THE WINDS OF CHANGE HAS COME TO EGYPT & THE ARAB WORLD!

January 31-2011:

THE WINDS OF CHANGE HAS COME TO EGYPT & THE ARAB WORLD.

Democracy Is Knocking At The Doors. And All Involved Had Better Listen. Power To The Peaceful!

A Total Transformation Of The Status Quo:

This is the desire of all Rational Thinking Egyptians. Regardless of how they are perceived by the regime's friends and allies abroad.

Freedom From Oppression, Police Brutality, Including The Internet, And Free And Fair Elections.

Neighborhood Watch Groups:

Neighborhood Watch Groups, With People In Your Immediate Neighborhood. This Can Be A Deterrent To Those Who May Want To Infiltrate Your Neighborhood To Steal, Loot, Or Rape People.

Protect Yourselves With Strong Lances/Sticks, Personal Firearms, Mobile Phones, And Shifts Operations Throughout Night.

Egyptian Police Brutality:

During The Commonweal's Protests Are Being Recorded. Hundreds Dead, Thousands Beaten and Maimed By The Police On The Streets, While A Few Are Looting To Get Food To Eat. All Of These Incidences Are Being Monitored Globally.

President Mubarak Appoints VP:

This Is A PLOY That Won't Work For Him. The People Of Egypt Can See Through This Ridiculous Decision.
Both Of These Men Are Oppressors Of The Egyptian People. And Using The Intelligence Officer Now To Help Him Hold On To Power Is Ludicrous, To Say The Least.


The US And Egypt's Relations:

But the Egyptians Will Decide How The Next Administration Relations With The US Will Be. So Let The Current Protesters Continue To Do What They Have To. To Remove That Oppressive Dictator From Off Their Backs. If The US Really Cares, Then They Should Support The Democratic Process Right Now!


Pharaoh Mubarak MUST STEP DOWN Immediately:

Tell him that his message of PACIFICATION will not be enough to quell our demands.

Tell him we want to meet with him, and put forward OUR Collective Demands in person via our Collective Representatives NOW.

A National Unity Transitional Government After Mubarak Leaves!

Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said on Sunday that President Hosni Mubarak must leave office today to make way for a national unity government.

"It is loud and clear from everybody in Egypt that Mubarak has to leave today," ElBaradei said in an interview aired on CNN. "He needs to leave today, to be followed by a smooth transition (to) a national unity government, followed by all the measures set in place for a free and fair election."

ElBaradei also said U.S. policy in Egypt was "losing credibility."

Derryck.
NYC.

THE PALESTINE PAPERS:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/palestine-papers-expose-peace-concession
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ATTENTION:

I am not naive, nor did I believe that the Obama administration would be TRUE to the Palestinian cause or quest for sovereignty.

But these revelations that wikileaks have released, validates my suspicion about the US true motive for the Palestinians, and how we allow Israel to fool these people into thinking that sovereignty and peace was their desire too.

How pathetic!

Derryck.
NYC.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/palestine-papers-expose-peace-concession
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January-23-2011.

THE PALESTINE PAPERS:

Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process• Massive new leak lifts lid on negotiations

The Palestine papers reveal the offer of concessions by Palestinian peace negotiators on areas such as the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount holy sites in Jerusalem. Photograph: Awad Awad/AFP/Getty Images

The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East conflict has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel's annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem. This unprecedented proposal was one of a string of concessions that will cause shockwaves among Palestinians and in the wider Arab world.

A cache of thousands of pages of confidential Palestinian records covering more than a decade of negotiations with Israel and the US has been obtained by al-Jazeera TV and shared exclusively with the Guardian. The papers provide an extraordinary and vivid insight into the disintegration of the 20-year peace process, which is now regarded as all but dead.

The documents – many of which will be published by the Guardian over the coming days – also reveal:

• The scale of confidential concessions offered by Palestinian negotiators, including on the highly sensitive issue of the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

• How Israeli leaders privately asked for some Arab citizens to be transferred to a new Palestinian state.

• The intimate level of covert co-operation between Israeli security forces and the Palestinian Authority.

• The central role of British intelligence in drawing up a secret plan to crush Hamas in the Palestinian territories.

• How Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders were privately tipped off about Israel's 2008-9 war in Gaza.

As well as the annexation of all East Jerusalem settlements except Har Homa, the Palestine papers show PLO leaders privately suggested swapping part of the flashpoint East Jerusalem Arab neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah for land elsewhere.

Most controversially, they also proposed a joint committee to take over the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City – the neuralgic issue that helped sink the Camp David talks in 2000 after Yasser Arafat refused to concede sovereignty around the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques.

