Kissinger Bombshell: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan targeted to stop food-independence

[Dig]

Never forget that the "Muslim Brotherhood" like al CIAduh are tools of Gotha-Rothschild just like their Likud puppets.

This Israel-Palestine religious-socialist nonsense is not about JEWS or Sharia Law or women in Hajibs, it's always been about a Western-Global-Corporatist USURY-MAFIA BANKSTERING BEACHHEAD in the Arab world.

IT'S THEIR RIGHTEOUS laws customs and culture that REJECT THE CRIMES OF USURY that is the "Enemy" of the TRAZIs.

ALL these "religious fanatic" patsies are just toys in a globalist game of theft, robbery, corruption and economic pillage.

absolutely, and they are now training a new group of "green revolutionaries" where their religious fundamentalism is the perverted global warming crap. that will likely be the CIA RED CELLS that use Goldman Sach's Facebook to create a fake revolution here.

[agentbluescreen]

bwaaaaaaaahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You are using the "Saad El-Deen Ibraheem" bullshit to say Mubarak was against Sadat?

Is this a fricking joke?

Saad El-Deen Ibraheem was 1,000% against Sadat and the peace negotiations with Israel. He has spent the last few decades being corted by CFR puppets to drum up negative Egyptian sentiment in prep for possible coups. Mubarak has actually obeyed Sadat's policies over the past 30 years. This is a fact, on record, incontivertible. Mubarak can be blammed for being a US/UK puppet, for not developing a plan for proper democratic transfers of public servants within an overall constitutional republic, but against Sadat...total horse shit. 100% fabricated nonsense.

Wake up to what really has been going on in Egypt...which remains a 30 year victory over the neocon agenda (conficts, disruption of oil distribution check points, weapons sales, eugenics operations, food as a weapon, religious fundamentalism, fake enemies, etc.):
The highest profile guy who was involved with the assassination of Sadat was a drill sergeant at Fort Bragg...

Feds have suspended his sentencing although he pleaded guilty to bombing African embassies because supposedly he gives us excellent intelligence on the whereabouts of the corpse of Bin Laden

You cannot make this shit up!

I'm not saying anything, what's an Ibraheem?

The Gotha-Rothschild Mafia's punishment of Sadat and Begin is about Bankstering, not religion.

Sadat and Begin didn't die with billions of dollars in payoffs in their bank accounts!

The promotion and maintenance of the Judeo-Christianist/Islamist world war is the object of and consequence of the Gotha-Rothschild Mafia's Bankstering Beachhead they planted in Palestine, disguised as a "Jewish State".

Mubarek has always been an Arab Likudnik handling and managing his "Muslim Brotherhood" Mossad-teams.

Peace in the former Palestine will never be about peace with Likud.

Recall the proven ancient axiom of "they who doth protest too much"

[Dig]

I'm not saying anything, what's an Ibraheem?

He is the guy who did that "shocking" investigive report (similar to a report saying that MLK was a commie) on Sadat's assassination.

The Gotha-Rothschild Mafia's punishment of Sadat and Begin is about Bankstering, not religion.

Yup, and using the fake religulous to carry out their deceptions just like this fake coup.

Sadat and Begin didn't die with billions of dollars in payoffs in their bank accounts!

They were exterminated by the same banksters attempting a coup in Egypt using the same patsies at the MB. What does that have to do with Mubarak who has been fighting them for 30 years? If anything it shows the Sadat assassination was unsuccesful at shifting Egyptian policy due to Mubarak. Very different from the fallout after the same banksters blew JFK's brains out.

The promotion and maintenance of the Judeo-Christianist/Islamist world war is the object of and consequence of the Gotha-Rothschild Mafia's Bankstering Beachhead they planted in Palestine, disguised as a "Jewish State".

yup.

Mubarek has always been a Arab Likudnik handling and managing his "Muslim Brotherhood" Mossad-teams.

100% false, a .05 second search on an NSA approved search engine will expose how comical your assertion is.

Peace in the former Palestine will never be about peace with Likud.

And as exposed above: Qatar, Al-Jazeera, CNN, ABC, RAND, Brookings, Saban, Romney, etc. are all behind the sabotage of the peace talks. The whole point of the fake revolution was to stop the natural movement towards peace.

Recall the proven ancient axiom of "they who doth protest too much"

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[agentbluescreen]

100% false, a .05 second search on an NSA approved search engine will expose how comical your assertion is.

That's why they're _GothaNSA "approved"

Plunder: When the rule of law is illegal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfdfhACuhjk&NR=1

"Nomadic Savages" and World Empires - manufacturing "bounds" in the commons

[Dig]

That's why they're _GothaNSA "approved"

Plunder: When the rule of law is illegal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfdfhACuhjk&NR=1

"Nomadic Savages" and World Empires - manufacturing "bounds" in the commons

so use an unapproved search engine, it will yield the same results.

[citizenx]

Egyptian VP vows changes to appease protesters
By the CNN Wire Staff
February 6, 2011 -- Updated 2024 GMT (0424 HKT)
Crisis in Egypt: Day 13

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW:ElBaradei: If Mubarak doesn't leave, his "regime would retrench"
Ideas discussed include a possible end to emergency laws after 30 years
Some protesters say the representatives meeting with Suleiman don't represent them


Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman on Sunday met with representatives of key opposition groups and offered concessions -- including some that, if enacted, could bring dramatic change to the country.

Among the ideas agreed to by the two sides at the meeting, according to a report on state-run television, was a future end to the military emergency law that has been in place since President Hosni Mubarak came to power in 1981.

The two sides also discussed steps to ensure free media and communication and plans to form a series of committees that would oversee changes aimed at bringing about a representative government.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/06/egypt.protests/index.html?hpt=T1

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They are really prepping Suleiman for the presidency now, and the Egyptian people to accept it.

It's like they are trying to make it look like he is the softer side of the regime, when he is in fact the Grand Inquisitor torture chief.

[Dig]

Egyptian VP vows changes to appease protesters
By the CNN Wire Staff
February 6, 2011 -- Updated 2024 GMT (0424 HKT)
Crisis in Egypt: Day 13

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW:ElBaradei: If Mubarak doesn't leave, his "regime would retrench"
Ideas discussed include a possible end to emergency laws after 30 years
Some protesters say the representatives meeting with Suleiman don't represent them


Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman on Sunday met with representatives of key opposition groups and offered concessions -- including some that, if enacted, could bring dramatic change to the country.

Among the ideas agreed to by the two sides at the meeting, according to a report on state-run television, was a future end to the military emergency law that has been in place since President Hosni Mubarak came to power in 1981.

The two sides also discussed steps to ensure free media and communication and plans to form a series of committees that would oversee changes aimed at bringing about a representative government.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/06/egypt.protests/index.html?hpt=T1

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They are really prepping Suleiman for the presidency now, and the Egyptian people to accept it.

