Iran. I can’t stay away from Twitter. Shocking. Amazing. Worrisome.

Me too. Hi mary, hi ES

Hi Newtonusr and ES,too.

I’m watching twitter too… not much happening atm on my end. You have any good follow recs, mary?

I didn’t understand that Iran was such a tinderbox. Where has our new media been? oh wait…

Evening Newtonusr…)

Iran…. what Bush and Cheney have created this situation and Obama will have to deal with it….. the poor or inaccurate translations of Amidinnerjacket which DID NOT say that the Holocaust did not happen or many of the other things that are claimed….

I have been linking to twitter on huffpo and dailykos. People in the streets. People dying. I wish I knew a lot more about the history of Iran. I think I know more that the average American but not by much. In some ways they are very sophisticated people. Smart.

One of my best friends escaped (went awol) during the Iran Iraq war. After basic training recruits had a chance to go home for few days or so before entering battle. He begged every friend and family member for enough cash to buy Kurd help smuggling him into Turkey. Later a U.S. senator flew into Istanbul and brought them to the U.S.

it’s a fantastic story.. I wish he was here to tell it.

Anyway, a lot of great Iranians now live here. Largest population of Iranians in the world (outside of Iran) reside in the U.S.

As the President admitted, the US had a hand and a stake in overthrowing a democratically elected PM in Iran. We reap…

Yes. I know. We are such assholes. Never learn.

I wonder what is the best thing for the U.S. to do in relationship to Iran? How do we help? Do we help by not helping or intervening?

I was stationed near Athens Greece when the Iranian hostage situation and when that whole country came undone. Athens was the first airport out of Iran. We put up several of the refugees (American contractors), many leaving with only the clothes on their backs.

The major event that was the turning event in Iran was the coupe and installation of the Shah, our government took out the first democratically elected leadership in Iran because he was going to nationalize the oil extraction industry. The Shah was a brutal dictator but had a “nice” face to the rest of the world with freedom for women, access to education and the Americanization of the country to a point.

I sure hope our gov’t stays the hell out of it.

We need to learn that we just aren’t that important.

I think we can do many great things, but we always run to our guns first.

we need to learn what evil we have done across the globe….. death squads in south America, deciding who will win a nation election …. Mexico anyone?

There is a boat load of hate out there against America on our interference in their countries

Why is it that the Patriot act had everything to do with the peace accords in Ireland? Why would laws within the US have that kind of effect in another country?

I wish I could stay longer but I have to go to bed. I have to go to school tomorrow.
I finished my javascript course. What a bruising experience. Now on to html, dreamweaver,
and the entire boring Microsoft office suite.
See you’all tomorrow.

Good stuff, Mary. Java is Java.

sleep well

Damn…. have to get up early for my MRI of the brain….. better scoot off to bed… Nite everyone…

Took me a few minutes to find it again, but I have always wondered about this map (scroll down. Took an FOIA to get it released for public viewing at all.

No small wonder the article title is:

Consequences of a forced regime change in Iran

I’m not suggesting the current situation has anything (or not0 to do with us. But I will be shocked if we don’t make some moves.

Hi ES. From my Facebook page, I see some very interesting tweets coming from jimsciuttoABC (thru a 2nd party).

what a map! thanks

Hi Margot, thanks…I’m following him now.

It’s THE plan. (possibly)

Hiya, pups!

Been way too busy to visit my favorite site . Thought I’d at least stop by and say, “Hi, ES.”

I remember talk of it, but I am not sure I had seem the map until now.

HI ET.. Been very curious about you. Hope all is as well as can be..)

The link to it may be a Hugh original, iirc. *s*

Here’s a way to watch twitter chatter over the iran election.

Which country would you have liked to come to our “aid” in 2000?
I say we stay clear and let them work it out.

Dude, Greneda owes us!

Thanks. All is well. Painting the whole house. Just finished teaching at the local (Anchorage Suzuki Institute summer session. Great kids!!!

Sarah just can’t keep her yap shut, can she?

Palin chatter still clutters my inbox. Why, I may never understand.

She’s the Anti Thought.

She’s an IQ black hole.

How do we push her into the vortex?

I can’t quite see her house from my house, but if the wind is right, I’m sure her dandelions become my dandelions.

Speaking of black holes and vortex; I have in my possession a copy of the new Star trek.. I can’t wait!

I didn’t know you were Russian.

Hello down in Arkansas any hodo bears around lately ES?
Chore day:
!. Make Bird feeder:birds flocked
2. Composter bin mad invention
3. Shovel some of neighbors sandy soil for bean planters
4. Haul two by fous on bycycle handle bars
5. Went to Samba drum session for a bit
6. Blogged and called critters
7. Talked to nice lady I like
8. traded stories with Berkeley activist on free speech and peoples park demostrations. Fun productive day in the sun
9. Even took a short shower
Hoping for no false flag ops to get us in Iran…does BO know something that we do not?

