IMA PANEL: How to Deal With Authorities – #SolutionsWatch
It’s the cross-over you’ve all been waiting for, #SolutionsWatch meets the Independent Media Alliance!
Panel host James Corbett is joined by IMA regulars Derrick Broze, Ryan Cristian, Kit Knightly, Jason Bermas, Hakeem Anwar & Steve Poikonen, and guests Etienne de La Boetie2, Larken Rose and Ernest Hancock to discuss how we interact with the state and law enforcement.
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You dont have a chance.
Interacting with the state and law enforcement
When interacting with law enforcement, you have the right to remain silent, refuse consent to searches, and ask if you are free to leave. Stay calm, keep hands visible, and do not physically resist, even if you believe the stop is unjustified; address misconduct later through legal counsel.
The thieving US continues its robbery.
“The US has triumphantly announced that it has removed highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Venezuela in what the US Department of Energy (DOE) hailed as a victory for America and “the world.”
In a statement on Friday, the DOE said it had completed the “removal of all remaining enriched uranium from a legacy research reactor” in the South American nation and transferred it to the US for processing and reuse. The quantity removed was 13.5 kg (30 pounds).”
Is anyone surprised by this? I’m certainly not.
Israel reveals its true face
An Israeli bill to cancel the Oslo, Hebron, and Wye agreements
The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation is expected to discuss today, Sunday, a bill submitted by members of the “Jewish Power” party headed by Itamar Ben-Gvir, calling for the cancellation of the Oslo Accords, the Hebron Agreement, and the Wye Agreement.
The proposed law stipulates the annulment of all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority on one side, and Israel on the other, meaning they would no longer be binding on Israel or any body representing it.
The bill also includes repealing the laws enacted to implement the Oslo Accords and restoring the legal and political situation to what it was before those agreements were signed.
This the new utter pro-EU leader of Hungary and the sheep love him.
Spetsnaℤ 007 https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1f7-1f1fa.svg (@Alex_Oloyede2): “https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1ed-1f1fa.svg No, this is not AI, this is the newly inaugurated government of Hungary. The first thing they did was raise the EU flag over the Hungarian Parliament.” | nitter.poast.org
The EU flag above the Hungarian. Your link is a Russian flag. Whats the point?
Good for Iran, US sanctions are war by other means they kill people.
” Iranian Army Spokesman Mohammad Akraminia:
“Countries that impose US sanctions on our country will face difficulties in passing through the Strait of Hormuz.””
I’ve repeatedly been told in my lifetime I have a problem with authority (see also Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or ODD). Every time I wonder, ‘What, you don’t?’ There’s the problem.
New normal for distrust of people in power.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): A pattern of defiant, hostile, and disobedient behavior towards authority figures, including breaking rules, tantrums, and vindictiveness.
Fear of Authority/Trauma Responses: Childhood trauma involving abuse or neglect can result in a lasting fear of, or submission to, authority, leading to feelings of helplessness, worthlessness, and extreme anxiety.
Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD): Can cause pervasive suspicion and distrust of others, particularly those in power.
EU/US puppet leader of Moldova has pushed through legislation to ban Russian in the Moldovan parliament, Sandu, got re-elected after half a million Moldovans living/working in Russia were all but denied the vote – Moldova has a population of around 2.5 million people -so the exclusion of half- a million Moldovans from voting, is significant.
Any EU nations leader, with two-brain cells to rub together should seriously considering taking his/her nation out of the now totalitarian EU, of course any leader attempting this will be assassinated, they tried to assassinate Fico of Slovakia – Fico’s government passed a law with regards to foreign NGO’s, and the EU didn’t like it.
“Germany and about a dozen other countries support making it harder for dissenting member states to block EU foreign policy decisions, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has said.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, the diplomat outlined Berlin’s vision for reforming the European Union. The six-point plan he presented closely mirrors proposals made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Von der Leyen, a fellow member of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, has argued that the EU should “use the momentum” for institutional changes after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban – a prominent defender of national sovereignty within the bloc – lost power in the recent election.”
An excellent show—worth repeating! You should definitely plan for it to happen again.
Who’d have thought it.
“A year after Burkina Faso banned the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Project Malaria, the WHO reports significant progress in the country’s fight against Malaria.”
Good one.
Also the statistics or poachery in African countries dropped drastically together with the low level of Western tourists during the Covid lock downs.
Trump’s becomes the most unpopular POTUS in US history with a minus 76% rating.
Meanwhile.
