ALERT: Egypt Shuts Down Internet And Text Messaging Ahead of Million-Man Protests

Vatic Note:   that act implies mass murder maybe  planned and they don't want any witnesses. Remember the Lisbon Treaty which makes demonstrating a death penalty crime.  They will not tolerate any resistance by the cattle to their herding efforts.   We don't know and it depends on how good the news sources are there that are getting this info out minute by minute.  The video below certain shows they are capable of it.  I suppose we maybe looking at another test run.   If we could all come together as a people, this could not happen.   There simply aren't enough of them to deal with us if we moved enmass.  But we will see  how this turns out.   If they massacre them, then keep that in mind when they try to take your guns.  Also there is a massive energy confragation scheduled for this Friday I believe.  Will try to confirm and get you the specifics if I am right about that, but they have been messing pretty badly with my computer, so you will have to be patient.  Its taking a couple of days to put together something where they can't mess with my computer.  hehehehe   They are getting serious about free speech now, which was always going to be the last to go before getting the guns.  

Egypt Shuts Down Internet And Text Messaging Ahead of Million-Man Protests

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/egypt-shuts-down-internet-and-text-messaging-ahead-million-man-protests
by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, 01/27/2011

Reports are emerging that Internet has gone down in Cairo and throughout Egypt, only hours before the largest planned protests yet.
According to a report from The Arabist, "Egypt has shut off the internet."

Multiple Internet Service Providers are affected according to the report, which states:

I just received a call from a friend in Cairo (I won't say who it is now because he's a prominent activist) telling me neither his DSL nor his USB internet service is working. I've just checked with two other friends in different parts of Cairo and their internet is not working either.

The news of the Internet outage came minutes after the Associated Press published a video of an Egyptian protestor being shot. http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=69016&sitesection=ndnsubss&VID=23316289 (see video below)



CNN reporter Ben Wedeman confirmed Internet is down in Cairo and writes, "No internet, no SMS, what is next? Mobile phones and land lines? So much for stability. #Jan25 #Egypt"

The Los Angeles Times is also reporting that BlackBerry Internet has been taken offline in Egypt.

UPDATE (7:05 p.m. ET) Reuters confirms http://af.reuters.com/article/tunisiaNews/idAFLDE70Q2P220110127 "major network disruptions" for Egypt Internet users at this time, with reports in Cairo that there is no Internet altogether. A top state official declined to comment.

UPDATE: (7:30 p.m. ET) The Associated Press also confirms widespread Internet outages in Egypt. Italy-based Seabone, a major Internet service provider for Egypt, reported early Friday there was no Internet traffic going into or out of the country after 12:30 a.m. local time.

UPDATE: (7:35 p.m. ET) AFP reports that cell phone text messaging also appears to be down in Egypt.

UPDATE: (7:45 p.m. ET) Independent citizen media organization Global Voices just posted a report on Egypt's "Internet black hole" and notes it will attempt to file future reports from Egypt via phone calls and other communication methods.

UPDATE: (9:45 p.m. ET) Internet intelligence authority Renesys has just weighed in with a blog post on recent developments:

Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air.

At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.

UPDATE: (2:10 a.m. ET) HuffPost reader Thomas Jaworowski, a tech enthusiast, emails in that he "decided to try a few tricks" to see if Egypt's Internet really was down or it was just server overload causing the problems. He traced IP addresses, particularly for the U.S. Embassy in Cairo which is hosted in Egypt, and found that the Web traffic is indeed being blocked at the country level, not just a simple censoring.

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