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| Ahmadinejad Bribes Voters with Israeli Oranges |
| 2009-04-26 |
| Following the hand out of cash in envelopes to journalists and free potato handouts to potential voters by Ahmadinejad's election camp, the efforts to buy votes with more hand outs was intensified to help re-elect Ahmadinejad. In another vote bribing stunt, Ahmadinejad's camp announced free orange handouts to people when Ahmadinejad was due to speak in the poor district of Islamshahr. Of course the stunt worked and as predicted pulled in large crowds who would not miss the opportunity of getting fresh juicy oranges for free. There was however one problem. The oranges were Israeli oranges with obvious 'Jaffa' labels still on them! |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #17 Yeah. You know, it's sad. We can do the right thing by all -- help the fisheries, help the farmers and cities conserve and resurrect rivers like the San Joaquin -- but folks keep playing a zero sum game...where in the end nobody wins. |
| Posted by: Gabby 2009-04-26 21:26 |
| #16 Gabby, don't worry. The democrats in California are doing what they can to shut down all agriculture in California - things like cutting available water, etc. Eventually, California will import food just like Iran. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-04-26 20:58 |
| #15 Dang, I must be a spoiled Californian. I live on what is bascially a fog-bound, wind-blown sand dune and yet we have almost a year-round growing season. |
| Posted by: Gabby 2009-04-26 15:47 |
| #14 I love to bring a box of Clementines to winter parties. Festive and tasty! |
| Posted by: Lampedusa Sneter1382 2009-04-26 15:44 |
| #13 I remember christmases past, yes we did indeed get oanges and yes they were NOT easily available like today, also bags of pecans, (We had Pecan trees)and other odd fruit like Cocanuts, (Whole, Dad let us figure how to open them. No, hammers and a concrete floor did NOT work)and peaches a kiwi or two, and such odd stuff that's available everywhere today. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-04-26 14:38 |
| #12 Even here in Donkey's Ass, China, you can find vendors selling all manner of fruits and vegetables. Oranges as a bribe...jeez |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-04-26 12:28 |
| #11 Oranges used to be a great Christmas present in the US, pre-1955. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-04-26 12:14 |
| #10 I never fail to understand this Bizarro world where something as simple as fruit is considered a luxury. Bribing voters with oranges? Up until the advent of wide-scale air transport, improved storage and distribution and other technology, fruit was seasonal in the US. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-04-26 12:08 |
| #9 BCC reporting they are counterfeit Chinese knock-offs of Israeli Oranges |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-04-26 12:08 |
#8  Fears that an Iranian ban on imports from its arch foe Israel was flouted by the sale of Jaffa oranges have sparked an inquiry in Tehran, reports say. City authorities asked the judiciary to take action after the Israeli fruit was allegedly imported in boxes marked as Chinese, local media report. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-26 11:08 |
| #7 They're only being bribed to show up at the rally, in the hope that will influence their vote. And they are being bribed with what everyone knows to be the very best, not the everyday fruit available from the street vendors. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-04-26 09:34 |
| #6 gromky, when I was growing up in South Alabama oranges were a luxury to us. So were apples, grapes, strawberries, any fruit. The only time we got fruit was at Christmas. Iran's economy is very bad so I doubht there is much money for people to buy anything but staples. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-04-26 09:14 |
| #5 I never fail to understand this Bizarro world where something as simple as fruit is considered a luxury. Bribing voters with oranges? |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-04-26 08:06 |
| #4 And Granny Smith apples from Israel are sold all over the Middle East. Of course, they are off-sold from Turkey, which sells Azerbaijan pipeline oil to Israel. The pariah state also produces most Pentium processors used in the world. |
| Posted by: Jans Wittlesbach2039 2009-04-26 07:13 |
| #3 [groan] go to your room. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-04-26 01:16 |
| #2 Orange juice? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-04-26 01:10 |
| #1 Hee-hee-hee. :-D Wonder how the guy who procured these oranges |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-26 00:12 |