Can anyone get to the FARC website http://www.anncol.org ? RoadRunner sez it can't find it. But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 I wonder what I have been up to. < _Beyond Apollo_
"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:7rSdnY7Ap8c02EzanZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@giganews.com... > Can anyone get to the FARC website > > http://www.anncol.org > > ? > > RoadRunner sez it can't find it. FireFox cannot find it either. > > But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. Interesting. > > Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? Yes. > > Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? Yes. > > -- > tinmimus99@hotmail.com > > smeeter 11 or maybe 12 > > mp 10 > > mhm 29x13 > > I wonder what I have been up to. > > < _Beyond Apollo_ >
mimus wrote: > Can anyone get to the FARC website > > http://www.anncol.org > > ? > > RoadRunner sez it can't find it. > > But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. > > Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? > > Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? > RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a different host or hasn't paid their bill. Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. -- nuts
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > mimus wrote: > >> Can anyone get to the FARC website >> >> http://www.anncol.org >> >> ? >> >> RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >> >> But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >> >> Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >> >> Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? > > RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, > transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. > The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) > is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general > check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be > under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a > different host or hasn't paid their bill. > > Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that money came from recently. I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort of thing . . . . It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the "World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat to Colombia when they were asleep? Lord. -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 You are worse than the neocons, a strain of disease the world knows little of as yet. You are even worse that some of the kooks. < Fan mail from some flounders
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: > On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > >> mimus wrote: >> >>> Can anyone get to the FARC website >>> >>> http://www.anncol.org >>> >>> ? >>> >>> RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>> >>> But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>> >>> Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>> >>> Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >> >> RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >> transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. > > Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. > >> The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >> is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >> check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >> under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >> different host or hasn't paid their bill. >> >> Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. > > I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're > telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that > money came from recently. > > I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort > of thing . . . . > > It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. > > I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish > view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an > advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as > well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the > "World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and > another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and > couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how > could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat > to Colombia when they were asleep? > > Lord. LOL The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story "It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . . . Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." That damned laptop! -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 Decorum, after all, was a more subtle and ultimately more satisfactory weapon than high feelings and improper conduct. < Jack Vance
mimus wrote: > On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > >>mimus wrote: >> >>>Can anyone get to the FARC website >>> >>>http://www.anncol.org >>>? >>>RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>> >>>But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>> >>>Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>> >>>Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >> >>RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. > > Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. > >>The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >>check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >>under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >>different host or hasn't paid their bill. >> >>Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. > > I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're > telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that > money came from recently. > > I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort > of thing . . . . > > It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. > > I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish > view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an > advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as > well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the > "World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and > another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and > couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how > could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat > to Colombia when they were asleep? > > Lord. > Victor did it. Been doing it for a while. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNURV-EuOx57Uj9dL7RCzePHs33gD8V8J3J00 Oh - He's a helper too. http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/wanted/2004/1021bout.htm One big onion, this situation... -- nuts
