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Dazed & Confused: Party Central "Intelligence" said Mubarek was on his way out
Post Date: 2011-02-11 07:22:38 by Happy Quanzaa
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CIA chief says it looks likely that Mubarak is out WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta says U.S. intelligence indicates that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on his way out. Panetta tells Congress that his information indicates Mubarak could be out by Thursday night. He says there is a "high likelihood" of that. Panetta did not say exactly how the CIA reached that conclusion. He says Mubarak's exit would be "significant" in moving Egypt to an "orderly transition" of power. Egypt's military announced on national television that it has stepped in to "safeguard the country" and assured protesters that Mubarak will meet their ...
Obama Sharply Criticizes Egyptian Government's Move, Calls On Leaders To Explain Themselves
Post Date: 2011-02-11 00:27:10 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama on Thursday openly and sharply questioned whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's pledge to shift power to his vice-president is an "immediate, meaningful or sufficient" sign of reform for a country in upheaval. Without naming Mubarak, Obama issued a written statement that criticized the leader for not offering clarity to his people or a concrete path to democracy. He called on Egyptian government leaders to do so, declaring: "They have not yet seized that opportunity." Obama's comments came after Mubarak, in a televised speech, refused to step down despite intense speculation that he was on ...
Every American Should be Proud of Egyptians
Post Date: 2011-02-10 21:40:52 by jwpegler
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The brave Egyptian protesters are in day 16 of their protest against the dictator Mubarak. Mubarak refuses to leave. The Egypt military is starting to make veiled threats against the protesters. Yet, the protests continue. Every American should be proud of the civil disobedience the Egyptians are displaying. After all, Americans pretty much invented civil disobedience. Sorry President Obama, it wasn't Gandhi. Gandhi was a big fan of Henry David Thoreau. Unfortunately, there is a segment in American society that is alarmed by the protests in Egypt. It's a segment of the population that I have a great affinity with and respect for -- conservatives. One has to wonder how ...
Rage In Egypt As Mubarak Stops Short Of Resigning
Post Date: 2011-02-10 17:27:40 by Brian S
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CAIRO (Reuters) – President Hosni Mubarak provoked rage on Egypt's streets on Thursday when he said he would hand powers to his deputy but disappointed protesters who had been expecting him to step down altogether after two weeks of unrest. "Leave! Leave!" chanted thousands who had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation that a televised speech would be the moment their demands for an end to Mubarak's 30 years of authoritarian, one-man rule were met. Instead, the 82-year-old former general portrayed himself as a patriot overseeing an orderly transition until elections in September. He praised the young people who have stunned the Arab world with ...
Mubarak Flees Cairo to Unknown Place
Post Date: 2011-02-10 17:21:41 by Brian S
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(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Presidential sources say Egypt's three-decade ruler Hosni Mubarak has left the country, noting an address he is scheduled to deliver in a few hours is taped. The reports by presidential sources came on Thursday on the heels of remarks by Hossan Badrawi, the general secretary of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, who said Mubarak will "probably" address the nation in the evening. He told state-funded BBC that he hopes Mubarak will transfer power to Vice President Omar Suleiman. The opposition Muslim Brotherhood earlier said on its official website that Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq confirmed the possibility that the out-of-favor Egyptian ...
Egypt Live Report
Post Date: 2011-02-10 14:42:34 by Brian S
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– 6 mins ago CAIRO (AFP) – 1918GMT: Google exec Wael Ghonim tweets he's going to Tahrir Square amid countdown towards Mubarak's heavily anticipated speech 1915 GMT: Journalist Shahira Amin in Tahrir Square tells the BBC World Service that "people thought Egypt was like a mountain that would never be moved." 1915 GMT: Journalist Shahira Amin in Tahrir Square tells the BBC World Service that "people thought Egypt was like a mountain that would never be moved." 1903 GMT: Protesters unveil a huge white sheet on Tahrir Square apparently to display the footage of Mubarak's speech, as with an hour to go until he addresses the nation the square is ...
Israel Braces for a New Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-10 14:36:35 by Brian S
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Israelis are bracing for a more adversarial regime in Egypt, one they expect could lead their country to expand its army, fortify the two countries' desert frontier and possibly re-invade the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip. Israeli analysts remain concerned about possible new threats to the country's security amid unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. Special correspondent Martin Himel reports from Tel Aviv. Three decades after Israel settled into a "cold peace" with Egypt—breaking its encirclement by hostile Arab states but failing to win much popular sympathy from Egyptians—Israeli officials are reviewing the ways the U.S.-backed transition in Cairo ...
Obama Says in Speech U.S. Will Fully Support Orderly Transition in Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-10 14:07:42 by Brian S
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Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said the U.S. will do everything possible to promote an orderly transition of power in Egypt. “What is absolutely clear is that we are witnessing history unfold,” Obama said in Marquette, Michigan, where he was highlighting his plan to expand high-speed Internet access in the U.S. “It’s a moment of transformation that is taking place because the people of Egypt are calling for change.” The president was briefed on developments in Egypt aboard Air Force One on his way to the event. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plans to address his nation tonight, Egypt’s state-run Al Masriya television reported. A spokesman ...
