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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.

Source: The Atlantic

Officially known as DA PAM 750-30, this 32 page comic book was issued with a rifle to each new soldier going to Vietnam.

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On May 1, 2001 the US Army released a 32 page comic book, MISC PUB 600-5. Dignity & Respect, A Training Guide on Homosexual Conduct Policy.

Enforcing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy forbidding openly gay soldiers from serving in the military got so complicated that military officials needed to paint a picture.

It has been suggested that the comic was indeed distributed among troops — and that opponents of the “don’t ask” ban hailed it as a valuable teaching tool. “We’d rather there not be a policy excluding gay service members,” Steve Rall, a spokesman for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said at the time. “But given it is the law, we think it is a positive step for the Army to go the extra step to educate its troops. It is about eight years too late, but late is better than never.”

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In 1984 the CIA produced a comic book that told the story they would like to become history. They airdropped these comics by the thousands. This was a ploy by the US to have the people of Granada see the United States as liberators as opposed to invaders.

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In the early 1980s, the right-wing Reagan U.S. Government was determined to undermine or overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua.

As part of this campaign, the Central Intelligence Agency produced a small illustrated booklet in both Spanish and English designed to destabilise the Nicaraguan Government and economic system.
It instructed dissaffected individuals on acts of sabotage they could carry out to this end.

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