Egypt Interior Ministry Building Burning (Again)

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
March 22, 2011

It seems Egyptians are so enamored with revolting they have decided to do the whole thing all over again. And this just one month after the first peaceful revolution in MENA claimed the 30 year rule of Hosni Mubarak, and everyone thought Gaddafi would step down just as quietly and peacefully. Well, while Gaddafi appears rather set on staying, and protecting his 144 tons of gold, the Egyptians have decided to burn the place down once again.In the meantime we keep awaiting the Bank of Egypt’s official updated recount of its gold stash which, admittedly, was half of Libya’s.

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From CNN:

The Egyptian Interior Ministry was on fire Tuesday in downtown Cairo following a protest earlier in the day.

Flames could be seen on the roof of the multi-story building, and a dark plume of smoke loomed over the city. People could be seen fleeing the building as it burned.

The ministry was the site of a peaceful protest Tuesday morning and afternoon, with thousands of ministry employees – many of them police officers – making demands, mainly for higher wages. But protesters at the building denied setting the fire, saying it originated inside.

U.S. Arming Libyan Rebels Via Egypt

Tony Cartalucci
Prison Planet.com
Friday, March 18, 2011

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After the corporate owned media’s failed attempt in February 2011 to portray the Libyan unrest as “unarmed protesters” being brutalized by Qaddafi, reports began trickling in of what was actually a full-scale rebellion with weapons coming across the border from Egypt. These reports are now confirmed, as large scale operations to supply the rebels with weapons have now been admitted by both the US and Egyptian governments.

The Wall Street Journal, quoting a “senior US official,” claimed that the latest Egyptian operation to arm Libyan rebels had started several days ago and is ongoing. The WSJ reiterates what many globalist think-tanks have been saying all along, that the operation to overthrow Libya, despite being a Western project, should be led by the newly “reordered” and shook up Arab states. The WSJ concedes that the US “wanted to avoid being seen as taking a leadership role in any military action against Mr. Gadhafi after its invasions of Iraq and Afganistan fueled anger and mistrust with Washington throughout the region.”

We are left to believe that the US deceptively meddling in Libya by proxy, somehow, is supposed to alleviate this anger and regain lost trust.

If all goes well for the globalists, this servile proxy Arab conglomerate, after being marshaled to raid Libya on behalf of the West, will then be organized and ready to turn its attention east toward Iran at the behest of their globalist masters. The WSJ in their article recognized this new servile fervor as an “unusually robust diplomatic response from Arab states.”

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Globalist stooge ElBaradei is prying his way into the presidency

Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
March 16, 2011

Mohamed ElBaradei has recently announced he will be running for president in a move that should surprise no one. For nearly a year the corporate owned media has been building up ElBaradei, portraying him as the great hope for Egypt. Foreign Affairs magazine, in March 2010, literally printed an article titled, “Is ElBaradei Egypt’s Hero?”


With Mubarak now out of office the corporate owned media circus has left town, but the globalist take-over in Egypt is just warming up. US International Crisis Group trustee Mohamed ElBaradei has spent over a year prying his way into Egyptian politics, landing in Cairo not at the beginning of the recent unrest, but all the way back in February 2010. He was met by the US State Department trained and supported April 6 Youth Movement and Google executive Wael Ghonim. Over the next year they campaigned together for the November 2010 elections, built up the “National Front for Change,” and prepared for the protests the globalists had been designing since at least 2008.

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Egyptian Revolution? Globalists Own Both Horses In Two Horse Race

Welcome to “democracy,” new world order style

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 10, 2011

So soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don’t want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.
Bob Marley

Globalist stooge Mohamed ElBaradei is being groomed by the elite to successfully hijack the revolution in Egypt and fend off presidential rival Amr Moussa, who himself is a favored candidate for the US military-industrial complex, meaning that the globalists will own both horses in a two horse race – welcome to “democracy,” new world order style.

“When the door of presidential nominations opens, I intend to nominate myself,” ElBaradei said on a live talk show on ONTV channel,” reports Haaretz.com.

As we have painstakingly documented, ElBaradei is a pied piper working for the very same globalists and NGO’s that autocrat leader Hosni Mubarak dutifully served for nearly 30 years before his ouster.

