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04-05-2011 , 07:21 PM

#576

MrWookie

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Guess I should have asked the chocolate shop in Bruges from which I got my gf a bunch of stuff where they got their cocoa. Maybe the suffering is why those truffles were so good.

04-06-2011 , 12:56 PM

#577

spaceman Bryce

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Borodog

NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE

lets get cukoo for coco puffs

04-09-2011 , 02:18 AM

#578

chucky

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/wo...t/09syria.html new protests in syria

04-09-2011 , 02:55 AM

#579

Huehuecoyotl

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Its Friday, Friday....

04-09-2011 , 10:14 AM

#580

Borodog

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Add Nigeria to the list apparently.

04-09-2011 , 10:15 AM

#581

Borodog

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Also, Egyptian army breaking up protests in Unspellable Square.

04-10-2011 , 02:42 PM

#582

Hardball47

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Borodog

Unspellable Square.

lol

04-10-2011 , 05:04 PM

#583

spike420211

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chucky

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/wo...t/09syria.html new protests in syria

What might prove interesting is that Syria allegedly has an agreement w/ Iran to dock a couple of Iranian warships on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

04-11-2011 , 06:14 PM

#584

JiggsCasey

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has anyone read and can confirm that the Israeli embassy in Cairo is under siege?

http://redactednews.blogspot.com/201...-in-cairo.html

04-12-2011 , 03:14 PM

#585

MrWookie

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Pretty tragic happenings in Bahrain:

Quote:

MANAMA, Bahrain — A handful of soldiers, their faces covered by black masks to hide their identities, guard the front gate of Salmaniya Medical Complex. Inside, clinics are virtually empty of patients, many of whom, doctors say, have been hauled away for detention after participating in protests.

Doctors and nurses have been arrested, too, and the police trail ambulance drivers, health care workers said.

Quote:

At least a dozen doctors and nurses have been arrested and held prisoner during the last month, and more paramedics and ambulance drivers are missing. Ambulances have been blocked from aiding wounded patients, according to health care workers and human rights advocates.

Meanwhile, the security forces, manning roadblocks around the country, inspect drivers and their passengers for birdshot wounds — the most common injury to demonstrators confronted by security forces — and those with the telltale black bruises are seized and detained.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/w...er=rss&emc=rss

04-15-2011 , 10:27 AM

#586

MrWookie

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It's Friday, Friday, **** goes down on Friday...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/...yria.protests/

Quote:

(CNN) -- Thousands of demonstrators in Syrian cities hit the streets after Friday prayers in another week of anti-government rallies as a prominent humanitarian watchdog group issued a report detailing "torture and ill-treatment" of protesters over the last month.

Three eyewitnesses reported demonstrations in Daraa, Baniyas, Dair Elzour, Douma, Zabadani and the outskirts of Damascus against the Bashar al-Assad regime, urged by protesters to enact political, economic, and social changes.

Quote:

Human Rights Watch on Friday issued a report entitled "Syria: Rampant Torture of Protesters," a document detailing arbitrary detention, as well as mistreatment in prison.

"There can be no real reforms in Syria while security forces abuse people with impunity," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "President al-Assad needs to rein in his security services and hold them to account for arbitrary arrests and torture."

04-22-2011 , 12:18 PM

#587

SnotBoogy

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I heard the **** is going down in Syria right now.

04-22-2011 , 06:18 PM

#588

MvdB

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Yes. In response to Syria lifting the state of emergency that had been in place for nearly half a century, people were seen with signs of "We want liberty, not an amendment to our enslavement". Hope they get it and that the price will not be as high as in Libya.

04-22-2011 , 07:13 PM

#589

spike420211

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McCain weighs in:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa...ex.html?hpt=T2

why? i dunno...

but here's anopinion 4 why the US doesn't wanna fk w/ Syria:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...der-democracy/

Last edited by spike420211; 04-22-2011 at 07:20 PM.

04-23-2011 , 12:01 PM

#590

T50_Omaha8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spike420211

but here's anopinion 4 why the US doesn't wanna fk w/ Syria:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...der-democracy/

This is one of the worst articles I've read in a while outside of local news.

