Posts Tagged ‘SMS’

Video : Saad Mohseni on Rachel Maddow Show

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, fame on 18 March 2010 tagged Afghan Star, Moby Group, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Saad Mohseni, SMS, The Rachel Maddow Show, Tolo TV, Video with View Comments

Rachel Maddow began the segment of tonight’s show by stating how much she had been waiting to speak to Saad Mohseni and ended the interviewing by saying how incredible Mr. Mohseni and his family’s success was, how it said so much about Afghanistan as a nation and yet the interview was completely dull and uneventful: [...]

mE TaLkk PrEtTiE 1 dAy : The Stupidification of Adolescents Everywhere

In Internet, Opinion, Twitter on 8 February 2010 tagged 140-character, ali, Ca$hI3R, Facebook, LYk dIs-ers, millennials, post-millennials, SMS, text message, Twitter, vernacular with View Comments

“Status Updates”: the stupidification of adolescents everywhere. In a world where nothing is as it seems… well nothing is as it seems. This blog is designed to give normal people everywhere an understanding of the language of status updates. Step 1. mAke SurE tO TAkE sOme uNeCeSSary TiMe TyPiNg LYke dIs. The text message, Facebook, [...]

Video : Journalist Iason Athanasiadis Describes Conditions Inside Tehran’s Evin Prison

In Crime, History, Internet, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, Twitter on 9 July 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Al Jazeera English, Barnaby Phillips, Evin, Evin Prison, Iason Athanasiadis, Iran, Iranian election, Journalist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, protest, SMS, Tehran, text message, Twitter, Video, Youtube with View Comments

Journalist Iason Athanasiadis was held in Tehran’s Evin Prison for three weeks based upon evidence of surveillance photos showing Athanasiadis in 2005 with a British Ambassador and the romantic text messages of the person who had his cell phone before him. In an interview with Al Jazeera English’s Barnaby Phillips, Athanasiadis describes the conditions of [...]

Iranian Police Force Residents to Choose : Satellite or Allah Hu Akbar

In History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, TV on 2 July 2009 tagged #Iranelection, allah hu akbar, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, BBC, CNN, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Iranian election, Iranian Revolution, Khorramshahr, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, media, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Police, satellite television, satellites, SMS, Tehran, Tehran Bureau, Text, text message, Voice of America with View Comments

Western media has been banned in Iran since Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini took power following the Revolution of 1979, but the residents of Iran have always found ways to not so subtly skirt the laws and have satellite dishes on their roofs. “Illegal” satellite television became so prolific among Iranian households that it [...]

Obama on Iran : ‘No Iron Fist is Strong Enough’, Refers to Neda

In Crime, History, Internet, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, citizenship on 23 June 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Barack Hussein Obama, Democracy, Internet, Iran, Iranian election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, protest, SMS, text message, Time, Twitter, Youtube with View Comments

United States President, Barack Hussein Obama, opened his news conference this morning by addressing the crowds of people marching through the streets of Iran in the aftermath of the nation’s highly contested tenth Presidential election. Among other things, Obama’s remarks referred to the death of Neda Agah Soltan as a symbol of the courage in [...]