Arizona is keeping their residents safe from Sharia Law.  They are outlawing karma as well.  They also successfully banned evolution in the state a while back. Now, their legislators have the reasoning powers of monkeys.
3. Religious sectarian law includes Sharia Law, Canon Law, Halacha and Karma

Congrats to Egypt. I can't say I agree with many of the views in this thread, or how dissenting opinion was stifled, but I will agree that this is a great chance for the Egyptian people to pave their own path.

Although I'm not sure how things will turn out. Hopefully well, but then there're places like Nigeria where things, if you'll pardon my French, went to shit after revolutions, even after being released from military control. They're deciding things for themselves, but things are arguably much worse. Hopefully Egypt will have a much easier track to success.

thecite wrote:

ファブリス wrote:

Don't know what to think of this, but the way Mubarak resigned is odd.

I personally think Webster Tarpley is an idiot; a conspiracy nutjob.

The way he writes, its as if he was in the room with everyone.  I don't think much of what he says can be taken for anything more than fiction writing.

I've been waiting for a good video to sum it all up,and finally found one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAoosiN … dded#at=17

A few things not mentioned in the video is that the internet and communtication networks were cut off for more than a week,and that after the "friday of anger" when the police forces were pulled from the streets,several prisons were opened(also by the police,a lot of videos show this),and more than 23000 prisoners escaped.....for several days we lighted small camp fires in the streets infront of our homes and stayed there till morning with whatever weapons we would find,usually small knives or large pieces of wood,we also had some home made molotovs ready,very few people actually had guns,we made roadblocks,usually out of large trash containers and broken tree logs and some people even used their own cars!we wouldn't let anyone in without seeing his ID first(yes!,that was cool:D)..several thugs would drive around our district shooting from their cars with automatic weapons,the army would help every now and then,i've seen them shoot at a car trying to escape killing 2 of those thugs....For about a week it was aweful,closer to GTA san andreas than Egypt.

Things are a lot better now with the cops back on the street,we're hoping to get more tourists to get our economy back up,come visit the pyramids or something:D
this is for the tourists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-VdH1v … r_embedded
(Sorry for the horrible english and japanese pronounciation lol)

And to the admin,thanks for making this thread!

Two Libyan Air Force Mirage jet fighters unexpectedly flew to Malta this afternoon with their pilots claiming they escaped to Malta after having been ordered to bomb protesters who have taken control of the second city of Benghazi.

Libyan fighter jets arrive in Malta

bodhisamaya wrote:

I wonder how long it will take for all this to spread to China.

Already has.

http://www.asahi.com/international/upda … 10563.html

Will it go anywhere? Doubt it.

fakewookie wrote:

bodhisamaya wrote:

I wonder how long it will take for all this to spread to China.

Already has.

http://www.asahi.com/international/upda … 10563.html

Will it go anywhere? Doubt it.

It will not go anywhere yet, but it's impossible that China could take over as the #1 economy in the world without its people demanding a say in their government, freedom of speech and of the press.
Because of the Internet, democracy will eventually be demanded by every nation.

America will most likely see its influence reduced in the coming decades as its economy continues to tumble.

Economically, I see nothing wrong with China one day becoming  communist (doesn't seem to fit their economic situation now).  Though, politically, as the information age creeps further and further uncensored into the daily lives of the Chinese people, they will demand human rights and a voice in the fate of their own country.

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nest0r wrote:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/05/how-one-researcher-enabled-the-u-s-government-to-slip-news-through-chinas-censors/

I would rather live with censorship than to be fed a steady diet of lies and propaganda by "Fox News".

This clip always makes me laugh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vNOBBB5FgY

bodhisamaya wrote:

vinniram wrote:

I would rather live with censorship than to be fed a steady diet of lies and propaganda by "Fox News".

No you wouldn't.   There are alternatives to the lies reported by the likes of Fox News in democracies.

What I meant to say was: "If I had to choose between either censorship, or Fox News (and nothing else available), I'd rather censorship." That's what I meant. Of course, if it's censorship versus access to 'everything, good bad and ugly', well of course I'll go for having everything, because then I don't need to listen to things I don't want to, like fox news. Sorry I wasn't clearer

phantombk201 wrote:

A few things not mentioned in the video is that the internet and communtication networks were cut off for more than a week,and that after the "friday of anger"...

Wow, you were right in the thick of it. Well done. Let's all hope for Libya now.