At least ten protesters were injured after Saudi forces used batons to disperse the demonstrators peacefully marching to show solidarity with Shias in Bahrain.
Saudi forces beat peaceful Saudi demonstrators
Fatboy sez: What. Me Worry?
2011-03-18
Yemen
The violence began almost immediately after the protesters’ noon prayers, conducted en masse in the street. As they rose, government supporters in plain clothes opened fire from rooftops and windows, while security forces at the south end of the protest fired guns and a water cannon, apparently in an effort to keep demonstrators from moving further into the center of the capital.
Yemen Authorities shoot peaceful protestors as they arise from their prayers
Yemen Authorities shoot peaceful protestors as they arise from their prayers
Pakistan Next?
As I monitor the public anger building up in Pakistan over what growing sections of the people see as the bullying tactics adopted by the US Government to secure the release and departure to the US of Raymond Davis a member of the staff of either the US Consulate-General in Lahore or the US Embassy in Islamabad (one does not know which), who allegedly shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27, 2011, I am no longer that certain that there cannot be an uprising in Pakistan
Is Pakistan Next to Join the People's Uprising
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's army chief strongly condemned a U.S. drone attack that killed more than three dozen people Thursday, saying the missiles struck a peaceful meeting of tribal elders near the Afghan border.
The accusation by Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani — which was denied by a U.S. official — adds tension to a relationship already strained by the shooting deaths of two Pakistanis by a CIA contractor who was freed Wednesday following a contentious deal to pay millions in "blood money" to the men's families.
U.S.Drone Attack Kills 38 Tribal Elders
The Pakistan-India-United States triangle is a dysfunctional triangular configuration with no strategic convergence existing between the three nations and no vision of a united purpose to jointly achieve political and strategic ends...
This Paper intends to dwell on the examination of the Kayani Factor under the following heads as to how false it is for both the United States and India to bet on the Pakistan Army Chief that he would effectively contribute to a peace process between India and Pakistan and how truly he would deliver on United States strategic interests in Afghanistan and overall in South Asia:
The Kayani Factor
Is Pakistan Next to Join the People's Uprising
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's army chief strongly condemned a U.S. drone attack that killed more than three dozen people Thursday, saying the missiles struck a peaceful meeting of tribal elders near the Afghan border.
The accusation by Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani — which was denied by a U.S. official — adds tension to a relationship already strained by the shooting deaths of two Pakistanis by a CIA contractor who was freed Wednesday following a contentious deal to pay millions in "blood money" to the men's families.
U.S.Drone Attack Kills 38 Tribal Elders
The Pakistan-India-United States triangle is a dysfunctional triangular configuration with no strategic convergence existing between the three nations and no vision of a united purpose to jointly achieve political and strategic ends...
This Paper intends to dwell on the examination of the Kayani Factor under the following heads as to how false it is for both the United States and India to bet on the Pakistan Army Chief that he would effectively contribute to a peace process between India and Pakistan and how truly he would deliver on United States strategic interests in Afghanistan and overall in South Asia:
The Kayani Factor
2011-03-16
Operation Bahraini Freedom Continues. Cue Slo-Mo Video of Flag Waving and Eagle Wings Flapping
They're also playing "patriotic" music on TV. Police and army are celebrating a victory (see: ). It's immoral. Our blood is a joke to them.
Here are some more links. The most recent ones I collected are at the bottom. Please don't cite my name.
Saudi withdraws Reuters license:
police purportedly firing live rounds at civilians in Sitra 15/3/11
FIDH denounces military intervention as “blatant occupation”, fears further crackdown
Bahrain imposes a state of emergency:
Foreign Troops Suppress Demonstrations in Bahrain; US claims it has been “caught off guard” by the invasion
Al Jazeera English: “Brutal attack” alleged in Bahrain; doctors complain from the violence, sleep in hospital to treat patients 15/3/11
Al Jazeera English: protester shot in chest 13/3/11
Video of protester shot in the head (extremely graphic)
Further evidence of the police collaborating with pro-government thugs who attacked the University 14/3/11
Amnesty International condemns Bahraini-Saudi crackdown 15/3/11
Police car attempts to run protesters over
15/3/11 Expats killed by government thugs. This video was first posted by anti-government protesters online and the Iranian Alalam TV, but was then used by Bahrain’s state television BTV to blame the protesters for killing them. The people, who speak in Shi’a dialect and are clearly horrified by the sight of the bodies, can be heard in the background claiming that a “black American” is responsible for this. Another says “these are poor Bangladeshis, they’re innocent!”. Towards the end, a third voice, who appears to be an eye-witness, says thugs in an “American jeep” did it.
HRW: thugs hijacked ambulances, paramedics beaten
An ambulance with bullet holes on the side 15/3/11
A protester being executed by live police rounds in Sitra 15/3/11
Burning tents in peal roundabout as the police and army cracks down 16/3/11
denying ambulances from coming into Salmaniya 16/3/11
Bahrain Financial Harbor 16/3/11 http://twitpic.com/49xw2n
Pearl roundabout 16/3/11:http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/188662_154166794644348_152372308157130_341793_5451156_n.jpg
Picture of helicopter with machine gun 16/3/11
A number of helicopters in Bahrain’s sky 16/3/11
Police attacking medical personnel 16/3/11
medical personnel being searched 16/3/11 http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/190282_10150158287971183_530611182_8887913_2355228_n.jpg
army and police celebrating “victory” 16/3/11
Thugs attack Bahrain International Hospital http://bb.ta7a.com/upfiles/ta7a-KDg57681.jpg 16/3/11
Army bus by Salmaniya hospital 16/3/11 http://yfrog.com/h3nduluj
Army aiming their guns at civilians 16/3/11 http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/199221_10150454981555192_527960191_18197979_4655498_n.jpg
Another photo of pearl roundabout on 16/3/11 morning http://yfrog.com/h737qzdvj
Gaddafi Funded French President Sarkozy 2007 Election Campaign
"Give us back our money. We have all the bank details and documents for the transfer operations and we will make everything public soon."
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170262.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170262.html
2011-03-15
'Operation Bahraini Freedom'
OF COURSE the Americans don't consider Saudi intervention in Bahrain and occupation - they probably consider it 'Operation Bahraini Freedom'!!!
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-bahrain_15.html
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-bahrain_15.html
2011-03-14
Shintaro Ishihara Governor of Tokyo Speaks
From 2010: Seismic activity is up in Japan this year. So what does Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara do? In an April 9 address to the Japanese army, he tells troops that "Atrocious crimes have been committed again and again by sangokujin and other foreigners. We can expect them to riot in the event of a disastrous earthquake."
The last time Tokyo had a disastrous earthquake, in 1923, ultranationalist-led mobs took the opportunity to track down and kill thousands of the stricken city’s Korean residents.
Ishihara’s use of the 50-year old derogatory term "sangokujin" (an English-language equivalent would be "nigger") is especially disgusting.
http://www.assemblylanguage.com/text/Ishihara.html
In response to China's first successful launch of a man in space: "The Chinese are ignorant, so they are overjoyed. That spacecraft was an outdated one. If Japan wanted to do it, we could do it in one year."
“Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.”
The outspoken governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, told reporters Monday that the disaster was "punishment from heaven" because Japanese have become greedy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110314/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
The last time Tokyo had a disastrous earthquake, in 1923, ultranationalist-led mobs took the opportunity to track down and kill thousands of the stricken city’s Korean residents.
Ishihara’s use of the 50-year old derogatory term "sangokujin" (an English-language equivalent would be "nigger") is especially disgusting.
http://www.assemblylanguage.com/text/Ishihara.html
- Regarding the bomb-planting at the private residence of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka: "A bomb was planted there. I think it was deserved."
- Regarding a war between China and the United States: "Wars are a war of attrition of lives. China holds no value at all for human life and can start a war without any concerns...If tensions mount between the United States and China, the two sides could pull the trigger on each other. Then, the more the fire expands, the United States, which has a civil society that highly values human life, would not be able to win
- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara
The outspoken governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, told reporters Monday that the disaster was "punishment from heaven" because Japanese have become greedy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110314/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
An Iraqi's Perspective Not From a Propaganda Based MSM Outlet or the US Government
"The only alternative left for Iraqis is the path of an uprising or revolution on the footsteps of Tunisia and Egypt.
The popular protests we are witnessing in Iraq, whether in the central and southern parts of the country by Arabs, both Sunni and Shiites, and those taking place in the Kurdish north, are voices denouncing sectarianism, factionalism and favoritism in the U.S.-guarded protectorate in central Baghdad.
Neither the U.S. nor the Iraqi government can deceive the Iraqis any more by trumpeting empty claims about freedom and democracy."
2011-03-12
US Provided Nerve Gas to the Yemini Government for Use On Their Citizens?
The US has provided Yemeni police with gas canisters which have been used against anti-government protesters in capital Sana'a, local sources say.
Police have reportedly used nerve gas to quell peaceful protests in Sana'a's University Square. The empty canisters obtained by the locals bear the “Made in U.S.A.” stamp.
Sources say the canisters were a “gift” to the Yemeni police from the United States.
The protesters, who demand an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule, have been camping out in the square since February 21.
At least six anti-government protesters, including a school boy, were killed and hundreds more injured during clashes with the police on Saturday.
Saleh has promised a new constitution which would shift power from the presidency to an elected parliament. Protesters say that the offer is not enough, vowing to continue to demonstrate until he resigns.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/169592.html
Kurdistan
The Kurdish administration is often cited in Western media as an example of democratic rule in Iraq, but that is more words than deeds.
The two Kurdish factional leaders – Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish region’s president and Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president – are alleged to have been immersed in corruption and favoritism.
Both leaders have their own security and intelligence agencies as well as heavily armed militias who could almost do what they want with impunity.
Nuclear Reactor in Japan Explodes
Explosion at 1:22 into the video.
Go inside and cover your mouth?
"An explosion rocked one of nuclear power plants, causing a portion of a building to crumble, sending white smoke billowing into the air and prompting Japanese officials to warn those in the vicinity to cover their mouths and stay indoors."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103673.html?hpid=topnews
Go inside and cover your mouth?
"An explosion rocked one of nuclear power plants, causing a portion of a building to crumble, sending white smoke billowing into the air and prompting Japanese officials to warn those in the vicinity to cover their mouths and stay indoors."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103673.html?hpid=topnews
2011-03-11
50,000 Demonstrate in Bahrain. Bahrain Police Open Fire
Fifty thousand protestors in Bahrain is the equivalent of 18 million in the US, adjusted for population.
