Link: http://www.truth-out.org/jordan%E2%80%99s-king-dismisses-cabinet67340
Jordan’s King Dismisses Cabinet as Tremors Spread Through Region. Amman, Jordan - King Abdullah II of Jordan fired his government in a surprise move on Tuesday, in the face of a wave of demands of public accountability sweeping the Arab world and bringing throngs of demonstrators to the streets of Egypt.
Microsoft has issued a 'critical' security alert that affects 900million people using its Internet Explorer web browser. The computer giant warned of a newly-discovered flaw in Windows that could be exploited by hackers to steal personal details or take over computers. The glitch is so severe it potentially affects every user of Internet Explorer.
Group Charges That Justice Thomas Receiving Special Treatment The words "EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW" are famously chiseled above the main portico of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. But it appears that Justice Clarence Thomas is instead receiving special treatment under the law, says the watchdog group, www.ProtectOurElections.org. Evidence is mounting that Justice Thomas violated federal law from 1989 through the present by failing to report his wife's annual salary by checking "NONE" on the box for "Non-Investment Income" on judicial AO 10 Financial Disclosure Reports. Seven of those forms can be found at http://protectourelections.org/index.php?q=node/105.
The Indian government has accused the US of an "inhuman act" after Indian students who signed up for an alleged "sham" university in California had electronic tags fitted to their ankles.
Officials in B.C. are investigating reports that 100 sled dogs were killed execution-style. The man responsible for the "execution-style" cull of 100 sled dogs that were no longer of use to the Whistler-based Outdoor Adventures "due to a slow winter" season had known a lot of the dogs and was so traumatized by the slaughter he now suffers from nightmares, panic attacks and depression, according to a confidential workers' compensation review decision obtained by the Vancouver Sun.
Link: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/226474/Tumour-risk-to-the-young-from-using-mobile-phones
Children who use mobiles could be up to five times more likely to develop a brain tumour than adults, experts claim. More than 50 per cent of seven-year-olds own a mobile phone, with the figure rising to 75 per cent by the age of 10.
Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54317
Organisers called it Egypt’s "million man march". Whether they achieved that targeted head count is unclear, but their message was unequivocal. "Mubarak get out!" protesters chanted. Tuesday’s rally in downtown Cairo was the largest anti-government demonstration in modern Egyptian history, drawing the full spectrum of Egyptian society. Wave after wave of men, women and children poured into the central square from morning until well after the government’s 3pm curfew.
Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27394.htm
What cannot but strike the eye in the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is the conspicuous absence of Muslim fundamentalism. In the best secular democratic tradition, people simply revolted against an oppressive regime, its corruption and poverty, and demanded freedom and economic hope. The cynical wisdom of western liberals, according to which, in Arab countries, genuine democratic sense is limited to narrow liberal elites while the vast majority can only be mobilised through religious fundamentalism or nationalism, has been proven wrong. The big question is what will happen next? Who will emerge as the political winner?
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/01/us-pakistan-lahore-raymond-davis
US embassy says Raymond Davis, who admitted killing two men in self-defence, has diplomatic immunity and should be released. Relations between Pakistan and the United States are under strain after a Lahore court refused to release an American who shot dead two Pakistanis and led to the death of a third last week. Now try to imagine a Pakistani citizen killing two people in America and the Pakistani government demanding the killers release.
Link: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/1/mubarak_is_our_berlin_wall_egyptian
The uprising in Egypt is a popular movement for democracy, but some media outlets are mainly missing the point, according to our guest, Egyptian columnist and commentator Mona Eltahawy. She urges the media to use the terms "uprising" and "revolt" rather than "chaos" and "unrest" when reporting on the events in Egypt.
Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/alamin02012011.html
On April 21, 2008, an assistant high school principal placed an advertisement in Al-Ahram, the largest daily newspaper in Egypt, pleading disparately with President Hosni Mubarak and his wife to intervene and release her daughter from prison. It turned out that her 27 year-old daughter, Israa’ Abd el-Fattah, was arrested 10 days earlier because of her role in placing a page on Facebook encouraging Egyptians to support a strike in the industrial city of al-Mahalla that had taken place on April 6.
During the final days of the 2008 presidential race, Bill Sammon used his position as a top Fox News editor to engage in a campaign to link then-Sen. Barack Obama to "Marxists" and "socialism," internal Fox documents and a review of his televised appearances show. How odd that Fox News would accuse Obama of being a socialist, when Obama is a fascist like fascist Fox News.
Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/20112113115442982.html
More than a million rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square as massive countrywide protests are held against President Mubarak. Al Jazeera reports on the latest developments in Tahrir Square and across Egypt. More than a million protesters flooded into central Cairo, turning Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital, into a sea of humanity as massive protests against President Hosni Mubarak swept across Middle East's most populous nation.
Link: http://dont-tread-on.me/more-powerful-than-a-egyptian-riot
Question: What is more powerful than an Egyptian riot against the result of Elitist abuse? Answer: A calculated attack on the cause of people’s problems, their ideas. The Elite only have as much power over you as you let them. Ideas are more powerful and resilient and than anything on Earth. Even the smallest idea can grow into world changing revolutions. Ideas spread faster than the most virulent virus. Your ideas will either define you or doom you. The Elite use their political, social, educational, religious, and financial powers to constantly plant their ideas into your head. My question to you is, do your thoughts serve to free you or simply to make you serve?