“Parents are losing their right to protect their children from this dangerous medical experiment, and extended family members fare no better,” she told LifeSiteNews. Children are started on puberty-blockers as young as nine, and “under the ‘guidance’ of gender ‘experts’ … girls have been allowed to consent to double mastectomies as young as age 13,” said Cretella. “There are gender surgeons pushing to eliminate age restrictions on the removal of reproductive organs and genital surgeries.”

Moreover, the transgender lobby is waging a successful three-wave campaign for government-coerced transition of minor children, with “removal of a child based on accusations of medical neglect,” Cretella told the Federalist’s Margot Cleveland in February.

The first wave involved intervention during family court custody disputes; the second involves “emergency room staff, therapists, or doctors” reporting parents “who refuse to affirm their child’s false gender” to Child Protection Services; and the third wave, soon coming, will involve schools launching investigations of parents who oppose a child’s transition. The gender activists are also enlisting the aid of workers in multiple levels of government.

“The worst thing is uncertainty around it,” he told guest host Ben Swann. “Nobody knows whether to make an investment in one part of Europe or another, because they don’t know what Europe will mean in terms of where they can sell and where they can buy and what kind of profits they can make.”

Meanwhile, a new UN research document titled ‘No-deal Brexit: the trade winners and losers’ has warned that the UK’s withdrawal “will alter the ability of non-EU countries to export to the UK market,” leaving space for other players to jump in. Chinese exports to the UK could therefore surge to $10.2 billion, while the US is expected to add $5.3 billion. Such an outcome can be explained by the fact that British trade partners will have to literally choose sides amid the “dramatic” economic and political reorganization, the professor noted. For example, the Italians have already inked a deal of their own with Beijing.

“If you fracture up Europe, if France or Germany begin to see that they’re gonna have to choose sides… It’s not clear which way they’ll go: with the US, with Mr Trump, whom they don’t like; with a destroyed Britain, which they’re watching; or with the ascending China,” Wolff said. “We could see a dramatic reorganization of the world, politically and economically, because one of the big power blocs, Europe, is literally falling apart.”

It marks 75 years since the D-Day invasion, which led to the toppling of the Nazis 11 months later. And it’s 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell. That symbol of the Cold War’s demise is also a reminder of the post-reunification divisions — financial, social, and political — that persist between the country’s east and west.

This year is shaping up to offer another uncomfortable milestone: the moment Europe’s biggest economy is forced to come to terms with its shortcomings. Germany today feels like it’s living out the final days of an era; there’s an air of impending change for which no one seems prepared. The country remains wealthy and politically stable, but it’s hard to escape a sense that Germans are complacent about the threats to the foundations of their prosperity.

German MEP Jo Leinen told Bloomberg: “Ultimately, the EU has to retaliate with extra tariffs on US goods - the same amount of money. So we are in the middle, then, of a trade war that serves nobody. And we should settle this dispute by the instruments of the WTO and not by unilateral and arbitrary measures. We cannot negotiate under pressure - it has to be on a level playing field.”

“Of course, we have started a new approach to have a US-EU trade agreement. But under pressure, with the pistol on the chest, Europe will not negotiate. Parliament, with a large majority, has expressed itself against negotiations under pressure.” He even went so far as to tell Bloomberg that it was “not possible” to negotiate under the present circumstances.

Widespread closures have roiled the retail industry, but many more stores are likely to shut down in coming years to keep up with a shift to online shopping, according to a report by investment firm UBS. An estimated 75,000 stores that sell clothing, electronics and furniture will close by 2026, when online shopping is expected to make up 25% of retail sales, according to UBS. Roughly 16% of overall sales are made online.

Analysts said the closures would affect a broad variety of retailers, affecting an estimated 21,000 apparel stores, 10,000 consumer electronics stores and 8,000 home furnishing stores. Already this year, retailers have announced plans to close thousands of stores as they keep up with changing consumer habits. Payless ShoeSource, which filed for Chapter 8 bankruptcy protection in February, is closing all 2,100 of its US stores, while Gymboree is shuttering its 800 locations. Sears, which has closed 1,300 Kmart and Sears stores since 2013, is scrapping an additional 80 locations.

A number of other retailers, including Gap, have hinted that store closures are on the horizon. The main reason for the shift, analysts say, is simple: Americans are increasingly shopping online. The average US household spent $5,200 online last year, up nearly 50 percent from five years earlier.

