A Blast from the Past: The Iraqi shoe thrower is still causing trouble.

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It is worthy to note that there is a Shoe Throwers index... ???

The protests and upheavals that began in December have moved through the Middle East and North Africa at such a clip that one can be forgiven for losing track of where each one stands. Fortunately, online technology, which has been praised for facilitating the protests, has also made it easier to review what happened when.

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Personally I like the show thrower based on that one video but he has become quite the political icon.

The Economist has expanded upon its static Shoe-Thrower’s Index with an interactive graph, so that it now instantly recalculates the “index of unrest” for each of the seventeen countries based on how much weight users give to factors such as the number of years the ruler has been in power, per cent of the population under the age of twenty-five, and democratic institutions. The default settings rank Qatar as the most stable of the bunch and Yemen the least.

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