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Egypt Shuts Down Internet And Text Messaging Ahead Of Million-Man Protests
Per assorted tweets from the country that is only second (but certainly not last) in experiencing first hand the Genocidal one's monetary policies, the Egyptian government has now effectively shut down the internet, text messaging and possibly land lines -link. This includes Facebook and Twitter. Ironically this act of desperation in Egypt which seeks to prevent the ongoing televising of the revolution, would be precisely the match that would set off America on a certain path to revolution: not ongoing banker rape, not Primary Dealers stealing from babies, not Greek president G-Pap robbing your wallet... merely a shutdown of Facebook and Twitter (and possibly cable) and 300 million well-armed American will promptly go apeshit.
More from the HuffPo:
Reports are emerging that Internet has gone down in Cairo and perhaps throughout Egypt, only hours before the largest planned protests yet.
According to a report from The Arabist, "Egypt has shut off the internet."
Multiple Internet Service Providers are affected according to the report, which states:
I just received a call from a friend in Cairo (I won't say
who it is now because he's a prominent activist) telling me neither his
DSL nor his USB internet service is working. I've just checked with two
other friends in different parts of Cairo and their internet is not
working either.
The news of the Internet outage came minutes after the Associated Press published a video of an Egyptian protestor being shot.
CNN reporter Ben Wedeman confirmed Internet is down in Cairo and writes, "No internet, no SMS, what is next? Mobile phones and land lines? So much for stability. #Jan25 #Egypt"
The Los Angeles Times is also reporting that BlackBerry Internet has been taken offline in Egypt.
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I cant talk with Skype too, this is like Cuba guys..
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A lot of Egyptians I know consider Mubarak to be a reincarnated Pharaoh. They hate the fucker.
what kind of company are you on?
Might buy a little more time for those G6's on the runway to load the shiny stuff and get airborne.
So, do those of us near New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC go protest outside Egyptian and Yemen consulates, embassies and UN missions tomorrow? Also, Egyptian consulates in Chicago and Houston.
Perhaps if Americans saw some protests/gatherings of support here they would "wake up" a little more? Even recognize that we have streets to take to too.
Way ahead of you here. I was walking back and forth all day in front of the Houston consulate carrying my sign, "I BUY GOLD."
Figured I might get a good price, as the recent arrivals might be a little desperate. No such luck. Maybe tomorrow.
<sarc SAML 1.2>Facebook is now only worth $49 billion. somebody did a 2008 type RSS backdoor onto a WOW guild facebook page saying that 200 peeps got massacred while leaning on the limit down Egypt mutliplexer during the NYSE opening ceremonies in Davos. Maria was not amused.
Well that's one way to stop the DDOS attacks...
Damn. And right after Hillary said that we support the free use of Facebook and Twitter in Egypt. State also had said that they'd been supporting the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia for a long time.... WTF?... but that's another story for another waste of space-time.
But whilst supporting the use in Egypt (and see where that got everybody, the precient overarching influence) that here in the good old good old where every-thing's absolutely hunkie dorrie, they (yes, the ubiquitous and you can guess who, I'll bet) want a "kill" switch to do the same.
Makes all the sense in the world.
Reality fatigue, anyone?
I think I get the logic. I'm a mythological nineteen year old male Egyptian college student. I can't reach any of my friends on my mobile phone, so at first light I head out to the town square to see what's up and what do you know?... there's a million other guys doing the same thing. Whoever controls the network obviously wants everybody to come to the riot.
Dave Harrison
tradewithdave.com
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so, what are the 30 Egypt focused shills working at the NSA going to do on their unexpected time off...
surf porn
he said "on their time off"
+1
Good logic, they should leave some entertainment for youngsters so that they will stay inside.
Everyone just needs to relax......
http://randomlyspecific.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Hypnotist.wmv
This is why Obama wants an internet cut off switch. He has been pressing for it for quite a while.
Have you stopped to consider that since October 2008 this whole global scenario was orchestrated?
