Daily News Roundup
NOTABLE QUOTES
Occidental Observer: Aristotle’s grim observations on diversity are worth repeating: unassimilable immigration can only lead to conflict, conflict which can only end through separation, separation which can only occur through the expulsion either of the invaders or the natives from their ancestral lands.
Lars Møller contributor to American Thinker: The Greeks were giants. What about us? Are we already beaten? Or shall we surprise the world and rise again? Melancholic self-abandonment, bordering on the masochistic (i.e. a hysterical death drive — and futile sacrifice — of post-Christian secularism), is really our greatest enemy in the West.
James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer contributors to American Greatness: As alarming as these developments are, what is worse is the permanent weaponization of government against political opponents. The raids, indictments, trials, and gag orders for a former president and leading 2024 candidate demonstrate that the Constitutional rights of the most prominent political figure in American politics in this century can have his rights violated, so too can all Americans. The lawfare employed against President Trump has been specifically designed by the left to consume his time and other resources away from his campaign for President in this critically important election year.
The Right Scoop: Per new CBP data through April, at least 434,800 migrants have flown directly into the US and have been paroled into the country via the Biden administration’s controversial CHNV mass parole program. This includes: 184,600 Haitians 101,200 Venezuelans 91,100 Cubans
75,700 Nicaraguans These are not included in the southern border numbers.
Lewis Dovland contributor to American Thinker: Question: If you are female, would you prefer a Harrison Butker type as your life partner? Or would you prefer to share your life with a man-bun wearing, scraggly bearded, non-binary person complete with all the leftist jargon and chock-full feelings?
Mark Tapson contributor to Frontpage Magazine: The uproar over Harrison Butker is evidence that tradition, morality, family, values, and common sense are all making a comeback in America, despite what the cultural elites want you to believe. Progressive madness – from the communist racism of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs to the science denial and child abuse of gender ideology – is on the panicked defensive. All it takes to reverse the death grip progressives have on our culture is for enough Americans to take a stand like Harrison Butker and speak truth to the left’s cultural and political power.
Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: The mountain never did go to the Supreme Leader of Iran and so he ended up going to it and into it.
John Horvat contributor to The Imaginative Conservative: This year’s graduates must accept the challenge of being thrust into this world of sin and disorder and the obligation to fight for Christian order. At this point, it is not an option but a matter of survival in an interrupted world.
DEMOCRAT PARTY MAEXIST PLAYBOOK: ABOLISH THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Colton: UCLA locks doors on conservative students, preventing them from hosting pro-Israel event: YAF
“I am deeply disappointed in UCLA’s failure to protect our First Amendment rights,” Matthew Weinberg, chairman of UCLA Young Americans for Freedom chapter, said in a YAF press release. “All we wanted was a successful Pro-Israel event where people of all backgrounds and viewpoints can engage in the free exchange of ideas and hear a different perspective not heard across university campuses, and the school made that impossible. This is nothing but an act of pure cowardice.”
U.S. SUPREME COURT
Sundance: They Are Coming for Alito and It Has Nothing to Do With Upside Down Flags
You are not going to like this, and most will say I’m nuts. However, with more than a dozen years of crazy “right-wing conspiracy theories” proven out in real time, I hope the long-time readers will adjust their perspectives and affairs accordingly. The IC is coming after Judge Sam Alito, but not because of his non pretending, general J6 disdain, solid grasp on the fraud that is Joe Biden, or his wife having an upside-down flag (although the non-pretending aspect is very troubling for them). No, the IC has been coming for Justice Alito since Chief Justice John Robert’s internal court counselor’s lead office staff, Sheldon Snook, the husband of Mary McCord, leaked the Alito decision [Dobbs Decision] overturning Roe and sending the abortion issue back to the states. The Sheldon Snook leak, hidden by Justice Roberts due to the origination from his office, is the structural compromise within the court that gives the IC leverage over the third branch of government. In a strange situation, Judge Alito appears to be holding the line and forcing the IC to come out of the shadows after him. My hunch is he’s just had enough.
Cleveland: I Researched Judicial Ethics Rules For Years. Here’s Why The Alito Recusal Calls Are Ridiculous
It would actually be unethical for Alito to recuse because the Supreme Court’s Code of Conduct says a justice ‘has an obligation to sit unless disqualified.’ Last week, the left and their paramours in the propaganda press paused momentarily from their near-continuous assault on Justice Clarence Thomas to set their sights on a new target: Justice Samuel Alito. Justice Alito, headlines barked, must recuse from the pending Supreme Court cases involving Jan. 6 defendants and Trump’s appeal concerning presidential immunity because a “Stop the Steal” symbol was displayed at his house in January 2021. Democrats quickly joined the choir screeching for Alito to recuse. But to borrow a line from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the idea that Alito violated any ethical rules, or that the Code of Conduct for the justices requires his recusal from those cases, is wrong six ways to Sunday. The false flag of an ethical scandal was clear from The New York Times’ spin in breaking the story on Thursday under the headline: “At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display.” From the Old Gray Lady’s header, one would think the Alitos had displayed a banner brandishing the phrase outside their home. But no, as the article soon acknowledged, it was an upside-down American flag seen flying outside the home where Justice Alito lives with his wife. And it was his wife who raised the flag — in protest of a neighbor displaying a profane yard sign, as we would soon learn.
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Bovard: Joe Biden claims he has ‘executive privilege’ against anyone finding out just how addled he is
The Biden White House is proclaiming a new prerogative for presidents: They may suppress any evidence of their unfitness for office. The battle over five hours of audio tapes could settle President Biden’s fate or pave the way for perpetual presidential secrecy in coming years.
