ISRAEL - Forty-six thousand Israeli businesses have been forced to close due to the ongoing war and its devastating impact on the economy, Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv reported on July 10, describing Israel as a "country in collapse." "This is a very high number that encompasses many sectors. About 77 percent of the businesses that have closed since the beginning of the war, roughly 35,000, are small businesses with up to five employees, and are the most vulnerable in the economy," said Yoel Amir, CEO of CofaceBdi, an Israeli information services and credit risk management firm to Maariv.

UK - O'Bryan Grandison, who served as a British police officer during the London 2012 games, has warned that France could face a wave of protests this summer. A former cop has issued a stark warning that the Paris Olympics could be “hijacked” by protestors this summer. O’Bryan Grandison, a former police officer who served during the 2012 London Olympic Games, believes that the recent political demonstrations surrounding the French elections could incite further marches, potentially disrupting the highly anticipated sporting event. With the Olympic Games set to commence on July 24 running until August 11 across 15 different venues, it is expected that more than 16 million tourists will be in Paris this July.

GERMANY - The German Defense Ministry has drawn up contingency plans for a potential military conflict with Russia, Der Spiegel and Bild have claimed, having seen the alleged document. The plan reportedly envisages Germany serving as a key transit state for NATO troops, with its population and civil services being expected to assist foreign military personnel. Last month, the German government officially updated its wartime guidelines for the first time since 1989, to include such measures as mandatory conscription and forcing manufacturers to produce war goods.

TONGA - Tonga volcano contributed to global warming, not cow farts or Taylor Swift's private jet. The massive 2022 eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, catapulted plumes of soot, water vapor, and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, leading to what some are saying is the driving force behind the most recent warming event on Earth. Meanwhile, the 'green' cult, their climate alarmist friends, including Greta and Al Gore, and their allies in the leftist corporate media, relentlessly push the fossil fuels and cow farts narratives to explain the so-called global warming crisis.

USA - This was a miracle. God intervened and protected President Trump. President Trump told former White House physician Dr Ronny Jackson that a last millisecond head tilt saved his life after a gunman opened fire on him from an elevated position at his Pennsylvania rally. Trump told Dr Jackson that he turned his head to the right to look at a chart on illegal immigration statistics when a bullet grazed his ear. “That chart that I was going over saved my life,” Trump said to Ronny Jackson by phone just hours after the attempted assassination, according to The New York Times. “The border patrol saved my life,” he said. “If I hadn’t pointed at that chart and turned my head to look at it, that bullet would have hit me right in the head.”

USA - Former Navy Seal and Blackwater founder Erik Prince gave a detailed assessment of yesterday's Secret Service debacle in the wake of a failed assassination attempt on former President Trump. "Hopefully after the tragedy yesterday in Butler PA we can all recognize that unaccountable bloated bureaucracies continue to fail us as Americans," Prince posted to X. The fact that USSS allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence. Clearly there was adequate uncontrolled dead space for a shooter to move into position and take multiple aimed shots. Watching the newsreel one can hear how proximate the shooter is by the very short time lapse between the crack of arriving bullet (supersonic) to the boom of muzzle blast (sonic).

USA - The people that guard our leaders are supposed to be the most highly trained security personnel in the world. So how could something like this have happened? As I mentioned in a previous article, I have been trying to put the pieces together. To me, it appears that we either just witnessed incompetence on an epic scale or something more insidious was going on out there. The American people deserve answers, and hopefully we will get them. There is no way that this shooting would have happened the way that it did if competent people were running the show. I have been digging into what many of the experts have been saying about this incident, and there is so much that just doesn’t make sense. So I have compiled a list of 10 burning questions that every American should be asking about the Trump shooting…

USA - The trigger in the gun was pulled by many hands! The media tried to assassinate Trump. The press was and is merciless. They have mocked him and attacked, slandered and defamed him, but they have not taken him out. The Democrats have tried to assassinate Trump. They called him illegitimate, they called him a tyrant... Women of a certain ilk have tried to assassinate him. Oh, the sordid sex tales. Rape in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodmans! Have you ever shopped there? It is literally impossible. Staff watch those rooms like hawks. The police would have been immediately called and the falsely accused Trump might have been hauled out in handcuffs. But the event would surely not have gone unnoticed at the time.

