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Egyptian Tiananmen Square Redux Fail?

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1 minute 23 seconds into the clip below a solitary Egyptian protester stands up to a riot police water cannon in an attempted recreation of the Tiananmen Square tank hold up... And gets blasted squarely in the face. Cause that's how Egypt rolls. Plus, whatever happens in Egypt stays in Egypt right? In other news, the first casualty has been reported, after reports from Khaled Said claim Egyptian police in Suez opened fire live ammunition killing Mustafa Reda Mahmoud Abdelfattah, 20 years old.

 

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Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:13 | 904002 Yen Cross
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  Gold is much too heavy. The family lineage makes much more sense! Lot's of up and coming Chinese would pay top dollar to adorn their GHOST CITY dwellings, with Egyptian antiquities.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:20 | 904023 ghostfaceinvestah
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Add one more to Bernanke's bodycount.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:22 | 904030 LongSoupLine
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and the market celebrates with a "flash pump" at end of day.

No worries though, the SEC is ALL over it.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:32 | 904067 Watts_D_Matter
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I thought the Middle East had a water shortage....

I would shoot them with Bacon Bits...at those Haji's....Best defense against a raghead...

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:40 | 904094 Watts_D_Matter
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Might as well give them SOAP...They smell worse than the camels....

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:43 | 904110 tellsometruth
Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:49 | 904129 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Kewl.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:11 | 904322 Missing_Link
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No.  Wrong metaphor.

"Atlas" in Ayn Rand's book refers to the productive, hardworking, talented people who form the backbone of capitalism, and especially to the genuises who advance us scientifically and technologically.

It most definitely does NOT refer to mostly-unemployed people protesting in an economically irrelevant country.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:37 | 904372 CrockettAlmanac.com
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That wasn't a metaphor it was an allusion to a novel which predicts societal breakdown. Seems apt to me.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:11 | 904178 max2205
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back in the 30's MacAurther had to do the same cept they just wanted their WWI retirement

it never ends well

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:14 | 904189 Atch Logan
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Hello, well, total ignorance.  This has happened in the US several times, in the square in front of the White House. 

Soldiers, miners, just people like us, protesting.  Troops brought in, people hurtl, maybe even killed (I forget).

In Chicago at the late 1960s Democratic Convention, police on horses attacked peaceful protestors, and it was mahem.  Big coverup.

What about the two kids killed at Kent State?

Of course it couldn't happen here???

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 20:09 | 904446 robertocarlos
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Four dead in O-Hi-O.

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:21 | 904204 mackdmorris
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Order out of Chaos -

step 1 - create the necessary environment that fosters chaos.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:28 | 904227 Yen Cross
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 Would you kindly send 4 billion chopstix my way? GDP and all. You understand?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:30 | 904230 americanspirit
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I think that within a few days the Egyptian army will stage a coup and at the end of the day a radical fundamentalist government will be formed led by the Brotherhood. That would be serious bad news for the whole region - the first really big domino. Jordan next.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:32 | 904237 Buzz Fuzzel
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The Black Swan stretches her wings and prepares to fly.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:42 | 904253 americanspirit
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Then maybe an Egypt - Iran axis? Or, even more interesting - Egypt - Iran - Syria.

There - that's more like it. That particular combo could (1) close the Suez canal (2) close the straits of Hormuz (3) gobble up Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq and (4) all attack - wait for it - Israel.

The black swans are getting so thick in the sky that it's going to be hard to avoid getting hit with swan shit - just keep your mouth closed if you must look up.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:23 | 904340 JW n FL
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they want jihad, good... i want crusade... run it!

I am all for stomping the idiots in to crunchy glass.

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:43 | 904382 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Killing in the name of Christ is so 11th century. You'll want to stick with some variation of "they hate Mubarak for our freedom."

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 22:09 | 904754 JW n FL
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i really just want the baptists all gone.. hell fire freaks, spend all day painted abortion signs just to let the babies later starve.

during the crusades, more christians were killed than musilums...

I was fishing with mr. 4 countries are going to surround and attack a nuke power, above.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 22:38 | 904880 CrockettAlmanac.com
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i really just want the baptists all gone

 

Better hope they don't get upgrade to water cannons.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 23:57 | 905201 JW n FL
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they could save everyone all day every day, just spray um with water, a praise be.. and poof, saved! i bet inside that water cannon truck.. naaaaaa?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 23:57 | 905202 JW n FL
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they could save everyone all day every day, just spray um with water, a praise be.. and poof, saved! i bet inside that water cannon truck.. naaaaaa?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:09 | 904319 Missing_Link
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Somehow I have a real hard time empathizing with people in the streets if the only thing they are yelling is "allahu akbar."

"allahu akbar," best I can tell, translates into "I am about to do something extremely stupid," and this is no exception.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:40 | 904376 CrockettAlmanac.com
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I have a real hard time empathizing with assholes which explains why I don't care for you at all.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 20:18 | 904467 BrosMacManus
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something extremely stupid = moscow airport "blast".

guess I'm an asshole too...so be it.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 22:41 | 904890 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Are you responsible for the crimes of all Christians or whatever the hell you are? Oh that's right, you're a self proclaimed asshole.

Wed, 01/26/2011 - 02:00 | 905401 chumbawamba
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Bigot fail.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:30 | 904355 Beam Me Up Scotty
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They need to give all the women white cotton burkas to wear.  Wet T-Shirt contest Bitchez!!

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 20:22 | 904474 Silversinner
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Allahoe akbar just means god is great.Allah is

used by Arabic muslims and christens as I

have been told.I do not know if these people

are jihad driven,could also be a propaganda

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