Friday, May 26, 2006
Translation
This is a partial translation of Beyade67's post regarding the sit-down of at least 1000 students in front of and near the Law school of Tehran University:
At this time, 11 students are reported to have been taken away by authorities.
As a precaution against tear gas from the riot police, students have lit tires up causing a smoke-filled haze to fill the Amir Abbad neighborhood.
A dormitory building has been transformed into a makeshift hospital where many wounded and hurting students are staying and some of them are in terrible shape...
All roads leading to the dormitories and students on campus are now monitored by the authorities and any contact between students outside with students inside is nearly non-existent.
Those of you who are reading this should inform family or friends who live in the Amir Abbad area about gathering first aid materials, water, and any other necessities in case of emergency
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Frightening to think of the rioting that will continue on into the nights during these weeks. I'm sure many of you will remember that these students were only protesting peacefully in front of the Law school, and that they were gathered under the blue (now grey, thanks to the same authorities) skies to voice their concerns over an apparent rift in the school politics.
At this time, 11 students are reported to have been taken away by authorities.
As a precaution against tear gas from the riot police, students have lit tires up causing a smoke-filled haze to fill the Amir Abbad neighborhood.
A dormitory building has been transformed into a makeshift hospital where many wounded and hurting students are staying and some of them are in terrible shape...
All roads leading to the dormitories and students on campus are now monitored by the authorities and any contact between students outside with students inside is nearly non-existent.
Those of you who are reading this should inform family or friends who live in the Amir Abbad area about gathering first aid materials, water, and any other necessities in case of emergency
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Frightening to think of the rioting that will continue on into the nights during these weeks. I'm sure many of you will remember that these students were only protesting peacefully in front of the Law school, and that they were gathered under the blue (now grey, thanks to the same authorities) skies to voice their concerns over an apparent rift in the school politics.
News
TEHRAN; protesters gathered in front of the Law school in Amir Kabir, reportedly showing their displeasure with the "resignation"s of some professors at the school (and for other reasons that associate Ramin Jahanbegloo's arrest to them).
beyade67
beyade67
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Spamalot I
Monday, May 22, 2006
Steps You Can Take to Help Save Nazanin
Steps you can take to save her life:
What you can do to help Nazanin:
- Sign and spread this petition, started by the former Miss Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam.
- Help spreading the story about Nazanin! Tell everyone you know, family, friends and others who might be interested. Direct them to this web page and ask them to take action for Nazanin.
- Contact the United Nations Office of Human Rights on this email-address and ask them to protest. You can also contact them via this page.
- Contact newspapers, TV-channels, blogs and other media and ask them to report this story. US residents can contact local or national media via NOW.org
- Write about Nazanin in your own blog, homepage, or in internet forums or chat rooms you frequent.
- Put a link to this page in your email signature or add any of the links on this article to your emails.
- Write the Iranian Government Heads (see list below) or the Iranian embassy of your country , and demand that Nazanin`s death sentence is commuted immediately. Here are some addresses:
Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, (Leader of the Islamic Republic)
The Office of the Supreme Leader,
Shoahada Street,
Qom,
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Fax: 00 98 251 7 774 2228
(mark "FAO the Office of His Excellency, Ayatollah al Udhma Khamenei")
______________________________________________________
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (Head of the Judiciary)
Email: irjpr@iranjudiciary.org
Ministry of Justice,
Park-e Shahr,
Tehran,
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
_________________________________________________________
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President)
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
(Or via website) www.president.ir/email
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
(Or via website) www.president.ir/email
The Presidency,
Palestine Avenue,
Azerbaijan Intersection,
Tehran,
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Fax: 00 98 21 6 649 5880
Palestine Avenue,
Azerbaijan Intersection,
Tehran,
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Fax: 00 98 21 6 649 5880
Here is how you can contact the local and national media in USA.
This is email address of Amnesty International USA:
admin-us@aiusa.org
* Contact politicians/representatives and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in your country and ask them to pressure Iran to commute the death sentence and free Nazanin. US representatives can be can be contacted via NOW.org.
Iran Focus-Violence, poverty and abuse led girl, 16, to gallows - Human Rights - News
Iran Focus-Violence, poverty and abuse led girl, 16, to gallows - Human Rights - News
The case of Atefeh Rajabi, 16 year old girl condemned to death for having had sexual intercourse with men out of wedlock. The judge, Rezaii hung her himself.
What a surprise.
The case of Atefeh Rajabi, 16 year old girl condemned to death for having had sexual intercourse with men out of wedlock. The judge, Rezaii hung her himself.
What a surprise.
