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Mubarak, Suleiman Step Down
Update: ElBaradei has said he won't run for president. In the meantime, the Egyptian military has announced it will sack the cabinet.
Omar Suleiman has just announced that Mubarak has stepped down. And with Al Arabiya reporting that Omar Suleiman has also stepped down, this means that the military is now in charge. The countdown to peaceful revolutions all across the Muslim crescent is now on.
Watch the jubilation at Al Jazeera
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Yep. Looks like bad apple week next week.
And now for morons cheering and celebrating, while totally forgetting that both Mubarak and Suleiman were Army Generals, and that this regime survives if the protestors go home.
To be honest I think the morons cheering and celebrating will include the Egyptians, who will be back doing the same thing against a new General in a decade, while idiotically loving the Army who are their true oppressors. It is almost like Egyptian people don't know the background of their own rulers and the origins of their own regime very well.
I agree. The work is just starting. I hope they understand this. There is a nest of vipers in there and all of them have to be removed or killed. That is the way it is. The work is not over. It has only begun. Not to mention all of the money that old bastard stole while was there. That money must be found and retured to the Egyptian people. Look at me. Here I am , an American trying to tell them what to do and nobody here seems to give one good damn about what is going on here. We are in worse shape than Egypt ever was. and yet we do nothing.
agree, the Egyptian people have bigger balls than the rest of us and until facebook is shut down or we run out of ipads, I don't see any revolution starting here in the U.S. which is where we need it most. I give the Egyptians accolades for taking the first step!
almost everyone seems to have more democratic courage than us. The fat lazy empire. We are our own worst enemy. A little more hunger will help
I think we should organize the first ever zerohedge 400,000 man and woman march on the white house. we can put harry and gold middle finger in front in case they start shooting rubber bullets.
For the Egyptian People- Here's hoping the demonstrations don't end up being a parade of "useful idiots".
And I agree completely, by quoting Winnie, " this is not the end, nor the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
They're not morons, and they're not cheering because their work is done. They're cheering - quite logically - because they've achieved a major strategic objective.
If you fail to see that after 18 days they've achieved something that 19 days ago seemed impossible, you're not paying attention. To suggest that they should be fucking morose is preposterous.
The true oppressor of the Egyptians, for more than a century, is White Capital. Getting rid of (Mu)Barak is a step in the direction of getting the boot of White Capital off the throats of the oppressed REVOLUTIONARY masses in Egypt.
I didn't say they should be morose.
The sympathy and happiness they showed when the army entered Cairo indicated that they didn't know what the Army represents. Mubarak is/was nothing but a front man, the Army is the regime. If they go home now these last weeks will have been all for nothing, they will get a new pro-West military General who will be nice and promise Obama-esque change, and then it will be business as usual.
Regardless of Mubarak stepping down they need to storm the presidential palaces and go after the military top brass.
Re: Someone mentioning the U.S. Well it is the same here in Britain, the regime that is in charge simply stages mock up elections every 4 years and places a new puppet into 10 Downing Street. Usually an Oxford/Cambridge career bureaucrat and establishment lackey, as Cameron is and Blair was, someone young, ambitious and easily controlled.
You called them morons for celebrating upon receiving news of their colossal achievement.
You don't know what's going to happen, and this situation isn't over despite your assertion to the contrary.
The REVOLUTION welcomed the military because they saw the conscript army as a mirror image of Egyptian society. In other words, they're smart enough to separate from the officer corps from the poor, oppressed conscript soldiers.
Was this a mistake? I don't think so. You don't have a successful revolution without turning the grunts to your side. It's good politics.
So far,
Egypt has had a military coup,
albeit with popular support.
Any "Revolution" is yet to occur.
(Unfortunately, too many soap ads and other commercials have debased the term "revolution")
"The REVOLUTION welcomed the military because they saw the conscript army as a mirror image of Egyptian society. In other words, they're smart enough to separate from the officer corps from the poor, oppressed conscript soldiers."
