Speaking to Russia’s Izvestia media outlet on Wednesday, Schmidt pointed out that the vast majority of the suspects are in their 60s or even 70s. He noted that the elite troops who officials say were part of the conspiracy had served before 1990, when the German Democratic Republic was still around, and added that these soldiers are "long past their prime."

With this in mind, the lawmaker argued, the official position that these individuals had been planning to storm the German parliament sounds downright "absurd" and "ludicrous." According to Schmidt, the entire case is merely an attempt by the German government to create a furor in the media that would eclipse "catastrophic problems in the German economy."

He stressed that, amid the worsening energy crisis and with deteriorating weather, many Germans "have no means to pay [the bills]" because they "receive fairly modest salaries." The MP also cited energy prices that are up to five times higher than last year.

When this thing finally implodes, there isn’t going to be enough money in the entire world to fix it all. But don’t worry. The “experts” are telling us that everything is fine.

PepsiCo is reported laying off headquarter workers, The Wall Street Journal reports. But don’t worry. The “experts” are telling us that everything is fine.

Hundreds of media industry staffers were laid off this week during a brutal period that saw Warner Bros. Discovery, Gannett and others slash headcount as economic uncertainty plagues news organizations. I can’t remember ever seeing such a wave of layoffs at our largest media companies. But don’t worry. The “experts” are telling us that everything is fine.

Of course the truth is that everything is not fine. Economic conditions are deteriorating all around us, and the ripple effects are being felt everywhere. For ages we have been warned that a day of reckoning would eventually be coming, and now it appears that day of reckoning has already arrived. There is certainly nothing wrong with hoping for the best. But there is also wisdom in getting prepared for the worst.

When the policy takes effect in January, ATMs will no longer dispense Nigeria's high denominations of 1,000 naira ($2.25) and 500 naira ($1.10) while withdrawals from ATMs and point-of-sale terminals also will be limited to 20,000 naira ($45) daily.

Haruna Mustafa, the bank's director of banking supervision, said cash withdrawals may be permitted in "compelling circumstances, not exceeding once a month." Policymakers say the withdrawal limits and recent monetary initiatives from the central bank would bring more people into the banking system and curb currency hoarding, illicit flows, and inflation.

But other analysts worry that the initiative could hurt daily transactions that people and businesses make, given the unreliability of digital payments in Nigeria. Nigeria’s economy heavily depends on the "informal sector" – activities outside the legal framework and government regulation such as farming, street and market trade, and public transport. In this sector, where most Nigerians work, cash is usually preferred for transactions because many lack bank accounts.

Over in the UK, residents of Oxfordshire will now need a special permit to go from one “zone” of the city to another. But even if you have the permit, you will still only be allowed to go from one zone to another “a maximum of 100 days per year”…

“Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.”

“Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.”

But in academic circles, some have begun to argue that pedophilia should be considered just another sexual orientation, not a mental disorder. And a therapist who treats pedophiles told The Epoch Times that he believes pedophilia is on its way to becoming normalized.

The rules appear to be unpopular with some local farmers and political officials. Erich Gussen, vice president of the Rhenish Agricultural Association, warned that the new regulations would mean a lower quality of crop, hinting that farmers would not accept the rules without a fight. “There is great indignation among the farmers, which really upsets us!” he told German outlet Bild on Thursday.

“If a wheat field needs 200 kg of fertilizer for optimal yield, farmers would now be forced to use 40 kg less. That means a drop in yield and the quality of the wheat will suffer!” Gussen explained.

Why did the LLM lie by omission and not show Americans what was going on when the entire world covered this conference? Newman, who attended COP27, contends, “This is an incredibly significant story, and anywhere else in the world you would have seen very extensive coverage in the press, in the fake news media as we call it. There were thousands of journalists there. I call them the cheerleading section from all over the world. Conspicuously absent, though, was the American media… If Americans knew what was going on… they would put a stop to it almost immediately."

So, there was almost total radio silence in the US. This was very, very significant because you had 125 prime ministers, kings, dictators and presidents, including Joe Biden, show up. It was just Americans that were kept totally in the dark about this. This was the most significant thing going on in the world until the G-20 started… There were world leaders from all over the planet. We are talking about wealth redistribution.

It is more than a money issue. Newman says it is really a freedom issue. Newman explains, “They are very clear about using the WHO (World Health Organization), the climate change process… all these different arms getting together to take down freedom around the world and ultimately take down the American system of government.

