Oh The Great Glorious Arab Spring Has Sprung: Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Supporters and Opponents Clash in Cairo

Growing pains, as apparently the Egypt’s new dictator is worse than the old dictator. That’s the problem with dictators in the Muslim world changes are not always for the better. Try Before you buy.

Supporters and opponents of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood clashed on the streets of Cairo today. Riot police fired tear gas as the rival groups fought near the Brotherhood headquarters.

More like boing, plop, everybody back on your head now, take a break, time for prayer.

New Storm in Egypt Over Citizen Arrests

Remember Egypt?

Well the riots in Egypt are continuing … I assume the people have figured out by now the new dictator is worse than the last dictator.

What you didn’t know how the Arab Spring is still on-going?

Well they know:

An official statement encouraging Egyptian civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police has set off a new political storm in a country already mired in crisis.

A senior leader of a hard-line Islamist faction loyal to President Mohammed Morsi said his group was preparing lists of volunteers ready to take over police duties if needed.

The main opposition coalition saw the statement on citizen arrests by the attorney general’s office as a prelude to the substitution of the police by militias belonging to Morsi’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood group and allied Islamist groups who swept to power after Egypt’s uprising two years ago.

“It is now clear why the regime insists on pitting the police against the people and relying on security measures to tackle problems that need social, economic and political solutions,” the opposition National Salvation Front said in a statement on Monday.

Egypt has been embroiled in wave after wave of political protests since the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime.

The unrest has been fueled by the entire range of social ills from tenuous security to an unraveling economy and the leadership of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood controls parliament as well as the presidency and has won every election since Mubarak’s ouster.

New Dictator Better than Old Dictator: Egyptians Outraged After Protester Stripped and Dragged Naked Through the Streets of Cairo

“Russia Today” has the video. Note the western media is laying down for the Islamists, and their grand and glorious joke of an Arab Spring … Note the gun fire in the video, from the statist police..

Real news does not come from American sources … Too bad really.

Sporadic clashes continued through the night near Cairo’s presidential palace with police dispersing petrol bomb-throwing protesters with tear gas and birdshot. At least one person has been killed in the violence. Dozens of people have reportedly been arrested. Some of the arrests turned ugly with at least one case of police beating and stripping a protester, and dragging him naked into a police van “like a piece of meat,” Cairo-based journalist Bel Trew reported in her twitter. Before they caught the protester the Cairo Security Forces were laughing and shouting “go get him, go get him,” Trew added.

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Reuters has more on the beating:

After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage.

Hamada Saber, a middle-aged man, lay in a police hospital on Saturday, the morning after he was shown on television naked, covered in soot and thrashed by half a dozen policemen who had pulled him to an armored vehicle near the presidential palace.

President Mohamed Mursi’s office promised an investigation of the incident, which followed the deadliest wave of bloodshed of his seven-month rule. His opponents say it proves that he has chosen to order a brutal crackdown like that carried out by Hosni Mubarak against the uprising that toppled him in 2011.

“Mursi has been stripped bare and has lost his legitimacy. Done,” tweeted Ahmed Maher, founder of the April 6 youth movement that helped launch the anti-Mubarak protests.

Another protester was shot dead on Friday and more than 100 were injured, many seriously, after running battles between police and demonstrators who attacked the palace with petrol bombs.

It’s what tyranny does to their people. Not give them freedoms and liberty. Which is what is wrong with our Constitution. To Liberals at least.

Getting Hotter: Egypt’s Mursi Flees Palace As Police Battle Protesters

Our new dictator, maybe not so good afterall…

Opposition to tyranny

“Our marches are against tyranny and the void constitutional decree and we won’t retract our position until our demands are met,” said Hussein Abdel Ghany, a spokesman for an opposition coalition of liberal, leftist and other disparate factions.

Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said.

He just left???

Officers fired teargas at up to 10,000 demonstrators angered by Mursi’s drive to hold a referendum on a new constitution on December 15. Some broke through police lines around his palace and protested next to the perimeter wall.

The crowds had gathered nearby in what organizers had dubbed “last warning” protests against Mursi, who infuriated opponents with a November 22 decree that expanded his powers. “The people want the downfall of the regime,” the demonstrators chanted.

“The president left the palace,” a presidential source, who declined to be named, told Reuters. A security source at the presidency also said the president had departed.

UPDATE: Thursday word comes he snuck back in.

New Dictator Same As Old Dictator

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has told the country’s senior judges that he did not infringe on their authority when he seized near absolute powers.

An aide to Morsi said the decree was limited to “sovereignty-related issues,” but that did not satisfy his critics.

The uncompromising stance came during Monday’s meeting between Morsi and members of the Supreme Judiciary Council in a bid to resolve a four-day crisis that has plunged the country into a new round of turmoil with clashes between the two sides that have left one protester dead and hundreds wounded.

The judiciary, the main target of Morsi’s edicts, also has pushed back, calling the decrees a power grab and an “assault” on the branch’s independence.

Judges and prosecutors stayed away from many courts in Cairo and other cities on Sunday and Monday.

Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood has called off a mass demonstration in Cairo, originally planned for Tuesday, “until futher notice” in order to “avoid clashes”.

‘Sovereign matters’

“There is no room for dialogue when a dictator imposes the most oppressive, abhorrent measures…“- Mohamed ElBaradei, Prominent opposition leader

Activists on Monday were camped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a fourth day, blocking traffic with makeshift barricades to protest against what they said was a power-grab by Morsi. Nearby, riot police and protesters clashed intermittently.

Mona Amer, spokesman for the opposition movement Popular Current, said Tuesday’s protest would go on.

“We asked for the cancellation of the decree and that did not happen,” she said.

