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The State of the Middle East [Talking 'dominos]

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Is there any decent stream besides Al Jazeera's? Or has foreign reporting really gone out of fashion?

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  • kildykildy Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The guardian liveblog is saying AJ has been raided and is being told to stop broadcasting? Is that accurate to what the AJ stream is saying?

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Vehicle that they were trying to topple seems to be abandoned. People from the crowd are entering the vehicle.

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    kildy wrote: »
    The guardian liveblog is saying AJ has been raided and is being told to stop broadcasting? Is that accurate to what the AJ stream is saying?

    Not quite; state security was in the building and spoke with AlJazeera Arabic, but they don't seem to be aware of English upstairs.

    Protesters have total control of the bridge right now. For now, the Army vehicles are there, but they don't seem to be getting involved outside of that carrier being abandoned.

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  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Think the police have left the Al-Jazera building, or at least protestors outside are blocking the entrance.

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Can anyone provide the link to Al-Jazeera's stream?

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  • HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The police seem to not be doing anything. Or at least epic failing at it.

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  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    Can anyone provide the link to Al-Jazeera's stream?

    http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

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  • kildykildy Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    The police seem to not be doing anything. Or at least epic failing at it.

    There is a point where your threat of violence/penalty gets called, and you have to decide if you really want to carry it out. Judging from some prior images I've seen, I don't think the rank and file police really want this fight.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    CNN is doing some web cam broadcasting (really? you don't have real cameras for this?) here.

    But their position is bad, so there isn't a lot to see right now.

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    The police seem to not be doing anything. Or at least epic failing at it.

    Earlier, the police seemed to be completely disorganized and (again, gut feeling) just not into it. I don't even see any at this point.

    They just set the carrier on fire.

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Demiurge wrote: »
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    Can anyone provide the link to Al-Jazeera's stream?

    http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

    thank you

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Yeah, that trooper carrier is screwed. Completely ablaze. To repeat, no one is actually in it now as far as anyone can tell.

    Spoiler'd for biggish
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    President is going to be speaking on state TV shortly.

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  • kdrudykdrudy Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    They just can't quite get it flipped, but yea, burning like a mofo

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Armored Gorilla wrote: »
    Yeah, that trooper carrier is screwed. Completely ablaze. To repeat, no one is actually in it now as far as anyone can tell.

    And as far as I could tell, they let all the soldiers exit unharmed.

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  • Big DookieBig Dookie Smells great! DownriverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I can't get the stream to work for some reason. Following the live blog instead.

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  • kildykildy Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I don't know why, but the traffic trying to commute through a protest involving a burning truck just seems surreal.

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  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Did they switch camera? The feed on that image is a lot lower than what it was earlier.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    enc0re wrote: »
    Armored Gorilla wrote: »
    Yeah, that trooper carrier is screwed. Completely ablaze. To repeat, no one is actually in it now as far as anyone can tell.

    And as far as I could tell, they let all the soldiers exit unharmed.

    Thank goodness for that. It's quite a strong gesture.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    May I humbly suggest spoilering those big pictures? Makes it easier to read the thread.

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    enc0re wrote: »
    Armored Gorilla wrote: »
    Yeah, that trooper carrier is screwed. Completely ablaze. To repeat, no one is actually in it now as far as anyone can tell.

    And as far as I could tell, they let all the soldiers exit unharmed.

    That's what I saw as well. The soldiers didn't even put up a token resistance.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Damn it, Real Player? And it didn't even install properly.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Demiurge wrote: »
    Did they switch camera? The feed on that image is a lot lower than what it was earlier.

    The 'live' camera is crazy zoomed in and low res because of it. The HQ footage isn't live.

    Still better than CNN with their no-audio webcam that's not even mounted. It's all shakycam from a badly positioned hotel window with them.

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  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    enc0re wrote: »
    Demiurge wrote: »
    Did they switch camera? The feed on that image is a lot lower than what it was earlier.

    The 'live' camera is crazy zoomed in and low res because of it. The HQ footage isn't live.

    Still better than CNN with their no-audio webcam that's not even mounted. It's all shakycam from a badly positioned hotel window with them.

    No I mean its positioned lower. Like how the feed to the burning truck is almost level, not an above image.

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    christ, that carrier is burning like hell

    If they manage to flip it into the river, that would be insane

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The BBC has set up a live page for eyewitness accounts here.

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  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    christ, that carrier is burning like hell

    If they manage to flip it into the river, that would be insane

    They tried but seem to have given up because of the rail, its been burning for half an hour now.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Clinton will make a TV statement shortly. Let's see where we stand on this. Let's hope it's with 'whoever wins.'

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    christ, that carrier is burning like hell

    If they manage to flip it into the river, that would be insane

    Flames are gonna be too hot at this point for them to stay close enough to tip it, I think. And it's not lined up with the edge of the bridge either, it's head on with it.

    Al-Jazeera is showing images from the Suez earlier, where people were shaking the riot police vans and stealing their gear. Oh my god, that van ran into some guy! Dude appears to be okay though, the van kept going and trying to drive in the crowd, fucking assholes. The other van was set on fire.

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Here's the guardian live blog too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/28/egypt-protests-live-updates

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  • kildykildy Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    enc0re wrote: »
    Clinton will make a TV statement shortly. Let's see where we stand on this. Let's hope it's with 'whoever wins.'

    For some reason my mental image was Bill Clinton making a statement of "Man, did you see that van? Dude, that thing was on fire!"

    But instead, we will get a speech that will hopefully call for some serious human rights changes in Egypt (most neutral way of saying you support the idea behind the protests)

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  • WMain00WMain00 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    enc0re wrote: »
    Clinton will make a TV statement shortly. Let's see where we stand on this. Let's hope it's with 'whoever wins.'

    Last checked it was with the Egyptian President.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Last checked it was with the Egyptian President.

    I hope we'll support him for exactly as long as he's useful to us. Which seems to be coming to an end.

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  • Big DookieBig Dookie Smells great! DownriverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal, in Suez, reports that he has seen five tanks entering the area.
    Oh snap!

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  • HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    And the NDP headquarters is apparently on fire?

    That sounds bad for the establishment.

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  • Armored GorillaArmored Gorilla Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    AJ can see smoke and a fire near the headquarters of the President's political party, they think the headquarters itself may have been set on fire, but no ability to confirm.

    Edit: They just confirmed that it IS the NDP headquarters that's on fire.

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  • kdrudykdrudy Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Oh shit, the ruling party HQ might be on fire

    edit: Confirmed by Al-Jazeera now to be the party HQ

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  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    ITT: ArbitraryDescriptor gets no work accomplished.

    Thanks thread. Thanks for be so interesting and informative.

    Jerks.

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  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Confirmed, thats the party HQ burning.

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    PA current events threads are as good as any liveblog/livestream. <3 you guys.

    Watching Al-Jazeera here. Amazing scenes.

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