On the YouTube channel FawkesS3curity the following has been posted, purporting to be an Anonymous threat:
‘Dear citizens of the world,
We are anonymous. As of today 200 kilograms of composite Nitroglycerin and commercial explosives have effectively been concealed in a government building, situated in the united states of America. on the 5th of November 2012 the device will detonate remotely via the transmission control protocol, leaving behind severe consiquences. We would like to advise that the contraption is built inside a tamper proof apparatus sensitive to physical intrusions or attempted disarmament, thus resulting in the desired effect, if the military grade device is found before the 5th of November. there is no intention, risks or circumstances what so ever to cause harm to innocent people, but we can not, say the same for the people who are the real terrorists, oppressors and war creators.
we are anonymous
we are legion
we do not forget
we do not forgive
on the 5th of November, you will expect us (22 Oct 2012)’.
But the authenticity of the message remains disputed, as YouTuber AnonymousBelle562 makes plain: ‘WTF is this still doing up? We are here to expose the corrupt, not be the corrupt. This person isn’t a real Anon, because Anonymous is a hive, and this individual is a lone wolf without a pack. Too bad this isn’t a copyright infringement of Justin Bieber, or it would have been deleted, and reported before it was ever even be viewed’. Will it be a November surprise or is this just another video in YouTube??? On the examiner website Joe Newby, ‘an IT professional who has been involved in conservative politics for years’, writes that in “response, another group posted a message at Pastebin saying that the threat does not come from Anonymous. “Let us be perfectly clear: Anonymous is not a terrorist organization. Anonymous does not use bombs. Anonymous does not condone violence in any way. Anonymous supports justice and universal equal rights. We support peaceful protest,” the Pastebin statement read. “At this time, we are not sure whether or not @FawkesSecurity is trying to troll, or if he’s trying to discredit the name of Anonymous in the eyes of the world. Maybe @FawkesSecurity’s twitter and YouTube account was hacked. Perhaps this is the FBI’s way of trying to label Anonymous as terrorists so they can begin using the NDAA against us,” the statement added. Tech News Daily said that the online threat “seems out of step with the Anonymous ethos.” Moreover, Tech News Daily said the “mention of the ‘transmission control protocol,’ or TCP, may be a clue to other hackers that the whole thing is a joke. TCP is one of the underlying networking protocols of the Internet.” Commenters on the YouTube video say the message is fake, while some claim the government is behind the threat. “November 5th is a significant date, as it is the date that Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the Parliament building in England as part of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. The incident, as well as the infamous Guy Fawkes mask, has been memorialized in movies such as V for Vendetta. Anonymous has adopted the Fawkes mask as one of the collective’s symbols,” Breitbart.com reported”.[1]
On BBC’s Newsnight, the ever-aloof Jeremy Paxman hosted an unlikely couple to debate the current political malaise in the U.S. Teabagger Sharon Angle and comedian Lee Camp talk about the Republican wanna-be candidates for the 2012 presidential elections and the accompanying gaffes.[1] In an effort to provide some context, last year Angle declared the following: the “Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level”,[2] proving that Rick Perry is not completely on his own.
All the while the Occupy Movement continues unabated, albeit that the police and other agencies are trying very hard to extinguish the flames of resistance in the Land of the Free. As written by Wonkette Jr. on the eponymous website: back in the day when the Bush administration was in charge “people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and endless recession and permanent unemployment? That day is now, and has been for some time. But it’s also now confirmed that it’s now, as some Justice Department official screwed up and admitted that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated the riot-cop raids on a dozen major #Occupy Wall Street demonstration camps nationwide yesterday and today”.[3] Wonkette’s source is Minneapolis-based Rick Ellis who writes that according to an unnamed “Justice official, each of those [anti-OWS] actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies”, particularly referring to conference calls made just prior to crackdowns.[4] In other words, as I wrote last year in Today’s Zaman, “the quickly passed Patriot Act clearly limit[s] the much-valued constitutional rights of US citizens as well as ‘aliens’ deemed threats to US national security. To date, the Obama administration has not revoked this legal measure” and now the Act seems to have been put to good use suppressing the Occupy Wall Street movement.[5] In an effort to boost the credibility of his story, Ellis adds that his “original source for the story (who still works at the Justice Dept.) stands behind the original story and we’re working to flesh it out in more detail today”.[6] Moreover, here is Keith Olbermann shedding light on this and other topics on Friday, 18 November.
