Extremely Rare Red Sprites Spotted Flashing Over Tibet. They are caused by high levels of electrical activity and form in the upper atmosphere during powerful thunderstorms.
Khamenei is dead. Good.
But I have family in Iran. My dad is there right now. And I'm not celebrating yet. Here's why.
Iran built the most layered contingency plan on Earth for this exact moment. Four levels of succession for every key position. Pre-authorized military strikes. Regional commanders who don't need orders from Tehran to act.
As you read this, there is already a new Supreme Leader. We just don't know who.
This isn't Maduro. The government didn't get overthrown. The system absorbed the hit. That's what it was designed to do.
Every credible intel assessment says the same thing: a post-Khamenei Iran is more likely to get harder, not softer. More IRGC. More dangerous. Potentially worse for the Iranian people than Khamenei himself.
Don't breathe yet. There's a long way to go.
In 1941, the most dangerous man in the Nazi intelligence service wasn't a double agent or a master saboteur, but a failed chicken farmer from Barcelona who had convinced the Third Reich he was a fanatic fascist leading a network of twenty-seven imaginary spies.
Juan Pujol García, a man with no military background and even less interest in war, decided that the only way to stop Hitler was to dismantle his plans from the inside. He approached the British MI5 with an offer to help, and they laughed him out of the room.
Undeterred, Pujol went to the Germans, created a fictional persona—an obsessed Nazi supporter—and offered his services as a spy. To his shock, they accepted. They gave him a code name, Alaric, and sent him to England to build a network of informants.
Pujol didn't go to England; he went to Lisbon, bought a map of Britain and a tourist guide, and began inventing a cast of fictional agents including a Venezuelan student, a gay waiter in Gibraltar, and a disgruntled Welshman.
He flooded the German Abwehr with reports so detailed and convincing that they eventually stopped looking for other sources of information. When MI5 finally realized what was happening, they brought him to London and gave him a new code name: Garbo.
His masterpiece came during Operation Overlord. Pujol convinced the German High Command that the D-Day landings in Normandy were merely a diversion, and that the "real" invasion would come later at Pas-de-Calais.
He kept the German 15th Army stationed away from the beaches for seven critical weeks while the Allies secured France. Pujol’s deception was so absolute that the Germans never realized they had been played.
In a twist that defies fiction, Pujol became the only person in history to be awarded both the British Order of the British Empire and the German Iron Cross—honored by both sides of the war for a lie that saved Western civilization.
The Muslim Brotherhood didn’t take power with guns.
They took it with patience.
They started as charity, schools, clinics, mosques.
Not to serve society, but to build loyalty outside the state.
Their method was simple:
control minds first, institutions later.
When crises hit and governments weakened, they stepped in, using democracy as a tool, not a belief.
Elections were a doorway, not the destination.
Once close to power, criticism became ‘anti-Islam,’ opposition became ‘treason,’ and religion became a political shield.
The UAE saw this early.
Instead of waiting for chaos, it acted, legally and decisively, and cut the network before it could capture the state.
No civil war. No collapse. No bloodshed.
That’s the difference between reacting to extremism
and preventing it.
@BrianTamakiNZ A learned man once said that immigrants are guests in a foreign country, should strictly adhere to the code meant for guests . Deviate ,then FAFO
Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, on immigration to America:
"Immigration has been a great strength for America. But mind you, immigration of the highly intelligent and highly hardworking. If it’s immigration of fruit pickers (laughs), you won’t get very far."
When Che Guevara was captured in his hiding place, after being betrayed by a shepherd, one of the soldiers asked him surprisingly: How can you betray a man who has spent his whole life defending you, you and your rights? The shepherd replied calmly: His fight against the enemy frightened my sheep!
Many years ago, in Egypt, the Grand Commander Mohamed Karim had led the resistance against Napoleon's total military campaign. When he was captured, the court sentenced him to death. But Napoleon called him and told him: I regret having to kill a man who bravely defended his country. I don't want history to remember me as a hero assassin. I will forgive you if you pay 10,000 gold coins for the losses suffered by my army. Mohamed Karim laughs and replies: I don't have that much money, but the merchants owe me more than 100,000 gold coins. Napoleon gave him a break. Karim went to the market, chained up and surrounded by soldiers guarding him, hoping that those he had sacrificed himself for would help him. But no merchants responded. On the contrary, they accused him of being the cause of the destruction of Alexandria and their crisis. He went back to Napoleon, morally broken. Napoleon then said to him: - I will not kill you because you fought against us, but because you sacrificed your life for a cowardly people, who prefer trade to freedom. Mohamed Rashid Rida summarized this way: "He who fights for an ignorant people is like one who immolates himself by fire to light the way for the blind."
@PathOfMen_ Never mock your close ones or insult them just to look cool or grab attention.
Because clowns entertain the crowd, but real ones protect their circle.
Know the difference before you lose respect trying to look funny.