Egypt is collapsing!

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vector7 I think you have seen the speech of President Mubarak and President Obama. What are your thoughts about both speeches?

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Scrataliano: RT @goftaniha: Mubarak: I am aware of the suffering of the Egyptian people." #Jan25 #Egypt #Cairo #Suez #Sidibouzid
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

krb104: RT @TimObrien: Al Jazeera's #Egypt coverage embarrasses U.S. cable news channels http://bit.ly/i1e1Ek #cairo #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


berski_BB: RT @alshaheeed: Protests in #Egypt have reached point of no return. If we stop now we will be butchered/massacred by #Government #Jan25.
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


manydotes: RT @amnesty: RT: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


jihadm: RT @alihabibi1: الثوار يملأون العالم ضجيجا كي لا ينام العالم بثقله على أجساد الفقراء #Tunisia #Egypt #Jan25 #sidibouzid
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


SirHellsing420: RT @shortformblog: Posted without comment: Obama’s latest statements on Egypt http://ow.ly/3Mk8V #egypt #jan25 #obama
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:23 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Anon_Lobo: RT @Antiwarcom: Well, at least @BarackObama's stupid content-free speech, essentially supporting Mubarak, was mercifully short. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:23 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


mikey_shoe: Freedom in #egypt is near. Now is the time to increase the pressure on the dictator. Collapse will come. #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:23 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


safeworld4women: R @ishtarmuz: R @ioerror: Egypt can use this for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' passwrd 'toto') - thx to French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:22 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


bouchaala_sabri: RT @Selnadeem: Mubarak: I'll be on TV soon to announce the new changes. First thing will be the replacement of the current people of #Egypt #Jan25 (Joke)
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:22 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


011media: How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off the Internet - http://bit.ly/dHvW1M #wiki #Jan25 #egypt #howto
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:21 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


hgparker: RT @bencnn: Teenager showed me teargas canister "made in USA". Saw the same thing in Tunisia. Time to reconsider US exports? #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:21 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


manal: @rkaram this's what i hav been saying.. khales he's gone.. bas 3ala ra2y @alaa how bas fehmo batee2 #Mubarak #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:20 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


terapper: RT @MMflint: People of Egypt! Use this dial-up provided by friends in France 2 go online: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:19 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


aymanhyasat: RT @noornet: RT @AJELive: Obama calls for the internet and communication services to be restored in Egypt - Al Jazeera #Jan25 #Egypt #Mubarak #Obama
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:18 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ekoshak: RT @AliAldafiri: هناك من يرهبنا بالفوضى , هل كنا نعيش في النعيم طوال عقود ولم نشعر بذلك ؟ #jan25 #egypt #cairo #Mubarak
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:18 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


BleuZ00m: RT @JasonLeopold: Army takes control of central Cairo square-witness #Egypt #Jan25 http://tinyurl.com/4bod7mv
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:18 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Burtchen: RT @AJELive: BREAKING NEWS - Mubarak: I have ordered the government to step down and I will name a new government tomorrow #jan25 #Egypt #cairo #egipto
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:18 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


markdshields: RT @andrewbonar: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:17 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Faahaad89: RT @abc: BREAKING VIDEO: President #Obama Tells #Mubarak: 'Deliver' On Your Promise' http://abcn.ws/h4thdt #jan25 #Egypt #Cairo
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


smashedants: RT @raghdabutros: Denial is not just a river in #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


gemswinc: RT @bryaneder: RT @NickBaumann: Slideshow: the latest photos from #Egypt: http://mojo.ly/gARowq #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


edburns: #egypt I suggest Public Enemy's 1989 classic "Fight the Power" as a theme song for #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


aymanhyasat: RT @noornet: RT @kbahey: One ISP in #Egypt, called Noor, reported to be still in operation. Are they close to the regime? http://www.nooradsl.com/ #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:16 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


rqskye: RT @SaloumehZ: RT @Selnadeem It is 2.00 AM in Cairo and people still out in the streets though the curfew #Jan25 for a FREE #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:15 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


semmoneglynn: RT @demotix: Protests at London's Egyptian Embassy http://t.co/CU1xbkU #Protests #London #Egyptian #Embassy #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:14:14 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


forever22x: #Mubarak to replace his government by Saturday, but will stay in power. Not good enough. #Egypt #jan25

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http://twitter.com/AJELive

1. Obama calls for the internet and communication services to be restored in Egypt - Al Jazeera #Jan25 #Egypt #Mubarak #Obama 16 minutes ago via web
2. Obama calls on Egyptian forces fo refrain from violence against protestors - Al Jazeera #Jan25 #Egypt #Mubarak #Obama 17 minutes ago via web
3. Obama: Governments a responsibility to respond to its people #Jan25 #Egypt #Mubarak #Obama #aljazeera 18 minutes ago via web
4. Obama: Mubarak has a responsibility to the Egyptian people #Jan25 #Mubarak #Egypt #aljazeera 19 minutes ago via web
5. Obama: This moment of volatility has to be turned into a moment of promise #Jan #Egypt 21 minutes ago via web
6. Obama speaking LIVE on Al Jazeera: US stands up for human rights everywhere and asked US government to reconnect the internet #Jan #Egypt

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nandataufiq: Fuck zion RT "@jan25live: Dostor: Israel on CNN: Egypt and Israel relation is strong and Israel doesn't want the regime away #jan25 #egypt"
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:58 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

sakurahikari: RT @oxfordgirl: To leave tyrants in power does not create a stable Middle East but drives ordinary people to the extreamists #iranelection #egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:57 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


arupkamal: RT @MMflint: People of Egypt! Use this dial-up provided by friends in France 2 go online: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:57 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


superloyds: RT @amnesty: RT: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:57 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


polygonism: RT @rashmipappu: "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." - Victor Hugo #egypt #cairo #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:53 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Sandanista: RT @oxfordgirl: To leave tyrants in power does not create a stable Middle East but drives ordinary people to the extreamists #iranelection #egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:52 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ClaraListenspre: RT @iDiplomacy: @AlecJRoss: "From now on, any and all dissent movements will have technology as a core component" http://wapo.st/fZRl8n #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:52 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


elianilla: "@marmite_news: Israel TV is reporting that Mubarak is on his way to Switzerland!" #Jan25 #Egypt #Egipto
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:52 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


elianilla: "@marmite_news: Israel TV is reporting that Mubarak is on his way to Switzerland!" #Jan25 #Egypt #Egipto
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:52 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


innerconx: Sen. Kerry says time to end Egypt's dynasty. #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:19:51 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


WestCoastVet: RT @anajuliajatar: Al Jazeera: The army may be positioning itself to switch allegiances and support the protesters in toppling the Mubarak regime #Egypt #jan25

