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Press Secretary Gibbs Expected To Hold Egypt Briefing At 3:00 PM
The outgoing press secretary of the White House is supposed to hold a press briefing at 3PM to share the White House's views on this week's events in Egypt. Earlier, Hillary Clinton already made a statement which pretty much asked Egypt's citizens to go back home and resume purchasing iPads. We are quite curious to see how the White House will spin the overthrow of one of its favorite regimes over the ages. Even more so, since this is a revolution inspired to no little part by none other than the Federal Reserve and more specifically its genocidal monetarist practices.
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BTFD. Sigh..
clearly another pyramid scheme gone bad...
I hate you... so hard.
you do realise that sounds so gay?
Damn is that funny. You do type some of the funniest posts. Never stop being you. Wait. That sounded really gay. Never mind.
Sudden Debt brightens my day. Every day. Now THAT'S gay.
clearly another pyramid scheme gone bad...
awesome!
Are the Pyramids or the FED the mother of all pyramid schemes ? I am getting confused :)
The FED wanted higher prices. Well, students of history will tell you this was a VERY predictable result.
Gibbs has a bugger on his lip. Someone should tell him.
+100. Haaa....
This may seem trivial and off-topic, but what the hell is Hillary doing with her hair? I swear it looks like a robo-Hillary has replaced the original and the robo-Hillary has fake, barbie-style hair.
Listening to her monotone, "support everyone" speech, must only further inspire the Egyptian people to burn the fucker down.
If anything is going to persuade me that David Ikke's lizard people exist, it's Hilary C.
Yep, Bite The Fukin Dick!
I think he meant "Burn The F#cker Down"?
pods
So the USA finaly learns that you can't juggle more than 20 dictatoriships at 1nce
Hell ! He can't even forge a simple birth certificate !
No kidding. He could go to the kitchen of any Applebees and find five guys that could turn him on to a guy that knows a guy that can get him a new birth certificate.
Any strip mall parking lot within 4 miles of Alvarado and Olympic.
Well you do have to make a decision once in a while to get things done. He'll appoint a blue ribbon commission to study it. They'll give the results around 2013.
A little background on Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei (the future leader of Egypt) courtesy of the International Crisis Group.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board/Mohamed%20ElBaradei.aspx
Webster Tarpley's analysis from January 16th
http://tarpley.net/2011/01/16/tunisian-wikileaks-putsch/
"Another figure worthy of mention is Robert Malley, a well-known US left-cover operative who currently heads the Middle East and North Africa program at the International Crisis Group (ICG), an organization reputed to run on money coughed up by George Soros and tactics dreamed up from Zbigniew Brzezinski. Malley was controversial during the 2008 presidential campaign because of the anti-Israeli posturing he affects, the better to dupe the Arab leaders he targets. Malley told the Washington Post of January 16, 2011 that every tree in the Arab forest could now be about to fall: “We could go through the list of Arab leaders looking in the mirror right now and very few would not be on the list.” Arab governments would be well advised to keep an eye on ICG operatives in their countries."
Maybe one of the worst press meetings ever.
These guys just telegraphed to the world that they were caught flat footed and have no ideas or power on the topic. The best they can do is beg Elbaridea to rouse himself from his Vienna apartment and be a placeholder for the IMF.
Can't even say Obama talked to Mubarak.
Not even the student government at my kid's high school could ef something like that up.
Perception is reality.
The reality is Obama drunk again and everyone can only pray.
Adventures in Hail Mary Foreign Policy.
Ya really gotta quit sugar-coating the truth for us, we're adults, we can handle it! :>D
He did-much worse. Chaos coming imho
what? no campaign/pep rally/memorial service with cheering
Global sociological interactions explained by a press agent from Alabama.
gibbs clueless;
unarmed citizens getting mowed down by army and the pres doesnt want to jump to conclusions
this ambivalence makes things worse
Will the "grievances" of the AMERICAN people "continue to be monitored closely?" They better be watching our streets soon. We have "issues and grievances" with our government and elites too!!!
The more Gibbs talks the lower the S+P goes. Oh, and BTW Obama hasn't called Mubarak- annual recipient of $100 BILLON in US aid !!!!! WTF?
Yup. At this rate, "the crisis in America will be solved by the American people", and I don't mean waiting for the next ballot vote.
Do they get it? Interesting that the Army appears to be siding with the people in many of the Egyptian cities. Could it happen in America?
There's a constitutional prohibition against using the US military in a domestic action. Remember Bush's dilemma in the aftermath of Katrina?
Posse Comitatus was effectively repealed. Google "Northcom" for an eye opener...
Started in Waco with Wesley Clark.
Wesley Clark you say? This Wesley Clark?
