Designer-rebels

There was something about all those pictures of rebels in Tripoli I couldn’t put my finger on until the one of many feet stomping on a burning flag…. aha!

I wasn’t seeing the footwear of poor people. Au contraire, many of those feet were rather well shod.
A wee bit of digging informs me Libya is 81 out of 226 countries on the world-chart income per capita below.

Looking at Libya compared to its Arab peers only Qatar, UAR, Saudi Arabia, Bahrein and Oman have higher ranking. The first two are higher than Canada.
Significantly downscale from Libya are its immediate neighbours, Tunis 112 and Egypt 135, as are Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Morocco, West Bank and Pakistan.

Israel ranks 45, a bit better than Canada 22 and USA at 11.

So it seems to me Libya nurtures a significant middle class, more so than most of its Arabic-speaking neighbours.
The crazy guy at the top must have been doing something right for forty-odd years, but that wouldn’t jive with the US-led propaganda/belligerence, the same voices who labelled Saddam Hussein as worse than Hitler but who was simultaneously despised and reviled by Alqaeda as a secular liberal/socialist.

Which was closer to the truth?

1	Qatar	179,000
2	Liechtenstein	141,100
3	Luxembourg	82,600
4	Bermuda	69,900
5	Singapore	62,100
6	Jersey	57,000
7	Norway	54,600
8	Brunei	51,600
9	United Arab Emirates	49,600
10	Kuwait	48,900
11	United States	47,200
12	Andorra	46,700
13	Hong Kong	45,900
14	Guernsey	44,600
15	Cayman Islands	43,800
16	Gibraltar	43,000
17	Switzerland	42,600
18	Australia	41,000
19	Austria	40,400
20	Bahrain	40,300
21	Netherlands	40,300
22	Canada	39,400
23	Sweden	39,100
24	British Virgin Islands	38,500
25	Iceland	38,300
26	Belgium	37,800
27	Ireland	37,300
28	Equatorial Guinea	36,600
29	Denmark	36,600
30	Greenland	36,500
31	San Marino	36,200
32	Taiwan	35,700
33	Germany	35,700
34	Finland	35,400
35	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	35,400
36	Isle of Man	35,000
37	United Kingdom	34,800
38	Japan	34,000
39	France	33,100
40	Macau	33,000
41	Faroe Islands	32,900
42	Italy	30,500
43	Monaco	30,000
44	Korea, South	30,000
45	Israel	29,800
46	Greece	29,600
47	Spain	29,400
48	Bahamas, The	28,700
49	Slovenia	28,200
50	New Zealand	27,700
51	Czech Republic	25,600
52	Malta	25,600
53	Oman	25,600
54	Saudi Arabia	24,200
55	Seychelles	23,200
56	Portugal	23,000
57	Slovakia	22,000
58	Barbados	21,800
59	Aruba	21,800
60	Trinidad and Tobago	21,200
61	Estonia	19,100
62	Hungary	18,800
63	Poland	18,800
64	French Polynesia	18,000
65	Croatia	17,400
66	Antigua and Barbuda	16,400
67	Puerto Rico	16,300
68	Lithuania	16,000
69	Russia	15,900
70	Sint Maarten	15,400
71	Chile	15,400
72	Curacao	15,000
73	New Caledonia	15,000
74	Guam	15,000
75	Malaysia	14,700
76	Latvia	14,700
77	Argentina	14,700
78	Gabon	14,500
79	Virgin Islands	14,500
80	Lebanon	14,400
81	Libya	14,000
82	Mauritius	14,000
83	Botswana	14,000
84	Mexico	13,900
85	Saint Kitts and Nevis	13,700
