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Iran Election: The Fallout. Shit+Fan
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Or possibly unaware that Russia supplies Iran with arms.
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Hey, Acoustic Kitty would have worked if:
1.It wasn't New York.(The cat was actually quite good at it's job, and trained to follow people with russian accents)
2.They pulled up next to the target.
3.They used a pug or shin instead
But instead a fucking cab driver had to ruin the greatest plan since developing the three million dollar poison that caused Castro's beard to fall off on TV.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Also, more calls from people to get Obama more involved. I liked the sniper comment -- one shot, one kill, Obama is waiting for JUST the right moment.
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Too late for that. Russia (or rather, its predecessor) also supplied Iraq with arms even when we were on good terms with that nation. It supplied, and continues to supply, Kuwait, Syria, and the UAE with arms--all countries with wildly different political alignments. Hell, there are even theories that it supplied Israel with arms during one of those lulls of peace that followed the 6-Day War. Really, that's like asking which countries Iran has supplied with oil--it's not a short list. If you want to connect Iran with Russia, you need to find something unique, not "all the countries Russia and its predecessor ever sold arms to".
Is anyone else as completely befuddled as I am by the media's response? It seems like just a few months ago, no news channel would shut the fuck up about Twitter and how amazing a communication tool it was. They immediately began using it to try and communicate with viewers (to the point where I was completely sick of it and thought Twitter was worthless).
Then THIS happens and Twitter exceeds what anyone probably expected of it and the media COMPLETELY IGNORES IT. 3 days to even acknowledge what was going on.
How in the hell?
First they noticed it.
Then they started using it and no one noticed.
Now they're pretending it's not happening so they can remain relevant.
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All thing being equal, this is probably one of the best stances we could hope from Israel on the matter; I hate to think of the political capital Ahmadinejad would have been able to draw from an Israeli statement supporting Mousavi.
That's a very specific role.
Government people, mostly on the right, making idiots of themselves on twitter is verifiable and thus news worthy. Even if inane.
Using twitter to contact users and get feed back, is useful, even if a bit silly.
Risking looking like a complete fool by emotionally reacting to unverifiable posts on twitter that could be complete BS, and even if not heavily slanted by own personal bias, not a good idea for a news organization "trying to be" reputable.
That's all well and good, but did you hear what Letterman said about Sarah Palin's daughter!
In all seriousness, I don't watch cable news but the coverage I've seen on network news and PBS has contained some passing mention of twitter's role. It's not something they seem to be playing up though, as there's no real way to substantiate what comes off of there as far as they're concerned.
They certainly seem to be talking about it now. I mean, they weren't before, but it is being discussed now.
Then again, I have near zero idea what Twitter is, so I could be completely underestimating the depth of it, and thus, how effectively they're covering it.
I really don't care much about Twitter, so long as they keep talking about Iran--really, from any aspect, Twitter included, it's better than nothing.
Too logical and intelligent of a hiring practice for government. Must be a fake!
Oh, I wasn't supporting the conspiracy theories in any way. It is highly unlikely that Russia is involved. However. Russia did intend to supply Iran with the S-300 anti-aircraft system (one of the best, if not the best anti-aircraft system in the world). The S-300 would have been intended to counteract Israel's air superiority.
It's not that the conspiracy theories are correct but rather that they are based on the relationship between the two nations. Not some weird "Russians are the new Jews!" explanation.
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Israel seems to be letting events play out without saying much of anything. Like most nations, actually. But you're right, they're bound by the same political realities as the US here.
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He must be some knid of android.
Both Russia and the US need to sell arms. We have more allies that have more cash wanting to buy. Thus, Russia needs to sell arms, and technology, to those people who are not buying them from us.
The relationship of arms deals often now has little to do with your allies, and more gobbling up the market left.
A Vermicious Knid, perhaps?
I think there was just a lag time. Which shouldn't really surprise anyone, and isn't even necessarily a downside to "traditional media." There should be a place in our information ecosystem for both instant information and somewhat distanced aggregation and analysis.
I think you and Synthesis fail at recognizing my point. Here it is again, for clarity:
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Not to mention the whole "look at the Achmedinejad victory rallies! They're wearing green for victory!" bullshit.
The BBC has been outstanding.
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both bbc and kpbs have been great
Guatemala.
Now a few days later it's pretty obvious that Khameini is obviously still in power, Ahmadinejad fled to Russia for some sort of meeting (seriously, who the hell plans a meeting with foreign leader LESS THAN TWO DAYS AFTER AN ELECTION? suspicious!) and Khameini has claimed twice that Ahmadinejad won.
What this made me realise is that events have transpired so fast. A few days ago we were all pretty much "wuh? eye-ran?" and now we're discussing the finer points of the position of the Council of Guardians, we're almost in tears every time Change_For_Iran tweets something and we're checking out hot Iranian girls in every picture we find.
Plenty of African and south American nation's governments during the cold war. Pretty much any little country whose leader, democratically elected or not, looked just a bit too commie for us. Worse than the overthrowing of foreign goverments was the people they often installed. Half the time they were brutal dictators, the other half they were completely unhinged brutal dictators. Seriously, we are talking eating people, building temples to deities no one has worshiped since the Roman Empire went all jesusy unhinged.
If so, that could be really significant in terms of relations in the area. If the Iranian people develop a grudge against their country's puppets, that could end up with the new government vastly weakening ties with them. Israel stands to gain a lot out of this.
can someone that actually has a twitter account ask change_for_iran why they dont take advantage of this lull in activities and barricade the dorms? or have they tried?
Supposedly tonight they're trying to rally people around the dorms to (peacefully) prevent the raids.
Hamas and Hezbollah.