Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Libya Tweets

By John Ballard


As the day wears on big stories will find their way into major networks East and West. Meantime,  I find the Twitter feeds much more interesting. For example, here are the last few messages from Hafed Al Ghwell, listed as someone in Washington, DC with a Harvard email contact, but also with a current or past connection to the Dubai School of Government.


[Retweeting from Mona El Tahawy a few hours ago... and yes, we know who she is.] Revolutions we're witnessing - #Tunisia #Egypt #Libya - show not just emperors at home hve no clothes, but those who receive them abroad 2
... right on the mark Mona...


[to others] @granangular --- I am available... you can reach me by email at: hafed.alghwell@post.harvard.edu
@ArabRevolution @Madame_Dawsha never had an adapted daughter... that was a totally fabricated story....
@Madame_Dawsha @ArabRevolution not true=many journalists including Judy Miller reported it was a total lie-no one ever heard of her before


#feb17 #libya "This is a message to everyone reading this. I am PLEADING for your help.... " http://on.fb.me/ecrWrP


@monaeltahawy @Cyrenaican thought you are going to bed :-) -- in fact do you ever sleep?


 --4 members of the media only: 4 contacts inside and outside Libya to speak to, pls email: hafed.alghwell@post.harvard.edu


[4 hours ago]  Egypt has sent 30 trucks of supplies to libya but were denied entry at the Egyptian borders.


[3 hours ago]... My bet is that Gaddafi and Family are in the city of Sirte .. their home town
[Retweet] Al Arabiya: AFP: Libyan State TV building looted in Tripoli & public buildings torched


AFP: Libyan protesters seize control of state TV HQ in the capital and set some public buildings on fire http://www.alarabiya.net/english


I just hope the LSE as an institution decides to revoke grant funding from Saif. Am remembering the discussion we had on it @Dr_Ulrichsen
@habibahamid @Dr_Ulrichsen they should also take his degree which he got others to do for him and paid for it with Libya's stolen money


17 Libya Live updates http://bit.ly/i7eSBm


[3 hours ago] 17 unconfirmed: loyalist army officers have been given orders to execute soldiers who have refused orders to shoot on protesters
@libya @feb17 On Zaif Gaddafi "Same speech...same style...minus the halloween costumes.."
The Telegraph: Libya: US accuses Britain of legitimising Gaddafi http://bit.ly/ihfh5O Via @osimsim @ceoDanya


?From a friend in Tripoli 2 mins ago " We will not leave, we can't back down now, we are dead if we back down... I will happily die out there for my girls to have a better future " ..this is from a female friend in Tripoli


Reuters: BP suspends gas, oil drilling preparations in Libya http://reut.rs/dIQlbU
Zawya Dow Jones: Libya has stopped output at its Nafoora oilfield due to strikes by workers, Al Jazeera television reported Monday.


[2 hours ago] The headquarters of the "General People's Committee " -- office of the prime minister ----- is on fire ...
.. confirmed by eyewitness on Al Jazeera Arabic few minutes ago
protesters sack Tripoli TV, set blocks on fire, EU braces for citizen evacuation as death toll mounts http://goo.gl/UGe7y
@BBCWorld  BP says it is preparing to evacuate its staff in #Libya in the coming days
.. both the "General People's Congress and the interior ministry are also on fire -- an eyewitness in Tripoli told WSJ


Qaddafi's son .. a son of bitch? is it an insult or an objective description of him and his father?


Human Rights Watch: at least 332 people killed since Thursday
Update: Death Toll Up to At Least 233 - http://bit.ly/gDE3rQ -- and still NO WORD from Obama, EU, Arab League, African Union


[1 hour ago] Now that oil is threatened in Libya ... watch how the White House and EU will start singing ...   @AlArabiya_Eng wow... they just figured it out... shame



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