ElBaradei serves on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a shadowy NGO (non-governmental organization) that enjoys an annual budget of over $15 million and is bankrolled by the likes of Carnegie, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros’ Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization’s Executive Committee.

In other words, this is a major geopolitical steering group for the global elite.

Another powerful globalist who sits on the board of International Crisis Group, Zbigniew Brzezinski, warned last year that the international hierarchy, of which he is a key component, was under threat from a “global awakening” that would be led by young radicals in third world countries. Having accurately predicted the wave of revolt now spreading like wildfire across the globe, Brzezinski and his fellow globalists are preparing to pick up the pieces in order to continue business as usual, while the people who risked their lives for real change will be the victims of a monumental deception. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

ElBaradei’s rival, Amr Mohammed Moussa, who is currently ahead of ElBaradei in the polls, is seen as a more independent candidate, having forcefully scorned Israel in the past for its treatment of Palestinians as well as their actions in the Gaza flotilla raid.

However, many see Moussa as little more than a continuation of the Mubarak regime, with Moussa serving as Mubarak’s foreign minister for a decade before becoming chief of the Arab League in 2001. Moussa was heckled on Tuesday night by audience members at his first campaign speech, as participants accused him of being subservient to Mubarak having supported the ousted dictator’s bid for a sixth term in office.

Indeed, according to veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, Moussa was the US military-industrial complex’s chosen one to replace Mubarak from the very beginning, so in Moussa and ElBaradei, the globalists own both horses in a two horse race.

During a February 8 interview with Al Jazeera, Hersh said that Moussa was considered America’s favored “Plan B” should Mubarak resign, “whether he knows it or not.”

As Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya writes, there is now a “counter-revolution” unfolding in Egypt, and Moussa is one of its agitators.

“Unqualified figures are emerging, which claim to be speaking or leading the Arab people. This includes the so-called committee of “Wise Men” in Egypt.

These unelected figures are supposedly negotiating with the Mubarak regime on behalf of the Egyptian population, but they have no legitimacy as representatives of the people. The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, is amongst them. Secretary-General Moussa has also said that he is interested in becoming a future cabinet minister in Cairo. All of these figures are either regime insiders or agents of the status quo,” writes Nazemroaya.

The power vacuum in Egypt has caused violence to flare up again in recent days as the army previously loyal to Mubarak resorts to violence in a bid to clear protesters, the kind of brutality that the mass media was obsessively reporting when Mubarak was still in power but now couldn’t seem to care less about.

It seems as though Egyptians are about to get a taste of how “democracy” works in the western world, with the population being offered a choice of two equally compromised candidates and being forced to choose the lesser of two evils, instead of having the ability to elect a real leader who will legitimately represent the people and offer a genuine alternative to the corrupt regime that was removed last month.

Our warning in January that the stage was being set for “Sham Afghanistan-style rigged elections….where the Egyptian people are given the false decision of choosing between two globalist-controlled puppets,” is now coming to fruition.

While the revolution in Egypt was driven by people with genuine grievances who rightfully removed a despot, the aftermath is beginning to resemble the all too familiar playbook of the likes of Brzezinski and Soros, and we are once again witnessing the globalists’ trick of hijacking circumstances to seize power and ensure governments in the region are subservient to their vision of a new world order, to the detriment of their own populations.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

Secret FBI, CIA Documents and Sex Video Tapes Found At Egypt’s Terror Police Headquarters

Secret FBI, CIA Documents and Sex Video Tapes Found At Egypt’s Terror Police Headquarters

Inside the dark quarters of Mubarak's terror police, an enraged population liberated prisoners still in their isolation cells, which were no larger than phone booths. In the process, they found torture devices, mountains of shredded documents, dozens of computers stripped from their hard drives and a stash of video tapes showing famous people—from actors to politicians, both Egyptians and from other countries—having sex. The videos were recorded by the secret police in hotel rooms. Nobody knows who stars in them yet, but I'm sure we will know about it very soon.

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Egypt, Serbia, Georgia… The History of US Sponsored “Democratization”

Eric Walberg
Global Research
Thursday, March 3, 2011

There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia’s foreign minister visits his Egyptian counterpart, there are lessons for Egypt in similar revolutions in eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union.

