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Post by slappy on Jan 27, 2011 19:21:31 GMT -5
The internet is being shut down, people are being shot, the government is cracking down making laws that ban protesting.
The President of Egypt has fled the country and the people will not stop.
Tunisia and Yemen are going through similar things.
I am glad they are standing up to tyranny and their dictator (Even if the US sends billions to him).
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Jan 27, 2011 21:46:16 GMT -5
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Post by slappy on Jan 27, 2011 22:16:03 GMT -5
"Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air.
At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide."
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Post by chumped on Jan 27, 2011 23:59:24 GMT -5
This is so ing fascinating to me.
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 0:11:11 GMT -5
This is so ing fascinating to me.
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 11:19:25 GMT -5
ElBaradei has been arrested.
He was the man that was supposed to take control of Egypt and calm everything down.
The army is now in the streets of Egypt and there is a curfew.
Things are ready to blow any second.
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Jan 28, 2011 11:30:56 GMT -5
Where does the US stand on this?
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 11:35:05 GMT -5
Where does the US stand on this? We are on the wrong side. While we tell the government to let the people protest peacefully, we have given the dictatorial/tyrannical government billions upon billions of dollars. Also, we don't like ElBaradei because he told us that Iraq didn't have WMDs and he turned out to be right.
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Post by tonylentelli on Jan 28, 2011 11:48:29 GMT -5
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 11:53:11 GMT -5
Good. Mubarak should flee. National Party HQ is on fire. The people have taken over the tanks in the streets. Tanks are rolling down the street and the people have been climbing into and on the tanks. Mubarak is going to speak soon, hopefully announcing he is resigning.
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Post by heatofthemoment on Jan 28, 2011 12:00:57 GMT -5
Unrest in Egypt?
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 12:14:53 GMT -5
Jordan has now erupted in protests.
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Jan 28, 2011 12:24:10 GMT -5
crap is going down
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 12:28:16 GMT -5
It is about time people stood up to tyranny and corruption.
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Jan 28, 2011 12:33:28 GMT -5
Yeah this is great. I'm interested in seeing how this all plays out.
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Post by tonylentelli on Jan 28, 2011 12:36:14 GMT -5
Geraldo will be there soon if he is not there already.
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 13:01:28 GMT -5
Lara Setrakian from ABC is reporting that Mubarak has said he will stay in power until he dies.
She is also reporting that protests have erupted in Saudi Arabia.
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 13:14:45 GMT -5
The army has given up.
They've stopped and they are siding with the protesters.
The only ones still fighting the protesters are the police.
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Post by slappy on Jan 28, 2011 13:43:24 GMT -5
The King of Jordan will announce that the country will move to a full democracy over the weekend in order to prevent more protests.
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Post by Kliquid on Jan 28, 2011 13:57:35 GMT -5
Very interesting stuff. It's good to see people rising up.
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