Egypt is collapsing!

[Ryan Ruck]

Just putting that quote up for future reference. I sure hope she remembers she said that when it gets hot in America....

What I think is hilarious is how she's clearly in way over her head in this. She looked like a robot reading that statement earlier today and, not to mention the folly of her claiming just a short while ago, "The Egyptian government is stable."

I also hope the authoritarian libs here take note of how the military is standing with the people against the authoritarian Egyptian government...

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What Israel Fears

28 Jan 2011 02:30 pm
by Patrick Appel
Gil Yaron reports:

"If regime change occurs in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood would take the helm, and that would have incalculable consequences for the region," says [Eli Shaked, who was Israel's ambassador to Cairo from 2003 to 2005]. The Israeli government has noted with concern the fact that, even after 30 years of peace, Egypt's army is still equipped and trained mainly with a possible war against Israel in mind.

A cancellation of the peace treaty would open up a new front for Israel against the 11th largest army in the world, which is equipped with modern American weapons. But what Israel fears more than a -- somewhat unlikely -- armed conflict with Egypt is an alliance between an Islamist regime in Cairo and Hamas, which considers itself an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Bruce Riedel doesn't think we should fear them:

The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago, but its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists. Al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, started their political lives affiliated with the Brotherhood but both have denounced it for decades as too soft and a cat’s paw of Mubarak and America.

Egypt’s new opposition leader, former International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei, has formed a loose alliance with the Brotherhood because he knows it is the only opposition group that can mobilize masses of Egyptians, especially the poor. He says he can work with it to change Egypt. Many scholars of political Islam also judge the Brotherhood is the most reasonable face of Islamic politics in the Arab world today. Skeptics fear ElBaradei will be swept along by more radical forces.

[American Patriot]

Well... who knows Ryan, what it would come down to here in America? I am sure I don't have the answer clearly under my typing fingers any more. I used to think I knew.

When I had a conversation last year with a guy I used to work with in DC under the Reagan Administration and he was clearly stating he was a "Socialist" and "what's wrong with socialism" and was then taken apart by our little group piece, by piece and he didn't change his mind or even give any thought to doing so - we all knew something was wrong with the world then.

He was military, with me, and was a Conservative at one point. Later he's a Socialist, admitted and avowed. To me that says a lot about the ability of the left to corrupt the right thinking people of this country. They are doing so with actively intelligent people who simply can't believe they are on the wrong side of things.

Clinton is way over her head and anyone who says "America won't fall" (Yes, even I have said that) is likely wrong. I think it will be very DIFFICULT for us to go the way Egypt is going - but, I have to say, people are people and life is rough for some of them. People who want their way will eventually get violent when they have the freedom and ability to do so (look at the Weathermen for instance!) and if there are enough of them to create a MOB mentality situation - it won't matter who is on what side when the crap slams into the blades of the fan.

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Egypt shows how easily Internet can be silenced



First time almost entire country has been sealed off

By Georgina Prodhan, Reuters

Posted 12 minutes ago

Small number of ISPs makes shutdown easy
Facebook and Twitter particularly vulnerable

By Georgina Prodhan

LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The move by Egyptian authorities to seal off the country almost entirely from the Internet shows how easily a state can isolate its people when telecoms providers are few and compliant.

In an attempt to stop the frenzied online spread of dissent against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, not only Facebook and Twitter but the entire Internet was shut down overnight, leaving some 20 million users stranded.

Hundreds of service providers offer connections in Egypt, but just four own the infrastructure — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr.

Daniel Karrenberg, chief scientist at RIPE NCC, a European not-for-profit Internet infrastructure forum, says immature markets with few providers can achieve such shutdowns relatively easily.

"The more simple the topology is and the fewer Internet services providers there are, the easier it is for any government or the telco themselves to control access into any geographical area," he said.

"If you have a relatively diverse telecoms market and a very much meshed Internet topology then it's much more difficult to do than if you have the traditional telecoms structure of two decades ago and they control all the international connections.

"Obviously that creates a choke point," he said.

Despite the rapid transformation of the Web during its short history, and the unprecedented freedom of expression it has enabled, the Internet still has vulnerable points that can be exploited by governments or for commercial interests.

CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD
"Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide," Jim Cowie, chief technology officer of U.S.-based Internet monitoring firm Renesys wrote on the company blog (http://www.renesys.com/blog).

"Every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world."

Vodafone said in an emailed statement: "All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services in selected areas. Under Egyptian legislation, the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply."

A few large organisations with independent connections were able to stay connected to the Internet.

Cowie said on Friday he was investigating two apparent exceptions to the block: the Commercial International Bank of Egypt and the Stock Exchange.

