The Middle East Uprisings: video, links, and more

NeoTheranthrope

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Popcorn Sutton said:
The following exchange actually happened on facebook and I saw it. To me, this cuts to the core of what you just said.

A hyper conservative Republican Jewish girl I know from Alabama lets on that she has no idea what is going on in Egpyt.

Her friend says there is a massive pro-democratic revolution going on there.

She says, "Democrats AND Muslims? Gee that sounds like a party - just like our 'commander in cheif'..."

Therein lies a large problem. You say 'Pro-Democratic' and they hear 'Democratic Party'. These are the types of people who would sell out our Democratic rights in a heartbeat because they thought it wise or advantageous.
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Well, I can't entirely blame everything on people like her.
Watching CNN/FOX/MSNBC you get a narrative which is COMPLETELY unrelated to the actual reporting of actual events in Egypt, or the rest of the middle east, for that matter.

I'm not saying my sources aren't unbiased (they are), or completely accurate... but fuck, man... when I was watching CNN Friday night: in-between talking heads, they showed a little shitty youtube 3-second clip of Egyptians celebrating in Tahrir Square, followed by a 3-fucking-MINUTE montage of scary brown people with guns (which was actually Egyptian government security-force footage, but CNN didn't label it as such).
Fucking, COME ON.

This is classic: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war!" -William Randolf Hearst. (RE: the Spanish-American War, so this is in no way new, mind you...)

Good news doesn't sell. A popular, (mostly) non-violent, democratic change in power (as miraculous as it was) does not generate clicks or eyeballs or sales or whatever metric is used to garner advertising revenue. Scary angry brown people with guns, however, do.
 
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once an election does happen, will the peace treaties Egypt signed into be voided out? It's possible, which leads me to ask if the people in Egypt would actually consider a war with Israel, or are they more intelligent than to be goaded into that by their eastern neighbors.
 
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Conflicting reports on that story.
 
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Popcorn Sutton said:
How about this?

Protests in Iran, Bahrain.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/...ests-green-movement-ahmadinejad-mousavi-egypt

Iran is calling for death penalty against opposition leaders...
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Things are getting hot in Bahrain (a tiny Persian Gulf island nation, strategically important to the U.S. because of Manama U.S. Navy base) two protesters are dead and in response the protesters are occupying "Pearl Circle" (shades of Tahrir square...)

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Iran is a clusterfuck, not only is the government calling for execution of protest organizers, but any government officials that support them will be tried for treason.

Also, I still can't get confirmation Mubarak's condition (although, I can't discount the possibility that this is a ploy to get the ex-president out of the country before the hammer falls)
 
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Haha, fallen ill...

Just like the old mafiosos standing trial with nurses, oxygen tanks and shit.
 
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NeoTheranthrope said:
Iran is a clusterfuck, not only is the government calling for execution of protest organizers, but any government officials that support them will be tried for treason.
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The Iranian government has finally demanded the rest of the world to invade and execute all mullahs and politicians. The revolutionary guard members and every person in their families need to be dumped in an anonymous mass grave, buried alive, um, and pour in thousands of poisonous snakes with them. No insects. Centipedes. Maybe firehose their children and wives with boiling hot oil first too.
 
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norton9478 said:
Not if you got some chicken wings.
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...better; mozzarella sticks. There was this one little bar here in town (which sadly doesn't exist any more) that hand-beer-battered theirs. I'd start my own revolution to get those sticks again. mmmmm...
 
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I can't believe you guys can think of food when I am conjuring new draconian punishments. You guys are depraved.
 
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What kind of shit-assed dictator lets people rebel

I'd let the army loose on those bitches

These middle eastern totalitarians are a bunch of pussies, seriously
 
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Segata_Sanshiro said:
What kind of shit-assed dictator lets people rebel

I'd let the army loose on those bitches

These middle eastern totalitarians are a bunch of pussies, seriously
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lol

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Also, democracy coming to Egypt is terrible news. The Palestinians voted in Hezbollah, who knows what kind of asshole idiotfuck these Egyptian dipshits are gonna elect
 
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Just go away
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Great counter-argument

But I don't understand why Mubarak didn't just run over the protesters with tanks. Fear of international reprisal? Maybe. But the USA is broke and no one else ever gets involved in anything
 
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Segata_Sanshiro said:
Great counter-argument

But I don't understand why Mubarak didn't just run over the protesters with tanks. Fear of international reprisal? Maybe. But the USA is broke and no one else ever gets involved in anything
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You really havent garnered much from this thread.

The Army wasnt willing to do that, even if Mubarak ordered it.

Ok?

Does that answer your question?
 
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