see http://mycatbirdseat.com/2011/01/20th-century-mubarak-commits-21st-century-sin/

Egtptian President Mubarak has shut down the major social net working sites in Egypt as an attempt to quell the riots that threaten his power.As Johnny Punish says,Obama is in a dilemma here,does he back the freedom of speech of the Egyptian people or back Mubarak the dictator whom they have supported?

About 10 hours before you posted this Obama said he did not agree with the lock down.
I think the true [feeble but true] reason it was shut down was to stop information about events under way getting out.

People....people.. wake up.

EGYPT and TUNISIA and YEMEN.. loooook *closely*

a) We are sick of poverty and no jobs. (This is the voice of the Socialists/Communists)

b) Remove Mubarak! This is the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood.

'b' will slaughter 'a' as soon as they have power.

It happened in Iran and it will happen in Egypt if it get's that far.

Note the outbreak in SUEZ (canal) and Yemen "Straits/oil"

Put both of those under extremist control and you have just taken over the world.

Belly ,what Obama says and does as we all know, are two different things.We were supposed to be out of Iraq last year.It won't happen.Mubarak is worth $40 billion,how does a public official make that sort of money in such a poor country?

AIR,Mubarak like Ben Ali are both US despotic puppets.The real danger is the US/Israel will set up another of their puppets and con the poor people again.Could you survive on $6 a day in Egypt? The system of Western debt slavery has Egypt in this cycle of poverty.I hope they get a true leader of the people but with US/Israel interference, it may well be nigh impossible.

Israel has all the nukes in the Middle East so why is Egypt,Iran and Tunisia a threat? You over estimate the power of these countries.Raise their living standards and the people will be content.

The UK Telegraph has revealed that the USA for some time have been planning the over throw of Mubarak and slip in another of their own puppets.Mubarak's excesses probably got too embarrassing,so they'll put an a more palitable despot for now.

Arjay:>> Israel has all the nukes in the Middle East so why is Egypt,Iran and Tunisia a threat? You over estimate the power of these countries.Raise their living standards and the people will be content.<<

Well said, that is it in a nutshell. People are just people, the plebs have no control of government policy. The sins of the government are visited on the people, not the other way round.

Arjay the Western press has sold the whole Middle East to us as hand chopping zealots. Led by the spin of the American controlled press the dehumanising of the Middle Eastern population is an age old forerunner to the justification of brutality as a means to an end. I said on another post that Russia will be the dark horse in the Middle East. But Murbarak will go and as you say the contenders have been chosen. Let the corruption begin, again.