Iran, Tunisia and most recently Syria have imposed Internet restrictions in attempts to quell opposition, but Egypt's is by far the most drastic move so far.

The closest precedent has been in China, which has more Internet users than any other country and also the strictest controls. It cut off Internet access to its Xinjiang region for almost a year after deadly ethnic unrest in 2009.

CENTRALISED
The world's biggest social network Facebook, and Twitter with its real-time mini-blog posts, have proved extraordinarily effective in gathering large numbers of people together and helping them to be nimble in dodging the authorities.

Lynn St Amour, president of the Internet Society, says they could have made revolutionaries of many who had not seen themselves as activists, thanks to the ease of signing up to groups or sending messages of support while sitting at home.

But the danger of depending on such services is that they can be blocked simply by targeting their IP addresses, since they are centralised on a single site — as witnessed in Iran and Tunisia.

"It's quite easy, as we've seen," St Amour told Reuters at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

In Tunisia, dissidents even found their Facebook pages taken over without their knowledge — something that Facebook was able to resolve because its own software had been hacked.

But when access to an entire site is blocked from outside, there is little that Facebook or Twitter can do — although users often find ways around the problem by using proxy servers.

"We try very hard to keep Facebook available wherever people want to access it," Dan Rose, who is responsible for Facebook's worldwide business development, said in London this week.

"We have outreach and relationships with governments all around the world. "We can only do what we can do."

DIVERSITY
The resilience of the Internet in any particular country also depends on the diversity of its international providers, the routes in an out of a country.

In 2008, Egypt suffered an 80 percent outage of Internet services when submarine cables in the Mediterranean linking Egypt to the rest of the world were accidentally cut.

On Friday, key fibre-optic cables that pass through Egypt as they link Europe to Asia appeared unaffected.

Renesys's Cowie contrasted a country such as Egypt with those that have highly dispersed international connections.

"In the United States you have every global carrier available to you, you have multiple cable landing points ... you have a country that effectively can't be taken off the Internet," he told Reuters.

(Additional reporting by Kenneth Li in Davos; editing by Sitaraman Shankar and Andrew Roche)

[American Patriot]

Watch Report: Unconfirmed Reports of Military, Police Clashing in Egypt

January 28, 2011
Unconfirmed reports from Al Jazeera on Jan. 28 say the army and police forces are clashing in Cairo. These reports have come after reports from state-owned Egyptian satellite Al-Misriyah TV saying army leadership extended the curfew from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. local time to the whole country. Read more » http://www.stratfor.com/theme/egypt-...b1424a81f95868

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Egypt sends army tanks into cities as curfew goes unheeded

• Published 20:01 28.01.11
• Latest update 20:01 28.01.11

By Reuters Tags: Israel news

President Mubarak sends the army into Egyptian cities to instill order, but demonstrators demanding his resignation remain undeterred.

Egyptian armed forces backed by armored cars deployed in Cairo and other major cities on Friday to tackle huge popular protests demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.

	Anti-government protestors gather outside the ruling National Democratic Party headquarters, as it is engulfed by flames in Cairo, January 28, 2011.
	Photo by: AP

Mubarak declared a night-time curfew after a day of running street battles between police and demonstrators unprecedented in his 30 year-rule. But clashes continued into the evening and a Reuters witness said shots were heard in central Cairo.

At least 5 people were killed and over 850 people were wounded during the day when security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon at crowds and baton charged them. The protesters hurled back stones and shouted "Down, Down, Hosni Mubarak."

Al-Jazeera television said at least one person was killed in a square in central Cairo, although the report could not be confirmed.

The demonstrations involving tens of thousands of people were the biggest and bloodiest in four consecutive days of protests by people fed up with unemployment, poverty, corruption and the lack of freedom under Mubarak.

"This protest is not going to stop. They won't and can't trick the people again and give us some lame concessions. Hosni has to go," protester Mohamed Taha in Hussein said after fleeing a police attack.

"I am 70 years old, I am going to die, but these people have to fight to live," he said.

"According to what some provinces witnessed in terms of riots, lawlessness, looting, destruction, attack and burning of public and private property including attacks on banks and hotels, President Hosni Mubarak decreed a curfew as a military ruler," a state TV announcer said.

	A protester gestures in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Cairo January 28, 2011.
	Photo by: Reuters

He also ordered the army to back up the police in their efforts to keep control of the streets. As darkness fell, tanks took up positions across the city.

"The armed forces started to deploy forces in the governorates of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez as a first stage in implementing the decree...imposing a curfew starting from 6 P.M.," the official news agency reported.

