Gaddafi captured
Laut Reuters und einem Offiziellen des „National Transitional Council“ wurde Gaddafi gefangen genommen: „Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured and wounded near his hometown of Sirte at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid said on Thursday.“
Al Jazeera: Libyan TV reports ‘capture’ of Gaddafi: „Libyan TV is reporting that Muammar Gaddafi has been captured by NTC fighters in Sirte. Jamal abu-Shaalah, a field commander of NTC, told Al Jazeera that the toppled leader had been seized, but it was not clear whether he was dead or alive.“
Tagesschau: Übergangsrat meldet Gefangennahme – Libyens Ex-Machthaber Gaddafi gefasst
[update] Reuters: „Libya’s Gaddafi dies of wounds suffered in capture near Sirte – senior NTC military official“
[update] Hier Al Jazeeras Liveblog, von dort: „Libyan officials and NATO say they cannot confirm reports from revolutionary fighters that Muammar Gaddafi was captured or killed in the fall of his hometown.“
[update] Hier der Liveticker von Reuters zum Thema.
[update] „An NTC Spokesman has told Sky News that Gaddafi is indeed dead, and his body should be arriving in Misratah shortly.“
BBC: „A fighter in Sirte has told the BBC his account of the reported capture. Mohammed, a young fighter in his 20s, wearing a blue T-shirt and a New York Yankees baseball cap, said he had found the colonel hiding in a hole in the ground in the city of Sirte. He told the BBC that the former Libyan leader said to him simply: “Don’t shoot”.“
[update] Der Guardian hat ein Foto der Festnahme (halb-gory): „It is claimed that this image, from a mobile phone, shows the arrest of Gaddafi.“
„Abdelhakim Bel Haj, the NTC military chief, told Al Jazeera Arabic that news of Muammar Gaddafi’s death has been confirmed. Bel Haj is the military commander who led revolutionary forces into Tripoli.“
[update] Böse.
[update] „Al Arabiya says Gaddafi’s corpse arrived in Misrata, says will be allowed to film it, citing correspondent“
[update] Titanic:
German E-Mail-Sniffing in Gaddafis Bunker
Interessantes Detail aus Gaddafis Bunker, Hervorhebung von mir:
Atop a desk that had been kicked over, there was a brochure for a German company advertising a program for intercepting e-mails and sniffing out Internet protocol addresses.
“This illustrates the mind-set of a freak,” Khaderi said of Gaddafi. “He was always living in fear. He has prepared himself for this moment.”
Gaddafi bunkers and tunnels an elaborate setup (via Fefe)
Nicht zuletzt deshalb könnte man auch noch bis Oktober die Petition zum Verbot der Vorratsdatenspeicherung mitzeichnen, mehr dazu bei Daniel.
Comics with Problems: Daffy Qaddafi – Malice in Wonderland
Comics with Problems ist Ethan Persoff schon seit Jahren laufende Sammlung der wtf-igsten WTF-Comics im Internet überhaupt. Der neueste Eintrag: Daffy Qaddafi, ein Stückchen US-Propagandageschichte aus den 80ern mit Gaddafi, Reagan, Einhörnern und Daffy Duck: „Anonymously credited U.S. agitprop where it’s alluded Qaddafi has sex with livestock, is jackshit insane, and attends a “Tea Party” with Ronald Reagan.
Featuring Tattoo from Fantasy Island, and Daffy Duck.“
1986 comic book, credited to “Comics USA”. Beautiful nonsense. No information on artist and writer, and only comic to have been produced by company … and despite weird presentation is quite researched and specific. Which is to say if it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. (in this instance, the duck being govt agitprop)
PROBLEM(s) DEALT WITH: Issued during peak of rivalry between Gaddafi and Reagan, or as the burlesque song title from 1955 says “We’re Stuck Between Those Two Assholes (again)”
Libyan Rebels find Gaddafis Condoleezza Rice-Shrine:
Rebels find album of Condoleezza Rice’s photos in Gadhafi compound: „Libyan rebels rummaging through Moammar Gadhafi’s compound discovered a photo album with pictures of Condoleezza Rice, who has long fascinated the Libyan leader. […] ‘Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much.’“ Ob Gaddafi mal im Weißen Haus angerufen hat und „Es reibe sich jetzt mit der Lotion ein, und legt sie wieder in den Korb“ sagte, wollten offizielle Stellen nicht bestätigen. (via The Awl)
Libyan comedian says harder to joke without Gaddafi
Einer der Arbeitslosen nach den Aufständen in Libyen. Von Reuters:
For 35 years Milood Amroni, Libya’s top comedian, used humor as a weapon to poke fun, ever so carefully, at the government of Muammar Gaddafi. But an uprising wrested Amroni’s home, the eastern city of Benghazi, from Gaddafi’s rule months ago. While the revolution means Amroni is finally able to joke openly without fear of disappearing into prison, he says he’s had enough of political jokes and wants to move on.
