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A tale of two presidents: Reagan inspired the people of Poland, Obama sells out the people of Iran

Ronald Reagan knew how to inspire the people of Poland in 1981, unlike Barack Obama, who is selling out the people of Iran in 2009.

Here’s what Ronald Reagan said in 1981 when the people of Poland revolted against their autocratic rulers:

Today they erect statues honoring Ronald Reagan in Poland.
Today they erect statues honoring Ronald Reagan in Poland.

The Polish nation, speaking through Solidarity, has provided one of the brightest, bravest moments of modern history. The people of Poland are giving us an imperishable example of courage and devotion to the values of freedom in the face of relentless opposition. Left to themselves, the Polish people would enjoy a new birth of freedom. But there are those who oppose the idea of freedom, who are intolerant of national independence, and hostile to the European values of democracy and the rule of law. 

Two Decembers ago, freedom was lost in Afghanistan; this Christmas, it’s at stake in Poland. But the torch of liberty is hot. It warms those who hold it high. It burns those who try to extinguish it.

Here’s what Barack Obama said in 2009 when the people of Iran protested a fraudulent election:

“It’s not productive given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling.”

Way to go, Mr. President. You put the fear of God into the theocracy with that one.

How to help the Iranian Revolution through Twitter

A guide to helping the Iranian protesters in Iran so you do not harm the Iranian protesters by doing things on Twitter that can give away locations of people tweeting and otherwise communicating to us from within Iran, or spread other information that could play into the hands of the Iranian government.

There are several tweets per second regarding Iran on Twitter right now. You can catch what going on at either:

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

or

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gr88

It’s inspiring, sad, angering and confusing. But it’s history unfolding in front of your very eyes. It very well could be the first revolution aided by social networks, in particular Twitter.

But make sure you do not harm the Iranian protesters by doing things on Twitter that can give away locations of people tweeting and otherwise communicating to us from within Iran, or spread other information that could play into the hands of the Iranian government.

Here are some rules of the road:

  1. Use only hashtags #iranelection and #gr88. These are the only ones most people are following.
  2. Change your Twitter setting to say your location is Tehran and you time zone is GMT +3:30 so there become way too many people for security forces to monitor.
  3. Do not tweet proxy IP addresses as government forces are monitoring tweets. Those that know how to send the proxies to them are doing so. If you are creating new proxies for our Iranian friends, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 for distribution. Otherwise they will be immediately blocked.
  4. Do not retweet the names/handles of sources from within Iran! Don’t name them anywhere, on a site, in an email, nowhere. You could cause their death.
  5. Don’t believe everything you read and automatically retweet, especially regrading locations, as government forces are now tweeting false information to hunt and trap people.

By the way, we just heard a report of a group of 500 security forces turning sides. We can only hope and pray this is true.

Note: If you have any other things we should cover, place a comment here and we’ll update the list with it.

News Update: Jimmy Carter is still an idiot

The former President had this to say about Mahmoud Achmadinejad and the “election” in Iran: “I think this election has bought out a lot of opposition to his policies in Iran, and I’m sure he’ll listen to those opinions and hopefully moderate his position.”

If you’re going to fly around the world observing elections, shouldn’t you be a little more observant? Here’s a video that shows you exactly how Mahmoud is listening to his people – with nightsticks.

Uh-oh. Reporter asks President tough question about Korea and Iran

The Scene: A joint press conference with French President Sarkozy.

The Reporter’s Question: “Iran and North Korea. What has the current policy – which is largely the same as ones of recent years – produced other than given time to North Korea and Iran to advance their nuclear ambitions?”

The President’s Answer: Almost three minutes of stuttering and stammering and reviewing the past in the most vague of terms in hopes that everyone would simply forget what the question was.

The Result: We’re not sure. We forgot the question.

H/T: HotAir

Iranian TV reveals that swine flu was created by Donald Rumsfeld and Jewish co-conspirators

Next time NBC needs to import another comedy for its Thursday night line-up, may we suggest Iranian TV? Because these guys are hilarious.

In the embedded clip, the paranoid, neurotic, psychotic (are there any we’ve overlooked?) Iranians reveal a vast, heretofore unknown conspiracy between Donald Rumsfeld, evil Jewish pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the United States government to develop and spread swine flu. Even Barack Obama is involved in some cloudy way.