This is a key observation. And as long as the soldiers see that same thing all will be well.
100% agree with 953076 comment
Mubarak began accumulating his $70 billion with military contracts.
The other top brass have a similar financial stake in the corrupt military dictatorship (similar to Pakistan's military).
Egypt needs more than a facelift.
How did Mubarak skim off a $70 billion stash?
For example:
BP (of Gulf "spill" fame and Mubarak make multi-billion dollar deals
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/02/bp-worked-hand-in-glove-with-mubarak.htmlEgypt spends billions for US jets while most Egyptians live on $2 per day
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Egypt-to-Spend-32B-in-Updating-F-16CD-Fleet-05860/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=did&utm_medium=textlink&utm_term=Egypt%20to%20Spend%20up%20to%20$3.2B%20Adding%20to%20F-16C/D%20FleetThe same players who profit from financial scams and MIC profiteering at home, also profit abroad, and set both domestic and foreign US policies.
Siding with “the people” conflicts with the goals of securing resources, controlling markets, manipulating finances, and establishing bases for military dominance.
good stuff, highlighting once again that the "us vs. them" meme should be correctly identified as hierarchical, not lateral - the Military Industry of all captured nationstates is not on the side of the people they oppress - this is a global problem, but the bulk of the oppression originates with the US.
downer...
The true oppressor of the Egyptions is their religion. Just like the almighty Catholic Church of the Middle ages, Mo espouses the wonderful afterlife when you kill infidels (not coincidentally Mo's enemies).
Your "many virgins and sumptious feasts" happen when you die; but you must live like a dog in the here and now.
I junked you. You added nothing to this conversation except what you've see on TV. Not all that associate with the Catholic Church are how you perceive them. And not all Arabs are savages.
Confused
1. Thanks for the junk- it is an honor
2. I watch as little TV as possible. I quit eating pablum many, many years ago.
3. Whether you agree with me or not, I believe Islam parrallels the Catholic Church of old. People in Power, under the cover of "almighty" God/Allah, enlist the weak to do dirty deeds against their fellow man.
And yes, I am an unbeliever, an infidel, if you wish. I quit believing in childish suppositions long ago.
all sky-father-god religions promise a version of "heaven" as better than the hard scrabble of earthly existence - it's the grand way of getting people to work NOW for rewards when they're dead.
it's that whole "mother nature" is to be defiled because "she" is an evil seductress - witness the current US game to "control the weather by 2025" - it's just more desire to "own" & dominate, squeeze the life out of everything, death is always the goal when the "hereafter" is a promise of "better". . .
sick that people cannot see through this by now.
Cathartes Aura
I "junked" you. You must NOT offer up competing ideas. Someone will put a "hex" on you.
Kayman
I'm not afraid of the Malleus Maleficarum boys, not now nor ever.
truth trumps beliefs, every time.
It reminds me of the joy and jubilation when the Berlin Wall went down. That was quite a party.
MUBARAK RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT! http://www.entendance.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=762&p=15399#p15399
LOOK AT this......i wonder who owns the shared that we trade here in INDIA::
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/408/276/The_Illuminatis_Secret_20_Trillio...
So Mubarak takes his $50B and walks into the sunset. The problem is now a new leader needs to rape and pillage his billions from Egypt. "Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss." It's someone else's turn to wet his beak at the expense of the peeps. Just hope its not the Brotherhood...
You don't have a clue who the new boss will be. And you'll have nothing to do with the process of deciding, unlike the REVOLUTION.
So perhaps you should stop talking shit.
House of Saud is next to fall... so get ready America, to ride your bikes to work! Oil and gas prices to the moon. The towel heads will beat us at the oil pump.
we have a nest of vipers in washington dc, that should be removed and made to walk to the gallows and hung by the neck until dead. maybe what is happening there, will spread here.
I respectfully disagree with your last sentence. Still too many people here with too much to lose, and most of the rest have become too comfortable sucking from the government teet. Both groups despise each other, but neither dares risk losing what they have in order to invoke change.
