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sweeptheleg posted:A college graduate that had to sell fruit to feed his family was tired of the govt loving with him so he set himself on fire. In Tunisia. And then riots started there, and somehow got enough traction to actually oust the dictator. Then everyone else in the middle east perked up and said "Wait, we can actually do that?" Then Egypt started and everyone else followed on after that.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:What is China and Russia's deal with the no fly zone anyway? Why are they against it so much? At a guess, Ghadaffi's been heavily lobbying them with promises of cheaper oil and they can see that the tide's turned against the protestors for now. China also doesn't want to be seen interfering in democracy revolts for their own reasons.
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Hey Brown Moses, Xandu, and everyone else who's posted articles, thanks for acting as an RSS feed for my middle east news fix. It's nice to see all the varied sources of information as they occur as well as critical commentary, especially since I'm too lazy too sign up for twitter and learn French/Arabic and follow this stuff as it happens.
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Jun 14, 2011 22:14
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Young Freud posted:The thing that I find interesting is that you can build such items on the cheap. Part of me wants them to put their design notes on the internet after this is all finished. There's a company in the U.S. that sells remote-weapon stations for diplomatic protection details and they're extraordinarily expensive. While I'm sure that some of the difference in cost is overcharging to a group that can afford it, remember that there's probably a marked difference between the two in terms of battery life, the amount of damage it can take, ruggedness of the optics, ability to deal with dust and debris, reliability of the firing mechanism etc. etc. That thing's cool and cheap but doesn't look like it'd last long when it's actually being shot at, although it'll still probably be helpful.
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Jun 15, 2011 15:44
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Has anyone heard anything about the protests in Israel? The only news I've found on them are Israeli newspapers and this: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7129
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Aug 5, 2011 17:00
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Nenonen posted:Probably not, the only proof for that is the claims of one person and no way to verify. Even if the claim were true, it would only mean that his mother's mother was a Jew who converted to Islam. That would make him, at most, 1/4 Jewish. Then he'd be Jewish in the same way that everyone in USA is Irish on St.Patrick's. Man I was reading the Freep thread before I came over here and I thought this was about Obama. Was staring at the left hand picture for a good 15 seconds trying to figure out what possible resemblance there was.
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Oct 3, 2011 16:51
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yaffle posted:Here's an actually funny one Is there a link to anywhere with this guy's other work? This is pretty good.
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Oct 25, 2011 19:10
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Is qat legal in the US? I remember hearing a report from Yemen by an NPR reporter and how weird it was that basically the entire country was high from about 10 in the morning on. Edit: NM, used the magic of wikipedia to answer my question. Anyone ever tried qat?
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Jan 12, 2012 17:25
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Pretty much every newspaper yesterday in London was leading with headlines about Marie Colvin's death. NPR was talking about it all day as well as rebroadcasting the BBC reports.
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Feb 23, 2012 17:54
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Here's a really interesting interview with a former Al-Jazeera reporter who resigned because he feels that the organization has been used as a propaganda outlet by the Qataris especially in regards to Syria. He says he saw armed men crossing the border from Lebanon to Syria back in April and May and actually got footage of that in May and it was never aired or discussed, among other things. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8106
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Mar 21, 2012 15:48
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Apparently the military council in Egypt is reforming the government soon. http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/29/world/africa/egypt-tensions/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_world
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Apr 29, 2012 23:13
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I don't think anything major's going down in Tunisia, just riots by Salfis? Which is obviously bad news and they've got some issues to work out but no, y'know, blatant military coups.
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Jun 19, 2012 20:32
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/09/20129112108737726.html Apparently a US diplomat was killed at the Libyan consulate. poo poo.
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Sep 12, 2012 01:41
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If Syria used chemical weapons it'd put Russia in a really awkward spot that would probably lead to them backing off and issuing some half-assed condemnation. Hence why Russia supposedly told Assad not to use them earlier and is probably screaming at him not to use them now.
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Oct 4, 2012 14:51
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Y'know who ELSE says that? Ultra-orthodox Jews living in America.
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Oct 17, 2012 21:59
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Whelp, Morsi just gave the millitary arrest powers.
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Dec 10, 2012 16:37
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Wow, apparently Obama got the Israelis to apologize for the flotilla incident to Turkey. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/03/201332215412102859.html
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Mar 22, 2013 18:22
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Refugee camps are basically small towns that pay no taxes and have no employment base, and they're usually set up in not the greatest areas so everything has to be shipped in.
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Jul 19, 2013 18:50
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Pro-PRC Laowai please offer your expert analysis of these findings and the political conclusions you draw from them.
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BattleMaster posted:I like the solution after World War 2 where the allies made the Germans clean up their own mines, and then made them march over the locations afterward to make sure that they were extra thorough. Except the Germans, being Germans, had marked the location of every mine and kept the records. The fun came when they had to clean up other people's mines.
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