As new authentication and surveillance technologies, such as vaccine passports and track-and-trace apps, were rolled out during the pandemic, civil rights organisations and activists raised the question of mission creep — that is, the likelihood of governments clinging on to these technologies and using them for unanticipated ends, heralding a new era of normalised state surveillance.

Even the United Nations warned that the potential for abuse was high and that “what is justified during an emergency now may become normalised once the crisis has passed”. Some went even further, claiming that the pandemic was being deliberately exploited by global elites to usher in a “great reset” of human societies — a shift towards an increasingly propertyless, cashless, ultra-digitalised economy.

At the time, such concerns were dismissed as groundless conspiracy theories. And yet, like so many other claims that were initially ridiculed and censored only to be proven correct over time, events are corroborating many of these fears.

Vyacheslav Taran died when the helicopter that he was riding in suddenly slammed into a hillside. He was the co-founder of a trading platform known as Libertex, and his involvement in the cryptocurrency industry had made him a very wealthy man. A lot of prominent Russians have been dying lately, and so this could just be another instance where wealthy Russians are being targeted. We just don’t know.

But what we do know is that another co-founder of a prominent cryptocurrency company was suddenly found dead last week. It is being reported that 30-year-old Tiantian Kullander died unexpectedly while he was sleeping… But just like Taran, Kullander was one of the cryptocurrency industry’s most important pioneers…

It is often said that two is a coincidence, but three is a trend. Well, there is one more mysterious cryptocurrency industry death that I would like to discuss in this article. On October 28th, 29-year-old Nikolai Mushegian was found dead on a Puerto Rico beach. In this particular case, Mushegian actually predicted ahead of time that he would soon be killed…

Ultimately, we may never know if all three of these deaths are connected somehow. But I find it very interesting that all three of these men were key pioneers in the industry. And now they are all gone. Life is so short, and for some it ends far sooner than they were anticipating.

“Are you on the US or the Chinese side? Because now, progressively, a lot of people would like to see that there are two orders in this world. This is a huge mistake, even for both the US and China.” “We need a single global order,” he concluded.

The “fact checker” industry, which continues to maintain that ideas about the “New World Order” or one world government are baseless conspiracy theories, will no doubt be perplexed by Macron’s remarks. Indeed, there was a lot of laughter last week when it became clear that YouTube, which is owned by Google, had in fact fact-checked a video created by “The World Government Summit 2022.” “Are you ready for a new world order?” the moderator of a panel discussion in the video asks His Excellency Dr Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, the diplomatic advisor to the president of the UAE.

Underneath the video is a fact check box about the ‘New World Order’ which links to a Wikipedia article that states, “The New World Order (NWO) is a conspiracy theory which hypothesises a secretly emerging totalitarian world government.” The article’s tone dispels the idea that a “New World Order” is taking shape, despite the panellists at the World Government Summit openly discussing that agenda.

For among the clutch of famous nominees tipped to scoop a gong — that of Designer of the Year, no less — is none other than Demna Gvasalia, the creative director of luxury fashion brand Balenciaga, which this week was in the midst of a spiralling scandal over its use of sexualised images of children and references to child pornography.The controversy was sparked by its Christmas 2022 advertising campaign, which showed sad-faced toddlers clutching bags disguised as teddy bears in what has been described as bondage gear.

As if this wasn’t creepy enough, Balenciaga’s separate Spring 2023 campaign — featuring actresses Nicole Kidman and Isabelle Huppert, neither of whom had any creative input — features a £3,000 handbag placed on top of legal documents relating to child pornography. In the Huppert shot, there is also a book about a controversial Belgian artist who paints sinister images of naked and bloodstained children.

"You might have missed what happened Wednesday afternoon at the Fed," Glenn began. "They started their CBDC, Central Bank Digital Currency. Yes, the Fedcoin is here. Now they rolled it out on Wednesday — I mean, that was the only day they could do it, you know, because they've been denying that any of this stuff was happening. But they could only get it [launched] when no one was paying attention. So they rolled it out, and it's in its beta test now."

