How to control the American public? Bombard us with nonsense "news" (psyops and war propaganda) to terrify citizens into going along with anything.
Trump and Netanyahu are manufacturing consent...for surveillance, crackdowns, dictatorships, monetary changes to digital currency, price hikes, poverty measures, chaos, protests and police actions to "quell the uprisings." Jewish Israeli IDF asset Bari Weiss, now placed as head of CBS News is hard at work to shape the narrative and put us on a war footing to depose leader and force "regime change":
(Max Blumenthal's The GrayZone) Anti-authority protests inside Iran were triggered by the killing of Mahsa Amini, a young woman picked up by Iran’s "Morality Police" (actually "Guidance Patrol") on the grounds of supposed indecent exposure. These protests have drawn massive international attention.
Media around the world are following these protests, and on social media the hashtag surrounding Mahsa Amini’s name has generated more attention and retweets than almost any hashtag in Twitter's history.
But how much of this international response is authentic? How much of it is related to genuine concern for Iranian women — rather than a long-standing Western [and Israeli] desire for regime change in Tehran, capital of Iran?
We're happy to wear head covering for modesty.
To better understand this issue, Blumenthal spoke to an Iranian woman inside Iran. Her name is Dr. Setareh Sadeghi, Ph.D. She is an independent researcher, translator, teacher, and doctorate. She lives in the city of Esfahan.
MAX BLUMENTHAL: Setareh Sadeghi, let’s talk about you and your own political views before we get into some of the details of these protests and the campaign behind them.
You studied the U.S. Civil Rights Movement as part of your Ph.D., and you’re also a student of propaganda [analysis]. Where do you situate yourself within the Iranian political spectrum, and specifically do you support women protesting the morality police and issues like the hijab [Muslim covering for women]?
SETAREH SADEGHI: Well, yes, as you mentioned, I finished my Ph.D. in American Studies, and I studied propaganda analysis as part of my Ph.D. dissertation, and the rhetoric of social movements as well. So I have always been supportive of the Iranian government as a whole — the notion of an Islamic republic — but I have also been critical towards a lot of the things that happen in my country, like many of the other people who live here. More
Iranian harlots with totally exposed heads and faces and not a male relative in sight.
Sexism
in a matter of point of view. We worship capitalist exploitation, they
worship patriarchal Islam. In either case, women suffer just the same (Evans)
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US/Israel aching for war on Republic of Iran
TEHRANGELES, California - Western imperial capitalist corruption has arrived in beautiful Islamic Iran with, of course, a Facebook page. Thank you, FBI. Sure, we like it and think it's "beautiful" and "liberating." But we're raised on imperial corruption. We would likely feel this was a tragedy if we were living in a happily modest country on the verge of being attacked by Israel and its Western allies, most notably the warlords of the CIA and Pentagon. (We already half-ruined the country along with England when we deposed one leader and installed another favorable to our exploits). There are more Iranians than Jews in America, most of them in L.A., but one would never know it by exposure to the mainstream media.
("Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi) about The Richest City Under the Sun in the form of a cartoon/graphic novel about a precocious young girl during Iran's Islamic Revolution following British(MI5) and American (CIA) subterfuge
Topless in New York City
Don't forget to be afraid of Boko Haram today! :) And be terrified of "Kony" enough to support sending US troops into Africa. Heck, why not be afraid of all dark skinned people while you're at it? Terror is the mantra in our US/MIC "War on Fear"
Spread of Buddhism: from its origins in Afghanistan (Gandhara) and India (Magadha) to Iran
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Women posting hijab-free selfies
Jezebel, wantonwoman, an Eve, a Lilith!
Saeed Kamali Dehghan (Guardian.co.uk)
"Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women" was set up 10 days ago and has since attracted thousands of photos.
Thousands of Iranian [Persian, Ariyan] women are taking off their veils and publishing pictures of themselves online, igniting a debate about the freedom to wear or not wear the hijab [the mandatory headscarf demanded by ultraconservative, puritanical Wahabbi Islam, a fundamentalist and extremist faction sponsored by the U.S. and its tentacles].
A Facebook page set up by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad 10 days ago has attracted more than 130,000 likes, with women across Iran sending unveiled pictures taken in parks, at the seaside and in the streets.
Alinejad is not opposed to the hijab -- her mother is veiled -- but she believes we should have the freedom to choose.
Iranian beauties in L.A. (kcet.org)
Another post showed a mother with her daughter. "The beautiful seaside in Kish [Island]," the younger woman wrote. "We strolled on the rocks and experienced the cool breeze flowing through our hair. Is this a big request?"
A young woman from the city of Fuman, in the northern province of Gilan, sent a picture of her in the woods. "I took this picture stealthily in the spring," she wrote. "It makes me feel happy." Another young woman was pictured unveiled just next to a big billboard in Tehran' Yas sports complex asking women to respect the Islamic hijab.
Alinejad told The Guardian she had been bombarded with messages and pictures since launching Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women. "I've hardly slept in the past three days because of the number of pictures and messages I've received." More
The N.W.O. wants a new world order, which means invading Iran. It's amazing. Look at a map: Iran is squeezed between Iraq and Afghanistan and therefore of strategic importance.
