SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia has told the US its position stands that there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognised on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem, and Israeli "aggression" on the Gaza Strip stops, the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. On Tuesday, White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby said that the Biden administration has received positive feedback that Saudi Arabia and Israel are willing to continue to have normalization discussions. The kingdom issued the statement to affirm its steadfast position to Washington on the Palestinian issue in the light of the comments attributed to Kirby, the ministry said. Saudi Arabia put US-backed plans to normalise ties with Israel on ice, sources familiar with Riyadh's thinking told Reuters in October, 2023, as the war between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israeli forces escalated.

ISRAEL - Itamar Ben-Gvir has accused US President Biden of not giving Israel enough freedom to fight Hamas. Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has criticized US President Biden’s approach to Israel’s war in Gaza, arguing that the situation would be “completely different” if former President Donald Trump were in power. “Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy with giving humanitarian aid and fuel (to Gaza), which goes to Hamas,” Ben-Gvir told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. “If Trump was in power, the US conduct would be completely different.” Since the beginning of the military conflict, following Hamas’s incursion on October 7, which left around 1,200 Israelis dead and over 200 taken hostage, the United States pledged to give Israel “whatever it needs” to achieve its military goals – but repeatedly urged the IDF to avoid harming Palestinian civilians.

USA - Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power — the rise of the security industrial complex — this watershed moment sounds a death knell for our privacy rights. An unofficial fourth branch of government, the Surveillance State came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government agency save the military. It operates beyond the reach of the president, Congress and the courts, and it marches in lockstep with the corporate elite who really call the shots in Washington, DC. This is the new face of tyranny in America: all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful. Tread cautiously.

USA - Illegal immigration is a hot-button topic that's on everyone's lips in the US, even catching the attention of billionaires like Elon Musk. Amidst the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis, Elon questions the motivation behind pursuing US citizenship when those entering illegally appear to reap even more benefits. Musk highlighted the paradox where those who enter the country illegally still manage to secure mortgages, bank loans, healthcare, driver's licenses, and insurance. It's a valid point that Elon raises, echoing the sentiments of many Americans.

USA - Tucker Carlson sparked outrage from the left Tuesday by announcing an upcoming interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The announcement led to accusations that he’s essentially working as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propagandist and that his interview will spark a “civil war” in the United States. He issued the announcement through a video post published to the social media platform X. In the video, he explained why he’s chosen to interview Putin despite the “risks to conducting an interview like this.”

USA - Trillions of gallons of rain have already fallen on the state of California, and more rain continues to fall as I write this article. Billions of dollars in damage has already been done, but of even greater concern is what all of this water could mean for southern California’s fault lines. Geophysicists have discovered that the additional weight that flooding puts on fault lines can help trigger earthquakes. Of course we have been warned for many years that “the Big One” is way overdue in southern California, and when it finally happens it will be a disaster unlike anything we have ever seen before.

UK - David Cameron’s call for the UK and UN to consider recognizing a Palestinian state is both short-sighted and fundamentally dangerous. Israel’s very survival is now at stake, with the Israeli people menaced by an array of Islamist terrorist groups and an Iranian regime. Lord Cameron’s poorly-timed remarks at a reception in Westminster earlier this week are among the most reckless comments made by a British Foreign Secretary in the modern era. The Foreign Secretary’s extraordinary intervention comes across as an insidious attempt to undermine the legitimacy of Israel at a critical moment, just months after the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

USA - It has long been on the minds of doomsday preppers and fiction media creators alike – but how likely is it, really? Let’s sketch a big country in three broad strokes: First, its population is over 333 million. These citizens privately own about (or at least) 339 million guns. They are unique in that no other state in the world has more private guns than people. They easily outdistance, for instance, Yemen, a country with a martial culture that has gone through years of civil war and yet there are only about 53 firearms per 100 inhabitants.

VATICAN - On the one hand, Globalist Pope Francis appears before the world as an ailing elder who is already planning his own funeral. On the other hand, the Argentine pontiff is energetically going about reforming (some will say destroying) Catholic dogma and doctrine. Lately, Francis has had to deal with a completely self-inflicted malady, resulting from the publication of Fiducia Supplicans, a document that has generated a historical, unprecedented rejection from prelates and lay people alike. Francis will never admit that ‘Fiducia…’ is a failure of Biblical proportions, but his papacy appears to forever be tainted by this attempt at normalizing behavior that has been anathema for millenia.

VATICAN - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has called for the Swiss Guards to remove and arrest Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Manuel “Tucho” Fernandez after the discovery of a pornographic work by Fernandez. Archbishop Viganò wrote on X, “The blasphemous sewer regurgitations of Tucho’s repulsive pamphlet show such a level of perversion and alienation to the Faith as to demand the expulsion manu militari of the Argentinean and his accomplices. The Swiss Guards have sworn to defend the See of Peter, not the one who is systematically demolishing it. Let them therefore be faithful to their oath and arrest these heretical perverts!”

USA - Viewers of Sunday night’s 60 Minutes were likely left gobsmacked by footage showing “large groups” of undocumented migrants from China sneaking through the US border with Mexico. The segment was filed by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who opened the piece by reporting: The number of migrants arriving at the southern border is unprecedented. Last year, US Customs and Border Protection recorded two-and-a-half million instances of detaining or turning away people attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico.

UK - King Charles III, 75, has been diagnosed with cancer and will be avoiding public events after being advised by his doctors to minimize in-person contacts, Buckingham Palace announced Monday. According to the statement, the king wanted to share his diagnosis in part to avoid speculation on his condition but also “in the hope it may assist public understanding for all those around the world who are affected by cancer.” Sarah Gristwood, a royal biographer and historian, said it was “striking” that the diagnosis was announced at all given the royal family’s history of trying to “keep any sign of ordinary human fallibility behind closed doors.”

ISRAEL - The Lebanese Shiite group has a long and bloody history with the Jewish state, and now, both sides’ restraint is at an end. Since the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the start of the IDF ground operation in Gaza, it has been repeatedly reported that one of the potential participants in an open confrontation with Israel could be the Lebanese Shiite paramilitary group and political party, Hezbollah. In January, there were even more statements by officials about the likelihood of a military clash on Israel’s northern border.

ISRAEL - As mediation efforts fail to bear fruit, war between Israel and Lebanon seems to be matter of when, not if. Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz met his French counterpart on Monday, warning him that “time is running out to find a diplomatic solution in Lebanon,” and indicating that his country was prepared to go to war if diplomacy fails. The reason is that, since October 7, Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based group linked to Iran, has carried out hundreds of attacks on Israeli targets. Fearing an influx of militants that could potentially invade and conquer parts of the country, some 60,000 northern Israelis have opted to leave, seeking refuge in the center, away from the hostilities.

USA - Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Republican) escalated his border battle with the Biden Regime on Saturday. “Texas made history as the first and ONLY state to build our own border wall,” Abbott said in a post on X. “Construction is ongoing.” “We will not back down from our efforts to secure the border,” he said. The US Supreme Court last month sided with the Biden Regime and allowed Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire installed on the Texas-Mexico border. Governor Greg Abbott (Republican) previously installed about 30 miles of razor wire at the Texas-Mexico border near Eagle Pass to stop the flood of illegal aliens being let in by the Biden administration. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton previously vowed to defy the Supreme Court’s ruling on razor wire at the southern border. In addition to building a border wall, Texas National Guard members are also installing more razor wire.