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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 11, 2013 11:10:29 GMT -5
The following is an excerpt from a speech by Benjamin H. Freedman. (died 1984)
"In 1933, when Germany refused to surrender to the world conference of Jews in Amsterdam, the conference broke up, and Mr. Samuel Untermyer, who was the head of the American delegation and the president of the whole conference, came to the United States and went from the steamer to the studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System and made a radio broadcast throughout the United States in which he in effect said, "The Jews of the world now declare a Holy War against Germany. We are now engaged in a sacred conflict against the Germans. And we are going to starve them into surrender. We are going to use a world-wide boycott against them. That will destroy them because they are dependent upon their export business." And it is a fact that two thirds of Germany's food supply had to be imported, and it could only be imported with the proceeds of what they exported. So if Germany could not export, two thirds of Germany's population would have to starve. There was just not enough food for more than one third of the population. Now in this declaration, which I have here, and which was printed in the New York Times on August 7, 1933, Mr. Samuel Untermyer boldly stated that "this economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration," which some of you may remember, where everybody was to be boycotted unless he followed the rules laid down by the New Deal, and which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of that time. Nevertheless, the Jews of the world declared a boycott against Germany, and it was so effective that you couldn't find one thing in any store anywhere in the world with the words "made in Germany" on it. In fact, an executive of the Woolworth Company told me that they had to dump millions of dollars worth of crockery and dishes into the river; that their stores were boycotted if anyone came in and found a dish marked "made in Germany," they were picketed with signs saying "Hitler," "murderer," and so forth, something like these sit-ins that are taking place in the South. At a store belonging to the R. H. Macy chain, which was controlled by a family called Strauss who also happen to be Jews, a woman found stockings there which came from Chemnitz, marked "made in Germany." Well, they were cotton stockings and they may have been there 20 years, since I've been observing women's legs for many years and it's been a long time since I've seen any cotton stockings on them. I saw Macy's boycotted, with hundreds of people walking around with signs saying "murderers," "Hitlerites," and so forth. Now up to that time, not one hair on the head of any Jew had been hurt in Germany. There was no suffering, there was no starvation, there was no murder, there was nothing."
I thought the pattern here was remarkably similar to what's happening to Iran today in 2013. The Iranian regime is being made to look like another Nazi Hitler around the world. It's lucky for the Zionists that nobody in the world knows anything about WWII except what they've been fed by the media. And is it strange that Mossad agents were hunting down and killing ex-Nazis all over the world up until very recently? What is the justification for such a murderous rampage?
The Mossad tracks down and murders Palestinian activists and resistence fighters in Europe as a matter of course. What is the justification for this?
The Iranian regime is starting to seem very coherent and level-headed to me. It's too bad anti-semitism and nazism is illegal in the US. I guess there's only one thing worse than a nazi jew-hater in america today, and that's a nazi jew-hater who supports Iran. I guess that makes me the most despicable person in the world.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 11, 2013 11:17:22 GMT -5
This is the next paragraph of the speech.
"Naturally, the Germans said, "Who are these people to declare a boycott against us and throw all our people out of work, and make our industries come to a standstill? Who are they to do that to us?" They naturally resented it. Certainly they painted swastikas on stores owned by Jews. Why should a German go in and give his money to a storekeeper who was part of a boycott that was going to starve Germany into surrendering to the Jews of the world, who were going to dictate who their premier or chancellor was to be? Well, it was ridiculous."
Replace German with Iranian and the paragraph is as accurate today as it was in the 1930s. If a Hitler-type personality emerges in Iran in the following years, I am sure as hell going to support him. I'd even vote for him if that's what it takes! (I've never voted for anything in my life.)
