Police vs. Protesters in Egypt

Egyptian police arrest protesters decrying possible succession of Mubarak's son
Cairo — Egyptian Police on Tuesday beat and arrested Anti-Government Activists demonstrating against the possibility of the president's son succeeding his father as leader of the country. Some 300 Protesters outside the former royal palace in downtown Cairo chanted Anti-Government slogans, waved flags and even burned pictures of the president while hundreds of black clad Riot Police surrounded them in tight cordons. Many others were prevented from even reaching the wide square. Shoving...

Police beat protesters in Egypt
Cairo - Police beat a handful of demonstrators with batons on Tuesday at a Protest of about 200 Egyptians gathering against what they said were plans to hand power to the president’s son. President Hosni Mubarak, 82, in power since 1981, has not said if he will run in the 2011 election. But persistent rumours about his health have helped fuel talk he could hand power to his politician son, Gamal, 46. Both deny any such plan. Though small by international standards, Protests have become...

Obama heckled on AIDS, gay rights at fundraiser
NEW YORK – President Barack Obama got heckled at a Fundraiser Wednesday night by Protesters pushing for more funding for AIDS programs and quicker action to allow Gays to serve openly in the Military. Activists yelled slogans and held signs aloft reading "Obama broken promises KILL." Supporters of the president tried to drown them out with shouts of "O-bam-a! O-bam-a!" The Hecklers were so raucous Obama went off-script several times to address them, insisting he's increased AIDS funding...

An Election Dilemma for Egypt's Opposition: To Boycott or Not?
All opponents of Egypt's decades-old authoritarian government know that the country's Elections are a sham of Democracy, but they're divided on how to respond to November's parliamentary Elections. Earlier this month, the popular former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei, who returned home to lead the National Coalition for Change, called for an opposition Boycott of the poll. Staying away, say ElBaradei's supporters, is the best way of challenging the legitimacy the...

Egypt's Cabinet delays meeting on development dispute seized on by anti-corruption critics
Cairo — Egypt's Cabinet said Tuesday it has postponed a meeting to discuss a Legal Challenge to the government's sale of land to a developer in a deal that critics have seized on as a sign of the cozy relationship between Egypt's business elite and the government. The High Court has effectively annulled the land sale to the Talaat Moustafa Group, the country's largest publicly traded developer, because the government awarded the land by direct decree instead of offering it at a public...

Protester Holds Up Copy Of "U.S.S Constitution" To Prove That Congress Can't Regulate Health Care (VIDEO)
Think Progress catches an amusing moment at a seemingly virulent Protest against Health Care reform. At one point, a Protester brandishes a copy of what he calls the "U.S.S. Constitution" in order to prove the false idea that the Federal Government doesn't have the right to regulate Health Care. Think Progress has more on this new false talking point about Health Care. Watch the video of the Protest below: Protester: Right here. I got a book here called the U.S.S. Constitution. I'm sure...

Wow: RNN Sits Down With Jim Russell, NY-18 Candidate Spurned By GOP For Extremist Writings
"Longtime Democratic Incumbent Rep. Nita Lowey's Republican challenger this fall is a Christian conservative author and Activist whose writings have frowned on inter-racial marriage and movies like "Save the Last Dance," touted the benefits of studies linking race to IQ and said parents need to teach their kids "appropriate ethnic boundaries" for marriage and socializing," she wrote. She notes today that at a news Conference, Russell suggested the GOP was being a bit oversensitive about...

President Obama heckled on AIDS, gay rights at fundraiser
N EW YORK — President Barack Obama got heckled at a Fundraiser Wednesday night by Protesters pushing for more funding for AIDS programs and quicker action to allow Gays to serve openly in the Military. Activists yelled slogans and held signs aloft reading "Obama broken promises KILL." Supporters of the president tried to drown them out with shouts of "O-bam-a! O-bam-a!" The Hecklers were so raucous Obama went off-script several times to address them, insisting he’s increased AIDS...

LGBT and AIDS Activists Heckle Obama in NYC
Shouting "Broken Promises KILL!" a group of LGBT and AIDS Activists heckled President Obama as he began to speak at a NYC Fundraising event that raised $1.4 million for his party and fellow Democrats seeking election this November. "Some of those signs should be going up at the other folks’ events, and folks should be hollering at the other folks’ event. Because the choice in November could not be clearer," the president said, according to the Associated...

WHO EVER SAID THE CAMERA NEVER LIES?
The orginal: Obama, as the neutral party and host, in the middle, is flanked by (l to r) President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine and King Abdullah II of Jordan Altered image: In the ‘doctored’ photo, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been pasted in so it appears he leads the group in Peace Talks at the White House

Maan News Agency: Hamas: Egypt using open border to trap officials
Gaza CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas accused Cairo Tuesday of using the Rafah crossing's opening to detain party officials as they travel abroad via Egypt following the detention of the Gaza government's intelligence chief in Cairo. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told reporters that opening the Border to trap Hamas officials was "unacceptable and inappropriate," following the detention of General Security Service Commander Muhammad Dabaeesh, also known as Abu Radwan, at the Cairo International Airport. ...

Hamas: Official arrested in Egypt falsely accused
Related Articles Gaza CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Gaza’s Hamas rulers say a senior security official arrested in Egypt has been falsely accused of posing a threat to Egyptian security. Mohammed Dababish, an official in Hamas’ internal security unit, was arrested in Cairo this week in connection with an illegal shipment of walkie-talkies that Egypt says was to be smuggled to Gaza. In Hamas’ first reaction to the arrest, a spokesman denied Tuesday that Dababish was involved in...

