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quote:
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Originally posted by D_Oro:
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Originally posted by Exiiled:
More and more reports are coming in that the Army will not fire at pro-democracy protestors. This time by Al-Jazeera's rival Al-Arabiya.

Egypt army says won't use violence against citizens #Jan25 #Jan28 #Egypt #Mubarak

Egypt army considers people's demands 'legitimate':

http://twitter.com/alarabiya_eng

We've been hearing this from "insiders" but this is the first time that a major news organization has made such a statement. If true then this is wonderful news, and as such I'll sleep better tonight. [Smile]

Power to the people.

Then why are they blocking them in? This is alarming to me. The people have been peaceful, why block their path to get out if they will support the people?

Al Jazeera is saying that this could be the calm before the storm. The people are fearing that if there is any kind of clash it would be from the police, not the army.

I started getting really scared when I read they were being blocked in as well. Let's hope they truly are with the people. I mean the army is the people so I don't know why they wouldn't be moved to support them.
Sorry folks, but I don't understand where both of you are getting this idea that the "army is blocking them in"?

I am not trying to be snotty, but I am reading the tweets at work and I don't see it.

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quote:
Originally posted by metinoot:
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Originally posted by doodlebug:
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Originally posted by D_Oro:
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Originally posted by Exiiled:
More and more reports are coming in that the Army will not fire at pro-democracy protestors. This time by Al-Jazeera's rival Al-Arabiya.

Egypt army says won't use violence against citizens #Jan25 #Jan28 #Egypt #Mubarak

Egypt army considers people's demands 'legitimate':

http://twitter.com/alarabiya_eng

We've been hearing this from "insiders" but this is the first time that a major news organization has made such a statement. If true then this is wonderful news, and as such I'll sleep better tonight. [Smile]

Power to the people.

Then why are they blocking them in? This is alarming to me. The people have been peaceful, why block their path to get out if they will support the people?

Al Jazeera is saying that this could be the calm before the storm. The people are fearing that if there is any kind of clash it would be from the police, not the army.

I started getting really scared when I read they were being blocked in as well. Let's hope they truly are with the people. I mean the army is the people so I don't know why they wouldn't be moved to support them.
Sorry folks, but I don't understand where both of you are getting this idea that the "army is blocking them in"?
They have set up barriers on roads to block the demonstrators in and the army trucks surround the people in the square. This is what I heard on Al Jazeera today once I clicked on the link. The blockades are not stopping the demonstrators though but when they started setting them up I was getting very scared.
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1351: The army is installing reinforced concrete barriers around Tahrir Square in central Cairo, a day before a mass demonstration called by the opposition to mark one week of anti-government protests. The 1m (3.3ft) high wall will restrict pedestrian access to the area, which has been a focus of the recent unrest


From the BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

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quote:
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They have set up barriers on roads to block the demonstrators in and the army trucks surround the people in the square. This is what I heard on Al Jazeera today once I clicked on the link. The blockades are not stopping the demonstrators though but when they started setting them up I was getting very scared.

You mean every avenue into the square is blocked?

It could be either two things or both:

1) to keep protestors from destroying ****, or to keep legitimate protestors in and plainclothes police/convicts out so they don't destroy **** then blame protestors.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/01/31/world/0131-EGYPT-511chamo/0131-EGYPT-511chamo-custom25.jpg

Sorry the photo can be found here, with the photo comment, its photos 8 and 9 but photo two just warms my heart. It feels so good to watch police go through a checkpoint manned by civilians. m*therf*chers! [Big Grin]

2) Tiannanman Square all over again.

