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The sole comment on the page: “First!”

I’m slowly advancing from compiling “Fast News Share” items that are about a day old to ones that seem to have had less than half a day on the web and even some that were posted within the hour.

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Probably, this evening, I will shut down the desktop for a day but how long, I wonder, before I can relay events in real time, the only lag involved becoming the time it takes to acquire the location of a recording and push it through the blog.

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Egypt, I expect, will fracture between the modern, secular drift with interest in practical matters, especially the restoration of the economy and good relationships with the world at large — that’s good for the tourism sector, for sure — and the Muslim Brotherhood and the kind of political narcissism that seldom does much beyond bragging about its own greatness while stiff-arming its constituents for compliance, loyalty, and obedience.

Whether for or against the autocrat, the criticism of a regime is there in the violence it has inspired on its own streets.

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