Category Archives: Totalitarianism

Iranian grad student, activist killed in Houston

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It appears that the IRI is now going after it’s opponents in targeted assassinations everywhere and anywhere. While on the one hand, it means none of us who oppose Islamic totalitarianism or indeed, totalitarianism of any kind are as safe now as we where yesterday, it also means the time to submit or fight is here.

Have a look at Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan or England and look at the cost of not fighting before you make that call.

H/T Shab. Keep yourself protected please. The whole world needs you and your efforts.

KSAT.COM 

Gelareh Bagherzadeh

HOUSTON –

A woman whom Houston police described as an activist on behalf of Iranian women’s civil rights was found shot dead at the wheel of her car after it crashed into a townhouse garage.

Houston police said the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Monday in a posh development near the Galleria.

According to investigators, someone walked up to the passenger’s side of 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh’s car and shot her in the head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wikipedia makes unprecedented protest. Blacks out world for a day.

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Protesting Obama’s new copyright laws, Wikipedia plans to black out the world starting at midnight Zulu.

As this law will apply to pretty much everyone and everything, it is clearly meant for selective enforcement. This would mean that the normally left leaning wikipedia has far less to fear than, say for example, anyone critical of the teachings or effects of Islam might. So please read as many articles here as you can. Copy them for emails whatever you can do if you believe that opposition to the largest social experiment of all time should be allowed an opposing voice. Ours I wager, will be removed sometime quite soon.

Another fine example of soft totalitarianism?

 

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.

This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst:

It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web.
Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a “blackout” of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.
On careful review of this discussion, the closing administrators note the broad-based support for action from Wikipedians around the world, not just from within the United States. The primary objection to a global blackout came from those who preferred that the blackout be limited to readers from the United States, with the rest of the world seeing a simple banner notice instead. We also noted that roughly 55% of those supporting a blackout preferred that it be a global one, with many pointing to concerns about similar legislation in other nations. 
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EU threatens to withhold financial support from Hungary over definition of marriage: report

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No matter what your feelings on gay marriage are, this is still an excellent example of how and why the European Union is a totalitarian, ideologically driven (and leftist at that) institution which removes basic rights to autonomous culture and decision making in a very Soviet style manner. Except its withholding the carrot more than it is, presenting the stick.

LIFESITE NEWS

by Kathleen Gilbert

  • Thu Jan 12, 2012 17:28 EST
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BUDAPEST, January 12, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – European Union officials are making their disapproval of Hungary’s recent constitutional changes felt by threatening to withhold financial support if it does not remove its new amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, according to one Hungarian source.

The so-called “Easter constitution” adopted in the post-Communist country last May was a major shakeup for Hungarian politics and an outrage to progressive EU ideology: the document not only supported marriage but declared that the unborn child deserves protection from the moment of conception, and even made special mention of Christianity as lying at the heart of the country’s identity. The document’s discussion of human rights also does not mention sexual orientation, another break from EU priorities.

The Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet claimed this week that the EU would move to drop financial aid to Hungary unless officials there scratched the marriage definition and dropped criminal charges against former Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, according to unnamed sources in Brussels. A spokesperson for the European commissioner for economic affairs called the allegation “nonsense,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

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British worker faces jail in Abu Dhabi for ‘insulting Islam’ with angry comment made in meeting

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H/T Taffy in Canada

The Daily Mail  

By Paul Milligan

Last updated at 1:22 AM on 13th January 2012

A British engineer is facing a month in jail after he told colleagues in a meeting, ‘When will we finish with the damn mosques?’

The worker, who has not been named, told an appeals court yesterday that he did not mean to insult the Islamic religion.

The British engineer works at the parks and recreation section of Abu Dhabi Municipality, and is appealing against a one-month prison sentence imposed by the Court of Misdemeanours.

The slow completion of a Mosque in Abu Dhabi caused the British engineer to make the statement that has landed him in court and facing jailThe slow completion of a project at a Mosque in Abu Dhabi caused the British engineer to make the statement that has landed him in court and facing jail

He was in charge of a project to create gardens around a mosque, reports The National, an English-language publication based in the capital of the UAE.

