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polystyle

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Yeah , Reza was on the tube the other day ...
Others are coming out -none for the regime.

News crawl : 'Rev Guard threatens to sue Web sites' - oh my !
 
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crackerjack

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Half a million in Tir Sq today, reckon TThe Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/17/iran-election-protests-day-five

http://twitpic.com/7mbhc

also,
In a sign of the divisions in Iran's leadership, the interior ministry today ordered an investigation into an attack on university students allegedly carried out by militia and police. A day earlier, Iran's influential speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, condemned the assault on the dormitory of Tehran University.
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vimothy

vimothy

yurp
More on the "Northern Tehran Fallacy":

I do not carry out research in Iran’s cities, as do foreign reporters who otherwise live in the metropolises of Europe and North America, and so I wonder how they can make such bold assertions about the allegedly extensive rural support for Ahmadinejad.

Take Bagh-e Iman, for example. It is a village of 850 households in the Zagros Mountains near the southwestern Iranian city of Shiraz. According to longtime, close friends who live there, the village is seething with moral outrage because at least two-thirds of all people over 18 years of age believe that the recent presidential election was stolen by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

When news spread on Saturday (June 13) morning that Ahmadinejad had won more than 60 percent of the vote cast the day before, the residents were in shock.
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vimothy

vimothy

yurp
Can anyone tell me the whole of the quote (it's a hadith) where Muhammed says that three things are good: "water, greenery, and a beautiful face"?
 
vimothy

vimothy

yurp
josef k. said:
There are two forces in the world. Socialism, and capitalism. The first is good, the second is bad.
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Moreover, the world is bad, and therefore capitalist. The people who rule world (residing in an underground bunker and known as "neo-liberals") are bad as well. These people dislike the Iranian regime. Therefore the Iranian regime is good, and also socialist. Or something. See also, Chavez, Castro, Lenin, etc, etc. It's all about having the right enemies.

You just fucking know that this is going to be painted as some kind of reactionary counter-revolution by the Zizek reading blogregore.
 
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scottdisco

rip this joint please
vimothy said:
You just fucking know that this is going to be painted as some kind of reactionary counter-revolution by the Zizek reading blogregore.
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i have noticed - in some outlets prior - a tendency to correctly condemn elite & middle-class undemocratic action against democratically elected govts (mentioning no names J Steele in the Guardian cough-cough), whether attempted coups in Venezuela or thuggery in Thailand for instance, but i have also occasionally noticed, at the same time as this bourgeois action is being undertaken and correctly condemned by the writer in question, that same writer will give the incumbent govt an overly generous assessment; as if they are incapable of holding more than one important thought/position at any one time.

re the footy, someone had a word at half-time AFAIK as the bands weren't there in the second.

but, yes of course, an immense, lovely gesture. big, big up.
 
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