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Markji
Posts: 22753 Alba Posts: -4 Joined: 9/14/2007 Member: #1673 USA |
![]() Protests now spreading to Jordan.
Jordan's King Fires Cabinet Amid Protests http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_jordan_cabinet One of the main reasons for these uprisings is the rise in food prices. For a poor person in a 3rd world country, the cost of food for their family is their major expense. When that cost rises, it seriously has a major impact on people and on the economy. If it could only spread to Iran with a peaceful change in their gov't. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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PresIke
Posts: 27671 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 7/26/2001 Member: #33 USA |
![]() http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/opinion/02dowd.html
“We were overly spooked by the victory of Hamas,” said Robert Kagan, a senior Brookings fellow, neocon and Iraq war advocate who co-founded the prescient Working Group on Egypt, a bipartisan group of Middle East experts who wanted to get the administration to press Mubarak to be more democratic. Forum Po Po and #33 for a reason...
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