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Egypt Spy Chief Omar Soliman Named Vice President
Some developing news out of Egypt, where president Mubarak has just appointed Omar Soliman as vice president. This is a notable event as it is the first time since 1981 that Egypt has a Vice President, indicating just how much of a pseudo-dictatorial system the Mubarak regime has been. We are rather confident that the people will not be all that excited about getting the former head of the country's intelligence (read spying) service as the second in command. And just like in Russia during the Yeltsin-Putin succession, we are confident that Mubarak will promptly fade from the scene as soon as Soliman gives him reps and warranties (preferably better than those by Bank of America) that he will not be prosecuted. Incidentally, the last time Egypt had a VP was when Anwar Al Sadat appointed Mubarak as VP. Al Sadat was assassinated shortly thereafter.
Below is Soliman's bio from Wikipedia (already updated for his promotion):
Early life and education
Suleiman was born in Qena in Southern Egypt. He left Qena for Cairo in 1954, at the age of nineteen, to enroll in Egypt's prestigious Military Academy. He received additional military training in the former Soviet Union at Moscow's Frunze Military Academy. Furthermore, he holds bachelors and master degrees in Political Science from Ain Shams and Cairo
Universities in the mid-1980s. Suleiman was transferred to military
intelligence, where he began what was to be a long relationship between Egypt and the United States.
Egyptian intelligence career
Suleiman became the director of military intelligence in 1991.
Chief of Intelligence Office
Suleiman became the chief of Egyptian Intelligence in 1993. His name
has become known only in the last years, breaking the tradition of
keeping the name of the Egyptian head of Intelligence a secret known
only to top government officials. It was released in the media around
2000. Suleiman has acquired a more public profile while trying to broker
a deal between the different armed Palestinian groups vying for power
in Gaza as the top presidential envoy from President Hosni Mubarak as well as brokering deals or truces between the Palestinians and Israel.
His perceived role in negotiations between Palestinian groups gave him
the image of an effective behind-the-scenes figure in the Egyptian
government as well as identifying him as potentially useful to foreign
governments such those of the Arab countries, Israel, the Palestinians and the United States.
Future political role
In recent years, due to his role in the regional political scene and the lack of an alternative candidate acceptable to Hosni Mubarak,
some have speculated that Suleiman will succeed Mubarak as President,
or at least become a Vice-President. Neither Suleiman nor the National
Democratic Party spoke of this or commented on any future political role
for Suleiman.
On January 29 2011, he was named vice-president during the January revolution.
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And it gets stranger and stranger.
Anyone imagine Chetroff or Gates as VP of the US of A?
Clearer than ever that this is according to a plan.
Can you imagine waving a redder flag to an already furious populace?
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/of-tipping-points-and-shape-shifting/
"Can you imagine waving a redder flag to an already furious populace?"
...Which is why Vancouver BC Canada is the World's Best Safe Haven...
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-vancouver-bc-is-worlds-safe-haven.html
well the first thing mister soleman will do is turn facebook back on so he can do some data mining.
+10 you got that right.
Here is a video of the Saudi Protest today !!
http://fedupmontrealer.blogspot.com/2011/01/jeddah-protest-jan-29-2011.html
Over/under on 5 days?
The line just changed to 3 days and is now circled.
Why who is out on injury ?
38 peasants.
Remember when placing ure bets...
good coaches win, great coaches cover.
There is truly no hope for the Middle East. These people are so completely inable to stop the blatant cronyism that it's laughable. Granted, it's pervasive in the West also...but, shit, at least we try to mask it somewhat. The Middle East is just pathetic. Even the terrorists are dunces (thankfully). Every single attempt to do anything of any level of sophistication results in a joke.
If the Middle East didn't have oil, it would be nothing more than a kitty litter box.
"These people are so completely inable to stop the blatant cronyism that it's laughable. Granted, it's pervasive in the West also...but, shit, at least we try to mask it somewhat. The Middle East is just pathetic."
We try to mask it? What kind of fantasy world do you fucking live in? Hating moron.
