RIPS Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Have you seen what's happening in Tunisia? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/14/tunisia-revolution-live-u_n_809294.html Another French puppet is gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Oh man, that's a hell of a picture. Here's hoping that the 'revolution' improves things there, not the other way around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearekilluminati Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 and to think the whole revolt happened with ONE man setting himself on fire.....................now thats GANGSTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 thank you for posting this. some thoughts that came to mind as i saw this unfolding was palestine because of the number of palestinian exiled leaders that took refuge in tunisia. i have been reading some articles about another domino effect to come from this. i think we are beginning to see this with riots spreading to egypt. it is also interesting the power of technology in uniting people and to organize these protests. i was wondering if you had found any other articles that you would like to share or that illuminate the situation from another aspect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPS Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 you are welcome http://www.euractiv.com/en/east-mediterranean/algeria-protests-emulate-tunisia-revolution-news-501499 http://www.smh.com.au/world/wave-of-unrest-spreads-to-yemen-and-algeria-20110123-1a18w.html http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/81658/tunisia-revolution-riot-economy-democracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qawee Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 check out this badass, I wonder if he was making machine gun noises while he was posing like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zig Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 i wish this would happen in america already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunt sauce Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 HOLY SHIT Things are heating up in Egypt too! http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/20111251711053608.html [/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunt sauce Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 "Tunisia's government issued an international arrest warrant for ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Wednesday, accusing him of taking money out of the North African nation illegally." http://www.npr.org/2011/01/26/133243488/tunisia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-ousted-president Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zig Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 very moving... i honestly wish more americans were as brave and passionate as these people are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qawee Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I would hesitate to call these revolutions until the ruling class in these countries has actually been ousted from power, RCD is still in government in Tunisia and NDP is still in power in Egypt, with Mubarak at the helm. I do wish them luck however in ousting these governments and bringing them to justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zig Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I would hesitate to call these revolutions until the ruling class in these countries has actually been ousted from power, RCD is still in government in Tunisia and NDP is still in power in Egypt, with Mubarak at the helm. I do wish them luck however in ousting these governments and bringing them to justice. i'm sure even if they are ousted it won't result in any success for the people of those countries, it's just good to see people finally reaching their boiling point. i was beginning to think the entire world were just as lifeless, stupid and asleep as americans are... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doodle Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I think the reason these things don't happen here in North America is because there are so many mixed races. I hope things improve there, i just saw a protester get shot dead by the Egyptian authorities.....shit was fucked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunt sauce Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Wrong. We're talking about authoritarian dictatorships and extreme rises in food costs. Things have to get way worse in order for them to get better here. You want to see a revolution here? Maybe when Wal-Mart closes and gas prices rise to $15 a gallon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunt sauce Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 YEMEN http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011127100660857.html "Tens of thousands of people in Yemen have taken to the streets in the country's capital, calling for an end to the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president. Inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, opposition members and youth activists rallied at four different locations in Sanaa on Thursday, chanting for Saleh, who has been in power for 32 years, to step down." "However, Motahar Rashad al-Masri, the Yemeni interior minister, ruled out any resemblance between the protests in Yemen and the public outcry in Tunisia and Egypt. "Yemen is not like Tunisia," he said, adding that Yemen was a "democratic country" and that the demonstrations were peaceful." