Iran: Much ado about nothing?

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William Blum
The Anti-Empire Report
July 4, 2009

What is there about the Iranian election of June 12 that has led to it being one of the leading stories in media around the world every day since? Elections whose results are seriously challenged have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades. Countless Americans believe that the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen by the Republicans, and not just inside the voting machines and in the counting process, but prior to the actual voting as well with numerous Republican Party dirty tricks designed to keep poor and black voters off voting lists or away from polling stations. The fact that large numbers of Americans did not take to the streets day after day in protest, as in Iran, is not something we can be proud of. Perhaps if the CIA, the Agency for International Development (AID), several US government-run radio stations, and various other organizations supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (which was created to serve as a front for the CIA, literally) had been active in the United States, as they have been for years in Iran, major street protests would have taken place in the United States.




	Mousavi, Ahmadinejad’s main opponent in the election and very much supported by the protesters, while prime minister 1981-89, bore large responsibility for the attacks on the US embassy and military barracks in Beirut in 1983.

The classic “outside agitators” can not only foment dissent through propaganda, adding to already existing dissent, but they can serve to mobilize the public to strongly demonstrate against the government. In 1953, when the CIA overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, they paid people to agitate in front of Mossadegh’s residence and elsewhere and engage in acts of violence; some pretended to be supporters of Mossadegh while engaging in anti-religious actions. And it worked, remarkably well.1 Since the end of World War II, the United States has seriously intervened in some 30 elections around the world, adding a new twist this time, twittering. The State Department asked Twitter to postpone a scheduled maintenance shutdown of its service to keep information flowing from inside Iran, helping to mobilize protesters.2 The New York Times reported: “An article published by the Web site True/Slant highlighted some of the biggest errors on Twitter that were quickly repeated and amplified by bloggers: that three million protested in Tehran last weekend (more like a few hundred thousand); that the opposition candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi was under house arrest (he was being watched); that the president of the election monitoring committee declared the election invalid last Saturday (not so).” 3

In recent years, the United States has been patrolling the waters surrounding Iran with warships, halting Iranian ships to check for arms shipments to Hamas or for other illegal reasons, financing and “educating” Iranian dissidents, using Iranian groups to carry out terrorist attacks inside Iran, kidnaping Iranian diplomats in Iraq, kidnaping Iranian military personnel in Iran and taking them to Iraq, continually spying and recruiting within Iran, manipulating Iran’s currency and international financial transactions, and imposing various economic and political sanctions against the country.4

“I’ve made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering in Iran’s affairs,” said US President Barack Obama with a straight face on June 23. “Some in the Iranian government [have been] accusing the United States and others outside of Iran of instigating protests over the elections. These accusations are patently false and absurd.”5

“Never believe anything until it’s officially denied,” British writer Claud Cockburn famously said.

In his world-prominent speech to the Middle East on June 4, Obama mentioned that “In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.” So we have the president of the United States admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government while the United States is in the very midst of trying to overthrow the current Iranian government. This will serve as the best example of hypocrisy that’s come along in quite a while.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

So why the big international fuss over the Iranian election and street protests? There’s only one answer. The obvious one. The announced winner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a Washington ODE, an Officially Designated Enemy, for not sufficiently respecting the Empire and its Israeli partner-in-crime; indeed, Ahmadinejad is one of the most outspoken critics of US foreign policy in the world.

So ingrained is this ODE response built into Washington’s world view that it appears to matter not at all that Mousavi, Ahmadinejad’s main opponent in the election and very much supported by the protesters, while prime minister 1981-89, bore large responsibility for the attacks on the US embassy and military barracks in Beirut in 1983, which took the lives of more than 200 Americans, and the 1988 truck bombing of a US Navy installation in Naples, Italy, that killed five persons. Remarkably, a search of US newspaper and broadcast sources shows no mention of this during the current protests.6 However, the Washington Post saw fit to run a story on June 27 that declared: “the authoritarian governments of China, Cuba and Burma have been selectively censoring the news this month of Iranian crowds braving government militias on the streets of Tehran to demand democratic reforms.”

Can it be that no one in the Obama administration knows of Mousavi’s background? And do none of them know about the violent government repression on June 5 in Peru of the peaceful protests organized in response to the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement? A massacre that took the lives of between 20 and 25 indigenous people in the Amazon and wounded another 100.7 The Obama administration was silent on the Peruvian massacre because the Peruvian president, Alan Garcia, is not an ODE.

