From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/29/26 12:40 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >   
   > I haven't posted anything about Iran.   
   >   
   > Oh, I reacted to the Doc shrieking on the topic, but   
   > nothing on Facebook and, more telling, nothing on   
   > Tumblr.   
   >   
   > I've been avoiding the topic.   
   >   
   > And it's not like I haven't been thinking about it. Iran   
   > has been on my mind a lot. But I *Cringe* and every   
   > suggestion that Americans need to get involved, "Support"   
   > THIS or THAT.   
   >   
   > Remember the hostage crisis?   
   >   
   > That was because we -- the United States -- backed   
   > placing the self-proclaimed "Royals" back in power.   
   >   
   > It was a British plan. The Brits had been working on   
   > "Regime Change" in Iran for YEARS at that point, quite   
   > literally YEARS of effort, and they were even willing   
   > to invade Iran to accomplish this regime change.   
   >   
   > But they couldn't.   
   >   
   > Stalin wasn't afraid of the Brits. The Soviet Union   
   > had been Public Enemy #1 of the British empire since   
   > the revolution and the executions of the Russian royal   
   > family and a British "Intervention" in Iran would have   
   > amounted to an engraved invitation hand delivered to   
   > Stalin:   
   >   
   > "The British empire cordially invites you, Stalin, to   
   > counter invade Iran and stomp the shit out of our   
   > military."   
   >   
   > It would have happened.   
   >   
   > So the Brits needed their own 400 pound gorilla to   
   > keep Stalin at bay and the President at the time,   
   > Truman, was like, "Go fuck yourself."   
   >   
   > And why not?   
   >   
   > America was going to topple a democracy, install some   
   > dumb cunt who thinks his shit don't stink, risking a   
   > war with Russia, all because the Brits said they owned   
   > Iran's oil and were willing to kill to keep control of   
   > it?   
   >   
   > No, Truman "Passed" on THAT golden opportunity...   
   >   
   > Truman, btw, by some amazing coincidence was subjected   
   > to the mother of all negative campaigns. He was denounced   
   > as a communist, for example. And it was so bad that when   
   > he left office the man couldn't have gotten elected dog   
   > catcher....   
   >   
   > Yes I'm saying that, once again, just like in the pre war   
   > years, the Brits were interfering in American politics.   
   >   
   > So, Ike gets elected and before Ike even got sworn in the   
   > CIA started moving forward on the coup in Iran.   
   >   
   > Again, VERY simple plan:  The U.S. was orders of magnitude   
   > more conservative back then, Iran even more so. The social   
   > conservatives, the religious conservatives -- and we might   
   > as well just say "Religious" because they were automatically   
   > conservative -- they all loved having a Shah. The democracy   
   > was imposed on Iran by foreigners.   
   >   
   > Any government imposed by foreigners ALWAYS has a taint...   
   >   
   > Effectively, the only part of the British plan that had   
   > been missing up to that point was "400 pound gorilla to   
   > counter Stalin." And that was the United States.   
   >   
   > The only role the U.S. had in the British plan was to be   
   > the 400 pound gorilla. And to make sure every (Stalin) was   
   > clear on this, they had to "Leak" the fact that this   
   > British plan was an American CIA plan.   
   >   
   > Stalin had to believe he was up against Ike, not the Brits.   
   >   
   > So they leaked it. And nobody would publish it.   
   >   
   > Back then they still had this thing called "Patriotism" and   
   > the media was none too eager to publish classified information.   
   >   
   > The media didn't know this was a British operation and that   
   > planting the fairy tale that it was an American coup into   
   > the press was part of the plan, to scare away the Russians.   
   >   
   > Finally the Saturday Evening Post published where the NYT   
   > said "Fuck off."   
   >   
   > You want to know what kills me?  I had it. I actually owned   
   > a copy of THAT edition of the Saturday Evening Post, back when   
   > I was in high school. It was from someone's old magazine   
   > collection that they had thrown out and. totally by accident,   
   > I got THAT edition!   
   >   
   > And I have no idea what happened to it.   
   >   
   > By I actually had a copy -- decades later -- and read it, which   
   > seared the whole thing in my mind... forever...   
   >   
   > Even funnier:  I was not away of the British history on the   
   > topic. But this was post hostage-taking, so I could connect the   
   > operation to the later fall of the Shah and the blaming of the   
   > U.S.   
   >   
   > LATER in life I found out it was a years-long British effort, not   
   > an American, and it was one of COUNTLESS examples of our fake   
   > friends in Europe throwing the United States under the bus...   
   >   
   > I HATE monarchy. I HATE "nobility." It's a cancer on mankind.   
   >   
   > ALL economic disparity flows directly from social disparity.   
   >   
   > You can pretend it's not true but it is. ALL the highest paying   
   > positions -- from CEO to corporate lawyer -- and not and never   
   > are "Market" priced. Earnings never ever relates to market value.   
   >   
   > The only way on God's green earth that an Elon Musk could   
   > possibly justify a $1 trillion "compensation" package is if one   
   > or more other companies are offering him $999 billion.   
   >   
   > That's it.   
   >   
   > This means that there's ZERO capitalism involved. There's NO   
   > market forces what so ever. Elon Musk is being paid many, many,   
   > many orders of magnitude beyond his market worth.   
   >   
   > Hourly wage earners?  They are actually paid LESS than they are   
   > worth. ALL hourly wage workers. Right now.   
   >   
   > Back when George Dubya Bush was president, on average Americans   
   > were earning $2,0000 less per year than they would have WITHOUT   
   > all the illegal aliens.   
   >   
   > Illegal aliens depress wages. Not only does a greatly reduced   
   > wage look big to them, because they come from a third world   
   > shithole, but they're illegal!  They can be exploited.   
   >   
   > NOTE:  The actual loss in earning was much greater, as the loss   
   > was suffered exclusively by hourly wage earners, and the lower   
   > on the pay scale the more susceptible to exploitation.   
   >   
   > So there's no relationship at all between "Executive Compensation"   
   > and market economics, no such relationship exists for even a   
   > corporate lawyer, while market forces are used to depress the   
   > earning of "The little people."   
   >   
   > It's social, not economics.   
   >   
   > Economics has NOTHING to do with most people's earning power. It's   
   > their class that matters, not their economic worth.   
   >   
   > And it's worse than I make out here because anyone with the money   
   > can go to law school, but it would be rare for "Anybody" to get   
   > that cushy, high paying corporate lawyer job. No, their social   
   > standing played a large roll there...   
   >   
   > Monarchy, nobility institutionalizes social disparity. It insists   
   > that social disparity is real, that there's a genuine difference   
   > and you honestly are inferior and they're superior.   
   >   
   > Would you want a surgeon who didn't earn the position but instead   
      
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