قناة ال
Egyptian Foreign Affairs ministry spokesperson Hussam Zaki raised concerns on Monday over "the recent developments in Lebanon," warning against embroiling Cairo in the trivial conflicts among Lebanese political forces.   Concerns are not linked to the fact that some Lebanese expressly rely on weapons that are ruled neither by the Executive Power nor by the Judicial Power, but also include the entire situation prevailing in Lebanon since the last few weeks, Zaki...

Egyptian writer: Arresting Debabesh meant to pressure Hamas to sign document
Cairo, (PIC)-- An Egyptian writer has opined that the Egyptian authorities' detention of Hamas leader Mohammed Debabesh on his way back home from performing Umra was meant as a pressure card on Hamas to sign the Egyptian document for Palestinian Reconciliation as is. Salim Azuz said in a press statement on Tuesday that arresting Debabesh was part of a campaign to force Hamas to sign the document and to prove that Cairo was still a main player in the region. He noted that the arrest campaign...

Egypt legal committee: govt can scrap disputed land sale contract, reassign to same parties
Cairo — A legal committee set up by the Egyptian government is recommending that a disputed land sale contract with the country's largest publicly traded developer be scrapped, but that it be reassigned to the same parties. The recommendations released Wednesday by the committee paves the way for Talaat Moustafa Group to retain ownership of the land on which it is building its $3 Billion Madinaty master planned community. The committee, established after a High Court upheld a verdict...

Islam Meets Catholicism as Muslim Protesters Call for Death of Pope Benedict
Though the Crusades werefought centuries ago and are rarely, if ever, mentioned in Catholic classrooms, Muslims today who want Jihad continue to flaunt them in vengeful tones and wallow in hatred for Catholicism. So it was when Pope Benedict XVI visited the United Kingdom and was met on his itinerary by a group of angry Islamists urging for his death and calling him “responsible” for the Crusades. Muslim demonstrators shouted “Pope Benedict, you will pay, Islam ...

Obama Gets Loudly Heckled At Fundraiser By DADT And AIDS Protesters
President Obama has apparently reached the ‘can’t do anything right’ portion of his presidency. Last night at a Fundraiser in New York City President Obama was loudly heckled by a group of people protesting over AIDS funding and DADT. It’s unclear how the Protesters were allowed into the event, and why they weren’t ushered out once they started yelling, but the end result is a large group of people hollering at the President, which truth be told is a little...

`Deeply embarrassed' Pa. governor shuts down intelligence reports on peaceful protesters
Harrisburg, PA. — An embarrassed Gov. Ed Rendell apologized Tuesday to groups whose peaceful Protests or events, from an Animal Rights demonstration to a gay and Lesbian festival, were the subject of regular anti-terrorism bulletins being distributed by his Homeland Security director. Rendell said that the information was useless to Law Enforcement agencies and that distributing it was tantamount to trampling on Constitutional Rights. Bulletins also went to members of Pennsylvania's...

Radical Muslims Call For Death of Pope Benedict During His Trip to Britain (Video)
The radical Muslim group “Muslims Against Crusaders” protested against Pope Benedict during his trip to Great Britain. The radicals chanted, “Pope Benedict you will pay!” and “Watch your back!” during their hate-filled rally last week. From the Video: The slaves of Allah confront the slave of Satan - Pope Benedict XVI at a demonstration in London. Saturday 18 September 2010. Newsreal Blog has more on the disgusting Protesters: Muslim...

Israel jails Arab activists for vague 'contact with a foreign agent' offence
A vague security offence of "contact with a foreign agent" is being used by Israel's secret Police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab Political Activists in Israel without evidence that a Crime has been committed, Human Rights lawyers alleged this week. The lawyers said the Shin Bet was exploiting the Law to characterise innocent or accidental meetings between members of Israel's large Arab minority and Arab foreign nationals as criminal activity. The chances of such contacts have increased rapidly...

Obama urges new ways to tackle poverty
United Nations (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global Poverty and said his Administration would focus its help to the poor on promoting Economic Growth and fighting Corruption. Obama told a special U.N. summit that for too long progress in fighting Poverty was measured by the sums spent to deliver food and medicine -- a practice that had saved lives in the short term but not always helped poor countries develop. "We need more than just aid to...

From the Top of Everest to a Rally at 47th Street
Kirsten Luce for The New York Times From left, Mingma Nurbu Sherpa, Mingma Chiring Sherpa and Lhakpa Nurbu Sherpa, all of Westchester, are Mount Everest Sherpas who attended the Save the Himalayas rally outside at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations building on Tuesday. There are a great many groups seeking to stage Protests this week at the United Nations while the General Assembly is in session. Space is limited, so there is a pecking order for groups gathered on Dag Hammarskjold...

RACE AND NATIONALITY DIFFERENT
There may be just one tiny flaw in Irfan Yusuf’s latest attempted take-down : A group of indigenous Activists have commenced legal action against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. Bolt commented on certain fair-skinned people identifying themselves as Aboriginal. He wrote that “this self-identification as Aboriginal strikes me as self-obsessed, and driven more by politics than by any racial reality”. All kind of accurate so far. But now we hit a problem: Bolt is...

'Can't think of 2 men more deserving of gay rights honor,' says activist of post-Apocalyptic world where only 3 men remain
Man bites dog. The Log spins madly on: Breaking new ground in the Republican Party's relationship with the gay community, the leaders of the GOP's two congressional campaign committees will be honored at a fundraising reception hosted by the Log Cabin Republicans on Wednesday evening. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX), Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, are this year's...

GOP 'Pledge' Makes Closing Arguments to Voters
WASHINGTON - Six weeks before voters head to the polls for this year's Midterm Elections, Republicans have released their closing argument.      Their new "Pledge to America" outlines the direction they will take the country if elected as the majority in Congress. In this final push before the Election, Republicans want voters to know they hear their frustrations.      The GOP's 21-page "Pledge to America" is filled with policies that appeal to Tea...