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Egyptians Find New Ways To Get Online
angry tapir writes "Groups like We Rebuild have scrambled to keep Egypt 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."
It doesn't help that America has an incompetent President who prior to 2009 only had experience as an executive running the staff of his Senate office.... and even that was a huge jump over the half dozen TAs and student assistants he had as an economics professor. Half of the time I don't think the President knows where the money is even going or who is even being supported or not.
U.S. foreign policy is hypocritical in part because it is rarely even being run by the same person or for that matter even the same political philosophies. Most often it is run by bureaucratic hacks that are more often bought off by political lobbyists that promote some sort of commercial objective. In some cases, I'd dare say that Coca-Cola and McDonald's has a stronger influence on foreign policy than even the President.