Remain skeptical friends. If the word “Google” was removed from this story, it wouldn’t
be one.

hello. it is nice that Mr. Ghonim is awarded for
demonstrating the power of an internet page. it
alerts other tyrants of new weapons needing to be
controlled, censored, and content manipulated. the
peaceful organization of masses, of like minded
individuals, and the courage of groups; in the face
of physical brutality, incarceration, or death
associated with individual protest in Egypt; could
all be traced back to “We Are All Khaled Saed”, which
was his Facebook origination. however, the incident
which Khaled died for, confirmed by the Associated
Press, depicts a man far more courageous, whom really
was the good human being standing tall in the face of
corrupt police brutality (Khaled was filming the
police dealing drugs, which was why they beat him to
death, and this film is censored from US viewers),
and if his name was not already easily available on
the internet, it would scare me for his life to
repeat it, since the military has taken over a
transition into the next police state. one of the
real heroes is Hassan Mosbah, the cafe owner where
the murder of Khaled Saed occurred: whom defied the
official release by the lying police, with the TRUTH
of what happened there. Bravo, Hassan Mosbah, and i
pray you are rewarded with long life, and many
prosperous and peaceful days to come. you, Hassan,
are a living hero of Egypt.

THE COMMENTS ARE AS GOOD MAYBE BETTER THAN THE ARTICLE,
6000 years of slavery needs no explanation. Communist
China and USA on the toilet, but no PAPER their
investments are in threat, Communist China tells OBAMA
shut up! Send war ships to Channel to protect
investments, Communist China says to Obama, Your is
mine mine is mine it´s all mine!

Never been one to “face down the machine guns” myself.  Don’t know where these
people get the courage to do this.

There is a need to point up the fact that not only did this guy use the net to help organize the masses of peaceable people, but after being released from prison, when the people called him a hero, he had the grace to say:  “I am not a hero!  Do not call me a hero!  These tens of thousands of people in the streets day after day are the heroes.”

The GOP and the Tea Party have joined together and reportedly put feelers out to Wael Honim to determine his interest in accepting their new joint leadership position of ‘U.S. Insurrection CEO’.

I’m sure Ghonim is a patriotic person. But his tweeting that the protesters were victorious after the first communique from the Egyptian armed forces shows that he is politically naive and way in over this head.

The Middle East does not need stability

This so-called stability encompasses millions of Arabs living under criminal regimes and evil tyrannies.

By Gideon Levy

“February 10, 2011 “Haaretz”—When a tank enters a residential neighborhood, sows fear and destruction, and the local kids throw stones at it, what is this called? “Disturbing the peace.” And what do you call the detention of those stone-throwers, allowing the tank to continue on its way without any more trouble? “Restoring order.”

That is how we have shaped our disgustingly laundered language to serve our one and only narrative; how we would describe to ourselves the misleading reality in which we live. Meanwhile, tanks are no longer entering residential areas; order is somehow being maintained in the territories without them. The occupier oppresses, the occupied people overcome their instincts and their struggle, and good order is maintained - for now. Stability.

Egypt also suddenly dared to “disturb the peace.” Its people, who have had enough of the country’s corrupt government and the tyrannical silencing of their voices, have taken to the streets. Riots. The Western world, including Israel, has tensed in the face of this great danger - the stability in the Middle East is about to be undermined.

Indeed, that stability should be undermined. The stability in the region, something which Westerners and Israeli have come to yearn, merely means perpetuating the status quo. That situation might be good for Israel and the West, but it is very bad for the millions of people who have had to pay the price. Maintaining Mideast stability means perpetuating the intolerable situation by which some 2.5 million Palestinians exist without any rights under the heel of Israeli rule; and another few million Palestinian refugees from the war of 1948 are living in camps in Arab countries, where they also lack any rights, hope, livelihood and dignity.

This so-called stability encompasses millions of Arabs living under criminal regimes and evil tyrannies. In stable Saudi Arabia, the women are regarded as the lowest of the low; in stable Syria, any sign of opposition is repressed; in stable Jordan and Morocco, the apple of the eye of the West and Israel, people are frightened to utter a word of criticism against their kings, even in casual coffee-shop conversations.

The yearned-for stability in the Middle East includes millions of poor and ignorant people in Egypt, while the ruling families celebrate with their billions in capital. It includes regimes, the bulk of whose budgets are scandalously channeled to the military, endlessly and unnecessarily arming themselves to preserve the regime - at the expense of education, health care, development and welfare. The stability entails rule that passes from father to son (and not just in the region’s monarchies ) and false elections in which only representatives of the ruling parties are allowed to run.

It involves unnecessary, worthless wars, civil wars and wars between countries in which the people give their blood because of the whims and megalomanic urges of their rulers. It represses free thought, self-determination and the struggle for freedom. It consists of weakness, lack of growth and development, lack of opportunity for achievement and almost nonexistent benefits for the masses, whose situation is frightfully stable. In their poverty and oppression, they are stable.”

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27445.htm

Anderson Cooper’s commentary might be revealing to the marginally informed, however, I would have been more impressed if he had included a vantage that explained Mubarek’s perspective in that he is speaking, not to the crowds in the square, but to the majority of the public who are riveted to public media sources having been conditioned to absorb the company line without question for 30 years. Mubarek is doing what the plutocracy wants him to do. They have succeeded over the years in draining the life blood out of the Egyptian economy and they do not want the funnel to be taken away from their recepticle. Their positon is being assailed by the lower classes of which the educated middle class and middle class merchant class are pivotal in that they have grown wise to the corruption. We are witnessing what happens (in microcosm) when the influential few dig in their heels and refuse to share power.

The only saving grace is the military’s refusal to fire upon the protesters. The military is still bending to the will of the powers that be. At the fulcrum is the divide between the slush-fund compromised higher echelon officers and a second tier officer corps whose ideal of a democratic Egypt is dissolving before their eyes. The paranthetical “in microcosm” is a word to the wise.

At last, a leader emerges.