So, the Dow Jones fell down over 500 points today. Who cares, except the middle class in the US, that have their entire life savings invested in 401K, IRA, or variable annuities? Do you really think that over 80% of Iranians in Iran could give a hoot about the market crash? No, Virginia, those 80% of 75 million people under IRI regime do not even know what the stock market is, let alone owning a single share.
Let's face it, in spite of her unbelievable resources (such as oil, natural gas, mineral mines, etc.), Iran is still a third world country in terms of GDP per Capita. Have you ever wondered why?
Well, allow me to explain it to you. In the west, we have large banks, investment companies, and huge corporations that are much smarter than the ordinary citizens. They know how to make a bubble out of the real-estate market and suddenly make it burst -- cashing on foreclosures and tumbling housing prices -- it's time for them to buy real estate. They also know how to play the derivatives and make the stock prices go up, so that every idiotic worker in the US invests his/her life-time savings in 401K, IRA, etc. And, suddenly, the entire stock market goes pluff!! Which is the time for the middle class to lose their life-time savings, while "the smart ones", who engineered the whole thing, start buying stocks at very low prices -- and the circle goes round-and-round.
Unfortunately for the middle class Americans, they have no idea what the hell is going on at the top, while they lose everything, calling it "Bad timing", "Bad luck", “down economy” etc.
The beauty of the IRI Regime is that those Ayatollahs (e.g. Rafsanjani, etc.) are doing exactly the same thing as the Western oligarchy, bankers, investment houses, etc. do. Whereas the mother-f*#kers in US/Europe fool/screw the ordinary people through the financial market jingoism, the IRI is cleverer. The IRI uses "Allah", "Qoran" and "Islam" to rape/screw the ordinary/ignorant masses of Iranians.
Can anyone tell me why Iran, with its huge natural resources, is still a third world country? Where has all the money gone? why is an entire nation of 70+ million still so ignorant with "The Iranian Dream&qot; (versus The American Dream?) of wanting to become a Haaji by going for a ziarat to Mecca, or becoming a Seyyed by going to Karbala in Iraq?
The beauty/genius of the IRI Regime is that they can keep the majority of Iranian people stupid and ignorant, shouting "Allah-o-Akbar", or "Death to America, Death to Israel", while the ugly westerners are waking up and recognizing how they are being screwed by a bunch of scrupulous bastards called Bankers, Goldman-Sashs, Old Money, etc.
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Genius of IRI in real
by vildemose on Fri Aug 05, 2011 01:17 PM PDTGenius of IRI in real time:
//iranian.com/main/news/2011/08/05-6
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
Hypothetically, what would
by vildemose on Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:48 PM PDTHypothetically, what would happen to Iran if it runs out of oil??
what would happen to financial global elite if the world runs out of oil??
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
Explains why people miss the shah
by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:00 PM PDTRegret is not always a bad thing.
Excellent Blog
by Soosan Khanoom on Fri Aug 05, 2011 08:22 AM PDTI couldn't agree more .....
Thanks
Agree in general with your points Joe.
by Roozbeh_Gilani on Fri Aug 05, 2011 08:11 AM PDTJust one comment; you probably have not been to Iran for sometime, based on your assertion that Lots of Iranians go around shouting "death to America, Death to Israel". That for sure happens on iranian.com daily (well, they can afford it as they are already in US!), but the picture is quite different in Iran itself. Only a soft core of people (bassijis, sepahis, bazar merchants, foreign shia "immigrants" and their families) who directly or indirectly financialy benefit from the regime, get bussed into Tehran to chant death to this and that on "special occasions". The vast majority of Iranians frankly are too busy and concerned with lack of jobs, astronomically high inflation, shofrtage of food, air pollution, etc to be bothered with shouting death to this or that. In fact each time I visit Iran, I sense bigger sense of affinity and desire for friendship with USA amongst the ordinary Iranian folks
"Personal business must yield to collective interest."
Actually
by ayatoilet1 on Fri Aug 05, 2011 05:18 AM PDTOne of the better consequences of this regime's policies (which by the way I despise largely because of their Human rights record and lack of freedom), is that Iran's total external debt is 12.8 billion dollars - that's 83rd in rank in the world, one notch above Jamaica. Iran's national debt on a per capita basis is actually very very low (maybe the bottom 10 in the world). For all the sanctions and banking restrictions, and a 8 year war ...Iran has basically operated a balanced budget and paid cash for everything. While US has a 14.5 Trillion external debt, and the European Union has 13.5 Trillion external debt...and they are both caving under the weight of debt and interest payment ....and even major net lender nations have significant external debts. Like for example China has a 500 Bn external debt (if you add Hong Kong with 750 Bn external debt) then its closer to 1.5 trillion dollars, even Saudi Arabia has a net foreign debt of 100 Bn.
The sanctions on Iran have actually done future generations of Iranians a big "service" and not burdened them with debt bills....
So now all we need is regime change, and Iranians everywhere can sell their assets and take their familiies home ...and not burden their "american" or "european" children with the $50,000 they owe the very second they are born. Every household (family) in the US owes $200,000 of government debt.
Iran, my friends, has the potential to be a much better place than the West...for them...they won't have a rat race just to pay taxes.
Economy
by hirre on Fri Aug 05, 2011 04:35 AM PDTwill be the fall of nations...