"Are you up and on the front lines? Or at home keeping score?"
So Gaddafi will not step down. Didn't Mubarak say that too? A few days before he stepped down? He has to step down. Nothing will end unless he does. It's just a matter of time now. But the more time it takes, the more people that are going to be killed and injured. The more people that are going to have their lives destroyed by this.
22 February 2011
20 February 2011
I don't know what's going on anymore. My internet has been down for a couple days now and I'm a bit wary of trying to get information about what's going on in the world from public computers. But I still am getting news via TV and my phone. Yet in a state of war, these aren't really the most reliable sources. Things are slowly starting to even be affected here in the cushy suburbia of the US. Protests in Wisconsin? Maybe it's about education, but broad scopes are sure to come. But I do know one thing: the world is falling apart, fast. The whole world is rapidly approaching a state of potential world war, and if that happens, the results would be devastating. I'm afraid for the future right now. And I'm even more afraid that there's nothing I can do about it.
I Hope for the safety of everyone in the protests and the countrieswhere violence is escalating.
The first domino fell with Tunisia and is quickly spreading. After all, courage is contagious.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of deaths throughout the world as a result of protests.
Possible internet kill switch becoming more likely in the US.
Twitter information about Wikileaks supporters likely to be seized by the Department of Justice.
All of this should be illegal, yet it's still happening.
Keep your wits about you, the battle lines are merging.
If anyone actually reads this, good luck and be safe.
I Hope for the safety of everyone in the protests and the countrieswhere violence is escalating.
The first domino fell with Tunisia and is quickly spreading. After all, courage is contagious.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of deaths throughout the world as a result of protests.
Possible internet kill switch becoming more likely in the US.
Twitter information about Wikileaks supporters likely to be seized by the Department of Justice.
All of this should be illegal, yet it's still happening.
Keep your wits about you, the battle lines are merging.
If anyone actually reads this, good luck and be safe.
04 February 2011
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form, and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
03 February 2011
Don't tread on me.
List of journalists who've been threatened, attacked, or detained in some way while in Egypt: (link)
List of journalists who've been threatened, attacked, or detained in some way while in Egypt: (link)
APTN had their satellite dish agressively dismantled, leaving them and many other journalists who rely on their feed point no way to feed material.
ABC News international correspondent Christiane Amanpour said that on Wednesday her car was surrounded by men banging on the sides and windows, and a rock was thrown through the windshield, shattering glass on the occupants. They escaped without injury
And ABC Producer and Cameraman driving were carjacked at a checkpoint and driven to a compound where they were surrounded by men who threatened to behead them. They were able to convince the men to release them without any harm.
ABC/Bloomberg’s Lara Setrakian also attacked by protesters
CNN’s Anderson Cooper said he, a producer and camera operator were set upon by people who began punching them and trying to break their camera/ (wires)
Another CNN reporter, Hala Gorani, said she was shoved against a fence when demonstrators rode in on horses and camels, and feared she was going to get trampled/ (wires)
Fox Business Channel’s Ashley Webster reported that security officials burst into a room where he and a camera operator were observing the demonstration from a balcony. They forced the camera inside the room. He called the situation “very unnerving” and said via Twitter that he was trying to lay low / (wires)
Fox News Channel foreign correspondent Greg Palkot and producer Olaf Wiigwere hospitalized in Cairo after being attacked by protestors.