Some 2-3,000 people thronged around a military vehicle near the central Tahrir square in downtown Cairo, a Reuters witness said. They climbed on it, shaking hands with the soldiers, and chanted: "The army and the people are united" and "The revolution has come."

Shots were heard near parliament and TV showed the headquarters of the ruling party in flames, the blaze lighting up the night sky.

In the eastern city of Suez, site of the strategically crucial canal, armored cars deployed in front of the charred remains of a police station, a Reuters witness said. Dozens of protesters climbed on their military vehicles.

The unrest was triggered by the overthrow two weeks ago of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Al Ben Ali in an uprising that has also inspired anti-government protests in Yemen and elsewhere.

The events pose a quandary for the United States, which has professed its wish for democracy to spread across the Middle East. Mubarak, however, has been a close Washington ally for many years and the recipient of huge amounts of military aid.

	Egyptian army armored vehicles patrol a street in Cairo following protests in Cairo, January 28, 2011.
	Photo by: AP

In response, U.S. President Barack Obama said social and political reforms in Egypt were "absolutely critical".

In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. government was deeply concerned by the violence used by the security forces against the protesters and she urged the government to restrain them. Protesters should be allowed to express themselves peacefully, she said.

Snatch squads of plain clothes security officers dragged off suspected ringleaders. At the Fatah mosque in central Ramses Square, several thousand people were penned in and tear-gassed. Protesters often quickly dispersed and regrouped.

Some held banners saying: "Everyone against one" and chanted "Peaceful peaceful peaceful, no violence." Others threw shoes at and stamped on posters of Mubarak. As clashes intensified, police waded into the crowds with batons and fired volleys of tear gas.

"Leave, leave, Mubarak, Mubarak, the plane awaits you," people chanted. One car was set ablaze and some police cars were surrounded and attacked by protesters, witnesses said.

Prominent activist Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Laureate, was briefly penned in by police after he prayed at a mosque in the Giza area but he later took part in a peaceful march with supporters. Arabiya television said later police had "asked" him to stay home but this could not be confirmed.

Trouble across Egypt
In Alexandria, protesters overran police lines and torched police trucks, a witness said. In several cities, protesters stormed the offices of the ruling National Democratic Party, witnesses reported.

In some parts of Cairo, protests were peaceful. Dozens of people prayed together on one road. In Giza, on the city outskirts, marchers shook hands with the police who let them pass peacefully.

It is far from a foregone conclusion that the protesters will force Mubarak out. They face two key challenges, said Amon Aran, a Middle East expert at London's City University.

"One is the Egyptian security apparatus, which over the years has developed a vested interest in the survival of President Mubarak's regime. This elaborate apparatus has demonstrated over the past few days that it is determined to crush political dissent," he said.

"Another obstacle derives from the fact that, so far, the protesters do not seem to form a coherent political opposition. The popular outcry is loud and clear, but whether it can translate into a political force is questionable."

Before Friday's clashes, at least five people had been killed over the four days, one of them a police officer. Police have arrested several hundred people.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group, including at least eight senior officials, were rounded up overnight. The government has accused the Brotherhood of planning to exploit the youth protests while it says it is being made a scapegoat.

Many protesters are young men. Two thirds of Egypt's 80 million people are below the age of 30 and many have no jobs. About 40 percent of Egyptians live on less than $2 a day.

Egypt has been under emergency rule throughout Mubarak's term in office. The government says it is used to combat terrorism. Critics say it is used to stifle any dissent.

Elections were due to be held in September and until now few had doubted that Mubarak would remain in control or bring in a successor in the shape of his 47-year-old son Gamal. Father and son deny that Gamal is being groomed for the job.

[American Patriot]

This internet shut down is EXACTLY why I am telling people to get their asses prepared for radio communications, on the HF side of things.

Damn it

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After Egypt, Will U.S. Get 'Internet Kill Switch'?

By Chloe Albanesius

• 1 Comment

With reports of Egypt's government completing shutting down the Internet in the country, talk about an "Internet kill switch" bill in the U.S. has reemerged.

Could it happen here?

The bill in question is the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, a cyber-security measure introduced in June by Sen. Joseph Lieberman. It was an over-arching cyber-security measure that, among other things, would create an office of cyberspace policy within the White House and a new cyber-security center within the Homeland Security Department.

A provision that got the most attention, however, was one that gave the president the power to "authorize emergency measures to protect the nation's most critical infrastructure if a cyber vulnerability is being exploited or is about to be exploited."

Some interpreted that to mean that the president would have the authority to shut off the Internet at random. Lieberman refuted the "Internet kill switch" assertion as "misinformation" during an appearance on CNN, and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which he chairs, later published a "myth vs. reality" fact sheet on the bill.

