Egypt: Two Million Protest Mubarak in Cairo!

Anyone notice for being about 80, Mubarak actually looks pretty damn good, dude must work out.

 

He eats according to the food pyramid.

 

Some pretty big pyramids over there, dude must be eating a 5,000 calorie diet.

Wonder how many calories trying to avoid being overthrown burns.

(Also in the news, Egypt's hated past interior minister has apparently been handed over to the army for legal prosecution)

 

My brain is currently spinning with parody exercise video ideas- aimed at both protesters and the objects of their angst.

Hell- protesting itself must be a good cardiovascular workout... though evading angry dissenters furnishes a more intense pump.

 

He's around 80?!

He looks like he's 40 something. Then again, I only have North Americans to compare to...

 

He's actually 82 apparently

 

To the topic... my dearth of knowledge about Egypt outside what has been furnished via mainstream news sources as well as little time to do any meaningful research leaves me wondering exactly how a political shift within Egypt will affect the nature of our presence in the region- and whether the shift will act to isolate Israel and embolden those in the Arab world who have vowed to destroy her try to make good on their threats.

Screwing with oil flow through the Suez could work to reduce automotive pollution here in CorpU$A.

 

Israel is fucked in it's goals of genocide in Gaza in the fact Egypt will near certainly lift the blockade on goods into Gaza on its side(though general travel would probably still be restricted)

We're fine because Egypt won't do anything to turn off the siphon of money from us. Ironically our funding and training of Egypt's military probably helped Mubarak's demise.The Egyptian army has always been very professional, and this combined with it being a draft army has left the military in a place of very high respect in Egypt. Apparently out $35 billion investment paid off, well not for us but for Egypt, considering how quick in other countries the army could've squashed any protests the police couldn't, but the army made it clear from day one they'd follow no orders to suppress peaceful protests.

This is in fact not the case in places like Iran(even though with the Revolutionary Guards they basically have an army inside the army, kind of like the SS), Syria, and god knows how many other places where the military has other agendas and loyalties at hand than the sake of the nation.

Actually Syria wouldn't need to use its army either, their normal security forces are super good at stopping anything before it happens.

 

I suppose its comparative restraint is something that portends short term stability in oil supply. I wonder if some of the protesters feel Mubarak has been playing obedient lap dog to the US. I'm sure there are more than a few low people in high places here champing at the bit to get our troops militarily involved and hopefully that past couple of elections have severely thinned their numbers to the point where they will not try pursuing any sort of military occupation under the premise that doing so will help keep/restore order.

Power vacuums are opportunities on many fronts

 

many of the posters quite clearly dont know much about the structure of middle-eastern culture on egypt.

my closest business contact is also a friend and calls his people down on egypt.

20 million people, out of 82 million public census poll, are out. That leaves the little ones and the women, mothers, to take care of them. This means, literally, the whole population is out.

The army members are very close to the people. The police members were usually dealing with the people on a daily basis, and hence the most corrupt. Now they were moved out, and while there was a curfew announced, so what? Mubarick is just a figure-head president of a corporation called EGYPT, claiming lands, no different then baruch (that's Obama for those who can't figure it out) is President and CEO of the UNITED STATES FEDERAL CORPORATION.

People, these 'countries' are just corporate shells, owned by the banksters.

If the president of MCDONALDS told you not to go out after 8, would you pay any attention to him? NO!

The people on the middle-east have vast private networks in many cases, just like americans USED to have and are currently redeveloping. It is the total and utter failure for people to act in trust, and in private, to the exclusion of the public (the fraud), which allows the public to grow and become 'more massive'.

Now the people on egypt are challenging the status quo. JFK did say 'Look to the south' for signs of real leadership. The people on egypt haven't sucked the fluoride AND bromide, their community centers (mosques etc) are strongly-attended, their food is largely not GMO. The people at a gut level know they are being attacked, slowly whittled away at by hydrogenated fats, which coat the digestive track with a rubbery substance, stopping/slowing genuine 'gut' feelings, and feelings are how we create - a living people do not want to lose their authority (creativity, authorship of their own life) and turn it over to a dead corporate shell.

Many of us may not like the people on egypt because of their religion (christian, muslim, etc) however, it's a passthrough stepping stone on the way to freedom and independence, as they way they CULTURALLY _do_ their 'way', or Dao, is what creates what you see today!

 

I agree with this, Israels genocides are pretty fucked up. Honestly I hate Israel more than any other country. To have the balls to complain about being Genocided in the 40's and then turn around and create your own genocide is insane hypocrisy. The worst part is my country the US backs that disgusting government. If that weren't the case I would hope Egypt's new government would gang up on Israel with the other Muslim nations and give them another taste of what they're dishing out. Though if that happened the US would come to Israel's aid and the last thing the US needs is a new war. That and the soon to be new Egypt would be in a bad position to get into a war with us, so I hope this doesn't happen.


Btw for anyone who might take my statement the wrong way. I am not anti-semitic, I am anti hypocrite and there are plenty of jewish people are not hypocrites.

 

Has anybody read any decent articles/thoughts from Egyptians on both sides and no side that aren't taking part in the protests?

 

Some Egyptian guy, part of some group, posted on Twitter that he and others are worried that the government is going to commit a war crime against the people either today or tomorrow.

 

David fucking Cameron is visiting Egypt today. The ****.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12523572

Like what can this two faced moron offer Egypt at a time like this, some of his "democracy".

Fuck off Cameron. I hope someone kills him while he is there.

 

Egypt welcomed his visit. So...