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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 12:50 PM Post #16 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-SLb5mZBx4 The CRIMINAL is supporting a dictator on live television, yet he claims to believe in freedom. The CRIMINALS will continue to support any Egypt dictatorship as long as it fits THEIR interest. The CRIMINALS will mostly likely continue to give Egypt weapons to kill its own people and the CRIMINALS will also stage false flags in order to demonize the protesters. |
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 12:57 PM Post #17 |
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Egyptian Museum safe from looters but still threatened by fire engulfing neighbouring building Maggie Hyde,Maggie Michael, The Associated Press 29/01/2011 11:19:00 AM source - sympatico.cbc.ca news ![]() CAIRO - Ancient artifacts at Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum are safe from looters but could still be damaged by the potential collapse of a neighbouring building gutted by fire, the head of the country's antiquities chief said Saturday. The ruling party headquarters building next door to the museum was still in flames and billowing black smoke into the sky on Saturday, a day after protesters torched it during mass anti-government demonstrations. "What scares me is that if this building is destroyed, it will fall over the museum," antiquities boss Zahi Hawass said as he watched fire trucks try to extinguish the blaze in the NDP headquarters. Early Saturday morning, Egyptian army commandoes secured the museum and its grounds, located near some of the most intense of the mass anti-government protests sweeping across the capital. Before the army arrived, young Egyptians - some armed with truncheons grabbed off the police - created a human chain at the museum's front gate to prevent looters from making off with any of its priceless artifacts. "They managed to stop them," Hawass said. He added that the would-be looters only managed to vandalize two mummies, ripping their heads off. They also cleared out the museum gift shop. He said the museum's prized King Tutankhamun exhibit, which includes the boy pharaoh's gold death mask, had not been damaged and was safe. An Associated Press Television News crew that was allowed into the museum saw two vandalized mummies and at least 10 small artifacts that had been taken out of their glass cases and damaged. Fears of looters have prompted authorities elsewhere to take precautions to secure antiquities at other sites. Archaeologist Kent Weeks, who is in the southern temple town of Luxor, said that rumours that attacks were planned against monuments prompted authorities to erect barriers and guard Karnak Temple while tanks were positioned around Luxor's museum. |
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| YougeneDebs | Jan 29 2011, 03:08 PM Post #18 |
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Didn't O'Bama already get a Peace Prize? So, like, uh, where's the peace, man? Just saying. Debs Edited by YougeneDebs, Jan 29 2011, 03:09 PM.
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 03:55 PM Post #19 |
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John Lennon - America: 2001 - Egypt: 2011 - The World???... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6em1_KBCBeo Stop the LIES, Stop the CRIMINALS, Stops the WARS,,, FREEDOM LIBERTY FOR EVERYONE Under ‘emergency’ for decades, Egypt’s special powers mirrored in post-9/11 US By Stephen C. Webster Friday, January 28th, 2011 -- 1:29 pm http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/perpetual-emergency-1981-egypt-gave-government-uslike-special-powers/ ![]() Indefinite detention. Ubiquitous torture. Secret courts. Special authority for police interventions. The complete absence of privacy, even in one's own home. Astute followers of American politics might think those items a dog whistle, evoking the worst civil liberties abuses permitted by the USA PATRIOT Act and other "emergency" provisions passed in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001. They are, in fact, just a few of the powers claimed in an Egyptian "emergency" law passed in 1958, that goes even further than the controversial American security provisions. The law has been used to keep the country under an officially declared "state of emergency" since the assassination of President Anwar el-Sadat in 1981. Prior to that, it had been invoked frequently since 1967, in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli war. Egyptians have been campaigning against it ever since. Criticism of the policies escalated again last May, when their parliament extended the government's emergency powers for another two years. Authorities promised to limit the law's application to terrorists and drug traffickers: a promise which human rights advocates called into doubt. In an unclassified diplomatic cable from the US embassy in Cairo, released by secrets outlet WikiLeaks on Friday, American officials acknowledged the many abuses the law had brought on, from torture to caps on personal expression, limits on public assembly and the seizure of publications. The cable explains: -- The Emergency