Iran’s President Bush

Disgruntled Iranians say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has destroyed the country's image and dragged down its economy. Sound familiar?
www.newsweek.com/id/200236

www.whitehouse.gov/blog/The-first-government-sponsored-TED-Talks/

a feher haz blogjaban ujabban egesz erdeeks dolgok kerulnek fel.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-Hossein_Mousavi

ő a nyugati civilizáció nagy reménysége!

akiraly, a magyar alternatív politikai újságírásának joe liebermanje:

pocs.blog.hu/

Jaja, izgalmas lesz Irán, ebből mond meg ki fog nyerni:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_presidential_election,_2009#Opinion_polls

ahma-nakk az elozo valasztason az elso forduloban 19% jutott. utana tortentek az erdekes dolgok.
a tippem az, hogy az nyer aki khameini-nekk es az orzok tanacsanak legjobban szimpatikus, aki egyertelmuen ahma.
iran nekem eleg erdekes feldemokracianak tunik. a szabad szavazas erzete megvan, de az eredmeny nem okoz meglepetest:)

Politics, American Style

With a presumably close presidential election underway, Iran was treated to the unusual spectacle of a fierce Ahmadinejad-Mousavi showdown.

www.newsweek.com/id/200752
Showdown: Ahmadinejad (seated, left) speaks with Mousavi (right) after their debate
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Why Europeans Have It Wrong About Americans

By Peter Baldwin in Los Angeles

Many Europeans think that the US is full of gun-toting maniacs and illiterate morons. In part two of his series on trans-Atlantic differences, American historian Peter Baldwin shows why Europeans have this -- and plenty of other facts about America -- plain wrong.

In a three-part essay for SPIEGEL ONLINE, American historian Peter Baldwin argues that the EU and the US are much more similar than they think. You can read part one of his essay here.
www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,628385,00.html

off: belpol-Magyarország-->kampánycsend lévén, bár senkit sem szeretnék nyíltan pro-contra megítélni, aki úgy érzi, hogy befolyásolná a szavazásban, az a kommentemet NE OLVASSA EL!

EP választás: 2009. június 7.

várható részvételi arány: 40% alatt

a jelenleg legvalószínűbb mandátumeloszlás:
Fidesz: 15
MSZP: 5
Jobbik: 1
a fennmaradó egy mandátum elnyerésének esélyességi sorrendje: Fidesz, MSZP, Jobbik, SZDSZ, MDF, LMP, MKMP, MCF.
tegnap este a duna tv vitát rendezett, amelyen 6 listavezető jelent meg (a Fideszé és az MCF-é távol maradt): www.dunatv.hu/video/videoplayer?vid=560935
a vita utáni gyorsszonda szerint (én is egyértelműen így vélem) B.L. nyerte a vitát, ami akár még nagyot dobhat a vasárnapi teljesítményén.

Szóval vasárnap... durva lesz, az biztos.

hehe, majd ébresszetek fel, biztos csak álmodtam:
fidesz 14
mszp 4
jobbik 3
mdf 1

(lmp-2,6%, szdsz-2,16%)

'The Beginning of a Dialogue with Muslims'

Dalia Mogahed, who advises US President Barack Obama on Muslim affairs, talks to SPIEGEL about her influence on Obama's speech in Cairo last week and its reception in the Muslim world.
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,629205,00.html

Question 54: “Who would you rather meet and have your picture taken with?” Obama 42, Tiger Woods 22, His Holiness 21, Hannah Montana 5
www.politico.com/playbook/0609/playbook707.html

XD a nap kommentje.

his holiness az ki? miss california utódja? hallottam, csúnyán elbántak vele... :D

o az:

17.media.tumblr.com/Jbop5Ud7Clnsv0wb2FaVbOs4o1_500.jpg

jaj, tudom-tudom, csak viccelődni próbáltam, de ez a kép se rossz. :P
így viszont már blaszfém voltam, úgyhogy már biztos, hogy a pokolra jutok :D

ez az egyetlen biztos modszer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7QVbJnSPQE

Do you dare accept the Blasphemy Challenge?

Barack Obama's Facebook Feed
www.slate.com/id/2220295/


folyamatosan frissitik.

index.hu/kulfold/2009/06/16/irani_zavargasok/

thepage-rol


HALPERIN'S TAKE: 10 True Things About President Obama His Opponents Are Wrong About

1. He will not pressure Israel into some deal that will undermine its security.

2. He will not push for a health care plan without regard for cost savings.

3. He is not captive to his party's liberal interest groups.

4. He is not captive to liberals in Congress.

5. He has a ferocious political operation that is thinking clearly everyday about avoiding a nomination fight and about re-election in 2012.