This is the direction the Global Elite has been steering for a long time. Greece & Egypt are a side show. When America has been brought into a Police State is when they send a message to the world.
Is it already a police state?
The bill was sponsored by that snake Joe Liberman.
They just want their MTV!!
Maternity television? That used to be a cool thing back in the days of music and videos. Now Its a sewer of shit and agenda based shows.
The Hills is a literary window into our culture....
Unfortunately, I believe this will be Iran redux. Courageous protestors are jailed or killed. Democratic leaders pay obligatory lip service. Life goes on.
And the pyramids still stand, and Egyptian cotton is still exported.
George Friedman said today during a radio interview that the situation in Egypt will have major ramification in the global/political sphere. Paraphrasing.
Please do not confuse George with Thomas, Thomas would not use the word Sphere, as Thomas Friedman believes the world flat.
George Friedman has a new book out, The Next Decade. It can be found at Amazon.com but you better hurry - 8.5% at 5.30 PM CDT
Got it day before yesterday on my Kindle. Excellent read.
We're in New England. In one of the last two or three snow storms, Comcastic went down. We finished shoveling, cleaned up, and all were wanting to be on the internet. No Joy.
So we reverted to normal stuff, but couldn't communicate to all y'all. Nervous-making.
- Ned
(p.s.--I've avoided futures and selling options on the theory that just when I'd need to get out of a position, the fricken internet goes down and I get flocked. I'd probably get flocked (many geese around here) but why open up another channel?))
V for Vendetta is just in my head today.
Particularly the 'someone will do something stupid' part.
I just keep waiting to see which particular stupid thing it will be that sets things off. Now is a year or so sooner than I would bet on it, but no-one can ever tell the 'when', can they.
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I had to see it. There wasn't much left. But when I was there it was strange. I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected. It's like I could see the whole thing, one long chain of events that stretched all the way back before Larkhill. I felt like I could see everything that happened, and everything that is going to happen. It was like a perfect pattern, laid out in front of me. And I realised we're all part of it, and all trapped by it.
So do you know what's gonna happen?
No, it was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty. And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do. At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word. And then...
[Dominoes collapse with TV footages showing conflicts between rioting citizens and the anti-riot police]
Amazing, it is correct, take away people's distractions and then they will revolt. The fact that people are going homeless by the millions, we are being bankrupt the list goes on and on and people are sitting back letting it happen. But if sports were taken down people would take to the streets.
I guess the internet kill switch is definitely going to be on the table and passed now, they will want to do the same thing with no communication in the U.S., if people ever get off their butts and take to the streets. But all the medications in our water and food keep us docile.
CB Radio and Ham Radio.
One thing about our right to own guns, if it ever gets to the point of having riots on the streets, we wont be throwing stones at tanks. We have guns, lots of them, and power tools! I like our odds.
Paintball guns will work great to cover the viewing lens of most armoured vehicles. And they are approved by the Israelis as non-violent.
I just realized that my last sentence will label me a holocaust denier in some circles.
Bolt action rifle in something like .308 works even better on vision blocks. And you can't wipe them off.
You're forgetting that someone aiming a paintball gun looks just like someone aiming any other sort of gun. They'll shoot back either way.
That cynical bitch Hillary is probably giving Egypt the go ahead to massacre at will. Tunisia is one thing, but Egypt! Can't have too many brown people getting uppity, it's making Israel nervous. Or making the US nervous that they'll have to come in and clean up after Israel.
They need a distraction and quick! What's old Kim Jong Il up to?
If your government shuts down the internet,
shut down your government #jan25
God dammit, thats a bumper sticker !
Shamelessly stolen.
Not shamelessly, but it was stolen, copied and pasted from twitter. I thought the "#jan25" part would make it apparent. Guessed wrong... I wasn't trying to take credit for such a profound statement, but just trying to further it.
Successfully #Jan25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9g9IkQ6_2A
Hey Rusty!!
Nice !
The shutdown will have limited use. Tomorrow is a mosque day. That will get the people out in force in any event.
can easily be fatwa-ized to stay home for fear of one's safety, if needed.
