ICELAND - A volcano in Iceland erupted on Wednesday after a series of earthquakes hit the island, the Icelandic Met Office (IMO) reported on Wednesday. Iceland recorded a 4.6 earthquake on Wednesday morning on the eastern side of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, raising concerns about volcanic action. An hour later, the volcano began erupting. Ein­ar Hjör­leifs­son, a specialist in Natural hazards with IMO, confirmed that there had been a volcanic eruption in a 100m crack down Merardalir by Fagranesfjall. IMO warned people not to go close to the volcano, which is about 20 miles south of Iceland's capital and nearby the Keflavik airport.

GERMANY - In a demonstration of the failure of Germany’s pursuit of so-called “green energy” and its policy of relying on Russian gas in the meantime, a coal-fired power plant will be reconnected to the nation’s electricity grid. While the economic powerhouse of Europe — so called — scrambles to secure energy sources before the winter months, the previously shuttered Mehrum coal power plant in Lower Saxony will become the first to once again be connected to Germany’s grid. On Monday, the manager of the Czech-owned EGH operating company, Kathrin Voelkner said: “We have declared the return to the electricity market. We assume that we will return to the grid in the short term,” according to the Frankfurter Neue Presse newspaper. Economy Minister Robert Habeck, a leading member of the German Greens, has described the decision to turn back on coal plants as “bitter” but a necessary evil.

GERMANY - Our civilization is built upon fossil fuels and the powers that be are turning them off. Winter is coming. And Germany is set to be very cold. The German economy is based on highly innovative production which requires a great deal of energy that they no longer produce. And so running out of fuel will quickly collapse the German economy. Which will cause a tsunami of economic destruction throughout the EU. And the German government is letting it happen. They could leave some nuclear plants online and begin the process of turning more on. But they still plan on shutting it all down by the end of this year. To stay green. This new green deal is a complete lie. It’s just another part of the creepy elite’s Great Reset. These elite bloodlines want a new cashless society. But more like the Middle Ages. Which for these spoiled inbreds is the good old days. And if they succeed it looks like Germany will get there first. And in the midst of all this chaos the German government is focused on allowing children age 14 and older to change their gender and first names, without parental permission, once a year, for as often as they want.

USA - The science fiction of today is the scientific fact of tomorrow. A good example is Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, predicting today’s nuclear-powered submarines. Another would be H G Wells sci-fi/horror piece, The Island of Dr Moreau which examines a world filled with human-animal hybrids. So when we discuss the future of transhumanism, you need to keep this in mind. For though it may seem far-fetched today, it is where we are headed. Transhumanism is the “revision” of humanity and the fundamental transformation of the human race into something else. It’s the transformation of humanity into a “thing” that cannot be readily identified. The transhumanist proponents want to cure disease, end hunger, and enable human beings to reach their maximum potential – physically and mentally – evolving into a “new” being by augmenting their bodies mechanically or biologically. It can also mean placing their consciousnesses into artificial, robotic bodies with the goal of potential immortality.

USA - We previously reported at The Gateway Pundit about the lawsuit filed in May by the states of Missouri and Louisiana against all of the major government players in Big Tech Censorship, including Joe Biden, Jen Psaki, Anthony Fauci, the CDC, the NIH, the Department of Homeland Security, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and many others. The lawsuit alleges that the Biden administration conspired with – and at times outright coerced – Facebook, Twitter, Google, and every other major tech monopoly, to enforce speech and thought conformity on the internet. We later wrote about a whistleblower who dumped a cache of internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security into the lap of Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Chuck Grassley of Iowa. The documents confirm that DHS has maintained an ongoing “disinformation” censorship program, targeting anyone with COVID vaccine concerns and 2020 election fraud concerns – and anyone else thinking Wrongthink.

USA - According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, children as young as three years old can identify themselves as transgender, and the department recognizes the pronouns “ne, ve, ze/zie, and xe” as valid options for use. As stated on the Department of Education’s website in the section titled “Creating Gender-Inclusive Schools and Classrooms,” teachers are urged to inquire as to their students’ preferred pronouns to prevent making inaccurate assumptions about their gender identities. “In addition to the traditional pronouns (he/him, she/her, they), some people prefer to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as ne, ve, ze/zie and xe,” according to the website. “If you don’t know a student’s preferred personal pronoun, it’s always best to ask.” The website also provides a definition of “binary gender” as the “faulty concept that there are only two genders: male and female.”

USA - Hollywood is coming for your preschoolers, with the aim to hook them for life on a never-ending stream of superhero franchise characters. Major studios are aggressively targeting kids ages two to five in unprecedented ways in the hopes of turning them into lifelong consumers of their content, according to a report in The Wrap. Studios engaged in the long game include The Walt Disney Co and Warner Bros Discovery, the latter of which recently launched the preschool-focused Cartoonito block of programming on the Cartoon Network. One of the studios’ main strategies is introducing toddler-friendly versions of adult superheros, like Batman. As kids and teens gravitate increasingly toward smartphones, preschoolers are still TV-centric when it comes to media consumption. “Television still remains the media of choice among young children, with kids younger than 8-years-old spending 45 minutes watching TV each day,” a recent Statista report found.