And neither is Mousavi, despite his anti-American terrorist deeds, because he’s opposed to Ahmadinejad, who competes with Hugo Chavez to be Washington’s Number One ODE. Time magazine calls Mousavi a “moderate”, and goes on to add: “It has to be assumed that the Iranian presidential election was rigged,” offering as much evidence as the Iranian protestors; i.e., none at all.8 It cannot of course be proven that the Iranian election was totally honest, but the arguments given to support the charge of fraud are not very impressive, such as the much-repeated fact that the results were announced very soon after the polls closed. For decades in various countries election results have been condemned for being withheld for many hours or days. Some kind of dishonesty must be going on behind the scenes during the long delay it was argued. So now we’re asked to believe that some kind of dishonesty must be going on because the results were released so quickly. It should be noted that the ballots listed only one electoral contest, with but four candidates.

Phil Wilayto, American peace activist and author of a book on Iran, has observed:

Ahmadinejad, himself born into rural poverty, clearly has the support of the poorer classes, especially in the countryside, where nearly half the population lives. Why? In part because he pays attention to them, makes sure they receive some benefits from the government and treats them and their religious views and traditions with respect. Mousavi, on the other hand, the son of an urban merchant, clearly appeals more to the urban middle classes, especially the college-educated youth. This being so, why would anyone be surprised that Ahmadinejad carried the vote by a clear majority? Are there now more yuppies in Iran than poor people?9

All of which is of course not to say that Iran is not a relatively repressive society on social and religious issues, and it’s this underlying reality which likely feeds much of the protest; indeed, many of the protesters may not even have strong views about the election per se, particularly since both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are members of the establishment, neither is any threat to the Islamic theocracy, and the election can be seen as the kind of power struggle you find in virtually every country. But that is not the issue I’m concerned with here. The issue is Washington’s long-standing goal of regime change. If the exact same electoral outcome had taken place in a country that is an ally of the United States, how much of all the accusatory news coverage and speeches would have taken place? In fact, the exact same thing did happen in a country that is an ally of the United States, three years ago when Felipe Calderon appeared to have stolen the presidential election in Mexico and there were daily large protests for more than two months; but the American and international condemnation was virtually non-existent compared to what we see today in regard to Iran.

Iranian leaders undertook a recount of a random ten per cent of ballots and recertified Ahmadinejad as the winner. How honest the recount was I have no idea, but it’s more than Americans got in 2000 and 2004.

Notes

1. William Blum, Killing Hope, chapter 9
2. Associated Press, June 16, 2009
3. New York Times, June 21, 2009
4. See Seymour Hersh, New Yorker magazine, June 29, 2008; ABC News, May 22, 2007; and Paul Craig Roberts in CounterPunch, June 19-21, 2009 for descriptions of some of these and other anti-Iran covert activities.
5. White House press conference, June 23, 2009
6. The only mention is by Jeff Stein in “CQ Politics” [Congressional Quarterly], online, June 22, 2009, “according to former CIA and military officials”.
7. Center for International Policy (Washington, DC) report, June 16, 2009
8. Time magazine, June 29, 2009, p.26
9. AlterNet.org, June 14, 2009; Wilayto is the author of “In Defense of Iran: Notes from a U.S. Peace Delegation’s Journey through the Islamic Republic”

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122 Responses to “Iran: Much ado about nothing?”

off subject lookin for feedback Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Is it jus me or is everyone always hollering about “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” “FREEDOM ISNT FREE” MY ONLY QUESTION TO THEM IS WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A TROOP FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM???????
AND NOT THE INTREST OF BANKERS AND A GLOBAL TAKEOVER AGENDA COME ON PEOPLE WAKE UP!
THE LAST 4 MAJOR CONFLICTS WARS OR WHATEVER U WANT TO CALL THEM WERE THRUST UPON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THROUGH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM GEEEEEEEZ WW1, WW2, NAM, and IRAQ!!!!
NOT A FUCKING THING TO DO WITH FREEDOM OR INDEPENDENCE and everything to do with SLAVERY, EUGENICS, & PRIVATE INTERESTS!!! HMMMMMMM i dunno but I SUPPORT OUR TROOPS willingness and courage to fight for what they think is our FREEDOM?????
BUT BOTTOM LINE THE TROOPS ARE HERE TO BE MANIPULATED INTO THERE OWN ENSLAVEMENT AND TO FACILITATE YOURS until THE TECHNOLOGY IS SUCH THAT THEY ARE NOT NEEDED ANYMORE i would love to know what U THINK

