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ayafooker kakamenei worth over $30 billion
LONDON (Jan. 5) -- Iran's supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, likes to portray himself as a simple man of faith, interested only in spiritual -- not material -- wealth. But an exiled Iranian filmmaker says that behind this frugal front, Khamenei luxuriates in an opulent lifestyle supported by an ill-gained fortune of about $30 billion. His sources say that since the early 1980s -- Khamenei was president from 1981 to '89 -- the supreme leader has gained control of the Iranian economy by granting key positions to family members and close allies. His brother Hassan, for example, oversees the Oil Ministry, a brother-in-law has a monopoly on imports of Sony electrical equipment, and the father of one of his daughters-in-law handles the state's land sales. Makhmalbaf alleges that Iran's leading man of faith -- whom opposition protesters accuse of rigging last summer's re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- used these connections to siphon off $12 billion in commissions from oil sales, $2 billion from land deals and $6 billion from the arms business. Ahmadinejad has also allegedly handed him $10 billion over the past four years. http://www.sphere.com/nation/a...
His sources say that since the early 1980s -- Khamenei was president from 1981 to '89 -- the supreme leader has gained control of the Iranian economy by granting key positions to family members and close allies. His brother Hassan, for example, oversees the Oil Ministry, a brother-in-law has a monopoly on imports of Sony electrical equipment, and the father of one of his daughters-in-law handles the state's land sales.
Makhmalbaf alleges that Iran's leading man of faith -- whom opposition protesters accuse of rigging last summer's re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- used these connections to siphon off $12 billion in commissions from oil sales, $2 billion from land deals and $6 billion from the arms business. Ahmadinejad has also allegedly handed him $10 billion over the past four years.
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ayafooker siphons off billions while handing out crumbs to the civil servant slave class who run the state beauracracy . how dreary
what a scam. it's like a mega mafia shakedown racket. ayafooker's shakin down the entire populace!
and how much have the other top mullahs and Rev Guard a-holes siphoned off for their personal fortunes? It's a swindle of super mega proportions.
No different from the WWII Nazi personal enrichment scam, just on a different scale and a different road to glory.
Heil Allah!!!!
But Obama is the world's real problem, its so obvious....to certain delusional minds.
This is why I love the Whiteysphere!
Pwn'ing loooosers has never been easier...
What matters for Iran's average people is sovereignty and escaping the U.S.-administered corporate globalization borg.
noom has demonstrated, as has the recent Asia Times, that the people of Iran, average or otherwise, have not escaped or even attempted escape (nor have you for that matter) the "US-adminstered [increasingly on behalf of the Chinese] corporate globalization borg."
In fact, they are as steeped in it as anyone in the world, with the exception of certain failed states who still shepherd goats for a living, while forced pay tribute to the Taliban or other gangsters controlling the turf. The only difference is the that "Republic" the Iranians were promised has now become a corrupt, fascist dictatorship looted from the top at the expense of the poor and the educated middle class. So, they are in rebellion. And you have a problem with that...huh.
Is that what you want, Failreft? Is this the sum total of yur reftism?
You want us all to overthrow escape the "corporate globalization borg", the very same one upon which you yur own slef depend on for yur livelihood, the support of your children and the even ability to communicate yur moronity across the infoboobtubez? The same "corporate globalization borg" that you are too timid yurslef to confront at work or anywhere in real life?
Bow down and pray to the east, now, loooser!!!
You crackkk me up.
The 'borg' metaphor indicates there would be no national sovereignty. Iranians, nobody really, supports that. Rule by the richest corporations and people on the planet will not be (is not) a happy life for the peons. For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep
Those arent even at issue.
This just more of the same of yur typikkkally muddled mush:
Iranians, nobody really, supports that. Rule by the richest corporations and people on the planet will not be (is not) a happy life for the peons.
Wake me up when the world isnt ruled by the richest corporations and people on the planet. Anyway, thats the entire point of the rebellion. They are being misruled by "the richest people on the planet in the country."
