Posted on 09/30/2025 9:00:00 PM PDT by ransomnote
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G’nite, lj ...
Good night, brother BOb! Wishing you and all FReeQs, FRens, FReepers and truth lovers a good night’s sleep and cheerful day tomorrow. May God’s love fill every heart, and may He protect everyone fighting against evil.
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Lee Zeldin:
“The Trump EPA is committed to total transparency. I tasked my team at EPA to compile everything we know about contrails and geoengineering to release to you now publicly. I want you to know EVERYTHING I know about these topics, and without ANY exception!
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-releases-new-online-resources-giving-americans-total-transparency-issues
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115420878291596525
ICE Exposes “Grave Consequences of Sanctuary Policies” Arresting 1,400 Criminal Aliens in 3 Weeks
https://www.judicialwatch.org/consequences-of-sanctuary-policies/?
Iran’s Double Standards: Lashes for the Masses and Strapless Gowns for Elites
Excerpt:
When Ali Shamkhani responded to criticism over his daughter’s lavish wedding, he didn’t address his fellow Iranians in Persian.
The senior Iranian security official instead posted in Hebrew, quoting the 1973 prison escape film Papillon, saying “You bastards, I’m still alive [here].”
The Papillon quote he chose carries its own irony. In the film, Steve McQueen’s character survives imprisonment and escapes to freedom by refusing to surrender despite brutal conditions. Shamkhani apparently identified with that defiance.
But for many Iranians, the more fitting comparison is not to a prisoner refusing to break under pressure or torture: it is to the jailers and guards who carry out acts of oppression while exempting themselves and their families from the same rules they enforce on the rest of their society.
The message, delivered in the language of the Islamic Republic’s sworn enemy, captured something beyond a minor local controversy.
For Iranians struggling with inflation, unemployment, and international sanctions, it widened the growing chasm between Iran’s revolutionary rhetoric and the affluent and aristocratic lifestyle of its elite.
The video that sparked the controversy showed scenes from a wedding ceremony held in March 2024 at Tehran’s upscale Espinas Palace Hotel. Under the laws of the Islamic Republic, given the type of wedding he hosted, Shamkhani had committed a crime punishable by up to 99 lashes.
Women danced without headscarves in mixed company at the wedding, where luxury dominated every frame. The estimated cost ran into billions of tomans, all for the daughter of a man who had spent decades enforcing the same Islamic codes that guests flouted at his family celebration.
The video’s release came amid reports that Iran plans to introduce 80,000 new morality police officers to Tehran’s streets to enforce women’s compliance with Islamic dress codes.
Blue Mtns., New South Wales, Australia
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