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		<title>Havel est morte.  ¡No Pasarán!: Good-Bye, Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[¡No Pasarán!: Good-Bye, Friend. Charter 77 and free lands of Europe behind him, something extra good ahead! Vaya con Dios! Tagged: Charter 77, consent, freedom, Lech Walesa, PersianKiwi, purple finger, solidarity, vaclav havel<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1198&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2011/12/good-bye-friend.html">¡No Pasarán!: Good-Bye, Friend</a>.</p>
<p>Charter 77 and free lands of Europe <a href="http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=havel" target="_blank">behind him</a>, something extra good ahead! Vaya con Dios!</p>
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<br /> Tagged: <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/charter-77/'>Charter 77</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/consent/'>consent</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/freedom/'>freedom</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/lech-walesa/'>Lech Walesa</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/persiankiwi/'>PersianKiwi</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/purple-finger/'>purple finger</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/solidarity/'>solidarity</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/vaclav-havel/'>vaclav havel</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/xcontra.wordpress.com/1198/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1198&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bibi tomahawk slam down on BHO: not gonna happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netanyahu slams Obama&#8217;s proposal for pre-1967 borders &#124; Hayley Peterson &#124; Beltway Confidential &#124; Washington Examiner. Good work, Bibi! How many times does BHO get something rubbed in his face on television, for all the world to see? Not often &#8230; <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/bibi-tomahawk-slam-down-on-bho-not-gonna-happen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1189&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/05/netanyahu-slams-obamas-proposal-pre-1967-borders">Netanyahu slams Obama&#8217;s proposal for pre-1967 borders | Hayley Peterson | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner</a>.</p>
<p>Good work, Bibi!  </p>
<p>How many times does BHO get something rubbed in his face on television, for all the world to see?  Not often enough!  Usually, it is BHO rubbing it in America&#8217;s face on television in Europe somewhere, about how we are sorry for being great or similar claptrap.  It makes my day that Israel did so.  Bibi slams it down!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22not+gonna+happen%22&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;num=10&amp;lr=&amp;ft=i&amp;cr=&amp;safe=off&amp;tbs=qdr%3Aw,qdr:w#q=%22not+gonna+happen%22&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;prmd=ivns&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=9u7YTcT-AZSztwesk-HoDg&amp;ved=0CA8QpwUoBg&amp;source=lnt&amp;tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min%3A5%2F19%2F2011%2Ccd_max%3A5%2F22%2F2011&amp;tbm=&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;fp=cad22369ac02f3f8" title="Googled: not gonna happen" target="_blank">Googled: not gonna happen</a></p>
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		<title>bin Laden est morte</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 10:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They got the bastard. Good work, USN. Tagged: Afghanistan, bin Laden, Dr. Daisy BLU, freedom, iran, Lashkar Gah, many eyes, Mr. GBU-12, purple finger, Tehran, Zahedan<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1185&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They got the bastard.  Good <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/02/timeline-tip-leads-usama-bin-laden/" title="Time line" target="_blank">work</a>,<em> USN</em>. </p>
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		<title>What is happening in Zahedan today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is in southern Afghanistan lately. U.S. Defense Secretary Gates Visits AfghanistanU.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates paid a visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, arriving in Kabul on Thursday, as shared in a feature on The &#8230; <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/what-is-happening-in-zahedan-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1177&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is in southern Afghanistan lately.</p>
<div style="font-family:serif;border-color:red;border-style:groove;padding:2em;"><a href="http://blog.usnavyseals.com/2010/09/u-s-defense-secretary-gates-visits-afghanistan.html" target="_blank"><strong>U.S. Defense Secretary Gates Visits Afghanistan</strong></a><br />U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates paid a visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, arriving in Kabul on Thursday, as shared in a feature  on The Washington Post. His visit, according to the feature, is happening during the time of the arrival of the last U.S. reinforcements in the country. Secretary Gates was met by NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus upon his arrival in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>On Friday, the Secretary travelled to Kandahar province&#8230;</p></div>
<p>Whenever one of these big shots shows up over in that part of the world, I look for something to squeeze up to the surface in Zahedan, like puss oozing out of a zit.</p>
<p>Where is Usama bin Laden, and what is happening in Zahedan today?<br />
<div id="attachment_130" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://xcontra.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/zahedan-plus.png"><img src="http://xcontra.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/zahedan-plus.png?w=300&#038;h=290" alt="UBL&#039;s Baluchizone?" title="zahedan-plus" width="300" height="290" class="size-medium wp-image-130" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zahedan, Iran, with a few other rumored locations for UBL, Zabol, Iran, Quetta, Pakistan, and the Taliban stronghold Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Click for large version.)</p></div></p>
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		<title>What Creation is it we see?</title>
		<link>http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/what-creation-is-it-we-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Mike Sola and his son, and for Persian Kiwi. Tagged: Mike Sola, PersianKiwi<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1172&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For Mike Sola and his son, and for Persian Kiwi.</p>
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		<title>Crowd size at D.C. mall, with new crowd size rating scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some debate and consideration at the Pajamas Media website concerning the size of yesterday&#8217;s big rally in D.C., I developed a new rating scale for crowd size. Ginormulous = Original MLK I Have a Dream event Ginormous = ? &#8230; <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/crowd-size-at-d-c-mall-with-new-crowd-size-rating-scale/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1146&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After some debate and consideration at the Pajamas Media website concerning the size of <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/glenn-beck-rally-how-big-was-the-crowd/">yesterday&#8217;s big rally in D.C.</a>, I developed a new rating scale for crowd size.
