Necessity breeds Syrian Homemade Tanks run by PlayStation

Rebels have made their own tank, complete witha PlayStation which controls and monitors the outer gun; Imagine your President is Morsi; Syria coalition and Clinton’s no-show in Marrakesh; and in Syria, cities die slowly.

Rebels show off their latest invention: A PlayStation controlled tank.

The Next Web [3]

Syrian rebels build a homemade tank featuring an apparent PlayStation controller for the turret

For months Syrian rebels have taken matters into their own hands, but now they’ve seriously stepped up their game: a home-made tank. We’re not just talking about a car with a some metal attached to it; this bad boy features a controller used specifically for moving the tank’s turret, as shown in a video captured by RT.

Sand Monkey [4]

Imagine

Imagine knowing that your (Egyptian) President, the first civilian democratically elected post-revolution President is a puppet for that group, and his puppeteer is the second man in this order, and not even the First. Just freakin Imagine.

Arab Saga [5]

Syria coalition and Clinton’s no-show in Marrakesh

A stomach virus is forcing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to cancel her trip to the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Morocco that will focus on ratcheting up support for the Syrian opposition. On reading the news this morning, my subconscious instantly murmured, “Diplomatic illness.”

Abu Aardvark [6]

The Land of Topless Minarets and Headless Little Girls

The death of Syrians accumulated so fast it seems impossible to comprehend over 40,000 lives lost in less than two years. But the death of a city is different. It is slow -- each neighborhood's death is documented bomb by bomb, shell by shell, stone by fallen stone.