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
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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
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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
yeah seriosuly
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Friday, January 28, 2011 3:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
did anyone else think 'hey, we still make stuff!'
― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
watching protestors line the streets and cheer on the incoming military tanks is fucking breathtaking
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
dying @ that... egyptian govt made up entirely of copts, that would work well
― max, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
at the thing goole posted i mean
xxxp guns & ammo we're still good at. priorities, etc
albert jazeera
― am0n, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
surprised no one's mentioned this yet
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
can the pyramids be burned? they're made of stone iirc - maybe they can flip them over
― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks, goole, I had just come to post that.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I went on a rather nice tour in Egypt in 2007 and our lovely tour guide, a Coptic lady from Cairo, had nothing but good things to say about Mubarak. I grokked it all as completely insincere and let her be, but it was dispiriting to see such a nice lady who was obviously so enamored of her country's heritage have to spout a bunch of rubbish wrt a regime she obviously feared was paying attention to what she said.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Reports of Copts on the protest lines surrounding/protecting Muslims from the riot police while they take time to pray without leaving the protests.
In the midst of a really fucked up world, sometimes I'm just blown away by the sheer humanity present around us.
― Alex in Montreal, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
So what's with the latest rumors about Mubarak et al flying out?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Guy from muslim brotherhood on the bbc saying he had inside news that his health had suddenly gone downhill, hmmm.
Also random egyption protester on the bbc with the quality dad joke: "Can I just say, with respect to Joe Biden saying that Mubarak is not a dictator, I think if you were to look in a dictionary under the word 'dictator' you would see a picture of Mubarak."
― nanoflymo (ledge), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
me spell egyptian well one day
― nanoflymo (ledge), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
When a man sporting a long beard and a white robe began chanting an Islamist slogan, he was grabbed and shaken by another protester telling him to keep the slogans patriotic and not religious.
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Mubarak speaking
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
like, later, right?
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
mubarak is on now xp
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
. Riot police appear to have withdrawn from the streets of Cairo and Alexandria after several hours of confrontation with protesters, and in their place the Egyptian Army has taken up presence, guarding government buildings.
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link