It is a well known fact that President Obama is an undisputed expert at talking out of both sides of his mouth and it appears he is going to need this skill in addressing a U.N. resolution put forth by the Lebanese government.  The resolution calls for condemnation of Israel’s further building of settlements in the West Bank.  The resolution apparently has the backing of more than a hundred countries and is predicted to pass whether the United States backs it or not.

Obama has stated that the United States will abstain from the vote in an effort to block it, which further emphasizes the precarious situation the United States finds itself in reference to the Muslim world. 
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Violence continues to spread throughout the Middle East.  Some of the worst has been seen in the small country of Bahrain, once again a country headed by a dictator supported by the United States for the past 60 years.  Apparently the United States has a naval facility at the island nation of Bahrain where our 5th fleet is stationed, and we wonder why we’re broke.

It is reported that Bahrain’s riot police fired live rounds at protesters, some of which were said to be sleeping in a protester encampment set up in Manama, Bahrain.  Four have been killed and many more wounded.  Thousands are protesting the killings today.  It is beginning to look as though there may be more deaths.  It is reported that a doctor was killed and paramedics wounded when they tried to assist some of the victims. 
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Italy’s Premier, Silvio Berlusconi, evidently likes to party, which can tend to get you into trouble if you are not careful.  Berlusconi is at present facing charges that he had sex with an underage prostitute, a 17 year old Moroccan girl named Ruby.   

Nicole Minetti, the madam involved in the case, claims that the relationship amounted to no more than affection, though it is reported that Berlusconi got Ruby out of some trouble with the police a while back. 

Amid the allegations of from having sex with a minor to state sponsored orgies, Berlusconi is emphatically stating, “I did not have sex with that woman.”  Now where have I heard that before? Cigars anyone? 
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Two United States Immigration Service Agents were shot in Mexico Tuesday.  The agents were apparently based in Mexico City where about two dozen other agents are based.  (Why are our ICE Agents stationed in a foreign country?) The two agents who were shot were driving from Mexico City to Monterey when they were attacked by unknown assailants.  One of the agents is dead and the other is said to be stable. 

The area where the incident occurred is apparently a war zone wherein the drug cartels and Mexican police have been doing battle for some time.  Twenty Mexican police have been killed in this area this year and last year over seventy killed.
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How will the Iranian government react as Green Movement protesters take to the streets of Tehran today?  The Green Movement was formed in Iran in response to the 2009 elections which they believed were rigged in favor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 

Iranian reformist leader Mehdi Karroubi has been placed under house arrest after seeking government permission to hold the anti-government rallies.  He is reportedly being denied access to communication, although a statement did come out on his blog proclaiming that the rally would go forth.

Some are accusing the Iranian government of hypocrisy as it has openly praised the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. 
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Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman announced today that President Mubarak is stepping down.  Apparently Mubarak will be turning his power over to the military.  How this whole scenario is going to play out, no one can be sure, but there are talks of doing away with the Egyptian constitution.  I guess this leaves Egyptian under martial law which is essentially the state they were in before they started.  It will be interesting to see how the Islamic Brotherhood reacts to the new power vacuum.

I believe if the Egyptian people had any sense they would draft a new constitution from the United States Constitution, copying it verbatim.  I think even the corrupt U.S. government would have a hard time not coming out in full support of the Egyptian people.  And how cool would it be to see the Obama administration have to support our Constitution in another country at the same time they are violating it here? 
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The Chinese are busy building new cities as their real estate market explodes.  There is just one problem.  Not only does no one live in these cities but no one was ever intended to.  The cities are built in the desert and consist of sky scrapers, apartment buildings, and metro domes.  The cities are being built to create an exploding housing market, wherein investors and developers are making bank in creating an illusion. 

Imagine brand new cities that no one lives in.  And we actually have people coming to this site expounding as how the Chinese government industry and people are so superior to us here in the United States.  It is true we allow our government to get away with a lot, but building whole cities for no other purpose than going through the act, well I don’t think that even the most stupid of Americans would fall for this.
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The situation in Egypt has taken a new turn following American reporters being beaten, abused and thrown out of the country.  There are now anti-American slogans being shouted by the Egyptian people on the streets.  This change in attitude has in turn caused a change in attitude in the United States, where a majority of the people are now saying that if Egypt has nothing but contempt for the U.S. all aid should be stopped immediately. 

This whole scenario has resulted in one of the most surprising admissions to come from our government in a long time.  For years we have been told that the $1.5 billion per year we are giving Egypt is being sent because they are a strong ally and promote our interests in the area.  Continue reading “New Information out of Egypt”

The trial for the three American hikers who were arrested near the Iran/Iraqi border and charged as spies is underway.  Sarah Shourd, the only woman among the three, was released on bail a couple of months back and will not be returning to Iran to face the charges.  I guess she can hope the Iranian government doesn’t hire Dog the Bounty Hunter to come after her.

Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer are facing a prosecution that could get them the death penalty, though it is being speculated that a ten year prison sentence is more likely. 
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We are now 13 days into the Egyptian protests and Friday was more of a whimper than a bang.  I guess the anti-Mubarak protesters rethought the strategy of marching on the Presidential Palace, which is probably for the best as the Egyptian military seems to have gotten things back under control.  The protests are mostly peaceful at present but it is being speculated that violence could erupt again if President Mubarak does not step down soon.

Increasingly we are finding out more about the Islamic Brotherhood, a faction which technically is outlawed in Egypt as no religious political parties are allowed.  Apparently the Brotherhood wields a lot more power than originally reported and in fact has been involved in the uprisings since the beginning. 
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Gunshots rang out in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt as violent protests continue.  The violence is being caused by government sponsored anarchists identifying themselves as supporters of President Mubarak.  The two crowds, having established battle lines, have been going at one another all week.  In the skirmishes prisoners were even taken.  Some of those taken by the protesters wanting Mubarak to step down were in fact police in civilian clothes. 