But the Prime Minister was handed a slim lifeline with the 27 states adding a 'flextension' ensuring the UK can leave earlier if she can convince MPs to pass a Brexit deal - but Brussels will not reopen the Withdrawal Agreement and change the Irish backstop to make that easier. The six-month extension will be accompanied by a technical review in June - described as a 'sop' for French President Emmanuel Macron who was slapped down by his colleagues after calling for punishing conditions and a short extension to be imposed on the UK.

Speaking in Brussels at 2am Mrs May insisted the Halloween extension leaves the door open to the UK leaving as early as next month if she is able to get her deal through Parliament at the fourth time of asking. She said: 'What we have agreed tonight means that we can actually leave the European Union before June 30. 'I know that there is huge frustration from many people that I had to request this extension. The choices we now face are stark, and the timetable is clear. So we must now press on at pace with our efforts to reach consensus on a deal which is in the national interest.'

If one were devising a formula to drive Europe and Germany back to some new version of their past, one could hardly do a better job than what US President Donald Trump is doing now. Overtly hostile to the EU, the Trump administration is encouraging the renationalization of Europe, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did in Brussels at the end of 2018, when he gave a speech touting the virtues of the nation-state.

Besides encouraging right-wing nationalism and the dissolution of pan-European institutions, the Trump administration has turned against the global free-trade regime that undergirds European and German political stability. The president himself has specifically targeted Germany, complaining of its large trade surplus and threatening a tariff war against German automobiles in addition to the tariffs already imposed on European steel and aluminum.

Imagine what the effects of even greater pressure and confrontation might be: a downturn in the German economy and, with it, the return of resentful nationalism and political instability. Now imagine that Greece, Italy, and other weak European economies were teetering and in need of further German bailouts that might not be forthcoming. The result would be the re-emergence of the economic nationalism and bitter divisions of the past. Add to this the growing doubts about the US security guarantee that Trump has deliberately fanned, along with his demands for increased defense spending in Germany and the rest of Europe. American policy seems bent on creating the perfect European storm.

Whether this storm will descend in five years or ten or 20, who can say? But things change quickly. In 1925, Germany was disarmed, a functioning, if unstable, democracy, working with its neighbors to establish a stable peace. French and German leaders reached a historic pact in Locarno, Switzerland. The US economy was roaring, and the world economy was in relatively good health, or so it seemed. A decade later, Europe and the world were descending into hell.

Today, it may well be that the German people and their neighbors in Europe can be counted on to save the world from this fate. Perhaps the Germans have been transformed forever and nothing can undo or alter this transformation, not even the breakdown of Europe all around them. But perhaps even these liberal and pacific Germans are not immune to the larger forces that shape history and over which they have little control. And so one can’t help but wonder how long the calm will last if the United States and the world continue along their present course.

Across Germany, there are still thousands of unexploded bombs dropped by the Allies during World War II. One blew up in Göttingen a few years ago, killing the three men trying to defuse it. Think of Europe today as an unexploded bomb, its detonator intact and functional, its explosives still live. If this is an apt analogy, then Trump is a child with a hammer, gleefully and heedlessly pounding away. What could go wrong?

Today, two-thirds of all personal bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical bills, and most of the people going bankrupt actually had health insurance. Overall, more than half a million American families are financially ruined by medical bills each year, and meanwhile our “representatives” in Washington are doing absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

Here are some more numbers that show the current state of the US health care system…

–3.7 trillion dollars was spent on health care in the United States in 2018. That breaks down to $10,739 per person.

-If our health care system was a country, it would have the fifth largest GDP on the entire planet.

–76 percent of Americans believe that they pay too much for the quality of health care that they receive.

-The median charge for visiting an emergency room in the United States is well over a thousand dollars.

We have a system that is deeply broken, and it greatly frustrates me that both political parties seem so uninterested in getting a solution through Congress.

Nurses and midwives who try to explain to pregnant women that some vaccines contain neurotoxic mercury (thimerosal), for instance, or that aborted human fetal tissue is often used to manufacture vaccines, will now face the ire of Australia’s medical police state, which insists that all vaccines are 100 percent safe and effective.

The Australian government has also set up a snitch program for medical “offenders” to be reported by their “friends,” colleagues, or others who suspect that they might be in violation of this new speech code – like some kind of deep state spying and surveillance scheme contrived from the dystopian novel 1984.