Why things will probably get worse in Egypt before they get better

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Friday January 28, 2011 · 5:54 PM PST

2011/01/28 · 17:54

There are a lot of reports of the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates being involved in the Egyptian riots. This should come as no surprise, since the Muslim party has become the beacon of opposition in Egypt despite its illegality. There are concerns that if a revolution were successful, the result would be a regime based on religious principles rather than liberal-democratic values. Given the political history of the Middle East, such a prognosis is fair. But such regime change is not necessarily something to be feared.

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Tuesday August 03, 2010 · 6:15 AM PDT

2010/08/03 · 06:15

I'll try stay out of the analysis and keep to the hard news guys. Wish me luck. Below is what I've shamelessly plagiarized from google news:

Israeli troops clashed with Lebanese soldiers on Lebanon's southern border. Reports of casualties are, as always, sketchy, with figures ranging from 3 Lebanese soldiers and a journalist dead [link]. The article also claims that a senior Israeli officer was killed.

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Iran, syria, and who knows else? to your shelters, people

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Monday June 21, 2010 · 10:13 PM PDT

2010/06/21 · 22:13

Tell me if the following situation sounds familiar: A supposedly progressive party gets voted in during elections, full of promises to reverse the regression of the past decade. The election results are in, and it's a landslide, yet instead of seizing their mandate, the party drifts towards the comfortable centre whence it is harrassed on both sides by left and right. With a steadily increasing list of embarrassments, the critics get louder and the public gets more frustrated until the progressive incumbents are staring down a potential shitstorm of an election and losing out to a no-more-competent conservative party. 10 points if you guess the country I'm describing.

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Tuesday June 01, 2010 · 7:18 PM PDT

2010/06/01 · 19:18

Whatup, from Sydney.

Last night I went to a rally to condemn the disgusting raid on the Freedom Flotilla that killed 12 and injured many more. On such short notice, it was an impressive turnout, at over 4000. Especially since most of those people lived in the city's outer suburbs, without much by way of convenient transport. At the rally, I saw an outpouring of such fierce emotion, I could smell how explosive the crowd was. To their credit, the crowd kept their anger in check, expressing it mostly through slogans. Yet there was one thing that I found worrying. The Flags

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