Egypt is collapsing!

[BRVoice]

catfish, I am sure we are witnessing History in the making at this moment. It's absolutely incredible!

[BRVoice]

http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=%23egypt+%23jan25


MEXCAN22: RT @octavianasr: Just realized I misspelled Alyaa's name in my earlier tweets. Please note that earlier SMS quotes belong to @AlyaaGad #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:47 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

katelaity: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:47 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


AsiefD: RT @naeem_coza: Lesson Learnt: even in the middle of a revolution, amidst the flames and teargas. People stop for salaah (prayer) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:47 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


arabzy: | Chants are rising, gunfire frequency is increasing, it's war in Cairo! #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:45 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


hessophamous: This was the #US 65 yrs ago RT @ASLANmedia #EGYPT: #Egyptian police shot tear gas canister toward group of praying protesters. #jan25 #cairo
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:45 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


chulu: RT @citizenlab: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN)#egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:45 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ariadna1610: RT @laquesefue: RT @RickSanchezTV: CNN: @mtawfeeqCNN Egypt sends army into streets amid mass protests - http://bit.ly/e6y2uM #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


sara055: US raises pressure on Mubarak as Egypt protests rage |Reuters| http://bit.ly/fTp3V6 #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


danmike1: http://bit.ly/dMzEtY my blog #egypt Update 13 #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


estadodecirco: RT @zeantoniolima: Palpite: Hosni Mubarak cai hoje. #egypt #jan25 #jan28
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


EricBuchegger: RT @anon_vv: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


jerasak: RT @AJELive: @AymanM in Cairo - Tear gas canisters were fired by riot police into crowds as they were praying the evening prayers #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


JoanEisenstodt: RT @oxfordgirl: Some reports that Army are taking of uniforms and joining protests - have no confirmation #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


T_Lawson: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


widhalmt: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


spotonpr: Internet intelligence group details the Egypt shutdown http://bit.ly/f8hAwL (Renesys blog) #jan25 #Egypt via @5thEstate
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:42 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Dktr_Sus: RT @citizenlab: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN)#egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:39 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


JifferAlderman: If you're not watching the @CNN live #Egypt #jan25 coverage, I suggest you turn it on.
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


0rch1d: RT @slate: These photos from the anti-Mubarak protests in #Egypt are pretty stunning. http://slate.me/hClSRY #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


JCR_odriguez: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


CynthiaY29: Egyptian Protest Photos and Articles Jan. 28. 2011 #Egypt #Jan25 #Jan28 #Cairo http://goo.gl/qEhL3
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:36 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


CynthiaY29: Egyptian Protest Photos and Articles Jan. 28. 2011 #Egypt #Jan25 #Jan28 #Cairo http://goo.gl/qEhL3
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:36 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


MEXCAN22: RT @sara055: Egyptian Protests Extend to Qatar |HuffPost| http://huff.to/gD8FjU #Egypt #Jan25 #Qatar
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:35 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


manal: ♻ @hilalchouman: الرئيس التونسي بن علي يتصل على برنامج مايطلبة المستمعون و يهدي اغنية بستناااااااك للرئيس حسني مبارك #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:35 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ken_c_lo: RT @RickSanchezTV: more amazing shots from #egypt #jan25: http://bit.ly/eyAMtw
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:35 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


PaulGrahamRaven: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:34 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


nawaat: aljazeera: The offices of the ruling NDP in Cairo and several other cities in #Egypt set on fire or attacked. #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


HazelKLarkin: RT @ioerror Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


OM77: كلمة مرتقبة لوزيرة الخارجية الأمريكية تتحدث فيها بشأن التطورات الحالية في مصر #aljazeera #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:31 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


CEnTR4L: RT @haythamkhouja: i'm ready to donate VPNs/Tor access to #egypt #jan25 from my servers all over .de/.us/.fr ... any IT guy wanna help me set it up?
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:31 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