Minnesota Democrats Block Efforts To Remove Deceased Voters From Rolls
https://patriotfetch.com/2026/05/minnesota-voter-registration-debate-hf4240-election-integrity/
Armed with an indomitable passion for cutting to the most important issues, the Independent launches into the most vital issue that causes the entire population to stay up at night:
And how was this view established?
Well, there it is. Which kind of makes you wonder what other pressing issue might have dominated the front page with a different question, say:
But no matter. We have been handed down the most vital matter. After which we have a careful exposition on how the parties can justify their existence through minimisation of that Utter Evil that is anti-symmetricalism or whatever.
Labour, Reform perform woefully with a hulking 33 per cent while the Greens rake up a quarter probable goose steppers. The Conservatives and Lib Dems register 16 per cent and 13 per cent respectively. Oh dear, I feel a few twitching little moustaches appearing!
Yes, what a handy attack.
“Sparked outrage” amongst the sparky outraged who are always mulling cryptically in the background somewhere.
Ooh “disturbing views”. So Labour are in on the good old raspberry blowing too.
And note how much of this passive tense we get. “Facing accusations”. From who? “Have been accused”. By who?
And the vagueness continues.
And so on and on. For those who can stomach it, we eventually get a token gesture nod towards Islamophobia – for a bogus “fairness” vibe. But hey, everyone knows Islamophobia is not an actual thing.
I always enjoy the IMA panels! I find there is rarely anyone who seems bigoted or just phoning it in. The seem like smart thoughtful people trying to find answers. I would enjoy a nice leisurely dinner in their company. With lots of talk!
Get a Trumpy Bear!
https://www.gettrumpybear.com/
President Trump claims negotiations with Iran are going well, expects agreement
any day. Corporate propaganda media immediately broadcasts The Good News.
Iran vigorously disagrees, says no negotiations taking place… Could one say Iran
has become ‘negotiations hesitant’ – negotiations not being ‘safe and effective’ ?
Trump seems to have learned from the ‘covid psy-op’ that he can claim whatever
he wants, the msm will broadcast it, and the masses will ignore any who say what
Trump claims is not true…
It is a Punch and Judy show, even more so as the role players have a puppeteer’s hand shoved up their backsides.
“That’s the way to do it!!”
All mixed in with some pantomime for additional effect.
“It’s behind you!!”
The audience (the paying public) haven’t got a clue whether they are coming or going. Only the scrpitwriters know when and how the show will end.
Exactly. It’s also a soap opera with plot twists and season-finale cliffhangers and sudden changes of personnel and storyline if a particular narrative is losing the audience.
Sadly though I think we do know how it ends. Or at least how it doesn’t end. The “wars” will continue intermittently, irrationally and inconclusively in perpetuity as a backdrop and reason for the increasingly controlled and surveilled lives everyone in the world will be living.
I see no hope unless many more can waken from this delusion that reported world events represent reality, because they don’t, in any way shape or form.
Yes. ‘Stooge-of-the-day says…’ is about all that political ‘news’ amounts to these days. The media only ‘fact-check’ such statements when their bosses don’t like the contents. Plus, with the Trump thing there is the convenient fiction that Trump is all-powerful rather than just being the frontman, or even the PR man, for a clique of the powerful.
Negotiations seem to be dangerous. The negotiators could be attacked on their way back. If they get back, officials democratically evaluating the proposals could be bombed.
Power comes from the barrel of a gun. -Mao Tse Tung
Power is only power if it is recognized.
tRump, asserting his authority:
https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/05/neo-caligula-trump-goes-full-strangeness-in-front-of-kids-at-white-house/
Trump tells the room that his approval ratings are at 100%, the Iranians are mentally deranged, the 2020 election was stolen, and that Barack ‘Hussein’ Obama is the enemy.
Its about as right as it can be, especially the last sentence.
We are gonna Make America Great Again Johnny, ad you cant do a shit about it!
Which part of Dizzyland do you live in Eric?
Larken Rose youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/user/LarkenRose/videos
Hoomins give authority to texts, to narratives, to books – then obey the authority
they give to those things…
Things only have the value hoomins give them – then hoomins buy the valuable
things… Hoomins seem to always self-alienate…
One afternoon, back in the day, we closed off access from the far end of our
street by putting up “detour” signs road repairmen had left nearby… Drivers
obeyed, because people obey Authority, even when its simply a sign…
The new wave of Authoritarians may well be Green:
https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/05/06/the-green-party-a-trojan-horse-for-a-global-restructure/
Eco friendly, but not necessarily human friendly.
