Everything looks like the Internet;
Two facts are often overlooked by pundits attributing North African social unrest to a social media campaign. First, according to the CIA World Fact Book, less than 10% of the combined populations of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia have internet access. Second, the literacy rate across these four countries averages approximately 68% of the adult population. Collectively, these penetration rates across the populations mentioned do not translate into the levels of protest seen in the streets of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Something more was at work.
h/t Adrian
Every time the gas prices stop climbing or start falling, there is a trouble in ME. Usually next thing we know Russia delivers new weapons. I’ve connected dots long ago.
Yes, and that something is a sociopolitical ideology known as Islam.
And the Tool himself invented the Internet, ya know.
Of the seven factors noted that are pressuring food prices higher, only one is man made;
* ‘U.S. ethanol subsidies divert resources away from food production’
Thank you Al Gore. The biggest jerk the world has ever seen. All his life he has been pedaling his carbon dioxide scam. And as VP he voted ‘yeah’ in the congress tie breaker legislation that brought on ridiculous biofuel subsidies.
My inner dialogue with the social revolution of the Arab street goes like this …
First we get rid of the tyrant Mubarak (excuse me?) then we bring in the enlightened Muslim Brotherhood (excuse me?) then we march on Jerusalem (again?) and lose another war, beat up the local scapegoats (tried and true, right?), and start all over again (on what?) don’t ask, with our cellphones to help us, PBUH (H being?) him who sold us the unlimited time weekends and evenings.
(How about Gadhafi?)
You take care of him, he’s got an army, plus he’s crazy. Even by our standards. (which are?) pretty crazy, dude. *everyone ululate or whatever that noise is called*
The biggest problem with the “elites” is their lack of real world experience and knowledge, but nonetheless they continue to tell the great unwashed what the cause and solution to every problem is.
Whether it’s the academics,politicians,or MSM,they preach from the same koran,secure in their ignorance.
How bloody much food is going to be wasted on biodiesel before these people change their tune?
“Something more was at work.”?
AlMoh Mohammedanism’s boys in the ‘Hood.
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“The birth of the Muslim Brotherhood”
“The Ottoman Empire’s collapse allowed Western inroads in the Middle East, and the Muslim Brothers arose in response.”
“To understand the Muslim Brotherhood, and to assess its role today in a shifting Middle East, it is necessary to first examine the forces that led to the organization’s birth. And that takes us back to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
The Ottoman Empire had been, before World War I, the strongest and most visible face of Islam in the world. At its height in the 16th and 17th centuries, it controlled a vast swath of territory that extended from southeastern Europe into Asia and northern Africa. Its territory was greatly diminished by the 20th century, but it was the empire’s alliance with Germany in the war that led to its final destruction.
In the aftermath of the war, the remains of the Ottoman Empire were partitioned by the victors, which gave the Western powers far more influence in the Middle East and created enormous tension in Islamic populations.
In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal (later given the last name Ataturk, or father of the Turks) eventually ascended to power. The hero of Gallipoli, who blunted and then defeated the British-French invasion at the straits of the Dardanelles in 1915, Kemal was also the man who thwarted Western plans to partition Turkey into imperial holdings and who rallied the Turkish army to defeat a Greek invasion. The result was a Turkified nation, one in which religion was separated from power. Ataturk’s Turkey was committed under his leadership to joining the Western world — in language, in dress, in its commitment to development and to military power. And in this project, Ataturk by and large succeeded. Turkey today is his greatest achievement.
But Ataturk’s insistence on a largely secular government also sparked a counter-movement of Muslims who wished to save Islam from the polluting contact with the West. In Egypt, this led to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-winter-muslim-brotherhood-20110314,0,1415367.story
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Meanwhile: AlMoh is a cannibal.
“BBC | Afghanistan ‘suicide bombing’ kills 36 at army centre
At least 36 people have been killed in an apparent suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan, local officials have said.”
“#12 — BBC | Turkish singer Ibrahim Tatlises shot in head in attack
Turkish singer Ibrahim Tatlises, famous also in Greece and across the Middle East, has been shot and seriously wounded in an attack in Istanbul.”
(H/T jacksnewswatch)
It’s the left’s infatuation with the “youth”.
Oh, the youth are in the streets, the youth are rebelling, the youth have had enough. The youth are using facebook to take control from the dictators.
The reason is to be a leftists, you have to abandon reason and act on emotions. It’s all emotion; they’ve romanticized the potential of these demonstrators, and ignored the historical fact that most revolutions don’t end in Jeffersonian democracies.
The reality is that the world isn’t likely to be better off when all this is over, and there’s a good chance a lot of people are going to get killed. But then, that realisation comes with wisdom, not very common among the youth…
A few weeks ago I saw three US senators one of whom was John McCain all spouting the line that the revolution in Egypt was the result of facebook and twitter. As I offered up a prayer of thanksgiving that John McCain had not been elected president (and thanks that I hadn’t cut any major blood vessels when I stuck my fist through my TV) I thought of Kate. Could it indeed be true that world IS being run by crazy people?
“You take care of him [Gaddafi], he’s got an army, plus he’s crazy.”
He himself might be a Mad Colonel, but every day that passes reveals that those working for him have a comprehensive “campaign plan” and are succeeding at it.
“The” key item impacting food supplies:
•U.S. ethanol subsidies divert resources away from food production
But Dalton’s Green Energy Act – the one that is responsible for all the clear-cutting to grow corn for ethanol – would that have something to do with it? Eh? C’mon, give Canada a little recognition, eh?
Something more indeed.
Word from some Canadians in Cairo at the peak of the uprising: “We don’t know who these people are in the square, they speak a different dialect, we don’t where they came from or why they are gathering”
That something more, is the Muslim Brotherhood. This chain of protests was long in the making. Something this “spontaneous” in so many Countries speaks of long organization.
The Islamic world is setting up the pins for a strike at Israel for their version of a Final solution.
Events like Israeli apartheid week have been sown in the West to blunt the effect of genocide. To de legitimize Israel with an eye to eventually go after Western Jews. In fact their in the same group as started the protests. Sharia law, with Jew killing is the major platform for these folks since its founding.
They make no bones about it. Sharia worldwide wide, with death to the Kaffur.
As we see in Egypt the cleansing has begun.
The Koran says Jews must all die or no Muslim resurrection.
Kill Jews for Allah
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=427
Here’s a hint. There are 55 million cell-phone subscribers in Egypt.
from the link:
# Russia experienced the worst drought in 130 years that curtailed its prior winter’s planting efforts and last summer’s harvest
# Argentina was impacted by a drought too
# Late rains impacted Canadian crops
draw your own youthful conclusions dear sda.