Egypt has reportedly shut off the internet throughout the entire country. Mubarak doesn't look like he'll rule much longer.
What does the Yasmine Revolution have to do with Egypt and Mubarak? Other than sand, I see no connection.[video]http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/yasmine-bleeth/935e950f0d913a610383935e950f0d913a610383-479602148317?q=yasmine%20bleeth[/video]
Parents were about to book to Egypt in May...glad they backed out. I sent them several articles regarding this and other problems (violence against coptic christians, etc).
God, I hope this doesn't become another Iran. A stable and Western-leaning Egypt is critical for that region of the world.
Wow. You of all people are making jokes about models when there is such violence and unrest in a political system?
I am just realizing that the extreme right is in fact the ones revolting. This is not Tunisia. The biggest difference between the Tunisian protests and the Egyptian protests is... Gender equality. Count how many women, (if you can find any) in the pictures of the Egyptian protests.
The Muslim Brotherhood is behind this uprising, in part, and I think they will fill the power vacuum. We're all in for a rough ride if Egypt turns into an Islamic state run by extremists.
All people have been evacuated from the Israeli Embassy in Cairo by helicopter. This isn't a movie. The Egyptian military has some of the best military weapons in the world, thanks to the US. For all of his faults, Mubarak's government was the foundation for the house of cards in that region.
Egypt is a brutal (albeit semi-secretly) dictatorship that has been Western-leaning for decades, and their people are suffering. They have some major faults that I wish we wouldn't encourage. That being said, after this is all over, I hope we support Egypt (and Tunisia for that matter) if they take progressive steps towards human rights. It's not just the extreme right. In my opinion, the reason you're not seeing women in the pictures is because Egypt has a far more conservative culture than any country in North Africa. You just wouldn't expect Egyptian women to go out and protest in a way that the much more culturally Western Tunisian women do. The Muslim Brotherhood is not behind this uprising. That is something that the Egyptian government has suggested, just as Ben Ali suggested that extremists were behind the uprising in Tunisia. Blaming extremists for popular revolts is a universal tactic among Arab governments, because it draws attention away from the actual problems that are being protested. However, the Brotherhood does have a significant enough chance to fill the power vacuum if Mubarak is actually ousted to cause some concern.
Protest Planned at Pioneer Square to Support Protesters in Egypt There's a gathering planned for Pioneer Courthouse Square in support of the protesters in Egypt on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 29. The Egyptian Association for Change—a group of Egyptians and Egyptian Americans interested in the country's democratic, economic, political and social reform—is hosting a peaceful protest at the downtown Portland square from 2 pm to 5pm. http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-...er_square_to_support_protesters_in_egypt.html Might be worth going, I've been trying to get the hook up on Egyptian cotton sheets for years.
You can find that here - http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi Just have to find the right words to enter.
Walk Like A Egyptian... They gots them some problems over there.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_protest Well, it's not like this hasn't been prophesied as such: BTW, typo on my part. Title should be Walk Like "An" Egyptian. FWIW................
That happened yesterday but speaking of Al-Jazeera I've been watching their coverage of this and it's been excellent. No anti-USA or Israel slant on chit, just straight news coverage.
So no phone service, no internet, no international press. Sounds like Mubarak is getting ready to quell the demonstrations once and for all.
I don't normally get to share stuff I look up with you guys, but this one's public. Just one man's view of the potential outcomes of the Egyptian demonstrations.
