Sanctions Against Iran…Who Wins In The End?

It is no secret that sanctions against Iran has been spinning in the public arena for a long time and there are many in Washington including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who feel that sanctions is due to be implemented. Everybody is saying they have exhausted all resources and efforts to bring Iran to the table and now is the time for sanctions…Hold on a minute! What about those hundreds of thousands of protesters marching on the street who are bleeding and calling for reform and removal of Ahmadinejad from power and a return to the polls to vote for a new leader? If we sanction Iran then we are also sanctioning a democracy that exist in Iran and is asking us to help them…In times past I have written to foreign leaders (Israel’s Prime Minister included) and called for them to vote against sanctions, because it would only harm the people who are not responsible for their governments action’s and would be absolutely counter-productive and inhumane to the working class people of Iran. If the West supports sanctions against Iran and the United Nations approves the sanctioning, then what we would be doing is isolating the Iranian people from the rest of the World and helping them to make a pact with the devil against the West.
If sanctions hurt them enough, they will most likely increase the numbers of Shiite radicals in their own country as a result of America’s failure to see things more rationally.
Who Wins:
Those who will profit from sanctions against Iran are the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank who will tax the rest of the planet for Iran’s re-construction and their defaulting on any already existing debts which eventually leads to those developed countries actually owning Iran by default (generosity is not for free)…The money every country gives is borrowed from somewhere…Your generosity is not for free, we have to pay back that money if we did not have that in surplus…The developed nations are the guarantee against default of under-developed economies who suddenly go into bankruptcy due to hyper inflation set in by lack of trade stimulus.
Sanctions Contribute To Global Destabilization
We have a very dangerous destabilization or domino effect happening in our global economy because of too many hot spots in the World as a result of conflict and prolonging of those conflicts which drains resources from more peaceful and productive projects in our world that are needed to heal our planet and the United States once again is going to do opposite of what it says…It is going to commit a crime against humanity because the bank says so.
Sanctions Do Not Work and Have Never Worked. If we are going to promote peace and freedom than we need to arm those who want it and help them to fight it…These weapons do not necessarily have to be a gun or knife, it can be a computer, radio, camera and even plenty of ink cartridges rather than bullets…Every citizen in Iran can help bring change if we support them…The Supreme Leadership of Iran knows the threat the information superhighway poses to them and they fear the pen just as much as the sword or even worse than the sword because the pen can carry poison. I hope that all who see this today will write their Congressman and Senators or whatever representative you have in your country and encourage them to rethink their foreign policy toward Iran…It is not the Iranian people who want to destroy the West and Israel, but a minority of wannabe dictators who happen to be Islamic elitist and want to exploit the issues of Zionism, Western Imperialism and Islam to make money and those less elite are vying for a status as an Iranian Gestapo officer who enjoys the sadistic pleasure of oppressing their own people.
Sanctions Lead To Hidden Taxes On Consumers In Developed Nations:
As a member of a developed nation, you will have taxes levied against your paycheck and you will pay at the check stand when you purchase goods or services especially gasoline which has so many taxes attached and luxury items which less are able to afford due to taxation. Remember every donor nation to the IMF or the World Bank has to borrow money from somewhere and so your nation’s generosity is not for free. It cost you in taxation to be a generous giver. You have a right to ask what are you getting for your money? You have a right to ask who is getting the money and what are you paying for? You have the right to hold your elected officials accountable because it is your money that they are playing with and it is your paycheck that is guaranteeing your government’s ability to pay off the debts of defaulting countries.
This blog will be updated in the near future as things develop…I hope you visit often.
V Peace, Shalom aleichem,Salam Alaykum,Paz,Namaste

A NATO For The South?

Well, looks like Hugo Chavez and Moammar Gaddafi are up to new things. “>the latest is signing an anti-terorrism treaty and calling for their own version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization..

