"Fear is the foundation of most governments."

LYON, France – INTERPOL can confirm that its National Central Bureau (NCB) in Tunis has issued a global alert via INTERPOL's international network to seek the location and arrest of former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and six of his relatives.

As stated by Tunisian authorities in media reports today, Mr Ben Ali and some of his family members are wanted in Tunisia on charges of alleged property theft and the illegal transfer of foreign currency.

The alert, known as an INTERPOL diffusion, contains the names and other data of wanted individuals. It was sent directly by NCB Tunis via INTERPOL's I-24/7 secure police communications network to all other 187 member countries. Unlike INTERPOL's Red Notices for internationally-wanted persons, which are issued at the request of member countries by INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, a diffusion is sent directly by an INTERPOL NCB without the involvement of the General Secretariat.

In its diffusion, NCB Tunis requests INTERPOL member countries to search, locate and provisionally arrest Mr Ali and his relatives with a view to their extradition to Tunis. If and when the individuals are located, Tunisian authorities will forward any formal request for extradition via diplomatic channels.

INTERPOL does not send officials to carry out arrests; these are made by national law enforcement officials in line with their national laws.

Any further enquiries relating to Tunisia’s diffusion for the seven individuals and to their wanted status should be directed to the Tunisian authorities.

http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2011/PR007.asp

EGYPTIAN GOV is KILLING ALOT OF PEOPLE IN THE STREETS SAVE US !#Egypt #Jan25 Egyptian
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck
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http://twitter.com/AhmedFouad/status/30363712405643264

"2140 GMT: Mahmoud Saad, the host of the popular TV show Masr El-Naharda (Egypt Today) has announced that he will no longer appear starting tonight after he came under pressure from top government officials to report "untruths" about the protests, describing demonstrators as rioters "destroying the country".

http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2011/1/26/egypt-and-beyond-liveblog-the-day-after-the-day-of-revolutio.html

http://www.herdict.org/web/explore/herdometer

"Let's break the windowpanes and separate the walls from all the nails. And maybe if we're loud we'll stay alive while everybody wants to join the fight. And even if we barricade the door, and seal it with the blood found on the floor we're always going to cross the finish line while everybody wants to run and hide. But now it's too late."

Operation Mahatma Letter:


We have to be the change we wish to see in this world, and hence I had myself to take some time off from the heavens and write this piece to you.


Dear friend Obama,
The world today is going through a phase where it is no more between the good v/s the bad; it’s not between the evil v/s the divinity and clearly it is no more between us v/s them. Today it has become us v/s us. Those we are fighting against are our own and those who we are losing in war are also our own. And we have only ourselves to blame for such situation, because we have somehow allowed the bad, the devil, the wrong, the dictatorship, the injustice, the inequality, the ambition, the censor, the darkness to enter our system. This has divided us in two and we all have become part of a war which can have only one result.


I understand it is hard for you to you to get yourself out of this situation but it’s not impossible either. But you are making the road more tough for yourself by putting curbs on fearless people who have no personal stakes in all this yet they are ready to sacrifice whatever they have only for the sake of truth. These whistleblowers, these fighters for truth are your last hope and they are mine too. You can never win this war by turning your eyes closed to the truth. Truth is the only weapon that all the human beings ever had and will ever have in their fight against the bad in any age. And hence you must not hide yourself from the truth. These whistleblowers, these soldiers of truth have nothing to gain, they do not demand anything more than just acceptance and you must accept what the truth is, no matter how distasteful it is, because only then you can rectify it. I can see many things sitting in heavens which you can never see and trust me when I say this “there is no other way other than to accept the truth”. You can only choose the time when you accept the truth; the sooner, the better it would be for humanity. These whistleblowers are humanity’s last hopes, and although they don’t need your support, on the contrary you need their support yet, you must support them.
I could have directly come to your dreams and communicated this to you but the reason I chose common people to convey my message to you is because as you yourself said this 3 years back and I hope you remembers this “real results will not just come from Washington, they will come from the people”.
This may be the last opportunity that history and humanity has given you, And you must not let it go.
With all the good wishes of peace

M K Gandhi
Om Shanti !!
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There are protests planned for tomorrow in Egypt. #jan25 hashtag for supporters on Twitter. Hopefully a Tunisia-style revolution can occur there too. Minus the deaths. That is something the world does not need any more of.

Thaileaks now exists in Thailand because the Thai government has blocked access to WikiLeaks.

Jane Hamsher was put under unofficial arrest on January 23 while driving David House to visit Bradley Manning in Quantico. Reasons for her arrest have not been officially explained, but it appears to be because she was attempting to deliver a petition to military authorities asking to improve the conditions that Bradley Manning is being held under. They have been released, but are being prevented from visiting Manning. The petition is here if you'd care to sign it. FIRST AMMENDMENT: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, right to assemble, RIGHT TO PETITION. Come on people.
http://my.firedoglake.com/scarecrow/2011/01/23/breaking-quantico-military-holding-jane-hamsher-impounding-car-for-trying-to-deliver-manning-peitition/


And the US doubts Tunisia 'snowball effect' on Arab neighbors. Really. So you know all these other countries that are now starting to begin fighting for their freedom, that's just unrelated? I feel like it's time for Really With Seth and Amy...

It's all well when all is war, and didn't we read that in Orwell?

We have to be the change we wish to see in this world, and hence I had myself to take some time off from the heavens and write this piece to you.