“I felt I had to start again from the very beginning,” Amroni told Reuters. “I felt that if I make jokes about Gaddafi they wouldn’t be good jokes because he’s too weak now and it’s not good to make jokes about a weak guy,” said the tall, pencil-thin 50-year-old.
Bookmarks for July 18th: iPhone Fireflies, Dune without Dialoge, Free Running in Gaza
Fireflies HD | crowdflow blog: The following videos show the movement of 880 iPhones in Europe in April 2011.
The story of 15 Second Copy for the C-64 « pagetable.com
The story of FCopy for the C-64 « pagetable.com
The Complete History Of Video Games On "The Simpsons" | Complex
AnonPlus – The Anonymous Social Networking Site.
Dune with no dialog – Boing Boing
A complete guide to the planets’ birthdays
This Is War: Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam — Part 4
Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight | Popular Science
Ken Reid – World Wide Weirdies (1970′s): Ken Reid's "World Wide Weirdies" series was originally published in the comic Whoopee!
Visual.ly | Infographics & Visualizations: Infographics and data visualizations are shifting the way people find and experience stories, creating a new way of seeing the world of data. They help communicate complex ideas in a clear, compact and beautiful way, taking deep data and presenting it in visual shorthand. We’ve collected the best examples on the web and gathered them for you to reference, share, and enjoy.
The Final Image: This film blog is a collection of screenshots of the final thought, le mise-en-scene finale, or the final shot of films I've seen.
Little Annie Fanny – Episodes 18-21 ~ Playboy January-July/1965: Artwork by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, Russ Heath and Frank Frazetta
A Geek’s Journal-1976: What if there had been blogs in 1976? I would most definitely have had one and this might well have been it. This blog is based on my actual journal kept in 1976.
HARREY PODDER: Say the Magic Word – YouTube: What would happen in the Harry Potter world if their spells didn't quite go the way they meant them to? Take a look and see.
Study Shows Parrot Parents Name Their Children | Geekosystem: Each parrot has its own signature call that others use to address it, which is the parrot equivalent of having a name. But where do these “names” come from? New research has shown that just like with human babies, parrot parents name their offspring, even before the babies can communicate themselves.
Sex-Ed DVD Selling Fast in Iran – The Daily Beast: Iran’s first-ever sex-education DVD is wildly popular. Babak Dehghanpisheh writes that the film’s success reveals a thirst for information inside the Islamic republic.
Free Running Gaza – Artscape – Al Jazeera English: Two young Palestinians embrace an art form and athletic discipline that offers an escape from life under occupation.
See something or say something – a set on Flickr: Where people post geotagged photos to Flickr from and geotagged tweets to Twitter from.
Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google?: In the age of Google and Wikipedia, an almost unlimited amount of information is available at our fingertips, and with the rise of smartphones, many of us have nonstop access. The potential to find almost any piece of information in seconds is beneficial, but is this ability actually negatively impacting our memory? The authors of a paper that is being released by Science Express describe four experiments testing this. Based on their results, people are recalling information less, and instead can remember where to find the information they have forgotten.
How to throw your arms in the air, like you just don’t care, in Libya
Revolutionology, ziemlich interessantes Blog eines Soziologen in Libyen. Und von da, wie man in Libyen richtig zu House abgeht:
It’s 2:15 pm on March 31. We’re in a car headed toward the front, which is west of Ajdabiyah. Muhammad, our driver, slips a CD in the car stereo. Arab house music comes on. Joao, a Portuguese photographer sitting behind me, starts pumping his fist in the air to the beat.
Muhammad (in Arabic, to me): “Tell him not to do that, man.”
Me: “Why not?”
Muhammad, laughing: “The rebels will launch a rocket at us.”
Me: “Huh?”
