Bookmarks 01/31/2012

@QabilaTv يا شعب مصر … مع تميم | قبيلة – YouTube beautiful tags: egypt jan25 poetry video revolution TRAFFIC – Wildlife Trade News – Illegal ivory trade blooms during Egypt’s Arab Spring not sure the data is reliable, but would have to investigate the report linked to here.  tags: egypt revolution law conservation nature animals trade [...]

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Bookmarks 01/29/2012

Sightings of the Egyptian Deep State | Middle East Research and Information Project tags: egypt politics scaf military intelligence government Apart from gross incompetence, the army’s actions have another explanation: reassertion of a “deep state” that was badly bruised during the January uprising and took some time to regain its footing. While the army may [...]

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Bookmarks 01/28/2012

‫كاذبون – Kazeboon – Revolution Records‬‎ – YouTube tags: revolution youtube music hiphop arabic kazeboon military noscaf scaf jan25 jan25two ‫كاذبون – Kazeboon – Revolution Records‬‎ – YouTube tags: revolution youtube music hiphop arabic kazeboon military noscaf scaf jan25 jan25two NASA GISS: Research News: NASA Finds 2011 Ninth Warmest Year on Record tags: environment climate [...]

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Bookmarks 01/27/2012

Farmers in limbo after stalled promises of loan forgiveness | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt tags: egypt debt agriculture government policy Bill Gates pushes ‘green revolution’ for small farms in developing world – The Washington Post tags: BillGates development agriculture research aid poverty rural Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are [...]

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Bookmarks 01/23/2012

Campaign slams IMF for ‘illegitimate’ negotiations with Egypt The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt held a conference Saturday to demand that the government leave the decision to accept the loan up to the incoming parliament “The IMF was involved over the past two decades in drawing and implementing the economic and financial policies of [...]

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Bookmarks 01/22/2012

‫الجيش المصري يستطيع اسقاط دولة اسرائيل في 3 ساعات‬‎ – YouTube tags: egypt military israel funny lol Land Carvings Attest to Amazon’s Lost World – NYTimes.com tags: amazon history colonialism indigenous The deforestation that has stripped the Amazon since the 1970s has also exposed a long-hidden secret lurking underneath thick rain forest: flawlessly designed geometric [...]

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Bookmarks 01/21/2012

The New Student Activism – NYTimes.com tags: occupy occupywallstreet ows university youth activism protests student Mirroring the broader movement, students have taken aim at widening income disparities and the cozy symbiosis between Washington and Wall Street. But the college occupiers have also embraced a panoply of causes, localizing and personalizing their protests in a way [...]

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Dream gone bad – a year after #Jan25

I posted this video (English subtitled version) on facebook (with a snarky comment about banning the use of requiem for a dream soundtrack music), and I think twitter. But as we close in on #Jan25, I feel the need to say a little more about it. When I was in Cairo over Christmas break, I felt [...]

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Bookmarks 01/20/2012

The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser – YouTube tags: starwars movies youtube funny dogs video ScienceFiction Carter: Tantawi in denial over “girl in the blue bra” – Blog – The Arabist tags: egypt. military scaf noscaf violence JimmyCarter politics bullshit The generals either lied to their teeth, or more probably and more worryingly, [...]

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Bookmarks 01/19/2012

The Amazing Discussion That Led to the Wikipedia Blackout – Megan Garber – Technology – The Atlantic tags: wiki internet intellectual-property unitedstates politics law media SOPA Sleepless Nights in Paris’ Red Light District – LightBox tags: photo photography paris prostitution art pics Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Bookmarks 01/18/2012

‫بلدنا: لا تراجع عن إقامة محطة الضبعة النووية‬‎ – YouTube gov’t insists it will go ahead.  ahaly want their land back tags: egypt nuclear energy land politics energy-policy policy electricity Urban planner David Sims explodes myths on Cairo’s dysfunction | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt tags: egypt cairo urban development design transport housing slums [...]

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Bookmarks 01/17/2012

NYC’s deadly deal with Israeli apartheid | SocialistWorker.org tags: unitedstates israel NYC apartheid military industry corporate zionism zionist A few days before Christmas last year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans for a $2 billion research campus to be constructed in partnership with Cornell University, Technion and the City of New York. With rare exceptions like [...]

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Bookmarks 01/15/2012

Leading female figure in Muslim Brotherhood slams December’s women march | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt tags: egypt women protest muslim-brotherhood islamism counterrevolution politics revolution Speaking to the London based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper Saturday, Abul Hassan argued that “When a woman marches to defend her rights, this affronts her dignity.” This march was a [...]

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Bookmarks 01/14/2012

George W. Bush cancels Switzerland visit over fears of arrest on torture charges | Mail Online tags: bush torture crime international law switzerland In Translation: Samer Soliman on revolution and reform – Blog – The Arabist tags: egypt revolution activism politics economy jan25 whatnext Latin America’s lessons for the SCAF | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from [...]

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Bookmarks 01/13/2012

لجنة الجرد تعثر على 43 ألف كتاب نادر فى «قصر عابدين» بينها 4 نسخ من «وصف مصر» | المصري اليوم، أخبار اليوم من مصر inventory committee finds 43k rare books in abdeen library tags: egypt corruption history books map mubarak Occupy George stamps for dollar bills on income disparity, 99v1% etc tags: unitedstates activism money [...]

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