Arab Spring goes swimming…

MAJOR FAIL… Only 50 Wal-Mart Employees Joined Nation-wide Union Protests Today

The Examiner reported:

Wal-Mart claimed today that the much-hyped Black Friday protests at the non-union retail giant fizzled out, with only 50 associates – their term for employees – taking part. The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which organized the protests, disputed that figure though. It said “hundreds and hundreds” joined in at events across the country. The Washington Examiner could not find an independent estimate for the protests.

Even assuming the UFCW figure is correct, that is pretty small given that Wal-Mart is the nation’s largest employer, with 1.4 million people working at its stores. Wal-Mart also claimed at least 10 million transactions since its stores opened late Thursday, which would make 2012 its best Black Friday ever.

The UFCW, whose members mainly work for Wal-Mart’s competitors, has long battled the retail giant.

Related… Ulysses Arn went out to interview the protesters in Rockford, Illinois today.
The protesters were just as ignorant as you would imagine. video at the link…

We had one protester at a Walmart Store in our Local. Yes That was one, who store security asked to move off their property to county lands, which was so far from the store’s opening that no one saw him at all. It’s why Walmart puts parking lots all around their stores. PRIVACY.

I bought exactly zero this Black Friday… ZERO.

I prefer private shopping.

Athens Protests Turn Violent

Protests in Athens have turned violent as protesters clash with police on Wednesday. A demonstration outside of Parliament deteriorated when anarchists began throwing gasoline bombs and pieces of concrete at riot police. Police in turn fired tear gas at demonstrators. An estimated 50,000 people have joined the strike, which is the first trade union–led action since a conservative government came to power in June. Protesters have been demonstrating against planned spending cuts of $15 billion, which are required if Greece is to receive its next round of bailout funds, without which the country could go bankrupt in weeks.

China Ratchets UP: Demonstrators Call For ‘Nuclear Extermination Of Japanese Wild Dogs’

Nothing happens in a Chinese Communist country that the government does not approve of. Every once in a while, the tanks are caught ‘accidentally‘ running over protesters but it is seldom that protests like this occur.

Protesters are tools of  totalitarian rule regimes.

The South China Sea has been such a sore spot for the Chicoms for years. Ever since they figured out there was nothing Obama would do… So off they went. This time the protesters were driving home the government points. Who would think up these on their own… They are deserted islands, for goodness sake. Who protests that? Think….

Images coming out of the anti-Japan protests in China continue alarm.

What’s at stake is a small, uninhabited island chain that is claimed by both countries.

What it has resulted in is: Huge protests against the Japanese embassy, an attack on the former Japanese ambassador, violent attacks on Japanese businesses, and full-blown militaristic, nationalistic fervor.

Earlier we pointed out that according to reports, demonstrators were urging China to declare war on Japan.

Particularly notable is that experts believe that at least some factions of government are sanctioning these protests, since public demonstrations are so rare and tightly controlled.

‘banner in Shenzhen calling 4 “nuclear extermination of Japanese wild dogs.”‘ Do you think the protesters even knew what they were protesting? Doubtful, and why would they ?

Now that’s original thinking don’t you think??? How much does the sign costs, and think how much these props make in a day.

Staged show…

Good thing Obama is campaigning, how else would anyone know what he stands for. And media collusion to trap Romney is going on, so the media is busy. Ask yourself have you heard about this? Been going on for months.

WOW What A Crowd We Could Have Had ….

It’s that time again… One year anniversity. I bet you don’t know “of what”? It’s the Occupy Goons and their shills in the Democrat Party. One year, it;’s a long time, so we need headlines so more mayhem. But the ever vigilant cops know the plan and are ready….

Due to their poor showing, who wants the modern day communists spiel anymore, we get it, Several Arrests at Occupy Wall Street March— So now they are marching around to appear bigger?

On the first of three days of events planned for the one-year anniversary of Occupy Street rched down Broadway from Washington Square toward Zuccotti Park, accompanied by a large number of police officers on foot, in marked and unmarked cars, and riding scooters.

It’s not hard to spot the media sympathies. And their ever popular chants…:

The marchers continued south, chanting “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out,” and “We are the 99 percent.”

Don’t you need money before you get an account at the bank….? just asking.

Chinese Citizens Stormed Government Offices Near Shanghai And Forced The Mayor To Strip

Maoists have their own Tea Party ….

Do you remember how the Soviets used to do it? They had walled off towns, and walled dascha in the countryside. Soldiers had their AK-47 outside, to keep the rabble out. Looks like how Obama wants America to look.

But apparently the communist in China weren’t as smart as the Soviets.

The big Chinese news today is out of Qidong, a city of over a million inhabitants one hour north of Shanghai, which has seen widespread protests against an industrial waste pipeline.

Protests in China aren’t rare, but the scale and violence of this protest make it remarkable. Reuters reports that 1,000 protestors marched on government offices, eventually storming and vandalizing them, as well as turning over at least five cars and one minibus.

The video below gives a good idea of the scale of protest.

WATCH:

Oh oh, looks really bad for the Maoists, until they get the tanks gassed up … Apparently the Chinese have figured out the iPhones being built with slave labor is not good for them. They are the slaves, and seem to have figured out what is going on.

According to reports on Weibo, protestors found condoms and expensive liquor in the offices. Pictures posted to Weibo appear to show the local Qidong mayor Sun Jianhua stripped of his shirt. He was reportedly made to wear an opposition t-shirt.

While officially the government has backed down in its plans for the pipeline, the repercussions against the protestors may be tough. There are reports that the internet has been taken down in Qidong, and that hospitals are full of people who have been badly beaten by the police, with reports of some deaths.

Images posted to Weibo appear to show a full on battle between a huge amount of police and a huge amount of protesters.

Keep your powder dry …