2011-02-21, 13:35 | Link #12081 | |
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There was a point where I thought they might have worked it out ... but you kill enough cousins and uncles and aunts and friends -- and you piss *everyone* off.
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2011-02-21, 13:55 | Link #12082 | |
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Gaddafi is done. if things have come to the point where a dictator needs to use fear tactics against, not protesters, but the people who's job is to protect his regime FROM the protesters, then thats it. might as well book a flight out of the country right then and there.
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2011-02-21, 13:59 | Link #12083 |
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Libya - latest NY Times report, lots happening real fast:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/wo...er=rss&emc=rss
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2011-02-21, 14:05 | Link #12084 | |
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Everyone is scared stiff and buying out all the oil in the market to hoard, forcing oil prices to rise. Soon more speculators will jump in to call longs and the price of oil is going to hit $2.50 at the pump ($1.97 now). This will result in increased transport costs, which then leads to increased logistical expenditure around the world, and the follow up will be rising prices of anything that can be shipped. This includes food. Get ready to turn that lawn into a small potato garden. P.S And if the state breaks down into a civil war, it is going to become another Afghanistan. It is a place where the rural and urban areas are very socially divided.
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2011-02-21, 14:07 | Link #12085 |
Um-Shmum
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so now they are bringing in mercs from the outside to brutalize the protesters ?
a dictator that needs hired help to oppress his own people, doesn't inspire a whole lot of faith.
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2011-02-21, 14:15 | Link #12086 | |
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They would just shoot anything they feel like. It is going to be a fucking genocide and a civil war.
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2011-02-21, 15:22 | Link #12089 | |
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Two of them did take off, armed with anti ground weapons. In the air, they got the order to bomb the demonstrators. Luckly, they rejected the order and landed in Malta. EDIT: Must correct myself here. Looks like these two aircrafts from the lybish airforce werent weaponed. Photo here.
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2011-02-21, 16:14 | Link #12090 | ||
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2011-02-21, 16:20 | Link #12091 | |
Um-Shmum
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besides, having these kinda regimes dependent on Western weapon suppliers is actually good, as it gives the west something to pressure them with. if Libya's army was more dependent on U.S support like Egypt's army is, things in Libya might have looked different.
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2011-02-21, 16:21 | Link #12092 | |
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Death toll jumps to 600. I pray this doesn't get as bad as the Tiamese Square incident. |
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2011-02-21, 16:59 | Link #12093 |
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I guess the real question will be "Will the Western powers be able to deal with the new governments in North Africa and the Middle East once this is over?" Will the tensions finally end?
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2011-02-21, 17:29 | Link #12095 | ||
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2011-02-21, 18:21 | Link #12096 | |
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2011-02-22, 00:45 | Link #12097 | |
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If you stop to sell ''non-lethal'' munitions to such countries, would they use more easiely conventional munitions ?
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2011-02-22, 01:23 | Link #12098 |
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65 dead in Christchurch earthquake, death toll expected to rise
This is shaping up to be New Zealand's worst disaster since the 1979 Mt Erebus air crash.
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2011-02-22, 01:48 | Link #12100 |
Gamilas Falls
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Depends entirely on the situation. Does your pepper spray have the range to take down the person? Will it render him "harmless" to you so you can end the conflict?
However there are non-lethal bullets that can be used that will have the range to knock him out at range. Trouble with revolutions is, do you want the revolutionary to still be alive to continue revolting after he gets back up? Will reducing the number of revolutionaries help your government, or will it create a martyr?
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