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:19:37 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > mimus wrote: > >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >> >>> mimus wrote: >>> >>>> Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>> >>>> http://www.anncol.org >>>> >>>> ? >>>> >>>> RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>> >>>> But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>> >>>> Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>> >>>> Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>> >>> RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>> transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. >> >> Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >> >>> The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>> is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a >>> general check of dns health). This means that any blocking would >>> likely be under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is >>> moving to a different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>> >>> Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >> >> I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies >> they're telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where >> all that money came from recently. >> >> I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same >> sort of thing . . . . >> >> It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >> >> I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the >> childish view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess >> it's an advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise >> left- as well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today >> that the "World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a >> "massacre", and another site, a college review of some kind (can't >> remember which and couldn't find it from my browser history) was >> indignantly asking how could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC >> guerrillas be posing a threat to Colombia when they were asleep? >> >> Lord. > > Victor did it. Been doing it for a while. > > http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNURV-EuOx57Uj9dL7RCzePHs33gD8V8J3J00 I don't think he actually sold anything to FARC-- his supposed FARC contacts turned out to be DEA or something equally unpleasant . . . . Not that FARC should be going without anything they can get from the Venezuelan military. > Oh - He's a helper too. > > http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/wanted/2004/1021bout.htm He was sitting pretty, but just couldn't resist . . . . > One big onion, this situation... I don't really think the two stories are that closely related. Viktor's in trouble for lots of things . . . . -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 There's no such thing as a trained snake, OK? < _Strip Tease_
mimus wrote: > On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: > >>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >> >>>mimus wrote: >>> >>>>Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>> >>>>http://www.anncol.org >>>> >>>>? >>>> >>>>RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>> >>>>But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>> >>>>Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>> >>>>Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>> >>>RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>>transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. >> >>Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >> >>>The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>>is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >>>check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >>>under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >>>different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>> >>>Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >> >>I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're >>telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that >>money came from recently. >> >>I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort >>of thing . . . . >> >>It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >> >>I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish >>view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an >>advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as >>well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the >>"World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and >>another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and >>couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how >>could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat >>to Colombia when they were asleep? >> >>Lord. > > LOL > > The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: > > http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story > > "It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders > appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . . . > Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." > > That damned laptop! > Don't you mean Saddam's "magic" laptop with Valerie Plame's cookie recipes on it and a mash note from Al Gore to a cute japanese whale studying chixor? -- nut