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board/wesley-clark.aspx
The buddy of Dr Mohamed ElBaradei and George Soros?
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board/george-soros.aspx
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board/Mohamed%20ElBaradei.aspx
This ICG is looking friendlier by the minute. Our good friend Zbigniew is invited to their parties also.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board/crisis-group-senior-advisers.aspx
"Gibbs said that Obama hadn't contacted Mubarak, noting that Twitter had been disconnected in Egypt...."
What? No red (or in this instance, sand-colored) phone to Cairo? :>D
Too late... it already started.R
We need t-shirts...
There are some leftovers from Tucson
someone told me that the army has joined the people...
Watching Al Jazeera now and still no official position. Democracy is bad for globalist foreign policy. Expect no surprises from Gibbs.
I poop on Gibbs! Yes, no? Bring your herpes lip to Trihump Mr. Gibbs. Bring it for pooooop!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...
Did u c it? Oh yes.
No, the police joined the people after the army took over.
They armed the people as much as they could.
Also there have been riots in Jordania, the biggest US outpost of the region.
The US will need to step in now.
Sudden Debt
No, the police joined the people after the army took over.
They armed the people as much as they could.
for real?
oh and cool Icon btw. Best one here.
If that is true, then it's checkmate.
Where is this comment from? They mis-spelled WEEK.
Sorry, that's the amount of time left in office.
Which iPad-wielding Ivy League Communications Major wrote, "does to come across as week" ?
Misspellings and gibberish are more common now than when they invented spellcheck. Yahoo! comes up with them frequently in their 'headlines'.
Id pick 20 people at random from the phone book to replace this current JOKE of an administration chock full of retards!
Navin R. Johnson
Jack Mehoff!
Opportune time to do some foreign aid cost cutting. Will not be fielding Keyna questions
+10 LOL
C'mon already Mubarek! There's only 55 min left to give us time to say something to get this sucker to melt up to GREEN!
China will send in it's army to take control of it's newly acquired asset.
That is a scary thought . Can you imagine they take the revolutionaries side and the US sides with Mubarek ?
They will, too much oil flows through that resource to fuck around with it.
Bet not only China throws it's weight in there, I'll guess the Indian government will lend a hand in keeping the rebels in their place.
They can go against a government.
Not against a population.
Even the US doesn't has enough soldiers left to take control of north Africa.
Not sure they can invade Egypt but wait til one of the countries they bought farm land I'm riots? They will send troops to protect the food supply they purchased. I thought this was years in the future but might b closer than I realized.
Go long tear gas canisters.
Tear gas made in the US - I'm told that's what it says on the cannisters, sure will help win hearts and minds!!
At the risk of being redundant.....CHAOS, COURTESY OF LOOSE MONETARY POLICIES: THANKS TO THE BEN BERNANK!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbMq1WWUXc8
All is well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
Mubarak's silence has been deafening! Screams problems to come.
Let them eat entrepreneurship seminars....
From H. The President, in Egypt, a couple years ago. I see nothing in here regarding the US exporting inflation, affordable food, or providing reliable bandwidth. It does, however, sound a little like the SOTU a few days ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/obama-egypt-speech-video_n_211216.html
I bet he's already left the country. It's not even clear whose side the military is on at this point.
The money side.
If riots where ever to happen in America. Soldiers would be all to happy to shoot on the citizens if their pockets are filled with dollars.
Even if the dollars don't buy anything saddly enough...
The US is not the Belgian Congo, my friend.
Are you saying soldiers wouldn't shoot civilians? You do know it's happened before don't you?
Kent State.
Tin soldiers and Obama coming. We're finally on our own.
That kind of started this whole fricking right, left, stickittotheman, redneck, pinko commie stuff. If they would have just pressed for a little investigation and justice, even if just a court marshal, we could have avoided a lot of pent up hate and discontent in this country. I still get pissed when I think about it, and I'm a little to the right of Attila the Hun.
Yes, I am aware of Kent State and earlier situations against striking rail workers and miners. And yes, it certainly is possible.
I do not think it probable and most certainly disagree that soldiers (or in the only legal sense the National Guard, since the Armed forces have no jurisdiction within US borders), would gladly fire on civilians. The armed forces are composed of middle America, not Wall Street Bankers.
I think that one would also have to factor in the current state of a civilian population which is by all accounts well armed and is backed by a Supreme Court that has further enabled this process. This is a powerful counterbalance.
FELLOW AMERICANS!
AFTER THE RIOTS CAUSED BY TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.
WE FEEL OBLIGED TO SHUT DOWN ALL EVIL INTERNET BULLIES THAT GO AGAINST THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE.
EVIL THEY ARE!
THANK YOU! ALL HEILL OBAMA!
