USA - Kansas cattle rancher Kyle Hemmert watches the decline of cattle farmers in Ireland and the Netherlands and sees the future for himself and his fellow ranchers. “What’s happening in the beef industry is the same thing that’s happened in the sheep industry,” Mr Hemmert told The Epoch Times. “America peaked at 51 million sheep; today, we have less than 5 million.

UK - Napoleon called Britain 'a nation of shopkeepers'. He meant it as an insult, but it's a truism we have long cherished. Britain's shopworkers are the backbone of our society. How glad we were, during the pandemic, for the good cheer of staff in corner shops and supermarkets, keeping their doors open so that the rest of us could keep food on the kitchen table. So it is galling to learn that shops are being targeted so cynically, and often violently, by thieves that many store staff are physically afraid of going to work.

UK - The Mail on Sunday today reveals the shocking reality of the epidemic of shoplifting that is blighting Britain, as we launch a major campaign to crack down on the crime. The problem is now so widespread that a theft takes place every two seconds. Thieves are exploiting lax policing, a 'soft-touch' justice system and the fact that some store staff are told not to tackle shoplifters for fears they could be attacked by the criminals – or even prosecuted themselves for intervening. The crime costs the country dear, with retailers losing more than £1 billion in stolen goods last year, forcing them to raise prices at a time when consumers are already struggling with escalating food costs. Co-op food managing director Matt Hood said: 'I have seen horrific incidents of violent theft in our stores, where my colleagues feel scared and threatened. In the worst instances I would describe it as 'looting'.'

SWITZERLAND - World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab has urged governments to grant the WEF ‘full governmental control’ over their nations as part of the Great Reset agenda for humanity. Schwab issued the chilling message during an address at this week’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. According to Schwab, governments must embrace the WEF’s agenda if they want to survive in the dystopian future unfolding before our very eyes.

ISRAEL - A famous site where Jesus Christ is said to have healed a blind man has been uncovered in an archaeological dig. The Pool of Siloam has been unearthed after more than 2,000 years of being covered in the desert. The site in Jerusalem, which was first constructed in the 8th century BC under the reign of King Hezekiah, was found thanks to a joint effort by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority, and the City of David Foundation. The Pool of Siloam, which reached more than 1.25 acres at its peak, gave the City of David its running water.

The magnitude 6.8 quake is classified as “strong” on the Richter scale, which measures the strength of earthquakes. Magnitudes are based on a logarithmic scale, meaning for each whole-number increase on the scale. So it was a 10 times stronger earthquake than the last strongest 5.8 magnitude quake of 1960. To put that in context, earthquakes registering a magnitude of 4 or less are considered to be light, but may still cause some damage. A magnitude 5 earthquake is, by definition, 10 times more intense than a magnitude 4 and can cause moderate damage to buildings.

USA - Brian Hooker is senior director of science and research at Children’s Health Defense and professor emeritus of biology at Simpson University in Redding, California, who has been doing advocacy and research around vaccine safety for 20 years. In light of the CDC’s unwillingness to conduct long-term studies comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children, Dr Hooker took it upon himself to aggregate and conduct such studies.

USA - The California House just passed a law that will force judges to consider whether a parent affirms the so-called ‘gender identity’ of their children when considering custody cases. Now the bill heads to Gavin Newsom’s desk and you can be sure he’ll sign it. This is absolutely insanity and we all know it. Children are often confused when growing up and it is the job of the parent to guide them out of that confusion, not affirm it! The consequences of this bill will be the separation of parents and children because the bill makes it child abuse for a parent to refuse affirmation of their children’s so-called ‘gender identity’.

USA - This is CRAZY, Maui Police Officers Won’t Let Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii Fire Residents/ Victims On Their OWN LAND.

Officer: “From this moment right now, this is a line that can’t be crossed.”
Victim: “You must realize this is my territory & my rights to have free access to my territory.”
Officer: “This is the law.”