It will only happen if enough people fall from group 1 to group 2 (and don't care for the milk). This has been happening, just not in the required numbers.
yeh I know. katy bar the door if those government checks ever stop coming. cheapy bought and cheapy sold.
Despite that, even the Eqyptians didn't rise up until they were hungry.
1956 Raliegh Sport Touring. 3-speed semi-automatic. 12 miles each way, 5 days a week. BMW garaged 6 years ago. Bring it on Saud!
India & Brazil off to the races.....
I am a dumbshit, does doubling down on EEV count as buying the dips?
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- US restaurant stocks surged to new highs Friday after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, and the military awarded contracts to both Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread to build 400 new restaurants each throughout Egypt. Chipotle soared to $270 on over 5 million shares traded, a record for that stock. Discussions were also underway with Wynn's to build new casinos in Cairo, according to sources familiar with the new regime...
Stop spamming your food chart on every thread. No one cares.
I'm not American, but would you do something similar to get rid of the Fed? In the US anything is possible, well is it?
Well since 95% of amerikans do not know that the FED is a private cartel, and 3/4ths of the other 5% make so much money off the FED that they need it, no.
The FED will fall when it is time. And just before that, there will be a "popular" uprising against it. In short, the FED will fall just after an even more sinister system is is rolled out to replace it.
pods
agreed - the Fed will "fail" when chaos and fear is necessary to roll out uber-control of the populace, and usher in a new form of "currency" - to whoever survives. . .
Nice pop in egpt for the well connected who had early knowledge..
Well looks like many forget ITS THE MILITARY taking over!!! Wait and see Folks!
Egyptian military good,they love and support the people, Burmese military bad, they hate and oppress the people.
This is well choreographed. Kudos to Obama or whomever his strategists were...
Agreed. We'll see if what comes next is as nicely done. This series of events has triggered a REVOLUTION that's outside of their control.
It gets tougher by the day to pull off a successful revolution, in 1776 the public had weaponry similiar to the military. Currently our best defense is numbers, cameras and the internet.
Agree with everything. Though the weapons to which you refer are quite powerful.
Kudos to Obama? Hey dude, wake the fuck up or shut the fuck up. Seriously.
Egyptians more free than the US people. But things are great in iphone app land. Press. send. beep..
How do you say "uhhh now what" in Arabic?
Insh'Allah
You secure that shit, Hudson! We only talk 'merican round these parts.
Hey, man, it's just another day in the Corps.
I'm only trying to pass on a little wisdom here...
More important news than Egypt is Weber who has stepped down.
http://dawnwires.com/investment-news/axel-weber-has-stepped-down-from-ge...
Who will be his successor
+1
Talking about refusing to fail upwards... The man resigned from head of Bundesbank in order to avoid a job as head of ECB. Where is the play on this? ;-)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/11/ecb-weber-meeting-idUSBAT00599020110211
Imagine if The Benanke would resign? Timmy is drooling for that job... Weber has a backbone, after all.
Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich is throwing the book at dozens of people arrested during recent political demonstrations — a major shift in city policy that has him pressing for jail time in types of cases that previous prosecutors had treated as infractions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protester-prosecution-20110211,0...
Can we start a revolution here next?
prosecuted for a decade in a major city. We never did this. Only if they committed an additional crime.
Hurrah to Freedom. So the Egyptians finally told the puppets to FO. Makes one think that the true leaders of change in the world today are the citizens of Egypt. The real land of the free and home of the brave.
Surprisingly, stocks are up on the news although they never went down on the Eypt revolution to begin with. Stocks had one down day two weeks ago and immediately traded back up and are sitting at multi-year highs. So I have no idea why this has any impact on stocks.
For better or worse...the power of the people has spoken. It is nice to know that if enough people can come together, change CAN happen.
This CIA engineered "revolution" has outraged the house of Saud. They won't sit back waiting for the same thing to happen to them. You can be sure they will tighten the oil supply. Oil will go vertical any day now. The house of Saud is about to bounce off the revolution right back at ya.
