Russian images of recent Egyptian violence

Newsland.ru, a Russian online news agency, has images on the recent demonstrations in Cairo that are more violent than ones typically published by Western news agencies.  Here are some.   I do not vouch for this news outlet, unknown to me, and the images are of great interest:

 Mr. Romney says the US is responsible for challenging developments in the Muslim world.

Must we repeat the 20th Century?  Again?

Guess so.  A painting on an IIsraeli wall in Palestine.  Banksy, the painter, was a freehand graffiti artist. 

Flanders, Normandy, Pork Chop Hill, Dak To, Fallujah, Somalia, Aden  . . Please don't make the21st Century a copy of the 20th.  Please....

 Dancing at the End of Time

Dead is dead.  I don't mourn dead.  I mourn for those left behind.

Starving, courageous South Yemen, shame of the West

Five million persons in Yemen have no food.  New York Times, 30 Sep 12.  That's a lot of persons.  The Times article is after the jump.

The proximate cause is a global increase in food prices, and affects primarily landless Yemeni who cannot grow their own food. The real cause is infrastructure failure of the government to invest in job-producing infrastructure and enterprises, ahead of the time when Yemen will run out of oil, estimated in 2017.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, the dictator of Yemen who recently transferred power to a colleague in return for total immunity,  is worth $35 Bilion.  Canada MSN Money.

This is one million dollars, in  packes of $100 bills;

This is a pallet of 1million dollars, 

made up of packs of one million dollars dollars each.

Saleh has 35 of these pallets.

Saleh made off with a bundle of Yemeni money, none of it invested in the South.


There is no record that Saleh has "pledged" anything, nor is there anything I can find on the Web about where his ill-gotten gains has been sequestered.  A malefactor of great wealth, and not the only one.


According to the Times:

International donors pledged $1.46 billion in aid to the country at a meeting in New York on Thursday. The donors, including China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States, as well as Gulf Arab states, had already promised $6.4 billion."  [Emphasis added.]  

Babies are starving today.


To whom will the pledged money go?  If History is the lamp by which to guide our feet , it will go to Saleh's successor, who will distribute it in a way to insure that his regime survives, and that the Southern Secessionist Movement fails.

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The Southern Movement is failing.

NZWeek reports:

ADEN, Yemen, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — Yemen’s pro-secession Southern Movement kicked off its first meeting calling for independence for the south from the central government in Sanaa on Sunday, amid the boycott of more than 20 senior separatist leaders.

The Yemeni dictator, supported by the West as usual, retorts, as Persian Gulf dictators always retort whenever threatened, as reported in
Al-Monitor :

During his visit to Berlin yesterday [Oct. 4], Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi accused Iran of supporting southern Yemenis who seek secession.

The dictator with Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merke in the Berlin, least you think the US is the only complicit party.

Typical McCarthy, Bahraini, Saudi, Romney tactic.

If the Movement cannot hold its staring groups together, the youngsters, hungry and with nothing to lose, will take action.  Then we'll see.

Demonstration in Sanaa

I predict a slaughter that makes Syria look a model of civility.

And the dictator will be supported by the West, including United States.

And even facing station, football Rules:

And young people haven't lost all hope.  

So don't count the South out just yet.

Or:  Let's move to Tuvan.  Or even Dagestan.  Dagestan is the home of great wrestlers.

Dagestan free style wrestler Haji Hajiyev