The offers were made in 2008-9, in the wake of George Bush's Annapolis conference, and were privately hailed by the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, as giving Israel "the biggest Yerushalayim [the Hebrew name for Jerusalem] in history" in order to resolve the world's most intractable conflict. Israeli leaders, backed by the US government, said the offers were inadequate.

Intensive efforts to revive talks by the Obama administration foundered last year over Israel's refusal to extend a 10-month partial freeze on settlement construction. Prospects are now uncertain amid increasing speculation that a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict is no longer attainable – and fears of a new war.

Many of the 1,600 leaked documents – drawn up by PA officials and lawyers working for the British-funded PLO negotiations support unit and include extensive verbatim transcripts of private meetings – have been independently authenticated by the Guardian and corroborated by former participants in the talks and intelligence and diplomatic sources. The Guardian's coverage is supplemented by WikiLeaks cables, emanating from the US consulate in Jerusalem and embassy in Tel Aviv. Israeli officials also kept their own records of the talks, which may differ from the confidential Palestinian accounts.

The concession in May 2008 by Palestinian leaders to allow Israel to annex the settlements in East Jerusalem – including Gilo, a focus of controversy after Israel gave the go-ahead for 1,400 new homes – has never been made public.

All settlements built on territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war are illegal under international law, but the Jerusalem homes are routinely described, and perceived, by Israel as municipal "neighbourhoods". Israeli governments have consistently sought to annex the largest settlements as part of a peace deal – and came close to doing so at Camp David.

Erekat told Israeli leaders in 2008: "This is the first time in Palestinian-Israeli history in which such a suggestion is officially made." No such concession had been made at Camp David.

But the offer was rejected out of hand by Israel because it did not include a big settlement near the city Ma'ale Adumim as well as Har Homa and several others deeper in the West Bank, including Ariel. "We do not like this suggestion because it does not meet our demands," Israel's then foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, told the Palestinians, "and probably it was not easy for you to think about it, but I really appreciate it".

The overall impression that emerges from the documents, which stretch from 1999 to 2010, is of the weakness and growing desperation of PA leaders as failure to reach agreement or even halt all settlement temporarily undermines their credibility in relation to their Hamas rivals; the papers also reveal the unyielding confidence of Israeli negotiators and the often dismissive attitude of US politicians towards Palestinian representatives.

Last night Erekat said the minutes of the meetings were "a bunch of lies and half truths". Qureia told AP that "many parts of the documents were fabricated, as part of the incitement against the … Palestinian leadership".

However Palestinian former negotiator, Diana Buttu, called on Erekat to resign following the revelations. "Saeb must step down and if he doesn't it will only serve to show just how out of touch and unrepresentative the negotiators are," she said.

Palestinian and Israeli officials both point out that any position in negotiations is subject to the principle that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" and therefore is invalid without an overarching deal.

Lobbyists In The USA And The Inherrent Dangers!

http://mimbari.livejournal.com/119279.html

January 24-2011:


Lobbyists In The USA And The Inherrent Dangers!

Definition:
Attempting to influence (A Public Official Or Decision Maker), in favor of a specific opinion or cause.
This in itself is not wrong. What is wrong is when the elected official forgets who he/she represents, and caters to those Lobbyists who can make him/her an offer he/she cannot refuse!

Who Are These Lobbyists?

They are individuals from all walks of life, and organizations. Whose sole purpose is to access their Congressmen or women, in order to push or influence any piece of legislation that they feel promotes, or hinders their organization or individual interests.

Large sums of money are donated to those Congressmen/women's campaign or Political party, in order to get him/her elected. With the intent that if he/she gets elected to Public Office, that lobbyist will be able to access him/her to advocate for a certain issue, or piece of legislation.

The US Supreme Court's Ruling:

Wealthy lobbyists are encouraged by the recent US Supreme Court's decision to allow any organization in the private sector to financially support any political party as they see fit.
Which is an affront and a dis-advantage to ordinany American citizens, who could merely provide a paltry amount, to any campaign or campaigner for public office.

Derryck.
NYC.

TUNISIA ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY!

http://mimbari.livejournal.com/118332.html

January 14-2011:

TUNISIA ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY!

President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali fled, leaving his Prime Minister in charge. He dissolved his Parliament after vociferous popular protest for him to resign!

A State Of Emergency Is Now Declared.

What Happens Next?

I hope that this interim Prime Minister will consider facilitating a coalition of leaders, military, and civilian personnel, to convene an Interim Parliament pending elections very soon.

Until there is a collective agreement for representatives of the people, pending a national election for Democratic rule. The situation can deteriorate even further.

Who Is Next?

Watch out Mr. Mubarak of Egypt. Your days are numbered too.

Watch out Iran, your Islamic dictatorship is also on notice.

Watch out Israel, Palestinians will be FREE by FORCE if necessary too.

Without A Struggle, There Can Be No Victory!

Derryck.
NYC.