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 12, 2013 5:07:28 GMT -5
I know a family of three, a man and woman in their late forties and their twenty-two year old son, who live in a small two-bedroom apartment in Tehran. The apartment is a shithole, but in a well-to-do middle-class neighborhood. Their rent, as of last year, was 380,000 tomans per month in addition to a deposit of 2 million tomans which they payed ten years ago when they moved in. This is extremely cheap considering the neighborhood they live in. Their landlord, for whatever reasons, had kept their rent low and affordable all these years, increasing it by a mere 20,000 tomans per year. But last week, they were informed that in order to renew their lease for one more year they have to add 8 million tomans to their deposit, and pay 1 million per month as rent. They cannot afford to pay this on one man's salary; the guy makes 600,000 a month and his wife and son are unemployed. (There is no official minimum-wage in Iran, but unofficially it's around 500,000 tomans per month in Tehran. Young people in Tehran are working for still less nowadays though: even as low as 300,000 month for simple jobs that don't require _any_ expertise.) The family is looking for another apartment at this point, and the wife and son are looking for employment. They don't want to move to a lower-class neighborhood, but the prices in their current neighborhood are just too unaffordable, even if they all started making money. A modern luxury 2 bedroom apartment in their current neighborhood would cost them something like 50 million (deposit) plus 1 million per month.
1 million tomans is roughly equal to $280 USD. My guess is that the wife, a high school graduate with no "skillz," could make 400,000 to 500,000 per month at best, and the kid, also a high school graduate with no prospects, should be really lucky to get 300,000 per month. Currently, they make ends meet only because the extended family lends them monthly support.
Young people in Tehran have to work for less than a hundred dollars a month, while others are making 100 dollars a day, and in NYC they are making 100 dollars a minute. Someone close to me had their immigration application to Australia turned down recently, and so went on a job interview yesterday and was offered 400,000 tomans per month. A masters degree from a european university gets you a job worth a little over a hundred dollars a month in Tehran.
How's that for a shitty economy? I don't know if we've beaten 1930s Germany in terms of poverty or not, but at this rate we will, very soon.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 12, 2013 6:34:04 GMT -5
washingtonexaminer.com/mona-charen-stephen-hawking-visited-iran-but-boycotts-israel/article/2529333OMG! LOL!!! Quoting Franklin25's comment: "The issues have nothing to do with Israel or Palestine, never have and never will. Anti-Zionism provides the convenient cover for the more deep-seated cultural hatred and fear of "true democracy" and its main promoters, Jews. Over a hundred years ago, John McDowell Leavitt, president of Lehigh University, explained clearly: "From Joshua to Saul the rulers were judges. . . For merit they were elected by the people. For five centuries Israel was a democracy. Sovereignty was in the people. At a time in earth's history when all other nations were ruled by despots; beneath the shadows of empires, . . . anticipating and prophesying the divine ideal of human government-the Jewish Commonwealth, under the shield of Jehova, stood for ages, in the whole turbulent and inimical world, a solitary democracy. . . . As opposed to these hoary tyrannies the monarchy of Israel was a sovereignty of the people." Europe and the U.K. are still, deep down, lovers of monarchy and authoritarianism, allowing people like Hitler to be made an overnight leader. It's not surprising that the divesters won't bother to criticize Iran, Russia, or the other despotic regimes of the world, and will pick on a small country that supports freedom of the individual."
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 12, 2013 10:54:34 GMT -5
Here's the last paragraphs from that Benjamin Freedman speech.
Now any judge, when he charges a jury, says, "Gentlemen, any witness who you find has told a single lie, you can disregard all his testimony." I don't know what state you come from, but in New York state that is the way a judge addresses a jury. If that witness told one lie, disregard his testimony.
What are the facts about the Jews? (I call them Jews to you, because they are known as Jews. I don't call them Jews myself. I refer to them as so-called Jews, because I know what they are.) The eastern European Jews, who form 92 per cent of the world's population of those people who call themselves Jews, were originally Khazars. They were a warlike tribe who lived deep in the heart of Asia. And they were so warlike that even the Asiatics drove them out of Asia into eastern Europe. They set up a large Khazar kingdom of 800,000 square miles. At the time, Russia did not exist, nor did many other European countries. The Khazar kingdom was the biggest country in all Europe -- so big and so powerful that when the other monarchs wanted to go to war, the Khazars would lend them 40,000 soldiers. That's how big and powerful they were.