Turley: Biden’s Voldemortian theory of privilege: The president whose voice must not be heard
While all eyes were focused on a Manhattan courthouse for Donald Trump’s trial, a curious thing happened in Washington. President Joe Biden invoked executive privilege in defiance of Congress. It is not the invocation that is particularly unusual. What is curious is that Biden is withholding the audiotape of his own interrogation by Special Counsel Robert Hur, even though the transcript has been released as unprivileged. It appears that Joe Biden is “he who must not be heard.” The invocation of privilege over the audiotape is so transparently political and cynical that it would make Richard Nixon blush. Multiple committees are investigating Biden for possible impeachment and conducting oversight on the handling of the investigation into his retention and mishandling of classified material over decades. […] Hur’s view that Biden’s diminished cognitive abilities would undermine any prosecution left many dumbfounded. After all, the man who is too feeble to prosecute is not only running a superpower with a massive nuclear arsenal but running for reelection to add four more years in office. From impeachment to oversight to the 25th Amendment (allowing the removal of a president for incapacities), there are ample reasons for Congress to demand information and evidence from the government on these questions.
2024 ELECTION
Fanell & Thayer: Election 2024: A Political Renaissance for America or the Path to Totalitarianism
To ensure the continuation of the American Republic will require not only support for President Trump but also extraordinary vigilance by the American people through the election and its aftermath. It has been decades in the making, but the country is now on the precipice between its traditional ideology of political liberalism and a path that will lead, far sooner than Americans might think, to totalitarianism. The historical bulwarks of Americanism and the American political system—government of the people, freedom, and liberty—have been deliberately eroded. A citizenry steeped in republican virtue, cognizant of the political ideas and principles that made America a lasting and strong constitutional republic, and knowledgeable about the duties and obligations of American citizenship have been under daily assault for years from the foreign ideology of communism. That odious ideology has operated under synonyms such as “progressivism,” “multiculturalism,” or DEI to make its poison more palatable to American audiences. The media—the so-called “Fourth Estate”—has been another layer of protection that has been peeled away. Today, they are activists advancing the left’s agenda in all but name.
Mittlestadt: Democrats deny non-citizens are voting in federal elections while Republicans seek to prevent it
Democrats on the House Administration Committee claimed during a hearing titled, “American Confidence in Elections: Preventing Noncitizen Voting and Other Foreign Interference,” on Thursday that the discussion of non-citizen voting is an attempt by Republicans to undermine the results of the 2024 election. Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., said flatly at the hearing that non-citizens are not voting in U.S. elections, and that Republicans are using the “non-issue” to explain why former President Donald Trump will lose the 2024 presidential election. […] However, according to a study by Just Facts, 10% to 27% of non-citizens are registered to vote in the U.S., and about half of them – 5% to 13% – “will illegally vote in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections.”
Kight & Neukam: Senate Democrats don’t believe Biden’s bad polls, either
Democratic senators who represent presidential battlegrounds agree with President Biden — polls showing him trailing former President Trump in those key states are wrong. Why it matters:The skepticism is especially notable because a number of Democrats from those states have a polling lead over their Republican opponents in pivotal Senate races. “No, I do not think that they are accurate,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) told Axios. Her retirement has triggered one of the most competitive Senate races. Democrat Elissa Slotkin has been leading in early polls, even as Biden lags behind Trump.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/19/biden-senators-swing-states-polling
(From election interference to election subversion) Hammer: Will Dems Pay a Price for Their Cynical, Crumbling Lawfare Strategy?
President Joe Biden, who wears bespoke sneakers to prevent embarrassing collapses and whose command of the English language rivals that of most kindergarteners, is in bad political shape. Uncle Joe’s reelection campaign faces an uphill climb, given his disastrous handling of the economy — including a formal recession and four-decade-high inflation — and his abetting a catastrophic and historically unprecedented invasion on our southern border. Cynicism and a sense of malaise are ubiquitous, and Americans overwhelmingly think the nation is headed in the wrong direction. Monday’s New York Times/Siena College poll reflects this: former President Donald Trump currently leads in five of the six most crucial swing states. Given their terrible candidate, the candidate’s awful track record, and their tremendous (if unjustified) fear that a second Trump term would pose an existential threat to “our democracy” (which they disingenuously claim to care about), it is unsurprising that Democrats have resorted to some of the slimiest tactics imaginable to derail Trump’s comeback bid and push their senile octogenarian across the November finish line. Properly skeptical of their chances to topple Trump in a fair mano-a-mano, the Democrat-lawfare complex in 2023 conjured up four separate criminal prosecutions — two federal probes and two state probes — targeting the 45th president. After all, if you can’t beat him, then … prosecute and incarcerate him! All in the name of “our democracy,” naturally. Suffice it to say that the Democrat-lawfare complex’s brazen, cynical attempt to subvert our constitutional order in the name of saving it has not gone according to plan. […] The Democrats’ strategy is failing. But it is up to the American people to make them pay for it.
Read more: https://jewishworldreview.com/0524/hammer051724.php
CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY
Hinshaw, Parkinson & Lin: Mystery in the Alps: A Chinese Family, a Swiss Inn and the World’s Most Expensive Weapon
The Hotel Rössli, a century-old lodge in this Alpine valley village, enjoys a spectacular view from its front. The lace-curtained windows stare out into a crop of mountains capped with snow that melts into the nearby waterfall where Sherlock Holmes, in one of the novels, plummets to an untimely death. But it is the view from the back that caught the attention of American intelligence agencies. About 100 yards from the rear of the rustic, wood-paneled inn, just past a child’s swing set, cuts the runway where the Swiss military had agreed to base several F-35s, the world’s most advanced jet fighter. The airstrip, only partly fenced, is so accessible to passersby that farmers sometimes lead cows across it, bells clanging from their necks. […] On a crisp summer morning last year, Swiss federal police raided the Rössli, taking the Wangs and their 27-year-old son Dawei in for questioning. Somebody left a note on the door reading: “The hotel is closed.” For months, U.S. and British national security officials had been claiming that its quaint 1903 facade offered Beijing’s intelligence services an ideal watchpost on the front edge of an escalating spy war between America and China. Xi Jinping’s intelligence agencies, U.S. officials warned, were going to enormous lengths to acquire information about the supersonic jet, built to penetrate enemy airspace undetected.
