Egypt In Agony
(Conspiracy Nation, 06/17/08) – The ancient Book of Hermes contains this powerful lament for a disappearing world:
“...a time will come when Egyptians will seem to have served the divinity in vain, and all their activity in their religion will be despised. For all divinity will leave Egypt and will flee upward to heaven. And Egypt will be widowed; it will be abandoned by the gods. For foreigners will come into Egypt and they will rule it. Egypt! Moreover, Egyptians will be prohibited from worshipping God.”
Known as the “Hermetica” and consisting of the Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius, the Book of Hermes is in fact Egyptian in origin. Renowned Hermetic scholar Richard Reitzenstein concluded “that the religious context of the Corpus was Egyptian.” Hermetic sentences have been analyzed as deriving from ancient Egyptian wisdom literature dating back to the Old Kingdom. The Greek translation is merely a vehicle and does not prove a Greek origin. (From “Introduction” to Hermetica. Brian P. Copenhaver, editor. Cambridge University Press)
Besides being plagiarized into the Old Testament by Jewish scribes (“Jerusalem Is Wrong Temple,” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/WrongTemple.html), Egyptian culture was also stolen by the ancient Greeks. Due to 19th century European imperialism, an Egyptian source for European culture was denigrated, thus helping make it “okay” to colonize Africa. Even now, writes Martin Bernal in “Black Athena” (Rutgers University Press, 1987), there continue to exist “profound cultural inhibitions against associating Egypt with Greece.”
“And Egypt will be widowed; it will be abandoned by the gods.”
Generally ignored by America's newsfakers, preoccupied with reporting their own egos, is a food crisis in Egypt. Foreign news persons, however, can see beyond their own noses and have noticed bread riots in Egypt. One decent U.S. magazine, The Week, summarized foreign reports in their June 13, 2008 issue:
Daily Star (Lebanon): “...a bread shortage caused by skyrocketing world wheat prices led to rioting in the northern city of Mahalla...”
L'Humanite (France): Twenty million Egyptians depend on subsidized bread to survive. Inflation (which the “Federal” Reserve says does not exist) including wheat prices which have shot up is causing long lines outside bakeries and many Egyptians go away empty-handed.
Al-Arabi (Egypt): Government corruption is making the bread situation in Egypt “10 times worse.” Bakers are selling government subsidized flour on the black market. Customers “dare not complain for fear they won't be served.”
Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany): Starving Egyptians breed future terrorists. It is “let them eat cake” returned. The “Muslim Brotherhood” is recruiting in Egypt. The U.S. can afford to build bombs for our “national security” -- but give starving Egyptians bread? Why, that would be Socialism!
And anyway, the Top Priority is that Wall Street gamblers must be bailed out. “Washington has slashed rates to bail out the banks,” is the startling admission by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in today's London Telegraph newspaper. (“Morgan Stanley warns of 'catastrophic event' as ECB fights Federal Reserve”). The petro-dollar is immediately affected. Coinciding with Ben Bernanke's dramatic pump-up of liquidity beginning July 2007 there has been a doubling of oil prices. Other factors are involved in the flight to commodities, however only a bona-fide newsfaker could succeed in ignoring the obvious. Suddenly-expensive oil makes transportation, tractor, and fertilizer costs climb, leading to suddenly-expensive food and starving Egyptians.
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