Law creates state security courts, which issue verdicts that cannot be appealed, and can only be modified by the president. -- The Emergency Law allows the president broad powers to "place restrictions" on freedom of assembly. Separately, the penal code criminalizes the assembly of 5 or more people in a gathering that could "threaten public order." -- Over the past two decades, the vast majority of cases where the government has used the Emergency Law have been to target violent Islamist extremist groups such as the Islamic Group and Al-Jihad, and political activity by the Muslim Brotherhood. However, the GOE has also used the Emergency Law in some recent cases to target bloggers and labor demonstrators. Provisions of the law were used in recent years to arrest members of the country's minority party, the Muslim Brotherhood. The government has often scapegoated the group as one of their reasons for needing such laws. Opposition leader and Nobel winner Mohamed ElBaradei, who was placed under house arrest on Friday, had previously suggested they demonize this group simply to perpetuate their enhanced power over the people. The country was gripped in a series of growing protests since Jan. 25, with tens of thousands of protesters risking their lives to demand President Mubarak, a key US ally, resign power. He's held the country's highest office for over three decades. Torture and brutality in Egypt's prisons was long known to American officials, another leaked cable revealed Friday. During murder investigations, police regularly rounded up 40 to 50 suspects and hung them by their arms until they obtained a confession from someone, according to the cable. Another leaked cable noted that "credible human rights lawyers believe police brutality continues to be a pervasive, daily occurrence in [Egyptian] detention centers, and that [the State Security Investigative Service] has adapted to increased media and blogger focus on police brutality by hiding the abuse and pressuring victims not to bring cases." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party was ostensibly reelected in late 2010 by 83 percent of the popular vote, but many elections observers called the election fraudulent. The Muslim Brotherhood and Wafd, the other opposition party, boycotted the election. Voting in December was hindered by violence in many places around Egypt. Though Mubarak has been in power over three decades, US Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he is not a "dictator" and should not resign, in spite of the popular uprising against his regime. |
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 04:18 PM Post #20 |
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Egypt protest death toll rises Mubarak appoints VP, PM as thousands defy curfew in major cities Last Updated: Saturday, January 29, 2011 | 3:29 PM ET . http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/29/egypt.html ![]() Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has named a vice-president for the first time in his embattled 30-year rule as massive protests gripped Cairo and other major cities in Egypt fora fifthday. Meanwhile, Egyptian security officials said at least 62 people have been killed during the protests in the last two days. In the capital, police opened fire on protesters who tried to storm the interior ministry, killing at least one demonstrator. At least one body was seen being carried out on the shoulders of protesters. Others were reported injured, but it's not clear how many. The violence occurred as tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of central Cairo on Saturday, chanting slogans against Mubarak in defiance of an evening curfew and warnings by the military. The number of protesters continued to build in Cairo's Tahrir Square, translated as Liberation Square, even after a night-time curfew came into effect at 4 p.m. local time, the CBC's Nahlah Ayed reported from the scene. "It certainly doesn't look like there's a curfew in place. In fact, it looks like very much the opposite," Ayed said, adding that soldiers were "watching and pretty much letting the protesters do what they want." BBC News is also reporting prisoners have taken over a section of the Abu Za'abal prison in Cairo. A producer with the BBC's Arabic service said prison inmates rioted in the city of Manufiya, north-west of Cairo, BBC's website reported. The demonstrations in major cities come a day after the Egyptian president fired his cabinet and promised unspecified economic and political reforms. Not far from Cairo's central square, the army sealed off the street leading to the parliament and cabinet buildings. Dozens of tanks and armoured personnel carriers were fanned out across the city. Military officials had earlier urged citizens not to congregate in the streets and to observe the 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew, warning that anyone who violated it would be in danger, state television said. Firas Al-Atraqchi, a professor with the American University of Cairo who is currently in Toronto, said his family in Egypt and in Canada have warned him not to return. "A colleague of mine who lives in my neighbourhood told me the military had been there to ward off