Muhammad: “The fist-pump in the air — that’s what Gaddafi and his guys do. The rebels do this [he puts two fingers up in a "V"]. Stick with the two fingers.”(Muhammad changes the CD.)
Panorama-Video from Libya: My Freedom or Death
(Vimeo Direktcondition, via cpluv)
Kriegsberichterstatter Dennis Danfung hat ein „360° interactive video system“ erfunden, Patrick Chauvel hat in Libyen ein erstes Video gedreht, das gleichzeitig die Technologie vorstellt. „Not under this fucking dictator.“
Von Condition ONE:
Condition ONE is a mobile media technology company developing the tools and platform for leading filmmakers, photojournalists and visual storytellers to create powerful immersive experiences for next generation devices to engage a global audience.
The Libyan desert near Ras Lanouf. March, 2011.
Demonstrations have given way to a bloody conflict. Battle lines sway back and forth as the Benghazi-centered ragtag rebels combat Tripoli’s mercenaries and loyalists. Pro-Gaddafi forces mount their first coordinated offensive, exposing the rebels as woefully untrained and unorganized. Defiance turns to anguish when casualties mount. Slivers of hope rest on defecting army generals and foreign intervention.
Photojournalist Patrick Chauvel brings us this immersive video from the rebels’ front lines. “It’s a very sad story,” he says. “These guys are students, they’re hairdressers, they’re bakers, bankers, philosophers, teachers. They are no military.”
Three little Dictatorpigs and the Angry Birds Revolution
(Youtube Direktrevolution, via Kotaku)
Die Revolutionen im Nahen Osten nacherzählt mit einem Angry Birds-Cartoon und dem Soundtrack aus Disneys Three Little Pigs. Grandios!
Photographer John Moore on Arab World Revolutions
(Vimeo Direktrevolutions, via KFMW)
Fotojournalist John Moore erzählt von seinen Erfahrungen der letzten paar Wochen in Bahrain, Ägypten und Libyen, hier der dazugehörende Artikel auf PBS: Photographer Reflects on ‘Epic’ Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World.
[update] Bilderstrecke von John Moore auf Life: Three Revolutions, One Photographer
Interactive Revolution Timeline
Schöne interaktive Timeline vom Guardian zu den Protesten und Revolutionen in Nordafrika und im Nahen Osten: Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests (via MeFi)
Inside Gaddafis Mansion in London
Dass libysche Aktivisten die Londoner Villa von Gaddafis Sohn besetzten, habt Ihr vielleicht mitbekommen. Die wurden jetzt von Laurie Penny interviewt und sie hat sich die Bude dabei gleich mal angesehen.
“My family had to leave Libya just to survive,” says a young, bearded man in spectacles, perching awkwardly on a white leather sofa. We are in the front room of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb, recently expropriated by activists in alliance with Libyan exiles. An hour earlier, I had passed through an open window near some ugly, imported ferns belonging to Muammar Gaddafi’s son and heir, having been invited to meet the members of the Free Libyan Embassy.
We drink stewed tea from Saif’s best china and eat cheese sandwiches using his silver cutlery, while the young man, Abdulla, tells me about how his uncle was “disappeared” by Saif’s father. “In Libya, people disappear all the time. There was a prison massacre where 1,200 people died. They poured cement over the bodies.” Abdulla nervously adjusts his glasses. “It’s important that people know we’re not creating a civil war for no reason.
Inside the Saif house – The UK home of Colonel Gaddafi’s son is in the hands of Libyan exiles. This is what it’s like from within (via BoingBoing)
#18DaysInEgypt – Crowdsourced Revolution-Doku
#18DaysInEgypt wird eine Doku über die Revolution in Ägypten und die Rolle des Internets dabei und die soll genau so entstehen, wie wir das ganze Geschehen mitbekommen haben: Über Twitter, Hashtags und Social-Media. Von der Website zum Film:
We want to tell the story of the Egyptian revolution with the same tools that helped share it with the world in realtime. We want #18DaysInEgypt to be a crowd-sourced interactive documentary of the events in Egypt from #Jan25 to #Feb11.
We aim to create a unique media experience using everything you created. Imagine a timeline that includes yours and everyone else’s shared experience as the revolution unfolded. We want the audience to relive the experience through media you and your fellow Egyptians created- minute by minute.