Save Nazanin Petition
Save Nazanin Petition With 100,000+ Signatories!
Nazanin (her last name has been withheld) will be executed by hanging for the crime of self defense against three men who attempted to rape her (aged 17 at the time) and her cousin (aged 16 at the time). She is charged with murdering her attacker- having allegedly stabbed him during the assault.
Where are these so-called attackers and what punishment do they get?
You know what, she killed her potential rapists? Give her a goddamned medal!!
Nazanin (her last name has been withheld) will be executed by hanging for the crime of self defense against three men who attempted to rape her (aged 17 at the time) and her cousin (aged 16 at the time). She is charged with murdering her attacker- having allegedly stabbed him during the assault.
Where are these so-called attackers and what punishment do they get?
You know what, she killed her potential rapists? Give her a goddamned medal!!
Saturday, May 20, 2006
FrontPage magazine.com :: The State Department’s Dead Parrot by Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPage magazine.com :: The State Department’s Dead Parrot by Kenneth R. Timmerman
Here's your answer Farid.
Here's your answer Farid.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Truth, Life, and Political Honesty
Truth, Life, and Political Honesty by Mark Glesne and "The California Homosexual Activists' Assault on Schoolchildren"
I've read and commented on the article written by Ben, posted on Mark's blog and it was significantly devoid of flaming rhetoric against homosexuality and against their ways until you read about....oh, two sentences into the article and land on this clause from the article about the Bill which reads:
Would the school governing boards really use Allen Ginsburg, cartooned into a children's book, as an educational tool? Yes, and why should he not? I do remember that Thomas Jefferson was lauded as a great man of virtue, intelligence, and patriotism, and yet, if we want to go down that road of infamy, he was the owner of hundreds of slaves, and had an affair with a mullatto slave of his...That was not "traditionally moral" if you ask me, and yet, we don't see books destroying his reputation or slathering mold over his patriotism, we just see the great accomplishments of his time, as children should see in Allen Ginsburg, or perhaps, Shakespeare (if anything). And yes, I believe that homosexuals have a long road to trudge through, and mistakes have been made, accusations have been flung, fingers pointed, and yet, they are victims of extreme prejudice in our country even if the media ignores this fact.
I've read and commented on the article written by Ben, posted on Mark's blog and it was significantly devoid of flaming rhetoric against homosexuality and against their ways until you read about....oh, two sentences into the article and land on this clause from the article about the Bill which reads:
According to the California Senate Judiciary Committee, "The bill also would direct the school governing boards to include only instructional material that accurately portrays the cultural, racial, gender and sexual diversity of our society, and, in instructional material for the social sciences, include the contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to the economic, political and social development of California and the United States of America." Grade level is not specified in the bill, so presumably, third graders may be learning about the sexual proclivities of Allen Ginsburg.
Would the school governing boards really use Allen Ginsburg, cartooned into a children's book, as an educational tool? Yes, and why should he not? I do remember that Thomas Jefferson was lauded as a great man of virtue, intelligence, and patriotism, and yet, if we want to go down that road of infamy, he was the owner of hundreds of slaves, and had an affair with a mullatto slave of his...That was not "traditionally moral" if you ask me, and yet, we don't see books destroying his reputation or slathering mold over his patriotism, we just see the great accomplishments of his time, as children should see in Allen Ginsburg, or perhaps, Shakespeare (if anything). And yes, I believe that homosexuals have a long road to trudge through, and mistakes have been made, accusations have been flung, fingers pointed, and yet, they are victims of extreme prejudice in our country even if the media ignores this fact.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Bacheha
Bacheha migan ke vaghti miri balla shahr, bayad roosarito bekeshi aghab, rogue bezani be labat (ya jelle bezani be moohat), oonvaght beri ecstasy bekhori ta maghzet as gooshat darad.
Bacheha migan ke vaghti miri payine shahr, bayad mooye rooye labat bezari por sheh (dokhtarha va pesarha ;)), tond tond ra beri, va jam beshin doreh bababozorg ta begoozeh va hameh dast bezanan..
Bacheha migan ke vaghti miri payine shahr, bayad mooye rooye labat bezari por sheh (dokhtarha va pesarha ;)), tond tond ra beri, va jam beshin doreh bababozorg ta begoozeh va hameh dast bezanan..
Bichareh Pesarah:
1)Age tip bezanan beran biron migan baki gharar dari?
2)Age lebasaie mamoli beposhan migan to aslan salighe nadari.
3)Age ziad began doset daram migan baz che naghsheie to sarete?
4)Age nagan doset daram migan paye kase dige vasate.
