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Unrest in Egypt

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AJE: People at Tahrir Square carrying banners, "Dear Tourists, please do not leave. We will protect you."

Protesters in Alexandria reacted to Mubarak by chanting "go away, revolution until death!" I don't think they're impressed with his announcement.

The person running @Jan25voices on Twitter was on the phone with a contact in Alexandria when the gunfire started. Not sure where it was or who was doing the firing.
 
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The amazing thing is that Egypt is disassembling and we are watching it live. More amazing is the number of people who are totally ignorant that anything is happening. ANd it sounds as if the other countries are simmering, ready to boil.
 
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Handyman said:
Alexandria is gorgeous...I wish I had spent more time there.

Parts of Cairo are very dirty but the images dont really do it justice. Parts of Cairo are just amazing.
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My description of Egypt: It's a place so incredible you have to go see it once...but having seen it, you won't want to go twice.
 
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NBC News just interviewed the person who set this whole thing up. She's a 36-year old single mother who teaches English. She's been up now for over 24 hours. The control room for the protest groups has a whopping "staff" of 10 volunteers.
 
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Hopkinja said:
My description of Egypt: It's a place so incredible you have to go see it once...but having seen it, you won't want to go twice.
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I want to go again...

Obama just spoke to the Press Corp, basically said the time for transition is now and that it is up to the young people to decide their future. This is what I wanted to hear!
 
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Ahh, reading back I see that some protesters resorted to violence (or were the Thugs starting some shi* to cause panic?). I was listening to BBC World Service again on the way home on XM, and they played Mubarak's speech, and he was talking about how he was saddened that there was violence in the protests, and how he wants to see peaceful protests.

I was confused, because last I knew, the protesters weren't anywhere remotely violent.


leswp1 said:
The amazing thing is that Egypt is disassembling and we are watching it live. More amazing is the number of people who are totally ignorant that anything is happening. ANd it sounds as if the other countries are simmering, ready to boil.
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I gotta say, when it comes to world news, I sadly find more out reading the topics some of our well-traveled posters have than I do listening to the talking heads on the so-called news channels.

I'm enjoying Al Jazeera broadcasts. It's a shame they were given such a bad rap.

Iraq War was CNN's moment. Egypt is Al Jazeera's.
 
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aparch said:
Ahh, reading back I see that some protesters resorted to violence (or were the Thugs starting some shi* to cause panic?). I was listening to BBC World Service again on the way home on XM, and they played Mubarak's speech, and he was talking about how he was saddened that there was violence in the protests, and how he wants to see peaceful protests.

I was confused, because last I knew, the protesters weren't anywhere remotely violent.


I gotta say, when it comes to world news, I sadly find more out reading the topics some of our well-traveled posters have than I do listening to the talking heads on the so-called news channels.

I'm enjoying Al Jazeera broadcasts. It's a shame they were given such a bad rap.

Iraq War was CNN's moment. Egypt is Al Jazeera's.
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They weren't violent until after the speech. I think his goons were late to the party.
 
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Oh man, this asscl*wn on CNN is hilarious. He's worse than Palin, Bachmann, and Weiner combined.

Anchem Choudery. What a moron.
 
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aparch said:
Here's an interesting story from the Huffington Post regarding AJ being censored in Egypt, AND the US.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/al-jazeera-english-us_n_816030.html
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I know this is a crazy theory, but maybe there wasn't a demand for it?

Let's not kid ourselves about Al Jazeera either. Their coverage has been very good.However, it very much can be the tool of the Qatari royal family. Or more accurately, those who have influence with the royal family.
 
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aparch said:
Ahh, reading back I see that some protesters resorted to violence (or were the Thugs starting some shi* to cause panic?). I was listening to BBC World Service again on the way home on XM, and they played Mubarak's speech, and he was talking about how he was saddened that there was violence in the protests, and how he wants to see peaceful protests.

I was confused, because last I knew, the protesters weren't anywhere remotely violent.
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A man that old reads the script in front of him and then works on the crossword puzzle.
 
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Handyman said:
Obama just spoke to the Press Corp, basically said the time for transition is now and that it is up to the young people to decide their future. This is what I wanted to hear!
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Did he follow it up with an apology to the Iranian people?

edit: btw, this president's actions are condoning the Muslim Brotherhood... you may want to hear certain things... but it sure would be nice if he met them with action.
 
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WeWantMore said:
I know this is a crazy theory, but maybe there wasn't a demand for it?

Let's not kid ourselves about Al Jazeera either. Their coverage has been very good.However, it very much can be the tool of the Qatari royal family. Or more accurately, those who have influence with the royal family.
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We shouldn't kid ourselves, but it's still true that AJE is only available in a few places. Part of that is because, not to put too fine a point on it, most of our fellow citizens have the intellectual curiosity of baboons. I'm sure BBC, DW and France24, all of which I get in my ivory tower DC-area provider's BASIC CABLE package, also have market penetration problems.

But AJE is also a different case. The Bushies freaking bombed their building cough accidentally cough in Baghdad. And my co-workers are an inch from a conniption fit when they see the large TV in our office on AJE instead of their warm, comfortable, mind-numbing, prejudice-reinforcing Fox. Among a certain part of our population, Arabs or Muslims can't possibly have any other aim in life than to make you wear a burka and me grow my beard down to my belt. (Which, to be fair, would be an interesting exercise.) Bolton was on with a few of his skeezy types pushing us bombing Iran because "time's running out" as Egypt shows. I'm sure it literally never even occurred to him that the example of the Egyptians may well inspire something like last summer's green revolution in Iran, and this time they may be able to push through (as indeed a non-violent revolution in the region puts the lie to all his ilk's paper-thin rationalizations for their resource wars).
 
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Patman said:
Did he follow it up with an apology to the Iranian people?

edit: btw, this president's actions are condoning the Muslim Brotherhood... you may want to hear certain things... but it sure would be nice if he met them with action.
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Can you give the obsession with the big bad Mulims a rest? Try to look at things a little bit more objectively. The focus of what he said was not the MB and the MB is not the focus of what is happening.
 
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Kepler said:
We shouldn't kid ourselves, but it's still true that AJE is only available in a few places. Part of that is because, not to put too fine a point on it, most of our fellow citizens have the intellectual curiosity of baboons. I'm sure BBC, DW and France24, all of which I get in my ivory tower DC-area provider's BASIC CABLE package, also have market penetration problems.
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Right, but not being intellectually curious does not = censorship. I can't get the NFL Network where I live. Is it being "censored" from me? Or are the companies at issue not able to reach an agreement?
 
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Patman said:
Did he follow it up with an apology to the Iranian people?
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He apologized to China.

WeWantMore said:
I know this is a crazy theory, but maybe there wasn't a demand for it?
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As opposed to the huge demand for RFDTV, The Church Channel and the DIY Network.

The CNN broadcast is pretty funny. Pro-Mubarak protesters ("rent a mob" according to one expert) have targeted the live broadcast and are chanting...the mob seems to think it's Al Jazeera. :D Anderson finds it amusing, but he says they may move because some moron in the crowd has a laser and is trying to screw with the camera.
 
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Priceless said:
As opposed to the huge demand for RFDTV, The Church Channel and the DIY Network.
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Of course. However, the fees charged for those channels are likely very minimal.

Edit: Here, look at this.
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/03/cable-sub-fees.png

DIY net costs 5 cents a month (compared to 4.08 for ESPN). The other channels you mention don't even cost enough to be listed. They enable cable companies to claim "1000 Channels!" even though many are never watched.
 
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