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where can I purchase gifts and cards for Kwanzaa celebration in south Florida stores?

del patterson asked:

looking for not too expensive gifts, pre-packed Kwanzaa cards and stuff.I forgot the name of a business in Ft.Lauderdale, Florida that sells Afro-American arts, gifts, and cards for the Kwanzaa celebration…. can you help with info.. or websites

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Batman-What fans think?

Jack W asked:

Here is a contest to see which Bat-Fan, or non Bat-Fan, can come up with the best plots to a sequel or sequels to THE DARK KNIGHT. I will put down my ideas and you can either vote for it, which you obviously don’t have to, make your own, or vote for somebody else’s. Put in your title, dream cast, and plot(s). I’ll start.

THE CAPED CRUSADER

Cast
-Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
-Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
-Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon
-Johnny Depp as Joker
-Kristen Bell as Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn
-David Tennant as Edward Nashton/Riddler
-Steve Buscemi as Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter
-Scarlett Johansson as Vicki Vale
-Eva Green as Janice Porter
-Bruce Willis as Harvey Bullock
-Angelina Jolie as Renee Montoya
-Samuel L. Jackson as Crispus Allen
-Monique Curnen as Anna Ramirez
-Eric Roberts as Sal Maroni
-John Rhys-Davies as Rupert Thorne

Plot
It has been a couple of months since the events of THE DARK KNIGHT. Batman is being hunted down by the police since it is believed that he had killed several people including Harvey Dent, covering up Harvey’s murders.

Like how Batman became a symbol and people began to imitate him Joker has become a symbol with several criminals trying to imitate his methods such as Riddler, Mad Hatter, and the Jokerz gang.

Riddler has been doing a crime spree in Gotham, and leaves riddles at all of his crime scenes. While he and his men are robbing the Gotham Museum of Art Batman bursts in and defeats Riddler and his men. He then secretly calls Gordon and tells him to pick up the Riddler and his men, which he does.

Bruce has been depressed over Rachel’s deaths and has a hard time excepting it. He thinks about quitting being Batman. He is interviewed by the beautiful reporter Vicki Vale about the Wayne Enterprises buy out of the cosmetics company Janus Cosmetics, which is owned by his childhood friend Roman Sionis since it was filing for bankruptcy. Bruce and Vicki gain attractions to each other.

Gordon is having trouble with his department since several officers, including Detective Harvey Bullock, are suspecting Gordon of being in a secret alliance with Batman, and suspect him of being corrupt.

Joker was sent to Arkham Asylum after being caught by the police and the psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel is his psychiatrist. He manipulates her which makes her fall in love with him. Riddler, who is really the reporter Edward Nashton is made Joker’s new cellmate. Harleen dresses up as Harley Quinn and causes a prison break and frees Joker and Riddler and the three run away together.

They are found by a group of Jokerz who try to grab them until they see the Joker is with them and they tell him that they didn’t know it was him. Joker tells them to take him to their base with they do.

In the Joker base Joker meets the leader of the Jokerz who is called Bonk. Joker sees a huge pile of money and says that the Jokerz aren’t about what he is about saying that it isn’t about money. Bonk shouts that even if he is the Joker he is the leader. Joker turns to the Jokerz and asks who they would have lead the Jokerz and they pick Joker who then kills Bonk, securing control over the gang which includes the maniac Mad Hatter whose real name is Jervis Tetch who had raped his work partner who was a blonde haired blue eyed girl named Alice who had said he was as mad as a hatter before he had done it since she had turned down his romantic advances. He was obsessed with the Lewis Carrol story Alice in Wonderland.

Sal Maroni has just gotten out of the hospital in a wheelchair, being told he will be able to walk in a couple of months. He is picked up at the hospital by his right hand man Rupert Thorne. Sal tells Rupert that he plans on bringing the mob back to its former power.

Now Batman must face the Jokerz and the reforming mob along with his own personal demons.

Joker’s back story is similar to The Killing Joke while Harley’s is like Mad Love.

GOTHAM NIGHTS

Cast
-Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
-Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
-Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon
-Kate Beckinsale as Selina Kyle/Catwoman
-Timothy Spall as Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot/Penguin
-Timothy Olyphat as Roman Sionis/Black Mask
-Dalip Singh as Antonio Diego/Bane
-Scarlett Johansson as Vicki Vale
-Eva Green as Janice Porter
-Bruce Willis as Harvey Bullock
-Angelina Jolie as Renee Montoya
-Monique Curnen as Anna Ramirez

Plot

The former owner of Janus Cosmetics Roman Sionis has become vengeful towards Bruce Wayne feeling that he had betrayed him. Roman tore the lid of his father’s coffin and turned it into a black skull mask. He then joins the organization of the criminal known as the Penguin, whose real name is Oswald Cobblepot who pretends to be a legitimate businessman as the owner of the Iceberg Lounge.

