Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign

By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 15:56 EST
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Update: Twitter, Facebook reportedly inaccessible

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Egypt Tuesday, facing down a massive police presence to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in protests inspired by Tunisia’s popular uprising.

Gamal Mubarak, son of President Hosni Mubarak, had fled the country along with his family, according to the Adnkronos International news service.

Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers and began marching in Cairo’s streets.

Protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court in downtown Cairo and held large signs that read “Tunisia is the solution” amid massive police deployment, an AFP correspondent said.

Chanting “Down with Mubarak” — in reference to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who has been in power for three decades — they broke through several police cordons and began marching towards Tahrir Square, in scenes seldom witnessed in Egypt.

Others shouted “Tunisia is not better than Egypt” as the crowds began to swell.

A security official told AFP that at least 20,000 to 30,000 police had been mobilized in the center of the capital alone, and that the area housing the interior ministry had been sealed off.

In a stunning video released Tuesday, one protester was seen standing his ground against a mobile water cannon.

Twitter reportedly inaccessible

Twitter was inaccessible in the country in what was believed to be a move to thwart protesters using the social network in their campaign to oust Mubarak.

The US-based microblogging service that allows people to use mobile phones to broadcast short text messages was out of service in Egypt on Tuesday, according to the herdict.org tracking website recommended by Twitter.

A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on what was causing the service outage in Egypt.

“Egypt is going wild and I’m not sure we’ll really have a sense of it until the dust clears,” Digital Democracy’s Mark Belinsky told CNET. “Hard to say whether or not it’s just getting overloaded though…(physically severing) Internet was done in Burma after a while but it usually leads to international uproar. What they generally do is slow down the signal to a crawl, as they did in Iran, which they can then say was infrastructure failure or any other made up excuse.”

“It would be an interesting and desperate move for Egypt because their state security apparatus has been very good at infiltrating communication instead of blocking it,” he added. “They go so far as to ask for the passwords to the e-mail accounts of dissidents and log-ins for their Web sites instead of censoring them. There are some tech-savvy youth there, hence tweeting through proxies as soon as they encounter some difficulties. But after a critical mass, organizing is done more on the streets than online and the authorities already know the details about who the key organizers are in the crowd.”

The protest, called by the pro-democracy youth group the April 6 Movement, coincided with a national holiday to mark Police Day.

Update: Facebook blocked

Reports Wednesday indicated that Egyptian authorities had also moved to block Facebook.

“If Facebook has in fact been blocked, this isn’t particularly surprising. Facebook itself has also been actively used to organize the demonstrations in Egypt. For instance, one Facebook Group called We Are All Khaled Said, features up-to-the-minute updates on the protests and photos from the scene,” Techcrunch wrote.

Said was “a young man brutally tortured and killed by police in Alexandria,” according to the Foreign Policy blog.

– With AFP

This video of protesters literally chasing riot police through Cairo’s streets was published to YouTube on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011.

David Edwards
David Edwards
David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.
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  • jimbowski

    Notice the American media and bloggers are almost yawning at this news. When Iran erupted, the media was ALL OVER IT.

  • Anonymous

    test

  • TheDevilCanDance

    This is fucking beautiful, the people are not afraid anymore, whatever happens in the next days and weeks, the seed of revolt is within the hearts of these people.
    If the Egyptian army does as the Tunisian army & stands by,Mubarak is fucking history.

  • Anonymous

    I am wondering if people are planning a TV dinner for 9 est tonite.

    May just as well watch a stand up comedian as anything else I guess…

  • Anonymous

    The fear is coming closer to home.

    And it is coming…

    …and it is real.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/UR4DHHC3P6RRXIUP4LWX54YN7I hu

    Either the army will side with the protesters, or the Egyptians will soon have to choose between bloodshed and slavery.

    If the protesters back down now, their leaders may all be ‘dissapeared’ by Mubarak’s thugs after the protests cool off.

  • Taleisin

    That’s people power. Good on Them!

  • Taleisin

    That’s people power. Good on Them!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DCLOMC65UOVXMU6MI2PPVXOBXE Burn

    The US government had better be very afraid because eventually this is going to happen in these corrupt united states of america as well

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DCLOMC65UOVXMU6MI2PPVXOBXE Burn

    The US government had better be very afraid because eventually this is going to happen in these corrupt united states of america as well

  • Taleisin

    Any government that uses its army or reserve army against it’s own people
    should be thrown out of office.

  • Taleisin

    Any government that uses its army or reserve army against it’s own people
    should be thrown out of office.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PSKROFVS7E4PVTI2CEPLFWEJII John

    I like the goofy water cannon. It seems “protester friendly.” The kids at Kent State and Jackson State would have had some fun with those water cannons. They never got the chance, as the pigs used lead cannons, instead.

    We don’t bother to squirt them. We just go ahead and murder them.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PSKROFVS7E4PVTI2CEPLFWEJII John

    I like the goofy water cannon. It seems “protester friendly.” The kids at Kent State and Jackson State would have had some fun with those water cannons. They never got the chance, as the pigs used lead cannons, instead.

    We don’t bother to squirt them. We just go ahead and murder them.

  • http://www.911Blogger.com/ Orangutan.

    Excellent Point. Well said!!

  • http://www.911Blogger.com/ Orangutan.

    Excellent Point. Well said!!

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, in England, gangs of student anarchists terrorized the friendly police force over tuition fees. Luckily they were arrested and taken away….

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, in England, gangs of student anarchists terrorized the friendly police force over tuition fees. Luckily they were arrested and taken away….

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, in England, gangs of student anarchists terrorized the friendly police force over tuition fees. Luckily they were arrested and taken away….

  • Anonymous

    The wiki-genie has leaked out of the bottle.

    Julian Assange is the Thomas Paine, the Che of the new millenium .

  • Anonymous

    The wiki-genie has leaked out of the bottle.

    Julian Assange is the Thomas Paine, the Che of the new millenium .

  • Anonymous

    The wiki-genie has leaked out of the bottle.

    Julian Assange is the Thomas Paine, the Che of the new millenium .

  • Anonymous

    What brave citizens there are, maybe there is hope for us too.

  • Anonymous

    What brave citizens there are, maybe there is hope for us too.

  • Anonymous

    What brave citizens there are, maybe there is hope for us too.

  • Anonymous

    Now you see why it is imperative that Obama has a kill switch for the Internet beneath his desk, by his bed, in the john and so on…

  • Anonymous

    Now you see why it is imperative that Obama has a kill switch for the Internet beneath his desk, by his bed, in the john and so on…

  • Anonymous

    Now you see why it is imperative that Obama has a kill switch for the Internet beneath his desk, by his bed, in the john and so on…

  • Anonymous

    Hehehe, I’ll bet Israel is watching this one closely. Mubarak is done for.

  • Anonymous

    Hehehe, I’ll bet Israel is watching this one closely. Mubarak is done for.

  • Anonymous

    Hehehe, I’ll bet Israel is watching this one closely. Mubarak is done for.

  • Anonymous

    Remember tiananmen square and the tank? When will we be there? When will The People of the US realize that corporations are killing us and screwing us into their Fascist state. When will our own People realize it’s just a matter of time before our masses have to get off of our fat asses before it’s too late and the world becomes a group of Fascist dictators under the employ of Walmart?

  • Anonymous

    Remember tiananmen square and the tank? When will we be there? When will The People of the US realize that corporations are killing us and screwing us into their Fascist state. When will our own People realize it’s just a matter of time before our masses have to get off of our fat asses before it’s too late and the world becomes a group of Fascist dictators under the employ of Walmart?

  • Anonymous

    Remember tiananmen square and the tank? When will we be there? When will The People of the US realize that corporations are killing us and screwing us into their Fascist state. When will our own People realize it’s just a matter of time before our masses have to get off of our fat asses before it’s too late and the world becomes a group of Fascist dictators under the employ of Walmart?

  • Taleisin

    So… one brief case for the nukes and one for the internet.
    You have a point. But no president would ever take such liberties with his people.
    That won’t be honest.

  • Taleisin

    So… one brief case for the nukes and one for the internet.
    You have a point. But no president would ever take such liberties with his people.
    That won’t be honest.

  • Taleisin

    So… one brief case for the nukes and one for the internet.
    You have a point. But no president would ever take such liberties with his people.
    That won’t be honest.

  • Anonymous

    Piven is probably cheering them on.

  • Anonymous

    Piven is probably cheering them on.

