Congratulations Egypt!

[Howlin Mad Missy]

..also no baiting, there's enough of that on the forum. As thread bitch, yes, I'm playing hell with my big mod stick, but cut this shit out or you will be on the naughty step.

This thread was to bring attention to what is going on in egypt now, not to get in to shit about trade agreements/chomsky etc. It is about the biased reporting, it is about how the western media seems to have taken the muslim brotherhood's POV, case in point, western press reported that protesters stormed the/a MB building...what they failed to report it was stormed AFTER shots were fired out from that building in to the crowd.

[Kirkland Laing]

I've mentioned how in the buildup/start of the Iraq war all US TV channels had an American flag superimposed on the screen and a patriotic tagline running above the ticker. Currently all Egyptian TV channels have a little Egyptian flag and slogans like "United Against Terrorism" on the screen. US political consultants have obviously been busy.

The Muslim Brotherhood have gone from being the democratically elected government of Egypt to terrorists in the space of a week. They're going to be banned from any elections and new undemocratic elections will produce a US/army-approved puppet government backed by Saudi/Gulf money that's a front for the army dictatorship that has ruled the country for ahlf a century.

In the last election 50% of the country voted for the Brotherhood and another 25% voted for the even more conservative Salafist Nour party. Clearly the vast majority of Egyptian voters are religious conservatives. They're now being given an object lesson that democracy isn't something they're allowed to have and that the superpower propping up the dictatorship that represses them fears and hates them and will never see them as anything except a threat. Them and their brethren all over the Arab and Muslim world. This is only going to create new terrorism and terrorist attacks. Plus what happens in Egypt when the new government turns out to be Mubrarak redux?

Two good articles to read about what's happening in Egypt :

The apparently miraculous end to the crippling energy shortages, and the re-emergence of the police, seems to show that the legions of personnel left in place after former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 played a significant role — intentionally or not — in undermining the overall quality of life under the Islamist administration of Mr. Morsi.

Working behind the scenes, members of the old establishment, some of them close to Mr. Mubarak and the country’s top generals, also helped finance, advise and organize those determined to topple the Islamist leadership, including Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood; Tahani El-Gebali, a former judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court who is close to the ruling generals; and Shawki al-Sayed, a legal adviser to Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak’s last prime minister, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Morsi.

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While he failed to broaden his appeal and build any kind of national consensus, he also faced an active campaign by those hostile to his leadership, including some of the wealthiest and most powerful pillars of the Mubarak era.
Mr. Sawiris, one of Egypt’s richest men and a titan of the old establishment, said Wednesday that he had supported an upstart group called “tamarrod,” Arabic for “rebellion,” that led a petition drive seeking Mr. Morsi’s ouster. He donated use of the nationwide offices and infrastructure of the political party he built, the Free Egyptians. He provided publicity through his popular television network and his major interest in Egypt’s largest private newspaper. He even commissioned the production of a popular music video that played heavily on his network.
“Tamarrod did not even know it was me!” he said. “I am not ashamed of it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/wo...?smid=tw-share

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