They were phallic worshippers, which is filthy and I do not want to go into the details of that now. But that was their religion, as it was also the religion of many other pagans and barbarians elsewhere in the world. The Khazar king became so disgusted with the degeneracy of his kingdom that he decided to adopt a so-called monotheistic faith -- either Christianity, Islam, or what is known today as Judaism, which is really Talmudism. By spinning a top, and calling out "eeny, meeny, miney, moe," he picked out so-called Judaism. And that became the state religion. He sent down to the Talmudic schools of Pumbedita and Sura and brought up thousands of rabbis, and opened up synagogues and schools, and his people became what we call Jews. There wasn't one of them who had an ancestor who ever put a toe in the Holy Land. Not only in Old Testament history, but back to the beginning of time. Not one of them! And yet they come to the Christians and ask us to support their armed insurrections in Palestine by saying, "You want to help repatriate God's Chosen People to their Promised Land, their ancestral home, don't you? It's your Christian duty. We gave you one of our boys as your Lord and Savior. You now go to church on Sunday, and you kneel and you worship a Jew, and we're Jews." But they are pagan Khazars who were converted just the same as the Irish were converted. It is as ridiculous to call them "people of the Holy Land," as it would be to call the 54 million Chinese Moslems "Arabs." Mohammed only died in 620 A.D., and since then 54 million Chinese have accepted Islam as their religious belief. Now imagine, in China, 2,000 miles away from Arabia, from Mecca and Mohammed's birthplace. Imagine if the 54 million Chinese decided to call themselves "Arabs." You would say they were lunatics. Anyone who believes that those 54 million Chinese are Arabs must be crazy. All they did was adopt as a religious faith a belief that had its origin in Mecca, in Arabia. The same as the Irish. When the Irish became Christians, nobody dumped them in the ocean and imported to the Holy Land a new crop of inhabitants. They hadn't become a different people. They were the same people, but they had accepted Christianity as a religious faith.
These Khazars, these pagans, these Asiatics, these Turko-Finns, were a Mongoloid race who were forced out of Asia into eastern Europe. Because their king took the Talmudic faith, they had no choice in the matter. Just the same as in Spain: If the king was Catholic, everybody had to be a Catholic. If not, you had to get out of Spain. So the Khazars became what we call today Jews. Now imagine how silly it was for the great Christian countries of the world to say, "We're going to use our power and prestige to repatriate God's Chosen People to their ancestral homeland, their Promised Land." Could there be a bigger lie than that? Because they control the newspapers, the magazines, the radio, the television, the book publishing business, and because they have the ministers in the pulpit and the politicians on the soapboxes talking the same language, it is not too surprising that you believe that lie. You'd believe black is white if you heard it often enough. You wouldn't call black black anymore -- you'd start to call black white. And nobody could blame you.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 14, 2013 5:12:15 GMT -5
Some kids were playing basketball in our neighborhood today. They must have all been ~20 years old. They were three guys and two girls playing a friendly non-competitive game. I must have watched the girls throw a dozen airballs in five minutes. I'm serious, they couldn't even get the ball to touch the hoop, much less the board, even once. The guys weren't no allen iverson either, but at least they weren't making complete fools out of themselves. (If they'd been playing the black kids at my high school, they would've looked even more stupid than the girls, but that's beside the point.)
I don't think it's "natural" that girls should be such pussies (pardon my french.) I think our culture raises girls to be weak and submissive. I've noticed very often that a lot of women themselves believe they are inferior to men, and to quote these women: "it's just the way of the world."
Well, the way of the world sucks.
Then we've got militant feminist porn-stars who are championing the cause of women in the west. As if being a man-hating rich whore were the epitome of female achievement. There's a conspiracy I tell you. There's a hidden design at play, keeping women weak and dumb. Now, who's got the gall to argue that women in our society are doing "just fine?"
