What can we learn from the Egyptians?

The Egyptians did so many things right that American protesters in the past have been doing wrong.

They employed patience, perseverance, and wouldn't take anything less than real change for an answer. But, I think, most importantly, they went on strike. That's hitting the corruption where it hurts. Check out Les Visible's Globoctopus Tightens its Grip.

Kenny's sideshow listed some principles observed by Sun Tzu that helped the protesters bring down Pharaoh:

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

-- Celebrate and then on to the next battle

"Draft dodger!"

Dick Cheney was also called a "war criminal" at the Conservative Political Action Committee, while Orwell's sheeple bleat out "USA! USA! USA!"

Americans have their priorities messed up

From the Daily Bail:

Total Cost Of Wars Exceeds $2.5 Trillion - No Worries! US Media 'Fluff' Numbing Nation, Robbing Next Generation

Civil Disobedience at Downing Street for 9/11 Justice: An Interview with Gareth Newnham

Gareth Newnham reports:

On Monday 31st January 2011, in solidarity with Jon Gold's action outside the White House, I took a ‘911 Truth’ sign to Downing Street – the British Prime Minister lives at No. 10 – and sat down outside the gates. Within seconds I was approached by a policeman carrying a machine gun who demanded I immediately move, a request with which I respectfully declined to comply with. After ten minutes I was approached by two Ministry of Defence policemen who issued the same request. We talked a little about 9/11. Moments later a police van pulled up and four police officers got out – I was also surprised to see a further four Ministry of Defence policeman approaching to see what was going on. After explaining that I was respectfully going to decline all further requests to move on I found myself being dragged from where I was sitting, put into the police van, and driven away to Charing Cross Police Station.

I was released later the next evening having been detained for 30 hours. I’m glad I took a good book!

Weird weather

I've been away from the computer for the last few days because of the storm ... I found this video interesting because I know as a former Geography major that residential areas tend to be *warmer* than outlying areas (you know, the urban heat island effect?) and this guy's radar was showing residential areas actually attracting snowstorms. Included in those residential areas was Beebe, Arkansas (remember the New Year's falling birds?). Anyway, just thought it was interesting.



Just a head's up for those who don't know: the Mubarak's appointed Vice President, Omar Suleiman, was the CIA's go-to guy on torture. They tortured a guy named al-Libi to "confess" a connection between al-Qaeda, Saddam Hussein and WMD's (which of course later turned out to be a lie). This confession was then used to justify the US invasion of Iraq, a war crime if ever there was one. So don't think everything will be all rosy if the Egyptians kick out Mubarak and leave this guy to run things in the interim.

http://aliran.com/4321.html

Another non-specific blog update

I don't have anything coherent to say at the moment, just some scattered remarks ...

If you want to know what I think about what's going on in Egypt, I posted here in the discussion section (near the bottom of the page) ...

One of the guys whose blog I read, Greg Bacon, sent a request to the Federal Reserve (the group of private banks who essentially print and control the US Dollar) asking simple questions about what kind of wage and benefit package the board members receive.

"...[A]t first, they stalled, saying they were too busy to reply."

Then they sent this email:

Dear Mr. Bacon:

Thank you for your most recent correspondence concerning compensation for Federal Reserve Board members.

To obtain the information you requested, you must file a Freedom of Information request. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, provides that any person has a right of access to federal agency records, unless the records (or any portion of the records) are protected from disclosure by one of FOIA's nine exemptions or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions. The Federal Reserve Board maintains public and nonpublic records. Public records are available at the Board's conventional reading room and electronic reading room. A FOIA request is not required to obtain these materials. For details, please refer to federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/foia/request.cfm.

I hope this information is helpful, and again, we apologize for the delay in response to your previous inquiries.

Sincerely,
LOD
Board Staff
FRB.Mail@frb.gov

I agree with Mr. Bacon's assessment:
"The Federal Reserve is one of the biggest con games in the history of humanity.

To pay interest to borrow your OWN money is criminal."

Also, in the news ... 9-11 truth activist Jon Gold chained himself to the White House fence today:



UPDATE ON JON GOLD

Did you watch Obama's speech last night?

I'll admit I only watched about about 10 minutes of it before I got bored. I think it was nice that a few Republicans and Democrats opted to sit next to each other for a change, but whoop-de-doo -- they all work for the same people anyway, when all is said and done. They take their orders from AIPAC, corporations and banksters. I'm listening to Mike Rivero and it's pretty telling from what he says *wasn't* mentioned in Obama's speech that this is the case. Consider:

Obama didn't mention the worst environmental disaster, the #1 story of the year, in his address -- the BP oil spill! That's like Bush not mentioning Hurricane Katrina. That's just ... that's just *wrong*. How can you not address that?

Obama didn't mention the attack of a Palestinian aid ship by Israeli militants in international waters, whereupon an American citizen was shot in the head *four* times. I know the mainstream media wants us to forget this, but it happened.

Obama didn't mention the massive mortgage fraud perpetrated on Americans that led to thousands of foreclosures last year. What's up with that?

Just who the hell is running our country, anyway???