Included among the insane claims:

Rumsfeld is “an active an influential member on the board of directors of Gilead Sciences.” He’s not. Here’s the Gilead’s board of directors directly from its website.

“It should be noted that Gilead Sciences is a Jewish company…and all its shareholders are Zionists.” It’s actually a publicly held company with thousands of stockholders around the world. Donald Rumsfeld, for example, is Presbyterian, but we don’t even know if he owns stock in the company.

“It’s name in Hebrew means “holy place.” According to Wikipedia, it has several meanings in Hebrew, but none of them are “holy place.”

“It is interesting that last year (Rumsfeld) bought, if I’m not mistaken, 18 billion dollars worth of new Gilead stocks.” According to OpenSecrets.com, Donald H. Rumsfeld is worth somewhere between $57,089,104 and $174,672,011. Maybe he bought it all on margin.

Don’t miss the Iranian ComedyFest. Coming to NBC on Thursday Nights this fall.

Source: TheHill.com

General Commander of the Iranian Army: It will take us 11 days “to wipe Israel out of existence”

While Fox News is covering car chases and missing girls and MSNBC is trying resurrect Air America on their network, much more important news is going around the world, virtually unreported, or at least underreported, by all U.S. networks. The best way to really learn what’s really going on in the world is to go to directly to the source. Yet it often requires translation. Thank God for Memri.org that non-profit organization providing translations of the Middle East media.

One recent story is a translation of the General Commander of the Iranian Army Ataollah Salehi who claims that It Will Take Us 11 Days “to Wipe Israel Out of Existence.”

Memri.org also includes a translation of the video into English, repeated here:

Following are excerpts of statements by Iranian military commanders, from a TV report which aired on LBC TV on May 3, 2009.

Continue reading “General Commander of the Iranian Army: It will take us 11 days “to wipe Israel out of existence””

Ahmadinejad says, “Circumstances Changing Rapidly in Our Favor”

Our enemies seem to love President Obama’s “engagement” efforts. That can’t be a good sign.

Here’s how CNSNews.com reports it:

At a joint press conference with Syrian President Bashar Assad last Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boasted that “those who one day called Iran and Syria part of the axis of evil now want to develop relations with Iran and Syria.”

“Circumstances are changing rapidly in our favor,” Arab media quoted him as saying. “We are on the road to victory.”

President Obama better start some of that smilin’, fist pumpin’ diplomacy in Iran. After all, it worked so well in Venezuela.

Source: CNSNews.com

Ahmadinejad adopts Obama’s “Yes We Can” campaign slogan

Pixie-ish Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leads supporters in a "Yes We Can" chant
Pixie-ish Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leads supporters in a "Yes We Can" chant

You can’t make this stuff up. Drudge reports that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to use Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” slogan in his next presidential campaign.

Who knew Ahmadinejad was such a big fan of American political campaigns?

IHateTheMedia.com has discovered that Ahmadinejad’s campaign staff also looked into adapting slogans from several other American presidential campaigns before going with “Yes We Can.”

They considered using George Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism” but thought the compassionate part might be a tough sell.

They thought about adapting Bill Clinton’s slogan but finally decided that “Building a bridge to the 13th century” wasn’t quite as catchy as “Building a bridge to the 21st century.”

Ronald Reagan said, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Ahmadinejad discovered that “Are you better off now than you were four hundred years ago?” didn’t test well in focus groups.

In 1960 Barry Goldwater’s slogan was “In Your Heart You Know He’s Right.” Ahmadinejad decided that “In Your Heart You Know He’s Nuts” was just too damn honest.

In the end, Ahmadinejad decided he wanted to be just like Obama so they went with the popular “Yes We Can.”

In other news, the Iranian leader announced that if Iran ever developed an auto industry, he would immediately nationalize it.

Source: DrudgeReport.com

Life in Iran: 1979 versus 2009

Young, Westernized Iranian women in 1979.
Young, Westernized Iranian women in 1979.

If you weren’t around before 1979, you may think the people of Iran have always been 13th century lunatics.

Not so.

These two photos perfectly demonstrate the difference between the theocratic Iran of today and the Iran of 30 years ago that was the most westernized country in the middle east. (You can see dozens of other photos of surprisingly Westernized, pre-secular Iran here).

