Two quotes from this article give a fair comparison of the relative positions of the EU and Iran."Obviously the regime is trying to preserve its position by very harsh repression," said Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, whose country takes over the EU's rotating presidency on 1 July. "But that cannot hide the fact that this …
Month: June 2009
Taking prisoners from hospitals
The Basaji - the Iranian military secret police are taking prisoners of protesters following their treatment in hospitals.We have heard on Twitter that PersianKiwi has been taken prisoner by the Government.More here - article continued with the most disturbing Tweet stream from PersianKiwi...
North Korea
Is North Korea so insecure that it believes that it needs to threaten the United States in order to maintain its independence? The answer is most probably yes.Read more...
Iran Demonstrations
Live Feed (or video of a live feed) from the Iran Election demostrations. Also see: Article: The Dictator The above article contains predictions. It was published 12 hours before this appeared (on my screen at least): UPDATE NY Times The demonstrations in Iran show the Iranian people have an emerging confidence. The corrupt establishment has …
New Zealand Most Peaceful Country
New Zealand has been voted the Most Peaceful Country in the world on Vision of Humanity by an Australian think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace.Last week, thousands of Aucklanders marched in a 100% peaceful demonstration of political unity with the Maori people who retain a seat of sovereignty over this nation, undivided but …
State of Denial
Irate passengers disagree with being held on board ship in quarantine claiming "this is not what we paid for" and calling it some kind of disgrace. They were let ashore and then the motel they were staying in asked them to move as they were "not a quarantine facility".If the swine flu had mutated into …