  • Anonymous

    Piven is probably cheering them on.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Indeed, it is just a matter of time before they toss Mubarak into the garbage tank of history. Washington & Tel Aviv must be watching very closely , In Lebanon, Hezbollah was reelected, they even got the support from the Druzes, they now represent an unity government composed of Christians, Shiites, Lebanese nationalists,Secular Leftists. Pro Syrians etc….In Tunisia, the people are taking the destiny of their country in their own hands, the Egyptians are starting to react, the Jordanians are protesting everyday, In Yemen mass demonstrations are also taking place, the Arab world is in turmoil & the West is wetting its underwear. Whatever happens from now is not for us to decide or comment,these people have the right to self determination

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Indeed, it is just a matter of time before they toss Mubarak into the garbage tank of history. Washington & Tel Aviv must be watching very closely , In Lebanon, Hezbollah was reelected, they even got the support from the Druzes, they now represent an unity government composed of Christians, Shiites, Lebanese nationalists,Secular Leftists. Pro Syrians etc….In Tunisia, the people are taking the destiny of their country in their own hands, the Egyptians are starting to react, the Jordanians are protesting everyday, In Yemen mass demonstrations are also taking place, the Arab world is in turmoil & the West is wetting its underwear. Whatever happens from now is not for us to decide or comment,these people have the right to self determination

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Indeed, it is just a matter of time before they toss Mubarak into the garbage tank of history. Washington & Tel Aviv must be watching very closely , In Lebanon, Hezbollah was reelected, they even got the support from the Druzes, they now represent an unity government composed of Christians, Shiites, Lebanese nationalists,Secular Leftists. Pro Syrians etc….In Tunisia, the people are taking the destiny of their country in their own hands, the Egyptians are starting to react, the Jordanians are protesting everyday, In Yemen mass demonstrations are also taking place, the Arab world is in turmoil & the West is wetting its underwear. Whatever happens from now is not for us to decide or comment,these people have the right to self determination

  • Anonymous

    Coming soon to a United States near you.

  • Anonymous

    Coming soon to a United States near you.

  • Anonymous

    Coming soon to a United States near you.

  • justadood

    Beck’s your schoolteacher, too?

    Wonder if you got a Medical Discharge…..but Heller was right (Catch-22)

  • justadood

    Beck’s your schoolteacher, too?

    Wonder if you got a Medical Discharge…..but Heller was right (Catch-22)

  • justadood

    Beck’s your schoolteacher, too?

    Wonder if you got a Medical Discharge…..but Heller was right (Catch-22)

  • Taleisin

    I hope you like to hear lots of clapping and cheering.
    It is going to be worse than a letterman show.

  • Taleisin

    I hope you like to hear lots of clapping and cheering.
    It is going to be worse than a letterman show.

  • Taleisin

    I hope you like to hear lots of clapping and cheering.
    It is going to be worse than a letterman show.

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    at least students let their voices be heard there.

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    at least students let their voices be heard there.

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    at least students let their voices be heard there.

  • justadood

    that dude has guts—that water truck might not be a Tank, but it’s still plenty big enough to make a dude-pancake…

    We’re finding out our Government’s support of autocratic regimes was a case of us making and keeping the Wrong Friends…and we’ll likely be paying for this after our pet dictators get tossed…

  • justadood

    that dude has guts—that water truck might not be a Tank, but it’s still plenty big enough to make a dude-pancake…

    We’re finding out our Government’s support of autocratic regimes was a case of us making and keeping the Wrong Friends…and we’ll likely be paying for this after our pet dictators get tossed…

  • justadood

    that dude has guts—that water truck might not be a Tank, but it’s still plenty big enough to make a dude-pancake…

    We’re finding out our Government’s support of autocratic regimes was a case of us making and keeping the Wrong Friends…and we’ll likely be paying for this after our pet dictators get tossed…

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    never heard it phrased like that before, but very well stated.

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    never heard it phrased like that before, but very well stated.

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    never heard it phrased like that before, but very well stated.

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    We just have to make sure that the Islamic Brotherhood does not step in to fill the power vacuum here folks. Mubarak is not very democratic, but there are far more sinister forces that could be unleashed if this situation spins out of control

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    We just have to make sure that the Islamic Brotherhood does not step in to fill the power vacuum here folks. Mubarak is not very democratic, but there are far more sinister forces that could be unleashed if this situation spins out of control

  • http://twitter.com/novenator novenator

    We just have to make sure that the Islamic Brotherhood does not step in to fill the power vacuum here folks. Mubarak is not very democratic, but there are far more sinister forces that could be unleashed if this situation spins out of control

  • http://www.philipbrennan.net/2011/01/25/cairo-erupts-as-egyptian-protesters-demand-mubarak-resign/ Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign | Philip Brennan

    [...] Edwards | Raw Story | 25 January [...]

  • Anonymous

    many interesting details in that story about mubarak’s son fleeing to london

    http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Egypt-Presidents-son-and-family-have-fled-to-the-UK_311591050596.html

    “…US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday Washington believed the Egyptian government was stable and urged restraint on both sides..”

    hiliary, you are such a joker! there are a few hundred thousand people in the streets and she says that gov’t is stable. And we know which side of history you are on hilary, the side of the coup makers (honduras) and the dictators for life (mubarak and all the arab/moslem kings and presidents etc…)

  • http://worldwideriot.net/blog/2011/01/25/egypt-cairo-erupts-as-egyptian-protesters-demand-mubarak-resign/ Egypt: Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign | worldwideriot.net

    [...] had fled the country along with his family, according to the Adnkronos International news service. (rawstory.com) Tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters have taken to the streets in angry protests to denounce [...]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AQRDZHL677NHND7LH3F3VEYX7A Jeff

    How exactly does anything Julian Assange has done relate to the unrest in Africa?

  • http://biscuits007.wordpress.com/ SpitbucketBaptismo

    People everywhere are fed up. About damn time. Protest and party tomorrow, 200 West Street New Yawk, New Yawk. Bring signs and wear boots.

  • My3Cats

    I only hope that the revolutionary forces aren’t a ramping up of Tea Bagger Nation.

  • Anonymous

    Does a change in government mean we don’t have to keep sending that country billions in aid each year?

  • Anonymous

    Nothing changes as long as we still groan under the weight of the body of the parasite Israel.

    In fact you can consider all American foreign aid in the mid east to be aid for Israel’s security – So forget $3 billion, plus weapons, plus contracts, plus wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.. add to it the foreign aid payments to places like Egypt/Jordan, etc.

    We owe it ALL to being Israels whore. ALL of it.

  • http://topsy.com/www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/cairo-erupts-egyptian-protesters-demand-mubarak-resign/?utm_source=pingback&utm_campaign=L2 Tweets that mention Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign | Raw Story — Topsy.com

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Rob, The Raw Story, The Raw Story, DC Debbie, Rohaan Solare and others. Rohaan Solare said: RT : #Egypt erupts,on brink of #revolution Watch protester stand his ground against water cannon http://su.pr/2BwPcj @khaledhishma [...]

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Buy gold

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PCHLMPBJKYTW3LJBHZEZMO3TXQ What Ever

    She’s not a joker she’s the joke.

  • alfredo

    You forgot to mention Israel. Their government is one of the most stable; as long as we foot the bill that is. I believe, however, that it would fall before noon on the they we announce that we are through propping them up.

  • talis

    HUh??? LMAO
    ralphie arent you conveniently forgetting oil?

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    It is cumulative. Wikileaks is but a small component of a global revolution, but a component nonetheless.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PCHLMPBJKYTW3LJBHZEZMO3TXQ What Ever

    Not as long as the TV works.

  • Anonymous

    As much as I am sympathetic to the notion of self-determination, I remember all too well how the 1979 Iranian revolution — which was initially a broad-based secular and religious movement — was taken over by radical clerics who then proceeded to suppress, violently, the secular, pro-democracy elements.

    The last thing anyone — including the people of Egypt — need is a radical Islamic ‘republic’ of Egypt.

    But as others observe here, this is what results when the US supports brutal autocracies like the Mubarak regime. Regarding the claim by Hilary Clinton that the Egyptian government is stable, I remember the same things being said about the Shah’s government by members of the Carter administration at the very moment when there were upwards of a million protesters marching through the streets of Tehran in 1979.

  • Where goeth sanity?

    I truly wish I could believe that.

  • http://irritatethestate.net/2011/01/25/cairo-erupts-as-egyptian-protesters-demand-mubarak-resign/ Cairo Erupts As Egyptian Protesters Demand Mubarak Resign | Irritate The State Radio

    [...] had fled the country along with his family, according to the Adnkronos International news service. Read More Did you like this? Share [...]

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Bring. It. On.

  • Anonymous

    When its about oil, one makes FRIENDS with those who have the oil.
    Like it used to be.

    No, it isnt about oil – its about Jewish Zionist power in the United States and how it is BAD FOR US (you and I) in soooooo many ways, this just being one way.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZIIRJENPZTIPRDKHQLZWPQIXZA virgo47tp

    I think we are sending them that money so the governement doesn’t change. So it depends on how the governement changes, i guess.

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    A Dollar to any American who knew this would happen and what we should do about it? We didn’t,…and we can’t. We now resort to the fine American art of ‘Blame-hood’. Its all we seem to have left….(Even Wiki-leaks is fading away.) Europe and America blew it in the 1960′s….now the Arab world gets to melt-down. Who did it?

  • Anonymous

    Too bad the American people didn’t do that when bush was in office.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad the American people didn’t do that when bush was in office.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad the American people didn’t do that when bush was in office.

  • Anonymous

    March 19. The Anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.

    Pass it on.

  • Anonymous

    March 19. The Anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.

    Pass it on.

  • Anonymous

    March 19. The Anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.

    Pass it on.

  • Anonymous

    Oh please

  • Anonymous

    Oh please

  • Anonymous

    Oh please

  • DesertSun59

    Girls gone wild. Muslims gone wild. Teatards gone wild.

