"PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
Sandmonkey Approaching the syndicate. If I don't send a "I am safe" tweet, then am arrested. #jan25 #da3awatkomwelnaby 1 minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
AhmadFahmy Facebook got blocked!!!!!!!!!!!! #Egypt #Jan25 less than 20 seconds ago via HootSuite
URGENT: REQUEST to ALL EUROPE & US tweeps on #Jan25 PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW
Yesterday we were all Tunisian; today we're all Egyptian. Tomorrow we will all be free." #Egypt #jan25 via @lumineole @inkorrupt
Sandmonkey Everyone in cairo. Head to lawyers syndicate at abdel khale2 sarwat. GO NOW! #jan256 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Retweeted by monaeltahawy and 18 others @shmpOngO
I will tweet lively from Mansoura protests after 20 minutes. retweet and support me if something bad happenned @mfatta7 #jan25
RT @bencnn: Egyptian stock market crashing. Loses 21 billion pounds in first 15 minutes of trading #jan25 #egypt about 3 hours ago via Twitter for Mac
Al-Jazeera is reporting that police forces have laid siege on Cairo's Press Syndicate, detaining Yehia Qallash, its sec gen. #Jan25 22 minutes ago via Dabr RT @simonjhanna
London Reuters office say their journalists in Cairo were arrested and beaten last night #egypt #jan25
not a single senior #NDP official is answering my calls to confirm who from the party's senior leadership is in the country #jan25 #egypt ?? about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
▬█► I am trapped inside Mansoura Uni. Some thugs r walking behind us and I dun know how to get out #Egypt #Jan25 via @Cer
▬█► I think I will be arrested in max 30 mins. Rbna yostor #Jan25 #Egypt via @Cer24 minutes ago via web
US official says America supports Egyptians' right to self expression http://ow.ly/3Ks4Z #Jan25 #US #Egypt via @AlMasry
AlYoum_E There is a total media blackout on the real things happening. Social media is what is left to us. Stay strong ppl #jan25 via @mfatta727 minutes ago via web
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May '10
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
America supports? Pfui! That and $3.47 will get you a grande latte. Knock it off with the empty words, State Dept. Anyone who is ever fool enough to listen to the US State Dept is killed in short order.
OK, one middle eastern flare-up may be accounted misfortune. Eight begins to look like carelessness. I'm on full Mediterranean alert, until the next Kardashian-Biden romantic scandal.
May '10
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
Sorry #Egypt, the American President doesn't do freedom.
Jun '10
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
From: @bencnn
# Major battle on al Gala st. Tear gas, fires hundreds of police... #Jan25 #Egypt 1 minute ago
# On roof og Lawyers Syndicate. Hundreds of police, plainclotthed chasing protesters. NO RESTRAINT #Jan25 #Egypt 9 minutes ago
# Methods being used against protesters; tear gas, beating with sticks and fists, kicking. All now on 26 July st. #Jan25 #Egypt 11 minutes ago
# Clashes with tear vgas intersection of 26 July, Gala St...riot police going after everyone #Jan25 #Egypt 17 minutes ago
# Can hear what sounds like tear gas being fired near Ramsis Street #many plainclothed policeman attacking cameraman #Jan25 #Egypt 19 minutes ago
# The baltagiya (thugs) are in action again . Shame. #Jan28 #Egypt about 1 hour ago
# Plainclothed thugs grabbing tv cameras hauling people away beating people near journalists syndicate #jan25 #egypt about 1 hour ago
# Demo growing bigger at journalists syndacite...overflowing steps into street #Jan25 #Egypt about 1 hour ago
# Crowd growing at journalists syndacite some pushing and shoving. #Jan25 #egypt about 2 hours ago
# Cairo U student tells me "What is Mubarak waiting for? No one wants him any more. He should go" #Jan25 #Egypt about 3 hours ago
Aug '10
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
Mubarak is old and mean, things aren't going to be as easy as Tunisia. If the Army comes in, what is the degree of influence of the Brotherhood there , or have they been purged ?
The oppo can't have too much infrastructure after years of Mubarak going after them , so the students and the poor come out to have a couple of days of fighting and then it's over ? I don't see anybody budging.
The market did take a 7% hit this morning, which is pretty hard on folks. Imagine the Egyptians are a bit more sophisticated than Leila stuffing a plane with gold bars from the treasury.
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
A little too glib. Remember that we're providing 1.3 billion annually in military assistance to this regime.
May '10
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
Claire Berlinski, Ed.
A little too glib. Remember that we're providing 1.3 billion annually in military assistance to this regime. · Jan 26 at 8:27am
Shame on us.
Oct '10
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
I am aware of the historical significance of what's happening in Tunisia and Egypt, and, while I think our media should be giving it more coverage, I'm not sure if any major media outlets have the guts to ask the tough questions that need to be asked. What's the Muslim Brotherhood's role? What's the general public's attititude toward Israel? Towards its Christian minority? Sharia and theocracy?
Now, if there was another Iranian revolution, where the new government, and majority of the public, was tired of theocracy and voluntarily instituted a secular constition separating religion and state, now that would be something, and I would be shouting from the rooftops that everyone needed to show solidarity with the Iranian people.
Tunisia apparently has had a secular constitution for quite a while, despite its autocratic rulers. Significantly, according to Wikipedia (must be true, right?), Tunisia is the only Arab country that formally outlaws polygamy. Egypt has signed peace treaties with Israel. So, do these things represent a Kemalist repression of Islam, and will these uprisings lead to a Turkey-like Islamist resurgence? Time will tell.
Edited on January 26, 2011 at 6:40pmRe: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
Kervinlee
Claire Berlinski, Ed.
A little too glib. Remember that we're providing 1.3 billion annually in military assistance to this regime. · Jan 26 at 8:27am
Shame on us. · Jan 26 at 8:55am
Also a little too glib, because jhimmi's questions are good ones. We've supported this regime for distinct reasons, many of them good.
Foreign policy is damned difficult. And full of terrible, terrible dilemmas.
May '10
Re: "PLEASE ASK YOUR MEDIA TO COVER #EGYPT NOW"
Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Kervinlee
Claire Berlinski, Ed.
A little too glib. Remember that we're providing 1.3 billion annually in military assistance to this regime. · Jan 26 at 8:27am
Shame on us. · Jan 26 at 8:55am
Also a little too glib, because jhimmi's questions are good ones. We've supported this regime for distinct reasons, many of them good.
Foreign policy is damned difficult. And full of terrible, terrible dilemmas. · Jan 26 at 10:05am
Duly noted. I take my lumps.