I, Hans.

Great idea!

www.juancole.com:
ranian reformers are calling for people just to crowd into the bazaars or markets in the major cities, making it impossible for them to do business and thus provoking, willy-nilly, a commercial strike

Good angle!

Edge 291:
Your brain, after all, is encased in darkness and silence in the vault of the skull. Its only contact with the outside world is via the electrical signals exiting and entering along the super-highways of nerve bundles. Because different types of sensory information (hearing, seeing, touch, and so on) are processed at different speeds by different neural architectures, your brain faces an enormous challenge: what is the best story that can be constructed about the outside world?

What the fight in Iran is about.

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs:
Taking the above-suggested vote count at face value - 11 million votes for Ahmadinejad - one cannot brand the current events in Iran as that of people versus the government, as many in the Western media portray, for the government also enjoys a strong grassroots support.

The reality unobserved by the Western media is that today's crisis is not about people against a totalitarian regime. Rather, it is a struggle between two factions of society. One faction is seeking a dramatic liberalization of society, while the other advocates strict adherence to religious principles. This is an extraordinarily unique situation. This is tradition against modernity.

The battle between the two was fierce and merciless during the shah's time before his ouster in 1979. It was the root cause of the revolution, and has continued to stay that way to the present, and will extend into the foreseeable future.

Why Berlusconi will step down.

By now he will have understood that he will not become President of the Republic. The deeper understanding of this fact will make him step down.

Hm, what about Italy ?

Email from John Harris: regrets dispute with Dan Froomkin - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com:
I asked him why he thinks the power to name-and-shame has almost no effect in the United States, where those who are named as the intellectual authors of repressive legislation feel no shame and suffer no consequences for their actions. He gave a very simple answer: journalists.

Decent paper fine journalists who still use this sentence:

The Myth of 2016 - Barrons.com:
A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money