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Posted on 02/28/2026 9:49:45 PM PST by ransomnote
Many come here to read dispatches from the War between Good and Evil, to red-pill and encourage.....and to pray and give thanks to the God who fights for us.
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
looks like this was first report in january. The TPS for Somalis terminates 03/17. It exists based on an extension given by Pres. Biden.
A president giveth, The President taketh away
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-ends-temporary-protected-status-thousands-somalis-us
Re Didn’t travel with:
Yes, our Billy is a terrible parser. He splits hairs on two-letter words.
Re Crenshaw:
That is enjoyable news!
I watched a vid from our military central command. The commander said one of their goals is to sink the entire Iranian navy!
They are also using tech, like one-way drones and prism missiles, that they’ve never used before.
Re CA:
On behalf of all native Californians, I offer my apologies.
It was a great, safe place sixty years ago.
I'm sure there are more than a few that are bummed out that Iran only had eleven ships.
I remember when we tracked everything down to 15' boats.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
They Lied to You About Iran. Why the Iran Strike Is Not Iraq 2.0 — The 118-Year Secret
Afshine Emrani MD FACC
Mar 02, 2026
The bombs are falling on Iran. By this morning, the world had changed — though most people watching the news will not understand how, or why. The television screens are full of the word “war.” The pundits are screaming “Iraq 2.0.” The old talking points are flying.
But before you accept the story you are being sold, stop. Take a breath. And ask the question nobody on television is asking: What is Iran, really — and who has been running it for the last 118 years?
The answer to that question explains everything — why this happened, why now, and why calling it another endless war is either dishonest or dangerously naive.
The Empire That Never Left
Most people think the British Empire ended after World War II — a relic of history, as distant as powdered wigs and tall ships. That is exactly what they want you to think.
In 1908, a British speculator named William Knox D’Arcy struck oil in southwest Persia. He purchased exclusive drilling rights from the Persian Shah for almost nothing — just 16% of profits, with no Iranian allowed to audit the books. From that single deal, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was born. You know it today as BP. British Petroleum.
By 1914, the British government had bought a 51% controlling stake. The Royal Navy ran on Iranian oil. By 1950, the Abadan refinery had become the largest oil refinery on earth — operated by the British, for British profit, on Iranian land. Britain's entire standard of living in the first half of the 20th century was subsidized by wealth pulled from Iranian soil, while Iranian workers lived in shantytowns without running water.
The Iranians got almost nothing. And when they finally tried to change that — when they elected Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1951, a man who dared to nationalize the oil company for his own people — the British and the CIA overthrew him in 1953. They called it Operation Ajax. They installed the Shah as their puppet and used the Muslim Brotherhood on the ground to stir up the chaos needed for the coup.
Here is the part that should make you sit up straight: when the Shah eventually outlived his usefulness, the same forces acquiesced to Khomeini's revolution in 1979. One puppet replaced another. The faces changed. The master did not. The Ayatollahs, for all their fire-breathing anti-Western rhetoric, have served the same financial architecture the Shah served before them.
Managed Wars. Manufactured Enemies.
Think about what the last 50 years of Middle Eastern wars have actually produced. The Iran-Iraq War. The Gulf War. The endless Sunni-Shia conflict. Proxy wars in Lebanon and Yemen. Each one devastating for the people who live there. Each one extraordinarily profitable for the financial institutions that insure oil shipments, bank sovereign wealth funds, and set global oil prices — institutions headquartered primarily in the City of London.
Chaos in the Middle East is not an accident. It is a business model.
This is not a conspiracy theory. It is the recorded history of colonial finance. When a region is stable and developing, it builds its own wealth. When it is burning, it depends on outside powers. The British financial empire has always preferred the latter. The Mullahs are not an independent power. They are the current franchise holders of a British financial operation — and the wars between Israel and the Arab states, between Sunni and Shia, between all the players in that region, are managed conflicts designed to keep the financial architecture in place.
Why This Is Not Iraq — And Why It Matters
The media's Iraq comparison is not just lazy. It is designed to make you stop thinking.
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and immediately dismantled everything. The police were fired. The generals were fired. Every institution of the Iraqi state was torn down. Into that vacuum rushed chaos, and out of that chaos came ISIS. Donald Trump himself reminded the world of exactly this mistake just weeks ago: “Everybody was fired... and they ended up being ISIS.”
Trump knows the Iraq playbook. He rejected it in Venezuela, where he captured Maduro but left the government's structure intact and began dealing with Maduro’s vice president immediately. He is telling us he is rejecting it here. Listen to what he said this morning — not to the regime, but to the Iranian people:
“Take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.”
That is not the language of empire. That is not occupation. That is not Iraq. An occupier installs puppets. Trump is telling a people: the barrier is being removed — now seize your moment.