Why isn't the US media covering this story? Is it as Azzaman stated, "U.S. media are overlooking events... on purpose as if they were under the control of a government in a Third Word country."
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2011-03-08\kurd.htm
Why isn't the US media covering this story? Is it as Azzaman stated, "U.S. media are overlooking events... on purpose as if they were under the control of a government in a Third Word country."
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2011-03-08\kurd.htm
Bahraini police have opened fire on anti-government protesters marching towards the royal palace in the capital, injuring at least 150 people. There are also reports suggesting that security forces and pro-government vigilantes armed with clubs, swords and metal pipes are beating protesters near the royal complex. Witnesses say at least ten ambulances were rushed to the area. The violence came as nearly 50,000 demonstrators tried to stage a protest rally near the royal palace in the Refaa area of Manama on Friday, demanding political reforms.
Hillary Clinton's Statement Confuses Nuclear Physicists. Pentagon Says They Have No Idea What She's Talking About
"In a statement that confused nuclear experts, Clinton said Friday morning that U.S. Air Force planes in Japan had delivered "coolant" to a nuclear power plant affected by the quake. Nuclear reactors do not use special coolants, only large amounts of pumped water."
Clinton added:
"They have very high engineering standards, but one of their plants came under a lot of stress with the earthquake and didn't have enough coolant," she said, "and so Air Force planes were able to deliver that."
Pentagon speaks:
"To our knowledge, we have delivered nothing in support of the nuclear power plant," Lt. Col. John Haynes said. "Obviously, we stand by to assist with anything they might need."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103673.html?hpid=topnews
Did Hillary just make up an adventurous tale of the US Air Force flying anti-freeze to Japan? Will she now follow with a tale of Godzilla rising up and being slaughtered by these same US Air Force jets? Nothing can stop the US Air Force?
Clinton added:
"They have very high engineering standards, but one of their plants came under a lot of stress with the earthquake and didn't have enough coolant," she said, "and so Air Force planes were able to deliver that."
Pentagon speaks:
"To our knowledge, we have delivered nothing in support of the nuclear power plant," Lt. Col. John Haynes said. "Obviously, we stand by to assist with anything they might need."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103673.html?hpid=topnews
Did Hillary just make up an adventurous tale of the US Air Force flying anti-freeze to Japan? Will she now follow with a tale of Godzilla rising up and being slaughtered by these same US Air Force jets? Nothing can stop the US Air Force?
2011-03-10
Won't Read This in the NY Times or See it on CNN
Because Yemen is an ally in the Global War on Terror. Mild indiscretions such as using nerve gas on their citizens is allowed to fly under the radar:
SANAA, Yemen — Doctors from the scene of violent anti-government protests in Yemen’s capital Tuesday night said that what was originally thought to be tear gas fired by government forces on demonstrators might instead have been a form of nerve gas, which is forbidden under international law.
/snip/
Earlier reports indicated that the gas used was tear gas, but doctors who have been treating the wounded refuted that claim today.
“The material in this gas makes people convulse for hours. It paralyzes them. They couldn’t move at all. We tried to give them oxygen but it didn’t work,” said Amaar Nujaim, a field doctor who works for Islamic Relief.
“We are seeing symptoms in the patient’s nerves, not in their respiratory systems. I’m 90 percent sure its nerve gas and not tear gas that was used,” said Sami Zaid, a doctor at the Science and Technology Hospital in Sanaa.
Mohammad Al-Sheikh, a pathologist at the same hospital, said that some of the victims had lost their muscular control and were forced to wear diapers.
“We have never seen tear gas cause these symptoms. We fear it may be a dangerous gas that is internationally forbidden,” Al-Sheikh said.
/snip/
Earlier reports indicated that the gas used was tear gas, but doctors who have been treating the wounded refuted that claim today.
“The material in this gas makes people convulse for hours. It paralyzes them. They couldn’t move at all. We tried to give them oxygen but it didn’t work,” said Amaar Nujaim, a field doctor who works for Islamic Relief.
“We are seeing symptoms in the patient’s nerves, not in their respiratory systems. I’m 90 percent sure its nerve gas and not tear gas that was used,” said Sami Zaid, a doctor at the Science and Technology Hospital in Sanaa.
Mohammad Al-Sheikh, a pathologist at the same hospital, said that some of the victims had lost their muscular control and were forced to wear diapers.
“We have never seen tear gas cause these symptoms. We fear it may be a dangerous gas that is internationally forbidden,” Al-Sheikh said.
2011-03-08
SEC's General Counsel Changed Rules so He Could Make $1.5 Million From His Investment with Bernie Madoff
Now, its chairwoman is coming under Congressional fire for hiring as the S.E.C.’s general counsel someone with a Madoff financial interest — David M. Becker, who participated in matters involving how the scheme’s victims would be compensated.
The revelations about Mr. Becker’s role have raised fresh questions about ethical standards and practices at the agency, where Mary L. Schapiro was brought in as chairwoman two years ago with a mandate to strengthen its enforcement unit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/business/09sec.html?pagewanted=1&hp
The revelations about Mr. Becker’s role have raised fresh questions about ethical standards and practices at the agency, where Mary L. Schapiro was brought in as chairwoman two years ago with a mandate to strengthen its enforcement unit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/business/09sec.html?pagewanted=1&hp
Iraqi Power-Sharing Deal in Danger as Unity Crumbles
BAGHDAD // It was less than three months ago that, accompanied by much international fanfare, Iraqi politicians sealed a power-sharing deal that ended a lengthy deadlock and handed Nouri al Maliki a second term as prime minister.
That deal is now in tatters and any remaining hopes of a national unity administration are fading fast.
/snip/
Amir al Kinani, a Sadrist MP, said: "In the coming days I think the Sadrists and some other members of the National Alliance will probably meet with Iraqiyya and that could result in them forming a united opposition bloc in parliament."
He warned that any attempt to subvert the government-forming deal would create "political problems, at a time when the country is boiling". Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest against government failures, in defiance of the security services.
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/iraqi-power-sharing-deal-in-danger-as-unity-crumbles
That deal is now in tatters and any remaining hopes of a national unity administration are fading fast.
/snip/
Amir al Kinani, a Sadrist MP, said: "In the coming days I think the Sadrists and some other members of the National Alliance will probably meet with Iraqiyya and that could result in them forming a united opposition bloc in parliament."
He warned that any attempt to subvert the government-forming deal would create "political problems, at a time when the country is boiling". Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest against government failures, in defiance of the security services.
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/iraqi-power-sharing-deal-in-danger-as-unity-crumbles
U.S. Media Ignore Iraq Protests
It seems U.S. media are overlooking events in Iraq on purpose as if they were under the control of a government in a Third Word country.
The negligence with which U.S. media have been treating events in Iraq raises suspicion and shows that they pay lip service to notions of democratic values.
Otherwise, how could one explain the almost total blackout of the anti-government demonstrations in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities during the so-called Friday of Wrath in which tens of thousands of Iraqis went to streets demanding better living conditions and recognition of their rights as human beings.
Body Parts Left in Tub with Sliced cucumbers, Onions and Radishes
Heads, along with pieces of arms, hands, legs, and feet, were in tubs, as if it were a pozole prepared by hired assassins in containers placed slices of cucumber, onions, radishes, and grain dishes Pozole , white toast, as a traditional Salsa Huichol, cups and spoons, napkins and a bottle of Coca Cola 3-liter, also inside the mouth of the executed put a cigarette.
Just another day in Mexico. Gory pic alert:
Just another day in Mexico. Gory pic alert:
One Million Protest in Yeman
That's the equivalent of fifteen million protesters in the US.
One Million March in Yeman
Kuwait:
Kuwait Awakens
65% of Turks see the US or Israel as their number one enemy:
Turkish Poll
Bahrain:
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?storyid=1093397429
One Million March in Yeman
Kuwait:
Kuwait Awakens
65% of Turks see the US or Israel as their number one enemy:
Turkish Poll
Bahrain:
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?storyid=1093397429
2011-03-06
Why the Mideast revolts will help al-Qaeda
"The rush in the West to proclaim the advance of democracy in the Arab world has led to the propagation of an ill-conceived and dangerous corollary: that the revolts in the Middle East and North Africa also mark the irrelevance of al-Qaeda and other Islamist militant groups."
http://non-intervention.com/851/more-on-inevitable-democracy-in-the-arab-world/
http://non-intervention.com/851/more-on-inevitable-democracy-in-the-arab-world/
2011-03-05
"No kingdom is an island, particularly when it sits in a sea of revolution."
THE hole in the doughnut is Riyadh. On the map of revolt in the Middle East, the House of Saud is surrounded - Mubarak, gone; Jordan, restive; Iraq, roiling against corruption and poor services; Iran, opposition ballsy; Bahrain, dangerous; Oman, awakening; and Yemen, a powderkeg.
Combine all that with the extent to which Saudi Arabia's army of overeducated and underemployed youth are wired to the rest of the world by new-age media like Twitter and Facebook, and it becomes clear that all is not well in the world's biggest gas station.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/kingdom-adrift-in-a-sea-of-revolution-20110304-1bi0b.html
Combine all that with the extent to which Saudi Arabia's army of overeducated and underemployed youth are wired to the rest of the world by new-age media like Twitter and Facebook, and it becomes clear that all is not well in the world's biggest gas station.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/kingdom-adrift-in-a-sea-of-revolution-20110304-1bi0b.html
Four Year Old Egyptian Children Chant for the Downfall of the Regime
"...after classes she was walking a group of the 4-year olds to the schoolbus. The kids were walking in an orderly line when suddenly one started chanting: الشعب يريد اسقاط النظام [(People want the downfall of the regime)] followed by الشعب يريد اسقاط الأتوبيس [(People want the downfall of the school bus)]. Soon the whole line of 4-year olds was chanting along, to the surprise of all the other middle and high school students who were waiting in line for their buses. Most unfortunately, there is no video of the event."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/slogans-and-school-children-in-arab.html
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/slogans-and-school-children-in-arab.html
Massive Protests Loom in Saudi Arabia or Saudi Arabi Bans All Protests and Marches
Massive anti-government protests are impending in Saudi Arabia following the arrest of a senior cleric who called for political reform in the country, an analyst says.
