Newcastle In Need of Coals
the triumph of islamic economics
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Back in March I wrote on the irony of gasoline rationing in Iran. Contrary to what many believe, Iran, though an exporter of crude oil, is a huge importer of finished petroleum products.
The situation is getting progressively worse due to the impact of nearly 30 years of islamic engineering and islamic economics.
Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline on Wednesday hours after the world's fourth largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of two pump stations in the capital.
Drivers raced to fill up their tanks late on Tuesday after the Oil Ministry announced the delayed scheme would finally go ahead at midnight after months of confusion and conflicting statements, forming lines that stretched hundreds of meters.
Not unsurprisingly, the Great Satan, not truly benighted leadership, is to blame:
Some MPs denied that the rioting on Tuesday and Wednesday had anything to do with the government's rationing measures. "The attacks on the petrol pumps were organised well in advance by 'agents provocateurs' working for the US government, who incited some deranged individuals to set petrol stations alight," Morteza Tamaddon told journalists.
He also claimed that thousands of counterfeit dollars had been paid to these 'deranged individuals' .
I'd like to think he's right and we do have a hand in it, but I've seen nothing of the CIA's actions since Salvador Allende's unfortunate suicide that would indicate they are capable of this.
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...when you think of the CIA, picture the clown car in the middle of the three-ring circus.
I mean, when all you can really do is leak classified information to the New York Times, you are no James Bond.
We have a 65 billion dollar white elephant of an Agency that couldn't put the hearse in the right place in a two-car funeral. But the Democrats sure do like them, so all's well, I guess.
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill
...naah, you're right, they're incompetent buffoons. Would that it was all an act, though.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
I like the line in "Independence Day", when the super secret bunker housing the captured alien is revealed to astonished civilians...something like:
"Did you think the Pentagon was really buying $500 hammers?"
Now that's my kind of CIA;)
The rationing is only going to get worse.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I think Michael Ledeen's idea to support a revolution in Iran--providing money and communication equipment to Iranian rebels--is a perfectly good plan. He thinks Iran is sort of like an avalanche waiting to happen. Applying the heat of the Sun (war) could be counterproductive--might stabilize Iran. But, if Iranians make enough noise in the right place (revolution) the whole snowy mountainside may crumble of its own weight. Worth a try I think.
Iran is ranked 150th in economic freedom out of 157 countries. The Islamists in power are strangling their country's economy and the people know it.
we really do need to be fomenting an uprising in that country.