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Last week vice president Joe Biden was sent to ABC news to report that the Obama administration “misread how bad the economy was” and that the reported 9.5 percent unemployment rate is “much too high”, considering the administration had predicted unemployment would stay below 8 percent with its entire stimulus plan”.  After ALL this was supposed to be about “jobs, jobs and more jobs”!

Last week it was also reported that large firms such as Citibank etc. who were beneficiary of billions of taxpayer handouts are still as weak as they have ever been and after ALL the government may have to let some fail. It was also reported that many of the US states including California are on the verge of being bankrupt, Housing data were also nothing to cheer about and that the US forces were starting to leave Iraq just to continue with new US interventionism in Afghanistan and with the money that we do not have!  Let’s also not forget that despite all the taxpayers money that was thrown at the car makers, GM still ended up filling bankruptcy and Ford is reported to be very weak.
 
Four Months ago in an article titled ”Mr. Obama: Tear down this wall” I warned “This printing of billions of green paper out of thin air, this policy of borrowing billions more to maintain a wasteful failed economic system ” and the bail out of failed corporations and banks “will only lengthen the painful suffering of millions of people resulting in the eventual collapse of dollar”

I wrote that Obama administration should “stop feeding the TOP of the pyramid hoping that the thieves will pass it on to THE PEOPLE.” I wrote “The writing is already on the “wall”. See where the billions that we already have allocated have gone?! Where are the new jobs? Where are the new loans? “

In a series of article I wrote a whole lot more and I even made some introductory proposal on how to get out of the mess. I very much encourage you to read them again 4 months later  (http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/david-et/mr-obama-tear-down-wall) and (http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/david-et/obanomics-print-green-and-spend ). [Also see Daily Kos:http://www.dailykos.com/user/David%20Etebari) Considering that I was coming out of campaigning for Obama, the reactions to my views by some Obama zealots on Daily Kos and other sites were not too kind and some others just said give him a chance and that we should wait and see what happens to which I replied no we shouldn’t wait, what is wrong today will go even more wrong tomorrow.
 

Things are not any better yet. The stimulus money that was borrowed from us and the future generations will eventually finish and President Obama will ask for more and the final result will remain to be the same. But it is still not way too late  to “change” this failing course but sadly after confessing, Mr. vice president last week continued with these words: “ but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package….we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we’re in.”

Meanwhile I continue to claim that the current (same old) approach will not “change” the outcome but it will only delay it, just to be faced with even worse. Meanwhile once again we heard the words “we misread”, same thing that we have been hearing again and again for the past few years but from different mouths and different sides.

In March I also wrote that some of us have been watching for the past few years “the deck of gambling cards fall one after another and while the government, the Wall Street, the professional analysts, the CEO’s, the Congressmen and Senators of BOTH parties, Fed Chairman’s and many people kept denying the inevitable. “

To participate in a poll that I created click here

results are almost even so far! Note that Daily Kos is a democratic party site.

Do you think the current government economic plans will save the economy?

Persepolis 2.0 describes Iran’s post-election uprising and spreads the word about Iranians’ historic struggle against repression. Based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi and edited by two Iranians living in Shanghai.

http://www.spreadpersepolis.com/

Download the pdf (2,67 Mo) here

ترانه خداحافظ گل سوری ” عبدالقهار عاصی ” شاعر معاصر افغان با صدای محزون و غم آلوده ” فریاد دریا ” بود. ترانه ای که به یاد وطنی در دوردست و در ایرانی سروده شده که زمانی سرزمین غربت شاعر بوده است و امروز سرزمین غربت همه  مردمانش . عبدالقهار عاصی، شاعر این ترانه، در سال 73 به ایران مهاجرت کرد، تا از آفت اسلام طالبانی در امان باشد. اما پس از آنکه ایران حاضر به دادن اقامت به این شاعر نشد،  به کشورش بازگشت و بر اثر انفجار خمپاره در کابل جان داد

LA TIMES:

Chatham House, a British think tank, has published a study indicating irregularities in the disputed June 12 election.

The country’s highest electoral authority, the Guardian Council, acknowledged today that “votes collected in 50 cities surpass the number of people eligible to cast ballots in those areas,” state-owned Press TV reported. But a spokesman for the council maintains that the votes were not enough to reverse the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Chatham House researchers compared the official provincial returns from 2009 and 2005 against the 2006 census published by the official Statistical Center of Iran. They found:

• In two conservative provinces, Mazandaran and Yazd, a turnout of
more than 100% was recorded.

• At a provincial level, there is no correlation between the increased
turnout and the swing to Ahmadinejad. This challenges the notion that
Ahmadinejad’s victory was due to the massive participation of a
previously silent conservative majority.

• In a third of all provinces, the official results would require that
Ahmadinejad took not only all former conservative voters, all former
centrist voters, and all new voters, but also up to 44% of former
Reformist voters, despite a decade of conflict between these two
groups.

• In 2005, as in 2001 and 1997, conservative candidates, and
Ahmadinejad in particular, were markedly unpopular in rural areas.
That the countryside always votes conservative is a myth. The claim
that this year Ahmadinejad swept the board in more rural provinces
flies in the face of these trends.

Download the study from Chatham House. http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/755/