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An Empire in the Making

Waqar A Shah December 15, 2005

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#187 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 21, 2005 12:21:18 pm
Behram #181 and #182 {`` If I can not ignore the ones, I want to ignore on the front page, where the interact happens, then what is the sense of having this feature on UP? I think this is bass ackwards. What do you think?

#181 by behram1 on December 20, 2005 2:18pm PT...Re: # 179 Salim Bhai Yes, I did exactly the way you described. And then when I come of the article page, I still notice those nics that I wanted to ignore. Can I never get rid of them? ``}

Behram Braader,
Yes, you can get rid of them forever. It might cost you and then there are some laws against the action. :) Let me know if you want Guido`s contact info.

The reason that ``ignore`` works only on UP is that it is taken for granted that all people on FP are decent human beings, quite capable of polite, cordial, and meaningful intercourse. Meanwhile, the intercourse on UP is of a different nature. :)
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#186 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 21, 2005 12:17:59 pm
masadi #185, Please don`t leave. Whether anyone agrees or disagrees with your views is not important. I found myself agreeing with you and disagreeing with some things you posted. But you are a polite and informed interactor and I enjoy discussions with you. Please reconsider.
Thanks,
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#185 Posted by masadi on December 21, 2005 9:39:46 am
Thank you for your time everyone and goodbye to you all. It was fun, I learned quite a bit hopefully you all did too. Since CHOWK is baselessly censoring all of my articles, in protest, I will not be posting here anymore, until they get rid of their biased pro-US elite stance. You all are welcome to visit http://www.asadi.org and use the forum over there
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#184 Posted by rsridhar on December 20, 2005 8:50:02 pm
re:#177 by beware
In these matters, secrecy is important, especially when lives of the informers is at stake. Iran is a brutal theocratic regime. I personally used to know an Iranian woman during my training years in New York. As i mentioned in my post earlier, she could not go back to her country for fear of not able to return.
If,OTOH, you have a differing opinion on this, please present you case with some references. What u are doing is counter-intuitive. You are saying that this could not have happened, so it did not happen.
Sridhar
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#183 Posted by r.a.janjua on December 20, 2005 6:34:51 pm
the transition from spewing garbage to a comfortable life in a spider-hole can easily be achieved with the help of a few good men. mr. ahmadinejad should watch some recent t.v. news footage.

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#182 Posted by Behram1 on December 20, 2005 2:27:23 pm
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#181 Posted by Behram1 on December 20, 2005 2:18:09 pm
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#180 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 20, 2005 8:40:28 am
##178 by kamath {``What language do they converse in when they travel from West to East?``}

They start off with a Valley Girl accent, then switch to a friendly cowboy style of speaking using words like ``hombre, vamoose, etc.`` Then they sound like the perfect Midwestern accent so popular with Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather type of accent. Veering a bit south, the accent turns into a slow drawl, then coming further East, it becomes laden with Rs, only to be transformed into the disgusting Brooklyn accent. Then all comprehension fades as New England converts what is left into a feeble attempt at speaking the Queen`s English. I hope that helps. :)
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#179 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 20, 2005 8:33:40 am
Behram Sahib, #175,
Thank you for laughing. On the user profile page you can select ``edit profile.`` Then in the ignore area you start listing each interactor you wish to ignore, seprating the disgusting nicks using commas. Then you update and on the right side of your profile page you should see a list of the people you consider as plague itself. Unfortunately, I don`t think the ignore function really ignores your favorites boogeymen on FP. I am afraid that it only works on UP. I could be wrong. Please try it. Caution, the ignore feature can only handle 16 nics at a time - far fewer than the 1 Billion Indians that you want to stay away from. :)
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#178 Posted by Kamath on December 20, 2005 5:26:20 am
Re: # 177

What language do they converse in when they travel from West to East?
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#177 Posted by beware on December 19, 2005 10:07:26 pm
Re: # 176


My point exactly. She is scrutininzing the whole Iran based on her inetraction with how many people? Can anyone tell me? The population of iran is 70 million. Now to get an accurate account of what goes around in iran would be based on the few dozen people she interviewed. GET REAL. And to call it a norm is just pure psycho.

To give you an insight into the ethnicity of iran i will just give you brief percentage of people, Persians (51%), Azeris (24%), Gilaki and Mazandarani (8%), Kurds (7%), Arabs (3%), Baluchi (2%), Lurs (2%), Turkmen people (2%), Qashqai, Armenians, Persian Jews, Assyrians and others. Now out of the people She did interview how many belonged to which ethnicity. She failed to mention that...

If you can`t answer these questions then i don`t want to carry this discussion further. It is not going anywhere. To me qouting hughes was a grave mistake.


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#176 Posted by rsridhar on December 19, 2005 6:22:16 pm
re:#168 by beware
She did acknowledge the source at the end of the article. For reasons of security of the people concerned, i am sure she was not more explicit.
Sridhar
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#175 Posted by Behram1 on December 19, 2005 5:40:01 pm
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#174 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 19, 2005 4:25:25 pm
Behram Bhai #172
Reading options:

Reading option #1 aka Paki Jihadi fundo option: Close both eyes, chant ``God is Great. I don`t want to be confused by facts. Victory is ours, no matter what they say. If not in this world then in the next. ``Ghazis if we win, Shaheed if we lose. Heads you win, tails I lose. ``

Reading option #2 aka RSS/BJP/VHP/SP/JS/SS/BD option: Open both eyes, look through special glasses that filter time, logic, sequence, and common sense out, chant ``Ram Ram sat he, yehi hamari gat he. `` then chant ``Ram Ram Japna, Paraya maal apna.`` Everything appears as you believe - no timeline, no logic, no rebuttal, Just the truth the way you always envisaged it.

Reading option #3 aka Paki ``liberal, democratic, progressive,`` Amreeki chamcha option: Close one eye and squint until all that is western is rosy, all that is home-grown stinks. Copy westerners, NGOs, and Zionist advisors until you get full front page coverage and a smooch from Bill Clinton. Pretend to care about poor Pakis while stuffing Swiss bank accounts with kickbacks from western interests.

Reading option #4 aka Former Chowk managment and staff option: ``YahaN ke chor heN chowkidar.`` Open and close both your eyes as necessary to see what you want to see and not see what you don`t want to see. Practice ``my people can do no wrong`` policy while condemning innocents to death and worse.

Be careful as you choose.
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#173 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on December 19, 2005 4:10:47 pm
#172, behram1 {``How do you set reading options? Can you help? Thanks``}
Behram Bhai,
Very carefully. Yes. You are welcome. :)
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#172 Posted by Behram1 on December 19, 2005 3:11:42 pm
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