After all, in many countries of the South, the “Western-dominated order” is in many states in the Global South, characterized by “postcolonial domination” which engenders sympathy for a “post-Western” global order. The Munich Security Report also states that the war in Ukraine is just the most brazen attack on the Western-dominated (rules-based) order. Accordingly, the demand that Russia not be allowed to win the war, and preferably, even lose it, serves, at least temporarily, to shore up the West’s global dominance.

China’s government is “one of the few on the international stage, that Moscow cannot ignore,” Wolfgang Ischinger, former director of the Munich Security Conference, admitted yesterday. “Alone, or with others, China would possibly be able to make a peace proposal.” At the same time, Ischinger pointed out that “this would probably not inspire great joy in the United States.” In fact, a negotiated settlement achieved by China would merely be another confirmation of the West’s historical decline, which the West is seeking to prevent – by all means.

However, for Mr Farage, the true victory of Sturgeon’s fall was one for traditional small-c conservative values and a hopeful return to common sense in the north. “The moral of the story is simple,” Farage said. “There is a big silent majority in this country for common sense. The reason the radical left are able to change our language — to even suggest that we change the gender of God — the reason they’re allowed to do all this is because of ‘Conservative’ cowardice.”

“We don’t have a conservative party, but we ourselves have all got our voices. We can say what we think, we can tell opinion pollsters when they call us what we think. The lesson from the Sturgeon situation is the pendulum can swing back, we can get victories for common sense.”

“The loss of a single service member to a fatal overdose is one loss too many,” Markey said on Wednesday. “With hundreds of fatal overdoses reported on US military bases, the toll is mounting. We can and must stop America’s overdose crisis.”

Fentanyl accounted for more than half of the military overdose deaths, the Pentagon said. In fact, deaths from the synthetic opioid have more than doubled since 2017, following a similar trajectory with America’s overall drug crisis. The US had nearly 107,000 civilian overdose deaths in 2021, including more than 71,000 linked to fentanyl, according to government data.

Never mind the fact that more kids than ever are declaring themselves members of nonexistent identity groups (Demisexual! Gender nonbinary!), mistakenly self-diagnosing with Tourette’s syndrome or gender dysphoria, and claiming victimhood at the hands of a cruel society — a society that rewards and cheers all such claims.

Never mind that we’ve now undergone a gender revolution in which we’ve declared biological sex itself passe, treated heterosexual norms as taboo and misogynistic and attempted to wipe away — along with actual sexual predation — much normal behavior in the name of #MeToo.

“While Muslims in the West unite to rally around protection of their children, we treat ours like an unwanted medical waste product. While Muslims in the West refuse to allow their kids to be indoctrinated with warped sexual propaganda, we dress up ours as drag queens, parade them on television, and demand everyone embrace it as normal. It’s not normal. There’s something deeply wrong with what we’ve become.”

“The fact that China would even dare to do this is is a problem,” he remarked. “China has decided to attack the United States of America by launching a balloon to collect intelligence, and we allowed it to fly over our territorial waters and land for seven days before doing anything.”

He continued, “As a former intel guy I can tell you, they have seven days of collection over our heartland, over our missile silos, over our farmland, and over people that they were siphoning back to China as this thing was running around over America and Joe Biden did nothing.” China’s surveillance balloon amounted to a propaganda victory for the one-party state and a signal of American weakness to America’s adversaries.

Patel stated, “The Chinese have now an immense propaganda victory, too. They say ‘One, we did. Two, we got away with it. Three, they didn’t do anything about it for a week,’ which shows our enemies they can do the same thing to us which is even more problematic, and we’re talking about one balloon. What about all the others we didn’t see and find?”

Patel described NORAD’s evasive answer on extraterrestrial origins of airborne objects as political spin to shield President Joe Biden from critical analysis.

Without blaming these so-called UFOs on a certain country, the US has continued to shoot them down, arousing mystery and suspicion over their origin. Whatever their origin and purpose, the (intended) end result for Washington will be increased mass fear, a boost in military spending, further escalated tensions with both China and Russia and the manufactured compliance of Washington’s allies. The rest of 2023 is going to be a bumpy year.

This has been done before. Think back to the boom of UFOs as a science fiction trope, or the craze of UFO sightings in the United States which emerged in the 1950s. Believers will tell you that the US government has long known about extraterrestrial ships visiting Earth and has been covering it up. This has caused long standing theories and speculation about events such as the Roswell incident in 1947 (which, as it happens, was explained as a high altitude balloon), or the true nature of places such as “Area 51” in Nevada. However, the disappointing reality is that this whole sub-genre of fiction owes a lot of its popularity to the Cold War, its politics, and certainly the military exploits of the time.

After all, the 1950s and 60s were landmark decades when it comes to space exploration and new aerial and rocket technology. The United States was locked in a tense competition with the Soviet Union and tested many kinds of aerospace vehicles. It was public sightings of these strange and new phenomena, combined with the military-grade secrecy that surrounded these programs, which ultimately fed the public imagination of the time with an atmosphere of mystery and paranoia.

