Egypt uprising falters as negotiations with government begins

Egypt's popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak faltered on Sunday as opposition leaders including the Muslim Brotherhood embarked on negotiations and the ranks of street protestors was reduced by the arrest of key ringleaders.

As the veteran president regained some of the initiative lost during nearly a fortnight of street protests, the Brotherhood, Egypt's popular but banned opposition, dropped its opposition to talks.

“I stated that the Egyptians were furious over what Obama had done, and they are figuring out faster than Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh what this blog exclusively exposed from day one, that this Egyptian baby was fathered by B. Hussein Obama with a Muslim Brotherhood whore.

I found this quote in one of many from Arabs and Muslims which have an interesting Tucson ring to them:

From King Saud University lecturer Emir Saif Al-Islam bin Saud bin abd Al-Aziz, “What has the American weapon been since the American president’s speech at Cairo University in the summer of 2009 to the Islamic and Arab world – The first weapon is conspiring with the oppositionist political elites. … The American administration has another frightening weapon, aimed at fomenting ‘creative chaos’ and creating a new Arab reality.”

Creative chaos? Creative chaos to form a New Arab reality of peace prize winner Obama.”

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2011/02/obama-ab-chao.html

the riots in egypt are essentially food riots.

Therefor the answer to question as to what to do involves food.

So first have a five year plan to subsidize Egyptian grain. During that five years invest in pulling up water from the ancient aquifers in the Egyptian western desert to grow grain. (Libya shares the same giant aquifer and already has huge wheat fields in the desert that can be seen from space) At the end of five years stop the subsidies and rely on the home grown wheat.

Finally an international contest would be drawn up to collapse the cost of water desalination. The contest would to see who could drop the cost of seawater desalination by $100 on three oceans. Then a new contest would be held. Whoever could beat the new price point would win 1 billion dollars. And so on until the price of desalinized water was ~50@acre foot. At Which point it becomes cost competitive to grow crops. Another contest would be held to cut the cost of delivered water by pipeline. The idea would be to bring down the cost of installing, and maintaining the pipeline and lowering the cost of pumping water.

Cheap water and cheap pipline pumping would make it possible to desert farm 1000 mile from any seacoast with desalinized water. Basically you’d be able to turn the deserts green around the world and double the size of the habitable planet and solve the worlds food water and population problem for 100-200 years.

I have read that Mubarak has 40 billion in personal wealth. You might be able to get him to subsidize Egyptian grain imports for 5 years at a cost of 12 billion or so.
You might also be able to get the Saudis to invest in Egyptian agriculture by pulling up water from the ancient aquifers. That might cost another 12 billion. It is in the Saudi interest to have a stable Egypt.
Finally the cost of contests would also be born by international billionaires as proposed by Bill Gates. This program would run ten years for a cost of ~12 billion.

In the end none of the parties that are non islamist will be able to govern unless they have a vision. This is it. Mubarak has actually been playing with the idea of grain independence–but he has not been able to deliver.

APRIL 2005 : ((UN : IAEA : IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL MOHAMMED EL BARADEI’S REAPPOINTMENT POSTPONED DUE TO US OPPOSITION) “U.S. opposes reappointment of chief U.N. nuclear inspector, prompting agency to defer decision,”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050427-1428-nuclearagency-elbaradei.html
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“U.S. Opposes Reappointment of ElBaradei to IAEA,”
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/27/163315.shtml

MAY 2005 : (UN : IAEA : IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL MOHAMMED EL BARADEI’S REAPPOINTMENT STILL UP IN THE AIR)
There is no rival candidate for the upcoming term, though the US tried to convince Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who declined, to run for the job. The decision of the IAEA board of governors was still postponed through May 2005. [2]

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