The bill passed the committee, but did not see any significant action before the end of the session. Earlier this week, however, CNet reported that Lieberman will re-introduce the bill in this Congress, and that the updated bill will include a provision that says "the federal government's designation of vital Internet or other computer systems "shall not be subject to judicial review."

A Lieberman spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

If it does go anywhere, though, should Americans be concerned about the Internet being shut down in the U.S.? In all likeliehood, no. Besides the fact that Lieberman himself says that his bill would not provide the government with an Internet kill switch, the bill - in theory - is intended to protect U.S. Web infrastructure from attacks that would irreperably harm the network rather than squash anti-government protests.

In Egypt, it appears that the government demanded that its four major ISPs shut down service. Could the U.S. government get away with asking Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, and the like to shut down their networks to stop citizens from organizing protests? Anything is possible, of course, but at this point, it seems unlikely.

The current administration has already condemned the shut down in Egypt. In a Friday tweet, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration is "very concerned about violence in Egypt - government must respect the rights of the Egyptian people & turn on social networking and internet."

PJ Crowley, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, also tweeted that the "events unfolding in #Egypt are of deep concern. Fundamental rights must be respected, violence avoided and open communications allowed."

President Obama, meanwhile, made net neutrality and the concept of an open Internet part of his campaign, and continues to support the idea. The administration also relied heavily on social networking and the Web to reach voters, so efforts to restrict the Web for anything other than public safety would be surprising.

Of course, defining what constitutes a public safety threat could be a bit tricky. That being said, the bill still has to be formally introduced and make its way through a now-divided Congress by the end of the year; Lieberman has announced plans to retire in 2012.

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Reports say Egypt Web shutdown is coordinated, extensive

By Mark Milian, CNN January 28, 2011 2:34 p.m. EST | Filed under: Web

A man at a Cairo, Egypt, cybercafe checks Facebook on January 27, before widespread Web outages occurred.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Web experts, residents of Egypt reporting near total blackout of internet service
• Internet monitors report that Web activity in Egypt plummeted at 5:28 p.m. ET Thursday
• Egypt government denies blocking web amid protests
• Facebook, Twitter had been disrupted before blackout, activists say

(CNN) -- For the rocks and other projectiles that protestors are hurling in the streets of Cairo, Egypt's riot police have shields.

To combat social media, another important weapon for the demonstrators, outside experts and people living in the country say the government has coordinated a blockage of certain communications websites and unplugged internet access entirely to parts of the country.

On Thursday, protesters active on Twitter and Facebook, publicly documenting demonstrations on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, went quiet. Around the same time, many websites centralized on servers in Egypt disappeared.

On Friday, that Web shutdown seemed to be holding.

Reports continued to flood Facebook and Twitter that landline phone service has been shut down in some Egyptian cities, though it's unclear whether that came as a result of a government edict or overloaded networks.

Cellular telephone operators were told by authorities to suspend services in parts of Egypt, according to a statement from Vodafone, a global cell carrier that operates there.

Lack of cell and landline phone service could prove to be a bigger obstacle to demonstration organizers than the internet disruption. Many of Egypt's impoverished citizens don't rely on the Web in their day-to-day lives anyway, said Parvez Sharma, a documentary filmmaker on Middle Eastern culture.

"These people," Sharma said of the majority of Egypt's population, "are not Twittering and Facebooking and e-mailing. They've never even heard of the damned internet, most of them."

Calling and text messaging is how most Egyptians keep in touch and where most of the organizing has been done on the ground there, said Sharma, who has kept in contact with dozens of friends in Egypt during the protests.

But social media sites have been used by key event organizers to reach other visible activists with Web access and to get the word back to other parts of the world.

Sharma, an active social media user, is encouraging them to leave notes on his Facebook wall because many friends were scared that posting to their own pages might catch the attention of the government, he said. The Egyptians he kept in touch with through Facebook, Twitter, e-mail and instant messaging went dark on Thursday.

A major halt in connectivity apparently came at 5:28 p.m. ET, when servers in Egypt were taken offline, according to a report by internet monitoring organization BGPmon.

Six minutes later, the Committee to Protect Journalists, which had been following the situation in Egypt through online sources, reported that 10 of its contacts vanished at the same time from instant-messaging systems.

The phenomenon was also observed by Arbor Networks, which reports that internet traffic to and from Egypt dropped "precipitously" within that hour Thursday.

Arbor security research Craig Labovitz has been digging through the connection data, and said that the outages were no coincidence.

"Egypt has a fairly well-developed communications industry," Labovitz said. "Given the abruptness of the loss of traffic and the diversity of the infrastructure, this does appear to be a coordinated event."

