JAPAN - Outraged South Korean officials demanded answers this week after Japan revealed plans to discharge radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean… "senior Japanese officials, including Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada, have expressed their support for the idea of dumping tainted water into the ocean." “What’s more worrisome is that some Japanese are seeing Korea’s protest in the context of an ongoing bilateral trade dispute,” it continued. “The release of contaminated water will affect not only Japan and South Korea but also the rest of the world. This is certainly an issue that needs global monitoring and cooperation.”

USA - The peak-level virtual signaling over plastic straws — peddled by the left-wing media and 2020 Democratic presidential candidates — is why I dedicated a chapter in my new book 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know to detailing the often overlooked fact that about 90 percent of the planet’s plastic waste comes from a few rivers in and around Asia and Africa.

VATICAN - The Vatican published the list of participants in its upcoming pan-Amazon Synod Saturday, which includes as “special invitee” Jeffrey D Sachs, who is among the world’s foremost proponents of population control. In his 2008 book Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Sachs argued for legalizing abortion as a cost-effective way to eliminate “unwanted children” when contraception fails. Abortion, he wrote, is a “lower-risk and lower-cost option” than having unwanted children born into the world. The “legalization of abortion reduces a country’s total fertility rate significantly, by as much as half a child on average,” he wrote approvingly... As Stefano Gennarini wrote in 2015, Jeffrey Sachs and Ban Ki-moon are “arguably the most powerful proponents of abortion and population control in the world.”

VATICAN - Brenna Cussen Anglada recalls a visitor to Wisconsin’s St Isidore Catholic Worker Farm who arrived believing that nature would be better off without humans. “At the end of the summer,” Ms Cussen Anglada says, “she realized not only that she loved nature but that nature loved her.” This visitor’s time at the Catholic Worker farm helped her realize that solutions to the environmental crisis were not only about eliminating problems but restoring relationships. This is precisely what Pope Francis exhorted the church to in “Laudato Si’.”

UNITED NATIONS - In 2015 the UN published a document of almost 15,000 words entitled “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” This document is a stream of consciousness of pious platitudes about meeting 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), and thereby meeting the most pressing “necessities” of humanity. Spearheading the agenda forward was Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic church.

USA - Are we about to see US financial markets go crazy? That is what Goldman Sachs seems to think, and it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that great financial chaos has been unleashed during the month of October. When the stock market crashed in October 1929, it started the worst economic depression that we have ever witnessed. In October 1987, the largest single day percentage decline in US stock market history rocked the entire planet. And the nightmarish events of October 2008 set the stage for a “Great Recession” that we still haven’t fully recovered from. So could it be possible that something similar may happen in October 2019? According to CNBC, Goldman Sachs is warning that the stock market could soon “go crazy again”. ”For investors taking a breather from the chaos in August, buckle up as the market is about to go crazy again”, Goldman Sachs warned.

CHINA - Activists spanning over 150 countries participated in the global climate strike Friday, but activists in China — the world’s leading greenhouse gas emitter — were noticeably silent as protests were not authorized in the country, according to reports. Thousands gathered in cities across the globe — including London, Berlin, Tokyo, and Washington, DC — to protest anthropogenic climate change and the purported lack of urgency to address it. However, there was a remarkable lack of participation from individuals in China — the planet’s worst greenhouse gas emitter...

UK - Psychological child abuse at the hands of sociopathic adults is as twisted and evil as physical abuse. When kids are fed propaganda that they are going to die if they don’t strike for global warming, it’s time to say ‘Enough!’ One 15 year old states, “We believe there is no point in going to school if we are not going to have a future to live in.” These young kids have no ability or tools to understand reality, and are being mercilessly used to further the global warming hysteria of climate extremists. It is not a mistake that the only solution ever offered is Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy.

UK - Brexit Party MEP Richard Tice has revealed the real reason the EU are so desperate to keep the UK shackled to the bloc. Richard Tice explained the EU is “essentially bust” without the UK’s financial contributions, and that is why Brussels heavyweights keep saying they “regret” the 2016 referendum result. On Wednesday the European Parliament debated Brexit and numerous MEPs from across the bloc said how they “regretted” the UK’s decision to leave. But Mr Tice has said their only regret is the loss of Britain’s money and reiterated the Brexit Party’s stance that the UK must leave the EU without a deal to rid Britain of the EU’s “daft rules and regulations”.

MIDDLE EAST - The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) quotes people familiar with the matter on Sunday, Houthi rebels in Yemen have warned foreign diplomats that Iran is preparing a follow-up strike to the missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabian oil and gas facilities a week ago that knocked-off 5% of the global oil supplies. The sources confirm that the last attack was forced by Iran and are said to have passed the information to the Saudi and the US about the warnings. Should there be another attack, it could flare-up the tensions between the US and Iran and propel oil prices through the roof once again. Both crude benchmarks settled the week nearly 6% higher, with WTI flat at the close above the 58 handle while Brent finished near 64.60 region.

UK - A Labour activist has ambushed Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a hospital and ranted at him about NHS cuts. Using your skill and judgement see if you can spot the news story cunningly hidden in that sentence. While you’re trying to work out, here is how the BBC promoted it: "There are not enough doctors, there are not enough nurses. The NHS is being destroyed, and now you come here for a press opportunity"

EUROPE - Large banking institutions face the risk of failure if interest rates in Europe continue to stay negative, an economist told CNBC after the European Central Bank cut rates last week. “I think there are big questions to banking sector profitability,” global chief economist of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Simon Baptist, said Friday. The ECB on Friday cut its main deposit rate by 10 basis points to -0.5% — an all-time low. European banks have struggled for years in a persistently low interest rate environment. Rates in the Euro zone first hit zero in 2012 and turned negative in 2014. Low interest rates hurt lenders’ profits as they narrow the margin that banks can earn. “There’s either going to have to be consolidation... maybe some bank failures, or some really radical changes in business models,” he said.

ISRAEL - The allegations of graft and bribery being raised against Netanyahu are spurious on their face and unsupported by precedent, practice, or law. Netanyahu is accused of accepting bribes in the form of cigars and champagne from one friend, whose legislative goals Netanyahu failed to support.

CHINA - China is proving that green climate hysteria is antithetical to real economic growth. Its official rhetoric pledges to Sustainable Development and Green economy, but it is building record energy capacity with coal generation. Chinese developers – mostly state-backed construction firms – still prefer to build large fossil fuel projects, on effort and return considerations, he added. China, which has pledged that projects built under its Belt and Road Initiative will be green and sustainable, will fund more fossil fuel power projects in Southeast Asia even as western, Japanese and South Korean financiers increasingly walk away from them over sustainability concerns.

USA - “Doctors don't have evidence that the treatment will be the right one," he told the outlet during a phone interview. "Many people are doing what amounts to an experiment on these young people without telling them it's an experiment." "You need evidence for that, and this is a very serious treatment," McHugh added. "It is comparable to doing frontal lobotomies."