Disseminated how? Camelgram?
There's an app for that.
pegiongram. Faster.
During the calls to prayer form the minarets.
No joke, humor, cynicism intended whatsoever.... 30 year reign by the friend of the Western Satans, prosecutor of the Muslim Brotherhood...
Not a joke in the least.
Agreed. If the imams say it's "out on the streets" then "out on the streets" it will be.
Do we hit the street if ZH is unavailable. What options do we have. We can only assume that JD is pissed about something, and O and B agree
This is the latest I've found from Suez, including some live feed. Doesn't sound good.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/01/27/breaking-intelligence-on-the-suez-situation-get-this-out/
Thanks that was good. I don't understand Arabic, but the escalation in violence is understood.
really? they really think they can just unwind this revolution now by shutting down net?
Gotta love that government that Hillary supports....bastion of freedom...
Day be battin a thousand.
England, Honduras, Egypt, Columbia, Tunisia, Mexico...they're gonna run out of sticks to poke people in the eye with...LOL.
Go long sharp sticks!
England?
Churchill bust returned, presidential Ipod speech's for a queen, pen holder made from the wood of HMS Gannet accepted with a...uhuh.
Cheesy DVD's in exchange for a historic pen. Oh yeah, I remember now.
Oh yeah, but the Brits got them back real fucking good, and I mean about as mean, tough, bad spirited, but highbrow and sophisticated as could be imagined, and only the Brits could pull off. I'll bet you that most of DC has no idea of the message.
The prez and his lady were given framed photo graphs, simple bloody pictures of the Queen and Prince Phillip.
Imagine.
Having been criticized some years ago by the recipient as one of the world's worst vestiges of colonialism, perpetrators of slave trade, etc., and you're give a simple photo of the House of Hanover's royal lineage.
That's about a big a fuck you as is humanly possible.
And it went whoosh, right over the head of the head of state.
Bloody Brilliant.
Oh yeah, and the pen holder "uhhuh"....
Ranks right up there with the famous photo of the Dhali Lama being ushered out the back/side door of the White House past bags of garbage.
One of the most spiritual people in the world shown the garbage pile.
And people in DC still figure the world loves him, his administration and America.
Try reading, faithfully not just once or twice, a selection of offshore editorials.
Not pretty.
In fact, embarrassing.
Well, they're equal opportunity offenders ;-)
Free Tibet!...LOL.
At one time I thought because of their past and what they are deep down, they did this stuff on purpose...kinda like a project mayhem at the executive level.
When all it ever was, is gross ignorance & incompetence.
"Ironically this act of desperation in Egypt which seeks to prevent the ongoing televising of the revolution, would be precisely the match that would set off America on a certain path to revolution: not ongoing banker rape, not Primary Dealers stealing from babies, not Greek president G-Pap robbing your wallet... merely a shutdown of Facebook and Twitter (and possibly cable) and 300 million well-armed American will promptly go apeshit."
Tyler....this is not going to happen. Life needs to get much more miserable, before this is going to happen.
this is a civil war, Egypt is totaly different from Tunisia. the 15% Copt well have the same sort of ethnic cleaning like the Assyrians in Iraq after Sadam,
Don't these people have Idol or football
They need A lesson from Iran. They did a good job in crowd comtrol. And they make nukes!
Beat me, was going to ask if Amerikan Idol was affected.
And Barry is trying right now to get the internet kill switch for himself -- and pronto!
Jay Rockefeller the sponsor of that legislation in the senate.
The Bernank and the Davos Boys running the world are giving Bamm a big heads up
The Egyptian regime used universal access as the carrot to install universal kill switch.
THey upgraded to wireless as it came about... but the censorship regime started here:
Internet Service Providers
In 2001, the Egyptian government undertook a major initiative to make dialup Internet access available to everyone. As such, Internet Service Providers were given exclusive (07xx-xxxx) dialup phone numbers all across the country. Users dial in the corresponding number to connect to a particular service provider, without the need for a username or a password. The access charges are simply billed to the phone number from which you are dialing, without the need to subscribe. There are hundreds of providers, each with a different access number, but we recommend 0777-0777. Look out for street advertisements with other equally good providers' phone numbers
do not underestimate the power of this event.
your etrade account and dinner at tgf this weekend will be over..........
the fire next time....................
