America has taken the concept of hypocrisy to a new level. Dictators are friendly to the U.S. because we pay them billions to be so. Then we stand aside quietly watching while the trampled masses engage in democratic revolutions we are too cowed to even dream of. We are the largest exporter of arms and weapons in the world. Our taxpayer-funded security corporations engage in powerful wars of destruction so they can turn around and profit on the upside as well by rebuilding what they have bombed into dust. Democracy? Oh, that would be us—forced to sacrifice our jobs, homes and all our hard-won social programs to pay for it all.

I’m surprised Barry Hussein didn’t mention this:
As the cliche goes, there are no coincidences in politics. Obama fundraiser group Code Pink just happened to have arrived in Cairo last week for the group’s ninth visit there in two years as part of its campaign to undermine the Mubarak government and help Hamas, the terrorist group that controls Gaza. Code Pink and the lame-stream media are trying to portray the leftist group’s “sudden” appearance in Cairo Wednesday as an act of courageous support for a democratic revolution. Nothing could be further from the truth. Code Pink has a well-documented history of working to overthrow American allies while propping up anti-American leftist governments and terrorist regimes. In fact, the group was founded in late 2002 to help keep the socialist Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein in power. Code Pink even traveled to Baghdad in February 2003 as guests of the tyrannical terrorist to lobby the world to keep Saddam Hussein in power. Since then, Code Pink has worked to support the communist dictatorship of the Castro brothers in Cuba, the terrorist regime of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the government of Fidel Castro wannabe Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. The group has visited each of these nations as guests of their respective governments.
Since 2009 Code Pink has been leading an international campaign to get a blockade lifted that was imposed by Egypt and Israel after Hamas was elected to rule Gaza. One year ago, Code Pink was in Cairo with former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn agitating against the Mubarak government and its decision to limit the amount of aid and activists it would allow in Gaza. Code Pink protested in the very same Tahrir Square that has become famous the past two weeks. Code Pink brags on its Web site that its protests in Cairo helped inspire Egyptians to rise up against Mubarak.
Code Pink does not care about Egyptian democracy. Code Pink’s goal is to overthrow an American ally that has helped keep the peace with Israel and been a bulwark against Islamist radicals.What is interesting is that despite the apparent opposition in positions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Code Pink and President Barack Obama are amazingly in sync. Obama wants Mubarak to go. So does Code Pink. Obama wanted Zelaya to stay in power. So did Code Pink. Obama hobnobs with Hugo Chavez, so does Code Pink. Obama wants to close Guantanamo and is easing travel restrictions on Cuba, which mirrors Code Pink’s positions. Obama is waging war on Big Oil, so is Code Pink. Obama opposed liberating Iraq, so did Code Pink. Obama wants our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan soon regardless of the effect, so does Code Pink.
It’s no wonder that one of Obama’s early supporters and key fundraisers was Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.

As I wrote on another post; CNBC reported this morning that the events in Egypt present another bull market where: “...Capitalism and Demoracy will rule.” and then the discussion began about how many billions of dollars will be needed to invest and develop Egypt.  In short: 40% unemployment = a new batch of cheap labor to outsource to with a new government to buy.  WHAT?  You didn’t know that capitalism was democracy and democracy was capitalism???  Where you been?  OOOhhhh…I forgot…you think this is the people speaking up to it’s rulers!  You so silly!  The old boss is being replaced by a new boss.  The IMF isn’t freezing Mubarak’s bank accounts for the ‘benefit of the people’...he was fired and the money is being collected by the paymaster.  Can you say ‘Owned’?  You should be able to; you’re an American, aren’t you?

The people spoke when they elected you President Obama - “yes we can” - but you don’t and can’t listen until the bribing and corrupting Corporate lobbby leave Washington - Why don’t you organize a Ciaro style mass movement to help you get rid of them boss? We can sit in Washington DC until they go

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They have spoken but it is shameful that the american people
WILL NOT SPEAK, a distorted masochism that ostensibly
portends hubristic endurance. So it still remains a ‘hurry up and
wait’ situation.

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They have spoken but it is shameful that the american people
WILL NOT SPEAK, a distorted masochism that ostensibly
portends hubristic endurance.

This speech ought to be seized on as support for the immediate repeal of our own draconian
“surveillance” apparatus and laws inhibiting free criticism of our own government.  It also ought to work to get us some meaningful access to the corporate-dominated media and help our voices be heard in the Halls of Congress.  Wall Street and the corporate overlords?  Well. that’s another whole ball of wax. 
  They use their money to so heavily insulate themselves from public opinion—even more than media and Government. But maybe we could convince some of the more aware members of media and Government to talk to them and let them know what is going on out here in the real world.
  Yes?  No?  Maybe? Worth a try?  If not, haveas corpus remains defunct and the evils of Guantanamo keep eating our souls.