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How to keep the foreign press from reporting? Throw their asses in prison on bogus fucking shit (Original Post) cali Jun 2014 OP
That will surely get the tourism-industry going again for Egypt. DetlefK Jun 2014 #1
K&R woo me with science Jun 2014 #2
thanks, wmws. I'm finding this so awful. cali Jun 2014 #3
Every American should be enraged by it. woo me with science Jun 2014 #4
or bomb the hotel malaise Jun 2014 #5
No excuse for this. woo me with science Jun 2014 #6
Kick woo me with science Jun 2014 #7

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. That will surely get the tourism-industry going again for Egypt.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 12:11 PM
Jun 2014

"Thousands of death-penalties in mass-verdicts! Journalists jailed without evidence presented at the trial! Come to Egypt and spend an unforgettable vacation there!"

Seriously. About a month ago I saw a commercial for vacations in Egypt for the first time in years. AFAIR it was about $300 (flight from Europe) for a week or so. Amazingly cheap. (Nice beaches. Famous historical sites.)

But do they really think, people will want to go on vacation in a military-dictatorship?

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
3. thanks, wmws. I'm finding this so awful.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 01:22 PM
Jun 2014

and have since the coup. I think Al-Sisi makes Morsi look like a paragon of democratic ideals. and last year when I warned of this, I got so much shit from the O devotees and the conservadems here.

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