Book of Days: asher553

DONALD TRUMP ADDRESSES RALLY IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA.
https://rumble.com/vjcgm1-live-president-donald-j-trump-in-sarasota-fl.html
Video begins with remarks by Don Jr. Speech by Trump starts at 26:00.

BREITBART: ARMED SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER MASSACHUSETTS STANDOFF.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/03/11-armed-suspects-arrested-following-9-hour-standoff-on-mass-highway/
'Massachusetts State Police arrested 11 people on Saturday who allegedly claimed to be members of a group known as the “Rise of the Moors.” The arrests followed an hours-long standoff with the armed members on Interstate 95 near Wakefield, Massachusetts, after suspects reportedly said they don’t “recognize our laws.” ...'

JONATHAN SPYER: IRAN DIGS DEEPER IN SYRIA.
https://jonathanspyer.com/2021/07/03/iran-digs-deep-in-hollowed-out-syria/
'The current direction of events points to the prospect of a kind of ‘Lebanonization’ or ‘Iraqification’ (if that is a word) of Syria. That is, the emergence of a situation in which a weak government in name only exists and is accepted internationally. Beneath this flimsy structure, a powerful, independent Iranian political-military capacity will have freedom of action, control significant territory, and be able to use the nominal central government as a useful cloak for its activities. ...'

SARAH HOYT: READ IT AND BE BRAVE.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/07/03/read-it-and-be-brave/
'It is our duty, our obligation and our very great privilege to make sure that in the next decade, in the next century, in the next millennium, on Earth or in the far flung stars the words carry on, liberty carries on, and tyrants are powerless against them. ..'

COBB: ON MAGIC, RELIGION, TECHNOLOGY, AND SCIENCE
https://mdcbowen.substack.com/p/the-axis-of-magic
'This is the difference then between a proper religion and a religion as a front for ideology. A proper religion must account for the huge gap between God and man. Faith is thus transformed into an infinite stream of questions some answered by previous theology, some ever emergent or mysterious and unreachable. If a religion becomes mechanistic and loses the emergent properties requiring human creativity in a dynamic engagement with life then it is reduced to nothing more than a creed, a clubhouse, a tribe whose rituals are empty of spirit. When people notice this, they may blame God, the church, the clergy or themselves. Either way their heart is not in it. The discipline becomes hollow. So it is entirely reasonable for them to search elsewhere for the spirituality, the awakening, the fulfillment that is missing when the target of faith doesn’t move. ...'

'Does the current #Iran crisis have the potential to become bigger than the green revolution (GR)? Yes, it does. GR was limited to wealthy urban persians. The current crisis is more nation-wide and is driven by the poor and angry middle class. '
- Zalmay Khalilzad via Twitter
https://twitter.com/realZalmayMK/status/947604080704327680

Trump vs. Rouhani - Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/240077
'Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday responded to U.S. President Donald Trump, who said earlier that the Iranian regime was “squandering” its funds on terrorism abroad, and said this led to the riots and subsequent government crackdown in the country.

“Big protests in Iran,” Trump tweeted Sunday. “The people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism. Looks like they will not take it any longer. The USA is watching very closely for human rights violations!” ...

... Speaking for the first time about the violent protests in the country, Rouhani said Trump had "no right" to sympathize with Iranian protesters who he has previously called terrorists.'

Demonstrations in 4th day - Rudaw
http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/311220171
http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/311220173
'Some of the problems that have brought people into the streets in widespread protests throughout Iran over the past four days have existed for years before his presidency, Hassan Rouhani told the Iranian nation on Sunday evening. The change his cabinet promised may “take time,” he said, adding that it is not fair to blame the executive branch for all the problems. ...'

http://www.weeklystandard.com/iran-on-notice/article/2007730

'By certifying that Iran is in compliance, the Trump White House simply complied with a legislative milestone, designed to keep the administration that brokered the agreement honest. Critics of the deal, eager for stronger action taken more quickly, should probably see certification not as a disappointment, but as a delay.

It does not signal, the Trump official told me, that this White House has concluded the JCPOA serves American interests. Rather, certification is a placeholder during the review process. It is buying time for the administration to muster its resources while it plans how to move forward on Iran. ...'

Before I join in the celebrations over the long-awaited dispatch of Osama bin Laden, it's only appropriate to mark the passing of a man whose life enriched the world. Iranian activist Siamak Pourzand - father of the activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi - took his own life last Friday.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/1/longtime-iranian-dissident-kills-self-to-prove-his/

'A leading Iranian dissident has killed himself in what appeared to be a final act of defiance against the Iranian regime that had nearly ruined him.

Farsi-language websites reported over the weekend the death Friday of Siamak Pourzand, an 80-year-old journalist and essayist who was one of his country’s leading political and cultural writers before the 1979 revolution that later brought a theocratic regime to power.

After the revolution, Mr. Pourzand became one of the main writers affiliated with Iran’s domestic secular opposition in the 1990s.

According to his children, Mr. Pourzand jumped from the sixth-floor balcony of his apartment in Tehran, where he has been under house arrest for the last five years.

“My father was a secularist, and he believed the culture of Iran needed to be safeguarded from the religious revolutionaries in 1979,” said his daughter, Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi in a phone interview Sunday. ...'

Banafsheh-Jaan, I am weeping with you.

Iranians burn Basij HQ in Tehran!