CBS newsman Mark Strassman said he and a camera operator were attackedas they attempted to get close to the rock-throwing and take pictures. The camera operator, who he would not name, was punched repeatedly and hit in the face with Mace. / (wires)
CBS News’ Lara Logan reports she was marched back to her hotel at gunpoint when she and a crew were taking pictures of protests (link) Time Magainze reports that Lara Logan has been detained by Egyptian police. (link)
Two New York Times journalists have been arrested. (A Times spokeswoman said that the two journalists were “detained by military police overnight in Cairo and are now free.” ) (link)
Washington Post foreign editor Douglas Jehl wrote Thursday that witnesses sayLeila Fadel, the paper’s Cairo bureau chief, and photographer Linda Davidson“were among two dozen journalists arrested this morning by Military Police.” Fadel and Davidson have since been released. / (link)
BBC also reported their correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes’ car was forced off the road in Cairo “by a group of angry men.” He has detained by the men, who handed him off to secret police agents who handcuffed and blindfolded himand an unnamed colleague and took them to an interrogation room. They were released after three hours. / (link)
Reporter Jean-Francois Lepine of Canada’s CBC all-French RDI network said that he and a cameraman were surrounded by a mob that began hitting them, until they were rescued by the Egyptian army / (wires)
The Toronto Globe and Mail said on its website that one of its reporters, Sonia Verma, said the military had “commandeered us and our car” in Cairo/ (link)
Two Associated Press correspondents were also roughed up. AP’s Nasser Gamil mentioned in one article (unclear if he was one of the original 2 mentioned) / wires and (link)
Reuters’ Simon Hanna tweeted today that a “gang of thugs” stormed the news organization’s Cairo office and being smashing windows (link)
The website of Belgium’s Le Soir newspaper said Belgian reporter Serge Dumont, whose real name is Maurice Sarfatti, was beaten Wednesday / (wires)
Jon Bjorgvinsson, a correspondent for RUV, Iceland’s national broadcaster, but on assignment for Swiss television in Cairo, was attacked on Tuesday as he and a crew were filming/ (link)
Danish media reported that Danish senior Middle East Correspondent Steffen Jensen was beaten today by pro-Mubarak supporters with clubs while reporting live on the phone to Danish TV2 News from Cairo / (link)
A reporter for Turkey’s Fox TV, his Egyptian cameraman and their driver were abducted by men with knives while filming protests Wednesday, but Egyptian police later rescued them, said Anatolia, a Turkish news agency / (link)
One Greek print journalist was stabbed in the leg with a screwdriver / (wires)
*note: unclear if this is the same person identified in another: The injured Greek journalist, Petros Papaconstantinou, said on Kathimerini’s website that: “I was spotted by Mubarak supporters. They … beat me with batons on the head and stabbed me lightly in the leg.
A Greek freelance photographer punched in the face by a group of men who stopped him on the street near Tahrir Square and smashed some of his equipment / (wires)
In addition, five Chinese journalists were briefly detained after authorities found bullet proof vests in their luggage, along with more than 20 walkie-talkies and satellite phones, the officials said. They were allowed to leave after the equipment was confiscated. / (wires)
RT TV crew injured (link)
A correspondent and a cameraman working for Russia’s Zvezda television channel were detained by men in plainclothes and held overnight Tuesday, Anastasiya Popova of Vesti state television and radio said on air from Cairo / (link)
French international news channel France 24 said three of its journalists had been detained while covering protests in Egypt and were being held by “military intelligence services”. (link)
French photojournalist from SIPA Press agency Alfred Yaghobzadeh is being treated by anti-government protestors after being wounded during clashes between pro-government supporters and anti-government protestors / (link)
Police arrested four Israeli journalists for allegedly violating the curfew in Cairo and for entering the country on tourist visas, according to news reports. / (link)
Al Jazeera reported Thursday that two of its reporters were attacked en route to Cairo airport, along with cameraman being assaulted near Tahrir Square / (link)
ALSO - Al-Arabiya correspondent, Ahmed Bajano, in Cairo, was beaten while covering a pro-Mubarak demonstration. Another unidentified correspondent was also attacked. Another network reporter said on the air that her colleagueAhmad Abdel Hadi was seized by what appeared to be pro-Mubarak supporters near Tahrir Square, forced in a car, and driven away. / (link)
Men in plainclothes surrounded the office of Sawsan Abu Hussein, deputy editor of the Egyptian magazine October after she called in to a television program to report on violence against protesters (link)
A group of men described as “plainclothes police” attacked the headquarters of the independent daily Al-Shorouk in Cairo today, the paper reported. Reporter Mohamed Khayal and photographer Magdi Ibrahim were injured/ (link)
There is no way that I would be able to even scratch the surface of everything that is happening in Egypt and is likely to be happening in other countries in the possibly near future. Mubarak says he won't step down, but will not seek reelection. Protesters want him out by friday. Protests have escalated into violence which has pretty much become civil war. The only way that this can end is if Mubarak steps down. I fear for everyone in Egypt.
