Christiane Amanpour Has An Epiphany In Cairo After Meeting The Protesters

I think this is worth adding here, too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x312744">Peter Bergen Explains Why The Muslim Brotherhood Are Unlikely To Take Over Egypt

a bit old for babies ? :shrug:

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but its a girls name.

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be someone who viewed the 'looting and rioting' of Egypt as a disruption. Right out of gate he was putting George Noory straight. Noory: What about the looting???????? Guest: Listen, we have to relize where these reports are coming from, there's indications these were not looters and rioters. I'm TOTALLY paraphrasing, but just want to get the message across.

The guy has been to Egypt a lot over the past 19 years and, like us, is excited for this change. Noory asked "If you could go to Egypt tomorrow, would you?" Guy says = Immediately. I would go and be in the middle of it and stand with the people!

At the end Noory was saying 'you've given me a lot to think about and now I think this might be a GOOD thing.

C2C has millions of listeners I think - or at least a million I'm sure - so the 'right' message went out to whomever was listening!

I'm rambling - think I'll go back to bed. Don't you sleep? :hi:

I do think that the American people are waking up a little since the Iraq War propaganda era. I think a lot of people learned not to believe everything they see on the MSM.

However, I did watch CNN this weekend with two elderly relatives who are very interested in what is going on in the world.

Having only seen foreign coverage since December when the Tunisian revolution began, most of it on Al Jazeera which was excellent, I immediately noticed the slant in the CNN coverage and was literally screaming 'no, that's a lie' Lol!

If I had not been there, and explained to them what has been going on for weeks now, they would have come away thinking that terrorists are going to take over Egypt and they're destroying one of our respected friends in the ME and looting the country while they're at it. They would have no way of knowing the facts, the history of what is going on. Shoddy, stupid, insipid reporting at the least, and at the worst, nothing but propaganda, just like Iraq.

So, I'm glad that there is some truth-telling going on ~

I mean real news. Not this bs they call news. I am glad you were there to correct the 'news' for your relatives. honestly, I don't know much about what's going on in Egypt. Only on here do I find out what is going on really since I avoid tv news. It's such bs and I just end up yelling at the tv and walking away anyway.

What's that?

Seriously, I've had about 20 hours sleep in the past 5 days.

Was the guy a British writer called John Bradley (I was so impressed I made a note of his name)? I heard him being interviewed on TV about a book he wrote that predicted a revolution in Egypt and everyone mocked him at the time. He said he had been living in Turkey with regular people for about 10 years to do the research.


Which time zone are you in? :hi:

don't seem all that frightened of being in Egypt right now.

The last thing the fox wants is for the hens to begin telling everyone the fox will eat their asses.

The fox has pretty much swayed the hens to stay calm, stay seated and "Look Over There..>>>" CHOMP

That started off with just the middle class students quite small in number.

This is in effect an entire population.

Iran during that revolution, I would say it is progressing in much the same fashion, minus a hostage crisis, prolonged violence, and the only opposition leaders being the clergy. While the students in Iran started the uprising, the people there definitely supported it in large numbers and went to the housetops at night and to the streets to help out. The villagers came to the cities to join in. This whole progression definitely is bringing back memories.

the Cuban Revolution which started on the mainland , after they'd finally reached there from Mexico , with just 15 or so of them. Quite remarkable really.

I assume the prolonged violence to which you refer in Iran being rounding up SAVAK.

I had a friend who was working with the Tehran Oil Co. Were you with them ?

because at the time I was married to an Iranian man. There was plenty of violence on the streets at the time. The militias had formed and the military took a while to come to the side of the people. There was a period of time when there were pitched gunfights on the streets between hangerson to the regime and the people. It was definitely not a peaceful transition, but does bear some similarities to what is going on in Egypt now.

I thought from your opening line you were going to say you were in Cuba too !

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I mean, you say minus the violence and hostages and religious leadership it is the same. One could say that about many things. Giving to charity is much the same as being robbed, minus the violence. In both cases, one gives one's money to another with nothing expected in return. Much the same?
Sorry, I just see what you see as similar, and I'd like to.

As I detailed here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=290024&mesg_id=290024

a little short for a stormtrooper?