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:08:18 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > mimus wrote: > >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >>> >>>> mimus wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>>> >>>>> http://www.anncol.org >>>>> >>>>> ? >>>>> >>>>> RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>>> >>>>> But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>>> >>>>> Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>>> >>>>> Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>>> >>>> RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>>> transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the >>>> like. >>> >>>Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >>> >>>> The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in >>>> Denmark) is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't >>>> done a general check of dns health). This means that any blocking >>>> would likely be under Danish control. It could also be that >>>> anncol.org is moving to a different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>>> >>>> Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >>> >>> I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies >>> they're telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where >>> all that money came from recently. >>> >>> I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same >>> sort of thing . . . . >>> >>> It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >>> >>> I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the >>> childish view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I >>> guess it's an advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I >>> despise left- as well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I >>> noted today that the "World Socialist Web Site" was calling the >>> Ecuador raid a "massacre", and another site, a college review of some >>> kind (can't remember which and couldn't find it from my browser >>> history) was indignantly asking how could these (poor innocent, >>> basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat to Colombia when they >>> were asleep? >>> >>> Lord. >> >> LOL >> >> The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: >> >> http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story >> >> "It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders >> appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . >> . . Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." >> >> That damned laptop! > > Don't you mean Saddam's "magic" laptop with Valerie Plame's cookie > recipes on it and a mash note from Al Gore to a cute japanese whale > studying chixor? First I've heard of that one. What happened to the whale chick? -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 You want a job and a lizard to ride? < _The Einstein Intersection_
mimus wrote: > On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:08:18 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > >>mimus wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >>>> >>>>>mimus wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>>>> >>>>>>http://www.anncol.org >>>>>> >>>>>>? >>>>>> >>>>>>RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>>>> >>>>>>But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>>>> >>>>>>Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>>>> >>>>>>Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>>>> >>>>>RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>>>>transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the >>>>>like. >>>> >>>>Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >>>> >>>>>The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in >>>>>Denmark) is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't >>>>>done a general check of dns health). This means that any blocking >>>>>would likely be under Danish control. It could also be that >>>>>anncol.org is moving to a different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>>>> >>>>>Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >>>> >>>>I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies >>>>they're telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where >>>>all that money came from recently. >>>> >>>>I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same >>>>sort of thing . . . . >>>> >>>>It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >>>> >>>>I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the >>>>childish view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I >>>>guess it's an advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I >>>>despise left- as well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I >>>>noted today that the "World Socialist Web Site" was calling the >>>>Ecuador raid a "massacre", and another site, a college review of some >>>>kind (can't remember which and couldn't find it from my browser >>>>history) was indignantly asking how could these (poor innocent, >>>>basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat to Colombia when they >>>>were asleep? >>>> >>>>Lord. >>> >>>LOL >>> >>>The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: >>> >>>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story >>> >>>"It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders >>>appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . >>>. . Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." >>> >>>That damned laptop! >> >>Don't you mean Saddam's "magic" laptop with Valerie Plame's cookie >>recipes on it and a mash note from Al Gore to a cute japanese whale >>studying chixor? > > First I've heard of that one. > > What happened to the whale chick? > Well, the information is tentative. First, they'll have a Japanese linguist look at the Spanish to see if anything turns up. Then the Spanish will be translated into a context-free metalanguage which will be analyzed for encrypted information. At that point, it should be possible to determine if she is actually Japanese and the same person spotted in Golden Gate Park talking to Grace Slick during the Kerry hearings (which very nearly derailed some very sensitive negotiations between the US and an unmentioned South American country). Untimately, she may be linked to the usage of whale dung as fertilizer for the coca plants that Monsanto has been unable eradicate - even using helicopters. -- nuts