Egypt's economy close to meltdown. Military coup near~US naval, marine & air forces in Suez Canal
Post Date: 2011-02-10 12:13:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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Arab country with a population of 82 million is on the verge of breakdown as large sections of is economic machinery are shut down by spreading strikes and workers' revolts against managements appointed by the Mubarak regime and Vice President Omar's Suleiman's leadership. debkafile's sources report there are no trains since railway workers declared a general strike; the main state highways are barricaded by protesters. Egypt's 1,000-kilometer long Cairo-Aswan lifeline along the Nile was shut to traffic all day Wednesday, Feb. 9 with no sign that the army or security forces are willing or able to reopen it to traffic. As protesters continue to pour into Cairo's ...
Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt
Post Date: 2011-02-10 11:42:27 by war
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CAIRO — They were born roughly around the time that President Hosni Mubarak first came to power, most earned degrees from their country’s top universities and all have spent their adult lives bridling at the restrictions of the Egyptian police state — some undergoing repeated arrests and torture for the cause. They are the young professionals, mostly doctors and lawyers, who touched off and then guided the revolt shaking Egypt, members of the Facebook generation who have remained mostly faceless — very deliberately so, given the threat of arrest or abduction by the secret police. Now, however, as the Egyptian government has sought to splinter their movement by claiming ...
NBC: Mubarak to step down tonight, veep to take over
Post Date: 2011-02-10 10:53:43 by lucysmom
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Update at 10:45 a.m. ET: NBC says Mubarak will make a statement this evening and step down. A statement by the armed forces on Egyptian state TV says the military convened the supreme council of the armed forces "to safeguard people and protect their interest." Al-Jazeera TV notes that Mubarak was not shown attending that meeting. In its statement, the military says it the council will remain in session indefinitely during the crisis. It says the decision was made in response to "legitimate" popular demands. Click for Full Text!
Greenpeace Founder Questions Man-Made Global Warming
Post Date: 2011-02-10 10:49:44 by A K A Stone
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Patrick Moore, co-founder of the environmental organization Greenpeace, isn’t too hot about global warming. Appearing on Fox Business Network with Stuart Varney on Thursday, he said global warming is a “natural phenomenon,” there’s no proof of man-made global warming, and suggested that “alarmism” is driving politicians to create bad environmental policies. He also said he’s not the only environmentalist that believes like him: Moore is the author of the book, “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist,” in which he exposes the green movement and explains why he left the organization. While talking with ...
Hey Look The Globullshit Warming Retards Said Snow Will Be A Thing of the Past
Post Date: 2011-02-10 10:25:55 by A K A Stone
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Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
By Charles Onians
Monday, 20 March 2000
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Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries. Related articles
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Saudi King Abdullah orders Hussein Obama to back Mubarek
Post Date: 2011-02-10 06:46:37 by Happy Quanzaa
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Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually. America’s closest ally in the Gulf made clear that the Egyptian President must be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards peaceful democracy and then leave with dignity. “Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the King is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated,” ...
Twitter User Tricks Sony Into Posting ‘Secret’ PS3 Code
Post Date: 2011-02-10 00:23:48 by A K A Stone
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Sony is having a rough time trying to keep the PlayStation 3 secure, and the company seems intent on policing the entirety of the Internet to stop the spread of the tools and information needed to hack the device. This can be hard to do when your own faux spokesperson decides to retweet one of the offending series of letters and numbers in their entirety online. Twitter user @exiva, aka Travis La Marr, sent the code to “Kevin Butler,” Sony’s humorous take on a corporate spokesman. Whoever is running the Twitter account didn’t recognize the relevance of the numbers and simply retweeted them with a joke about Battleship. The results are brilliant. While we doubt Sony ...
Protesters in Egypt Regain Initiative as Workers Strike
Post Date: 2011-02-09 20:23:40 by Brian S
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CAIRO —Labor strikes and worker protests that flared across Egypt on Wednesday affected post offices, textile factories and even the government’s flagship newspaper, as protesters recaptured the initiative in their battle for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. At the newspaper, Al Ahram, freelance reporters demanding better wages and more independence from the government snarled one of the state’s most powerful propaganda tools and seemed to be forcing a change in its tone. On Wednesday, the front page, which had sought for days to downplay the protests, called recent attacks by pro-Mubarak protesters on Tahrir Square an “offense to the whole nation.” In ...
Iraqis Urged To Follow 'Egyptian, Tunisian Examples'
Post Date: 2011-02-09 17:11:01 by Brian S
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A previously unknown organization, The Revolution of Iraqi Rage, has called for mass protests inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt. Thousands of appeals have been sent via the Internet, including to army and police officials, to gather on Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on February 25 to demand an end to poverty and the start of reforms. Protests took place in Iraq following the Egyptian and Tunisian unrest. Protesters demanded better living standards and an end to mass unemployment, as well as food, electricity and water shortages. "Eight years after the American troops overthrew the Saddam regime, the majority of Iraqis are still struggling to survive. We have more ...
