Dropped Calls: Egyptian Gov’t Cuts Cell Service Amid Escalating Violence
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CAIRO (The Blaze/AP) — The Egyptian capital Cairo was the scene of violent chaos Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, who fired back with rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons. There are even reports that the government has cut off some cell phone service.
It was all a major escalation in what was already the biggest challenge to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year-rule.
Police also fired water cannons at one of the country’s leading pro-democracy advocates, Mohamed ElBaradei, and his supporters as they joined the latest wave of protests after noon prayers. Police used batons to beat some of ElBaradei’s supporters, who surrounded him to protect him.
A soaking wet ElBaradei was trapped inside a mosque while hundreds of riot police laid siege to it, firing tear gas in the streets around so no one could leave. The tear gas canisters set several cars ablaze outside the mosque and several people fainted and suffered burns.
Large groups of protesters, in the thousands, were gathered at at least six venues in Cairo, a city of about 18 million people, and many of them were on the move marching toward major squares and across Nile bridges.
They are demanding Mubarak’s ouster and venting their rage at years of government neglect of rampant poverty, unemployment and rising food prices.
There were smaller protests in Assiut south of Cairo and al-Arish in the Sinai peninsula. Regional television stations were reporting clashes between thousands of demonstrators and police in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and Minya south of Cairo.
At the upscale Mohandiseen district, at least 10,000 of people were marching toward the city center chanting “down, down with Mubarak.” The crowd later swelled to about 20,000 as they made their way through residential areas.
Residents looking on from apartment block windows waved and whistled in support. Others waved the red, white and black Egyptian flags. The marchers were halted as they tried to cross a bridge over the Nile, when police fired dozens of tear gas canisters.
At Ramsis square in the heart of the city, thousands clashed with police as they left the al-Nur mosque after prayers. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets and some of the tear gas was fired inside the mosque where women were taking refuge. Hundreds later broke through police cordons to head to the main downtown square, Tahrir. But they were stopped by police firing tear gas.
Near Tahrir, hundreds of riot police clustered together moved in, anticipating the arrival of large crowds of protesters. A short while later, thousands of protesters marched across a bridge over the Nile and moved toward the square, where police began firing tear gas into the crowds.
Later, television footage showed protesters throwing rocks down on police from a highway overpass near Tahrir Square, while a police vehicle sped through the crowd spraying tear gas on demonstrators.
Clusters of riot police with helmets and shields were stationed around the city, at the entrances to bridges across the Nile and other key intersections.
Internet and cell-phone services were disrupted across Egypt starting overnight and throughout the day as authorities used extreme measures to hamper protesters from organizing the mass rallies called after Friday prayers.
The Egyptian government ordered all mobile telephone operators to suspend services “in selected areas” of the country, telecommunications company Vodafone said Friday.
In a statement, the company said “under Egyptian legislation, the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it.”
Mubarak, 82, is Washington’s closest Arab ally, but Washington has signaled that he no longer enjoys its full backing, publicly counseling him to introduce reform and refrain from using violence against the protesters. He has not been seen publicly or heard from since the protests began Tuesday.
The United States, Mubarak’s main Western backer, has been publicly counseling reform and an end to the use of violence against protesters, signs the Egyptian leader may no longer be enjoying Washington’s full backing.
President Barack Obama said Thursday the anti-government protests filling the streets show the frustrations of Egypt’s citizens.
“It is very important that people have mechanisms in order to express their grievances,” Obama said.
Friday’s demonstrations were energized by the return of Nobel Peace laureate ElBaradei on Thursday night, when he said he was ready to lead the opposition toward a regime change.
They also got a boost from the endorsement of the country’s biggest opposition group, the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. The group called its supporters to join the protests on Friday.
The Brotherhood, outlawed since 1954, is Egypt’s largest and best organized opposition group. It seeks to establish an Islamic state. It renounced violence in the 1970s and has since been a peaceful movement. Its network of social and medical services has traditionally won it popular support, but its detractors say its involvement in politics has chipped away at its support base.
