By Blake Archer Williams for The Saker Blog
“God damn America, not God bless America!”
“If we can’t sell our oil,” the Iranians said, “you won’t be able to sell your oil [either]!” This turned out to be more of a prayer than a threat that was actually implemented.
The same prayer could be extrapolated for the economy: “If you want to destroy the economy of an entire nation with your barbaric ‘Maximum Pressure’ policy, then may your economy be destroyed instead!” And also with respect to safe air travel: “If you won’t let your Europoodles sell us their Airbus airplanes because they contain American avionics components; and if you won’t let Boeing sell us any of their airplanes once the JCPOA paved the way for such a deal, then may your airplanes be grounded, and may Boeing go bankrupt! And may global air travel be reduced down by more than 80%.”
As Obama’s erstwhile preacher Jeremiah Wright memorably said, “God damn America, not God bless America!” Amen, brother! This is the prayer of all of the people of Iran, the people of Syria, of Yemen, of Iraq, of Libya, of Bolivia, of Venezuela, of Cuba, of the Axis of Resistance, and of all of the peoples whose countries have been ruined or are victims in some way of the American imperium.
Télos
One of the major differences between the theistic worldview of Moslems and Christians on one hand, and that of the modern mindset and of pre-modern atheists revolves around the issue of whether there is such a thing as a ‘Final Cause’, which is the fourth of the four Aristotelian causes (material cause, formal cause, efficient cause, and final cause). Final or télosic cause is the ultimate purpose of the existence of a given object; it is its telos, or the end-term or ultimate purpose of a process that is goal-driven and goal-directed. In the theistic worldview, everything exists for an ultimate purpose, which is to play its part, however small, in the arrival at the eschaton, or at the Final Event in God’s Plan, which is the Day of Judgment: the day everyone will be judged for their deeds on Earth, and the day upon which the eternal fate of their souls shall be determined. Everything is drawn (as opposed to driven) towards God, who is in control of the whole process, which control includes allowing a certain volitional latitude to the sons and daughters of Adam for testing purposes. It is this observation of man’s volitional acts by God and His ultimate judgment of them that gives them meaning.
The atomistic materialistic atheistic view, on the other hand, holds that there is no God and there is no control. Rather than a centripetal motion being drawn to a singularity at the center of the process (as in a vortex), the forces of the universe are mechanical and centrifugal, driving everything outwards towards nowhere in particular and with no particular meaning or purpose. (I talked about this recently on a radio show hosted by Kevin Barrett. Those interested in learning more about the political system in Iran can listen to the show here, where I discuss the thesis of my 2017 book, Creedal Foundations of Walīyic Islam – How Shī’a Theology, Prophetology and Imamology give rise to the theory of Velayat-e Faqih).
And so if we were to subject the phenomenon of the Covid-19 virus to an analysis that includes such a dichotomy, while the materialist and atheistic perspective maintains that the occurrence of the virus, or at least its dispersion, is random and non-purposive, the theistic perspective might see the interference of the Hand of Providence in the big picture view of the phenomenon. Perhaps it is an answer to the prayers of the hundreds of millions of people who have suffered and continue to suffer at the hands of “Christian” war pigs like Pompeo, and the “Jewish” war pig who heads the US Treasury Department, Steven Mnuchin, may they both be damned to Hell. Amen. Ditto the meathead Trump, of course.
This picture has been making the rounds on WhattsApp here in sunny Tehran.
The caption reads “An Artistic Impression of [the Meathead] Trump”
More not Less Religious
Of course, there are conditions that prevent prayers from being answered. Perhaps if the authorities in Iran were a little more religious, their prayers would have been answered sooner. Perhaps if the Leader of the Revolution had used the facilities afforded by mass communication technology and had the tens of millions of people who poured out into the streets of the cities of Iran to bid farewell to their beloved Major General Qāsem Soleymānī to supplicate in unison for the ending of the American siege of the Shī’a Citadel, their prayers would have been answered sooner. The experiment in mass prayers has been carried out in Christian nations through the power of radio at least on one occasion that I know of, and that was conducted by George Noory, the host of the Coast to Coast radio show.
