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ChaosSamusX posted:Are people really that oblivious to it in the US? I mean, here (in Canada) I've encountered people who are at least fairly knowledgable about it everywhere. And I don't mean just places like university; I also mean places like my parent's church or the thrift store I volunteer at on Saturdays (it's run by a sweet old conservative protestant family, and they all support the protesters). Yes, Americans really are oblivious to this. Even the military. We're still showing ESPN and now we've moved on to kids shows on other channels. There's been a near total blackout of the news channels every time I've been at Aafes and a couple other clubs and restaurants. Occasionally AFN news is on, but it's more bias than Fox and basically only talks about events on military bases that noone really cares about. At home we've got news channels, but out in public, I haven't seen CNN on since poo poo really hit the fan. My parents are faintly aware of some "Egyptian thing" going on (though they have 0 knowledge of why or the depth of it and constantly keep comparing it to an American revolution and the States need to rise up and  ), my husband's family couldn't care less. Most of my friends in the US were unaware of this until I got them watching it.
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AA is for Quitters posted:1) I live in a red state in the midwest. Most of the people here think the entire middle east is full of "terrists" and the entire region should be carpet-bombed. Just to back this guy up, and while I'm aware that yahoo isn't a paramount news source, you'd think there'd at least be a 'Middle East In Revolt' or something, bolded, obviously something interesting and world news worthy, right?:  Click here for the full 1664x903 image. That's the US Yahoo homepage. There's a single link about Bahrain. It's entirely unnoticable.
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Feb 18, 2011 01:33
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Nessus posted:This is all probably driven by a bunch of casino gamblers rolling the dice on oil futures. Such is the glory of the Market. And why I'm sitting at home, chilling out and watching this instead of running my errands. I'm not paying $3.15 a gallon for gas and my car is almost at 1/4th tank. I'm saving it for possible emergency. v  vUnrealistic or not, if the Saudis rise, that's pretty much the entire mid-east toppling point, isn't it?
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Feb 24, 2011 22:59
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