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US State Department Unsure Who Is Current Ruler Of Egypt

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/08/2013 13:54 -0400

From the world's suddenly most confused State Department:

PSAKI WON'T CONFIRM IF U.S. RECOGNIZES MURSI AS EGYPT'S LEADER: it did in this picture
PSAKI: WE EXPRESSED CONCERNS ON ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN EGYPT: but unconcerned by un-arbitrary arrests of politcal opponents
PSAKI: U.S. HAS NOT BEEN IN TOUCH WITH MURSI SINCE HIS ARREST: the whole "under arrest" part may the reason why
PSAKI: US CALLS ON EGYPT'S MILITARY TO EXERCISE "MAXIMUM RESTRAINT" IN RESPONDING TO PROTESTERS: just harsh language instead of live ammo?
PSAKI: US "DEEPLY CONCERNED" BY INCREASING VIOLENCE ACROSS EGYPT: because the tear gas used is Made In Russia (or Taiwan) and not American

One wonders, however, at this point what difference does it make?

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Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:56 | 3731287 diogeneslaertius

plausible deniability

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:57 | 3731292 fightthepower

Do they have a Rothschild Central bank? If so we know who runs the country....

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:03 | 3731319 knukles

Its no wonder no one knows who is in charge since the last 25, the current supposed and next waiting in the wings 300 potential prime rules In Pharaoh Cognito are all on the US payrolls and since none of 'em have a social security number of EBT card, let alone legal short or long form birth record, nobody has a fucking clue.
Presto.
Kilroy's been here

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:10 | 3731347 flacon

John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) walks into a bar. The bar tender asks... "Why the long face?"

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:05 | 3731539 smithcreek

No problem, just make the aid checks out to "cash".

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:10 | 3731565 Canadian Dirtlump

I think they checks will continue to be made out to US weapons manufacturers, which means that in all lieklihood, aid will remain.

also, recall the limousine liberal with the long face just last month quietly contravened law and sent aid to morsi the simian bearded butcher.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/7/secretary-state-john-kerr...

So far overt support for syria has undone morsi, it has embattled erdogan, and it has helped the obese king of quatar step down and install his son democratically. I could never have thought things would turn out so well.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:51 | 3731667 BLOTTO

The current rulers in Egypt are the same rulers from ancient Egypt...

...the Sun worshipers...

Nothing New Under the Sun.

Casey Ryback: What made you flip like this?

William Strannix: I got tired of coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other fucking people.

Casey Ryback: All of your ridiculous pitiful antics aren't gonna change a thing. You and me, we're *puppets* in the same sick game. We serve the same master, and he's a lunatic and he's ungrateful. But there's nothing we can do about it. You and me, we're the same.

William Strannix: Oh, no. No. No. No. There's a difference, my man. You have faith. I don't!

[a knife fight erupts between them]

Under Siege (1992)

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 16:01 | 3731709 smlbizman

if kerry stomps 3X's its mursi....if he stomps 2X's its.....

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:11 | 3731337 NoDebt

We tried meddling in Egypt's affairs and it didn't work out so well. Maybe we should try NOT meddling in their affairs for a while.

My God, as a nation we must look like a smacked ass on a rainy day to the rest of the world. This administration is the "Can't Shoot Straight Gang" of foreign policy. Near as I can tell we are "O-fer" the last 5 years across the globe. Why would ANYONE want to be our friend right now? Or at least give us the time of day? I can't think of a single damned reason.

But we got Bin Laden. Oh yes, we sure as shit got him. So everything's cool.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:13 | 3731362 Winston Churchill

Amazing the change in tone over the last 10-15 years when I speak

to relatives ,and friends overseas.

The vitriol is now being directed against all things American,not just the

actions of Uncle Sam.

The USA is becoming the worlds pariah.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:20 | 3731387 Anusocracy

This would be a good time for the pro-Morsi Egyptians to form a second government and tell the junta to go to hell.