Barbour To Israel: We're With You, And Glad You're With Us
Post Date: 2011-02-09 17:08:46 by Brian S
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At Herzliya Conference, possible US presidential candidate says Israel understands Iranian threat better than Washington. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, eying a possible run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, laid down a strong marker on Israeli-US ties Wednesday at the Herzliya Conference, saying to Israel, "Well done, thanks, we're with you, and we're glad you are with us.""Be assured that the overwhelming majority of American Christians are joined at the hip with American Jews in standing by Israel in this hour of turmoil, or any other time of crisis," Barbour said. "We believe in your nationhood, and we believe ...
Egypt's Army 'Involved In Detentions And Torture'
Post Date: 2011-02-09 17:04:30 by Brian S
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The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some of these detainees have been tortured, according to testimony gathered by the Guardian. The military has claimed to be neutral, merely keeping anti-Mubarak protesters and loyalists apart. But human rights campaigners say this is clearly no longer the case, accusing the army of involvement in both disappearances and torture – abuses Egyptians have for years associated with the notorious state security intelligence (SSI) but not the army. The Guardian has spoken to detainees who say they have suffered ...
From Israel: Mississippi Gov. Barbour Says Iran Biggest Threat To Global Security
Post Date: 2011-02-09 13:39:31 by Brian S
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HERZLIYA, Israel - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says Iran is the world's top threat to peace and stability. Barbour, who is a potential 2012 presidential Republican candidate, says world leaders should be judged by their success in responding to Iran's nuclear program and what he says is its support for terrorism and destabilizing governments abroad. The popular governor received a warm ovation from a prestigious security conference Wednesday in Israel — where Iran and its nuclear program are a major concern. Barbour also congratulated Israel on its recent offshore gas discoveries. Barbour, whose own state is an energy producer, criticized an American moratorium on ...
Russia's Medvedev Orders Additional Weapons Deployed To Islands Disputed With Japan
Post Date: 2011-02-09 13:35:05 by Brian S
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MOSCOW — Russia will send more weapons to its islands in north Pacific, President Dmitry Medvedev announced Wednesday — a mere two days after Japan again demanded that Russia return several islands it has held since the end of World War II. The disagreement over the southern Kuril islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories, has long been a sticking point between the two countries. It also has kept them from signing a formal peace treaty ending their World War II hostilities. Medvedev told Cabinet ministers that Russia must strengthen its presence there and that the new weapons will protect the islands as an "inalienable part of Russia." Several hours later, ...
Strikes Erupt Around Egypt As Protesters Call For Expanded Demonstrations In Defiance Of VP
Post Date: 2011-02-09 13:12:36 by Brian S
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CAIRO (AP) - Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians launched strikes and protests around the country on Thursday over their economic woes as anti-government activists sought to expand their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak despite warnings from the vice president that protests won't be tolerated much longer. Some 8,000 protesters, mainly farmers, set barricades of flaming palm trees in the southern province of Assiut, blocking the main highway and railway to Cairo to complain of bread shortages. They then drove off the governor by pelting his van with stones. Hundreds of slum dwellers in the Suez Canal city of Port Said set fire to part of the governor's ...
Top House Republican: Goal In Egypt Should Be To Stop Spread Of Radical Islam
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:35:40 by Brian S
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A top House Republican said Tuesday the primary goal of U.S. policy in Egypt should be to "stop the spread of radical Islam," an objective that has been little mentioned by Obama administration officials in recent weeks. Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., also said at a news conference he hopes the street protests taking place in Cairo and elsewhere will lead to a democratic society that "stands for human rights, progress and equal opportunity." In his remarks, Cantor did not criticize President Barack Obama over his handling of the two-week crisis. GOP leaders have privately urged members of the rank and file not to second-guess Obama's approach to the crisis, ...
U.S. Demands Immediate End To Egypt's Emergency Law
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:31:47 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday set out four steps Cairo must take to end Egypt's crisis, telling its ally to stop harassing protesters and immediately repeal an emergency law allowing detention without charge. The Obama administration appears worried President Hosni Mubarak's government will not make meaningful changes in the largest Arab nation, a strategic U.S. partner due to its peace treaty with Israel and control of the Suez Canal. The steps, conveyed by Vice President Joe Biden to Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, appeared to rebuff the former intelligence chief who is negotiating with opposition figures seeking Mubarak's immediate departure after 30 years ...
Prepare For All-Out War, Israel Told
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:08:50 by Brian S
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Given recent changes in the Middle East, Israel must prepare for a battle in several theaters, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Monday at the Herzliya Conference. "The connection between the different players requires us to contend with more than one theater," he said. The radical camp in the Middle East is gaining strength, Ashkenazi warned, adding that "the moderate camp among the traditional Arab leadership is weakening." He also made note of what he characterized as the "fascinating phenomenon" whereby power is shifting to the people of the region thanks to online social networks. The army chief said that in the wake of the growing ...
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