Here are a few Iran watching twitterers

twitter.com/Change_for_Iran
twitter.com/persiankiwi
twitter.com/iran09
twitter.com/StopAhmadi

the more I learn of Iran, the more confused I get. At this point, this seems most reasonable.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..15349.html

Last week, Palin’s strongest supporters in the Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla area) bussed in hundreds of kids to picket and demonstrate outside a hearing in Anchorage on a civil rights ordinance to prevent rental and job discrimination against LBGTQ and military people.

I did a photo essay.

Many of the kids I photographed are recent arrivals from Russia and the Ukraine. They’re part of a wave of fungelicals from those areas to the Wasilla area. It started well before Palin’s Russia comments last year.

Good evening, bb. Sounds like a full day.

Bet your cat is thrilled about the new bird feeder (if you have a cat).
Did the lady give you any sense of the “activist vibe level” in Berkeley now?

Samba! Love Samba.

Got my little list of critter names all set and ready to call in the morning. Almost wish I owned a fax machine.

Great pics… Miss Alaska gets my vote too.

Mrs. Alaska. Some on our side are seeking to have her “disentiara-ed” (I made up the term – to have one’s tiara removed), as she’s not supposed to advocate one side in political matters. Notice, she is wearing her regalia.

The signs (with one exception) are not very clear. At first glance of your post, I thought they were all on the liberal side of life.

The lady was a different conversation this guy teaches media communication and has had Central American students that have turned from conservative to liberals heading for the Mountains to fight after he found his brothers head in the street…he joined a death squad…harry stuff.
I did not have time to relate my capture and imprisonment/trial in Tanzania while hoboing a train to Dar…captured as a spy but lucked out after a week. Cost me seventy shillings Tanzanian and a lot of mosquito bites.He knew Mario Savio at Beserkely. Interesting.

Yup, take Miss Alaska’s tiara and give her a crew “buzz” cut. /s

This sounds a bit .. over the edge, no?

Via WAPO

Khamenei’s Coup

Large-scale manipulation of Friday’s presidential election in Iran was to be expected, but few could have predicted that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had a military coup in mind. By declaring incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner, Khamenei conveyed a clear message to the West: Iran is digging in on its nuclear program, its support to Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas, and its defiant regional policies.

The problem with signs that conservatives make for rallies is that they are sometimes so unimaginative, you don’t even know WTF they mean. Or, they are hopelessly screwed up by faulty syntax or hilarious misspellings (”Get a Brain, Morans!”).

The teabaggers are the most imaginative subset yet from the other side, but as people who have showed up at their events get besieged by the nutcases in the movement, the honest, well-intentioned from among them are leaving in droves, leaving a lonely group as their standard bearers.

It’s definitely inaccurate in the sense that those who are trying this coup want to retain power. Period.

To focus on the regime’s support for Hizbollah and Hamas in the past, or the Iranian nuclear program, is an attempt to take the Iranian people back out of the equation. The sooner our MSM drops running commentary on the character of peoples’ resistance, the quicker the Zionists and American militarists can continue in their deconstructionist goals in the area.

I’m not sure yet that the demonstrations will cease, or that the Iranian religious conservatives have this in the bag.

I had a chat with a teabagger on a local AR blog the day before their big rally. He couldn’t explain why he was going or what the protest was actually about either… but he was all fired up.

I tried to tell him it really helps to know those things before you make statements or demands…

Well it’s time for me to turn in.

Really nice work, ET. I’ve been extra busy myself.. thanks for sharing the links I’ve missed.

good night all.

WRT Iran:
In 1979, when the Islamists overtook the popular revolution and established an irreversible Islamic Republic, they made all range of promises – women’s rights, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, open government, freedom, freedom, freedom. They also promised to keep the West, and particularly the United States, out.

IIRC, the U.S. organized the overthrow of a democratic government in Iran in 1953, and imposed on the Iranians, the “Emperor of the Peacock Throne,” aka the Shah.

IIRC, when George H.W. Bush was the head of the CIA, the CIA taught “harsh interrogation techniques” to the Savak, i.e., the Shah’s secret police.

How can anyone be surprised that the Iranians believe that they do not need nuclear weapons to defend themselves against us, especially when they see us quaking before the North Koreans.

Thanks, ES. I’m glad you enjoyed the pictures.

I was a Green for 16 years. They’re left libertarians. I have lots of center and right libertarian friends and colleagues. Honest Alaska middle libertarians that were attracted to the tea party when it was hatched are becoming disenchanted.

A majority of the libertarian and independent spectrum in Alaska is distrustful of overt religious overtones in politics. The hard core of the Tea Party’s ground troops are Christianists up here. Several of us are working on covering those people through photos, videos and interviews with their leaders.