Much of the problems of modern man stem from his financial over-reach and his living beyond his actual means. And Iran is no exception (though of course the phenomenon is less pronounced in developing countries). Perhaps if the political order of Iran had eliminated the practice of their banks lending money with the policy that has come to be known as ‘fractional reserve’ banking where banks lend out more money than they actually have, their prayers would have been answered sooner. “By what right,” God will put the question to you, O bankers and Statesmen of modern governmental institutions, “did you lend money that you did not have? By what right did you create money out of thin air and create value and worth by fiat?? By what right did you de-couple the value of your national currency from real value, so that you could print money at will, making a mockery of the earnings of your citizens?” So the Islamic Revolution still has a long struggle ahead of it…
Whether or not this virus is an answer to people’s prayers remains to be seen, especially with the effect it is going to have on the US economy, which has already seen a staggering 22 million people filing for unemployment benefits in the last month. Robert Redfield, an American virologist and the current Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has warned that the virus will be with us until the winter at any event, and that the effects of its second wave will be much worse because it will be compounded by the usual influenza epidemic which will be taking its toll, especially on the elderly, at the same time, as it does every year, taking the capacity of the health care system to breaking point. Time will tell. But either way, what is clear is that the United States needs to clean up its act and “start behaving like a normal nation” to quote the war pig Pompeo.
So many of those who wield power in America make claims to be “Christians”
Clearly they are “Christians” who have never read their Holy Book, nor have they taken on board one of it’s lessons.
Gospel of Matthew chapter 25, 34-46
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
You would think that, although they clearly cannot act out of empathy, compassion, decent humanity, they would at least have the brains to know that to insult the Eternal Mind by treating those to whom it has given life as appallingly as they have, that it would rebound on them.
But then again, I suspect that those who have no empathy or compassion or humanity are unable to realise this.
it has long been known in Occult Lore, that if you send out a curse, or an ill wish, and because of the rightfulness of the object your curse is turned aside, it will return and curse you.
They really dont’ know much of ancient knowledge, do they??
I think one way or another, they will receive justice, which, of course, they dont want. Thats why they will cry out for mercy. And in the name of justice, I think they wont get much.
Never forget Pamela, They are Capitalists first and foremost…when it comes to money, there is nothing else…
“By what right,” God will put the question to you, O bankers and Statesmen of modern governmental institutions, “did you lend money that you did not have? By what right did you create money out of thin air and create value and worth by fiat??
Money, by definition, is something created out of thin air.
The US currency is not strictly “fiat”; it is created as interest bearing debt by private banks. A true fiat currency is created by sovereign government by edict/fiat, debt free.
This is what the Chinese are doing, that enables their remarkable economic growth over the past thirty years
Very interesting. How do we know this? How can we tell if a country is following the Chinese model or the US model?
This would mean that the Chinese banks “borrow” money from the government or Central Bank and if the bank makes a bad investment i.e. non performing loans, the government can just write it off. So, there should be no banking crisis as understood in the West.
So, what do people mean when they talk about a banking crisis or debt crisis in China? Have they got it wrong by assuming that China follows the same model as the West?
With the US Treasury and Federal Reserve now being the virtually same entity has the US model now morphed into the Chinese model?
In esssence your point regarding the functioning of the Chinese economy is correct, when a state owned bank lends to a state owned enterprse it’s in essence lending to itself and bad ddebt can be writtent off. Most importantly there isn’t any conflict of interest in that no one stands to gain by someone elses failure as is the case with reposessions in typical cases of borrowing. The impact of bad loans are immediately realised by the lender resulting in a generally far more ethical practice.
“So, what do people mean when they talk about a banking crisis or debt crisis in China? Have they got it wrong by assuming that China follows the same model as the West?”
Yes exactly this 100%.
“With the US Treasury and Federal Reserve now being the virtually same entity has the US model now morphed into the Chinese model?”
It’s moved to a greater degree of central planning per se but still nowhere near the Chinese model.
In the Muslim world they say “Born a Muslim, Die a Muslim”
In the Christian west they say “Go Shopping” ( During Corona they say “Go Amazon” )
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There are many supporter’s of Zionism in Iran, as everywhere, many men want to be ‘rich’.
Take Saudi, Dubai, Qatar; You can go to Langkawi (Malaysia) Island and see 100’s of Muslims walking the beaches with their harems. Incredible display of wealth. Close by Brunei you can see the same thing, some of the richest people on earth in Brunei from the oil wealth.
ANZ is the glue that holds the Empire’s oil business together of course the USD for now is the blood.
