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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”.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...