Twitter: georgemaschke- Blue Mountain Gold coffee (a Jamaican variety) grown in Papua New Guinea. It is dark roasted and very good. :-) http://twitpic.com/2jcluj
- The rain on my windshield painted an impressionist landscape this morning. http://twitpic.com/2iae4n
- Rain in Holland is hardly news, but it has rained unusually hard in the past 24 hours, with water in the streets. http://twitpic.com/2iaa8u
- The unthinkable has happened: I have utterly and completely run out of coffee. Not a single precious bean left in the house!
- I have given up on Ubuntu One file synchronization. Too many glitches--including data loss--in particular with Tomboy Notes.
- If you would deny Muslims freedom to build #Park51 community center, then don't you dare call One World Trade Center "Freedom Tower."
- NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's excellent defense of the so-called "Ground Zero" Islamic center project : http://huff.to/aNRwu5
- How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025): http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-06-24-n15.html
- Interesting commentary by @nickpatrick: "Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?" http://bit.ly/9buYtj
- This is the first coin dated 2010 that I've encountered. It's a Dutch 5 euro cent coin. http://twitpic.com/270jl6
Category Archives: Iran
Persian Word of the Week: ساندیس
On 11 February 2010, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution was observed in Iran, and it took place in an extraordinarily politically charged atmosphere, being seen as something of a watershed event for Iran’s Green Movement. As I followed the news on-line, I cam across a Persian word I had never heard before: ساندیس [...]
Gareth Porter on the Alleged Iranian ‘Nuclear Trigger’ Document
In “Iran: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story,” Gareth Porter follows up on his earlier report that “U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, [...]
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Typography Casts Additional Doubt on Authenticity of Alleged Iranian “Nuclear Trigger” Document
On 14 December 2009, The Times of London trumpeted what it claimed were notes produced in early 2007 “from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project” documenting Iranian plans to build and test a neutron initiator, a key component of an atomic weapon. The article received widespread international attention and called into question the US intelligence [...]
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Announcement by Mir Hossein Mousavi on Election Results
Last night, Iran’s official news agency declared Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the landslide winner of Iran’s presidential elections, reportedly carrying nearly two-thirds of the votes. This morning, amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud, Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a brief statement that I have translated to English here: In the Name of God [...]
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Fox News Producer Justin Fishel Lies About Iranian Nuclear Program