The White House said Wednesday that President Joe Biden, 80, has started using a CPAP machine to treat his sleep apnea - after he was spotted with visible indentations on his face.

The mask lines were apparent as the president spoke with reporters on the South Lawn Wednesday morning before a day trip to Chicago.

The West Wing quickly shut down conspiracy theories by confirming the lines were caused by the device that helps sufferers breath when they sleep.

'Since 2008, the president has disclosed his history with sleep apnea in thorough medical reports. He used a CPAP machine last night, which is common for people with that history,' White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told DailyMail.com.

An audio recording has emerged of former President Donald Trump apparently discussing classified material in July 2021 related to a potential military strike against Iran.

In the two-minute recording, obtained by CNN on Monday, Trump, 77, is heard shuffling through papers and discussing a purported plan hatched by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to launch an attack against the US adversary while acknowledging that the information is "highly confidential" and "secret."

"Well, with Milley — let me see that. I'll show you an example," Trump's distinctive voice is heard saying on the recording.

India is being wooed geopolitically and geo-economically by the US under President Biden, not entirely expectedly. Prime Minister Modi was invited to make a State visit to the country with all the ensuing pageantry and also address the joint session of the US Congress, the latter for the second time, which is a very rare honor.

Ties between India and the US have been rising steadily. The US has become India's largest trade partner in goods and services, defense ties have expanded, US investments are growing, and personal relationship ties continue to bind the two societies together. In many ways, India's wide-ranging ties with the US do not have a parallel with any other country.

This is not surprising as the US is the biggest economy in the world, it has a grip on the global financial system, and the US dollar is the world's most important reserve currency. Additionally, it dominates the global financial institutions, applies its laws extraterritorially, uses unilateral sanctions as a weapon, possesses very advanced technologies, and is the world's foremost military power. The US has changed its policies in our region, which was previously heavily tilted towards Pakistan, and has narrowed an area of sharp differences. The India-US nuclear deal in 2005 released America's decades-long pressure on India's strategic nuclear and missile programs.

I have frequently noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not the Stalin or Hitler of today. He is not an irrational, radical, bloodthirsty dictator or imperialist. Nor is he a liberal, democratic republican. Rather, Putin is a moderate authoritarian leader, who will democratize or authoritarianize dependent on what is beneficial for social and political stability, state integrity, and preservation of his and his allies' hold on power. He is a balancer, who weighs and counterbalances various political forces rather than crushing them. The latter choice is made only when there is no other way to protect the cardinal goals mentioned above. This is true for Putin's conduct of both domestic and foreign affairs. Putin always tries to find the golden mean, a fair compromise in any dispute between Russia and other states, between himself and other forces comprising the Russian elite clans, and between competing groups. These orientations were on display in the way Putin dealt with Wagner chief Yevgenii Prigozhin's armed revolt against the top military brass, in particular Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valerii Gerasimov.

Rather than crushing the rebellion immediately, which would have been relatively easy for the Russian army to accomplish, Putin hoped and sought to avoid 'major bloodshed' in a way similar to the way Mikhail Gorbachev rejected the January 1991 Baltic coups attempted by Soviet Party-state loyalists against the secessionist Baltic republics. This was one of the final straws that drove the Party-state to direct a coup against Gorbachev himself seven months later in Moscow — a coup Putin played no small part in helping to quell in St. Petersburg. Putin's political career in a reunifying Germany, a collapsing Soviet state, and the disorderly Yeltsin years of organized crime violence and the Chechen war familiarized Putin with the dangers of rebellion — a lesson he had long ago drawn from his reading of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the treasonous role played by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks during World War I.

Back in 1986, members of the Reagan cabinet said they were willing to take drug tests to set an example for federal workers and the public. That caught the attention of Jay Leno, who recommended IQ tests instead. Better still, Wayne Allyn Root now contends, would be lie detector tests, an idea that "threatens the power structure of the entire American political system and U.S. government."

Politicians have sold us out, Root believes, and to save the nation we must demand that politicians and government officials face off with the polygraph. Root's questions include:

• Are you now, or have you ever been on China's payroll? Or the CCP payroll?
• Are you now, or have you ever been on the payroll of the Mexican drug cartels?
• Are any of your family members or friends on any of these foreign payrolls?
• Do you have an offshore bank account? Does anyone in your family accept payoffs in an offshore account?
• Do you accept illegal campaign contributions from any foreign interests?
• Are you on the payroll of any Big Pharma company or vaccine manufacturer? Do you have family members or friends on the Big Pharma payroll or receiving stock or stock options from Big Pharma?
• Are you being blackmailed, or have you ever been blackmailed?
• Have you given government contracts to spouses, family members or friends?
• Have you passed inside information on public companies to family or friends, and shared in the profits?
• Are you 100 percent loyal to the interests of America and your constituents?