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<li>Ginormulous = Original MLK I Have a Dream event<br /><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/View_of_Crowd_at_1963_March_on_Washington.jpg" width="400" style="padding-top:7px;"></li>
<li>Ginormous = ?</li>
<li>Gigantic = ?</li>
<li>Enormous = ?</li>
<li>Humongotorious = ?</li>
<li>Humongous = ?</li>
<li>Huge = Aug. 28, 2010 honor rally<br /><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/glenn-beck-rally-how-big-was-the-crowd/" target="_blank"><img src="http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2010/08/beck-crowd-AP.jpg" width="400" style="padding-top:7px;"></a></li>
<li>Massive = ?</li>
<li>Big = ?</li>
<li>Sharpton-like<br /><a href="http://www.life.com/image/81017708" target="_blank"><img src="http://xcontra.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/sharpton-like.png?w=198&#038;h=300" alt="Sharpton rally, Life magazine" title="sharpton-like" width="198" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1156" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:smaller;">Image: Preston Rescigno/Getty Images</span></li>
<li>Critical mass<br /><a href="http://terrencejennings.photoshelter.com/image/I0000SbVd3aT_0Kw" target="_blank"><img src="http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000SbVd3aT_0Kw/s/650/CriticalMass-NAN-053008-TJ0033.JPG" style="padding-top:7px;" width="400"></a><br /><span style="font-size:smaller;">Image: © The Terrence Jennings Photographic Archive</span></li>
<li>Esperanto convention<br /><a href="http://miahimnareto.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/leland_with_atlanta_esperantists.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://miahimnareto.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/leland_with_atlanta_esperantists.jpg?w=400" width="400" style="padding-top:7px;"></a></li>
<li>Rahm Emanuel Ethics Society<br /><a href="http://business.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Ways_to_Get_People_to_Attend_Business_Meetings" target="_blank"><img src="http://business.lovetoknow.com/wiki/images/Business/5/59/Empty_meeting_room.jpg" width="400" style="padding-top:7px;"></a></li>
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<p>It needs some more photographic examples of D.C. crowds for the upper end of the scale, from ginormous down to humongous.  You can have a lot of fun with this.  Post a comment if you have a good example. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Ground zero demonstrators look kosher.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the signs in these photos are homely looking signs.  That is a good thing to see.  It tells me these are regular civilians speaking their voices, both groups.  Eventually, there will be professional protesters, probably for the pro-Sharia group.  But for today, this looks like a great demonstration. <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/ground-zero-demonstrators-look-kosher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1137&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two opposite protests running in downtown NYC today, by Ground Zero, near City Hall, a few blocks from the World Trade Centers.  In the map below, New Yorkers opposed to the boot-in-the-face mosque were at map icon A, the corner of Park and Broadway.  Pro-Sharia mosque demonstrators were at map icon B.<br />
<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=2 park place,new york,ny&amp;daddr=2 murray st.,new york, ny&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FV05bQIdb7uW-yk1MLzpGFrCiTHoPvAD_p4Z0g;&amp;mra=ls&amp;dirflg=w&amp;sll=40.712825,-74.007455&amp;sspn=0.001202,0.002006&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.712411,-74.009593&amp;spn=0.005693,0.00912&amp;z=16&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=2 park place,new york,ny&amp;daddr=2 murray st.,new york, ny&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FV05bQIdb7uW-yk1MLzpGFrCiTHoPvAD_p4Z0g;&amp;mra=ls&amp;dirflg=w&amp;sll=40.712825,-74.007455&amp;sspn=0.001202,0.002006&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.712411,-74.009593&amp;spn=0.005693,0.00912&amp;z=16&amp;source=embed" style="text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small><br />
If you look at the photos in the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/22/2010-08-22_antiground_zero_mosque_protestors_descend_on_downtown_park51_site.html" target="_blank">NY Daily News</a> and <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/clash_at_world_trade_mosque_site_gMRqABsOKMICgDL7S4baYN" target="_blank">NY Post</a> websites, you will see a bunch of New Yorkers with mostly good old regular homemade picketing signs.<br />
<img src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/08/23/alg_mosque02.jpg" alt="Photo: NY Daily News " width="425" /><br />
<hr /><img src="http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/08/22/news/photos_stories/97636152CH002_ACTIVISTS_HOL132915--300x300.jpg" alt="Photo: NY Post" /><br />
<hr /><img src="http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/08/22/news/photos_stories/US-ISLAMICCENTER-RALLIES132804--300x450.jpg" alt="Photo: NY Post" /><br />
<hr />What strikes me as 100% normal and kosher is that there are not many fancy pre-printed signs like one sees at labor rallies and political party events.  Most of the signs in these photos are homely looking signs that will go in the scrapbook as &quot;My First Protest.&quot;  </p>
<p>That is a good thing to see, in my opinion.</p>
<p>It tells me that these are regular civilians speaking their voices, both groups.  Hopefully everybody behaved themselves although in NYC, you never know!  Eventually, there will be professional protesters, probably for the pro-Sharia group.  But for today, this looks like a great demonstration.  Free speech activity, 100%.  USA!</p>
