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Subject: [Leica] Afghanistan Government Denies Access to Flickr & Blogspot
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:41:53 +0100
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Not Afghanistan or Pakistan--they have no oil. But sadly, yes, both the West 
(and India, and China) get most of their oil from nasty places. God did not 
put enough of it in Norway and Canada and the few other civilized places 
that have the stuff.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 18 Jun, 2010, at 3:50 , Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> Nathan,
> That is also the autocracies that give you most of your oil.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
> frozenlight.eu>wrote:
> 
>> That's the democracy our soldiers are dying for.
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> On 17 Jun, 2010, at 18:38 , Tina Manley wrote:
>> 
>>> Good Lord!  I'm now a security threat to Afghanistan.  I knew I shouldn't
>>> have posted that photo of Tom naked.  It probably crashed their
>> computers.
>>> 
>>> Hope you get uncensored service soon, Hugh!
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Hugh Thompson <hewthompson at mac.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I don't yet know if it is universal in Afghanistan, but our service
>>>> provider has started to intercept any Flickr or Blogspot web site, and
>> puts
>>>> up a notice, "Access denied by the Government of Afghanistan".  So I
>> cannot
>>>> follow Tina's construction blog for instance.
>>>> 
>>>> As yet I have not assessed how many other communal sites are effected.
>> I
>>>> will be seeing Wendy tomorrow and will check if it is the same with her
>>>> provider.
>>>> 
>>>> Fun and games - I just hope they don't find the LUG Galleries, with all
>>>> that politically motivated material.
>>>> 
>>>> Hugh
>>>> 
>>>> hewthompson at mac.com
>>>> Kabul, Afghanistan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>> 
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>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
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>> 
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Nathan Wajsman
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