In the past decade the Iranian Navy has made signifigant improvements to it’s Navy. This has included purchasing and constructing warships of sufficient strength to protect Iran . While this has helped bring Iran ’s Navy back up to the strength it had in 1978, when one considers the resources Iran has available it becomes clear that Iran can do more. Below are my recommendations for Iran ’s Navy.
Right now Iran ’s major Warship production facility is at Bandar Abbas. In viewing Bandar Abbas, including the nearby Qeshm port, one notices what I mean above, namely that Iran has the facilities to build larger and more effective warships along the lines of a Sovrmmennyy class DDG, Sachsen class DDG, Krivak class FFG, Shivalik class FFG, Meko 200 class FFG, Visby class FFG Shardul class LPD, Gotland class SSK, Type 039 class SSK, U-31 class SSK, in other words, warships of strength which commands international respect. Iran also has the means to develop Bushehr into a center of warship production, and if Iran were to do so it would be of strategic advantage, for Bushehr is far away from any potential naval combat zone, unlike Bandar Abbas.
The recent announcement in August 2008 of the construction of the Qaaem SSK is cause for wonder. From the descriptions it would appear that the Qaaem is of comparible size and capability to Sweden ’s Gotland class SSK, China ’s Type 039 class SSK, and Germany ’s U-31 class SSK. If Iran ’s Naval personnel are smart they would have observed the Gotland exercises conducted from 2005-7 and the incident where a Chinese Type 039 class SSK intercepted the USS Kitty Hawk, showing the superior capabilities of those SSK’s. As Iran has demonstrated the capability of the improved stealth technology of it’s Ghadir class and Nahang SSK’s it is to be anticipated the Qaaem class will incorporate these improvements, for if they do not it will be to their disadvantage. Furthermore, Iran should use the already developed technological improvements in weapons and stealth and incorporate them into larger SSK’s and should begin exploring the possibilities of SSN’s , SSGN’s, and SSBN’s for it’s defense.
At present the largest surface warship Iran operates is the Jamaran class of FFG’s. Though capable they are given the misleading title of “Destroyer” which overstates their capabilities, and the only other “Destroyer” of similar capability operated by any other navy in the World is the German Brandenburg class, and that is because it carries a reduced amount of it’s full missile payload capability due to legal reasons. Anyone who has ever viewed the Bandar Abbas drydocks and the nearby Qeshm port will immediately notice that those drydocks and port facilities can hold and produce a warship the size of a Sovremennyy class DDG, and those at Qeshm have the potential to produce ships comparable in size to Nimitz/Kuznetsov class Aircraft Carriers, seeing as how supertankers are produced at Qeshm. As with Iranian SSK’s the same principle of developing quality before quality should be applied. By producing ships like the Jamaran class FFG’s, as well as smaller warships like the Paykan class Corvettes, Iran has demonstrated it’s ability to produce ships of quality. However, ships as small as the Jamaran can not hold large weapon payloads and would have to make creative adjustments to it’s weapons arrangement to carry helicopters. Therefore it would be in Iran ’s best interest to develop at Qeshm and Bandar Abbas larger surface warships, using some of the foreign designs mentioned above.
In addition, the Amphibious and Naval Air arm of Iran ’s Navy should be strengthened. By now the Hengam class LST’s should have had ships produced to replace them, as Iran can’t operate forever ships of the Bandar Abbas and Charak class which possess rapid conversion capabilities. Though it would be smart to produce Logistical Support Ships with rapid conversion capability they should not be of secondary, not primary combat importance.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
MAJOR RI judicial changes involving Zendran
This has happened since judge gitmo williams resigned and these judges
have personal connections to myself. Judge DeRobbio was a personal
friend of mine and was the Judge who defended me in Feb 2003 when I was
charged with pepper spraying that junkie on a bus where the state
overrulled his act to throw the charges against me out, and his schedule
was messed with in the last 5 years. Those around in 2007 should know
that keough was the one who made things difficult for me during my Trial
that year and was the one who recused himself from my case sending along
to Pfeiffer. Of more recent note is the appointee for the Superior
Court, George Muksian. George was my Public defender on april 21 and
was the one who got the reduced sentence, acknowledging that I could not
bail myself out and were the bail not a problem I would have won my
case. His office was also robbed of the evidence I gave him when we
planned my appeal on the same day there was a power outting at the
howard center and channel 10 on the day we went forward with my appeal,
and George and I both agreed that judge ippolito's demands for my appeal
that I be held without bail. This timing is more than coincidental.
All these news pieces were in the providence journal.
Peter Z
By W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal Staff Writer
District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio, 79, called a workaholic
by peers, died yesterday at his home. DeRobbio served for 32 years on
the bench.
The Providence Journal / Andrew Dickerman
PROVIDENCE — District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio Sr., a
commanding presence on the bench who never gave thought to retiring his
black robe, died yesterday morning at his home, in the Pawtuxet Village
section of Cranston.
He was 79 years old and had worked a full day on Friday.
“Describing him as a workaholic was an understatement,” said Superior
Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. “I think Al used to get
upset that there were only 24 hours in a day.”
Word of DeRobbio’s death quickly spread through the courts and judicial
system yesterday morning and several longtime court workers said that
DeRobbio had told them that he would never retire and that they would
have to remove him from the bench in “a body bag.”
It also marked the second death in three days of a state court judge. On
Friday, Family Court Judge Gilbert T. Rocha passed away.
Yesterday, Governor Carcieri ordered all state flags lowered to
half-staff until DeRobbio and Rocha are laid to rest.
“The passing of Judge DeRobbio and Judge Rocha, both dedicated public
servants, is a great loss for the judicial community and the people of
Rhode Island,” said Carcieri. “Judge DeRobbio has left an indelible mark
on our state’s court system.”
Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch called DeRobbio “a tremendous force
and presence in our justice system,” while Col. Brendan P. Doherty,
superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, characterized the chief
judge as “a giant,” who was always willing to help law enforcement.
Doherty recalled that, when he was a young state police detective,
DeRobbio was never bothered by a knock on his door at 1 a.m. to sign an
arrest warrant for a drug sweep or mob raid.
Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. described DeRobbio as
a “workaholic” who “really straightened out” the traffic court. “He’s a
real gentleman and a very knowledgeable guy,” he said. “He could quote
the law any time you needed it.
“Al was a personal friend of mine who got me started in Republican
politics” in Cranston in the early 1960s, Jeremiah said. “I will miss
him.”
DeRobbio, with 32 years on the bench, was the longest-serving state
court judge behind Rodgers, who has been a judge two years longer. Gov.
Philip W. Noel appointed DeRobbio to the District Court bench in 1976,
and two years later he was appointed to a seat on the Superior Court and
remained there for nine years.
DeRobbio never shied from using his high-profile appointment as a bully
pulpit.
In 1983, DeRobbio told an antinuclear activist that he had “spit” on the
U.S. Constitution by choosing to serve time in jail instead of paying $5
in restitution for participating in a demonstration outside the Electric
Boat plant at Quonset Point.
“I think you must know by now where my heart is,” declared the
protester.
DeRobbio interjected, “I want to know where your brain is.”
In 1987, Gov. Edward D. DiPrete appointed DeRobbio chief judge of the
District Court, replacing the late Henry E. Laliberte.
DeRobbio quickly made his mark as chief judge. In the early 1990s, he
consolidated much of the District Court system, shutting down small
courts in places such as Pawtucket, Cranston, Woonsocket and Warren. The
move, at the time, was controversial as police departments complained
that they had to transport prisoners to the Garrahy Judicial Complex, on
Dorrance Street in Providence.
Others, such as Judge Rodgers, supported the move because it made more
judges available in Providence to handle arraignments that might pop up
late in the afternoon.
A few years later, in the late ’90s, DeRobbio took over the troubled
Administrative Adjudication Court, otherwise known as the traffic court,
on Harris Avenue. At the time, the court was under siege over
uncollected fines, lengthy backlogs and allegations of ticket-fixing.
The record keeping was so woeful that the court’s computers listed $39
million in “uncollected” fines, but auditors could not determine whether
the $39 million represented unpaid tickets, or if some of the money was
stolen or lost.
DeRobbio seemed to relish the challenge of improving the traffic court
and its 80 employees, which nearly doubled the number of workers he
supervised as chief judge. Over eight years, DeRobbio professionalized
the traffic court and he was instrumental in converting the old
Administrative Adjudication Court next to a strip club to a sparkling
new Traffic Tribunal near the grounds of the Adult Correctional
Institutions, in Cranston.
Last year, the General Assembly removed the Traffic Tribunal from
DeRobbio’s jurisdiction and created the position of chief magistrate.
Legislators denied they were exacting revenge for DeRobbio’s failure to
pick magistrate candidates favored by Assembly leaders.
DeRobbio continued hearing a full caseload in his fourth-floor courtroom
in District Court, despite suffering from diabetes and worsening
eyesight. In recent years, he relied on a large magnifying glass to
review cases from the bench.
District Court Judge Michael A. Higgins will serve as acting chief judge
until a replacement is named for DeRobbio, who earned $181,121 a year.
The deaths of DeRobbio and Rocha leave six vacancies in the state
courts. Less than two weeks ago, Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J.
Williams abruptly announced that he was stepping down after eight years.
And, earlier this month, Family Court Judge Howard I. Lipsey announced
he was retiring.
There are two other vacancies: another on the District Court following
Judge Walter Gorman’s announcement last March that he is retiring; and
last spring’s announcement that Superior Court Judge Vincent A. Ragosta
was stepping down.
Williams, the departing chief justice, said the deaths of Rocha and
DeRobbio “hit our justice system hard.”
“Both men were great leaders and hard workers, and shared our vision for
increasing access to justice and making our courts more user friendly,”
he said. “While they will be missed, they would be the first to insist
on the continuation of our justice system for the people.”
bmalinow@projo.com
01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Journal Staff
Keough
Joseph A. Keough has stepped down after 11 years as a special magistrate
on the Superior Court.
His retirement, effective Dec. 20, was confirmed yesterday by Rhode
Island chief court spokesman Craig Berke.
Paid an annual salary of $141,515 at the point he stepped down, Keough,
67, a former state representative, had been a magistrate since 1997.
Before that, he had been the chief judge of the Pawtucket Municipal
Court.
Berke said he did not know whether Keough’s position will be filled. The
appointment lies with Superior Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers
Jr., subject to confirmation by the Senate, Berke said.
Magistrates are appointed to 10-year terms.
In just a matter of weeks, two judges retired and two died, expanding
the work of the Judicial Nominating Commission. (Superior Court
magistrates do not fall under that panel’s purview.)
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams and Family Court
Judge Howard I. Lipsey have announced their plans to retire this week.
Family Court Judge Gilbert T. Rocha, 77, died Dec. 19 after a brief
illness, and District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio Sr., 79, died
three days later.
01:00 AM EST on Monday, December 29, 2008
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal Staff Writer
In just a matter of weeks, the workload of the panel that selects candidates for state judgeships grew –– significantly — with the retirement of two judges and the deaths of two others.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams and Family Court Judge Howard I. Lipsey have announced their plans to retire a week from tomorrow. Family Court Judge Gilbert T. Rocha, 77, died Dec. 19 after a brief illness, and District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio Sr., 79, died three days later.
Now, the nine-member Judicial Nominating Commission must begin the task of selecting finalists for the lifetime posts. Coveted in the legal community, judgeships carry salaries upwards of $130,000 and generous pensions upon retirement.
Stephen J. Carlotti, chairman of the nominating commission, was surprised to learn of DeRobbio’s passing but was already preparing for busy months ahead.
“Oh boy,” he said, adding “We’ll just keep running along. The Judicial Nominating Commission is going to be perpetually in session until the merry month of May.”
He expected to begin publishing advertisements this week for candidates for the chief justice seat, with an application deadline of Jan. 30. The remaining positions will run on roughly parallel tracks, with each ad being displayed about 30 days, he said.
The commission must then pore over the 18-page applications returned and select which candidates to interview publicly. It has 90 days to present a list of finalists to the governor.
In addition, a single vacancy each remains on the District and Superior Court benches after retirements last spring. Those two seats await nominations from Governor Carcieri after the commission recommended finalists for the posts several months ago.
In July, the Judicial Nominating Commission recommended five candidates for the District Court opening created by the retirement of Judge Walter Gorman last March. They include Joseph A. DiPietro, J. Terence Houlihan Jr., Laura A. Pisaturo, Margaret M. Lynch-Gadaleta, and Paul D. Ragosta.
That same month, the commission chose five finalists for the Superior Court vacancy resulting from Judge Vincent A. Ragosta’s retirement in May. They include Fausto C. Anguilla, Stephen M. Isherwood, Henry S. Monti, George M. Muksian, and James V. Murray.
Under state law, the governor should have forwarded a nominee for Senate consideration in 21 days.
Asked about the delay, Carcieri spokeswoman Amy Kempe said: “Choosing a judge is a very thoughtful and considerable process. The governor is still reviewing the nominations put forth by the JNC, as well as the list of available individuals from other nomination lists.”
Under a law he pushed for, Carcieri may also choose from any list of court finalists generated over the previous five years.
kmulvane@projo.com
have personal connections to myself. Judge DeRobbio was a personal
friend of mine and was the Judge who defended me in Feb 2003 when I was
charged with pepper spraying that junkie on a bus where the state
overrulled his act to throw the charges against me out, and his schedule
was messed with in the last 5 years. Those around in 2007 should know
that keough was the one who made things difficult for me during my Trial
that year and was the one who recused himself from my case sending along
to Pfeiffer. Of more recent note is the appointee for the Superior
Court, George Muksian. George was my Public defender on april 21 and
was the one who got the reduced sentence, acknowledging that I could not
bail myself out and were the bail not a problem I would have won my
case. His office was also robbed of the evidence I gave him when we
planned my appeal on the same day there was a power outting at the
howard center and channel 10 on the day we went forward with my appeal,
and George and I both agreed that judge ippolito's demands for my appeal
that I be held without bail. This timing is more than coincidental.
All these news pieces were in the providence journal.
Peter Z
By W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal Staff Writer
District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio, 79, called a workaholic
by peers, died yesterday at his home. DeRobbio served for 32 years on
the bench.
The Providence Journal / Andrew Dickerman
PROVIDENCE — District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio Sr., a
commanding presence on the bench who never gave thought to retiring his
black robe, died yesterday morning at his home, in the Pawtuxet Village
section of Cranston.
He was 79 years old and had worked a full day on Friday.
“Describing him as a workaholic was an understatement,” said Superior
Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. “I think Al used to get
upset that there were only 24 hours in a day.”
Word of DeRobbio’s death quickly spread through the courts and judicial
system yesterday morning and several longtime court workers said that
DeRobbio had told them that he would never retire and that they would
have to remove him from the bench in “a body bag.”
It also marked the second death in three days of a state court judge. On
Friday, Family Court Judge Gilbert T. Rocha passed away.
Yesterday, Governor Carcieri ordered all state flags lowered to
half-staff until DeRobbio and Rocha are laid to rest.
“The passing of Judge DeRobbio and Judge Rocha, both dedicated public
servants, is a great loss for the judicial community and the people of
Rhode Island,” said Carcieri. “Judge DeRobbio has left an indelible mark
on our state’s court system.”
Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch called DeRobbio “a tremendous force
and presence in our justice system,” while Col. Brendan P. Doherty,
superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, characterized the chief
judge as “a giant,” who was always willing to help law enforcement.
Doherty recalled that, when he was a young state police detective,
DeRobbio was never bothered by a knock on his door at 1 a.m. to sign an
arrest warrant for a drug sweep or mob raid.
Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. described DeRobbio as
a “workaholic” who “really straightened out” the traffic court. “He’s a
real gentleman and a very knowledgeable guy,” he said. “He could quote
the law any time you needed it.
“Al was a personal friend of mine who got me started in Republican
politics” in Cranston in the early 1960s, Jeremiah said. “I will miss
him.”
DeRobbio, with 32 years on the bench, was the longest-serving state
court judge behind Rodgers, who has been a judge two years longer. Gov.
Philip W. Noel appointed DeRobbio to the District Court bench in 1976,
and two years later he was appointed to a seat on the Superior Court and
remained there for nine years.
DeRobbio never shied from using his high-profile appointment as a bully
pulpit.
In 1983, DeRobbio told an antinuclear activist that he had “spit” on the
U.S. Constitution by choosing to serve time in jail instead of paying $5
in restitution for participating in a demonstration outside the Electric
Boat plant at Quonset Point.
“I think you must know by now where my heart is,” declared the
protester.
DeRobbio interjected, “I want to know where your brain is.”
In 1987, Gov. Edward D. DiPrete appointed DeRobbio chief judge of the
District Court, replacing the late Henry E. Laliberte.
DeRobbio quickly made his mark as chief judge. In the early 1990s, he
consolidated much of the District Court system, shutting down small
courts in places such as Pawtucket, Cranston, Woonsocket and Warren. The
move, at the time, was controversial as police departments complained
that they had to transport prisoners to the Garrahy Judicial Complex, on
Dorrance Street in Providence.
Others, such as Judge Rodgers, supported the move because it made more
judges available in Providence to handle arraignments that might pop up
late in the afternoon.
A few years later, in the late ’90s, DeRobbio took over the troubled
Administrative Adjudication Court, otherwise known as the traffic court,
on Harris Avenue. At the time, the court was under siege over
uncollected fines, lengthy backlogs and allegations of ticket-fixing.
The record keeping was so woeful that the court’s computers listed $39
million in “uncollected” fines, but auditors could not determine whether
the $39 million represented unpaid tickets, or if some of the money was
stolen or lost.
