The Middle East Uprisings: video, links, and more

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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton

The following exchange actually happened on facebook and I saw it. To me, this cuts to the core of what you just said.

A hyper conservative Republican Jewish girl I know from Alabama lets on that she has no idea what is going on in Egpyt.

Her friend says there is a massive pro-democratic revolution going on there.

She says, "Democrats AND Muslims? Gee that sounds like a party - just like our 'commander in cheif'..."

Therein lies a large problem. You say 'Pro-Democratic' and they hear 'Democratic Party'. These are the types of people who would sell out our Democratic rights in a heartbeat because they thought it wise or advantageous.

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Well, I can't entirely blame everything on people like her.
Watching CNN/FOX/MSNBC you get a narrative which is COMPLETELY unrelated to the actual reporting of actual events in Egypt, or the rest of the middle east, for that matter.

I'm not saying my sources aren't unbiased (they are), or completely accurate... but fuck, man... when I was watching CNN Friday night: in-between talking heads, they showed a little shitty youtube 3-second clip of Egyptians celebrating in Tahrir Square, followed by a 3-fucking-MINUTE montage of scary brown people with guns (which was actually Egyptian government security-force footage, but CNN didn't label it as such).
Fucking, COME ON.

This is classic: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war!" -William Randolf Hearst. (RE: the Spanish-American War, so this is in no way new, mind you...)

Good news doesn't sell. A popular, (mostly) non-violent, democratic change in power (as miraculous as it was) does not generate clicks or eyeballs or sales or whatever metric is used to garner advertising revenue. Scary angry brown people with guns, however, do.

The fuck?!

Breaking: Mubarak falls into coma after final speech

once an election does happen, will the peace treaties Egypt signed into be voided out? It's possible, which leads me to ask if the people in Egypt would actually consider a war with Israel, or are they more intelligent than to be goaded into that by their eastern neighbors.

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Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope

The fuck?!

Breaking: Mubarak falls into coma after final speech

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Whoah.

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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton

Whoah.

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That's just awesome.

Conflicting reports on that story.

How about this?

Protests in Iran, Bahrain.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/e...-mousavi-egypt

Iran is calling for death penalty against opposition leaders...

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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton

How about this?

Protests in Iran, Bahrain.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/e...-mousavi-egypt

Iran is calling for death penalty against opposition leaders...

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Things are getting hot in Bahrain (a tiny Persian Gulf island nation, strategically important to the U.S. because of Manama U.S. Navy base) two protesters are dead and in response the protesters are occupying "Pearl Circle" (shades of Tahrir square...)

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Iran is a clusterfuck, not only is the government calling for execution of protest organizers, but any government officials that support them will be tried for treason.

Also, I still can't get confirmation Mubarak's condition (although, I can't discount the possibility that this is a ploy to get the ex-president out of the country before the hammer falls)

Haha, fallen ill...

Just like the old mafiosos standing trial with nurses, oxygen tanks and shit.

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Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope

Iran is a clusterfuck, not only is the government calling for execution of protest organizers, but any government officials that support them will be tried for treason.

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The Iranian government has finally demanded the rest of the world to invade and execute all mullahs and politicians. The revolutionary guard members and every person in their families need to be dumped in an anonymous mass grave, buried alive, um, and pour in thousands of poisonous snakes with them. No insects. Centipedes. Maybe firehose their children and wives with boiling hot oil first too.

The boiling hot oil firehose is pretty rough.

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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton

The boiling hot oil firehose is pretty rough.

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Not if you got some chicken wings.

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Originally Posted by norton9478

Not if you got some chicken wings.

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...better; mozzarella sticks. There was this one little bar here in town (which sadly doesn't exist any more) that hand-beer-battered theirs. I'd start my own revolution to get those sticks again. mmmmm...

I can't believe you guys can think of food when I am conjuring new draconian punishments. You guys are depraved.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=133176069

5th day of protests in Yemen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41597335...deastn_africa/

Protests in Bahrain.

