...and me with no Facebook account! Hope someone thinks to post them on Flickr. Thanks for the sample though, Charles.

Note how someone has blurred the protesters' faces in the closeups.

And if there was ever a LGF post with a Ready-Made Soundtrack:

I am very impressed with the bravery of the men who are out there. Am I wrong to be more impressed with the women who are there standing up?

War

re: #4 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am very impressed with the bravery of the men who are out there. Am I wrong to be more impressed with the women who are there standing up?

The women are awe inspiring.

re: #4 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am very impressed with the bravery of the men who are out there. Am I wrong to be more impressed with the women who are there standing up?

They are indeed brave. Remember Neda. LiveLeak's been featuring her death video since summer.

re: #7 The Sanity Inspector

They are indeed brave. Remember Neda. LiveLeak's been featuring her death video since summer.

Wasn't that video thought to be faked?

fight the power!

Go look at photo 87

re: #5 Bagua

War

Lyrics by Haile Selassie.

Man, I can't say how heartening I find these pics... Altho' the human cost is terrible, they're stepping up for themselves, and not really backing off (at least so far).

Here is the real prototype for change in the middle east, developing before our eyes.

re: #8 Walter L. Newton

Wasn't that video thought to be faked?

I'm sure it was thought to be fake by many people. People who still want to see the birth certificate, people who are sure 9/11 is a government conspiracy, and people who think Ahmadinejad and Chavez are great guys.

re: #13 drogheda

I'm sure it was thought to be fake by many people. People who still want to see the birth certificate, people who are sure 9/11 is a government conspiracy, and people who think Ahmadinejad and Chavez are great guys.

I thought I saw the right and the left questioning the video. I don't know, right now I can find pro/con coming from both sides if I google it, but I've yet actually seen anything definitive on the subject.

I was just wondering. You answer doesn't answer my question any better than what I found by googling.

Is it not odd that the police shields all say "POLICE" instead of whatever the word is in Farsi script?

re: #15 Naso Tang

Is it not odd that the police shields all say "POLICE" instead of whatever the word is in Farsi script?

Whoa, good catch.

re: #15 Naso Tang

Is it not odd that the police shields all say "POLICE" instead of whatever the word is in Farsi script?

I think its a international standard-type of thing.

re: #15 Naso Tang

Is it not odd that the police shields all say "POLICE" instead of whatever the word is in Farsi script?

We always joke about that POLICE thing. Like you need to identify the guys with all the riot gear, standing in a neat line behind cordons, and firing tear gas, as police. Thanks, we'd never have know. :-)

re: #15 Naso Tang

Is it not odd that the police shields all say "POLICE" instead of whatever the word is in Farsi script?

[Link: www.slate.com...]

There are some stills of this encounter in the slideshow, here's the video...
Riot Guards Beg for Forgiveness

People have cornered these security forces. People ask them 'why do you do this to your people?' and the riot guards ask for forgiveness, 'Bebakhshid' they can be heard to say.

'You are Yazid's - the Khalif against whom the Ashura uprising took place -forces', the woman shouts at them. One of the protesters then reassures them that they will not be beaten up, all they have to do is say Khameneii is a bastard. The woman can then be heard saying 'All you can do is kill your people is it?' and again they plead saying 'Please We are not killers'.

The sooner they join the people, the sooner they will redeem themselves with the people of Iran.

re: #16 allegro

Whoa, good catch.

No catch... read and learn...

[Link: www.slate.com...]

re: #19 recusancy

re: #21 Walter L. Newton

GMTA

re: #15 Naso Tang

Is it not odd that the police shields all say "POLICE" instead of whatever the word is in Farsi script?

Being such a high security and domestic spying state, it's only natural for the POLICE to be watching every step they take.

re: #21 Walter L. Newton

innapropriate comment: it always kinda gives me the arm fuzzies to see how English has developed into the Lingua Franca

re: #23 solomonpanting

And ever breath they take, every vow they break...

re: #24 windsagio

innapropriate comment: it always kinda gives me the arm fuzzies to see how English has developed into the Lingua Franca

To the great dismay of the French. :-)

re: #19 recusancy

Thanks! Cool article.

re: #25 Escaped Hillbilly

And ever breath they take, every vow they break...

So would would say that the Basiji have a Sting?

re: #24 windsagio

innapropriate comment: it always kinda gives me the arm fuzzies to see how English has developed into the Lingua Franca

Arm fuzzies?

re: #28 Dark_Falcon

There's a little black imam on the sun today.
But it's the same ol' thing as yesterday.

re: #20 Killgore Trout

There are some stills of this encounter in the slideshow, here's the video...
Riot Guards Beg for Forgiveness

[Video]

You are Yazids = you are devil worhipers, I think.

OT ?

