Libya Updates

• Coalition aircraft attacked vessels which were preventing aid reaching Misrata yesterday, sinking four and beaching another. The attacks have allowed two ships to deliver humanitarian aid. However a rebel spokesman said that Gaddafi's forces killed 18 civilians in Misrata on Tuesday, and that troops are still shelling and fighting skirmishes with rebels.

• Britain has expelled five pro-Gaddafi Libyan diplomats from London, the foreign secretary, William Hague said. He added that a UK diplomat, Christopher Prentice, had met Libyan rebel leaders in Benghazi on Monday and Tuesday.
• Rebels have been forced to retreat from the oil town of Ras Lanuf after Gaddafi's forces attacked the city. Reports suggested Nato planes flew over the zone where the heaviest fighting was under way, with explosions heard, however the revolutionaries were still forced back in their 4x4s

Syria Updates

The Syrian president President Bashar al-Assad has made a speech on the country's state TV denouncing "satellite television stations" as being part of a conspiracy against Syria which began weeks ago. Residents in Deraa told the Guardian that the speech was met with fury: "The speech was nonsense and has given security forces the green light to continue its oppression on our people," said one man speaking by telephone from the city.

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صبح که بیدار شدم حالم خیلی بد بود،بدنم داغ بود و گلویم به شدت درد می کرد.تخت را مرتب کردم.آرزو می کردم آب جوش به  آسانی در اختیارمان قرار می گرفت. به شدت به یک لیوان چای احتیاج داشتم. چاره ای نبود ،باید میرفتم سمت غذا خوری.هوای

،بسیار سرد و صف بسیار طولانی انتظارم را می کشد

کلاه کشی را سرم می گذارم ،که عمل غیر قانونی محسوب می شود،از آسایشگاه ما در طبقه سوم گردان هاشمی نژاد تا غذا خوری دائما به این فکر می کنم که آیا می توانم یک لیوان آب جوش بگیرم و برگردم آسایشکاه ...ماگ قدیمیم دستمه ،با تصویری از گروه تول رویش...از کنار صف رد می شوم،صدای اعتراض مبهمی بلند می شود.داخل غذاخوری خودم را به مسئول آب جوش می رسانم.خوشبختانه امروز صادق مسئول است،حال و روزم را می بیند، ماگم را پر می کند.درتب می سوزم.نیم ساعت تا نماز صبح فرصت دارم.احساس خوشبختی می کنم.

My Bukowski

ناگهان به شکل مسخره ای از همه چیز جدا شدم. با آدم ها که هستم ، چه خوب باشند و چه بد ،تمام احساساتم تعطیل و خسته می شوند ،تسلیم می شوم. مودبم. سر تکان می دهم . تظاهر می کنم می فهمم ، چون دوست ندارم کسی را برنجانم. این یکی از ضعف هایم است که بیشترین مشکل را برایم درست کرده. معمولا وقتی سعی می کنم با دیگران مهربان باشم روحم چنان پاره پاره می شود که به شکل ماکارونی روحانی در می آید.

مهم نیست . کرکره ی مغزم پایین می آید. گوش می کنم. جواب میدهم. و آن ها احمق تر از آن اند که بفهمند من ان جا نیستم....هالیوود ص40 ترجمه ی پیمان خاکسار

Turkey-France Clash

Turkey has launched a bitter attack on French president Nicolas Sarkozy's and France's leadership of the military campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, accusing the French of lacking a conscience in their conduct in the Libyan operations.

The vitriolic criticism, from both the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the president, Abdullah Gül followed attacks from the Turkish government earlier this week and signalled an orchestrated attempt by Ankara to wreck Sarkozy's plans to lead the air campaign against Gaddafi.

With France insisting that Nato should not be put in political charge of the UN-mandated air campaign, Turkey has come out emphatically behind sole Nato control of the operations.