Oh, right, I must have missed all of the achievements and developments of the Middle East over the last 1,000 years. They have but one item, oil, which happens to have been found under their feet.
If you wish to take your info from Bagdad Bob(s), go right ahead.
They make really great rugs.
TPOG
To be fair, the hummus is decent also.
Not defending current middle east scientific-socio-economic contributions... but "1000 years" u say? Dude, u are misinformed. Keeping it short, read up on what returning europeans said following the crusades regarding the sophistication of mathematics and astronomy (which they regarded as blasphemy) in the middle east.
The Crusades were ~ 900 years ago. If you want to hang me for that, fine.
Not hanging u or junking u, just informing u. Crusades only the beginning... advancements that helped spark even the italian Renaissance are well documented. From architecture to gunpowder to rocketry to medicine to astrophysics the list goes on... in some cases all the way into the 17th century. Middle eastern contributions heavily influenced famous europeans and are referenced by them.
BTW, my point was about the governance in the Middle East including the religeous zealots. Of course, most people can't handle that and have to blurr it into a racial / ethnicity arguement.
I'm 110% in favor of the what the citizens of Tunisia and Egypt are doing.
That being said, the Middle East has been unbelievably suppressed by their own regimes for so long that it's difficult to change now. I don't see the point in arguing the value of ancient contributions.
Fair enough... just keep in mind most of these regimes are "western approved".. irony is that "freedom and democracy" is the last thing western powers want there for obvious reasons.. no matter what our "leaders" proclaim. One can reference post ww1 and ww2 to see who actually dictated the future and current middle eastern borders and regimes. All to chase that finite resource we call oil. Side note... as we condemn and are distracted by the internet and cell shutdown, our leaders await the passing of similar legislation and make similar preparations. Egyptian internet is run by british corp Vodafone... and the shut down would not be possible without this corporate help. All this could be a trial run testing citizen reaction who the fuck knows. Nothing surprises me anymore.
I guess you've never heard of mathematics or medicine...which would explain a great deal about your opinions about economics and healthcare.
Great advances in science, mathematics, and medicine have come from the Middle East in the last 1,000 years? Really? Which ones?
Do your own homework.
There's no need to 'do homework' on facts that don't exist.
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- 1000 – Abulcasis establishes surgery as a profession of in his Kitab al-Tasrif, which remains a standard textbook in Muslim and European universities until the 16th century. The book described the plaster cast,[3] inhalant anesthesia, and many surgical instruments.[4]
- 1021 – Alhazen completes his Book of Optics, which made important advances in ophthalmology and eye surgery, as it correctly explained the process of visual perception.[4]
- c. 1030 – Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, in which he establishes experimental medicine and evidence-based medicine. The Canon remains a standard textbook in Muslim and European universities until the 18th century. The book's contributions to medicine includes the introduction of clinical trials, the discovery of contagious diseases, the distinction of mediastinitisfrom pleurisy, the contagious nature of phthisis, the distribution of diseases by water and soil, and the first careful descriptions of skin troubles, sexually transmitted diseases, perversions, and nervous ailments,[5] as well the use of ice to treat fevers, and the separation of medicine from pharmacology.[4]
- 1100–1161 – Avenzoar carries out human dissections and postmortem autopsy, and proves that the skin disease scabies is caused by a parasite, which contradicted the erroneous theory of humorism.[6]He was also the first to provide a real scientific etiology for the inflammatory diseases of the ear, and the first to clearly discuss the causes of stridor.[7] Modern anesthesia was also developed in al-Andalus by the Muslim anesthesiologists Ibn Zuhr and Abulcasis. They utilized oral as well as inhalant anesthetics, and they performed hundreds of surgeries under inhalant anesthesia with the use ofnarcotic-soaked sponges which were placed over the face.[8]
- 1242 – Ibn an-Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation (the cycle involving the ventricles of the heart and the lungs) and coronary circulation,[9] for which he is considered the pioneer of circulation theory[10] and one of the greatest physiologists of the Middle Ages.[11] He emphasized the rigours of verification by measurement,observation and experiment, and was an early proponent of experimental medicine, postmortem autopsy, and human dissection.[12] He also discredited many other erroneous Avicennian and Galenicdoctrines on the four humours, pulse bones, muscles, intestines, sensory organs, bilious canals, esophagus, stomach, and the anatomy of other parts of the human body.[13] Ibn al-Nafis also drewdiagrams to illustrate different body parts in his new physiological system.[citation needed]
- c. 1248 – Ibn al-Baitar wrote on botany and pharmacy, studied animal anatomy and medicine, and was a pioneer of veterinary medicine.