I TRULY UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO THREAT TO OUT FREEDOMS ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD THE ONLY THREAT TO OUR FREEDOMS IS “OUR” TROOPS AND GOVERNMENT
WHEN I SAY ABOUT THE TROOPS IM REFERRING TO THE ONES WHO ARE WILLING TO ABANDON THERE OATH AND TAKE ILLEGAL ORDERS

ArTchiTech Reply:
July 4th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
They are not “our” troops. They are Warrior Slaves for Global Domination. A blood sacrifice, to the horned god of this world! Led mindlessly to slaughter and be slaughtered. The biggest threat to our freedom is the people falsely beLIEving that they are free.

Tinfoil hats are itchy Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Taking to the streets for a rigged election is what NORTHCOM wnats you to do, so they can round you up for CAMP FEMA!

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July 6th, 2009 at 3:33 am
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July 5th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
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brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Atleast tell us it’s for the children as you normally would!

brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
or safety

brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
for the environment

Tom Sanford Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Boy you hit that one on the head! And when a country does oust someone corrupt like in Honduras….we critisize them…Americans would be horrified if more real pictures and video of what we have done in in Cambodia, Vietnam Iraq etc were released…in the name of freedom…why do you think our troops come home so messed up psychologically?

brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Freedom comes from God and he gives all goodness of the Earth freely.Todays troops protect financial interests.The Revolutionary War was about the only fight for freedom we’ve had on a military sort of way.The fight for freedom comes by We the people… being disobedient to NWO government tyranny.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Well your god’s either a slaver driver, powerless or uncaring then!!

robert Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Please leave your god out of it,I have the right to not be preached to by you or anyone else.
At least for the time being……..

Jonny Velocity Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
You have the right to disagree or not listen. But Brainy has the right to say what he wants, why would you try to stamp that out?

john Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
how can someone argue against that

maybe confused
whether you believe in God or not, the point is clear

FAT PIG SQUEALER Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
and we had ACORN in the election of ‘08

Sam Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
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daveb Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
They always tell soldiers that they are fighting for freedom. But, what is the first thing they do? They take their freedom away.

How can you fight for something you don’t have?

Good thing young men are so gullible.

robert Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Good point,I just wish I hadn’t killed so many people before I realised this point.
I’m OK now,yeah….just…

OBAMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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robert Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Shhhh,you sound like a nut-job….like me…..shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Just Kidding!!!!

CRankyisaDIPshit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Damn straight. . .it is hard to find people ON THE SAME PAGE and not just people reading the same BOOK. . . . BUT one thing we ALL should keep in mind is that the UNITED STATES and OUR president are ALSO merely puppets of THEIR controllers. YES we and our country is a puppet. AS well all other industrialized countries but Russia are being controlled and having our buttons pushed as THEY SEE FIT. WE ARE NOT ALONE in the fight . . . .The world is fighting and WE need to join them. . . . There is some feedback man. KEEP communicating with your friends and family and anyone who will listen and NOT shut down mentally. HUGE POINT right here– ONLY 50% of the world is Capable of understanding and out of them only HALF DESIRE to understand. . .So. . . there is only 25% of all human beings on the planet that will ever understand. So don’ t get frustrated if most people shut you down. LIKE I SAID only 25% of the planet WANTS and/or WILL ever understand.

peace keep up the info war . . . .

Dark skies Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I just read your first paragragh and had to have one of those laughs as its right their in a nutshell. when was the last time the Troops of the USA fought for supporting freedom in a just manner
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Mr. Know It ALL Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I totally agree. We got the shaft with the past 2 elections. I cant/dont/wont vote. But its all good. When the puppet masters pull the strings, thats who wins. This is fact.

Tom Sanford Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Ya i really wonder what Gore would have been like…he couldn’t have done any worse. Atleast we would have had a fair election….I should have voted for Ralph Nader….

john Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Mr. Know It ALL Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

I totally agree. We got the shaft with the past 2 elections. I cant/dont/wont vote. But its all good. When the puppet masters pull the strings, thats who wins. This is fact.

yes
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anton fjordson Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
i think england and america are about to get into it in iran.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I seriously doubt the UK will assist Iran if an ivasion is planned. I also seriously doubt the US will invade.
Check out the documentary:
Iran And The West
on google video (the BBC Series, there may be other docs with the same name)
Even shows Iran offering to become a Western ally in the Iraq war (Bush declined the help) prefering to blame problems in the occupation on ‘an evil’ Iran…
OK, it’s biased (it features interviews with the Iranian, US, European politicians involved and shows footage of some meetings).
If you don’t know the official secret history you will only have a biased viewpoint. Who knows what really went on as the spy agencies are not mentioned!!

brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Cynthia McKinney will be there to solve their problems rite after she gets outta jail in Israel!

