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

So wouldn't you say then that the Cooper beating precipated the beatings?

I think drawing a causal link between the first instance and the latter instances is kinda suspect, especially given such a chaotic situation. but whatever

I didn't see any reports of others being targeted until this morning

It was definitely out there. A lot of journalists got threatened and attacked yesterday.

xp Knowing that McCain has also personally been to Waziristan, this is major!

http://abcworldnews.tumblr.com/post/3089328425/weve-compiled-a-list-of-all-the-journalist-who

ugh god that sandmonkey/totten thing is hard to read

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020301503.html

Last year, a bipartisan group of senators led a months-long drive to pass a resolution calling for greater freedom and democracy in Egypt. The resolution died in December because of a fatal mix of divided loyalties, lobbying influence and secret Senate holds.

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) were the leaders of the effort to press Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to move toward more free and fair elections via the resolution, which called for "supporting democracy, human rights, and civil liberties in Egypt."

But according to three senior Senate aides who worked on the issue, the two senators who worked most actively behind the scenes to prevent the resolution from moving forward were Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).

I have two of the most unforgiveable douches for senators. ;_;

so it's looking like Mubarak's strategy is a) clamp down on journos/human rights activists so that no one's watching, then b) move in and shoot everybody (either with the security forces/thugs or the army) and then c) announce problem solved/restoration of order

any thoughts on the odds of this working? and at any point will it get bad enough for Obama to withdraw US support and demand his resignation?

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told ABC's Christiane Amanpour that he is fed up and wants to resign but fears the country will descend into chaos, the reporter said Thursday after an exclusive interview with Mubarak.

fucking hell. off with his head already.

sir may i direct you toward this wall

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/shorter-egyptian-government-jan25-is-over/

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i hear rap more than i read twitter so now i can't read any tweet about anything no matter how grave without hearing a hashtag-rap cadence in my head.

u listening to the wrong rap, son

u listening to the wrong rap #drake

lol

imho hashtag rap is like some horrible descendant of Kevin Nealon's "subliminal man"

corned beef and #

feel like i may have hit upon the one subject capable of derailing the egypt thread

feel like were all p focused on the topic at hand #egypt

#gameover

so Muslim Brotherhood refusing to hold talks with the regime #go ham

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/02/live-blog-feb-3-egypt-protests

http://www.fadedyouthblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/andersoncooper-outside.jpg

a thread about the civil unrest in egypt (& elsewhere in 'the region' if necessary) [Started by max in January 2011, last updated 1 minute ago by bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier) on I Love Everything] 550 new answers
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― ice cr?m, Thursday, 3 February 2011 21:15 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

well done

i'm not brave enough to look under the cut, yall heard abt kenneth cole's tweet from this morning tho right?

"Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor has it they heard our new spring collection is now online. --KC"

the KC signifying it's not a PR intern but the man himself

Some intern in Chelsea is in a lot of trouble.

he must step down immediately

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http://blogs.aljazeera.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/BlogsMainImage/xxx680.jpg

wow

hey remember a couple days ago when i was all "ha its so weird how ppl are talking about this media blackout leading to a crackdown, i don't think i buy it, its so conspiratorial"

fuck

Some intern in Chelsea is in a lot of trouble.

― A double shot of Sesame Street (Eazy), Thursday, February 3, 2011 5:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was actually kenneth cole himself!

This guy is posting audio of conversations w/ people in Egypt: http://twitter.com/#!/jan25voices

obama admin. quietly pressing for mubarak to exit now, and for broad constitutional reform and free elections.

way too quietly given the circumstances imo

If they were doing it quietly, we wouldn't know about it, at least not yet.

fairly stated

cnn showing some horrific shit, just showed a tape of a fire truck plowing into a crowd and running over a handful of people at a high rate of speed. same thing happened with an civilian opposition forces truck.

soooo things going well so far today...?

not really apropos to what's happening now but damn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_of_Egypt

Farouk was widely condemned for his corrupt and ineffectual governance, the continued British occupation, and the Egyptian army's failure to prevent the loss of 78% of Palestine to the newly formed State of Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Public discontent against Farouk rose to new levels.[citation needed] In the CIA, the project to overthrow King Farouk, known internally known as "Project FF [Fat Fucker]"[6], was initiated by CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. The CIA was disappointed in King Farouk for not improving the functionality and usefulness of his government [7] and had supported the coup d'état against King Farouk by not opposing the efforts of the free officers to overthrow him.[8] Finally, on 23 July 1952, the Free Officers Movement under Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a military coup that launched the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

fucking kermit roosevelet

goole have you ever read all the shahs men

no!

there was an interesting blog post in that al jazeera feed about how the underlying issue in all this is really civilian oversight of the military

xp

recommended! its about how kermit roosevelt jr, basically all by himself, took out mossadegh and installed the shah of iran. its like a cracking, deeply infuriating spy novel.

"Project FF [Fat Fucker]"

ah the CIA of the 50s