DeRobbio seemed to relish the challenge of improving the traffic court
and its 80 employees, which nearly doubled the number of workers he
supervised as chief judge. Over eight years, DeRobbio professionalized
the traffic court and he was instrumental in converting the old
Administrative Adjudication Court next to a strip club to a sparkling
new Traffic Tribunal near the grounds of the Adult Correctional
Institutions, in Cranston.
Last year, the General Assembly removed the Traffic Tribunal from
DeRobbio’s jurisdiction and created the position of chief magistrate.
Legislators denied they were exacting revenge for DeRobbio’s failure to
pick magistrate candidates favored by Assembly leaders.
DeRobbio continued hearing a full caseload in his fourth-floor courtroom
in District Court, despite suffering from diabetes and worsening
eyesight. In recent years, he relied on a large magnifying glass to
review cases from the bench.
District Court Judge Michael A. Higgins will serve as acting chief judge
until a replacement is named for DeRobbio, who earned $181,121 a year.
The deaths of DeRobbio and Rocha leave six vacancies in the state
courts. Less than two weeks ago, Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J.
Williams abruptly announced that he was stepping down after eight years.
And, earlier this month, Family Court Judge Howard I. Lipsey announced
he was retiring.
There are two other vacancies: another on the District Court following
Judge Walter Gorman’s announcement last March that he is retiring; and
last spring’s announcement that Superior Court Judge Vincent A. Ragosta
was stepping down.
Williams, the departing chief justice, said the deaths of Rocha and
DeRobbio “hit our justice system hard.”
“Both men were great leaders and hard workers, and shared our vision for
increasing access to justice and making our courts more user friendly,”
he said. “While they will be missed, they would be the first to insist
on the continuation of our justice system for the people.”
bmalinow@projo.com
01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Journal Staff
Keough
Joseph A. Keough has stepped down after 11 years as a special magistrate
on the Superior Court.
His retirement, effective Dec. 20, was confirmed yesterday by Rhode
Island chief court spokesman Craig Berke.
Paid an annual salary of $141,515 at the point he stepped down, Keough,
67, a former state representative, had been a magistrate since 1997.
Before that, he had been the chief judge of the Pawtucket Municipal
Court.
Berke said he did not know whether Keough’s position will be filled. The
appointment lies with Superior Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers
Jr., subject to confirmation by the Senate, Berke said.
Magistrates are appointed to 10-year terms.
In just a matter of weeks, two judges retired and two died, expanding
the work of the Judicial Nominating Commission. (Superior Court
magistrates do not fall under that panel’s purview.)
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams and Family Court
Judge Howard I. Lipsey have announced their plans to retire this week.
Family Court Judge Gilbert T. Rocha, 77, died Dec. 19 after a brief
illness, and District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio Sr., 79, died
three days later.
01:00 AM EST on Monday, December 29, 2008
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal Staff Writer
In just a matter of weeks, the workload of the panel that selects candidates for state judgeships grew –– significantly — with the retirement of two judges and the deaths of two others.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams and Family Court Judge Howard I. Lipsey have announced their plans to retire a week from tomorrow. Family Court Judge Gilbert T. Rocha, 77, died Dec. 19 after a brief illness, and District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio Sr., 79, died three days later.
Now, the nine-member Judicial Nominating Commission must begin the task of selecting finalists for the lifetime posts. Coveted in the legal community, judgeships carry salaries upwards of $130,000 and generous pensions upon retirement.
Stephen J. Carlotti, chairman of the nominating commission, was surprised to learn of DeRobbio’s passing but was already preparing for busy months ahead.
“Oh boy,” he said, adding “We’ll just keep running along. The Judicial Nominating Commission is going to be perpetually in session until the merry month of May.”
He expected to begin publishing advertisements this week for candidates for the chief justice seat, with an application deadline of Jan. 30. The remaining positions will run on roughly parallel tracks, with each ad being displayed about 30 days, he said.
The commission must then pore over the 18-page applications returned and select which candidates to interview publicly. It has 90 days to present a list of finalists to the governor.
In addition, a single vacancy each remains on the District and Superior Court benches after retirements last spring. Those two seats await nominations from Governor Carcieri after the commission recommended finalists for the posts several months ago.
In July, the Judicial Nominating Commission recommended five candidates for the District Court opening created by the retirement of Judge Walter Gorman last March. They include Joseph A. DiPietro, J. Terence Houlihan Jr., Laura A. Pisaturo, Margaret M. Lynch-Gadaleta, and Paul D. Ragosta.
That same month, the commission chose five finalists for the Superior Court vacancy resulting from Judge Vincent A. Ragosta’s retirement in May. They include Fausto C. Anguilla, Stephen M. Isherwood, Henry S. Monti, George M. Muksian, and James V. Murray.
Under state law, the governor should have forwarded a nominee for Senate consideration in 21 days.
Asked about the delay, Carcieri spokeswoman Amy Kempe said: “Choosing a judge is a very thoughtful and considerable process. The governor is still reviewing the nominations put forth by the JNC, as well as the list of available individuals from other nomination lists.”
Under a law he pushed for, Carcieri may also choose from any list of court finalists generated over the previous five years.
kmulvane@projo.com
Monday, December 29, 2008
Culminating Repercussions of “Fallout”
Over the past 6 months the repercussions of my “Fallout” series have been evident. This has been shown in the locations uncensored and those who continue to spread misinformation continue their behaviors.
This was demonstrated in July 2008, when MSN finally uncensored Karlskrona. With Karlskrona uncensored, every great Naval base, with the possible exception of Donghae, is now available to be viewed on satellite. When one looks at the images of Karlskrona one sees Sweden’s best, and some of the World’s, best Warships. This includes the Uppland, Halland, Sodermanland and Oster SSK’s, 4 Visby class FFG’s, the Stockholm, Malmo, Goteborg, and Kalmar FF’s, and Various LS and PT like the Carlskrona and dozens of craft, including the ex Neptun and Najad SSK’s. Overall, a long overdue view of strength.
The second major uncensoring by MSN was that of Ferrol. There one will see the Juan Carlos I CV halfway through construction, the Alvaro de Bazan and Blas de Lezo DDG’s, the entire Baleares class FFG’s and various FF and PT craft. There one will see the Norwegian FFG’s Roald Amundsen and Otto Sverdrup fitting out and the Helge Ingstad under construction. Like Karlskrona, this view is one of strength long overdue, especially the view of the Juan Carlos I.
These are among the more prominent of the bases uncensored by MSN. Others include Lagos, Mina Salman to name a few, yet only a few continue to be shown. Perhaps MSN, like Yahoo, does not realize that unlike google/wiki their sites do not allow vandalism and misinformation.
This continues to happen on google/wiki. One good example is Yokosuka. There it has been updated to allow one to view the JDS Hyuga CV under construction, in addition to other of Japan’s best ships, as well as the USS Seawolf SSN during one of it’s visits. As usual the wikifreaks barely noticed it until someone like myself updated the information, and as usual the wikifreaks put inaccurate and wrong info up. The same thing is going on with China At Qingdao one will see the Xia SSBN and all five Type 091 SSN’s, along with several Type 039 and Type 033 SSK’s. As usual the wikifreaks put up the wrong info, labeling the Xia and the SSN’s as Type 039 class SSK’s. It is only a matter of time before the wikifreaks notice Ningbo is now fully uncensored and put up their nonsense about the Chinese SSK’s that are visible. The same is true for Singapore and Simonstown. In Singapore one will see the four new FFG of Singapore’s navy, at Simonstown one will see South Africa’s two new SSK’s as well as the Mendi FFG in drydock and an Amatola class FFG in port. As usual the wikifreaks are not letting anyone put up accurate information.
All the more noticeable is that most locations on google/wiki have not been updated. That these locations are updated less often is a sign that the providers of these images are becoming conscious of the misuse that would occur should they make them available. That other servers including Yahoo and MSN update and add new images is good, yet more could be done.
One other thing should be noted here. Recently MSN has set it’s site so that you can no longer print out Birds eye view satellite images. In doing so they have unnecessarilly censored an excellent feature of online satellite imaging.
This was demonstrated in July 2008, when MSN finally uncensored Karlskrona. With Karlskrona uncensored, every great Naval base, with the possible exception of Donghae, is now available to be viewed on satellite. When one looks at the images of Karlskrona one sees Sweden’s best, and some of the World’s, best Warships. This includes the Uppland, Halland, Sodermanland and Oster SSK’s, 4 Visby class FFG’s, the Stockholm, Malmo, Goteborg, and Kalmar FF’s, and Various LS and PT like the Carlskrona and dozens of craft, including the ex Neptun and Najad SSK’s. Overall, a long overdue view of strength.
The second major uncensoring by MSN was that of Ferrol. There one will see the Juan Carlos I CV halfway through construction, the Alvaro de Bazan and Blas de Lezo DDG’s, the entire Baleares class FFG’s and various FF and PT craft. There one will see the Norwegian FFG’s Roald Amundsen and Otto Sverdrup fitting out and the Helge Ingstad under construction. Like Karlskrona, this view is one of strength long overdue, especially the view of the Juan Carlos I.
These are among the more prominent of the bases uncensored by MSN. Others include Lagos, Mina Salman to name a few, yet only a few continue to be shown. Perhaps MSN, like Yahoo, does not realize that unlike google/wiki their sites do not allow vandalism and misinformation.
This continues to happen on google/wiki. One good example is Yokosuka. There it has been updated to allow one to view the JDS Hyuga CV under construction, in addition to other of Japan’s best ships, as well as the USS Seawolf SSN during one of it’s visits. As usual the wikifreaks barely noticed it until someone like myself updated the information, and as usual the wikifreaks put inaccurate and wrong info up. The same thing is going on with China At Qingdao one will see the Xia SSBN and all five Type 091 SSN’s, along with several Type 039 and Type 033 SSK’s. As usual the wikifreaks put up the wrong info, labeling the Xia and the SSN’s as Type 039 class SSK’s. It is only a matter of time before the wikifreaks notice Ningbo is now fully uncensored and put up their nonsense about the Chinese SSK’s that are visible. The same is true for Singapore and Simonstown. In Singapore one will see the four new FFG of Singapore’s navy, at Simonstown one will see South Africa’s two new SSK’s as well as the Mendi FFG in drydock and an Amatola class FFG in port. As usual the wikifreaks are not letting anyone put up accurate information.
All the more noticeable is that most locations on google/wiki have not been updated. That these locations are updated less often is a sign that the providers of these images are becoming conscious of the misuse that would occur should they make them available. That other servers including Yahoo and MSN update and add new images is good, yet more could be done.
One other thing should be noted here. Recently MSN has set it’s site so that you can no longer print out Birds eye view satellite images. In doing so they have unnecessarilly censored an excellent feature of online satellite imaging.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Zendran vs. the nigger
This is an account of the reasons the new american presidential administration has threatened my life and that of that of my family. At first glance the incoming american president and I seem to share certain qualities, yet it is the differences regarding those qualities among other things which has caused the new american president and his administration to menace and threaten me. Those who know me assume this has to do with their stance on Iran and Iranian affairs, but it goes more deeper than that.
Much of the menace occurred during the presidential campaign. When the issue of his citizenship was brought up, as he does not have an original birth certificate, his campaign team claimed that it was impossible for someone to have more than one birth certificate. People like myself who do not have an original birth certificate soon proved them wrong. In my case immigration proved that not only I but my paternal grandfather, his mother, and his siblings did not have original birth certificates, as they were smuggled into america in 1924 illegally.
The issue of Iranian affairs is just as pressing and older than the election campaign. My taking issue with him and his associates supporting sanctions against Iran, and as a result creating further ethnic/racial tensions, is old news, few realize the impact his wife michelle has on Iranian affairs. The law firm she is involved with, sidney & austin, is also patronized by shahbanou farah and reza pahlavi, who have long schemed to provoke american aggresion against Iran to restore themselves as rulers of Iran. I have already described from what those who have felt the aggression of farah and her backers know, that farah and her supporters are ruthless and have long plotted to exterminate the Pahlavi family and other Iranian aristocratic families who successfully oppose them, mine included. Since their exile they have long backed the republicans in attempts to do this, but recently they have decided to make a hedge by backing the democrats. This connection means that the nigger is considering invading Iran for this purpose, using issues like Iran’s Nuclear program or establishing peace as a smokescreen for this purpose, and possibly to further balkanize historical Iranian territory.
Those who criticize my referring to the new american president as a nigger need only look at his black supremacist connections. The news about rev. wright is old news, as most people do not notice that his brother in law took the job at oregon state, where he personally sent me menacing e-mails in september 2008, to leave the black supremacist brown university, who’s president, ruth simmons, has packed that university with fellow black supremacists like her chief of police, mark porter, who has been instrumental in arming campuses, including brown, and in arming them teaching them methods in which to violate people’s rights particularly by using the fact that campus police are private law enforcement and therefore not accountable directly to the public, and her vice president of administration walter hunter who is literally a homeless man who was given a cushy job, which has included spying on people, just because he is a black african. People like this are living definitions of the word nigger. The activities of that nigger porter parallel those of biden, who along with his son have used creative menacing tactics to violate people’s rights. This has come in handy for their new world order cronies as they seek to oppress those who oppose them, as I will personally attest to later. The connections shit like this has needs to be explored.
By associating with black supremacist brown one is associated with goldman sachs, the same corporation that constituted itself as a bank in order to swindle american taxpayers out of their money so goldman sachs could enrich itself. It would not have been able to do this were not the treasury secretary a former goldman sachs executive. People associated with goldman sachs have been invited to deal at brown, to help brainwash students and to illicitly enrich itself. Then again, it should be old news and obvious that by appointing the president of the federal reserve bank of New York as treasury secretary, with the federal reserve responsible for helping goldman sachs constitute itself as a bank then engineering the bailout which helped goldman sachs along with 6 other major banks enrich themselves, that the nigger is playing the game of the federal reserve and it’s rothschild backers by such behavior.
One needs to pay attention to another cabinet appointment, that of hillary clinton. Despite her image she is very much a puppet of others, including dick holbrooke. Through him I have been personally menaced when he was at the watson institute at brown university, as he was the one who made the crank complaint to the brown pigs about me on april 17, 2008 claiming I was menacing him just by walking into the building where his office is. The real reason for his feeling menaced in all probability is my exposing his work for the evil it is. In 2007 when he gave a lecture at brown on global affairs he mentioned in his speech that plans to make kosovo independent were being concocted in america, not in kosovo, and by his mentioning this was demonstrating complicity in this violation of foreign sovereignty. I took it upon myself to e-mail copies of the video of his speech to Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica and Croatian Premier Sanader. If holbrooke would fear me for something like this then this action shows that him and his associates have something to hide that they did wrong.
One other little dirty trick I had managed to expose was the jewish immigrant scam, which had targeted myself, john kerry, madeline albright, to name a few. This scam involved some unknown source claiming someone in a position of influence had mysterious jewish origins, and would usually be revealed at a crucial time as was done to albright and kerry. In my case these rumors had been kicking around and when I was in New York in June 2008 I finally took the opportunity to silence those rumors once and for all by catching slip ups in immigration and other government records.
If anyone wants to contact me further on this feel free to contact me. I know there are others out there that have had similar experiences and by publishing this I encourage others to speak out against further american government abuses and not allow them to continue.
Peter Z
Much of the menace occurred during the presidential campaign. When the issue of his citizenship was brought up, as he does not have an original birth certificate, his campaign team claimed that it was impossible for someone to have more than one birth certificate. People like myself who do not have an original birth certificate soon proved them wrong. In my case immigration proved that not only I but my paternal grandfather, his mother, and his siblings did not have original birth certificates, as they were smuggled into america in 1924 illegally.
The issue of Iranian affairs is just as pressing and older than the election campaign. My taking issue with him and his associates supporting sanctions against Iran, and as a result creating further ethnic/racial tensions, is old news, few realize the impact his wife michelle has on Iranian affairs. The law firm she is involved with, sidney & austin, is also patronized by shahbanou farah and reza pahlavi, who have long schemed to provoke american aggresion against Iran to restore themselves as rulers of Iran. I have already described from what those who have felt the aggression of farah and her backers know, that farah and her supporters are ruthless and have long plotted to exterminate the Pahlavi family and other Iranian aristocratic families who successfully oppose them, mine included. Since their exile they have long backed the republicans in attempts to do this, but recently they have decided to make a hedge by backing the democrats. This connection means that the nigger is considering invading Iran for this purpose, using issues like Iran’s Nuclear program or establishing peace as a smokescreen for this purpose, and possibly to further balkanize historical Iranian territory.
Those who criticize my referring to the new american president as a nigger need only look at his black supremacist connections. The news about rev. wright is old news, as most people do not notice that his brother in law took the job at oregon state, where he personally sent me menacing e-mails in september 2008, to leave the black supremacist brown university, who’s president, ruth simmons, has packed that university with fellow black supremacists like her chief of police, mark porter, who has been instrumental in arming campuses, including brown, and in arming them teaching them methods in which to violate people’s rights particularly by using the fact that campus police are private law enforcement and therefore not accountable directly to the public, and her vice president of administration walter hunter who is literally a homeless man who was given a cushy job, which has included spying on people, just because he is a black african. People like this are living definitions of the word nigger. The activities of that nigger porter parallel those of biden, who along with his son have used creative menacing tactics to violate people’s rights. This has come in handy for their new world order cronies as they seek to oppress those who oppose them, as I will personally attest to later. The connections shit like this has needs to be explored.
By associating with black supremacist brown one is associated with goldman sachs, the same corporation that constituted itself as a bank in order to swindle american taxpayers out of their money so goldman sachs could enrich itself. It would not have been able to do this were not the treasury secretary a former goldman sachs executive. People associated with goldman sachs have been invited to deal at brown, to help brainwash students and to illicitly enrich itself. Then again, it should be old news and obvious that by appointing the president of the federal reserve bank of New York as treasury secretary, with the federal reserve responsible for helping goldman sachs constitute itself as a bank then engineering the bailout which helped goldman sachs along with 6 other major banks enrich themselves, that the nigger is playing the game of the federal reserve and it’s rothschild backers by such behavior.
