Haha 'Vice torturer'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog...nation-rumours
I think the Army is up to something big here.

e: Ahahaha the photo on the front page of MSNBC: http://i55.tinypic.com/3a104.jpg

e2: Again from The Guardian liveblog:

well he's gone. will something change? and what will come?

Find out, on the next exciting episode of, 'Stuff No One Gives A Fuck About'.

you're an idiot. it's simple as that.

Yes, I'm stupid for not caring about Egypt.

What's an Egypt?

bomb those pyramids.

I sometimes worry about the average IQ level of the forums when there are members who still seem to think that the 'bomb those...' meme is amusing.



Anyway, as I said in Abe619's blog, he's stepped aside for a military dictatorship. I don't see this as a particularly good thing. Would have been better to call elections earlier and had a real transfer of power.

I sincerely hope that the next leader establishes a proper constitution; one that can only be changed by referendum and not on the President's whim.

Glad to see I'm not the only one feeling uneasy about the military having the power, I'll admit I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to that kind of government but every time I've heard about one it hasn't ended well...

Well it was either the military or Suilman. I think things could have gone worse.

Hopefully, since the military's been on the side of the people throughout most of this, they'll do the right thing. I guess time will tell.

The military seemed to have wanted to join the civilians during the protests anyway.

...There were sufficient numbers of military personnel fighting and killing the civilians even at an unarmed stage though. A friend who lives in Egypt as a teacher has returned to Britain and showed us all these terrible pictures of the catastrophe and the military certainly wasn't on the civilian side at least, not a majority.

Pyramid Head's hometown.

Those weren't military those were thugs hired by police and/or police...most of the military watched and protect and some of them even joined the protests, i think we can safely say the revolution ended successfully, military rule is only temporary for the next few months, it will be changed to civilian rule (idk if that's the word for it in english) after that.

Is there a possibility that the army might enjoy their power to much to hand it over though? Power is the ultimate corruption.

And corruption is the ultimate power.

You mean knowledge is the ultimate power. Knowledge is power, power is corruption and corruption is stagnation, stagnation is rebellion, rebellion is power...etc

there is a very tiny possibility, but the troops are much better than police a while back when the protests in tahrir were still violent and huge, they had orders to fire at will, but there wasn't a single bullet fired that night or the nights after that.
and i agree power can easily corrupt the purest of people.

I suppose. Knowledge is good. I just like corruption, that's all.

Tunisia and Algeria seem to have calmed a bit, too.

Newsworthy while it lasted.

Heh heh, no the country can temporarily fester under a military government which of course knows nothing of politics and will make for a clueless three months. Note how the military is now keeping hold of power for six months, not two, and while the protests are over, is going to keep the peace by whatever means necessary.

People are already protesting against the military!

Yep, those Egyptians need to feel the full force of the British Empire!

we already did once and drove them out back in the 1900's remember?

I don't remember, I wasn't there. I do know however that you were allowed to break away from Britain...in the years after WW1. Then after the British helped the Egyptians in the African campaign against the Nazi's and components of the Old Ottoman Empire the Egyptians turned in 1952, with a terrorist force killing servicemen in Cairo and Alexandria as well as Suez.

Ungrateful pyramid builders.

No but seriously that was 60 years ago, I wish you the best of luck and I hope that the people do regain control of their country.

i bet a pith helmet would suit you.

I often feel that of all the nations of the British Empire, Britain benefited the most from its dismantling.

Shitstorm incoming.

Not really. The US has always toed a careful line in supporting the Iranian citizenry against their government.

That's hardly a careful comment.

Careful in that they want to support the anti-government groups, but aware that their approval can decrease the popularity and public trust in anyone or anything that they bestow it upon.

Never mind the USA's comments, I'm more interested in the fact that people are protesting. Is that a common thing in Iran, or is this another part of the domino effect started by Tunisia?

It's not unheard of, certainly.

There were major protests after their last elections that were brutally suppressed.

Bear in mind that Iran's demographics skew strongly towards younger people and much of the the population in the big cities are pro-Western and secular-ish.

Iranian police have been ordered to fire on protesters with real bullets or rubber ones (apparently the choice is their own) so far hundreds injured and a few dead. =(

But at least they're protesting. Imagine if this was just one magnificent domino effect, and the western world picked up the pieces. Imagine if somehow, we got the Middle East on our

Oh god, please don't let me talk world politics again.

They're doing that shite in Libya now.

That continent is going to hell.

They're all fed up of being treated like shit and being insulted.

HOAH

Foreign intervention is necessary.