Meanwhile in Egypt, the revolution that in some ways sparked the current wave of protest movements worldwide, is undergoing a kind of revival, due to the fact that the ouster of Mubarak did not usher any tangible change but merely solidified the military’s grip. Tahrir Square has been the scene of violent repression since last Friday, 18 November. The Daily Telegraph reports that on ‘a fourth morning of violence in Cairo, Tahrir Square protesters report police firing live rounds but remain firm in their beliefs as they demand that Egypt’s military name a date on which they will hand over power to elected officials (22 November 2011’.
And now, it seems that something has changed in the state of Egypt, as reported by RT: ‘Egypt’s government has resigned amid huge protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Since Friday up to 33 have died in clashes between protesters and security forces, with riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets against stone-throwing demonstrators (22 November 2011)’.
Following the forceful eviction of protesters and occupiers, the ‘Occupy Wall Street’s encampment is gone, but the movement lives on. No one knows, however, just how long it can survive without a literal place to call home. Police cleared Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan early Tuesday [, 15 November] and although protesters are being allowed to return, they can bring only a small bag with them. No tents or sleeping bags are being allowed’.
Keith Olbermann talks to Will Bunch, the author of the 99cent e-book The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge.
‘Will Bunch is senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News – where he writes the popular political blog Attytood – and a senior fellow with Media Matters for America. He shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting in 1992 when he was at New York Newsday. His books include The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, and Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy. His articles have also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times, American Prospect, American Journalism Review, and elsewhere. He lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his family . . . To those among us who get their news via mainstream channels–television, newspapers, public radio–the “battle of the Brooklyn Bridge” may have come as a shock. The movement called Occupy Wall Street had received precious little media attention until Saturday, October 1, 2011, when an idea that arose at Adbusters–a semi-obscure, anti-capitalist magazine based in Vancouver, BC–galvanized hundreds of New York City protesters, who then attempted nothing more than to march across one of the most hallowed symbols of accomplishment in the United States. On the bridge itself, police arrested more than 700 protesters, as is now well known, and thanks to viral videos, the whole world was watching. In The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge, Will Bunch captures the spirit of the day from the sympathetic viewpoint of those who claim that “We are the 99%.” And how. His extended essay–part reportage, part oral history–nails the screaming immediacy of the events with the eloquence of scholar and the pace of a straightforward thriller. As of its publication date, the long-term import of this this event has yet to play out, but Bunch’s gripping narrative of the day’s events will provide a lasting testament to those who were there, and an eye-opening call to attention for the rest of us. –Jason Kirk . . . On the rain-soaked morning of October 1, 2011, the couple hundred protesters camping out in a concrete park in Lower Manhattan and calling themselves Occupy Wall Street were a ragtag army of young revolutionary dreamers, whose declared war against corporate greed and appalling income inequality was mostly ignored by the media and struggling to get any traction with America’s battered middle class. By nightfall, the Occupy Wall Street movement had captured the national imagination – exploding onto the front page and sparking a wave of protest in all 50 states. This is the remarkable story of the tense few hours that changed everything: “October 1, 2011: The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge.” In this instant history, you’ll see the dramatic showdown between marchers and a wall of New York Police Department officers, resulting in 700 arrests, through the eyes of the everyday Americans who lived it – an idealistic and daring college radical, a salty-tongued retired Vietnam-era lawyer on a quest for social justice, the shy theatrical props manager taking part in his first protest, and many more. “October 1, 2011” goes behind the headlines to show a miscalculating NYPD struggling to protect the status quo, to reveal the improbable sparks touching off a new American revolution, and to relive the life-altering choices faced by average citizens trapped inside a police “kettle” as a damp darkness descended on the Brooklyn Bridge. But most importantly, it recasts the Occupy Wall Street movement as a struggle over something even more fundamental than economic injustice: A yearning by ignored and unheard Americans to simply reclaim the public square – the battle that came to a head on a Saturday afternoon high atop the most famous bridge in the world’.[1]
On October 15th, occupy protests will take place in 719 cities in 71 countries. Aside from the US, countries like Argentina, Russia, Canada, Turkey, Australia, India, and pretty much every country in Europe, to name a few. Just like the Occupy protests underway in the US, this movement will also be peaceful, where people can sit down and talk about ways to improve the current standard of living.