One needs to pay attention to another cabinet appointment, that of hillary clinton. Despite her image she is very much a puppet of others, including dick holbrooke. Through him I have been personally menaced when he was at the watson institute at brown university, as he was the one who made the crank complaint to the brown pigs about me on april 17, 2008 claiming I was menacing him just by walking into the building where his office is. The real reason for his feeling menaced in all probability is my exposing his work for the evil it is. In 2007 when he gave a lecture at brown on global affairs he mentioned in his speech that plans to make kosovo independent were being concocted in america, not in kosovo, and by his mentioning this was demonstrating complicity in this violation of foreign sovereignty. I took it upon myself to e-mail copies of the video of his speech to Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica and Croatian Premier Sanader. If holbrooke would fear me for something like this then this action shows that him and his associates have something to hide that they did wrong.
One other little dirty trick I had managed to expose was the jewish immigrant scam, which had targeted myself, john kerry, madeline albright, to name a few. This scam involved some unknown source claiming someone in a position of influence had mysterious jewish origins, and would usually be revealed at a crucial time as was done to albright and kerry. In my case these rumors had been kicking around and when I was in New York in June 2008 I finally took the opportunity to silence those rumors once and for all by catching slip ups in immigration and other government records.
If anyone wants to contact me further on this feel free to contact me. I know there are others out there that have had similar experiences and by publishing this I encourage others to speak out against further american government abuses and not allow them to continue.
Peter Z
Monday, December 08, 2008
Open letter to leslie yeransian
I have spent the past few months wondering if my assisting you in you in your troubles since August, and now I am not sure if I did the right thing.
Regarding your being dropped from wjar as bad as the station behaved towards you you were not so clean yourself. You did not prepare for such an incident, and when it did happen you depended on everyone lese to do everything for you. You forgot that defense is a partnership and as a result you were not straightforward with those who worked with you, and could not act coherently. Small wonder you were not a hot topic and you got knocked around.
Even if you were in the right as far as that story was concerned you were not in the right on some of your other stories. Looking over some of them it becomes apparent you did not always realize when those you were interviewing were misleading you, you did not always search for other perspectives and double check your work, and you made slip ups in some of your work. Therefore you did not always work hard and your work deserves criticism. I even wonder the real reasons you did not last long at your other jobs.
Consider yourself as a person. You have trouble taking criticism from others and assume you are right when you are not. You do not consider others around you. You play headgames with those who are serious and sincere to you. You demand behaviors of others, like politeness and consideration, that you do not always demonstrate yourself.
Why do I say this? Because I was one of those you behaved this way towards and who you snubbed. I am not sure if you were ever honest with me, as I was always honest and straightforward with you. I thought you were sincere, but instead you turned out to be a twofaced, classist, idiotic bitch and a waste of time and money.
To think I actually cared about you.
EAT SHIT AND DIE
Regarding your being dropped from wjar as bad as the station behaved towards you you were not so clean yourself. You did not prepare for such an incident, and when it did happen you depended on everyone lese to do everything for you. You forgot that defense is a partnership and as a result you were not straightforward with those who worked with you, and could not act coherently. Small wonder you were not a hot topic and you got knocked around.
Even if you were in the right as far as that story was concerned you were not in the right on some of your other stories. Looking over some of them it becomes apparent you did not always realize when those you were interviewing were misleading you, you did not always search for other perspectives and double check your work, and you made slip ups in some of your work. Therefore you did not always work hard and your work deserves criticism. I even wonder the real reasons you did not last long at your other jobs.
Consider yourself as a person. You have trouble taking criticism from others and assume you are right when you are not. You do not consider others around you. You play headgames with those who are serious and sincere to you. You demand behaviors of others, like politeness and consideration, that you do not always demonstrate yourself.
Why do I say this? Because I was one of those you behaved this way towards and who you snubbed. I am not sure if you were ever honest with me, as I was always honest and straightforward with you. I thought you were sincere, but instead you turned out to be a twofaced, classist, idiotic bitch and a waste of time and money.
To think I actually cared about you.
EAT SHIT AND DIE
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Zendran legal/financial situation update
I just found this out last night.
The branch of washington trust that filed the bogus charges in 2006 of which I was found Not Guilty in 2007 has been forced to close down. That bank is maintaining a presence in providence however with a new branch in the old federal reserve building, however it is not clear if that new branch is renting space at that location. What is clear is that washington trust's business is taking a hit as people are beginning to wake up to their tricks.
Peter Z
The branch of washington trust that filed the bogus charges in 2006 of which I was found Not Guilty in 2007 has been forced to close down. That bank is maintaining a presence in providence however with a new branch in the old federal reserve building, however it is not clear if that new branch is renting space at that location. What is clear is that washington trust's business is taking a hit as people are beginning to wake up to their tricks.
Peter Z
Friday, December 05, 2008
Who is Worth Saving?
Over the past few years I have tried to be optimistic about things. Living in the most oppressive nation in the world, america, where I dealt with with people who said they cared about making things better helped keep up this optimism, after all why shouldn’t I be optimistic wehndealing with people who want to do something positive. The events of 2008 have been an all too realistic reminder of the worst in america and humanity, as people allowed themselves to make changes for the worse, contradicting what they know to be right, making me question this optimism.
Politically, this is most obvious. In 2008 the people of america had a chance to make some changes for the good by either putting people into elected office or rising up against their corrupt government. Instead of taking this chance and acting on their pent up frustrations they instead helped to put in power candidates more corrupt and evil than those they had complained about, for the nigger who won the presidential election did it by more devious means than any candidate in history. The promises of change were pitched in a way to appeal to people in the same way hitler pitched his programs to the people of Germany, by appealing to their worst senses and confirming their worst vices, with the same effect of people falling hook, line and sinker for the nigger’s lies, for his change is a change for the worse. Then again, the people who welcome this change are not only the corporate leeches listed below but your average mass of thoughtless sheepole who think nothing of what really makes the World around them. The change will not include the elimination of homeland security, the patriot act, and other government acts that have turned America into a dystopia in which any punk with a badge will use that badge as an excuse to rob, shoot, beat, kill, maim, imprison, or deprive anyone of their rights. Nor should we forget that in the new administration everyone between the ages of 18-25 will be required to perform government service, and in doing this not only is bringing back the draft but slavery. Despite promising to fix the economy the only people who are benefitting are his federal reserve, goldman sachs, sidney austin, and other wall street cronies who financed the nigger’s campaign while american’s struggle with daily expenses. For members of his government some of the worst people who have exploited the human race in america and abroad are being chosen. And to make things worse dialogues with foreign leaders are being established, including with countries like Iran and Pakistan who are threatened with american aggression.
The case of Iran is most interesting. While Iran’s president sent his congratulations, as did many other world leaders with optimistic expectations of the nigger, Ahmadinejad sent his usual lecturing message along with his letter like the ones he has sent to bush in the past. While this may seem prudent to Ahmadinejad his letter is in fact naïve, sent to a person who will pretend to be welcoming while plotting the destruction of the very person he claims to be a friend of. Notice how the nigger’s backers include sidney and austin law firm, the same firm employed by reza and farah pahlavi in their plotting to reestablish their control over Iran, and their plans include collaborating with the mullahs in control of Iran. Four years ago it appeared they would not succeed. Today the Iranian community in Iran and abroad has largely shown itself to be as lazy as the cat called persian and largely unable to focus on real action. I should not have to repeat how most Iranians are unwilling to show up at anti-war demos where they are misrepresented, or overconcentrate on the issue of the name Persian Gulf but do next to nothing about being defamed elsewhere, or confuse political, legal, and cultural issues, but it bears repeating. One example of overfocus is on stories of abuse of women and children in Iran, you have people like jendeh ebadi and jendeh nazanian who repeat scripted accounts of dubious abuses, which make things worse for those suffering real abuse and ignoring the root of the problems. Much like America Iran’s population has issues with it’s government, but largely falls for the same spin their politicos tell them or are too lazy and apathetic to get involved in economic, military, and cultural affairs. Now that America is stepping up aggression in Pakistan, in addition to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus, all historic Iranian territory, people in Iran should care, but by their actions they are saying they do not.
The same is true around the World, be it in Asia, Europe, Africa, or Latin America. People in countries Worldwide are either blissfully ignorant, complicit, or too lazy to do something about the oppressive regimes which effect them daily. That leads to the question, who is worth saving? As harsh as the criteria may sound, the answer is those who are willing to take constructive action against those who oppress others. As it stands, there are too few people like that around. Most people fall for the very people who oppress them as history has demonstrated all too well, and once again the people of the World are allowing history to repeat itself. For those in America that constructive action means not getting involved with the criminal government that is oppressing people and ruining the live of people in America and the World, and to fight back by any means necessary and not shirk extreme measures to ensure one’s survival. The rest of the World, particularly non-English speaking cultures, has realized this, everyone else should to. Our survival and lives are ours to loose.
Politically, this is most obvious. In 2008 the people of america had a chance to make some changes for the good by either putting people into elected office or rising up against their corrupt government. Instead of taking this chance and acting on their pent up frustrations they instead helped to put in power candidates more corrupt and evil than those they had complained about, for the nigger who won the presidential election did it by more devious means than any candidate in history. The promises of change were pitched in a way to appeal to people in the same way hitler pitched his programs to the people of Germany, by appealing to their worst senses and confirming their worst vices, with the same effect of people falling hook, line and sinker for the nigger’s lies, for his change is a change for the worse. Then again, the people who welcome this change are not only the corporate leeches listed below but your average mass of thoughtless sheepole who think nothing of what really makes the World around them. The change will not include the elimination of homeland security, the patriot act, and other government acts that have turned America into a dystopia in which any punk with a badge will use that badge as an excuse to rob, shoot, beat, kill, maim, imprison, or deprive anyone of their rights. Nor should we forget that in the new administration everyone between the ages of 18-25 will be required to perform government service, and in doing this not only is bringing back the draft but slavery. Despite promising to fix the economy the only people who are benefitting are his federal reserve, goldman sachs, sidney austin, and other wall street cronies who financed the nigger’s campaign while american’s struggle with daily expenses. For members of his government some of the worst people who have exploited the human race in america and abroad are being chosen. And to make things worse dialogues with foreign leaders are being established, including with countries like Iran and Pakistan who are threatened with american aggression.
The case of Iran is most interesting. While Iran’s president sent his congratulations, as did many other world leaders with optimistic expectations of the nigger, Ahmadinejad sent his usual lecturing message along with his letter like the ones he has sent to bush in the past. While this may seem prudent to Ahmadinejad his letter is in fact naïve, sent to a person who will pretend to be welcoming while plotting the destruction of the very person he claims to be a friend of. Notice how the nigger’s backers include sidney and austin law firm, the same firm employed by reza and farah pahlavi in their plotting to reestablish their control over Iran, and their plans include collaborating with the mullahs in control of Iran. Four years ago it appeared they would not succeed. Today the Iranian community in Iran and abroad has largely shown itself to be as lazy as the cat called persian and largely unable to focus on real action. I should not have to repeat how most Iranians are unwilling to show up at anti-war demos where they are misrepresented, or overconcentrate on the issue of the name Persian Gulf but do next to nothing about being defamed elsewhere, or confuse political, legal, and cultural issues, but it bears repeating. One example of overfocus is on stories of abuse of women and children in Iran, you have people like jendeh ebadi and jendeh nazanian who repeat scripted accounts of dubious abuses, which make things worse for those suffering real abuse and ignoring the root of the problems. Much like America Iran’s population has issues with it’s government, but largely falls for the same spin their politicos tell them or are too lazy and apathetic to get involved in economic, military, and cultural affairs. Now that America is stepping up aggression in Pakistan, in addition to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus, all historic Iranian territory, people in Iran should care, but by their actions they are saying they do not.
The same is true around the World, be it in Asia, Europe, Africa, or Latin America. People in countries Worldwide are either blissfully ignorant, complicit, or too lazy to do something about the oppressive regimes which effect them daily. That leads to the question, who is worth saving? As harsh as the criteria may sound, the answer is those who are willing to take constructive action against those who oppress others. As it stands, there are too few people like that around. Most people fall for the very people who oppress them as history has demonstrated all too well, and once again the people of the World are allowing history to repeat itself. For those in America that constructive action means not getting involved with the criminal government that is oppressing people and ruining the live of people in America and the World, and to fight back by any means necessary and not shirk extreme measures to ensure one’s survival. The rest of the World, particularly non-English speaking cultures, has realized this, everyone else should to. Our survival and lives are ours to loose.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Zendran's work aped by 3 new books
Recently 3 books have come out which are either poor parallels or bad apings of my work.
The first is Mike Axworthy's "Empire of the Mind-A History of Iran". Like writing american history writing about Iranian history one must focus on the military aspect, which he spends half of his book doing, but with many errors, unlike my book "Iran; The Lion of War" where the correct info and indegenous info is used.
The second book, Gholam Reza Afkhani's bio on Mohammed Reza Shah simply rehashes info that has been put out there, including info I put out there, in a poor way and does not go into fine details like my and other peoples work has done. Oddly a former watson/brown colleague of mine, Ali Gheissari, is quoted giving a review on the book jacket.
The third one to watch out for is Robert Baer's "The Devil we Know" which is full of lies and half-truths in the corsi-beck style. In chapter 5 when discussing Iran's military strategy, much of it is based from articles I have written and presented in the usual half-assed manner people like corsi use to cover their real sources, and as usual does not give proper credit to his sources.
If you support my work send this around, send people links to my works, and order your copy of "Iran; The Lion of War" instead of weasting time and cash on halfwits like the 3 above.
Peter Khan Zendran
The first is Mike Axworthy's "Empire of the Mind-A History of Iran". Like writing american history writing about Iranian history one must focus on the military aspect, which he spends half of his book doing, but with many errors, unlike my book "Iran; The Lion of War" where the correct info and indegenous info is used.
The second book, Gholam Reza Afkhani's bio on Mohammed Reza Shah simply rehashes info that has been put out there, including info I put out there, in a poor way and does not go into fine details like my and other peoples work has done. Oddly a former watson/brown colleague of mine, Ali Gheissari, is quoted giving a review on the book jacket.
The third one to watch out for is Robert Baer's "The Devil we Know" which is full of lies and half-truths in the corsi-beck style. In chapter 5 when discussing Iran's military strategy, much of it is based from articles I have written and presented in the usual half-assed manner people like corsi use to cover their real sources, and as usual does not give proper credit to his sources.
If you support my work send this around, send people links to my works, and order your copy of "Iran; The Lion of War" instead of weasting time and cash on halfwits like the 3 above.
Peter Khan Zendran
More shit u oddness
Recently my contact Frank Farris sent me 2 of the pics taken of me getting drunk at the 2006 brown christmas/Bill Beeman farewell party via facebook. For some reason facebook pulled those pics, but not myspace.
Also I learned that brown is hushing up what I did in April 2008, even going as far as to have the east providence pd, the former department of the brown pig I seriously injured by gving 2 broken eye sockets pick up the expenses of his treatment, abd the brown pigs are refusing to discuss both the April 17 incident, where I was tackled by the 7 pigs, and the April 18 incident, where I sent 3 brown pigs to the hospital.
They sure have something to hide there.
Also I learned that brown is hushing up what I did in April 2008, even going as far as to have the east providence pd, the former department of the brown pig I seriously injured by gving 2 broken eye sockets pick up the expenses of his treatment, abd the brown pigs are refusing to discuss both the April 17 incident, where I was tackled by the 7 pigs, and the April 18 incident, where I sent 3 brown pigs to the hospital.
They sure have something to hide there.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Odd new goings on
I recently missed the chance to organize action against glenn beck, who came to RI recently. Luckily he got rained out and only a few people showed up, but it was interesting he showed up when I was on probation and my friend Bill Beeman was in Minnesota.
Speaking of probation I learned that charges and a warrant the brown pigs claimed were out for me in CT were false. As it turned out the brown pigs coerced lucinda watson into filing charges against me, but when I went down to CT to do some fact finding the truth about the coersion came out. People like Benham al-Soof, Sergei Khrushchev, vartan Gregorian, are treated in a similar manner, kept a under control while at shit u.
Peter Z
Speaking of probation I learned that charges and a warrant the brown pigs claimed were out for me in CT were false. As it turned out the brown pigs coerced lucinda watson into filing charges against me, but when I went down to CT to do some fact finding the truth about the coersion came out. People like Benham al-Soof, Sergei Khrushchev, vartan Gregorian, are treated in a similar manner, kept a under control while at shit u.
Peter Z
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Al-Qaida calls out the nigger obama
Kheyli mamnun al-Qaida. It is bad enough this nigger obama has menaced my family and people whine as I call him the nigger, but al-Zawahiri, whyo is of the same ethnic background as myself says this and he is praised. People forget there is a reason these slurs are used, and that is because there are people from every ethnic group who embody the very worst qualities of that group, and the nigger obama represents the very worst qualities of those of black african descent.
Peter Khan Zendran
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writers Maamoun Youssef And Lee Keath, Associated Press Writers
24 mins ago
CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house Negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house Negroes."
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the latest message was just "more despicable comments from a terrorist."
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.
"America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.
He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.
"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.
Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see."
He said Obama's victory showed Americans acknowledged that President George W. Bush's policies were a failure and that the result was an "admission of defeat in Iraq."
But Obama's professions of support for Israel during the election campaign "confirmed to the Ummah (Islamic world) that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims," al-Zawahri said.
Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
Peter Khan Zendran
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writers Maamoun Youssef And Lee Keath, Associated Press Writers
24 mins ago
CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house Negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house Negroes."