Sam Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
I understand your views, but Iran is too far powerful at this stage. The only way the zionists will get their way is with involving alot of countries and the U.N. in a joint attack.

Israel has fought 6 wars in the past and has won all of them.

Iran has come out and said that if Israel attacks it will need just 11 days to defeat it. Think about it the strongest and most armed country possibly in the world ( Israel ) will only take 11 days to be beaten.

I can see Israel trying to undermine iran more and more until more countries pledge allegance to attack Iran.

Iran also has its allies to, let us not forget Hezbollah which is also shia and are the first force to beat Israel both in 2000 and recently in 2006, Syria which also has large populations of shia and alawi is a strong army and has strategically kept quite and has also formed an alliance with Russia and Iran as well as bordering Lebanon ( Hezbollah )

justme Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
hey brain sludge… stuff it.
Jlse Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Iran has REAL American style Democracy…… its not who votes, its who counts the votes.

justme Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
not quite… the Dead don’t vote in Iran like they do in USSA.
Bernie Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Alex, go for the speech of Ecclestone today, saying that Hitler was the right guy, democracy a bad idea… and much more.

Posters, sorry to interrupt your comments. Emailing is not safe.

brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Bernie,what are you trying to say?

justme Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Bernie: yours was a most lucid and articulately conveyed comment… NOT.

Jonny Velocity Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Not to mention topical…

john Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Bernie Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Alex, go for the speech of Ecclestone today, saying that Hitler was the right guy, democracy a bad idea… and much more.

Posters, sorry to interrupt your comments. Emailing is not safe.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^paid
Skulb Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I guess the question is whether or not Ahmedinejad is a provocateur the US and Israel secretly want to have in power in Iran, to provide suitable pretexts for military action, insurrectionism and economic warfare.
One might argue that he`s a new Saddam Frankenstein rolled out to scare the deranged western consumerists into accepting all manners of hair-raising government intrusion and imperialistic adventurism, in the name of safety.
This might not actually be the case of course, but it would have been alot harder to aquire left cover for attacks and/or sanctions against Iran if it was represented by a progressive democratic government.

The US/Israeli/NWO freakshow are famously always supporting lunatic fascist regimes for their own purposes, while at the same time spouting cliches about their love of peace and freedom.
It`s time to vire the Iran farce at a different level.

Sam Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
You must judge a person by his friends and who he supports,

Lets look at Iran and how it helped to create Hezbollah, arguably the strongest Guerilla army in the world at the moment. Iran trains the soldiers, gives them weapons and gives them discipline. If Ahmedinjed was with the US and Israel straight, then straight after Hezbollah beat Israel he would have stopped supporting and training them by orders from Israel.
Rather he has continued to support them and train them. They are only getting stronger.

We can also look at Wahabists, who are sunni extremists. If Iran was a provacuteur it would have harboured these terrorists and accepted them a goodly acceptance. But because Iran is shia ( the opposite group ) it fights against them. These groups are openly funded by the US and Israel for a reason. Because Iran is their enemy.

Another aspect is the hypocrytical and corrupt arab regime leaders in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and many more gulf arab countries are doing everything in their power to also destabilise Iran. If Iran was corrupt these countries would be at peace with it and co-operate often. Rather there is tension between these countries. The Gulf arab states are most sunni dominated and is where the elements of wahabists terrorists are coming out from, trying to infiltrate Iran, Lebanon and Syria as well as Iraq.

By now if Iran was a provacateur and in an agent of the NWO Mousavi would have been in power, pure and simple. Then the US and Israel would order Mousavi to turn its Army and people into slaves. I am really happy that this butcher of beirut did not take power.

Death to the NWO.

john Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 12:06 am
^^^^^^^^this looks like “mis-info” to me

Sam Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 11:16 am
This is fact whether you like it or not

joe Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am
“hezbollah beat israel”? What tabloids have you been reading??

Sam Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Hi Joe,

Is that a Joke ?

I have read the wingorid report which was the official israeli report from the war written by the israeli commander in charge and experts presented to their parliment.

Olmert has admitted it, the israeli public know it, Robert baer former CIA agent knows it. Plus by the way its not the first time both in 2000 and 2006 they lost.