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- 1000 — Al-Karaji writes a book containing the first known proofs by mathematical induction. He used it to prove the binomial theorem, Pascal's triangle, and the sum of integral cubes.[7] He was “the first who introduced the theory of algebraic calculus.”[8]
- c. 1000 — Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi studied a slight variant of Thabit ibn Qurra's theorem on amicable numbers, and he also made improvements on the decimal system.
- 1020 — Abul Wáfa — Gave this famous formula: sin (α + β) = sin α cos β + sin β cos α. Also discussed the quadrature of the parabola and the volume of the paraboloid.
- 1021 — Ibn al-Haytham formulated and solved “Alhazen's problem” geometrically.
- 1030 — Ali Ahmad Nasawi writes a treatise on the decimal and sexagesimal number systems. His arithmetic explains the division of fractions and the extraction of square and cubic roots (square root of 57,342; cubic root of 3, 652, 296) in an almost modern manner.[9]
- 1070 — Omar Khayyám begins to write Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra and classifies cubic equations.
- c. 1100 — Omar Khayyám “gave a complete classification of cubic equations with geometric solutions found by means of intersecting conic sections.” He became the first to find general geometricsolutions of cubic equations and laid the foundations for the development of analytic geometry and non-Euclidean geometry. He also extracted roots using the decimal system (Hindu-Arabic numeral system).
- 12th century — Indian numerals have been modified by Arab mathematicians to form the modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system (used universally in the modern world)
- 12th century — the Hindu-Arabic numeral system reaches Europe through the Arabs
- 12th century — Bhaskara Acharya writes the Lilavati, which covers the topics of definitions, arithmetical terms, interest computation, arithmetical and geometrical progressions, plane geometry, solid geometry, the shadow of the gnomon, methods to solve indeterminate equations, and combinations
- 12th century — Bhaskara Acharya writes the “Bijaganita” (“Algebra”), which is the first text to recognize that a positive number has two square roots
- 12th century — Bhaskara Acharya conceives differential calculus, and also develops Rolle's theorem, Pell's equation, a proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, proves that division by zero is infinity, computes π to 5 decimal places, and calculates the time taken for the earth to orbit the sun to 9 decimal places
- 1130 — Al-Samawal gave a definition of algebra: “[it is concerned] with operating on unknowns using all the arithmetical tools, in the same way as the arithmetician operates on the known.”[10]
- 1135 — Sharafeddin Tusi followed al-Khayyam's application of algebra to geometry, and wrote a treatise on cubic equations which “represents an essential contribution to another algebra which aimed to study curves by means of equations, thus inaugurating the beginning of algebraic geometry.”[10]
- 1260 — Al-Farisi gave a new proof of Thabit ibn Qurra's theorem, introducing important new ideas concerning factorization and combinatorial methods. He also gave the pair of amicable numbers 17296 and 18416 which have also been joint attributed to Fermat as well as Thabit ibn Qurra.[11]
- c. 1250 — Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi attempts to develop a form of non-Euclidean geometry.
- 1303 — Zhu Shijie publishes Precious Mirror of the Four Elements, which contains an ancient method of arranging binomial coefficients in a triangle.
