Thanks AG - Nice page. I have learned a lot over the past few weeks. I always felt the internet held the keys, but have been surprised by the resilance of Twitter in particular. Might have to get around to setting up an account. It amazes me how many people in the ME roll with the punches, changing proxies on the fly as required. I don't even know if I could teach my SO what a proxy is, let alone configure it...

E-Mail from someone I know in Tripoli:

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Tonight it's getting real tough a lot of Bang Bang + Boom Boom all over the place, so wish me and my family luck I'll be needing a lot of it. Internet connection keeps cutting off, Cell Phones are down since noon. Not to worry if no reply for the next few days.

-Uwe-

Max Keiser on Revolts

Moammar Gadhafi is bombing his own people

Well as for Max I must admit this is the first time I have heard that the protests in Wisconsin were against the banks.

Maybe I miss understood him and I am not watching it again at this time.

You didn't.

Wyocowboy - You heard it correctly, Keiser is screwed up on the cause for the strikes in Wisconsin.

Maybe Keiser is talking about the no-bid privatization of the WI energy infrastructure in the proposed bill.

Well Tally that is NOT what the protesters are protesting, so he is still screwed up.

Are we dead yet?

I think he's saying the circumstances that have caused the protesters to protest are the fault of the banksters. Yes, the protesters need to redirect their anger, and making this a Dem/Rep issue is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Seems like the reality of the situation is we're getting setup with a bull**** false choice of public unions run wild, or no-bid privatization of public infrastructure. I'm all for privatizing government functions, but not when that means insiders looting public assets for their own benefit in the Argentinina or Russian style.

Eh, Max needs to do a better job at getting his facts straight. He interviews Karl once in a while, so you'd think he'd read the damn Tickers to stay on top of things.

Most of us here can read between the lines of what Max is saying, but imagine everyone else around the globe who just watched that: they now have a completely distorted view of what's happening in WI.

The regime thugs fleeing?

lmao look at all those Ford Explorers and Expeditions

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Does anti-anti-Americanism translate into pro-Americanism?

The rule of thumb in the Middle East is: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy"

Hope that clears up any confusion.

That's what I call "gittin out of Dodge".

Good taste in vehicles...

Too bad those aircraft that defected aren't nearby.

It appears that the Libyan diplomatic corp abroad are defecting en masse and calling on the military to move towards Tripoli to "cut off the snake's head".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa....

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Diplomats at Libyan embassies in the US, the United Nations, the Arab League, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh, among others, have either resigned from their posts, or disavowed links to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's government.

Many say that they now stand with the protesters, and have called for international intervention into what at least one deputy ambassador termed a "genocide".

The Libyan ambassador to the UN is requesting they create a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace to prevent more mercenaries from flying in.

Not going to be able to post today because I'll be at work, but highly recommend the Telegraph live blog - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew....

07.36 Libya's ambassador to India, who resigned because of the violent crackdown on demonstrators, tells Reuters that African mercenaries were being used by the authorities, prompting some army troops to defect. Ali al-Essawi said:

"They are from Africa, and speak French and other languages. They [army troops switching to back the protests] are Libyans and they cannot see foreigners killing Libyans so they moved beside the people."


0920: The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo for delegates to discuss the Libyan revolt against Muammar Gaddafi, Reuters reports.


0935: China becomes the latest nation to urge Libya to ensure the safety of its nationals after hundreds of Chinese construction workers fled attacks at their work site amid violent unrest in the North African nation.

0952: Meanwhile runways at Libya's Benghazi airport have been destroyed in the violence meaning passenger planes cannot land, it was claimed.

Neither Gadaffi nor his idiotic son can resign now - they'll be tried as murderers. The people or the miitary are going to have to find him and kill him.

All these dictators behave like Hitler in the bunker.

Mo, it sounds like the military is falling apart and being replaced by mercenaries. Those mercs should do well until the defecting troops get together and kill them.
This absolutely needs to end badly for Gaddafi and his sons - as in death - or this will be the new blueprint for putting down revolt in the Arab world.

On AJE: Italy is monitoring a Libyan naval 'asset' - it may be a defecting naval ship #Libya

Gaddafi speaking on al-Jazeera now.

All nationalist blather so far.

15.58 "We have defeated Italy. This is glory."

15.57 Gaddafi now saying it is "my country" and "the country of the ancestors" in a very emotional address.

15.56 Gaddafi: "All other leaders of the world are wanting to conspire against the country and disfigure and tarnish the reputation of the country and the people. They want to undermine the people. We must take action on the ground."

15.55 Gaddafi: " Libyan people now have no identity."

IMHO it appears that Malta has become a giant clearinghouse for anyone trying to get out of Dodge. Several coutries have sent troops there to assist their citizens

He said he'll die as a 'martyr'. They're gonna have to kill him.