Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use. This is all kinds of cool, and everything your mother told you not to do.
Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist from Washington D.C., not just any artist though. Saunders prefers to take a more unconventional approach to his artwork. Arguably his most interesting project, entitled DRUGS is described as follows: Below, you can view a collection of portraits Saunders drew while under the influence of various substances ranging from cocaine, to marijuana, to DMT. Each portrait is an astonishing look into the mind of someone tweaked out on drugs, something that your eyes will surely appreciate. Abilify / Xanax / Ativan 90mg Abilify 1 sm Glass of “real” Absinth 10mg Adderall 10mg Ambien Bath Salts 15mg Buspar (snorted) 4 Butalbitals Butane Honey Oil 250mg Cephalexin 1/2 gram Cocaine Computer Duster (2 squirts) Iran threatens attack on US bases in event of war with Israel. Ahmadinejad: Iran 'could have behaved better,' IAEA has 'double standards' He claimed that negotiators from the so-called P5+1 – the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany – have told Iran that they are confident Iran hasn’t moved toward nuclear weapon manufacture.
But he said that the IAEA had made “illegal requests” and its list of requests had “only gotten longer and longer.” Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition. Ahmadinejad: Iran 'could have behaved better,' IAEA has 'double standards' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last night insisted his country was ready to make concessions on its controversial nuclear program, but again accused Israel of fomenting tension in the Middle East and criticized international atomic regulators for what he called “double-standards.”
Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor. The Countdown for the Decline of America's Demonic Power Has Begun. Iran Strikes Again - Watch 'Iranium' on YouTube - bd369494 - Gmail. Pulse. 'US ships available for Iran missiles'-News Analysis-07-03-2012. Syria – Iran – Russia: is the West ready for any kind of compromise? Syria is just a transitory object for Western pressure.
The real long-term targets are Iran and in future, most probably, Russia. Fruitless talks on the Iranian nuclear program in Moscow and the still raging Western media campaign on presumed deliveries of Russian arms to Syria reveal the general vector of the strategies of the US and the EU better than any official statements. The question remains, although: are the United States and the European Union ready for ANY kind of compromise? Talks between the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jallili ended in Moscow with no result in terms of nuclear security. But, obviously, the results desired by the EU and the United States lay in a very different field. Hardtalk - Sanctions 'accelerated' Iran's nuclear work.
Dr Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA says that sanctions against Iran have made it more determined to carry on with its nuclear activities.
Iran's nuclear power programme has been a source of international tension for the past decade. At no point has it been able to shrug off the suspicion that its pursuit of nuclear energy is also an effort to make nuclear weapons. He told the BBC's Katya Adler that negotiation not confrontation was the best way forward. You can watch the full interview on BBC World News on Monday 12th June at 03:30, 08:30, 15:30 and 20:30 GMT and on the BBC News Channel on Monday 12th June at 04:30 BST and on Tuesday 12th June at 04:30 BST.
Iran and Syria: Alliance of shared enemies and goals. 8 June 2012Last updated at 11:21 ET By James Reynolds BBC Iran correspondent The US accuses Iran of directly helping President Assad in the current crisis Iran and Syria make for strange allies.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leads a religious administration. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad heads a secular and socialist government. One country is Persian, the other Arab. Iran: Israel nearing 'decision point' Iran has tested missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, as preparations are made to impose further economic sanctions over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Mark Fitzpatrick, director for non-proliferation programme at the International Institute for Security Studies, told the Today programme that the missile tests were not military significant but the country showing that they will "not succumb easily". Iran is making progress on several fronts, he adds, most significantly it is moving part of it uranium enrichment programme into a well defended facility. If a significant amount is moved, Mark Fitzpatrick explains, this could present a "point of no return" for countries concerned about Iran's programme.
Iran President Ahmadinejad condemns US banking sanctions. 1 January 2012Last updated at 15:38 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the central bank Iran's backbone in dealing with enemies Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit back at the US, after Washington introduced new sanctions against Iran's central bank.
