Iran is not falling apart. Quite the contrary. Why does The West always get it "W"rong.

I don't want another Tianamen Square. Why is the media hoping there is. The limitations by the Iranian government of the communication media is completely understandable. People have died. They don't want anymore.

The Iranian authorities have already promised to recount the votes in question. They won't abandon that directive. And kindly 'get it right,' the opposition party is a political party NOT an anti-government movement.

The Iranian government is attempting to quell the 'hype' surrounding this election. They don't want any more deaths. They want reasonable 'behavior.' Unfortunately, due to the 'quickness' of the reporting of the vote, some of the people feel as though the Iranian government is 'cheating' them out of their democratic directive. The quick reporting was a mistake and there may be a tainted vote. There should be an investigation to discern why 'the Iranian election process' was interrupted. There needs to be a full and transparent recount of the vote, however, there needs not to be an 'uprising.' The people will not win some kind of 'idea' of another revolution. They will have either elected a new President or not.

I think this election in Iran has been wonderfully spectacular and motivated into the direction of democracy. I am sincerely hoping there will be no more violence, but, just a peaceful and truthful reporting of the election outcome. The Iranian government is attempting to protect its people from any more confrontation, that is why they are closing down the media. It is a matter of 'lawlessness' that is motivating the tightening of Iranian media. I can't say they are wrong. The election is over. The counting of the vote is in question.

If the government is over reaching in providing fraud into the 'process' it will be most unfortunate. It will compromise the legitmacy of the Iranian government and will foster more suspicion and mistrust. I think Iran has an opportunity to legitmately provide valid election results and uphold the integrity of its people. If that doesn't happen it will be unfortunate.

I hope there are human rights organizations on the ground in Iran. There should be, but, its dangerous. I am concerned for the Iranian people. They have become very passionate about a new dynamic in their country and I am happy for them, but, in the same instance they have lost their perspective in some ways and are allowing to much fervor to taint their judgement in regard to their own safety from and with their government. They need to calm down and prepare to receive the results of the election. The outcome will be discussed for a long time regardless the person that actually won the election.

This election is not about over throwing the government, it is about establishing an election process that is truthful and worthy of the integrity of the Iranian people. The West is 'not' supposed to be a cheerleading section with aspirations of disrupting the governmet. It is supposed to be a 'model' for free and honest elections.

The issues regarding nuclear proliferation have to be addressed in other venues, not by attempting to direct the Iranian people into an irrational expectation of their election process. Displacing authority into the populous of the Iranian people will cost them their lives. We should have no part of that in any way.

John McCain can go straight to hell ! He is advocating hatred that could cause people their lives. It is idiotic. It is Neocon. It is more evident every day that goes by why he and Palin lost the election. "Bring it on." Right, John. That approach is idiotic. It is like Bush yelling across half the circumference of Earth at the people of Iraq. It is stupid. It endangers people's lives.


John McCain: President Obama not showing 'leadership' (click here)
By ANDY BARR
6/17/09 5:30 PM

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized President Barack Obama Wednesday for failing to take a strong leadership role in voicing opposition to the election results in Iran.
“I do not believe that the president is taking the leadership that is incumbent upon an American president, which we have throughout modern history, and that is to advocate for human rights and freedom, and free elections are one of those fundamentals,” McCain said during an interview on CNN.
McCain said the president “obviously doesn’t agree” that Iranians have the right to protest the election results as a “fundamental principle.”
“We are seeking, as we have throughout the world, a free and fair election. This is obviously one that is corrupted,” the Republican senator said....

The American Medical Association says "Show me the money." For What?

The American populous is either uninsured, underinsured, poorly insured or in government. What does the AMA think they are talking about. The statistics when one clicks on the title to this entry is from 2007, before the Bush/Paulson global economic collapse. Imagine what it is today.

What the AMA doesn't stop to realize is that when Americans are fully insured the income to the health care system will skyrocket, and the hospitals they practic in will be fiscally sound. There is an exponential curve that accompanies, not just health care, improving both the ability to administer care, but, the economy that will finally be floating its health care system to avoid personal bankruptcy.