Now, history is repeating itself. The US government primarily wants you to fear Russia and China. It wants you to think that they have secret and cryptic surveillance capabilities which are infringing upon Americans, and that taxpayer dollars are being well spent in a dramatically increased defense budget. The US is actively manufacturing consent for military tensions. Not only is it trying to use Ukraine to destroy Russia on its own doorstep, but it is eyeing a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, making every effort to recruit allies into a military struggle on its own terms, increasing the number of military bases, and essentially looking to “NATOize” the entire world.

The document, entitled ‘2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ – most commonly referred to as UFOs or UAP – compiled by the Pentagon's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In total, it covers 510 sightings, documented up to late August 2022.

Global sea levels have risen faster since 1900 and the problem now acutely endangers nearly 900 million people living in low-lying coastal areas, he said. It follows a new study that provides the most accurate estimates yet of sea level rises due to the melting of Earth's two ice sheets. 'Global average sea levels have risen faster since 1900 than over any preceding century in the last 3,000 years,' he told attendees.

Guterres has been trying to call the world's attention to the dangers posed by climate change to spur action from governments. In October, he warned that the world is in 'a life-or-death struggle' for survival as 'climate chaos gallops ahead' and accused the world's 20 wealthiest countries of failing to do enough to stop the planet from overheating.

In a worst-case scenario, melted water from Antarctic Ice Sheet in the south and Greenland Ice Sheet in the north will add an extra 4.6 feet to sea levels by the year 2150, the new study claims. Alarming though this may be, it doesn't even account for other sources of rising sea levels, such as ice caps and floating platforms of ice that have melted, too.

For the new study, the experts performed climate modelling simulations based on the latest Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). These modelling scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show different ways in which the world could change and are frequently used by researchers.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has updated its coastal sea level tide gauge data which continue to show no evidence of accelerating sea level rise. These measurements include tide gauge data at coastal locations along the West Coast, East Coast, Gulf Coast, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as seven Pacific Island groups and six Atlantic Island groups, comprising more than 200 measurement stations.

Climate Myth: Sea level rise is exaggerated. "We are told sea level is rising and will soon swamp all of our cities. Everybody knows that the Pacific island of Tuvalu is sinking ...Around 1990 it became obvious the local tide-gauge did not agree - there was no evidence of 'sinking.' So scientists at Flinders University, Adelaide, set up new, modern, tide-gauges in 12 Pacific islands.

Recently, the whole project was abandoned as there was no sign of a change in sea level at any of the 12 islands for the past 16 years." Vincent Gray.

Because this is not just a catastrophic betrayal of thousands of vulnerable children and their families by a taxpayer-funded institution that allowed itself to be infiltrated and influenced by a highly politicised ideological agenda. It’s also an example of what happens when all debate is stifled, and of the harms that occur when free speech is shut down and legitimate questioning of motives and methods is sacrificed on the altar of wokeness.

History teaches us that wherever good people are silenced, bad things happen. I have no doubt that in years to come, when we look back on what happened at the Tavistock and at the whole situation surrounding the trans debate in general — such as convicted rapists being allowed to declare themselves female and serve jail time in women’s prisons — people will shake their heads in disbelief that such things were ever allowed to happen. But happen they did, and not because no one saw what was going on.

They took place because the rest of the world was too busy covering its own sorry backside — too busy being woke, too busy painting pointless rainbows on pedestrian crossings, too busy organising ‘inclusivity seminars’ and paying trans activists to teach primary-school children that biological sex is a ‘construct’ — to see that many vulnerable children were being consigned to a lifetime of ill-health and regret.

In short, too busy paying lip service to a bunch of politically correct bullies, while ignoring those who really need society’s protection. It is, I’m afraid, the story of our times; and, as many of us warned and Hannah Barnes’s book shows, it’s a shameful one.

If such a pandemic were to erupt, the consequences could potentially be catastrophic. The COVID pandemic paralyzed the planet for a couple of years even though the death rate was very low. Well, the death rate for bird flu in humans can be around 50 percent depending on the strain, and so just imagine the panic that would ensue if it were to start spreading widely.

Over in Scotland, four dead seals were found to have H5N1, and across the Atlantic in Peru a whopping 500 sea lions “were found dead with H5N1” …If you have been alarmed by what I have shared with you so far, this next item should really get to you. In Spain, over 50,000 minks had to be wiped out because H5N1 was rapidly spreading among them… So why are those minks so important? Well, it turns out that minks have “a respiratory system very similar to humans”…

When the virus was analyzed, it was revealed that the mink were infected with a new variant of avian flu, including genetic mutations that are known to make it easier to spread in mammals. This is “uncharted territory,” Wendy Puryear, a virologist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, told Nature News.

A majority of the state’s residents are affected by the West’s historic drought, and all of the state’s 29 counties have disaster designations by the United States Department of Agriculture, according to the US Drought Monitor.