Rock the Casbah: Arab-World Revolutions

[Silverblade]

If Transnistria is a totalitarian state, where do they keep their forced labour camps for political criminals, in Ukraine lol?

[No Maam]

They had to have space for their army parades

[Silverblade]

They have 18 (eighteen!) tanks left over from the Soviet border guard. Parades, eh.

[No Maam]

18 tanks seems quite a lot for the stretch

[dedo1231]

I feel bad for those who can't understand Arabic. The most amazing song for the revolution: http://bit.ly/euev0n #Jan25 <-- anyone got a translation for this? I would love to know it.

here is the translation
I'm sorry it's kinda fast translate :

I went downstairs, I said I'm not come back
And I wrote with my blood in every street
now everyone listen what i said
we broke all inhibitions
Our weapons were our dreams
our future is totally clear
From long time we are waiting
we are looking for someone understand us
In every street ,
Voice of Freedom calling us
We raised our heads in the Sky
And we don't care for hunger
The most important is our rights
And we are write the history with our blood
If you're one of us
Leave the huffing and tell us
u will not leave your dream
,stop saying "I" we are all with u

song by : Downtown team
song name : Freedom Voice

* just a note

al tahrir is arabic word mean liberty so we are in liberty square
This is the reason for the Protesters stay in al tahrir

[bartholemew kuma]

You're going back to Libya? Or are you getting out of dodge in case it lights up?

no im in benghazi, i wanna hit the center of all this, even though there are alot on my head trying to prevent me if this happens.

[JERK DISEASE]

-Rallies today in Hartford at Lieberman's palace, blood is broken out already

-Lieberman speaks to mob, promises to step down from his position

-this just inL Liebarman haas stepped down from senate!!!

-its a lie, he just changed to a different independent position, amubu doobu bazi! (nutmegese for "Death to joementum, long live jon meyer" fyi)

-shtt. theyre using rhode island mercenaries riding tinyy race trac dogs, i got bit on the thumb, this is really bad

-New Haven on fire, Bridgeport on fire but no one caress

-Vermont has declared cease funding of Joe liebarman's vicious royal guard known as "Bloodbores"

-Mohegan Indians everywhere?? i think its coup, im being scalped send hel


it stops there, latest from the revolutions in New England

[Kaiolino]

Needs more Twitter tags.

[trappedolphin]

here is the translation
I'm sorry it's kinda fast translate :

Hidden:

I went downstairs, I said I'm not come back
And I wrote with my blood in every street
now everyone listen what i said
we broke all inhibitions
Our weapons were our dreams
our future is totally clear
From long time we are waiting
we are looking for someone understand us
In every street ,
Voice of Freedom calling us
We raised our heads in the Sky
And we don't care for hunger
The most important is our rights
And we are write the history with our blood
If you're one of us
Leave the huffing and tell us
u will not leave your dream
,stop saying "I" we are all with u

song by : Downtown team
song name : Freedom Voice

* just a note

al tahrir is arabic word mean liberty so we are in liberty square
This is the reason for the Protesters stay in al tahrir

Wow. Thanks so much man, that's amazing.

[JERK DISEASE]

Some things about Vietnamese subversion if anyone's interested.

http://dangdcnd.blogspot.com/2009/01...issidents.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1...1%BA%BFn_Trung
http://free-nguyentientrung.blogspot.com/

[Ubiq]

it stops there, latest from the revolutions in New England

Sarah Palin issues statement decrying Obama Administration for lack of information on situation in Connecticut. Defriends Blumenthal on Facebook after post offering to look out window and describe it on her Wall.

[ChesCa]

Hmmm....
Egypt's Facebook page (putting it really simple here) numbers in the hundreds of thousands when it comes to watchers.
This guy's FB page is only around 1,000.
Bad publicity, maybe?
Doesn't help that the last I've heard about Vietnam was in an LA Times article. I don't remember the specifics, but it implied that things weren't as bad as before (the main subject of the article left Vietnam, returned some time later, and was pleasantly surprised by...something. Like it wasn't as oppressive as before).

[Chrissie]

Some things about Vietnamese subversion if anyone's interested.

http://dangdcnd.blogspot.com/2009/01...issidents.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1...1%BA%BFn_Trung
http://free-nguyentientrung.blogspot.com/

Thank you for the links. That was quite informative.

[JERK DISEASE]

Hmmm....
Egypt's Facebook page (putting it really simple here) numbers in the hundreds of thousands when it comes to watchers.
This guy's FB page is only around 1,000.
Bad publicity, maybe?
Doesn't help that the last I've heard about Vietnam was in an LA Times article. I don't remember the specifics, but it implied that things weren't as bad as before (the main subject of the article left Vietnam, returned some time later, and was pleasantly surprised by...something. Like it wasn't as oppressive as before).

Well, like China Vietnam has been experiencing growth.

In my personal opinion and I wonder if Sea would agree. I see Laos, Vietnam and China as destined for South Korea's fate. They will capitalize more and more (all three are on various points of this path, China ahead, Nam in the middle, Laos only just starting).
Economic growth will lead to increasing and increasing living standards.
And eventually enough of the population will start to resemble the middle class of a developed nation. And it is around that time that tolerance for authoritarian (albeit technocratic) government will end and demonstrations will be huge and the Commies will step out of power.

This is what occurred in South Korea.
And in Taiwan's case the government was actually ahead of the curve and started democratizing on it's own when things were becoming very prosperous.

[ChesCa]

These are headlines right now (I didn't listen to the pieces), but...
Egypt: Military dissolves Parliament.
Constitution suspended (?)
Protesters (some of them anyway) are going to keep the pressure up on the military.
Yemen: Police cracking down on anti-government protesters.

[asm00200]

Yeah, they suspended the constitution and the army will be in control until the next election. Also they expect the emergency rule to be lifted at some point.

Hidden:

"The Supreme Council will run the affairs of the country on a temporary basis for six months or until the end of parliamentary and presidential elections," it said.
It announced a new constitution would be drawn up and subjected to a referendum. The current constitution, effectively set aside on Friday when Hosni Mubarak's resignation left the country without a president, made it virtually impossible for independent political parties to challenge the ruling National Democratic Party.

-Algeria 'to lift emergency laws'

[JERK DISEASE]

Minor protests have started in, of all fucking places, BAHRAIN.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...925802473.html

[Herodadotus]

Minor protests have started in, of all fucking places, BAHRAIN.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...925802473.html

Bahrain? Shit, that totally blindsided me. What's the status of Bahrain in terms of leadership?

[asm00200]

"All the demands are to do with human rights and nothing to do with the ruling family and their regime."

However, he warned that if the government resorted to violence then the people might be forced to even demand for a regime change

It always help to read the linked article.
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There is this joke about Bouteflika going to the streets and protesting with the people against the government. This joke comes as some experts say that Bouteflika doesn't have that much control over the government and how the system in Algeria is 'complicated'.

[Herodadotus]

It always help to read the linked article.
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There is this joke about Bouteflika going to the streets and protesting with the people against the government. This joke comes as some experts say that Bouteflika doesn't have that much control over the government and how the system in Algeria is 'complicated'.

Oh, I meant who's in power, but I missed that, too.