Should just change the name of this thread to All Purpose Revolution Thread since there are so many happening at the same time.

What kind of shit-assed dictator lets people rebel

I'd let the army loose on those bitches

These middle eastern totalitarians are a bunch of pussies, seriously

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Originally Posted by Segata_Sanshiro

What kind of shit-assed dictator lets people rebel

I'd let the army loose on those bitches

These middle eastern totalitarians are a bunch of pussies, seriously

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lol

http://cdn.hsmagazine.net/wp-content...viousTroll.jpg

Shit's like 1989 all over again :buttrock:

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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton

lol

http://cdn.hsmagazine.net/wp-content...viousTroll.jpg

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I'm dead serious

Kim Jong Il puts ENTIRE FAMILIES in deathcamps for GENERATIONS if they speak out against the government and you don't see him getting overthrown like a pussy

Also, democracy coming to Egypt is terrible news. The Palestinians voted in Hezbollah, who knows what kind of asshole idiotfuck these Egyptian dipshits are gonna elect

Just go away because you're a boring troll.

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Originally Posted by Segata_Sanshiro

I'm dead serious

Kim Jong Il puts ENTIRE FAMILIES in deathcamps for GENERATIONS if they speak out against the government and you don't see him getting overthrown like a pussy

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China has his back. End of story. His situation is totally unique.

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Originally Posted by Segata_Sanshiro

these Egyptian dipshits are gonna elect

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Thats why youre a troll

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...9x2bRSfynp&t=1

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Just go away

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Great counter-argument

But I don't understand why Mubarak didn't just run over the protesters with tanks. Fear of international reprisal? Maybe. But the USA is broke and no one else ever gets involved in anything

Yeah, I guess they're not dipshits. I just like to swear.

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Originally Posted by Segata_Sanshiro

Great counter-argument

But I don't understand why Mubarak didn't just run over the protesters with tanks. Fear of international reprisal? Maybe. But the USA is broke and no one else ever gets involved in anything

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You really havent garnered much from this thread.

The Army wasnt willing to do that, even if Mubarak ordered it.

Ok?

Does that answer your question?

This bitch is like 13 pages long and not that interesting, I couldn't be arsed to read the whole thing

"Judge Dredd, please pickup on the nearest white courtesy phone..."

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Originally Posted by Segata_Sanshiro

This bitch is like 13 pages long and not that interesting, I couldn't be arsed to read the whole thing

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Perhaps you dont find it interesting, but this is the most interesting thing I can think of, next to music.

People in this thread actually care. Can you respect that and stop ignorantly trolling it up? I dont want to block your posts, some of them are great. But please.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/0...ibyans-rise-up

I second the nomination to turn this into an all-purpose modern revolution thread.

I hope every protesting group is successful. These are exciting times. Rename this thread "once upon a time...the revolution."

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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton

Perhaps you dont find it interesting, but this is the most interesting thing I can think of, next to music.

People in this thread actually care. Can you respect that and stop ignorantly trolling it up? I dont want to block your posts, some of them are great. But please.

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I thought that trolling was being purposefully douchy. Just because I swear and disagree doesn't mean I'm trying to fuck your shit up. I'm just trying to better understand the situation.

I hope all the revolutions fail and a totalitarian regime fills the power void in Egypt. The Israelis and probably Iran have the bomb, we don't want the Middle East getting destabilized.

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Originally Posted by Segata_Sanshiro

I thought that trolling was being purposefully douchy. Just because I swear and disagree doesn't mean I'm trying to fuck your shit up. I'm just trying to better understand the situation.

I hope all the revolutions fail and a totalitarian regime fills the power void in Egypt. The Israelis and probably Iran have the bomb, we don't want the Middle East getting destabilized.

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Shhhh. Go be an idiot somewhere else.

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Originally Posted by Segata_Sanshiro

I'm just trying to better understand the situation.

