tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737639979248917027.post953208907955924134..comments2024-03-28T09:40:50.705-07:00Comments on SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: SLEEPING ARAB GIANT STIRS US FEARSNoor al Haqiqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324677503909144567noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737639979248917027.post-87756938914235970962011-01-27T10:33:45.546-08:002011-01-27T10:33:45.546-08:00So very true Truthseeker. Perhaps the shackles ar...So very true Truthseeker. Perhaps the shackles are being opened as we speak... or being clamped tighter. But with these numbers, the jails though huge can only take so much.<br /><br />The old toad must see the writing is on the wall for him, even if he clamps down with murderous force. He knows the world is watching although his reptilian heart and mind (he sold his soul long ago) are slow to grasp these things. <br /><br />Who is going to help him? He may have a huge military but who will help him? I think Anonymous is right with the comments he makes. There needs to be unification, there is so much frustration and anger with the people.<br /><br />I have a very good friend, just in that age group, 25, who graduated from medical school last year. Top marks. He is still unemployed and taking jobs that are crappy and underpaying. IF the boss does not rip him off for his paycheque as has happened more than once. He cannot marry and being a good Muslim leads a chaste (and frustrating) life. That frustrated energy is there with almost all of these young unmarried men. The right organization to tap in on it will do well. <br /><br />I do not see him in those groups, but I know his sentiments are right in sync with them.Noor al Haqiqahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324677503909144567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737639979248917027.post-35634950301794121232011-01-27T07:52:04.135-08:002011-01-27T07:52:04.135-08:00IS EGYPT TOO BIG TO FAIL?
by Troy Harris
After 2 ...IS EGYPT TOO BIG TO FAIL?<br />by Troy Harris<br /><br />After 2 days of rather spontaneous uprising in Egypt when upwards near a thousand protesters were arrested (and probably as we speak getting their skulls cracked), there seems to be another day of rage ahead. But how extensive are Egypt's detention facilities? What are the risks of spending time in them? How much time might a detained person expect to stay in them? <br /> <br />We must keep in mind that there are a lot of young unemployed people in Egypt, where the population has tripled in 40 years. So it's an even more spontaneous uprising than in Tunisia where the labour unions play a strong leadership role. Egypt's uprising is by contrast very fragmented and cannot depend on organized labour because such destabilizing organizations have long been outlawed. But the Muslim Brotherhood should be weighing in soon.<br /> <br />Is Mubarak's Egypt too big to fail? It's a serious question. The rulers have after all received upwards near a trillion dollars in US military subsidies over Mubarak's quarter-century tenure - an amount that has nearly underwritten Egypt's entire military expenditure over the same period. This naturally renders Egypt's police force extremely well stocked with light-weight weaponry that can easily be turned against all those noisy young hand-phone wielding dissidents - a graphic scenario that no doubt prompted a very high ranking IMF official who was interviewed by CNN today at the annual Davos Billionaire's fun faire (and where a bomb had incidentally just gone off) to admonish Egypt's battered rulers to "target its subsidized spending well".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737639979248917027.post-5585303705675569382011-01-26T23:14:06.338-08:002011-01-26T23:14:06.338-08:00"Izal-Sha'bu Yauman Ardal-Hayata, Flabudd..."Izal-Sha'bu Yauman Ardal-Hayata, Flabudda'an Yastajibal-Kadae"<br /><br />Wala-Budda Lil-Layli An Yanjali, Walabudda Lil-Kaydi An Yankasser.", Tunisian poet Abul-Kassim Al-Shabi.<br /><br />My translation: If the nation one day willed to live a (decent) life, verily, destiny will obey. And the night will expire, and the shackle be broken.TruthSeekerhttp://thenakedtruthinaconfuesworld.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com