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Yemenis stage new protests to oust their president
Published February 13, 2011 | Associated Press

Yemeni police clashed Sunday with anti-government protesters staging a third-consecutive day of demonstrations calling for political reforms and the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Several thousand protesters, many of them university students, tried to reach the central square in the capital of Sanaa, but were pushed back by police using truncheons.
The ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after an 18-day uprising has emboldened protesters in Yemen and raised questions about the country's stability and other Western-allied governments in the region. Saleh has been in power for three decades and has tried to defuse the unrest by promising not to run again. His term ends in 2013................>>>>................>>>>.........Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/13/yemenis-stage-new-protests-oust-president/#ixzz1DqcTG2Ms

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Narcotic plant addiction may be stemming Yemen protests
Some Yemeni youths say qat could be used as a social lubricant to help organize protests, but most believe chewing the plant mainly dulls citizens' revolutionary fervor.
By Reuters

Yemen's opposition has drawn tens of thousands of people to the streets to rally against three decades of autocratic rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, but by noon the protesters quietly vanish.

Many head straight from the streets to the souk, or market, to buy bags stuffed with qat, the mild stimulant leaf that over half of Yemen's 23 million people chew daily, wiling away their afternoons in bliss, their cheeks bulging with wads of qat.

"After I chew I can't go out. When I chew qat, the whole world is mine. I feel like a king," said Mohammed al-Qadimi, a student who has attended Yemen rallies but said it would be hard to motivate himself to protest all day.

Yemeni activists who organized an anti-government "Day of Rage" last week drew their biggest crowds yet in rallies seen as a barometer of readiness to transform protests in this Arabian Peninsula state into an Egypt-style uprising.

Yemen is already teetering on the brink of failed statehood, and analysts say its volatile mix of domestic conflicts, entrenched poverty and an increasingly bold al-Qaida wing could make it ripe for upheaval.

But popular revolts like those that toppled Tunisia's leader and threaten Egypt's president need momentum. The Yemen protesters' midday departures cast doubt on whether Yemenis are ready to mount a sustained revolt that would be needed to topple Saleh from the leadership of the Arab world's poorest country.

Yemenis are not known for being passive. Nationals disgruntled with their government have kidnapped foreigners and locals, ambushed security forces and occupied state buildings to extract concessions. But for many, Qat time is sacrosant.

"When we have protests, they quiet down quickly because of this Yemeni habit. Qat is a negative influence. Every afternoon people go chew qat and the protests don't last more than a few hours in the morning," journalist Samir Gibran said, as he sat chewing qat with friends. He said he only chews once a week.......................>>>>..............>>>>...................................http://www.haaretz.com/news/in.....en-protests-1.342450

just like the local watering holes here......there's no difference between us and them for base human nature.....there are a whole bunch of
qat Americans....

Animalistic maniacs.

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Animalistic maniacs.

we are interesting creatures.....cats like catnip...we like alcohol/nicotine/qat and anything else we can get our hands on....even to
the extent of having stupid cymbalta and seroquel commercials on tv along with cialis and yaz......