5)Age ziad beheshon zang bezanan migan etemad nadari?
6)Age ye modat zang nazanan migan mesle inke saret kheily shologhe.
7)Age to khone ziad bekhandan migan chie mast shodi?
8)Age nakhandan migan che margete ashegh shodi?
9)Age sham bekhan migan hamash be fekre shekameshe.
10)Age sham nakhan migan malom nist ba ki sham koft karde
2)Age lebasaie mamoli beposhan migan to aslan salighe nadari.
3)Age ziad began doset daram migan baz che naghsheie to sarete?
4)Age nagan doset daram migan paye kase dige vasate.
5)Age ziad beheshon zang bezanan migan etemad nadari?
6)Age ye modat zang nazanan migan mesle inke saret kheily shologhe.
7)Age to khone ziad bekhandan migan chie mast shodi?
8)Age nakhandan migan che margete ashegh shodi?
9)Age sham bekhan migan hamash be fekre shekameshe.
10)Age sham nakhan migan malom nist ba ki sham koft karde
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Tina Bergsd
Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Interview with Afghan Warrior
Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Interview with Afghan Warrior from Farid Pouya
It's important to help out your neighbor in times of need, especially in times of growth and construction as Afghanistan has been going through since the Afghan-US War started more than four years ago.
Many of the Afghan population have very little personalized voice in the Western media, and even in the world view. They seem to filter into news articles, or press photos, at times frozen in their tiny worlds- impermeable to the mind of the West, and at other times we see opinions about their loya-jurga, or the lowly women's movement.. Rarely do you see a personal, insightful side of Afghan from within Afghanistan. Like many blogs, Afghan Warrior shines through his knowledge of the universal language (English) and expresses everything about Afghanistan that any individual could want to know.
His optimism is a fertile land for other Afghan bloggers to grow in, even if internet access and learning English are two of the lower modern advances in Afghanistan.
It's important to help out your neighbor in times of need, especially in times of growth and construction as Afghanistan has been going through since the Afghan-US War started more than four years ago.
Many of the Afghan population have very little personalized voice in the Western media, and even in the world view. They seem to filter into news articles, or press photos, at times frozen in their tiny worlds- impermeable to the mind of the West, and at other times we see opinions about their loya-jurga, or the lowly women's movement.. Rarely do you see a personal, insightful side of Afghan from within Afghanistan. Like many blogs, Afghan Warrior shines through his knowledge of the universal language (English) and expresses everything about Afghanistan that any individual could want to know.
His optimism is a fertile land for other Afghan bloggers to grow in, even if internet access and learning English are two of the lower modern advances in Afghanistan.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Google News
The last news stub that has been updated on Google News when searching "Ramin Jahanbegloo" was from Payvand News, Iran dated May 9, 2006.
What's going on here?
NemaNy.com
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Warrior of the Light Online
Warrior of the Light Online
I knew when I first read The Alchemist that it was a book about myself. The young boy wanders as a shepherd of a flock that cannot speak to him, comfort him, or believe him but simply follow his cane. And after so many years, laying there between day and night as a young person does, he suddenly was frightened into his path. And on the way down that path, he became a new person, and learned about the joys of looking with life in one's eyes rather than at life, or to life.
Anyway, it was a journey that many have taken with his book, but I felt as if I aged with it, suddenly, and saw myself years later looking back and thinking, "so, this is the face of suspense." I was very young when I read his book, and stole it from someone, and kept reading it.
We should all keep these memories close, and look at them as he says to look at life around us- walk with a spoon full of oil, see your surroundings, but always remember to keep that oil from spilling.
The kind of writer that doesn't disappear with the cover once you turn the page into the book.
I knew when I first read The Alchemist that it was a book about myself. The young boy wanders as a shepherd of a flock that cannot speak to him, comfort him, or believe him but simply follow his cane. And after so many years, laying there between day and night as a young person does, he suddenly was frightened into his path. And on the way down that path, he became a new person, and learned about the joys of looking with life in one's eyes rather than at life, or to life.
Anyway, it was a journey that many have taken with his book, but I felt as if I aged with it, suddenly, and saw myself years later looking back and thinking, "so, this is the face of suspense." I was very young when I read his book, and stole it from someone, and kept reading it.
We should all keep these memories close, and look at them as he says to look at life around us- walk with a spoon full of oil, see your surroundings, but always remember to keep that oil from spilling.
The kind of writer that doesn't disappear with the cover once you turn the page into the book.
