No Surprise there...

IRANdokht

IDF ends Gaza probe, says misconduct claims are 'rumors'

haaretz / Anshel Pfeffer and Amos Harel
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30-Mar-2009 (7 comments)
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Hajminator
30-Mar-2009 (14 comments)

I've received an email today that inspired me to make a remix for Mahmoud...

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TALKS

When and how?

US-Iranian engagement

30-Mar-2009 (11 comments)
On Nowruz, the day when Iranians celebrate the coming of spring and the new Iranian calendar year, US President Barack Obama took the helm of American foreign policy towards Iran and dramatically communicated his will to chart a new course away from the failed policies of the past. "My administration is now committed to diplomacy that addresses the full range of issues before us", Obama said in a video message to Iranians. But given the upcoming Iranian presidential elections in June, the real challenge for the United States is when and how to further engage Iran. Obama understands that there are vast areas of convergence between the United States and Iran when it comes to Iraq and Afghanistan, and many more areas where constructive engagement could produce tangible results for both sides>>>

ADJUSTMENT

Wall Street vs Main Street

Will we finally make lifestyle changes that the real world now requires?

30-Mar-2009 (one comment)
Yoram Bauman, an Economics Professor at the University of Washington, is well-known for his sense of humor. He recently compared Italian and Wall Street Mafias: "Italian Mafia are gangsters who make offers you can't refuse, whereas financial mafia are bankers who make you loans you can't understand, I'm not sure which is worse." Well, Professor Bauman, I can tell you the worse one is NOT the Italian Mafia. It is this Wall Street’s culture of entitlement that is hard to shake. Yes my friends, here is the punch line: Wall Street simply destroyed Main Street, pure and simple, and it is going to take years to rebuild it. The main root of the current crisis can be summed up in one word: greed, the first of the seven deadly sins>>>

Good question

rosie is roxy is roshan

Where are Iran's working women?

Payvand/middle east institute / Valentine M. Moghadam
30-Mar-2009
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CRISIS

Literary tranquilizers

Maintaining sanity, have some fun and enhance our survival and quality of our lives

30-Mar-2009 (7 comments)
I have coined this title for referring to my collection of the most potent, popular, brief and soothing words of wit and wisdom mainly Persian. My aim is to provide an alternative for ever-increasing trend in substance abuse or myriad of over-the counter or prescribed pills that are popped daily to cope with increasing stressful conditions associated with our 'modern' technological age. The greatest advantage of literary tranquilizers are their virtually no cost and lack of side effects provided that one gets addicted to them and loves them. Resorting to these should beat all other devastating addictions >>>

Gaddafi storms out of Arab League summit in Qatar

Darius Kadivar

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi denounced the Saudi king for his ties with the West

bbc
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30-Mar-2009 (one comment)
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STORY

داد داور

سه مرد شیک پوش و خوش بو وارد می شوند و بلافاصله صندلی های جلوی میزم را اشغال می کنند

30-Mar-2009 (3 comments)
هر روز وقتی اتومبیل قدیمی پرایدم روشن میشود با خود فکر می کنم که آخرین روزی است که با این لگن به سرکار می روم. خیلی اذیتم می کند . از طرفی برای یک قاضی عالی رتبه ای مثل من دیگر افت دارد با این اتومبیل های قدیمی فکسنی بروم سرکار. وارد پارکینگ اداره می شوم، نگهبان مثل فیلم " عقده حقارت لاندو بوزانکا" از من اسم و فامیلم را به دقت پرسیده و کارتم را کنترل می کنند. لابد برای آنها هم عجیب است که من چطوری با این هیکل گنده در آن ماشین کوچک جا می گیرم.طبق معمول آسانسور خراب است و باید هیکلم را چهار طبقه بالا بکشم. باز کردن قفل در اطاقم هم قوز بالا قوز است. هر گاه به خدمات اداری می گویم که آن را درست کنند ،به نحوی می فهمانند که باید اندکی اسکن رایج بسلفم و گرنه باید هر روز زجر بکشم>>>

POETRY

گذر
30-Mar-2009 (5 comments)
بارها در گذر درهم  بگذشته من
بسر کوی خیال تو دلم
                 باز تپید
باز با یاد تو دل شیدا شد
بتمنای وصا لت پرو بالی زد و
سینه بدرید
دیده ام باز بدنبال تو هر سو میگشت >>>

POETRY

This heart
30-Mar-2009 (12 comments)
It aches from within
It pounds with every breath
Its waves pound the shores
The Ocean gods are mad
Heart that’s clear as water
Filtered through sands of life
Open to be hit any moment
Can not be otherwise >>>

The Bitter Reality

Barbra

The Ruse of Israel's New Government

Tikkun Magazine / Uri Avnery
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30-Mar-2009
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Darius Kadivar
30-Mar-2009 (6 comments)
Ali Daei need any help ? ;0) Crown Prince Reza kicks ball during soccer match as Captain of his HighSchool Team. Iran, Tehran (1977) >>>
SCE Campaign
30-Mar-2009 (one comment)
President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions, Nazanin Afshin-Jam spoke on the weekend about Stop Child Executions organization on VOA Persian News. Watch the interview in Persian here>>>

سناتور : ایران و آمریکا

TelevisionWashington.com

تلویزیون واشنگتن / www.TelevisionWashington.com
30-Mar-2009 (2 comments)
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ramintork
30-Mar-2009 (3 comments)
Sunday.
I took a flint and bounced it across the water,
It flew off my palm,
and left me with some moist clay. >>>