Degree Absolute: Do we think this thing has lost its momentum?

I do. Couple more peaceful demonstrations, and it's done. If it was going to escalate, it would have.

/margin of error is +/- 24 hrs.

RT @Exil_Iranian : according to the phone call: still massive basij precense, ppl mostly on the roofs (just one view point in tehran) #gr ..

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It's stunning to me how supposedly erudite TV news analysts don't get that this is no longer about the election results or a vote recount.

If the U.N. went in there and confirmed I'm-a-damn-nutjob won, the young people of Iran aren't going to go, "Oh. OK, then. Sorry. We'll now continue with oppressive theocracy as usual."

Would someone please post the picture of that protester helping the cops

Charles Martel: We need someone who has experience dealing with the Iranians.

Where's Jimmy Carter when you really need him?

-snort-

ChopSueyKS: Unless my google-fu is particularly bad tonight, no such article by Der Spiegel seems to exist. Someone please try to prove me wrong.

Someone feels like posting it, or I'm going to give dive in older threads to find it again?

ChopSueyKS: I think my post in the last thread got cut off due to the switch, if not, sorry if I'm repeating myself:

Unless my google-fu is particularly bad tonight, no such article by Der Spiegel seems to exist. Someone please try to prove me wrong.

Even if it is true, Der Speigel does have a history of attempting to trash Hezbullah and (according to some) has fabricated links between Hezbullah and other events that just aren't true. Namely, the assassination attempt on Hariri.

Link (new window) regarding the Hariri bit.

The article is in German. Interesting that Der Speigel has a history of trashing and fabricating links between Hizbullah and other events.


This whole thing smells like bullshiat.

Jesus All The Beer Names Are Taken: Degree Absolute: Do we think this thing has lost its momentum?

I do. Couple more peaceful demonstrations, and it's done. If it was going to escalate, it would have.

/margin of error is +/- 24 hrs.

I still agree with you on this. If the cities aren't burning yet, they're not going to.

tin_man: Welcome to my ignore list, Fife.

What what WHAT?!

brigid_fitch: sensai: From a private listserv: 150 proferssors of Tehran university have resigned and are trying to do the funeral ceremony for 5 students killed

TB is also a good Twitter source, although they are more sparse to updating than the other 3 we regularly follow.

Speaking of whom, PK & SA have been offline for over an hour. C_f_I is still going strong, though, but he mentioned a wound to his leg. I'm getting concerned...

SA mentioned that he was going on "radio silence" for a bit. Probably a smart move considering how late it is getting.

RobertBruce: how is this helping? I signed up to twitter thinking we were going to unleash a misnformation campaign. Instead thread after thread of self fellating and afew people claiming they know who is legit on twitter with absolutly nothing to back up their claims.

THIS.

Tatsuma: Skleenar: How may posts in the last 15 days?

Including this thread, since Saturday at midnight: 792 posts, 20 cups of coffee, 16 cups of tea, 12 beers, 4 glasses of scotch.

Viva la Revolucion

Jeeze Tats. Kudos.

GAT_00: Talon: Because the forced pagination is like 10 posts per page. you can't control+f to find your own name to see who has responded to you withouth paging through dozens of pages.

/would support pagination if it were 500 posts per page.

Odd. You sure that isn't somewhere in your own settings? That would be really annoying.

I'll check.

It might be that forced pagination is 500 per page for you because you are already set to have pagination at 500 per page... and that when the forced pagination kicks in for me (and presumably everyone else) it goes to the default number per page (which I exagerated at 10, but which is more like 20 per page).

Epiphany: Would someone please post the picture of that protester helping the cops

protester helping the cop

Degree Absolute: Do we think this thing has lost its momentum?

It's night-time.

Mostly at night from reports, they lay low and hide from the Basij.

Probably more info when daylight.

Again, thanks for the updates!

BlofsaLiveleak.com seems to be fine with protest vids from Teheran. Screw YouTube/Google. #iranelection #gr88

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zymosan: I completely agree. The less we have to do with that entire region the better off we are going to be.

We are not the world police, nor are we imperialists. We need to stay the fark out of other countries business'.

Yes! We should become nationalistic and let "those people" handle "their problems". F' this global economy BS and stop sending aid like we are made out of money. We're not. Also, we should only buy from (North) American countries. And I'm looking at approximately 1 that makes that list. U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Anyone need a good song for this occasion?

I had that playing in my head earlier today. Glad I'm not the only one.

ishldgetoutmore: [Citation needed]

Why you need an early 80s Chevy? ;)

DFWPhotoGuy: tin_man: Welcome to my ignore list, Fife.

What what WHAT?!

You're ignoring Fife? WTF dude?!

Lorelle: LoneCoon: Anyone here a HAM operator? Is there anything coming out of Iran on shortwave or HAM frequencies?

9495 will get you Iranian government propaganda in English. I don't know if there are any clandestine stations broadcasting in English.

/old DXer

It's a pity HAM operators are so few and far between these days thanks to the internet. Some CW out of Iran would probably be a great source of information and it'd be harder to track/shut down.

Just wanted to say good luck to the Iranians. Hopefully some good can come of this.

/Also, 10 threads on one topic, wow. I've only been around a little while, but that's got to be some sort of record

thenateman: Anti_illuminati: thenateman: Degree Absolute: Ok, high quality trolls only. None of that lame shiat from the last thread.

I think history will treat Bush's war in Iraq much more positively than his contemporaries. In 30 years, if the Middle East has modernized and become democratic, we might look at George W. Bush as someone who helped get things going.

/Not a troll, just a prediction

So you're predicting the movie Idiocracy will come true then?

I really need to see that movie.

Please smoke some green before watching it. It helps.

/also in support of Iran.

