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See the Google Earth Images That May Have Sparked the Bahrain Unrest

Business Insider has a fascinating post showing the Google Earth images that may have sparked the Bahrain unrest. BI explains:

A few years ago, Bahrain’s oppressed and overcrowded Shiite majority began using Google Earth to view palaces and other estates that make up 95% of the country. As these images churned up discontent, the government blocked Google Earth. However, a PDF guide to the images was distributed by email.

The site has obtained 45 images, some of which are below (the comments are original to the circulated PDF):

See the Google Earth Images That May Have Sparked the Bahrain Unrest

See the Google Earth Images That May Have Sparked the Bahrain Unrest

See the Google Earth Images That May Have Sparked the Bahrain Unrest

See the rest of the images here.

Comments (80)

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:15pm

    It’s good to be King.

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  • ThoreauHD
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:11pm

    That looks like a Soros pamphlet. Nice. He does get around.

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  • piratesarcasm
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 4:20pm

    I don’t get it. Poverty and oppression. What are they unhappy with?

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  • Slowman101
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 4:13pm

    Another example of Google sticking it‘s nose where it doesn’t belong.

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  • Thomas
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Can you Google map a 14 trillion dollars deficit? We have to fire up the tax payers somehow. I wonder how the residences of Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, etc… look from the sky… as far as Bahrain; I apologize to this nations people, for in year earnest search for liberty, we offer you … Obama

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  • rightwingheroes
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 3:29pm

    I told Sarah she should have never put those targets on her web site. Err

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  • hflndrs
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 1:38pm

    Class warfare propaganda. In Bahrain are the people free enough to work hard to get out of the areas they live in or are they stuck there? Here in the U.S. We must teach the kids they have the chance to better themselves. That is the difference between us and the rest of the world.

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  • vennoye
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:58pm

    It always amazes me that people will get on the back of a Tiger and then think “they” can control the ride. Don’t think Google and friends are going to be able to control the ride they have started!!

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  • karaokeed
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:43pm

    I don’t use google anymore. rarely did anyhow. Yahoo is my engin.

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  • Marine Recon Dad
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:29pm

    … can we use the same philosophy here? What I mean is, looking at all the land that the US Government ‘owns’ and keeps off limits by comparrison to the amount of land owned (rightfully) by the private sector – the amount is so disproportionate it is unbelievable! And this is the land that contains the natural resources that will make us less dependant on foreign oil and such…..

    … so, can we riot now?

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    • GEW
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:45pm

      So you have noticed. The confiscation of land in the name of saving the environment has been going on all my life and has escalated in the past few years. Why indeed are they taking over these lands (look at Idaho, Utah) and the amount of land forbidden to us? Ask why..it is something all of us need to pay attention to. Remember the closer people live, in a control area, the better they are watch and controlled.

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    • OneFunR6
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:46pm

      “… so, can we riot now?”

      just as soon as I finish my union-earned lunch break…….. rof!

      [don't start without me....] *grins*

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    • luvtheright
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 4:44pm

      Exactly Marine! This is what I’ve been thinking! What is with this administration’s land grab? I know I heard it’s going on.

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    • Kankokage
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:01pm

      All you have to do is take a look at the resources found beneath the ground in those areas. Here in Utah the fed has gobbled up massive areas…only for us to find out those areas are rich in petroleum, oil shale, coal, and other valuable resources now impossible for local drillers to obtain.

      By grabbing the most valuable land, the federal government will end up holding power over the states – which will pave the way for the Constitutional form of government’s demise…at least that’s what I hope they are doing, because the only other possible reason is that they are purposefully trying to block access to fossil fuels to force the world into a “green age” of failure and destruction.

      The only way that a civilization can move forward in technology is if that technology is more efficient and accessible than its predecessor. “Green” energies provide an almost worse lifetime footprint in many cases, are terribly inefficient compared to Earth-made sources, and are too expensive to even consider for most families.

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  • SonOfaCommunist
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:27pm

    I’d be pissed too, if I saw those images!