Batman has been redeemed in the public eye after stopping the Joker again.

Bruce and Vicki are now in a full time relationship. He goes to a party with Vicki at the Iceberg Lounge where he meets Oswald and then the
beautiful environmentalist named Selina Kyle and they share a dance while Vicki is away and she and Bruce have trouble when she sees him dance with Selina.

Black Mask is determined to destroy Bruce and his company any means necessary. He meets with the South American gangster and drug dealer Antonio Diego who was once a wrestler called Bane and wore a frightening mask. Black Mask buys certain drugs for him when Batman breaks in during the deal. Antonio fights Batman in a ferocious battle, and eventually beats him, forcing Batman to retreat.

Bruce broods in the newly rebuilt Wayne Manor about facing this defeat. He has rarely been beaten.

Antonio chooses to stay in Gotham so that he can face Batman again saying that no one else has been as challenging. Black Mask hides his dealing with Antonio behind Penguin’s back.

Catwoman eventually steals precious jewels and information on Mask’s plan from Black Mask making Black Mask call a manhunt on her which Bane does.

Batman one night spots a woman on a rooftop and pursues her and eventually gets into a fight with her. In the end she says her name is Catwoman and flips off the side of the roof. When Batman gets to the edge she is gone.

Batman has to now face the Penguin, Black Mask, Bane, and Catwoman.

I can’t think of a fifth movie right now. I want to hear other peoples’ ideas.

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Does the art institute of pittsburgh offer any classes on African American literature?

st_racer167 asked:

I have a friend that wants to go to school for photography but also wants to take classes on african american literature or along those lines, because she is in love with the South African Culture, and she had asked once if there was anything like that in Pittsburgh, so please dont feel limited to the school I mentioned, but I think she’s looking for somthing thats not you every day local college like VCU kinda would be for Richmond ( the area we live in).

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I would REALLY like to know what you think about this article from a south african journalist about AMERICA?

retiredguy5203 asked:

I read it and i don’t know how to take it. Could this be what is happing here in the USA??? thank you for your thoughts
A Warning for America
from South Africa
By Gemma Meyer
(Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.)

eople used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement).

Today, however, South Africa may be the grim model of the future Western world, for events in America reveal trends chillingly similar to those that destroyed our country.

America’s structures are Western. Your Congress, your lobbying groups, your free speech, and the way ordinary Americans either get involved or ignore politics are peculiarly Western, not the way most of the world operates. But the fact that only about a third of Americans deem it important to vote is horrifying in light of how close you are to losing your Western character.

Writing letters to the press, manning stands at county fairs, hosting fund-raising dinners, attending rallies, setting up conferences, writing your Congressman - that is what you know, and what you are comfortable with. Those are the political methods you’ve created for yourselves to keep your country on track and to ensure political accountability.

But woe to you if - or more likely, when - the rules change. White Americans may soon find themselves unable or unwilling to stand up to challenge the new political methods that will be the inevitable result of the ethnic metamorphosis now taking place in America. Unable to cope with the new rules of the game - violence, mob riots, intimidation through accusations of racism, demands for proportionality based on racial numbers, and all the other social and political weapons used by the have-nots to bludgeon treasure and power from the haves - Americans, like others before them, will no doubt cave in. They will compromise away their independence and ultimately their way of life.

That is exactly what happened in South Africa. I know, because I was there and I saw it happen.

Faced with revolution in the streets, strikes, civil unrest and the sheer terror and murder practiced by Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC), the white government simply capitulated in order to achieve “peace.”

Westerners need peace. They need order and stability. They are builders and planners. But what we got was the peace of the grave for our society.

The Third World is different - different peoples with different pasts and different cultures. Yet Westerners continue to mistake the psychology of the Third World and its peoples. Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe are perfect examples of those mistakes. Sierra Leone is in perpetual civil war, and Zimbabwe - once the thriving, stable Rhodesia - is looting the very people (the white men) who feed the country. Yet Westerners do not admit that the same kind of savagery could come to America when enough immigrants of the right type assert themselves. The fact is, Americans are sitting ducks for Third World exploitation of the Western conscience of compassion.

Those in the West who forced South Africa to surrender to the ANC and its leaders did not consider Africa to be the dangerous, corrupt, and savage place it is now in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Those Western politicians now have a similar problem looming on their own doorsteps: the demand for power and treasure from the non-Western peoples inside the realm.

It is already too late for South Africa, but not for America if enough people strengthen their spine and take on the race terrorists, the armies of the “politically correct” and, most dangerous of all, the craven politicians who believe “compassionate conservatism” will buy them a few more votes, a few more days of peace.

White South Africans, you should remember, have been in that part of Africa for the same amount of time whites have inhabited North America; yet ultimately South Africans voted for their own suicide. We are not so very different from you.