    What’s a boy to do.

  • DesertSun59

    Girls gone wild. Muslims gone wild. Teatards gone wild.

    What’s a boy to do.

  • DesertSun59

    Girls gone wild. Muslims gone wild. Teatards gone wild.

    What’s a boy to do.

  • http://twitter.com/home KerrynowCampau

    And the malls are open

  • http://twitter.com/home KerrynowCampau

    And the malls are open

  • http://twitter.com/home KerrynowCampau

    And the malls are open

  • Anonymous

    No one ever remembers the Jackson State murders because it was black children and because Kent state happened only 10 days before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings

  • Anonymous

    No one ever remembers the Jackson State murders because it was black children and because Kent state happened only 10 days before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings

  • Anonymous

    No one ever remembers the Jackson State murders because it was black children and because Kent state happened only 10 days before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings

  • Anonymous

    go wild

  • Anonymous

    go wild

  • Anonymous

    go wild

  • Anonymous

    Wow! Rock throwing protesters chasing the police instead of the other way around. The rate of private gun ownership in Egypt is 3.5 firearms per 100 people. The citizens are not very well armed.

    The rate of private gun ownership in the United States is 88.8 firearms per 100 people. Number one in the world.

    If Egypt erupts into a full scale revolution, the police and military are better armed, but, the police and military could switch sides against the government.

    The US and Israel are probably shitting in their pants with fright by now.

  • Anonymous

    Wow! Rock throwing protesters chasing the police instead of the other way around. The rate of private gun ownership in Egypt is 3.5 firearms per 100 people. The citizens are not very well armed.

    The rate of private gun ownership in the United States is 88.8 firearms per 100 people. Number one in the world.

    If Egypt erupts into a full scale revolution, the police and military are better armed, but, the police and military could switch sides against the government.

    The US and Israel are probably shitting in their pants with fright by now.

  • Anonymous

    Wow! Rock throwing protesters chasing the police instead of the other way around. The rate of private gun ownership in Egypt is 3.5 firearms per 100 people. The citizens are not very well armed.

    The rate of private gun ownership in the United States is 88.8 firearms per 100 people. Number one in the world.

    If Egypt erupts into a full scale revolution, the police and military are better armed, but, the police and military could switch sides against the government.

    The US and Israel are probably shitting in their pants with fright by now.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if neoconservatives like William Kristol and Charles “Torture Apologist” Krauthammer are sorry they have missed this opportunity to bankrupt the U.S. even more with a war on Egypt?

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if neoconservatives like William Kristol and Charles “Torture Apologist” Krauthammer are sorry they have missed this opportunity to bankrupt the U.S. even more with a war on Egypt?

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if neoconservatives like William Kristol and Charles “Torture Apologist” Krauthammer are sorry they have missed this opportunity to bankrupt the U.S. even more with a war on Egypt?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CTGKYFNDGU6KJEHQNNPXA64ZZI Pj

    You surely are one deeply and profoundly confused person.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CTGKYFNDGU6KJEHQNNPXA64ZZI Pj

    You surely are one deeply and profoundly confused person.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CTGKYFNDGU6KJEHQNNPXA64ZZI Pj

    You surely are one deeply and profoundly confused person.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CTGKYFNDGU6KJEHQNNPXA64ZZI Pj

    The WikiLeaks releases have shown the People the pervasive, cynical, and abusive corruption of their governments and privileged governing class… it started in Tunisia, and now Egypt is following that example. Its pretty straightforward and well-documented.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CTGKYFNDGU6KJEHQNNPXA64ZZI Pj

    The WikiLeaks releases have shown the People the pervasive, cynical, and abusive corruption of their governments and privileged governing class… it started in Tunisia, and now Egypt is following that example. Its pretty straightforward and well-documented.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CTGKYFNDGU6KJEHQNNPXA64ZZI Pj

    The WikiLeaks releases have shown the People the pervasive, cynical, and abusive corruption of their governments and privileged governing class… it started in Tunisia, and now Egypt is following that example. Its pretty straightforward and well-documented.

  • tsuki

    CBS’s The Screech is devoting her news cast to the speech that hasn’t been given, and the reaction to the speech that hasn’t been given. Now, The Screech is talking about the seating in the chamber. Oh, it’s the challenge of the speech that hasn’t been given by comparing the speech that hasn’t been given to all the other speeches that have been given.

    Already ten minutes devoted to the speech that has not been given.

    All of the team that will listen to the speech that has not been given has been introduced to talk about Bachmann’s speech that has not been given and the Teabaggers response to the speech by Obama that has not been given and the speech by Bachmann that has not been given. Half the show less commercials is gone. Devoted to an analysis of a speech that has not been given.

    What an effing waste. 30 seconds max on Egypt.

  • tsuki

    CBS’s The Screech is devoting her news cast to the speech that hasn’t been given, and the reaction to the speech that hasn’t been given. Now, The Screech is talking about the seating in the chamber. Oh, it’s the challenge of the speech that hasn’t been given by comparing the speech that hasn’t been given to all the other speeches that have been given.

    Already ten minutes devoted to the speech that has not been given.

    All of the team that will listen to the speech that has not been given has been introduced to talk about Bachmann’s speech that has not been given and the Teabaggers response to the speech by Obama that has not been given and the speech by Bachmann that has not been given. Half the show less commercials is gone. Devoted to an analysis of a speech that has not been given.

    What an effing waste. 30 seconds max on Egypt.

  • tsuki

    CBS’s The Screech is devoting her news cast to the speech that hasn’t been given, and the reaction to the speech that hasn’t been given. Now, The Screech is talking about the seating in the chamber. Oh, it’s the challenge of the speech that hasn’t been given by comparing the speech that hasn’t been given to all the other speeches that have been given.

    Already ten minutes devoted to the speech that has not been given.

    All of the team that will listen to the speech that has not been given has been introduced to talk about Bachmann’s speech that has not been given and the Teabaggers response to the speech by Obama that has not been given and the speech by Bachmann that has not been given. Half the show less commercials is gone. Devoted to an analysis of a speech that has not been given.

    What an effing waste. 30 seconds max on Egypt.

  • Anonymous

    Glimpse of things to come in the USA… stay tuned….

  • Anonymous

    Glimpse of things to come in the USA… stay tuned….

  • Anonymous

    Glimpse of things to come in the USA… stay tuned….

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    This is what happens when people who are already working can’t afford food. Its one thing when the jobless have no food…they’re jobless…people understand that no money = no food. But drive the food prices so high that people who work very hard still can’t pay rent and eat at the same time…and the jobless poor and the working poor come together as one. That’s the tipping point.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    This is what happens when people who are already working can’t afford food. Its one thing when the jobless have no food…they’re jobless…people understand that no money = no food. But drive the food prices so high that people who work very hard still can’t pay rent and eat at the same time…and the jobless poor and the working poor come together as one. That’s the tipping point.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    This is what happens when people who are already working can’t afford food. Its one thing when the jobless have no food…they’re jobless…people understand that no money = no food. But drive the food prices so high that people who work very hard still can’t pay rent and eat at the same time…and the jobless poor and the working poor come together as one. That’s the tipping point.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/FZTCSW3ROOZH6M567RKPDFVRAY Donald

    It takes “shock and awe” to get the attention of the American people. When the people have to hand over half their income for food and store shelves are, routinely, bare then their outrage will go to the streets.

    Crop failures and developing food shortages are not limited to the third world. It is confronting us right here, right now inside these grand corporate reservations most people reside upon. Come June people will be aghast at what they are having to pay for food and gasoline.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/FZTCSW3ROOZH6M567RKPDFVRAY Donald

    It takes “shock and awe” to get the attention of the American people. When the people have to hand over half their income for food and store shelves are, routinely, bare then their outrage will go to the streets.

    Crop failures and developing food shortages are not limited to the third world. It is confronting us right here, right now inside these grand corporate reservations most people reside upon. Come June people will be aghast at what they are having to pay for food and gasoline.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/FZTCSW3ROOZH6M567RKPDFVRAY Donald

    It takes “shock and awe” to get the attention of the American people. When the people have to hand over half their income for food and store shelves are, routinely, bare then their outrage will go to the streets.

    Crop failures and developing food shortages are not limited to the third world. It is confronting us right here, right now inside these grand corporate reservations most people reside upon. Come June people will be aghast at what they are having to pay for food and gasoline.

  • Anonymous

    Watching those righteous revolutionaries try to pick up and throw rocks (they don’t even have baseball there) is why I’ve changed my mind about gun control.

  • Anonymous

    Watching those righteous revolutionaries try to pick up and throw rocks (they don’t even have baseball there) is why I’ve changed my mind about gun control.

  • Anonymous

    Watching those righteous revolutionaries try to pick up and throw rocks (they don’t even have baseball there) is why I’ve changed my mind about gun control.

  • Anonymous

    While I agree with you, I wonder if the “rate of private gun ownership in the US” is skewed by 1 gun nut, who owns 88.8 guns, in every hundred people.

  • Anonymous

    While I agree with you, I wonder if the “rate of private gun ownership in the US” is skewed by 1 gun nut, who owns 88.8 guns, in every hundred people.

