Hello I'm Mr Sarkozy and I'm looking like a dumbass for a bigillionth time cause I was friend with a dictator.

What the hell is he wearing?

By the looks of things, my gran's old curtains.

He is famous for his individual "style" - never expect to see him in a sombre suit.

When you're minted, you're free to wear whatever pleases you. No, seriously, I don't think that outfit looks too different from traditional African festive menswear. Maybe it's a shame Sarkozy hasn't adopted Napoleon's style (he's wearing heels tho isn't he?) and we've all somewhat updated our wardrobe since the 16th century. Wouldn't it be cool to walk around in cloaks and silk stockings, guys?

According to BBC's live feed Gaddafi's mercenaries shoot practically everything that moves. Lots of protesters are being sniped (shots that are meant to kill rather than warn) and now he's giving guns to all his supporters in the country, telling them to kill the rats (meaning protesters), hunt them down and even raid homes. Mubarak is starting to look like a saint. When you're minted, drunk on power and have practically everything outsourced anyway, why give a shit about the common people? Somehow I feel Gaddafi rule isn't over until he either runs out of money or is assassined. Unless his assets are frozen case A could take ages.

freak

http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=13019942

Hey chemical brothers and sisters, long time no see!

Mubarak: gone
Gaddafi: in progress (hopefully with a good result soon)
Cameron: his day will come

How have you all been anyway?

And whirly, do you have the powers to change board names? I'd like to change mine to "outofspace" if possible. That's the name of my Twitter account btw.

Paul

Tyler, on 03 March 2011 - 09:31 AM, said:

If you edit your profile, in settings there is a "Change Display Name" tab.

that name takes yo brain to another dimension! Well being Irish we just got rid of our last crappy government, turned boom economy to boloxed in 3 easy steps! Elections passed n new government soon to form. thank jeebas. Gadaffi looks like he's gona bust a rhyme in the pic! "come back to the crib after dogs n we get down with me bitches dictator style"

Yep, just click your profile name at the top, click settings, and the fourth tab down's what you're looking for.

Krisper, on 03 March 2011 - 12:41 AM, said:

Nice one - think I'll keep it as Tyler just for now, as I've been away for so long (couple of years at least), then change it just to confuse peeps.

Ha - changed my mind. I'm now officially "outofspace".

This post has been edited by outofspace: 02 March 2011 - 11:51 PM

Hey Tyler, long time no see!!! welcome back. Also check your profile.

outofspace, on 03 March 2011 - 12:31 AM, said:

welcome back mate!

your post reminds me of the situation in germany - we just got rif of our defense minister guttenberg as it came out that he had apparently copied his phd thesis from other sources. so I'm similiar with that, Ben Ali, Mubarak, Guttenberg, Gaddafi next.

BoywiththeGoldenEyes, on 03 March 2011 - 09:35 AM, said:

good point, without web 2.0 (guttenplag), guttenberg would have never stepped back from his position. today it's very good to have such tools from which we can send out some pressure to politicians BUT in a few years everybody will be able to to this with his neighbour, friends and everyone and that's the other (sad) side of the coin. so what's good for collective identity and behaviour today could be the slow death of society tomorrow.

here in austria, we have our ex financial minister grasser, which is also under collective suspicion for corruption during his period as minister. the internet community is on war against him with every webtool. some kind of mob 2.0 is going on in germany and austria.

brother_ging, on 03 March 2011 - 07:37 PM, said:

it is happening today already (regarding neighbors etc), there's loads of crap sites on the internet where you may just abuse and offend any other person in what seems to be (but fortunately not is) total anonimity. this is indeed a threatening scenario.

also, to come back to the situation in austria: your member at the european commission, johannes hahn, wasn't he also accused back in 2009 of having copied parts of his phd?

I'm sorry for us being a bit offtopic here as we are talking about german and austrian politicians having failed to act correctly why the main topic is the situation with (ex-)dictators in the arabian states... which you cannot compare of course, the latter one is so far more important that our german/austrian matters - even though the guttenberg case was news of the day for about 2 weeks now, regardless of what else has happened at the same time (incl. gaddafi bombing hisown people), which is a big and massive shame.

I get where your going at Boywithgoldeneyes. This may come down to a fact that we don't have a Politics talk thread much like the general bullshit thread or sports thread. I could be talking about how the Harper Conservatives are not paying attention to major cultural aspects through funding of arenas and festivals while at the same time are promoting deficit reduction while doing shotty accounting practices in regards to advertising and disreputing their own backbenchers.....but that belongs in its own politics topic.

As for everything in the Middle East and North Africa, The question now is who is more crazy with power in the world right now, Gaddafi or Charlie Sheen? Gaddafi has his mercenaries and 'loyalty of the people'. Sheen is now a drug making loads per every episode of his unfunny sitcom modelled after his own life of womanizing.

After Gaddafi falls, who's next? Bahrain? Yemen? Iran?

My other question is how much involvement has the CIA had in starting these revolutions. We have heard the stories about the men who set themselves on fire in Tunisia leading to the revolution and subsequent domino effect across the region.

Hey tyler/outofspace, your comment on cameron is a little out of context to me. He won't be overthrown out of power like these oppressive middle eastern 'dictatorships'. He will most likely eventually get to a non-confidence motion in the commons after people get fed up with lack of services due to cuts. An actual established democratic process, not a revolutionary democratic process. Though I must say it was interesting to be studying in the UK in the fall while the student protests against tuition hikes took place. That and working in an Art Gallery where our funding was cut for one of our programs thanks to the cuts and Arts Council England tightening the noose on grants.

rant and political time over for ryno.

BoywiththeGoldenEyes, on 03 March 2011 - 09:14 PM, said:

yes, hahn is also under suspision, but here in austria polticians never step back. i think we may have lost political culture here. law courts are working together with politicans and so on. big fishes never go to jail here. in austria we have a weaker democracy than in germany, uk or even france.

i think it's cool to have a thread where we can talk about politics. nevertheless, let's come back to topic...

sarkozy has just recognized the libyan rebel opposition

opportunism, like always....