Mehr zum Thema bei GOOD: #18DaysInEgypt, A Crowd-Sourced, Social Media Fueled Documentary in the Making und die Links der letzten Tage halbwegs thematisch sortiert nach dem Klick.
Aufstand in Libyen (2)
Hier, was ich gestern und heute morgen zum Thema gelesen habe:
Libyan city dubbed ‘Free Benghazi’ as anti-Gaddafi troops take control: „Libya’s second city, Benghazi, appears to have fallen beyond the control of Muammar Gaddafi, with the local military defying his regime and monarchy-era flags flying from government buildings.“ (via Boing Boing), NPR: Provisional Government Forming In Eastern Libya
spOnline: Liveticker, Fotostrecke: Reise durch Ost-Libyen: Der fragile Moment der Freiheit,
Umsturz in Ost-Libyen – Tobruk feiert die flüchtige Freiheit: „Im Osten Libyens hat Gaddafi die Macht weitgehend verloren, die Sicherheitskräfte sind geflüchtet. Bürgermilizen kontrollieren Städte wie Tobruk und die wichtigsten Straßen. Doch in ihren Jubel mischt sich Angst vor einem Gegenschlag des taumelnden Regimes.“
Rüstungsexporte – Wie Europa Libyen mit Waffen versorgt: „In Italien kaufte er Hubschrauber, in Malta Pistolen und in Deutschland Kommunikationstechnik: Nach dem Ende des Embargos 2004 erhielt Libyens Diktator Muammar al-Gaddafi aus zahlreichen EU-Ländern Waffen – die er nun gegen sein Volk richtet.“
The Best of Wikileaks’ Qaddafi Dirt: „Qadhafi appears to rely heavily on XXXXXXXXXXXX and reportedly cannot travel with his senior Ukrainian nurse, Galyna XXXXXXXXXXXX. He also appears to have an intense dislike or fear of staying on upper floors, reportedly prefers not to fly over water, and seems to enjoy horse racing and flamenco dancing.“
Der hier gehört nur scheinbar nicht hierher, schöner Kommentar auf Dangerous Minds, der die Proteste in Ägypten, Libyen in Zusammenhang mit denen in Wisconsin setzt und wahrscheinlich den Kern der global aufflammenden Aufstände recht gut trifft: The relationship between the labor movement and wealth creation in America.
What the protestors in Tahriri Square as well as the public Union workers in Winsconsin have in common is the rejection of a commonly repeated narrative about how wealth is created. In this commonly repeated narrative, it is necessary to concentrate capital in the hands of a few, who will then use that capital to create businesses and generate wealth, which will trickle down to the many. In order to get this alleged wealth-pump moving, impediments to wealth concentration such as labor movements must be removed, and indeed (according to the common false narrative), the history of wealth generation in developed countries such as the USA is precisely the history of overcoming these pesky impediments. What the protestors in both Wisconsin as well as the Arab world have done is reject that narrative as well as the bogus and half-baked economic theory that is often sold as part of it.
A corrollary to this theory of wealth generation is that civil liberties such as free speech are a luxury, and should be suspended for the sake of the greater good, until wealth starts to flow and incomes rise significantly. This is a particularly pernicious part of the package, because no doubt countless men and women workers have resigned themselves to a life of incredible toil in order to (they believe) move their society forward. Inequities, injustices as well as the suspension of civil liberties were tolerated because they appeared necessary to move their country ahead into greater levels of wealth for everyone.
What the third world protestors in Tahriri Square and elsewhere in the Arab world have done, along with their compatriots in the Wisconsin State Capital, is reject this set of lies and the false either/or choice it presents of civil liberty versus economic progress. Though they may not be able to articulate it, the protestors have finally looked upon the general character of those that hold the levers of power and chose to regard the false choice they have proferred as a lie, which it is.