EANewsFeed: #Egypt Video: Protesters and retreating security forces in Suez http://tinyurl.com/5s87yq5 #p2 #tcot #sidibouzid #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:31 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


fede_k: RT @bluetouff: #jan25 #egypt : Anonymous dialup service provided by www.fdn.fr on +33172890150 login toto password toto MASS RT PLZ
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:30 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


LaurieCorona: RT @El_Amster: Passionate wonderful egyptians 'down with mubarak' #jan25 #Egypt #solidarity #egyptlondonembassy http://yfrog.com/h4cf1sj
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:29 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Twilaholick: RT @Dima_Khatib: @support Twitter, can you PLEASE lift the daily & hourly limit off my account? We are covering a revolution in #Egypt. Please! #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:29 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


jerasak: RT @AJELive: The Ruling Party, NDP's headquarters up in flames in #Egypt. these images and more from Al Jazeera #Jan25 #Egypt http://twitpic.com/3u7htd
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:29 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


washdcnews: RT @andrewbonar: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


sucka99: RT @jessay286: Al Jazeera's live footage of protesters breaking for evening prayers is sureal. #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tri26: RT @wonkroom: Al-Jazeera showing Egyptians getting tear-gassed while praying #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


MrUJOldfield: All I see is a city on fire #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Twilaholick: RT @Dima_Khatib: @support Twitter is helping us document history as it happens in #Egypt. I keep getting blocked for exceeding limits. Thank you. #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


kryscina_by: Предлагаю к весне освежить хэштег: #electby - #mar25 #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:02:26 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


BabbleQ8: RT @SherineT: NDP, ruling party, HQ is on fire in downtown cairo #Egypt #Jan25

[catfish]

catfish, I am sure we are witnessing History in the making at this moment. It's absolutely incredible!

I agree, I find this very exciting! Very historic moment, if Egypt falls the momentum may be unstoppable and the dominos may keep falling. Viva la revolution!

[BRVoice]

http://www.debka.com/article/20600/


Mubarak calls in Egyptian army, orders curfew in Cairo and other cities
DEBKAfile Special Report January 28, 2011, 5:46 PM (GMT+02:00)

Friday evening, Jan. 28, the fourth day of riotous street demonstrations against his rule, president Hosni Mubarak asked the army to take charge of security and imposed a curfew on Cairo, Alexandria and Suez until 0700 hours Saturday. A least two deaths and dozens of people were injured in the rising turbulence of clashes between security forces and the swelling ranks of protesters across the country.

Throughout the day, tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators clashed with beefed up security forces.

In Cairo, their numbers swelled to tens of thousands when Muslim worshippers poured out of the mosques, many heading for the Nile bridges and fighting to cross over to the government district and Tahrir (Liberation) Square on the other side. Security forces firing rubber bullets and tear gas, using water cannons and charging them with batons, injured hundreds but failed to halt the current. Youths climbed over elite security forces' armored cars trying to pull the men out of the vehicles. Two police stations were torched. The protesters called for President Hosni Mubarak, his family and his ruling elite - ""the corrupt caste" - to step down. Opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradai was placed under house arrest.

In Suez, a protester died in a clash. In central Alexandria, they set fire to government buildings. Protesters were also on the streets in Suez, Ismailia, Mansoura north of Cairo and northern Sinai. The protest movement Friday was the largest thus far, greatly enlarged by orders to Muslim worshippers to take to the streets from leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, eight of whom were promptly arrested. The demonstrations appear to be better organized and focused on specific targets, primarily security and police facilities, government buildings and offices of Hosni Mubarak's ruling party.

