Posted on 06/13/2009 4:16:31 PM PDT by InMemoriam
If breaking news would favor the right, probably blogs and twitter are your best hope. What you won't see on PMSNBC or CNN:
On twitter: try #iranelection or #iranelections
A ping to you on an SW topic. Any shortwave chatter on the protests in Iran?
Rumors spread that Twitter has finally been cut off in Iran. Police confiscating satellites.
“Police confiscating satellites.” Now that really IS a long arm for the law, Kevin.
The Mullahs’ Last Stand?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/the-mullahs-last-stand.html
On the basis of what we know so far, here is the sequence of events starting on the afternoon of election day, Friday, June 12.
Near closing time of the polls, mobile text messaging was turned off nationwide
Security forces poured out into the streets in large numbers
The Ministry of Interior (election headquarters) was surrounded by concrete barriers and armed men
National television began broadcasting pre-recorded messages calling for everyone to unite behind the winner
The Mousavi campaign was informed officially that they had won the election, which perhaps served to temporarily lull them into complacency
But then the Ministry of Interior announced a landslide victory for Ahmadinejad. Unlike previous elections, there was no breakdown of the vote by province, which would have provided a way of judging its credibility
The voting patterns announced by the government were identical in all parts of the country, an impossibility (also see the comments of Juan Cole at the title link)
Less than 24 hours later, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamene`i publicly announced his congratulations to the winner, apparently confirming that the process was complete and irrevocable, contrary to constitutional requirements
Shortly thereafter, all mobile phones, Facebook, and other social networks were blocked, as well as major foreign news sources.
All of this had the appearance of a well orchestrated strike intended to take its opponents by surprise – the classic definition of a coup. Curiously, this was not a coup of an outside group against the ruling elite; it was a coup of the ruling elite against its own people.
There are rumors that ballot boxes are being burned..
Now THAT would be a mass demonstration to join in on ... we need the momentum to oppose the Marxist prick running our czarista federal oligarchy, so supporting the freedom loving Persians would be a great start!
I agree.. We should show some solidarity to those people.. Maybe fly a Don’t Tread on Me Flag ;)
Years from now, you’ll tweet “I remember when Twitter skunked US media about Iran’S Revolution.”
Rumors of Iranian police searching door to door for satellite seem to be true. Crackdown underway.
US MSM and Iran dictators are in unison - silence the revolution — OUCH!!!
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/13/2310204/Twitter-Twitpocalypse-Snags-Mac-iPhone-Apps
Twittervision itself is broadcasting stale tweets from 1 day ago -- all over the world????
6:47 am, police is speaking with students inside dormitory buildings of university of Tehran with speaker.
I don’t tweet, and it isn’t likely I ever will. But the Persian youth are in need of at least morale support and we the people of a now dead republic need some momentum!
Yup. We are struggling against Obamanejad.
Ditto on both counts...
Why do you write in such a large font size?
How utterly ironic, that at 63 I have more in common with the youth of Persia than I do my own fellow Amerikans who adore a total liar and fraud as their leader!
Check this site out: possible backup for Twitter? I’m not sure, on a learning curve at the moment with Twitter.
That is correct...
Well, the foreign press (some of it) has been about the only place to get any real news about the scumbag Zero administration. There is very little true journalism left in America outside of internet writers like Jack Cashill and a handful of others. Personally, I haven't read a hard-copy newspaper in years. Literally. I find it's more than just a waste of time, it's actually a window into the leftist destruction of this formerly great nation. Can't stomach it.
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