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zig Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Wrong. We're talking about authoritarian dictatorships and extreme rises in food costs. Things have to get way worse in order for them to get better here. You want to see a revolution here? Maybe when Wal-Mart closes and gas prices rise to $15 a gallon. yea i agree with that, we are definitely kept just comfortable enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 The US has been (and will be) why other countries have revolutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 RIPS-those articles are awesome thanks for passing them on. however i would have to disagree with the author saying that tunisia is an isolated case because of recent incidents in neighboring countries. i hope that a peaceful solution can be mediated. i think that it is important that a corrupt system is rectified. when you have leaders that were installed and maintained by an outside authority they are bound to fail at some point. in one of the articles the author makes a comparison to spain post-franco. he essentially throws tunisia to the wolves and under the bus by saying that there is no strong leader to rally behind. however, i think that is a wrong assessment because even in the most chaotic of situations, say east timor post-indonesia, organic forms of cohesion manifest. there already is a strong push for elections. not that elections are the end all be all. however, it is a tool of organization if instituted with openness and fairness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 a power vacuum forms, and usually someone fills it. but no one has stepped up yet it seems. i wish benazir bhutto hadn't been killed. i'd love to see her reaction. tunisia is much more secular than other arab nations, and has a much less powerful military, which i'd think is why they'd call it an isolated case. it will be immensely interesting to see how the situation in egypt unfolds. as for revolution in the US, haha ha hahaha ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 i'm sure even if they are ousted it won't result in any success for the people of those countries, it's just good to see people finally reaching their boiling point. i was beginning to think the entire world were just as lifeless, stupid and asleep as americans are... Entire world lifeless? Did you miss what happened in Iran last year? What about Kygyzstan, miss that too? How about Greece, you didn't notice all those riots? I'm assuming you passed up on France as well. How about MAdagascar over the last two years? I'm thinking it may not have been the world that was sleeping...... yea i agree with that, we are definitely kept just comfortable enough. just comfortable enough?! You've never been to a developing country, have you? To compare the US to countries like Egypt, Tunisia and their kind is just astoundingly ridiculous. Yes, the US has it's faults, just like all countries do. But to compare it to outright dictatorship? Dude, you have TERM LIMITS, that is just one glaring difference. Those people in the streets in these countries throughout the Maghreb, you tell them that you have the same probs in the US as they do and they'll either laugh or punch you in the face. Seriously, you have no fucking idea how good you have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunt sauce Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I am definitely thankful to be a white man in the US of A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Yeah, and I mean there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve your country and being motivated to improve politics in general. It's just the dramatics and inflated sense of woe that I see on this forum leaves me stunned sometimes. I truly think there are some that have very strong convictions and absolutist views but have yet to see and experience much past their own front door step. I tend to think that experience moderates one's views of the way things 'should' be. And experience doesn't mean going on a holiday to Thailand or Cuba.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ginger Bread Man Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Yeah, and I mean there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve your country and being motivated to improve politics in general. It's just the dramatics and inflated sense of woe that I see on this forum leaves me stunned sometimes. I truly think there are some that have very strong convictions and absolutist views but have yet to see and experience much past their own front door step. I tend to think that experience moderates one's views of the way things 'should' be. And experience doesn't mean going on a holiday to Thailand or Cuba.... well fucking writ. i tried to prop but alas they are all cashed for today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunt sauce Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Yeah, and I mean there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve your country and being motivated to improve politics in general. It's just the dramatics and inflated sense of woe that I see on this forum leaves me stunned sometimes. I truly think there are some that have very strong convictions and absolutist views but have yet to see and experience much past their own front door step. I tend to think that experience moderates one's views of the way things 'should' be. And experience doesn't mean going on a holiday to Thailand or Cuba.... I feel sorrow for other people in the world that are suffering from the ills of the global economy but I am well aware that I have it goooood. I do feel free spouting out to every one how immoral I find it that there are people in developed countries living in luxury with a constant flowing supply of arbitrary material items, while people in a lot of undeveloped countries can't even get the basic necessities for life. Consider the circumstances in which timber products, tantalum (metal required for the manufacture of electronics), oil and many other resources necessary for an economy based upon constant production and consumption come from and you will see large amounts of exploitation and violence (to humans and non-humans) all along the way. All so we can have plastic and paper packaging, red tomatoes in Wisconsin during February, car culture, fresh seafood served thousands of miles from where it was caught and a new cellphone every other year. I have radical opposition to the whole fucking system. It has got to go. It just kind of sucks because I can't have shelter, water or food unless I participate in the system that is destroying the planet and making life mostly miserable for 2/3 of the world so I always end up looking like a rabid nut-job hypocrite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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