Super -- thanks for posting.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ … 63,00.html

There were two ranks of police on motorcycles, two policemen per bike, dressed in body armor that made them look like starship troopers

http://www.juancole.com/2009/06/stealin … ction.html

My first thought was that it was stupid to claim to have won by such a wide margin, but it turns out that if you don't get a majority then there's a runoff, and I'm sure they didn't want to do that.

sofaking wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Neo-cons are pulling for the dictator, of course

Neocons are experts at Febreezing turds.

He supports everything they do. He's xenophobic, misogynistic, and ruled by religion.

What's not to love?

His foreign policy is essentially indistinguishable from Reagan's, if you just swap around the names of a few countries.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/t … orted.html

I do not endorse the accuracy of this piece, but found it interesting nonetheless.

Last edited by orangeplus (2009-06-15 01:20:42)

What's Persian for "Guido Douchebag?"

Last edited by orangeplus (2009-06-15 16:19:23)

Banjo wrote:

My Persian cat is so pissed off at me right now. She was meowing all this shit about Bonsai Kitty being totally made up by the Jews. I went berzerk and called her a "fuckin' sand tigger." I also stopped pointing her water bowl towards Mecca and it's now pointing towards Dollywood. A lot of hate at the crib right now.

LOL Banjo!  Where have you been?

"Tough new restrictions on the foreign media..." coming a bit late, I think.

More newsy news pieces.

choad wrote:

Banjo wrote:

Prostate cancer is big business now, so my job went from clinical work to doing presentations.

Presentations? How many different ways are there to say, "Bend over!"?

Hmmm... I can think of severa- wait. What were we talking about?

I would like to be wrong about my first assessment and I still feel that I'm not. but...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 … 600571.htm

orangeplus wrote:

I would like to be wrong about my first assessment and I still feel that I'm not. but...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 … 600571.htm

I haven't ever seen the Iranian security authorities behaving fairly before and it's quite impressive.

That does sound like a hopeful spark.  Thank you for posting the piece.

Also thanks to the balls-of-steel Aussie who's still there reporting.  Oi oi oi.

Nothing new, but decent summary.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/iran_numbers/

Like many others, she is enraged by the "khutba" (Friday sermon) of the Ayatollah Khamenei which will now open the doors for a Tiananmen in Tehran. Saturday will likely be the bloodiest day so far, if the brave crowds decide to come out. Another friend from Tehran cried on the phone, after he had been to Tehran University to pray and hear the Ayatollah's sermon. His last words to me before the mobile phone connection was cut off were: "Tomorrow there will be blood."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parvez-sh … 17903.html

Last edited by orangeplus (2009-06-19 15:41:35)

I was really waiting for the Hammer Pants flash mob to show up in that one.

almost over

http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2009/ … ting.shtml

orangeplus wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/20/AR2009062000256.html

Oooooooo, somebody's playing with fire here

It is coming across Twitter/FB that this was a set up.  Pics soon I understand...

jesusluvspegging wrote:

False flag?

The story mentions Press TV, Iran's government-approved English language station. This is their web site.

It will not be televised

http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6978.htm

Good article by Joe Klein in today's TIME magazine

Which may be exactly what the Supreme Leader — who is the real power in Iran, with control over the military, the judiciary, foreign policy and the nuclear program — had in mind when, on June 13, he prematurely certified the phantasmic Ahmadinejad landslide. In the days before the election, reformers and principalists — including several Ahmadinejad advisers — told me that negotiations with the U.S. were likely, regardless of who won. "But it might be easier for the Supreme Leader to proceed if the tough guy is re-elected than if Mousavi is," said Mohebbian, the prominent principalist. "The negotiating team will be jointly decided by the Supreme Leader and the President. The Leader, who has great doubts about proceeding, will want a tough bargainer."

In truth, the reformers I spoke with seemed as unyielding as Ahmadinejad, if more politely so, when it came to discussing what Iran would be willing to concede in negotiations with the U.S. They were adamant on Iran's nuclear enrichment program, which is permitted for peaceful purposes under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. None of them, except Mousavi, was willing to acknowledge that weaponization of uranium might be in the works and therefore be a subject for negotiation. (Mousavi told me that if such a program existed, it would be negotiable, but he didn't say, and may not know, that it actually exists.) The reformers were unanimous in the belief that Barack Obama's conciliatory words were not enough, that the U.S. had to take palpable actions before talks would be possible. I asked each of them what steps Iran was prepared to make for peace. The answer was always the same. "It's natural that the first step should be taken by the Americans," said Karroubi, the most progressive of the four presidential candidates. "We didn't stage a coup against your elected government," he said, referring to the CIA's participation in the 1953 overthrow of the Mohammed Mossadegh government. "We have not frozen your assets. We don't have sanctions against you." (Of all the reformers, only Mousavi seemed to think that Obama's acknowledgment of the 1953 coup in his Cairo speech was a "positive step.")

Frankly, six of one, half dozen of the other...


Has anyone watched the coverage on CNN and FoxNews today?  The latter even brought in Shepherd Smith...Meanwhile, MSNBC put out the "Gone Fishin'" signs and showed crime docs (as usual)...

"Anonymous...started Tweeting open Iranian proxies, as well as started a forum offering advice and help to Iranian protestors as how to surf securely and avoid censorship. They are also telling Protestors to turn off their cell phones as the government can track them via BT antenna, find, and arrest them later. A link was also posted of proxies that the Iranian Government is using to get around their own firewalls."

http://iran.whyweprotest.net/