The engineer told the court he lost his temper during a meeting because the project was progressing slowly.

He was then reported to the police by his work colleagues for asking the offending question. Continue Reading →

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wages defector crackdown

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Imagine if you can, living in a place so awful, you would risk death at high odds to sneak into China for a better life.

L.A. Times:

New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered border guards to shoot down would-be defectors, media reports said.
REPORTING FROM SEOUL -– In North Korea, a new Kim may be in command but the same old human rights violations are still in play, including a renewed lethal crackdown on defectors, according to South Korean media reports.

Weeks after 20-something Kim Jong Un assumed power following his father Kim Jong Il’s sudden death by heart attack last month, border guards have begun shooting down would-be defectors who try to flee the impoverished nation, the reports said.

Three people who tried to flee the repressive regime were reportedly killed in recent days as they tried to cross the Yalu River along the Chinese border, part of a policy of tightened border controls that Pyongyang is enforcing after Kim Jong Il’s Dec. 17 death.

Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has pledged to hunt down and imprison, or even kill, three generations of family left behind by escapees, successful or not, according to Seoul’s Joongang Daily newspaper.

North Korea watchers say the younger Kim may fear that a rise in defections could destabilize his fledgling hold on power as officials across Pyongyang’s security apparatus jockey to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime’s new strongman.

“There was nothing like the eradication of three generations in the Kim Jong Il era, but now it’s happening under Kim Jong Un,” an unnamed official told the newspaper.

The crackdown is seen as part of Kim Jong Un’s attempt to consolidate his power and show backbone to the high-ranking generals of the nation’s 1.2-million-troops-strong military who once revered his father –- officers old enough to be the younger Kim’s grandfather.

“Obviously it is getting much harder to defect,” Do Hee-yoon, a member of the Citizens’ Coalition for the Human Rights of Abductees, told the Korea Times newspaper.

The JoongAng Daily said Kim Jong Un ordered “immediate executions when people are caught trying to cross the borders.” There were also reports that Kim gave the order to a special security squad of the Korean People’s Army under his direct control, authorizing them to shoot defectors on the spot.

The reported killings are the first fatalities since Kim Jong Un, now hailed as North Korea’s “Supreme Leader,” ordered the borders closed after his father’s death.

There were other signs apparently designed to persuade North Koreans to take their new leader seriously despite his youth.

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Internet to be cut completely in Iran?

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So far nothing too solid. Mostly rumors. What I read is, the internet for some time now seems to have been deliberately slowed to the point that checking emails already is an exercise in frustration and that apparently, all internet will be stopped within the next several weeks leaving only a kind of national ‘intranet’.

If anyone has more solid info, please post in the comments. However if true, it is foreboding indeed.

***UPDATE***

Our Persian friend Shab, just sent me this email she received:

We cannot use standard mode of G-mail. just using basic html.

approximately, all of big ISP’s already controlled by SEPAH (IRGC) members..

one of them owns by FARMANDAR E TEHRAN, Mr. Tamaddon!!

but you know, Internet is going to be down by IRI GOV from one side.

but worst of it that in the end internet users decide to go back to those

days of dial-up internet..because they can’t use ADSL speed any more…”

What a concentration camp is, and is not.

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First, a video I already posted yesterday. Testimony by a camp survivor from North Korea.

Second, Ron Paul explaining to Iranian state media that Gaza is a concentration camp. You know Gaza, the place the UN said is in the top ten fattest nations on earth?

Thirdly, some footage of days of forced mourning in North Korea over a man who claimed to be the worlds greatest golfer ever on his first game an does not ever defecate while the South Koreans throw a party.

A Ph.D. in Torture

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The Weekly Standard.com

Why is Rafsanjani’s son studying at Oxford?