Personal bankruptcy, except for the Paulson escalation, is primarily due to health care costs. The AMA is blind to the fact, Americans lose their homes and equity on a regular basis because of them. They'll be compassionate and attend fund raisers and offer help to those unable to pay, but, they don't give a hoot or a holler about the house that was just repossessed because the owner received health care.

I think enough is enough. The AMA can take their belly aching elsewhere. The American people have priorities. We are tired of the Health Care Economic Bigotry.

The Weather at Scott Base, Ross Island, Antarctica is:

The first day of winter is coming soon to the Southern Hemisphere. It doesn't look like it, yet. In a recent report stating there is more sea ice off the coast of East Antarctica, it is proof the added coldness to the east coastal region is due to significant melting and runoff from the Blue Ice.

The West Antarctica Ice Sheet is still degrading with the latest collapse at Wilkens.

Wilkins ice shelf collapse continues (click here)

Cross-posted from The Great Beyond
Following the collapse on April 4 of a narrow ice bridge that had connected the Wilkins ice shelf with a small island off the Antarctic Peninsula, the northern ice front of the ice sheet is beginning to disintegrate.
A high-resolution radar image taken on April 20 by the German TerraSAR-X satellite shows large icebergs being released from a rift zone near Latady Island. Scientists expect up to 3,400 square kilometretres of the Wilkins Ice Sheet to break into icebergs before a new stable ice front will form.
Quirin Schiermeier

There is a gross disparity in that reality.

While some point to the added sea ice off East Antarctica as good news, it is not. It simply proves what this blog has documented frequently, that the top of the 3 miles Blue Ice was having chronic 'insults' to the integrity of the frigid air mass. That frigid air mass was noted on multiple occassions to have literally fallen like a water fall into the waters off East Antarctica.


New climate report says global warming ‘human-induced’ (click title to entry - thank you)
01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, June 17, 2009
...And unlike many positions taken during the Bush administration, it pulls no punches on what scientists believe is happening with the climate, and why.
“Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal,” says the report’s summary. The warming “is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat trapping gases.”
Most of the emissions come from the burning of coal, gas and oil, the report says, and important contributions come from the clearing of forests, agricultural practices and other activities.
Focusing on New England, the report says that if warming continues throughout this century, people in New Hampshire will experience summers similar to what occurs today in North Carolina....

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

The Pacific Fisheries have been crashing from some time now.

Eric Hall, of Taylor Shellfish Farms, counts the seeds that have settled on a shell. (click title to entry - thank you)

Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W

Temperature :: 54 °F

Conditions :: Overcast

Humidity :: 88%

Dew Point :: 50 °F

Wind :: 7 mph from the NW

Pressure :: 29.84 in (Steady)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles

UV :: 2 out of 16

Clouds:
Overcast 6500 ft
(Above Ground Level)

Elevation :: 33 ft

Go get 'em, Leon. The Bush/Cheney Administration didn't do anything for the monies they scammed from the US Treasury.

Speaking truth to power was never something George and Dick were good at receiving, this is just another occurrence.

Richard Cheney wants to save his own 'hide' and that of his party from political and legal demise. For seven years after September 11, 2001, the people of the USA trusted the 'powers that be' to protect them. How many times did I hear the propaganda? How many times did we believe the 'systems' within the mechancisms of the USA were safe. Dear God, they couldn't even perfect the issuance of USA Passports while they demanded information they had no right to have and raised the cost of application.

When does it stop, Dick? You are out of power, have compromised this country by running a war for Halliburton and you continue to endanger us by running your mouth? When does it stop?

I think Dick needs a job after the global fiscal collapse. Why don't we give him a job at the US - Mexican Border. He can stop all the potential terrorists he wants !!