Central to Egypt’s revolution was a tiny group of Serbian activists Otpor (resistance), who adapted nonviolent tactics of in the late 1990s and successfully forced Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic to resign in 2000.

Egyptian youth in the 6 April Youth Movement even adopted their clenched fist symbol, bringing Otpor once again into world headlines and TV screens.

It was the 2008 strike El-Mahalla El-Kubra to protest high food prices and low wages that brought about this unforeseen Serbian-Egyptian alliance. A group of tech-savvy young Cairenes decided to start a Facebook group to organise solidarity actions around the country, attracting a surprising 70,000 supporters. The results of the strike were mixed, with police attacking strikers and killing two demonstrators, and solidarity protests quickly dispersed.

Determined to build on their networking success, writes Tina Rosenberg in Foreign Policy magazine, Mohamed Adel, a 20-year-old blogger and 6 April activist, went to Belgrade in 2009 and took a week-long course in the strategies of nonviolent revolution with Otpor veterans, who had established the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) in 2003 for just such activists. He learned how to translate “Internetworking” into street protests, and passed on his skills to others in the 6 April Youth Movement and Kefaya (Enough).

The rest is history. A relatively peaceful overthrow of the Egyptian regime has made Egyptian youth the darlings of the world — Egyptian-American scientist Faruq El-Baz even suggested they be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The nonviolent revolutionary tactics made famous by Otpor and used to such remarkable success by Egyptians are an outgrowth of soft power strategies developed most famously by Mohandas Gandhi in the anticolonial struggle in the 1920-30s, and also by the US government during the Cold War to undermine the socialist bloc; in both cases, where direct military action against the enemy was not feasible.

Most directly relevant in the case of Otpor is Reagan’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED, 1983), which was instrumental in bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, funding all opposition groups left and right intent on undermining the socialist regimes. Warren Christopher, president Bill Clinton’s first secretary of state, argued, “By enlisting international and regional institutions in the work, the US can leverage our own limited resources and avoid the appearance of trying to dominate others.”

NED’s first president, Allen Weinstein, admitted that “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

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US warships enter Egypt’s Suez Canal

Press TV
March 2, 2011

The USS Kearsarge and the Ponce, two US amphibious assault ships, have entered the Suez Canal on their way to Libya as Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi continues his harsh crackdown on anti-government protesters, a canal official says.

The two US warships with hundreds of Marines on board headed towards Libya on Tuesday and entered Egypt’s Suez Canal on Wednesday, Reuters reported.


The ships were at the southern mouth of the canal, the official said, adding that they were expected to pass through by 3:30 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. local time.

Earlier on Tuesday, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the USS Kearsarge, an amphibious ship capable of carrying up to 2,000 Marines, and the USS Ponce assault ship will be passing through the Mediterranean shortly.

According to top US military officials, the Kearsarge warship is carrying 400 Marines from the United States.

The US, along with Britain and France, has also sent hundreds of Special Forces to Libya’s east. The forces are setting up bases in the cities of Benghazi and Tobruk.

The move comes against the backdrop of heated discussions over the possibility of imposing a no-fly zone on Libya, and a NATO-backed military intervention.

The US Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the world to consider imposing a no-fly zone over Libya and condemning Gaddafi’s bloody crackdown on Libyan civilians.

Lawmakers approved the measure, which “applauds” demonstrators demanding democratic reforms and “strongly condemns” Gaddafi’s response.

The symbolic resolution calls on Gaddafi “to desist from further violence, recognize the Libyan people’s demand for democratic change, resign his position and permit a peaceful transition to democracy.”

Gaddafi’s bloody repression of anti-government protesters have claimed the lives of thousands of people over the past 16 days as the death toll is expected to rise as Gaddafi continues his bloody crackdown against the opposition.

Egypt Military Breaks Up Protest Against Mubarak Loyalists in Government

Aljazeera
February 26, 2011

The Egyptian army has used force to disperse activists gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak loyalists from the interim cabinet.

Egyptian soldiers fired in the air and used batons in the early hours of Saturday to disperse the crowd, the Reuters news agency reported.

Demonstrators had also gathered in front of the parliament building in Cairo, where police beat protesters and used tasers to suppress the crowds, an Al Jazeera producer in the capital reported.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the ruling military council, later apologised for the military’s response and said the situation “wasn’t intentional”.