Labovitz compared Egypt's internet blackout to that of Iran in the summer of 2009, when the government halted services due to protests.

Egypt's Web infrastructure is more sophisticated than Iran's, Labovitz said. Still, Egypt's network only has about 10 companies controlling the key infrastructure that keeps the country connected, making a nationwide government-mandated cutoff feasible, he said.

Before Thursday's seemingly more concerted halt of internet services, access to Twitter and Facebook in Egypt was becoming spotty.

These services have played major roles in protests in Tunisia and Iran and for dissidents in China. They had begun to explode alongside street protests.

"We are aware of reports of disruption to service and have seen a drop in traffic from Egypt this morning," a Facebook spokeswoman said Thursday.

Facebook has been referring requests for comment to Herdict.org, a Harvard University project chronicling potential censorship of the Web around the world.

The tool reports a major spike in the past few days in Egyptians reporting that both Facebook and Twitter were inaccessible. Herdict reports of any kind in Egypt slowed significantly on Friday, presumably due to residents not being able to access any websites as a result of the shutdown.

"Egypt continues to block Twitter and has greatly diminished traffic," said a message Wednesday from global representatives for the microblogging site.

The Egyptian government has said publicly that it is not censoring websites.

The Egyptian protests are meant to challenge a lack of basic amenities, from affordable food to a decent standard of living. The target is Hosni Mubarak, the nation's 82-year-old leader.

When social media websites were blocked, many in Egypt had found their way around it by using software called proxies.

This remains a common practice for people in China looking to skirt the government's "great wall" blocking certain Web services. Proxies can trick internet providers and routing services designed to block certain cities or countries into believing that a person is located elsewhere.

[American Patriot]

Think this over guys.

Egypt has stood by Israel for a long, long time now. If they go down the following happens.

• Israel will be danger of other countries who used to be worried about Egypt.
• The Suez Canal will be lost, not just to the US, but to the world at large and especially Europe.
• Oil prices will increase drastically.
• Gas prices are going to spike dramatically over the next two weeks.
• We lose an ally in the war against terror.

However, most people seem to believe the current President there is a "dictator". I suppose he IS - to some degree.

This whole thing is taking eyes off of Iran.... and the middle east is going to become just alike on all fronts there. This is a very bad thing too. Just means many, many more like the rest... a large group of Muslims hating Americans.

In the short term, we have tens of thousands of Americans in that region that help run commercial companies, government entities (including diplomats, and others I won't mention), we have civilians and visitors over there. They will all have to be rescued.

This is similar to the fall of the Shah of Iran in MANY ways. Trading a "decent dictator" for a bad lot of criminals and religious fanatics.

This will destabilize the whole region. No more money investments there for some time, no more companies there (US), and no more profit (Oh I can hear the Socialists saying "YES!" and pumping their fists).

It means that ALL the prices are going to go up for ANYTHING. Including commodity prices on pretty much everything. Run away prices... wow. We're going to see some very, very serious pricing changes over the next few days.

[Ryan Ruck]

This is definitely a situation that could go sideways badly if a radical religious power structure is allowed to take over. It will be up to the people of Egypt to make sure that they don't simply trade one form of lesser tyranny for a much worse form.

[BRVoice]

http://twitter.com/AJELive


Al Jazeera Reports Live from #Egypt: Speculation surrounds forthcoming announcement by parliamentary speaker #Jan25 #Mubarak #Suez half a minute ago via web

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http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=%23egypt+%23jan25


unemarocaine: C'est abusé sur @AJArabic on parle déjà comme si #Mubarak est tombé et echaffaude des projets pour l'apres #Mubarak #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:59 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

jendeaderick: RT @bencnn: Saw boys with massive seal of the republic looted from State TV. If this isn't the end, it certainly looks and smells like it. #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:59 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Jeff_Sparrow: So it turns out neocons don't actually like democratic change. http://bit.ly/eOt1K5 Who knew! #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:59 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


veniviedivici: RT @abeerallamFT: Mubarak to speak on TV, Egyptian Tv says. #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:59 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


lmaia: RT @BreakingNews: Many wealthy in #Egypt fleeing in private jets - NBC #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:58 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


nextleft: RT @SandiBehrns: Israeli channel 10 is reporting Mubarek has fled to Switzerland - no other confirmation on that. #Egypt #Jan25 #news
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:57 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Dwam: RT @KuroshTweets: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:57 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


yazeedaloyoun: RT @m_sakr: مبارك سيلقى كلمة بعد قليل على النيل للأخبار، يا رب يقول أنا فهمتكم #jan25 #egypt #25jan
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:57 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