The row came as France confirmed that one of its fighter jets had destroyed a Libyan air force plane, the first to breach the no-fly zone since it was imposed on 19 March. The Libyan G2/Galeb trainer aircraft was destroyed by an air-to-ground missile just after it landed at an air base near the rebel-held town of Misrata, a French military spokesman said.

The clash between Turkey and France over Libya is underpinned by acute frictions between Erdogan and Sarkozy, both impetuous and mercurial leaders who revel in the limelight, by fundamental disputes over Ankara's EU ambitions, and by economic interests in north Africa.

The confrontation is shaping up to be decisive in determining the outcome of the bitter infighting over who should inherit command of the Libyan air campaign from the Americans and could come to a head at a major conference in London next week of the parties involved.

Using incendiary language directed at France in a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan said: "I wish that those who only see oil, gold mines and underground treasures when they look in [Libya's] direction, would see the region through glasses of conscience from now on."

President Gül reinforced the Turkish view that France and others were being driven primarily by economic interests. "The aim [of the air campaign] is not the liberation of the Libyan people," he said. "There are hidden agendas and different interests."

Earlier this week, Claude Guéant, the French interior minister who was previously Sarkozy's chief adviser, outraged the Muslim world by stating that the French president was "leading a crusade" to stop Gaddafi massacring Libyans.

Erdogan denounced the use of the word crusade yesterday, blaming those, France chief among them, who are opposed to Turkey joining the EU.

Senior Nato officials are meeting in Brussels for the fourth day in a row to try to hammer out an agreement on who should assume command of the no-fly zone over Libya from the Americans who are determined to relinquish command within days.

Sarkozy has agreed to give Nato military planners operational command of the campaign, but refused to grant the alliance political and strategic control, insisting this should be vested in the broader "coalition of the willing" taking part.

Turkey has responded by blocking Nato planning operations for Libya while stressing that Nato should be given "sole command", senior Nato diplomats said.

Turkey, Nato's second biggest army after the US and its only Muslim member, appears bent on winning the argument. It is already taking part in Nato patrols in the Mediterranean to police an arms embargo on Libya. It wants to limit and shorten the air campaign and proscribe ground attacks on Libya by Nato aircraft. If Nato is given political command of the air effort, Turkey would be able to exercise a veto in a system run on consensus.

The US's top military officer in Europe, Admiral James Stavridis, Nato's supreme commander Europe, has gone to Ankara to try to mediate a deal.

The Turks are incensed at repeated snubs by Sarkozy. The French failed to invite Turkey to last Saturday's summit in Paris which presaged the air strikes. French fighters taking off from Corsica struck the first blows. The Turkish government accused Sarkozy of launching not only the no-fly zone, but his presidential re-election campaign.

While the dispute over Libya is substantive and political, it also appears highly personal, revealing the bad blood simmering between the French president and the Turkish prime minister.

Sarkozy went to Turkey last month for the first time in four years as president. But the visit was repeatedly delayed and then downgraded from a state presidential event. He stayed in Turkey for five hours.

"Relations between Turkey and France deserve more than this," complained Erdogan. "I will speak with frankness. We wish to host him as president of France. But he is coming as president of the G20, not as that of France."

While the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is also opposed to Turkey joining the EU, she has voiced her objections moderately. Sarkozy has declared loudly that culturally Turkey does not belong in Europe, but in the Middle East.

France has blocked tranches of Ankara's EU negotiations on the grounds that it should not be seen as ever-fit for membership.

The Exploding Girl : An Oddly Tranquil Experience

i enjoyed watching this movie for the second time ,with my family.
The story line is pretty simple ;a cracked relationship between Ivy and her boyfriend(followed by some phone calls) and a blossoming relationship with her longtime guy pal Al.(Mark Rendall).
The movie is minimal in terms cinematic expression ,yet it conveys a purely humanistic message through some deliberate facial expressions or some ultra-slow story telling style.It might seem weird but "The Exploding Girl " reminded me of Robert Bresson movies.It was one of best samples of american independent film making prospect. Just like Carrie Ricky(Inquirer Movie critic) described "An oddly tranquil experience".