So will this trend continue once we get into 2023? As you read this article, the two biggest volcanoes in Hawaii are simultaneously erupting for the very first time since 1984… Kilauea has been active for a while, but we haven’t seen Mauna Loa erupt in decades. But what is concerning authorities is not just the fact that it is erupting. The violence with which it has exploded has caught everyone off guard. It is being reported that it was sending boiling hot lava 148 feet into the air on Tuesday…

Meanwhile, a giant volcano in Indonesia just erupted as well. On Sunday, Mount Semeru sent clouds of extremely hot ash a mile into the sky… Indonesia’s Mount Semeru erupted Sunday spewing hot ash clouds a mile high and rivers of lava down its side while triggering the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people exactly one year after its last major eruption killed dozens.

So will we see even more extremely alarming seismic activity in the weeks ahead? I will definitely be watching developments very closely. The giant rock that we all live on is showing more signs of instability, and I fully expect that this trend will continue to accelerate in 2023.

Despite receiving backlash from parents, the teacher doubled down on the sexually explicit library in a video she shared on November 21, Fox News reported. “People get really mad about my queer library. I have like 200 titles that are specific to the LGBT community that I’ve been curating for over eight years,” Flint said in a video, according to Fox News. “Don’t get me wrong, my students love that library. It has been very helpful for many students figuring out who they are, how to relate to their peers,” she added.

“In the past 24 hours, Twitter started to step up its efforts and took down 44,000 suspicious accounts, including over 1,300 profiles that tried to bypass detection using codewords and text in images to communicate. Zero tolerance,” said Ghost Data founder Andrea Stoppa, who has been monitoring this, in a tweet.

“Twitter is now fighting vigorously against child sexual exploitation content, it’s thanks to one person that set it as the #1 priority: Elon Musk,” she tweeted. “It is true,” Musk said, “Twitter has done more to stop child exploitation in the last month than probably the last 10 years. That’s insane. It kind of blows my mind, frankly.” Long before Musk took control, Twitter knew it had a massive child porn problem on its hands but was doing little to stamp it out.

All of this puts the attacks on Musk in a new light. After he took over the social media platform, the left freaked out that he wouldn’t do enough to censor “misinformation,” and 50 major corporations pulled their ads. Apparently, silencing conservatives is more important to them than protecting children.

Germany, Scholz writes, is “doing everything it can to defend and foster an international order based on the principles of the UN Charter.” As part of this effort, “Germans are intent on becoming the guarantor of European security that our allies expect us to be, a bridge builder within the European Union,” he explains. According to the chancellor, this is the only way Berlin can “successfully navigate the geopolitical rifts of our time.”

Scholz argues that Germany’s own history gives it a “special responsibility to fight the forces of fascism, authoritarianism, and imperialism.” At the same time, as a nation that was split in half for decades in the 20th century, Germany is well aware of the “risks of a new cold war.”

However, with what Scholz describes as an increasingly “revanchist” and “imperialistic” Russia as its neighbor, the EU now needs a fundamentally different approach toward defense. For this reason, Germany’s own military strategy now centers on the “threats we and our allies must confront in Europe, most immediately from Russia,” the chancellor states.

DER SPIEGEL: Professor Roubini, you don't like your nickname "Dr Doom." Instead you would like to be called "Dr Realist." But in your new book, you describe "ten megathreats" that endanger our future. It doesn’t get much gloomier than that.

Roubini: The threats I write about are real – no one would deny that. I grew up in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Back then, I never worried about a war between great powers or a nuclear winter, as we had détente between the Soviet Union and the West. I never heard the words climate change or global pandemic. And no one worried about robots taking over most jobs. We had freer trade and globalization, we lived in stable democracies, even if they were not perfect. Debt was very low, the population wasn’t over-aged, there were no unfunded liabilities from the pension and health care systems. That's the world I grew up in. And now I have to worry about all these things – and so does everyone else.

DER SPIEGEL: Politicians seem overwhelmed by the simultaneity of many major crises. What priorities should they set?

Roubini: Of course, they must take care of Russia and Ukraine before they take care of Iran and Israel or China. But policymakers should also think about inflation and recessions, ie stagflation. The eurozone is already in a recession, and I think it will be long and ugly. The United Kingdom is even worse. The pandemic seems contained, but new COVID variants could emerge soon. And climate change is a slow-motion disaster that is accelerating. For each of the 10 threats I describe in my book, I can give you 10 examples that are happening as we speak today, not in the distant future.

The main agenda item for the WEF’s 53rd Davos 2023 confab running from January 16-20 is called “Cooperation in a Fragmented World,” citing the Ukraine conflict, the COVID-19 fallout, rising energy and food costs, and rampant inflation as factors pushing the world towards “uncertainty and fragility.”

The WEF claims these problems can be solved with a centralized global system of control, “particularly in the context of the meta trends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and climate change.” The WEF lists 5 topics that will be addressed at the Davos summit: energy/food crisis, inflation, private sector innovation, “social vulnerabilities,” and the geopolitical risks of a “multipolar world.”