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2013-08-18 Africa North

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 Brotherhood provokes security forces, uses high losses to gain public favor. US, EU pushing both sides to rein in talk

The name is Al Sisi, not Rabin.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-18 04:51|| 2013-08-18 04:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Tamarodians, please ignore our feckless leaders. We come in peace.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-18 09:50|| 2013-08-18 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 All this politics and they cannot grow enough food. They have the whole friggin Nile for water. Egypt is like the Humbolt Sink except it's money not water.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-08-18 11:55|| 2013-08-18 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Still awaiting your Reykjavík report AP.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-18 14:22|| 2013-08-18 14:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Iceland is doing pretty well. People there seem to have more of a sense of values, like we used to. At a visit at a good friend's home, she had the TV on to the forming of a new government. She was interested in what each individual member had to say. Very different from the disgust, contempt, and cynicism we in the US have for our ~~paid for in cash~~ elected leaders.

Iceland does also have a strict policy on immigration, unlike Sweden and Norway, which are reaping the whirlwind of their multiculturalism.

They are big into geothermal, but they do their homework before they start on a big new field.

The country is not utopia, but they are not stupid enough to give away their fiscal sovereignty to the EUniks.

So it was refreshing to get away from the US politics for a while....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-08-18 15:15|| 2013-08-18 15:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Interesting perspective. Always wanted to visit there. Thanks !

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-18 16:00|| 2013-08-18 16:00|| Front Page Top

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