Mubarak's "Security" Forces Drive Through Crowd
30 January 2011
"Pushing us into self destruction, they make me dream your dreams. They make me scream your screams"
"Five British citizens were arrested on January 27 in the anti-WikiLeaks government probe, and the U.S. government issued 40 search warrants the same day in a related move. The Britisharrests all involved young men aged 15 to 26. ABC News reported that many of the U.S. searches were 'conducted in the San Francisco Bay area and the Boston area as part of an ongoing investigation that involved 26 FBI field offices executing search warrants.'
.....
Frequent cyber-attacks against WikiLeaks — which have shut down the site off-and-on for months — have received no proportionate prosecutorial attention from U.S. or British officials, presumably because the attacks against WikiLeaks are assumed to come from U.S. government military computers as a different type of payback."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/6107-us-british-governments-keep-pressure-on-wikileaks
"Arab League sets revolutions timetable - Egypt #Jan25, Sudan #Jan30, Syria#Feb5, Algeria #Feb12, Libya chooses#Feb30 ;)"
"American proponents of government secrecy are calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be assassinated or imprisoned, even if it means creating a new law to do it. And that is exactly what anti-WikiLeaks activists in the federal government are working on right now. People calling for the prosecution of Assange and WikiLeaks — mostly Western officials, government apologists, and media talking heads — have generally advocated indictments for conspiracy and even espionage. A few, who may not have realized Assange was an Australian national, actually called for charges of treason. Former House Speaker and establishment Republican Newt Gingrich wants him classified as an “enemy combatant.” Others called for outright extrajudicial murder."
02] IP addresses for social media: pass on to people in #Egypt: Twitter: 128.242.240.52. Facebook: 69.63.189.34
03] How to circumvent the communications blackout in #Egypt http://slink.us?lr Arabic
04] #hamradio frequencies for #egypt http://slink.us?ls PLEASE SPREAD IRC: http://slink.us?lt
05] Ham Radio Software software for PC, Mac and Linux http://www.hamsphere.com Communicate w/ #egypt
06] TOR Bridge 189.129.67.78:443 04FD6AE46E95F1E46B5264528C48EA84DB10CAC4
07] There is an Old DSL Dialup 24564600
08] Send SMS reports to +1 949 209 7559 and they will retweet for you. Please spread to those in #Egypt on battlefield
09] #Egypt hams are on 7.050-7.200 MHz LSB
10] Egypt Gov only blocking by DNS. So for Twitter try 128.242.245.148 Facebook 69.63.189.11 Proxy
11] VPN Server http://texnomic.com/url/2L is now stable and open for FREE to ALL
12] Help the Egypt Revolutionaries by overcoming the Firewall https://www.accessnow.org/proxy-cloud
13] 0m band, 7.050-7.20 0 MHz LSB, 318.5 degrees (northwest /north from cairo) Ham Radio Operators
14] We are now providing dialup modem service at +46850009990. user/pass: telecomix/telecomix (only for #egypt, respect that PLEASE!).
15] People of Egypt ONLY! Use this dial-up provided by friends in France to go online: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto')
16] FREE VPN Server to bypass ANY Blockage on ANY ADSL or Cell Network. Domain: Cloud.Texnomic.com User: FreeEgypt Pass: #Jan25
17] Third party apps: Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ & Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/ still work for updating Twitter
18] I2P anonymizing network http://www.i2p2.de/19] RetroShare: secure communications with friends http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
20] Follow @AnonymousRx
"Five British citizens were arrested on January 27 in the anti-WikiLeaks government probe, and the U.S. government issued 40 search warrants the same day in a related move. The Britisharrests all involved young men aged 15 to 26. ABC News reported that many of the U.S. searches were 'conducted in the San Francisco Bay area and the Boston area as part of an ongoing investigation that involved 26 FBI field offices executing search warrants.'
.....
Frequent cyber-attacks against WikiLeaks — which have shut down the site off-and-on for months — have received no proportionate prosecutorial attention from U.S. or British officials, presumably because the attacks against WikiLeaks are assumed to come from U.S. government military computers as a different type of payback."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/6107-us-british-governments-keep-pressure-on-wikileaks
Hypocritical government is hypocritical. But this is a bit worrying. I would not be surprised if investigations and search warrants start being issued on those who have just openly showed support for WikiLeaks and Anonymous in some cases. But that's just fucked up, now isn't it?
