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Iranian Bloggers Arrested
XeRXeS-TCN writes "Reuters is reporting that Iranian authorities have arrested at least six Internet journalists and webloggers in recent days, who face charges of 'propagating against the regime, acting against national security, disturbing the public mind and also insulting religious sanctities.'"
"disturbing the public mind"
talk about no free speach- oh yeah it's IRAN
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." Mark Twain.
...Public Mind Disturbs YOU!
Ceci n'est pas un post.
Now we have 6 people in Iran who wish the we (US) would invade. Won't be long now.
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Joel On Shiites, that is.
Also down:
Joel On Insurgency (relates more to Iraq)
and his forums:
The Business Of Killing
Religious Interface Design (properly modest interfaces
keep 90% of the screen occluded at all times).
Well, I guess we yanked Cat Stevens off of a plane because he was on a no-fly list... having noticed AFTER the plane was in the air... so maybe we oughtn't be vigorously throwing rocks at this one.
The same story, direct from Reuters: Crackdown on Internet Journalists. More detail: New arrest of a journalist contributing to reformist websites. More about Iranian "religious" extremism: Iran cancels music concerts under hard-line pressure. There is political turmoil inside Iran: Iranian vice president quits. More about the social breakdown in Iran: Rights Group: Human Rights Violations on the Rise in Iran.
Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran. It's I-rahn. During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said I-ran, showing how little he knows about the topic. President Bush said "Moo-lah", instead of mullah, the Farsi name for religious leader. Don't underestimate their lack of interest in things that don't make money.
More Bush administration mis-pronunciation from Cheney: "Tolleybon", intead of Taliban, and "Internets".
More about U.S. government corruption: The Bush administration borrows money to give to its friends, you pay it back. Government data shows Republicans are corrupt.
Kerry hasn't done a damn thing either. If he has please point out the numbers of the bills he introduced into the senate to do somethinng about Iran.
Is that anything like breeding terrorism?
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Do I understand this right? In a country ruled by dark age religious nutcases, six people who said something against said nutcases get arrested?
Hmmm, go figure. I would think they'd be tortured or dismembered or the like, but simply arrested?
Those Iatoldyas need to get their act together: They're not going to put the fear of their god into the populace by simply arresting a few wordy wankers.
And they need me to tell them this? Sheesh.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
PS: I sure hope you don't judge the knowledge of all people based on their pronunciation.
I agree that nothing can be expected from the US, but give these people a break! Contrary to popular belief, they can't be the world's police right now. If American forces headed into Iran, it would just mean more death. Pronunciation of Farsi words really has nothing to do with competence, though. I don't like Bush very much, but I don't think his language skills apply to his (less than spectacular) tactical ability. They're probably just a part of his "endearingly southern" political image.
uh oh, a Senator says "Warshington" instead of washington...quick! let's stone him!
That's like saying don't do business with the Chinese because they pronounce "revenue" like "weh-ven-ou".
Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran.
What the hell do you want? Strong words from Bush aren't going to make a bit of difference to the Iranian government.
Instead of trying to thinly veil your hate-rant about Bush and his administration in some pitiful complaint about them not taking a stand on this matter, just be a man and come out with it... get on the old i-hate-bush-bandwagon and ride it to November! YEE HAW!
You are a pretty sad individual to be so consumed with hate and vitriol that someone's accent stokes your hate fire so well. Do you feel the same way about the huge number of immigrants and minorities in this country? Or are their accents ok, as long as they vote Democrat?
...is that the regime waited this long to crack down on the bloggers. Expect much, much worse to come. Hey, after all, this is the regime that executed a teenage girl for the crime of making smartassed comments to religous authorities.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
> More Bush administration mis-pronunciation from Cheney: "Tolleybon", intead of Taliban
Actually, since you insist upon being an ass, his pronuciation is liquistically correct as it more closly approximates the regional intonation, while yours is based upon Western precepts of vowel sounds.
PS: Accent correlates what personal quality? Oh yah - it doesn't.
When you are truly interested in a subject, you quickly learn to talk about it in such a way that you know how to pronounce the words and use them in an appropriate way, in a way that other people use them. For example, since you are commenting on Slashdot, you probably don't say "Internets".
During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said viewers should go to http://factcheck.com/. He was wrong about two things: 1) First, the web site he meant was http://factcheck.org/, of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenburg Public Policy Center. 2) Second, he was wrong about thinking he would get support from Factcheck.org: Cheney Plugs FactCheck. Instead, the web site truthfully points out the legal troubles of the company.
The problem is not that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have accents. The problem with Cheney saying "Internets" and "go to Factcheck.com" is that he is out of touch and uncaring.
Factcheck.org is NOT an honest web site. Instead, it is very slickly dishonest. If you didn't know how to check Factcheck.org's facts, you would not realize that Cheney's involvement with Halliburton is far more corrupt than the first layer of facts cited by Factcheck.org show. Cheney, while he was Secretary of Defense, arranged to change the rules of the Department of Defense so that no-bid contracts would be allowed. Then he arranged that only Halliburton would be allowed to get those contracts.
Here's my answer: You probably don't say "Internets."
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Government data shows Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
Here's my answer: You probably don't say "Internets."
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Government data shows Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
....who face charges of 'propagating against the regime, acting against national security, disturbing the public mind and also insulting religious sanctities.
Homeland Security finally did it! They jailed Matt and Trey!
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Maybe the Tolleybon would like some Toblerones and Bon-Bons to go?
Well, in Wash'tun we need some FOLLEY-BAN to get rid of the bs over there...
This pronounciation biz...
Reminds me of a book author and former higher-up in the (I think) bush version 1 administration:
"...awl-khodda..." He kept damn saying "awl-khodda". That shit kept stalling my heart beat and I suffered thru some 35 minutes of the interview Terry Gross had on him.
So, there's:
-Ayul Kay-duh ('mer'kun?)
-Al-Kuh-ay-duh ('mer'kun?)
-ohl-kyda (Brit/Aussie?)
-Awl-Khodda ('mer'kun?)
- 'merkun
- 'Merikun
- Uh-Mher'-i-kun
- nuclear/new-clear (most normal people)
- new-kee-yuh (Jimmy "the man" Carter)
- nuke-yeh-lehr (strubs)
- nuc'luhr (strubs)
- noo-clear (as if there is an "oldclear" weapon)
- China (most normal people)
- Cheena (A by a true-blue Central Viet male I heard say in his own language (didn't know English))
- Chy-ner (ugggh... there's NO DAMN "R" in dayur)
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Also reminds me now, of my semi-guilt of watching "Team America"... (Well, it makes me think we have a knack for making light or fun of even the most tragic... but I guess it's not as egregious as, "We-yul liv on. We'yul get past 9-eleven. Go shopping; go to the movies; take the kids to Disneyland..." BzzzT, yeh, right... )
Anyway, in two of the songs in "Team America" my mind kept hearing ethic drawls or country twangs in, respectively:
"Uh-hmer-i-kuh... FHUCKK-Yeh!"
and
"FHREE-DUM eeyu-zunt fhreeh, da-yur's uh HEFTY-FHUKIN' FEE...."
I watch so many films with subtitles that in that movie/toon I was seeing subtitles in my mind and parsing the audio in my eyes, and watching the lips to sync my mind, eyes, and ears with something that wa'd'n't on-screen...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"