But thats according to Nicholas Kristof and he's pretty darn anti-Arab or anti-Anything that isn't aligned with western dogma [Mad] :
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/im-in-cairo-finally/

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Saturday, January 29th, 2011 | by Nonie Darwish Egypt; Between Dictatorships And Revolutions

Egypt’s rebellion has been lingering in the horizon for a very long time. The brutal life of the ordinary Egyptian was waiting for the right moment to explode. But instead of understanding what was surely coming, the 82-year-old Mubarak has wasted every opportunity to transfer power to another administration peacefully. He could have gone down in history as the first Arab leader to conduct a fair election and transfer power peacefully. But he kept ignoring the inevitable and, following the many sad examples in the region, kept re-electing himself for 30 years, grooming his son to take over. Now he will go down in history as just another tyrant in the long line of known and unknown ones in the dysfunctional history of the Muslim world.

Is this just a coincidence or is there something in Muslim culture that all too often perpetuates this vicious cycle? I believe the latter is true. Having been born and raised myself in the Muslim faith during the generation of the 1952 Nasser Egyptian revolution, which promised freedom, democracy, Arab Nationalism, socialism and self rule. My father held a prominent role in the Nasser revolutionary government of that time. A revolution that promised that the era of oppressive colonial rule was over. But what the revolution gave Egypt was more of the same and even worse conditions than the era before it; more poverty, illiteracy, tyrannical dictatorships and a police state.

Westerners often describe the current Egyptian government as secular when in reality it is not. It is true that Mubarak comes from a military background and neither he nor his wife wears Islamic clothes. But no Muslim leader can get away with or even survive one day in office if he is secular in the true sense of the word. It was during Mubarak’s rule in 1991 that Egypt signed the Cairo Declaration for Human Rights stating that Sharia Law supercedes any other law. So even though Sharia is not 100% applied in Egypt, it is officially the law of the land. Mubarak, like all Muslim leaders, must appease the Islamists to avoid their wrath. According to Sharia itself, a Muslim head of state must rule by Islamic law and preserve Islam in its original form or he must be removed from office. That law leaves no choice for any Muslim leader. Because of that law Muslim leaders must play a game of appearing Islamic and anti-West while trying to get along with the rest of the world. It’s a game with life and death consequences.

I am not optimistic that the current uprising in the Middle East will bring democracy. Many Egyptians believe they can combine democracy with Sharia Islamic law; that is the first unrealistic expectation. 60% of Egyptians want to live under Sharia law but do not understand the ramifications. Many chant “Allahu Akbar” and “Islam is the solution.” But the truth is, Islam or more accurately, Sharia, is the problem.

Perhaps the most dangerous law in Sharia that stands in the way of democracy is the one that states that “A Muslim head of State can hold office through seizure of power, meaning through force.” That law is the reason every Muslim leader must turn into a despotic tyrant to survive, literally. When a Muslim leader is removed from office by force, we often see the Islamic media and masses accept it and even cheer for the new leader who has just ousted or killed the former leader, who is often called a traitor to the Islamic cause. That was what happened to the Egyptian King Farouk in 1952. Sadat’s assassination followed many fatwas of death against him for having violated his Islamic obligations to make Israel an eternal enemy. He became an apostate in the eyes of the hard-liners and had to be killed or removed from office. This probably sounds incredible to the Western mind, but this is the reality of what Sharia has done and is still doing to the political chaos in the Muslim world.

The choice in Egypt is not between good and bad, it is between bad and worse. Many in the Muslim world lack the understanding of what is hindering them as well as a lack of a moral and legal foundation for forming a stable democratic political system. I fear that my brothers and sisters in Egypt will embrace extremism instead of true democracy and thus will continue to rise and fall, stumble from one revolution to another and living under one tyrant to another looking for the ideal Islamic state that never was. The 1400 year-old Islamic history of tyranny will continue unless Sharia Law is rejected as the basis of the legal and political systems in Muslim countries.