The online organisers of this global insurrection put it like this: On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares. From America to Asia, from Africa to Europe, people are rising up to claim their rights and demand a true democracy. Now it is time for all of us to join in a global non violent protest. The ruling powers work for the benefit of just a few, ignoring the will of the vast majority and the human and environmental price we all have to pay. This intolerable situation must end. United in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future. We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers who do not represent us. On October 15th, we will meet on the streets to initiate the global change we want. We will peacefully demonstrate, talk and organize until we make it happen. It’s time for us to unite. It’s time for them to listen.
People of the world, rise up on October 15th!
Will this really come true??? Will the world’s downtrodden rise up and speak in one voice??? Will the example of Occupy Wall Street inspire the world to stand up against the machine that is crushing the human spirit all across the world???
Nothing to lose, everything to win!
We are the people and networks participating in the 15s hub meeting held in Barcelona September 15-18th. 1. We reject austerity as a solution of the current crisis since it leads to an authoritarian and anti-democratic management of the common wealth. We denounce austerity policies because they increase inequalities. They are a direct attack on the different European welfare systems and on the existing social rights won by previous struggles. These austerity policies favour the private economic and financial interests which are themselves responsible for the economic process that lead us to the current crisis. This is not only an economic crisis but most of all a political crisis. It is the moment in which the European social pact has finally been broken. It exposes the collapse of political parties as effective managers of common wealth.
2. Faced with this material and existential precarity we demand the democratization of the economic system and European governance. This will allow the construction of a new economic model of social welfare based on two aspects: the guarantee of an unconditional access to income (basic income for everybody) and the effective and free access to social rights and common wealth (education, health care, housing, knowledge, environment). To make this possible we need to create European fiscal, budgetary and social policies, as well as to audit the debt. We need a new catalogue of social rights including the people’s right to bankruptcy. Bailout people not the banks!
3. We also consider essential to guarantee rights such as net-neutrality and free access to networks, knowledge and education in opposition to privatization and commodification.
4. In this context of precarity and rising unemployment, the position of migrants is the clearest example of the deprivation of labour rights and the devaluing of their contribution to economic production. This is the model that is being extended and imposed on all working populations. We demand social, political and citizenship rights for all regardless of whether you have an employment contract or not. We demand the concession of these rights to all migrants living in European countries. We are all migrants. No one is illegal!
5. We must transform the models of democracy and re-appropriate politics through direct participation in all spheres of political economic and social life. The current model of representative democracy is exhausted. No one represents us! For these reasons on 15th of October we call every one to express together our refusal of their policies which – they pretend – will lead us out of the crisis. Let’s demand a real democracy!
Nothing to lose, everything to win! #UnitedForGlobalChange![1]
Where do these Occupy Wall Street protesters come from? Are they just violent slackers who need to lay blame on others? Or do they really represent the 99 percent of society? How reasonable is it to point the finger at Wall Street? And can they become a new force in politics? CrossTalking with Tony Katz, Kevin Zeese and Jason Del Gandio on 12 October 2011.
And now, on the tenth anniversary of the occupation of Afghanistan there is Occupy DC as well as the Stop the Machine protest: ‘Hundreds of activists gathered on Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, on Thursday [, 6 October] to fight for economic and social justice. The event is called Occupy DC, one of the dozens of similarly-named rallies occurring across America—from Los Angeles to Chicago to Boston to college campuses. The movement of Occupy protests began with the ongoing, massive Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York City’.
Here is the Canadian Real News Network (TRNN) reporting on the occupation of Washington, D.C. as well.