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rattlecans: RT @peace143: RT @aellaboudy: Praying for the safety of all my friends in #Cairo and my family in #Alexandria. #revolution #jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:45 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

monaeltahawy: RT @demaghmak: I'm gonna be at CBS news (Connect) by 8:30pm (ET) talking about the Egyptian Revolution #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


eHealthyAging: RT @jonjensen: Just heard what sounded like a small explosion in the distance. Not gunfire, an explosion. And sporadic gunfire too. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Mohamed_Elian: Why the Egyptians presidents insist to be assassinated in order to leave the presidency #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:43 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Freedom_Rising: RT @TUSK81: #Mubarak should be ousted for that bad dye job alone. #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:41 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


abdulkarim1: RT @Hussam_Arafa: لم يقدم الشعب عشرات الشهداء ومئات الجرحى من أجل تغيير وزراء يعلم الجميع أنهم مجرد دمى #Jan25 #Egypt #Cairo #sidibouzid #Arab
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:40 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


amellice: RT @Fizou: Riot forces attack protesters during their prayers in Cairo Streets http://twitpic.com/3u6gvc#jan25 #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:40 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Swirlibra: RT @Jan25voices: LPC: Man shot dead in Maadi by police. Victim's family steal firearms from nearby store and violence erupts. #Jan25 #Jan28 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


dansmithphd: RT @andrewbonar: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


harvarddr: RT @alihabibi1: رأيت جرذاً... يخطب اليوم عن النظافة... وينذر الأوساخ بالعقاب...وحوله...يصفق الذباب - أحمد مطر #Tunisia #Egypt #Jan25 #sidibouzid
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


abdibashir: RT @hedzouina: RT @litfreak: At this point you can't work with the Egyptian govt AND the people. It's either/or right now, Obama. #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


nihonmama: RT @DuhaAwayes: @monaeltahawy says on BBCW The Egyptians demand is Mubark out, not Mubark's government out. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Mr0rangetracker: RT @abususu: to watch on saturday: will protests continue to show mubarak's attempt to cling to power is seen as inacceptable? #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:34 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


jelaine: RT @huffingtonpost: MUST SEE: Tweets from the ground In #Egypt http://huff.to/eQjgkC #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:34 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Davisx3m: RT @Socialisterna: Al Jazeera: Demonstranter stormar Vodafones kontor i Kairo efter att de stängde ner mobil- och internet-tjänster. #Egypt #Jan25 #Jan28
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:33 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


RvLeshrac: RT @bencnn: Teenager showed me teargas canister "made in USA". Saw the same thing in Tunisia. Time to reconsider US exports? #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:33 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Kanaani: US wants democracy in #Egypt. Unless that democracy was run by people not to their liking of course. #Egypt #Jan25 #needforchange
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


NohaAtef: Bullets in the face?!!! Video http://bit.ly/gmndv2 #Egypt #Jan25 #Reuters
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


AntiMubarak: RT @ajmi: خطاب مبارك عبارة عن كلام فاضي .. ايام معدودة وتلحق صاحبك بإذن الله #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:31 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


GreenSylverine: RT @Anon_VV: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:30 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


zentralam: RT @BorowitzReport: #Mubarak should probably turn the Internet back on so he can book a trip on Expedia. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:30 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


sushimustwrite: RT @ioerror: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN) #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


ripeji: RT @iDiplomacy: @AlecJRoss: "From now on, any and all dissent movements will have technology as a core component" http://wapo.st/fZRl8n #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


meganlibrarian: RT @MMflint: People of Egypt! Use this dial-up provided by friends in France 2 go online: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


chrisCoast: RT @Chronic: "The Egyptian people are telling Mubarak that they are not afraid of him" #jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


prototux: RT @jonjensen: Just heard what sounded like a small explosion in the distance. Not gunfire, an explosion. And sporadic gunfire too. #Egypt #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:24:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


hopefulvoter: I think #Obama is making a mistake on #Egypt. He should be more actively supporting the people not an illegitimate tyrant. #Jan25

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It seems that the Internet has return in Egypt. It will be good to know the true numbers of today's uprising

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amunati : any pics from washington dc protest? #egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:33 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

idiosyncrati_c: RT @liberationtech: Meanwhile, let's not forget the thousands protesting in #Jordan & #Yemen; net shut down in #Syria http://bit.ly/e3OhUT #jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:32 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


aiww: RT @fanfou110: @aiww 为了表示对埃及人民道义上的支持，请加上标签，THX～#cn4egypt =china for #egypt #cairo #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:31 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Dominican_Juan: RT @andrewbonar: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:30 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


andreasharsono: RT @KenRoth: #Egypt #jan25 HRW's Heba Morayef view from #Cairo on exhilarating emergence of democracy movement taking to streets: http://nyti.ms/hvBO2g
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:30 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Ottiferous: #egypt and/or #jan25 are all top trends *except* for in the #US. God bless Ignorance!
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:30 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


safeworld4all: R @huffingtonpost: MUST SEE: Tweets from the ground In #Egypt http://huff.to/eQjgkC #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:29 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


safeium1: تصبحون على أُمة سعيدة #Jan25 #egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:26 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


lgwyckoff: RT @NewsHour: Did you miss #Obama's statements on #Egypt? Full Video HERE: http://ow.ly/3MjJM #jan25 #mubarak
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Scrapsacorn: RT @bencnn: Teenager showed me teargas canister "made in USA". Saw the same thing in Tunisia. Time to reconsider US exports? #Jan25 #Egypt
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


deliboyX: RT @amnesty: RT: Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt ███ ████ government ██ #jan25 #Egypt #censorship
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


tueusedabattoir: RT @YousefMunayyer: Mubarak is the third longest ruler in the 5000 year history of #Egypt behind Mohamad Ali Basha and the Pharoah Ramseis II #Jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


1RAOKADAY: RT @Abalkhair: RT Please retweet to the world. We are being beaten up to death, arrested for expressing our point of views #Jan25 #Egypt #Mubarak #Cairo
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Rizzz: RT @Yasmineelcharif: RT @VM_DesigNut: RT @ddayen: MSNBC's Richard Engel says his Blackberry is back on in #Egypt #jan25
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


maximus91: RT @RamyYaacoub: Confirmed: happening now - reports of several explosions in various parts of #Cairo #Egypt #Jan25.
sexta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2011 22:57:24 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


rlbaldwinartist: RT @EgyptFreedomNow: Internet and SMS phone service is back up in Cairo! Hello again world! Goodbye Mubarak, no new government until you are gone! #Jan25 #Egypt

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http://twitter.com/NicRobertsonCNN

1. On streets of Alexandria, seems every police truck deployed for riots was destroyed, burnt, litter roads near clashes 4 minutes ago via web
2. Alexandria Governorate building heavily burnt and looted, a war against the Egyptian government people here say 9 minutes ago via web
3. Tour of downtown Alexandria reveals destruction of police stations and only a few dozen Egyptian soldiers 10 minutes ago via web
4. Egyptian Army arrive in Alexandria after damage is done, stand guard at useless, burnt out police stations 12 minutes ago via web
5. at alex police station where people say police allegedly murdered innocent man in cold blood last year — now total destruction. 13 minutes ago via web
6. Army looks on, does nothing as one of Alexandria's largest police station burns and looters carry away anything of value 41 minutes ago via web

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To me this photo resumes what will happen with Mubarak's Administration:


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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columni...aspx?id=205559


The pragmatic fantasy
By CAROLINE B. GLICK
01/28/2011 16:31

"Arab Street’s” overwhelming animosity towards Israel causes the pragmatists to argue that Israel’s best play is to cut deals with Arab dictators.

