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The Guardian offers valuable insight to the Egypt situation- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/27/egypt-protests?intcmp=239 things, they are a moving.
One of my co workers is Egyptian. He's crazy excited (and a bit apprehensive) because he is getting on a plane tomorrow for Cairo for 10 days. He said he's been waiting for this day since he was 7 years old.
I wonder how long it will be until the poor and middle-class in the U.S. finally get fed up enough to do something like this.
This is awesome. Interesting to note that much of this can be attributed to Wikileaks (at least, Tunisia anyhow). No surprise at all, Northside, that the dictators propped up by massive US support (yay democracy, right?) are the first to go.
My friend said that FaceBook is the place to be for information. Apparently there are literally hundreds of pages set up following the uprising.
I wonder if Kevin Martin was distracted by the situation in his home country, resulting in his poor shooting night.
Never. You don't understand how bad it has to be for people to rebel. If you are born poor in these countries, there are no opportunities. The biggest thing that could happen here is if we get a legit third party.
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You think this country is the equivalent of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, etc? You need a reality check badly.
glynch hack your account? yours is one of the most facile, and idiotic comments i've read on here in a very long time.
You should probably be more worried that it doesn't end up like what happened in Iran's 1979 Revolution.
Syria is fine (I really wish I couldve gone to Damascus) and I was in Lebanon in November. Just be smart in Beirut. The whole city is completely divided on sectarian grounds so dont do anything to stand out and you'll be fine. I also stood out like a sore thumb since I didnt look like everyone else so I had no problem going into Hezbollah controlled areas of Beirut. That said its probably worse now that the government is collapsing but life always goes on in Beirut in spite of problems with the government.