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Saturday, January 29th, 2011 | by Nonie Darwish Egypt; Between Dictatorships And Revolutions

Egypt’s rebellion has been lingering in the horizon for a very long time. The brutal life of the ordinary Egyptian was waiting for the right moment to explode. But instead of understanding what was surely coming, the 82-year-old Mubarak has wasted every opportunity to transfer power to another administration peacefully. He could have gone down in history as the first Arab leader to conduct a fair election and transfer power peacefully. But he kept ignoring the inevitable and, following the many sad examples in the region, kept re-electing himself for 30 years, grooming his son to take over. Now he will go down in history as just another tyrant in the long line of known and unknown ones in the dysfunctional history of the Muslim world.

Is this just a coincidence or is there something in Muslim culture that all too often perpetuates this vicious cycle? I believe the latter is true. Having been born and raised myself in the Muslim faith during the generation of the 1952 Nasser Egyptian revolution, which promised freedom, democracy, Arab Nationalism, socialism and self rule. My father held a prominent role in the Nasser revolutionary government of that time. A revolution that promised that the era of oppressive colonial rule was over. But what the revolution gave Egypt was more of the same and even worse conditions than the era before it; more poverty, illiteracy, tyrannical dictatorships and a police state.

Westerners often describe the current Egyptian government as secular when in reality it is not. It is true that Mubarak comes from a military background and neither he nor his wife wears Islamic clothes. But no Muslim leader can get away with or even survive one day in office if he is secular in the true sense of the word. It was during Mubarak’s rule in 1991 that Egypt signed the Cairo Declaration for Human Rights stating that Sharia Law supercedes any other law. So even though Sharia is not 100% applied in Egypt, it is officially the law of the land. Mubarak, like all Muslim leaders, must appease the Islamists to avoid their wrath. According to Sharia itself, a Muslim head of state must rule by Islamic law and preserve Islam in its original form or he must be removed from office. That law leaves no choice for any Muslim leader. Because of that law Muslim leaders must play a game of appearing Islamic and anti-West while trying to get along with the rest of the world. It’s a game with life and death consequences.

I am not optimistic that the current uprising in the Middle East will bring democracy. Many Egyptians believe they can combine democracy with Sharia Islamic law; that is the first unrealistic expectation. 60% of Egyptians want to live under Sharia law but do not understand the ramifications. Many chant “Allahu Akbar” and “Islam is the solution.” But the truth is, Islam or more accurately, Sharia, is the problem.

Perhaps the most dangerous law in Sharia that stands in the way of democracy is the one that states that “A Muslim head of State can hold office through seizure of power, meaning through force.” That law is the reason every Muslim leader must turn into a despotic tyrant to survive, literally. When a Muslim leader is removed from office by force, we often see the Islamic media and masses accept it and even cheer for the new leader who has just ousted or killed the former leader, who is often called a traitor to the Islamic cause. That was what happened to the Egyptian King Farouk in 1952. Sadat’s assassination followed many fatwas of death against him for having violated his Islamic obligations to make Israel an eternal enemy. He became an apostate in the eyes of the hard-liners and had to be killed or removed from office. This probably sounds incredible to the Western mind, but this is the reality of what Sharia has done and is still doing to the political chaos in the Muslim world.

The choice in Egypt is not between good and bad, it is between bad and worse. Many in the Muslim world lack the understanding of what is hindering them as well as a lack of a moral and legal foundation for forming a stable democratic political system. I fear that my brothers and sisters in Egypt will embrace extremism instead of true democracy and thus will continue to rise and fall, stumble from one revolution to another and living under one tyrant to another looking for the ideal Islamic state that never was. The 1400 year-old Islamic history of tyranny will continue unless Sharia Law is rejected as the basis of the legal and political systems in Muslim countries.

No hyperlink heh? not done plageriszing?

Anyhow here's nonie in all her glory:

http://www.arabsforisrael.com/

And her book, edited and published by the 700 Club:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Q7xROnREY...20Cairo&f=false

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and .....

