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Kuma/War designer sentenced to death in Iran on propaganda charges

A game designer has been sentenced to death in Iran after being charged with creating US propaganda under instruction from the CIA, according to a report on Gamasutra.

Ex-US Marine soldier Amir Mizra Hekmati was detained by Iranian authorities during a family visit to Iran in August. Hekmati is a designer on the free to play Kuma\War series, which is regularly updated with new missions based on recent military actions.

The ruling was dealt by the Islamic Revolutionary Court, who claim that Hekmati has confessed to “receiving money from the CIA to (produce) and design and distribute for free special movies and games with the aim of manipulating public opinion in the Middle East.” The Tehran Times describes an Iranian television appearance in which Hekmati says he is part of a US spy network, and suggests that the CIA funded Kuma’s games.

Kuma CEO Kaith Halper previously told Gamasutra that one mission, “Assault on Iran” received hundreds of thousands of downloads in Iran. The mission cast players as US Marines storming an Iranian nuclear facility to disable equipment needed to create nuclear weapons. “We were denounced by name in the newspaper controlled by the supreme Ayatollah as a possible precursor to real US policy,” Halper said.

A spokesman for the White House National Security Council denied the allegations against Amir Mizra Hekmati, saying “We strongly condemn such a verdict and will work with our partners to convey our condemnation to the Iranian government.” He adds that “the Iranian regime has a history of falsely accusing people of being spies, of eliciting forced confessions, and of holding innocent Americans for political reasons.”

The New York Times mention that the The White House and the State Department also deny that Hekmati is a spy. His parents have set up an appeal site at FreeAmir.com, where they have posted a statement saying that they are “shocked and terrified by the news,” and feel that “his very life is being exploited for political gain.”

There Was Once - Atwood

There was once a  poor girl, as she was good, who lived with her wicked stepmother in a house in the forest.

• Forest? Forest is so passe. I mean, I’ve had it with all this wilderness stuff.  It’s not the right image of our society, today.  Let’s have some urban for a change.

There was once a poor girl, as beautiful as she was good, who lived with her wicked stepmother in a house in the suburbs.

• That’s better.  But I have to seriously query this word poor.

But she was poor!

• Poor is relative.  She lived in a house, didn’t she?

Yes.

• Then socioeconomically speaking, she was not poor.

But none of the money was hers! The whole point of the story ist hat the wicked stepmother makes her wear old clothes and sleep in the fireplace-

• AhA! They had a fireplace! With poor, let me tell you, there’s no fireplace.  Come down tot he park, come to the subway stations after dark, come down to where they sleep in cardboard boxes, and I’ll show you poor!

There was once a middle-class girl, as beautiful as she was good-

• Stop right there, I think we can cut the beautiful, don’t you? Women these days have to deal with too many intimidating physical role models as it is, what with those bimbos in the ads.  Can’t you make her, well, more average?

There was once a girl, who was a little overweight and whose front teeth stuck out…

• I don’t think it’s nice to make fun of people’s appearances. Plus you’re encouraging anorexia.

I wasn’t making fun! I was just describing-

• Skip the description.  Description oppresses.  But you can say what color she was.

What color?

• You know. Black, red, brown, yellow.  Those are the choices.  And I’m telling you right now, I’ve had enough of white.  Dominant culture this, dominant culture that-

I don’t know what color.

• Well it would probably be your color, wouldn’t it?

But this isn’t about me! It’s about a girl-

• Everything is about you.

Sounds to me like you don’t want to hear the story at al.

• Oh well, go on.  You could make her ethnic.  That might help

There was once a girl of indeterminate descent, as average-looking as she was good, who lived with her wicked-

• Another thing.  Good and wicked. Don’t you think you should transcend those puritanical judgmental moralistic epithets? I mean, so much of that is conditioning, isn’t it?

There was once a girl, as average-looking as she was well-adjusted, who lived with her stepmother, who was not a very open and loving person  because she herself had been abused in childhood.

• Better.  But I am so tired of negative female images! And stepmothers - they don’t always get it in the neck! Change it to stepfather, why don’t you? That would make more sense anyway, considering the bad behavior you’re about to describe.  And throw in some whips and chains.  We all know what those twisted, repressed,  middle-aged me are like-

Hey, just a minute! I’m a middle-aged—

• Stuff it, Mister Nosey Parker.  Nobody asked you to stick in your oar, or whatever you want to call that thing.  This is between the two of us. Go on. 

There was once a girl-

• How old was she?

I don’t know. She was young.

• This ends with a marriage, right?

Well, not to blow the plot, but—yes.

• Then you can scratch the condescending paternalistic terminology.  It’s woman, pal.  Woman.

There once was —

• What’s this was, once? Enough of the dead past.  Tell me about now.

There —

• So?

So what?

• So why not here?

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Creative Someting

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My brother is 28, and has no idea how to wrap presents.

i’m crying. this deserves a reblog.

This is how I wrap presents.

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