USA - As much as two million tonnes of plastic is floating on the surface of our oceans – eight times more than was previously thought, according to new research. The findings are the result of a five-year research project and dwarf earlier estimates that the figure was around 250,000 tonnes. Writing in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience, researchers said their calculations are based on a computer model of the world's oceans and estimates of plastic rubbish falling in the sea. The new model estimates that, in 2020, there were 3.2 million tonnes of plastic junk in the sea overall, and the amount entering it is increasing by around 4 per cent each year.

MIDDLE EAST - Globalists have been gathering at the World Government Summit in Dubai to discuss advancing plans for a single global government. World leaders and powerful elites have been flocking to the event this week to pitch ideas for expanding globalism by uniting sovereign nations’ governments. During a panel discussion at the summit, Professor Arturo Bris from the IMD World Competitiveness Center argued that a “shock” is needed to shift global society away from the current “world order.” He insisted that the “transformation” of the “world order” “cannot be gradual.”

MIDDLE EAST - Elon Musk spoke at the World Government Summit conference via video link and stunned attendees when he told them all to go pound sand. The tech entrepreneur spoke out against the idea of one “single world government” and warned elites that such extreme governance could cause “civilization” to “collapse.” World leaders and global power elites have been gathering at the event in Dubai to discuss plans for sovereign governments to unite and promote a single globalist agenda. “The world needs some amount of civilizational diversity such that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization, the whole thing doesn’t collapse and humanity keeps moving forward. If we are too much of a single civilization, the whole thing may collapse."

JAPAN - Japanese officials have marked the 78th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima without naming the US as the country responsible. Despite Washington carrying out the only two offensive uses of nuclear weapons in history, they chose instead to condemn Russia for its supposed “nuclear threat.” Unlike US nuclear doctrine, which allows for a nuclear first strike “to defend the vital interests of the United States or its allies and partners,” Russia’s nuclear strategy permits the use of atomic weapons only in the event of a first nuclear strike on its territory, or if the existence of the Russian state is threatened by either nuclear or conventional weapons. A US Army Air Force bomber dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing up to 126,000 people, most of them civilians. Another nuclear bomb was detonated over the city of Nagasaki on August 9, killing up to 80,000 people, almost all of whom were civilians. Japan surrendered to the Allied powers a week later, bringing the Second World War to a close.

IRAN - Iran has beefed up its naval forces, arming them with additional drones and precision missiles with ranges up to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), amid rising tensions with the US over shipping traffic through the world oil market’s most crucial bottleneck. The Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy officially took possession of the new gear at a ceremony on Saturday, state-run media outlets reported. The systems include reconnaissance and combat drones, as well as electronic warfare equipment, truck-mounted missile launchers, and hundreds of cruise and ballistic missiles. The announcement came after reports earlier this week that US military officials had drawn up unprecedented plans to place armed troops on commercial trips in the Strait of Hormuz. Just last month, the Pentagon announced deployments of additional fighter jets and naval assets to the Persian Gulf region in response to “alarming events,” such as Iranian seizures of commercial vessels.

USA - Barnes & Noble Is coming after your kids! Another day, another corporate retail brand embraces the DEI-driven wokeness of the LBGTQIA+ Supremacy agenda. This time, it’s bookseller Barnes & Noble, a company that has displayed woke tendencies for years. Now, according to LibsOfTikTok, they’re not holding back. The presence of a child indoctrination book at a bookstore is nothing new. Any major book retailer that has a children’s section will have these types of brainwashing books mixed in. But Barnes & Noble has made it a priority to not only display these books in their own section, but to make it prominent in just about every store in America. We cannot stop the radicals who take their kids to drag shows or push them to switch genders before Kindergarten, but we can strive to classify both pervert freak shows and genital mutilation as activities for adults only. In the same vein, we cannot prevent retailers from carrying indoctrination materials, but we can punish them by withholding our money when they actively and aggressively promote the brainwashing.

USA - Should we be surprised that we are witnessing so many failures all around us? After all, the mainstream media claims that the US economy is doing just great. Of course the truth is that the economy is not in good shape at all. Those in positions of power have been desperately trying to prop up the system, but it continues to steadily fall apart. Earlier this year, we witnessed the second largest bank failure in US history, the third largest bank failure in US history, and the fourth largest bank failure in US history. The Federal Reserve implemented extreme measures in an attempt to keep more banks from failing, but now another one has failed. On Friday, Heartland Tri-State Bank collapsed and the FDIC took control and arranged a sale… Over time, this will lead to an unprecedented wave of consolidation in the banking industry.