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the latest message was just "more despicable comments from a terrorist."
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.
"America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.
He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.
"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.
Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see."
He said Obama's victory showed Americans acknowledged that President George W. Bush's policies were a failure and that the result was an "admission of defeat in Iraq."
But Obama's professions of support for Israel during the election campaign "confirmed to the Ummah (Islamic world) that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims," al-Zawahri said.
Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
Sunday, November 02, 2008
The true nature of fascism
If there is one political philosophy that is misunderstood it is facsism. When people use the word they often use it to describe any system of government they find offensive. The truth is that fascism is an authoritartian form of government that occurs in countries that have either weak monarchies or where a ruling monarchy has been deposed and the country has fallen on hard times. A good example of those who understood this were those present when King Juan Carlos of Spain told Venezuela’s President Chavez to shut up after Chavez called Spain’s previous Prime Minister a fascist, barely conscious of the fact that Juan carlos owed the restoration of his throne to the actions of Spain’s fascist ruler, Franco.
Though the term fascist came about in italy in 1919 that party remained obscure until it seized power in 1922. The first person to apply fascist principles of a strong, centralized control in support of a monarch or to bring order in a society where a monarchy had been deposed was Reza Khan, who in February 1919 led Iranian Army forces in a military coup and again two months later and who would eventually use his power base thus acquired to become Shahanshah of Iran in 1925. Later in 1919 Admiral Miklos Horthy would take advantage of revolution in Hungary to rally forces still loyal to the Habsburg military around him, crush the rebels, and assume the powers of the deposed Kaiser Karl as Regent of Hungary. This trend would spread and would be successfully demonstrated by Mussolini’s fascists in 1922 and in Turkey where Mustafa Kemal would depose Sultan Mehmed VI and assume his authority. These successes would inspire Franco in Spain, who was a closet monarchist who understood Spain could not profit under the corrupt Alfonso XIII and his son Juan de Borbon, and in Germany. It was in Germany that the term “fascist” would take on an evil and racist context.
Germany in the 1920’s and 1930’s was a society in turmoil since it’s defeat in 1918 and the deposition of the Hohenzollern’s, Wittlesbachs, Saxe-Coburg’s, and other reigning families throughout the German empire had left the country in turmoil. As the result many German aristocrats, inspired by Mussolini, decided to pack Germany’s government, reestablish central authority under the pretext of crisis, and use their new authority to effect a restoration. They were partially assisted that the government structure had little changed and in 1932 when Franz von Papen became Chancellor he packed the government with aristocrats, including Constantin von Neurath and Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk who would play pivotal roles. The alliance Papen and these aristocrats had made with the Nazi party worked to their benefit, for the Nazi’s, the dominant party in Germany, had much respect for the German aristocracy and shared similar goals, and when Hitler and the Nazis took power in January 1933 the aristocrats were pleased. Even more telling was how German Royals, including Carl Eduard, Herzog of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Kronprinz Rupprecht of Bayern, Augustus Wilhelm of Prussia among the most prominent supported the Nazis as they understood the ultimate plan of the Nazis was a Monarchist restoration.
It was the faction within the nazi party which wanted the elimination of jews and which was overaggressive which caused the ultimate problems. Beginning with the annexation of Austria the Nazis began to sideline those who wanted a restoration in favor of those who wanted to make mass conquests at the expense of the rest of Europe, and who wanted to eliminate Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, and others considered undesirable. As a result a counterplot emerged within the Nazi party and the German government, led from the shadows by Constantin von Neurath who helped organize the Beck/Stauffenberg plot and the Rommel/Dietrich plot. That something was afoot was demonstrated at the Nuremberg trial which few people picked up on. One demonstration of this was Franz von Papen reminding Goring that he was to remove Hitler the instant Hitler got out of line. More telling was how Von Neurath refused to admit his role, was convicted on all 4 counts, and received a prison sentence and was only released in 1952 on the insistence of Queen Elizabeth II, the granddaughter of Von Neurath’s lover Queen Mary. Just as telling was the revelation by Albert Speer, a direct descendant of the Pappenheim family whose members were Hereditary Marshals of the Holy Roman Empire, had plotted to kill Hitler in 1945. Whether or not this was true is conjecture, however it did sway the Nuremberg Court not to sentence him to death and persuaded other Nazi defendants to adopt a similar approach.
While acknowledging that many fascist regimes had caused serious problems, most prominently Italy and nazi germany, had it not been for the rogue actions of those two countries in all probability prosperity would have come to other such countries. Iran and Hungary would have flourished and avoided many of the problems they had were it not for their association with fascist Italy and nazi Germany. Today Turkey and Greece are thriving nations, while the method used to restore Juan Carlos I and the Borbons to the Spanish throne has been used by other Royals, including those of Cambodia to restore Monarchs and in countries like Bulgaria where Monarchs are seeking restoration.
Finally, the racist aspect of fascism must be discussed, as the Nazis used race as a means to stir up popularity for their movement. By their claiming that Aryans were superior to other ethnic/racial groups they automatically labeled themselves as prejudiced, and those that dealt with them suffered from this same stigma. Because of this most people do not realize that the word Aryan simply refers to an ethnic group, in the same way the words Slavic, Latin, and Semitic do. Were it not for the aggressiveness of the Nazis and other white/Aryan power groups the term Aryan would not have negative connotations. Today as a result of the demise of the nazi party, the shift of radical white power groups from violent acts to acts of cultural awareness and acceptance of those of mixed ethnic heritage, and the rise of extremist groups like Zionists and black supremacist groups the word Aryan is beginning to reclaim more positive connotations.
People often forget to be careful in their choice of words. This is the case for fascism, where fascism is confused for totalitarian and prejudiced governments. Certainly few people could apply the racist behavior of nazi germany with that of Reza Shah’s Iran or of Spain today. To use the term fascist today to label countries like homeland security america is also misleading, for today’s america is a totalitarian, not fascist, regime. If this article has acomplished anything it is to make people look at what is going around them and to improve their perception.
Though the term fascist came about in italy in 1919 that party remained obscure until it seized power in 1922. The first person to apply fascist principles of a strong, centralized control in support of a monarch or to bring order in a society where a monarchy had been deposed was Reza Khan, who in February 1919 led Iranian Army forces in a military coup and again two months later and who would eventually use his power base thus acquired to become Shahanshah of Iran in 1925. Later in 1919 Admiral Miklos Horthy would take advantage of revolution in Hungary to rally forces still loyal to the Habsburg military around him, crush the rebels, and assume the powers of the deposed Kaiser Karl as Regent of Hungary. This trend would spread and would be successfully demonstrated by Mussolini’s fascists in 1922 and in Turkey where Mustafa Kemal would depose Sultan Mehmed VI and assume his authority. These successes would inspire Franco in Spain, who was a closet monarchist who understood Spain could not profit under the corrupt Alfonso XIII and his son Juan de Borbon, and in Germany. It was in Germany that the term “fascist” would take on an evil and racist context.
Germany in the 1920’s and 1930’s was a society in turmoil since it’s defeat in 1918 and the deposition of the Hohenzollern’s, Wittlesbachs, Saxe-Coburg’s, and other reigning families throughout the German empire had left the country in turmoil. As the result many German aristocrats, inspired by Mussolini, decided to pack Germany’s government, reestablish central authority under the pretext of crisis, and use their new authority to effect a restoration. They were partially assisted that the government structure had little changed and in 1932 when Franz von Papen became Chancellor he packed the government with aristocrats, including Constantin von Neurath and Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk who would play pivotal roles. The alliance Papen and these aristocrats had made with the Nazi party worked to their benefit, for the Nazi’s, the dominant party in Germany, had much respect for the German aristocracy and shared similar goals, and when Hitler and the Nazis took power in January 1933 the aristocrats were pleased. Even more telling was how German Royals, including Carl Eduard, Herzog of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Kronprinz Rupprecht of Bayern, Augustus Wilhelm of Prussia among the most prominent supported the Nazis as they understood the ultimate plan of the Nazis was a Monarchist restoration.
It was the faction within the nazi party which wanted the elimination of jews and which was overaggressive which caused the ultimate problems. Beginning with the annexation of Austria the Nazis began to sideline those who wanted a restoration in favor of those who wanted to make mass conquests at the expense of the rest of Europe, and who wanted to eliminate Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, and others considered undesirable. As a result a counterplot emerged within the Nazi party and the German government, led from the shadows by Constantin von Neurath who helped organize the Beck/Stauffenberg plot and the Rommel/Dietrich plot. That something was afoot was demonstrated at the Nuremberg trial which few people picked up on. One demonstration of this was Franz von Papen reminding Goring that he was to remove Hitler the instant Hitler got out of line. More telling was how Von Neurath refused to admit his role, was convicted on all 4 counts, and received a prison sentence and was only released in 1952 on the insistence of Queen Elizabeth II, the granddaughter of Von Neurath’s lover Queen Mary. Just as telling was the revelation by Albert Speer, a direct descendant of the Pappenheim family whose members were Hereditary Marshals of the Holy Roman Empire, had plotted to kill Hitler in 1945. Whether or not this was true is conjecture, however it did sway the Nuremberg Court not to sentence him to death and persuaded other Nazi defendants to adopt a similar approach.
While acknowledging that many fascist regimes had caused serious problems, most prominently Italy and nazi germany, had it not been for the rogue actions of those two countries in all probability prosperity would have come to other such countries. Iran and Hungary would have flourished and avoided many of the problems they had were it not for their association with fascist Italy and nazi Germany. Today Turkey and Greece are thriving nations, while the method used to restore Juan Carlos I and the Borbons to the Spanish throne has been used by other Royals, including those of Cambodia to restore Monarchs and in countries like Bulgaria where Monarchs are seeking restoration.
Finally, the racist aspect of fascism must be discussed, as the Nazis used race as a means to stir up popularity for their movement. By their claiming that Aryans were superior to other ethnic/racial groups they automatically labeled themselves as prejudiced, and those that dealt with them suffered from this same stigma. Because of this most people do not realize that the word Aryan simply refers to an ethnic group, in the same way the words Slavic, Latin, and Semitic do. Were it not for the aggressiveness of the Nazis and other white/Aryan power groups the term Aryan would not have negative connotations. Today as a result of the demise of the nazi party, the shift of radical white power groups from violent acts to acts of cultural awareness and acceptance of those of mixed ethnic heritage, and the rise of extremist groups like Zionists and black supremacist groups the word Aryan is beginning to reclaim more positive connotations.
People often forget to be careful in their choice of words. This is the case for fascism, where fascism is confused for totalitarian and prejudiced governments. Certainly few people could apply the racist behavior of nazi germany with that of Reza Shah’s Iran or of Spain today. To use the term fascist today to label countries like homeland security america is also misleading, for today’s america is a totalitarian, not fascist, regime. If this article has acomplished anything it is to make people look at what is going around them and to improve their perception.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Zendran return to watson/weirdness video
I only took this video last night, as I returned one year to the day of that ufo encounter at watson to see if anything would happen. Notice in the video the lights are on there as they should NOT be at that time of night.
Even odder was the brown pigs stopped me as I was walking back downtown on power st., claiming I vandalized the brown president's house. Not only was no evidence found that I did NOT vandalize the place but when the bupd member ordered to search me turned out to be a former member of the charlestown ri pd who remembered me and the inheritance dispute but he even talked the other members of the bupd present to back off on me once he realized who I was, and I went on my way.
Peter Z
Even odder was the brown pigs stopped me as I was walking back downtown on power st., claiming I vandalized the brown president's house. Not only was no evidence found that I did NOT vandalize the place but when the bupd member ordered to search me turned out to be a former member of the charlestown ri pd who remembered me and the inheritance dispute but he even talked the other members of the bupd present to back off on me once he realized who I was, and I went on my way.
Peter Z
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Iranian solidarity, for who?
Recently I have learned about the September 27, 2008 event in Boston. When I saw that the group sponsoring the event is IAC based out of 284 Amory St. I became concerned, for back in 2003 and 2004 when International ANSWER was based there, and from the photos of IAC I see some of the same people from International Answer with IAC, solidarity with Iran was NOT a priority.
As a man who has an Iranian father who is an aristocrat and who opposes American action against Iran and other historical Iranian territory like Afghanistan and Iraq I have been very active in the anti-war movement with people in America and abroad. When I attended the September 25, 2003 Boston anti-war demonstration sponsored by International Answer I received complaints only from 2 anonymous demonstrators and some Zionist pig involved with International Answer because I brought the Iranian flag. Not the flag of the mullahs of Iran’s government who were put into power with American backing in 1979 to destabilize that region and to give the American military/industrial complex and Rothschild backed bankers another target, but the Shir-O-Korshid flag which the Iranian community Worldwide recognizes as the rightful Iranian flag regardless of their political beliefs of ethnic background, and which my fellow Iranians who demonstrated against American aggression in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America used that same day. In October I received a message from International Answer not to bring that flag.
In September 2004 when I met with Dr. Pedram Riahi and members of the Iranian community in Boston as well as members of the Iranian Association of Boston were threatened by members of International Answer into not showing up at events where International Answer would have a presence, despite the fact that International Answer claims to oppose war with Iran.
If this IAC I am addressing is simply International Answer Boston under a different name, as it has the same address and apparently the same membership, I ask you this. You claim to oppose war with Iran, yet you exclude members of the Iranian community, all of who oppose war against the land their ancestors came from and a war which will spark ethnic discrimination by the American government such as was shown to the Germans, Japanese, Russians, and every ethnic group the American government has had conflict with? If this discrimination is based on political and ideological divisions then why have you not considered this, or decided to demonstrate against war and keep silent on all other issues? Or is it IAC is acting as a government backed provocateur? After all, every time I have attended an event sponsored by International Answer or IAC or where they have a presence the local police know too well who the demonstrators are. As one who has done time for his political beliefs in America and have friends like Amer Jubran who have had similar experiences the idea of having the police, who have committed acts of misconduct and brutality towards people under the guise of public safety, knowing my moves is repellant, especially in a city like Boston where the police department is the most corrupt and brutal in the country.
If you truly stand in Solidarity with Iran and the Iranian community Worldwide then I hope you will allow all Iranians to show up at these events, if not then I ask you, why should the Iranian community stand in Solidarity with you when you discriminate against us?
Peter Khan Zendran
As a man who has an Iranian father who is an aristocrat and who opposes American action against Iran and other historical Iranian territory like Afghanistan and Iraq I have been very active in the anti-war movement with people in America and abroad. When I attended the September 25, 2003 Boston anti-war demonstration sponsored by International Answer I received complaints only from 2 anonymous demonstrators and some Zionist pig involved with International Answer because I brought the Iranian flag. Not the flag of the mullahs of Iran’s government who were put into power with American backing in 1979 to destabilize that region and to give the American military/industrial complex and Rothschild backed bankers another target, but the Shir-O-Korshid flag which the Iranian community Worldwide recognizes as the rightful Iranian flag regardless of their political beliefs of ethnic background, and which my fellow Iranians who demonstrated against American aggression in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America used that same day. In October I received a message from International Answer not to bring that flag.
In September 2004 when I met with Dr. Pedram Riahi and members of the Iranian community in Boston as well as members of the Iranian Association of Boston were threatened by members of International Answer into not showing up at events where International Answer would have a presence, despite the fact that International Answer claims to oppose war with Iran.
If this IAC I am addressing is simply International Answer Boston under a different name, as it has the same address and apparently the same membership, I ask you this. You claim to oppose war with Iran, yet you exclude members of the Iranian community, all of who oppose war against the land their ancestors came from and a war which will spark ethnic discrimination by the American government such as was shown to the Germans, Japanese, Russians, and every ethnic group the American government has had conflict with? If this discrimination is based on political and ideological divisions then why have you not considered this, or decided to demonstrate against war and keep silent on all other issues? Or is it IAC is acting as a government backed provocateur? After all, every time I have attended an event sponsored by International Answer or IAC or where they have a presence the local police know too well who the demonstrators are. As one who has done time for his political beliefs in America and have friends like Amer Jubran who have had similar experiences the idea of having the police, who have committed acts of misconduct and brutality towards people under the guise of public safety, knowing my moves is repellant, especially in a city like Boston where the police department is the most corrupt and brutal in the country.
If you truly stand in Solidarity with Iran and the Iranian community Worldwide then I hope you will allow all Iranians to show up at these events, if not then I ask you, why should the Iranian community stand in Solidarity with you when you discriminate against us?
Peter Khan Zendran
Monday, September 22, 2008
Piecing the Pahlavi puzzle, unveiling Iran's past
Recently a chance contact from a daughter of Mohammed Reza Shah that I have had has shed some new light and confirmed much of what I have been saying. In checking what she had told me I found not only much of what she told me to be true but much of it facts that once revealed fill in the pieces of the puzzle that is Iran’s recent history. She contacted me in regards to the article I published on the Iranian on march 27, 2008 about Princess Leila being murdered. Not only did she confirm what I had published but knew exactly how Leila was murdered, something I had not publicly stated to better determine people who had knowledge from frauds. Most compelling was the reason for her half-sister’s murder which she told me since June.
Leila was present throughout her father’s ordeal and was only one of two members of the immediate Pahlavi family who knew that Mohammed Reza Shah was murdered. The other was Farah, and as it turned out she had a hand in his murder. As it turns out the official story of farah Diba’s family was false. Farah Diba’s real birth name was Jamileh Jabarzadeh, her parents Jafar and Tahereh Jabarzadeh, who are distant relatives of Mirza Kuchak Khan and the Diba and Ghotbi families, and to the Khomeini’s and Zahedi’s as it would turn out. Her parents persuaded Sohrab and Farideh Diba to adopt her, as Farideh could not have children due to a hysterectomy and due to the fact that the Jabarzadeh’s were living in poverty in Azerbaijan as they had been supporters of Mirza Kuchak Khan and who hated Reza Shah for his seizing power and depriving the Qajar dynasty of their power base, and Jamileh Jabarzadeh was raised as Farah Diba.