Today, the Egyptian regime faces its gravest threat since Anwar Sadat’s assassination 30 years ago. As protesters take to the street for the third day in a row demanding the overthrow of 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak, it is worth considering the possible alternatives to his regime.

On Thursday afternoon, presidential hopeful Mohamed El Baradei, the former head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, returned to Egypt from Vienna to participate in anti-regime demonstrations.

As IAEA head, Elbaradei shielded Iran’s nuclear weapons program from the Security Council.

He repeatedly ignored evidence indicating that Iran’s nuclear program was a military program rather than a civilian energy program. When the evidence became too glaring to ignore, Elbaradei continued to lobby against significant UN Security Council sanctions or other actions against Iran and obscenely equated Israel’s purported nuclear program to Iran’s.

His actions won him the support of the Iranian regime which he continues to defend. Just last week he dismissed the threat of a nuclear armed Iran, telling the Austrian News Agency, “There’s a lot of hype in this debate,” and asserting that the discredited 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate that claimed Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003 remains accurate.

Elbaradei’s support for the Iranian ayatollahs is matched by his support for the Muslim Brotherhood.

This group, which forms the largest and best-organized opposition movement to the Mubarak regime, is the progenitor of Hamas and al-Qaida. It seeks Egypt’s transformation into an Islamic regime that will stand at the forefront of the global jihad. In recent years, the Muslim Brotherhood has been increasingly drawn into the Iranian nexus along with Hamas. Muslim Brotherhood attorneys represented Hizbullah terrorists arrested in Egypt in 2009 for plotting to conduct spectacular attacks aimed at destroying the regime.

Elbaradei has been a strong champion of the Muslim Brotherhood. Just this week he gave an interview to Der Spiegel defending the jihadist movement. As he put it, “We should stop demonizing the Muslim Brotherhood. ...[T]hey have not committed any acts of violence in five decades. They too want change. If we want democracy and freedom, we have to include them instead of marginalizing them.”

The Muslim Brotherhood for its part has backed Elbaradei’s political aspirations. On Thursday, it announced it would demonstrate at ElBaradei’s side the next day.

Then there is the Kifaya movement. The group sprang onto the international radar screen in 2004 when it demanded open presidential elections and called on Mubarak not to run for a fifth term. As a group of intellectuals claiming to support liberal, democratic norms, Kifaya has been upheld as a model of what the future of Egypt could look like if liberal forces are given the freedom to lead.

But Kifaya’s roots and basic ideology are not liberal. They are anti-Semitic and anti-American.

Kifaya was formed as a protest movement against Israel with the start of the Palestinian terror war in 2000. It gained force in March 2003 when it organized massive protests against the US-led invasion of Iraq. In 2006, its campaign to get a million Egyptians to sign a petition demanding the abrogation of the peace treaty with Israel received international attention.

Many knowledgeable Egypt-watchers argued this week that the protesters have no chance of bringing down the Mubarak regime. Unlike this month’s overthrow of Tunisia’s despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, they say there is little chance that the Egyptian military will abandon Mubarak.

But the same observers are quick to note that whoever Mubarak selects to succeed him will not be the beneficiary of such strong support from Egypt’s security state. And as the plight of Egypt’s overwhelmingly impoverished citizenry becomes ever more acute, the regime will become increasingly unstable. Indeed, its overthrow is as close to a certainty as you can get in international affairs.

And as we now see, all of its possible secular and Islamist successors either reject outright Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel or will owe their political power to the support of those who reject the peace with the Jewish state. So whether the Egyptian regime falls next week or next year or five years from now, the peace treaty is doomed.

SINCE THE start of Israel’s peace process with Egypt in 1977, supporters of peace with the Arabs have always fallen into two groups: the idealists and the pragmatists.

Led by Shimon Peres, the idealists have argued that the reason the Arabs refuse to accept Israel is that Israel took “their” land in the 1967 Six Day War. Never mind that the war was a consequence of Arab aggression or that it was simply a continuation of the Arab bid to destroy the Jewish state which officially began with Israel’s formal establishment in 1948. As the idealists see things, if Israel just gives up all the land it won in that war, the Arabs will be appeased and accept Israel as a friend and natural member of the Middle East’s family of nations.

Peres was so enamored with this view that he authored The New Middle East and promised that once all the land was given away, Israel would join the Arab League.

Given the absurdity of their claims, the idealists were never able to garner mass support for their positions. If it had just been up to them, Israel would never have gotten on the peace train. But lucky for the idealists, they have been able to rely on the unwavering support of the unromantic pragmatists to implement their program.

Unlike the starry-eyed idealists, the so-called pragmatists have no delusions that the Arabs are motivated by anything other than hatred for Israel, or that their hatred is likely to end in the foreseeable future. But still, they argue, Israel needs to surrender.

It is the “Arab Street’s” overwhelming animosity towards Israel that causes the pragmatists to argue that Israel’s best play is to cut deals with Arab dictators who rule with an iron fist. Since Israel and the Arab despots share a fear of the Arab masses, the pragmatists claim that Israel should give up all the land it took control over as a payoff to the regimes, who in exchange will sign peace treaties with it.

This was the logic that brought Israel to surrender the strategically priceless Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for the Camp David accord that will not survive Mubarak.

And of course, giving up Sinai wasn’t the only sacrifice Israel made for that nearly defunct document. Israel also gave up its regional monopoly on US military platforms. Israel agreed that in exchange for signing the deal, the US would begin providing massive military aid to Egypt. Indeed, it agreed to link US aid to Israel with US aid to Egypt.

Owing to that US aid, the Egyptian military today makes the military Israel barely defeated in 1973 look like a gang of cavemen. Egypt has nearly 300 F-16s. Its main battle tank is the M1A1 which it produces in Egypt. Its navy is the largest in the region. Its army is twice the size of the IDF. Its air defense force constitutes a massive threat to the IAF. And of course, the ballistic missiles and chemical weapons it has purchased from the likes of North Korea and China give it a significant stand-off massdestruction capability.

Despite its strength, due to the depth of popular Arab hatred of Israel and Jews, the Egyptian regime was weakened by its peace treaty.