It made a surprisingly strong showing in 2005 parliamentary elections, winning 20 percent of the legislature’s seats, but it failed to win a single seat in the latest election late last year. The vote is widely thought to have been marred, rigged to ensure that Mubarak‘s ruling party win all but a small fraction of the chamber’s 518 seats.
Mubarak and his government have shown no hint of concessions to the protesters who want political reform and a solution to rampant poverty, unemployment and rising food prices.
While Mubarak may still have a chance to ride out this latest challenge, his choices are limited, and all are likely to lead to a loosening of his grip on power.
Egypt’s four primary Internet providers – Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr – all stopped moving data in and out of the country at 12:34 a.m., according to a network security firm monitoring the traffic. Telecom experts said Egyptian authorities could have engineered the unprecedented cutoff with a simple change to the instructions for the companies’ networking equipment.
The Internet appeared to remain cut off in Cairo but was restored in some smaller cities Friday morning. Cell-phone text and Blackberry Messenger services were all cut or operating sporadically in what appeared to be a move by authorities to disrupt the organization of demonstrations.
Egyptians outside the country were posting updates on Twitter after getting information in voice calls from people inside the country. Many urged their friends to keep up the flow of information over the phones.
A Facebook page run by protesters listed their demands. They want Mubarak to declare that neither he nor his son will stand for next presidential elections; dissolve the parliament holds new elections; end to emergency laws giving police extensive powers of arrest and detention; release all prisoners including protesters and those who have been in jail for years without charge or trial; and immediately fire the interior minister.
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Comments (139)
Cabo King
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:40amis that why i keep getting a busy signal???
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:38am@DIZZYINTHEDARK
You clearly don‘t know anything about the middle east or world affaires and what’s coming to the U.S.. You are one of those sorry @$$ liberals who want’s the perfect little nanny state and obozo to be president forever.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:30amYou’re projecting rightwinghero. Don’t do it again.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:26amWas that the “ Tin Man” in one of those pictures?
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:21amComing soon to the USA… Get ready folks…
Report Post »EP46
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:29pmComing soon. All the terrorists have been coming across the border from Mexico while “the other hand” searches people at airports. Soon the call will go out and the terrorists and the goons will take to our streets and start to riot and burn cities so barry can step in and take over the country as has always been his plan. He will be Dictator, no need to worry about 2012 election,
Report Post »koibaby
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:18amMuslims and their lefty cheerleaders vs Christians (worlds moral compass). Israel and we will be screwed!
Report Post »I am not Muslim, Christian or Jew.
mcFirst
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:17aminteresting lesson here. really shows why centralized power will always work against the people in times of crisis.
communications needs to be separated from governemnt.
I am glad I have that old CB too.
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:09amFrances Fox Piven must be very happy.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:23amWhy Mrfunn? Did she just see a copy of Glenneth’s cholesterol results? Or maybe she’s gloating over his sagging ratings.
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:40amBECKISNUTS
I must say, you are entertaining.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:18ammrfunn, Clowns are entertaining, aren’t they?
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:26amYou obviously think they are Gonzo. You listen to Glenn Beck every day.
Off you go.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:07amIt’s hard to tell who to pull for in this thing. Authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak who is somewhat friendly to the West or an unknown which may end up being radical Islam.
Report Post »makom
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:07amLook closely at the way Egypt handles this. These are the same steps our Government will take when this starts to happen here in America.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:27amMakom, you sound like a traitor. To equate our government with that of Egypt is disgusting, lazy thinking. It’s glaringly obvious that you too have been believing all the paranoid nonsense Glenneth pollutes the airwaves with every day.
RLTW
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:32amBN
You can rationalize the dangers that exist all you want, it won’t make it any safer. You attack Beck and deny history at the same time, so who is really nuts?
We can only guard against what we understand, at least we’re looking for answers, while you ignore fact, reason and reality.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:55amGlenneth has a long history of exaggeration and paranoia. He also lacks a formal education and critical thinking skills and it shows. The fact that anyone at all listens to Glenn’s daily rants is a sorry reflection on the current state of our educational system.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:20amBN
Report Post »Believing that only through formal Education can one gain critical think skills paints you as the elitist snob you are.
beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:32amRLTW, the sentence you just wrote paints you as the under-educated, gullible person you are.