Examiners could also ask:

• Have you ever employed a Chinese spy on your staff for 20 years?
• Have you ever demanded that Facebook or Twitter take down a post?
• Did you ever falsely claim to have served in Vietnam?

And so on.

Root believes "we'd have to replace virtually the entire House, Senate, every federal judge and every government bureaucrat." That may be a stretch but the test itself is on solid ground.

A former CIA agent that held a senior position on Facebook's "misinformation" team has been promoted by Mark Zuckerberg to be the head of "elections policies" at Meta, the parent company of Facebook.

Prior to the promotion, Aaron Berman, who served 17 years in the CIA, was in charge of a team that decided what would get classified as "misinformation" on Facebook during the 2020 presidential election, Breitbart News reports.

Berman joined Facebook in 2019 as a senior product policy manager for "misinformation" where he "built the misinformation policy team's US workforce and put policies into practice during critical events," according to the outlet.

According to Berman's page on LinkedIn, where he lists his past employment as "Senior Product Policy Manager, Misinformation," the CIA veteran says that one of his main duties on the job was to combat misinformation during "critical events."

Jack Teixeira, the US Air Force national guardsman arrested on espionage allegations in April, is scheduled to appear in a Boston federal court for his arraignment on the prosecution's charges this Wednesday, June 21.

Six counts were listed in the grand jury indictment filed in court on June 15. The 10-page paper reveals new evidence contradicting the case against Teixeira which has been published in the mainstream media based on official government leaks to the Bellingcat propaganda organization and the New York Times, which are working together against Teixeira and against the intelligence disclosures attributed to him.

The new court evidence is now pointing to the likelihood that Teixeira's access to highly classified documents prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the end of February this year had been facilitated for him by senior US Air Force (USAF) officials.

If provable, Teixeira will plead not guilty and his lawyers will prepare the defence case of entrapment. If embarrassing to the Pentagon and the Justice Department, Teixeira may be offered a plea bargain of guilty in exchange for no trial of the evidence and a reduced jail sentence. The section of the Espionage Act which is the basis of Teixeira's prosecution, 18 United States Code Section 793(e ), provides ten years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for conviction on each count. The 21-year old is facing the equivalent of a life sentence.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared. (Laughter.)


The only time Joe Biden speaks the truth is when he goes off script. He has said it before that his people would be mad at him for speaking without direction. Biden is currently (not) under investigation for selling state secrets to Ukraine and China. We know without a shadow of a doubt that his son Hunter obtained lucrative business contracts overseas while traveling on Air Force Two. We've heard, "10% for the big guy," with no investigation. Now, the POTUS is openly mocking us for being above the law.

"We're — we're going to see more technol- — technological change — you've heard me say this a number of times — in the next 10 years than we saw in the last 50 years — and maybe in the next few years — the last 50 years," Biden eloquently said. "Sometimes it's a little difficult to say too much in front of all the press present here," Indian PM Modi responded, likely glad he has the BRICS pact to rely on after seeing Biden's mental decline on full display. You can see Modi's absolute shock when Biden ADMITS to selling state secrets. That was not a joke but a slip of the tongue.

The European Union is set to look into blocking rays from the sun as a possible option to combat climate change, according to a report.

According to Bloomberg News, the European Union on Wednesday will announce a framework for assessing possible security implications of climate change, which includes a study regarding the possible dangers of re-engineering the atmosphere itself.

"These technologies introduce new risks to people and ecosystems, while they could also increase power imbalances between nations, spark conflicts and raises a myriad of ethical, legal, governance and political issues," a document obtained by Bloomberg states.

The technology, described as solar radiation modification, will be studied by the EU.

US policymakers are being consumed by their desire to undermine Russia at all costs, which is pushing them to pump Ukraine with more and more weapons, Moscow's embassy in Washington has said.

In a statement on Tuesday, the embassy commented on the Pentagon's latest decision to provide Ukraine with an additional $500 million security assistance package, including armored vehicles, anti-tank systems, and various types of ammunition.

By supplying Kiev with arms, the US "is making futile attempts to defeat the Russian Federation 'on the battlefield' with the hands of Kiev puppets,'" the embassy said.

It added that the Russian military is "debunking the myths about the 'unsurpassed quality' of American and NATO weapons" on a daily basis as the conflict continues, citing "mangled machinery smoking on the fields of Donbass" as a prime example.