Partially in a bid to placate its opponents and partially in a bid to check Israeli power, Egypt has been the undisputed leader of the political war against Israel raging at international arenas throughout the world. So, too, Mubarak has permitted and even encouraged massive anti- Semitism throughout Egyptian society.

With this balance sheet at the end of the “era of peace” between Israel and Egypt, it is far from clear that Israel was right to sign the deal in the first place. In light of the relative longevity of the regime it probably made sense to have made some deal with Egypt. But it is clear that the price Israel paid was outrageously inflated and unwise.

IN CONTRAST to the Egyptian regime, as the popular outcry following Al-Jazeera’s publication of the Palestinian negotiations documents this week shows, the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority is as weak as can be. Yitzhak Rabin, the godfather of the pragmatist camp, famously argued that Yasser Arafat and Fatah would handle the Israel-hating Palestinian Street, “without the Supreme Court and B’Tselem.”

That is, he argued that it made sense to surrender massive amounts of strategically critical land to a terrorist organization because Arafat and his associates would repress their people with an iron fist, unfettered by the rule of law and Palestinian human rights organizations.

And yet, the fact of the matter is that Arafat commanded the terror war against Israel that began in 2000 and transformed Palestinian society into a jihadist society that popularly elected Hamas to lead it.

The leaked Palestinian documents don’t tell us much we didn’t already know about the nature of negotiations between Israel and Fatah. The Palestinians demanded that the baseline of talks assume that all the disputed territories actually belong to them. And for no particular reason, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert agreed to these historically unjustified terms of reference.

While this was well known, in publishing the documents, Al- Jazeera has still made two important contributions to the public debate.

First, the PA’s panicked reaction to the documents exposes the ridiculousness of the notion that the likes of Mahmoud Abbas, Saeb Erekat and Salam Fayyad are viable partners for peace.

Not only do they lack the power to maintain a peace deal with Israel. They lack to power to sign a peace deal with Israel. All they can do is talk – far away from the cameras – about hypothetical, marginal concessions in a peace that will never, ever be achieved. The notion that Israel should pay any price for a deal with these nobodies is completely ridiculous.

The Al-Jazeera papers also expose Livni’s foolishness.

Just as she failed to recognize the inherent weakness of the Lebanese state when she championed UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which called for the Hizbullah-dominated Lebanese army to deploy to the border with Israel at the end of the 2006 war, so Livni failed to understand the significance of the inherent weakness of Fatah as she negotiated away Gush Etzion and Har Homa.

And she didn’t need Al-Jazeera’s campaign against the PA to understand that she was speaking to people who represent no one. That basic fact was already proven with Hamas’s victory in the 2006 elections.

THE TRUTHS exposed by the convulsive events of the past month make it abundantly clear that Israel lives in a horrible neighborhood. It is a neighborhood where popular democracy means war against Israel.

In this neck of the woods, it is not pragmatic to surrender. It is crazy.

caroline@carolineglick.com

[BRVoice]

If you're wondering what direction this 'revolution' is going, this should clear up any ambiguity.


http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162397.html

Iran cleric praises new 'Islamic Mideast'
Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:41PM

Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami has praised the recent popular uprisings in the Arab world, saying they herald the creation of “an Islamic Middle East.”

The leader of Tehran's interim Friday Prayers was referring to the recent historic revolution in Tunisia and massive protests in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen.

"Incidents that are happening in the Middle East and the Arab world should not be regarded simply," he told worshippers on Friday.

"To those who do not see the realities I clarify that an Islamic Middle East is being created based on Islam, religion, and democracy with prevailing religious principals," Ayatollah Khatami was quoted as saying by IRNA.

Egypt's largest opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday called on the country's people to continue protests after the weekly Muslim prayer congregation of Friday.

Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Essam al-Arian warned that Egypt would "explode" if the government does not listen to the people.

Police clamped down on anti-government protesters in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Friday.

The leader of Tehran's interim Friday Prayers said the recent uprisings in the Arab world have Islamic support as people came to the streets with the slogan of "God is the Greatest."

Ayatollah Khatami also praised the congregational prayers in Tunisia days after the revolution ousted former President Zine El Abidin Ben Ali from power.

A vast majority of Tunisia's population is Muslims and committed to Islamic values.

[BRVoice]

http://www.financialsense.com/contri...ill-understand


Those Who Know Will Understand
Submitted by JR Nyquist on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

According to some experts the U.S. economy is one “event” away from a catastrophic sequence. My own variation on this sequence goes something like this: first, the dollar collapses; second, the government’s response prevents any chance for recovery; third, political unrest and destabilization begins; last, the defensive function of the state fails as external and internal enemies take advantage of the country’s weakness. This sequence would likely be nonsense if it were only my sequence. Unfortunately, it is a sequence dreamt up by Soviet strategists as far back as the 1960s. It was the entire basis of the Soviet strategic blueprint of half a century ago. The writings of at least two Soviet Bloc defectors suggest that this same blueprint dictated the controlled “collapse” of Communism in Eastern Europe from 1989-91. This would differ from the uncontrolled collapse of capitalism that Soviet strategists also anticipated.

The self-destructive course of bourgeois society is something Communists are well equipped to envision. They are ready to denounce the selfish “individualism” of capitalist society, the disintegration of community, the dire consequences of untrammeled greed. But America’s demise is mediated by other factors, nearly all of them enumerated in George Washington’s Farewell Address: “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit,” said Washington. “One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible.” He further advised Americans to avoid “likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear....”

American leaders make policies that fly in the face of Washington’s advice. The government spends way too much money, and will continue to spend too much money. Look at what is happening today. There are numerous entitlement programs, and government is expected to pay until the system is totally bankrupt. It is therefore foreseeable that the U.S. military will collapse when the U.S. financial system ultimately fails. Even our enemies recognize this, and look forward to it. Under the current regime, the American people seem determined to consume the seed corn meant for tomorrow’s harvest. So the enemy asks himself, "How can America be pushed over the edge? How can the process of unraveling be hurried along?"

Nine years have passed since terrorists destroyed the World Trade center and burnt the Pentagon. The terrorist cause was Islam, supposedly. The purpose of the attack was economic sabotage, most definitely. One might say that America was pushed as it strolled along the edge of an economic abyss. It is in this context we should consider the allegations of former KGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who said the KGB was behind al Qaeda. Litvinenko claimed that Ayman al-Zawahri, the number two man in al Qaeda, was a longtime KGB agent. What lends credence to Litvinenko's claim is the well known fact that the Kremlin poisoned Litvinenko with radioactive polonium 210. The substance used to kill him was ridiculously expensive and exotic, indicating a government sponsored assassination. Major media outlets have confirmed the conclusion of official inquiries; namely, that Litvinenko was assassinated by Kremlin agents.

