January 2011
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Former President Carter says Mubarak 'will have to... →
McClatchy DC
Former President Jimmy Carter called the week-long political unrest and rioting in Egypt an “earth shaking event” and said that the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, “will have to leave.”
Carter’s remarks came at Maranatha Baptist Church, where he regularly teaches a Sunday School class to visitors from across the country and globe.
“This is the most profound situation in...
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The Breeders - Happiness is a Warm Gun (Beatles...
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John McCain Advocates For Democracy in Egypt: "We... →
vruz: if mccain is doing something right, it means I must be wrong? whatever. I’m glad he’s posturing to force a principled outcome, regardless of his motives. it will be fun to see him clashing with the other half of republicans.
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Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So... →
MoJo associate editor Nick Baumann lays bare the stealth GOP agenda in Congress. Prepare to be appalled.
—via motherjones
vruz: because it made total sense to give obama that centrist shellacking!
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Israel shocked by Obama's "betrayal" of Mubarak →
—via mikehudack:darling80m
vruz: it will be fun to watch republicans split between allegiance to G.W.’s foreign policy and their unconditional support of warmongerism. not that they haven’t been wildly incoherent before. helpful for netanyahu to further undermine the obama administration, not the first time.
with partners like these…
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WatchFareed Zakaria, on the egyptian mess.
Christiane Amanpour on the ground. are CNN sending...
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“So our liberal Tumblr users feel self-satisfied because they are keeping up with...”
– Ohai, Pareene! (via peterfeld)
vruz: pareene, of course -being a sample of one- believes it’s accurate to extrapolate his americanness, and his very personal navel gazing to people all over the world. nevermind the right, pleasure or intellectual responsibility of people to know and learn...
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
– President Abraham Lincoln
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but...”
– President Abraham Lincoln
“The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty...”
– Mahatma Ghandi
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“More boxes surrounded them, and from these the men extracted, one by one, what...”
– The Economist, The battle of Cairo is over, or is it? (via soupsoup)
“Many families in Egypt are fast running out of staples such as bread, beans and...”
– Okay so this is pretty bleak. Egypt imports a whole lot of its food supply, and people living in urban areas acquire basically all their food through shopping, so there’s a whole complicated supply chain upon which everyone is relying, and that’s breaking down. This probably puts a time limit of...
“What we want is transparent government, not transparent people.”
– Julian Assange destroys Steve Kroft again and again. I’d love to see the whole unedited interview. (via firelily)
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“The danger to America and Israel is that the Egyptian revolution will destroy...”
– Philipp Weiss, Why Are Americans So Afraid? Salon.com
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“We want to make sure that Egypt is not interfering with the use of social media,...”
– State Department official PJ Crowley via The Atlantic
vruz: this may be taken for granted in much of the west, but it’s probably the first time that the white house declare “social media is a fundamental right” of the people. please note: social media is not unrestricted, free...
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“Prosperity is under attack by the current administration and many of our elected...”
– Charles Koch
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UPDATE: Al Jazeera Correspondents in Egypt... →
—via newsflick:
Nick Nolan AJE Tweets: We’re okay, they held us for 3 hours, we’ve been released, took cameras, laptops and phones.
@Alanfisher AJE and @nolanjazeera
vruz: serves to show the degree of power the white house has at play. they didn’t have to bother hillary clinton to deliver a speech this time, a tweet by Crowley was enough.
“Why is it that CBS needs Assange to explain the basics of journalism to them?”
– Dave Winer (via soupsoup)
vruz: with their track record, why is that people assume they do journalism?
Israel urges world to curb criticism of Egypt's... →
vruz: don’t bother netanyahu with human rights or democracy. just not keen on it.
Israel called on the United States and a number of European countries over the weekend to curb their criticism of President Hosni Mubarak to preserve stability in the region.
Jerusalem seeks to convince its allies that it is in the West’s interest to maintain the stability of the Egyptian regime....
re: wusses
maybe they were trying to provoke thoughts or call for action?
wusses is too hard and unfair of a wholesale condemnation.
but eyes rolling are not uncommon around the world, especially when being told off about the radically different way of seeing things.
most people around the world get too much of 1984 and too little of Disneyland and Brave New World, that changes perceptions of reality in...
Country Joe McDonald, “Roll On, Columbia” Woody...
“On March 4 the government-funding resolution expires and it seems that a lot of...”
– Chuck Schumer warned on Sunday that if House Republicans, in an effort to flex their fiscal conservative muscles, held up passage of a budget this coming March, it could send the United States into a deep recession and possibly a depression. (via corruptpolitics)
vruz: republicans are...
Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the... →
Amazon.com
Legacy of the Prophet is a sweeping, first-person account of the transformation in the style and message of Islamic politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. As terrorism floods our headlines, this book offers a rare but much-needed counterpoint: it shows that Islamic activists have increasingly renounced violence in order to form political parties, engage in...
Michigan Cops: Army Vet Threatened Mosques At Bar,... →
Roger Stockham, a 63-year-old Army veteran from California who was reportedly angry at the U.S. government, was arrested by police in Michigan and charged for allegedly threatening to blow up a Mosque in Dearborn.
Dearborn police allegedly found Stockham inside his vehicle outside the Islamic Center of America with a load of M-80s in his trunk and other explosives, the Detroit News...
Re: REMINDER: one of the most important things you...
feastingonroadkill sez:
Back in the day Mr Feastingonroadkill once had the job of dealing with coroners records from the 1890’s to the 1960’s. This entailed going through inquest and sudden death files.
One thing he came away convinced of,was the misery caused by draconian abortion laws. If you’ve ever read a report on the death of a scared 14 year old pregnant schoolgirl who died whilst trying...
management vs. leadership
in certain situations with no clear solution a manager decides to keep hedging until a better opportunity comes to make a better decision, or a more beneficial one.
a leader in the same situation takes a calculated risk and creates an opportunity from what he has at hand, realising that you can’t wait forever for planets to align in a more favourable arrangement.
a leader is able to see...
“The square has emptied out since the afternoon but it’s still a great...”
– Heba Morayef, still blogging from Tahir Square, Cairo (via technipol)
Obama's "Shah Problem" President Obama is doing... →
by Kai Bird, Slate
President Barack Obama has a “Shah problem” in Egypt. Recent events in Egypt recall the street protests of 1978 in Tehran when President Jimmy Carter had to decide whether to remain loyal to the Pahlavi regime, a long-standing American-backed dictatorship—or whether the time had come to abandon the Shah and support a popular uprising demanding human rights and...
REMINDER: one of the most important things you can...
“Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel....”
– President Woodrow Wilson
The Wrong Friends: The Uncomfortable Lesson of the... →
This rising tide of mass protests against Arab secular strongmen urges us to think again about the role of Islam and government. Decades of Western policy have pushed Middle Eastern governments toward secular reforms. But a more nuanced view of the region - one that values authenticity as much as Western dogma - suggests something different. If we are concerned about stability, balance,...