Mehr:
Why Libya Fights: The Crimes of Gaddafi
Two Libyan Pilots Eject After Refusing to Bomb Civilians
Atlantics In Focus: A Bloody Week in Libya
Massenproteste gegen Lebensmittelpreise auch in Indien – Hunderttausende demonstrierten gegen steigende Lebenshaltungskosten in der Hauptstadt
“Die Menschen brauchen Demokratie. Punkt!” – Interview mit dem libyschen Ex-Dschihadisten Noman Benotman über die libysche Revolution und die viel beschworene islamistische Gefahr
Über Libyen zurück in die Rezession? – Die Warnungen mehren sich, dass der hohe Ölpreis tief zurück in die Krise führt
Italienische Regierung warnt vor einem “biblischen Exodus” aus Libyen – Der Ost Libyens scheint “befreit” zu sein, die Machtbasis von Gadaffi schrumpft
Aufstand in Libyen
Ich hatte die letzten Tage nur wenig Zeit und lese mich grade erst in das Thema ein, kennt Ihr wahrscheinlich alles schon, diese Linksammlung ist eher für mich. Sehr guter Startpunkt und toller Überblick über das komplette Thema beim Guardian: Arab and Middle East protests.
HR2 Der Tag hatte in den letzten Tagen gleich eine ganze Reihe mit Sendungen zum Thema: Bauchtanz und Kopfgeburten – Unser Orientbild, Die Revolutionsberater oder Wie Otpor Widerständler schult, Arabisches Domino – Wann dämmert?s den Despoten?: „Die arabische Revolution greift immer weiter um sich. Nach dem Königreich Bahrain haben die Unruhen nun auch Libyen erreicht, wo Staatschef Gaddafi seit 40 Jahren diktatorisch regiert. Die Demonstranten, die schon seit vergangenen Mittwoch gegen die Staatsführung protestieren, sollen inzwischen einige Städte oder Stadtteile unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht haben. Polizei und Militär gehen brutal gegen die Regimegegner vor, rund dreihundert Menschen sollen getötet worden sein. Die europäischen Staaten verurteilen die Gewalt gegen Demonstranten, fürchten aber gleichzeitig die Destabilisierung der Region. Despotendämmerung in der Ölregion?“
Telepolis:
Stürzt auch Gaddafi?: „Das Regime scheint die Kontrolle über einige Städte verloren zu haben, derweilen halten sich die europäischen Regierungen wieder einmal mit Kritik am Regime und der Unterstützung der Regimegegner zurück.“
Demokratie- oder Hungerrevolten?: „Es ist erstaunlich, wie wenig die derzeitigen Revolten von Tunesien bis Jemen auch als Hungerrevolten wahrgenommen werden. […] Denn bevor die Finanzkrise richtig ausbrach, waren die Lebensmittelpreise spekulativ explodiert. Die Krise ist aber noch nicht vorbei und schon habe die Preise für Grundnahrungsmittel die Preisrekorde von einst gebrochen. In der Krise haben aber viele Menschen ihre Grundlagen aufgezehrt, die Arbeitslosigkeit ist gestiegen und zudem wurden einer Generation in vielen Ländern die Zukunftshoffnungen genommen, weshalb hier eine explosive Mischung entstanden ist.“
Gaddafis Regime wankt: „Nachdem offenbar Soldaten sich mit den Protestierenden vereinen und die Proteste auf Tripolis übergegriffen haben, scheint sich Gaddafi nicht mehr lange halten zu können“.
Gaddafi: Kampf bis zum letzten Blutstropfen: „Lieber als Märtyer in Libyen sterben als die Macht aufgegeben – in seiner neuen Rede stellt Gaddafi klar, dass er gegen die Proteste weiter mit aller Macht und Härte vorgehen wird“
Gaddafis Sohn verspricht ein “neues Libyen”, Luftangriffe auf Regimegegner in Tripolis und anderen Städten, “Ich bin hier, um zu zeigen, dass ich in Tripolis bin und nicht in Venezuela”: Mit einem sehr seltsamen TV-Auftritt meldet sich der libysche Staatspräsident Gaddafi zu Wort, Berichterstattung für die Führer – Wie arabischsprachige Medien den Aufstand der Araber wiedergeben, Saudi-Arabien: Unterstützung des bahrainischen Königs notfalls mit Waffengewalt?,
BBC: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appears on state TV
Mehr:
Middle East Protests – Tweets Mapped (via BoingBoing)
Photos from the Protest at the Libyan Embassy in Cairo
Über die Rolle des Internets für den Umbruch in der arabischen Welt
Libyan Mirage F1 Fighter Jets Escape to Malta After Refusing to Bomb Protesters
Egyptian Names His Firstborn Daughter “Facebook”
Iran’s Forces Battle Protests Nationwide
Anti-government protests around the world (big photo gallery)
Bahraini army murders peaceful demonstrators