USA - The US Army and Marine Corps are both without a top leader for the first time in history because of a political row in Washington, potentially undermining efforts to recruit troops and ensure that they’re ready to defend the nation, the Pentagon has warned. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed on Friday that the US Senate’s failure to confirm military nominations for over 300 pending officer posts, including chiefs for the country’s two ground combat forces, is disruptive and could hinder relations with allies. Senator Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, has blocked approvals for the appointments in a dispute over the Pentagon’s new abortion benefits for service members and their dependents. “Today for the first time in the history of the Department of Defense, two of our services will be operating without Senate-confirmed leadership,” Austin said in a speech at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia. He added, “In our dangerous world, the security of the United States demands orderly and prompt transitions of our confirmed military leaders.”

USA - The calls to end US military aid to Israel have extended beyond the Democratic Party's progressive wing and are now being discussed in Republican circles. Last week’s debate on PBS would have been considered almost fictional in the past. Facing each other were a former US ambassador to Israel and a former senior White House official, discussing whether it was time to stop America’s military support for Israel. An issue once thought to be totally consensual in American politics has become a contentious subject, and one that's increasingly discussed in Washington.

UKRAINE - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is reportedly worried that Western nations may ramp up pressure to negotiate a peace agreement with Russia, ending a bloody conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Kiev’s troops in just the past two months. The Ukrainian president described Wednesday’s gathering in Kiev with diplomats as an “emergency strategy session” heading into this weekend’s Ukraine peace summit in Saudi Arabia, the newspaper said. “The meeting is the starting point of what is expected to be a major Ukrainian diplomatic push in the coming months to try to undercut Russia.” Zelensky told his ambassadors that they must use every available tool – “official and unofficial, institutional and media, cultural diplomacy and the power of ordinary human sincerity” – to convince both allies and neutral nations that “the only road to a lasting peace is complete Russian defeat,” according to the report.

SCOTLAND - Scottish National Party (SNP) ministers have admitted to felling close to 16 million trees to make room for wind farms on public land after the Scottish government plans to get all of its power from renewable energy this year. Mairi Gougeon, the Rural Affairs Secretary, conceded that around 15.7 million trees have been cleared since 2000 from areas presently managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS). The figures equate to over 1,700 trees felled daily, in what critics have described as a hypocritical eco-crusade. What’s next? Will we save the environment by dumping old motor oil into the ocean? Maybe they will dunk their old car batteries into a local pond. The crusade against the invisible enemy of climate change doesn’t have to make sense because no one is allowed to question it. We are all expected trust the experts, especially when it makes no sense.

ITALY - Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has hinted at pulling the country out of the global trade infrastructure network. China’s Foreign Ministry has excoriated “some forces” within the Italian government over comments that Rome may back out of participation in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeks to rebuild ancient trade links connecting the country to partners in Europe, Africa, and South America, as well as closer to home. The initiative has spawned over 3,000 infrastructure projects in over 150 countries and attracted investments of about €0.91 trillion ($1 trillion). According to the World Bank, it will help end poverty for nearly 40 million people.

WEST AFRICA - This Sunday (August 6th), the ultimatum by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS expires, potentially opening the way for conflict in the region, with military intervention in Niger triggering a proxy war of considerable proportions. Niger was the Western nations’ last reliable partner for counterterrorism in the region. The developments mark a hard blow for French influence in Africa, as the Niger military junta scrapped all military agreements with the former colonial masters. France still has 1,500 soldiers in Niger, and the US also has 1,100 military personnel in the country. Welcome to the Next Proxy War: France and US Back West African ‘Democracies’ Trying To Overturn Niger Coup, While Russia Backs Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea Vowing To Defend the Military Junta

UK - Britain’s National Health Service may begin to start offering transgender treatments to children as young as seven-years-old in its new gender clinic. Following the decision from NHS England to shut down the controversial Tavistock Centre and its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) over child safeguarding concerns, a new service set to be launched by the socialised healthcare system may continue the practice of treating youngsters for supposed gender dysphoria. The Tavistock Centre, which is set to be shut down completely by next year after its practices were deemed not to be safe for children, reportedly gave some 19,000 children “treatment” for gender dysphoria since opening in 1999. Over a thousand families are reported to be launching legal action against the clinic for misdiagnosing their children. The clinic has been accused by whistleblowers of offering puberty-blocking drugs to children after as little as just one consultation.

USA - As people are inundated with claims that the globe is suffering an immediate "climate crisis," and "the hottest July ever" one leading expert in the field is advising people to take these narratives with a grain of salt. Just the News spoke with Dr John Christy, an Earth and atmospheric science professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, about the 2023 heat wave occurring across the United States. Specifically, Christy addressed the widespread claim that July 2023 was the hottest month on record and why he sees serious problems with declaring this.