BBC News (BBC.co.uk; Wisdom Quarterly (ironically) Q: Why do wars happen?
"Rahm was right. You look cute when you cooperate." - "Hey, you're not so bad yourself."
"Bibi, I can back you better than Barry can."
Israel's outgoing home front defense minister says an attack on Iran would likely [only] trigger a month-long conflict that would leave [only] 500 Israelis dead.
[This would, of course, be in addition to countless civilian casualties, mere "collateral damage," and thousands of evil jihadi Islamist Iranian terrorists intent on threatening Israeli rule in the geopolitical Middle East. Happy reports like this leave Israel/US jonesing for war and more war].
Matan Vilnai told the Maariv newspaper that the fighting would be "on several fronts," with hundreds of missiles fired at Israeli towns and cities [in a desperate attempt to engage in asymmetrical warfare with a nuclear armed aggressor, Israel, and its superpower ally, the USA].
Israel was prepared, he said, though strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities had to be co-ordinated with the US [of course. Israel does nothing without orders or tacit approval from the USA/CIA/MIC].
Israeli-Palestinian peace dove (Avi Katz)
Meanwhile, a US blogger has published what he says are Israel's attack plans: Richard Silverstein (Tikun Olam blog) told the BBC he had been given an internal briefing memo for Israel's eight-member security cabinet, which outlined what the Israeli military would do to prevent Iran developing nuclear weapons.
Tehran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful [But they can show the evidence to Saddam Hussein in Hades for all the international courts have in terms of an ability or eagerness to intervene]. More
"Oh, great god of Kolob, you know my heart. This is for the greater glory of our faith."
This is Shock and Awe, Israel-style. It is Bibi’s effort to persuade high-level Israeli officials that Israel can prosecute a pure technology war that involves relatively few human beings (Israeli, that is) who may be put in harm’s way, and will certainly cost few lives of IDF [Israeli Defense Forces]
Minute 3:50 mentions Iraq and the consequences of US war on the country -- culminating in WW III, all as predicted by "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier.
The impossible is happening. Or a lie is afoot. The US is taking most of our soldiers out of a country we illegally invaded, colonized, and "bombed to the Stone Age"/reduced to rubble (while building the largest US military base in the world there without apparent explanation). Why would we free up forces from Iraq -- because our military-industrial complex (MIC) has reverted to peace?
Now we are being asked, by the PR wing of the B.S. Obama White House, to believe that we evacuating the country to avoid war crimes charges. Iraq (and its newly installed puppet regime friendly to the West) was so ungrateful as to not grant us immunity from prosecution for our many ongoing crimes.
Imagine a world where the US did pull out. Our war hawks, like Lieberman and others still in official office, say that doing that is to "cut and run" like cowards. To think this is part of that is a "pie in the sky" dream. The MIC will not stand for stock and share prices falling on their munitions and arms manufacturers, private armies (government "contractors," Halliburton, whose New York Stock Exchange moniker is HAL pronounced "hell," KBR, Blackwater/Xe, and other mercenary groups), strategic advisers (CIA, Pentagon, FBI operating outside of the US which is illegal but common, and more secretive semi-governmental elements).
Who is "Billy" Meier? Meier's prophetic accuracy has been confirmed by skeptics. NASA's "most important" Jupiter discovery was published first -- by a channeler and a "prophet" of Nordic space aliens.
This is the most controversial ET case in history. The truth is exposed in this remarkable film about how one man's meetings with unearthly beings (extraterrestrials) lead him through dozens of countries, meeting many famous world leaders including Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and later revealing ancient prophecies to come.
In 1958 Meier predicted the US wars on Iraq, global warming, and even the AIDS epidemic. "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier became known in his early years as "The Phantom." He was a real life combination of Indiana Jones, Han Solo, and Lawrence of Arabia who carried a 44 Magnum and apprehended serial killers and mass murderers.
Meier's life story is an enigmatic journey that culminates as he becomes the messenger for an advanced race of ET beings known as the Plejaran.
Their message is clear: The Earth is in trouble, the people have been asleep, and we must make drastic changes or there will be devastating consequences for all humankind.
In his later years Meier stumped hundreds of skeptics with his clear UFO photographs, film footage, and audio recordings of Plejaran "Beam Ships" all shot in broad daylight.
Exotic metal samples he received from ET sources, according to scientists, are not able to be reproduced on Earth. If Meier were a hoaxer, why has he been the target of 21 assassination attempts? Could it be that the message that humanity so desperately needs to hear is not welcome by world leaders?
Coming to DVD from UFOTV.com, "The Silent Revolution of Truth"
Until recently, Iran bordered India and was possibly where the future Buddha grew up. Iran's Fars News Agency released this depiction.
Theocratic Iran claims it has developed an “unmanned flying saucer.” But any fear or trembling this monumental technological advance was meant to inspire [since the US military is already in possession of many both captured and reverse-engineered] was quickly undone by the unfortunate artwork that Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency chose for the story.
