GERMANY - Germany could follow Britain out of the EU as a result of ongoing disillusionment with its supposed benefits, a renowned economist warned. Italy would be the most likely of the "Big Four" member states to consider exiting the EU if Brexit proves to be beneficial to Britain, according to a Euronews poll. Data from the Redfield and Wilton Strategies survey found that nearly half of Italians would be likely to support their country leaving the EU if the UK and its economy is in good health in five years. In the event, France and Spain both showed moderate support for changing their relationship with the bloc, while Germany was the member state least likely of the four major players to consider breaking away from Brussels.

USA - Although it's currently experiencing a full frontal attack, for decades the United States of America has been under covert, slow-motion assault by the revolutionary Left, a religious-political movement fundamentally at war with both Christianity and America. From the sexual revolution and the “marriage-is-legalized-rape” radical feminists of the 1960s, to today’s open love affair with socialism, sexual anarchy, abortion, identity politics, radical environmentalism and “defunding the police,” the Left has relentlessly pursued its goal, as Barack Obama put it, of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” And although President Donald J Trump fought mightily against this tide for four years, tirelessly pursuing a pro-life, pro-religious freedom, pro-Constitution, pro-America agenda, as of the end of 2020 the revolutionaries are clearly ascendent.

USA - The COVID pandemic has caused the gap between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us to grow larger than it ever has been before. Thanks to the hyperinflationary policies of the Federal Reserve and our politicians in Washington, stock prices have soared to unprecedented heights in recent months. This pushed the wealth of the uber-rich to dizzying heights, but for the rest of the country 2020 was an unmitigated nightmare. As I have discussed previously, one survey found that 2020 was a “personal financial disaster” for 55 percent of all Americans. More than 110,000 restaurants shut down permanently last year, Americans filed more than 70 million claims for unemployment benefits, and tens of millions are potentially facing eviction in 2021. But even though we are mired in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, those at the very top of the economic pyramid are laughing all the way to the bank.

USA - Twice failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is waging all out war on Trump supporters. Clinton labeled Trump supporters “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists” in a Washington Post op-ed. The Democrat-media complex is using the chaos at the US Capitol last week as a pretext to label Trump supporters domestic terrorists. Last Wednesday President Trump repeatedly called for peace and law and order, however the left is blaming him for the chaos at the Capitol. Not all protesters who stormed the US Capitol last week were Trump supporters. According to a former FBI agent who was on the ground at the Capitol last week, at least one bus load of Antifa terrorists infiltrated the Trump demonstration as part of a false flag operation. Emboldened by the Big Tech purge of President Trump and thousands of conservatives, Hillary Clinton is now calling for Trump supporters to be surveilled and tracked.

ITALY - Italy is on the brink of a political crisis as former prime minister Matteo Renzi has withdrawn his support from the ruling coalition. Such a move by Mr Renzi, whose party has just two government ministers and is currently polling at less than three percent, has sparked outrage among Italian citizens as the country remains gripped by the coronavirus pandemic. A recent poll found almost three quarters of Italians thought the leader of Italia Viva was pursuing his own selfish political objectives rather than the interests of the country. Pulling support from prime minister Giuseppe Conte’s government could cause the coalition to collapse entirely as it leaves the government without a majority in parliament and on the brink of collapse. If the current political crisis prompts an early election, Mr Salvini is likely to return to power with a coalition of right-wing parties. The political infighting comes as Italy continues to grapple with COVID-19, as deaths near 80,000.

TURKEY - Istanbul could run out of water within 45 days as Turkey continues to suffer from its worst drought in a decade. Sprawling urban development has been blamed for dams drying up the city of 17 million people along with many of the country's other metropolises. Water levels in the Omerli dam, the city's main water source, are at their lowest in the last 15 years - at just 20 per cent capacity due to a lack of rain. Meanwhile in the capital Ankara, mayor Mansur Yavaş said there are only 110 days worth of water left in dams and reservoirs. Turkey’s next two biggest cities İzmir and Bursa have seen their dams depleted to just 36 and 24 per cent respectively.

