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02 Nov 09

التبكيت: بهجورة - نجع حمادي .. آدي محصلة 29 سنة من حكم سيادتك

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NDP Egypt Mubarak Stupidity Pimps Wankers Assholes Qena Cairo 2009

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Egypt Police Informers Pigs University Guards Students Cairo

01 Nov 09

Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent

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West Media Egypt Cairo Mubarak Police Torture Dictatorship USA Diplomacy

Our masters prefer us not to tangle with the bad guys as well as good guys. Years ago, a Time magazine reporter in Cairo packed his note-book with facts about the routine Egyptian police torture of prisoners. But the US ambassador in Cairo persuaded the bureau chief to hold off because he understood that Mubarak was going to "crack down" on such abuses. Ho ho! Time didn't run the story and, of course, the abuses got worse. Shortly afterwards, jail guards were forcing Egyptian prisoners to rape each other.
And nothing has changed. The big Western news agencies which have headquartered their Middle East offices in Cairo are as loath to touch these stories today as they were more than a decade ago. It's just the same in that other friendly Muslim ally of ours, Turkey. But let's start in Cairo. When the "peace process" – remember that tacky phrase? – was about to reach fruition almost 15 years ago, the big wire agencies poured millions into new offices and staffs in Mubarak's gleaming capital of democracy. And what happened? As usual, the Egyptian Mukhabarat security agencies inserted their own lads into the bureaux – or blackmailed Egyptian reporting staff – to spy on the journalistic output. All bureau chiefs in Cairo know who their local spies are. But, of course, they can't dismiss them.
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- Nor can they report the news that their "news" agency is supposed to be telling us about. The mere hint of an anti-Mubarak story – I am omitting from this the courageous coverage of the shameful behaviour of the cops in mauling and beating female as well as male protesters during the anti-Mubarak "Enough movement's demonstrations – and the Ministry of Information will be calling in the relevant bureau chief for a chat. Even a formal Egyptian denial won't do you much good. There will be serious consequences if there is a repeat. Closing down the bureau, perhaps, having wasted all those millions on installing the office in the first place?
- Which is why almost all Cairo-datelined coverage of police savagery in Egypt contains only reports on London-issued protests from Amnesty or Human Rights Watch, followed by the necessary Egyptian condemnation of the human rights groups. In other words, the investment in such Western news bureaux has now become more important than the news for which the original investment was made.

24 Oct 09

Daily News Egypt - No Egyptian films at the Cairo International Film Festival, says CIFF president

Very oxymoronic! No "Egyptian" films at "Cairo" film festival!

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Cairo Films Stupidity Cinema Egypt

18 Oct 09

اليوم السابع | حريق هائل فى مركز قطع غيار بميدان رمسيس

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Fire Egypt Disasters Ramses Cairo

13 Oct 09

إضراب النقل العام: انتصار بالضربة القاضية | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر

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Cairo Transportation Workers Strikes Egypt

اضطرت الحكومة على اثر فشلها إلى التفاوض مع قيادات الإضراب على مطالب العمال آلتي شملت المطالب بوقف خصم قيمة المخالفات المرورية من رواتب السائقين، زيادة بدل الوجبة من 60 إلى 120 جنية عن 20 يوم عمل لجميع العاملين، زيادة نسبة التحصيل من 6%على التذكرة إلى 8% شهرياً، وصرف بدل عدوى للسائق و المحصل.

12 Oct 09