[AlAhram] Ankara is the foreign capital that has expressed the angriest reaction to what it called a 'military coup' against a democratically elected president
Turkey is very angry about the dismissal of Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to recognise the new rulers of Egypt, while his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, warned against a "domino effect" in the other countries of the Arab Spring (Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen) if the international community endorses the "coup."
Only Turkey has so far qualified the removal of Morsi a coup. Ankara, through its Minister of European Affairs, Egemen Bagis, even asked the Security Council of the United Nations
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I can think of a few more "democratically elected presidents" who should be replaced by generals.
[AlAhram] Free elections are a cornerstone of any democracy, but in Egypt they face serious challenges, not least illiteracy. Is it time to say honestly, 'No to free elections in Egypt'?
While many Egyptian intellectuals and politicians are scrambling to present various recipes for a roadmap for the future, everyone agrees on one thing: the need to "hold elections," both parliamentary and presidential, within the next few months.
This consensus is logical on the outside since frequent free elections are a cornerstone of building any democratic system. Elections are also the only alternative when it comes to a mechanism for the peaceful transfer of power.
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I think folks are unwilling to give up civil liberties when everytime we see the farse that is TSA and we see the government isn't seriously trying to stop terrorism because they can't even name any person/country/religion that might be worth extra scrutiny.
The Western political class never had the will to do as much as hurt the enemy's feelings.
Rather than fight an open and declared violent enemy they'll build a police state that sets its sights at the entire populace of Western nations, excluding Muslims of course.
The likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham are tough and hawkish, all right.
Shroud of Trayvon headed for Smithsonian? Probably not, but what a hook. WashPo via Drudge, of course. Mainly an excuse for first posting attempt. Please instruct/edit/delete/ban as necessary.
I deleted extraneous blank lines. Otherwise, perfectly done. And extra credit for the original poetry!
-- trailing wife
Excerpt:
[Washington Post] In the moment that the hoodie -- Trayvon Martin's hoodie -- appeared in Courtroom 5D in Seminole County, Fla., it was as if the air sluiced out the door. There was a breathless, aching stillness.
Prosecutors displayed the dark gray sweatshirt that Martin wore on the last night of his life in an enormous, rectangular, thickly three-dimensional frame. The hoodie lay suspended between clear plastic sheets with its arms spread wide inside a cross-shaped cutout, set starkly apart from the brilliant white of the matting. It might easily have been mistaken for a religious relic, even as it became a singularly evocative entry in a long inventory of indelible courtroom artifacts from O.J. Simpson's ill-fitting gloves to Lorena Bobbitt's emasculating kitchen knife. Prosecutors lifted the framed hoodie awkwardly, teetering toward the jury.
"I get goose bumps just thinking about it," says Michael Skolnik, who sat next to Martin's parents on that morning, the day before the Fourth of July. Skolnik, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and a member of the Trayvon Martin Foundation board, felt as if he were in the presence of something as consequential and iconic as Babe Ruth's bat or the Declaration of Independence. "It's like this mythical garment," he says. 'Twas very far away indeed
From Washington the deed was done:
That creepy cracker drew a bead,
And killed our savior's only son.
The bloody hoodie's scarcely dried;
Alike the tears of Trayvon's peeps;
Let's waste no time lest hate subside
For white Hispanic cracker creeps:
On this green Mall, all in the dark,
Let's meet and play the knockout game;
No Limit N---a, History's arc
Will ever echo with your fame.
Sizzurp, that made that hero dare,
To push and punch and bring affray,
Relaxate us and ease our care
As we remember baby Tray.
#7
Y'all have forgotten that MLK was an attention Whore, very similar to Jesse Jackson, I lived in Montgomery at the time, and he was no better than any other Race Baiting Hustler.
Hardly someone famous, more Infamous.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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