Democrats are living in a dream world of horrors they’ve invented to scare themselves into mass hysteria, and they are committed to rejecting whatever reality they don’t like. This is further underscored by the evil tech giants — Facebook, Apple, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, etc — all being run by delusional Leftists who are living in their own “Truman Show” fake world. To make sure no one threatens their false reality, they now censor and de-platform all channels that question their worldview by labeling such content “hate speech.”

To a Democrat, “hate speech” is anything that doesn’t confirm their twisted, fabricated worldview rooted in complete fiction. For example, if you oppose murdering children that are already born — a new “right” the Left has granted women in New York and elsewhere — you are condemned for being involved in “hate speech.” Yet if you openly support murdering children that are born alive, you’re celebrated as being “pro choice” and “pro women.”

The French action comes as perhaps the strongest signal yet that European governments are reevaluating basic defense doctrines that have underpinned the Western alliance for the past 70 years. Senior officials in France and Germany say Europe needs new security concepts that address the rise of China, the return of Russia as a belligerent actor and the disengagement of the United States.

France and Germany have collaborated well in fighting terrorism and in building a military-industrial complex that accounts for almost half of Europe’s capabilities. Nonetheless, both countries have basic conflicts in their strategic and military cultures that will prove difficult to reconcile. But mounting alarm in Berlin and Paris about the reliability of the United States is pushing both governments to take actions that once seemed inconceivable.

The Guardian reports that the deadly assault occurred at around 4 am near the town of Maro, in Kajuru County of Kaduna state, where the attackers set fire to several buildings, including homes and churches. The extremists shot civilians with rifles as they fled the burning establishments.

A member of local church Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) told Morning Star News that members “ran out of the church building as the shooting was going on.” She added, “Many have been killed, and I have not seen my family members since morning. I have escaped out of the area.” Some villagers and local policemen tried to resist the radical Muslim assault but were forced to retreat as the attackers overwhelmed them by sheer numbers and firepower.

But some of the most startling claims are against the growing gluten-free bread industry. Chris Young, a spokesman for the Real Bread Campaign, said gluten-free loaves should not be branded as bread. "You've got these loaves with a dozen or more things in them, things that you probably don't recognise the names of," he said. Mr Young highlighted one supermarket's own-brand product that had "thrown in something like 27 different things" that were "not strictly speaking food substances".

"You start off with water, rice flour, tapioca starch and maize starch. Instead of just one flour you've got several different grains there," he said. "Then you start getting to things like humectant and glycerine, which you find in make-up. That's to keep it moist." Mr Young told how this particular product also contained xanthan gum, which is used in the oil drilling industry as a lubricant. "There are things that we couldn't actually get hold of because you need a licence to buy them," he said."I'm not sure if I want to be feeding that to myself or my kids.”

War is one of the elements of “the perfect storm” that I have been warning you about, and I have a feeling that this is just the beginning of the conflict that we are going to see in 2019. The Pakistani military was greatly embarrassed by the successful Indian airstrikes on Monday, and on Tuesday military aircraft from both sides were shot down…

In addition to airstrikes, it is being reported that both armies “have been shelling across the LoC (Line of Control)”.  Needless to say, a lot of civilians that live along the border are really freaked out, and on the Indian side of the border a total of 14,000 bunkers are hastily being constructed to give concerned citizens some shelter. Most westerners don’t really think of India and Pakistan as prominent global military powers, but the truth is that they both have very large standing armies.  And at this point India is allocating even more money than the UK toward military spending…

But the big concern is that this crisis could go nuclear. If India and Pakistan fought a war and it stayed strictly conventional, the rest of the world would probably not be affected too much. However, it is being reported that India and Pakistan both “possess more than 100 nuclear warheads each”, and if such weapons are actually used the global impact would be “devastating”…

And let us not forget that it looks like the US is about to enter another new war as well.  In an article that I posted yesterday, I discussed the fact that Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev has just accused the United States of shipping troops to Colombia and Puerto Rico in preparation for an invasion of Venezuela.  China has come out very strongly against western military intervention in Venezuela, and the Russians already have special forces there.

If someone makes the wrong move, it could end up sparking World War 3. We are living in one of the most pivotal times in all of human history, and most people don’t even realize it.

There are 434 fighters in the combat aircraft in Pakistan and also 273 helicopters. But India is still in front, as it has 889 combat aircraft and 805 helicopters in the Indian army too. However, India will struggle to outdo Pakistan’s nuclear forces, as Pakistan has between 140 to 150 warheads in its nuclear army, while India has between 130 to 140. 

