The 2011 Uprisings

[Gramaisc]

What about Burma? Chechnya? Zimbabwe? Colombia? Tibet? Kashmir? Somalia? The Basque region? Alphabetical order to be fair?..

 

[John Marwood]

...and Kenya, Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and of course Penkridge Market

 

[Gramaisc]

Surely Penkridge Market would have to be Wednesday.

North Korea? Aceh? West Irian? Mexico? LRA in Uganda?

 

[John Marwood]

Algeria, Angola, Anglo Bubble Gum factory, Anglepoise Lamp factory, Anglia ( Ford ) factory, William Salt Works Library, Amasall Club, Risoles factory..

Ian Dury would have wrote a song about it if he were still ere

 

[John Marwood]

Its rather like an International Gang Bang..

The French had a go

Then The Brits

Now the Americans

Is there a procedure for recalling Nobel Peace Pyzizz?

 

[Gramaisc]

Is there a procedure for recalling Nobel Peace Pyzizz?

Never seemed the same after Henry Kissinger got one - as Tom Lehrer said - 'Satire is dead'.

 

[joshua]

And so it begins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/19/operation-odyssey-dawn-tomahawks-libya

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/libya-the-un-strikes-back-2247223.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12776418

 

[Gramaisc]

My father spent some time at El Adem, back in the days of King Idris, when we still felt it necessary to tell people how they should spell their own place-names. He says that a declaration of a 'no-fly zone' would have got everybody's vote then..

 

[John Marwood]

another aspect is that in these times of economic woe the arab nations in league with washington / the pentagon do spend a lot of money on weapons - propping up the industrial military complex.

............How a tiny kingdom strong-armed the US.............

Bahrain

WAR between Saudi Arabia and Iran by proxy

 

[basil]

Comment from some US relatives is " do the fu*cker and do him now'" ...... there is real sentiment out there.....

 

[Withnail]

It seems a curious 'no-fly' zone that blows up tanks. I'm not hugely knowledgeable in the field of modern weaponry but even i know that tanks don't fly.

 

[basil]

It seems a curious 'no-fly' zone that blows up tanks. I'm not hugely knowledgeable in the field of modern weaponry but even i know that tanks don't fly.

Res 1973 is not a 'no-fly' zone......

 

[Withnail]

Indeed, it is so much more than that. Maybe too much more than that. Without the maybe.

 

[basil]

Comment from some US relatives is " do the fu*cker and do him now'" ...... there is real sentiment out there.....

I think 'pay-back ' is another US saying.......

 

[Withnail]

Ironic really, considering Gaddafi probably feels he's owed back pay.

 

[Gramaisc]

It seems a curious 'no-fly' zone that blows up tanks. I'm not hugely knowledgeable in the field of modern weaponry but even i know that tanks don't fly.

Antonov A-40 Kryla Tanka

You can't be too careful, apparently...

 

[Withnail]

Whilst grounded such a vehicle must be frightfully tricky to spot from the sky.

It's a good job we have Nimrods to spot them. Er...

 

[Gramaisc]

Whilst grounded such a vehicle must be frightfully tricky to spot from the sky.

It's a good job we have Nimrods to spot them. Er...

The wings are demountable..

 

[Withnail]

How quickly?

 

[Gramaisc]

How quickly?

When somebody is lobbing bangy things at you, pretty bloody sharpish, I would imagine..