A large fire broke out Saturday night at a steel factory in the southeast city of Zarand in Iran. It's the latest in a mysterious string of blasts and 'accidental' blazes at sensitive sites to beset the Islamic Republic, raising questions of possible Israel sabotage akin to what happened a year ago in the summer of 2020.

"The governor of Zarand told the Iranian Fars News Agency that no injuries were caused in the incident and that the incident was under control," The Jerusalem Post reports. "The incident was reportedly caused by the sudden overflow of molten material in the blast furnace, with the governor stressing that no explosion occurred." But some early videos show otherwise.

President Biden told the class of 2021 in a pre-taped address that systemic racism is "the greatest crisis of our time," adding that graduates were at a "turning point" in history.

Biden, in the speech which he shared on his POTUS Twitter account Saturday, said:

"Every class enters the history of the nation up to the point that it has been written by others. But few classes, once in every few generations, enters at a point in our history where it actually has a chance to change the trajectory of the country."

Biden told the graduates they will see more change in the next 50 years than the country has seen in the last 50, in the nearly three-minute speech.

Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has come under fire this week for labelling scepticism of official statistics and statements as "misinformation" during the Covid crisis. The Telegraph has the story.

The broadcasting regulator has been accused of stifling "rational criticism" of the response to Covid by labelling scepticism about Britain's approach to the pandemic as "misinformation".

Amid major controversy over whether official statistics were overstating the prevalence of coronavirus, Ofcom described the idea that there were "a lower number of cases in reality than is being reported" as a "common piece of misinformation".

It also emerged that the regulator warned broadcasters in the early days of the pandemic that it was prioritising investigations into programmes or news reports featuring advice which "discourages the audience from following official rules and guidance".

The disclosure will lead to renewed concerns about the approach of the regulator, as the Government seeks a new chairman who can "provide proper scrutiny and challenge".

An Al-Jazeera journalist was arrested earlier by the Israel Police in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, according to footage posted online and the Palestinian Authority.

She was identified as Givara Al Budeiri, the Qatari network's Jerusalem correspondent, by an Al Jazeera official.

From revelations about Israeli efforts to "destroy" him, to attempts by a powerful pro-Israel lobby group to stop him becoming a minister for the Middle East, Sir Alan Duncan saw up close the power of the Israeli state in British politics during his time at the heart of the UK government.

Duncan served as British foreign minister from 2016-19, having previously held the international development brief. His new book, In The Thick Of It, reveals much about UK government policy that has been missed by the British press and broadcasters.

At the beginning of 2017, media outlet Al Jazeera contacted Duncan to inform him about its undercover investigation into Israeli influence in UK politics, which included revelations related to him personally.

The Biden Administration has proposed what it calls a $2.3 trillion "infrastructure" legislation which it calls the "American Jobs Plan." Far from addressing the huge deficit in America's highway, bridges, railway, electric grid, water supply and such economically vital infrastructure that would address critical problems in the functioning of the economy, the Biden planners have cynically taken a politically popular word, "infrastructure," and packed hundreds of billions of dollars into economically wasteful, destructive initiatives having more to do with the Green Agenda than rebuilding a healthy economy. If passed, it will have negative consequences for the world's once-leading economy with serious geopolitical implications.

In March Biden signed another huge extra-budget bill, the $1.9 trillion "American Rescue Plan." That one was allegedly to aim at dealing with the impact of COVID. The bill dealt in fact with almost everything but COVID. The act is a grab bag of partisan pet projects. Among other things the act provided $12 billion for foreign aid; $15 billion for health care for illegal immigrants; $112 billion for welfare benefits and a generous $350 billion for Democrat-run states. Less than 10% was directed at COVID relief measures. In politics how you frame or package a bill is more important than the true content. Critics claim these huge spending bills are aimed at buying a future Democratic voter base with government handouts.

For over forty years, coalitions of academics, governments, corporations, and world governance bodies have colluded to build a global ed-tech schooling system meant to shackle children to the transhumanist Fourth Industrial Revolution.