  • Anonymous

    While I agree with you, I wonder if the “rate of private gun ownership in the US” is skewed by 1 gun nut, who owns 88.8 guns, in every hundred people.

  • Anonymous

    Thousands Join Cairo Protests
    Thousands of protesters are marching in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, to demand that Hosni Mubarak, the president, step down. They clashed with riot police in a rare show of strength by the people. Many calling for a Tunisian style ousting of Mubarak http://www.newslook.com/videos/286025-thousands-join-cairo-protests?autoplay=true

  • Anonymous

    People have no right to protest. They must obey God and the government

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Flatt/764419858 Alan Flatt

    ah, the value of Wikileaks!

  • Anonymous

    Whether Mubarak stays or goes, didn’t the same type of protest recently occur in Iran without significant results?

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Julian Assange and all of you that support wikileaks.
    See
    “The truth shall make you free and as for Mubarak the truth shall make you flee”
    lol

  • Anonymous

    Global revolution has a nice ring to it.

  • Anonymous

    Sad, but true.

  • Red Raleigh

    Wait a minute! You mean we didn’t have to invade a country to get it to change?

    Who knew?

  • Anonymous

    The U.S. media only cared about Iran, up until there were U.S. hostages, because it was our puppet that was being tossed out. If it was Saudi Arabia, they’d be concerned because we might lose access to “our” oil.

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    total blackout by controlled media re Egyptian uprising
    Israel now reversed course, no longer wants to bomb Iran

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    total blackout by controlled media re Egyptian uprising
    Israel now reversed course, no longer wants to bomb Iran

  • Anonymous

    Holy shit people, can we “outsource” some of those people over here to help us in a few months when the tories take away SS, Medicare, Almost-Was-Health Care, the middle class?

  • Anonymous

    Holy shit people, can we “outsource” some of those people over here to help us in a few months when the tories take away SS, Medicare, Almost-Was-Health Care, the middle class?

  • Anonymous

    That’s only for when they don’t comply with US gov’t desires,

  • Anonymous

    That’s only for when they don’t comply with US gov’t desires,

  • iRead

    Everyone here remembers it, or knows of it now.

    Thank you!

  • iRead

    Everyone here remembers it, or knows of it now.

    Thank you!

  • enorceht

    if the riots were happening in the u$ the government would be calling out the national guard (along with blackwater) and sending in the drones to bomb us with cluster bombs … and the news at 10 wouldn’t even have a word about it, and the internet would be shut down.

  • enorceht

    if the riots were happening in the u$ the government would be calling out the national guard (along with blackwater) and sending in the drones to bomb us with cluster bombs … and the news at 10 wouldn’t even have a word about it, and the internet would be shut down.

  • Anonymous

    They would probably get $ from the Chinese or the Russians, give them military foothold in the M.E. and Israel’s technology. Israel presently is required to spend 1/3 of US aid it receives on weapons and buy them from US companies. The Israelis would be free from U.S.influence.

    It is an interesting, although an unlikely, idea.

  • Anonymous

    They would probably get $ from the Chinese or the Russians, give them military foothold in the M.E. and Israel’s technology. Israel presently is required to spend 1/3 of US aid it receives on weapons and buy them from US companies. The Israelis would be free from U.S.influence.

    It is an interesting, although an unlikely, idea.

  • Anonymous

    It’s spreading!!!!! Oh boy, I’m all giddy inside!!!!

    Remember the line, “They hate us for our freedoms.”

    Isn’t it funny that the Middle East, Arab, Muslim, population are the ones that will lead the Global Revolution.

    Get ready people. 2011 is going to be a NASTY one! =P

  • Anonymous

    It’s spreading!!!!! Oh boy, I’m all giddy inside!!!!

    Remember the line, “They hate us for our freedoms.”

    Isn’t it funny that the Middle East, Arab, Muslim, population are the ones that will lead the Global Revolution.

    Get ready people. 2011 is going to be a NASTY one! =P

  • http://www.usmessageboard.com/general/152378-cairo-erupts-as-egyptian-protesters-demand-mubarak-resign.html#post3250965 Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign – US Message Board – Political Discussion Forum

    [...] erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign | Raw Story Take note, Americans. This is how you take action. Not by tea party parades and town hall meetings [...]

  • Anonymous

    4 dead in O-Hio…

    It’s legendary because of a song, not because they be white or black. Lets not mix up the teams…we are trying to make people realize this is a socio-economic problem…not a racial one. Racism only divides the people, it is a tool straight out of “The Art of War” which every elite, wall-streeter, and politition reads on their way to Fascist Rule. Please people, do not cloud the argument with divisable words such as Racism, political affiliation, or region of birth. We are INDIVISIBLE, WE ARE THE PEOPLE, AND WE WILL HAVE REPRESENTATION ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

  • Anonymous

    4 dead in O-Hio…

    It’s legendary because of a song, not because they be white or black. Lets not mix up the teams…we are trying to make people realize this is a socio-economic problem…not a racial one. Racism only divides the people, it is a tool straight out of “The Art of War” which every elite, wall-streeter, and politition reads on their way to Fascist Rule. Please people, do not cloud the argument with divisable words such as Racism, political affiliation, or region of birth. We are INDIVISIBLE, WE ARE THE PEOPLE, AND WE WILL HAVE REPRESENTATION ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

  • Balthazars Rebellion

    If this spirit of protest were to grip the American people, and “our leaders” knowing most of them are armed, the changed that we have been looking for would happen in a big hurry…after our reps wash the shit stains off of their trousers.

  • Balthazars Rebellion

    If this spirit of protest were to grip the American people, and “our leaders” knowing most of them are armed, the changed that we have been looking for would happen in a big hurry…after our reps wash the shit stains off of their trousers.

  • iRead

    See Thorstein’s suggestion (above, if you’re viewing ‘oldest first’), which IMHO, is a damned good idea.
    Not that yours isn’t. I wish I could be there.

  • iRead

    See Thorstein’s suggestion (above, if you’re viewing ‘oldest first’), which IMHO, is a damned good idea.
    Not that yours isn’t. I wish I could be there.

  • http://www.worldspinner.us/mubarak World Spinner

    Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign | Raw Story…

    Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Brimstone Hill

    ………..and hear in America the masses keep their collective heads buried in the collective feed trough like a bunch of brain dead cattle.
    Yawn………..

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Brimstone Hill

    ………..and hear in America the masses keep their collective heads buried in the collective feed trough like a bunch of brain dead cattle.
    Yawn………..

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Brimstone Hill

    Who’s God?
    Who’s Government?

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Brimstone Hill

    Who’s God?
    Who’s Government?

  • http://twitter.com/der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher

    Things are really hotting up in Egypt. I thank Raw Story for covering this coz right now I feel like I am one of the few Western Alternative Media outlets bothering… Kudos to you guys.

  • http://twitter.com/der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher

    Things are really hotting up in Egypt. I thank Raw Story for covering this coz right now I feel like I am one of the few Western Alternative Media outlets bothering… Kudos to you guys.

  • Anonymous

    Nowhere (except probably Afghanistan, and what does that tell you?) has near the rate of gun ownership that the U.S. has. And when you consider the level of fragmentation here, it’s pretty easy to conclude that all that gun ownership will facilitate factional fighting of the kind of that Lebanon and Iraq have experienced. Time to join the Gun Club…

  • Anonymous

    Nowhere (except probably Afghanistan, and what does that tell you?) has near the rate of gun ownership that the U.S. has. And when you consider the level of fragmentation here, it’s pretty easy to conclude that all that gun ownership will facilitate factional fighting of the kind of that Lebanon and Iraq have experienced. Time to join the Gun Club…

  • Anonymous

    I have an idea! Let’s let the Egyptians figure out what they want. Yes, it would be sad to see the country run by the Islamic Brotherhood or some similar group of antedeluvians, but that’s for them to sort out. As repressive as the Iranian regime is, apparently, that was the best Iran could do in the aftermath of the fake Shah we and the British installed in 1953. We all know it’s days are numbered. Last summer wasn’t the end.

  • Anonymous

    I have an idea! Let’s let the Egyptians figure out what they want. Yes, it would be sad to see the country run by the Islamic Brotherhood or some similar group of antedeluvians, but that’s for them to sort out. As repressive as the Iranian regime is, apparently, that was the best Iran could do in the aftermath of the fake Shah we and the British installed in 1953. We all know it’s days are numbered. Last summer wasn’t the end.

  • Anonymous

    Send that dollar right here. There’s nothing surprising about this and there is nothing we can do about it, because even if we lent our support to the good guys this time around, our stink would discredit them in the eyes of their supporters. And any foreign leader with any brains knows what eventually happens to you when you get into bed with the U.S.

  • Anonymous

    Send that dollar right here. There’s nothing surprising about this and there is nothing we can do about it, because even if we lent our support to the good guys this time around, our stink would discredit them in the eyes of their supporters. And any foreign leader with any brains knows what eventually happens to you when you get into bed with the U.S.

  • dula

    Is this what Corporatist Obama wants to be able to do with the looming internet bill…shut down our social networking sites in times of protest?

  • dula

    Is this what Corporatist Obama wants to be able to do with the looming internet bill…shut down our social networking sites in times of protest?