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  • 19RANDY59
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:27pm

    This, my friends, is what you call redistribution of wealth!!! I wonder how many lavish parties our left wing, anti-oil, environmentalist, have attended, with Byoncey, and the rest entertaining! No they don’t want to drill here. Smoke,and Mirrors!!

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  • Pezman
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:25pm

    Here‘s what’s (hopefully not) going to happen in much of the Islamic world. Different people (mostly the religoius and/or new ‘secular’ leaders) will take up residence in ‘the peoples palaces,’ and there will be a whole helluva lot more Sharia to go around. In order to be fair, the people will have ‘some,‘ access to ’the people palaces.’
    And I agree, Google is a very useful, albiet, dangeous thing. Anybody else using ixquick and/or scroogle?

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    • BernieKittyCat
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:55pm

      That’s the only engine I use! http://www.startpage.com people! It‘s not as robust as Google but it’s WAY safer as they do NOT save IP addresses.

      Does anyone know how to find out when Google streetview is coming to an area to photograph homes? I would love to shield my domicile. I’ve requested to have my home taken off but never heard anything from them. Streetview is extremely helpful for locating stores but wholely inappropriate in residential areas.

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  • Ronko
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:25pm

    Really you expect those people to live in an area 3.5 times the size of Washingtion DC and not have problems. I‘m surprised these morons didn’t protest sooner.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:24pm

    Google me this, said the Riddler, or is he the Googler now.

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  • mike_trivisonno
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:23pm

    Most of the place was built by slaves anyway.

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  • MikeSalone
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:23pm

    Actual reason to question. Gold, I’m buying units of gasoline.

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  • ManSquito
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:20pm

    It doesn’t take much to point out these injustices. The internet is a powerful tool and has led to people getting the truth in Bahrain. I think Beck is right when he says that the middle east is crumbling. We can only pray for a middle east without all the hatred and oppression.

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:18pm

    Google, good for you!

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  • kspatriot
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:17pm

    There is a lot more to Google than meets the eye. They seem to be involved in a lot propaganda, AND they have control over massive databases of personal information that in the wrong hands can be very dangerous!

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Well said. How many times do we have to see the evidence of Google tampering in these events to hypothesize that they are driving them? Their execs were in Egypt. They are buddy buddy with the NSA and hang out with the White House. Something ain’t right there.

      That being said, if Arabs want to revolt then let them revolt. Arabs need to determine what happens to Arabs. I‘m sick of seeing our son’s and daughters coming home in body bags trying to “fix” this messed up area of the globe. Let ‘em rot.

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    • GEW
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Because Google has this information and still gathering more and more, it is in the WRONG HANDS ALREADY….ask why they are doing this and why are they are so close with this Administration and the progressive movement here in the states and around the world. These boys of Google are up to no good for we the wee people.

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  • IntheKnowOG
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:17pm

    I would be interested in doing the same thing with democratic lawmakers homes/properties versus the districts they claim to represent….

    IntheKnowOG  
    • Salamander
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:33pm

      WOW! Now there is a PROFOUND OBSERVATION!!!

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    • sWampy
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:43pm

      Or the teachers in WI with their summer homes in the Hamptons, that vacation in Europe, whining about they don’t make enough money while their students live below the poverty line.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Swampy: I doubt that many WI teachers have summer homes in the Hamptons!

      The Dells, maybe.

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  • mcFirst
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:16pm

    i think the people are waking up and asking the right questions. it took awhile but they are aware that their leaders are not acting in their interest.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:21pm

      Yup! (You are talking about the USA, aren’t you?)

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    • OneFunR6
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Showtime,

      made the mike shoot right outta my nose…..!

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    • LAM2
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 3:12pm

      OneFunR6
      Serves him right; Mike shouldn’t have been in there anyway. Just teasing — I know you meant milk.
      ;)

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  • mike_trivisonno
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:15pm

    LOL

    What a wonderful culture Islam is. The elite and well-connected live well. The common man lives like an animal.

    Here is an idea for the stupid idiots in Bahrain: Dump the Islam.

