Friday 26 June 2009

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رتره زیبای ندا به نام "چشمها" اثر Tim OBrien

She wanted to test her husband.
She knew exactly what to do:
A pseudonym to fool him.
She couldnt have made a worse move.

She sent him scented letters,
And he received them with a strange delight.
Just like his wife
But how she was before the tears,
And how she was before the years flew by,
And how she was when she was beautiful
She signed the letter

All yours,
Babooshka, babooshka, babooshka-ya-ya!
All yours,
Babooshka, babooshka, babooshka-ya-ya!

She wanted to take it further,
So she arranged a place to go,
To see if he
Would fall for her incognito.
And when he laid eyes on her,
He got the feeling they had met before.
Uncanny how she
Reminds him of his little lady,
Capacity to give him all he needs,
Just like his wife before she freezed on him,
Just like his wife when she was beautiful
He shouted out, im

All yours,
Babooshka, babooshka, babooshka-ya-ya!
All yours,
Babooshka, babooshka, babooshka-ya-ya!
All yours,
Babooshka, babooshka, babooshka-ya-ya!

Thanx Bella for a wonderful arvo...

Iran continued

The War of the Ayatollahs@TehranBureau

In the Digital Iran, Censorship and Surveillance Merge

By Bob Ostertag

(Photo: A demonstrator holds a photo of dead icon Neda Agha Soltan during a protest of the Iranian election results in Union Square June 24, 2009 in New York City. By Mario Tama/Getty)

Thanx Fifi

List of killed and arrested

Green Brief 9

HERE

Mousavi blames organisers of 'rigged' Iranian poll for bloodshed during street protests

A reliable twitterer says that a group of mourners went to Neda Agha-Soltan's grave today but were turned back by security forces, who consisted of the usual mix of riot police, plain clothes cops and basiji militiamen. The twitter says they detained people who were carrying green signs or refused an order to disperse.

The following email in Farsi we received today (Wednesday 24th june). It is written by a doctor from “Rasul Akram” hospital in Tehran who says that some people were killed not only by one bullet as they found two or three bullets in some bodies, close to one another, showing that shooters used barrage shooting against people and not only a single shot. A 68 year old man had 3 bullets in his body, two on his left shoulder and one in the left side of his stomach. The doctors of the “Rasul Akram”hospital say they had been faced with 38 people killed during last week’s protests. Apparently, police took the corpse of the dead bodies out from the hospital and carried them away by truck. Most of their families still do not know if their children have been killed. Besides, among the corpse there were some 15, 16 years old kids.

According to the email, the crew of the hospital protested in the street next to the hospital giving out the information about the violence to the people. The photos attached are from this demonstration which appears to have taken place earlier this week.

من پزشک هستم و در بیمارستان رسول اکرم در خیابان ستارخان مشغول به کارم. دیروز تعداد 38 نفر به دلیل اصابت گلوله در اورژانس بیمارستان ما پذیرفته شدند که 10 نفر آنها کشته و بقیه زخمی بودند. الگوی زخمها حاکی از این بود که مردم به رگبار بسته شده اند زیرا بسیاری از مجروحین دو یا چند گلوله خورده بودند و محل اصابت گلوله ها نیز بسیار نزدیک به هم بود، به عنوان مثال پیر مردی 68 ساله در دو ناحیه کتف چپ و سمت چپ شکم مورد اصابت قرار گرفته بود و یا پسری 18 ساله از ناحیه کف و مچ دست هدف قرار گرفته بود. شرح حال اخذ شده از مجروحین و نیز الگوی زخمها نشان می داد که تیر اندازی از پشت بام انجام شده است، مثلا جوانی 32 ساله از کمر مورد اصابت قرار گرفته بود ولی گلوله از جلو و از قسمت ران خارج شده بود.

بنا به گفته مجروحین تیر اندازی به طور ناگهانی و زمانی آغاز شد که سیل جمعیت در حال عبور از کنار یک پایگاه بسیج در شمال میدان آزادی (اول بزرگراه محمد علی جناح) بود. به گفته مجروحان یک اتومبیل در مقابل درب آن پایگاه به شکلی پارک شده بود که کسی نتواند با شکستن در وارد آن شود و این امر نشانه برنامه ریزی قبلی برای تیر اندازی می باشد. به گفته شاهدان حدود 4 نفر بسیجی از پشت بام این مرکز به طور ناگهانی اقدام به تیراندازی نمودند به نحوی که حتی کسانی که قصد نجات زخمی ها را داشتند خود نیز مورد اصابت قرار می گرفتند. یکی از مجروحین می گوید در حالی که پشت یک اتومبیل پناه گرفته بودم زخمی شدم.

در این مرحله مردم خشمگین به اتومبیل پارک شده در مقابل این پایگاه حمله کرده و آنرا به آتش می کشند ولی نمی توانند وارد پایگاه شوند. در ادامه پلیس ضد شورش به همراه گروه های دیگری از بسیجیان برای پراکنده کردن مردم خشمگین از راه می رسند که در این مرحله نیز در قسمت هایی از طول خیابان جناح (به عنوان مثال در نزدیکی مترو) عده دیگری نیز کشته و زخمی می شوند.

طبق اطلاعاتی که امروز صبح از پزشکان بیمارستان امام خمینی کسب شد، به این بیمارستان نیز در طی دیشب 38 کشته که با گلوله مستقیم کشته شده بودند منتقل شده است.