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY
Tawil: Palestinians Threaten to Attack US Troops
- The Palestinians] seem confident that if the Biden administration is rewarding them for malign behavior, it is clearly working, so why not keep it up?
- The Palestinians are hoping to scare the Americans and prevent them from cooperating with Israel on the future of the Gaza Strip after the war.
- The Biden administration did not, it seems, even demand that, in return for the humanitarian aid, the hostages be released or that the terrorists stop launching rockets into Israel.
- Apparently, the Biden administration did not even request assurances that the aid would not be seized and diverted by the terrorists.
- Hamas has earned at least $500 million from the aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war in October 2023, according Ehud Yaari, an Israeli expert on Arab and Palestinian affairs.
- [The Palestinians] consider the presence of US troops in the region as another form of “occupation” and an unwelcome intervention in the internal affairs of the Arabs in the Middle East.
- As long as supplies are getting into the Gaza Strip, Hamas will not stop fighting or free the hostages.
- Because of the Gaza pier, the Biden administration has made it immensely harder to free the hostages and end the war.
Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20656/palestinians-threaten-us-troops
Revolver.news: Secretary of State Blinken eats dinner at Ukraine pizza joint with… interesting decorations…
Blinken’s sudden and surprise trip to Ukraine got off to a rocky start. It turns out, much to his dismay, that officials in Ukraine have been pocketing our tax dollars—funds meant for their defense—while cities fall to Russia. That’s right, you’re in a country with its own border issues, paying 23 bucks for a pack of chicken, just so your hard-earned tax dollars can go to securing Ukraine’s borders and lining the pockets of their elites. […] But believe it or not, things got even worse for Tony. The US Secretary of State popped into a pizza joint for a cozy dinner, only to find out he was breaking bread with a war criminal in a restaurant plastered with Nazi symbols and prideful references to the Odessa Trade Union Massacre, which took place in 2014. For those who aren’t aware of that stain on history, here’s some background below.
Yeatman: DR Congo coup: US-Congolese father is killed as his son begs for his life after leading bungled bid to overthrow government as video shows moment they are captured
One American is dead and another was left begging for his life after a botched coup was stopped in its tracks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). […] Marcel Malanga, 21, accompanied his former refugee father Christian to the central African country from their home in Utah to lead the coup against the autocratic government of President Felix Tshisekedi. […] Some local outlets claimed the men were CIA agents as they were paraded in the street but the US ambassador denied any involvement in the coup I am shocked by the events this morning and very worried by the reports of American citizens allegedly being involved,’ Lucy Tamlyn, the US ambassador to the DRC, posted on X, formerly Twitter. ‘Rest assured that we are cooperating with authorities in DRC to the fullest extent possible, as they investigate these criminal acts and hold accountable any American citizen involved.’ Also seized was Benjamin Zalman-Polun, a 36-year-old former cannabis dealer from Maryland whose passport was gleefully displayed by the victorious troops. And the Congolese authorities said another American along with a Brit were being questioned in custody. […] Suspicion about US involvement in the coup attempt has been fueled by American support for the overthrow of Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro four years ago. Jordan Goudreau was a former US Green Beret turned private security consultant when he fled Venezuela in the aftermath of an attempted coup in 2020.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13437171/congo-malanga-drc-coup-cia-utah-tiktok.html
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
Showalter: Bidenflation clocks in at 19.1% since Joe Biden took office
Here’s how we get more inflation, according to TIPP, which found that Bidenflation went up yet again, dating from the day Joe Biden took office. The dark reality of Bidenomics is 19.2% inflation under the President’s watch, which is 5.9% annually. When he took office, inflation was at just 1.4%. Since March 2021, it has stayed above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target (38 consecutive months.).Under Biden, the federal debt has increased by $6.9 trillion. The Federal Reserve printed money out of nothing to finance his spending spree. The increased money supply without a corresponding increase in goods and services reduced the value of each dollar, causing prices to rise quickly and leading to high inflation, effectively acting as a hidden tax on everyone. Prices have increased by 19.2%, while real wages have declined by 2.6%. Average hourly earnings for all employees dropped 2.6% to $11.09 in April 2024 from $11.39 in January 2021 when Biden took office.
Read more at the American Thinker.
War Room: Cpt. James E. Fanell: How America’s Elites Have Became The Modern Bolsheviks
Watch the 4:36 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4vzhkr-capt.-james-e.-fanell-how-americas-elites-have-became-the-modern-bolsheviks.html
WND Staff: WATCH: Mark Levin: ‘This is no joke. We have tyranny right now’ due to Biden
Watch the 14:58 minute monologue: https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/watch-mark-levin-tyranny-right-now-due-biden/
Schwab: Biden asks NAACP crowd what they think Trump would have done if January 6 rioters were black
President Joe Biden sharpened his racially-charged attack on former President Donald Trump during Sunday night’s annual NAACP Detroit Branch Freedom Fund dinner. ‘What do you think he would have done on January 6 if black Americans had stormed the Capitol?’ Biden asked – as members of the crowd collectively gasped. The president then added, ‘No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine,’ as Trump has long promised to pardon those involved in the 2021 Capitol attack if he’s elected to a second term in November. Biden’s appearance at the 5,000-strong Detroit dinner capped off two days of travel dedicated to outreach to black voters in two key swing states – Georgia and Michigan. Earlier, Biden was the keynote speaker at Morehouse College in Atlanta and hit Trump on his record on race there too.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13436343/biden-trump-january-black-people.html
Sundance: Watch This Legislative Issue Closely and Monitor the “UniParty” Voices
On the issue of crypto currency, watch the DC voices very closely. They are about to take up legislation on the topic of crypto currency, regulation and overall ramifications therein. Keeping in mind that a dollar-based Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) cannot and will not coexist within a financial system that permits the transition (the exchange) of dollars into crypto and vice-versa. Put simply, in the Western financial system, crypto currency cannot exist with a CBDC. Duality of currency is possible outside the West, but not feasible, viable or possible given the political motivations behind the creation of the dollar-based CBDC. First things first….. Remember just before Super Tuesday 2020 when all the Democrat candidates for the Dem nomination dropped out and fell in line behind China Joe? Do you remember Warren staying in to support Joe by splitting the Bernie vote and everyone wondered what her payment was going to be? Here’s your answer. The holy grail for the progressive movement was formerly known as a “carbon trading” process or platform, where you would have to pay a fee for your specific life choices and human existence. That objective or goal never went away; it just modified into a process that would create the mechanism for the payment system – that’s the dollar-based CBDC. Just like Obamacare, there is going to be a myriad of “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” promises with CBDC. And there will be some “You have to pass the bill to see what is in the bill” later espousals to convolute the former promises as they conflict with the CBDC legislative outcomes that start to gain attention. From the perspective of DC, control over us is the upside; . . .
