WORLD

Iranians celebrate death of President Ebrahim Raisi after helicopter crash (Mainstream) (YT)

CIA Crushed in Congo Coup.

TikToker States 4 Facts Surrounding Coups and Assassination Attempts Involving the WHO (Rumble)

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 816

Lessons from COVID Totalitarianism

Officials summarily punished anyone who resisted COVID’s descending Iron Curtain.  Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau seized the bank accounts and property titles of Freedom Convoy protesters.  Videos from Australia and New Zealand showing police forces blocking roads, securing quarantine camps, and pushing citizens back into their homes looked like scenes from a Mad Max movie.  California Democrats buried skateparks in sand, cordoned off jungle-gyms with yellow crime tape, and arrested lone surfers paddling in the ocean.  Abandoning moderation and constitutional constraints, Western totalitarians embraced intimidation, coercion, and surveillance on a wide scale.  

Throughout the West, governments prohibited places of worship from conducting religious services, recorded license plate numbers of congregants, and issued excessive fines to clergy.  Those same governments prevented families from comforting hospitalized loved-ones and forced spouses, parents, and grandparents to die heartbroken and alone.  In other words, Western officials tore families apart, inflicted tremendous emotional pain upon the most vulnerable, and denied the anguished any access to spiritual refuge.  It is no surprise that such intentional government malice produced skyrocketing rates of alcohol and drug addiction, lifelong psychological traumas, and a burgeoning epidemic of suicide.

HEMISPHERE

5 Executed By An Armed Commando In El Salto: Jalisco. May 19, 2024.

Panama Canal crossings resume, but some time before full normalisation

Maduro Bets He Can Crush Venezuela’s Opposition in an Open Vote

(Editor’s Notes: Miami Herald is definitely MAINSTREAM but they cover Venezuela about as thoroughly as any other English language news agency. Also, we usually do not link to sites with paywalls, but Miami Herald allows limited reading for non-subscribers.)

HEALTH

Japan’s most senior cancer doctor: COVID shots are ‘essentially murder’