USA - Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data compiled by The New York Times. The death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis: opioid addiction, now made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and similar drugs. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, and all evidence suggests the problem has continued to worsen in 2017.
USA - I keep hearing from people that think that the stock market is going to crash by the end of the year. Hopefully that will not happen, but the ridiculous stock prices that we are seeing right now certainly cannot last forever. On Sunday, I was chatting with a friend that had just been to a financial conference. He was quite surprised that one of the things being taught to the attendees of this conference was how to position themselves to make an enormous amount of money when the stock market crashes dramatically in the near future.
USA - The new US ambassador to the United Nations has accused the organisation of being anti-Israel ahead of important visits to Geneva and the Jewish state. Nikki Haley criticised the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for what she believes is a biased approach. In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, she said that "the council must end its practice of wrongly singling out Israel for criticism." "When the council passes more than 70 resolutions against Israel, a country with a strong human rights record, and just seven resolutions against Iran, a country with an abysmal human rights record, you know something is seriously wrong," she wrote.
EUROPE - The EU is considering taking economic measures in response to President Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement. These could include halting trade talks, forging closer ties with Russia, and imposing heavy carbon taxes on US exports [trade wars].
MIDDLE EAST - The most important strategic development in the Middle East these days isn’t the Trump administration’s decision, which was foreseen, not to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Intelligence services in Israel and the region are now following events along the Syria-Iraq border.
HUNGARY - Hungary's prime minister said Friday that harsh criticism by billionaire George Soros is a "declaration of war." Soros has accused Prime Minister Viktor Orban of running a corrupt "mafia state." Orban alleged that the Hungarian-American investor was paying "agent-like networks" of non-governmental organizations to enforce his policies, including the promotion of migration, in Europe and Hungary. "This is a declaration of war," Orban said on state radio. "We are facing a financial speculator who has made a lot of money while ... plunging many into poverty."
USA - American car snobs love BMWs and Mercedes. US hospitals love German-made medical instruments. US manufacturers depend on German precision tools. They're all big contributors to the huge trade surplus Germany has run up with the United States in recent years, trailing only China and Japan.
USA - According to abortionist Willie Parker’s version of Christianity, women should be allowed and encouraged to sacrifice their unborn babies’ lives to better their own. Parker performs abortions in several states to help them do it. He calls it his “ministry.” The southern abortionist has been traveling across the country during the past few months to promote his new book and claim that he is serving God by killing babies in the womb. By protecting women’s health, Parker means destroying unborn babies in abortions – and that’s all he does. Parker admitted in the interview that he does not attend a church; he is too busy promoting and performing abortions.
ISRAEL - “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote philosopher George Santayana in 1905. Today, Western civilization’s impaired memory is only part of a bigger problem. From the United Nations to university campuses, when history conflicts with progressives’ agendas, they simply change the past. Disparate leftist forces, banded together by “intersectionality,” stake their legitimacy on a history they’ve revised to suit their purposes.
USA - The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said on Sunday that President Donald Trump regards the question of the American Embassy’s location in Israel as constituting part of the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. “I think that he knows that it could be very much a part of the peace process,” she told CNN. “What he did want to do was make sure that he wasn’t interrupting the negotiations that are happening with the peace process. The question is not if that move happens, but only when,” Trump’s Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement Thursday.
USA - Look out for the next big world topic: one world government, one world religion, and one world military. This has been in motion for quite some time. Watch for the big push coming.
UK - Eighteen people remain in a critical condition and a further 18 are still being treated in hospital after Saturday's attack on London Bridge, British health authorities said on Monday. Seven people were killed and 48 needed hospital treatment when three militants rammed a van into pedestrians before running into the busy Borough Market area where they slit people's throats and stabbed them indiscriminately. "A total of 36 ... patients (are) currently being cared for in five London hospitals, and of these 18 remain in a critical condition," the National Health Service said.
UK - The war on terror requires the “urgent” appointment of an anti-extremism tsar, it was claimed today. Campaigners called for an end to politicians “tiptoeing” around Islamist fanatics. Think tank Quilliam urged all politicians to back Theresa May’s strategy, dubbed Prevent, which aims to stop extremism before it develops. It said we should continue with the Contest Strategy whose principles are “protect, prepare, pursue and prevent”. Quilliam’s Haras Rafiq said: “Enough is enough – we need action now and not tip-toeing around. The only way to defeat this type of extremism and terrorism is for Government and all British communities to unashamedly name, shame and challenge the threat. That includes the ideology underpinning it. It has its roots in Islamist inspired Salafi Jihadism and we must all admit the problem before we can challenge it.”
EUROPE - Arrogant globalist Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the unelected European Commission, lectured Donald Trump and said that America would not be allowed to pull out of the Paris climate agreement in a stunning attempt to control American domestic policy. However, Juncker gave a scornful speech in Berlin during which he asserted that Trump would not be allowed to get out of the deal.
USA - Many “Western” medicines are made in laboratories using chemicals and are highly experimental, and worse yet, they’re never been tested on humans, except when they’re actually prescribed, applied, or injected into them. Humans are the ultimate guinea pigs in America, while Big Pharma pockets trillions in profit.