Clingy!

[musouka]

What do you expect from psychopaths? They cling to power until the very end. Hell will now ensue... Mubarak will only leave as a cadaver. His logic must be that he's already 82-year old & pretty sick. Must go out with a bang, thus. Power is quite addictive.

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[lucretiasheart]

What astonishes me is how adamantly my fellow Americans have been paying attention and cheering this on personally. Its astonishing because most Americans are insular-- seldom do they pay attention to the woes and worries of the world past their nose. (Our corporate run media encourages this.)

Yet everyone has been all over this-- watching the news and discussing it at work and in line in stores... I haven't seen Americans wake up this much since the fall of the Berlin wall. More, its not just older people, 20-somethings are talking about it. Everyone was cheering on the people of Egypt.

When our leaders were hemming and hawing and hesitating to support justice, I listened as my clueless comrades became puzzled: why were corporate interests being put before people's human rights? And I wanted to scream because most American policy has been like this for decades! The entire world knows we pick and choose dictators-- except most people here!

But something shifted these last few weeks. People here texted and twittered and spoke and cried in happiness for Egypt when Mubarak finally gave up. Even the deliriously ignorant woke up and paid attention, and our leaders nervously followed along. Very interesting to see...

[musouka]

Indeed, this whole thing has been the main topic of most conversations for the past 3 weeks. However, it's quite disgusting how many hypocrites in other Arab countries jumped afterward and claimed victory as their own.

Also, Glenn 'Clown' Beck doesn't seem too happy *rolls eyes*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMEXv5YFRI

And as always, people around here started going into Nostradamus mode; predicting the upcoming events leading all the way to the Mahdi and quoting prophecies left and right.

But in all, it's quite fun to see these despots tremble in fear despite the fact that the chance is there for the PTB to derail any achievements made.

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Globoctopus Tightens its Grip

[lucretiasheart]

What was Glenny referring to-? The video was taken down so I'll have to look it up separately but I need more info to find it.

The PTB should tremble in fear. The movie "V for Vendetta" occurs to me here. Just pull some quotes out from that!

This is the best argument yet for why all the hysterical wailings about the Muslim Brotherhood are ridiculous.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/11-0

And what that article said about Global Octopus-- yeah. However, due to climate change and peak oil-- what's worked for decades will fall apart. This is just the beginning. In Egypt part of the problem that led to this was wheat prices getting too high for the poorest to afford to eat. On top of all the other problems, it was the final straw when the regime beat up protesters and social media did the rest. Hungry people fear starvation over brutality. Classic example was the French revolution-- super high wheat prices. As food prices climb worldwide due to failed crops and oil shortages-- this sort of thing is going to become more common.

And the internet and cell phones make it easier for many people to overcome even the best attempts by despots and corporate puppets to keep the status quo.

Oh yeah, the PTB should be quaking.

[musouka]

Glenny was being himself; citing a huge conspiracy theory by Islamists & Communists. He told anyone disagreeing with him to 'Go to Hell'. He is now using the sexual harassment of Lara Logan as further proof of his theory. He is one delusional clown. Then again, senile McCain thinks that these revolutions are a virus. *shakes head*

[lucretiasheart]

It really bothers me that extremist crazies (worse, GREEDY extremist crazies) like Beck are not only being given a stage because outrageous claims bring in viewers, but that there are SO many viewers that take his craziness seriously!

It a *head desk* moment.

[musouka]

Here is a somewhat related quote from the IT industry.

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

[lucretiasheart]

No doubt!!