Sunday, 27 February 2011

What's Wrong With This Picture?

This the Economist's scale of protest probability in 'The Arab World'; who's in and who's out? Why?
...And note that this index is based on political factors, but hungry people are also angry people. It'd be interesting to see what the probabilities of Qatar and U.A.E's low-paid laborers catching protest fever and staging a mass strike.

3 comments:

psychox said...

Sorry to spam. Please help spread this story:

http://www.afrol.com/articles/37465

Alarming news from Libya. Attacks against black Africans accused of being mercenaries.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8349414/African-mercenaries-in-Libya-nervously-await-their-fate.html

In reality, the "mercenaries" may be immigrant workers conned by gov. Some Libyans are trying to protect them from lynch mobs.

KonWomyn said...

Thanks for that, I've spread the news on Twitter.

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