This makes me so sad. Just how they described the scene... It's heartbreaking. Especially the child... Too young to know what happened, and eventually will be old enough to be told about that night.

You have to be pretty careful with that. The Shah's attempts to secularize Iran are part of what caused the Islamic Revolution in the first place.

The Shah gave women the right to vote, divorce, run for public office, and own property, eliminated polygamy, legalized abortion, and raised the age of marriage for women to 18. Labor laws were revised to prohibit sex discrimination and ensure equal pay for equal work. The Islamists didn't like that.

>The White Revolution consisted of 19 elements that were introduced over a period of 16 years, with the first 6 introduced on January 9, 1963,[8] and put to a national referendum on January 26, 1963.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Revolution

The Shah refused to genocide the Baha'i religious minority, which had long been hated and persecuted by Shia Islamists. The Islamists didn't like that.

>You could definitely say that there was a collation between Shah and the Shia Marja, i.e. Ayatollah Borujerdi. We have documents on this. Ayatollah Borujerdi had issued a message to the shah, saying that “we worked with you (ie. the shah and the monarchy) to bring down Mossadegh and crack down on the communist party and now expect you to work with us to crackdown on the Baha’is, who are a great enemy of Islam.” As much as I know, the shah did collaborate with them.
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https://iranwire.com/en/features/64797/

The Shah enacted land reforms, consisting of taking some lands from wealthy clerics and re-distributing it to the poor (the equivalent of taxing religious institutions). The Islamists didn't like that.

>The first step in land reform started in the early 1950s. The Shah gave over 500,000 hectares of land to about 30,000 homeless families.[1] Before the land reform, 70% of the arable land was owned1 by a small elite of large landowners or religious foundations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Land_Reform

The Shah allowed non-Muslims and women to hold public office. The Islamists didn't like that.

>Khomeini also attacked provisions of the reforms that would allow members of Iran's non-Muslim minority to be elected or appointed to local offices:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Revolution

Fast forward to 1979, and the Islamists have taken over the whole damn country and instituted a full-blown theocracy. The Shah has fled into exile, his secular reforms will be quickly reversed, and Iran will remain a theocracy for 43 years and counting.

So there's a lesson in there about not trying to secularize everything too quickly, or else you'll invite resistance and revolution - ie, the people you're trying to marginalize and subjugate are going to fight back if they figure out what you're trying to do to them. It's like how if you throw a frog into boiling water, it'll jump out. You have to put the frog into regular-temperature water and turn the heat up slowly.

That's the most effective way to take over. It's why the military industrial complex is successful - they spent decades taking over the US government. Smedley Butler mentioned it way back in 1935, and Eisenhower mentioned it in 1961 - so that gives you an idea of how long they've been working at it.

They didn't just barge in one day like a bunch of morons in red hats and buffalo-horned helmets, and try to take control of the government in a day by shitting on Congress' desks. No, they spent years patiently intertwining their interests with that of the government until nobody could tell them apart - until "what's good for GM" became synonymous with "what's good for the country."

Doesn't seem like many here are reading the article, so I'll try to summarize as someone who really doesn't know much about the law.

Basically, guy dealt cocaine and got caught. His sentencing was a few years and about 75000 dollars returned, which is different from fined (which is what the officer bought it for). Problem is that he only really pocketed about 6 to 7k from that, and as such doesn't have the money to forfeit, so instead of the forfeiture, they're fining him.

In lieu of him paying the fine, they're threatening more prison time. His case is that the additional time due to the fine is unconstitutional, because a fine in lieu of forfeiture is unconstitutional.

I think the evidence strongly supports the lab leak theory and that the response to the virus was reasonable, considering how dangerous it was. We still don’t understand the full effects of long covid or how it’s mutations could continue to be a problem.

All those things may not have been as effective as hoped and I think vaccine mandates are authoritarian and do more harm than good. But I got the vax, despite concerns over it.

Those concerns aren’t based on any conspiracy, just the fact that the US has a piss-poor history of allowing companies to use known toxic materials in their products. I got it anyway because I felt the benefits to all outweighed my personal risk.

You should read more then just propaganda.

For example understanding long standing islamophobia in Latin American countries.

The myth that is Islamic terrorism in Latin America. And how that myth plays into xenophobic rhetoric

In fact the only couple example of “Islamic terrorism” in Latin America seems to have been largely committed by local neo-Nazis who the government refused to find guilty as they were members of the police for the 1994 bombing.

Or the one in 1992 embassy of Israel which was from a state actor. In fact both appear to be state sponsored attacks.

So remind me again why “Islamic terrorism has been a problem for decades” when we don’t blame Christianity for American attacks on civilians in Afghanistan?

If you did read more then just state propaganda or biased sources you may have prevented yourself and everyone who downvoted from looking stupid.

As a 31 year old who had this in January and it kicked my ass for two weeks, I welcome this and would gladly get this

Don’t get me wrong kids should not be around meth addicts (they imply it’s not his mom). However, Kentucky prisons don’t rehabilitate meth heads lol. They never have and never will. It’s Kentucky, not fucking Norway.

She’ll be getting meth in prison and she’ll be a meth head when she gets out.

Lots of downvotes from people who own a "Tuscan"

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Most peaceful as in than Buddhism alike?

“After 12 grueling minutes, we have concluded the investigation. We did, in fact, do it. Death to America.”

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you are not a dumbass, as your username may suggest, you are very smart! good human. <3 .

This is a mass psychogenic illness, the physical manifestation of the damaging psychological effects of living under a despotic regime that devalues women, poisons their mental health as effectively as a physical poison gas, but unlike a gas, it lasts a lifetime.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/09/afghanistan-quiet-epidemic-mass-psychogenic-illness/

…squirrel people? People that compile evidence from valid sources to argue an important point? Your going to have to be more specific.

Besides f- this guy I'd like to add one to all the people who claim they forgot. Most are probably lying but either way they all deserve some time in jail and a permanent ban on firearm ownership.

>Last year, the Transportation Security Administration seized a record 6,542 guns at airports around the country. Most people who are stopped for having a gun at an airport checkpoint say they forgot they had the weapon with them.

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So, still no conclusive evidence. This is precisely a conspiracy theory!

That’s a really generous way of saying

Convicted Pedophile Ben Trane is a Fugitive

well....sort of

We've had RSV vaccines developed before (1966). They just weren't good ones.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783420/

The mRNA version looks far more promising.

But also https://ca.gsk.com/en-ca/media/press-releases/gsk-canada-submits-respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv-vaccine-candidate-for-regulatory-review/

It will be interesting to see if the size 13 Nikes match the footprint found in the murder house outside the only witnesses room.

And he’ll receive a slap on the wrist for it to.

no, I don't think he's falungong, I think he's been watching too much Epoch Times. Maybe he's a HK supporter but democratic process doesn't seem to be his thing.

Oh my god, 6G is here? (S).