Here is the link to the wingorid report confirming israles total and utter defeat in its communcations, military, objectives, confrontations, motivation etc

It was such a defeat that ever since that war, they have changed their military tactics and resurfaced their army all because of a small guerilla force.
Karen Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
What a big pile of BALONEY. The 2000 votes were counted numerous times even after the election was over for a year. They were counted and recounted by Dems and they never could come up with a win. Pure Baloney!

That incident showed me the left would like to steal the vote and never have another election.

American Reply:
July 4th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I agree big time!! People are just to stupid to remember the “chads” etc. I’m happy Gore didn’t get in office, but it seems that B.S. artist along with Clinton and friends are going after the same old shit Clinton did in the 90’s. Bull shit enviromental crap for more tax increases, huge government and dependence on the gov; special rights for “minority’s and homo’s”. The only different approach is they are going after the bullets and not the guns; yet. Obama just has a better law firm then that party had before.

The firm is named.

Dickem, Dunkum, and Taxem.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I’m not gay but could you please tell me, rationally, why homosexuals should be bullied so much in the US – I mean with actual reasoning?

American Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
That is my point. Homo’s are not bullied anymore than any group! I’ll be very fair with your request to be rational. Homo’s like any group of humans are able to make good choices. Whether you straight or homo, black, brown, white, red, green etc..

The point I am making is the FACT that many groups get special treatment and rights over others. This is wrong plain and simple! Sure I could lose 20 lbs and work on my legs and jump higher than any black, who knows I might even learn to dance. I could learn better manners and be a better family guy and you could call me a Mormon or Mexican. Hell I could even date two more girls like the last one’s and I might go homo!!

My whole point is the fact that no matter my choice, I nor do anyone deserve special rights as other expense! aka Tax Payers!!

There ya go! God Bless.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
So it’s purely statisically equal HATRED, fair enough! I’d say it’s DISPROPORTIONATE HATRED given the tiny percentage of GAY people who span both genders, all reaces, most sexualogically (is that a word) studied species, esp. compared to ‘races’ or ‘MAJOR religions’!!! My use of the word HOMO was meant to polarize thoughts ‘HOMOSAPIEN’ and ‘HOMOSEXUAL’, or as Grandma like to say QUOTE!: ‘They’re not GAY, they’re PUFTERS’!!! You could support the ‘natural underdogs’!! Statisically they ain’t gonna screw our women and they’re well ‘connected’ enough not to RAPE OUR ASS!! Do unto others etc., so FORGIVE THEM THEY’RE TRESSPASSES (with an emphasis on the ASSES)!!

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
OK + GAY COSTS!! Let’s take some semi-to-quite-truthal QUEER stereotypes!

GAY CONS!

The gay community costs more to us medically because of:

increased STDs (illness) – rampant buggers!
increased worry brought on by (innate?+induced) homophobia + consequences

AS A GAY: Higer unemployment because of voice & mannerisms (JOKE!?!)

GAY PROS!!!

No kids unless rebels or 2 clucky man-dykes who can prove to ‘the suspicious authorities’ they are committed, prepared & nice.
Fluffy, flowery clothes, voice, man?nerisms and attitude
Less likely to screw our women..

CAMPNESS maybe definitely really is irritarting but still can’t wait to CRINGE at ‘BRUNO’!!

brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
God,Guns and Gays!Same ole crap with a side of Abortion.

1984 Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:26 am
But the presidential elections do not even lead to much of a policy change since the president(s) of Iran do not have much power.

justme Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
this is indeed a relevant fact, as I understand it.

Jonny Velocity Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
True, which is why the NWO owned media is making a big deal about it, they love powerless suits like Obama, Brown, Musavi, whoever. As long as people are fighting over puppets the puppet-masters can still run the show.

Look out for Ahmadinejad, he’s a big bad evil guy who doesn’t like Zionists! ooga-booga!
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July 4th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Iran along with North Korea are meant to distract us from the crimes being committed by the criminal bankers, politicians and the corrupt legal system that protects them all.

We repeat the mantra ……..

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July 5th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
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Anthony Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Pardon me but while I believe most of what infowars writes about I saw no evidence of Republicans using dirty tricks to block blacks from voting. Even the mostly liberal US Civil Rights -Commission – half of whom were black – declared [after the election] that there was no evidence of a stolen election. There was, however, a memo discovered on how to nullify absentee ballots by the military written by the Democrats.

