VENEZUELA - Under the Tsar, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. That all changed when Stalin and the communists took control.  Stalin was able to control, starve, punish and imprison a defenseless people… after he took their guns. It’s no secret that Democrats are hoping to repeat this history here in the United States. Today in Venezuela the citizens regret giving up their guns to the Socialist Chavez regime.

UK - British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday delayed a vote on her Brexit deal in the Parliament, saying it should take place by March 12, a little more than two weeks before the UK is due to leave the European Union. The move has the potential to further sow discord within her Cabinet. Three senior Cabinet members already had suggested Saturday that they may break ranks with her and back amendments to delay Britain’s departure unless a deal is agreed upon by Parliament over the next week. But May told reporters Sunday as she travelled to Egypt for an EU-Arab League summit and talks with European Council President Donald Tusk that her negotiating team would return to Brussels on Tuesday for talks aimed at wringing concessions out of her reluctant EU partners.

FRANCE -An MP belonging to French President Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique En Marche! (LREM) has compared members of a pro-traditional marriage movement to radical Islamic terrorists. LREM MP Marlène Schiappa, who serves as Secretary of Equality, made her comments earlier this week, comparing the Manif Pour Tous movement, which protested against same-sex marriage, to Islamic radicals. The Manif Pour Tous movement reacted to the comments in a press release, saying they would be lodging a formal defamation complaint against Schiappa in court. “These scandalous remarks are an insult to the millions of French people mobilized since 2012 to peacefully show their attachment to the family, the first place of solidarity and refuge for the most vulnerable. These remarks are also an insult to the victims of Islamist terrorism whose suffering they relativize,” the group said.

MIDDLE EAST - Hatred of Jews and Israel has led the Islamic world to go to extraordinary lengths — including manipulating the text of the Koran — to portray the “liberation of Jerusalem” as the most pressing issue facing it, Syrian opposition activist Issam Zeitoun told Breitbart News. In a wide-ranging interview, Zeitoun said that the Palestinian issue has become the calling card by which some in the Arab and Muslim world measure central tenets of their faith.

VATICAN - The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano decried a new global wave of “xenophobia, racism, and intolerance” Monday in its ongoing push for greater openness to migrants. Citing United Nations general secretary António Guterres, the Vatican paper said that human rights are “losing ground all over the world.” The UN leader’s words follow on reports that populist and nationalist movements are poised to register significant gains in European elections this spring. Pope Francis has been a vocal proponent of immigration, repeatedly suggesting that resistance to mass migration can only be motivated by xenophobia, racism, and populism and that nations should adopt a more welcoming stance toward them.

USA - Section I details “Social and Economic Dimensions” of the plan, including redistribution of wealth to eradicate poverty, maintain health through vaccinations and modern medicine, and population control. To introduce the plan, the Earth Summit Chairman, Maurice Strong boldly proclaimed, “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.” Of course, according to the plan, if it’s not “sustainable” it must be stopped.

USA - The US will plunge into recession by the end of next year according to over half of American business economists, speaking via a recently released survey. This figure soars to more than three-quarters of economists by the end of 2021. Nearly 300 members of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) participated in the survey. It was conducted between January 30 and February 8. If American economic expansion continues beyond June it will be the longest period of continued growth on record. The country exited recession in June 2009, which was triggered by the 2007 financial crisis, and has been growing ever since.

USA - The Trump administration issued a rule Friday barring Planned Parenthood and other groups that offer abortions or abortion referrals from participating in the $286 million federal family planning program, reports the Washington Post. What they're saying: Per the Post, critics of the mandate say it indirectly defunds Planned Parenthood, which provides general health care and STD treatment in addition to abortion services. The Title X program mostly serves low-income women. Supporters of the rule and anti-abortion groups, like the Susan B Anthony List, say it will "disentangle taxpayers" from Planned Parenthood.

USA - Two wealthy Ecuadorian brothers who were principals in DaVinci Biosciences and DV Biologics, the California companies fined and ordered to shut down for illegally trafficking world-wide in aborted baby parts it obtained from Planned Parenthood, were arrested by ICE on February 13, 2019. The arrest of Roberto and William Isaias was gratifying to Operation Rescue, which published an investigative research report on October 27, 2016 – just days before the Presidential Election that put Donald J Trump in office – that detailed their crimes in Ecuador, dubious dealings with the Obama administration, their business with Planned Parenthood and the aborted baby body parts trade.

UK - The UK Conservative government is set to announce plans for the introduction of compulsory sex education that may include lessons on homosexuality and transgenderism in primary school, according to the Sunday Times. The Sunday Times reports that the new curriculum has been finalized after a six-month consultation with the Department of Education, and will be rolled out across England’s schools starting from the 2020-21 educational year. It will be taught to pupils from the age of five. While parents will be able to request to withdraw their children out of the classroom, the school would have to follow a set guidance to consider the move. Parents will not be able to withdraw kids from Relationship classes.

CHILE - A series of earthquakes has struck the coast of Chile with a magnitude as high as 5.3 recorded in the region. The most severe eruption hit the port city of Coquimbo located in the deadly 'Ring of Fire' region in the Pacific Ocean. Three tremors were measured in the space of just 14 hours each with considerable force, reaching 4.6, 4.9 and 5.3 on the Richter scale.

PAKISTAN - Imran Khan vows Pakistan 'shall respond' as '300 killed'. India has claimed air strikes on neighbouring Pakistan killed 300 terrorists at a training camp “known to Pakistan authorities” as tensions between the two nuclear powers reached boiling point today, with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan warning his country "will respond". But Pakistan's top civilian and military leaders on Tuesday rejected India's comments that it had struck "terror camps" inside Pakistan, vowing to prove wrong India's claims and warning that it will retaliate to Indian aggression.

USA - Democratic socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat for New York) suggested on Sunday night that people should consider not having children due to climate change because there is a “scientific consensus” that life will be hard for kids. “Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don’t turn this ship around and so it’s basically like, there’s a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult,” Ocasio-Cortez said while chopping up food in her kitchen during an Instagram live video. “And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, ‘Is it okay to still have children?'”

USA - Obama used his ideas on his path to the US Presidency, Hilary Clinton wrote her thesis on his work, and grass-roots movements, from both the left and now the right, treat his work as the template for action. Yet many people have never heard of the American Saul Alinsky. He is thought be the founder of modern community organising and wrote one of the most influential books on setting up grass-roots movements: the 1971 book “Rules For Radicals”. The basic philosophy was to give power to the have-nots

UK - The British Financial Times published an article by its columnist Philip Stevens about the crisis in the ranks of NATO. At the conference on international security held in Munich (February 15-17), German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s speech in defense of the liberal international legal order and, by default, against the policies of the administration of US President Donald Trump, was met with a bang.