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Alexandria has also seen protests. Here, demonstrators tear down a huge portrait of Mubarak in the city on Jan. 25. [AFP/der Spiegel]
Works for me…
Every building stormed, taken, every bridge crossed by a massing of protestors, cheers me up…
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In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
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Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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Marisacat 
Here’sanother pic for you
Caption: An Egyptian protestor kisses a riot police officer.
I love that picture …it’s hard to visualize that happening in the “US” without a woman getting her head busted.
I heard a report somewhere that some of the protesters were presenting cops with roses and giving them cold bottled water to drink.
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Clever IOZ
No kidding. That’s why I’m watching AlJazeera’s feed. At least CNN switched over to its international desk so that cuts down on the “me, me, me” talk – a bit.
The Narcissus pic was an excellent ‘preface’…
my favorite comment:
Anonymous said…
Heeeere’s Lipless.
“Obama(lama) has not spoken to Pres. Mubarak.”
And why not?
Oh Mon Dieu. I forgot how Gibbs always manages to put me to sleep.
Must.stay.awake.
He probably should show up with dancing girls.
That’s the least he could do.
he is the worst, competeing with that little twit from Tejas that Bush elevated and kept on for years, following Ari Fleischer leaving.
Who, as much as I ugh hated AF, was among the best. Double ugh.
A BBC commentator said, after watching Gibbs’ “floundering” that “you get the impression the administration is scrambling not to be on the wrong side of history.”
That sums it up.
They got caught not paying attention. And would have missed what was coming had they been paying attention.
Baghdad “Scotty” Bob.
Meanwhile, AJ reported on an Egyptian pointing out that the tear gas canisters being used against citizens are “Made in the USA”.
The review will go something like this:
Obama: “Should we still give them money?”
CIA: “Yeah, I think so.”
Obama: “Okay.”
End of review.
Via BBC: The speaker of the lower Egyptian house is supposed to be issuing a statement soon.
Rumors private jet has left Eqypt, announcement to come, maybe he has left.
hmmm
Richard Engel : “I do not think the U.S. want’s to have a major revolution now.”
Oh , a little late and as if that matters now, Ricky.
And no sooner than Engel can tell mook Matthews Heeeere’s Hosni.. they cut to commercial.
So a quick switch to another feed, and, uh oh , I’m seein roast Mubarak. LOOKS Weak.
Shouldn’t be long now that ~ Hello ~ he’s already lost control..
Eqyptian Bar B Q!!!!
LOL
poor little toadie …
Muburak finally shows his face.
“I am giving freedom to the people and freedom of opinion.”
Yeah, right.
CYA later!
He’s dissolving the gov’t and installing another one tomorrow? Democracy, what a concept.
One night stand! A non sleep over!
Mubar-i-gator! 😉
😆
Took me a minute to get that.
Damn you, Lullabying Gibbs!
BTW, apparently there is a bill in the House laying the groundwork for the US to cut off the Internets, like Egypt, if they would want to.
I see reports around that dial up might not get caught in a shut down. (I think every house needs one land line!, no matter what)
was horrified when I started to realize how many people have done away with their land lines. I would add that everyone needs a simple phone, with the curly, tangly bit (if they can still find one) that doesn’t need electricity from the home (relying solely on the exterior transformer) to operate.
When my electricity goes down the main land line still works… obviously the computer, a plug in, goes down. Means a lot to have that phone.
yup, and it’s so saddening and enraging that people have been so absolutely duped and overwhelmed with gadgetry, PROMOTED 24/7 (which certainly appears to have the High Recommend of our “Public Servants”), that many have ceased to get that. Such a beauty in simplicity, it can be an absolute lifesaver …………….
Oh for the hell of it, NTIM.
Annnnd….
{fast talkin-high-pitched-helium voice now}
WHAT IS the American view on this?
Anyone? Biden: For Him! No Dictator!