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Is Egypt’s Labor Movement Being Co-opted by Globalists?

K R Bolton
Global Research
Feb 21, 2011

“Herein lies the secret of why all radical (i.e. poor) parties necessarily become the tools of the money-powers, the Equites, the Bourse. Theoretically their enemy is capital, but practically they attack, not the Bourse, but Tradition on behalf of the Bourse. This is as true today as it was for the Gracchuan age, and in all countries…” Oswald Spengler.

The labor movement Solidarity is given credit for the toppling of a Soviet state that began a process of “color revolutions” which resulted in the epochal dismantling of the Soviet bloc. This was cheered by neocons, liberals and certain types of Marxist alike. Whether it was a positive step in global relations is a matter of one’s subjective viewpoint.

What the collapse of the Eastern bloc did achieve was a multiplicity of states that are undergoing globalisation, privatisation and cultural bastardisation, in a process of reconstructing these states to fit into an international economic order. The Middle East is now undergoing the same tumult of “color revolutions.” In Egypt a labor movement has emerged that looks suspiciously like a globalist creation.

There has been a lot of cheering among Western liberals and others at the overthrow of Islamic despots in Tunisia and Egypt, with an hurrah chorus going up as revolts break out in Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Iran and Libya. The champions of the “peoples’ revolts” seem to readily swallow in entirety the media descriptions of these revolts as “spontaneous uprisings.” Many also believe in their revolutionary zeal that these revolts are the harbingers for the overthrowing of capitalism. As one might expect, the adherents of Trotskyism are the most enthusiastic of the Left, but historically Trotskyites have not usually been much further than a gentle poke to see them fall into the embrace of US policy.

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Israel Calls Egypt Allowing Iranian Naval Vessels Through Suez Canal "Provocation"

Israel Calls Egypt Allowing Iranian Naval Vessels Through Suez Canal "Provocation"

'MidEast genie out of bottle, people wish govts disappear'

Mubarak and Ben Ali comas: What would Tacitus say?

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Mubarak and Ben Ali: what would Tacitus say?

Mary Beard
The Times
February 19, 2011

So the story is that Mubarak and Ben Ali are now both desperately ill — indeed, it is said, in a coma. And there have been a handful of sharp comments, wondering what the “Deposed Dictator Syndrome” (DDS) actually is — and how convenient it might be as a protective device against assassination.

I couldn’t help thinking how Roman it all looked. There is a whole series of similar scenarios, brilliantly concocted by the brilliant Tacitus (I say ‘concocted’ because he cant possibly have known what went on). They are all centred on the grimy last moments of autocrats and dictators.

The basic rule for Tacitus is that despots don’t die a natural death. In the midst of a power struggle they get smothered or poisoned, while the word is put out that they have been struck down by some nasty illness. Alternatively, they have long died (and this is more the ‘Soviet president scenario’), while the word is put out that he is still hanging on to life — until the new emperor is ready to be presented to the troops and the people. Livy even manages to retroject this scenario to the earliest kings of Rome, and has Tanaquil easing Servius Tullius onto the throne, by carefully managing the death of Tarquinius Priscus. (And it is the emperor Tiberius at the top of this post.)

It’s not hard to invent what Tacitus might have to say about the roles of Susan Mubarak, Gamal, Alaa, Suleiman — and a few strategically placed pillows and poisoned mushrooms.

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Will hated dictator syndrome become contagious?

Mojtaba Sadeghian
Tehran Times
February 19, 2011

It seems that a number of dictators in North Africa and the Middle East have entered retirement in a way they never imagined.

Is it a coincidence that deposed despots Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak each purportedly went into a coma shortly after stepping down?

Ariel Sharon also went into a coma for his retirement. However, for the Israeli dictator the sequence of events was a bit different since he became incapacitated while still in office.

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Egyptians Return to Street to Push Army on Reforms

Charles Levinson
WSJ
February 19, 2011

CAIRO—Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians rallied Friday to celebrate former President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster a week earlier and remind the ruling generals that protest organizers can still muster daunting crowds if the military stalls on democratic reforms.

One of Islam’s most influential and controversial clerics, Yussuf al-Qaradawi—whose popularity and defiance of the regime got him banned from entering Egypt under Mr. Mubarak—made his comeback onto the Egyptian political stage to deliver the traditional Friday sermon to worshippers in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which protestors occupied throughout most of the 18-day uprising.