- 14th century — Madhava is considered the father of mathematical analysis, who also worked on the power series for p and for sine and cosine functions, and along with other Kerala schoolmathematicians, founded the important concepts of Calculus
- c. 1400 — Ghiyath al-Kashi “contributed to the development of decimal fractions not only for approximating algebraic numbers, but also for real numbers such as π. His contribution to decimal fractions is so major that for many years he was considered as their inventor. Although not the first to do so, al-Kashi gave an algorithm for calculating nth roots which is a special case of the methods given many centuries later by Ruffini and Horner.” He is also the first to use the decimal point notation in arithmetic and Arabic numerals. His works include The Key of arithmetics, Discoveries in mathematics, The Decimal point, and The benefits of the zero. The contents of the Benefits of the Zero are an introduction followed by five essays: “On whole number arithmetic”, “On fractional arithmetic”, “On astrology”, “On areas”, and “On finding the unknowns [unknown variables]”. He also wrote the Thesis on the sine and the chord and Thesis on finding the first degree sine.
- 15th century — Ibn al-Banna and al-Qalasadi introduced symbolic notation for algebra and for mathematics in general.[10]
- 1424 — Ghiyath al-Kashi computes π to sixteen decimal places using inscribed and circumscribed polygons.
- 1427 — Al-Kashi completes The Key to Arithmetic containing work of great depth on decimal fractions. It applies arithmetical and algebraic methods to the solution of various problems, including several geometric ones.
+ 3600
Game over.
Are you fucking serious? You provide a wiki dump and proclaim victory?
Yes, my "ignorant ass" is saying that you are wrong. I can find 100 accomplishments from the hills of West Virginia but that doesn't mean that they aren't backwards.
Fucking ass, you are steaming pile of stupidity. But, at least you've managed to garner the respect of two other stooges. Congratulations, I'm sure you ladies can sit around and discuss the power and savvy of the Middle East all weekend.
All developments from the ME within the last 1000 years. Cry all you want, loser, but that won't change the fact that these people were doing surgery and calculus while your ancestors were giving each other the plague and burning "witches".
It's more than a little ironic that your empire will fall for the same reasons theirs did.
AHHH....now it comes out.
LMAO, hey pal, if it makes you feel better on the inside and you can somehow justify just how FUCKED UP the Middle East is, that's fine with me. Trying to data mine accomplishments that are several centuries old and cling to them is well...
I'm not 'clinging' to anything...just refuting your ignorant statements (and easily too).
No, no, no...clinging...you? Never.
Out of any statements beyond sarcastic bullshit? You? Never!
Oh big deal. In the west. IBM invented the mechanical tabulator. Sold it to every government. This technology allowed social security which gave us the most massive rippoff ponzi the world has ever seen. We are much more creative. As long as the creativity is centered around creating counterfeit money.
Read God's Crucible by David Lewis. It talks about the reconquest of Spain. Indeed it is at the back end of your "thousand years" comment but you clearly demonstrate your ignorance of the importance of islamic culture in regards to the tenological development of Europe and the world. The same can be said for European understanding of Chinese contribution. 1421 and 1434 by Gavin Menzies are good introductions.
Interestingly Ghengis Khan is believed to be, by many historians, the prime cause of decline of Muslim civilization.
anything left in the library of alexandria?
Not in the last 1,000 years. They burnt it down....you know, to prove to themselves that they themselves are the most bestest.
damn, you're on a roll tonight.
There's nothing 'ignorant' about my comment. The Middle East has been ridiculous failure for a millenium. Now, if we want to go back to the birth of Jesus Christ...and when man wasn't walking upright and dragging around clubs...
I'd love to know more about the "importance of islamic culture in regards to the technological develepment of Europe and the world".
If you want to buy the world a coke, fine with me. But, that doesn't make it true. It just makes it feel better.
You seem happy with your head in the sand. We sincerely hope that running around with your eyes jammed shut makes you "feel better".
<rolling eyes>
<laughing and shaking head>
Be careful, don't shake off that diaper on your head.
I honestly feel sorry for you. I have no idea what it must be like to go through life so fucking dumb.
Shut the fuck up and get your shine box.
And leave you unemployed? You're too old to start sucking dick for fiat again.