{I’m sure Hosni was delighted to have Biden’s endorsement 🙄 }
Hillary: For ‘m? Against ‘im? Good Luck!?!
Gates, over at the Bank of Weapons, War, and Finance, most valuable security guard in the lobby, hander of lolipops to Obbie a his pressmen during playdates, simply instructed them to stay in the Day Care Center over at 1600, as he moved in more air power into the neck of the hour glass in Sinai. Oh, shifting winds on the sand now, shifting winds on the sand.
They all look like dolts in aspic. But with big notes attached, Not Edible!!
Oh that bill in the House allowing pretzel, any pretzel!, to shut down the Internets?? Like, you know, Egypt?… it also specifically cuts out judicial override of the The Unitary Executive.
Bingo! But the Internets.
As a means of control?
I’m beginning to think helpful, yes, but as oversold on it’s Age of Aquarius dot bomb upside as it is on it’s nefarious utility bomb defusing downside.
Fuck, they cut THE FBI off of Their porno, they won’t have to worry about the average jack off in the streets coming after them.
I think these things happen over time as what hasn’t been openly voiced comes to a boil. Hell, the bombast I’m given to on keyboard from time to time? Pfft. That’s nothing compared to what people are really thinking. Scratch the surface of most people ….. and they’ll offer the most sordid things they want to happen to the PTB. Sure, how many people can one person talk to, and maybe one hears what one wants to hear, but gabber I am, I sense people are starting to identify things for what they are well beyond the facile construct of identity politics (tho lets get real, NO ONE’s above using them politically, and people are seeing that, too} as they begin to make out what ails them: the Oligarchy, the PTB itself, the PTB that… be…
We have both Parties of the great ruse now scrambling to beat down their own, who largely come from the fucked over stock in the middle.
apparently Collins of Maine, Carper and Liebchen are the big backers of the bill moving thru congress.
Well, the way this is going, when God-knows-what-sort of Post-American-Apocalypse assembly of Mel Gibbsean characters out of The Road Warrior show up at Liebchen’s door, I certainly hope the Revolution IS telivised.
😉
I think the US government is scared shitless.
I also read just this week that in a short span of years, not too many, Pakistan, and NOT Obby’s old home land, Indonesia… but PAKISTAN will be the most populous muslim nation on earth.
Good Luck chickies.
I think the US government is scared shitless.
Oh They are.
A wave of Populist uprisings in the Arab world? The way our white men dance?
Their worst fuckin nightmare, after their cotillion moves all up in the club.
Not to worry tho –
We go from Lipless to Carney!
lotta talk about how “we can’t let the Whahabbis take over in Saudi”.
constructing an excuse for intervention, I imagine.
The Whahabbis
Well, sure, by all means they can try the horseradishy soy sauce, but as a scholar of Foreign Policy I can tell ya…
{ / Wild, Bidenesque Impulse } 😉
It is to laugh tho, watching our apparatchiks try to maintain relevance, their bearing in saddle, the belly buster of them trying to mount intervention..I see they got El Baradei in there quick.
Oh just trot out Henry.
Just Mount the rotund old Kissinger to horse.
Send him right in. Hell send everybody in: Baker, Condi, Madelaine, the Georges Mitchell and Shultz,
the Muslims love ’em. 😆
The ruling family ARE Whahabbis!
can’t let the poor, POPULIST Whahabbis … etc.
I know. To which they mumble, well… we realise now we shoulda reigned in the CLERICS in the 70s.
snicker.
Damn missed the speeches….but I wonder how much Israel has promised Murburak, to stay….
no doubt ..if a promise was made, it was gift ‘wrapped’ with some flawless Shamouti oranges and Narcissus Tazetta, dug from the banks of the Sea of Galilee .
speaking of oranges …apparently they’re joining cotton, as the “investor class” determines who should have access to them…….