THE DEMOCRAT-LED WAR ON WOMEN
Clancio: The Truth about the Abortion Pill
Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report covering its “services” for the 2022–2023 fiscal year should be eye-opening for many. The largest abortion chain in the U.S. received nearly 700 million of our tax dollars. It committed 392,715 abortions. And it claimed that “863,000 users accessed abortionfinder.org — an authoritative source for abortion information from Planned Parenthood and independent clinics — from Planned Parenthood’s websites between July 2022–June 2023.” This means that Planned Parenthood helped nearly one million women find abortion services when it could not provide them. Seventy percent of the report is focused on abortion: killing a preborn baby as “healthcare” or a “right,” along with read snide comments about shielding patients from “ads from crisis pregnancy centers and anti-abortion rights sources.” We read the incessant lies PP tells women about abortion and their bodies. Yet one thing was obviously missing. This report made no mention at all of any abortion pill statistics. […] Former abortion worker Abby Johnson wrote of her own horror story after taking medication abortion: Suddenly, I was blindsided by a pain in my abdomen like nothing I had ever experienced before or since. Then came the blood . . . .[…] The dangers do not stop at these physical and psychological risks. When a woman is mailed these pills without seeing a doctor, she forgoes the in-person exam with her doctor, who would be able to detect if she has an ectopic pregnancy. The abortion pill does not end an ectopic pregnancy, which could lead to health complications or death for the mother should a rupture occur.
Read more at the American Thinker.
Dovland: Why American Women Should Want Their Own Harrison Butker
Question: If you are female, would you prefer a Harrison Butker type as your life partner? Or would you prefer to share your life with a man-bun wearing, scraggly bearded, non-binary person complete with all the leftist jargon and chock-full feelings? Butker’s comments at the graduation ceremony for Benedictine College, a Catholic institution (where he gave a Catholic message) in Atchison, Kansas, has Democrats in a tizzy, clutching their pearls, getting the vapors, and collapsing onto their fainting couches. And of course, going into full-blown scorched earth mode.
[…] Since the 1970s, Gloria Steinem days—as still seen in today’s COSMO (which is truly unreadable dreck)—the “women’s movement” of sexual liberation (Marxism designed to collapse the family structure) and the alleged emancipation of women have done women great harm by telling them they can be all things. That is wrong. While they can do anything, they can’t do everything. The feminist movement put tremendous pressure on women and, in many ways, has stolen their joy by convincing them of a lie. Raising kids is a full-time job when done right, as is a corporate ladder-climbing career. You must decide your path. […] Even if you disagree, I’m willing to bet that nearly all marriage-focused women, liberal or conservative, want the man they marry to be masculine, monogamous, to oversee things outside the home, and not be that milquetoast weakling complete with “feelings”
Read more at the American Thinker.
DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILDREN ARE THE TARGET OF THE DARKNESS AFFECTING OUR NATION
Ingraham Angle: Nearly 300 parents in Maryland school district file lawsuit to opt out of LGBTQ book list
Watch the 6:47 minute interview; https://www.foxnews.com/video/6353143408112
LaChance: Anti-Israel Group Advising California School District Teaches Third Graders About ‘Decolonization’
They Teach Third Graders To ‘Decolonize’ Themselves. They Also Advise a Prominent California Public School District. For most kids, third grade is spent learning concepts such as fractions, long multiplication, and telling time to the nearest minute. For the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, an education consulting group, it’s spent pursuing a different topic: decolonization. That’s according to a Liberated Ethnic Studies lesson plan titled, “Who are my people?”
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PROMOTE, GLORIFY, & NORMALIZE GENDER DYSPHORIA – A MENTAL ILLNESS
Sultan: Transgender Oregon high school runner is booed by crowd as she crossed finish line and won girls’ 200-meter state title
Aayden Gallagher won by two-tenths of a second and was also jeered as she crossed the finish line on Saturday. The high-school student ran the best time during the preliminary heats before she picked up the state title. She was announced as the state champion and her name was met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Spencer: ‘This Is a Queer Planet’: NBCUniversal’s Peacock Releases New Series on Gay Animals
Birds do it, bees do it, even NBCUniversal’s Peacock does it. Normalizing depravity and perversion is all the rage these days, and in service of that goal, the popular streaming service has introduced a new series, “Queer Planet,” celebrating what it claims is homosexuality and transgenderism among animals. Is this a science program? No. Is it a conservation program? No. Whatever it is, one thing is certain: Peacock doesn’t give two hoots about animals. It is just using them to normalize the LGBTQIAEIEIO agenda. […] Breitbart noted Friday that “the trailer for the series features a narrator proclaiming that the planet is home to roughly 11 million species, as a chyron on the screen asserts that the ‘animal kingdom isn’t as simple as black and white,’” while showing a still photo of what are apparently two male lions engaged in a sex act. […] In saner times, mothers would tell their children not to behave like animals. The idea of emulating them as moral exemplars never occurred to anyone. After all, it’s a dangerous path to start traveling down. Once we justify “queer” practices on the basis of all these supposedly “queer” animals, why stop at that?
