Live: Al Jazeera coverage of Egypt’s growing revolution

[MacCruiskeen]

National Geographic does it's bit...

"With Egypt descending further into chaos by the hour, I've been fielding a lot of questions from readers about what to do."

Intelligent Travel

"Get out there and join them!"

[Laodicean]

Digital Darkness: U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices

Doing the regime’s bidding, British-based Vodafone shut down Egypt’s phone and internet service. The American company called Narus — owned by Boeing — sold Egypt the surveillance technology that helped identify dissident voices. We are joined by Tim Karr of Free Press and CUNY Professor C.W. Anderson. Anderson traces the radical roots of Twitter to U.S. protests at the 2004 conventions.

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-2

More on Narus via a comment:

Narus - http://www.narus.com/index.php/news/pre ... rticle/277

Narus is a leader in real-time traffic intelligence and analytics technologies, enabling customers to identify and act on anomalous traffic in its network. Coupled with its unique patented algorithms and analytics, Narus helps carriers, governments and enterprises manage and protect their large IP networks against cyber threats and the risks of doing business in cyberspace. Narus provides this information in real time, and can be used in large distributed networks because its software is massively scalable.

Narus’ system protects and manages the largest IP networks in the United States and around the world, some of which include KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Raytheon, Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India), Sify (India), Cable and Wireless, Saudi Telecom, U.S. Cellular, Pakistan Telecom Authority and many more. Narus is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Narus is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with regional offices around the world.

[hanshan]

Digital Darkness: U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices

Doing the regime’s bidding, British-based Vodafone shut down Egypt’s phone and internet service. The American company called Narus — owned by Boeing — sold Egypt the surveillance technology that helped identify dissident voices. We are joined by Tim Karr of Free Press and CUNY Professor C.W. Anderson. Anderson traces the radical roots of Twitter to U.S. protests at the 2004 conventions.

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-2

More on Narus via a comment:

Narus - http://www.narus.com/index.php/news/pre ... rticle/277

Narus is a leader in real-time traffic intelligence and analytics technologies, enabling customers to identify and act on anomalous traffic in its network. Coupled with its unique patented algorithms and analytics, Narus helps carriers, governments and enterprises manage and protect their large IP networks against cyber threats and the risks of doing business in cyberspace. Narus provides this information in real time, and can be used in large distributed networks because its software is massively scalable.

Narus’ system protects and manages the largest IP networks in the United States and around the world, some of which include KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Raytheon, Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India), Sify (India), Cable and Wireless, Saudi Telecom, U.S. Cellular, Pakistan Telecom Authority and many more. Narus is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Narus is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with regional offices around the world.

No surprises there. Fascism is big business.


...

[MacCruiskeen]

And big business is fascism,especially when it has an army to defend it.

Like all turds of his ilk, the turd Mubarak is going to try to sit this out, and I am worried about the Army's support for what it pointedly calls peaceful protest. Peacefulness may well get the protestors nowhere, and the Army may well be counting on that.

What will happen if they stop being content to be so photogenically peaceful and ineffective? What will happen if they actually try to instigate real change themselves, e.g. by occupying state radio and TV stations? Will that count as violence (another weasel word)? Will the Army still support them then?

[WakeUpAndLive]

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133381210 ... e-In-Egypt

SIEGEL: And, first, let's talk about the Muslim Brotherhood. It is officially banned in Egypt and it's one of the longest lasting and best organized groups to oppose the regime. But it hasn't appeared to be a big player in this protest. Is that a measure of its importance? Or is is a tactical low profile:

Mr. RIEDEL: Well, the Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and the strongest and the best organized opposition group in Egypt. But it also knows that it has been used by the Mubarak regime for 30 years to demonize the opposition and to paint it as Islamic terrorists.

So I think the Muslim Brotherhood in this current round of unrest has played it very cleverly, letting others be out front even as it helps to organize these demonstrations. I think what we saw at the end of last week, particularly on Friday, is that when the Muslim Brotherhood does give the instructions to get people out, you see much, much larger crowd than you had up until that moment.

In any future Democratic government in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is going to play an important role. We shouldn't be terrified by that, but we should be aware that that's going to be the outcome.

Goes on in further detail.

[MacCruiskeen]

OMG!!! CHAOS LOOTING MUZZLIMBROTHARHOOD ARABSTREET ALQAEDAR CHAOS OMG!!! (hat-tip to nathan28)

Alexandria youth 'protecting library from looters'

Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina issues message of thanks to young people he says are defending building from 'thugs'

Benedicte Page
# guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 February 2011 13.52 GMT

The director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has announced that his building, built in commemoration of the famous ancient library destroyed in antiquity, is being kept safe by Egypt's young people during the current unrest sweeping the country.

In a statement on the library's site, Ismail Serageldin tells "friends around the world" that the library is being protected by the city's youth from the threat of looting by the "lawless bands of thugs, and maybe agents provocateurs" who have materialised since the popular protests sweeping through Egypt's major cities began several days ago.

"The young people organised themselves into groups that directed traffic, protected neighborhoods and guarded public buildings of value such as the Egyptian Museum and the Library of Alexandria," he states. "They are collaborating with the army. This makeshift arrangement is in place until full public order returns."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/fe ... CMP=twt_gu

Public order is already there. QED.The country has never been more orderly in the last 30 years.

