Egypt Crisis

The outcome of this tsunami of activism is uncertain, but stormy waves means it is surf's up for Wall Street. The civil unrest gives them the perfect excuse to justify what can only be described as outright fraud and manipulation of the oil markets.

The situation in Egypt proves that there are forces at work far greater than governments; greater than genuine fundamentals for oil; and powerful enough to co-opt an unprecedented solidarity movement of a region -- they're called Banksters

old_tractor wrote:The present situation in Egypt is the result of having the US mid-east foreign policy created in Tel Aviv, transmitted to Versailles-On-The-Potomac by AIPAC with huge amounts of cash (or the threat of huge amounts of cash to opponents in the next election) and made policy by venal and corrupt representatives.

For a couple of decades, we have given Egypt a couple billion dollars each year for the Egyptian government to pretend they don't hate Israel and to "play nice" with Israel.

This deligitimises any government in the eyes of their people who do hate Israel and don't get a cut of the US bribes. The current Egyptian government does not represent the feelings of most Egyptians while the Muslim Brotherhood does.

What we are seeing is the result of having a tiny minority with great wealth and power whose first and strongest loyalty is to a foreign country populated by their ethnic brethren instead of the country in which they are citizens.