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Post by grainnerhuad on May 14, 2013 14:38:34 GMT -5
I don't think it's natural that feminine words like "pussy" should be used to describe weakness. I think that's part of the problem. A lot of words defining weakness are feminine in nature. It's a huge insult to call a male a "girl" or "girly" and why should that be? Men in fact in many cases are not as strong as women. It has been pointed out that women generally have a higher pain threshold than men. Also, you can not stop a woman by kicking her in her crotch. It smarts, yes but it doesn't bring us to our knees. Men have stupidly engineered reproductive systems that are vulnerable. If anything one should call a weak person a "dick", not a "pussy". Pussies are much stronger.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 14, 2013 23:22:44 GMT -5
I don't make the terms, Grainne, I just use them. In fact, personally I'm becoming less and less concerned with the world and all its bullshit every day. I don't care if women are weak and treated like objects by men. I don't care that women are collectively taking revenge by entrapping men. I don't care that men resort to getting even by cheating eachother in business. I don't care that the society we're living in is the opposite of what we call harmony. None of this affects me personally. I suppose I'm quite close to reaching the mythical state of endless bliss that is purported to result from not caring about anything in the world. And yet, I don't need to be personally affected by something to be aware of it. I can call attention to the shitty state of mankind and press for change, without needing to benefit from it personally. The average guy in our day would rather die than put time and effort into something that doesn't bring him a "profit." The concept of profit is one of the main gods of the 21st century pantheon, it would seem. I am not a merchant. I don't sell, and I don't buy. I give whatever I have, and I take whatever I need. Anyway, the Tehran Times is reporting that "Iran will leave the U.S. behind by the end of the current year to become the world's third largest cement exporter." Forbes magazine on the other hand is reporting that "Iran is the Middle East’s biggest car producer. Its car industry, comprised of companies such as the Bahman Group, Iran Khodro and Saipa, ranks 13th in the world for total production and 5th in the world in terms of fastest growth. With annual production at 1.6 million vehicles, Iran’s automotive industry accounts for 10 percent of Iranian GDP. And with official oil sales dwindling as a consequence of sanctions, the car industry’s importance to regime revenues is rising." One western news website was speculating today on the degree of destruction that an Israeli nuclear assault would cause Iran. The article specifically brought up the image of Iranian cities getting hit by Israeli nukes. Another non-Iranian website was claiming that Iranian forces in Syria are "training" for a cross-border assault into Israel. An arab news outlet is reporting that Iran is practically the sole provider of weapons to the Palestinian cause, the headline reads "Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Iran Supplies All Weapons in Gaza." I might be way off, but I'm beginning to see shockingly similar patterns between what's being done to Iran today and what was done to Germany before WWII. I can't say anything about WWII for certain, but I can say for sure that Iran is being pushed, very hard today. I don't know how hard the Germans were pushed before they decided the rest of the world needed to die, but I do know that German economy and industry in the years leading to WWII and during the war was nothing short of divine intervention. Germany, as far as I know, was reduced to a pile of ash, and forced to accept ridiculously harsh economic "sanctions" at the end of the first World War. If all this was a Zionist plot against Germany, as some writers have suggested, then I can only deduce that the Zionists are completely aware of what they are doing today, which is pushing Iran for WWIII. As a sidenote, I think the west's attitude of underestimating Iran (or the American attitude of underestimating everyone else) is very dangerous today. The world today is not the world of 1944. And Iran today is vastly superior to WWII Germany. I am seeing clear and undeniable signs of economic recovery in Tehran. On the other side of the Atlantic however, US Congress is calling for the freezing of in the neighborhood of 200 billion US dollars worth of Iranian assets in the west. That was yesterday. Today US lawmakers are calling for a _total_ ban on Iranian oil. www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/frustrated-with-diplomacy-some-in-congress-seek-total-ban-on-irans-oil/2013/05/13/085cc4c0-b9aa-11e2-aa9e-a02b765ff0ea_story.htmlwww.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2013/05/13/irans-car-industry-a-big-sanctions-buster/
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Post by grainnerhuad on May 15, 2013 15:41:48 GMT -5
As for the way things are shaping up in Iran and actually exactly everywhere else in the world. I do believe you are correct that the U.S. underestimates Iran. Yes Iran is not pre-WWII Germany. Noplace is. Everyone is way more advanced and in control of their resources. We all know exactly how to obliterate everyone else. We ALL underestimate each other.
At the same time, we overestimate each other. The "West" doesn't have their shit together either. Everything that you have listed as a problem in Iran we experience on nearly the same scale here in the U.S. and in Canada, France, the U.K., Brazil, etc.