Maybe Egypt could be the birthplace of panarchism.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:26 | 3731411 Debt Slave

The culture precedes the American.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:00 | 3731517 Anusocracy

The Fugly Americans.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 16:03 | 3731715 Totentänzerlied

Amazing it only took 100 fuckin years for the damned fools to see it.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 17:21 | 3731989 Clever Name

Maybe, just maybe, we Americans will wake up to realize that we are the bad guy in this movie, and always have been.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:26 | 3731413 Jonas Parker

As minds get foggier in "Foggy Bottom"... and we pay these dipsticks for this "work"?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:32 | 3731431 Boeing Boy

Yep and yep

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:02 | 3731315 Tortfeasor

Plausible incompetence.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:05 | 3731330 knukles

Implausible plausibilty disguised as confusion and coincidence. Again.
Happy 60th Roswell Day

^{_{might as well celebrate something real}}

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:14 | 3731371 The Gooch

The Bernank is!

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:37 | 3731447 PlausibleDenial

Yes....

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:58 | 3731510 Urban Roman

It's Schroedinger's Pharaoh.

If they observe him, it will mess up his quantum uncertainty function and he will disappear.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:03 | 3731288 francis_sawyer

Pharoh Rothschild

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:57 | 3731294 ziggy59

Corzine Walks...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:58 | 3731295 tradewithdave

Is Marc Rich sending us a message from the other side about that tunnel under 33 Liberty?

http://tradewithdave.com/?p=17163

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:58 | 3731298 Number 156

They need to know who to send the declaration of war to.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:11 | 3731350 francis_sawyer

Balfour

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:59 | 3731300 Debt Slave

One wonders, however, at this point what difference does it make?

Ha. Love it. +1000

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:59 | 3731301 Montecarlo

What difference, at this point, does it possibly make? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR3XTOjZPfg Classic!

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:59 | 3731302 dolph9

It's all about Israel, it's always about Israel.

Do you think the American government give a shit about any Egyptian?

It's just about stability to make sure Israel is secure.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:05 | 3731325 Debt Slave

Do you think the American government give a shit about any Egyptian?

Only to the extent of finding a cooperative stooge who will take the bribe money stolen from U.S. taxpayers.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:06 | 3731332 francis_sawyer

