"It's not in any world leader's interest to let another world leader fall at the demand of the people, thus empowering people everywhere."

@MMFlint

"Individuals, not governments, have the right to privacy."

Julian Assange

...And if Mubarak is allowed remain President of Egypt until September...

...that will give the U.S. Government plenty of time to manipulate the situation to insure that someone agreeable to both the U.S. and Israel
becomes the next President...

What are your thoughts??? Freely post your comments below.

"Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."

@Jnoubiyeh

Hopefully the brave Egyptians demanding liberation in the streets of Cairo
since January 25 will not allow the United States to decide who will lead
their country ... either in the "interim" or long term. The U.S. scheme to
claim credit for getting their long time dictator friend, Hosni Mubarak,
to resign immediately and be replaced by new Vice President Omar Suleiman,
a notorious partner in the U.S. CIA's "extraordinary rendition" (torture)
program, with Suleiman receiving support from the Egyptian military, would make a mockery of all that the protesters have been risking their lives for.
Just as it has no credibility as a "broker" in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, so it should be given none as a "broker" in the Egyptian transfer of power.

"Day of Rage" - U.S. wants to keep the focus on "them" not "us."

With constantly shifting statements about the uprising in Egypt, the United States has been trying to keep the focus of demonstrators and the world at
large off of its own culpability in creating the Egyptian dictatorship and also off of the most glaring example of its hypocritical policies, the virtual prisoners being held behind the Israeli wall in the West Bank and Gaza. It has been using its Voice of America broadcasts and the social media websites to help stir up a "Day of Rage" in Syria on Friday, with the hope that President Bashar al-Assad would be the next target of angry demonstrators demanding that their President step down.

Behind the scenes, the U.S. has also been trying to get Jordan's King Abdullah II and puppet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to
give some appearance that they are moving towards "upholding democratic values," since they cooperate with the U.S. and Israel. Abbas announced
that he would hold long delayed elections, but since both he and the U.S.
refused to honor the results of the 2006 parliamentary elections in which
Hamas trounced Abbas' Fatah movement, such elections will probably be
"a joke" once again.

Make no mistake, the U.S. is going to manipulate what it can to see that
a pro-American government will take over in Egypt after Mubarak is forced out. But at the same time, it wants to continue to keep trying to
undermine those leaders that don't "march to its orders."

"He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own."

Confucius (551 - 479 B.C.)

I found myself dwelling upon these ancient words of wisdom because I realized how different the meaning would be with just a LETTER addition
in the first half (an 's' to "good"), and a WORD addition in the
second half ('downfall' after "own").

We have witnessed, in the past few days (and earlier in January), thousands of INDIVIDUALS who wanted to "secure the good of others," while the COUNTRIES who have directly or indirectly supported the leaders of oppression made it their concern to "secure the goodS of others." Whether
you call it the law of sowing and reaping; the law of attraction; the law of karma; or the boomerang effect; the former have been securing their
own good, while the latter have been securing their inevitable downfall.

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Long nights of oppression are always followed by the sunrise of Revolution."

@Jnoubiyeh

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."

George Carlin

The poor hear the "music" of liberation and want to "dance" to it....

In Egypt, ElBaradei is acting as though he is the heir apparent to Mubarak.

But has this former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1997-2009), a privileged upper class man with affluent family members who are lawyers, investment bankers, or IT managers, just been groomed by the U.S. Government to be yet another puppet head of state
(i.e. Afghanistan and Iraq)? ElBaradei has close connections with both
the U.S. and their staunch ally, Great Britain, and in his background
was involved in the "disengagement agreements between Egypt and Israel"
in the late 1970's which allowed both countries to continue their repressive policies without hostility toward one another since then.

ElBaradei, then, is the perfect candidate for the U.S. Government.
But he certainly is NOT for the millions of poor people who have been
oppressed by the Egyptian government for decades.

The struggle, in Egypt, Tunisia, and throughout the world, is one of the poor against the rich ... the "have-nots," wanting to stop the ever widing
gap between themselves, and the "haves." Governments are always trying to
make up all kinds of distractions to keep the poor from seeing ... how poorly ... they have been treated. But the latest revolts may be a
refreshing sign that they can't "fool all of the people all of the time."