It makes me wonder, what if we stopped giving a shit about sanctions and started living on our own resources. What if trade became less of an issue of survival and more of a non-issue. We would find out in a quick hurry what we could and could not live on. Perhaps we would make much needed life style adjustments. Maybe the film industry would bloom in countries and people would get to see people who look like themselves and not Tom Cruise being action heroes. (that's not actually a good example, nobody wants to see Tom Cruise except Tom Cruise)
But we would also stop wasting things we have less of maybe. Maybe we wouldn't feel the need to have lawns in desert areas or we would make solar driven cars instead of oil ones if oil is an import we have heretofore relied on.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 16, 2013 0:57:30 GMT -5
Well, actually Grainne, a lot of nations on earth today simply hold no water compared to WWII Germany. Off the top of my head, I'd name all Arab nations, and probably all African nations, all the small nations of latin america, canada, eastern european countries, all former soviet states excluding russia, australia and new zealand, and pretty much all of south-east asia. So, I think we're talking about two different things.
The burgeoning "industrial-economic-warmachine" vibe that Germany introduced to the world in the beginning of the modern age, is today limited to a handful of countries. Israel, IMO, does not rank among them. But Iran does, as does the USA. So, I think it's fair to think of Iraq and Syria as the average western man does. But to lump Iran together with the rest of the middle east is purely a matter of prejudice.
If the Zionists did not feel seriously threatened by Iran, they would not have their war-beast (the USA) surround Iran on all sides. Forty-one nations are taking part in naval exercises in the Persian gulf. Why would they bother if they thought Iran couldn't make good on its threat to shut off the hormuz strait?
In our day and age, to call for war is the opposite of the modern enlightened liberal attitude which is supposedly working towards world peace. But this liberal garbage has no place in the ideology of Palestinians, who are fighting for their survival. There is a war being waged against Muslims in general, and Iran in particular today. Liberal non-violent pacifist BS belongs in San Francisco, not the middle east. For Iran, a fierce warlike attitude today is a vital necessity IMO, and an ambitious military-industrial complex is simply the logical extension.
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Post by grainnerhuad on May 16, 2013 12:45:05 GMT -5
I agree, there is no room for la-la-love-and-peace when people are being treated they way they are in Palestine. It also seems clear there is an extermination policy in regards to Muslims. There is no time to think of peace when children are killed on the way to school, the bathroom, bed.
However Zionists have ALWAYS needed their "big brothers" They are the smallest Billy Goat's Gruff. They wouldn't even be there if the NATO "WE" hadn't put them there in what was once Palestine. Well, they may have but, they would have had to get along like everyone else did in the country before they came.
There are more thoughts in my head but, I'm out the door. I'll be back eventually.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 16, 2013 23:17:06 GMT -5
Personally, I couldn't care less about Palestine. I'm not an Arab, and I don't subscribe to Abrahamic demon-worship ignorance-cults. I certainly feel no more kinship towards the Palestinians than I do to the Israelis. In fact, I share no cultural, linguistic or racial bonds with either group. And while Palestinians are predominantly Sunni, Iranians are Shia. Yet, as things stand now, practically all Arab nations have turned their backs to Palestine. It's baffling that Persians should be fighting for Palestinians, while Arabs support the genocide of their own kind. (Stupid much?) Iranians don't like Arabs. Kinda like how Americans don't like Canadians, but not exactly. Hordes of savage Arab desert-dwellers crushed the Sassani empire and put ancient Persian culture to _death_ circa 650 CE. It is told that the Arab invaders burned every book in the libraries of Iran, because and I quote "If they agree with the Quran, they are useless. If they disagree, they are blasphemous" or some stupid ignorant shit to that effect. And yet, within a few centuries, Iran was the unquestionable center of Islamic arts and sciences. The contributions of Persian-Muslim thinkers of the middle ages brought about the Islamic golden age, and in general was nothing short of the Italian Renaissance, which eventually led to the European Renaissance. Arabs aren't very smart people. They aren't good thinkers either. If they were, all of their ancestors' conquests would not be in the hands of corrupt zionist-backed dictators today. As if that weren't bad enough, they are standing by idly as Palestine becomes Israel, as the Arab world becomes The Empire's oil-mining colony. If I were a Muslim leader, I would issue a fatwa calling for the death of the Saudi monarchs. I would press for an Islamic Republic in "Saudi" Arabia. And once that is accomplished, I would politely ask the Zionists to vacate Palestine within 24 hours. They would not be able to refuse. When I focus my attention on the king of Saudi Arabia, a strange image pops up in my head. I see Tolkien's Théoden, the king of Rohan, sitting on his throne with dead eyes, being manipulated by the snake Gríma Wormtongue, for the benefit of Saruman.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on May 17, 2013 5:06:55 GMT -5
"Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War against the Palestinians" by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
This is the book to read for insight into the Palestinian situation. Like all other non-biased works on the matter, this one is also not an easy read by any standards. You _will_ shudder with disgust and feel inconceivably evil vibes all the way through this book. Not recommended for the faint of heart.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Jun 4, 2013 9:31:22 GMT -5
Because the quality of programming on Iranian TV is so horribly low, a lot of people in Iran make use of satellite dishes to receive the free and, IMHO equally low-quality horseshit, created in the west.
