Iran’s Supreme Council reviewed secret maps detailing the location of dozens of facilities in the United States responsible for mass killings of its citizenry. Chief among them were the boardrooms of major health insurance companies, chemical manufacturers, auto manufacturers, tobacco farms, Wall Street and the US Congress.

They heard testimony that the terror group, Al Qaida, had killed less than 1/1,000 as many US citizens as any one of the newly identified groups of lethal organizations.

Among their findings:

1) Despite a massive constant propaganda effort, most US Senators and Congressional representatives openly engaged in the practice of idol worship of the wealthiest 1% of Americans- multiplying their wealth - while defrauding 95% of the population out of its modest material holdings via an assortment of nefarious schemes. Among these: mandatory protection racket payments and exemptions that multiply the premium costs of the substance-addicted, labelling a pool of crooked business operators as ‘Too Big To Fail’ and enacting the greatest transfer of public treasury funds ever from millions struggling to stay afloat to the greatest financial swindlers in US history, and other, similarly dastardly schemes.

Despite the Supreme Council’s condemnations, they also noted there were some exceptions, they reviewed the work of several of the lawmakers who worked to expose the propagandists as mealy-mouthed frauds, including one that was trying to recoup billions in losses caused by the financial chicanery.

2) They provided clear evidence that in the US, there are over 600,000 deaths due to heart disease, over 40,000 auto fatalities, over 20,000 flu deaths, and over 15,000 criminal murders, each year in the 8 year period under review. In these last 8 years, there have been just 3 people killed on American soil at the hands of terrorists, all the victims of domestic white supremacists. The report also cited half a dozen plots that were broken up by law enforcement and federal intelligence agencies that were tied to foreign terror organizations and noted that hundreds of Americans could have died had the plots succeeded.

Still, in a country of 305 million people, the likelihood of dying due to terrorist plots -even in the worst year of 2001 - was a tiny percentage of those killed by legally prescribed drugs and considerably smaller than deaths attributed to unsafe workplaces.

3) They singled out several processed food companies, Dow Chemical, several pharmaceutical companies, major financial and insurance companies, and the poor regulatory efforts of the FDA as some of the deadliest organizations in the US. They also cited Goldman Sachs and the Federal Reserve as the lead organizations masterminding these efforts. They declared several current reform efforts to be probable frauds that would not end the massive wealth transfers, would not reform anything significantly dysfunctional in the financial and healthcare systems, and would continue to impoverish the poorest by mandating unaffordable expenses with financial penalties that would impoverish them further.

The report concluded: “Taken as a whole, these clandestine US organizations cannot be fully exposed due to the massive amount of information each tries to keep secret. Many of them have caused as many deaths as some of the best known genocidal governments in world history, yet they’re covered up and protected by their elected politicians, to the detriment of US citizens and countries across the globe.”

As a remedy, they’re requesting UN sanctions against the deadly organizations and, should that fail as a deterrent, the building of a global military coalition that would invade and destroy the weapons of mass destruction those organizations regularly employ.

Addendum: Jo Comerford adds another deadly component to the list. Deadly to life. Deadly to progress. Deadly to the budgets of the middle class and poor.

So you fanatics and your thugs decided to create your own permanent Tienamen Square video moment by shooting down a woman in cold blood? Isn’t that special !

This is what galls me about power hungry guys oppressing millions of people while gaining the fruits of their labor, all the while claiming to be pious and morally upright. In fact, all oppressive leaders who wave that religious flag - in any religion - to repress people are worse than the lowest, scurviest criminals. No diplomat-speak can cover the stain of their constant sins.

And I fully anticipated the arrival of this day, as I’ve been long aware that much of the populace of Iran yearned for modernity and - as occurred in the 1950s - democratic elections without tyrants and voodoo leaders displaying their capacity for brutality.

I well understand our own past leaders’ failures and blundering brutalities in their acts against Iran, so this isn’t just a one-sided screed. But between the failures of the wealthy ayatollahs and the Holocaust-denying academic figurehead whose re-election ploys provoked this current upheaval, it was inevitable that Iranians would stand up and say ‘enough’.

I laud them for their courage above all. I am with them in spirit. I know the days ahead could easily get worse, as is generally the case with most popular revolutions. As the ayatollahs are learning, using force to shut down a sizeable minority inevitably turns the moderate middle away and creates a majority in opposition. They have failed to learn the lessons of human history, just as they’ve failed to lead Iranians forward to any greater good.

And that’s the greatest sin of every power-sated leader: failing to lead their people forward. Religion wielders who have nothing moral to back their holy writs are simply empty vessels awaiting the moment they’ll be washed from the shores where people are eager to swim.

Good riddance, whether that comes today or tomorrow. The movement to lead Iran backwards is reaching its extinction because it’s inevitable whenever revolution is the only way left for a people to go forward.

So yes, Remember Neda! And may Iran soon dismiss all the brutes who took her down and held back Iranians from the freedoms all people yearn for.

He endangered the entire world by selling nuke technology to several anti-Western nutballs. And now he’s a free man. Almost.

He won’t be able to travel without fear of being kidnapped. It’s conceivable al-Qaida could kidnap him inside of Pakistan. Or maybe he’d go voluntarily as an al-qaida member. We still really don’t know.

We also don’t know who - in the Pakistan government and military - might have aided his illegal proliferation gig. And now we’re supposed to play kissyface with Pakistan’s leadership? Why, exactly?

The global nuclear arms race was winding down when Khan came along. He reignited nuclear powered ambitions globally and profited greatly. And now we have to wonder which nutball he’ll next arm.

If ever there were a case for a covert takedown, this is the only one I could ever conceive of.

Now repeat after me: “Pakistan is our pal.” You know, the country that provided key training schools for Al Qaida.