It started with the 'Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia then spread through the African/Arab countries - Yemen. Jordan, Algeria, Oman, Sudan, Mauritania and Egypt..
This post will not touch on the "heavy issues" - most of which are not a surprise to any sane people on this earth!!! Examples, it's not a surprise that President Hosni Mubarak "agreed" to step down but only in September - he's a man living on his own island & detached from the reality. It is also not surprising that he made such a decision after chit chatting over the phone with the States' President Barrack Obama..
It is also not surprising that China - almost half of the world apart from Egypt - had blocked the word "Egypt" from microblog searches!!!
In Tunisia, a doctor Souha Naija aptly described the Tunisian Revolution as " a kind of birth" - the doctor said ;" For me this is a birth ... There is blood, there is pain. But after, there is birth" ...
There is also a 21 year old Tunisian rap star, Hamada Ben Amor a.k.a. "El General" took to the stage for the first time after being banned by the Tunisian regime. His crime? He wrote lyrics earlier month of January as the revolution exploded which earned him the ban and a spell in the jail ...
The lyrics go like this: "We live in suffering/Like dogs/Half the population is oppressed and living in misery/President of the country/Your people are dead" ... When he took the stage on Saturday late January, opposition activist Atia Athmouni, 59 broke down in tears and said " He talked about the dictator and about the fallen heroes".
Wither the status quo anyone? ....
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