The Biden administration is seeking to close gaps in former President Trump's border wall and remedy environmental damage from its construction, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday.

In a statement, the department said it would be "closing small gaps that remain open from prior construction activities" as a safety measure while also taking steps to address flooding and soil erosion. DHS will also dispose of residual construction materials left at sites after border wall construction was halted by President Biden.

Biden terminated the emergency that allowed for the construction of the wall on his first day in office and in June announced he would restore Pentagon funding that had been diverted to the wall, funding 66 new military projects.

But the administration has continued to face lawsuits from environmental groups over damage from the walls they argue needs to be remedied.

The Supreme Court in October remanded a case from the American Civil Liberties Union, teeing up another stage of the battle to address the border wall's damage, something groups argue range from disrupting wildlife corridors to addressing damage from its construction. That includes segments where builders plowed through federal lands, even bulldozing protected Arizona saguaro cacti.

Chaos at No 10 as Brexit negotiator leaves post over coronavirus restrictions, while Sajid Javid warns data may force new curbs

Lord Frost quit the Cabinet on Saturday night over concerns about Boris Johnson's Covid-19 curbs and the Government's "direction of travel", as the Prime Minister considered calls for a third national lockdown beginning as soon as this week.

The Cabinet Office minister, who was leading Mr Johnson's post-Brexit negotiations with the European Union, resigned over the Government's Plan B Covid measures, having held private concerns for months about coronavirus restrictions and the Government's economic policy, including its planned National Insurance hike.

Contacts have begun between Russia and the United States on the issue of security guarantees demanded by the former and there is a possibility that the sides will reach an understanding, the RIA news agency quoted on Tuesday a Russian diplomat as saying.

Russia has yet to decide what steps it will take if the Washington-led NATO bloc refuses to consider its position, senior security negotiator Konstantin Gavrilov said, but Brussels understands that Moscow is not bluffing.

Russia has demanded guarantees that NATO will not expand to Ukraine or deploy weapons and troops there, despite Kiev's aspirations to join the group and complaints that Russian troops amassed near its border signal a threat to invade.

The European Union is poised to limit the validity of vaccine recognition in its EU COVID certificate to nine months, its executive said on Tuesday, in a bid to encourage boosters.

The European Commission said in a statement it has adopted "a binding acceptance period of nine months (precisely 270 days) of vaccination certificates for the purposes of intra-EU travel", to come into force from February 1.

The measure — which needs approval of EU member states to come into effect — comes as the bloc races to get booster jabs into arms under the shadow of the highly infectious Omicron variant.

Several EU countries had already announced go-it-alone measures that would soon consider double-jabbed people no longer "fully vaccinated" unless they also got a booster shot.

Israel's former military intelligence chief says the country was involved in the American airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. It was the first public acknowledgement of Israel's role in the operation.

Soleimani headed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force and helped orchestrate Iran's involvement with paramilitary groups abroad. He was killed in a U.S. drone strike at the Baghdad airport in January 2020, an incident that threatened to pull the countries into full-blown conflict.

A week after the airstrike, NBC News reported that Israeli intelligence helped confirm the details of Soleimani's flight from Damascus to Baghdad. Earlier this year, a Yahoo News reported that Israel "had access to Soleimani's numbers" and gave that intelligence to the United States.

We are witnessing the return of Nazism, but this time throughout the entire Western World. Austria, Germany, and Italy have eliminated civil liberties more thoroughly than Hitler and Mussolini achieved. Re-nazified Germany, Austria and Italy have destroyed the doctor-patient relationship more completely than did Josef Mengele. The political leaders of resurrected Nazism are all guilty of crimes under the Nuremberg Laws.

Will the US, UK, France, and Russia again invade these Nazi countries and execute the leaders for their capital crimes? No. The US, UK, France, and Russia are doing the same thing, as are Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Australia has concentration camps, not for Japanese prisoners of war but for Australian citizens suspected of having had contact with a someone infected with Covid. Everywhere in the "free" Western world, executive branch officials have shown disregard for constitutional processes by asserting legislative powers and issuing laws in the form of mandates. Parliaments and Congresses have shown their own disregard for democratic political systems by accepting the confiscation of their powers and the incorporation of the legislative function into the executive branch as happened in Rome under the Caesars.