    Put down the Koran! Step away from the Koran!

    Pick up some Jefferson or some Franklin.

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:15pm

    Got to admit, those are some very large properties, but thou shalt not covet.

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  • Melvin Spittle
    Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:14pm

    Textbook example of inciting class warfare.

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Class warfare in a free society and class warefare in a dictatorship are two different things. One bad, one good.
      http://guerillatics.com

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Amen, bro.
      It’s not the inequality of possessions that counts, it’s the inequality of freedom and opportunity.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:24pm

      @Melvin Spittle,

      Well, in their case, I’m pretty sure they actually do have classes there.

      But your instinct is partially right, in that it’s never the comparative amount of wealth among people that is a necessary indication of class, but it’s the amount of freedom each individual has to pursue such wealth.

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    • MikeSalone
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:27pm

      Or a look at some provocative facts. Buy gasoline units now.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:28pm

      So THAT’S why the communists were getting involved. I missed Glenn’s explanation :-(
      Told you google was bad.

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    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:28pm

      That’s exactly what that is Melvin, inciting class warfare. We’re doing it here now thanks to our President. Who would have ever thought that we would actually have a President trying to divide us as a people?

      http://www.donsmithhsow.com – see the Obama Hypocrisy video

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    • Uncle Crusty
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:31pm

      yes, but the difference here in the USofA is anyone in the have nots can aspire to and obtain the haves of society…with a good idea, hard work ethic and risk! Too much to ask of the Communists, who all want to drive Opels and chug vodka, cursing their mundane existence…

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:34pm

      Google News Alert
      Hillary Clinton US Secretary Of State, Has issued a statement

      “There has been a No Fly Zone created, Around Barry Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro’s face

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:39pm

      I see your point Ironmaan. And you do well to bring it up here. But if your motivation for a revolution is to tear down the rich, what you get is the French Revolution (which resulted in a century of tyrrany and repeated revolutions every two generations or less). If instead, your motivation for revolution is to tear down the barriers of opportunity which prevent the poor from moving up as their talents and merits could otherwise do, you end up with the American Revolution.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:40pm

      Did anyone else notice the name in the last picture….. “area owned by Al-Khalifa” ?

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    • Jayk Signal
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:40pm

      In all cases I come down against monarchies.

      There is no legitimate philosophical justification for political power being hereditary. Nor have I heard any scientific proof that DNA carries the code of a divine covenant.

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    • Koolaiders
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:46pm

      Google, again? Anyone still using Google after Prophet Beck deemed them to be the devil incarnate.

      Boycott google he said — they are run by the Islamic Fascist Reform Rabbis who are in cahoots with the 13th Imam aka POTUS and who is controlled by that other Nazi Jew, Soros and his consort, Piven who has single handedly incited the useful idiots in Wisconsin who dont realize its all a giant plot to create a caliphate in the US run by the secret Imam Van Jones, the regional head of Al Qeada in the USA.

      See, I did my OWN research inspired by Beck and now it all makes sense.

      Select Palin for GOP 2012 to Reelect Obama!  
    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:50pm

      Jayk
      Every American should. You reason well. the problem is, toppling dictators almost always brings a worse one into power. The history’s pretty well established on that.

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    • NUTHRDUMBCONSERVATIVE
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:55pm

      IRONMAAN and JAYK SIGNAL
      Be careful. Envy, jeolosy and hatred of wealth will never motivate a thoughtful and just reordering of a society. Another response here points to the French Revolution: True. Our country was successfully founded on the principles of individual freedoms and responsibilities, not envy. Numerous rebellions have been motivated by anger at the disparities of lifestyles between the haves and the havenots. They always end in a different set of haves and havenots: and always a smaller, more brutal segment of haves.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 1:07pm

      @Happy

      That is the truth of the matter; the fight to have freedom and liberty of the individual, or have a fight on the lines of social justice – where the takeover only installs a new set of ruling elites, to the detriment of all those who sought their freedoms.