Et tu, loooser? Are you unhappy being so reuled? Even Byron says he's happy with his life....RIOTOUS!
In fact, wake me up when you come up with an alternative worth your muddled mushing about.
Here's a possibility:
The Taliban! Al-Qaeda! They arent corporations or richest people on the planet (yet). Is that the kind of rule yur wanting for the world? Sometimes I wonder....
If I were you I'd stick to the classics:
What about Jesus, who after all proclaimed "the meek shall inherit the earth!" Or wtf...
Yes, but that will occur only after the rich have split for the Moon and left the meek holding the bag....
[:o)
Buddhistic enlightenment man meslef...
Ironically, it was Reagan and Bush Sr. who showed support for the theocracy through the October Surprise. Bush, Casey, and Gates met Iranian higher-ups in Paris back in October, 1980 in Paris. A deal was established for the hostages to be released after the Presidential election.
Maybe fakeleft should join the Republican Party. He and Byron seem to have wanted McCain as President anyway. To them there is no difference between the two major parties. Rioticity.
By the way, I just broke the record for quickest return after giving a gbcw post. Or as Tina Turner says in the song based on me, Al Franken,
http://davefromqueens2.blogspo... http://allaircraftarenotinvolv...
We may disagree with each other, but we will fight to the death our right to be disagreeable with each other, or wtf... unlike say, the PTB in Iran...or on DKOS/MLW/BMT/FSZ...
Here's a factoid. Welcome Back Kotter was first shown in Boston, before it made it to the big leagues. ABC or whatnot wanted to see if it could deliver the goods. We loved us some sweathogs. What? When? How? Up your nose with a rubber hose. That show was pretty good. I could have done without Horshack. He was the Potsie [/Happy Days] character that just. didn't. cut. the. cheese mustard. Or that Howard X dude from Andy Griffith. Now The Office, I just found that one. Every cast member is funny. You know why News Radio is no longer on the air? Jon Lovitz. That's the ticket. Place a bet on it then collect the winnings. http://davefromqueens2.blogspo... http://allaircraftarenotinvolv...
These are all real leftist themes. Internationale!
The Fakeleft, as personified by Failreft, OTOH, wants to close the borders (supposedly becuase the immigrants are taking the good union jobs and depressing wages) and want to turn the innercity into a police/spy state where everybody turns snitch to the PTB.
Yeah, thats the ticket. Throw all the darkies in the slammer so Mr. whiteysphere can have all the blew collar jobs back! The juans our kidz dont want no part of!
And then we'll get those dirty jooooos next!
Hold da pickles and da finga you fucx! eye ain't no cannibal animal yo!
mebbe I'll have a beagle on a bagle instead.
hey donk had any good dog lately bruh!?!
haha!@
nah, burgee it tiz!
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Wienerdogschnitzel.
Tonite's menu: hardboiled Marisacat.
Has to be boiled on high flame for 3-4 hours, given the advanced age of the meat....
[projection alert]
She promises I can smoke it again when I retire, wheneve rthat happens.
As for coffee, I drink it strong and black with chicory. 5-7 cups per day. Cafe DuMonde, preferrably.
I like vegetarianism in theory, and recognize that meat eating is the cause of most industrialized illnesses. However, I loves me some dog meat samiches, dude.
Plus, the science is irrefutable.
John Lennon a much better singer as a meateater then after he went veg.
Ditto his first wife over Yoko.
BTW, been meaning to burst yur bubble about the happy ever after John/Yoko union.
You forgot about his "lost weekend" with May Pang?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
They probably make vegetarian dog meat at this point.
the Koreans? donk, axe yer nirvayna seeking wife if they make veggie dog maet?
So great. they monopolize the drug store scene by undercutting local drugstore prices, they spring up everywhere then they eliminate other brands and stock the shelves with their own shite!
Entenmann's is da joint yo! fookery fook! gotta go the the supermarket to get that shit now
boot whutz DR gonna do next? take out the frickin Heinekin and replace it with fookin duane reade beer!
fookery the end of da whirrled is nigh!
