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Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.Reporters Without Borders condemns the renewed crackdown on Iranian journalists, in which a wave of arrests in Tehran on and around the "Black Sunday" of 27 January has been followed by interrogations and arrests of journalists in several provincial cities. At least 15 journalists and netizens - members of the Hana literary association and contributors to the monthlies Koshk and Varia and the bimonthly Najva - were summoned and interrogated for several hours by intelligence ministry officials in the southwestern city of Ilam on 17 February. According to the information obtained by Reporters Without Borders, around 10 journalists, netizens, political activists and civil society members have been summoned for questioning or arrested in other parts of the country. During interrogation, they were warned that undertaking any activities in connection with next June's presidential election would be met with reprisals. A total of 58 journalists and netizens are currently detained in Iran. "The Iranian authorities must end these successive arbitrary arrests," Reporters Without Borders said. "With five months to go to the next presidential election, they are pursuing a strategy of preventive arrests and systematic intimidation of news providers. This operation is designed to silence any criticism of the growing obstruction of freedom of information and the crackdown on journalists who could draw attention to electoral fraud." In a press release yesterday, the intelligence ministry accused all the foreign-based media that broadcast to Iran (BBC, RFI, DW and VOA), and Reporters Without Borders, of being paid by European and especially British intelligence agencies to wage a psychological war against the Islamic Republic of Iran and of using a network of journalists inside Iran to this end. The release said: "Journalists in this dismantled network collected and transmitted information abroad to be used as a working basis by western groups specialized in psychological warfare to conduct interviews with intellectuals and organizations (â&${esc.hash}128;¦) Material then broadcast by these media to the Iranian public or used by Ahmed Shaheed, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran and by other bogus western human rights organizations for mendacious reports about the human rights situation in Iran." 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Such practices are unacceptable and clearly violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the Islamic Republic of Iran has signed and ratified." Although some of the recently arrested journalists have been released, Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the conditions in which 12 of those arrested on "Black Sunday" are still being held in Evin prison's Section 209, a section controlled by the intelligence ministry. They are still in solitary confinement and are being denied all their rights, including family visits and access to a lawyer. Several government officials have confirmed that their arrests were directly related to preparations for the June 2013 election. 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2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E200 1.8 kompressor from UK and Ireland
A terrible, cheaply manufactured, heap of junk
What an appalling heap of junk. My father bought this car new and it has had more go wrong with it than all his previous cars combined.
To start with - the gearbox had at least 3 separate leaks (all fixed under warranty).
It then sprouted another leak at the end of the warranty, necessitating a gearbox removal. Thankfully this was covered by Mercedes.
The fuel level gauge in the tank went.
ABS pump went.
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The Happy Tree Friends characters go to the clubs as well. But this club is nuts! The discoballs are falling from the ceiling and you have to make sure they won\'t hit Lifty. Avoid the balls as long as possible and collect as many blinking points as possible. The longer you play the more balls will fall and the game area will change as well.
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- 2 bricks cream cheese
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- Decoration: sugared rose petals (see Tip) and fresh raspberries
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Howard Stern, American radio personality, television host and author, will serve as the new judge on the top-rated summer alternative series AMERICA'S GOT TALENT, produced by FremantleMedia North America and Simon Cowell's SYCO Television. Stern will provide his feedback on the colorful array of hopeful future stars who are currently auditioning in major cities around the country for the show's upcoming seventh season.
Production of the live shows of the show also will be moving to New Jersey's Performing Arts Center, where Stern will continue to helm his SiriusXM radio program. "Howard Stern's larger-than-life personality will bring a thrilling new dynamic to 'America's Got Talent' starting this summer," said Telegdy. "He's a proven innovator and his track record in broadcasting is truly remarkable. Howard is very passionate about this show and is fully committed to its future success."
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Obama & His Donors
On Thursday, the Romney campaign announced that it had raised over $100 million in June, between the campaign, the Romney PAC, and the Republican National Committee. On Monday came news that the President, for the second month in a row, has been outraised by Romney quite handily — and Romney's campaign had over 500,000 donors to boot.
This all comes less than two weeks after President Obama was busted making a call to donors from Air Force One. The President, who "uses a non-taxpayer-funded phone for political calls from the plane," made the claim that Romney, the GOP, and GOP-allied organizations could easily outspend his campaign. He also compared his campaign to the failed union recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, saying "We just can't be outspent 10 to 1…That's what happened in Wisconsin recently. The Koch brothers and their allies spent more than the other side's entire campaign, our side's entire campaign."
Ignoring the inaccuracy regarding the alleged disparity between union allies in Wisconsin and Walker's allies — spelled out by Heritage's James Sherk here — the President's concern about being outspent and its impact on the election is rather laughable, even in light of Romney's fundraising:
1. He has substantially more money on hand than Romney, and has strong union backing.
2. He has spent more money than Romney, though to be fair he was outraised in May and June, and the Supreme Court's decision on the PPACA raised millions for Romney at the end of June.
3. He is probably simply pulling a Boehner, making things sound worse than they are in order to spark aggressive thinking among his base of donors.
4. Unions and other Democratic Party supporters hold most of the Top Twenty donor spots in an Open Secrets tracking of donations from 1988 through 2012. Clearly, the liberal base is not suffering when it comes to helping candidates.
5. As even this biased post-recall Washington Post article notes, most Wisconsin voters had made their minds up before the major ad push leading up to the recall, and many voted against the unions simply because they were angry with the process. After all, recalls are supposed to be because someone violated the public trust in an egregious fashion — not because a policy someone disagrees with becomes law.
6. The President has made more than 50% more campaign stops than Bush did in his entire re-election campaign, and approximately 73% as many as both Presidents Bush and President Clinton combined held in their re-election campaigns. And the general election campaign season has only just kicked off. With so many trips to come, does he really think he's going to be outspent? I doubt it.
7. Finally, via the LA Times last November, a reminder that the President broke his 2008 campaign vow to use public campaign dollars, and sort of set the stage for the 2012 campaign's style of fundraising:
But Obama is also partially to blame for this new world order. Like he did in 2008, Obama will forgo the presidential matching funds program, and the limits that come with it.
In 2008, Obama became the first major-party candidate to pass on participating in the Watergate-era program for the general election. Doing so gave him a huge advantage over his GOP opponent, John McCain, who took the matching funds. Obama raised $745 million in 2008, compared with McCain's $368 million.
So, yes, as we move forward towards November the left is going to keep claiming Obama is the poor man's candidate. And I can't blame them. After all, how can a small donor like George Soros or the CEO of Dreamworks, or a middle-class guy like top Obama campaign bundler Jon Corzine, compete with Karl Rove and the Koch brothers? Oh, wait…
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