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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Dictators who care more about their video sets than their people

Al Jazeera English, Live Blog
7.34pm: In case you missed it - the backdrop to Gaddafi's speech - a piece of artwork showing a clenched fist crushing a US fighter jet, in front of the words "Allahu Akbar" [God is the greatest]. 
The man is crazy, a nut.  But a very well armed nut; who's vowed to continue using these weapons to massacre his own people.  This is going on in the world right now. People are fighting it.  And I am still awe-struck by the horror and bravery.  As I have been since mid-January.


As always, the definitive source for all things revolution this winter is the NPR twitter curator, @acarvin

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