Monday, December 7, 2009
Iran Acts To Shutdown Planned Protests
The chants of protests began to be heard on rooftops in Iran's capital city yesterday even authorities chocked off Internet access ahead of the opposition demonstrations today. Journalist who worked foreign media were told to stick to there offices for the next three days. The measure was aimed at depriving the opposition of key means of mobilizing the masses as Iran's clerical rulers try to keep a lid on dissent. Government opponents are seeking nothingless, to large numbers of demonstrators to turn out to show there movement still has momentum. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi threw his support behind the planned demonstrations and declared the movement is still alive. A statement posted on his website the clerical establishment was losing legitimacy in the Iranian people's mind. "A great nation would not stand silent when some confiscate your vote, :said Mousavi, who claims that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the June 12 election form him. today's planned demonstrations mark the anniversary of the 1953 killings of three students at a Anti-U.S. during the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Phalavi close American ally. Since the 1990's, that anniversary has served as a occasion for protests by those urging Iran Islamic leadership to allow some social and political freedoms. Aytatollah Ali Khamenei Iran supreme leader who has the final say on state matters, accused the opposition yesterday of exposing divisions in the country and creating opportunities for Iran's enemies. Iran universities have been the stronghold of the opposition movement that grew out of the disputed election, and authorities have besieged campuses with a wave of arrests and expulsions. The government Basji militia has also recruited informers on campuses to blow the whistle on any opposition organizers, students said. Despite the heavy rain last night rooftop cries of "Allauh Akbar (God Is Great) and "Death To The Dictator" were heard from many parts of Tehran. The chanting reprised a tactic of the anti-shah movement in the 1979 Islamic revolution and was revived after the recent disputed election. Weeks after the June Presidential elections, demonstrations triggered by claims of massive fraud in the vote brought hundreds of thousands to the streets, but the relentless crackdown took a heavy toll. Seeking to deny protesters a organizing tool, authorities slowed Internet service to a crawl, or shut it down in Tehran. The government has acknowledged that it behind the outages, but Iran's Internet service providers said the problem was not a technical glitch. Former President Akbar Hashmeni Rafsanjani, who has been a powerful voice of dissent from within the ranks of clerical leadership, accused Iran hard-line rulers of silencing constructive criticism. The situation in the country is such that constructive criticism is not tolerated, "Rafsanjani was quoted by several news agencies as saying yesterday. Seeking to confine journalist from the international media to their offices during the protests, Iran Culture Ministry suspended accreditation allowing them to work on the streets from today to Wednesday. By Ali Akbar Dareine Associated Press
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Sen. Baucus Was In Relationship With Women He Nominated For U.S. Attorney Post
Senate Fiance Committee Chairman Max Baucus was having a affair with his current girlfriend when he recommend her for U.S. Attorney last year, a spokesman said late Friday. Ty Matsdorf said the Montana Democrat and his former state office Director Melodee Hanes, began their relationship in the summer of 2008, after Baucus separated from his wife. Baucus nominated Hanes for the U.S. Attorney post in Montana in March, but she later withdrew her name. Matsdorf said Baucus submitted six names to a third party reviewer. who whittled those down to Hanes and two others. The senator sent the three names to the White House with no ranking. "After through review of all applicants, Baucus recommend each of the three candidates based solely on qualifications and merit knowing Whichever one the White House selected would serve Montana Well,"Matsdorf told Associated Press. The spokesman said that Baucus and Hanes decided during the nomination process to withdraw her name from because the couple wanted to live together in Washington, which they later did. Hanes had started working for Baucus in 2002 and was state director before leaving his office earlier the year for a position in the U.S. Justice Department. "Mel is supremely qualified and got her current position based solely on her merit, Matsdorf said. Word of Baucus nominating his girlfriend was first reported by Roll Call, a online publication that covers Washington. Baucus was elected in the Montana House in 1973 and to the House in 1974 and 1976. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1978 at the age of 36, and is up for re-election in 2014. He has been increasingly visible roles in Congress, sometimes willing to buck his own Democratic Party on certain issues. He recognizes the state that sent him to the Senate for five straight terms is fundamentally Conservative and its voters want someone willing to base votes based on party lines. Most recently he has been the center of a bipartisan effort to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a bill aimed at meeting Obama's goal of overhauling the nation health care system. The Democrat has also been at the center of Congressional battles: He played a key role in 2003 legalisation adding a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program enacted by President George W. Bush tax cuts in 2001. Baucus has also secured millions in federal funding for highways and billions in disaster aid for drought-plagued farmers and ranchers. By Thomas Peipert AP. The United States Senate is full of "Sumbags".
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