American Reply:
July 4th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
All together now….. ACORN!! I can’t wait until boy and girls start to grow up and relise this last election was most likely one by the party in office, but they did fucking cheat! Bush was not perfect, but Obama has put us four (4) times more in debt then bush did in eight (8) years! Just want to trow that out there for the people who still believe in private enterprise.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
It depends a) who’s figures you use, b) whether you count “Bush’s” artificial peak oil price hike as a tax or not. But yep, they’re all as crooked as dog’s hind leg.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
and c) interest rates were higher for much of bush’s office (though that sort of works both ways, but not as there are many more debtors than solvent savers)..

tHebiGhuRT Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Just Wait! With Obamanomics, interest rates are going to be more than anyone can afford. Inflation is already creeping in as more dollars chase fewer goods. Just take a historical look at gun and ammo prices as related to inflation.

Jonny Velocity Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Bush = Obama = Gore = NWO shills. It’s pointless to even argue about this crap.

joe Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 7:52 am
jonny hit the nail on the head. i would add = mccain = edwards= huckabee too
American Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Ohh yeah..

Happy Independence Day everyone!!
TheDankFrankSays Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:00 am
They’re watching us. you know….

THEM

TheDankFrankSays Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:02 am
and reverse psychology probably won’t work!

TheDankFrankSays Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:05 am
that’s why Michael Jackson.

TheDankFrankSays Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:05 am
save us, jesse jackson

TheDankFrankSays Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:22 am
i don’t need your blue-ray propaganda
Dunagan Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Just say no to NAZI gold
PrivateSi Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Iran And The West
Find the series episodes on Google Video. It’s a BBC series…Most of the series is there, hosted by various web video hosts.
I’m sure it’s not the whole story but it’s worth watching just to see the ‘offcial view’ if nothing else.
The documentary features interviews with the politicians involved from Iran, US, Europe. It’s full of bluffs & double bluffs, intrigue, accusations. Footage of real meetings. Shows Europe trying to reign in a power crazed Bush & his cronies to give Iran concessions and use Iran’s offer to become an ally in the war in Iraq (which bush declined!). It’s in depth and well made (but obiviously biased, afterall, we’re talking politicians here). Explains the nuclear issue well.
Iran And The West
take a look.

Sam Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
BBC has been descredited over and over again. We will see soon though when Iran gets attacked if it is such and such a pawn.
PrivateSi Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:39 am
..the vids could be used to show Iran has been and still is part of the NWO world power domination scheme – an ally in pretend opposition…
John Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Here is a clip about the Apocalypse, this time done in V FOR VENDETTA by the Wachowski Brothers who are 33 degree Masons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xk1Lm5jdKs

Captions, you need to go to U Tube to see.

Jess Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 10:34 am
A bit more understanding can be gained by watching this one minute video

http://www.youtube.com/my_vide....._tsgdNreS0

Captions again, you need to go to U Tube to see.

Badgerman3 Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I watched your oppinions of the symbology and allegory in the film. Where’s your evidence these were the film maker’s intended ‘hidden meanings’? The symbols, if applied to the story line and modern reality, have more obvious, down to earth meanings. After you’ve taken a few more glances at the imagery and script, let me know what else it could mean and I’ll tell you my oppinion!

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Where do you get this 33′ mason info from. V for Vendetta is an anti establishment film, the best in years with a fantastic script. Highly recommended.
JJ Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
####The Gestapo Food Act “H.R. 2749 the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009″, Must Be Stopped####

Congressional representatives can be contacted by sending a message through the FTCLDF petition system at http://www.ftcldf.org/petitions/pnum993.php. One can also call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Status of the nazi bill:
govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2749

Gov Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
This food is to keep you healthy. You need this food along with the righteous chip of freedom. That’s right! You can get into clubs, go to the store, drive a car and just plain have fun in life!!!!! Take the chip.. It’s the cool thing to do! It’s just today’s fad, like tattoo’s, guys with piercings, practicing gay ( for those who haven’t tried yet! hehe Yet! ) and other groups! I thought that with a lysp hehe tickle tickle. Eghumm sorry had to clear my.. oh never mind!

You all need to take this chip! It is good for you. Government can help you all since freedom has failed!! Ohhhh Tickle tickle. Take me your a New Camp cumming to your area!! UmmmHUmmmm

F: Fun
E: Exciting
M: Male’s only this time
A: Ass

The next camp will have a new theam. Ohhh Joy, bring your young boy’s!!

Sign off, Gov aka Catholic Church.
The Glorified Janitor Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
The Islamic Revolution in Iran continues. They have not killed the british agents, but will put them on trial.

