4 February, 2011 — Jazz on the Tube
Joe Zawinul on keyboard, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Alphonse Mouzon on drums, Dom Um Romao on percussion, and Miroslav Vitous on bass. 1972
Weather Report ‘Black Market & Scarlet Woman’
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4 February, 2011
Earlier today, hired thugs threw Molotov cocktails at peaceful protesters in Tahrir Square, and men on camels and horses rode into the crowd with batons, injuring people and hoping to sow chaos, and thereby hoping to ensure that people think that the Mubarak government must stay in place to endure an “orderly transition.” Some reports assert that 5000 or more have been injured. Eyewitness reports are that captured thugs have police IDs. Others were reportedly bribed or beaten into throwing rocks or assaulting the revolutionary protesters. Government propaganda asserts that it is Muslim Brotherhood militants throwing the firebombs on the people.
The army, meanwhile, “is calling on protesters to go and stay home for Egypt’s security.” That is the counter-revolution. And as I write, reports are that anti-regime protesters have repelled Mubarak’s goons from Tahrir Square.
2 February, 2011 — MRZine
So not only did Vodafone have a disgraceful role during the April 2008 Mahalla uprising, now also the company is sending out text messages announcing pro-Mubarak’s protests.
Massive demonstration to start at noon this Wednesday from Mustafa Mahmoud Square, in support of President Mubarak
Can activists in the UK sue the mother company?
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian socialist, journalist, and photographer. Visit his blog: <www.arabawy.org>. Follow Hossam el-Hamalawy at <twitter.com/3arabawy>. Note also that Vodafone, as instructed by the Egyptian regime, had cut off its services to Egyptian customers on the 28th before reportedly restoring it on the 29th: “All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services in selected areas. Under Egyptian legislation the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it. The Egyptian authorities will be clarifying the situation in due course” (Vodafone Egypt, 28 January 2011). Cf. finance.yahoo.com/q?s=VOD.
2 February, 2011 — Global Research
Barack Obama, like his predecessors, has supported Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the tune of $1.3 billion annually, mostly in military aid. In return, Egypt minds U.S. interests in the Middle East, notably providing a buffer between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. Egypt collaborates with Israel to isolate Gaza with a punishing blockade, to the consternation of Arabs throughout the Middle East. The United States could not have fought its wars in Iraq without Egypt’s logistical support.
2 February, 2011 — MRZine
So not only did Vodafone have a disgraceful role during the April 2008 Mahalla uprising, now also the company is sending out text messages announcing pro-Mubarak’s protests.
Massive demonstration to start at noon this Wednesday from Mustafa Mahmoud Square, in support of President Mubarak
Can activists in the UK sue the mother company?
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian socialist, journalist, and photographer. Visit his blog: <www.arabawy.org>. Follow Hossam el-Hamalawy at <twitter.com/3arabawy>. Note also that Vodafone, as instructed by the Egyptian regime, had cut off its services to Egyptian customers on the 28th before reportedly restoring it on the 29th: “All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services in selected areas. Under Egyptian legislation the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it. The Egyptian authorities will be clarifying the situation in due course” (Vodafone Egypt, 28 January 2011). Cf. finance.yahoo.com/q?s=VOD.
4 February, 2011 — creative-i
Apologies for no posts for the past couple of days but I’ve been rather unwell.
4 February, 2011
The New Dark Age 