The worst weasel-words of all are "chaos" and "disorder". They're mediaspeak euphemisms for "no bosses in sight".

[beeline]

The worst weasel-words of all are "chaos" and "disorder". They're mediaspeak euphemisms for "no bosses in sight".

That struck me this morning, seeing "chaos" in the headlines, but reading the RNN feed on Facebook, I could detect no "chaos," rather, massive amounts of people gathered in protest.

[23]

The revolutionaries in Egypt are shedding a positive light on the oft maligned term of anarchism. By effectively evidencing what decentralized self-management looks like, a core component of anarchism. Anarchists owe a debt to them for that.

A turn towards violence, on the other hand, will only darken that light.

And to the eye that remains subservient to authoritarianism, liberation from that subservience appears as chaos.

[nathan28]

The revolutionaries in Egypt are shedding a positive light on the oft maligned term of anarchism. By effectively evidencing what decentralized self-management looks like, a core component of anarchism.

Exactly, exactly! Like that one character said on Democracy Now, the volunteer traffic directors are better at it than anyone else! I give anarchists a hard time but it's really just tough love.

[Jeff]

No wonder then that the chief fear of Western intelligence agencies and corporate risk consultants is not that mass resistance might fail to generate vibrant and viable democracies, but simply the prospect of a regional “contagion” that could destabilize “Saudi oil fields.” Such conventional analyses, of course, entirely miss the point: The American Empire, and the global political economy it has spawned, is unravelling – not because of some far-flung external danger, but under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It is unsustainable – already in overshoot of the earth’s natural systems, exhausting its own resource base, alienating the vast majority of the human and planetary population.

The solution in Tunisia, in Egypt, in the entire Middle East, and beyond, does not lay merely in aspirations for democracy. Hope can only spring from a fundamental re-evaluation of the entire structure of our civilization in its current form. If we do not use the opportunities presented by these crises to push for fundamental structural change, then the “contagion” will engulf us all.

http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2011/02/grea ... t-and.html

[23]

The solution in Tunisia, in Egypt, in the entire Middle East, and beyond, does not lay merely in aspirations for democracy. Hope can only spring from a fundamental re-evaluation of the entire structure of our civilization in its current form. If we do not use the opportunities presented by these crises to push for fundamental structural change, then the “contagion” will engulf us all.

A spot on observation. This is a paradigm shift moment. It is happening, whether we like it or not.

Most of my neighbors, however, are more interested in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Ripe fodder for an engulfing contagion.

[Jeff]

The revolutionaries in Egypt are shedding a positive light on the oft maligned term of anarchism. By effectively evidencing what decentralized self-management looks like, a core component of anarchism.

Exactly, exactly! Like that one character said on Democracy Now, the volunteer traffic directors are better at it than anyone else! I give anarchists a hard time but it's really just tough love.

I've been thinking similar thoughts for a few days now, hearing about the "power vacuum." And there's another slave term for the dustbin. From whence cometh this power that tells the people I'll take it from here? No thanks, I'd like some anarchy please. Because right now, Cairo's reminding me more of Barcelona than anything has in my lifetime.

[MacCruiskeen]

From Bliar to Netanyahoo to Cameron to Clinton, the entire Western political establishment has discredited itself utterly with its craven, hypocritical, opportunistic bet-hedging over the last week.

So that's another Good Thing.

Viva Anarchy!

[psynapz]

Digital Darkness: U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices

Doing the regime’s bidding, British-based Vodafone shut down Egypt’s phone and internet service. The American company called Narus — owned by Boeing — sold Egypt the surveillance technology that helped identify dissident voices. We are joined by Tim Karr of Free Press and CUNY Professor C.W. Anderson. Anderson traces the radical roots of Twitter to U.S. protests at the 2004 conventions.

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-2

More on Narus via a comment:

Narus - http://www.narus.com/index.php/news/pre ... rticle/277

Narus is a leader in real-time traffic intelligence and analytics technologies, enabling customers to identify and act on anomalous traffic in its network. Coupled with its unique patented algorithms and analytics, Narus helps carriers, governments and enterprises manage and protect their large IP networks against cyber threats and the risks of doing business in cyberspace. Narus provides this information in real time, and can be used in large distributed networks because its software is massively scalable.

Narus’ system protects and manages the largest IP networks in the United States and around the world, some of which include KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Raytheon, Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India), Sify (India), Cable and Wireless, Saudi Telecom, U.S. Cellular, Pakistan Telecom Authority and many more. Narus is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Narus is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with regional offices around the world.

More on Narus on RI:

James Bamford explains how Israeli companies spy on US

Israel tasked with spying on Americans - Bamford

Surveillance

Former AT&T employee: "network has NSA spyroom"

NSA Scrapped Tested, Legal Program for Warrantless Spying

Telecoms and ISPs Feed Secret State's Surveillance Machine


More on Narus, etc. on Cryptogon:

NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite

Narus Develops a Scary Sleuth for Social Media

AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance

The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE

[nathan28]

Former AT&T employee: "network has NSA spyroom"

And there's only a hundred thousand times more people in the streets than in that spyroom. I'll take those odds.