Read more/Watch the 1:20 minute trailer: https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/05/17/this-is-a-queer-planet-nbcuniversals-peacock-releases-new-series-on-gay-animals-n4929135
THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS DEMOCRAT PARTY MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Hemingway: NBC News, New York Times Replay Russia Hoax For 2024 Election
The media plan to spend the rest of the year framing opposition to Democrats as the result of Russian disinformation, even though it’s a lie. As Joe Biden’s presidency fails and his 2024 campaign falters, the media and other Democrats are hitting the big red panic button and bringing back their Russia-collusion hoax for another spin. Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC host who sets Democrat talking points, spent last week claiming Biden’s 2024 troubles aren’t due to his unpopular policies or lack of mental acuity but rather a secret and nefarious Russian plot to help Donald Trump win the election. Scarborough excitedly claimed Republicans in Congress were working with Russian President Vladimir Putin to help Trump win. Putin endorsed Biden in February, for what it’s worth. […] Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., tweeted out a link to the story with the note, “Trump/Russia. Trump/Russia. Trump/Russia. How obvious does it have to be??” A CIA spokesman told The New York Times the claim made in the video was “patently false” and the “type of disinformation that the intelligence community has long warned about.” He added, somewhat hilariously, that “C.I.A. is a foreign-focused organization that takes our obligation to remain uninvolved in American politics and elections very seriously.”
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/20/nbc-news-new-york-times-replay-russia-hoax-for-2024-election/
SPIRITUAL WARFARE: GOOD VS EVIL
War Room: Joe Allen Discusses The Demonic Degeneracy At Eurovision
Watch the disturbing 23:09 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4vtmjo-joe-allen-discusses-the-demonic-degeneracy-at-eurovision.html
Wolf: “Is Elite Occultism Real?”
The evidence is around us.
Watch the one-hour video: https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/is-elite-occultism-real
(H/T DS) TheThe1776Post: . . . I came across this video of Father Chad Ripperger, a renowned Catholic priest and exorcist who explains it all very well. Here is just a clip, but very powerful that helps us understand that the War we are fighting is a Spiritual War of Good vs Evil. To know and understand the levels of Spiritual Warfare you must know enough about the subject. Same as your faith, you must know your faith well enough to not get tempted. […] . . . Father Ripperger explains under Satan there are 5 Generals that execute his plans: The first General is Baal who is the demon of impurity and his principal function is to get cultures to succumb to impurity primarily through fornication. This spiritual adversary aims to distort and pervert the gift of human sexuality, leading individuals away from the divine order intended by God. Baal lays the groundwork for the free love movement where men will start to want to sleep with men and women with women this includes the normalizing of deviant sexual behavior. (Now you see where Baal-lenciaga was derived from) The second General is . . .
Read more/Watch the 4:57 minute sermon: https://x.com/TheThe1776/status/1787706868422639736
Watch the full sermon. Start the video at the 4:17 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQOSzZprIO4
Short biography: Father Chad Ripperger is a Catholic priest and exorcist who has gained recognition for his expertise in demonology and spiritual warfare. He is the founder of the traditional Catholic Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother (the Doloran Fathers) in the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, United States. Father Ripperger was born in Casper, Wyoming, and earned two Bachelor’s degrees in theology and philosophy from the University of San Francisco, as well as two Master’s degrees in philosophy from the Center for Thomistic Studies of the University of St. Thomas. […] Father Ripperger has performed numerous exorcisms throughout his career, and has spoken publicly about his experiences with demonic possession. He believes that spiritual warfare is a real and ongoing battle, and that individuals must be equipped with the knowledge and tools to defend themselves against demonic attacks. Father Ripperger has also emphasized the importance of prayer, fasting, and spiritual discipline in the fight against evil.
(The good news) Protestia: 12,000 Christians Baptized Yesterday in ‘Largest Synchronized Day of Water Baptism in American History’
A reported 12,000 people were baptized in and around the waters of the Pacific Ocean yesterday as part of Baptize California, billed as the “largest synchronized day of water baptism in American history.” […] While the flagship event took place in Huntington Beach, there were dozens of regional baptisms across California, with many people signing up to partake in the festivities beforehand and others deciding to get baptized spontaneously. […] God is not finished with this state!
(More good news) Tapson: Harrison Butker, Culture Warrior
Overnight, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has become an unexpected flashpoint in the culture wars. The 28-year-old devout Catholic was catapulted onto frontpage news last week after giving what, in saner times, would have been considered a largely innocuous commencement speech at Benedictine College, a Kansas Catholic school. In it he championed old-fashioned values like faith and family that fearlessly shot down all the left’s sacred cows, from abortion to DEI to trans ideology.Asserting that “we see that in the complete surrender to self and in turning towards Christ, you will find happiness,” Butker exhorted the Catholic students to let their lives be led by traditional values, telling them it is a “reminder to us all that when you embrace tradition, success, worldly and spiritual, will follow.” He warned that “abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values in media, all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder,” and along the way he sideswiped the LGBTQ movement: […] Arguably his most important and controversial points came when he separately addressed the men and women in his audience, offering advice that runs directly counter to the destructive messaging in the culture about the nature of masculinity and femininity:
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/harrison-butker-culture-warrior/
BOOK REVIEW: LEFTIST IMPERIALISM: FROM CARDINAL RICHELIEU TO KLAUS SCHWAB BY GARY GINDLER
Greenfield: A Physicist Investigates the Left
“All branches of Leftism, including Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Statism, Marxism, Trotskyism, Maoism, and National Socialism” share a common ancestor, Gary Gindler argues in his new book, ‘Left Imperialism: From Cardinal Richelieu to Klaus Schwab’. Blending political philosophy and a history of ideology, ‘Left Imperialism’ dives into the origins of the globalist leftist movements and their fundamental opposition to American conservatism. The Left has been on an apocalyptic collision course with America and the free world for its entire existence, but ‘Left Imperialism’ traces its evolution as an ideology from local class warfare to a global movement, from seeking socialism within a nation to global socialism that permeates the world as a network of ideological institutions dominating the planet. A former Soviet physicist who helped pioneer the Russian internet, Gary Gindler . . .
