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2011-01-30 Africa North

Mubarak names VP, raising succession talk

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 rampant looting and lawlessness was spreading fast

Is this random, or part of the plan? A political crisis won't excite nearly as many people as chaos and the threat it poses against them personally. Is a crisis being stimulated so it will be there to 'not waste?'

Posted by Glenmore 2011-01-30 08:57|| 2011-01-30 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 It's just doing what comes natural, Glenmore.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-30 14:32|| 2011-01-30 14:32|| Front Page Top

#3 The Entropy Festival has come to Egypt.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-01-30 15:31|| 2011-01-30 15:31|| Front Page Top

#4 All kidding aside, it seems to me that you have many forces at work here: Muslim Brotherhood types, opportunists like el Baradai, jihadists, pro democracy types, and rioters that want free stuff.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-01-30 15:40|| 2011-01-30 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 many forces at work here That's what happens when those with nothing to lose, lose it.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-30 15:45|| 2011-01-30 15:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Again, 9-11 + GWOT > Among other, is "WAR FOR ANTI-STATUS QUO" = "STATUS QUO" IS NO LONGER ACCEPTED OR TOLERATED = THINGS M-U-S-T CHANGE, or W-I-L-L CHANGE, be it VOLUNTARILY/CONSENUALLY or else VIOLENTLY [Warfare including Mutual Destruction].

* WAFF > AL-JAZEERA: EGYPTIAN LEADER [Mubarak]TO FLEE TO TEL AVIV {israel]???

[PETER, PAUL, + MARY = "JET PLANE" karaoke here].

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > THE [anti-US] REVOLUTIONARY WAVE. US is not exempt or immune from dynamic forces = changes.

ARTIC = argues that ...
> So-called "American Exceptionalism" is at high risk due to the Global Economic Downturn.
> Egypt is a prime candidiate for the "BOUZAZIN REVOLUTION".
>Possibel consequences or after-eefects includes the POSSIBLE RISE OF [PRO-VIOLENCE]EXTREMISM IN THE USA PROPER.

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DRUDGEREPORT > MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: ARABS WILL TOPPLE LEADERS ALLIED WID THE US [ JORDANIAN BRANCH OF OPPOSITION [MB] ARABS WILL TOPPLE TYRANTS.

* SAME > IRAN SEES RISE OF ISLAMIC HARD-LINERS IN ARAB LANDS.

To paraph AL BUNDY > "WHAT A SHOCK [Not]"!

ARTIC > LARIJANI foresees the RISE OF "PEOPLES GOVTS" = QUASI-THEOCRACIES SIMIL TO THE AFTERMATH OF IRAN's 1979 ISLAMIC REVOLUTION.

Throughout ME + International Arab-Muslim Regions.

* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > EGYPTS CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTS EVOKES [similar to] IRAN'S HEAVY HAND IN 2009 UNREST.

IOW, 1980's "TIANNENMEN SQUARE" = 2011's "TAHRIR SQUARE" = FALL OF THE AMERICAN WALL, i.e. "Berlin Wall" in reverse.

As JFK said, "EICH EIST EIN ISLAMIST".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-30 21:59|| 2011-01-30 21:59|| Front Page Top

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