GERMANY - Deutsche Bank is in big trouble as they continue to fail! Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the most recent news regarding Deutsche Bank as the massive global bank based in Frankfurt, Germany reaches its epic end.

VATICAN - So ran the riveting headline on the Drudge Report of Holy Thursday. Drudge quoted this exchange, published in La Repubblica, between Pope Francis and his atheist friend, journalist Eugenio Scalfari. Scalfari: “What about bad souls? Where are they punished?”

USA - Fake news may have already influenced politics in the US, but it’s going to get a lot worse, warns an AI consultant to the CIA.

Sean Gourley, founder and CEO of Primer, a company that uses software to mine data sources and automatically generate reports for the CIA and other clients, told a conference in San Francisco that the next generation of fake news would be far more sophisticated thanks to AI. “The automation of the generation of fake news is going to make it very effective,” Gourley told the audience at EmTech Digital, organized by MIT Technology Review. In recent interviews, Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, suggested that the company would use AI to spot fake news. According to Gourley, AI could be used in the service of the opposite goal as well.

UK - It’s an annual row that seems to start earlier and earlier – the great Easter egg debate. Social media becomes awash with companies forced to defend their Easter products from an army of people claiming that they do not feature the religious aspects of the festival prominently enough, or have been made halal. The debate has become increasingly politicised, with many rightwing groups amplifying the message. “It’s amazing that in such a politically correct society we can’t call Easter eggs Easter eggs anymore”, the official Ukip Twitter account said on Monday.

UNITED NATIONS - Imagine an International Court of Justice for Water, where ‘water justice’ rulings are made to control and allocate water to sustain life. The United Nations has fully set its sights on controlling all the water of the world. Further, it has tightly integrated water policy into the Sustainable Development Goals.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A huge 6.9 magnitude earthquake has rocked Papua New Guinea, putting the Ring of Fire on alert this evening. Papua New Guinea's New Britain island was hit by an earthquake at 10.25pm BST. Downgraded from an initial magnitude of 7.2, the 6.9 earthquake struck 96 miles from the town of Kokopo which is home to 20,000 people. In its latest update, the body said: Hazardous tsunami waves are forecast for some coasts. It is the third earthquake to have hit the region in 24 hours, each one increasing in strength.

CHINA - In a massive move against the global dominance of the US dollar, China’s highly anticipated Petro-Yuan has been launched in Shanghai. With China being the world’s largest consumer of oil, this new currency is an international game-changer that was a predicted move by China to directly compete — and subsequently devalue — the US dollar.

USA - Planned Parenthood is taking a rule out of the Social Justice Warrior (SJW) handbook and is looking to turn a Disney princess into an indoctrination tool to advance an agenda. In a Twitter post on Tuesday, Planned Parenthood listed demands for Disney, one of which is to create a character who has had an abortion. The rest is a laundry list of left-wing bullet points. 

SYRIA - A Syrian Ambassador has directly threatened the Zionist entity known as Israel by saying his country will liberate the occupied Golan Heights. “We reject any terrorist or aggressive presence on our soil in any form and we will liberate all of our lands, including Golan, Afrin, Idlib and Raqqa,” Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations stated yesterday. The Golans, close to Damascus, has been occupied by Israel since the end of the Six Day War in 1967. The area is home to a large Druze population who are slowly being supplanted by Israeli colonialists despite the region being internationally recognized as a sovereign part of Syria.

ISRAEL - Jerusalem must prepare for the possibility that Iran will deploy Hezbollah against Israel in case there is a US-Iran military confrontation, Construction Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday. Gallant, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet and a former OC Southern Command, said he believed US President Donald Trump would “behave differently” than his predecessors if the Iranians acted – as they have in the past – against US interests. Gallant’s comments came amid some speculation that a US-Iranian military confrontation could be triggered by a US withdrawal in May from the Iranian nuclear agreement, or by heightened tension between the Saudis and Iranians in the Persian Gulf as witnessed this week when Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen fired missiles at Riyadh.

ISRAEL - Beginning Friday, Hamas hopes it can mobilize large crowds to set up tent camps near the border. It plans a series of demonstrations culminating with a march to the border fence on May 15, the anniversary of Israel’s establishment, known to Palestinians as “the Nakba,” or catastrophe. While the organizers of the march receive relatively extensive media coverage in Gaza and even larger media coverage in Israel, they do not seem to be generating much support for the march in the strip. For example, the official Facebook page of the march has less than 7,000 followers, most of whom are not residents of the strip. This is a negligible number compared to the coverage the march receives.

USA - In June of 2016, as Instagram celebrated reaching 500 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, posted a photo of himself enjoying the moment. The photo quickly went viral, not because people like Zuckerberg, but because it showed the owner of a company — that requests permission to record through your camera and microphone — with tape over both his camera and microphone. Now, we know why. As TFTP has previously reported, Facebook has admitted that its app has the capability to listen to what is happening around it. Wylie went on to confirm this and put it into shocking perspective, illustrating that Facebook can listen to you to find out where you are.

GERMANY - There's an enemy within [the new German government]: the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a xenophobic nationalistic party that clambered into the Bundestag for the first time this term. Or rather, the toxic rhetoric of that party has found its way into the coalition. The far right's noxious populism has seeped into the highest halls of power, even to those surrounding Chancellor Angela Merkel.

ISRAEL - Israeli police in Jerusalem green-lighted a religious ceremony which involves the slaughter of a Passover lamb only “tens of meters” from the site where the Temple once stood. Temple Mount activists carried out the sacrifice for more than ten years now, but never before had the ceremony taken place so close on the Temple Mount.

USA - Unlike corporations that sell to consumers, Lockheed Martin and the other top contractors to the US Government are highly if not totally dependent upon sales to governments, for their profits, especially sales to their own government, which they control - they control their home market, which is the US Government, and they use it to sell to its allied governments, all of which foreign governments constitute the export markets for their products and services. Because America privatized the weapons industry, there are, in America, profits for investors to make in invasions and in military occupations of foreign countries; and the billionaires who control these corporations can and do - and, for their financial purposes, they must - buy Congress and the President, so as to keep those profits flowing to themselves.