The owner and top editor of the Washington Post, both Bilderberg creeps, have just closed the door on most comments at that wretched paper right in time for a full blown US-sponsored military coup in Egypt. Most comments, for the last year, have been heavily anti-Zionist and anti-war at the WP but now it will be, like many other US media, wall to wall echos of the elites. And this is no surprise to me, I have seen this happen at CNN, all the TV stations and elsewhere over the years. When the demented right wingers running Antiwar.com banned anyone who questioned Justin Raimondo‘s far right wing analysis, I said, ‘HAHAHA, so much for debate!’ And debate is ending in Egypt.
The mobs there who are unhappy about self-rule are now going back into military despotism and thinking, ‘This time, the military won’t crush dissent, will they?’ which is a very stupid question when the answer is a resounding, ‘Hell, yes! They can and will!’ But it takes a long while for people to learn these life lessons. I have seen, up close, military suppression of dissent in the past beginning with the French Student Revolt of spring, 1968. I was very much a part of that revolt and was an object of interest for the military and CIA as well as Stasi.
I had to flee STRASBOURG when the French occupation forces in the Black Forest sector were sent across the Rhine to put down the student rebellion. I swam the Rhine and I am still an excellent long distance swimmer (hint: swimming like a sea otter and going onto the back to ‘rest’ is key to long swims that are successful!) and discovered it was very, very polluted. My dress was ruined! On the German shore, I still had to deal with French tanks.
I will never forget the ominous sound of ‘clank/clank/clank’ that tank treads make on cobblestone streets. Well, Egypt had a joyous elimination of one of the few elected governments and they think food and fuel will rain down on their sad heads if the military chooses to open the shut valves. Few people know how deep the economic control of food, fuel and banking is…by the Egyptian military and elites. They caused the economic chaos that alienated voters and drove them into protests. This was deliberate economic warfare by rich people to teach the peons who is boss.
And this lesson will be applied in spades here in the US if the elites must make us more appreciative of their rule.
The comments in England about all this at the Guardian is rather instructive: Egypt’s coup: a ruinous intervention | Jonathan Steele | Comment is free | The Guardian
cut military expenses…
The Egyptian military controls businesses that account for around 40% of Egypt’s GDP. It’s not so much a fighting formation as a conglomerate.ΩΩΩ
sure- I won’t deny the liberal organization was feeble. And I’ll take your point that my analysis is urban-centric.
on the other hand, earlier this week I saw 200+ cars waiting at petrol stations, in every single petrol station I passed on my 20km commute. At 11pm. There have been frequent power cuts, and loads of unrest. About 100% of people I speak to (working and middle class Cairenes) are moaning about Morsi, blaming him for everything- most of it unfair. This was bound to boil over.ΩΩΩ
The irony of the events of the past few days is that those who are so energetically denouncing the president in Tahrir Square and the streets of other cities are falling into the trap made by the very elite they want to bring under control.
The Egyptian army have played their cards beautifully. Recall back in 2011 how the demonstrations in Tahrir Square were denouncing the military’s abusive dictatorship. The army leadership has obviously succeeded in shifting the blame for the population’s woes onto Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. And now the military is cleverly passing itself off as the champion of the people, while discreetly consolidating its political and economic control over the country.
I fear these protestors may be in for a rude awakening not far down the line.ΩΩΩ
In Europe so-called representative democracy is becoming rather cynical, i.e. politicians and parties and voters go through the motions, then the ruling elite does what it likes, in the case of Spain the exact opposite of its election promises.
Complicated by the fact that there is often now a deemed “higher power” than the one people have voted for, in this case “the market” or “the banks” who usurp most meaningful authority. Behind the scenes, of course, lobbies already do this with impunity. It’s just the “in your face” nature of current developments that shocks.
In this context it is hard to respect traditional notions of democracy and much easier to respect the efforts at direct democracy of Brazil, Turkey and Egypt. Is this kind of protest at the mercy of populism and/or the elites, as some say? Or perhaps we should ask if we really want to contine to toe the line and conform to being fodder for the latest serial global asset-stripper (all with the rubber stamp of our parliaments, of course)?
I read in horror all the ‘this is a great idea!’ comments at the NYT and WP as well as the HP and other rags in the US. On the delusional left, the chatter is how our military could prevent the Tea Party from running the nation while ignoring the reality that the military is very conservative. The military of Egypt isn’t Islamist, it is a looting operation set up to make the rich richer and the poor helpless. Which is what the cynics funding Romney, for example, want.
Below is a list of some websites discussing how the military in Egypt, funded mainly by the Saudis, Qatar and US, are also rulers of the economic system which seemed to go entirely into reverse during the Morsi year…imagine that! And the IMF told Morsi to undo price supports of things the Egyptians needed to stay alive so the price of bread and gasoline shot upwards as supply was restricted…by the military entities that run around 50% of the economy!
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Egypt military’s economic empire – Features – Al Jazeera English
Feb 15, 2012 - Analysts have predicted the Egyptian military controlanything from 15 per cent to 40 per cent of the economy. Even those are wild estimates.
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Egypt’s Generals and Transnational Capital | Middle East Research …
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer262/egypts-generals-transnational-capitalby S Marshall - Cited by 8 - Related articles… the size of the Egyptian army’s share in the economy has been a subject of great … for sure how much of the country’s economy themilitary industries control .
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Egyptian Armed Forces – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Armed_ForcesThe Central Security Forces comes under the control of the ministry of interior. … The Egyptian military is one of the strongest in the region, and gives Egypt … ”as much as 40% of the Egyptian economy” is controlled by the Egyptian military.
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Egypt’s Military Discourages Economic Change – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/…/18military.html?…allFeb 17, 2011 - Egyptians Say Military Discourages an OpenEconomy … officers ruling Egypt, has been a strong advocate of government control of prices and …
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The Role of the Egyptian Military in Domestic Society
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/egypt/egypt.htmby LTCSH Gotowicki - Cited by 7 - Related articlesSource: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, World MilitaryExpenditures and …. The military’s role in Egypt’s economy is represented in four primary sectors: …
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The Egyptian military’s economic empire — The Arabist
arabist.net/blog/2011/12/…/the-egyptian-militarys-economic-empire.htmlDec 23, 2011 - The Army and the Economy in Egypt, in Jaddaliya: … at least 50% by itself and there is a large official state sector outside themilitary’s control.
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‘One-third of Egypt’s economy under army control‘ – Business News …
http://www.iol.co.za/…/one-third-of-egypt-s-economy-under-army-control-1.1…Feb 20, 2011 - The Egyptian military played a crucial role in the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak and has promised to steer the nation towards democracy.
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Egypt’s Army Marches, Fights, Sells Chickens – Businessweek
Feb 17, 2011 - As much as one-third of Egypt’s economy is undermilitary control, says Joshua Stacher, an Egyptian-military expert and assistant professor at …Image may be NSFW.
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