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News & ArtsMonday, June 15, 2009
International This is What A Scared Regime Looks Like
Posted by Eli Sanders on Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Iran today, via PicFog and HuffPo and Sullivan:
President Obama will reportedly make a statement on the protests and violence there later today.
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I'm surprised you guys haven't liked to The Big Picture. Good photos there, too, as always. By "good" I mean "kind of terrifying", of course.
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liked = linked. The pics in this post are on there (at least two of them are), along with many others...
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My God! we all know that this is the sort of thing that happens during freedom struggles but it's still hard to see so much bloodshed.
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See if Ahmadinejad turns up for the SCO meeting in Yekatarinburg later today. If he stays home, he's worried.
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Reports are that the Moulas are being pushed out too by the military - I don't think this is a revolution - this is a coup.
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Does any one else get squirmy from Andrew Sullivan's uber-earnesty? I'm just too cynical I think.
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I'm sure Obama will run through a long list of moral equivalencies between the protesters and the regime while remaining aloof and personally superior to both and impressing upon them how their only hope is to do exactly what ever he, in his vast and God like wisdom, dictates.
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Reminds me of Kent state -
Youth are the key - a giant per cent of the Iranian population is under 35, and they want to go modern. Remember, women drive, go the university and on the whole are far from Iraq or Saudi Arabia -
And the CIA is helping and other covert orgs as well.
Youth are the key - a giant per cent of the Iranian population is under 35, and they want to go modern. Remember, women drive, go the university and on the whole are far from Iraq or Saudi Arabia -
And the CIA is helping and other covert orgs as well.
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@13, yeah, a little. He's passing on some information, sure, but from his tone you'd think he was leading the revolution, not sitting on his ass six thousand miles away. Ooh, he changed his logo to green!
Same with Twitter -- yeah, it's cool that Iranians are using it to spread the word, but for every real message of interest there are ten thousand shitheads messaging "wowz this is so cool!", and blocking the interesting and useful stuff out.
It's very early days yet. It is by no means a given that this is, in fact, some kind of revolution or even a seriously significant event, and not just a big protest that's about to get mercilessly squashed.
Same with Twitter -- yeah, it's cool that Iranians are using it to spread the word, but for every real message of interest there are ten thousand shitheads messaging "wowz this is so cool!", and blocking the interesting and useful stuff out.
It's very early days yet. It is by no means a given that this is, in fact, some kind of revolution or even a seriously significant event, and not just a big protest that's about to get mercilessly squashed.
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Don't know if this link has already appeared on slog, but Big Picture has some good ones up:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06…
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06…
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so the only reason the stranger is heavily covering this as opposed to the other countries with repressive violent governments or bloody conflicts is because of twitter? we needed twitter to care about the rest of the world?
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@20 - Twitter isn't needed to care about the rest of the world, but it helps. I'm sitting in British Columbia at the moment. Without twitter, I'd have read a few articles, maybe checked for updates to find out what was going on. The immediacy is one component. It also brings more people to caring about the world around them and gives them a sense of interconnectedness with others that they will never meet.
As for what slog covers - the amount of information that gets out is key to how thoroughly something can be covered. It's not like the Stranger has correspondents in every country to cover breaking news. So yes, twitter can affect what is covered through sheer volume of current information.
As for what slog covers - the amount of information that gets out is key to how thoroughly something can be covered. It's not like the Stranger has correspondents in every country to cover breaking news. So yes, twitter can affect what is covered through sheer volume of current information.
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Well, at least you are spreading your agenda using dead adults as opposed to dead babies. Super!!
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Scrolling from the bottom of the page to the top, my first reaction was "ooowwwhh! (sounds like "owe" but more drawn/drawled out)" Had to steel myself to look at the bottom picture again.
By way of comparison, the rage of 8- and 4-years ago in this country seem so impotent. Makes me think of equal and opposite newtonian physics.
Thanks for posting this.
dp
By way of comparison, the rage of 8- and 4-years ago in this country seem so impotent. Makes me think of equal and opposite newtonian physics.
Thanks for posting this.
dp
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Whatever happens PLEASE don't fuck with the OIL supply. These weekends of gassing up my truck, boat, and dirt bikes are killing me. Think that gunned down protester feels bad, try skitubing kids all day with gas at some horrid post-revolution FIVE DOLLARS PER GALLON. Go to hell protesters.
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