Could a Tunisia Type Event Happen In Your Country?

Not sure about this, but some sort of protests appear to be rising in Saudi Arabia. This is important.

harmonium.ro wrote: Not sure about this, but some sort of protests appear to be rising in Saudi Arabia. This is important.

$150 + per barrel coming soon!

clarke2001 wrote: Blacksword wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Not sure about this, but some sort of protests appear to be rising in Saudi Arabia. This is important. $150 + per barrel coming soon! Not necessarily, at least in the long run (I hope).Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship. I guess people are fed up with living in such conditions - and that's the reason why there's a way of protests in the region. If you take a look at any '10 (or 20) world's worst living dictators' list, you'll get half a dozen of them from Middle East, Africa, Indochina and usual suspects (North Korea, central Asia).If people will be able to overthrown their dictators, making a provisional government which is at least partially democratic, it will reflect on stability of the region, in a good way...including economic impact (and prices of crude oil, if you want).Perhaps I'm too optimistic, but there's always hope.

Well, there's no harm in optimism. Postive things always come out of revolution..for some people, anyway. It depends on which side your on..

What could affect oil prices in the short term, is just the general upheaval disrupting supply, although in the case of Saudi I imagine the authorities there will ensure the oil keeps flowing by force, regardleass of what's going on in their country. It's too early to say if Saudi is going to catch full blown revolution fever, anyway.

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Edited by Padraic - January 31 2011 at 13:18

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This thread got strangely weird. 

I just realized I was listening to "Africa" by Toto,

Besides this embarrassing and appropriately coincidental turn of events,

I would like to note that it seems likely the Egyptian President will have to resign. The military is throwing its support behind a national unity government of some sort, headed by a western friendly UN official.

This seems to me to be a pretty clear attempt to change cloths, shave a mustache and then think you look like a different man. My prediction is spread for the protests and I hope it does so to Saudi Arabia, as this would be most out-of-character of all for the Middle East. (Saudi Arabia, so its said, is the most conservative place on Earth).

Yemen and Jordan, Algeria and Libya, <<<< all had some problems already

My goodness.  Could this be "1989" for the Arab world?

Edited by Padraic - February 01 2011 at 13:55