[BRVoice]

AP reports protesters have stormed the Egypt's Foreign Ministry building

[BRVoice]

http://twitter.com/AJELive

1. Jamal ElShayyal - Suez, #Egypt - Army are now present in the city amidst cheers by the protestors #Jan25 #Aljazeera 3 minutes ago via web
2. Clinton - US deeply concerned about events in #Egypt. Deep grievance by protestors. Violence by riot police is not a solution #Jan25 7 minutes ago via web
3. Clinton - Urges Egyptian government to lift the communication ban and allow for peaceful protest #Jan25 #Egypt #Aljazeera 9 minutes ago via web
4. Hilary Clinton - Protest show the underscore of deep resistance in Egyptian society and as Pres. Obama said reform is critical #Jan25 10 minutes ago via web
5. Hilary Clinton - Disturbed by the use of violence against protestors, US supports human rights of the #Egyptian people #Jan25 11 minutes ago via web
6. Report: Spot fires throughout Cairo, fears that fires in downtown could spread to the National Museum #Jan25 http://twitpic.com/3u7quv 14 minutes ago via Twitpic
7. @AymanM in Cairo - Tear gas canisters were fired by riot police into crowds as they were praying the evening prayers #Jan25 #Egypt 24 minutes ago via web

[BRVoice]

http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=%23egypt+%23jan25


sbelg: AP- Protesters have stormed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, others trying to storm TV building+Info Ministry #jan25 #iranelection #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:47 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

evenflowdave: RT @alshaheeed: SOS: Police agents are setting cars in streets on fire. No one understands why. Everyone sure Egyptians will be massacred #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:46 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Public_D: Al Jazeera English: Live Stream - Watch Now http://t.co/iC9j8TX via @AJELive #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:45 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


hotbutton: RT @nytjim Police stations in Suez are also ablaze, Al Jazeera reports. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:45 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


noornet: Curfew completely INEFFECTIVE! Violence drastically spreads. Protestors surround Ministries - Information & Foreign Affairs #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


SubMedina: Wonderful effect of curfew: more people coming out. #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ishiimasayuki: RT @AJEnglish: Unprecedented scenes coming out of #Egypt as people defy the riot police and army and continue the anti-govt protests #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


MEXCAN22: RT @sara055: Obama cabinet to meet on Egypt Saturday as protests intensify |Politico| http://politi.co/hmLF5e #Egypt #Jan25 #US
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Eluiro: RT @andrewbonar: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


WajahatAli: RT @thedailybeast: [Updated Source] Biden: Mubarak Not a Dictator...Despite 30 years of rule. http://thebea.st/ij2eZO #cheatsheet via @NewsHour #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:42 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


alexlobov: RT @hybridstates: You can't properly conceive how dumb a CNN anchor is until a crisis breaks out somewhere #Egypt #Jan25 (via @Remroum)
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:42 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


NorthCup: رويترز إندلاع حريق في بنك مصر بدمياط #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:42 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


LJZumpano: RT @noornet: Military forces have moved into Cities of #Alexandria & #Suez #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:41 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tannnit: RT @tipographo: Este es el manual que circuló ayer para organizar la desobediencia civil en #Egypt http://bit.ly/eFGv8O #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:41 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


theriottapes: RT @soundmigration: Ministry of foreign affairs about to be stormed #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:40 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Debbie_Fuchs: RT @peterdaou: We've gone from "tear down this wall" to "turn on that Internet" #jan25 #socialmedia #egypt #cairo
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


CitizenCohn: RT @AJELive: AP Reports that protestors have stormed #Egypt foreign minister building #Jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


desert_rain: RT @KuroshTweets: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


gegenkritik: RT @AJELive: AP Reports that protestors have stormed #Egypt foreign minister building #Jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


gegenkritik: RT @AJELive: AP Reports that protestors have stormed #Egypt foreign minister building #Jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


TheMiinz: 5 dollars here Mubarak won't utter a fucking word. #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:36 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


calliopeconsult: RT @TomRaftery: Mubarak is now at the mercy of the army in #Egypt. If the army decide to back the protestors, he's finished. #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:36 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


sanomaly: RT @AliaMalek: hoping this is what #Mubarak says in his speech: "I hear you, peace out! Ben Ali, I get the top bunk!" #Egypt #Jan25 #Tunisia #SidiBouzid
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:36 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


JomanaCNN1: rolling coverage from #Egypt on #CNN from #Cairo & #Alexandria @bencnn @NicRobertsonCNN @fpleitgenCNN and their teams- #JAN25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:36 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Priest: RT @ArabDictator: Alarabiya : Hundreds of protesters asking army to join them #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:35 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