As the United States is engaged in its own counter-terrorism missions in Afghanistan and what many would consider to be an occupation in Iraq, the powers at work in the region are pushing back by exploiting the U.S. aggression and capitalizing on its own admission by the former Bush administration to be engaged in a dominating role as outlined by Paul Wolfowitz and later adopted as the Bush doctorine…
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Leaders like Col. Gaddafi and others have learned to use the media and to use announcement of ridiculous ideas or displaying of strange behavior to make the West react in a way that occasionally throws them off balance and causes them to stumble on their own words…Gadaffi is trying to clean up his image and act like he is a reformed person, but from the way he was acting at the United Nations, you’d think he is just trying to clown everybody. But this is not just about Gaddafi or Chavez, it is about countering an idea that has been brandished over and over. This idea is called the “New World Order”…Many people oppose it while many others particularly those who are wealthy support it. In the eyes of the Eastern World, this idea which is attached to globalization is about Western expansion through multi-national corporate businesses…This is also known as neo-colonialism which has been criticized by the people in the right wing as being just a buzz word for the left-wing or Marxist to brandish, when in reality if you are a working class person in America or any other part of the World and work a 40 hour work week like most people. No matter whether you are Democrat or Republican Party member, you are being effected by neo-colonialist policies if you are not in the top 2% of those who control the other 98%…This is what Gaddafi, Chavez and other World leaders are exploiting in a World that is being ran by Western Capitalism wherever they’re allowed to homestead.

The two percent of those in power have gotten too greedy and too drunk on their own power and have given way to a surge in anti-Western organizations that are using their own capital to create destabilizing factors…We buy oil from Venezuela as it was the Clinton administration who in fact signed an oil agreement with Venezuela, we are buying oil from Saudi Arabia and the Arab Emirates..Many believe that the money we use to buy oil from the Arabs is being used to fund terrorism against Israel and the West or to pay for revolutions in other places like South America and Africa.

We are working in a vicious cycle of constant antagonisms and class warfare of reactionary politics that are used to foment wars and revolutions which are necessary for those who claim to be of the elite ruling class to overthrow monarchies or anything that is an obstacle to their own imperialist visions. Whether we agree or disagree with people like Hugo Chavez or Col. Gaddafi, we are challenged to admit that if it weren’t for the corruption of capitalism and our democracy, then these people would not have a platform to stand on. As the West needs people like Moammar Gaddafi, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and let’s not forget Osama Bin Laden as a base to work polarities in the World…And the Eastern powers need leaders like George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth, NATO, in order to have a reason to form alliances with counter-balancing powers and play the role as the “Axis Of Evil”.

There is something Christ said to his disciples; “The love of money is the root of all evil”

Banking On Zelaya: Is The IMF Backing The Wrong Man?

It has been reported that the International Monetary Fund is supporting ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by suspending any monetary assistance after Zelaya was removed by military coupe and told to leave the country…Zelaya who has since returned to Honduras and is residing at the Brazilian embassy; is negotiating with the United States who has decided to withdraw from sending aid to Honduras after the current interim government took power by a vote from its own congress who voted to oust Zelaya after he wanted to ratify the constitution which controls the number of terms an elected leader can serve. Mr Zelaya claims he only called for a constituency hearing to vote on the matter to see if the people would support a ratification to Hondura’s constitution.

But with Zelaya now claiming that Israeli mercenaries are plotting to assassinate him (with no evidence to support it) and that he was being subjected to mind altering gases and sound waves being emitted from something that looks like a satellite dish. It is enough to make one wonder if Zelaya is a credible person. Could this whole scenario be taking place in order to destabilize Honduras so that the wealthy elite could take over the whole government? If people were setting out to kill Zelaya, wouldn’t they have done it already? Is the story about Israeli mercenaries really an indirect reference to the State Of Israel and an attempt to discredit Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist? As if they needed more problems.

