CANADA - A Canadian father designed a “bikini” for young boys who want to live as girls, according to a recently released report. Jamie Alexander saw his biological son, Ruby, struggle with gender identity issues growing up. Ruby had trouble finding bikini bottoms that he could feel confident in expressing his gender identity. That is when Alexander got the idea to create the form-fitting clothing brand, Rubies, for boys who want to express themselves as girls.

INDONESIA - Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Wednesday with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 3,000 meters (nearly 10,000 feet) down its slopes. No casualties were reported. The sounds of the eruption could be heard 30 kilometers (18 miles) away, officials said. It was Mount Merapi’s biggest lava flow since authorities raised its danger level in November, said Hanik Humaida, the head of Yogyakarta’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center. The 2,968-meter (9,737-foot) volcano is on a densely populated Java island near the ancient city of Yogyakarta. It is the most active of dozens of Indonesian volcanoes and has repeatedly erupted with lava and gas clouds recently. Merapi’s last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people.

USA - The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock” – a construct representing the threats to humanity from the nuclear to the natural – remains in the red at 100 seconds to midnight for 2021, its proprietors have warned. The scientists released their annual forecast on Wednesday, highlighting a resurgent nuclear arms race, climate change, and online misinformation about the Covid-19 epidemic as three existential threats humanity must face down if the species is to survive. While the clock’s hands haven’t moved since 2020, when it ticked into its current position, the scientists behind it have cautioned urgently against allowing the current state of affairs to settle in as a “new abnormal.” If humanity is to avoid an existential catastrophe – one that would dwarf anything it has yet seen – national leaders must do a far better job of countering disinformation, heeding science, and cooperating to diminish global risks.

SWITZERLAND - The World Economic Forum wants you to know that there is nothing sinister about its globalist masterplan — aka The Great Reset — for a New World Order. It says so in a promo video, released to coincide with its annual Davos summit (which is taking place online all this week). In the video, the WEF admits that some people think that the Great Reset sounds like ‘some nefarious plan for world domination.’ But nothing could be further from the truth, the video goes on to insist. The Great Reset is simply “an opportunity to build a better world.”

RUSSIA - Russian President Vladimir Putin said the world risks sliding into an “all against all” conflict amid tensions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and growing economic inequality. Addressing the World Economic Forum on Wednesday for the first time in 12 years, Putin drew parallels with the 1930s when he said a failure to resolve international problems sparked World War II.

USA - On Tuesday, Facebook suspended Robert A J Gagnon, a prominent Christian scholar on the topic of Bible sexuality, for 7 days. His crime? Speaking out against transgender ideology and President Joe Biden’s new transgender military policy. Facebook claimed that Gagnon’s criticism of this government-imposed ideology violated the platform’s “Community Standards on violence and incitement.” Ironically, Gagnon’s post drew attention to Facebook’s suspension of his friend, Laurie Higgins, who got a 7-day ban for criticizing Biden’s policy. “There was absolutely no incitement to violence on our part. We abhor violence done to any person,” Gagnon told PJ Media on Tuesday. “This is just a thinly veiled and pathetic excuse for censorship of any critical views toward trans-tyranny over our consciences, religion, and reason.” “Only one point of view is being allowed,” he added, ominously. “Trump was not the great danger to the Republic. Left-wing canceling is.”

ISRAEL - The Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff has asked the government for $1.2 billion for war with Iran on top of the $4 billion the country has already spent, in a clear indication of the increasingly fraught situation in the Middle East. “The US and the rest of the world should reject even a proposal to reach what is called an improved nuclear agreement with Iran,” Lieutenant General Avi Kochavi said yesterday, in contradiction of most of what the Biden administration has indicated it is likely to do. Israel’s defense cabinet will discuss the defense budget for 2021 in a few days.

