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Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Nervous Dictators from Riyadh to Havana Rushing Out Populist Concessions while Quietly Preparing for the Worst...
0 comments Posted by queen at 9:24 AMRecent developments in North Africa
have tyrants spooked worldwide
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced financial support measures, worth an estimated $36B US in a bid to avert the kind of popular unrest that has toppled leaders across the region and is now closing in on Libya’s Muammer Gaddafi.
The measures include a 15% salary rise for public employees to offset inflation, reprieves for imprisoned debtors, and financial aid for students and the unemployed.
Saudi Arabia’s ruling family has thus far been spared the type of popular discontent that has toppled presidents in Tunisia and Egypt and brought Libya to the brink of civil war.
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The cash-rich Saudi government has pledged to spend $400bn by the end of 2014 to improve education, infrastructure and healthcare. “The king is trying to create wider trickle- down of wealth in the shape of social welfare,’’ said John Sfakianakis, chief economist at Banque Saudi Fransi.
“The budget can handle that, but it is an aspirin to ease medium-term pain, not a solution for the long-term housing, and unemployment issue.”
Here we go. The dissidents.... In jail since 2003, 75 of them in total, serving decade-long prison sentences for expressing their opinions. But now they're set free.
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For years dissident bloggers and journalists like Yoani Sánchez were blocked by Cuba and could only be read abroad. Now, with the snap of a finger, they're back! Give Raúl Castro a hand! Say what you like, surf where you like...
We've seen it in Egypt - social media chase away dictators. Soon Cuba will be Twittering and Facebooking too.
Just a pity there are no Cubans in the audience, they couldn't afford the tickets. No one has internet at home and in the hotels it costs six dollars an hour... a week's wages for a Cuban.
But The People's Republic of China -facing vague, anonymous online calls for a 'Jasmine Revolution'- surely isn't offering any carrots to the disgruntled: typically, they're focused on spying on their citizens and delivering more 'stick' with comprehensive plans to pre-emptively snuff any dreams of democracy:
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is pulling out all the stops to prevent a Chinese-style 'Jasmine Revolution'.
Dissidents, energised by the success of the public revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, used the Internet to mobilise peaceful demonstrations in a dozen major Chinese cities on Sunday (February 20). On Wednesday (23 February 2011), they called for these protests to continue.
At a meeting of top officials held on the eve of the rallies, Chinese President Hu Jintao urged tighter control of cyberspace and "specific groups of people", a term used to refer to dissidents, rights defenders and the disenfranchised.
Provincial heads, ministry chiefs and senior military officials were summoned to attend the meeting, according to the official Xinhua news agency. All nine members of the powerful CCP Politburo Standing Committee, which includes Hu, were present.
Hu made it clear that the session was meant to unify the minds of senior CCP cadres in the light of the "new changes in domestic and foreign situations", an oblique reference to the upheavals in the Arab world and their repercussions on China.
He stressed that social management must be strengthened in order to ensure the CCP stays in power.
Hu defined social management, for the first time, as "managing the people as well as serving them". Traditional communist-speak usually mentions only "serving the people".
According to Hu, the overall objective of social management is to "maximise harmonious factors and minimise non-harmonious ones".
He outlined several ways in which this could be achieved, including:
-- Strengthening control of Internet-transmitted information and management of cyberspace, and improving guidance of public opinion over the Internet.
-- Strengthening management of the migrant population and specific groups of people, and keeping data on them at the national level.
-- Strengthening control of non-public economic and social entities.
-- Nipping social unrest in the bud.
Meanwhile the apocolyptic, 7th-Century savages in Tehran are taking advantage of the fact that only secular tyrants have been targeted in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya to spin the events as a Muslim world tossing-out western influences... while at the same time dismissing their own similar pro-democracy activists as losers who should be killed:
Despite all the [West's] complicated and satanic designs ... a new Middle East is emerging without the Zionist regime and U.S. interference, a place where the arrogant powers will have no place," Ahmadinejad told the crowd.
He also urged Egyptian protesters to persevere until there is a regime change. "It's your right to be free. It's your right to exercise your will and sovereignty ... and choose the type of government and the rulers."
After his address, Ahmadinejad carried a placard reading, "Death to Israel."
The Iranian leadership's attempt to capitalize on the Egyptian uprising is underscored by its effort to deprive its own opposition of any chance to reinvigorate a movement swept from the streets in a heavy military crackdown in 2009.
Ahead of the anniversary, Iranian security forces arrested several opposition activists, including aides to Iran's opposition leaders.
Authorities also placed Mahdi Karroubi, one of Iran's opposition leaders, under house arrest, posting security officers at his door in response to his calls for an Iranian opposition rally in support of anti-government demonstrations in Egypt.
Then you have to wonder if Putin hasn't a warehouse full of gift-wrapped fifths of Stoli ready to hand out on Red Square... as any good dictator who hasn't a populist 'Plan B' up his sleeve these days is skating on thin-ice.
That goes double for they guy with the funky Groucho (Marxist?) mustache in 'Putin's North Korea'...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
EGYPT: Government 'Will Not Tolerate' Continued Cairo Protests
0 comments Posted by queen at 5:38 AMNew VP/longtime security chief Omar Suleiman prefers
"not to use police tools"... thereby implying he just might
Starting to look like the party's almost over in Cairo: popular support for the protesters is fading as the dug-in Mubarak regime offers measured concessions... whilst preparing to
turn the screws-
VOA:
Egypt's vice president says the government will not tolerate prolonged anti-government protests in Cairo's main square, where hundreds of thousands of people gathered Tuesday in the latest effort to force the ouster of long-serving President Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt's state-run MENA news agency quotes Vice President Omar Suleiman as saying that a crisis triggered by 16 days of anti-Mubarak protests in Tahrir Square must end "as soon as possible." Suleiman was speaking late Tuesday to a group of Egyptian newspaper editors.
