The UKGuardian's take HERE.
sounds like someone was watching too many movies and decided to become a "do it yourself" terrorist, or else it was another FBI sting.
(I remember when a big mouth good old boy was acquitted for a "plot" to blow up a dam in Pennsylvania. He got off, because as one local noted, everyone knew he was all talk, no action...and, as one person put it: it was common knowledge that if you met a stranger in a bar who offered help you blow something up, it was probably an FBI agent trying to get you into trouble.)
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a lot of the Wall Street protesters are liberal arts students from prosperous families who studied at ivy league universities and who now find they can't find jobs to pay back their huge debts.
I have a solution for them: Come to Manila! Most of our cousins study here for their nursing or medical degrees....
Factoid of the day: 100 Iranian DENTAL student in the Philippines are suing for discriminatory practices. From Wikipedia:
Iranians were the third-largest group of 9(f) student visa holders that year, amounting to 2,980 persons, behind Chinese and Koreans.[9] Among these are a number of Iranian medical students in Cebu, who in 2010 fell victim to the a tragic and widely-reported bus accident which led to an inquiry by the Iranian embassy
The accident was a tour bus that fell off a road into a chasm...alas not an uncommon occurrence here.
in comparison, almost half a million Iranians and IranianAmericans live in America, many of whom fled since the revolution (and some fled the Shah). The Persian diaspora includes Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians...
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Syria is still a hot spot, but no one in the US seems to worry about it.
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Pakistan being unfriendly? No problem...the TransSiberian railroad is near by, and they are discussing reopening the silk road pass to China...
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Uncle Orson discusses the hard heartedness that makes some of us dislike Republicans....he even throws the Bible at the anti immigrant religious right....
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Egypt is running out of food...which explains the pogrom against the Copts
and the weapons being smuggled into Egypt from Libya...
Austin Bay discusses here.
Turkey/Iraq model or back to the seventh century?
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