Great advances like what? The Space program fiasco? You know, the program that should provide us with a new frontier to pionneer so we can maintain the US expansionist model, delivering a new space to increase the inputs to the economy.
Result: it has increased the outputs of Earth economy toward the Space.
Giant leap toward, toward, well, toward depletion of resources.
You can't be fucking serious.
does a pimp need to work?? pimp got bitches.. ragheads got oil.. so get back working for that oil and making medicine for fake problems and filming mall rats for entertainment
Gator ain't no pimp.
Wow! Head spy being made VP.
The only thing worse would be making the head of the CIA President
...oh wait.
The equivilent would be the NSA not CIA. The CIA are a bunch of pencil, pushing pansies...at least the ones in Langley. I mean now, George H. Bush was apparently a pretty tough dude.
Uh...Putin.
http://first-news.blogspot.com/2011/01/thousands-protest-in-jordan-for-better.html
"...and the government curb rising prices, inflation, and unemployment"
As our 24 hour mainstream continues to sell these stories as moves toward "democracy and freedom"
Have you noticed that many of the "experts" framing this crisis on AJ and CNN are from Brookings
http://www.brookings.edu/
Interesting point. I haven't watched CNN, but AJ's coverage is pretty good - this could really put AJ on the collective conscience here in the Western world. Anyway, I briefly switched to BBC News, but it was (predictably) peppered with the usual propagandist images reminding us good sheeple how we should interpret the situation.
Take a look at flag these people are waving...Isalmists, communists and baathists.
The irony of the "people's revolt" is that rather than a dictator in the form of a Western puppet, they will end up with the Islamic Republic of Egypt where people are stoned to death for minor infractions and the despot Islamic ruler outlaws Christianity and incites the public to attack Israel. Careful what you ask for--the Shiites are slowly taking over the middle east. That's what "democracy" will bring.
Saddly, that's exactly what will happen. The result will be the same in Tunisia.
In anti-Semitic Apartheid Israel, people are tortured and murdered for being born on land stolen by a bunch of genocidal ethnic cleansers.
And you're an apologist. And so really, how much credibility to do have?
There are almost no Shi'ites in Egypt.
wow Beatscape i think you are the only one who realy knows what is going on, yes Iran taking over
It is important to understand that there are political and religious connections that intersect. I think that the term Islamist is perhaps a better term as it captures the political wing of Islam crossing over the religious distinctions of Sunni and Shia to create a common bond. Case in point is the affiliation of Hamas (Sunni) with Iran (Shia).
The group you want to pay attention to in all of this is the Muslim Brotherhood, which is an Islamist organiztion who in my view will attempt to capitalize on the crisis in Egypt. Watch Jordan where MB is strong.
Their options are indeed extremely limited. All those people wish for a government that supports their interests. The Western world can only endure a government that is pro Western interests.
As the West can not suffer divergence of interests, egyptian options are reduced to anti western options. Very hard for them to come out with something else. Even if they try the democratic path, their government wont be labelled democratic by the democratic countries gang. Because it would hurt western world's interests.
Well known process of radicalization.
Your comment bears repeating:
Their options are indeed extremely limited. All those people wish for a government that supports their interests. The Western world can only endure a government that is pro Western interests.
As the West can not suffer divergence of interests, egyptian options are reduced to anti western options. Very hard for them to come out with something else. Even if they try the democratic path, their government wont be labelled democratic by the democratic countries gang. Because it would hurt western world's interests.
Well known process of radicalization.
EURUSD
Flight to "safety"?
http://99ercharts.blogspot.com/2011/01/eurusd_29.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/99er-charts-0
Seems much more likely the military would follow his orders to turn on the people of Egypt.
This must have been our idea. After all it's exactly what both our neo-libs and neo0cons would want.
this is Mubarak's sputnik moment...he is TBTF, and if he is allowed to fail it will start the dominoes in the ME. Everyone will say the Emperor has no clothes.