A couple of days ago, I happened to catch five minutes of an iranian-american one-man political talk show. You know, the kind of show where one guy sitting behind a desk talks for an hour, and maybe interviews a guest or two, but it's not comedy. Now, what this guy had to say was really interesting. He claimed that the Arabs were responsible for all of Iran's troubles. In five minutes, he created a huge edifice of racial hatred against all Arabs. His attempts at spreading racism were so transparently visible in every sentence he spoke that I could not help but laugh out loud.
Yet, these iranian-american channels, of which there are countless many, have actual viewers and fans among the Iranian population. They promote western culture shamelessly.
In Iran today, if you don't watch BBC-Persian, Manoto 1, VOA (voice of america,) PMC (persian music channel,) and a few other channels on a regular basis, you're "out of the loop" -- like I am. Not part of the TV-culture, means having almost nothing to talk about with the average person.
If the west had an agenda against Iran, and that's not a very big if, I think it could be taken for granted that these television networks work to destabilize the Iranian regime. These TV channels accuse the Iranian government of totalitarianism for gathering satellite dishes off of people's roofs and balconies by brute-police force, as they are known to do every once in a while. Yet, the people are far from intimidated. There are many good reasons for calling the Iranian government totalitarian, but this is just not one of them.
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Jun 6, 2013 1:49:03 GMT -5
That racist arab-hate guy was on TV again yesterday, this time talking about alcohol. He started off with a "historical fact" about how iranians were making wine from wild grapes thousands of years ago. Then he claimed that wine was always a matter of pride for the iranian people, until the arabs came and tried to eradicate it. He claimed that iran is the world's largest grape producer without a wine industry. (*the actual fact is that wine was being made on the iranian plateau thousands of years ago, before the iranians ever came here.)
Anyway, he made a whole case for why a "real" iranian should be a drinker and a lover of alcoholic drinks, and a maker of wine in his basement. He went on to name every kind of alcoholic drink known to man, giving a bit of history and background on each as he went along the list. He made it sound like it's uncool to not know the difference between scotch and bourbon. I thought he was blatantly trying to force the image that alcohol and drinking is cool and awesome. Like he was some messenger from the beyond, telling the ignorant iranian peasantry about the marvels of alcohol in the sky-nation of america, making them feel like they're being denied the nectar of life by a bunch of traitors who are the backers of a degenerate arab religion unworthy of the sophistication of the persian man/wine connoisseur par excellence.
Then some hours later, I swear to god, I saw an idiot who had watched the show, who was talking to his friend about what the holy man from heaven had said, enlightening him about the white gods' drinking culture of love and awesomeness and absolute coolness, invoking and further spreading feelings of resentment towards the iranian government, islam and the arabs.
Edit: Alcoholic drinks are widely available in Iran. In rural areas people make aragh (not arak) from distilling raisins, and also red wine. Grapes are a very cheap commodity, so no one in rural iran ever goes thirsty if they are a drinker. And in cities, while the quality of the aragh (it's supposed to be over 90% alcohol or something) and wine is lower than rural areas, there's a wide variety of "smuggled" canned and bottled alcoholic drinks of all kind easily available on the market. But drinking is strictly a private matter in rural areas, and while young people drink on the streets in Tehran all the time as a matter of course, they try not to attract attention to themselves. There are no bars or any kind of government-sanctioned drinking-places in Iran, although anyone is free to invite people to their house and get piss-drunk. (I think it goes without saying that the booze-smugglers are also known as the government.)
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