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Internet dies in Egypt – Yahoo! News

28 Friday Jan 2011

Posted by Dagny Gromer in internet, liberty, Political, RKBA

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AK-47, Egypt, internet, liberty, RKBA

Update 1/30/2011:  Found an interesting video  http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110128-agenda-george-friedman-egypt Dr. George Friedman thinks it’s most likely that the Egyptian military will decide what happens. A reformist, democratic regime is the least likely outcome.

SAN FRANCISCO – About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead.

Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the Internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule, experts said.

Egypt has apparently done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major Internet economy: It unplugged itself entirely from the Internet to try and silence dissent.

The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark – Yahoo! News.

To me, if the government shuts off the internet it’s AK-47 time. Note this happened in a totalitarian state where people’s natural right to self defense and RKBA is denied to them.

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Workers saw 2 percent rise in wages and benefits – Yahoo! News

28 Friday Jan 2011

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Economics, financial

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Economics, financial

Workers saw their wages and benefits rise slightly faster in 2010 than 2009, but the gain was still the second-lowest increase in nearly three decades.

via Workers saw 2 percent rise in wages and benefits – Yahoo! News.

A 2% raise … wow, I haven’t received a raise since 2007. I’m jealous, but I’m still employed.

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