* Libya has been suspended from the Arab league. The East of the country is essentially liberated. During Gaddafi's latest address, people were pelting TVs with shoes in major cities. There are more and more reports of army and air force defecting or standing down rather than firing on people, hence the hiring of mercenaries.
Machiavelli would say, the Prince is doomed. Let's hope that's the case.
* RIP, Nicholas Courtney, best known as "The Brigadier." I grew up watching this man act on Doctor Who, and he was as familiar and comforting to my child self as Mr. Rogers. http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/02/nicholas-courtney-doctor-who-actor-dies-at-81.html
* A lovely thing on Nicholas Courtneyt, with pictures of "the Brig" with various Doctors: http://box-in-the-box.livejournal.com/486668.html?style=mine
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