to Gaddafi, we were to refer to him as "Brother Leader."
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 27, 2011 at 1:39:00 PM CET
Pictures : #Gaddafi family pics. See who is closest to him.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 27, 2011 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Gaddafi's diplomatic immunity revoked by Britain
Britain has revoked the diplomatic immunity of Muammar Gaddafi and his family, William Hague confirmed, as the foreign secretary called for the Libyan leader to step down.
Hague said the UK was "working intensively" to establish how many Britons remained in Libya as final evacuation missions were being planned.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 27, 2011 at 9:40:00 AM CET
A glimpse into Gaddafi's palace
Libyan leader's palace outside Benghazi is not just luxurious, but a bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 26, 2011 at 3:52:00 PM CET
Zapiro for February 25, 2011
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 25, 2011 at 10:00:00 AM CET
Gaddafi's Craziest Quotes - Gallery
On Spiked Nescafe "Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe."
"There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet."
life.com Now Gaddafi blames hallucinogenic pills mixed with Nescafe and bin Laden for uprisings... old shit
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 24, 2011 at 1:00:00 PM CET
Libya placed billions of dollars at U.S. banks - WikiLeaks
Libya's secretive sovereign wealth fund has $32 billion in cash with several U.S. banks each managing up to $500 million, and it has primary investments in London, a confidential diplomatic cable shows. The cable, obtained by WikiLeaks and revealing the details of a January meeting between the head of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and the U.S. ambassador in Tripoli, comes as the United States and European governments explored the possibility of freezing assets belonging to the Libyan government.
LIA, the umbrella body for Libya's sovereign funds managing oil windfall revenues, is estimated to manage assets of around $70 billion with stakes in European bluechips such as Italian bank UniCredit and British publishing group Pearson.
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