xponentrob wrote:
Agreed. Iranians seem to have had no stomach for a general strike.
I think they would like to, but the reality on the ground is not
conducive to an action that would entail incredible sacrifice and
an obvious hardship on all.
(I'm guessing it generally works this way in
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Charlie Bell char...@culturelist.orgwrote:
On 28/06/2009, at 1:25 PM, dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
Um... a ship? Do you mean the Marines patrol boat a couple of years
ago? Wasn't a ship.
Sorry Charlie. You have to remember that, when I was I kid I
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From: Dan M dsummersmi...@comcast.net
To: 'Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: Iran
Reports from inside Iran say the Guard is split and mostly inactive. The
Army is similarly. The police
On 28/06/2009, at 8:15 AM, Dan M wrote:
Even with reporters locked up in their hotel rooms, I would guess than
marches of tens of thousands would be heard in the hotels. The
types of
reports that are getting out indicate that, if anything, the younger
more
militant aspects of the guard
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From: Charlie Bell char...@culturelist.org
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:10:27 +1000
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Iran
On 28/06/2009, at 8:15 AM, Dan M wrote:
Even with reporters locked up in their hotel rooms, I would guess than
marches of tens
On 28/06/2009, at 1:25 PM, dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
Um... a ship? Do you mean the Marines patrol boat a couple of years
ago? Wasn't a ship.
Sorry Charlie. You have to remember that, when I was I kid I was on
many a
boat longer than 200 meters, with the biggest over 300 meters and
Things do not look overly promising for the protesters, but if they manage
to make it through tomorrow without their heads being cracked Iranian
public sentiment may swing decisively in their direction. It really
depends on how hard the Supreme Ayatollah swings back at them.
We should see
Dan wrote:
Things do not look overly promising for the protesters, but if they
manage
to make it through tomorrow without their heads being cracked Iranian
public sentiment may swing decisively in their direction. It really
depends on how hard the Supreme Ayatollah swings back at
Whatever the final outcome Ahmadinejad's position has to have been severely
weakened.
As he's a nut case, this is a very good thing.
OK, I'll agree that his position with some factions within the ruling elite
has been lowered. The real question, of course, it what is the position of
the
On 6/22/2009 7:36:48 PM, Dan M (dsummersmi...@comcast.net) wrote:
Things do not look overly promising for the protesters, but if they
manage
to make it through tomorrow without their heads being cracked Iranian
public sentiment may swing decisively in their direction. It really
depends
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JDG wrote:
And why do reports about Iran's nuclear program [any of them, from
those
which claim disaster looms a few months ahead to those which claim
that
nuclear capability is nearly a decade away]cause such a lot
of alarm?
Our intelligence said that the DPRK was a nearly a decade
On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:27 AM, The Fool wrote:
http://feministing.com/archives/002691.html
Iran to hang teenage girl who fought back against rapists
This is pretty horrible stuff. A teenage girl in Iran has been
sentenced to death by hanging after she admitted that she accidentally
killed a man
Religious fanaticism is a poison.
Well, I consider *every* kinf od fanaticism a poison. It means absense of
reason, which is one thing which justifies the word sapiens after the word
homo.
find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming
feature. They are all alike founded
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Moreover, the US war in Iraq has meant that so far
Iran is the primary winner...
...What do you think is the likelihood that the US
(or
its ally, Israel)
will attack Iran before the US November 2006
elections?
Given the increasing
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