There is some SERIOUS sh*t going on

[barbiegeek]

Tunisia had a successful overthrow of their dictator. Now 4 other Nations has followed in the Last 2 days.

Egypt, Yemen, Gabon, Ivory Coast

Gabon: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0127/breaking58.html

Yemen: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/yemeni-protesters-urge-president-qui/

The Palestinians have started a sit in protest in London at their Embassy.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/palestinian-students-occupy-palestinian-embassy-london/

I'm just saying the Revolutions have begun

[villager]

1. Does this mean that Americans are due to be shaken out of their bovine stupor?

n/t

[JohnWxy]

7. I think our Corporate Lords are far more sophisticated than the rulers these people are

contending with. But, let's not give up hope.

[femrap]

34. The US gov't

provides Food Stamps....if it didn't, well, one can imagine. But with the inflation of food, something will have to give eventually.

[Kablooie]

12. So we should riot to depose Obama? Is that the point?

We could install Palin/Bachmann up there as dual heads of state with Beck and Limbaugh as dual vice presidents.
What fun!

[Fuddnik]

37. Why are wing-nut boogey-men and women the only alternative?

There's a whole other side to the political spectrum out there.

[joentokyo]

13. Don't you mean ovine. Sheep, not cows.

[txlibdem]

21. What's the term for a species on the verge of extinction?

That would be closest to the truth.

[Fuddnik]

38. Us.

[Rebubula]

16. Well...

..until the US is EVEN FREAKING CLOSE TO BEING AS BAD as the countries mentioned - I doubt it will come.

Some people have this ideal about how horrible it is in this country. It could be better - for sure - but to even suggest that we are in line with Ivory Coast, Yemen etc - is completely myopic and silly.

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. Only if the internet kill switch disconnects them from X box live. n/t

[pauldp]

2. I don't watch TV.

Is Corporate Network News covering it - in any real way?

[Pharaoh]

3. Good! K&R

[Newest Reality]

4. Americans Observe and eat Popcorn!

How is McPravda handling it on the glowing rectangle? I am one of those who unplugged the coaxial from the back of my neck, long ago.

[KansDem]

5. Yeah, but we'll fight over the butter!

I gave up cable in 1996. I don't trust a damn thing uttered or printed by CorpMedia without confirming with several online sources...

[Newest Reality]

8. Heheh. That's about the same time I unplugged ...

Birds of a feather!

McPravada has one intent and purpose and it is not concerning our best interests, overall.

[JohnWxy]

9. Brian Williams would hate you if he wasn't totally hypnotized himself (probably thinks he's really

a news-man!) Ha-ha-ha-ha ,,, oh, ugh.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I watch this, online:

http://rt.com/on-air/

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[Warpy]

6. Not until trade routes have collapsed and they're wearing patches

on patches and putting newspaper into their shoes and walking everywhere because they can't afford gas or replacement parts cannibalized from wrecks at junkyards. Oh, and paying huge payments on houses that are worth a fifth of what they paid for them, if that much.

At that point, maybe they'll wake up and realize that feeding abandoned families isn't what's been keeping them artificially poor all these years.

[saras]

11. McPravda - I like that!

Back in the nineties, I used to talk about McNewspaper in the lunchroom where I worked. I'd also read the nominally 'serious' articles and laugh out loud. If what I was laughing about, I'd explain it, in relatively simple terms. Usually the result was dead silence until someone changed the subject.

Now I'm thinking of printing some new signs for the free newspaper stands on campus - I don't know who pays for it, but the New York Times is free where I go to school.

McPravda - all the news you can stomach.

[SlipperySlope]

14. I remember telling my wife in late 2008 that this was coming.

I remember late 2008, grasping the enormity of what the banks had done, and telling my wife that we would see governments topple over this. Everything that is happening is happening because the global system is collapsing on itself.