Mr. al-Qaradawi, who has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, returned to Egypt Thursday night from Qatar, where he spent years in exile. He is the latest example of how a diverse array of political and religious leaders are energizing Egypt’s long-stagnant political scene. Old regime opponents whom Mr. Mubarak had once kept in check, such as Mr. al-Qaradawi, now appear to be forging warmer ties with the military. The Muslim Brotherhood, a once-banned Islamist group, has been a major beneficiary of the more open political landscape and now plays a key role in the military-led democratic transition.

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Egypt OKs Iran warships in Suez Canal

MSNBC
February 18, 2011

CAIRO — Egypt has agreed to let two Iranian naval vessels transit the Suez Canal, a move that comes despite expressions of concern by Israeli officials, the Egyptian-government’s MENA news agency reported Friday.

An Iranian diplomat has said the vessels were heading to Syria for training and that the request to move through the canal is in line with international regulations.

Iranian diplomats have offered assurances that the two ships wouldn’t have weapons or nuclear or chemical material, MENA stated.

White House spokesman Jay Carney, briefing reporters on an Air Force One flight from California to Oregon, said, “We’re monitoring that, obviously.”

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US gives Egypt $150 mln to help with transition

US gives Egypt $150 mln to help with transition

By Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON — The United States gave Egypt $150 million in crucial economic assistance on Thursday to help the key US ally transition towards democracy following the overthrow of longtime president Hosni Mubarak.

"I am pleased to announce today that we will be reprogramming $150 million for Egypt to put ourselves in a position to support the transition there and assist with their economic recovery," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

The chief US diplomat added that William Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, and David Lipton, a senior White House adviser on international economics, would travel to Egypt next week.

The pair will "consult with Egyptian counterparts on how we can most effectively deploy our assistance in line with their priorities," Clinton told reporters after a closed-door briefing with senators about Middle East unrest.

"We also discussed the lessons of the recent events in Egypt and the broader Middle East," she said.

"These events demonstrate why the United States must remain fully engaged around the world," she said, before repeating her warning that planned Republican cuts in foreign aid would harm US national security.

Egypt arrests 3 ex-ministers, corruption alleged

CAIRO—Egyptian authorities arrested on Thursday former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly and two other ex-ministers who are under investigation for corruption, security officials said.

Authorities also arrested steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz, once a prominent member of the ouster leader Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party.

El-Adly, whose job gave him control over the 500,000-strong security forces, has been widely blamed for the deadly brutality used by riot police against demonstrators in massive protests that began Jan. 25 and forced Mubarak to step down Feb. 11. El-Adly served in his former post for 12 years.

News of el-Adly's arrest followed the detention earlier Thursday of former Housing Minister Ahmed Maghrabi, ex-Tourism Minister Zuheir Garana and Ezz.

All four face allegations that range from money laundering to abuse of authority and squandering state wealth.

The protesters who ousted Mubarak in 18 days of demonstrations against his regime often mentioned the deep corruption of the regime as a key reason behind their movement.

The security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said all four of the men would also be initially held for 15 days.

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Day Of Rage: Americans Finally Reacting To Economic Rape?

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 17, 2011

Last month we speculated how long it would take for the scenes on the streets of Cairo to be repeated in America. After all, Americans are facing similar levels of economic rape to those that prompted Egyptians to rise up and overthrow 30 year dictator Hosni Mubarak.



Now Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan (R) is making similar comparisons after protesters massed in the hallways of the Wisconsin state Capitol this morning as part of what Matt Drudge dubbed a “day of rage”.

The demonstrators are rallying against a “momentous bill that would strip government workers, including school teachers, of nearly all collective bargaining rights,” reports the Associated Press.



The bill asks public sector workers to make a 5.8 percent pension contribution, roughly equal to the national average, along with a 12.6 percent health insurance contribution.

Ryan expressed his opposition to the demands of the protesters, but noted that the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was now facing, “Riots — it’s like Cairo has moved to Madison these days.”

Similarly, noting that the Governor has threatened to break the union protests by deploying the National Guard, writer Noam Chomsky told Democracy Now that what happened in Egypt was “the beginning of what we need here – democracy uprising.”