Saturday, 8 Octobert 2011, comic and activist Lee Camp posted on his Facebook account “BREAKING: protesters at #occupyDC maced without warning while peacefully marching into Smithsonian. Spread the word! #occupywallstreet #ows #occupytogether”. [1] The protest is called Stop the Machine! Create a New World: ‘A Call to Action – Oct. 6, 2011 and onward. October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. We call on people of conscience and courage—all who seek peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy environment—to join together in Washington, D.C., beginning on Oct. 6, 2011, in nonviolent resistance similar to the Arab Spring and the Midwest awakening. A concert, rally and protest will kick off a powerful and sustained nonviolent resistance to the corporate criminals that dominate our government. Forty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student at Berkeley, said, “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” Those words have an even greater urgency today. We face ongoing wars and massive socio-economic and environmental destruction perpetrated by a corporate empire which is oppressing, occupying and exploiting the world. We are on a fast track to making the planet unlivable while the middle class and poor people of our country are undergoing the most wrenching and profound economic crisis in 80 years. “Stop the Machine! • Create a New World!” is a clarion call for all who are deeply concerned with injustice, militarism and environmental destruction to join in ending concentrated corporate power and taking direct control of a real participatory democracy. We will encourage a culture of resistance—using music, art, theater and direct nonviolent action—to take control of our country and our lives. It is about courageously resisting and stopping the corporate state from destroying not only our inherent rights and freedoms, but also our children’s chance to live, breathe clean air, drink pure water, grow edible natural food and live in peace. As Mother Jones said, “Someday the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!” We are the ones who can create a new and just world. Our issues are connected. We are connected. Join us in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6, 2011, to Stop the Machine’.[2]
Nowadays one cannot escape news stories about quantitative easing, stimulus packages and stock market fluctuations, which is testament to the fact that our lives are very much determined by forces totally beyond our control. The Great Depression was caused by the Stock Market Crash of 1928 and the crash of 2008 has led to the world’s current dire economic situation. As pointed out by Dominic Sandbrook, “it is no coincidence that almost all the world’s great financial crises have taken place between late August and mid-October. During the summer, when many bankers and speculators are on holiday and their grip on he movements of economic forces are loosened, downward pressures on the markets can develop. Slowly but surely, confidence seeps away. And then, within days of the financial classes arriving back at work, quite suddenly, but utterly devastatingly, the house of cards comes crashing down. The collapse of Lehman Brothers, for example, began in August 2008, when the financial world first realised how much the U.S. bank had been losing on sub-prime mortgages. The pressure escalated, until mid-September three years ago when Lehmans filed for bankruptcy. In that moment, the global financial system suffered a seismic shock from which it has never recovered”.[1] But now, on 17 September 2011, hapless citizens have begun fighting back . . .
Is it any wonder that the Wall Street Occupation is a totally underreported news story??? The mainstream media are simply ignoring this story. On 17 September, CNN’s Julianne Pepitone, nevertheless wrote that “[h]undreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Manhattan’s financial district on Saturday in a largely peaceful protest aimed at drawing attention to the role powerful financial interests played in wreaking havoc on America [and the world]‘s economy. Modelled on the “Arab Spring” uprisings that swept through Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and other countries this year, Occupy Wall Street is a “leaderless resistance movement” orchestrated through Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools. The Twitter hashtags #OccupyWallStreet and #TakeWallStreet lit up Saturday with coordination messages and solidarity tweets . . .Activist magazine Adbusters spearheaded the event, putting the call out two months ago for participants in a Sept. 17 demonstration in lower Manhattan. Protestors arranged to meet and discuss their goals at the iconic Wall Street Bull statue at noon, as well as at a “people’s assembly” at One Chase Manhattan Plaza at 3 p.m.”.[2]
On her Nation blog Allison Kilkenny writes that “[f]ormerly (and perhaps more aptly) named Liberty Park, the plaza has become home to the activists and the center point of an increasingly bitter standoff between protesters and police. In total, twelve individuals have been arrested, one having suffered a leg injury during the arrest. Activists accuse the police of being too aggressive, and videos have begun to appear online showing the behavior in question . . . While the overall attendance was much lower than original projections, and the ultimate occupation has dwindled even further, those protesters who remain in Zuccotti Park have been very effective at utilizing social media (particularly the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet) to spread their message. Outcry erupted [on Tuesday, 20 September] when it became apparent that Yahoo was censoring e-mails that contained references to the Occupy Wall Street protest. A sender would receive a message that there was “suspicious activity” detected on their account when they tried to send a message relating to the event. Yahoo later responded, saying the culprit was an overzealous spam filter. The occupation has also attracted the attention of celebrity activists like Roseanne Barr and Michael Moore. Barr recently visited the protesters to offer words of encouragement”.[3]