. . .your analysis assumes supply and demand (3.67 / 3) are irrelevant to political and economic power. Massive over-supply of labor is very disadvantageous to labor. Duh. by: fairleft @ Mon Aug 10, 2009 at 13:11:30 PM EDT That's only true given the current political situation (4.00 / 2) And it will always be true given the current political situation. The elites want unemployment and they'll get it by hook or by crook. OTOH if they wanted the immigrants gone they'd simply start arresting employers who hire them. You can't solve the problem by kicking immigrants. So when it's the employers that are crewing American workers not the immigrants and its the employers that you'd go after to solve the problem not the immigrants how come you can only think about this in terms of being an "immigration" problem? All you're doing is helping the elites by stoking nativism and racism. And what good has any of that done for jobs? None at all. by: DavidByron @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 11:33:22 AM EDT Yes, given the current political situation, (0.00 / 0) that's what I was talking about. This is ultimately a chicken-and-egg situation. But the left gaining political power will involve (practically 'will be'?) labor gaining economic and then political power. (Because leftism is, basically, compassionate 'pro-workerism'.) I realize labor gaining a great deal of political power is a pretty farfetched idea. In any case, it is not a great matter of importance in the great big picture whether Irish workers stay in Ireland or move to Boston, or whether Mexicans stay in Mexico or move to L.A. Workers in all countries need to gain power and thereby greatly improve their economic situations. In that scenario, the vast majority of them will stay put, since the main reason people migrate is economic. So, in the big picture the right to migrate is a very very small 'nice but nonessential' 'human rights' issue. by: fairleft @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 12:43:21 PM EDT So why not pitch it as a law enforcement issue? (0.00 / 0) An issue of dirty employers hiring blackleg illegal immigrants? Why blame the illegals? Or why not pitch it as an issue of minimal work conditions, or as an issue of guaranteed employment? It really has nothing to do with immigrants. by: DavidByron @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 14:22:21 PM EDT I am blaming the employers, of course. (0.00 / 0) But in the current economic environment, 'it' (not sure what you're referring to) does have to do with immigrants over-supplying the labor market and thereby, in the current legal/political/economic environment, killing labor unions and drastically lowering wages. And making it very hard for new unionization. This is the present environment, which in many important sectors (such as construction and farmwork, for example) could be changed overnight for the much better (higher wages, quick re-unionization) if there were much lower immigration, legal and/or illegal. I'm not blaming immigrants, but I don't blame scabs either, most of us are just guys and gals trying to eak out a living. Somethings need to be done that disadvantage some workers in order to make things work out best for workers overall, the blame game is bullshit. by: fairleft @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 15:00:57 PM EDT And this stoking nativism silliness . . . (0.00 / 0) I'm also against Obama's health care plan, what I can see of it. Does that mean I'm fanning right-wing fears of 'socialized medicine'? Or opposing just another plan (like mass immigration) to increase corporate profits (in health care the profits will be direct in the form of new customers forced to get insurance, in the case of mass immigration the profits have come and will through the bone-head obvious effect of 'excess' supply on labor price) at the expense of the rest of us? Can I be against anything the right wing nuts are also against? Right wing asshole Pat Buchanan was against the invasion of Iraq, but being against that was good according to you, so I'm confused about your overall 'stoking the evil hater flames' stance/argument. Isn't Buchanan an evil nativist hater? Again, what's the big deal about a 'right' to immigrate anywhere? Why is that, common-sensically, anything more than a very minor matter? by: fairleft @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 12:53:29 PM EDT
are irrelevant to political and economic power. Massive over-supply of labor is very disadvantageous to labor. Duh.
by: fairleft @ Mon Aug 10, 2009 at 13:11:30 PM EDT
That's only true given the current political situation (4.00 / 2)
And it will always be true given the current political situation. The elites want unemployment and they'll get it by hook or by crook. OTOH if they wanted the immigrants gone they'd simply start arresting employers who hire them. You can't solve the problem by kicking immigrants.