Iranian Akhbar Ganji describes the 1979 Iranian revolution as an event that “promised us heaven, but… created a hell on earth.”

Young Iranian women in 2009. Literally a completely different picture.
Young Iranian women in 2009. Literally a completely different picture.
On the other hand, well-known Iranian nutcase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says today’s Iran is “a perfect model of splendid, humane, and divine life… for all the peoples of the world.”

Not for the peoples at IHateTheMedia.com. We consider this a preview of what our Islamo-Fascist friends have in mind for the rest of the world. Including America.

Source: FunnyToGo.com via Leenks.com

Iranian blogger “commits suicide” in prison

This is a tragic story. But let it serve as a chilling warning that the internet must remain free. Let’s just let the people who broke the story explain it in their own words:

Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, a 29-year old Iranian blogger and journalist died in Evin Prison in Tehran on March 18. In December, he was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mir Sayafi was still awaiting an additional trial for insulting Islam.

According to the Human Rights activists in Iran website, Omid Reza suffered from deep depression in jail and was prescribed medications of which he apparently took too many. Dr. Hesam Firouzi, a jailed doctor and human rights activist says he urged prison authorities to send Omid Reza to a hospital outside prison but that prison doctors refused, and would not perform even basic tests.

A campaign has been launched in Facebook to “Hold Iran Responsible for Death of Blogger Mirsayafi in Prison”.

Blogger Mojtaba Saminejad says Omid Reza had communicated to him two days before his death that he would possibly be allowed to exit the prison in the coming days to visit a hospital. The blogger says he was led to expect better news than this.

Omid Reza said his blog was cultural and it was not his intention to insult anyone. The attached video is called “Iran: A Nation of Bloggers.”

No funny closing comments on this one. Our sympathies go out to Reza’s friends and family. And our best wishes to other Iranian bloggers currently being held in other Iranian prisons.

Source: Global Voices, Iran: A Nation of Bloggers

Crazy story of the day: Iran won’t believe Obama until Hollywood apologizes

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We’re not sure which is funnier: the fact that Hollywood sent a delegation to Iran or the fact that Iran immediately demanded an apology from that delegation.

“(Iranian) cinema officials will only have the right to have official sessions with…Hollywood movie makers, when they apologize to the Iranians for their 30 years of insults and slanders,” said Javad Shamaghdari, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s offical art advisor.

“We will believe Obama’s policy of change when we see change in Hollywood, too,” Shamaghdari continued, “and if Hollywood wants to correct its behavior towards Iranian people and Islamic culture then they have to officially apologize.”

The testy Iranians are upset because the movie “300” portrayed their ancient Persian ancestors as bloodthirsty and because Mickey Rourke’s character tore apart an Iranian flag in “The Wrestler.”

We say, “Get in line, Iran.” No apology for you until we get an apology for Sean Penn’s entire career.

Source: Breitbart

Ahmadinejad introduces Iranian Fairness Doctrine

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and those fun-loving Iranian mullahs have re-introduced the Fairness Doctrine in Iran by blocking access to several websites promoting reformist presidential candidate Mohammed Khatami.

Reformists say the move is an attempt by the powerful hard-liners to silence Khatami and weaken his challenge to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the upcoming elections.

Khatami, who tried to open dialogue with the West during his eight years as president, believes his sites are being censored because his candidacy poses a serious threat to the increasingly unpopular Ahmadinejad.

“Censorship? That’s nonsense,” a spokesman for the mullahs said. “We’re just trying to assure that a wide variety of approved voices are heard. And, of course, that divisive moderate voices aren’t heard.”

Via InfidelsAreCool

Ahmadinejad wants change he can believe in

Ahmadinejad
image by Flickr's azrainman

Unfortunately, the change the Iranian leader wants is a change in U.S. policy.

Last week, Obama did as he said he would do and extended an olive branch to Iran with no pre-conditions. But Iran’s leaders made it clear they have no interest in talking to Obama unless we change our policies.

Just as conservatives have warned for years, Obama’s offer was misinterpreted by the extremist Islamic government. They said Obama’s willingness to reach out to Ahmadinejad “means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed.”

How is this possible? We’re we told that all our enemies would magically become our friends the moment Obama was elected?

We just feel so used.

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