In response to the mass protests of recent days, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has appointed his first Vice President in his over 30 years rule, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman. When Suleiman was first announced, Aljazeera commentators were describing him as a "distinguished" and "respected " man. It turns out, however, that he is distinguished for, among other things, his central role in Egyptian torture and in the US rendition to torture program. Further, he is "respected" by US officials for his cooperation with their torture plans, among other initiatives.
Before I go into this subject in any great depth, I would first like to deal with Sorcha Faal, otherwise known as David Booth of the CIA. David Booth works within the Central Intelligence Agency in COINTELPRO. Other western intelligence agencies known for using COINTELPRO methods include MI5, MI6, GCHQ, and the think-tank, DEMOS. To be quite blunt, all intelligence agencies have their own COINTELPRO departments.
Sorcha Faal does not exist. There is no "spokesperson" within the GRU named Sorcha Faal. Intelligence agencies rarely make public statements, and when they do, it is always through either someone in the highest echelons of the organisation or a government minister with the correct clearances, and never a mere "spokesperson".
Even the media machine designed to lull us to sleep has been revealed as a part of the problem. The rise of alternative media, and the steps taken to suppress it are all signs that the awakening has reached a crescendo, precipitating a major paradigm shift. There is perhaps no greater current example of this than the social change expressing itself in Egypt. The most populous Arab nation is using all means of freedom they possess, and are uprising against their oppressive regime across lines of politics, age, and economics.
US banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs said Friday it was more than tripling the salary of chief executive Lloyd Blankfein to $2 million in 2011 from $600,000 last year.
The four other top executives of Wall Street's premier investment bank will also see their basic salaries triple from the present $600,000: chief operating officer Gary Cohn, finance director David Viniar, and two vice presidents Michael Evans and John Weinberg will each earn $1.85 million, Goldman said in a document published Friday.
However, a prepared guerrilla networker with a handful of PCs could make good use of Daihinia ($25, 30-day free trial), an app that piggybacks on your Wi-Fi adapter driver to turn your normal ad-hoc Wi-Fi network into a multihop ad-hoc network (disclaimer: we haven't tried this ourselves yet), meaning that instead of requiring each device on the network to be within range of the original access point, you simply need to be within range of a device on the network that has Daihinia installed, effectively allowing you to add a wireless mesh layer to your ad-hoc network.
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“Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.” – Aristotle, Politics, Book V. 350 B.C.E.
Revolution is from the Latin, revolutio, a “turn around” of political power.
The Egyptian government's efforts to limit communications within the country has triggered a wave of activism from an international group of free speech activists on the Internet called Telecomix.
Organizing using chat rooms, wikis, and collaborative writing tools, this largely anonymous group has worked to inform Egyptians about their communications options while receiving incoming messages from them. Telecomix has previously worked on free speech efforts in Tunisia, Iran, China and other countries who have tried to censor or block parts of the Internet.
CAIRO — Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by army soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday. Zahi Hawass said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum's antiquities, and that the prized collection was now safe and under military guard.
Video - Judge Andrew Napolitano
Fucking brilliant 1 minute clip. The Judge is on fire.
Video - Watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 2 minutes.
The ethnic Russian man police believed could have been the suicide bomber at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport has been cleared by DNA analysis, according to sources close to the investigation.
The protests that have much of Egypt arrived in New York today when more than 2,000 people gathered near the United Nations building to support those demonstrating on the streets of Cairo to bring down President Hosni Mubarak.
"Its time for him to go," said Hoda Elmasry, 24, a student at Columbia University, whose parents came to the United States in the 1980s to escape what she described as "corruption and lack of opportunities" in Egypt.
Protesters also called for the U.S. to stop backing Mubarak, who has been in power for 30 years.
A crowd of about 300 gathered at Seattle's West Lake plaza Saturday afternoon in a show of solidarity with Egyptian protesters.
Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has warned the country's royal family to step down and flee before a military coup or a popular uprising overthrows the kingdom.
Saudi authorities detained hundreds of demonstrators on Friday in Jeddah who gathered to protest against poor infrastructure after deadly floods swept through Saudi Arabia's second biggest city, police and witnesses said.
Back in 2003, a survey of female veterans suggested that 30 percent of the women serving had been raped, while a study conducted in the following year on veterans seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder indicated that 71 percent of the women said they had been sexually assaulted or raped while serving.
If Egyptian President Mubarak is deposed and his government replaced by an Islamic regime, Israel’s only remaining ‘friends’ in the Middle East will be Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.
Neither one seems that reliable, and Israel’s brutal and sustained ill-treatment of the Palestinian Arabs ensures that no Middle Eastern country will be in any hurry to befriend it.
This is a video made from the speech given on 1/28/2011 in which Obama tells Egypt how to conduct themselves against the citizens of Egypt who are protesting. As Obama gives advice, I include video support of examples of how to achieve what he is saying. Finally a video where the words match the video clips and I do hope this is a clear enough manual for the Egyptian leaders to follow.
HootSuite, a Vancouver-based website that allows users to manage their social networking accounts, is reporting a seven-fold spike in new users from Egypt in the past two days after Egyptian authorities shut down Internet access and text messaging late Thursday amid mass political unrest. HootSuite users were accessing the site by dialing in to a server in North America from their mobile phones.
People on the streets are reporting that 19 private planes have left from Cairo International to Dubai even though traffic at airport had been halted. There is a lot of speculation of who is in the planes from members of the Mubarak's government to Mubarak himself. Dubai is reporting confirmation of the arrival of these private planes from Cairo. They are reporting businessmen are using these private planes to flee the country.
Some confirmation:reports that (now) former NDP part thug & Gamal Mubarak confidant Ahmed Ezz has fled Egypt in a private jet.
[Al Jazeera is reporting the same story, but has yet to write it. Ness]
Al Jazeera English Live, Free. The official app for Al Jazeera English, which offers a (weirdly zoomed in) portal to the website and, more usefully, a crisp, clean stream to Al Jazeera English's coverage. Works over Wi-Fi and 3G.
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