[Doctor_J]

15. This will never happen here

Big Media and Hate Radio have the teabaggers and other members of the ignorati convinced that teachers, Hispanics, and Dems are the problem instead of Cheney, Scalia, McTurtle, and Monsanto. We as a nation are too stupid to do anything worthwhile.

[barbiegeek]

17. Uhh, they may turn on us

[Doctor_J]

19. Who?

The government? Why would they? We're completely under their thumb anyway.

The teabaggers? They already have, and

1. That's not the point of this thread
2. we won't retaliate, as exhibited by the fact that no retribution has been taken against Hate Radio stars, teabaggers, or Cabal News traitors while they destroyed the nation over the last 20 years.

[Doctor_J]

18. Delete

wrong spot

[indimuse]

20. Take *NOTE* World Bankers! (BOA..JP MORGAN, ETC) n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. Has anyone given any thought as to who will lead in this country after the revolution succeeds?

If clerics step in, it's not good for anybody.

[Lars77]

25. Agree, i am worried

And they will certainly try. But remember that Egyptians recently had a show of unity between Christians and Muslims after extremists attacked churches at christmas. Perhaps this will put a damper on the religious nutters.

Egypt has a large secular part of the population, but on the other hand, so do Iran..

[The Backlash Cometh]

26. I'm glad to see someone showing a little healthy concern on DU.

[Lars77]

27. I think that's why the US government doesent support this revolution

Islamist control of Egypt means another major threat to Israel and islamic control of the Suez canal. Egypt is the largest recipient of US foreign aid, apparently. All to keep that secular dictator in power. They never learned from the Iranian revolution.
Still, the Islamists are keeping a low profile in this one.

Mohammed El-Baradei as president. Now THAT would be awesome.

[frankieT]

36. bravo ! Keep putting puppets you like

And then wonder "why do they hate us", you imperialist goon.

[bread_and_roses]

31. But I presume you do not advocate supporting torturing dictators?

What happens in Egypt should be up to the Egyptian people - and they, obviously, are sick of this

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/28

But you don't need to read the papers to see what has gone wrong. The filth and the slums, the open sewers and the corruption of every government official, the bulging prisons, the laughable elections, the whole vast, sclerotic edifice of power has at last brought Egyptians on to their streets.

Not to mention the brutal repression and torture.

The US is a mockery around the world for touting "human rights" and "Democracy" while supporting brutal Dictators. And that includes the Obama administation - our "Nobel" President - what an irony.

[VermeerLives]

35. And what do you think is going to replace this "brutal dictatorship" if Mubarak goes?

What are the alternatives? What could replace Mubarak could be much, much worse, like what happened in Iran.

[Fuddnik]

39. On the other hand, it could be much much better.

[Lars77]

24. Al Jazeera reports protestors have taken control of Alexandria

7:15 pm - The military has now arrived in Alexandria, though Rawya Rageh reports that they aren't confronting the protesters there with violence. In fact, she says, they are giving them the thumbs up.

The situation is different in Suez, where Jamal Elshayyal says police are still clashing with protesters.


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It's when the military refuses to fight that governments fall. We might actually see the fall of the dicatorship, against the will of the US, mind you.

Question is, what kind of government will they get instead?

[roxiejules]

28. Egypt, Revolutions and Food

http://www.ianwelsh.net/egypt-revolutions-and-food/

Virtually every oligopoly in the world is trying to grab as much money as it can by raising prices in collusion while not improving service or goods quality unless they absolutely much. And if you can even buy the good stuff, it’ll cost your through the nose. As one of my friends quips, “I buy organic meat and eggs and milk because when I was a kid, that’s just what we called meat and milk and eggs”. Make the regular quality shit, charge for the stuff that isn’t crap.

[newtothegame]

29. I've been reading about revolutions on DU since I started lurking in 2004.

And everytime it's nothing.

Maybe I'll be wrong this time.

[Zoeisright]

30. Jordan too.

[katty]

32. yes, MOVEMENT is happening, long overdue

[readmoreoften]

33. It's a good start. Let's do everything we can to sustain it and see it spread.