What's going on in Egypt?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by MacGyver1968, Jan 28, 2011.

  1. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    There could be great bloodshed if Mubarak does not leave soon.
    Presumably he has loyal private guards with machine guns guarding the Presidential Palace, and the Palace Hotel in Heliopolis, where the Presidential offices are.

    This would be the wisest place for him to stay.
    It is only a short run to Cairo Airport.

    The road and the airport are also likely to be well guarded.
    If people storm the Palace, there could be hundreds killed.
     
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  3. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    Well I find that answer acceptable, if Tunisia is going to become a country that free I totally 100% support it.
     
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  5. keith1 Guest

    Sharma has expressed the situation quite succinctly, yet he misses the conclusion he raises. The conditions for the people on the streets of Cairo or Tunisia have not drastically changed for a hundred years. Is he saying the youth of 2011 are somehow more emboldened than their grandparents?

    The advanced speed of "viable information dissemination" seems the key factor here.
     
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  7. Shadow1 Valued Senior Member

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    keith, what do you mean? and what you mean exactly by "hundreds, of years" ?
    :bugeye:

    you think we were always as law as we are now? do you think that we even ben suck divided and manupulated and controlled? do you think we think we had even ben into an age, where highly educated people like poets and scientists, and politicians, are all fighted, and, tortured?? where relegion, is opssessed? and where goverments, are helped, to push the people toward extremism and being savage, so it be their a reason that they stay on those chairs for all the time?
    what do you mean exactly? keith?

    internet, yes it had a great part in that, when thjere was protestations in sidi bouzid after bouziz burned himself, the people who live their, knew that no other tunisian in another city knows about that and knows about their poor situation and problems, so they started to shoot videos and spread, the people became angry, after they saw people also hitting the protesters, the news and videos are spreaded in the highly protected secured pages on facebook, wich are cencored by the goverment, but that makes no problem for us, everyone knows how to break that cencorship, like usin proxies, or other tricks like replacing www by login or upload or etc... or adding s to http, etc... yes i say internet had a great part in it
     
  8. keith1 Guest

    I said a 'hundred', although I could have as easily said a modest fifty.

    The point is you are talking to me. And I am listening. And I am talking to you. In real time, like a cheap phone call. That is the internet's doing.
     
  9. Shadow1 Valued Senior Member

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    ah yeah, okki

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  10. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    From what I been reading these are the most likely directions the Egyptian revolt could take:
    A) Mubarak leaves, putting Omar Suleiman in power.
    B) Mubarak rides outs the protests.
     
  11. Pinwheel Banned Banned

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    C) Mubarak leaves, vacuum filled by Baradei.
     
  12. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    Possible but not as likely as Omar who was just made vice president and thus would automatically take power if Mubarak leaves, of course Baradei could come after Omar.
     
  13. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    It seems only Al Jazeera [available through livestation] is covering the revolution in Egypt properly [The revolution will not be televised]

    About 100 people have been killed in the shootings on Friday

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzLBCV-cwjg&feature=player_embedded

    People blame the government for the chaos:

     
  14. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Al Jazeera's coverage is superior in every way.
    The other news channels haven't worked out yet what their masters want them to say about it.
    Al Jazeera reports on the ground.
    It should be winning international awards for journalism.
     
  15. Me-Ki-Gal Banned Banned

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    Greathouse's always have to save the day. Why is that? It is all about freedom people and freedom of thought is under attack by many governments. You can even hear the rumblings in America the land of the free. How you going to keep them down on the farm after they have seen Peire. Stand as a global community and preserve freedom of speech and thought! The fall of information Silo's is eminent. Help were you can , pierce the wall of the silo, Collect information+ Pass on information = freedom of thought
     
  16. Me-Ki-Gal Banned Banned

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    Yemmen
     
  17. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Off the radar: The US is sending battleships to the Red Sea

     
  18. Me-Ki-Gal Banned Banned

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    Be concerned. Things are heating up fast! Hold on to your seats it could be a bumpy ride coming
     
  19. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Since Friday, the government has been using plainclothes policemen to instigate rioting and burning, eyewitness accounts of cars riding into the neighborhood and indiscriminately shooting people have been shown on al Jazeera. The Egyptians were hoping the army would come in and help, but the army is guarding empty embassy buildings rather than the people. Now there is news that the Rafah crossing into Gaza has been abandoned by the Egyptian military.

    I suspect false flag operations in progress...
     
  20. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    What is properly? And why should we care what news networks do? I don't watch news so I don't give a shit.
     
  21. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Are you asking this question due to your disinterest with news in general or to indicate the lengths you will go to to indicate this disinterest? Since you don't "give a shit", it stands to reason, you don't really want a response.
     
  22. scifes In withdrawal. Valued Senior Member

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    guy's been reelecting himself for 30 years now.
    Egypt is officially a "democratic" state.
    he always wins 99% of the votes.
     
  23. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    No I just find it annoying that you hold up one bias news networks over other bias news networks, even when its irrelevant for the thread topic.
     

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