LEBANON - A Syrian-flagged ship named the Laodicea that docked in the Lebanese port of Tripoli was detained last Saturday, preventing desperately needed flour and barley from reaching people in the Middle East. The move came after Western threats against Beirut and unsubstantiated claims from Kiev that the cargo was stolen from Ukraine. The ship, which has been on a US blacklist since 2015 for allegedly carrying shipments from sanctioned Crimea, is now under investigation. The country is currently suffering its worst ever economic collapse, enduring shortages in food, medicine, electricity and essential goods. According to some UN estimates, some 78% of the Lebanese population now live in poverty. The food shortage has led to long queues at bakeries, sometimes resulting in gunfire and brawls between people fighting over the limited supply of bread.

HUNGARY - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lashed out at the European Union on Monday evening in a Facebook post, reminding his followers that Brussels doesn’t dictate European affairs. “The European Union is not in Brussels. The European Union is in Vienna, Budapest and Warsaw, Berlin and Madrid,” the prime minister said. “Brussels is not our boss. We are an independent, sovereign Hungarian nation. We make decisions together. If they’re not good for us, we’ll tell them. If they are not good and we can prevent them, the common decision will not be made.” Orban has made international headlines in recent weeks for his blunt statements criticizing the West’s policies.

USA - Water levels in wells across Texas are running low because of the extreme drought, groundwater experts say. Drought conditions in the state are getting worse by the week. As of July 28, 97% of Texas was in a drought, affecting 24.1 million Texans, per the US Drought Monitor. “A lot of public supply wells and a lot of even domestic wells have started going dry,” Natalie Ballew, director of the groundwater division at the Texas Water Development Board, told the Star-Telegram. Many communities, specifically in Central Texas, are experiencing significant water supply issues and they’re having to truck water in from other places, Ballew said. That includes areas like Concan and Utopia in Uvalde County, and Leakey in Real County. That’s causing a myriad of issues for those residents, with ranchers going as far as selling off their cattle because they don’t have water for them.

USA - The governors of California and Illinois declared states of emergency to bolster their monkeypox vaccination efforts as the virus spreads nationwide. Monday's declarations come as more than 5,800 probable or confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in the US. California had more than 800 cases Tuesday, while Illinois had more than 500, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, the Biden administration has not issued a nationwide public health emergency declaration. Illinois' declaration also will make more resources available to combat the virus, Governor J B Pritzker said. The Chicago and state public health departments announced Illinois' first presumptive case June 2. "I am declaring a state of emergency to expand the resources and coordination efforts of state agencies in responding to, treating, and preventing the spread of MPV," Pritzker tweeted. "In Illinois, we will ensure our LGBTQ+ community has the resources they need to stay safe while ensuring members are not stigmatized as they access critical health care."

USA - When teachers discuss sex with school kids and urge them to keep that a secret from parents, the teachers are using the same tactics that child molesters use on their young victims. Not that parents didn’t know it. But now that truth has something of an official imprimatur. Clinical psychologists told the Daily Caller that teachers and schools are using predatory grooming techniques. And as five minutes scrolling through the Libs of TikTok Twitter feed shows, predatory grooming in schools is rampant. Sex-pervert and mentally ill teachers frequently post confessional videos in which they explain just how they’re twisting the minds of kids. Beyond keeping secrets, grooming also involves showing young kids inappropriate sexual material. “They start to bring up some kind of sexual content at some point so that they can start to initiate some contact with the child,” Newlin told the Caller. And that content isn’t, of course, just basic biology. “A recent pride event labeled ‘family-friendly’ in Rome, Georgia, featured sex toys, condoms and explicit drag queen performances,” the website reported.

USA - A video posted to Twitter features a girl dancing on stage with a drag queen while adults throw cash tips. Libs of TikTok reposted a video Tuesday showing a little girl dancing on stage while a man dressed in a thong and drag outfit moves around the stage, encouraging the girl to continue performing. The girl can be seen smiling and dancing as two adults were recorded throwing cash at the girl’s feet. The adult female was recorded fanning the cash onto the girl as she danced, similar to a move used in many strip clubs and music videos. As the music fades away, the man in the thong outfit is seen getting on stage to help direct the little girl, while the announcer tells the minor to pick up all the cash tips she made dancing for the adults. “Oh my goodness!! How in the world?!” the man in drag is recorded saying to the little girl. “Look at all that money you just made! Look at all that. My goodness! You just made yourself some money!” The man in drag continues to praise the minor while adults bring more money to the stage...

USA - US household debt increased by 2% to $16.2 trillion in the second quarter, with mortgages, auto loans and credit-card balances all seeing sizable increases, according to a report by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The increase in borrowing, which equals to $312 billion over three months, reflected in part higher prices for homes and cars. Americans also are putting more on their credit cards to cover rising costs amid decades-high inflation. The main driver was mortgage debt, which accounted for two-thirds of the rise last quarter. And the 13% jump in credit-card debt year-over-year was the sharpest gain in more than 20 years, the New York Fed said in its quarterly report on household debt and credit. Since the pandemic started, about 42 million new credit card accounts have been opened, and consumers now hold more than 750 million auto-loan, credit-card, mortgage, and home-equity lines of credit. Overall, consumers ages 30 to 59 have record levels of debt.

USA - The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report today showing that employers eliminated over 600,000 jobs in the month of June. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported this morning: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces a monthly report of available job openings. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS report) shows the number of available jobs at a captured moment in time. This JOLTS report is a summary of the last day in June. The number of available jobs dropped by 605,000 in this report. This is the absolutely wrong direction for the economy to be moving. Without new jobs, there are fewer people working, more people on government subsidies, costing taxpayers billions, and fewer people purchasing things.