Report Post »HuskerVet
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:06amthis is on the way to a worldwide epidemic. The Progressives in this country and the Muslim Brotherhood in others all have the same goal: chaos and revolution. Obama wants the right to shut down the internet and is sneaking his way to gun control. We, as patriots, need to always watch the other hand…there’s definitely evil amongst us.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:15amHuskervet, your observations sound like the mental puke that Glenneth spews on his faltering radio show every day. Here’s a news flash for you: the West is not the Middle East. Just because the soles of your Hush Puppies are damp, it doesn’t mean it time to build an ark.
dizzyinthedark
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:53amWhere’s beckisnuts now? Oh wait, what’s happening in Egypt must happen CONSTANTLY in order for this to be real–right beckisnuts?! Nothing going on here, they will soon tire of this, go home, and they soon go away in a few more days–all will be peaceful soon in Egypt, just like in Spain, Greece and Tunisia. These people are happy with their government, well fed, well taken care of, all have decent homes and incomes–no problems.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:12amdizzyintheda, I’m right here. What’s your point? Your emotional, confused rant is not worthy of a response of any merit. Or perhaps you’re simply saying the sky is falling because of events in the Middle East? You‘ve been drinking Glenneth’s Kool Aid with your PBJ sandwiches evidently.
Report Post »tranquilraider
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:54amLol!
Report Post »I think Beckisnuts and August_Somers are the same person.
beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:02amReally? What’s your take on Glenneth and Stu then?
Report Post »Psytoxic
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:57amWho is Glenneth?
Report Post »tranquilraider
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:00amWho’s Stu?
Report Post »april 12 1861
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:48amOur future seems to be playing out before our eyes.
I am still amazed, how many people are totally oblivious to what is going on. There will be so many who will end up being totally blindsided. It isn’t looking good folks.
Be prepared, seems to be the order of the day, and everyday.
Report Post »August_Somers
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:00amAnd here we have another sorry soul who has swallowed Glenn’s paranoid delusions hook line and sinker. April 12, if you had a more sophisticated understanding of sociology and political science, you would not be quaking in your boots over these recent events. It never fails to amaze how undereducated and confused Beck’s listening audience is. It does help maintain Glenn’s cash flow however. Glenn “PT Barnum” Beck to the rescue. It’s quite a sad joke.
RLTW
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:38amAUG
Report Post »So you’re so naïve you believe collective possession cannot take hold here in America, when history has already proved you wrong.
You’re the joke
Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:09amAugust_Somers
You seem to be new here but in a way you have always been here. You are not the first to troll this site and you won’t be the last.
My question to you is this, if you disagree with what you read on these posts why don‘t you bring an arguement for your ’side’? Instead of facts and discussion you bring only name calling and attempt to close discussions down with this type of ignorant response.
Trolls will be trolls, however, so carry on with your name calling we don’t really care.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:29amAugust Somers, email me at beckisnuts77@yahoo.com and I’ll send you a copy of a conversation untameable kate and snow leopard had a while back (you bet I saved that one LOL). Then you‘ll have a better idea what you’re dealing with here on this flaky website.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:45amNo, KATE, I do not believe he is new here. Unless he is a clone, he sounds EXACTLY like BECKISNUTS.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:52amMr. Somers obviously has an ivy league education then.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:56ambeckisnuts
Report Post »Why don’t you put it up here so we can all have a look at it. You know what you are saying is BS. Knock it off.
Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:57amMy Sacred Honor,
Report Post »Good morning, e-mail me if you’re off work today.
Lantern
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:09am@BECKISNUTS
Report Post »You are saving conversations? Why would you be doing that? Working for HuffPO or DK?
beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:29amFeel free to email me kate and I’ll send the posts to you. I won’t be posting them here, as they’re unfit for general consumption. And yes, I do save interesting internet forum posts. They’re going into my latest book, copyrights or not.