gangs," Al-Atraqchi told CBC News on Saturday. Mubarak refuses to resign The 82-year-old Mubarak named his intelligence chief and close confidant Omar Suleiman as his vice-president and former air force commander Ahmad Shafiq as Egypt's new prime minister, in an apparent step toward setting up a successor other than his son, Gamal. The president addressed the nation late Friday, as protesters — eager to end his 30-year rule — overwhelmed police forces in Cairo and other cities around the nation with their numbers and in attacks with rocks and firebombs. Mubarak said he would not resign, but instead announced he had fired his entire cabinet. He promised to name a new cabinet on Saturday. The president blamed protesters for abusing the freedoms he said he'd given them, adding they were plotting to destabilize Egypt. Demonstrators who ignored the curfew in Cairo set police cars and army vehicles on fire Friday night. Some paraded through the streets wearing helmets nabbed from police officers. Mubarak is clinging to power after nearly a week of anti-government protests that have left a trail of wreckage across Cairo. The sight of protesters pouring into central Cairo for a fifth day indicated Mubarak's speech did little to cool the anger over Egypt's crushing poverty, unemployment and corruption. Overnight, the government called in military forces and by morning the army had replaced police in guarding government buildings and other key areas. The Egyptian military also closed tourist access to the pyramids. Government figures show that tourism accounts for over 11 per cent of the country's GDP and provides roughly one in eight jobs. Canadians are being warned to avoid Egypt's major cities unless it is absolutely necessary. The Department of Foreign Affairs said Canadians should not travel to Cairo, Alexandria or Suez. The federal government also said Canadians currently in Egypt should avoid demonstrations and large gatherings. There are an estimated 6,500 Canadians in Egypt and all are believed to be safe. Cellphone services in Egypt were restored Saturday after a government-ordered communications blackout was imposed in "selected areas" on Friday in an apparent bid to stop protesters from co-ordinating demonstrations. However, internet service appeared to remain blocked. |
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 05:56 PM Post #21 |
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More videos from CBC.ca - Mubarak speaks Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's address to the nation Watch: 12:04 http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=world&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1771812325 High stakes in Egypt CBC's Neil MacDonald on the turmoil in Egypt and the possible consequences it could have on the region and the world Watch: 4:09 http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=world&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1772192621 Mubarak appoints vice-president Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has named vice-president for the first time in his embattled 30-year rule, choosing his intelligence chief Omar Suleimank Watch: 2:05 http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=world&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1772608302 Who is Mubarak? Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak succeeded Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated in October 1981 Watch: 2:22 http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=world&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1772667224 Egypt unrest The CBC's Nahlah Ayed has the latest from the streets of Cairo Watch: 1:47 http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=world&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1772625659 Alexandria protests Hospitals in Egypt's second-largest city Alexandria are overloaded by people injured in clashes with police Watch: 2:25 http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=world&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1772751381 |
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 06:04 PM Post #22 |
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More on protests - http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/thousands-algeria-protest-march-organisers/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/jordanians-rally-corruption-poverty/ http://www.infowars.com/mohamed-elbaradei-globalist-pied-piper-of-the-egyptian-revolt/ |
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 06:50 PM Post #23 |