Mr Ahmadinejad said the bank was strong enough to defeat "enemy plans". The sanctions - which cut off from the US financial system foreign firms that do business with the central bank - are part of a defence bill signed by President Barack Obama on Saturday. They will take hold after a warning period of up to six months. Iran sanctions: What you need to know. Dubai's Iranians worry about EU sanctions. 23 January 2012Last updated at 15:56 The BBC's James Reynolds visits Dubai where many people export goods to Iran As the European Union decides to ban oil imports and impose other economic restrictions on Iran, the BBC's James Reynolds speaks to Iranians living in Dubai about the effects it could have on their livelihoods.
Dozens of black and grey sacks are lined up next to the edge of Dubai creek. Workers pick up the sacks and pass them on to a battered boat. On board, three men confer quietly - perhaps about the 15-hour trip they face to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Anwar Etebari watches his workers. Analysis: How would Iran respond to an Israeli attack? 6 March 2012Last updated at 19:06 ET By Jonathan Marcus BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Iran has the largest and most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East Iran has made it clear that if it is attacked either by Israel or the United States it will respond in kind.
Guide: How Iran is ruled. Of a total population of about 65 million, more than 46 million people - all those over 18 - are eligible to vote. Young people constitute a large part of the electorate with about 50% of voters being under 30. Voter turnout hit a record high at 80% in the 1997 elections which delivered a landslide victory for reformist President Mohammad Khatami. Women and young people were key to the vote. But with disillusionment growing, only about 60% of the electorate voted in the final round of the 2005 election which brought hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power. The president is elected for four years and can serve no more than two consecutive terms.
The constitution describes him as the second-highest ranking official in the country. In practice, however, presidential powers are circumscribed by the clerics and conservatives in Iran's power structure, and by the authority of the Supreme Leader. Members of the cabinet, or Council of Ministers, are chosen by the president. Iran nuclear talks: Stand-off continues. Political pressure brought all sides to Baghdad. Ecological pressure kept them there. Iran nuclear stand-off: Travelling circus of talks continues. "It's a different shaped table," noted Baroness Catherine Ashton, the world powers' lead negotiator as she sat down opposite her Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili.
Even this was a problem. Iran's conservative Fars news agency reported that the rectangular negotiating table was more likely to produce tension than the round tables used in previous sets of talks. In principle, the six world powers and Iran met in Moscow to try to resolve the conflict over the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme. In practice, every little detail proved to be an obstacle. Flame On! Here we go again; another instance of really sophisticated spyware has been reported, a system that is "so complex and sophisticated that it's probably an advanced cyber-weapon unleashed by a wealthy country to wage a protracted espionage campaign on Iran”.
I won't get into the debate about whether or not it's really more impressive than Stuxnet, whether or not it's groundbreaking, or whether or not Israel launched it; let it suffice to say that there are dissenting views. I'm more interested in the implications. The first take-away is that this is the third major piece of government-sponsored malware that has been found, after Stuxnet and Duqu. All three were out there for quite some time before they were noticed. In Heavy Waters: Iran’s Nuclear Program, the Risk of War and Lessons from Turkey.
Middle East and Europe Report N°116 23 Feb 2012 The dramatic escalation in Israel’s rhetoric aimed at Iran could well be sheer bluff, a twin message to Tehran to halt its nuclear activities and to the international community to heighten its pressure to that end. Or not. As Israel sees it, the nuclear program represents a serious threat; the time when Iran’s putative efforts to build a bomb will become immune to a strike is fast approaching; and military action in the near future – perhaps as early as this year – therefore is a real possibility.
