Pickled Kittens posted:

Go ahead - pull up any news site, whether local, national, international, and check what the headline story is. On the off chance that the main story is actually about what is happening in Libya (or any country in the middle east), try and find where in the article they explain why it is happening, or even why it is important.

I think it is simply a pipe dream to imagine that the general public knows, or more importantly, cares about the protests.

E: Emphasis on why and how, not what.

Nuclear Spoon posted:

For anyone who didn't see the YouTube video I posted earlier, it's been put on Facebook apparently.

WARNING: hosed UP poo poo
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=203209353028633&oid=197898230226131&comments&ref=mf


gently caress this. gently caress all of it.

GonadTheBallbarian posted:

I'd say bodies are pretty loving relevant to the assertion that there's a mass murder going on, especially with the types of damage inflicted upon them.

Pipski posted:

I'll have a quick word with the protesters and ask them to get some pictures of people attempting to shoot them.

schadenfraud posted:

A friend of mine just posted this on his Facebook

"Criminal 30 mins ago he sent his mercenaries to our town which is just 20 min east tripoli they killed anyone in streets they shot a women in the head because she was in her balcony please it’s literal massacre etc..."

Samurai Sanders posted:

Just to confirm, there's no chance that he will volunteer to step down, right?

Nckdictator posted:

Scorchy posted:

Glenn Beck probably. Seriously.

Slantedfloors posted:

Glenn Beck's official position is that these riots are caused by an alliance of the savage Caliphate-seeking Musselman horde, the Shadowy (totally not Jewish) Cabal of International Bankers led by George Soros (Nazi Jew), and the ever-present Neo-Soviet Communists in an attempt to overthrow friendly dictatorships and DESTROY AMERICA!!!!!!@!

Gravy Jones posted:

He's actually not insane and it's all just a big distraction to keep the world's eyes on him while.... well some kind of evil James Bond villain scheme I guess. Maybe deploying a giant plane crushing fist.

Either way, we're all falling for it.

Jut posted:

Mubarak and CQ are two different breeds of dictator. I think towards the end Mubarak was just looking for a way to leave government while still saving face.

Yaos posted:

Here's a video from the 20th in Iran. It looks like a tiny protest, but they just keep coming. No blood or gore.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c5_1298232736

I was thinking nothing was happening in Iran, but now I remember that when everybody was focusing on Egypt nothing was coming out of Libya until Egypt finished the revolt.

Edit: Iraq appears to be revolting, but little information is out about it. In the only two video I could find on Liveleak, they are not making mention of the US and only the current government even though the US still occupies the country. We'll find out more on the day of Iraqi rage I suppose. It seems odd they are only protesting the government, but not the occupying force that installed it.

thunderspanks posted:

If I was a deposed maniac looking for a relatively safe place to spend the rest of my life I too would probably have my eye on an impotent international organization who will do nothing but write strongly worded letters condemning my actions. Forget public execution, give me the wishy-washy talking heads.

Jack Napier posted:

Is flightradar usually this glitchy or is this for real?

Settepotet posted:

Airliner from Paris inbound to Tripoli. AAW901. And from London. AAW913.

Alman posted:

Watching this FlightRadar thing following those two airbusses flying into Tripoli is like watching Inception

TheDamien posted:

Like the guy on the last page said, if the receiver is on malta and the plane's transmitter only has 250k ish range, then we'll lose contact as it descends to libya. I'm guessing there are no receivers in libya that that site gets info from.

Sivias posted:

I really hope the events happening in Tripoli today and tonight are being documented. When this is all over, I think we're going to be sickened by the small amount of video that was taken of the entire event.
It's crazy to think about all the things we are seeing (which isn't much), compared to all the stuff that is actually happening.
So much death and pain.

Lascivious Sloth posted:

I like to think of it like this, the Revolution DEFCON:

Annihilated (Revolution successful): Egypt
Defcon 1 (No turning back): Libya, Tunisia
Defcon 2 (In revolt): Bahrain, Yemen
Defcon 3 (potential for revolt): Algeria
Defcon 4 (low chance of revolt): Iran, Iraq
Defcon 5 (extremely low chance of revolt): Saudi Arabia, China etc.

I'm sure I've missed a few countries.

smn posted:

Gaddafi High-ball? More in line stylistically with Molotovs, and he sounds like he's had a few too many of those.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Maybe I don't understand mercenaries very well, but why would they take a side that will almost certainly get slaughtered indiscriminately by an angry mob, heavily armed and fed up with 40 years of oppression? What money is worth that?

Samurai Sanders posted:

Oh, so their plan for getting out is to blend into the crowd, that's the part I didn't get. I was thinking "How are they gonna get out of the country once the protesters have taken over the airports and roads and stuff?"

Apology posted:

Have sanctions ever worked anywhere at any time? All sanctions will accomplish is making the little people suffer more. I suppose that at least it gives the semblance of support, but it seems to me it's as effective as lecturing your dog on how immoral it is for him to piddle on the carpet.

redscare posted:

Again, what was he supposed to do that wouldn't involve him or his family getting shot

Brown Moses posted:

For monitoring Twitter

rolleyes posted:

Think along the lines of what happened to the native Americans when the Europeans rolled up.

The Angry Bum posted:

Oh great, looks like Obama is ready to start yet another illegal, non-sanctioned war. Moving your naval forces around to 'prepare for anything' could be interpreted as an act of hostility.

Their Translation posted:

Crowd: We’ll teach them! We’ll get it back! We’ll reclaim it back!

Paddyo posted:

Think of all the hilarious YouTube videos that could result from a bunch of college kids trying to figure out the workings of a MBT by trial and error. In all seriousness, it doesn't matter a lick. Without training any complex weapons systems that fell into the opposition's hands are going to do more harm then good. Makes me wonder what happened to all of those military units that have supposedly defected. Sounds more like they're throwing their stuff away and going home than preparing to actively participate. It doesn't sound like there is any cohesion and certainly no command and control.

Sivias posted:

Well, it isn't just for America.
What a lot of people don't really understand about oil is that every drop of oil that get's pumped out of the earth goes to the world market. (Which is why 'drill baby drill' for oil independence is a complete loving lie. gently caress you Palin.)
Every drop of oil we would pump out of ANWR province in Alaska would go to the world market.
It's very convenient if you're an oil man (Cheney and Halliburton, and Bush who couldn't even run his own oil company.) as well as war being a very profitable venture. (See: Eisenhower on the Industrial Military Complex)

Sivias posted:

You clearly have very little understanding about the level of influence oil has on the structure of the human civilization.

Sivias posted:

The level of human suffering that will occur when our oil runs out will be like that our species has never seen.

Slantedfloors posted:

Am I the only one who enjoys how non-sensical the conspiracies the dictators churn out are?

"American backed foreign Al-Queda fighters are working with Al-Jazeera to create a breakaway Islamist Emirate, enabled by machinations of Israel!"

What the gently caress man? There's like six differing ideologies in that loving thing.

UltraShame posted:

"we don't want foreign money" stuff

Earwicker posted:

Yes you see Al Queda somehow convinced half the Libyan populace to take 6000 sleeping pills each and then, while they were asleep and half dead, attacked them with dream magick turning them into Islamist zombies controlled by the western media.

Hipster_Doofus posted:

God knows I was wondering but I figured I'd leave it to someone wittier than I am to bring it up.