Now whether this is actually true, I don't know. But from as far as I can tell, could should be changed to will.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/5700-wikileaks-leads-to-calls-for-new-infringements-on-speech-press
First, I thought we'd already established that there wasn't any found connection between Manning and Assange, so conspiracy wouldn't quite work. And there's always this. I find it a bit ironic though that US officials can openly say that they think Assange should be killed without any evidence of any wrongdoing, yet if I were to say that I think Obama should be assassinated, I'd have the FBI knocking on my door. Like last year, when a man was arrested for writing in a poem that he thinks Obama should be assassinated. The judicial system seems to run one way, with those who are paying for everything the government does being the ones that are locked away, while the ones taking taxpayers money and throwing it away walk free. I'm not saying anyone should be killed or arrested, I'm just saying that we need justice. And we need it fast.
First, I thought we'd already established that there wasn't any found connection between Manning and Assange, so conspiracy wouldn't quite work. And there's always this. I find it a bit ironic though that US officials can openly say that they think Assange should be killed without any evidence of any wrongdoing, yet if I were to say that I think Obama should be assassinated, I'd have the FBI knocking on my door. Like last year, when a man was arrested for writing in a poem that he thinks Obama should be assassinated. The judicial system seems to run one way, with those who are paying for everything the government does being the ones that are locked away, while the ones taking taxpayers money and throwing it away walk free. I'm not saying anyone should be killed or arrested, I'm just saying that we need justice. And we need it fast.
1. Get online using the Noor Group's Network
2. Use dial-up with modems or with mobile phones
3. Use ham radio
01] Nour DSL is still working in Egypt, Dial up with 0777 7776 or 07777 66602] IP addresses for social media: pass on to people in #Egypt: Twitter: 128.242.240.52. Facebook: 69.63.189.34
03] How to circumvent the communications blackout in #Egypt http://slink.us?lr Arabic
04] #hamradio frequencies for #egypt http://slink.us?ls PLEASE SPREAD IRC: http://slink.us?lt
05] Ham Radio Software software for PC, Mac and Linux http://www.hamsphere.com Communicate w/ #egypt
06] TOR Bridge 189.129.67.78:443 04FD6AE46E95F1E46B5264528C48EA84DB10CAC4
07] There is an Old DSL Dialup 24564600
08] Send SMS reports to +1 949 209 7559 and they will retweet for you. Please spread to those in #Egypt on battlefield
09] #Egypt hams are on 7.050-7.200 MHz LSB
10] Egypt Gov only blocking by DNS. So for Twitter try 128.242.245.148 Facebook 69.63.189.11 Proxy
11] VPN Server http://texnomic.com/url/2L is now stable and open for FREE to ALL
12] Help the Egypt Revolutionaries by overcoming the Firewall https://www.accessnow.org/proxy-cloud
13] 0m band, 7.050-7.20 0 MHz LSB, 318.5 degrees (northwest /north from cairo) Ham Radio Operators
14] We are now providing dialup modem service at +46850009990. user/pass: telecomix/telecomix (only for #egypt, respect that PLEASE!).
15] People of Egypt ONLY! Use this dial-up provided by friends in France to go online: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto')
16] FREE VPN Server to bypass ANY Blockage on ANY ADSL or Cell Network. Domain: Cloud.Texnomic.com User: FreeEgypt Pass: #Jan25
17] Third party apps: Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ & Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/ still work for updating Twitter
18] I2P anonymizing network http://www.i2p2.de/19] RetroShare: secure communications with friends http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
20] Follow @AnonymousRx
WikiLeaks Video Project (Join at your own risk.)
"Down With Mubarak"
Whoever you are, you are a fucking hero.
The internet can fight. The internet does not forgive. The internet does not forget.
Proxy Server: http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
26 January 2011
"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.
EGYPTIAN GOV is KILLING ALOT OF PEOPLE IN THE STREETS SAVE US !#Egypt #Jan25 Egyptian
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck
Retweeted by 1 person
http://twitter.com/AhmedFouad/status/30363712405643264
http://www.herdict.org/web/explore/herdometer
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.
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck
Retweeted by 1 person
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.htmlhttp://www.herdict.org/web/explore/herdometer
24 January 2011
"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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http://opfaceoff.blogspot.com/
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?
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