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-physicist-investigates-the-left/
A RELIC OF THE PAST: THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH
(Merit out. Skin color in.) Lendrun: Report: Medical Schools Secretly Defying Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affirmative Action
A coalition of medical professionals revealed the methods by which medical schools across the country are circumventing the Supreme Court’s ruling outlawing the practice of affirmative action, and employing such race-based policies anyway. According to Fox News, the group Do No Harm released new research this week revealing that “many in the healthcare establishment nevertheless remain ideologically committed to the principle of racial favoritism and reject the virtue of race blindness.” This comes despite the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last year in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which determined that affirmative action, the practice of admitting students or hiring staff based solely on their race, was unconstitutional. The study, titled “Skirting SCOTUS: How medical schools will continue to practice racially conscious admissions,” states that “efforts to game admissions with an eye toward bolstering racial diversity commonly occur under the moniker of ‘holistic admissions.’”
21ST CENTUREY LEFTIST (DFEMOCRAT PARTY) INDOCTRINATION CENTERS
Schwab: Biden tells black graduates Republicans ‘don’t see you in the future of America’ in fiery speech slamming right-wing ‘extremists’
President Joe Biden told black graduates Sunday that former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies ‘don’t see you in the future of America’ in a fiery takedown on race. The president didn’t use Trump or the GOP‘s name as he addressed graduating seniors from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, but it was clear who he was talking about as he brought up January 6 amid their commencement ceremony. ‘Insurrectionists who stormed the capitol with Confederate flags are called patriots by some,’ Biden told the seniors, graduating from the historically black, all-male institution. ‘Not in my house.’ Trump often refers to his supporters who ransacked the Capitol Building by that term. ‘Black police officers, black veterans, protecting the Capitol were called another word as you recall,’ Biden continued. The president added that ‘extremists close the doors of opportunity, strike down affirmative action, attack the values of diversity, equality and inclusion. ”They don’t see you in the future of America, but they’re wrong,’ Biden said. ‘We know black history is American history. We know black men are going to lead us into the future.’
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13434049/biden-black-graduates-trump-racist.html
Arama: Biden’s Morehouse Speech Is a Mess With Pandering in Overdrive, As Students Turn Their Backs on Him
Joe Biden was at Morehouse College on Sunday to give a commencement address. But his confusion started even before he began to speak. He spent a lot of time staring off, looking like he was lost in space. Then he confusingly clapped when there was a call for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire,” which of course would help save Hamas (and not help our hostages or our ally Israel). […] Then came a lot of pandering and of course, with Joe Biden a new edition to the original story — his connection to Morehouse because of all the “Morehouse men” at the White House, so please vote for me: . . .[…] It would be pretty funny if it wasn’t also so sad that we have such an impaired person occupying the office. Biden was really reaching with this confused take on George Floyd.
Read more/Watch the short videos: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/05/19/biden-at-morehouse-n2174382
Lewak: 6-year-old girl bravely saves NYU Law commencement with hand-drawn heart after anti-Israel protesters refuse to leave stage: ‘She got the biggest applause’
A 6-year-old child taught thousands of adults this week a lesson in love and respect. NYU School of Law’s commencement Thursday in Madison Square Garden was marred by hateful chants and Palestinian flag-waving protesters who refused to leave the stage, but there was one shining light during the chaotic ceremony — little Eden Rose Neiger. She bravely walked on stage with her graduating mom and raised a picture of a heart she drew while sitting in the crowd amid the despicable din.
(Worth your time) Richard Hanania X post: Watch the 1:30 minute video: https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1791578123794026938
Schaefer: Networks of Malignity
Professional, ideological, and even familial ties connect American institutions in a web of leftist influence.
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/networks-of-malignity/
WAR IN ISRAEL
Kredo: House GOP Leader Addresses Israeli Parliament, Vows Ironclad U.S. Support to Eradicate Hamas
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), chair of the House Republican Conference, promised U.S. support for Israel’s fight to eradicate Hamas during an impassioned speech Sunday before the Jewish state’s parliament, saying that the only acceptable outcome is “total victory” over the terror group. Stefanik, the highest ranking House member to visit Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7th terror attack, blasted the Biden administration’s bid to hold up weapons sales to Israel and said Republicans in Congress will fight back against Democratic efforts to sever the historically close alliance between the United States and Jewish state. “I have been clear at home and I will be clear here: There is no excuse for an American president to block aid to Israel—aid that was duly passed by the Congress,” Stefanik said. “There is no excuse to ease sanctions on Iran, paying a $6 billion ransom to the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, or to dither and hide while our friends fight for their lives. No excuse. Full stop.”
Just the News: Hundreds of Tunnel Shafts Discovered in Rafah with Some Crossing into Egypt: IDF Report
The Israel Defense Forces said they discovered nearly 700 tunnel shafts in Rafah, with some crossing into Egypt. Israeli Deputy Attorney General Gilad Noam explained the findings at the International Court of Justice. “Rafah, in particular, is a focal point for ongoing terrorist activity. It is a stronghold for Hamas’ operators with several battalions belonging to the Rafah brigades entrenched in the area,” he said, according to The Daily Wire.
Israel insists ‘it wasn’t us’ after ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Iranian president is killed in mysterious helicopter crash a month after ordering missile attack on the Jewish state while Islamic regime supports Hamas in Gaza war
Israeli officials have declared they had nothing to do with the devastating helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday. Raisi, 63, was confirmed dead by Iranian media today along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati and Tabriz’s Friday prayer Imam Mohammad Ali Alehashem. Two pilots and three other Iranian officials and security guards also perished in the crash in the mountainous northwest of the country. Drone footage from Iranian and Turkish news agencies revealed the helicopter had smashed apart on landing, while clips shared by the Iranian Red Crescent showed solemn rescuers carrying corpses on covered stretchers out of the forest surrounding the crash site.
