Iran NO GUNS HERE just PEOPLE's POWER to disrupt power grid

I…RAN so far away???
 
NO GUNS HERE just people's power to disrupt IRAN’s power grid to show MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad who's really in charge.
 
ARMED WITH IRONs AND HAIR STRAIGHTNERs, hairdryers, toasters, microwaves etc…etc…many Iranians tried to cut the president's televised speech with an electricity blackout.
 
“Please plug in and turn on your most powerful electrical appliances as soon as MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad appears on TV” said Sara a student in Tehran on Tuesday night on the web.
 
On Tuesday night MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad made a speech in IRAN but many Iranian people did not hear it?
 
WHY?
 
Show of power by the people
 
PEOPLE POWER!
 
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far
 
SNL Digital Shorts delivers another hit with “IRAN So Far”, a twisted love song for IRANian President MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad.
 
The video features Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg, Maroon 5's Adam Levine, plus a cameo by Jake Gyllenhal.
 
“IRAN So Far” Lyrics:
(Lyrics courtesy of our friends at SNL. Give link credit to FunnySong.com)

They say true love comes only once in a lifetime
and even though we’re from opposite ends of the earth,
my heart tells me you’re the one for me.
MAHMOUD

I remember when it started, saw you on the news
you were hating gays, I was eating food
but I was feeling you, and even though I disagreed with almost everything you said
you aint wrong to me, so strong to me, you belong to me
Like a very hairy Jake Gyllenhaal to me
MAHMOUD make my heart beat right out of my chest
my mind says no but my body says yes
Nuclear threat, the only threat I see
is the threat of you not coming home with me.
Our love for each other’s like when atoms collide
Can’t express how I feel
Ay yo Adam let’s ride

And IRAN, IRAN so far away
is your home, but in my heart you’ll stay
He ran, for the president of IRAN
we ran together to a tropical island
my man, MAHMOUD is known for rilin’
smiling, if he can still do it then I can
they call you weasel, they say your methods are medieval
you can play the Jews I can be your Jim Caviezel
S&M, nestlin’ when we’re wrestlin’
You can be the port that I park my vessel in
So I try to mute the tv but you can still see me
with your sleepy brown eyes, butter pecan thighs
And your hairy butt…
Yeah.

And IRAN, IRAN so far away
come home, and in my arms you’ll stay

Used to look at the stars and dream
round the world same stars were seen
And a twinkle in your eyes MAHMOUD.
Talk smooth to me, without a tie
your pants high waisted, damn so fly.
We can take a trip to the animal zoo
and laugh at all the funny things that animals do
Like Eugene (Levy) you got me straight trippin’ boo
hope you look in my eyes and say I’m trippin’ too
you say IRAN don’t have the bomb but they already do
you should know by now, it’s you.

And IRAN, IRAN so far away
is your home, but in my heart you’ll stay

You crazy for this one MAHMOUD
you can deny the holocaust all you want
but you can’t deny that there’s something between us
I know you say there’s no gays in IRAN
but you’re in New York now baby
it’s time to stop hiding,
and start living

(Lyrics courtesy of our friends at SNL.
Give link credit to FunnySong.com)

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Thankyou for sharing -and power to the people!

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To trust yourself is to TEST your LIMITS.
That is the courage to succeed.
Know your LIMITS but never accept them.
LIMITS exist only in the mind.

”There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

What is happening in heavily censored Iran today?
 
And where are the events there taking this country of 70 million people, two thirds of whom are under the age of 30?

 

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Iran's Mousavi plans new political front

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I RAN so far away? 

 Although Iran has an extremely active blogosphere – the country has more blogs per capita than any other country – and these overwhelmingly support Mousavi according to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
 
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Mapping_Irans_Online_Public
 
Iran's draconian internet filtering is no match for young Iranians who are interconnected and politicized by virtual social networks. However, it is a mistake to link this uprising – already nicknamed the ”green revolution” by the press – with other internet and social networking. 

The Islamic Republic is fully aware of online social networking's potential to challenge MAHMOUD's repressive power. 

At the very least, tech-savvy young Iranians – Mousavi's primary voting bloc – have gotten used to get around MAHMOUD's relentless effort to crush their freedom of expression and remain somewhat well informed.

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SHARK attack, SHARK attack…
 
RAFSANJANI: SHARK or kingmaker?
 
The two-term former president is nicknamed the ”SHARK”.
 
It may be why Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president,  remains a formidable figure in Iranian politics.
 
RAFSANJANI will lead the demonstrations after delivering his first Friday sermon
 
July 17, 2009
 
at Tehran University .
 
On Wednesday RAFSANJANI said: “It seems that the social and political conditions to form such a front do exist because the masses who voted for MOUSAVI are a great force and most of them are from the university and student elite.”
 
