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A Time source is alleging hundreds of protestor deaths in Tehran[0]. It's a repeat of 2019 [1]; the network blocks aren't incidental, it's their purpose to create cover for coordinating massacres.

[0] https://time.com/7345092/iran-protests-death-toll-regime-cra...

> "A Tehran doctor told TIME on condition of anonymity that just six hospitals in the capital had recorded at least 217 protester deaths, “most by live ammunition.”"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2020_Iranian_protests





A dark lesson from the world. Turn off internet before shooting protesters dead.

Or if it happens before the Internet, create a Great Firewall to block and censor any mention of it. [Tianemen Square]

How they exfiltrated footage of the 1989 massacre is an interesting story in its own right. The AP photojournalist who captured (among others) Tank Man couldn't safely walk the streets, so he recruited a random tourist to smuggle his film rolls, in his underwear, from the hotel to the AP's press office.

> [Jeff Widener] "I had earlier accomplished my mission of photographing the occupied Tiananmen Square so I gave all my rolls of film to Kurt/Kirk who smuggled it back to the A.P. office in his underwear. The long-haired college kid was wearing a dirty Rambo T-shirt, shorts and sandals. Security would never suspect him of being a journalist."

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/0...

From the AP office, it was scanned (?) and exfiltrated with a dial-up modem, over copper telephone landlines (unsure of the technology. 1980's gadgets).


In the USA we manage to do that without turning the internet off by just saying they were resisting the police.

So, Trump is going to go after Iran now, right? As he said he would?

They are going to need a large military.

By my count, Greenland, Mexico, Venezuela and Iran have all been threatened this year.


Well, they can probably skip conscription/draft by ensuring that the poorest people cannot afford food and housing unless they sign up for active service. (c.f. ICE recruitment)

Don't forget Colombia…

And reserve some troops for the USA too.

... and Cuba.



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