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Chaos Strategy in Egypt?
It's looking more and more possible that the Mubarak regime is deliberately trying to make Egypt look more chaotic than would otherwise exist thanks to the uprising. There is consistent talk about "thugs" that are responsible for the lion's share of the looting and violence. There are also disturbing reports from journalists like Mona Eltahawy and activists like Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch that these "thugs" are a combination the secret police and hardened prison escapees.
(Who may have been deliberately set loose by the regime, though nobody's sure of that.)
Arab Earthquake: Egypt Is the Region's Turning Point
Mimicking the Tunisian experience, decades of economic and socio-political disenfranchisement, electoral fraud (most recently during the November parliamentary elections), rampant state corruption and the persistent use of social media helped draw Egyptians from every walk of life, many of whom had never participated in demonstrations and many of whom felt their frustrations could no longer be silenced
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The Torture Career of Egypt's New Vice President: Omar Suleiman and the Rendition to Torture Program
www.commondreams.orgIn response to the mass protests of recent days, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has appointed his first Vice President in his over 30 years rule, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman. When Suleiman was first announced, Aljazeera commentators were describing him as a "distinguished" and "respected
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GRIN Plasmonics: A Practical Path to Superfast Computing, Ultrapowerful Optical Microscopy and Invisibility Carpet-Cloaking Devices
A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have carried out the first experimental demonstration of GRIN -- for gradient index -- plasmonics, a hybrid technology that opens the door to a wide range of exotic optics, including superfast computers based on light rather than electronic signals, ultra-powerful optical microscopes able to resolve DNA molecules with visible light, and "invisibility" carpet-cloaking devices .
Working with composites featuring a dielectric (non-conducting) material on a metal substrate, and "grey-scale" electron beam lithography, a standard method in the computer chip industry for patterning 3-D surface topographies, the researchers have fabricated highly efficient plasmonic versions of Luneburg and Eaton lenses. A Luneburg lens focuses light from all directions equally well, and an Eaton lens bends light 90 degrees from all incoming directions."This past year, we used computer simulations to demonstrate that with only moderate modifications of an isotropic dielectric material in a dielectric-metal composite, it would be possible to achieve practical transformation optics results," says Xiang Zhang, who led this research. "Our GRIN plasmonics technique provides a practical way for routing light at very small scales and producing efficient functional plasmonic devices."
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Egypt protests show George W. Bush was right about freedom in the Arab world
What lesson will Arab regimes learn? Will they undertake the steady reforms that may bring peaceful change, or will they conclude that exiled Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali erred only by failing to shoot and club enough demonstrators? And will our own government learn that dictatorships are never truly stable? For beneath the calm surface enforced by myriad security forces, the pressure for change only grows - and it may grow in extreme and violent forms when real debate and political competition are denied.
The regimes of Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak proffered the same line to Washington: It's us or the Islamists. For Tunisia, a largely secular nation with a literacy rate of 75 percent and per capita GDP of $9,500, this claim was never defensible. In fact, Ben Ali jailed moderates, human rights advocates, editors - anyone who represented what might be called "hope and change."Mubarak took the same tack for three decades. Ruling under an endless emergency law, he has crushed the moderate opposition while the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has thrived underground and in the mosques. Mubarak in effect created a two-party system - his ruling National Democratic Party and the Brotherhood - and then defended the lack of democracy by saying a free election would bring the Islamists to power.
( Arab regimes ? Are they the only ones without real choices, then ? )
The Double Life of Women
The invisible turns of the reproductive cycle shape the everyday behavior of women and men. A woman's cycle influences not just her preference in a partner, but her personality as well.
Not Worth the Paper They're Printed on
A series of core documents of the Palestine Papers shows just how far the Obama administration has been willing to go to satisfy Israel -- to the point of abandoning prior pledges, international agreements, and American principles.
Clinton urged calm on both sides and said the government must investigate and prosecute any allegations of brutality by security forces.. She called on Egypt to restore access to the Internet and social media sites that have been been blocked.
The triumph of Davos
as the Egypt crisis evolved over the first few days of the Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, two things rapidly became clear. Firstly, this was an astonishing stroke of good timing: rarely is a major global crisis so fluid and susceptible to outside influence just as the world’s top politicians, businessmen, and thinkers are all in the same place at the same time. Secondly, the work being put in by delegates to define shared norms for the new reality was directly relevant to Egypt, which was clearly in desperate need of shared norms for everybody to agree on as it moves uncomfortably into recognition that it’s now in a new reality.
The result was undoubtedly impressive. All panels and events were reconfigured to concentrate on Egypt and what the delegates at Davos could do to help. The small Swiss village was full of leaders of every stripe — women’s leaders, youth leaders, media leaders, business leaders, and, of course, politicians with direct influence and importance, such as Amre Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League. Knowing that swift and focused action was the order of the day, they rapidly put together an action plan. It was both clear enough to persuade Hosni Mubarak that global opinion had turned decisively against him and that his position was no longer tenable, and flexible enough to adapt to rapidly-changing realities in Cairo.