86	Uruguay	13,700
87	Belarus	13,600
88	Bulgaria	13,500
89	Panama	13,000
90	Venezuela	12,700
91	Kazakhstan	12,700
92	Northern Mariana Islands	12,500
93	Turkey	12,300
94	Anguilla	12,200
95	Romania	11,600
96	Turks and Caicos Islands	11,500
97	Costa Rica	11,300
98	Saint Lucia	11,200
99	Serbia	10,900
100	Azerbaijan	10,900
101	Brazil	10,800
102	South Africa	10,700
103	Iran	10,600
104	Dominica	10,400
105	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10,300
106	Grenada	10,200
107	Montenegro	10,100
108	Cuba	9,900
109	Colombia	9,800
110	Macedonia	9,700
111	Suriname	9,700
112	Tunisia	9,400
113	Peru	9,200
114	Cook Islands	9,100
115	Dominican Republic	8,900
116	Thailand	8,700
117	Belize	8,400
118	Jamaica	8,300
119	Angola	8,200
120	Palau	8,100
121	American Samoa	8,000
122	Albania	8,000
123	Ecuador	7,800
124	China	7,600
125	Turkmenistan	7,500
126	Algeria	7,300
127	El Salvador	7,200
128	Guyana	7,200
129	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	7,000
130	Namibia	6,900
131	Maldives	6,900
132	Ukraine	6,700
133	Kosovo	6,600
134	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6,600
135	Egypt	6,200
136	Kiribati	6,200
137	Tonga	6,100
138	Niue	5,800
139	Armenia	5,700
140	Bhutan	5,500
141	Samoa	5,500
142	Jordan	5,400
143	Guatemala	5,200
144	Paraguay	5,200
145	Vanuatu	5,100
146	Nauru	5,000
147	Sri Lanka	5,000
148	Georgia	4,900
149	Morocco	4,800
150	Bolivia	4,800
151	Syria	4,800
152	Swaziland	4,500
153	Fiji	4,400
154	Honduras	4,200
155	Indonesia	4,200
156	Congo, Republic of the	4,100
157	Cape Verde	3,800
158	Iraq	3,800
159	Wallis and Futuna	3,800
160	Mongolia	3,600
161	India	3,500
162	Philippines	3,500
163	Tuvalu	3,400
164	Montserrat	3,400
165	Uzbekistan	3,100
166	Vietnam	3,100
167	Nicaragua	3,000
168	West Bank	2,900
169	Solomon Islands	2,900
170	Djibouti	2,800
171	Yemen	2,700
172	East Timor	2,600
173	Saint Helena	2,500
174	Nigeria	2,500
175	Pakistan	2,500
176	Papua New Guinea	2,500
177	Marshall Islands	2,500
178	Western Sahara	2,500
179	Moldova	2,500
180	Laos	2,500
181	Ghana	2,500
182	Cameroon	2,300
183	Sudan	2,300
184	Micronesia, Federated States of	2,200
185	Kyrgyzstan	2,200
186	Mauritania	2,100
187	Cambodia	2,100
188	Tajikistan	2,000
189	Senegal	1,900
190	Gambia, The	1,900
191	Korea, North	1,800
192	Cote d’Ivoire	1,800
193	Sao Tome and Principe	1,800
194	Lesotho	1,700
195	Bangladesh	1,700
196	Chad	1,600
197	Kenya	1,600
198	Benin	1,500
199	Zambia	1,500
200	Tanzania	1,400
201	Burma	1,400
202	Uganda	1,300
203	Burkina Faso	1,200
204	Nepal	1,200
205	Haiti	1,200
206	Mali	1,200
207	Guinea-Bissau	1,100
208	Rwanda	1,100
209	Tokelau	1,000
210	Mozambique	1,000
211	Guinea	1,000
212	Ethiopia	1,000
213	Comoros	1,000
214	Afghanistan	900
215	Madagascar	900
216	Togo	900
217	Sierra Leone	900
218	Malawi	800
219	Niger	700
220	Central African Republic	700
221	Eritrea	600
222	Somalia	600
223	Zimbabwe	500
224	Liberia	500
225	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	300
226	Burundi	300

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