USA - Last year, Georgina Rannard of the BBC reported that “scientists say” a weakening Gulf Stream could collapse as early as this year, a dire process that would bring catastrophic changes in the weather in the northern hemisphere. Routine fear mongering, of course, from the Net Zero promoting BBC and this ‘tipping point’ scare is common among alarmists. After all, everyone knows about the 2004 dystopian Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow. ‘Most of us are going to die’ is a great scoop, it is just a shame about the facts. Ground-breaking new work from scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has discovered that the huge flow of tropical water through the Florida Straits has remained “remarkably stable” for over 40 years. The paper notes that several recent studies have used a possible flow decline to speculate about a collapse in the Gulf Stream and the AMOC. Thus, clickbait science papers using computer models have been picked up by mainstream media and politicians to provoke fear of a Gulf Stream catastrophe.

USA - In 2014, the military and advanced technology company Deagel posted an article showing population growth for each country. This article created alarm for many as it showed some very frightening statistics concerning many western nations predicted for 2025, and with us fast approaching that time, we take a look at these predictions to see if what we were being shown was just a mistake, or was there a hidden agenda behind this article?

USA - The Pentagon's deployment of additional ground troops comes after Israel launched an airstrike against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing over 350 people. Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder said in a regular briefing on Monday that an additional batch of US military personnel are being deployed "in light of increased tension in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution". The United States has increased its military presence in the Middle East throughout this year, deploying around 40,000 troops. The personnel also included two Navy aircraft carriers carrying thousands of soldiers, including the USS Abraham Lincoln stationed in the Gulf of Oman and the USS Harry S Truman, which departed Virginia for the Mediterranean on Monday. US CENTCOM said last month that it has sent an additional batch of F-22 fighter jets in an effort to "mitigate the possibility of regional escalation by Iran or its proxies".

JAPAN - Russian patrol aircraft were intercepted by Japanese fighter jets after Moscow's planes violated the Western-ally's airspace, Tokyo has said. Japanese jets intercepted Russian planes, firing flares as a warning, Tokyo has said. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi held an emergency press conference earlier today on the clash. He said the Russian planes violated Japanese airspace north of Rebun Island in Hokkaido three times between 1pm and 3pm local time today. He called the incident "deeply regrettable" and said Japan had lodged a strong protest. Tensions globally are surging as China is repeatedly accused of violating Taiwan's airspace ahead of an invasion plot - and Israel continues to wipe out senior Hezbollah commanders in widespread airstrikes.

UK - Some 700 British troops will be moved to Cyprus overnight, as the UK begins the first phase of what it is calling "contingency plans". British nationals must leave Lebanon now, according to a stark Government warning issued tonight. The troubling news comes after a significant escalation of conflict in the region between Israel and Lebanon. Support will be put in place to support British nationals both in Lebanon and the region, as they are told to leave "immediately". Last night, PM Sir Keir Starmer said: “The most important message from me this evening is to British nationals in Lebanon, to leave immediately and I just want to reinforce that. Yes, we are ramping up the contingency plans, I think that you would expect that in light of the escalation. But it is important that we be really, really clear: now is the time to leave."

USA - Overnight on Monday, a 100,000-ton leviathan the height of a 24-­storey building weighed anchor at Naval Station Norfolk in the US state of Virginia and set sail for the eastern Mediterranean. With a crew of 6,250, a squadron of 90 aircraft and two escorting destroyers, the USS Harry S Truman is the very incarnation of American military might. If ever there were a sign that the US is taking the threat of an escalating ­conflict in the Middle East seriously, this was it. The ship is sailing to ­Washington’s greatest ally in the region, Israel, which is locked in a conflict that has spread from the dusty plains of Gaza to the hillscapes of southern Lebanon.

IRAN - Iran has hinted at direct action against Israel as it declared that Hezbollah 'cannot stand alone' against Israel, which carried out its deadliest day of air strikes on Lebanon since 2006. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told CNN that its ally Hezbollah 'cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by Western countries, by European countries and the United States.' He called on the international community to 'not allow Lebanon to become another Gaza,' in response to a question of if Iran would use its influence with Hezbollah to urge restraint. Multiple countries have issued warnings that the Middle East was heading for 'complete destabilisation' and a 'full-fledged war'.

