I must be feeling masochistic. Suffice it to say that Beck has Muslim Brotherhood and Iran Tourettes. Whatever. What’s noteworthy is that I made a second mistake on Beck’s site. I scrolled down to the comments. And just… wow. It was like some sort of Jesus Apocaplyse Insane Asylum. I can’t do it justice, just read:
Gleen;
It is exciting to see the Scriptures coming to life! Isaiah says, 2500 years AGO.
The Brotherhood, will set up the alliance you speak about. Israel will be surrounded but not forsaken. The God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob will be faithful to a people that missed her visitation which allowed salvation to be brought to the Gentile nations through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, the Christ. The time of the Gentiles is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is now going to be restored to the remnant of Israel.
He died, was buried and rose the dead so those who believe will have eternal life. Mohammed, Budda, Confucuis are in their graves but Jesus is alive. The only way to God in love, not hate.
Yes, Israel will be attacked and made lean. Damascus will be no more. Egypt will be in confusion but will eventually bow down to the God of Israel.
A one world govt. will arise and a global leader who will come in peace.
Israel will rebuild the 3rd temple.
The Gog and Magog war will be next. Rush, Russia and Marxism will join with Persia and the Islamic Brotherhood nations will come against Israel but the God of Israel will snag them back like a fishhook in their mouths as described in Ezekiel 38 and 39.
This global leader then enter the temple and declare he is god. He will incite the world to destroy Israel and 200 million army from China to meet with the nations of the world in Megedo Israel to annilate Israel. Then the day of the Lord will come to gather His people and pour out his wrath on all those who oppose the God of Israel.
Are you prepared?
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/blog/wilson/the-coming-insurrection-egypt-day-2/#comment-138541170
First off, bonus points for “Gleen.” Beyond that, there’s more crazy in here than I can process. I suppose I should be thankful that only 5 people “liked” the comment.
I’m going to go wash my eyes and frontal lobe with Purell now.
If any of these signs apply to you, you might be a faux-President dictator…
- You live in a “presidential palace”
- Your government has a Ministry of Information
- Your police forces are structured nationally rather than locally
- You have won an election by more than 80 percent of the vote
- Your Ministry of the Interior has its own paramilitary forces
- You came to power via an “emergency”
- Your BFFs are generals and spies
- You’re constantly worried those same BFFs are going to assassinate you
- You have ever worn a green or brown uniform to a press event
- Whenever there are protests in your country, it’s because of “foreign infiltrators”
- You lack a vice president for multiple decades
- You or members of your government were trained by any of the CIA, KGB/NKVD, Mossad, ISI, or SAS (bonus points for graduates of the School of the Americas)
- You’ve survived multiple assassination attempts
- Barack Obama is embarrassed to be your friend, but George Bush calls you every weekend and mispronounces your name
- Buildings, bridges, dams, or ships are named after you before you die
- Halliburton is significant foreign corporation in your country
- You HATE HATE HATE the internet
- “Disappearance” ranks as a cause of death in your country
- The United States uses your prisons to torture terrorist “suspects”
- Your father was the last president (or your son is supposed to be the next president)
- China has ever used its UN Security Council veto in your favor
Got more? Leave them in the comments or @ejesse on Twitter
I’ll try to make this quick, since I feel like it’s painfully obvious. Arguing either that social media “caused” these events or had “nothing to do with them” are both stupid arguments.
Clearly people are marching in the streets because they are rejecting decades of oppression, human rights violations, corruption and poverty. It’s just as clear that tools like Twitter and Facebook help people connect, communicate and organize… and… ergo, help enable popular organization. It’s just like the communications equipment assisting Solidarity in Poland. These tools are disruptive accelerators and empowerers not causers (yes, I know I just made up at least one word there).
Does anyone really think that the governments wouldn’t be trying to suppress these communication tools if they weren’t tools that worked for the people???
Regarding the US State Department’s private vs. public efforts to support the Egyptian protestors, I just found myself in the startling position of agreeing with a statement out of AEI, via Foreign Policy:
“The real problem is that when your macro policy and your micro policy don’t match up, it takes all the credibility away,” said Danielle Pletka, vice president at the American Enterprise Institute. ” It’s one thing to stand up and say don’t shut off access to cell phones, but when top administration officials refuse to side with the protestors overall, it sends the message that there will be no consequences” for the Egyptian government if it chooses to ignore the administration’s calls for information openness
Weird.
Obama needs to denounce Mubarak, and soon. As of this post Egypt has cutoff all communications except land phone lines (edit: looks like the ISP Noor is still up), deployed anti-terror units, and police are setting fires to cars and public spaces. This has all the hallmarks of being setup for a massacre.
Obviously, the US can’t intervene militarily. But the US can certainly denounce Mubarak, pull US aid money and offer humanitarian aid to the Egyptian population.
This is a pivotal moment. If the US denounces Mubarak it’s a huge blow to his government and sends a message to the entire Arab world that the US supports Arab people over corrupt Arab governments. If we fail to support the protestors, then one of two things happens:
- The protestors are crushed. Lives are lost, the winds of reform in North Africa and the Middle East are snuffed out for decades, and the US loses any credibility with the Arab world for an entire generation. But the US keeps its “stable” “ally” in the region.
- The protestors, with the aid of Islamic Brotherhood somehow succeed. The US, having stood by doing nothing, essentially invites Islamicism into credibility.
If the US truly supports democracy in the Arab world the time is now to show it. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives are in the balance, as is the US’ role in the region, the world and history.
Per my earlier tweet:
Law of Unintended Consequences: western news becomes shitty and sold out, inspires wikileaks and social media, which free the middle east
Not only is there not a single mention of the word “Egypt” above the fold on the current cnn.com homepage, but even the SOTU headline is embarrassing.
And really, are you kidding me, there’s actually four dead white girls in the secondary story? It’s like CNN has become a bad parody of itself.
Compare this to the BBC homepage from the same time stamp. I left my clock in the screenshots so it was clear they were from the same time.
American news media has become such a disgraceful joke.
