http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/28/clash...camera-confiscated/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

Those Whom the Government Detest

I heard they outlawed shrimp scampi, turned off the internet and encouraged hot air balloon leisures.

I'd be rioting too if someone was trying to make me build pyramids 24/7.

Honestly, the Egypt is handling this very well.

they better not destroy the pyramids before I get to see them

It blows my mind that places have curfews though in all seriousness.

I've listened to "Stargazer" enough... I know the deal.

I hope yet another US picked government is overthrown.

Wait, what?

I hope they burn that faggot libarary at Alexandria once and for all.

EVERYTHING ██IS█████ ████ ████FINE ███ █ ████ LOVE. ████ █████ THE ███ EGYPT ███ ████ GOVERNMENT ██

well played

Fuck this shit I'm coming back. Praise Satan!

this is the start of a global revolution. just wait til internet in america is shut down. then shits gonna get REAL.

bennyhillifier

I cannot wait to take up arms with the rest of you sheeple.

I'm looking forward to holocausting rangoons with Rich and Mike

IPAD FAGGOT

Somebody please summarize this for me. CNN's coverage is all over the place. WHY did Egypt order cellphone services to be stopped??

from reddit:


"The Catalyst: Tunisia a country in Northern Africa was ruled by a repressive and dictatorial regime led by President Ben Ali. At the end of 2010, a series of riots broke out throughout Tunisia, collectively termed the "Jasmine Revolution." The root causes are considered to be mass unemployment, widespread corruption, appalling living conditions and the governments propensity to squash free speech. This resulted in President Ben Ali dissolving the government, a victory for the revolutionaries.

Regional results: In the region, the success of the Tunisian revolution led to widespread instability. It had previously been considered axiomatic that regional dictatorships were too stable to fall. The Tunisian revolution proved otherwise and soon protests began all over the region, most strongly in Algeria, Yemen and Egypt.

Egypt: The Egyptian youth were mobilized by the example set by the Tunisian revolution. Many suggested that the upcoming 25th of January 'National Police Day' be instead used as a massive nation wide protest against corruption. Other causes for the unrest have been the widespread brutality of the Egyptian police and military (Egypt is basically a dictatorship because the country is under 'Emergency law' and has been since 1967), the crippling poverty in the country and President Mubarak himself.

The Egyptian Response: The Egyptian police and military have been very heavy handed in responding to the protests. A huge number of protestors have been beaten by police and plain clothes secret police officers. Three have been confirmed killed at the time of this writing. In an effort to stop the protestors utilizing Facebook and Twitter to organize and get their message out, Egypt shut down access to those two sites and now, basically unplugged the country from the internet entirely.

Friday: This Friday will see a pivotal moment in the Egyptian revolution as a mass protest has been called after traditional Friday prayers. The Egyptians have called for a "Million Man March" but the chaos in the country and the unpredictability of what's going on makes it difficult to even guess at what will actually transpire.

Predictions: Analysts are split as to what will happen in Egypt. There seems to be a concensus that unlike Tunisia, whose military was underpaid, had terrible morale and had little stake in the Police State, the Egyptian army is far more likely to support the Mubarak regime. If the support of the armed forces wavers (as the police support already has, on occasion) then a very real revolution is on the cards.

The U.S in the Region: If you're American and wondering, the U.S has a lot of skin in the game. Mubarak has received a huge amount of aid from the United States. Egypt is one of the only Middle Eastern countries to have something approaching a lasting peace treaty with Israel, and Mubarak is generally considered to be a 'friend of the West' by the standards of his fellow leaders in the region. Many of the protesters see the U.S as propping up Mubarak's regime. If the revolution succeeds, any popular democracy in Egypt is almost certainly going produce leaders with anti-American platforms. Further, one of the largest opposition groups in Egypt is the Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered a terrorist organization and a supporter of terrorism by the Russian Federation and is typically anti-west in its rhetoric."

You prissy faggots are lucky I am not around. Only I am real.

Im curious what this is going to mean for all the goods that move through the Suez canal. If they close the canal I would think Europe and northern Africa would feel some pressure pretty quick.

best live coverage
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/?foo=bar

USG is saying Egyptian govt should respect the "fundamental rights" of it's people and whispering "but maintain your treaty with Israel"

LOVE IT!