MartinHowitt: RT @AJELive: AP Reports that protestors have stormed #Egypt foreign minister building #Jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:35 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


AJEnglish: RT @AJELive: @AymanM reporting from Al Jazeera office in Cairo - Protestors torched vehicle in Cairo #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:35 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Eowyn9: RT @safeworld4women: R @safeworld4all: R @chrislhayes From friend in Alexandria, #Egypt: "Protesters are assembling to greet the army with flowers." #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:34 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


FloridaJayhawk: Ya Think? RT @jmcaninch68: RT @wonkroom: Al-Jazeera: Cairo curfew "completely ineffective" #egypt #jan25 #p2
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:34 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tariqal: RT @markgonzalesIS: Dear #Egypt, there is no curfew for a prayer whose time has come to be manifested #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:33 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tarawnah: bike ride? RT @ramseygeorge: anyone else feel like going to Cairo tomorrow? #jan25 #egypt #jordan #holyshit
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:33 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Dorianlynskey: Astonishing #egypt #jan25 shots in the Guardian (via @LewJam) http://bit.ly/goKG1Z and Boston Globe http://bit.ly/hmKoYt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Faiyla: تبني الأهرام وتقضي على الجبروت. ما أعظمك يا شعب مصر #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


safeworld4women: R @halmustafa AP: Egyptian antigovernment activists carry wounded man during clashs w/ police #Cairo #Egypt #Jan25 http://twitpic.com/3u7l6w
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


shannonpareil: RT @brianstelter: RT @peterdaou: We've gone from "tear down this wall" to "turn on that Internet" #jan25 #socialmedia #egypt #cairo
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:31 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


mamdouhd: RT @Mzuhair: أنا اتابع العربية والجزيرة وسي ان ان وقناة اسرائيل واتابع سلمان العوده وفؤاد الفرحان ومنظمة ايباك..لكن لا ابيع احد عقلي #JAN25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:29 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


lorion: From AlJaz liveblog: 20 min ago: Clinton says Mubarak must restrain Security Police ! http://tinyurl.com/5rkhcal #Jan25 #Egypt #maddow
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:29 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


jmgoig: RT @Rachael_Davis: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


rummikhan: RT @aisaad: 500,000 protestors in Alexandria #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:26 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


madversity: RT @AJELive: AP Reports that protestors have stormed #Egypt foreign minister building #Jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:26 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tuviaf: RT @weddady White House's attitude towards #Egypt #Jan25: "Forget that Cairo speech, we didn't really mean it."
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


semakalengm: RT @siphojanuary: I can't wait for the day Swaziland follows the #egypt #jan25 solution.
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


roadrun775: @foxnewsHD TheNewsBlotter /@AJELive: AP Reports that protestors have stormed #Egypt foreign minister building #Jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


LJZumpano: RT @noornet: Protestors have just stormed into the Foreign Ministry Building! #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


BonzaiRob: RT @KuroshTweets: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 15:35:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Lanettetay: RT @PeterDaou: We've gone from "tear down this wall" to "turn on that Internet" #jan25 #socialmedia #egypt #cairo

[BRVoice]

State TV now reporting curfew has been imposed in all egyptian cities

[Malsua]

Hoser needs to go!

Muslim brotherhood however is BAD.

[BRVoice]

URGENT

Unconfirmed reports seems that Army and Police forces have clashed in Cairo

[BRVoice]

Guys, I will take a break but later I will return. Stay in tune in the events happening in Egypt

[American Patriot]

FNC.

Americans "Stay in your homes, hotels and stay off the streets".

"Embassy has been secured"

"US is a 'difficult' position on this"

"What happens if this regime falls and a Muslim Brotherhood takes over?"

[vector7]

Egypt protests: World leaders call on Egypt to address its citizens' grievances

Increasingly worried by the swelling protests in Egypt, world leaders have called on its government to respect the rights of the country's citizens and address their grievances.