GAT_00: Tatsuma: Including this thread, since Saturday at midnight: 792 posts, 20 cups of coffee, 16 cups of tea, 12 beers, 4 glasses of scotch.

Viva la Revolucion

Damn man. That's insane.

and a kilo of pure Colombian snow....

History Fark 9/11 threads:
http://www.fark.com/archives/index.2001-09-16.shtml (new window)

Back when they split threads at ~350 posts for bandwidth.

Man, I had to be at the gym in 26 minutes and we are already on to a new thread.

Did I miss anything important?

Degree Absolute: Do we think this thing has lost its momentum?

It's hard to say. It seems like it has, because the information is stopped. But for all we know, all hell is breaking loose.

Tatsuma: Skleenar: How may posts in the last 15 days?

Including this thread, since Saturday at midnight: 792 posts, 20 cups of coffee, 16 cups of tea, 12 beers, 4 glasses of scotch.

Viva la Revolucion

You're a part of it. You're making a difference. How are you holding up?

jeffspec: The people just wanted their voices to be heard and followed. Will the same thing happen in Iran. I know that it has evolved into its own monster aside from peaceful protesting election results, but is that how it started and then once they saw how big a following it was they realized they actually had the manpower to enact change in the theocracy?

I think that this is a similar situation, yes, but people realized quite soon that they now had the power to topple this regime, this is why we saw the 7 Points list starting to make the rounds.

People might not have asked for it at first, but I think most wished for this, and quickly realized as the first bullets were fired that it was now within grasp

RobertBruce: how is this helping? I signed up to twitter thinking we were going to unleash a misnformation campaign. Instead thread after thread of self fellating and afew people claiming they know who is legit on twitter with absolutly nothing to back up their claims.

THIS. Although I suppose now the self-righteous will call me a troll and add me to their ignore lists....Ohboy

pd771: Apik0r0s: McFifenstein: Tatsuma you are simply inhuman.
keep up the good work, but take a nap sometime.


They work in shifts, go back and read through all of the threads on this. You can see several distinctly different levels of english grammar at work.

If someone had the time, they could pull all of those posts, go forensic on the language in them and show exactly when they rotate.

I always knew Mossad was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to have operatives spread misinformation on Fark


They announced just such a program a couple of years ago.

They have even provided software to coordinate it.

According the Jerusalem Post, Amir Gissin, head of the Public Affairs Department of the Foreign Ministry of Israel, has expressed support for the tool's use. "The Foreign Ministry itself is now pushing the idea, urging supporters of Israel everywhere to become cyberspace soldiers in the new battleground for Israel's image." it reports.[11] Computing website The Register has described use of the software as "highly organised mass manipulation of technologies which are supposed to be democratising" and claimed Megaphone is "effectively a high-tech exercise in ballot-stuffing"

Link (new window)

The Israeli army announced yesterday the creation of its own YouTube channel, through which it will disseminate footage of precision bombing operations in the Gaza Strip, as well as aid distribution and other footage of interest to the international community.

Link (new window)

Video of Police- shooting into crowd-basij? (new window)

Epiphany: Epiphany: Would someone please post the picture of that protester helping the cops

protester helping the cop

It's in here with a lot of great photos:

Link (new window)

Talon: It might be that forced pagination is 500 per page for you because you are already set to have pagination at 500 per page... and that when the forced pagination kicks in for me (and presumably everyone else) it goes to the default number per page (which I exagerated at 10, but which is more like 20 per page).

Possibly. I can say for myself that I don't have problems, at 1500+ is just page 4 to me. Plus limiting to 500 a page makes for much quicker load times, and I still run a single core 2GHz processor, so it's actually noticeable.

"I do believe that something has happened in Iran"

Thank you, President Obvious.

Weaver95: Nature Spirals: Someone in an earlier thread mentioned the term "Information War"

*waves*

Information will be free. it is inevitable.

You just have to pay $50/month for it.

please: RobertBruce: how is this helping? I signed up to twitter thinking we were going to unleash a misnformation campaign. Instead thread after thread of self fellating and afew people claiming they know who is legit on twitter with absolutly nothing to back up their claims.

THIS.

unTHIS.

Iranian protest photos - some graphic:

Link (new window)

Amateur Radio CAN reach Iran but there are very few licensed hams there and the antennas needed to reach the states would be VERY obvious (in most cases). You can see that the latest updates on ham radio in Iran was over 10 years ago here: http://www.qsl.net/ep2fm/AmateurRadioInIran.htm

Also, it is nearly impossible to import transmitting equipment into Iran.

VlagimarPutin
Isuldirs

Welcome to ignore, you goddamn trolls.

A lot of the wharrgarbllers are missing the difference between two situations. It serves their purpose to do so.
We (THe U.S.)shouldn't have involved ourselves in Iraq.There was no just cause, nor strategic benefit at the time. There was only a quest for an "easy victory" post 9-11, and oil revenues to boot.
THIS TIME IT'S DIFFERENT
We're witnessing a grassroots, youth-led uprising against their own corrupt and unfair system of government. A government so filled with hubris that it tries to defraud its own population in a fixed election.
As American's who believe in and actually LIVE in a symbol of liberty freedom and equal opportunity, we need to stand beside this young generation of courageous Iranians and somehow TELL THEIR STORY,since the MSM obviously isn't.
Just giving them the honor of mention and discussion, just spreading the word about what the TRUE situation is may be enough to give them the edge they need to reshape their own nation.
Why is this not a noble pursuit?

Again, kudos to Tatsuma for doing the grunt work!

I'm so depressed.

Can we skip to the end part, where he slips in the bathroom, knocks his head on the toilet, breaks his neck, and is then drowned in his own toilet water?

CIA!!!WHERE ARE YOU!!!!