It's like they are trying to make it look like he is the softer side of the regime, when he is in fact the Grand Inquisitor torture chief.

They are appeasing the bullshit CFR so that the globalists can save face from this mother of all diplomacy FUBAR's. He ain't gonna run the country and there are serious trilateral peace talks in the works between Egypt/Palestinians/Israel which Al-Jazeera and the CIA's Muslim Brotherhood are desperately trying to sabotage.

We need to stop taking CIA/CNN headlines as if they have .00000000000000000000001% truth in them and then reacting to it like caffinated monkeys. Just like the South Park character TWEET which defines someone obsessed with Twitter better than any other analogy I can think of.

This is their country and we need to stop dictating who lives and who dies to them.

[citizenx]

Seems like an odd time to be engaging in peace talks.  What IS up with that?

You'd think that would kind of be on hold right now.

Any sources on ongoing peace talks between Egypt, Israel and the Palestinians (PA?)?

[citizenx]

Nearest thing I could find so far:



Egypt crisis 'means Israel must resume peace talks'
(AFP) – 3 days ago

JERUSALEM — Israel must relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians in light of the massive protests rocking Egypt, a senior Israeli politician said, as the popular uprising on Thursday entered its tenth day.

Shaul Mofaz, head of the powerful parliamentary committee on foreign affairs and defence, said the revolt in Egypt is creating a new strategic reality in the region, making it imperative for Israel to restart talks with the Palestinians.

"The crisis in Egypt is a new strategic situation," the former defence minister told journalists late on Wednesday.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2_5vEfLiDy51qytA1AQ1VKeosFw?docId=CNG.4bf1d9b99ad76d5eb936170dbf8befbe.2f1
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Now, that looks like three days ago Israel wanted to resume peace talks, but still haven't seen where that has happened yet.

[citizenx]

Now this is from Haaretz, so highly questionable, but looks like talks were stillon hold as of the fifth:

Published 21:21 05.02.11 Latest update 21:21 05.02.11

Mideast Quartet: Israel-PA peace talks must advance quickly due to Egypt unrest

Middle East negotiators say further delay in resumption of negotiations is detrimental to the prospects for regional peace and security.

By Shlomo Shamir, Barak Ravid and News Agencies
Tags: Israel news Middle East peace

The Quarter of Mideast negotiators urged Saturday that Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations must advance quickly due to the recent turmoil in Egypt.

The announcement, which was made at the end of a Quartet meeting in Munich, came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to delay the Quarter meet in recent days, claiming the timing wasn't right in light of the political crisis in Egypt.

In a statement, the group said that in view of developments in the Middle East, the Quartet expresses its belief that further delay in the resumption of negotiations is detrimental to the prospects for regional peace and security.

continued:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mideast-quartet-israel-pa-peace-talks-must-advance-quickly-due-to-egypt-unrest-1.341451

[citizenx]

And this is one day agon from Turkey, looks like effrts to revive the peace talks are stil stalled:

Turkey, US share 'identical views' on Egypt: Davutogl

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday that Turkey and the United States share "100 percent identical views" about Egypt.

However, Turkey believes that it is not the time to discuss pushing forward the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Davutoglu told reporters ahead of his talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference...

...Clinton was due to join EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to discuss efforts to revive the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.

http://www.expatica.com/de/news/german-news/turkey-us-share-identical-views--on-egypt-davutogl_127944.html

[Dig]

Nearest thing I could find so far:



Egypt crisis 'means Israel must resume peace talks'
(AFP) – 3 days ago

JERUSALEM — Israel must relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians in light of the massive protests rocking Egypt, a senior Israeli politician said, as the popular uprising on Thursday entered its tenth day.

Shaul Mofaz, head of the powerful parliamentary committee on foreign affairs and defence, said the revolt in Egypt is creating a new strategic reality in the region, making it imperative for Israel to restart talks with the Palestinians.

"The crisis in Egypt is a new strategic situation," the former defence minister told journalists late on Wednesday.

continued:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2_5vEfLiDy51qytA1AQ1VKeosFw?docId=CNG.4bf1d9b99ad76d5eb936170dbf8befbe.2f1
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Now, that looks like three days ago Israel wanted to resume peace talks, but still haven't seen where that has happened yet.

You have to look beyond the MSM...

STEP 1 - Manufacture cover story for Al-Jazeera/Qatar

2 months ago while peace talks were going on, a supposed "leak" gets strategically fired off to target Egypt as a possible sabateur of peace negotiations between Israel and Palestinians. Is says that if Egypt did not disupt peace talks than Qatar would not slander them in a CIA/MI6 propaganda war. Here it is in all its glory:

Al Jazeera exposed as only a political tool?
http://www.politics.ie/media/145188-al-jazeera-exposed-only-political-tool.html

I am a fan of Al Jazeera and would watch it most days. But a recent Wikileak puts a huge question mark over the outlets credability. Amongst the documents leaked on Sunday is one claiming that Qatar offered Egypt a softening up of Al Jazeera coverage and criticism of Egypt if it delivered a lasting solution for the Palestinians.

Quote:Qatar is allegedly using the al-Jazeera news network as a bargaining chip, apparently promising Egypt that it would cease the network's transmission there for a year if President Hosni Mubarak agreed to deliver "a lasting settlement for the Palestinians"

Taken from here:

BBC News - List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked

Now I could argue that Qatar is acting in the best interests of some and with noble intent. But does this ability to deploy the al Jazeera network seemingly at will against opponents as a political bargaining chip mean Al Jazeera itself can no longer be considered neutral or endowed with a shred of editorial credability?

Now to be fair I only watch Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera Arabic is considered by some (Robert Fisk amongst them) to be pure poisen and gutter journalism. But there remains a question mark now over the entire network.

For instance I think Al Jazeera does a great job in covering regions Western media is not used to covering (its People and POwer series is often very very good).

BUT implicit in this leaked information is that the activity of Al Jazeera only selectively covers issues of human rights and justice. It can be assumed that if someone is willing to tow the line the Qatar Royal family wish them too, then Al Jazeera will leave them alone. That amounts to tacit support. If Egypt tows the Qatari line Mubarack and his ruling party will get more favourable coverage from Al Jazeera, or at the very least remove one of the few outlets for criticism of the Egyptian regime at home.

If these allagations are true then Al Jazeera has been, maybe since its inception, a part of the practice of regional Mid East censorship, rather than an exception to it.