US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes a statement condemning Egypt's use of violence against anti-government demonstrators Photo: EPA

7:14PM GMT 28 Jan 2011

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said on Friday that the protests "underscore that there are deep grievances within Egyptian society, and the Egyptian government needs to understand that violence will not make these grievances go away."

"We are deeply concerned about the use of violence by Egyptian police and security forces against protesters," Mrs Clinton told reporters.

Her comments were similar to remarks earlier made by William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, who called on Egyptian authorities not "suppress people's right to freedom of expression."

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, also said the stability of Egypt was "extremely important but not at the price of freedom of expression."

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, struck a more cautious note, saying "all concerned people or leaders should ensure that the situation in that region, and particularly now in Egypt, does not and should not lead to further violence."

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Michele Alliot-Marie, France's Foreign Minister, called for restraint and dialogue.

Karl-Theodor Guttenberg, Germany's defence minister, said he was concerned about the risk of a "infectious momentum" developing as unrest spread through the Middle East. "We are looking very closely, we are concerned, that's for sure," he said.

John Kerry, an influential US senator and former presidential candidate, said that "in the final analysis, it is not with rubber bullets and water cannons that order will be restored." "President Mubarak has the opportunity to quell the unrest by guaranteeing that a free and open democratic process will be in place when the time comes to choose the country's next leader later this year."

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Oil surges, stocks fall as Middle East erupts

January 28, 2011 | 11:15 am

Financial markets worldwide on Friday finally began to pay attention to the uprisings in the Middle East. Stocks tumbled and some investors fled back to gold and other hard assets.

The biggest reaction was in the oil market: U.S. crude futures, which on Thursday had sunk to a two-month low amid rising domestic inventories, were up $3.33, or 3.9%, to $88.97 a barrel at about 11:10 a.m. PST.



The obvious fear is that the social unrest in Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt could spread to the region’s biggest oil exporters.

Gold, which has been hit by profit-taking all month since reaching a record high of $1,422.60 an ounce on Jan. 3, was up $18.30, or 1.4%, to $1,338.10 in a classic “flight to safety.”

Investors also ran back to U.S. Treasury securities, pushing the yield on the 10-year T-note down to 3.32% from 3.38% on Thursday.

On Wall Street, stocks were dragged lower by worries about the Middle East and by a string of disappointing fourth-quarter earnings reports, including those from Ford Motor, Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com.

The Dow Jones industrial average was off 147 points, or 1.2%, to 11,842. Wall Street is putting the Dow-12,000 party hats back in the drawer.

It also didn’t help the market that the government’s first estimate of fourth-quarter U.S. economic growth came in at 3.2%, weaker than the 3.5% consensus estimate, despite a surge in consumer spending.

In Europe, most major stock markets lost between 1% and 1.5%. Many emerging markets were down more sharply, as usual in a broad sell-off.

Turkey fell 2.8%, the Mexican market was off 2.1% and Brazil was down 2.2%.

-- Tom Petruno

Photo: Protests in Cairo on Friday. Credit: Mohamed Omar / EPA

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US is cutting off aid to Cairo.

We have just OFFICIALLY suspend aid.

Americans are being told to remain IN THEIR HOMES and/or HOTELS and DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GET TO THE US EMBASSY.

Egyptian troops are apparently guarding the US Embassy (and others as necessary).

OIL has gone up several dollars in the past 4 hours. (I think it's gone up from what I can gather by nearly 6 dollars per barrel.

The DOW took a hit.

I wonder if this is one of those "manufactured crisis"?

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Gold and oil jump on Egypt turmoil

Reuters January 28, 2011 – 2:13 pm

Oil rose to nearly $100 a barrel in London Friday and gold had its biggest daily gain since November as street protests in Egypt sparked commodities buying by investors seeking protection against political risk.

Data showing the U.S. economy gathered speed in the last quarter with a big gain in consumer spending further bolstered sentiment, helping commodities investors ignored the dollar’s rise on safe-haven buying.