By
Nonie Darwish

Just saying

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Ladies feast your eyes on this "relationship porn", for all those ladies out there who have lived in matronmony with an Egyptian dude he won't pick up after himself (for khawagas and Masryans alike:

1:53 P.M. |More Reports of Protesters Cleaning Up After Themselves.As protesters remained on Cairo's streets on Monday, and Egyptian state television focused on reports of looting and vandalism, in an apparent effort to cast the demonstrators as violent anarchists, several Egyptian bloggers have been attempting to counteract that impression by pointing proudly to examples of government opponents maintaining order and even bringing along brooms to clean up after themselves.

This video report from Egypt's Daily News, an English-language newspaper, shows volunteers cleaning a street in central Cairo on Monday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5GSfSRY2PQ&feature=player_embedded

Yup, you know it, it feels good to watch.

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quote:
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Originally posted by Chef Mick:
i just talked to cheeky ferret...she is doing ok ..she is safe , and mama ferret is with her...the only problem is she cant use ATM machines, she said there isnt any money in them and the banks are closed still.she wanted me to tell all her friends HI and she is ok

Next time you speak to Cheeky please tell Exiled said:

Shwitter Right. And tell her I said to be safe.

sure will [Wink]
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quote:
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Ladies feast your eyes on this "relationship porn", for all those ladies out there who have lived in matronmony with an Egyptian dude he won't pick up after himself (for khawagas and Masryans alike:

1:53 P.M. |More Reports of Protesters Cleaning Up After Themselves.As protesters remained on Cairo's streets on Monday, and Egyptian state television focused on reports of looting and vandalism, in an apparent effort to cast the demonstrators as violent anarchists, several Egyptian bloggers have been attempting to counteract that impression by pointing proudly to examples of government opponents maintaining order and even bringing along brooms to clean up after themselves.

This video report from Egypt's Daily News, an English-language newspaper, shows volunteers cleaning a street in central Cairo on Monday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5GSfSRY2PQ&feature=player_embedded

Yup, you know it, it feels good to watch.

rofl I saw that and chuckled to myself. My husband is actually quite the neatnick now so they can indeed change if they have to. lol
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This has been posted and tweeted before probably but for those in Egypt who have Bluetooth on their mobiles and laptops but no international landline can still dial out


http://thingsalongtheway.blogspot.com/2011/01/instructions-for-obtaining-dial-up.htm

Also on al j:
Internet access across Egypt is still shoddy according to most reports. Khadija Sharife wrote in the Huffington Post that Egyptians can still connect "via traditional phone lines using the following instructions: FDN (Free World Dial up) to access the Internet anonymously at the following number: 33172890150 with login: toto and password: toto."

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Iraqis watch Egypt unrest with sense of irony

Many watched footage of riots and looting on the streets of Egypt, the region's traditional powerhouse, with a sense of irony. The scenes brought back disturbing memories of similar mayhem in Iraq, but also admiration for an uprising that came from the streets rather than in the wake of a foreign invasion.

"I wish similar demonstrations would take place in Iraq against the government," said Najat Shaiyal, the 31-year-old owner of a tea stand in central Baghdad.

A few dozen activists gathered Sunday at a central square in Baghdad to show solidarity with Egyptians calling for President Hosni Mubarak's departure. They chanted "Mubarak go out, the plane is waiting for you."
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RamyRaoof's said they turned off internet again...
http://twitter.com/ramyraoof

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramyraoof

he says all the inages that we are seeing on cnn are all fake. here is the real images of the protest..

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quote:
Originally posted by Dilemma:
I'll post again when I've arrived home Yes the US will get us out only to "safe havens" Europe, Greece,etc. then we have to make plans to get home - we have to pay. I'm upset how they are burning Cairo down, women are getting raped, businesses are pulling out of Egypt, citizens have to protect their belongings, tourism is shot, the people that paycheck to paycheck don't know how they will eat because they can't go to work

I'm upset about it too. Also sucks that you have to pay your own way home from Europe.
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micky call cf and see if she needs money hun...
tell her i can send her 50$ for food since the atm's are down

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quote:
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micky call cf and see if she needs money hun...
tell her i can send her 50$ for food since the atm's are down

How are you going to send it? Banks are not allowing transfers and Western Union not working.
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i would imagine that all money transfers are down too tina, there isnt any way to send them money right now as there is no place to recieve it

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Actor Khaled Abol Naga in a live inverview from Cairo on BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZvMNmjjM3E

I always knew Khaled is damn hot!!!