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    • FoundingPrinciples
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 1:24pm

      Good if it’s an uprising led by the people against a dictatorship. Unfortunately, in many cases the ones inciting the violence have their own nefarious agenda.

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    • Mikeyyy
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:04pm

      Um, this article is dumb. Google images may have assisted and helped inspire. But make no mistake humans cause the unrest. It’s like guns kill people like pencils misspelll words.

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    • crazedbanshee
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:27pm

      To even try and compare this to class envy is ridiculous. It is a great concern to me that some of us are so arrogant and ignorant because of the freedoms we enjoy here. I know of a company that bought a talc mine in a similar country. The ruling power just came and took it from them, why? Because they wanted it. Some of you obviously have no clue how the wealthy in countries like these obtain it, this is about oppresion from a dictator.

      The problem is even if the people are able to break free from the current dictatorship, they will be looking for a leader, which will most likely be some guy providing them and their families with some basic necessities. They will then hand him the power and bam he will do the same thing as the last guy.

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:34pm

      looks like ruling (royal) class versus the regular people. We would be pissed too if American politicians just gave themselves huge plots of land or islands for their “private property”.

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    • JEANNIEMAC
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 3:32pm

      There are at least six former Google executives in Obama’s administration. It is a Google executive who helped to spark the demonstrations in Egypt. Zuckerberg, of Facebook, orchestrated Obama’s presidential campaign. The union boss of the AFL-CIO boasted of visiting Obama in the White House 2-3 times a week and speaking with him on the phone every day . This is how the Organizer-in Chief, Obama, organized the demonstrations in fifty states on the same days. Do you think it is a co-incidence that demonstrations are being held all over the world now? The communists, of which the man in the Oval Office is one, are on the march,.
      DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE
      To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant‘s conduct must be ’so wanton, so

      deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of

      others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law

      imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 3:49pm

      Koolaiders,

      Glenn said to do your own research not to copy and paste from Media Matters. Dude get a life, not just for your sake but the sanity of everyone else here.

      Report Post » hifi74  
    • piratesarcasm
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 4:20pm

      I don’t get it. Oppression and poverty. What are they unhappy with?

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:44pm

      @13th Imam
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 12:34pm
      Google News Alert
      Hillary Clinton US Secretary Of State, Has issued a statement

      “There has been a No Fly Zone created, Around Barry Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro’s face

      ***********************
      I heard today that in order to create a No Fly Zone in Libya, we’d have to bomb their airports, wonder if that’s why the flies call in the bees from time to time?

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:58pm

      @TheBMT
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 2:34pm
      looks like ruling (royal) class versus the regular people. We would be pissed too if American politicians just gave themselves huge plots of land or islands for their “private property”.

      ***************************************
      But, be very wary of American politicians, taking large plots of land for “Environmental ” concerns, then making them “off limits” to humans, often deeding them over the most “Mineral Rich” public lands to the UN, because it is primarily run by the same kind of “thugs, and dictators” as these lands.
      Remember, during Clinton’s years as POTUS, when a race car driver got lost during a blizzard, while out snowmobiling, and was found days later holed up in a cave in off limits to humans territory. They were going to charge him, did they? I forget?

      Report Post » Mil Mom  
    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:46pm

      Wow all these pictures show us places where we can turn sand into GLASS.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 3, 2011 at 10:34am

      I feel compelled to address some of the misunderstandings shown here about the French Revolution!

      It was never in principle an uprising of poor against rich, it was directed rather against hereditary and clerical privileges, and very wealthy (and ver poor) people were to be found among both revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries.

      Its excesses, especially in 1792-1794, arose out of emergencies created by foreign invasion and fear of internal subversion

      There were revolutionary upheavals in 1830, 1848 and 1870, but of the succeeding regimes down to 1940, only the reigns of the two Napoleons could really be described as tyrannical or despotic, and between them they only accounted for 35 out of 150 years.

      Otherwise the gains of the Revolution–constitutional and representative government, equality of all citizens before the law, basic civil liberties, virtually unrestricted property rights–were upheld.

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