Response to Robert Fisk

A MurKan/Canadian view of Barry's response to calls for democracy in the ME/North Africa ...

::::::::Like everyone else, I am watching with all four of my eyes the doings in Egypt and Tunisia. I am now an avid Facebook user, as this nets me better "news" than what I had before. I have a chance to peer into the Egyptian soul as never before.

I am posting a running commentary on all things Egyptian and trying heartily to avoid the Oped that proliferated like dandelions in April these days, UNLESS they indicate some major shift in perception or alliance. Or, like the NYT, they are official mouthpieces for some particular group, in their case the liberal democratic perspective as it pertains to "stability" and a critique of US foreign policy from their point of view. I've spent hours pouring over Egyptian blogs, magazines, FB pages, twitters, human rights organization reports. Sometimes my eyes are just looking for historical accuracy as it applies to US policy on Egypte and the Middle East. Remember; the outright torture and genocide of Paolestinian people is covert and largely unknown to those spoon fed US psyops.

So, with interest today I find an article by Robert Fisk making the rounds. It is superbly fitting after reading Allen J. Roland's article on Veteran's Today yesterday and hurriedly translating arabic texts to find out what the pro democracy forces are demanding and putting in writing to go global/viral. They are frustrated with rhetoric and want ALL their power back; Wael has urged them all to DREAM the big one. The Vision Statement of Egypt is being written which will drive the further actions and priorities of these Freedom Fighters. Such big demands are being laid on the Egyptian leadership as this is a LIFE AND DEATH battle: Despite the fact that the prime "directive" is to communicate and trust, as Wael brought up:

1. They are busy burying the dead and looking for the disappeared and the beaten and tortured. The list, to be presented to the press is busily being prepared in time for the Friday funeral; Also, documenting all the assault cases and in one case, death of journalists and news organizations.

2. They are busy recording all the crimes committed, including the looting of the treasury and corruption -- not just against lower level officials, but the Mubarak family (Going on on mainly arabic websites, some translations I have put on my FB notes " ) and making sure there are travel bans on these people. They are also documenting the abuses since Jan. 25, video, first hand accounts -- these include material related to the state-run TV stations and orders given to other media outlets

3. Refining demands while learning a WHOLE LOT of international law that is relevant.

Mubarak does not move on as Ben Ali did, so this is STRESSFUL to the entire process ..

Meanwhile - I, just like you, do not like them as Sitting Targets " ! I wish Anonymous would attack the Egyptian government computers which have the capacity to give the military knowledge to go after and punish anyone who has participated in actions.

This is a bloodbath going on, and Barry&Co are morally culpable. Chris Hedges takes on that vast problem here and it well worth your while to give 27 minutes attention to it.

The US tried to BUY OFF and influence pro-democracy leaders like 6th April, but support them verbally, hell no. They knew what was coming and hedged their bets. Hi LIAR y brought them over on a regular basis. She thought that they were "safer" than the Muslim Brotherhood.

When Wael and his friends outsmarted the US intended control of The Movement, Barry&Co immediately grew frustrated and have blown this crisis/opportunity in every way possible. Both public and private diplomacy "efforts" are DISASTERS. MurKa has shown itself to be only capable of supporting military action/elites. They have no concept of making friends based on moral, ethical, and values as the basis of true alliance. Choosing Wisner as the POINT MAN was a TOTAL disaster from everyone's point of view but Wisner's and Mubarak's -- and shows precisely why the US cannot be trusted. No one will convince me that they did not know of Wisner's CIA connections, his firm representing The Regime and his own personal investments in Egypt. Strains credulity doesn't it?

It becomes increasingly clear that Obomber's only agenda is to get enough money to run in 2012 , and for that he needs to kowtow to those who would never even consider speaking with, let alone supporting, someone who is an ACTIVIST. Remember: he needs to raise $1.6 million per DAY to get the necessary funds. As this all rages, he with the Chamber of Commerce and making deals with Canada to have 30 corporations RUNNING North America. The North American Union has slipped in under the radar while eyes were diverted. The militarization of Canada is nearly complete, just a few details to iron out. This took far higher priority than any human rights attention on either of their parts.

Barry thinks no one in Egypt with power, clout and MONEY is backing The Movement. I think that Dream TV interview with Wael indicated something far different. I think we will see resources being mobilized to help the new leadership and America be DAMNED. The Regime has a new call for a bond issue that is slipping in under the wire -- they made a tender on Monday to keep themselves "solvent" as the elite raids the treasury before leaving. Fortunately, the real leaders of The Movement are figuring out what to do as I type. I've posted their preliminary demands to freeze these assets from officials and slap travel bans on them so that they can't flee with funds. I think banks who help these criminals will be held liable, too. Mubarak, alone, has enough money (not counting his gold) to bail out the entire Egyptian debt !! What will Barak do when the protestor/citizens get what is "RIGHTFULLY theirs?