India has 54 ballistic missiles at both short-range and medium-range sizes, but Pakistan still beats this as it has more than 60 ballistic missiles.

Professor Hanappi is Jean Monnet Chair for Political Economy of European Integration  —  a European Commission appointment  —  at the Institute for Mathematical Models in Economics at the Vienna University of Technology. He also sits on the management committee of the Systemic Risks expert group in the EU-funded European Cooperation in Science and Technology research network.

In his new paper, Hanappi concludes that global conditions bear unnerving parallels with trends before the outbreak of the first and second world wars. Key red flags that the world is on a slippery slope to a global war, he finds, include:

• the inexorable growth of military spending;

• democracies transitioning into increasingly authoritarian police states;

• heightening geopolitical tensions between great powers;

• the resurgence of populism across the left and right;

• the breakdown and weakening of established global institutions that govern transnational capitalism;

• and the relentless widening of global inequalities.

These trends, some of which were visible before the previous world wars, are reappearing in new forms. Hanappi argues that the defining feature of the current period is a transition from an older form of “integrating capitalism” to a new form of “disintegrating capitalism”, whose features most clearly emerged after the 2008 financial crisis.

Estimates for SAIL’s design and operation seem sophisticated but are fabricated. Wagner and Smith admit, “No existing aircraft design — even with extensive modifications — can reasonably fulfill [their] mission.” Wagner and others believe that scientists can calculate how many particulates will be needed to cool the Earth to a desired temperature.

Learning How Little We Know

In the late 1980s, outside Tucson, Arizona, scientists built a closed ecosystem (all food and water had to be obtained from inside the dome) to replicate the Earth’s biosphere. Eight humans resided in the biosphere for a short period of time. Not long into the experiment, project organizers had to open the sealed doors of Biosphere 2: “Oxygen levels got so low halfway through the first year that they had to put more in over fear for the safety of the Biosphere residents.”

John Adams, deputy director of Biosphere 2, clearly states the takeaway: “What they did learn, and in my opinion the single most important lesson, was just how little we truly understand Earth’s systems.” I suspect that Wagner won’t be calling Adams soon.

Consider the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea — once the fourth largest body of water on the planet — is now a vast wasteland that has shrunk to less than 25 percent of its former size. How could this have happened? Was it a change in weather? No, the destruction of the Aral Sea was the consequence of the Soviet decision to divert waters that flowed into the Aral Sea to irrigate land for cotton farming.

"You have hurt the image of public service and public faith in it," Mendelblit wrote to Netanyahu in his decision. "You acted in a conflict of interests, you abused your authority while taking into account other considerations that relate to your personal interests and the interests of your family. You corrupted public servants working under you."

Netanyahu's Likud party released a statement slamming the decision, which it called "political persecution." Likud blasted the attorney general for the timing of the publication of his decision.

"A publication of the decision a mere month before the election, without giving the prime minister an opportunity to refute these false claims is a blatant and unprecedented interference in the election. It has one goal: to topple the right-wing government headed by Netanyahu so as to give rise to a left-wing government headed by Lapid and Gantz. We cannot let this happen."

Over the last two decades, approximately 20% of the earth’s vegetated surface has become less productive, said the report, launched on Friday. It noted a “debilitating” loss of soil biodiversity, forests, grasslands, coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds and genetic diversity in crop and livestock species. In the oceans, a third of fishing areas are being overharvested.

Many species that are indirectly involved in food production, such as birds that eat crop pests and mangrove trees that help to purify water, are less abundant than in the past, noted the study, which collated global data, academic papers and reports by the governments of 91 countries.

As examples, the report noted how overdependence on a narrow range of species was a major factor in the famine caused by potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s, cereal crop failures in the US in the 20th century, and losses of taro production in Samoa in the 1990s. “There is an urgent need to change the way food is produced and ensure that biodiversity is not something that is swept aside but is treated as an irreplaceable resource and a key part of management strategies,” said Bélanger.

So it was that a non-departmental public body, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), announced last week that ‘UK homes are not fit for the future’, and that tough new building standards and enforcement will be necessary. Most shocking of all, the CCC said ‘no new homes should be connected to the gas grid’, and that gas central heating and plumbing should therefore be phased out.

Saving the planet, and homes, from the ravages of climate change is a good idea. But the CCC’s claims are questionable. As I reported here during last Summer’s heatwave, the CCC, like many climate alarmists, has a tendency to exaggerate risk and lose historical perspective. In truth, homes are actually better protected from the slightly warmer, slightly wetter and slightly windier weather that scientists predict might be our future than they were even a generation ago.