All the best for IRAN tomorrow 
 
LOU 
 
P.S. Parting shots 

Q: What did the MULLAH say to the suicide bomber?
A: Great work MAHMOUD!
YOU’RE THE BOMB !

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Brilliant! How ingenious of them to think of overloading the power grid. I wish them well in their efforts.

By the way, hi everyone, I'm Kala and I'm new to this group.

Namaste
Kala

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STAY WITH US
 
NEDA Agha-Soltan (1982-2009), also called NEDA Soltani, Iranian martyr, died on the streets of Tehran on Saturday June 20th 2009 during the violent crackdown by the government on protests against the 2009 election for president.
 
It was put on the Internet and people all over the world saw her die.

Despite the BLACKOUT, everyone in IRAN knows about her. 
 
MAHMOUD knows that they know.
 
I…RAN so far away ???

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“We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting
physical force with soul force.” 

—Martin Luther King Jr. from his “I Have a Dream” speech. 
 
livethedream68@yahoo.com  
 
Martin Luther King Jr. died on 04/04/1968

But the DREAM LIVES ON

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WHAT OBAMA'S MESSAGE TO IRAN MEANS:

By Paul Reynolds
World affairs correspondent BBC New website

President Barack Obama's video message to Iran offering a ”new beginning” is an imaginative start to his attempt to improve relations - but huge obstacles remain.

In diplomacy such efforts at overcoming major differences sometimes end simply in defining those differences more sharply.

These issues were not directly mentioned by Mr Obama but this is what he is referring to:

-Iran to give up uranium enrichment and accept international offers to provide fuel for nuclear power
- Iran to stop arming Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza Iran to help in achieving peace in Afghanistan and Iraq Iran to stop threatening Israel.
- Iran will want the following:

Acceptance of its right to enrich uranium An end to UN sanctions An end to US sanctions An end to America's ”colonialist attitudes”, including its support for Zionism.

What Obama really means

It is worth deconstructing the president's speech to try to read between the lines.
Flattery is often a good way to start - he talks about the ”great” Iranian civilisation and conjures up warm images with references to common family feelings on public holidays.

All this, on the Iranian spring holiday of Nowruz, is an effort to overcome Iranian suspicions that it is held in low esteem by the US.

Perhaps the diplomatically key phrase is this: ”My administration is now committed to diplomacy that addresses the full range of issues before us.”

“ There is a very ambitious agenda here. The process suggests direct talks if that is what Iran wants ”

He adds: “This process will not be advanced by threats.”

This means an end, for the moment at least, to the implied threats of military action.
The president is offering a period of calm in which to allow this diplomacy time to work. He does not however say how long this period will last.

But note how carefully the phrase about threats was written. It does not in fact rule out threats in the future. The absence of threats applies only to the process of diplomacy. If diplomacy fails, threats might return. Mr Obama also means that stopping threats also applies to Iranian threats, especially against Israel.

Incidentally, the US position now diverges quite strongly from the Israeli. The Israelis have recently been making increasingly worried statements about Iran's potential nuclear weapons capacity, suggesting that while diplomacy might come first, military action might come second.

Update: Israeli President Shimon Peres has also broadcast to Iran, on the Farsi service of Israel radio. His tone was much sharper, appealing to the Iranian people but dismissing the leadership as ”religious fanatics.” He commented: ”You can't feed your children enriched uranium.” His statement was in effect an appeal for the current Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be voted out in the June election.

The US president also offers carrots, among them ”constructive ties between the United States, Iran and the international community” in an “engagement that is honest and grounded in mutual respect”.

The ties refer to the potential for diplomatic relations to be restored between the US and Iran, but he does not commit himself openly to that outcome at this stage. ”Honest” engagement means that there will be tough talking. ”Mutual respect” means that the US will listen.

Close to the bone

Another key phrase: ”You, too, have a choice.”

This is not a threat but it is a warning. Mr Obama gets close to the bone. Iran, he says, must recognise that rights come with ”responsibilities”.

This means that Iran might have the right to enrich uranium but should not do so because it is creating concerns about its ambitions. Nor should it stir up trouble in the region, is another subliminal message.

Mr Obama offers another carrot. He accepts that Iran should take its ”rightful place in the community of nations”, but adds significantly: ”That place cannot be reached through terror or arms.” The measure of Iran's greatness is not ”the capacity to destroy”.

”Terror or arms” means Hezbollah and Hamas and maybe its own military build-up.
The ”capacity to destroy” is a reference to nuclear weapons, even though Iran says that it will not build them, and to Iranian missile development.

Importantly, the president implicitly offers an end to sanctions by saying that he wants a future with ”greater opportunities for partnership and commerce”. At this stage he is offering only ”greater” opportunities, not the full opening, but the deal is in prospect.

He also looks to a future ”where you and all your neighbours and the wider world can live in greater security...”. ”All” the neighbours include Israel, of course.