I water mine down anyway…
Oranges, and other citrus fruits (not to mention plums, figs, persimmons (pear shaped, and the tastier flat ones), and pomegranates) are so abundant in Cali yards and ‘porch’ areas, perhaps a collective could be started where the unemployed with fruit trees could make some extra change.
There is a yard fruit exchange online (even iwth shipping)… if you do a search it probably is findable. I forget the name of it…
Found this online link hon: neighborhoodfruit.com, looks like a good one.
I wonder what legal issues homeowners and renters might have to address if they wanted to just place signs out for passers by.
well I don’t know about elsewhere, but in California if fruit hits the ground, left the tree, it’s a free agent. 😆 so to speak…
I’ve made use of that Cali, et al, free agent bit, with some very abundant, tasty, ‘ground’ plums … mmmmmmm ;0) though I was refering to peeps mebbe making a few bucks, on their excess produce, via a sign …
Wish I was your neighbor, I love kumquats, very easy to grow in large tubs, wish I had more sun where I rent, hardly any frickin direct light.
and yeah, neighborhood fruit-sharing coops would be a wonderful idea, I offered a local to pay for some lemons (I don’t get the proper sun to grow edibles), he sweetly told me to pick some, wouldn’t take my money.
i just gave a bagful of kumquats from the front yard to a couple who wanted to make jam. neighborhood fruit-sharing coops would be a great idea, given how a single tree can produce so much fruit all at once.
oops, see comment above.
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CNN’s got Talk about EVACUATING THE U.S. EMBASSY now!
D R I N K !
MSNBC…one of the commentators [marc ginsberg}saying Israel’s
claiming money backing this revolt came from Iran. Give me a FB.
IBN is claiming that “al quada” aligned are planning assassinations of Jews in Africa.
There are Jews in Africa? Ethiopiaians?
snark!
anyway….the powers that be are going to be hard pressed to find another leader as w2illing as Muburak to kiss US/Israeli ass after wikileaks and Palestine Papers.
I’m guessing there are merchants, operatives, undercover mil…. all sorts of Israelis in Africa.
Nto that I care one way or the other…
IBN is the worst propaganda. turgid.
What was Levy’s company, Israel Africa or something.
Don’t believe this:
Egypt protests: America’s secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising
The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html
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ass cover.
…”we’re your friends….realllly”
what are your thoughts on the noted wikileaks’ ‘signature’ in the Telegraph article you’ve linked to mattes?
See the haaretz article below.
I think Obama is an idealist. And he was pushing for reform. But from the Mubarakian government. I think their intentions were not activists in the streets burning flags.
from haaretz:
Everyone seems to want a legacy. I think the western elite know that it’s just a matter of time before the next world revolution, Bush and Obama worked in different ways to try and manage the change but it’s inevitable. I think wikileaks has popped the pimple so to speak.
The world is top heavy. And everyone is trying to manage what’s coming.
I really have to say that you sort of lost me on Obama the idealist … I, for one, have a real problem with even approaching that belief (if you’re using “idealist” in any benevolent slant of the word), with as many human beings he, to my eyes, has seemingly: derisively, contemptuously …thrown under the bus….not that I am an Assange fan either, I find him to be an absolute CREEP…….
maybe I’ll revisit when I’ve ‘slept on it a bit’ …
I think Bush was an idealist. Remember his mission to spread democracy over all the land?
We might have different definitions of idealism.
mattes, that was not Bush’s mission. It was the drool they sold ….
God knows why anybody bought it.
As for Obama, a thorough reading of the archives of both the Chicago Tribune and the SUn Times is very informative. AND the Chicago Reader. And an early (authorised at the time) biography of him (post senate win), forget the auhors name, started with an “s”. He was a little too truthful in interviews in 06 07 and 08 and the campaign shut him down.
A hard look at Pastor Wright too. (again Chicago Tribune, Sun Times and the local black press)
The Boston Globe had a killer peice on the cruel shit Valerie Jarrett pulled at the CHA. And so on.
