Bahrain, I am betting on Bahrain

[nadinbrzezinski]

that kind of wording from Rachel tells me that the fleet is about to lose it's home port...now let me peek on BBC

Yep Bahrain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

Bahrain protests: Police break up Pearl Square crowd


Anguish over Egypt's vanished
Security forces in Bahrain have dispersed thousands of anti-government protesters in Pearl Square in the centre of capital, Manama.

Hundreds of riot police using tear gas and batons moved into the square before dawn on Thursday.

At least two people were killed in the police operation, the opposition says.

The protesters are calling for wide-ranging political reforms and had been camped out since Tuesday.

Clashes earlier in the week left two dead and dozens injured in the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12490286

[aquart]

1. Heavy demonstrations in Libya today.

And a bit of activity in Iran, too.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. From the POV of the US Libya and Iran are good news

Bahrain not so much... home port for the Sixth Fleet.

[riderinthestorm]

13. 5th Fleet. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Did I get them confused?

So many fleets so little time...

What is it? nine?

[riderinthestorm]

16. Just a "dumb 'Murkin" checking in. nt

[lonestarnot]

3. Maybe Iran. IBTN

:}(

[lonestarnot]

5. Nails it! Iran!

[Tx4obama]

4. Next WINS: Bahrain and then Libya and then Algeria and then Yemen.

But that is just my guess :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Hmm Yemen foreign agendas.. sounds familiar

We are now in the regional script

[Cleita]

7. I know people are going to think of me as the odd one,

but I believe that a really big explosion is going to happen in Saudi Arabia down the line. Those Princelings and Kings are barely keeping a lid on their people right now. You wait and see.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Damn I was right, Bahrain

I have not enough info to know where exactly in the cycle are we... but if they are turning against the media... this is HUGE.

[sabrina 1]

28. Bahrain has been going on for days. All over twitter for the past

week. And even before that. Yemen came even earlier and is still building up. Algeria too, and the people of Egypt and Tunisia are sharing information with all of them on how to get the job done. Libya is getting violent, as might be expected. Several protesters have been killed in two of these countries today.

Egypt's uprising didn't happen spontaneously as it appeared to be. It was well thought out and had assistance from other countries who were once under dictatorships. But it was a grass roots effort, run by some very smart people.

None of this is unexpected nor surprising. It would be far more surprising if it wasn't happening.

[malaise]

9. You win

Police attacked the citizens - where are the voices who supported the Egyptians. BBC reporter beaten.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Well Egypt has the Suez Canal

Bahrain is easier to close down and... it is the base for the US Sixth Fleet... what are the odds the US media will spend a lot of time on it?

[malaise]

29. Tanks on the streets this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12490286

[lonestarnot]

10. You be right too Nadine. Bahrain and Iran.

[BOG PERSON]

11. what else do you see in your crystal ball?

will the sun rise tomorrow morning?

[RandomThoughts]

15. Grow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Movie Merlin part 2/19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op_H-9tIMns

[madokie]

17. Its about time people woke up

We'd better here shortly or we won't have a semblance of a chance of ever having a democracy every again, ever.

Right now Is not too late yet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. It has started here too

the largest labor protest in a generation is happening RIGHT NOW in Madison

[Scottybeamer70]

19. In my many decades....

on this revolving ball in the universe, I never thought I would see
the day when people all over the world are finally letting it be
known that "enough is enough". I think it is wonderful. Thanks for
the post nadin.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Welcome to Du

and google 1848... this is our modern equivalent.

[Scottybeamer70]

23. Thanks for the welcome...

1848? I have to tell my age too???
Just kidding ya......:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Those democratic revolutions

are the closest historic equivalent to this.

:-)

Not all of them succeeded at the moment, but change did come to europe. And some of those people moved to the US helping jump start the third phase of US Labor...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

20. Rachel reported that an ABC newsman was attacked and beaten by police

in Bahrain.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. The critical part of what she said

was not the beating, but that they are already blaming FOREIGN forces. This is well ahead into the end of this regime dynamic.

We saw this already in four places...

[Liquorice]

25. I was watching video of the Bahrain protests earlier and saw the strangest

thing I think I've ever seen. The men, in regular street clothes of various colors, were marching down the street and holding signs. Behind the men followed the women, dressed in solid black with nothing but their faces showing (and sometimes not even their faces). They were also marching in obvious protest. It was a segregated protest! It was actually quite bizarre and oddly sad.

I really hope these protests will change things for women and give them some level of equality.

Here is a still from the video:

[aquart]

26. OMG, you're right. Never seen that before.

[cali]

27. It really appears as if it's all just one big jolly game to you. ugh.

[hobbit709]

30. Watching history repeat itself is not a big jolly game.

If we really learned the lessons of history we wouldn't have history since it pretty much consists of the same mistakes made over and over.