hillary right now tellin egypt to TURN THAT INTERNET BACK ON
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
TEAR THAT FIREWALL DOWN, MR MUBARAK
^^ this will be a headline soon if it isnt yet
― max, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yes that more what i was reaching for
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
egypt is gone off the net because of u
― am0n, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
de nile of service
― maurice "baby doc" chevalier (brownie), Friday, 28 January 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
interviews on al jazeera seem to pretty much exemplify the state department position here: talking about how we're still besties with mubarak but making really vague remarks about how "our principles" require respect and support for the protesters, and refusing to reconcile or even acknowledge the contradiction while waiting out the crisis to see whom we have to negotiate with at the end.
reporters also keep saying things about the protesters in cairo and suez "welcoming" the military? and shaking hands in the streets? which seems like a really huge deal but which i can't get any details about.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
reports are saying tens of thousands of protesters in egypt - in a city the size of cairo tens of thousands is not that big - def needs to grow to be effective
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― maurice "baby doc" chevalier (brownie), Friday, January 28, 2011 1:18 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fuckin nailed it
― max, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
asp.net
― am0n, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Need to leave Mubarak a ladder to climb down xp, he can't be left with ordering fire as his only option. It might look duplicitous but it might work - trying to please a domestic audience shouldn't be a priority here.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Transition also needed or move up the September Presidential elections
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 28 January 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
curfew being totally ignored, NDP headquarters in cairo apparently firmly occupied by protesters. "no sign of police" in suez--just the army, whom the protesters are cheering. (in cairo they're being more aggressive with the army, at least outside the NDP building.)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Mubarak taking his time with the speech-writing eh
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
you can't rush inspiration
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Polishing his prose with Nile water.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Obama doubtlessly making FDR's "our SOB" remaark about Mubarak
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 January 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe a looter got his pen.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 28 January 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
NDP headquarters in cairo apparently firmly occupied by protesters.
I have read that it was almost entirely burned down.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Best coverage on this is here: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
― Alex in Montreal, Friday, 28 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
live stream here: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
― am0n, Friday, 28 January 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xp -- it was! they are occupying the husk.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 28 January 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Unfortunately, I can't watch that AJE stream at work.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
good info: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently Syria is suspending Internet service as well.
― An Artily Shot Sesame Street (Eazy), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
my cousin who works for the state dept. just got assigned to egypt and moved there a couple weeks ago
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
exciting first day otj
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I sent her an email saying whats up hows egypt
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"I read a thread about it"
maybe someday she'll have enough internet to read that email
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
al jaz reporting protesters finding ammunition that says "made in the usa" on it
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I've never understood why anyone would stamp "made in ___" on a weapon. so stupid.
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember some unedited footage aired on CNN a day or two after 9/11 from Afghanistan, and the presumably Taliban rebels were doing the same, holding up rocket launchers for the camera and showing the U.S. manufacturer info. If I remember right, it wasn't "Made in U.S.A." as much as the company name and city/state.
― An Artily Shot Sesame Street (Eazy), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
made in tulsa oklahoma whatever the fuck that is alalalalalalalala
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
born in the usa
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
designed by apple in california
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
watching Gibbs try to avoid saying that the US gov't continues to stand by Mubarak was relatively lolworthy.
"Does the administration continue to support Mubarak?"
"We're monitoring a fluid situation."
― Alex in Montreal, Friday, 28 January 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I read that as "we're monitoring a fuiud situation"
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
youth have formed a human chain around the national museum
ruling party hq "burnt down"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
BBC reporter heavily beaten - he says there are many plainclothes police and they are "very very violent"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/HosniMobarak
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah was so heartened when i saw this
also
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/1/28/1296235341346/An-Egyptian-anti-governme-007.jpg
An Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Friday, 28 January 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
and now from bizarro world:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/258263/what-next-after-mubarak-michael-rubin
comments especially...
― goole, Friday, 28 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
what will the army do, is the question, I guess
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
nro commenters standard line on anything happening in the middle east: IRAN IS BEHIND IT
― max, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I couldn't finish this - every single sentence had something that was just flat-out incorrect in it.
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
NYT: My colleague Katrin Bennhold writes from Davos to point out that a senior Saudi official, Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former director of Saudi Arabia's intelligence services and ambassador to the United States, was asked if a wave of democracy across the Middle East might be even more destabilizing than a nuclear Iran he had been warning against. He replied: "I don't know -- in Saudi Arabia we have neither nuclear weapons nor democracy."
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Reagan's Soldier
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Iran is behind these protests. This is a clear attempt to bring an Islamist government to power in Egypt. The threat to America is dire. The threat to Israel is mortal.
America should launch airstrikes against the protesters. If Mubarak falls, and the new government includes any Muslims, we should launch a preemptive strike before the new government can hurt Israel.
― goole, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, January 28, 2011 4:00 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that is the question protestors pose
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man plz don't post any more comments my brain will explode
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link