As I said I do watch Al Jazeera regularly. But I have been concerned for some time at the glaring holes in its coverage, especially with regard to Pakistan. It happily presents Hamid Gul, a Taliban spokesman, as the voice of Pakistani opposition. Yet never addresses government corruption and the existance of slavery and the Opium trade in Pakistan, in which all sides seem implicated and profit from. The rights of Berber peoples is another issue aswell as Western Sahara. Taken together this lack of coverage over time seems to fit with Qatari pro-Arabist sympathies, which again demotes Al Jazeeras credability as an impartial network, whether in English or Arabic.
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STEP 2 - Sabotage the talks yourself and then blame others

Qatar and Al-Jazeera disrupted the peace talks themselves with the "Palestine Papers" which were a PRECISION STRIKE weapon of mass deception as axposed by the Palestinian leadership.

Holy crap!

One month ago Al-Jazeera and Qatar destroyed mid east peace talks...

Palestinians vent anger at Qatar, Al-Jazeera for psychological operations that destroyed peace talks
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=23902
24/01/2011

RAMALLAH, West Bank, (AP) A senior Palestinian official condemned Qatar-based Al-Jazeera on Monday and a crowd of protesters vandalized the satellite channel's West Bank headquarters after it reported on leaked documents that claimed Palestinian leaders offered large concessions in peace talks with Israel in 2008.

The angry outburst followed the airing late Sunday of what al-Jazeera said were leaked documents showing that Palestinian leaders had offered broad concessions on two of the thorniest issues in negotiations with Israel: Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told reporters on Monday the news network engaged in "media games ... to trick and mislead the simple citizen." He angrily accused the Gulf state of Qatar, which bankrolls the station, of damaging Palestinian interests.

"What Al-Jazeera is doing today is an attempt to distort the national position of the Palestinian leadership," he said.

Abed Rabbo said the report relied on out-of-context quotes, insinuations and outright fabrications.

Comparing the program to WikiLeaks, which he said merely publishes leaked documents, he said Al-Jazeera could "draw conclusions, counterfeit documents and change texts, cut a word here and there and put together images of people with no relationship to negotiations."

He added: "This is what serves Al-Jazeera's prior position."

He also took aim at the prince of Qatar, calling the program "a political campaign of the first degree" coming from "a political decision at the highest level from our brother in Qatar."

STEP 3 - With MI6/Qatar's Al-Jazeera & CIA/Zionazi Saban Center at Brookings...get together with the Bilderberg Muslim Brotherhood to topple the regimes who most want peace:

Egypt
Jordan
Tunisia
Morocco
Yemen
Algeria
Syria

Al-Jazeera, Brookings, Saban, CFR, RAND, Bilderberg are actively destroying peace. They have been doing it for over 70 years.  If there were no outside influences on the region, they would have stayed at peace for those 70 years.

This is not organic and this is not spontaneous, this is a full fledged intelligence political operation coming from "the highest levels"!

[citizenx]

OK, I understand and appareciate that, I was just trying to find out if the talks really were on-going or temprorarily on hold.  It looks like they are on hold and for the reasons you just stated.

[citizenx]

[citizenx]

Wednesday, February 9, 2011Everything You Need To Know About The $2 Billion That America Gives To Egypt Each Year
Marian Wang at businessinsider.com



Marian Wang,


The protests in Egypt have prompted renewed questions about the U.S.’s aid to the country—an issue that the U.S. government has also pledged to reconsider [1]. We’ve taken a step back and tried to answer some basic questions, such as how as much the U.S. has given, who has benefitted, and who gets to decide how its all spent.

How much does the U.S. spend on Egypt?
Egypt gets the most U.S. foreign aid of any country except for Israel. (This doesn't include [2] the money spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.) The amount varies each year and there are many different funding streams, but U.S. foreign assistance to Egypt has averaged just over $2 billion every year since 1979, when Egypt struck a peace treaty with Israel [3] following the Camp David Peace Accords, according to a Congressional Research Service report from 2009.

That average includes both military and economic assistance, though the latter has been in decline since 1998 [4], according to CRS.

What about military aid—how much is it, and what does it buy? 
According to the State Department, U.S. military aid to Egypt totals over $1.3 billion annually [5] in a stream of funding known as Foreign Military Financing.
U.S. officials have long argued that the funding promotes strong ties between the two countries’ militaries, which in turn has all sorts of benefits. For example, U.S. Navy warships get “expedited processing” through the Suez Canal.

Here’s a 2009 U.S. embassy cable recently released by WikiLeaks that makes essentially the same point [6]:

President Mubarak and military leaders view our military assistance program as the cornerstone of our mil-mil relationship and consider the USD 1.3 billion in annual FMF as "untouchable compensation" for making and maintaining peace with Israel. The tangible benefits to our mil-mil relationship are clear: Egypt remains at peace with Israel, and the U.S. military enjoys priority access to the Suez Canal and Egyptian airspace.
The military funding also enables Egypt to purchase U.S.-manufactured military goods and services, a 2006 report [7] from the Government Accountability Office explained [PDF]. The report criticized both the State Department and the Defense Department for failing to measure how the funding actually contributes to U.S. goals.

Does this aid require Egypt to meet any specific conditions regarding human rights?
No. Defense Secretary Gates stated in 2009 that foreign military financing “should be without conditions [8].”
Gates prefaced that comment by saying that the Obama administration, like other U.S. administrations, is “always supportive of human rights.”
The administration of former president George W.  Bush had threatened to link military assistance to Egypt’s human rights progress [9], but it didn’t follow through. When exiled Egyptian dissident, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, called on the U.S. government to attach conditions to aid to Egypt, U.S. officials dismissed the idea as unrealistic [10].

Who benefits from the military aid?
Obviously the aid benefits Egypt’s military and whatever government it supports, which has so far been Mubarak’s. Foreign military financing is a great deal for Egypt—it gets billions in no-strings-attached funding to modernize its armed forces and replace old Soviet weapons with advanced U.S. weaponry and military equipment.
According to the State Department, that equipment has included [5] fighter jets, tanks, armored personnel carriers, Apache helicopters, anti-aircraft missile batteries and aerial surveillance aircraft.
Egypt can purchase this equipment either through the U.S. military or directly from U.S. defense contractors, and it can do so on credit. In 2006, the GAO noted that Egypt had entered some defense contracts in advance of—and in excess of—its military assistance appropriations. Some of those payments wouldn’t be due in full until 2011, the GAO said.
The other group that benefits from this aid arrangement is U.S. defense contractors [11]. As we reported with Sunlight Foundation, contractors including BAE Systems, General Dynamics, General Electric, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have all done business [12] with the Egyptian government through relationships facilitated by high-powered DC lobbyists.

