Egypt falling?

[Winky]

New Egyptian 'leadership' takes power

narrr Cat this is how they hold their elections

 

[ResearchMonkey]

I agree that every faction is revolting. I think the islamos have a big backing like Iran etc. And the people fear them enough to allow them to rise above the others or get blow'd up.

I was watching as people were trying to open proxies before the internet cutoff happened. I was amazed at how many western youths believe this is the commie revolution, they are cheering..

It is interesting, may your life be so.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

The army is now fighting the police. Police HQ is burning in Cairo.

I wonder about here. If the left revolted it would something like Egypt or Yoorup. If it were the right, I think it would be more like full-out war.

 

[catocom]

wow, twitter locked up there for a little while.
Over capacity.
Lotta interest in this situation.

 

[2minkey]

you chimps do realize that one of the formative powers behind al qaeda was the egyptian branch of islamic jihad, right?

do you have any idea of the class divide that exists there between the western puppet, his cronies, and everybody else?

nah, they're just crazies.

'course any of you living like that woulda strapped on the suicide vest years ago.

or maybe not, since the preference seems to whine about shit and remain sitting on the couch.

 

[catocom]

what the crap are you going on about Minkey?
You're just rambling sounding.
Are yo referring to something specific said.
I think you must have misinterpreted a post or something.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

He's pretty sure we're wrong.



Christians protecting Muslims from the police while they pray. Human shields of protesters defending against looting the museum. It's an interesting watch 'fer shur.

Mubarak is sounding rather defiant.

 

[catocom]

yeah, he isn't leaving.
Says he'll change out the government.
On twitter, it doesn't look like the people are going for it.
They want HIM out.

 

[Gotholic]

Egypt’s Internet Kill Switch: Coming To America

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
January 28, 2011

In response to widespread protests and mass unrest, the authoritarian Egyptian government has completely shut down the country’s access to the internet, eliminating the use of social networking websites, other effective tools of communication and organisation, and effectively sealing Egypt off from the rest of the world.

Internet intelligence authority Renesys has confirmed that “virtually all of Egypt’s Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.”

“At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet’s global routing table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet traffic with Egypt’s service providers.” Renesys’ analysis states.

Egypts Internet Kill Switch: Coming To America 280111Egypt

Vodafone said in an emailed statement: “All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services in selected areas. Under Egyptian legislation, the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply.”

Prior to the complete shut down, tweets and live mobile phone feeds from the Egyptian protests in Suez and Cairo were providing up to the minute coverage. Links to photos on Twitpic, videos on YouTube and postings on Facebook were aiding protesters organize their movements.

As The Electronic Freedom Foundation notes, “When protestors in Cario’s Tahir Square experienced an outage in cell phone data service, nearby residents reportedly opened their home Wi-Fii networks to allow protesters to get online.”

The Egyptian authorities could not stand for this. Following the revelation of Associated Press footage showing a protester being shot dead in the street, one of at least eight victims who have been killed since the uprising began, an apparent Internet kill switch was thrown.

The action is unprecedented in Internet history. It is clearly the action of a desperate tyrannical government on its last legs.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government is also reportedly arresting bloggers, attacking journalists, and rounding up anyone else the regime sees as dissidents.

Still, the Obama administration, which currently funnels $1.3 billion in military aid to the Egyptian government per year, refuses to condemn the Mubarak regime, and further more, is looking to embrace the exact same internet control mechanism in America.

Indeed, when Senator Joe Lieberman attempted to justify draconian legislation that would provide President Obama with a figurative kill switch to shut down parts of the Internet indefinitely, he cited the Communist Chinese system of Internet policing as model which America should move towards.

“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley last June.

Of course, the Chinese government routinely shuts down the already heavily filtered internet at any politically sensitive time, not only “in case of war” as Lieberman claims. Furthermore, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are all permanently banned.