Mr. Zelaya has not really given any reason why we should believe that Israelis are behind anything in his country and this makes him all the more controversial and sound like a right wing conspiracy taken from the headlines of a newspaper that had existed in the former Nazi Germany of the late 1930s…What makes things more interesting is a story circulating about the coupe against Zelaya was orchestrated <a href=" “>between the CIA and two Private corporations, particularly fruit growers like Chiquita and Dole.

The IMF and World Bank’s decision to suspend monetary transactions could be a normal routine that would occur with any foreign government that is experiencing a shift in its policies or is not operating in a democratic manner, and could only be to reflect the U.S. State Departments decision to withhold aid. The World Bank headquarters is located in Washington D.C.

Will Sanctions Hurt Or Help Iran?

There is news circulating that more nations are supporting the idea of sanctions against the Iranian government for their lack of openness regarding their nuclear program which is not supporting Iran’s claim that their nuclear program is for the purpose of developing an alternative energy source and reinforces Israel’s and other members of the international community’s reason to be very concerned about the direction Iran is going in. The latest country to indicate they may support sanctions is Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev, made it know to the United States while attending the United Nations Summit this week.

While sanctions may work to starve Iran’s nuclear program of funding and slow their progress, it may isolate the Iranian people  who already are demonstrating against the recent elections and help Iran’s propaganda and psychological warfare operation who is pushing the same image of the West as the late Ayatollah Khomeini who once said; “America is the “Great Satan”. Sanctions could help Iran put a tighter grip on the people by controlling humanitarian aid…  One  concern Secretary of Defense Robert Gates expressed back in April and May of this year during a Senate Arms Services Committee meeting is that any military actions could cause Iran’s nuclear weapons program to go underground which would make it difficult to confirm how much progress has been made in weaponizing uranium. The same could be true if we sanction Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still in the position of leadership and still has his support network intact…It is my own opinion that the best option is to work to change Iran from within and let those who want democracy thrive and enable them by whatever means necessary.

Can Iran Run The Nuclear Race?

Today as the speeches at the United Nations have wrapped up and the G-20 Summit is going into its second day, we are left with the material to analyze and critique or praise.

I think the biggest stars of this years summit whether you like them or not were Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Muammar Ghadafi, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The one who is the most controversial is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is in the spotlight because of his bipolar and manic like behavior on the World stage.

One minute he’s talking religion and the next he is rambling about the destruction of Zionism and what he perceives as American imperialism…Many in the international community including the International Atomic Energy Agency believe that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and Israel believes they are going to use them to wipe them off the face of the Earth as President Ahmadinejad has said on numerous occasions, but the question is does Iran really need nuclear weapons to take on the Western powers?

I think the answer to that question is “No”, plain and simple. My reasons for saying that are because there are less expensive and yet effective ways of taking on the West. This is being demonstrated in Afghanistan and Iraq where people who live in a less modern environment are learning how to improvise and inflict heavy losses upon U.S. and NATO forces who are the most modern military powers in the World.  The attacks on September 11, 2001 demonstrated what terrorist can achieve with limited resources.  Al Qaeda caused more destruction for a few hundred thousand dollars or less than what an F-16 carrying a few hundred thousand dollars in munitions normally does…Iran who is suppose to be a state sponsoring terrorism is making a paradigm shift if they are following the same route as the industrial military complex in the United States which is spending more money than Al Qaeda and all terrorist organizations combined and yet is suffering from bad publicity.

Iran is not in the financial position to continue going forward with its nuclear weapons program if it does have one and everything so far is indicating they have the intention to use their nuclear facilities to make weapons grade materials…But the fact is they will not have that much material to use to build a strategic nuclear weapon and maybe not even enough to build a tactical nuclear weapon even with the current amount of centrifuges …Then there is the delivery capability they are still needing to develop which is being explored with the Shahab missile program, but its still in the medium and short range.  There is still alot of money to spend before they even arrive at being a regional nuclear threat.  The fact that President Obama had scaled back the European Missile Shield which was based on intelligence assessments supports this.

So with that in mind could it be that Iran’s nuclear program is really just a propaganda scheme to divert attention from its real game plan which is to help destroy American credibility in the Middle East and the World?