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:09:59 -0500, mimus wrote: > On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: > >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >> >>> mimus wrote: >>> >>>> Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>> >>>> http://www.anncol.org >>>> >>>> ? >>>> >>>> RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>> >>>> But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>> >>>> Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>> >>>> Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>> >>> RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>> transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. >> >> Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >> >>> The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>> is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >>> check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >>> under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >>> different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>> >>> Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >> >> I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're >> telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that >> money came from recently. >> >> I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort >> of thing . . . . >> >> It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >> >> I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish >> view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an >> advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as >> well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the >> "World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and >> another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and >> couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how >> could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat >> to Colombia when they were asleep? >> >> Lord. > > LOL > > The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: > > http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story > > "It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders > appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . . . > Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." > > That damned laptop! Ah, well, they settled for the hypocritical _status quo_, Ecuador and Venezuela swearing piously they're not providing havens and supplies and monies for FARC's war against Colombia, and Colombia swearing piously they believe them, with somewhat "testy" handshakes all around. Upload the laptop, dammit! I actually sympathized with Chavez at first, as I would anyone who was struggling successfully against the South American plutocracies, which are as vicious as if not more so than the USA's, but he rapidly forfeited _my_ sympathy anyway by his choice of "populist" buddies around the world, Khadafy (psychotic dictatorship), Ahmadinejad (theocratic dictatorship) and whoever that thug is in North Korea wot I can never remember his name (psychotic pseudo-Marxist dictatorship) . . . . -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 Those who mean the best are many times misled so far to the prejudice of those that trust them as to leave them in a condition nearest to bondage when they have thought they had brought them into a way of freedom. < John Lilburne
mimus wrote: > On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:09:59 -0500, mimus wrote: > >>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >>> >>>>mimus wrote: >>>> >>>>>Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>>> >>>>>http://www.anncol.org >>>>> >>>>>? >>>>> >>>>>RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>>> >>>>>But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>>> >>>>>Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>>> >>>>>Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>>> >>>>RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>>>transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. >>> >>>Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >>> >>>>The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>>>is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >>>>check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >>>>under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >>>>different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>>> >>>>Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >>> >>>I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're >>>telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that >>>money came from recently. >>> >>>I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort >>>of thing . . . . >>> >>>It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >>> >>>I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish >>>view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an >>>advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as >>>well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the >>>"World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and >>>another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and >>>couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how >>>could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat >>>to Colombia when they were asleep? >>> >>>Lord. >> >>LOL >> >>The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: >> >>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story >> >>"It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders >>appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . . . >> Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." >> >>That damned laptop! > > Ah, well, they settled for the hypocritical _status quo_, Ecuador and > Venezuela swearing piously they're not providing havens and supplies > and monies for FARC's war against Colombia, and Colombia swearing piously > they believe them, with somewhat "testy" handshakes all around. > > Upload the laptop, dammit! > http://www.gregpalast.com/farc-documents/ Sheesh. > I actually sympathized with Chavez at first, as I would anyone who was > struggling successfully against the South American plutocracies, which are > as vicious as if not more so than the USA's, but he rapidly forfeited _my_ > sympathy anyway by his choice of "populist" buddies around the world, > Khadafy (psychotic dictatorship), Ahmadinejad (theocratic dictatorship) > and whoever that thug is in North Korea wot I can never remember his name > (psychotic pseudo-Marxist dictatorship) . . . . Chavez lost big on his last referendum. Pretty much a ho-hum. No assinations, no wmd treats. Strongman with socialist/populist agenda maybe, dictator not. The real problem "we" have is the fact that Venezuela is in an economic position to tell the World Bank and other 'agencies' to FOAD. They're not even welcoming the evangelists to come in and 'soften up' the population so that economic development can proceed in the conventional way. Ahmadinejad is no dictator - he's just the president - elected by teh people. 2 terms. Other functions run the place. The constitution's rather complex. > http://www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/#more-1976 -- nuts
