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[Dreams-Visions]

Damn what a way to go.

word.

I can't imagine.

 

[YoungHav]

bring on Resident Evil 6.

 

[7aged]

The Egyptians are stirring. There is a big campaign going on to mobilise opposition. They've even set a date for la vache qui rit's ousting: 25 January.

Stay tuned...

 

[speculawyer]

The Egyptians are stirring. There is a big campaign going on to mobilise opposition. They've even set a date for la vache qui rit's ousting: 25 January.

Stay tuned...

Indeed . . . more guys immolating. :-/

Egyptian dies after setting himself on fire


By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press – 53 mins ago
CAIRO – A 25-year-old unemployed man died in a hospital on Tuesday after setting himself on fire in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, security officials said, amid a wave of self-immolation attempts possibly inspired by events in Tunisia.
Alexandria resident Ahmed Hashem el-Sayed had been unemployed for a year and suffered from depression and may have been mimicking the Tunisian man who set himself alight last month and set off a popular uprising that deposed the government there, said officials.
The death comes amid a rash of such attempts in Egypt. On Tuesday, two men attempted to set themselves on fire in downtown Cairo, just a day after another man soaked himself in gasoline and burned himself in front of parliament. All three survived, however.
El-Sayed, a construction worker, was on his roof in Alexandria when he slashed his wrists and set himself on fire Monday night, the officials added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. They said el-Sayed has suffered from depression since one of his brothers set himself on fire and died five years ago.
The incidents come as protesters in Mauritania and Algeria also set themselves alight in apparent attempts to copy Tunisian Mohammed Bouazizi, 26, whose self-immolation helped inspire the protests that toppled Tunisia's authoritarian president.
While isolated, the incidents in Egypt, Mauritania and Algeria reflect the growing despair among much of the Arab public which has no real means of expressing its dissatisfaction. They are deeply symbolic means of protest in a region that has little or no tolerance for dissent.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/self_immolations

 

[Ether_Snake]

Glad to hear thos retarded primitive regimes will fall.

 

[LegendofJoe]

yea
the US being all buddy buddy with saudi arabia is disgusting

Saudi Arabia holds a quarter of the world's remaining provable reserves of oil. So regardless of how much you approve of the Saudi leadership it makes strategic sense for the US to maintain a friendly relationship with them because of the extent to which our economy is dependent on oil. It sucks, but as long as oil forms the foundation of the US economy our leadership really has no choice in the matter.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Glad to hear thos retarded primitive regimes will fall.

True, but what will follow? It could be worse and I don't mean US relations. Do we see religious extremisim, secular nationalisn, socialists, democracies, hybrids, new Yugoslavia's? Still like Iraq the road to democracy is bumpy. I hope they can get something like Turkey and not a Saudi Arabian pothole.

 

[DurielBlack]

Glad to hear thos retarded primitive regimes will fall.

To be replaced with equally primitive religion-based government most likely.

 

[wwm0nkey]

Picture from Egypt

 

[Nappuccino]

gonna be hard to surpass the legend

That is really striking with the all that bright orange in the photo... the orange of the flames leading into the orange of the outfits and the smoke covering the mans face where the fire meets the outfits.

Goddamn that photo is filled with something alright.

 

[Instigator]

In all seriousness though I applaud any individual who is willing to put his/her life on the line to make things better for his/her fellows.

Was he really? Or just an impressionable copycat?

I don't see setting yourself on fire to be really honorable in itself. Certainly not something that should be encouraged for whatever cause.

One guy in Tunisia did it and then protests followed. How about following the example of the protest instead of an unnecessary sacrifice? If the grievances in those countries really matter then it should be enough for a revolution.