There is a very ambitious agenda here. The process suggests direct talks if that is what Iran wants.

Update: The response from Iran has been hostile so far. Its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said that President Obama's ”unconditional commitment to defend Israel's security” meant that he was following ”the same wrong path as the Bush administration.”

And President Ahmadinejad said: ”Change means giving up your satanic, coercive and aggressive ways.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7954408.stm

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In IRAN, 3 more BALUCH activists are to be hanged in the next few days, according to Ebrahim Hamidi, chief justice of the BALUCHistan province. 
 
MAHMOUD is intensifying his repression of the BALUCH minority, with 19 campaigners hanged since last month since last month's presidential elections. 
 
To see an example of MAHMOUD’s prolonged death caused by slow strangulation.
 
 Follow this link: 
 
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a0_1185106657 
 
On one day last week, July 14th, 2009, MAHMOUD hanged 13 members of the BALUCH ethnic minority in Iran. 
 
These hangins have little to do with the victims' guilt or innocence.  
 
They are part of a pattern of terror and intimidation in IRANian-occupied BALUCHistan. 
 
I…RAN so far away ???
 
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far

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Today, Iranian vice-president 'sacked' by MAHMOUD 

Vice-President Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie had caused anger by saying Iranians and Israelis were friends. 

”Today, Iran is friends with the American and Israeli people,” former Vice-President Mashaie said, according to Fars news agency.  

”No nation in the world is our enemy.”

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Iran Minister of Intelligence Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie “dismissed.” 
 
I…RAN so far away ???
 
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far

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Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic guidance Mohammad Hossein Safar Harandi “resigns.”

I…RAN so far away ???

http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far

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Iran's disputed election still bitterly divides the country.
 
Iranian newspaper, Khabar, published the headline:
 
”Dismissals - the consequence of objecting to Ahmadinejad”
 
MAHMOUD's behavior seems counter-productive, but it is completely MAHMOUD’s character.
 
When in a corner, MAHMOUD likes to come out fighting.
 
Compromise is not a word in MAHMOUD's vocabulary.
 
I…RAN so far away ???

http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far

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“At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box.”  
 
-Italian Proverb. 
 
Is I…RAN still so far away ??
 
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far

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Throughout all my experiences, I’ve learned this: 
 
(1) FREE WILL is a gift with a price tag
 
(2) whatever you choose to do you’re going to pay
 
(3) but how much you’re going to pay is really dependent on you! 
 
I…RAN still so far away or is it??
 
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far 
 
“At the end of the game [chess], the pawn and the king go back in the same box.”   
 
-Italian Proverb. 

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Hope deferred maketh the heart sick:  but when desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

—(Proverbs 13:12)

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The people who took to the streets are still angry about what happened MAHMOUD, and you must fear that anger, because it could explode again.

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MAHMOUD said he is not waiting to be congratulated by the west. 
 
”We heard that some of the western leaders had decided to recognize but not congratulate the new government . Well, no one in Iran is waiting for your messages,” MAHMOUD said in his speech. 
 
On Monday after an awkward blessing ceremony, the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei urged MAHMOUD to listen to his critics. 
 
Protesters were chanting ”death to the dictator” in Rahahan Square, according to unconfirmed reports on Twitter.
 
I…RAN … is it still so far away or is it??
 
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far 

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Do Muslim Women need to be saved by Turkish T.V.?
 
NOOR a Turkish soap opera, breaks from the tradition of dubbing foreign TV in formal Arabic, and uses colloquial Syrian Arabic.
 
Tourism from Arabic countries to Turkey has doubled last year, as a result of the series' window on the beauty of Instanbul.
 
The characters on NOOR are, like the majority of people in the Arab world, Muslim—but though they fast during Ramadan, they also drink alcohol and have premarital sex.
 
NOOR shows there are Muslims who live differently.
 
NOOR has made Arab women aware of the advantages of a more liberal, tolerant Islamic society such as Turkey.
 
TO READ THE PRESS AROUND THE WORLD, it's easy to walk away with the impression that Arab women are kept in airtight boxes, with TV as the only source of light and potential liberation.
 
Not all Muslims are perfect and not all women stay at home is hardly news to the Arab world.
 
Then, there's you know, LIFE !
 
NOOR is inspiring women to make personal changes.
 
NOOR identifies the source of that CHANGE as something alien to Arab culture.
 
Why NOOR grew to such a phenomenon in the Arab world could be as simple as pure ESCAPISM…  like hanging out on GAIA.com, going to the movies, reading a book, or going dancing at a club.
 
AMERICANS have never depended on ”As the World Turns”, ”General Hospital”, ”Dallas”, ”Dynasty” or ”The Young and The Restless” to dictate how they should run their lives, or did they?
 
I…RAN … still so far away ??
 
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-digital-short-iran-so-far