And Vice President JD Vance — a Marine veteran who built his entire political career opposing forever wars — walked into the Washington Post and said clearly: there is “no chance” this becomes a long-term Middle East war. Not “probably not.” No chance. Targeted and lethal. No occupation. No state dismantlement. The goal is to remove a nuclear threat and the last obstacle to a new regional order — then step back.
The Architecture Trump Has Been Building
To understand why this is happening now, you have to understand what has already happened over the last year — because this strike is not the beginning of a strategy. It is the final move of one.
Since returning to office, Donald Trump has systematically dismantled the City of London's financial grip on the Middle East, piece by piece. He secured over two trillion dollars in Gulf sovereign wealth commitments — money that used to sit in London banks, now redirected to American manufacturing, energy infrastructure, and technology. He organized the Arab world and Israel into what he calls the “Border of Peace” — a framework where prosperity, not perpetual conflict, is the organizing principle.
He designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, cutting off the primary tool used to manipulate the region for nearly a century. He brought Egypt's President el-Sisi — who actually defeated the Brotherhood in his own country — to the center of the table. He is working with Turkey and Qatar. This is not Netanyahu's plan. It is Trump's plan, and it is far larger than any single country.
The real war, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has made clear, is not kinetic. It is financial. It is about who controls the flow of money in the Middle East — and whether that money serves the people of the region or the banks of London.
The Iranian regime was the last piece on the board that refused to move. You cannot build a border of peace while one player is still arming for total war. You cannot redirect two trillion dollars in Gulf investment while Iran threatens to blow up the shipping lanes. You cannot rebuild Gaza while Iranian proxies are rearming for the next round. They were offered deal after deal. They refused them all.
What Happens Now
We are at the very beginning of this, and the situation is evolving by the hour. Iran has already launched retaliatory strikes against US assets in the Gulf. This is serious. This is dangerous. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not paying attention.
But here is what five decades of watching these wars teaches you: the shape of a conflict in its first hours is not the shape of the conflict at its end. What matters is the strategic logic underneath the chaos — and the strategic logic here is unlike anything we have seen before.
This is not about installing new puppets. It is about removing the last guardian of a 118-year-old system of extraction and manufactured conflict. When that system falls, the Iranian people — who have suffered under both the Shah and the Ayatollahs, who have never truly owned their own government — will have an opening they have not had in over a century.
The critics will call Trump a warmonger. They will invoke Iraq. They will perform their outrage in newspapers that have never once explained who actually controls Iran, or why, or for how long. They will never tell you about 1908, or Operation Ajax, or the City of London's century of profit built on Iranian poverty. They will give you heat and no light.
But now you know.
The empire never really left. It just changed its name, swapped its puppets, and kept on collecting. And for the first time in 118 years, someone is actually trying to end it.
Blessings.
Afshine Ash Emrani, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA
David Geffen School of Medicine
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Brilliant piece.For me this answered a multitude of questions as to why, how, when, and where the world ends up like this.It also shows the difference between leaders in the past who were clearly little more than work horses for the cabal and Pres. Trump who actually cares about the world and it's future.
MIRV = Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle
Reentry means from space. Vehicle means it has its own guidance. These Iranian munitions are more akin to cluster bombs.
I would just about bet real money that everyone on that alleged “commercial” flight that Biden was on, was hand-picked by the DNC and is a paid actor. The entire residency of Biden was a facade, and this is just part of their scam.
We are watching a movie.
I don’t begin to know what it all means exactly, but Blackrock is getting its greedy hands on a major electric utility entity in Indiana and Ohio - AES...
Elvis Slide: EPiC movie is wonderful! Saw it last night. No Ai. His is the only voice over. Felt like I had been at a concert. Worth the ticket.
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Is there any hope at all for california or does it need to be divided into several states?
When I was a few weeks postpartum with my second child, I bundled us both up and waddled into the Fairfax County Circuit Court to testify against a man who had accosted my then-toddler daughter and I in a public bathroom while I was heavily pregnant.
When I arrived I was brought… pic.twitter.com/8H41nhP1Gs— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) October 30, 2025
I’m so thrilled that my congressional representative, Dan “Eye Patch” was himself dispatched in our primary. I was a bit surprised that he lost so badly.
Winning feels great!!!!!
Yes the Tesla Cybertruck (TCT) is large, angled and odd looking.
One day while driving through town up to the University I saw a TCT parallel parked, it the next block I saw a Rivian Truck parked, the next block there was another TCT parked and the next block had a Rivian Truck parallel parked as well...
We’ve got lot’s of ‘em here in my smallish town and a Rivian Dealership.
I looked at one parked at Costco about five months ago — the windshield wiper is four feet long!
I saw a Rivian “truck “ , looks like something Lego designed .
A guy a couple streets over has a Tesla “truck” , odd looking as well .
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