Well, as Fox News is actually covering it, you may be right. But the Dufi are on for the next 8 hrs.
Shemp even know where Egypt is? No matter, he's a faggot Lib.
We'll have to see what the Egyptians do to communicate, and learn
We may have to do the same thing when the bankers go gangsta here
The Bernank may tell Barry it's time to crackdown on gold whore-ders.
hey bernank! see what you've done!
Beat me, spank me, tie me up.
Just give me 4 more years of the Squirrel!
(sounds of major puking)
Perfect ticket for 2012:
Michele Bachmann
Kristie Noem.
Heaven viewing on Earth. Babes away.
Tunisia, Lebanon, Yemen, Albania, Egypt, Ivory Coast, enough more to not want to take the time to alphabetize. *sigh* How many are enough to stop the madness?
Lol, one. Two, tops, if those two are Saudi Arabia and Oman.
'Course, that sets off a different kind of madness.
Who cares? Got 2 yrs of coffee in cans.
The Internet is probably the worst thing to depend on in a crisis. Face to face communication is the real deal. Remember, the fastest forms of communication are Telegraph, Telephone, and tell a woman.
your order be reversed from reality
Amazing how many despots the usa ptb has for friends.
Be civil, you spawn of old Schwazzernigger movies...
Total ReCall...
i am sure that the american puppet regime is being advised by the cia.
Given recent relevations re. PA colaboration, prolly Mosad as well.
Egypt was the home of the Muslim Brotherhood, the original Islamists. They have gotten hardcore and may have been strenghtened by Mubarak's extended suppression. I have no idea how well armed they are but we may find out soon. People who are willing to die are very hard to intimidate. A hard core cadre like that gets the support of an outraged general public and it will will be a real test of the limits of the Egyptian state's brute force.
Brutal suppression at this stage will result in strikes, more protests, the de-legitimizing of the 'Govt' (even further), and incite acts of sabotage and the bringing out of such weapons etc.
For better or worse this regime's time is about up, so much for the last election's alleged 'majority' vote.
However, my supposition is the military will feel the need for an authoritarian approach to deal with its northern neighbor, and that a genuine democracy would just weaken and capture them (further) over-time into the hands of it's neighbor’s maneuvering for advantage.
And in that sense, they would probably be correct, and maybe why the military are not keen on the ‘people’s choice’. But that is the regime’s last hope, that the military will think they are better off with a dictator, rather than a nationalist consensus democracy fan.
Well, they've already shot a few folks and rumors are they've shot many more in the last 12 hours. You make a good point about the military -- we could see a general in charge at the end of it.
However, my supposition is the military will feel the need for an authoritarian approach to deal with its northern neighbor, and that a genuine democracy would just weaken and capture them (further) over-time into the hands of it's neighbor’s maneuvering for advantage.
I dunno. Hamas was freely elected and despite all the obstacles thrown in their way, they have maintained the resistance, while the puppet PA collaborated, even to the extent of the murdering of it's own members at the behest of what you refer to as the "northern neighbor".
Is it you who would feel better with a new strong man in charge? Would you sleep better?
Block Like An Egyptian!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVrNV_5LhNE&feature=related
I'd add that if brute force wins, we'll see more of it. If the brutes end up hung it may send a message that gets heard.
eventually the walls will close in on Israel
The last time the "walls were closing in on Israel" was 1973. Surrounded, running out of bullets, etc., the Israelis got real nasty ... something like "if we go down we will take the whole neighborhood with us (also known as an eye for an eye) courtesy of the French delivery of plutonium in 1957 good for about 250 bombs. Richard Nixon, not known as the best friend of Israel, moved very quickly to defuse the situation by supplying Israel with lots of ammunition. Things start to bad again I am sure Obama will know what to do with all the community service experience he brings to the table.