PS: TAXES WILL GO UP.
GOODNIGHT!
I heard the same thing as well...lol
GS pitching an EGYPT / Ivory Coast Swap
I heard they are putting up a mural with Sputnik in the Briefing Room and Gibbs will speak, donned with complete 60's style Soviet space regalia
Oh, that was funny. I'm thinking the "sputnik" thing will become Obama's "Mission accomplished".
Mubarek has been in power for thirty years . In my book that qualifies as a dictatorship .Power in someones hands for that long can only corrupt .
And his family owns 72% of the country.
In my book that qualifies as a thief.
No wonder those Muslims are against us!! OUR GOVERNMENTS SUPPORTED THOSE GUYS!!!!
NO WORD ABOUT THAT?!!!
FUCK THAT!!!
what are the alternatives ? The Taliban ?
Other race, 9000 miles in the other direction :)
Egypt are very nice people. Because you call somebody a terrorist you must know more of them.
Hollywood and CNBC often don't show it all.
What I meant was a faction like the taliban . Egyptians are extremely nice . Crime is very low even in large cities . People respect other peoples property .It must have taken a lot to get them in the streets .
And a few taliban is no excuse for Americans to kill inocent people. That makes them all murders and rapists.
What will they call it when Americans riot? Will any reason for you do so they can shoot them?
Hey man , I am not trying to pick a fight here I didn't get here yesterday . All I am saying is Egyptians are relatively peaceful people and it would be horrible that as a result of their efforts to remove corruption from power they end up even worse off . Revolutions are messy and sometimes some real nasty shit floats up from the bottom of the toilet it creates and manages to get into power .The French revolution is an excellent example of this .
I overdid it, sorry.
I just wanted to say that I've been over there already a few times and not all those people are bad.
Their skin is a bit different but for the rest they are just like us.
They don't care about politics.
They just want to live in a good way.
They want freedom like the rest of us.
And those people are some of the most relaxed people there are.
These are nice people.
But if your family and kids grow hungry. What would you do?
Me? = I would kill for food to, I wouldn't let them go hungry.
absolutely! who hates muslims? who runs America's police state?
Just have to look at all the television screens over at wal-mart and see.
What was so awesome was when they paused and prayed in between
the chaos. And their police were still firing tear gas at them.
They never flinched. One the most
incredible displays of the spirit I've ever seen.
Their prayers for freedom must be answered.
Hopefully the world will follow.
It's all good you crazy marching loaf of shit . Now go beat the crap out of someone else.
Oh yeah, I wasn't the one who junked you -you make me laugh to much around here to do that .
the US should stay out of this. There are no good options here. if you prop up the current regime it will strengthen the hands of the protestors and add to the david vs. goliath narrative. If they support the protestors they are risking encouraging a potentially hostile regime in the region. Let's learn our lesson from the last 10 years. We can pretend to be the traffic cop of the whole world and act like it but that doesn't mean we can necessarily control or influence things.
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That.can.never.happen. If we don't find a pretext to invade it's because we co-opted the revolution.
Not a single fuck was given that day what the US government thought about a completely autonmous rebelion against an asshole government
Hopefully, we'll take the advice of George Washington and not give a fock about anybody elses opinion either ...
it's a pity that no one told Bush about the power of the Bernank's printing press in support of his bringing freedom to the muslim world agenda. Could have saved us the trouble of 2 wars, thousands dead and a few trillion dollars on the national credit card.
he did not get the memo. Or he might have left office less rich than he did.
War can be profitable.
Quick get Gasparino over to Europe for Stick save version 1.01 operation Egyptian pyramid scheme. Markets must rally now!
Jordan next?????
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128125157509196.html
The recent unrest in Iran comes to mind....
Looks like the Bernank will have to print more money to send aide to fix the mess he's made......as if we can aford it.
Except that printing money is what caused this mess. Printing more money = higher food prices = more unrest. No solution there.
Question for the press secretary: How does the Egyptian Internet kill switch compare with ours?
followup: now what country will the cia outsource its torture needs to?
market will tank on silence by "leaders"
barry doesnt have time to "monitor" things
Mubarak is too busy supervising the looting of the treasury...
Hello London...
Funny, seems the leaders are trying to silence the market by tanks...
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Rodney Dangerfield
Love the hypocracy:
Gibbs: "Concerns about violence." (recall the video of we handle people in the street in Bagdad from a helicopter)
Gibbs:"We urge Freedom of speech, internet freedom" (but we'll try to shut down Wikileaks in a heartbeat and send the organizer to prison)
Gibbs: "This is an opportunity to address the concerns of the People" (while we pass legislation that keeps people poorer, gives more money to Banks, or do nothing at all)
Fascinating to see the double speak live.