While it is widely acknowledged in the West that war could have devastating consequences, and while U.S. and European efforts to restrain Israel are welcome, their current approach – ever-tightening economic sanctions designed to make Tehran bend – has almost no chance of producing an Iranian climbdown anytime soon. Far from a substitute to war, it could end up being a conduit to it. Www.peacebuilding.no/var/ezflow_site/storage/original/application/4642d90cc42ea8025b2a80b1a58f3202.pdf. Belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/is3104_pp007-033_raas_long.pdf. Attacks on Nuclear Infrastructure: Opening Pandora's Box? Israeli warplanes attack and destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor outside Baghdad, June 8,1981.AP Photo Policy Brief, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School October 2011 Author: Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2008–2010 Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Quarterly Journal: International Security; Science, Technology, and Public Policy.
Iran's Nuclear Program (Nuclear Talks, 2012) Special Report: How an African telecom allegedly bribed its way into Iran. Setback in Talks on Iran’s Nuclear Program. “There is certainly a danger that the talks will collapse,” said Alireza Nader, an Iran specialist at the RAND Corporation, a research group in Washington. He said some of the language from the Iranians reflected their own frustration with the talks, raising the possibility that “at some point Iran may conclude that the talks are fruitless and that it won’t get what it wants.” At the same time, he said, the six powers want an Iranian compromise on uranium enrichment that will assuage doubts about its intentions. Setback in Talks on Iran’s Nuclear Program. Doubts Raised About U.S. Diplomacy on Iran and Nuclear Issues. After two days of fruitless talks in Moscow, negotiators for the United States and other major powers did not even schedule another high-level meeting with , committing only to a lower-level session in July to go over the technical details of a proposal to suspend the enrichment of uranium that Iran has already rejected in principle. , a former senior White House adviser on Iran, said he believed the negotiations had become a trap, allowing Iran to continue enriching nuclear fuel while the two sides fail to agree on even interim measures to slow the Iranian program.
The major powers, he said, should scrap the step-by-step approach in favor of a comprehensive deal that would test Iran’s sincerity, but could also hasten a military confrontation. “The issue here is, ‘How do you deal with a process that’s going to be harder and harder to justify?’ ” said Mr. Ross, who left the administration in December and is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Uploads/isis-reports/documents/USIP_Template_5March2012-1.pdf. Inspectors Pierce Iran’s Cloak of Nuclear Secrecy. New Evidence on Iran’s Nuclear Aspirations - Graphic. Iran's Nuclear Program (Nuclear Talks, 2012)
US to form massive military base in Kuwait as it eyes up Iran. The U.S have opted for a 'lily pad' strategy which allows them to have troops just over the boarder from IraqDevelopments have injected uncertainty in the Middle East as the region deals with the Arab Spring and fears of Iran's nuclear programme By Tammy Hughes. Using Strategic Relationships to Level Playing Field - US Business News. You see, strategic relationships are an essential part of the fabric of doing business in much of the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, in many countries, entrepreneurs focus on building a relationship first, from which they do business.
Unfortunately, in North America, we’re so focused on the business part that if, and only if, that part works, we’ll think about building a relationship. Hence, there is a disconnect when we approach opportunities and the other side doesn’t look like us, sound like us, or come from similar backgrounds. Iran Officials Assert Defiance of West in Aftermath of Nuclear Talks. Ahmadinejad: Obama will regret his statements.
Iran threatens to destroy Israel within a week. Iran Warns If Attacked It Will Fire 11,000 Missiles. US & Israel To Develop Modern Arrow 3 Missile Defense System. US & Israel To Develop Modern Arrow 3 Missile Defense System. US & Israel To Develop Modern Arrow 3 Missile Defense System. Ahmadinejad speech at UN. Exclusive: Ahmadinejad Says Obama Should Back Off on Nukes. Imam Mahdi (The Twelfth Imam) and Antichrist - Signs of the Apocalypse. Broadcast Yourself. 2012 in the Holy Quran. Who Is Imam Mehdi a.s...Short Description For our Youngsters! Signs Of Imam Mehdi Arrival(Must Watch)
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