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Toronto rally echoes calls for reform in Egypt Updated: Sat Jan. 29 2011 4:22:57 PM ctvtoronto.ca http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110129/toronto-rally-supports-egyptian-protesters-110129/20110129/ ![]() A girl with her face painted the colours of the Egyptian flag protests at Dundas Square in Toronto to support protests in Egypt against President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim) Hundreds of people attended a peaceful rally at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square on Saturday afternoon to support protesters who are clashing with police on the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities. People crowded the square in a sign of solidarity for the demonstrators in Egypt and a show of concern about the growing strife that has killed more than 70 people and injured hundreds more. Draped in flags and waving placards in the air, the crowd in downtown Toronto showed its disdain for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, chanting "Mubarak must go" before rally officially began at 1 p.m. ![]() Protesters gather at Dundas Square in Toronto to support the protests currently taking place in Egypt against President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, January 29, 2011. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim / THE CANADIAN PRESS) Their calls echoed the anti-Mubarak sentiment of thousands of pro-democracy protesters who continued to demonstrate in several Egyptian cities Saturday. In Toronto, people who attended the solidarity rally called for Mubarak's removal and for political reform in the North African nation. "(Egyptians) deserve freedom. They do not need anymore regimes," rally organizer Ahmed Khalifa told CTV News. Khalifa has relatives and friends living in the middle of the unrest. "My family is on the streets, their neighbours are on the streets protecting their own buildings from looting," Khalifa said. Local Egyptian-Canadians were joined at the rally by Canadians of other nationalities and immigrants from Arab countries such as Tunisia, another North African nation where civil unrest led to the end of its dictator's decades-long rule earlier this month. Khalifa likened the revolt in Egypt to the civil unrest in East Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of communism and the reunification of Germany. As a precaution, Toronto police officers monitored the pro-democracy rally to make sure it remained orderly. The Toronto gathering, organized on social-networking websites such as Facebook, followed peaceful demonstrations in Ottawa and Montreal on Friday. Demonstrations, looting continue in Egypt Meanwhile, protests in Egypt took another deadly turn Saturday when Egyptian police opened fire on a massive crowd, killing at least three demonstrators in downtown Cairo. Despite a government-imposed curfew, public demonstrations and widespread looting of shops and homes continued. Residents and shopkeepers in affluent neighbourhoods were boarding up their houses and stores against the looters roaming the streets with knives and sticks. Gunfire was heard in some neighbourhoods. For five days, thousands of protestors have been demanding the end of Mubarek's 30-year reign over the North African nation. Protesters' demands include term limits for the presidency, the dismissal of Interior Minister Habib El-Adly, an end to police brutality and the abolition of the state of emergency designation in place since 1981. On Saturday, Mubarak named his intelligence chief as his first-ever vice-president, setting the stage for a successor as demands for the longtime leader's ouster showed no sign of abating. Protestors are also upset with massive unemployment, rising food prices and unflinching poverty that has gripped Egypt for years. |
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 08:03 PM Post #24 |
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How Was Egypt's Internet Access Shut Off? Preliminary investigations indicate that most of the country's ISPs cut Internet access within a 20-minute period, likely at the government's behest By Larry Greenemeier | January 28, 2011 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=egypt-internet-mubarak ![]() OFFLINE: Members of Egypt's Kefaya movement (also called the Egyptian Movement for Change) protest a fifth term for President Hosni Mubarak in 2005. Image: COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA Egyptians earlier this week took to the Web—Facebook and Twitter, in particular—as a means of organizing their protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade-old government. As of Friday morning, however, there no longer was much of a Web to take to—at least not in Egypt. In an unprecedented turn of events, at 12:34 A.M. local time in Cairo five of the country's major Internet service providers (ISPs) shut down their connections to the Internet. Speculation is rampant as to what happened, but the most credible reports point to a government-ordered shutdown of nearly all Internet access within Egypt with about 93 percent of Egyptian networks out of service. One of the only connections to the Internet that has not been blocked belongs to Noor Data Network, the ISP used by the Egyptian (stock) Exchange. The shutdown does not appear to be a spontaneous event, given that the Telecom Egypt, Raya, Link Egypt, Etisalat Misr and Internet Egypt ISPs each shut down its part of Egypt's Internet in sequence an average of about three minutes apart, according to Manchester, N.H.