What about economic aid?
U.S. economic aid to Egypt has declined over the years, but is generally in the hundreds of millions annually.
Some of this aid also comes back to benefit the U.S. through programs such as the Commodity Import Program [5]. Under that program, the U.S. gives Egypt millions in economic aid to import U.S. goods. The State Department, on its website, describes it as “one of the largest and most popular USAID programs.”
Others were not as successful. A 2006 inspector general’s audit of a 4-year, $57-million project to increase jobs and rural household incomes found that the U.S. investment “has not increased the number of jobs as planned [13]” among participants [PDF]. A 2009 audit of a $151 million project to modernize Egypt’s financial sector found that while the country’s real estate finance market experienced significant growth throughout the project’s duration, USAID’s efforts were “not clearly measurable [14]” [PDF] and the growth could be due to market forces or the Egyptian government's actions.

Critics of the Obama administration’s economic aid to Egypt have noted that in 2007, for instance, such aid only amounted to $6 per capita [15], compared with the $40.80 per capita spent on Jordan that same year. Ahmad El-Naggar, economic researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, criticized the U.S. in 2009 for focusing on “programs valued for strict ideological reasons,” and not on the country’s growing poverty and unemployment rate—two issues fueling the current protests.

What about funding for democracy promotion and civil society?
Funding for programs that promote democracy and good governance through direct funding to NGOs in Egypt averaged about $24 million from fiscal year 1999 to 2009. But these, too, had “limited impact,” due to “a lack of Egyptian government cooperation [16],” according to an October 2009 inspector general audit [PDF]:
The Government of Egypt has resisted USAID/Egypt’s democracy and governance program and has suspended the activities of many U.S. NGOs because Egyptian officials thought these organizations were too aggressive.
Recently released cables from WikiLeaks show that officials within the Egyptian government have asked that USAID stop financing organizations [17] that were “not properly registered as NGOs” with the Egyptian government. AFP reports on a 2007 embassy cable that describes President Mubarak as “deeply skeptical of the US role in democracy promotion.”

Per the Egyptian government’s complaints, the U.S. now limits its funding to NGOs registered with the government, therefore excluding most human rights groups [18], Huffington Post reported. Such funding has also declined sharply under the Obama administration.

continued:

http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/everything-you-need-to-know-about-2.html

[bigron]

Made in America: Mubarak’s Most Brutal Thugs Trained With FBI

FBI Agent Turned TSA Chief John Pistole Oversaw Training

by Jason Ditz, February 09, 2011

WikiLeaks cables, including  07CAIRO3348, released today by the Daily Telegraph, detail the Bush and Obama Administrations were providing training to Egypt’s secret police, the SSIS, which cables and human rights NGOs have repeatedly cited for routine torture of detainees.

MORE

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/09/made-in-america-mubaraks-most-brutal-thugs-trained-with-fbi/

[Satyagraha]

Made in America: Mubarak’s Most Brutal Thugs Trained With FBI

FBI Agent Turned TSA Chief John Pistole Oversaw Training

by Jason Ditz, February 09, 2011

WikiLeaks cables, including  07CAIRO3348, released today by the Daily Telegraph, detail the Bush and Obama Administrations were providing training to Egypt’s secret police, the SSIS, which cables and human rights NGOs have repeatedly cited for routine torture of detainees.

MORE

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/09/made-in-america-mubaraks-most-brutal-thugs-trained-with-fbi/

OMFG.
We arranged (Holder/Clinton administration) for renditions to Egypt to torture prisoners.
We trained the torturers.

[Satyagraha]

February 2, 2011 --
Obama showing his CIA roots in bid to save Mubarak regime
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20110202

President Obama's sudden dispatch of former Republican-appointed U.S. ambassador to Egypt and India Frank Wisner, Jr. clearly represents additional proof that Obama is a true-to-life "Manchurian candidate." In the case of Obama, he is actually the "McLean candidate," a reference to the community, the outskirts of which include the CIA's headquarters.

Obama and his administration, which seems more interested in following the diktats of the Israelis and their mouthy lobby in the United States, has shown itself to be tone deaf to the feelings on the Arab street. The State Department, which is the greatest font of status quo enthusiasts in the world, was caught with their pants down after it became apparent that Egypt's transition from its 30-year plus dictator, Hosni Mubarak, would not be a "soft landing" transition and that the Soros-themed "Lotus Revolution" was, in fact, a mass popular rebellion over which the United States could exercise no influence.

Just as with Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution," there is now a fear within the power structures of the Pentagon, CIA, and Israel Lobby that the presence of the Ennadha and Muslim Brotherhood as influential members of the reform coalitions in Tunisia and Egypt, respectively, pose some kind of threat to Israel and American military interests in the region.

With Mubarak on the ropes, a series of events began to unfold . The agents of status quo in Washington and Jerusalem began to paint the picture of Egypt as another "Iran" and that the post-Mubarak government of Egypt would scrap the Israeli-Egyptian peace accord hammered out by President Jimmy Carter. After Carter publicly stated that it was time for Mubarak to step down and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- no friend of Israel -- made a similar call, the cabalistic gnomes of Washington and Jerusalem began to alter their incantations. The Lotus and Jasmine Revolutions, crafted at low levels by the typical infusions of cash and other assets from George Soros's Open Society Institute, the neocon Freedom House, the CIA-linked US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), had backfired and the situation was getting out of their control. There was a realization that real democracy in Egypt and Tunisia, as well as other Arab nations where the streets were stirring, was a bad thing for the likes of Soros, Obama, and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Something had to be done and done fast, especially as millions of Egyptian demonstrators poured into the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities. First, Mubarak could not step down right away -- he had to remain until a scheduled election in September. Second, Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who cooperated with the CIA in its rendition and torture programs and with the Mossad and Israel Defense Force in their brutal actions against Gaza, was appointed Vice President, Egypt's first in 30 years. Suleiman would martial the police and paramilitary forces to crack the spine of the opposition. Third, propagandists for Israel and the globalization crowd, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and even Obama called for "stability" and an "orderly" transition of power in Egypt. Obama was telling Mubarak not to run for re-election at the same time almost two million people on the streets of Cairo were demanding Mubarak's immediate resignation. The corporate media broadcast the "stability and order" desires of Clinton, Blair, Obama, and other meaningless officials like the European Union's foreign minister, Baroness Ashton to Egypt and the rest of the Arab world. It was merely a ridiculous attempt to placate Egypt's masses while buying time for Mubarak and his regime. And it did not work.

Those three courses of action undertaken, a fourth, more sinister plan unfolded. Obama sent Ronald Reagan's and George HW Bush's ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, Jr., to Egypt as a special envoy to talk to Mubarak, Wisner's close friend. However, Wisner has, like his father, a long history with the CIA and coups and suppression of popular revolts. Wisner's presence was merely an attempt by Obama to reassure Mubarak that the United States and Israel would throw their full intelligence and covert military weight behind Mubarak and Suleiman to preserve the regime until a government, suitable to Washington and Jerusalem, could be identified and installed in Cairo as a "reform" government.