Unveiled at an exhibition of “strategic technologies,” Ayatollah Ali Khomeini is said to have given his approval. Iran has named its spacecraft Zohal (Persian, “Saturn”). Its mission, like that of ancient vimana or spacecraft from the celestial deva realms, is to watch everything. The saucer is equipped with aerial photographic and reconnaissance equipment and is even able to fly indoors, whereas devas (Sanskrit for "shining ones") have technology able to read minds.
Skeptics prefer a conflicting report from the Iranian Student News Agency depicting a quadrocopter with a low tech camera and GPS navigation. Iran revealed radar-proof flying boats as seen on CNN. More at PopSci.com
GENEVA – A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused an uproar with a speech attacking Israel at a U.N. conference on racism, the U.N. said Tuesday that Ahmadinejad had actually dropped language from the speech that described the Holocaust as "ambiguous and dubious."
The U.N. and the Iranian Mission in Geneva did not comment on why the change was made. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, however, said he had met with the Iranian president before his speech Monday and reminded him the U.N. had adopted resolutions "to revoke the equation of Zionism with racism and to reaffirm the historical facts of the Holocaust."
Ahmadinejad is lampooned as a pariah and strawman to despise. But as unpalatable a figure as he may be, his statements ring true for many even as they offend others (Cartoon: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com).
Ahmadinejad may have decided to drop the Holocaust phrase that was in his original text to deliver his condemnation of Israel in a more palatable fashion for many countries.
Still, Ahmadinejad's accusation that the West used the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians still provoked walkouts by delegates including every European Union country in attendance. But others, including those from the Vatican, stayed because they said he stopped short of denying the Holocaust.
The walkout came after Ahmadinejad accused Western nations of complicity in violence against Palestinians surrounding the foundation of Israel.
The original text of his speech said "following World War II, they resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless on the pretext of Jewish sufferings and the ambiguous and dubious question of Holocaust."
U.N. spokeswoman Marie Heuze said U.N. officials had checked back with the interpreters and the Farsi recording of Ahmadinejad's speech, and determined that the Iranian president had dropped the terms "ambiguous and dubious," referring instead in Farsi to "the abuse of the question of the Holocaust."
Adding to the confusion, the live English translation of the speech did not mention the word "Holocaust" at all, while the French stayed true to the spoken words of Ahmadinejad. The English translator apparently was following the prepared text and stopped speaking when the Iranian president changed the wording.
The meeting turned chaotic from the start when two protesters in rainbow wigs tossed red clown noses at Ahmadinejad as he began his speech with a Muslim prayer. A Jewish student group from France said it had been trying to convey "the masquerade that this conference represents."
The United States and eight other Western countries had already boycotted the event that started on the eve of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, because of concerns Muslim countries would drown out all other issues with calls to denounce Israel and restrict free speech when it comes to criticizing Islam.
Over 100 other countries on Tuesday approved a 16-page declaration calling on the world to combat intolerance. The declaration did not mention Israel, but among dozens of other points, it reaffirms a 2001 statement issued after the U.N.'s first global racism meeting in South Africa that recognized the "plight of the Palestinians" while affirming the Jewish state's right to security.
That support of the 2001 document was cited by President Barack Obama's administration as the reason it boycotted the Geneva meeting.
African-American groups participating in the conference sharply criticized Obama and his administration for not attending and not signing its declaration against racism.
"The boycott of the Obama administration both saddens us and angers us," said Jaribu Hill, executive director of the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights.
"We will not let Mr. Obama off the hook simply because he stands inside black skin, or because his campaign served to energize and inspire thousands of young people and people of color," she said.
Ban, the U.N. chief, was heartened at the adoption of the declaration by consensus and urged countries not at the conference to rejoin the fight against racism.
In Paris, France's foreign minister criticized the U.S. decision to stay away from an event featuring Ahmadinejad while declaring itself open for negotiations on Iran's nuclear program.
"More than a paradox, it could really be a mistake," Bernard Kouchner said.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a note Tuesday thanking those nations that boycotted the Geneva conference.
"This decision restored a bit of sanity to a world in which an anti-racism conference turns its stage over to a Holocaust denier who expresses his desire to wipe Israel off the map," the note said, according to his office.
Most of Ahmadinejad's rhetoric was not new but its timing and high profile could complicate U.S. efforts to warm ties with the Islamic republic. Alejandro Wolff, the U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations, denounced what he called "the Ahmadinejad spectacle."
In Tehran, some 200 people gathered at the airport to give Ahmadinejad a hero's welcome as he returned home.
Iranian state TV described him as having defended Palestinian rights against a racist regime. The official IRNA news agency quoted lawmaker Mohammad RezaBahonar as saying that Ahmadinejad's speech in Geneva was a "great achievement for (Iran's ruling) system."
The U.N. said it expelled 13 people Tuesday from the conference, including members of Jewish and Iranian groups that disrupted Ahmadinejad's speech.
"At the United Nations we demand that conferences and debates be held in a spirit of mutual respect and dignity," Heuze said.
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AP writers Frank Jordans in Geneva, Angela Charlton in Paris, Mark Lavie in Jerusalem, and Edith Lederer at the UN in New York contributed to this report.
WARNING: Expletives and offensive humor by Sarah Silverman, a Jewish comedienne
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