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Very anxious to find out the result or developments of the dialogue between Omar Sulayman (on behalf of HM) and the opposition.
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Plan To Replace Hosni Mubarak May Be In The Works
by Tom Gjelten

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133381234/Egypts-Suleiman-Could-Be-Key-To-Peaceful-Outcome?sc=tw

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Protestors are planning to walk today from Tahrir to the presidential palace in Heliopolis.
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quote:
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Plan To Replace Hosni Mubarak May Be In The Works
by Tom Gjelten

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133381234/Egypts-Suleiman-Could-Be-Key-To-Peaceful-Outcome?sc=tw

Hosni Mubarak abdicating the presidency is without question. The stage of the revolution now is who and how he will be replaced. The people want to appoint their own leader, and the opposition with ElBaradei is a temporary fix. This is the best case scenario at this point, but it might not be so easy.

The military might step in and either recognize Omar Sulayman as new president on a pretense that it will be temporary. Or another military man might be appointed that does not have ties to the NDP, with the same pretense that it will solely be on a temporary basis, until parliamentary/presidential elections.

The street will have a say as they are defintely leverage for the opposition representing them. I just hope any leader on a transition basis is not a military, and this is in line with the people's wishes.

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quote:
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Protestors are planning to walk today from Tahrir to the presidential palace in Heliopolis.

to overtake the Presidential Palace. [Big Grin] That would be a beautiful sight. [Big Grin]
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Na, don't think that's gonna happen.

Wonder which countries already offered Mubarak exile. My biggest bet is Saudi Arabia - it will turn into a safe haven for fallen dictators.

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well shoot if the western union is down the whole country is down..how are people gettin money and food?

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Egypt Protest Signs From Around The World
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here's another one:

http://jimbovard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/163747_178318832203220_133646306670473_374741_3473951_n-anti-cop-poster.jpg

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quote:
Originally posted by tina kamal:
micky call cf and see if she needs money hun...
tell her i can send her 50$ for food since the atm's are down

Tina you have a heart of gold!!
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by Patrick J. Buchanan:

Today, the lead party in determining Egypt’s future is the army. Cheered in the streets of Cairo, respected by the people, that army is not going to fire on peaceful demonstrators to keep in power a regime with one foot already in the grave.
Only if fired on by provocateurs is the army likely to clear Tahrir Square the way the Chinese army cleared Tiananmen Square.
But the army does have an immense stake in who rules, and that stake would not be well served by one-man, one-vote democracy.
Like the Turkish army, the Egyptian army sees itself as guardian of the nation. From the Egyptian military have come all four of the leaders who have ruled since the 1952 colonel’s revolt that ousted King Farouk: Gens. Naguib, Sadat, and Mubarak, and Col. Nasser.
The military has also been for 30 years the recipient of $1.2 billion dollars a year from the United States. Its weapons come from America. Moreover, the army has a vital interest in the “cold peace” with Israel that has kept it out of war since 1973, produced the return of Sinai, and maintained Egypt’s role as the leader of the moderate Arabs and major ally of the United States.
The Egyptian army is also aware of what happened to the Iranian generals when the shah fell, and what is happening to the Turkish army as the Islamicizing regime of Prime Minister Erdogan strips that army of its role as arbiter of whether a Turkish regime stays or goes.
The Egyptian army will not yield its position readily, which is why it may tilt to the ex-generals Mubarak named Friday as vice president and prime minister.
The army’s rival is the Muslim Brotherhood. The oldest Islamic movement in the Middle East, the most unified opponent of the regime, its future in a democratic Egypt, as part of a ruling coalition or major opposition party, seems assured.
And while the crowds in Cairo and Alexandria are united in what they wish to be rid of, the Muslim Brotherhood is united in knowing the kind of state and nation it wishes to establish.