The recent "crackdown” in the city of Qatif on a protest for the release of political prisoners will have dire repercussions for the government in Saudi Arabia, political analyst Mohamed al-Massari told Press TV on Saturday. “They made a stupid mistake by attacking women and so on because they think Shia women do not have ... the honor protection like the rest of the women in the country. But attacking women in Saudi Arabia, in an Islamic country is very severe, very negative and catastrophic ... and this will have dire repercussions,” al-Massari said
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/168262.html
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has banned all protests and marches...
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/03/05/world/middleeast/news-us-saudi-protests.html?hp
The ban on public demonstrations comes amid media reports of a huge mobilisation of Saudi troops in Shia-dominated provinces in order to quell any possible uprising.
According to The Independent, a British newspaper, 10,000 security personnel are being sent to the region by road, clogging highways into Dammam and other cities.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/201135143046557642.html
2011-03-04
Egypt: Protestors Storm Alexandria's State Security HQ
Around 1,500 protesters have stormed Alexandria's state security headquarters after earlier clashes with police, gaining control of its lower floors and driving police officers to hide in the upper floors of the building, witnesses and protesters told Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/201134228359128.html
Video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12656776
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/201134228359128.html
Video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12656776
Queen of Jordan on Twitter
Queen Rania: tweeting to the end
I can see Queen Rania tweeting her way to the every end. I can imagine her last tweet: I am in a dark place. It may be the trunk of a car. I have not seen my idiot husband who brought us to this. I am told he was dangling from an electricity pole somewhere in Amman. I think that the people of Davos will miss me. I wonder if I look glamorous in the trunk of this car. Where are you Oprah to save me?
From the Queens own website:
"A keen runner, and seeker of good jogging tunes, Queen Rania enjoys spending time with her family and friends in Aqaba, where she can relax and get into a great book. She also makes a mean chocolate chip cookie."
http://www.queenrania.jo/rania/bio
Jordanian children seek democracy as they rise up against their principal that struck one of them:
Jordanian children seek democracy as they rise up against their principal that struck one of them:
2011-03-01
Dead Baby Dolphin Count in Ms. and Ala. For the First Two Months of the Year: 2009-1, 2010-2, 2011-36
But it has nothing to do with the British Petroleum oil spill. Right?
GULFPORT -- The phenomenon of new born or stillborn baby dolphins washing ashore from the Gulf or the Mississippi Sound continued through the weekend and today.
The total in Mississippi and Alabama alone is 36 calves and eight adults or young adults, as of mid-day today.
http://www.sunherald.com/2011/02/27/2901315/more-tiny-dolphins-wash-ashore.html
GULFPORT -- The phenomenon of new born or stillborn baby dolphins washing ashore from the Gulf or the Mississippi Sound continued through the weekend and today.
The total in Mississippi and Alabama alone is 36 calves and eight adults or young adults, as of mid-day today.
http://www.sunherald.com/2011/02/27/2901315/more-tiny-dolphins-wash-ashore.html
2011-02-27
Kurdistan
At least 4 people have so far been killed, with countless injured. The protesters, inspired by popular uprisings throughout the Arab world, are calling for an end to corruption, nepotism, and a lack of basic services.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/167341.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/167341.html
Oman
"Oman is on fire and al-Jazeera is quiet, and so is al-Arabiyya who only reported on points lost in Oman stock market. And of course Omani channels are not saying a word. Reuters reported this yesterday: but the number of protesters was higher, around 3000; the police used tear gas and the protesters reacted by attacking the police injuring a high ranking one and sending him to hospital. The road to al-`Ayn in the Emirates was temporarily closed. And this is what is not being reported:
Yesterday there was a demonstration in Sour and a police center was burned. Today: more protests in Sohar and the police used live ammunition killing a 15 year old boy. Banks are closed in Sohar now. The Wali of Sohar came out with other tribal leaders to calm people down but they were attacked and ran away. A police station was put on fire. It seems tanks are deployed there now. There are protests in Salala too. I don’t know if you know this, but Omani police and mukhabarat get much of their training in Jordan. How did I get this info?... is sending me updates. info is reliable (my ... People are spreading he news there be telephoning each other). If you report this, please don’t mention my name and try not to provide all the details:"
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
From the AP:
"The U.S. has long counted on the Gulf's rulers as reliable partners — particularly their common ground over concerns about Iran's efforts to expand its influence. No ruling system has given way, but cracks are evident."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/27/world/middleeast/AP-ML-Gulf-Protests.html?_r=1&hp
No nation has been as successful as the US in expanding Iran's influence. See Iraq.
From the AP:
"The U.S. has long counted on the Gulf's rulers as reliable partners — particularly their common ground over concerns about Iran's efforts to expand its influence. No ruling system has given way, but cracks are evident."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/27/world/middleeast/AP-ML-Gulf-Protests.html?_r=1&hp
No nation has been as successful as the US in expanding Iran's influence. See Iraq.
2011-02-26
'New Middle East'
November 18, 2006
Condi speaks to a 'New Middle East' and about, "not going back to the old one."
And:
A relatively unknown map of the Middle East, NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been circulating around strategic, governmental, NATO, policy and military circles since mid-2006. It has been causally allowed to surface in public, maybe in an attempt to build consensus and to slowly prepare the general public for possible, maybe even cataclysmic, changes in the Middle East. This is a map of a redrawn and restructured Middle East identified as the “New Middle East.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3882
Condi speaks to a 'New Middle East' and about, "not going back to the old one."
And:
A relatively unknown map of the Middle East, NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been circulating around strategic, governmental, NATO, policy and military circles since mid-2006. It has been causally allowed to surface in public, maybe in an attempt to build consensus and to slowly prepare the general public for possible, maybe even cataclysmic, changes in the Middle East. This is a map of a redrawn and restructured Middle East identified as the “New Middle East.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3882
2011-02-24
Obama a Pointy Head Economist? Geithner a Dr.Strangelove With Two Good Legs?
-- U.S. companies shouldn't worry about inflation if they're planning on expanding their business, President Barack Obama said Thursday. "We're not seeing a broad-based inflation trend," Obama said at the first meeting of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. At the same meeting, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said substantial world oil reserves should help with any disruptions to oil supplies, amid worry over turmoil in oil-exporter Libya. Obama said he thinks "we'll be able to ride out the Libya situation" and that it will stabilize.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/businesses-shouldnt-worry-about-inflation-obama-2011-02-24
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/businesses-shouldnt-worry-about-inflation-obama-2011-02-24
2011-02-17
No More Bullying by the US
"I am no longer that certain that there cannot be an uprising in Pakistan."
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers44/paper4334.html
"It must not be forgotten that A.Q. Khan and at least two of his nuclear scientist colleagues were in touch with Ossama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group between 1988 and 2001/2. Intelligence reports say the Khan-Ossama meeting was facilitated by the ISI in a safe-house of the organization, and Khan was also flown to Afghanistan in an ISI helicopter. Recent reports suggest that the Al Qaeda has been seeking fissile material and technology."
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers44/paper4337.html
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers44/paper4334.html
"It must not be forgotten that A.Q. Khan and at least two of his nuclear scientist colleagues were in touch with Ossama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group between 1988 and 2001/2. Intelligence reports say the Khan-Ossama meeting was facilitated by the ISI in a safe-house of the organization, and Khan was also flown to Afghanistan in an ISI helicopter. Recent reports suggest that the Al Qaeda has been seeking fissile material and technology."
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers44/paper4337.html
2011-02-16
Bahrain Government is a US Base
The protesters, including women and children, had been camping out and the atmosphere had been festive only hours before. But by about 3:30 a.m. Thursday, people were fleeing, screaming “We were sleeping. We were sleeping,” and ambulances, sirens blaring, were trying to make their way through the crowds.
/snip/
Bahrain, while a small Persian Gulf nation, has considerable strategic value to the United States as the base of its Fifth Fleet, which American officials rely upon to assure the continued flow of oil from the Persian Gulf to the West and to protect the interests of the United States in a 20-nation area that includes vital waterways such as the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz. The base is home to 2,300 military personnel, most of them in the Navy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17bahrain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165552.html
/snip/
Bahrain, while a small Persian Gulf nation, has considerable strategic value to the United States as the base of its Fifth Fleet, which American officials rely upon to assure the continued flow of oil from the Persian Gulf to the West and to protect the interests of the United States in a 20-nation area that includes vital waterways such as the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz. The base is home to 2,300 military personnel, most of them in the Navy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17bahrain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165552.html
2011-02-15
More clashes in Mexico
Mexican police fired tear gas at and had a running clash that lasted for several hours with sinister rock throwing and stick wielding school teachers. Failed state or failing state. Take your pick.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110216/D9LDK8FO0.html
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110216/D9LDK8FO0.html
2011-02-14
Protest in Yemen Call for the Ouster of US Backed President as US Military Begins Training Yemen's "Counterterrorism" Unit
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - More than 1,000 people protested in Yemen for a fourth straight day Monday, demanding political reforms and the ouster of the U.S.-allied president in demonstrations inspired by the upheaval in Egypt.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110214/D9LCHD600.html
WASHINGTON – Faced with an increasingly alarming threat from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. military will begin a new training program with Yemen's counterterrorism unit so it can move against militants believed to be plotting attacks on America from safe havens there.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/14/official-expand-yemeni-military-training/
CAIRO (AP) - Thousands of Egyptian state employees, from ambulance drivers to policemen and transport workers, protested Monday in Cairo to demand better pay and conditions in a wave of labor unrest unleashed by the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110214/D9LCGT8O2.html
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110214/D9LCHD600.html
WASHINGTON – Faced with an increasingly alarming threat from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. military will begin a new training program with Yemen's counterterrorism unit so it can move against militants believed to be plotting attacks on America from safe havens there.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/14/official-expand-yemeni-military-training/
CAIRO (AP) - Thousands of Egyptian state employees, from ambulance drivers to policemen and transport workers, protested Monday in Cairo to demand better pay and conditions in a wave of labor unrest unleashed by the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110214/D9LCGT8O2.html
2011-02-11
"There will be chaos in Egypt: which is good."
" Let me put it this way: Saudi princes will not feel comfortable in returning to the brothels of Cairo anytime soon."
"The good thing is that Minister of Defense Tantawi has the leadership skills of Joe (six pack) Biden. Stay tuned."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/02/reflections-on-possible-revolution-in.html
"The good thing is that Minister of Defense Tantawi has the leadership skills of Joe (six pack) Biden. Stay tuned."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/02/reflections-on-possible-revolution-in.html
2011-02-09
There are no indications so far that the U.S. would accept a democratic leadership that dispenses with the legacy of the present regime.