Ramin Jahanbegloo: Rights Advocate Calls Iranian Scholar's Arrest A Troubling Sign (RFE/RL)
Ramin Jahanbegloo: Rights Advocate Calls Iranian Scholar's Arrest A Troubling Sign (RFE/RL)
The webpage maintained by Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies has an excellent article here. Don't accept Fars News' face-value explanations for his arrest.
The webpage maintained by Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies has an excellent article here. Don't accept Fars News' face-value explanations for his arrest.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Pentagon Strike
Pentagon Strike From Signs of the Times
Explaining, in very little detail if you ask me, how there was no gigantic boeing flying into the Pentagon building.
The lengths they go to blue photos, create hollywood hype, and then dump a load of bs that I have to clean off the surface of my thoughts. Visit the website and bask in the conspiracy.
Explaining, in very little detail if you ask me, how there was no gigantic boeing flying into the Pentagon building.
The lengths they go to blue photos, create hollywood hype, and then dump a load of bs that I have to clean off the surface of my thoughts. Visit the website and bask in the conspiracy.
The United-Ninety Three Transcript
This is a copy of the United Ninety-Three flight's unfateful flight more than four years ago. This page is an excerpt that I chose, which as in all the other excerpts, was cut from the actual 31-minute voice recording from the airplane.
I hope that those who passed away and succeeded in throwing off the plane's flight path will rest in peace, even though everyone here still remembers that day and will not forget. I wanted to post this up because many people have not heard it but need to read it. Need may be a strong word, they think they may find something important about the minds of the hijackers in it- and they will.
Wicked Adventures Travel - Your destination for the ultimate wicked adventures!
Washington Prism
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Ramin Jahanbegloo's Amnesty International Appeal
I have been blocked from my Eponym website at this time, but I hope to have it up and running by June of this year.
Most of the concentration of the news from Iran has been concerning the threat of war, future crude oil bin prices, and the 18 page letter from that-person-whom-nobody-can-pronounce-his-last-name-on-cnn has sent to President Bush here.
But, there has been more writing on the fate of Ramin Jahanbegloo, which has been hidden from the public for nearly a week now. More writers continue to spread his story around; the mysterious arrest, the even more mysterious causes; and continue to allign forces with such groups as Amnesty International, the Iranian Student Organizations, etc... to support the truth in this ordeal.
At this point in time, I've gotten another article, linking to a group blog called "Freethoughts" run by many devious writers who have much to say about Ramin and his background as well as his future.
Most of the concentration of the news from Iran has been concerning the threat of war, future crude oil bin prices, and the 18 page letter from that-person-whom-nobody-can-pronounce-his-last-name-on-cnn has sent to President Bush here.
But, there has been more writing on the fate of Ramin Jahanbegloo, which has been hidden from the public for nearly a week now. More writers continue to spread his story around; the mysterious arrest, the even more mysterious causes; and continue to allign forces with such groups as Amnesty International, the Iranian Student Organizations, etc... to support the truth in this ordeal.
At this point in time, I've gotten another article, linking to a group blog called "Freethoughts" run by many devious writers who have much to say about Ramin and his background as well as his future.
KentuckyFriedCruelty.com
Now here is an in-depth, knowledgeable article that points out the faults within the system of mass-food chain companies like Kentucky Fried Chicken...or KFC as is known in the U.S
I've linked to the FAQs page, which has very clear information on the basic plans that PETA would encourage KFC to implement. At one point in time, there was a rumor going around on blogs and radio talk shows that KFC had chickens that had very little bones, no beaks, no tails, and were just tube-fed machines waiting to be slaughtered.
At this point in time, it would not be the fault of the consumers, who will continue to consume meat whether or not new regulations are imposed on some of these horrendous meat markets. However, the companies do have the resources to stop their cruel treatment of these poor chicken populations.
It's just like that automotive industry, that the meat industry will whine and moan and cry at the doorstep of the Capitol, and then, when it is forced to change policies, NOTHING HAPPENS... No stock market crashes....no loss of shareholders.....etc.etc.etc.
I've linked to the FAQs page, which has very clear information on the basic plans that PETA would encourage KFC to implement. At one point in time, there was a rumor going around on blogs and radio talk shows that KFC had chickens that had very little bones, no beaks, no tails, and were just tube-fed machines waiting to be slaughtered.
At this point in time, it would not be the fault of the consumers, who will continue to consume meat whether or not new regulations are imposed on some of these horrendous meat markets. However, the companies do have the resources to stop their cruel treatment of these poor chicken populations.
It's just like that automotive industry, that the meat industry will whine and moan and cry at the doorstep of the Capitol, and then, when it is forced to change policies, NOTHING HAPPENS... No stock market crashes....no loss of shareholders.....etc.etc.etc.