...The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency’s headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia, former Vice-President Dick Cheney delivered an extraordinary attack on the Obama Administration’s emerging national-security policies. Cheney, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, accused the new Administration of making “the American people less safe” by banning brutal C.I.A. interrogations of terrorism suspects that had been sanctioned by the Bush Administration. Ruling out such interrogations “is unwise in the extreme,” Cheney charged. “It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness.”
Leon Panetta, the C.I.A.’s new director—and the man who bears much of the responsibility for keeping the country safe—learned the details of Cheney’s speech when he arrived in his office, on the seventh floor of the agency’s headquarters. An hour earlier, he had been standing at the side of President Barack Obama, who was giving a speech at the National Archives, in which he argued that America could “fight terrorism while abiding by the rule of law.” In January, the Obama Administration banned the “enhanced” techniques that the Bush Administration had approved for the agency, including waterboarding and depriving prisoners of sleep for up to eleven days. Panetta, pouring a cup of coffee, responded to Cheney’s speech with surprising candor. “I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue,” he told me. “It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.”...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei brings 'reason' to the disbuted election results. "Let Fairness & Transparency Reign. Thank you."

Any illegitimacy to elections brings sorrow to people. The vote is the only method people have in applying their voice to the desires for their government. When the vote is 'insulted' by corrupt methods the pain to the false outcomes is too much to bear.

I please refer to a 'known' inconsistency.

The election results were supposed to be 'carefully' compiled and reported in three days. That did not occur. The people immediately reacted with the understanding the 'process' was 'incomplete.' The people's voice matters, their desire for accuracy and fairness is vitally important.

Thank you.

I regret all the deaths that occurred. Those people were passionate to their voice and let it be a reminder to the leaders of Iran how their people rely on 'safe, fair and consistent election and voting rules.'

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei orders inquiry into vote-rigging claims in Iranian poll (click title to entry - thank you)
Surprise move by Iran's supreme leader comes as interior ministry bans Tehran rally by supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi
Ian Black in Tehran, Matthew Weaver and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 June 2009 11.09 BST
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered an investigation into claims of vote-rigging and fraud in last week's presidential election, Iranian state TV reported today.
The report said Khamenei had told the guardian council, the clerical body that oversees elections, to examine the pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi's claims of widespread rigging in Friday's poll.
The government declared the incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to have won in a landslide victory.
Today's news represents a surprising turnaround for Khamenei, who had previously welcomed the results.
Mousavi has cancelled a rally planned for later today after being warned that militias responsible for policing it would be equipped with live ammunition....

Ahmadinejad needs to be held accountable for the deaths occuring in the streets of Tehran.

The people of Iran loved you. Don't turn your back on them now! You could loose them forever.

...In 1978-79, Iranians across the country took to their roofs every night to shout the name of the man who later became the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini....

The vigilantes of Ahmadinejad are killing opposition demonstrators. We have witnessed some of this before in countries in Africa following elections. However, the countries where this occurs on a somewhat regular basis have a history of this happening. The people of Iran are a different issue. The violence is alarming. It has never occurred before in elections in Iran. The 'stated' President-Elect Ahmadinejad has done NOTHING to guarantee the safety of the opposition, to either its members and followers or its leader. There is something very wrong here!


The people of Iran need to value their lives and their futures, it would appear their government does not. The leaders of the global community need to speak out in regard to the anarchy that is becoming Tehran. The violence at this level should not be tolerated. The Middle East is too 'small' a world to allow this level of instability to exist. There is no indication it will end. The opposition is steadfast. I suggest the religious leaders in Iran give consideration of the requests to be heard by the opposition party. If they love their people, they will find a way.

Violence escalates in Iran, first deaths reported, communication cut off (click title to entry - thank you)
Posted by Craig Kanalley on 6/13/09
Per Al-Jazeera, thousands of Iranians have filled the streets of Tehran and elsewhere in protest of election results. The situation has deteriorated to “the biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution.” Violence intensified after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on national television the vote was “completely free” and Iran should now celebrate a “great victory.”
Twitterers reported that Facebook, YouTube, Friend Feed, and a host of other social networking sites including Twitter itself had been blocked on Saturday, as well as a number of news sites. It was also reported that cell phone service was down throughout the country and Internet was running abnormally slow. Many Iranians are still managing to tweet through third-party applications.
Al-Arabiya reports that at least three people have died during riots in Tehran. Rumors of dead are rampant among Iranians on Twitter, ranging from a few to 100.


