UK - Mindfulness books for children as young as two are the latest runaway publishing trend, the industry has said, with children themselves calling for more titles to help them make sense of their emotions. Publishers including Magic Cat Publishing are reporting that sales of books for children under 10 years old that address emotions and mental health issues are up almost 40% year on year since 2021. Laura Horsley, the publishing director for Hachette Children’s nonfiction list, said: “There’s a real appetite for these books, especially when written by authors with proven expertise. A Better Day: Your Positive Mental Health Handbook by Dr Alex George is a recent example: this went straight to the top of the children’s nonfiction chart a few weeks ago.” Annie Rhodes, from the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre, said: “We have definitely seen an increase in the amount and variety of books published on mindfulness and anxiety aimed at children from the publishers.”
WALES - Campaigners against Wales' new relationships and sexuality education (RSE) curriculum are set to have their legal challenge heard in the High Court on Tuesday. Five claimants representing parents and grandparents in Wales are taking the Welsh Government to the High Court in an attempt to remove its new relationships and sex education (RSE) from the mandatory part of Wales' curriculum.
USA - When, in early October, President Joe Biden remarked that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” was now at its highest since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, he faced considerable skepticism and pushback. Yet senior US officials appear to be taking the risk of an escalation involving nuclear weapons in Ukraine deadly seriously. Later that month, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin jumped on the phone to his Russian counterpart, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and spoke with him twice in three days after Shoigu had claimed that Ukrainian forces planned to use a nuclear “dirty bomb” and blame it on Moscow. The reasons for the Pentagon’s concern were clear: Russian falsehoods about a dirty bomb could pave the way for potential nuclear use by Russia.
GERMANY - Thousands of people demonstrated in Berlin on Saturday calling for food prices to be controlled and for the rich to face higher taxes as Germany faces a cost of living crisis. Marching behind banners, one of which was emblazoned with the demand “Redistribute!”, the demonstrators marched through the German capital after a call by left-wing organisations to protest against soaring prices and rents. Both police and organisers said at least 3,000 people took part in the protest which took place to the backdrop of rising inflation caused in part by the war in Ukraine which has hit energy and food supplies. Inflation in Germany is at its highest level in more than 70 years and reached 10.4 percent in October, according to figures released on Friday.
ITALY - Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Italian dictator and father of fascism Benito Mussolini, is once again a member of the European Parliament (MEP). She was one of the eight replacements for Italian MEPs who have taken up seats in the national parliament, the Chamber of Deputies. During her time in politics, she has on many occasions defended her infamous grandfather, who formulated the ideology of fascism and ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 as ‘Il Duce’. After Italy’s surrender in 1943, he was evacuated by Nazi paratroopers and ran a German-allied rump state in the north until he was executed by communist partisans in 1945.
INDIA - A truly stable and just global order can only be created when nations cease attempting to ensure their own security at the expense of others, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has said. Speaking to the National Defense College on Thursday, Singh argued that the world should develop a collective approach to security. “India does not believe in a world order where few are considered superior to others,” he said, adding that India’s own strategic policy should be “moral.”
VATICAN - Libero Milone, the former chief auditor of the Vatican, has sued the Church’s Secretariat of State and current auditor general, claiming the Church has reopened a baseless criminal investigation against him in order to silence him after ignoring his reports of official malfeasance. Milone and fellow auditor Ferruccio Panicco claim the Vatican unjustly ended their contracts, ruined their professional reputations, and rendered them persona non grata in Italy. They are demanding €9 million ($9.2 million) in damages.
UK - British Airways staff were told to “be bold, be proud, be yourself” as the airline overhauled its strict uniform rules to allow male cabin crews and pilots to wear make-up and carry handbags during flights. In an internal memo released on Wednesday and cited by the media, the company told staff the new guidance would be “embraced by everyone regardless of gender, gender identity, ethnicity, background, culture, sexual identity, or otherwise.” Other airlines around the world have also updated their guidelines. Russia’s S7, Latvia’s AirBaltic, and Air New Zealand have recently allowed staff to have visible tattoos, piercings, bright-colored hair, as well as beards for male employees.
EGYPT - First there was no water. Then there was too much of the wrong kind. Attendees of this year's UN climate conference in Egypt found themselves stepping over streams of foul-smelling fluid Wednesday after a pipe or tank holding liquid waste appeared to have burst near one of the venue's main thoroughfares.
USA - Twitter near bankruptcy, Amazon first company to lose $1 trillion, Facebook fires 11,000 employees. On Wednesday this week, Amazon.com became the first publicly traded company in history to lose $1 trillion in market valuation. And then yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk told employees of Twitter at an “all-hands meeting” that the company is losing so much money that “bankruptcy is not out of the question.”
EUROPE - The European Commission proposed on Thursday two action plans to address the deteriorating security situation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine to bolster cyber defence and to allow armed forces to move faster and better across borders. The EU executive said Russian cyber attacks on European Union countries and their partners were a "wake-up" call. More action was needed to protect citizens and armed forces, and cooperation with NATO should be stepped up, it said.
SWITZERLAND - The WEF report and their “journalists” like Gaia Vince are part of a larger political campaign to build government and business support for flooding the United States and Europe with so-called “climate migrants.” For years Globalists have been trying to use the weather to further their population replacement scheme. But, as the United States and European countries grow tired of welcoming illegal migrants who are often dangerous people with values and ambitions that oppose Western values and laws, Globalists are trying to rebrand them as “Climate Migrants” to gain them entry.
EGYPT - Climate delegates were accused of hypocrisy after 400 private jets arrived in Egypt for COP27. Numerous posts on social media criticised delegates for travelling by private jet to the UN climate summit. Posts and reports included various estimates for the number of such planes bringing delegates to the gathering in the beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Climate Action Against Disinformation, a group that analyses trends in false information on social media, said in a report on Thursday that narratives of supposed 'hypocrisy and elitism' were one of the main focuses of climate-sceptic messages during COP27.
USA - Highly-processed foods should be reclassified as drugs because they are as addictive and harmful as cigarettes, scientists argue. Researchers claim items like donuts, sugary cereals and pizza meet the meet official criteria that established cigarettes as a drug in the 1990s. These include causing compulsive use and mood altering affects on the brain, and having properties or ingredients that reinforce addiction or trigger cravings.
UK - British influencer Oli London, who transitioned to a Korean woman earlier this year, said he is now transitioning back to be a British man. London, 32, who was embroiled in controversy after identifying as 'transracial' and undergoing multiple surgeries to look like a K-Pop star, laid the blame on American schools. Speaking to Fox's Tucker Carlson on Friday night, London, a newly converted Christian, admitted it was a mistake to identify as 'transracial.'
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