Game Over, Hosni.Overthrowing The Mubarak Regime.
By Uncle Monty.
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:: MUBARAK FINALLY OUSTED ::
News Update - Feb. 11th, 2011.
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:: Egyptian News Updates - Feb. 7, 2011.::
Key opposition group not swayed by talks with
Egypt regime. From correspondents in Cairo.
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Egypt's talks with opposition are 'extraordinary,' a possible
turning point, John Kerry says. John Kerry, the head of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is optimistic and
hopeful about concessions by the Cairo government to
protesters' demands -- particularly an agreement to
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From Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution comes now the
awakening of the oppressed Egyptian people under
the 30-year tyranny of President Hosni Mubarak
and his presidential gang of gangsters at Cairo.
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Call it a copycat revolution or not, but every -
thing in Egypt now amounts to simply one
thing: "Game Over, Hosni." Just like it was in
Tunisia of two-weeks or so ago: "Game Over"
there, too, for the detested Ben Ali clan!
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But even more entrenched and brutal is
Hosni compared to Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi
Arabia with his hated wife Leila Trabelsi, who
has been dubbed "The Imelda Marcos of the
Arab World" because of her lavish lifestyle
and love of designer clothes and bags of gold!
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Yesterday, Mubarak declared he will not step
down and said he would finish out his term in
defiance and arrogance of the people's will
that gathered and amassed also yesterday in
Cairo with the aim of one million sons and
daughters of Egypt demanding the end to
him and his unbashed brutality against his
own people. But Hosni will not win,
whether he stays or not.
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The domino effect: Tunisia engulfed. Egypt in flames.
Jordan teetering. As the Arab world unravels,
should the West be worried? By John R Bradley.
:: Updated Comments By Uncle Monty ::
The New York Times reports that US officials are
now in talks with Egyptain officials to have Hosni
Mubarak resign immediately with a transistional
government replacing him. But Hosni, the old
stubborn bastard that he is, wants no part of a
any deal that sees him quit. After watching
Sky News live reports from Cairo yesterday
of the pro- and anti-Mubarak protesters filling
the violent streets, I'm fearful that the longer
Hosni stays that greater danger of some kind
of civil war becoming the next stage in the
social and political conflagration that is
Egypt today. Dubbed "The Day of Departure"
by the anti-Mubarak forces, today will also
be a most critical one in determining if Hosni
finally quits or stays to see his country slide
even further into outright bloodshed against
him. The Egyptian army's role on the streets,
and in the corridors of power, will play a pivotal
part in determining whatever outcome
finally emerges at post-Mubarak Egypt.
Yesterday, the army cleared pro-Hosni
paid thugs - seemingly organized by secret
police agents, et al - from off the streets
after such government thugs attacked
peaceful protesters violently. The vice-
president of Egypt publicly apologized
to the pro-Mubarak protesters for what
the paid thugs did. Quite rare, indeed,
for such an apology to be declared.
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How things play out is anybody's guess
right now. What is certain is that Egypt,
like earlier in Tunisia, will probably inspire
more copycat revolutions in the Middle East
and North Africa especially among disaffected
and young Arab citizens who will eventual-
ly alter the face and fate of the Arab world
for this 21st century. Long after dictators
like Mubarak and Ben Ali are assigned to the
footnotes in history books, what happens in
Cairo this very day will go down in the history
of the Arab peoples no matter what. Whether
what comes afterwards is good or bad must be
determined by the people themselves and not
by Yankee outsiders to the bloody spectacle
and upheaval that is seen right now by the
world looking on in with utter amazement
and strangeness of seeing what's all happen-
ing with their rivetting perplexity and
breathlessness at what they've so far seen.
"Be thou not dismayed," we are scripturally
told. All things come to pass and so there-
fore "be thou not dismayed" of whatever
happens in the world or even in one's own
momentary life ... And so, good luck to
the Arab peoples for a better and brighter
future without those dictators and paid
thugs choking the life from out of them.
Feb. 4th, 2011.
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Here's an example of what the people really think!
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The question now is not if, but rather when will
Hosni Mubarak, 83 in May, scurry off in the foot
steps of his fellow dictator Ben Ali to Suadi Arabia?
If not there, then perhaps to England where his half-Welsh wife Suzanne holds a British passport.
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Their son Gamel is reported to be already in
London and has been suspected of arms-dealing.