Report Post »Judy
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:09pmThis is a ridiculous conversation. So, to April, 1861, Beckisnuts and everyone else. Lighten up. As always, in order to protect our country, our individual liberties, we have to make sure the power of our elected representatives remains on the local, county, state, and national levels. Beware of and alert to regional regulatory entities with appointed officials delivering regulations by decree and thus by-passing our elected representative and thus the “common man.” That’s how tyranny takes hold. So, get active in your towns, counties, and governments. Use your voice as often as possible in order not to allow these regulatory entities being established. Protect your individual rights, your liberty.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:42amThis is Iran all over again. Egypt is taking the wrong steps and nothing less then a revolution will occur. Cutting the services and expecting the people not to protest is foolish and outside reality.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:38amAll eyes are pm Egypt. If the government falls it will set off a chain reaction that will no doubt take down the Iranian government. The question is what will take their place? Some will go democratic, but some may go full blown Muslim theocracy.
All I can say for sure is it’s a great time to own a news web site!!
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:37amIt’s gonna come down to “Us or Them”. But with Obama at the helm i‘m afarid he’s gonna side with “Them”
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:35amObama would like to do the same thing, with his “Kill Switch.”
Report Post »Obama supports this kind of government behavior of shooting people ‘point blank’ in the head dead.
It‘s Obama’s idea of civility.
August_Somers
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:54amrandyrock, your statement has no merit. Obama has never done a thing to to deserve an outrageous characterization such as that. Are you addle-brained perhaps? I believe you are.
Thighmaster
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:32amDidn’t our government just grab the authority to shut down our cells and internet service? Wow, it’s like they can see the future..
Report Post »VotersOfNY
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:30amThis is what Obozo wants. Don‘t let his ’moving’ to the right fool you people. He is what you thought he was 2 years ago. He’s just trying to get reelected so he can finish the job. Once he gets another term, he will show what he really is, a commie marxist who wants to rule this country by dictatorship. Egypt is what Obozo will cause to happen here if you don’t get rid of this bum.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:00amvotersofny, are you related to John Wilkes Booth by any chance? Your statement sounds as insane as many of his, especially the ones just prior to the assassination of President Lincoln. You Becklers are a sad and sorry lot by any measure. Nice job Glenneth!
BetsyRoss1513
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:30amI don’t care what the hell he says or does, I’m not voting for him.
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:28amWhen is this coming to America?
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:28amFirst the came for the internet and I said nothing because I wasn;t an internet user.
Then they came for the cell phones…
So our own government has comtrol over both the Internet and cell service. Wonder what happens when/if the teaparty gets too inconvenient for Obama.
Just sayin.
Report Post »BQI
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:26amFirst Twitter now cell phones. Didn“t Obama just get some legislation passed where he can hit the ”stop“ button and terminate internet service in a time of ”crisis” whatever that means. Folks, Europe and Asia are just samples of what America could go through.
http://www.blackquillandink.com For “Special Edition” and Articles on “The Coming Revolution”
Report Post »August_Somers
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:49amBQI, one student demonstration in the UK is hardly in league with the muslim uprising in the Middle East. Your case for that type of trouble in the US is on very, very thin ice.
Report Post »Psytoxic
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:27amAugust,
Report Post »“one student demonstration in the UK…” Seriously? Do you pay attention to the news at all? Last time I checked Greece, Ireland, and Spain were all a part of Europe.
Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:37amPeople like fox-Piven must be pleased with the result all over Europe.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:07amUntameable kate, based on your bizarre dreams of torture and misery you wish to foist upon Osama Bin Laden (what were you and snow leopard smoking that day?) one may feel inclined to walk carefully past your prone figure on the sidewalk after depositing a coin or two in your beggar’s cup. In other words: I’m not sure if engaging you in conversation is safe. Are you feeling better today?
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:47ambeckisnuts
Report Post »What on earth are you takling about???
You know well that there was an imposter on this site writing terrible things and posting under other peoples names. You know that. In fact I tried to defend you one time when he had written something absurd under YOUR name but I had been kicked off the site for about two weeks.
What you are doing now is a tactic of the left.
You would impune my character knowing darned well that the imposter was doing this.
