what makes people suddenly desperate enough so they will go and do something, angry enough? what concentrates the mind? this is far from the first time we have seen something like this going back to tiananmen square, that was not just caused by student protests and demanding of democracy china has the biggest economic downturn, the big pinch, that we have seen since then and that brought out, one of the reasons that a lot of workers rallied behind the students. again, what we are seeing in the middle east and it is not just egypt but protests in jordan and yemen and syria is, dissidents are calling for a day of rage in syria, again, the ossified economies spin outs of arab socialism. egypt has a promise of rural health care. it's a wreck of an economy with a mess in property laws,