Mubarak’s government is arresting foreign journalists and telling others to stop reporting.  The only news being shown in Egypt is state run television.  Also all foreigners were told to evacuate the country.
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WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange is still in England waiting an extradition hearing.  Meanwhile recent WikiLeaks releases have prompted speculation from one end of the spectrum to the other.  The leaks involve various documents relating to world terrorism and possibilities and probabilities for a nuclear war in the Middle East. 

Many of the documents described terrorists making chemical and biological agents that they intend to release on their enemies around the world.  Some are speculating that the documents were purposefully leaked to rekindle the fear generated by 9/11.  These fears seem to have deteriorated in the face of other fears relating to not having a job and starving to death.  It must be noted that the release of the documents coincides with growing upheaval in the Muslim world. 
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Seven days of protests in Egypt and still no clue as to what is going to become of it all.  It is reported there will be a million person march Tuesday and a general strike has been called throughout the nation.  It seems the people of Egypt want the dictator Mubarak out, and they are not going to settle for anything less, which begs the question, if Mubarak steps down who is going to step up to lead the country until elections can be held.  

The Egyptian military is definitely the prominent power but if it is not being controlled by a civilian authority that would leave the Egyptians with a military dictatorship, which is essentially what they are trying to get away from.  It is hard to believe that those who planned the revolt, which has thus far been successful, did not have a contingency plan in the event that they succeeded. 
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Today marks the 6th day of protest in Egypt and once again the protesters have defied the government imposed curfew.  It is presently being reported that 100 are dead and 6,000 have been injured in the riots. 

Egyptian dictator Mubarak met Egypt’s Defense Minister today as American made tanks filled the streets and American made fighter jets and helicopters filled the sky.  Mubarak is still refusing to step down and the people are still demanding that he do so.  
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Protests continue in Egypt today as president Mubarak is still refusing to step down.  Mubarak did however, in addressing the situation, fire his cabinet and nominate one of his top security agents for vice president.  Egyptian troops have replaced the police in the streets in all but one sector wherein they are guarding the Interior Ministry in downtown Cairo where several people were shot when the crowd tried to advance.  It is reported that 68 people have been killed and 2000 wounded to date.

When the riots first began it was believed that they would have little or no impact on the U.S. economy.  However this scenario seems to have changed dramatically as it is now being reported that we will be seeing price increases literally across the board.  The crisis is also now being blamed for the sudden drop in the U.S. stock market on Friday. 
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As promised the Egyptian people unleashed.  The rioters numbered in the tens of thousands in cities all over Egypt.  In Cairo protesters set fire to the ruling party’s so called Democratic Headquarters while shouting, “Mubarak go to Saudi Arabia” and “We want democracy.”  Evidently the Egyptian people have been experiencing the same brand of democracy that our own government is trying to replace our Republican form of government with.

At last count 400 people are believed to have been injured in the protests.  Specific details coming out of Egypt are sketchy at best as the Mubarak regime has shut down all communication in an effort to stop the protesters form coordinating their events.  Mubarak and company also instituted a curfew, which the protesters ignored.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and Egyptian diplomat, Mohamed Elbaradei, returned to his home town of Cairo to participate in a mass demonstration scheduled for today.  Elbaradei is expected to spearhead the demonstrations aimed at ousting Egyptian President Mubarack in a peaceful manner.

It is being rumored that Mubarack has fled to England as the battle in the streets of Cairo intensifies.  Apparently the police are now shooting live rounds at the citizens.  At present it is reported that five citizens have been killed and numerous injured.  To date 860 protesters have been “rounded up”.  I love the way they talk about people as if they were cattle. 
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It would seem that the violence sparked in Tunisia which caused the overthrow of that government has spread into Egypt as thousands take to the streets to demand that their government step down.  An Egyptian airport intercepted tens of millions of dollars worth of gold destined for the Netherlands.  Apparently the Egyptian government was attempting to follow the lead of the Tunisian government in perpetrating one last theft on their way out.  It has not been widely reported but the Tunisian government did take tens of millions of gold with them when they left.

In numbers that have not been seen since the seventies Egyptians have taken to the streets of Cairo, shouting slogans directed against the police, the interior minister and the government, et.al.  So far the violence has been kept to rocks being thrown by the protesters and tear gas canisters being thrown by the police.  The fall of the government may be a foregone conclusion as the theft of the gold was being planned weeks ago.
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A bomb exploded at Domodedovo’s international, Moscow’s busiest airport Monday.  35 people were killed and another 150 were injured in what is being called the worst suicide bombing in Russia in the past 16 years.  Though no organization has taken responsibility for the bombing many writing in Russian on the Islamic website, kavkazcenter.com, praised the action.  Islamic rebels have vowed to hit economic targets in the Russian heartland in an effort to bring their bombing campaign to there from the North Caucasus in the year before the Russian elections.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who shares power in a ‘tandem’ arrangement with the less influential Medvedev, has staked his political reputation on quelling rebellion in the North Caucasus.
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The Chinese have launched a massive ad campaign in the United States depicting themselves as more intelligent, more industrious, more fiscally responsible, and all in all just plain better than Americans.  This from a people that allows political dissidents to be held in cages where they are literally fattened up until a rich internationalist places an order for one of their organs, after which they are taken to a hospital, put down, and parted out.  The human product is then iced down and put on a plane to Japan where the new recipient is waiting.

These are also the fine upstanding people who have a one child policy and for whole generations, kill baby girls at birth.  Of course their illustrious president did admit on Thursday that they need to work on human rights in China.  They must think that we have no memory and will readily accept them as the civilized people they are trying to portray themselves as being.
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