When the government is telling you that you can’t enter your own land, you might have a tyrannical government.They won’t let him on his own land! This is treasonous!

MOROCCO - Rescuers are scrambling to find survivors under the rubble after a huge earthquake which killed more than 2,000 people. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck just after 23:00 (22:00 GMT) on Friday night. The epicentre was in a remote mountainous region south-west of Marrakesh, where there are reports of entire villages flattened. Rescue workers have struggled to reach the more remote areas, with many mountain roads damaged or destroyed. More than 300,000 people in Marrakesh and its outskirts have been affected by the powerful earthquake that hit Morocco, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says. We also saw the damage in Marrakesh especially in the walled old city, the medina. Centuries-old buildings have crumbled, there's widespread debris and red dust. But the worst damage has occurred in the rural parts outside Marrakesh. The death toll is currently highest in the Haouz region, which includes sections of the High Atlas Mountains.

INDIA - G20 meeting in India signals the death of Western multilateralism. The West is violating the logic of multilateralism by pushing unilateral sanctions to achieve political objectives against adversaries. Globalization, anchored essentially in multilateralism, is being reversed. Already under stress as a result of the Covid pandemic, the global economy is under more pressure from the continuing conflict in Ukraine, including the unrestrained use of sanctions as a policy instrument by the West to achieve political objectives against its designated adversaries. Undertaken without concern for the disruption caused in normal exchanges between third countries, unilateral sanctions violate the logic of multilateralism.

USA - A number of green energy companies and advocacy groups have petitioned the New York Public Service Commission (NYPSC) to renegotiate contracts with state utilities as rising costs could threaten the viability of numerous projects, according to UtilityDive. The NYPSC, the state’s utility regulator, is reviewing requests to adjust deal terms for more than 90 offshore wind, solar and onshore wind projects that would sell power to New York and are projected to supply 25% of the state’s load by 2030, UtilityDive reported. On average, offshore wind developers are seeking to boost their contract prices by 48%, onshore wind companies are hoping to raise their prices by an average of 71% and solar companies are hoping to increase their prices by 63%, according to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Green energy companies have requested that utility regulators across the US relieve them of some inflationary burdens on their projects, including developers in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico and Rhode Island, according to NYSERDA.

USA - President Joe Biden issued a sweeping executive order last year on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which “places the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC.” The Biden administration and its corporate media echo chamber want Americans to focus only on CBDC’s many benefits. But experiences in China, a nation that launched a digital currency in 2020, have shown that a CBDC considerably expands government power at the expense of individual freedom. China’s digital currency, e-CNY, differs significantly from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. For instance, neither central banks nor governments have the power to program or manage Bitcoin. The total amount of Bitcoin was capped at 21 million by its mysterious creator. Such a finite supply gives Bitcoin its anti-inflation property. While Bitcoin transactions are transparent for all to see, users remain anonymous.

RUSSIA - There’s no “short-term solution” in sight to the Ukraine conflict, and “a lot of pressure” is required on both sides to bring Moscow and Kiev to the negotiating table, former Finnish prime minister and presidential hopeful Alexander Stubb, has said. The hostilities are unlikely to end even in 2024 as the conflict is “clearly a long war,” Stubb told Spanish newspaper 20minutos in an interview published on Sunday. The presidential candidate blamed the lack of any imminent diplomatic solution on Moscow and personally on Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The problem I see is that this war is too big for Putin to lose, so the conflict seems to have to be resolved on the battlefield,” he said. Negotiations will become possible only if third parties put “a lot of pressure” on both Moscow and Kiev, Stubb suggested.

AUSTRALIA - Australian geologist, Professor Ian Plimer, blows the UN's "human-induced global boiling" fear mongering completely out of the water: "Every single prediction they've ever made has been wrong... They still haven't, after 30 years, shown us that human emissions [of CO2] drive global warming." "There's been a relentless campaign of propaganda for 30 years, and the basics haven't been shown."