One of the numerous honorifics of the Shah (like the Pope has) is “Light of the Aryans” (Aryamehr) & “King of Kings” (Shahinshah) among others. curiously enough, sitting on the Peacock Throne.* He came to Houston for medical treatment under Carter then died from cancer. We know what happened after that.

*The royal flag had the lion of Judah ,a crowned double-head eagle too. A mixture of Christian(Holy Roman), Yezedi, and even a hint of Judaism. No doubt Himmler liked the concept of another “Light of the Aryans” too. That and the more pragmatic need for the oil during the war. 1971 was the 2,500th year of that Persian monarchy then too.

Night Gaunt, FYI, in 1943 the then Shah of Iran jointed the axis with the NAZI’s. It may have been the father of the last Shah, I don’t know. In any event the Shah was reinstated in 1953 by the CIA after the Democratic elections. Interesting to note the the military attache at the Embassy in Iran in 1953 was an officer Schwarzkopf, the father of the Gulf War 1 general.

Joan Meijer do you have a prompt for a certain type of player? There are many you can down load for free. Other try different browsers. I use Mozilla FireFox which is the best for me right now. It works fine for me plus I have updates of the various players I have used too.

The “Peace Dividend” was never spent on peace because they found a need to go to war with Iraq and Somalia! Only an empire or would be one needs battles to be fought and enemies to plot against in order to survive into perpetuity.

NATO wants to link with Russian? Excellent! However the soon-to-be total Empire of American is against it for the previous reason I gave. Even though declaring war on over a Billion Muslims should be enough for them you would think?

Don’t worry Bogie666, these Dominionists don’t believe in the “rapture” however to them war is a holy sacrament and cleansing act. That is the danger to us now. And if they should get complete control of the gov’t then welcome to their utopia.

The whole idea of those missiles and RADAR site was to threaten Russia. The idea of any Iranian “threat” is bald faced absurd. Anyone who actually believed that is grossly misinformed and buys into the idea of Iran as any kind of threat in the first place. They have done nothing to warrant that. [Not counting the fact of the deposition of the dictator puppet Reza Palhavi in 1979, which they do.]

I doesn’t matter what the Democrats do, short of dropping the plan, for no Republican will support it no matter how much more is given to the Health Insurance Giants who already have a good deal. (A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.)

“I have never supported a Single Payer system.”-President Obama (Enough said.)

However Bogie666 there are those in their ranks who when they have the plenary powers then the corruptors will be eliminated as traitors to the theocratic state and of course to their God. Corruption isn’t synonymous with dictatorship(of any kind) for there could be ruthless people who do not truck with bribery or graft and can still do other worse evil.

The “dividend” is diverted to corruption fueled my imaginary fears cooked up by the Pentagon, the politicians, the intelligence agencies, business and the religionists so that the gullible, fearful, ignorant American public doesn’t object. Anyone who wants to observe just how gullible and ignorant Americans are just watch the pretend christian televangelists with false doctrines and their congregations of fools who are insulted, abused, called foul names by the preachers, who are agents of the anti-Christ according to the Bible[kjv], who then beg the fools for money and they give it to them.

Lets make tractors, well drilling equipment and toasters instead.  What ever happened to the peace dividend offered by the demise of the cold war? 

We have to cut funding for the military, especially that of the contractors.  We have over 2 million in the military and we have to contract out for 5 times as much money than having the people we pay to do the job, doing the job. 

I guess that dividend went the way of the Lehman Bros.