Egyptians are telling their repressive, despotic leaders to get the Hell out or else face hanging in the streets (or whatever the modern equivalent might be in Egypt Tunisia
As you can see from the map below where I have scribbled the borders of these 2 nations in red, this is an area of the world where significant government-ending social upheaval could have global implications if it were to bleed north into Greece (where rioting is already happening) or Italy (hotbed of Euro debt crisis) or east where it could affect middle east oil production.
If you watched the video at the above link then you heard the talking head Hillary Clinton, our beloved Secretary of State, chattering away about how Egyptian authorities should allow peaceful demonstrations. She also suggested that authorities not try to block communications such as social media sites which are being used to organize protesters, etc. Yes, America US
Why is government so keen to put measures in place to bring down the Internet on command? Simply because government hacks know that their main control over the people stems from having a few well funded, well organized people at the top controlling a large, disorganized, infighting group of sheeple which make up the herd. Government knows that the Internet has some amazing qualities that are to be feared by despotic and corrupt ruling elite, especially as their scam begins to become well understood by the masses. Firstly, the Internet completely erases the barrier to rapid information sharing. All you have to do now is post the location of the “rally” on a central site somewhere and 50,000 emails will automatically be sent to people telling them when, where, and why to attend. These emails and tweets go directly to the handheld phones that everyone now has. The recipients can then decide for themselves whether to attend or not. What a difference that is from word of mouth organization methods or of organization that requires members to call each other on the phone, etc.
The second worrisome quality of the Internet is its ability to depersonalize and compartmentalize the message. It has always been difficult for an individual to speak with authority to large crowds without benefit of some bully pulpit which affords him some status that makes him worth listening to by the herd. In person, grass roots message dissemination is just too easy to disrupt, too easy for the opposition to create noise and distractions. It’s too easy to turn into a battle of personalities. It’s too easy to divert off topic. The herd cannot move in a single direction if there is too much confusion and the elite rulers have been leveraging this fact throughout the history of man.
However, if the message is given via a web site or by a twitter feed or by an email then it becomes depersonalized and the audience is compartmentalized. The communication and organization dynamic is no longer one to many but rather one to one, but the one to one is repeated thousands of times in parallel. The Internet gives grass roots organizers the efficiency of being able to speak to many people at once AND the effectiveness of speaking to people one on one. That, and that alone is why legislation is being crafted giving government power to shut down the Internet on demand should the need arise.
They can pitch it as any number of other things but at the end of the day it is just another herd control mechanism being put in place by ever more concerned elite as they watch their credit Ponzi weaken. The ruling elite are smart enough to look at riots in Iceland, in Greece, in Ireland, in Tunisia, in Egypt and elsewhere as risk factors for similar outcomes that we likely face here in the US. So far things are great here in the US aside from the occasaional assassination attempt on sitting Senators. But what happens when we can no longer find suckers to loan us money for nearly zero percent on the short end of the curve where a big part of the debt is clustered? And what happens when Bernanke’s money printing operations finally come home to roost in the form of massive inflation that threatens the ability of people to maintain reasonable lifestyles? The riots in other countries are all related to that kind of economic break down. We are not there yet because we are a bigger economic flywheel than they are but our day is coming.
