President Biden was heckled Thursday by immigration protesters who chanted "Abolish ICE" at a drive-in rally near Atlanta — and he responded that he agrees with some of their grievances.

Two men unfurled an orange banner near Biden's stage in Duluth, Ga.

"End detention now! End detention now!" one man bellowed.

Biden at first joked, "We'll give you a microphone."

"Communities, not prisons!" the chant became, before evolving to "Abolish ICE! Abolish ICE!"

At the conclusion of their most recent meeting in Tehran on April 13, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (lead image, right) said of his Iranian counterpart, "we have held good talks with my friend, Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif [left], in a traditionally trustful and friendly atmosphere". Lavrov didn't know that, a few days earlier, Zarif had told an Iranian interviewer in a confidential tape-recording that there was nothing trustful or even friendly about his attitude towards the Russians, especially Lavrov.

According to Zarif, whose remarks leaked to the New York Times and other media on the weekend, "Russia did not want the agreement to succeed and 'put all its weight' behind creating obstacles because it was not in Moscow's interests for Iran to normalize relations with the West." To that end, Zarif claimed on tape, "General [of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem] Soleimani traveled to Russia to 'demolish our achievement', meaning the nuclear deal."

If that is what Zarif said, and that was all he said about Russia, and about Soleimani's trips to Moscow in 2015-2016, Zarif is lying.

When US Marines stationed in Syria mysteriously fell ill, American officials were quick to suspect a shadowy Russian energy weapon was behind it. However, a probe by military chiefs has now revealed the culprit was dodgy rations.

News site Politico revealed in a report last week that Washington's Defense Department had been investigating a number of incidents across the world where it believed its personnel had been exposed to so-called 'directed energy' attacks, with Russia held up as the likely culprit. Pentagon officials were said to have written to lawmakers and carried out in-person briefings with representatives in Congress about the potential threat.

While little is known about experimental energy weapons, which theoretically include those using lasers, microwaves and particle beams, there have been numerous claims that they are being utilized against Americans overseas. In 2017, then-US President Donald Trump accused Cuba of targeting its embassy personnel with electromagnetic forces, after diplomatic staff complained of nausea, headaches and hearing strange noises. The health complaints have now come to be known as 'Havana Syndrome'.

Before we look into what just happened in the Ukraine, we need to first recall the sequence of events which lead to the current situation. I will try to make a short summary (skipping a lot of details) in the bullet-point style:

1. Whether Ze initially intended to stop the war in the eastern Ukraine we don't know, but what we do know is that he failed not only to stop it, in many ways his policies were even worse than Poroshenko's. This might be the well-known phenomenon of a supposedly "pro-peace and happiness" politician being accused of being "weak" and thus not "presidential"; this politician has to show his "strength" is "patriotism", that is acting recklessly on the external front. We see that from putatively "liberal" politicians such as the Dems in the USA and Labor in Israel. Historically, "liberals" are the most common war initiators. Ze showed his weakness almost from day 1, and the Ukronazis immediately seized this opportunity to engage in a massive multi-level campaign for war against Russia. This resulted in:
2. A quasi-official repudiation of the Minsk Agreements and Steinmeier Formula by Kiev, followed by a sharp increase in bellicose statements and, most crucially a large scale move of forces (including tanks, heavy artillery, MLRS and even ballistic missiles!) towards the line of contact. At the same time Ukronazi politicians began making statements saying that a) the Ukrainian army was capable and willing to "liberate" all of the "Russian occupied" Ukrainian land thus, including both the Donbass and Crimea b) that Russia was going to attack the Ukraine anyway and c) that the consolidated West had to help the Ukraine because only the Ukrainian forces were keeping the asiatic drunken Russian hordes from over-running not only the Ukraine, but even the rest of Europe. Since the Ukraine simply has no agency, this begs the question of the US (and, to a lesser degree, the UK) rationale was for these moves. It is quite simple:
3. Force Russia to openly intervene to protect the population of the Donbass from the inevitable genocide which the Ukronazis would have meeted out to the population of the LDNR.

For good or bad, COVID-19 has changed the way we navigate the world.

It is also redrawing the boundaries of our world (and our freedoms) and altering the playing field faster than we can keep up.

Owing in large part to the U.S. government's deep-seated and, in many cases, top-secret alliances with foreign nations and global corporations, it has become increasingly obvious that we have entered into a new world order — a global world order — made up of international government agencies and corporations.

