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

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

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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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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

cool max i'll look out for that

yeah that fucker had his finger in a lot of cia imperialist pies

NY Times:
Live television footage of Cairo's central Tahrir Square resumed Friday, but it appeared that some foreign journalists were still being detained, and fresh reports of attacks on reporters and news organizations suggested that the effort to stifle the flow of news out of Egypt had slowed but not ended.

a bunch of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty Int'l people are missing and reportedly being held by the army in the burbs somewhere

Kermit sure got around but let's be fair, the combination of Farouk, the Wafd and the British was just too much for Egyptian nationalism to bear after awhile.

the underlying issue in all this is really civilian oversight of the military

This what is depressing me. The military have ruled Egypt since its independence and I find it hard to believe they'll give that up, though they may be fine w/getting rid of Mubarak if they have to.

http://grab.by/8Mas

The military have ruled Egypt since its independence and I find it hard to believe they'll give that up, though they may be fine w/getting rid of Mubarak if they have to.

― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, February 4, 2011 12:33 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

im sure theres a lot true abt that but were it totally accurate mubarak would already be gone no - no one ever fully controls anything much less a lol hueg complex country - this display of people power and its resultant chaos is a real threat to everyone w/a vested interest

From the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/inside-and-outside-tahrir-square.html

The protesters who had been fighting on that corner for two days were grimy but happy; they ate a breakfast of cheap rough country baladi bread and foil-covered triangles of Laughing Cow cheese. Mohammed Gazi, a chemist, wanted the world to know that they were not eating “Kentucky”—a reference to taunts from the pro-Mubarak people about Kentucky Fried Chicken, meaning that the protesters were being fed by the America and the West.

mubarak would already be gone no

Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak all had to play internal politics to get to the top but as military men, even if not toppled by a coup, they're susceptible to the argument that they need to either fall on their sword or get pushed into falling on their sword for the good of the military and the country.

My friend's wife (an Italian reporter) was detained, questioned , had her camera seized, but was thankfully released in the past hour.

Farouk was widely condemned for his corrupt and ineffectual governance

guy knew how to party though

no kentucky jus loling cow nbd - btw i saw a picture of some bandaged but resilient protestors earlier and was struck by how old they were - it was like 10 fully middle aged guys out there mixing it up - impressive!

http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2011/2/3/201123114815699784_20.jpg

Is that guy wearing a Gunners' jacket?

Egyptian FA suspends football indefinitely