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Mubarak's snipers flee Cairo square
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Africa North
Game over
Hat tip Instapundit
While much of American media has termed the events unfolding in Egypt today as "clashes between pro-government and opposition groups," this is not in fact what's happening on the street. The so-called "pro-government" forces are actually Mubarak's cleverly orchestrated goon squads dressed up as pro-Mubarak demonstrators to attack the protesters in Midan Tahrir, with the Army appearing to be a neutral force. The opposition, largely cognizant of the dirty game being played against it, nevertheless has had little choice but to call for protection against the regime's thugs by the regime itself, i.e., the military. And so Mubarak begins to show us just how clever and experienced he truly is. The game is, thus, more or less over.
Next stage, Egypt approaches China for alliance
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2011 02:09 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Time for clarity about the Muslim Brotherhood
By Dore Gold

Posted by: ryuge || 02/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CLARITY

versus

* TOPIX > EXPERTS: ISLAMIST TAKEOVER OF [post-Mubarak?] EGYPT/EGYPT GOVT. INCLUDES ARMY.

EGYPT'S ARMY = Other than Israel's, is the most modern + professional of the Arab-Muslim States of the Middle East.

* SAME > EXPERTS: SURVIVABILITY OF POST-MUBARAK EGYPT GOVT [Coalition?] IN DOUBT, i.e. as per its ability to govern + restoration of public order + resolve long-standing econ problems + resisatnce agz Extremism = Militant Groups.

HMMMMMM, HMMMMMMMM, RADICAL ISLAMIST CONTROL OF THE ME'S MOST POTENT MUSLIM ARMY + EGYPTIAN NUCTEHCS + PAKISTAN'S IT-WAS-90-NOW-ITS-110-NUCLEAR-WARHEADS-N-GROWING-PLUS-WE-HAVE-LR-MISSLES NUCLEAR ARSENAL.

Move along, people, clearly its nothing for ISRAEL to worry = have a Cow over.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/03/2011 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Time for clarity about a lot of things.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2011 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Former Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Akef declared in 2004 his "complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America." In 2001, the Muslim Brotherhood's publication in London, Risalat al-Ikhwan, featured at the top of its cover page the slogan: "Our Mission: World Domination." This header was changed after 9/11.

The current Supreme Guide, Muhammad Badi', gave a sermon in September 2010 stating that "the improvement and change that the [Muslim] nation seeks can only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by raising a jihadi generation that pursues death, just as the enemies pursue life."


I've heard enough of this dreck. There can be no freedom for anyone so long as the MB is trying to take other's freedoms and rights.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/03/2011 11:57 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin's support for 'traditional Islam'
Posted by: ryuge || 02/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pukin...Why don't you take a few more trips through the Moscow public airport, there buddy.
Posted by: anymouse || 02/03/2011 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Good luck wid that VLAD.

becuz

* TOPIX > TALK OF TUNISIA-STYLE [Jasmine = Egypt, etc.] REVOLUTION IN AZERBAIJAN, as per FACEBOOK Messageboards.

Ditto as per TURKEY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/03/2011 0:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Ima guessin' that by 'traditional Islam', he means an Islam that does not include mass murder as one of its sacraments.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/03/2011 0:50 Comments || Top||

#4  He refers to the Russian tradition of Church being an instrument of State.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2011 1:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd long felt that after Sept 11 we should have found whatever branch of Islam is the most peaceful (suffists out of Turkey if I remember correctly) and funded the Turks to spread that version of Islam in opposition to the Wahhabi. Conquer mosques throughout the Islamic world the way the Wahhabi do, and challenge them at every opportunity.

Instead we sort of patted radical Islam on the head and acted as if it was peaceful and acceptable and part of the reset of Islam and provided secular options only.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/03/2011 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Traditional Islam in the Russian context is of the quietist, saint-worshiping central Asian variety which gets the Wahhabis frothing at the beard.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 02/03/2011 9:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I thought that Putin knew that this traditional and peaceful islam raised Rusia for centuries looking for dalves and booty aand that during the reign of Ivan IV it burned Moscow.

Thre is no peacful Islam. That does not mean we shouldn't use takilyak on Muslims.
Posted by: JFM || 02/03/2011 10:45 Comments || Top||

#8  (suffists out of Turkey if I remember correctly)

The Sufis can be just as jihadi as the rest, Rjschwarz. They've just been more mystical while doing so.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/03/2011 11:25 Comments || Top||

#9  by 'traditional Islam', he means an Islam that does not include mass murder of Russians as one of its sacraments.

FIFY

Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/03/2011 11:50 Comments || Top||

#10  They've just been more mystical while doing so.