We lost our country through skillful propaganda, pressure from abroad (not least from the U.S.A.), unrelenting charges of “oppression” and “racism,” and the shrewd assessment by African tyrants that the white man has many Achilles’ heels, the most significant of which are his compassion, his belief in the “equality of man,” and his “love your neighbor” philosophy - none of which are part of the Third World’s history.

The mainline churches played a big role in the demise of Western influence throughout Africa, too; especially in South Africa. Today’s tyrants were yesterday’s mission-school proteges. Many dictators in Africa were men of the cloth. They knew their clerical collars would deflect criticism and obfuscate their real aims, which had nothing whatever to do with the “brotherhood of man.”

Other tyrants, like the infamous Idi Amin, were trained and schooled by the whites themselves, at Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. After receiving the best from the West, they unleashed a resentful bloodlust against their benefactors.

From what I have seen and read thus far, I fear Americans will capitulate just as we did. Americans are, generally, a soft lot. They don’t want to quarrel or obstruct the claims of those who believe they were wronged. They like peace and quiet, and they want to compromise and be nice.

A television program that aired in South Africa showed a town meeting somewhere in Southern California where people met to complain about falling standards in the schools. Whites who politely spoke at the meeting clearly resented the influx of Mexican immigrants into their community. When a handful of Chicanos at the back of the hall shouted and waved their hands at them, the whites simply shrank back into their seats rather than tell the noisemakers to shut up. They didn’t want to quarrel.

In America, the courts are still the final arbiters of society’s laws. But what will happen when your future majority refuses to abide by court rulings - as in Zimbabwe. What will happen when the new majority says the judges are racists, and that they refuse to acknowledge “white man’s justice”? What will happen when the courts are filled with their people, or their sympathizers? In California, Proposition 187 has already been overturned.

What will you do when the future non-white majority decides to change the names of streets and cities? What will you do when they no longer want to use money that carries the portraits of old, dead white “racists” and slave owners? Will you cave in, like you did on flying the Confederate flag? What about the national anthem? Your official language?

Don’t laugh. When the “majority” took over in South Africa, the first targets were our national symbols.

In another generation, America may well face what Africa is now experiencing - invasions of private land by the “have-nots;” the decline in health care quality; roads and buildings in disrepair; the banishment of your history from the education of the young; the revolutionization of your justice system.

In South Africa today, only 9 percent of murderers end up in jail. Court dockets are regularly purchased and simply disappear. Magistrates can be bribed as can the prison authorities, making escapes commonplace. Vehicle and airplane licenses are regularly purchased, and forged school and university certificates are routine.

What would you think of the ritual slaughter of animals in your neighbor’s backyard? How do you clean up the blood and entrails that litter your suburban streets? How do you feel about the practice of witchcraft, in which the parts of young girls and boys are needed for “medicinal” purposes? How do you react to the burning of witches?

Don’t laugh. All that is quite common in South Africa today.

Don’t imagine that government officials caught with their fingers in the till will be punished. Excuses - like the need to overcome generations of white racism - will be found to exonerate the guilty.

In fact, known criminals will be voted into office because of a racial solidarity among the majority that doesn’t exist among the whites. When Ian Smith of the old Rhodesia tried to stand up to the world, white South African politicians were among the Westerners pressuring him to surrender.

When Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe murders his political opponents, ignores unfavorable court decisions, terrorizes the population and siphons off millions from the state treasury for himself and his friends, South Africa’s new President Thabo Mbeki holds his hand and declares his support. That just happened a few weeks ago.

Your tax dollars will go to those who don’t earn and don’t pay. In South Africa, organizations that used to have access to state funds such as old age homes, the arts, and veterans’ services, are simply abandoned.

What will happen is that Western structures in America will be either destroyed from without, or transformed from within, used to suit the goals of the new rulers. And they will reign either through terror, as in Zimbabwe today, or exert other corrupt pressures to obtain, or buy votes. Once power is in the hands of aliens, don’t expect loyalty or devotion to principle from those whose jobs are at stake. One of the most surprising and tragic components of the disaster in South Africa is how many previously anti-ANC whites simply moved to the other side.

Once you lose social, cultural, and political dominance, there is no getting it back again.

Unfortunately, your habits and values work against you. You cannot fight terror and street mobs with letters to your Congressmen. You cannot fight accusations of racism with prayer meetings. You cannot appeal to the goodness of your fellow man when the fellow man despises you for your weaknesses and hacks off the arms and legs of his political opponents.

To survive, Americans must never lose the power they now enjoy to people from alien cultures. Above all, don’t put yourselves to the test of fighting only when your backs are against the wall. You will probably fail.

Millions around the world want your good life. But make no mistake: They care not for the high-minded ideals of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and your Constitution. What they want are your posessions, your power, and your status.

And they already know that their allies among you, the “human rights activists,” the skillful lawyers and the left-wing politicians will fight for them, and not for you. They will exploit your compassion and your Christian charity, and your good will.

