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It was a society in stagnation, if not decline. Despite ostensible stability, its people — especially its young people — faced a future bleaker than the dark side of Pluto. For decades, the richest grew even richer, as national debt mounted, middle-class people tried to make ends meet, and upward mobility fell.
Egypt's Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near You - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
Egyptian actor Mohsena Tawfik explains why she has joined the protesters in Tahrir Square Link to this video The queue was a dozen wide and hundreds deep; it snaked past the pair of bronze lions at the mouth of Qasr El Nile bridge and fanned out across the river. Cairo has witnessed gunfire, molotov cocktails and backstreet anarchy over the past week, but today people flooded in to show the world something different.
Cairo's biggest protest yet demands Mubarak's immediate departure | World news | The Guardian
A riot policeman fires tear gas at protesters in front of the al-Istiqama Mosque on 28 January, in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images In early January 2010, Bob Livingston, a former chairman of the appropriations committee in the US House of Representatives, flew to Cairo accompanied by William Miner, one of his staff.
Egypt's military-industrial complex | Pratap Chatterjee | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Review: Google’s Nexus S for T-Mobile creeps forward with a handful of innovative features like near-field communications, but pares out some vital organs like a microSD slot to make room. For its next-generation Nexus phone, the unlocked Nexus S made by Samsung (but usually sold with a T-Mobile subsidy for $199.99), Google has produced what can be best described as an advanced basic smartphone. It features some bleeding-edge technologies such as a 4-inch AMOLED screen, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, NFC tag reading, a front-facing camera, and both tethering and mobile hotspot capabilities. These advanced features are undercut, however, by its lack of soon-to-be-standard features for smartphones of its ilk, such as high-definition video recording, HSPA+ 4G to fuel its mobile hotspot, and no pre-installed video chatting app.
Google Nexus S Review
The Muslim Brotherhood After Mubarak | Foreign Affairs
With the end of the Mubarak era looming on the horizon, speculation has turned to whether the Muslim Brotherhood will dominate the new Egyptian political landscape. As the largest, most popular, and most effective opposition group in Egypt, it will undoubtedly seek a role in creating a new government, but the consequences of this are uncertain. Those who emphasize the risk of "Islamic tyranny" aptly note that the Muslim Brotherhood originated as an anti-system group dedicated to the establishment of sharia rule; committed acts of violence against its opponents in the pre-1952 era; and continues to use anti-Western, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic rhetoric. But portraying the Brotherhood as eager and able to seize power and impose its version of sharia on an unwilling citizenry is a caricature that exaggerates certain features of the Brotherhood while ignoring others, and underestimates the extent to which the group has changed over time.
Gamal and Hosni Mubarak are reported to have built up huge fortunes, including properties in London. Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images President Hosni Mubarak 's family fortune could be as much as $70bn (£43.5bn) according to analysis by a Middle East expert, with much of his wealth in British and Swiss banks or tied up in real estate in London, New York, Los Angeles and along expensive tracts of the Red Sea coast. After 30 years as president and many more as a senior military official, Mubarak has had access to investment deals that have generated hundreds of millions of pounds in profits. Most of those gains have been taken offshore and deposited in secret bank accounts or invested in upmarket homes and hotels. According to a report last year in the Arabic newspaper Al Khabar, Mubarak has properties in Manhattan and exclusive Beverly Hills addresses on Rodeo Drive.
Mubarak family fortune could reach $70bn, say experts | World news | The Guardian
Tablets Planet | Tag Archive | Motorola XOOM
Posted on03. Apr, 2012 by Paul . Say what you want about the Motorola XOOM 10.1-inch Android tablet, but it’s the only Android tablet that seems to get Android operating system updates in a somewhat timely manner. Today Motorola XOOM Wi-Fi owners started reporting prompts to update to Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich were starting to appear on their devices.
