Free Iraq
The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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| Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program: 1981-1991 | معالم وأحداث غير مكشوفة في البرنامج النووي الوطني العراقي 1981-1991 | 
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Monday, January 31, 2011
"When countries block [Internet], we evolve,"
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Further to our previous posting (January 29, 2011):"Mubarak gags Egypt's Internet .. So much for "Your message reached us" :
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"That's just what many Egyptians have been doing this week, as groups like We Rebuild scramble to keep the country connected to the outside world, turning to landline telephones, fax machines and even ham radio to keep information flowing in and out of the country
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"[B]asically, there are three ways of getting information out right now -- get access to the Noor ISP (which has about 8 percent of the market), use a land line to call someone, or use dial-up," Jillian York, a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, said via e-mail.
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Egyptians with dial-up modems get no Internet connection when they call into their local ISP, but calling an international number to reach a modem in another country gives them a connection to the outside world.
We Rebuild is looking to expand those dial-up options. It has set up a dial-up phone number in Sweden and is compiling a list of other numbers Egyptians can call. It is distributing information about its activities on a Wiki page.
One of the dial-up numbers is run by a small ISP called the French Data Network, which said it was the first time it had set up such a service. Its modem has been providing a connection "every few minutes," said Benjamin Bayart, FDN's president, speaking in an online chat."
Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online
January 28, 2011
Further to our previous posting (January 29, 2011):"Mubarak gags Egypt's Internet .. So much for "Your message reached us" :
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"That's just what many Egyptians have been doing this week, as groups like We Rebuild scramble to keep the country connected to the outside world, turning to landline telephones, fax machines and even ham radio to keep information flowing in and out of the country
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"[B]asically, there are three ways of getting information out right now -- get access to the Noor ISP (which has about 8 percent of the market), use a land line to call someone, or use dial-up," Jillian York, a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, said via e-mail.
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Egyptians with dial-up modems get no Internet connection when they call into their local ISP, but calling an international number to reach a modem in another country gives them a connection to the outside world.
We Rebuild is looking to expand those dial-up options. It has set up a dial-up phone number in Sweden and is compiling a list of other numbers Egyptians can call. It is distributing information about its activities on a Wiki page.
One of the dial-up numbers is run by a small ISP called the French Data Network, which said it was the first time it had set up such a service. Its modem has been providing a connection "every few minutes," said Benjamin Bayart, FDN's president, speaking in an online chat."
Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online
January 28, 2011
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Egyptian Black Humor
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Black Humor : "In black humour, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously"
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A personal testimony on police brutality during protests: Jan 26, 2011 down town Cairo--Mona Prince
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Black Humor : "In black humour, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously"
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A personal testimony on police brutality during protests: Jan 26, 2011 down town Cairo--Mona Prince
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Double click below image for enlargement: Egyptian Black Humor (Is he still laughing?)
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Mubarak gags Egypt's Internet .. So much for "Your message reached us"
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"Update (3:06 UTC Friday)
One of the very few exceptions to this block has been Noor Group (AS20928), which still has 83 out of 83 live routes to its Egyptian customers, with inbound transit from Telecom Italia as usual. Why was Noor Group apparently unaffected by the countrywide takedown order? Unknown at this point, but we observe that the Egyptian Stock Exchange (www.egyptse.com) is still alive at a Noor address.
Its DNS A records indicate that it's normally reachable at 4 different IP addresses, only one of which belongs to Noor. Internet transit path diversity is a sign of good planning by the Stock Exchange IT staff, and it appears to have paid off in this case. Did the Egyptian government leave Noor standing so that the markets could open next week?
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First impressions: this sequencing looks like people getting phone calls, one at a time, telling them to take themselves off the air. Not an automated system that takes all providers down at once; instead, the incumbent leads and other providers follow meekly one by one until Egypt is silenced."
Egypt Leaves the Internet
January 27, 2011
One of the very few exceptions to this block has been Noor Group (AS20928), which still has 83 out of 83 live routes to its Egyptian customers, with inbound transit from Telecom Italia as usual. Why was Noor Group apparently unaffected by the countrywide takedown order? Unknown at this point, but we observe that the Egyptian Stock Exchange (www.egyptse.com) is still alive at a Noor address.