MENA says Suleiman told the editors that the presence of anti-Mubarak activists and satellite television stations in the square was making Egyptian citizens "hesitant to go to work" and disrupting daily life. He accused the satellite television stations of "insulting" Egypt, without naming them.
But, Suleiman also is quoted as saying the government does not want to deal with Egyptian society using "police tools" and prefers to use dialogue to try to address the protesters' demands.
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Tahrir Square Tuesday in one of the biggest protests of a two-week-old uprising seeking an immediate end to Mr. Mubarak's nearly 30 years in power. Thousands remained in the square Wednesday, after spending another night in makeshift shelters.
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Suleiman also is quoted as warning against plans by some protesters for a campaign of civil disobedience, saying such a development would be "very dangerous" to society.
So, the revolutionary tide has turned in Egypt (sorry Bill Kristol and Barack Obama): seems the Muslim Brotherhood won't be getting the ball in the end-zone after all... surely disappointing to Tehran and other World War 3 enthusiasts throughout the Middle East:
Radio Netherlands
NRC Handelsblad reports that the tide of popular opinion now seems to be turning against the anti-Mubarak protestors on Tahrir Square, in what it describes as “a heartbreaking development for the demonstrators who where there from the start”.
Those emotions are expressed by 22-year-old Mona Sayd who says “We were so happy. We were writing history. And suddenly we’re the bad guys ... It feels like I was pregnant and now I’ve had a miscarriage. Today it’s as if I can feel the blood flowing out of my body. And as if that wasn’t enough, now there are people turning round and telling me that my pregnancy was illegitimate in the first place.”
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Man shot in street in Egypt (graphic video), internet shut down
0 comments Posted by queen at 3:27 PM
People on Twitter are saying that ten minutes after this AP video came out of this man being shot, all internet was shut down in Egypt.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
It is being reported that both Twitter and Facebook are blocked in Egypt right now.
On You Tube commenter zoomzoom686 noted "to all human rights organization please report what is happening in suez . they are committing a mass murder . what is happening is unacceptable . people were protesting peacefully until the police forces provoked them and they started shooting at them for no reason . if any one has a video about the update on the ground please post on youtube , & try to comment on it with both arabic & english so the world can see what kind of tyrant mubarak really is . thank you all......."
tekaklas comments: "What's happening in Suez is a situation that is beyond reason or comprehension. What's happening in Suez now consists of a war in the streets with all the meanings of the term. There are tens of protests throughout Suez. 10s of people have been killed. Headquarters of the ruling party in the Arabaeen neighborhood has been burned as well as the police station. We have on the ground an unprecedented show of violence. We have police firing with live ammunition and water canons."
Reports are that all landlines, mobile phone networks and internet has been cut off to Suez.
Also, there are tweets saying that Friday prayers have been canceled in Egypt. Not surprising since there are a number if tweets calling for large protests following Friday prayers. Ooops, no funerals allowed either.
Reuters confirms that a Suez government building has been set on fire, over 500 protesters arrested.
In other news, the American economy may get a boost from tear gas sales used to battle against Egyptian protesters. (anyone see the irony here?)
Also, Vodafone, company behind Egyptian government network, denies involvement in Twitter blackout.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
WHO: The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero and: the Blue Collar Corner; The Bravest; 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America; Women United International; Stop Shariah Now; ACT! For America and ACT! Manhattan; Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam; and many other organizations and leaders to be announced, as well as local residents living in the Ground Zero area.
WHEN: Sunday, August 22nd at 11:00 a.m
WHERE: Park Place, at northeast corner of Church Street and West Broadway, Manhattan
WHY: To push back against those attempting to impose harsh Shariah Islam, stealth jihad or terror on our nation. We will not be moved!
More here.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Arizona Turf War Heats Up-Law Begins Thursday, Protests Planned
0 comments Posted by queen at 10:33 PMby JONATHAN J. COOPER, MICHELLE PRICE, APMore here.
updated 7/27/2010 6:18:49 PM ET
PHOENIX — The sheriff of Arizona's most populous county is making room in a vast outdoor jail and determined to round up illegal immigrants to fill it. Police from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Grand Canyon are getting last-minute training. And protests and marches are planned throughout Phoenix.
Arizona's new immigration law takes effect Thursday, creating a potentially volatile mix of police, illegal immigrants and thousands of activists, many planning to show up without identification as a show of solidarity.
At least one group plans to block access to federal offices, daring officers to ask them their immigration status.
"Our message for that day is: 'Don't comply, don't buy,'" said activist Liz Hourican, whose group, CodePink, plans to block the driveway for immigration offices in downtown Phoenix.
Bring it on, Pinkos. Say hello to Sheriff Joe Arpaio for me.
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Thank you, Pat Condell, for voicing how many feel about the disgusting insensitivity of building a mosque on the site where 3000 Americans were murdered by muslims, with an opening day scheduled for the tenth anniversary of the mass murder. If you live anywhere near New York, please protest this horrible plan.
Hat Tip Barking Spider.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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