After buying time for Mubarak, his regime has organized gangs of thugs, many of them security police, to attack the protesters on the streets, including those in Tahrir Square in Cairo. The scenes of violence against anti-Mubarak demonstrators is a psychological warfare operation meant to scare the people off the streets. Many of Egypt's security forces have received psy-ops training in the United States, including at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The United States and other western nations are now merely offering platitudes about the need for a "start" of transition talks but, secretly, are involved in a "Kabuki" theater dance with Mubarak and his regime's officials.

Wisner, a recent chairman of the CIA-linked American International Group (AIG) and a former board member of similarly-CIA linked Enron and Kroll Associates, as well as a current director of the British intelligence firm Hakluyt & Company, which may be in possession of Obama's employment records from CIA front company, New York-based Business International Corporation, which was sold to the Economist Intelligence Unit in London in 1986, is a major behind-the-scenes player in America's "shadow government" -- the real power behind U.S. leaders like Obama, Biden, Clinton, and others.

Wisner also carried the water for Israel to Egypt. Wisner is married to Christine de Ganay, the former wife of Pal Sarkozy, the father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. President Sarkozy has been investigated by French security services for being an agent for the Mossad and under his regime, French foreign policy has been dictated by Israeli and French Jewish business interests.

Wisner also served as Tunisian Affairs director at the State Department, likely CIA station chief at the U.S. embassy in Bangladesh in the post-independence years -- independence opposed by then Nixon national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -- and U.S. ambassador to Zambia, post-Marcos Philippines, Condoleezza Rice's special envoy to Kosovo independence talks, and, more importantly, as Bill Clinton's ambassador to India, where he laid the groundwork for Enron's entree into the Indian energy business. Wisner was handsomely rewarded for his work by Enron chairman Kenneth Lay, who appointed Wisner to the Enron board. Apparently, all of Wisner's dubious past activities and links is perfectly fine for Obama.

WMR reported on the Wisner-Enron connection on December 16, 2009: "Frank Wisner, who served on Enron’s board, used his links with the CIA station chief in New Delhi (while he was ambassador to India in the mid-1990s) to secure Enron's acquisition of the Dabhol power plant. Wisner assured that Enron would be guaranteed $30 billion in revenue from the government of Maharashtra state, with about half of that net profit. During his stint as the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines from 1991-1992, Wisner clinched Enron the contract to manage two Subic Bay power plants. Wisner's father was a CIA agent who committed suicide in 1965 after a career that included assisting the overthrow of democratically elected governments in Iran and Guatemala. Another Enron director was Henry 'Pug' Winokur, who, from 1988-1997 was Chairman of Dyncorp, a favorite CIA 'carve out' contractor in Latin America, the Balkans, and Africa. Ken Lay, himself, had ties to the intelligence community when he worked in the Pentagon during the Vietnam War."

Wisner's father, Frankn Wisner, Sr., was director of plans for the CIA in the 1950s. During World War II, Wisner served as chief of liaison between the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, and the German Gehlen Organization, a group of German intelligence agents who began working for the United States against America's wartime ally, the Soviet Union. In the post-war years, Wisner established Operation Mockingbird, which sought to influence the media in the United States and abroad. Wisner's program was put to use in reporting on events in Iran, where the CIA overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq in 1952 in Operation Ajax and installed the Shah, and Guatemala, where populist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was ousted by the CIA in Operation PBSUCCESS in 1954. Wisner, Sr. reportedly committed suicide with a shotgun in 1965.

It was the senior Wisner who established the CIA's long-standing links within the newsrooms of The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, CBS, as well as government-funded broadcasters like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and foreign newspapers such as the Bangkok Post and Manila Times, as as reported by The Washington Post, the domestic tabloid, the National Enquirer, whose publisher, Gene Pope, was a CIA veteran and an integral part of Mockingbird.

The vestiges of Mockingbird are now ensuring skewed coverage of events in Egypt in order to buy time for Mubarak and the new cast of characters the United States and Israel are pre-selecting to comprise the "reform" government in Cairo. President Obama's special envoy to Russia, Henry Kissinger, was rolled out to proclaim that Mubarak had "months" left in office and the transition to a more democratic government would be a "long process." Kissinger's statement reflected a subtle shift from Vice President Joseph Biden's previous strong support for Mubarak. Biden refused to call Mubarak a dictator.

Obama clearly demonstrates by his words and actions that he defers in making decision on foreign policy to the same "shadow government" of CIA officials, globalists, and disaster capitalists who have, in tandem, called the shots on U.S. policy for the decades during and following the Cold War.

While millions of Egyptians were in the streets demanding that Mubarak leave office immediately, along with his regime, President Obama in Washington called on Mubarak not to run for re-election, in September, a full eight months away! Perhaps Mr. Obama should now follow his own advice as his Cairo and Istanbul speeches on outreach to the Muslim world have been proven to be bloviating claptrap not worth the teleprompter they were scrolled on.

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Analysis: Egypt military in power grab amid unrest


By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/02/09/international/i131640S56.DTL

(02-09) 14:47 PST CAIRO, Egypt (AP) --

After two weeks of protests, Egypt's military now has four of its own in the nation's top government posts and thousands of its soldiers providing security in the streets.

The military, already the country's most powerful institution, has taken advantage of the unrest to solidify its authority, using a combination of force and public relations to deliver what amounts to a soft coup in a country where it is widely viewed as the ultimate guarantor of national interests.

Vice President Omar Suleiman, a former army general and chief of intelligence, issued a veiled threat that the army could go even further. He warned that an outright coup could take place if the protests by tens of thousands continue in Cairo's central Tahrir Square.

It was a strong hint that the military could move to impose martial law and snuff out the protests, which have grown since Jan. 25, demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and the implementation of sweeping democratic reforms.

"We cannot bear this for a long time," Suleiman told a round-table briefing of newspaper editors on Tuesday. "There must be an end to this crisis as soon as possible."

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/02/09/international/i131640S56.DTL

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Behind the Spin, Egypt Gives Tehran Political Heartburn


by Barbara Slavin, February 10, 2011

http://original.antiwar.com/barbara-slavin/2011/02/09/behind-the-spin-egypt-gives-tehran-political-heartburn/


Judging from official propaganda in both Iran and much of the Arab world, the uprisings that toppled Tunisia’s dictatorship and threaten Egypt’s authoritarian regime are the direct descendent of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

For the Iranians, that analysis is a boast; for the Arabs, it is a dire warning.

In both cases, state-run media assert that the collapse of pro-Western Arab regimes will benefit the Islamic Republic of Iran and lead to expansion of an "arc of resistance" against U.S. and Israeli interests in the region.

Certainly, there is a kernel of truth in the propaganda. Just at the point when Iran was feeling the pressure of international sanctions over its nuclear program, along come cataclysmic events that draw attention from Iran and threaten to pull down the pillars of a Middle East geopolitical order that has endured for 30-plus years.