لازم به ذکر است که در بامداد امروز پلیس امنیتی تمامی جنازه ها را به زور از بیمارستان تحویل گرفته و آنها را با وانت به محل نا معلومی منتقل کرده است و خانواده بسیاری از آنان حتی از کشته شدن فرزند خود نیز بی خبرند. در بین کشته ها و مجروحین تعدادی کودک 15 و 16 ساله نیز دیده می شوند.

امروز ساعت 9 تا 11 صبح دانشجویان و پزشکان بیمارستان رسول اکرم در خیابان مجاور این بیمارستان تجمع کرده و به توزیع برگه هایی حاوی اطلاعاتی پیرامون تعداد کشته ها و زخمی ها اقدام نمودند. این تجمع در نهایت با حضور پلیس ضد شورش به پایان رسید.

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با احترام

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@RevolutionaryRoad

Ha!

Michael Jackson - 'The King of Pop' is DEAD!

Remember him this way!

BBC
NME
LA Times
Richard Williams @ The Guardian

There are two things to say about him. He was a musical genius; and he was an abused child. By abuse, I do not mean sexual abuse; I mean he was used brutally and callously for money, and clearly imprisoned by a tyrannical father. He had no real childhood and spent much of his later life struggling to get one. He was spiritually and psychologically raped at a very early age - and never recovered. Watching him change his race, his age, and almost his gender, you saw a tortured soul seeking what the rest of us take for granted: a normal life.

But he had no compass to find one; no real friends to support and advise him; and money and fame imprisoned him in the delusions of narcissism and self-indulgence. Of course, he bears responsibility for his bizarre life. But the damage done to him by his own family and then by all those motivated more by money and power than by faith and love was irreparable in the end. He died a while ago. He remained for so long a walking human shell.

I loved his music. His young voice was almost a miracle, his poise in retrospect eery, his joy, tempered by pain, often unbearably uplifting. He made the greatest music video of all time; and he made some of the greatest records of all time. He was everything our culture worships; and yet he was obviously desperately unhappy, tortured, afraid and alone.

I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours' and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.

I hope he has the peace now he never had in his life. And I pray that such genius will not be so abused again.
@DailyDish

Thursday 25 June 2009

Ms. Fifi - even that didn't work, maybe something to do with me and a lack of sleep. Will speak to you tomorrow!!!

I am SO tired

As I have said before, it has only been me with my crappy computer in 'teh'ran' that has managed to bring you up to date (reliable) information, well before the big boys got hold of it...but I am tired and have to crash...
so...
later/

THE HUFFINGTON POST
THE GUARDIAN
DAILY DISH
NIAC
THE LEDE
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
#gr88
#iraninternational
(@ twitter)

ANONYMOUS IRAN

ETC

Finally a message to all the people following this blog in Iran:
Any pictures or words would be gratefully accepted here at Exile...

Monastreet @ gmail dot com
twitter/exilestreet

Later/

Girlz With Gunz # 59

Memories of a Beatnik

(Thanx 'Mogodonia')
PS: If I ever fail to credit, please let me know, just means I have done a blanket trawl and forgot where they all come from!
Regards/

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#46)

Iran unrest to dominate G8 summit

طلفا فردا هیچ کس لباس سبز به تن نکنید. با لباس های عادی به بازار ها بروید چون سبزپوش ها تحت نظارت قرار می گیرند. اگر کسی از شما چیزی بپرسد، بگویید که مصروف خریداری هستید. به بازار ها بروید، هیچ چیزی خریداری نکنید و با هم صحبت کنید. اینجوری شهر ها شلوغ و بازار ها بسته می شوند و جان شما نیز در امان می ماند.

حالا وقت آن رسیده که به جای قوای فزیکی با قوای اقتصادی مظاهره کرد. من نمی خواهم که بگویم که این حرف ها را به من زده. لطفا شما هم به کسی نگویید.

هیچ جای ترس نیست. کسی پرسید بگویین که ما به خریدار آمده ایم و بس.

ستاد موسوی: هدف این است که تهران باید درب بازار ها و کار بسته شود. ملیون ها تهرانی باید به بازار برود و چیزی نخرد.

ستاد موسوی: به وظیفه هایتان نروید. هر صبح ساعت نه بجه با دوستان و خانواده به سوی بازار تهران حرکت کنید.

ستاد موسوی: سر از فردا ما دیگه همه مان میرویم به بازار تهران از ساعت نه به بعد. حکومت هر چه بکند، بازار ها بسته خواهند شد.

ستاد موسوی: دیگر بالای حکومت انرژی خود را ضایع نمی کنیم. باید روش خود را تغیر دهیم.

لطفا این را تویت کنید به همه دوستان تان یکی از دوستان ما در تویتراز طریق آستون هیپ این مشوره ها را برای تظاهار کننده گان رسانده:

In a meeting with members of the parliament, Khamenei against defended the elections and said that the Islamic regime and people would at any cost not be forced! He added that in the current situation, he has emphasized the rule of law. He continued to say that if there was no law, then dictatorship will prevail.

He added that if the law was not followed than things will get complicated, thus, the law must be adhered. He said that if not followed, then the legality of any elections in the future will be questionable.

He added that the law must pass down from the top down, the people at the top must adhere to the law and if they don't, then the ordinary people cannot be expected to do so.

He called on the representatives of people in the parliament to cooperate with the government and not make it difficult for them to run society day to day. He added that this doesn't mean the government shouldn't be criticized if it is wrong, but rather if there is anything, it shouldn't be taken up with the government in a 'friendly' way.
Excerpts from Khamenei's speech to parliamentarians today, June 24 in Tehran.