Gamel Mubarak, 47, also runs his own investment
business called Medinvest Associates. His dad Hosni,
is known to have amassed $38 billion for his
family under his iron-fist regime and dictatorship.
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The Will of the Egyptian People In Full View!
While on the burning streets of Cairo, much like what I saw and personally witnessed at Tunis at the very start of the Jasmine Revolution, the brave protesters were being slaughtered by
plainclothes thugs and government paid agent provocateurs and outright murderers dressed in police uniforms. As with all dictators, they feel they are invincible and the longer they stay in brutal power the more they believe they're even more invincible until the day of reckoning sees the real possibility that they'll be publicly lynched by the people for all the years of their evil tyranny. The raw reality for Hosni Mubarak will take time for it to sink in, but by then he may well find such raw reality as unmerciful as he has been to his own people for the past 30 long years. And, none of the billions of dollars in US foreign aid will ultimately save him from his final days of fate. It didn't for Tunisia's Ben Ali as the people there finally revolted against him and his wicked and greedy family at the expense of the poor Maghreb people.
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Arab Revolutions: From Tunisia To Egypt, Is This The Beginning Of A Trend?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/egypt-tunisia-arab-revolution_n_816695.html
By Cara Parks.
As Violence Rages in Egypt is the United States a Democracy Hypocrite?
As Violence Rages in Egypt is the United States a Democracy Hypocrite? - National religion & politics Examiner.com
Be careful what you wish for in Arab world. By Anthony Cordesman.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87bd5f98-2a52-11e0-b906-00144feab49a.html#axzz1CqtmkO2e
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Now 24 hours after Mubarak told the Egyptian nation he would hold on until his term expires in September, 2011, there are new and ominous developments inside Egypt that could see a dramatic change on the ground in favour of Hosni Mubarak's continuing to cling to power despite the march of a million protesters at Cairo. It appears the army is now instructing the protesters to disband and basically telling them go back home to where they're from. Up untl now, the army has been, if you will, rather neutral toward the anti-Mubarak protesters. But today, clashes emerged against them by the sudden emergence and arrival of organized pro-Mubarak street supporters. The longer Hosni now stays, the greater is the danger of a massive bloodbath coming into play. If the army decides to end by force the anti-Mubarak protests, then the country could find itself in some kind of civil war that could impact far beyond the borders of Egypt and other copycat revolutions could soon be taking place inside Jordan, Syria, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, and even Saudi Arabia. In the meantime, mass evacuations of tourist Brits, Yanks, Loonies, and other foreigners are taking place as Egypt enters a more dangerous phase against Mubarak and his stubborn regime that appears to be digging in at all costs no matter what. But whatever happens from here on out, nothing will be ever be the same either in Egypt or the Middle East as more lives are lost against the powerful forces of those sitting tyrants who have never had it so good until now. Now they aren't so sure if their own people will finally turn against them and seek to overthrow them by open revolution and widespread protests. More power to the good and oppressed people!!
I shall update this story "Game Over, Hosni" has matters develop inside Egypt and/or other parts of the Middle East in the coming days and weeks. All of this seems to have stemmed from Tunisia's impressive Jasmine Revolution. I mention that again simply because much to my surprise my 60+ postcards posted by me at Carthage-Tunis on The Epiphany have now been arriving over the past few days at America, Australia, Italy, Canada, Mexico, UK, etc. I think that may be a good sign that things inside Tunisia are finally on the mend and business is getting back to normal after the end of the Ben Ali regime by the good Maghreb people. I basically kissed goodbye to my Tunisian postcards from ever arriving due the massive uprising in the country. But thankfully I was proved wrong. It's interesting how small things tell us alot about what is really going on inside a country torn by internal revolt - when the mail stops is a clear sign things are unsettled, while when the mail gets delivered it tells us things are much like what we expect ... stability and normalcy is what we think!!
A few parting words for now must include Iran, Belarus, and Libya. What a pity that such tyrants like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus can still thrive and live openly with their evil dictatorships along with others like Col. Maummar al-Gaddafi of Libya, which I visited last month before heading to then Ben Ali's Tunisia. Let us hope the people bring an end to such tyrants whereever and however they are ...
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MOSCOW — The United States and the European Union on Monday imposed sanctions against President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and scores of other officials in Belarus for a broad crackdown on the opposition after the fraudulent presidential election late last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/world/europe/01belarus.html?_r=1
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
As always, Uncle Monty. +Candlemas - The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, 2011.
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