Geesh they all drip with bullshit. Amazing how people miss the smell.
Have to admit, I have not read a lot of Obama’s history. Had just listened to his words starting with his speech at the democratic convention. And I so did want to believe…believe in something.
But, his embrace of Wall Street has “enlighten” me.
He was the speaker at both of the annual Goldman Sachs big annual dinners, 2007 and 2008. AND his biggest source of campaign funds, bar none, was financial /money /banks. Far more than McCain.
The die was cast long ago.
He was a small time fixer in Chicago. If you read up on his slice of S Side Chicago (policed by University of Chicago police NOT Chicago cops), he pandered to the voters, whtie liberals, educated blacks of various stripes and the Jews who fit in between (Abner Mikva is an early backer), and some non Jewish Semites, like Edward Said and others.
He wanted to go far, he was saleable, in every sense of the word… Axelrod had been perfecting this bullshite of a non-white candidate, (tho he also ran it using Edwards in 2004) like Deval Patrick and Freddie Ferrer in NYC (both his clients like Edwards), being sold largely to white liberals and various ethnic groupings… He even kept recycling that crap of One America, not Red Not Blue, Not Liberal not Conservative (what treacle)
It was a marriage. People bought it fairly easily.
I don’t get that we have different ideas as to what idealism means (being dedicated to ones ideas, at the expense, perhaps, of others, for better or worse), and I’m kind of surprised that you would disagree that I was on the page that ‘idealism,’ by itself, doesn’t indicate benevolence. What I kind of get,is that we may have different ideas as to what Obama’s idea of reform is?
I guess part of what I meant by idealism is a a belief in a larger vision…greater/higher vision intellectually, makes believers dangerous when they become blinded to realities.
Benevolence would be measured by their minions. Or not.
So I do think Obama and Bush believe their larger than life missions. They say the middle east has the power to create zealots, messiahs….
we differ there hon, ;0(, if you’re referring to ‘missions for humanity, at large’ (which, I’m thinking, you are?) I believe both of them only believe in what makes themselves comfortable, and, I believe that’s pretty damned evident…looking all around me………………………………………..
LOL…I didn’t say they were on our side.
We are considered the unclean masses….:)
Murdoch’s minions planting the “It’s the secret Muslim Pretzle’s fault” that we’ll be bombarded with from the wingnutosphere and Fox.
Talking head….’so why should people on the verge of forecloture in the midwest care about the Egypt?’ i.e. the Oslo Accords’…LOL.
Oh no he dih’int~
Fahreed Zahkaria just called it!
“Beginning of the end”, his take, too!
But NOT a Revolution! NOT A Revolt!
So Says Indisputable Muslim Spokesman, Fahreed:
Just a desire for Change!™ – > D R I N K!
Big, Yes!
But Hey, says Fahreed:
They Have Pyramids! A Long History! PHAROAHS EVEN!
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Sell it, Baby.
I just want to know….how high will oil go?
Well in the end, Hu knows.
😉
Should be good,tho: a huge inflation spike, the double-pentuple-poopling down on the maintenance of the Status Quo, even more Monopoly Money here, I look forward to it, frankly.
For He Spaketh: The Future is Ours to Win!
So I look forward to it.
Well. The prospect of living past it at least.
GREAT pun! :)))))))
24 ouncer in hand …….
Of orange juice? What are you? Rich?!
of course not, silly, SAB Miller, it is, get my Healthcare Reform from one entity (I discovered last night): Altria …provides my ‘air’ …and ‘fluids’ ….
mayhap…the nooz of their “scarcity” hasn’t been fully ‘pronounced’ yet ?
Taiwan News (just today!) told me fruit juice is scarce. And cotton. In fact they said to go buy towels now (really, they did).
thank god I have enough. Towels AND Orange Juice.