Jan 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 16 • By EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI

When NATO planes launched their air campaign over Libya’s skies last spring and Western leaders said that Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi had to go, the first regime to change was at the London School of Economics. Its director, Sir Howard Davies, resigned following embarrassing dis-closures about LSE’s financial links to Libya and sizable donations from Qaddafi’s anointed heir, his son Saif al-Islam, who’d been awarded a doctoral degree from LSE. It seems that British academic institutions have yet to learn the lesson. For now it’s the United Kingdom’s oldest and most distinguished university, Oxford, that has brought scandal upon itself by giving a place to a Middle Eastern despot’s son—a scion of the Islamic Republic of Iran who has already distinguished himself as a human rights abuser and a torturer.

Photo of Mehdi Hashemi Bahramani RafsanjaniMehdi Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani

 

Oxford University’s Wolfson College, which the late Sir Isaiah Berlin helped establish, is now the academic home of 42-year-old Mehdi Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani, the fourth child of former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. These days, Rafsanjani the elder styles himself a champion of Iran’s reformists. But having tied the family fortune and its connections to the cause of challenging current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not make Rafsanjani a liberal democrat. In addition to the violence and repression he is responsible for inside Iran, he has also been one of the Islamic Republic’s chief exporters of terrorism. As president, Rafsanjani dispatched Iranian hitmen to kill Iranian exiles across Europe. There is an arrest warrant against him from Argentinian prosecutors for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. The son it seems has followed in his father’s path.

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Nazi conspiracy theories in Egypt’s new politics

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An edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery published in Karachi, Pakistan, 1969

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have long been a staple of the Arab and Iranian press and consciousness. Haj Amin al-Husseini, an Arab nationalist and “Grand Mufti,” broadcast Nazi propaganda to Egypt during the Second World War. And the Nazi-inspired conspiracy theory of a Jewish-Freemasonic alliance, dominating the world, still appears frequently in the official media today.

For many in the West, the convergence of Egypt’s pro-democracy activists on Tahrir Square earlier this year was a welcome sight – as it should have been. Believing it to be a portent of a new era of liberal democracy and pluralism in the region, however, appears to have been too optimistic.

Reporting was partly to blame. The media covered the sexual assault of American reporter Lara Logan in Tahrir Square by a group of “thugs,” during the protests. But it largely chose to ignore the fact that the crowd was yelling “Jew! Jew!” at her during the assault. Logan was raped with the hands of the assailants while others photographed her with their mobile phones.

This 2005 Syrian edition of the Protocols claims that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were orchestrated by a Zionist conspiracy. Last week Egyptian presidential candidate Tawfiq Okasha went on television to invoke the other, largely ignored, gentile half of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory par excellence. Asked why Canadian television presenter Michael Coren had “dedicated a large part of his show to an attack” on Okasha, the presidential hopeful responded, simply, that Coren was “a Freemason.”

Lara Logan isn’t Jewish, and Michael Coren isn’t a Freemason either. But that wouldn’t worry those who believe they are. The truth is a detail. And the Jew and the Freemason are archetypes in extremist Muslim and extremist Arab mind.

Ayatolla Khomeini outlawed Freemasonry after coming to power in 1979. As is occurring in Egypt today, Khomeini managed to subvert Iran’s pro-democracy revolution, and began suppressing every group that did not adhere to his clerical fascist vision. Saddam Hussein, head of the Arab national socialist Ba’ath Party, made membership of the Freemasonic fraternity a capital offense the following year.

The first hint, since the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, that the Zionist-Freemasonic conspiracy theory was going to inform politics came on… continue reading.

It’s good to mock the pompous but don’t forget the horror

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Below is a great little video which does a fine job of mocking the stratospheric pomposity of Kim Jong Il. No one liked a spectacle more than Kim and often he would be the only spectator in a football stadium sized venue where hundreds of his slaves would have worked for months or years to put on a cheesy musical.

And how could they not? Those selected slaves could enjoy payment of less starvation than the ones not picked for such glorious duty.

As important as it is to mock the self important as they climb the social ladder of their own minds at the expense and suffering of millions, it’s good to remember the costs

***UPDATE*** Kim’s youngest son, Kim Un appears to be the new leader who I predict will be dubbed, ‘The fattest kid in North Korea’ by the first truly observant journalist out there.