So like everything else in the middle east it's a choice between a corrupt dictatorship bent on reviving the dark ages, and a corrupt dictatorship bent on reviving the dark ages and scapegoating America?

I'll get at least a double-album out of this!

foo=bar? FUBAR?

the price of gas is going up again? fucking joy!!!!!!

the government arrested a potential new leader - http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/28/f-profile-mohamed-elbaradei.html

FUCK YOU KARL SANDERS! PLAY FUCKING 'WROUGHT'. BRING BACK CHIEF!!!!

As head of the International Atomic Energy Agency for 12 years — the UN group that promotes and monitors the peaceful use of nuclear energy — Mohamed ElBaradei gained considerable credibility and media exposure in the West.

In so doing, he also proved to be a thorn in the side of the George W. Bush administration

ElBaradei was one of the first, and one of the most prominent, public officials to question the invasion of Iraq and the motivation behind it.

sounds good to me.

oh, until that guy was shot.

I wish the government would shut off our cell phones and internet. Let's get uncomfortable.

I am the unsung hero. Giver of backbone, corrector of crooked governments.

haha that would make for an awesome band name

Unrest in the middle east, how shocking.

crab rangoons are the best thing to come out of immigration

Haha!!


I dunno if Mubarak himself will last but I can't imagine Israel and the US standing by idly while a democratic movement takes hold of Gaza's western neighbor... If for some reason a friendly ruler can't be propped up, I wouldn't be surprised to see a full-scale conflagration in the region. Israel seems ready to take on Lebanon again and are due, based on past experience, for another disproportionate offensive/ethnic cleansing operation on Gaza fairly soon. They've shown they're willing to fight a multi-front war, so if I were Lebanese, Persian, or stuck in Gaza, I would duck and cover before Mossad can manufacture a pretext for some good old-fashioned Israeli "self-defense"....

Isreal will be plunged into another war.
We will give them help.
It will all converge with the US invading Iran. That domino effect.
Shit will be going down.

I should build a bomb shelter on my property. That would be a dandy spring project.

president mubarak live now

he's dismissing the govt, but he's staying put

Fuck Mubarak.

This stinks of a CIA Covert OP.

I just love how every politician here got on tv and was like "HURR DURR WE SUPPORT CITIZEN RIGHTS" are they seriously that fucking blind to see that all these camel jockeys are revolting because they're sick and tired of a pro-peace with Isreal and pro-democratic government? God these moonbats are seriously more retarded then that kid with downsyndrome that used to take shits in the urinals when we were all in middle school.

well the protesters are pro-democratic, but yeah

My sources tell me that Myatt himself posted in this thread.

No, this would not happen under the current admin, which is really an incredible stroke of good luck and timing, because I think if either McCain or HRC or most anyone else likely to be President had gotten the job (Republican or Democrat), we'd be in exactly in the shitstorm you describe as a result of this crisis. It pays to have someone in the job who is anti-neocon to the bone from a childhood of seeing first-hand how external power oppresses third world countries; Obama won't invade anywhere because he knows it's self-defeating, thankfully.

Iran is a huge country with several times the population of Iraq, and so invading it would be a disaster for all involved, the US included. I used to worry all the time about this happening, and I probably will again from 2017 on, but it's not happening under this President, and I'd bet money on it. The news even noted this morning about how what he said on Friday (demanding protesters be allowed Internet and cell phone access by Mubarak) was completely different than all previous US responses to threats against allied dictators, which were considerably more supportive and never involved voicing demands on behalf on the people.

No, this isn't like Mossadegh in 1953, this is an organic revolution that was a long-time coming in Egypt, spurred by youth and technological access to communication.

After all, the CIA got rid of the rising pro-democracy leader Mossadegh in Iran in order to prop up their allied dictator (the Shah); why would they plan a mission to overthrow their allied dictator (Mubarak)?

I think Julio's sells beer from Egypt.

This is that place with those big triangles, right?

No, that's Paris:

I was being facetious in some regard; however, I would not be surprised if it was a mixture of "organic revolution" and some sort of secret operation. Lest we forget, one of American's tactics is to undermine governments for strategic purposes down the road. The fact of the matter is that we really don't know what forces -if any- are at work here. Yes, Egypt is one of our closest allies in the Middle East, so it's somewhat of a sticky situation. We've had a good relationship with Egypt for the last 30 years, albeit their government is not democratic in the current state. Perhaps the greatest factor in this is how the younger generation wants freedoms... freedoms that they don't currently have. Given the proximity to Israel, however, I'd assume that we would welcome this with open-arms, as our longtime goal is to "spread democracy" throughout the world, which is simple jargon for westernizing the world as we squabble over the last bit of resources left.

