Egyptian Activists Distributed This 26-Page Guide On How To Fight Riot Police

Egyptian activists have circulated a 26-page plan called "How To Protest Intelligently" (via The Atlantic).

Despite the polite title, the tone of this pamphlet is revolutionary. The demands of the people include "the downfall of the regime of "Hosni Mubarak and his ministers." Strategic goals include "to take over important government building."

It also includes tips for fighting against riot police.

Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated

JAN 27 2011, 7:40 PM ET249

Egyptian activists have been circulating a kind of primer to Friday's planned protest. We were sent the plan by two separate sources and have decided to publish excerpts here, with translations  into English. Over Twitter, we connected with a translator, who translated the document with exceptional speed.

What follows are side-by-side translations of nine pages from the 26-page pamphlet. They were translated over the last hour and pasted up in Photoshop to give you an idea of what's in the protest plan. While the plan itself contains specifics about what protesters might do, these excerpts show how one might equip oneself for clashes with riot police. Egyptian security forces have repeatedly beaten protesters as the level of violent repression of demonstrations has ratcheted upwards. For more context on the pamphlet itself, the Guardian UK ran a summary of it earlier today.

As you'll read, the creators of the pamphlet explicitly asked that the pamphlet not be distributed on Twitter or Facebook, only through email or other contacts. We're publishing this piece of ephemera because we think it's a fascinating part of the historical record of what may end up becoming a very historic day for Egypt.

Has Brzezinski’s Feared “Global Awakening” Arrived?

Monumental worldwide rallying cry for freedom threatens to derail new world order agenda

Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet.com

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s much feared “global political awakening” is in full swing. Revolts in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and other countries represent a truly monumental worldwide rallying cry for freedom that threatens to immeasurably damage the agenda for one world government, but only if the successful revolutionaries can prevent themselves from being co-opted by a paranoid and desperate global elite.

During a Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal last year, co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission and regular Bilderberg attendee Zbigniew Brzezinski warned of a “global political awakening,” mainly comprising of younger people in developing states, that threatened to topple the existing international order.

Reading the full extent of Brzezinski’s words in light of the global revolts that we now see spreading like wildfire across the planet provides an astounding insight into how crucially important the outcome of this phase of modern history will be to the future geopolitical course of the world, and in turn the survival and growth of human freedom in general.

Who is Trying to Vandalize the Cairo Museum? Stench of Mossad, Perhaps?

Amid rampant violence as hoards of protestors set the building of the ruling National Democratic Party on fire, others broke into the adjacent Egyptian Museum and destroyed two mummies on display, along with ransacking the ticket office.

The looters entered the museum from above as tourism police and other Cairo residents protected the main entrance of the building.

The 109 year old museum is home to tens of thousands of artifacts and is the world’s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, including the majority of the King Tutankhamen collection.

Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, stated, “I felt deeply sorry today when I came this morning to the Egyptian Museum and found that some had tried to raid the museum by force last night.

”This latest violence occurred as President Mubarek had earlier ordered troops and tanks to enter Cairo and impose a curfew to control protestors demonstrating against the current Egyptian government and President Mubarek. Those protesting had ignored the curfew to set numerous buildings ablaze over night.

Al-Jazeera and CNN had collectively reported crowds estimated at 50,000 demonstrating in the streets, including many women and children.BBC had also reported that an explosion had seriously damaged a state security building in Rafah, located about 9 miles (15 kilometers) west of Cairo.Watch a brief raw video depicting the violence and chaos in Cairo here.

I smell Mossad agents at work here. Egyptians revere their ancient history. There is no reason to merely destroy mummies. Not for Egyptians. But there are other players, of course, with obvious motives to destroy Egypt's antiquities.

Without Internet, Egyptians Subvert System By Finding New Ways to Get Online - Why Haven't You?

FIRST MODEM: Suddenly your old 56k dial-up modem doesn't seem

so ancient any more [Image:AT&T Archives and History Center]

People around the world are offering dial-up modem numbers and other primitive tools for people in Egypt

By Nancy Gohring and Robert McMillan | ComputerWorld

IDG News Service - "When countries block, we evolve," an activist with the group We Rebuild wrote in a Twitter message on Friday.

That's just what many Egyptians have been doing this week, as groups like We Rebuild scramble to keep the country connected to the outside world, turning to landline telephones, fax machines and even ham radio to keep information flowing in and out of the country.

Although one Internet service provider -- Noor Group -- remains in operation, Egypt's government abruptly ordered the rest of the country's ISPs to shut down their services just after midnight local time Thursday. Mobile networks have also been turned off in some areas.

The blackout appears designed to disrupt organization of the country's growing protest movement, which is calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

"[B]asically, there are three ways of getting information out right now -- get access to the Noor ISP (which has about 8% of the market), use a land line to call someone, or use dial-up," Jillian York, a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, said via e-mail.