  • Anonymous

    Israel doesn’t have any oil, remember?

  • Anonymous

    Israel doesn’t have any oil, remember?

  • http://twitter.com/der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher

    Yeah, basically.

    GCHQ are already set up to do it over here in the UK…

  • http://twitter.com/der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher

    Yeah, basically.

    GCHQ are already set up to do it over here in the UK…

  • Anonymous

    The Mayans said the World would come to an end in 2012. The END of materialism, the END of consumerism, and an END to pain and suffering. It is the new GLOBAL REVOLUTION!!! The Mayan calender does not end…it only starts over, and the time has come!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FONW6K3ZWV4BU4ZTCDCSZHHH6E Mick Jagger

    Wait till it happens here.

  • Anonymous

    In 1970 it was racial and that’s why it wasn’t printed in the history books and that’s why few know of the incident today… ignoring the racism that caused us to forget does not fix the problems of the past and ignoring those problems from the past dooms us to repeat them.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3J34VOUONTK3EKEGVNIAYIEFTE shq13

    All the Credit goes to Muhammad Baouazizi,a fruit and vegetable,seller doused himself and started a revolution in Tunisia.Hope his death will bring change around the World for better.

  • Carl Elderton

    The god of the rich white guys, of course.

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    always remember the young man in front of the Tiananmen Square tank

    David Crosby

  • Anonymous

    looks like our jewish owned and controlled media isn’t saying much, a collective chill has gone up the zio-crazies spine, lets hope their corrupt puppet regimes come crashing down.

  • http://keithpp.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/egypt-one-by-one-the-dominoes-fall/ Egypt: One by one the dominoes fall « Keithpp's Blog

    [...] – Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign [...]

  • Chip

    Oh, G-d, Yes! The Arab world is on the brink of overthrowing the dictators who have kept them oppressed all these years (helped by mostly the British – who drew up the funky non-sensible land boundries and installed the current dictator’s daddies and our help as in the case of Egypt who receives as much if not more than we “give” Israel). If the Arab world can free themselves while keeping Islamic fundys from grabbing power in the aftermath then humanity will benefit. I want to see this happen in Indonesia next and throw out that crew with the globalists who suck the blood out of those people. Pressure on Israel will diminish as well since they are the scapegoat of the dictators who blame them for their own people’s misery and distract them from their own criminals at the top. Wait a minute, I thought Bush said they hated us for our “freedoms?” Another lie. And these people are doing it all themselves without the need for us to go over there and blow the shit out of them to “save” them. This is a very exciting time, I just hope there isn’t too much bloodshed when the corrupt tyrants like Mubarak in Egypt “defend” themselves as happened in Iran when those people asked that narrow-eyed bastard A-jad for free elections. I could go on and on, this has great potential to change a large part of the world for the better.

  • Anonymous

    May he rest in peace

  • Carl Elderton

    With the demise of Posse Comitatus and the permanent deployment of an army brigade to the US, an uprising here will last about 15 minutes.
    http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2008/09/24/army
    Add to that the fact that police forces have been upgrading to military grade hardware for years, and we’re screwed. In confrontation with our government we will have no choice but ‘live on your knees or die on your feet.’ The Republicans have forgotten that having nothing left to lose does not make people free.
    We need somehow to reclaim control of our government and rein it in before things reach this point.

  • hounddogg

    OH NOOZ!…THE JOOOOZ!!…THE EVIL JOOOOOZ!!!…THEY OWN EVERYTHING!!!..give me a break…you really think there is a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world?…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U4CB4JMBKUBO6NL2RNREZDZUEA Freeky_Fried_Chicken

    Attacking cops and soldiers plays right into The Enemy’s hands; do your homework.

    Find out the Suits behind The Misery and go after Them.

  • http://twitter.com/ergblerg Thomas Paine

    American citizens take notice. Dissent can be a powerful tool when we come together. This is a poignant picture of what may happen when our bread and circuses (American Idol, Jersey Shore) go off the air.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s just pray that there isn’t a certain color being pinned to this revolution. Orange, Rose, Green ect…

  • Anonymous

    “Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms”

    i’ve noticed more than a few times that nothing beyond the most vague statement possible is given by journalists for the motivations/reasons/goals behind protests/rioting

    true journalism in a just society wouldn’t fear discussing the truths of the matter

    we’re left to wonder who is pulling the strings to shut down twitter and not disclose any real details in the press

  • Anonymous

    Yep.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EHJJXSTSSOCXLTSQBUVIDYUF7M Dave

    This is how it’s done americans.

    “The masses are the only ones who have power that can never be taken away” – Jack London in The Iron Heel

  • Anonymous

    The neocons are really disappointed.
    Now they’ll have to come with with new war scenarios to fantasize about.

  • Anonymous

    Time will tell whether this is long term significant or not.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EHJJXSTSSOCXLTSQBUVIDYUF7M Dave

    The ruling class wants you to think you are powerless.

    Muhammad Baouazizi proved that is a lie.

  • Anonymous

    Distraction and meaningless fluff.
    That’s what they get paid the big bucks to produce.
    If they were to actually produce too much honest and relevant information,
    they would be fired real quick….
    and they know that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KQGHJXLUOWMCPUMVDH3646KAWU Dan

    Could the world will one day see the United States of Arabia? All 22 Arab States united as one? Probably not. Ancient and many layers of tribal and religious hatred would prevent such a unification. Democracy? Unlikely if not impossible. Plentiful regional and factional wars? Very likely. The Shia Islam crescent has formed over the northern parts of Arabia from Iran to Syria to include Iraq thanks to President George W. Bush. The Sunni Muslims may have a loose knit federation in the southern areas of Arabia. In any case, the civil unrest in Arabia may not be a good thing.

  • Anonymous

    It is Joan84 way of deflecting the truth, much as Chip did when he tried to pawn off the middle east as a British mess. It is not a jewish plot, and the British gave up “control” of the middle east the day that Kermit Roosevelt helped over throw Iran’s democratically elected prime minister Mosaddiq and placed the Shaw in power, BP got the oil. The U.S. Empire is the issue, and if there is an uprising like this in Saudi Arabia it is not going to be pretty.

  • Anonymous

    It’s high time the demi-dictator was overthrown after three decades. The facade of pseudo-democracy is crumbling and the fact that America supported this autocrat out of political expediency will as usual make a mockery of the hundreds of billions of dollars paid to prop up this albeit fairly benevolent authoritarian regime.

  • Anonymous

    Egypt peaked a while ago and did not have anywhere near the oil in Iraq, we won’t get involved unless something like this happens in Saudi Arabia.

  • Anonymous

    thank you for reminding us… anytime kent state comes up, it should be kent + jackson state…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MSVG73USMG342DWORQKIEJ6HVQ Bob

    Um,… I think the CIA was in there. One could say they were more or less in the “dictator business” for quite a number of years, both in the Middle East and South America.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EZKOXHE4GPZCQOE5V5CMACJ5N4 Aadel

    Izal-Sha’bu Yauman Aradal-Hayata Fla-Budda An Yastagibal-Kadar/ If one day the people will to have (decent) life, destiny will obey -Poet Abul-kassim Al-Shabi

    Finally Al-Shabi’s revolutionary spirit is conquering Egypt. Great news.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EZ4W5CDCIVXKIIKESYBN2EP6VE brian

    Nostradamus “predicted” an enlightenment in 2012, so some say. I prefer your Mayan theory though fo sho.

  • Anonymous

    Go Egypt Go!
    “F- the police!” – Ice-T

  • http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/01/guest-post-americas-middle-eastern-puppet-regimes-are-falling-like-dominoes.html Guest Post: America’s Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes « naked capitalism

    [...] Raw Story notes: Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers and began [...]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EZKOXHE4GPZCQOE5V5CMACJ5N4 Aadel

    You are one F**ken confused Jew. You never miss a chance without creating propaganda about yourself like a baby who cries of his mother’s attention. Wake up! People will not swallow your lies and deception anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly, I think wikileaks may have helped lead to the ‘palestinian papers’ – also not covered on MSM and even RS…

    http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/23-13

  • Anonymous

    Indeed, thanks for nothing. Shillary..

  • trank

    but here, where do americans go to demonstrate? thousands of people can go to state capitols and never get anywhere, dismissed by local media. that’s why DC is so secure for the plutocrats- the only mass that shows up has to organize in advance or if it’s spontaneous they can make it look like black panthers are attacking the capitol.

    the real power centers the last 20 years are the limbaugh megastations that will be able to channel the corporate think tanks response and distort the SOTU for weeks without challenge until a very well coordinated 20% of america ends up enabling all GOP politicians in unison to represent their corporate masters as if they represent 50% of americans.

    and any GOP pol who thinks they can cooperate with obama on anything knows how much
    crap they’re going to get from limbaugh’s well managed dittohead/teabaggers. that dynamic rules america and it wont change as long as limbaugh rules the GOP.

    so that’s where the

  • Anonymous

    We have a long reach.

  • Anonymous

    Some of us already are. Yet it fails to make the news night after night.

  • http://webworks.innovadix.com/jackpotinvestor.com/2011/blogs/01/26/guest-post-america%e2%80%99s-middle-eastern-puppet-regimes-are-falling-like-dominoes/ Guest Post: America’s Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes | Jackpot Investor

    [...] Raw Story notes: Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers and began [...]

