Did the economy cause unrest in the Arab world?

[Hannah Bell]

Hedge fund manager Bill Fleckenstein explains how decisions made in Washington, D.C., Wall Street and Beijing may have sparked the protests in Egypt.

http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/02/03/food-for-thought/

[gratuitous]

1. That's just crazy talk!

It was a speech George W. Bush made in 2003 that led directly to popular uprisings more than seven years later. Everybody knows that.

[Ken Burch]

3. Just like Reagan personally took a chisel to the Berlin Wall

And led everyone in East Germany to freedom while wasting dozens of Stalinist border guards with a stolen AK-47 handed to him by Sylvester Stallone himself.

:sarcasm: :eyes: :puke:

[Ghost Dog]

7. AK-47? You mean to say, Kalashnikov, right?

Hah hah hah.

[Ken Burch]

8. He had one of those too, in the OTHER hand....

:sarcasm:

[lyonn]

6. Are you referring to W. Bush's declaration that the U.S. invasion

of Iraq would spread Democracy across the Middle East? Now Rummy is out with his new book, repeating himself about the necessity to bomb Baghdad and all of Iraq to rid it of WMD's that he knew damn good and well were not there, yet, blamed Condi and Colin of messing things up?????? Insanity is still all around us. Will we ever be rid of the Bush era insanity? Nope, too many tea baggers that clutch their Bible and guns insisting we are losing our Country to (?), not sure but think it may be those communistic, black lovin', anti-christ types that are in collusion with the Muslims........?????? I'm so confused and too old for this insanity.......

[Ghost Dog]

10. Sshhh. They'll "disappear" you.. And don't mention, "above all",

lately, the "Twin Towers".

Remember the Maine.

[CJCRANE]

2. IIRC the Pentagon issued a report

near the end of Bush's second term that claimed the biggest threat to global security was financial instability caused by the banking crisis.

[dkofos]

4. Yes, but don't worry, it could never happen in this country.

As long as you keep the poor entertained.

[closeupready]

5. Financial stability is the bedrock upon which modern society is built. Thus,

it's sensible to believe that bad economic times can lead directly to civil unrest such as what is happening in Egypt.

[leftstreet]

9. K&R

Good read