Shame on you.
beckisnuts
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:50amWell then kate, I’m relieved and disappointed at the same time. I thought maybe you had a spark of creativity and humor mixed in with your usual gloomy personna, but on the other hand, those comments were a bit out there. My apologies.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:26amComing soon to us, don’t you think? What with all the control the obamas want over everything we do, think, eat, and the left’s apparent control over most of the media and courts………………. HELLLOOOOO, AMERICA! Are we paying attention?
Report Post »August_Somers
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:45amkickagrand, you‘re parroting Glenn’s delusional paranoid rants, and it shows. Are you a born again Christian by any chance? Most of them believe we are living in the end times, and they are wishing for armageddon like Glenn Beck is. You sound like one of those unfortunate people.
Report Post »Wyrframe
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:23am@AUGUST_SOMERS
You obviously don’t listen to Glenn Beck. He has never wished for Armageddon. He has said over and over prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Armageddon isn’t exactly the best now is it? I am a born again Christian, and I know a lot of them. Some of them do think we are in the end times, but no one I know is wishing to live through them. Your as ignorant about Christians are you are about Glenn Beck.
Report Post »Nancy in NC
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:06pmThere is a segment in this country calling for riots in the street…think Van Jones and Frances Fox Piven. If prices continue to escalate and more people are unemployed, this may very well happen here, especially in the bigger cities.
I’m fortunate to have friends that have moved here from totalatarian governments and they suggest that signs are here. The government simply has too much power combined with too much debt. If, God forbid, the country is unable to pay the entitlements to the poor and disenfranchised, there will surely be riots. Starving people have nothing to lose.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:20amDust of your CB and shortwave equipment, folks. I did.
Report Post »LLATPOH
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:41amYou’ve hit the nail on the head Chazman – CB, Ham, SW. Test it, repair it, test it again.
The more options you have in the next few years, the better.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:17amYep. 11 meter band.
Report Post »Surplus radios are cheap, but very expensive to refurbish.
USAPLISKENXI
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:28amI already have on my CB but im thinking about getting a ham radio and booster.
Report Post »Keep your powder dry.
Cobra Blue
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:40amChazman
2-way radios are also good to have..hand-held and a base station work nicely.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:24amDigital TV is easier to jam than analog. At least get a shortwave receiver so you can listen to what is going on. Good ones are under $50. I already hooked up my CB and tested it. Seems there is very little traffic anymore. I had to replace an antenna. It seems it was not up to the booster. If nothing else get FRS radios to communicte with family.
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:52pmThis is what you get when bad government and false religion mixes.
Report Post »blanco
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:18amWhen are they going to start using REAL bullets?
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:26amCan you say net neutrality? Wake up people. Who thinks it would be a good idea to give Obama a master switch? This is not a good idea no matter who is President. The greatest thing we have left in this country is free speech. Let’s not further politicize our right to communicate no matter what’s going on in this country. We’ve got Al Sharpton trying to silence Rush Limbaugh, even though Sharpton to me is very offensive. The difference is that conservatives think Al has a right to be free speech. Liberals want to shut everybody up that doesn’t agree with them.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the Sharpton vs. Limbaugh video.
Report Post »hflndrs
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:26amThey will use the real bullets when no one from the outside can see. With internet and cells down I’d say any second now.
Report Post »Strictlybusiness
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:28amThey already have “USED REAL BULLETS” they killed a man with one shot“BOOM” it’s on film here on THE BLAZE…..The Muslim Brotherhood is running these protests now, and The Egyptian Government KNOWS how VIOLENT THESE ANIMALS are , so they are shutting them down effectively.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:44amApparently the “Arab Street” is just a teeney bit frustrated, wouldn’t you say? Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen – such peace in the Muslim world. And of course, Pakistan and Afghanistan are enjoying a peaceful periods as are Iran and Iraq.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:15amCan you hear me now?
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:26amPresident Obama’s policy of engagement (talk about dangerous rhetoric) is playing out.
The word stability comes to mind. We’ll see more and more of this across the region, as food prices rise and align with skyrocketing commodities prices and intense pressure on corn, wheat, oats and sugar. Radicals will take full advantage of this, unseat these governments and just as they did in Iran, install themselves in opposition to the west and especially America.