  • http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2011/01/americas-middle-eastern-puppet-regimes-are-falling-like-dominoes/ America’s Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes | Dark Politricks

    [...] Raw Story notes: Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers and began [...]

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Hahaha,yes indeed Baby Hertzl , Israel is always the scapegoat, everyone knows there is a cosmic conspiracy against the chosen Ones, God must be one antisemitic son of a bitch :)

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Don`t sweat, no one is taking his bullshit seriously on the other hand, your Jew remark is fucking ridiculous,

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Hahaha, the Supreme Jews and the antisemites have something in common, they both believe in the universal conspiracy bullshit. without the myth of antisemitism, the Jews are nothing but another bunch of religious lunatics, without the Jews, the antisemites have to find another bogeyman….

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Yes indeed, nothing like self determination :)

  • Anonymous

    Ah but American, Canada and some others are Fluoridated, numb and dumb. We do nothing.

  • Ma’at

    The world is quickly tiring of the elite (not the elite the stupid TeaBaggers call elite. They use elite for anyone with an IQ of over 100).

    Major world changes are coming. If we don’t self correct, and rid ourselves of the cancer of conservatism, it will be corrected for us.

  • Anonymous

    from the Guardian,
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia?intcmp=239

    “… I came here today not as the representative of any political party, but simply in the name of Egypt. We have liberated the heart of the country, and Mubarak now knows that his people want him gone.”

    cue to begin song, Leaving On A Jet Plane….

    and also check this out on Facebook
    http://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed.co.uk
    We are all Khaled Said

    from guardian: “Khaled Said was an Egyptian activist who died in 2010, allegedly at the hands of police. One of the recent updates on the group reported that restaurants in Tahrir square – where thousands of protesters are gathered as night falls – are giving away free food to protesters…”

  • Anonymous

    Think of it, dubya starts an illegal war based upon lies spending billions in a failure to bring imperialistic style democracy to the Arab world. Wikileaks releases the truth about US corruption secrets that catalyzes the Arab world into democratic actions of overthrowing their US backed corrupt governments without spending billions or firing a single shot.

    Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
    Groucho Marx (1890 – 1977)

  • http://www.hottospot.com/2011/01/26/politics/america%e2%80%99s-middle-eastern-puppet-regimes-are-falling-like-dominoes/ America’s Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes | Hot to Spot

    [...] See this, this and this.President Mubarak’s family has already fled the country.As Raw Story notes:Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers and began [...]

  • yvonneo

    The people need to start focusing their wrath on the plutocrats directly, and stop wasting our time and energy by focusing only on their congressional puppets, who shield and deflect the peoples’ anger away from them. Instead of protesting politicians that ends up going nowhere, there should be massive protests against the corporately owned media and the too big to fail corporate powers–they’re the ones running the show and causing a great deal of the damage to our nation. Think of it–thousands of people outside limbaugh’s studio, Faux news, beck, goldman sachs, and the large banksters, the US Chamber of Commerce, etc. Those are the ones we need to be going after en masse.

    If we want to change anything for the better, we must focus on the source of the problem (the plutocrats) and stop focusing all of our attention on the symptom (greedy, unethical congressional puppets of the plutocrats) to really make a difference. The plutocrats only represent about 2% of the population–maybe they need an education on what it looks and feels like when 98% of the population starts coming after them.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad you didn’t make the cut.

  • http://www.balmorheaprogressive.blogspot.com/ BaileyWuXiang

    And the American people tune into American Idol and Fox News and then look like a bunch of monkeys trying to shit peach seeds at the mere mention of the word “Muslim.”

  • http://www.daily-news-trends.com/news-2/mubarak/ Mubarak | DAILYSPORTS NEWS TRENDS

    [...] Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign | Raw StoryChanting “Down with Mubarak” — in reference to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who has been in power for three decades — they broke through several police cordons and began marching towards Tahrir Square, in scenes seldom witnessed … [...]

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1046573071 Matt Mosley

    Go team Egypt.

  • Anonymous

    It’s gonna be a Gospel Revival meeting

    And the Pastor believes it…

  • Anonymous

    Hmm, let’s see…

    Election time…

    Checklist.

    Internet ON.

    Promises ON

    Lies ON

    Truth OFF

    Hope ON

    Change ON

    Victory SET

    Rollin’

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FONW6K3ZWV4BU4ZTCDCSZHHH6E Mick Jagger

    Well it turns out Abbas and other moderate Palestinian leaders sold out their people for cash and prestige. And it should be no surprise that Palestinian cops targeted their own media and activists that just want a better life for everybody…they even want after Al Jareeza. Cops no matter where they are, are the corrupt, honorless mercenaries we always knew they were. Even the military doesn’t like them.

  • godistwaddle

    And in a continuing story, corporations in the U.S. continue to bend the people over, and the people take it, thankful for their wage slavery.

  • http://chattahbox.com/world/2011/01/26/riots-close-down-cairo-streets-as-egyptians-demand-president-mubarak%e2%80%99s-resignation/ Riots Close Down Cairo Streets As Egyptians Demand President Mubarak’s Resignation | ChattahBox News Blog

    [...] for economic and political reforms as Mubarak’s son Gamal fled the country with his family, rawstory.com [...]

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rob-Cardiff/1606615878 Rob Cardiff

    Hilary Clinton is not amused!

  • Taleisin

    A lot of people seem to agree with you.
    The trick to being in power, is to convince others to give you their power.
    Strange that these young people, in countries the west despise, are showing us how it is done. I hope they are about to bring about about the change they need, rather than replace one tyranny for another.

    These old men in power are too insulated from the real world, to care beyond their own comfort and wealth. If the young want a future, they must take responsibility for it themselves. I wish them luck.

  • Anonymous

    Pardon me, but you mean “whose;” that’s the possessive form of “who.”

    Who’s is a contraction for Who Is.

  • Taleisin

    Q. Why don’t sharks eat Dick Cheney?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FPMKDVT4T6AH747EKZR2PILSMI Richard

    Love it. Of course, now that true democracy is spreading in the area, from the ground up not top down, American politicians will not be for it. Economic/political elites want some puppet who they can manipulate so the powers-that-be can line their (and their corporate sponsor’s) pockets. People of Egypt: KO Mubarak.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/RepublicConstitution?feature=mhum TruthRegimes

    All of this is quite stunning. We have the European economic protests due to the government overlords plunging the nations into debt and then forcing the people to take austerity and pay for all of it and now we have these outbreaks in Tunisia, Egypt, and probably more to come…wild. http://republicconstitution.blogspot.com/

  • TheDevilCanDance

    The problem is, Egypt is nor Tunisia, the nature & specificity of the regime is different, The foreign powers had no interest in supporting the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali, but if Mubarak falls, the implications will be dramatic, not only for Israel but also for the US & the Europeans.
    I am very skeptical of this Egyptian social uprising,I think it will eventually loose steam & die, a good parameter to estimate its potential success,is the fact, the Muslim Brotherhood and the main political opposition are not supporting what is happening today.

    Mubarak will go down,only if the army stands by or deposes him.

  • Taleisin

    I am not so up to date with who is involved. After a while you begin to notice the names change, but the events are the same. Too often what we see on TV is only a dozen men standing around a burning flag while the rest of the people are going about the daily business. But the TV cameras do not show us that.

    A large upsurge like this, is a different matter. Politicians do not bow down to morals or facts, but large groups of people. Now the French know how to protest and their government listens. They know how upset the French masses can get.

  • Anonymous

    True, but there is still a lot of money to be bilked out of the taxpayers for Erik Prince and KBR.

  • Boneman

    So true, so true.

  • Boneman

    Do you correct people in public?

  • Boneman

    You’re looking a little tired devilliers

  • Boneman

    Wait a minute… is that pessimism or optimism I hear from you!

  • Anonymous

    How long do you think the status quo will last, when people are destitute and without hope they will come as mobs after those who turned their backs for greed.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    If you are asking and show perplexity, then I am doing a good job :)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TIKTZ64UMYOYISIXIOFB2WQX5M Michael

    WE NEED TO FOLLOW THOSE BRAVE, JUST ,AND RIGHT PEOPLE. ALL WORLD LEADERS ARE CORRUPT FACT NOT FICTION. NO ONES GOING TO SAVE US WE HAVE TO SAVE OURSELVES . WE CAN AND WE WILL

  • Anonymous

    I’m reminded of the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. In those books, the Galactic Empire crumbled from the outer edges first, while the core put its fingers in its ears until it was too late to do anything about it.

  • Boneman

    Proof that the Devil can dance.

  • Wyrdless

    More good news? I must be dreaming.
    If Mubarak falls the rest of the arab dictators are toast. Possibly literally.

    In Egypt you can vote for Mubarek or vote for no one then they are supposed to have a runoff election. But of course the ballot boxes are stuffed in their fake representative system

  • http://truthnuke.com/?p=2759 Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign | Truth Nuke | Because Freedom is Worth Fighting For!

    [...] Edwards The Raw Story January 25, [...]