Events in Egypt show U.S. understanding of Middle East is almost zero
By Fatih Abdulsalam
February 6, 2011
The U.S. has shown that it does not understand and comprehend the pulse of the street in the Arab world despite its multifarious intelligence agencies. It has drastically failed to weigh the influence governments, oppositions and Arab populations exercise in the Arab world.
It seems the U.S. relies heavily on unilateral sources which are very close to the circles of power in the Middle East and lacks the ability to interpret and decipher the situation and its likely course in the future.
In thousands of documents WikiLeaks has released of secret correspondence regarding the Middle East, there has been no hint that the days of U.S. allies in the region were close.
Today, the U.S. tries its best, through contacts with other Arab capitals, to contain the situation. But this time, Washington is not seeking the assistance of International Monetary Fund to help the region’s countries privatize their economy and societies.
It is no good blaming the past. The U.S. now realizes change is coming. Arab leaders, after the events in both Tunisia and Egypt, have taught every leader in the Middle East a lesson.
But what is striking in all this is the fact that the U.S., while realizing that change is in the offing, does not seem to have grasped the lesson.
The Egyptian people want the whole regime to go. The U.S. is striving to bring about the type of change that will change the head and keep the regime.
Could it be that U.S. politicians do not have efficient translators to render into proper English what the millions of Egyptians have been shouting in the past two weeks.
The motto in the Liberation Square in the heart of Cairo calls for a fresh start and a change not only in the head but the whole regime. This is the meaning of the slogans the Egyptians have been raising for more than a fortnight. Did anyone translate them differently for the U.S. administration?
There are no indications so far that the U.S. would accept a democratic leadership that dispenses with the legacy of the present regime.
Therefore, the U.S. is only interested in the type of negotiations and discussions that will find an exit for the head of the regime and keep his base intact.
This also shows that the U.S. interprets the events in Egypt as a vendetta between the Egyptian people and their president. Otherwise, how could one understand U.S.’s willingness and happiness with the second man in command, i.e. the new vice-president.
Who turned President Hosni Mubarak into a dictator? There is no evidence that he owes his dictatorship to extra-terrestrial beings.
Egyptians understand that Mubarak owes his tyranny to the U.S. and his cronies who the U.S. would like to see at the helm of power instead of him
Certainly, Mubarak is very sad now. His sadness does not emanate from the fact that his own people are trampling on his portraits with their feet almost everywhere in Egypt.
Mubarak is sad because he has come to realize his standing in U.S. eyes.
2011-02-08
2011-02-07
Suleiman the Torturer Has Secret Hotline to Israel and Endorses an Israeli Invasion to Egypt to Stop Weapons Smuggling
The situation in Egypt is not over. It is just beginning.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8309792/WikiLeaks-Israels-secret-hotline-to-the-man-tipped-to-replace-Mubarak.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8309792/WikiLeaks-Israels-secret-hotline-to-the-man-tipped-to-replace-Mubarak.html
More US Soldiers Die From Suicide Then From Combat Injuries
The US empire continues it's painful, slow and brutal death.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/report-mental-health-of-u-s-soldiers-in-a-freefall;_ylt=Aq5pSzYNcLIft6loiFsK3sis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTU0Y210bG1jBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMTAyMDcvcmVwb3J0LW1lbnRhbC1oZWFsdGgtb2YtdS1zLXNvbGRpZXJzLWluLWEtZnJlZWZhbGwEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwMxBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDcmVwb3J0bWVudGFs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/report-mental-health-of-u-s-soldiers-in-a-freefall;_ylt=Aq5pSzYNcLIft6loiFsK3sis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTU0Y210bG1jBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMTAyMDcvcmVwb3J0LW1lbnRhbC1oZWFsdGgtb2YtdS1zLXNvbGRpZXJzLWluLWEtZnJlZWZhbGwEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwMxBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDcmVwb3J0bWVudGFs
2011-02-05
Obushma and Klinton Take Action to Save the Egyptian People with Amerikan Demokracy
A dictatorial regime must be saved and a country's constitution must be subverted from outside it's own borders before that dictator can be unseated or that nation's constitution upheld. George W. Bushlite 101. Taste great, less filling. Let's begin:
CAIRO — "The United States and leading European nations on Saturday threw their weight behind a gradual transition in Egypt, backing attempts by the country’s vice president, Omar Suleiman, to negotiate with opposition groups without immediately removing President Hosni Mubarak from power."
Suleiman the torturer garners approval from the worlds leading demokracies. The Egyptian protesters appear to be somewhat miffed:
“They are trying to kill what has happened and to contain and abort the revolution,” said Hassan Nafaa, a political science professor at Cairo University. “They want to continue to manage the country like they did while making some concessions. These are cosmetic changes that don’t change the regime. We do not want this.”
Sec. of State Klinton speaks:
“This takes some time,” Mrs. Clinton said. “There are certain things that have to be done in order to prepare.”
Prepare for what Sec. Klinton? The propping up of another brutal regime that plays ball with Israel and the US? A meet the new boss, same as the old boss ploy, Ms. Klinton?
Frank G. Wisner, a former VP of the bloodsucking firm AIG and Obushma's hand selected point man in Egypt, chimes in:
“You need to get a national consensus around the preconditions of the next step forward, and the president must stay in office in order to steer those changes through,” Mr. Wisner said of Mr. Mubarak. “I therefore believe that President Mubarak’s continued leadership is critical — it’s his opportunity to write his own legacy.”
Ah yes wise Mr. Wisner. Mubarak must be allowed to write his own legacy and keep Egypty from descending into chaos. How much money is the Wisner out to make by brokering such a deal?
An Egyptian protester seeking the right for Egyptians to control their own destiny adds:
“President Obama better put pressure on Mubarak to leave or things are going to get a lot worse here,” said Ibrahim Mustafa, 42, who was waiting to enter Tahrir Square in the morning as the military was tightening restrictions. “He needs to get the army to force him out of here. America is going to create another Iran here. America doesn’t understand. The people know it’s supporting an illegitimate regime.”
You are correct Mr. Mustafa. The American people don't understand. They are ruled by fear, not by knowledge.
Speaking of fear:
"Mrs. Clinton expressed fears about deteriorating security inside Egypt, noting the explosion at a gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula, and uncorroborated media reports of an earlier assassination attempt on Mr. Suleiman."
/snip/
"Mrs. Clinton highlighted the dangers of holding elections without adequate preparation. “Revolutions have overthrown dictators in the name of democracy, only to see the process hijacked by new autocrats who use violence, deception, and rigged elections to stay in power."
Yes Ms. Klinton. Valid points. The process of democracy must be hijacked by the old autocrats. Not the new autocrats.
Suleiman and his self appointed wise men seek a way to subvert Egypt's constitution:
"In Cairo, however, there were few indications that Mr. Suleiman and other officials were making much progress in addressing concerns of opposition groups. Negotiations between Mr. Suleiman and a group of self-appointed “wise men” who are acting as intermediaries between the vice president and the protesters and trying to find away around limits on succession in the Constitution did not advance significantly."
Yes. Suleiman the torturer must find ways to get around the limits of succession in the Constitution so he may succeed his long time friend and confidant Hosni.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06egypt.html?pagewanted=2&hp
In the Washington Post, Frank "AIG" Wisner continues to talk his own book:
"President Mubarak remains utterly critical in the days ahead as we sort our way toward the future,"
Yes we can save Hosni and make a boatload of kash in the process.
Sec. Klinton's fear card is displayed further:
"Clinton urged the government to take more steps. But she also warned that if the transition is not carried out with deliberation, there are forces "that will try to derail or overtake the process, to pursue their own specific agenda - which is why I think it's important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian government, actually headed now by Vice President Omar Suleiman."
Clinton did not identify the forces, but she appeared to be referring to Islamist radicals."
Suleiman the torturer must be supported or terrorists will rule Egypt. You riddled with and ruled by fear Americans got it?
AIG Wisner continues to pump his own book:
"In his remarks from New York, Wisner told the conference that frequent calls by foreigners for Mubarak's ouster had created a "negative force" inside Egypt .
He also said there were practical reasons why it might be better for Mubarak to remain on the job.
"The Egyptian constitution is quite clear," he said. "If the presidency is vacated, then the speaker of parliament takes over, and in a couple of months you have elections. Those elections would take place under the current dispositions. Those dispositions are currently unacceptable to those protesting in the streets of Cairo today."
Therefore, he said, constitutional changes are needed, adding, "The president must stay in office in order to steer those changes through."
Translation: Mubarak and his regime must stay. If not, the dumb and dirty Egyptians will determine their own fate and I won't make assloads of money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/05/AR2011020501459.html?hpid=topnews
ElBaradei speaks:
"Mubarak needs to go as a precondition of talks," ElBaradei said in an interview Saturday night. "If you really want change, you have to depart completely from this pseudo-democracy. And that's not happening. It's not only that Mubarak isn't leaving. It's that he and his vice president have been making only peanut concessions."
No Mr. Elbaradei, this is not a pseudo-democracy it is Amerikan style demokracy. Play ball, sell out your countrymen and your beliefs and millions of dollars will appear in a Swiss bank account under your assigned number.
Large banner in square speaks the truth:
"Mubarak appointed Suleiman, his intelligence chief, as vice president shortly after the demonstrations began. On Saturday afternoon, the protesters in the square were flanked by a large banner that read: "No Mubarak, no Suleiman. Both are American Agents."
From Tehran, Iran's Ayatollah speaks to the Egyptian military:
"The Egyptian army is part of the people that will follow the masses," Khamenei said.
On Saturday, a senior Iranian leader weighed in, making a similar appeal to his counterparts in Egypt. Iranian army Lt. Cmdr. Gen. Seyed Abdolrahim Mousavi likened the protests in Egypt to Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Egypt's government is secular.
"We hope that the army of Egypt takes a careful and cautious look at this practical model and comes out of tyranny's darkness and joins the light of God," Mousavi said, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Egyptian officials have denounced foreign meddling in the crisis."
That last sentence in this article is interesting. "Egyptian officials have denounced foreign meddling in the crisis." Interesting due to the fact it's added after a paragraph written on the comments from Iran. Not after pages and pages reported on the "meddling" of the US and others in Egypt's affairs.
