A Mobinil ad at the Cairo Airport, quoting Obama on the Egyptian revolution:
Mobinil is owned by the Egyptian Rockefeller Nagib Sawiris, a long time ally of the regime, who reinvented himself as a revolutionary liberal, while Obama is the man who came to Cairo to praise Mubarak as a force of stability.
Such ads make me wanna puke.
The deputy prime minister, Yehia el-Gamal, assured investors that “Egypt will not change its economic direction, will maintain the free market and won’t deviate from the market mechanisms.”
Essam Sharaf’s cabinet has also spoken out several times before against the demand to renationalize privatized factories saying that will scare away investors.
In other words, the same neoliberal policies which contributed directly to the outbreak of this uprising will stay in place.