Then again, it was a long time coming.

foo, bar, baz, etc. are programmer slang for variables that you're too lazy (or paranoid) to name something more descriptive.

also, here's some pretty graphs
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml

Mubarak says he aint running again

which means he will serve the rest of his term, pass all sorts of legislation that alters the country to keep his ilk in power, and hand groom a successor.

but word is the people are still saying fuck that and want him out of the country immediately.

I hear in Jordan and Yemen similar shit is happening. If this spreads to one more country you can bet we will intervene out of protection of Israel.

How interesting would it be to have a potentially hostile party controlling the Suez canal which is far more important than both Oil and Israel combined?

One can only hope these people get their freedom if that is what we stand for as a country, I am hoping this spreads to Saudi Arabia soon as they are one of the most subjugated people in the region.

More than likely we will prop up muburak by sending money so they can subsidize food prices and create jobs there to quiet the protests.

You can bet your money there is no way we will allow a party hostile to the west to control the Suez canal.

I saw on the news that looters ripped the heads off two mummies. Look it up as I am too lazy and it is 5:48 in the morning. Mummies are wicked pissed.

Yeah they also stole 2 statues of king tut. Not only stole, but snapped the fuckers off their base. I can't imagine how that was allowed to happen. First order of business when the protests started getting serious should have been "secure the museum" not "turn off the facebookz".

Unfortunately a lot of muslims in Egypt hate the pre-Arab history as they see it blinding the world to their existence and history in the region. The few people who protect the antiquities I applaud, the government only cares because of the tourist dollars it brings.

I laughed my ass off this morning when I saw video on the news of a dude with a baseball bat riding a Camel running through the huge crowd. Fucking hilarious!

http://blogs.colgate.edu/khanegyptprimer.pdf
good primer pamphlet on the land under the aegean sea

20+ People getting crushed by a diplomat's car.

bennyhillifier

And another of a police van crushing people.

bennyhillifier

LULZ!!! That was awesome! This is why you do not give primitive people modern things.

whoa, that first video is nuts. that van must have been going 50.

So you're saying the Giza and the Pyramids aren't a feat of mankind, but that of a primitive people?

Pills are modern things, dogma and ideology is ancient

Israel is gonna attack the shit out of them and move in on that prime real estate. Thats why. Piss them off until Israel "has no choice!"

The Arabs pretty much killed off the vast majority of blood that lived in Egypt prior to the Arab invasion.

Ancient Egypt was racially diverse as fuck and even had several black pharaohs.

the more you know

Hey Egypt - You were spawned.. by niggers.

I hear Obama secretly flew to Egypt to console Mubarak. He admitted that he is a foreign-born Muslim and then they kissed an Israeli flag to show their allegiance and to assure that everything would be ok.

Honestly, I was setting you up for a post. Mission success.

bennyhillifier

hahahaha i love the Onion.

Joe Lieberman Approves of this thread

HAHA

hory shet ror

holy shit, mubarak is actually stepping down. shit won't settle for years though. the country is backward in more than regime.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/20112101653445426.html

QUICK, PUT A US-BACKED SECRET CIA AGENT IN AS PRESIDENT TO FIX THE COUNTRY!!!!11234123TG RENR C SRA\'

Lets hope not.... but we all know what is really happening.

How bout that? Mubarak: "Eat shit, buttdarts."

I am pretty fucking worried about the prospect of a new false flag attack pinned on the Muslim Brotherhood to allow for broader US/NATO/UN intervention for "stability" in N. Africa. That is if the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't provide such a pretext themselves... Based on our intervention in Yemen for the past 2 years or so though, it certainly need not take place outside of Egypt. The magic words ("national security") have lost a bit of cache, but they still continue to ensure a blank check for radical diplomatic/intelligence/military control over foreign lands, so I won't be surprised if (9/11 co-conspirator?) Robert Gates sends in a few thousand Special Forces overnight while Washington sleeps, in the next few weeks.

Looks like he didn't step down after all.... Whoops.

Uninstalling dictator ... 99% complete ███████████████████████████░ -ERROR-

this is TODAY in cairo.