They don't give a shit about 'security'... They're on the offensive...

~~~

The ultimate goal of the Balfour Declaration is to own all the land from the Suez Canal to the Tigris & Euphrates rivers...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:16 | 3731359 valley chick

+1 and then the USSA will give a shit.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:02 | 3731310 robertocarlos

Should Mursi use his one phone call to contact his lawyer or the US State Dept?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:10 | 3731342 knukles

by phone: London, England, UK: 020 7584 1367

by post: Flat 3B, 3 Hans Crescent, London SW1X 0LS, England, UK.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:02 | 3731312 Dr. Engali

It looks like I picked a bad day to stop yachting.....just kidding it's a beautiful day for swift boating.

John Kerry

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:07 | 3731338 francis_sawyer

His yacht is a single mast... You'd have thunk he'd go with a 2 mast KETCH[up]...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:12 | 3731354 Dr. Engali

Bah dump bump....clang.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:33 | 3731428 francis_sawyer

They love me in Poughkeepsie [& 'especially' up at Kellerman's]...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:17 | 3731591 Disenchanted

Mr. Kerry-Kohn probably prefers yachting to air travel...

Anyone remember that the ketchup queen's former husband(Senator Heinz) and another former (R) Senator Tower died within one day apart in air crashes in 1991. I bet that would be a far more interesting story to dig into than Heinz-Kerry's seizures...

Former Senator Tower, Astronaut Die in Crash;23 Perish on Commuter Flight in Georgia

Former senator John G. Tower (R-Tex.) and his daughter were among 23 persons killed yesterday when the twin-engine commuter plane they were aboard crashed while trying to land at an airport in Brunswick, Ga., authorities said.

Astronaut Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., who flew on a 1989 space shuttle mission and was in training for a shuttle trip later this year, also died in the crash. No passengers survived.

The crash followed by one day the plane-helicopter collision that took the lives of Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.) and six other people. The collision over a Philadelphia suburb occurred when the helicopter crew was attempting a second airborne check of the plane's …

Probably just another coinky-dink.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:24 | 3731313 Mercury

Now I'm confused...is Psaki a Hutu or a Tutsi?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:28 | 3731420 ParkAveFlasher

I read your comment but heard this in my head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fa4BfPQiKs

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:03 | 3731316 Yancey Ward

Have communications with Kerry's yacht not yet been reestablished?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:10 | 3731346 francis_sawyer

He has his high tech communications system 'reefed'...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:03 | 3731317 digalert

USA citizen:

unsure who is current ruler of United States of America

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:21 | 3731341 Dr. Engali

I'm pretty sure it rhymes with cloth piled.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:46 | 3731477 phyuckyiu

It took me 10 seconds to figure that out, I'm pretty sure I don't qualify for a cookie at that point :/

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:04 | 3731322 Dareconomics

The markets are shrugging off Egypt, but another revolution there will destabilize the whole region.

http://dareconomics.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/around-the-globe-07-08-13/

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:06 | 3731335 john39

doesn't destabilization seem like the plan?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:05 | 3731328 valley chick

Wake me up when the party moves to the Suez Canal...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:54 | 3731497 Herbman

Desist from your canal minded thoughts

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:23 | 3731606 valley chick

the rest is just noise...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:06 | 3731333 apberusdisvet

So now we no that know one with any brains is in charge of the State Dept; but then again, there never has been; it should be called the Department of Cognitive Dissonance.

slightly o/t: Is Kerry in the Heinz will or will he actually have to work for a living if slut Theresa expires?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:12 | 3731355 knukles

No.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:14 | 3731368 kaiserhoff

Hush yo mouff. Poor old lady's having seizures.

Cocaine will do that to you.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:25 | 3731407 knukles

Alcohol withdrawal, too

_{^{Hmmmm... and several days on boat out of view away from press during turbulent times elsewhere that might demand at least some photo op recognition....}}
_{^{just mumblin' about shit I don't know of...}}

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:07 | 3731336 smacker

The State Dept is raising public doubts about the military take-over because Obama supported Morsi.

Such action will only serve to increase the violent clashes on the streets and embolden Morsi supporters.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:45 | 3731463 knukles

It's Obamie's fault?

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 04:59 | 3733434 smacker

The buck stops at the Oval Office. ;-)

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:10 | 3731345 Colonel Klink

I've heard Kerry is yachting the oceans looking for the ruler of Egypt, just as OJ was looking for his wife's killer on every golf course.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:15 | 3731373 knukles

If de sail
No reef
Must
Smok-a-dah
Queef

KerryShave

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:17 | 3731381 kaiserhoff

Damn. Same clock time and you beat me.

I always knew Mom liked you better.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:15 | 3731375 kaiserhoff

Might work.

There's plenty of big tuna out there;)

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:12 | 3731357 Fuku Ben

Another government bureaucracy making an "erroneous" statement to maintain the illusion

The Central Bank of Egypt is ruling the country

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:12 | 3731360 Wanton1

The bankers are the current rulers in Egypt.

The profits are in the chaos.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:16 | 3731377 knukles