It will be the Samson option, Saudi version.
And ....nothing will change in Egypt. The poor will remain poor.
They'll have a new pharaoh, a UN/CIA/Google puppet pharaoh: ElBaradei.
Says you. Then again, you're just some lame White guy without a clue about how REVOLUTIONS work.
"some lame White guy"
Racist much?
Just calling a spade a spade, my man. Whitey the Clown is gonna talk shit about something he's got no idea about from the security of his sterile little sanctuary, he gets called.
How very wrong you are. About me, about "revolutions".
Go on and celebrate, while the power elite laugh at the naivete of those now declaring victory.
The option of forceful removal of Mubarak would have been orders of magnitude costlier. In the end the google geek squad offered the power elite another option. Had this failed, the aircraft carriers were already in position to carry out the mission in a more traditional manner.
Out of the power triad -violence/wealth/knowledge- it is knowledge (information/dissinformation) which is most effective. The days of big armies is coming to an end.
Why send marines when you can fool the sheeple into doing the same job for you?
Agreed, we have the schools, media and government agencies all feeding poison to the public.
Thomas Jefferson: Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
All in the past tense. As though it's over. That's wishful thinking.
As if the REVOLUTIONAIRIES themselves, the millions and millions of Egyptians who have taken to the street in protests and strikes and anti-government actions will simply melt away like nothing ever happened.
I'm not denying for one second that a segment of White Capital wanted the octogenarian (Mu)Barak out.
But the REVOLUTION has its own agency and its own dynamism now. It's outside the control of the .02% of Egyptian society Tweeting for the NED.
Asserting that they will simply melt away or go back to sleep isn't realistic. Nor is it realistic to expect the REVOLUTIONARIES to maintain their hold on Tahrir Square for the indefinite future.
But revolutions are dynamic, and the people are awake. It won't take much for them to be out in force again.
Maybe you should consider a moniker change, say downwithwhitey.
hard to argue with the facts - the majority of the financial class/banking cartel are in fact white males, though "nationality" may vary - still, so do the imaginary lines that make "nations" - also subject to the players of the great game of capture the territory, own the peoples.
very interesting that the populations are growing fast in non-white nations, who also are fond of aborting the females, thus skewing their population towards. . . conscripts?
Then perhaps other races should take pride that they aren't screwing up the world's finances.
First the "Revolution". Then consolidation of power, ferreting out the ring leaders, and a bullet to the back of the head for any potential competition.
Seems "useful idiot" escaped you when Vladimir was being wisked through Germany to his Kaiser-engineered triumph.
Whitey.
How could anybody argue with this?
Some day people are going to outgrow the organized crime idea called the "state" and choose voluntary cooperation instead of a monopoly on "legal" force.
"The myth of the rule of Law":
http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
PM is going to go through the roof!! Revolution is by nature very contagious!! Next on the line will be countries with high young unemploy adults, poor living standard and repressive regime. Wow!! It's almost all of middle east!!
I recently heard a Ravi Zacharias talk where he mentioned a couple stats that struck me as crazy. Something to the effect that 60% of the world's population is under 24 years old. Chicago's avg age is 28-30 compared to Mexico City's avg age of 14 and a half.
sounds like the iou US of A to me
Expect congress to pass an immediate and unanimous resolution to ship $ 1.5 billion worth of iPads to the Egyptian masses . . . just a little distraction so the DOD can go about doing their thang.
Good plan TF! Then millions of Egyptians will ignite tweeter, facebook, social media, apple revolution in Iran! $1.5 Billion for succesful revolution? That's pennies!
Egyptians may have just demonstrated the revolutionary new 18 day national budget cut.
It took Mumar some time to get his 2 billion together before he left.
Obama has kept silent..this is a good thing. Saudi's told him to shad-up.
...like Stephen Hawking during a power-cut.
+1
Will the cowards of the world finally stand up?
ONLY QUESTION LAST WHEN MY FELLOW AMERICANS WAKE UP.. LAND OF LINCOLN AND JEFERSSON..