6. He cannot be rattled by the right-wing Freak Show echo chamber.

7. He is a free marketeer.

8. His hold on his supporters (including those in the press) is firmer than even Reagan's was.

9. He will not hesitate to use force to fight terror.

10. He likes a lot of Republicans.

"2. He will not push for a health care plan without regard for cost savings." - Ennek a kapcsan, ha nem is pont errol...
Az elmult hetek temaja az itteni hirekben az egeszsegugy reformja. Valamiert elokerult a versenykepesseg (competitiveness) ebben a vitaban, amirol tudomasom szerint 15-20 eves konszenzus van (volt?), miszerint a ketto nem, vagy csak kicsit fugg ossze. Erdekes cikk a WSJ-ben ennek a magyarazatahoz:
online.wsj.com/article/SB124520327436821723.html

(Van ebben a kulonben szerzot nem megado cikkben egy nagyon zavaro motivum a szamomra: a szohasznalat meg mindig teljesen a piac mindenhatosagaba vetett korszak lingojat idezi. Nekem ugy tunt, ez mar a konzervativ oldalon sem elfogadott az elmult 2 ev esemenyei utan, legalabbis ovatosabban irjak korul a piac egyensuly kialakito folyamatat. Minden esetre ettol az erveles logikajanak lenyege megfontolando marad.)

ezt nézzétek, a kutyafáját!
"Ahmadinezsád még a második fordulóba se jutott volna be"

hvg.hu/vilag/20090616_Mahmud_Ahmadinezsad_iran_valasztas.aspx

kulpolitikailag nincs olyan nam kulonbseg mousavi es ahma kozott. belpolitikailag eleg jelentos, de azt mi itt kinnt nem fogjuk erezni/latni.
ami lenyeges szerintem, hogy az irani szavazok megszokjak-e, hogy hatasa van a szavuknak. mert ha igen, akkor a politikai vezetes nem tud majd barmit megtenni, csak kb. annyit, mint amit egy demokracioaban le lehe nyomni az emberek torkan.
kina politikai vezetese jolval "szabadabban" cselekedhet.
remenykelto, hogy iranban 100 eves hagyomanya van a demokracianak

olvasd végig a cikket, a diáktüntetők tovább mennének, mint mousavi. lázadnak a vallásos életmód és a szigorú törvények (nomeg a cenzúra) ellen.

Felteve hogy a Liberation hire igaz, volt valaha is ehhez merheto valasztasi csalas?
(lenin/sztalin/castro/kadar ugye nem kellett ekkorat csaljanak, nem voltak mas jeloltek; a kekcedulas csalasok inkabb a tobbszor szavazassal tortentek. Talan latin-amerikaban? Nekem mas hasonlo nem jut eszembe...)

a szerbeknel volt hasonlo, de az sem volt ekkora.
a sikeres esetekrol viszont nincs infom:)

Don't Forget Mousavi's Bloody Past
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905477,00.html?xid=rss-world
Earlier this week I received an e-mail from a Lebanese who was present at the creation of the country's Iranian-backed, Shi'ite militia Hizballah in 1982 and on familiar terms with its most radical and violent members. He wrote: Are you people crazy backing Mousavi, a patron of Hizballah's terrorist wing?
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When Mousavi was prime minister he oversaw an office that ran operatives abroad, from Lebanon to Kuwait to Iraq. This was the heyday of Khomeini's theocratic vision, when Iran thought it really could export its revolution across the Middle East, providing money and arms to anyone who claimed they could upend the old order. Mousavi was not only swept up into this delusion, he actively pursued it.

najó, a hevület eltűnt, az előző kommentemet letöröltem. :)

index.hu/kulfold/2009/06/25/felredugott_del-karolina_kormanyzoja/

In a press conference yesterday, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admitted to having an affair with a woman from Argentina. SurveyUSA went into the field to ask adults in South Carolina what they thought.

* 60% think the Governor should resign. 34% feel he should remain in office.
* 63% think the Governor did not have the right to vacation without informing the public…29% think he did have the right.
* 77% think the Governor did not have the right to vacation without informing his staff…16% think he did have the right.

In the long run, 37% feel the event’s surrounding Sanford’s trip will end his political career…47% say it will hurt his career…15% feel it will have no long-term effect.
www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2009/06/25/south-carolina-60-think-governor-sanford-should-resign/

www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/music/26jackson.html?_r=1&hp

www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_s_new_rules_for_rebuilding_a_broken_nation.html

www.rightwingwatch.org/

Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30muse.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science
Tamaki Sato was confused by the dinosaur exhibit. The placards described the various dinosaurs as originating from different geological periods — the stegosaurus from the Upper Jurassic, the heterodontosaurus from the Lower Jurassic, the velociraptor from the Upper Cretaceous — yet in each case, the date of demise was the same: around 2348 B.C.
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But here in the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky, Earth and the universe are just over 6,000 years old, created in six days by God. The museum preaches, “Same facts, different conclusions” and is unequivocal in viewing paleontological and geological data in light of a literal reading of the Bible.