With money from a large number of the Davos rich and communications expertise from broadcast, telecommunications, and social-media representatives, the manifesto put together in the space of just two days at the Congress Center became a clear rallying point not only for Egypt’s disaffected youth but also for their counterparts across the region. And with radical and democratic change now just a matter of timing, Arab countries saw that a peaceful transition to stable democracy was both possible and necessary. The rest is history.
The triumph of Davos
as the Egypt crisis evolved over the first few days of the Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, two things rapidly became clear. Firstly, this was an astonishing stroke of good timing: rarely is a major global crisis so fluid and susceptible to outside influence just as the world’s top politicians, businessmen, and thinkers are all in the same place at the same time. Secondly, the work being put in by delegates to define shared norms for the new reality was directly relevant to Egypt, which was clearly in desperate need of shared norms for everybody to agree on as it moves uncomfortably into recognition that it’s now in a new reality.
The result was undoubtedly impressive. All panels and events were reconfigured to concentrate on Egypt and what the delegates at Davos could do to help. The small Swiss village was full of leaders of every stripe — women’s leaders, youth leaders, media leaders, business leaders, and, of course, politicians with direct influence and importance, such as Amre Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League. Knowing that swift and focused action was the order of the day, they rapidly put together an action plan. It was both clear enough to persuade Hosni Mubarak that global opinion had turned decisively against him and that his position was no longer tenable, and flexible enough to adapt to rapidly-changing realities in Cairo.
With money from a large number of the Davos rich and communications expertise from broadcast, telecommunications, and social-media representatives, the manifesto put together in the space of just two days at the Congress Center became a clear rallying point not only for Egypt’s disaffected youth but also for their counterparts across the region. And with radical and democratic change now just a matter of timing, Arab countries saw that a peaceful transition to stable democracy was both possible and necessary. The rest is history.
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Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam el-Eryan said today that Egyptian opposition groups have agreed to back former IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei to negotiate with the government, Al Jazeera reports:
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Groton - Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, to support the Multinational Force and Observers.
The Wrong Friends: The Uncomfortable Lesson of the Uprisings in the Middle East
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Demonstrators burn a poster of former Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali while protesting out front of the Prime Minister's office in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 24, 2011. Gen. Rachid Ammar, a general who may be both the most powerful and the most popular figure in Tunisia spoke publicly Monday for
Juan Cole: "Egypt is a Praetorian Regime"
U.S. aid is a little bit of a shell game, because Congress typically directs that all of the matériel come from the United States. So it’s actually aid to U.S. corporations, and then the Egyptians get some of it in the form of goods and so forth, military weaponry, which they mostly don’t need.
Has The Fourth Amendment Been Dismantled By Technology And The Courts?
The courts have effectively stripped away the Fourth Amendment in a technological era by effectively saying that "virtual" technology-based searches don't fall under the Fourth Amendment and, thus, do not need the same sort of oversight.
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As has been said, probably rightly, the 19th century did not end until 1914, when the First World War broke out; similarly, the 20th century did not end on New Year's Eve 2000 or New Year's Day 2001, as the calendar would suggest, but continued for another few months. I daresay that the 20th century
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Evidence George W. Bush's advanced knowledge of the attacks of September 11, 2001 *Clip from "911 in Plane Sight"
STEPHEN HARPER: CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER & CSIS OPERATIVE by Arthur Topham January 18, 2011
"The human race is a stage though which various forms of consciousness travel... Before you can be allowed into systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must first learn to handle energy and see, through physical materialization, the concr...ete result of thought and emotion" "In more advanced systems, thoughts, and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action, into whatever approximation of matter there exists... Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned well... The responsibility for creation must be clearly understood" "You must be taught and trained to create responsibly... Yours is a training system for emerging consciousness" "You are learning to be cocreators... You are learning to be gods as you now understand the term... You are learning responsibility- the responsibility of any individualized consciousness... You are learning to handle the energy that is yourself, for creative purposes" "The child must mature, and your system is a maturing ground, a very primary one…A beginning school"
Extraterrestrials now live among us in China and in U.S.A., newspapers report
Dispersants Persisted After BP Spill
“Dispersants typically degrade fairly rapidly,” McGee says. “So the new data leave me fairly surprised.”
Chemicals used to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico last year lasted through September.
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How Users in Egypt Are Bypassing Twitter & Facebook Blocks
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Despite the blocks on social networks imposed by Egypt's government, messages are still getting out to the social web. Here's how savvy users are bypassing this censorship.
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In physics, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that the process of observing subatomic particles affects their behavior. We have a similar principle in journalism: the
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An abandoned home for sale in Memphis, Tenn. April 7, 2010. The city's rising unemployment and growing foreclosures in the recession have combined to destroy black wealth, income and erase two decades of slow progress. (Photo: Josh Anderson / The New York Times)
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