# Egypt. **URL:** \ **Category:** PolitiSUCK\ **Created:** [January 25, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538 "2011-01-25T11:22:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/41 "2011-01-31T12:33:20Z")
Stuffs crazy a friend’s dad is in Egypt right now. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/42 "2011-01-31T12:54:35Z")
> [@ultradriver10000](#): > > Stuffs crazy a friend’s dad is in Egypt right now. :eek: Not for long if he’s smart. I’d be at the embassy grabbing the first airlift out of there that they could get me on. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/43 "2011-02-01T07:38:31Z")
jesus: ![http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/02/01/21.jpg](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/02/01/21.jpg) ![http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/03.jpg](http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/03.jpg) ![http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/08.jpg](http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/08.jpg) ![http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/11.jpg](http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/11.jpg) here is one of the prayer pics… stop the protests mid-swing, prayer, resume protests… awesome ![http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/15.jpg](http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2011/01/world/gallery.large.egyptians/images/15.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/44 "2011-02-01T08:26:25Z")
I still don’t see how rotating between praying and blowing shit up fits with any religion. Probably why I’m not very religious. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/45 "2011-02-01T12:18:24Z")
1,000,000+ marching now ![http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110201&t=2&i=325042449&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=2011-02-01T185522Z_25_GM1E7211SXB01_RTRRPP_0_EGYPT-PROTESTS](http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110201&t=2&i=325042449&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=2011-02-01T185522Z_25_GM1E7211SXB01_RTRRPP_0_EGYPT-PROTESTS) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/46 "2011-02-01T12:30:42Z")
Mubarek isn’t stepping down but he just said he won’t run for reelection in the fall. If they buy that and stop protesting they have the collective IQ of a turnip. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/47 "2011-02-01T13:18:10Z")
well in less than a week they shut down their economy, shut down their internet, dissolved their government and then he agreed to no seek re-election… another week and he’ll have a sex-change operation ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/48 "2011-02-03T19:02:24Z")
Getting shitty over there… Anderson Cooper punched in the face & other reporters in hospitals, reports of government officials paying people who have been out of work and hungry to protest against the anti-government movement… and using American money to do it, lol. And this is the video of the day: [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353501/Egypt-riots-The-moment-police-van-ploughed-crowd-Cairo.html](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353501/Egypt-riots-The-moment-police-van-ploughed-crowd-Cairo.html) ![http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/04/article-1353501-0D09120F000005DC-444_634x336.jpg](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/04/article-1353501-0D09120F000005DC-444_634x336.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/49 "2011-02-03T20:52:02Z")
6 dead… this is not going to go away very soon. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/50 "2011-02-04T07:21:30Z")
Egyptian officials are saying the international media is responsible for the violence and protests… Iran’s Ayatollah is now saying this is a Muslim awakening caused in part by their '79 revolution… … This, ignoring all the rising food prices, high unemployment, broken government promises and more than half their country making less that $4 per day that we’ve heard were the real reasons FROM THE MOUTHS of the anti-government protesters via social media and first-hand reporting. Misinformation in that part of the world can be deadly. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/51 "2011-02-04T08:54:16Z")
They aren’t the only ones trying to take credit or place blame for the revolution. > The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately and turn over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military, administration officials and Arab diplomats said Thursday. > **[White House and Egypt Discuss Plan for Mubarak’s Exit (Published 2011)](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04diplomacy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)** > > President Hosni Mubarak has balked at leaving, but talks are continuing with Egyptian officials about a plan in which the vice president would begin reforms, officials said. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/52 "2011-02-04T09:14:32Z")
Yeah the left is saying this was started by Obama’s speech in Cairo in 2009, while the right is saying it was started by Condoleezza Rice’s speech in Cairo in 2005… uuhhgg. I’d post videos but they basically said the same thing; that the US is now on the side of Democracy and the people, not the oppressive government. No one is going to want to take credit for this though if this turns out like Iran. And any involvement by the US is going to be played as “evil” no matter who’s in office. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/53 "2011-02-07T10:45:54Z")
![http://i.imgur.com/a19Nw.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/a19Nw.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/54 "2011-02-08T09:49:43Z")
> [@theblue](#): > > ![http://i.imgur.com/a19Nw.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/f/8/f87156506d16ca8abad91ccfc0aba0082e042a4b.jpeg) :lol: 👏 ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/55 "2011-02-09T11:21:05Z")
Saw some headline about the recently released google exec saying he would die for the cause, workers going on strike, and Friday being a day for martyrdom. Looks like the opposition is going to get more forceful. Too bad that Mubarek doesn’t get that if he left peacefully he’d have a shot at being allowed to live. If they’ve got to overthrow him by force I’m sure he’ll be killed one way or another. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/56 "2011-02-09T11:30:12Z")
They’re (the protesters) not going to kill him. They can’t get to him with the army mediating and pro-government forces in their way. If it’s done :snky: then maybe, but I don’t see a “tanks firing on the Russian White House” moment like in 1993; ![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Tanks_before_Russian_White_house.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Tanks_before_Russian_White_house.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/57 "2011-02-09T14:05:42Z")
Woah that’s sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/58 "2011-02-09T19:52:15Z")
Although I have read that; > “If this thing continues or grows, the military will have to decide whether to stage a coup and order a crackdown,” said Michael W. Hanna, an Egypt expert at the New York-based Century Foundation. “In the meantime, the situation will not change unless the army decides to change it.” > [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020904545.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020904545.html) So we’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/59 "2011-02-09T20:44:18Z")
Fucking terrifying to have a standing army that acts so independently. Good thing they seem to be acting for justice… ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538/60 "2011-02-10T08:34:02Z")
Riot police being moved into place right non in anticipation of an announcement… Everyone’s saying Mubarek is going to step down. Could happen at any moment. :tup: ---------- Post added at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 AM ---------- Mubarek out. Military in via coup. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/egypt/208538.md?page=4)