Baker: The UN’s world of the absurd
Only in the world of the absurd can a despicable purveyor of terror, Hamas, carry out a brutal massacre, killing over a thousand innocent people, torturing, murdering and carrying out sadistic mass rape, over a space of just a few hours, and then run home to Gaza taking with them hundreds of hostages. Only in the world of the absurd can the Palestinian representative organization that encourages, finances, supports and represents such murderers be feted and upgraded by the majority of member states in the international community. Only in the world of the absurd can a group of non-democratic, terror-supporting states oblige the United Nations General Assembly by proposing a resolution that indulges in pampering a terror-supporting entity in a misguided and surreal demonstration of naïveté, skewed political correctness and acute hypocrisy. nly in the same world of the absurd can 143 states . . . […] Only in the world of the absurd can the . . . […] The regrettable message emanating from this resolution is that the international community is not just ignoring Palestinian terror against a fellow U.N. member state; it is encouraging it.
Read more: https://jewishworldreview.com/0524/UN_absurd.php
OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION
Horvat: Addressing the Interrupted Class of 2024
One thing that characterizes the Class of 2024 is that it has suffered from continual interruptions. Big interruptions, small interruptions, cultural interruptions, and i-interruptions seemed to conspire to deprive this class of the constancy that others enjoyed.
Several such interruptions come to mind. The interrupted Class of 2024 saw its final school years interrupted by the immense tragedy and trauma of COVID. The mishandling of the crisis interrupted its members’ schooling and shook their convictions in American institutions and ways of doing things. Class members saw the nation interrupted by rioting, polarization, and civil strife, which are rarely seen in American history and continue to the present. […] Even the practice of the Faith was interrupted by the abuses of government directives that closed down churches, confessionals and sacramental life. Some members never returned. If all this was not enough, as the final months of this school year came to a close, . . . […] Thus, the first counsel for this class would be to recognize the reality of this interruption. Do not deny its existence or importance. Do not make it a way of life as one who flutters about from interruption to interruption without defining any goal in life. See it as a characteristic of the present crisis, not personal shortcomings. Do not use interruption as an excuse not to achieve personal or family goals. Instead, challenge and denounce it when entering the next phase of life. The interrupted Class of 2024 must fight against these disruptive forces, especially those in the culture war that conspire against its future. A second counsel is to . . .
Heine: Missouri AG Andrew Bailey Demands Records From KC Mayor Related to X Account Post Doxxing Harrison Butker
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) has sent a letter to Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D), demanding that he turn over all documents, records, and communications related to his office’s X post retaliating against Kansas City Chief’s kicker Harrison Butker for the faith-based comments he made during a commencement speech at a Catholic college over the weekend. […] At the height of the histrionic left-wing backlash against Butker, the official X account for the city of KCMO, wrote a bizarre and spiteful post saying, “Just a reminder, Harrison Butker lives in the city of _____.” After the post was ratioed by appalled X-users, the Mayor’s office deleted its post, writing: “We apologies [sic] for our previous tweet. It was shared in error.” […] In his letter to Lucas, Bailey stressed that Butker is a private citizen who was speaking to a Catholic audience that “largely shares his views.” “Your office’s X account publicly released residential location information on a private citizen, . . .
Gasparino: Fight against antisemitism may have deep-pocketed ally as Israel-Hamas war fuels hate on campuses
The fight against antisemitism may soon get a powerful and deep-pocketed ally: Blackstone chief Steve Schwarzman. The private equity titan, worth approximately $40 billion, has been discussing with various people his concern about the anti-Israeli protests at Yale, his alma mater, and the broader attacks against Jews around the country, people close to him tell The Post. He is said to be weighing using his clout (and his very thick wallet) to fund a counteroffensive, these people said. “Steve is Jewish and has always been worried about the rise of antisemitism but he has now seen enough and wants to fight back,” said one person with knowledge of the matter. Schwarzman’s discussions about funding efforts to combat antisemitism have yet to be reported and they’re in the early conceptual stages, I am told. But he is contemplating something more sweeping, these people said, something that sets the stage for a national discussion to show that antisemitism is a real problem for the country, not just something taking hold with a lunatic fringe at many top universities. […] Unfortunately, Wall Street and most corporate moguls have gone silent about the antisemitic fervor, aside from Bill Ackman of the Pershing Square Capital hedge fund and Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Management, another major PE firm.
Simonson: Is This Suburban New York Charity a Terrorist Front Group?
The Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation is named in a lawsuit alleging anti-Israel groups coordinate with Hamas At first glance, the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC) seems unremarkable: a sleepy community organization with just one part-time staffer, a modest office in White Plains, N.Y., and little by way of public events. But the group raked in $2.4 million in 2022—more than three times as much as it raised in 2020, according to public tax filings. The charity in 2022 spent nearly $1.5 million on “office expenses,” a category the IRS says should only cover “supplies, telephone, postage.””This is all very strange, it seems like they’re trying to obfuscate what they’re really spending their money on,” said former IRS tax law specialist and nonprofit consultant Patrick Sternal. “This doesn’t look like a particularly transparent organization, this filing raises all sorts of questions.”
A new lawsuit could point to some answers.