Liberty Plaza Day 5
And here is Keith Olbermann reporting on day 6 . . . and for good measure, Michael Moore also ways in: ‘Keith Olbermann asked Moore about Occupy Wall Street and he said, “I can’t speak for why the networks have not covered this. This is really the very first down on Wall Street in the financial district the very first attempt since the crash of 08 to take a real stand, and it’s been powerful, and I gotta believe that even though it may only number in the hundreds right now, this is going to grow, not only on Wall Street, but in communities all over America. And I would encourage people watching this show to think about, okay you can’t make it to New York City, but there’s a branch of Chase Bank in your town. There’s a branch of Bank Of America, and there’s nothing preventing you from organizing a demonstration outside that branch with signs, with possibly even civil disobedience to make your voices heard. They think they’re going to get away with this. These people stole the pension funds of the American public. Who stole their money, who stole the future of our kids and grandkids. They’re kleptomaniacs, and they think they are going to get away with it. They have taken our democracy and formed it into a kleptocracy, and if we don’t stand up. If we don’t have our voices heard, believe me they’re not done yet”’.[4]
It seems but natural that RT America would pick up on this story. The Alyona Show has this: Occupy Wall Street that started on September 17 with about 2,000 people, is now about 100 people, still camping out in Zuccoti Park. Over the last week, there have been arrests, some more violent than others. But what has this last week taught us about protests in America, about Wall Street’s grip on power, and especially on Washington? Independent Journalist Evan Shamar discusses (23 September 2011).
And finally, on the same day as the Alyona Show’s report the BBC’s Jill Martin wrote that “Wall Street’s unwelcome warriors hang on to protest”.[5] Martin elaborates that the protesters “are the kind of people who would normally find no reason to linger in New York’s financial district – people wearing hooded tops, biker jackets and plaid shirts – but for a week they have been camping there. All are anti-Wall Street protesters, but with barricades and swarms of police officers in front of the New York Stock Exchange the closest they can get to their target is Liberty Street, a good three streets away. An online activist group called Adbusters organised the gathering and the word spread through social media. With attention focused sharply on the financial markets and many US citizens suffering hardships undreamed of in the 1980s and 1990s, campaigners thought they could pull in thousands to join them but although the campaign – broadly known as “Occupy Wall Street” – has attracted people from thousands of miles away, only about 50 people are currently involved”, adding that the “small numbers have not dampened the group’s enthusiasm – but the weather has”.[6]
The BBC reporter observes that “[t]hose who have weathered this week’s rains in New York are clearly tired by the effort: the ground at their base camp is dappled with sleeping protesters, who are covered in blankets and tarpaulin. And they are heavy sleepers. Even though the raucous daily protest march past the New York Stock Exchange involves a cacophony of drumming and chanting, several manage to slumber through it. Protesters chant such slogans as: “Abolish the Fed! Stop building up the debt!” The parading demonstrators are flanked by a small army of police officers, tourists, members of the media, and people who are trying to get to work”.[7] And now, the new mainstream news channel Al Jazeera has decided that Occupy Wall Street deserves some airtime. The OccupyWallStreet website notes that ‘We have at least four arrests today during a community march, a fifth arrest is suspected but police will not confirm. A legal observer attempting to contact an arrested member was not allowed to due to “an emergency situation,” we are currently unsure of what this means. At least one arrest was due to a protester taking photographs. At least one protester’s possessions have not been returned. Please call the first precinct, central booking and the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information and urge them to release these peaceful protesters . . . We are now receiving reports that at least 80 protesters have been arrested. The National Lawyer’s Guild puts the number at around one hundred. Liberty square is currently full with an ongoing discussion on how to respond to this unprecedented level of police aggression. Police are currently surrounding the square. There is nearly one police officer for every two protesters’.[8]
We’ll take a look at Leon Panetta, and how he’ll handle being the new secretary of defense. Then, we’ll speak to a journalist who was brutally arrested in Wisconsin for filming the police. Also, find out if 1 in 4 hackers are really are FBI informants. And then it’s time for our happy hour.