Quote:

Despite all the coverage of events in Syria why has there been so little media attention has focused on the Obama administration’s lackluster support for the country's growing democracy movement?

wat

Quote:

In some respects, Syria is a like an Arab version of Yugoslavia.

And while the grip of communism and Soviet domination held Yugoslavia together by force, Syria’s government has done much the same

watwatWAT??

The crux of his entire argument:

Quote:

And while the White House seems to believe that U.S. vocal support to opposition groups in places like Syria and Iran will only boost the regimes, I would agree that was likely the case during the Bush administration when the president was generally disliked in the international community.

However, Mr. Obama is actually quite popular overseas. His strong support of Syria’s pro-democracy ranks actually could improve their situation.

Groundbreaking revelation!!

I'm actually surprised Fox News would put this on its opinion page.

04-23-2011 , 05:16 PM

#591

MrWookie

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Yemen: Saleh is out!

04-23-2011 , 07:19 PM

#592

iNeedScissors61

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So according to precedent in Libya, we should expect freedom bombs to be dropped on Syria at any minute, right?

04-24-2011 , 03:10 PM

#593

spike420211

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...oriesHeadlines

04-24-2011 , 07:53 PM

#594

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spike420211

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...oriesHeadlines

Is it weird/unusual for there to be a strong alliance between a Sunni country and a Shiite country? I thought Iran was kind of isolated from the rest of the Muslim world given that they're one of the only Shiite-majority nations.

04-24-2011 , 08:10 PM

#595

spike420211

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

>Peak Wahabbism
[the weird/unusual part, as Wahabbism tends to originate/propagate from Saudi Arabia]

>Iran keeping warships docked in Syria, thru agreement w/ current [despotic] regime

>Any1 else get a vibe that AlQuida/Taliban is ALSO spread kinda thin financially/politically, even compared to the US?

04-25-2011 , 12:50 PM

#596

2/325Falcon

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...42acb7fd1a396c

Syria rolling out the tanks because just shooting the protesters can't git 'r done.

04-25-2011 , 12:54 PM

#597

MvdB

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...42acb7fd1a396c

Syria rolling out the tanks because just shooting the protesters can't git 'r done.

and this a few days after lifting the state of emergency. There are not much journalists in Syria but the stories that seep through are absolutely horrible. E.g: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-ea...y-left-syria-0

It's the tale of the AJ journalist that got expelled and who witnessed an attack on a unarmed march of civilians near Daraa

04-25-2011 , 01:10 PM

#598

obsidian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Marnixvdb

Well if this Libya thing ever clears up NATO at least will have something to keep them busy.

04-27-2011 , 06:56 PM

#599

Huehuecoyotl

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Watching the latest videos of the Syrian protests and the security forces shooting the protesters

/vomit

04-28-2011 , 04:21 PM

#600

Almond

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Enjoyed Peter Wehner's article from today about the middle-east.

The Israeli-Palestinian Streetlight

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...n-streetlight/

Excerpt:

Quote:

In a recent Financial Times op-ed, Brent Scowcroft writes, “The nature of the new Middle East cannot be known until the festering sore of the occupied territories is removed.”

This is an absurd claim. Whatever one thinks of the settlements, the Arab Spring has shown that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not—as people like Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, have been arguing for years now—at the core of the troubles plaguing the Arab Middle East. The so-called “occupation” is not the obstacle to free and flourishing Arab societies. It is not the irritant that is causing unrest within Arab societies. In fact, what is striking about the revolution sweeping the Arab world is how totally beside the point Israel is. The uprisings in Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and elsewhere are driven not by animus toward Israeli or solidarity for the Palestinian cause; they are a reaction against Arab despotism. What is happening in the Middle East, in fact, utterly undermines Scowcroft’s thesis. But Scowcroft is wed to a theory he embraced long ago and has hermetically sealed off from evidence. Bad theories, like bad habits, die hard. Maybe harder.

I’m reminded of the joke about the police officer who finds a drunk man late at night crawling on his hands and knees on a sidewalk under a streetlight.

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