What we are witnessing is yet another Amerikan govt. misstep as they wade into the affairs of a mid-eastern country attempting to dictate the outcome in terms that are most favorable to the US, Israel and the global wealthy elites. The overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader Mossadegh in 1953, the arming and training of "Freedom fighters" in Afghanistan in the early 1980's and the continued propping up financially and militarily of dictators and dictator lites throughout the middle east.
The result of this latest endeavour will be the same as it's predecessors. It will come back to bite the US in their ass. Blowback being the appropriate term. The world saw the peaceful demonstrations put on by millions of Egyptian youths. Now the world will see the meddling of the US to maintain the status quo that the peaceful demonstrators were protesting against.
All the polling I saw on the approval ratings of Obama and the US by the Egyptian people were abysmal at close to fifteen percent. Expect these numbers to plummet further as the Egyptians see the further meddling in their affairs by the US.
Egypt has the youngest median age along with some of the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the entire Middle East. As these hungry and unemployed masses of youth realize that their attempts to bring about change via peaceful demonstrations have been subjugated by the US and the other leading "democracies," what then will they do and who will they turn to for help in bringing about the change they desire?
I understand global diplomacy and the maintaining of the status quo is extremely important. My point is, that no matter what actions are taken by the US, Israel and others in their attempt to maintain the status quo, the current situation in Egypt is much closer to the beginning than to the end. As the US and others spread the fear of radical elements and terrorists to provide cover for their own actions, their words may well prove to create self fulfilling prophecies in Egypt. Egypt is the crystal ball that other Muslim nations look towards to see their own future. The US can not afford to open another front in their "Global war on terror," but I'm afraid they already have.
CAIRO — "The United States and leading European nations on Saturday threw their weight behind a gradual transition in Egypt, backing attempts by the country’s vice president, Omar Suleiman, to negotiate with opposition groups without immediately removing President Hosni Mubarak from power."
Suleiman the torturer garners approval from the worlds leading demokracies. The Egyptian protesters appear to be somewhat miffed:
“They are trying to kill what has happened and to contain and abort the revolution,” said Hassan Nafaa, a political science professor at Cairo University. “They want to continue to manage the country like they did while making some concessions. These are cosmetic changes that don’t change the regime. We do not want this.”
Sec. of State Klinton speaks:
“This takes some time,” Mrs. Clinton said. “There are certain things that have to be done in order to prepare.”
Prepare for what Sec. Klinton? The propping up of another brutal regime that plays ball with Israel and the US? A meet the new boss, same as the old boss ploy, Ms. Klinton?
Frank G. Wisner, a former VP of the bloodsucking firm AIG and Obushma's hand selected point man in Egypt, chimes in:
“You need to get a national consensus around the preconditions of the next step forward, and the president must stay in office in order to steer those changes through,” Mr. Wisner said of Mr. Mubarak. “I therefore believe that President Mubarak’s continued leadership is critical — it’s his opportunity to write his own legacy.”
Ah yes wise Mr. Wisner. Mubarak must be allowed to write his own legacy and keep Egypty from descending into chaos. How much money is the Wisner out to make by brokering such a deal?
An Egyptian protester seeking the right for Egyptians to control their own destiny adds:
“President Obama better put pressure on Mubarak to leave or things are going to get a lot worse here,” said Ibrahim Mustafa, 42, who was waiting to enter Tahrir Square in the morning as the military was tightening restrictions. “He needs to get the army to force him out of here. America is going to create another Iran here. America doesn’t understand. The people know it’s supporting an illegitimate regime.”
You are correct Mr. Mustafa. The American people don't understand. They are ruled by fear, not by knowledge.
Speaking of fear:
"Mrs. Clinton expressed fears about deteriorating security inside Egypt, noting the explosion at a gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula, and uncorroborated media reports of an earlier assassination attempt on Mr. Suleiman."
/snip/
"Mrs. Clinton highlighted the dangers of holding elections without adequate preparation. “Revolutions have overthrown dictators in the name of democracy, only to see the process hijacked by new autocrats who use violence, deception, and rigged elections to stay in power."
Yes Ms. Klinton. Valid points. The process of democracy must be hijacked by the old autocrats. Not the new autocrats.
Suleiman and his self appointed wise men seek a way to subvert Egypt's constitution:
"In Cairo, however, there were few indications that Mr. Suleiman and other officials were making much progress in addressing concerns of opposition groups. Negotiations between Mr. Suleiman and a group of self-appointed “wise men” who are acting as intermediaries between the vice president and the protesters and trying to find away around limits on succession in the Constitution did not advance significantly."
Yes. Suleiman the torturer must find ways to get around the limits of succession in the Constitution so he may succeed his long time friend and confidant Hosni.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06egypt.html?pagewanted=2&hp
In the Washington Post, Frank "AIG" Wisner continues to talk his own book:
"President Mubarak remains utterly critical in the days ahead as we sort our way toward the future,"
Yes we can save Hosni and make a boatload of kash in the process.
Sec. Klinton's fear card is displayed further:
"Clinton urged the government to take more steps. But she also warned that if the transition is not carried out with deliberation, there are forces "that will try to derail or overtake the process, to pursue their own specific agenda - which is why I think it's important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian government, actually headed now by Vice President Omar Suleiman."
Clinton did not identify the forces, but she appeared to be referring to Islamist radicals."
Suleiman the torturer must be supported or terrorists will rule Egypt. You riddled with and ruled by fear Americans got it?
AIG Wisner continues to pump his own book:
"In his remarks from New York, Wisner told the conference that frequent calls by foreigners for Mubarak's ouster had created a "negative force" inside Egypt .
He also said there were practical reasons why it might be better for Mubarak to remain on the job.
"The Egyptian constitution is quite clear," he said. "If the presidency is vacated, then the speaker of parliament takes over, and in a couple of months you have elections. Those elections would take place under the current dispositions. Those dispositions are currently unacceptable to those protesting in the streets of Cairo today."
Therefore, he said, constitutional changes are needed, adding, "The president must stay in office in order to steer those changes through."
Translation: Mubarak and his regime must stay. If not, the dumb and dirty Egyptians will determine their own fate and I won't make assloads of money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/05/AR2011020501459.html?hpid=topnews
ElBaradei speaks:
"Mubarak needs to go as a precondition of talks," ElBaradei said in an interview Saturday night. "If you really want change, you have to depart completely from this pseudo-democracy. And that's not happening. It's not only that Mubarak isn't leaving. It's that he and his vice president have been making only peanut concessions."
No Mr. Elbaradei, this is not a pseudo-democracy it is Amerikan style demokracy. Play ball, sell out your countrymen and your beliefs and millions of dollars will appear in a Swiss bank account under your assigned number.
Large banner in square speaks the truth:
"Mubarak appointed Suleiman, his intelligence chief, as vice president shortly after the demonstrations began. On Saturday afternoon, the protesters in the square were flanked by a large banner that read: "No Mubarak, no Suleiman. Both are American Agents."
From Tehran, Iran's Ayatollah speaks to the Egyptian military:
"The Egyptian army is part of the people that will follow the masses," Khamenei said.
On Saturday, a senior Iranian leader weighed in, making a similar appeal to his counterparts in Egypt. Iranian army Lt. Cmdr. Gen. Seyed Abdolrahim Mousavi likened the protests in Egypt to Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Egypt's government is secular.
"We hope that the army of Egypt takes a careful and cautious look at this practical model and comes out of tyranny's darkness and joins the light of God," Mousavi said, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Egyptian officials have denounced foreign meddling in the crisis."
That last sentence in this article is interesting. "Egyptian officials have denounced foreign meddling in the crisis." Interesting due to the fact it's added after a paragraph written on the comments from Iran. Not after pages and pages reported on the "meddling" of the US and others in Egypt's affairs.
What we are witnessing is yet another Amerikan govt. misstep as they wade into the affairs of a mid-eastern country attempting to dictate the outcome in terms that are most favorable to the US, Israel and the global wealthy elites. The overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader Mossadegh in 1953, the arming and training of "Freedom fighters" in Afghanistan in the early 1980's and the continued propping up financially and militarily of dictators and dictator lites throughout the middle east.
The result of this latest endeavour will be the same as it's predecessors. It will come back to bite the US in their ass. Blowback being the appropriate term. The world saw the peaceful demonstrations put on by millions of Egyptian youths. Now the world will see the meddling of the US to maintain the status quo that the peaceful demonstrators were protesting against.
All the polling I saw on the approval ratings of Obama and the US by the Egyptian people were abysmal at close to fifteen percent. Expect these numbers to plummet further as the Egyptians see the further meddling in their affairs by the US.
Egypt has the youngest median age along with some of the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the entire Middle East. As these hungry and unemployed masses of youth realize that their attempts to bring about change via peaceful demonstrations have been subjugated by the US and the other leading "democracies," what then will they do and who will they turn to for help in bringing about the change they desire?
I understand global diplomacy and the maintaining of the status quo is extremely important. My point is, that no matter what actions are taken by the US, Israel and others in their attempt to maintain the status quo, the current situation in Egypt is much closer to the beginning than to the end. As the US and others spread the fear of radical elements and terrorists to provide cover for their own actions, their words may well prove to create self fulfilling prophecies in Egypt. Egypt is the crystal ball that other Muslim nations look towards to see their own future. The US can not afford to open another front in their "Global war on terror," but I'm afraid they already have.
2011-02-02
Hillary Tells Suleiman the Torturer to Investigate Violence
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has spoken with Egypt's new vice president to urge an investigation into violent attacks on protesters by pro-government supporters. She's apparently the first Cabinet-level official to reach out to Omar Suleiman, a longtime confidante of the U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110202/ap_on_re_us/us_us_egypt_suleiman
Another laugh as the AP refers to VP Suleiman as a "longtime confidant of the US," without explaining what the US and he confided in. Which was torture. Background on Suleiman the torturer:
"Each rendition was authorized at the very top levels of both governments....The long-serving chief of the Egyptian central intelligence agency, Omar Suleiman, negotiated directly with top Agency officials. [Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt] Walker described the Egyptian counterpart, Suleiman, as "very bright, very realistic," adding that he was cognizant that there was a downside to "some of the negative things that the Egyptians engaged in, of torture and so on. But he was not squeamish, by the way.
"Habib was interrogated by the country's Intelligence Director, General Omar Suleiman.... Suleiman took a personal interest in anyone suspected of links with Al Qaeda. As Habib had visited Afghanistan shortly before 9/11, he was under suspicion. Habib was repeatedly zapped with high-voltage electricity, immersed in water up to his nostrils, beaten, his fingers were broken and he was hung from metal hooks.