Those who are familiar with the reign of Mohammed Reza Shah know that from his ascension on that he had to deal with those who wanted to replace him as Shahanshah. The british had considered a Qajar restoration, but getting Iran’s Majils to remove the restrictions on the Qajars becoming Shahanshah and the fact that most qajars spoke little Farsi were major impediments. Fazlollah Zahedi, after Reza Shah the most important man in 20th century Iranian military affairs, had considered deposing Mohammed Reza Shah and establishing his own dynasty, as he was a descendant of the Safavid and Zand dynasties and felt his family should be restored. Teymour Bakhtiar, the cousin of Soraya, Mohammed Reza Shah’s second queen, had conspired with john f kennedy and other World Leaders during his tenure as chief of savak to overthrow Mohammed Reza Shah and had been involved in a Bakhtiari and Kurdish independence movement, partly because he knew that Soraya’s health had been interfered with by the enemies of the Pahlavi’s and Bakhtiar’s. Hassan Pakravan, who came from an aristocratic family and who’s mother was a Habsburg relative, had also considered overthrowing Mohammed Reza Shah and even toyed with the idea of an independent Azerbaijan. Into such an environment was this Farah Diba thrust in the 1950’s along with her plotting relations.
In the 1950’s Mohammed Reza Shah was looking for a replacement for Soraya, who’s health problems meant she could not produce the male heir he needed badly. Here the Jabarzadeh’s and those around Mohammed Reza Shah who were his enemies saw their chance. During the reign of Reza Shah those Iranian aristocrats who had lost power because of him gathered around those who still retained their positions in Iran’s government, and those who did hold those posotions did so as Reza Shah needed them to maintain things in Iran. They simply played subservient to him and bidded their time. When he was forced to abdicate on September 16, 1941 and his son Mohammed Reza succeeded him his enemies saw their chance.
The role Farah Diba and the Jabarzadeh’s, along with their allies of convenience, played was a sinister one. Farah was set up to marry Mohammed Reza Shah so that her and her family and allies would be in a position to manipulate Mohammed Reza Shah. As it was she was introduced to Mohammed Reza Shah by Ardeshir Zahedi, Fazlollah’s son, and who occupied a prominent position in Iran’s government. Farah would cement her position by having numerous pregnancies. The pregnancy in 1960 remains controversial, for she maintains even in her memoirs that she was pregnant with a girl and as she was heavily sedated during delivery she was unconscious during birth which gives credibility to the Fumika Pahlavi story that Reza Pahlavi is really a boy who was switched at birth for the Pahlavis to provide the heir sought for. His appearance and behavior seem to suggest that as well. During the 1960’s the Farah and those who sought to undermine the Pahlavi’s made their move. First through Teymour Bakhtiar then Hassan Pakravan would savak gradually slide into degeneracy, partly packed with members who were loyal either to Bakhtiar or Pakravan and the other members trained in brutality tactics by the cia, mi6, and mossad, which included lying to Mohammed Reza Shah about their real activities. Bakhtiar’s dismissal because of his collaboration with john f kennedy prompted kennedy to pressure Mohammed Reza Shah to introduce his “White revolution” in order to continue to receive american support. This in turn prompted Mohammed Reza Shah, as well as Fazlollah Zahedi, to become involved in the assassination plot to kill kennedy. With the reforms implemented khomeini began his anti-government activities. Despite Monarchist and government sentiment wanting khomeini dead it was his distant relatives Pakravan and Farah who kept him alive.
With Farah marrying Mohammed Reza Shah and her relatives packing Iran’s government their hold over Mohammed Reza Shah was becoming great, as through positions in savak and the Islamic clergy they could influence events. They were able to target women who had children by Mohammed Reza Shah from his extramarital affairs, as he had an idea of what was going on and had hoped to produce an heir as he would then be in a better position to divorce farah and reveal what was going on. The woman who mentioned many of these facts to me was herself the child of Mohammed Reza Shah from an affair he had with Googoosh and who was kept as a savak hostage until the revolution. That the revolution occurred in 1978 was necessary to Mohammed Reza Shah’s ebemies, for with the successful war against Iraq Iran’s military was overly loyal to him giving him a strong power base. This meant his enemies had to act. No matter who won the revolution, be it Mohammed Reza Shah or khomeini, the jabarzadeh’s and their allies stood to gain. What their gains under a successful Mohammed Reza Shah would have been can only be speculated at. Under khomeini they secured the deaths of their enemies, including a few of their own like Pakravan in the revolutionary euphoria. Most telling that Farah and many Monarchists were secretly collaborating with khomeini and the mullahs was the selective body count. Mohammed Reza Shah was killed by medical malpractice while in Cairo in July 1980. Shahriar Safiq was killed in Paris in December 1979. Shabour Bakhtiar was killed in paris in mysterious circumstances in August 1991. Nelson Rockefeller, the man who tipped of Mohammed Reza Shah as to what was about to happen in early 1978, died mysteriously on January 26, 1979. Nor should we forget that the Rex Cinema fire which was really started by one of khomeini’s agents who escaped with the help of cia and mi6. Yet once khomeini was in power the real threat to Farah, her kids, and the Jabarzadeh family and their friends ceased.
Once in america and the west they began to make use of the “ratlines” they had made in the Iranian community abroad. They were able to establish enclaves in countries which were monarchies as well as in Germany, France, and several Communist countries including Czechoslovakia and Poland, as well as in america. It was in california that they began to concentrate. Other parts of america they could only establish enclaves. In New York and it’s immeadeate metro area they could settle but not establish positions of dominance, partly as the result of families like mine who had been around for a long time and a well entrenched government/social infrastructure. This applied as well to areas like Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Florida, Texas where they could establish positions of prominence but not dominance. California, with it’s favorable living conditions and vulnerable political system, was different. Here many Iranians and their ethnic counterparts had settled, including many involved with Farah and the Jabarzadeh’s. One of those involved with the jabarzadeh’s was California governor Deukmejian, who had been heavily involved with savak and once he was governor began to pack California’s courts with people who had affiliations with savak. If you think this sounds absurd notice how during the revolution only the leaders of savak were taken out but most of the actual field agents remained untouched, and many of them continued their lives in america and the west, including in government jobs.
At present the position of farah, the jabarzadeh’s, and their family and allies is precarious. The position of their allies in Iran and abroad is precarious as many more continue to sympathize with Mohammed Reza Shah and the jabarzadeh’s and their allies are neutralized in the Kalabalik of Iranian affairs. It is in america that the jabarzadeh’s are at their most influential. The contacts they made with the cia and with the bush family have ensured they are in a position to continue their activities politically, and though they often back the republicans their dealings with the law firm sidney and austin mean that they have a presence in the democratic party. At present the goal of the jabarzadeh’s is to start a war or to place someone immediately related to farah on the throne of Iran and effect a monarchist restoration. However as of late their plans have come unraveling, as the murder of Princess Leila demonstrated.
Among other things this daughter of Mohammed Reza Shah and Googoosh told me other than her knowledge of Leila’s murder, the real identity of Farah Pahlavi, and the true nature of the Iranian revolution which made me believe her was when she mentioned the fact that savak and the jabarzadeh’s had employed polish jews and other eastern Europeans to do their dirty work. This might sound far fetched, however one must remember that aristocratic Iranian families like the Zendran’s and Cherkassky’s had settled in areas like the Crimean Khanate during the Safavid era and ended up settling in the Habsburg and Romanov empires where they were ennobled and employed many local inhabitants. Such Iranian cultural and ethnic pollenization helped pave the way for future Iranian dealings which would be used up to the present day. Overall, what this woman had to tell and the facts above she helped unravel are very valuable.
Leila was present throughout her father’s ordeal and was only one of two members of the immediate Pahlavi family who knew that Mohammed Reza Shah was murdered. The other was Farah, and as it turned out she had a hand in his murder. As it turns out the official story of farah Diba’s family was false. Farah Diba’s real birth name was Jamileh Jabarzadeh, her parents Jafar and Tahereh Jabarzadeh, who are distant relatives of Mirza Kuchak Khan and the Diba and Ghotbi families, and to the Khomeini’s and Zahedi’s as it would turn out. Her parents persuaded Sohrab and Farideh Diba to adopt her, as Farideh could not have children due to a hysterectomy and due to the fact that the Jabarzadeh’s were living in poverty in Azerbaijan as they had been supporters of Mirza Kuchak Khan and who hated Reza Shah for his seizing power and depriving the Qajar dynasty of their power base, and Jamileh Jabarzadeh was raised as Farah Diba.
Those who are familiar with the reign of Mohammed Reza Shah know that from his ascension on that he had to deal with those who wanted to replace him as Shahanshah. The british had considered a Qajar restoration, but getting Iran’s Majils to remove the restrictions on the Qajars becoming Shahanshah and the fact that most qajars spoke little Farsi were major impediments. Fazlollah Zahedi, after Reza Shah the most important man in 20th century Iranian military affairs, had considered deposing Mohammed Reza Shah and establishing his own dynasty, as he was a descendant of the Safavid and Zand dynasties and felt his family should be restored. Teymour Bakhtiar, the cousin of Soraya, Mohammed Reza Shah’s second queen, had conspired with john f kennedy and other World Leaders during his tenure as chief of savak to overthrow Mohammed Reza Shah and had been involved in a Bakhtiari and Kurdish independence movement, partly because he knew that Soraya’s health had been interfered with by the enemies of the Pahlavi’s and Bakhtiar’s. Hassan Pakravan, who came from an aristocratic family and who’s mother was a Habsburg relative, had also considered overthrowing Mohammed Reza Shah and even toyed with the idea of an independent Azerbaijan. Into such an environment was this Farah Diba thrust in the 1950’s along with her plotting relations.
In the 1950’s Mohammed Reza Shah was looking for a replacement for Soraya, who’s health problems meant she could not produce the male heir he needed badly. Here the Jabarzadeh’s and those around Mohammed Reza Shah who were his enemies saw their chance. During the reign of Reza Shah those Iranian aristocrats who had lost power because of him gathered around those who still retained their positions in Iran’s government, and those who did hold those posotions did so as Reza Shah needed them to maintain things in Iran. They simply played subservient to him and bidded their time. When he was forced to abdicate on September 16, 1941 and his son Mohammed Reza succeeded him his enemies saw their chance.
The role Farah Diba and the Jabarzadeh’s, along with their allies of convenience, played was a sinister one. Farah was set up to marry Mohammed Reza Shah so that her and her family and allies would be in a position to manipulate Mohammed Reza Shah. As it was she was introduced to Mohammed Reza Shah by Ardeshir Zahedi, Fazlollah’s son, and who occupied a prominent position in Iran’s government. Farah would cement her position by having numerous pregnancies. The pregnancy in 1960 remains controversial, for she maintains even in her memoirs that she was pregnant with a girl and as she was heavily sedated during delivery she was unconscious during birth which gives credibility to the Fumika Pahlavi story that Reza Pahlavi is really a boy who was switched at birth for the Pahlavis to provide the heir sought for. His appearance and behavior seem to suggest that as well. During the 1960’s the Farah and those who sought to undermine the Pahlavi’s made their move. First through Teymour Bakhtiar then Hassan Pakravan would savak gradually slide into degeneracy, partly packed with members who were loyal either to Bakhtiar or Pakravan and the other members trained in brutality tactics by the cia, mi6, and mossad, which included lying to Mohammed Reza Shah about their real activities. Bakhtiar’s dismissal because of his collaboration with john f kennedy prompted kennedy to pressure Mohammed Reza Shah to introduce his “White revolution” in order to continue to receive american support. This in turn prompted Mohammed Reza Shah, as well as Fazlollah Zahedi, to become involved in the assassination plot to kill kennedy. With the reforms implemented khomeini began his anti-government activities. Despite Monarchist and government sentiment wanting khomeini dead it was his distant relatives Pakravan and Farah who kept him alive.
With Farah marrying Mohammed Reza Shah and her relatives packing Iran’s government their hold over Mohammed Reza Shah was becoming great, as through positions in savak and the Islamic clergy they could influence events. They were able to target women who had children by Mohammed Reza Shah from his extramarital affairs, as he had an idea of what was going on and had hoped to produce an heir as he would then be in a better position to divorce farah and reveal what was going on. The woman who mentioned many of these facts to me was herself the child of Mohammed Reza Shah from an affair he had with Googoosh and who was kept as a savak hostage until the revolution. That the revolution occurred in 1978 was necessary to Mohammed Reza Shah’s ebemies, for with the successful war against Iraq Iran’s military was overly loyal to him giving him a strong power base. This meant his enemies had to act. No matter who won the revolution, be it Mohammed Reza Shah or khomeini, the jabarzadeh’s and their allies stood to gain. What their gains under a successful Mohammed Reza Shah would have been can only be speculated at. Under khomeini they secured the deaths of their enemies, including a few of their own like Pakravan in the revolutionary euphoria. Most telling that Farah and many Monarchists were secretly collaborating with khomeini and the mullahs was the selective body count. Mohammed Reza Shah was killed by medical malpractice while in Cairo in July 1980. Shahriar Safiq was killed in Paris in December 1979. Shabour Bakhtiar was killed in paris in mysterious circumstances in August 1991. Nelson Rockefeller, the man who tipped of Mohammed Reza Shah as to what was about to happen in early 1978, died mysteriously on January 26, 1979. Nor should we forget that the Rex Cinema fire which was really started by one of khomeini’s agents who escaped with the help of cia and mi6. Yet once khomeini was in power the real threat to Farah, her kids, and the Jabarzadeh family and their friends ceased.
Once in america and the west they began to make use of the “ratlines” they had made in the Iranian community abroad. They were able to establish enclaves in countries which were monarchies as well as in Germany, France, and several Communist countries including Czechoslovakia and Poland, as well as in america. It was in california that they began to concentrate. Other parts of america they could only establish enclaves. In New York and it’s immeadeate metro area they could settle but not establish positions of dominance, partly as the result of families like mine who had been around for a long time and a well entrenched government/social infrastructure. This applied as well to areas like Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Florida, Texas where they could establish positions of prominence but not dominance. California, with it’s favorable living conditions and vulnerable political system, was different. Here many Iranians and their ethnic counterparts had settled, including many involved with Farah and the Jabarzadeh’s. One of those involved with the jabarzadeh’s was California governor Deukmejian, who had been heavily involved with savak and once he was governor began to pack California’s courts with people who had affiliations with savak. If you think this sounds absurd notice how during the revolution only the leaders of savak were taken out but most of the actual field agents remained untouched, and many of them continued their lives in america and the west, including in government jobs.
At present the position of farah, the jabarzadeh’s, and their family and allies is precarious. The position of their allies in Iran and abroad is precarious as many more continue to sympathize with Mohammed Reza Shah and the jabarzadeh’s and their allies are neutralized in the Kalabalik of Iranian affairs. It is in america that the jabarzadeh’s are at their most influential. The contacts they made with the cia and with the bush family have ensured they are in a position to continue their activities politically, and though they often back the republicans their dealings with the law firm sidney and austin mean that they have a presence in the democratic party. At present the goal of the jabarzadeh’s is to start a war or to place someone immediately related to farah on the throne of Iran and effect a monarchist restoration. However as of late their plans have come unraveling, as the murder of Princess Leila demonstrated.
Among other things this daughter of Mohammed Reza Shah and Googoosh told me other than her knowledge of Leila’s murder, the real identity of Farah Pahlavi, and the true nature of the Iranian revolution which made me believe her was when she mentioned the fact that savak and the jabarzadeh’s had employed polish jews and other eastern Europeans to do their dirty work. This might sound far fetched, however one must remember that aristocratic Iranian families like the Zendran’s and Cherkassky’s had settled in areas like the Crimean Khanate during the Safavid era and ended up settling in the Habsburg and Romanov empires where they were ennobled and employed many local inhabitants. Such Iranian cultural and ethnic pollenization helped pave the way for future Iranian dealings which would be used up to the present day. Overall, what this woman had to tell and the facts above she helped unravel are very valuable.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Zendran and Icke censored on coasttocoastam radio show
Last night george noory had David Icke on his show, live from Croatia, talking about his work. Among other things Icke discussed how when he was in Croatia he met with people who witnessed hw a small few manipulated the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Needless to say I stayed up to listen and call in, putting the wild card line on my speeddial. I finally got through at 4:20 AM, and when producer tom danheiser asked my name he cut off my call, refusing to let me on despite the fact that I had published articles on Icke's site from 2000-3.
Had I got on I would have disclosed the following.
1. Recently I made contact with one of Princess Leila's half sisters who lives in california who can not only prove that Leila was murdered but that khomeini and empress farah are relatives and their family has been involved in satanic ritual murders, including that of Leila, and I could have given her contact info to Icke.
2. On october 15 2007 I was at brown university when dick holbrooke made his lecture there. In it he stated that the Yugoslav conflict was engineered and that he had a hand in engineering the kosovo "independence". They edited the q&a including where I put him on the spot about his statements. As soon as the video of holbrooke's lecture was released I sent it over the net, including to Serbian Prime Minister Dr. Kostunica and Croatian Premier Dr. Sanader, both of who I know, the krompir.co.yu site even preserved Kostunica's original myspace page where he, Sanader, myself, and others discuss policies which helped peoples lives. This summer I learned from a friend of mine at the watson institute who is adjunct with harvard, that the person responsible for making the crank call to the bupd on April 17, 2008, which I have detailed on my blog was holbrooke. As I learned he got wind of what went on with me at brown on April 14-15 2008, called the bupd and gave them permission to use his office as an observation post claiming I was menacing him. As certain details were mentioned in the report read in court could only have been obtained by someone who was observing me at watson this statement holds up.
