maybe i've got it about cracked

[click image, video, almost two hours]

I think it is Rafsanjani who has been corrupted by our economic hit men, and that he's had our expert help in putting up this color-coded "revolution", which, clearly, is a win/win for us, whoever has the presidency. I think the idea has been to keep the appearance of Iran remaining a theocracy, but it really being run to install our neoliberal economics that have brought down so many others over the years, through Rafsanjani. You are focussed on Mousavi, even knowing that he's not the real power. The real power is Khamenei, who was elevated to his stature by Rafsanjani to begin with, but who is definitely out of favor with him now because he stands behind Ahmadinejad, and neither Khamenei nor Ahmadinejad is disposed to sell out Iran for personal profit and national ruin.

If you take out the time to listen to this discussion with Perkins about his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which is the best one of the many available online, because it was made when he was still fresh, the book having just come out, and given completely enough time to discuss it in great detail, I'm pretty sure you will begin to see the sense in my assertion here, if you don't already.

This might be the linchpin of the mechanism keeping your mind befuddled by the huge outpouring of Iranians yearning to be free taking place on the streets of Tehran. It might explain to you why something that seems on its face to be such a good thing is really, deeply, so evil. So I hope you take the time to absorb this material. Even if you've heard this stuff a thousand times, I think it is crucial to listen again at this time, because it very perfectly fits into an otherwise not-convincingly explicable situation.

The deadliest part of this is that Barack Obama, with his insanely good grasp of the power to hypnotize, is now in charge of seeing to it that these mandates be carried out. Plus, the massive swindling that has brought down everyone's economies and threatens to completely knock us down, like the Soviets were knocked down, if we don't start another world war, or pump up our consumption of other nations' wealth again somehow, or turn around and revolutionize a whole batch of new technologies to fill the void... this last option, while clearly the sanest and best, it is very clear already is not the one being implemented. It was good for a campaign. Now that Obama is in the Oval Office where he can be controlled, it's time for the corporatocracy, the one in place, the one with so much experience in this action, to use his talents to get accomplished all that eluded them in the last administration.

I have to stress to you the importance of listening to this man again.

Everyone who has come out with this sort of stuff and managed to live through it has had to resort to destroying their own credibility to ease the pressure of assassination. Daniel Sheehan had to turn into a total UFO nut and bliss ninny snake oil salesman. Webster Tarpley, same thing. Others. It's so difficult to find hard-hitting truth tellers who do not also do plenty to discredit themselves, and it is SO obvious that they are doing it against sense that the only explanation for it is that they feel it keeps them safe from being targeted by jackals... and, in this, they may not be wrong.

I mean, contemplate Alex Jones for a moment. Anyone who has paid much attention to him has to realize that he is extremely intelligent, makes all kinds of very cogent arguments and statements, has more courage than any fifty men and is dazzlingly dedicated to truth. At the same time, almost everyone thinks he's a complete lunatic because he makes all these outright psychotic assertions, all in his maniacal style, while he goes about getting the truth out. Others have resorted to making themselves look as fringed-out as possible too, and they all manage to keep huge followings but also not threaten the establishment enough to bring any serious heat on themselves. Perkins seems to have gone awfully bliss ninny in recent times, and I think it is both relaxing in his retirement and the required self-marginalization to stay alive.

If you take the time to listen to this particular discussion, I don't think you can really, honestly, have much doubt left in your mind about what's going on in Iran... not if you have a decent education or are older than, say, forty anyway.