That treatment wasn't enough for Suleiman, so:
"But in secret, men like Omar Suleiman, the country's most powerful spy and secret politician, did our work, the sort of work that Western countries have no appetite to do ourselves."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/30-2
So, Sec. of State Clinton's contact person regarding the beatings of protesters is a man who is not squeamish about torture, ordered the breaking of fingers, the zapping with high voltage and the hanging by hooks. When these treatments weren't effective, Suleiman then ordered a guard to brutally murder a shackled prisoner in order to loosen the tongue of the he was interrogating.. A man with a history such as this, a Mubarak loyalist is being asked to look into the beating of anti-Mubarak protesters? Come on, Hillary. The world is watching and they aren't as stupid or naive as you give them credit for.
Bibi weighs in on what the Egyptian people must do to ensure a transition to democracy.
"An Egypt that will adopt these reforms will be a source of hope for the world. As much as the foundations for democracy are stronger, the foundations for peace are stronger."
Netanyahu continued, adding that although the protests may not be motivated by religious extremism, "in a situation of chaos, an organized Islamist body can seize control of a country. It happened in Iran. It happened in other instances".
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-a-democratic-egypt-won-t-threaten-peace-with-israel-1.340899
Israel playing the fear card very hard as AIPAC blows up the cellphones of their lackeys in the US government. The situation will soon spin out of their control as the global powers continue to back Mubarak. The world witnessed the peaceful gathering of the anti-Mubarak crowd estimated at two million people as they also witnessed the horses, camels and whips riding into the crowd reportedly sent by Mubarak's Ministry of Spontaneous Protests. If Mubarak leaves, some time will be bought. But, after ruling with an iron fist for over thirty years, his fingerprints and legacy will remain only working to re-ignite the fury of the Egyptians.
If Mubarak doesn't leave, the dividing and conquering of the masses that was witnessed today will escalate. I see no way out for Mubarak or the global powers that seek an "orderly transition," whatever that means. Does an orderly transition infer a return to a so called normalcy under Mubarak or a Mubarak loyalist? An orderly transition that allows commerce to continue as the protesters who seek an American style democracy that does not exist continue on as they did before? There is no way out. Push will soon meet shove.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110202/ap_on_re_us/us_us_egypt_suleiman
Another laugh as the AP refers to VP Suleiman as a "longtime confidant of the US," without explaining what the US and he confided in. Which was torture. Background on Suleiman the torturer:
"Each rendition was authorized at the very top levels of both governments....The long-serving chief of the Egyptian central intelligence agency, Omar Suleiman, negotiated directly with top Agency officials. [Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt] Walker described the Egyptian counterpart, Suleiman, as "very bright, very realistic," adding that he was cognizant that there was a downside to "some of the negative things that the Egyptians engaged in, of torture and so on. But he was not squeamish, by the way.
"Habib was interrogated by the country's Intelligence Director, General Omar Suleiman.... Suleiman took a personal interest in anyone suspected of links with Al Qaeda. As Habib had visited Afghanistan shortly before 9/11, he was under suspicion. Habib was repeatedly zapped with high-voltage electricity, immersed in water up to his nostrils, beaten, his fingers were broken and he was hung from metal hooks.
That treatment wasn't enough for Suleiman, so:
To loosen Habib's tongue, Suleiman ordered a guard to murder a gruesomely shackled Turkistan prisoner in front of Habib - and he did, with a vicious karate kick.""In an observation that may turn out to be ironic, the magazine wrote, "More than from any other single factor, Suleiman's influence stems from his unswerving loyalty to Mubarak."
"But in secret, men like Omar Suleiman, the country's most powerful spy and secret politician, did our work, the sort of work that Western countries have no appetite to do ourselves."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/30-2
So, Sec. of State Clinton's contact person regarding the beatings of protesters is a man who is not squeamish about torture, ordered the breaking of fingers, the zapping with high voltage and the hanging by hooks. When these treatments weren't effective, Suleiman then ordered a guard to brutally murder a shackled prisoner in order to loosen the tongue of the he was interrogating.. A man with a history such as this, a Mubarak loyalist is being asked to look into the beating of anti-Mubarak protesters? Come on, Hillary. The world is watching and they aren't as stupid or naive as you give them credit for.
Bibi weighs in on what the Egyptian people must do to ensure a transition to democracy.
"An Egypt that will adopt these reforms will be a source of hope for the world. As much as the foundations for democracy are stronger, the foundations for peace are stronger."
Netanyahu continued, adding that although the protests may not be motivated by religious extremism, "in a situation of chaos, an organized Islamist body can seize control of a country. It happened in Iran. It happened in other instances".
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-a-democratic-egypt-won-t-threaten-peace-with-israel-1.340899
Israel playing the fear card very hard as AIPAC blows up the cellphones of their lackeys in the US government. The situation will soon spin out of their control as the global powers continue to back Mubarak. The world witnessed the peaceful gathering of the anti-Mubarak crowd estimated at two million people as they also witnessed the horses, camels and whips riding into the crowd reportedly sent by Mubarak's Ministry of Spontaneous Protests. If Mubarak leaves, some time will be bought. But, after ruling with an iron fist for over thirty years, his fingerprints and legacy will remain only working to re-ignite the fury of the Egyptians.
If Mubarak doesn't leave, the dividing and conquering of the masses that was witnessed today will escalate. I see no way out for Mubarak or the global powers that seek an "orderly transition," whatever that means. Does an orderly transition infer a return to a so called normalcy under Mubarak or a Mubarak loyalist? An orderly transition that allows commerce to continue as the protesters who seek an American style democracy that does not exist continue on as they did before? There is no way out. Push will soon meet shove.
2011-02-01
Should the Smart Money be On Osama bin Laden?
Contrary to the deceptive and misleading statements made by George W. Bush, bin Laden's goal was not to attack freedom, democracy, baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. His goal that he stated time and time again was to bring about the bankrupting of the US so they could no longer afford to prop up foreign dictators in the Muslim world. From November 1, 2004, "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript. Further in the same transcript from over six years ago, Osama presciently stated: "All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations."
As for Bush's Iraq policy, Bin Laden said, "the darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.
When bin Laden make these remarks the US budget deficit was $413 billion dollars. That amount was called "dangerous" by economists such as Krugman. Now Krugman and other economists claim the current deficit of over $1.5 trillion dollars isn't enough and needs to be increased. The coward thief Bernanke has printed nearly two trillion more dollars in addition to the deficit. The stock market has recovered as more people have lost their jobs and homes, and not enough new jobs are being created to absorb the approximately 150,000 new entrants into the work force every month. The US is basically bankrupt, but due to the luxury of having the worlds reserve currency and the ability to print as much as Bernanke wants, the effects of this bankruptcy have just been delayed. When that day of reckoning comes is any one's guess, but when it does it will make the last financial crisis appear as a picnic.
Over six years ago, bin Laden also said: "the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."
The war in Afghanistan now well into it's tenth year, it is the longest and most expensive war ever fought in the history of the US and hundred's of billions of dollars are still unaccounted for to this day.
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-11-01/world/binladen.tape_1_al-jazeera-qaeda-bin?_s=PM:WORLD
I don't believe the hype bullshit fear mongering put out by Israel and many US politicians who attempt to instill fear in Americans by warning that if Mubarak is forced out too soon, an orderly transition to their hand picked and vetted successors will not be allowed to happen and the Islamists,(funny how spell check suggests changing Islamists to Alarmists), will seize power. But who knows? All I know is that what is desired by the Egyptian people themselves will not happen because the US, Israel, the UK, France and Germany do not want it to happen. The last thing these leading so called "democracies" want to see is the citizens of Egypt deciding their own fate. Doing so would limit, if not end, their abilities to control the Egyptian government along with their ability to force and or bride the Egyptian government to act in the best interests of the global powers instead of acting on behalf the Egyptian people. This process will take months and in the end, the Egyptian people will be yet more dissatisfied by the results. What will happen then?
Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's mentor and number two in command is an Egyptian who has publicly stated, "Egypt would become a rallying point for the rest of the Islamic world, leading the jihad against the West. Then history would make a new turn, God willing," Zawahiri later wrote, "in the opposite direction against the empire of the United States and the world’s Jewish government."
http://books.google.com/books?id=APt9mgmgidgC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Zawahiri+believed,+Egypt+would+become+a+rallying+point+for+the+rest+of+the+Islamic+world,+leading+the+jihad+against+the+West&source=bl&ots=ASDuSMjWH6&sig=K6Ddqr06qg8qXO-vBb611qInmGQ&hl=en&ei=B1hITcmhNpXQ8wTh9aGeBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Zawahiri%20believed%2C%20Egypt%20would%20become%20a%20rallying%20point%20for%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20Islamic%20world%2C%20leading%20the%20jihad%20against%20the%20West&f=false
The global powers will not relinquish their control to the desires of the Egyptian people. It appears the Egyptian people will not give up their fight for self governing and self direction. I say it is possible, if not likely, that we will see the fear mongering put out by the global powers regarding the Muslim Brotherhood actually come to fruition as the Egyptian people are further disappointed by the meddling in their affairs by the global powers. This would create an opening for the Muslim Brotherhood to enter. They are the only viable organization which has the money and the structure in place to allow an immediate filling of any void created over the next few months. If so. What then?
As for Bush's Iraq policy, Bin Laden said, "the darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.
When bin Laden make these remarks the US budget deficit was $413 billion dollars. That amount was called "dangerous" by economists such as Krugman. Now Krugman and other economists claim the current deficit of over $1.5 trillion dollars isn't enough and needs to be increased. The coward thief Bernanke has printed nearly two trillion more dollars in addition to the deficit. The stock market has recovered as more people have lost their jobs and homes, and not enough new jobs are being created to absorb the approximately 150,000 new entrants into the work force every month. The US is basically bankrupt, but due to the luxury of having the worlds reserve currency and the ability to print as much as Bernanke wants, the effects of this bankruptcy have just been delayed. When that day of reckoning comes is any one's guess, but when it does it will make the last financial crisis appear as a picnic.
Over six years ago, bin Laden also said: "the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."
The war in Afghanistan now well into it's tenth year, it is the longest and most expensive war ever fought in the history of the US and hundred's of billions of dollars are still unaccounted for to this day.