"Why isn't the president standing where you are right now?"
"Uh...uh...it's a fluid, dynamic situation..."
Because he is the king of rear view politics. He watches to see what occurs then gauges reaction and then attempts to lead.
"we uhhhhh...had uhhhh....meeting...uhhh and uhhhh..."
Gosh I feel better already...
When I hear Gibbs or Obama speak I add on 'D's' for example- "We DUHHHHH....had a DUHHHHHH.....meeting.....DUHHHHH and DUHHHHH...."
It is in my opinion that Obama has lost much credibility in the handling(or lack thereof) of this situation.
It seems to me like the US is dazed on confused.
umm...what would you like him to do short of telling printer ben to stop?
There isn't anything in particular I want him to say. But Gibbs just looked so dumbfounded..."I uhm, its uhm a situation uhm, thats fluid, and uhhhh yea the president is monitoring it"
Take an extended family vacation on his dime.
I don't know why they need to 'handle' the situation, it's between the Egyptians and it's corrupt leaders. It's true, they are dazed and confused, because they have to pretend to care about democracy for Egyptians while figuring out how they are going to secure their interests in the whole region, which has clearly spiralled out of their control. They're all going apeshit at the state dept. , no doubt.
Yes, as per comments above by many: this whole thing shakes the US more than Gibbs will ever say, and brings into question massive puppeteering by USA Corp.
agreed. US should keep the hell out of this and Gibbs should continue making bland statements that don't mean anything. Aside from our immense hypocricy there are no good policy options.
He's self conscious about the burning herpes on his upper lip..
Hard to hear his words. Can't get past looking at it...
they have no clue and no idea what is happening or what will happen.
obama is playing basketball.
The longer he speaks, the longer the market goes down
Don't pursue non-essential travel to Egypt.
Our rulers, great advice...we need people like this.
"This is not a solution that will be solved by violence." lololol. oh that's rich.
the stuttering makes it even more funny...
and his ty :)
Blue
UN Blue
UN = We do shit, we just look wile people get shot and get the tourists out.
Die Gibbs DIE!!
free and fair elections? They haven't had an election in 60 years.
And no doubt we'll prevent a real election if it goes against anything we want.
yeah, no fucking kidding. Mubarak has been president for, what, 30 years, and is planning to install his son on the throne when he retires/dies. He should just call himself the Sultan and be done with it.
All he wants is more efficient pontius pilate's - the US adminstration is probably pissed off that Mubarak has washed his hands of the issue.
I suppose the banks have that former UN weapan inspector guy in postion to steer Egyptian foregin policey into a pro western sphere.
Mohammed better be shit hot - quelling the savage beast may be too much for one man to handle.
This will not be solved by violence...
Oh, I think it will.
Remeber, this idiot is being paid with the loot the Feral Gov't steals from you every payday!
This would be a good day to stock up on food supplies, never know what Sunday night may bring.
Sunday the 6th is the date to hoard for. Beer, chips, and various meat products.
You've been warned, by umm uhh the Forehead.
I want a prosthetic forehead like this one to wear on my real forehead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amUowhHVBM4
The empire is crumbling.
act on the concerns of it's people? so says potato head mouthpiece.
we have a host of ways to lock down that shit hole prison.
Uh... Umm...Protesters... Uh... Umm... Rights... Uh... Freedom... Umm... Uh...
When does the FOREHEAD finally step down?
FORHEAD RULES ALL (he hopes)
I just stole that one for my facebook status
Gibbs: "Grievences should be addressed" (the way we do with indefinite detention and courts chosen based on pre-determined outcomes, or like the way we treat Bradly Manning)
What about Egyptian cotton? Those boxer shorts are already getting out of hand ...
Not one question to "um-boy" by our "informed"press regarding the fed fueling food inflation. All questions assumed "rights to assemble" etc. A complete joke.
Nice herpes on the lip. I guess all he can afford is a $5 whore on his modest salary.
No wonder he's leaving for Goldman Sachs.
Not one word about muslim brotherhood, whom Obama met with not long ago. Why was bill ayers in egypt organizing the flotillas?
the people who are protesting a dictator are being coopted by a much more sinister radical islam group.
I WILL NOT SAY ANOTHING ABOUT THAT IN PUBLIC....
HA!!!!!
AND NOW THEY TALK ABOUT CHINA???!!!!????
Deu deu deu , euh euh euh, ... WHAT A MORON!!
Obama's eye off the ball with Foreign Policy (ref SOTU) but on the Spalding indoor basketball. Hey d'ya see that shot?? Swoosh!
Also Obama now busy creatin jobs like a mothafucka!!
Is this the straw to break the camel's back?
we have several puppets to choose from.