They have studied you, Mr. and Mrs. America, and they know your weaknesses well.

They know what to do.

Do you?
WOW you all gave great in depth and thoughtfull answers this is really tough picking the best answer but i will today thank you so much for all your input. I was really impressed.

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Fighting style in Casino Royale 2007?

westphalia1 asked:

What is the fighting style used in the beginning of Casino Royale 2007? I thought it was some kind of south american martial arts? Might be wrong.

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When is yahoo! going to have Hugo Chavez ask a question?

EMPATIA asked:

When is yahoo! going to have Hugo Chavez ask a question?

The New York Times

FERNANDO EZEQUIEL ANTONINI
By world-wide La Paz

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established thing in the Law 25,326 Nº Art. 27 Inc. 3 (Law of of “Habeas
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Fernando Antonini“ONLY ARGENTINEAN BY LA PAZ OF FACTUAL REALISM”

The New York Times

I CONSIDER to the own ” Agent chief executives” of “Argentina” country as”
possible threats to the security “. MY IDEOLOGY OF the NEW LIBERAL ORDER
was a product of the thought IN the “NEW external ENEMIES internal/“, who
maintain to the world divided again. America and the different Latin
American armies, CONTRIBUIRAN TO WHICH I WANT TO EXPRESS BY La Paz”
NECESSITY OF NEW LIBERAL ORDER OF the XXl CENTURY)
The conviction exists, in certain areas of skilful the international
block, of which others appear, that is to say: “Antipacifist” BLOCKS
(arisen after you complete comunistoides socialist pseudos crises/) Then
it is the main objective: to turn the only ideology (the fight although
seems paradoxical by La Paz) This is obtained by the suplantación
immediate and necessary to dissolve to the expansion of the one of the
“neopopulismoterrorista” and guerrilla”.
On this base before the evident possibility that they arise in “the
underdeveloped” countries, specially in Latin America, pockets of
resistance. The democratic ones of the center. trying our peace they will
have its Latin American interests good protected by the LIBERAL
governments, NEW AND VERTICALISTAS THAT QUICKLY SETTLE WITH the IMMEDIATE
SERVICE OF ALL IT SECURITY FORCES, BUT UNDER DEMOCRATIC FORMS.
SECTORS OF VENEZUELA INSIST ON. Influence of the revolution and the
increasing thought WITH WHICH THEY DELUDE the students, IN the WORLD for
the second time arises the idea that the “influenced town” of the own
country could constitute a threat to the national security. (single that
portion of town those that it will call in my neologism = “antipacifist”,
will have the possibility of deciding on good sense and of leaving of side
all type of injustificada irrationality)

The idea it is to impel the political balance in Latin America. here it
can because, during years, the interrogation techniques were taught to the
South American military and today they can be but “moderate”, facilitating
the collaboration, the democratic presidents will have the profile of
MAURICIO MACRI For example, PERO TENDRAN a FORT AND ENERGETIC SUPPORT OF
the FORCES OF SECURITY AND OF THE ORADORES, THAT LIKE I APOTO “LA PAZ IN
COLOMBIA AND THE PROTECTION OF ARGENTINA NACIONAL OF DEMOCRATIC RIGHT AND
FULFILLMENT OF THE CITIZEN OBLIGATIONS ”
THIS TIME The roll of defenders of the national borders IS JUSTIFIED. We
will promulgate one devises clear; “an extended vision” of the enemy:
insurgent terrorists to the people with arms like pumps or revolvers , but
also to the people not only consider themselves who against propagate
ideas of the concept of the national society that has the “new liberal
democratic order “. When one interprets the insurgent enemy of such way,
it is possible easily to be ordered to “unbalanced” under this definition,
will be moraloides, ethnic, religious or no sexual censorships, “if we
will have to be friends or enemies of La Paz “. In addition, the
subversive, treasonous insurgents considered to the mother country and
therefore , we will have greater ECONOMY AS FAR AS CRIMINAL RIGHT, WE WILL
BE. , MAS “EXPEDITIOUS”. By this MY IDEOLOGY it justifies to use the MOST
ENERGETIC methods to treat ” ANTIPACIFISTAS ”
He is advisable to add that in Argentina, I AM A PLEASE THE HUMAN RIGHTS
OF WHICH THEY LOOK FOR PEACE PERHAPS OR IS OF HUMAN NOT TO LOOK FOR IT? I
AM NOT SINGLE one of the precursors of the THEORY OF the NEW ORDER OF
LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES OF RIGHT DEMOCRATAICA, I AM ITS COLLABORATING DIFFUSER
AND. During this period of exceptional character will be suspended the
normative use that considers ” garantista by exeso “this norm, will be
“the law of stabilization, implemented through the mass media that TO BE
necessary will be the only private capital, that will return to state
hands “.
THANKS, COLOMBIA TO SUPPORT AND THE ARGENTINEANS TO ME WHOM THEY INTERPRET
TO ME WELL.
FERNANDO EZEQUIEL ANTONINI .CIUDADANO BONAERENSE.NACIDO IN THE FEDERAL
REPUBLIC ARGENTINA.