The left in the U.S. will blame President Bush – based upon a speech Secretary Rice gave in 2005 about not sacrificing Democracy while pursuing stability. Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen. Others will follow as inflation further hammers people with very little and in short order, we’ll be hammered too – right where it hurts most – fuel costs, which will also drive electric rates through the roof. It will break the fragile backs of many American budgets and set off a new period of economic collapse – ending in austerity across the board.
The truth is that FDR was dead wrong. We got away with it all for a generation and a half. Womb to tomb benefits really quickly add up to costs no state, no matter how rich, can afford and absent the incentive to succeed and do better than those who have not worked as hard as long, no form of socialism works.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:37amRead this and all the articles related to the riots in Egypt….this is what is coming to this country. OH! stop it Cobra…you are just an extremist scaring the masses. Think so? Everything that we have thought would never happen since 2008 has happened. Now we have given the Marxist in Chief the master switch via approval by the FCC. Isn’t that lovely. If you don’t think this Administration is chomping at the bit to consolidate control of the masses in this country you are in serious denial. The only difference in this country is we want be fighting back with rocks and bottles. Think for a moment…these people are so pissed they are willing to risk life and limb using sticks, rocks and bottles. Recommend listening to Beck..He is the only one that is showing the progression of events in this country…with everything backed up with facts and figures. It all makes perfect sense and has been unfolding just as he has outlined. He even tells you what he and his family are doing. The rest of talk radio is just TALK…TALK…TALK (regurgitating the news). They are entertaining but not providing information that can be used. Wonder what Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, Levin are all doing to prepare. They never tell us. Practice Self-Reliance..Be Prepared….No Compromise….Stand Firm….
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:09am@Conservative and Cobra Blue
Both of you have it dead on the money; we will have a great chance for seeing this happen shortly in America if the administration has its way, they are setting us up for something, most likely a series of cross border attacks from mexico by the cartels and terrorists.
Report Post »Adam Coble
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:29amI posted this earlier but it so applies here.
On of the first things law enforcement does in a standoff or hostage situation is cut off the perpetrator from the outside world. this is to include not only phone lines but electricity gas and the likes. it is to make things inside as uncomfortable as possible so the situation can be ended quickly and peacefully.
It is true that the big component is taking the ability to communicate to whom ever they wish away and redirect that communication to the one negotiating the end of the situation. This is a power play, a tool that the government has known and used successfully for years.
For cell phones they do have jammers that can block the signals to and from cell phones. The jammers were tested and are being used in Iraq and work very well i may add but only have a limited range.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:31amComing soon to to city near you!
Report Post »123abc
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:39amI was just talking to my husband about that this morning!! Pansies.
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:08amThe best news this week is Southern Sudan voting 99% for independence from Northern Islamic Sudan. The jihadis will go nuts on that and we need to support them the Christian and animist Sudanese. For Egypt, remember that was one of the first countries to know the imported scourage of Islam and they are busy killing Coptic Christians.
That El Baradai was in a mosque is not reassuring. When is anyone ever going to a mosque a good thing? Do they ever come out more peaceful, like from a church or a synagogue?
Here is Rubin’s historic interview on Israel National Radio where he sheds light on Pre-Abrahamic history and also the genesis of Islam which is reconstituted Baal worship under the guise of a pseudo-monotheistic religion
http://www.marcrubin.com/judean.eve.ivnu
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:09amoops. the link is http://www.marcrubin.com/judean-eve.ivnu
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:11amWhat’s the back story on Mubarak?
He has been considered an ally of the United States, but on what basis?
Is it true that Mubarak once favored crony Capitalism, and that some Union types exploited that? It seems to me that Mubarak was never really pro-freedom.
At any rate, Cairo, Obama is not your friend. He holds Marxist type views, and will set the poor against the rich, and not because he favors equal rights for both the rich and the poor to keep what they work for (be it goods, or the means of production), but because he wants to end equal rights in order to destroy the American economy.
Report Post »lindap1667
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:55pmIt doesn’t seem that any of the other countries besides the US, have peaceful protests. Unless that is what our media wants us to think. We also proably have more to loose if we are arrested for protesting. We may see more here when more people have lost homes and jobs.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:24pmThis is why obama wants the KILL SWITCH for the internet.
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