The 19-commodity Reuters-Jefferies CRB index, which acts as a global benchmark for commodities, rose more than 1 percent as a few agricultural markets such as coffeeand soybeansjoined the rally.

Among major commodities, U.S. crude oil rose more than 4 percent and London Brent 2 percent, while gold climbed more than 1 percent and copper half a percent in New York.

A good portion of the buying came from those perplexed by televised scenes of escalating clashes between the people and security forces in Egypt, traders said.

“There is growing concern about the situation in Egypt,” said Phil Flynn, analyst for energy markets at Chicago’s PFGBest Research.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak imposed a curfew and ordered troops to back up police who fired rubber bullets as they struggled to control crowds demanding an end to his 30-year rule.

Flynn said investors began loading up on crude oil on fear that prices — which as late as Thursday were near a two-month low — may continue spiking from here on the Egyptian crisis and other geopolitical tensions.

“There may be worry about … going into the weekend being too short,” Flynn said, referring to the concern shared by those who had reducing their oil positions until Friday.

Oil was also boosted by data showing the U.S. economy grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the last quarter, more than the 2.6 percent in the previous three months. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, expanded a 4.4 percent rate in the last quarter — the most since the first quarter of 2006. .

By 12:55 p.m. EST (1755 GMT), U.S. oil’s benchmark West Texas Intermediate crudewas up $3.50, or 4.1 percent, at $89.15 a barrel, after touching a session high of $89.73. WTI had slipped to just above $85 earlier in the week.

In London, Brent crudewas up $2 to $99.39 a barrel, reaching an intraday high of $99.63. Brent has fetched near record premium against the WTI in recent weeks due to its lower stockpiles versus U.S. crude.
Traders were also betting Brent would cross the $100 per barrel mark soon, the first time that oil would be trading at three-digits since the financial crisis.

“It’s knocking on $100 a barrel,” said Andrey Kryuchenkov, analyst for European-based commodities broker VTB Capital.

“Whenever you have violence in the Middle East, you have (traders) buying on risk,” said Kryuchenkov, who added that the price could, however,”come off as quickly as it got there”.

Spot gold rose 2.3 percent to $1,343.01 an ounce, the largest one-day gain in nearly 3 months. U.S. gold futures rose $24.7 to $1,343.10 an ounce.

Gold futures fell 2.6 percent on Thursday, touching a four-month low at $1,308.00 an ounce, after firmer-than-expected U.S. economic data that boosted confidence in the domestic recovery and reduced appeal for the safe-haven assets such as gold.

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Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said on Friday that the protests "underscore that there are deep grievances within Egyptian society, and the Egyptian government needs to understand that violence will not make these grievances go away."

Just putting that quote up for future reference. I sure hope she remembers she said that when it gets hot in America....

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Egypt's communications 'kill switch'

Just what Joe Lieberman wants for America...

By Dan Gillmor

renesys.com

The Egyptian government's move to shut down Internet access, among other communications, amid the escalating protests is nearly unprecedented—and it foretells a future, unless we work hard to prevent it, of centralized information control. And before we Americans get smug about our freedoms in the information sphere, we should recognize that what Egypt is doing is exactly what authoritarians in our own government want the ability to do here.

This isn't the first time government has shut down access to the Internet during a national crisis, or ordered mobile phone companies to stop letting customers make calls and send text messages. Burma largely succeeded in closing off its media borders several years ago, and regimes around the planet have created harsh censorship systems that prevent the majority of their people from seeing information deemed unacceptable by the people in charge.

Now, the shutdown isn't absolute. Some data is still getting in and out of Egypt, and circulating within the country. The reports are so sketchy, even from experts in the field, that it's hard to know precisely what is happening. But Egypt's shutdown of most communications to the outside world, and communications inside the country, is the most blatant abuse yet of this kind by a large power. Anf it's Exhibit A in how the modern Internet, despite its heritage as a system where information would find its way around outages, has become increasingly vulnerable to choke points that governments and their corporate partners/subjects have become adept at using to restrict the flow of information.

