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The Turkish version of The Onion (Zaytung) said that the protesters in Gezi Park were building a nuclear bomb, and the Mayor of Ankara believed it.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:17:00 -0400

The Turkish version of The Onion (Zaytung) said that the protesters in Gezi Park were building a nuclear bomb, and the Mayor of Ankara believed it.:

Güncel konularla ilgili mizahi haberlerin paylaşıldığı Zaytung internet sitesindeki haberi gerçek sanan Ankara Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Melih Gökçek’in, bu haberi Twitter’daki takipçileri ile payla

evanfleischer: Official IRIB announces Rouhani wins over 50 % in first round! — Azadeh Moaveni...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:05:00 -0400

evanfleischer:

Official IRIB announces Rouhani wins over 50 % in first round!

— Azadeh Moaveni (@AzadehMoaveni)

June 15, 2013

Here’s the new President of Iran.

I deleted this earlier because it wasn’t yet official and they hadn’t stopped counting, but it’s all over now. Rouhani is the new President of Iran.

stereogum: “Are Those Your Drums?”

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:11:59 -0400

stereogum:

“Are Those Your Drums?”

It’s nearly six in the morning in Greece and the stand off...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:50:00 -0400

It’s nearly six in the morning in Greece and the stand off at ERT continues.

The middle tweet: “They will not silence us … we will stay here … not obeying orders … not going out and not giving up.”

Spain’s RTVE is still broadcasting the station here.

Here’s a song.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:58:58 -0400

Here’s a song.

Greeks lose access to @bbcworld & @deutschewelle. Both were transmitted via now-dead state...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:48:57 -0400

Greeks lose access to @bbcworld & @deutschewelle. Both were transmitted via now-dead state broadcaster’s frequencies | via @ekourtali
— Nikos Chrysoloras (@nchrysoloras) June 11, 2013

kaidansbioticapprentice: evanfleischer: Greece has ordered the...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:10:22 -0400

kaidansbioticapprentice:

evanfleischer:

Greece has ordered the immediate closure of its state TV network. Here’s The Guardian’s write-up and here’s the channel’s live stream. (Note the public gathering outside. (Here’s a twitter user’s snap of the crowd.))

via RadioBubble —

… [the decision was made via] an “act of legislative content,” meaning a decree procedure which is intended to be used only in cases of extreme emergency and enables government ministers to enact legislation immediately and seek the approval of parliament within a framework of three and a half months. The specific act of legislative content, that enables ministers to shut down public agencies with a simple signature, was issued today.

…

This decision would make Greece the only European country without a national broadcaster, according to @tsimitakis.

Re-blogging cause I live in Greece being Greek and this is fucking serious …The public braodcast service was paid by the citizens, thus it belongs to them, to all of us…
[…]
Not going to class tomorrow … I will go to ERT’s building and give support to the employees …

A re-blog from Greece.

Meanwhile — a back-and-forth continues in Taksim. You can...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:28:11 -0400

Meanwhile — a back-and-forth continues in Taksim. You can follow the live stream here.

Greece has ordered the immediate closure of its state TV...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:26:00 -0400

Greece has ordered the immediate closure of its state TV network. Here’s The Guardian’s write-up and here’s the channel’s live stream. (Note the public gathering outside. (Here’s a twitter user’s snap of the crowd.))

via RadioBubble —

… [the decision was made via] an “act of legislative content,” meaning a decree procedure which is intended to be used only in cases of extreme emergency and enables government ministers to enact legislation immediately and seek the approval of parliament within a framework of three and a half months. The specific act of legislative content, that enables ministers to shut down public agencies with a simple signature, was issued today.

…

This decision would make Greece the only European country without a national broadcaster, according to @tsimitakis.

Seems this is what the previous tweet was referring to.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:55:01 -0400

Seems this is what the previous tweet was referring to.

#Istanbul Governor says the crackdown will be limited with #Taksim Square, #AKM in order to...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:53:17 -0400

#Istanbul Governor says the crackdown will be limited with #Taksim Square, #AKM in order to ‘clean venues from illegal political banners’
— Cihan Celik (@CihanSCelik) June 11, 2013

Taksim Park — follow live streams here or here or here.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:50:22 -0400

Taksim Park — follow live streams here or here or here.

What happened here?

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:50:00 -0400

What happened here?

joecoleman: Newcastle - 2013

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:46:18 -0400

joecoleman:

Newcastle - 2013

(via.)

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:55:31 -0400

(via.)

therumpus:

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:10:32 -0400

therumpus:

Snowden — The first is that China is an enemy of the United States. It’s not. I mean,...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:05:00 -0400

Snowden —

The first is that China is an enemy of the United States. It’s not. I mean, there are conflicts between the United States government and the Chinese PRC government, but the peoples, inherently, we don’t care, we trade with each other freely, we’re not at war, we’re not in armed conflict, and we’re not trying to be— we’re the largest trading partners out there for each other. Additionally, Hong Kong has a strong tradition of free speech. People think, ‘Oh, great China firewall.’ Mainland China does have significant restrictions on free speech, but the people of Hong Kong have a long tradition of protesting in the streets, of making their views known; the internet is not filtered here, no more so than any Western government, and I believe that the Hong Kong government is actually independent in relation to a lot of leading Western governments.

Fallows —

Hong Kong is not a sovereign country. It is part of China — a country that by the libertarian standards Edward Snowden says he cares about is worse, not better, than the United States. China has even more surveillance of its citizens (it has gone very far toward ensuring that it knows the real identity of everyone using the internet); its press is thoroughly government-controlled; it has no legal theory of protection for free speech; and it doesn’t even have national elections. Hong Kong lives a time-limited separate existence, under the “one country, two systems” principle, but in a pinch, it is part of China.

I don’t know all the choices Snowden had about his place of refuge. Maybe he thought this was his only real option. But if Snowden thinks, as some of his comments seem to suggest, that he has found a bastion of freer speech, then he is ill-informed; and if he knowingly chose to make his case from China he is playing a more complicated game.

For what it’s worth. (The Washington Post is reporting that he’s checked out of the hotel.)

Update: 11:09AM: Here’s what Global Post thinks as to the ‘why.’

The man who just ran onto the court at the French Open —...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:54:00 -0400

The man who just ran onto the court at the French Open — via.

Video

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:09:00 -0400

More Ankara — via.

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:35:43 -0400

More Ankara — via.