Iran has been playing the propaganda war and has help from many other organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and news outlets like Al-Jazeera and not for profit media like Link TV who claim to be fair and unbiased yet sympathize more for the bad guys like the elitist in Washington think tanks.  Today we already see the news reports from Afghanistan playing like the Tet offensive of 1968 in Vietnam with the Generals almost saying we are losing the war against the Islamic extremist.

We have a financial meltdown that started in the United States with Lehman Brothers, and still are experiencing the effects like aftershocks with banks failing in record numbers that hasn’t been since 1929, and this failure was helped along by $100 dollar a barrel crude oil which caused the price of goods and services to go up as a result of transportation and energy cost rising with oil prices.  prior to the oil price hike, the people George W. Bush classified as the “Axis Of Evil” gathered at an OPEC summit meeting in 2008 calling for oil price increases…President Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both called for $100 a barrel oil price index and in  just a little over nine months their dream came true.

The buzz going around about Iran developing nuclear weapons may also be to get the Israelis to lunge too quickly and cause damage to their credibility by their own actions with collateral damage?

There is also the possibility that Iran could seek to disrupt the U.S. economy with cyber warfare and sabotaging major corporations in the United States who do business with their enemies (particularly Israel). And that may not only apply to U.S. companies. If such a move did occur it could have a detrimental effect on the global economy.

There is more than one way to stop Iran’s ambitions and I think we should all not be quick too lunge, but not too slow to do anything. There is hope in Iran and that hope is the millions of people who no longer want President Ahmadinejad to be President any longer and want democracy and lasting peace and prosperity.  There are options that all parties who have  vested interests can live with (eg; Russia,China,Germany) and Israel could sleep better at night if we all took the right course of action rather than just react without a long term strategy and consideration for our global partners.

If the West is to have credibility it must take actions that are fiscally responsible and politically sound and respectful of other nations it wants to have as a partner in peace.

Lulapalooza…Lula Calls For New World Order

Brazil after new world order in economy
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:28:40 GMT
The Brazilian president calls for a new world order in global economy, which gives developing countries more control over the World Bank and the IMF.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, insisted that every country should play its role in overhauling the interdependent global economy.

“Because the global economy is interdependent, we are obliged to intervene across national borders and must therefore re-found the world economic order,” he said, according to AFP.

Lula further underlined that the world leaders should go ahead with regulating the financial markets and putting an end to protectionism.

He called for international financial entities such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to be “more representative and democratic” and to give poor and developing countries a due share if they want to overhaul the global financial system.

“Poor and developing countries must increase their share of control in the IMF and the World Bank,” he said.

Lula is going to represent his country as an emerging economy at the G20 summit later week in Pittsburg with US President Barack Obama hosting the event.

RB/MMN

My Conclusions:
What President Da Silva may or may not realize is that he is calling for the redistribution of wealth that is based on the premise that poor or under-developed nations deserve to have more say in the World Bank just because they’re poor or under-developed…President Da Silva who is clearly a Socialist thinker and leads one of the few Socialist economies that has proven to be a viable contributor to alternative energy research and has been praised by the industrialized nations, and is worthy of recognition for all its achievements, but the majority of under-developed nations are  not as fortunate, because they do not know how to grow or handle wealth,  The majority of third world countries are unstable from conflict resulting from social class warfare and religious extremism and this makes them havens for radical elements to brew more trouble in other parts of the World. The third World is at war with itself and it would be disastrous to hand over controlling interest to any third world country that is not stable…How can we give more control to to these countries, let alone give them more money if they don’t know how to manage hyper-inflation? What President Da Silva is calling for is very unrealistic if there are no pre-conditions such as sustainable development (neither of the these were mentioned by President Da Silva) and guarantees that the monies acquired from the World Bank are not being used to fund crimes against humanity… Many third world countries are still in need of modernization before they could be considered contributors to overhauling the World Bank. Until then, it is only a pipe dream.