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quote:
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micky call cf and see if she needs money hun...
tell her i can send her 50$ for food since the atm's are down

Tina you have a heart of gold!!
thanks and if it was me i would sure hope my friends would do the same....we are all human and i cant imagine being in a country that has shut down with no means of gettin anything.. and it wasnt my country.. terrifying.
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Opposition parties are obviously scared if it's true that they want “mubrak to transfer powers to vice president sulayman” [Confused] The people want the NDP in it's entirety to resign.

I don't understand this concession if true. [Confused]

The people has the NDP “by the balls”, why make this concession. [Confused]

Maybe the threat of serious force by the Military is being used in back room negotiations. Want to see how the people respond to these reports that are on Al-Jazeera.

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Could it be a step, part of a government that will include opposition figures in the government on a transitional basis. This has the USA fingerprint all over it.

Hosni Mubarak>Omar Sulayman>Free Elections>If Secular government Is Elected>A Okay

Would be better if it were:

Hosni Mubarak>Opposition Coalition>Free Elections>Democratically Elected government

The Egyptian military will not allow any party with a radical ideology to outright run and control the country. Egypt will be closer to Turkey than to Iran.

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The destination of the Million Man March

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8aCkfa5_zI904hqUG4Agtg

Overtake it! And then sanatize it from the filth that has resided in it for the past 30 years.

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well shoot if the western union is down the whole country is down..how are people gettin money and food?

they have enough food for now...hopefully this will be over before they run out, and all banks ATMS and western unions are all closed she said...i asked Ayisha if she wanted me to send a care package of food over, she said it wouldnt get there anyway...Tina all we can do right now is pray that this will be over soon and Maborek will be out by the weekend xx [Wink]
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Al Jazeera Arabic signal dropped from Nilesat. turn to following frequencies: Hotbird 12111 vertical or Arabsat 12034 horizontal.

source: http://twitter.com/ajimran

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quote:
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Originally posted by tina kamal:
well shoot if the western union is down the whole country is down..how are people gettin money and food?

they have enough food for now...hopefully this will be over before they run out, and all banks ATMS and western unions are all closed she said...i asked Ayisha if she wanted me to send a care package of food over, she said it wouldnt get there anyway...Tina all we can do right now is pray that this will be over soon and Maborek will be out by the weekend xx [Wink]
thanks micky.i know they are strong women so i dont doubt they will stay safe...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hBV0ApIh_4&feature=youtu.be

aw, bless...he probably sums up a lot of people's feelings.

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Confirmed: Opposition will not negotiate with Sulayman, or Regime for that matter. Confirmed: Opposition will not have a dialogue with Regime.

The opposition are heeding the voice of the people. The regime in its entirety must abdicate.

Amazing. [Smile]

More than 1 million Egyptian pro-democracy protestors in tahrir. They have loud speakers, they have big screen TV, they have mics. They are getting it on.

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Al Jazeera English Blacked Out (on TV) Across Most Of U.S.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/al-jazeera-english-us_n_816030.html


American viewers, meanwhile, have little choice but to wait until one of the U.S. cable-company-approved networks broadcasts footage from AJE, which the company makes publicly available. What they can't do is watch the network directly.

Other than in a handful of pockets across the U.S. - including Ohio, Vermont and Washington, D.C. - cable carriers do not give viewers the choice of watching Al Jazeera. That corporate censorship comes as American diplomats harshly criticize the Egyptian government for blocking Internet communication inside the country and as Egypt attempts to block Al Jazeera from broadcasting.