Between the speculators and mother nature, 2010 might be a wild ride:
Food costs serve up trouble
By Michael T Klare
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MA25Dj05.html
noone panic buys as well as the taiwanese. they really have it down to an art form, before every taiphoon.
that cotton shortage was particularly amusing (NYT had a hardcopy piece a month or so ago), since, not than many months ago, a record crop was pronounced for the year.
juice oranges are really cheap right now. I am unsure why….
Maybe they can make towels out of orange juice pulp?
well “bamboo” fiber towels failed. Esp after they were required to reveal it was just plain old Rayon, derived from resin.
So bring on the Pulp!
I didn’t hear about that. Hmmm…I wonder about bamboo “yarn” then…
they tried selling towels and bath robes of “toweling”, you know the sort, for after bath….. but after a couple of years some agency stepped in and made them revise the wording.
If it is a resin / rayon, I would imgine it is possibly too thin and not absorbent… maybe good for some things but not toweling.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/wikileaks-cables-mubarak-skeptical-of-u-s-reform-push-1.339868
Wikileaks cables: Mubarak skeptical of U.S. reform push
Leaked cables show U.S. pressure viewed skeptically by Mubarak, who believes ill-advised U.S. pushes for Mideast reform have produced colossal mistakes.
By Reuters
All of this nervous yank pundit talk…
So, Richard, why are the Egyptians protesting?
Well, Lawrence, it’s essentially about jobs (or the lack thereof). Not to mention the fact that the gap between the rich and poor has increased dramatically. And the lack of freedom.
(Subconsciously…) Hey, wait a minute…that sounds just like America. Ruh roh…
🙂
LOL. You wanna know how a government
Dear to The Hearts of American Power is about to be OVERTHROWN??
MI6 loans their agents with those wonderful British Intelligence accents to the CIA for prompt booking as analysts on American television.
via Ben Smith:
Pisses me off, that oil and military companies always come out smelling like roses.
Hard for people living on $4.00 a day to watch the Israelis living it up on champagne while the US bombs the shit out of Iraq and Afghanistan and Israel bombs the shit out of Gaza and steals arab land in the West Bank.
After all, it is their oil.
Didn’t Obamalama say y’all would be driving electric cars by 2015 or something? Oil prices = no big deal!
🙂
Egypt: First rattle out of the Jewish box
http://blogs.jta.org/politics/
Yeh. Well.
Seems like a lot of breath-holding.
These ledes currently on offer at Haaretz..
The Main Event.
Egyptians defy curfew: this is not a demonstration, this is a revolution
A Prop to Bibi
PM Netanyahu: Israel will monitor but not comment on Egypt protests
A prayer for Mubarak as PWOG
Wikileaks cables: Mubarak skeptical of U.S. reform push
A swipe at Hugo.
It’s not only Jews that are suffering under Chavez
And UTTER BULLSHIT
Palestine papers show peace talks are surprisingly serious
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Oh I ALMOST FORGOT!
This –
U.S. Democrats and Pro-Israel Lobbies Slam Republican Senator’s call to halt Israel aid
I noticed all the seniors are mum.
The falling house of cards:
AIPAC’s Egypt Miscalculation
EXCELLENT:
Israel and its American friends want to stop the Egyptian ‘earthquake’
Read the whole thing:
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/israel-and-its-american-friends-want-to-stop-the-egyptian-%E2%80%98earthquake%E2%80%99.html#comments
Well Hosni outta know it’s over because
CNN has Fouad Ajami on and MSNBC has Ed Shultz
hosting the historic moment with ,ahem,
“Middle East Expert”…Steve Clemmons .
oh god. Somebody please flush the gutters.
CNN has one sober guest,
(seen her before, forget her name) who, when asked about the possibility of this potential heya Islamist stuff spreading 🙄 ( All but Cooper’s barely couched assumption) … she cooly corrected him, noting it’s much broader and quickly ticked off a number of other vulnerable regimes, including…..JORDAN.