Here is the link to the video of the lecture where dick holbrooke made those statements and which had I got through on the show would have shared with Icke.
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/events_detail.cfm?id=975#video
This video is on google as well and if the link above does not work try this
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=holbrooke&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=richard%20holbrooke&hl=en&emb=0&start=20
Also I am giving out the phone for tom danheiser. This zionist pig has censored much on coasttocoastam radio show and needs to be called out. He can be reached at 818-831-5313.
Please send this around.
Peter Z
Had I got on I would have disclosed the following.
1. Recently I made contact with one of Princess Leila's half sisters who lives in california who can not only prove that Leila was murdered but that khomeini and empress farah are relatives and their family has been involved in satanic ritual murders, including that of Leila, and I could have given her contact info to Icke.
2. On october 15 2007 I was at brown university when dick holbrooke made his lecture there. In it he stated that the Yugoslav conflict was engineered and that he had a hand in engineering the kosovo "independence". They edited the q&a including where I put him on the spot about his statements. As soon as the video of holbrooke's lecture was released I sent it over the net, including to Serbian Prime Minister Dr. Kostunica and Croatian Premier Dr. Sanader, both of who I know, the krompir.co.yu site even preserved Kostunica's original myspace page where he, Sanader, myself, and others discuss policies which helped peoples lives. This summer I learned from a friend of mine at the watson institute who is adjunct with harvard, that the person responsible for making the crank call to the bupd on April 17, 2008, which I have detailed on my blog was holbrooke. As I learned he got wind of what went on with me at brown on April 14-15 2008, called the bupd and gave them permission to use his office as an observation post claiming I was menacing him. As certain details were mentioned in the report read in court could only have been obtained by someone who was observing me at watson this statement holds up.
Here is the link to the video of the lecture where dick holbrooke made those statements and which had I got through on the show would have shared with Icke.
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/events_detail.cfm?id=975#video
This video is on google as well and if the link above does not work try this
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=holbrooke&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=richard%20holbrooke&hl=en&emb=0&start=20
Also I am giving out the phone for tom danheiser. This zionist pig has censored much on coasttocoastam radio show and needs to be called out. He can be reached at 818-831-5313.
Please send this around.
Peter Z
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Euology for Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Today it still is hard to believe that it happened, so hard that I leave open the one page article in Time so that I can use it as a reminder. Solzhenitsyn, the greatest writer who ever lived, is dead.
Though our paths crossed we were scarcely aware of it, our lives took similar paths as we bisected each other. The day I was born he was in the same town. We both experienced the worst of the systems of the countries we lived in and served in one capacity or another, either by working or by not practicing our work. During the first days in August 2008 I suddenly felt my heart racing for no reason, or so I thought until I saw the news on August 4. Bolshoi Zek uzit. At the time it seemed that as his work finished mine had begun. Or had it?
The occupation we were thrust in to is one you can never quit, for even dead you still are working as you are influencing others lives. When you are alive you do your work in such a way that others will strive to emulate you and effect others, in death you will be glorified as someone who set the standard for performance. Such a man was Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.
Those who decry his work complain it is monotonous and overbearing, that it hurts to read his writings. Those who say this are often those who have never been in a situation where they needed to cry out for help, but could not, and as a result suffered for their actions. Once Solzhenitsyn was thrown into the Gulag Archipelago of the very system he once served he came to his senses then he began to act. Through his writings he was able to take the pain and suffering he had experienced and project it onto others. The left complained about him with the ignorance of those who believe but who have never experienced. The right feted him as one who had a common enemy with them, yet one who would not hesitate to complain about their flaws. Everyone else knew him as one who spoke out against injustice and through his example encouraged them to do the same.
When he died it seemed that many had forgotten who he was and what he had done. To most he was a curiosity. Curious was his death. Though he was 89 when he died his hair and beard were still the same brown it had been throughout his life, with scarcely a touch of Siberian frost on him. Only the old and weak let their hair discolor, what killed you Aleksandr? Those who showed up for your funeral behaved as at some spectacle. What was gorbachev doing there? He who ushered in the reforms which should have been done long ago and who precipitated the very chaos that ensued during Solzhenitsyn’s return. How could he not use the same foresight, knowledge, and wisdom which Aleksandr taught others to use? What was bush, the man who’s country gave Aleksandr shelter and visited on the World a system worse than the one Solzhenitsyn escaped, doing there? Did his lips tremble as he went near Aleksandr’s body, as they did when I came near bush with a crowd of protestors a year before, or when my dad approached him with a bat when they were in high school? For their kind only they can truly answer. Where were those who Aleksandr stood up for, though he had not seen it all, experienced it all, or remembered it all but did all he could for? Well they, including myself, had problems of our own which prevented most of us from seeing you in the flesh one last time, you who showed us how to be great and continues to be so.
I write this on this day for 2 reasons. The first was the full impact of what has happened had yet to set in when I first heard about what had happened and one day after today is Paitishahya Ghambar, a holiday for my faith lasting for five days, including my birthday, those dates on which more people have died than on any other and those who have effected the World the most were born on. The second is that this day is an important anniversary of loss, not the date on which America received it’s stripes from the World that had been warmed by American wrath, but the day the man who gave Aleksandr his first break died. On 11 September 1971 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev died. In life he leaned on Aleksandr for support to do the right thing, and for it he suffered. In this day and age his son Sergei Nikitiayevich is my friend, and like his father did with Aleksandr he leans on me, not just for moral support but also because he can’t always walk down the stairs by himself.
The greatest way to honor one’s memory is to take their works and apply them. Let us do so with Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s works.
Proschai Bolshoi Zek.
Though our paths crossed we were scarcely aware of it, our lives took similar paths as we bisected each other. The day I was born he was in the same town. We both experienced the worst of the systems of the countries we lived in and served in one capacity or another, either by working or by not practicing our work. During the first days in August 2008 I suddenly felt my heart racing for no reason, or so I thought until I saw the news on August 4. Bolshoi Zek uzit. At the time it seemed that as his work finished mine had begun. Or had it?
The occupation we were thrust in to is one you can never quit, for even dead you still are working as you are influencing others lives. When you are alive you do your work in such a way that others will strive to emulate you and effect others, in death you will be glorified as someone who set the standard for performance. Such a man was Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.
Those who decry his work complain it is monotonous and overbearing, that it hurts to read his writings. Those who say this are often those who have never been in a situation where they needed to cry out for help, but could not, and as a result suffered for their actions. Once Solzhenitsyn was thrown into the Gulag Archipelago of the very system he once served he came to his senses then he began to act. Through his writings he was able to take the pain and suffering he had experienced and project it onto others. The left complained about him with the ignorance of those who believe but who have never experienced. The right feted him as one who had a common enemy with them, yet one who would not hesitate to complain about their flaws. Everyone else knew him as one who spoke out against injustice and through his example encouraged them to do the same.
When he died it seemed that many had forgotten who he was and what he had done. To most he was a curiosity. Curious was his death. Though he was 89 when he died his hair and beard were still the same brown it had been throughout his life, with scarcely a touch of Siberian frost on him. Only the old and weak let their hair discolor, what killed you Aleksandr? Those who showed up for your funeral behaved as at some spectacle. What was gorbachev doing there? He who ushered in the reforms which should have been done long ago and who precipitated the very chaos that ensued during Solzhenitsyn’s return. How could he not use the same foresight, knowledge, and wisdom which Aleksandr taught others to use? What was bush, the man who’s country gave Aleksandr shelter and visited on the World a system worse than the one Solzhenitsyn escaped, doing there? Did his lips tremble as he went near Aleksandr’s body, as they did when I came near bush with a crowd of protestors a year before, or when my dad approached him with a bat when they were in high school? For their kind only they can truly answer. Where were those who Aleksandr stood up for, though he had not seen it all, experienced it all, or remembered it all but did all he could for? Well they, including myself, had problems of our own which prevented most of us from seeing you in the flesh one last time, you who showed us how to be great and continues to be so.
I write this on this day for 2 reasons. The first was the full impact of what has happened had yet to set in when I first heard about what had happened and one day after today is Paitishahya Ghambar, a holiday for my faith lasting for five days, including my birthday, those dates on which more people have died than on any other and those who have effected the World the most were born on. The second is that this day is an important anniversary of loss, not the date on which America received it’s stripes from the World that had been warmed by American wrath, but the day the man who gave Aleksandr his first break died. On 11 September 1971 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev died. In life he leaned on Aleksandr for support to do the right thing, and for it he suffered. In this day and age his son Sergei Nikitiayevich is my friend, and like his father did with Aleksandr he leans on me, not just for moral support but also because he can’t always walk down the stairs by himself.
The greatest way to honor one’s memory is to take their works and apply them. Let us do so with Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s works.
Proschai Bolshoi Zek.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Nonaligned resurgence
The recent conflict in Georgia has demonstrated beyond doubts truths that are good to some, disturbing to others. Over the recent conflict in Georgia Russia has once again demonstrated it is a modern military power which can project it’s power abroad. During this conflict it was the EU and nato which brokered the ceasefire when America could not. By America being unable to broker the ceasefire America showed that it is no longer all powerfull and is in serious decline. The reason for this decline is that the nations America has victimized have united together against America acting on the old principle of Nonalignment.
With Russia this revival in their military power should come as no surprise to those in the know. For those who have believed the western pundits that Russia is incapable of using it’s military have been proven conclusively wrong, as Russian forces easily subdued a Georgian military advised by American and Israeli military experts who brought their equipment. That Israel ran as soon as things got tough and America could not broker a cease fire and prevent Russian backing Georgia’s separatist provinces successfully confirmed this. Ultimately nato and the EU had to be called in on this conflict. By doing so America acknoweledged that EU and nato nations have equal and superior military equipment and that America is not all powerfull.
Had America used direct force it would have faced massive retaliatory attacks on an unprecedented scale. Furthermore America could not press further aggressive aims towards Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Serbia for had America attacked any one of those countries the others would have responded, and with American forces overextended America can make only limitd attacks. This is demonstrated as American forces could only make small, limited attacks into Pakistan recently but nothing major and decisive.
As for the countries mentioned above consider the damage they could do over america’s motivations to attack. Iran could use it’s ICBM’s and conventional forces, many of which are equal and superior to American equipment, to wipe out, or at the very least destroy a sizeable amount of American forces to render America unable to defend itself. With North Korea America would face a similarly armed foe, only this one with clear nuclear capability and one who could call in China as an ally should America choose to attack alone or with allies. Venezuela could embroil America in a protracted conflict in that country’s tropical and dangerous terrain and unite Latin America against America. Serbia could also embroil America in a similar war and is in an excellent position to both summon Russian aid and split the EU and nato over how to deal with any conflict.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s Tito, Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, and Nkrumah worked together to form the Nonaligned movement based on cooperation and defense so that the World could flourish without outside imperialist aggression. Now with American imperialism in full force these nations are using the Nonaligned philosophy and movement to defend themselves in the face of a common enemy and are succeeding in the face of western imperialism. How they will flourish and continue to exist from here on is anyone’s guess, but hopefully they will flourish so that they need not be menaced again.
With Russia this revival in their military power should come as no surprise to those in the know. For those who have believed the western pundits that Russia is incapable of using it’s military have been proven conclusively wrong, as Russian forces easily subdued a Georgian military advised by American and Israeli military experts who brought their equipment. That Israel ran as soon as things got tough and America could not broker a cease fire and prevent Russian backing Georgia’s separatist provinces successfully confirmed this. Ultimately nato and the EU had to be called in on this conflict. By doing so America acknoweledged that EU and nato nations have equal and superior military equipment and that America is not all powerfull.
Had America used direct force it would have faced massive retaliatory attacks on an unprecedented scale. Furthermore America could not press further aggressive aims towards Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Serbia for had America attacked any one of those countries the others would have responded, and with American forces overextended America can make only limitd attacks. This is demonstrated as American forces could only make small, limited attacks into Pakistan recently but nothing major and decisive.
As for the countries mentioned above consider the damage they could do over america’s motivations to attack. Iran could use it’s ICBM’s and conventional forces, many of which are equal and superior to American equipment, to wipe out, or at the very least destroy a sizeable amount of American forces to render America unable to defend itself. With North Korea America would face a similarly armed foe, only this one with clear nuclear capability and one who could call in China as an ally should America choose to attack alone or with allies. Venezuela could embroil America in a protracted conflict in that country’s tropical and dangerous terrain and unite Latin America against America. Serbia could also embroil America in a similar war and is in an excellent position to both summon Russian aid and split the EU and nato over how to deal with any conflict.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s Tito, Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, and Nkrumah worked together to form the Nonaligned movement based on cooperation and defense so that the World could flourish without outside imperialist aggression. Now with American imperialism in full force these nations are using the Nonaligned philosophy and movement to defend themselves in the face of a common enemy and are succeeding in the face of western imperialism. How they will flourish and continue to exist from here on is anyone’s guess, but hopefully they will flourish so that they need not be menaced again.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Update on probation
I just met with probation this morning. Depite my serving more thana third of my sentence I was told there were concerns that I am a potential threat to authority by my actions. Looks like I'm getting the Chaadayev treatment.
Peter Z
Peter Z
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
More oddness in RI affairs
Yesterday when at the beach I ran into the same staff from the bank who filed the bogus charges against me. Of all things they were in their business suits, and as soon as they saw me come near them they turned around and headed in the other direction. How's that for guilty mind? And as it turns out those fuckers are now expanding in providence, mystic, and in the boston area and still no legal assistance on my behalf to make them pay up all that is owed me.
Also some news from watson. From the news I have recieved from them more reshuffling has gone on. Tom Biersteker's back there as adjunct from the odd 2 year hhiatus, and occupying his old office which dick holbrooke, who is now on leave, just vacated. Poor old dr. Al-Soof is still there only because he can't find another place to go. And to really fuck things up an old colleague of mine died Friday, Marsha Posusney, and as a result of court order I can't attend her memorial and funeral. from now on if I meet a priest of any faith in RI who I don't know the nicest thing I will do to them is to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Peter Z
Also some news from watson. From the news I have recieved from them more reshuffling has gone on. Tom Biersteker's back there as adjunct from the odd 2 year hhiatus, and occupying his old office which dick holbrooke, who is now on leave, just vacated. Poor old dr. Al-Soof is still there only because he can't find another place to go. And to really fuck things up an old colleague of mine died Friday, Marsha Posusney, and as a result of court order I can't attend her memorial and funeral. from now on if I meet a priest of any faith in RI who I don't know the nicest thing I will do to them is to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Peter Z
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Recent trouble for activists
I hope those who are alert have been paying attention to how the city of denver has converted an abandoned warehouse to hold people in the event of mass arrests at the dnc. Most people are not even aware that in colorado the Constitution has been suspended since the 1900's.
Also have any other activists than myself experienced online problems, including account trouble and slowness online?
On a personal note right now brown's pigs and administration have been backing off, only yacking on the radio or avoiding me whenever I walk by, looks like now they get it that if they mess with me they will get trouble. Even the WACRI is taking a tougher stance on brown. Recently a friend of mine from Harvard who is adjunct with brown informed me that it was richard holbrooke who made the crank complaint about me at watson and gave the brown pigs to use his office as an observation post. One less public figure you can't trust, holbrooke really is a dick.
Also have any other activists than myself experienced online problems, including account trouble and slowness online?
On a personal note right now brown's pigs and administration have been backing off, only yacking on the radio or avoiding me whenever I walk by, looks like now they get it that if they mess with me they will get trouble. Even the WACRI is taking a tougher stance on brown. Recently a friend of mine from Harvard who is adjunct with brown informed me that it was richard holbrooke who made the crank complaint about me at watson and gave the brown pigs to use his office as an observation post. One less public figure you can't trust, holbrooke really is a dick.
Monday, August 04, 2008
Solzhenitsyn dies
This man was in inspiration to many, for by making people feel his suffering was he able to make his voice felt and recieve actions as the results from his words by making others do his bidding. We shall never see the likes of this colossus again.
One zek saluting another
Peter Khan Zendran
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky of 20th century, dies of heart failure
04.08.2008 Source: AP © URL: http://english.pravda.ru/russia/history/105971-Alexander_Solzhenitsyn-0
Alexander Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow at age 89. President Dmitry Medvedev presented his condolences to writer’s wife and sons.
Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday of heart failure, but declined further comment. Solzhenitsyn's unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union's labor camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed. They earned him 20 years of bitter exile, but international renown.
And they inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person's courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery of an empire.
Beginning with the 1962 short novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Solzhenitsyn devoted himself to describing what he called the human "meat grinder" that had caught him along with millions of other Soviet citizens: capricious arrests, often for trifling and seemingly absurd reasons, followed by sentences to slave labor camps where cold, starvation and punishing work crushed inmates physically and spiritually.
His "Gulag Archipelago" trilogy of the 1970s left readers shocked by the savagery of the Soviet state under the dictator Josef Stalin. It helped erase lingering sympathy for the Soviet Union among many leftist intellectuals, especially in Europe.
But his account of that secret system of prison camps was also inspiring in its description of how one person - Solzhenitsyn himself - survived, physically and spiritually, in a penal system of soul-crushing hardship and injustice.
The West offered him shelter and accolades. But Solzhenitsyn's refusal to bend despite enormous pressure, perhaps, also gave him the courage to criticize Western culture for what he considered its weakness and decadence.
After a triumphant return that included a 56-day train trip across Russia to become reacquainted with his native land, Solzhenitsyn later expressed annoyance and disappointment that most Russians hadn't read his books.
During the 1990s, his stalwart nationalist views, his devout Orthodoxy, his disdain for capitalism and disgust with the tycoons who bought Russian industries and resources for kopeks on the ruble following the Soviet collapse, were unfashionable. He faded from public view.