speea: RT @BreakingNews: 3 private jets leave Cairo airport under heavy security; #Egypt parliament speaker to make major announcement - NBC #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:56 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


abdulazizmurad: غووووووووووووووووووووررر #alarabiya #jan25 #egypt #cairo #Mubarak #elbaradei”
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:54 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Sannri: RT @HaninSh: BREAKING: Egyptian TV: Mubrak will be making a speech in a bit. #JAN25 #EGYPT
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:54 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Wadza_M: RT @emeka_okafor Egypt's "How To" guide for revolution http://bit.ly/fAqBJG courtesy of the Atlantic #egypt #Jan25 #africa take note
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:54 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Deprogrammer9: RT @q_e_d: Mubarak just unlocked the "Jetsetter" badge on @foursquare! #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:54 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


andrewmcintyre: RT @TheOnion: Tear Gas Manufacturers Fairly Pleased With Current Situation In Egypt #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:53 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tcorbucci: It will be #Mubarak on #NileTV according to #Aljazeera #Egypt #Cairo #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:51 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


cthon1c: RT @tfsalomon: Al Jazeera: c'est Moubarak qui va faire un discours! #jan25 #egypt #Egypte
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:50 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


shabbirh: RT @Jnoubiyeh: The US government says it is "reconsidering aid to #Egypt" because unless one bows down to US-Zionist hegemony, one can't have aid. #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:50 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


patricelamothe: RT @amreldib: A friend tells me that Vodafone cell phones are working now. His brother called him from #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:50 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


unwyn: RT @tweetminster: Al Jazeera has released its #Egypt coverage under a Creative Commons license http://rww.to/hAxhXc - RWW #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:50 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


TheMattBarker: RT @EDSETIADI: "Egyptian Christians said they will guard the Muslims from the police while they on Friday Pray." Amazing solidarity. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:49 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ImPalestine: Al-Nile TV: Mubarak will give a speech in a short time. #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:49 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


motherjones: RT @NickBaumann: Lots more updates to #Egypt explainer: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/...gypt-explained #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:48 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


AnasAlaoui: Depuis ce midi, je n'arrive pas à finir mon billet tellement les événements vont vite. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:48 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


arabzy: | Nile TV said that Mubarak will deliver shortly. #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:13:48 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


jec79: RT @BreakingNews: 3 private jets leave Cairo airport under heavy security; #Egypt parliament speaker to make major announcement - NBC #Jan25

[BRVoice]

Follow the live coverage, Mubarak is delivering a speech now

http://english.aljazeera.net/

[Ryan Ruck]

Next Domino: Syria Shuts Down Internet Service

1/28/2011

With Egypt pretty a done deal, many are wondering who is next. Al Arabiya provides the answer: Syria has just shut down its internet service. And as one glance at the map below suggests, should this indeed be the case, and if Jordan promptly follows suit, Israel will be surrounded by revolutions. Which is surely a reason for WTI to plunge another 20%.

Is this because there are problems boiling up in Syria or to prevent problems?

[BRVoice]

URGENT

President Mubarak has ordered the government to step down, he'll appoint new government tomorrow

[BRVoice]

http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=%23egypt+%23jan25


SabzBrach: AJE: Mubarak has failed to bring about the changes the ppl need. #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

OM77: #Mubarak go to HELL!!! #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


JoanEisenstodt: #MSNBC reports that Mubarak is 'firing' govt. and will appoint a new one. #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


andy_s_64: RT @AJELive: BREAKING NEWS - Mubarak: I have ordered the government to step down and I will name a new government tomorrow #jan25 #Egypt #cairo #egipto
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Gerardo_M: RT @Dima_Khatib: Ok one thing .. guys. He was not on air. Recorded.. (thank you @yalzaiat)#egypt #jan25 #mubarak
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:23 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


dalesio: Question: Do you have more respect for Tunisia's Ben Ali or Egypt's Mubarak? #jan25 #Tunisia #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:23 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Miridunn: I think there will be a new expression come into our language "Balls as big as Mubarak's" #jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:22 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