What's your source for this claim? I'm not sure that even the US had that much plutonium back in 1957.
Nice work Max. What's that show? Myth Busters? That guy needs to be on Myth Busters.
US Consular worker in Pakistan charged with murder of two men he says he shot in self-defense.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/01/2011127204843475131.html
You might start calling the genocidal one the great saviour if all these riots result in democratic revolutions.
China your turn is coming soon. Wacha gonna do big boy?
top, an interesting call, I will keep watch...
They probably shut down the internet because they are going to start upping the level of force they use to maintain "order"
Well the muslim Brotherhood are getting in tomrrow's million man protest. If they are armed then we could see gunfights and lots of deaths. Shit is about to get real. Israel is probably having nervous flatulence with the events in Egypt. If the military shoots the people then the situation will get worse.
What I want to know is - are there any young smart engineers in the US who are preparing for when the givernment here shuts down the internet "for national security"? Can we hope that there are some out there who are ready to provide the people with access to information that the government does not want them to have, or are we actually at the mercy of the tyrants? Please don't identify yourselves if you are out there - I'm just hoping that not everyone in this country is sitting on their hands hoping it won't happen here, because it is obviously coming to a theater near you and me.
Must be an Obamanista that junked you for mentioning exactly what Obama wants, the right to shut down the interwebs.
Question. Anyone. Odds Mohamed El-Erian joins Mohamed ElBaradei in new governing coalition in Egypt?
It would be good to see some sort of freeware that could knit WiFi routers into a local grid with FIDOnet type mail, etc. Let 'em try to kill that in an emergency...
Link it with HAM radio like this...
http://www.eqso.org/
Any Egyptians reading this - an M-80 firecracker taped to a can of insecticide spray makes a wonderful response to those bastards huddled in their APCs spraying you with chemicals and lead. Just light the fuse and toss it in their general direction - better yet, try to get it right down the hatch of the tank. They will curl up and die faster than you can say Allahu Akbhar.
Kinda funny. The guy to the left in the photo looks like David Patterson
Other than that, I have no concerns.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/egypt-protests-mubarak_n_813746.html
does obama have a passport....
what birth certificate did he use to get it...
well.....
Game over - the Muslim Brotherhood has ordered its members to join the protests
http://www.debka.com/article/20598/
The military will follow closely behind - the Brotherhood owns the officer corps. Radical fundamentalist government to follow soon. Suez canal is toast - so are US naval transit rights. Black swans rising all over the lake.
If you are right, it seems to me we should re-familiarize ourselves with the following history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
Seriously dude, Debkafile? Its like getting market analysis from the National Inquirer.
They do have this story about Iranian naval activity...
http://www.debka.com/article/20580/
Even though Debka is not a relaible news organization,but if what yous said is true Israel is toast. This will be like having Iran next door. This will change everything in Gaza,and Saudi Arabia will be next and that will lead to a black swan of epic perportions.
Thats why it will never happen.
Slavery is not Freedom!
The Egyptian security forces are shooting people with US rifles, using US ammunition, and and deploying tactics they learned from US training manuals and US instructors. When enough people have died, and the dust finally settles, this will be Obama's Katrina. Starring Hillary Clinton as "Brownie".
Tomorrow I'm going to stock up on freeze dried food, 5.56mm bandoliers, fresh water, Viagra, and two year's worth of Rogaine.
Everything I'll need to survive the apocalypse.
This happened last year in Iran and nothing came of it.
Muslims are just crazy people, they're always blowing something up, or revolting, or someshit. I'm not a DE Shaw analyst or anything but does anyone realize the trend? All these "revolutions" happen in Muslim nations. Iran last year, Tunisia, Egyps, and than you had the Hezbollah situation, etc....This shouldn't be surprising or world changing, this is just the reality of life. Next year some other Muslim country will revolt. This seriously is nothing new...
Everyone is all running around "omg omg omg" It's like bitch please. This has been happening in the Middle east for hundreds of years, and it will be happening in the next couple hundred years.
