Egypt shuts down Internet before massive riots

Mike-O

Mike-O

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Information control, you say? Foreign journalists sent to cover the events are not allowed to exit their hotels. Reporters are being turned back from entering the country via aiports.

"Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world."

People are now hitting the streets with an estimated probability of over one million strong demonstrations in Cairo. This will get ugly...

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ok, so one of two things is gonna happen:

a) people take to streets, gets violent, police/military crack down, 100 people get killed, 10,000 get arrested and the rest go home, while the world turns a blind eye.

b) people take to streets, government loses control, islamic government enacted, declares war on Israel, and Israel hands islamic Egyptian government their asses, again.
 
As long as we're freely speculating without concern for fact, I'm going to throw in that Iceland and Portugal invade.
 
I liked this one

"Police are pouring petrol in all main squares to light them up during protests. Please retweet & Share"

thats fucking genius.
 
c) Tralfamadorians take over planet earth under the leadership of Salo and Winston Niles Rumfoord, humans are deported to the Caves of Mercury, where they must learn to coexist with the Harmoniums. The only exception is Malachi Constant, who becomes supreme emporer of the Universe after accidentally gaining control of UWTB (Universal Will To Become), the prime mover of all things in the Universe that makes matter and organization wish to appear out of nothingness--the Tralfamadorians had already mastered this but, alas, as they live millions of light years away, their remote proximity limits their powers over Malachi. Constant travels around his newly-acquired domain via chrono-synclastic infundibula, which allows him to travel great distances quickly, albeit on a never-changing schedule of pre-determined destinations.

Just my educated guess, based off some history I think I read.
 
oh ya ive been keeping an eye on this ever since it started. last week all the tunisians got together and took down the government. looks like egypt is trying to do the same thing. according to npr there has been some (smaller) protests and gatherings in yemen and other places.

fucking go middle east! its about time they took down their authoritarian regimes. and it sounds like these people arent fundamentalists either for the most part. theyre college students and other young people. the average people. i wonder how far this will spread? if egypt goes then all bets are off really...
 
True that man, although keep an eye on who they might want to elect into a reformed Egypt government, the Islamic brotherhood might try and take over.
Then the shit is going to hit the fan over there.
In the meantime, go Egypt!
 
other well know college student uprisings include the Taliban, and the 1979 revolution. Those turned out really fucking well.

Face it, as long as you have islam running the show, your not gonna have democracy.
 
Long story short,people are demonstarting and rioting about the repressive regimes of Hosni Mubarak the Egyptian president who has been in power for 29 years...
 
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They probably won't, they might force Mubarak to step down, who knows. The military in Tunisia didn't back Abidine, which forced him to step down. The Egyptian military has forced a president to step down before so historically it remains a possibility, but who knows were their loyalties lay this time. The Egyptians were generally pretty stoked when the Military arrived.
 
Yea, but the protests in Jordan and Yemen don't have the same dynamics as Egypt and Tunisia.

The good news is that it is not happening in Iraq. My friend Butch got me thinking: Did the U.S. unintentionally plant the seeds of rebellion by removing Saddam and letting an Islamic republic/democracy form? I don't really know because I don't know the underlying factors of these rebellions in the first place, but it is definitely something interesting to think about. Has the U.S. opened the floodgates for Fundamentalist Islamic Democracies to take hold in the middle east and northeast Africa?
 
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