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[Jack & Jill Politics] Afternoon Open Thread - Jack & Jill Politics: "Demonstrators in the streets in Iran today utilize allegations of fraud as the tip of their spear, but what fuels those protests goes beyond the official results of an election. That is even more true of Iran than of other recent examples of this post-electoral dynamic because the terms of the election itself were a farce even before the votes were counted: The Iranian "president" and "parliament" - elected powers - are in the end overruled by a Supreme Leader, his "advisors," his "experts," his "Guardian Council" (Ayatollahs, which is to say fundamentalist religious clergy) and the elected leaders live under their veto power on virtually all matters except for some of style and tone and what to eat for lunch.

[The Swamp] CIA's Panetta: Cheney's 'gallows politics': The Swamp: and Bush kept us safe after the chaos of 9/11 which was allowed to formulate under the Clinton/Panetta era tactics of treating terrorism as a civil matter. So now Panetta and Obama are once again coddling the terrorists, treating them like misguided American citizens (miranda rights on the battlefield, FBI securing the battlefield as it was a crime scene, Federal CSI dudes securing body parts and DOJ lawyers overseeing legal technicalities that may arise) so they can be brought to justice in American courts.

[The Haute Critique] Coachella - Day 1 - The Words | The Haute Critique: His age and self loathing compound song after song. With a political jab or an anti-police rant mixed in just to show you that he once had aspirations of being a socially important artist, he comes back to the theme of how far away he is now from where he wanted to be as a youth.

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - Newsnight: From the web team: Friday 19 June 2009: Either a) everyone in the East End is a multimillionaire - they'd need to be to have 5 bed mansions to house an entire Slater clan b) they all have liver disease from being in the pub everyday c) they don't own washing machines or d) the entire programme is a farce.

[open Democracy News Analysis -] Iranians' interrupted freedom | open Democracy News Analysis: The long and winding Suhrawardi Street in central Tehran is named after the 12th-century Persian philosopher who (it is said) tried to blend western Greek philosophy with eastern Persian Zoroastrian and Islamic ideas into a way of thinking that has in many ways shaped the modern Iranian psyche. The anti-establishment Suhrawardi is credited with influence on the desire of Iran's ex-president Mohammad Khatami to launch a "dialogue among civilisations"

[Roger L. Simon] Roger L. Simon » Dear Ayatollah: Obama disses A-jad?: Obama is willfully blind to Iran’s history (much like his willful blindness to Chicago corruption and ethically-challenged appointees), and thinks that if we all link arms and sing ‘We Are the World’, that’ll keep the mullahs from sending a nuke to Tel Aviv or New York.

[Observer Translation Project] Translations.observatorcultural.ro: The director of the Project, Jean Harris, received a 2007-08 ICWT Translation Grant in support of her work on the selection from “The Boars Were Mild”/ MistreÅ£ii erau blânzi from Iarna BărbaÅ£ilor / Men in Winter by Åžtefan Bănulescu, that opened the first issue of The Observer Translation Project.

[Daniel W. Drezner] danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ...: It is downright scary to even think of what could happen if a radical Islamic theocracy with a deluded nutjob of a leader like Ahmadinejad gets hold of nuclear weapons. If that happens Iranians can kiss their dreams of being a free people a permanent goodbye.

[Charting Stocks] Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter | Charting ...: which are conspiracy, including anti-Persian racist comments (which, using your logic, would be the conclusion based on criticism of some Persian people in Iran rigging elections). Using your reasoning in calling anyone a racist who questions anything about a certain country - why do you espouse racism towards Persian people by claiming some Persians have rigged an election?

[Hillary Is 44] Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » Barack Obama's Psychology and ...: And then he turns to someone named Steve Clemmons who just finished a program with Oberstrumfuerer who talked to an unimpeachable source somewhere in Iran who knows everything nobody else does, who says there is a split i the leadership of the Revolutioary Guard, the Supreme Leader has fallen into disfavor, Ahmadinejad is afraid of Iranian society and all these other juicy tidbits. Clemmons–a left wing think tank type fails to tell us who this oracle of wisdom is, and what his partisan motives are but we are supposed to assume he is credible because Clemmons presents him as credible which assumes we believe Clemmons is credible after “just getting off Olbermans Show”

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Man Free Island: And it's especially worse for someone in a non-traditional field, like women in construction. If she called the cops, she'd be blacklisted from every construction company within 400 miles.

[Iri Ani The Witch's Blog] Iri Ani The Witch's Blog - Trade Me: The Novel: I also managed to get a copy of the long deleted Fugs album Tenderness Junction which I last owned in 1967. After 15 tears of searching vinyl shops in UK, America and Europe I was beginning to think I'd dreampt it and Allen Ginsberg, Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders never had really exorcised the Pentagon by organising a crowd to surround it chanting 'out demon out'.

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