As night falls, Tehran still ablaze (click here)
A level of rioting unseen since the 1979 revolution continued into the night; rioting also reported in southern cities of Zahedan and Shiraz.
By Iason Athanasiadis - Special to GlobalPost
Published: June 13, 2009 20:09 ET
Updated: June 14, 2009 09:17 ET
TEHRAN, Iran— The Iranian capital was still in the grip of rioting as darkness fell Saturday night. Vali Asr Avenue, the city's most historic thoroughfare which traverses the city, has not seen anything like it since the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Authorities discontinued cellphone communications, blocked several websites and moved swiftly to squash pockets of resistance.
Rioters continued battling riot police on motorcycles and bassiji militias, as residents watching the violence from balconies and rooftops shouted "death to the dictator."
It was an eerie reminder of the revolutionary days from whose ashes the Islamic Republic was born.
In 1978-79, Iranians across the country took to their roofs every night to shout the name of the man who later became the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini....

Let's just end this wth a question.

Will the belligerence by the Iranian government result in action by those that oppose their increased escalation to nuclear missiles?

The leaders of North Korea and Iran are too overtly aggressive to believe we could ever tolerate such overatures. It isn't realistic to allow such policies of hate, be they international or domestic.

Good night.


Iranian Nuclear Facility

What lies ahead for the USA? Tougher negotiations? You really think so? I don't.

In my opinion, the election results in Iran, while disappointing in many, many ways, provides a level playing field for the Obama State Department. There is no reason to believe the Iranian government will change their plans, hence, the options are consistent. Yesterday is the same as today as it will be tomorrow. There won't be any delay in engaging the Obama Agenda.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. envoy Dennis Ross, in a new book he co-authored, raises the possibility of the use of military force against Iran should negotiations fail to head off Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Ross, who is leading the U.S. diplomatic effort to engage Iran on a series of issues, wrote "Myths, Illusions & Peace -- Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East" with David Makovsky, a former journalist who is a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy....

The Mahmoud Hologram.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad making his victory overature. The picture was as if some kind of hologram. It was computerized imaging. I believe it was prepared before election day. The 'back drop' was changed to 'green' to be more appealing to those defeated and as an enticing imagineering to The West.

...Yesterday morning, election officials reported that president Ahmadinejad had received nearly 19 million votes, or about 63 percent of the total, while Mousavi got about 9 million votes, or 34 percent. Two other challengers, Mohsen Rezaie, a conservative former commander of the Revolutionary Guard, got just under 600,000 votes, while Mehdi Karroubi, a liberal former speaker of the Parliament, garnered about 260,000, or 2.5 and 0.88 percent respectively. Turnout was a record 85 percent, officials said....

...The powerful Revolutionary Guard cautioned Wednesday that it would crush any "revolution" against the Islamic regime by Mousavi's "green movement."...

They are still protesting. Sure the Revolutionary Guard didn't vote with the opposition?

The Campaign of Mirhossein Mousavi was brilliant. It was pervasive. It is amazing they got away with it all.

You will never convince me the Iranians didn't want to oust their President. I know they did. The 'drive' was too consistent, too intact and too daunting. There was even endorsement from within the Iranian power structure for the campaign by 'computer.'

...With the Internet playing a mounting role in political debate, authorities have curbed access to political, human rights and news websites, and blocked Facebook on Saturday.
Former parliament speaker Mehdi Karoubi said websites should be tolerated at "such a sensitive political period."...

Iran is appearing to be a democracy. The opposition is tolerated. It is a good show for Mahmoud. A nice mask.

The electorate is a bit of a puppet in my opinion. The 'sudden' rise in recognizable opposition was very odd. Whether it was due to a 'parallel' government that began with the successful defeat of the moderates in 2005 or simply an unexpected endorsement by the inner circle of authority; it was odd.

Suddenly, people were everywhere opposing the existing 'regime.' It appears to be more of an uprising than an election and I do believe the Iranian people were sincerely attempting to reclaim their country. They have many reasons to do so. The sanctions. The threat of aggression against their country due to the increased nuclear tensions. A promising speech by a new American President.

