Harland, an open admirer and supporter of Hamas now supports the ruling class in Iran. An admiral Libertarian position? <sarcasm about the position, not about the support and admiration> In fact, the 'right wing' adjective appended to the supposed fake tweeters says it all. Harland, an extreme left-wing anti-semite and conspiracy adherent, along with the author of the article leaves some important facts out. #1 The people of Iran have been ASKING Westerners to twitter in the same way as described in the article so that it's harder for the Revolutionary Guard to figure out who is doing what. #2 Israel and Israelis fear Mousavi more than Ahmedinijad. Think about it for a second. Mousavi started the Iranian nuke program. Mousavi is a far more agressive suppresser of freedom, and is actually even more violent than Ahmedinijad. (Hard to believe, but true!) The Israelis want an end to the nukes and the outcome of this electoral struggle won't help them that way. Another nutty article forwareded by a nut. PS Note to Moderator, Harland's posting is a Copyright violation and the group Owners and Moderators can be held legally responsible. Just like the girl who last week was fined, what $60,000 for downloading songs illegally, so are folks being for doing this. RESPECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS! FOLLOW FAIR USE GUIDELINES! STOP STEALING THE WORK OF AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS!
--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Harland Harrison <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harland Harrison <[email protected]> Subject: [Libertarian] Reading tweets from Iran? They may be fake! To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 10:19 PM A blogger says the Israeli government spammed fake messages from Iran. ( Surprising that a government would do that? The Israeli government publicly bragged that it hires people to infiltrate the Web http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1056648. html: ) See the developing story at link below. Harland Harrison LP of San Mateo County CA ============ ====== http://www.charting stocks.net/ 2009/06/proof- israeli-effort- to-destabilize- ir an-via-twitter/ Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter #IranElection Monday, June 15, 2009 19:52 Posted in category Politics <http://www.charting stocks.net/ category/ politics/> <http://www.charting stocks.net/ wp-content/ uploads/2009/ 06/iran1. jpg> Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran. Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully) . The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable <http://mashable. com/2009/ 06/15/twitter- iran-election/> and TechCrunch <http://www.techcrun ch.com/2009/ 06/15/twitter- reschedules- maintenance- to-all ow-iranian-protests -to-continue/ > and even made its way to mainstream news media sites. Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities - 1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th. 2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles. 3. ³IranElection² was each of their most popular keyword 4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH. 5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo 6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER. Why were these tweets in English? Why were all of these profiles OBSESSED with Iran? It became obvious that this was the work of a team of people with an interest in destabilizing Iran. The profiles are phonies and were created with the sole intention of destabilizing Iran and effecting public opinion as to the legitimacy of Iran¹s election. I narrowed the spammers down to three of the most persistent - @StopAhmadi <http://twitter. com/StopAhmadi> @IranRiggedElect <http://twitter. com/IranRiggedEl ect> @Change_For_ Iran <http://twitter. com/Change_ for_Iran> I decided to do a google search <http://www.google. com/search? hl=en& safe=off& amp;client= firefox-a& amp;rl s=org.mozilla% 3Aen-US%3Aoffici al&hs= 4Y2&q= StopAhmadi+ AND+IranRiggedE lect&btnG= Search& aq=f& oq=&aqi= > for 2 of the 3 - @StopAhmadi and @IranRiggedElect. The first page to come up was JPost <http://cgis. jpost.com/ Blogs/persianaby ss/entry/ iranian_reaction s_from_acros s_social> (Jerusalem Post) which is a right wing newspaper pro-Israeli newspaper. JPost actually ran a story about 3 people ³who joined the social network mere hours ago have already amassed thousands of followers.² Why would a news organization post a story about 3 people who JUST JOINED TWITTER hours earlier? Is that newsworthy? JPost was the first (and only to my knowledge) major news source that mentioned these 3 spammers. JPost, a major news organization, promoted these three Twitterers who went on the be the source of the IranElection Twitter bombardment. Why is JPost so concerned about Iranian students all of a sudden (which these spammers claim to be)? I must admit that I had my suspicions. After all, Que Bono? (who benefits). There¹s no question that Israel perceives Iran as an enemy, more so than any other nation. According to a recent poll, more than half of Israel¹s population support using military force against Iran if they do not cease from developing nuclear energy (which they have the legal right to do as per the NNP treaty). Oddly enough, this comes out of a country which is not a cosigner to the NNP treaty and has no right to develop nuclear energy, yet posses an arsenal of nuclear BOMBS. Of course, Mousavi himself plays an important role in causing the social unrest within Iran. How often do you see a candidate declare himself the winner before any votes are counted and then, when faced with defeat, call the entire election process a fraud? As obvious as it was in our own 2000 election, Al Gore would not touch the topic of voter fraud. No major US politician goes near the subject. They know full well that such an accusation would shake the entire foundation of our democracy and threaten the political structures that are in place. These twitting spammers began crying foul before the final votes were even counted, just as Mousavi had. The spammer @IranRiggedElect created his profile before a winner was announced and preformed the public service of informing us in the United States , in English and every 10 minutes, of the unfair election. He did so unselfishly, and without any regard for his fellow friends and citizens of Iran, who don¹t speak English and don¹t use Twitter! <http://www.alexa. com/siteinfo/ twitter.com> http://www.charting stocks.net/ 2009/06/proof- israeli-effort- to-destabilize- ir an-via-twitter/ ------ End of Forwarded Message [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
