USA - Farm bankruptcies are on the rise in the Upper Midwest, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve, doubling from their recent lows in 2014. At least 84 farms filed for bankruptcy from June 2017 to June 2018 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, and North and South Dakota, according to analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The report released earlier this month shows that over the same time period in 2014, 32 farms filed for bankruptcy. Some experts fear the worst is yet to come amid falling commodity prices and the Trump administration's battles with China and other countries on trade. President Trump pledged $12 billion in aid for farmers impacted by global tariffs. A recent report in The New York Times found the aid had done little to help farmers, however.
EUROPE - Tourists planning a winter getaway on a romantic cruise along Europe’s rivers are facing stranded ships and long coach journeys after the dry summer left water levels at record lows. Holidaymakers expecting to travel between Budapest and Vienna on the serene waters of the Danube have been told they will be bussed between the cities instead because the water is too low for the cruise ships to navigate. Instead of settling into a cabin for a week they will be forced to move between stranded cruise ships that have been turned into floating hotels as cruise companies frantically try to rescue as much of their itineraries as possible. Things are no better on the Rhine, where cruise ships are struggling to make it to Cologne or to the Rhine Gorge.
USA - Researchers have discovered that water in the North Atlantic has ‘dramatically weakened.’ Researchers warn the currents will have a ‘profound effect’ on both the North American and European climate. Researchers studied the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the branch of the North Atlantic circulation that brings warm surface water toward the Arctic and cold deep water toward the equator. Slower circulation in the North Atlantic can yield profound change on both the North American and European climate but also on the African and Asian summer monsoon rainfall. The AMOC plays a crucial role in regulating global climate, but scientists are struggling to find reliable indicators of its intensity in the past.
AUSTRALIA - Thousands of Australian residents have been ordered to flee their homes as “catastrophic” wildfires rip across the country. More than 10,000 people have had to abandon their properties as more than 130 bushfires burn in Queensland. Authorities have warned “people will burn to death” after The Bureau of Meteorology declared a catastrophic fire danger for the first-ever time in the region. Record temperatures soaring above 40C (104F) and strong winds have spread the fires which led to the evacuation of 8,000 residents from the town of Gracemere. Deputy Police Commissioner, Bob Gee said: “If you have children with you, you need to think really hard about not losing a house, but losing the people you care most about.” Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk said the situation was “unprecedented” and “uncharted”.
USA - For years now the American Left, mostly via the Democratic Party, has been busy tearing down as many of our institutions, mores and values as they can, and this is especially true when it comes to human behavior modification. Leftist liberals have destroyed the traditional concept of marriage, for example, as well as many of our founding Christian principles, supplanting them with the gay and lesbian agenda.
USA - Gender identity politics are the new black, at least for the increasingly radical left. Daring to “misgender” someone is practically a hanging offense, and studies show that the number of young people who identify as “trans” is on the rise. But what the mainstream media won’t tell you is that the number of people who regret undergoing “gender confirmation” surgery is rising, too. Nor will the Left ever admit that their shifty, Orwellian dialogue on the subject of gender is part of the problem. The twisted language being used by gender identity propagandists is a tool intended to subvert the notion of gender entirely.
SWEDEN - A professor of neuroscience at Lund University in Sweden is on the verge of being fired simply for stating that there are fundamental differences between males and females that are “biologically founded,” and that aren’t based on “social constructs alone.”
USA - Biology does not exist, and any person can instantaneously change their sex by simply wishing out loud. As further proof of the mass hallucinations of the deranged, lunatic Left, these “progressives” actually believe now that biology isn’t real. They think that sex is determined entirely by wishing, not by DNA or physical bodies. According to the Left, babies are now born “genderless” and have their gender “assigned” at birth, through some arbitrary decision of a doctor. This is literally what they believe.
USA - Child abusers Andrew and Wendy Napoles recently got their 15 minutes of fame by parading their gender dysphoric, mentally ill, 11-year-old son “Desmond is Amazing” on the daytime television show “Good Morning America” (GMA), openly advocating for young children everywhere to be brainwashed and indoctrinated into a mindset and lifestyle of transgenderism just like their very clearly damaged little boy.
UK - When devout Christian Izzy Montague made an appointment at her son’s primary school to discuss its gay pride march, she expected her concerns to be heard with respect. So she was stunned to be confronted by a member of staff wearing a T-shirt with the slogan: ‘Why be racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic when you could just be quiet?’
UK - A mother was warned that her daughter could be placed under the care of social workers after she complained that the 14-year-old was being ‘encouraged’ to change sex by a therapist and her teachers. The 45-year-old, whom we’ve called Lisa to protect her identity, raised the objections after discovering that, during their first hour-long appointment, an NHS psychotherapist had told the girl she could take hormones to stop her periods and give her male characteristics.
UK - University students are refusing to use the words 'woman' and 'women' because they have been deemed 'offensive' and include the word 'man'. Instead, members of the female sex are being referred to as 'womxn' by students at both Goldsmiths, University of London and Kings College London. At Goldsmiths, the Students Union has ceased to use the words women and woman in its publications, since 'womxn' has been deemed more 'inclusive' of all students, including those who identify as transgender.
UK - The Prime Minister is to threaten British Members of Parliament that they must support and vote for her Brexit proposals or face going “back to square one,” appearing to repeat claims Brexit could not happen at all if they rebel. The ultimatum will form part of an aggressive two-week campaign launched today to save her Brexit deal, The Times reports, aiming to push through her increasingly unpopular deal and save her premiership.
EUROPE - French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday the Brexit vote had shone a harsh spotlight on growing divisions in many modern democracies, but said it was impossible to compare the wave of discontent sweeping France and Britain’s decision to leave Europe. Earlier on Sunday, Mr Macron also stressed that Britain's Brexit vote showed that the European Union urgently needed reform. He said: “We must draw the consequences that show that the European Union has a fragile side, it can be improved …. It shows that our Europe needs to be rebuilt and that is the option I support and will continue to work towards.” The loss of faith in the European project and its leaders has become increasingly widespread, boosting the visibility of anti-EU leaders who have promised to unite against the bloc’s progressives in next May’s European Parliament elections.
USA - US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman denied on Monday that the administration is considering postponing the publication of its much-awaited peace proposal, saying that the plan will be released whenever it has the best chance of success. “I would like to reaffirm that the United States remains committed to sharing its vision for peace with Israel, the Palestinians and other regional and international stakeholders at the appropriate time,” he said in a rare written statement posted to the website of the US Embassy.
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