VATICAN - Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny downplayed the immigration issue prior to European elections, insisting that it is “false” to speak of a global crisis. The Vatican is looking to change people’s perspective on mass migration by highlighting positive stories to replace the negative accounts that dominate the media. In the past, Czerny has said that the Church needs to “change the narrative” on immigration, because “the public view is negative” whereas it should be positive. The group also insisted that the ethnic origin of perpetrators of crimes should not be mentioned in news stories so as not to create an association of malfeasance with migrants. “Islamic extremists” should simply be referred to as “extremists,” their guide declared, to avoid stirring up prejudice against Muslims.

GERMANY - A recent upsurge in fighting talk could mark a turning point in the history of the nation, and not a good one. Recent German history is marked by two dates – 1918 and 1945 – that stand for extraordinary, catastrophic failures of, among other things, militarism. Most countries have militaries, many have substantial ones. But militarism is, of course, something else: In essence, the term stands for a syndrome: a type of politics and culture – an integrated Zeitgeistpackage, if you wish – that harmfully exaggerate the public importance, social prestige, and political power of a country’s military.

USA - Dr Paul Craig Roberts discusses the ever widening war and the insanity of the West which seems to be provoking nuclear Armageddon from which we might not recover. America is enabling genocide in Gaza which is destroying its international reputation and on top of that, Israel has been trying to get Washington attack Iran. It’s strange that only dissident politicians get assassinated or die under mysterious circumstances (eg Raisi, Fico) and it’s amazing Viktor Orbán is still alive. Washington is opening another front for Russia in Georgia. The migration agenda is deliberate to create Babel. Trump might end up getting assassinated. If they install the digital control system it will be total tyranny. The middle class is being wiped out and the dollar’s days seem to be numbered.

TURKEY - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has stated that Ankara intends to discuss the issue during an upcoming meeting in Russia. Türkiye will seek to join the BRICS group of nations and intends to bring up the issue at an upcoming meeting of the economic bloc’s foreign-ministers in Russia, Ankara's chief diplomat Hakan Fidan announced on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters while on a three-day visit to China, Fidan stated that Türkiye has long been waiting to become a member of the European Union, but has for years faced opposition from some of that bloc’s members. In this context, Ankara is now considering BRICS as an alternative platform for integration, the minister explained.

USA - Breaches of online platforms and internal data systems have risen dramatically worldwide since 2020, and the United States is by far the hardest-hit country, suffering 90,405,511 breaches in the final quarter of 2023, or 26,662 per 100,000 people.This puts the United States ahead of even such populous nations as China, Russia, and India, which experienced 70,641,931, - 50,119,934, and 17,056,018 breaches, respectively, in the same quarter. In the first quarter of 2024, the frequency of breaches in the United States rose 185 percent compared with the previous quarter, affecting 90.4 million accounts. The report’s findings are particularly concerning as America prepares to head to the polls in November as memories of bitter disputes over the integrity and accuracy of results in recent elections are still raw.

USA - US President Joe Biden has declined to say how his nation would defend Taiwan from Beijing’s military, but would not “rule out” putting boots on the ground on the self-administered Chinese island. Taiwan has been backed by successive governments in Washington, even after the US formally recognized the People’s Republic of China in 1979. The island was the last refuge of nationalist forces in the Chinese civil war of the 1940s, and the communist government on the mainland has gradually sidelined its opponents in the international arena.

GERMANY - The migrant who stabbed a police officer to death and injured five others at an anti-Islamification rally last week in Germany has been revealed to be a failed asylum seeker, sparking a national debate on migration ahead of the European Parliament elections. “Sulaiman A.”, the suspected Islamist terrorist who launched a frenzied and fatal attack with a combat-style knife at a rally in Mannheim against the increased impacts of immigration from the Islamic world by activist Michael Stürzenberger, first came to the country from Afghanistan in 2013, German paper of record Welt reports. The paper claimed to have been provided with official documents which said that his request for asylum status was rejected in July of 2014.

USA - In 1989, a senior UN environmental official warned that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. This prediction was made in an Associated Press article written by veteran reporter Peter James Spielmann and published on 29 June 1989. According to the article, governments had a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it went beyond human control. The UN official also predicted that as the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations.