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		<title>Tanker Lia to New York, not Bandar Abbas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strange report: a tanker loads gasoline in Turkey, then instead of steaming off for Bandar Abbas, it heads for New York with it. Gasoline sanctions are in effect now, but Iran denies anything to do with the gasoline in this &#8230; <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/tanker-lia-to-new-york-not-bandar-abbas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1122&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_1123" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://xcontra.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/lia.jpg"><img src="http://xcontra.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/lia.jpg?w=500" alt="The Lia, IMO 9417751" title="LIA"   class="size-full wp-image-1123" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Lia, IMO 9417751</p></div>Strange report: a tanker loads gasoline in Turkey, then instead of steaming off for Bandar Abbas, it heads for New York with it.  Gasoline sanctions are in effect now, but Iran denies anything to do with the gasoline in this vessel, The Lia.</p>
<p>So the Seven-Elevens of the mid-Atlantic states prefer Turkish gasoline now?  That seems unusual. </p>
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		<title>Andrea Bocelli is here. My little brother James is here.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people talk about the missing children who perish in abortions around the world, I think about my little brother, James. What would my life be without him? Brother fighting with brother, brother joshing brother, brother suffering with brother at &#8230; <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/my-little-brother-james-is-here/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1115&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When people talk about the missing children who perish in abortions around the world, I think about my little brother, James.</p>
<p>What would my life be without him?  Brother fighting with brother, brother joshing brother, brother suffering with brother at the death of parents, brother consoling brother, little brother breathing, there.  </p>
<p>How could it be if my mom had miscarried and James had never seen the light of day?  My world would be without the sun, and joy would disappear in the static noise of a channel without a source.</p>
<p>And perhaps Andrea Bocelli is like that to someone.  If his mother had aborted as the doctors recommended, where would this planet be?  How could his mother be consoled?</p>
<span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/my-little-brother-james-is-here/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/6QfKCGTfn3o/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span>
<p>But Andrea Bocelli is here. My little brother, James, is here.</p>
<p>In the spring of 1945, Viktor Frankl walked out of Dachau concentration camp, free, a few days after liberation by the Americans.  He walked for miles in the spring air. He stopped and saw some larks and listened to their joyful singing, and in that moment he prayed and knew his new life was beginning.</p>
<p>I think about Viktor Frankl and those larks often.  My little brother, James, is here.</p>
<br /> Tagged: <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/alive/'>alive</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/andrea-bocelli/'>Andrea Bocelli</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/family/'>family</a>, <a href='http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/viktor-frankl/'>Viktor Frankl</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/xcontra.wordpress.com/1115/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1115&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More unusual activity in Zahedan: vest bombers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Planet-Iran.com, more news of violence.UPDATE 3 &#62;&#62; Bombing in the Baluch city of Zahedan claims 30; Jundallah claims responsibility (vidoes) More people die in Iran. This time it is Zahedan. It&#8217;s bad. But I thought the Sunni would be &#8230; <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/more-unusual-activity-in-zahedan-vest-bombers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xcontra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868699&amp;post=1098&amp;subd=xcontra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Planet-Iran.com, more news of violence.<br /><a href="http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/19173">UPDATE 3 &gt;&gt; Bombing in the Baluch city of Zahedan claims 30; Jundallah claims responsibility (vidoes)</a> </p>
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<p>More people die in Iran.  This time it is Zahedan.  It&#8217;s bad.</p>
<p>But I thought the Sunni would be using truck bombs, not vest bombers.  The suicide vest is more like Hamas.</p>
<p>I still wonder where Osama bin Laden in hiding out: somewhere up in Khorasan, the recent guess? Perhaps in the country between <a href="http://xcontra.wordpress.com/tag/zahedan/">Zahedan</a> and Kandahar as I have been speculating this last year or so?  Over in Pakistan? </p>
<div id="attachment_130" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://xcontra.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/zahedan-plus.png"><img src="http://xcontra.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/zahedan-plus.png?w=500&#038;h=483" alt="UBL&#039;s Baluchizone?" title="zahedan-plus" width="500" height="483" class="size-full wp-image-130" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zahedan, Iran, with a few other rumored locations for UBL, Zabol, Iran, Quetta, Pakistan, and the Taliban stronghold Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Click for large version.)</p></div>
<hr />UPDATE: July 26. This post has a live link to Planet-Iran, matching up with <a href="http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/4447" target="_blank">its copyright and reproduction charter</a>.</p>
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