AlixKroeger: #Mubarak defends role of security forces, dismisses cabinet in 1st speech since protests began on Tues http://bbc.in/eE9k7g #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:22 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


sheaholliman: RT @AJEnglish: Al Jazeera continues to bring you uncensored coverage of the events in #Egypt as they unfold. Watch LIVE here: http://aje.me/ajelive #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:20 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ajtalk: RT @Melshamy: Egyptian president Muhammad Hosny Mubarak dismisses current government #Egypt #Cairo #jan25 #jan28
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:20 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Wolfgang_S: RT @joshdhaliwal: #Tunisia #Egypt #Yemen #Syria #Jan25 2011 the year of #peoplepower
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:19 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


veteranstoday: Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution is Upon Us! #Jan25 #Egypt #Zionism #Mubarak #Suez #Cairo #Mubarak #Egypt #Suez #Cairo - http://b
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:18 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


azizalhubail: كلنا باتَ يعرف بقيَّة القصة عندما يقولُ الرئيس ذلكْ فهذا يعني انهُ باتَ في دربهِ للحدود رحلة تعيشة سيادتك! #Egypt #Tahrir #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:17 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


YousefMunayyer: Clearly a man Mubarak's age is hard to hearing, maybe it will take an extra 100,000 yelling down w/ Mubarak for him to hear #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:17 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


margbrennan: RT @shadihamid: Mubarak takes credit for protests, says evidence of political freedoms in country #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


PomedWire: RT @Dima_Khatib: Protesters did not say: government step down. They said: Mubarak down. Regime down. #Mubarak mi-heard #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


B2witter: GAME OVER.. #egypt #jan25 #cairo
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


halmustafa: أعتقد أن "الإحباط" هو سيد الموقف لدى المصريين، بعد خطاب رئيسهم #Jan25 #Egypt #Mubarak
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:15 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


NorthCup: لا تغرنكم لهجته ونبرة مبارك. يخفي خوفه .خلاصة الحديث هو اقالة الحكومة . حسنا فلتستمر المظاهرات وسيفهمكم مبارك في الخطاب القادم #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:15 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Dima_Khatib: Ok one thing .. guys. He was not on air. Recorded.. (thank you @yalzaiat) #egypt #jan25 #mubarak
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:14 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


DTLAL: RT @FelipeEstefan: Mubarak asks his government to resign, but he isn't going anywhere. Chants of "Down Mubarak" erupt again. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:13 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


parvezsharma: #Mubarak MY government is stepping down BUT I AM NOT. The long night of misery is just beginning #Cairo #Egypt #Jan25 #Jan28
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:11 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Wa7damasrya: After Mubarak Speech I have two words"Moubarak DEGAGE" #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:10 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tfsalomon: RT @AJELive: BREAKING NEWS - Mubarak: I have ordered the government to step down and I will name a new government tomorrow #jan25 #Egypt #cairo #egipto
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:09 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


offendum: Ya 3ammi inta a3ma willa ehhh??? #Jan25 #Egypt #DelusionalDictator
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:09 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


dmcdougall: NOT ENOUGH -- Mubarak: I have ordered the gov't to step down and I will name new gov't tomorrow #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:08 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


MediaActivist: RT @JoMarieOReilly: That awkward moment when Mubarak doesn't realise he is the problem, not the Egyptian Government. #jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 20:31:07 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

[BRVoice]

http://twitter.com/AJELive

1. BREAKING NEWS - Mubarak: I have ordered the government to step down and I will name a new government tomorrow #jan25 #Egypt #cairo #egipto less than 20 seconds ago via web
2. Mubarak: The past few days have left the majority of people fearing for Egypt #Jan25 #Mubarak #Egypt #Suez #Cairo 1 minute ago via web
3. Mubarak: The course of reform has no point of return and we will continue #Jan25 #Egypt #Suez #Cairo #Mubarak #Egipto 2 minutes ago via web
4. Mubarak: I have taken the side of the poor and will always do so #Jan25 #Egypt #Cairo #Suez #Egipto #Mubarak 5 minutes ago via web
5. Mubarak: Change cannot be achieved through chaos but rather dialogue #Jan25 #Egypt #Suez #Mubarak #Cairo #Egipto 6 minutes ago via web
6. Mubarak: I am aware of the suffering of the Egyptian people." #Jan25 #Egypt #Cairo #Suez #Sidibouzid 7 minutes ago via web
7. Mubarak: There is a fine line between Freedom and Chaos #Jan25 #Mubarak #Egypt 8 minutes ago via web
8. Mubarak: I regret the innocent victims and casualties on both sides [on Al Jazeera] #Egypt #Jan25 #Suez #Cairo #Mubarak 10 minutes ago via web

[Ryan Ruck]

Next Domino: Syria Shuts Down Internet Service

Is this because there are problems boiling up in Syria or to prevent problems?

Okay, conflicting reports on a Syrian internet shutdown...

Questions Arise On Whether Syria Has Followed Egypt On Web Crackdown

January 28, 2011

It is unclear whether Syria has shut down Internet services as rumors to that effect circulate rapidly around the Web.

A report that appeared to confirm it sent Twitter into a tizzy on Friday as people both repeated and refuted the claim.

