----- Original Message ----- From: <dredmond at efn.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:23 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Battle of the Museums
> Al-Jazeera's live coverage (http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/) is
> mesmerizing. The regime's thugs were attacking one of the streets leading
> to Tahrir Square right next to the Egypt Museum, throwing Molotov
> cocktails and rocks, but the revolutionaries (who were clearly far more
> restrained) gradually pushed them back, using what looked like slabs of
> corrugated sheet metal as impromptu shields.
>
> Two more victories: Egypt's internet is back up
> (http://twitter.com/search?q=%23egypt), and the thugs made one of those
> bone-crushingly-stupid moves typical of a dying dictatorship: CNN's
> Anderson Cooper was beaten by government thugs right in front of the
> cameras
> (http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/02/video-anderson-and-crew-attacked-in-cairo/).
>
> -- DRR
>
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