USA - The White House insisted that the “ball was in Hamas’s court” on whether to accept a new Gaza peace proposal, despite mixed signals from Benjamin Netanyahu reflecting turmoil within his governing coalition in Israel. The US national security spokesperson, John Kirby, insisted on Monday that it was an Israeli proposal – despite the fact it had been unveiled by Joe Biden on Friday, during the Jewish Sabbath, and Netanyahu had appeared to challenge it. The Israeli prime minister said any deal that did not lead to the complete destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capacity would be a “non-starter”. The Israeli prime minister told the Knesset on Monday: “The claims that we have agreed to a ceasefire without our conditions being met are incorrect.”

USA - Joe Biden unveiled a three-point ceasefire proposal last week as he urged Israel to agree to the temporary cessation of the war on Hamas. Joe Biden has seen his ceasefire proposal brutally dismissed as a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet insisted his country will not "surrender" to American pressure. The US President last Friday announced a new plan to end the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and ensure the return of all hostages taken by Hamas on October 7. The three-phase plan would also require the terror group to return the bodies of any captive killed since the start of the war in exchange for the release of an undisclosed number of Palestinian prisoners. "We don't have any other choice but to continue the war and annihilate Hamas, and there is no option to accept a ceasefire while Hamas is still in power."

RUSSIA - One of Russia’s most important early warning radar installations that was designed to track incoming nuclear missiles was destroyed on May 23rd, but the big corporate news outlets in the western world are hardly saying anything about it. Without that installation, there is a giant hole in Russia’s ability to track incoming missiles from the direction of the Middle East. So this is a really big deal. During an all-out nuclear war, early warning radar installations would be among the very first targets, and the Russians are telling us that according to their nuclear protocols the destruction of the Armavir Radar Station could have allowed them to conduct a nuclear strike in return. Thankfully, that did not happen. But this should have been front page news all over the world.

USA - Joe Biden has been accused of “sleepwalking into World War 3” by a close ally of rival Donald Trump. And Ohio Senator JD Vance, tipped as a possible running mate for Mr Trump when he takes on Joe Biden in November’s Presidential election, also believes the risk of nuclear war is “higher than any point in my lifetime”. President Joe Biden just plunged the US deeper into the fight in Ukraine. Soon, Ukraine will be using US- made weapons to strike inside Russia - a nuclear armed power - with a US president's blessing. Mr Vance was responding to a post on X by internet entrepreneur David Sacks, co-founder of Craft Ventures, who said: “Never once during the Cold War would we have dreamed of striking Russia on its own soil, even through a proxy.”

USA - California firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire that began Saturday and continued burning early Sunday morning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said. The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy, 60 miles (96km ) east of San Francisco, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the city of Livermore, according to the California department of forestry and fire protection, or Cal Fire. On Sunday morning, Cal Fire announced that the fire had spanned 12,500 acres and was 15% contained. “Strong winds and dry grass have made it difficult to contain,” it added.

USA - A weather phenomenon is heading into Texas and California on Tuesday, putting millions of Americans in the path of a scorching heat wave. A heat dome, which is a phenomenon caused by hot air being trapped in one region by a high pressure air system, killed dozens of people in Mexico last month and is now expected to bring record-breaking temperatures to the southwestern US. California could see temperatures 20 degrees Fahrenheit above the average for at least a week,while parts of Texas near the border could see up to 114 degrees. The national weather service has warned that the rest of the nation, from the Midwest to Northeast, is also expected to see increased temperatures due to the southwestern heat dome.

INDONESIA - Indonesia’s Mount Ibu - the nation’s second-most active volcano, located in the notorious Ring of Fire - has erupted again, belching thick, gray ash 7,000 metres (16,000 feet) into the air. The volcano, located on an island in the eastern North Maluku province, erupted for more than six minutes last night, according to Muhammad Wafid, chief of Indonesia’s Geology Agency. A column of ash could be seen rising high into the sky. It spewed out material including volcanic ash and sand. Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million people, has 120 active volcanoes. It is prone to volcanic activity because it sits along the Ring, a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean.