Friday
Jan282011
AMAZING VIDEO Of the Revolution Taking Place In Egypt - Plus LIVE #jan25 Twitter Feed
Video is on the front page. This might bring tears...
"We will not be silenced, whether you're a Christian or a Muslim, whether you're an atheist, you will demand your god damned rights, and we will have our rights, one way or the other! We will never be silenced!" (0:45)
Five new clips added below.
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Footage from today...
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Clip of protest in Ireland in support of Egyptian revolution...
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All the latest links on this story are in comments below...
PHOTO: Hossam el-Hamalawy
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Reader Comments (48)
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Message: Thanks for the great postss from your site. Question! Did you ever read any posts from Christopher Story's site, worldreports.org? He mysteriously died in July 2010 but that site has archives since 2006 of everything posted, including Paulson being murdered in January of 2008.
I'd love your opinion -- one never knows.
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here was my response...
are you fucking serious..?...then who is playing paulson these days...here's what it can't possibly be true, among other reasons...
paulson has a finger that is so fucked up from past football injuries at dartmouth...there are few people on this earth with a finger this mangled and grotesque...search for it in google images...it is crazy...
hank paulson is still alive and living fat and happy off his tax free $700 million...
steve
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here is the paulson is dead story...
http://www.worldreports.org/news/109_henry_paulson_has_died_after_being_shot_in_the_chest_
there's even a video on youtube where a guy swears that paulson's image on TV these days is a hologram...i'll find that link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIPVrMLXgBc
paulson is dead...the scientific hologram analysis begins around 1:20...this is a riot...
If I asked 100 people who Paulson is, I'd guess that 7 would correctly identify him as a former Treasury Secretary. The other 93 rely on television for information.
Now, out of those seven people, what source of information is one of them assimilating that would lead to the conclusion that the Hammer... died? Wtf?
I'd love a link or two, DB. Just sayin.
Compare http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/ with http://maxkeiser.com/
Also, has metal-hating Karl ever commented about Jesse before today?
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=178566
What in the Sam Hill is going on?
Follow the bailout news posted on Dailybail.com on facebook.
Click on the link above and hit "Ad as friend"
In other words, if I want to learn about conspiracy theories or speculate in gold I go somewhere else.
Also, I think the bailout scandal is important enough to dedicate a special site to it. Please stick to the topic!
Thanks!
Still other reports of soldiers arresting protesters in Suez (i.e. not Cairo).
Also, chants from some protesters that "the People and the Soldiers are Hand in Hand."
Thanks!
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mh...don't count on it...only covering the bailouts is boring for me and for readers...you need to remember that some of us have been around here since day 1...you just appeared...this is our 26th month of existence...we can handle editorial decision making just fine thank you...only and explicitly covering the bailouts would leave us a very SMALL audience...this is an econ/finance blog...and here's a newsflash for you...econ blogs cover all kinds of related issues...
would you feel the same about telling yves, or calculated risk or mish what issues they should and shouldn't cover...?...we are going to have more than 600,000 unique visitors and more than 2 million total pageviews in january...numbers that are officially measured by Google Analytics by the way...and that makes us the #2 econ/fin site in the u.s. behind only zero hedge...so apparently, the content decisions that i'm making are working out ok...
readers enjoy a wide variety of stories...and they enjoy comedy and songs...i see the numbers...i know what resonates and what does not...i apologize for reacting this way, but you shouldn't tell another website publisher what to cover...when you want to make editorial decisions, it's time to start your own blog...and i can recommend Squarespace as a platform and hosting provider to get you started...
i am a kind person, but i don't take well to mandates...i gave up my life for this blog and give 14 hours a day to it 7/days per week...i KNOW exactly what it takes to succeed, draw and grow an audience...and let me tell you, it's not fucking easy...
you might owe dr. pitchfork an apology...he should be commended for finding it and taking time out of his friday night with his young family to show up here and put it all together for readers...
"Are you listening, President Obama? ... What we are doing in this country will make Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin roll over in their graves. ... It's time for another tea party!"
http://dailybail.com/home/the-mother-of-all-irony-playboy-magazine-targets-the-daily-b.html
The Egypt story is entirely relevant. And not that it matters, but Mish, Zero Hedge, Karl Denninger and others have covered it in much the same terms as we have.
http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2011/01/what-do-the-uprisings-of-egypt-tell-us-about-our-theory-of-political-revolution.html
He's just a bit down right now. Long bonds, short pharaoh's gold.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/egyptian-police-just-opened-fire-on-thousands-of-egyptians-outside-the-interior-ministry-2011-1#ixzz1CT2qlfm2
http://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-activist-plan-2011-1?slop=1#slideshow-start#ixzz1CT3FfiKE
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/29/0025210/Egypt-Cuts-the-Net-Net-Fights-Back
Exclusive: Citi may hold back toxic assets in unit sale
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/us-citigroup-citifinancial-idUSTRE70S05420110129
[snip]
Citigroup is asking for book value for the business, which is being looked at mostly by private equity firms, sources said.
Private equity firms, including Fortress Investment Group (FIG.N), KKR (KKR.N) and Blackstone Group (BX.N), are among potential bidders, sources said.
Now back on topic....
Harvard Square protesters denouce Hosni Mubarak
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1312871&srvc=rss
Curfews Being Ignored as Army Takes to the Streets
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/01/28/30-killed-over-1000-wounded-in-egypt-as-army-deploys/
Obama Administration Struggles to Cope With Threats to Key Allies
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/01/28/pro-democracy-revolutions-a-big-problem-for-us/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hpQqEzA_Plw0oFSoi5QWab3foBjw?docId=5789628
The total upheaval of Egypt happened with alarming speed; Friday afternoon, the government was still able to monitor and control the protests, only to have the calm shattered that evening.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/egyptians-defy-curfew-this-isn-t-a-demonstration-this-is-a-revolution-1.339887
Protesters in Amman Demand PM Step Down, Allow Free Elections
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/01/28/thousands-protest-against-jordanian-govt/
http://allisonkilkenny.com/2011/01/about-those-looters/
So Egypt's revolution will seem like a bunch of criminals. Just like the Greek riots, portrayed by the MSM as a bunch of lazy entitled socialists. All I see conservatives do is make excuses for the destructors of the US, blaming the victims as they have those who are losing their homes to foreclosure. If the borrowers never borrowed what they couldn't pay back, they deserve to be evicted, right? It's the enitled, those who dare stand up for their rights, that make a change. Those that think the free market will save them are slaves to their delusions, that profit is a noble goal and corporations will not trample them without regard to political affiliations. How deluded can thinking be? Niemöller was right. Divide and conquer in it's finest moment.
How sad because what they despise is what they've bought.
Worldwide Protests at all Egyptian EMBASSIES
In Nasr City, an Eastern Cairo neighborhood, residents attempting to restore security told Al-Masry Al-Youm that looters were caught yesterday.
“They were sent by the government. The government got them out of prison and told them to rob us,” says Nameer Nashaat, a resident working alongside other youths to preserve order in the district. “When we caught them, they said that the Ministry of Interior has sent them.”
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/eyewitnesses-say-state-sponsoring-vandalism
People on the streets are reporting that 19 private planes have left from Cairo International to Dubai even though traffic at airport had been halted. There is a lot of speculation of who is in the planes from members of the Mubarak's government to Mubarak himself. Dubai is reporting confirmation of the arrival of these private planes from Cairo. They are reporting businessmen are using these private planes to flee the country.
Some confirmation:reports that (now) former NDP part thug & Gamal Mubarak confidant Ahmed Ezz has fled Egypt in a private jet.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8037736-19-private-planes-arrive-in-dubai-from-egypt
http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/egyptians-scramble-to-get-back-online-after-government-shutdown-0467/
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=13705
No doubts here, DB, and thank you.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-20/egypt-signs-imf-loan-accord-for-up-to-4-dot-8-billion-in-funds
New protests...
http://rt.com/news/egypt-protests-morsi-march-420/