The Internet isn't the only way people use digital communications, of course. But most phone service in Egypt is mobile. So it's trivially easy, unfortunately, to take mobile phone service off the air. In Egypt's case, it simply ordered the providers—which operate at the government's sufferance—to stop providing service. Vodafone and other mobile carriers, having no real alternative, complied. Oligopolies and monopolies are easy to control him this way.

In theory, the Internet should be a little bit harder to shut down due to its decentralized nature. In practice, as were seeing, the chokepoints work. The major one this time is the DNS system. This is the collection of servers that tell people, or rather their computers, requesting information from various sites on the Internet specifically where they can find it. Egypt has gateway (border) computers handling this task, and it apparently ordered most of them off-line, telling the companies providing them to stop answering requests.

One of the most important questions yet to be answered in the Egyptian crisis is what will happen to the nation's economy if communications are thoroughly restricted over a long period of time. It may not be a coincidence that the government shut down communications on the eve of the Muslim Sabbath; people are doing some business today in Cairo and other cities, but not as much as they'd normally be doing tomorrow and in the coming days. Egypt's economy is not the most modern in the world, but it's fair to say that its digital component has been growing rapidly.

This is one of the questions Americans (and others in highly developed nations) should be asking themselves, especially given the desire among some in government to have “kill switch” capabilities for the Internet here. As CNET reported several days ago, a much-derided plan floated by—unsurprisingly—US Sen. Joe Lieberman looks like it's getting new life in Congress. Among the more alarming elements of the proposed legislation is that it removes judicial review from executive decisions.

America's battle over “network neutrality” has been an argument over whether our broadband duopoly—phone and cable companies that provide almost all access in most communities—should have the right to decide what information gets delivered at what speed to customers. Not enough attention has been given to another element of the duopoly control: the ease with which government, given the legal tools (not that recent governments have cared much for legalities), could order a shutdown.

Other kinds of centralization or proceeding, meanwhile. As Andrew Blum writes at the Atlantic magazine, Google and Verizon recently bought some real estate containing two of the most important network operating centers in the world. Can we trust them, as their ties to government grow stronger all the time? The answer is obvious.

What's becoming increasingly clear is the need to create new ways to route around censorship. The Internet still does a decent job this in many circumstances, but not all. As governments and their corporate handmaidens race to lock down a medium they desperately want to control, the rest of us need to get on with the job of A) fighting to keep the medium free of their interference; and B) working on new technologies and systems that defy central control.

Egypt is a wake-up call. Are we hearing it?

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Friday, Jan 28, 2011 12:49 ET
Who's doing Mubarak's bidding in Washington?

By Justin Elliott


AP
Left: President Barack Obama. Right: Demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria Egypt, Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011.

As protests rage on in Egypt, the close relationship between the U.S. government and the regime of Hosni Mubarak has already garnered a lot of attention. But it's also worth taking a moment to examine the lobbying muscle that Egypt employs to secure its interests in Washington, including a mammoth $1.3 billion annual military aid package.

Seven firms are currently registered foreign agents for Egypt, including one, the Podesta Group, that has close ties to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration.

Founded by brothers Tony and John Podesta in the late 1980s, the Podesta Group has been retained by some of the biggest corporations in the country, including Wal-Mart, BP and Lockheed Martin. Tony Podesta's bio boasts that "if you want something done in Washington, DC, you go to Tony Podesta." After starting the firm, John Podesta went on to serve as Bill Clinton's chief of staff and, more recently, to found the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank closely associated with the Obama administration.

The Podesta Group counsels Egypt "on U.S. policies of concern, activities in Congress and the Executive branch, and developments on the U.S. political scene generally," according to forms filed with the Justice Department in 2009.

Records also show Tony Podesta himself meeting with members of Congress, governors and generals in recent years to discuss U.S.-Egypt relations and the military aid package and to introduce Egyptian officials to American power brokers.

