shits getting real. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/201113085252994161.html http://twitter.com/evanchill/status/31636096068620288 http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
This all could get as serious as Britton taking back the Falklands. Could nevwere happen here.............................or could it? from the article:
They shut the internet down, now they are trying to shut town television media... sounds like a scared government to me. With good reason.
Mubarak just needs to step down, it's obvious the party's over. An interim government formed and elections scheduled quickly, say six weeks. You guys hear about the elections in Ivory Coast? The incumbent lost and basically refuses to acknowledge it, has the winner holed up in a hotel guarded by UN troops. Africa is such a fucked up waste, sometimes I think it would be better to scrape all the life off of it into the ocean and start from scratch.
This is why a get pissed off when people bitch about things going on in the US. Yes its not perfect but we are in a completely different echelon of quality of life. It's like comparing the NFL to a middle school flag football team.
And geology. I read an interesting paper that pointed to the rough coastal areas and shallow, violent rivers for part of why they hadn't developed very far by the time the European colonialism started. But at some point human and cultural failures can't be explained away, the whole mess can't be blamed on colonialism.
I finally spoke with my Egyptian friend Emam, and he's guardedly opportunistic. He's calling to check on his family daily, said they were forming militias and neighborhood watches to fill the void left from the police walking off the job. You have to hand it to how the Egyptians are banding together and keeping order. On the BBC this morning the reporter was noticing how the protesters were self assembling into orderly queues into the city center, even organized into male and female lines. There was parking if you wanted to drive your car there, etc. Anyway, he doesn't like Mubarak naturally. And thinks he'll avoid stepping down as long as possible. But with Mubarak gone, who's going to torture terrorists for us?
Well, it's the beginning of the end. Mubarak's strategy is now clear. He cut off the means of communication for his foes, spent his time planning with the police (who's absence the past few days has been noted), set up his "resignation speech" after buying off the Army with his nomination of the new vice president, so the "pro-Mubarak" forces would have something to yell, then set the coordinated forces against the unsuspecting protesters who now have no means of rapid communication. The protests are now being crushed bloodily by the "pro-Mubarak" mob of paid thugs and plainclothes police. Mubarak will now take all that time till September to root out all the forces that were against him, and come September, there will be an "upswelling of support" from people saying "we don't want you to leave!" (aka plainclothes police and paid thugs, hamming it up for the cameras). Mubarak 1, protesters 0 Edit: And now the Army is going out and asking people to go home. Egypt's internet has been restored, mostly so the "go home" can be communicated, but you can bet the ISPs now have sniffers for facebook and Tor users...
Mubarak might actually leave, but I mostly agree with Goofus. I just suspect that he'll try to hand power over to a colleague. Emam was telling me that over the years he's siphoned something like 9 BILLION dollars of Suez canal money directly into his personal bank accounts.
dude is a fucking crook, a scammerfuck, a con artist, a corrupt nobody... how come noones killed him yet?
Here are some awesome photos of the female protesters in Egypt. Requires a Facebook account. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid=493689677675&id=586357675&aid=268523
The closer I get to those in power the more I realize just how much money is able to buy. Someone like Mubarak is basically untouchable. He's already flown all of his family to London, private plane, no customs, etc. And according to Emam they took something like 14 gigantic bags of money with them.
save and post those pics here, im not signing up to farcebook for that. damn, im surprised mubarak doesnt have a secluded island somewhere with military personnel protection.
