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
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/258263/what-next-after-mubarak-michael-rubin
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."
lol
― 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
what will the army do, is the question, I guess
― 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
yeah seriosuly
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
al jaz reporting protesters finding ammunition that says "made in the usa" on it
― 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
this doesn't bode well for the usa/egypt friendly on the 9th
― dan m, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Egypt should be able to beat us anyway.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like he's going to cling to power by ceding some nebulous "reforms"
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
mubarak has no intention of going anywhere any time soon
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yup
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit he just said he is stepping down
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wait what did he just say?
as of TOMORROW, will designate interim gov't
whoah
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!
― goole, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa wtf this speech took a drastic turn
― Clay, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"I have ordered the government to step down, and I will name a new government tomorrow"
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
is he just like dissolving parliament?
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
he's staying put it looks like
― omar little, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
He's not stepping down, he's just changing the government
― Death and Taxis (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
twitter responses saying otherwise -- mubarak asked the gov't to step down, whatever that means.
xps lol
― goole, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
he said he'd ordered the government to step down, and he'd name a new one tomorrow, but he himself isn't going anywhere!
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was listening to a translation obv but i didn't hear him explicitly say he was leaving office?
xps yeah
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
not a tenable position surely
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda hard to believe he's almost 83 yrs old
― omar little, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
What channel are you watching (if seeing this in the UK)?
i know yall hate me that's why i'm firing my staff
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
al-jazeera
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 January 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link