Iran Shuts Down Cell Phones, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook
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Now the Iranian government declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner, riot police have attempted to suppress protest, and shut down YouTube, Facebook and cellphone use.
The election data from Iran’s Interior Ministry shows a perfectly linear relationship between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s votes and those of challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi — a statistical impossibility. The link above may be dead as they are shutting down things against the government… so I grabbed the article:
In the chart below, compiled based on the data released by the Ministry and announced by Iran’s national television, a perfect linear relation between the votes received by the President and Mir Hossein Mousavi has been maintained, and the President’s vote is always half of the President’s. The vertical axis (y) shows Mr. Mousavi’s votes, and the horizontal (x) the President’s. R^2 shows the correlation coefficient: the closer it is to 1.0, the more perfect is the fit, and it is 0.9995, as close to 1.0 as possible for any type of data.
Statistically and mathematically, it is impossible to maintain such perfect linear relations between the votes of any two candidates in any election — and at all stages of vote counting. This is particularly true about Iran, a large country with a variety of ethnic groups who usually vote for a candidate who is ethnically one of their own. For example, in the present elections, Mr. Mousavi is an Azeri and speaks Turkish. The Azeries make up 1/4 of all the eligible voters in Iran and in his trips to Azerbaijan province, where most of the Azeri population lives, Mr. Mousavi had been greeted by huge rallies in support of his campaign. Likewise, Mr. Karroubi, the other reformist candidate, is a Lor. But according to the data released by Iran’s Interior Ministry, in both cases, Mr. Ahmadinejad has far outdone both candidates in their own provinces of birth and among their own ethnic populations.
Let’s see how the Iranians react over the next few weeks.. I have a feeling that this fraud may be the breaking point, and give courage to the youth of Iran to stand up to this nut.
Let’s see how long it is before Mahmoud starts either shutting down, or taking over talk radio, internet, media, colleges, businesses and appointing Czars.
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June 13th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I’m sure the government has plenty of arms,tanks and trained soldiers to put down any revolt. I would feel more sympathy for the citizens except for the fact that the men feel it is fine to oppress women and they all pretty well hate Israel and Jews and are ready to see Israel wiped off the map.
June 14th, 2009 at 4:17 am
If we had such statistical integrity in Canada, the Bloc Québécois could win seats all across Canada–even in places where they don’t run candidates.