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The revolution was televised … and streamed


By Salman Haqqi
On The Contrary
Published: Saturday, February 12, 2011Updated: Monday, February 14, 2011 16:02

Salman HaqqiFor the past couple of weeks or so, the revolution in Egypt has captured the attention and hearts of people around the world as each day brought a new twist to the Hosni Mubarak saga and finally his inevitable end.Last Sunday I sat in the newsroom and followed the Super Bowl on mute from a live streaming feed that occupied half of my computer screen.On the other half of the computer screen, I cycled through YouTube clips of the protests in Cairo and coverage from Al-Jazeera.................................................................................................................................

Ted Rudow IIIWhile the battles rage in Libya, calls are growing in the international community to impose a no-fly zone to cripple Gadhafi's air force. "But the reality is -- and people -- there's a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options. And let's just call a spade a spade: a no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.
It is not merely Libya's sweet crude oil the globalists are itching to get their hands on. In fact, physically capturing Libya's oil plays a minor role. They are interested in not only destabilizing the entire Middle East, including the crown jewel Saudi Arabia, but also sending the world economy into a death spiral. The $200-barrel oil prices will surely do more damage to the world economy than any other single event short of some global catastrophe.
The media plays its part by demonizing Gadhafi in much the same way it demonized Saddam Hussein, who eventually went to the gallows as a reward for his dutiful service to the CIA. Henry Kissinger, a close Rockefeller confidant, said it best when he explained that presented with the right crisis, the American people will beg to be enslaved.
And $6-per-gallon gasoline -- or higher -- and its engineered reverberations throughout the economy portends just such a crisis.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Class of 1996
Palo Alto