-based network security firm Renesys Corp. This sequencing indicates that each of the ISPs may have received a phone call telling them to drop Internet access to their subscribers, as opposed to an automated system that kicked in to take down all of the providers at once, Jim Cowie, Renesys chief technology officer and co-founder, blogged on Friday. If this analysis is correct, it indicates a level of governmental Internet control unseen to this point, not even in China, Iran and Tunisia, which have been accused of manipulating Internet access to quell government opposition. Scientific American spoke with Cowie, whose company monitors global Internet infrastructure, to better understand how it works under both normal and, in this instance, abnormal conditions. [An edited transcript of the interview follows.] What exactly happened in Egypt, and how did it come to your attention? This is certainly one of the strangest abnormal conditions that we've witnessed in a long time. We study what is known as the global routing table, essentially all of the address prefixes that make up the Internet. ISPs keep this information in their routers. When they need to send traffic to a place, they look up the address to figure out where to send it. We gather those tables from hundreds of providers, and we watch them in real time to figure out what's going on. On January 27, we observed hundreds of providers all over the world suddenly telling us that most of the network addresses in Egypt no longer existed. It's not that their paths were changing a little bit to get better value out of their connection or engineering around a little cable break or something. It was really a matter of just disappearing. And it was just Egypt—you didn't see networks in the Gulf, India or China go down, as you might if a submerged cable in that region had been damaged. Does this shutdown of Internet access into and out of Egypt resemble attempts by countries such as China, Iran or Tunisia to control the flow of online traffic? No, it's a completely different class of problem. Typically what happens in countries like Tunisia or Iran or China is people exert very surgical control over information, they will block particular domain names, or they'll block particular Web sites or particular small networks that host content that they don't like. When Iran had its problems after its elections, they slowed down their Internet so they could use it more effectively to control protestors but they didn't take it down. Normally, when someone has a problem on the Internet, it's a single provider, a single organization, that gets in trouble or loses a piece of equipment or runs out of power for their generator after a blackout or something. In this case, within the space of about 20 minutes, all of the largest service providers in Egypt mysteriously and with no apparent coordination all left the Internet. It's a completely different signature. How could something like Egypt's current situation have happened? Clearly there was some behind-the-scenes coordination. The most plausible scenario that I could think of is that somebody from the government calls up all their license-holders—all of these regulated ISPs, telecommunications companies, mobile service providers—and just has a conversation with them that says, "Turn it off." The managers of those companies go to their engineers, point to their Internet routers and relay the message, "Turn it off." The engineers log into those routers, make one or two lines of configuration change and hit "return" on the keyboard. Thirty seconds later, it's done. Although there is no single switch that shuts down the INTERNET as a whole, does the incident in Egypt indicate that the Net can be turned off in small segments? Think of the Internet infrastructure within any particular country as being an ecosystem. There are a bunch of coordinating organizations—legal, financial, contractual—that work together within this ecosystem. If you look at a complex system such as those in the United States or Canada, you might ask, "How many phone calls would I have to make to shut it down?" It probably wouldn't be possible. Most of the people you would call operate independent of the government and wouldn't even listen to you. In a place like Egypt there's a lot less diversity in that ecosystem. There were just a few key providers, they're all licensed by the government. They have to do what the government says, and they have to operate within the law of the local telecommunications regulatory framework. And so in this case they did what they were asked to. So the sheer size of the U.S.'s infrastructure works to the Internet's advantage, and a shutdown such as the one in Egypt could not happen here? I'll speculate. There is no standing legal authority to be exercised and no kill switch. Probably, the government would make a request, and an ISP would say, "That's interesting," and send it to legal. Legal would send it upstairs, there would be consultation, there would be calls back and forth, there would be injunctions levied, there would be lawsuits, and the ISP wouldn't get shut down. This process would take a long time. If the laws were changed so that there were a clear-cut legal authority and a plan to control the Internet, then anything is possible. But I certainly don't think that the industry in most countries on Earth would stand to have that kind of power dangled over their heads. It would do incredible violence to the companies economically, and it would do even greater economic violence to