As part of the demonstration against the bill, students of Stoughton High School staged a walkout on Monday as a show of support for their teachers.

Whether you’re in favor of making public sector workers pay more in contributions or not, the fact is that Americans in general now face the terrible consequences of a derivatives debt black hole that threatens to shut down the entire economy.

No budget cuts, public sector pension contributions, or any austerity measures whatsoever can redress the $1.4 Quadrillion dollar derivatives debt tsunami that Americans will now have to face as a result of the financial terrorists unleashing what promises to turn into an inflationary holocaust.

As the Economic Edge blog points out, “The global size of the derivatives bubble which was calculated last year at USD 190k per person-on-planet, has risen to USD 206k per person-on-planet. The ever rising commitment of governments for the repeated bailouts of financial institutions is partially linked to various flavours of derivatives exposure settlements and “black hole” losses emanating from off-balance-sheet vehicles.”

Indeed, the entire GDP of every single country in the world only amounts to around $60 trillion. How can we ever hope to pay off $1,400 trillion dollars?
We can’t and we won’t. The only way that this $1.4 Quadrillion mountain of debt will disappear is a total and complete collapse of the global economy and its replacement with a new financial system.

Whether that also simultaneously brings down the US dollar and the United States itself as a first world country remains to be seen, but anyone who believes that a few years of austerity can redress the balance is living in cloud cuckoo land.

Once the whole charade starts to unravel, the scenes we saw in Cairo over the last few weeks will look like a walk in the park in comparison to the turmoil that awaits as a result of the derivatives bubble.

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Correspondent sexually assaulted, beaten in Cairo

CNN
February 17, 2011

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was reporting on the protests in Egypt Friday when she was separated from her crew and attacked. She is currently recovering in a U.S. hospital, having been sexually assaulted and beaten.

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Hapless Players in History’s Trilogy of Global Government

Andrew Steele
America 20xy
February 17, 2011

In the early days of the Egyptian uprising activists from all over the world sat on the edge of their seats, wanting to believe that the angry men and women that they saw on their TV and laptop screens were not simply unwitting players in the globalists’ real life game of Risk– where manipulation, espionage, and sophisticated propaganda take the place of dice rolls in the battle for territorial control– but rather organically grown freedom fighters who had had enough of what they were getting.  Caught up in the hope that it could be the first domino to fall in the successful battle against global tyranny, much of the world demanded that President Mubarak step down, many looking to 1776 as the inevitable outcome of the revolution, overlooking the long list of other revolutions in history that have led to even worse regimes taking power than the ones that were deposed.


After the leadership of Saudi Arabia– another country where uprisings are now taking place– told President Obama that they would financially support Mubarak if the U.S. withdrew its own, Mubarak defiantly refused to step down, claiming that he  “cannot and will not accept to be dictated orders from outside” .

However, Mubarak suddenly and inexplicably had a change of heart.  Shortly after his infamous speech he relinquished power to his freshly appointed VP– Omar Suleiman, the former head of intelligence who sanctioned the use of torture on his own citizens, and who, when interviewed, blamed the uprising on ”foreign operatives with their own agendas whose objective was to create instability, intimidation and rift between Egyptians.”

People cheered.  Pundits on TV once again praised “democracy” as if the word equated to liberty. Bloggers squealed with glee at the exercise of “people power” against the U.S. puppet regime. Yet in the days that followed the supposed victory of the Egyptian people, the military took total control, the parliament was dissolved, and the constitution was suspended.

Now, other uprisings are happening around the Middle East, including in Iran, whose government the United States has been trying for years to overthrow, even supporting known terrorist groups in order to do so.  In the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution the U.S. has quietly sent warships to the Suez Canal (after having sent 11 warships back in June in response to a Gaza bound Iranian aid flotilla) while Israel has screamed about Iran doing the same, with war hawks in Israel and the U.S. claiming it to be an aggressive move on Iran’s part rather than a strategic act of national security in the face of a series of world events that, (it’s becoming more clear), aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

While the uprising in Egypt flared the Telegraph published a document from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that revealed that the U.S. was secretly backing the protests.  As the U.S. government and military prepared an Internet kill switch for its citizens to protect them from free speech and exaggerated cyber threats, they righteously demanded that Mubarak keep Egypt’s Internet going so that freedom could ring through the Tweets of his people.  During this time, the fake conservative media fear-mongered over a possible power vacuum in Egypt and threats to the Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel if so-called fundamentalists like the Muslim Brotherhood started running the show there.

