Lybia???

Cum ar reactiona un guvern al unui stat democratic care s-ar confrunta cu manifestatii de strada, greve generale asemanatoare celor in desfasurare din lumea araba? In primul rind ar declara grevele ilegale, grevistii ar fi concediati imediat si imediat din stocul de someri de la renumita poarta a fabricii s-ar gasii suficienti cocksuckeri care sa-i inlocuiasca miseleste pe fratii si surorile lor in numele unei economii subrede care trebuie sa sustina in continuare un nivel de trai artificial.

Egypt???

Ceea ce vedem zilele acestea desfasurindu-se in tarile arabe este democratia in lucru. Am vazut acum citeva saptamini cum o nesemnificativa parte a electoratului a reusit sa rastoarne prin forta strazii bazata pe un fond de criza generalizata, doi dictatori asezati in fotoliile lor de alte democratii mai mari doar pentru ca pazeau ca robinetele sa fie deschise si asigurau un climat de pace cu teroristii. Am vazut tineretul revolutionar sustinut de cele mai tari democratii din lume cum in inocenta lor au crezut ca de acum incolo va curge cu lapte si miere dinspre protectorul lor. Nu a fost sa fie chiar asa pentru ca este ... Criza.

Trail of Tears

In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (today known as Oklahoma). The impact to the Cherokee was devastating. Hundreds of Cherokee died during their trip west, and thousands more perished from the consequences of relocation. This tragic chapter in American and Cherokee history became known as the Trail of Tears, and culminated the implementation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which mandated the removal of all American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
Early in the 19th century, the United States felt threatened by England and Spain, who held land in the western part of the continent. At the same time, American citizens clamored for more land. President Thomas Jefferson proposed the creation of a buffer zone between U.S. and European holdings, to be inhabited by eastern American Indians. This plan would also allow for American expansion westward from the original colonies to the Mississippi River.

Traiu meu de banatana

Stiu ca sinteti inghetati si inerti, stiu ca sinteti departe si fara speranta de a mai trai liberi si fericiti, stiu ca sinteti impovarati de taxe, ginduri si griji, poveri materiale si stressul care vi l-a recomandat sa-l aveti cit mai aproape medicul dvs de familie sau prietenii de suflet. Stiu ca criza Lor a lasat la indemnul Partidului (pardon, massmediei) si sub acoperisul vostru fantoma Capitalistilor reformati. Dar mai sper ca putem sa ne intilnim, nu intorcindu-ne inapoi ci continuindu-ne calatoria in cercul vietii.


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Egypt

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Rostopasca - o planta ce face minuni ?

Greu sa mai gasesti in natura o imperechere asa de desavarsita intre modestie si forta. Banala ca infatisare, cu floricica ei galbena pusa-n cruce, rostopasca este una dintre cele mai puternice plante de pe pamant. Nu degeaba credeau alchimistii ca pot scoate aur din petalele ei. Se spunea ca are o forta egala cu a soarelui si de asta romanii au botezat-o "Chelidonium", "darul cerului", iar vracii o culegeau numai in crucea zilei, cand soarele era in zodia Leului. Dar si faimosii botanisti ai antichitatii i-au acordat rostopascai mare consideratie. Paracelsus facea o analogie intre laptele ei de culoare portocalie si secretia biliara, folosind-o in vindecareaficatului, a bilei si-a fierii. Chiar si Hahnemann, fondatorul homeopatiei, isi vindeca bolnavii de ficat cu rostopasca, in vreme ce cu mult inaintea lui, Dioscoride o recomanda pentru vindecarea cataractei si a conjunctivitei. O confirmare "istorica" a calitatilor ei ii apartine marelui pictor german Albrecht Durer, care a imortalizat-o intr-o pictura, dupa ce cu ajutorul ei s-a vindecat de ficat. Astazi, rostopasca este recomandata ca remediu in peste 150 de afectiuni, de la dermatoze banale, la temutul cancer sau la infectiile virale, inca imposibil de tratat cu medicamentele actuale. Dar sa-i cunoastem mai indeaproape "minunile".

Egypt: The Next Volcano?

Eric Margolis

Veteran journalist; Author

Posted: April 27, 2010 02:17 PM

Egypt is facing a potential political eruption that could rock the entire Mideast and seriously undermine US domination of the strategic region.
This threat comes as tensions in the Mideast are already extremely high. Threats of war involving US, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran are flying fast and furious.
President Husni Mubarak, the US-supported strongman who has ruled Egypt with an iron hand for almost 30 years, is 81 and in frail health. Amazingly, he has no designated successor. No one knows who will take over Egypt when he dies.
For Mubarak, it may be "après moi, le deluge." Dealing with elderly dictators is always an extremely tricky business.
Mubarak, an air force general, was put into power with US help after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat by nationalist soldiers in 1981. Sadat had been a CIA "asset" since 1952.
My sharp-tongued mother interviewed Sadat in the 1950's and described him as a "clown." Sadat was a hero in the US and Israel, but Egyptians hated him and greeted his killing with jubilation.
Egypt, with 82 million people, is the most populous and important Arab nation. Cairo has long been the cultural center of the Arab world. It is also an overcrowded madhouse with eight million people (12 million in the great Cairo area) crammed into an early 20th century colonial city built for 500,000. Cairo's population has tripled since I lived there as a boy in 1957.
About 28% all Arabs are Egyptians. Deduct North Africa, known as the Maghreb - and not traditionally part of the Arab heartland - and Egypt counts for a third of all Arabs. The Nilotic Egyptians are quite different ethnically from the Arabs of Arabia, Syria and Iraq, but they all share a mostly common language, religion, and sense of pan-Arab identity.
Egypt was once the heart and soul of the Arab and Muslim world. Under Sadat's predecessor, the widely adored nationalist, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt led the Arab world. By contrast, Egyptians despised successor Sadat as a corrupt Western toady, and sullenly accepted Mubarak.
After three decades under Mubarak, Egypt has become a political and cultural backwater, and a virtual American protectorate. Its political, intellectual, and religious life have been hand-cuffed by the security police.
In a very telling incident, Mubarak recently flew to Germany for gall bladder and colon surgery. After some $85 billion in US aid, Mubarak could not even trust a local hospital in the Arab world's leading nation to perform his operation.
The US gives Egypt $1.3 billion annually in military aid to keep the generals content, and about $700 million in economic aid, not counting large but secret CIA stipends to key generals, high officials, intelligence chiefs and Egypt's media. A small business elite attached to Mubarak has grown wealthy while the rest of Egypt remains mired in poverty, with a per capita national income around $1,600 per annum.
Egypt does not have enough arable land to feed its growing population, and must import 50% of its foodstuffs, mostly subsidized, low-cost US wheat. This food aid, on which Egypt
depends for sustenance, is appropriated each year by the US Congress.
Washington's powerful Israel lobby, which dominates Congress, could choke off US food aid to Egypt. Sadat and Mubarak gave Israel decisive influence over Egypt's policies in exchange for food aid and billions of dollars, a fact that enrages Egypt's Islamists and nationalists.