Its DNS A records indicate that it's normally reachable at 4 different IP addresses, only one of which belongs to Noor. Internet transit path diversity is a sign of good planning by the Stock Exchange IT staff, and it appears to have paid off in this case. Did the Egyptian government leave Noor standing so that the markets could open next week?
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First impressions: this sequencing looks like people getting phone calls, one at a time, telling them to take themselves off the air. Not an automated system that takes all providers down at once; instead, the incumbent leads and other providers follow meekly one by one until Egypt is silenced."
Egypt Leaves the Internet
January 27, 2011
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From first Comment below:
Time for someone to set up a few Tor anonymizing "Onion routers" within the Noor address space, methinks. (Or, of course, the Egyptian opposition could and probably will, set up a mini-Internet that relies solely on domestic communication paths... certainly not as sophisticated as the main one but if all you are trying to do is co-ordinate protests, it is very feasible).
Time for someone to set up a few Tor anonymizing "Onion routers" within the Noor address space, methinks. (Or, of course, the Egyptian opposition could and probably will, set up a mini-Internet that relies solely on domestic communication paths... certainly not as sophisticated as the main one but if all you are trying to do is co-ordinate protests, it is very feasible).
Friday, January 28, 2011
A brave Egyptian woman
An exchange between interested friends:
"Jim is right...only the Americans were stupid enough to think the people of Iraq would accept to be colonised."
"Also it proves the fallacy that war was necessary to topple Saddam. If the people really want it and are ready, they know what to do.
Jim"
"Salute to the people of Tunisia, Egypt (and Palestine, Jordan, Yemen, etc.)
Salute to the children and grandchildren of Jamal Abdul Nasser. Freedom, liberty, justice, anti-corruption, and dignity are worth the 'day of reckoning' for those that do not listen to the will of the people.
The wretched of the earth; te unarmed, poor, and deprived people of Egypt (and the other countries) have finally demonstrated that "give me liberty or give me death" is true today in 2011 as indeed at was for the past 250 years."
This is a video clip (9 minutes) of a brave young Egyptian woman (in Arabic) exhorting assembled protesters in the face of the police and security agents.
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"Jim is right...only the Americans were stupid enough to think the people of Iraq would accept to be colonised."
"Also it proves the fallacy that war was necessary to topple Saddam. If the people really want it and are ready, they know what to do.
Jim"
"Salute to the people of Tunisia, Egypt (and Palestine, Jordan, Yemen, etc.)
Salute to the children and grandchildren of Jamal Abdul Nasser. Freedom, liberty, justice, anti-corruption, and dignity are worth the 'day of reckoning' for those that do not listen to the will of the people.
The wretched of the earth; te unarmed, poor, and deprived people of Egypt (and the other countries) have finally demonstrated that "give me liberty or give me death" is true today in 2011 as indeed at was for the past 250 years."
This is a video clip (9 minutes) of a brave young Egyptian woman (in Arabic) exhorting assembled protesters in the face of the police and security agents.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
"The lies are finished."
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"It is not possible any more, for the people of the Arab world to lie to each other. The lies are finished. The words of their leaders – which are, unfortunately, our own words – have finished. It is we who have led them into this demise. It is we who have told them these lies. And we cannot recreate them any more."
Robert Fisk: A new truth dawns on the Arab world
January, 26, 2011
"It is not possible any more, for the people of the Arab world to lie to each other. The lies are finished. The words of their leaders – which are, unfortunately, our own words – have finished. It is we who have led them into this demise. It is we who have told them these lies. And we cannot recreate them any more."
