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Entries from June 2008

Movie Revises the History of Genghis Khan

June 11th, 2008 2 Comments

I was just informed by the host of the Shahrbaraz blogsite (http://shahrbaraz.blogspot.com/) that a new movie has been produced which is based on the life of Temuchin/Temudgin (same as demirchi=blacksmith in Turkish). The movie Genghiz Khan.was produced in Russia last year (2007) and has been shown in festivals but it’s now scheduled for public release in [...]

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Barack and AIPAC sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

June 6th, 2008 No Comments

Mr. Obama has been getting awful close with AIPAC lately – too close! His recent speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was, in the words of Jon Stewart, an attempt at “pandering” – an attempt to pander to the right wing of the Israeli political spectrum. AIPAC lobbied furiously for the war in [...]

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Iranian American woman is the worlds youngest college professor

June 5th, 2008 No Comments

  19-year-old professor Alia Sabur http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 24273418/ http://www.aliasabu r.com/ http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Alia_Sabur   WASHINGTON, April 26: Alia Sabur, a 19-year old Iranian American, has been declared the world’s youngest professor in history by the Guinness Book of World Records. Alia broke the 1717 record set by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin. [...]

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13-year-old Iranian at Khorramshahr Liberation in 1982

June 4th, 2008 No Comments

I received this photo this morning and you may find it of interest. It is a photograph of a 13-year old Iranian solider who has captured close to a dozen pan-Arabists during the liberation of Khorramshahr: View full size (see also: http://kian-abdollahi.blogfa.com/post-36.aspx) An interesting facet of pan-Arabism in Iraq was that it brainwashed Arab conscripts into [...]

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