But under Vladimir Putin's 2000-2008 presidency, Solzhenitsyn's vision of Russia as a bastion of Orthodox Christianity, as a place with a unique culture and destiny, gained renewed prominence.
Putin now argues, as Solzhenitsyn did in a speech at Harvard University in 1978, that Russia has a separate civilization from the West, one that can't be reconciled either to Communism or western-style liberal democracy, but requires a system adapted to its history and traditions. Putin's successor Dmitry Medvedev sent condolences shortly after the report of Solzhenitsyn's death, Russian media cited the Kremlin as saying.
"Any ancient deeply rooted autonomous culture, especially if it is spread on a wide part of the earth's surface, constitutes an autonomous world, full of riddles and surprises to Western thinking," Solzhenitsyn said in his speech. "For one thousand years Russia has belonged to such a category..."
Born Dec. 11, 1918, in Kislovodsk, Solzhenitsyn served as a front-line artillery captain in World War II, where, in the closing weeks of the war, he was arrested for writing what he called "certain disrespectful remarks" about Stalin in a letter to a friend, referring to him as "the man with the mustache."
He was sentenced to eight years in labor camps -- three of which he served in a camp in the barren steppe of Kazakhstan that was the basis for his first novel. After that, he served three years of exile in Kazakhstan.
That's where he began to write, memorizing much of his work so it wouldn't be lost if it were seized. His theme was the suffering and injustice of life in Stalin's gulag - a Soviet abbreviation for the slave labor camp system, which Solzhenitsyn made part of the lexicon.
He continued writing while working as a mathematics teacher in the provincial Russian city of Ryazan.
The first fruit of this labor was "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," the story of a carpenter struggling to survive in a Soviet labor camp, where he had been sent, like Solzhenitsyn, after service in the war.
The book was published by order of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who was eager to discredit the abuses of Stalin, his predecessor, and created a sensation in a country where unpleasant truths were spoken in whispers, if at all. Abroad, the book - which went through numerous revisions - was lauded not only for its bravery, but for its spare, unpretentious language.
After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, Solzhenitsyn began facing KGB harassment, publication of his works was blocked and he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union. But he was undeterred.
"A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country," he wrote in "The First Circle," his next novel, a book about inmates in one of Stalin's "special camps" for scientists who were deemed politically unreliable but whose skills were essential.
Solzhenitsyn, a graduate from the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Rostov University, was sent to one of these camps in 1946, soon after his arrest.
The novel "Cancer Ward", which appeared in 1967, was another fictional worked based on Solzhenitsyn's life: in this case, his cancer treatment in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part of Soviet Central Asia, during his years of internal exile from March 1953, the month of Stalin's death, until June 1956.
In the book, cancer became a metaphor for the fatal sickness of the Soviet system. "A man sprouts a tumor and dies - how then can a country live that has sprouted camps and exile?"
He attacked the complicity of millions of Russians in the horrors of Stalin's reign. "Suddenly all the professors and engineers turned out to be saboteurs _ and they believed it? ... Or all of Lenin's old guard were vile renegades _ and they believed it? Suddenly all their friends and acquaintances were enemies of the people - and they believed it?"
The Stalinist era, he wrote, quoting from a poem by Alexander Pushkin, forced Soviet citizens to choose one of three roles: tyrant, traitor, prisoner.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, an unusual move for the Swedish Academy, which generally makes awards late in an author's life after decades of work. The academy cited "the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature."
Soviet authorities barred the author from traveling to Stockholm to receive the award and official attacks were intensified in 1973 when the first book in the "Gulag" trilogy appeared in Paris.
"During all the years until 1961," Solzhenitsyn wrote in an autobiography written for the Nobel Foundation, "not only was I convinced that I should never see a single line of mine in print in my lifetime, but, also, I scarcely dared allow any of my close acquaintances to read anything I had written because I feared that this would become known."
The following year, he was arrested on a treason charge and expelled the next day to West Germany in handcuffs. His expulsion inspired worldwide condemnation of the regime of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
Solzhenitsyn made his homeland in America, settling in the tiny town of Cavendish, Vermont, with his wife and sons.
Living at a secluded hillside compound he rarely left, he called his 18 years there the most productive of his life. There he worked on what he considered to be his life's work, a multi-volume saga of Russian history titled "The Red Wheel."
Although free from repression, Solzhenitsyn longed for his native land. Neither was he enchanted by Western democracy, with its emphasis on individual freedom.
To the dismay of his supporters, in his Harvard speech he rejected "Western pluralistic democracy" as the model for all other nations. It was a mistake, he warned, for Western societies to regard the failure of the rest of the world to adopt the democratic model as a product of "wicked governments or by heavy crises or by their own barbarity or incomprehension."
Some critics saw "The Red Wheel" books as tedious and hectoring, rather than as sweeping and lit by moral fire.
"Exile from his great theme, Stalinism and the gulag, had exposed his major weaknesses," D.M. Thomas wrote in a 1998 biography, theorizing that the intensity of the earlier works was "a projection of his own repressed violence."
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev restored Solzhenitsyn's citizenship in 1990 and the treason charge was finally dropped in 1991, less than a month after the failed Soviet coup. Following an emotional homecoming that started in the Russian Far East on May 27, 1994, and became a whistle-stop tour across the country, Solzhenitsyn settled in a tree-shaded, red brick home overlooking the Moscow River just west of the capital.
While avoiding a partisan political role, Solzhenitsyn vowed to speak "the whole truth about Russia, until they shut my mouth like before."
He was contemptuous of President Boris Yeltsin, blaming Yeltsin for the collapse of Russia's economy, his dependence on bailouts by the International Monetary Fund, his inability to stop the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders, his tolerance of the rising influence of a handful of Russian billionaires - who were nicknamed "oligarchs" by an American diplomat.
Yeltsin's reign, Solzhenitsyn said, marked one of three "times of troubles" in Russian history - which included the 17th century crises that led to the rise of the Romanovs and the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. When Yeltsin awarded Solzhenitsyn Russia's highest honor, the Order of St. Andrew, the writer refused to accept it. When Yeltsin left office in 2000, Solzhenitsyn wanted him prosecuted.
The author's last book, 2001's "Two Hundred Years Together," addressed the complex emotions of Russian-Jewish relations. Some criticized the book for alleged anti-Semitic passages, but the author denied the charge, saying he "understood the subtlety, sensitivity and kindheartedness of the Jewish character."
Putin, Yeltsin's successor, at first had a rocky relationship with Solzhenitsyn, who criticized the Russian president in 2002 for not doing more to crack down on Russia's oligarchs. Putin was also a veteran of the Soviet-era KGB, the agency that, more than any other, represented the Soviet legacy of repression.
But the two men, so different, gradually developed a rapport. By steps, Putin adopted Solzhenitsyn's criticisms of the West, perhaps out of a recognition that Russia really is a different civilization, perhaps because the author offered justification for the Kremlin's determination to muzzle critics, to reassert control over Russia's natural resources and to concentrate political power.
Like Putin, Solzhenitsyn argued that Russia was following its own path to its own form of democratic society. In a June 2005 interview with state television he said that Russia had lost 15 years following the collapse of the Soviet Union by moving too quickly in the rush to build a more liberal society. "We need to be better, so we need to go more slowly," he said
Following the death of Naguib Mahfouz in 2006, Solzhenitsyn became the oldest living Nobel laureate in literature. He is survived by his wife, Natalya, who acted as his spokesman, and his three sons, including Stepan, Ignat, a pianist and conductor, and Yermolai. All live in the United States.
Despite his belief in a separate political and cultural fate for Russia, Solzhenitsyn's works continue to inspire people of all nations and cultures in the fight for human dignity and the right to hold unpopular views.
His belief in the power of conscience, and of courage against all odds, speaks to readers beyond the narrow limits of ideology and politics.
"It is we who shall die - art shall remain," he wrote in his 1970 Nobel lecture, which he was not allowed to deliver. "And shall we comprehend, even on the day of our destruction, all its facets and all its possibilities?"
© 1999-2006. «PRAVDA.Ru». When reproducing our materials in whole or in part, hyperlink to PRAVDA.Ru should be made. The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
One zek saluting another
Peter Khan Zendran
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky of 20th century, dies of heart failure
04.08.2008 Source: AP © URL: http://english.pravda.ru/russia/history/105971-Alexander_Solzhenitsyn-0
Alexander Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow at age 89. President Dmitry Medvedev presented his condolences to writer’s wife and sons.
Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday of heart failure, but declined further comment. Solzhenitsyn's unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union's labor camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed. They earned him 20 years of bitter exile, but international renown.
And they inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person's courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery of an empire.
Beginning with the 1962 short novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Solzhenitsyn devoted himself to describing what he called the human "meat grinder" that had caught him along with millions of other Soviet citizens: capricious arrests, often for trifling and seemingly absurd reasons, followed by sentences to slave labor camps where cold, starvation and punishing work crushed inmates physically and spiritually.
His "Gulag Archipelago" trilogy of the 1970s left readers shocked by the savagery of the Soviet state under the dictator Josef Stalin. It helped erase lingering sympathy for the Soviet Union among many leftist intellectuals, especially in Europe.
But his account of that secret system of prison camps was also inspiring in its description of how one person - Solzhenitsyn himself - survived, physically and spiritually, in a penal system of soul-crushing hardship and injustice.
The West offered him shelter and accolades. But Solzhenitsyn's refusal to bend despite enormous pressure, perhaps, also gave him the courage to criticize Western culture for what he considered its weakness and decadence.
After a triumphant return that included a 56-day train trip across Russia to become reacquainted with his native land, Solzhenitsyn later expressed annoyance and disappointment that most Russians hadn't read his books.
During the 1990s, his stalwart nationalist views, his devout Orthodoxy, his disdain for capitalism and disgust with the tycoons who bought Russian industries and resources for kopeks on the ruble following the Soviet collapse, were unfashionable. He faded from public view.
But under Vladimir Putin's 2000-2008 presidency, Solzhenitsyn's vision of Russia as a bastion of Orthodox Christianity, as a place with a unique culture and destiny, gained renewed prominence.
Putin now argues, as Solzhenitsyn did in a speech at Harvard University in 1978, that Russia has a separate civilization from the West, one that can't be reconciled either to Communism or western-style liberal democracy, but requires a system adapted to its history and traditions. Putin's successor Dmitry Medvedev sent condolences shortly after the report of Solzhenitsyn's death, Russian media cited the Kremlin as saying.
"Any ancient deeply rooted autonomous culture, especially if it is spread on a wide part of the earth's surface, constitutes an autonomous world, full of riddles and surprises to Western thinking," Solzhenitsyn said in his speech. "For one thousand years Russia has belonged to such a category..."
Born Dec. 11, 1918, in Kislovodsk, Solzhenitsyn served as a front-line artillery captain in World War II, where, in the closing weeks of the war, he was arrested for writing what he called "certain disrespectful remarks" about Stalin in a letter to a friend, referring to him as "the man with the mustache."
He was sentenced to eight years in labor camps -- three of which he served in a camp in the barren steppe of Kazakhstan that was the basis for his first novel. After that, he served three years of exile in Kazakhstan.
That's where he began to write, memorizing much of his work so it wouldn't be lost if it were seized. His theme was the suffering and injustice of life in Stalin's gulag - a Soviet abbreviation for the slave labor camp system, which Solzhenitsyn made part of the lexicon.
He continued writing while working as a mathematics teacher in the provincial Russian city of Ryazan.
The first fruit of this labor was "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," the story of a carpenter struggling to survive in a Soviet labor camp, where he had been sent, like Solzhenitsyn, after service in the war.
The book was published by order of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who was eager to discredit the abuses of Stalin, his predecessor, and created a sensation in a country where unpleasant truths were spoken in whispers, if at all. Abroad, the book - which went through numerous revisions - was lauded not only for its bravery, but for its spare, unpretentious language.
After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, Solzhenitsyn began facing KGB harassment, publication of his works was blocked and he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union. But he was undeterred.
"A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country," he wrote in "The First Circle," his next novel, a book about inmates in one of Stalin's "special camps" for scientists who were deemed politically unreliable but whose skills were essential.
Solzhenitsyn, a graduate from the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Rostov University, was sent to one of these camps in 1946, soon after his arrest.
The novel "Cancer Ward", which appeared in 1967, was another fictional worked based on Solzhenitsyn's life: in this case, his cancer treatment in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part of Soviet Central Asia, during his years of internal exile from March 1953, the month of Stalin's death, until June 1956.
In the book, cancer became a metaphor for the fatal sickness of the Soviet system. "A man sprouts a tumor and dies - how then can a country live that has sprouted camps and exile?"
He attacked the complicity of millions of Russians in the horrors of Stalin's reign. "Suddenly all the professors and engineers turned out to be saboteurs _ and they believed it? ... Or all of Lenin's old guard were vile renegades _ and they believed it? Suddenly all their friends and acquaintances were enemies of the people - and they believed it?"
The Stalinist era, he wrote, quoting from a poem by Alexander Pushkin, forced Soviet citizens to choose one of three roles: tyrant, traitor, prisoner.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, an unusual move for the Swedish Academy, which generally makes awards late in an author's life after decades of work. The academy cited "the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature."
Soviet authorities barred the author from traveling to Stockholm to receive the award and official attacks were intensified in 1973 when the first book in the "Gulag" trilogy appeared in Paris.
"During all the years until 1961," Solzhenitsyn wrote in an autobiography written for the Nobel Foundation, "not only was I convinced that I should never see a single line of mine in print in my lifetime, but, also, I scarcely dared allow any of my close acquaintances to read anything I had written because I feared that this would become known."
The following year, he was arrested on a treason charge and expelled the next day to West Germany in handcuffs. His expulsion inspired worldwide condemnation of the regime of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
Solzhenitsyn made his homeland in America, settling in the tiny town of Cavendish, Vermont, with his wife and sons.
Living at a secluded hillside compound he rarely left, he called his 18 years there the most productive of his life. There he worked on what he considered to be his life's work, a multi-volume saga of Russian history titled "The Red Wheel."
Although free from repression, Solzhenitsyn longed for his native land. Neither was he enchanted by Western democracy, with its emphasis on individual freedom.
To the dismay of his supporters, in his Harvard speech he rejected "Western pluralistic democracy" as the model for all other nations. It was a mistake, he warned, for Western societies to regard the failure of the rest of the world to adopt the democratic model as a product of "wicked governments or by heavy crises or by their own barbarity or incomprehension."
Some critics saw "The Red Wheel" books as tedious and hectoring, rather than as sweeping and lit by moral fire.
"Exile from his great theme, Stalinism and the gulag, had exposed his major weaknesses," D.M. Thomas wrote in a 1998 biography, theorizing that the intensity of the earlier works was "a projection of his own repressed violence."
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev restored Solzhenitsyn's citizenship in 1990 and the treason charge was finally dropped in 1991, less than a month after the failed Soviet coup. Following an emotional homecoming that started in the Russian Far East on May 27, 1994, and became a whistle-stop tour across the country, Solzhenitsyn settled in a tree-shaded, red brick home overlooking the Moscow River just west of the capital.
While avoiding a partisan political role, Solzhenitsyn vowed to speak "the whole truth about Russia, until they shut my mouth like before."
He was contemptuous of President Boris Yeltsin, blaming Yeltsin for the collapse of Russia's economy, his dependence on bailouts by the International Monetary Fund, his inability to stop the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders, his tolerance of the rising influence of a handful of Russian billionaires - who were nicknamed "oligarchs" by an American diplomat.
Yeltsin's reign, Solzhenitsyn said, marked one of three "times of troubles" in Russian history - which included the 17th century crises that led to the rise of the Romanovs and the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. When Yeltsin awarded Solzhenitsyn Russia's highest honor, the Order of St. Andrew, the writer refused to accept it. When Yeltsin left office in 2000, Solzhenitsyn wanted him prosecuted.
The author's last book, 2001's "Two Hundred Years Together," addressed the complex emotions of Russian-Jewish relations. Some criticized the book for alleged anti-Semitic passages, but the author denied the charge, saying he "understood the subtlety, sensitivity and kindheartedness of the Jewish character."
Putin, Yeltsin's successor, at first had a rocky relationship with Solzhenitsyn, who criticized the Russian president in 2002 for not doing more to crack down on Russia's oligarchs. Putin was also a veteran of the Soviet-era KGB, the agency that, more than any other, represented the Soviet legacy of repression.
But the two men, so different, gradually developed a rapport. By steps, Putin adopted Solzhenitsyn's criticisms of the West, perhaps out of a recognition that Russia really is a different civilization, perhaps because the author offered justification for the Kremlin's determination to muzzle critics, to reassert control over Russia's natural resources and to concentrate political power.
Like Putin, Solzhenitsyn argued that Russia was following its own path to its own form of democratic society. In a June 2005 interview with state television he said that Russia had lost 15 years following the collapse of the Soviet Union by moving too quickly in the rush to build a more liberal society. "We need to be better, so we need to go more slowly," he said
Following the death of Naguib Mahfouz in 2006, Solzhenitsyn became the oldest living Nobel laureate in literature. He is survived by his wife, Natalya, who acted as his spokesman, and his three sons, including Stepan, Ignat, a pianist and conductor, and Yermolai. All live in the United States.
Despite his belief in a separate political and cultural fate for Russia, Solzhenitsyn's works continue to inspire people of all nations and cultures in the fight for human dignity and the right to hold unpopular views.
His belief in the power of conscience, and of courage against all odds, speaks to readers beyond the narrow limits of ideology and politics.
"It is we who shall die - art shall remain," he wrote in his 1970 Nobel lecture, which he was not allowed to deliver. "And shall we comprehend, even on the day of our destruction, all its facets and all its possibilities?"