Will Honduras new government give trials to the people who try to get back thier desired leader? How come America can’t have a military coup when the Constitution is disregaurded?

god Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
they can

Jonny Velocity Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Because the C.I.A. isn’t planning one. Or they did already.
Hillbilly Patriot Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
All i can say is God Bless the USA !
http://www.dlc3marketing.com/swinefluhoax

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
What a ripoff, $13.50, talk about band wagon jumping!
Michael Edwards Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
“This is the way we grow, one nation at a time. This is the way we grow, for all of mankind. This is the way we grow, for all that it’s worth. This is the way we grow, peace on mother earth.”–Outlaw Nation
Michael Edwards Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
CAP AND TRADE. PASS IT. CAP AND TRADE. PASS IT. SAVE THE PLANET AND SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS THAT ARE THE ONLY REASON YOU HAVE CLEAN WATER THAT ISN’T POLLUTED BY PROFIT DRIVEN SELFISHNESS THAT DOESN’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU

Gov Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Bizzzzzzzzzt… You are fined for the verbal morality code. Pay your fine or go to the sexy fema camps!!

joe Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 7:56 am
i am so sick of your cap and trade crap. it wont help the environment, and you would know that if you would do some research on the subject.
PrivateSi Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Much Ado About SOMETHING!!

Iran clerics defy election ruling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor.....134904.stm

Who really knows what’s going on in Iran? Pretending you do is rash…

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
…Or just ‘more’ UK propaganda? Can’t see it doing the imprisoned embasst staff much good if it is…
Michael Edwards Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
JUST BECAUSE THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH POLICE CORRUPTION, AND SOCIETY CORRUPTION AS A WHOLE, BECAUSE OF THE DRUG WAR, DOES NOT MEAN THAT A SATANIC NEW AGE CABAL CONTROLS THE WORLD. THAT IS JUST AN INSULT ON FREE SPIRITUALITY AND MYSTICISM AND THE IDEA THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN, WHICH FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS HATE, AND THAT IS ACTUALLY THE CONFLICT BETWEEN FUNDAMENTALISTS AND PENTACOSTALS. FUNDAMENTALISTS BELIEVE THAT EVEN THEIR FELLOW CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE BEING DECEIVED BY SATAN BECAUSE THEY ARE MYSTICS. FUCK DARK AGE, FEAR MONGERING IDEOLOGY; CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE WRONG.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Black & White! Thinking!

There are some OK metaphors/ways of saying things/abstract concepts anthromorphically personifies (ie. (d)evil = bad (in basic terms) and is half man half beast), god = good. The problem using this BINARY mental construction most of the time encourages one think in ‘black’ (0), ‘white’ (1). Although this is natural and good for easy (and small) memory storage it’s too simple to describe reality, a bad habit to get into when writing down logical thoughts. If 1 only thinks mainly in binary terms bi-polar type mood swings seem more likely. This could also work the other way, ie. those with bi-polar (extreme(ish)) mood swings may be more likely to think in ‘wrong (LEFT!) & right’ binary (tree) thought patterns/memory structures.

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
..ERROR CORRECTION #100..anthropomorhically (animal attributes), personified (human attributes).

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
RELIGION ERROR CORRECTION #100..remove all human aspects to the devil (make it an alien creature nothing like macro sized creatures (including MAN obviously). Don’t make any artistic representations of god. Y? Because it will be more easily polluted and infiltrated (used for manipulation via imagery, filmic/preacher’s vocalisations of god’s ‘word’. This should be left to be imagined by each believer in different contexts.
I’M PROUD TO BE AN ATHEIST (IT GIVES ME MORE PERSONAL MIND-CONTROL)!!!!

joe Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 7:59 am
religion error correction # 101: ascribe all aspects to the devil that he actually has. if some are human-ish (or if some human aspects are devilish) note the similarities and continue on…
American Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
FUCK! I’m not done yet!

This is to my Cathic Church stuff. I don’t give the penances or what ever, instead of penace, I give my pennies to the people in my community at the gas station counter. Ohhh my god? There could be people who are less than me picking those up and useing them. lmao I’ll start giving nickles! But I don’t want to give anymore to ego fucks any more.

I play golf, scuba dive and travel. I do live a good life! The difference is I’ve seen how good people live; and fucks who leach live. When I have a leach taking the dollar home to mexico by the thousands and at the same time killing our ecomomy I get upset! People complain about job losses to china and india (lol no caps there) but they don’t complain about over One Hundred Billion Dollars sent to Mexico every year against the law!