Iran portrays the travails of U.S.-backed Arab rulers as a zero-sum game in which Washington’s loss is an undiluted victory for Tehran. It links these developments to the rise of Shiite-dominated governments in Iraq and Lebanon.

However, the image exaggerates Iranian power and omits the ways in which regional trends could threaten Iranian influence and re-ignite its own domestic opposition.

"The [Iranian] government today is very ambivalent about what is happening in Egypt," says Shireen Hunter, a Middle East scholar at Georgetown University and author of a recent book, Iran’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era.

"They realize this was not a movement started by Muslim activists but a much broader voicing of frustrations and grievances. If the space opens up, a lot of jockeying will take place. Who will reap the benefits is not clear," she says.

Contrary to the Iranian narrative, the most charismatic figure to emerge from the Egyptian intifada so far is not a cleric but a slight, 30-year-old Google executive, Wael Ghonim. His emotional interview on an independent Egyptian satellite channel Monday discussing the deaths of protestors while he was detained by Egyptian authorities motivated an untold number of Egyptians to join the protests in Tahrir Square.

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http://original.antiwar.com/barbara-slavin/2011/02/09/behind-the-spin-egypt-gives-tehran-political-heartburn/

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[citizenx]

Egypt's Mubarak refuses to quit, hands VP powers

 

HAMZA HENDAWI and SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Hamza Hendawi And Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press – 1 min ago

CAIRO – President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave Egypt and instead handed most of his powers to his vice president Thursday...

 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt

[citizenx]

Egyptians erupt in joy as Mubarak steps down
By the CNN Wire Staff
February 11, 2011 -- Updated 2117 GMT (0517 HKT)

Hosni Mubarak steps down

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Switzerland freezes Mubarak's assets
Vice President Omar Suleiman says the armed forces will run the country
"Egypt is Free!" people chanted on the streets
Crowds explode in cheers on the streets of Cairo


Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday and handed over power to the military -- three decades of his iron-clad rule ended by an 18-day revolution that could ripple across the Arab world.

In a somber one-minute announcement on state television, Vice President Omar Suleiman said Mubarak had resigned and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will "run the affairs of the country."

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/11/egypt.protests/index.html?hpt=T1

[citizenx]

Now, same day as the Iranian revloution 32 years ago, 1979.

Royal regime of Shah collapsed on this day. Feb.11

[Rebelitarian]

The question is now what ?

What ####-ocracy will step up now ?

[citizenx]

I would imagine more autocracy.

It just isn't clear who the new big boss is quite yet.

[citizenx]

And then again:

Longtime spy chief now atop Egyptian pyramid


By the CNN Wire Staff

February 11, 2011 -- Updated 1741 GMT (0141 HKT)
Hosni Mubarak steps down

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Omar Suleiman, the former intelligence chief, now wields most power in Egypt
An opposition leader dismisses him as Mubarak's "twin"
Suleiman has had close ties with U.S. officials

(CNN) -- Long a pillar of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule over Egypt, Omar Suleiman now sits at the top of the pyramid as its de facto president.

Under pressure from street demonstrations calling for his ouster, Mubarak named his veteran spymaster to the long-vacant vice presidency in late January. Suleiman quickly became the face of the government's reform pledges, announcing talks with opposition leaders and promising swift reforms.

But Mubarak's February 1 announcement that he would step down when his term ends in September failed to satisfy the crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other cities. Attacks on demonstrators by pro-government crowds in the following days failed to dislodge the demonstrators, whose ranks were bolstered when thousands of workers in several industries went on strike Thursday.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/10/egypts.protests.suleiman/index.html?hpt=C2

[citizenx]

But the show (and it is all a show -- complete with Operation Bluebeam special effects) is not over yet.



Hang on to your hats.

[Dig]

The only way to understand what is going on and how MI6/CIA can conduct such sadistic regime changes rapidly is by watching these videos:

1976: Zap! The Weapon is Food by John Pilger
http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/zap-the-weapon-is-food
Kissinger's project using food as a weapon to get countries to submit to globalized feudalism

1975: An Unfashionable Tragedy by John Pilger
http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/an-unfashionable-tragedy
Bangladesh is used as a case study to expose how food as a weapon created genocide that no one talks about.

2001: The New Rulers Of The World by John Pilger
http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/the-new-rulers-of-the-world
Globalisation is exposed as a plot to manufacture tension between the sub-elite class and the rest of the population by creating wider gaps between the rich and the poor. This inevitably will lead to easily provoked civil wars within a targeted geography. It also exposes the plan to do away with all nation states and nationalized power.

1983: The Truth Game by John Pilger
http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/the-truth-game
The ability for Western governments to manufacture threats in order to release new levels of tyranny over mankind. The buclear arms race is used to exemplify this shocking reality.

1984: Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War by John Pilger
http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/burp-pepsi-v-coke-in-the-ice-cold-war
Communism and fascism are exposed as social authorities which get run by multinational corporations. These corporocratic societies terrorize the population through forced consumption and clandestine black operations including manufacturing regime changes.

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Nicholas D. Kristof

February 11, 2011, 11:34 am
Avoiding a New Pharaoh

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
So Hosni Mubarak is out. Vice President Omar Suleiman says that Mubarak has stepped down and handed over power to the military. This is a huge triumph for people power, and it will resonate across the Middle East and far beyond (you have to wonder what President Hu Jintao of China is thinking right now). The narrative about how Arab countries are inhospitable for democracy, how the Arab world is incompatible with modernity — that has been shattered by the courage and vision of so many Tunisians and Egyptians.

It’s also striking that Egyptians triumphed over their police state without Western help or even moral support. During rigged parliamentary elections, the West barely raised an eyebrow. And when the protests began at Tahrir Square, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the Mubarak government was “stable” and “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people.” Oops. So much for our $80 billion intelligence agency. On my Facebook fan page, I asked my fans (before the Tahrir protests began) what the next Tunisia would be. A surprising number said Egypt — if you were among them, you apparently did better than our intelligence community. Indeed, Egyptians in Tahrir told me that they were broadly inspired by America’s example of freedom, but that their greatest inspiration came from Tunisia and Al Jazeera. On Tahrir Square, there were signs saying “Thank you, Tunisia.” So, all of you Tunisians and Egyptians, “mabrouk” or “congratulations”! You’ve made history. The score in Egypt is: People Power, 1; Police State, 0.