Angry Arab’s nicknames for Abdullah and Rania……….. King Toy Station and Queen You Tube.
Tiresome little operetta. Time for it to fall.
Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying others who did the same
oh what a tidbit!
That horrid woman.
The shooter read ayn rand.
We the Living. Anti-communist, semi-biographical. One of his favs.
he seemed to list a random bunch of books that Freshmen feel they have to read to look intellectual, and I know that b/c by the time I was a stupid Freshman I’d read most of them on his list.
Ok. Have to admit. I was an ayn rand fan. Read all her books. Even signed up for the Objectivist news letter…but but, it all ended when I reached my 20s. Thank-god.
….I loved Nancy Drew Too. You just can’t go back.
Hardy Boys for me … I had a list in middle school of their books, checked each one off when I finished it.
Gawd, what a nerd …
typical, I thought. Okay for me, not for (lowly) thee.
Loved hwo she was advised thru her attys. So classic.
The horrid books..
weren’t they awful….
Marcat:
ugh. never knew this. So he was anointed.
More than annointed. Raised up, from years ago. And marketed by Axelrod …
Pass the annointing oil…
Meet the New Boss?
How convenient.
Here for briefings…
I read the Egyptians were here for a previously scheduled annual mil powwow…
How much of the framing as reported is true, I have no idea.
Catholic Bishops to Straight Marrieds: No More Oral, No More Handjobs, No More Anal
And they will do what with altar boys? and the occaisional girl child…
snicker.
The thread is a hoot:
18
The missionary position = one missionary + one child.
THIS one made me laugh really hard… what a scream
good stuff!
Remember that you can always hope for a miracle. Wonder if such miracles qualify for sainthood points.
How much of the framing as reported is true, I have no idea. I’m with ya.
Speaking of which, a sensible skepticism is also at the core of this piece at RT, (tho they do their thing too!) but the thread had good commentary too..
Americans would be much better off, if they just stay on their own (isolated by the vast oceans) and enjoined life in their God blessed lands. No, they have to go around and make everybody to hate them…
There is a good summation…
And here’s a shocker at the end..
Also, yum, another nice WikiLeak tid, republished courtesy of the Jerusalem Post.
FWIW, as Dodd and his Bankser friends are still trodding the old sod…
Anyways, hittin the hay, “night all…
No matter what, Israel is uncomfortable and looking over their shoulder, all the time.
this is an interesting take on the passing of Jack Lalanne:
hmm there was always more than a little of the circus strong man in Lalanne.
…and circus strongmen challenging all comers to match them lift for lift
He was on local television here, from the 50s onward. Tho the last years were informercials, his own version of the VegoMatic sort of thing….. Supposedly you could put whole fruits and vegetables into the grinder portion. I say, god help anyone who drank what came out of the thing.
oh, I forgot about that industrial juicer thing he used to sell.
I wonder who in the hell is listening in Egypt to the co-optive nonsense that the Egyptian Revolution is “Secretly Backed by the U.S.”
Yeh Good Luck with that Welcome wag-on, the one shooting tear gas.
How could anyone half-hip in Egypt or anywhere else possibly buy such pathetic time-buying counterspin? Whether it’s from U.S. Idiot Box broadcasts or it repeated IMO as a quick time-buying gambit by Russian propoganda in advance of currency and other market impacts…
“OUR” Media tools BTW: REALLY getting desperate:
– > “There is no identifiable leader behind this!
Can’t We Has Leader?
How can them ‘gyptians DO THAT?!??!”
LOL. Oh I dunnodair, Webster’s Dictionary.
How can they DO That?
How about Calculated Deception, Earnest?
Secrecy and some Subterfuge?
Teh terms Plausible Deniability and
Tacit Understanding ring a bell?
Maybe the Americans can look ’em up while reviewing Anarchy in the A section before looking for Another Asshole to join the A-Team.
