Can Mubarak survive?Increasingly, it appears that the Egyptian dictator is on his last legs. Massive protests are being planned and the only way to get people back in their homes may be to go the Iranian route; shooting protestors down in the streets.Reminder: When the Shah of Iran was confronted with this kind of situation, he abdicated. Whether the Egyptian army would go through with mass slaughter of their own people is the question being asked by Mubarak today.In truth, Mubarak's position is very weak. So weak that he has taken the draconian step of cutting off the internet in Egypt , thus isolating that country from the rest of the world:Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider,...(Read Full Post)