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Iranian Elections

phongonephongone 1,652 Posts
edited June 2009 in Strut Central
Go Mousavi!
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  • youngEINSTEINyoungEINSTEIN 2,443 Posts
    good luck mousavi!

    peace, stein. . .
  • SaracenusSaracenus 671 Posts
    From Twitter:

    BREAKING. Norm Coleman claiming victory in Iran.

    That is all.
  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    Ahmadinejad is supposed to have won the election with more than 60 percent.
    Shit has written FRAUD all over it.
  • minimini 880 Posts
    There??s a riot going on and the revolution will be televised.
  • phongonephongone 1,652 Posts
    If the powers that be in Tehran wanted to throw a fake election, they should of at least slow-played that schitt and made it less obvious, instead of calling Achmadinejad the landslide victor the day of the election.

    But maybe this will be a good thing in the end and stoke the flames of revolution.
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
    http://mynewsjunkie.com/2009/06/13/daily...-demonstrators/
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
    Why is there not much on the news about shit going down???
  • rogbrogb 172 Posts
    http://mynewsjunkie.com/2009/06/13/twitter-users-shame-cnn-for-not-covering-iran-elections-riots/

    Twitter users were posting ???#CNNfail??? on thousands of tweets Saturday night saying that their coverage of important news like the Iranian elections were downplayed by the cable network.


    Here are some of those tweets:


    clickmomukhamo: OMG! Major developments in Iran yet CNN isn???t breaking into Larry King who???s interviewing some bikers! #cnnfail


    lifeonqueen: CNN is screwing the pooch on this one - top story on web is Six Flags bankruptcy not Iran. Way to miss history CNN #CNNfail


    geoffeighinger: RT @Elektracutie They should quit the news and just do travel brochures. #cnnfail


    ivanlasso: RT @dabloguiman: COVER IRAN NOW!!!! @CNN @CNNbrk @CNNWORLD #iranelection #CNNFAIL pls RT


    MAIN STORY on http://www.cnn.com/

    FCC gets 300,000 calls as analog TV disappears

    Riots at the FCC headquarters to be expected shortly.
  • coldcutscoldcuts 388 Posts
    Why is there not much on the news about shit going down???

    I don't understand the lack of coverage myself. It's unbelievable considering what is taking place over there. I've been looking for some news about it and came across Andrew Sullivan's blog which is doing a nice job of keeping me atop of the situation.

    http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/page/1/
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
    Yeah I don't get it.

    Things are pretty heated over there and it's pretty much by main stream media in the US.

    Is it because this doesn't portray Iran as unified, fundamental islamic extremist?


    And they wonder why people are turning to blogs to get their news.



    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html



  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    my Dad is over there and he sounds exhausted and vague and isn't saying much - I can't tell if it's because they are cut off from any real news or it's not smart to say too much or both. I am worried.

    tehranbureau.com is a great site and has very good updates
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
    My thoughts are with your dad and family.

    Seems crazy over there. My uncle just came back a few weeks back.





    Damn at 2 minutes in the crowd chases away a member of the secret police when he tries to stop the BBC reporter.
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    Much more important than the demonstrations, which are a shock for Iran, but a report I heard that the security forces were going around arresting moderate officials in the government. Was unconfirmed, but it sounded like a coup if true. Also some reformist clerics have called the election a fraud. Thy are not part of the clerical leadership, but still an important development because they gave religious rulings to back their complaints.
  • LokoOneLokoOne 1,823 Posts
    If the powers that be in Tehran wanted to throw a fake election, they should of ....

    taken a leaf out of old George W book.....


    I feel for the Iranians...but its time Muslims of the world stood up and were counted, any western involvement will only justify the Iranian powers that be....
  • Ex-BoyfriendEx-Boyfriend 795 Posts
    Mousavi is not the 'reformist' candidate that he has been depicted as. You simply don't get to run for president if you aren't a proven party man as the communists would say(out of 475 people who applied to run for president the mullahs allowed 4). Read a bit more about this guy mousavi's history, especially his conduct as prime minister in the iraq-iran war.

    I'd urge people to read stuff coming from the press outfits in the region and not the western press. From what iv'e read at the BBC ect. they seem to have been swept up by the romantic idea of a popular uprising of a reformist movement against hardline reactionaries and the facts are being fitted to this narrative.
  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    roffle. you are irrelevant.


    Are folks watching this stuff?



  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
    roffle. you are irrelevant.


    Are folks watching this stuff?




  • pj4533pj4533 481 Posts
    been glued to twitter.

    @persiankiwi
    @oxfordgirl
    #iranelection
  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts

    Word, there's a good up-to-date blog on HuffPo and Andrew Sullivan has been updating frequently.

    Amazing stuff...
  • gravelheadwrapgravelheadwrap corn 948 Posts

    Word, there's a good up-to-date blog on HuffPo and Andrew Sullivan has been updating frequently.

    Amazing stuff...

    Been following those as well.

    Interesting read regarding the elections among other current Iran-related issues
    http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/15/iran_in_turmoil_after_disputed_presidential
  • UnherdUnherd 1,880 Posts
    Sullivan was claiming the Atlantic website was under attack, anyone heard anything else about that? The site bassie was rec'ing above was down last night when I tried to check it out. Best to your dad btw bassie..

    The superior blog coverage of this definitely seems like the nail in the coffin for the MSM.


    lifeonqueen: CNN is screwing the pooch on this one - top story on web is Six Flags bankruptcy not Iran. Way to miss history CNN #CNNfail
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts

    Crazy how twitter made cnn look useless.


    http://search.twitter.com/search?q=cnnfail




    http://cnnfail.com/
  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    Turned out that Sullivan/The Atlantic was just overloaded from all the traffic.

    You're right about the MSM though. So irrelevant right now.

    I was hoping to catch a feed for the Obama presser on CNN.com, they didn't even have that last I checked.
  • UnherdUnherd 1,880 Posts
    Crazy thing is CNN can have international bureaus, 1000's of staff, hundreds of professional lifetime reporters and millions of dollars of equipment, and it seems like a lot of people will end up getting their news from the CNN twitter feed (right next to your downstairs neighbor, Ashton Kutcher, and Lady Gaga).

    And regardless, in the end that CNN feed can still get scooped by someone who's a local on the scene with a cell phone. Mad irrelevant, although I'm not totally comfortable saying editors are obsolete.
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
    I don't expect CNN to be fully in with everything they got. But shit... As late as 4AM today their main headline on the website was about the digital TV switchover with something about Ahmadinejad winning the election down the page.

    It can lead some to think the main stream media doesn't want to show whats really going on in the country and needs Iran to always look thy hate america.
  • AserAser 2,351 Posts
    have you thought about how this situation plays itself out regularly throughout the world to this day?

    n. korea, burma, tibet, xinjiang, etc....

    I'm finally coming around to twitter and seeing its power, still can skip 99% of it though.
  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    Incredible photos http://bit.ly/xwcZY (via Delay)
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
    Incredible photos http://bit.ly/xwcZY (via Delay)


    Yeah, I was just looking at those right this second. WOW

    Number 17 and 18 blew my face off.
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    have you thought about how this situation plays itself out regularly throughout the world to this day?

    n. korea, burma, tibet, xinjiang, etc....

    I'm finally coming around to twitter and seeing its power, still can skip 99% of it though.

    The problem with many of the social networks is 1) in developing countries like Iran, it's probably limited to a small minority of middle and upper class urbanites. 2) they can often be shut down by the government, and probably worse, be tracked to the source who can be punished.
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