April 22, 2006

SEYMOUR HERSH & THE MUTANT NINJA BAMBOO

Crack reporter Seymour Hersh has revealed the Bush Administration's secret plan to nuke Iran. Relying on his usual vague unnamed inchoate sources, Hersh says Phase I of the top secret plan, code named 'Nuke Iran,' involves turning the entire country in a giant glowing bowl of hummus.

In Phase II, thousands of disadvantaged Third World youth will be issued sunglasses & flip-flops & sent in to plant bamboo. That shit will grow anywhere, & in the radiation-mulched soil, will spread like a mucus discharge in Paris Hilton's rolodex.

Mideast violence will cease as all join forces to stop the marauding wall of mutant ninja bamboo, a 50-foot green tsunami looting, raping, & pillaging anything in its path. India will erect a giant Teflon wall. The Arab League will quickly shift its economic base from oil to wind chimes & tiki bars.

In Europe, feckless EU bureaucrats will still be issuing stern resolutions on invasive species when the bamboo impales them in their chairs. Should any terrorists manage to sneak the bamboo into America, we will unleash our super-secret Phase III weapon: mutant ninja kudzu.

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February 24, 2006

WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE U.A.E.?

Opinion polls from Gulf Today show that the UAE is not so different from, well, San Francisco:

Are George W. Bush & Tony Blair greater threats to the rest of the world than Al Qaeda? Yes 74% No 22% No Comments 2%

Is Sadr invention of Bush? Yes 77% No 18% No Comments 3%

Will Beslan carnage help Chechnya towards the road of independence? Yes 82% No 15% No Comments 2%

Do you feel there should be censor on freedom of speech? Yes 52% No 46%

Should the state enforce modesty in dress? Yes 50% No 42% No Comments 6%

Is corruption widespread in Dubai? Yes 72% No 24% No Comments 2%

Taliban should hand over bin Laden for trial? Yes 42% No 53% No Comments 3%

Would you support your beautiful daughter's decision to enter a beauty pageant? Yes 41% No 57% No Comments 1%

Al Gore better than George Bush for the Middle East? Yes 53% No 6% No Comments 39%

Like nationals, expats also can have tinted glasses? Yes 95% No 3%

Are you comfortable with AC on full blast in your office in winter? Yes 64% No 33% No Comments 1%

Film-based song & dance shows a waste of time? Yes 60% No 32% No Comments 7%

Are suicide bombings furthering the goal of a Palestinian state? Yes 42% No 51% No Comments 6%

Qatarto serving as base for US attack. Do you think it as right decision? Yes 26% No 68% No Comments 4%

Should we keep our mouth shut to all the nonsense from our boss? Yes 27% No 66% No Comments 6%

There's no fun place other than Dubai in the Gulf? Yes 58% No 35% No Comments 5%

See also UAE's romance with Bin Laden

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January 31, 2006

LIFE IN THE LAND OF THE MULLAHS

Compare these women with this woman. What's with the Count Dracula thing? More great photos of Iran at Mansour Nasiri's Photoblog. (Archives do not work in FFox).

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June 10, 2005

SOCCER REVOLUTION

photo © parastood

Azadeh, my favorite Persian blogger babe, reports how Iranian women demanded entry to World Cup qualifier & watched a live soccer match for the first time in the history of the tyrannical Islamic Republic. Azadeh: "I am proud of all of them." Mansour Nasiri, a Persian photoblogger, has pics of women protesting outside the stadium, & also here.

RegimeChangeIran: "A selected group of females were allowed in the stadium in order to help the regime show a better & more human face to naive reporters in quest of seeing 'reforms' taking place in Iran."  However, Islamist thugs attacked a crowd of women in the parking lot, sending some to the hospital.

Soccermania is bad news for the mullahs, as spontaneous celebrations turned into antigovernment demonstrations, & more can only follow. Nasiri's Photoblog posts daily photos of life in Iran, including:

Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist tortured & imprisoned for articles implicating government in wave of political murders. Seriously ill, Ganji was released for medical treatment on May 29, then rearrested yesterday after criticizing the ruling clerics & calling for a boycott of the elections.

Emad Baghi, another journalist imprisoned for debunking Ayatollah Khomeini's claim that the Shah was guilty of the mass murder of 60,000 political opponents. The actual figure is 3164 for the duration of the monarchy, a far cry from the hundreds of thousands murdered in 26 years of Islamic totalitarianism.

Iranian women demonstrating in support of reformist candidate Mostafa Moin.

Iranian women as fashion guerrillas (also here). In Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi has written about the early years of Islamic tyranny, when women were flogged for wearing makeup, nail polish, or showing a single strand of hair

NOTE: NASIRI'S SITE SOMETIMES BUSY. HIT REFRESH A COUPLE OF TIMES

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March 23, 2005

YEMENI EDITOR FREED

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March 02, 2005

WHERE IS WARD CHURCHILL WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

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LETTER FROM A YEMENI JAIL

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