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[15 Jun 2009|06:32am] |
There is a march today all across Iran in protest to the fraudulent elections held Friday. The Ayatollah Khomeini, and the current standing government of Ahmedinejad, which all three opposing candidates have called illegitimate, have issued statements that they will answer the protests with deadly force.
There are reports of machinegun nests being placed along the planned protest route.
CNN, BBC, Routers and most other international media chains are not reporting on this. Once more, like last night, the only real reports coming out of the region are individuals with cell-phones and computers, using proxies kindly provided by various people and groups in the west, to post updates and pictures of the events currently unfolding in Iran.
Here are the links that seem to be the most trustworthy.
http://twitter.com/persiankiwi
http://twitter.com/change_for_iran
http://twitter.com/breakingnews
http://twitter.com/tehranbureau
Here are various pictures, taken on the ground by protesters and the few media sources still active in the country.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/sets/72157619592664479/show/
This is very real. It isn't a bunch of fake Twitter accounts set to troll the internet. People are being beaten and shot right now in Iran because they have dared, for the first time since 1979, to stand up and cry out against tyranny in a single voice.
Spread the news, let people know about it. The country is a stones throw away from civil war.
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[14 Jun 2009|09:15pm] |
I don't know how many of you are following this, but Iran is basically in open revolution right now following the elections on Friday.
There are massive protests in the streets of at least three of the major cities in Iran, and the protestors are being attacked by riot police and the Revolutionary Guard.
Most international news inside of Iran is being blocked; all of their satelite feeds have been cut, and at least one channel, from Germany, has had government troops inside of the station threatening them if they were to broadcast any coverage of the situation, and kidnapped one of their technicians.
The only real stream of information coming out of Iran right now is from individuals who are posting to Facebook or Twitter, and uploading videos and pictures from their cellphones.
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| My best post yet |
[09 Jun 2009|07:07am] |
"That's how they get you.
Then that random nutball comes back and tells you about how the Light Rail is actually a front for the Billy Ray Cyrus Is Our Saviour fund, which is running drugs and money for something called Analytic Anachronist Arsonists, who are planning on burning down the Golden Gate Bridge as a protest against the Venusian takeover of Cameroun.
And before you know it you're fucking a pink banana Mount Vernon while George Washington is stuffing hash into a crystal pipe and talking about how he always thought Jefferson was a little too fruity for his taste. "
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| Hey, Athena |
[29 May 2009|09:47pm] |
Remember when you said "don't get banned"
Looks like you're banned longer.
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[10 May 2009|08:23pm] |
For the beer lovers out there;
I taste a delicious beer recently called Kwe. It is a Native brewed beer, from Quebec City or thereabouts, that isn't made with hops or barley.
It uses corn.
The result is a nice, light and refreshing beer that has a roasted corn aftertaste, with none of the bitterness of hops. It is damned good.
Apparently, they bottle it, so anyone in the province could probably get it through the SAQ in some way.
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[05 May 2009|07:46pm] |
Best line in an Ace Attorney game;
"So you walk in on a murder and the first thing you do is shoot the clown?"
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[23 Apr 2009|06:38am] |
Two threads that are bound to explode into amazing lols on the front page, and I cant read them during school hours because of my exam.
curses ;_;
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[17 Apr 2009|09:02pm] |
 
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[11 Apr 2009|08:30am] |
So some of you might remember I posted a story about the Cullenists a few days ago. The Forums also got the post, and a 250odd post thread spawned around it.
Including this gem of a message from a Twilight fan;
"Even if you think he's controlling, any girl who is too weak-minded to know what kind of boyfriend she wants without some book telling her is already doomed in life. I mean, and this next part isn't directed at you BMAS, but in general, I actually find it disturbingly ironic the way some feminists feel girls need to be "protected" from Twilight because they don't like how Edward protects Bella, or because they think apparently girls actually can't decide for themselves afterall. Since apparently any girl who reads Twilight is just going to be all "oh um gee well I diiiid want to be a strong independant woman one day and all I am woman hear me roar... buuuut then whelp I read Twilight so fuck I guess I have to be like Bella now and find myself an Edward because I'm just a silly little impressionable female, and I just can't think for myself under the power of these dangerous books, oh dear me why couldn't someone have protected my fragile girly psyche from this influence!" Seriously wtf, it's hilariously ironic."
Now, at first, I was just kind of annoyed at the shitty fangirl argument proposed, so I replied with this
"Except that, y'know, girls who are thirteen to eighteen, which is exactly the audience this book is trying to reach, are going through some horribly tempestuous changes in their lives, and are stuck between being a girl and being a woman. They want to belong, fit in, and be loved.
This book is hugely popular, and once something becomes THAT popular it begins to have an influence of society and culture (The mere fact that there are Twilight balls, and that some fans are begining a religion, should speak to that).
Now, what you're saying is basically "LOL you feminazis are dumb why would this hugely popular socially impacting book change the minds and mores of young impressionable girls!!!!!"
Which is retarded."
But, the more I thought about it, and the more I re-read her comment... Well, it dawned on me, quite slowly and horribly that she was basically defending a book that told girls in the developing stages of their emotional life that Edward Cullen was a Good Catch.
Which pissed me off to an incredible extend. As can be seen by my followup post.
"You know what, you actually kind of pissed me off Childlike.
Because there are guys who act like Edward Cullen in the real world. Guys who expect their girlfriends to do what they say, when they say it, and no complain about it. And when they don't get it, they get emotionally, or physically, abusive.
They act contrite afterwards, of course. "I'm sorry babe", "I love you", "I get mad sometimes, and you know I never want to hurt you", and so on.
What Twiligh is saying is that, as long as he loves you, and you love him, emotional and physical abuse is normal, acceptable behaviour. It's fine he drags her everywhere and boses her around. He LOVES her. It's fine he dismantles her truck to stop her from visiting friends. He LOVES her. It's fine he breaks into her house in the middle of the night to watch her sleep. He LOVES her.
And it's bullshit. There is already enough of a problem with young girls and abusive relationships without a fucking hugely popular book like Twilight coming in and telling them that it's fine to be in this relationship because that's how Edward and Bella started and they have TRUE LOVE OMG"
I'm honestly awaiting her reply to that. If she even bothes to reply, which she might not. she has a habbit of just flouncing in a thread, posting some random defence, then running away when someone calls her on the bullshit arguments she's making. So, we'll see.
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| Where am I |
[27 Jan 2009|12:42pm] |
Well, I got accepted in my DEP program (Professional training, for non-Quebec folk). So, in about two weeks time, I'll be taking full time courses to become a technician.
Go me.
I am also in the process of filling out online forms for loans/burseries/financial aide from the good ol' Maple Leaf and Fleur de Lys, so I can live. And have money.
The latter of which is something I haven't had in a while now.
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| Finally |
[31 Dec 2008|08:25pm] |
Got my epic.
Awwww yeh
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[28 Dec 2008|10:08pm] |
Huge ass movie meme
Apparently, seing more than 80 means someone has no life.
People are dumb, it seems.
( Read more... )
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[05 Nov 2008|12:25am] |
Now that
that was one hell of a speech
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