Make no mistake the Muslim are not every bit as much crazy about ostentatious wealth as seen in the USA under Hollywood.
Iran must not drop its guard the Zionist control of MENA is completely in control; Nobody is winning this war. Once Iran has decimated the Covid Weapon it must develop Russian like safe-guards.
Much has been written about Religion, but Warriors are most noble in all Asian cultures. The symbolism for true happiness is always a woman&child near a man with a weapon.
ANZ wants to destroy Shia-Iran, they have many supporters in Iran who just want to be rich. The real battle yet to be fought.
Agree. Obsession with wealth destroys the soul and eliminates any loyalty to Patria; this is why Cheney and clown prince MbS belong to the same league. As for the dual citizens of criminal persuasion, who constitute the core of AIPAC, they abhor living in “promised land of Israel” because their faith is conditioned strictly by profiteering instincts. The lands of goys are the perfect ground for “eternal (holobiz) victims” on Mnukhin-Rubin-Summers-Epstein-Schumer kind to prosper.
The ziocons and the supposedly X-tian mega-traitors to western civilization like Cheney, H. Clinton, and Blair have no dignity and no patriotism. As for their supposed religiosity, who would believe in Pompeo’s “X-tianity?”
It is scandalous that the Catholic Church has not anathematized and excommunicated Tony Blair, one the worst war criminals guilty of the death of millions of people, including hundreds of thousands of children. At least, the American Methodist Church has shown true courage by adhering to the word of Gospel and launching “a scathing attack on his [Bush] preparations for war against Iraq, saying they are without any justification according to the teachings of Christ.” Picture for a moment the tiny victims of US criminal use od depleted uranium in Iraq, or imagine the formerly prosperous Libya robbed of its gold, Libyan exemplary healthcare system destroyed, and slave markets flourishing. This is the legacy of the faux Christians H. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Blair, Rice, Powell, and simiular refuse of humanity.
Amazing, just today I have been thinking a great deal about how we are all being lied to by practically everyone. From our universities to our governments, leaders in so many spheres of influence, bankers, Wall street, Main street, health care, religious leaders, and even our own parents and yes even our own children!!!!! Lied to either deliberately or in ignorance and nowhere and I mean nowhere is this more true than in the subject of Climate Change. Listen and listen well everything you are being told and have been told is a total and complete lies!!! Climate Change has got nothing absouloutly nothing to do with industrial pollution OIL and GAS or the COVID period!!!!! Rather it has everything to do with the pollution of SIN which like the days of Noah are reaching some utterly staggering proportions!
You know when Science says that “they don’t understand certain abrupt meteorological events that pop up now and then” like for example what occurred with Bravo Company when they were 25 miles from Baghdad during the Iraq War:
They were stopped dead by a series of storms that sprung up out of nowhere. The day had begun calmly enough, clear and sunny, but as they neared the city, they encountered a windstorm so fierce that it obscured the sun, turning the desert black. The wind was strong enough to batter and shake their tanks and personal carriers. After several hours, the sandstorm turned into a hailstorm with accompanying thunder and lightning. It turned the sand into mud, bogging down their vehicles and stalling their advance. They had to deal with the forming of a lake which almost swamped their vehicles.
This was an Act of God literally and we can know this because why? For 2 reasons the first of which it took one lone citizen of the city of Baghdad—a Moslem, no less—to recognize it for what it was: an act of Almighty God. He, of all people, could see what others could not. No doubt this was due more to his acclimatization to that environment than his education in matters of the Bible or the Koran (assuming there’s anything in that book regarding the weather). In the desert, no one ever lives to see a hailstorm, in so abrupt a manner and directly over an army.
Second!!!! The bible tells us so in the Old Testament:
“The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.” (Isaiah 30:30)
So imagine this then what is written is on display for all to see and guess what? the bible is full of teachings on climate change to the extant in fact that it covers everything in relation to it!!! From the above thunder and windstorm and hail to droughts, tornado’s, flooding, everything we are seeing and experiencing today is covered within the pages of the bible everything!!!! Further to this guess what for those of us who want and care about a theocracy we have in our possession a book that explains in the clearest detail possible exactly how that exists and works!!!!! It is called the Book of Job. You want a teleological argument that will stand the test of time and of every analysis one could ever imagine go there. It is simply a magnificent piece of writing and work covering every subject one could imagine. It is the foundational study for everything climate change in fact, everything!!!!