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:41:55 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > mimus wrote: > >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:09:59 -0500, mimus wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >>>> >>>>>mimus wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>>>> >>>>>>http://www.anncol.org >>>>>> >>>>>>? >>>>>> >>>>>>RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>>>> >>>>>>But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>>>> >>>>>>Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>>>> >>>>>>Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>>>> >>>>>RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>>>>transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. >>>> >>>>Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >>>> >>>>>The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>>>>is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >>>>>check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >>>>>under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >>>>>different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>>>> >>>>>Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >>>> >>>>I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're >>>>telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that >>>>money came from recently. >>>> >>>>I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort >>>>of thing . . . . >>>> >>>>It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >>>> >>>>I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish >>>>view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an >>>>advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as >>>>well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the >>>>"World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and >>>>another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and >>>>couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how >>>>could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat >>>>to Colombia when they were asleep? >>>> >>>>Lord. >>> >>>LOL >>> >>>The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: >>> >>>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story >>> >>>"It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders >>>appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . . . >>> Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." >>> >>>That damned laptop! >> >> Ah, well, they settled for the hypocritical _status quo_, Ecuador and >> Venezuela swearing piously they're not providing havens and supplies >> and monies for FARC's war against Colombia, and Colombia swearing piously >> they believe them, with somewhat "testy" handshakes all around. >> >> Upload the laptop, dammit! >> > http://www.gregpalast.com/farc-documents/ > > Sheesh. That was just three, not even the whole set released. I note with interest that "Plan B" in Spanish is "Plan B". >> I actually sympathized with Chavez at first, as I would anyone who was >> struggling successfully against the South American plutocracies, which are >> as vicious as if not more so than the USA's, but he rapidly forfeited _my_ >> sympathy anyway by his choice of "populist" buddies around the world, >> Khadafy (psychotic dictatorship), Ahmadinejad (theocratic dictatorship) >> and whoever that thug is in North Korea wot I can never remember his name >> (psychotic pseudo-Marxist dictatorship) . . . . > > Chavez lost big on his last referendum. Pretty much a ho-hum. No > assinations, no wmd treats. Strongman with socialist/populist agenda > maybe, dictator not. I saw that. I do give him credit for that. No coup. > The real problem "we" have is the fact that Venezuela is in an economic > position to tell the World Bank and other 'agencies' to FOAD. They're > not even welcoming the evangelists to come in and 'soften up' the > population so that economic development can proceed in the conventional > way. Yum, _Thy Will Be Done_, Colby and Dennett, 1995, about how the Rockefeller Foundation funds evangelistic efforts to open the way for international timber and mining interests in South America, especially the Amazon Basin. Right down to arming the new Christian converts in order to bring in the die-hard part of the tribe or kill them. > Ahmadinejad is no dictator - he's just the president - elected by teh > people. 2 terms. Other functions run the place. The constitution's > rather complex. All candidates for office in Iran must be approved by a very deliberately hard-line board of priests. I admit that's not too much worse than the preapproval needed by the wealthy to have a shot at Federal office in the US under our de facto money-system of politics (gotta have that early cash, and "both" "parties" have little early gettogethers where prospective candidates can strut their stuff before potential "donors"). Plutocracy and theocracy both suck. > http://www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/#more-1976 HmmMmm, it seems one has to be careful with Palast, who does not seem to be careful with the truth here, although he's scored some big ones, like any classic muck-raker: For example, in this very article, which contains a great deal of opinion as well as some reporting, he sez Colombia's Uribe is "a desperate man in deep political trouble", whereas Uribe's cracking down on FARC is quite popular indeed in Colombia . . . . He doesn't web all the documents released. And he falsely implies, as the major thesis of his article here, that the very email he bases his article on was on