USA - Failed presidential candidate and political fossil John Kerry, a Democrat, is back in the news for ominous comments he recently made about how the only way for leftists to achieve their “net zero” climate goals is for farmers all around the world to stop growing food. Joe Biden regime’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, Kerry told an audience at the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) AIM for Climate Summit the other day that “we can’t get to net zero, we won’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution.” According to Kerry, he and other world leaders’ “lives depend” on farmers ceasing their operations. This will lower agriculture “emissions,” Kerry added, noting that he does not even call it climate change anymore – “it’s not change; it’s a crisis.” Unless a LOT more people stop eating, the planet will warm another half-degree by 2050, Kerry contends

USA - Florida-based retail health company Mercola Market and its employees were shocked when JP Morgan Chase Bank suddenly terminated their bank accounts without explanation, Florida’s Voice reported. Mercola Market, a company renowned for its specialty food, drinks, supplements, pet products, and other health items, is owned by Dr Joseph Mercola, a critic of COVID-19 vaccines and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr Mercola has practiced medicine since 1985 and founded the world’s largest natural health website. On July 13, the company, along with its CEO, CFO, and some family members, received identical letters from Chase Bank stating that their accounts were to be closed. The reason for this sudden decision, however, was left unexplained.

RUSSIA - On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law that prohibits sex reassignment surgeries. The legislation aims to impose stricter regulations on what lawmakers refer to as the “transgender industry” and effectively bans legal sex changes and medical interventions related to transitioning, unless deemed medically necessary. Under the new law, gender reassignment therapy, including drugs and surgeries, will only be allowed in cases where it is essential for treating reproductive organ deformities in children. Decisions on such treatments and the issuance of relevant certificates will be limited to licensed clinics affiliated with the Russian Health Ministry. Furthermore, individuals can no longer freely change their gender on identification documents. Those who have already done so will be prohibited from adopting children under the new law. Additionally, if one spouse changes their gender, married couples may have their marriages invalidated.

RUSSIA - Setting up alternative financial institutions is a difficult but necessary endeavor at a time when Washington has weaponized the US dollar, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, at the meeting with New Development Bank head Dilma Rousseff. The former president of Brazil, who took over the former BRICS Development Bank in March, was in St Petersburg to meet with Putin ahead of this week’s Russia-Africa summit.

UK - Some electric car owners have become so annoyed with the lack of working charging points that they are now going back to petrol cars. Britain doesn’t have the power it needs to charge electric cars as the network falters under increased demand. As the number of electric cars continues to rise sharply there is greater pressure on the UK’s charging network. In recent months there has been a growing wave of complaints that there aren’t enough chargers to satisfy demand. According to one chief executive owner, the problem isn’t the lack of chargers, it’s that Britain doesn’t produce enough power to run the chargers.

GREECE - "For the tourists, it was a really terrifying and bad experience, but for us, it's worse because we live here. Everything is burned." Edisa, aged 19, who lives in Lindos with her parents on the south-east coast of Rhodes, was caught up in the wildfires that have ravaged the Greek island. The family, who all work in the many hotels here, were forced to flee their home along with thousands of holidaymakers over the weekend. Just a few days ago, tourists soaked up the sun and splashed about in the glittering blue water here. Now all that is left are the smouldering remains of what looked like a café and the burnt-out skeleton of a local tourism business. "It's going to take a lot of years to be repaired and I don't think tourists will want to come back after all this," she says.

UK - NatWest is engulfed in a full-blown crisis today after its chief executive was forced to quit over briefing the BBC about Nigel Farage's 'debanking'. Dame Alison Rose initially tried to cling on to her £5 million-a-year post despite dramatically admitting she was behind the leaking of a customer's financial details. But she finally fell on her sword in the early hours of the morning following an extraordinary intervention from the Prime Minister and Chancellor, who made clear their 'significant concerns'. The taxpayer still has a big stake in NatWest following the Credit Crunch.

INDIA - Rice is one of the most important staple foods for more than 3 billion people around the world, and the nation of India accounts for approximately 40 percent of all global rice exports. So if India decides to start placing restrictions on rice exports, that is a really big deal. Unfortunately, that is precisely what just happened on July 20th. Less than a week ago, India “banned the export of non-basmati white rice”, and that has created a tremendous wave of panic all over the planet… The Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry on July 20 banned the export of non-basmati white rice, with immediate effect, to stabilise the volatile retail prices in the country. Rice production has taken a hit owing to vagaries of weather such as heavy monsoon rains in rice-producing States in the north and deficit rainfall in other parts of the country. Non-basmati rice is by far the most common rice used in Asian and Mexican cuisine.