As Allen J. Roland said: This is not a bright, shining moment for Barak ". Anyone who supports torturers should have been highly suspect anyway ....

There is the call to WAKE UP from Egyptian women who know "the score" .. will Barry hear them and their children?

America's Strategic Repression of the Arab Awakening Dandelion Salad

 

 

Understatement of the Century

Bush leaves 'long list of challenges for successor'

January 29, 2008 - 4:00PM
Source: ABC Australian Broadcoasting Company

United States President George W Bush will leave a ''daunting'' array of challenges for the next US president, ranging from the Iraq war to the economy, political analysts say.

Mr Bush has insisted he has plenty of unfinished business for his last year in office but he will leave some serious challenges for his successor in January, 2009.

The next president will need to chart a course for the Iraq war, navigate an increasingly tense relationship with Iran and grapple with political turbulence in countries such as Pakistan.

A worsening budget outlook, the expected lingering effects on the US economy of mortgage and credit crises as well as the rising cost of health care are just a few of the domestic issues that will immediately confront Mr Bush's successor.

William Galston, a scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank says the United States is facing an "arc of crises" extending from Lebanon and the Palestinian territories through Iraq, Iran and Pakistan.

"The next president is going to face a daunting menu of issues both at home and abroad," he said.

In his final State of the Union address today, Mr Bush focused on passing an economic stimulus plan and cutting wasteful spending.

He barely touched on some parts of the world. North Korea, a member of his "axis of evil" in 2002, did not rate a mention.

Many critics of the Bush Administration feel a major priority of the next president will be restoring America's world image after a battering over the Iraq war and detentions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"None of these problems are of the kind where you could snap your fingers and fix them,"

says Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of Texas.

Meanwhile, the Democratic candidates in the race to be Mr Bush's successor have blasted his State of the Union address, dismissing his "empty rhetoric" and "failed policies".

"Tonight, for the seventh long year, the American people heard a State of the Union that didn't reflect the America we see, and didn't address the challenges we face," Senator Barack Obama said.

"Tonight's State of the Union was full of the same empty rhetoric the American people have come to expect from this President,"

Senator Obama's leading rival for the White House, Senator Hillary Clinton, labelled Mr Bush's speech "more of the same - a frustrating commitment to the same failed policies that helped turn record surpluses into large deficits, and push a thriving 21st Century economy to the brink of recession."

- AFP/Reuters

Ah, does anyone in the world who hears Bush speak really think that Americans are really "getting it"?

Do United States citizens have any idea at all how other other people perceive how we view their entire system - with Bush and the presidential frontrunners as the mouthpieces = planet reels from US abuses?

That opposition leaders from the US Congress would stand up and applaud Bush's delusional rantings and his lack of accountability to the damage that has been done is beyond the understanding of the world that watched the "state of the union".

We learnt little of the US "state of the union" but we sure did learn alot about their obsession with what the rest of the world last night.

Most of us, those with a smidgen of understanding of reality, wonder when the United States is going to wake up from its coma and DO something about the worst abusers of all time.

Most of us wonder why anyone would want to be the next President of the United States after George Bush and Dick Cheney.

The world is truly waiting for the "shoe to drop" as the "car is plunging off the cliff."

Eventually the laughable proposition that what's been broken and destroyed forever can be fixed, will have to be obvious.

There seems to be no leadership to help Americans figure out what to do about it.

It's truly time for the Bush bashing to stop, and the American people to come up with a plan to just stabilize America for what is about to come.

But even with this great opportunity to do this last night, no one, no one did.

The state of the United States union was very apparent last night - a big illusion still garbed in the finest furs going to a party that no one in the world wants to attend.

It's too intellectually boring and emotionally upsetting to contemplate a social function where Bush attends when he so clearly hears no one but Richard Cheney and a few speechwriters obsessed with the word "empower".

America "empower" yourselves - get rid of this man now. Don't wait on your "leaders" - they have no intention of the truth emerging. It's military keynesian, pursued rigorously by all who hold the pursestrings continues unabated and you will all find out the consequences.

The rest of us on the planet feel very sorry for America's "state of the union" and we regret that we will have to continue dealing with the neocons and whoever suceeds them. And putting in John McCain and a new team of provokers he would bring with is going to create a whole new set of problems. Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton seem to be without a clue how difficult it would be to "work with" the rest of the world.

Maybe its time to work diplomatically with Iran, stop creatinga fear of nuclear confligration as the major diplomatic tool kit, listening intently to what the rest of the world is saying and demanding be heard - we are all in this together and our planet must be saved while their is still time.

The United States' media does an incredibly bad job of alerting people to the coming dangers and appears incapable of asking the hard questions.

The only ones celebrating the US state of the union are the top 1% of America's elite and they have not played a very good game when the TRUTH finally emerges.

Don't expect anyone without a super large bank account to be applauding Mr. Bush or America anytime soon.