The failure of TBTF in the political arena will be followed by Too Big and Insolvent to fall in the financial arena...you know Vikram Pandit, Johny Mack (the multitasker) and the rest of the crew...thats why it is a sputnik moment
-keepthefaith:-)
The key event in the rioting was the unwillingness of the military and police to act against their own citizenry. The people have a window to force the change and take it down. Will they actually go through with it or stop far short? Probably the latter, unfortunately.
at some point things get out of control and we might have already passed that point...what is happening all over ME seems to support it...soon it will be the rest in asia (pakistan, kashmir etc.)
I wasn't alive at the time, but all of this reminds me a bit of:
On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4th, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
Echoes of Tiananmen Square also...
Jeltsin Putin analogy is good, but not quite, I think this will not stand, since during Jeltsin there was democracy fatique already in Russia, wish for stronger hand , while in Egypt people want democracy, and they will not stop until they get it, and then learn by themselves its pluses and minuses.
It will get worse now, in terms of confrontation.
The dictator appoints the "spy chief" to be his successor.......that is just precious.
Ahmed Shafiq named Prime Minister
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/29/live-blog-291-egypt-pr...
Mubarak appoints vice-president the head spy and foreign negotiator (the guy that basically knows all the secret negotiations with the US, Israel, Saudi-Arabia, etc.). Mubarak steps down. Suleiman is interim president until next election, giving enough time to TPTB to chose the next puppet. All is good. Carry on.
this is an old playbook: if protestests cannot be squashed, Mubarak will be "retiring" soon and Suliman will take over as "interim" until he gets officially "elected."
in exchange, Mubarak @ family will get free passes out of the countrt with most of the loot, and will get lifetime "immunity" from domestic prosecution. off all possible candidates, Suliman is the only one who can guarantee that. and since Suliman's people have been accused of numerous torture and human rights violations, the Islamic Brotherhood would execute him long before Mubarak! so, he's got as much if not more to lose than Mubarak himself. Suliman will hold the power, and Mubarak will sail into sunset in a SuezMax boat filled with GOLD!!!!
Suliman has been helping Mubarak and Apartheid Israel murder Palestinians for many, many years.
No way he makes it through this.
ppppppppppplease... democracy on MIddle east.. LOL
#wish for stronger hand , while in Egypt people want democracy
you're an American right.. not much knowing about world like Bush Jr..
can you name one country in whole region Afrika/MiddleEast/Asia where democracy exist?
democracy is product of Europe/Saxon/Protestan upbringing... its like black/brown skin ( no offence)
there's no even proper democracy in some south europe countries like Spain/Greece/etc.. they are not cut out for..
read wiki about Franko/spain, black colonels of Greece and etc..
democracy in Egypt... :)))))))) what next space ship and flying to Mars..
alx
How many billions of people have died on the basis of your fake, stupid 'democracy'?
Calling the dictatorial rule by Capital 'democracy' is a delusion of epic proportions.
The D word sounds like germanic words. Excellent.
I'm surprised a general hasn't gone rogue and taken out this trash yet.
Nasser redux.
Apartheid Israel would probably nuke the world if something like that happened!
This is Iranian kind of revolution not Tunisian, Tunisia is secular country with secular education, the Muslim brotherhood are weak in Tunisia. In Egypt the Muslim brotherhood are the most powerful opposition they have the support of the majority of the Muslims Egyptians, they have schools, they have hospitals, all fund it by Iran and Arab extremist prince, Hazballah have a strong presence in Egypt, what I m saying is that Egypt is going to the extreme right after this revolution and we might have a civil war between Muslims majorities and other minorities like the Copts.
It took the Brotherhood about 3 days to get their ass on the streets. They needed the go-ahead from their Western masters before doing so.
Barry and the boys on Uncle Sam's plantation are BEGGING for the Brotherhood today.
That's an interesting perspective. Whose interests are being served? Real reform is unlikely. What's more likely is a new regime that can pacify the populace for the foreseeable short-and-medium term. Just so the Suez Canal stays open until the Saudi oil fields are depleted. Then who cares, might go the thinking.
Oh, I think 'real' reform is very likely. Maybe not as much as we as individuals would like, but it will happen.