The US would be very stupid to shut down the internet, it would be the last thing they do prior to insurection.
Shutting off the internet demonstrates you are afraid of what the people might be saying to each other about you and you are worried the truth will lead to action against you.
Shutting down the internet would be a plain admission that you consider yourself illigitimate. That if Americans speak to one another it will be then end of the government and the system.
People will understand this instinctively, thus shutting downt eh internet would be proof positive to the people that you have lost legitimacy. IT would in fact cause and unite others to the same thinking, it would make matters far worse.
Also shutting down the inernet will cause the people to stop listening and believing you. Having such a power will be dangerous, it is gun pointed at their own heads.
Also, shutting down the intermet would shut down all the creditcard transactions. Stores would close. Gas pumps would not work. People would not even be able to get home and watch Netflix. They will be stranded everywhere with nowhere to go and nothing to eat.
That will go over big.
Mark my words. Nothing is going to happen. The government is letting these people demonstrate to vent but this will not get out of control or becomes a revolution as many are predicting. What's been happening there and in other Arab countries is Islamists and leftists have found a window and hijacked ligitimate demonstration against high prices and unemployment by poor people and now asking for governments all over the Arab world to resign and hand them the power. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN. Those demonstators will be crushed with the blessing of the US. If you think the US will allow the biggest Arab country a few feet across from Israel to become another Iran or Gaza then you need to have your heads examined.
Despite being cuddly yellow...you are probably right.
Hard to be taken seriously though...
In other news, CNN just reported about the 5000 birds that fell from the sky in Arkansas. The cause of death was determined to be "Blunt Trauma" as in hitting a hard object with force.
I agree Bob that powerful interests want Egypt to remain a dictatorship.
I agree the Egeyptian people will have a difficult time executing a regieme change, due to the force, money and expertise lined up against them.
I still hope they can pull it off. Empires fail eventually. These types of things happen in a failing empire.
- what is the food situation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzrqH2xPHo4
This is Morocan food but nonetheless you just made me hungry :)
Morocco is just a few feet from Egypt.
Stuffed Squid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQQxU52Tyf4&feature=related
finally the truth; unca sam will make sure its (ie israel's) interests prevail; mubarak fall and house of saud would be next, no way that wil be allowed; easier to stop this than keep the Dow above 10k - Ben pse print and pay off the leftists stoking shit over in the middle east, if they refuse to accept toilet paper, send in some drones and flatten their families' houses; everything else fail, nuke the sphinx and pyramids and then they would be on their knees, no way the US of A will allow egypt to ge ruled by anything except a stooge approved by us. Got that?
Some time ago, I got into a free-ranging conversation with the Congressman who represents the district I live in, and the topics ranged from term limits to gun control. Somewhere near the end of our talk - and a case of beer - I asked him - sort of tongue-in-cheek, if the federal government had a contingency plan to deal with mass unrest of an armed populace. He laughed and said that one of the main arguments of inter-governmental gun control activists was the possibility that gun ownership by a mass population could threaten the government itself. I asked him if by gun control activists he meant congressmen and senators? Yes, he responded, it is a real fear in some circles. So, I asked, what is the plan, if any?
His response was that he was not aware of any over-arching plan, but he knew that Homeland Security had run scenarios on an internal terrorist organization threatening the government, and he felt as though that plan could be scaled up to include a significant percentage of the populace.
So, I asked, they are hiding a plan by scaling it down to meet the threat of a popular evil?
You said that, he said, not me.
Eventually, I asked him what resources the government would use to quell a national revolt.
The armed forces through the national guard, local, county and state resources - police and such, the enforcement divisions of all federal agencies: IRS, Treasury, Post Office, Marshall's Service, and of course, the FBI.
What if the people in those agencies defect to the uprising? I asked?
Estimates are that maybe 20% may, especially local and state people, he answered.
Sounds to me like a very detailed plan is in place, I said.
You know the government, he smiled, they plan for everything.
The next day his wife called mine and asked her to ask me to keep our conversation just between us.
You're such a rebel.
