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MIDNIGHT IN CAIRO
02/10/11-by L.S. Carbonell Okay, I’m past the shock of listening to President Mubarak’s speech. It’s analysis time. The protesters in Tahrir Square are spreading out from there into the city, taking the messages about what they want to do tomorrow. Marching on the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis, several miles from the square in downtown Cairo, [...]
MUBARAK REFUSES TO GO
02/10/11-by L.S. Carbonell There is stupid and then there is suicidally stupid. Hosni Mubarak may well have passed between the two. After a whole day of sources within the Egyptian government telling both the local and foreign press that Mubarak would resign tonight, he has announced that he will stay. At 10:45 p.m., local time, [...]
Another Gay Asylum Seeker to be Deported Amidst Whistle- Blower Video
Melanie Nathan- Feb 09-2011. As whistle-bloweers of the international security company G4S, provide the UK Guardian this week, release a training video of the physical and forcible removal of deportees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, a young man by the name of Jamal Ali Said is set to kick and scream off his [...]
EGYPTIANS CONTINUE TO WAIT FOR MUBARAK’S DEPARTURE
CAIRO 02/10/2011- 9 p.m. local/2 p.m. Eastern-by L.S. Carbonell Tahrir Square is the site of a massive street party as the Egyptian people await what they believe will be President Mubarak’s farewell address. We are all waiting. All the sources available are saying that the Egyptian Army has finally persuaded Mubarak to leave now, before [...]
Peeping Tom Joke About Lesbians Gets Pervy Polish Politician In Trouble
02/10/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire ‘I am not a homophobe, but I play one in the legislature’ may be what Robert Wegrzyn of the center-right Civic Platform of Poland is trying to say. Recently, he was asked about his views regarding civic partnerships for lesbians and gays, and he quipped “We can forget about gay men, [...]
Israel Rescinds Deportation of Slain Israeli’s Partner
Melanie Nathan- Feb 10-2011 The Interior Ministry has rescinded its decision to deport a German man whose partner was killed in a shooting attack on a Tel Aviv gay youth center last year. Thomas Schmidt’s partner Nir Katz, 26, and Liz Trobishi, 16, died when a gunman opened fire on the Bar Noar on a [...]
MILITARY TAKES CONTROL OF EGYPT
CAIRO – 02/10/2011, 6:35 p.m. local/11:35 a.m. Eastern-by L.S. Carbonell The Egyptian military has announced that they have held a meeting of the Supreme Military Council, which would normally be headed by President Mubarak but which he did not participate in, and that the military has effectively taken control of Eygpt. The have promised to [...]
MUBARAK STEPPING DOWN
CAIRO – 02/10/2011- by L.S. Carbonell NBC has announced that it appears President Mubarak will resign today and Vice President Suleiman will take over as President. That would still not satisfy the protesters who want the entire regime removed. Suleiman was the head of the intelligence services which enforced Mubarak’s rule through intimidation and torture [...]
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