EPTLibyan Uprising - Page 14
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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zeo
Serbia6298 Posts
What about Serbia? | ||
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Blanke
Canada180 Posts
Food and gas prices, anyone? Expect to see inflations in the coming weeks. | ||
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Gatsbi
United States1134 Posts
On March 01 2011 06:17 Blanke wrote: I guess this affects us more than we think . .. . + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9DG4_JHXGs Food and gas prices, anyone? Expect to see inflations in the coming weeks. It's already affected us. Have you seen gas prices lately? | ||
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
On March 01 2011 06:23 Gatsbi wrote: It's already affected us. Have you seen gas prices lately? Mom drives a Lexus, which needs premium, fucking $3.96 a gallon at one of the cheaper places where I live. Go to a gas station by the freeway and it's well over $4 a gallon. And don't prices go up during the summer?  .NOTE: Gas prices are supposedly actually going to fall because the rebels are still selling oil, they only spiked in speculation they might not. Or something along those lines. | ||
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Boen
United States7 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Chewits
Northern Ireland1200 Posts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12604760 Guy seems to be totally crazy lol. Mad props to the ballsy journalists. | ||
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lastprobeALIVE
United States974 Posts
LOL?? tell me this guy is not the biggest troll on earth. also posted on the al jazeera 1:40am Abdullah, a witness speaking to Al Jazeera from Misurata, about 200km east of Tripoli, says: There’s now artillery shelling on the suburbs of Misurata and on the Air force college, south west of Misurata. There are also helicopters trying to bomb the local broadcast. They are also using heavy weapons against the protestors ... also last night helicopters dropped leaflets and threats from the regime. A plane fell in the sea and we arrested five of its crew ... we have weapons trying to use to defend ourselves but it is normal weapons that cannot be compared to the planes or tanks or armored vehicles or the heavy weapons they use to bomb us ... we are the defending righteous and freedom ... we want him [Gaddafi] to leave. I can't understand why they wouldn't have the no-air space restriction set in place t.t Reading this al-jazeera blog is keeping me intrigued throughout this whole ordeal. I hope they can get that whacko out of there without much much more bloodshed | ||
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Krikkitone
United States1451 Posts
On March 01 2011 10:05 lastprobeALIVE wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI4vlWbKFFw&feature=player_embedded LOL?? tell me this guy is not the biggest troll on earth. also posted on the al jazeera I can't understand why they wouldn't have the no-air space restriction set in place t.t Reading this al-jazeera blog is keeping me intrigued throughout this whole ordeal. I hope they can get that whacko out of there without much much more bloodshed non-interference/national sovereignty/ etc. | ||
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mcbrite
Germany229 Posts
On March 01 2011 06:26 FabledIntegral wrote: Mom drives a Lexus, which needs premium, fucking $3.96 a gallon at one of the cheaper places where I live. Go to a gas station by the freeway and it's well over $4 a gallon. And don't prices go up during the summer? .NOTE: Gas prices are supposedly actually going to fall because the rebels are still selling oil, they only spiked in speculation they might not. Or something along those lines. Cry me a river, I paid $ 8.35 yesterday... Yeah, you read that right... Converted from Euro/Litres to dollars/gallon. Germany... Also premium, Evo X... | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
On March 01 2011 15:52 mcbrite wrote: Cry me a river, I paid $ 8.35 yesterday... Yeah, you read that right... Converted from Euro/Litres to dollars/gallon. Germany... Also premium, Evo X... Doesn't count as you live in Germany the coolest place in the world. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://a.yfrog.com/img619/584/h8f0.jpg) Fighting is said be going on right now, there was also a six hour battle at Zawiya in which pro-government forces attacked from six sides in hopes of taking the rebel held town which lies 30 miles West of Tripoli, it's the closest rebel held area to the Capital. Pro-government forces failed to take the town. + Show Spoiler + TRIPOLI, Libya – Witnesses say forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have tried but failed to retake the rebel-held city closest to the Libyan capital Tripoli. They said Tuesday that pro-Gadhafi troops supported by tanks and anti-aircraft guns tried to retake the city of Zawiya Monday night in six hours of fighting, attacking rebel positions from six directions. They said the rebels managed to push back the attackers. Zawiya is 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Tripoli. "We will not give up Zawiya at any price," said one witness. Gadhafi, Libya's ruler of 41 years, has already lost control of the eastern half of the country since protests demanding his ouster began two weeks ago. He still holds the capital Tripoli. | ||