Dear friend Obama,

The world today is going through a phase where it is no more between the good v/s the bad; it’s not between the evil v/s the divinity and clearly it is no more between us v/s them. Today it has become us v/s us. Those we are fighting against are our own and those who we are losing in war are also our own. And we have only ourselves to blame for such situation, because we have somehow allowed the bad, the devil, the wrong, the dictatorship, the injustice, the inequality, the ambition, the censor, the darkness to enter our system.  This has divided us in two and we all have become part of a war which can have only one result.

I understand it is hard for you to you to get yourself out of this situation but it’s not impossible either. But you are making the road more tough for yourself by putting curbs on fearless people who have no personal stakes in all this yet they are ready to sacrifice whatever they have only for the sake of truth. These whistleblowers, these fighters for truth are your last hope and they are mine too. You can never win this war by turning your eyes closed to the truth. Truth is the only weapon that all the human beings ever had and will ever have in their fight against the bad in any age. And hence you must not hide yourself from the truth. These whistleblowers, these soldiers of truth have nothing to gain, they do not demand anything more than just acceptance and you must accept what the truth is, no matter how distasteful it is, because only then you can rectify it. I can see many things sitting in heavens which you can never see and trust me when I say this “there is no other way other than to accept the truth”. You can only choose the time when you accept the truth; the sooner, the better it would be for humanity. These whistleblowers are humanity’s last hopes, and although they don’t need your support, on the contrary you need their support yet, you must support them.

I could have directly come to your dreams and communicated this to you but the reason I chose common people to convey my message to you is because as you yourself said this 3 years back and I hope you remembers this “real results will not just come from Washington, they will come from the people”.

This may be the last opportunity that history and humanity has given you, And you must not let it go.

With all the good wishes of peace

M K Gandhi

Om Shanti !!

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"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,"

I've seen 6th, 7th, and 8th, so I have no idea what to believe, but whatever the number, people are setting themselves on fire in Algeria. This has to stop. But the only way that this can stop is freedom. Tunisia is only the beginning. Libya, Venezuela, Algeria. I'm sure there will be more. You woke the beast, now we will feast.

"All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've gotta say, 'I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!' So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!!'"

"I don’t get how someone as smart as you fell in the Assange/wikileaks trap. He’s obviously made up. You think there is someone so powerful as to manage to put secret documents online and governments can’t find a way to shut it down?

There is too much fuss about it. He’s too charismatic. And I didn’t need wikileaks to know the kind of stuff that they revealed. They revealed nothing too shocking or too compromising.

You know what? They build it. They created it. Wikileaks will only help keep the masses undercontrol.

The truth has always been there. In front of us for most to deny it and few to accept it.

I assume you read 1984. Well, don’t you see it? There you have your own government-invented Goldstein, just a bit more attractive, right to be at pace with the contemporary age."

I don't really buy any of this, but it can sort of make you wonder. What if none of this is real. All those celebrities and heroes, what if none of it is real. If you've never seen these people and never met them and never gotten to know them, how do you know if any of it actually exists? It could all just be a lie to keep us happy in our little utopia. Maybe I'm not real.


Facebook wants to know everything about you. Including your phone number and address. Bad idea. Have you been on Facebook recently? A large amount of things is "OMG MILEY CYRUS DID THIS *LINK*" or "Justin Bieber and Blahblahblah *LINK*" from people clicking the link and it being automatically posted. Now what if they have your address and phone number. That'll be fun.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/01/18/facebook.phone.privacy/?hpt=C1

You know what I think is hilarious? Today in school, we all had to sign a contract saying that we wouldn't abuse our usage of school computers. That we wouldn't access the network from other places, that we wouldn't spread or create viruses, that we wouldn't use other people's passwords, and that we would be accepting the fact that they may be logging every single thing we do on those computers. Which has just confirmed my suspicions that they're using keyloggers and that they're becoming afraid. The people have the power. But there's one little loophole. If you're under eighteen, you can't be held to a legal binding contract without parental consent. And nobody's parents signed a thing.

"Two killed in murder/suicide had troubled history", "60 killed in Iraq suicide bombing", "Qayne County soldier killed by Iraqi during exercise", "Mich. cop killed in shootout", "Boy to Dispatchers: I Killed my Family", "Three shot, two killed in Spartanburg", "Police ID man killed in Subway shooting".

Where has all the good news gone?

TUNISIA:

Role of Anonymous in Tunisia

US evacuates citizens from Tunisia

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576090180234388522.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

"You can bend it and twist it. You can misuse and abuse it. But even God cannot change the truth."


"Túnez" and "Ben Ali" are both trending topics on Twitter. "Unrest in Tunisia" is under the Spotlight Videos on Youtube. The truth is finally getting out.


Tunisian protests were spread to Tunis, the capital, and the government decreed a nighttime curfew. Four people had reportedly been killed there on Wednesday, not counting the over 30 deaths that have occurred in the past few days. Ben Ali has however been driven from power on Friday with Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi taking over all responsibilities for the time being. The people can make a difference. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/world/africa/13tunisia.html?_r=3&ref=global-home

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14/AR2011011404981_2.html



From as far as I can tell, this information is accurate. Yet, in these times it can be impossible to know for sure.


Oh, and it is possible that in the near future you could be breaking the law for buying a book. More specifically, Julian Assange's book. 
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/blacklisting-wikileaks/69535/



"Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher,Tor developer, and volunteer withWikileaks, reported today [JANUARY 12] on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland."
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/12/wikileaks-volunteer-1.html

Unknown number of people killed in riots in Tunisia, US government trying to get information about twitter accounts connected with WikiLeaks, tear gas still being used even though it can turn to cyanide in the human body, happy January 8th.

Welcome to 1984.