• YouTube – fbutube’s Channel

  The British Firefighters Union YouTube Channel

  tags: Britain, Fire, Fighters, Unions, Activism, YouTube, workers

• The Associated Press: Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill

  sad news..

  tags: Science, Britain, Stephen Hawking

• Police blogs: Rank and file reaction to G20 | Politics | The Guardian

  tags: police, pigs, uk, Britain, humanrights, blogs

• Army troops take up position around Victory Monument in Bangkok | Gavin Gough: Travel Photographer

  tags: Thailand, Photography, Army, Dictatorship

• الإداريون يواصلون إحتجاجاتهم من أجل الكادر | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية – مصر

  tags: Center for Socialist Studies, Egypt, Ministries, Education, Activism, Demonstrations, civilservants

• على اسم مصر: موظفى التربية والتعليم يطالبون بالمساواة بكادر المعلمين

  tags: Egypt, Education, Ministries, civilservants, Activism, workers, left

• Egyptian chronicles: The dangerous underground EMO Cell !!!!

  tags: Media, Stupidity, Egypt, Culture

• Daily News Egypt – Education administrators resort to ILO

  tags: Egypt, Activism, Demonstrations, Education, Workers, civilservants, ILO, Ministries

  • Chairman of the Higher Committee to Defend the Rights of Education Sector Administrators, Fawzi Abdel Fattah, announced Saturday that education administrators will hold another protest in front of the International Labor Organization (ILO) office in Cairo on April 29.

• Daily News Egypt – Sinai blogger remains in detention despite eighth release order

  Sarah Carr reports

  tags: sarahcarr, Egypt, humanrights, Sinai, Bloggers, Detainees, Mos’ad Abu Fagr

• Daily News Egypt – Hezbollah detainees’ lawyer files case against interior ministry for unlawful detention

  tags: Hizbollah, Egypt, Torture, Detainees, humanrights

  • In the motion Abdel-Maqsoud argued that the detainees were held in state security headquarters for four months since their arrest last November before the case was made public. The lawyer said that this was an unlawful and unconstitutional location to hold suspects.

• Egyptians win the right to drop religion from ID cards | csmonitor.com

  tags: Egypt, Bahaai, humanrights, ID

  • Rights activists say the ministry’s decision to honor a court ruling allowing Bahais to leave their religion off their official
    documents is an historic first step towards a more inclusive definition of what it means to be Egyptian.
  • In late March a riot broke out in the southern Egyptian town of Al Shoroneya after a satellite TV station aired a segment
    on Bahais celebrating the Iranian New Year with a picnic in a Cairo park.
  • Eight Bahai residents’ homes were set ablaze in the riot, and local media reports indicate the town’s entire Bahai population
    has fled.

• Can Silicon Valley Help Save Iraq?

  Imperialism 2.0

  tags: Imperialism, Internet, USA, Iraq, USPuppets, Occupation, Imperialism2.0

  • Nine execs from tech companies including Twitter, Google, and YouTube are in Iraq to meet with the local government and private groups to see how technology can help rebuild the country. The State Department has not released the names of the execs on the mission but Scott Heiferman, co-founder and CEO of Meetup; Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter; Jason Liebman, co-founder and CEO of Howcast; Hunter Walk, product manager at YouTube, and Richard Robbins, director of social innovation at AT&T, seem to be on board according to Twitter chatter.

• First State Department “New Media Technology” Delegation Travels to Iraq

  Imperialism 2.0

  tags: Imperialism, Internet, USA, Iraq, USPuppets, Occupation, Imperialism2.0

  • The delegation includes a mix of CEOs, Vice-Presidents and senior representatives from AT&T, Google, Twitter, Howcast, Meetup, You Tube, Automattic/Wordpress, and Blue State Digital.

• أجهزة عباس تختطف عشرة من أنصار “حماس” في طولكرم بينهم ثمانية أسرى محررين

  tags: AbuMazensPolice, Police, pigs, Hamas, Resistance, Palestine, Traitors

  • اختطفت أجهزة عباس عشرة من أنصار “حماس” في محافظة طولكرم؛ من بينهم ثمانية أسرى محررين، أفرجت عن ثلاثة منهم من مخيم طولكرم بعد اعتقالهم يومًا واحدًا لرفعهم راية خضراء فوق منازلهم، فيما تنفذ لليوم الثالث على التوالي حملة دهمٍ وتفتيشٍ للمنازل والمحال التجارية في المدينة.

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