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6 April

2011 USA intervention in Haitian elections

USA government decides on Haitian election candidates; Hillary Clinton draws the short straw, and breaks the bad news to Haiti: The guy you wrote in as a joke, Michel Martelly? He's now the other guy that you have to vote for instead of Aristide, or Fanmi Lavalas, or Rene Praval, or Jude Celestin, or whoever we get rid of next

Way back in 2009, the Fanmi Lavalas party, closest to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forbidden participation in Haiti's November '10 elections by the provisional election council created by the current president, Rene Praval. But not content with that assassination of democracy, and under cover of the Egyptian protests, the US, to the orchestrated swell of allegations of voter fraud as a pretext for runoff elections, pressured Haiti to remove Jude Celestin, the candidate least affiliated with right-wing Haitian government, US-backed Haitian governments, Haitian dictators, or all three.[1][2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7][5][8] [9] Michel Martelly and Mirlande Manigat will face each other in the revised election.

INITE campaign poster for the 2010 elections picturing Jude Celestin and his non-winning smile, with some of the heavy machinery that will soon no longer be at his disposal, but hopefully will not be sold off to the highest bidder before Haiti can rebuild itself, Photoshopped in behind him

"The decision was made after the Obama administration and the Organization of American States pressured Haiti not to include government-backed candidate Jude Celestin in the run-off, although he received more votes than Martelly. OAS claimed that Celestin had benefited from vote rigging and fraud. On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Haiti to personally pressure Haitian President René Préval not to include Celestin in the runoff. But many organizations, including the Congressional Black Caucus, have criticized the Obama administration’s stance. Mark Weisbrot, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said it was a disgrace that, "the richest country in the world has forced one of the poorest to change the results of its presidential election, literally under the threat of starvation." Haiti’s presidential election process has also come under intense criticism in part because candidates of former President Juan-Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas Party were banned from running." - Democracy Now! - 4 Feb '11

Jude Celestin was the only candidate without a Wikipedia article until the 10th of March, 2011.


1 April 2011

media block. replaced by 'Toons

On January 25 and 26, 2011, Wikipedia:Twitter was blocked in Egypt due to the 2011 Egyptian protests (WP),[10] and Facebook was later blocked as well.[11]

On January 27, various reports claimed that access to the Internet in the entire country had been shut down.[12] The authorities responsible achieved this by shutting down the country's official Domain Name System, in an attempt to stop mobilisation for anti-government protests.[13] Later reports stated that almost all Wikipedia:BGP announcements out of the country had been withdrawn, almost completely disconnecting the country from the global Internet, with only a single major provider, Wikipedia:Noor Data Networks, remaining up.[14][15][16]

The Hacktivism group Anonymous displayed the altruistic side of direct action for the uninitiated, with techniques used in the 1989 Beijing protests, to update Egyptians behind the information 'Iron Curtain' as Andy Greenberg dubbed it;[17] Egypt's loss of internet access had kept them from news about WikiLeaks-intercepted Egyptian diplomatic cables, but Anonymous ducked under the obstruction with a low-tech solution: Faxes.[17]


Yesterday's

Too new
(Much of this story is just breaking. News and of course, links to get you to the pros)
Operation Avenge Assange#Africa

Anonymous began supporting the North African protestors; websites of the Tunisian Ministry of Industry and its Stock Exchange were taken down.[18] Anonymous noted Tunisia's "outrageous level of censorship";[18]Reporters without Borders (WP) counts it 164th out of 178 countries for press freedom.[19] On January 3, 2011 Anonymous group brought down a Zimbabwean government website after President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe, sued a newspaper for US $15 million for publishing a WikiLeaks cable that linked her with the alleged trade in illicit diamonds.[20]
Running the Egyptian internet blockade

Main article: 2011 Egyptian media censorship


Anonymous kept up the pace, and even changed up the game considerably to show the Robin Hood side of direct action, using techniques used in the 1989 Beijing protests to update Egyptians behind the information 'Iron Curtain' as Andy Greenberg dubbed it;[17] Egypt's loss of internet access had kept them from news about WikiLeaks-intercepted Egyptian diplomatic cables, but Anonymous ducked under the obstruction with a low-tech solution: Faxes.[17]
Archived by Anarchangel 22:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

From whenever (I am tired). 2009 I think. Archived 2 Feb 2011

Venesat-1 is the first Venezuelan satellite. It was launched at 16:53 UTC on October 29, 2008 by a Chinese Chang Zheng 3B launch vehicle from the People’s Republic of China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC). The satellite is built by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). VENESAT-1 is the UN official designation. In Venezuela it is named "Simon Bolivar" to commemorate Latin America's 19th Century independence leader. It is PRC's first contract of manufacture and space launching service for a Latin American nation.
  1. ↑ Factbox: Celestin technocrat protege of outgoing Haiti leader
  2. ↑ Factbox: Celestin technocrat protege of outgoing Haiti leader
  3. ↑ Leading Haiti candidates are study in contrasts Bangkok Post, 27 Nov '10
  4. ↑ ABS-CBN News
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michel Martelly, de la chanson à l'élection, Kahina Sakkai, Paris Match, Feb 04, 2011
  6. ↑ "His Music Rules in Haiti: Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones" Miami New Times, Elise Ackerman, May 29, 1997
  7. ↑ Michel Martelly, Stealth Duvalierist The Dominion, news from the grassroots, 16 Dec, '10
  8. ↑ Haiti delays presidential runoff 5 Jan 11
  9. ↑ http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2031412,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular
  10. ↑ TechCrunch: Twitter blocked in Egypt
  11. ↑ Wall Street Journal, Egypt Communications Cut Ahead Of Further Protests
  12. ↑ Egyptian internet goes down Huffington Post
  13. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12306041 Technology] BBC News
  14. ↑ Christopher Williams. How Egypt shut down the internet. Daily Telegraph.
  15. ↑ Internet in Egypt offline. bgpmon.net.
  16. ↑ Cowie, James Egypt Leaves the Internet. Renesys.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Security1871Share13diggsdigg73inShareAmid Digital Blackout, Anonymous Mass-Faxes WikiLeaks Cables To Egypt 28 Jan '11, Andy Greenberg, The Firewall
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Five arrested over 'Anonymous' web attacks. BBC News. URL accessed on 30 January 2011.
  19. ↑ http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2010,1034.html Press Freedom Index 2010] Reporters Without Borders = Reporters sans frontières RSF.org
  20. ↑ SMH.com.au
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