A curious addendum to Litvinenko’s testimony was broadcast on Echo of Moscow on 9 September 2010. A former member of the Russian parliament, Konstantin Borovoy, gave an interview to Tatyana Felgenhauer in which he revealed something related to 9/11 -- something that supports Litvinenko's allegations. Describing the 1999 terrorist attacks in Russia that enabled Putin and his FSB/KGB colleagues to take power, Borovoy indicated a conspiracy at the highest levels; specifically, he said the attacks were a method used to stop the advance of freedom and capitalism in Russia. The KGB had to reassert itself, and justify a gradual return to Soviet methods, by organizing terrorist acts that would be blamed on Muslims from Chechnya. Borovoy hoped the Russian people would catch on. He hoped they would realize who the real terrorists were; but this did not happen. "Actually," said Borovoy, "the [political] tactics or technology [of manipulation], which was tested through the bombing of the apartment houses [in 1999], worked. Every time an attack happens, people are frightened; and much of society responds very simply. They rally around the centers of power. " Borovoy then pointed to information indicating that the KGB was also behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

"When the apartment bombings happened in September of 1999 I held a press conference," said Borovoy, "I got hold of very serious intelligence. It happened to contain data ... about the U.S., which I gave to the FBI." The contact who provided this "serious intelligence" indicated that the FSB was, in fact, behind the apartment bombings. But there was more. "Besides that," Borovoy explained, "he also provided me with information regarding the United States. This information, in 1999, sounded totally absurd. He told me that someone named bin Laden was going to torpedo skyscrapers with Boeing airliners."

When Borovoy learned about the bin Laden story, as ridiculous as it sounded in 1999, he felt obligated to say something to the Americans. So when he was traveling in the United States a month later, he wanted to convey the information without sounding ridiculous. He therefore approached the Americans with an apology in case the information sounded crazy: Osama bin Laden was going to hit American skyscrapers with airliners. "I gave them this information," said Borovoy. "And would you believe, this exact thing happened in two years?"

So how did Russians in Moscow know about 9/11 two years in advance? If Borovoy is telling the truth, there is only one likely answer to the question. The Russians had long prepared something known by the General Staff as "the overture," which was described by GRU defector Viktor Suvorov as

a series of large and small operations the purpose of which is, before actual military operations begin, to weaken the enemy's morale, create an atmosphere of general suspicion, fear and uncertainty, and divert the attention of the enemy's armies and police forces to a huge number of different targets, each of which may be the object of the next attack." [Spetsnaz, p. 196]

According to Suvorov, the overture is carried out by special services agents of satellite countries and by "mercenaries recruited by intermediaries." The method employed in these operations is known as "grey terror." In Suvorov's words, this is a "kind of terror which is not conducted in the name of the Soviet Union. " Moscow does not leave its visiting card. Instead, other people's cards are used. "The terror is carried out in the name of already existing extremist groups not connected in any way with the Soviet Union, or in the name of fictitious organizations."

During the period of grey terror, Russian sabotage operations "should be regarded as natural disasters, actions by forces beyond human control, mistakes committed by people, or as terrorist acts...." Attending the terror campaign, there will also be a disinformation campaign intended to destroy the authority of the government. Plausible scandals will be created out of nothing. Generals and politicians will be driven to suicide. The KGB and GRU will dust off their old files -- especially files on the most powerful people in the West. These men and women, above all, will be targeted for destruction. Methods will include slander and innuendo. "The main victims now are the people whom the Soviets had tried to recruit but failed. Now carefully edited and annotated materials get into the hands of the press," noted Suvorov.

Soviet intelligence has tried to recruit thousands, even tens of thousands, of people in its time. They include young lieutenants who have now become generals and third secretaries who have now become ambassadors. All of them rejected Soviet efforts to recruit them, and now Soviet Intelligence avenges their refusal. [Spetsnaz, pp. 197-8]

Imagine the confusion and erosion of authority that will attend this last phase of the operation. The most trustworthy people will be distrusted. Those who were actually recruited by Soviet Intelligence, will be the only figures apparently free from scandal. The peace movement will simultaneously gain prestige. Those who suspect Moscow will lose all credibility. Finally, when grey terror has served its purpose the Russians and their Communist allies will resort to open warfare: "Red Terror."

If you think "the overture" is fantasy, you are sadly mistaken. What Suvorov described in his book, written in the mid-1980s, is the very real plans of real men -- deadly enemies of the United States, determined to destroy America forever. Konstantin Boroyov is merely one witness out of many, telling you the same story. Litvinenko told this story more directly, and was poisoned. Boroyov offers a few facts, and hopes that people will "wake up." Of course, he knows they won't.

Related to this, a suggestive item recently appeared in an American newspaper, the Savannah Morning News. Effingham County Sheriff deputies arrested three men (two from “former” Soviet Russia and one from “former” Soviet Kazakhstan) near a power plant on Old Augusta Road at 1 a.m. Sunday morning, 5 September. The men were in possession of a machete, shovel, wire cutters and ski masks. According to the Savannah Morning News, one of the men “had black silk stockings in his front left pocket.” Of course, all three were released after being interviewed by officials of the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The job of Soviet spetsnaz (special forces), who train in the United States under the guise of "tourists," is to infiltrate the U.S. prior to a nuclear war and take out key targets. These would include power plants, city water supplies, government leaders, etc. They are also tasked with burying nuclear weapons on American soil in advance of a war. If you look at Old Augusta Road on a map, it is located about two miles east of the McIntosh Combined Cycle Plant in a rural wooded area. So let us imagine this situation: three young male tourists from the “former” Soviet Union, of military age, driving a Nissan Pathfinder at 1 a.m. on a Sunday morning with ski masks and black silk stockings, a shovel, wire cutters and a machete. Their destination is not a nightclub or bar. They are driving to "the end of the road." From their tools one may expect they will be cutting their way through brush, digging a hole, and cutting wires. One more thing: Old Augusta Road has power lines running along its length. In the following passage, read what GRU Col. Stanislav Lunev says about Russian nuclear devices maintained on U.S. soil:

Setting up one of these devices is complicated. The bombs need a small amount of power to keep them safely in storage. For example, the GRU specialist might have to run a very small wire to an electrical source, such as a power wire, and then attach it to the weapon. The wires can be run as far as one hundred yards or more from the weapon. The wires are small enough that they would easily break if someone tampered with them or tried to follow them to their source. In case there is a loss of power, there is a battery. (Through the Eyes of the Enemy, p. 26)

According to Lunev, GRU operatives have been sent to find hiding places for Russian nuclear weapons on American soil. One of these weapons, the RA-115 portable nuclear weapon, is intended for use against American leaders and other targets of strategic importance at the outset of a war. As Lunev explained, “it is surprisingly easy to smuggle nuclear weapons into the U.S., either across the Mexican border or using a small transport missile that can slip by undetected when launched from a Russian airplane.”