RUSSIA - Most people that live in the western world don’t realize that global hunger has been absolutely exploding and has now become a major worldwide issue. According to the UN, 2.4 billion people do not have enough food to eat on a consistent basis, and 900 million of them are facing severe food insecurity. Unfortunately, things are about to get a whole lot worse. The deal between Russia and Ukraine that had allowed so much grain to be shipped through the Black Sea has completely broken down, and now both sides are threatening to attack any transport ships that come through the area. Since it was implemented, nearly 34 million tons of grain has been shipped out to the rest of the world. But now the deal is over. On July 17th, the Russians announced that they were pulling out, and then on Thursday they warned that any ships sailing to Ukrainian ports “will be regarded as potential carriers of military cargo”…

USA - The Biden administration has sunk billions of taxpayer dollars into “renewable” energy, but a new report won’t surprise Americans who’ve read any honest research on solar panels. It reveals that the panels are nearly as carbon-intensive as natural gas. Not only that, investment in solar benefits America’s number one enemy: China. The research, published as “Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims,” was conducted in collaboration with Environmental Progress and The Blind Spot. Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act funneled billions of Americans’ tax dollars to renewables last year as part of “Build Back Better.” The lesson? The Biden administration shouldn’t be investing tax dollars in solar panels. They’re unreliable and far more carbon intensive than many like to admit. And investment in solar panels inevitably ends up benefiting the Chinese Communist Party.

EUROPE - Running through all the hysterical reporting has been the outrageous use of fake estimates and statistics. Mainstream media were full of reports last week that temperatures would hit 48°C in southern Europe, a steer that seems to have come from the European Space Agency (ESA). It said that many countries were facing a major heatwave including Germany and Poland, while air temperatures were expected to climb to 48°C in Sicily and Sardinia – “potentially the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe”. The temperature in Sicily never went above 35°C, according to the Time and Date website that reports past weather from around the world.

UNITED NATIONS - The World Economic Forum held the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings towards the end of September 2022, convening at the same time as the United Nations General Assembly. In those meetings, UN officials declared that they apparently “own the science”. They also admitted to; among other things – Partnering with Google to censor search results that don’t fit the official narrative and ensure their propaganda is top of the list in relation to things such as ‘Covid-19’ and ‘Climate Change’ in order to shape public opinion.

GERMANY - Support for the far-right Alternative for Germany climbed to a record, widening its lead over all three parties in Chancellor ’s ruling coalition. In the latest sign of voter frustration with the government, support for the AfD — as the party is widely known — increased to 22%, trailing only the conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc at 26%, according to a poll conducted for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper by INSA. The AfD’s advances in recent months have been fueled by discontent over issues ranging from record immigration, persistently high inflation and costly climate-protection measures. Coalition infighting, including a drawn-out feud over measures to shift household heating away from fossil fuels, has further irritated voters. The INSA poll said 70% were dissatisfied with the government and 60% were unhappy with Scholz’s performance as chancellor.

HUNGARY - The world is facing the biggest power shift in decades, with the US poised to lose its leading position to China, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday. This could result in a major conflict between Washington and Beijing unless the US accepts that it cannot be the “winner” forever, he warned. “[China] has become a manufacturing powerhouse and is now overtaking America,” Orban said in his annual speech in the town of Baile Tusnad in Romania’s Eastern Transylvania. In just 30 years, China has undergone the industrial revolution that took the West around three centuries, the Hungarian prime minister said, adding that America is about to say ‘goodbye’ to its status as the world’s only superpower.

UK - Married couples are far more likely than unmarried ones to still be together by the time their children reach teenage years, a report has found. Analysis of a long-running survey of British children born at the turn of the millennium uncovered a 'depressing picture' of family breakdown, researchers said. By the time they turned 14, almost half (46 per cent) of first-born children no longer lived with both their mother and father, the Marriage Foundation think-tank found. This comprised 19 per cent of teenagers born to single parents, 14 per cent whose parents had divorced and another 13 per cent whose parents had split up. But among the 54 per cent still in a stable household, a stark divide emerged. The overwhelming majority (84 per cent) of parents who were still together were married, while just 16 per cent were unmarried, data from the Millennium Cohort Study which followed 18,000 families showed.