"By the way, India just rolled out its retail pilot program for digital rupees as well. But don't worry," he continued. "Maybe we should start having the conversation of, ‘this looks like the mark of the beast.’ I mean, doesn't it? But surely it's not. Of course not. Not from the US government. They never do anything underhanded or evil. Never."

The ONS also revealed that two-thirds of Londoners now identify as being from an ethnic minority - from a group that is not 'White British' but which includes white people from other nationalities.

Andrew Copson, chief executive of the charity group Humanists UK, said the 2021 census results 'confirm that the biggest demographic change in England and Wales of the last 10 years has been the dramatic growth of the non-religious', meaning 'the UK is almost certainly one of the least religious countries on Earth'.

Secularists and others now want an end to the Church of England’s position as an established church which requires King Charles to make an oath to preserve the Church of England, guarantees Church of England bishops and archbishops 26 seats in the House of Lords, and means state schools can be required to hold Christian worship.

Professor Linda Woodhead, head of the department of theology and religious studies at King’s College London, said: “The fact that Christianity is no longer the majority religion means policy is out of step with society.” Dr Scot Peterson, scholar of religion and the state at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, said: “It’s been difficult to defend having an established church since the beginning of the 20th century, but it is now becoming a figment of the imagination. The king being the head of the Church of England made sense in 1650, but not in 2022.”

Rockwell, a former competitive figure skater who grew up on the Upper East Side, told the Post that at first she was elated to attend Mount Holyoke College — a $60,000-a-year women’s institution in rural Massachusetts — in 2011. Unlike other first-year students, she said she did not participate in the "MoHo chop," an initiation ritual meant to shrug off gender roles by cutting one's hair. By her junior year, however, Rockwell told the Post that she noticed a shift in herself after taking a gender studies class.

"This professor tells me about the patriarchy," Rockwell said. "I barely knew what the word meant. I didn’t know what she was talking about. I wasn’t someone that into feminism. I just knew that I felt I had always been free to do what I wanted. I never experienced sexism. But I was told there’s the patriarchy, and you don’t even understand it’s been working against you your whole life. You’ve been oppressed, and you didn’t even know it. Now you have to fight it. And I just went down this deep rabbit hole."

That’s when she said her relationship with her mother, whom she once considered a best friend, changed. "I felt I had to teach her how she was wrong and expose her and to do that with everyone who didn’t see things correctly," Rockwell said. "The professors encouraged alienation [from parents] and even offered their homes to stay in. They’d say, like, ‘Don’t go see them, come stay with us for the holiday.’ Most of my classmates believed all this stuff, too. If you didn’t, you were ostracized." "The entire culture there revolved around hating men and being a lesbian," Loomer told the Post.

Defenders of the series claim the scene where children are holding the letters which spell out “We Love You Satan” is supposed to say “We Love You Santa” and is just one of the many comedic scenes in the movies but parents aren’t laughing. Many parents canceled their Disney+ subscription after Disney went on a “woke” brigade and even reportedly offered financial help to its employees’ children who wanted gender reassignment surgery.

Per the New York Times, Disney’s “direct-to-consumer unit racked up $1.5 billion in losses” in the recent quarter. The major losses resulted in Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek being replaced with former CEO Bob Iger.

So far, fewer than 1.5 million of the 2.5 million company directors in the country have registered for the director IDs. Some have blamed the slow roll out on poor messaging by the ATO, but the agency disagrees. “This is really quite different to cleaning out your garage (or something else) that you can just put off. It is actually something that people need to do. It’s not optional.”

The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, condemns the terror attacks against Israelis and settler violence. The US “is deeply concerned about the sharp escalation,” Thomas-Greenfield says. “This has been the deadliest year in the West Bank since 2004.” She condemns the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists and the “disruption to the historic status quo of holy sites.”

Thomas-Greenfield blasts the UN for its “lopsided focus” on Israel, including the open-ended Commission of Inquiry and the request for the International Court of Justice to weigh in on the conflict. “The UN system is replete with anti-Israel actions and bodies,” she says. “Instead of grandstanding and pursuing unproductive measures, we hope the UN will start focusing on concrete steps that improve the lives of Israelis and Palestinians.”