{"id":4209,"date":"2009-06-26T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2009-06-26T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:29:08","slug":"to-the-conspiratorializing-fringe-or-to-the-iranian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/26\/to-the-conspiratorializing-fringe-or-to-the-iranian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"to the conspiratorializing fringe&#8230; or to the Iranian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kind of don&#8217;t understand it.\u00c2\u00a0 It took 12 days, 12 entire days, for the Alex Jones website &#8220;prisonplanet.com&#8221; (I know I\u00c2\u00a0could probably try to\u00c2\u00a0check in with what I suppose to be the\u00c2\u00a0higher profile &#8220;infowars&#8221; site, but I will go one or the other route with this one)\u00c2\u00a0to explode with an overload of &#8220;Da Conspiracy De Iran&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there was a sputtering up before then.\u00c2\u00a0 But it took until two days ago for it to overflow the page.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, the page is less dominated by Iran, but two days ago looked like all the hallmarks of a campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It took that long to thread their nihilistic needle, of\u00c2\u00a0assembling all the random dots and drawing all the necessary contrived lines, in line with blaming the CIA?<br \/>\nWhat?\u00c2\u00a0 Was this an abundance of caution?\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00c2\u00a0really needed to check their sources, and double-check, and find collaborating information?<\/p>\n<p>Checking in with my other source of largely conspiratorializing aggregating\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; &#8220;Information Clearing House&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/informationclearinghouse.info\/article22910.htm\">I see a George Soros<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/\">Jeff Rense <\/a>links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/25\/iran.ambassador\/\">this here <\/a>with the phrase &#8220;CIA May Have Executed Neda (big Surprise.&#8221;)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is a straight-forward acceptance of the\u00c2\u00a0Iranian government&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0straight faced lie.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0(As well, isn&#8217;t it nice to see\u00c2\u00a0Israel Shamir&#8217;s analysis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general86\/irnn.htm\">posted here<\/a>, striking that oh-so-finely tuned balance between a demonstration of a more open Iranian government\u00c2\u00a0and a Totalatarian Jack-bootery.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s a real Centrist Conciliator, that &#8220;Israel Shamir&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>I am to believe that the Iranian protests are one giant CIA (or, you know, whatever) psy-ops project.\u00c2\u00a0 Every bit of it.\u00c2\u00a0 The election was fair and legitimate &#8212; and if they weren&#8217;t, it falls under the field of legitimate Iranian constitutional purview &#8212; and if not, don&#8217;t you realize there are\u00c2\u00a0children starving in Africa?<br \/>\nNow let&#8217;s examine the history of &#8220;False Flag Operations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Surely Jeanne Kirkpatrick&#8217;s &#8220;Blame America First Crowd&#8221; phrase is largely an overused invective, used mainly by people prone to an American Exceptionalist viewpoint &#8220;my country right or wrong&#8221;, &#8220;America is the greatest country ever in the world comma sniff and you had better share that sentiment hand shake&#8221;, downplaying any negative action the American government has played in the world, or ignoring the negative\u00c2\u00a0feeling that engendered to the nations treated as chess pieces during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>Our conspiratoralizing nit-wits?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Forget &#8220;blowback theory&#8221; in placing some blame or causality past the Islamic Fundamentalist perpetrators of 9\/11 and to American and Superpower actions of the past &#8212; the functional target of the phrase &#8220;blame america first&#8221; and how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/us_world\/2009\/06\/24\/2009-06-24_former_iraqi_leader_saddam_hussein_feared_iran_more_than_us_secret_fbi_files_sho.html#ixzz0JSXqYAJ1&amp;D\">it is prone to misfire<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in its stand against governmental stove-piping,<br \/>\nForget that too, because in their worldview <em>there are no Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>But we can&#8217;t even quite call them the &#8220;Blame America First&#8221; crowd.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the Oligarchy.\u00c2\u00a0 And there are no other independent actors.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0They have framed their perceptions to a narrow vantage point, &#8212; a more feasible idea might be\u00c2\u00a0something on the order of an\u00c2\u00a0intersection of overlapping conspiracies &#8212; that might get them out of this box where they are parroting an Iranian police state&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0propaganda for the death of the poster-rallying matyr Neda.\u00c2\u00a0 (Which they wouldn&#8217;t in a million years do for\u00c2\u00a0some of the gross\u00c2\u00a0improprieties of the American state.\u00c2\u00a0 Or Israel &#8212; see: Rachel Corrie).<\/p>\n<p>The other word from the &#8220;right&#8221; in the history of our politics,\u00c2\u00a0from out of Leftist support and apologizing of the Soviet Union, was &#8220;useful idiots&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 But it&#8217;s hard to put a finger on how &#8220;useful&#8221; the fringe is in this regard.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ll need to crowd further into the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; frame before they can be rewarded with such a title.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; why did it take so long?\u00c2\u00a0 Was there some sort of coordination necessary to maximize an effect?<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The brohauhau over Obama taking the Huffington Post query is wrong-headed.\u00c2\u00a0 Never mind the &#8220;Iranian&#8221; and &#8220;Internet source&#8221; angle of signals &#8212; she asked\u00c2\u00a0the most\u00c2\u00a0pertinent question: whatever the long term holds (and the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 occured over a year, with long subdued periods when the threat to the government seemed to have passed), Ahmadinejad\u00c2\u00a0behind Khamenei will be situated in power &#8212; and so the question:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Under which conditions would you accept the election of Ahmadinejad, and if you do accept it without any significant changes in the conditions there, isn&#8217;t that a betrayal of the\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d of what the demonstrators there are working towards?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the answer to that questio.\u00c2\u00a0 And Obama dodged it, meaning &#8230; we will wait to see if the Obama Administration has an answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is going to fade from the public&#8217;s mindspace and American&#8217;s notorious short attention spans.\u00c2\u00a0 Meaning it\u00c2\u00a0will be up to you to take actively care, if you so feel inclined, in short order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kind of don&#8217;t understand it.\u00c2\u00a0 It took 12 days, 12 entire days, for the Alex Jones website &#8220;prisonplanet.com&#8221; (I know I\u00c2\u00a0could probably try to\u00c2\u00a0check in with what I suppose to be the\u00c2\u00a0higher profile &#8220;infowars&#8221; site, but I will go one or the other route with this one)\u00c2\u00a0to explode with an overload of &#8220;Da Conspiracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiranoia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}