The regional news outlet Al Arabiya said Syria is blocking Internet access, a possibility that would come on the heels of a similar action in Egypt.

But the outlet also said an official denied that the government is blocking the Web. Twitter users also spoke up to to say the report is false, claiming that they were tweeting from Syria.

More coming as the story develops.

[BRVoice]

http://www.debka.com/article/20600/


Military takeover in Egypt aired as army holds fire against curfew violators
DEBKAfile Special Report January 28, 2011, 11:14 PM (GMT+02:00)

The possibility of the military taking control of the regime on the back of the popular uprising to end Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule was actively discussed Friday night, Jan. 28, after security forces failed to control anti-government riots for four days. Protesters in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez ignored the nationwide curfew imposed until 0700 Saturday and the soldiers who were called in to enforce it held their fire. Protesters overturning and burning security forces vehicles welcomed the military APCs.

The transfer of rule to the military even for an interim period would shake the entire Middle East to its foundations. The US stands to lose its senior Arab ally, whereas a new government in Cairo might modify or abandon Egypt's epic 1979 peace treaty with Israel and turn away from the close relations between the two governments.

debkafile reported earlier:

Egyptian protesters tried to storm the foreign ministry in Cairo Friday night, Jan. 28 in defiance of nationwide curfew imposed on the capital, Alexandria and Suez, until 0700 hours Saturday. President Hosni Mubarak called in the army to back the security forces facing swelling numbers of protesters and enforce the curfew. Gunshots were heard near the parliament and thousands of protesters remained out in the streets. At least 10 people were killed and more than a thousand wounded in Cairo during the day. In Suez, 13 are reported dead, 75 injured.

The protesters later set fire to parliament, the national museum and the ruling National Democratic Party whose offices were later looted.

Some soldiers and policemen instead of confronting the rioters reportedly shed their uniforms and joined them.

Mubarak who has not been seen or heard since the crisis began is said to be planning to address the nation soon.
Tanks were seen on the streets of Suez with protesters climbing over them. A least two deaths and dozens of people were injured in the rising turbulence of clashes between security forces and the swelling ranks of protesters across the country. Friday was the fourth and most violent day of the anti-government demonstrations across Egypt, after they were joined by followers of the Muslim Brotherhood.

debkafile's military sources report that calling in the army was President Mubarak's last resort for preserving his regime but it is not without problems. The military may possibly be relied on to impose the curfew on the cities Friday but Saturday, after it is lifted, their absolute obedience to an order to shoot demonstrators cannot be taken for granted – as was seen Friday night. The president and defense minister are not the most popular figures among the soldiers. And the officers may well calculate that both ageing leaders will not be there for long and the army would take the rap for suppressing a popular revolution by mass killings of civilians. No Egyptian commander would want to be in line for that charge.

During the day in Cairo, the protesters' ranks swelled to tens of thousands when Muslim worshippers poured out of the mosques, many heading for the Nile bridges and fighting to cross over to the government district and Tahrir (Liberation) Square on the other side. Security forces firing rubber bullets and tear gas, using water cannons and charging them with batons, injured hundreds but failed to halt the current. Youths climbed over elite security forces' armored cars trying to pull the men out of the vehicles. Two police stations were torched. The protesters called for President Hosni Mubarak, his family and his ruling elite - ""the corrupt caste" - to step down. Opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradai was placed under house arrest.

American citizens were advised to stay indoors.
In Suez, a protester died in a clash. In central Alexandria, they set fire to government buildings. Protesters were also on the streets in Suez, Ismailia, Mansoura north of Cairo and northern Sinai. The protest movement Friday was the largest thus far, greatly enlarged by orders to Muslim worshippers to take to the streets from leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, eight of whom were promptly arrested. The demonstrations appear to be better organized and focused on specific targets, primarily security and police facilities, government buildings and offices of Hosni Mubarak's ruling party.

Earlier, the authorities disrupted internet and telephone services to make it harder to organize demonstrations to no avail. Steps were also taken to impede press coverage of the outbreaks and foreign correspondents prevented from covering the ongoing events.

The White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday night in answer to a question that President Barack Obama has not spoken to President Mubarak at any point in the crisis. He said US aid to Egypt would be reviewed in the light of unfolding events, depending on whether the Mubarak regime immediately addressed the legitimate grievances of the Egyptian people by reforms and restrained the military and security forces from violence.

Asked if the US was helping its veteran Arab ally, Gibbs stressed: "The situation must be solved by the Egyptian people" which must be granted "its universal rights."

In Jordan, the Muslim Brotherhood there too called out its followers for anti-government demonstrations.