For one, it's going to be hard for any thug or figurehead to be the slave to Uncle Sam and Apartheid Israel with the masses of people, for whom those two bands of gangsters to register a lot of popularity.
are you real, the muslims brotherhood is the sunit version of the Ayotallh, you have to leave in this countrys to understand what is going on,
The NED has bankrolled the Brotherhood for decades.
Saudi Stock Market Down 6.4%
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/saudi-stock-market-drops-65percent-eg...
If you can read the screen caption from Al-Arabiya reporter on the ground and it says:
" People in Suez welcome the appointment of Suleiman as VP"
He is a popular person and non-politician.
The Arab World's Berlin Moment
Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations at the London School of Economics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/29/egypt-protests-government-li...
lets buy some dips in some freakin tradeable item boys..lets make money out of the misery of these people.....and also the people suffering from earthquakes...
show me some charts...what do i need to buy?
/s
yer on the wrong site..........need to phone LLLLoyd or jamie
They're trying the Nixon/Ford maneuver so that Mubarek can step down to deflect the anger of the people and Soliman, the hand picked successor, would pardon Mubarek from any prosecution.
Good observation. Basically, to run an Arab state you need a fascist strongman like Saddam to scare the crap out of everyone. Nobody in egypt scares the revolution...maybe this creep.
If these people want to win, and time is running out before the system comes in and helps these Nazis, they had better ramp up the damage to the police really fast. If they put the police chiefs head on a stick, that would do it.
Because if they lose, like Iran, this guy will hunt everyone down and kill them.
Though, there is no real alternative except a military coup.
What a mess...again.
There's obviously been some serious bartering between the two ratbag bastards.
Funny how Elbaradei is the only guy spoken about on Al-Jazeera, the only guy given a voice in this mess. IMF Plant.
There is ZERO coverage of any political party active in Egypt.
Where's New Wafd? What is Wafd? Silence.
Oh. Of course the Brotherhood is everywhere, especially in the military. Think of it as a guild and not a political party. Theirs is 80 year goal is semi-state Sharia. Sharia and high tech. Oops.
Elbaradei has no credibility on the street in Cairo. The West is unable to even reference active political parties in Egypt - 2 dozen. Face it the same dynamics in Pakistan are at work in Egypt and beyond, with no organized political force to fill the vacuum - except Hizballah - and they're supported by Persians and Baathists.
Obama can't even say "democracy" in a speech let alone a high road declaration that Mubarak should resign. Meanwhile, the protesters are picking up US made tear gas canisters from the riots. That won't be forgotten. The US already has 3 (30) strikes against them.
Regardless of what happens, it is clear a new generation of active open Muslim Brotherhood inside the military will acquire new dominance in Egyptian society, whether its to keep Mubarak in power a year more, or to keep the trains running on time in the power vacuum.
Any nationalistic party/coalition going forward can only establish credibility by exchanging any Western military/financial aid with China. China would even just give Egypt $10 billion cash to say sorry for the last 30 years. Who would turn that down? China wants a industrialized beach head in Africa, whom they consider to be "China's garden." Suez is the icing on the cake. Relieving the US of the burden of giving military aid, then necessitates re-examining all aspects of the Camp David Accords.
WHEN Egypt opens the Gaza Ghetto border and establish a normal and regular trade outlet in Al-Arish, that will begin the bigger issue of the international legitimacy of the Palestinian - Israeli conflict. Whether its next week, October or 2012, will that happen with Jordan, Yeman and Syria (who else?) also as chaotic states? That should really give pause to the magnitude of change over the horizon.
Considering that Wikileaks is leaking (psyop?) that; " the US is secretly supporting Mubarak's overthrow with unknown/secret persons' and things are headed for this Abyss, Washington may indeed be added to Israel's "zero-azmith" nuke strike defense strategy just for spite.
The Brotherhood takes their marching orders from the West. Always have.
That's why they sat this week out for the most part.
Now they're trying to catch up to the revolution.