one subject alone: It's numbered items 1 through 6 (2 and 6 twice each--oops), 1 concerning "the 300" (and pointing to another document), and not all the remainder concerning the FARC kidnappees ("hostages"), although it's not surprising they play a big role in FARC's thinking, since running the coke-trade and kidnapping for ransom are FARC's major profit-making activities. As for "the 300", no-one's asserted that was going to be all cash. And one of the documents already released, not webbed by Palast, and one wonders if that was deliberate on his part, specifically wonders where to stick a large amount of money. In lighter news, I was just scanning Google News to see if I could find a larger set of docs (again), and one of the news stories, from Mexico City, starts out "Five missing Mexican citizens were visiting a Colombian guerrilla base [the very base that all the ruckus is about, in Ecuador, one mile from the border with Colombia] when it was bombarded March 1 by Colombian troops . . . ". Are they fucking tourist-attractions? "See real live rebels!" "Extreme tourism" indeed. -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 There's no such thing as a trained snake, OK? < _Strip Tease_
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:40:23 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote: >Can anyone get to the FARC website > >http://www.anncol.org > >? > >RoadRunner sez it can't find it. > >But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. > >Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? > >Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? Server Not Found. and i aint usin roadrunner. -- dave hillstrom mhm15x4 zrbj <This space for rent.>
Once upon a time in a magickal land far far away the being called mimus stirred from its deep slumber and pronounced to usenet: : Can anyone get to the FARC website : : http://www.anncol.org : : ? : : RoadRunner sez it can't find it. : : But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. : : Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? : : Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? Yikes, www.anncol.org isn't loading right now. The computers that run www.anncol.org are having some trouble. Usually this is just a temporary problem, so you might want to try again in a few minutes. Want more detail? See which nameservers are failing. Nameserver trace for www.anncol.org: * Looking for who is responsible for root zone and followed k.root-servers.net. * Looking for who is responsible for org and followed tld2.ultradns.net. * Looking for who is responsible for anncol.org and followed dns1.moduleweb.net. Nameservers for www.anncol.org: * dns3.moduleweb.net returned (NORECORDS) * dns2.moduleweb.net returned (NORECORDS) * dns1.moduleweb.net returned (NORECORDS) -- Steve Leyland mhm32x16 Smeeter#24 WSD#41 Most Hated Usenetizen Of All Time#1 Top Asshole on the Net#4 Usenet Ruiner#11 Lits Slut#1 alt.hackers.malicious awards 2007 Pedo-Baiter Alcatroll Labs Inc (bongwater maintenance dept) http://mar.exilenet.org:9042/listen.pls =^MEOW MEOW ARMY^= DEMENTIA: I Think I'll Be Home for Christmas ====================================================================== "Oh, and by the by ... although it is not my particular responsibility to do so, I do nevertheless apologize for Mr. Leyland, who seems convinced that anyone who might pass by this doorway to our little gallery is a child rapist. In a sense, he is much like the ratty kitty he claims to be in his interminable signature line ... he wanders about and stops occassionally at the stoop here to spray and defecate, then moves on and is gone for a few days or so ... no doubt spraying, defecating and retching up hairballs elsewhere ... then returns to mark his "territory" again. I realise he is little more than a malodorous nusiance, but a nuisance nevertheless." HMS Victor Victorian, pedophile, alt.fan.utb.naughty-boy ====================================================================== "Warning to all: Steve Leyland is a trolling twat of the highest order. Killfile the muppet now and move on. Even the briefest of searches on his past UseNet posts will reveal the truth. You have been warned. *plonk*" bear, uk.rec.motorcycles ====================================================================== "I didn't delete any part of your meaningless, pointless, worthless post in order to clearly demonstrate that you are the nemesis of Usenet: the crossposting, non-editing, diagram-creating worthless, dickless, brainless, gutless, mindless, ball-less, spineless, flaccid, obese, fish-belly pale, ugly, VD-ridden, moronic, bald, hunch-backed, flat-footed, odoriferous, obnoxious, fecal-smelling, buck-toothed, physically handicapped, fungus-infected, HIV positive, mud-packing, masturbating, whining, simpering, self-important, arrogant, egomaniacal POS that takes up more bandwidth than a despicable binary-poster, and for no apparent reason beyond seeing his own defecatory vomitus slithering down the screen in vile green rivulets." Admiral Halsey, alt.sailing.asa ====================================================================== "I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen; A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door; So I turned to the Garden of Love That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tombstones where flowers should be; And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires." William Blake. ====================================================================== "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 19. ====================================================================== "When the Earth has been ravaged and the animals are dying, a tribe of people from all races, creeds and colours shall put their faith in deeds, not words, and make the land green again. They shall be known as Warriors of the Rainbow, protectors of the environment." |\ _.-'~~""'~`'~) /, ~-,__,,,.'~ ,-;;--'' |,4) ./ ' ; ;/' '-~~;'@ ( ; ; _.--'' _.-_..' .;.' (,_..----''' (,..--'' meow
