Kyrgyzstan election: Protesters storm parliament over vote-rigging claims
Protestors in Kyrgyzstan calling for the country's parliamentary election to be annulled have broken into parliament in the capital, Bishkek.
Footage showed people throwing papers from the building's windows, while others were seen entering the office of President Sooronbai Jeenbekov.
The break-in follows a day of clashes with police, who initially dispersed crowds with water cannon and tear gas.
The clashes come amid allegations of vote-rigging in last Sunday's election.
Following the vote, only four parties out of 16 passed the 7% threshold for entry into parliament, three of which have close ties to President Jeenbekov.
Kyrgyzstan election: 120 taken to hospital following result protest
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @02:56AM (22 children)
Armenia, Azerbaijan bomb each other’s cities [wsws.org]
Armenian-Azerbaijan war turns Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia into a powder keg [wsws.org]
also wswswsws went beta :-(
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @12:23PM (21 children)
Do you have any idea how offensive this is?
100,000,000 dead in the 20th Century under Socialism and ethic cleansing still being practiced by the CCP. The clear distinction between Fascism and Socialism is that socialist expansionism is "internationalism", not "nationalism" because that would be "fascist". A small mercy when the tanks of an occupying force amass on your borders. I know Socialists don't like facts but has it occurred to you that you may as well be linking Stormfront?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @03:32PM (2 children)
The only way to stop fascism is vote for the Biggest Idiot Democrats Ever Nominated.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:40PM (1 child)
You seem to be under the delusion that voting for the Tarded RUMP that Republicans nominated will somehow save you from fascism.
It won't.
Just different brands.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @08:46PM
We already have fascism, voted for by everyone who keeps voting democrat and republican.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @04:21PM
lul
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 06 2020, @08:55PM (16 children)
Wow that's stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @09:22PM (15 children)
You think history [wikipedia.org] is stupid?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 06 2020, @09:32PM (14 children)
And then you link to something Socialism had nothing to do with with. Nice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:17PM (13 children)
The invasion of Poland by both National Socialists and International Socialists had nothing to do with Socialism? Did it not start WWII either?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:31PM (12 children)
And North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
You're not making the point you think you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:44PM (11 children)
"It wasn't real socialism"
Do you have anything better?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 06 2020, @11:46PM (10 children)
You sound like a child. Are you 12, or have you just never read a book?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @12:14AM (9 children)
That's a clear "no" then, you don't have anything better, you don't know anything about the subject and resort to projection.
Why don't you go and read a book, so you don't look foolish in future?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 07 2020, @12:39AM (8 children)
Why don't you read this? [britannica.com]
It does include a few grown-up ideas though so you might struggle a bit, but the key idea is:
But of course the idea that the Nazis were Socialists is really only one invented by the weirdo right wing media in the US over the last few years, as explained here. [abc.net.au]
Just because someone says stuff a lot, doesn't make it true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @02:02AM (7 children)
The "not real Socialism" argument again?
That's an outright lie. National Socialists were Socialists! [independent.co.uk] Socialists are already promoting a disgusting, dishonest and murderous ideology - why do they feel a need to lie about Nazi Germany?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 07 2020, @02:26AM (6 children)
So my links were too hard to read then?
I thought they might be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @02:30AM
Welcome to Soylent News?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @12:20PM (4 children)
No, the Britannia article is written by a commie-sympathizing sophist desperate to distinguish that murderous Socialist ideology from another murderous Socialist ideology.
Saint-Simon and early utopian socialists never called for public ownership, just public control through central planning. Industrialists surrendering control to the state (Ein Volk) is entirely socialist, more the pity that the author of your article doesn't understand it as such.
The Nazis thought differently and conflict theory (class struggle) is a Marxist concept, not a Socialist one.
The Krasnaya Gvardiya were the model for Squadrismo and the Schutzstaffel - the Cheka for the Gestapo where a majority (70%) were former communists (nazi rindersteak).
Good thing communists never murdered their political opponents otherwise we couldn't write this simple minded garbage off as the "not real socialism" argument.
Do you have anything better or are you going to take your own advice and read a book?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 07 2020, @09:20PM (3 children)
You live in a fantasy world.
As noted before, just because you assert something, doesn't make it true, especially:
which is a lie.
This would have mentioned it if it were true, but it's not. [wikipedia.org]
You're just arguing black is white at this point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @09:49PM (2 children)
Absolutely is not [wikipedia.org] I could have phrased it better but was going from memory. There's no excuse for the author of the article you linked making so many fundamental mistakes.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 07 2020, @10:42PM (1 child)
You're still arguing black is white.
The SA were nothing to do with the Gestapo, and were purged during the Night of the Long Knives.
Maybe I was wrong about you lying. You might just be completely ignorant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @02:08AM
The Gestapo was part of the SS which was originally under the command of the SA who wanted it disbanded. The SS then supplanted the SA, placing former Freikorps members into leadership roles. Not all members of the Gestapo were members of the SS but many SS and Gestapo members had belonged to the SA.
It must take tremendous effort to willfully misunderstand Nazi ideology. [creativitypost.com] You live in a state of denial. [quadrant.org.au] The core unspoken tenet of Socialism is best summarized in this unrelated piece from a prominent Fabian Socialist, eugenicist and contemporary supporter of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin: "Do not punish them. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill them." [theatlantic.com]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @03:19AM (5 children)
I forget - are We claiming to own Kyrgyzstan?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @03:24AM
Still waiting for the portfolio. It's due out soon, then we'll decide.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 06 2020, @04:01AM (2 children)
Did somebody say we don't?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:40PM (1 child)
Can we sell it?
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:56PM
Yeah, this is how it's done. Crazy Eddie's real estate sale. Government not included. Buyer has to install his own.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday October 06 2020, @04:30AM
Nope, no oil [worldometers.info].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @08:19PM (2 children)
Trump refuses to say he will accept the election in any terms. Here is hoping we citizens don't have to physically drag him out like this. Maybe the SS will be happy to oblige since he cares so little for their own safety.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 06 2020, @09:05PM (1 child)
You're assuming the Secret Service are in agreement about the benefits or otherwise of Trump continuing in office.
It may well be that various parts of your vast Secret Police networks (and military) are not terribly happy with continuing to let ordinary people having a say in the makeup of the Government and will ignore the will of the people if it doesn't give the right outcome.
My personal view is that the people who control the pursestrings won't let it come to that, because scaring the horses like that is bad for business, and if you're busy fighting another Civil War, the sharemarket might slip a bit.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:38PM
Well Trump is desparate and not known for logical thinking so everything is on the table right now.