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rffrydr
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Egypt’s EGX30 fell about 11% in the wake of protests. The protesting and turbulence in Africa and the Middle East is growing. Jordan and Yemen have also seen protesting.
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rffrydr
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Forget Europe (although Tunisia connection with France completes the metaphor) let's go south east:
| Quote: | | Of importance now is how Tunisia’s revolution is interpreted and implemented, within the country and outside it. Ben Ali’s fall may prove to be an isolated event—each unhappy country is unhappy in its own way. Still, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia all contain political and demographic ingredients at least as perilous as those that combusted in Tunisia: youthful populations, high unemployment, grotesque inequality, abusive police, reviled leaders, and authoritarian systems that stifle free expression. There is ample reason for the leaders of those countries to worry. |
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/01/31/110131taco_talk_coll
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A small sideshow to this fairytale known as Dubai was the conservation paradise, the living, breathing "city," Masdar (see "Alternative Energy Investment") underscores how the fairytale model cuts across both the great and the good. And, a la Oliver Stone's vision, supports our invitable "next bubble."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/arts/design/26masdar.html?_r=1&hp
| Quote: | The project conjured both a walled medieval fortress and an upgraded version of the Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland.
Well, those early assessments turned out to be wrong. By this past week, as people began moving into the first section of the project to be completed — a 3 ½-acre zone surrounding a sustainability-oriented research institute — it was clear that Masdar is something more daring and more noxious.... Its utopian purity, and its isolation from the life of the real city next door, are grounded in the belief — accepted by most people today, it seems — that the only way to create a truly harmonious community, green or otherwise, is to cut it off from the world at large. |
The world is a better place thanks to Masdar...as a cautionary tale if nothing else.
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