But the game isn’t over, and now a word of caution. I worry that senior generals may want to keep (with some changes) a Mubarak-style government without Mubarak. In essence the regime may have decided that Mubarak had become a liability and thrown him overboard — without any intention of instituting the kind of broad, meaningful democracy that the public wants. Senior generals have enriched themselves and have a stake in a political and economic structure that is profoundly unfair and oppressive. And remember that the military running things directly really isn’t that different from what has been happening: Mubarak’s government was a largely military regime (in civilian clothes) even before this. Mubarak, Vice President Suleiman and so many others — including nearly all the governors — are career military men. So if the military now takes over, how different is it?

continued:

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/avoiding-a-new-pharaoh/

[Dig]

Nicholas D. Kristof

February 11, 2011, 11:34 am
Avoiding a New Pharaoh

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
So Hosni Mubarak is out. Vice President Omar Suleiman says that Mubarak has stepped down and handed over power to the military. This is a huge triumph for people power, and it will resonate across the Middle East and far beyond (you have to wonder what President Hu Jintao of China is thinking right now). The narrative about how Arab countries are inhospitable for democracy, how the Arab world is incompatible with modernity — that has been shattered by the courage and vision of so many Tunisians and Egyptians.

It’s also striking that Egyptians triumphed over their police state without Western help or even moral support. During rigged parliamentary elections, the West barely raised an eyebrow. And when the protests began at Tahrir Square, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the Mubarak government was “stable” and “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people.” Oops. So much for our $80 billion intelligence agency. On my Facebook fan page, I asked my fans (before the Tahrir protests began) what the next Tunisia would be. A surprising number said Egypt — if you were among them, you apparently did better than our intelligence community. Indeed, Egyptians in Tahrir told me that they were broadly inspired by America’s example of freedom, but that their greatest inspiration came from Tunisia and Al Jazeera. On Tahrir Square, there were signs saying “Thank you, Tunisia.” So, all of you Tunisians and Egyptians, “mabrouk” or “congratulations”! You’ve made history. The score in Egypt is: People Power, 1; Police State, 0.

But the game isn’t over, and now a word of caution. I worry that senior generals may want to keep (with some changes) a Mubarak-style government without Mubarak. In essence the regime may have decided that Mubarak had become a liability and thrown him overboard — without any intention of instituting the kind of broad, meaningful democracy that the public wants. Senior generals have enriched themselves and have a stake in a political and economic structure that is profoundly unfair and oppressive. And remember that the military running things directly really isn’t that different from what has been happening: Mubarak’s government was a largely military regime (in civilian clothes) even before this. Mubarak, Vice President Suleiman and so many others — including nearly all the governors — are career military men. So if the military now takes over, how different is it?

continued:

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/avoiding-a-new-pharaoh/

bwaaahahahaaaaaaaaa...this globalist rapist of humanity was the keynote speaker at ASPEN INSTITUTE 2009 CONFERENCE

Other speakers included Ed Haass (CFR President) and Ezekiel Emanuel (Rham and Ari's brother and zionazi eugenecist depopulation psychopath)

you cannot make this shit up!


New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof to be Featured at Aspen Institute
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/news/2009/07/21/new-york-times-columnist-nicholas-kristof-be-featured-aspen-institute
For Immediate Release
Contact: Cristal Logan
Community Outreach Director
The Aspen Institute
Tel. 970-544-7929

Aspen, CO, July 21, 2009 –– The Aspen Institute is pleased to announce the participation of Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times.  Mr. Kristof will discuss, “Saving the World in Your Spare Time: Foreign Policy Challenges and What We Can Do About Them”.  The event will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 PM on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at the Paepcke Auditorium on the Institute’s Aspen Meadows campus in Aspen, CO. The series is made possible by a gift from the McCloskey Family Charitable Foundation. Tickets are $15 each and go on sale on July 21 through Aspen Show Tickets at the Wheeler.  As a full-capacity audience is expected for this program, early ticket purchasing is encouraged.  Doors will open 45 minutes prior to the start of the event, and unclaimed tickets, if any, will be on sale at the door.

Nicholas D. Kristof writes op-ed columns that appear twice each week in The New York Times. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he previously was associate managing editor of The Times, responsible for the Sunday Times. He graduated from Harvard College and then studied law at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. After joining The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics, he served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. In 2000, he covered the presidential campaign and in particular Governor Bush. He is the author of the chapter on Mr. Bush in the reference book "The Presidents."

In 1990 Mr. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, also a Times journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China's Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for commentary on the genocide in Darfur. He has also won other prizes including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the Michael Kelly award, the Online News Association award and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award. Mr. Kristof was the first blogger on The New York Times Web site.

In his column, Mr. Kristof was an early opponent of the Iraq war and among the first to warn that we were losing ground to the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. His columns often focus on global health, poverty and gender issues in the developing world. Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn are authors of "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" and "Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia." Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn are the parents of Gregory, Geoffrey and Caroline.

Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.aspenshowtickets.com/ or by calling Aspen Show tickets at the Wheeler at 970-920-5770. For more information on the Aspen Institute McCloskey Speaker Series and other events open to the public, please call the information hotline at 970-544-7970, or visit the Institute’s website at www.aspeninstitute.org/aspenevents.


Dan Rather was also there (why dan, why? what does it take for you to blow the whistle already?)

[citizenx]

Well, I knew you'd have fun with the author.

[Dig]

Well, I knew you'd have fun with the author.

Aspen Institute is truly one of the most anti-government terrorizing institutions known to man.

[citizenx]

MSM begins to tell part of the truth about the Eyptian "Revolution":

Analysis: Military coup was behind Mubarak's exit

Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press – 1 hr 32 mins ago


CAIRO – It was the people who forced President Hosni Mubarak from power, but it is the generals who are in charge now. Egypt's 18-day uprising produced a military coup that crept into being over many days — its seeds planted early in the crisis by Mubarak himself.

The telltale signs of a coup in the making began to surface soon after Mubarak ordered the army out on the streets to restore order after days of deadly clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo and much of the rest of the Arab nation.

"This is in fact the military taking over power," said political analyst Diaa Rashwan after Mubarak stepped down and left the reins of power to the armed forces. "It is direct involvement by the military in authority and to make Mubarak look like he has given up power."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_an/ml_egypt_the_coup_analysis
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The Egyptian "Revolution" (at least so far) is really a military coup d'etat.

Maybe, it was always going to be.

[bigron]

[Freeski]

Priceless!

[Brocke]

US company 'helped' Egypt block web

NARUS a company owned by Boeing, the worlds 3rd largest arms manufacturer, supplied the Egyptian government with "Deep Packet" internet spying technology that is illegal in the U.S.

VIDEO
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/americas/2011/02/20112625021400967.html

When Egypt's uprising began nearly two weeks ago, there was a near-total internet blackout.

But exactly how was access cut off?

An American advocacy group called Free Press says it has uncovered a link to a California-based technology company that allegedly sold the Egyptian government equipment allowing it to track online activity.

Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports.

