Rachel Maddow on the situation in Egypt
By Mark | February 1, 2011
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What’s happening right now in Egypt is really fascinating on a bunch of different levels, and it’s likely to change things for us immensely. As Maddow mentions, for one, it’ll likely mean more expensive oil coming to us through the Suez Canal, assuming the regime changes. Higher prices at the tank here at home would follow, and that, I’m hoping, might push us to fast track alternative energy research and development. We saw huge movement beginning the last time gas hit $4 a gallon, but it was short-lived. It’ll also be interesting to see how Israel responds to the change, as, right now they count Egypt as one of their few non-enemies in the region. (I was going to say friends, but thought that it was too strong.) While it’s unlikely that a Muslim theocratic state will take root in Egypt, it’s almost certain that the Muslim Brotherhood will have more of a say in the future. Israel, I’m guessing, probably won’t like that. And what’s happening in Egypt and Tunisia might be contagious. I heard this morning that Jordan was shaking up their leadership in hopes of stopping a popular uprising.
Something big is definitely happening. Did you see the UFO over Jerusalem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwp_WHFhA4A
Any truth to the rumor that Mubarak appointed the Octomom to be his new Vice President?
From University of Michigan professor Juan Cole:
http://www.juancole.com/2011/01/egypts-class-conflict.html
Also worth watching is the Colbert Report from last night which featured an interview with professor Samer Shehata from Georgetown.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/372810/january-31-2011/mubarak-mu-problems—samer-shehata?xrs=share_copy
Remember how irate Glenn Beck got when, according to him, people in the press low-balled the number of people attending his “I’m the White Martin Luther King” event in DC last summer? Well, his website, The Blaze, estimates “MASSIVE EGYPTIAN RALLY REACHES 250,000”. Every other news source has it well over 1 million. Most say 2 million.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/massive-egyptian-rally-reaches-250000/
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says on state television that he will not seek another term.
What a real democratic revolution looks like compared to what a fake one looks like.
http://i.imgur.com/tgo9W.jpg
Folks are just mad because Mubarak won’t show them his birth certificate and they are claiming he was really born in Hawaii.
Nicholas Kristoff: “In my part of Tahrir, pro-#Mubarak mobs arrived in buses, armed with machetes, straight-razors and clubs, very menacing…. #Mubarak seems to be trying to stage a crackdown not with police or army, but with thugs. They are armed and brutal.”
http://twitter.com/NickKristof
And so things begin to turn ugly.
Thugs we are probably paying for.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has just agreed to step down.