USA - Parler's CEO has said the site may never get back online after it was scrubbed from the web by Amazon and pulled from the app store by Apple and Google. John Matze told Reuters Wednesday: 'It could be never. We don't know yet.' Tech giants have accused the social media site - which is favored by Donald Trump fans - of failing to police violent content in the wake of the January 6 riot at the Capitol aimed at preventing Joe Biden from becoming president. Matze later added: 'I am an optimist. It may take days, it may take weeks but Parler will return and when we do we will be stronger.' Matze said that Parler was talking to more than one cloud computing service but refused to disclose names, citing the likelihood of harassment for the companies involved. He said the best thing would be if Parler could get back on Amazon. Parler, which claims to have more than 12 million users, on Monday filed a lawsuit against Amazon, which the tech giant said has no merit. The lawsuit accuses Amazon of making an illegal decision to shut Parler down to benefit Twitter Inc.

USA - Arguing he incited an “armed rebellion” against the US, the Democrat-dominated House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump again. But with his term expiring in a week, it is unclear when the trial will proceed. After several hours of debate on Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to formally impeach the president over the January 6 unrest at the US Capitol, when a group of Trump supporters broke into the building and interrupted the joint session of Congress meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US presidential election.

USA - The rushed proceedings against Donald Trump are not about accountability, but a politicized act of theater that will deepen the ideological chasm which divides America today and drag us ever closer to the suicide of the Union. One hour into the two-hour debate, it became abundantly clear that President Donald Trump was destined to become the first American President ever to be impeached twice.

UK - The attempted seige of the Capitol may be over, but symbols of the hate groups behind the violence remain. What is the Confederate flag? Why is it offensive? Many on this side of the pond may have not been familiar with the Confederate flag until its re-emergence in recent years thanks to the emboldening of the Far Right by outgoing President Donald Trump. Lawless mobs descended on the Capitol in Washington DC last week to attempt an insurrection on the democratically elected incoming US Government, headed by Joe Biden. Rioters inside and outside the building were carrying one of the most infamous symbols of racism and extremism in modern-day America: the Confederate flag. The flag, colloquially known as the Stars and Bars, is emblematic of the ideal of whiteness and social and political exclusion of non-white people in America.

USA - The Biden administration is embracing "systemic racism" as a matter of official policy. "Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild." — President-elect Biden — Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) January 10, 2021. So, White people to the back of the bus. More Democrat racism. Let the healing begin!

USA - From the day that I started to write about globalization 45 years ago, my co-author, the late Professor Antony C Sutton, drilled into my brain “Follow the money, follow the power.” This has served me well throughout the years. Today, we must also add, “Follow the DATA, follow the power.” Of course, data is money and it is the addiction of Technocrats everywhere.

USA - Catholic League president Bill Donohue said Monday that Big Tech’s censoring of Parler is “the most serious assault on freedom of speech we have ever seen by private companies in American history.” Amazon, Google, and Apple are not silencing those who actually promote violence but rather “conservative voices in general,” Dr Donohue notes. More generally, the left is attempting to use last Wednesday’s riots as an excuse to pillory the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, Donohue suggests, rather than punishing the actual perpetrators of the violence. “They are a true menace to democracy: they are using Trump as a pretext to stifle the free speech of decent Americans,” he states. The storming of the Capitol building is also being irresponsibly exploited by those on the left to specifically indict Christians, Donohue observes.

EUROPE - Less than seven years after British Eurosceptics were laughed at for expressing concerns about a coming European Union army, the bloc has revealed the official uniform of its new ‘standing corps’, as the first of 10,000 recruits prepare to deploy to the field. Frontex, the European Union’s combined border force and coastguard, revealed the new uniform in a social media post on Monday, showing off the navy uniform complete with EU-flag identification patches and military side cap. The force said: “For the first time, the European Union has its own uniformed service – the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps.” The “troops” of Frontex in their own European uniforms comes less than seven years after Brexiteers were told they believed a “dangerous fantasy” for saying the European Union was moving towards having its own armed forces — of which the paramilitary Frontex is the first phase.

USA - Joe Biden became a fast friend of the LGBTQ community as vice president in 2012 by stating his support for same-sex marriage in a television interview even before his boss, President Barack Obama, did. That same year, outside an Obama-Biden campaign office in Florida, it was Biden's unexpected support for the transgender community that elevated his status from an LGBTQ ally to a champion. When the mother of a Miss Trans New England pageant winner asked Biden if he would help transgender people, she later told reporters, Biden whispered that it was the "civil rights issue of our time." Since then, Biden's views on the LGBTQ community have become clearer and louder. Now advocates say the 78-year-old will be the nation's most pro-LGBTQ president ever. He and Vice President-elect Kamala D Harris have promised an ambitious slate of actions that would go beyond reversing what LGBTQ advocates have called President Donald Trump's "discrimination administration."