Authorities can be benign or malignant.
Malignancies are fuelled by ignorance, ambition and corruption.
We have to have rules because there will always be people with psychological problems who don’t have the wherewithal to deal with their problem, whatever it is. Someone has to police those rules.
In an ideal world politicians, police and the military would be ‘vetted’ for psychological stability. Any sign of sociopathic tendencies and you’re excluded.
For me, the big takeaway from the discussion is the huge difference between the US and the UK. The US has a far more ‘malignant’ police and political problem.
Here in aUStralia we lean more towards the UK model. Our police forces are armed,
but shootings of citizens is not common, though it does occur. I’ve known a few cops over the years, some were good, some were nuts.
We should treat authorities the same way we treat gravity:
We should be aware, but not submissive.
After all, how else can we fly free?
Wasnt a ‘viral outbreak’ aboard a cruise ship a very early feature of the ‘covid
pandemic’ narrative ? I smell a rat !
Yeah, but a rat is appropriate since hanta virus comes from rodent feces either contaminating food or becoming aerosolized & inhaled.
Not contagious person to person except w intimate contact, like kissing.
I doubt all mice droppings are relevant; I’m guessing that only SOME mice/rats/squirrels harbor the virus. Anyway, it’s pretty lethal to humans.
As you can imagine, a ship could very likely harbor rodents & they cd get into the food supply, or a ventilation system.
Rodent feces or urine is a major threat to migrants in detention. But it seems not to be in any reports for slums, even major ones. In fact, unjabbed slum dwellers trying to survive were largely immune from the “deadly covid”.
What a load of hooey. Whatever is going on here it ain’t a virus whot did it
Déjà vu
Symptoms initially reported: headache, vomiting, stomachache, diarrhea – describes
food poisoning to this non-expert…
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) symptoms begin 1–8 weeks after exposure.
Early Phase: Fever, fatigue, muscle aches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headaches.
Late/Severe Phase: Severe chest tightness, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, and rapid breathing.
Current hantavirus research focuses on developing antiviral drugs and vaccines!
What a load of barnacles.
Or Norwalk virus, widespread on cruises, survives hand sanitiser.
A lot of things have the same symptoms. Food poisoning CAN kill you, but not too likely. I have known about hanta virus for many years; the ordinary mouse is unlikely to carry it. I’ve only heard of cases in people who visited their remote vacation cabinet– that sort of thing. So in this country it’s wild mice or rats or squirrels, something like that. But there IS such a virus, and people do die of it.
However, it is NOT transmissible person-to-person, absent kissing, etc.
What they are now trying to tell us is that THIS VERSION OF HANTA COMES FROM THE ANDES & DOES TRANSMIT CASUALLY PERSON-TO-PERSON.
I doubt it. If it IS true, then it’s been manipulated. Most likely, it’s just a lie.
Africa is resisting:
‘The WHO, for reasons explained below, is doing what it is paid to do. Major financial sponsors of the WHO have much to gain from getting this Agreement through. It has fallen on African leaders, attuned to the model of rich countries and their corporations imposing rules designed for wealth extraction, to protect the rest of us from the farce that the current public health approach to pandemics has become.’
More here:
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-pandemic-agreement-fails-again/
Thanks. So the earlier trumpeting of the treaty having gone into force was a lie. Pulling out was one good thing that insane Trump did. It helped dissidents elsewhere.
Thanks to African countries, some in West are grateful for your resistance.
The discussion seems more to go on what do you do if you meet civil violence. Do you deal with it yourself, or do you call the cops.
The Theme is more broad and more important than this small talk. How do you deal with unrealistic demands or Authorities who break the law?
The Police is an easy task. You deal with your own troubles within your own area as much as feasible. Only when the fraud/violence goes out in public you have to phone the Police and/or report it to Municipality, as Public area is their domaine and authority.
Only in rare occasions you have to take action yourself if Police is not quickly available.
But what about bureaucracy authorities? Fining you because a camera found you broke a velocity limit with 1 km. Authorities who think you jeopardize the country with your ‘resistance’ ref journalists or Vietnam demonstrations.
‘[….] remember that verbal attacks on children are often worse than physical
attacks. One can recover from the latter.’ … Elsworth Baker …
‘Anxiety is the basis for all repression and is behind all contractions. The patient
is always trying to control anxiety, and cure is effected by forcing the patient to
face his anxiety and express his forbidden feelings. The most important emotion
to elicit is rage, and until this is released, he cannot experience the softer feelings
of love and longing. It must be released from every segment.’