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When The News ” Becomes The News ” ?
Jul 4th
I’m tellin’ ya folks, I have been so busy watching and reading the news, that I have been a real slacker when it comes down to blogging about it ! I mean, where to start when there are so many simultaneous events ? It’s pretty difficult to prioritize when things of major importance are popping all over the globe !
The Mainstream Media are totally focused on the Black Hole that is Iran. By “Black Hole” I mean a huge void in what we know, and can learn, about events ‘on-the-ground’ in the wake of this phony election, or about the Mullah’s attempts to cover-up their violent backlash.
Even the lack of news is Major News, because usually when events are blazing in the Middle-East, (or Anywhere else), there is at least one Western Nation who’s reporters or correspondents are allowed some access to the arena, be it a theater of War, Natural Disaster, an anti-establishment movement, whatever.
The Major headlines, or hooks, about the loss of life, oppressive tactics by government controlled vigilante groups, etc, are all about this first ever event that is being reported in the main through the “Social Networking Sites” such as Facebook, Twitter, Utube, along with CNN’s Viewer’s “iReports”. Those unique resources, it’s strengths and weaknesses is being discussed more than the actual tragic events being reported !
As a long-time blogger, I can’t deny that I’m finding these electronic resources fascinating. Although I would like to be able to spend more time getting information about North Korea, Pakistan, or even the tragic D.C. Train Wreck, I can’t stop watching the train-wreck that is our struggle to gain a coherent view of the Iranian situation through these new outlets. Right now, I’ve got some other work to do on my other neglected Blogs, But, I will be back tomorrow with some updates on the Pakistan / Afghanistan situation, the latest idiocy from Kim jung Il, and his wacky brother, Menta Li Ill.
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What a Crazy Week That Was !
Jun 1st
Man-Oh-Man, I don’t know where to start! There’s just so much going on in this nutty world right now, that ordering the priorities of what to write is way too difficult !
Let’s start with “The Child-Molester Tyrant” of North Korea. He’s got his panties in a wad again, apparently he’s not getting enough attention, so like the little girls he “dates”, he’s throwing tantrums of a major sort. First of all he set-off another alleged Nuclear explosion, which was strong enough to be sensed by seismographs in Japan and Russia. When that didn’t garner enough attention, he followed up with some missile launches, and those combined actions got the world community to call Security Council meetings at the UN, and even got China to issue some condemnations too.
People like myself like to condemn groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban for using human shields, and holding hostages and arms caches in schools and mosques. but this guy is a second-generation terrorist, who is holding an entire starving nation hostage against the world’s justice. The really sad part is that the poor people are so brainwashed with paranoia and so afraid to think for themselves, that when a few million of them fall victim to a retaliatory attack their lifetime of living in an isolated “Hermit Society” will cause them to blame the outside world, in particular the United States.
Back home in the states, President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor has unleashed some latent insanity among the Republicans. Never mind that many of these same politicians have easily approved her for past Federal Judiciary posts, all of a sudden she’s a “Reverse Racist”, a judge known to “Legislate-from-the-Bench”, and is a surefire vote to overturn Roe-V-Wade, because she’s a Catholic !
Over in Iran, someone is finally giving them a dose of their own medicine. Last week a mosque was bombed, and just yesterday, a bomb was found onboard a plane bound for Teheran, flying out of the city of Ahvaz, capital of the Oil rich province of Khuzestan, a place where the Arab population has long complained that they do not get a fair share of the income from their province’s oil output, and claim that the central government in Teheran ignore their needs. To quickly defuse the anger about the mosque bombing, three men were quickly hung for the attack ! Look for the same fast action on the attempted airplane bombing.
The three men who were hung were just accused of bringing in the explosives, and of course, the Ayatollahs have accussed the US for planning the attack on the mosque, which was said to have killed 25 and injured scores of others. Here is a good report on the situation from CNN:
A judiciary spokesman in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan told the state-run news agency IRNA that Haji Noti Zehi, Gholam Rasoul Shai Zehi and Zabihollah Naroubi had smuggled into the country the explosives used in Thursday’s bombing in the Shia mosque of Amir al-Momenin. Before the executions, Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Hamidi said: “These three traitors, who smuggled in the explosives and put them at the disposal of a terrorist played a major role in the murders,” IRNA said. The three were hanged in public just before the funerals of the people killed in the mosque Thursday. “The three were charged with waging war (against God), corruption on earth and activities against the state. They were convicted and they had confessed to their crimes, and their role in smuggling explosives into the country had been proven,” Hamidi told IRNA. Reports on the number of casualties varied in Iranian reports. Some local agencies said more than 20 people were killed and 125 were wounded in the bombing. He said the three had been arrested a few days before the actual bombing and their role in bringing in the explosives had been proven. The judiciary spokesman in Zahedan added: “Immediately after the mosque explosion, the cases of the three men were referred to a team from the judiciary who spent thirty hours investigating it. The three men were convicted of the charges after the due process of the law, including a state-appointed lawyer to defend them, was observed and the defendants were found guilty of all charges.” The spokesman added that the three men had been accused of several other crimes, including direct participation in a bus bombing three years ago in Zahedan and at least two other bombings, IRNA said. Hamidi said that the three men had also been involved in four hostage taking incidents, had planned eight other hostage taking and terrorist operations that had been discovered by the police before they could be carried out. * Deadly blast at Iranian mosque “This file is not closed yet. They (men) were only a part of this plot, more culprits will be identified and punished in the near future,” the judiciary spokesman said. Hamidi said: “The enemy is now trying to sow dissension among the various tribes and sects and are trying to flame the fires through terrorist acts. While the country is preparing for the 10th presidential elections, the hand of world’s arrogant powers is coming out through the sleeves of a bunch of traitors who ignore even the sanctity of mosques.” IRNA said Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, condemned the bombing and sent a message of sympathy to the victims’ relatives. “In his statement, he condemned the involvement of certain expansionist superpowers and their spying organizations in the plots against Muslim nations and between the followers of Islam’s different sects and causing bloodshed among Muslim brothers in Iran and other regional countries,” IRNA reported. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line cleric, also said there were signs that the United States and Israel were involved in the mosque bombing, IRNA reported. The United States denied the allegations. “The U.S. strongly condemns all forms of terrorism. We do not sponsor any form of terrorism in Iran. And we continue to work with the international community to try to prevent any attacks against innocent civilians anywhere,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters in a Friday briefing. Here’s a link to the Airline Bomb Plot:http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/31/iran.bomb/index.htmlPlease leave a comment, and let me know what you think of All these Items, Thanks, HV
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