CHINA - The world's second biggest economy is suffering from deflation and a crashing property market. As Britain tries to lower its inflation, on the other side of the world, the world's second largest economy is suffering a titanic shift in the economy leading to staggering deflation. In August China's biggest property developer, Country Garden, reported an enormous loss of £5.2billion as the overheated housing market bubble burst. At the same time the country's government made the decision to suspend reporting of youth unemployment levels as the figure reached a record 20 percent. This month credit ratings agency Moodys issued a warning downgrading its assessment of the ability of Chinese authorities to handle the country's debt from stable to negative.

USA - For more than 70 years, obstetricians and gynecologists have relied upon the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) for evidence-based guidance in their practice of medicine. Although ACOG describes itself as “the premier professional membership organization for obstetrician-gynecologists,” it has increasingly deviated in an ideological direction. Many of its members have been forced to a realization that ACOG can no longer be trusted to provide accurate scientific conclusions regarding politicized issues like abortion.

USA - At least six people were killed when tornadoes and severe weather carved a path of destruction across Tennessee Saturday. T​hree of the deaths happened north of Nashville, according to the city's Office of Emergency Management. There were more than two dozen reports of tornadoes across the South Saturday into Saturday night. T​he sheriff's office in Dickson County, Tennessee, about 30 miles west of Nashville, said there was damage in several areas in the northern part of the county. More than 80,000 homes and businesses were without power in the South as the storm system continued its march eastward Sunday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.

OMAN - The crown prince of Oman has met with the Russian president in Moscow. “The unfair world order dominated by the West needs to end”, Omani Crown Prince Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said said on Thursday, while speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prince Theyazin was in Moscow for the ‘Russia Calling’ Forum hosted by VTB Bank and met with the Russian leader on the sidelines of the investment conference. “I listened very carefully to your opening speech,” said the prince, according to translated remarks published by the Kremlin. “I share all your assessments of the current international situation, primarily with regard to the need to end the current unfair world order and the dominance of the West, as well as to build a new fair world order and economic relations without double standards.”

UNITED NATIONS - Global players may decide that the organization is too Western dominated and look for a new arrangement in the 21st century. The world has entered a period of qualitative change that will irreversibly alter the structure of the international system and usher in a new format for international affairs. Over the past hundred years, humanity has learned some important lessons from situations like the one we’re in now. One of these has been a common understanding of the value of life on the planet and the realization that humanity possesses catastrophic powers of destruction, the imprudent use of which could lead to the death of our species. This common interest continues to unite leading countries in the effort to avoid a global nuclear war and to preserve the general contour of stability in international relations. However, this does not exclude regional and local military flashpoints.

GERMANY - Olaf Scholz has the lowest approval rating for a chancellor since the survey began in 1997. Over four in five Germans (82%) are dissatisfied with the performance of the country’s “traffic light” governing coalition, according to an ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll published on Friday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz received the worst approval rating of any German leader since the survey was first conducted in 1997, with just 20% of respondents evaluating his work as satisfactory, and only 27% believing he can do the job at all.

USA - World War III, cyber-attacks, and economic meltdowns could change life forever; all three scenarios are simmering and ready to explode. Chanukah is underway and Christmas is just a couple of weeks off. Another year will go by the wayside. As we approach December 31, you will hear people chirping on social media that they are glad such a bad year is fading into the rearview mirror and how much they are looking forward to brighter times in 2024. These people are not awake. Don’t get lulled into their fantasyland.

USA - A huge news story basically ignored by the corporate media and little noticed even by the conservative media took place at the end of November. Wall Street seemed not even to notice. A major global oil producer, the United Arab Emirates, abruptly stopped selling its oil in US dollars and is joining forces with the BRICS nations, of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to forge ahead into a de-dollarized world. BRICS recently expanded its membership to include the UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and Argentina.

UK - Senior British MPs have described the reported move as a snub on Riyadh’s part. Saudi Arabia scrapped plans for Mohammed bin Salman to visit London earlier this month, days before he hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing UK government officials. London and Riyadh had been in negotiations about a potential visit of the Crown Prince, who is also known as MBS, for months already. UK officials said the two sides had been working towards December 3 as a possible date, but the plans were abruptly shelved last week. Instead, MBS hosted Putin in Riyadh on Wednesday, amid the Russian president’s one-day tour of the region – his first trip to the Middle East since the beginning of the conflict with Ukraine in February 2022.

WALES - A school says banning pupils using mobile phones has improved behaviour and relationships and eradicated cyber bullying through the day. The strict new rule, which has been running for a year, has “definitely improved the school”, said headteacher Daniel Owen. Pupils at Llanidloes High in Powys can use their phones travelling to and from school, but must deposit them in a box at reception when they arrive and collect them when they leave each day. Mr Owen said pupils talk more, are more sociable with each other and the policy was almost universally backed by parents.

DUBAI - More than 90,000 folk gathered in Dubai this week for Cop28, the annual United Nations-sponsored climate change jamboree which is meant to produce agreements to reduce emissions of CO2 and, thereby, mitigate the global rise in temperatures. The fact that Dubai is the business hub of a country (United Arab Emirates) which owes its wealth and influence entirely to fossil fuels — and which is ramping up its output of oil and gas — certainly hasn't deterred thousands of climate activists from flooding in from all over the world to join the jamboree. Some of them were shame-faced enough to point out that, though they had emitted copious amounts of CO2 to get there, they were being ferried around in electric vehicles. They didn't mention that more than 80 per cent of the UAE's electricity is generated by natural gas.

USA - The green energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have been justified by the Biden Administration as a booster of US economic growth and jobs. But when the subsidies are tallied and the overall impacts evaluated, the IRA is a job and economic growth killer. Under the IRA, the lion’s share of subsidies will be paid to wind and solar developers. The subsidies will not expire until electric industry carbon emissions fall by at least 75% below 2005 levels, after which they will gradually decrease. Even the most optimistic forecasts prepared by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that this will not occur until at least 2046. Thus, the subsidies for wind and solar will continue unabated for decades.

USA - As part of the WEF’s Great Reset agenda, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on governments worldwide to begin imprisoning members of the public for using too much energy. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says nations must impose new carbon taxes to punish citizens for causing “global boiling.” Citizens who refuse to pay the new taxes will be prosecuted and imprisoned. She delivered her threat at the United Nations COP28 climate summit, where other globalist attendees arrived on jets, drove luxury cars, and enjoyed dining on the finest cuts of beef during lavish dinners.

MEXICO - The skies above southeastern Mexico darkened last Tuesday afternoon as miles-long swarms of locusts flooded over Mérida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán. One Latin American newspaper covering the incident quoted the Book of Revelation 9:3, 'And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.' But local officials were less dire, telling reporters that the locusts were expected to finish passing through the city in about two days without endangering local crops.

JAPAN - Thousands of tons of dead fish have washed up on a beach in northern Japan, prompting speculation that the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant has wrought havoc on local ecosystems. The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating an unsettling sliver blanket that covered almost a mile of shoreline.