Related to the suspects' possession of a shovel, GRU defector Suvorov explained that the shovel (or spade) is the “principle weapon” of Soviet spetsnaz. According to Suvorov, a shovel is an excellent device for torturing prisoners, “to cut off ears and fingers, to hit the victims in the liver and perform a whole catalogue of unpleasant operations on a person under interrogation.”

Through all of this we are led to suspect that Russia is preparing to attack the United States. Along with Communist China, it is only logical that the Russians are waiting for the collapse of the U.S. economy. They hope that Americans will turn against each other. They further hope that America's defensive systems will stop being serviced. Undoubtedly Americans are not acting wisely. The U.S. government is spending too much money. We continue to slide toward bankruptcy.

In closing, I would like to quote from a courageous blogger in Moscow.

I am not a Cassandra. I am not into conspiracy theory, not even close. But at the end of July 2001 I was expecting that somewhere on earth somebody was preparing for a devastating terror attack. I have my own system to figure things out. I observe, analyze, and draw conclusions. What I mean is that from the middle of 1990 I noted that as soon as a certain Very Important Person [VIP] starts to frequently appear on [Russian] TV, a terror attack follows. Either a suicide bomber in Israel, or an explosion of a pipeline ... I was never building any graphs with data. My method is based on observing this particular snout on the TV screen. Then I start thinking, ‘Who is going to die this time.’ And I am never wrong. As soon as this particular VIP appears with a certain frequency on the TV screen, something very bloody happens. It is important to know that this particular VIP is a top flier in the special services [KGB/FSB]; so this character suddenly starts to crawl across the TV screen in July 2001 and remains there through all of August; and this is what I was thinking: Is it going to be a war? Because this character can do it. On September 11, 2001 around 5 p.m. Moscow time, I realized that again I wasn’t mistaken. This snout never appears on TV for nothing; so those who understand have no doubt about who I mean in particular. Intelligenti satis et sapienti sat.

Among brave freethinking Russians, this commentary was recognized as one of the best blogs of the day at http://www.besttoday.ru/subjects/225.html.

[BRVoice]

Well. Back to the news

via Twitter:

"Alshaheeed BBC Arabic Reporter in Tahreer square now says Protesters & Army in complete harmony, chatting, eating & laughing together #Jan25 #Egypt 1 minute ago via web "

[Phil Fiord]

One lil note and I apologize if it was mentioned. I skimmed over some posts to catch up. WikiLeaks had released the cables from the US to various countries and vice a versa. Some of these cables reportedly are actual new news to some people in some countries such as middle east areas.

[AGEUSAF]

Interesting how this whole thing is being played on the news like it is something akin to the Soviet "collapse" or the wall coming down in Germany. It does seem like the Iranian revolution to me more than anything else, except Americans seem to be not of target just yet. With all the countries that are in revolt at this time it appears as just general anger towards the leadership but I think in these types of situations it is very easy for a radical group to take charge in the chaos and pretend to have the "peoples" best interests.

[American Patriot]

No, this is not like the Iron Curtain. I lived through the 60s and 70s. This is the Iranian Revolution. Plain and simple.

Someone, some group, will co-opt this whole thing -and it will be terrorists who gain the upper hand, JUST LIKE ACHmanutjob. (who might i remind everyone was one of the asswipes that took our people hostage in 1979 and some of us had to try to get them out)

[Ryan Ruck]

Funny story... I was out driving a bit ago and had my Sirius radio on. All of the sudden the EAS tones came on. I instantly thought, "Oh damn..." and the pucker factor hit 100% since a) they didn't have the standard "EAS Test" text on the radio display as I've seen during past tests and b) they rarely test (I've heard it maybe 3 or 4 times over the last couple years I've had a Sirius radio). I was nervously waiting for the tones to end and some sort of warning speech to come up but instead the music started back up and I breathed a sigh of relief.

[vector7]

vector7 I think you have seen the speech of President Mubarak and President Obama. What are your thoughts about both speeches?

As others have mentioned this is like the fall of Iran with radical Islam behind the protests, waiting in the wings to pick up pieces as they have successfully done to nearly all of the nations throughout the region.

Obama spoke with Mubarik and told him how to handle this by calling for the right of the Egyptians to peacefully protest. He also calls for their rights to internet access. Remember this and bookmark it for future reference.

Fall of Saudi Arabia to End Dollar Reserve System?

Friday, January 28, 2011 – by Staff Report



There is a social media revolution in Saudi Arabia ... Ten million Saudis are online, 3 million belong to Facebook, and Twitter feeds are up more than 400 percent. Recently, many tweets and posts have been focused on the uprising in Tunisia. In fact, Saudi's social media activists spread videos and news updates at the peak of the street protests — and the interest has stayed high ever since. And, now, Saudi bloggers have added the unrest in Cairo to the topics receiving much attention. Will the Saudi government clamp down on this free-wheeling speech after Tunisia's social media movement helped to bring down a government? It's one of the big questions ahead for Saudi Arabia. How this authoritarian regime will live with the freedom and chaos that the Internet represents. ... The Internet poses a challenge for this conservative, mostly religious society. – National Public Radio

Dominant Social Theme: The Jasmine revolution spread unexpectedly.

Free-Market Analysis: The civil unrest in Egypt is growing fiercer.

Electronic communications have been shut down throughout Egypt and massive demonstrations have been planned for today. A changing of the guard in Egypt would be a massive political shift indeed, but what if the disturbances don't stop there? What if they ultimately spread to Saudi Arabia and end up bringing down the dollar reserve system?

We suggest this possibility because we believe there are larger forces at work in the Middle East. Could it be that the power elite itself is inciting these disturbances? Is the idea, eventually, to crash the dollar and set up a global currency in its place?

The dollar reserve system is propped up by Saudi Arabia's willingness to restrict the purchase of oil to dollars, a system that has been in place since US President Richard Nixon abrogated what remained of the gold standard in 1971. But the PE is notoriously unsentimental. The Saudi elite has grown enormously wealthy from its relationship with the US and now, perhaps, for the good of a new world order, it is time for them to go.

Sure it's a tenuous hypothesis; but we are merely attempting a logical extrapolation, trying out different scenarios. We don't put anything past the power elite anymore. Not since it occurred to us that the NASA moon landings might have been faked; not since we discovered the CIA carried out operations to foment communist radicalism in Europe via Operation Gladio 40 years ago; or that through Project Mockingbird, the CIA enlisted the help of America's major media to propagate Cold War paranoia. The goal is always world domination by a tiny, Anglo-American elite. In a previous article, we wrote the following:

We've already reported suspicions that the Tunisia unrest was likely aided by CIA; we've suggested that the idea is to construct a Muslim enemy that the West can generally agitate against. One hundred Al Qaeda in Afghanistan are not doing the trick. The Pentagon's budget is in danger of being cut – and hard. A more formidable enemy is called for. And now the Middle East is ablaze.