the country. The network that handles the stock exchange in Egypt was not affected. What does that mean? My team is studying exceptions to the Internet blockage; there are a few. We're trying to figure out what they have in common. This was the obvious pattern—the Noor Group did come out basically unscathed. One speculation is that they got the phone call from the government, and they chose not to listen. Another speculation says that they didn't receive the phone call, because there was an agreement to let them stay online because they host the stock exchange, among other things. There's no way to know at this time really. What else are you and your team keeping an eye on as you monitor the situation? We're watching very closely to find out what will happen when, in effect, the whole country has to be rebooted, something that has never happened at this scale before. We'll see whether the relationships and networking routes that existed before the problem are resumed afterward or there are structural changes. I suspect they could bring it back up pretty much the way it was when it went down. Existing contractual relations—who pays whom and how much—are all pretty much in place. One significant change could be that companies operating on the Web start looking for ways to diversify how they access the Web. This could mean creating relationships with international carriers and even purchasing additional satellite Internet bandwidth, figuring that they should have one service provider that is not immediately under government control. |
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| shure | Jan 29 2011, 08:04 PM Post #25 |
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Get Internet Access When Your "government" Shuts It Down By Patrick Miller, David Daw, PCWorld Jan 28, 2011 3:50 PM http://www.pcworld.com/article/218155/get_internet_access_when_your_government_shuts_it_down.html |
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| shure | Jan 30 2011, 06:26 AM Post #26 |
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Protests in Egypt Spread to New York Betwa Sharma 2011-01-29 http://m.aol.com/news/default/getContent.do?link=http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/29/protests-in-egypt-spread-to-new-york/ NEW YORK -- The protests that have engulfed much of Egypt arrived in New York today when more than 2,000 people gathered near the United Nations building to support those demonstrating on the streets of Cairo to bring down President Hosni Mubarak. "Its time for him to go," said Hoda Elmasry, 24, a student at Columbia University, whose parents came to the United States in the 1980s to escape what she described as "corruption and lack of opportunities" in Egypt. Protesters also called for the U.S. to stop backing Mubarak, who has been in power for 30 years. Placards reading "Free Egypt Now" and "Obama Democracy = Democracy, Don't Play Favorites," spelled out the mood and message. "I would like to see Obama support democracy rather than stability," added Elmasry. "We are here so that the American government feels our pressure," said Ali Mansour, a 34-year-old doctor from New Jersey. Spencer Platt, Getty Images People protest against the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak outside of the United Nations on Saturday in New York City. Mansour, who came with his young children to the protest, urged Obama to cut off financial aid to Egypt and impose an economic blockade if the will of the people is ignored. One protester held up a poster saying "Mubarak, let me e-mail my mommy," in reference to the cell phone and Internet blackout in the country. While the Internet is still down, people in the U.S. were able to speak with their family members today on cell phones and landlines. Many told stories about their relatives, saying that "thugs," some affiliated with the government, were coming into several areas to terrorize and loot. "My sister said that there are three military tanks in their locality to provide security," said Mansour. Protesters said the revolution in Tunisia has ignited the spark that would spread across the Middle East and bring down other regimes in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Yemen. Varied reactions have come from countries in the Middle East. |
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| A Storm is Coming | Jan 30 2011, 07:16 AM Post #27 |
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Egyptian government orders Al Jazeera shutdown http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/30/egypt.al.jazeera/ King Abdullah slammed protesters in Egypt on Saturday as "infiltrators" who seek to destabilize their country Mubarak assured the Saudi king "that the situation is stable" and that the protests "are merely attempts of groups who do not want stability and security for the people of Egypt, but rather they seek to achieve strange and suspicious objectives." http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/01/29/egypt.middle.east.reaction/index.html Millions of Infiltrators ? Across the Entire Country ? With strange and suspicious objectives? You mean Like Freedom, Food, Communication and Democracy? Seriously, what is strange and suspicious about this?