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What do you guys think about the Filipino race?

Mrs. Gaspard asked:

I’d appreciate it if Americans would answer this. What do you dislike about us? Do you think Filipino immigrants have infested America over the past few decades? Do you see us as a poverty stricken country? What values do our fellow Filipinos display in your country that have been unpleasant?

I read a hate letter by Art Bell, the radio show host. He said that we are disgusting and we try tobe Japanese but we aren’t and he stupidly said that we’re not even “Asian”. PFFT! Of course we’re asian, that’s where the Philippines is located and it has always been like that. He seems to think that the term “Asian” applies only to the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean people. What about South Asia? India, Nepal.. Or even Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Aren’t they Asian too?

Please answer honestly and state your opinions.
You guys wanna see it?

http://bargainprofessor.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/art-bells-alleged-hate-letter-to-the-filipino-people/
Oh wait a minute, it says at the bottom thatitwas a hoax.. oooh.. anyway, someone out there thinks it’s cool to be racist..

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What will you think about Iran after learning some of the facts about it?

Peace-seeker asked:

I believe that if you spend 10 minutes reading this essay, you will be better informed than if you listen to a lifetime’s worth of Major Media news. This article has two parts:
1. Cultural and general info
2. Political info.
Note: I’ve explained everything.Any answers before reading the whole thing will prove to be wrong.Specially the political part.I’ve provided evidence for whatever I say.It’s just the way it is.
****
Part 1: Cultural and general info
Hi. I’m a 19 year old Iranian who has spent his life in Iran.I study English.When I chat with people from other countries, I am shocked to see how totally wrong their ideas are about Iran. I wrote this article in an attempt to help correct those ideas.
The first thing the West accuses our government of is that we don’t allow personal freedoms. Actually, Iranians disobey laws they don’t like as much as anyone.There are only a few restrictions.It’s cool over here. People here do whatever they wish to! Many strict rules in other countries don’t even exist in Iran. Also, you should understand that what may seem so normal to you, may be a nightmare for us and vise versa.Some of Iran’s laws are based on OUR culture. You look at our country from “your own point of view”! In Iran most houses have a sattelite dish. Sattelite television has a serious influence on our people, and Iranians wear very fashionable clothing. Maybe it is a kind of imitation, but we still have our own unique Iranian style. A visitor might wonder if this is a country or a fantasy pageant of beauty queens! Make-up and fashionable clothing are everywhere.I ignore a few fuddy-duddies though!

In my view, everything is great, if you ignore unemployment, drugs, inflation and air pollution. Also, you can’t compare Iran today with the Iran you remember. The Shah and the Iatollah Khomini are both some 30 years in the past! 70% of Iran’s population is a new generation (Under age 30) without the biases of the past and we’ve transformed everything.
Ever heard Iranian girls are terrific?I’ve collected some photos showing Iranian girls! Look! Poeple are like this!
http://www.salijoon.ir/bazigar/hedye%20tehrani/30nema4251159.JPG
http://www.30nema.com/images/gallery/30nema4252403.jpg
http://i10.tinypic.com/4clk3us.jpg
http://tinypic.com/2d0nfao.jpg Is that enough?!
Some people think women don’t have any rights in Iran. But in my view, women are overrunning the place. They’re very respectful, and they’ve been the winners in so many cases: Most of them get into the best universities because they’re very smart. And they get the best jobs because of their high university degrees. They’ve got Islamic rights, and that has in some cases made it difficult for men to marry them, because husbands are supposed to buy them expensive things and treat them very well, otherwise women have the right to ask a great amount of money (called Mehr) according to the law, which most husbands cannot afford, so men will be imprisoned.The only thing that women are not allowed to do in Iran is getting into public football stadiums and that’s because such places are full of cheeky guys. They do anything from taking part in rallies to singing pop songs.Anything! I’ve put a sample here.
Another funny thing: Your footage about stoning the women who have committed adultery. Have you ever asked yourselves how many years ago that footage related to? But in one case the thing that had happened was incest not adultery. Most of those footages relate to the early days just after Iran’s revolution! Otherwise you’d get new footages at least once a month!What exactly makes you think women are treated differently?The way they are treated in Saudi Arabia? Try to think of the racism in your country too.I found a BOOK of the U.S problems and it got me dizzy! Iran has its own problems too. Each country has its own problems.
Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan are ——— SEPERATE COUNTRIES! ——— Even within Iran, 60% of us are Persian and 30% are Turkish! Iran is a normal country like any other in the world. The Media are very good at creating really scary stuff: “IRAN BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS!!!” “IRAN UNDERCOVER!!!” Some of that garbage would be enough to scare ME away! But in truth, Iranians are far more open-minded than you have been led to believe.
There are lots of Iranians today who are geniuses and scientists, and are all under age 25. For instance a 17 year old boy has invented 72 amazing inventions. Every year a special scientific compeition is held here and students assemble to show off hundreds of inventions. Iranian students and sportsmen win gold and silver medals in different competitions in the world all the time, in robotics, biology, maths, physics, sports, anything! Why don’t the Media talk about them? Please don’t summarize our nation and culture with the single word “nuclear”. Although we’re proud of this achievement because we believe that having nuclear energy means that a country is developed.