I just have the sense that the best possible outcome for the long run is commensurate with how long an “Identifiable” (translation co-optable or readily assasinated) “Leader” DOESN”T emerge in the short run.
Gahd, CNN really groping to get a handle on this. Jeezis. Send em some help already. The fucker’s Script Doctors must have walked off the set after the shooting of Gabby was done.
That was really, really good. One of the main reasons why corporate profits are so high is that personal saving is so low. Self-dicipline is bad for business.
WaPo this Saturday morn —
NYT-
😯 Ruh-roh.
And this Classic Exceptionalism from – go figure –
Foreign Policy –
😆 Cheer up, Ellen Knickmeyer, whoevah ya are!
The pic of Egyptians on TOP of the Armored Personell Carrier accompanying the piece makes it well worthwhile!
Oh,
Royally Puckered Assholes in Saudi Arabia now.
I love the no frills packaging on their messaging now, too: CNN! Just get it on the air , Damnit!
NOW CNN has a full blown,
Shit-yer-Establishment-pants PANIC piece up..
Iranian Missile Bases in Egypt! Lebanon! Saudi Arabia!
Washington and Israel are in full panic mode.
Prepare for flying bullshite, in all directions.
Hillary is gonna have to talk even s l o w e r.
Does she think the world is deaf or dumb. or both.
I must say she looks the idiot.
And WITH THAT over, CNN says the Interior Ministry is being stormed. W
Which as C&C of Egyptian Central Security Forces, is the rough equivalent of them storming the FBI and Homeland Security.
From AJ’s English live feed…3 Protesters killed at Interior Ministry as first wave is repulsed by Mubarak loyalists
Crickets from the Army at MoI , Mubaraks HQ for his torturers, street goons, etc. ..
the Army IS securing the Parliament Bldg tho…
Whatever will little Obby DO – – – – – as this turns much more violent, from state forces.
Many more casualties in Alexandria and the city of Suez too..
I read protests broke out in the prisons and “political prisoners”, some of the Muslim Brotherhood, were killed…
Protesters at Egypt Central Bank’s Printing House, their Mint. Army sends them off with warning shots…
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Mubarak appoints Intel Chief, Omar Suliman as VP.
First time in 30 years.. the AJ analyst as its announced says its a vehicle for Mubarak to leave.
Second Wave of Protesters Storming the Ministry of Interior Now.
As masses holds Prayer in Tahrir Square…
the stenographer standing in front of the White House is claiming that Obama et al supported the protesters all along …
… now onto a scare story about teh terra!
I am not sure this is one Ob and Co can make their way thru. Flat footed, flat heavy feet on the ground.
They should be nervous. Will we find out that Obamalama has continued rendering suspects to Egypt for torture? Stay tuned.
My guess is yes…
Guardian’s lede…
CBC interview with a guy from Human Rights Watch in Alexandria:
– after battling with the police all day in the city (13 protesters killed), the people burned down all of the police stations.
– the army showed up and was greeted with “flowers and tea”. (Suck on that, Mubarak.)
– the police are nowhere to be found now except for “secret police” thugs – one of whom punched the guy in the face while trying to take his phone.
All of this against the backdrop of the comfy elites meeting in Davos to talk about how they really really really want to help the world’s rabble-rousing peasants. Really.
Relocation!
I saw that one –
the Charlton Heston flick, right?!?
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Welp, El Al sure beats takin’ it on the hoof or tryin to rent a chariot for 40 YEARS I guess.
I’m pretty happy.. no matter what some things will change.
I did catch one report that “dozens” have been killed…
Hey look! I t knocked Kaine off MTP!!
BULLETIN — Secretary Clinton will address Egypt on all five Sunday shows. She will tape brief interviews with each anchor tomorrow morning.
–Christiane Amanpour said on “World News” that she was heading to Cairo for “This Week.” … DNC Chairman Tim Kaine no longer on “Meet” due to Egypt.
Robert Fisk is in Cairo.
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