Saturday, 19 September 2009

Kids kill Panama 'Montauk monster' by lake



PHOTOS have emerged of a mutant creature which “sparked fear and confusion” by climbing out of a cave and approaching a group of children in Panama. The photos appear to show the creature as a slimy, hairless humanoid. Already dubbed “Gollum” by the UK tabloids, the 150cm tall creature emerged from a cave behind a waterfall on the shores of a lake near the small town of Cerro Azul and is drawing comparisons to the so-called "Montauk monster" found on the shores of a New York beach last year. The children claim it started climbing over rocks to get to them. They defended themselves by throwing rocks and killing it.

The children told their parents they had thrown the body back in the lake. When the parents went to investigate, it had been washed up on the shore.
One of the children told The Sun: "I have only seen that creature once before - and it was in the Tolkien film."

@ 'News.com.au'

Meet the man who inspired Glenn Beck

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him.

On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America's new breed of angry conservative. Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, sporting the now familiar tea-bagger accoutrements of "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirts, Revolutionary War outfits and Obama-the-Joker placards. The male-skewing, nearly all-white throng had come to denounce the president and what they believe is his communist-fascist agenda.

Even if the turnout wasn't the 2 million that some conservatives tried, briefly, to claim, it was still enough to fill the streets near the Capitol. It was also ample testament to the strength of a certain strain of right-wing populist rage and the talking head who has harnessed it. The masses were summoned by Glenn Beck, Fox News host and organizer of the 912 Project, the civic initiative he pulled together six months ago to restore America to the sense of purpose and unity it had felt the day after the towers fell.

In reality, however, the so-called 912ers were summoned to D.C. by the man who changed Beck's life, and that helps explain why the movement is not the nonpartisan lovefest that Beck first sold on air with his trademark tears. Beck has created a massive meet-up for the disaffected, paranoid Palin-ite "death panel" wing of the GOP, those ideologues most susceptible to conspiracy theories and prone to latch on to eccentric distortions of fact in the name of opposing "socialism." In that, they are true disciples of the late W. Cleon Skousen, Beck's favorite writer and the author of the bible of the 9/12 movement, "The 5,000 Year Leap." A once-famous anti-communist "historian," Skousen was too extreme even for the conservative activists of the Goldwater era, but Glenn Beck has now rescued him from the remainder pile of history, and introduced him to a receptive new audience
@ 'Salon'

Yesterday in Tehran


استقبال از راهپيمايان روز قدس با گاز اشک آور

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Bloody HELL!
I had forgotten that Shane MacGowan looked like this when I first met him!

'Exile' making sure the big boys give you the correct news

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Nice to see that the 'NY Times Lede blog' will admit when it is wrong!
Though speaking as one one of those anonactivist bloggers...

Tehran today...continued








Iran_TranslatorPeople were savagely beaten on Fatimi Avenue and many were arrested. Greens hid under cars to escape secforces #iranelection

Friday, 18 September 2009

Iran continued... (keep refreshing page)





Still can't confirm any clashes or protest in Qom. Word's out everywhere, but no concrete proof. #iranelection

Mousavi today in Tehran



The attack on Khatami today





Iranian updates (keep refreshing page)


و این گونه روز قدس سبز شد





Ahmadinejad was giving a live interview on IRIB's Channel Two from the
scene of Quds Day. As he spoke, viewers could clearly hear the chants of "Ahmadi, Ahmadi, resign, resign" - this all over live TV.

Apparently Ahmadinejad was aware of the chants and their effect on the interview. He is said to have become flustered and quickly wrapped up the interview.
@ 'The Guardian'

Today's chants in Iran

Margh bar Roosiyeh

Death to Russia

Roosiyeh Haya Kon, Keshvaremoon ro raha kon

Russia, leave our country alone!

Na Ghazeh, na Lobnan, janam fadayeh Iran

My life belongs to neither Gaza or Lebanon - but Iran

Che Ghazeh, che Iran, margh bar zaleman

Whether in Gaza or in Iran, death to tyrants

Karoubi dastghir beshe, Iran ghiyamat mishe

If Karoubi is arrested, great chaos [armageddon] will ensue in Iran

Dorooqghoo, dorooqghoo, shast o se darsadet koo?

Liar, liar, where’s your 63%?

Basijiyeh vagheyi, Hemmat bood o Bakeri

The real Basijis were Hemmat and Bakeri

Neshoon dadim dobareh, ma hameh ba ham hastim

We showed once more, that we are together

Dorood bar Montazeri, salaam bar Sanei

Our respect and greetings to Montazeri and Sanei

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page)

Iran_TranslatorIn Rasht's Mikaeel Sqr, plainclothes men attacked protesters, injuring many inclu a woman and arresting 5. #iranelection

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In Rasht people also came out in support of Mousavi and chanted "no Gaza no lebanon..." #iranelection



شعار سلام بر منتظری، درود بر صانعی در روز قدس



Protesters chant 'death to dictator' at annual Tehran rally@'CNN'