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Plane

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Re: Here we go...
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2011, 02:07:55 AM »
   Seriously interesting!

    This is happening all across North Africa , and in Syria Jordan and Iran in Asia, I don't know what to call it , it is so huge.

      It isn't the same in every country , I suppose that not every government is equally in need of opposition nor every population equally angered , but it isn't coincidental that it is so widespread these incidents are like fires from the same spark buring in diffrent fuels.

        Will tere have to be a name for this coined later , after we come to understand what happened?

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« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2011, 03:24:14 PM »
I have heard someone describe this as the "Arab Spring".

If things turn out for the best, perhaps this term will stick. I am all for things turning out for the better.
The main thing that this seems to have in common in each country is that there is an unprecedentedly large proportion of better educated unemployed young people in each country, since infant mortality dropped everywhere about 20-30 years ago, and each country has become more urban and less rural.
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