Robert Fisk: A new truth dawns on the Arab world
January, 26, 2011
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Friday, January 21, 2011
هذه الحملة لفصل الدين عن السياسة!ـ
ـ"تدور هذه الأيام على قوائم البريد وفي المواقع ، شيء يسمى ( اعلان الحملة الوطنية لفصل الدين عن السياسة في العراق) وهي تبدو شيئا رائعا: من لا يريد فصل الدين عن السياسة في العراق؟ ـ
ولهذا وقـّع على الحملة على الأكثر نوعان من الناس: المنضوون في العملية الإحتلالية قدوما على الدبابات والأباتشي الأمريكية، ولهذا ليس مفاجئا أن تجد أول الأسماء الموقعة : حميد الكفائي وميسون الدملوجي والأمريكية تانيا طلعت، وآخرين ممن قبلوا اصلا بالمشروع الأمريكي في تحويل العراق من دولة علمانية الى دولة دينية. ولكن حظوظهم الآن كما يبدو في انحدار، وهكذا يريدون الآن اقامة حملة تسندهم. ـ
النوع الآخر من الموقعين هم مثقفون وأدباء ومهنيون عراقيون من المهجرين الى الخارج، وهناك أسماء كنا نحترمها مع الأسف، ولكنها كما يبدو فقدت البوصلة ، وبدلا من إعلان حملة ضد الإحتلال أو ضد العملاء من كل شكل ولون ، أو ضد القتل أو ضد الدمار، أو ضد التهجير، أو على الأقل حملة لإعادتهم الى الوطن وضمان أمنهم، نجدهم يحاولون التنظير في الدولة المثلى التي يمكن للاحتلال إقامتها في العراق. ـ
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ألا ينبغي أولا طرد الإحتلال والصنائع الذين أتى بهم؟ ـ
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فعلى موقع الحملة ظل قسم (من نحن) مُجهّلا، لايفصح عن (من هم) . كيف لأي صاحب ثقافة أن يوقع على شيء لا يعرف من وراءه؟ شيء يرفض القائمون عليه الإفصاح عن أنفسهم؟ ـ
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هناك السؤال الأهم: لمن ستوجـّه هذه العريضة ؟ ـ
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ربما يشعر أصحاب الحملة أن الحل الوحيد هو إرسال الحملة والتواقيع بعد اكتمالها الى ... رب العالمين ؟! ـ
إن هذه الحملة مضيعة للوقت وأمل زائف وحرف للأنظار عن المصيبة الحقيقية وأصل كل ما حدث: الإحتلال."ـ
هذه الحملة لفصل الدين عن السياسة!ـ
عشتار العراقية
ـ21 كانون الثاني 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Who needs Kurdish Christians?
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This is a report on the persistent Evangelical drive to convert Iraqi Kurds to Christianity (4 minutes) and their claimed successful efforts in Syria, Jordan and Iran, since starting earnestly in 2004.
This is a German documentary of other radical Evangelists in Iraq (9 minutes).
Would not the animosity resulting from these uncalled for blatant religious drives against the social fabric of the Iraqi society cause needless incitement against the Christians in Iraq and are akin to a lethal injection in the body of the Iraqi Christians who are descendants, since 1900 years ago, of the original people who lived in Iraq for thousands of years before that?
Since Iraq's 'Liberation' and the crimial occupation by the Americans and their 'allies' in 2003, Iraqi Christian churches, priests and ordinary parishioners have been blown up and massacred by extreme fundamentalists and some very probably organized by agents of foreign Intelligence Agencies who remain under the radar.
So, who does benefit from this concerted drive against the authentic Iraqi Christians by nurturing Evangelistic Kurdish Christians?
Are these backward Evangelists that are spreading in Iraq associated with the Christians United for Israel (5 minutes) by any chance? See 'The Israel Pledge' on their web site.
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This is a report on the persistent Evangelical drive to convert Iraqi Kurds to Christianity (4 minutes) and their claimed successful efforts in Syria, Jordan and Iran, since starting earnestly in 2004.
This is a German documentary of other radical Evangelists in Iraq (9 minutes).
Would not the animosity resulting from these uncalled for blatant religious drives against the social fabric of the Iraqi society cause needless incitement against the Christians in Iraq and are akin to a lethal injection in the body of the Iraqi Christians who are descendants, since 1900 years ago, of the original people who lived in Iraq for thousands of years before that?
Since Iraq's 'Liberation' and the crimial occupation by the Americans and their 'allies' in 2003, Iraqi Christian churches, priests and ordinary parishioners have been blown up and massacred by extreme fundamentalists and some very probably organized by agents of foreign Intelligence Agencies who remain under the radar.
So, who does benefit from this concerted drive against the authentic Iraqi Christians by nurturing Evangelistic Kurdish Christians?
Are these backward Evangelists that are spreading in Iraq associated with the Christians United for Israel (5 minutes) by any chance? See 'The Israel Pledge' on their web site.
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