Iranian سونر

Looks like theres not gonna be another revolution :`-{

"I was duped by U.S.," Jahanbegloo said.


So it seems that before he went to prison--If I can recall the charges: 'attempt at creating civil unrest', and 'espionage'--he didnt seem to think there was a problem with what he was doing, ie trying to create an 'intellectual front' composed of various professors and other 'intellectuals' with the purpose of creating a reaction--or catalyst at the very least--which would cause regime change in Iran.

It's quite interesting how only 4 months of jail time can bring about the realization that he was "tricked by the U.S" and how other 'intellectuals' are "in danger of being tricked as well".

Good old common sense: when it kicks in, it does so with style.

CNN 'special' 2-hour report about OBL. Who better to take the story than CNN's cover-girl: Christianne Amanpour.

*btw... I know I havent been updating my blog. Too many things going on this week. Should have a mega update by Saturday morning.

Some 84 Hollywood movie stars and industry members sign statement condemning Hezbollah.

Among the signatories:
Sylvester Stallone,
James Woods,
Bruce Willis,
director Ridley Scott,
tennis player Serena Williams,
Nicole Kidman,
Michael Douglas,
Dennis Hopper,
William Hurt,
Josh Malina,
Kelly Preston,
Danny DeVito,
Don Johnson,
and media tycoon Rupert Murdock (surprised?).

Wow, I guess this solves the morality question. I mean, if Rocky Balboa, The Penguin, and RJ (from Over the Hedge), are signing a statement that says "'terror' must be stopped at any price", how can Israeli aggression in Lebanon be wrong?!

I thank those stars for coming out and letting us know which side was the right side; much like Brittany Spears did a few years ago when she said that 'we should trust the president'.

If we didn't have Nicole Kidman around to let us know that targeting civilians in order to instill scare tactics is the right thing to do, where would we be?

P.S.
Adam Sandler sent 400 PlayStation games to Northern Israel.

on Jews protesting the war in Lebanon

video taken on Aug. 11, 2006

An image the Western media forbids you to see: one of Israels many destroyed, state of the art Merkava tanks.

2 out of 5 Americans think that Muslims should carry a special I.D.


What the...

Chavez to Bush

I really cant say anymore...

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space in the US has been receiving reports from multiple military sources that personnel responsible for selecting targets for cruise missile first-strike attacks have been sent to Israel. The frightening possibility is that the US and Israeli military strategists are now meeting to plan a joint attack on Syria and/or Iran. Both Gulf wars began with cruise missile attacks from the sea. We can only hope that Syria will not be provoked.
Anna Cheetham, Leicester CND

President Ahmadinejad speaks to Mike Wallace.

LOL.

However, he's still going to be running in November as an independent.

You becareful there now, LouAnne. The Heeezbooolahs are out to get ya'.

These are the symptoms of a free mind. George Galloway.

The Israeli forces have recently announced that they will up the ante and produce more severe attacks against Lebanon. While this comment has been made by the IDF on an almost daily basis since it began its 'defense' almost a month ago, one comment definitely stands out:

'Other than bombing the Beirut airport to prevent arms transfers to Hezbollah, Israel has hitherto not targeted Lebanon's infrastructure, insisting that it is only at war with Hezbollah, not with the Lebanese government or people. However, the officer said, "we are now in a process of renewed escalation. We will continue hitting everything that moves in Hezbollah - but we will also hit strategic civilian infrastructure."'

While it is no surprise that Israel blindly targets civilians, as you may have noticed in the massacres at Qana and the food storage factory in the Bekaa Valley, there is something different about this.

Before, Israel would go on and hit whatever it felt like hitting. A 10-month-old sleeping in his crib? No problem (Hey, he could have had Katyushas under his pillow. Better safe than sorry, right?). But it would never blatantly say that its target were civilians and would be very quick to put out an apology for the 'loss of life' (this was usually followed up by a justification for this 'loss of life').

However what we see now is a clear message that they are going after civilian targets. Not that they havent done it before...but before was different. Before they tried to hide it under the rug and say they were only going after Hezbollah. Now they're not saying that anymore.

If they were able to inflict so many casualties on civilians while they were under guise, imagine the atrocities they are capable of committing now that civilians are fair game to them.

Jews suspected in drive-by killing of West Bank Palestinian. Also here.

I wonder how big this will be with the media over here...

Keep in mind this is a Palestinian being killed by an Israeli settler and not the reverse scenario, which is among the favorite stories the Western media love to milk. They love that kind of drama, and AIPAC loves that kind of sympathy (the one shown by the actors, err...anchors of course).

..in Iraq (pics below).

However, it would be more appropriate that I say, 'The New Iraq'-which President Bush has spent the past 3.5 years cultivating; attempting to create it into an 'American ally' aka the starting point which will create the domino effect of ultra U.S. puppetry taking the whole region.

But what we see from yesterdays protest doesnt seem to be what the planners had in their minds. Hundreds of thousands-some reports go up to a million-Iraqis came out and very bluntly threw their full weight behind Hezbollah, and were in no way shy to completely condemn Israels war of aggression.

Hmm...

The question one seems the need to ask himself (or herself): Who soiled his pants first, Bush or Blair?

Tony Blair was forced to put his holiday plans on hold as talks for a proposed eventual-but not in anyway immediate-ceasefire 'reached a crucial stage'

Blair had to sacrifice a 3-week vacation in Barbados, for the well-being of the Lebanese Joe (or Ahmed).

The tradeoff...the accomplishment of getting nothing done but making the Western media have its citizens think otherwise.

Brent Sadler (CNN): 'Around 71 bridges/main routes have been destroyed by Israel.'

That includes the Israeli strike on Halat bridge today...the last main route linking Beirut to the north and eventually the Syrian and Turkish borders. It is also the last main route for relief supplies into Lebanon.

"This is Lebanon's umbilical cord," Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program told AP. "This [road] has been the only way for us to bring in aid. We really need to find other ways to bring relief in."

In other news, Israel has dropped leaflets urging Lebanese to leave "for their own safety".

The 2 people killed on the northern Lebanese Maameltain bridge and the person killed while driving on the Halat bridge thanked Israel for its concern for their safety.

'As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.

Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense.

Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict. '

Israeli Haaretz reports that the IDF is now changing its tune from Monday, stating that 'it now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time'.

Lets take a moment to dissect that statement. We find 2 very interesting and important points:
1) Israel had absolutely no info on rockets being launched from the vicinity of the building.
2) Israel had no information of any members of Hezbollah being present at the site.

But then again, at the end of the day, the fault is on the Lebanese civilians. I mean, the IDF had disseminated warning pamphlets telling people to get out. Even though all major roads and paths were destroyed in the first week of fighting, and even though the IDF has had a habit of bombing civilian buses fleeing the south, they were still warned. Thats right, the Lebanese deserve to die because they were warned and didnt listen.

A human rights group says Israel attack on Qana a 'war crime'

Naturally, however, this will have close to zero affect on Israel having a right to 'defend itself' aka having a right to commit acts of genocide and push its expansionist ideology (Israel is the only nation in the world not having UN recognized borders).