Issues like rising commodity prices no doubt were the fuel burning the revolutionary spirits of the young people who took to the streets in Egypt, but was it Egyptians who ignited that fuel?  As the dollar weakens, it doesn’t take much economic savvy to realize that the prices of commodities will increase due to the dollar’s reserve status, and that this will cause understandable social upheaval, first in poorer countries, and then inevitably in supposedly wealthy, (however bankrupt) ones.  The narrative that the intelligence community never saw the current uprisings coming provides a convenient and over-simplified cover for allowing a situation that ordinary people predicted years in advance to happen, and like 9/11 seems to cloak a sophisticated web of geopolitics with a blanket of alleged incompetence to hide willful participation.

Whether the protests in Egypt and now in other nations began organically and were hijacked by skilled intelligence operatives, or were started by Western intelligence agencies ahead of the projected fallout of the Fed’s quantitative easing, they are now being used as an excuse for strongmen, Western backed and otherwise, to tighten the chains around the necks of their people and for the U.S. and Israel to justify a firmer footing in the region, including beating the same drum against Iran that they’ve been beating for years.

The Islamic boogeyman is alive and well in the words of war-mongering propagandists, given fresh life by the chaos of rebellion.  And while the revolutions abroad conveniently give neocons an excuse to talk about further expanding the U.S. military’s reach overseas, they also provide an easy scapegoat, superficially explaining why commodities like food and oil will continue to become more expensive.  Already, trouble in the Suez Canal is being cited as cause for why we’ll have to pay more for gas. The fact that commodity prices were rising even before the uprisings occurred means very little in the dizzying world of political spin…as long as it sounds good and people buy it.  Ben Bernanke would have the public believe that the Fed’s haphazard money printing and the dollar’s reserve currency status has no effect on the current reality of commodity inflation and that events like those in Egypt were the cause of higher prices rather than just another result…assuming they weren’t staged to begin with.

The notion that the United States is behind the overthrow of the Egyptian government is a very real and very probable possibility. It is also not without precedent, since the United States has overthrown many foreign governments in the past.  The Suez Canal is a strategic waterway and choking off China and Russia, among other nations, from it would allow the globalists to poke an entire den of bears and incite the next great conflict…the kind that we’re taught in school allegedly got us out of the last Great Depression and led to the creation of the U.N.

What we’re witnessing is the same problem-reaction-solution dynamic that we’ve witnessed throughout history.  If Americans don’t look at the deeper politics at work happening before them, and look past the latest mosaic of tyranny disguised as freedom in the form of sudden uprisings against governments that happen to be standing under the geographical archway of the New World Order, then they’re going to find themselves caught in a situation like the Egyptians find themselves in– hapless players in the final chapter of history’s trilogy of global chaos and growing world government, unable to see reality for what it is until the smoke clears and their world has drastically changed around them.

'Many Egypt protesters still missing'

'Many Egypt protesters still missing'

Presstv.ir

Human rights groups says hundreds of Egyptian people have gone missing in the recent popular revolution that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak. 

A leading human rights group said on Tuesday that some people were being held by the armed forces.

"There are hundreds of detained, but information on their numbers is still not complete ... The army was holding detainees," AFP quoted Gamal Eid, a lawyer who heads the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, as saying.

The group says it was still receiving "information relating to the disappearances of many youths and citizens."

Eid urged the military to publish a list of detainees' names and to guarantee their rights.

Reports say at least 500 people were arrested in the recent popular protests that toppled the ruling regime.

But an estimated 17,000 political prisoners were already locked up in Egyptian prisons, which are notorious for the use of torture.

Egypt has also been the US destination of choice for its extraordinary rendition program -- the practice of taking terror suspects to a country where torture is used in an attempt to extract confessions.

Activists have demanded the release of political prisoners, the lifting of a 30-year-old state of emergency and the disbandment of military court. They say demonstrations will continue until the army accepts the reforms.

They are demanding a clear timetable for the transfer of power to a civilian government.