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essqueue
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18/02/2011 08:58:49
Sticky Wicket wrote:
Sky news has two reports, one from a journo in Bahrain, very damming and one from the Crown Prince, who everyone is waiting to step up as he is very liked. But now it's all the wests fault for supporting that country that can not be mentioned. Got to love the logic.
that was not what you wrote last night. have I lost it?
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Sticky Wicket
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18/02/2011 08:31:41
Sky news has two reports, one from a journo in Bahrain, very damming and one from the Crown Prince, who everyone is waiting to step up as he is very liked. But now it's all the wests fault for supporting that country that can not be mentioned. Got to love the logic.
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essqueue
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17/02/2011 22:25:06
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357834/Bahrain-protests-Girl-2-feared-4-dead-riot-police-crackdown.html
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Pomegranate
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17/02/2011 19:47:26
Singapore Sling wrote:
I wouldn't dismiss problems anywhere. Especially not in coutries where the locals are outrageously outranked by foreigners and where the loss of identity and the impact of the recession IS creating tension . . .
This doesn't apply to Bahrain though, the locals are in the majority - petrol stations and Starbucks are served by Bahrainis......in Bahrain is the Shia majority /Sunni minority/ Sunni rule issue that is causing the problems.
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 19:04:48
Izzy99 wrote: Sticky Wicket wrote:
Izzy goodness your post sounds just like the ones i have posted! LOL AA don't think UAE will get involved. not really.
i disagree.
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Izzy99
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17/02/2011 18:55:51
Sticky Wicket wrote:
Izzy goodness your post sounds just like the ones i have posted! LOL AA don't think UAE will get involved.
not really.
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 18:41:17
Izzy goodness your post sounds just like the ones i have posted! LOL AA don't think UAE will get involved.
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AmyAus82
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17/02/2011 18:24:48
Izzy99 wrote: essqueue wrote:
also disagree Izzy, this is the worst they have seen. I have seen the pics and plenty that have now been blocked. This is not one of their little flare ups.
If you use twitter then follow ammar456 he is always in the know. Am not sure if its worse than the ones in the '90's or not, and am not saying its not bad but what i am saying is that i dont believe that this will last more than a few days and that the Bahraini gov, along with the GCC nations (already being reported that Saudi and Kuwaiti armed forces are assisting) will allow it to be more than a bl00dy protest. I believe that this will be crushed, with many arrests in the dead of night..... The gov will make some concession (already started with a BD 1000 payout to all families) but i agree with DesertRose that this will not be the big one.... The GCC has too much to lose if the gov / King is overthrown. edited by Izzy99 on 17/02/2011
Surely UAE will step in, particular Dubai, given the connecting families...
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Izzy99
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17/02/2011 18:19:39
essqueue wrote:
also disagree Izzy, this is the worst they have seen. I have seen the pics and plenty that have now been blocked. This is not one of their little flare ups.
If you use twitter then follow ammar456 he is always in the know.
Am not sure if its worse than the ones in the '90's or not, and am not saying its not bad but what i am saying is that i dont believe that this will last more than a few days and that the Bahraini gov, along with the GCC nations (already being reported that Saudi and Kuwaiti armed forces are assisting) will allow it to be more than a bl00dy protest.
I believe that this will be crushed, with many arrests in the dead of night.....
The gov will make some concession (already started with a BD 1000 payout to all families) but i agree with DesertRose that this will not be the big one....
The GCC has too much to lose if the gov / King is overthrown.
edited by Izzy99 on 17/02/2011
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mum2girls
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17/02/2011 18:19:04
It seems to be serious, DH's company are preparing to evacuate their employees, don't think that has happened before.
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simpleasabc
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17/02/2011 18:09:33
Sticky Wicket wrote:
Tomorrow will be an interesting day.
Ah, the so-called Chinese curse..
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 18:05:11
Tomorrow will be an interesting day.
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DesertRose1958
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17/02/2011 17:53:09
essqueue wrote:
also disagree Izzy, this is the worst they have seen. I have seen the pics and plenty that have now been blocked. This is not one of their little flare ups.
If you use twitter then follow ammar456 he is always in the know.
I agree this is worse than the usual flare ups, but I only have the word of my son who works there to be able to say this.
I dont however think its the big one just yet.
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essqueue
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17/02/2011 17:16:41
also disagree Izzy, this is the worst they have seen. I have seen the pics and plenty that have now been blocked. This is not one of their little flare ups.
If you use twitter then follow ammar456 he is always in the know.
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 16:11:32
Sue62 wrote: Sticky Wicket wrote: Sue62 wrote: Sticky Wicket wrote:
Yes sue that some testing has already been cancelled, the GP2. I said the GP is has a question mark hanging over it.
A quick google will tell you the same the BAH GP is under threat. GP2 is not the Grand Prix lol Please re attach your brain, it seems to be MIA. Thanks but the Asia GP2 still isn't the Formula One Grand Prix. If you are right and the present troubles continue then i daresay the Formula ONE Grand Prix will be cancelled. Just admit you got the two events confused and posted an incorrect statement - easily done when one's brain is detached 
No i didn't get anything confused you misread and iterpreted a post wrong, i stated (quite correctly) the GP is under threat and that testing had already been cancelled if you did a google you would soon find that testing at the track has been cancelled, completely irelevant if it was the testing of Noddy's car, GP2 or GP. This was in response to your posts stating that there were no issues, which there are. Testing has been cancelled because and soley because of the troubles in Bahrain and for no other reason, therefore it is a more than logical deduction to deduce that any racing at the Sakhir circuit be it testing or race is at this point in time under threat and in doubt.