News websites in China now require users to register their true identities in order to leave comments, so that any dissident can be tracked and appropriately dealt with. A truly frightening Orwellian reality you may think, yet this exact move towards abolishing Internet anonymity and creating a virtual ID card is a key centerpiece of the US government’s cybersecurity agenda.

The ‘Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act’ (PCNAA), which now includes a removal of all judicial oversight, is still circulating and will be voted on later this year. Lieberman has stated that the legislation should be made a top priority.

The recent actions of the Egyptian government in the face of widespread public backlash, and the ongoing stifling of the free flow of information in China should provide a stark warning to Americans that such Internet control mechanisms are the tools of oppressive authoritarian governments and have no place in a free society.

Related Reading: New Bill Gives Obama ‘Kill Switch‘ To Shut Down The Internet

Related Reading: Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers

Related Reading: Lieberman’s Model For America: Purging The Internet of Dissent

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

Source

 

[catocom]

yeah they killed the bigger part, but they couldn't get it all.
They are still getting the word around.
I see about 10 twittering pretty constant.

No, they'll never be able to cut it all completely without and emp.

 

[catocom]

Crazy Africans.

I'm stiiil not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
I figure the current regime will retain control though, if there's no
outside intervention, just like in Iran.
The gov. has all the big weapons.

I think I might have been wrong here.......
I think it was telling somewhat that Mubarek ordered the army staff
here to return, and they didn't.
Mubarek may in deed be out.
It doesn't seem the Army has the heart for him.

 

[catocom]

from the feeds I'm getting...
If they don't restore the internet, and cell services soon, there
may be even greater upheaval in several hours.

 

[2minkey]

what the crap are you going on about Minkey?
You're just rambling sounding.
Are yo referring to something specific said.
I think you must have misinterpreted a post or something.

nah, just not the kind of approach you're accustomed to.

point is, just like you guys, thems guys over there are constantly bitching about their discontents as if they are caused by someone else - they blame the government, the west, anybody but themselves.

y'all whine incessantly about muslims. your counterparts in egypt whine about YOU, as if either was the true cause of the others' problems. you're just a random guy who used to work on a loading dock, and hafez is just some dude that shovels monkey shit out of bins at a cairo hotel.

 

[catocom]

no it's not like it is here, over there.
As much as I don't like Obama, he's nothing of the dictator that Mubarek
Was.

I don't consider what I say a whining, but compared to what they have over there, over all...
We do have it pretty good still.

I personally am optimistic that they over there will have it better eventually.
It'll take some time, just like it will here for us to dig out of the finacial hole,
but it Will get better. If the spending gets under control.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Mubarak is still refusing to leave but I don't think it's up to him at this point.

The ONLY group that seems to have any political ground right is the Muslim Bruthers-hood although the muslims keep saying "oh no, there lots of groups on equal ground." I'd be happy to see something better then moobarrack's policies come out, I hope something good happens. ...but Islam in a power vacuum?

They said the army has surrounded the US embassy with tanks but didn't say which way the barrels were pointing.

 

[Gonz]

This Egypt thing is a whole different animal from the rest of the uprisings.

Nope, cat. It's planned. Just like most clashes at government sponsored events. There aren't that many regular Joes that have time for this crap. Start the fire burning & eventually the crowd gets excited.

 

[Gonz]

y'all whine incessantly about muslims.

I call BULLSHIT.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

We just need to drill baby drill. Islam has given us plenty of good reason to be concerned.

These uprisings are civil in comparison to history.

 

[catocom]

My guess is the gov, and moonbat are going out, and the army is getting set
so the m-brotherhood can't take control.
I think as long as the army stands with the people, and get Albarida in the spotlight,
they can get it back together.
I think the army is the main key....which way will they swing?

Gonz, I don't think so. This doesn't seem like just a radical faction.
There seems to be a really diverse, and very large crowd.
I think the crowd size is actually being under reported.

 

[catocom]

We just need to drill baby drill. Islam has given us plenty of good reason to be concerned.

These uprisings are civil in comparison to history.

I hear Isreal may be producing soon.
How much we don't know yet.