Celebrate and then on to the next battle

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

              - Sun Tzu

Sending in the Goon Squads - Jams for the Revolution

As described by NBC Nightly News, paid "goon squads" create some chaos in Cairo's Tahrir Square on  February 2, 2011.

As always with the main stream media ~ Read Between the Lines

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I was looking to the past for some background jams for the revolution. Jimi Hendrix seemed appropriate.

Children of Egypt

 Music by Mac Gayden

Here We Meet Again - To Our Ancestors

 Blessed Children of the Sweet Mother

The World is Watching - Egypt and Beyond

For the last couple of days the Al Jazeera live stream and Livestation have been overloaded with traffic and at least from my end virtually impossible to watch. I found this morning that the Dailymotion Al Jazerera feed is working fine so that may be an option if you're having problems.




I don't know the words to use but the Egyptian protests are exciting to put it mildly. The question remains will this be a revolution where the will of the masses prevail or end up as just a continuation of  the U.S. and Israel's desire to divide the middle east and northern Africa into more easily manageable parts.

My feelings on this are best summed up from an anonymous comment at aangirfan:

"We should be skeptical. There might be two revolutions here. One merely a consolidation of power, and the second genuine. People around the world want to throw off their corrupt governments. I know I do. Our government no longer pretends to operate Constitutionally or uphold the law for all. Yet politics around the world keep providing these fake change moments - like our last election. It let's off just enough steam to appease, or confuse, the people so that no real change comes about."

One important thing to remember is that no matter how the U.S. administration, the CIA and other intelligence services are working to influence the ultimate outcome in Egypt, they are not omnipotent. They have money and power and allies but they are only human. The outcome of their agenda is in doubt. The people can have the power if they can just learn how to use it and see through the lies they are being fed. It requires taking chances.

Hillary Clinton seems to now be the mouthpiece of U.S. policy but has been speaking out of both sides of her mouth.  Democracy is an Orwellian term when it comes from her globalist zio puppet tongue. As much as she tries to hide it, she is worried that the house of glass is going to break.

Hats off to the real Egyptians. Americans may one day take this page in history and learn from it.

Also see: Twelfth Bough ... Les Visible ... Facts Not Fairies ... Greg Bacon ... American Everyman ... WRH ... and others on the blog roll for viewpoints on what is happening. It is interesting times indeed.

Anti-Government Protests

John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the National Guard.

If you think about it, there's not a government in the world that doesn't need a good dose of protest. Not a damn one of them care a bit about the common people, except when it suits their purposes and then it's only for show. The actions of government need to be questioned and yelled at in the streets. The more involved the better, but only if it's real.

It's seems that outside money and it's influence may be in play in Iran to feed the flames.
Xymphora, Scott Crighton, WRH and many others share opinions on the details. Paul Craig Roberts give us a good overview here and here.

There should be a pent up tension in the youth of all countries and a spontaneous outcry against what and who is trying to control them. There's no excuse for not taking to the streets but plenty of 'reasons' for not doing so.

Sitting in front of a computer screen, voting for the designated winner/loser and accepting the status quo is not going to get it. Change will not come through sanctioned political activity. It comes through physical action. Feet in the street. Non-violent if not met with violence.

But that's the problem. Protest is 'illegal' in most circumstances according to those who are in control. Too many people are saying "There's nothing we can do." Our own government has said that protest is 'low level terrorism.'

"Step inside your 1st amendment 'free speech zone' and be happy that we allow that."

Remember Kent State. That's where Americans killed their own to set an example. There are always some who will obey orders, make mistakes or take the money to do it.

The Iranian militia is being blamed for bloodshed. That's analogous to the US using Blackwater or others of that ilk to keep the folks in line. The well paid will do things that maybe the lower end of the pay scale military would not. Are there enough constitutional 'Oath Keepers' out there?

There's some differences and similarities between the late 60's/early 70's and 2009. There were government paid provocateurs, think Hoffman, Ayers, Rubin etc., but the draft in the Vietnam War really pissed a lot of people off. Forceably sending the unwilling into a war to possibly die for lies didn't set well with the youth who wanted to live a full life.

Now with the 'volunteer' military, dumbed down educational system, media manipulations and 'revised' history, the ranks of the pissed off are diminished. Strength in numbers is what the controllers fear most. So they use fear, economic uncertainty, conformity, divide and conquer and the vast resources of stolen money for whatever immediate purposes suits their fancy to keep us in line and out of the streets.

Can we take back our country? Can revolution anywhere succeed? And what would we do with it if we did take down the established order? Can honesty overcome the tendency towards greed?

I'd like to find out.