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-11-01/world/binladen.tape_1_al-jazeera-qaeda-bin?_s=PM:WORLD
I don't believe the hype bullshit fear mongering put out by Israel and many US politicians who attempt to instill fear in Americans by warning that if Mubarak is forced out too soon, an orderly transition to their hand picked and vetted successors will not be allowed to happen and the Islamists,(funny how spell check suggests changing Islamists to Alarmists), will seize power. But who knows? All I know is that what is desired by the Egyptian people themselves will not happen because the US, Israel, the UK, France and Germany do not want it to happen. The last thing these leading so called "democracies" want to see is the citizens of Egypt deciding their own fate. Doing so would limit, if not end, their abilities to control the Egyptian government along with their ability to force and or bride the Egyptian government to act in the best interests of the global powers instead of acting on behalf the Egyptian people. This process will take months and in the end, the Egyptian people will be yet more dissatisfied by the results. What will happen then?
Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's mentor and number two in command is an Egyptian who has publicly stated, "Egypt would become a rallying point for the rest of the Islamic world, leading the jihad against the West. Then history would make a new turn, God willing," Zawahiri later wrote, "in the opposite direction against the empire of the United States and the world’s Jewish government."
http://books.google.com/books?id=APt9mgmgidgC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Zawahiri+believed,+Egypt+would+become+a+rallying+point+for+the+rest+of+the+Islamic+world,+leading+the+jihad+against+the+West&source=bl&ots=ASDuSMjWH6&sig=K6Ddqr06qg8qXO-vBb611qInmGQ&hl=en&ei=B1hITcmhNpXQ8wTh9aGeBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Zawahiri%20believed%2C%20Egypt%20would%20become%20a%20rallying%20point%20for%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20Islamic%20world%2C%20leading%20the%20jihad%20against%20the%20West&f=false
The global powers will not relinquish their control to the desires of the Egyptian people. It appears the Egyptian people will not give up their fight for self governing and self direction. I say it is possible, if not likely, that we will see the fear mongering put out by the global powers regarding the Muslim Brotherhood actually come to fruition as the Egyptian people are further disappointed by the meddling in their affairs by the global powers. This would create an opening for the Muslim Brotherhood to enter. They are the only viable organization which has the money and the structure in place to allow an immediate filling of any void created over the next few months. If so. What then?
Mubarak Tells U.S that Iraqi's are too Tough for Democracy as Obama won't use the "D" Word
and Mubarak's, (doesn't he look like Dracula?), named V.P. Omar Suleiman was the CIA's point man in Egypt for prisoners sent by the US to Egypt for, "extreme rendition," aka torture. Suleiman the torturer also had misplaced concerns when he told the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mullen this: "Egypt is very concerned with stability in Sudan..." Clearly, Suleiman couldn't see past the nose on his own face.
http://213.251.145.96/cable/2009/04/09CAIRO746.html
Bela Mubarak warned a US delegation of worthless congressman in May 2008 that they could not pull troops from Iraq and they needed to strengthen the Iraq military for a military coup to follow that would allow a dictator to seize power, albeit but a fair dictator. Worked for him for thirty years. Mubarak then warned that democracy will not work in Iraq due to the toughness of the Iraqi people.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/muba-j04.shtml
"In fact, newly released WikiLeaks cables show that from the moment it assumed power, the Obama administration specifically toned down public criticism of Mubarak. The US ambassador to Egypt advised secretary of state Hillary Clinton to avoid even the mention of former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, jailed and abused for years after running against Mubarak in part on America's encouragement.
Not surprisingly, when the protests began, Clinton declared that Egypt was "stable" and an important US ally, sending a strong signal that the US would not support the protesters if they tried to topple the regime. Indeed, Clinton has repeatedly described Mubarak as a family friend. Perhaps Ms Clinton should choose her friends more wisely.
Similarly, president Obama has refused to take a strong stand in support of the burgeoning pro-democracy movement and has been no more discriminating in his public characterisation of American support for its Egyptian "ally". Mubarak continued through yesterday to be praised as a crucial partner of the US. Most important, there has been absolutely no call for real democracy."
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/201112811331582261.html
Robert Grenier, a 27 year veteran of the CIA adds: "Events in the Middle East have slipped away from us. Having long since opted in favour of political stability over the risks and uncertainties of democracy..."
"US spokesmen stress the protesters' desire for jobs and for economic opportunity, as though that were the full extent of their aspirations. They entreat the wobbling, repressive governments in the region to "respect civil society", and the right of the people to protest peacefully, as though these thoroughly discredited autocrats were actually capable of reform..."
"The failure of the US to uphold its stated commitment to democratic values therefore goes beyond a simple surface hypocrisy, beyond the exigencies of great-power interests, to suggest a fundamental lack of belief in democracy as a means of promoting enlightened, long-term US interests in peace and stability.."
"Machiavelli once wrote that princes should see to it that they are either respected or feared; what they must avoid at all cost is to be despised. To have made itself despised as irrelevant: That is the legacy of US faithlessness and wilful blindness in the Middle East."
Mr. Grenier's comments are worth reading in their entirety
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/former-director-of-cias-counter.html
.
What does Bela Mubarak mean when he says to a delegation of US congressmen the Iraqi people are too "tough" for democracy? Why do Obama, Biden and Clinton dance around the use of the word democracy regarding Mubarak's history of torturing and imprisoning dissidents and refuse to use the "D" word in reference to the current revolution in Egypt?
The answer is simple. Democracy in the US does not exist, it is not real. Democracy is an idea, a thought, an experiment that has failed in the US. Was TARP, Too Big to Fail banks democratic? Is the current distribution of wealth in the US, which is the only true measure of a democracy, at levels not seen since 1926 and currently wider than before the financial crisis democratic? Is the need to get down on your knees and suck the cocks of Wall St., the defense and FIRE lobbys as ones only viable path to being elected to a national office democratic? Let alone torture, extreme rendition, Gitmo and misleading the nation into the Iraq war.
United States brand of democracy is dead or at best dying globally. Those in power are well aware of this fact. Be it Bush, Cheney, Rice or Obama, Biden and Clinton. Hypocrisy is a much more applicable term than democracy.
http://213.251.145.96/cable/2009/04/09CAIRO746.html
Bela Mubarak warned a US delegation of worthless congressman in May 2008 that they could not pull troops from Iraq and they needed to strengthen the Iraq military for a military coup to follow that would allow a dictator to seize power, albeit but a fair dictator. Worked for him for thirty years. Mubarak then warned that democracy will not work in Iraq due to the toughness of the Iraqi people.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/muba-j04.shtml
"In fact, newly released WikiLeaks cables show that from the moment it assumed power, the Obama administration specifically toned down public criticism of Mubarak. The US ambassador to Egypt advised secretary of state Hillary Clinton to avoid even the mention of former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, jailed and abused for years after running against Mubarak in part on America's encouragement.
Not surprisingly, when the protests began, Clinton declared that Egypt was "stable" and an important US ally, sending a strong signal that the US would not support the protesters if they tried to topple the regime. Indeed, Clinton has repeatedly described Mubarak as a family friend. Perhaps Ms Clinton should choose her friends more wisely.
Similarly, president Obama has refused to take a strong stand in support of the burgeoning pro-democracy movement and has been no more discriminating in his public characterisation of American support for its Egyptian "ally". Mubarak continued through yesterday to be praised as a crucial partner of the US. Most important, there has been absolutely no call for real democracy."
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/201112811331582261.html
Robert Grenier, a 27 year veteran of the CIA adds: "Events in the Middle East have slipped away from us. Having long since opted in favour of political stability over the risks and uncertainties of democracy..."
"US spokesmen stress the protesters' desire for jobs and for economic opportunity, as though that were the full extent of their aspirations. They entreat the wobbling, repressive governments in the region to "respect civil society", and the right of the people to protest peacefully, as though these thoroughly discredited autocrats were actually capable of reform..."
"The failure of the US to uphold its stated commitment to democratic values therefore goes beyond a simple surface hypocrisy, beyond the exigencies of great-power interests, to suggest a fundamental lack of belief in democracy as a means of promoting enlightened, long-term US interests in peace and stability.."
"Machiavelli once wrote that princes should see to it that they are either respected or feared; what they must avoid at all cost is to be despised. To have made itself despised as irrelevant: That is the legacy of US faithlessness and wilful blindness in the Middle East."
Mr. Grenier's comments are worth reading in their entirety
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/former-director-of-cias-counter.html
.
What does Bela Mubarak mean when he says to a delegation of US congressmen the Iraqi people are too "tough" for democracy? Why do Obama, Biden and Clinton dance around the use of the word democracy regarding Mubarak's history of torturing and imprisoning dissidents and refuse to use the "D" word in reference to the current revolution in Egypt?
The answer is simple. Democracy in the US does not exist, it is not real. Democracy is an idea, a thought, an experiment that has failed in the US. Was TARP, Too Big to Fail banks democratic? Is the current distribution of wealth in the US, which is the only true measure of a democracy, at levels not seen since 1926 and currently wider than before the financial crisis democratic? Is the need to get down on your knees and suck the cocks of Wall St., the defense and FIRE lobbys as ones only viable path to being elected to a national office democratic? Let alone torture, extreme rendition, Gitmo and misleading the nation into the Iraq war.
United States brand of democracy is dead or at best dying globally. Those in power are well aware of this fact. Be it Bush, Cheney, Rice or Obama, Biden and Clinton. Hypocrisy is a much more applicable term than democracy.
2011-01-28
Connecticut National Guard Deploys to the Sinai to Support Freedom, Democracy and Mubarak
Thursday, January 27, 2011
For Husni Mubarak
"Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, to support the Multinational Force and Observers. The unit left Connecticut Jan. 15 for Fort Benning, Ga., for further training and validation. The unit operates C-23C Sherpa aircraft and has deployed three times in the last seven years in support of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The unit will provide an on-demand aviation asset to the Multinational Force and Observers commander to support its mission of supervising the security provisions of the Egypt/ Israel Peace Treaty."
Heads Still Rolling in the Sleepy Little Country South of the Border
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The police chief and all 38 police officers of a northeastern Mexican town have quit following a series of drug cartel attacks, including the decapitation of two of their colleagues.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/27/world/americas/AP-LT-Drug-War-Mexico.html?_r=1&hp
And:
Inside an abandoned suitcase in a dumpster, was found the body of a woman who had been dismembered with a chainsaw, the discovery was made by scavengers, this Atizapan.