The global pandemic has facilitated highly undemocratic policing across the West. Now, just as scientific support for lockdowns is beginning to wane, Berlin has classified anyone opposed to the policy as an enemy of the state.

On April 28, German domestic spying agency Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV - Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) announced that it intends to place the country's ever-growing anti-lockdown movement under surveillance.

Of particular concern is the so-called Querdenker ('lateral thinking') group, a key participant in large-scale protests that have routinely erupted across Germany over the course of the pandemic, on the basis it questions the legitimacy of the state.

Recent events in the world have given me great hope that we might finally emerge from the century of permanent war. The Great Reset agenda seems to be losing steam and those in charge of implementing it are losing conviction (with the exception, perhaps, of the very top echelon in power). At the same time, the ranks of people who are opposed to it and are willing to take a stand, appear to be swelling.

Since the very start of the great pandemic of 2020, something about the public health response didn't feel right. It was clear from the measures that were enacted and from measures that were not enacted that their purpose had little to do with public health. Instead, they seemed to further a different agenda. Soon we learned that this was all connected to World Economic Forum's hugely ambitious Fourth Industrial Revolution or the Great Reset. But the agenda and the steps taken seemed rushed, panicked and frankly, hopeless.

Many of the solutions and technologies that would need to be rolled out and ready to use turned out to be non-existent or only in conceptual stages of development. As months went on, the events proved this impression correct as we watched the authorities muddle through, destroying their own credibility in the process. In a very recent interview Dr. Rainer Fullmich sated as follows:

"We have a whistleblower and she told us that the original plan was to roll this out in 2050. But then those who are involved with this got greedy and pulled things forward to 2030 and then to 2020 and that's why so many mistakes are happening."

The Director of National Intelligence has ostensibly created a new "center" for the sharing and analysis of information and intelligence about foreign interference in US elections. Its real focus is much more nefarious.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced in a statement on Monday that it was creating a new intelligence "center" focused on tracking so-called "foreign malign influence," reported Politico. This new entity, known as the Foreign Malign Influence Center, was mandated in the recent intelligence and defense budget authorization acts, representing the reality that the impetus for its creation came from Congress, and not the intelligence community.


For example, the most recent defense expenditure authorization required that the ODNI establish a "social media data analysis center" to coordinate and track foreign social media influence operations by analyzing data voluntarily shared by US social media companies. Based upon this analysis, the ODNI would report to Congress on a quarterly basis on trends in foreign influence and disinformation operations to the public. As envisioned by Congress, the intelligence community would determine jointly with US social media companies which data and metadata will be made available for analysis.

In short, the intelligence community, using data obtained from the social media accounts of American citizens, will report to Congress how this data influences the political decision-making of these same American citizens.

If this does not make the most ardent defender of the US Constitution ill, nothing will.

President Joe Biden called the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War" during his speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. The claim generated quite a bit of controversy on Twitter.

"Biden asserts riot was a worse attack than various bombings and deadly attacks on the Capitol, deadly Summer of Rage with its attacks on the WH and federal court buildings, four presidential assassinations, another five assassination attempts, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11. OK," Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, remarked.

Biden's characterization of the Capitol riot represents excessive hyperbole, but to be fair, a foreign government — not U.S. citizens — perpetrated Pearl Harbor and foreign terrorists perpetrated the September 11 attacks. Biden appears to consider only American attacks on Americans in his discussion of "attacks on democracy."

In his address to Congress, US President Joe Biden doubled down on his vision of America as Our Democracy, a place where big government reigns in the name of "equity" and social justice, while still pretending to be a republic.

Wednesday night's speech to the joint session of Congress was uncharacteristically long for Biden, clocking in at over an hour. However, it was very much his speech, including occasional shouting and emotional manipulation woven throughout. Someone's cell phone rang at one point, echoing around the mostly empty chamber. Only 200 or so lawmakers and guests were in attendance, ostensibly on account of Covid-19 protocols still in effect.

The White House actually released a transcript of it soon after Biden began speaking, no doubt to the delight of corporate journalists eager to promote its talking points. True to form, again, Biden only went off-script a couple times - such as when he spoke on gun control, repeating the infamous "no amendment is absolute" line and claiming that "We're not changing the Constitution, we're being reasonable."