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:40:13 -0500, mimus wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:41:55 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > >> mimus wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:09:59 -0500, mimus wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>mimus wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>>>>> >>>>>>>http://www.anncol.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>>? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>>>>> >>>>>>RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>>>>>transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. >>>>> >>>>>Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >>>>> >>>>>>The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>>>>>is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >>>>>>check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >>>>>>under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >>>>>>different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>>>>> >>>>>>Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >>>>> >>>>>I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're >>>>>telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that >>>>>money came from recently. >>>>> >>>>>I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort >>>>>of thing . . . . >>>>> >>>>>It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >>>>> >>>>>I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish >>>>>view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an >>>>>advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as >>>>>well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the >>>>>"World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and >>>>>another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and >>>>>couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how >>>>>could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat >>>>>to Colombia when they were asleep? >>>>> >>>>>Lord. >>>> >>>>LOL >>>> >>>>The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: >>>> >>>>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story >>>> >>>>"It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders >>>>appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . . . >>>> Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." >>>> >>>>That damned laptop! >>> >>> Ah, well, they settled for the hypocritical _status quo_, Ecuador and >>> Venezuela swearing piously they're not providing havens and supplies >>> and monies for FARC's war against Colombia, and Colombia swearing piously >>> they believe them, with somewhat "testy" handshakes all around. >>> >>> Upload the laptop, dammit! >>> >> http://www.gregpalast.com/farc-documents/ >> >> Sheesh. > > That was just three, not even the whole set released. > > I note with interest that "Plan B" in Spanish is "Plan B". > >>> I actually sympathized with Chavez at first, as I would anyone who was >>> struggling successfully against the South American plutocracies, which are >>> as vicious as if not more so than the USA's, but he rapidly forfeited _my_ >>> sympathy anyway by his choice of "populist" buddies around the world, >>> Khadafy (psychotic dictatorship), Ahmadinejad (theocratic dictatorship) >>> and whoever that thug is in North Korea wot I can never remember his name >>> (psychotic pseudo-Marxist dictatorship) . . . . >> >> Chavez lost big on his last referendum. Pretty much a ho-hum. No >> assinations, no wmd treats. Strongman with socialist/populist agenda >> maybe, dictator not. > > I saw that. I do give him credit for that. No coup. > >> The real problem "we" have is the fact that Venezuela is in an economic >> position to tell the World Bank and other 'agencies' to FOAD. They're >> not even welcoming the evangelists to come in and 'soften up' the >> population so that economic development can proceed in the conventional >> way. > > Yum, _Thy Will Be Done_, Colby and Dennett, 1995, about how the > Rockefeller Foundation funds evangelistic efforts to open the way for > international timber and mining interests in South America, especially the > Amazon Basin. > > Right down to arming the new Christian converts in order to bring in the > die-hard part of the tribe or kill them. > >> Ahmadinejad is no dictator - he's just the president - elected by teh >> people. 2 terms. Other functions run the place. The constitution's >> rather complex. > > All candidates for office in Iran must be approved by a very deliberately > hard-line board of priests. As in: "Some 4,500 candidates nationwide are running for parliament's 290 seats in Friday's vote. But reformists say they don't have candidates in around 200 of the races after Iran's hard-line clerical leadership eliminated most of their top candidates. "The Guardian Council-- an unelected body of clerics and jurists-- disqualified around 1,700 candidates, mostly reformists, on the grounds they were insufficiently loyal to Islam or Iran's 1979 revolution. The reformist candidates who remain are mostly little-known to the public. "The disqualifications have divided reform supporters. Some have decided to boycott the vote. " 'We can't bring deep democratic changes within the ruling establishment through the ballot box,' said Hadi Rezaei, a 29-year-old computer technician in Tehran. 'Once, I used to vote for reformers but it didn't work. The Guardian Council has already decided the elections.' " http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/964358.html The priests eliminated secularist opposition candidates in two-thirds of the races before the polls even opened . . . . This, I would maintain, is not democracy; it is a theocracy putting on a miserable pretense of democracy. -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 Thinking makes one an infidel. < Tawfiq Hamid
