Arab Spring in Jordan: People want Jordan’s king out – Report

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1. @ honeybee:

   Yep with a lot of schmaltz

2. @ yamit82:
   What do you think I am chopped liver?

3. @ honeybee:

   WOW did you come up with this gem all by yourself?, 😉

4. @ Sebastien Zorn:

   Need is dependency .

5. @ Bear Klein:

   Source of Unrest; “King ‘Abdallah: Jordan Is Obliged To Comply With IMF Recommendations; People Must Support Government As It Deals With Crisis”

   Who controls the IMF? The World Bank and the IMF: Expanding Wall Street’s Reach Worldwide.

   The following is an excerpt from ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ BANKERS: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins (on sale April 8, 2014). Reprinted with permission from Nation Books. Nomi Prins is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs

   https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-12/all-presidents-bankers-world-bank-and-imf

   IMF-Word Bank= The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works.

   A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success.

   Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”

   https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-bank-whistleblower-reveals-how-the-global-elite-rule-the-world/5353130

6. @ Bear Klein:

   FAKE NEWS!!!

7. I did a google search and do not find any other news of large scale protests in Jordan. Why is that? Could this be propaganda or fake news?

8. Freedom does not have to be defined as license to incite to sedition, anti-democratic values such as condoning honor killings or mayhem. The Muslim Brotherhood will have to be outlawed as it was in Egypt. It is true that the prevalent popular values will not permit complete democracy at this time, but this would be a big improvement for them, us and US.

   “Everybody, you, me, them!”
   Blues Brothers – Everybody Needs Somebody
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV0zs0kVGg

9. @ Abdul Ameer:
   If that ruler is Zahran, and Trump engineers it, we should be good to go. It will be sufficiently democratic, if he allows the people freedom and input on bread and butter issues, while redistributing the royal family’s ill-gotten gains among the people.

   Succession will have to be worked out so that it cannot be undermined. Perhaps a constitution.

10. If you think that getting rid of the Jordanian king will lead to democracy in Jordan, you haven’t been paying attention to what has been going on in the Middle East for the past decade. In Jordan, just like in Egypt six years ago, the alternative to the semi-secular ruler is the Muslim Brotherhood, not liberal democrats. The Jordanian population is very thoroughly Moslem, and Islam is incompatible with democracy.

11. Among the more than 40 undergraduate, independent study and mixed graduate and undergraduate History courses I took at City College of New York in the ’90s, was one I took with Professor Laurence Kaplan, called, “Comparative Revolutions” author of the book by the same name.

    https://www.amazon.com/Revolutions-comparative-study-Lawrence-Kaplan/dp/039447371X

    Among the assignments was to write a paper dissecting, comparing and contrasting the analyses of Karl Marx and Alexis de Toqueville on the rise of Emperor Louis Napoleon of France out of the revolutionary ferment of 1848.

    The bulk of the peasantry elected Louis Napoleon Emperor. Julius Caesar was also elected.

    The Belman plan is the only safe one. Bush and the neo-conservatives influenced by Scharansky were misled by their fetishization of democracy procedures and elections.

12. “Leave. just leave.”

    The ball is in Trump’s court. In his place, I would be hosting secret talks between Zahran and his people on the one hand, and representatives of all the factions in Jordan, on the other, the army, the Bedouin, the Palestinian Arabs, etc. so that they will work together to have a smooth transition and be on the same page about the timeline of what is supposed to happen and when, as well as for whom and Trump can jump in with additional aid as needed.

    The worst outcome would be an ad-hoc coalition that morphs into something else as happened in Cuba and Iran.

13. From Yonit Gefen

    It’s HAPPENING!! After 100 years of persecution by Hashemite Imperialist Colonialists, the people are taking back their country. The MSM is silent. God Bless the Jordan Opposition Coalition for bringing us this news!