The Exploding Girl
year : 2009
Director : Bradley Rust Gray
Starring : Zoe Kazan, Mark Rendall,Maryann Urbano

The Morning Light

Blurred and pale
I saw your face
As my body rests
Everything has languished
But the sense
Of a memory fading


The morning light
So thin I can feel it breaking
It crosses the wall
Towards my body


The wall above
I saw it changing
In the morning light
Emptiness expanding
Wounds kept fresh
Through careful tending
Daylight Dies

Big Fan

A very captivating movie,well-produced and skillfully played.
Big Fan depicts the pathologic projection of weak and downtrodden souls into the well-known public figures.It is an accurate criticism of the unwise idolization.The so-called role models or celebrities' unjustified stand and outstanding position, is hugely under fire by Robert D. Siegel.the undeserved alluring social prominence by some unworthy individuals doomed to play the super-star persona of modern days.
In my opinion the movie manages a neutral yet critical attitude toward both sides of the strife:the bubble formation of frail super-stars nearly worshiped across the world ,and on the other side,the exhausted and unwilling low players,surrendered by dreamy image of their heros.Feeling connected and being projected into a superior being is nothing new but what adds to the flavor is that the modern projection stays unaffected after unmasking the corruption and felonies.It's the darkly portrayed story of the personality freely choosed mediocrity in order to pursue an imaginary commitment and self-satisfying devotion to a team(here the teams name is allegoriccally New York Giants;in a rough contrast with the protagonist's tiny physics ) Big Fan picks ups bruises by his idol but does not intend to proceed any lawsuit, fearing it might cost his super-hero some indissoluble discplinary actions.
The movie is a dark but realistic shot of a social type who has voluntarily choosen to play low roles and left the key roles to their self-made super-stars; a relieving solution to escape distress and pain as essential elements of progression.

Big Fan
year : 2009
Writer/Director : Robert D. Siegel
Starring : Patton Oswalt , Kevin Corrigan , Marcia Jean Kurtz

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.


I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.


And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.


The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.


But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.


For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.


Edgar Allan Poe

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برای نماز مغرب به مسجد پادگان می رویم.حین نماز رگه ای سرخ رنگ از خون از بینی ام جاری میشود.دستم را جلوی بینی ام می برم تا جلوی خون را بگیرم.دستم پر خون می شود .مدت هاست نمازم باطل شده است. /پدرام 16 اسفند 89

Libya Updates

The Libyan announcement of a unilateral ceasefire made by foreign minister Moussa Koussa leaves several important questions unanswered. Is it simply a ploy to divide the UN after the approval of the security council resolution? And how will a ceasefire be monitored and verified? Will the UN be allowed in? Fighting was reported from the port of Misrata shortly before his press conference in Tripoli. His offer of dialogue has already been rejected by the Benghazi-based rebels. The Gaddafi regime is pretty low on credibility so there will be plenty of scepticism about this statement. And Koussa pointedly refused to answer any questions after dropping his bombshell.
Ian Black in Tripoli (Guardian)
pic : Another picture of Libyans celebrating in Benghazi after the UN vote. Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

My Album Of the Month (February)

"The definitive doom album of the new millennium. Evoken's second full-length CD combines dark, haunting atmospheres with soul-crushing riffs and the heaviest, thickest production ever heard. Clocking in at well over an hour, be prepared to journey into landscapes of gloom-drowned subterranean worlds where the music of lost souls is eternally played by avatars of Orpheus. Quietus displays an unparalleled mastery of doom metal, establishing Evoken as leaders in this burgeoning genre. Prepare for the desolation of your soul..."
@nnm.ru

Occultus

Chords resonate
in chimes of grief
i see a desolate march
of masked faces
surpassing empty promises
of  delight


hope plundered,
sparkles freezed,
but inside ,i can feel
a vehemence subtends


pale at the portal
i'm left
with a keen streak 
to resist
to survive
to fight against
this desperate hours


will you ever see this life
as heinous as i saw it today?




pedram/march 12-15