Thanks for the compliment, but alas...I am just an asshole.
My bro works in the military (AF colonel) and I asked him once how the military would react if forced to fire against the populace. He said the military in the U.S. is a civilian force and "politician" is a dirty word.
The military take an oath similar to presidents, and that oath is to protect the
constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Just not sure which way "domestic" would be perceived. It may be perceived as being the current government regime or it could mean the populace rejecting that regime. It would certainly be interesting to know which way it would go, although my sincere hope is that it would never come to that.
Wow! I am completely ignorant on this topic. Thanks for the eye opening posts.
I think a break from the internet is what we all need.
Yeah....that is what Mubarak said in an earlier press release.
bet anyone a silver dollar Erik Prince and the Xe boys will be inside Egypt by noon prayer tomorrow, if they aren't there already.
My Buddy Erik and his boys lost a lot of reputations capital in Iraq, and Mubarak is not a friend of his at all. If they show up, it would at the behest of the rebels, and if the MB is involved now with them...not gonna happen. The problem Mubarak has is he is no friend of the fundamental Muslims, so cannot pull from the Hezbollah sources in Lebanon, and he is not liked by the Muslim moderates, and he has alienated Shias and Shiites both. Mubarak - no matter how this present situation pans out - is fucked.
Erik P...Hizballah..? you don't seriously think Egypt need a bunch mercinaries to quell a few thousands protesters?
FYI,
"The Armed Forces of Egypt are the largest on the African continent and one of the largest in the world (ranked 10th), consisting of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy, Egyptian Air Force and Egyptian Air Defense Command.
In addition, Egypt maintains large paramilitary forces. They numbered about 397,000 in 2007.[2] The Central Security Forces, and the Border Guard Forces are under Ministry of the Interior (Egypt) control. The National Guard, about 60,000, comes under the control of the Ministry of Defence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Armed_Forces
Steal a mans food he cares not, even his gold, Fuck with his flat screen you will see violence and quick!
I have listend to Dark Side of the Moon too many times to put up with this crap...
There's going to be a lot of blood on the streets. Hillary will go on record about how terribly sad and awful it was that they killed so many people.. she might even make some mouth movements that seem to indicate a mild wrist slapping of the regime by the UN, you dirty rascals! Then the news cycle will move on.
Unless of course they people are successful in toppling the regime.. then the Hillary will go into panic mode, they'll dig up a bunch of evidence about how 'the terrorists' did it, because Bin Ladin is still everywhere, and they will invade. OK, maybe not invade, but they'll definitely shove a few jdams up their asses.
If there were no canal or anything strategic, well they wouldn't give a fuck, and they'd let them all kill each other until the end of time.
good read on the Internet staus in Egypt. The only site with access is their stock exchange.
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
those guys in egypt are rioting because
they can't get no zero hedge ...
With the internet shutdown, they can't get porn, and can't download music and films from Pirate Bay. This will add gasoline to the fire...
read this off a feed, hope they don't use chemicals on them.
Important: unknown yellow liquid used on the protesters in Suiz, makes them very dizzy so they can't do anything #jan25 #suez
Maybe this yellow liquid?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/01/27/state/n05042...
This will be resolved. Kipling said its as easy as ABC.
hello internet kill switch put in a defense appropriations bill in the united states!!!~!
they have been planning this stuff for a long time in the US as well. nothing will be allowed to get in the way of the banksters
Does anyone else see Iranian intelligence taking advantage of these situations? The Iranians have a lot of experience influencing other countries (Lebanon, Iraq, Syria) via orchestrated popular rebellion. What happens when they can pull strings all across north Africa, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen?
A "revolution" can never triumph in a country like Egypt if it's a "middle class revolution". The only chance a revolution like this can have is if the poor masses from the poor districts of Cairo join the protests, and the working class launches a general strike. The revolution in Tunisia only could triumph because the trade unions and the working poor from the peripheric neighborhoods of Tunis joined the fight. In contrast, the "middle class revolution" on Iran has failed, before the passivity of the working poor masses.