Read more: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/is-this-suburban-new-york-charity-a-terrorist-front-group/
(They’re here) Palin: Two Jordanian nationals in ICE custody over breach at Quantico Marine base: Possible ‘ISIS dry run’
Deportation officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations’ [ERO] Criminal Apprehension Program responded and arrested both individuals without incident.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/05/17/us-news/jordanians-in-custody-for-breach-at-quantico-marine-base/
Mac Donald: California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe
On July 13, 2020, gunfire broke out between two cars in the Bay Area town of Antioch, California. One of the cars’ occupants, Daunzhay Young, was hit during the fusillade and was rushed to the hospital. Young survived—this time. Oakland’s gang wars were radiating outward, including to this once-bucolic city northeast of Oakland. Young was a member of Oakland’s Case gang. A month later, another Case gangbanger was shot while sitting in a car in Oakland. He died the next day. On August 27, 2020, a third Case member was shot in Oakland; three guns were collected at the scene. Case’s archenemy, the ENT gang—named for three dead homies—was on a roll. On August 29, 2020, Daunzhay Young’s luck ran out. […] California is about to demonstrate what a world constructed from the tenets of critical race studies looks like. The sentencing reversal in California v. Windom is the result of a recent law that will likely bring the state’s criminal-justice system to its knees. The Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020 without meaningful public review, turns long-standing academic tropes about implicit bias and white privilege into potent legal tools. And the floodgates are about to open. Starting this year, the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge retroactively his conviction and sentencing on the ground of systemic racial bias.
Read more: https://www.city-journal.org/article/californias-looming-crime-catastrophe
Mann: California town outraged as traffic lights are replaced with stop signs to deter homeless people from stealing copper
The city of Oakland recently removed traffic lights from one busy intersection and replaced them with stop signs after the electrical boxes that controlled the traffic lights were repeatedly tampered with and copper from them was stolen. Local residents and those who own businesses in the area say the issue with the traffic lights stems from the nearby homeless encampment, which has grown over the years. The owner of a vehicle repair shop on the corner of the intersection, Tam Le, said the city is signaling that it is ‘giving up on us,’ by installing the stop signs.
Sielicki: Mom and dad stunned with IDENTICAL quads
Mercedes, 34, and Jonathan, 37, were already parents to Luke, 3, and Aaron, 18 months, when they found out they were expecting again. “So we weren’t trying by any means, but we were excited. We loved the idea of giving our boys another sibling,” […] Mercedes told TODAY.com. “But when we found out there were four … Holy moly!” […] According to TODAY, there are only 72 documented cases of spontaneous quadruplets in medical history. ‘Spontaneous’ means the parents did not use reproductive assistance to conceive. The odds of giving birth to these quadruplets is about one in 15 million.
INTERNATIONAL
Post Editorial Board: Canada and Trudeau go full Orwell behind anti-speech bill: Fear the Maple Curtain
When it comes to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s Orwellian Online Harms Act, tech titan Elon Musk gets it: “This sounds insane.” Insane is putting it mildly; look at some of the law’s provisions. Rewarding people who snitch on their “hateful” neighbors up to $20,000 and making the thought criminals pay up to $50,000. Allowing the possibility of a literal life sentence for online hate crimes, including speech. Letting judges, based on snitch testimony, jail people for up to a year because someone thinks they might commit a hate crime. The law would also empower the cops to comb through your old posts — including those made before the law even passed — and punish you. [Note:another four years of a Biden/Obama Administration and America will look like Cannada.]
Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/05/18/opinion/canadas-moving-to-end-free-speech-with-new-bill/
Jewers: How ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Ebrahim Raisi oversaw the massacre of thousands in Iran, imposed brutal hijab crackdown and fervently moved country towards building nukes as Ayatollah’s protégé dies in fiery chopper crash
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 earning himself the nickname ‘The Butcher of Tehran‘, has died aged 63. Elected president in 2021, he went on to lead the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel. Raisi’s sudden death, along with Iran‘s foreign minister and other officials in the helicopter crash Sunday in northwestern Iran, came as Iran struggles with internal dissent and its relations with the wider world. A cleric first, Raisi once kissed the Quran, the Islamic holy book, before the UN and spoke more like a preacher than a statesman when addressing the world. But he gained notoriety after he was appointed Deputy prosecutor of Tehran in 1985 before going on to serve on the prosecution committee which – under the orders of then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini – sentenced thousands of political prisoners to death. The series of mass executions began on July 19, 1988 and lasted almost five months across 32 cities. Estimates of the number killed range between 2,500 and 30,000.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13437519/Death-Butcher-Irans-President-Ebrahim-Raisi.html
Greenfield: The ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Meets a Mountain
One of Iran’s worst monsters goes down. […] Thirty-five years after taking part in the massacre of thousands, President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter went down over a mountain. Inside the chopper was the body of the man viewed as the likely future Supreme Leader of Iran along with his Foreign Minister and various other officials of the Islamic terrorist regime. The Iranian people celebrated the death of the man known as the ‘Butcher of Tehran’ with fireworks and dances. Many of those celebrating were the women whom he had tormented for so long.
Read more at Frontpage Magazine.
Khatiri: If Raisi Is Dead: Implications for the Islamic Republic of Iran
Raisi’s demise, if confirmed, would not be the first death of a sitting Iranian president, In 1981, the Mojahedin-e Khalq of Iran assassinated President Mohammad-Ali Rajai. The Islamic Republic’s constitution simply states that when a president dies, a new president “would be chosen.” In 1981, authorities called a new election but, in 1989, an amended constitution gave the Supreme Leader, currently Ali Khamenei, further power to decide. Under the current constitution, there is no mandate for a new election. If the president is dead or unable to perform his duties for longer than two months, the first vice president, the speaker of the parliament, and the chief justice, with the consent of the Supreme Leader, form a council to choose the succession mechanism. In effect . . . […] Many Iranians saw Raisi’s presidency as an audition to succeed the 85-year-old cancer-stricken Khamenei as Supreme Leader, but Khamenei’s son Mojtaba also coveted the top position. The factional rivalry has simmered just below the surface. Raisi has long been the IRGC’s darling, but many in the clergy favor Mojtaba. This is why the powerful Qom seminary hired Mojtaba, who lacks scholarly credentials, to be a lecturer. By embracing Khamenei’s son, the seminary sought to signal its support for Raisi’s rival.
Read more: https://www.meforum.org/65899/if-raisi-is-dead-implications-for-the-islamic