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Sue62
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17/02/2011 16:06:02
Sticky Wicket wrote: Sue62 wrote: Sticky Wicket wrote:
Yes sue that some testing has already been cancelled, the GP2. I said the GP is has a question mark hanging over it.
A quick google will tell you the same the BAH GP is under threat. GP2 is not the Grand Prix lol Please re attach your brain, it seems to be MIA.
Thanks but the Asia GP2 still isn't the Formula One Grand Prix. If you are right and the present troubles continue then i daresay the Formula ONE Grand Prix will be cancelled. Just admit you got the two events confused and posted an incorrect statement - easily done when one's brain is detached
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 15:55:36
Sue62 wrote: Sticky Wicket wrote:
Yes sue that some testing has already been cancelled, the GP2. I said the GP is has a question mark hanging over it.
A quick google will tell you the same the BAH GP is under threat. GP2 is not the Grand Prix lol
Please re attach your brain, it seems to be MIA.
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 15:54:53
Sue62 wrote: GP2 and Formula 1 Grand Prix are two different events
Not when they are at the same track in the same country and within a short period of time of each other, the GP2 was not cancelled because of the weather was it?
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Sue62
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17/02/2011 15:54:46
Sticky Wicket wrote:
Yes sue that some testing has already been cancelled, the GP2. I said the GP is has a question mark hanging over it.
A quick google will tell you the same the BAH GP is under threat.
GP2 is not the Grand Prix lol
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 15:54:01
Yes sue that some testing has already been cancelled, the GP2. I said the GP is has a question mark hanging over it.
A quick google will tell you the same the BAH GP is under threat.
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Sue62
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17/02/2011 15:52:54
GP2 and Formula 1 Grand Prix are two different events
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Sue62
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17/02/2011 15:51:00
Sticky Wicket wrote: Sue62 wrote:
Can't find anywhere that says anything concerning the Grand Prix has already been cancelled... It hasn't been cancelled but it is in doubt at this time, wait and see game.
But you said it was.........
Sticky Wicket
Posts 344 Sue62 wrote:
[Final testing for the new F1 season is due to take place at Sakhir from 3-6 March, with the opening Grand Prix taking place there on Sunday, 13 March.
Bahrain Grand Prix officials pledged on Wednesday to deliver a safe event.
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So now do a google and find out what is really going on and the fact that testing has already been cancelled.
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 15:47:22
It is and it isn't the divide, strong influences coming in from Iran that don't help but they have always been tough on any Imans that get caught preaching that line. It has masses to do with the poverty, looking at their UAE neighbours and the PM. Bahrainis are pretty laid back they just want a fair deal, hence the King has rushed through payment of 1000 BD to everyone now. LOL "King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, the premier’s nephew, has ordered an increase in food subsidies and social welfare payments, and a grant of 1,000 dinars ($2,653) to each Bahraini family."
You do know who the richest man in teh world is reported (not) to be?
edited by Sticky Wicket on 17/02/2011
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AmyAus82
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17/02/2011 15:38:05
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3141796.htm
One mans' belief as to why it started... 'No, it's not ***** v Sunni'... hm, yeah , right...
And, with the GP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1357908/Bahrain-Grand-Prix-threat-GP2-Asia-practice-scrapped.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 15:35:55
Sue62 wrote:
Can't find anywhere that says anything concerning the Grand Prix has already been cancelled...
It hasn't been cancelled but it is in doubt at this time, wait and see game.
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 15:35:16
Things have moved on since then Izzy the PM is older, New King and the Crown prince is on the scene, more democracy has been allowed from the old Amir's day and there is a new influence from Iran that has infiltrated into parliament. For sure it will be clamped down on but with other ME countries having fought and won their cause don't be so sure that some form of change will not happen in BAH. A major one would be the PM stepping down, the country is in a financial mess they can not afford trouble and companies pulling out at this time. I mentioned this country when the protests started a month or two back, it's been brewing for years.
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Singapore Sling
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17/02/2011 15:34:13
I also disagree with Izzy. The whole region is going through a spirit of revolution with Egyptian and Tunisian regimes already toppled, the dynamics this time around is affected by external as well as internal dynamics.
edited by Singapore Sling on 17/02/2011
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Sue62
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17/02/2011 15:32:04
Can't find anywhere that says anything concerning the Grand Prix has already been cancelled...
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Izzy99
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17/02/2011 15:29:16
Sticky Wicket wrote: Izzy99 wrote:
But this is not unusual in Bahrain, they have regular protests and the government react in the same way each time....
F1 is a month away, so although i have heard this in the press, am not sure it will be affect as i really can't see the protests in Bahrain being allowed to last more than this weekend.... and to be honest, the ring leaders will have been / or will be in the process of being rounded up and will be in jail by Sunday morning... No Izzy this is a big one, these are not the little uprisings they have had previously, this is serious stuff that has been planned and prepared for. Lots will be in jail or dead but this has been brewing for years. F1 is in doubt.
Disagree - the same thing happened in the 1990's - with lots killed then, this will be dealt with in the same way (sorry to say).
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Sticky Wicket
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17/02/2011 15:28:50
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/bahrain-gp-in-doubt.html
etc etc etc.
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