A few months ago Iran uncovered the most effective anti-H.I.V medicine. I searched for news of that on the internet, but there was no single sign of it.Now, I found it among the English news: “The medicine is produced from herbs using nano technology” The link to read about it is: http://www.payvand.com/news/07/feb/1032.html
The Media are unjust. They never talk about facts!
Some interesting facts:
Iran is a pioneer in medicine and genetics, and Iranian surgeons have found lots of new methods for treating spinal defects, and many diseases (mainly the treatment for different types of cancer) and the best brain and heart surgeons are Iranian.The pioneer in heart transplants and artificiall hearts and so on and so! (I’ve put two websites below) The head of the Mars Mission in NASA is Iranian. One of the best designers of sports cars working in Germany is Iranian. Some of the best 3D animators are Iranian. Iran is one of the best countries in counter-engineering. Holds the second place in building dams and in loads of other things! It’s one of the top countries in bio-technology and nano-technology. The 4th highest tower in the world (Milad tower) is in Tehran (visit it at this link from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Milad.jpg ). 51 of the top 100 universities in the Mid-East are in Iran, and they’re among the top universities of the world as well. The champion weight-lifter, a woman the nobel peace prize are Iranian. The 6th top movie director in the world is Iranian.(Abbas Kiarostami) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1084266,00.html
These are just small samples.If the media told you about Iran’s achievemens everyday and didn’t hide them, your news would be full of Iranian news!Iranian girls are famous for being terrific. We have Persian rugs and Persian literature, many Persian poets, artists and scientists that are world famous. Iranian culture is now westernized and only a little of the ancient culture has survived. According to statistics Tehran is the cheapest capital city in the world (one Dollar =about 950 Tomans) There are many other things. How many pages would you need to describe a country? Iran has nearly all the industries and technologies found in ‘developed’ countries. Oh, and we have four seasons! We get a lot of snow and there are skating rinks! lol The list is endless.

I’m gonna introduce Iran’s international news website to you (Press TV) which was established recently. It’s fully in English. In the “Sic / Tech” section you’ll always see Iran’s discoveries. The address is: http://www.presstv.ir/news.aspx Press TV news: Iranian scientists have registered more than 4800 inventions during the last Iranian calendar year of 1385 (April 21 2006-April 20, 2007). 4800 inventions in just one year!
The list of highly-respected Iranian scientists and engineers in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Iranian_scientists_and_engineers#T
The list of notable Iranian figures and pioneers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Medicine_in_Iran
An extract: Iranian medical community is a significant part of medical community in US and Europe
Enough evidence?

Some people think Iran is a desert! Well, it is, if you consider California a desert. We share the same latitude. Iran is a modern country with breathtakingly beautiful nature and lots of historic places to visit. Please take a look at the following links to see if Iran looks like what you think or not! This is a photo of Tehran (Awesome, Isn’t it?): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Tehran-2-1600.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran

If you like you can visit these too, hundreds of pretty photos from the cities, nature and historic places:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hills_south_west_of_Sanandaj_near_the_village_of_Kilaneh.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_iran&page=all
http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_iran&page=2
http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_iran&page=3
http://www.bigsoccer.com:80/forum/showthread.php?t=199709&page=4
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199709&page=3
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199709&page=13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran

Some people think music is forbidden in Iran. “Music of Iran and Iranian musicians have received countless awards in the course of history. Every year from 1977 to 2007.Evidence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Iran
I send Iranian music to my American and Canadian chat friends and they all say they’re some of the best songs they’ve ever heard.
Here’s a sample of the latest hits from two official Iranian music websites.You can just right click on the links below and choose “Save Target As” to download them. Iranian music is just modern pop and the best sort of it.
1.(You know this: 2007) http://download.bia2music.com/Music/Irani/Top33/128/Neorin%20-%20To%20Ino%20Miduni.mp3
2.(Hold my hand: 2007) http://www.sarzaminmp3.com/Sarzaminmusic/Persian/128KB/Mansour%20-%20Beautiful/09_%20Dastamo%20Begir.mp3
3.(The wetness of your eyes: 2006) http://download.bia2music.com/Music/Irani/Top33/128/Ehsan%20Gheibi%20-%20Khisie%20Cheshmat.mp3
4.(I just want you: 2003) http://download.bia2music.com/Music/Irani/Mansour/Crazy/Delam%20Faghat%20Toro%20Mikhaad(www.Bia2Music.com).MP3
5.(The rain: 2007) http://download.bia2music.com/Music/Irani/Siavash%20Ghomayshi/Sunset%20to%20Sunrise/64/Siavash%20Ghomayshi%20-%20Sunset%20to%20Sunrise%20-%2005%20Baroon%20(www.Bia2Music.com).wma
6.(The window: 2005) http://www.sarzamin.org/Sarzaminmusic/Persian/128KB/Siavash%20Ghomayshi/03_%20Panjereh.mp3
7.(Keep me in your memory: 2005) http://www.sarzamin.org/Sarzaminmusic/Persian/128KB/Siavash%20Ghomayshi/07_%20Yaade%20Man%20Baash.mp3
8.(Farangis “A female name” 2007) http://download.bia2music.com/Music/Irani/Siavash%20Ghomayshi/Sunset%20to%20Sunrise/64/Siavash%20Ghomayshi%20-%20Sunset%20to%20Sunrise%20-%2001%20Farangis%20(www.Bia2Music.com).wma
9.(The distance: 2007) http://www.sarzaminsong.com/Sarzaminmusic/Persian/128KB/Siavash%20Ghomayshi%20-%20Sunset%20to%20Sunrise/03_%20Faseleh.mp3
10.(Sunrise: 2007) http://www.sarzaminsong.com/Sarzaminmusic/Persian/128KB/Siavash%20Ghomayshi%20-%20Sunset%20to%20Sunrise/04_%20Tolou.mp3
11.(Stop world:2006) http://www.sarzaminmusic.com/Sarzaminmusic/Persian/128KB/Reza%20Sadeghi%20-%20Vaysa%20Donya/01_%20Vaysa%20Donya.mp3
12.(You can’t: 2007) http://www.sarzaminmp3.com/Sarzaminmusic/Persian/128KB/Mansour%20-%20Beautiful/06_%20Nemitooni.mp3

And so on and on!
It’s now 2007 and most people still think we are uneducated people living in deserts and riding camels!

Part 2: Political info.
Let’s clarify some political issues as well: Some of the Americans think that president Ahmadinejad hates the U.S and Israel and wants to nuke them!! The Media are good at putting lying comments out there. I really don’t get the point why our politicians defame themselves by talking about things that have got nothing to do with us. The thing is that they occasionally make some statements that the media would make them controversial topics to interest its viewers! For example they pick up some specific phrases of a long speech (without refering to the main points and reasons for that speech) and put so many bad comments on that.
First of all, Iranians don’t hate anyone.We hate neither Jews nor Americans. How would our guys dream of America, want to be like them as much as possible, and hate them at the same time?! The truth us that Iranians are the only people in the Mid-East that are pro-American! Being agaisnt the U.S policies is a different story! We live basically the same lives.Don’t look at the way women dress in public places! You’ve got to see them in other places!I’ve got to say that for Iran, Israel is not equal with Jews! Israel is a gov’t. Jews are faithful people! 20,000 Jews and lots of Christians live here equally with Iranians and two of Iran’s parliment members are Jews. Who says we want to force others to convert to Islam? Have you ever found a Moslem knocking at your door asking you to do so?
Christians and Jews are both God-believers and respectful to us.

I wonder who Iran is really a threat to. Is it logical to say someone’s guilty because we THINK / PREDICT that he’s going to do something wrong? And they repeat the same “nuclear weapons” tosh over and over and brainwash people! Correction! It’s “nuclear energy”. Besides, how many “nuclear weapons” do they have themselves? Hundreds of thousands? Has Iran ever attacked any countries? No. Has it developed any nukes? No! That’s what nuclear agency says. Only Iran’s opponents are pulling Iran’s leg and what they say is just based on political conflicts. What we’re doing is legal. Iran is a peaceful country. Why? It’s the regional super-power and if she wanted, she could easily invade the countries in our neibourhood just like what Saddam did to our country, but as you see Iran has peaceful relations with all of them.

Some people say he said: Israel should be wiped off the map! the thing is that he exactly said: “The Imam “Khomeyni” said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”They’ve only told you this phrase not the whole thing and it’s mistranslated intentionally. Besides, they’ve been saying such things for a long time.It’s their habit.Here’s an article.”Wiped off the map….The roumor of the century.Read how the media and the U.S newspapers have twisted it into a controvertioal topic. http://www.antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025 Now you see that you were wrong.Iran has always defended itself, but it’s not an offensive country.

