"Day of Revolution" in Egypt

mAd_ScIeNtIsT · January 25, 2011, 4:16pm

Egypt is experiencing its biggest ever protests in decades. Protests in Cairo and towns throughout the country.

People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people

I hope Hosni Mubarak is trembling tonight! He has heart trouble, maybe the stress of this could push him over the edge?

goddamniamsoawesome · January 25, 2011, 4:30pm

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I'm observing this with interest. Lets see what becomes of these protests.

rizla86 · January 25, 2011, 4:39pm

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Good. I look forward to this happening here in Pakistan, God knows we need a similar revolution.

mAd_ScIeNtIsT · January 25, 2011, 5:16pm

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No we don't. We chose our leaders. We will have a fair opportunity to replace them at the next scheduled election, in about 3 years.

Countries like Tunisia and Egypt need revolutions because they never get a chance to change leadership.

firenze · January 25, 2011, 5:23pm

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I don't think so current protests will have any outcome, because Muslim Brotherhood & other traditional opposition forces are not participating.

rizla86 · January 25, 2011, 6:15pm

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Choose our leaders, yeah right. I don't see anyone replacing the PPP bar PML and they're just as bad. It's not democracy it's dictatorship in disguise.

mAd_ScIeNtIsT · January 25, 2011, 6:22pm

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Which is my point. Even if Pakistan ever has a revolution, the first time the people get to freely choose their new government they will pick either the PPP or the PML.

Faris_Udeen · January 25, 2011, 6:29pm

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Not neccasarily, any man/woman of great charisma can potentially come to the fore or even spark the revolution in the first place. It might sound like a hollywood scipt but thats the beauty of true Revolution sometimes anything can happen, on the flop side the other thing that can happen in Pakistan is a national crisis where the revolution loses momentum and the elite gather thier own retainers and thus begins a state of multi-civil wars.

Faris_Udeen · January 25, 2011, 6:29pm

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With regards to the protests in Egypt I wish the Protesters good luck with thier efforts. Mubaraak is a tyrant.

mo293 · January 25, 2011, 7:05pm

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Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Whats common? US lackeys :)

KKF · January 25, 2011, 7:14pm

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**i just heard in the news that Hosni Mubarak has pee'd in his pants and he is also running to and from his bathroom ... gold toilet seat is NOT comfy anymore. Good Job Egyptian Bros.

Breaking news! Saudi King and Zardarii pee'd too! sailaab umaR aayaa in donoN ke room meN...tch tch tch!**

Gaia · January 26, 2011, 1:18am

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One of the major protests is happening right outside of my friends flat. He has been updating us with pics and info.
“its now raining tear gas. it sounds like ‘300’ outside. people are bellowing down every street that connects tahrir. we are safe in our flat, people are running down talat harab and the police are shooting canisters after them. rumor is that the police have let loose gangs, thugs, and convicts into the mob in tahrir with knives and machetes”

kakaballi · January 26, 2011, 5:33am

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Dear old army is ever at stand-by to occupy Pakistan at slightest hint of unrest. Give dear old politicians breathing space. Let them loose on us as soon as we 'forget'. We might never see 'revolution'.

hanibal · January 26, 2011, 6:24am

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ditto,

we know that we are going to see the back of PPP in next election, which is due latest by 2013, then we can vote for some one else, most probably PMLN, and after 5 years of their rule, surely Pakistan would get rid of both PPP and PMLN (provided PMLN fails as PPP had failed) and new leadership from the people would emerge…

back to topic, latest news from Egypt shows that the networking sites has been blocked by the govt. as a measure to stop the protest, will this work or have this kind of tactics have ever worked? looks like they have lost it all…

http://en.news.maktoob.com/20090000552228/Twitter_inaccessible_in_Egypt_amid_unrest_/Article.htm

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  SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter's website was inaccessible in Egypt on Tuesday, in an apparent move to thwart protesters using the social network in a campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak.
The US-based microblogging service that allows people to use mobile phones and computers to broadcast short text messages was out of service in Egypt, according to the herdict.org tracking website.

A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on what was causing the service outage in Egypt but referred AFP to herdict.org, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

“We’re not the experts on how Twitter is being used in highly developing situations 1000s of miles from our comfortable HQ in SF,” Twitter said in a message. “The experts are those using Twitter on the ground and those coordinating with them around the world.”

A herdict.org spokeswoman said the site had received a “handful of reports” from users across different Internet service providers in Egypt saying they had been unable to reach Twitter.

“We can’t confirm that these reports are a result of intentional blocking, and Vodafone Egypt denies that they have blocked it,” she said.

“From what we’ve heard from contacts on the ground, Egyptians are still utilizing the Twitter service via SMS and third-party apps.”

Twitter and Facebook were among Internet social networking services reportedly being used by protesters to share information and coordinate activities.

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

Two protesters died in the port city of Suez in clashes between police and demonstrators and a policeman died from his wounds in Cairo, officials said.

The protests were considered the largest and most significant since riots over bread subsidies shook the Arab world’s most populous nation in 1977.

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

shami2k · January 26, 2011, 7:01am

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Pakistan's problem is not one man dictatorial rule like in most Arab countries. Our problem is having lack of functioning system, and if allowed,we would develop provided there is no military intervention again in politcs.

mAd_ScIeNtIsT · January 27, 2011, 11:52am

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Third day of protests. Some interesting rumours on Twitter according to Britain's The Guardian:

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*a lawyer and executive director for the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, has tweeted that some army units in Suez are refusing to support the crackdown against the people.

The orginal tweet was in Arabic, so apologies for the translation if it is not 100% correct:

URGENT Suez: reports that some army units refused to support the police to confront the demonstrators, and the acceptance of other units, and did not intervene until now*

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*The Nation's Habiba Hamid is suggesting Mubarak's own government is telling him to step down or leave the country.

She tweets:

Just had confirmed that Mubarak is still in Sharm El Sheikh, not taking advice from his own government to step down or leave the country*

mAd_ScIeNtIsT · January 27, 2011, 2:23pm

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Breaking news!

Mohamed El Baradei, the self exiled former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said that he is returning to Egypt and is willing to take over the country if he gets support.

And

The Muslim Brotherhood has stated that starting tomorrow, it will officially join the demonstrations after jummah prayers.

ravage · January 27, 2011, 3:10pm

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nice. i was one of the cynics who took talk of revolutions spreading from tunisia as overblown optimism. but that picture up there is pretty cool.

mAd_ScIeNtIsT · January 27, 2011, 3:17pm

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Tomorrow could be huge, if ElBaradei successfully returns tonight. Millions of Egyptians will be out of their homes for Friday prayers, if ElBaradei's presence can energize the secular Egyptians and the Brotherhood can energize the religious ones..... things could get Epic.

Also, anti government protests have broken out in the Yemen now too.

khoji · January 28, 2011, 12:18am

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Long live freedom.
Death to Israel.

Israelis are shaking to see one of their staunchest ally in their occupation of Quds being threatened by popular revolt.

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt would open up quite a can of worms for the U.S., but perhaps no country is as concerned about the outcome there as Israel, which counts the Mubarak regime as one of its few Arab allies.