Motorola XOOM Best Buy Launch Date Announced, Could Cost $699 | Tablets Planet
The Motorola XOOM is coming soon, really soon. On a Best Buy Facebook account the release date has been announced for the new 10-inch tablet, Best Buy will launch the tablet on February 24. The Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet will be the first tablet to rock the new OS officially and for now pricing is expected to be $699 for Best Buy – via leaked adverts – but no official price was posted on that Facebook account. Much awaited would be an understatement for the XOOM, it will be the first real Android tablet to rock a tablet specific version of Android OS and feature some other specs. as well. The tablet is going to have a WXGA (1280 x 800 pixels) 10.1-inch capacitive multi-touch display, Nvidia’s Tegra 2, 1GB of RAM, 32GB flash storage, dual cameras, USB and HDMI port, SD card slot and 4G –3G speeds at first but bump to 4G coming soon after release– as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0 wireless connectivity. [ Via ] [ Best Buy Grand Rapids South Facebook ]
Jag har berättat några gånger att jag håller på att sortera bilder, det har jag gjort ett tag nu, dock inte varje dag. Idag har jag kikat lite på mina egna familjebilder från förr, bilder som förställer äldre släktingar. Den här bilden föreställer min farfar på en kolmila i början av femtiotalet. Den är... För ett par dagar sedan så gick jag förbi figuren på bilden, och jag kunde inte låta bli att ta en bild.
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Relaterat: egypten (&) , politik (&) , usa (&) , kairo (&) , libyen (&) , revolution (&) , demokrati (&) , mellanöstern (&) , gaddafi (&) , diktatur (&) , israel (&) , samhälle (&) , tahrirtorget (&) , obama (&) , syrien (&) , bildt (&) Mubaraks maktbas var säkerhetspolisen vilket tillät den högsta militärledningen att spela ett dubbelspel. Å ena sidan spelade den med i revolutionen för att stoppa tendenserna till avhopp till revolutionärerna från vanliga soldater. Inga internationella protester har framförts mot regimens våld i detta fall på obeväpnade demonstranter. Inga NATO bomber har heller fallit över civila eller civil infrastruktur. Det har börjat röra på sig igen i Egypten.
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Relaterat: israel (&) , islam (&) , demokrati (&) , politik (&) , unrwa (&) , muslimer (&) , mänskliga rättigheter (&) , iran (&) , antisemitism (&) , kultur (&) , hurghada , antisionism , kairo , libyen , cecilia malmström , judehat ...efter 5 000 år av förtryck ska det egyptiska folket själva få välja den som ska leda dem och landet. Demokratin har till sist fått segra över faraoner och maktgalna diktatorer.
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Arvet efter Mubarak « Verbal förlag
Hårt förtryck och växande klyftor präglade Egypten under Hosni Mubaraks 30 år vid makten. Men 2011 hände det som ingen trodde kunde hända. Folket tog över gatorna och fick presidenten på fall. Arvet efter Mubarak tar dig långt från mediernas ögonblicksbilder.Från Kairo till Världen
I skuggan av det fortsatta våldet i Syrien har rätt så dramatiska förändringar har ägt rum på den politiska scenen i Egypten de senaste veckorna, i takt med att presidentvalet rycker närmare och striden om den nya konstitutionen hårdnar. Det började för ett par veckor sedan med ett kraftfullt angrepp mot militärrådet SCAF från Muslimska brödraskapet , som anklagade generalerna för att "sabotera revolutionen" på grund av deras vägran att avfärda övergångsregeringen som leds av Kamal al-Ganzouri. Brödraskapet anklagade också juntan för att ha hotat med att upplösa parlamentet på grund av dess kampanj mot regeringen, som utsetts av militären.The past 2 months since Scoop.it went live have been so hectic and exciting that we haven’t had a chance to introduce the team that works behind the scene. Delivering one release per week on average and dealing with the great feedback we received from the fast-growing Scoop.it community has taken 200% of our attention. We won’t take any break so keep up sending it to us! We love feedback! But as we expand the team today with Axelle joining us in San Francisco, we felt it was high time you got to know a bit about us. So here we go!