a thread about the civil unrest in egypt (& elsewhere in 'the region' if necessary)

Unconfirmed rumours that Mubarak has gone according to Channel 4's foreign affairs correspondent on Twitter.

@jrug Rumour is that Mubarak has gone. Can not confirm. Celebrations in streets #c4news #jan25 #feb01 #egypt

Probably bullshit, but...

"Facebook is banned in Syria, which makes organising more difficult"

lol

nothing on Al-J about it Matt..

'has gone' is sort of a vague turn of phrase

Al-J interviewed a state dept spokesman on Thursday. Hey, TV media: here's how to do an interview:

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2011/01/201112713644706462.html

interviewer: "There have been reports of police firing rubber-coated steel bullets at protestors, perhaps that's more important than Twitter being up"

The rumor I'd heard was that he was at his winter residence at Sharm-el-Sheikh.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8290760/Locals-in-Sharm-el-Sheikh-convinced-Mubarak-is-holed-up-there.html

protests getting much bigger, hundreds of thousands out there now, thats the final piece

ban richard cohen

The Washington Post should have done that a long time ago

eh times says hundreds of thousands al jazeera says two million - crowds are hard to count

Police all over the world are esp. bad at counting, ime

haha:

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney urged the Obama administration to press for the resignation of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday, and said it was time for Mubarak to listen to Egyptian protesters and "step out of the way."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030197-503544.html

no solidarity between the shockingly young-looking, i guess.

its starting to look a lot like the end of the Hodgson regime

crowds are hard to count

not according to professional crowd counters.

sign in the crowd

YES WE CAN TOO

aww

oh we're gonna see that one again believe me

lol al jazeera just interviewed an official from mubaraks party and he was all i told him many times just this year he had to listen to the people and be nicer and change things alalalala sure buddy

god richard cohen is the WORST

so hitler > richard cohen, is that what ur saying

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AJ reporting that security for the tahrir square demonstration being provided by an army/civilian collaboration to prevent secret police from entering.

max it's just a little pro-dictator rhetoric in america's most influential political newspaper, let's be cool.

i've resisted putting up all the crazy right wing crap i've been seeing, but tracer that's the weak end of it believe me

again from that Al-J interview with the state dept:

interviewer: "democracy would be destabilizing to the region, wouldn't it?"

Batshit Rightwing Cartoons 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH7GPPpsw6g

oh god

can you summarise beck's wacky geography lesson? I don't want to watch it.

i don't know he's talking about the goddamn WEATHERMEN at the moment

he looks like a weatherman in that frame

goole i do not expect to profit from viewing the video behind that link

lol. "i've run out of riots"

the thesis, no really, is that all of these countries with bad things happening in them, riots and unrest: spain, tunisia, greece, lebanon, egypt -- are connected by the mediterranean. it's all connected!

At what point can I cease even bothering to refute Beck? It really should be beneath my dignity.

fyi that's the first 10min stretch of beck i've ever been able to stand. weird.

The truth doesn't have an agenda, guys.

he also says that the riots are "exactly like" iran 1979 but nobody else is brave enough to say so? except that every lazy imperialist has been saying that constantly for the past week. also no they aren't.

anyway the idea that somebody needs to crush this thing because it's all gonna go to hell if the a-rabs rise up is basically the idea the right wing is batting around.

THE COMING INSURRECTION

he basically thinks the entire mediterranean is on fire. literally.

the entire mediterranean... is on fire.

xp heh

oh and tunisia = archduke ferdinand

something about a big snowball

also he suggests that successful revolutions in the arab world will encourage a muslim invasion of europe. because they want it, guys--they've wanted it ever since the reconquista! look at their beady little eyes.

xp demonstration effects

found this very moving

like, the opening pages of Homage to Catalonia-style inspiring