  • Anonymous

    Especially bread. Shit gets real very quickly when your family is starving. Price increases due to commodity speculation (driven by everyone’s favourite Federal Reserve) were the last straw in Tunisia.

    We need to watch what’s going on very carefully, do our homework and draw lessons from their experience, because it’s likely our future too.

  • Anonymous

    People were protesting and rioting long before the development of the Internet….

  • Anonymous

    I never forgot. Bravest man in the world.

  • Anonymous

    His name should be on all our lips. It’s a shame that he couldn’t see what his act of bravery accomplished.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    You can’t find the suits… the cops and the military are the strong arm of the suits. Eventually the cops and the military will turn against the suits. When they realize they are killing there own brothers and sisters… mothers and fathers.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    Yep…. any wonder “they” want gun control? A river of red everywhere you go.

  • Anonymous

    They have cricket, though. Those bats are heavy.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    Have you been on this planet… lately?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QCOLME2YGHQK2YATXQFQ677Q34 Frances T

    time for the us to stop supporting these arab dictators and let them go down.

  • http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/egypt-suspends-cell-phone-service-of-activists%e2%80%93/ Egypt suspends cell phone service of activists– « Occupied Palestine | فلسطين

    [...] Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign Twitter reportedly inaccessible.  Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Egypt Tuesday, facing down a massive police presence to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in protests inspired by Tunisia’s popular uprising.  Gamal Mubarak, son of President Hosni Mubarak, had fled the country along with his family, according to the Adnkronos International news service. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/cairo-erupts-egyptian-protesters-demand-mubarak-resign/ [...]

  • Anonymous

    I’m noticing it. I try to keep a good diet, and whereas it’s not affecting my food choices yet, this is the year I’m planting a vegetable garden. It’s gonna be a steep learning curve — I don’t know anything about growing vegetables — but I think will be a very worthwhile investment of time.

  • http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/revolution-in-egypt.html Situation ‘volatile’ in Cairo; activists call for int’l embassy demos in solidarity

    [...] campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12273238 Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign Twitter reportedly inaccessible.  Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets [...]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZY2NWZNOX6WLTXMU26IGOXSP4 Steven

    they think this is bad wait til america has its next revolution…it going to be massive and bloody

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZY2NWZNOX6WLTXMU26IGOXSP4 Steven

    they think this is bad wait til america has its next revolution…it going to be massive and bloody

  • Chip

    This is what I mean. Out of a paragraph about the hopeful liberation of the arab world, one intelligent person and one idiot choose to focus on a single sentence concerning the evil Israel as if the rest of the middle east hasn’t ever used the Jewish state for any of their own propaganda purposes. I don’t blame Israel for telling the rest of the world to go fuck itself.

  • Chip

    This is what I mean. Out of a paragraph about the hopeful liberation of the arab world, one intelligent person and one idiot choose to focus on a single sentence concerning the evil Israel as if the rest of the middle east hasn’t ever used the Jewish state for any of their own propaganda purposes. I don’t blame Israel for telling the rest of the world to go fuck itself.

  • Chip

    Jesus, just go fuck yourself

  • Chip

    Jesus, just go fuck yourself

  • Anonymous

    “We” don’t get a say in such things, and it’s pure imperial arrogance to suggest that “we” do. It’s up to the people of Egypt to decide what they want. I’m guessing that most of them don’t want the Muslim Brotherhood running things, though; the uprising seems to be secular in nature.

  • Anonymous

    “We” don’t get a say in such things, and it’s pure imperial arrogance to suggest that “we” do. It’s up to the people of Egypt to decide what they want. I’m guessing that most of them don’t want the Muslim Brotherhood running things, though; the uprising seems to be secular in nature.

  • Anonymous

    “We” don’t get a say in such things, and it’s pure imperial arrogance to suggest that “we” do. It’s up to the people of Egypt to decide what they want. I’m guessing that most of them don’t want the Muslim Brotherhood running things, though; the uprising seems to be secular in nature.

  • Anonymous

    Good for her!

  • Anonymous

    Good for her!

  • Anonymous

    Good for her!

  • Anonymous

    Popular uprisings are cool, but if Mubarak is overthrown, what fills the vacuum? I doubt a benevolent, democratic government will magically appear. Maybe The Muslim Brotherhood takes over? I hope not- we don’t need another cantankerous Islamist regime in the region.

  • Anonymous

    Popular uprisings are cool, but if Mubarak is overthrown, what fills the vacuum? I doubt a benevolent, democratic government will magically appear. Maybe The Muslim Brotherhood takes over? I hope not- we don’t need another cantankerous Islamist regime in the region.

  • Anonymous

    Popular uprisings are cool, but if Mubarak is overthrown, what fills the vacuum? I doubt a benevolent, democratic government will magically appear. Maybe The Muslim Brotherhood takes over? I hope not- we don’t need another cantankerous Islamist regime in the region.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Do you realize that a lot of Jews and the pathological antisemites share the same concept of “universal conspiracy”.This is what I am referring to,and what I want to address when I am mocking the “victimization complex” of Jewish psychology.

    The antisemitic wackos blame the Jews for all evil in this world,but in the same token, Jews tend to believe they are the victims of some sinister cosmic conspiracy”, they think all of us Goyim wake up in the morning with one idea in mind, eating Jews for breakfast.This is equally ridiculous.Many Jewish intellectuals and scientists have addressed this issue, they say that without the external threat of Jew hatred and antisemitism, the idea of Jewish identity would be impossible to keep for centuries
    In other words, what makes the character of Jewish identity so consistent and strong, is the omnipotent threat from others.

  • Chip

    Obviously these arabs are being manipulated by Nazi-Israel and the world zionist body to get rid of their leaders so the eternal Jew and ZOG can complete the final solution and take control of the rest of the world as Lord Rothschild envisioned. This is a sad day for humanity and it’s too bad Hitler didn’t get all of them because they continue to rule from behind the curtain allowing the CIA and Mossad to be the puppetmasters manipulating the ignorant masses for their own purposes of world domination. It’s understandable that the anti-christ will be born from their filthy stock, no other people have been such a plague upon the world and continue to enslave the nations of the earth. Borat was right, the running of the Jew has begun and needs to be slaughtered before another Jew-egg gets laid. Fuck it, I’m done, I’ve got a stack full of x-rays and MR’s to read, I don’t have time for this shit anymore. Goodbye.

  • Anonymous

    I commented to the comment by John, he reminded me. I knew about it but the media or history rarely brings it up enough for anyone to remember. Many more were shot in Jackson than Kent but only 2 died. What’s most disturbing was that Kent had just happened and people were already saying “never again”. That “never again” lasted 10 whole days.

  • http://starlightnews.com/wordpress/?p=190 Nancy’s Starlight News Blog » Changes Ahead

    [...] parts of the world. This aspect is energizing anger, turbulence, and stormy passions in Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia, as well as fueling the terrorists’ planning in Russia. It is also contributing to [...]

  • Anonymous

    More closely than you think. Israel complaining…..at all about this, or Tunisia? If not, why not?

  • Anonymous

    No, like Switzerland and the Vatican, Israel has a “diverse” economy. You’d have to stop more than the “stated” flow of funds to Israel.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    Tienanmen Square was broadcast by the MSM of the time, so the general public saw it. People standing in front of tanks and protesting abuses of the U.S. IN the U.S. will not be televised. Tons of coverage over the tea baggers, tons of coverage when some celebrity gets drunk, nothing when 100s of thousands rally to restore sanity.

    The corporate fascist controlled MSM is the disease, it will not be part of the cure.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    I’m sure that’s the biggest worry at DHS and CIA and all the other acronym based agencies.. They fear our puppets being driven out and real Democracies sprouting up all over the middle east. Look how they acted toward Hamas..

    We don’t _really_ want Democracy spread around the world.. it’s much harder controlling free nations than it is little despots. A surge of free nations around the globe will remind the U.S. that it really is only 5% of the global population.

  • Anonymous

    BTW-Israel gets around this 1/3 clause by demanding that a % of the parts for the weapons they purchase from the US, be designed, materialized, and made in Israel by Israelis. You think US Labor can demand that Chinese imports follow the same guidelines?

    Oh, and yes the Russians already do have a $ relationship with Israel, going back notably to Perestroika.

  • Anonymous

    I was hoping that those MSM executives would be the first to die in the mel’ee. That might help get some coverage. Of course it’ll be “bad press” but you know what they say about “bad press”… there’s no such thing.

  • Anonymous

    No, not yet at least. But a large amount of Natural Gas is going to be extracted from under the mediterranean somewhere soon (not sure how far out from Israel it is.) I’m sure Israel has mapped the deposits in all of the mediterranean, no matter whose territory it is (Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt.) Funny, but all those countries, riding around the mediterranean, are having “political difficulties” at the moment, and Israel is a peep quiet about it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    No, it’s not.. because there are many Liberals that own guns for both hunting (rifles, good for long range picking off of fascist supporting soldiers) and target/defense use.

