February 2011
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Google Creates "Speak-to-Tweet" Service for Egypt →
javiercarrete:
Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection. We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company weacquired last week, to make this...
January 2011
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Almost Dawn →
Seeing these burnt out shells has been extremely gratifying. For three years I reported on cases of torture, disappearances and brutality at the hands of this institution. My heart sank every time I was with a male friend and we had to deal with a police officer on any level because I knew the outcome of that encounter would be decided by a million factors other than justice and rule of law....
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China blocks 'Egypt' searches on micro-blogging... →
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The continuing anti-government protests in Egypt appear to have sparked some nervousness in China. The authorities have blocked searches for the Chinese word for Egypt on micro-blogging sites, similar to Twitter.
At least one person speculates that China may be the “Next Egypt”
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“To the prime minster of Israel;
Instead of saying “Egypt can become like...”
– Operation Egypt facebook page, a source of breaking news and coordination of some resourceful moves amidst the net blackout in Egypt. And it is a good point amidst the geopolitical fear-fest: Iran could re-ignite.
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Astonishing Douthat Column on Egypt →
Americans should ponder this: It’s quite possible that if Mubarak had not ruled Egypt as a dictator for the last 30 years, the World Trade Center would still be standing.
: cough : … what did he say?
For many young Egyptians, restless amid political and economic stagnation, it’s been a short leap from hating their dictator to hating his patrons in the United States. One of the...
8 Essential Stories About Egypt →
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A Message to the U.S. from Anonymous →
Anonymous asks the U.S. Government to “immediately cut off all military and political aid to the Regime of Hosni Mubarak”.
Full text and video posted by javiercarrete.
Israel already watches events in Egypt with trepidation. Is this dimension, running in tandem with events from Tunisia to Egypt, another cause for alarm in Tel Aviv?
Gaza and the Occupation of Palestine could come...
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Egypt's Banks Risk Deposit Run →
Egypt’s banks may risk a surge in customer withdrawals when they open for business, placing them among companies worst hit by the nationwide uprising… < Bloomberg >
related: Reuters: Egypt has limited war chest to avert financial crisis
nytimes: Unrest in Egypt Unsettles Global Markets
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“The idea that we ought to reserve judgement because there might be something...”
– Caution v. Celebration (via azspot)
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Mohamed ElBaradei: Egypt's president-in-waiting? →
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.
…the Bush administration did its best to try to discredit ElBaradei — it also tried to block his re-election as director general of the IAEA in 2005.
But he won that third term and, later that year, he and the IAEA were awarded the Nobel...
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Mad scene in Suez showed the depth of Egypt's... →
If Suez is a microcosm of the unrest in Egypt, the family wondered, could this happen everywhere if Mubarak’s regime were toppled?
“It shouldn’t happen like this, not like this,” Suheid muttered. “I feel like I’m in a dream.”
Protesters overcome with tear gas banged on the family’s door, begging for water and onions to draw out the sting. When...
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A Prescient View on Egypt (1/1/11) →
Juan Cole’s number one challenge for U.S. Policy, written on New Year’s day of this year.
1. Egypt, after decades of being unproblematic for the US, may be on the verge of being a foreign policy challenge of some magnitude. President Hosni Mubarak is advanced in age and could pass from the scene soon. He is grooming his son, Jamal, to be his successor, but the wikileaks cables...
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Bouazizi is Traveling
Charley Bravo - 1/28/11
Courtesy of cyrenaica, I posted a haunting final message from Mohamed Bouazizi’s facebook page. Watching Egypt I can’t shake it. Humiliated and bullied repeatedly, the young man started a revolution. It came from Sidi Bouzid, a place with echoes of WWII history. Now history’s tipping point has come unhinged with one man’s tragic example, filling...
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Egypt as 'Physician with One Patient'
Charley Bravo - 1/28/11
A cable newly released by Wikileaks, 10DOHA71, hightlights some fascinating commentary by the Prime Minster of Qatar in discussions with Senator John Kerry. Regarding the Palestinian issue, Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani notes that Hamas has a “greater sense of urgency in reconcilling with Fatah than does the broker of the talks”. His point here is that Egypt is in...
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Egyptian Internet Traffic for 27 Jan
streamsofwikileaks:
via farm6.static.flickr.com
Presumably, this is the outward expression of a reality noted by the Wikilieaks’ recently released cable 10CAIRO179
Egypt’s police and domestic security services continue to be the subject of persistent, credible allegations of abuse of detainees. Police brutality in Egypt against common criminals is routine and pervasive, resulting...