For this work, the Podesta Group has profited handsomely. The Egyptian government in 2007 signed a deal to pay $1.1 million annually, plus expenses, to the PLM Group, which was a joint venture of the Podesta Group and the Republican firm the Livingston Group. (That's the lobbying shop of former Louisiana congressman Bob Livingston, who, on the eve of becoming speaker in the late 1990s, resigned from the House following revelations of extramarital affairs.)

PLM Group agreed to lobby Congress "to facilitate approval of commercial and non-subsidized government-to-government arm sales, and to improve the terms of the aid package." PLM would also "provide general, high-level strategic advice relative to the Egyptian image among American decision-makers."

ProPublica last year reported on work done in 2008 by lobbyists for Egypt to strengthen the military relationship with the U.S. governments and top defense contractors who sell arms to the Mubarak regime:

Lobbyists for Egypt had at least 279 contacts on military issues, the bulk of which occurred when PLM Group accompanied delegations of Egyptian military officers to meet members of Congress, administration officials and representatives from defense contractors — including BAE Systems, General Dynamics, General Electric, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. All five have done business with the Egyptian government, selling tanks, fighter jets, howitzers and radar arrays to its military.

PLM Group, by the way, is co-chaired by yet another congressman-turned-lobbyist, Toby Moffett, a Democrat from Connecticut.

But Egypt's representation in Washington is not limited to PLM Group.

Egypt retains public relations giant Hill and Knowlton to promote its communications technology industry (for "the standard hourly rate," which is not specified in disclosure forms).

The Mubarak regime also signed a contract in 2009 to pay $45,000 per month plus expenses for public relations work to the D.C.-based firm Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter and Associates.

That firm also has deep ties to both major political parties. Robert Chlopak is the former executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Charles Leonard was a top advisor to George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign and also national campaign director of the National Republican Congressional Committee. And Peter Schechter is a former Hill staffer.

It will be interesting to see how long these lobbyists keep their Egyptian client if the protests and the crackdown intensify. We've seen lobbyists drop clients over political pressure in the past.

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Egypt Shuts Down Internet in Unprecedented Step

Jennifer LeClaire, newsfactor.com Jennifer Leclaire, newsfactor.com – 1 hr 37 mins ago



First it was Twitter. Then Facebook. Next BlackBerry Internet service. Now Egypt officials have reportedly cut off Internet access and other forms of communications within its borders.

This follows Egypt's decision to ban demonstrations and arrest protesters angry at the government. Egyptians want President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The Egyptian people are demanding political, economic and social reforms. Egypt has responded to the protests with tear gas, rubber bullets, beatings and arrests.

And now by cutting off Internet access so the rest of the world can't see what's going on -- an action unprecedented in Internet history.

Disconnecting a Modern Economy
"Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet café, web site, 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," said James Cowie, chief technology officer at Internet monitoring firm Renesys. "Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air."

Renesys reports that virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable worldwide. This is a completely different situation from the modest Internet manipulation that took place in Tunisia, where specific routes were blocked, or Iran, where the Internet stayed up in a rate-limited form designed to make Internet connectivity painfully slow.

The Egyptian government's actions have essentially wiped the country from the global map, Cowie said.

"What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80 million people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets?" Cowie asked. "This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up." Renesys reports one exception: The Egyptian Stock Exchange.

Revolt Is Rising
Clearly, the Egyptian government is working to stop the spread of protests by stopping communications so coordination is difficult for the protesters, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. But he thinks it's too late.

"At this rate, the revolt is going to be very difficult to retain," Enderle said. "It wasn't as if they didn't have revolts before there were electronic communications, so this might have worked had they done it sooner. But at this particular point it does look like the revolt has built up so much momentum it's going to be difficult to stop."

As Enderle sees it, the revolt appears to be feeding itself, and eliminating communication doesn't appear to be having much of an impact.

"The strategy might work if government goes in militarily and takes draconian measures to shut down the revolt -- then one group is not going to know if another group has been curtailed and/or rumors of violence can be used to get people to fear for their lives and go home," Enderle said. "It depends on how they play the propaganda."