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20/06/2009

Iranian Protesters Defy Government, Take to the Streets (UPDATED)

Iran has been responsible for the spread of terrorism, including the support of Hezbollah and the Mahdi Army in Iraq. (http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/irans-contribution-to-terrorism-in-iraq/)
I’d have rather seen Iran vaporized along with several other ME countries on 12 September 2001, but if there’s a chance we can help destroy the Islamofascist bastards and bring democratic reform from within, lets do it.
The latest on the crackdown on freedom:
UPDATE:
Iranian government thugs reportedly hang Mousavi supporters.

As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Speaking after Iran’s top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report.

……Underlining the climate of fear among direct and even indirect supporters of Mousavi’s campaign for the election to be annulled, the sources also reported that a prominent cleric gave a speech to opposition protesters in Teheran earlier this week in which he publicly acknowledged that the very act of speaking at the gathering would likely cost him his life.

……On Monday, witnesses said thousands of policemen and Basij militiamen carrying batons were deployed in Teheran’s main squares to prevent any recurrence of the opposition protests. Drivers who so much as shouted “Allahu Akbar” or beeped their horns had their windows smashed by the Basiji and riot police.

……”Some people are still going out into the streets, but there is despair and sadness,” said one source.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246296541275&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

UPDATE

Iran’s feared Basij militia asked the country’s chief prosecutor Wednesday to investigate embattled opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi for his role in violent protests that it said undermined national security in the aftermath of last month’s presidential election.

The semiofficial Fars news agency said the militia — known as supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s street enforcers — sent the prosecutor a letter accusing Mousavi of taking part in nine offenses against the state, including “disturbing the nation’s security,” which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529670,00.html

UPDATE

Iranian authorities have banned a newspaper allied to presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi after he denounced Iran’s government as “illegitimate” because of claims of voting fraud in last month’s election, a reformist political group said Wednesday.

The closure of the daily Etemad-e-Melli, or National Confidence, is another blow by officials seeking to block media and Web sites critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose disputed June 12 re-election was confirmed this week by Iran’s powerful Guardian Council.

……It’s unclear how many people have been detained during the post-election riots and protests, but at least one group, the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights, claimed at least 2,000 arrests have been made. Officials place the death toll at 17 protesters and eight security forces, but the figures could be not independently verified because of media restrictions.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529662,00.html

UPDATE
Mahmoud says Neda’s death “suspicious”. Especially since it was a government assassin who took her out, ya swarthy fuck.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked Iran’s cleric-controlled judiciary on Monday to investigate the killing of Neda Agha Soltan, who became an icon of Iran’s ragtag opposition after gruesome video of her bleeding to death on a Tehran street was circulated worldwide.

Ahmadinejad’s Web site said Soltan was slain by “unknown agents and in a suspicious” way, convincing him that “enemies of the nation” were responsible.

The regime has implicated protesters and even foreign intelligence agents in Soltan’s death. But an Iranian doctor who said he tried to save her told the BBC last week she apparently was shot by a member of the volunteer Basij militia. Protesters spotted an armed member of the militia on a motorcycle, and stopped and disarmed him, Dr. Arash Hejazi said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529391,00.html

The investigation will be conducted by the same thugs who did the “recount”.

The protests against the election fraud continue.
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02/07/2009

Former University of Tennessee Professor Convicted of Conspiracy

Filed under: China, Iran, Traitors — sfcmac @ 17:17

A federal judge sentenced a retired University of Tennessee professor to four years in prison Wednesday for passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and Iran.

“Research assistants”?  Bullshit.

Plasma physics expert J. Reece Roth was found guilty in September on all 18 counts of conspiracy, fraud and violating the Arms Export Control Act.

……Prosecutors said Roth allowed the two graduate students to see sensitive information while they researched a plasma-guidance system for unmanned aircraft.

Like the Preditor UAV used by the military.

Roth, 71, testified at trial that he didn’t believe he broke the law because the research had yet to produce anything tangible. He said he received only about $6,000 from the contract.

The tangible results will happen when the two “research assistants” get back to their native countries.

Roth, who is appealing his conviction, faced a maximum of 160 years in prison and more than $1.5 million in fines.

The charges involved work performed from 2004 to 2006 on two Air Force contracts by Roth; graduate students Xin Dai of China and Sirous Nourgostar of Iran; and university spinoff company Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. of Knoxville.

Prosecutors presented several documents suggesting research by Roth’s university laboratory and Atmospheric Glow Technologies was restricted. Roth attempted to keep the sensitive research with an American graduate student and the rest with a foreign student, but eventually the data was shared.

Roth also was accused of taking reports and related studies in his laptop to China during a lecture tour in 2006, and having one report e-mailed to him there through a Chinese professor’s Internet connection.

Atmospheric Glow Technologies has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of exporting defense-related materials, and Roth protege Daniel Sherman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529730,00.html

I’m a firm believer in locking up assholes like Roth and throwing away the key. In more extreme cases of espionage, the death penalty should be enforced, for a change.

