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WATCH: US orchestrates regime change in Libya, using social media

This videos asks a number of questions I have been asking myself.

Where WERE all those Youtube videos purporting to show tanks being used on civilians and suchlike (some posted right here) coming from?

The whole acarvin as the new face of journalism thing, for instance. Does the act of retweeting rumours constitute responsible journalism? Should it be considered as such?  Who are these little square avatars we put our faith in?

I really don’t want to be getting into some kind of Trust No-one zone, but sometimes…

Zen Pyramid with the response in 3… 2…

— By Akira The Don on Thursday, April 7th, 2011

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  • http://twitter.com/ZenPyramid ZenPyramid

    …just asking questions, eh? I’ve spotted a couple of holes big enough to drive the fucking Enterprise through in this one, as we used to say in the days of Next Gen, but it’s too late to get all FFUU FFFFUUU FFFFFFUUUUUU on it now.

    Tomorrow…?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Parlato/783092997 Michael Parlato

    lol Im just mad i have to pay for this… its not like prices at the pump are going down or anything…

  • http://twitter.com/ZenPyramid ZenPyramid

    ….right, here goes.

    ‘Why do we believe everything we read’ if it’s on utube, got a bit of slick editing, and has ‘Clubbed to Death’ playing in the background, eh? Maybe ‘we’ leave our judgement at the door, maybe ‘we’ just keep taking the blue pill, maybe ‘we’ like fairy stories, maybe the worlds too dark and scary, so ‘we’ just pretend there’s only one group of ‘bad guys’ in the world, i dunno. But these fuckers sure don’t know shit!

    First, the style of the video. Now, from the outset, one can spot this as typical conspiracy trolling, because all it does it ask questions, like ‘If Libyans haven’t been able to access video’s to utube for a whole year, why is the media showing them round the clock?’ Well, here are some ‘facts’, pesky troublesome things that just wont go away, no matter how hard you ignore them. (i fucking love facts) The Libyans have been using proxies to bypass the internet censorship in their country for years. They can bypass the Libyan ISP by changing they’re settings to Google’s one (8.8.8.8) to allow them to access uTube. When the crises started, they drove to Egypt to upload the videos. And then more people started getting their hands on satellite internet receivers, people such a the journalist Mohammed Nabbous who was murdered by the Gaddafi regime recently, and used them. I was personally listening to the World Service, to doctors describing how mercenaries had entered their hospitals in Tripoli and ‘disappeared’ hundreds of wounded from the initial wave of protests on the 17th of February The fucking wounded, for the love of all that’s sacred. That’s about the most despicable thing they could have done. I still feel like crying when i think about it. And these fucking arseholes that churn out this shit claim that was all CIA agents faking it, do they? Amazingly naive…

    And then there are these so called facts. ‘Hundreds of thousands of Libyan twitter accounts appeared, tweeting in English about #Feb17 pouring out thousands of videos, which have since been discounted, such as the use of air strikes to bomb civilians, and the hiring of African Mercenaries.’ Well, there weren’t ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of accounts, that’s a blatant and gargantuan over exaggeration. Interestingly, i was following many twitter feeds from Libya the day of the air strikes, and the very people these fucking troll scum are claiming spread the rumours are actually the ones that were first to discount them. How so? BECAUSE THEY WERE FUCKING THERE!!! And plenty of Sub Saharan mercenaries have been picked up in Libya recently, by rebel forces. Some still have their passports, most don’t, because the Gaddafi secret police took them away from them, and ordered them to fight.

    The video actually quotes Gaddafi as a reliable source, and claims the media some how paint him as a delusional fool! I’m sorry, but was i the ONLY one watching the Mad Dog (as the Libyans call him) banging on for an hour or more about al-Qaeda feeding LSD pills to the youth, and all that garbage? And the western media somehow invented this? GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!!

    But after this poit, the video really becomes pretty fucking (FFFUUU FFFFFFFUUUUUUU) insulting, by claiming that there were NO anti-Gaddafi rallies in Tripoli, and that ‘in fact’ the pro Gaddafi rallies were hidden by the media. ‘They are chanting, the people are happy, but Al Jeezera knows nothing’ the asinine little cunts have typed over a particularly vocal looking pro Gaddafi rally. I WATCHED THAT RALLY ON AL JEEZERA, YOU ARE LYING PRO GADDAFI TROLL SCUM, GET THE FFUU FFFUUU FFFFFUUUU FFFFFFFUUUUUU *ck OUTTA HERE, AAAARRGGGHHHH!!!!

    ‘Why are all the accounts in English?’, again, WTF? They ARN’T, do some fucking research, troll scum. Perhaps it might be something to do with the fact that Twitter only feed you English feeds, and more appropriately those from your closest geographical/cultural area, you fuckwits. I personally saw many Arabic accounts, as i cast my all perceiving mother fucking EYE over t’interwebz.

    ‘Why do they all have the same icon?’ Well, they don’t, but many use the Libyan flag, the real one. It’s their symbol for the Libya that existed before Gaddafi, and provides an obvious visual link for those interested in sourcing accounts from Libyans. (I also like the subtext that the stupid troll scum have implied, that the CIA can’t find more than one image for Libya, and have given the game away by their foolishly bereft internet skills. So which is it, troll scum, are they an awesome world domineering power capable of manufacturing huge cultural change using social media, or a bunch of hopeless internet virgins, who can’t find more than one image for Libya? Eh? Well? WHO’S ASKING THE FUCKING QUESTIONS NOW, TROLL SCUM?)

    ‘If he’s so popular, why do so many people support him?’ You have GOT to be kidding, right, troll scum? Do you have ANY idea how a police state actually works? You bang on and on all day about ‘sheeple’ and ‘shills’, but when presented with the real thing , your puny minds (what there is of them) conveniently glaze over. THESE are the people who are on the TOP of the shit heap, the ones closest to Gaddafi, they’re crowing loud and long, because they’re hoping some bloody idiot out there’s gonna believe them, and start posting fucking retarded utube videos about all these poor people in Tripoli who just want to get back to they old lives (of arse fucking and torturing the rest of the populace). And you FUCKING retards did. UN-FUCKING BELIEVABLE….

    And don’t think the same bastards can’t organise the odd rally or two in other countries, especially those with strong financial and economic ties to Libya (do some FUCKING homework). Hang on, i just noticed, the troll scum are quoting a bunch of SERBIANS! Well, in case you weren’t paying attention twenty years ago, the Serbians were the last bunch of evil fuckers to get twatted by NATO and so forth, and they would just LOVE to prove that the Libyan government is the victim of some sortta ‘conspiracy’ of western powers, and is suffering an unjustified bombing campaign, as they could then claim that THEY were the true victims in the Yugoslav Wars. NOTHING, by the way, could be further from the truth. Yup a definite case of grinding your axe on someone else’s problems, that is…

    As for Nelson Mandala, Gaddafi was one of the only World Leaders to support him, and helped fund the ANC. There is no evidence Mandala ‘still’ supports him. Great article here, also includes a bit on the African Mercenaries question: http://woyingi.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/gaddafi-mandela-african-mercenaries/

    Christ, how much more of this drivel is there…

    Not much, as it goes, they show a few websites that support Gaddafi (but i thought we couldn’t trust social networks? Gee, i’m so confused…) and then end on Sayf al-Islam Gaddafi telling everyone it’s a plot by the west. Well that’s me convinced… NOT!!!! You’d have thought after the Bush family raped their country over a period of two decades, that American conspiracy theorists might be a little more clued up as to how a family regime can totally pwn a country. OBVIOUSLY FUCKING NOT!!!

    Will that do, Adam…?