© 1999-2006. «PRAVDA.Ru». When reproducing our materials in whole or in part, hyperlink to PRAVDA.Ru should be made. The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Gauging Reprecussions of “Fallout”
Recent activity shows that both the primary goal and unexpected secondary goals of my “Dumb vs. Dumber” series have had their effects. The primary goal of using satellite images obtained from the internet to ascertain the Naval strength of Iran and america has been suprisingly fulfilled, while other countries have been updating and/or censoring their satellite images.
Within days of the last article Yahoo uncensored Bandar Abbas. In viewing the images there, which were clearly from the summer of 2007, one saw that Iran was very active with it’s Naval forces. The Jamaran FFG is seen in the final stages of fitting out, and one will see an Alvand class FFG, Tariq class SSK and some Ghadir class SSK’s, Bayandor class FF, 2 Hengam class LST’s, 2 Charak class LST’s, a Bandar Abbas class LS, and several PT craft. In addition the Iraqi LST kept as a war trophy has been moved. Such a low inventory of combat warships shows the bulk of Iran’s Navy was out on active patrol.
On May 21, 2008 google/wiki updated their images of Bandar Abbas, which clearly were taken in 2008. In viewing them I saw the Jamaran active, all 3 Alvand class FFG’s in different berths, a Bayandor class FF getting underway, 2 Tariq class SSK’s 2 Ghadir class SSK’s, 2 Yugo class SSK’s, all 4 Hengam class LST’s, the Corvette Joshan, 6 Charak class LST’s, an Iran class LST, both Bandar Abbas class LS, and several PT Craft. In addition the Kharg and a Kangan class LS are both visible outside Bandar Abbas underway on maneuvers.
As of my writing this MSN, Ask, and other online servers which provide satellite images have yet to allow images of Bandar Abbas on their sites. From what is visible in Yahoo and google/wiki is that Iran’s Navy is active and capable, alongside Iran’s armed forces, of defending Iran. The question is can Iran maintain the ability to defend itself.
In viewing america’s Naval bases one sees that the images of most of them are regularly updated, with little manipulation done. The ones that have been regularly updated are Groton, Norfolk, Newport News, San Diego, Bremerton, Everett, while other Naval facilities are seldom or never updated. While little has changed, as one will still see a large power projection of american warships in base, it is the fine details worth noticing. For instance on google/wiki the USS George H W Bush CVN is visible in the final stages of fitting out before comissioning, San Diego shows the Midway CV in port as a Museum Ship, yet only LHA/D ships are in port and no CVN’s. Plus key facilities like Bath, Pascagoula, Kings Bay, New Orleans, Pearl Harbor, Guam are not updated. MSN and Yahoo are not regular updaters as well, so the american navy appears to have something to hide.
In terms of updating their Naval facilities other countries are selective. On google/wiki Russia has only updated St. Petersburg, China Dalian and Zhanjiang, India Mumbai, Japan Kure, Brazil Niteroi, Chile Valparaiso, Singapore, Malaysia Lumut to name a few of the more important ones. What stands out are when smaller bases are updated in favor of larger bases and when censorship begins to occur. Examples of the former are how Thailand has updated Songkhla but not Sattahip, where the CV Chakri Narubet is based, and Bangkok, or how australia has updated darwin but not perth. In terms of censorship Taiwan has begun to censor Tsoying and Portugal Lisbon. Of note also is how China has improved the image resolution on Qingdao and Spain on Ferrol but neither have updated their images. Considering the vandalism that goes on google/wiki by putting up false info by the cabal of 400 nodders that run it it is understandable the reluctance for these countries to update their images ongoogle/wiki. Most noticeable is how MSN and Yahoo have made some updates to their images which are more useful. For instance MSN has updated Yokosuka to show the CV Hyuga fitting out before being launched. Dakar is updated to show the French CV Jeanne d’Arc and The German DDG Hamburg, 2 Bremen class FFG’s, and the Berlin LS in port during maneuvers on MSN and Yahoo, but for some reason not on google/wiki.
This however does not explain the reluctance of other online servers, maniny MSN and Yahoo, to censor some locations there. Most notable is MSN. There France has an interesting way of censoring it’s naval bases. Initialy, it cut out the images of it’s bases, now it has blurry images up of most of it’s active ships and includes old images, as of the ex CV Clemenceau at Toulon. Even more odd is how Spain censors Cartagena on the Birds Eye view on MSN, allowing one to view the Descubierta FFG and the Peral but the Naval facilities themselves are censored. This despite the fact that Yahoo has now updated images of Spain’s naval bases, albeit only old images are shown, particularly at Ferrol where no server has made updates to show the CV Juan Carlos I which is fitting out there. In viewing MSN’s Birds Eye satellite one notices quite a bit of censorship and image manipulation. Examples of these locations include Den Helder, Wilhelmshaven, Kiel, Rostock, Renfrew, Esquimalt, plymouth, sydney, Everett, Norfolk,, Newport News, San Diego, Bremerton, Taranto, La Spezia, Goteborg, Copenhagen, Groton, Portsmoutn NH, Bath, ME, New Orleans, where one will see images in 3D by switching to Birds Eye, but in order to print one must click the print preview on the browser screen, not the MSN print.
It is easy to understand the censorship on google/wiki because of the vandalism there, as one does not want to leave onself open to the harassment, defemation, and slander of the wikifreak mafia. Sites like MSN and Yahoo are another story, for they at least have responsible users, but in censoring they are showing a lack of responsibility. As ever the future is uncertain.
Within days of the last article Yahoo uncensored Bandar Abbas. In viewing the images there, which were clearly from the summer of 2007, one saw that Iran was very active with it’s Naval forces. The Jamaran FFG is seen in the final stages of fitting out, and one will see an Alvand class FFG, Tariq class SSK and some Ghadir class SSK’s, Bayandor class FF, 2 Hengam class LST’s, 2 Charak class LST’s, a Bandar Abbas class LS, and several PT craft. In addition the Iraqi LST kept as a war trophy has been moved. Such a low inventory of combat warships shows the bulk of Iran’s Navy was out on active patrol.
On May 21, 2008 google/wiki updated their images of Bandar Abbas, which clearly were taken in 2008. In viewing them I saw the Jamaran active, all 3 Alvand class FFG’s in different berths, a Bayandor class FF getting underway, 2 Tariq class SSK’s 2 Ghadir class SSK’s, 2 Yugo class SSK’s, all 4 Hengam class LST’s, the Corvette Joshan, 6 Charak class LST’s, an Iran class LST, both Bandar Abbas class LS, and several PT Craft. In addition the Kharg and a Kangan class LS are both visible outside Bandar Abbas underway on maneuvers.
As of my writing this MSN, Ask, and other online servers which provide satellite images have yet to allow images of Bandar Abbas on their sites. From what is visible in Yahoo and google/wiki is that Iran’s Navy is active and capable, alongside Iran’s armed forces, of defending Iran. The question is can Iran maintain the ability to defend itself.
In viewing america’s Naval bases one sees that the images of most of them are regularly updated, with little manipulation done. The ones that have been regularly updated are Groton, Norfolk, Newport News, San Diego, Bremerton, Everett, while other Naval facilities are seldom or never updated. While little has changed, as one will still see a large power projection of american warships in base, it is the fine details worth noticing. For instance on google/wiki the USS George H W Bush CVN is visible in the final stages of fitting out before comissioning, San Diego shows the Midway CV in port as a Museum Ship, yet only LHA/D ships are in port and no CVN’s. Plus key facilities like Bath, Pascagoula, Kings Bay, New Orleans, Pearl Harbor, Guam are not updated. MSN and Yahoo are not regular updaters as well, so the american navy appears to have something to hide.
In terms of updating their Naval facilities other countries are selective. On google/wiki Russia has only updated St. Petersburg, China Dalian and Zhanjiang, India Mumbai, Japan Kure, Brazil Niteroi, Chile Valparaiso, Singapore, Malaysia Lumut to name a few of the more important ones. What stands out are when smaller bases are updated in favor of larger bases and when censorship begins to occur. Examples of the former are how Thailand has updated Songkhla but not Sattahip, where the CV Chakri Narubet is based, and Bangkok, or how australia has updated darwin but not perth. In terms of censorship Taiwan has begun to censor Tsoying and Portugal Lisbon. Of note also is how China has improved the image resolution on Qingdao and Spain on Ferrol but neither have updated their images. Considering the vandalism that goes on google/wiki by putting up false info by the cabal of 400 nodders that run it it is understandable the reluctance for these countries to update their images ongoogle/wiki. Most noticeable is how MSN and Yahoo have made some updates to their images which are more useful. For instance MSN has updated Yokosuka to show the CV Hyuga fitting out before being launched. Dakar is updated to show the French CV Jeanne d’Arc and The German DDG Hamburg, 2 Bremen class FFG’s, and the Berlin LS in port during maneuvers on MSN and Yahoo, but for some reason not on google/wiki.
This however does not explain the reluctance of other online servers, maniny MSN and Yahoo, to censor some locations there. Most notable is MSN. There France has an interesting way of censoring it’s naval bases. Initialy, it cut out the images of it’s bases, now it has blurry images up of most of it’s active ships and includes old images, as of the ex CV Clemenceau at Toulon. Even more odd is how Spain censors Cartagena on the Birds Eye view on MSN, allowing one to view the Descubierta FFG and the Peral but the Naval facilities themselves are censored. This despite the fact that Yahoo has now updated images of Spain’s naval bases, albeit only old images are shown, particularly at Ferrol where no server has made updates to show the CV Juan Carlos I which is fitting out there. In viewing MSN’s Birds Eye satellite one notices quite a bit of censorship and image manipulation. Examples of these locations include Den Helder, Wilhelmshaven, Kiel, Rostock, Renfrew, Esquimalt, plymouth, sydney, Everett, Norfolk,, Newport News, San Diego, Bremerton, Taranto, La Spezia, Goteborg, Copenhagen, Groton, Portsmoutn NH, Bath, ME, New Orleans, where one will see images in 3D by switching to Birds Eye, but in order to print one must click the print preview on the browser screen, not the MSN print.
It is easy to understand the censorship on google/wiki because of the vandalism there, as one does not want to leave onself open to the harassment, defemation, and slander of the wikifreak mafia. Sites like MSN and Yahoo are another story, for they at least have responsible users, but in censoring they are showing a lack of responsibility. As ever the future is uncertain.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
To National Geographic regarding Iran negitavely portrayed in August 2008 issue
The cover story of your August 2008 issue about Iran, while presenting many excellent pictures, portrays Iran in an inaccurate and negative manner. Given the tradition that National Geographic has of being respectful Iran's history is inaccurately documented, indegenous terms not used like they are for other cultures, and people who are among the dregs of Iranian civilization are quoted.
First, the cover lists the story as "Ancient Iran Inside a Nation's Persian Soul" and makes frequent use of the terms "Persian" and "Persia". The terms "Persian" and "Persia" are a Greco-Roman patronymic for the correct terms "Farsi" and "Fars" for the province from which Kurush ruled and conquered other territories to form the Iranian empire and modern Iran. The misuse of indegenous terms continues, Hakhamanish as Achaemenid, Daryush as Darius, and Kurush as Cyrus, and in the last term you quote on page 49 jendeh ebadi, who's promoting dubious human rights abuse stories has hindered real action on human rights, to use the western Cyrus instead of the indegenous Kurush. The historical inaccuracy continues, your map has the territorial extend for all the Iranian empires, Parthian, Sassanian, Samanid, and Safavid which are mentioned. Though it is good to see Takht-e-Jamshid listed alongside Persepolis on the map the indegenous Darya-e-Fars should be there alongside Persian Gulf. Also the province boundaries are not clear and Mazendaran is mispelled.
Even worse is the regurgitation of the spoon fed myths about 1953 and savak. Mossadeq was NOT the head of government, as under Iran's constitution, which was forced upon Iran by the british and Russians in 1906, the Prime Minister/Vizier Bozorg was simply the head of the Majlis, Iran's legislative branch of government, and had no executive function outside the Majlis. By allowing units of the Iranian army to be placed under his control and allying himself with the Tudeh in a plot to overthrow Iran's legitimate government Mossadeq made himself a criminal. It was Iran's own government which requested CIA and foreign assistance in 1953 to remove that criminal Mossadeq, not some plot of foreign origin as is mentioned on page 65. Even worse you quote kuspedar rezaei, who's magazine over the past 2 years has become an ersatz for other Iranian news sites and built PersianMirror by taking advantage of the work of other writers she freeloaded off of, on page 65 to back up your statements instead of viewing articles there like the ones I published to get a more accurate perspective.
The information about savak on page 66 is inaccurate as well. The creation of savak was proposed by Mossadeq in 1951 but was rejected by Mohammed Reza Shah. After the Mossadeq debacle of 1953 Mohammed Reza Shah authorized the creation of savak in 1953 and it became a fully functional organization in 1957, instructed by british as well as american and isreali instructors, and was initially under the directorship of Teymour Bakhtiar, who tried to use savak to overthrow Mohammed Reza Shah, and despite Mohammed Reza Shah disoosolving savak in 1978 and many savak leaders being executed by the islamic revolutionaries many savak agents continue to work for savama and many savak instructors work abroad, including in america.
The description of taroof is presented inaccurately as well. While there is a polite side to taroof which is described in the article, taroof is also used negatively by people who make presents to someone then use the gifts as an excuse to take advantage of them or attack them.
One last inaccuracy is all the modern countries which were ruled by Iran. They include Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Pakistan, Lebanon, israel, Palestine, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Bulgaria, and parts of Greece, India, and Russia.
In this day and age when Iran and Iranian civilization is under attack misrepresention of Iran is nothing less than an attack. For a magazine with an excellent reputation for accuracy as National Geographic this lapse is not a welcome one and is as distrubing as the overfocus on Afghanistan and Central Asia in your 2001 Marco Polo feature shortly beofre the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by america and the instillation of american military bases in Central Asian nations was then. Clean up your act.
Peter Khan Zendran
Khan-e-Mazendaran
Author, "Iran; The Lion of War"
http://peterkhanzendran.bravehost.com/zendran_nameh.html
Editorial Contibutor Emeritus, PersianMirror
http://www.persianmirror.com/community/writers/PeterZendran/PeterZendran.cfm
First, the cover lists the story as "Ancient Iran Inside a Nation's Persian Soul" and makes frequent use of the terms "Persian" and "Persia". The terms "Persian" and "Persia" are a Greco-Roman patronymic for the correct terms "Farsi" and "Fars" for the province from which Kurush ruled and conquered other territories to form the Iranian empire and modern Iran. The misuse of indegenous terms continues, Hakhamanish as Achaemenid, Daryush as Darius, and Kurush as Cyrus, and in the last term you quote on page 49 jendeh ebadi, who's promoting dubious human rights abuse stories has hindered real action on human rights, to use the western Cyrus instead of the indegenous Kurush. The historical inaccuracy continues, your map has the territorial extend for all the Iranian empires, Parthian, Sassanian, Samanid, and Safavid which are mentioned. Though it is good to see Takht-e-Jamshid listed alongside Persepolis on the map the indegenous Darya-e-Fars should be there alongside Persian Gulf. Also the province boundaries are not clear and Mazendaran is mispelled.
Even worse is the regurgitation of the spoon fed myths about 1953 and savak. Mossadeq was NOT the head of government, as under Iran's constitution, which was forced upon Iran by the british and Russians in 1906, the Prime Minister/Vizier Bozorg was simply the head of the Majlis, Iran's legislative branch of government, and had no executive function outside the Majlis. By allowing units of the Iranian army to be placed under his control and allying himself with the Tudeh in a plot to overthrow Iran's legitimate government Mossadeq made himself a criminal. It was Iran's own government which requested CIA and foreign assistance in 1953 to remove that criminal Mossadeq, not some plot of foreign origin as is mentioned on page 65. Even worse you quote kuspedar rezaei, who's magazine over the past 2 years has become an ersatz for other Iranian news sites and built PersianMirror by taking advantage of the work of other writers she freeloaded off of, on page 65 to back up your statements instead of viewing articles there like the ones I published to get a more accurate perspective.
The information about savak on page 66 is inaccurate as well. The creation of savak was proposed by Mossadeq in 1951 but was rejected by Mohammed Reza Shah. After the Mossadeq debacle of 1953 Mohammed Reza Shah authorized the creation of savak in 1953 and it became a fully functional organization in 1957, instructed by british as well as american and isreali instructors, and was initially under the directorship of Teymour Bakhtiar, who tried to use savak to overthrow Mohammed Reza Shah, and despite Mohammed Reza Shah disoosolving savak in 1978 and many savak leaders being executed by the islamic revolutionaries many savak agents continue to work for savama and many savak instructors work abroad, including in america.
The description of taroof is presented inaccurately as well. While there is a polite side to taroof which is described in the article, taroof is also used negatively by people who make presents to someone then use the gifts as an excuse to take advantage of them or attack them.
One last inaccuracy is all the modern countries which were ruled by Iran. They include Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Pakistan, Lebanon, israel, Palestine, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Bulgaria, and parts of Greece, India, and Russia.
In this day and age when Iran and Iranian civilization is under attack misrepresention of Iran is nothing less than an attack. For a magazine with an excellent reputation for accuracy as National Geographic this lapse is not a welcome one and is as distrubing as the overfocus on Afghanistan and Central Asia in your 2001 Marco Polo feature shortly beofre the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by america and the instillation of american military bases in Central Asian nations was then. Clean up your act.
Peter Khan Zendran
Khan-e-Mazendaran
Author, "Iran; The Lion of War"
http://peterkhanzendran.bravehost.com/zendran_nameh.html
Editorial Contibutor Emeritus, PersianMirror
http://www.persianmirror.com/community/writers/PeterZendran/PeterZendran.cfm
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