USA - With the release of “Green New Deal” plan authored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and endorsed by Kamala Harris, Corey Booker and other prominent Democrats), the real agenda of the Democrats has now become clear. That agenda is best described as this: Murder the babies, demolish all buildings, block the sun, kill free speech, ban all airplanes and declare a new utopia.
USA - Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online 'almost constantly', according to the latest Pew Research Center poll, increasing concerns, about what The Atlantic's Jean Twenge calls the most crucial question of our age... "have smartphones destroyed a generation?" But, as we detailed previously, there is compelling evidence that the devices we’ve placed in young people’s hands are having profound effects on their lives - and making them seriously unhappy.
GERMANY - German businesses have admitted they are terrified at the prospect of a no-deal Brexit, with business bosses pinning the blame on Britain for the financial threat. Berlin firms have revealed they are panicking over the “fatal” consequences if the UK breaks free from the EU without a deal, which could trigger a “massive crisis” across the continent, according to industry chiefs.
FRANCE - French firms are beginning to panic about the prospect of a no-deal Brexit which they fear will bring about a “nightmare scenario” and hit their businesses where it hurts most. With just 49 days to go until the UK leaves the EU, some of the 30,000 companies across the English Channel who export to Britain are trying to be one step ahead of the expected chaos by taking contingency measures. Theresa May is due to fly into Dublin today to meet Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadker to discuss the Irish backstop in an effort to thaw the Brexit stalemate.
UK - Theresa May has secured a Brexit victory in Brussels, pressuring EU chiefs into reopening talks on the future relationship with the aim of ensuring the Irish backstop never comes into force. Backstop negotiations will now reopen, the BBC reports, with Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay expected to travel to Strasbourg on Monday. A joint statement issued by the PM and the European Commission said President Juncker had “expressed his openness” to change the Political Declaration. The statement said he was eager to make it “more ambitious in terms of content and speed when it comes to the future relationship between the European Union and the UK”. Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki said: “Instead of sending anyone to hell, together find a solution that will be good for the EU, but also allow you to have a strong business partner in Britain after #Brexit.”
EUROPE - Emmanuel Macron has abruptly canceled his trip to the Munich Security Conference, with the Élysée saying he is focused on domestic issues amidst the ongoing Yellow Vest protests – but German media is seeing Russia in all this. The cancellation comes as the French president was accused of attempting to torpedo the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, which is funded by Russian energy giant Gazprom and supported by Germany – as well as Belgium, Austria, Greece and Cyprus, and the Netherlands.
GERMANY - Germany’s new Christian Democrat leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has called for the creation of a European army amid growing global instability caused by sabre-rattling leaders in Russia, China and the US. Angela Merkel’s successor used a speech in Brussels to outline a key CDU party campaign theme with European Parliament elections coming up in May. Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer warned the EU would be left trailing behind global superpowers Russia, China and the USA unless it stepped up to the plate militarily. She also predicted the EU’s external borders would need extra protection for many decades to come in the face of a sustained migrant crisis. Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer’s speech focused on the idea of a “Europe of security” and she insisted an EU army was a “logical step” in pursuit of that goal.
AUSTRALIA - Climate change is a hoax developed as part of a secret plot by the United Nations to undermine democracies and takeover the world, a top adviser to Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, has warned. Maurice Newman, the chief business adviser to the prime minister, said the science showing links between human activity and the warming climate was wrong but was being used as a “hook” by the UN to expand its global control. “This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the UN,” he wrote in The Australian. “It’s a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error,” he wrote.
USA - In a leaked military manual on “unconventional warfare” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, the US Army states that major global financial institutions — such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — are used as unconventional, financial “weapons in times of conflict up to and including large-scale general war,” as well as in leveraging “the policies and cooperation of state governments.”
VATICAN - The Pope and Islam’s most important Imam just signed a covenant that pushes us much closer to a one world religion. A historic interfaith covenant was signed in the Middle East on Monday, and the mainstream media in the United States has been almost entirely silent about it. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb is considered to be the most important imam in Sunni Islam, and he arrived at the signing ceremony in Abu Dhabi with Pope Francis “hand-in-hand in a symbol of interfaith brotherhood”.
USA - It could be even worse than aspartame. The FDA is amending their food additive regulations to provide for the “safe” use of ADVANTAME, after receiving a petition from Ajinomoto Co Inc, a Japanese company which produces most of the world’s MSG as well as being a major supplier of aspartame… Senior Scientist Lisa Lefferts, at CSPINET (The Center for Science in the Public Interest) shares her concern that “In a key cancer study in mice, the number of mice that survived to the end of the study [of Advantame] was below the FDA’s own scientific recommendations, and is therefore inadequate to provide confidence in the safety of a chemical likely to be consumed by millions of people.”
EUROPE - In the latest frustrated comment from the EU as Brexit dealings crumble, European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker said his job in Brussels was “hell.” The quip came after another top EU official spoke of a hell for Brexiteers. The Devil’s domain was first mentioned by EU Council president Donald Tusk, when he lambasted the UK authorities over their attempts to change the already negotiated withdrawal agreement with the bloc.
EUROPE - The European Union will make no new offer on Brexit and those who promoted Britain’s exit without any understanding of how to deliver it deserve a “special place in hell”, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday. The United Kingdom is on course to leave the EU on March 29 without a deal unless Prime Minister Theresa May can convince the bloc to reopen the divorce agreement she reached in November and then sell it to skeptical British lawmakers. But as Tusk’s pointedly blunt language showed, frustration runs deep among European leaders over the British parliament’s rejection of the divorce deal and May’s demands that the EU now give up on key principles or face disruption in just 50 days.
UK - Donald Tusk has legitimised the UK's decision to leave the EU by claiming there is a "special place in hell" for those who campaigned for Brexit without a plan in 2016, as he "reaffirmed" Britons' rejection of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, claimed Andrea Leadsom. The leader of the House of Commons told BBC World at One she believed President Tusk's comments were "unacceptable" and "disgraceful".
UK - Nigel Farage claimed three countries were beginning to “fracture” from EU unity noting "comments" from Lithuania, Poland and Hungary. The former Ukip leader and Vice-Chairman of Leave Means Leave rejected claims the EU was standing united over the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. Mr Farage also claimed the one option “looming larger” for the UK was Britain walking away from the European Union on WTO terms. He said: “The truth is they are beginning to fracture. We are hearing comments from Lithuania, we are hearing comments from Poland. Indeed a little bit from Hungary. There is a beginning of a process of fracturing. One of the options now, that is looming larger, and particularly with the British public, is that we leave on WTO (World Trade Organization) terms. That is what Mr Tusk is scared of.”