It is amazing though that practically no one knows and understands anything about it and what one should love best of all about the other book of the Old Testament is this astounding quote from the bible:
“See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will fully understand it clearly.” (Jeremiah 23:19–20)
This was written back in the 6th Century BC, and today who understands this clearly? Apparently, few if any except perhaps an unknown author who wrote the only book on the subject. Really the first of its kind in almost three thousand years?
Climate Change the Work of God by Gerry Fox and swallow please some real truth and not all the lies you are being fed everyday.
Lastly, may I point out to all or ask a question rather do you know what is the single greatest political statement ever made by anyone at any time in mankind’s entire history?
Go here: Gospel of Mathew 6: 5-13
and O Blake Archer Williams please since you know this Peter Simpson relay this info to him!!!!!!
And may all the lying stop!!!!!!!!!
Amen Gerry.
For the lazy reader:
5 `And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places — standing — to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
6 `But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who [is] in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.
7 `And — praying — ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,
8 be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;
9 thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who [art] in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.
10 `Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.
11 `Our appointed bread give us to-day.
12 `And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.
13 `And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory — to the ages. Amen.
The caption reads “An Artistic Impression of [the Meathead] Trump”
Ask which countries maintain and practice their humor and you will be naming the countries with the greatest stability of law and institutions with little need for a Human Rights Commission. Sadly the reverse is also true. Monty Python, Faulty towers, Dad’s Army and the Goon Show were conceived during a golden period in English humor which mostly began during Harold Wilson’s time or the 60s era up till the 80s. Suddenly politicians became very careful to avoid policies or material that could lead to satire. Today look to a humorless USA and imagine what Monty Python or the Goons would make of one of Trump’s briefings or Joe Biden’s sentences.
Joe and Donald, both would ‘sentence’ you but one cannot finish a sentence and the other cannot make one complete without using ‘fantastic’, ‘amazing’, ‘incredible’ or ‘greatest’ attached to the first person singular.
Such a fertile garden full of radishes and turnips yet sadly there is no comedy on any of the major US networks. Is it true that a diet of carrots and drinking only white turnip maliu float has the side effect of hormonal imbalance as well as an increased desire for light bulbs and cameras, which as we all know is a persistent danger to all politicians in the US.
It would seem Jimmy Dore is the only spark on that somewhat barren horizon. What does that say about the ‘greatest, fantastic, most incredible’ country ‘ever’ as Mr. Trump would have everyone believe? Perhaps that in itself is the humor as it is intrinsically without subtlety or intelligence. Something a clown might say when referring to his circus.
I’m a Christian and when I read Proverbs and Psalms it is clear as a bell to me that we are the haughty, prideful, arrogant, always stirring up trouble, harming our neighbor without cause, never seeking to live in peace, and now falling into the very pit we have dug for our victims. Pompeo makes me sick to my very core as does Rubio who quotes Psalms on Twitter, his lips praise Me but his heart is very far from Me.
‘Professing themselves to be wise they became fools’, when someone allows themselves to become intoxicated on power that they become blind to the sin that consumes them. It is atrocious to me that people who profess Christianity the loudest are the most bloodthirsty and self-righteous people in positions of power.
99% of God’s Judgment on us today is Him letting us reap the consequences of our own foolishness. We are reaping the bitter fruit of our own evil lies because we have lied to ourselves for so long that we now actually believe our own lives. Not that I’m bitter or anything :-), okay I’m bitter.
BTW when I’ve read the Ayatollah’s words, I was struck by how many times he zeroed in on the fact that seeking to dominate others was the primary cause of harm and discord in the world. He is 100% correct. I hate the liars in my country even more for demonizing Iranians.
God bless you, Christian Chuba (of Moon of Alabama fame).
Nuff Sed.
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”.
Wm Shakespeare, The Tempest
I will open a champagne, the real one when the US and canadian fracking oil companies go to a shining solemn bust.
And when the creditor banks noisily know at their doors.
A few other events such as the Saudi US protected dictatorship reverse their pants pockets and find nothing will also deserve our enthusiastic ovation. Let them look for israeli oil.
Just spoke with an old friend, he works the Canadian part of the Backen Field, no one is pumping any oil, no storage capacity anywhere.
