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Author Topic: Whats up with Egypt? Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-30-2011 06:25 AM                     My thoughts and prayers go out to my Egyptian friends. After the bombing on new years, I called the director of the Bibliotheca Library in Alexandria and she said no one was hurt, but alot of friends and family were affected by it. Now riots and looting in Cairo? It's crazy. I've been there about a dozen times and now I can't call or e-mail any of my friends to check on them  |  IP: Logged David E. Nedrow Master Film Handler Posts: 368 From: Columbus, OH, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 01-30-2011 12:48 PM                        quote: Richard H Now riots and looting in Cairo? It's crazy. Well, whenever there is civil unrest, some element of the community will always take advantage of the situation and take to looting. As for rioting, it's actually not been too bad. If you watch the American news channels, you would think the Egyptian public was killing bureaucrats and burning down entire cities. The foreign press actually shows a slightly more restrained picture. As you're aware, Egypt has effectively been run as a praetorian state for 30 years under the control of a dictator -- used in the traditional sense, not the "he's Hitler" inflammatory sense. It's interesting what Egypt was able to do, in re: cutting off the country from outside contact. There is a bill that's been floated by conservatives here in the U.S. that would give our government the right to do exactly what's happened in Egypt -- shut down all civil communication. I was about to get into how the political implications of a big governmental change in Egypt are worst for the U.S. and Israel, but then I remembered the "no politics" rule.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-30-2011 01:16 PM                        Did you see the human shield people set up to protect the Eqyptian Museum from damage and looting. Can't imagine that happening at the Smithsonian.  |  IP: Logged David E. Nedrow Master Film Handler Posts: 368 From: Columbus, OH, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 01-30-2011 01:32 PM                        quote: Martin McCaffery Did you see the human shield people set up to protect the Eqyptian Museum from damage and looting. Can't imagine that happening at the Smithsonian. Heh. Here, half the country would show up with cans of gasoline to burn "all them dirty pictures", books full of "sciency stuff", and maybe a curator or two. Update 2011-01-30 14:39: Mubarek and pals are in full panic mode now. They just shut down Al Jazeera's Cairo studios. Al Jazeera, and Al Jazeera English in particular, have been providing the best coverage of the struggle in Egypt. Particularly grating to the Egyptian government is that AJ and AJE aren't willing to gloss over the situation, as most American media does, by trying to paint the civil participants as murderous, looting thugs.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-01-2011 02:39 AM                        Seems our stance is that we want to assure open and fair elections. We better be careful what we wish for.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-03-2011 10:47 AM                     from a friend in Alexandria, quote: Mohamed wrote: "Thank you guys for your concern, we are in very critical situation and some media are trying to use it for their personal profits not to show the truth" . I hope things settle down soon. At least he has internet access now. latest website Rick  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-16-2011 06:20 PM                        When all this kicked off, several planeloads of Britain's finest were irradiating themselves on the beach in Sharm-El-Sheikh. Unfortunately for them, most had got there on no-frills airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet, who of course got the willies and cancelled all their flights anywhere near the place until the trouble blows over. Cue a bunch of stupid tourists moaning in front of whatever TV camera they could find, who of course hadn't bothered to read the small print on their plane tickets (that they can cancel the flight for whatever reason they like, refund what you paid for your ticket and then leave you high and dry) OR buy travel insurance. You'd have thought that after that Mount Eyfükkagolfball ash cloud saga and the amount of news coverage it generated, with thousands of people sleeping in airport lounges and so on, that these people would at least have made some contingency plans.  |  IP: Logged

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