Al Qaeda Threatens Sarkozy Over Veil Criticism

Filed under: "Peaceful" religion of Islam, Europe, Islamofascism, Terrorism — sfcmac @ 16:37

More ‘diplomacy’ from the ‘peaceful religion of Islam’.

French officials are on guard after an Al Qaeda affiliate threatened vengeance for President Nicolas Sarkozy’s criticism of the face-covering veils worn by some Muslim women.

France is maintaining “very great vigilance” toward actions and statements by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or North Africa, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said in a briefing.

“French authorities reaffirm their determination to fight terrorism,” he added.

The Algeria-based group issued a statement on Islamic Web sites vowing to “seek vengeance against France” over Sarkozy’s comments about face-covering Muslim veils such as the burqa and niqab. The declaration could not be independently verified.

Sarkozy said last week the burqa would not be “welcome” in France and would turn women into prisoners. France’s parliament created a commission to study the issue, which could lead to banning the Muslim robes from being worn in public.

I can’t say I blame him. Radical muslims are populating cities across Europe, and the women are such doormats, they still succumb to Sharia Law regardless of where they live.

Human Rights Watch said the move would be counterproductive, and a top British Muslim group said Sarkozy’s comments were patronizing and offensive.

‘Counterproductive’….let’s see, where have I heard that before? Oh yes:

……Obama has studiously avoided the phrase, (”War on Terror”) which officials see as legally troublesome and politically counterproductive.
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/obama-drops-war-on-terror-phrase/

“Human Rights Watch” should spend more effort lashing out at Islamic atrocities and misogyny, before they bitch about  Sarkozy’s comment.

The Al Qaeda declaration called on followers to act “for the honor of our daughters and our sisters” and called on all Muslims “to respond to this hate.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529708,00.html

Hate?!? You muslim cockholsters wrote the book on hate.

Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) Against ‘Climate Change’ Bill, Draws Dear Leader’s Wrath

Filed under: Communism/Socialism, Leftist moonbats, Politics — sfcmac @ 15:30

The White House is smoking mad at Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), who says he’s voting against the climate bill — despite the lobbying of the entire First Family in the Oval Office last night.

If the bill goes down, Obama won’t forget Doggett’s role, Democrats say.

It’s “stunning that he would ignore the wishes not just of his president, but of his constituents and the country,” said an administration official.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0609/White_House_pressing_Doggett.html

Didja get that? One of their own won’t fall for the ‘climate change’ hoax or vote to spend taxpayer’s money to fund it, and Der Fuhrer makes threats.

Journalism is Dead

Filed under: Communism/Socialism, Leftist moonbats, Politics, The Media — sfcmac @ 14:29

With Congress away on recess, President Barack Obama is stepping up his sales pitch for health care reform, tapping online social media in a new end run around the traditional news filter.

At a town hall today in Annandale, Obama will answer questions from a live audience, and also from users of popular online communities including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

“The president wanted to continue the conversation that we started last week with town halls,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. It’s “a continuing conversation about how to move health care reform forward.”

Although the format opens up the opportunity for questioning Obama to a potentially limitless online audience, the White House controls which questions are asked.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-will-filter-questions-for-Virginia-town-hall-7906507-49550207.html

And what a coinkidink, some of the questioners were Obama insiders.

The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070100950.html

This is just the latest in Obama’s staged media circus.

He did in in March during a White House town hall via the Internet.
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/the-ones-staged-townhall-meeting/

He’s been doing it quite a bit during press conferences, too.  There’s been more than one leftwing blog plant in the “press corps” with a pre-ordained question.   In this particular instance, it was Nico Pitney, a HuffPo hack.
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/2/1/obama_calls_on_huffpost_for_iran_question/
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Obama’s Assault on the American Dream

Filed under: Communism/Socialism, Economy, Politics — sfcmac @ 11:10

Via The Heritage Foundation.

Big Government Getting Bigger

  • Spending, Spending, Spending: President Obama spent nearly $800 billion on the stimulus bill and then proposed a budget that would increase spending by another $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Spending in 2009 has increased 25%, which is the largest non-war government expansion since the New Deal.

 

  • Creating or Saving Jobs? The President set a benchmark of a 138.6 million jobs in the U.S. economy by the end of 2010. He is currently 6.4 million jobs short. Yet with rising unemployment, the White House continues to take credit for jobs “saved” without any empirical evidence to suggest this is true. The stimulus bill did create jobs in one sector–the government–by nearly doubling the size of several federal agencies and creating a huge bureaucracy.

The rest here: http://www.heritage.org/Press/FactSheet/fs0035.cfm

The projected deficit from the Assclown-in-Chief’s tax/spend/bailout orgy is $9 Trillion.  According to the article,  it could go as high as $12.5 Trillion.   I bet both amounts are too low.

How’s that “change” working out for you?

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