    If there is a revolt in the U.S. and the ruling elite deploys the military here, there will be a lot of bloodshed. In Egypt, from what it looks like right now, there’s going to be a lot of bruises (because the general population doesn’t have guns).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    The very first shot aired on television of U.S. military opening fire on citizens will cause a chain reaction that will not end quickly or quietly. Don’t think for one second that all those people with guns will be taken down so quickly.

    hell, we have much better fire power in Afghanistan and we’re losing there.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    This is very exiting. Israel must be shitting in their pants. Ha ha! All of a sudden their world is getting very small. And The Guardian has a good bit that reads “EU criticises government; US will not go that far” yet they took Mubarak Jr. in and gave him safe harbor. Bunch of crooks that they all are!

    The Guardian has an excellent up to the minute update on this, the situation in Tunisia and Lebanon as well as the Palestine Papers:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/26/egypt-protests

  • Anonymous

    We did! Ten of MILLIONS of people protested the invasion of Iraq, all across America and the world. It was poo-pood by the MSM. A couple million protested the SCOTUS decision that said Bush won. Again, poo-pood. We’re protesting right now about Guantanamo and Manning. Protesting about foreclosuregate and wall street. Does that even get the MSM attention like Tunisia or Egypt?

    Fair warning–when the MSM talks more about the uprising in Tunisia or Egypt, and not about our protests here, you have to ask why. Have we changed at all from the era of the MSM “selling” WMDs in Iraq “newz?”

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Woo hoo! I hope you’re wearing the tin-foil hat while you “read stack of x-rays and MR’s” ~wink, wink~ And, don’t worry, your secret is safe with me.

    Oooooh, orderly….

  • Elim

    Why the hell didn’t this work in Iran? Anyway, this is a good thing. The US toady is ousted, and Israels position becomes that much more precarious. They rely strongly on a stable, compliant Egypt to help them keep the Palestinians in poverty. It’s easier to toss them around and slaughter them that way.

  • Elim

    Moderator person, this Disqus thing is killin’ me! I can’t reply to anyone! Fix it!

  • Johnny Warbucks

    In the meantime, back in the US, home of the free, land of the brave, TSA is sexually molesting more and more people at airports, the banksters are moving into the White House, the FBI is setting up and arresting more and more innocent people just for dissenting, more jobs are being sent to China, more money is given to the elite, more homes are being foreclosed on, more people are losing their retirement and health insurance. And what do they do? They watch teevee and shoot each at Wal Mart’s parking lots. And this is the reason why Amerika is #1. The best country in the world.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    The fact he is a Jew or not, makes him more or less “fucked up”?.

    Why do you have to bring the “Jew” in this debate,he never spoke as a Jew but as an unconditional supporter of Israel, and god knows I have a serious issue with him over it, but the Jew remark was idiotic. I hope you may become smart enough sometime to realize that.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Popping up your ugly head in case anybody dares say anything about your Zionist masters, eh, troll?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Popping up your ugly head in case anybody dares say anything about your Zionist masters, eh, troll?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    but here, where do americans go to demonstrate?

    Wal Mart. Y’all can even shoot each other on the parking lot. Or you can let your comedians lead you to the Mall in Washington on a massive, stand up comedy routine. Or you can demand that more money be given to your elites.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    but here, where do americans go to demonstrate?

    Wal Mart. Y’all can even shoot each other on the parking lot. Or you can let your comedians lead you to the Mall in Washington on a massive, stand up comedy routine. Or you can demand that more money be given to your elites.

  • Anonymous

    We’ll miss you Chip, when you get back to whatever planet you came from.

  • Anonymous

    We’ll miss you Chip, when you get back to whatever planet you came from.

  • Anonymous

    We’ll miss you Chip, when you get back to whatever planet you came from.

  • Anonymous

    We’ll miss you Chip, when you get back to whatever planet you came from.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    The ONLY reason it is not a good thing is because we’re addicted to their oil. Like any addict, we’ll whore out our children for a fix, if we have to.

    If we get OFF OIL then we can let them kill each other in the name of their respective invisible sky fairies all they want, and never have a worry about it.

    Make no mistake. We are in oil rich countries for their oil, nothing else. We keep propping up and funding vile dictators so we can keep plundering oil. If we get off oil and become sustainable, we can let the vast majority of the religious nutjobs kill themselves over there so we don’t have to worry about them over here.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    The ONLY reason it is not a good thing is because we’re addicted to their oil. Like any addict, we’ll whore out our children for a fix, if we have to.

    If we get OFF OIL then we can let them kill each other in the name of their respective invisible sky fairies all they want, and never have a worry about it.

    Make no mistake. We are in oil rich countries for their oil, nothing else. We keep propping up and funding vile dictators so we can keep plundering oil. If we get off oil and become sustainable, we can let the vast majority of the religious nutjobs kill themselves over there so we don’t have to worry about them over here.

  • trank

    maybe you been sucking too much limbaugh? our elites get little compared to your billionaires and US and foreign corporations outsourcing american jobs and buying the GOP and parts of the dem party. you really want those corporations to run this country instead of we the people? you sitting by the pool counting your dividend checks? or are you one of the peons waiting for that trickle down?

  • hounddogg

    you need to fix your sarcasm detector…

  • Johnny Warbucks

    And this moment has been brought to you courtesy of the Twilight Zone.

  • Anonymous

    from al Jazeera
    Egyptians Defy Security Clampdown
    A security crackdown in Egypt, after fury over poverty and inequality led to the biggest rallies in decades against the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. Egyptian police moved in on protesters, using tear gas and enforcing a ban on demonstrations. http://www.newslook.com/videos/286272-egyptians-defy-security-clampdown?autoplay=true

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    I was having issues on Firefox for a while, seemed it was Java maybe, but not sure (running over 2 computers, one updated Firefox and one updated Java, neither are misbehaving as bad, but still not quite perfect).

    My text box for entry still is a tad larger than the graphic around the box. At one point the entire thing grew, but now the border and scroll bar is back and things are ugly. (though not insurmountable like they were.. I was typing 2 or 3 lines blind on occasion :D)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    I was having issues on Firefox for a while, seemed it was Java maybe, but not sure (running over 2 computers, one updated Firefox and one updated Java, neither are misbehaving as bad, but still not quite perfect).

    My text box for entry still is a tad larger than the graphic around the box. At one point the entire thing grew, but now the border and scroll bar is back and things are ugly. (though not insurmountable like they were.. I was typing 2 or 3 lines blind on occasion :D)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    I was having issues on Firefox for a while, seemed it was Java maybe, but not sure (running over 2 computers, one updated Firefox and one updated Java, neither are misbehaving as bad, but still not quite perfect).

    My text box for entry still is a tad larger than the graphic around the box. At one point the entire thing grew, but now the border and scroll bar is back and things are ugly. (though not insurmountable like they were.. I was typing 2 or 3 lines blind on occasion :D)

  • Anonymous

    Yes, most all local disqus issues have been due to corrupt Java from my experience. If you use “CCleaner’s” registry cleaner after you uninstall Java, reboot and reinstall Java, it will usually do the trick.
    http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

  • Anonymous

    Yes, most all local disqus issues have been due to corrupt Java from my experience. If you use “CCleaner’s” registry cleaner after you uninstall Java, reboot and reinstall Java, it will usually do the trick.
    http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

  • Anonymous

    Yes, most all local disqus issues have been due to corrupt Java from my experience. If you use “CCleaner’s” registry cleaner after you uninstall Java, reboot and reinstall Java, it will usually do the trick.
    http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

  • http://www.costarikker.blogspot.com Motelcalifornia

    Mubarak out!!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you ever get tired of being stupid?

  • Anonymous

    Is it Aadel or Abduhl?

  • Anonymous

    Not really, just lay down and the tank goes over you.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Do you?

  • enorceht

    also happened during the viet nam war… the names may be forgotten but the action they took never will be

    “Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức … was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Ngô Đình Diệm administration….”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

  • enorceht

    also happened during the viet nam war… the names may be forgotten but the action they took never will be

    “Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức … was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Ngô Đình Diệm administration….”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

  • Anonymous

    So original.

  • Anonymous

    So original.

  • Anonymous

    So original.

  • Anonymous

    So original.

  • hounddogg

    just like your Bow Tie…bobby boy…XD

  • hounddogg

    just like your Bow Tie…bobby boy…XD

  • hounddogg

    just like your Bow Tie…bobby boy…XD

  • hounddogg

    just like your Bow Tie…bobby boy…XD

  • Anonymous

    Let me know when you are house-trained.

  • Anonymous

    Let me know when you are house-trained.

  • Anonymous

    Let me know when you are house-trained.

  • Anonymous

    Let me know when you are house-trained.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Jealous?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I’d watch out if I were you broccoli head, rumor has it the houndogg is a vegetarian.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CPIYWFQFAQC4E245XYCIZGURZU Margaret Davis

    Agree with this.Also heard that Egyptian police moved in on protesters, with tear gas and enforcing a disallow on demonstration.

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  • talis

    But the ME does. What is your point?

  • talis

    It is the Christian American Taliban that drives this ultra protection. They need Israel to live out their rapture fantasies….

  • Anonymous

    Those would be the CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS.

    theres an oxymoron for you.. and oxymoron describing a bunch of oxyMorons

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GPHIHWYUOFUYFQS5RM7B72UEP4 Athena

    The revolution will *not* be televised. You will have to see it on the internet because the corporate owned media won’t be airing it.