The result of the Al Jazeera English blackout in the United States has been a surge in traffic to the media outlet's website, where footage can be seen streaming live. The last 24 hours have seen a two-and-a-half thousand percent increase in web traffic, Tony Burman, head of North American strategies for Al Jazeera English, told HuffPost. Sixty percent of that traffic, he said, has come from the United States.

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The Demands of the People via the Opposition Front

- Mubarak Step Down

- Re-Write Constitution

- Re-Election of Political Parties

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“it's like a festival feel down here”

“we have all kinds of people, we got handicap people, we got religious people, we got all kinds of people here”

“it's such a peaceful atmosphere down here”

"people making sun-visors out of newspapers and handing them out, there are people going around with garbage bags collect empty bottls"


Al-Jazeera english correspondent in Tahrir

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Jordan's King Abdullah dismisses government, appoints new prime minister - Reuters
4 minutes ago

http://twitter.com/#!/BreakingNews


AMMAN, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai resigned on Tuesday following weeks of protests by Jordanians calling on the government to step down.

King Abdullah II of Jordan tasked Marouf Bakhit to form the new government, state-run petra news agency reported. Bakhit, a former prime minister, served also as Jordan's ambassador in Israel.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/01/c_13716520.htm

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“The Arabs are on their feet and Roaring Like Lions, and that changes everything”

- George Galloway (Scottish MP) on Al-Jazeera

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I saw that there are almost 2 million people. [Big Grin]

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I don't think there are 2 million...but Mr PC is one of them....... [Eek!]
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Mubarak’s new deputy linked to CIA rendition program

This is the man Hosni Mubrak wants to replace him?! This is a violent military man that has his own prisons according to TIME magazine, prisons that even Egyptian military officers quivered from.

This is a man who ran CIA Rendition and is directly responsible for brutal torture of Egyptians.

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Hi everyone, not sure who will remember me as i havent been on for 2 years now but with everything happening i need more info than facebook. Who is out there, i have seen nic/cheekyferretts FB profile so i know she is safe but stuck, but nothing from Ria sorry cant remember her screen name. What about alison and remon are they ok. Does anyone know anything.
If anyone gets back to England but has nowhere to go i have a hotel and will offer free rooms to people until they get sorted

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I don't think there are 2 million...but Mr PC is one of them....... [Eek!]

I believe it. They are not simply saying there are 2 million in medan tahrir. They are saying there are 2 million in tahrir and the streets and bridges leading to tahrir, and also Ramses and other downtown areas surrounding tahrir.
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quote:
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I don't think there are 2 million...but Mr PC is one of them....... [Eek!]

Be proud of him PC. I will add him to my prayers. Be strong and hold good thoughts. [Smile]
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quote:
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Hi everyone, not sure who will remember me as i havent been on for 2 years now but with everything happening i need more info than facebook. Who is out there, i have seen nic/cheekyferretts FB profile so i know she is safe but stuck, but nothing from Ria sorry cant remember her screen name. What about alison and remon are they ok. Does anyone know anything.
If anyone gets back to England but has nowhere to go i have a hotel and will offer free rooms to people until they get sorted

I remember you, glad that you could join us, welcome.

Does anyone have any news about Ayman?
Sorry, I also don't remember his screen name and that is why I have hesitated to ask.

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quote:
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Hi everyone, not sure who will remember me as i havent been on for 2 years now but with everything happening i need more info than facebook. Who is out there, i have seen nic/cheekyferretts FB profile so i know she is safe but stuck, but nothing from Ria sorry cant remember her screen name. What about alison and remon are they ok. Does anyone know anything.
If anyone gets back to England but has nowhere to go i have a hotel and will offer free rooms to people until they get sorted

welcome back... ria/weirdkitty (and baby+husband) are ok ...read through this thread for more info. her mom is posting here under toots (or something similar).

alison/remon...i don't know who that is...if that's yorkie or yorshire rose (try searching for her nickname & her old posts)...I think they moved back to UK a while back.

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