Dude, like that is just soooo Illuminating.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:15 | 3731376 Yen Cross

If the 'Suez Canal' didn't run through Egypt, it would be among the long "Conga Line" of obscure, failed banana republics.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:19 | 3731386 kaiserhoff

So you're saying it's in the short line?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:50 | 3731482 phyuckyiu

short bus?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:23 | 3731400 ZeroPoint

Translation: We haven't found the right replacement puppet yet.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:31 | 3731427 ParkAveFlasher

...salary negotiable...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:34 | 3731434 Debt Slave

Egypt has been on the U.S. payroll since Sadat got his reward for making a deal with the devil in 1979.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:40 | 3731454 virgilcaine

Insert Obama as temporary Pm of Egypt?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:46 | 3731475 Balanced Integer

Only if it comes with a residency requirement.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:45 | 3731467 denverdolomte

What's happening today in Turkey? - Still a mess. (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/world/europe/after-protests-forums-spr...)

What's happening today in Syria? - Still a mess from the US and UK (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10166685/Embo...)

What's happening today in Egypt? - Still a mess from our intervention prior. (http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/8/sharif_abdel_kouddous_egypt_descend...)

What's happening today in Libya? - Still al-Queda run after our humanitarian interventions. (http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/08/Benghazi-book-fred-burton-sam...)

What's happening today in Pakistan? - Still a war against..... (http://www.thenation.com/article/175139/classic-military-runaround#)

What's happening today in Afghanistan? - Still a war against..... (see link above)

What's happening today in Iraq? - Well apparently worse things than before we interviened. (http://www.ryot.org/15-dead-in-iraq-as-insurgent-violence-continues/249729)

What's happening today in Israel? So wait....Israel isn't mad in the least bit that we put Morsi in power? (http://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-cautiously-optimistic-over-morsi-o...)

Well, that should just about wrap up the last 24 months of US foreign policy at it's finest. It's only true if they say it's true. /sarc.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 19:30 | 3732356 Trampy

What's happening in America? It's classified!

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 07:42 | 3733538 bunnyswanson

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/publicly-address-world-and-terminate-prism-program/WV0kjWbq

Petition to end PRISM (99,000 sigs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y4umifTLSII
1st grader explains situation in Egypt in under 3 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sInoCZ3RHLs
Message to Pres Obama 5 min

http://rt.com/usa/state-secrets-nsa-lawsuit-continue-807/comments/page-1/

Judge allows lawsuit to go forward against NSA (RT TV)

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:47 | 3731479 Bobportlandor

Egypt is a REPUBLIC they don''t have a RULER. Their missing a President just like US.

Saudi Arabia has a ruler just like US.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:53 | 3731492 iamtheeggman wh...

Now, where did we put that re-set button?

but, at this point what difference does it make?

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:02 | 3731503 involuntarilybirthed

State Dept: "Egypt? Oh yeah, the pyriamid place on that Nile River, Sharm-El-Sheikh, great resort, that country we send and loose account of the $1.3B every year. Yeah, what about it? Don't tell me sequestration has shut off Sharm-El-Sheik?"

Uh, yeah but they are shooting at each other again.

State Dept: "Oh Israel is going to be pissed, better cut another check and get it out fast? Diplomacy sure does eat into our travel expenses, damn, Sharm-El-Sheik?"

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 14:57 | 3731505 Joebloinvestor

The official "STATE OF CONFUSION DEPT."

Where anything is for sale including ethics and free passes.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:01 | 3731523 paint it red ca...

I am just as unsure of our current ruler.....

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:03 | 3731536 involuntarilybirthed

the Bernank

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:36 | 3731636 icanhasbailout

"My candidates are down there, guys."

http://sondrak.com/images/uploads/obama_frosted_flakes.jpg

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 22:04 | 3732846 StychoKiller

(Sigh), Decepticrats: plumbing new depths of Idiocy...

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 16:06 | 3731722 Divine Wind

Petros Romanos

Mohammandos Sissios Egyptos

AlQaedos Jihados

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 16:12 | 3731758 Totentänzerlied

Doesn't matter, all comms go to the military council and/or central bank.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 18:06 | 3732128 YHC-FTSE

I know it's a serious issue for those concerned, but the tone of the article was hilarious. Worthy of the title, Monday night humour.

You know the whole world is fucked and insane when mere reporting of facts seem like hyperbole (to the sheep), and editorial comments provoke howls of laughter for its irony.

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 18:53 | 3732242 Trampy

Red or green? Christmas!

Mon, 07/08/2013 - 23:49 | 3733171 earleflorida

"Islam's civil war moves to Egypt" by Spengler [7/8/13] great read jmo http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-080713.html

,... and while your there give a friendly 'Roving Eye' to Pepe Escobar ;-) www.atimes.com/

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 13:38 | 3734530 esum

Trim the main and another marguarita please......there once was a man from nantucket....... that horse faced guy maried to the wombat... Hey on the brighter side of things,-Ted Kennedy, sober for almost 4 years now.

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 13:49 | 3734573 esum

Nuland, Psaki , Carney, Gibbs..... able to eat vomit and regugitate it at will. Swamp scum... when the TRUTH doesn't matter, your go to people willing to prostitute their integrity for a little "fame"... Cheaply bought. they all fit right in with the bendover lead with his behind empty suit...

US State Department Unsure Who Is Current Ruler Of Egypt

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