I have read a number of times how the Iranians are some of the friendliest people in the World. Western people go there on holiday and come back enchanted by them. But is it true? Well, it seems so, because this young Englishman is traveling the world on his little Honda C90, but when he gets to Iran he simply adores them. They are polite, easy going, very friendly, respectful. He feels no danger at all, anywhere. Now that's a sign of culture. And in Iran, it seems, it is custom to offer strangers you meet something to eat, so he never has to buy any food.
You're going to love the Iranians, well I did. But we only ever get to hear about the crazed Mullahs and their fundamentalist version of Islam here in the West. They're the ultra conservatives by the way. On the whole most of them aren't like that, but we are never allowed to see this side of them in our mainstream media.
It's his favourite country he has visited so far, and if he had to choose anywhere to live in the world it would be Iran. Everybody is really friendly, even the police, the army, the border control guards. Everybody.
Riding a C90 through Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LEgowbzSc
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One more reason not to vote for Hillary.
Vilifying people lays the groundwork for waging war on them. It's part of the process. And it's despicable.
Everyone I've known who's gone to Iran says the same thing the kid in the video says. They've said Tehran is a wonderful city.
Although I've never been, a friend of mine (English, like me) did visit Iran. He said it was the best place he's ever been to! Certainly the most friendly by a country mile. And he's been everywhere - all the Americas, every country in Europe, most of Asia and a few countries in Africa. By far the best place was Iran! The only down side was no alcohol. They're big on tea, and their tea is apparently fabulous, as is their cuisine.
He visited Bam before the earthquake levelled it. Apparently it was one of the most extraordinary place anywhere in the world.
"The solution to Middle East problems is: "bomb Iran!"
It would work...
Bombing USA with nuclear weapons would work too to solve many problems.
Won't see me arguing for it though.
My preferred policy is to move away from oil and get us the hell away from that entire hell hole... not sure that would work either though (for them...)
Iran economy is more reliable than other countries because the embargo which suffer from Dutch disease. The danger is that lifting the embargo may push Iran towards a focus on oil, hopefully the timing will make this impossible. The same is happening in Russia, due to embargo is forcing the economy to adjust and diversify, it¡'s painful but in the long run is more resilient than the whole petro-state and 'free trade' business.
The problem with falling oil prices affects more other gulf states, specially Iraq and S.A. (eventually). the irony of a fading oil era is that Israel will get the results they wanted w/o shooting a single shoot or nuclear weapon: a fragmented Middle East full of weak "Muslim" states. Thereby the stupidity of the neocons pursuing nonsensical policy, just support competing techs and move away from an era which has to be faded anyway because diminishing reserves or climatic concerns.
OFC it all makes sense because many of them are stakeholders in the oil industry...
The problem with the global economy presently is neo-imperialism and neocolonialism as the residual of imperialism and colonialism. As a result of this orientation, the emerging world is still stuck in the hole of being a source of resources for the developed world, which is technology-based. It's in the interest of the developed world economically and politically to keep things that way rather than proliferating technology to create a more homogenous world economy and global society.
Hi Tom, I've reading some of the stuff you have posted about the neoliberals and their grip on our world and it is very disturbing stuff indeed. I have more of it to read yet, and Bill Mitchell's blog is brilliant and crammed with info so i will be reading it for weeks, or months, even. Neoliberalism is a type of fascism and some call it benign totalitarianism because it isn't murdering us or putting us in concentration camps, but it isn't benign at all and millions of people perish all around the world because of it.
The neoliberal belief, or pretend belief - which is same as the conservative one - is that you have to work your way out of poverty. But is it fair that someone can own all the raw materials in a country, all its fertile land, and everything of value? Is it fair that wealthy people from another nation can buy up everything of worth in another country and then its people remain poor forever after where no amount of hard work makes any difference?
"Hell hole"? Quite a bit of the US would fit that description.
As the State Department and Pentagon have stated (see the declassified record), oil is a lever on the world economy, necessary to force the recalcitrant to kneel before Zod.
The US started importing Middle East oil only very recently. But the US presence in the Middle East started long before then. So the US presence has nothing to do with safeguarding access to energy, just as the State Department and Pentagon explain. Access is not the issue. Control is the issue. Even if the US found an oil field ten times the size of Saudi Arabia in Texas, the US would not exit the Middle East or cease its support of the Gulf dictatorships. These dictatorships control the energy that fuels the economies of China, Japan and Europe.
The US needs client states: democracies don't jump to attention but dictatorships do, especially those whose existence depend on US power. So arm the despots of the Middle East to the teeth and create a miserable existence for the people from which there is no relief.
The superior liberals ignore their own countries role and conveniently blab about anything else. Since race is now out of the question, superioristas point their fingers at religion or culture. The superioristas then bemoan the hell hole that now conveniently forces their Holy State to wage a necessary war that by sheer coincidence ensures the status quo. The superioristas can praise themselves and their Holy State on the alleged liberal humanitarianism and the dazzling enlightenment reached. All great empires have their propagandists, and they all play the same self-serving record...
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