I recently visited former Senior Policy Advisor to the US Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, who gave me access to her archive of files that she collected from the US Department of Education. After digging through a collection of files collated by Lawrence P. Grayson, who was the Advisor for Mathematics, Science and Technology at America's National Institute of Education (NIE), I discovered that the Department of Ed's Project BEST (Basic Education Skills through Technology), which Iserbyt leaked in 1981, was actually the USA's domestic version of an international technology initiative spearheaded by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

While stationed at the NIE, Grayson was also the US Department of Ed's liaison with UNESCO's educational technology programs, including "Study 11: New Technologies in Education", which he procured for Iserbyt in a bundle of interrelated memorandums and journals. Labeled as the "Grayson File," this folder compiled the following documents:

• UNESCO Study 11 whitepapers that issue ed-tech directives to a region of 14 nation states grouping together communist, socialist, and capitalist countries;
• US Department of Ed memorandums which stipulate American collaboration with Study 11 and other UNESCO technology programs;
• Law journals that call for restructuring legal systems in order to globalize the computerized "information technology" (IT) revolution necessary to streamline international ed-tech markets;
• Academic journals containing ed-tech promotionals from Project BEST contractors and UNESCO Study 11 representatives published alongside commercial advertisements and order forms for Project BEST courseware and other e-learning products being sold by the very same companies, including Microsoft, Apple, and IBM, that are endorsed in the UNESCO Study 11 whitepapers.

Authorities in Denmark have shut down much of the country's access to video platform Bitchute in the name of preventing the spread of "dangerous information" about COVID.

Denmark's National Police Cyber Crime Center (NC3) petitioned for a court order to block the site and ISPs followed suit by blocking access to users.

"The National Police Cyber Crime Center (NC3) has blocked the homepage that your browser has tried to access contact as there is reason to assume that from the website commits a violation of criminal law, which has a background in or connection with the covid-19 epidemic in Denmark," states a message users see when trying to access Bitchute.

It then advises the owner of the website that they will have to contact the authorities in order to try to get the website back online.

"The block appears to be site-wide meaning that Danish citizens aren't just being prevented from viewing alleged COVID-19 misinformation on BitChute - they're being blocked from viewing any BitChute videos, regardless of the topic," writes Tom Parker.

At least four State Department employees said in separate interviews that they repeatedly were 'warned' that an investigation into a possible COVID-19 leak from the Wuhan lab would 'open Pandora's Box;' and reveal that the U.S. funded gain-of-function research there.

It 'smelled like a cover-up,' Thomas DiNanno told Vanity Fair.

DiNanno, the former acting assistant secretary of the State Department's Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, was one of four State Department officials who told Vanity Fair they wanted to investigate the possibility that COVID-19 spread after it escaped from the Wuhan lab.

The others were David Asher, David Feith and Miles Yu.

But they were muzzled by other State Department officials as well as the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation and even 'ostracized,' Yu told Vanity Fair.

The lab leak was touted by then-President Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders, but was deemed impossible by a 'scientific consensus' in a letter signed by 27 scientists, published on February 19, 2020 in the medical journal The Lancet.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued a new warning bulletin, alerting Americans that domestic extremists may well use violence on the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. This was at least the fourth such bulletin issued this year by Homeland Security (DHS) warning of the same danger and, thus far, none of the fears it is trying to instill into the American population has materialized.

The first was a January 14 warning, from numerous federal agencies including DHS, about violence in Washington, DC and all fifty state capitols that was likely to explode in protest of Inauguration Day (a threat which did not materialize). Then came a January 27 bulletin warning of "a heightened threat environment across the United States that is likely to persist over the coming weeks" from "ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority" (that warning also was not realized). Then there was a May 14 bulletin warning of right-wing violence "to attack higher-capacity targets," exacerbated by the lifting of COVID lockdowns (which also never happened). And now we are treated to this new DHS warning about domestic extremists preparing violent attacks over Tulsa (it remains to be seen if a DHS fear is finally realized).

Just like the first War on Terror, these threats are issued with virtually no specificity. They are just generalized warnings designed to put people in fear about their fellow citizens and to justify aggressive deployment of military and law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country. A CNN article which wildly hyped the latest danger bulletin about domestic extremists at Tulsa had to be edited with what the cable network, in an "update," called "the additional information from the Department of Homeland Security that there is no specific or credible threats at this time." And the supposed dangers from domestic extremists on Inauguration Day was such a flop that even The Washington Post — one of the outlets most vocal about lurking national security dangers in general and this one in particular — had to explicitly acknowledge the failure:

Thousands [of National Guard troops] had been deployed to capitals across the country late last week, ahead of a weekend in which potentially violent demonstrations were predicted by the FBI — but never materialized.

Once again on Wednesday, security officials' worst fears weren't borne out: In some states, it was close to business as usual. In others, demonstrations were small and peaceful, with only occasional tense moments.