Warning – graphic..

Truck runs over pedestrians

Don’t have a link but have seen on Aljazeera another video worse than this (liveleak.com), but runs over 10-12 people in a crowd. Just shows that although there is much talk of Peaceful Protests it would appear that the longer it goes on, the more there is the opportunity for a lot of damage to be done to the future peace.

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Creepy connections between the power brokers, via the New York Times Lede.

Obama Envoy’s Lobbying Firm Tied to Mubarak Regime

As the United States continues to press Egyptian officials to begin the “orderly transition” President Barack Obama called for on Tuesday night, more attention is being paid to Frank Wisner, the retired American diplomat who met with Hosni Mubarak on behalf of the administration this week.

In my colleague Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s profile of Mr. Wisner, she reported that the 72-year-old retired ambassador and businessman trusted with this delicate mission “joined the lobbying firm Patton Boggs” two years ago.

As the Mideast Wire blog noted on Tuesday, Mr. Wisner’s lobbying firm has worked on behalf of the Egyptian government for two of the three decades Mr. Mubarak has been in power.

According to a description of the lobbying firm’s experience in Egypt on its Web site:

Patton Boggs has been active in Egypt for 20 years. We have advised the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and have handled arbitrations and litigation on the government’s behalf in Europe and the U.S. Our attorneys also represent some of the leading Egyptian commercial families and their companies, and we have been involved in oil and gas and telecommunications infrastructure projects on their behalf. One of our partners also served as the Chairman of the U.S.-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce, promoting foreign direct investment into targeted sectors of the Egyptian economy. We have also handled negotiation of offset agreements and managed contractor disputes in military sales agreements arising under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales Act.

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$60 Billion US Aid to Egypt=$60 Billion Current Net-worth of Mubarak Family

From: Sybil Edmonds Blog.

In this post Sybil outlines the simple, clear cycle of corruption, quoting from various sources. Well worth a read.

The background:

List of Important references:
April 6 Movement – from the Food riots of 2008
Optor – Serbian Protest Movement of 1999-2000 – trained on tactics of effective peaceful protest