No doubt the Muslim Brotherhood has been infiltrated by Israel, Britain and the the US for decades, but like Pakistan, look at the regional concessions that are doled out - say the ISI/Taliban relationship just to juice up their power.
Not everyone in the officer corp is touched and as the West fumbles more and more with its financial problems, so too will Islam's prophecy of "western" decline come true. IF, there is a lifting of the emergency decrees in Egypt and the MB is no longer banned, the formation of an open MB party could be the tail waging the dog. Any ME operator knows the passive political culture of Egyptians - they are considered the pollacks of the ME - (sorry to anyone from Poland - its not true - its just a historical allegory - who doesn't love smiling busty Polish women).
The army attacks on orders. Right now they have no orders - just sit around.
Chances are Soliman will decapitate Mubarak as stated above and give the US time to find a way out. Regrettably, team obama just doesn't have the depth of field to get the job done. Everyone knows that - including the MB. This is what the end of an empire looks like.
worth reading but consider the source
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0602_egypt_elections_hamid.aspx
This is the main issue. There are no viable "Third" party or opposition to choose from other than the Muslim Brotherhood, which are banned, so people have no choice other than mubarak party or the islamists. There are smaller movements that popped up in the last few years but those are very small and not well organized.
There are at least three opposition party people that Mubarak put in prison that could potentially form a coalition government. Now, is the MB lying in the weeds waiting, yes. Might they play a role in a new government? very possible. The problem here is that things are so chaotic, it is impossible to project what form a settlement might take. I would also not rule out army rule, that would probably be acceptable to the Egyptian people as well as the US and Israel.
The US is losing face big time. The beacon of the free world reduced to underline the stability brought by dictatorship. What a funny moment.
It must be noticed these guys are already campaigning.
Obama has taken the US interests side. Normal as the POTUS. Clinton plays the card of democratic reforms to preserve the democrats'chances at the incoming elections. The party has played both side; the party is saved.
from CNN's blog:
[Update 6:19 p.m. Cairo, 11:19 a.m. ET] Egyptian Army Chief of Staff Sami Annan was huddling Saturday with five of his deputies after returning to Egypt from Washington, a senior Egyptian military official told CNN. Annan and other top officials were attending high-level talks with Pentagon officials when this week's unrest broke out and those meetings were cut short Friday for the Egyptians to return to Cairo.
ain't she sweet
I have been wondering why we have not seen any burning of Barack Obama or George bush effigies, and not one American flag burning in any of the coverage to date.
Is this uprising organic? Will it remain that way if it is organic?
Where is Robert Gates on all this, Is this crisis a result of Roberts "Crisis on my doorstep" speech in Canada?
I can hear Robert right now saying "now you see why I can't have my budget cut, see what happens, give me money and lot's of it."
Maybe they are too short on money to afford such luxuries.
Afghanistan Silk Road Strategy
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&&sa=X&ei=cVdETbWKPIH-8Abd1ZylAg&sqi=2&ved=0CBcQvwUoAQ&q=Afghanistan+Silk+Road+Strategy&spell=1&fp=5756d0219d9b95ee
Are Rare Earth Elements Actually Rare?Egypt Mineral Map
http://www.mapsofworld.com/egypt/egypt-mineral-map.html
I'll meet you by the third pyramid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymmqisvThhk
Mask It ???????
Goldman Sachs: Lloyd Blankfein’s Big PaydayJanuary 29, 2011 at 8:01 am
It does not seem to matter that the government and much of the public are outraged over Wall St pay. It also does not seem to matter that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) ran afoul of the SEC or that the bank had only modest profits this year.
CEO Lloyd Blankfein and a number of his seconds-in-command received huge raises. Blankfein, Goldman’s CEO and chairman, received a raise. His base salary will be $2 million.
Blankfein was also granted 78,111 in restricted shares.
All together that adds to about $13 million, not much for Blankfein based on his past compensation
Goldman Sachs: Lloyd Blankfein’s Big Payday - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/2011/01/29/goldman-sachs-lloyd-blankfeins-big-payday/#ixzz1CXqisizD