The bone-cold weather didn’t deter several hundred DC pro-democracy activists and Middle Eastern expats from protesting in solidarity against the Mubarak regime at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, DC this past Saturday.
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Below, check out some fotos of the day’s event passed along by a comrade of mine:
SOTU 2011 Analysis: Ponies!
Really, gang… all you need to know to understand this year’s State Of The Union is: ponies!
And, while I’m at it… am I the only one who watched the part of the speech where Obama gets all jazzed up about all the amazingly awesome fantastically innovative technological wonderfulness Americans have been capable of and thought for a moment that I was watching a segment of Oprah’s Favorite Things?
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At For Want Of A Nail: It’s Hard to Watch Your Speech When Our Power Has Been Disconnected, Sir…
As inspired by the revolution in Tunisia, and the inflammatory violent rhetoric of Sarah Palin.
I read recently that after Twitter’s records were subpoenaed by the Feds, the number of users “following” Wikileaks increased by at least 12,000. Talk about your Spartacus Moment.
Here’s one for all you Twits out there who have followed Wikileaks since forever and who followed them since the subpoenas and for all the Twitter rioters in Tunisia. Until the final victory!
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I don’t think I need to spend any more time here discussing the Anonymous vis-a-vis Wikileaks vs. The Feds situation, so I’ll just shut the hell up and get on with the goddamn’ cartoon, already.
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…and, while you’re at it — now that you’ve finally jumped off of the Gabrielle Giffords Media Frenzy Train — why not catch up on what Anonymous has been up to in Tunisia:
Payback Is A Bitch — Isn’t It? Anonymous tells government of Tunisia: “Expect Us”; The Liberty Lamp, 01.02.11
4 The People Of Tunisia: A message to Tunisians from Anonymous; The Liberty Lamp, 01.03.11
From Tunisia, A Voice In Pain From The People: Tunisian political dissidents fight State interference in organizing, the intimidation of bloggers and other journalists, and ‘Net censorship; The Liberty Lamp, 01.06.11
Tunisian Facebook Riot! Legions of jobless youths organize protests and fuel rage with Facebook; Associated Press, 01.11.11
Prime Minister Takes Over As Ben Ali* Flees Tunisian Turmoil: Dictator’s whereabouts unknown; France24.com, 01.15.11
…and, of course, what summary of news from a foreign hot spot would be complete without:
US Warns Travelers Of Violence In Tunisia: Social unrest, foreigners could be targets, etc. etc. etc.; AFP, 01.13.11
*No, dumbass; not that Ben Ali.
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