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Kosoof, a leading photo blogger, has published a photo from Iranian nature in Autumn.
Nasleh Bidar invites[Fa] people to vote for Ahmadinejad on Time magazine site and choose him as “Time's Person of the Year 2007″.
Pargas says[Fa] that government suspended sentence for Delaram Ali,woman activist. She had been sentenced to 2 years and 10 months prison term and 10 lashes, for her participation in a peaceful protest.
A Sufi Center was destroyed by governmental forces in Iran. Majzob has published several photos from destroyed religious center and says that in Iran,there is a real “Religious Apartheid”.
According to [Fa]Gonabadi blog,security forces attacked Sufi Muslims (dervishes) in Borujerd in Lorestan province and arrested more than 200 of them. The blogger says about 50 of these Sufi Muslims were beaten up and got injured.International media reports this event too.
Social Science in the Caucasus, the blog of the Caucasus Resource Research Center, takes the opportunity after last week's unrest in Tbilisi to analyze data collected since 2004 on the level of discontent in Georgian society.
The most revolutionary movement in Brazilian music and culture has been celebrating its 40 years since October. Sancho's Panza has a brief background of Tropicalia e publishes some videos. He says: “The tropicália movement was to produce some of the most memorable careers in the pantheon of world music, and reshape the relationship between U.S. pop and local music genres the world over. It also launched two of the most successful and globe-spanning music careers in Brazilian history, those of Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil”.
Mr. Trend from Alterdestiny analyzes the biased media responses to the announcement that Brazil had discovered a major deep-sea oil field off its coast. “Randy does a great job condemning the idiotic “journalistic” treatment that the Wall Street Journal gave. However, idiotic responses did not exist just in the U.S”.
Extra Extra's observations after returning to Congo: “I’m still reeling from returning to Congo to find Kinshasa flooded (for want of a bookshelf our library was lost), our neighbourhood hit by up to four power-cuts a day (candle sales are booming; my laptop battery is foutou), and a series of mind-boggling news reports…”
Arjen Westra writes about his experiences in Togo and Nigeria: “My first visit to Nigeria years ago, I did not get the AK47 roadblocks every 200 meters that people prepared me for. I neglected the advice of friends (who had never been to Africa), asking me if a story is worth my life. I went and I met a crazy country, but not the roadblocks.”
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Hello Kasnar, I regret to say that those type of programmes are very common all over Brazil, both on local and...
Wow!!. I'm an American and I do not speak Portuguese well if at all. I did find it strange...