Some say he’s said: “The Holocaust is a myth!” Again, this is a single phrase taken from a long speech and there are totally logical reasons for saying so. If 6,000,000 Jews were killed, that’s terrible, but 300,000 Shiite Moslems killed by Saddam aren’t important at all? Over 650,000 Iraqi people are killed and that’s not important?! When Fox News simply says that America and Israel are capable of destroying and killing Iran’s population of 69,000,000 within two weeks, it’s OK and no one says they’re threatening other countries to nuke them (I saw this with my own eyes on the Fox News website) Millions of people killed in Afghanistan, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and the Vietnam war are not considered human beings at all! Now I think you’d get the point why he’s IRONICALLY said it’s a myth. Moreover, don’t you believe in freedom of speech/mind? Well, if you’d like to blame someone for that, hope in a time-machine and sue Hitler! lol

Some countries are using Iran as a scapegoat to put the blame (for their own faults) on.
This part is just for Americans:
Those of you who say why Iran says “Death to America”:
1. ‘America’ to us means the U.S govt, not the people. How do you expect Iranians to mean “American people” when our media admires Americans for marching and holding up “no war” placards?! Also, I see a lot of “Let’s nuke Iran”s on YA.Isn’t that a kind of “Death to Iran”?
2. The new generation don’t say such things and if some of them occasionally march in the streets that’s because some of the stupid guys enjoy making noise and they mainly go out there to meet their girlfriends/boyfriends! Strange. Isn’t it?
3. Such mottos are not just said in Iran and as you know whatever you hear is a response to the U.S govt’s terrible actions which has made life for many people hell (You wouldn’t deny that attacking countries is a mistake. Would you?)
4. U.S. companies assistance in developing Iraq’s chemical weapons facilities during the Iran-Iraq war which killed over a million Iranians
5. USS Vincennes shooting down Iran Air Flight 655 with many civilian fatalities
6.U.S. Support for anti-Iranian terrorist organisations (i.e. the MKO);
7. Economic damage caused by U.S. sanctions and political pressure; U.S. UAV overflights over Iran violating Iranian airspace since 2003.

When you call Ahmadinejad a nutcase for what he’s said, what do you call Bush for his war crimes?
To those who are upset with American hostages taken for 444 days:
1. Firstly, It’s related to so many years ago and it’s almost a part of history, and don’t forget that when there’s a revolution, there’d be chaos and people may do things that they should not, moreover they’re all alive and healthy. Aren’t they?
2.The U.S has arrested Iranian diplomats in Iraq and had tortured the one who was freed. Now you decide who has the right to be upset with whom. How do you believe in their lies about politics when they hide both the most and the least important things from you considering the fact that politics is the world of lies in its nature?!!!

If you like to insist on your theory of attacking Israel, I’ll tell you our logical theory: “The moment that Iran attacks Israel, Iran will be wiped off the face of the earth by the U.S and its allies and Iran is far more logical than doing such a stupid thing” So, forget about it.I’m quite sure you know that all the events and lies in the world are a part of a pre-planned scenario by major world-powers (Iran as an important country has always been a part of their plans)And the first step is to brainwash people.They excactly know what will happen even 50 years later! I think Iraq is such a good example.Attacking it with the excuse of removing Saddam while they’d put Saddam there themselves and had supported him for years! They said they had W.M.Ds and you believed them.Now they say Iran (a member of N.P.T) has nukes / is developing nukes and you believe them wilhe the nuclear agency hasn’t found any sign of illegal activities.Time to wake up!
Isn’t it better for both countries to forget past conflicts and to have peaceful relations? Our two gov’ts are like 10 year old children playing a stupid, harsh, rhetorical game. They don’t care about hurting people’s feelings. They just try to make our two peoples enemies to achieve their own goals. We, as the people of these countries, MUST NOT allow these conflics into our hearts. Now, what do you think? I can’t wait to see both nations in peace. It’d be marvelous!
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How many people here want to know the “real” Iran not the “unreal” one portrayed on the news

If you like you can visit these too, hundreds of pretty photos from the cities, nature and historic places:

And so on and on!
It’s now 2007 and most people still think we are uneducated people living in deserts and riding camels!

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With the Stanley Cup finals on the horizon.how about some trivia?

Snoop asked:

Here are a few questions to tide everyone over until Saturday night:

1. Has there ever been a Stanley Cup telecast on CBS?

2. How many South Americans have their name enscribed on the Cup?

3. How many women have their names on the Stanley Cup?

4. What is the smallest city to host a Stanley Cup finals game?

5. When was the last day game during the Stanley Cup finals played?

6. Who was the last player to win an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup in the same season?

7. Who was the last player to win both the Art Ross trophy and the Conn Smythe trophy in the same season?

8. What was significant about the Tampa Bay Lightning winning the Stanley Cup and the Detroit Pistons winning the NBA finals in 2004?

9. Whose name appears on the Stanley Cup the most times?

10. Who has won the most Stanley Cups with different teams (player)?

Enjoy!

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