Saturday, 10 September 2011
Egyptian protesters break into Israeli embassy in Cairo
A group of about 30 protesters broke into the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday and threw hundreds of documents out of the windows, Egyptian and Israeli officials have said.
Hundreds of protesters had been converging on the 21-story building housing the embassy throughout the afternoon and into the night, tearing down large sections of a security wall. For hours, Egyptian security forces made no attempt to intervene.
Just before midnight, a group of protesters reached a room on one of the embassy's lower floors at the top of the building and began dumping Hebrew-language documents from the windows, according to an Egyptian security official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli official confirmed the embassy had been broken into, saying it appeared the group reached a waiting room on the lower floor. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to release the information.
Since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, calls have grown in Egypt for ending the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, a pact that has never had the support of ordinary Egyptians. Anger increased last month after Israeli forces – responding to a cross-border attack – mistakenly killed five Egyptian police officers near the border.
Seven months after the popular uprising, Egyptians are still pressing for a list of changes, including more transparent trials of former regime figures accused of corruption and a clear timetable for parliamentary elections.
Egyptians have grown increasingly distrustful of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took control of the country when Mubarak was forced out on 11 February after nearly three decades in power. The council, headed by Mubarak's defence minister, Muhammad Hussein Tantawi, has voiced its support for the revolution and those who called for democracy and justice.
But activists accuse it of remaining too close to Mubarak's regime and practicing similarly repressive policies, including abusing detainees. The trials of thousands of civilians in military courts has also angered activists.
Protesters marched to the Israeli embassy from Cairo's Tahrir square, where thousands more demonstrated against Egypt's ruling generals. Demonstrators in Cairo also converged on the state TV building, a central courthouse and the interior ministry, a hated symbol of abuses by police and security forces under Mubarak. Protesters covered one of the ministry's gates with graffiti and tore off parts of the large ministry seal.
Protests also took place in Alexandria, Suez and several other cities. Up to 90 people were injured, the health ministry said.
@'The Guardian'
Crisis of Capitalism
In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane.
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LED Throwies
youtube uploader kinross19 writes:
"LED Throwies are LEDs that have a battery and a magnet attached so that you can stick them anywhere that you could with a magnet. They are the coolest thing I have seen all year.
To find out how to make them go here:
http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/7DBB34EAEDFF1028A1FC001143E7E506/?ALLSTEPS
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Friday, 9 September 2011
David Leigh in denial on his WikiLeaks fuck up...
david leigh wrote:
Sep 9th 2011 8:59 GMT
I want to be informative and I'm sorry if my exasperation shows through. The Guardian published a book in February, 7 months ago. It mentioned a password which Assange of Wikileaks had assured us was a defunct gateway to a file no longer on a server. No harm came of the publication. Assange was quite untroubled by the old password publication. He made no complaint then or later. Indeed as recently as August, he was trying to persuade the Guardian to work with him again, telling us we were his 'natural ally'. Unbeknown to us, however, and for unknown reasons, Assange also re-used the password to a file called z.gpg which he posted online among a batch of others. No-one of the public knew what was in it or how to locate it. Then suddenly, in late August, a quarrel flared up between Assange and his former partner and rival Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Assange says he feared Berg knew how to get access to the cables file. Apparently in order to steal a march on him, he dropped hints about the file's online location, deliberately ensured it was surfaced thanks to the 'rumors', and then carried out his plan to publish the entire file in searchable [and unredacted] form himself. He tried to claim he had been 'forced' to publish thus because of the Guardian book - a fairly transparent excuse. Those are the facts to the best of my knowledge.
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