The simple answer is: Meaning or purpose does not have to be imparted from a deity. Human being give meaning and purpose. In fact, postulating a divine being as the source of meaning or purpose contains a host of further questions as to make the concept ridiculous and illogical. Questions such as: which divine being? Allah? Jesus? Mithras? Yahweh? If there is One divine being why is there such disagreement among the faithful? What about evil? If the divine being is good, why is evil permitted? Why are innocents allowed to suffer?
For your information Blake The highest ranking Marja have been calling the practices of the banks in Iran usurious. One of the Marja literally cried on the podium and asked the bankers to stop this practice. But the head of one of the banks came on tv and said during an interview, that the Marja must not interfere in the business of the banks! Imagine that, telling one the highest ranking religious leader Iran, which people favor to call “The Shia house of Mahdi”, to mind his business! Funny though, almost 1/3 of the Quran is about economy, if I remember correctly. Still we have “Gharzolhassaneh” Islamic banks too. And more and more people are creating their own “Gharzolhassaneh” like borrowing groups within their own circles to help each other.
Even though it is not directly connected to the Velayat, Edward Said points out in the foreword to his Orientalism, that the greatest tragedy in the Sunni world is the absence of Marja institution, which has resulted in the inability to respond to modern changes and challenges in the society in the arab world. Velayat Faghih is a precursor for the return of Imam Mahdi. How else can the muslims of the world prepare for his return? With the help of the jew Sisi? Or the Wahhabi?
May I also remind you, that mass prayers are being organized all the time in Iran. Usually it is managed through sms messages using apps like Whatsapp. I can also assure you, that millions upon millions of us pray for the demise of the usa every single day! Islam does not recognize determinist with regards to mankind and his free will. Determinism is only limited to nature. Bu the older I get, the more I am convinced, that there is a path and a pattern to the events of this world and there is a choice and an aim to it all!
One day our Prophet came out of his home screaming and crying. People gathered around him and asked him, what was wrong. He said that he had been visited by the angel Gabriel. Gabriel had told him, that his followers will kill his grandson Hussein. The Prophet said, that Gabriel had punched the ground and had dug up a handful of sand and given it to our him saying, that this sand belonged to Karbala, where they will kill you son!
Years later, when Hussein revolted against Yazid, the usurper Caliph of the time, he came to a place and asked people, what the name of the place was. People gave him a some name. But he asked again, by what other name the place was known to the people. They gave him some other name. But he asked again, what other name the place was known by. He asked again and again until people said Karbala. He erected his camp right there. He gathered his followers and told them, that they are freed from all of their obligations towards him and told them, that they are free to leave. He told them, that those, who stay will all die.
The head of the Yazid Army was a truly cruel man. He was a monster who killed and raped as he wished. Nobody knows, what Imam Hussein told him before the battle. But this animal dressed in human skin, changed sides and was killed fighting his own soldiers side by side Imam Hussein. He was Horr.
When they brought Imam Hussein´s head to the court of the jew Yazid, who was sitting on the “throne” of our Prophet, he beat the head with a stick while saying, that there was no Islam, Quran or revelations, and that our Prophet had made it all up to rule over the ignorant arabs!
Everything a man needs to know about life is in buried in Karbala!
True Iranian Islamic Socialism is a work in progress but note that this is the 3rd and not final Jihad (endeavor or striving). The 1st was the Defensive Jihad against puppet Saddam, the 2nd was the Reconstruction Jihad and the 3rd is the Economic (empowerment) Jihad dressed in Capitalist/Consumerist stripe that we now experience.
Without this pragmatism, none of the scientific achievements of the past 20 years would have been possible. Don’t forget that 90% of the economy is controlled by the state and not necessarily by the government but by institutions like the IRGC who just yesterday launched a military satellite to everybody’s surprise.
The 4th will be a Consolidation Jihad where I imagine all the banks to be rolled into one, a new currency (minus 4 zeroes) introduced and the bipolar education streams of seminary and secular education streams will be rolled into one. Then we can also expect the export of the 4th Political Theory Dr. Ali Shariati wrote about in the 60s, a topic recently ‘discovered’ by Alexander Dugin et al.
Imagine Iran in 10 years time, or at least 10 years after the military and economic pressure disappears. Yeah, Germany and Japan blossomed after WWII but you aint seen nuthing yet!
Times, they are a changing…