It’s not the real thing, but it’s about as close as most of us will ever get. Iranian-American developer Fred Milani, citing the dismal state of the housing market, is putting his 16,500 square-foot replica of the White House in Atlanta up for sale. “I don’t want to sell, but I will,” he told UPI. [...]
Entries from January 2009
White House Replica in Foreclosure
January 21st, 2009 No Comments
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Punishing the Palestinians
January 20th, 2009 No Comments
What is going on in Gaza is what Bill Moyers called it earlier this month: ‘state terrorism.’ By Ralph Nader In the long sixty-year tortured history of the Palestinian expulsion from their lands, Congress has maintained that it is always the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority, and now Hamas who are to blame for all hostilities [...]
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Troops Ruin Bush Photo Op – Fort Campbell
January 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Who wants to stand next to the President for a picture? Apparently not even the troops.
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Nima Dehghani’s Poem on Khatami – نیازی به حضور خاتمی نیست
January 3rd, 2009 No Comments
به رسم خوب ایام رفاقت / نوشتم نامه تا گیرم سراغت نوشتم نامه ای با عشق و امید / اگر خطم بده لطفاً ببخشید گمانم برده ای مارا ز یادت؟ / منم … «کبلا مرادو» از ولایت چه ایام خوشی با هم سپردیم / چه بحث و گفتمانهایی که کردیم حدوداً دوم خرداد بودا / D8ل مردم ز غم آزاد [...]
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Protesters target home of Iran Nobel laureate
January 2nd, 2009 No Comments
TEHRAN (AFP) — Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the home of Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Thursday, chanting slogans accusing her of supporting US and Israeli “crimes,” she told AFP. Around “150 demonstrators gathered outside my building and chanted slogans opposed to me,” Ebadi said. They chanted “America and Israel commit crimes, Ebadi [...]
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