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

Was just interviewing a director you've all heard of

Read that as 'dictator'

so glad we now know what a famous person we've all heard of thinks of this

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67371/khairi-abaza/uniting-egypts-opposition

haha ned me too

Ha ha, Ned! Awesome

Was just interviewing a director you've all heard of

Read that as 'dictator'

Was just interviewing a director you've all heard of

Read that as 'dictator'

― Ned Raggett, Friday, February 11, 2011 4:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

heh, me too

kind of wish british people would stop with the "let's do this to cameron" comments, vaguely insulting comparison to draw

an ilxor youve all heard of via facebook lmao

http://grab.by/8U3h

"let's just take a moment ... " good call dude

Was just interviewing a director you've all heard of

Read that as 'dictator'

Hobnobbing down the Grouşescu club...

suzy was it Than Shwe?

Was just interviewing a director you've all heard of

Read that as 'dictator'

― Ned Raggett, Friday, February 11, 2011 4:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

heh, me too

― lex pretend, Friday, February 11, 2011 4:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

me too!

You know who I'd really love to interview right now? Gaddafi.

That's for damn sure.

hah

genuinely hit refresh a couple of times on http://ismubarakstillpresident.com/ just for the :D of it

fwiw, me too (re: director/dictator)

http://grab.by/8U3E

LOL if I interview a dictator, you'll know! I can't say who it is because my subject is embargoed until publication, but I am gleeful at having spent any time in the dude's company - anyone else here would have felt the same. And iatee? FYGWACS.

It's just worth mentioning as one of those odd occasions where you go to an appointment and the world seems a bit shit, and then you get home to discover it is marginally less so. Please don't embarrass anyone by making it about anything else.

Hobnobbing down the Grouşescu club...

Genuine LOL. Still wouldn't want to be a member, tho.

something i never quite twigged til today was about that $1.5B of American military aid. i always imagined this is a "gift" to Mubarak and the military - which it is - but it's also a gift to American military contractors! who do you think sells Egypt the weapons??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjFs9CPGhts

it's "recycled" back into American corporate hands, basically

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something i never quite twigged til today was about that $1.5B of American military aid. i always imagined this is a "gift" to Mubarak and the military - which it is - but it's also a gift to American military contractors! who do you think sells Egypt the weapons??

and now you know why we send so much military aid to israel

Daniel Esq: I have been in the same radio studio w/ DJ Rupture, we are different ppl.

"i now feel that anything is possible. I'm so proud"

Think I last heard this interview several times on Nov 4, 2008.

if only we had been warned about the military-industrial complex

pretty awesome having that egyptian lover track going on top of the bbc live feed

America's military socialism is more advanced than most other countries'.

but we're about to make enormous cuts in the defense budget! CHANGE

hey morbz, maybe right now, at this particular moment in history, on this particular thread, you don't have to be such a cynical shit (or at least keep it to yourself)

morbs report

http://grab.by/8U47

Mubarak supposedly secured $70B over the years for him and his family...

haha there are people on facebook doing the morbs sober wet blanket routine, do they really think no one has thought of these omg serious insights theyre offering

If he really wanted to secure his place in the hearts of his people, he should see if he could get permission to live in Israel.

haha, i believe you, dr. m. i'm also jealous you got to meet dj/rupture.

I hear Mubarak has already packed up one of the pyramids and shipped it off to Switzerland.

fine, Mordy and icey, y'all enjoy your butterscotch & lollipops moment.

(I believe Woody Allen calls such "shit" realism rather than cynicism. I hope there's democracy in Israel someday too btw.)

jesus im more cynical than most people here but sincerely FUCK OFF

do they have a statue to pull down?

buh-bye

You know what's funny? I've actually seen morbs smile irl.

I pet doggies too.

he is v pleasant imo

lol, morbs never fails to disappoint

no, morbs is right, this is exactly like when obama got elected. think about it: have you ever seen obama and the 1.25 million egyptian protestors in the same room together? no! i rest my case.

woody allen and many other people their points of view realism

BTW, Egypt seems to be a country that, like Thailand, finds orderly transition anathema/impossible. Naguib forced to resign. Nasser died suddenly in office to be succeeded by Sadat. Sadat is assassinated, then comes Mubarak (who surely would not have lasted 30 years without US backing). But I suppose that's a pretty typical post-colonial trend. Admittedly, in the grand scheme of things, this ongoing outcome seems less disruptive than some of its antecedents.

oh great let's make another thread about morbz rmfe

we could just all sb him

Josh, that's what makes THIS awesome. Who knows what it will turn into but for once a genuinely popular braodbased coalition of people actually changed the govmt. You could posit that the free officers were widely followed in '52 but this seems far more organic than that.

Oh, c'mon, ice...