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Cash-starved Egyptians turn on each other
AP/YahooNews ^ | 2/3/11 | TAREK EL-TABLAWY

Posted on 02/03/2011 12:06:28 PM PST by Kartographer

For more than a week, Zaki Abdel-Aziz had been out of work and nearly out of money, joining millions of Egyptians living more on hope than cash as the capital plunged into chaos and the economy ground to a virtual halt.

His wife and three children were hungry, tired and tense. There was just over $17 (100 pounds) in their apartment, and no way to borrow more. Then a chilling call came Tuesday night.

"The guy asked me, 'Zaki, you haven't worked for a week, right? You don't have money?'" Abdel-Aziz, 45, recalled. "He said, 'Come out tomorrow and you'll get 100 pounds and a bag of food. All you have to do is join us against those traitors in Tahrir."

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To: Moose4
My understanding, from hearing this guys report, was that the money was being handed out to the initial demonstrators and not the pro-Mubarak people.
21 posted on 02/03/2011 12:26:44 PM PST by JPG (Work for conservative change like your country depended on it.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah, I’ve seen history get revised but not last weeks news!

Talk about brazen propaganda!


22 posted on 02/03/2011 12:27:30 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Now Shep making comparisons to the American revolution. Apparently Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington were our version of the muslim brotherhood.

I realize that Mubarak is a dictator and no angel but I’ve watched this with my own two eyes and can’t simply rewrite history I’ve seen play out with my own two eyes.


23 posted on 02/03/2011 12:30:59 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

I didn’t realize that the judge was such a tool.


24 posted on 02/03/2011 12:35:03 PM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: GonzoGOP

Ben Bernake and the fraud Federal Reserve money printing is also to blame. The printing presses have caused major food inflation in China, Egypt and other countries.

In addition, Egypt buys most of it’s wheat from Russia and Russia had weather issues and is not exporting this year. Ditto Australia with floods.

I no longer throw stones at other countries. When a supposedly advanced country with 5% unemployment elects a muslim 7 years after 9/11 who’s goal is to destroy America then this country and it’s people have a major flaw.


25 posted on 02/03/2011 12:36:07 PM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: Frantzie

I did not know you had unrest in your country?


26 posted on 02/03/2011 12:37:18 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: paulycy

Everytime leftists get violent here they blame it on the government or the right.


27 posted on 02/03/2011 12:37:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: IncPen

“Egyptian Democracy”

???

When was that?


28 posted on 02/03/2011 12:38:18 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL...did you see him reading the DOE?

Judge Napolitano kind of surprised me too, I guess you’re right about the memo going out.

If I were a betting man, I’d throw a $20.00 down that it is the MB beating these reporters up, seems like a 50/50 bet to me.


29 posted on 02/03/2011 12:38:41 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

And there it is.

Now they aren’t sure if Mubarak is behind it.


30 posted on 02/03/2011 12:43:36 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Oops...DOE = DOI


31 posted on 02/03/2011 12:44:03 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: paulycy

Fox needs to shut shep up and they need to do it now. The crap he is spewing is dangerous. Is he crazy??? He is going on and on with no proof of anything he is saying, just like he did with katrina. I can’t believe this.


32 posted on 02/03/2011 12:44:24 PM PST by MestaMachine (Note: I never capitalize anything I don't respect. Like obama and/or islam.)
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To: MestaMachine
just like he did with katrina.

Are they eating each other yet Shep?
33 posted on 02/03/2011 12:45:45 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: MestaMachine

Agreed.

Right now there is no way in h*ll to tell the good guys from the bad guys. All that is happening is that the 0bama/islamist people are pushing for immediate transition to the MB and the MB is fighting to make it happen. Mubarak is doing his dirty best to keep that from happening.

Right now I back Mubarak, even knowing what that means in terms of what is necessary to put this revolution down and see the country through to elections in September.

0bama made this much, much messier than it needed to be.


34 posted on 02/03/2011 12:50:36 PM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL....Yeah I wish Foxnews would just shut him up...


35 posted on 02/03/2011 12:52:01 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: cripplecreek
So, according to Hillary and Shep, the DOI and 1st Amendment are now “Universal Rights” and required in every society.

Hmmmm, where was that kind of talk when we went into Iraq?

36 posted on 02/03/2011 12:52:38 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: Kartographer

This would be one reason why I wouldn’t participate. With everyone rioting, who is working? Who is planting, watering, harvest, delivering, etc? Then you starve.


37 posted on 02/03/2011 12:52:44 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Kartographer

Once again proving socialist government does not serve the people and it fails everytime it is tried. And yet Obama and the Democrats want the same kind of government here in the USA and they are positive that it will work great here because they are elitists and know what is best for the rest of us.


38 posted on 02/03/2011 12:52:52 PM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Kartographer

Correct. Feeding of the five thousand comes to mind. People are more apt to listen on a full stomach than on an empty stomach.


39 posted on 02/03/2011 12:53:51 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: MestaMachine

Agreed. There needs to be a grassroots effort to flood Fox with messages to jetison Shep. He sux bigtime. Put John Roberts in for him.


40 posted on 02/03/2011 12:57:20 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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