OWS, Tea Parties, Sharon Angle vs Lee Camp and Tahrir Square
On BBC’s Newsnight, the ever-aloof Jeremy Paxman hosted an unlikely couple to debate the current political malaise in the U.S. Teabagger Sharon Angle and comedian Lee Camp talk about the Republican wanna-be candidates for the 2012 presidential elections and the accompanying gaffes.[1] In an effort to provide some context, last year Angle declared the following: the “Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level”,[2] proving that Rick Perry is not completely on his own.
All the while the Occupy Movement continues unabated, albeit that the police and other agencies are trying very hard to extinguish the flames of resistance in the Land of the Free. As written by Wonkette Jr. on the eponymous website: back in the day when the Bush administration was in charge “people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and endless recession and permanent unemployment? That day is now, and has been for some time. But it’s also now confirmed that it’s now, as some Justice Department official screwed up and admitted that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated the riot-cop raids on a dozen major #Occupy Wall Street demonstration camps nationwide yesterday and today”.[3] Wonkette’s source is Minneapolis-based Rick Ellis who writes that according to an unnamed “Justice official, each of those [anti-OWS] actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies”, particularly referring to conference calls made just prior to crackdowns.[4] In other words, as I wrote last year in Today’s Zaman, “the quickly passed Patriot Act clearly limit[s] the much-valued constitutional rights of US citizens as well as ‘aliens’ deemed threats to US national security. To date, the Obama administration has not revoked this legal measure” and now the Act seems to have been put to good use suppressing the Occupy Wall Street movement.[5] In an effort to boost the credibility of his story, Ellis adds that his “original source for the story (who still works at the Justice Dept.) stands behind the original story and we’re working to flesh it out in more detail today”.[6] Moreover, here is Keith Olbermann shedding light on this and other topics on Friday, 18 November.
Meanwhile in Egypt, the revolution that in some ways sparked the current wave of protest movements worldwide, is undergoing a kind of revival, due to the fact that the ouster of Mubarak did not usher any tangible change but merely solidified the military’s grip. Tahrir Square has been the scene of violent repression since last Friday, 18 November. The Daily Telegraph reports that on ‘a fourth morning of violence in Cairo, Tahrir Square protesters report police firing live rounds but remain firm in their beliefs as they demand that Egypt’s military name a date on which they will hand over power to elected officials (22 November 2011’.
And now, it seems that something has changed in the state of Egypt, as reported by RT: ‘Egypt’s government has resigned amid huge protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Since Friday up to 33 have died in clashes between protesters and security forces, with riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets against stone-throwing demonstrators (22 November 2011)’.
[1] Cfr. “Rick Perry: Three Government Agencies to Abolish” A Pseudo-Ottoman Blog (11 November 2011). http://sitanbul.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/rick-perry-three-government-agencies-to-abolish/.
[2] Daniel Kurtzman, “The 10 Most Ridiculous Sharron Angle Quotes (So Far),” About.com. http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/republicanquotes/a/Sharron-Angle-Quotes.htm.
[3] Wonkette Jr., “Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns” Wonkette (15 November 2011). http://wonkette.com/456282/surprise-homeland-security-coordinates-ows-crackdowns-nationwide.
[4] Rick Ellis. “Update: ‘Occupy’ crackdowns coordinated with federal law enforcement officials” The Examiner (15 November 2011). http://www.examiner.com/top-news-in-minneapolis/were-occupy-crackdowns-aided-by-federal-law-enforcement-agencies.
[5] C. Erimtan, “9/11 and the occupation of Afghanistan” Today’s Zaman (13 September 2010).
[6] Rick Ellis. “Update: ‘Occupy’ crackdowns coordinated with federal law enforcement officials”.
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