WHEN MORONS LIKE BECKS/PALIN STOP PRETEND THAT THEY REPRESENT AMERICANS...
WAKE BROTHERS AND SISTERS..
ALX
Exodus- the entire planet needs to rise up against the fascist 1% ruling elite. Can't wait until this hits wall street. And the Bankers and slave masters are dragged out into the streets - French Revolution.
In other words fuck Israel. The entire world is in bondage because of them.
.0001% ruling elite.
Then who will lead? Why should they lead?
The American empire is dissolving right before our eyes, and the catalyst has been nothing other than the wars fought for Israel. The wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq would never have been were it not the massive zionist infiltration in key positions of the executive and judiciary, the widespread bribery and extortion racket run by AIPAC in Congress, and the MSM zionist bullshit factory.
AS the US sinks, the former WASP establishment must be now having deep regrets for having sold their nice world empire for 30 Shekels.
If you let the tapeworm reach your brain, it is already too late.
+1
SPOT ON !!!!
The UN lays in waiting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917
it's good to be aware of the great game played out over generations, held in place by banking elites manipulating populations who "believe" they're nationals of a "state" created just for them. . . when in fact, they are completely expendable when the time comes.
good posts Shylockcracy.
Cleopatra orgasms!
Now, Obama should make a speech to Egyptian people and tell them that now when they're on their "own", they need to be responsible, that building stable democracy takes time ... at least 20 years (Poland case study),that responsibility comes with voting too, etc etc etc, and lastly, that they should go back to work tomorrow, because European tourists are waiting to spend good time as well lots Euros in the land of Amon Ra!
The problem is, the "man on the street" in the US (and Europe!) increasingly speaks Spanish or Arabic or Chinese, subscribes to "Hate Whitey!" politics, and wants to grab power away from the White man.
The coming revolutions in the US and Europe are likely to be MUCH bloodier than what is happening in Egypt.
Turnabout is a motherfucker.
500 years of cultural genocide and ecological destruction is plenty of time for White Capital to rule.
Time to call it a failure and try something new.
this is not what is best for Egypt.
this is all out street brawlin' can-hockey. a kick save and a beaut by the brightest goalie on the planet from crimson jersey ivy league can kickers. dude's standing on his head.
the military love sports metaphors and vice versa
Time for the US to do the same....
Reset button time.....
Congrats to the Egyptians....
....................................
$Trillions lost and confiscated from the middle class....
And no accountability....
Enough said....
well said -
well said -
Egypt elects democratic government in free elections, jails previous regime's secret torture police, brings war crimes charges against US officials for crimes against humanity under extraordinary rendition... ok. that won't happen, but right now anything is possible.
Don't forget "zeros out all debts to the TBTFs".
+1 !
let's dream on,
Western powers seize Mubarak's $70 billion assets and return it to Egyptians.
All contracts negotiated between Mubarak and global corporations are voided, and subject to renegotiation.
e.g.
Egypt to spend billions buying US jets while most Egyptians live on $2 per day
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Egypt-to-Spend-32B-in-Updating-F-16CD-Fleet-05860/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=did&utm_medium=textlink&utm_term=Egypt%20to%20Spend%20up%20to%20$3.2B%20Adding%20to%20F-16C/D%20Fleetas pointed out earlier, amrka filters monie through such states as Egypt for the express purpose of getting it back in arms purchased - it's how banks "lend" for war, you arm the sides, add hellish debt and "us vs. them" rhetoric - voila! resource wars, new nationstate imaginary lines on the map redrawn, rinse repeat history.
http://www.democracynow.org/
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Today, Democracy Now! will stream a special two-hour broadcast, live from 08:00 to 10:00 ET, US, then repeat and become available for download soon after.
Must be a good day for revolutions
"Hundreds of thousands turned out in Tehran on Friday [today] to mark the 32nd anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution"
http://www.dawn.com/2011/02/11/anniversary-of-iran%E2%80%99s-islamic-revolution.html
18 Days That Shook the World...
Now is time to take your #Vuvuzela, go to #Tahrir and celebrate!
