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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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Yemen Tweets -- Tom Finn

By John Ballard


Tracking events in MENA is like being at the circus. Too much going on all the time to watch everything. Tom Finn is a journalist in Yemen I am now following. He lidentifies himself as editor of Yemen Times and a stringer for the Guardian. He also blogs but has too much on his plate at the moment to post much. Twitter keeps him on the ball. Here is a snapshot of his tweets for the last couple of days.


[18 Feb] hand grenade thrown into a crowd of anti-government protesters in Yemen's southern city of Taiz today, 8 people wounded http://bit.ly/hyWUvF


[19 Feb] A battle of the ages: young versus old, students vs ministry men @tomfinn__'s atmospheric Guardian audio http://bit.ly/hytdZJ
Journalists targeted in Bahrain, Yemen, and Libya. Committee to Protect Journalists http://bit.ly/fORCqI
The Al Jazeera journalists are the most targeted in Yemen as gov't loyalists believe they are fanning flames revolutions in Arab world.
daily pattern emerging here: rock throwing battles between pro and anti-Saleh men. More violence today outside Sana'a university
follow @shephardm for on the ground tweets from Yemen's protests.
witness says that two people have just been shot with live ammunition outside the university in Sanaa
@ionacraig: The worst news so far: RT @WomanfromYemen: @kasinof just saw 2 ppl being shot by live amunition right now!
Ourman @jebboone at Kuwait hospital saw one gunshot wound victim - alive. Other still in back of ambulance. One man badly beaten.
Just been told that no one died in the clashes today in Sanaa though at last four have were seriously injured


[20 Feb] "Aden looks like a war-zone", report on 9th day of violence in #Yemen  http://bit.ly/hxLone
Analysis - Youth spurred on by unemployment as protests rage for 9th day in Yemen http://bit.ly/gRRpK4
@shephardm: Saleh focusing on tribes. Today's group was tribes frm just outside city, those who can protect or attack Sana'a.
A worthy cause - Avaaz is working to "blackout-proof" ME protests - enable activists to broadcast during powercuts http://bit.ly/hEQ12C
I spoke to a pro-Saleh supporter on Friday, said he got YR4000 ($20) to attend demos for the next 5 days = YR800 per protest
from #Sanaa University: around 1000 people there, set up a civilian security check and are continuing to put up tents
At Sana'a uni #yemen,2000 students singing and dancing.They're camping out tonight.No sign of pro-Saleh thugs.
women n children have arrived to distribute food to protesters #YemenThey are bringing blankets.They say they will stay here till saleh goes
Brief panic as some1 caught smuggling gun into crowd.He was caught n ran away
Crowds swelling, 3 thousand now. Hundreds of blankets being brought in. People say they wont leave until Saleh does
Just been told that 300 tribesmen from Marib are coming to join the students camped outside Sana'a university.
Now, hundreds of riot police blocking pro-Saleh supporters from coming into the university. Protestors still singing down with the regime
just returned from Sanaa uni, 2am still 600/700 students going strong, others sleeping on the ground, Saleh supporters have gone home
Many anti-Saleh protesters adamant that hundreds of tribesmen frm Al-Jowf, Marib and Mahwit are coming to Sanaa tomorrow to support them
going to meet President Saleh tomorrow morning, he's holding a press conference for all foreign stringers working in #Yemen 


[21 Feb] For the 2nd time Saleh described uprisings in Tunis and Egypt as a contagious disease also called for a tv debate with Yemen's opposition
student protest organizer just told me they are waiting at the uni for tribesmen to arrive, then they will march to Saleh mosque
@collettehogg: #Libya why hasnt the uk frozen Gadaffis assets yet?
Colonel admitted to pro-Saleh protesters being paid n that "the people want the money to buy "qat"
�This will be our new Tahrir Square� my report on the student sit-in in Sanaa http://bit.ly/fOAsIm
Age gap between pro and anti-Saleh guys is striking, didn't see a Saleh supporter under 30 today, significant given 1/2 of Yemenis under 15
University of Aden students will go in demonstration in front of the gate Engineering school at 9:00 AM tomorrow
@AlaaIsam I was at the uni half an hour ago and there were no more than 6 thousand people
[11 hours ago] news from Sanaa uni, hamed al-ahmar's brother hussein is sending 400 cars to protect the students


[2 hours ago] URGENT : PANIC at #Sanaa univ, just saw 2 ppl with bullet wounds in the head being piled into the back of a car to hospital
there is "1 student shot dead at #Sanaa univ by pro-saleh thugs, 10 others injured, and 3 in critical condition"
"injured students are being brought in and piled into ambulances, bullets on the floor" at #Sanaa university
URGENT: 2 students confirmed dead by doctor at #Sanaa university !!
[1 hour ago] Spoke 2 another doctor at #Sanaa uni:1 student shot dead on the spot another shot in the head, at hospital in critical condition.
students were attacked by men carrying pistols, knives and guns, over 20 injured
just spoke to 1of the injured : riot police let the pro- #AliSaleh thugs attack the protesters



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