USA - With around 270,000 homes and businesses still without power in the Houston area almost a week after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas, Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday said he’s demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the area as well as answers about its preparations for upcoming storms. “Power companies along the Gulf Coast must be prepared to deal with hurricanes, to state the obvious,” Abbott said at his first news conference about Beryl since returning to the state from an economic development trip to Asia. While CenterPoint Energy has restored power to about 2 million customers since the storm hit on July 8, the slow pace of recovery has put the utility, which provides electricity to the nation’s fourth-largest city, under mounting scrutiny over whether it was sufficiently prepared for the storm that left people without air conditioning in the searing summer heat.

UK - Teachers in the UK have reportedly been told to present the history of the British Empire similarly to the horrors of Nazi Germany. So-called “anti-racist” guidance said to be offered to teachers in the UK has argued that both Nazi Germany and the British Empire should be presented as powers that “committed atrocities” and that teachers should refrain from offering students information about the historical goods done by the Empire. According to The Telegraph, the guidance produced by “The Key” school support organisation stated that schools should “teach colonialism as ‘invading and exploiting’ other countries, and present the British Empire as you would other global powers that committed atrocities, eg Nazi Germany”.

ISRAEL - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) discovered a command center this week used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists within the Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Israel has long insisted that UNRWA supports terrorism in general, and maintains that several UNRWA employees participated directly in the October 7 terror attack. Terrorists have repeatedly used UNRWA facilities to launch attacks and store weapons. In February, the IDF revealed that it had found a Hamas command center underneath Shifa Hospital. Several countries suspended funding for UNRWA after reports emerged of UNRWA participating in the October 7 attack; but several have since restored it.

USA - Eyewitness report by TOM NEWTON DUNN working for the Times: "When the first shots rang out, there was silence. Then, the screaming started. It was just after ten past six on Saturday evening at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. We and tens of thousands of others had been waiting for hours in the 35C heat to hear Donald Trump speak. When he finally took to the stage, at 6.04pm, the crowd, many of them dressed in red MAGA hats, cheered and whooped as he started speaking, about 50 metres from us. Then a volley of jarring sounds cut through the summer air: high-pitched rattles that sounded like firecrackers. Everyone looked around, and just for a moment, there was a deadly quiet. Secret Service agents clad in black suits jumped on Trump and pulled him to the ground. An instant later, the crowd of about 30,000 realised what had happened.

USA - The attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which opens a dark new chapter in America’s cursed story of political violence, shook a nation already deeply estranged during one of the most tense periods of its modern history. The targeting of a former president at a campaign rally just days before he accepts the Republican nomination is, by definition, an attack on democracy and the right of each American to choose their leaders.

USA - CNN’s [first] headline after assassination attempt on Trump is exactly why nobody trusts Corporate Media. Donald J Trump, and former and likely future President of the United States, had an assassination attempt against him but fake news CNN decided to go with THIS as their headline: “Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally”. We confirmed this was real before they edited it. Some may argue that media must confirm all facts before making statements, but they’re extremely selective with when they’re “careful” about what they report. In fact, they’ll often report false information such as “white supremacists” as mass murderers before changing their story later. This is the point when I would normally go into a long analysis of the degradation of trust in corporate media, but I won’t. You don’t need to be told why they hate America and despise the truth.

UK - Half the cabinet, including Sir Keir Starmer, chose the non-religious option to profess allegiance to the King. When Alastair Campbell said “we don’t do God”, it was because he knew that Tony Blair very much did. But as Sir Keir Starmer becomes the first atheist prime minister for decades, Britain has elected the most irreligious parliament in history. Forty per cent of MPs chose to make a secular affirmation rather than a religious oath on being sworn into the Commons this week, up from 24 per cent at the start of the last parliament in 2019. Half of the cabinet, including Starmer, took the non-religious option to profess allegiance to the king as Britain elected the first parliament as godless as the nation at large.