We believed that in Tunisia, sooner or later there would be a militant Muslim outpouring even if Tunisia is generally secular. No sooner had we suggested this, then there were reports that the Tunisian Islamic leader Rachid Ghannouchi was prepared to return home from Britain where he had lived for 20 years. "He is preparing to revive his Islamic party formally, even though he denies any political ambitions himself," we wrote. You can see it here:

www.thedailybell.com/1711/As-Predicted-Tunisian-Islamists-Emerge.html

In this article, we'll examine the unrest and how it may aid the Western power elites in their quest for ever-closer global governance. We have already hypothesized that these manipulated revolutions (if they are fully realized) will give rise to Islamic states. Now we will further explore the idea that the West is hoping to install a variety of "democratic" regimes – many of them perhaps "national unity governments," with Islamic overtones. These overthrows might accomplish numerous purposes, including the furtherance of elite globalism.

The power elite has always had an affection for national unity governments and there is one in Britain today. In America, on and off, there is much chatter about Democratic and Republican unity. The idea is that by reasoning together, opponents can build better and more efficient governments – that do more things for more people. Thus, we can argue that the national unity governments being discussed in the Middle East (and implemented in Tunisia) may be meant to serve as a template for other countries as dictators are inevitably deposed.

As a blog dedicated to analyzing the elite's dominant social themes, we understand that almost every promotion is likely related to another. Thus the global warming fraud was supposed to kick off a food and water shortage. In fact, these scarcity promotions are underway, but since the global warming meme has all-but-collapsed, nothing is really supporting them. This is the power of the Internet; its truth telling is wreaking havoc with elite story-telling. It is hard to build a one-world government when each of your fear-based promotions comes under intense scrutiny and exposure.

What's going on in the Middle Eastern is a mélange of elite promotions. The one that stands out the most is WikiLeaks. There was a determined effort to place WikiLeaks at the front of the Tunisian unrest by claiming that its exposure of strongman Ben Ali's corruption had pushed the Tunisians to rebel. Not only is this a patronizing perspective, it is one that has been rebutted in various places on the ‘Net. The Tunisian revolution may have been encouraged by Western intel, but Tunisians needed no outside information to explain the corruption of their country to them.

The WikiLeaks sub dominant theme seems to have been dropped. But the Jasmine revolution is spreading. The website Popdecoy sums it up for us as follows: "The protests in Tunisia that led to toppling of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali have inspired demonstrators from Morocco to Yemen. The Tunisian who tipped events off, Bouazizi, was an unemployed university graduate who doused himself with petrol and set himself alight in the city of Sidi Bouzid on December 17. He was protesting official harassment of his street-side produce business, but his act quickly came to symbolize government abuse and the absence of economic opportunity. Thereafter, clashes broke out in Algeria [and many other countries]."

It's uncanny how Western powers first predicted the unrest; and it's surprising how they seemingly abetted it. Way back on January 12, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finished a four-nation tour of the Middle East and then gave a "rousing speech" in Doha. The New York Post reported she told Arab leaders that they "can expect to face growing unrest, extremism and even rebellion if they fail to quickly address depleting oil and water reserves and to enact real economic and political reform."

At the Forum for the Future Conference in Doha, Qatar's capital, Clinton pointed out that many Middle East regimes were "sinking in the sand" and that change was absolutely necessary. "The new and dynamic Middle East needs firmer ground if it is to take root and grow everywhere." She also asserted, the Post noted, that economic and political space must be made for the Arab world's women, minorities and exploding youth population.

A few days later, protests struck Tunisia and Ben Ali fled to Britain. A national unity government came together suddenly and various concrete steps were taken to install "real" democracy in Tunisia. As part of the evolution of this process, the Tunisian army has kept the peace but not interfered with politics. The police have been progressively less aggressive, to the point of taking the side of the protestors in some cases.

This would seem to suit the West; in fact Western leaders have ever-more emphatically been warning established Middle East leaders that they ought not to merely suppress protest but should tolerate them and even seek to accommodate the goals stated by protestors. This was Hillary Clinton's point, but it is not hers alone.

According to CBC news, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper discussed the protests in the Middle East with Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas el Fassi in Rabat, Morocco, on Wednesday and "offered support on Thursday for democratic protests taking place in the Middle East." Harper added, "We want to see democratic development in [Egypt] as well. We're very supportive of that ... We support the democratic development that is taking place there and obviously want to see that proceed positively," Harper said. Harper also stressed that members of the former regime of Ben Ali are not welcome in Canada.

Britain chimed in too. In an article entitled, "Britain Foreign Secretary Calls for Reform in Middle East" the BBC reported that Foreign Secretary William Hague urged the Egyptian government "to move towards political reform in order to calm growing unrest." In an interview on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Egyptian government should heed demands for change. "I do think that it is important in this situation to respond positively to legitimate demands for reform, to move towards openness and transparency and greater political freedom and that would be my advice to Egyptian leaders and to many others around the Arab world."

Ah, there's that word again ... "Transparency." We've identified it as a special word that seems to have unusual Import. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is interested in a more transparent world – and especially more transparency in government. So is William Hague. And doubtless Hillary Clinton. You can read the articles on transparency here:

http://www.thedailybell.com/1627/New...nsparency.html
http://www.thedailybell.com/1636/Tra...e-Expands.html

All these revolutions coming at once are almost too good to be true. And perhaps they are. There is some violence – especially in Egypt – but it seems like the dictator has forgotten how to be merciless. (Or at least has taken some time to work himself up to a fever pitch.) Are these regimes being pressured? Is it possible after 30 years that the West wants to make a clean sweep of its puppet states in the Middle East?

All this is speculation. We are meme watchers not mind readers and Egypt and other countries in the Middle East may or may not topple old regimes. But we do keep in mind the goals of the Western power elite and try to analyze their influences and promotions around the world. It is not merely a hypothetical exercise. The Egyptian stock market is down sharply and one may make profitable investments by betting on either the current regime's survival or its disappearance.

Conclusion: If the revolution reaches all the way to Saudi Arabia – and if this is the elite's intention (to blow up the price of oil while fatally wounding the dollar) – then heaven-help the world's commodity prices. Isolate the memes of the elite within a free-market context, determine the potential for success or failure and then make corresponding, judicious bets. As always we recommend (to your attention) gold and silver.