IRAN - The spokesman for the Iranian armed forces, Major General Abu al-Fadl Shikaraji, said on Wednesday “if Israel commits any mistake against Iran, the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa will be completely destroyed.” He added, "Israel's threats are psychological warfare, even if they are realistic, then they are illusions,” warning that the Iranian army "will destroy Tel Aviv and vanish it if Israel commits any stupidity against our nuclear facilities." "The Israeli army lives in horror, it is too weak to execute its threats," he stressed. According to foreign media, the most advanced long-range strike missile is the Jericho-3, believed to have two or three-stages, using solid propellant and having a payload of 1,000 to 1,300 kg. The payload could be a single 750 kg nuclear warhead or two or three low-yield Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads. The Jericho-3s range is estimated to be more than 5,000 km.

UK - Money tops human rights as the UK flogs £2.6nbillion of sniper rifles, riot shields, tear gas and guns to ‘dodgy’ regimes. A new report reveals how Britain is stealthily engaged in selling military equipment to countries subject to arms embargoes and trade sanctions, such as Pakistan, Nigeria, and Kyrgyzstan, and to the authorities in Hong Kong. The promotion of human rights overseas is one of the most frequently and fervently avowed objectives of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

UK - Unless the United Kingdom is fundamentally reformed it could swiftly become a failed state as many people have lost faith in the way the country is governed by, and in the interests of, a London-centric elite, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said. “I believe the choice is now between a reformed state and a failed state,” Brown wrote in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. “It is indeed Scotland where dissatisfaction is so deep that it threatens the end of the United Kingdom.” “‘Whoever in London thought of that?’ is a common refrain, reflecting the frustration of people in outlying communities who feel they are the forgotten men and women, virtually invisible to Whitehall,” Brown, who served as Labour prime minister from 2007 to 2010, wrote.

VATICAN - Pope Benedict will spark concerns about the survival of the Catholic Church itself, a worried expert has claimed, as fears grow about Pope Francis' health. Francis was forced to cancel three events at short notice over the weekend, after his ongoing issues with sciatica struck the 84-year-old again. Matteo Bruni, a spokesman for the Vatican, confirmed that due to the return of his condition he would not deliver Mass on Sunday, as well as attend a meeting with diplomatic corps on Monday, which has now been rearranged.

USA - Today, State Representative Kyle Biedermann’s legislation that would give the people of Texas a chance to vote on Texas becoming an independent, self-governing nation became official. The “Texas Independence Referendum Act” would give Texans an opportunity to head to the polls in November of 2021 and start the process of reasserting our status as an independent nation. If the people vote in favor, the bill provides for the establishment of a committee to begin working on a transitional plan which would address all of the issues related to decoupling from the federal government.

USA - It was a presidential inauguration where Catholicism was on full display. From the Catholic Latina Supreme court justice swearing in Vice-President Kamala Harris to Jesuit priest Fr Leo O’Donovan’s invocation prayer. Both were followed by the soaring, moving poem of 22-year-old laureate Amanda Gorman, a Black Catholic member of St Brigid’s Church in Los Angeles. Even Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez, who both sang at the 20 January event, are Catholics.

USA - Countless reports and mountains of evidence tie Beijing Biden and his son, Hunter, to China. The democrat party and some establishment republicans like Mitch McConnell all seem to have frightening ties to China. It is no surprise, then, that Joe ‘Beijing’ Biden has taken us one step closer to globalist technocratic authoritarianism by revoking President Trump’s Executive Order 13920 which banned Chinese and other foreign involvement in our power grid via his own executive order called “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” Yes, that’s right: somehow, allowing China the possibility to have access to our power grid – a top piece of American national security infrastructure – is somehow necessary to combat climate change, promote public health, and promote science.

SWITZERLAND - The World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed its Davos 2021 Agenda, confirming the annual gathering of political and business elites next month will be a digital event heralding the public unveiling of its Great Reset Initiative. In a preview to the digital “Davos Dialogues”, the WEF asserts, “The time to rebuild trust and to make crucial choices is fast approaching as the need to reset priorities and the urgency to reform systems grow stronger around the world.”