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Comments: Popular protests in China, feminist revolt in Iran, antiwar activism and possible sabotage in Russia—could the world’s three largest oppressive countries be teetering toward revolution or serious reform? It wouldn’t be the first time. All three underwent multiple revolutions in the 20th century: Iran in 1906 (parliamentary) and 1979 (Islamist); China in 1911 (republican) and 1949 (Communist); Russia in 1905 (constitutional), 1917 (Bolshevik), and 1991 (quasi-democratic imperial-breakup). All those upheavals came as surprises. So, even though revolutions in those countries seems unlikely today, they’re not impossible—and the people in those countries, both the aspiring revolutionaries and those defending the present order, know this. They know that popular uprisings once took place in those countries. And this awareness heightens tensions when they’re allowed to simmer and then boil. This is a major reason why Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence, recently said in an NBC News interview that Iranian officials don’t see the protests as an “imminent threat” to their rule. However, Haines added, the Tehran government may face trouble in the long run because resistance to its edicts is growing, schisms within its ministries are forming, and the economy continues to crumble. Besides that, much of Iran’s urban population—young, secular, plugged into Western news and culture, thanks to satellite dishes (which the regime long ago stopped trying to take down)—would be inclined to join a true revolution, if one began to take off. Nonetheless, revolutions sometimes take off anyway. “Leadership, organization and strategy are not prerequisites,” Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina and author of The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, said in a phone call. “Those things often emerge from movements that generate spontaneously.”
Comments: Happy Yalda Faramarz JAn :) and to all our doostane aziz
Comments: So many chances for Porto! If I were the coach I would have been pissed!
Comments: Happy YaldA everyone. We have been celebrating for three nights now. :)
Comments: Zinsky, I find the page changes behavior from day to day. Some days anything goes but on others, and link or bold font is rejected.
Comments: Happy Yalda
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Comments: Taremi scores for Porto today
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Comments: My massages are rejected as spam!!!
Comments: پشتپرده لیست ۴ نفره تاج برای رقابت با کیروش![]() خبرورزشی نوشت: همانطور که انتظار میرفت بازی آشنا و حربه تکراری اسم و فامیل بار دیگر شروع شد. مهدی تاج در برنامه تلویزیونی نام چند گزینه همیشگی را لیست کرد تا نشان دهد آش همان آش است و کاسه همان کاسه. او در حالی از برانکو به عنوان یکی از گزینههای سرمربیگری تیم ملی اسم برد و در ادامه از فرهاد مجیدی، امیر قلعهنویی و علی دایی نام آورد که تقریباً واضح و مبرهن است که کارلوس کیروش همچنان گزینه اول و آخر فدراسیون است. در واقع اینگونه به نظر میرسد که فدراسیون قصد دارد با یک تیر چند نشانه بزند؛ اول اینکه به مردم بگوید کیروش فعلا سرمربی تیم ملی نیست و امکان دارد جایش را به گزینههای دیگر بدهد. برای اینکه این حربه بهتر عمل کند گزینهها هم باید محبوبتر از کیروش باشند که لااقل برانکو و دایی بین پرسپولیسیها و مجیدی و قلعهنویی هم بین استقلالیها از محبوبیت ویژهای برخوردارند. نکته دوم مصاحبه تاج هم فرستادن این پالس برای کیروش است که ما دستمان پر است تا او را آچمز کنند. مطرح کردن گزینههایی مثل برانکو و قلعهنویی که مربی پرتغالی حساسیت خاصی روی نامشان دارد هم در همین راستاست. با این حال کیست که نداند دمدستیترین گزینه برای فدراسیون لااقل تا جامملتها خود کارلوس کیروش است؛ حتی گفته میشود قرار و مدارها هم از قبل گذاشته شده اما فضای منفی موجود علیه کادر فنی فعلی ایجاب میکند کمی شرایط تلطیف شود.
Comments: Listen to KhiyAbAni defend himself. Reporter asks whether he thinks before saying things or things just hurl out? ![]() ببینید | روایت جواد خیابانی از جملات قصارش؛ خیلی از حرفهایی که زدهام، را نزدهام!
Comments: I heard that there is no longer an automatic entry for the host. If they stick to that, I one of USA or Canada may not make it next time around. This would be the first time the host nation is not present. But I do not think people in the USA would care or even know that there is a world cup going on in their country. So, may be this is a good time to start this.
Comments: With the fact that the next WC will be in C/N America and all three main teams will be presented, I expect a little better showing by them. I expect USA and Mexico to do better than this time. I’m not sure about Canada.
Comments: به نقل از کیکر، هانسی فلیک سرمربی آلمان از عملکرد تیمش در جام جهانی قطر ناراضی است اما این تنها چیزی نبود که او را در این مسابقات ناراحت کرده است. سرمربی آلمان از حواشی تیمش (از نگرش هواداران گرفته تا اقدام سیاسی بازیکنانش) کاملا عصبانی بود. هانسی فلیک گفت: امانوئل ماکرون رئیس جمهور فرانسه، چیزی شبیه این گفت: "فوتبال بیش از حد سیاسی شده است. بازیکنان ما باید روی فوتبال تمرکز کنند، من بعداً مسئولیت سیاست را بر عهده خواهم گرفت." اگر ما هم این کار را انجام می دادیم خوب بود. او با اشاره به اینکه بازیکنان تیمش قبل از بازی با ژاپن به نشانه اعتراض دهان خود را پوشانده بودند گفت: وظیفه ما فوتبال بازی کردن است. افرادی هستند که توانایی مقابله با سیاست را دارند. بسیاری تصمیم گرفتند که مسابقات را تماشا نکنند در حالی که دیگران تماشا میکردند. کشور تقسیم شده بود و این مایه شرمساری است. فوتبال باید مردم را متحد کند. دیدن هوادارانی که بی قید و شرط از تیم ملی خود حمایت کردند باعث افتخار است.
Comments: And North/Central America was real crap. Their best team had three straight losses, I think. I was sorry to see Mexico get eliminated because they always work very hard. But the rest are just pure BS.
Comments: Thanks guys. Anecdotally, I felt that Asia did well. I am surprised to hear that Africa did poorly, but I guess all my attention went to Morocco. I actually do not remember how the rest of Africa did. The one thing that I felt was new was that the range of quality among European teams was much wider than before. I am not sure whether this is because the rest of the world, in particular Asia, got better, or that they has started tanking. Wales and Denmark were real crap. So were Belgium and Germany. But on the other hand there was France who did real were. I felt beating European teams, even the big ones became common place in this world cup. That was great to se and made it so much more exciting.
Comments: Zinsky we are in the middle of a three week winter storm out west. Some nights it breaks into the 40's and some days the high is in the 50's.
Comments: This last video does a good job of following Messi and the media about Messi from the beginning to the end of the World Cup.
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