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Government is planning war crimes tomorrow
darling80m:
via elshaheeed:
Aljazeera confirms: In several low-income parts of Cairo and Alexandria, government-hired thugs were seen to be splashing petroleum over parked cars. This to prepare for protests in which they’ll light vehicles on fire when the time is right for them. They will charge through the streets with swords and caustic acid to splash on protesters placing blame of violence...
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Cables Show How U.S. Privately Pressured Egypt →
soupsoup:
MARK LANDLER and ANDREW W. LEHREN at NY Times
It was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first meeting as secretary of state with President Hosni Mubarak, in March 2009, and the Egyptians had an odd request: Mrs. Clinton should not thank Mr. Mubarak for releasing an opposition leader from prison because he was ill.
In fact, a confidential diplomatic cable signed by the American ambassador to...
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Message from Inside Egypt →
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Anonymous Open Letter to United Kingdom →
DDoS attacks defended as legitimate civil protest
“You can easily arrest individuals, but you cannot arrest an ideology. We are united by a common objective and we can and WILL cross any borders to achieve that.”
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RAW VIDEO: Man Shot in Egypt Protest | AP →
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U.S. Aid to Egypt: The Current Situation and... →
“As for U.S. security and military aid to Egypt, which is about $1.3 billion annually, it does not aim to strengthen Egyptian military power against any external threat, as this would be contrary to the declared U.S. objective of ensuring Israeli security and maintaining Israeli military supremacy over its Arab neighbors, including Egypt. Instead, this aid is devoted mainly to...
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Obama's Support for Egypt Protesters Risks a Key... →
Obama administration officials say they are not taking sides between President Hosni Mubarak, America’s key ally in the Arab world, and the street protesters who purportedly represent a path to democracy in authoritarian Egypt. These officials might even believe what they’re saying. But the very assertion of “not taking sides” is itself a tilt away from the all-out support traditionally...
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Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei is headed back to... →
I heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s assessment that the government in Egypt is “stable” and “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people”. I was flabbergasted…
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“We conclude this financial crisis was avoidable.”
– Report by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission • The panel’s report, charged with investigation and review of America’s cataclysmic economic crisis, was obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. It cites human error, action, and inaction as being to blame for the collapse. The report will be widely...
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Guardian: Protests in Egypt - live updates →
…tank had not advanced more than 30 yards before a young Egyptian sprinted up the front of the vehicle and scaled up the side. He proceeded to climb up to the top of the tank, inciting ovations from the crowd. When he reached the top of the tank, the officer manning the hose dropped the nozzle and jumped on the back of the protester. The two men toppled off the vehicle and onto the ground,...
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Moubarak Dégage!
Jasmine Bloom Rocks Egypt | 3 Killed in ‘Day of Revolt’
Arab Rulers Fear Spread | Members of Mubarak Family Flee?
ElBaradei: ‘No Turning Back Now’ | More links to Cairo
Aljazeera Twitter Page | Parliament Surrounded
As midnight approaches in Cairo thousands of protesters are still occupying the Tahrir Square, vowing to remain in place until the government falls....
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Bradley Manning and Mohamed Bouazizi →
Manning, like Bouazizi, is young. He also faced, with all his youth and inexperience and impatience, a political situation that was the result of criminality…. The political situation Manning faced was also unyielding. Long after the American public turned against Washington’s Forever Wars, they are still being pursued, and are killing thousands of innocent civilians for war goals that...
Bass-line Stroll →
technofederalist:
Walk with the bass line up and down the scales, watching the octaves trade spaces with highs, lows, and everywhere in-between. Feel the rhythm reverberate in-between and amongst that experience coaxing you to tap your foot and dip your head. Relax the shoulders. Mental choreography organizes the beat to the mood of self-expression lighting the way to floors awaiting...
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NewsFlick: Palestinian Papers: What the Al Jazeera... →
newsflick:
Al Jazeera’s stunning revelations about Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have different meanings for Israelis, Americans and for Palestinians.
…it means that the Palestinian Authority understands that with the United States solidly backing every Israeli position no matter how extreme, the only thing it can do is negotiate for crumbs…
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Turkey’s Rules: Ankara's foreign minister →
In Davutoglu’s own endlessly unwinding narratives, he is always speaking like a Baghdadi and smoking like a Bosnian and untying all Gordian knots. Every once in a while during our conversations, Davutoglu would raise a finger and say, “This you can quote.” This meant that he was about to say something really dazzling. On the other hand, he is pretty dazzling, leaping nimbly from Mesopotamia to...