What's in all that tear gas we've been selling Egypt? If you've been watching any coverage of the Egyptian protests, you've no doubt seen the tear gas plumes as canisters are shot at protestors—often to be picked up and hurled back moments later. Many of those tear gas containers falling on the bridges and streets of Cairo aren't local products, however; they come from Jamestown, Pennsylvania, home of Combined Tactical Systems. Several reporters in Egypt have commented on that fact this week. ABC News ran a story on the gas today in which it quotes a protestor saying, "The way I see it, the US administration supports dictators. " It's no secret that Egypt is one of the largest recipients of US foreign military funding, much of which is designated to purchase US-made weapons; it's just that Americans don't often see Egyptians holding empty tear gas canisters stamped "Made in USA" up to a TV camera. But what's in those canisters?
The tear gas grenades and canisters are largely filled with a fuel mixture that burns to disperse the tearing agent. Protesters in Tahrir Square 30/1/2011. Everything Anonymous. Open Letter to Al Jazeera To Whom It May Concern: Thank you, Al Jazeera, for your outstanding coverage in the streets of Egypt. Your constant reporting and unbiased journalism has helped unite the revolutionaries, and the world.
We stand with the people, waiting for Hosni Mubarak to relinquish the presidency and restore power to the people of Egypt. It is vital in this struggle that media outlets, do not become influenced by any Government or organization. As the protests escalated, so did the amount of people across the world watching Al Jazeera. The free, 24 hour, online stream has become an invaluable tool for coverage of real time news.
The ideals of freedom and human rights are sought after throughout the globe. This has been an open letter from ANONYMOUS31 January, 2011 We do not forget,We do not forgive,We love you, Expect Us All content on this website is automatically licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Funeral of a martyr shot by police snipers. Hundreds of Thousands in Demonstration in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Le Parlement du Koweït approuve une donation de 5 milliards de dollars à la population. Egypt's Internet Crackdown. The Mubarak regime shut down Internet and cell phone communications before launching a violent crackdown against political protesters (watch Free Press' Timothy Karr discuss the use of technology in Egypt in the video to the right).
Free Press has discovered that an American company — Boeing-owned Narus of Sunnyvale, CA — had sold Egypt "Deep Packet Inspection" (DPI) equipment that can be used to help the regime track, target and crush political dissent over the Internet and mobile phones. Narus is selling this spying technology to other regimes with deplorable human rights records. The power to control the Internet and the resulting harm to democracy are so disturbing that the threshold for using DPI must be very high.
That’s why, before DPI becomes more widely used around the world and at home, the U.S. government must establish clear and legitimate criteria for preventing the use of such surveillance and control technology. Dear Member of Congress, La censure chinoise chasse les lapins en colère du Web. Au moment où l’Egypte tente de couper tout un pays du réseau internet, les censeurs chinois, pour leur part, font la chasse à des lapins en colère sur le Web. Littéralement : il s’agit d’une superbe vidéo d’animation qui, à la veille du début de l’année du lapin dans le monde chinois, constitue une féroce satire du régime chinois et un appel à peine voilé à la révolte.
La vidéo signée du pseudonyme « Xiao Hong », étant en chinois, non traduite, voici d’abord quelques clés avant de la regarder. Même si la vidéo commence par le rituel avertissement « toute ressemblance avec la réalité... », il ne s’agit évidemment que de ça, avec un retour sur des événements authentiques de 2010.
Les lapins sont des petits animaux mignons et dociles, tout comme le 1,3 milliard de Chinois, selon les auteurs anonymes de ce film. Vous reconnaîtrez, même sans comprendre le chinois, quelques événements connus de l’actualité chinoise. . « Servir le peuple des lapins » Le message est simple et clair :