This video, posted Sunday (30th) on YouTube shows a very noisy protest in Tangiers, Morocco. It seems that the dam of oppression is breaking further, as the brilliant ‘Up-Rising Virus’ (supposedly spread by Facebook but that is way too simplistic) seems to now be spreading like wildfire.

Fact: 40% of the Egyptian population living on less than $2 a day.

At the moment (Sunday night) it looks like the wily Mubarak is staying firmly put, his plan being to play for time, make regular concessions, and let the protests blow out of steam, while at the same time taking full advantage of the fear generated by total chaos. There is evidence that plain cloths policemen were organizing looting, possibly with the help of some of the 2000 criminals who were allowed to escape from prison.

A lot of people have stopped protesting and are now guarding their homes. Already the protest in the central Tahrir Sq is getting isolated. The Army is being deployed to isolate them further, and is setting up road blocks all over Cairo. And the internet is still largely down.

General Strike + Run on the Banks

Meanwhile a General Strike is being organised, but more even more serious could be a possible run on the banks starting Monday.

• “Mega Protest” planned for Tuesday.
• Breaking Egypt’s spirit / A war of attrition
• ElBaradei Unifies Opposition, Criticizes Obama; Business Grinds to a Halt; Ports Shut Down, Food Prices Soar; Shortages of Food, Water, Fuel
• Al Jazeera live feed

Mubarak gets advice from school girl

It looks like Mubarak might be preparing to leave, although here at the safe house in central London we don’t know a lot, thanks to watching the BBC too much.

According to Al Jazeera no less than 19 private jets have recently landed in Dubai carrying businessmen and family affiliated with the Mubarak regime. Meanwhile the Egyptian President’s wife Suzanne Mubarak has left for London, where her two sons have already arrived.

The new ‘vice president’ of Egypt, Omar Suleiman aged 74, the ex intelligence chief (i.e. local CIA torture coordinator and ‘rendition’ travel agent) could then technically be in power, perhaps for a few seconds, as it seems obvious that any position he gets will not be acceptable to the Egyptian people, unless it is in a prison cell.

The Army will become the Police

The Egyptian Army (owned lock, stock and barrel by the US) will almost certainly take over, answering increasingly desperate pleas to restore order. They will persuade the Egyptian people (the prisoners) to go back to their cells. To do this there will be some “historic” political reforms, watered down to almost nothing. The police will be improved slightly and perhaps Egyptians will be allowed to vote for ten idiot parties instead of just one.

However the Egyptian Army’s main orders from Washington will be to stop the Muslim Brotherhood and anything that threatens the interests of Coke and ExxonMobile. So it could be back to ‘business as usual’ in Egypt within a few days.

Of course there could be a real liberation in Egypt, but the chances are similar to winning the lottery by finding the winning ticket blowing in the wind. The good news is that the Egyptian people have realized they can’t win it (their Liberation), if they are not in it (on the streets).

Egyptian graffiti: “Mubarak is US collaborator”

Chanting in Tahrir Square: “Ya Mubarak Ya Gaban Ya Adb el Amerikan”. (“Oh Mubarak you are a coward, you are a slave to the Americans.”)

Meanwhile the elephants in the room are the vital Suez Canal, and Israel, Egypt’s neighbour from Hell. If the Egyptian people were to get what they want, the chances of war and ‘Suez Crisis Two’ increase dramatically.

Two recent Tweets:

• ‘Beginning of the end’ for Egypt’s Mubarak as son and wife flee

According to Internet research firm Renesys it took just 13 minutes for the Egyptian government to turn Egypt into an internet free island; a dark zone on the world web map. Mobile phone services have also been cut in most areas.

But Egypt’s Internet connections aren’t completely down. The Noor Group (motto: “Empowering the Realities of Life”), seems to be the only Internet provider in Egypt that’s ‘business as usual’. Its clients include Exxon Mobil, Toyota, Hyatt, Nestle, Fedex, Coca-Cola, and Pfizer, plus the Egyptian stock exchange.

Something was obviously up in Egypt when Egyptian use of the Tor Project’s anonymizing network experienced a dramatic spike. Normal usage was  around 400 users a day, but leaped to more than 1,200 as of January 24 (the beginning of widespread protests in Egypt). Then at about 5:12 p.m. EST on Thursday 27th Jan, Telecom Egypt, the country’s main telecom provider, began shutting down its services. By 5:25 p.m., four other ISPs had also gone quiet. ‘Egypt’ was down.

Ronald J. Deibert, director of the ‘Canada Centre for Global Security Studies’ and the ‘Citizen Lab’ at the University of Toronto points out:

“[After the Internet shutdown] what you’re left with are few spotty satellite connections which then really put a spotlight on those who may be the ringleaders of the protest,” he said. “There’s a kind of surveillance angle to this.”