Crude Oil has broken above $78 bbl in the return to trading. It was below $70 just over a week back.

re: #30 Escaped Hillbilly

There's a little black imam on the sun today.
But it's the same ol' thing as yesterday.

I hope the protesters make Khameni the King of Pain, all right.

re: #29 Capitalist Tool

Its like a muff.

The photos make our tea parties look a bit on the wimpy side, imo.

re: #33 Dark_Falcon
Or at least give him the arm fuzzies. Those sound wicked.

re: #28 Dark_Falcon

So would would say that the Basiji have a Sting?

Well, every little thing they do is tragic.

re: #32 Bagua

OT ?

Crude Oil has broken above $78 bbl in the return to trading. It was below $70 just over a week back.

[Link: www.theoildrum.com...]

re: #14 Walter L. Newton

The world heard of Neda's death from the Internet almost immediately after it happened. Since then we've heard from her music teacher, the man who was with her when she was shot. We've also heard from the doctor who tried to help her, who fled from Iran to Britain from fear of what the Iranian government might do to him, who was interviewed by the BBC. We've also heard from her boyfriend.

I'm completely certain that she's dead from the video alone. Added testimony from those involved only strengthens that certainty. In my mind anyone who wants to argue the video was fake is completely daft, hence my assigning them to the realm of nirthers and troofers and supporters of wanna-be dictators.

re: #31 The Sanity Inspector

You are Yazids = you are devil worhipers, I think.

Yazidi

Are ethnic Kurds with their own religion (not Muslim or Christian). Almost certainly used as a slur.

re: #38 recusancy

[Link: www.theoildrum.com...]

Context? I'm aware of that site.

re: #39 Drogheda

The world heard of Neda's death from the Internet almost immediately after it happened. Since then we've heard from her music teacher, the man who was with her when she was shot. We've also heard from the doctor who tried to help her, who fled from Iran to Britain from fear of what the Iranian government might do to him, who was interviewed by the BBC. We've also heard from her boyfriend.

I'm completely certain that she's dead from the video alone. Added testimony from those involved only strengthens that certainty. In my mind anyone who wants to argue the video was fake is completely daft, hence my assigning them to the realm of nirthers and troofers and supporters of wanna-be dictators.

Khamenei wants you to think it's fake though.

re: #40 Killgore Trout

Ah, similar to use of the term "Indie" (Indian). When I was in Arabic class, my instructor at first scolded me for saying I was half Indian (Native American) cause he thought I was using a crude insult. Multicultural political correctness blunder.

re: #41 Bagua

Context? I'm aware of that site.

Just throwing out an oil site that may have info that your looking for on it. You didn't ask a question. So I didn't really add anything.

re: #35 Firstinla

The photos make our tea parties look a bit on the wimpy side, imo.

More on a par with our anti-globo riots protests, I'd say. In the West, nobody vandalizes honest commerce like peaceniks.

re: #4 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Without exception...
You sir... are exceptionally served to stand with women...!
Olde soldier sends...!

re: #39 Drogheda

The world heard of Neda's death from the Internet almost immediately after it happened. Since then we've heard from her music teacher, the man who was with her when she was shot. We've also heard from the doctor who tried to help her, who fled from Iran to Britain from fear of what the Iranian government might do to him, who was interviewed by the BBC. We've also heard from her boyfriend.

I'm completely certain that she's dead from the video alone. Added testimony from those involved only strengthens that certainty. In my mind anyone who wants to argue the video was fake is completely daft, hence my assigning them to the realm of nirthers and troofers and supporters of wanna-be dictators.

Get a grip, I was only asking, I wasn't denying it or waving a flag. Geeessshhh.

re: #47 Walter L. Newton

"WLN"
The "lords" today in Iran, today, will fall...!

re: #47 Walter L. Newton

I know you were only asking Walter, and I was just telling you why I replied like I did.

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

/Iran? Why are we discussing this? Isn't there a reality show on?

re: #44 recusancy

Just throwing out an oil site that may have info that your looking for on it. You didn't ask a question. So I didn't really add anything.

Cool thanks. I know that site well, they are of the "Peak Oil" persuasion, but also post a lot of interesting analysis. I follow the Energy markets, especially Crude Oil quite closely myself as it is a favourite topic of mine as a result.

re: #47 Walter L. Newton

Perhaps tomorrow,next week, next month, next year...
Olde soldier sends...~!

Watching this unfold in Iran, you might say that the GWB Iranian strategy of lots of talk but no action had in mind that the Mullahacracy could only be toppled from within and military attack by the USA on Iran would only work to unify the Iranian people behind the regime. The silent treatment from GWB was the one thing Ahmadinejihad couldn't have. Now its him and the kleptocrats versus the masses and everyone else is just standing back watching Iran unravel.

re: #17 Dark_Falcon

I think its a international standard-type of thing.

Three words: Made in China

re: #3 Dark_Falcon

I fucking hate U2.