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Mubarak resignation throws into question U.S.-Egyptian counterterrorism work


By Mary Beth Sheridan and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 13, 2011; 12:13 AM



For decades, Egypt's government has been a critical partner for U.S. intelligence agencies, sharing information on extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and working hand in glove on counterterrorism operations. Now the future of that cooperation is in question.

With the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, a staunch American ally, the contours of the U.S.-Egyptian relationship may well be redrawn. Analysts say a more democratic Egyptian government will have to be responsive to a public that may oppose such special and close ties with Washington.

Moreover, the Muslim Brotherhood is likely to gain influence if free and fair elections are held, analysts say. The Islamist group has renounced violence but is openly hostile to Israel and may call for more independence from U.S. policies.

"How will cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism develop in the view of these new constraints? I would argue the space will contract," said Aaron David Miller, a former State Department Middle East expert who is now at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Some U.S. officials and analysts say they are not overly worried, noting the continued strong role of the Egyptian military and the fact that the United States gives Egypt more than $1.3 billion a year in military aid. Robert Grenier, the former head of the CIA's counterterrorism center, said, "The Egyptians have as much interest in protecting themselves from violent extremism as everyone else."

But with a new government, "the comfort level with the United States may not be so high. They will be more distrusting," in part because of past U.S. efforts to prop up autocratic regimes, Grenier said.

Egypt's intelligence cooperation is extensive. Its security services have numerous sources in places where the U.S. government does not, such as Gaza and Sudan, according to analysts.

And the Egyptians have built up a trove of information on al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups in the Middle East. The Egyptian General Intelligence Service "has the reputation of being one of the best-informed intelligence agencies on Islamist fundamentalism and its international dimensions," according to Jane's intelligence information service.

Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University, noted that during the Cold War, the United States had a window into the Soviet Union through Iran, then a strong U.S. ally.

"We have the same kind of window into Iran and other countries via the Egyptians," he said. "Whatever happens next, this will never be the same."

In addition to passing on intelligence, Egypt's security services have worked closely on operations with their U.S. counterparts, particularly since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The cooperation became public after revelations surfaced that U.S. officials secretly "rendered" terrorism suspects to countries such as Egypt for interrogation. Human rights groups have denounced the practice because of the notorious torture record of those nations' security services.

Hoffman said the use of rendition has been on the decline, however, since the United States and many governments no longer wanted to be associated with it.

In the region, Mubarak's government played an important role in containing the Palestinian group Hamas, by blocking the smuggling of arms and militants into Gaza and supporting Israel's blockade of the strip. And Egypt served as a counterweight to Iran.

"A different government in Cairo may not see Iran as quite the same kind of threat. Or they might just look for ways to use Iran as a foreign-policy lever" in their relationship with the West, Hoffman said.

Some former officials, however, argue that Egypt is likely to continue much of its cooperation. They note the country has every interest in combating terrorism, having suffered years of assassinations and other attacks by extremist Muslim groups. Only last month, 21 people died in a car-bomb attack on a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/12/AR2011021203581.html

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U.S. faces critical test of influence on Egypt

The Obama administration must elicit democratic reform from the Egyptian army without alienating the long-reliable ally.

By David S. Cloud and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times

7:34 PM PST, February 11, 2011

Reporting from Washington

 
The Obama administration got what it said it wanted when Hosni Mubarak surrendered power. Now it must deal with another daunting task: coaxing the country's new military rulers to deliver genuine democratic reforms they have resisted for decades.

After days of being buffeted by events, President Obama moved quickly within hours of Mubarak's departure to try to influence the Egypt that will follow. In a seven-minute address from the White House, Obama made it clear that the U.S. expects the Egyptian generals to dismantle the machinery of a repressive state, warning they would "have to ensure a transition that is credible in the eyes of the Egyptian people."

"That means protecting the rights of Egypt's citizens, lifting the emergency law, revising the constitution and other laws to make this change irreversible, and laying out a clear path to elections that are fair and free," Obama said.

But even as Obama hailed the triumph of democracy in the Cairo streets, his administration was adjusting to the loss of a bedrock ally in a volatile region. Mubarak's departure threatens to end 30 years of certainty in which American administrations could count on Egypt maintaining its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, as well as cooperating on counter-terrorism efforts.

A more representative government in a new Egypt will almost certainly include greater influence for the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest Islamic group, and other factions more hostile to Mubarak's pro-American policies.

Already, the issue of whether to favor including Islamist parties in the government is causing friction within the Obama administration.

The administration has said publicly that it believes that the banned Muslim Brotherhood can be brought into the political structure without risk if it will foreswear violence and embrace democratic goals. Some White House officials have argued that Egypt won't be representative and legitimate unless this large group has some voice

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-us-20110212,0,7926469.story

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U.S. faces critical test of influence on Egypt

The Obama administration must elicit democratic reform from the Egyptian army without alienating the long-reliable ally.

By David S. Cloud and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times

7:34 PM PST, February 11, 2011

Reporting from Washington

 
The Obama administration got what it said it wanted when Hosni Mubarak surrendered power. Now it must deal with another daunting task: coaxing the country's new military rulers to deliver genuine democratic reforms they have resisted for decades.

After days of being buffeted by events, President Obama moved quickly within hours of Mubarak's departure to try to influence the Egypt that will follow. In a seven-minute address from the White House, Obama made it clear that the U.S. expects the Egyptian generals to dismantle the machinery of a repressive state, warning they would "have to ensure a transition that is credible in the eyes of the Egyptian people."

"That means protecting the rights of Egypt's citizens, lifting the emergency law, revising the constitution and other laws to make this change irreversible, and laying out a clear path to elections that are fair and free," Obama said.

But even as Obama hailed the triumph of democracy in the Cairo streets, his administration was adjusting to the loss of a bedrock ally in a volatile region. Mubarak's departure threatens to end 30 years of certainty in which American administrations could count on Egypt maintaining its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, as well as cooperating on counter-terrorism efforts.

A more representative government in a new Egypt will almost certainly include greater influence for the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest Islamic group, and other factions more hostile to Mubarak's pro-American policies.

Already, the issue of whether to favor including Islamist parties in the government is causing friction within the Obama administration.

The administration has said publicly that it believes that the banned Muslim Brotherhood can be brought into the political structure without risk if it will foreswear violence and embrace democratic goals. Some White House officials have argued that Egypt won't be representative and legitimate unless this large group has some voice

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LA Times is a key piece of the Bilderberg propaganda weapons dictating US regime change operations. They are openly supporting CIA/MI6 coup d'etats overseas at a great cost to the constitutional republic and national security. These trilateral terrorists are out of control.

Hey LA Times...WHO KILLED ROBERT F. KENNEDY?

Why is the LA TIMES running 24/7 Bilderberg propaganda? Why do they have 90% of their journalistic staff dedicated to supporting MI6/CIA propaganda operations and what does that mean for our constitutional security?