However they may well find there are no ‘ringleaders’ on satellite phones, but everyone from grandmas to school kids still on the streets.

A fair number of people say that Britain is a ‘police state’. A neo-liberal ‘open prison’ perhaps, but these people obviously don’t know what a real police state is like. It is like Egypt and Tunisia and too many other places. The protests sweeping the Middle Eastern corporate dictatorships (sponsored by Coke, Nestle etc), are ‘prison population’ rebellions by the people of whole nations, who have been imprisoned under the harshest conditions for generations.

Now, to underline their true status, the prisoners in Egypt are being punished by having their Internet and mobile privileges cut off. Instead of being able to use ‘Twitter’ and Facebook and talk on their mobiles, millions of Egyptians are back to Carrier Pigeon and Word of Mouth (21% had internet,  65.5 million had a working mobile phone). The Egyptian Government may soon discover that word of mouth is impossible to shut down – but it is obviously going to try to do it’s best.

Meanwhile ‘Mossad’ is freaking.

• Egypt’s Internet disconnect reaches 24 hours.
• In a span of minutes, Egypt goes offline.
• Egypt Shuts Down Internet, Cellphone Services.
• Vodafone confirms role in Egypt’s cellular, Internet blackout.

Here at the safe house we are stockpiling Echinacea and other medical herbs, before they are all made illegal like medical Cannabis, which is outlawed except as a pharmaceutical product.

On 1st May 2011 a new law comes into effect which will mean if you want almost any medical herb you will have to go out to ‘score’ from an underground ‘dealer’, and hope you don’t get busted for possession.

Big Pharma is set to make a real killing; they are going to try to murder Flower Power.

Ironically the Pharmaceutical Corporations are the biggest growers of herbs in the world. This is because the ingredients for most of their products are not derived from the ‘wonders of science’ – but from the wonders of nature.

There is a very slim chance of preventing this attack on our Herbal Rights. The Alliance for Natural Health is to fund a legal challenge to the EU ‘Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive’ (THMPD). They have had previous success fighting last-ditch stands in the law courts, and are now desperately raising cash to pay lawyers.

So far we have not heard of any street protests, which seem appropriate, but you can sign a petition, and support the cause on Facebook.

• The EU did add a compromise clause which can at least allow registered herbal practitioners to prescribe medical herbs .. but it seems our ‘Big Society’ Coalition is blocking that provision in Britain. So, not only are they destroying the NHS, they are making the only alternative illegal … apart from getting medical insurance with BUPA of course.

One of the reason this is happening is thanks to the power (mostly corrupted) of the Codex Alimentarius, an inter-governmental body of 170+ countries, that sets guidelines and standards, supposedly to ensure ‘fair trade practices’ and consumer protection in relation to the global trade of food, but largely used to support the interests of the global death corporations.

• Many Herbal Drugs to be Banished in UK this Year.
• Bad Medicine … No Remedy for UK Herbalists.
• EU legislation puts Herbal medicine under threat.
• Hundreds of herbal products to be outlawed across EU in early 2011.
• Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies.

Andy Coulson’s last spin:

“When the spokesman liar needs a spokesman liar, it is time to move on go on the run.”

Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch, the longest serving unelected member of the British Cabinet (every government for the last 30 years),  is flying in to London next week. Hopefully, like ‘Baby Doc’, he will regret this, and will soon be arrested. A few months ago BBC 4 asked listeners who they thought was the worst influence on British society in the last 30 years. Almost everyone said “Mrs Thatcher”, but they were wrong. The correct answer is Rupert Murdoch.

Lord Prescott:

“The police’s role has been unacceptable”

• My Battles with Rupert Murdoch
• Rupert Murdoch’s Victims (by Richard Neville)
• Dirty Digger is top Hacker

As in Tunisia, the British people are demanding a complete and real change, not a reshuffle which is all that has happened with the Condem ‘unity’ coalition.

The presence of members of the old corrupt government cannot be accepted in Parliament, even as members of the so called ‘opposition’. The promotion of Balls as ‘Shadow Chancellor’ is a sick joke given his criminal record supporting the Bankers Fraud.

Several jumbo jets will have to be chartered to send Balls and the other Labour traitors, along with the Tory Looters and the despicable Libcons to Saudi Arabia as soon as possible.

Of course Cameron, Milliband and Clegg should not be allowed to escape so easily; they should face the People’s Justice and spend the rest of their lives working as cleaners.

Tunisian Example; ex President Ben Ali’s Ferrari gets repossessed:

It’s another ‘Bash Blair Day’ at the meaningless Iraq Inquiry Show Trial, which is guaranteed to be a festival of gross hypocrisy and ignorance about Iraq. This disgusting performance by George Galloway is a reminder of how wrong the appeasers to Iraqi Fascism were, and are.

• George Galloway is still an utter arsehole (Harrys Place)