In the United States little nazis have popped up everywhere. Corporate employers, school boards, university administrators, sports team owners, hospital administrators, mayors, and governors have revealed themselves as incipient Fuhrers issuing illegal orders: Be injected, you and your young children, with a substance that has proved itself not to protect you or anyone else against Covid or any of its variants, but is known to carry a high risk of serious injury and death, or you are fired and your career is at an end. In re-nazified Germany/Austria people are threatened with prison if they refuse to play Russian Roulette with their health. Has any previous government in history been this tyrannical? The West has achieved the supreme tyranny-your health is not up to you and your doctor. Your health is controlled by a protocol handed down by a captured regulatory agency serving only the profits of Big Pharma.

When the Soviet Union had internal passports it was seen as proof of an unfree people. Now the entire Western "free" world is faced with internal passports called Covid passports. Once these passports are in existence, every human right, every civil liberty is converted from a right to a privilege subject to government approval. All rights end. Passports are issued to compliant citizens who by their subservience gain privileges to go to restaurants, bars, sports events and other entertainment forms, and to travel and to keep their jobs. It is no longer government accountable to citizens; it is citizens accountable to government. Freedom is thus redefined as slavery as in George Orwell's 1984 dystopia.

I have some good news and some bad news for you.

The bad news is (as attentive Corbett Reporteers will know by now), 2021 was the beginning of the Apocalypse.

We are being dragged kicking and scream into the Great Resetters' dark Vision of the Future.

We are being fed into the maw of The Great Convergence on the path to becoming Designer Humans.

The Markets Are (still) Rigged and we are inching closer to the CBDC nightmare as the War on Cash continues.

The Science Says gang, led by The Real Anthony Fauci, have continued the Pseudopandemic on their way to the construction of the Biosecurity State.

And, oh yeah, by the way, The Corbett Report is no longer on ThemTube (Phew!).

But here's the good news: 2021 was the beginning of the Apocalypse.

Confused? Don't be!

You see, in modern English the word "apocalypse" usually connotes a disastrous turn of events or a catastrophic ending, but that is not, in fact, the original meaning of the word. As the Online Etymology Dictionary explains, our English "apocalypse" comes from the Greek apokalyptein, from apo- ("off, away from") and kalyptein ("to cover, conceal"). An apocalypse then, is literally a great uncovering or revelation.

So who can deny that what we have experienced in the last two years is an apocalypse?

The much-ballyhooed #GreatAwakening may have at last been revealed as nothing but Q hopium, but I have heard from many people in the past two years who have had their eyes opened by recent events. I have seen an enormous growth in those seeking out alternative sources of information during this time. And I have encountered more certified, card-carrying lifelong normies who are now willing to question long-held verities about the way the world works than I ever would have dreamed possible back in 2019.

The headline should read: "Arsonists Call for Setting Controlled Fires in Iran." Seven U.S. foreign policy hawks, with decades of disaster in the Mideast behind them, just published a statement urging the Biden administration to threaten a military attack on Iran. They said:

We believe it is vital to restore to restore Iran's fear that its current nuclear path will trigger the use of force against it by the United States.

The statement is arrogant and irresponsible. General David Petraeus, one of the signatories, must have learned nothing from his experience in the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Other warmongers include Leon Panetta, the former Secretary of Defense and CIA head, and Michele Flournoy, who Biden fortunately did not pick to head the Defense Department. Two former members of Congress and pro-Israel lobby stalwarts, Howard Berman and Jane Harman, also signed, along with the Professional Peace Processor, Dennis Ross. The statement appeared on the website of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a front for Israel, but the signatories somehow forgot to mention Israel by name.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows used a personal cellphone, a Signal account, and Gmail accounts for government business without turning it over to the National Archives. This revelation triggered a reaction from a former presidential candidate:

The potentially record-breaking settlement in the divorce between the ruler of Dubai and his ex-wife Princess Haya provided an insight into what the judge called the "truly opulent and unprecedented standard of living enjoyed by these parties" during their marriage.

The court heard that before their separation in 2019, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum had provided Haya with £83m a year for her household spending plus an allowance of £9m per annum for herself and various ad hoc payments.

Their children, Jalila, now 14, and Zayed, now nine, had annual allowances of approximately £10m each, as well as access to a fleet of aeroplanes owned by the sheikh, including a custom-fit Boeing 747 upon which he insisted the children should travel, helicopters, a $400m (£303m) superyacht and luxurious properties worth hundreds of millions of pounds. The children and their mother also had support from about 80 staff .