CHINA - For the first time ever, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy sailed all of its aircraft carriers at the same time – offering a glimpse at how the PLAN might deploy its flattops during, say, an attack on Taiwan. This weekend, all three Chinese carriers – the ex-Soviet Liaoning, its locally-made sister ship Shandong and the latest, biggest and best Chinese-built carrier, Fujian – were all at sea. Fujian is conducting trials in the Yellow Sea. Shandong was in the South China Sea west of Taiwan with her escorts. Liaoning was in the Philippine Sea east of Taiwan with her escorts. “A monumental milestone,” commented China expert Ian Ellis. Fujian isn’t yet in front-line service, but will be soon. When she joins the fleet, the PLAN will become the world’s second carrier power – pulling past the two-flattop Royal Navy and Indian navy but still sailing in the wake of the 11-carrier US Navy.

GERMANY - Top figures at The Greens have quit after defeats in local elections, sparking “the biggest crisis in decades” within the faction. The leaders of Germany’s Greens party have tendered their resignations following crushing defeats in local elections in the eastern states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg earlier this month. Ricarda Lang, one of the Greens’ two leaders, announced on Wednesday that “new faces are needed to lead the party out of this crisis.” Her co-chair Omid Nouripour agreed, saying: “we have come to the conclusion that we need a new start.” “The results of Sunday’s elections in Brandenburg are proof of our party’s deepest crisis in a decade,” Nouripour added.

USA - President Donald Trump was the first US President since Jimmy Carter in the 1970s to not enter US troops into new conflicts. President Donald Trump is also the first modern-day US President to bring meaningful peace to the Middle East. One of the great foreign policy accomplishments of the Trump administration was mediating the Abraham Peace Accords.

UNITED NATIONS - Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the UN flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom. Before delivering a list of damning facts about the current state of the United Nations, Milei applauded the institution for successfully preventing a third world war, the original purpose of its existence. But the UN “started to mutate,” he continued, and became “...a supranational government model of international bureaucrats who want to impose on the citizens of the world a determined way of life,” he warned.

UNITED NATIONS - As diplomats from nearly 200 member states gather in New York this week for the UN general assembly against the backdrop of a massive Israeli bombing campaign in southern Lebanon, a nagging question to be addressed is whether the UN is too broken to be fixed. UN officials are facing three intractable conflicts, in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan. While it remains one of the most important humanitarian organisations on Earth, overseeing relief efforts for refugees, natural disaster victims and others in dire need, the UN’s principal security body appears to be powerless to intervene in some of the world’s most grinding conflicts.

GERMANY - The changing politics of mass migration in Germany: This is the most important issue facing Europe right now – more important than the folly of the energy transition, more crucial even than the fading memory of pandemic repression. For nearly 10 years, migration has felt like one of the most intractable problems in our entire political system. However crazy the policies, however contradictory and irrational, there was always only the towering mute wall of establishment indifference. It felt like the borders would be open forever, that we would have to sing vapid rainbow hymns to the virtues of diversity and inclusivity for the rest of our lives. Suddenly, it no longer feels like that. Over the past weeks, a perfect storm of escalating migrant violence and electoral upsets in East Germany have changed the discourse utterly.

MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East is teetering on the brink of "full-fledged" war, according to the EU's foreign affairs chief, after Israeli strikes killed nearly 500 people on September 23. Josep Borrell said prior to a gathering of world leaders at the United Nations on Monday: "I can say we are almost in a full-fledged war. We’re seeing more military strikes, more damage, more collateral damage, more victims", he said, adding: "Everybody has to put all their capacity to stop this."

UK - There is an old tactic among those who wish to rewrite history: take the truth, twist it, and present it as something altogether different. Today, we see this in the rise of anti- Zionism across social media. What was once a marginal, fringe element of discourse has now become mainstream. But this is no mere shift in the tone of debate — it is something far darker. In its most toxic form, anti-Zionism has become a vector for the glorification of Hamas, a terrorist organisation recognised as such by the civilised world.