If the link works, gruesome photos warning
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.blogdelnarco.com/2011/01/hallan-mujer-destazada-dentro-de-maleta.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBlog%2Bdel%2BNarco%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-ContextMenu%26rlz%3D1I7TSNA_enUS386US386%26prmd%3Dnl&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhgbK1DWwApBtqgb1SbOqwV9KP0fAA
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/27/world/americas/AP-LT-Drug-War-Mexico.html?_r=1&hp
And:
Inside an abandoned suitcase in a dumpster, was found the body of a woman who had been dismembered with a chainsaw, the discovery was made by scavengers, this Atizapan.
If the link works, gruesome photos warning
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.blogdelnarco.com/2011/01/hallan-mujer-destazada-dentro-de-maleta.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBlog%2Bdel%2BNarco%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-ContextMenu%26rlz%3D1I7TSNA_enUS386US386%26prmd%3Dnl&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhgbK1DWwApBtqgb1SbOqwV9KP0fAA
2011-01-26
U.S. Taxpayers Send $2 Billion Annually to Egypt. Did U.S. Taxpayer Funds Go To Purchase What Was Used to Beat, Kill and Torture a Young Egyptian as Expresses His Desire for Freedom and Democracy?
“Torture and other ill-treatment remained widespread in police cells, security police detention centers and prisons, and in most cases were committed with impunity,”
Amnesty International. Full report in PDF format:
http://thereport.amnesty.org/sites/default/files/AIR2010_AZ_EN.pdf#page=77
This CNN video contains a very disturbing picture provided by the mother of the beaten, tortured and murdered young Egyptian. Another "Sputnik Moment" for the U.S.? Cue slow motion video of flag waving and eagle's wings flapping.
Amnesty International. Full report in PDF format:
http://thereport.amnesty.org/sites/default/files/AIR2010_AZ_EN.pdf#page=77
This CNN video contains a very disturbing picture provided by the mother of the beaten, tortured and murdered young Egyptian. Another "Sputnik Moment" for the U.S.? Cue slow motion video of flag waving and eagle's wings flapping.
2011-01-24
Dog Hung and Burned for Chewing Up Bible
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Authorities have charged a South Carolina woman with felony animal cruelty, saying she hanged her nephew's pit bull from a tree with an electrical cord and burned its body because the dog chewed on her Bible.
Animal control officers said Monday that 65-year-old Miriam Smith told them she killed a female dog named Diamond because it was a "devil dog" and she worried it could harm neighborhood children. Authorities said bond wasn't immediately set for Smith, who remains jailed in Spartanburg County after her weekend arrest.
Rahm (Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste) Emanuel Bitch Slapped by Illinois Appellate Court
"Rahm Emanuel should not appear on the Feb. 22 mayoral ballot, according to a ruling issued by a state appellate court today."
Blah! Obushma's evil lead henchman pig fuck shot down. But wait. The pigman speaketh:
"At a news conference, Emanuel said he would appeal the decision to the Illinois Supreme Court and ask the state's highest court for an injunction so that his name will appear on the mayoral ballot.
"I have no doubt at the end we'll prevail in this effort," Emanuel said. “We’ll now go to the next level to get clarity."
“I still own a home here, (I) look forward to moving into it one day, vote from here, pay property taxes here. I do believe the people of the city of Chicago deserve a right to make a decision about who they want to be their next mayor," Emanuel said
So, Pigman says he looks forward to one day vote, pay property taxes here,(meaning Chicago.) Isn't that why Pigman was struck from the ballot, because he didn't vote or pay property taxes from Chicago. Pigman speaks with forked tongue. The Pigman then adds: "I do believe the people of the city of Chicago deserve a right to make a decision about who they want to be their next mayor."
Yeah, no shit Pigman. They do deserve the right. Me thinks the Pigman Emanuel is insinuating, "Judges, Appellate courts? Pigman don't need no stinking judges or Appellate courts."
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2011/01/appellate-court-says-emanuel-should-be-removed-from-ballot.html
Pigmans tenant speaks on the ruling:
"Rob Halpin, who rented Emanuel's Chicago home when he became the White House Chief of Staff, said he felt "vindicated" by Monday's ruling.
On to the Illinois State Supreme court for the Pigman Emmanuel. Evidently, the Supreme court judges are elected and not appointed. With the money and the clout behind the Pigman, I'd be surprised if they ruled against him.
http://www.state.il.us/court/SupremeCourt/meetsupremecourt.asp
In honor of Rahm, Obama, Immelt, Jamie, Lloyd and all the rest:
Blah! Obushma's evil lead henchman pig fuck shot down. But wait. The pigman speaketh:
"At a news conference, Emanuel said he would appeal the decision to the Illinois Supreme Court and ask the state's highest court for an injunction so that his name will appear on the mayoral ballot.
"I have no doubt at the end we'll prevail in this effort," Emanuel said. “We’ll now go to the next level to get clarity."
“I still own a home here, (I) look forward to moving into it one day, vote from here, pay property taxes here. I do believe the people of the city of Chicago deserve a right to make a decision about who they want to be their next mayor," Emanuel said
So, Pigman says he looks forward to one day vote, pay property taxes here,(meaning Chicago.) Isn't that why Pigman was struck from the ballot, because he didn't vote or pay property taxes from Chicago. Pigman speaks with forked tongue. The Pigman then adds: "I do believe the people of the city of Chicago deserve a right to make a decision about who they want to be their next mayor."
Yeah, no shit Pigman. They do deserve the right. Me thinks the Pigman Emanuel is insinuating, "Judges, Appellate courts? Pigman don't need no stinking judges or Appellate courts."
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2011/01/appellate-court-says-emanuel-should-be-removed-from-ballot.html
Pigmans tenant speaks on the ruling:
"Rob Halpin, who rented Emanuel's Chicago home when he became the White House Chief of Staff, said he felt "vindicated" by Monday's ruling.
Halpin made headlines by refusing to move out of the home when Emanuel returned to Chicago, and then announcing his own bid for mayor--before quickly bowing out.
Halpin was also called as a witness against Emanuel during his first round of residency challenges. In speaking to WGN-AM radio Monday, Halpin said "it’s very clear that only one resident” could be attached to a single residence, “unless it was some sort of hippie commune.”
Halpin was also called as a witness against Emanuel during his first round of residency challenges. In speaking to WGN-AM radio Monday, Halpin said "it’s very clear that only one resident” could be attached to a single residence, “unless it was some sort of hippie commune.”
On to the Illinois State Supreme court for the Pigman Emmanuel. Evidently, the Supreme court judges are elected and not appointed. With the money and the clout behind the Pigman, I'd be surprised if they ruled against him.
http://www.state.il.us/court/SupremeCourt/meetsupremecourt.asp
In honor of Rahm, Obama, Immelt, Jamie, Lloyd and all the rest:
Obama Kneels at the Feet and Kisses the Ring of George Bush as He Accepts the Torch and Carries the Mantel of the U.S. Deceiver-in-Chief
Immelt taking Volker's job as an advisor to the President, focusing on jobs creation? I laugh. Ha!
"[Immelt] runs a big company, but Immelt has shown more skill at cutting jobs, frankly, than creating. GE finished 2009 with 18,000 fewer US workers than it had at the end of 2008, and US headcount is down 31,000 since Immelt's first full year in 2002. During his tenure, GE workers based in the US as a percentage of total employees has fallen to 44% from 52%."
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/brief-tally-immelts-catastrophic-job-creation-skillz
Immelt creates jobs in China and third world shit holes that beat their fitty cent an hour child laborers into submission as they pump toxic waste and sludge into the land, air and sea. What Immelt creates are tumors, leukemia and mass despair. Obushma strikes again.
"President Obama ordered federal agencies Tuesday to weed out regulations “that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb.”
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/naming-dumb-regulations/
Obushma transmutes into Oclintbushma as he rips a page out of Monica Lewinsky's stud lover's handbook and calls for the repeal of "dumb" regulations. After Clinton made the same statement in the mid-90's, the final repeal of Glass-Steagal was one of the "dumb" regulations that Clinton abolished. The repeal of Glass-Steagal has been named by many as the lead contributing factor to the financial meltdown.
"In case there was any question remaining in your mind as to what is really happening.
It should be noted that GE was the number one corporation in lobbying, spending $40 million on the purchase of political influence last year.
Obama is looking more like Herbert Hoover every day, but without the Great Engineer's accomplishments.
As someone said, it could have been worse, Obama could have chosen Lloyd Blankfein as his advisor. But that would have been a demotion for Lloyd, and a probable lessening of his existing impact on public policy."
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/01/ges-jeff-immelt-to-replace-paul-volcker.html
The long line of Deceivers-in-Chief continues. Eat or be eaten, predator or prey, devour or be devoured. USA all the way. Cue slow-mo video of flapping bald eagle wings and waving flag.
"[Immelt] runs a big company, but Immelt has shown more skill at cutting jobs, frankly, than creating. GE finished 2009 with 18,000 fewer US workers than it had at the end of 2008, and US headcount is down 31,000 since Immelt's first full year in 2002. During his tenure, GE workers based in the US as a percentage of total employees has fallen to 44% from 52%."
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/brief-tally-immelts-catastrophic-job-creation-skillz
Immelt creates jobs in China and third world shit holes that beat their fitty cent an hour child laborers into submission as they pump toxic waste and sludge into the land, air and sea. What Immelt creates are tumors, leukemia and mass despair. Obushma strikes again.
"President Obama ordered federal agencies Tuesday to weed out regulations “that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb.”
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/naming-dumb-regulations/
Obushma transmutes into Oclintbushma as he rips a page out of Monica Lewinsky's stud lover's handbook and calls for the repeal of "dumb" regulations. After Clinton made the same statement in the mid-90's, the final repeal of Glass-Steagal was one of the "dumb" regulations that Clinton abolished. The repeal of Glass-Steagal has been named by many as the lead contributing factor to the financial meltdown.
"In case there was any question remaining in your mind as to what is really happening.
It should be noted that GE was the number one corporation in lobbying, spending $40 million on the purchase of political influence last year.
Obama is looking more like Herbert Hoover every day, but without the Great Engineer's accomplishments.
As someone said, it could have been worse, Obama could have chosen Lloyd Blankfein as his advisor. But that would have been a demotion for Lloyd, and a probable lessening of his existing impact on public policy."
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/01/ges-jeff-immelt-to-replace-paul-volcker.html
The long line of Deceivers-in-Chief continues. Eat or be eaten, predator or prey, devour or be devoured. USA all the way. Cue slow-mo video of flapping bald eagle wings and waving flag.