Recent events in Tunisia and Egypt have proven that the Internet and social networking on the Web have been instrumental in organizing and inspiring people to rise up against tyranny and spreading the news, but any desperate dictator out there should know by now that simply shutting off the Internet can’t stop a real revolution — especially in Egypt, where President Mubarak was a day late and a dollar short in trying to stop a popular uprising by crippling the Internet.
Here’s a piece that was inspired by a sign I saw carried by someone at last Saturday’s solidarity demonstration at the Egyptian Embassy:
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A quick’n’dirty one, while I try and think of some decent Egypt cartoons.
Do you realize that if you take the “Mu” off of “Mubarak” and stick a “c” before the “k”, you get Barack? Huh, no goddamn’ wonder President Sparkle Pony spent the past week sitting on his ass going “uhh, b’deah, b’deah, b’deah…”
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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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Your best bet for getting a copy to view and save locally and post to your own video-sharing account is the archive.org link. It’s a 427×240-pixel mpeg4 coming in at around 41mb, and should take you about 20 minutes or so to download.
Sorry about all the multiple-link nuttiness, but it seems YouTube has an issue with my use of The Bangles’ “Walk Like An Egyptian”; they wanted to allow it, but with the audio track stripped out, the pricks. So, ironically, I’ve got my own Internet censorship workaround issues here.
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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