Archive - Oct 2010

Iranian TV anchor funny gestures

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Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh

Why such harsh treatment for Jamalzadeh?>>>

MAD MEN IN TEHRAN: Donald Draper Promotes Hilton Hotels for Tehran Destination

MAD MEN is a TV Drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper. >>>

Pulling out

The best method devised>>>

The Red Persians

Neither Ayatollah Khomeini, nor his disciples Islamized Marxism. Instead, they derived exceptional benefits from it. During the 1960s as a result of the Shah’s systematic suppression of all political opposition, Marxism was pushed into two distinct directions: guerilla fighting and the intellectual sphere. It was in the hands of leftist Islamic intelligentsia, like Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Ali Shariati that Marxism blended with Shiʿism. The amalgam created a formidable revolutionary force in Iran. Shortly after, the militant-Marxists and the Marxist-Islamists in coalition with Khomeini overthrew the monarchy>>>

Pomegranate

I came across this video describing the wrong way to open a pomegranate. My grandmothers would be turning in their graves if they saw this>>>

Marxists for Freedom?

Since when communists are turning to supporters of unconditional freedom of speech and democracy? Is not this notion a betrayal to and or dismay to the principals of CPs – of lost cause of 19th century mentality of dictatorship of one form or another, of “proletariat”? What communists had in practice brought to humanity? Among many atrocities by communist, the Stalinism, Khmer Rouge, to half a century of still Castro and North Korean Kim,… what record they have to be brag ever? In our country, little dictators like Bijan Jazani to Hezbe Toda to Islamic Marxists all are nourished from this communistic idea>>>