mimus wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:40:13 -0500, mimus wrote: > >>On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:41:55 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >> >>>mimus wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:09:59 -0500, mimus wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:16 -0500, mimus wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:18:43 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>mimus wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Can anyone get to the FARC website >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>http://www.anncol.org >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>RoadRunner sez it can't find it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>But Network Solutions Whois shows it registered. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Are we Amurricans being Web-censored now? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Or just us Time-Warner/RoadRunner users? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>RoadRunner is often blocked due to inadequate control of malefactors, >>>>>>>transgressors, offenders, scofflaws, zombified computers and the like. >>>>>> >>>>>>Don't blame me, I was on Adelphia and it just sort of changed. >>>>>> >>>>>>>The anncol.org nameserver (DNS1.MODULEWEB.NET - physically in Denmark) >>>>>>>is reachable but does not return an IP address (I haven't done a general >>>>>>>check of dns health). This means that any blocking would likely be >>>>>>>under Danish control. It could also be that anncol.org is moving to a >>>>>>>different host or hasn't paid their bill. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Maybe some of the FARC stuff is mirrored elsewhere. >>>>>> >>>>>>I didn't particularly want to see it, was just wondering what lies they're >>>>>>telling about their little setback in Ecuador and also where all that >>>>>>money came from recently. >>>>>> >>>>>>I run over the Hamas and Hizbullah websites occasionally for the same sort >>>>>>of thing . . . . >>>>>> >>>>>>It's perverted, I know, but I just can't help myself. >>>>>> >>>>>>I'm probably more of a left- than a right-winger, in terms of the childish >>>>>>view that politics is representable by a line-segment (I guess it's an >>>>>>advance over "white hats" versus "black hats"), but I despise left- as >>>>>>well as right-wing liars and totalitarians, and I noted today that the >>>>>>"World Socialist Web Site" was calling the Ecuador raid a "massacre", and >>>>>>another site, a college review of some kind (can't remember which and >>>>>>couldn't find it from my browser history) was indignantly asking how >>>>>>could these (poor innocent, basically) FARC guerrillas be posing a threat >>>>>>to Colombia when they were asleep? >>>>>> >>>>>>Lord. >>>>> >>>>>LOL >>>>> >>>>>The Santo Domingo conference isn't going so well: >>>>> >>>>>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-venezuela,0,5400978.story >>>>> >>>>>"It began quietly . . . the accusations began quickly . . . leaders >>>>>appealed for calm . . . talk of imperialism, communism and terrorism . . . >>>>>Calderon advised leaving aside the adjectives . . . ." >>>>> >>>>>That damned laptop! >>>> >>>>Ah, well, they settled for the hypocritical _status quo_, Ecuador and >>>>Venezuela swearing piously they're not providing havens and supplies >>>>and monies for FARC's war against Colombia, and Colombia swearing piously >>>>they believe them, with somewhat "testy" handshakes all around. >>>> >>>>Upload the laptop, dammit! >>>> >>>http://www.gregpalast.com/farc-documents/ >>> >>>Sheesh. >> >>That was just three, not even the whole set released. >> >>I note with interest that "Plan B" in Spanish is "Plan B". >> >>>>I actually sympathized with Chavez at first, as I would anyone who was >>>>struggling successfully against the South American plutocracies, which are >>>>as vicious as if not more so than the USA's, but he rapidly forfeited _my_ >>>>sympathy anyway by his choice of "populist" buddies around the world, >>>>Khadafy (psychotic dictatorship), Ahmadinejad (theocratic dictatorship) >>>>and whoever that thug is in North Korea wot I can never remember his name >>>>(psychotic pseudo-Marxist dictatorship) . . . . >>> >>>Chavez lost big on his last referendum. Pretty much a ho-hum. No >>>assinations, no wmd treats. Strongman with socialist/populist agenda >>>maybe, dictator not. >> >>I saw that. I do give him credit for that. No coup. >> >>>The real problem "we" have is the fact that Venezuela is in an economic >>>position to tell the World Bank and other 'agencies' to FOAD. They're >>>not even welcoming the evangelists to come in and 'soften up' the >>>population so that economic development can proceed in the conventional >>>way. >> >>Yum, _Thy Will Be Done_, Colby and Dennett, 1995, about how the >>Rockefeller Foundation funds evangelistic efforts to open the way for >>international timber and mining interests in South America, especially the >>Amazon Basin. >> >>Right down to arming the new Christian converts in order to bring in the >>die-hard part of the tribe or kill them. >> >>>Ahmadinejad is no dictator - he's just the president - elected by teh >>>people. 2 terms. Other functions run the place. The constitution's >>>rather complex. >> >>All candidates for office in Iran must be approved by a very deliberately >>hard-line board of priests. > > As in: > > "Some 4,500 candidates nationwide are running for parliament's 290 seats > in Friday's vote. But reformists say they don't have candidates in around > 200 of the races after Iran's hard-line clerical leadership eliminated > most of their top candidates. > > "The Guardian Council-- an unelected body of clerics and jurists-- > disqualified around 1,700 candidates, mostly reformists, on the grounds > they were insufficiently loyal to Islam or Iran's 1979 revolution. The > reformist candidates who remain are mostly little-known to the public. > > "The disqualifications have divided reform supporters. Some have decided > to boycott the vote. > > " 'We can't bring deep democratic changes within the ruling establishment > through the ballot box,' said Hadi Rezaei, a 29-year-old computer > technician in Tehran. 'Once, I used to vote for reformers but it didn't > work. The Guardian Council has already decided the elections.' " > > http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/964358.html > > The priests eliminated secularist opposition candidates in two-thirds of > the races before the polls even opened . . . . > > This, I would maintain, is not democracy; it is a theocracy putting on a > miserable pretense of democracy. > Yeah. Our patriotic theocrats never try to influence elections which is why we have liberty and freedom and justice and shootin' irons for all just like it says in the Constitution. -- nuts