Not if inflation and unemployment are still crippling your country.
Egyptian victory is fleeting.
Or "beginning". (Mu)Barak/Suleiman was phase 1.
Egypt throws out Israel's puppet. And the jew media only cares about who will be Israel's new puppet. When the hell are people everywhere in every nation going to
wake up and realize that the fucking zionist Jews have screwed everybody?
Just days ago Netanyahu said the arabs can't have a democracy.
These fuckers don't care about freedom. They're slave drivers plain and simple.
So the puppet is gone.
Who's the new puppet?
This still doesn't change anything about egypt. Too many mouths to feed, they don't grow enough food, oil production is in the crapper and the only thing they have is history and tourism.
All anyone is seeing right now live on CNN is the students, the bums, the malcontents and of course the cadre of pick pockets out in storm. Anyone that will mean anything is currently sitting at home phoning people either figuring out two things.
1) How to leave asap.
2) How to take over.
He's the Brett Favre of dictators.
TOTUS - large and in charge.
Glenn Beck has been hyperventilating and throwing up for the last few hours, now its just dry heaves.
Today could be the day he falls off the wagon and picks up a drink, or takes the Rush route and gets a prescription.
GB is a boot licking piece of shit.
The United States needs to stay out of the middle east. Withdraw all troops.
Stop defending Israel. They have a military. They need to take care of their own
and stop policing Americans.
Military in command? Who is the Egyptian Al Haig?
Caliphate bitchez!
Jordan, UAE and Oman are left before you see an islamic supra-state.
During the second crusade after Saladin "managed" Egypt, Jerusalem fell.
Lets see what happens now!
Uhhh...Egyptians should be calm to be so Joyous right now...like um...the same Military who tortured them for years is now in control. And uh...Who excatly is going to govern them with peace, love and humility now?
How exactly does a country where 80% of the population believe its OK to Stone someone to death for adultry declare they are protesting for freedom and democracy? Be careful what you fukn ask for:
BITCHEZZ!
Damn, our CIA guy is out.
Rejoice!
Let the 1.5 Billion subsidy to the Military to remain in existence.
Thank-you stupid Americans.
Check out the spook in the back...I would not want that job right now
Mubarak defiant to the end.. didn't give the speech himself. A final.. scrvew you people.
Congratulations Egypt !
this is fantastic news !
well done Egypt !
Egyptian people > Every POS US merc in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Very impressive campaign in deed. Not even single American or Israeli flag is burned. this shows how smartly Egyptians will handle America and Israel in future.
Well not everybody wants to go to war with that nuclear armed Gentrified desert gated community of Euro Jews. It's mostly just retarded Christian Zionist that want to see it be attacked so they can be raptured or whatever their dumb ass beliefs are.
HEADLINE:
"Democracy wins in Egypt, Fed withholds Fri afternoon lighter fluid"
"Commissar Bernanke expresses private concerns on spread of democracy to USA...
...rumored to have called Mubarak for recommendations on exile hotspots near Promised Land...and how to dance like an Egyptian..."
Don't worry we will get Obama again in 2012. He's the best liar and placater we got and plus he gets the teabaggers all wired up.
The Americans can only get up and rally to extend tax cuts for the rich. And they only did that because they had the corporate backing of billionaires and they were too stupid to know they were being duped. Taking their country back! Teatard style!
USA USA USA USA
I, for one, am extremely happy for the Egyptian people. They stuck to their demands, refused to back down and didn't destroy huge portions of their infrastructure with pointless rioting. I have hope that they'll persist until they get the government that they want.
The other countries in the region are running scared. Because believe it or not Egypt was the big boy on the block in regard to military, population and history in a sense. Even though they didn't have money they had that and for this dictator to be overthrown, it's starting a landslide.
"...The countdown to peaceful revolutions all across the Muslim crescent is now on."
Oh please, that's the most naive thing I've read in a long while.