Egyptian evening update/January 28, 2011 ... Aljazeera reports ... Demonstrations spontaneous, ongoing: The new service Aljazeera has reportedly been attacked by Egyptian security forces, but reporters are broadcasting live nonetheless via satellite phone. Egyptian President Hosni Murbarak is scheduled to address the nation and may explain why he has attempted to suppress the protests and how he intends to address the national discontent. ¶ A curfew has been imposed but is not been fully obeyed. Egyptian security forces have temporarily ceded control of the center of Cairo to protestors. The military has been called in and tanks and troops are taking up positions in place of the police in cities. ¶ Police stations have been set ablaze. The "iconic" headquarters of the Mubarak's Ruling National Democratic Building is reportedly on fire. Very loud explosions (artillery?) are being heard in the center of Cairo near the "critical" Ministery of Interior. Fires burn brightly. The protestors chants do not diminish.

Massive black smoke. Fires under a bridge. ¶ "A frightening situation ...

People have overcome their fear. The protestors are determined. They have looked down water cannons and the police. Now they face the military." ¶ Commentator and founder of two of Egypt's opposition parties: "Murbarak must step down and Egypt must have a new constitution. The regime has a thick skin and has turned to the Egyptian people into a fossil. Now credible opposition figures have joined forces with the people. We will see the regime stepping down and standing trial." ¶ Many continue to ignore the curfew. Military is out in force. A protestor has been killed. Protestors unmoved and will continue to remain until Murabak resigns and leaves the country. ¶ Another political commentator: "Much more volatile situation than expected. A rainbown coalition has formed on the streets.

Unprecedented. A very, very serious coalition. We might be witnessing the beginning of the end, particular if the protests continue in the next few days." ¶ The Egyptian regime has decided to crack down but the protestors are determined and entrenched. The barrier of fear has fallen but the military is key. They are watching carefully." ¶ Hundreds of protestors stop amidst smoke and gunfire and bow down in the last prayer of the evening.

Police reappear. Tear gas fired. Protestors shout "God is great." Cannisters are tossed back at police. "Is there a risk of a vacuum?" Commentator: This is the beginning of the end and the military may be considering plans for a transitional government. An extraordinary day. A day of rage. The curfew has been rejected and ignored. Major defeat for the Mubarak security regime. With the introduction of the military, the situation has passed beyond Murabark's control." ¶ "Where Egypt goes the rest of the Middle East will follow."

Hillary Clinton at noon EST: "We support the universal rights of the Egyptian people including the right to expression ... There are deep grievances and the Egyptian government needs to understand that violence will not make these grievances go away ... Reform is absolutely critical to the well-being of Egypt ... We continue to raise with the Egyptian government the imperative for reform to provide a better future for all ... We want to partner with the Egyptian people to live in a Democratic society ... The people of the Middle East are seeking a chance to contribute. As I said in Doha, leaders need to respond to these aspirations.

They need to view civil society as their partner not as a threat."

Updated on day of publication.

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bagadood: عادل إمام وبقية الرموز الفنية عليها واجب وطني تؤديه وقد قصرت وتأخرت كثيراً في دعم الثورة الشعبية #Jan25 #Egypt #Freedom
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:46 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]

faheema_m_ali: RT @jonjensen Some tear gas fired in Egypt last night expired in 2008, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm. #Egypt #Mubarak #Jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:45 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


SohaibThiab: Breaking: Aljazeera - 40 police men arrested by the people and delivered to army last night stealing from the national museum #Egypt #Jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:44 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


rosasvensson: RT @GaeMar01: Hillary Clinton your family friend, Mubarak has the *army* out in #Egypt - a sure sign of a dictator. #Jan25 #Cairo #Suez
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:42 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


AlexanderChow: RT @octavianasr: RT @googlewaveyour An action unprecedented in Internet history: #Egypt Leaves the Internet: http://j.mp/hVvs6U #Jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:41 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


halmustafa: RT @MahmudShammam: مصادر امريكية: البيت الابيض قلق من الثمن الذي ستدفعه امريكا اذا استمرت في دعم مبارك #Egypt #Cairo #jan25 #jan28 #Mubarak
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:41 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


amayajjg: RT @Selnadeem: To unblock your internet access please type: 69.63.189.34 for Facebook 128.242.240.52 Twitter 72.14.204.99 Google #Egypt #Jan25 RT Plz
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:40 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


eugene_eliseev: #Egypt #jan25 уже более 50 убитых в столкновениях с армией
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:39 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


KwadwoOwusu: RT @jonjensen: Some tear gas fired in Egypt last night expired in 2008, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm. #Egypt #Mubarak #Jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:39 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


abdulazizmurad: الشعب يريد اسقاط النظام لا تراجع ولا استسلام #alarabiya #jan25 #egypt #cairo #Mubarak #elbaradei””
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:39 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


fabess77: @eljazeera #Jan25 #Egypt Thugs of the police were arrested by the army when ransacking the egyptian museum.
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:38 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


himi68: RT @blooperrboom: At least 53 dead in Egypt. انا لله و انا اليه راجعون. inshallah not in vain #Jan25 #Egypt #FuckMubarak
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


HortenseGeninet: RT @RawyaRageh: Situation quite critical in Suez and Sinai, renewed clashes #Egypt #Jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:37 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


AbduSays: RT @Haneen243: 30 killed between them 2 kids in yesterday's events in Cairo. #Jan25 #Egypt
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:36 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


adpucci: RT @johannhari101 Is there a more beautiful sight in the world than a dictator becoming terrified of his people? #jan25 #egypt @democracynow
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:35 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Linawaheeb: مراسل الجزيرة: القبض على عناصر وضباط شرطة يقومون بأعمال نهب وتسليمهم للجيش الذي تأكد من هويتهم #egypt #jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:31 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


jan25live: Egypt25Jan: A picture of angry protesters approaching military armored vehicles a few minutes ago http://goo.gl/Kfqfh #jan25 #egypt
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:30 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Umm_Issa: RT @AlhusseinA Aljazeera: 30 bodies in one hospital in #Cairo including 2 kids #jan25 #egypt
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:28 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


srichani: they will crush them brutally today and lift internet restrictions on US/Israeli orders. Go #egypt #jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


Wikileaksfan1: RT @Jan25voices: Quiet now in many areas, news circulating by phone that events may begin within 1 hour. #Jan25 #Jan28 #Egypt
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:27 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


NigeriaNewsDesk: Noble Prize Laureate ElBaradei: Mubarak must go, protest will intensify. #egypt #jan25
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:26 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


abanidrees: الجزيرة: الجيش يناشد المتظاهرين الابتعاد عن منطقة الاذاعة والتلفزيون #Egypt #Jan25 #25Jan #FreeEgypt #tahrir
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


bhaktiutama: RT @Jan25voices: Live Phonecall: army is present, massed in strategic areas like the Corniche. Waiting for 3pm. #Jan25 #Egypt #fb
sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2011 08:16:25 [Reply] [ReTweet] [Favorite]


kakapo: Egypt unrest day five has started. Bad omen for Mubarak. #jan25 #egypt

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Al-Jazeera is saying now that protesters is gathering in the city of Alexandria