Again, I love you and Fuck You!

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
No taxes, more well run, independant but charities willing to work together at short notice – IT’S THE BEST WAY!!!!

PrivateSi Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
..CITIZENS TO VOTE ON IMPORTANT ISSUES AND LEGISLATION..
Hillbilly Patriot Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Ya’ll, dont worry about Iran! The government has better plans for all of us with there swine flu bullshit ! Its just another lovely desease brought to you from our loving White House tennants!
http://www.dlc3marketing.com/swinefluhoax
Hillbilly Patriot Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
People, the swine flu is going to kill all of us if we dont get that goddamned vaccine shot! Please, let your fellow americans know that we are doomed if we dont except the governments vaccines!
http://www.dlc3marketing.com/swinefluhoax
daveb Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Well, Biden and the Saudis have supposedly already given the Israelis the green-light to attack. So, that could be happening any day.

That’s what all this happy horseshit has been about — further alienating Iran so as to make that politically possible. The Europeans aren’t going to stand up for them now. Their only allies, who could possible save their asses are the Russians.

Obama and his crew probably naively believe they have a handle on the Russians, though. This is probably sheer hubris and arrogance on their part. Their manipulations are probably to no avail. Medevedev was Putin’s handpicked sock-puppet from day one. You could no more separate them than Wayland Flowers and “Madame.”
Craven levay Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Wow iran is more free than us huh atleast election wise we could not have a recount but they could wow
Craven levay Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Iran why would we be messing with them really. Makes no sense
Jesus is King! Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6

The Illuminati will get thiers soon enough.

brainy smurf Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
and Robert accused me of preaching!
robert Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Incosequential and trivial,the corporations want to take Iran,sell off her resources,and leave her like they left africa…….or was it the english?
Nathan Lewis Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
There was a complete independent recount of the votes of 2000. The outcome was the same. Gore lost Florida and therefore the election. You didn’t hear about that very much in the liberal press did you?
John Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 6:14 am
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Jewish do your research people he is a Zionazi shill
American System Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 7:22 am
The ‘Swamp Oppossum’ Al GORE couldn’t even win his own state, Tennessee in 2000.
Great article in ROLLING STONE about GOLDMAN SUCKS and its newest ‘BUBBLE’ – the Al GORE “Cap & Trade” scheme.
You’ve heard about the Crash of ‘29; you’ve lived the Derivatives Bubbles: Mortgage Bubble and the Oil Price $5 Gallon of Gas Bubble – now get ready for the’Cap & Trade Bubble’. All brought to you by GOLDMAN SUCKS.
Great journalism by Matt Taibbi – “How Goldman Sachs Pumped and Dumped the US Economy”.
It’s posted several places on-line, just google the title.
If ‘Global Warming’ was real – and it ain’t – all they would need to do is levy a penalty tax. ‘Cap & Trade’ is a tax direct to GOLDMAN SUCKS!
The Iranian Election Story is small potatoes people – FIGHT the TYRANNY HERE!
den Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Both sides cheated liberal boy. Remember the democrat operative running into a room with a pile of ballots and locking the door with a bunch of angry Cubans chasing him down in 2000 on live tv? What do we do put the other cheaters in power on one sided principal?
You are arguing over the illusion of a free election.
And how do the two idiots we choose from ascend to power?
rezsam Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I wrote a big comment for this article and although I agreed with some of the article, I also commented on parts of article that I dont agree with it. Is the author or InfoWar so unwilling to hear another side of story? Why did they delete my comment? I’m very disappointed.
rezsam Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am
It’s my right to be able to express my opinion as long as i’m not disrespecting anyone or causing trouble. I don’t understand why they keep deleting my comment… apparently moderators only see the free speech as their right only which doesn’t apply to others…. shame

Breeanne Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
That my friend, remains the Unsolved Mystery of this site. Unless some confession is forthwidth, we can only draw many therories about the matter.
I have seen many theroies suggestted, like auto bots going after key words, and if it gets past that it goes to the Admin person, whom Im told deals with many offensive , obusive , threatenning comments by the volume.
Thats there lies the puzzle why something that does not come under the heading of dangerous crazy get deleted.
Post it again so we can read it and decide what the motive maybe.

Breeanne Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Ok my tester worked as to what my offend the moderators of this site, Its any reference to Christianity of the American version that protrays it in a dim light, not as the teachings Jesus came to give.
Ray Says:
July 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I find it interesting how that that sign that says “This is my vote” is in english.