[P2P-F] [Fw: soros and egypt]

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Dan, I completely resonate with your approach here,

Michel

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri at danbri.org> wrote:

> On 19 February 2011 02:57, Roberto Verzola <rverzola at gn.apc.org> wrote:
> > I wonder what those who are knowledgeable of recent Egyptian developments
> > think of this analysis below...
>
> I have no privileged info, but a gut reaction to this kind of material.
>
> It has a typical conspiracy theory feel to me. Bits and pieces of all
> kinds, fragments of truth, thrown together to give a psychologically
> appealing but largely unsupported revelation of a bigger, scarier,
> massively coordinated secret picture. The picture presented in
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mohamed-elbaradei-the-man-who-would-be-president-2200155.html
> seems more plausible than the simplistic line from Cartalucci that El
> Baradei really was leading the protests.  Land Destroyer's blog
> flipflops in
> http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/george-soros-egypts-new-constitution.html
> and nearby between dismissing the crowds as inflated versus dismissing
> them as gullible fools, e.g.  "It appears that while the International
> Crisis Group may be turning out the strategy, and their trustee
> ElBaradei leading the mobs into the streets".  If this were truly a
> carefully orchestrated 'globalist' consiracy, perhaps we'd have since
> a bit more leadership on the ground, rather than the gaping lack of
> clear leaders that seems to have characterised the last few weeks. I
> find it hard to trust someone who strikes such an all-knowing tone,
> casually dismissive of the views and feelings of those in the street -
> "... hordes of duped US-backed activists".
>
> I'd be surprised if there were not a variety of players at work, but
> this "it's all a [communist|globalist|jewish|colonialist] plot" is the
> stuff of comic books. Like the best pop-sci writing, it makes the
> reader feel clever. And like the worst social commentary, it instills
> a cynicism that allows people to dismiss the real life situation of
> millions because they are somehow puppets of a secret hand. Having
> infowars.com in the blog's sidebar is a little alarm bell, as is the
> implicit assumption in
> http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-are-egypts-protesters_09.html
> that the presence of unions on the street somehow de-legitimises the
> protests...
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
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