I hope all the revolutions fail and a totalitarian regime fills the power void in Egypt. The Israelis and probably Iran have the bomb, we don't want the Middle East getting destabilized.

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Dude fuck you.

'Trying to better understand the situation'? You just got done saying its tl;dr and not very interesting to boot. So yeah you're trying to understand the thread by not reading it.

I hope you're going destabilized and you meltdown and off the forums.

In Bahrain, the police launched a 3am (local time) sneak attack on the protesters in Pearl Roundabout

Also, things in Yemen is getting hotter and things are getting started in Libya.

There's (unconfirmed) reports of unarmed women and children being shot,and explosions in Pearl Roundabout. There appear to be no reporters on the scene to verify.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12490286

BBC only said the police pushed the protesters out and used lots of tear gas.

Apparently some deaths, but no mention of shooting yet.

I've no doubt people are getting beaten to death though.

Some pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12490555

I wish the US wasn't in league with these cockhole autocrats simply because they suit our interests.

Videos:

Nice, thanks.

Have you read the stories where the dictators in several of these countries are offering one time payments to all their citizens in attempts to quell the unrest?

LOL - I can't wait till these fuckers get overthrown and the people assert their natural rights.

What ever happened to that blonde reporter who got sexually assaulted by protestors?

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Originally Posted by 2D_Master

What ever happened to that blonde reporter who got sexually assaulted by protestors?

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This one:

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...lara-logan.jpg


They hosed her off and shipped her home. I eagerly await the (probable) movie based off the book based off this ordeal.

In Bahrain: There are at least two dead (edit: confirmed, but there may be more). Protesters were hit with rubber rounds and teargas canisters. The closest hospital to Pearl Roundabout where the injured were brought is ringed with riot police which are currently skirmishing with a mass of VERY pissed off protesters. (edit: The Roundabout has been cleared of protesters and is occupied by the police.)

Libya: Protesters are gearing up for their own "day of rage" after being attacked by Libya's security force and paid thugs for the last two days of protests.

Yemen: Two protesters are dead. Protesters have been occupying Yemeni University in Sanaa while being attacked by thugs over the past several days.

Tanks are on the streets in Manama (capital of Bahrain).

...and Iraq.

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Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope

Tanks are on the streets in Manama (capital of Bahrain).

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*cough*

I'm getting scattered unconfirmed reports that that ~50 (maybe more) Libyan protesters were killed in today's "day of rage" protest.

I do have one report from the U.K. Telegraph that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi turned helicopter gunships on own people

Libya is actually one of the most stable and economically growing countries in africa.

Ghadafi is a fucking nutjob but protests in Libya surprise me a bit, Iran however - not so much and we know how the iranian government reacts to protests of any kind, don't we? :help:

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Originally Posted by Doctor Shroom

Ghadafi is a fucking nutjob but protests in Libya surprise me a bit

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That's the problem with Ghadafi, he IS nuts.
Ben Ali was a bully and a coward, Mubarak was a strong-man in every sense of the term (including the weaknesses), but Gahdafi is flat-out unhinged, supervillain-style. I'm sure in his twisted little head that he's convinced himself, and surrounded himself with yes-men to reinforce the belief, that this is ALL an elaborate American/Israeli plot to depose him.

All of it.

All for him.

A classic narcissist; Which would make hum a tougher nut to crack than either Ben Ali or Mubarak. However, his (literal) fatal flaw is his fragile health. If he's on dialysis, as rumored, the stress alone of dealing with an uprising could kill him.

Libyans in US allege coercion

Libyan students living in the U.S. are being threatened to appear in pro-Gahdafi rallies... "or else"

Looks like the government of Bahrain cracked down hard on the protesters. I hope they continue to defy their government.

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Originally Posted by Lagduf

Looks like the government of Bahrain cracked down hard on the protesters. I hope they continue to defy their government.

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4 killed, over 200 injured (confirmed). Martial law declared. Gatherings are banned. Crackdown in progress.