They whirl as they blow themselves up? ;-P
Posted by: ryuge || 02/03/2011 11:58 Comments || Top||

#11  ryuge for the snark of the day!

Posted by: twobyfour || 02/03/2011 13:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Real Sufis are not jihadis, e.g., the late Idries Shah. He pointed out there are a great many imitation Sufis in the Islamic world, call them 'Sufists' & lump them in with the rest.
This is how real Sufis get handled in the taqfiri world.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/03/2011 14:48 Comments || Top||

#13  When islam's fake "prophet" ended his pollution of the earth, his followers ("sahaba") were even mor aggressive than their founder. Why? Fraud-one was on a revenge mission, with booty only a side-game. The sahaba were all about getting booty.
Posted by: Vortigern Ebbomogum4548 || 02/03/2011 19:22 Comments || Top||


Economy
Fed chief Ben Bernanke denies US policy behind record global food prices
The country is in the very best of hands
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has dismissed the idea that the central bank's policies are to blame for the rise in global food prices to a record high that helped trigger political unrest in Egypt.
He also dismisses inflation.
Mr Bernanke said that the rapid growth of developing economies was behind the increase in food prices, rather than the Fed's decision to embark on a second, $600bn (£371bn) round of printing money. "Clearly what's happening is not a dollar effect, it's a growth effect," Mr Bernanke said in a rare question and answer session with journalists at the National Press Club in Washington on Thursday.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) has warned that high prices, already above levels in 2008 which sparked riots, were likely to rise further.

The FAO measures food prices from an index made up of a basket of key commodities such as wheat, milk, oil and sugar, and is widely watched by economists and politicians around the world as the first indicator of whether prices will end up higher on shop shelves.

The index hit averaged 230.7 points in January, up from 223.1 points in December and 206 in November. The index highlights how food prices, which throughout most of the last two decades have been stable, have taken off in alarming fashion in the past three years. In 2000, the index stood at 90 and did not break through 100 until 2004.
Posted by: tipper || 02/03/2011 20:35 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Egypt: Preview of America in 2015, Says NIA
The rioting and looting currently taking place in Egypt is primarily a result of massive food inflation and shows what all major cities in the United States will likely look like come year 2015 due to the Federal Reserve's zero percent interest rates and quantitative easing to infinity. On December 16th, 2009, NIA named Time Magazine's 2009 'Person of the Year' Ben Bernanke our 'Villain of the Year', saying he created "unprecedented amounts of inflation in unprecedented ways" and "When it costs $20 for a gallon of milk in a few years, Americans will have nobody to thank more than Bernanke."

What started out a few weeks ago as protests in Algeria with citizens chanting "Bring Us Sugar!" and five citizens being killed, quickly spread to civil unrest in Tunisia which saw 14 more civilian deaths, and has now spread to riots in Egypt where 300 Egyptian citizens have been killed. Food inflation in Egypt has reached 20% and citizens in the nation already spend about 40% of their monthly expenditures on food. Americans for decades have been blessed with cheap food, spending only 13% of their expenditures on food, but this is about to change.
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Posted by: tipper || 02/03/2011 17:42 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quite a read.

I would have to guess that the predictions do not take into account what price increases will happen if the EPA/Fed continues its attacks on agriculture and transportation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/03/2011 18:10 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2011-02-03
  Mubarak's snipers flee Cairo square
Wed 2011-02-02
  Chaos in Cairo as Mubarak backers, opponents clash
Tue 2011-02-01
  Student beaten to death in Khartoum clashes
Mon 2011-01-31
  Military moves to take control of parts of Cairo
Sun 2011-01-30
  Mubarak names VP, raising succession talk
Sat 2011-01-29
  Saleh Accuses Al-Jazeera Channel of Serving Zionist and Terrorist Groups
Fri 2011-01-28
  At least 1,000 arrested in Egypt protests
Thu 2011-01-27
  Tunisia issues arrest warrant for ousted president Ben Ali
Wed 2011-01-26
  Three dead in Egypt protests
Tue 2011-01-25
  Egypt protesters clash with police
Mon 2011-01-24
  Bomb explodes in Moscow Domodedovo airport (DME), double digit fatalities
Sun 2011-01-23
  Nato Airstrikes Kill 10 Insurgents in Afghanistan
Sat 2011-01-22
  Hidalgo Police Chief Dies, 3 Cops Hurt in Car Bomb Explosion
Fri 2011-01-21
  Suicide Blasts Rock Karbala, 50 Dead Nationwide
Thu 2011-01-20
  15 dead in Iraq suicide attacks


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