Regardless, with a movement the current Iranian authority could not contain completely and world pressure to allow people to express themselves within the country, the 'appearance' of a democratic process also served Mahmoud as if there was hope to the world for a 'new' Iran with a new priority in freedom, inclusion and peace. That is not the case. Today, Iran is more determined to have its way. It is stimulating nuclear threat to the region.

Supporters of reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, some wearing green as the color of the party, gather on the streets protesting the results of the Iranian presidential election.

Iran Has Started a Mideast Arms Race

The 'impetus' to a Middle East with a nuclear arms race belongs to Iran. Currently, nations are 'reacting' to Iran's continued nuclear capacity and if it doesn't end soon, there will be no stopping the escalation.

The Iranian Nuclear Capacity has escalated quickly. With the Iraq invasion, the people of Iran feared they were next. The nightmare that is Mahmoud, directly resulted with the illegal invasion into Iraq.

Ahmadinejad became the sixth president of Iran on 6 August 2005.

...But since his release from house arrest a month ago, Mr. Khan has entertained a string of official visitors from across the Middle East. All come with messages of sympathy; and some governments in that region are looking to him for the knowledge and advice they need to fast track their own illicit nuclear projects. .Make no mistake: The Middle East may be on the verge of a nuclear arms race triggered by the inability of the West to stop Iran's quest for a bomb. Since Tehran's nuclear ambitions hit the headlines five years ago, 25 countries -- 10 of them in the greater Middle East -- have announced plans to build nuclear power plants for the first time....

During the past eight years there was a lot of 'shifting.'

The Bush/Cheney 'mouths' were aggressive without the ability to back it up. They were 'contained' between the electorate of the USA and the two wars they were waging. The world literally 'tread water' in fear of 'tipping' any balance and beginning a nuclear aggression by the USA White House. During the entire time, Russia hosted the global concerns and sponsored networking to assist countries in the 'line of sight' of Bush's hideous ego. In other words, Russia was throwing a 'body block' to the Bush and Cheney Nuclear Threat.

...Nicaragua and Cuba belong to the 18-nation PetroCaribe alliance created by Chavez in 2005 that groups OPEC member Venezuela with oil-importing Caribbean and Central America states, allowing them to buy Venezuelan oil on easier terms.
While most PetroCaribe leaders present used the one-day meeting in St. Kitts to praise Venezuela's oil support for the economic and social development of their countries, Ortega made a point of attacking U.S. strategy in Latin America....

Mahmoud drop kicked 'the power play' to Kim. It was a clear signal they would not 'regress' into passive peace.

North Korea's communist government is waging war against men with long hair, calling them unhygienic anti-socialist fools, and even leader Kim Jong Il has trimmed his famous bouffant locks.
Under the new propaganda, this man was singled out on the Korean TV as an offender. His excuse to the TV was that he had recently returned from a foreign business trip. But the program found another businessman who said "Whenever I go on overseas trips, I tidy myself in accordance with the Socialist lifestyle."

The words were somewhat like this:

The world is changing.

It is shifting.

We invite everyone to join us.

He wasn't referring to a burgeoning democracy in Iran, either.

Mahmoud made his acceptance speech today. Did everyone pay attention?

Yeah?

There will be no peace with Iran or North Korea or any other extremist 'entity' in the world. Did you catch that? It screamed at me, beyond the 'restlessness' of the electorate. Beyond the facade of a 'rigorous' particapatory election. He declared war. I caught it. I have a feeling others did.

It's Saturday Night, the 13th.

"The World is a Vampire" by Smashing Pumpkins

the world is a vampire, sent to drain
secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
and what do i get, for my pain
betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
even though i know-i suppose i'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job


despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage


now i'm naked, nothing but an animal
but can you fake it, for just one more show
and what do you want, i want to change
and what have you got
when you feel the same
even though i know-i suppose i'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job


despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage


tell me i'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
jesus was an only son
tell me i'm the chosen one
jesus was an only son...for you


despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage


tell me i'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
jesus was an only son...for you
and i still believe that i cannot be saved
and i still believe that i cannot be saved
and i still believe that i cannot be saved
and i still believe that i cannot be saved

Morning Papers - "Its Origins"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"