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| shure | Jan 30 2011, 07:39 AM Post #28 |
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I just noticed the symbol on the Egypt flag! |
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| shure | Jan 30 2011, 07:59 AM Post #29 |
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18 Ways to Circumvent the Egyptians Governments' Internet CENSORSHIP: Block By @AnonymousRx @Warinte by Nopusher Camisetas on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 3:43am ![]() l 01] Nour DSL is still working in Egypt, Dial up with 0777 7776 or 07777 666 [02] IP addresses for social media: pass on to people in #Egypt: Twitter: 128.242.240.52. Facebook: 69.63.189.34 03]How to circumvent the communications blackout in #Egypt http://slink.us/?lr Arabic 04] #hamradio frequencies for #egypt http://slink.us/?ls PLEASE SPREAD IRC: http://slink.us/?lt 05] Ham Radio Software software for PC, Mac and Linux http://www.hamsphere.com/ Communicate w/ #egypt 06] TOR Bridge 189.129.67.78:443 04FD6AE46E95F1E46B5264528C48EA84DB10CAC4 07] There is an Old DSL Dialup 24564600 08] Send SMS reports to +1 949 209 7559 and they will retweet for you. Please spread to those in #Egypt on battlefield 09] #Egypt hams are on 7.050-7.200 MHz LSB 10] Egypt Gov only blocking by DNS. So for Twitter try 128.242.245.148 Facebook 69.63.189.11 Proxy 11] VPN Server http://texnomic.com/url/2L is now stable and open for FREE to ALL 12] Help the Egypt Revolutionaries by overcoming the Firewall https://www.accessnow.org/proxy-cloud 13] 0m band, 7.050-7.200 MHz LSB, 318.5 degrees (northwest/north from cairo) Ham Radio Operators 14] We are now providing dialup modem service at +46850009990. user/pass: telecomix/telecomix (only for #egypt, respect that PLEASE!). 15] People of Egypt ONLY! Use this dial-up provided by friends in France to go online: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') 16] FREE VPN Server to bypass ANY Blockage on ANY ADSL or Cell Network. Domain: Cloud.Texnomic.com User: FreeEgypt Pass: #Jan25 17] Third party apps: Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ & Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/ still work for updating Twitter 18] Follow @AnonymousRx We are anonymous We are legion We do not forgive We do not forget Expect us Please help support #OpEgypt and join anonymous in IRC chat, you can use a secure web version of IRC called Mibbit @ http://slink.us/?ll Ask what you can do to help when in the chat channel, anonymous members are always willing to help out new members! - @AnonymousRx |
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| shure | Jan 30 2011, 12:59 PM Post #30 |
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Egypt shuts down al-Jazeera; 100 dead in protests By Agence France-Presse Sunday, January 30th, 2011 -- 11:00 am http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/egypt-shuts-aljazeera/ ![]() CAIRO — Egypt moved on Sunday to shut down Al Jazeera's coverage of mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime, but the pan-Arab broadcaster vowed that it would not be silenced. Outgoing information minister Anas al-Fikki has "ordered the closure of all activities by Al Jazeera in the Arab republic of Egypt and the annulment of its licenses," Egypt's official MENA news agency reported. The press cards of all Al Jazeera staff in Egypt were also being withdrawn, it added. Egyptian satellite operator Nilesat meanwhile halted its relays of Al Jazeera programming, although the Qatar-based television channel could still be viewed in Cairo via Arabsat. On Twitter, an Al Jazeera correspondent, Dan Nolan, wrote: "Aljazeera Cairo bureau has been shut down. Just visited by plain clothes govt security, TV uplink is now closed." In a statement, Al Jazeera said the shutdown -- on day six of unprecedented and often violent street protests -- was aimed at "censoring and silencing the voices of the Egyptian people." "Al Jazeera sees this as an act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting by the network and its journalists," it said. "Al Jazeera assures its audiences in Egypt and across the world that it will continue its in-depth and comprehensive reporting on the events unfolding in Egypt," it said. It added: "In this time of deep turmoil and unrest in Egyptian society, it is imperative that voices from all sides be heard. "The closing of our bureau by the Egyptian government is aimed at censoring and silencing the voices of the Egyptian people. "The Al Jazeera Network is appalled at this latest attack by the Egyptian regime to strike at its freedom to report independently on the unprecedented events in Egypt," it added. More than 100 people have been killed since mass protests against Mubarak's regime -- ignited by popular unrest in Tunisia -- erupted last Tuesday. While moving to change his government, the president is defying calls to stand down. Al Jazeera has revolutionized the Arabic-language media and reporting on the Middle East since its foundation in 1996. Media analysts have credited its blanket coverage of this month's unrest in Tunisia with contributing to the ouster of the North African state's longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Last week Al Jazeera angered the Palestinian Authority when it began releasing the first of 1,600 files detailing more than a decade of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The files alleged that Palestinian negotiators offered unprecedented concessions on such sensitive subjects as Jerusalem and refugees. They also claim that of members of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority cooperated closely with Israel in confronting Hamas, Fatah's more militant rival, which controls the Gaza strip. In December, Kuwait shut down Al Jazeera's bureau in Kuwait City over its coverage of the use of police force at a public gathering. Al Jazeera denied meddling in Kuwaiti affairs, saying it was just doing its job. |
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