So when it's the employers that are crewing American workers not the immigrants and its the employers that you'd go after to solve the problem not the immigrants how come you can only think about this in terms of being an "immigration" problem?
All you're doing is helping the elites by stoking nativism and racism. And what good has any of that done for jobs? None at all.
by: DavidByron @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 11:33:22 AM EDT
Yes, given the current political situation, (0.00 / 0)
that's what I was talking about. This is ultimately a chicken-and-egg situation. But the left gaining political power will involve (practically 'will be'?) labor gaining economic and then political power. (Because leftism is, basically, compassionate 'pro-workerism'.)
I realize labor gaining a great deal of political power is a pretty farfetched idea.
In any case, it is not a great matter of importance in the great big picture whether Irish workers stay in Ireland or move to Boston, or whether Mexicans stay in Mexico or move to L.A. Workers in all countries need to gain power and thereby greatly improve their economic situations. In that scenario, the vast majority of them will stay put, since the main reason people migrate is economic. So, in the big picture the right to migrate is a very very small 'nice but nonessential' 'human rights' issue.
by: fairleft @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 12:43:21 PM EDT
So why not pitch it as a law enforcement issue? (0.00 / 0)
An issue of dirty employers hiring blackleg illegal immigrants? Why blame the illegals? Or why not pitch it as an issue of minimal work conditions, or as an issue of guaranteed employment?
It really has nothing to do with immigrants.
by: DavidByron @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 14:22:21 PM EDT I am blaming the employers, of course. (0.00 / 0)
But in the current economic environment, 'it' (not sure what you're referring to) does have to do with immigrants over-supplying the labor market and thereby, in the current legal/political/economic environment, killing labor unions and drastically lowering wages. And making it very hard for new unionization. This is the present environment, which in many important sectors (such as construction and farmwork, for example) could be changed overnight for the much better (higher wages, quick re-unionization) if there were much lower immigration, legal and/or illegal.
I'm not blaming immigrants, but I don't blame scabs either, most of us are just guys and gals trying to eak out a living. Somethings need to be done that disadvantage some workers in order to make things work out best for workers overall, the blame game is bullshit.
by: fairleft @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 15:00:57 PM EDT
And this stoking nativism silliness . . . (0.00 / 0)
I'm also against Obama's health care plan, what I can see of it. Does that mean I'm fanning right-wing fears of 'socialized medicine'? Or opposing just another plan (like mass immigration) to increase corporate profits (in health care the profits will be direct in the form of new customers forced to get insurance, in the case of mass immigration the profits have come and will through the bone-head obvious effect of 'excess' supply on labor price) at the expense of the rest of us?
Can I be against anything the right wing nuts are also against? Right wing asshole Pat Buchanan was against the invasion of Iraq, but being against that was good according to you, so I'm confused about your overall 'stoking the evil hater flames' stance/argument. Isn't Buchanan an evil nativist hater?
Again, what's the big deal about a 'right' to immigrate anywhere? Why is that, common-sensically, anything more than a very minor matter?
by: fairleft @ Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 12:53:29 PM EDT
Aaah, Fakeleft is anti-labor. He's pro-scabs. Riotous. And he spells eke as eak. Ha!
I'm not one to debate with you too much. If I need a nap but am having trouble falling asleep, I'll look you up. Mmmkay? http://davefromqueens2.blogspo... http://allaircraftarenotinvolv...
Thanks for showcasing yur racism and minuteman-style nativism.
And thanks for the link to yur asskicking at Corente too. That was also a showcase of yur sophistry, yur reliance of phony Heritage Foundation statistics and your all-consuming vanity and condescension. Someone in the thread mentioned the rightwing bias of the Heritage foundation "stats."
RIOTOUS! If they only knew the extent of yur rightwing positions on everything from Iran, healthcare reform to the Military draft.
You say you want an end to the unjust wars?
Reinstate the military draft! End the military's overreliance on professional soldiers from the less educated classes and the South!
Make the military representative of the nation as a whole!
