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Radio! posted:Anyone else watch that interview with the UK advisor on Bahrain just now? Got to justify selling them more weapons somehow!
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Reason posted:So here's a weird idea as far as the internet's and anonymous' role in these things. We know that governments spread misinformation when there is unrest to try and quell the uprisings, but how how effective would spreading counter-misinformation be? Stuff like claiming that a government is near the breaking point, or that military leadership is starting to have inner conflict. It seems that a group like Anonymous could find a way to spread information like this quickly and have it sound somewhat reliable. I feel like if it were an effective thing, it might give protesters in the areas more hope and cause them to continue fighting when they would otherwise give up. Surely with Twitter and the like, there's no need for this? Anonymous isn't going to be a lot of use compared with a shitload of tweets, posts etc in the language all of the protesters will speak.
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AA is for Quitters posted:This is actually really awesome to watch. Not the death, or the terror, or the horrible conditions these people faced to make them revolt, but rather the idea that people my age are actively changing the world. how does it feel to know you will never take part in something to momentous?
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AA is for Quitters posted:If obama loses to a tea-party type in 2012, we just may. Wait, seriously? It's front page news in the UK, all over the TV news too. How can it just not get reported over there?
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AA is for Quitters posted:1) I live in a red state in the midwest. Most of the people here think the entire middle east is full of "terrists" and the entire region should be carpet-bombed. That's really sad, and more than slightly worrying. 
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Live ammunition used in Bahrain, ambulance drivers and head of the ambulance service arrested, hospitals full, do they honestly think any of this poo poo is going to break the protests up? fakedit: They are opening fire on protesters from helicopters. What the gently caress. (all from AJE, talking to an MP and a doctor. The doctor is literally begging for help.)
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Narmi posted:Wahat are the odds that the UN gets involved in Bahrain? Bahrain is a member state, and they've already condemned the violence against protesters, but I haven't heard of any action taken other than that. They'd have to get things through the security council to do anything more, wouldn't they? I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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Cull posted:I know I'm being ridiculous but I would love it some 5th Fleet commander went rogue and drove a triage boat straight the gently caress in there to take on casualties. I think we all would.
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mattdizzleZ28 posted:
It doesn't really start till Australia anyway.
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Feb 18, 2011 20:11
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but i've waited so long for F1 to start up again.... Cant freedom wait until april!?
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ganglysumbia posted:Libya is out of control, flat out massacres... I heard rumours about that happening yesterday, I don't think anything came of it though. as for Tripoli, there are reports on twitter of protests there too, but I don't know if those can actually be trusted.
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Brown Moses posted:Some slightly weird news: Could be escorts for the helicopters too... [speculation]Maybe it's CQ?[/speculation]
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Feb 21, 2011 17:18
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Xandu posted:
Little of use while there is still so much money tied up in oil contracts over there. Saw this earlier. the UK is advising British nationals to get out of Bahrain and has gone as far as chartering flights to get them out. They don't seem to like doing that last part, and I doubt there the only ones doing this. HJE-Cobra, I hope you get out of there in one piece.
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quote:He says this is the first time defecting army units have faced government forces Someone said it earlier, but have things up to now just been a feint to overstretch gadaffi's supply lines or something? Or has it just been the more overenthusiastic rebels running around with AKs, and these guys just waiting? I'm confused.
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Simtex posted:The French are talking about wanting to take action "hours" after the UN Resolution (assuming it's passed). That's pretty clear translation that significant assets have been put in place. NATO was probably getting everything together over the past week "just in case". There was something on AJE a week or two ago saying there are British planes in Cyprus that could be in Libyan airspace in about half an hour. Anyone know where the nearest French bases are?
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