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Broodwich
United States393 Posts
On March 01 2011 12:46 Krikkitone wrote: non-interference/national sovereignty/ etc. Yeah, and it's not exactly an open and shut decision for Western Europe + USA to all agree on mobilization in an area where everyone already hates them for political meddling. Doubt we'll see this happen unless it turns into outright war with a humanitarian crisis. | ||
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
On March 01 2011 17:34 Broodwich wrote: Yeah, and it's not exactly an open and shut decision for Western Europe + USA to all agree on mobilization in an area where everyone already hates them for political meddling. Doubt we'll see this happen unless it turns into outright war with a humanitarian crisis. Although most experts of international law (and no, these DON'T include paid puppets from politics...) agree that intervention is justified because of drastic violation of human rights, I think you are right in that the Arab peoples have to "free themselves". I think the whole "democracy from above"-approach done by especially the US is doomed to fail because people will never have the feeling that they are truly independent now, making their own rules for themselves. | ||
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Broodwich
United States393 Posts
On March 01 2011 17:42 sleepingdog wrote: Although most experts of international law (and no, these DON'T include paid puppets from politics...) agree that intervention is justified because of drastic violation of human rights, I think you are right in that the Arab peoples have to "free themselves". I think the whole "democracy from above"-approach done by especially the US is doomed to fail because people will never have the feeling that they are truly independent now, making their own rules for themselves. Completely agree with this assessment. It has to come from within for it to be legitimate. The US propped up a lot of really unsavory characters over there (the Saudi govt being the biggest offenders), and we've lost any authority / popular support in the area. | ||
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419
Russian Federation3631 Posts
Its quite well-done too, actually: Translated, the lyrics are: Inch by inch, home by home, house by house, lane by lane Forward, forward, Revolution, Revolution I have millions on my side not from the inside but from other countries. From here I send a call to all the millions in the desert, from desert to desert the millions will march and no one will be able to stop them. Quickly, quickly! The bell to work has rang!, the bell to march has rang!, the bell of victory has rang!, no turning back! Clearly a testament to the wonders of Auto-tune. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6231 Posts
On March 01 2011 17:34 Broodwich wrote: Yeah, and it's not exactly an open and shut decision for Western Europe + USA to all agree on mobilization in an area where everyone already hates them for political meddling. Doubt we'll see this happen unless it turns into outright war with a humanitarian crisis. Actually it was on the news here yesterday that the Lybian protestors see us as their allies since they export most of their oil to Europe and the support from Sarkozy, Berlusconi etc. I got to add though this was about the no fly zone not militairy intervention but still I think we got to help them as much as possible if they see the western world as their allies the oppertunity has to be taken not only from a humanic point of view but also political. | ||
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
On March 01 2011 15:52 mcbrite wrote: Cry me a river, I paid $ 8.35 yesterday... Yeah, you read that right... Converted from Euro/Litres to dollars/gallon. Germany... Also premium, Evo X... I'm aware Euro prices are vastly higher than US prices, it's just very high in the U.S.^^. It's the equivalent of me saying, "damn, I just paid $80 for that game, wtf why so highhh" and then a guy from New Zealand comes in and says, "whatever, I paid $115." $80 is still more expensive than anything I'd normally pay. But if your point was that I had no right to complain... I guess :-/ | ||
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0mar
United States567 Posts
On March 01 2011 17:56 Broodwich wrote: Completely agree with this assessment. It has to come from within for it to be legitimate. The US propped up a lot of really unsavory characters over there (the Saudi govt being the biggest offenders), and we've lost any authority / popular support in the area. If you think propping up the Saudis is the biggest offense the US has done in the Middle East, you don't know much history. The Saudis are quite tame compared to Saddam and the Shah. We put Saddam in power in the '60s when Qassem, another likely candidate to overthrow the Monarchy of Iraq didn't have the balls to execute the communists/leftists/royal family in Iraq. Saddam did. During the war in the '80s with Iran, we sold him chemical and biological weapons which he used on his own people. We looked the other way. Likewise, with the Shah, we supported 20 years of basically a Nazi state in Iran. Every sector of life was infiltrated by the Shah's spies. If you made an anti-government remark to your butcher, chances are you would end up in prison being tortured in the worst ways possible. | ||
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