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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (740)	6/19/2009 7:45:09 PM
From: SmoothSail	1 Recommendation Respond to of 23934

There's a huge demonstration planned for tomorrow. It's the beginning of the end. People are expecting to die. I doubt we will ever hear from Mousavi again. Here's some notes from Iran: Tomorrow is Saturday. Tomorrow is a day of destiny. Tonight, the cries of Allah-o Akbar are heard louder and louder than the nights before. Where is this place? Where is this place where every door is closed? Where is this place where people are simply calling God? Where is this place where the sound of Allah-o Akbar gets louder and louder? I wait every night to see if the sounds will get louder and whether the number increases. It shakes me. I wonder if God is shaken. Where is this place that where so many innocent people are entrapped? Where is this place where no one comes to our aid? Where is this place that only with our silence we are sending our voices to the world? Where is this place that the young shed blood and then people go and pray -- standing on that same blood and pray. Where is this place where the citizens are called vagrants? Where is this place? You want me to tell you? This place is Iran. The homeland of you and me. This place is Iran. -------------------- 4:48 PM ET -- "All those close to Mousavi have been arrested." Via Jeremy, Mousavi's international spokesman Mohsen Makhmalbaf writes for the UK Guardian: I have been given the responsibility of telling the world what is happening in Iran. The office of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who the Iranian people truly want as their leader, has asked me to do so. They have asked me to tell how Mousavi's headquarters was wrecked by plainclothes police officers. To tell how the commanders of the revolutionary guard ordered him to stay silent. To urge people to take to the streets because Mousavi could not do so directly. All those close to Mousavi have been arrested, and his contact with the outside world has been restricted. People rely on word of mouth, because their mobile phones and the internet have been closed down. That they continue to gather shows they want something more than an election. They want freedom, and if they are not granted it we will be faced with another revolution. Thirty years ago we supported each other. When police used tear gas, fires would be lit to neutralise its effects. People would set their own cars on fire to save others. Since then, the government has tried to separate people from one other. What we lost was our togetherness, and in the past month we have found that again. All the armed forces in Iran are only enough to repress one city, not the whole country. The people are like drops of water coming together in a sea. --------------- 4:16 PM ET -- "Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed." A blog post in Persian, translated by the NIAC. "I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed. I'm listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to a few songs. I always wanted to have very narrow eyebrows. Yes, maybe I will go to the salon before I go tomorrow! There are a few great movie scenes that I also have to see. I should drop by the library, too. It's worth to read the poems of Forough and Shamloo again. All family pictures have to be reviewed, too. I have to call my friends as well to say goodbye. All I have are two bookshelves which I told my family who should receive them. I'm two units away from getting my bachelors degree but who cares about that. My mind is very chaotic. I wrote these random sentences for the next generation so they know we were not just emotional and under peer pressure. So they know that we did everything we could to create a better future for them. So they know that our ancestors surrendered to Arabs and Mongols but did not surrender to despotism. This note is dedicated to tomorrow's children..."

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (740)	6/21/2009 2:50:43 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23934

Happy Father's Day, Son.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (740)	6/21/2009 4:59:24 PM
From: SmoothSail	Respond to of 23934

They've found another way to tax us here in CA. It's aimed at companies like Amazon but any little website that relies on out-of-state advertisers to support their website will be taxed out of business. Assemblymember Nancy Skinner announces legislation to close tax loophole and bring much needed revenue to California. Legislation will require out-of-state companies doing business in California to collect sales and use taxes required by law. SACRAMENTO, CA - Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D–Berkeley) announced today that she has introduced Assembly Bill 178, legislation that will ensure that California receives its share of sales and use tax revenue from out of state companies leveling the playing field for California’s brick and mortar businesses. AB 178 would provide that out-of-state companies which maintain a network in California and thus have a presence in the state would therefore be required to collect sales tax on orders received from within California. New York passed a similar law, and was sued by Amazon.com. The New York Supreme Court dismissed Amazon’s claim, based on an extensive body of legal decisions defining the nature of nexus and upheld New York’s right to levy the sales tax. “This legislation will close the current loophole in California tax law which has allowed out-of-state companies to avoid collecting California sales and use tax,” said Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D – Berkeley). “During this unprecedented fiscal crisis we cannot afford to lose sales tax revenue from out-of-state companies when our own local businesses are struggling to keep their doors open.”